Chapter 10 : Keepers and Slayers, Part 2
Authors Note : I apologize for lack of chapter last week, I had almost no time to write then. I hope you enjoy this week's chapter! And as promised, chapter starts with a Flashback.
Soon after four girls were separated, Fuji would had been challenged by duelist from a Synchro Dimension, Vulcan.
"DUEL!"
"I go first!" Vulcan states, looking at his hand, frowning. "I start by activating a magic card, Igknight Reload. With this card, I can shuffle any number of Pendulum Monsters from my hand to my deck and then draw cards equal to cards I shuffled to my deck plus one", he explained, revealing from his hand Igknight Templar before shuffling it to his deck and drawing two cards. "Now, I activate a Field Magic, Ignition Phoenix!" Fuji and Vulcan would be surrounded by a flaming ring, girl moving her arm to cover her face for a moment as flames rise. "And now, I place Igknight Squire to my Pendulum Zone! But, it won't stay there for long, as I use Ignition Phoenix' effect, destroying Squire and allowing me to add a Igknight monster to my hand!" As soon as Vulcan set his Pendulum Scale, blue pillar of light would be engulfed in flames and destroyed, Vulcan adding a card from his deck to his hand. "Card I chose is Igknight Paladin. Now, I summon it!" Vulcan would summon a knight wielding a rapier, Fuji observing monster carefully. "Now, I equip him with Magnum Shield, increasing his attack points by his defense points! His Attack Points are only 1400, but he has 1900 Defense Points. This means his current attack points are 3300!" Vulcan says, smirking. "I place a card face-down. Now, show me what you can do, Keeper".
Fuji inclines her head, drawing silently a card, looking at it. "That was good turn. Any regular duelist would be now in trouble... But then again, I am not your average duelist am I?" Fuji asks, Vulcan blinking. "What you mean by that?" He'd ask. "I activate a spell card, Pre-Preparation of Rites. With this card, I can add a ritual spell and ritual monster from my deck to my hand, as long as the ritual monster I choose has its name in the spell. I choose spell card Shinobird Calling, and monster Shinobaroness Peacock", Fuji explains, as her duel disk ejects from her deck two cards, which she adds to her hand. "Next, I summon Spirit Monster, Shinobird Crane in attack mode", she continues, summoning her monster, humanoid crane with a bow. "Now, when I summon a Spirit monster, I can draw a card from my deck". "...And? You already summoned once, and last time I checked Spirit monsters cannot be special summoned!" Vulcan adds, though Fuji simply shakes her head. "True. However, there are exceptions among that rule", Fuji says, as she activates her spell card. "I activate Shinobird Calling." As Ritual Spell is activated, pair of braziers appearing to the field. "Now, by sending from my hand to graveyard monsters whose levels are equal to 8 I can Ritual Summon Shinobaroness Peacock from my hand." She would then pick two cards from her hand, sending them to his graveyard. "I send from my hand to graveyard level 4 Shinobird Crane and Shinobird Crow." As Fuji begins sends her monsters to graveyard, braziers are lit by blue flames, astral images of Shinobird Crane and Shinobird Crow visible for brief moment. "Empress of the Wind, answer to my prayers! Ritual Summon, Level 8! Ascend, Shinobaroness Peacock!"
As Fuji begins her chant, from seemingly nowhere a Shōji would appear, humanoid shadow visible behind it. As door slides open, female figure, wearing kimono -with pattern similar to that of peacock's tail feathers-and holding a fan, would walk from there, opening her eyes as door behind her disappearing, Vulcan checking this new monsters attack points. "...2500, huh. That is rather high-level monster". Fuji would smile. "You may want to know, but since Shinobaroness Peacock is a Spirit monster, I can now draw a card from my deck with my Cranes effect". This would make Vulcans eyes widen moment. "That is a Spirit monster?!" Fuji nods. "Also, when Ritual Summoned, her effect activates, allowing me return first up to three spells or trap cards on the field to your deck, and then allowing me to Special Summon a level 4 or lower Spirit Monster from my deck. Go, Spiritual Typhoon!" Shinobaronss Peacock would smile, waving the hand she is holding her fan with, creating a vortex of wind that would return Vulcans field spell, Magnum Shield and face-down card to his deck, Vulcan taking a step backwards. "Now, I'll Special Summon Shinobird Pidgeon with Shinobaroness' effect", Fuji continues, special summoning a new spirit monster. "And finally, with effect of Shinobird Crane, I draw a card."
"Are you done yet?" Vulcan asks, Fuji simply shaking her head. "Not at all. You still have one monster on the field, after all", she would reply, smiling, then raising her hand to the sky. "I use my Shinobird Crane and Shinobird Pidgeon to construct a Overlay network!" She calls out, two monsters turning into a green spheres of light and ascending to sky, before rapidly falling towards the ground. However, instead of miniature black hole, there would be a shrine waiting, spheres entering inside the altar, Fuji beginning to chant once more, Vulcan taking few steps backwards. "Ancient Spirit of the Shrine, I call of your aid. Punish my foes for disturbing your peace! Xyz Summon, Rank 4! Lightning Chidori, take flight!" With this, lightning would hit the altar, bird made entirely from lightning rising, and screeching. "Now, I detach one Xyz material from my Lightning Chidori to activate its Special Ability, allowing me to return one card on the field to top of its owners deck!" With this, lightning bird would open its beak, screeching, as lightning suddenly hits his monster, blast returning monster to his deck, Vulcan taking a step backwards. "Now, I attack directly with Lightning Chidori! Divine Lightning!" Lightning Chidori would begin to spark wildly with electricity, before charging at Vulcan, passing him and damaging mans life points with its electrical current. "Now, Shinobaroness Peacock, finish this!" Shinobaroness would smile, before waving its fan once more, sending blades of air at Vulcan, sending man flying to ground as his life points drop to the zero.
Vulcan would cough a bit, before bursting into a laugh. "One Turn Kill... Can't say I expected something like that!" Fuji would look suprised, before smiling. "Not many people do", she replies, Vulcan pushing himself up. "Well, I hope your friends have as good luck as you do... I am the weakest duelist among the Slayers, after all." With this, recall activates, Synchro Dimensions duelist disappearing, Fuji finding herself from same location she was when they were surprised, looking around, before deciding to wait for others.
Back in the present, Crystal, "Keeper" from Synchro Dimension, would be dueling Luke, duelist from Xyz Dimension who uses Majespecter deck. Currently, Crystal herself would have 2300 life points left and control Crystron Ametrix and Crystron Quandax and have two face-down cards, as well as Field Spell Krystal Potential, while Luke has 1800 Life Points left, and would have Majester Paladin, the Ascending Dracoslayer and Majespecter Fox – Kyubi and Majespecter Crow – Yata in defense position, along with two face-down cards, Majespecter Supercell and Pendulum Scale formed with Scale 2 Majespecter Fox – Kyubi and Scale 5 Majespecter Toad – Ogama.
"Allright, everything is set! I tune my Crystron Ametrix with my Quandax!" Crystal calls out, two humanoid machines jumping to the sky, Quandax turning into four glowing rings and Ametrix transforming into five glowing stars. "Accel Synchro, Level 9!" Crystal calls out, as her new monster appears. "Crimson warrior with a Clear Mind, come to my aid! Crystron Phoenix!" As crimson machine is about to appear to the field, Luke would smirk and activate something. "Trap activate, Majespecter Tempest! By tributing one of my Majespecter Fox – Kyubi, I can negate a special summon of a monster and destroy it!" As Kyubi vanishes, golden vortex of wind would surround Crystron Phoenix, destroying it, Crystal looking bit shocked.
"Darn it!" She'd mutter, activating something. "I activate trap card, Crystron Entry! With this card, I can special summon two Crystron Tuner-monsters, one from my hand and one from my Graveyard! I special summon from my hand Crystron Citree and from my Graveyard Crystron Quandax!" She calls out, her two machines appearing to the field. "Now I attack at your Majester Paladin with Quandax!" Crystals monster would charge at Luke's monster, easily dispatching it. "...Before I end my turn, I destroy from field my Crystron Rion, and from my hand Crystron Quan, to Special Summon a monster from my hand", she would declare, her pendant starting to glow azure light, Luke narrowing his eyes. "So, you are summoning your King..." he'd think, as whirlpool would appear to the ground, Crystal beginning her chant. "O' Great Beast, awaken from your slumber and ascend from the depths and become my shield! Appear True King – Bahrastos, the Fathomer!" As Chant goes on, massive dragon-like beast would surface from the vortex, before taking defensive stance, looming over Luke, who looks surprised. "So, this is all famous Fathomer..." He'd say, standing up, Crystal looking at he duel disk for a moment. "I end my turn".
"Draw!" Luke exclaims, looking at the card he draws, smirking. "First, I use effect of Majespecter Supercell, returning 5 Majespecter cards from my Graveyard to my deck, then shuffling it and drawing a card." He'd explain, drawing a card after shuffling his deck, smirking. "Now, I use Majespecter Cyclone to destroy your Bahrastos by tributing my Yata!" As Luke tributes his monster, vortex destroys massive blue wyvern, Crystal covering her face with her arm. "Now, I perform a Pendulum Summon... Appear, my friends!" Luke calls out, vortex appearing to the sky. "Majespecter Toad – Ogama, Majespecter Fox – Kyubi, Majespecter Crow – Yata and Luster Pendulum the Dracoslayer!" Luke calls out, his monsters appearing one by one to the field. "Now, with effect of Kyubi and Yata, I can add a Majespecter monster and spell card to my hand. I choose Majespecter Cat – Nekomata and Majespecter Sonics!" After adding these two cards to his hand, Luke looks the field through for a moment, before smirking. "I activate now Majescepter Sonics, doubling attack points of my Majespecter Kyubi, but in exchange battle damage it does this turn is halved. Now, attack Quandax!" Golden fox would howl, before sending a gust of wind at Crystals machine, destroying it easily. "Now, let's finish this! Yata and Luster Pendulum! Direct Attack!" With this, crow and dragonkin launch their assaults, Crystals life points dropping to 0, and she falls to her knee, frowning for her lost.
"See? Told you that your Accel Synchro is nothing to my Majespecter cards", Luke would say, taunting Crystal while smiling, who simply grunts. "I hope others had better luck than I did..." She'd manage to say, before being recalled. Luke would look around for a moment, before noticing Fuji and Dyno. "...Wait, did Vulcan lose?" He'd ask, Dyno grunting before answering. "Yep. He must have gotten careless again..." Fuji would look at newcomer a moment. "...Which one were you dueling?" She would ask, Luke thinking this a moment. "Synchro Dimension's chick, used some weird machines", he'd reply, Fuji blinking a bit. "Synchro... That must had been Crystal then." Dyno nods, then seems to realize something, bursting into laugh, Luke taking step backwards. "What's so funny?" He'd ask, Dyno looking at his direction. "You really don't get it, do you? Vulcan lost, and we are here. And only Keeper left is that traitor..." Luke blinks, before realizing. "Ah! So her opponent is...!" Dyno nods. "Worst possible opponent for someone from Fusion Dimension... Synar."
How will Mira be able to handle this "Synar", and what kind of cards will he be using? Stay tuned, as next chapter comes next week! (Unless I get delayed.)
Author Note : Shōji is a japanese-style sliding door, for those who wonder. Also if you wonder, I skipped majority of the duel between Crystal and Luke due it being really long.