Chapter 26 - The Seal Of Oricalcose

"Figures those grease monkeys would lead us to this place," Joey said as the gang walked across the roof of a warehouse. That's when they heard someone laugh just ahead of them.

"I'm not interested in duelling you, little girl," they turned and saw a robed man waving a dismissive hand at Rose.

"Rose!" Yami called out. She turned around, and the robed man walked in front of her, towards the gang, obviously not interested in her. She glared at his back.

"I'll make this short," he said to Yami, "I possess something that you want; the god cards. And you possess something that I desire; your soul!"

Rose sulked and walked back to the gang, "I wanted to duel him," she huffed.

"You'll get your chance," Joey said. They watched as the duel commenced as any other duel would. But then the robed man played a magic card that nobody had ever seen before.

"I activate the Seal Of Oricalcose!" he bellowed. A large green circle surrounded by script in an undecipherable language encircled the field, and and odd 6 pointed star formed itself inside the circle.

"What's going on?" Yami asked, looking around in confusion. The circle pushed out Tristan, Joey, Tea and Rose, and they fell backwards from the force. "My friends!" Yami called out, trying to run back to help them, but when he reached the outside of the circle, an invisible force pushed him back. He turned back to his opponent, demanding what was going on.

"The Seal stops us from exiting, and anybody else from entering," the robed man explained. He then said that when the duel is over only one person will be able to walk out, as the loser gives up their soul to the oricalcose. The seal also gave his monsters a 500 point boost, already giving him an advantage.

"What's with that guy?" Rose asked, staring at the robed man, "He has that symbol on his forehead."

"And he has that weird tint in his eyes," Tea said, "This is creeping me out." They noticed that the three biker punks had gathered on the roof above them to watch the duel.

This must have been a set up, Rose thought. I hope Yugi and Yami can kick this guys butt back to wherever they came from.

They watched as the duel continued. Yami managed to summon Valkyrion the Magna Warrior, but the robed man summoned Obelisk, who had 4500 attack points thanks to the seal of Oricalcose. Obelisk destroyed Valkyrion, and took a chunk out of Yami's life points. The robed man then explained how a great beast was going to rise and that Yami's soul was going to fuel it, and they already had some souls. Yami managed to use his three magnet warriors and his brave attack card to take down Obelisk, much to his opponent's dismay. The man then managed to summon 7 monsters thanks to the special ability the seal granted him, but Yami used Defusion wave motion with his Dark Magician Girl to destroy them all and defeat his opponent. The gang all watched in amazement as the seal surrounded the man and and he called out for his master to spare him.

Master? Rose thought, Does this mean there's a higher power responsible for all of this?

When the seal disappeared he fell to the ground. The three biker punks turned to leave, but Yami called out to them to hand back the god cards.

"Sorry, you didn't hold up your end of the deal, pal," one of them said, "You have to beat all of us, not just one of us. But I'll tell you what, this is for being such a good sport." He threw two cards down to Yami.

He flipped them over in his hands, and was quite shocked to see what was on them. "Rex Raptor and Weavel Underwood?" he asked, looking back up to the three men.

"I released you friends souls as a gift," the tall blonde one said.

"I'll give you a gift!" Joey called out, "Just come down here and get it! It's the gift that keeps on giving again and again!" They just laughed at Joey's antics and left without another word.

"Calm down Joey," Rose said, "We'll get those card back without violence."

Yami walked over to the man's unconscious body and picked up a card that was lying next to him, "So it's true," he said, "When this man lost the duel, he lost his soul."

"Hey, look at this," Rose said, picking up a shining green rock.

"What's that?" Yugi asked.

"That was around his neck," Tea said. "Do you think it has something to do with all of this?"

"I don't know," Yami said.

...

Back at Yugi's house later that night, he and Rose were examining the rock they had found.

"Hey Gramps, have you ever seen anything like this before?" Yugi asked as Solomon walked past his room. He stopped and walked in to take a closer look.

"Hmm, let me see..." Yugi handed the shiny green rock to his grandpa. Solomon turned it over in his hands with a puzzled expression. "I'm afraid I haven't come across any stone like this before, but I don't trust it," he said, eyeing it carefully. "However, it may hold some answers about this whole situation, I would hold onto it if i were you, but be very careful." Yugi nodded as his grandpa went back downstairs.

"Your grandfather is right in saying not to trust it," Yami said.

"What do you mean?" Yugi asked.

"I can almost sense a dark presence coming from it..."

"Do you think it was possessing that guy that you duelled?" Rose asked.

"I'm not sure," Yami said. "But that's not going to be the last of them we see, that's for sure. And next time we face them, we need to be prepared for whatever they are going to throw at us."

"You're right," Yugi said, "But we don't know anything about this oricalcose thing. How do we know if our deck will be strong enough next time?" he asked, sounding quite worried.

"We don't," Yami said, "we'll just have to believe that our deck is strong enough to overcome it."

Rose then thought for a moment, "I have something that might help," she said, pulling her deck out. Yugi watched on, confused as Rose sorted through her cards. She soon found the ones she was looking for, "Here," she held them out to him with a smile.

"Your Knight cards?" Yugi stared at them, puzzled.

"I want you to have them," Rose said. She handed them to Yugi and he looked down at them. Queen's Knight, Kings Knight and Jack's Knight.

"I can't take these, they're some of your best cards," he said, holding them out to her to take back.

She shook her head, "I have plenty of good cards. Besides, you'll need them more than I will, your deck needs to be as strong as possible, remember? These knights have always been great cards to me, so I'm sure they'll do the same for you," she gave him an encouraging smile.

"Are you sure?" Yugi asked her.

Rose nodded, "And like when you had Joey's Red Eyes, you'll have a part of me in your deck, so technically I'll be helping you kick butt," she grinned.

"Thanks Rose," Yugi said, putting the cards with his deck.

"Now we're one step closer to defeating whoever it is that is causing all this madness," Yami said.

"Let's just hope we can find out exactly who it is before it's too late," Rose said.


tada! and the maddness of the oricalcose begins!

prepare for feels, people.

This was one of my favourite seasons of YGO, so i hope that my writing can do it justice (although i do change the story up a bit)

I hope you guys like are liking it so far, because this is where it gets serious dun dun DUN!

Would love to hear what you think!

PharaohsThrone :)