YU-GI-OH
The Kingdom Of Shadows
Chapter Ten
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A: North Atlanta High School, 23rd of July:
Anna Martin was walking down the hallway of the high school and had to bite her lip to stop herself from screaming at everyone who was staring at her.
Anna was often told she was beautiful and she also knew that she was, long blond hair and pale skin and blue eyes which looked like chunks of ice. The problem was that her beauty attracted both a lot of weirdos and boys, and quite a few girls to be fair, who wouldn't take no for an answer.
She really needed to get out of here but she had a geography class and she needed to cram for her test, she took a breath and just decided to ignore them. She was about halfway down the hallway when she felt someone pinch her butt.
She spun around and had to resist the urge to groan out loud as she saw who it was who had pinched her. Jacob Tompson was the captain of the football team and thus he acted like he was the king of the school and everyone else his loyal subjects to command and do whatever he wished with and it wasn't as if the faculty did much to try and curve this attitude.
"Do that again and see what happens!" She growled and Jacob laughed with an arrogant expression on his stupid face, like she had just told him the funniest joke in the entire world.
"Oh, come on babe! Chill out. You should feel grateful, it's a compliment after all. I wouldn't have done that if you weren't so hot!" He said with a smirk as he rested his arm on her shoulders. "So babe, what do you think about coming with me to the dance tonight?"
Anna roughly shrugged his arm off and glared at him. "I should take you assaulting me as a compliment!? Are you completely insane!? And I would rather go to the dance with a dead toad than go anywhere with you!"
Her shouting had drawn attention and what seemed to be half of the school had surrounded them both in a tight circle, she didn't want this. All she had wanted was to get to geography.
"Oh come on babe, you're far to pretty to be a damn femnazi!" Jacob said and a few of his friends laughed at that.
That was the last straw for Anna, she screamed in frustration and everyone in the hallway suddenly took a step back. Even Jacob realised that had pushed her to far and was starting to look scared. "Uh-
"Listen up! I am going to go to my class and then after that I am going to go out to the front of the school with my duel disk and I'll wait for you for there meet me at the end of your class, I know you have your duel disk stashed in your locker. We'll have a duel and if you win you leave me alone and neither bother me ever again or touch me again, got it?"
"And if I agree to that, what do I get if I win?" Jacob asked, he wasn't afraid of this bitch there was no way that he could beat her in a million years but it could be useful.
Anna closed her eyes and sighed. "If you win not only will I go to the dance with you but I will also go on three dates with you after, sound fair?" The idea of spending that amount of time with this cretin made her skin crawl but she knew that she had to offer him something or he would never agree to the match and the chance of having him never bother again was too good to pass up.
He had taken the bait, going by the large sleazy smile on his face. "Well, alright but I hope you've got a dress all picked out cause I've got a brand new deck and babe, no one's been able to beat it yet."
"Then I'll be the first, see you after school." Anna said coldly as she walked away from Jacob and pushed past the crowd, there was no way she was going to lose. She couldn't lose.
As she made it through the crowd and began to walk down the hall she stopped when she heard someone calling her voice, she turned and saw her three best friends in the whole world rush up to, Abby, Jenna and Lisa had been her friends since kindergarten and they had stuck together ever since then.
"Anna! Are you crazy?! Why did you make that stupid bet!?" Abby yelled, her long bush of red hair shaking with every word she shouted. "If you lose than you have to go with him!"
"I know but it's worth the risk and I don't plan to lose." Anna said calmly. "Now, does anyone know anything about this new deck of his?" She knew that Jacob used to use beast-warriors and if he used that then she would've been able to beat that easily though his two Manticore of Darkness's would have caused her a bit of trouble, but him having a new deck did complicate things slightly.
"I think I overheard him say that he has a really rare and powerful card, no doubt Daddy bought it for him." Lisa muttered, Jacob's father was an extremely wealthy and powerful lawyer, he was respected and feared in equal measure and it was the worst kept secret in all of Atlanta that he had a great deal in control in the local government, the end result was his kids very rarely did not get what they want.
"What ever it is I'll handle it, now, let's put it out of our minds. I really need to cram for my test." Anna said before she turned on her feet and resumed walking down the corridor, her friends following after her.
After the school had let out for the day Anna and Jacob were standing in the middle of a circle made up of what looked like half of the student body, they were both shuffling their decks. They both had their duel disks strapped to their arms, Anna noted that Jacob's was the Kaiba Corp Pro X 3 disk, it was top of the range. "You sure you just don't want to just go to the dance with me?" Jacob asked as he finished shuffling his deck and placed it in his disk's deck holder. "It'll be a lot less painful in the long run."
Anna narrowed her eyes and placed her deck into her disk. "I am sure, now let's do this!" She pressed a button on her disk. "Duel Disk on!"
"Your call." Jacob said with a shrug as he turned his disk on and drew five cards, Anna did the same and their life points set to 8000.
"Duel!" They both shouted.
"Ladies first, see? I can be a gentlemen." Jacob said and Anna rolled her eyes before she drew her sixth card and added it to her hand.
She looked over hand and nodded before she picked one up. "I summon, Cold Enchanter! In attack mode!" A young woman with snow white hair appeared on the field, she was dressed in a blue leotard and wore a strange crown on her head. She held a staff which was topped with a sculpted snowflake. (1600/1200)
"Then, I'll set two cards face down and that'll do for now." Anna said as she fit the cards into her disk. "Over to you."
"Not a bad opening move, now let's see here. I think I'll summon my Masked Dragon, also in attack mode!" Jacob said and a red and white dragon with large wings appeared in front of him. (1400/1100). "And I think I will end my turn there."
"So, he's using a dragon deck now? Well, fine. It could be worse. I can deal with a dragon deck." Anna thought as she drew a new card and added it to her hand. "Alright, I summon Ice Knight in attack mode." A monster dressed in light blue armour with a red cape and armed with a double bladed staff appeared on the field. (1300/1200)
"And my knight has a killer effect, for each Aqua monster on both our fields he gain's 400 attack points." As Anna explained Ice Knight's score went up. (1300-2100)
"Now, Ice Knight!" Anna shouted. "Attack Masked Dragon, Ice Impalement!" The Knight rushed forward and stabbed the dragon with one of the tips of it's staff, the dragon roared and shattered and Jacob winced as his life points fell to 7300.
"When you destroy a Masked Dragon I'm allowed to summon another from my deck!" Jacob shouted and another Masked Dragon appeared on the field but this one had it's wings curled around it's self in defence mode.
"I am aware of it's effect so it's good thing I've got another attack. Cold Enchanter, get it!" Cold Enchanter pointed her staff and a blast of pure cold shot out of her staff, it struck the dragon who roared and was covered in ice, frozen in place for a moment before it shattered.
A second later a third Masked Dragon appeared and Jacob laughed. "Anything else."
"I think I know what's he planning, he wants me to destroy that Masked Dragon and then he'll use it's effect to summon a Troop Dragon and then he'll have a wall, thankfully I've got another monster I can summon on my next turn so it'll only protect him for one round." Anna shook her head. "No, I'm done. Over to you."
"Thanks." Jacob said before he drew. "Don't worry babe, will be on our way to the dance before you know it."
The sky was just begin turn to a golden orange colour and some of the people who had been watching had left, either because they had to be home soon or because they wanted to start getting ready for the dance, regardless there was still quite a few people watching the duel.
Anna had the clear advantage, she had one face down card and four thousand-five hundred life points and a powerful monster on the field, it was a woman with long blond hair and wearing a more ornate crown, her dress was pure white and she had a staff that was similar to Cold Enchanter's but hers was larger. (2500/2000). She also hand a hand of three cards
Jacob had no monsters on his side of the field and he only had two thousand life points left, he had no facedown cards and only two cards in his hand but despite that he didn't looked worried, in fact he looked more confidant than ever about winning, Anna hated to admit it but it unsettled her a little.
"I'd give up now if I were you Jacob, I can't see how you're going to turn this around. I've already destroyed your best monster." Anna said as she stared at her opponent. "But it's your turn now."
"Oh babe, Tyrant Dragon was a powerful monster but it was nowhere near my best monster." Jacob said as he drew his card. "I think it's time for me to bring out my best monster, I think you and our audience have been waiting patiently." He picked a card. "I play, Dragon's Mirror!" He played the spell card and his Duel Disk glowed.
"Dragon's Mirror?" Anna muttered before her eyes widened as she realised what that meant. "No! It can't be!"
"Oh, but it is! I remove the three Masked Dragons and two Troop Dragons in my graveyard from play and I can special summon one fusion monster from my extra deck, and I think you know which one it is. Rise up! F.G.D!" The whole ground seemed to shake as a titanic form appeared on in front of Jacob.
The dragon had five heads, one was made of fire, one was blue, one looked like it was made of rock and an other of metal and one looked like it was make of pure darkness. All five heads were attached to one single body which was a pale yellow and looked to be as tall as a skyscraper. (5000/5000)
"You know, if you want to surrender I don't think anyone would hold it against you." Jacob said and Anna gulped before she shook her head and just glared at him, Jacob shook his head and sighed "Your funeral."
He took another card from his hand and played it. "I activate Flying Dragon Whirl! I send four dragons from my deck to my grave and for each dragon I send there one monster's attack points are increased by 1200 for this round."
The massive dragon roared as energy flowed into him and his power increased. (5000-6200)
"No! She can't beat it, there's no way!" Jenna shouted as everyone stared at the dragon in awe or fear depending on whose side they were on.
"Now, F.G.D attacked Ice Master with Destruction Blast!" All five heads shot out streams towards Ice Master who was atomised by the blast and Anna yelled as her life points were devastated and the fell to 800 life points.
Anna took some deep breaths and fixed Jacob with a glare. "Are you done?"
Jacob shrugged. "Got to admit Babe, you're tougher than you look."
"Stop. Calling. Me. Babe!" Anna yelled as she drew her next card and looked at it for a moment before placing into on his disk. "I'll set this monster in defence mode and that will be my turn."
Jacob drew a card, this wouldn't take much longer. He didn't have many cards left in his deck, he would either draw another monster he could summon or he would draw his Fairy Meteor Crush card and then even if Anna kept putting monster in defence mode it wouldn't help her.
He imagined how beautiful she would look in a dress, and after the dance how much fun it would be to peel the dress off of her and then-
"Are you going to go or what!?" Anna shouted and Jacob shook his head as he was brought out of his fantasy.
"Go my dragon! Attack that facedown monster!" The dragon shot out it's five beams and it rushed towards the face down monster, Anna grinned and she flipped the monster up and for a brief moment before it was incinerated they could see what it was. An adorable little penguin holding a small sword and wearing armoured pauldrons.
"No! Not Penguin Solider!" Jacob screamed but it was too late, the massive dragon glowed for a moment and let out a pitiful noise before it faded away.
"Afraid so, now normally Penguin Solider would send two monster back to either of our hands but because your Dragon is a fusion monster it goes back to your extra deck!" Anna exclaimed and her supporters cheered!
Jacob looked at his hand and hesitated. "I uh, uh. I set one card face down and then I'll end my turn."
"That's got to be the worst bluff I've ever seen." Anna said as she drew her card. "Now, since you tried to beat me with your best monster then I only suppose it's fair that I try and do the same with mine. First, I activate my call of the haunted to bring back Cold Enchanter." The trap card lifted and the woman appeared one the field.
"Now, I play a powerful magic card know as Icicle Sacrifice. I select one of my monster zones and for the rest of the duel it is considered occupied but in exchange for that I get an Icicle Token and when I sacrifice it counts as two monsters." The ground rumbled and a totem that looked like it had been carved out of ice burst out of the ground.
"Now, the monster I am going to summon is so powerful that I need to sacrifice three Aqua monsters, so I sacrifice my Icicle Token and my Cold Enchanter so I can summon, my Ice Empress!" Cold Enchanter and the Icicle Token disappeared and suddenly the atmosphere suddenly seemed a lot colder and a thin mist seemed to descended on the field.
The monster stepped out of the mist and the figure that appeared drew a gasp from everyone aside from Anna, it was an eight feet tall woman and she was made entirely of ice and held two staffs similar to the Ice Master. (3500/3000) Her eyes glowed with a bright light.
"Now my Ice Empress attack directly with Blizzard Force!" The Ice Empress held out both her staffs and a miniature blizzard descended on to Jacob who screamed as he was caught in the middle of it and his life points fell to zero.
Anna shut down her disk and Ice Empress faded away and she walked over to Jacob who was on his knees shivering, she knelt down in front of him. "I won, so your going to keep your end of the bargain and never bother me again, got it!" She shouted but she didn't wait for an answer, she know the message had sunk in.
Right now, she just wanted to head home.
Anna walked to her house, her two eldest brothers, Sam and Alec who were both home from collage were currently playing soccer with Rick, who was only older than her bye a year. She held up her hand and they all greeted her before she walked onto the pouch and entered the house through the front door.
"Dad, I'm home!" She called and her father, who had been in the living room walked out to greet her.
"Good day at school hon?" He asked as Anna kissed his cheek.
"It was okay, some guy got a little touchy but I took care of it. Anyway, I'm going to bed." She walked past her father and headed up stairs and went into her room, all she wanted to do right now was sleep.
She changed into her pyjama but before she got into bed she looked at her deck, it had taken a lot of work but it was almost complete and if she trusted in it like she had done today...
Then no one would be able to stop her from heading to the top!
End of Chapter Ten
Flying Dragon Whirl:
Spell Card:
Type: Quick-Play
Image: Four dragons with energy following out them.
Effect: Send four dragons in your deck straight to the graveyard and increase one monster's attack points by three hundred for each one.
Vivian used this card in her duel against Yugi
Icicle Sacrifice:
Spell Card:
Type: Normal
Image: A totem carved out ice standing in the middle of a blizzard
Effect: Select one of your unused monster zone's, it is considered occupied for the remainder of the duel, and special summon one Icicle Token(Aqua-Type/Water/Level 1/ATK 0/Def 0). The Icicle Token can be treated as two monsters when used for a sacrifice to a monster.
Alexis used this card against Jaden when she had been brainwashed by the society of light.
Ice Empress
Monster Card:
Level: Ten
Attribute: Water
Type: Aqua
ATK: 3500
DEF: 3000
Effect: This monster can not be special summoned, this monster can only be tribute summoned if three Aqua monsters are used as tributes. All water type monsters on your side of the field gain 400 ATK for as long as this monster remains on the field, if this monster would destroyed by Monster Effect, a spell or a trap then remove one Aqua monster from your graveyard to prevent it's destruction.
Ice Knight
Monster Card:
Level: Four
Attribute: Water
Type: Aqua
ATK: 1300
DEF: 1200
Effect: This card gains 400 ATK for each Aqua type monster on the field.
This monster was used by Frost.