Ruler of the Gentle Darkness (Chapter Seven)
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh GX.
"Cyber Blader, direct attack" Alexis shouted. Her Cyber Blader shot forward and slammed against her opponent sending him flying.
Alexis: 1800
Opponent: 0
"And that's game" Alexis said deactivating her duel disk.
The boy she defeated seemed distracted the whole time and kept staring at her. Getting up he just gave her his locator card and ran off. Alexis blinked; she didn't get a rare card, but just by seeing his deck she knew it probably wasn't anything special. She did wonder why he kept staring and blushing though.
A moment later she realized and blushed 'Little perv' she thought indignantly before stomping off. After a minute she calmed down when she realized a very important fact 'Alright I got six locator cards; I'm going to the finals. I wonder if Jaden has his locator cards yet.' After a minute of silent thinking she giggled 'Who am I kidding; he probably got them all on the first day.'
It had been five days since the start of the battle city tournament and everything was going around crazily as usual, but it was beginning to die away. Like Kaiba said only 16 of perhaps hundreds of thousands of duelists could advance to the finals. Alexis was lucky to have all six of them; she was a talented duelist, but she would easily admit that her most powerful opponent was Tonya.
She wondered who else had won their locator cards; deciding she'd find out in two days when the finals would begin Alexis decided to give Jaden a call. Pulling her phone out she dialed his number "Hello" she heard Jaden say.
"Hey Jaden" Alexis said.
"Alexis; haven't heard from you in a while. How are you doing" Jaden asked excitedly.
"Pretty good; I just won my sixth locator card" she told him.
"Aw sweet, we're both in the finals" Jaden said loudly and Alexis could picture the massive grin on his face.
"So you got six locator cards as well; let me guess you won them on the first day" Alexis asked not expecting him to answer.
"… Yes" he said quietly.
Alexis was silent for a few seconds before laughing the sweet melodic laugh that Jaden loved so much. "Oh Jaden, what am I going to do with you" she said good naturedly.
"How about meet me at Domino Plaza in ten minutes" Jaden said in response.
"It's a date; see you soon" she said sensually.
"Bye love" Jaden responded before hanging up.
SCENE CHANGE
Sure enough both of them made it to Domino Plaza in about ten minutes; Jaden was there slightly earlier than Alexis and had a cold drink waiting for her. "Lemonade, right" Jaden said holding the drink for her.
"You know me well" she smiled taking the drink. The two of them sat together leaning against one another for a moment enjoying the warm sun. Looking at Jaden Alexis could see he looked distracted again; like his mind was somewhere else. "What are you thinking about" she asked him.
"Hmm" he hummed.
"You've got that look on your face again; the one where you're thinking about something else" Alexis said. She took his hand "You can tell me anything Jaden; you know that."
Jaden was silent for a moment before he sighed a bit "Sometimes I wonder what I did to deserve someone as amazing as you."
"Easy; you were just being yourself" she smiled at him.
After sharing a small kiss Jaden relented "The truth is… almost a week ago I was visited by someone. His name was Makko and according to him he was a guardian of the Supreme King's will."
"The Supreme King" Alexis gasped remembering Jaden's powers. "What was he doing there?"
"Apparently he was there to make sure I got his gift" Jaden said.
"Gift" she said confused. Jaden reached into his deck box and extracted the Wicked Eraser and showed it to Alexis. Alexis gasped when she saw the card "What is that" she asked amazed.
"It's known as The Wicked Eraser and one of the three Wicked God Cards" Jaden said getting Alexis to gasp again. "They're polar opposites of Yugi's Egyptian God Cards and the Supreme King brought these beasts under his command during his reign. When Pegasus created the game he also created these cards, but like the Egyptian God Cards he locked them away entrusting them to Makko's family until the Supreme King returned. But a traitor to their family, now serving under the vessel of the Light of Destruction, stole the other two God Cards and now it's my destiny to stop him, acquire the other two God Cards and beat the Light of Destruction."
Alexis was silent after hearing Jaden's story before sighing sadly and pulling him into her arms "When did dueling become so complicated" she murmured.
"I think it always was; we were just too ignorant to see it" Jaden murmured back. Pulling back Jaden held Alexis by her shoulders "But no matter what comes at me and no matter what happens we'll get through this and when we do… we'll have the wedding you've always wanted."
Alexis smiled at him and cupped his cheeks "As long as I'm with you… I'm happy" she said before kissing him softly. Jaden had more of a reason than ever to win; for his future with his one true love.
THREE DAYS LATER
Like the last Battle City tournament Kaiba made the location of the finals an absolute secret to where only those with six locator cards could find the location. This time, instead of at Kaiba stadium, the location of the Finals were at Domino Pear aboard Kaiba's luxury yacht, which was almost as big as a miniature ocean liner.
Kaiba, Yugi and Joey were already there as they had gotten the message from Kaiba to show up first to see the finalists. Of course the old gang had come along as well; Tea was there with her and Yugi's three year old daughter Allison. Mai had shown up with her and Joey's seven year old son Michael and Tristan was there with his and Serenity's son Thomas.
Of course to make it better some of them were actually finalists; Mai had decided to compete for the fun of it and won six locator cards so she was the first finalist to show up. The second finalist surprised Joey because it was his own sister Serenity. Having seen dueling for a long time Serenity decided to pick it up and was quite an expert at it; good enough to win six locator cards. So now the kids would get to watch their parents duel.
Unfortunately it wasn't just the old gang that was there; their old archrivals had shown up as well. Those rivals being Weevil Underwood and Rex Raptor. None of them were too happy to see them, but they did qualify so they had to put up with them.
But that unpleasant feeling passed quickly when the next two finalists had come; those two finalists being their old friend Mako Tsunami along with Rebecca Kaiba, formerly Rebecca Hawkins. With them all here six of the sixteen finalists had shown up. Now they needed to wait for the other ten.
Soon after a limo pulled up "Oh great" both Joey and Kaiba muttered recognizing the logo on the side of the limo. Out of the limo appeared the one and only Maximillian Pegasus.
Yugi was much more polite "Pegasus; what brings you here" he asked.
"Well once I heard of Kaiba's Ultimate Tournament I had to come out and see it" Pegasus responded. "After all we may just see the crowning of a new King of Games."
Yugi laughed "That would be amazing."
"Yeah right" Kaiba sneered. "The only one who's going to defeat Yugi is me. I don't care if you come aboard to watch Pegasus, just stay out of my way."
"Ah I see you haven't changed at all Kaiba-boy, very well" he said enjoying Kaiba's scowling face. "So Yugi-boy how many have shown up."
"Well so far we have six of the sixteen finalists; we're still waiting on the final ten" Yugi responded. Footsteps made him look over "And it looks like two more are showing up."
The two that were approaching were men that were dressed in plain everyday clothes, jeans, shirt and shows, etc. One of them was shorter than the other with the shorter one having long black hair, and dark green eyes with a narrow sharp face. The other one was much taller with tall spiky pale blond hair that was almost like flames with an angular face and sharp grey eyes.
"State your names" Kaiba told them.
"I'm Reiner Mr. Kaiba" the pale-blond haired boy said with a small smile.
"I'm Marco" the other one said in a bland, quiet tone.
"We're here for the finals" Reiner said for both of them as they presented their locator cards. Kaiba nodded and had his workers collect the locator cards and gave them ID cards. Once given their ID cards the two of them just stood off to the side out of the way.
Joey's eyes were narrowed at the two of them "Yugi" he whispered to his lifelong friend. "I don't trust those guys; they're giving me weird vibes." Yugi's eyes also narrowed slightly as he looked upon the two boys "What should we do?"
"We don't know if it's one of the yet, so for now we should do nothing" Yugi responded back.
"What are you two whispering about" Tea and Mai said to them making them jump and making their children giggle at them.
"Nothing" both of them said quickly, but by the narrowed eyes they both got Yugi and Joey knew they'd have to explain everything soon. Hell they didn't even want their wives to be coming on this trip or bring the children because of what could happen, but the two women were stubborn and wanted their children to see their daddies in action.
Before anymore conversation could go underway two more people approached; one of them tall wearing a hat with the right half of his face bandaged up and… was that a crocodile on his back? The second person was a dark skinned very muscular boy with deep hazel eyes and a duel disk on his waist that looked like a gun. He looked like a mercenary.
"Identity" Kaiba asked them both.
"The names Jim Mr. Kaiba. Jim Crocodile Cook" the boy in the hat said with a thick Australian accent.
"I'm Axel Brodie" the other boy said in a simple straight-to-the-point tone. Both of them pulled out their locator cards and presented them to Kaiba.
"Very well; welcome aboard" Kaiba said to them after they got their identification passes. "Just keep your… pet on a leash" he said to Jim.
"Ah no worries; Shirley wouldn't hurt a fly" Jim said confidently.
"Jim, Axel" a southern voice called out to them. Both of them, and everyone else by extension, turned to see a teenage boy with spikey, messy teal hair and matching teal eyes running up to them.
"Jesse" Axel and Jim said to their friend. "So you made it too" Axel asked.
"Oh yeah; got my locator cards and everything" Jesse said with a grin presenting his cards. "Oh that reminds me" he walked over to Kaiba and presented his cards. "Here you go Mr. Kaiba" he said. Kaiba nodded and gave Jesse his ID card and after that Jesse went back to Axel and Jim and the two began to walk.
Joey looked at the three friends "Reminds you of the old days doesn't it Yugi" he asked.
Yugi chuckled "It definitely does. The next generation of duelists looks strong."
"Indeed Yugi-boy, just wait until you see them in action especially young Jesse over there" Pegasus said.
Others got curious now "What do you mean Pegasus" Yugi asked.
"I've visited Duel Academy plenty of times; I must say Kaiba you did well in setting up that school. So many talented duelists are being produced there" Pegasus said.
"Of course they are" Kaiba said with a smirk.
"Anyway, while visited there and seeing the new young duelists I've comprised a list of my own personal Top 5 New Generation Duelists" Pegasus said. "The young boy who just showed up is Jesse Anderson, the number 2 duelist on my list."
Jesse just became a lot more interesting in the eyes of the older duelists. "Well, well it feels like a reunion" another voice said. This voice came from a new arrival; this arrival being a person with pale skin, blue eyes wearing a white suit and having shoulder length grey hair.
"Aster" Jesse greeted with a wave. "I thought you'd be out dueling in the Pro-League right now."
"And miss this tournament; you must be crazy" Aster said with a confident look on his face. Turning to Kaiba Aster pulled his locator cards out "My locator cards Mr. Kaiba." After attaining his ID card Aster went and joined Jesse, Jim and Axel.
"Another familiar face I guess" Tristan murmured. Joey nodded next to him.
"I recognize him" Yugi said. "That's Aster Phoenix; the Destiny Duelist."
"Destiny Duelist" Serenity said. "What do you mean by that Yugi?"
"He's known as the Destiny Duelist because he has a rare and unique brand of monsters known as the Destiny HERO's" Yugi explained. "I don't know much about their abilities, but the rumor is that they're incredibly strong and the cards that go with them are hard to combat against."
"Hmm" Mai hummed. "Is he one of your top five Pegasus?"
"Why yes my dear" Pegasus said pleasantly. "He is number 3 on my list right behind Jesse-boy."
"That leaves Number 4, 5 and 1" Tea said. "Who are they anyway?"
"My dear; if they show up I will be happy to tell you" Pegasus said with a chuckle.
Ten minutes later two more people showed up; one of them pale skinned with spiky black hair wearing an all-black outfit and the other one shorter with light blue hair, matching eyes with glasses wearing black pants and a blue long sleeved shirt.
"Identification" Kaiba demanded.
"Chazz Princeton" the boy in black said with a smirk displaying his locator cards.
"Syrus Truesdale Mr. Kaiba" the blue haired boy said respectfully also displaying his cards. Kaiba nodded, collected their locator cards and gave them their ID's and then the two others were promptly greeted by the others and began talking with one another.
"So many young duelists" Mako said looking at them all. "It makes me feel kind of old."
"I think it's nice" Pegasus said. "Watching the newest generation step up and take their place. It's a truly heartwarming experience."
"So, the two new guys apart of your list" Joey asked.
"Yes, the blue haired child, Syrus Truesdale" Pegasus told them.
"That little pipsqueak, really" Mai said in disbelief. "He's even shorter than Yugi was at that age."
"Hey" Yugi whined getting Tea and his daughter to giggle.
Pegasus also chuckled well naturedly "Don't let his small appearance fool you; he may look delicate, but he is in possession of the strongest Cyber Style deck in the world."
'Cyber Style' a few of them thought trying to think of that particular style of duel monsters.
"Mr. Kaiba" one of Kaiba's workers said. "We are due to set off in five minutes, but two of the finalists have yet to show up."
"We'll take off regardless; the finalists knew where to show up and the time" Kaiba said without care. "If they're late; it's their problem." 'But the two that are late could be in possession of one of the Wicked God's' he thought silently.
Meanwhile everyone else was talking together "Wow, the whole gang's back together again" Aster said with a smirk.
"Too right mate; it feels good to see everyone again" Jim agreed.
"We're just missing Jaden" Axel said. "In fact I'm surprised he's not here."
"Oh he'll be here" Syrus said confidently. "The biggest tournament of our lifetime and Jaden missing it; that's not gonna happen."
"You're right about that" Chazz said looking out into the distance. "Here he comes now and he's brought a guest." The others turned around sharply and sure enough here came Jaden walking down the pier and next to him was Alexis walking side by side with duel disks strapped firmly to their arms.
"Jaden" almost all of them cried before rushing towards him. Jaden laughed and greeted all of them with high fives or small hugs. Similarly Alexis received the greetings as well from her friends.
"Mr. and Mrs. Popular I take it" Mai said dryly. "Oh well, either way it's nice to see another female here, am I right ladies."
"Yeah" both Serenity and Rebecca said. Everyone pardoned ways for Jaden and Alexis to walk up to Kaiba.
"Identification" Kaiba said.
"Jaden Yuki" Jaden said.
"Alexis Rhodes" Alexis said.
Both of them presented their locator cards and Kaiba took them before presenting them with their ID cards. "Attention all finalists" he announced getting their attention. "The 16 finalists of the Ultimate Tournament have now arrived. If you will follow me will proceed."
With that the sixteen finalists followed Kaiba on board his ship and the others proceeded to follow them up. Once on board the ship started up and they began to sail out of Domino Pier. The deck of the ship had a wide area in the front giving one a perfect view of the ocean and the setting sun.
While on the ship everyone mingled with one another; Jaden and his whole group were mingled together talking about the old times and what everyone had been doing after they had graduated. Axel, Aster and Jim all gave a hearty congratulations to Jaden and Alexis when they found out they were engaged.
After a while of mingling with one another Kaiba called their attention "I will only explain this once so listen up" Kaiba said. Everyone went silent "The Finals for the Ultimate Tournament will proceed just like every other duel did before. You start with 4000 life points, first to hit zero loses and the loser forfeits up his rarest card. However the finals will be played differently than the normal duels. As an added bonus for more challenges; the final matches will be Deck Master Duels."
"Deck Master Duels" Syrus said confused.
"A Deck Master duel is when both duelists select a monster from their deck to act as a Deck Master" Axel explained. "That Deck Master will be completely excluded from the game and have a special ability that can be used any time during the game. You can chose to move your Deck Master into the duel at any moment during the duel, but should your Deck Master be destroyed then you automatically lose the duel."
"Yikes, that sounds challenging" Syrus said a little nervously.
"Choose your Deck Master well because it will be the only Deck Master you'll be allowed to use during the entire tournament." Kaiba informed them. "To make everything fair for everyone the duels will be determined via a random selection on this screen behind me" Kaiba continued. The wall behind him opened up displaying a massive screen. Kaiba's riches could afford anything it seems "When you all arrived you received an ID card; that ID card is linked to the Kaiba-Corp. Mainframe and gives us all of your basic information. Using that information the computer will randomly pair you up with any opponent. In just a moment the first two duelists will be selected to duel each other."
Everyone looked up at the screen as it flared to life and began to rapidly shuffle through names before stopping with a loud beep revealing the first two names.
Jaden Yuki vs. Weevil Underwood
Jaden smirked 'Didn't waste any time did they.'
Weevil chuckled sinisterly 'A little worm ready to be squashed.'
"Those who have been chosen for the first match step into the dueling arena behind you" Kaiba said. Both Jaden and Weevil turned and walked out into the dueling arena while everyone else stepped back. "Duelists choose your Deck Masters."
Weevil shuffled through his deck before smirking nastily. "I select Cocoon of Evolution as my Deck Master." Behind Weevil appeared a massive cocoon.
Jaden also shuffled through his deck before spotting the one he was looking for "I select Yubel as my Deck Master." Behind Jaden Yubel appeared standing with arms crossed.
Kaiba looked at both duelists with a scrutinizing gaze before announced "Now duelists shuffle your decks and then the first match of the Ultimate Tournament Finals will begin." Both Weevil and Jaden shuffled their decks before putting them in their duel disks before activating them.
"GAME ON" they both shouted.
Weevil: 4000
Jaden: 4000
"Jaden's in the first match; this'll be a great duel" Jesse said.
"No doubt about it" Axel agreed with Jesse.
"Yeah, but he is dueling Weevil Underwood; he is known as the Ultimate Insect user" Syrus said worrying for his friend.
"Oh please, Jaden will squash that guy like the cockroach that he is" Chazz said dismissively. Chazz knew that Jaden would win; there was no doubt about it.
"I'll go first if you don't mind" Weevil said to Jaden before drawing a card. Smirking he said "I summon Pheromone Wasp in attack mode." Out on the field appeared a nasty looking wasp (800/800). "To finish my move I place two cards facedown. You're move amateur."
'We'll see who the amateur is' Jaden thought. "My move" he called drawing a card. "I summon Evil HERO Infernal Prodigy to the field." On the field appeared a muscular monster with a sick and twisted grin (300/600). "But that's not all; thanks to Infernal Prodigy's special ability when you have a monster on the field he counts as a special summon. I now sacrifice Infernal Prodigy in order to summon out Evil HERO Malicious Edge." On the field appeared one of Jaden's most powerful monsters with its customary razor sharp claws (2600/1800).
"What; that's not possible" Weevil shouted. "That monster requires two sacrifices."
"Not while you have a monster it doesn't" Jaden smirked. "When you do Malicious Edge just needs one sacrifice."
"Nice combo; he summoned out a powerful monster with no effort at all" Mai said impressed. Others agreed with her.
"And now to activate Infernal Prodigy's second effect" Jaden said. "When he's sacrificed on the same turn that he's summoned I get to draw one new card from my deck." Jaden drew a new card "And now Malicious Edge attack his Pheromone Wasp with Malicious Slice attack." Malicious Edge jumped towards Pheromone Wasp.
"I don't think so" Weevil snickered sinisterly. "I activate my facedown card Mimesis. With this card I get to return Pheromone Wasp to my hand." Pheromone Wasp vanished before Malicious Edge could hit it. "But in return I get to summon a new insect; Parasite Caterpillar." On the field a large caterpillar appeared on the field (800/800). "Now he becomes your new target."
"Fine with me; you lose the same amount of life points just the same" Jaden said as Malicious Edge sliced through Parasite Caterpillar.
Jaden: 4000
Weevil: 2200
Weevil smirked "That may have cost me more life points than I wanted, but it works out just the same."
"What do you mean" Jaden asked.
"I activate Parasite Caterpillar's special ability" Weevil said. Parasite Caterpillar came out of nowhere and attached itself to Malicious Edge.
"Malicious Edge" Jaden said surprised.
Weevil chuckled "When Parasite Caterpillar is selected as a target I get to equip it to your all powerful Malicious Edge and turn him into an insect as well. The best part is now that he's been infected with Parasite Caterpillar he can't attack, defend or be used as a tribute."
Jaden scowled as his monster became trapped "Fine, I have no choice, but to end my turn."
"Then I'll start again" Weevil smirked. His smirk widened "I summon Pheromone Wasp back to the field." Pheromone Wasp reappeared on the field "And I hate to bring more bad news to you, but if the monster infected with Parasite Caterpillar is the only monster you have on the field then I get to attack directly."
"Oh no" Jim said.
"That's not good" Syrus said nervously.
"Now Pheromone Wasp attack his life points directly" Weevil commanded. Pheromone Wasp charged forward and gave Jaden a bee sting he'll never forget.
Jaden: 3200
Weevil: 2200
"And since Pheromone Wasp inflicted damage with a direct attack it allows me to summon Leghul to the field." On the field appeared a nasty looking centipede monster (300/350). "Now I place one card facedown and end my turn."
"About time; my move" Jaden said drawing a card. "I activate Pot of Greed to draw two cards." Jaden drew his two cards and smirked. "First I summon Prime Neos." On the field a younger looking Neos appeared wearing a cape (1800/1500). "I'm not done yet; next I activate Coming of Neos." The spell card showed a picture of Elemental HERO Neos charging through space. "This card allows me to take Elemental HERO Neos from my deck and add it to my hand." As he did that one of Neos' shoulder's glowed.
"Next I activate this; my Emblem of the Cyber" Jaden said. "With this I can add one monster with 'Cyber' in its name to my hand and I chose Cyber Raider." Neos' other shoulder glowed.
"Why is your monster glowing" Weevil demanded. "What are those?"
"They're Cosmic Counters" Jaden replied. "And they activate whenever I play a spell card. Now for my next card I play Monster Reincarnation. With it I bring Evil HERO Infernal Prodigy back to my hand." Now Neos' eyes were glowing "And now that Prime Neos has three Cosmic Counters I can activate his special ability. I sacrifice my Prime Neos in order to summon Elemental HERO Neos." Jaden's signature card appeared on the field (2500/2000).
Weevil looked a little nervous now "But wait; I'm not done yet" Jaden said with his usual smirk. "Now I activate Polymerization to fuse Elemental HERO Neos with Cyber Raider in my hand in order to summon the one and only Cyber Neos." The two monster's fused together and created Jaden's mechanized Neos (2900/2500).
"Another new monster" Chazz said surprised. "I swear this guy has more Neos cards then actual Elemental HERO's."
"Now before I attack I activate Cyber Neos' special ability" Jaden said. "You see I never really liked bug's and this caterpillar attached to my hero is really bugging me." Weevil growled at him "So I activate Cyber Neos' ability; an ability that lets me transfer the equip spell card to another monster and I choose to attach it to your Leghul."
"No, not my Leghul" Weevil cried, but there was nothing he could do as Parasite Caterpillar was now attached to Weevil's Leghul.
"And now with that caterpillar attached to your Leghul you can't attack my life points" Jaden said.
"Nice counter" Mako said looking at the play. "Not only did he save his own monster, but now Weevil can't strike his life points."
"This kid is good" Mai said slightly impressed.
"Now Weevil, it's over" Jaden said. "Cyber Neos attack with Cosmic Stridence." Cosmic Neos jumped into the air ready to attack.
"Don't think you've beaten me" Weevil shouted at him. "I activate my trap card DNA Surgery and I also activate my spell card Insect Barrier."
"Oh no" Jaden gasped realizing what was about to happen.
Weevil smirked "With DNA Surgery I'm going to turn all your monster's into insects." All of Jaden's monster's got insect features on them "And thanks to Insect Barrier none of them can attack." Cyber Neos hit the barrier and bounced back off landing on Jaden's side of the field. "Good try, but no."
Jaden growled slightly "I place one card facedown and end my turn."
"Then it's my move again" Weevil said drawing a card. 'My Poison Butterfly strategy may have been turned against me, but it won't matter. A few turns and nothing will matter for him anymore.' "I activate Cell Division and with it I'm taking one level 3 or lower insect monster and summoning a token with the same attack and defense." A second Pheromone Wasp appeared on the field. "And now here comes the Queen of all insects; I sacrifice Pheromone Wasp and my Cell Division Token in order to summon Insect Queen." On the field a massive spider-like monster appeared with a mighty shriek (2200/2400).
"Ugh, not that thing again" Joey shuddered remembering when he faced that thing.
"That Insect Queen might be powerful, but Jaden still has the advantage" Alexis said confident in Jaden.
"Not when Weevil activates her effect" Axel said gravely.
"Now I hope you're not allergic to stings because my Insect Queen is quite pokey" Weevil sneered at him.
"Ugh, no insect puns please; I'm gonna be sick" Jaden shuddered.
"You'll be sick after this; Insect Queen's special ability allows her to gain 200 attack points for each insect monster on the field" Weevil said. "And thanks to DNA surgery there are 4 insects on the field so Insect Queen gains 800 more attack points." Insect Queen glowed as her attack points rose (2200+800=3000/2400).
"3000 attack points" Jesse gasped.
"None of Jaden's monsters can stand up to that kind of firepower" Aster said softly.
"And I think I'll make your suffering worse by activating this spell card" Weevil said showing a spell card that depicted a massive hive. "It's known as Insect Hive and once I equip it to my Insect Queen she gains another 300 attack points for every insect monster on the field including herself." Insect Queen roared as her attack points increased again (3000+1200=4200/2400).
"4200 attack points" Jaden gasped.
"And you're about to feel them all" Weevil said smugly. "Insect Queen attack his Malicious Edge now." Insect Queen charged forward and stuck Malicious Edge with her stinger destroying the monster. Weevil laughed victoriously "Take that you amateur; my insects can't be stopped." The smoke cleared revealing Jaden standing strong with no damage.
Jaden: 3200
Weevil: 2200
"What; how's that possible? You should have lost half of your life points" Weevil shouted. "You're cheating."
"I'm not cheating; I'm using my Deck Master special ability" Jaden said with a smirk. "It's called 'Pain Protection' and as long as I merely send two cards from my deck to the graveyard then Yubel makes all battle damage to me become zero. Unfortunately I can only do it once per turn."
"Another good save" Tristan murmured. "This kid definitely knows what he's doing." Various murmur of agreement was what he got in response.
Weevil scowled "I guess I end my turn" he said reluctantly. "But since Inset Queen destroyed a monster I get an insect token." Inset Queen laid an egg on the field (100/100).
"Then it's my move" Jaden said drawing a card. Looking at his hand "I switch Cyber Neos to defense mode and that's it for now."
Weevil smirked "Then it's my turn again" he said drawing a card. Then his Leghul glowed and transformed into a new monster known as Poison Butterfly (2700/2300). Weevil scowled while Jaden smirked.
"What just happened" Syrus asked confused.
"It's the effect of Parasite Caterpillar" Axel said. "After three turns have passed since it infected a monster it transforms into Poison Butterfly. While it may be a powerful card whoever uses it loses 500 attack points at the end of their turn. Since Jaden managed to transfer it to Weevil with Cyber Neos he doesn't have to worry about it, but now Weevil has two powerful monsters to attack with."
Sure enough Weevil smirked "Your Deck Master may be able to stop attacks, but you don't want to just recklessly discard cards from your deck do you." Jaden remained stone-faced, but internally he knew Weevil was right. "Now Insect Queen destroy that Cyber Neos." Insect Queen charged forward and attacked Cyber Neos. Cyber Neos was destroyed "And now Poison Butterfly attack his life points directly."
"I activate my facedown card Flute of Summoning Kuriboh" Jaden called. "This lets me summon one Winged Kuriboh from my deck and onto the field." Winged Kuriboh appeared just in time and took this hit for Jaden. 'Thanks a lot old friend' Jaden thought. "And thanks to Winged Kuriboh's special ability I take no damage when he's destroyed." Smirking he added "I can't say the same for you."
Weevil scowled "Either way I get another insect token." An insect token appeared on the field next to the other one. Weevil grunted as his life points dropped thanks to Poison Butterfly.
Jaden: 3200
Weevil: 1700
"Now it's my move" Jaden said drawing a card.
Weevil scowled at him 'That little punk may have lasted this long and thwarted my ever move, but once my next turn is done he's finished.'
Jaden looked at his hand and saw he only had two cards left "I summon Elemental HERO Clayman in defense mode and place one card facedown; that's it for me."
"What a pathetic move; my turn now" Weevil said drawing a card. He smirked something vicious "This is the beginning of the end for you Jaden. I place one card facedown and then I sacrifice one of my insect token's to summon Armored Centipede" he said. One of his token's vanished and a massive centipede took its place (1600/1300.) "Next I activate the trap card I placed down; Infestation." Snickering Weevil said "Each monster loses 100 attack points and we take damage x100 for each monster we control." Inset Queen lost 100 (4700-100=4600/2400). Armored Centipede lost 100 (1600-100=1500/1300) Poison Butterfly lost 100 (2700-100=2600/2300). And finally Clayman lost 100 (800-100=700/2000). Then they both lost life points.
Jaden: 3100
Weevil: 1400
"It seems you suffered more than I did" Jaden pointed out.
"You got to spend life points to take life points" Weevil smirked at him. "Poison Butterfly attack his Clayman." Poison Butterfly attacked Clayman and the attack hit destroying it. "Now Armored Centipede attack him directly." Armored Centipede charged forward and struck Jaden head on making him cringe in pain.
Jaden: 1600
Weevil: 1400
"And now Insect Queen end this duel" Weevil shouted.
"Not quite" Jaden shouted. "I activate my Deck Master special ability; I discard two cards from my deck and my life points are safe." Jaden discarded two cards and Yubel created an invisible barrier that protected him.
Weevil scowled "You won't save yourself next turn. I place one card facedown" Smirking he internally thought 'Especially now that I can unleash my ultimate beast next turn.' Then he winced when Poison Butterfly took 500 more life points from him.
Jaden: 1600
Weevil: 900
'He's right' Jaden thought. 'I've got no monsters on the field and no card in my hand; my facedown won't help me unless I have more cards.' Looking at his deck Jaden breathed in and drew his card before looking at it. "Awesome; it's just what I needed."
"What" Weevil sneered.
"I activate Card of Sanctity; now we both get to draw until we have six cards" Jaden said. Jaden drew six cards while Weevil drew four cards. Smirking Jaden said "First I'm going to activate Monster Reborn to bring back Elemental HERO Neos." Jaden's favorite card returned to the field. "Alright now to squash these bugs; I activate my facedown card Miracle Contact."
"Miracle Contact; I've never heard of that card before" Weevil gasped.
"Well allow me to educate you on it" Jaden said. "What it does is allow me to summon a Neos Fusion monster, but instead of using Polymerization I merely send them back to my deck. So I choose Elemental HERO Neos and Neo-Spacian Glow Moss." Both monsters jumped into the air "Go, Contact Fusion." Everyone watched in silent awe as the two monsters fused together and created a new monster "Say hello to the one and only Elemental HERO Glow Neos." On the field appeared the brightly glowing Neos monster (2500/2000).
"Big deal; you can't do a thing with that monster especially with my Insect Barrier in place" Weevil said confidently.
"Then I guess I'll destroy it" Jaden said. Weevil gasped in shock "I activate Glow Neos' special ability; an ability that allows me to destroy one spell card on the field. Say goodbye to that Insect Barrier." Glow Neos launched a glowing pike that hit the Insect Barrier and destroyed it. "And thanks to Glow Neos' ability; when I destroy a spell card he gets to attack directly this turn. Go Glow Neos; he can't stop us anymore." Glow Neos charged towards Weevil.
"Not so fast; go Negate Attack" Weevil shouted desperately. "This trap stops all attack for the turn." Glow Neos' attack was stopped in its track.
Jaden grunted; he was so close "Fine then; I activate the spell card Contact Out. Now Glow Neos defuses." Both Neos and Glow Neos defused and formed back to their original forms, but in defense mode.
"Uh… why did he do that" Tristan asked confused.
"Because of Glow Neos' effect" Yugi said. "It's a powerful monster and easy to summon, but leaves the field at the end of the turn. He had no choice, but to defuse it so at least he wouldn't be defenseless."
"And to end my turn I activate the effect of the Elemental HERO Necroshade in my graveyard" Jaden said. "I can summon an Elemental HERO without a sacrifice so I summon Elemental HERO Bladedge in defense mode." Jaden's monster appeared in defense mode along with Glow Moss and Neos (2600/1800). "Your move Weevil."
"Thank you" Weevil smirked. His look was downright diabolical now "And now comes your downfall Jaden Yuki. It's now been five turns so I can activate my Deck Master's special ability." The cocoon that Weevil had selected for his Deck Master began to crack and split before it exploded and released a brand new monster. It was a massive green moth "Behold the Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth; my true Deck Master."
Jaden widened his eyes slightly as his eyes laid sight on that massive behemoth of a moth 'Oh this is not good' he thought.
Weevil snickered "And now to activate my Deck Master's special ability. By sacrificing half of my life points and one monster on my field I can destroy one of your monsters and you take damage equal to half of its defense points."
"What" Jaden shouted.
"You heard me; now I sacrifice my Poison Butterfly" he began as Poison Butterfly vanished as did half of his life points.
Jaden: 1600
Weevil: 450
"And now say goodbye to your precious Neos" Weevil smirked. "Go my moth; Poison Mist Wings." The Great Moth flapped its wings and the gust hit Neos destroying it and the backlash hit Jaden harshly.
Jaden: 600
Weevil: 450
Weevil chuckled maliciously at Jaden's beaten appearance "You can't beat me you amateur. You never could; next turn you're finished. But to make sure you don't get any ideas I switch my Armored Centipede to defense mode."
"Man, Jaden's in a tough spot" Aster said. "With 600 life points left; all Weevil has to do is activate that Deck Master ability again and Jaden's finished."
"He's not finished; he can still turn this around" Alexis said with unwavering conviction in her voice.
"Too bad everyone can't share your optimism" Chazz muttered quietly.
Kaiba looked at Jaden 'It looks like he's not the Supreme King; if he can't even beat Weevil.'
Jaden breathed in 'Alright Jaden; you need the right card to finish this. Just one draw' he thought. Calming himself Jaden drew his card and a flash of power assaulted everyone and it startled a few who were not used to this. Jaden looked at his card and he smirked "Well Weevil" he said to the bug duelist "This was a fun duel, but now it ends. And it starts with this card: Fusion Gate."
"Huh" was all Weevil could say. Jaden activated the field spell card and the playing field changed. "Now I'm going to use the power of Fusion Gate in order to summon a fusion monster. I fuse together Elemental HERO Bladedge with the Elemental HERO Sparkman in my hand in order to summon the one and only Elemental HERO Plasma Vice." With Bladedge and Sparkman combining together they formed a very sharp looking monster that was blazing with electricity (2600/2300).
"That won't beat me" Weevil shouted at him.
"Oh is that what you think; let me prove you wrong" Jaden said. "You see Plasma Vice has a special effect; if he attacks a monster in defense mode the difference in points is deducted from your life points."
"What; I've only for 450 life points left" Weevil screamed. "No, this can't be happening."
"It is and it's over" Jaden said victoriously. "Plasma Vice attack his Armored Centipede with Plasma Light attack." Plasma Vice roared and launched a large blast of electricity that blasted through Armored Centipede destroying it and wiping Weevil out.
Jaden: 600
Weevil: 0
One of Kaiba's workers, acting as referee, announced "The duel is over; the winner is Jaden Yuki."
"That's game" Jaden winked.
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