I'm so sorry about how long this chapter took to come out. I'll give my reasons at the bottom AN but for now call it writer's block, procrastination, school work piling up, technical difficulties, or a little of all four, your pick. Anyways I'm back now.
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or SAO
Chapter 7, "The Fusionist"
"Why did you recommend we raid your kitchen if it was empty?" Alex said annoyed.
"I'm sorry, ok? I was supposed to go grocery shopping today but then the new rules came out and I forgot. Thanks for coming along with me." Daniel said.
The two were currently in Daniel's car. Kirito and Asuna were trying to sit on Alex's lap since there wasn't enough space for all the duel spirits in the back.
"You know, we should probably stop for a second and get out." Alex said.
"What are you talking about?" Daniel asked.
"Well, if you take the average time between new duel spirits showing up, if you don't count overnight for Leafa, we are overdue for a new one. Also, they have a tendency to land right on my head, so if one shows up now, we'll probably hit them with the car and they'll break the windshield and hit me dead center in the face."
"Not that I believe your logic, but I don't feel like buying a new windshield… pulling over now." Daniel said.
"I don't think a new windshield would be your biggest problem, more like the fact that you just hit one of our friends with a car." Kirito said while Daniel parked at the nearest parking lot, that just so happened to be at the park.
While the group got out of the car, they heard a familiar voice calling out to them.
"What are the odds of running into you guys here?" Hannah asked running up towards the group. "Wait a second! 1… 2… 3… 4… 5… 6! What happened to two!" she said startled by the rapidly multiplying numbers of duel spirits.
"Funny you should say that, we actually just pulled over because based off the average time in between their appearances, another one should appear soon." Alex said.
"How many more are there?" Hannah asked.
"Kirito, estimite."
"Normally I'd say 2, but then Alex would just say that means 10… so, 10." Kirito said.
"You hear that? 50 more are coming."
"Quit bumping up my numbers!" Kirito said.
"Ok, so what I got from that is that there is somewhere between 2 and 50 more coming… I'm going to say 2 and move on… Daniel, how's your day been?" Hannah asked desperate to change the subject.
"Well it started with me and Alex looking for each other, only for us both to wind up at the other's house. When that was sorted, me and Alex had a battle for the ages. The duel raged long and hard, and by my sheer overwhelming power, I crushed Alex with Raidraptor - Final Fortress Falcon." Daniel said.
"Actually, it was pure luck that I sent your left card back to your hand instead of the right one. Had I done that, I would have won that turn." Alex corrected.
"Wait wait wait, let me get this straight, you lost to DANIEL!" Hannah said.
"You don't have to sound so shocked, I am a great duelist after all." Daniel said.
"I know you're good, but Alex has pulled off miracles in the past. You remember that time he was challenged to use an ojama deck to fight a odd-eyes deck. The opponent had odd-eyes pendulum dragon, starving venom fusion dragon, clear wing synchro dragon, and dark rebellion xyz dragon on his field. Alex somehow managed to pull the ojamandala to go with his ojama delta hurricane in his hand and since ojama country was on the field, he managed to win the duel by dealing 3000 points of damage."
"It wasn't that impressive." Alex said, remembering how he had nightmares for weeks about yellow, green, and black jelly beans with creepy eyes, and large tongues in red, floral print speedos trying to defend him from dragons.
"It was the single luckiest draw I had ever seen. It wasn't even your own deck, just a loaner and it still gave you the perfect card." Hannah said.
"Even I have to admit, that was pretty much impossible." Daniel said.
"Umm, have you forgotten about us? Introductions maybe?" Lisbeth said impatiently.
"Oh right. let's see, which ones are new… Ok, Hannah meet Sinon, Leafa, Agil, and Lisbeth, girls, and Agil, meet Hannah." Alex said.
"Hannah!" A voice called from the distance.
"Crap, I forgot I was with my younger brother." Hannah said. "OVER HERE!" she called to him waving.
"You have a younger brother?" Asuna asked.
"Yes, his name is Jamie. He's only two years younger than me in 8th grade at the middle school." Hannah said as Jamie came running up.
Jamie, while only being two years younger, was a full head shorter than Hannah. He wasn't the buffest kid around, but just by looking at him, you could tell he either played sports, or lifted weights occasionally. He had dark blond hair and amber eyes to match Hannah, except he had dyed a few strands of his hair purple.
"Jamie, long time no see." Alex said, "Is the hair new?"
"About a week ago actually. Thought it'd be cool to dye it to match my prefered summoning method." Jamie said.
"I see, you're a fusionist. Now that I think about it, you're a fusionist, Hannah is a Synchro user, Daniel has his XYZs, Bill is all about his link summoning, and Lilly has pendulum locked down. With how my deck is looking right now, if I get some pendulums myself, I'm a pretty good jack of all trades. We'd make a great team in a tournament." Alex said.
"Oh yea, I came to grab Hannah so she could watch me win the final round of this mini tournament me and some friends are having. Wanna come watch?" Jamie asked.
"Sure, always happy to cheer on a friend." Daniel said.
"You forgetting about us again?" Leafa said this time.
"Whoa! How on earth did I miss seeing these toddlers?" Jamie said.
"We are NOT toddlers!" Lisbeth yelled.
"Ok, you can calm down now." Agil said
"Oh good, you can see them. They're duel spirits, so only some people can see them. I didn't want to look like a nut job by introducing you to invisible people, so I waited to see if you noticed. These are, Kirito, Asuna, Sinon, Lisbeth, Leafa, and Agil." Alex said.
"You've got duel spirits now, when did that happen?"
"The first one came through yesterday, and the rest have been appearing one by one since then. We're actually expecting another one to show up right about now based on the average time."
"Wait, what do you mean by come through?" Jamie asked.
"You might as well ask me to explain how to play duel monsters."
"Ah yes, the two hour talk."
"See, even he gets how long it takes to explain this game!" Alex said to Kirito. "Anyways Jamie, I'll fill you in on more details after you crush your opponent in that duel."
"That sounds good, come on, we're over there."
The group then proceeded to walk to the pavilion in the center of the park.
"Wait, is that Bill over there?" Alex asked pointing to Bill who was standing under a tree just outside the pavilion.
"Well he is my opponent after all." Jamie said.
"Bill, good to see you again." Alex said running ahead of the group.
"Alex, what are you doing here?" Bill asked.
"Long story, right now it's to cheer Jamie on, but now that I know your his opponent, I may cheer both sides."
"Wait a second, did your spirits multiply?"
"Great more introductions. Let's see, I think it's just Agil and Lisbeth I need to introduce, so meet Agil and Lisbeth, guys, meet Bill."
"Bill, long time no see, how've you been? Your dad's business trip go well?" Daniel asked as he caught up with Alex.
"Great actually. You still using raidraptors, right?" Bill asked.
"What kind of question is that? Why would I ever ditch my favorite deck?"
"Well then, it's a good thing I had you guys in mind on that trip. Not only did I get my code talkers during the trip, I also snagged some cards for all of you, but seeing how Alex has a new deck, this one's probably worthless to him now."
"Oooo, gifts. Sounds like fun." Alex said.
"Anyways, for Daniel, I pulled a raidraptor - Wise Strix, a link 2 raidraptor. I'm sure it'll help." Bill said handing Daniel the card.
"This is actually perfect. In my duel against Alex, I wanted to summon multiple raidraptors, but I couldn't. I still won, but this would have helped."
"Wait, did you just say you beat Alex?" Bill said.
"Long story, came down to a 50/50 chance and I chose wrong." Alex said.
"Well then, anyways… Hannah I got a Crystron Glassfiber for you, also a Link 2."
"Thank you, I was actually planning on buying some packs and looking for this later on, this saves me a lot of time." Hannah said.
"Alex, I don't think you'll want it since it now clashes with your new archetype, but here's Isolde, Two Tales of the Noble Knights. I forgot I had it after our duel earlier today."
"Actually, there still are a few noble knights in this deck. I'll add it for now since my extra deck has space. It can't hurt to have." Alex said.
"What am I? Chopped Liver?" Jamie asked.
"Sorry if you change your deck monthly. I had no idea what to grab you, so I got a generic LANphorhynchus. It's a generic link 2, same arrowheads as every other card I gave out, but this one is a normal monster, it doesn't have an effect."
"Well I guess it's better than nothing. I'll use it to crush you." Jamie said.
"Now all we need is for Lily to fall from the sky and we have the full group together." Alex said.
*THUD*
"Nope, I'm not going to turn around and look. I refuse to believe she just fell from the sky." Alex said.
"Relax, it was just a cat jumping out of the tree." Daniel said, "It has a collar, what's its name?"
Hannah bent down and looked at the collar. "That's it, I'm done, I'm so freaking done with this! The cat's name is Lily."
"I don't even know how to respond to that." Bill said.
"Now all we need is for a bag of money to fall from the sky." Alex said holding out his hands.
"LILY! WHERE ARE YOU GIRL! LIIILLLLY!" A girl called from the distance.
"I swear one of these days it'll actually work with bags of money. Also, there is no way Lily is actually out looking for that cat." Alex said recognizing the voice.
"LILY, WERE OVER HERE!" Daniel called waving the cat over his head. Unfortunately for him, he's not a cat person, so he didn't realize there is no quicker way to have your face scratched off then waving a cat in the air near your face. Needless to say Daniel ended up dropping the cat to grab at his face from the pain.
"You ok Daniel?" Hannah asked trying to not laugh.
"I think I'll be fine, does it look bad?" Daniel's face looked like a checkerboard. Luckily for him none of the scratches were deep.
"Just walk it off, you look fine." Alex said.
"Hi gu- WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR FACE" Lily yelled once she got to the group.
"That cat you were looking for was over here, she did that to him." Jamie said.
"Wait, you saw Lily? She got out from a friend's house and they asked if I'd help search for her." Lily said.
"Your friend's cat's name is Lily?"
"Yes, so what? She's had that cat longer than we've been friends. It's a pure coincidence."
"That has to be the biggest coincidence I've heard all week." Agil said.
"Well anyways, I guess I have to intr… actually… you can't see duel spirits. Thank goodness I don't have to run introductions again." Alex said.
"Yeah, ok, you keep talking to yourself there." Lily said.
"Actually Lily, you're the only one here who can't see them." Hannah said.
"Ok, stop pulling my leg. Just knock it off."
"She's not kidding." Bill said.
"Even I can see them." Jamie said.
"Please, Daniel, tell them they're being ridiculous."
"Well…. actually…" Daniel began.
"Not you too!"
"Wait, she actually can't see us?" Lisbeth asked.
"It's a funny thing with duel spirits, not everyone has the ability to see them. It's both useful since we can float around without drawing attention, and annoying since we have to avoid running into people and can't talk with them." Kirito explained.
"I have an idea, Kirito come over here." Alex said.
"What are you thinking?" Kirito asked.
"Just hold this card, either it will turn invisible, or it'll float mid air. That should be enough proof." Alex said pulling a random card from his deck.
"Like that wou- oh my gosh it's actually floating." Lily said dumbfounded.
"Wow, that worked. And since you can still see the card, I might as well give all of them their cards to hold so you can keep track of them." Alex said passing out cards to the duel spirits.
"Oh yeah, Lily, I grabbed a card for everyone during the trip. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like your deck is getting any link monsters soon, so I had to grab a generic one. Link 3 Traffic Ghost should help you though. Since pendulums that come back from the extra deck need to be in a link arrow or extra monster zone, I figured you'd want as many arrows as you could get." Bill said handing Lily the card.
"Hey, no fair, why does hers have more link arrows than mine?" Jamie said.
"Well I figured with pendulum summoning, she could get more monsters out quicker to pay the summoning cost. Since I had no idea what you use, I figured a lower cost would be a safer bet."
"THAT… is a sound argument."
"Hey, weren't you two supposed to duel or something?" Agil asked.
"Oh yeah, that's right. The rest of the crowd is over there, you may want to collect your cards as to not cause a commotion." Jamie said.
"But I just finished passing them out." Alex complained as he began collecting the cards.
"I know it may be rude, but me and Daniel want to go try out our new cards. You guys go on ahead. If we finish first we'll come see the ending." Hannah said.
"That's fine, I still have plenty of people to cheer me on, right guys?" Jamie said.
"Actually, I have a cat to catch. If I find her, I'll hurry back." Lily said.
"What about you Alex?" Jamie asked.
"Honestly, you're both my friends, I'll probably end up cheering both of you on." Alex said.
"That's the cop out answer." Sinon said.
"Still sticking with it."
"Fine, I guess half a person cheering for me is better than no one."
"And what does that make us?" Lisbeth said.
"Well, are you rooting for me, the face all of you just met, or Bill, the guy at least half of you already seem to have met?"
"Fair point." Leafa said.
After that, the half of the group that remained headed over to the crowd of roughly 20 people for the final duel of the mini tournament.
"So Bill, you confident enough in your new methods or are you nervous I'll take you down old school?" Jamie taunted.
"Please. If it was when XYZs or even Synchros were introduced, you'd have a lot more even turf. But with link monsters, the entire game has changed. You can't beat me that easily." Bill said.
"DUEL!" Both players yelled.
Turn 1: Bill
Bill: 4000LP vs Jamie: 4000LP
Bill Hand: 5 vs Jamie Hand: 5
"My turn. I play Balancer lord, and when I normal summon a cyberse monster, I can special summon Boot Staggered from my hand."
Balancer Lord
Level 4: Light Attribute
1700 ATK 1200 DEF
Cyberse/Effect
Zone: 3
Boot Staggered
Level 5: Light Attribute
2300 ATK 500 DEF
Cyberse/Effect
Zone: 2
Balancer Lord and Boot Staggered stood tall on the field. Balancer Lord in his Full White armor with its red and gold highlights, and Boot Staggered with its stag like horns and tail.
"Next I use Balancer lord's effect, I pay 1000 life points to normal summon an extra cyberse this turn. I'll summon Stack Reviver."
Bill: 4000LP - 1000 = 3000
Stack Reviver
Level 2: Dark Attribute
100 ATK 600 DEF
Cyberse/Effect
Zone: 4
Stack Reviver once again took to the field with its arms reordering the memory cards in the sides of its body.
"Three monsters, you know what that means." Alex said.
"What?" Lisbeth asked.
"Just watch."
"Appear circuit of the future! Link arrows authorized! The summoning conditions are at least two cyberse monsters. I set Boot Staggered, Balancer Lord, and Stack Reviver in the Link Arrows! Link the Circuit! Appear, Shootingcode Talker!" Bill chanted as the crowd cheered.
With that a circuit appeared before Bill and light blue winds surrounded his monsters, sending them into the link arrows on the circuit. Out of the circuit flew Shootingcode Talker.
Shootingcode Talker
Link 3: Water Attribute
2300 ATK
Cyberse/Link/Effect
Link Arrows:
OXO
XMO
OXO
Zone: E1
Shootingcode Talker stood tall in it's blue armor with red orbs on its joints, and gold highlights. He also had large white wings coming out of his back and wielded a large bow in its hand.
"Stack Reviver's effect activates, I can bring back a level 4 or lower monster that was used in the same link summoning as him, so welcome back Balancer lord."
Balancer Lord
Zone: 4
With that Balancer Lord jumped out of a hole in the ground that had appeared.
"I'll now hand it to you."
Turn 2: Jamie
Bill: 3000LP vs Jamie: 4000LP
Bill Hand: 2 vs Jamie Hand: 5 + 1
"I'll start this duel off right with Gladiator Beast Darius"
Gladiator Beast Darius
Level 4: Earth Attribute
1700 ATK 300 DEF
Beast-Warrior/Effect
Zone 3
With that a horse that stood on its hind legs like a human and wore armor appeared. It had actual hands instead of hooves and was insanely buff.
"Next I'll equip him with Gladiator Beast's Battle Manica. Now he can't be destroyed in battle."
Gladiator Beast's Battle Manica
Spell Card: Equip
Darius's left arm was covered in a thick metal armor.
"Since your Balancer lord has the same attack as Darius, normally both would be destroyed, but because of Battle Manica only your monster goes boom. So attack Darius, attack Balancer Lord!"
Darius charged in and smashed Balancer Lord who tried to strike back with his sword but it hit the metal arm and bounced off. The crowd went wild at the first attack of the duel.
"Now since Darius attacked this turn, I can shuffle him back into my deck and special summon a new Gladiator Beast when I end my battle phase, so Darius tagged out for Secutor."
Darius jumped towards Jamie's deck and to those watching close enough, seemed to high five the monster coming out as he went in.
Gladiator Beast Secutor
Level 4: Wind Attribute
400 ATK 300 DEF
Reptile/Effect
Zone: 3
Secutor was a small lizard. He stood on his hind legs like Darius and had massive claws on his hands. He wore armor that appeared to have two cannons on his back.
"I can also add Battle Manica back to my hand since the equipped monster was shuffled back into my deck. I'll set two cards and end my turn."
"That's odd, why wouldn't he re-equip Battle Manica to Secutor, and he left it in attack mode." Alex mumbled to himself.
Turn 3: Bill
Bill: 3000LP vs Jamie: 4000LP
Bill Hand: 2 + 1 vs Jamie Hand: 3
"You made some serious miss calculations. I summon Cyberse Gadget. When Cyberse Gadget is summoned, I special summon a level 2 or lower monster from my graveyard and negate its effects, so welcome back Stack Reviver."
Cyberse Gadget
Level 4: Light Attribute
1400 ATK 300 DEF
Cyberse/Effect
Zone: 3
Stack Reviver
Zone: 2
Cyberse Gadget was on the small side for duel monsters. He had very high tech armor, and what appeared to be his own custom duel disk on his arm. CYberse gadget pressed some buttons on his duel disk and opened a portal witch Stack Reviver flew through.
"Finally, since I control a cyberse monster, I can special summon Backup Secretary from my hand."
Backup Secretary
Level 3: Light Attribute
1200 ATK 800 DEF
Cyberse/Effect
Zone: 4
Backup Secretary appeared with her purple skirt and cape, white armor, tablet and headset on, ready for battle.
"Link, Link, Link, Link" the crowd chanted over and over.
"I hate to do this to you, but I think this is game. Appear circuit of the future! Link Arrows Authorized! The summoning conditions are three monsters. I set Cyberse Gadget, Stack Reviver, and Backup Secretary in the link arrows! Link the circuit! Powercode Talker!"
With that, once again the circuit appeared before Bill. Red winds surrounded his monsters as they were sent into his link arrows. Out of the circuit flew Powercode Talker.
Powercode Talker
Link 3: Fire Attribute
2300 ATK
Cyberse/Link/Effect
Link Arrows:
OOO
XMX
XOO
Zone: 4
Powercode Talker wore flame red armor with black and white highlights. It also had a gold trim and green orbs on it.
"When Cyberse Gadget leaves the field, I can summon a Gadget Token to the field."
Gadget Token
Level 2: Light Attribute
0 ATK 0 DEF
Cyberse
Zone: 3
"First, I'll activate Powercode talker's effect and negate your monster's effect, Wire Restruction!"
"Why would he negate Secutor's effect?" Leafa asked.
"It's a precaution. If he can't destroy it, then it's effect activates and that isn't good. Sure it looks like he'll destroy it, thus preventing its effect, but it doesn't hurt to be careful." Alex said.
"Then Powercode talker will go in for the kill, Power Termination Smash! And, I'll tribute the token in Powercode talker's link arrow to double his attack. I hate to end the duel this quickly, but I think this is it."
Powercode Talker: 2300ATK x2 = 4600
With that the Gadget Token flew into Powercode Talker who then started giving off a fiery red aura.
"Not if I activate my two facedowns. First up is Spirit Barrier, as long as I control a monster, I take no battle damage." Jamie said.
"Then I'll just wipe your monster and have Shootingcode hit you straight on."
"Not if I activate my second facedown, Pianissimo! My monster's attack becomes 100, but it can't be destroyed by battle this turn, and with spirit barrier already in effect, you can't scratch me."
Gladiator Beast Secutor: 400ATK = 100
Powercode Talker crashed into Secutor throwing up a huge cloud of dust. When the dust cleared, both monsters were left standing and no one took any damage. This made the crowd go wilder than ever, watching such a weak monster survive such a powerful attack without a point of damage.
"So that was his plan, if Powercode talker hadn't negated Secutor's effect, he would have been able to use it at the end of the battle phase. If he had just used Battle Manica, Bill never would have gone in for the attack." Alex said over the cheering crowd.
"That's smart," Kirito said, "The old bait and switch."
"Guess that means it's your turn." Bill said.
Powercode Talker: 4600ATK /2 = 2300
Gladiator Beast Secutor: 100ATK = 400
Turn 4: Jamie
Bill: 3000LP vs Jamie: 4000LP
Bill Hand: 1 vs Jamie Hand: 3 + 1
"Looks like you're in for some trouble, I equip Secutor with Battle Mania again."
Gladiator Beast's Battle Mania
Spell Card: Equip
The metal arm appeared on Secutor this time.
"Now since he can't be destroyed by battle, I'll have him attack your Shootingcode Talker."
Secutor fired the cannons on his back at Shootingcode who bounced them back with the back of its hand like nothing. The deflected shots hit Secutor right in the metal arm.
"When Secutor is in a battle, at the end of the battle phase, I can shuffle him back into my deck and special summon two Gladiator Beasts instead of one, so welcome Gladiator Beast Murmillo and Gladiator Beast Augustus."
Gladiator Beast Murmillo
Level 3: Water Attribute
800 ATK 400 DEF
Fish/Effect
Zone 4
Gladiator Beast Augustus
Level 5: Dark Attribute
2600 ATK 1000 DEF
Winged-Beast/Effect
Zone 3
Murmillo was a fish out of water. Sure he had webbed feet and hands making him look more human than a regular fish, and what appeared to be jets on his back, but he still was literally a fish out of water. Augustus on the other hand was a dark dragon. Like the other gladiator beasts he stood on his hind legs and had human-ish hands, but he also had massive wings, dark armor, and a sword to be reckoned with.
"When Murmillo is special summoned by a gladiator beast's effect, he destroys one of your monsters, and when Augustus is special summoned, he summons a gladiator beast from my hand that gets shuffled back into my deck at the end of the turn. So Murmillo will destroy that Powercode Talker"
With that Murmillo fired up its jet engines and charged Powercode Talker head on. When the dust settled, Murmillo was left standing.
"And Augustus will special summon Bestiari."
Gladiator Beast Bestiari
Level 4: Wind Attribute
1500 ATK 800 DEF
Winged-Beast/Effect
Zone 2
Bestiari was a green bird with massive wings and some red feathers on its head and wrists. Like to other Gladiator Beasts he stood on his hind legs and wore armor.
"Unfortunately when Bestiari is summoned he destroys a spell or trap, and since it's the only trap on the field, my spirit barrier hits the graveyard."
Bestiari then flew into Spirit Barrier and destroyed it.
"I'll now shuffle Bestiari and Murmillo back into my deck for a contact fusion! Fighting bird of prey that lived in ancient times! Merge with the souls of gladiators and become a warrior of legend! Fusion summon! Come! Gladiator Beast Gyzarus!"
Gladiator Beast Gyzarus
Level 6: Dark Attribute
2400 ATK 1500 DEF
Winged-Beast/Fusion/Effect
Zone E1
Gyzarus appeared to be an upgraded version of Bestiari. It had the same wings and color scheme but had much heavier armor. The crowd loved him.
"When Gyzarus is summoned, he destroys up to two cards on the field, but I only need one, say goodbye to Shootingcode Talker."
Gyzarus then charged Shootingcode Talker and flew straight through him causing a massive explosion.
"I'll then place battle manica on Gyzarus and end my turn."
The metal arm appeared for the third time on Gyzarus.
Turn 5: Bill
Bill: 3000LP vs Jamie: 4000LP
Bill Hand: 1 + 1 vs Jamie Hand: 2
"I draw. And I almost thought there was no hope. I play Cynet Fusion! It's time for my fusion monster."
"But he only has one other card in your hand, even if that's a monster, where is the other material?" Sinon questioned.
"Glad you asked. Since I control no monsters in my extra monster zone, I can banish a cyberse link monster from my graveyard as a fusion material. I banish Shootingcode Talker and fuse him with the Clock Wyvern in my hand!" Bill said.
"I swear I've heard the name Clock Wyvern before. I just can't remember where." Alex said.
"The strongest ones gather before its grand winds! Become a new legend! Fusion Summon! Cyberse Clock Dragon!" Bill chanted.
Cyberse Clock Dragon
Level 7: Dark Attribute
2500 ATK 2000 DEF
Cyberse/Fusion/Effect
Zone E2
Ghost images of Clock Wyvern and Shootingcode Talker appeared on the field and flew up into the air and spiraled together. Out of the vortex appeared Cyberse Clock Dragon. It had a massive purple torso, black scale armor and giant white wings that seemed to be made of light. The crowd roared over how amazing this new monster was.
"What is that thing!" Leafa yelled over the winds the dragon made as it was summoned.
"This is my newest addition, Cyberse Clock Dragon. His effect allows me to send cards from the top of my deck to the graveyard equal to the total link rating of the monsters used to summon it. I'll send the top 3 cards of my deck to the graveyard." Bill said.
"What good does that do?" Jamie asked.
"You see, now Clock Dragon gaines 1000 attack for each card sent to the graveyard until the end of your turn, Cyberse Clockup!"
Cyberse Clock Dragon: 2500ATK + 1000x3 = 5500
"Say goodbye to Augustus, Cyberse Clock Dragon, Pulse Pressure!"
Cyberse Clock Dragon charged up a massive beam of pure energy that he fired at Augustus wiping him off the field. The crowd couldn't be happier seeing such a powerful attack.
Jamie: 4000LP - 2900 = 1100
"I'll now hand it off to you."
Turn 6: Jamie
Bill: 3000LP vs Jamie: 1100LP
Bill Hand: 0 vs Jamie Hand: 2 + 1
"I hate to jump to conclusions, but this duel is over. I summon Gladiator Beast Equeste."
Gladiator Beast Equeste
Level 4: Wind Attribute
1600 ATK 1200 DEF
Winged-Beast/Effect
Zone 3
Unlike the other gladiator beasts, this one was a centaur so he stood on four hooves instead of his hind legs. His centaur back had wings coming out of it, and he brandished a shield and light blue armor.
"What good will that monster do? My dragon still has his attack boost until the end phase." Bill said.
"Simple, I'm not done. Since I control a Gladiator Beast, I can special summon Test Tiger from my hand."
Test Tiger
Level 3: Earth Attribute
600 ATK 300 DEF
Beast/Effect
Zone 4
Test Tiger was just that, a tiger. The only abnormal thing about this tiger was that it wore armor.
"I can now tribute Test Tiger to shuffle Equeste back into my deck and special summon a Gladiator Beast from my deck, and treat it as if it was summoned by a Gladiator Beast's effect. I think I'll bring out Murmillo then."
Gladiator Beast Murmillo
Zone 3
Once again the blue fish man appeared on the field with a few chuckles from the crowd.
"Not him again!" Bill yelled remembering its effect.
"Murmillo destroys a monster on the field when he's summoned, so say goodbye to that Clock Dragon."
Murmillo once again fired up its jets and charged straight through Cyberse Clock Dragon, destroying it.
"Since you summoned Murmillo in defence position, you don't have the attack strength to finish me off, rookie move." Bill said feeling hopeful despite watching one of his best monsters be destroyed. "Also since Cyberse Clock Dragon was sent to the graveyard by a card effect, I can add a spell from my deck to my hand."
"I know I'm no pro, but even I don't make such huge miscalculations, I play Monster Reborn from my hand."
"You wouldn't dream of it." Bill said knowing that all hope was lost.
"I bring back your Cyberse Clock Dragon to my field."
Cyberse Clock Dragon
Zone 4
A massive portal appeared in the ground and Cyberse Clock Dragon flew through the hole and gave off a threatening roar. Somehow the small crowd of people seemed to be louder than a full stadium of people at seeing this turn of events.
"And this duel is over." Alex said.
"What do you mean, Bill still has a card in his hand." Kirito said.
"I know the duel isn't over until the last life point hits zero, but even I can see that whatever spell Bill drew won't be enough. In order to play it, he has to survive to the next turn, but that won't happen." Alex said.
"Now Gyzarus, attack him directly!"
Gyzarus flew at Bill, hitting him with his wing as he passed.
Bill: 3000LP - 2400 = 600
"And now Cyberse Clock Dragon, finish off his life points, Pulse Pressure!"
Cyberse Clock Dragon charged up one last beam of pure energy and fired it at Bill, sealing his loss.
Bill: 600LP - 2500 = -1900
Winner: Jamie
"Wait, he actually lost. I thought I was jinxing it in his favor." Alex said surprised.
"So you were rooting for Bill." Jamie said.
"No, I just wanted to see how much power you both had, the longer this duel continued, the more power I could see."
"Smooth." Lisbeth said.
"So you use Gladiator Beasts now, Jamie. There is a link monster specifically for them, but since I didn't know you used them, I didn't grab one." Bill said walking up to Jamie.
"It's fine, I'll just open some packs and find one." Jamie said.
"You really surprised me, I didn't think you'd take down my Cyberse Clock Dragon, and I especially didn't think you'd use it against me. Know I won't be caught off guard twice."
"You never are." Jamie said.
After a few minutes the crowd dispersed leaving the group alone.
"Hey, weren't Daniel and Hannah dueling, let's go see if we ca…" Alex started before looking over and seeing a giant mechanical falcon soar up into the sky. "Never mind, we might be too late, that's Final Fortress Falcon."
"Let's still head over." Asuna said.
"Ok, lets go." Jamie said.
As the group raced full speed over to where they saw Final Fortress Falcon, they saw another monster rise from the same area.
"We're missing the ending, that's Crystron Quariongandrax!" Alex panted as he tried to keep up with the others.
"This is a showdown between aces, we can't miss this." Jamie said.
"... Blast Barrage!" The group heard Daniel yell as they got into range.
"I activate my trap, Negate Attack!" Hannah declared, "Final Fortress may be immune to card effects, but negate attack still ends the battle phase so you can't attack."
"We made it!" Alex yelled as he collapsed from all the running.
"Glad you guys could show up and see me finish Hannah off." Daniel said.
"I'd like to see that, just because you beat Alex, doesn't mean you'll beat me." Hannah said.
"Whatever, it's your turn."
Turn ?: Hannah
Hannah: 200LP vs Daniel: 150LP
Hannah Hand: 2+1 vs Daniel Hand: 1
Daniel's Field:
Raidraptor - Final Fortress Falcon
Rank 12: Dark Attribute
3800 ATK 2800 DEF
Winged-Beast/Xyz/Effect
OVU: 1
Zone E2
Hannah's Field:
Crystron Quariongandrax
Level 9: Water Attribute
3000 ATK 3000 DEF
Machine/Synchro/Effect
Zone E1
"I am so glad I knew who I was fighting beforehand, I added Kurivolt to my deck just to counter you, so here he is!" Hannah said.
Kurivolt
Level 1: Light Attribute
300 ATK 200 DEF
Thunder/Effect
Zone 3
Kurivolt looked like a black and red Kuriboh
"I know you should never look down on Kuriboh monsters, but what is that going to do against my Final Fortress Falcon?" Daniel said.
"Simple, It's going to steal your last overlay unit to summon another Kurivolt to my field."
Raidraptor - Final Fortress Falcon: 1OVU - 1 = 0
Kurivolt (#2)
Zone 4
"What was the point to that?" Agil asked.
"Final Fortress Falcon is immune to all effects as long as it has a Raidraptor XYZ monster as a overlay unit, now he's weak to card effects." Alex said.
"Now I play De-Synchro, I send Quariongandrax back to my extra deck and summon the monsters that were used to synchro summon it from my graveyard. Welcome back, two Crystron Rions, and Crystron Thystvern."
With this, the synchro summoning animation played in reverse. Quariongandrax turned into a beam of light surrounded by 6 green rings. The beam eventually faded out and became 3 stars with an orange outline of Crystron Thystvern. The outline backed out of the rings and regained its normal colors and the rings turned back into stars that turned into groups of 3 and condensed into two Crystron Rions.
De-Synchro
Spell Card: Normal
Crystron Rion
Level 3: Water Attribute
500 ATK 500 DEF
Machine/Tuner/Effect
Zone 1
Crystron Rion (#2)
Zone 2
Crystron Thystvern
Level 3: Water Attribute
1500 ATK 1500 DEF
Machine/Effect
Zone 5
The two Crystron Rions had their white armor with black crystals growing out of their back, and Crystron Thystvern had its massive purple crystal wings and dragon like body.
"Why are there multiple tuners?" Leafa asked.
"That's right, you weren't here when we dueled her, Quariongandrax uses multiple tuners instead of multiple non tuners." Asuna said.
"But what was the point of splitting it up? It was stronger before." Sinon asked.
"Simple, just watch." Alex said.
"My two Crystron Rions now tune my Crystron Thystvern again! Synchro Summon! Level 9, Crystron Quariongandrax!"
With that the two Crystron Rions became groups of 3 stars that turned into 6 total green rings. Crystron Thystvern then flew into the 6 rings and became an orange outline with 3 stars inside. A beam of energy flew through, and it turned into Crystron Quariongandrax.
Crystron Quariongandrax
Zone E1
"Ok, this makes even less sense, why break it up just to put it back together?" Kirito said.
"Quariongandrax's effect only activates when it's summoned, by doing this, she can activate its effect again." Alex said, "It's a good use of De-Synchro for those once per turn effects."
"When Quariongandrax is summoned I can banish monsters up to the number of monsters used for it's synchro summon, but I only need one. Say goodbye to your Final Fortress Falcon, it's just been banished." Hannah declared.
With that Quariongandrax tail smacked Final Fortress Falcon out of the arena.
"That's gonna leave a mark, now Quariongandrax can attack directly." Alex said.
"Now, Kurivolt! Attack him directly!"
"WHAT!" Everyone yelled.
Kurivolt ran up to Daniel and stopped just before hitting him. Puzzled, Daniel stared at the Kurivolt, forgetting that Kuribohs of all kinds attack by exploding. With that said, Kurivolt exploded right in Daniel's face, ending the duel.
Daniel: 150LP - 300 = 0
Winner: Hannah
"Why didn't you finish him off with Quariongandrax?" Alex asked as he walked up to Hannah.
"Simple, it's not everyday you can beat someone with a Kuriboh or one of it's forms." Hannah said.
"That may be true, but I'll never live down the humiliation of being defeated by a Kuriboh." Daniel said.
"This brings back memories, you remember how we met, right?" Alex said.
"Oh yeah, you were being picked on by some bullies because you lost to a Kuriboh and I stepped in and made them back off." Daniel said.
"Look where I am now, tied for top duelist in the class. Just because you were crushed by a Kuriboh doesn't mean you can't duel."
"I guess you're right. I'll just have to double my efforts." Daniel said.
"Good. Now that that's over, I can't believe you actually lost to a Kuriboh! Hahahahahaha!" Alex said laughing his heart out.
"How did I know this was coming? Anyways, you lost to me recently, or do I need to remind you with another duel?"
"Just because I lost to you and you lost to a Kuriboh doesn't mean I would lose to a Kuriboh again. It just means I didn't get a good hand when we dueled."
"Really, you were doing pretty good from my perspective, if you don't call that a good hand, what do you call a good hand?" Daniel countered.
The two just kept firing arguments back and forth at each other.
"Will they ever stop?" Kirito asked.
"Odds are, they won't until something happens around them to distract them." Hannah said.
"They're always like this." Jamie said.
"Doesn't take much to get them going." Bill said.
"So what do we do now?" Asuna asked.
"Leave." Hannah said waving over her shoulder and walking away with Bill and Jamie.
"WAIT FOR US!" Leafa yelled as she raced after them only to hit an invisible wall.
"We can't get more than 20 feet from Alex's deck, that means we're stuck here." Kirito said.
"So what do we do now?" Asuna asked.
"We wait for one of them to starve to death." Kirito said as Daniel and Alex kept arguing.
AN: And there we have another chapter done. I know I said I'd try to get it up by the end of the week last week, but I have reasons that will take a paragraph each.
Finals: My school runs a block schedule, meaning there are only 5 periods in a day, so they're long, but classes tend to be only half a year. This means that I just had a finals week at the halfway point of the year. I said I'd try to get the chapter up by the end of the week, then the day after I realized it was finals week. Anyways, finals are over for me, until the actual end of the year where I have another batch.
Coding Bugs: If you don't know anything about coding, skip this paragraph because I'm going on a rant! I had made a very simple program in a IDE called Greenfoot, you might know it. It simply showed several colored circles, either red or green, in the shape of a yugioh field. I clicked on them and they toggled color so I could keep track of which cones had monsters. I recently decided to upgrade it so it could also show all the information I show when typing up the card for the first time in the duel, and that caused one of my biggest headaches ever. There was some bug that prevented anything from being removed, and if something was moved, it created thousands of copies behind it like windows XP when a window stops responding. This caused me to pull out my hair for days until I found out what was causing it. I made a background with a field drawn on it, but when I created the image, I forgot to set a background color, so the background was transparent. Apparently Greenfoot redraws the background over the previous images to remove them, but if you draw a transparent image over something, nothing happens. I think I've ranted long enough, but I'm still driven up a wall about it, even though it was over a week ago, and it was fixed with 2 lines of code.
Anime: Yes I know I had finals this week, didn't stop me from binge watching anime. I watched all of Steins;Gate in a day, the sequel Steins;Gate0 the next day, and the movie the day after. Then a friend wanted me to watch Angel Beats so he could have someone to talk about it with, so I got that done in another day. With Angel Beats, the entire comment section was talking about needing tissues, and my friend continuously told me that I would cry at the ending, that by the time the event that I should have cried at happened, it seemed so insignificant that I kept waiting for the moment that would make me cry. He called me stone cold, I told him he had me raising my defence to survive a nuclear strike, then threw a hand grenade. Then I spent the night at a friends house with some others and ended up rewatching The Devil is a Part Timer because one of them hadn't seen it yet.
Procrastination in General: I typed up the part before the duels began and just sat there. I knew I needed a deck for Jamie to use, but I didn't know what to use. Originally I was going to use Prank Kids, but then I thought that the archetype leaned too much on Link monsters to be a good fusion specialist deck. So I sat there for a few days considering what deck to use instead and just tweaked the first part. If the opening feels stronger than the rest, it's probably because I spent several days just tweaking that part and then rushed out the rest without as much reviewing. I considered giving him Cyber Dragons, but I kinda already gave them to Alex's dad. Sure I did say it was the single worst Cyber Dragon deck on the face of the earth, but he still has them.
Ok, that's my list of reasons for why this took so long to write. Looking at my watch, depending on how long it takes to add details to the duel like that backwards summoning animation witch, while being very cool in my opinion, was actually very confusing for me. This is probably going up Tuesday, tomorrow for me. Unless I can add details to everything in less than an hour. Anyways, enough with the personal stuff and why this was delayed, onto talking about the actual story.
First off, I'm not happy in the slightest with Alex's deck. I'm terrible with deck building, but it's bad even for me. I took shortcuts because he's a character in a story and I control every card he draws, but just looking at it, it pains me how few useful cards he actually has. It has almost no monsters, except the IRL and VR monsters, the spells and traps all seem to be draw or delay, which isn't bad, but it could be better. The extra deck is what it is. I considered putting the deck list here, but it seems too long in my opinion but what I would really like is some new main deck monsters. The main characters will still be extra deck monsters, but I'm looking for other types of monsters. I considered something like Knights of the Blood Oath - Soldier, probably abbreviate the name to KBO - Soldier, but you get the idea. If you have suggestions, let me know. There are no bad ideas, except for telling me to add a Chuck Norris card that wins just by being played. I won't accept that.
I guess I should move on to Reviews:
Dreamer: I like the idea for Silica, the only problem I see is that she's link 4 but only asks for 2 monsters. Using just an IRL and VR monster, you can at most summon a Link 2, unless there's some rule I don't know about. Also, I hate to ask this, but could you make an account so I can PM you about all this. I'd like to write several paragraphs about some of your ideas, but I don't want to dedicate my entire AN to you every single time.
Actually, that's the end of the reviews and this is where I'd add cards, but these were all real cards, so that isn't needed…
I guess this is where I put my paragraph about my plans for next chapter, but I think I already know that I'm doing Silica because I already have a good suggestion for her effect.
Next Time: Silica. Till then, cya later.