Seth sat in the stands of the London underground duel arena. He enjoyed watching these underground duelists giving all they could and paying in pain for mistakes and weakness. But out of all that he saw he favored one, a young duelist that went by the name of Black Dragon. His deck was strong and he rarely made a mistake, but when he did he made up for it by doubling back on the revenge. He liked to use dragon cards and in his deck he had a very rare card that rivaled in rarity alone the blue eyes white dragon, the Red eyes Ultimate Dragon. Only a select few knew of its existence. And they were the ones on the ending attack of this mighty beast. Outside of the under ground there was only rumors and hearsay, but Seth had seen it plenty of times. He had bribed an official that regulated the duels. He would contact Seth when an excellent duelist came about. The black dragon was one of them and Seth came to his matches like clockwork. He was a great duelist and had a knack for being ruthless. Even Seth at this point had to admit that the black dragon would give him a run for his money.
A cheer rang out that snapped Seth out of his thoughts. The black dragon had just summoned his ultimate dragon. Seth chuckled as he surveyed the field. The opponent had one card in face down defense mode and a face down trap. His hand was empty in contradiction to the black dragon whose hand was full with 5 cards. Plus the black dragon had 2 face downs. Seth chuckled again. He knew exactly what the black dragon was going to do.
"I now will active a spell from my hand," called the black dragon, "it is called the nobleman of crossout. I will use it to remove your face down monster from play!"
The monster flipped over to reveal an old vindictive magician. The monster was sliced in half and vanished rather than the traditional explosion.
"Now with your monster zones empty I have my red eyes ultimate attack you directly! Go ultimate attack with ultimate flare flash blast!"
"You forgot my face down trap card! Go magic cylinder redirect the ultimate's attack!"
"Counter trap! Reveal seven tools of the bandit! At the cost of 1000 life points," Black dragon slightly cringed as the shock went through his body, "I can negate your trap and destroy it."
The cylinders that appeared started to crack and eventually they shatter just before the attack reached them. Wiping out his opponent's points and blasting him against the cage which made the electrical shock even worse than what it original would have been. The duelist was helped out of the arena by some of his buddies as the black dragon shut off his disk and turned to leave. As he was turning his eyes caught Seth in the crowd. Seth shivered at what he sensed form the youth. This boy had magical talent and was learning to use it. Seth got up from his spot in the crowd and walked over to the official. He mumbled in his ear and the official nodded. The doors that the black dragon was getting ready to pass through closed and then the announcer got on the microphone.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we are being treated to another duel to the black dragon this evening. He has just been challenged by a generous benefactor of this underground arena, he goes by the name the dark priest," the announcer pointed over to Seth who was getting ready to enter the arena.
"I will take on all who challenge me!" declared the Black Dragon.
"Then let the games begin again ladies and gentlemen!" declared the announcer as the crowd cheered and whistled.
'This is no different than in the shadow realm,' thought Seth, 'the shadow demons all love to see the others suffer as much as they can. This world is diseased, I think that will be the first change I make, but then again I like it too, so maybe I will make this the normality in dueling when this world will become my kingdom.'
Seth reached the arena and unbeknownst to the officials, he summoned his staff, and cast a freezing charm on the whole arena. It did not go unnoticed by the black dragon. He knew what had happened and tried to act dumb when he noticed.
"What did you just do?" asked the black dragon sounding surprised and afraid.
"You know exactly what I did black dragon," replied Seth with a wicked smile that sent shivers down the black dragon's spine. He had seen that smile on only two faces, one was his aunt Bella, and the other was on the face of the dark lord.
"What are you talking about?" asked the black dragon, still trying to act as though he had no idea what had just happened.
Seth smiled widened. He was starting to make the black dragon worry, "you he magical abilities black dragon, or should I call you Draco Malfoy?"
Draco recoiled at the sound of his own name. No one knew each other's names in the underground that was the policy.
"You are not a normal human Draco, but then again neither am I," continued Seth.
Finally Draco got his voice back, "who are you?"
"I am the priest of the shadows, the bringer of darkness," explained Seth, "I am a spellcaster of great prowess. My name is Seth, the priest of the shadows," He took a deep bow, rose back up and continued "but you, young Draco are but a lowly student still."
Draco was still slightly shocked and barely managed to reply, "How did you…"
"simplicity my dragonic friend," replied seth cutting him off, "I can sense your level of magic. Yours draco is still budding but I can sense a bright future for your power."
Draco finally got back his voice for good and replied, "but why did you cast a freezing charm over ht whole arena?"
"so I could talk to you in private," explained seth, "I don't like to be overheard and when I release the charm it will leave no trace. My magic is so mighty that even the trace on you didn't pick it up. Your ministry needs to learn that there are many forms of magic that can go undetected. This challenge call will go unnoticed and the memory will be implanted that I am a manager looking for some talent to sponsor," he snapped his fingers and the spell was released.
"ladies and gentlemen," said the announcer, "let's have another round of applause for the black dragon."
The people in the stands cheered as if nothing had just happened. Draco turned to see what had just transpired. No one remembered a thing. He turned around to talk to seth, but seth was no where in sight.