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Tanya's Wild Friend Nixie
Dragon Knights
Marcus introduced himself to his guests quite arrogantly, boasting about his accomplishments and of his great beast, Tartarus the Great Black Horror. But his guests were all the best riders in the kingdom. And they were in no mood to listen to his gloating. Some of them accomplished much more than Marcus ever did when they were merely rookies. Eventually one of the guests, a girl in a wine-red gown and curled navy blue hair slammed her cup into the table and shouted. "Get to the point!"
"You must be?" Marcus asked.
"Out of my mind if I believe I can listen to you any longer."
"Straight to the point then? Very well. I'd like thank you all for coming tonight. Now as you know, the upcoming tournament is coming up. The Gold City Grand Prix. And there is a certain dragon ride in the midst that needs to be removed from the roster. Before we begin let us start with a round of introductions. Starting with you, girl in the red."
"I am Garnet Forestyne. I am the rank one duelist in the city of Eredon. I run a Fire Fist deck."
The next person to introduce himself was a young man with spiked white hair that went down to his back. He wore a hooded black parka and black slacks tucked into black boots. "I am Dean the White Knight of Snowhorn. And the rank one duelist of the city. And my Ice Barrier deck has never failed me."
"I am Esteban del Castillo the rank one duelist of Costa del Sol. And this is my little brother, Hector. The rank two duelist. We both run the best water decks in the kingdom."
"Greetings Master Marcus, I am Gerard Bradburn, of the city of Cresthill. I go to battle with a Lightray deck."
"I am George Owen," said a fellow with a wide cowboy hat. "I hail from the dusty plains of Galizona. My dinos have stomped my opponents into submission."
"And I am, Angeline Dieudonné," said a young lady with curled blonde hair. "I am from the Empire of Olevia. My Chaos Emperor Dragon has brought doom to countless opponents."
"It is good to meet you all," said Marcus. "As I said, there is a dragon rider heading for the tournament that must be eliminated. His name is Dash the rider who once flew with the legendary dragon, Nyx. That is why you are all here. There is a reward of five thousand Gems to the one who takes him down."
"So, you need us to take him out, eh?" sneered little Hector. "That should be easy."
"My Chaos Emperor is ready to fly," said Angeline. "Just tell us where he is and we shall dispose of him."
"He lives in Goldcircle City. Beat him so bad that he never flies again!"
Angeline had a wicked smirk on her face as she pictured the pain she would give to Dash and relish every minute of it. She would be sure she fought him first and ended his dragon riding charade.
(Dash)
I waited in the train station in the center of Goldcircle City. I leaned my back against the wall as I watched Tanya eagerly await the coming of the train which was transporting her friend, Nixie. I couldn't help but admire how cute she looked. She let her hair grow and was wearing a pink spring skirt and a white top under a denim jacket. The cold robotic voice on the intercom announced the arrival of the next train and I saw Tanya jump up and down. I heard it rumbling in the distance and braced my ears for its loud groan as it came to a stop. The doors opened and a flood of people came out and Tanya disappeared into the crowd. When the crowd dispersed I saw Tanya squeal with joy and give a jump.
My heart skipped a beat when her friend Nixie came out of the train. She had messy shoulder-length blonde hair, tucked underneath a white straw hat. A dinosaur tooth hung around her neck. She wore a flannel top tied over her midriff and daisy dukes. I could see the strap of a red thong peering from out the left side of her shorts making me get sweaty. The girl was hot and she knew it and flaunted it well. She had desert tan tactical gloves on her fingers with carbon fiber knuckle guards which she used while digging for fossils in the deserts of Galizona. She saw me, piercing my soul with her opal eyes and gave a wink.
"You must be Dash," she said placing her hands on her hips. She challenged me with her bronzed physique.
"I am," I responded nervously.
"Get your deck ready then, buck-a-roo. It's time to duel. Let's see if your Red-Eyes can handle my Dinos."
We couldn't duel in the subway station but we had our duel in the same ares air dueled Marcus in. She on the other hand I was looking forward to dueling.
" I'll start first," I said. " I activate Cards of the Red Stone. I send a level 7 Red Eyes monster from my hand to the graveyard to draw two cards."
The card I sent to my graveyard was my Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon monster. I had a plan for it so everything was okay. " Next I active Red Eyes Fusion. I send monsters from my deck to the graveyard that can create a Red Eyes Fusion monster. I send my normal Red Eyes to my graveyard and Summon Skull to Fusion summon Red Eyes Archfiend Dragon (3200)."
Before I met Tanya this was my most powerful monster. It was a bony monster but not as bony as its original counterpart Black Skull Dragon, had eyes burning like an inferno, and big wings.
" I set one card facedown and end my turn."
Name: Dash
[3]
Monster Zone (1): Red Eyes Archfiend Dragon
Spell/Trap Zone (1): Set card.
Life Points: 4000
Nixie drew one card for her turn. She put her hand on her thigh making it go slowly down trying to stimulate my attention on her.
" I special summon Gilasauris in Attack Mode (1400)." A monster based on an old dinosaur called a raptor appeared on the field. It had light black scales and small black eyes. " By special summoning this monster you get to special summon a monster from your graveyard."
I chose to summon the Summoned Skull (2500). Summoned Skull was the honest monster around with two horns on its head making it look like a goat. Something told me she wanted me to have an extra monster.
" I special summon another Gilasauris and you special summon another monster from your graveyard."
I knew what this was. She wanted two monsters on her field for a tribute summon of a very powerful monster. That reason was why I put my next monster, Red Eyes Black Flare Dragon, on the field in defense position.
She smiled. " So you figured my plan. I tribute my two Gilasaurus to summon Ultimate Tyranno (3000)."
This was the monster card Tanya warned me about. It certainly left more of an intimidation when it arrived than two measly little dinosaurs. If there was any relief it was I had a 3200 attack point monster on the field.
" I attack your Summoned Skull. Survival of the Dinosaur Teeth."
Her monster attacked with sharp teeth swallowing my monster up before crunching it into pixels. I lost five hundred life points from that attack.
" Since my Ultimate Tyrannosaurus can attack more than one monster he will destroy your Red Eyes. Survival of the Dinosaur stomp."
I watched as my Red Eyes exploded from just the feet of her monster. I was down to my last monster.
" I set one card facedown and end my turn."
Name: Nixie
[2]
Monster Zone (1): Ultimate Tyranno
Spell/Trap Zone (1): Set Card
Life Points:4000
I had a chance to defeat her this turn. All I had to do was summon Black Comet Dragon this turn, send a powerful Red Eyes to my Graveyard to deal 12 to 14 hundred damage, attack her monster with Red Eyes Archfiend Dragon and use his Effect to summon Red Eyes B. Dragon back into my deck to take away the rest of her life points.
" I activate Foolish Burial. This card allows me to send one monster from my deck to the graveyard and I choose Red Eyes Meteor Impact Dragon." That card stuck out of my duel disk. The next thing I did was put it in my graveyard. " I play Dragon's Mirror. I Fusion summon a Dragon monster by banishing materials from my graveyard. So by removing Red Eyes Black Flare Dragon and Red Eyes Meteor Impact Dragon I summon Meteor Black Comet Dragon (3500)."
I had both of my most powerful monsters on the field. They both breathed boiling smoke from their mouths foreshadowing they want to destroy my opponent with melting hot breath.
" When this card is Fusion Summoned I can send one Red Eyes monster to the graveyard to deal you damage equal to its original attack. I choose my second copy of Red Eyes B. Dragon."
The spiritual image of Red Eyes B. Dragon presented itself to my monster before it fired an arrow shaped fire Lance through Nixie. She lost twelve hundred life points. It was time for her to lose her Ultimate Tyranno.
" Archfiend Att-"
" I activate Survival of the Fittiest. A dinosaur monster I control gains 1000 ATK points."
Ultimate Tyranno roared as it became too powerful for any of my monsters to attack it. This complicated my plan.
" I set two cards facedown and end my turn."
Name: Dash
[0]
Monster Zone (2): Archfiend Black Skull Dragon, Meteor Black Comet Dragon
Spell/Trap Zone (3): Set Cards
Life Points: 3500
Nixie drew and she became very happy with the card she drew.
" I activate Megamorph. If the player who equips this card to a monster has less life points that monsters original attack points become double. If the player has more life points they lose half of their attack points. Ultimate Tyranno is who I equip it too and since I have less life points it's attack becomes 8000."
" What? But Ultimate Tyranno's original attack points are 3000." I said.
" True. But the attack it gains from Survival of the Fittest treats his attack now as his original attack points. I set one monster facedown and will attack all your monsters, even though I only need to destroy one, ending this-"
" I activate Destruct Potion. This destroys my Meteor Black Comet Dragon while giving my life Points an increase on its attack so I gain 3500 life points."
" Too bad you didn't lower your life points or you could have kept both monsters. Ultimate Tyranno still attacks and since neither player can activate cards or effects when Archfiend Black Skull Dragon battles you cannot defend yourself."
She was right. My monster took a big beating of tail smacks, a flurry of claw slashes, finishing my dragon by biting on its neck like some dogs do to kill a rabbit. My monster was gone and I took 4800 points of damage thankfully only lowering my life points to 2200.
" I end my turn." Nixie said.
Name: Nixie
[1]
Monster Zone (2): Ultimate Tyranno, Set monster
Spell/Trap Zone (2): Survival of the Fittiest, Megamorph
Life Points: 2800
I drew and got a spell card I didn't know was put in my deck. It couldn't really help me now.
" I activate Red Eyes Spirit bringing back Red Eyes B. Dragon (2400)."
The stupid thing I did was remove Red Eyes Black Flare Dragon. If I brought it back I could normal summon it into an effect monster. Her monster has 2000 ATK now because she has more life points and Megamorph hurts the person winning the duel as well the opponent if their monster is equipped to it. I could then inflict 2400 points of damage after she lost 400 ending this game. I figured we make good moves sometimes, brick with our hands being useless, and blunder on what to do.
" Red Eyes Scorch her monster away."
Red Eyes spat a fireball at Ultimate Tyranno destroying it and inflicting 400 damage to her as well his attack destroyed her two equip spells. I went to my Main Phase 2.
" I activate Dian Keto the Cure Master. I gain 1000 Life points. I end my turn."
Name: Dash
[0]
Monster Zone (1): Red Eyes B. Dragon
Spell/Trap Zone (2): Set cards.
Life Points: 3200
Nixie drew for her turn. " I flip summon Evoltile Westlo ( 700/1900)."
A green lizard with bright green eyes appeared on her field. It was hiding in facedown position before formally introducing itself.
" When this card is flipped I can special summon an Evoltile monster from my deck. I special summon Evolsaur Darwino (2200/700)."
A bigger dinosaur appeared on her field. It was a green pterodactyl with all kinds of bones all over its body. Although it was a terrifying if not also a Bizarre looking monster its attack was two hundred points short.
" When this card is special Summoned through the effect of a Evoltile monster I can increase a monsters level from one to two and I pick two on Evoltile Westlo."
The dinosaur flew over the small lizard touching it with the nails on its wings. Like in Synchro summoning the monster outline was revealed with three glowing green orbs inside it. Two more glowing green orbs were laid inside the monster.
" I Xyz my level five Evolsaur Darwino with my level five Evoltile Westlo for my rank five Number 61 Volcanosaurus (2500)."
An Xyz monster was summoned different from a Synchro monster. The monsters became white spheres as a ray of white light went through them. A red dinosaur with yellow hair and green eyes appeared. Those two white lights were circling the monster.
" I set a monster facedown. I then activate Book of Taiyou switching my facedown to face-up attack position, and the monster I flipped face-up is Evotile Westlo." I shook my head. Another one of those lizards. " This isn't the only familiar face your going to see because I special Summon Evolsaur Darwino and use its effect to increase Evotile Westlo's level to five. I Xyz Summon Number 19 (2000)/2500) Freezedon in attack mode using my level 5 Evolsaur Darwino and level 5 Evotile Westlo."
It felt like deja vu until I saw what looked like a blue butterfly frozen in the artic but really a bipedal dragon with four artic frozen wings, ice rocks protruding from its body acting as guards, and ice horns made to be held on the other ends.
" I use Volcanosaurus effect detaching an Xyz material to destroy a face-up monster you control and deal damage equal to its original attack. But with Freezedon's effect I can detach a material from him instead."
Freezedon material moved to Volcanosaurus giving it a chance to chomp on it and absorb the power inside of it. It's mouth created wreath fire that was fired at Red Eyes B. Dragon and exploded destroying my monster and lowering my life points to eight hundred.
" This is the end of this game. Although my Volcanosaurus cannot attack directly the turn I use this effect I can still attack with Free-"
" I activate Tri-and-Guess. If we both have an extra deck we pick a type of monster and whoever has the most gains three thousand life points. I pick Xyz."
Nixie didn't know why I would pick Xyz over Fusion since I was a Fusion duelist. Whatever the case she showed me her only remaining Xyz monster Grenosaurus. I showed her my two Xyz monsters Number 11: Big Eye and Gaia Dragon the Thunder Charger. I was the one who gained three thousand life points.
" I set one card facedown and attack you directly with Freezedon."
Freezedon flew towards me and gave me a big hug that felt like being stuck in a freeze box or a coffin with bags of ice inside it that freezing attack lowered my life points to eighteen hundred.
" I end my turn."
Name: Nixie
[0]
Monster Zone (2): Volcanosaurus, Freezedon
Spell/Trap Zone (1): Set
Life Points: 2400
I drew what I hoped would be a good card and to my surprise it was a good card.
" I normal summon Black Stone of Legend (0/0)."
A red stone with what was considered a black heart inside appeared on my field. I used his Effect to tribute it to special summon a Red Eyes Black Flare Dragon to my side of the field.
" I activate Birthright allowing me to special summon one normal monster from my graveyard and I choose Red Eyes B. Dragon."
I had two strong dragon monsters on my field but neither one of them could stand up to Volcanosaurus. Well if you can't beat them...make them join your side.
" I Xyz Summon Number 11: Big Eye using my two level seven Red Eyes monsters."
Everyone was silent as my two dragons disappeared in a pillar of light and a cone shaped monster with a ring around it like Saturn and one big eye came to my field.
" I detach an overlay unit from this monster to target one monster you control and take control of it as my own for the rest of the duel. I pick Volcanosaurus."
I now had my hands on one of her strongest monsters. Freezedon was about to feel some pain.
" I detach one material from your monster to destroy your Freezedon and inflict damage to you equal to your monsters Attack Points."
Volcanosaurus breathed a flamethrower hot enough to melt through Freezedon and lowered Nixie's life points to 400. Neither of my monsters could hurt her though since Big Eye cannot attack the turn I use it's Effect and Volcanosaurus cannot attack someone directly the turn it uses it's Effect. I did have one monster who could attack though.
" If I control a rank 5 or rank 6 monster I can overlay over that monster for Gaia Knight, the Thunder Charger ( 2600)."
It was like Gaia The Fierce Knight only his armor looked more intimidating and he was riding a dragon dressed in red armor cloaking what it really looked like. He still have two lances in his arms though.
" I attack you directly with Gaia for gam-"
" I activate Survival Instinct. With this card I banish dinosaur cards in my graveyard-any number of them-and gain four hundred life points for each one I removed from play. Two Gilasaurus, Ultimate Tyranno, Freezeadon, Evolsaur Darwino...oh, you detached Evotile Westlo to use Volcasaur's effect. Good one. Even though Evotile Westlo's a reptile I would have six monsters to remove keeping me alive."
She gained two thousand life points from removing five dinosaur monsters from play. Since my Gaia has 2600 attack points I attacked her for game. She was blown back but managed to stand up again, even smiled at me.
" You win. If only I had my Tyranno Infinity with Megamorph. Do you know the attack it gains is treated as original attack so it can go up to 10000 with five removed from play dinosaurs."
"Well, Dash, you are one good duelist," Nixie said dusting herself off. "From what Tanya tells me your one hell of a dragon rider too."
"I was the best in Goldcircle City," I boasted. "Until..."
Nixie made a sympathetic click with her tongue and gave a wan grin. "Yeah, I heard about what happened to your pal, Nyx. Sorry about that."
"That's why you're here," I said, feeling anger rush through my veins like hot lead. In the midst of all the fun I've been having with my new friend I had forgotten about the mystery of the person who shot Nyx and injured my arm. "Tanya tells me you're a good tracker."
"I am, but I fear to say that my expertise is in tracking animals and fossils. I don't know how I'll fare with a dragon poacher, that's a new field I'm strutting into with the Galizona Rangers."
"Oh, but you must have learned something," pleaded Tanya. "We've got to find that sicko!"
"Well, I aint gonna make any promises," Nixie said, adjusting her hat. "But I promise I'll do everything in my power to help you solve this mystery."
"Why don't you rest first?" Tanya suggested. "I imagine a duel and a trip from Galizona must have taken its toll on you."
"I'll admit I'll need to freshen up a little."
"Yeah, Nixie, you really need a bath." Tanya laughed. "Afterwards why don't the three of us head into town and celebrate before Dash and Bright Tooth train for the games."
"That aint gonna be easy training for those games," said Nixie. "Apparently someone put a bounty on Dash and Nyx. On my ride here there was a group of guys who were boasting about how they were ready to take you out before the tournament."
"Tell me something I don't know," I said, rubbing my head, trying to keep eye contact with her. "I saw numerous posters online and at school."
"But it sounds like those punks were in a hurry or something. Seems some rich boy named Marcus has gathered seven of the best duelists from across the world and sent them to Goldcircle to find you. They must be good if every dueling bounty hunter from here to the Red Mountains is nervous of their presence."
"Argh, that Marcus!" I growled balling my fists.
"Well, we're not going to let them duel you, alone!" boasted Tanya. "Nixie and I are pretty good duelists ourselves. If they want to get to you, they'll ave to get through us."
"Looks like the damsels are saving the knight in this story," teased Nixie, to which Tanya let out a laugh.
My cheeks flush red. I knew she was right. If there really was a group of hot shots coming my way, there was no way I could handle them alone. I smiled, feeling rather proud that my two beautiful companions were willing to help me fend off Marcus and his squad of mercenary duelists. I have yet to see Tanya's skills with her Blue-Eyes White Dragons, and Nixie with her powerful dinosaur cards was a force to be reckoned with. With her skills and good looks, I imagine any guy who fought her was going to have a hard time. I sure did. And only time will tell to see if she is any good with her tracking. I held high hopes for her, and prayed to the Gods that she would find clues to the perpetrator soon, hopefully before the tournament. And I hoped Marcus was apart of that heinous plan. What sweet revenge it would be seeing him lose Tartarus to his older sister, get disavowed from the family and get kicked out of the tournament by the Dragon Duel Committee, and finally out of my life.
"Well, let's go to my house, you guys," said Tanya. "It's that tower over yonder." She pointed at one of the tallest towers in the city, it's windows were giving it almost a teal hue and the top of the tower looked like a Gothic-style cathedral.
"What!" I cried out. "You mean Icarus Tower is your home!"
"And how in the Five Hells did he not know that?" Nixie asked, putting her hands on the back of her head. "I thought he was your friend."
"He's never been to my house before," Tanya answered. "Hey, Nixie, after your bath let's take Dash downtown and see if we can find those guys you talked about on the train and challenge them to a duel."
"And let's make an example of them!" I said triumphantly, while balling my fist.
"No," said Tanya. "Nixie and I will take them out. We're going to show Marcus that you're not alone. We'll take care of them ourselves. Plus, this will make you the envy of all the guys in the city. Do you know how many guys, besides Marcus, would give their left leg just to hang out with em and Nixie?"
"That sure looks like a long walk to your tower though, babe," Nixie grimaced. "Man, it'll be sundown before we can head anywhere."
"Not in Goldcircle City," I said happily. "I blew on the silver whistle around my neck. Bright Tooth zooms out of the sky and lands outside the dueling grounds.
"Fly on dragon back?" Nixie gasped. "I've always dreamed of flying on the back of a dragon."
"Come on!" Tanya said, gabbing Nixie by the arm with excitement. "Goodness me! Is it just me or has Bright Tooth gotten bigger?"
I looked up at my dragon proudly. I expected Nixie would comment about his disfigured wings, but he has never let me down. Though they were of different size, they were longer than our school bus.
"He's just the right size to take us all!" exclaimed Tanya. "And he's just the right size for my uncle to forge him some Duel Armor."
"WOW!" I cried. "Really?"
"Yeah, and he'll make it tough enough to withstand a bullet. After what happened to Nyx, Uncle Ryan isn't taking any chances."
"Gods above," gasped Nixie. "I've always wanted to fly on a dragon. Maybe someday I'll get one of my own and Dragon Duel with you two."
Tanya climbs onto Bright Tooth's back followed by Nixie who snuggled close behind her. They both beckon me to climb on. "Hurry, cowboy!" called Nixie. "For a guy named Dash, you sure are slow."
"Let's take Nixie out for a flight around the city before we head home, Bright Tooth, can you do that?"
Bright Tooth nodded, and he too started to urge me to climb on. I smiled and got on board. Nixie holds onto her guts as my beast gallops down the street and takes off into the air.