Chapter 33 Placement Prank.

The Contestants all gather in the main room besides Ishizu who can see the previous future and doesn't realise she needs to be here, her loss anyway.

Everyone is Partaking in the buffet of the main room, though Joey's partaking alone is worth 3 normal people.

After a while of letting the Duellists mingle and stuff their faces a light show occurs and brings attention to a Device that's at the main point of the room.

One of the Black glassed Guards arrive and stand with the device to their back. "Ladies and Gentlemen, it is time to Determine the Distribution of the finalists. Behind me this machine will Produce a ball with a number corresponding with the number on your key card, when the pair of duellists have been chosen they will duel and once their duel is over we will return to this room to determine the next duel fixing."

He lets the duellists look at the device with looks a like a bingo machine, it has a fogged glass case which the balls are vaguely see them though, the bottom of the device is Blue eyes themed with a pair of spouts for the balls to be dispensed.

The guard produces a remote and presses a button on it, this causes the balls in the device to start to dance on the jets of air. The machine lights up the interior of the glass ball to show the dancing ball's shadows before one is seen entering a tube in the centre of the device.

A few seconds later the ball is produced from one of the dragon head spouts and the guard walks up to the machine and grabs the ball.

He looks at with confusion before revealing it to the duellists.

The ball that was expected to contain a number instead Is actually a transparent sphere with a 2d image of a blank human head which depending on the light is being encroached by markings from the right side of the face.

Both me and Patches start to chuckle. unluckily I was near Seto and he heard my chuckles.

"You messed with the balls didn't you" he says in an aggravated tone.

I just simply nod and say, "there were only 8 balls so I just replaced them with 16 better ones with each representing the duellist instead of just a number."

Seto closes his eyes in annoyance but he doesn't do anything since its not really anything major.

He looks at the guards who re-centres himself before looking at the image sphere before looking at Marik(Odion) and throwing the ball at him, He catches it and nods.

The machine behind the guard activates again and from the other dragon head spout pops out the second sphere, the guard goes to check it and looks at it before presenting it to the duellists.

Inside the sphere is the 2D image of a quartet of wings in the form of a heart, one pair are red while another is holographic which fades and appears depending on the light.

The guard seems stumped at this one since its not as easy as Marik's(Odion's), he looks at me and giving him a bone I look towards the duellist, he catches on and locks on that duellist.

He throws the ball and its caught in the hand of a Blonde haired and purple jacket wearing self made woman. 

Mai Valentine catches her sphere in light confusion but she looks at the sphere in curiosity before nodding and going to towards the duel arena.

The guards around the room usher the pair to their respective elevators and because I don't want to stand outside on a blimp I'll watch the duel on the screens in the banquet hall with most of the duellists, unsurprisingly the main cast go to support their friend.

While everyone anticipates the start of the finals, I sneakily find the Guard who was operating the machine before handing him a sheet of paper with each Sphere Design and their intended Duellists.

He looks at me at confusion and then relief since I can tell if he messed up any of the spheres Seto would probably kick him from employment, then the blimp, in that order.

Now I would say Seto would give the guy a parachute but its the principle of the matter.

Nearby I spot Patches who's inhaling fancy food without caring for the looks other give him for his actions.

I guess he appreciate being in a world where he has an appetite, especially when there's so much fancy food around, So being the pal I am, I bring a full plate when his own is near empty.

He looks at me with a smirk before taking the plate, while he does that, the screens around us announce that the first finals duel with now begin.

The screens change to depict the top of the blimp showing Mai on one side and Marik(Odion) on the other of a oval platform with markings for the duel.

They activate their duel disk illuminating the field before drawing their first hands to start the finals.

[Marik's LP:4000]

[Mai's LP:4000]