Chapter 2
Relying on Ghouls?
Heeeeey guys how are you on this fine day? I just finished this second chapter. It took freaking weeks to make so I hope you like it.
Declaimer: I do not own Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh so don't sue me for entertaining others.
Ten years has passed since the young prince had taken up his deal with the god. Ten years in the pyramid of light. However time in the pyramid is slower than in the real world. In fact time travels so fast that a year in the pyramid is about one thousand years in Earth time. In that time the prince was shaped into a true master of the shadow games. He had learned everything there is to learn in the art, but he did not only work his brain, he also worked his body as well.
The 18 year old prince now stood at six foot eleven. His unruly black hair grew to shoulder length and had streaks of gold. He ditched his old royal outfit, mainly because he grew out of them, and he now wore a black leather jacket over his black undershirt with a yellow arch that reached half way over a yellow circle that stretched over his muscular chest. He wore gold fingerless gloves with small square spikes above his knuckles. He wore faded gray jeans that reached down to his tan steel toed boots. Around the lower half of his arm he wore a magic golden brace that kept his golden duel disk .His hazel eyes had a streak of green and glowed with determination.
"Now I will have my Blue-eyes White Dragon attack your Dark Magician Girl dealing you 1000 damage, finishing you." The young man said pointing dramatically at his master.
"Ah you have finally beaten me." Anubis said amused as he retracted his dueling disk into his own brace. "You have learned well, I am proud of you."
"Thank you master" Ash said as he retracted his dueling disk and lowering to one knee.
"Rise Prince Ashton." The god of the dead said walking over to his student and setting his hand on the young man's shoulder. "I am no longer your master, but rather, your friend."
"Does that mean?" The raven haired prince said looking up to his teacher.
"Yes, it means you are ready." Anubis said with a joyful laugh. "We shall leave as soon as you are ready."
"This is great." Ash said standing up excitedly. "We can finally take down your enemy and free the world of the evil he has brought down upon it."
"…"
"What?"
"Well you see. About that, well thing have slightly changed." Anubis said shifting nervously.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, so far we have spent ten years in the pyramid of light."
"Yes that is correct." The prince said impatiently. "What does that have to do with the mission?"
"See, for every year in here, one thousand years pass in the outside world." The god said. "So the pharaoh is going to look slightly different."
"Different?" Ash nearly yelled. "He will be dead. What was the point of this all if he would die when we'd be done?"
"Well according to prophesy, the pharaoh will be reincarnated to forever fight in the shadow games for all eternity."
"Oh." The prince said trying to understand. "Well why are we trying to beat him if he is just going to be reincarnated again?"
"Pharaoh has not yet been truly beaten in the shadow games; if we beat him we can stop the endless cycle of destruction and stop the pharaoh from ever walking the planet again." Anubis explained. "And also I want the satisfaction of knowing that I beat him."
"Oh, okay, well that makes since." The prince said nodding in approval.
"Yeah, but they have changed the shadow games as well."
"WHAT?!" The prince yelled. "How?"
"Well the rules are the same but they made it a card game." Anubis explained.
"What's a card game?"
"Well it's….well here let me show you."
Anubis raised his left hand and suddenly it was enveloped in smoke and when the smoke cleared he was holding a piece of parchment.
It was a three and a half inch by two and a half inch parchment with different designs on the front and back. On the back was a black and brown vortex. On the front was a picture of a white dragon with eyes of blue. Above the picture were eight stars and below were symbols that represented its attack and defense.
Anubis handed the card to the curious boy.
"Wow. It's like a smaller version of the tablets." Ash said as he turned it over a few times. "But I can't understand a word of it, what language is this?"
"Oh that's English." Anubis said sheepishly. "Here let me fix that."
Anubis waved his hand in front of Ash's eyes.
"What was that supposed to do?" Ash said blinking.
"You can now read and understand every spoken language." The underworld god replied. "Now get some rest you have a long journey ahead of you."
"Yes, right." The boy nodded in understanding.
Time skip to random hour in future
Ash shifted to his other foot nervously as he adjusted the golden brace that was around his arm. Then he whipped it open and four gold plates slid out.
"Are you ok?" A voice asked from behind the prince.
"Yes I am." Ash said withdrawing the plates. "It's just…the way you described it, everything will be so different. What if I am not ready?"
"Do not worry I will be right here with you, plus if we wait it will only get more crazy and even more confusing." Anubis said putting a comforting hand on the boys shoulder. "Now it is time to go into the new world."
"Right" The prince said turning towards his old teacher.
"Thank you for everything, Anubis." Ash said pulling him into a hug.
Anubis's eyes widened as he found himself returning the embrace.
After a few minutes Ash stepped backed and wiped the tears out of his eyes. "I am so glad to have a friend like you." He said. "Now let's do this."
"Right" Anubis nodded. "Now prepare yourself, for you are about to see many new, strange things that are both good and bad."
The prince nodded, then he was enveloped in a blue glow and started to fall. Ash closed his eyes to keep himself from getting sick as he started spinning.
"I'm never going to get use to thiisssss!" He yelled as he fell into the abyss.
Yugioh world America
"Welcome to the United States national Duel Monsters cup. I am Kevin Rogers your handsome host and we are here with the two finalists, who are fighting to become the best in all of America. Who will be the one to finally claw their way to the top? Who will become America's champion?" A brown haired man with blue eyes and headgear said into the intercom. "Here are our finalists now. In the red corner we have Rebecca Hopkins, with her powerful shadow monsters, and in the green corner is the last year's champion, coming back to defend his crown Griffin Merrick, with his mighty dragons. Both players are amazingly powerful. Will Griffin take his crown home for the third year in a row or will the rising star, Rebecca Hopkins kick Griffin off of his thrown. Time to find out."
The crowd was cheering load when the competitors walked out in the stadium.
On the red side, a girl stood with blond hair that reached half way down the back of her pink jacket that she wore over her white collard undershirt and tie. She also wore a light blue plaid skirt that reached down to just above her knees. She also had long white calf socks I'd guess you'd call it. She wore red wired glasses over her aquatic blue eyes.
Over on the green side a dark green eyed male stood. He had short brown hair and brown jacket over a light blue collar undershirt with a thin white shirt under that. He had a thin scar that went from his eye to his chin. He also wore a cocky smile on his face.
Each player walked to their designated sides.
"Good luck girly." Griffin said across the field snobbishly. "You'll need it."
"My name is Rebecca," The blonde replied back angrily as she shuffled her deck. "Remember it, for you will need to know the name of the girl who beat you."
"As if," The brunette said as he shuffled his own deck and drew five cards. "Ladies first"
Rebecca put her deck down and drew her five cards.
"Okay first I draw." She said as she looked at her hand to develop a strategy. 'I don't have much I can do' she thought. She had two cats of ill omen, a shadow ghoul, Marien the fallen one, skelangel, and a fire princess. 'Unless'
"I will set one monster face down." She said with a confident smile. "And I end my turn."
"Wow that's it? Your deck must stink. I draw." Griffin said as he drew a card from his deck. "Ha! I summon Alexandrite Dragon with his mighty 2000 attack power." He said as he threw down his card on the pad.
Level 4-Attack: 2000-Defence: 100-Type: Light-Dragon
Then the middle section of the green side started to glow and out grew a giant pale brown dragon with shining yellow gems for eyes. Its body seemed to be made out of crystal and its muscular arms reached down to its legs. It stood at 24 feet and its wings spread to about 10 feet.
"Now my mighty dragon, destroy her face down monster!" he said pointing to the glowing spot on the red side of the field.
"Oh no. My cat!" Rebecca cried out as the dragon charged up a lightning ball in its mouth.
Then it released a stream of electric energy towards the face down creature.
"MMEEEOOOW!" the cat yelped as it was disintegrated.
"Ha! That's all you got?" Griffin taunted.
"Well my cat may be gone but its destruction did not go unanswered." Rebecca said calmly as she picked up her deck. "It's special ability is activated when it is flipped face up I can take one trap card from my deck and put it on the top of my deck." She said looking through her deck. 'There you are' She thought as she picked up the purple card and placed it down and shuffled her deck. "I will now put Needlebug Nest to the top of my deck."
"Ha! Like that will save you." Griffin said.
Rebecca just smirked. "Don't worry, it will."
A flash of worry entered the boy's eyes but it quickly vanished.
"Well I will set two cards face down and end my turn." Griffin said as he set down his traps. "Be careful, they're traps so you might not want to attack."
"Humph! I draw." She said as she drew the trap. "I will set one monster and one trap face down. I will now end my turn."
"Well that was…." Griffin said sweat dropping. "Interesting. I will draw."
'Hmm this will do.' He thought menacingly. I will normal summon my Ancient dragon in attack position."
Level 4-Attack: 1400-Defence: 1200-Type: Light-Dragon
Then to the right of the crystal dragon another, smaller dragon grew. It was a tan dragon with bright red eyes. Its arms were spread out with its wings growing out the back of them. It stood at 16 feet tall and its wings stretched to about 8 feet out. The dragon roared as its long thick tail slammed on the field.
"Another dragon." Rebecca said under her breath. "Figures."
"Now Alexandrite Dragon, attack her face down card." He commanded.
"MMMEEEOOOWWW!" Screeched another cat of ill omen as it was desolated.
"Another cat?!" The boy cried out. "Curses now you get another trap."
"That's correct. Now I get another Needlebug Nest to the top of the deck."Rebecca said putting yet another Needlebug Nest to the top of her deck after shuffling.
"No matter!" Griffin snapped. "Your monster is now destroyed leaving an open attack on your life points! Now my Ancient Dragon attack her with your Ancient Dust Beam attack!"
Rebecca flinched as the dragon shot a giant stream of dust towards her.
-1400
Red-6600LP
Green-8000LP
"That's not all." Griffin said. "Ancient Dragons ability gives him 500 extra attack points every time he attacks directly."
"Whaa?" Rebecca cried as the dragon grew in size.
Attack: 1900-Defence: 1200
'Oh no, his dragon will keep getting stronger if I don't do something.' Rebecca thought fearfully.
"I end my turn." Griffin said snapping Rebecca out of thought.
"Right." She said nodding. "I draw then I will set two cards face down, ending my turn."
"I swear if that's another freaking cat!" Griffin said growing a tick mark on his head.
"Don't worry, not this time." Rebecca said winking.
'Hmmm if that's not a cat then it might be something worse, so I'll have my Ancient Dragon attack it' Griffin thought. 'Or maybe that's what she wants me to think so she can get rid of my dragon. Maybe she wants me to think that, or maybe…ah screw it.'
"I will normal summon Koumori Dragon in attack position."
Then to the left of Alexandrite Dragon the plate started to glow and out grew a purple dragon with only legs and wings. It had bright yellow eyes and razor sharp claws and teeth. Its wings we only 5 feet long, but they were wide.
Level: 4-Attack: 1500-Defence: 1200-Type: Dark-Dragon
"Now Ancient Dragon, attack her face down card!" Griffin yelled to the dragon.
The dragon obeyed and shot its dust beam attack at the face down card. The monster popped out of the card and cried out as it was being disintegrated.
"You destroyed my skelitangel and its effect allows me to draw a card when it is flipped face up." Rebecca said smirking.
"What?!" Griffin cried looking back at the headless angel like creature; shoot an arrow at the girl's deck.
"Thank you, skelitangel." She said plucking the arrow out of her deck and on the tip of the arrow was a card.
"This is great.' She thought looking at the card that was drawn. 'Chaos Necromancer.'
"Your monster is gone, so you are open for an all out attack." Griffin said. "Alexandrite, Koumori, attack her!"
-2000
Red-4600LP
Green-8000LP
-1500
Red-3100LP
Green-8000LP
"Oh no." Rebecca cried as her life points fell. "My life points!"
"You stood no chance." Griffin chuckled. "I end my turn."
Rebecca swallowed her fear and put a determined face on.
"I still have 3100 life points left. Don't count me out yet. I draw." She said picking up a card from her deck. "First I summon Chaos Necromancer."
Suddenly the middle of her field glowed and a man popped out. He was no more than 6 feet. He had two puppet stands in his hand that had two life size zombies connected to them. He wore all purple minus the armor that he was wearing which was blue with yellow outlines. On his face he wore a theater mask with an upwards smile carved into its purple and white mask.
Level: 1-Attack: 0-Defence: 0-Type: Dark-Zombie
"He gains 300 attack points for every monster in my grave." She said.
"So it only has 900 attack points." Griffin said. "Prepare to lose."
"I end my turn."
Griffin looked in surprise at this, as he drew his card. 'What is she planning?'
"I will activate polymerization!" Griffin said placing down the spell card. "Fusing Red-eyes B. Dragon and the Summoned Skull, to make B. Skull Dragon."
Next to Ancient Dragon appeared a dragon that was made of bones.
Level: 9-Attack: 3200-Defence: 2500-Type: Dark-Dragon
"Then I will activate Dragon's mirror." Griffin said smirking. "Banishing my Summoned Skull and my Red-Eyes B. Dragon from my graveyard to fuse into a mighty monster. They will now fuse into The First of The Dragons!"
Suddenly in the right of Ancient Dragon grew a giant purple serpent with huge ten foot white wings. It had a giant white jaw with jagged sharp teeth. It had giant white spikes ran down its scaly body.
Level: 7-Attack: 2700-Defence: 2000-Type: Dark-Dragon
"Now say goodbye to your Necromancer and the rest of your life points." Griffin said laughing evilly. "Attack her, my skull dragon!"
The dark dragon flew up into the sky while charging up a black beam in its mouth.
"Fire!"
"Ha! You've just activated my traps." Rebecca countered. "Needlebug Nest."
"WHAT!?" Griffin said as his eyes widened. "I forgot about those!"
"These send the top ten cards of my deck to my graveyard." The blond said as she watched her cards go to the grave.
The first card sent to the grave was Marien the Fallen One. Then Giant Soldier of Stone, Shadow Ghoul, Tribute to the Doomed, Cure Mermaid, Skelitangel, Giant Soldier of Stone, a Cat of ill Omen, Fire Princess, and Chaos Necromancer.
"Nine monsters were sent to my graveyard, meaning there are 12 monsters in my grave." Rebecca said. "And that makes my Chaos Necromancer's attack points 500."
"Oh no! My skull dragon!" Griffin said as the beam was shot at the necromancer.
Once the beam made contact it reflected off of one of the zombies and shot back at the poor dragon.
"RAWWWW!" It cried out as it was pulverized into dust.
-400
Green-7600LP
Red-3100LP
"Grrrr you may have destroyed my dragon, but you still haven't won just yet." Griffin growled. "I end my turn."
"Okay I draw." Rebecca said. 'Giant Soldier of Stone, this could come in handy.' She thought. "Because of Marie the Fallen One's effect, I gain 200 life points."
Red-3300LP
Green-7600LP
"I will set one monster face down and attack your Alexandrite Dragon!" Rebecca said confidently.
"Well I activate Dragon's Tower." Griffin countered.
"What does that do?"
"I banish one Dragon monster from my graveyard and give one card 700 attack points." Griffin said as he put his B. Skull Dragon in the banished zone. "My dragon will still die but at least I will lose less life points."
-900
Green-6700LP
Red-3300LP
"I end my turn." Rebecca said as she began to turn the tables.
"I draw!" Griffin said hoping for the best. 'A Mirror Force' He thought looking up. 'I need to save this for later.'
"I will set one card." He said as he set his trap face down. "Then I will banish my Alexandrite Dragon to give The First of the Dragons 700 attack points."
Attack: 3400-Defence: 2000
"Now attack her face down!"
"Dang it." Rebecca said under her breath. "But at least my necromancer gains 300 attack points.
Attack: 3900-Defence: 0
Red: 3300LP
Green: 6700LP
"I will turn the rest of my monsters to defense position and end my turn." Griffin said shifting his cards.
"Okay I draw" The girl said shifting her glasses. Once she saw what she got she smirked. "During my standby phase I gain 200 life points because of my fallen one."
Red-3500LP
Green-6700LP
"I will set one card and have Chaos Necromancer attack the First of the Dragons."
"GAH!" Griffin cried out.
-1200
Green-5500LP
Red-3500LP
Once the smoke disappeared the serpent was still on the field.
"Wha?!" The blond cried out in surprise. "Why is it still on the field?"
"My dragon cannot be destroyed by monsters with effects or their effects." Griffin said. "He can only be destroyed by normal monsters, spells, and traps, so when I take damage from a battle with an effect monster, I get to keep my dragon."
"Humph! I need to get rid of that." She said looking at her hand. "Gah I have nothing. I end my turn."
"Ha! I draw." The brunette said as he drew. "I will activate Dragon's Rage."
"Wha?"
"It makes it so my dragons inflict piercing damage when attacking a defense position monster."
"Oh dear."
"Now I will change my Ancient Dragon and Koumori Dragon to attack position, for later use and have my First of the Dragons attack your face down." Griffin said in triumph.
"My Pyramid Turtle!" Rebecca cried.
-1300
Red-2000LP
Green-6700LP
"My turtle's effect brings out another turtle in face up defense position." Rebecca said searching for the card.
Then there stood a turtle where the last one stood.
Level: 4-Attack: 1200-Defence: 1400-Type: Earth-Zombie
"Ancient Dragon attack the turtle." Griffin said.
-500
Red-1500LP
Green -6700LP
"Pyramid Turtle gets another Pyramid Turtle in defense."
"OH MY GOSH!" Griffin cried out in annoyance. "Koumori Dragon, make soup of that overgrown tortoise."
-100
Red-1400LP
Green-6700LP
"My turtle now pulls out a Shadow Ghoul from my deck into face up attack position." Rebecca said as a giant green humanoid monster with 6 beady red eyes on its face that was right above its tentacle mouth.
Level: 5-Attack: 1600-Defence: 1300-Type: Dark-Zombie
"He, much like Chaos Necromancer, gains attack for my grave monsters." Rebecca said. "He gains 100 for each of them, but don't forget about all of those turtles powering up my necromancer either."
"Oh fudge."
Ghoul-Attack: 3200-Defence: 1300
Necromancer-Attack: 4800-Defence: 0
"I end my turn." Griffin said with a fake sigh.
"Okay I draw and gain 200 life points." Rebecca said as she drew.
Red-1600LP
Green-6700LP
"Now I will activate hand destruction."
"What does that do?" Griffin asked curiously.
"Both players send two cards from their hands to their graves and draw 2 cards." Rebecca said sending Marrie the Fallen one and skelangel to the grave and drawing two cards.
'Hmmm I got Needlebug Nest and Tribute to the doomed. Awesome!' she thought to herself.
"First I will set one trap card then activate tribute to the doomed, sending my shadow ghoul from my hanf to the grave and destroying your first of the dragons." Rebecca started.
'Fudge' Griffin thought.
"This gives my monsters more attack points."
'Double fudge.'
Ghoul-Attack: 3300-Defence: 1300
Necromancer-Attack: 5100-Defence: 0
"Well they won't be able to get pass my mirror force." Griffin thought.(1)
"A Mirror Force?"
"Oh no," Griffin said covering his mouth. "I said that out loud."
"Yeah you did, thanks for the warning." Rebecca said smirking. "I end my turn."
"Um….I draw." Griffin said pulling a card from the top of the pile. "I set one monster facedown and end my turn."
"I will chain Needlebug Nest to your end phase, sending the top five cards from the top of my deck to may graveyard." Rebecca said quickly.
'Great' She thought as she watched the cards go to the grave. 'Nothing I really need on the field.' It was a Chaos Necromancer, Marie the Fallen One, Cure Mermaid, Dark Hole, and Injection Fairy Lily.
Necromancer-Attack: 6300-Defence: 0
Ghoul-Attack: 3700-Defence: 1300
"Now I draw and Gain 600 life points thanks to my Fallen ones effect times 3." Rebecca said.
Red-2200LP
Green-6700LP
'Blasting ruins?' Rebecca thought looking at the card she drew. 'This won't be enough.'
"I will normal summon Fire Princess in attack position, then set one card facedown." Rebecca said. "I end my turn."
"I draw." Griffin started. 'What is that trap? I can't take any chances in attacking.' "I set one card and end my turn."
"Okay then I draw," Rebecca said seeing the end drawing near. "I gain 200 life points for each of my Fallen Ones."
Red-2800LP
Green-6700LP
"And because of Fire Princess, you lose 500 life points for every time I gain life points."
-1500
Green-5200LP
Red-2800LP
'I can't let that Fire Princess live,' Griffin thought angrily. 'But I can't attack….gosh darn it!'
"I will set one card in face down defense position and end my turn."
"Okay I draw." Griffin said looking angrily at his field full of monsters. "I-I end my turn."
"Well then I draw." Rebecca said as she looked at what she could do. "You know the drill."
+600
Red-3400LP
Green-5200LP
-1500
Green-3700LP
Red-3400LP
"Now I will normal summon my cannon solder." The blond said placing her card on the field.
Then next to Fire Princess appeared a giant purple robot with two yellow shoulder pads, its purple arms grew under the shoulder pads and had four long grey claws. It also had a yellow stomach and purple legs. It had two red dots on the purple part of its face that represented eyes.
"Now I will activate cannon soldier's effect." Rebecca said smugly. "I will tribute all five of my monsters and deal you 500 damage for each of them."
-2500
Green-1200LP
Red-3400LP
"W-why would you tribute all of your monsters?" Griffin stuttered. "You're open for an all out attack now."
"Because of this." Rebecca said in triumph. "I will now activate Blasting Ruins!"
"NO!"
"If I have 30 or more cards in my graveyard I deal my opponent 3000 damage."
Then Rebecca's graveyard zone started to glow a blinding yellow light before it exploded and sand went flying everywhere. The whole arena was blinded from the sand but when it cleared it was obvious who turned out to be the winner.
-3000
Green-0LP
Red-3400-LP
"I-I lost." Griffin said falling to his knees.
"Rebecca Hawkins is the new duel monsters champion of the United States!" The announcer yelled over the intercom as a man came up with a golden trophy.
"I-I won." The blonde said dusting off her glasses. "I can't believe I won!"
Griffin looked up in disappointment before digging into his pocket for something. When he pulled his hand out he was holding a coin with strange symbols on it, Rebecca couldn't tell from the distance she was at. He said something but she couldn't hear it because of the roaring crowd. He filliped the coin and left.
"Congrats girl you are our new champion." A dark haired man said handing her the trophy.
"Oh thank you." Rebecca said surprised forgetting he was there.
"You also get this ticket for you and two other friends to Japan to represent America in the worldwide Duel monsters championship." He said putting the tickets inside of the trophy. "Also you get three hundred thousand dollars to cover for any other expenses, like shopping and food. Plus as an added bonus you get to spend five whole months at the Dragon Master Knight hotel."
All of this was put into the trophy and the rest of the day melted away with the flash of cameras.
And cut.
I hope you guys liked it. This was difficult to make because I had to make not only create and write out the duel, but also make a description of each of the characters. Do not worry though for soon I will get better at it and i will post more often.
(1) Yeah you remember this right? Yeah well i won't be doing this often but i wanted you to know that when someone is thinking something and it has the " around it, it means that they think they are thinking but they mistakenly talked out load.
Anyway i got to start on the next chapter. Leave a comment and if you flame I will use it to warm the homeless. ;P Time to fly.