I'm still accepting 'Heroic' Oc archetype cards from you guys.
it needs to stick with the theme of the deck when it comes to monsters. Mosnters are usually named after tactics (Ambush Soldier), people that fought wars (Spartan), or weapons (Double Lance). XYZ's are named after mythical weapons (Excalibur or Gandiva). Anyone that makes a card will be credited with it's creation in the chapter it first appears.
I would like to give a huge shoutout to Unknown entity328. I have ideas concerning Number 96, and it all starts with this chapter. Without him, I would not have the necessary cards for a full Malicevorous deck. He's a great author, so go check out his stories.
Tsukumo Residence: Attic, Night…
Lance and Yuma sat across from one another with all the numbers they had spread out before them.
"Alright, that's all 9 numbers." Yuma stated with his arms crossed. "Now, what are we going to do with them?"
Astral spoke up. "I must admit that I am equally curious why you decided we must do this."
"I have a theory I'd like to test, but first we need to divide the numbers we have between us. Just humor me for now." Lance stated. "I will say up front that Numbers 86 and 54 are mine."
"Number 39 is mine." Yuma stated.
"If you're okay with it, I'd like Numbers 57 and 83." Lance stated. "You can have 13,17,31, and 34."
Yuma nodded. "Sounds fine to me."
"Okay, now I want to see if this works, so just give me a moment." Lance stated as he removed his pendent."
He closed his eyes and touched it to Number 86. At first, nothing happened, but then the pendent glowed a brilliant white that worked its way onto the card cloaking it with white energy. Lance had opened his eyes noticing this. He quickly moved the pendent to the other four cards.
"Fascinating!" Astral stated drawing the boy's attention as the white light died down and Lance put his pendent on. "I can feel my connection to those number, but I can also feel a strong presence protecting them."
Yuma was confused. "Uh, Lance what was this?"
"It wanted to test my grandfather's stories." He looked at Yuma. "Remember, he'd always talking about duel spirits as well as dark and light magic. He said my mother and I had his light magic, so I figured I'd give it a try." He looked to Astral. "Now, try going into Yuma's key."
Astral did causing 13,17, 31. 34, and 39 to go with him. 54, 57, 83, and 86 remained where they lay.
Astral then reappeared. "The numbers you touch with your pendent remained."
Lance nodded. "It panned out as I thought. At the very least, we can protect a portion of the Numbers and hopefully keep you safer Astral. I'm not certain what will happened now if Yuma or I lost though."
Astral nodded. "That is quite alright."
The Syllable duelist smiled. "That was some nice thinking Lance."
Astral nodded. "Yes, clearly you can do the thinking for two. That's good since Yuma doesn't think at all."
Yuma glared at Astral. "Hey, I'll have you know I think about a lot of things."
"Really. I have made no such observations." Astral replied.
Lance could see where this was going. "Right, well I'll see you tomorrow Yuma."
He ran out of the room as Astral and Yuma started arguing. At least it seemed better natured than when they started out. More like friends arguing.
Later…
Yuma was sleeping in his hammock as a shadowy figure with long hair and the grace of a cat entered the room through the window. They moved about rummaging through his things. Astral appeared invisible to the figure, but the figure was not invisible to him.
Heartland Academy, Morning…
Lance rode through the gate with Yuma arriving early, instead of just on time, for once when they noticed a group of fan girls surrounding a student. It was Nelson they were surrounding.
He smiled nervously. "You're all very nice, but I was kind of hoping my first day would be normal."
"He's so cute in person."
"We loved your series finally."
"It was so heartwarming."
Lance stopped and looked at Yuma. "You go on ahead to class. Looks like Nelson's going to need someone to mentor him on how to deal with fan girls himself."
Yuma nodded. "Got it." He hopped down and ran off. "Good luck!"
Lance kicked his stand down and ran over to the group of girls before jumping over them and landing in the middle of the group.
"Look, it's Lance."
"That was so cool."
Lance didn't pay them any mind as he looked at Nelson. "Don't worry man, I got you."
He grabbed Lance and jumped out of the group before running to the bike.
"Wait, what's going on!?" Nelson asked confused. "What are we doing?"
"I'll tell you more, but right now we have to outrun them." Lance was referring to the fan girls who were chasing them on. "Hop on the pegs of the bike and hold onto my shoulders."
The Heroic duelist got on his bike as Nelson jumped onto the back gripping his shoulders. Lance then sped off down the path quickly outpacing the girls.
Roof of the Academy, Just a bit Later…
After riding around the school, a couple of times, Lance had left his bike on the rack and taken Nelson through the school straight to the roof where they were now alone. As they rode and ran, Lance had filled him in on certain things alleviating his confusion.
Nelson looked at Lance gratefully. "Thank you. I did not know the fan girl situation would be so concentrated here."
"Don't mention it. I've been dealing with fan girls since the first day of middle school."
He patted Nelson on the back. "Just stick with me. After a while, you'll become a master of evasion. Also, you aren't getting anywhere near the office before school starts. Do you have your schedule?"
Nelson pulled a folded piece of paper out of his pocket and handed it over. "It's right here."
Lance looked it over and smiled. "Good, we got every class together." He gave it back to Nelson. "Now I can show you more of the ropes outside of the best ways to avoid fan girls."
Nelson gave a small, slightly embarrassed smiled. "Thanks Lance."
Lance nodded. "What are friends for." He moved towards the door. "On that note, we should go. Class will start soon."
Nelson nodded. "Right."
They made their way down.
Cafeteria, Lunch…
Lance, Tori, Yuma, Caswell, and Nelson all sat at a table together as various students looked at the odd assortment of people at the table. The top student and two boys who were distinguished in the eyes of many.
They sat with the bottom duelist of the school who was surprisingly doing slightly better in his dueling and one of only girls that didn't fawn over Lance. Man did Lance ever look forward to this time as outside of class, it was the only time that the assortment kept the fan girls at bay.
Yuma opened his lunch revealing five-star quality seafood which everyone at the table noticed including Caswell. "Yuma why is it that your lunch seems to randomly spike in quality at least 2 days out of the week?"
Yuma smiled. "I don't know. I guess grandma's just really gotten into making great lunches."
Lance crossed his arms. "That can't be the reason." Everyone looked at him. "These lunches only appear on the days we don't sleep over at each other's houses. Not to mention, Haru has made me lunches before, yet they're never this quality."
He shook his head. "That's not to say I think her lunches are bad. She's an excellent cook just never like this. Nothing this fancy. Couple that with all the other strange occurrences the past few days, and it seems as though something is definitely up."
Tori nodded. "I see what you mean. Like the gym class incidences. That time Yuma was hooked by a cable, and the time his gym clothes were replaced by a green track suit certainly come to mind."
Astral appeared only visible to Yuma and Lance. "Whenever Lance hasn't slept over, a figure has broken into Yuma's room. It's been several times now."
Yuma angrily shouted at Astral. "Someone's been sneaking into my room, yet you keep it all to yourself!
"You never asked me to keep you informed. How was I to know?" Astral asked.
Nelson looked over at Caswell. "Uhm, what's going on?"
Caswell turned to him. "Apparently Yuma and Lance can see an invisible duelist that they call Astral." He shrugged. "You'll get use to it. Especially with Yuma constantly yelling at nothing."
Nelson looked closely at Yuma. For a mere moment, he made out the outline of a person floating next to him. The former actor quickly rubbed his eyes only for there to be no one there. He shook his head thinking maybe he got less sleep than he thought.
"That's it! I'm getting to the bottom of this!" Yuma declared.
Lance looked around the lunch room to see if he spotted anyone of note. He noticed a girl with a resemblance to a cat. She had two pieces of her gray hair held up by clips which looked like cat ears and large green eyes hidden behind large, square framed glasses.
Her current attire consisted of a uniform like Tori's meaning she was in their class. The other was a guy wearing a first-year uniform. That meant he was also in their class. He was shorter than Yuma by a couple of inches at least.
He had short, spiky black hair with red eyes. What set Lance off on them was the fact that the girl seemed to perk up while the boy averted his gaze when Lance looked at him. The rest of the cafeteria looked about what you've expect whenever Yuma yells.
Lance dug into his lunch. "Now isn't a good time to confront either of them. I'll wait until duel period to look for them. That's if I can find either of them. I'll be honest, I don't remember seeing either student."
Dueling Period
Like most times, Lance had arrived to dueling period earlier than Yuma and Tori only this time he was on the look out for the silver and/or black-haired students. Only problem was that he simply didn't see them.
In the end, he was certain only them, Yuma, and Tori were the only ones not out there because Nelson had just walked out onto the field wielding a light blue D-pad with a blue and gold duel gazer. The former actor was looking around at all the duels going on with amazement.
"Wow, this is everything I ever dreamed it'd be and more." Nelson stated just in awe to be surrounded by so many duelist.
Since Lance couldn't find either person, he decided to approach his friend. "Hey Nelson. Glad to see you didn't get lost."
Lance had of course not forgotten about Nelson, so he had left the boy detailed instructions to make it from their last class to here.
Nelson smiled. "Oh yeah, I didn't have any trouble." He looked at Lance. "Lance… would you mind being my first real duel opponent." He looked at his deck. "I know you say we dueled that night, but the details are fuzzy. Plus, this deck was the deck I wished to use."
"I'll agree, but there is something I want to know. What was the deal with that deck you used? I mean why was it made and what happened to it?" Lance asked.
"It was made when The Sparrow started to become popular and given to me in case I had to duel. Something I had yet to really do. I already had this deck, but 'it wasn't befitting a hero'. At least, that's what mom used to say.
Now, it's actually scheduled to enter a museum over in America called the Smithsonian along with my costume." He rubbed his head. "Turns out my show was just as popular there as it was here."
"Neat." Lance nodded. "Alright, let's find a nice, open space. It's time to have our first, true duel."
Nelson smiled. "Thank you, Lance. I will try my best." The Heroic duelist walked off and Nelson followed looking around. "Why aren't the fan girls swarming us?"
Lance chuckled. "Consider this a favorable time to relax Nelson. There's no need to hide in Mr. Kay's office or run after the period is up. At the very least, the fan girls of this school respect the art of dueling."
Nelson nodded in understanding.
Open Space
Duel Disk Go
Duel Gazer on
Augmented vision link established
Lance and Nelson faced off with one another. "Let's duel."
(Lance 4000/Nelson 4000)
"Alright, best in school first." Lance declared. "I'm starting with Heroic Challenger-Double Lance(LV 4/1700/900)." A warrior decked out in white and light blue armor appeared. "When Double Lance is summoned, he counts for two monster in the Xyz summon of a Heroic Champion.
I'll use him to construct the overlay network. Come forth Heroic Champion-Gandiva(R 4/O 1/2100/1800)." A warrior decked out in dark blue and yellow armor appeared atop a horse. "I'll end my turn with a face down."
Nelson nodded. "Alright." He drew. "I summon Constellar Pollux(LV 4/1700/600)." A warrior decked out in large, white armor appeared. "His ability allows me to conduct another normal summon of a Constellar monster.
"So, I'll tribute Pollux to summon Constellar Virgo(L5/2300/1600)." A fairy in gold and white armor appeared. "Virgo allows me to special summon a Level 5 Constellar monster from my hand to the field in defense mode. I choose Constellar Zubeneschamali."
"Not happening." Lance interjected. "I activate Gandiva's effect. By detaching an overlay unit, I can negate my opponent's special summon and destroy the intended monster."
"You actually put a hold on my plays." Nelson chuckled good anturedly. "That was great! So, this is what a real duel is. Since you stopped my Xyz summon, I'll have Virgo destroy your Gandiva (Lance 3800/Nelson 4000). I'll set one card."
Lance drew. "Since you control a monster, and I do not, I can special summon Heroic Challenger-Assault Halberd(LV 4/1800/300)." A warrior in dark blue and gray armor appeared wielding a halberd.
I then summon Heroic Challenger-Thousand Blades(LV 4/1300/1100)." A warrior in shining silver armor and with many blades on its back appeared. "I activate his ability to discard a card in my hand and special summon Heroic Challenger-War Hammer(LV 6/2100/1300)."
A warrior in dark blue, light blue, and silver armor appeared wielding a massive war hammer. "The only catch is that Thousand Blades must switch to defense. Not a problem when I plan on using him and Halberd to construct the overlay network.
I Xyz summon Heroic Champion-Excalibur(R 4/O 2/2000/2000)." A large warrior decked out in red armor and carrying the famed blade appeared. "Now I activate his ability. By removing two overlay units, his ATK doubles to 4000 until your next end phase."
"Wow, that is impressive!" Nelson declared. "Though an ATK won't come without a cost. I activate Constellar Meteor. This turn, if a monster of yours does battle against a Constellar monster, then they will be shuffled back into the deck. In the case of Excalibur, the extra deck."
"I'll take that risk." Lance declared. "Excalibur destroy Virgo (Lance 3800/Nelson 2300)." Excalibur was then ejected back to Lance's extra deck. "Now Warhammer will launch a direct ATK (Lance 3800/Nelson 200). "I'll end my turn."
A fire was starting to burn in Nelson's heart. He wasn't under the control of a Number this time, and thusly was free to experience dueling. True dueling for the first time.
"This is amazing Lance!" He laughed. "You may have me backed into a corner, but this duel isn't over yet." He drew. "Since you control a monster, and I control none, I can special summon Constellar Siat(LV 1/100/600)." A small fairy in white armor and holding a trophy appeared.
"I then normal summon Constellar Algiedi(LV 4/1600/1400)." A spellcaster in white armor appeared carrying a white rod. "Now I activate Constellar Siat(LV 5/100/600) allowing me to target a monster in my grave, such as Constellar Virgo.
Then, I'm allowed to bump up Siat's level to the selected monsters level. With Constellar Twinkle, I can increase Constellar Algiedi's (LV 5/1600/1400) level by one or two. I only need an increase of one. Now, I build the overlay network with Siat and Algidi.
Come forth Constellar Pleiades(R 5/O 2/2500/1500)." A warrior decked out in gold and white armor appeared. "I then detach an overlay unit allowing me to return War Hammer to your hand. Now I will go for the direct ATK (Lance 1300/Nelson 200). I end my turn."
"Impressive. I could summon Thousand Blade back from the grave, but that'd serve no purpose with my current face down and card in my hand." Lance drew and smiled. "This has been fun, but there's a reason I'm number one.
It's time to end this." He drew. "I summon Heroic Challenger-Spartan(LV 4/1600/1000)." A warrior decked out in gold and red roman styled armor appeared. "I then activate Copy Knight. Since I normal summoned, this trap special summons a token copy of Spartan.
Same level and name just 0 ATK, DEF, and no effect. That's fine as I now have what I need to Xyz summon Heroic Champion-Excalibur(R 4/O 2/2000/2000) once more. As you recall, I take away both units doubling his ATK. Now, he'll destroy Pleiades (Lance 1300/Nelson 0)."
"I lost…" Nelson laughed. "That was truly fun!"
Lance walked over and patted his friend on the back. "You did a good job Nelson. For your first duel, that wasn't bad at all."
Just then, the Heroic duelist noticed Tori about to duel the boy with spiky black hair and red irises.
Nelson noticed where Lance was looking. "Does that duel interest you?"
Lance had a thoughtful look. "It certainly does." He walked over. "Come on, I want to see that guy duel."
The Constellar duelist followed. The two of them came to stand near the duel and Lance noticed the duelist looked over at him before quickly adverting his eyes. This made the Heroic Duelist raise an eye brow.
Tori looked at the student. "I don't mind dueling, but I don't really know your name." She quickly apologized. "Sorry. I know you're in my class by your uniform, but I'm drawing a blank on your name."
The little guy quickly bowed. "That's quite alright Ms. Meadows." He stood up. "No one in our year really notices me because I skipped fifth grade. Advanced placement." He opened his eyes wide. "I'm sorry. You asked my name. I tend to ramble. My name is Shane Conner."
Tori was couldn't help but squeal. Who could blame here. The kid before her was just to cute.
Shane looked up at her concerned. "Ms. Meadows are you alright?"
"I'm fine." Tori cleared her throat. "Anyways, let's get started."
Shane nodded. "R-Right."
"Let's duel."
(Tori 4000/Shane 4000)
Shane said, "If it's alright with you Ms. Meadows, could I go first?"
Tori nodded. "You're more than welcome to."
Shane said, "I summon Malicevorous Skewer(LV 2/300/300) in ATK mode." A little fiend in dark purple armor appeared holding a skewer. "I'll end my turn with that."
Nelson looked at Lance. "I've never heard of Malicevorous monsters. Do you know anything about them?"
Lance nodded as he crossed his arms. "It started as a small series of three cards, spoon, fork, and knife, before evolving with more monsters and support." He closed his eyes. "It's a deck that focuses on massive swarming and Xyz summoning of multiple Ranks."
"You mean that deck can summon more than just Rank 2?" Nelson asked shocked.
"Summoning more than one would expect from a deck isn't out of the question, but the Malicevorous archetype certainly can excel at it." Lance nodded. "It's of course child's play to summon Xyz's of Rank 2. I mean ones that require anything from 2-5.
It's the support they have, that breaches into the other ranks. Mainly 3, 4, 6, and 8 that only require 2 monsters. That's not say they can't do more. You just have to play your cards right to accomplish greater feats or different ranks."
Tori tilted her head. "Only one monster? He didn't even play it in defense mode. Well, I can't exactly pull my punches because that wouldn't be respectful to my opponent. Still, I think this one has the opposite problem of Yuma."
She drew. "I set one monster and then activate Book of Taiyou allowing me to flip that monster into face-up ATK mode. I reveal Kamui, Hope of Gusto(LV 2/200/1000)." A girl with green hair and lighter green cloak appeared.
"When she's flipped, I can special summon a Gusto from my deck. I choose Gusto Falco(LV 2/600/1400)." A little green bird wearing armor appeared. "I now overlay my Level 2 Falco and Kamui to Xyz summon Daigusto Phoenix(R 2/O 2/1500/1100)."
An orange and green featherless phoenix appeared. "I then activate Xyz Energy. By detaching one unit from Phoenix, I can destroy your Skewer. Then by detaching the last unit I can activate Phoenix's ability allowing him to make two attack. They'll be direct (Tori 4000/Shane 1000)."
Shane drew. "I summon Malicevorous Fork(LV 2/400/400) in ATK mode." A fiend wearing dark purple armor and wielding a large fork appeared. "I end my turn."
Tori was very confused as she drew. "Daigusto Phoenix will ATK your Fork (Tori 4000/Shane 0)."
Shane sadly bowed to her. "Thank you for the duel Ms. Meadows."
He then ran off quickly disappearing among the crowd.
Tori was concerned. "Shane, wait! Where did he go!?"
Lance still had his eyes on the boy as he ran by Tori. "Don't worry, I got this." He called back to Nelson. "Stay with Tori1"
"Got it!" Nelson quickly called out.
Inside the Academy, Hallway…
After feeling certain that Ms. Meadows hadn't followed him, Shane had entered the academy and was now slowly walking through the halls towards his next class. Maybe the teacher would be nice enough to let him in early. He just felt disappointed in himself
"I knew you'd come this way!" Lance declared as he came out from around the corner standing in Shane's way.
Shane was so shocked by the voice and Lance's sudden appearance that he fell to his butt; however, he didn't exactly pay any mind to that as he was to busy staring up at Lance in shock.
"It's Lance!" Shane looked at the ground and started to cry. "He must think I'm a terrible duelist. Not that he'd be wrong. I don't know what I'm doing. Now he must think I'm a crybaby. This is just great. I didn't want to meet him like this."
Lance crouched before him. "Whoa. Hey, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to startle you. Are you alright?"
Shane sniffled. "I'm fine."
Lance rubbed the back of his head. "I mean, no one who cries is okay. There's something there making them cry. I sincerely apologize if I caused… I didn't mean… I should have been more careful in how I approached…"
Shane frantically waved his hands in front of himself. "No, you really didn't make me cry."
Lance asked, "What did?"
Shane quietly said, "I embarrassed myself in front of you. You've been my idol ever since the 1st day of middle school. You're just so confident and cool. You're great at dueling. I want to be just like that, but I don't know how to duel.
I live in a very nice house with a butler that became my guardian. He's nice, but he doesn't know dueling. I could have brought this up with him, but I didn't. That's my fault. I'm certain he'd have found someone to teach me.
I just… I want to become a great duelist like my father was. Now, you must think I'm a terrible duelist and a cry baby. Middle Schoolers aren't supposed to cry. I'm pathetic and weak. This isn't how I wanted to meat you. Not that I ever had the confidence to try."
Lance put his hands on his shoulders. "Whoa, that is a lot to unpack, but I don't think you're weak for crying. It's only natural for people to cry when they feel sad. I don't think you're a terrible duelist. Heck, I don't think Yuma a terrible duelist. He's my best friends.
He just needs work like you. You just need someone to show you the ropes." He smiled confidently. "Who better than the number one in school. I'll whip you into dueling shape in no time." He chuckled. "Especially since you seem capable of learning normally unlike Yuma."
Yuma was by no means stupid. He just learned differently.
Shane opened his eyes in shock. "Do you really mean… You'll become my teacher? My master?"
Lance helped Shane up. "That's what I'm offering."
Shane hugged Lance. "Thank you. I promise I won't let you down Mater Hogan." Eventually he let go feeling much better. "What's the first step. I'm ready for anything."
"This kid is an odd one." Lance thought with a sweat drop. "The first step is to get you cleaned up. If we're lucky, you may be able to have a practice duel before the period's up." He started to walk to the bathrooms. "Come along."
Shane nodded. "Yes, Master Zack."
"I think it's safe to say Shane isn't the one behind the meals or pranks. That leaves the silver haired girl as the last likely suspect." Lance thought. "Only question is, where is she?"
Guard0077:I wonder if Tori will get a number card, but won't be possessed. By the way, i noticed something wrong about her duel with Yuma. Pilica the descendant of gusto is level 3.
Quillion9000:I'm aware of Pillica's Level, but decided to make her a level 2. Don't worry to much about it. tori will eventually shift to another archetype. As for the number question. Anything can happen.
guicontiero2:great story man , if vou don't mind me asking Will lance gain number 96 and/or the other heavenly dragon?
Quillion90000:I have ideas for number 96 and no he will not gain the other three dragons. He may gain the evolved forms of his dragon though.
