New Testament 002: Drown your Sorrow

Colins LP: 8000 Girls LP: 8000

"How do you know...about her?" Colin asked the girl. She just said the name of a friend, a friend who died, and a friend that not many people knew about. "Ananka? When did you.." But now she chose to not respond, she just stared at the cards in her hand. "Of all times, now you stay quiet?" He placed a monster of his facedown on the field, thinking she would speak if her turn began. Yet he was still being ignored, she drew her sixth card and continued to look away. "She wanted me to think about Ananka, and that's it? She must have known how I would react.." The girl placed a monster card facedown and ended her turn. "You say so little, can you not even tell me your name?" No luck, the girl even had her eyes closed.

This lady was beginning to tick him off. "...Guess I will 'duel' first. I summon Blockman." A monster (1000/1500) made from lego blocks appeared. "And I also flip summon my other card." He flipped his first monster face-up, it was a machine. "Healing Wave Generator(400/1600). This card restores lifepoints, 100 LP times the level of one face-up monster of mine." The Generator tuned in on Blockmans four levels and healed him by 400 points. "But that was not what you were waiting for, is it?" He entered the battle phase. "No, I think I will attack with these cards, I don't care if its defense is high." The Block monster punched the opposing set card. It flipped and shattered, the card looked like a fossilized deepsea creature. "Thanks, you killed a Trilobiter (1400/800). Now I can do this.." Suddenly a new monster came from her deck, a fish-type. "Eh?" When a Trilobiter died, she could special summon another deepsea creature, an Unshaven Angler (1500/1600). "You run a fish deck?" Colin was suddenly less worried about the opponent. He placed two traps and ended his turn.

Colins LP: 8400

Trilobiter 4/1400/800 Water/Fish
When this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the graveyard, you can special summon 1 water/fish-type monster with 1500 or less ATK from the deck.
If 'Umi' is on the field, you can special summon any lv4 water/fish-type monster from your deck instead.

"Yup. The Fish subtype is not that threatening in this game, so when you lose, you will feel so much more shame." She drew, and immediately tributed the Angler Fish for a tribute summon. "The Angler card counts for two tributes if its tributed for a lv7-8 water-type monster." She smirked as she called out an even older looking Fish, with brush-like fins. "Super Ancient Deepsea Coelacanth(2800/2200)!" It was the strongest fish in the game of Duel Monsters. "Say that ten times fast, geez." The Deepsea Fish stared at the exposed weaklings before it. "It came from the ancient times, to take down the future seer. I attack Heal Wave Generator!" Coelacanth dove into the ground, headed towards the Healer. "Since when can fish swim in the ground?... never mind. I activate my counter trap: Negate Attack, your battle phase has ended!" The Deepsea King was pushed back by a forcefield. "So you evaded the end this turn. But there is more to the card then attackpower." At that point she discarded a card from her hand. "Huh?"

From a stream of holographic water came four new monsters in defense mode. "What the hell?" The Catfish Deepsea Macrotrema (600/100), the Clam-hybrid Oyster Meister (1600/200) and two trident wielding Ocean Keepers (1500/1200). "If you could summon that many, why not do it before you attack?" He asked. "Because thats the cost. Coelacanth can special summon up to four LV.4 Fish-types from my deck, if I discard a card. But none of these can attack or activate their effects. However.." She suddenly tributed one of the Ocean Keepers. "Hey you already normal summoned this turn." He protested. "True. But an Oceans Keeper can be offered for a special kind of summon." In its place came a fish in defense mode. The weird part? It was made entirely from eyeballs. "Thousand Eyes Jellyfish(300/2100) is one of two that can be called out by an Oceans Keeper.. And its many eyes have the power of true sight" Suddenly all of its eyes turned to Colin, and he was forced to reveal the cards in his hands. "What the?"

The three cards were Greed Quasar, a Noisy Gnat and the spell card: The Rich Get Richer. "Nothing will be hidden from me now." Her turn was over. "Feh, laugh it off. But now.." He finally activated his signature trap card: Dora of Fate. "It is time for my favorite combo." He tried to target The Deepsea King, so that he could start a combo to inflict 4000 effect damage to the girl. "That old trick? It will not work." Yet before the Dora trap could affect the King, another monster came in between. Oyster Meister grappled the card and destroyed itself to take it down. "Hey, did you see my previous duels or something?" He cursed. "You missed some text. Coelacanth also can tribute Fish-types other then itself, to negate all effects that target it." At the same time, when an Oystermeister was sent to the grave, he would leave behind a Clamshell-token (0/0). "Wait, I thought all those monsters had their abilities blocked?" He soon found the loophole in that contract. "Oh, right. Monster effects that resolve after they are dead, can not be negated."

At least now he could start his turn and use an effect of his own. "Blockmans been on the field for two turns, so it can split apart into two Block-tokens." The lego-monster split into two pieces, he sacrificed both. "Come out, Greed Quasar!" His favorite monster card arrived, the level seven demon (2100/2100). "Sure it can not match your Ancient King, but..." He discarded the Noisy Gnat card from his hand. "When I discard this insect, it boosts a monsters level by 1 until the endphase." Greed went up to 8 stars, thus also its stats shot up (2400/2400), as it gained 300 attackpoints for each level it had. "Not enough, can't you count?" The girl laughed. "Who said I was attacking that ancient thing? I simply wanted to bypass some defense points." Instead he aimed for the Jellyfish. Greed grabbed it with its arms and swallowed it whole. "All those eyes looked yummy." Greed gained the stars of its meals, so the five stars of the Thousand Eyes turned Greed into a lv.13 monster (3900/3900). "And now who is stronger?" His battle phase ended. "Still my turn." In his Main Phase 2 he reactivated Healing Wave Generator, gaining 1300 lifepoints for all 13 stars of Greed. Then he switched the machine to defense mode.

Colins LP: 9700

"Oh before I forget." Since he had a lv7 or higher monster on the field. He could use The Rich Get Richer spell card. "Draw two cards." Now that his hand was again a secret to the enemy, he was free to replenish it. "Ah that felt good. Your move by the way." She drew her card. "Sure." First thing she did in the main phase was sacrificing the second Oceans Keeper for a fish with a great brain, the Cranium Fish (2400/1000). "The second fish a Keeper can summon, I presume?" She nodded. "Next I normal summon a Golden Flying Fish." A shining fish (1700/1000) fluttered across the field with its six fins. "Great now the fish are will fly in the air as well." Sairve snarked. "It has an effect too." The girl grew a nasty smile, as suddenly both the Oyster-token and Deepsea Macrotrema gained a golden glow. "I can tribute a Fish-type, to destroy something else.." The golden glowing clamshell slammed into the Generator, while Macrometa strangled Greed Quasar to death. "What the heck, that thing killed my army!"

He was wide open. "Oh and Deepsea Macrotrema's effect also activates once it dies, bypassing the seal placed on it. It can boost all other Water-monsters by 500 points during the turn of its demise." Her three fish powered up (Coelacanth: 3300/2200, Cranium Fish: 2900/1000, Golden Flying Fish: 2200/1000). "Ah crap." They attacked him all at once, all directly. "So much for not getting hit." Then to add insult to injury, during her main phase 2, she activated Salvage. "I take two water-types with 1500 or less attack back from the grave." She reclaimed both Ocean Keepers. "I discard one to reactivate Coelacanths effect." There were 2 open slots, so it special summoned two new Fish-types: another Deepsea Macrotrema (600/100) and an Abyssal Kingshark (1700/600). "Ggh, she is going to crush me before she runs out of fish." He cursed his luck. "I wonder what I should do with you once I win this. I have no idea as of yet. But the more you prolong your defeat, the more creative I can get." She allowed her turn to end.

Colins LP: 1300

"Wait a second." He looked at a card in his hand and started counting something on the field. "It is your turn you know." The opponent grew impatient. "Oh.. I know, heheh. And I will activate...this!" He played a spell; Star of Oblivion. If there were 20 or more level stars on the field, it could destroy all monsters. "I checked, there is a total of 25 stars on the field. I'd say thats plenty to trigger this spell and wipe your army out!" He didn't use it before since it would kill his own monsters as well. "Gah!" All of her Fish were wasted by the star energy. Since this effect affected everyone at once, Coelacanth could not save its own scales by tributing another. "Bye bye Fish army, hello oppurtunity of direct attacking." With glee he normal summoned a prophet monster: Herald of Creation (1800/600) to the field. "Take this!" She attacked directly with her staff, inflicting 1800 damage. "Oh, you finally did some damage, bravo." She clapped her hands. "But its my turn now." She drew again, and gained a rather vicious trap. "I set this one facedown..."

Girls LP: 6200

"...and I summon Oceans Keeper (1500/1200) in attack position. End turn." Colin drew another monster from his deck. "This is a trap, obviously.." But he had no other choice then to attack her, he needed to do some damage, or else he would never find out who this girl was. "I assume you have no more monsters in your hand, I will see soon enough." He summoned his Hunted Agent (2200/0), a monster very strong for the fourth level. It allowed the opponent to special summon from their hand in return. "Meh, you were right." Unless she had nothing to summon, her one remaining card was just a spell, so nothing happened. "Okay then." Both monsters charged. "But I prepared a counter, duh!" And then she countered with Fish Depth Charge. "This trap card will sacrifice one Fish-type, to destroy one of your cards, and letting me draw from my deck!" Oceans Keeper suddenly launched forward, piercing and killing the Hunted Agent. This left the Herald alone in her continued direct assault on the female duelist. "Grand..."

Girls LP: 4400

With her trap cards effect, she drew the monster Moisture Creature, from her deck. "I set two cards facedown and end my turn." The girl drew once more, and played this card. "Premature Burial." She payed 800 LP to equip the spell to the Deepsea King in her cemetery, reviving it to her field(2800/2200). "Oh you uncreative.." Her plan for victory was ready. "I discard a card." She could special summon four new fishes with its effect, and sacrifice three to special summon her monster. Moisture Creature would destroy all of his spells and traps if it was summoned like that. "And.." But there was a snag... three snags actually. "Ojama Trio!" Before she could do so, Sairve flipped his trap and summoned tokens of Ojama Green, Black and Yellow to her field (0/1000). The token trio took up three of her monster zones. "Not enough room." He grinned. "Argh.." She could only summon one monster, another Trilobiter (1400/800). The Super Fish could still attack though, and he crushed the Herald with its tail. "I think I know what I want now."

"I want to see you suffer."

Girls LP: 3600 Colins LP: 300

"Now thats a sudden tone of ch..change of tone.." He was taken aback a little. "Did we meet before, is that why you single me out?" There came no answer. "Silent mode again eh? Doesn't matter, its time to wrap this up" He flipped his second trap card: Nightmare Telescope. "If my field is completely empty, this card will count the number of tokens on the opponents field and summon just as many to mine." From the telescope came three Ojama-like tokens (0/0). "These tokens prevent summoning during this turn, but this is not 'my' turn." The girl flinched and switched to the endphase. "Good, good. Now it Is my turn." He drew, and shook his head. "Man, the future really does not like you." He did a tribute summon, for a centaurlike Lion warrior. "I call Beastking Barbaros(3000/1200). When it is tribute summoned with three tributes.." The Beastking roared and the sound vibrations shattered both Coelacanth, the Ojama tokens and Trilobiter. "It kills all my monsters?" She was shocked. Plus when an Ojama token was destroyed, the controller would lose 300 LP.

Girls LP: 2700

Nightmare Telescope, Normal Trap
You can only activate this card if there are no other cards on your field and when there are tokens on your opponents side of the field.
Special summon Star-tokens (1/0/0 Light/Pyro) to your side of the field equal to the amount of tokens on the opponents field.
If you activate this card, you cannot summon other monsters this turn.

So she lost 900 LP already when the three tokens were killed by the effect. "Guess...I win.." He wasted no time and sent Barbaros to stab the girl with his spear. In that instant, the holograms faded and the dueldisks de-activated. "Now... tell me why you know so much about me, and Ananka.. who are you?"

Girls LP: 0

She hesitated for a little while, but then she calmed down. "I ..I am.. I am the first. More will come, you can not stop the seven revolutions." The girl finally answered, leaving Colin utterly confused. "Come again?" He would like a repeat off that. "..Look behind you!" She suddenly pointed at nothing behind Sairve, yet he looked anyway. "Oy!..thats my own trick.." Too late he realized he only saw his shop back there. By that time the girl had already started her escape run. "Hell no you don't!" He followed, since he was not letting her go without an answer. Not after he won that duel. He did not need to chase for a long time though. He stopped around a corner, and found something he did not expect. "Why is..."

(To be continued in New Testament 003: 100.000.000 BC)

New Cards used by Colin Sairve
Healing Wave Generator
Noisy Gnat

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Nightmare Telescope

Cards used by 'The Girl'
Trilobiter
Unshaven Angler
Super Ancient Deepsea King Coelacanth
Deepsea Macrotrema
Oyster Meister
Oceans Keeper
Thousand Eyes Jellyfish
Cranium Fish
Golden Flying Fish
Abyssal Kingshark
Moisture Creature

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Salvage
Premature Burial

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Fish Depth Charge