Chapter
10:
The Power
of…Love, Magic, and…Darkness?
Kini grinned broadly as she watched the matches commence, but this grin turned into a scowl of deep concentration as she thought of her own match. 'Now, who would go and change their name to Lili the Love Sorceress? Unless…you're mentally ill…?' Alexis took note of Kini's mood and decided to go over and help her sort things out.
"Hey, Kini, something wrong?"
"Huh? Oh, it's nothing Alexis…," Kini lied as she looked into her fellow Obelisk-Blue classmate's eyes.
"You're lying. You know you can't lie from girls; we're like superior to that." Kini let out a soft chuckle.
"It's just…the opponent I'm going to duel crossed out her name and wrote love sorceress in place of her last name…and I keep getting this odd feeling about her." Alexis tried best to comfort her swerving, dark sensing mood.
"It's O.K., I think it's just your head still swelled a little from that time-traveling trip."
"Yeah, I guess you're right." 'It was just a dream though…' they both thought.
"Heya, guys, what's going on?" Jaden asked, popping up behind Kini; Alexis had been scared backwards a few of feet and Kini was on her knees. Both were panting, gasping, and clutching their chests after being scared nearly out of their skin; Kini was also fuming slightly.
"Jaden. Are you trying to kill us?!" Kini inquired fiercely, still clutching her chest.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you…or, at least, scare you that much. Anyway, what's going on here?"
"Nothing," Kini lied once again. "Alexis and I were just talking about girl stuff."
'Oh, really?"
"Yeah really!"
"…Kini Muto! To the duel arena now!" Crowler ordered for that last time, pointing one painted fingernail at her. "Punctuality is expected from an Obelisk-Blue student!" he also added while facing away from the microphone.
Without a word she sauntered over to the steps of the arena with Alexis wishing her a "Good luck" as she past her. Kini went to the end of the arena where the monitor was directly overhead her and faced the other side, which was the side Kaiba and Yugi were sitting on. Mokuba was busy keeping Kini's siblings occupied as the duels progressed so they wouldn't get bored.
The Obelisk-Blue girl then gazed straight ahead at her opponent to find out it was merely a cute girl who was 5'1", which was merely inches lower than Kini's own height. What really made the girl stand out though was her outfit, which wasn't one of the academy's uniforms but instead consisted of a mahogany witch hat that donned her head and stretched to about 1 and a half feet and a frilly violet dress adorned with pink bows and ribbons that came all the way down past her knees. She had white socks that came half-way up her shin and purple dress shoes for girls; finally, in her right fingerless purple-gloved hand, was a wand whose shaft was neon pink with one end white while the other had a purple heart with a black crescent moon in it.
"You're my opponent? I thought you were some cute boy!" Lili rudely exclaimed, holding her free hand to her cheek in a dramatic position. 'Girl, you've got some serious dress and color issues; plus, Kini's a girl name, so you'd think I'm a boy if you never read the charting list…' Of course, you could tell Kini was irritated from a mile away if you knew her really well.
"Begin!" Crowler yelled, bringing down his raised right hand.
"O.K., I'll go first!" Lili told her in her cute girl voice, and then she drew her sixth card. She grinned brightly even though it was only the first turn in the duel; this meant that she had drawn something good, something that might just win the duel quickly. "I play down Infatuation Enchantress in defense mode and play this card face down!" In an instant a sideways hologram of a card appeared, and from it erupted a light that soon cleared away to reveal a blonde-haired girl at about 12 years old clad in a light pink and white mystical gown with hearts floating around her; pinkish blush marks were visible on her face, just under her crystal blue eyes. The enchantress was sitting down to defend herself, revealing that she had light pink slippers line with white on.
"My move!" Kini informed, drawing her card; she stared down at the choices in her hand. With a move of her hand she had her cards already down on the field.
"I play Forest Fairy in attack mode!" she announced as the same light erupted from her side of the field. A green longhaired, elfin like creature with bright yellowish-greenish eyes emerged from the card in attack mode; it was clad in a simple pine green dress that had a golden girdle encircling around its midsection. Great black butterfly wings, which took up about two-thirds of her body, were decorated with different assortment of colors that shone like stained glass.
"You think a little cute fairy's gonna bring done my oh so beautiful enchantress? I think you're wrong!"
"Well, seeing as your enchantress has 1300 defense points while mine has 1500 attacks points I think it's a pretty good chance. Attack!" The fairy then floated up into the air and cupped her hands together like she was holding the last type of food and water on Earth. A greenish light started to collect around her fingertips, and soon she had 10 balls of green light; then with a throwing move she sent 5 of them to the monster and the other 5 at Lili herself.
"Ugh!" Lili uttered as the light hit her, reducing her life points by 450 (another 250 added by the fairy's effect), but her frown of pain turned upside-down into a smirk of what seemed like triumph. "My turn! Now I play the magic card Love Retrieval to bring back my Infatuation Enchantress from the graveyard, and since Infatuation Enchantress was brought back to life by a card whose name contains 'love'," Lili explained furtively, "I can now take a field card whose name contains 'infatuation' in it from my deck to my hand and play it on the field!"
"Um, did you have to have a lengthy explanation like that?" Kini asked, pointing out the long explanation that was equally confusing to some people.
"Yes!" Lili snapped back before grabbing her deck out of the duel disk holder and scanning through her cards. After a few moment she finally found her card and placed it into her hand and shuffled her deck before placing it back into its original spot. "I now play Infatuation Jealousy Trap!"
A rush of wind cut through the stadium and then large dark, shadowy walls grew to form a circle around the two duelists. As soon as all the sides reached each other at the top they then formed crisscrossing bars of pure negative energy. Kini looked down towards the ground and discovered that the ground too had been covered by the shadows of the field card's effect.
"W-What's going on?!" Kini demanded, staring straight at Lili, who was smiling evilly.
"Oh, this? It's just the souls of jealous lovers; that's all." Though Lili remained to be quite cute, her eyes were cold and shone a lustrous evil color.
"Th-This can't be…," Kini stuttered as she stared at the duelist in front of her. "This is a…" 'A…shadow game!'
Whew! Finally I'm done! I don't like this as better as my first draft, but unfortunately, before I got to post it my computer crashed. Anyway, sorry for not updating so long! I was busy on Gaia Online (If you have an account please let me know!) and Fictionpress, then there's always the dreaded homework (This falls in the 'Stuff I wish we never had to do' column). Anyway, you guys know the drill!