Spoilers for Chapter 25 of The Rose Duelist!

Hey! Sorry for taking so long, but I'm almost done with the next chapter of The Rose Duelist! I've done four pages so far. ^__^ Anyway, here are some sneak peeks for Chapter 25 - The Mysterious Duelist...

“Hey! Let me go! What do you two want with me and why do you look exactly like me?” he cried, struggling against the ropes that tied him together. His blonde hair waved around freely now that the bandana he usually wore around it had been taken away.

The man wearing his clothes smirked. "I'm assuming your name is Keith, correct?"

"Yes, they call me Bandit Keith. Why do you- You! You must be the imposter who registered as me in the tournament! What the hell are you after?" Bandit Keith shouted at the man who looked his identical twin.

"Yeah! Another win for Joey Wheeler!" he exclaimed happily as his opponent trudged over and handed him his rarest card along with a white rose card.

"You're awesome, big brother!" Serenity exclaimed and gave her brother a congratulatory hug as Duke and Tristan mentally put themselves in Joey's place.

"Hey, where are Mai, Tea and Ryou?" Joey asked as he looked around for his three missing friends.

"Mr. Kaiba! We've located an unknown duelist playing right now."

"What? Put the duel on screen right now!" Seto ordered.

"Right away, sir," the purple haired woman said and typed quickly away.

Just as she said, the duel on the screen was between a duelist, who was the champion of his hometown two years running, and a completely unknown duelist with no name, no picture, and no information on his or her deck, except for the cards that he or she played during this duel.

"Now, I draw a card and, oh! I play Change of Heart and take control of your Dark Witch."

"It won't make a difference if you attack me with my Dark Witch. I still have 3000 life points!"

"Who says I'm going to attack you with that monster? No. I sacrifice Dark Witch and my Spirit of the Harp to summon this!" A bright light emanated from the duelist's side of the field as the monster appeared.

"No! It can't be!"

^__^ So, what do you think? Well, I'll try to have the chapter up soon! Thanks and have a great day!

// Sarai // Seto's Princess //

Spoilers for Chapter 24 of The Rose Duelist!

Tristan reached up and felt around his head as the others looked at him and Joey turned away, trying to stifle a laugh. Surely enough, a fry fell down from Tristan's head and landed triumphantly on the table.

"What the...?" Tristan wondered aloud and Joey burst out laughing.

"Hey! You put that on my head on purpose didn't you?" Tristan shouted and grabbed Joey in a headlock and gave him a noogie. The others started laughing at the hilarity of the situation.

“So you managed to take down her Barrel Dragon and she still kicked your butt?” Sujiro Mitsuki asked as he and the Takinawa siblings, Rick and Crystal, walked into a burger shop.

“Stop rubbing it in, will you? You’re supposed to be supporting me, not laughing at me!” Rick retorted as he and Sujiro sat down at a table while Crystal walked off to order something.

“Sorry, but you know that whenever you duel Maki, you don’t really stand a chance. It’s been like that since the first time you two dueled,” Sujiro commented, earning him a glare from his blonde-haired best friend.

“Have you located her yet?”

“It’s a large city, Master Rosenkreuz. It will take me a while to find her now that the tournament has started.”

“I’m losing my patience, Keith. I want her here, now! She has a punishment to serve and I won’t rest until I see it happen.”

“I promise, Rosenkreuz, by the time this tournament is over, she’ll be on her knees before you.”

Hope you liked them... I'm almost done with the chapter... I need at least one more page for my 5 page minimum. I can't guarantee a quick update though... School has suddenly become even more of a hell-hole. I have a movie to film for my History of Film class and a HUGE research paper for English.

// Sarai // Seto's Princess //

Haha, I thought you guys might find this interesting...

When I first created Maki's name I really made it up... Maki Kaichi is a completely random name I made up. I had originally considered "Reiko," "Kiki," or "Suki" for her name. I got "Maki" from one of those "what would your japanese name be?" quizzes on Quizilla.

"Kaichi" was completely made up by me... I got "Kai" from "Kaiba"... and then "chi" just because I like japanese names that end in "i" for some reason. lol... so it was either "Kaiji" or "Kaichi"...

Anyways... I got curious and decided to check if these had any specific meanings... I was sure that at least "Maki" meant something...

so... here's what Maki's name means... I'm not 100% sure, but this is what I found...

maki - roll (or rolling)
kai - sea
chi - blood

... so I guess that would be "rolling sea of blood"?

Isn't it interesting? I think it is... actually I find ironic and somewhat funny... considering how much blood Maki has seen in her life... ^_^;;; If I'm wrong though, just let me know... but I did find this funny...

// Sarai // Seto's Princess //

Spoilers for Chapter 23 of The Rose Duelist!

(These are NOT in order... These are just random parts of the duel between Rick and Maki, which is about 3-4 pages long...)

“Oh no! Four monsters in defense mode! Whatever will I do?” Maki said sarcastically. “I know! I’ll play ‘Change of Heart’ and take the monster all the way on my right. I flip it and - oh! It’s a flip effect card, ‘Mask of Darkness’ which lets me return one trap card from my graveyard to my hand.”

“Well I activate this card, ‘Call of the Haunted’ which lets me special summon one monster from my graveyard and I choose ‘Witch of the Black Forest.’” Rick said.

“It’s still my turn, so I place one card face down and sacrifice ‘Mask of Darkness’ and my facedown monster to summon this,” Maki said as she held up a card Rick knew all too well.

“I summon ‘Magical White Hat’ and attack your ‘Spirit of the Harp’! ‘Magical White Hat’s’ effect activates and I can destroy one monster from your hand. Then I’ll attack you directly with ‘Bistro Butcher’!” Rick said as Maki’s life points went down to 5750.

Rick laughed as his facedown monster flipped up, revealing ‘Man-Eater Bug.’ “You’ve activated my ‘Man-Eater Bug’s’ flip effect which lets me destroy one of your monsters and I choose your ‘Dunames Dark Witch’!”

“No!” Maki shouted as her monster was destroyed. Rick smirked as Maki glared at him.

“Yeah you go big brother!” Crystal cheered.

// Sarai // Seto's Princess //

P.S. - I posted the song for chapter 22 (Unwanted Phantoms) today.

Greetings!

Spoiler for Chapter 22 of The Rose Duelist!!!

(The following are random scenes from Chapter 22 - Unwanted Phantoms...)

“Are you sure about this, Keith? Rosenkreuz will not be happy if he knew you came back to scare the girl,” the tall husky man said in a dark reproachful tone.

“Who says I’m just here to scare her? I’m going to take her back so we can stop wasting our time,” Keith retorted as he tightened his grip on Maki’s arm.

“Let me go!” she cried.

“Keith!” a commanding voice shouted a few feet behind them.

“What did I tell you, Keith? He doesn’t sound happy,” Panik chided.

“Shut up!” Keith spat.

“I wouldn’t talk if I were you Panik. You don’t seem like you’re trying to stop him in any way,” the voice reprimanded.

“Oh great. Now she’s poppin out of random alleyways? Why have we been cursed? It’s bad enough I didn’t get an invite for this announcement thing, but now we gotta run into Miss I’m-better-than-everybody?” Joey complained.

“Ryou, is it? What do you want? I thought I made it perfectly clear to you and your friends that I’m not interested in joining your little group, so whatever it is you want from me, make it quick,” she spat, despite the feeling of fear that still remained in the pit of her stomach.

“Oh, you did make yourself perfectly clear, I can assure you that. I will make this as fast as possible, and lastly, I’m not exactly Ryou,” the boy replied with a smirk and crossed his arms. His eyes seemed darker, his hair looked different and somewhat diabolical, and his voice was deeper and cryptic.

“Maki, are you sure you’re okay? You look a little pale,” Mokuba declared as his worry for the girl grew.

“I said I’m fine Mokuba. Don’t worry about-” Maki began to say but stopped at mid-sentence and quickly looked around as if someone was stalking her. The two Kaiba brothers noticed this and exchanged a glance.

Ok... Hope you liked the spoilers... and that's only the first 1/2 of the chapter... ^_^ more surprises to come!!! heeheehee... *evil laugh*

// Sarai // Seto's Princess //