Yusei helped Akiza back into her bed.
"Phew… I needed that… Okay, where were we?"
"Yusei had just agreed to face four spirits from his past and one duelist he had never seen before."
"Oh yeah."
"Okay Leo, roll it."
(Monday 11:58 PM)
Akiza, Rally, Luna, and Leo were sound asleep, and Yusei was glad for it. He knew that the first specter was due to appear any minute now. The ghost of Goodwin didn't tell him who exactly he would be facing, only that it was someone he had crossed before, so he wasn't sure how to prepare his deck.
"What have I gotten myself into?"
It wasn't until after Yusei had agreed to this little challenge that Goodwin told him that if he lost to a single opponent he would die. Even if Akiza and his child were spared, then Akiza would be left without a husband, and the child without a father.
"Then I won't lose." he said to himself.
Suddenly Yusei heard the sound of church bells tolling outside in the distance. It had quiet ever since his conversation with the spirit of Goodwin, much too quiet for a night in New Domino City. The sound of the bells almost made him jump. He expected his first opponent to appear, but as the bells finished tolling nothing had happened.
"… Nothing? Maybe I'm just going crazy."
"Yusei…"
Yusei turned around, even though the voice sounded so close there was no one there.
"Where are you?"
"The roof Yusei… Where are your manners?"
Yusei left the room and made his way down the hall. All the other patients were asleep in their rooms. Now he understood what the specter had meant by manners, if they were to have a duel in here then it would most likely wake everyone up. Yusei slowly went up the staircase that led to the roof. When he opened the door and felt the cool night air on his face, it was colder than usual. He looked around but there was no one there.
"Yusei Fudo… It give me great pleasure to introduce you to your own funeral."
There was huge burst of fire, when it was gone Yusei couldn't believe his eyes.
"You!"
"That's right Mr. Fudo… You stole Akiza from me and sent me to Hell…" said Sayer "Now I'm here to return the favor."
Sayer's face was horribly disfigured, but unmistakable. He looked like he was just skin and bones, and to top it all off their were chains wrapped all around him.
"You were swallowed by Ccarayhua!"
"Yes… and it's all because you had to ruin everything Yusei Fudo… But… you've made your ruination useful…"
"What?"
"Thanks to you Yusei Fudo, Akiza now carries an even greater psychic user in her womb."
"What are you saying?"
"Open your eyes Fudo… You and Akiza are both signers, what did you think would happen if you conceived a child? Akiza's offspring will become more powerful than either off us… And when I absorb your life force I will take back what is mine!"
"You touch her… and you're a dead man!" said Yusei.
"Too late… And besides… this time... you're the dead man Yusei…"
Sayer pulled back the sleeve on the cloak he was wearing, revealing a duel disk on his bone thin arm.
"Now let the ritual begin…"
Yusei pulled out his own duel disk and placed it on his arm.
"For Akiza… and for my child… I will not lose!"
Both their life point totals went to 4000.
"In life I never had the pleasure of destroying you in a duel Yusei Fudo… But I promise I will enjoy every moment of it now."
"Whatever, since you're clearly at a disadvantage, you may make the first move!"
"Me? At a disadvantage? I'll save you the trouble of explaining why I'm at a disadvantage and just make my move… I'll just summon this monster in defense mode."
Yusei had heard about the damage that Psychic type monsters could do. So he decided not to leave his monsters unprotected.
"I'll place one card face down, and summon Speed Warrior!"
(ATK: 900 DEF: 400)
"And when Speed Warrior is successfully summoned, his attack points are doubled!"
(ATK: 1800)
"Speed Warrior, attack!"
Sayer's monster was destroyed, but he didn't look too worried about it.
"When Pandaborg is destroyed in battle, I can give up 800 of my life points to special summon a level 4 or below Psychic type monster from my deck, and I choose Psychic Snail!"
(ATK: 1900 DEF: 1200)
(Sayer: 3200)
"Now it's my turn. I activate the spell card Brain Research Lab, next I summon Life Force Harmonizer."
(ATK: 800 DEF: 400)
"Now by placing a Psychic counter on my Brain Research Lab, I can sacrifice both of my monsters to summon Master Gig!"
(ATK: 2600 DEF: 1400)
"Now I'll activate his special effect, normally I'd have to pay 1000 life points to use it, but since I have Brain Research Lab on the field, I can just place another Psychic counter on it instead. Now I can destroy one of your monsters for every Psychic monster I have out."
(Sayer: 2200)
Yusei's Speed Warrior was destroyed.
"I now Gig Master, attack!"
"I don't think so! I activate my trap card, Scrap-Iron Scarecrow!"
Yusei's Scarecrow protected him from Sayer's attack.
"Now it's my turn, and I play Card Rotator, by discarding one card from my hand, I can switch your monster's mode!"
(DEF: 1400)
"Now I summon Max Warrior!"
(ATK: 1800 DEF: 800)
"Max Warrior, attack!"
Master Gig was destroyed, but due to Max Warrior's effect is reduced to 2, and it's attack and defense points are cut in half.
(ATK: 900 DEF: 400)
"It's my turn, and I summon Telekinetic Shocker!"
(ATK: 1700 DEF: 700)
"Now I'll place another Psychic counter on my Brain Research Lab so I can summon my Destructotron!"
(ATK: 1600 DEF: 400)
"Now I'll place another Psychic counter on my Brain Research Lab, so now I can use Destructotron's effect without paying any life points. Destructotron, destroy his face down card!"
Yusei's Scrap-Iron Scarecrow was destroyed.
"He might as well be paying with his life points." thought Yusei "If I destroy that Brain Research Lab card, he'll take 1000 points of damage for every counter on it."
"Destructotron, destroy his Max Warrior!"
(Yusei: 2300)
"Now Telekinetic Shocker, attack him directly!"
(Yusei: 800)
"You may have knocked me down Sayer, but if your friends in Hell have told you anything, then you should know it will take more than that to knock me out."
"Whatever, in the mean time I'll activate this spell card, Counter Cleaner. By paying 500 life points, I can remove every counter on the field."
(Sayer: 2700)
"Well there goes that plan… I'll just have to improvise…. I play Pot of Greed, which let's me draw two cards from my deck. Next I'll place a card face down, now I summon Rockstone Warrior!"
(ATK: 1800 DEF: 1600)
"Now I'll activate the spell card Double Summon, which I can use to summon my Healing Wave Generator!"
(ATK: 800 DEF: 1600)
"Now I can use it's special effect. Now I gain 100 life points multiplied by my Rockstone Warrior's level."
(Yusei: 1200)
"Rockstone Warrior, destroy his Telekinetic Shocker!"
(Sayer: 2600)
"It's my turn, I summon Human Psychic Borg!"
(ATK: 1500 DEF: 800)
"Now I'll activate the spell card Soul Absorption. Now I'll activate the special effect of my Human Psychic Borg, by removing two of my monsters from play, he gains 1000 attack points, and since I have Soul Absorption in play I gain 1000 life points."
(ATK: 2500)
(Sayer: 3600)
"Human Psychic Borg, attack!"
"I don't think so! I activate Mirror Force!"
Both of Sayer's monsters were destroyed.
"Now it's my turn, I play the spell card Emergency Card Stash, since there are no other cards in my hand, I can now draw six new cards. Now I'll switch Healing Waver Generator to defense mode."
(DEF: 1600)
"Now I'll use it's effect, and gain 400 more life points."
(Yusei: 1600)
"Now Rockstone Warrior, attack him directly!"
(Sayer: 1800)
"It's my turn, I summon Power Injector!"
(ATK: 1300 DEF: 1400)
"Now I'll activate my own Emergency Card Stash!"
(Let's face it, if this card were real, everyone would be using it)
"Now I'll use my Brain Research Lad, by placing another Psychic counter on it, I can summon Psychic Commander!"
(ATK: 1400 DEF: 800)
"Next I'll activate the spell card Emergency Teleport, this let's me special summon a level 3 or lower Psychic monster from my deck, and I choose Life Force Harmonizer!"
(ATK: 800 DEF: 400)
"Now I'll tune my Psychic Commander to my Power Injector and my Life Force Harmonizer, in order to synchro summon Hyper Psychic Blaster!"
(ATK: 3000 DEF: 2500)
"Hyper Psychic Blaster, attack his Healing Wave Generator!"
Yusei's Healing Wave Generator was blown away.
"And thanks to my monster's special effect, I gain life points equal to the different between my monster's attack and your monster's defense, and you take damage equal to the difference."
(Yusei: 200)
(Sayer: 3200)
"There isn't a single card in your deck that can save you now boy."
"You people don't know anything… I never really on the power of a single card. I summon Turbo Synchron!"
(ATK: 100 DEF: 500)
"Next I play Synchro Boost to increase my Rockstone Warrior's attack points 500 and to increase his level by 1!"
(ATK: 2300 Level: 5)
"Now I'll tune my Turbo Synchron to my Rockstone Warrior to synchro summon Turbo Warrior! Let's rev it up!"
(ATK: 2500 DEF: 1500)
"Next I'll play the spell card One for One! By discarding one monster from my hand, I can summon a level 1 monster from my deck, and I choose Tuningware!"
(ATK: 100 DEF: 300)
"Now I'll play Graceful Charity, now I can draw three cards, so long as I discard two. Next I'll play Magical Stone Excavation, by discarding two cards in my hand, I can bring back one card spell card that I've used, and I choose Double Summon, so I can use it to summon Nitro Synchron!"
(ATK: 300 DEF: 100)
"Now I'll tune Nitro Synchron to my Tuningware, and since I'm using Tuningware in a synchro summon, his level is increased by one and I get to draw a card. So now I'll synchro summon Armory Arm!"
(ATK: 1800 DEF: 1200)
"Now I'll equip armory arm to Turbo Warrior, so now he gains 1000 attack points!"
(ATK: 3500)
"I'll also activate the trap card I sent to my graveyard with Gracefull Charity, Skill Successor! By removing this card from my graveyard, I can give my Warrior 800 more attack points!"
(ATK: 4300)
"4300 points?!"
"And that's not all since your Hyper Psychic Blaster is a level 9 synchro monster, Turbo Warrior's special effect cuts his attack points in half."
(ATK: 1500)
"NO!!!"
"It get's worse! Thanks to Armory Arm's effect, when the monster equipped with it destroys one of yours, you take damage equal to that monster's attack points… And I'm afraid that's checkmate… Turbo Warrior, attack!"
Turbo Warrior blew Sayer's monster away.
(Sayer: 0)
"Err… this isn't over Yusei Fudo! You'll pay for this!"
"Tell your friends that I'm waiting."
Suddenly a huge fiery hand came out of nowhere and pulled Sayer's spirit down with it. Five minutes later Yusei could still hear the echo of the screaming.
"One down… four to go."
Yusei was so tired that he fell asleep as soon as he reached his chair back in Akiza's room. Little did he know that someone was watching.
"Err… I should have known that cheese head wasn't up to much… Next." he said snapping his fingers.
(To be continued)