Vyser D: First off, I don't own Yugioh GX! If I did…would I really need a disclaimer? Second off, I just felt like writing this as a…side story…enjoy.
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Duel…
In layman's terms, it means an honorable fight.
But if you're a duelist…It can mean something totally different.
Duelists…
A player of the widely famous trading card game…Duel Monsters…
In this game, honor is often found among the players, friends are made, respect is earned, and sometimes…
…Even love can sprout from a duel.
Though as in life, people have turned this innocent game into means of achieving selfish goals or to hurt the lives of others.
Since ancient times, these games were used to determine many things…and in a sense, they still are.
Those who don't understand often mock the ones who do from that mocks plant the seed of hatred slowing growing with each passing moment.
Humans are interesting creatures…they often don't realize it but from what history has proven, people have brought their own downfall.
And soon…that downfall will appear once more…
However…three souls will arise to strike down this evil. Though the souls be separate and completely different. They are the only ones who can save us…
Now you're thinking…'Who is this guy and what the hell is he rambling about?'
Well…for what I am talking about…that will just wait till another day…
As for who I am…you already may know that answer…
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Yugioh GX
Dueling Twilight
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Chapter 1
This Is the Prologue!
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Today was the day…
The sun had risen over the city that never sleeps, New York. From the window of a small apartment…it was the most beautiful sight in the world to the eyes that gazed upon the event.
She could barely contain herself…from her bed next to the window, she knew that today was her day for recognition.
Leaping from underneath the covers, the girl landed on the cold wooden floor that met her feet. A small smile couldn't help but appear on her face as she moved her long chestnut hair from her glee-filled dark green eyes. "…It's finally here!"
With an elegant walk towards the bathroom, the door slowly closed keeping the girl in the room for several minutes.
The door opened immediately allowing the young brunette to exit. Her hair waved slightly from her movements showing off the red tips at her bangs and end of long hair, flowing past her shoulders. Her petite body allowed the white shirt she was wearing to flow over her baggy khaki shorts.
Without a moment's notice the girl ran to the desk that sat next to her bed, and quickly grabbed the blue jacket and black backpack that were resting on the desktop. 'Nothing's going to stop me from this…'
That's when the girl's eyes spotted the clock on the wall to the right… "It's noon!?!"
"Hey little sis! Your breakfast is getting cold!"
Turning her body with a spin, the girl quickly ran towards the door that led out of the room and quickly ran down the hall. Reaching the opening, she was met by a great big hug from the muscular figure that jumped out at the last minute surprising her. "About time you got out here Rena!"
Rena began to try to break free from the powerful bear hug from the blonde sportsman she happened to call her brother. "Guy! I…can't…breathe!"
Releasing his death hug, Guy couldn't help but look down and smile at Rena. "Sorry sis…but I gotta make sure that hug lasts as long you stay at the academy!"
"Well…I hope I can get in…" Rena replied rubbing the back of her head.
"No sweat…you've been working hard!" Guy laughed slapping his hand on Rena's back sending her to the ground. "…Whoops! Forgot you're not as strong as me…"
Rubbing her back, Rena stood up. When she was finally standing up straight, an instant thought popped into her head. "…I see dad isn't here…"
"He got called into work today," Guy answered before turning to the clock. "But…you'll have to go! You've got somewhere to be!"
That's when Rena's eyes landed on the clock and immediately sending her into frenzy. "AGH! I'm going to miss my bus! I'm late!"
And with that…Rena quickly ran out the door of the apartment with a piece of toast between her teeth. Guy just sat down and shook his head. "…Wish you luck little sis."
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Even during the morning hours, New York was overcrowded as usual and people were usually walking down the streets going to work, minding their own business, without a care for the rest of the world.
At this moment however, Rena was wishing that the rest of the world would get out of her way. Running past many people, only to keep bumping into several businessmen. 'Dang it! I really need to stop relying on the sun to wake me up!'
Rena's eyes lit up as she looked forward, only a few yards were all that remained between her and the bus stop with the bus to the exam site waiting for all the passengers to board. 'Almost there!'
"Klein! Look out!"
SLAM!!!!!!!!!
Some unknown force knocked down Rena down to her bottom. The force had sent the toast that was in her mouth flying into the air. "Oh…I feel like I was just tackled by Guy when he was playing football…"
"Nice…"
"You okay Klein?"
"Now's not the time Koji! Let's get out of here!"
Snapping back to her senses, Rena just turned towards the bus to see two short teenaged guys, one with greased spiky black hair and the other with a brown bowl cut, running onto the door closing bus. "What!?! No wait!"
Running after the bus was more of a challenge than it was said. From the back window she could see the two short teens that had just gotten on the bus at the back. The greased haired teen had his tongue out and was pulling down his lower eyelid at Rena, while the bowl cut haired teen who was apparently wearing coke bottle glasses just stared at his companion.
After the bus was ten blocks ahead of Rena, she lowered her head and began to catch her breath. That was then her second wind came to her. "I won't let this stop me! I didn't finish that written exam two weeks ago just to be left behind!"
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"I…finally…made…it…" Rena panted with her hands on her knees. The large sight before her was the Atlantic Duel academy's exam area. Two weeks earlier, this sight was filled with students that were going to the academy and wanted to get the written exam out of the way.
Wiping off the beads of sweat that had appeared on her head, Rena began to run directly through the doors when suddenly for the third time of the day, Rena was knocked to the ground.
"Ouch…Sorry!" Rena apologized nervously closing her eyes. When she opened them, they were met with pristine blue eyes. The eyes belonged to a young man with wild dark gray hair. He wore a black shirt with a gray sleeveless jacket and jeans. A black backpack was slung over his broad shoulders.
For some reason, Rena couldn't help but stare into the narrowing eyes of this teen…it wasn't love at first sight because of what the guy's words were…
"…Dumb ass."
Rena quickly jumped to her feet and was about to reply to the rude boy, when he just turned around and walked away from the steaming Rena. Placing her hands on her hips, Rena glared at the teen. "Hey! I apologized!"
"All duelists applying to the academy who haven't dueled yet please report to the stadium. I repeat…All duelists applying to the academy who haven't dueled yet please report to the stadium."
Shaking her head, Rena calmly walked through the building seeing many other duelists trading cards, or practicing dueling. "No!"
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Walking down the steps of the arena, Rena could easily see that many duels were taking place. From a distance, she couldn't tell who the duelists were, but she sure recognized some of the monsters.
"Wow…its even more exciting than I thought," Rena gasped looking at the multiple duels going on.
"Everything must amaze you…"
That's when Rena's eyes turned to see the same guy who had insulted her just minutes ago just sitting down lazily in one of the seats of the arena. 'It's the rude duelist!' Charging towards the rude man, Rena stood up next to him starring daggers at him. "HEY! You owe me an apology!"
The rude gray haired boy just ignored her yelling at him and continued watching the duel that was taking place in the arena directly in front of him.
"ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME?!" Rena yelled as flames appeared in her eyes. "At least say something!"
The boy just watched the duel in silence.
A blood vessel appeared on Rena head, but then took a deep breath and tried to at least make amends. "What are you watching anyway?" Rena just blinked as she turned towards the dueling arena.
At the dueling arena stood a tall, handsome boy with short spiked up brown hair with a hint of class and his eyes seemed to be deep amber of a roaring flame. His build was athletic and his face was perfectly cleared of any blemishes. The field before him was cleared and he only had two cards in his hand. (NDLP: 700)
Turning slightly, Rena noticed the large machine with purple and green metal (3000/2300). It was shaped in the form of a demonic monster and whenever it moved, the gears inside the mechanical fiend could be heard through out the entire arena. The duel Procter…had a large afro and was wearing the standard issue Obelisk blue overcoat that came when one had entered the school. At his arm was a duel academy issued duel disk. (DPLP: 2900)
The Proctor just smiled at the fact that his opponent didn't seem scared at all. "I'm surprised to see you calm newbie…most people who face off against my Metalzoa usually are scared because of its size."
"Well, I guess I'm not like most people," the noble duelist replied closing his eyes. Snapping the top card from his deck he just smiled. "And since you used up all the cards in your hand for that last move, I can only assume that it's my turn…"
Looking at the card, the noble duelist just stood there with composure but then smiled with a little trace of evil through his lips. "It is amazing to see how you managed to summon a powerful monster that rivals a certain dragon…too bad it's such a pity…"
"A pity?" The Duel Proctor questioned in an annoyed tone. "Look at the scores again and tell me what you think!"
"…Oh I'm not looking at the scores…" The noble duelist replied sliding his newly drawn card. "I'm looking at the cards! So I'll activate the spell card Graceful Charity!"
A blinding bright light showered over the noble duelist as he pulled three cards from his deck. After looking at the cards momentarily, he smiled and slid two of the cards into his graveyard. "Now then…I summon one of my favorite monsters, go Mudora (1500/1800)!"
The lights flew up in front of the duelists allowing the Egyptian fairy to appear, his golden mask shining in the light as he drew his two curved swords from his sides.
The afro duel proctor didn't seem impressed. "You'll have to do a lot better than that if you aim to get in this academy."
"Ah, I know that, but you don't seem to realize Mudora's special ability," the noble duelist replied making his graveyard glowing brilliantly. All of a sudden, multiple images of previous monsters that must have been played in the duel materialized behind the Mudora. "For each fairy in my graveyard, he's granted an additional two hundred attack points…"
The Afro duel proctor just stepped back as the ghostly fairies flew into their comrade, strengthening him with a loud battle cry! (1500/1800 + 200(x 9)/0 3300/1800)
"Still not enough to defeat me!" The Afro proctor pointed out.
The noble duelist just smiled as he lifted another card from his hand, this time fitting it into his duel disk. All of a sudden, a small machine appeared on the chest of the Metalzoa. "Which is why I'm out fitting your rust bucket with Nitro Unit…and now…Mudora attack!"
The Egyptian fairy leapt into the air then quickly brought its blades down on the head of the Metalzoa. At first the attack did nothing, but then the swords began to cut right through the metal like a hot knife through butter.
The Afro proctor's jaw just dropped as the Mudora landed in front of him and jumped back to the noble duelist's field. Turning his head slightly, he saw his Metalzoa shattering into pixels. "You may have taken down my best monster…but you're still far from winning!" (DPLP: 2600)
"Actually no… you see that's where my Nitro Unit comes into play," the noble duelist explained as the Nitro unit fell onto the Duel Proctor's chest. "You see…if I destroy the equipped monster, than you take direct damage equal to the equipped monster's attack points…"
"Uh oh…" the duel proctor gulped listening a click sound…
BOOM! (DPLP: 0)
The noble boy just smirked walking off of the platform, with Mudora disappearing in the process and with the now dazed duel proctor emerging from the holographic explosion. "…Guess I was too much of a duelist for him…"
Rena's eyes were as wide as possible. "That's somewhat scary…"
"Meet candidate number one, fresh from the duel prep school, Mr. Leonardo Childsman, the so called noble duelist," A male voice commented.
Rena turned her head to the right to see a young man smiling at her, his dark blue spiky hair was held up with a wave like blue headband. His legs were on top of the seat in front of him showing off his khaki cargo pants and black shirt that were baggy over his body. "Although…with a move like that, its pretty interesting as well."
Holding out his hand, the teen just smiled once more. "The name's Van Tenka…though I prefer to be called Van."
Rena warmly smiled back and shook Van's hand slightly. "I'm Rena Akira, you're the first guy this morning who didn't knock me down today."
Raising an eyebrow at the comment, Van just shook it off and turned his eyes back at the dueling arenas to see a young duelist summoning massive rust covered robot. "Okay… interesting."
Rena just turned her head to see Leonardo slowly walking up the stairs. "Anyway, you said he was the number one candidate, he must be a scary guy with a finish like that…"
"Actually he's a nice guy from what I heard," Van stated before lowering his head. "And like I said earlier, he's the number one candidate…while I on the other hand am number one hundred and sixty-two…"
A small sweatdrop appeared on the back of Rena's head as she placed her hand on Van's shoulder. "Um…take it easy? Rank isn't everything…right?"
"Nice try…" Van sighed.
Leonardo finally reached the same stair level as Rena and Van, Rena took the chance and turned towards him. "Hey! Nice duel there."
Smiling towards Rena, Leonardo kindly spoke. "Why thank you miss, I enjoy nice compliments…"
'Wow…I guess Van was right, he's not that bad of a person,' Rena thought while holding her hands together. "Leonardo right? I'm Rena, candidate number seventy-seven!"
Leonardo just raised and eyebrow as pocketed his hands. "Really, number seventy-seven? I'm sorry I missed your duel…"
"Well, I just got here in the middle of your duel," Rena replied scratching the back of her head. "I kind of missed the bus."
"Really? What a shame…" Leonardo sighed slowly closing his concerned eyes.
Rena just stood there very confused. "Huh?"
"The duels for candidates seventy through eighty just ended a minute ago," Van pointed out.
That when a chord snapped inside of Rena's head. At first she seemed completely calm…
A moment later…
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO!" Rena cried holding onto her head getting weird looks from everyone else in the immediately area.
"Whoa! I bet if you talked to an instructor, you probably could still duel," Leonardo suggested before Rena ran directly past him making his hair and clothes fly in the breeze. "…Man she's fast…"
"GOOD LUCK!" Van shouted and waved towards Rena.
Amused by the weird girl's antics, Leonardo chuckled to himself until he felt a cold glare at him. Slightly turning to his right, he made looked directly into the narrowing eyes that were aimed directly at him.
Leonardo on the other hand. "Pleasure to make your acquaintance, my name is Leonardo…yours?"
The cold teenage guy just growled and walked past Leonardo, pushing him slightly to the side.
"My, what a rude lad…" Leonardo chuckled to himself before he took a nearby seat.
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"Come on! You've got to give me a chance!" Rena pleaded at the duel proctor's desk.
"…Miss, please have some dignity," the sarcastic instructor sighed with his street accent, he definitely looked like a street person. His shaggy black hair went past his chin, but was apparent to have blond highlights in his hair. His yellow duel academy teacher's uniform was unzipped showing off the completely black shirt and pants…with the exception of the red belt. "You were late, and our academy doesn't really tolerate tardiness…unlike our sister school, the Pacific duel academy…"
"But…it wasn't my fault! Can't you make an exception?" Rena asked placing her hands on the desk. "Just give me a chance to duel!"
The instructor stood up at that question and sighed loudly. "Miss…In order to become a duelist, you need to be creative, intelligent and know how to be on time… and besides, if I gave you a break, I would have to give a break to everyone else who showed up late as well…"
A small tear appeared in Rena's eye, but she quickly brushed it away. "…Not fair…"
"Lesson one about life…it's never fair…" the Professor stated sitting back down.
"Now, now, now Professor Kryancelo, don't you think you're being a little over dramatic?" A lovely female voice sounded through the air.
Rena turned towards the professor that turned her down to see that his face had turn goofy and a slight blush appeared over his face. Turning her head, she saw what was the cause.
In front of Rena was a beautiful woman standing in front of her, the golden blonde hair flowed pass her shoulders that were covered with a large red overcoat. The black dress underneath her overcoat showed a decent amount of cleavage and her voluptuous figure. "Are you being mean to the applicants again?"
Professor Kryancelo just stood up and gulped deeply. "Professor Maria…I thought you were dueling Mr. Drei?"
"I was, but he got accepted," Professor Maria stated before she walked on the other side of the desk and stood directly with Kryancelo. "…But enough about that…shouldn't you really give this girl a real chance?"
"But…but…standard procedure dictates that…" Kryancelo gulped before Maria grabbed onto his right arm.
"Oh, come on…can't you bend the rules this one time?" Maria asked before placing her hand on his chest. "Please?"
Kryancelo just gulped deeply and began shakily respond. "W...well…o-okay, but on three conditions."
Stepping from Maria, Kryancelo just coughed and pulled a duel disk from underneath the desk. "First…she has to duel me and my real deck…"
"Second, she'll still be in the Slifer Red dorms, since you have an interest in her Maria…"
Maria and Rena just stared at Kryancelo as his blush seemed to grow. Rena took a chance and asked. "And the third?"
Raising his hand towards Maria, Kryancelo just closed his eyes. "You'll have to grab a cup of coffee with me when we're on the boat…Maria…"
'…That's pathetic…' A sweatdrop appeared on Rena's head. "…but I'll take it…"
"Looks like she accepts, so I'll gladly get a cup of coffee with you," Maria stated.
Kryancelo just turned towards Rena once more and raised his duel disk. "Well, then, get your deck out and we'll get this duel on with!"
Rena just nodded her head and reached into her pants pocket to pull out her deck.
Only to find that her pocket was empty!
'My deck! Where's my deck?' Rena started to panic as she searched for her deck in her other pockets.
"No! I lost my deck," Rena moaned with tears appearing in her eyes.
"Well then…I guess this goes to show ya that life isn't fair…" Kryancelo sighed taking off his duel disk. "Now then…please leave…"
"Hey…" A cool, yet stern voice sounded.
Everyone turned to see the same cold duelist that Rena had bumped into earlier standing in front of them. Rena wiped some of the tears away from her eyes. "You…"
"You talking to me?" Kryancelo asked raising an eyebrow at this guy.
"Do you see any other Goth geeks?" The guy mocked not removing his glare from Kryancelo.
Kryancelo narrowed his eyebrows at this rude punk, even though he dressed in dark clothes and had a somewhat mean disposition, he wasn't gothic. "Who are you showing disrespect to an academy professor? Its intolerable!"
"Better a jerk than a Goth nerd," The rude boy commented with a slight snicker in his voice.
"Again with the Goth jokes!" Kryancelo roared pulling his hair.
"Oh have a sense of humor Kryancelo!" Maria giggled holding her hand to her face.
"That does it!" Kryancelo yelled, suddenly he noticed that the rude guy had a duel academy issued duel disk strapped to his arm. "Wait a second…if you have that duel disk, then that means that you're already in the academy…why would you risk it defending this girl?"
The rude boy just scoffed to the side and closed his eyes. "I really couldn't care less about the flat-chested dumb ass…"
'My what language…' Maria thought looking at Rena.
A slight blush appeared on Rena's face as she crossed her arms. 'That stings…'
When the boy opened his eyes, they seemed to burn furiously with hatred to anyone who was looking directly into them. "I just don't care for a person who does anything mindlessly and has an attitude like yours!"
"Big talk for rude little punk," Kryancelo retorted as a blood vessel appeared on his forehead. "Kids like you need to be punished!"
"Sounds like a challenge…" The rude boy commented as his duel disk began to fold out.
"Very well…however, even though you don't care, the same wagers will apply to you as well as your little girlfriend right there," Kryancelo replied slipping on his duel disk. "Though I'm giving you fair warning that you can't really win…"
"Shove it where the sun don't shine Goth man," the boy replied shrugging.
Kryancelo twitched his eyebrow, then an plan was placed into his head. "…I'm going to make you eat those words! Cause when you lose, your enrollment will be canceled and I'll make sure you won't be allowed to enter this academy!"
Rena quickly ran up to the cold-hearted boy. "Don't risk that! You're already in the academy!"
"………….I should care…why?" The rude boy yawned loudly.
Twitching her forehead, Rena glared directly at him. "Because! He's using his real deck and he's a teacher!"
"…If history serves right, a certain hero duelist managed to defeat a professor with his real deck…" the rude boy retorted before pushing Rena to the side. "And this guy isn't even half as good as that professor…and that's not saying much…"
"I just don't understand boys," Rena sighed loudly as a hand was placed on her shoulder. Turning towards the hand, Rena saw that Maria was smiling down at her. "Huh?"
"You'll get it someday," Maria replied turning towards the duel at hand.
"Now then…as an added bonus…should you win, you can stay at the academy and I'll give full admittance to the tardy candidate…"
Stars appeared in Rena's eyes, she was totally taken by surprised by this event. "Really?"
"Enough yaking ya gothic bastard," the rude duelist mocked as he slid his deck into the tray.
"Hold up little man, since you're facing an actual employee, rather than a proctor, we'll be dueling with eight thousand life points instead of the other schools using four thousand," Kryancelo explained activating his duel disk. "Are you ready?" (KLP: 8000)
The rude boy just sighed loudly and then cracked his neck. "Why do you keep talking?" (RDLP: 8000)
Kryancelo twitched his eyebrow as the holographic imagers began to activate. "DUEL!"
The rude duelist drew a single card from his duel disk and looked at it. "I summon The Six Warmasters - Yaichi (1300/800)…"
A surge of water erupted from the ground and then fell once more to reveal a Japanese warrior stood in front of the rude duelist. The warrior sported sea green samurai like armor and held onto a powerful green long bow. The warrior just glared at Kryancelo as he reached for an arrow.
Two vertical face down cards materialized behind the warrior. "And I'll wrap this turn with a couple of cards face down…"
'Is he really planning something?' Rena thought as Kryancelo drew his next card.
"Draw! I'll show you how a real duelist works!" Kryancelo announced looking at his newly drawn card. "Like this! I'll place this card face down… and activate the spell card Blasting Vein!"
Just as the set card appeared before Kryancelo, a powerful explosion erupted from it making anyone watching it to cover his or her eyes. The blast seemed to have also called multiple duelists to watch. "Hey! Rena!"
"Van!" Rena shouted as Van walked up to her.
Van scratched his head…that's when he noticed Professor Maria. "Whoa! I'll enjoy classes here this semester…"
"I think your friend has something to say little boy," Maria replied before Van shook his head.
"Yeah…sorry about that Rena…" Van replied trying to take his eyes off of Maria. "Um, anyway, did you actually get to duel?"
"No…but that guy's dueling for me," Rena answered pointing towards the rude duelist staring at the cannon aiming towards him. "And if he loses, he'll get kicked out of the academy!"
"What!?!" Van questioned turning towards the duel. "We've got to stop this thing!"
"I wouldn't if I were you…" A sinister voice spoke.
Rena noticed the newest observer of the duel. "Leonardo?"
"As a duelist, you should know that you should never interrupt a duel," Leonardo explained combing his hair with his hand. "Sides…this will be an interesting duel…"
"Next, my combo comes into effect! First my Blasting Vein gives me two new draws!" Kryancelo continued as two cards flew into his hand, and then green smoke began to fly up around him. "And then, my face down card was Statue of the Wicked! Providing me with a Wicked Token (1000/1000)!"
The smoke began to form into a large golden demonic snake that roared loudly at the sight of the two warriors. Kryancelo then slapped another card from his hand onto his duel disk. "Then, I'll summon my UFO Turtle (1400/1200)!"
Before Kryancelo, a large metallic turtle floated right next to the Wicked Token with a shell that resembled an old sci-fi spaceship. "Now! UFO Turtle attack his Warmaster!"
The turtle began to glow with extreme heat before it flew at a high speed directly into Japanese archer, shattering him after he yelled in pain. (RDLP: 7900)
"Next up, Wicked Token! Attack directly!" Kryancelo commanded as his token slammed right into the rude duelist, sending him directly into the graveyard. (RDLP: 6900)
A smile crept onto his face. "Already my first turn is over, and you've almost lost a quarter of your life points…"
"…You're right…so I should take this duel to the next level!" The rude duelist announced as his face down card flipped up to show the Silent and Mystic swordsmen helping each other up. "I activate the trap card, Warrior's Will! Now for each warrior monster that was sent to graveyard this turn, I draw one card."
'He anticipated the move…interesting…' Kryancelo thought as two face down cards materialized in front of him. "I'll just set this two cards down and let you take from here…"
The rude guy just drew his next card, and then motioned to his other face down card. The purple-bordered card flipped up to show a ghostly spirit rising from a tombstone, at the same time Yaichi (1300/800) reappeared raising his bow with a scowl at Kryancelo. "Call of the Haunted brings back my Warmaster…"
"…Wait, why did he have that card come back?" Rena asked with a question mark appearing over her head.
"It would have to be that he's planing on sacrificing," Leonardo explained crossing his arms. 'However…I've seen this deck before, and I have a feeling that another monster is going to show up…'
Slapping his card onto his duel disk, the rude duelist glared directly at Kryancelo. "I summon Six Warmasters – Kamon (1500/1000)!"
A powerful flame erupted from the ground next to Yaichi, and just like with the fountain, a feudal Japanese warrior appeared. This warrior however was wearing dull red armor and held onto a powerful cannon in his right arm.
"…Warmasters?" Van questioned scratching the top of his head. "There's more than one?"
"Why yes, in fact there's a set of cards based on that and are very powerful," Leonardo explained with a smirk.
"I'm not really impressed," Professor Kryancelo scoffed before his eyes turned to his duel disk. 'Especially with what I have planned…"
"I activate Yaichi's special ability!" The rude duelist stated making Yaichi pull back on his bow. A powerful blue arrow made of pure energy formed in the bow. "By sacrificing his attack this turn, he can destroy one of your set cards! Go!"
Releasing the energy arrow, Yaichi struck Kryancelo's face down card on the left revealing it to be a Mirror Force. "…Lucky…"
The rude duelist just ignored Kryancelo's comment and raised his right hand to Kamon. "Attack the UFO Turtle!"
Kamon knelt down on his right knee and then pulled the trigger, releasing a powerful blast of fire that exploded on contact with the UFO Turtle. When the smoke disappeared a powerful flame shot from Kryancelo's now flipped up trap card, and crashed into the rude duelist. (KLP: 7900) (RDLP: 6400)
"Ha! You activated Backfire! And this little trap card proves there's more than one way to light a fire, by blasting five hundred points of damage from ya when you destroy a fire monster," Kryancelo laughed reaching for his deck. "And let's not forget about my Turtle's ability, I can summon a fire attribute monster from my deck, and I choose Raging Flame Sprite (100/200)!"
A small spark exploded in the air before Kryancelo exposing a small fire fairy giggling at the remaining sparks in the air.
The rude duelist just slipped another card from his hand into his duel disk and frowned at Kryancelo. "Aw…is the rude punk getting annoyed?"
"This is nuts!" Van stated holding his head, but then rubbed his chin in amazement. "Yet…strangely awesome…"
"Whose side are you on Van?" Rena asked narrowing her eyes at Van.
"Now then, I draw," Kryancelo snickered looking at his next card. "And I'll switch my token to defense mode…"
The golden token curled up into a small golden wheel, growling as it did so. "…then send my Flame Sprite to attack you directly!"
The little sprite winked at the rude duelist before snapping her fingers, sending a small spark to fly into the duelist. The rude duelist just blew the spark away with a scoff, making the sprite look down in disappointment. (RDLP: 6300)
"Oh well, now she can enact her special ability, power up my monster!" Kryancelo shouted making a powerful flame surround his sprite, allowing her to grow into a teenaged version of herself (1100/200). "And I'll end my turn with a face down card…"
"…Draw…"
The rude duelist snapped his next card from his deck and nodded to himself. "I summon Six Warmaster – Nisan (1400/700)!"
A powerful storm emerged on the field before a third feudal Japanese warrior appeared wearing dark green armor and wielding two glowing katanas in both of his hands. "Next, I'll use Kamon's effect!"
Kamon knelt down and lifted up his glowing cannon towards Kryancelo's Backfire trap. Then the warrior pulled the trigger firing a powerful fire blast that shattered the trap card into multiple pixels. Kryancelo waved the pixels from his face and narrowed his eyes. "What the hell was that?"
"Kamon can destroy a face up spell or trap card on the field," Leonardo politely explained.
"Thanks…" Kryancelo muttered.
"Now then, Yaichi, attack…" the rude duelist commanded. The feudal archer pulled back on his bow creating a powerful blue arrow, which he quickly fired towards the token. When the pierced the token's skull, the monster roared loud in pain. "Nisan…charge!"
The newest warrior disappeared into a small storm and then appeared right in front of the Raging Flame Sprite scaring the sprite. That's when Nisan slashed his sword right through the crying sprite, the cute monster shattered into pixels. (KLP: 7600)
"It'll take a lot more than that to beat me you ruffian," Kryancelo laughed before noticing something. "Hey…how come your Warmaster is still standing here?"
"Cause my attack isn't over!" the rude duelist shouted before Nisan quickly slammed the handles of his two katanas into Kryancelo's abdomen. "Cause, Nisan can attack twice…"
"Damn it…" Kryancelo muttered holding his stomach. (KLP: 6200)
"He finally took the lead!" Rena cheered with a bright smile appearing on her face.
"The duel isn't over yet and I think Kryancelo still has a few tricks up his sleeve," Leonardo replied combing back some of his hair.
A card materialized behind the rude duelist's Warmasters, which just left him and his Warmasters shooting death glares at Kryancelo.
"You may have had a luck streak," Kryancelo stated pulling his next card into his hand. "But I highly doubt you'll be able to pull that off once more…"
"Stop talking you gothic coot…" the rude duelist interrupted closing his eyes.
"What?!? Now you're calling me old?!?" Kryancelo growled before slapping a card onto his duel disk. "I'll teach you some manners! I'll set a monster on guard and set a couple cards face down!"
"Okay…he's got the professor on guard, that has to be a good sign right?" Van asked.
"That really depends on our rude duelist's next move," Maria answered as the rude duelist snapped his next card from his deck.
'This card…I drew it…' The rude duelist just slapped his next card onto his duel disk allowing a blank monster card appeared before him. "I summon Wandering Samurai!"
The card shattered allowing a young man with his long dark brown hair tied up in a large upward tail flailing all over to jump out in. His white gi covered his dark blue muscle shirt, leaving his arms almost barren except for the red gloves and yellow bracelets. In his right hand held normal sized Katana while tied on his back was a large sword that seemed to be his body width (1600/1000).
"Big deal…" Kryancelo as a card shot out of the rude duelist's deck and into his hand. "Huh?"
"What's happening here?" Rena asked as the samurai drew his great oar like sword.
Everyone turned towards Leonardo who just raised his eyebrows in surprise. "What? Am I supposed to know every card that was made?"
"Well…you've explained a lot of the cards here so we thought…" Van stated before he received a powerful slap to the back.
"Relax my friend! His samurai allows an equip card from the player's deck onto the samurai," Leonardo explained flicking back some of his hair.
The Wandering Samurai lifted his great oar sword and aimed it towards Kryancelo as his initial attack strength grew to two thousand. "Wandering Samurai, attack the face down monster with Great Oar Slash!"
The rough looking samurai jumped into the air over the face down card. Kryancelo just smirked as his face down card revealed a familiar turtle with a spaceship for a shell. The Samurai brought its oar like sword down on the turtle, slicing the monster in two.
Kryancelo just laughed pulling out his deck. "Good job! That was my second UFO Turtle so I get another fire attribute monster from my deck…and I'm thinking this one!"
The card slapped onto the duel disk making a large flame erupt from the ground in front of the Goth like professor. From the flame emerged an extremely long serpent that was completely made molten flames and with a dragon face with yellow fire erupting from its head (1500/1000). The monster roared loudly as the dragon flew around Kryancelo's body. "Solar Flare Dragon!"
"Damn…" the rude duelist cussed under his breath taking another card from his diminishing hand and slid it into his duel disk.
"Seems you're losing your cool, so allow me to turn the heat up more," Kryancelo stated pulling the top card from his deck. "I summon my second Solar Flare dragon (1500/1000)!"
A second pillar of fire erupted on the field quickly forming into a second molten serpent that resembled the first one. A card materialized behind the two monsters. "And I'll end my turn activating my dragons' abilities!"
At the exact same moment the professor ended his turn, the two dragons roared loudly and began to encircle the boy. The heat began make the boy growl in protest before the dragons just flew away from him. (RDLP: 5300)
"Oh man…those dragons are murder…" Van flinched turning his head away.
"They inflicted the thousand point damage?" Rena asked as the rude duelist drew his next card.
"Yes…and also if there is another pyro type monster on the field, the dragon can't be attacked," Leonardo commented before turning his head to the right. "And both of those dragons are pyro types…"
"Then that means…" Rena realized.
"The kid's trapped," Maria finished.
As the rude duelist just growled at his hand, Leonardo glanced at the pair of heads from the stands that were watching the duel. 'Interesting…'
"Nothing eh?" Kryancelo smirked looking at his next card. "Well…I'll play my spell card, Meteor of Destruction!"
A large fireball appeared over Kryancelo's head before it flew directly into the rude duelist's torso sending him to the ground. "It takes a thousand points from you as long as you have over three thousand when I play it…" (RDLP: 4300)
The rude duelist just stood up with a glare when Kryancelo just crossed his arms. "But that won't last for too long, I'll end my turn right now…and I think you know what happens next…"
Once again the two Solar Flare Dragons began to wrap themselves around the boy, however, the searing heat couldn't melt the cold look in his eyes away that wrapping around his body. When the dragons flew away from him, his entire body was steaming. (RDLP: 3300)
"This is insane!" Rena shouted.
"Yeah, how's that guy going to comeback from this?" Van asked when the rude duelist drew his next card.
"I summon the Six Warmasters – Yariza (1000/500)!"
The ground opened up to allow another Japanese warrior to appear only this one had dark bluish silver armor holding onto a long glowing pike in his right hand. At the sight of the two dragons, the new warrior roared into the air raising his weapon up high. "Activate spell card Rush Recklessly on Yariza (1000/500 + 700/0)!"
"Why did he waste that spell card? He can't attack those dragons…" Rena stated as Yariza began to run across the field.
"Ah, but Yariza doesn't aim for the monsters…" Leonardo explained when Yariza jumped into the air. "…He targets the player…"
Yariza slammed the blunt end of his pike into Kryancelo's head making him stumble backwards due to the pain. "Y-you'll pay for that…" (KLP: 4500)
The rude duelist just sighed as he glared at Kryancelo. "Oh now you shut up!"
At the sight of his next card, Kryancelo just smirked. "Not that it matters…I'll just set a card face down…and let my dragons finish my turn!"
For a third time the two dragons wrapped around the rude duelist making him grunt in pain…but this was the last time those dragons would burn him. (RDLP: 2300)
"Draw!"
The rude duelist slipped his newly drawn card into his duel disk making a small dark aura surround him. "Activate spell card, Cursed Blade!"
The dark aura formed into beautifully shaped katana before it fired itself and pierced one of Kryancelo's Solar Flare Dragons (1500/1000 – 200/0) right in the head sending the beast to the ground. The monster roared in pain. "What in the world is that thing?!?"
Everyone except the cold-hearted boy turned towards Leonardo who was busy combing his hair. "…It's a spell card called Cursed Blade. It equips to any monster, lowers its attack points by two hundred and negates its effect...a pretty good card..."
"So…that means that dragon loses its protection," Rena realized as the cold-hearted duelist raised his hand towards the weakened dragon.
"Kamon! Blast that monster!" The rude duelist ordered as the cannon wielding warrior fired a powerful blast of fire that shattered the weakened Solar Flare dragon. (KLP: 4200)
"Wandering Samurai…take out the other Solar Flare Dragon!" The samurai quickly ran towards the dragon with both of his swords ready to strike. With a quick slice, the head of the Dragon flew off, shattering the rest of the monster's body. (KLP: 3700)
"Now the guy's wide open! He won't be able to survive this onslaught!" Van shouted with a victory v pose taking his fingers.
"Nisan! Direct attack!"
The dual sword wielding warrior charged directly towards Kryancelo before he raised his hand over his face down card. "Not so fast! Since I don't have any monsters out on the field, and all of your monsters' combined attack points are higher than my life points, I can activate Hyper Refresh! Which doubles my life points!" (KLP: 7400)
"Still won't save you from my monster's double attack!"
Nisan slashed downwards on Kryancelo's body in an X formation making him step backwards. (KLP: 4600)
"Yaichi! Yariza! Attack as well!"
Yaichi fired another arrow made of energy that shot right through Kryancelo's leg and Yariza jabbed his pike through the fire goth's leg making him grunt in pain. (KLP: 3300)
"He almost had him too!" Van snapped his fingers before lowering his head that's when he noticed another face down card behind the Japanese warriors.
"It's time I put an end to this!" Kryancelo yelled drawing his next card. "It'll start like this! Go Graceful Charity!"
A light flew over Kryancelo as he drew three cards, then slid two of them into his graveyard. "Next I play the spell card, Monster Reborn! To revive one of the monsters I discarded…"
A holy Egyptian cross-appeared before Kryancelo before exploding into a violent flame. From the flame stepped out a muscular tan man wearing baggy red and blue clothes, his arms seemed to be bursting with fire, yet they didn't burn his clothes (1500/1600). "Meet my Flame Ruler! And when he's used for a sacrifice, if the monster I summon happens to be a fire attribute…then he counts as two monsters!"
On cue, the Flame Ruler erupted into an extremely large flame that covered the entire field in front of Kryancelo. The flames began to dance until they fully became one huge monster in the shape of a large sphinx made entirely of fire. Two wings of blazing glory flew from the monster's back as the monster let out a horrible roar from its lion like head (2700/1600). "My Infernal Flame Emperor rises from coals of my weaker monsters and lights the way to victory! And by removing the three fire monsters in my graveyard…I can easily destroy the three spell or trap cards you have out on the field!"
"Not good at all!" Van shouted as one of the cold duelist just glared at Kryancelo.
The Infernal Flame Emperor blasted a powerful fury of flame that crashed directly into the three set cards on the rude duelist's field incinerating them all. Kryancelo just smiled as he fitted the last card into his duel disk. "Now…I play my spell card, Infernal Rage!"
The spell emerged on the field, showing off the Infernal Flame Emperor emerging from the top of a volcano, the molten lava shooting every where. At the sight of card, the Infernal Flame Emperor began to surge its flame like body. "At the cost of my next draw phase, I can double the attack of my Emperor (5400/1600)!"
"He just needs to attack any monster and…" Rena gasped before Leonardo tapped her shoulder. "Huh?"
Leonardo pointed towards the rude duelist, and when Rena got a good look at the duelist, she saw the determined look in his narrowed eyes.
"Infernal Flame Emperor! Attack that Wandering Samurai!" Kryancelo ordered raising his arm into the air. The mighty fire beast began to form a powerful fire ball in its hands.
The Wandering Samurai didn't even blink as the Flame Emperor threw the mighty fireball at him. Instead the warrior just held both of his swords in the air just as the attack was about to hit.
BOOM!!!!!!!
Holographic smoke flooded the area making everyone but Kryancelo cover his or her eyes. Although he couldn't see his opponent, the professor knew that he was victorious, nothing could have stopped that attack. Kryancelo turned towards Rena and chuckled. "I guess you'll have to apply somewhere else…"
Rena's eyes started to tear up…first her deck was missing, and now her one chance to enter the academy was burned to ashes…literally.
"…no…"
Everyone turned towards where the attack had landed to see that the smoke was starting to be blown away. When the smoke was fully gone, everyone noticed that the Wandering Samurai was spinning his two swords protecting the rest of the four Warmasters from harm. (RDLP: 1150)
"B…but how?" Kryancelo questioned as the Wandering Samurai sheathed his two swords.
"The Great Oar allows me to negate one attack at the cost of half my life points…" The rude duelist explained as the Wandering Samurai grinned widely with evil in his eyes.
"D-damn it…" Kryancelo cursed under his breath. "End turn…"
The powerful fire monster roared loudly dropping its attack points back to twenty-seven hundred as the rude duelist drew his next card. All of a sudden, an articulate pot appeared with green and blue paint expressing a grinning face, the pot allowed the Rude duelist to draw two cards from the top of his deck and his eyes widened at one of the cards. "I sacrifice Yariza and Yaichi to summon…"
The two Japanese warriors nodded to each other before they disappeared into pixels. The pixels then formed once more into an older samurai wearing tattered black and dark gray clothes. Multiple scars raced down his face, displaying the determined look plastered on his face. His black hair was tied up into a ponytail and his long katana was held between his hands (2600/2200). "Dishonored Samurai – Kyu!"
"Impressive monster…to bad its not strong enough to attack!" Kryancelo breathed a sigh of relief, slowly wiping the sweat off his forehead.
"Activate equip card! Divine Sword Phoenix Blade!"
Kryancelo's eyes just widened as the Dishonored Samurai's katana was a sharp golden sword with a hilt that resembled a phoenix (2900/2200).
"What? No!" Kryancelo shouted before the Samurai threw down his new weapon to the ground shattering it and decreasing his attack points back to twenty-six hundred. "Wait…what the?"
"What just happened here?" Rena asked when suddenly the Dishonored Samurai jumped into the air.
"Just watch…" Leonardo replied as the Samurai began to fall towards the Infernal Flame Emperor.
Just as the Samurai was about to collide with the Flame Emperor, the warrior's long katana appeared in his hand at the last second allowing the Samurai to slice right through the monster. The sword cut directly through the monster's flame like body, shattering it with a painful roar floating in the air. "My…my monster…"
"The Dishonored Samurai can destroy an equip card on itself, and in return, it can destroy on card on the opponent's field," Leonardo explained as the Samurai walked back to the rude duelist's field. "However, that monster can't attack the turn that effect was used…but its hardly needed…"
"Wandering Samurai! Kamon! Nisan! Charge!" The rude duelist shouted as all three of his monsters ran and jumped towards Kryancelo.
Kamon led the attack by firing a powerful fire blast into Kryancelo's torso making him step back holding onto his chest. (KLP: 1800)
Then Nisan dived behind Kryancelo so he could perform a second cross slash on the Professor's back, this time sending him forward towards the final attack that was coming from above. (KLP: 400)
Last but not least, the Wandering Samurai began to bring down both of his swords on top of Kryancelo's shoulders, sending him straight to the ground a little dazed. "…Ow…" (KLP: 0)
Van's eyes were as wide as dinner plates as the holograms began to disappear. " Whoa…he actually defeated a real teacher…"
As the holograms disappeared, Maria walked over to Kryancelo and began to help him up to his feet. "You okay Kryancelo?"
"That depends…are we still up for coffee?" Kryancelo asked with a weakened smile.
Rena however, her eyes were centered on the boy putting away his deck.
Leonardo scratched his chin before turning around to see the two peeping heads pull back at the last second. 'Most interesting…I think I'll like this academy…however, I'm more concerned with those two peepers.'
The boy combed his hair back as he switch off his duel disk, that's when Rena appeared before him. "Wait!"
"Get lost…" The boy just gave Rena the cold shoulder before he began to walk away.
"Can you at least give me your name?" Rena questioned actually making the boy stop in his tracks.
Slowly, the rude boy with dark gray hair turned his head towards Rena. "…Ganryu Dashinben …"
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Card Stats
Blasting Vein / Spell / Effect: Destroy one Spell or Trap card set on your side of the field. Draw two cards from your deck.
Image: Two crossing rings of fire over a duel monster card.
Austin O'Brien used this card in the third season of Yugioh GX. Names and effects are subject to change.
Hyper Refresh / Instant Spell / Effect: This card can only be activated when you have no monsters on your side of the field and the total combined attack of each monster on your opponent's side of the field is more than your total life points. Double your life points.
Image: A shadowed man holding up a bottle of energy drink.
Joey Wheeler used this card in the original series.
Warrior's Will / Trap /Effect: During the turn this card is activated, you may draw one card for each warrior type monster that was destroyed this turn.
Image: The Mystic Swordsman helping up the Silent Swordsman.
The Six-Warmasters - Yaichi / Water/ 3/1300/800/Warrior/Effect: As long as there are monster(s) on your side of the field with "The Six-Warmasters" in their name excluding "The Six-Warmasters - Yaichi", once per turn, you can destroy 1 set Magic or Trap card. This monster cannot declare an attack in the turn this effect is used. If this card is destroyed, you can destroy a monster with "The Six-Warmasters" in its name, excluding this card, instead.
Description: A Japanese warrior sported sea green samurai like armor and held onto a powerful green long bow
The Six-Warmasters - Kamon / Fire/3/1500/1000/Warrior/Effect: As long as there are monster(s) on your side of the field with "The Six-Warmasters" in their name excluding "The Six-Warmasters - Kamon", once per turn, you can destroy 1 face-up Magic or Trap card. This monster cannot declare an attack in the turn this effect is used. If this card is destroyed, you can destroy a monster with "The Six-Warmasters" in its name, excluding this card, instead.
Description: a feudal Japanese warrior wearing dull red armor and held onto a powerful cannon in his right arm
The Six-Warmasters - Nisan / Wind/ 3/1400/700/Warrior/Effect: As long as there are monster(s) on your side of the field with "The Six-Warmasters" in their name excluding "The Six-Warmasters - Nisan", this card can attack twice during the same Battle Phase. If this card is destroyed, you can destroy a monster with "The Six-Warmasters" in its name, excluding this card, instead.
Description: A feudal Japanese warrior wearing dark green armor and wielding two glowing katanas in both of his hands
The Six-Warmasters - Yariza / Earth / 3/1000/500 Warrior/Effect: As long as there are monster(s) on your side of the field with "The Six-Warmasters" in their name excluding "The Six-Warmasters - Yariza", this card can attack the opposing player directly. If this card is destroyed, you can destroy a monster with "The Six-Warmasters" in its name, excluding this card, instead.
Description: A Japanese warrior with dark bluish silver armor holding onto a long glowing pike in his right hand
The preceding four cards will be released in 'Strike of Neos' that has yet to come out yet.
Dishonored Samurai - Kyu / Dark / LV. 7 / ATK: 2600 / DEF: 2200 / Warrior/Effect: By sending one equipped card that is equipped to this monster to the graveyard, you may destroy one card on your opponent's field. This monster cannot during the turn this effect was used.
Description: An older samurai wearing tattered black and dark gray clothes. With multiple scars racing down his face, he has a determined look plastered on his face. His black hair is tied up into a ponytail and his long katana is held between his hands.
Wandering Samurai / Earth / LV. 4 / ATK: 1600 / DEF: 1000 / Warrior/Effect: When this card is successfully summoned to your side of the field, take one equip spell card from your deck and equip it to this card.
Description: A young man with crazy brown hair that is like lightning in the back. A pair of black goggles keeps the crazy hair from his eyes and compliments his sharp eyes. His tight black muscle shirt connects to his khaki pants with multiple red belts attached to the legs. In his right hand is a regular katana while on his back is large oar like sword.
Great Oar / Equip Spell / Effect: This card can only be equipped to a monster with 'Samurai' or 'Fencer' in the card's name. Increase the attack points of the equipped monster by 400 points. During your opponent's battle phase while this card is equipped to your monster, you may negate one attack by cutting your life points in half.
Image: A large multi metal sword in the shape of an oar.
