Destroying the Meta
Chapter 1: Quick Beginnings
"My Gyroid will attack your face down," Forrest said and his Gyroid blew away my Cloudian – Sheep Cloud.
"Darn it…" I said under my breath. That was my last monster; what should I do now? "My turn!" I exclaimed. I drew my card and the sight of it made me have a smirk. Forrest raised his eyebrow in interest. "I use my Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen to Special Summon Splendid Venus from my hand in attack mode [2800/2400]! Its effect makes all non-fairy monsters loose 500 attack and defense [Gyroid: 500/500]. Now I'll summon Cloudian – Turbulence from my hand [800/0], and I'll activate Double Summon so I can summon Herald of Orange Light [300/500] and since Herald is a Tuner, I'll synchro summon Goyo Guardian with Herald and Turbulence [2+4=6]." Forrest was now staring down at 2 powerful monsters: Splendid Venus [2800/2400] and Goyo Guardian [2300/1500]. "Splendid Venus attack Gyroid!" Splendid Venus held up her scepter and a ray of light hit Gyroid [Forrest: 4100 1800]. "Now Goyo Guardian, finish this!" Goyo Guardian swung his chain and hit Gyroid [Forrest 1800 0]. "Good game."
"Yeah, good game. I have to get going now." Forrest said has he packed his duel disk into his backpack and got on his bike.
"Hehe, yeah. My mom is waiting in the car. Well bye, see you next Sunday."
"Yeah, unless I see you sooner," Forrest replied as he rode off. I jogged to the car and got in. Then my mom drove away from our church.
My name is Kovel, and I am a Cloudian player. Not many people make their decks Cloudian, which I guess gives me a kind of feeling of being special. Most people just make clones of the best deck: Tele-DAD. I don't like people like that. Why make a deck that's not your own just to win? My goal is to de-throne Tele-DAD and make this meta for any deck to win, not just Tele-DAD. Hopefully…. somehow…. I can fulfill my goal….
"Hey Rain, what homework do we have?" I asked my friend Rain who was walking beside me. We were in school and I was heading to my locker. "We have math I know."
"You didn't finish that in class? FAIL!" he replied, "I did it all on one line of my calculator."
"Meh," I said, "I was doing something else than the work." I opened up my locker and someone kicked it to close it. "That was rude…." I exclaimed.
"Well I don't like you. You or your clouds," the teenager exclaimed. I recognized him. He wasn't in any of my classes, but I've seen him around. His name was Brok.
"So are you saying you want to settle this with a duel?" I asked.
"Exactly"
"Bring it then" I said getting my deck out of my backpack.
We activated our duel disks in the school courtyard and we had a little of a crowd watching. I knew what deck this punk had: Tele-DAD. "I'll go first!" he yelled. Not a very polite person now was he? We each drew our 5 cards [8000/8000]. "I summon Armageddon Knight in attack mode [1400/1200]! Then I use his ability to put Destiny Hero Malicious to the grave. Now I'll activate Destiny Draw. I get to draw 2 and I discard Destiny Hero Diamond Dude. Now I'll play 3 face downs and end my turn [8000/8000]."
"Abusing Destiny Heroes I see," I mocked.
"Shut up!"
"Well…. I guess I'll draw," I drew my card, "now I'll activate Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen."
"No you don't! Because I activate Solemn Judgment! I negate your spell [8000/4000]!"
"Hahaha! That was an idiotic move! You're not supposed to use that on the first thing you see! Anyways, I'll continue. I summon Cloudian – Altus [1300/0] and he gets 1 fog counter for being a Cloudian [Altus – 1]. Next, I'll play a face down and ending my turn."
"Haha, such a weak monster. I'll CRUSH IT! I draw and activate Allure of Darkness! I draw 2 cards and remove from play Plaguespreader Zombie. Now I summon Destiny Hero Diamond Dude [1400/1600] and activate his effect. I flip the top card of my deck, and if it is a Normal Spell card, it is placed in the Graveyard and I get to activate its effect next turn." He flipped his card. "Ah ha! It's Destiny Draw! So I get to use it next turn. Now I'll activate both of my face downs: 2 Emergency Teleports! I special summon from my deck 2 Krebons [1200/800]! Now I'll use Destiny Hero Malicious's ability to summon another one from my deck by removing 1 from play! Now Synchro summon! Destiny Hero Malicious and a Krebons [6+2=8] to summon Stardust Dragon [2500/2000]! Now I'll use Malicious's ability again to summon another one and synchro summon that! Malicious and Krebons [6+2=8] synchro summon to summon Thought Ruler Archfiend [2700/2300]!" I got a little afraid when I saw this. I was being stared down by a dragon, a skeleton with wings, a person coved in diamonds, and a knight. How could I get out of this? "Thought Ruler Archfiend, destroy that stupid cloud!" Thought Ruler's hand reached out to crush my cloud.
"Do you ever pay attention to science class? Clouds are evaporated water, so they can't be destroyed by mere attacks."
"But you still get damage!"
"Not quite! I reveal my trap card!" The holographic stood itself up. "Its Sprit Barrier, which means I don't receive any life point damage." Thought Ruler's hand crushed Altus, but he formed back after the hand rose from the ground.
"Hurg! I'll switch Armagedon Knight into defense mode and I'll end my turn!" I smirked. Maybe I could show everyone that low teir decks could still be great.
"Alright! My turn," I drew my card. "Time for my big come back. I summon Herald of Orange Light [300/500]. Now I'll synchro summon. Herald and Altus [2+4=6] and I'll summon Goyo Guardian [2800/2000]. Goyo shall attack your Stardust Dragon." Goyo threw his chain and it attached to Stardust's chest, then Goyo pulled Stardust onto my side of the field [Brok 4000 3700]. "Now Stardust is on my side of the field and I end my turn."
"Well…. well….. hurg!" Brok exclaimed has he drew his card with anger. "I now activate that Destiny Draw Diamond Dude sent to the grave," he then drew his 2 cards, "HAHA! WELL NOW I'LL JUST DESTROY YOU WITH THIS! I remove from play Destiny Hero from the game, but I don't have any targets in my deck. Now I'll special summon from my hand DARK ARMED DRAGON!" The beast of the deck came forth. The dragon was huge and menacing. With a whopping 2800 attack power with a strong effect, who wouldn't be afraid of that beast? "Now I play Dark Core on Stardust Dragon so he won't 'interrupt'." A dark sphere consumed Stardust.
"Dark core? I'm surprised you added that since that deck is just netdecked," I mocked again.
"You think this is a complete copy?! It's better than yours. And to prove it, Dark Armed Dragon will remove from play both Krebons to destroy Goyo and your stupid Barrier." Both of my cards shattered into pieces. I got a little tensed. The longer the duel goes on, the harder this got. Good thing I still had my trump card in my hand. "Now all my monsters will attack your clear field! [Kovel 8000 1100]."
"Sadly, in your excitement, you forgot to switch your Armageddon Knight to attack mode or that would have been game."
"Crap! Well I'll end my turn."
"And your mistakes are the reason I'm going to win the duel. I draw," I said and I drew the one card I was looking for. "Time for you to loose this duel. I activate Lightning Vortex!"
"WHAT! NOOOO!" Brok yelled as lightning consumed his monsters and they all shattered into pieces.
"Hehe, now…. I activate Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen."
"What? But I destroyed that!"
"You think I only keep one copy in my deck? That would be stupid. Now I special summon Athena [2600/800]!" The goddess came up from her card. This was the end. "Now I summon Cloudian – Acid Cloud [500/0] and since it is a fairy, Athena will inflict 600 points of damage to you [Brok 3700 3100]."
"Crap! No!"
"Yes, now Athena and Acid Cloud will attack you directly for game [Brok 3100 0]." The crowd cheered a little. I picked up my backpack and walked away as Brok fell on his knees in defeat. Rain walked to me.
"Nice job, but I could have done better with my Samurais," he boastfully said.
"Sure you can," rolling my eyes as I said it. That's one thing I didn't like about Rain: He was too narcissistic.
"So, you going to my house now?" he asked. He lived about a 7 minute walk from my school and I usually go there almost every day.
"Nah, I'm going to go to Alex's house," I answered.
"Why are you going there?" he interrogated.
"I have my reasons," I said. Alex was actually my girlfriend, but that would be new knowledge to him.
"Meh, whatever. I'll just kick Nick's ass with my Samurais then," he said as he walked to his house. I walked to Alex's house and hung out with her, but while I was there, I got a phone call that started the real story.