All right. Here we go again. When last we left off Bandit Keith had gotten the advantage in his duel with Serenity and Kyle, but if he thinks that's gonna stop 'em, he'd best think again. Serenity can be like Joey, considering he's her idol. She always looks up to him. So since Joey has never given up in any of his duels, let's hope Keith can't be so stupid as to think either Serenity or Kyle will give up, considering Joey didn't quit when he was on the verge of losing to him back in Duelist Kingdom. Anyway, I'm rambling on. Let's keep going on with the story, shall we?
"Take a good long look, you two. I've got two monsters that outrank your puny ones. Zera the Mant and Machine King are both ready to take you out. All together, these monsters have 5100 attack points. More than enough to wipe you two out."
"You've been glorifying with your monsters so long Keith, you forgot my faced down cards. Reveal Coffin Seller!" Kyle said and he flipped a card with a person wearing a purple cloak with a hood, a blue aura surrounding its body, and was sitting in a room with many coffins all around. "As long as this card is on the field, every time you lose a monster, Keith, you'll lose 300 life points. So since you sacrificed two, you lose 600 points."
Serenity: 4000 LP Keith: 6200 LP Kyle: 3800 LP.
"Big deal, rookie. I'm still gonna wipe you both out. Just like I almost did Joey Wheeler, back in Duelist Kingdom."
"My big brother beat you, Bandit Keith. He won, you lost, it was simple as that!" Serenity spoke out.
"He got lucky," was Keith's excuse.
"No. He won because he believed in his cards. And we're gonna take you down the same way. Because Kyle and I both believe in our decks."
"Blah, blah, blah. Let's get on with this duel. Zera the Mant attack her Water Omotics!"
And then Zera the Mant ran over and clawed her monster, destroying it.
"Now, Machine King, it's your turn. Destroy her Goddess with the Third Eye!"
Then from the circular object on its chest, Machine King fired an electric blue blast, which hit Serenity's last monster, blasting it off the field.
"Luckily, Serenity's monsters were both in defense mode, Keith, so her life points are safe," Kyle said to Keith.
"Whatever. I'll end my turn there."
"Then it's back to me," Kyle continued and drew. "Now I'll sacrifice Dark Bat, so I can bring out Des Volstgalph."
Kyle's Dark Bat left the field, then from behind him, the red and blue dragon he'd used on Kaiba had appeared in a bright flash of light.
"Next I'll put yet another faced down card, and stop there."
Another card appeared faced down in front of Kyle.
"Then it's my turn," Serenity began with a draw. "First I get 200 extra life points thanks to my Marie the Fallen One being in the graveyard."
Serenity: 4200 LP Keith: 6200 LP Kyle: 3800 LP.
"Then I think I'll also put another card faced down, and summon Fire Princess, in defense mode."
Fire Princess: ATK: 1300 DEF: 1500.
Then in defense mode, a woman with sandy white hair, wearing an orange dress, with a red cape, and wielding a wooden staff appeared.
"I'll stop there, Keith."
"Fine by me," Keith started his next turn. "I'll begin by activating my faced down card: Machine Conversion Factory." Keith said flipping a card with its design of a factory building machines. "As long as this is on the field, all my Machines will gain 300 more attack and defense points."
Machine King: ATK: 2600 DEF: 2300.
"He keeps powering up all his machines with really powerful cards!" Kyle thought in his head. "My Des Volsgalph has no chance against either of his monsters, unless. That's it! Serenity and I still have two faced down cards. Maybe they can help. I haven't known Serenity long, but I have no choice but to put all my faith in her." He and Serenity then looked to each other, and Serenity nodded her head at him, knowing what he was thinking. Then Kyle nodded back.
"All right, Machine King, take down his Des Volstgalph!" Keith yelled, and then Machine King shot that electric blue blast again, towards Des Volsgalph.
"Reveal magic card!" Kyle flipped up a card. "Rain of Mercy! It gives us all 1000 more life points." And then each of the three had a blue aura shining on them.
"I'll make sure you don't gain life points Keith, I also flip one of my faced down cards: Bad Reaction to Simochi!" Serenity flipped a trap card. "While this is on the field, every time you try to increase your life points, you'll lose that many instead."
And then the aura around Keith turned red.
Serenity: 5200 LP Keith: 5200 LP Kyle: 4800 LP.
"Big deal."
"Oh, it is a big deal, Bandit Keith. See thanks to Des Volstgalph's ability, each time a magic card is activated, he gains 200 attack points," Kyle explained.
"So what? That's still not enough. Des Volstgalph has 2400 but Machine King has 2600. Do the math, pea brain. Your monster's still weaker."
"Not for long. Reveal Monster Reborn!" Serenity flipped her second card up. "With this I can summon a monster from my graveyard, and I'll take my Goddess with the Third Eye."
Then her Goddess with the Third Eye returned in defense mode.
"Monster Reborn gives Des Volstgalph 200 more attack points. Making him equal to your Machine King," Serenity finished.
"Des Volstgalph, counter attack!" Kyle yelled to his dragon, and he shot a blue-green blast from his mouth.
Machine King's and Des Volstgalph's blasts went past each other, then hit the opposing monster, destroying them both.
"HAHAHA!" Joey exclaimed. "Now Keith loses 800 more life points!"
"What?! That's impossible!" Keith yelled.
"Wrong. Thanks to Des Volstgalph's other ability, each time he destroys a monster, you'll lose 500 life points, plus I still have Coffin seller on the field. 500 plus 300 is 800. Do the math, pea brain."
Serenity: 5200 LP Keith: 4400 LP Kyle: 4800 LP.
"No way. I'm losing to a couple of losers! I won't lose this duel. Not to a rookie and not to an amateur's sister. I still have one monster, Zera the Mant. Zera, attack him directly!" Then Keith's Zera the Mant charged at Kyle.
"He's not going down that easily, Bandit Keith!" Serenity exclaimed. "Fire Princess, defend Kyle!"
Serenity's Fire Princess then jumped in front of Kyle, and she took the strike from Zera the Mant, and got destroyed.
"You sacrificed your own monster to save me?"
"The least I could do, since you put your faith in me."
"Thanks. Now let's get on with this duel." Kyle went on. "I begin by playing my Painful Choice magic card. It lets me take five cards from my deck, show them to you, and you pick one. The one you pick, I get to keep, while the others go to the graveyard."
Kyle's cards were then revealed in front of Keith. They were Great White, Blackland Fire Dragon, Darkfire Soldier #2, the Portrait's Secret, and Winged Dragon Guardian of the Fortress #1.
"I'll let ya keep that Portrait's secret, seeing as how it's the lamest monster."
"Fine." Kyle replied and tossed out the other four cards. "Now I'll summon Slate Warrior, in attack mode."
Slate Warrior: ATK: 1900 DEF: 400.
And then a monster with blue skin, wearing a yellow vest, with green sleeves, red pants, yellow boots, with orange eyes, and a red mark on its forehead.
"Slate Warrior, attack his Zera the Mant!"
Kyle's slate warrior then charged and jumped to Zera the Mant, but Zera counterattacked and struck Slate Warrior.
Serenity: 5200 LP Keith: 4400 LP Kyle: 3900 LP.
"Why'd you just do that, Kyle? His monster is stronger than Slate Warrior," Serenity asked Kyle.
"Because when Slate Warrior is destroyed, the monster that did it loses 500 attack points. That's why I sacrificed my own life points. Sometimes you have to give life points to take life points, Serenity."
Zera the Mant: ATK and DEF: 2300.
"Now, go, Serenity, take him down. I'll end my turn Keith."
"Then I'll begin. I'll start by gaining 200 more life points from Marie the Fallen One."
Serenity: 5400 LP Keith: 4400 LP Kyle: 3900 LP.
"I'll now play Premature Burial. By giving up 800 of my life points, I can now revive Marie the Fallen One."
Serenity: 4600 LP Keith: 4400 LP Kyle: 3900 LP.
Marie the Fallen One: ATK: 1700 DEF: 1200.
Then in a flash of light, a monster with black skin, neck length blond hair, wearing a pink dress and black wings on her back appeared.
"Next I'll play Polymerization!" Serenity held up a magic card. "I'll sacrifice Marie and this monster: The Forgiving Maiden. Together they create the mighty St Joan."
St Joan: ATK: 2800 DEF: 2000.
Then an even brighter light shined in front of Serenity, which flooded the entire field with light, and when it faded, a woman with short red hair, wearing a silver vest, black leggings, wielding a long sword stood tall.
"St Joan, attack Keith's Zera the Mant!"
A pair of white angel wings appeared on St Joan's back, and she flew over towards Keith's monster and struck it down.
Serenity: 4600 LP Keith: 3600 LP Kyle: 3900 LP.
"I don't believe it!" Keith exclaimed in his mind. "They're wiping me out! I can't lose to those chumps! They're just a couple of rookies!"
"With your final monster gone, I end my turn," Serenity finished.
"I won't lose to you rookies, I won't!" Keith yelled and drew his card. "Now I play Pot of Greed." Keith held up his card. "This lets me draw two more cards from my deck."
Keith picked up to more cards and looked down to them. He started to chuckle lightly, until he burst out into an evil laugh.
"Now you're finished! I begin by playing this card: Tribute Burial!" And then Bandit Keith held up a card with black figured spirits, who had gray mist surrounding them, and they were rising from the grave. "This lets me banish a monster from each of our graveyards. I'll remove your Marie the Fallen One..." and the Marie the Fallen One card shot out of Serenity's graveyard. "...your Des Volstgalph..." the same thing happened to Kyle's graveyard. "...and my Giga Tech wolf." Finally a monster card came from Keith's graveyard. "In exchange for removing these monsters, I can summon a high level one without a sacrifice. And this new, well oiled machine happens to be my favorite. Come out, Barrel Dragon!"
Barrel Dragon: ATK: 2600 DEF: 2200.
Then from under the ground, in a flash of light, right in front of Keith, a big, black mechanical dragon, with three cannons on its arms and its head arose.
"And don't forget, I still have my magic card, Machine Conversion Factory on the field."
Barrel Dragon: ATK: 2900 DEF: 2500.
"And also, just to make things a little more fun, Barrel Dragon is allowed to attack three times in one turn, thanks to his three proton cannons. So that's one to take out your monster, and the other two to go straight for your life points. Now, take them, Barrel Dragon! Proton Cannon blast!"
Then all three of the Barrel Dragon's cannons charged up an orange blast, then fired them all at once. One hit St Joan, while the other two hit Serenity and Kyle.
Serenity: 1600 LP Keith: 3600 LP Kyle: 1000 LP.
After St Joan was destroyed, and Serenity and Kyle were hit, they were both knocked to the ground from the impact.
"Give up?" Keith asked with a chuckle.
"Never," both Serenity and Kyle said in unison.
"Your loss then."
"It's my move now, Keith," Kyle drew his next card. "I lay one card faced down on the field, then summon the Portrait's Secret, in defense mode."
The Portrait's Secret: ATK: 1200 DEF: 1500.
Then in defensive mode, a picture frame of a man wearing a black suit, with hair going gray, and out of that frame, a monster with bright green skin, crazy messed up black hair, with sharp claws emerged from it.
"I'll stop there, Bandit Keith."
"My turn," Serenity started her next turn with a draw. "I'll set a monster faced down in defense mode. I end it there."
"Then it's time to wipe you out," Keith made his next move. Barrel Dragon attack their monsters, then take out the rest of her life points!"
Barrel Dragon charged its proton cannons again.
"You won't win that easily, Bandit Keith!" Kyle exclaimed. "Reveal trap card! Changing Destiny!"
Keith's metal dragon stopped charging the cannons, then kneeled down.
"Now your monster is stuck in defensive mode. But that's not all, now we're also gonna play a game of chance." Then right in front of Keith, just like what happened with Yugi, the red and blue doors appeared in front of him.
"You have to pick one of these doors. And I think I'll just explain what they do. After you pick one of these doors, it'll open and its effect will activate. One will add half of Barrel Dragon's attack points into my life points, the other will subtract half those points from your life points. So pick a door."
Keith glared at both those doors, looking from the red one on the right, to the blue one on the left, back and forth. "What do I do?! Either door I pick will give those chumps an advantage. How did I not see this coming?!" Keith snapped back into reality. "I choose the red door."
The blue door disappeared, then the red one opened, and it released a purple mist, which first shrouded Barrel Dragon, then went to Keith and shrouded him.
"Looks to me like you lose the life points, Bandit Keith," Kyle spoke out.
Serenity: 1600 LP Keith: 2150 LP Kyle: 1000 LP.
"You got lucky, you punk. I'll stop there," Keith said with built up anger in his voice.
"Back to me then. As my turn begins, my last faced down activates: Solemn Wishes. This trap card gives me 500 life points each time I draw."
Serenity: 1600 LP Keith: 2150 LP Kyle: 1500 LP.
"For my next move, I'll play Pot of Greed, letting me draw 2 additional cards. And with 2 more cards, it's a thousand more life points."
Serenity: 1600 LP Keith: 2150 LP Kyle: 2500 LP.
"Now I have just enough life points to withstand what I'm about to do. First it starts with my Soul Release magic card. From my graveyard I'll remove these monsters: Dark Bat and Darkfire Soldier #2." Kyle said while holding two cards. "Next I play this magic card: Dimension Fusion." Kyle held up another magic card with two people emerging from a vortex. "I give up 2000 life points, so we can now summon all our banished monsters."
Serenity: 1600 LP Keith: 2150 LP Kyle: 500 LP.
"Now return to me: Des Volsgalph, Dark Bat, and Darkfire Soldier #2." Kyle exclaimed as all his monsters returned.
Darkfire Soldier #2: ATK: 1700 DEF: 1100.
"And I return my Marie the Fallen One." Serenity said as her banished monster returned as well.
"I'll pass on the reviving banished monsters."
Then Kyle pulled another card from his hand. "Now, go! Dragon Revival Ritual!" He raised the card into the air. "I sacrifice the four monsters I have."
"I'll also give him my monster to sacrifice!" Serenity exclaimed and Marie the Fallen One went in front of Kyle.
"Now I have all I need to summon Five Headed Dragon!"
The five monsters turned green, then flew up and merged together, where they burst into an even brighter green light behind Kyle.
"What?! Where did the rookie get a card as powerful as Five Headed Dragon?! He really has improved since our last duel!"
The green light faded, and Kyle's best card stood behind him.
"And thanks to its special ability, Five Headed Dragon instantly destroys all your monsters, the second it's summoned to the field."
Then Five Headed Dragon roared loudly and fiercely, destroying all Keith's cards.
"No way!" Keith yelled.
"Lucky for you he's not allowed to attack the same turn he's summoned."
"Then on my next turn, I-"
"There's not going to be a next turn for you, Bandit Keith," Serenity interrupted him.
"What do you mean?"
"Did you forget about the monster I put faced down on the field already? It's my turn and now I'm flipping that monster face up: Magician of Faith."
Magician of Faith: ATK: 300 DEF: 400.
Serenity flipped up a lady who had long, red-violet hair tied in a ponytail behind her head, wearing a purple robe, with red sleeves and leggings, and wielding a moon scepter.
"When Magician of Faith is flipped up, I can take a magic card from my graveyard and put it in my hand," Serenity said as she pulled a card from the discard slot. "But it won't stay in my hand because I play it now. Monster Reborn!" she held the card out. "With this I can revive my St Joan."
The ground then lit up in front of Serenity and from that light, St Joan arose from the grave.
"But wait there's more, Bandit Keith. I give Serenity more fire power. My Five Headed Dragon is now under your control, Serenity."
"Thanks, Kyle. I knew we could do it."
"I knew it all along. Now go on, you take him down."
"No. We take him down together."
Serenity and Kyle turned back to face Keith.
"Five Headed Dragon and St Joan! Attack Keith directly and end this duel!" Both Kyle and Serenity yelled in unison.
Five Headed Dragon's five heads all charged their blasts, and at the same time, St Joan hovered in front of it, then turned into an orb of golf light. Five Headed Dragon shot its five blasts, and St Joan also flew as if she were a sixth blast.
Those six blasts hit Bandit Keith, and caused a big impact of light.
Serenity: 1600 LP Keith: 0 LP Kyle: 500 LP.
"NOOOOO!" Keith yelled as he was hit the impact of the blast and lost the rest of his life points.
The bright light faded, all the holograms disappeared into thin air, and Keith dropped to his knees in defeat.
"YEAH!" Joey jumped up in the air. "Ya did it! Ya beat Keith!" He ran over to Serenity and scooped her up in his arms, hugging her tightly.
"So what was that you said about us being just rookies, Bandit Keith?" Kyle asked sarcastically.
"Shut up, chump. You got lucky this time," Keith arose to his feet. "You win this time, but you haven't seen the last of me." Keith turned his back and walked off.
"He's just a sore loser, Kyle," Joey spoke out. "What matters is dat you and Serenity won. If he can't learn to live with defeat, den let him go."
"Yeah. You're right. He'll never accept it. Come on, let's go get those smoothies." He turned back to Serenity and Joey, and put his hands on their shoulders, then they all walked off.
Back at the Kaiba Corp building, in his office, Kaiba was wearing the white suit again, and he and Mokuba were working on the computer at his desk, adding designs to his Egyptian God Colossus coaster.
"This ride is gonna be awesome, Seto! I can't believe that soon it'll be open. It's looking better by the second. Everyone will wanna ride."
"It's gonna be one of the biggest attractions to the theme park. This will be a one of a kind though. Here in Domino City, we'll have the only one."
And then, all of a sudden Kaiba's computer started to go haywire. The monitor screen was flashing with a bunch of different programs every second.
"What?! What's going on with my computer?!" Kaiba yelled.
"It must be that glitch we experienced before!" Mokuba exclaimed.
Kaiba then picked up the phone. "Roland! My computer has gone haywire! I thought you reinforced the firewall!"
"I did, sir! But it seems you're not the only one with difficulties. All of our software is on the fritz!"
"Put in a delete code! Now!" Kaiba raised his voice and tried to fix the trouble with his computer.
"Already on it, sir."
"Why is this happening?!" Kaiba yelled in his head. "I reinforced that firewall so it wouldn't do this. I made it strong enough so no one could get in! Not from the outside. Wait. What if it's not happening from the outside? What if it's happening from inside?! Oh, no!"
All right. I'm gonna stop it there. How did you like this one? Serenity and Kyle, they actually took that creep down. But what Keith said, who knows if it will be the last time they see him or not. He could be back. Like how Marik mind controlled him and Yugi dueled him to try and save his millennium puzzle. And what could be going on with Kaiba's computer mainframe? Whatever it is, it keeps making his whole system go cuckoo. Anyway, I hope you liked this one. Cause if you did, wait'll you see what I do next. I know I like the idea of it already. Please read, review, and enjoy.
