Over in the cells one duelist was meditating, it was the duelist Bren Tenkage, his long black hair tied back and his school uniform may have him look like an average duelist but in fact he was the leader of the group Sin, a group that was bent on reviving the Dark Lord Zorc.
He was alone and thinking, two decks in front of him on the floor.
"I know who is my foe….and with my power I can destroy him like the others I dueled….but why do I not want to hurt him?" He thought
In front of him was the shadowed image of a darker looking self, his other form, Pride.
"Simple, because with your power you could destroy Onox, and control this realm, and bring back the dark lord" His dark side said to him but Bren shook his head
"But then why do I feel sorrow for what I have done…." Bren asked his other side
"Because you are weak, I am here to control you and make you stronger" His dark side said
Bren clenched his fist and said, "I refuse to allow you to control me in this next duel….I am going to prove my own power without you" Bren said and the darker side glared at him and disappeared, he wasn't gone but it was away
Bren took his personal deck and inserted it into his duel disk and then felt himself disappear.
He was transported to the white dimension and he saw his opponent….his friend Russell
He was slightly chubby with short brown hair, but he was serious looking and he glared at Bren
"Well Bren, I never thought I would see you again" Russell said
"What do you mean?" Bren asked and Russell sighed
"Because I saw you disappear and go to the shadows" Russell said activating his duel disk, "That was three years ago, or at least when I was taken from time" He explained and Bren frowned
"So I succeeded in bringing back Zorc, but I failed the plan….that somehow comforts me" Bren said activating his duel disk
"It is time for the duel between two friends, Russell Figgins and Bren Tenkage, begin!" Onox called out and both cried out, "Let's duel!"
"I'll start" Bren said drawing his cards and smiled
"I'll start with Skull servant in defense mode (300/200), and then lay three cards face down to end my turn" Bren said,
Russell drew and said, "I don't care if we were fiends, I'm taking you down for all the suffering you caused in the past" he said and Bren nodded his head
"I summon Axe Raider in attack mode" He said summoning the Axe welding warrior (1700/1150)
"I play two traps, Human Wave tactics and spirit barrier" Bren said activating the traps, "With Spirit barrier I take no battle damage as long as I keep a monster on the field, and with Human Wave tactics if I lose a level 2 or under normal monster to battle, I can special summon at the end of the turn any replacements for each of them" Bren explained and Russell smirked
"Sorry Bren I already knew you would do that which is why I'm playing the equip spell, the Bandits Blade" Russell said giving Axe Raider a small dirk which he held in his left hand (1700 to 1900 ATK)
"With this spell whenever my axe raider attacks I can select one card on the field and negate its effect until the end of the turn, and that's not the worst part, I equip him with Big Bang Shot as well, not only boosting his attack by 400 but gives him a piercing effect" Russell said as a mechanical brace appeared on Axe Raider's legs (1900 to 2300 ATK)
"Axe Raider attack, Axe slam Bash! "He ordered, "Negate the effect of Spirit barrier!"
The spirit barrier began to dissipate and the axe raider slammed his axe into the skeleton shattering it into pieces
Bren groaned as he lost 2100 lifepoints
Bren: 1900
Russell: 4000
"Good move" Bren said, cracking a weak smile
"I end my turn with a facedown card" Russell said and then on Bren's field a new monster appeared
"I summon D.D. Trainer in defense mode" He said (L.1 100/2000)
Bren then drew his next card and smiled, "I play the spell the armor the knave" He said and the goblin on top of the weird beat was given some bronze armor (100/2000 to 700/2600)
"Course this armor only works on a level two and under normal monster, but it helps against monsters like yours" Bren said
"Don't you remember my Bandits Blade, I could just….negate it…..oh I get it, because it can only negate one card effect you won't lose lifepoints because spirit barrier would be on the field" Russell said
"Bingo" Bren said, "That ends my turn" Bren said laying two more card facedown and with that Russell drew his next card
"Perfect, I offer Axe Raider in order to summon the Knight Commander Izura" He said, and axe raider disappeared and in its place a young man in silver armor and wielding a double bladed lance appeared (L. 6 2100/2000)
"Next I play the spell the warrior returning alive which lets me return a warrior from my graveyard back to my hand, so I return axe raider to my hand and activate Izura's ability" Russell said and Izura slammed his lance down on the ground and Axe Raider appeared
"Once per turn I can special summon a warrior from my hand and then give that warrior half of Izura's attack for the turn, of course Izura can't declare an attack if I use this effect but it's worth it to give Axe Axe Raider the power to take you down" He said (1700 to 2750)
"Axe Raider attack with Axe Slam bash!"
The Axe raider charged at D.D. Trainer but then Bren revealed a trap
"I reveal my trap soul swap!" Bren said, the trap looked like a Skull servant in pain and behind him a Gilford the Lightning was appearing
"By sending a normal monster from my field to the graveyard I can special summon an effect monster from my deck until the end of the turn, and the monster I choose is Shadow ghoul!" He said summoning the dark zombie to the field in attack mode (1600/1300 to 1800/1300)
"My shadow ghoul gains 100 attack for each monster in my graveyard, next I activate my other trap, Theft of the Power!" Bren said activating a trap that looked like a shadowed red haired man reaching out to a golden energy
"By paying 1000 lifepoints I can take any effect that gave a monster an increase to attack or defense and give it to a monster on my side of the field" He explained
Bren: 900
Russell: 4000
Axe Raider: 2750 to 1700
Shadow Ghoul: 2850
The Axe raider's axe was caught in the large claws of the monster
"Shadow Ghoul, counter attack now!" Bren ordered and the Axe Raider was slashed to ribbons
Bren: 900
Russell: 2950
"I end my tu-"
"Not quite" Bren said activating his last trap, it looked like a Summoned Skull being split into two Skull servants and a D.D. Trainer
"It's called Level separation and with it I can send shadow ghoul to the graveyard and special summon from my deck monsters whose total level is equal to the level of the monster I send in, so my level 5 shadow ghoul disappears and in its place comes two skull servants, a D.D. trainer and a metabat, all in defense mode" Bren said
Skull Servant: L.1 300/200 X 2
D.D. Trainer: L 1 100/2000
Meda-Bat:L. 2 800/400
"Fine I end my turn with two cards facedown" Russell said and Bren drew his next card
"Well seems my deck wants me to continue" He said, he may have not have had a card in his hand other then the card he just drew but it was all about to change
"I play the spell, the Draw of the Normal!" Bren said and the spell looked like the Ojama Trio holding up an oversized card each
"With this spell for each normal monster on my side of the field I get to draw a card, and I have four" He said drawing four cards and then he saw his next card and his eyes widened….it was the Wicked Avatar, the card he used as the Sin member Pride
"No…" He thought and then heard the voice of his darker side speak to him, "I put it into your deck, I knew you would need it"
"No I want to win or lose honorably to my friend" Bren muttered and he gripped his head, "I'm taking control…."
Bren cried out and his eyes were dulled, "Well Russell perhaps it's time I played this seriously"
He was now Pride and he was going to play the dark card
"I offer D.D. Trainer, and both my skull servants in order to summon the Wicked Avatar!" Pride cried out and a sphere of darkness took its place on his side of the field
"No…." Russell said as the sphere formed into a dark version of Izura (2101/2001)
"Yes" Pride said laughing, "Now destroy Izur- GRAH!" He gripped his own wrist as Bren tried to take control
"No….I don't attack" Bren groaned but then Russell glared at him and said, "Bren I don't want your mercy, attack me with all you got, I don't care!"
Bren looked up and Russell could see his eyes were back to normal
"…fine! Wicked Avatar attack Izura!" He ordered and the shadowed Izura stabbed the real one in the chest
Bren: 900
Russell: 2949
It was then the Wicked Avatar began to chance its form, this time into Axe raider's form (1701/1701)
"Just what I was hoping for" Russell said flipping a trap, it looked like a Swordsman of Landstar cutting down a Dark Ruler Ha Des, behind him was the spirit of a Dark Magician
"Avenging the master!" Russell called out
"This trap lets my monster attack one of yours, if it destroyed another higher leveled monster on my field. But with an added bonus, half of the destroyed monster attack, the one your dark god destroyed is added to my monster's attack" Russell explained and the spirit of Izura floated behind Axe raider, giving axe raider a serious power boost (1700 to 2700)
"Your god may have a lot of power but it has some weakness, you see after I saw you fall and the Wicked gods disappeared, I did some research on their powers and I found out the weaknesses of all your gods. The Wicked avatar cannot defeat a monster whose defense is higher than the attack it copies, and more importantly, its attack only changes during the main phase, not the battle phase!" Russell explained
Wicked Avatar (Axe Raider): 1701
Axe Raider (Avenging the Master): 2700
"But you forgot I still have spirit barrier" Bren said, "And even if you destroy my Wicked Avatar I won't take any damage"
Russell smirked, "I already have a card for that, I reveal the trap The ghostly Blade!" The card looked like an Armed Samurai Ben Kei who held in his hands he held a ghostly Lightning Blade
"With this trap, if I pay 1000 lifepoints, I can give Axe Raider the effect of an equip spell in my graveyard, and the one I choose is the Bandit Blade" Russell explained as Axe Raider held in his hands a ghostly version of the Bandit Blade
"Axe Raider can now negate the effect of your Spirit Barrier, in other words, you lose!"
Bren could only close his eyes and wait for the impact, Russell out maneuvered him perfectly, played everything just right, it was over
"Now Axe Raider destroy the Wicked Avatar!" He ordered and Axe raider sliced up the copy
Bren: 0
Russell: 1949
Bren fell to his knees and was laughing
"So now I experience my demise again…." He said but then the dark aura around him, the one about to take him to the shadows dissipated
"What's going on?" Bren asked looking at himself and he saw the Wicked Avatar card float from his duel disk and towards Onox
"I used my power to nullify the shadows, as for this card I will take this" He said looking at it, almost like he was curious about it
"But why save me?" Bren asked getting up
"Because you are entertaining, and you might pose a challenge to me in the near future" Onox said sending Bren and Russell back to the cells
"It would appear I might have some interesting challenges ahead of him" Onox thought, he threw the card into the void in which it began to burn in a black flame
AN: In case anyone is wondering, the duel is reference to another Yugioh Fic I did, Sin's Wrath, in which I was a villain, which I of course failed when I tried to take on Atem LOL.