Welcome to the 4th chapter. This is the first chapter with a duel. A couple of words.
This duel was done by my brother. Any commentary during the duel and a little after are done by my brother. Please review and tell me if you like how he does his dueling, and his commentary. So he can get better.
The story is getting deeper, and more of Ekhart is being shown. I'm trying to get a good pacing down but please review and tell me what you think. I can't read minds.
See you next chapter
Ekhart woke once again to the blaring of his alarm, and he got up and turned it off. Today they would call him, and this time he wouldn't be able to lie to them. He dressed, and went downstairs had some breakfast and left to the school. He sat at his seat and waited for class to begin. The class began without incident, and the teacher spoke up. "Since it is our second day for our new students, and they have been introduced to you all. Why don't we let them show us some of their dueling skills? The two students I would like to see duel first would be Ekhart and Blaze."
Ekhart sharply brought himself back, and noticed that his name had been called for a duel with one of the other new students. The class started filing out of the room to the duel arena. While they were making their way to the duel arena he noticed that Blaze was going slowly as to wait for him. He knew that if he slowed down Blaze would too, and that he would probably just have to see what he wanted. Ekhart walked up a little faster, and stood in pace with Blaze. Blaze turned his head and said with a smile "Been wanting to see what you got. Heard quite a few whispers about you from other students, but you always seem to disappear really fast, and I've never been able to get a hold of you."
The students of the class made their way to seats around the duel field, and the teacher said "If Blaze and Ekhart would come up to the field let's see what you have."
As both of them stepped up to the duel field and both opened their duel disks to get started with the match. "I'll go first" Blaze said, and with a thrust of his hand took a card out.
"Hm, not bad" Blaze boasted. "Let's get things started with a little monster power!" He placed a monster on his duel disk. "Here's one of my personal favorites, come on out Gladiator Beast Darius!" A monster appeared and stood tall (Gladiator Beast Darius Atk: 1700/Def: 300) then I'm throwing down a face downs and it's your turn.
Ekhart took a card of the top of his deck. He looked at it and nodded. "Alright then, I guess I'll summon a monster as well, Molten Zombie." (Molten Zombie Atk: 1600/Def: 400).
Blaze looked a bit confused. "You summoned a weaker monster than mine? I guess all those rumors weren't true after all. Ekhart just shrugged. Blaze seemed to be getting upset. Well that or disappointed.
"I'm not done yet, I play my field spell, Molten Destruction. This card gives all my fire monsters a little boost in attack." The duel field swirled into a pre-historic forest. You could see and hear a volcano in the distance. The ground started shaking. Blaze was stumbling to catch his balance, but Ekhart just stood there. "Now all my fire monsters get a 500 attack boost." (Molten Zombie Atk: 2100/Def: 0). "Now Molten Zombie, attack his Darius." Ekhart pointed to Blaze's monster.
"Not so fast! I activate my trap card, Waboku! Now my monsters aren't destroyed by battle, and I take no battle damage!" One of his face-down cards flipped up. As promised his monster stayed as is, and his life points stayed the same.
Ekhart decided to end his battle phase.. Blaze started laughing. "I guess you've never dueled Gladiator Beast's before. If a Gladiator Beast attacks or is attacked I can send him back to my deck to summon a completely new monster!" Ekhart looked at him strangely. It's true, he never had dueled a Gladiator Beast user before. Such a strange way to summon a monster. Blaze picked up his monster and put it back into his deck. He then took a card from his deck and placed it in attack mode (Gladiator Beast Bestiar Atk: 1500/Def: 800). "Time for another quick lesson, when a Gladiator Beast is Special Summoned by another Gladiator Beast's effect, it gets a special effect. This cards effect just so happens to be that I can destroy one spell or trap card on the field, and I'm choosing your field spell!" The prehistoric forest disappeared along with the card. (Molten Zombie Atk: 1600/Def: 400). "Still your move."
Ekhart sighed and ended his turn. Blaze smiled and drew a card. "I'm going to show you what a real monster looks like." He played another monster (Gladiator Beast Murmillo Atk: 800/Def: 400) Ekhart didn't quite understand what he meant. That monster was weaker than the one he had previously summoned and neither were a match for his monster. "You're probably wondering why I played a weak monster. Alone Bestiari is ok, but when fused with another Gladiator Beast…" He stopped. "Well you'll see. I'm going to fuse my two monsters through contact, and guess what, their going right back to my deck." He took the two cards and put them in his deck. He shuffled his deck then set his fusion monster down. (Gladiator Beast Gyzarus Atk: 2400/Def: 1500) "This is where it gets serious! This gladiator allows me to destroy two cards on your side of the field, so I'm getting rid of your monster." Ekhart's monster was destroyed. "Now Gyzarus, show him the strength of the Gladiators!" The monster flew at Ekhart and hit him head on.
Ekhart (5600)
"Time for my monster to play a little game of tag, but he has the power to give me two monsters for the price of one." He returned the card back to his extra deck. He then set down two monsters. (Gladiator Beast Samnite Atk: 1600/Def: 1200) (Gladiator Beast Laquari Atk: 1800/Def: 400) "Now Laquari, show us your power!" His monster grew in size. (Gladiator Beast Laquari Atk: 2100/Def: 400). "It's your move; try to make it a good one."
Ekhart drew a card. This guy loved dueling, and he was getting serious, maybe he should too. "Just remember, you asked for it." Ekhart said, "I'll play the spell card Terraforming from my hand. It allows me to add a field spell from my deck to my hand. It's about to get hot in here, because I play Molten Destruction!" The ground once again started to shake and they were back in the prehistoric jungle. "I'm sure you remember what this card does, so I won't bother with boring explanations; instead, I'm going to play the spell card Double Summon, now I can normal summon twice during my turn. "So for my first normal summon the monster card Great Angus (Atk: 1800/Def: 600). And with his power boost, he's stronger than your Samnite, (Atk: 2200/Def: 100).
"Are you forgetting? My Laquari is a fire type monster as well!" (Atk: 2600/Def: 0) Blaze smirked once again. The crowds cheered and jested at Ekhart's mistake. He hadn't noticed them before, but they were really getting into it. If this duel lasted much longer he might have a problem. And he had just the combo to help him do it.
"Of course I knew that, but there's a reason I didn't care. So for my second normal summon, I'm going to bring out Flame Ruler (Atk: 1500/Def: 1600). And he's a fire type, so he gets more fire power. (Atk: 2000/Def: 1200)."
Blaze looked at his Flame Ruler. "Well it was a nice try and all, but he still can't match up to my monster"
Ekhart looked at him sharply. "Do you ever stop talking? I said I have a plan, so just watch and learn, because I'm playing the spell Lightning Vortex. I discard one card from my hand and I get to destroy all face-up monsters on your side of the field". Ekhart sent a card from his hand to his graveyard, and then the sky turned a dark shade of grey. A bright light suddenly flashed and temporarily blinded everyone in the stands. Lightning came down and struck Blaze's field. Both his monsters disappeared with the storm clouds, leaving nothing but smoke. Blaze looked at Ekhart with a shocked expression. At least he's shut up now Ekhart thought. "I'm going to play the spell Pot of Greed, now I'm going to draw two cards from my deck. He took the two top cards of his deck and placed them in his hand. Just what I needed, Ekhart thought." I'm going to play another spell, Salamandra. It gives a fire monster equipped with it 700 attack, and I'm going to give it to Great Angus (Atk: 2900/Def: 100). So since your wide open, both my monsters are going to attack you directly."
Blaze (3100).
Blaze stood there, shaking. At first Ekhart thought that he might fall down. But instead he burst out laughing. "Now THIS is a duel! I was afraid at first that you wouldn't have been much of a challenge, but boy have you proved the rumors true!" Ekhart frowned. This guy defiantly wasn't right in the head.
"I play a face down and it's your move, make it a good one" Ekhart said satirically.
Blaze drew a card. "Get ready for my awesome combo! I'm going to play the monster card Gladiator Beast Darius (Atk: 1700/Def: 300) then I'm going to special summon Test Tiger (Atk: 600/Def: 300) using his effect, I send him to my graveyard so I can return a Gladiator Beast back to my deck, then I can summon another one with its effect if it were summoned by a regular Gladiator Beast. So say bye bye to Darius, and welcome to the field, Gladiator Beast Murmillo (Atk: 800/Def: 400) Ekhart remembered this guy, but what was his ability? "The bigger they are, the harder they fall, Murmillo, use your ability to destroy Great Angus! Great Angus was hit by a giant blast of water, then he and his equip spell, disappeared. "Unfortunately my Murmillo can't stand up to your monster, so why don't I just leave him in defense, and throw down one face-down. Ekhart drew a card. What luck, this might just be it, all he had to do was watch out for that face-down.
"I'm going to activate my face-down card, Call of the Haunted. So now I get to put Great Angus back where he belongs, on my field. Great Angus came back to Ekhart's field. "Don't forget about his power boost" (Atk: 2200/Def: 100) "Then I'm going to summon my most powerful monster, Infernal Flame Emperor!" (Atk: 2700/Def: 1600) "And for his tribute, I'm sacrificing Flame Ruler." His monster disappeared in a blaze of flames. Then a giant beast galloped out of the flames.
"Hold on," Blaze yelled "that monster takes 2 sacrifices, how could you summon him with only one?" Again the crowd yelled disapproval, even the teacher was about to intervene, but Ekhart had had enough of the stupid crowd, and this stupid duel. "Flame Ruler can be used as two tributes as long as it's for a for a fire monster." Ekhart said.
"What did you say? I can't here you!" Blaze yelled over the crowd.
"Flame Ruler can be used as two tributes for a fire monster!" Ekhart yelled. The crowd all shut up, Even Blaze was speechless. "Now if your quite done with your yelling, I'm going to end this duel, because when Infernal Flame Emperor is successfully Advanced Summoned, I can remove from play up to five fire monsters in my grave to remove the same number of spell or traps on the field as I removed from play. So I remove from play my Molten Zombie, and I'm going to destroy your face-down!" Finally the crowd had nothing to say. Blaze also had his mouth wide open as his face down was burnt to a crisp by Ekhart's monster. Call of the Haunted was sent to the graveyard. Ekhart was surprised, that was actually a good move, had he not stopped it. So I'm giving my Infernal Flame Emperor more fire power." The volcano erupted, molten lava sprayed on his monster. (Atk: 3200/Def: 1200) "Now, Great Angus, destroy Murmillo!" Blaze's monster was destroyed, leaving Blaze wide open for an attack. "Infernal Flame Emperor, end this duel!" His monster shot a giant fireball at Blaze. Blaze screamed as he was engulfed in flames.
(Blaze: 0)
Blaze fell to the ground as the holographic monsters disappeared. The crowd was silent for only a second, then they suddenly jumped out of their seats, they started cheering and whistling. Ekhart realized that he had gone over the top with his move, now everyone in the room knew what he could do. So much for keeping a low profile, Ekhart thought. Blaze slowly got up. Ekhart was afraid that he might have hurt him, but before he could run over to check, Jaden and his pals were right in front of him. "That's was a sweet duel Ekhart, you've got some serious skills, wanna duel me next?" Jaden asked, excitedly.
Syrus looked at him with a very worn out look. "C'mon Jay, he just got done with his duel, leave him alone." Jaden looked down, disappointed. A koala beside him breathed a heavy sigh….wait, that wasn't a koala, that was boy who looked a lot like a koala.
"Move it!" Ekhart heard someone yell from behind Jaden. When Jaden moved, it turned out to be Blaze. He smiled at Ekhart. "Bud, since coming to this island, I haven't lost a single duel. I feel like you know your cards better than anyone. My cards were given to me by my father, before he moved away, saying he had a vision he needed to follow. These cards are my life and I made a vow to never lose with them. You must have a stronger bond with your deck then I'll ever have in my life.
Ekhart was getting bored of his little speech. But he put on a fake smile and asked "What's your point exactly?"
Blaze looked at him with a sparkle in his eye. "I've come to the conclusion that if I follow under your command, I can become a better duelist, and I can become more in tuned with my Gladiator Beasts.
Ekhart frowned. Oh no, he thought, please don't say it.
"I'm going to be your number 1 solider!" Blaze said, wearing a giant grin while saluting Ekhart,
He said it, Ekhart thought.
Ekhart walked out of the main building, and looked to see if Blaze was following him. Blaze had been following him around like a lost puppy, and he had finally put the slip on him. It was 6:00 and he knew he should go somewhere private to take the phone call that would come.
Ekhart approached the little piece of beach, and made sure that no one had seen him. It was private, and he would like for it to stay that way. His cellphone started to ring right on time. He flipped it open and said "Hello."
"A little over the top don't you think. Maybe you should have toned it down just a little?" A happy and energetic voice said.
Ekhart frowned. He knew this voice, and knew that it could change just as fast from being happy to being very threatening. "He forced my hand. So I wanted to get it over with."
"Well remember that sometimes discretion is better than finishing up fast. Just use the other deck we gave you instead of that one next time. Okay?"
Ekhart sighed. "That was the one I picked up. How was I supposed to know that the teacher would do that?"
"Fine. Just remember what you promised me you would do." The voice said halfway between happy and threatening.
"I know. It'll get done. Things have just become a little more complicated. It may just take a bit more time to get settled and do it."
"Okay. I'll be checking up on you in a few days. Please don't try to use a lame excuse like you did last time."
"Fine. Bye." Ekhart hung up the phone with a frown on his face. It was time to get back and get to bed, before anyone found him here, and the beach went from private to public.
Ekhart approached the dorm, and looked around quickly. He had seen some girls huddled around at the end of class. If his worse fears were realized there would be a fan club really soon. That would not go well at all. There was no one in sight so he walked up the steps, and went into the main hall. As he was going up the main stairs he heard a familiar voice. "Hey bud, where you been. You just seemed to disappear at the end of class. You could be Houdini or something."
He turned around, and looked at Blaze. "Just walking, and thinking about a few things." Ekhart said in a tone of voice which meant to drop it.
"You should bring me along then. How am I supposed to get better, and all." Blaze said with a whiny tone.
Ekhart was about to leave, but turned around, and asked. "Wait one moment. Were you waiting for me to show up?" Ekhart said with a frown.
"Uh. I guess you could say that." Blaze said, but his face was telling a whole different story.
"You don't need to do that. If I don't bring you along it usually will mean I want to be by myself, and that you should not wait around. I usually take awhile." Ekhart said with exasperation.
"Fine." Blaze said. His face showed a defeated look.
"Well I'm heading to bed." Ekhart said, and turned around.
"See you tomorrow." Blaze said with his ever present happiness.
Ekhart dropped onto his bed, and thought of the events. He would need to be more careful and keep better control than that. He slowly drifted off to sleep.