Thursday, February 3, 2005

   My 1st Yu-Gi-Oh Fanfic
Hi, friends! This was my first ever Yu-Gi-Oh fanfic. I wrote it when I was 10!!! Found it when searching for something and decided to see what you guys thought of it. Tell me what you think!!! Christmas Kidnapping By Amanda Lienhart Chapter 1 Pre-Tournament It was Christmas eve in Domino city. Everyone was busy buying gifts for others, but Yugi, Téa, Joey, and Tristan sat indoors by the crackling fireplace, warming their hands after traveling through the ice-cold weather for a half hour. When they had crossed a bridge, some bully had taken Joey’s best card, The Legendary Fisherman. Finally, they had arrived at the game shop and went indoors. “Yugi, a letter arrived for you from Pegasus,” Yugi’s grandpa told him, handing him an envelope. Yugi opened the envelope and read the letter. Yugi Boy, I’m having another tournament and I’ve decided to invite you. Bring along all your friends as well. -Maximillion Pegasus “That seems like fun,” Yugi exclaimed. “Joey, would you like to come with me to Pegasus’ castle for another tournament?” “Whatevva ya say, Yug!” he answered. “This time, I’ll show that sleezball how to duel like a man!” “Don’t get your hopes up yet,” Tristan told him. “You don’t know yet if you’ll actually duel him in the finals.” “This time I will!” Joey insisted. “I was just… I wasn’t ready. I…” his words were interrupted when they heard the door open and Mai, Duke, Bekura, and Ishizu stepped in. “Mind if we come in?” Bekura asked. “It’s awfully cold outside and my home is a long way away.” “Come on in,” Téa exclaimed happily. “Make yourselves at home!” “Thank you,” Ishizu said, collapsing into a chair close to the fireplace. “Odion told me he was working on something and would prefer for me not to interfere.” “You can stay here as long as you want,” Yugi told them. Then he remembered the note. “Hey, would you guys like to enter Pegasus’ tournament, too? I received this letter from him saying he was having another tournament and said I could bring my friends along.” Just then, the door opened again and Marik entered. “You say Pegasus is having a tournament again?” he asked. “That should be the perfect place to gain plenty of mind slaves like Pegasus…” “Stop being evil or you’ll be just like Pegasus!” Mai exclaimed. “Sorry,” Marik answered, hanging his coat on the coat rack. He sat on the floor near the fireplace and propped himself against a couch near Ishizu. Yugi passed the letter around to everyone there. Everyone decided to come except Ishizu. “I would rather spend the rest of the year here, with my brothers,” she informed Marik with a slightly loud voice. Just then, Serenity stepped in. “Hey, sis!” Joey exclaimed. He informed her on what was going on. “I know you can win the tournament, Joey, I just know it!” She sat down on the couch between Duke and Tristan, who glanced at each other, then looked away. They were constantly fighting over Serenity. Just as Tristan was about to say something, Duke asked Serenity, “Hey, do you want to come to the tournament to watch me duel?” “Sure!” she exclaimed. “I’m sure my brother will win the tournament this time!” so the troop of travelers returned to their homes to get ready for the tournament on the 26th. Joey snuck down the alley. He was tailing some bullies who had beat him up in the past year so he could do the same to them. ‘My kinda Xmas,’ he thought to himself. He got ready to punch anything that moved as he neared the corner. Joey slowly snuck along the alley, hugging the wall as not to be noticed by anyone and turned the corner. He struck a man he saw, but only caught a glimpse of his white coat as the stranger was thrown off his feet. “Wheeler, what are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be showing off somewhere else?” A recognizable voice taunted. It was Seto Kaiba, his arch-rival. “Shouldn’t you be?” Joey responded. He realized he didn’t have time to pick a fight and continued sneaking around, searching for the creep who had stolen his card, The Legendary Fisherman, the other day. He suddenly heard a thud and whirred around, then looked up. The last thing he saw was a heavy steel object before he blacked out. Yugi and Téa walked toward Duke’s game shop side by side. They were expected to meet up there with Tristan, Joey, and Duke. As they arrived, they saw Seto Kaiba dash out through the doors and jump into his limo. It drove away and Yugi and Téa entered the game shop to find Duke and Tristan fighting again. “You back off!” Tristan shouted at him. Fortunately, the game shop was closed today so no-one would notice. “Why don’t you? SHE’S MINE!” Duke retorted, pulling back his arm to punch him. Tristan ducked and pushed him over. “Stop fighting, you guys!” Yugi exclaimed. They ignored him. “STOP IT OR I’LL TELL SERENITY!” Téa screamed. They froze and Tristan kicked Duke one more time. “We were supposed to meet here?!” “Oh, yeah, about that…” Duke began, clicking a button on the telephone’s recording machine. It was Joey. “Hi, Duke. Uh, I can’t come to the top-secret high-priority meeting. I’m… uh… I’m… I forgot… Bye!” “He’s probably trying to trail that guy who stole his best card,” Téa muttered, rolling her eyes. “Anyway, why are we here?” Yugi asked Duke. “Because we’re leaving tomorrow.” Duke answered. “We should go to Pegasus’ castle together. We should schedule a time to meet and where to meet before we leave, and decide which flight to take. Unfortunately, Kaiba isn’t willing to give us a ride, even though he’s going, too.” He shook his head in disgust. Just as Tristan opened his mouth to speak, the door flew open and Joey tumbled in, bruised and cut. He had a black eye and was crazily trying to fix his hair with a bent comb. “What happened to you?!” Tristan exclaimed, pushing Duke away from him and walking over to Joey. “Man, you really got beat up!” “It’s nothin’.” Joey managed to say. “I’m just a bit bruised, that’s all.” “ ‘Just a bit bruised’ barely begins to describe how you are!” Tristan exclaimed. “You better go to a doctor. You’re barely conscious!” Tristan was right. Joey wasn’t in such good shape. Tristan and the others helped Joey to the doctor, then left. An hour later, Joey went to Tristan’s place to say hi and have lunch. “Dude, you shouldn’t have tried to take on those bullies on your own!” Tristan exclaimed when Joey entered his house. “You coulda been killed!” “I’m fine!” Joey insisted. He felt better now and he was sure he would be able to go to Duelist Kingdom with his pals. He grabbed a sandwich and left. The next day, Yugi, his grandpa, Téa, Tristan, Duke, Joey and Serenity boarded the plane to Duelist Kingdom. As Tristan and Joey strolled down the isles, they found Mai, Bekura, and Marik near the back of the plane. “Hey, guys!” Joey exclaimed. “Hi,” the others responded dully. They glanced at them for a second, then continued staring straight forward. “What’s wrong?” Tristan asked worriedly. “We’re fine,” Mai answered dully. “Just extremely bored. I couldn’t hand carry my other luggage, so I have nothing to do.” She fished around in her bag for a minute, then opened a plastic bag and pulled out a sandwich. She waved it in the air and asked, “Want a sandwich?” “No thanks…” Tristan began. “I’ll take one!” Joey exclaimed, shoving Tristan aside and snatching a ham-and-cheese sandwich from Mai’s hand. He shoved it into his mouth and walked back happily to the others, then sat down. 12 minutes from landing! Tristan returned to his seat and everyone placed their books and trinkets back in their bags. Joey looked at his newly-found card “The Legendary Fisherman” and thought for a minute as he looked through his deck. This time, with Mako Tsunami, Espa Roba, and Weevil Underwood’s best cards, that sleezball Pegasus will get what he deserves! CHAPTER 2 Journey to Duelist Kingdom Everyone who had been on the plane left and a flurry of people headed for a ship. “What’s going on?” Yugi asked one of the other travelers. “We only came to this island so we could take a boat for the rest of our journey,” she responded. She turned away and ran ahead, yelling, “Wait up! Wait up!” finally she caught up to her family. Yugi turned around. The only people left were Duke, Serenity, Joey, Tristan, Marik, Bekura, Téa, Mai, and Yugi and his grandpa. Yugi looked up just as a helicopter swooped down and landed near them. Seto Kaiba and Mokuba stepped out. “Kaiba!” Joey moaned in disgust. “So, you decided to come,” Seto said to him. Joey looked at him. Why wasn’t he insulting him as much as he normally did? “You shut up, Kaiba,” Joey threatened. “Or I’ll get your butt kicked out of this tournament for good…” “Leave him alone!” Mokuba yelled defensively. “Once I…” “I don’t have time to listen to your insults, Wheeler.” Their squabbling continued for half an hour. Everyone was squabbling. Meanwhile, Tristan cornered Duke while Serenity sat behind a tree, spying on them. “Serenity likes me, not you!” Tristan yelled, grabbing the collar of Duke’s shirt and holding him above the ground, against the wall. “So why don’t you back off!” “Why don’t you?” Duke yelled back, pushing Tristan onto the ground with his foot. He found a rope and used it to climb up the castle walls until he got to a windowsill and sat down. “Hmph.” He said. Tristan groaned and shook his fist at him. He, too, began to climb, then tried to make him lose his balance. Suddenly, the rope ripped near the top when Tristan was 3 feet from the window. Tristan grabbed Duke’s foot and clung on for life. Duke clung onto the windowsill, Tristan hanging from his leg. Serenity watched, wondering if she should go help them. Just as she got up to save them, a hand reached from the window and grabbed Duke’s hand and pulled him up. It was Pegasus! “Ah, Duke, we meet again,” he sighed. He had helped Duke make his game of dungeon dice monsters a real game. He used his millennium eye to read Duke’s mind and realized they were fighting over Serenity, as always. “Why don’t you two settle your disagreement with a duel?” “I don’t duel,” Tristan reminded him. Then Joey appeared and handed him a deck. “Now ya do. Win against that freak!” “Then it’s settled. Loser backs off.” Duke got his deck ready and the two competitors stood on separate elevated platforms. They each drew five cards and the duel began, Joey on Tristan’s side. Serenity sat among the trees, watching them. Slowly, creepy fog surrounded her and she screamed. She was in the shadow realm! Yugi sat on a tree stump near his grandpa and Mai, thinking. “Something’s not right,” he said finally. “I have a feeling Pegasus kidnapped someone…” he thought for a minute. “Serenity! Joey isn’t gonna be happy when he finds out.” Suddenly Bakura appeared. “How awful!” he exclaimed. “Why don’t we go look for her?” “Good idea,” Mai said, standing up. “Yugi, you search the forest to the north, Bakura, you search around the castle, and I’ll search the beaches. Gramps, you stay right here in case she passes by.” They split up and went their separate ways. Half an hour later, Yugi and Bakura met up near the place Duke and Tristan were dueling. “Any sight of her?” Bakura asked hopefully. “I haven’t found any clues to her whereabouts yet,” Yugi answered, “but something tells me that she was near here. Keep searching!” they returned to the search. “Next, I draw a card.” It was Tristan’s turn in the duel and he was winning. “I sacrifice my two monsters on the field to summon “Red Eyes Black Dragon” in attack mode! My field spell card “Mountain” increases Red Eyes Black Dragon’s attack power to 2600! Red Eyes Black Dragon, attack sword hunter!” Duke revealed his trap card and the duel carried on. Yugi climbed up a tree to get a better view of the forest and gasped. He saw Serenity, leaning against a tree. She was unconscious. “I can’t tell Joey about this yet,” he thought. He turned and saw Duke and Tristan standing on the playing field, threatening and punching each other. All of a sudden, Bakura appeared. Yugi noticed his millennium ring and gasped. It was Yami Bakura! “Come, I found Serenity!” he exclaimed. Yugi stayed in the tree and watched them. Bekura led everyone into the forest. Yugi jumped down from the tree he was sitting in and hid in some bushes closer to them so he could hear them better. “Duke, do you want to duel, just for fun?” Bekura asked. “Uh, okay,” he responded unsurely. “but weren’t you going to lead us to Serenity?” “Uh, she can wait until after this duel,” Bakura responded, pulling out his deck. Yugi couldn’t let Duke duel Bekura. He jumped out from the bush he was hiding in and yelled, “Stop! That’s not Bekura, that’s Yami Bekura. You don’t know what will happen if you lose!” “Yugi, I’m going to be just fine,” Duke told him carelessly. He turned to Bekura. “Let’s duel!” Seto and Mokuba Kaiba walked through the forest side by side. Seto wondered if they were the only people on the island as he walked along a dirt path. Suddenly he fell and landed on a pile of dirt. “Big brother!” Mokuba yelled. “Help me!” Seto looked up just in time to see a man grab Mokuba and walk away with him. “Let go of Mokuba!” Seto Kaiba yelled. “Leave him alone!” “You’ll never get him back!” The man yelled at him. Then he pulled a card from his pocket. “Or your Egyptian god card!” “Who are you?” he asked the stranger. The man didn’t respond. Then Seto saw the millennium symbol on the man’s forehead. ‘Marik’s mind slave!’ he thought to himself. The man turned and left. Seto groaned. He needed to get his brother back, then his Egyptian god card. But first, he needed to get out of this hole. Yugi watched as Bakura and Duke drew five cards to begin the duel. Duke drew a card. “I lay two cards face-down and end my turn,” he said. He laid a trap or spell card face-down and a monster card. Then Bakura drew a card. “I also lay two cards face-down,” he said, laying two trap or magic cards face-down. “Now I play “Headless Knight” and attack your face-down card…” Yugi tuned out. He was only watching to make sure Bekura didn’t bring them to the shadow realm. He checked his watch. It was already ten o’ clock! And to think they arrived at two. He continued watching Bekura and Duke duel, but had an odd feeling… the same feeling he had before he realized Serenity was gone… someone else was, too! And he had a feeling he knew who it was… “MOKUBA! Where are you?” Téa and Yugi yelled. They ran through the forest, searching for Mokuba, or at least Seto. Yugi had told Téa and others his suspicion, but everyone else either didn’t believe him or didn’t care. Suddenly Yugi felt himself falling and landed on a heap of dirt near Seto. “Ow,” Yugi muttered. Seto turned. “How did you wind up here?” Seto asked. He looked up and saw Téa looking down at them. “Where’s Mokuba?” Téa asked. “Yugi suspected something was wrong.” “Some guy kidnapped him,” Seto responded darkly. “He had the millennium symbol on his forehead, so I knew he was Marik’s mind slave.” Téa gasped. “I thought Marik’s yami was sent to the shadow realm!” Téa exclaimed. “Well, he’s come back.” Seto stood up and tried to climb up the dirt wall. It was no use. He paused for a minute, then looked up and asked, “Téa, could you pull me up?” “Sure!” she answered, and reached for Seto’s hand. She couldn’t reach him. “Should I go get someone to help?” she asked. Before Seto could answer, Shadi appeared. “No need,” he said. He began to walk away in the direction Yugi and Téa had come. “Where are you going?” Yugi yelled to him. “I am going to get help,” Shadi replied. Seto climbed up the wall of the hole a bit and again, Téa tried to reach his hand. She lost balance and fell, then caught the edge of the hole just in time. Then Shadi appeared with Tristan and Joey behind him. “What happened?” Tristan ran over to the hole and pulled Téa up. “Who dug that hole?” “We’re guessing Marik,” Yugi responded. Tristan looked down. “Kaiba?” “What?” Joey ran over and looked down. “How will we get Yugi out of that hole?” he wondered aloud. “And Seto,” Téa reminded him. Joey tried to reach Yugi’s hand, and fell headfirst into a pile of dirt between Yugi and Seto. “And me,” he muttered. Téa turned to the others. “We need a rope,” she informed the others. That gave Joey an idea. “Téa, how ‘bout you have Tristan lower you into this hole and pull one of us up?” he suggested. “Good idea!” she exclaimed. Tristan held her arm and lowered her into the hole. She grabbed Yugi’s arm and Tristan pulled them up. Then Tristan lowered Téa again and she grabbed Joey’s arm and pulled him up. “Do we have to help Seto up?” Joey complained. “He’ll find a way up himself.” “I can get up myself.” Seto secretly wished they would help him up, but he was independent. “Okay…” Yugi answered reluctantly. He and his friends turned to leave. When they arrived in the castle, Yugi found a note on the ground. “What’s this?” he wondered. He unfolded it and read it: Meet me in the crypt with steel doors at 12:00 AM. There was no signature. Yugi showed the others. “I guess we should go to the meeting,” Duke finally suggested. “But some of us should hide outside of the doors to guard. It might be a trap.” That night, Yugi snuck out of his room and headed toward the crypt. The doors were unlocked, so he entered and walked cautiously down the stone steps. When he got to the bottom, he looked around and saw Shadi. “Why are you here?” Yugi asked him. “Ishizu sensed there would be danger, so we came to protect you,” he responded. Ishizu appeared in the doorway. “A great evil has awakened and your friends aren’t coming,” she began to explain sternly. Then they saw the doors slam shut and heard a clanking and rattling noise coming from the other side of the door. Shadi walked up to the doors and tried to open them, but they would only open a few inches. “Someone’s locked us in!” Yugi screamed. Chapter 3 Awakening of Evil Duke Devlin suddenly sat up in bed, startled. He was sure he heard something. ‘Maybe it was just Joey dreaming about hamburgers,’ he thought to himself, then laid down again. He sat up. He had heard it again and this time he was sure it wasn’t Joey. Someone was crying out “help!” He stayed in his place for a minute, then slowly got up and grabbed a scuttle next to the fireplace and put on a long coat, then snuck out the door, weapon over his shoulder, preparing to strike. “HELP!” Yugi cried a final time, then sat down on the floor. “It’s no use,” he said. “No-one can hear us.” “I can hear you,” An evil voice replied. Yugi turned to face the locked doors and saw them open. The light revealed more of the basement briefly, and a large shadow appeared at the base of the stairs. Yugi tried to adjust to the level of light and focused his vision on the man in the doorway. Then he heard the man laugh wickedly as an object around his neck reflected the light. Bakura! Bakura made his way down the stairs. As Yugi got a better view of him, he realized he was wearing Pegasus’ Millennium eye and carrying Marik’s Millennium rod. He had stolen them! “Return those Millennium items to their rightful owners!” Yugi exclaimed. Shadi and Ishizu nodded their heads in agreement. “Never!” Yami Bakura hissed. “They’re now mine!” He gripped the Millennium rod tightly. “And in a few minutes, I will hold all 7 Millennium items!” Once again, he laughed wickedly. Yugi looked up towards the doorway far behind Bakura and again saw a shadow, this one wielding a weapon. The person stole silently down the stairs, creeping towards Bakura, then brandished his weapon. “Now,” Bakura yelled, holding the Millennium rod high above his head, “prepare to lose your Millennium Puzzle!” just as he brought down the Millennium rod, the man behind him clobbered him over his head with a scuttle. Bakura fell to the ground, unconscious, revealing Duke Devlin. “Duke?” Yugi exclaimed. “Who else?” he responded, smirking. They looked down at Bakura laying on the ground between them. He emitted a final evil laugh which ended abruptly when he fell out of consciousness again. Duke shrugged and they made their way up the staircase with Ishizu and Shadi, carrying Bakura. On their way up, Shadi reminded them they forgot the Millennium rod downstairs. The crypt’s doors opened and Tristan, Téa, Mai, Marik, Joey, Yugi’s grandpa, and even Seto Kaiba appeared in the doorway. “Hey, Yugi!” they chorused. “Hi, guys!” Yugi responded. “I can’t tell you everything right now, but could you please go pick up the Millennium rod from downstairs?” “Sure,” Mai answered. She walked downstairs and grabbed it from the floor. On her way up, the left door was pushed shut. Everyone looked at each-other and instantly began running as fast as they could up the stairs, but it was no use. The other door slammed shut and the door’s handles were once again chained together. They were locked in and no-one could save them. Pegasus sat in his favorite chair, reading a comic book and sipping the world’s finest fruit juice, trying to make up for the loss of his Millennium eye. ‘Now that Yugi-boy and his friends are trapped,’ he thought to himself, ‘I’ll be able to take their souls and Millennium items and bring back my beloved Cecelia!’ years ago, Pegasus and Cecelia were getting married. All of a sudden, Cecelia had been struck down by a devastating disease and was killed. ‘If I can turn KaibaCorp against him, Kaiba-boy won’t stand a chance and eventually, I can combine his virtual technology with the power of the 7 Millennium items to bring back Cecelia!’ he continued daydreaming. Out of the blue, he heard a knock on his door. “Come in,” he called. The door opened and one of his guards entered the room. “Master Pegasus, a man on the phone wishes to speak to you,” he said. Pegasus got up and walked out into the hallway and picked up the phone. “Maximillion Pegasus here,” he said. A recognizable voice threatened him. “Hand over the prize money or I’ll…” “Bandit Keith? I told you, I am NOT ABOUT to give you the money I WON in a tournament,” Pegasus interrupted. He hung up and returned to his room and daydreams of Cecelia, his fiancée. Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Téa and others slept on the cold, stone floor of the crypt that night. Ishizu couldn’t sleep. Her Millennium necklace told her that once again, someone evil would try to steal their Millennium items. Marik! Marik’s Yami would once again take over and take all the Millennium items, since all seven were in the crypt with them. Ishizu picked up the Millennium rod and Millennium eye and put them under her “pillow”, which was a flat rock, and tried to sleep. She knew that, without the Millennium rod, Marik wouldn’t be as strong. She was able to sleep soundly after she woke up Shadi and told him that Marik’s yami would return. Joey smiled in his sleep. He was dreaming he won a Duel Monsters championship and the grand prize: the three Egyptian god cards, but more importantly, $1,000,000,000! That way he could buy whatever Duel Monsters cards he wanted, but first he went to Pegasus and showed off his money. Pegasus got scared and Joey forced Pegasus into a duel and won, taking the grand prize-Pegasus’ Millennium eye. Then Pegasus began screaming, “Joey, wake up! Wake up!” Joey woke up and realized Yugi was trying to make him wake up. Mai giggled when she heard Joey mutter, “Pegasus, give me your Millennium eye or I…” and finally snap out of it. He sounded like Bandit Keith, only he was requesting the Millennium eye. As Joey opened his eyes, he noticed something. There was a small ray of light coming from a part of the wall. “Guys, there’s light comin’ from somewhere in that wall,” Joey stated, pointing in its direction. He sat up and walked over to it, then, since he couldn’t see anything except for a sector of the floor, he felt around it. There was a tunnel there! “Yug, I’ve found a way out!” he exclaimed. Yugi walked over to him and felt there too. “I think you’re right, Joey!” Yugi replied excitedly. Then Duke jumped up in front of them. “Uh, I’m gonna go in, you guys,” he told them. They didn’t stop him, so he cautiously crawled along the tunnel until he was directly in front of a tunnel leading upward into the forest. It had a metal ladder leading up, so he climbed up and looked around, then returned to the crypt. “I found a way out!” he yelled in joy. “Man, I thought we’d be stuck down here for the rest of our lives,” Tristan shouted in happiness, climbing into the hole and crawling his way towards the ladder. The others followed, Yugi at the end. Tristan climbed up the ladder and looked around. It felt so much better to be above ground. “We need to find our way back to the castle,” Téa reminded them. “If we walk in the exact opposite direction that we crawled, we’ll come across the doors to the crypt easily.” They turned and all walked back in a straight line until they could see the castle. “We found it!” Tristan cried out. “I thought we’d get lost.” They continued to walk towards the castle and entered. A guard ran up to them. “We want to speak to Pegasus,” Yugi told him. The guard called someone on a walkie-talkie and, moments later, Pegasus arrived. When he saw his Millennium eye, he knew what it was about. “We’ve come to return your Millennium eye,” Bakura informed him. Then Seto pushed him aside. “But only if you promise to give back Mokuba!” Something told him that Pegasus was the current keeper of Mokuba’s soul. “And Serenity!” Joey added angrily, holding up his fist. Pegasus thought for a minute. Was it worth it? He couldn’t get back his Millennium eye by force, so he decided he had no choice. “Of course,” he said in his calm voice, holding up the two soul cards. “Come along.” He led them into the cold dungeon where he kept Mokuba and Serenity and held out his hand, waiting for the Millennium eye to be given to him. Yugi handed it to him and Joey and Tristan backed up to guard the door. They didn’t trust Pegasus. Pegasus released Mokuba and Serenity, who ran into their older brothers’ arms, crying out their names. Tristan and Duke glared at each-other for a second, then both ran over and hugged Serenity, too. Pegasus left, the others following him until they got to the entrance to the castle. Then they left. “I’m so glad you’re back!” Joey exclaimed, hugging Serenity again. “Me, too,” she answered. Then Tristan appeared. “Let’s get out of here before someone else is kidnapped!” he called to them. This time, Seto Kaiba let them ride in his helicopter with him as thanks for helping him get Mokuba back. Even though they rode in the luggage compartment, they didn’t mind. EPILOGUE Tristan and Duke escorted Serenity through the local mall back in Domino city, not knowing Joey was hiding behind a potted plant nearby, watching it all like a hawk. He couldn’t hear them, but he knew that they were still talking about how happy they were Serenity was back.
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