LC; Time for more Jay people, so welcome one and come all!
Jay; For some strange reason LC is charging admission to her new master pieces.
Sy; Which stinks because the story plots are actually not bad but expensive.
LC; Girl's gotta eat is what I say! I got rent to pay, intuition, bills, and no time for after school jobs anymore.
Jay; So she thought she'd make money by posting her work online.
Sy; Results thus far...None.
LC; Apparently no one appreciates a starving artist. Or author.
Jay; Can we wrap this up and get to the rhyming duel now?
Sy; Yeah, I can't wait to see how you managed an entire duel finished with rhymes.
LC; Neither can I!
Both; O.o
Disclaimer; I do not own Yugioh GX but if I did it would have hover-scate boards. Those would be so kick-arse!
Chapter 10; Monsters and Poems, you just gotta know'em!
Chazz kicked the chair in front of him angrily, drawing a few surprised gasps from his posse. At this point in time though, it didn't even register.
It should be him sending the slackers packing! Although, so long as someone did it, he guessed it was alright. These paradox brothers better not lose.
In another part of the stadium, Alexis took a seat next to Bastion and looked over the competition.
"What a total mismatch." She muttered ruefully. Crowler wasn't being fair about this! Why is he so biased against Slifers though? It didn't make sense.
"I have to say logically that their chances of winning are one in fifty." Bastion sighed. He honestly hoped Jay wouldn't be kicked out, she was such an interesting puzzle. After watching her duel against Crowler he'd honestly been hoping to fix up a deck specifically for her.
The Paradox brothers weren't what she was expecting. Even the infalliable happy-go-lucky duelest extrodinair, Jay Yuki, was a little nervous at the prospect.
But hey, it's not like she hadn't faced proffessionals by herself before. Casting a side glance to her little buddy, she rethought that statement.
Last time she faced Professionals, she'd been using top of the line cards and had been on her own. Now she was paired with her best friend, with her favorite cards.
She just hoped that the brothers wouldn't cry too hard when they lost.
"Crowler, don't you think this is a bit much for a couple of first years?" Bishop questioned his subordinate.
"Of course not! They broke a big time rule so they should face big time duelists!" Crowler argued.
"Besides, they came all this way!" He/She tried to reason. Not entirely convinced about his gender.
"What does that matter? Your paying for their round trip." The chancellor reminded him. No way was he paying for two top ranked duelists' flights on first class on a round trip. Crowler would just have to do without his vacation in Italy this summer.
"Let's leave it up to the kids to decide. Jay, how do you feel about it?" He said goodnaturedly.
"These guys couldn't beat male-patterned baldness! No way we can lose!" She answered right away. Besides, this would no doubt boost Sy's confidence to the thousands if, no when, they won.
Crowler scowled as the Chancellow chuckled at the joke before regaining his posure. At least the bratty girl hadn't ruined his revenge. And his summer vacation was well worth being able to bid her adeu on the next tub out of here!
"Well then it should be alright! After all, they haven't dueled in almost a decade and their last opponent was just a child! I think he went by Yugi something." Crowler said deviously, seeding the plant of doubt in the bluenette's heart.
It was only a matter of time now and he could enjoy his precious school with two less slackers.
"Let's not dilly dally any more." The green brother, who shall be named Para said.
"It is time to duel, not to be a bore." Dox finished the rhyme.
"...Whatever, just get your game on." Jay muttered, readying her hand.
"Yeah and we'll get them all and you'll get none!" Sy replied quietly, trying to boost his confidence.
"Wait a minute, did that rhyme?" Jay gasped, just noticing the pattern.
"I don't know, I wasn't paying attention at the time." Syrus answered.
"The rules are quite simple! There will be no sharing of strategies or cards unless they are already in play!" Crowler announced to all the four of them, apparently immune to the poetry bug.
"I summon Jyroid in attack mode!" Syrus called as his turn was the first.
"I am surprised it has an attack mode, but that won't save it from becoming Jyroid ala mode!" Para cried.
"Especially since I summon my Jikaimo!" Jay's face instantly whithered. Why did he have to duel with bugs?
"An over grown bug will do you no good! Especially with my Burstinitrix up in the hood!" She played, putting the female heroin in defense mode with 800 points.
"HA! Your little doll won't be here long! Especially with Kaiser Seahorse dancing to my song!" Dox sang as his sea knight appeared, all 1700 points blazing.
'If I know dueling like I think I do, these guys will attack next, a shoo!' Sy cursed mentally.
"Now I will play a spell card! Tribute Doll!" He called out, showing the spell for the crowd to see.
"To activate it, I must sacrifice one monster from our side of the field. Good thing my brother is so generous with his!" He said as a dark fog enveloped the giant spider.
"Now I am able to summon a level seven monster, such as Kaze Jin!" He finished. Soon now he and his brother would win and collect their fee. Being world class duelists they obviously didn't come cheep after all.
"As you can see, we are masters of this game." Dox began.
"You can try all you want, but the end is the same!" Para continued.
"Just give up and dry your eyes!" Para started a new rhyme.
"Or the whole school will be present to watch your demise!" Jay sweatdropped and tried very hard to keep herself from rhyming. Something about this was way too weird.
"Give it your best shot dudes but prepare to be beaten!" She declared.
"Jay do you think they'll let us eat something now? I haven't eaten." Sy really wasn't sure about this.
"Now I play Dark Designater! This lets me summon any monster in my brother's deck to his hand!" He informed the room at large.
"Let's see, I choose Sunda of the Thunder!" He declared. He knew his brother's deck like the back of his hand.
"Well what do you know, it's right here, ready to tear them asunder." Para said in mock surprise.
"The duel has only just begun." He smirked.
"And yet at the same time it is almost done." Dox finished. Jay momentarily wondered if they had to rehearse those lines or if it was all improv.
"Say Jay, if we forfeit now we'll have extra time to pack our bags. What do you think?" Syrus was practically dripping in sweat. He'd never been so nervous in his entire life and dueling in front of so many people wasn't helping manners at all.
"Sy, I think your brain might be on the blink." Jay said honestly.
"They're just saying that for an easy rhyme." She assured him. 'Now let's hope this won't end like last time.' She thought, thinking back to their practice duel.
'Let's see, monster roll call. I got Burst waiting for impact and Sy's got his...helicopter thingie.' She deadpanned.
'Not bad, not good either, but it's not bad.' She thought desperately. Damn, she kind of wished she had paid more attention when her father talked about Duelist Island. That would have been some useful information.
'Jay's right, I need to get my head in the game!' Syrus pondered determinedly. 'Besides, not only do I have something to prove to these paradox bros, but to my bro as well. I'm going to show Zane I'm not as worthless as he thinks!'
"All aboard! I summon Steamroid in attack mode!" He lifted up another card before anyone could even blink at the monster's low points.
"But that's not all, now I play Polymerisation to create the Ultimate engine that could, Steamjyroid!" At 2200 points, it would put a sizable dent into their opponents' life points if he could stage an attack.
"For now though I'll just lay a face down and call it a turn." Besides, if he did attack, Para could just borrow a monster from his brother's side to defend himself.
He'd just have to be patient.
"Ha! Do they really think they can beat Para and Dox?" Crowler questioned.
"They stink worse than dirty socks! Ha, now they've got me doing it!" At this rate, the duel would be over before tea time and he could catch his favorite shows instead of taping them.
"My draw, and I play Monster Reborn to bring back Jikaimon! And I also play a spell card, one that is very familiar! It's Tribute Doll!"
"Oh not this again!" Syrus groaned. He was starting to dislike that card.
"Yes again and again, I will use it to sacrifice my Jikaimon to summon yet another level seven monster! Like Sui Jin!" Para stated. With 2500 points, it wasn't looking good for Jay and crew. This duel was looking tougher than she thought possible.
"But it's not over yet. Brother, if you would be so kind as to let me borrow a monster?" He implied.
"Please, that's why he's there." His brother assured him, gesturing to his Kaiser Seahorse.
"Now I will sacrifice Kaiser Seahorse, and since I am summoning a Light Attribute monster, he counts as two sacrifices!" Para proclaimed.
"Just enough for Sunda of the Thunder to take the stage!" Even their monsters' names rhymed. What is with these guys and bad lymricks?
"Now we have three monsters, what could be better?" Para asked.
"I know brother, when they come together!" Dox answered.
"You are correct brother, now I sacrifice Kaze Jin, Sui Jin, and Sunda of the Thunder, to create the ultimate monster!"
"Gate Guardian!" The monster roared to life. It had 3750 and looked like it would have no qualms about using each and every one. If that thing connected, it would be lights out for what little confidence she'd managed to instill in her buddy.
"He certainly fits a gate guard's physique." Jay mumbled incohrently. The thing looked like it had a pot belly but that might just be the Kaze Jin part showing through. She couldn't be sure.
"Now Gate Guardian, attack Steamjyroid, Tidal Surge!" Jay and Syrus cried out in pain as their life points plummetted to 6450. Things were looking grim indeed.
"This isn't a duel, it's a slaughter house, and Sy's the pig." Bastion said intelligently. Sy wasn't making a great impression on his first big dabeu, that was for certain.
"He's just made a few bad moves is all. I'm sure they can turn it around." Alexis said unconvincingly. 'At least I hope he can. Jay is good, but even she can't win on her own.'
"Oh this is perfect! They're duel like they can read eachother's minds! They know just what to do and are doing it!" Crowler cackled with glee.
"After all, in a tag duel all you have to do is look for the weakest link and they found it perfectly in little Syrus! He'd be the weak link on a plate of sausages!" And at the moment, it looked like Sy wouldn't mind joining those sausages in the trash can.
All he wanted to do was hide under his blankets.
'I hope Jay's got something really spectacular up her sleeves, or this is the end of our Duel Academy days!' He pleaded mentally.
"Well come on baby mama needs a roof over her head!" Jay begged fiercly, drawing her card.
"And they say there's no such thing as luck!" She sighed in relief.
"Well I'll let you be the deciders of that. Because right now I'm the general and I just drafted Elemental Hero Clayman! But that's not all, because I'm using Polymerisation to fuse Clayman and Burstinitrix to form Ramp Heart Blaster!" With 2500 defense points, it wouldn't stop the guardian, but she wasn't going for that.
"Um Jay, I don't think Ramp Heart's gonna cut it." Syrus pointed out.
"Relax Sy, you see, Ramp Heart's got a special ability! When he's in the defense, he can attack an opponent directly." She informed him, to everyone's surprise.
"Our life points!" The brothers cried as the mini-missiles raced forward and stole 1000 of their points, leaving only 7000.
"Hey what do you know! We're back in this thing!" Syrus smiled.
"Sy we were never out of it!" Jay reassured him.
"My turn, and I use Bury Meteor Shower and equip it to Gate Guardian!" Before he could attack though, Syrus spoke up...I'm telling the truth...Syrus discovered he was a man not a mouse and he actually spoke up.
"Not so fast, I have a face down! Mystical Space Typhoon destroys one spell or trap card and guess what, I choose the one you just played!" It would have been a good play, an amazing upset. If only he remembered about the face down on Dox's side of the field.
"I use Anubis, which means by getting rid of one card from my hand, I turn you typhoon into a midsummer breeze!" Dox cried quickly. That had been close.
"But that's not all it does, it also destroys one of your monsters, and it's attack points go to you as damage!" All the slifer duo could do was watch as their points dropped once more, this time to 4450. If something didn't happen, and soon, they'd be saying bon voyage to all their friends.
"Now I will show some mercy and summon a monster in defense mode, it's called Defense Wall!" It had 2100 defense points. Which was just 2100 points too many for them to defeat.
"And it has a special ability, as long as it's in play, all your monster automatically have to attack it!" Para informed them graciously. Jay wasn't sure about the percise definition of mercy, but she was fairly certain this didn't register.
'What can I do? I don't have any monsters except...' It was desperate, and he knew it wouldn't do anything, but what other choice did he have?
"I-I summon Cycroid in defense mode!" Syrus called out. This duel was as good as over. They never had a chance. Jay never stood a chance after he was made her partner.
He should've left when he had the chance.
'She's looking at me. I can feel it.' He couldn't tell what her expression was but he figured it must have been one of dissapointment. It had been such a weak monster. But what could he do?
"Gate Guardian, give his little bike a flat! Tidal Surge Attack!" Para ordered. Syrus fell to his knees as the same time his points fell to 1700. He was close to tears and it seemed he wouldn't be able to get back up again.
Jay hung her head and tried to think of something, anything, that could turn this duel around.
"Your life points are falling!" Dox pointed out, starting another verse.
"Your game play's apalling." Para rhymed.
"There's nothing left to do but give up and start balling!" They sang in union.
"Attention Jay Yuki, it is your turn. You must make a move or you will be disqualified." A voice over the intercom announced. But for all intents and purposes, it seemed Jay was dead to the world.
END OF EPISODE, ON TO NEXT EPISODE!
"It's two monsters up against none, a simple calculation to figure, they'll be knackered." Bastion said in his usual weird-english accent.
"Great, now your talking in words I don't understand." Alexis was honestly regretting her choice of seating arrangements. Maybe she would've been better off with Zane or even Chummly.
"We can't just give up on them. We've got to believe that Jay's got a strategy." She tried to stay upbeat, but in present pessimistic company this was proving harder than usual.
"Oh it's not Jay I'm worried about, I'm certain she's got one, it's Syrus that worries me." Bastion told her.
"He's walked into every trap, spell, and attack the paradox brothers have played." Alexis got a tick in her forehead before she managed to come up with an answer.
"I think I liked it better when I couldn't understand you." Bastion had the decency to look chatised.
"Sorry."
"Come on, let them win, let them win!" Chummly chanted enthusiastically. If they won he'd give up grilled cheeses for a month! He'd just fry them instead! But only if his friends won!
In the Obelisk part of the arena, Chazz let out his usual dark chuckle. By now the other Obelisks were slightly concerned for his sanity but he didn't pay them any mind.
"Soon that slacker will be crying her eyes out." It was laughable that she thought she could be a games monarch, the first Queen of Games, HA! It was especially funny since that was his destiny. She didn't have any of the pedigree to go with the title. Where as he was a Princeton!
"Ahahahaa! Oh this is perfect! I'm a genius! An absolute genius!" Crowler cackled madly, not paying attention to who might be listening.
"First I lure them inside the abandoned dorm, then I set up this tag match, simply genius!" He praised himself.
"Enjoying the kids' punishment a bit much Crowler?" Bishop questioned him good naturedly. Of course, he'd heard every word, but for the moment he would turn a blind eye.
He would just be sure to give Crowler a good 'talking' to later. By talking, he meant of course chewing the ever loving shampoo out of the long haired man's rear end.
"Oh no, I'm just happy the duel's almost over. I'm glad they don't have to suffer anymore. Our students look oh so weary." He knew he was laying it on a little thick. But maybe if he buttered the old man up a bit he might be able to salvage a two week vacation in Japan at least.
"Well I don't know about that. It seems Jay's just getting her second wind." He said, pointing to the aforementioned girl.
Jay looked up at the Gate Guardian with a triumphant smirk on her face. She'd come up with a strategy and she was rearing to start dueling.
END OF CHAPTER BE HAPPY CAUSE THIS TOOK FOREVER TO DO! STUPID VIRUS DELETED THIS AND I HAD TO REWRITE IT!
LC; To be honest, this chap was more trouble than it was worth.
Jay; Wasn't the original plan to make everything rhyme? All the talking?
LC; It was, but after it got deleted the first time when that virus attacked my laptop, I gave up.
Sy; Too much trouble huh.
LC; Way too much. I'm done now. I have more work to do so leave me.