Chapter 8: Machine of Love
"Alright, now what can you tell me about that horrid love letter to Alexis?" Jaden asked angrily at Chumley and Syrus, who were both tied up to chairs and clearly scared. Aria and Alexis were looking over in the background with a bit of annoyance and worry for Jaden since he was being to overprotective and was having a fever at the same time. They were all at the Rhodes' house currently while this was happening.
"I swear Jay, I recently just found out about it when I saw it on the floor in class," Syrus explained, "I was gonna let you know later after you got better from your fever."
"Alright, fine, but next time just tell me instantly when you see me, got it?"
"Yes we got it," Syrus amd Chumley said.
"ACHOO!!!"
"Bub, that's enough, you need rest, and I'm not taking no for an answer, got it?" Alexis asked.
"Ok, Ok, I got it Lex," Jaden said as he proceeded to walk back to his room and lady down in bed. Alexis sigh in relief as she went to untie both Syrus and Chumley.
"Sorry about that you two, Jaden can be...well...protective of me and Ari," Alexis explained.
"It's ok, he is just being a big brother, isn't that common?" Chumley asked as Syrus secretly groaned in annoyance as he started thinking about something else. 'Why can't he be like that?'
"Yeah, it's common, some stuff happened in the past that made him be this protective."
"Really? Such as what?"
"I'm sorry Chumley, I'd rather not say, you wouldnt like it."
"Oh, alright..."
"Alright! Now that we got that out of the way, let me see that letter," Aria demanded in a bit of a more cheerful tone. Alexis grabbed the letter and opened it up.
"My sweet, dear Alexis..." Alexis started.to read with a bit of disgust and boredom in her voice, "since the first time i saw you back during Duel Prep school, i was so fixated on you being my lady and since I know about the strength of your brother, I hereby challenge him to a Duel later tonight at 8 near the Obelisk Blue dorm lake, signed Anton."
"Awwww, Little Lexi got an admirer," Aria happily stated with a bit of cuteness in her voice.
"Need I remind you that you're younger than me and shorter than me?"
Aria started to mumble and grumble incoherent sentences as she was annoyed by the fact that Alexis was right.
"Sooooooo now what?" Syrus asked a bit timidly.
"We go confront the problem head on." Alexis stated.
"But what about Jaden, he still has the fever."
"You two stay here to help him, don't tell him where we are, just tell him we went to go get some more food for later."
Both Aria and Alexis left to go to the Obelisk Blue dorm lake, as they waited for Anton to show up.
"It seems that we have arrived way too early," Kizan stated as he along with Shi En and Grandmaster appeared out of nowhere besides Aria.
"I agree, maybe we should go back to help young Jaden with his fever," Grandmaster suggested.
"Uhh guys, it's only 6:45, this guy will get here soon, and I'm gonna take him on, Lex no arguments," Aria said as Alexis quickly shut up and looked at her a bit astonished.
"I hope Jaden is ok back at the house," Alexis commented.
-MEANWHILE, AT THE RHODES' HOUSE-
"ACHOO!" Jaden sneezed. His fever getting worse even after taking some medicine that Alexis gave him a little before tying up Chumley and Syrus.
"Man, how is it this bad? What did you do to get this sick?" Syrus asked.
"Well me and Lex went to meet with her two friends, Mindy and Jasmine, due to them needing help with their nails."
"You know how to paint nails?" Chumley asked.
"Yep, Ari and Lex dragged me into a lot of stuff." Jaden informed. "ACHOO!"
"But how does that make you sick?"
"Turns out some of that fingernail paint stuff got into my drink somehow, luckily it didnt kill me, just made me sick." "ACHOO!"
-MEANWHILE WITH ALEXIS AND ARIA-
A rather regular looking boy came walking up to the Obelisk Lake and stared at Alexis with a bit of love but more lust in his eyes.
"Ahh, my sweet Alexis, I see you have arrived," the boy said.
"So you're Anton, I take it?" Alexis asked.
"Correct," Anton said, however he noticed something was up as he did not see Jaden around, "Hold up, where is your brother?"
"He's sick and cant duel, however Aria here is going to duel you."
"Yeah! Bring it on!" Aria exclaimed.
"Well alright then, I guess." Anton answered.
The two walked over to get on two different boaboats to stay on opposite sides of the lake.
DUEL!Anton:4000/Aria:4000"I'll start it off!" Aria declared as she drew a card, "Ok first I'll play this spell card called Shien's Smoke Signal and now I get to add one level 3 or lower Six Samurai monster into my hand, and i know just who I want."
"Well this is interesting," replied a black haired girl who was walking up to Alexis from up behind along with a brown haired girl.
"Huh? Oh hey Mindy and Jasmine." Alexis greeted.
"What's going on here?" Jasmine asked.
"This guy is trying to win this duel against Aria to try to win my heart, I swear this kind of stuff is very annoying."
"Perfect, I now summon The Legendary Six Samurai - Mizuho in attack mode!" Aria declared as a woman cloaked in red armor appeared on her side, "And now that i got her on the field, I now get to special summon The Legendary Six Samurai - Shinai in attack mode! I then play one card face down and end my turn."
"Ok, my move!" Anton said as he drew a card and smirked, "I activate the spell card Flint and equip it to, hmmm, that red one you have."
"Wait, he's helping her by giving her more power or something?" Alexis asked the other two girls standing next to her while watching.
"Far from it, my sweet," Anton answered while secretly gaining a groan from Alexis, "any monster equipped with Flint cannot attack or change modes, and also lose 300 attack points!"
Aria gasped as she saw Mizuho being wrapped around and poked by the Flint card."But I am not done yet, I now summon out Flint Lock in attack mode."
'It must have something to do with the Flint card' Aria thought.
Anton gave a smirk at his hand as he activated another card, "I now activate the spell card Morale Boost, now everytime an Equip card is equipped to a monster, the controller of the Equip card gains 1000 life points, which will always be me, however if the Equip card is removed from the field I lose 1000 life points. I'll now have Flint Lock attack that girl samurai!"
Aria: 3800
"Now Flint's other effect activates! Whenever the equipped monster is destroyed, then the Equip card will equip itself to any other monster on the field of my choosing, and I'll choose my Flint Lock!"
"Hold up, why your own monster? That would only weaken it." Mindy commented.
"Not Flint Lock, in fact it isnt affected by Flint at all except now it is unable to be destroyed by battle!" Anton informed, "I'll end my turn by placing one card facedown."
"Ok, my go!" Aria said while drawing, "I summon Shien's Daredevil in Attack mode!"
"Hold it! You sprung my Trap card, Bottomless Trap Hole, when you summon a minster with 1500 or more atk points, i cant destroy that monster and then remove it from play!" Anton said as Aria groaned on annoyance.
"Alright, fine, then I'll activate my facedown trap, Swift Samurai Storm, during each turn, after my first Six Samurai battles, all the rest of my Six Samurai's get 300 more attack points for the rest of this turn. But for now I'll swap Shinai to defense mode and then play one card facedown and end my turn."
"My turn! Well, this is awesome, I summon another Flint Lock in attack mode!"
"Another one? Seriously?"
"That's right and now time for my ultimate combo!"
"How is this an ultimate combo? what happens when two are on the field." Alexis questioned quietly.
"Since I have Morale Boost on the field with two Flint Locks on the field with one of them equipped with Flint, I can constantly swap Flint between the two monsters for free life points!" Anton informed.
"How?" Aria questioned.
"Simple, Flint Lock has two different effects, one being where once per turn, it can take any Flint card on the field and equip it to itself, however Flint Lock can only be equipped by one Flint at a time."
"But that doesn't make sense, its only once per turn, if I'm lucky, I can easily stop that."
"Ah that is where you are wrong, you didnt let me finish, you see, theres another effect Flint Lock can do, it can take any Flint equipped to it, and equip the spell to another monster face-up on the field. But the kicker here is that that effect isnt once per turn and can happen as many times in one turn as I want! Dont forget, because of the fact I have Morale Boost on the field, i gain 1000 life points everytime, so that means I'll get a whole bunch of life points all the time, so I think I'll do this 24 tomes this turn, giving me a total of 24000 life points!"
Anton: 24000
"Alas, I cant get rid of that purple guy, so I'll just activate Poison of the Old Man and use the second option to inflict 800 points of damage to you. That will end my turn."
Aria: 3000
"My go! Hmmm, I set one monster facedown and then end my turn."
"HAHAHA, it seems you're out of options! My go! Well I'll just have Flint Lock attack that facedown monster."
The machine attacked but nothing happened, only the card revealing a blue looking woman.
"Nice try, but this is Reese the Ice Mistress and she can be destroyed by battle from a level 4 or higher monster."
"Grr, fine then I'll do my life point combo another 20 times before ending my turn."
Anton: 44000
Aria was confused, 'He must be becoming too arrogant and not playing anything new, it'll cost him if he keeps this up' "Ok my go!"
"Nothing is gonna help you here."
"Oh really? Well then, I play this, Reinforcement of the Army! Now I can add any level 4 or lower Warrior monster from my deck into my hand and I think I'll add this one to where I'll bring him out to the field, The Six Samurai-Zanji!"
"What good is he gonna do? I can just throw Flint onto him if you destroy my equipped Flint Lock."
"I'm not going to attack yet, not until I my facedown trap, Return of the Six Samurai, where I can special summon a Six Samurai monster in my graveyard and later destroy it at the end of my turn and with that i bring back Mizuho, however look at this, I got three Six Samurai monsters on the field, which means I can activate my spell card, Six Strike - Triple Impact!"
Anton looked a bit intimidated, he believed it might take out some life points, but calmed after he realized he has way too many life points for him to worry and can get more thanks to his combo.
"Now I have three options and can only choose one while I have at least 3 Six Samurai monsters on the field. Option 1, I destroy every monster you control. Option 2, I destroy every Set Spell and Trap you have. Finally Option 3, I can destroy every face up Spell and Trap you have."
Anton gasped in fear at how powerful that card is. "And just what are you gonna destroy?"
"Easy, all your Faceup Spells. Now i can finally end this, I use Reese for her Tuner area to tune with Mizuho and Shinai in order to create Crimson Blader in attack mode!"
Anton gulped in response as he became nervous. He just realized he just lost.
"Now Crimson Blader and Zanji, attack and destroy those two Flint Locks! Also, since Blader destroyed a monster by battle, you can't summon any level 5 or higher monsters during your next turn."
"What?! NO!"
Anton: 42400
"That'll end my turn."
Anton started sweating as he drew a card, but all it was was Neddle Burrower, a level 5 monster. He was forced to end his turn there.
"Ok, lets end this!" Aria exclaimed happily, "I summon Guerilla Kite in attack mode! He aint staying on the field for long, because he's another Tuner! I use him to tune with Zanji in order to play Blood Mefist in attack mode! Now my Kite's effect activates, when he is sent from the field to the graveyard, I inflict 500 points of damage to you! Also while Mefist is on the field, he inflicts 300 points of damage to you everytime you set a Spell or Trap card. Now my monsters will attack directly before I end my turn!"
Anton: 36,800
Anton was now really sweating, none of his monsters were able to get rid of them and he couldn't set traps without taking damage. He had to end his turn once again.
Aria started her turn by summoning out another Six Samurai by the name of Irou and attacking once again. The duel ended after Anton surrendered because he had nothing to combat.
"That's game!" Aria happily declared. Alexis looked on in happiness that her sister won and didn't have to deal with anymore stuff from Anton.
"Man, I thought for sure I had that. Well I'll leave you alone. Good duel." Anton said a bit glumly as he started to walk away.
"Now hold on just a moment," Aria said, "you may have lost but I can stil--OW!" Aria was interrupted by Alexis grabbing her by the ear and dragging her back home and back to taking care of Jaden, who was still in bed but fast asleep due to Syrus and Chumley giving him some drowsy medicine before they left a while back.
To Be Continued...
Geez, I am putting too much emphasis on Aria, ain't I? But yet I have no other option, I need to introduce her and her cards more, and I can't just throw her into the duels that Jaden is gonna do, cause then I'll have to make the duels longer and I'm too lazy! DX
Well hope you all enjoy this new chapter!
Super Speedy!
