Chapter 4: Dedicated Darkness Part 2
As Jessie continued to struggle to stand, Vincent chuckled giving a sinister smile at him "Aww is the baby gonna cry?" he taunted at Jessie, but he ignored him finally getting to his feet "Well, well, well perhaps we can continue with your lesson." Vincent was partly impressed that Jessie is still standing normally his opponent would have lost hope which was a real disappointment. "Vincent, I don't know what's wrong with that demented mind of yours. But I'll teach you a lesson about respecting your opponent." Jessie told him but Vincent quickly replied "You're just going on about that song 'Respect', it's time you where woken up to the real world." "I am in the real world!" Jessie shouted as he continued his sentence "I treat my cards like family, I don't know about you but your one sick person." "If you're done, babbling about nonsense I would like to carry on with my turn." Vincent quickly replied he looked at his hand knowing what card to set. "Main phase two I place one card face down, that'll postpone your suffering for now." Jessie was ready to draw his card, however he hesitated thinking I should find out why he's doing this, there's something big he isn't telling me. "Vincent, if you have any kind of respect you will tell me why you're doing this!" "Ugh, talk always with the mouth that never silences. You're just like an inch that never stops, but I'm not going to stop to scratch!" Vincent replied, angry that Jessie was wasting time he was tapping his feet but Jessie wasn't drawing his card "If you don't draw shortly, then you give me the impression how sad of a duellist you are. Perhaps I was wasting my time with you, you can't possibly be the one who has Rainbow Dragon." It was only then that Jessie couldn't stand his comments anymore, he drew his card "Fine Vincent, you leave me no choice but to beat it out of you." But Vincent only chuckled at this threat, he crossed his arms looking at him "Well then, if you can keep to it I might tell you. However this is just the tip of the iceberg, you've got to go through the traps to get to the prize." Jessie growled as he looked at his new drawn card, Anymore of these comments and I'm really going to get sick of him, just hearing him makes me sick to my stomach. Jessie thought to himself plotting his new move.
In the shadows Alex Alpha was looking at this duel, he was like a referee but not in plain sight, he was only there for one reason alone. To make sure that Vincent doesn't take it too far, A good first move by Vincent, I just hope he doesn't take Jessie out of the picture yet. Alex thought he was really wondering how long this duel would take. If it's one thing I can't stand that's people not doing what they're told. Rainbow Dragon must be defeated in this duel if we're going to get anywhere, otherwise I'll have to resort to other methods.
Everyone had scattered back to there dorms after they got there results, Jaden was in his room unable to sleep. He didn't know why either, Hassleberry was already asleep it only took him a moment or so. I can't believe I'm so low in this tournament, I'm glad to hear that Syrus got somewhere. He might even get to the top 8 if he's lucky, but now I have to be serious. His stomach rumbled, he was still hungry he sighed trying to go back to sleep but shortly Winged Kuriboh appeared it went next to Jaden's face "Huh what's wrong Winged Kuriboh?" It hinted to get out of the room, but Jaden was having problems understanding. "Huh you want me to follow? Alright then I'll follow, just let me get dressed first."
Back to the duel Jessie was looking at his hand "Come on get your turn over with. Please I hate to say this but I've seen old men and women do better." Vincent said but he cringed before he could finish his sentence "Ugh, I can't believe I feel so unclean. I'm going to have to wash myself, because I'm looking at trash and he's proving how pathetic he is." "That's enough! It's my turn now!" Jessie shouted which got Vincent's attention his eyebrow rose with interest. "I summon my Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus!" A Winged horse came to Jessie's side of the field it glowed a Sapphire colour around its body, which quickly faded (Atk/ 1800 Def/ 1200). "I'm so glad I can assist Jessie." The horse told him, it made him smile but Vincent was chuckling "Oh wow, good job you've summoned a Unicorn since when did you change your gender?" "Ignore him Pegasus." Jessie told him and at the same time trying to insult him as he continued "It's clear he hasn't heard of Hercules' horse." "Please tell me I'm going to teach him a lesson." Pegasus asked, Jessie nodded in response preparing another card. "If you haven't noticed nuts for brains, there is clearly a stand still and another strong monster ready to take the horn off your Unicorn." Vincent pointed out, but Jessie smiled as he revealed a spell card "Then I believe it's time to activate my Crystal Release equip card, you see once I equip it to a monster that has Crystal Beast in it's name it gains 800 attack points." A lime colour went over the Pegasus (Atk/ 2600 Def/ 1200) it shocked Vincent "What?!" he yelled at Jessie now realizing that he's in trouble. "This is what our combined power can do, go Pegasus charge at his Goldd of Dark world!" The Pegasus rushed at Goldd it's horn went through the axe and hit the armour, the monster disappeared but Vincent wasn't too bothered as his life points went down to 3700. "Don't think that this will do you any good! You're going to lose this duel that is that!" Vincent roared but Jessie kept smiling as he giggled "Well this is a good start, I'll set one card face down and that'll just about do it."
Furious by the fact that he lost life points and that he lost one of his strong monsters, Vincent quickly draws a card. "My Draw!" He looks at the card and immediately activates it "I activate Dark World Dealings, this is how it works first we both draw 1 card from our decks." "That's awfully generous of you." Jessie said drawing his card immediately but Vincent smiled as he drew his card "But we have to discard one card from our hands." Both Jessie and Vincent discard a card from there hands but his graveyard glows again, it surprised Jessie "Oh please don't tell me." "I wish I didn't have to tell you, but unfortunately that's not how the game works." Vincent replied back to Jessie as he continued "I discarded Gren, Tactician of Dark World. Once discarded I get to destroy a spell or trap card on the field, so I'm going to crush your Crystal Release." The lime colour faded from Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus "Don't worry Jessie I'm still up for a challenge." Pegasus said with confidence but Jessie wasn't so sure his life points weren't looking so good If Vincent makes the right move, then I'm done for. He thought hoping that Vincent wouldn't do it, "Don't worry Pegasus, I have a few tricks up my sleeve, here's one of them Vincent." "Trick, please you couldn't even trick a begger for money." Vincent said in response, Jessie opened up his deck as he said "Here's an interesting move, I can select one monster with Crystal Beast in it's name and place it in my Spell or trap zone and I choose…" He revealed a monster card with Ruby in the back ground "My good old buddy Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle." A ruby appeared on Jessie's side but Vincent wasn't impressed "Hmph just another rare gem I can smash another time, I place a monster face down now Brron, Insanity slash on his Unicorn!" With an laugh of pure insanity Brron spun around heading to Pegasus, "I'm not going down without a fight." Said the Pegasus as he charged towards Brron the two attacks hit on impact, Pegasus got slashed and Brron was pierced by the horn, both disappeared but Jessie called out in confidence "Don't forget my Pegasus, isn't destroyed he's still along side me." A sapphire appeared on Jessie's side of the field but Vincent smiled "I'm not quite done yet, I activate my face down The Forces of Dark World. This allows me to return 2 monsters with dark world in there name back to my hand." Vincent picked up Brron and Goldd from his graveyard doing a sinister grin, "If you thought it was over, you best think again." Great, now he can get back Goldd of Dark World just by summoning Brron again. Jessie thought realizing how much trouble he's in "I end my turn. Hopefully your turn will be better than your last." Vincent then chuckled knowing what he has to do.
Jaden was outside in the forest, he was following Winged Kuriboh who didn't seem to know where it was going. "Hey pal, are you sure you know where you're going?" Jaden asked and the Winged Kuriboh nodded in response, he continued following until he suddenly fell down a hill he rolled down until he stopped flat on the ground, he picked himself up seeing Jessie dueling with Vincent. "Hey Jessie!" He cried with excitement Jessie turned his head in surprise "Hey Jaden." "Oh great another pathetic duelist in my sight, no wonder I'm cursed." Vincent said sighing at the moment, but the two weren't paying attention as Jaden went over to Jessie. "Hey you know, that you two aren't supposed to be dueling this late?" Vincent chuckled as he crossed his arms "Humor me, why don't you? You actually listen to a foolish old man, you're weaker than Jessie." Jaden was angry he was about to pick a fight but he didn't want to engage in it, he scratched his head in wonder "So are you winning Jessie?" "Kinda, at the moment I'm losing but I'm about to turn it around." He replied back with joy looking on the positive side. "Sweet, I can't wait to see what you throw at him." "ENOUGH!!" Vincent yelled out unable to cope with Jessie and Jaden talking "You know what Seto Kaiba, should have invented a device to mute certain duelists who don't know when to shut up!!" Jessie turned over ready to duel again "Alright fine, let's get this over with." "It's YOUR Turn!!" Vincent yelled again.
"Alright before I draw I activate my face down card Gem Flash Energy!" Then Vincent became confused as Diamonds carried the crystals up along with them, they glowed even more. "This is how it works, during my standby phase for each continuous spell or trap card on the field you lose 300 life points for each one." Jessie explained as he drew his card then the Crystals did a harmful light over Vincent he covered his eyes, thinking he was going to go blind his life points went down to 2800, the lights faded "Finally, the disco 60's have gone to the year 2007 now." Vincent muttered as he uncovered his eyes. "Next I summon my Crystal Beast Cobalt Eagle." Jessie announced quickly an Eagle perched on his Arm (Atk/ 1400 Def/ 800) "I smell a rat, where should I strike?" the Eagle asked him "Go get his face down monster now." The Eagle flew towards Vincent's monster with it's talons ready it pierced through the card which turned out to be Scarr, Scout of Dark World (Atk/ 500 Def/ 500) which was quickly destroyed. "Why thank you, you've just done what I wanted. You attacked my Scarr, Scout of Dark World and once he's destroyed in battle…" He took out his deck looking for a card as the Eagle returned to Jessie's field, he then revealed the card "I can add a monster with Dark world in it's name to my hand, just as long as it's level 4 or less. I choose Beiige, Vanguard of Dark World." He then shuffled his deck quickly and placed it back in his duel disk, but Jessie just smiled. "That won't help you, you know I place one card face down and I'll end turn."
Vincent laughed as he drew his card it confused Jessie why he was laughing "What's so funny?" Jessie asked with aggression "Because you've done everything I wanted you to do, I activate card destruction." Jaden gasped "Oh man that means you both have to discard your hand and draw equal to what you're holding." "But it doesn't stop there!" Vincent yelled, he chuckled as both discarded there hand unfortunately Jessie didn't have any cards in his hand, but Vincent had three. "Remember I had Beiige and Goldd in my hand and both can be special summoned if they where discarded! It's all Over!!" Vincent's graveyard glowed both Purple and Gold combined, a monster with a strange face holding a spear arrived along with Goldd his gold armour shined and the Axe was ready to attack. Jessie looked worried, both monsters could take him out in an instant to make matters worse Vincent hasn't summoned. "Finally I tribute Beiige for Sillva, Warlord of Dark World." Beiige then disappeared and a new monster took it's place with black amour with a sliver lining around it, holding two blades in it's hands (Atk/ 2300 Def/ 1400). "It's time to end this foolishness, attack him now tear him apart!" The two monsters charged towards Jessie Goldd cut through Cobalt eagle and in the Smoke Sillva went for Jessie. "It's all over. You could never defeat me!!" But soon the smoke faded and Vincent was confused as Sillva couldn't attack Jessie "What's the matter with you? I said to tear him apart!" Jessie grinned pointing to the trap card he activated "So sorry but when you destroyed my eagle I activated my trap Crystal Set! When one of my Crystal Beast's is destroyed in battle, not only could I add Emerald turtle to my Spell and trap zone but during this turn all your damage will result in zero." Vincent got angry he wasn't pleased that his attempt failed, but on the plus side he wouldn't get yelled at by Alex, he noticed the Emerald within the crystal. "Of all the rotten luck, fine I'll play with you some more. Main Phase two I activate Dark World Dealings!" Jessie and Vincent both drew a card, Jessie had no choice but to discard it and Vincent discarded the new card he drew. "I discarded Broww, Huntsman of Dark World and when he's discarded from my hand, I get to draw another card." Vincent drew his card smiling. "I'm done for now."
Jessie was smiling at the card he just drew "Actually you're more then done, this duel is done. Let's remember that I have 4 Crystal Beasts on the field, also Gem Flash Energy, is still in affect!" The many colours shined on Vincent and his life points went down to 1300, but it seems Vincent was bothered. On my next turn I should turn my monsters to defense mode, and with Dragged Down to the grave in my hand along with Reign-Beaux, Overlord of Dark World in my hand, I just have to wait for Rainbow Dragon and then I'll destroy it with my monster's effect. Vincent plotted he was keeping his plan to himself ready to destroy Gem Flash Energy, "I've got a gift for you." Jessie said calmly he revealed Rainbow Dragon in his hand. "I think you're going to lose this duel!" Vincent was shocked as seven Crystals gathered up in the air "But how there are only 5 monsters I've counted that are Crystal Beasts?!" Jessie chuckled "Well you should have paid attention to what I was discarding with Dark World Dealings. I discarded the other two that I needed!" The Crystals came together and there formed Rainbow Dragon but Vincent wasn't happy to see him so soon. "OH NO!!!!" He shouted aware of the fact his life points are dangerously low he couldn't survive an attack like that, Rainbow Dragon roared as it's wings Shined so many colours of the rainbow (Atk/ 4000 Def/ 0). "This is the power of respecting your monsters, I'm so sorry that you can't feel the same way. Rainbow Dragon, end this with Atomic Blast!" Jessie sighed after that, Rainbow Dragon prepared it's attack it fired a bright light which hit Goldd and Vincent. He held in the pain no screaming whatsoever the duel was over Rainbow Dragon faded and Vincent looked unconscious. "Sweet duel, Jessie I knew you could do it." Jaden congratulated Jessie, but Jessie didn't feel like celebrating "Yeah, we should get back to our dorms quickly. We've got class in the morning, I can't believe that we do." They walked off they didn't want to go near Vincent, in case it was a trap.
As soon as the coast was clear Alex Alpha came towards Vincent, he was disappointed as Vincent became conscious. "It seems that you've failed to do the simplest of all tasks." Vincent got up he stood looking at Alex with a battered arm "I could have had him, not my fault if I…" But Alex interrupted with an angry face "You had better get better!! You've got a lot of skill, I don't want such good talent to be wasted. It seems I have no choice but to tell them to get ready." Alex takes out a mobile and does a speed dial "I believe it's time, send the decks to the respective owners. Tell them, they are needed." He hangs up chuckling with a plan all ready in his mind, it echoed throughout the Academy Aster was anxious he began to prepare his deck.
To be continued
Today's "Card of the Episode" is…
Gem Flash Energy
Continuous
Trap
During each of your Standby Phases, inflict damage to your
opponent equal to the number of face-up Continuous Spell Cards on the
field x 300.
Note: You're probably wondering what's so special about Dragged down to the grave, well if used both players would have to look at there opponents hand and discard 1 card from there hands, if Jessie discarded the monster that Vincent was hoping for then the effect would have been activated since Jessie discarded it.
