Tournament Semi-finals!

[ceodragon]

WHO: Anyone and Everyone (Peanut gallery/audience threads welcome!)
WHERE: Times Square! Blocking traffic!
WHEN: Official tournament time: Friday afternoon
SUMMARY: After the preliminary rounds are done, 4 duelists remain. Time to narrow it down to two.
WARNINGS: Card games
FORMAT: Anything you want

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Juudai VS Rua

[miraclefusion]

Juudai made his way to the center of the square, turning thoughts over in his head. His opponent was the kid who'd beaten Yuugi and Kaiba both this round... and one who played with some new kind of tactic, or so he'd heard from others. Which meant he'd have to be extra careful this time around. Shuffling his deck idly, feeling the mental rustling of the spirits that resided within it, he glanced around at the blocked roads, waiting for Rua to approach him.

[strongest_tool]

Rua flicked through each card in his deck as he distractedly made his way towards the center of the square. He'd gotten through two rounds so far with his Deformers - everybody had been so surprised when he did, but he was just having fun dueling. Eventually he came to a white bordered card - Power Tool Dragon. His favorite card, and the card that had gotten him the victory the past two rounds. He stared at the card for a few seconds. He had never figured out if there was anything special about Power Tool Dragon...

After a minute, he smiled, and placed the card into his Extra Deck, then slapped his deck into his Duel Disk. Either way, he'd just focus on having fun. He walked into the center and stood opposite Juudai with a huge grin on his face.

"You're Juudai, right?" He smiled. "What kinda deck are you using?"

[miraclefusion]

"Hey, if I told you, it wouldn't be a surprise, would it?" Juudai chided with a laugh, completely unruffled by the fact that this kid couldn't have been more than eleven or twelve years old. A duelist was a duelist, after all. "So you must be pretty good if you beat Yuugi-san and Kaiba-san to get here," he added tangentially, trying to gouge his own situation as thoroughly as possible.

[strongest_tool]

"Hee...I think I'm pretty good, yeah!" Rua said, in that completely unabashed but somehow not egotistical way that only someone so young could manage. "My sister and I have both been dueling since we were really young!"

"But both Yuugi-san and Kaiba-san were really strong too! I had a friend once who taught me about learning through dueling..." Rua said, recalling his duel with Yuusei before. "I think I learned a lot by dueling the two of them! And I had fun too, seeing their cards and stuff!"