The duel had begun. Our runners took off at amazing speed.
"I'll go first!" the man said. "I summon Thunder king Rai-oh!"
A creature that resembled those steel structures that hold up high power lines appeared.
Light/thunder
Lv. 4
ATK 1900
DEF 800
Neither player can add cards to their deck from their hand except by drawing them. You can send this face-up card to the graveyard to negate the special summon of 1 of your opponents monsters and destroy it.
"Then I set two cards facedown and end my turn."
"Alright." I said "My turn." I drew my cards.
Montage dragon
Exiled force
Mystic tomato
Battle mania
Limit reverse
Then I drew Raigeki break. (The perfect hand) I thought to myself. "You know, I never got your name."
"Call me Mike."
"Alright mike, I'm James."
"Anyways, I set two cards facedown and summon Mystic tomato in attack mode!"
Dark/plant
ATK 1400
DEF 1100
When this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the graveyard, you can special summon 1 dark monster with 1500 or less ATK from your deck in face up attack position.
"Your turn!"
"Alright, I draw! Then I summon Rose, Warrior of revenge!"
Fire/warrior
Lv. 4
ATK1600
DEF 800
Tuner
When this card inflicts battle damage to your opponent, inflict 300 damage to your opponent.
"Then I tune my warrior to Rai-oh to synchro summon Light end dragon!"
Rai oh then turned into four stars and Rose became four green rings, the stars aligned inside the rings and a column of light flashed past us, when it cleared, there was a beautiful white dragon with four feathered wings, a golden ring resembling a halo around its head and a massive green gem in it's chest.
Light/dragon
Lv. 8
ATK 2600
DEF 2100
When you declare an attack, you can activate this cards effect. If you do, this card loses 500 ATK and DEF (permanently), and the monster it is battling loses 1500 ATK and DEF until the end phase.
"Light end dragon, attack mystic tomato! And use your ability!"
The dragon then shot a beam of energy which obliterated Mystic tomato and hit me and my runner, almost knocking me off.
LP 5100 SC 2
When the beam faded, in Mystic tomatoes place was a humanoid monster with wicked wings, long hair and was female on the right half, male on the left with a vertical eye on Hir forehead.
I corrected my runner and said "I use mystic tomatoes ability to summon Yubel!"
Dark/fiend
Lv. 10
ATK 0
DEF 0
This card cannot be destroyed by battle. You take no battle damage from battles involving this card. When this face up card is attacked by an opponents monster, before damage calculation inflict damage to your opponent equal to that monsters ATK. During your end phase, Tribute 1 monster or destroy this card. When this card is destroyed, exept by it's own effect, you can special summon 1 "Yubel – Terror Incarnate" from your hand, deck, or graveyard.
"Then, I chain my trap, Raigeki break!
Discard 1 card from your hand. Destroy 1 card on the field.
"By discarding Montage dragon, I can destroy my own Yubel!"
"Not so fast!" Mike said "I activate Dark bribe!"
counter trap
Negate the activation and effect of an opponent's spell or trap card, and destroy it. Your opponent draws 1 card.
"You don't get off that easy, now draw."
I drew my card.
"Alright." Mike said "Your move."
"I draw!"
Limit reverse
"I summon Newdoria!"
An ugly hunchback type thing appeared on the field
Lv. 4
Dark/fiend
ATK 1200
Def 800
When this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the graveyard, destroy 1 monster on the field.
"Alright Newdoria, attack Light end dragon!"
Newdoria leapt at the colossal dragon, only to be obliterated in a beam of light that continued to hit me.
LP 4200 SC 3
I smirked. "Now, Newdoria destroys Yubel!"
Where Newdoria once stood, a cloud of black smoke flew and surround Yubel, shattering it into shards of light and releasing a column of black energy that shot into the sky.
"Behold, Mike! YUBEL! TERROR INCARNATE!"
The energy cleared and a twin headed dragon with a vertical eye in the center of it's chest was flying next to me.
Lv. 11
Dark/fiend
ATK 0
DEF 0
This card cannot be normal summoned or set. This card cannot be special summoned exept by the effect of "Yubel". This card cannot be destroyed by battle. You take no damage from battles involving this card. When this face up attack position card is attacked by an opponent's monster, before damage calculation inflict damage to your opponent equal to that monsters ATK. During your end phase, destroy all other monsters on the field. When this face up card is removed from the field, you can special summon 1 "Yubel – The Ultimate Nightmare" from your hand, deck or graveyard.
"The hell?" Mike yelled. "I've never seen that before!"
"That's because they're so rare and coveted, no one is willing to trade. Most of them are in private collections so Yubel hardly ever sees play."
"And with that, I end my turn, causing Yubel to destroy your dragon!
The eye on Yubels chest flashed, then a beam of white light with a black aura shot out and destroyed Light end dragon.
"I activate a trap!" shouted Mike "Soul rope!"
Activate only by paying 1000 Life points when a monster you control is destroyed and sent to the graveyard. Special summon 1 level 4 monster from your deck.
LP 7000 SC 4
I summon Rose, warrior of revenge!
"My turn!" he said "Draw!"
"I summon Freed the brave wanderer in attack mode!"
A man in shining silver armor and a green cape wielding a sword appeared.
Lv.4
Light/warrior
ATK 1700
DEF 1200
Once per turn, you can remove from play two light monsters from your graveyard to destroy 1 face up monster on the field with higher ATK than this card.
"Now I tune Rose to Freed to synchro summon Red dragon archfiend!"
One flash of light later, and a huge red dragon appeared on the field.
Dark/dragon
Lv. 8
ATK 3000
DEF 2000
If this card attacks a defense position monster your opponent controls, destroy all defence position monsters your opponent controls after damage calculation. During your end phase, destroy all other monsters you control that did not declare an attack this turn.
"Now I activate my Speed spell – Enemy controller!"
quick play
This card can be activated when you have 4 or more speed counters. You can activate 1 of the following effects:
*Change the battle position of 1 face up monster your opponent controls.
*Tribute 1 monster. Select 1 face up monster your opponent controls. Take control of it until the end phase.
"I activate the first effect! Yubel is switched to defense mode! Now, Red dragon archfiend, destroy Yubel!"
The massive dragon punched Yubel with a flaming fist. I just smirked.
"You don't know anything about Yubel, do you? You've just triggered your doom!"
Another black beam shot across the flats.
Welcome my beast! YUBEL! THE ULTIMATE NIGHTMARE!"
Another twin headed dragon appeared , but it had a demonic head between the two with four wings and a face with a vertical eye in it's forehead on it's chest.
Dark/fiend
Lv. 12
ATK 0
DEF 0
This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card cannot be Special Summoned except with the effect of "Yubel - Terror Incarnate". This card cannot be destroyed by battle. You take no Battle Damage from battles involving this card. If this face-up Attack Position card battles with an opponent's monster, inflict damage equal to its ATK to your opponent and destroy that monster at the end of the Damage Step.
"Fuck." Mike muttered. "I set a face down. Your turn."
I drew my card.
Snipe hunter
"I summon my snipe hunter in attack mode!"
A strange little imp holding a stranger gun with numbers on it appeared.
Dark/fiend
Lv. 4
ATK 1500
DEF 600
You can discard 1 card to select one card on the field and roll a six-sided die. If the result is not 1 or 6, destroy the selected card.
"I discard a card to destroy your facedown!"
the die rolled… 4 Snipe hunter shot out a beam of purple energy that destroyed his facedown card.
"Now, Yubel attack his dragon!"
Yubels eyes started glowing and it shot forth twin jets of flame, which burnt Red dragon archfiend till it exploded into light shards.
"And now you take 3000 damage!"
LP 4000 SC 3
"Snipe hunter, your turn!"
Snipe hunter shot Mikes runner.
LP 2500 SC 2
"I finish by setting 1 card face down! Go."
Mike drew his card.
"I set a monster in defense and 1 card facedown. Go"
I just had to laugh. "Next turn, I win Mike!"
"Yubel! Attack his facedown!" Twin jets of flame raced toward his card.
"I activate Mirror force!" Mike shouted.
Activate only when an opponents monster declares an attack. Destroy all attack position monsters your opponent controls.
A wall of light appeared, reflecting the attack back at me.
"I chain Destruction jammer by discarding dandelion!"
counter
Discard 1 card. Negate the activation of a spell card, trap card or effect monsters effect that destroys a monster(s) on the field and destroy that card.
A golden bubble surrounded me and my monsters, reflecting the reflected attack back to its original target, which turned out to be marshmallon. The flames made quick work of it, then inflicted 300 damage
LP 2200 SC 3
Marshmallon inflicted 1000 points of damage to my life points though…
LP 3200 SC 5
"Now I attack with Snipe hunter again!"
LP 700 SC 2
"This is your last turn mike, make the best of it. Now go."
He drew his card "First I activate my Speed spell – Overboost…"
Increase your speed counters by 4. at the end of the turn in which this card is activated, reduce your speed counters to 1.
LP 700 SC 6
"…Then by paying 5 speed counters I activate Speed-"
He was never able to finish because the duel ended and our runners stopped dead.
"The fuck?" we both said.
Suddenly we were surrounded by pale green duel runners with wicked lines driving in circles around us. They came to a stop and I could make out more detail.
They were long and skinny, they looked like a normal runner on the front but tapered upward to a point. The riders all wore helmets that had black visors.
"Who are you?" Mike asked
One of them got off The name of our organization is unimportant as you will soon succumb to the shadows." Then he pulled the top card off his deck and showed it to us.
"I-I don't believe it!" I said.
It was the seal of Orichalcos.
"But that card doesn't really exist!" I said
The man just laughed. "Konami stated producing them, but discovered they had dark powers. They didn't know how, but all they knew was they had the same soul stealing effects as in the anime. Once we heard about this, we raided their factory before they could destroy them all and took what was left."
"What did you do to our runners?" I asked.
"We hit you with an EMP. They should be recovered now. So duel." He said as his duel disk activated. It was a chaos disk! Just like in the anime.
"Not on your life." I growled as I pulled out a card from my back pocket I kept for these occasions.
I used my psychic powers. "I activate Cold Wave!"
Suddenly, the green duel runners' wheels were frozen to the ground, as well as the men's feet.
"Quick Mike, Let's go!" I yelled as I got on my runner and took off. I turned and headed back to town when I saw something fly overhead, it was mike's runner! The wheels had rotated 45° and the booster box on the back had split down to create twin wings with thrusters on the ends. I looked behind us; the mysterious people were still frozen in the desert. I turned towards town and hit the throttle, quickly accelerating to 250 MPH. I made it to town just as mike did. I hailed him over a private channel.
"Mike you there?"
"Yeah, The hell did you do?"
"Just a talent I've got. Can you umm… land and follow me to where I'm staying? I'm picking my son up then were getting the hell outta dodge. It's not safe here anymore."
"Ok, I'll track your signal to your place then we can leave together. I gotta pick up my daughter. Where are you headed?"
"Duel Academy." I said
"Well, I can visit, but I live here in Wendover, So I'll only be able to stay for a while."
"OK, see you soon."
I left the line open so he could trace me and headed to the hotel I was staying at and walked through the door. "Silver, Were leaving early!"
Silver walked in wearing my Duel academy coat, way too big for him and carrying a few of my cards. "Why do we have to leave dad?"
He was six at the time. His hair was pure white. Me and Perrin have no Idea where that comes from, no one in either of our families has hair like that. He wore a Yu-Gi-Oh T-shirt under the jacket from the Duelist kingdom season. He had a belt with a deck box on it. He was just starting in Yu-Gi-Oh and had A deck that had the best cards from all the original characters decks. He was new to the game but was already as good as I was when I was twice his age. He also possessed Psychic abilities and I devoted all my spare time training him in how to control them. He had almost mastered them, but still couldn't control the power if he played a card outside a duel. He had blue eyes and my face shape. He got his mothers strength, though.
"There are bad people out there, so wee going where it's safe, but don't worry. Dad will protect you and we'll have some new friends. Now what have you got?"
I took the cards and turned them over. My god cards! "Silver! You know what I said about these!"
"But dad! Why can't I use them?"
Because of your abilities. Even I don't use them. What if you summoned one in a psychic duel? You could really hurt someone!"
"But I Want to use them!" He yelled, stamping his foot to get the point across.
"Silver, no!"
"YES!" He screamed.
I reached over and took the cards from him. The air began swirling around him and his arm started glowing.
(The hell?) I thought to myself (I've never seen this before)
He drew a card from his duel disk and for a moment I could see what was on his arm. It was a dragon mark! Then I realized what was going to happen and got a card from my belt.
Silver glared at me. "Black Luster Soldier – Envoy of the end!" And revealed the card to indeed be the forbidden card. A man in black and gold armor wielding a silver sword and black shield materialized, but I could tell this was no Hologram. Normally when A psychic duelist attacks, the monsters have no sound as the duel discs don't have speakers, also, you're hit by psychic force, the monster itself isn't attacking. But this was different.
"Black Luster soldier, attack!" My son yelled.
"Yes sir!" Black luster soldier replied before leaping at me.
I revealed my own card "Mist body!"
The man phased through me and destroyed the bed, Like I said earlier, If this were a psychic attack, the bed would be crushed under the force, but the mans sword slashed straight through it. Immediately after, a vortex appeared and sucked the bed in, disappearing without a trace.
Me and Silver looked at where the bed used to be, looked at each other then looked at the man who was preparing to attack again.
"Stop!" silver yelled.
The man stopped and knelt. "As you wish, master." And with that he vanished.
I looked at Silvers arm which was still glowing, but was rapidly fading, not leaving a trace.
"Dad, what was that?"
"I-I don't know. That wasn't a psychic attack and that thing on your arm. There have been so many things going on lately, Psychic duels, Orichalcos. It's not so farfetched…"
"Dad, What is it?"
"Silver, I think you're a signer. Come on and pack. We have to go. We'll finish talking about the whole god card thing later, Ok?"
"Ok dad."
Just as we finished loading the last bag on the runner and I had Silver strapped to myself Mike Showed up with a girl about Silvers age with red hair.
"Hi James. This is my daughter, Akiza. Who's this?"
(Really? Akiza?) I thought but kept my trap shut. "This is Silver." Silver and Akiza greeted each other the way six year olds do. Silver stuck his tongue out at her and Akiza called him dumb.
"Alright." I said, "We'd better get going before those guys show up."
With that, we took off across the flats at top speed, my runner quickly proving itself far faster than his. I let him catch up and just as he did, we heard a massive explosion behind us. We looked behind us and saw what used to be Wendover in the midst of a mushroom cloud.
"Oh my god." I whispered.
"Holy fuck." Mike said.
The kids were scared and we tried our best to calm them.
We kept riding and got to where the riders had stopped our duel before and saw a pillar of stone. We stopped and saw the pillar was an exact replica of the man who challenged me to a duel before I froze them. He was in a pose of agony, I couldn't tell the statues expression because of the helmet. There was a note attached to him I pulled it off and under it the Seal of Orichalcos was scratched into the statues chest. The note read
This is what happens to all those who fail us and all those who get in our way. You are now enemies of The Chosen. Wendover is just a taste of what will happen to any we find have helped you. Your days are numbered, psychic.
I looked at the statue and realized it was no statue. I turned to Mike. "I'm sorry about what happened to your town."
Mike just stared into space. "I think We'll part ways here James. They obviously want you and I don't want to put Akiza in danger. You understand, right?"
"Yeah, of course. I would do the same to protect Silver. Maybe we'll meet up again though, you think?"
"Yeah, probably. And we can stay in contact. There's something about you and Silver that intrigues me. Besides that freezing thing I mean."
"Alright. Just remember. I'm good in a duel, and my powers extend far beyond freezing peoples feet. So do Silvers. If you ever need our help, we'll be there as soon as we can."
With that, Mike and Akiza turned ant went east, while I went southwest, towards LA and Duel Academy.