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Malik was still frozen, he had this cold feeling in his body.
"What, what on earth is this?"
Blaze was stood there quiet. He had then looked up at Malik, then turned back round to Volt and Bash, he then took out a card in his pocket and showed it, in the direction of the two.
A bright purple light emitted from the card, towards the two gang members, one by one they fell unconscious on the floor. Blaze then turned around back to Malik.
"Finally, were alone Malik."
"OK, who are you?"
"That does not matter, I have my orders."
"Orders for what?"
"My orders to take you out. Full time."
"You work for Sampson then?"
"Who? No surely you know why I'm here?"
"I have no clue, what did you do to them two over there?"
"Them two? Not much, just knocked them out."
"Why did you do that then?"
"So many questions surly you know why? Fine, I knew you was going to come by here, so I grabbed these two idiots and implanted false memories in their brain. They thought I was a member of their gang. I know the famous Malik never traveled alone, so I got these two to take you on a best 2 out of 3 battle."
"So you could knock one out and heavily injure the other?"
"Yes, I wanted this to be just between you and me, no interference. I gave one the power advanced duel disk, and well your friend took herself out."
"I'm giving you one last chance, who are you?"
"The famous Malik, they told me you would be this upfront. Enough questions." Blaze activated his duel disk, it had a gage counter.
"A gage counter, so you do work for Sampson."
"I don't know who that is."
Malik started to feel even more cold.
Malik's duel disk activated, he then placed his deck into it from his pocket. Maliks gage activated.
"Lets duel and see if you remember." said Blaze
Turn: 1
Blaze LP: 4000 Hand:5
Malik LP: 4000 Hand: 5
"As I'm the away team, I will go first. I play the spell Molten Conduction Field. This allows me to send two Laval monsters from my deck to the grave, I send one Laval Coital and one Laval Forest Sprite. Next I normal summon Flame Fire dog to the field.
Flame Fire dog ARK:1900 DEF:200 Fire/Beast
"I end my turn."
Turn: 2
Blaze LP: 4000 Hand:3
Malik LP: 4000 Hand: 5
"Memories? Am I supposed to know this guy? Is this why I'm feeling like this." Malik thought. I draw!"
"Come forth Ragtag Pirate."
Ragtag Pirate ATK: 1000 DEF: 200 LL 3 Earth/Warrior
"I play his effect, I can take away 800 ARK points from your monster and add them to this card, until the end of this turn."
Ragtag Pirate ATK 1800 Fire dog ATK: 1100 Malik
GC: 1 (Monster Effect)
"Now go, Sword Slash." Ragtag Pirate leaped in the air and slashed the dog to bits.
Blaze LP: 4000 - 3200 Malik CG: 3 (Destroyed monster)
"Very well, since I lost Fire dog, I can special summon one monster with 200 DEF points from my grave, I summon Laval Coital."
Blaze CG: 1 (Effect)
Laval Coital ARK: 1300 DEF:700 Fire/Pyro/Tuner LVL 2
"I end my turn with two face downs."
Ragtag Pirate ARK: 1000
Turn: 3
Blaze LP: 3200 Hand:3
Malik LP: 4000 Hand: 2
"I draw."
First of all I summon Laval Magma."
Laval Magma ARK:1700 DEF:200 Fire/Pyro LVL 4
"Now then this card allows me to send two cards to the grave, then you take 500 points of damage, I send two. Two Laval Lakeside Ladies."
Blaze GC: 2 (Effect)
Magma shot two fireballs at Malik, knocking him backwards.
Malik LP: 4000 - 3000
"Now then I tune my two monsters together."
"A Sychro summon?"
Laval Coital flew into the sky with Magma jumping up. Coital became green rings and Magma transformed into four orbs.
4+2=6
"Be hold the power of the fire. Come forth Laval the Greater."
The monster was a strong monster with abs, it had blue skin and had his right hand on fire.
Laval the Greater ARK:2400 DEF:800 LVL 6 Fire/Warrior/Synchro
"When this card is Synchro summoned, I send one card from my hand to the grave. I send Laval Warrior."
GC: 3 (Effect)
"Next I banish my two Lakeside Ladies, this allows me to destroy two set cards on the field. Say goodbye to your cards."
Blaze GC: 7 (Effect X 2 Destroyed S/T X2)
Malik's cards were destroyed. "Now I play my Laval Warrior's effect, if I have three different fire monsters in my grave, I can special summon it."
Blaze GC: 8 (Effect)
A monster made of fire with Armour appeared with a sword.
Laval Warrior ARK: 500 DEF:200 LVL 1 Fire/Pyro/Foundation
"A foundation monster, this soon?" Malik then crouched in pain, he felt the feeling again.
"Malik you OK?" cried out Alex.
"Yeah nothing I cant handle."
"You know what comes next, I grow my Warrior into something bigger! I pay Three counters!
Blaze GC: 8 - 5
Laval Warrior was surrounded by the orange lights as he disappeared and a new monster came forth.
"I summon Gage LVL 3, Fire Swordsman!"
Fire Swordsman G LVL: 3 ATK: 2000 DEF:1000 Fire/Warrior/Growth
The monster was a fiery swordsman holding a brown sword.
Malik looked on. "A Synchro and a Growth monster, wow."
"Now go, Greater attack his Pirate."
Laval The Greater jumped in the air and slammed his fiery first onto Ragtag Pirate.
Malik: LP: 4000 - 2600
"Attack directly Swordsman!"
Malik LP: 2600 - 600
Blaze GC: 5 - 9 ( 2- Destroyed monster, 2- Inflicted direct damage)
"Now I pay five gage counters, to play one of his effects. Each time you normal summon a monster while this monster is on the field, you take 1000 points of damage, Plus don't think about destroying my monster via card effects, this card cant be destroyed by them!"
Blaze GC: 8 - 4
"No way." Malik gritted his teeth.
"I end my turn."
Turn: 4
Blaze LP: 3200 Hand:1
Malik LP: 600 Hand: 2
"OK, I draw!"
Malik looked at his hand. "I play the spell Ragtag Return. I can banish one Ragtag monster from my grave, its effects upon banishing are negated, and I gain life points equal to its ATK. I banish my Pirate."
Blaze looked annoyed. "Fine then. But one monster and back to where you was."
Malik LP: 1600
"Hes right, I have to get Phoenix out. But the only way I can at the moment is to take the damage. But its a risk I need to take."
"I normal summon Ragtag Witch to the field!"
Ragtag Witch ATK: 500 DEF: 200 Dark/Spellcaster LVL 1/Foundation
Malik LP: 1600 - 600
Malik felt a burning pain as his life points dropped.
"I play her effect,this allows me to inflict 400 points when this is summoned.
Blaze LP: 3200 - 2800
Malik GC: 4 (Effect)
"I wont have any Gage Counters, but I have to do this, I pay all four of my counters to grow my Witch!"
Malik GC: 0
"Mighty wings of Purple, shine upon this duel. Come forth Ragtag Phoenix."
Ragtag Phoenix ATK: 2500 DEF:2000 Gage LVL: 4 /Growth Monster/Light/Winged Beast
Ragtag Phoenix soared into the sky with a purple sparkle.
"So thats the growth monster I was told about. Not so impressive, who has a monster in purple?"
"Quit joking around, who told you?"
"Malik, if you don't remember anything, then me telling you, would shock you. I don't need to do that, I'm just here to take you out."
"Fine. I attack your Growth monster, Phoenix Flare."
"Fine, but I can play another one of his gage effects."
"You can play a gage effect during my turn?"
"Of course, I pay three counters to negate your attack and deal you with 400 points of damage."
Blaze GC: 4 - 1
"I don't think so, my Phoenixs's main effect activates once per turn, I can negate a card effect on the field."
"Very resourceful."
"Now continue your attack!"
Phoenix launched a mighty flare of purple fireballs destroying Swordsman. However as two Growth monsters battled, Malik had another surge of cold in his body."
Blaze LP: 2800 - 2300
Malik GC: 2 (Destroyed Monster)
"What is this pain?!" he called out.
"Malik hold it together." said Alex.
Blaze just grinned."What ever this is, it wont beat me, I set one card."
Turn: 5
Blaze LP: 2300 Hand:1
Malik LP: 600 Hand: 0
"My move and I draw!"
"I summon Laval Volcano Handmaiden."
Laval Volcano Handmaiden LVL 1 ATK:100 DEF:100 Fire/Pyro/Tuner
"Another tuner, not again."
"Yes again! I tune my Greater with my Handmaiden to Synchro summon again!"
6+1=7
"I Synchro summon Ancient Flamvell Deity!"
Ancient Flamevell Deity LVL 7 ATK: 2500 DEF:2000/Synchro
"But thats not the end of it, if I have three or more Laval's in my graveyard, I can special summon this. I summon another Laval Coital!"
"No. Not again."
"I tune LVL 7 Deity with Level 2 Coital!"
"Fire blazing from under the core. Come to the surface and fly high, I Synchro summon Blazing Hawk!"
7+2=9
Fire Blazing Hawk LVL 9 ATK 3500 DEF: 2000 Fire/Pyro/Synchro
"As long as I only have fire monsters in my grave, this card can not be destroyed and I take no damage from battles involving it. Plus if I have more then 5 fire monsters in my grave, by banishing them, this card's ARK points double until the end of the turn! Blazing Hawk wipe out his Phoenix! Flaming Blaze!"
Fire Blazing Hawk ATK: 7000
The Hawk flew higher then Phoenix in the sky and dive bombed creating a massive fire missile like effect.
"Malik NO!" screamed Alex.
"Whoever you are, your a good duelist but your not winning this. I play the trap Emergency Growth Back Up. Sampson gave us this card, for last ditch emergency's, by banishing my Growth monster from the field, you take equal damage!"
"No way!" screamed Blaze as the fire blasted both Malik and Blaze backwards and onto the floor.
Malik LP: 600 - 0 Blaze LP: 1500 - 0 DRAW
Alex ran over to Malik, still holding his head. "You OK?"
"Yeah, that was to close." Malik went over to Blaze and held him up by his shirt.
"Who are you?"
"Your a good duelist, my boss wont like this."
"WHO ARE YOU?"
"I'm surprised you don't remember. King."
As Blaze finished his sentence, he clicked a button on his duel disk and teleported away.
However as he disappeared his Growth monster was left behind on the floor, Malik picked it up.
"What, King? what, what did he mean?" said Malik.
As he finished his sentence Malik had another huge cold spell, forcing him to the floor. T his time Malik went unconscious.
An Hour Later
Malik was back conscious, he was sitting with Alex. Volt and Bash had disappeared.
"Thank goodness you dealt with them two."
"As soon as Blaze disappeared, they forgot why they were here. i pointed them in the direction of one of the Cities."
"Good, but what on earth happened."
"Well you got knocked out and-"
"I meant what was all that about. "
"I have no idea, he said he didn't work for Sampson. Then who was he?"
"He called me King?"
"I wouldn't worry about that, its probably a nickname."
"I hope so, those cold rushes though." Malik stood up, he picked out the new Growth monster. "We cant tell Hannah Alex. OK?"
"Agreed. At least you got a new Growth monster."
"Yes, but why leave it?"
"Malik that guy was bad, plus who knows, we can study this card when we return back to base."
"OK, agreed."
Hannah woke up as Malik finished his sentence.
"Welcome back Hannah." said Malik.
"What- Why do I feel like I got hit by a plank."
"You wore your body out. But we won at least."
"Malik Alex I'm sorry for -"
"Don't its OK, we won thats all that matters."
Hannah looked on in silent.
"OK guys, we were heading to this council member's safe house." Alex said.
"Yes, time to know the truth." said Hannah walking on.
Malik and Alex looked at each other with a worrying glare.
Sampson's Office
Sampson slammed his hand onto his desk.
"NO NO NO NO NO!" he said looking at his computer. "How could he have sent one of them here. His energy patterns match that of the person who sent me the Growth summon. They must have sent him as a warning to me."
Sampson looked out his office. "Thankfully hes gone, I wonder who defeated him."
Malik's face appeared on his screen. "Malik, why would he duel Malik? Unless. Unless Malik is the parcel? No way. But wait, what is Malik doing all the way out there? Hes after the council member. Hmm. Very smart move."
Sampson pushed a button on his desk. "I want elite squad members going to the safe house now!"
"Yes Sir." replied a voice.
Sampson pushed another button." Science team, I want the Duel Dome working NOW!"
Next Time: Malik and the team make it to the safe house, but the Elite Squad is close by.
So yes, 10 chapters in finally Malik has a new growth card. He will be pleased.
Blaze:
Fire Blazing Hawk LVL 9 ARK: 3500 DEF: 2000 Fire/Pyro/Synchro
1 Tuner + 1 Pyro or more monster(s)
If you have only fire monsters in your grave, this card cant be destoyed by battle, and you take no damage from battles involing this monster.
Banish 5 fire monsters from your grave and double this cards ATK points until the end phase.
Laval Warrior ARK: 500 DEF:200 LVL 1 Fire/Pyro/Foundation
No effect given
Fire Swordsman G LVL: 3 ATK: 2000 DEF:1000 Fire/Warrior/Growth
This cant cant be destoyed by card effects. (This does not count towards your gage.)
You can pay any amount of Gage Counter's to activate these effects during your turn, unless stated.
5 Counters - As long as this card is on the field, each time your opponent normal summons, your opponent takes 1000 points of damage.
3 - Counters - Negate a attack, then inflict 400 points of damage to your opponent. (This can be used during either players turn)
Malik
Ragtag Return/Quickplay Spell
Banish one Ragtag monster from your graves, negate its banish effects and gain lifepoints equal to its ATK.
Emergency Growth Back Up/Trap
Banish one Growth monster, any damage you take this turn, your opponent takes aswell.