Hey guys,
This is of course, the 2nd chapter, so I wanna start by revealing a few things you will be seeing soon. Yes, the Signer War will be a part of this fanfic, and no, I will not be making any of the regular characters into Dark Signers (well, maybe one or two). If I do make any of the characters dark, the likely candidates will be: Jack, Yusei, Leo and Crow. So there.
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! or it's characters. The only character in this story I own is Marcus. I do not own Earthbound Immortal Cuauhcoatl. All rights for that idea go to Raphtil from DeviantArt.
Now, without further ado… On with the show!
We arrived at the B.A.D Zone about half an hour after Devack picked us up (A/N: For anyone who doesn't know what the B.A.D Zone is, it's the site of the original Ener-D reactor, or the Momentum reactor if you watch the Japanese Dub, in the middle of the Satellite). Carly had calmed down slightly since we left the, now reduced to rubble, Arcadia Building. Misty asked me to talk to her and introduce myself.
"Hey, Carly," I said, hoping to make her feel more comfortable.
"Oh… Hello… I'm sorry, I don't think I got your name," she replied, sounding calm now.
"Oh, my name's Marcus. Marcus Karlow. How are you?" I told her, happy that she felt had finally cooled down to the point that she could speak normally again. Before she could only talk in either mumbled, or sniffling speech.
"Nice to meet you, Marcus. I feel fine. Well, at least I think I'm fine. Kinda hard to tell now, isn't it?" she attempted to joke. I could understand how she felt, after all it'd only been about half a month since I became a Dark Signer.
"Carly, if there's something wrong, you can tell me. I mean, before you, I was the newest Dark Signer. I know what it's like to have this happen so suddenly. So, is there anything you need to get off your chest?" I asked kindly. She began to tear up, and I could tell she wasn't used to this kind of brotherly affection.
"I – I – I don't know what to do, Marcus! All I wanted was to help Jack, and that if I did maybe we could be together. But he'll never want to be anywhere near me now!" she began to cry and I quickly pulled her into my shoulder.
"Hey… It's okay, Carly. You don't need to worry about that," I whispered so only she and Misty could hear. "Trust me when I say that there's more than one way to be with someone you love." Carly looked up at me and sniffed. Her eyes were still red from the crying, and her sclera were still white. She was obviously still fighting her destiny.
"Really? How, exactly?" she asked.
"Ah, but that would spoil the surprise wouldn't it?" I said. Her face turned from sad, to smiling, and she began to laugh.
"Well done, Marcus. I'm proud of you." Misty whispered to me.
Once again, I blushed, well, as much as a Dark Signer can, which isn't much.
"Everyone, we've arrived back at the base. I'll be landing shortly." Devack stated from the cockpit of the helicopter. And he was telling the truth. Underneath us, I could see the ruins of the old laboratory where they studied… was it Ener-D? Yeah. So Devack began the chopper's descent 5 minutes later. We landed in front of the near-destroyed building. The only thing left of it was the reactor, which was what was letting the Immortals into our world. The five of us (we had a passenger named Greiger), got off, and back on to solid ground. We walked in and passed the reactor going down a long hall until we reached a set of cells. Greiger was placed in one and told to stay there for now. We continued on our way to a set of large, black doors.
Devack and I opened them for the girls so they could walk through. When we walked through, Misty took Carly with her to her new room. Devack went into the meeting room to find Roman, and I went into the man lobby and immediately ran into Kalin.
"Hey, snake boy! How's afterlife? Kill anyone yet?" He immediately asked. Kalin is a bit of a… special case. By special, I mean completely psychotic. But, hey. If you can't beat them, join them.
"You bet Kalin, and it felt good. I can tell why you like it so much." I replied, ecstatic about my first kill.
"Sweet! Welcome to the club, Marcus! You're officially a Dark Signer now!" he laughed loudly. Kalin was one of my good friends in the circle, despite his crazed sadistic ways. He was the one who got me on my feet when I arrived here two weeks ago. Surprised? I was too. It seemed that the crazed mass murderer actually had a docile side. For about 4 minutes that is.
"Marcus, Kalin." Roman called out to us.
"Yes, sir?" I asked.
"What's up?" Kalin laughed.
"There will be a meeting in 10 minutes. Gather everyone else and meet me and Devack in the meeting room then. Roman then walked away, towards the old reactor.
Now, I haven't told you about the mystery that is Roman Goodwin. He's the brother of New Domino City Director, Rex Goodwin. And right now, that's really all any of us know. Even Devack, who met him first, knows little more than that. The only other things that we know, are that he was the first Dark Signer, and that he caused the Zero Reverse incident 25 years ago, which up until I had met him, had known nothing about. Honestly, I was amazed one man could do all that. Anyway, back to the story.
"Kalin, I'll go get Misty and our newest member. You head to the meeting room." I told him. He simply smiled that sadistic smile and ran off towards the meeting room. I began to laugh slightly. He got excited about almost anything if it had even the slightest chance we might be attacking someone. He'd be all over it. I walked off towards the bedrooms, which is where I knew Misty and Carly were. I knocked on the door with Ccarayhua's mark on it once I reached it.
"Who is it?" Misty inquired.
"It's me, Misty. Just needed to tell you that there's a meeting in 5 minutes." I replied to her, still through the door. "Could you tell Carly, please? I need to get down there now."
"Okay, Marcus. I'll talk to Carly and tell her now." Misty acknowledged, now sounding closer than before. As soon as I stepped away from the door, she stepped out. She looked down and smiled at me. I smiled back a little more enthusiastically. I began walking down the hall again towards the meeting room. On the way I walked past Devack and Roman, who seemed to be waiting for someone.
When I arrived in the meeting room, I saw Kalin sitting at the table with his hood up. He looked like a priest with his face covered. It was a hilarious irony, because he's broken the laws of the land many times over since becoming a Dark Signer; according to Roman, that is. He literally spends every moment of the day plotting how to kill Yusei when the war starts.
"Hey, Kalin. What the heck are you doing?" I asked, a little confused.
"Ah… Brother Marcus. Welcome, to our humble gathering." Kalin joked. Then as soon as he finished, he burst out laughing. I had been living here for two weeks and he'd never pulled a joke, before. I was impressed with him. It was like he was finally opening up. About two minutes later, the others began to walk in and sat down in their appointed chairs. We each had one marked with our corresponding Dark Sign on the back. We were seated like this: Roman at the head of the table, Kalin to his immediate left, Misty to the immediate right, me next to Kalin, Carly next to Misty, and Devack at the very end. Carly looked nervous, being surrounded by people she didn't know. In fact, the only people she knew in the room were Misty and I.
"Good. We are all present and accounted for, then?" Roman asked.
"Yes, sir." I answered. I had checked when everyone entered, and again when they all sat down. Roman was easily identifiable, there was no way I'd miss Kalin, Misty either. Carly was harder to spot, but still easier than Devack, who entered the room out of nowhere. All in all, we were all in the room.
"Perfect. Now, I believe we have a new Dark Signer joining us. Would you care to introduce yourself, miss?" Roman immediately began. My hand began shaking. He always did this to us when we arrived. He forced us to speak when we were at our weakest. Misty made to stand, but I beat her to it.
"Leave her alone, Roman! Can't you just let someone be for once?! She's had to go through so much already. So lay off!" I shouted at him. Carly looked almost shocked that I was standing up for her. Misty began to smile at me, before she turned to Roman and scowled.
"And for your information, her name is Carly. Now can you please just let her be." I finished, finally calming down. I sat back down and watched Roman out of the corner of my eyes.
"Well, now. That was quite a show, wasn't it? I found it rather enjoyable." Roman mocked. I clenched both my fists and teeth. He was starting to really annoy me now.
"Do you wanna go at it, old man? I'll be happy to put you in your place." I challenged. Roman smirked, then stood up, with me doing the same. He walked towards me. Now, Roman towers over me at 6'4", and I'm only 5'10", so it's obvious that he had a higher chance of winning. But I wasn't gonna cower like most people who saw him.
"Let's take this outside, Roman…" I said, with a hint of venom in my voice when I said his name. He simply strolled up to me, and had the audacity to walk right past me without even a hint of acknowledgement. We both walked outside, with everyone following us. Once we were outside, Roman lifted his duel disk.
"Really? A duel? Alright, if you wanna get knocked around… But don't say I didn't warn you." I replied. I activated my duel disk and slotted my deck in.
DUEL ENGAGE
Roman: 4000
Marcus: 4000
"I'll be the one to go first, since you challenged me." Roman spoke, and then drew. "I'll start by summoning Dark Spider to the field on defense mode."
Dark Spider – Level: 1 Insect/Effect ATK: 0 DEF: 0
"Then I set one card face-down and end my turn. Your move, Marcus." Roman sneered. He was really annoying me now.
"I draw," I snarled. "And I summon Venom Serpent to the field in attack mode!"
Venom Serpent – Level: 4 Reptile/Effect ATK: 1000 DEF: 800
"Now, Venom Serpent! Attack his Dark Spider!" I ordered my monster. I completely forgot about his face-down, and that was my first mistake.
"You've activated my trap card, Marcus. Spider Egg!" Roman roared triumphantly. His trap card flipped up, and as soon as it did, my Venom Serpent stopped its attack. Then 3 eggs appeared on the field, with spiders coming out of them.
Spider Token – Level: 1 Insect ATK: 100 DEF: 100
"Grr… I end my turn. It's not like you can do anything with those pathetic monsters." I growled. Saying that, was my second mistake. Roman drew a card and smirked.
"I release one of my tokens to summon Dark Tuner Spider Cocoon!" Roman declared. One of the tokens became a ball of light and disappeared, with another monster replacing it.
Dark Tuner Spider Cocoon – Level: 5 Insect/Dark-Tuner/Effect ATK: 0 DEF: 0
That move wouldn't have worried me, had I not hear those two words. Dark Tuner. Those words were always bad news, meaning I had to destroy it, before he Dark Synchro Summoned. That was my final mistake.
"I activate the spell card, Double Summon! Now I can summon twice this turn." Roman laughed, causing me to freeze up. There was only one reason he'd activate that with two tokens ready to be sacrificed.
"I now activate the Spider Web field spell! This card marks the duel's end, Marcus!" He smiled with manic glee. That was it, the duel was over and I had lost.
"I now summon Earthbound Immortal Uru! Come forth, Uru!" Roman finally said.
Earthbound Immortal Uru – Level: 10 Insect/Effect ATK: 3000 DEF: 3000
"Now, I activate the effect of my Dark Spider. I can choose one Insect-Type monster on my field and increase its level by 2 until the end of my turn. So Spider Cocoon is now level 7!"
Dark Tuner Spider Cocoon – Level: 7
"Finally, I Dark-Tune my level 7 Spider Cocoon with my level 1 Dark Spider!" Spider Cocoon's stars became photonegatives of themselves and entered Dark Spider, consuming its only star. All the time this was happening, Roman was chanting.
"When the shadows are devoured by even darker shadows, the curtain pulls back to reveal a world without light! I Dark-Synchro Summon… Underground Arachnid!" Roman concluded.
Underground Arachnid – Level: -6 Insect/Dark-Synchro/Effect ATK: 2400 DEF: 1200
"Now, Uru, attack him directly!" Roman ordered to Uru.
Marcus: 1000
"And now, Underground Arachnid… Finish him off! Attack his Venom Serpent!" He issued his final attack on me. When the strike landed I flew back. Uru's attack had dealt some major damage, and now his last monster sent me flying back.
Marcus: 0
I was lying on the ground, in pain from that final attack. He had beaten me and wounded my pride, so I just… laid there.
"Let this be a lesson to you, Marcus… Never challenge me. You will never win." Roman said, before walking away.
CHAPTER END
All right, that's chapter 2, Wounds of Battle. Please review, and I'll promise to keep writing new chapters. I know this is early, but I had already finished it when I posted the first chapter, and I wanted to wait before I got enough reviews, but I couldn't wait any longer. I'll promise to wait next time, so you can get some nice suspense. Thanks for reading guys, and see you again soon.
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