Naruto: Duelist of Numbers
Chapter 6
Walking into the arena, the day of their tag duel finally arriving, Naruto walked beside Serenity and was proud to see she wasn't as nervous as she was previously in the week. As they made their way onto the duel field Serenity kept her head up high, not even getting nervous when she noticed all the camera crews.
He was glad they weren't coming up to bother them though he figured they had been given orders by his father and Kaiba to not to bother them. They were probably told to just focus on recording and airing the duel on Kaiba's dueling network that he used to air duel tournaments and past duels.
"Keep up that confidence Serenity, we can do this. I'll be right beside you and all our friends are in the crowd cheering us on" Naruto told her with a smile, motioning with his head to where Mirajane, Ms. Hibiki, Alexis, Bastion, Syrus, and Hayato were all sitting and cheering despite the duel not even having started yet.
"With all the practice you did with me we have to win so I'm ready. I remember everything we went over and I will trust my instincts" Serenity said with a smile, getting Naruto to smile back and pat her on the back before Crowler walked onto the stage, a microphone in hand as he smirked at the two in a way it was clear that he was up to something.
"Without further ado! We shall now begin the tag duel!" Crowler declared before motioning towards the other entrance into the arena. "Their opponents are two legendary duelists!" he announced before two blurs, one orange and one green, flying over them.
Naruto watched as the blurs were actually men, back flipping across the duel field before leaping back their way, landing behind them and standing up and instantly he knew who they were.
The two men were identical in terms of appearance other than their outfit, one being an orange Chinese outfit with the kanji 'Mei' on his forehead and the other wearing a green version of the same outfit with the kanji 'Kyu' on his forehead, making 'Meikyuu' which meant Labyrinth on their bald foreheads.
"We are the Roaming Guards!" the one dressed in orange started off as the two men stood back to back looking at them.
"The Paradox Brothers!" the one dressed in green added before they stopped, widening their eyes in surprise as they landed on him. *(1)
"Young Master Pegasus? Is that you?" the orange one asked as Naruto smiled and walked towards them.
"Its nice to see you guys again Para," he said, turning towards the orange dressed one "and you as well Dox" he added, turning towards the green dressed one. "How have you guys been? I heard you guys won the tag duel championships last year. Congrats" Naruto said with a smile as they bowed to him with a smile.
"W-Wait, what? You know them?" Crowler asked in shock as Naruto looked at him with a flat look.
"They were Eliminators in Duelist Kingdom under employment of my father. When Duelist Kingdom was going on I wandered around and found them before Yugi did. I watched their duels for a while as I really liked how utterly in sync they were. It'll be interesting to see how they duel with the better rules" Naruto said as he walked back over to Serenity.
"You are Serenity Wheeler right? Sister of Joey Wheeler?" Dox asked as Serenity was brought out of her mix of shock and surprise at their opponents.
"Y-Yes! My brother told me about you guys so I was a bit surprised" she said as they nodded with smiles.
"We hold no grudges but Mr. Pegasus and Seto Kaiba both alerted us and told us we cannot go easy on either of you so, duel seriously or you will lose" they said, going back in forth between speaking as Naruto and Serenity nodded.
"I'd be pissed if you went easy on us so bring it on! Duel Field Activate!" Naruto said, turning his duel disk on as the field appeared around them, Para gaining an orange tint while Dox gained a green tint around their left eyes.
"N-Now both sides get into position!" Crowler declared, somewhat beating himself over how he didn't consider that before he cleared his throat and got ready to tell the rules.
"Now remember each tag team will share 8000 life points, you cannot give advice to your tag partner, also you can treat your partner's field as your own, and same goes for graveyards but not spells or traps that are set down, understood?" he asked, making sure they understood the rules before the duel could commence.
"Then without further ado! Duel!" Crowler declared before he hurried off the field and they drew their hands.
"My turn, I draw!" Serenity said as she drew her first card, her having won the draw before they were let in to decide the turn format.
She looked at her hands, noticing Fortissimo, Opera the Melodious Dive, Canon the Melodious Diva, 1st Movement Solo, and Melodious Illusion with the card she drew being Aria the Melodious Diva.
"I'll start things off by summoning Canon the Melodious Dive (4* 1400/2000) in defense mode!" she said as blue haired, light blue skinned woman with a golden domino mask over her eyes appeared in front of her, on one knee. "I'll also set down one face down card and end my turn" she added as she looked to Naruto who nodded with a smile.
"Then it is my turn" Para said, drawing his first card. "I summon Jirai Gumo (4* 2200/100) in attack mode" he said, a massive orange spider appearing in front of him "and end my turn" he finished as he motioned for Naruto to go.
"I draw!" Naruto said looking at his cards as he started forming a plan in his head.
'Until Noble Arms are Needed Once Again, Noble Arms – Caliburn, Noble Knight Borz, Noble Knights of the Round Table field spell, and Gwenhwyfar Queen of Noble Arms with Merlin being the drawn card. This is actually a pretty good start' he thought with a smile as he easily knew how to start this.
"I summon Noble Knight Borz (4* 1700/900) in attack mode!" he said, watching as a man with brown hair in blue and silver suit of armor, a red cape and a floating chalice appeared in front of him. "And I immediately equip him with Noble Arms – Caliburn equip spell!" he added as a golden handled silver blade rose up from the ground in front of Borz, the knight grabbing it and drawing it from the ground.
"Now that Caliburn has a knight to wield it, its effect activates, boosting Borz's attack by 500 points to 2200 and giving us a 500 point boost to our life points (N&S: 8000-8500). Also now that Borz has a Noble Arms spell he is treated as an effect monster as well as a dark element level 5 monster. I activate his new effect, which lets me reveal three Noble Arms cards from my deck with you randomly picking one for me to add to my hand, the other two being sent to the graveyard" he said as he looked through his deck, choosing the three as he held them in his hand and three massive cards, which all had their backs facing Para and Dox, appeared behind him.
"We choose the middle" the brothers said in unison as Naruto nodded, discarding Noble Arms – Excaliburn and Noble Arms – Gallatin to his graveyard while adding Noble Arms of Destiny to his hand.
"I'll use the card you picked right away, equipping Borz with Noble Arms of Destiny!" Naruto said as Borz gained a silver shield and pure silver, slightly damaged, sword on his hip.
"And with that I end my turn" Naruto said, the two swords his knight had being more than enough to keep him safe for now.
"Noble Knights? Are they based around the Knights of the Round Table back in England?" Bastion asked, noticing the similarities in the knight's name and the sword Caliburn.
"Yes, they are based around those people throughout history. They rely heavily on the Noble Arms to raise their levels and give them their abilities" Mirajane explained as she knew all of Naruto's archetypes. "The swords also have a good skill of where if the knight they are equipped to is destroyed they can move over to another knight" she added as told them more about this newly debuted archetype.
"I still can't believe Crowler would do something like this, target Serenity just because she is a Slifer Red student" Midori said, crossing her arms with a frown as she was beyond upset when she heard how he only was going after Serenity and had been blatantly obvious about it by suggesting Alexis be forgiven while refusing to do the same to Serenity.
"Don't worry, they will win and Naruto will punish Crowler…he promised me he would" Alexis said, rubbing her arms as they were crossed as she had been struggling as the day to the duel got closer as she felt to blame. She had been the first to be captured by whatever spirit was involved at the Abandoned Dorm and because of that both Serenity and Naruto were in this situation.
"Hey, stop blaming yourself Alexis" Mirajane said, patting and rubbing Alexis on the back as she could see it in the girl's eyes. "Naruto's told you to stop as well, hasn't he?" she asked before Alexis nodded, a frown still slightly on her face. "And if he promised you then he'll do it. Naruto is someone who never breaks a promise so have faith as my brother" she said, trying to get Alexis to stop worrying and trust her brother.
"I draw!" Dox said, drawing his card before he started with his turn right away. "I summon Kaiser Sea Horse (4* 1700/1650) in attack mode and activate my spell card, Tribute Doll!" he added as the card appeared in front of him.
"This card lets me tribute one monster on my side of the field to special summon one level seven monster from my hand but it being unable to attack, although that is of little consequence on my first turn. The monster I sacrifice is Jirai Gumo" he said as black tendrils of hair appeared out of the card, Para nodding as the hairs wrapped around Jirai Gumo and destroyed it. "I now summon Kazejin (7* 2400/2200) in attack mode!" he declared, a powerful gust of wind blowing at them before a massive green orb with two large clawed arms golden lines and the kanji for wind on the front of it, appeared in front of Dox.
"Thank you elder brother" Dox said as Para smiled and shook his head.
"Do not mention it, I would make any sacrifice for you" Para said before this time Dox was the one who shook his head.
"No, I wouldn't feel right if I didn't give you something in return so I activate the spell card Dark Designator!" he said as the card appeared on the field. "Dark Designator allows me to declare a card and if it is my opponent's deck this card can add it to their hand. I choose my brother Para and Sanga!" Dox declared, pointing to his brother as he smiled and nodded.
"I thank you brother as naturally I have Sanga in my deck" Para said, drawing the card from his deck as Naruto knew what was starting to get set up.
"Allow us to give you a lesson in the true essence of tag dueling! To be in perfect sync is what will allow us to always have the upper hand!" they said in unison as Serenity frowned, looking over to Naruto as Naruto merely smiled back to her, giving her an encouraging nod before Dox cleared his throat.
"I set down one card face down and with nothing else to do I end my turn" Dox said, motioning to Serenity who nodded and steeled her nerves.
"Then I draw!" she yelled, seeing she had drawn Polymerization, and knew which monster to summon. "I activate Polymerization to fuse together my Canon the Melodious Diva on my field with my Aria the Melodious Diva in my hand to fusion summon a Melodious Maestra!" Serenity said as the two monsters were mixed together in a portal above her. "I summon Schuberta the Melodious Maestra (6* 2400/2000) in attack mode!" she said, watching as a woman with long orange hair, wearing a black, orange, red, and gold colored dress appeared in front of her with a conductor's wand in hand.
"And I start by using her effect which allows me to banish up to three cards in any of our graveyards and for each card my Maestra will gain 200 attack points! I choose Jirai Gumo, Dark Designator, and Tribute Doll!" she said, her Maestra waving her wand, a string of music came out of it, going into Para and Dox's graveyards, retrieving the cards only for them to become music notes on her long see through white scarf.
"With this new power boost Schuberta will put it to use immediately by attacking Para directly due to Jirai Gumo's sacrifice leaving him wide open! Now Schuberta, attack him with Musical Melody Barrage!" Serenity said, Schuberta waving her conductor's wand with numerous musical notes appearing around her before they flew and crashed into Para and made a small song from it. (P&D: 8000 – 5000) *(2)
"That is of no worry as our next turn will be when this duel begins!" Para said as Serenity frowned a bit.
"I end my turn" she said, not being able to do anything else.
"Then I draw!" Para said, drawing his card. "I start by using my own copy of Tribute Doll on Kaiser Sea Horse to special summon Suijin (7* 2500/2400) in attack mode!" he declared as a pair of blue legs with the kanji for Water on the front of it.
"But that is far from all as I use Monster Reborn to bring back Kaiser Sea Horse to the field but not for long as I sacrifice it to summon Sanga the Thunder (7* 2600/2200) to the field!" he added before a massive red and brown upper body with the kanji of Lightning on its face.
"Now with all three pieces we will bring forth our ultimate monster! When Sanga, Suijin, and Kazejin are all on the field, by tributing them we can summon the Gate Guardian! (11* 3750/3400)" both Para and Dox said in unison as the three monsters mixed together, resulting in a massive beast that was a visible combination of all three once Para summoned him on the field.
"Go, Gate Guardian! Attack Noble Knight Borz with Wicked Lord Shockwave!" Para declared, pointing towards Naruto as water, lightning, and wind combined into a massive blast that fired off and into Borz.
Naruto, grit his teeth as the blast continued on through Borz and into him (N&S: 8500 – 6950). Though as the blast died down Para and Dox were confused to see Borz still standing.
"Borz will take more than that to destroy as due to Noble Arms of Destiny, once per turn, Borz can survive destruction. You all should have questioned why I didn't declare it's effect right away when I activated it" Naruto said, smirking a bit as he had thought ahead, knowing that Gate Guardian was a thing for Para and Dox.
"I did not expect anything else from you so I'll set one card face down and end my turn" Para said with a smirk of his own as he was left with one card in his hand after that intense combo to draw out the Gate Guardian.
"If you know what to expect then get ready for what I have! I draw!" he said, smiling as he got a perfect combo set up. "And I'll immediately use it and activate the spell card Heritage of the Chalice! This spell card allows me to search my deck or graveyard for one Noble Knight and one Noble Arms card to add to my hand" he added, choosing Noble Knight Custennin and Noble Arms – Clarent to add to his hand.
"I then summon Merlin (3* 1400/500) to the field," he told them as a mage in long purple robes and a long white beard appeared in front of him "but not for long as I activate his effect which, by tributing him, I can special summon another Noble Knight from my deck and I choose Noble Knight Eachtar (5* 1600/2000) to bring forth!" he declared as a magic circle appeared below Merlin and a burst of light enveloped him where when it died down a knight with brown hair swept back in silver armor with gold designs, a green cape and a torch in hand appeared where he used to be.
"Now with two level five monsters on the field I can build the overlay network!" Naruto yelled, Eachtar turning to a purple light while Borz turned to a golden light before flying into the galaxy in the center of the field. "With these two knights they will call forth the darkest knight of the Round! Come forth, Ignoble Knight of High Laundsallyn! (Rank 5 2100/900)" he yelled as the galaxy in the center exploded and shadows leaked out.*(3)
The figure that arose, with two overlay units orbiting him, was quite intimidating with a long black hair and glowing red eyes. His armor was pitch black and glowing red as he wielded two swords in hand, one was gold, red, and black, with the other was a pure glowing red.
"And High Laundsallyn's effect immediately activates where, upon summoning, he allows me to immediately equip him with a Noble Arms and I choose Noble Arms – Gallatin" Naruto said as the glowing red sword of Laundsallyn turned blue.
"Gallatin has an interesting effect, giving Laundsallyn a 1,000 point attack boost but, for every standby phase, it will lose 200 points. But for now a boost from 2100 to 3100 is enough" he told them, watching as Laundsallyn's aura grew a bit stronger.
"3,100 is not enough to strike down out Gate Guardian though" Dox said as Naruto shook his head.
"Not 3,100 but 3,600 as the swords that were equipped to Borz do not get destroyed, instead they can be shifted over to Laundsallyn" Naruto said, watching as Laundsallyn held out his glowing blue sword while the other two swords went into it as if they were being swallowed.
"And I'll immediately activate Caliburn's effect, boosting our life points again by 500 (N&S: 6950 – 7450) again" he said, glad it could help recover them a bit like this.
"But if you think I'm done yet then you have another thing coming as I summoned High Laundsallyn to take down your Guardian and by activating its effect with the use of an overlay unit it gains an extra 100 attack points for every Noble Arms spell card on my field and in my graveyard until my next turn and right now I count two in my graveyard and three on the field" Naruto said, watching as one overlay unit flew into Laundsallyn's gold, red, and black sword before it grew an aura around it and Laundsallyn's attack went up from an already high 3,600 to a higher 4,100.
"Now Ignoble Knight of High Laundsallyn attack Gate Guardian with Dark Twin Decapitation!" Naruto yelled as Laundsallyn disappeared in a burst of speed before appearing above and behind the Gate Guardian, his swords drawn back before slashing with both, lobbing off the Gate Guardian's head with two blades of red energy and causing the monster to explode and dealing them 350 points of damage (P&D: 5000 – 4650).
"Laundsallyn has an added ability where when he successfully destroys a monster in battle I can add a Noble Knight or Noble Arms card from my deck to my hand" he said as his monster appeared back in front of him and a card popped out from the middle of his deck, allowing him to add it to his hand. "I'll set down one card face down and with that I end my turn" he finished as with an Xyz monster on his field and having set down 'Until Noble Arms are Needed Once Again' he felt a good bit better.
"Wait, why didn't Naruto attack Dox since he had no monsters on the field?" Syrus asked, a bit confused as they could have dealt a lot more damage that way.
"Sometimes taking down a strong monster is the better choice as a monster like Gate Guardian could easily make it difficult for both of them to get and keep monsters on the field" Bastion said as a monster like Gate Guardian with 3750 attack points was something he'd want to get off the field.
"Plus while Naruto was able to get a monster strong enough to defeat or defend against it Serenity would have troubles with it the next turn since her monster is weaker than it" Midori said, seeing that Naruto was also looking after his teammate first and foremost.
"I draw and activate my drawn card Pot of Greed immediately, letting me draw two cards. I'll start off by summoning Defense Wall (4* 0/2100) in defense mode" Dox started off, a massive wall appearing beside him as it crossed its arms.
"Next I activate the spell card Dark Element which I can only activate if Gate Guardia is in the graveyard and by paying half my life points (P&D: 4650 – 2325) to summon Dark Guardian from my deck to the field! So come forth Dark Guardian! (12* 3800/3800)" Dox said as darkness pooled behind them and a massive monster with the upper body of a human, wearing dark armor with a shield claw of sorts in one hand and a massive axe in the other and lower body that reminded him of a spider with metal legs rose up.
"I then activate my continuous trap Life Absorbing Machine which lets me, during my standby phase, gain life points equal to half of the total life points I paid during my last turn meaning I will regain 1,163 of the 2,325 points I sacrificed" he explained, making it clear he wasn't just throwing away their life points.
"And without further ado! Dark Guardian, attack Schuberta the Melodious Maestra with Dark Shockwave!" Dox yelled, his massive monster swinging its axe to create a massive blade of orange energy crash into and destroy Schuberta, dealing 800 points of damage (N&S: 7450 – 6650) to them.
"Survive as long as you can as Dark Guardian cannot be destroyed in battle!" Dox said, mainly looking towards Naruto with the last part given he was the only one with a monster strong enough to do so. "With that I end my turn" he finished with a smile as Serenity frowned a bit as she looked up at Dark Guardian.
"Don't let it get to you Serenity, you can do this. I know you can" he said, trying to support and encourage her, smiling as she seemed to take a deep breath and nod.
"You're right, I can do this. I draw!" she yelled, drawing her card and looking through her hand. "I start by activating Graceful Charity, it lets me draw three cards while making me discard two cards from my hand after" she said, looking over the cards, seeing Shopina, Tamtam, and Sonata with only Shopina being worth keeping while discarding the two others.
"Next I activate 1st Movement Solo from my hand which, if I have no monsters on the field, allows me to special summon one Melodious monster from my hand or deck and I choose to special summon Serenade the Melodious Diva (4* 400/1900) in defense mode" she said as a light purple skinned woman with one sole purple wing rose up from the ground, her pink hair flowing down to her shoulders as her yellow dress puffed around her.
"And because Serenade was special summoned I can make two normal summons this turn! I start off first by summoning Opera the Melodious Diva (4* 2300/1000) in attack mode" she started off, a small blue dress pinked haired girl popped up with a smile. "After that I sacrifice Serenade, counting her as two tributes due to her being used for a fairy monster, and summon Shopina the Melodious Maestra (7* 2300/1700) to the field!" she continued, Serenade disappearing to summon a larger woman with teal hair and a large purple dress and a line of floating and glowing piano keys in front of her.
"But I'm not done as Shopina allows me, once per turn, to target and add a light fairy type monster from my graveyard to my hand. I know who I'm choosing and with her ability, since I control a Melodious monster I can special summon her so come on out Sonata the Melodious Diva (3* 1200/1000) in defense mode" she said as a yellow skinned, green haired woman with a blue and green wing rose up in front of her, kneeling down as her long blue dress settled around her.
"Sonata also has a useful ability where, if she was special summoned makes all fairy type monsters I control gain 500 attack and defense points" she said, watching as all her other monsters gained a blue aura and Shopina's attack went from 2300 to 2800, Opera's attack from 2300 to 2800, and Sonata's defense from 1000 to 1500.
"Now Shopina attack Para directly with Masterful Musical Scale!" Serenity yelled, holding out her hand as Shopina started playing on her piano, multiple musical notes appearing around her before bursting off towards Para.
"Not so fast! I activate Draining Shield! This trap card not only negates the attack but also turns what damage I would have gotten from your attack instead into life points!" Para said, watching as the musical notes collided with the energy barrier around him before they turned to sparkles and restored their life points by 2,800 (P&D: 2325 – 5125).
"Don't worry about it Serenity, you did great. You got a ton on monsters on the field and I know you can set something up" Naruto told her as she nodded and stopped her disappointment of her failed attack.
"I'll set one card face down and end my turn" she finished, her hand now empty but with everything she had set up now she felt she would be fine.
"My turn," Para said, smiling as he drew his card "and I too activate Pot of Greed, drawing an additional two cards. I start off by summoning Gear Golem the Moving Fortress (4* 800/2200) in defense mode. I set one card face down and end my turn" he finished, leaving everything up to his brother for now.
"My turn then, I draw!" Naruto said, noticing he had drawn Morgan, the Enchantress of Avalon which he knew would potentially be able to protect them easily enough. "Due to my standby phase passing my Ignoble Knight of High Laundsallyn loses 200 attack points as well as the 500 point boost from his effect so he's back down to 3400. I will though use Caliburn's effect again to gain 500 life points first" he said as Laundsallyn's sword started to glow again (N&S: 6650 – 7150).
"Since your Dark Guardian can't be destroyed in battle I'll have to settle on something else, and for that, I'll need another monster" Naruto said with a smile as the galaxy that went with an Xyz summon appeared in the middle of the field again.
"W-What? But you only have one monster on the field?" Para said in confusion before they saw a red and blue sword rise from the middle of it.
"I only need one due to the effect of Noble Arms – Excaliburn as if it is in the graveyard I can banish it and use an already present Xyz monster and use it along with the overlay units attached to it to Xyz summon another Noble Knight monster as long as it has a different name" he explained as Excaliburn made his Ignoble Knight of High Laundsallyn turn to a beam of dark purple light while its overlay unit turned into a yellow beam of light, the two beams mixing around Excaliburn before they flew into the overlay network.
"From the Overlay Network the leader of the Noble Knights will rise once more! I Xyz summon Sacred Noble Knight of King Artorigus (Rank 5 2200/2200) to the field to banish the darkness!" Naruto yelled as a massive pillar of golden light burst from the overlay network.
This knight, unlike Laundsallyn, was dressed in white and silver armor with a red cloak fluttering behind him, his red hair short as he wielded two swords, one pure silver while the other red and blue, in his hand with two overlay units circling around him.
"And, like before, the Noble Arms that were attached to Laundsallyn are now equipped to Artorigus!" Naruto said as Destiny, Caliburn, and Gallatin flew into Artorigus' red and blue sword, boosting his attack from 2,200 to 3,700.
"Next I equip Artorigus with Noble Arms – Clarent" he said as yet another sword flew into the red and blue sword "which allows me, after paying 500 life points to attack you directly!" Naruto said, wincing a bit (N&S: 7150 – 6650) before Artorigus' swords gained a silver glow to them.
"Now Sacred Noble Knight of King Artorigus! Attack Dox directly with Sacred Slash of Avalon!" Naruto yelled as Artorigus drew back his swords before running towards Dark Guardian and leaping over him before swinging his swords, creating a cross shaped blades of white energy that flew towards Dox.
"Not quite so as I activate Nutrient Z!" Para said, quickly flipping up his face down card. "If we were to take 2000 or more points of damage this lets us gain 4000 before the damage!" he said quickly boosting their life points by 4000 (P&D: 5125 – 9125) before the cross blasted into Dox, dealing them 3700 points of damage (P&D: 9125 – 5425).
"You will have to do better than that Young Pegasus, your monster is no stronger than your last" Dox said as Naruto smiled as Artorigus held his red and blue sword with both hands, his silver one stabbed into the ground beside him as the sword in his hands started to glow.
"Who said I had shown you what my monster could do?" Naruto asked as an overlay unit flew into the sword in Artorigus' hands. "By using one overlay unit Artorigus can now destroy one monster on the field and I target your Dark Guardian!" he said, smiling as he saw them both suddenly widen their eyes.
"Now Sacred Noble Knight of King Artorigus, destroy Dark Guardian with Excaliburn Banishment!" Naruto ordered before Artorigus stabbed his sword into the ground and a crack in the ground started to move towards Dark Guardian before a pillar of blue and red light burst from under it, growing in strength before Dark Guardian was destroyed by the intensity.
"Thanks to that I can activate my quick play spell card, Divine Element – Light from Dark Summoning!" Para announced as he set the card on the field. "This spell cannot be negated and allows me to summon our final Guardian, a card we got from your father, from any deck to any field that has had either Guardian on it by banishing our Gate Guardian and Dark Guardian from our graveyards! So come forth, Divine Guardian! (12* 4250/4000)" Para announced as Naruto and Serenity watched as three orbs, one red, blue, and green formed behind the brothers.
They watched as the red grew a bit wider, resembling a chest more before the green orb attached to its right side and the blue to its right and something that reminded him of Raijin's drums appeared attached to it from behind. The chest suddenly grew to from a lower body and a set of legs before arms, with massive bracers appeared next and a head was last to form. *(4)
The beast was massive as it floated between the brothers and with an attack like 4,250 its size was definitely not for show.
"Divine Element – Light from Dark Summoning allows me to choose whose field it goes to, as long as one of the two Guardians used to summon it were on their field so I choose to give my brother Dox the Divine Guardian" Para said, smiling to his brother who bowed to him with a grateful smile.
"Thank you brother, I am honored" Dox said as Para waved him off with a smile.
"You are lucky your battle phase ended as Divine Guardian, along with being unable to be destroyed by battle or effect, it makes it where you must attack it with all your monsters" Para told them, motioning for them to continue as Naruto frowned.
"I end my turn" Naruto said as he really couldn't do anything else.
"Then it is my turn!" Dox said, drawing his card but not even looking at it as he just added it to his hand. "And due to Life Absorbing Machine we regain 1,163 life points" he started off as the trap card glowed and rejuvenated them a bit (P&D: 5425 – 6588)
"I'll start by activating Divine Guardian's effect, by removing from play either one light, wind, or water monster it will allow him to use each ability! I shall start with wind! By banishing Kazejin I can destroy all spell and trap cards on one of your sides of the field!" Dox said as the middle hole in each arm's braced started to glow green.
"Divine Guardian, clear young Wheeler's field with Wind of the Gods!" Dox yelled before Naruto quickly discarded a card.
"I activate Morgan, the Enchantress of Avalon's effect! By sending this card from the graveyard from my hand while I control a Noble Knight that is equipped with a Noble Arms I can negate the activation of a card or effect with one Noble Arms being the only cost and I choose Noble Arms – Clarent!" Naruto quickly said, wanting to protect her cards as Morgan appeared in front of Serenity, holding up her staff to block the wind and protect her.
"So be it, then I shall activate the effect of water! I banish Suijin and use its effect to make you discard your entire hand to the graveyard!" Dox said, pointing to Naruto as the hole closest to the monster's hand start to glow blue.
"Wash away all he has with Tsunami of the Gods!" Dox yelled, a massive wave of water appearing in front of it before it drove and crashed into Naruto, washing away his hand as he stood back up, glad the sense of being wet wasn't actually real.
"And with the final effect I banish Sanga to allow Divine Guardian to deal piercing damage for the rest of the turn! Now attack young Wheeler's Sonata the Melodious Diva with Thunder of the Gods!" Dox said, the last hole now glowing red as the Divine Guardian clapped its hands together before the drums behind it started to conduct electricity and a massive bolt of lightning firing from it and into Sonata before crashing into Serenity.
Serenity tried to shield herself as Sonata was destroyed, moving the attack and defense of her monsters back down by 500 before the piercing damage hit her and dealt them 2750 points of damage (N&S: 6650 – 3900).
"With that I end my turn" Dox said, smiling as Serenity fell to her knees, nervously looking up to the monster across from her and was instantly worried they might not be enough to defeat it.
"Don't let it get to you Serenity! I know you can do this! Get back up and show everyone that you are a strong duelist!" Naruto yelled to her, snapping her out of her stupor as she looked to him.
Serenity was a bit shocked and happy that Naruto had such faith in her, feeling her cheeks heat up before she nodded. 'He's right, I can do this!' Serenity thought in her head as she stood back up, taking a deep breath before she nodded and drew her card.
"I draw and activate my facedown card Fortissimo but not for long as I immediately send it to the graveyard to allow me to fusion summon a Melodious monster using the monsters I control. I fuse together Shopina the Melodious Maestra and Opera the Melodious Diva to fusion summon Bloom Diva the Melodious Choir (6* 1000/2000) in attack mode!" she said, watching as her two monsters merge together before a massive pink flower bud that rested on a golden half sphere floated down in front of her.
She watched as the flower bloomed, revealing a small girl with very light purple hair and pure teal eyes that wore a very light blue, almost white, dress with a floating pink scarf around her,
"I then activate Pianissimo, which by targeting one monster I control it makes their original attack 100 and unable to be destroyed by battle. Though that last effect was already my Bloom Diva's effect from the start" Serenity said with a smile as Dox looked at her confused.
"You remember you must attack my Divine Guardian right? Weakening your monster will only make the damage dealt to you even higher!" Dox said, clearly confused as Serenity shook her head.
"Bloom Diva has a powerful ability to where I take no damage from attacks involving her and if she battles a special summoned monster you instead take damage equal to the difference between the original attack points of our two monsters. Now normally it would also destroy your monster but actually, it's good that it can't be destroyed" she told them as she motioned to her other face down card she has had on the field from her first turn.
"I now activate my face down card Melodious Illusion! By targeting one Melodious monster on my field it is now immune to spell and trap cards and gains the added effect of being able to attack twice!" she said, making Para and Dox grow pale as Serenity took that as the drive to push forward.
"Bloom Diva, attack Divine Gate Guardian with Reflection Melody!" she yelled as Divine Gate Guardian attacked her as she sang at it, only for its fist to collide with a barrier and her soundwave to turn a vibrant pink and crash into it, dealing 4,150 points of damage to them (P&D: 6588 – 2438).
"Now Bloom Diva, attack again and finish this and attack Divine Gate Guardian again! Reflection Melody!" she yelled, her monster singing again with Divine Gate Guardian attacking it again only for it to rebound back at them again, taking off the last bit of their life points (P&D: 2488 – 0).
As the duel ended the crowd was silent before it erupted in an utterly deafening cheer.
"Serenity! You were great!" Naruto said, picking her up in a hug as he spun her around, her blushing before she hugged him back and started to laugh, overjoyed from the fact they had actually won.
"You guys were amazing! I-I can't even describe how awesome that was!" Syrus cheered as he and the others joined them on the stage.
"Yeah, you guys really did great. I'm so glad you weren't expelled because of me" Alexis said, smiling before Serenity went over to hug her, dragging Naruto along to do the same, causing both Alexis and Naruto to blush a bit as the excited Serenity happily hugged her friends.
"Naru!" the voice of his sister broke through the crowd as he could hear her getting closer before all three of them were wrapped up in a big hug by Mirajane, their heads against her chest as she hugged all three of them tight.
"My students are quite amazing, aren't they? But hey, you make the bed and so you must lie in it, right Professor Crowler?" Midori asked, smiling as she watched from the side of the field, looking down at Crowler as he sat shivering nervously on the ground seemingly afraid of the coming results.
"Young Pegasus and Young Wheeler that was truly an amazing duel. We expected nothing else from you both, even with the card your father made for us" Para said as Naruto chuckled as Mirajane let the three of them go.
"I figured my dad would do something like that from the start and I feel Kaiba is also to blame. All in all it was a real intense and great duel, thanks for it" Naruto said with a smile as he and Serenity shook their hands before a clearing of a throat interrupted them.
"Sorry to interrupt the moment but I believe we have business to discuss" Chancellor Sheppard said with a soft smile as Naruto nodded.
"We'll wait for you at Slifer's dorms for your celebration of winning. Hurry there once you all are done okay?" Ms. Hibiki said, smiling softly at them as she pulled a nervous looking Crowler onto the stage before he nodded, giving one last smile to Serenity before he followed the Chancellor to his office with Crowler following a bit further behind them before entering the office as well.
"So, I believe the deal you had agreed to was if they won Naruto here got to choose whether you continue working here or not. Right?" Chancellor asked as he sat down behind his desk, looking from Naruto to Crowler before Crowler nervously nodded.
"And I have thought it over intently of what my choice would be when we win" Naruto said taking a deep breath before he turned to Crowler. "I've noticed a few things that really want to make me choose to fire you, mainly your blatant bias towards Slifer Reds from trying to get Syrus in trouble to this recent event with Serenity" Naruto said, his sister having told him all about how Crowler was behind the fake love letter that nearly got Syrus in a lot of trouble.
"And for that I have decided to follow through with it…" he said, trailing off as Crowler seemingly crumbled to the ground. "But! I don't want to be too mean" he said, getting Crowler to look up so quickly that he swore it would have given him whiplash.
"I know you are a skilled duelist and knowledgeable so I talked to my father about you and he offered you a job" Naruto added, reaching into his jacket and pulling out an envelope. "Everything about the job is in here, a charter helicopter will arrive tomorrow to take you should you choose to accept the job but given you don't have a job anymore I feel you'll take the offer" Naruto said, smiling a bit as Crowler seemed to have tears of joy, a massive smile on his face as he read through everything.
"You aren't a bad person, I just think you aren't the best with kids" he added with a chuckle as Chancellor Sheppard smiled at them.
As Naruto headed back towards Slifer Dorm he was glad how everything went down, having been able to save Serenity and get Crowler into a job he was even better suited for with the man seemingly not made an enemy in the end.
He could only smile as he waved to the others who were waiting for him outside the dorm. With Crowler, a pseudo-enemy, gone he could only imagine that things would go smoother from here on out.
At least, he hoped so.
-Elsewhere-
"Oh Naruto~! You are so amazing~! I knew you could do it!" a girl squealed out and cheered as she bounced in glee at the tag duel that was being aired on the dueling network. "Oh I wish I could be there for you!" she yelled in frustration, bashing her pillow against her bed that she was sitting on with a pout on her face.
She froze though as she saw Naruto hugging his tag partner, making her dig her fingers into her pillow. "Not my man!" she yelled, throwing her pillow at her TV before stomping out of her room.
"Daddy! I'm enrolling in Duel Academy right away!" she yelled, determined to protect her man from any woman who dare try and steal him away from her.
-Chapter End-
Pairing: Naruto x Alexis, Serenity, and four girls that are 'To Be Announced' (That number might grow to five though as I contemplate something)
*1 = First off these are not the English dub rhyming versions of them as that version is annoying and very very hard to write. I can do rhyming or raps so do not expect them in my stories lol
*2 = Kazejin didn't activate it's effect due to it not being the one attacked. Kazejin can only activate its effect if it is attacked. When it stopped Steam Gyroid's attack in the anime I was confused, initially chalking it up to 'anime effect' but I looked up it's anime effect and even that states 'Make the ATK of a monster attacking this card 0 during damage calculation' and mentions nothing about blocking attacks or anything like that – hence why I left it out
*3 = Ignoble Knight of High Laundsallyn is one of those times where I turn a synchro monster into an Xyz monster. I draft up abilities for these monsters, using their Synchro abilities as a reference to a degree
*4 = For the appearance of it google Divine Gate Guardian, its made by an artist on deviant art named AlanMac95. My version has less attack and very very different abilities as well as it being a Light element Warrior type monster and not a Divine element Divine-Beast type monster.
Now onto the actual story notes!
I am so happy to have this chapter done with as HOLY CRAP are tag duels about 20 different kinds of headaches to write and plan out
I used the anime as the base for things while adding changes here and there like some protection traps here and there as the anime duel was still really bad. Jaden and Syrus could have directly attacked one of the brother's about four times throughout the duel and chose not to plus Jaden could have used Spark Blaster to change Defense Wall to attack mode, getting some more damage dealt to Para and Dox
Also yes, Crowler is fired as personally he really, really, isn't a character I like all too much. I feel Mirajane would lead Obelisk dorm a whole lot better. Though, given I didn't want to really 'bash' or be too mean to him or give Naruto someone who is out to get him (like Kaiba has twenty of on a good day) I decided to have Naruto set up a job for him in Industrial Illusions as Pegasus did offer the same to
Though, all in all, I feel I handled the duel really well, using the Noble Knights in a cool way – and not in a super easy, could have won the whole duel by himself, way. Plus Serenity's turns were also really done with her fusions, especially Bloom Diva at the end
Safe to say though, I am going to try and avoid tag duels for a good while now as I don't want to really ever do them again lol
The girl at the end of the chapter isn't some crazy stalker, she does know Naruto and is a childhood friend of his and will be introduced in around three chapters
I hope you all liked it
Until Next Time
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