Chapter 7: The Final Duel
Raven flew into the air but was stopped by her friends who had just caught up to her after hearing about her last duel. Raven landed and met up with her friends just as Yugi Moto and his friends came from the opposite direction. Raven is happy to see them but knew that she didn't have time to talk. "Hey everyone, I don't have time to talk right now, I have to go."
Raven said as she started to fly off but was grabbed by the arm by Robin. "Hold on Raven, we just want to say; be careful ok." Raven smiled and nodded happy that her friends would wish her luck on her duel with Slade. "We also wanted to know if it would be ok if we came to watch you beat the crap out of him." Raven laughed and then nodded knowing her friends would follow anyway.
"Then we're coming as well. There aren't many that would be able to duel with restrictions the way you do. I have to say that I am impressed." Yugi said as he held out his hand for a friendly handshake that she took gratefully. Then Raven and Starfire flew into the air while the rest got into the T-car. They had been following the red beam for three hours now and finally reached the end of it to find that there was nothing there. There wasn't even anything invisible there, the beam had just stopped.
Raven looked ticked by this and they knew she was when a small cactus nearby blew up. Raven then looked in shock wondering when they had ended up in the desert. She knew Slade had to have been playing mind games with her and started to focus her energy and all of a sudden the scenery had changed from desert to them being in their tower and the T-car was nowhere to be found. Everyone looked in confusion by this when the screen on the T.V. turned on to reveal Slade. "Slade, what game are you pulling here?" Raven asked ticked off.
"Raven, I have only been testing you." Slade said smiling.
"How did we end up in the tower Slade?" Raven said not knowing how Slade had managed to put them back into the tower without them noticing.
"Raven, you never left the tower and yet you were never in the tower." Slade smiled seeing the look on Ravens face go from angry to beyond ticked off.
"Stop with the riddles and just come face me and stop hiding like a coward?" Raven yelled at him after not getting any answers from him.
"Hiding, I haven't been hiding at all, I have been in the tower the whole time." Then the screen went blank and out walked Slade with his two hostages. "I know your cards inside and out Raven and there is nothing you can do to stop me."
Then Beast Boy spoke up. "If we have been in the tower the whole time, then why haven't we noticed?" Beast Boy asked thoroughly confused.
"Because Beast Boy, I didn't want you to know. Now let's end this Raven." Slade said pulling out his deck. Then the black cloud surrounded them and everyone else in the building.
"Gladly but you should know that this isn't the deck you think it is. You see, I knew you wouldn't use your deck during my battles so I had Pegasus make me another one." Slade looked shocked by this but was very impressed with Ravens thinking. The two walked up to each other and split the others deck then walked back to their original positions. "Why don't I go first?" Slade put his hand forward letting her know that he would let her.
Raven: 8000
Slade: 8000
Raven drew and looked down not exactly getting the cards she needed but since it is the beginning of the duel, she isn't to upset. "First I will set one card face down on the field and end my turn."
"Slade drew his card laughing at the fact that she hardly had defense on her field but wasn't going to underestimate her move knowing what she could do. "I set one card face down and end my turn."
Raven happily drew her card since she didn't have to use her card just yet. Unfortunately, she didn't draw a card that is of any use at the current moment and ended her turn.
Slade drew his card happy that she hadn't done a single thing. "I set one more card face down on the field and flip my other face down monster, Master of Magic.
Master of Magic: 2 star, Magician
Attack: 300
Defense: 400
"When this card is summoned to the field in any way, this monster destroys all of your spell and trap cards on your side of the field." With that, Ravens trap was destroyed. "Now I will attack with Master of Magic."
Raven: 7700
"I end my turn Raven, so go." Slade said happy that things were going the way he had planned.
Raven drew and again looked down a little depressed that she hadn't drawn anything good. "I set one card on the field and end my turn."
Slade drew happily. "Now I sacrifice both my monsters on the field and summon my Red eyes Blue Dragon. Sounds familiar doesn't it?"
Red eyes Blue Dragon: 8 star, Dragon
Attack: 3500
Defense: 3000
"When this card is summoned to the field or special summoned, it gains one thousand attack points for each Dragon on the field and in the graveyard. It also allows me to summon a five star or higher monster from my deck. So now I summon Patrician of Chaos."
Patrician of Chaos: 5 star, Magician
Attack: 0
Defense: 0
"When your monster attacks this monster, it redirects your monsters attack back at your life points. Now Red Eyes Blue Dragon, attack Raven directly."
Raven: 4200
"Now that I have entered my main phase, I activate my Spell card Battle Phase. This card is only played on my main phase two. When this card is activated, I go back one turn to my battle phase. So my monster, attack Raven's life points directly."
Raven: 700
"Well, it looks like this was going to be easier then expected. I end my turn." Slade said preparing to win the next turn.
Raven couldn't believe her eyes, in just a few turns, Slade had her down to seven hundred life points and now she is shaking. She didn't really think that she would be defeated so easily. Then she heard voices from the side of her. "Raven, this duel isn't over yet, trust your self and your cards and you can still win this."
When she looked over, she saw her friends and her new friends cheering her on. The one that was giving her the pep talk was of course Yugi. She couldn't lose yet, she still had to tell Beast Boy the truth about what she heard and tell him that she loves him and she wasn't bound to lose so easily knowing that. Raven then got a serious look on her face. "This isn't close to over Slade." Raven told him as she drew her next card. "First I summon Lightning Demon to the field."
Lightning Demon: 4 star, Demon
Attack: 1800
Defense: 1500
"When this Demon is sent to the field, it immobilizes all of the opponents monsters on the field on the opponents stand bye phase. For every immobilized card, this monster gains an extra five hundred attack points."
"That still won't be enough to destroy my monster." Slade said confused as to why she had bothered to even summon the monster. Sure it saved her one turn but it will get destroyed soon afterward anyway.
"That is true Slade but who said that I would be keeping my monster on the field. Now I activate my spell, Grave Decisions. When this card is activated and I send one four star monster to the graveyard and gain two thousand life points. So see you later Lightning Demon."
Raven: 2700
"Now I can activate the spell Traded Banishment which will take all cards on the field out of play. For every card taken out of play, I get five hundred life points."
Raven: 4700
"Now I end my turn." Raven said still not sure if she could pull through this but she knew she had to.
Slade drew his card angrily that she had destroyed one of his best cards but not because it was destroyed but because it was taken out of play. "Now I summon Big Eyes Brother."
Big Eyes Brother: 4 star, Fiend
Attack: 1500
Defense: 1200
"When this card is summoned or special summoned, my opponent draws five cards and then discards all but one of them to the graveyard." Raven drew and then discarded four to the graveyard. "Now Big Eyes Brother attack Raven directly."
Raven: 3200
"Now I enter my main phase two and activate battle phase. Big Eyes Brother, attack."
Raven: 1700
"Now I set one card on the field and end my turn."
Raven drew her next card knowing that she didn't have much time to take him down before he took out her life points. After drawing her card, she couldn't do anything and ended her turn."
Slade smiled knowing that he was one attack away from winning but then saw that he didn't draw a monster card so he realized that it would take one more turn but he would live. "Now I activate my face down card called Balance Beam. If you have more monsters then me on the field by the end of your turn you send them to the graveyard until we both have the same amount of monsters on the field but if you have less by the end of your turn, you lose one thousand life points. Now my monster, attack Raven."
Raven: 200
"I now end my turn."
Raven drew knowing that she was running out of options but then heard Yugi telling her that it isn't over yet and that she could still win. Raven looked at the card she drew and smiled. "Now I activate Black Portal. This card allows me to summon one demon to the field every main phase plus it allows me to summon a fusion monster to the field. Now I summon my fusion monster, The Black Demon."
The Black Demon: 8 star, Demon
Attack: 4500
Defense 3500
"When this monster attacks a defense position monster, damage is applied as if it was in attack mode, if it attacks a monster in attack mode, double damage is done. This card can only be destroyed by a monster attack and not by a monster effect, spell, or trap. Now I will summon my Demon Mistress to the field."
Demon Mistress: 6 star, Demon
Attack: 2500
Defense: 2000
"If this card is special summoned to the field, it can attack directly. Also if special summoned, I can pay 3000 life points to the field to destroy all the opponent's cards on the field and in hand. Since I can't pay, I won't use that part of the effect." Slade was now fearful that the duel just turned against him. "Now Demon Mistress, attack Slade directly."
Slade: 5500
"The Black Demon, attack his monster." Slade watched as the monster attacked his face up monster. "Since it is face up attack, any damage done to you is doubled." Slade watched as the giant demon swung its sword and destroyed his monster.
Slade: 0
"No, I can't lose; you can't possibly have won that duel. It isn't fair, you had to have cheated." Slade said as the shadows overcame him and then he fell to the floor.
"Funny, you would say that wouldn't you Slade." Raven said not expecting an answer. Then all the monsters and other things disappeared. When everything had disappeared, Raven saw Beast Boy and ran up to him releasing him from his chains. And then she released the hostage.
"Thanks for the rescue Raven but I have to go now." Beast Boy said as he headed for the door.
"What, you can't go yet." Raven said knowing why he was leaving.
"Why not, you would be happier without me anyway. You always are Raven, no matter what I do to try to make you happy, you turn away from and yell and blow things up. I have no need to be here Raven and you know that." Then Beast Boy started walking away when Raven appeared in front of him.
"Beast Boy, I think it's time that I tell you something even though you will hate me afterward." Raven then went to the couch and then told everyone to leave so that she could talk to Beast Boy. Beast Boy thought for a minute and decided to talk meaning how this may be the only time that he gets the chance to ever again. "Beast Boy, a few days ago or at least I think it has been a few days, anyway, I heard you talking to Cyborg in"
But before she could finish, Beast Boy cut in. "How could you Raven? You of all people know that people need their privacy. How could you listen in on our conversation?" Beast Boy said angrily now waiting for her to respond to him.
"I was walking by your room when I heard you talking but thought better then to listen in since I would hate for you to do that to me but as I walked by, I heard the words 'I still think she is a witch for doing everything. She never did like me anyway.' Then I needed to know if you were talking about me and then when I found out that you were talking about Terra, I started to get up and leave but then I heard you say that you love me. I knew I should have just left but then you started talking about how you felt and everything and it touched me that you love me enough to be thrown out a window just to hear me laugh. Then you said you were going to leave and I had to find out how I really felt about you and then I found that I really love you and that I could also control my emotions and then when I went to tell you everything blew up in my face." Raven had now started crying when she felt a arm around her. When she lifted her head, she saw Beast Boy's face just a few inches away from hers.
"You really love me?" Beast Boy asked hoping that he hadn't heard her wrong. Then Raven nodded her head and without warning, she felt her self being kissed. A few seconds later, Beast Boy got up off the couch and headed out the door. Once he reached the door to the hallway, he turned around and faced Raven who was still on the couch. "Don't ever listen to one of my private conversations again." Beast Boy said softly as the door swung open. "Thank you Raven for listening to it though." Then he walked out the door leaving a smiling but speechless titan on the couch.
The End
A/N: That is the end. Please review and thank you for the great reviews that I have previously received.
