Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Legends
Last time on Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Legends…
"The only evidence that such a thing ever happened was a stone carving found in a makeshift tomb near Stonehenge."
"A carving?"
The picture was of a gray stone wall. On the wall was a picture which looked like a child's drawing. The figure had round head with several lines extending from the head most likely signifying hair. Its finger-length rectangular body and stick legs. A white line was running along half the length of the stick arm with a speck of blue in the middle.
It almost looked like a Duel Disk.
"Good, you made it." Arthur turned and saw Zane standing behind him with two Duel Disks.
"Zane, you were the one who sent the message?"
"I'll give you so many losses you'll develop an immunity to losing!"
"Back when this school was first constructed, a special fourth dorm was created. This dorm was made for those who were as good as Obelisk Blue but without the snobbery. It was called the Millennium House. Nobody talks about it any more. But soon after, they shut it down because several students started to go missing."
"Where did they go?" Syrus asked.
"Ah, there you are, my old friend. I want you to frighten someone so intensely that he leaves this academy and never comes back."
"
"It's not a myth, believe me. If they catch you here, they'll expel you."
"So then why are you here?"
"I have my reasons!" Alexis snapped.
"Look, we just came here to look around, we promise we won't be in your way." Jaden turned to enter.
But Arthur was in his way. "Jaden, wait, maybe this wasn't such a good idea. Mystical or not, the Millennium House is dangerous, I won't let you enter."
"Sheesh, Arthur, what crawled up your shorts? We probably won't be five minutes."
"And I'll play one more spell card… Hero Flash!"
"What's the point of that?"
"I'm getting to that, you see Hero Flash also lets all my Elemental Heroes attack your life points directly."
"Oh no!"
"Sorry, pal, but this is what you got when you challenged me. Heroes, go to it." Avian, Burstinatrix, Sparkman, and Clayman all leapt around Arthur's monsters and slugged him.
(J: 3500)
"Sempai?" He looked up just in time to see a burly man in a trench coat and fedora backhand her across the face sending her down. "Sempai! Let her go!" He ran towards him.
Episode 7: Beyond the Shadow of a Duel Pt 2
The main room of the Millennium House had cathedral ceilings, chandeliers and the most unusual sight of all: walls covered with Egyptian-style writing and pictures. "This place is sweet," Jaden said. "You know, a coat of paint, some cardboard boxes, maybe a throw rug, and we can so totally move in here."
"Are you kidding?" Syrus asked. "This is even worse than the Slifer dorm!" He shined his flashlight on the walls illuminating the writing. "I mean what's all this stuff on the walls?"
"Do you think it has something to do with the Shadow Games?" Chumley asked.
"Hey, I think this depicts the seven Millennium Items," Jaden said. He took a closer look, "Cool, they even have their names written in English underneath them… the Millennium Rod… the Millennium Necklace…" Jaden shined his flashlight on the image of an upside down pyramid. "This shows… the Millennium Puzzle… strange, I wonder where I've seen something like that before." He spotted something: a picture on the mantle above the fireplace. "And that shows someone I've never seen before." The picture was of a boy with shaggy gray-brown hair dressed in an Obelisk uniform.
Syrus added his flashlight's light to Jaden's. "Is that… Arthur?"
Jaden stepped closer. "No, this guy is much older than Arthur. But this resemblance is bordering freaky."
"He's dressed as an Obelisk, maybe Alexis knows who he is," Chumley offered.
Jaden took down the picture and stared closely at it. "Hey, there's something written on the corner here, guys… 'To my biggest fan, Atticus.' Who's Atticus?"
Alexis woke to find her hands and feet tied together. Furthermore, she was in some kind of casket. "Where am I?" She asked.
"On a hook," a deep voice replied. "Baiting your friends into my trap."
"Jaden, Arthur, anybody!" She called out.
"Surrender your soul to the shadows!" A strange eye-shaped symbol appeared before her and she was consumed in light. She screamed in pain.
Jaden, Syrus, and Chumley all heard the scream. "That sounded like Alexis," Syrus said.
"Let's go," Jaden said giving the picture to Chumley to put in his backpack. They ran down a hallway until they got to what looked like a meeting room.
Arthur was laying on a couch, a card on his stomach.
"Arthur!" Jaden ran down to check on him. "Looks like he's alive." He noticed the card on him.
It was Etoile Cyber (1)
"This is Alexis's card," Jaden recognized. He looked around and spotted a hallway leading down. "You two make sure Arthur's all right, I'm going for Alexis." He took off down the hall.
"Be careful," Syrus called back.
"Hey Arthur," Chumley called. Arthur was coughing and gagging. "You okay?"
"Chumley, Syrus, I thought you guys went inside the Millennium House."
"We are inside the Millennium House and so are you."
Arthur gasped, "Oh no, Sempai!"
"You mean Alexis?" Syrus asked.
"She's in trouble."
"We know, we heard her scream."
"What you don't know is who kidnapped her."
"Well Jaden's about to, he just went after her."
"We have to catch up to him." Chumley hauled Arthur onto his back and they along with Syrus took off again.
Jaden ran down the tunnel which came out into a large cave. Some kind of etching was on the ground. He saw Alexis sleeping in the coffin. "Alexis!"
"She can't hear you," a deep voice said. "She's far away, locked in the Shadow Realm."
"Who's there?"
Smoke gathered around him as the man seemed to rise literally out of the ground. "Greetings, I am Titan, a Shadow Duelist."
It was by then that Syrus, Chumley, and Arthur caught up to Jaden. "That's him!' Arthur cried as Chumley placed him down. "That's the guy who kidnapped Sempai!"
"We have to get Alexis back," Syrus said.
"Yeah, hand her over right now or you'll be sorry," Jaden threatened.
"The only way you'll be able to free her is if you beat me at a Shadow Game."
"Shadow Game?"
"He's not looking at me, is he?" Chumley asked.
"Jaden, he wants to duel you," Arthur informed the Slifer.
"Look, I'm not afraid to duel you," Jaden told Titan. "But Shadow Games don't exist!"
"The others didn't believe in the Shadow Games either," Titan said showing his arm with the rather large dueling gauntlet on it. "But they were soon convinced, you see when you fight in a Shadow Game, you're not just risking your life points, you're risking your soul."
"So you're the one behind all those disappearances," Jaden accused as Chumley searched his backpack for a Duel Disk. "Well you're not getting us, especially not Alexis!"
"Unless you win, she's mine forever as will you be."
Jaden growled as Chumley handed Jaden a Duel Disk. He put it on, "Okay, get your game on."
"Shadow game that is," Titan replied. The tray slid out of his gauntlet and spread out like a fan.
As Jaden inserted his deck and activated his Duel Disk, he cast one last glance at Alexis, "Hold on, Alexis, I'll get you out."
"Duel!"
(J: 4000)
(T: 4000)
"Prepare, you fool, to enter the shadows," Titan warned as he drew a card. "I summon Infernalqueen Archfiend (2) in attack mode."
"An Archfiend monster?"
"Yes, and now that this card is out, each and every monster with Archfiend in its name gains 1000 attack points."
Syrus, Arthur, and Chumley, who were all on the sidelines gasped.
(IA: 900-1900)
But Jaden just smirked and said, "Uh yeah, I already knew about that, and I also know that in order to keep those monsters on the field, you have to pay life points during every standby phase of your turn."
"No I don't," Titan said sliding a card into a slot on his gauntlet. "Not after activating the spell card Pandemonium." Jaden and the others were temporarily blinded and when they could look again, their scenery has changed. Now they were in a large chamber surrounded by demonic-looking statues.
"Pretty cool," Jaden had to admit.
"Yes, and it not only changes the scenery, but it changes the rules. Now I don't have to pay any life points to keep my Archfiend monsters out on the field. And if they're ever destroyed outside of battle I get to add another right to my hand. I know what you're thinking, you're thinking your little friend's fate is all but sealed."
The casket door slid shut on Alexis as bony claws dragged it into the wall.
"Sempai!" Arthur cried. He ran after it but only ended up getting thrown back by some strange light coming from Titan's pocket.
"Alexis!" Jaden cried.
"That's not fair, bring her back," Chumley demanded.
"What did you do to her?" Syrus asked.
"The same thing I'm going to do to the three of you if you continue to pester and annoy me."
"Hey, just leave my friends out of this," Jaden snapped. "My draw!" Jaden's hand looked rather flimsy. He had mostly trap cards and only one monster. I don't have any card that can go up against 1900 attack points, but maybe… "Elemental Hero Avian (3), I summon you out in attack mode!" Jaden's green flying friend appeared aiming its claw at Titan. "And I'll also throw down two face-downs as well."
"Too bad you won't have a chance to use them," Titan said drawing a card. "I summon Terrorking Archfiend (4) in attack mode!" Just like the queen, the Terrorking looked like a demon turned inside out. "Now you have tow vicious Archfiends to contend with, and thanks to the special ability of the Infernalqueen, the Terrorking's attack points automatically increase by 1000."
(TA: 2000-3000)
"3000 attack points!" Jaden gasped.
"That's right, now I'm going to put them all to use! Terrorking Archfiend, attack Avian! Locus Storm Barrage!" The Terrorking's chest opened up and a swarm of insects launched from it.
"No way," Jaden cried as he activated one of his face-downs. "You forgot about my face-down card Mirror Gate!" Blue energy waves came between Avian and the attack. "This trap card automatically causes our monsters to switch places, my Avian for your Terrorking. So now all those 3000 attack points are going to be working for me."
"You really thought you could bait me into a trap?" Titan asked with a sly grin. 'Look around you and tell me who's trapped?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean your trap won't work against my Terrorking, it simply activates his special ability, an ability which determines our monster's fate by a game of chance!" Six balls floated out of the lava pit at the center of the ring. The balls were numbered as such. The balls fell into a circle next to Titan. "You see when he's targeted by an effect, Terrorking's special ability gives me a gambling chance. A number between 1 and 6 is selected at random and if it happens to be a 2 or a 5, then your trap card's destroyed and Terrorking remains on my side, so let's spin the wheel of fate and see what happens, shall we." A little fireball began leaping from one ball to the next.
"It's okay," Chumley assured the others. "The odds are way in Jaden's favor."
"You flunked math, Chumley," Syrus pointed out.
"No, I got a 54," Chumley argued.
The fireball started to slow down and finally stopped lighting up the 2 ball. "It seems that chance has favored the Terrorking Archfiend. Mirror Gate is shattered!" The blue energy waves dispersed as the locusts plowed through Avian.
(J: 2000)
(T: 4000)
"Well that stinks," Jaden complained. "But at least it activates my other trap, Hero Signal!" A light cast a glowing 'H' on the ceiling. "When my monster's destroyed in battle, this trap allows me to automatically summon a monster from my deck or my hand with Elemental Hero in its name. And I summon Elemental Hero Clayman (5), defense mode." The boulder-esque Elemental Hero flexed its muscles before crossing his arms over his chest.
"Way to duel!"
"That Clayman should keep Jaden safe."
"I don't think so," Titan said holding up an upside down pyramid on a string. "At least not from this!" Bright light, the same light that threw Arthur back, flashed the boys.
"Now the Shadow Games truly begin! Don't your life points seem so utterly insignificant now that it's your very life that's at risk?"
"Jaden, look down!" Arthur cried.
"Huh? My arm!" It wasn't just his arm, but a chunk of his chest was gone.
"It is the way of the shadows," Titan explained. "Transcending the game; attacking your body."
"I can't move my feet," Jaden complained.
"Of course not, as the shadow fog rolls past, you all will feel its darkness pull you into its grip."
Syrus, Chumley, and Arthur all started gagging. "The air, I can't breathe."
"My feet, I can't move them!"
"My head!"
"Treasure the numbness for it will not last! Soon you will be drawn into an infinite chasm of eternal darkness where every waking moment will be filled with…"
"Give me a break," Jaden said breaking Titan's diatribe. "How bad can it be? So what, back at our dorm we have black-out curtains so we can sleep in. I'm not scared of the dark, it's great."
"But your black-out curtains do not wield the same mystic power as my Millennium Item does. It's your move, but make it count, for it may be your last."
Wow, Millennium Items, shadow fog, who could ask for a better challenge? Jaden's lips curled into a smile.
Which nerved Titan. What is he smiling about?
All right, Jaden, get your game on. "Here it goes, buddy, for my move I play…" Jaden drew a card. "The spell card Pot of Greed!" Pot of Greed was a normal spell card that allowed the user to draw two extra cards. "And I'll fuse this Elemental Hero Sparkman (6) with the Clayman I have on the field!" From the boulder and the golden-armored warrior emerged a large monster round and covered in gold armor with a blue orb that was crackling with electricity at the center. "Now say hello to Elemental Hero Thunder Giant (7)! And next I'll use his special ability to destroy one of your monsters on the field whose original attack points are lower than his. Now, Thunder Giant, let loose Static Blast!" The giant fired a blast of blue lightning which headed straight for the Terrorking.
Titan chuckled and Jaden knew that that meant trouble for him.
The lightning slowed until it was just in front of the Terrorking Archfiend.
"I activate Terrorking's special ability once again," Titan said. "Spin roulette!" The fireball began moving from ball to ball.
"Oh no, it just can't land on a 2 or a 5 again," Syrus whined.
The fireball once again slowed until it landed on the 5.
"I think you spoke too soon, Sy," Arthur said.
Titan let out a triumphant laugh, "I win again, it seems even fate isn't on your side half the time and now you will pay the price!" The lightning doubled back and destroyed Thunder Giant.
"This stinks, talk about a run of some really bad luck," Jaden said.
"Jaden!"
"No!"
This is totally anti-licious, Chumley thought. No matter what Jaden does, that Shadow Duelist's Archfiend will use that roulette to save it. And this choking dark fog isn't exactly helping things either. I mean first Jaden came here to save Alexis, now he might not even be able to save himself!
"Now all your monsters are destroyed," Titan informed him. "And your next!" His laugh was border lining demonic.
To Be Continued
Duel Monster Database
(1)
Name: Etoile Cyber
Level: 4
Type: Warrior/Effect
Attribute: Earth
ATK: 1200
DEF: 1600
(2)
Name: Infernalqueen Archfiend
Level: 4
Type: Fiend/Effect
Attribute: Fire
ATK: 900
DEF: 1500
(3)
Name: Elemental Hero Avian
Level: 3
Type: Warrior
Attribute: Wind
ATK: 1000
DEF: 1000
(4)
Name: Terrorking Archfiend
Level: 4
Type: Fiend/Effect
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 2000
DEF: 1500
(5)
Name: Elemental Hero Clayman
Level: 4
Type: Warrior
Attribute: Earth
ATK: 800
DEF: 2000
(6)
Name: Elemental Hero Sparkman
Level: 4
Type: Warrior
Attribute; Light
ATK: 1600
DEF: 1400
(7)
Name: Elemental Hero Thunder Giant
Level: 6
Type: Warrior/Fusion/Effect
Attribute: Light
ATK: 2400
DEF: 1200
Next episode:
Jaden: I don't know what to do. Every time I try to target his cards, he just uses that roulette to protect himself.
"Kooo."
Jaden: What's that, Winged Kuriboh? You're telling me I shouldn't give up? But how can I win when he keeps using that Millennium Item to make my body disappear?
"Kooo."
Jaden: What do you mean it's fake?
Syrus: Next episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Legends: Beyond a Shadow of a Duel Pt 3
Jaden: There's still one chance left, go…
