Back again with the author's note and we got some 'serious' stuff to talk about but I'll put it after the stuff I think I'm regularly doing.
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MaskedGamer - *looks up Negate Attack* Well, I guess I'm fixing that before continuing on. I completely forgot it was a Trap, but just for the straight to Endphase thing the turn just ended after that move before I forgot to write that... then again it's been awhile so I'm not quite sure if I actually fixed this or not... but I'll go back and fix some stuff anyways.
ShadowFire10 - I'm glad to hear that... oh wait I think I forgot to explain that a bit further. Thanks and I'll explain it a bit more when I go back and edit it.
Raygha Raikouga - The monsters aren't supposed to be OP much... but I do have reasons for them being considered 'OP.' They actually aren't really but that's explained later on in the story.
Now onto the serious stuff before we get started with this chapter. After rewrite after rewrite of this prewritten chapter, I have to say this will be the last prewritten one and from here on out I'll be writing from episodes or ideas that come to my head. Therefore, there will be a short break to brainstorm ideas and deal with some life issues. Don't worry I'll still be writing but it will take some time. The groove of this story is hard to write sometimes and I'm not sure I can continue this on the regular schedule I'd like to put this on.
So, if you guys have any ideas for the stuff of the in-between the championship or episodes - since Lowell isn't exactly going to be keen or well liked for reasons you will see later - leave it in a review and I'll see what I'll do.
(Update Note: Some parts of this chapter have been rewritten due to me realizing that I completely forgot/wrote two characters that weren't the girls dueling... at least for the ending part in terms of personality. So now it's changed to how I like it.)
Episode 7: Awakening of Spectral Darkness
After Niles left, I was stuck trying to piece together what the hell just happened while a headache decided to pop by as well. It was really starting to get on my nerves on why this was all happening, but while sometimes to compose myself, I picked myself up and walked to open the door. What I didn't expect was for it to open up and reveal a brand new person who seemed surprised as I as when the door nearly hit my face.
"Ah! Oh I'm so sorry," She apologized, "I didn't know somebody else was in here."
"N-Neither did I think somebody was entering here either," I added on before I noticed her uniform, "Hey, that uniform…"
I trailed off as I got a better look at her. Raven-like hair flowed down to her knees as light green fringes were present as well, leaving her orange eyes in view. The uniform she wore was strangely alike to what Shingo wore and that was in a bad way. A light blue shirt, red necktie under a gold and red lined jacket. Short red skirt, black stockings leading into white Mary Jane's… I was pretty sure she was different in some way.
"This uniform? Well it's just the placeholder I'm getting till I receive my actual uniform once I'm in the next semester. Oh right, introductions, My name is Sabrine Bakuno; I'm a transfer student to LDS. Might I ask what your name is? You look… to be from You Show correct?" She asked while extending her hand.
"Yeah, that's right; I'm a student of this school. My name is Lowell Ember. Pleasure to make your acquaintance," I shook her hand and I swear something in her eyes changed, but it was very brief, "So Sabrine Bakuno… an interesting last name."
"Same with your first name Lowell. Say, you're a duelist correct? And by duelist I mean one that is competent in a duel."
"I guess you can say that, is there a reason you'd want to duel me?" I asked as she passed by and washed her hands.
"Well, I only came thanks to the Chairwoman inviting a talented transfer student like myself to see what her students can do. But so far it's been so boring," She whined a bit at the end as the water kept running, "XYZ? Bor~ing. Fusion? I can practically do that in my sleep. I think the last kid has Synchro but I doubt this will be any good. The reason I accepted was to see this 'infamous' Pendulum Summoning and Yuya sure did show it off."
"So, Yuya's already dueled?"
"Yep," She was drying her hands, "Yuya one against the star-dipper guy, gem-knight girl defeated Yuzu and I believe sword guy was facing the big guy about now. Can you tell how bored I am? At least for Yuya's match it was exciting and Yuzu's monsters looked pretty. Otherwise I would have fallen asleep in those reminder of summoning duels…"
"Reminder of summoning duels?" I was totally caught off guard by this comment.
"You wouldn't understand it would you? Oops, I need to keep my thoughts shut instead of spilling them out. Sorry I have a bad habit of doing that…" Her voice trailed off as our eyes met again, "Say… you wouldn't mind if I duel you correct if we get a chance?"
"Duel against me? Why would you do that? Shouldn't you ask Yuya?"
"I would but you see… something about you intrigues me unlike anybody else… So what do you say?"
"...I suppose so," I gave in as my headache subsided.
"Wonderful! Oh one last thing, can you duel me using that deck just delivered through the mail?"
"Deck delivered through the mail? What are you talking about?"
"There's a package with your name that everyone left for you outside. You should check it out. Well, I'd best get back to watch the boring duels like usual. See you there Lowell! I hope we can have a fun duel sometime." She waved as she left.
Shaking my head after Sabrine left, I decided to walk to the main hangout place and found a package just like she said. There seemed to be no return address or anything to give me a clue about who sent this besides the small note hanging at the top. As I opened the package, I read the note that nobody bothered to open:
Take good care of this deck okay? Sorry, I can't meet you in person just yet. Can't risk you getting in danger because of me. This deck has everything you'll need and it's compatible with your Bestia Deck. There are cards that will work between those decks just for you. If you want to meet me, come to the Battle Royal. I'll be waiting to see you there.
Sincerely,
Your Confidante
Going into the package, I was shocked seeing the amount of cards this person had supplied me with. Inside were new XYZ, Synchro, Fusion, Ritual and Pendulum monsters that work with my Bestia deck and another one with cool-looking designs and abilities that I was excited to try out. Not to mention the old cards from the previous series: I mean I got some old cards that were still viable. Strangely, though, there was another summoning style with cards I just now recognized and remembered. How long ago were these introduced and just forgotten? I need to try these out for my next duel. Loading the new deck and my improved deck into my holders, I stuffed the note into my pocket and threw the rest into the trash before running over to meet everyone else.
"Lowell! There you are - where is Niles?" Yuzu was confused as I was the only one to come back.
"Huh, who's this girl?" A strange star head student asked me.
"I'm a student at this school thank you very much," I placed my hands on my hips, "Geez did you learn any manners at that esteemed school or what?"
"Who's this student?" The chairwoman seemed shocked that I was here.
"Can't you let me answer Yuzu's question first? Niles wasn't feeling too good so he headed back home," I answered my pink haired friend before turning to the rest of the LDS students and chairwoman - Sabrine was too busy watching the duel to care at the moment, "As for who I am and my relationship to this school? I'm the newest student here: Lowell Ember."
"So this is the talked-about Synchro Star of You Show? Haha," The dark-skinned LDS student seemed to get a kick out of that, "Like you could even Synchro Summon a strong monster."
"Well at least I can Fusion and XYZ summon and not rely on just one summoning style thank you very much," The students seemed surprised, "I favor Synchro Summoning yes, but I can switch if I want to."
"Really? Then you've got to show us sometime!" Sora looked so excited, "I'd love to see what you've got Teach!"
"Teach? When did I earn that?" I asked him as he giggled.
"When you defeated Niles with your monster of course! I was so amazed at how you took it out like it was nothing."
"But I just got lucky there…" I scratched the back of my head.
"No, you don't understand! Nobody here has even defeated Niles until you came! And you did it in one try as well!" Tatsuya seemed to be in a rush to get that out.
"Is that so? Interesting…" The Chairwoman seemed intrigued when she heard that, "Tell me, why did you choose to attend this school and not LDS? You do realize how limited your experience and tools are limited here."
"Of course I do!" I stopped her before she could continue, "But I choose to go here not because of the costs or my limited 'studies.' I choose to come here because I felt the true dueling spirit here at its strongest than anywhere else."
Yuya looked over to me and I went to smile back at him, but then the sound of the duel ending caught all of our attentions as we turned to see the results.
"A draw?" One of the LDS students asked.
"Hah, predictable." Sabrine turned to the chairwoman, "As I foretold this would end in a draw and thus You Show remains self-owned and operated."
"I don't need someone like you to tell me!" The woman snapped at Sabrine before the two duelists were removed from the field.
"However, if this makes anyone happier, I'd like to propose an offer that neither side can deny." Sabrine looked over at me as her eyes shined, "I suggest since I'm transferring to LDS and you have a brand new student from You Show that we can duel for a tie-breaker match!"
"Are you kidding me?" The LDS girl asked Sabrine as she shook her head.
"I know exactly what I'm doing Masumi! Besides, this student has agreed to have a duel with me already!" She pointed directly at me, causing everyone from You Show to gasp.
"L-Lowell, is this true?" I heard the principal asked over the loudspeaker.
"Yes, it is true," I responded after a moment of silence.
Sabrine smirked. "You see? Then we can duel instead here and now okay? Everyone, listen up. We're going to do this under one condition: if this ends in a draw, then LDS will leave this school alone and accept that this ends in a draw!"
"What?! You can't be serious!" Yuzu exclaimed.
"The same rules apply for whoever wins or loses. Got it?" I finished it off as I walked onto the duel field, turning on my duel disk.
"You sure are right Lowell! Now let's have a duel that we can enjoy and have fun okay? This may be over what happens with this school, but don't make it boring for me okay?" Sabrine asked as she ran onto the field and turned hers on as well, one that I noticed looked different than my own, "Hey, mind if I choose the field we'll be fighting in? I'll let you take the first move if you like."
"Sure I guess. I have no problem with that kind of bargain."
"Sabrine Bakuno…" I heard somebody's voice trailed off as my dark-haired opponent snapped her fingers.
"I'd like to choose a duel field worthy of a fun duel! Let us go to Dual Clock Trains!"
Around us, the system began to change as we continued to stare down each other. Soon, both of us found ourselves on moving trains going in the same direction, clockwise in a circle and from either side of us were train cars while Action Cards dispersed above us.
"Alright, this is what I'm talking about!" Sabrine exclaimed, "You ready Lowell?"
"Let' do this!"
"Duel!" We both yelled.
Lowell: 4000
Vs
Sabrine: 4000
"As told you before, take the first move why don't you?" Sabrine offered as I looked around before running to my right.
"Okay then, my move!" I looked at the new deck I obtained before smiling as I choose a card from my hand, "First I summon Spectral Dolly in Defense Mode! I'll also activate Hatching Season, which allows me to summon 3 Egg Tokens in defense position onto my field! I'll end my turn." A doll appeared in a cute, worn down appearance and three egg tokens appeared by her side, making her seem happy.
Spectral Dolly: Level 3 Dark Fiend/Spellcaster/Effect ATK: 100 DEF: 1400
Egg Token: Level 1 Earth Fiend ATK: 0 DEF: 0
"So that's the new deck of yours? I'm liking where this is going, but it's my turn! Draw!" She pulled a card, "First, I'll activate the Spell Teleport! Since I have no monsters on the field and you have a few I can pay 800LP to special summon a monster from my hand straight to the field!"
Lowell: 4000
Vs
Sabrine: 3200
"And I choose from my hand… Nebula Knight Luna! Arise my knight! When she's on the field, I can special summon her knight in shining armor Nebula Knight Sol from my Deck!" She summoned a female knight of silver and dark blue and a male knight of golden and red.
Nebula Knight Luna: Level 5 Light Psychic/Warrior/?/Effect ATK: 1600 DEF: 1900
Nebula Knight Sol: Level 5 Light Psychic/Warrior/?/Effect ATK: 2400 DEF: 1800
"Huh? She has monsters just like Niles and Lowell do!" Futoshi exclaimed.
"What's this the question marks on her monsters?" I muttered before I looked back at her, "Or better yet, why are they Psychic and Warrior-Typed of all things?"
"I will also normally summon Nebula Knight Comet onto the field to give them a bit of backup," Another small knight appeared, being of tan and grey.
Nebula Knight Comet: Level 3 Light Psychic/Warrior/Tuner/Effect ATK: 1000 DEF: 1000
"With my Comet on the field, I will activate his special ability! By giving up 500LP, I get to have one Polymerization card in my hand." She took the spell as her Life Points decreased.
Lowell: 4000
Vs
Sabrine: 2700
"Now that I've taken care of that, it's time to attack with my monsters! Nebula Knight Sol, destroy her Spectral Dolly! Nebula Knight Luna and Comet, take out two of those tokens!" She pointed as her knights drew their sword and lance and were ready to strike my monsters.
"Not so fast! I'm using Spectral Dolly's ability now! By sending her to my Graveyard now, I turn your Nebula Knight Sol into defense mode!" I pointed as her effect turned the knight from attacking and defending.
"Yeah, but that leaves you with only one token on the field! What can you do with just that token? Fine, I'll end my turn with one set card," In her hand were three cards now after the two eggs were destroyed.
"Sabrine currently has three monsters on the field and they seem really tough." Tatsuya mentioned.
"Not to mention Lowell's relying on a whole new deck for this duel," Ayu seemed to be concern.
"We can't start to feel down. We need to stay strong for Lowell!" Yuzu might have been looking my way but I couldn't tell, "Don't give up Lowell! You got this!"
"In fact I do… Draw!" I pull the card and looked at the four cards now in my hand, "Now, I activate Hatching Season's secondary effect!"
"What?! There's a second effect?" Sabrine seemed to be surprised.
"Yes, for every Egg Token that survives, I can tribute this and summon a Level 4 or lower monster from my hand onto the field in its place. The monster I choose is none other than Spectral Cockatrice in attack mode!" From the egg hatched the monster I choose, the cute yet dark looking mix between a chicken and a small dragon appeared.
Spectral Cockactrice: Level 3 Dark Fiend/Beast/Tuner/Effect ATK: 700 DEF: 400
"Now, I'm activating Cocktrice's effect to get some backup. He allows me to Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower monster from the Graveyard and allow it to return to the field with the restriction of it can neither attack or activate its abilities. Thankfully my monster that I'm bringing back doesn't need either of those. So wake up now Spectral Dolly!" I raised my hand up as my destroyed monster returned to the field.
Spectral Dolly: Level 3 Dark Fiend/Spellcaster/Effect ATK: 100 DEF: 1400
"So, are you planning to Synchro Summon a monster? I'm not fooled by seeing a Tuner on the field," Sabrine looked disappointed, "What monster will you pull that can take out my monsters?"
"You'll see Sabrine. Now, I'll tune my Level 3 Spectral Cockatrice with my Level 3 Dolly to bring out my monster. Trained in the Black Magic Arts, Master of the Illusions of the Beyond. Come forth! Synchro Summon Level 6 Spectral Magician Valkyrin!" From my two monsters came a male with black and gold armor, long black hair wielding a longsword of the same black and gold coloring with a shining purple gem embedded into the sword.
Spectral Magician Valkyrin: Level 6 Dark Fiend/Spellcaster/Synchro/Effect ATK: 2500 DEF: 2100
"Wow, Lowell just Synchro Summoned a new monster from her deck!" Ayu's voice seemed to be in awe, "And her monster is so cool!"
"So this is the other deck she has now? That's pretty cool with the whole Spectral theme to it!" I heard Sora speak next.
"That may be true, but something seems weird about this deck…" My eyes widen when I glanced back and saw that one of the LDS students was the next to speak, "Her monsters are way too similar to what this Niles guy is supposed to have."
"Well I'm no Niles and I don't plan to lose here! I'm going to use my Valkyrin's summon effect right now! When he's successfully summoned onto my field, I can target one spell or trap card in my Graveyard and add it to my hand and I'm taking Hatching Season back." The card returned to my hand, "It's time to lower some of your monster's power on the field right? I choose to attack Nebula Knight Sol! Spectral Magician Valkyrin, Illusionary Wave!"
My monster raised his sword and swung it towards the golden knight, ready to destroy it as dark magic formed around the sword. One look at her, I knew something was wrong when she was smiling. This made me start to run and see if I could find any Action Cards nearby.
"Too easy! I activate my Trap Absolute Zero!" The trap appeared, "By discarding my Nebula Knight Sol to the Graveyard, the whole entire field is destroyed! That means your Synchro Valkyrin doesn't get to harm my monsters at all!"
A sudden chill passed us by as cold tried to take out my warrior and I could sense fear from my monsters and her own as the golden knight vanished, thankfully I grabbed an Action Card and it was just what I needed. The price sucked but I needed my monster on the field.
"Sorry, but my Valkyrin's staying on the field! I activate the Action Spell Defend Freight! By paying half of my Life Points, my monster stays on the field despite of your spell!" As the trap faded, I took the freezing cold blasted as a shield protected my monster from the cold.
Lowell: 2000
Vs
Sabrine: 2700
I shivered afterward as she seemed to be mad that I had managed to live from her trap. It was too risky to use Hatchling Season just yet. Having a blank field with this Psychic Nebula Knight deck might have a way to counter this.
"I guess I'm ending my turn with placing one set card," I ended with two cards in my hand.
"I must say… that was quick thinking… but not quick enough for what I have in store!" She took her turn and drew from her deck, "Perfect, now I activate the spell Polymerization and I will use my Nebula Knight Aurora and Nebula Knight Meteor in my hand to achieve my victory. From the cosmos, shine your guiding blade for all heroes to follow in Dimension Zero, I Fusion Summon Nebula Aurora Meteor Knight!" From the fusion came a knight of dark armor armor with sparkling white hair and yellow eyes. The weapon this monster wielded was a shining spear.
Nebula Aurora Meteor Knight: Level 8 Light Psychic/Warrior/Fusion/Effect ATK: 2800 DEF: 1600
"Ah! That monster…!" Everyone seemed to be surprised to see her summon a monster as was I with that kind of strength.
"That's not all, by using the spell Fusion Nebula Knight Rank Up, since I have a Nebula Knight of a Fusion, I can make a Nebula Knight of XYZ using the monsters in my Graveyard whether they were used in the Fusion or not!"
"What?! That can't be-?!" Sora was cut off as she continued.
"H-Hey, isn't that breaking the game?!" I asked her as she only chuckled in response.
"Nope! Not when I use this card. Thanks to you helping my wipe my field clean, I was able to not waste time in summoning one of my monsters!" Sabrine shrugged it off.
Looking over to my monster, it was strange for us to glance and for me to feel his emotions of concern for me in my body. Something about this duel was weird will how deadly chilly her trap was and I doubt that was the duel field's fault.
"The best part is that the levels don't matter at all as long as XYZ monster is lower than Rank 5! Using Nebula Knight Sol, Luna and Comet from my Graveyard as XYZ Materials, I will build the Overlay Network! Created from the darkness of our plain of existance, bring forth your works into my hands. XYZ Summon, Rank 4 Nebula Knight Antimatter!"
Nebula Knight Antimatter: Rank 4 Dark Psychic/Warrior/XYZ/Effect ATK: 2100 DEF: 2000
My breath was caught in my throat seeing the knight covered in dark armor and not even having a face, only a glowing yellow eyes where a face should be as it held the lance.
"First, before I even begin my Battle Phase, I need to use one last thing. I activate Psychic Rejuvenation, which shall heal me 1000 LP for every Psychic-Type monster on my field."
Lowell: 2000
Vs
Sabrine: 4700
"Now, I will activate Antimatter's effect. Using one of his Overlay Units, he can target a monster with less or equal defense points as him and… banish that card off the face of this field! Now Nebula Knight Antimatter, Distortion Plunge!"
My eyes widen as the lance was pointed at my magician as I looked at my hand. There was no way I was letting my monster get taken down by her XYZ monster. No way in hell that's going to happen.
"I have to disagree with your move, as I'm activating Spectral Tink's effect!" I revealed my monster card with the light blue and lavender pixie in my hand, "By sending her to my Graveyard, I can negate Nebula Knight Antimatter's ability to protect my Valkyrin!"
Spectral Tink appeared as a spirit and flew straight through her monster, causing him to lower his lance. A feeling of relief rushed through me and my monster as we managed to prevent him from being banished.
"Argh, why do you try so hard to protect your precious Valkyrin if he's going to fall anyway. No matter, at least my other monster can take him out no problem! Nebula Aurora Meteor Knight, use Galactic Spear and pierce her Valkyrin!" Sabrine cried.
Both my monster and I started to run as I looked for any sort of Action Card to save either of us. Just as I saw one, I felt my monster push me out of the way as her Knight caught up to us and made my monster disappear. It followed by me skidding on the floor and grabbing the Action Card as I felt his emotions vanish as did some of my Life Points.
Lowell: 1700
Vs
Sabrine: 4700
"Now, it's time to end this duel once and for all! Prepare to lose. Nebula Knight Antimatter, Stable Destroyer!"
"...Like I'm taking a blow from your monster! I'm using the Action Spell Damage Cargo to make sure I'm surviving this battle!" I used the spell just as the lance was about to strike, "Now I'm only losing at most half of my Life Points from this battle!"
Lowell: 850
Vs
Sabrine: 4700
My survival instincts kicked it as I rolled to the side of the train as the impact into the train caused it to crumble on my end. Groaning, I saw her monster retreating to my side as things started to break and fall down on my train cart… Crap! I got up and started to run to the nearest door and when I opened it and ran to the other end, I was shocked to see a clear platform as behind me the other one fell off and was destroyed. The hell is this? I looked to the other train as she stood on an identical platform with her monsters by her side.
Safety got the better of me as I placed a hand to my chest and fell to my knees at that near-death experience that looked so real and like the movies. To my surprise, I heard Sabrine clapping for me as I looked at her empty hands.
"Wow, you have actually survived this far already! By then most of my opponents would give up," Sabrine frowned before she smiled, "However, you didn't give up. You went and protected your monster against two of my strongest monsters. I have to give you credit for that.
"I... Thanks?" I was totally confused as to how she was nearly trying to kill me earlier, "But I can't back down from this duel... At least not when this school is on the line alongside my friends."
"True... But what are you going to do now? Come on, how about we share a smile and have fun! I'm not sure if you noticed this, but you don't look like your having fun."
I was confused as she placed one of her hands onto her hip while the other pointed at me.
"Your face is so... stern and grumpy. It's not fun at all! Where's the smile I saw in the beginning of the duel?" She pouted and in response I gasped, "I want to see us have a fun duel! Forget the stacks were dueling for and just relax and have fun. After all, isn't this just a game people love to play?"
My eyes widen with that question. In my head, I remember my friend asking me that same question after I lost for who knows what number of times that day. His smile always cheered me up as with the Yugioh jokes we often told each other. He always would show me how better I knew the story, characters and even card description than him. That was the main joke he'd say: 'I may be the King of The Card Game, but you're The Queen of The Trivia Game."
Shaking, I slowly got up to my feet as I looked at my duel disk monitor and noticed something blinking from my Graveyard. Clicking it, the blinking came from my Synchro Monster but when I check, something clicked in my head. From before, I remember my friend mentioning to me that using one of my monster's' special abilities would have one my that one duel we had a while back. Sure it was with different decks but it could be applied here… My eyes widen when in the reflect of the screen, something appeared as a shadow before vanishing. An emotion of freedom and something more past through me from an unknown source… coming from my Extra Deck?
Call me to battle Milady, together we can end this duel at once.
The voice in my head was unlike anything I had ever heard, but this one was coming from my deck and I had no other options. Not with a chance of losing when I had the chance like with him all those times before. I made a promise to him that I duel him once we met again… and that starts now! This Queen of Yugioh Trivia isn't losing just yet!
"You know what... you're right! Why should be so stuck up when this is just a game I loved to play with my old friend? We never get so serious; it was all fun and games. And now, the fun's going to start now! Destiny Draw!" I took the top card from my deck and looked at my two card hand, "First, I'm activating a secondary effect of my Spectral Magician Valkyrin! By discarding one Spell Card - that being Hatching Season - I'm allowed to draw the number of cards that had destroyed my monster before! And that will be from two to ten!"
"Two to ten cards from just that monster in your Graveyard and discarding one spell? So cool!" Sabrine yelled once I got the card from my deck.
"Well, I need a good hand of cards to make this a fun game! Who would want to want a sad game that is just a children's card game that grew into this phenomena!" I stopped to look at Yuya through the glass as I held two very important cards that were reflecting Yuya perfectly and my emotional senses were able to pinpoint how they changed from Yuya's first Pendulum Summoning, "Yuya, I hope you don't mind if I borrow this from you to make sure our school will smile against LDS! Just remember one thing: as you are the founder of Pendulum Summoning, I want to solve all of the mysteries and unlock its full potential. Don't ever think you're going to be alone, because I'm sticking with you every step of the way and I'll support and help you whenever you ask. That's enough from me… I'll just show you what I mean by using my monsters who felt your emotions like they did to me when we first met! Using Scale 1 Spectral Mourning Witch and Scale 8 Vexing's Lantern, I Set The Pendulum Scale!"
In the zones, a black lantern glowing green inside a cauldron with purple liquid inside one and a teenage witch wearing the black outfit with long green hair and wielding a brown broomstick appeared on the other side - tears seen on her face.
"With this, I'm allowed to summon monster from Level 2 to 7, so come forth my monsters! It's time to prove ourselves that we're more than what they think!" I revealed the five monsters from the ten cards I still held in my hand
X3 Spectral Raven: Level 4 Dark Fiend/Winged-Beast/ ATK: 600 DEF 800
Spectral Mirror Ghost: Level 5 Dark Fiend/Zombie/Effect ATK: 1900 DEF: 900
Spectral Retriever: Level 2 Dark Fiend/Beast/Effect ATK: 700 DEF: 700
"What?! Y-You have Pendulum Monsters?! How did you get those?!" Sabrine was surprised before her expression turned into excitement, "Incredible!"
"It was thanks to Yuya for sharing his emotions along with everyone else here that I was able to obtain these cards! Now, let's up the wow factor of this card game shall we? First, I'm going to use the spell Polymerization to fuse Spectral Mirror Ghost with my Spectral Retriever to bring forth a monster of true beauty and terror. Release your music of soothing deception and emerge from the ripples of dust. I Fusion Summon Spectral Hypnotizing Siren!" From the small skull-dog and the mirror ghost came forth an elegant black dress with a dark grey skin tone to her, the wavy dark purple hair and pink eyes made her stand out as she appeared.
Spectral Hypnotizing Siren: Level 7 Dark Fiend/Spellcaster/Fusion/Effect ATK: 2600 DEF: 2600
"That's not all, because I'm also using my 3 Level 4 Spectral Ravens to build the Overlay Network! From the crypts of old, raise your curse to ease the restless. XYZ Summon, Rank 4 Spectral Chaos Reaper!" From the Overlay Network came forth the recognizable hooded floating skeleton carrying the bone-metal scythe in his arms.
Spectral Chaos Reaper: Rank 4 Dark Fiend/Warrior/XYZ/Effect ATK: 2000 DEF: 1700
"What?! She got out a Fusion and XYZ monster while Pendulum Summoning!" Yuzu gasped
"Wow…" I heard the kids were entranced at seeing what I had achieved with Yuya's Pendulum Summoning Method.
"But that's not all folks, let's use Monster Reborn to bring back out the Synchro Monster Spectral Magician Valkyrin to join the party!" I revealed my spell as it brought back my monster once again.
Spectral Magician Valkyrin: Level 6 Dark Fiend/Spellcaster/Synchro/Effect ATK: 2500 DEF: 2100
"Now she has a Fusion, XYZ and Synchro monster on her side of the field along with the two Pendulum Monsters as her Scale… She has all the Extra Summoning types!" Sora was shocked to see this many monsters on my side of the field.
"I can't forget about one last thing I have to show off and trust me everyone will like to see this! I'll start things off by summoning my Spectral Summoning Mirror onto the field, now in its true form!"
Spectral Summoning Mirror: Lvl 1 Dark Fiend/Zombie/Dark Tuner/Effect ATK: 0 DEF: 0
"A Summoning Mirror? What are you going to summon with that? A high-level monster that needs a tribute?" Sabrina asked, "But something seems off about your mirror."
"Truthfully, I would normally have to use sacrifice more of my Life Points to get this moving, but thanks to my Pendulum Scale affecting my mirror, I don't have to worry about paying those costs thanks to Mourning Witch." I pointed out, "Now, I'm going to use Vexing's Latern's Pendulum Ability to restore 400LP for every monster in my Graveyard and since there are currently… ten in my Graveyard..."
Lowell: 4850
Vs
Sabrine: 4700
"Now, I'm going to activate Spectral Summoning Mirror's ability. Now, I'm allowed to target one Level 5 or higher monster from my deck and summon it straight onto the field at the cost that it cannot attack this turn. So arise Spectral Hellhound!"
Spectral Hellhound: Level 8 Dark Fiend/Beast/Effect ATK: 2800 DEF: 2000
"He's not staying here for long though, because since he came through the Summoning Mirror, it trades its Level with the Mirrors!"
"What?! Why would you even do that?" Sabrine asked, "Though it doesn't really change a Synchro Summon by that much."
Spectral Summoning Mirror: Lvl 1 - 8 Dark Fiend/Zombie/Pendulum/Effect ATK: 0 DEF: 0
Spectral Hellhound: Level 8 - 1 Dark Fiend/Beast/Effect ATK: 2800 DEF: 2000
"That may be true for a normal Synchro Summoning. However, I'm not going to perform the regular, normal Synchro Summoning method. You know why? Let me show you," I smiled since the Dark Tuner part of my mirror should have told her enough, "I Dark Tune my Level 8 Spectral Summoning Mirror with my Level 1 Spectral Hellhound!"
"D-D-Dark Tune?! What the actual hell is that-?!" She was cut off as the process begun.
"It's been so Long since I've seen this," I smirked as out from the now gone Hellhound were seven dark blue glowing levels as a dark portal began to form using them, "Banished into the emptiness of Non-Existence, it is time for your master to return and for you to exact your vengeance for those who've bound you in Dimension Zero. Awaken now, Negative Seven, Bestia Spectral Alastor Basilisk!"
From the portal that was now over me, I heard a roar unlike any other as I looked up seeing a serpent-like creature come through and circle around as the emotions I felt all but vanished. Blinking, I saw my monster float down and curl up around me, growling at my opponent as if it was ready to protect and strike anyone down who was trying to harm me. The dark scales, sharp and oozing out a dark aura, covered its body from the head to its tail. The tail was shaped like an arrowhead that could stab and slice at anything as scales seemed to move as the aura seeping from the body. The sharp scales of its spine were moving and were a smaller form of its tail's terrifying design. The scaled underside of the beast was a gray coloration. It's neck supported two sides of what looked to be a similar function to a neck frill; bones traced with the moving scale and aura while the gray connected the frill on either side together but not over its head. Four haunting eyes gazed at the foes: the two lower were yellow, the upper left was red and the upper right was orange. As it roars, more of the dark energy escaped its mouth as its fangs grew slightly.
Bestia Spectral Alastor Basilisk: Level -7 Dark Fiend/Sea-Serpent/Dragon/Dark-Synchro/Effect ATK: 3000 DEF: 3000
Of course, as soon as I finally took it from, I saw it turn it's head to me and I nodded. The tail flickered around me but still pointed at Sabrine.
"Wha-What is this? I-It can't be-!" Sabrine seemed to be so shocked as her monsters were when my beast had appeared on the field and I could somehow feel my monster's emotions as it wanted to protect me. The next thing I knew, she started cracking up, much to my surprise, "A Dark Synchro Monster? I completely forgot those even existed! Lowell, so this is your Ace Monster or is it one of them? I'm so excited in seeing our monsters clash. A knight versus a basilisk dragon... Alright let's do this!"
"You've got it! Time to show what this Action Entertainment Duels can ready do!" I smiled at all my monsters as all of us were so happy and excited to finally begin the battle now that he was on the field, "Now, it's time to change the tides shouldn't we? Alastor, time to show off one of your Special Abilities thanks to you being successfully summoned! He targets all monsters on the field and reduces their ATK by half until the end of my turn. Alastor, Statue Stare!"
My monster roars as all four of the eyes turned to my monsters before releasing a stream of energy to both of her monsters.
Nebula Aurora Meteor Knight: Level 8 Light Psychic/Warrior/Fusion/Effect ATK: 2800 - 1400 DEF: 1600
Nebula Knight Antimatter: Rank 4 Dark Psychic/Warrior/XYZ/Effect ATK: 2100 - 1050 DEF: 2000
"So cutting down my monster's attack are you? Well, let's see what you've got!" Sabrine began to run to find Action Cards.
"Oh yes it is! Time for a show! Now I believe it's time my monsters take out all of your monsters, since their abilities are locked to your turn only. Spectral Hypnotizing Siren, destroy Nebula Knight Antimatter with Crescent Sonata!" My Fusion Monster's singing formed a crescent wave of energy and took out her knight at once as Sabrine was running to find any Action Cards. Unfortunately, she didn't get one in time for her first monster.
Lowell: 4850
Vs
Sabrine: 3150
"Next up, Spectral Chaos Reaper, Fatal Swipe her Nebula Aurora Meteor Knight!" The XYZ monster moved next as it raised the scythe it carried towards the space knight.
"I'm letting you harm my Ace like that! I activate the Spell Card Evasion to dodge that attack!" Sabrina activated her Action Card as her Knight dodged my monster's attack."
"Well, better find another one because I've got two more monster ready to battle! Spectral Magician Valkyrin, time to get some payback with Illusionary Wave!" My monster flew straight towards her other monster, sword raised emitting the dark energy and quickly sliced through her monster before she could start moving again to find an Action Card.
Lowell: 4850
Vs
Sabrine: 2050
Sabrine fell to the floor just as she grabbed an Action Card, which she quickly activated. "I use the Action Spell Caboose Rescue. By reducing my Life Point by 300 for every monster we had before Battle Phase, one of my monsters that was just destroyed and returns to battle just like it was during my End Phase. So return at your full strength Nebula Aurora Meteor Knight!"
Lowell: 4850
Vs
Sabrine: 250
Nebula Aurora Meteor Knight: Level 8 Light Psychic/Warrior/Fusion/Effect ATK: 2800 DEF: 1600
"Now... Let's finish this duel with a bang! Lowell, you're up!" She yelled as her knight readied for battle.
"Time to end this duel shall we? First, since your Nebula Knight returned from the Graveyard, I can use one Overlay Unit from Chaos Reaper to increase the attack one monster of mine by half of your monster. And that's none other than Alastor!" I asked my monster and he roared, "Everyone, may I have your attention? Today you're seeing a monster in action that has been waiting to make his debut and don't you fear, he isn't what he seems on the outside. Now, time to see what he can do shall we? Alastor Basilisk, Extinction Obliteration!"
Bestia Spectral Alastor Basilisk: Level -7 Dark Fiend/Sea-Serpent/Dragon/Dark-Synchro/Effect ATK: 3000 - 4400 DEF: 3000
My monster's mouth opened to reveal a collection of dark energy or purple and black that began to add colors of yellow, orange and red into the mix. His eyes were glowing as well as his tail pointed at his target, who was ready to fight against him. At max power the tail raised to point in the sky as the burst of energy was released into a homing beam as a large force of energy was nearly causing me to fly back if my monster didn't wrap tightly around me only to secure me. I looked away and covered my eyes as the energy started to grow immensely. The ground began to shake as I swore the system was trying to contain the power my monster was released. This wasn't just me as I heard the others scream as well from this energy.
Lowell: 4850
Vs
Sabrine: 000
Winner: Lowell
