Marcus and Brandon drew their opening hands ready for their duel, Lance, whilst still reeling from the end of his duel with Theresa, was curious if Marcus was going to fair as well as he did during his duel with Theresa.
"Okay Brandon, who's going first?" Marcus asked as he looked over his hand, Brandon looked over his hand and shrugged.
"I'll let you go first." Brandon said looking over his hand. "Not my best hand but those new cards I got after my duel with Theresa will help." Brandon thought as Marcus drew his card.
"Alright, first I activate a spell card called Cards of Consonance!" Marcus played the card and pocketed one of his cards. "In exchange for removing one Dragon type monster with 1000 attack points or less from my hand I can draw two cards." Marcus drew his next two cards and looked at them. "Yeah, this could work!" Marcus said as he started to form a strategy in his head. "I summon Decoy Dragon in attack mode!" Marcus played the card and a small blue dragon with orange scales appeared on the field (2/300/200), Brandon looked at the small monster in confusion.
"Marcus, unless that thing has an effect that's one of the dumbest opening moves I've seen." Brandon said facepalming.
"Oh believe me; you'll be eating those words." Marcus said playing another card. "I activate Card Destruction." Both boys discarded their hands and drew new ones; Marcus looked at his new hand and grinned. "I set two cards facedown and end my turn." Marcus played the two cards and Brandon drew his new card.
"Time I took one of my new monsters for a spin; I summon Shadowpriestess of Ohm in attack mode!" Brandon played the card and a woman with flowing silver hair appeared on the field, wearing an odd black hat and a blue dress with black sleeves and a gold belt buckle (4/1700/1600). "Shadowpriestess attack Decoy Dragon." The priestess fired a spell at Decoy Dragon but to Brandon's surprise it disappeared. "What the hell? Did you activate a trap?"
"Didn't need to, you know why it's called Decoy Dragon Brandon? Because that's just what it is, a decoy!" Marcus grinned as he sent his dragon to the graveyard. "When he's attacked I can tribute him to bring out a Level 7 or higher monster from my graveyard, and thanks to Card Destruction I have just that so say hello to my good buddy Dark Horus!" In Decoy Dragon's place stood a massive, jet black dragon which roared at Brandon (8/3000/1800). "Oh and did I mention that this big guy's your new attack target?"
"Wait, what?" Brandon said once it dawned on him, the priestesses' spell had no effect on the dragon, the dragon breathing fire on her however did have an effect and the priestess was quickly incinerated.
B: 6700
M: 8000
"Oh right, I've taken an early lead!" Marcus grinned before activating one of his traps. "And this trap will help me keep it; it's called Dragon's Rage!" Marcus said as the hologram flipped up. "As long as this is on the field I can deal damage to your lifepoints even by attacking a defence monster but only as long as I do so with a dragon type monster which is where my other trap comes in." Marcus said activating his trap. "Dragon Tribe, as long as this is on the field all monsters on my side of the field are treated as Dragon type monsters." Brandon blinked before chuckling.
"Good move Marcus, keep this up during the tournament and you'll be a force to be reckoned with." Brandon said picking up two cards. "I'll set these two cards facedown and end my turn." Brandon played the cards and Marcus drew his card.
"You thought things where bad for you before? Just watch." Marcus said playing a card. "I activate Polmerization to fuse the Lord of Dragons and Divine Dragon Ragnorok in my hand to form King Dragun!" The two monsters appeared on the field and fused together to form a brown, serpent like dragon with black wings and a white mane (7/2400/1100). "Whilst he's on the field my dragons are protected from being targeted by the effects of Spells, Traps or Monster cards but that's not all because once per turn I can Special Summon a Dragon Type monster from my hand so say hello to Spear Dragon!" Marcus played the card and a blue and light brown dragon with a ridiculasly long nose appeared on the field (4/1900/0). "Go my dragons! Attack his lifepoints!" The three dragons charged forward and Marcus grinned. ""I don't believe it! I'm actually going to beat a Obelisk Blue student in just three turns! I'll be the talk of the school! All the chicks will want me, I'll..." Marcus's train of thought was interrupted by...
"I activate my trap card Mirror Force!" Brandon announced and Marcus' jaw dropped.
"You have got to be kidding me!" Marcus said as the three monsters shattered on contact with a forcefield.
"Come on, you really didn't think I'd go down that easy would you?" Brandon asked. "Luck on the Brightside, you haven't normal summoned yet." Marcus blinked before realizing he was right.
"Oh yeah, err just give me a sec." Marcus said looking at his only remaining card. "I set this card facedown in defence mode and end my turn." Brandon nodded and drew his card.
"All right then." Brandon said looking at his drawn card. "I summon Don Zaloog in attack mode!" Brandon played the card and the leader of the Dark Scorpions appeared on the field (4/1400/1500). "And I activate Mustering of the Dark Scorpions to summon his partners in crime, Meanae The Thorn (4/1000/1800), Gorg The Strong (5/1800/1500), Chick The Yellow (3/1000/1000) and Cliff, The Trap Remover." Brandon said as the four monsters appeared on the field. "Activate Trap Card Dark Scorpion Combination!"
"Okay, what does that do?" Marcus blinked and Brandon grinned.
"This card can only be activated if I have all five Dark Scorpions on the field, it lets them bypass your monster and attack your lifepoints directly in exchange for the battle damage becoming 400." Brandon said.
"Wait, what is four times five again?" Marcus said trying to do the math by counting his fingers, Brandon sweatdropped.
"20, in other words you're losing 2000 lifepoints." Brandon informed him before pointing to the Dark Scorprions. "Go my Dark Scorpions, bypass his monster and attack his lifepioints directly!" Brandon commanded and the five monsters charged forward going straight past Marcus' facedown monster and attacking him directly.
B: 6700
M: 6000
"Well, that wasn't too bad." Marcus muttered as he got up.
"Did you forget about my Dark Scorpion's effects?" Brandon asked and Marcus gulped.
"Honestly? Yes, care to give me a refresher course?" Marcus asked and Brandon nodded.
"Okay, normally Don Zaloog would allow me to discard cards from your hand but since that isn't an option you'll discard the two cards from the top of your deck instead." Brandon said and Marcus did so reluctantly. "Next Chick the Yellow's effect let's me look at the top card in your deck and send it to the top or bottom of your deck."
"All right, catch!" Marcus said throwing the card at Brandon who caught it and looked at it.
"Call of the Haunted, this can go on the bottom of the deck." Brandon tossed the card back and Marcus placed it at the bottom. "Next, Gorg will allow me to send your monster back to your hand but since I'm feeling generous you'll instead send the top card from the top of your deck to the graveyard." Marcus did so and waited for him to continue, Brandon retrieved another Manea from his graveyard and added it to his hand. "That's Meanae's second effect out the way which just leaves Cliff and as his name implies he's a trap remover so Cliff remove Dragon's Rage!" Cliff charged at the hologram of Marcus trap and slashed it with his knife. "I'm done for now." Marcus drew his card and his eyes lit up.
"Oh yeah, now I'm back in business!" Marcus grinned. "I summon Horus of the Black Flame Dragon Level 4 in attack mode!" Marcus played the card and a small dragon in grey armour appeared on the field (4/1600/1000). "Go Horus, attack Meanee the Thorn!" Horus breathed fire at the sole female member of the Dark Scorpions incinerating her.
B: 6100
M: 6000
"I end my turn and it's time for my dragon to grow up!" Marcus said sending Level Four to the graveyard. "When Horus destroys a monster in battle I can level him up to his Level 6 form!" Marcus said as a much larger, more bird like version of Horus appeared on the field (6/2300/1600), Brandon frowned and drew his card.
"I switch my remaining Dark Scorpions to defence mode and end my turn." Brandon said as the four thieves knelt down, Marcus drew his card and raised an eyebrow.
"I activate Card of Sanctity!" Marcus said as he and Brandon drew their cards, he saw one spell card and started thinking. "Mind if I check my graveyard?" Marcus asked, Brandon shrugged and motioned for him to do so and Marcus looked. "Heh, thought that might be the case." Marcus said when he spotted a certain card. "Horus' final form, it must've been sent to the graveyard by one of Brandon's monster effects." Marcus thought before returning the cards to the graveyard. "I activate The Graveyard in the Fourth Dimension, it allows me to add two monsters with LV in their names to my deck and shuffle it and I chose my two Horus cards." Marcus said returning the monsters to his deck and shuffling it. "Now Horus, attack Gorg the Strong!" Marcus commanded and the bird like dragon breathed fire at the strongest member of the Dark Scorpions incinerating him. "I'm not done yet, I summon Horus' Servant in attack mode." Marcus played the card and a human in robes that strongly resembled Horus' armour appeared on the field (1/100/100). "As long as he's on the field Horus can't be targeted by the effects of Spells, Monsters or Trap cards."
"That would be a good play if it weren't for the fact that his stats are incredibly weak." Brandon said folding his arms.
"True, that's why I'm setting two cards facedown and ending my turn, oh yeah and since Horus destroyed a monster in this turn I can level him up to his ultimate level so come forth Horus Of The Black Flame Dragon Level 8!" Marcus played the card and the dragon grew into its ultimate form which closely resembled a Phoenix at this point (8/3000/1800) Brandon drew his card somehow keeping his composure.
"All right, I activate Lightning Vortex, now by discarding a card from my hand I can..." Brandon started but Horus breathed fire at the hologram of Lightning Vortex incinerating it.
"Oops, forgot to mention that Horus let's me chose to negate the activation of a spell card and destroy it or not." Marcus grinned. "My dragon's here to stay Brandon!"
"Maybe but I can't say the same for his servant!" Brandon said switching Don Zaloog to attack mode. "Don Zaloog, attack Horus' Servant now!" The leader of the Black Scorpions charged forward.
"To quote Theresa did you really think I'd play such a weak monster without a backup plan?" Marcus asked activating his trap. "Negate Attack, it stops your attack and ends your battle phase." Brandon frowned before motioning for Marcus to take his turn and he drew his card. "Okay, I switch Horus' Servant to defence mode and I'll have Horus himself attack Don Zaloog." Horus' Servant knelt down and Horus breathed fire at the leader of the Dark Scorpions incinerating him.
B: 4500
M: 6000
"Looks like I'm in the lead again." Marcus grinned before picking up the card he drew. "But just in case I'll set this facedown and end my turn." Brandon drew his card and looked up at the dragon.
"Nothing in my hand is strong enough to beat his dragon and that servant of his protects it from the effects of monsters and traps." Brandon frowned as he looked towards Marcus' facedown. "That facedown is likely another trap encase I try attacking Horus' Servant again, but I need him gone from the field if I am to win this match." Brandon thought before looking at his drawn card. "I set a monster in defence mode and end my turn." Marcus drew his card and didn't even look at it before pointing at Brandon's facedown card.
"Horus, attack his defence." Marcus commanded, Horus breathed fire at the monster revealing a man in black robes carrying a pair of daggers that where glowing blue (3/200/500) before the attack connected the man threw a dagger at Horus' Servant destroying him and the man was consumed by flame. "What the hell was that?"
"That was Night Assailant." Brandon said holding up the card. "When he's flipped I can choose to destroy one monster on your side of the field and since your dragon was protected from such an effect I went for the next best thing, his servant." Brandon said sending Night Assailant to the graveyard and Marcus did likewise with Horus' Servant. "Now I just need to work on getting rid of that oversized bird."
"If you think you can succeed than go ahead." Marcus said folding his arms. "I end my turn!"
"He's getting overconfident; lucky for him Night Assailant is on the Limited List otherwise I'd set another one and let him attack it." Brandon thought before looking at the card he drew. "But this is the next best thing." Brandon thought. "I set this card facedown in defence mode and end my turn." Brandon announced as Marcus drew his card.
"Okay Horus, time to roast another one of his monsters, attack his defence!" Marcus commanded and Horus breathed fire at the monster revealing it to be a red haired man in multi coloured armour wielding a sword (4/1200/1000) before the flames engulfed him the man tossed his sword at the dragon impaling it in the chest.
"TIMBUR!" Lance yelled from the sidelines as Horus fell over and the hologram shattered.
"What the hell was that?" Marcus blinked.
"That was D.D. Warrior, after he does battle with a monster that monster, alongside D.D. Warrior is removed from the game." Brandon said pocketing the monster; Marcus did so reluctantly and looked at his hand which at the moment had 8 cards in it.
"Good thing I still have my defence monster from earlier." Marcus thought before picking up two cards. "I set these cards facedown and end my turn." Marcus announced and Brandon drew his card.
"Huh, so these are the duellists this place has selected for Battle City?" An African American male with long hair in a ponytail and brown eyes thought as he observed the duel, he was wearing a red basketball jersey, blue jeans and black boots. "I can see why they've selected them."
"Ah Edward, glad you could make it." The Obelisk Blue Headmaster said as he approached the youth. "So what do you think of our choices?"
"I think I'll have some stiff competition if I want to keep my Battle City crown, and please you know I prefer to be called Eddie." Eddie chuckled. "That Lance guy has some sweet moves."
"Yes, he's certainly one of our brightest new students." Martin nodded in agreement. "A bit unruly but what teenager isn't?"
"True that." Eddie nodded in agreement. "I thought there was going to be seven duellists though?"
"Evan and Rajin asked to join in the training to better their own skills, Kimberly on the other hand asked me to add her to the roster of competing duellists, her stepbrother was the student attacked by the intruder and she thinks he'll be at Battle City." Martin explained folding his arms. "I don't agree with her motives but she's an excellent duellist and she should do well in the tournament."
"Yeah, I heard about that attack." Eddie frowned. "I also heard rumours saying that he was hospitalized by the Seal of the Orichalcos."
"Unfortunately those rumours are true." Martin sighed. "You remember the rules about that card from your time here?"
"The students in Ra Yellow and Osiris Red won't find out." Eddie nodded. "But if the Orichalcos is back then..." Eddie trailed off.
"We're prepared for the possibility of it being used in the tournament." Martin said as he observed the duel. "You know the Osiris Red student in the group reminds me a lot of you when you joined."
"Let me guess, she's a troublemaker with potential as well huh?" Eddie asked with a small smile. "Well, this place straightened me out so I don't see why it can't do the same for her."
"It'll be more complicated than that, I won't go into detail but her childhood was far from happy." Martin frowned. "It's a miracle she's as well adjusted as she is."
"It's that bad?" Eddie asked before frowning. "I think I get the basic idea, no kid should have to suffer through that."
"Agreed." Martin said shaking his head.
"Okay, it's my move." Brandon said looking at his newly drawn card. "I activate Pot of Avarice, since I now have five monsters in my graveyard, namely Shadowpriestess, Gorg, Zaloog, Meanae, and Night Assailant I can shuffle them back into my deck and draw two cards." Brandon said and after retrieving the cards he shuffled them back into his deck and drew two cards. "Perfect, I summon Don Zaloog back to the field." Brandon announced as the leader of the Black Scorpions reappeared on the field and Brandon switched Cliff and Chick the Yellow to attack mode. "Next I activate Reinforcement of the Army which lets me add Gorg the Strong to my hand." Brandon said adding the monster back to his hand. "And last but not least I activate Mustering of the Dark Scorpions to bring Meanae and Gorg back out." Brandon said as the two thieves reappeared.
"And Theresa calls my strategies predictable?" Chloe muttered under her breath.
"Oh great, now I'm back at square one." Marcus said sarcastically. "Unluckily for him I still have a trick or two up my sleeve." Marcus thought.
"Gorg the Strong, attack his defence." Gorg charged at the facedown monster and slammed his hammer down...only to be sent flying back. "Huh?" Brandon blinked before looking at his lifepoint counter.
B: 4300
M: 6000
"Brandon, I'd like you to meet Golem Dragon!" Marcus grinned as a small rocky dragon appeared on the field crouching down (4/200/2000). "On top of his defence being too tough for any of your Dark Scorpions to crack his effect means that you can't target any other dragon type monsters I have for an attack."
"So? I've gotten past your defences before." Brandon reminded him. "I'll set this card facedown and end my turn." The hologram of the facedown card appeared behind the scorpions and Marcus drew his card.
"Knowing my luck that's another Dark Scorpion Combination, luckily I've come prepared this time." Marcus thought before looking at his drawn card. "I pass for now."
"Okay then." Brandon said drawing his card. "I activate my facedown card, Hope for Escape!" Brandon announced. "Here's how it works: this can only be activated if my lifepoints are at least 1000 points lower than yours and as long as I pay a thousand lifepoints I can draw one card for each depending on how far apart our lifepoints are in multiples of 1000, in this case I'll draw three cards." Brandon announced as his lifepoints dropped to 3300 and he drew three cards, he sent Hope for Escape to the graveyard and looked at his new cards. "Sorry to say this Marcus but I have what I need to beat you."
"I'd like to see you try." Marcus grinned.
"Oh, you will." Brandon grinned. "I activate Stop Defence." Brandon played the card and Marcus's grin disappeared in record time as Golem Dragon stood up. "Gorg, destroy Golem Dragon, the rest of you? Finish him!" Brandon commanded, Gorg charged forward and slammed his hammer into Golem Dragon's head shattering the hologram, the rest of the Dark Scorpions charged forward and laid a beatdown on Marcus.
B: 3300
M: 0000
"Damn it, I had you beat." Marcus said as he got up. "If it weren't for that stupid Stop Defence card I could've beaten you."
"Yeah, that was a tough break Marcus." Brandon agreed as the holograms disappeared, the two boys heard clapping and looked up seeing Eddie approaching them.
"That was a great duel guys." Eddie said as he approached them.
"Err, do I know you?" Marcus asked and Brandon facepalmed.
"Marcus, that's Eddie Roberts he's the reigning Battle City champ and a Duel Academy alumni." Brandon said annoyed.
"Oh, err, I knew that." Marcus said rubbing the back of his head nervously; Eddie shook his head with a chuckle.
"Don't worry, I'm just here to check out the duellists that my old stomping grounds nominated for the tournament." Eddie shook his head. "From what I've seen this year will be a challenging one for me if I want to regain my title." Eddie added.
"That's not for another two weeks though, and we've only just started the training." Marcus pointed out.
"That's just what I meant." Eddie answered before taking a seat. "If you don't mind I'd like to watch the rest of the duels, see what I've got in store for me when the tournament starts."
"Sure, just don't complain when we scare you out of competing." Lance joked getting a laugh out of Eddie, Brandon and Marcus went into the bleachers and Chloe and Kimberly joined in the draw to determine the next duel, Chloe drew Silent Magician Level Four (1000), Lance drew Fire Lord (1500), Theresa drew Dumnass Dark Witch (1800), Evan drew Chaos Sorcerer (2300), Andreas drew Ancient Crimson Ape (2600), Rajin drew Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi (2800) and Kimberly drew Archfiend Empress (2900).
"It looks like the duellist who got added to the roster at the last minute gets to duel." Brandon said as he watched the two girls get onto the duel field.
"Hey Brandon, how good is Kimberly anyway?" Marcus asked.
"I've never duelled her myself; you'd have to ask Theresa that since they faced off in a duel a couple of weeks back." Brandon said and Marcus turned to Theresa.
"She's good, not exactly in the top three ranks of Obelisk Blue but she and her stepbrother are easily in the top ten." Theresa said sitting down. "Basically Chloe has an uphill battle against her in this match."
"So, who's going first?" Chloe asked as she drew her hand, Kimberly looked at her hand and looked up.
"I will." Kimberly said drawing another card. "I start by discarding Archfiend General (4/2100/800) from my hand, by doing this I can add a field spell card that my monsters can thrive in too my hand." Kimberly discarded the monster and added the card to her hand. "As a matter of fact I'll activate that Field Spell now, go Pandemonium!" Kimberly played the card and the scenary changed to a hellish looking place that seemed to be an arena of some sorts. "For starters neither of us have to pay lifepoints to keep Archfiends on the field as long as this card is active."
"Archfiends? But I don't have any." Chloe said and Kimberly grinned.
"Too bad, my deck's full of them." Kimberly said picking up a card. "I'll get to its second effect a bit later but for now I summon Archfiend Soldier in attack mode!" Kimberly played the card and a purple demon in a green cape, purple armour and gold boots appeared on the field. "And I activate the continous Spell Card Archfiend's Oath, with this I can pay 500 lifepoints to guess the top card in my deck, if I guess correctly it gets added to my hand, if I guess incorrectly it gets sent to my graveyard."
"That's a pretty big risk to take this early in the duel isn't it?" Chloe raised an eyebrow.
"True but I know what I'm doing." Kimberly said picking up her two remaining cards. "I set these two cards facedown and end my turn."
"Yeah, that coming from the girl who emptied her hand on her first turn." Chloe thought as she drew her card. "I don't have anything that can beat her soldier so I'll play it safe." Chloe decided. "I set two cards facedown and a monster in defence that ends my turn." Chloe said and Kimberly drew her card and added it to her hand.
"I pay 500 lifepoints to guess the top card in my deck." Kimberly announced as her lifepoints dropped to 7500. "My guess is that it's the trap card Battle Scarred." Kimberly picked up the card and looked at it.
"So? Is it the trap card or not?" Chloe asked.
"Yes it is." Kimberly said adding it to her hand. "I summon Terrorking Archfiend in attack mode!"
"You're summoning a monster that sounds like the name of a cheesy metal band?" Chloe asked.
"Kid, stick to your dayjob." Kimberly groaned as she played the card and a demon in red armour that had parts that closely resembled the look of Summoned Skull (6/2500/1200) appeared on the field wielding a blue sword (4/2000/1500).
"A level four monster with 2000 attack points? That thing has to have a weakness!" Chloe pointed out and Kimberly smirked.
"Under normal circumstances it would." Kimberly said folding her arms. "Terrorking would normally require me to pay 800 lifepoints per turn to keep it on the field but thanks to Pandemonium that's no longer an issue, well for me anyway." Kimberly said and Chloe gulped.
"She definitely knows how to use her cards effectively." Eddie commented.
"Yes and Chloe might be in over her head, she's only been duelling for two months now." Martin said sitting next to him.
"Two months? I almost feel sorry for her going into Battle City." Eddie said leaning back on his chair.
"And here's the fun part, I activate one of my spell cards Checkmate." Kimberly said activating the card. "All I have to do is send Archfiend Soldier to the Graveyard and I can have Terrorking attack you directly."
"Oh crap." Chloe gulped as Archfiend Soldier disappeared from the field and Terrorking roared.
"I've heard much worse profanity being use when I used this combo in the past kid so don't be afraid to let lose more colourful swearwords." Kimberly said.
"I won't because of him." Chloe said pointing to the Obelisk Blue Headmaster.
"You have a point there." Kimberly admitted before activating her trap. "I activate Archfiend's Roar, which allows me to bring back Archfiend Soldier." Kimberly said as her Archfiend returned to the field. "Only downside is he's destroyed at the end of my turn but he'll do nicely, Terrorking attack her lifepoints directly." Terrorking charged forward and slashed Chloe with her sword.
"I activate Numinous Healer, which lets me recover half of the lifepoints I just loss." Chloe said with a grimace.
K: 8000
C: 7000
"Nice recovery, but let's see how your facedown monster fairs against my other archfiend." Kimberly said as Chloe sent her trap to the graveyard. "Archfiend Soldier, attack her defence!" Kimberly demanded and her soldier charged forward and slashed the monster revealing it to be a young boy in a grey cloak wielding a staff (3/500/1500) and Chloe grinned.
"That was Dharc The Dark Charmer, and when he's flipped I can take control of one dark type monster on your side of the field and I think I'll chose Terrorking." Chloe grinned and Kimberly folded her arms with a smirk.
"Do you wanna bet?" Kimberly asked. "By targeting Terrorking with an effect monster you've triggered his own effect." Kimberly said as a giant, six sided die appeared on the field. "If that dice lands on a 2 or a 5 that effect of Dharc is negated and the monster is destroyed." Kimberly said and Chloe's grin quickly disappeared, it only got worse when it landed on a five. "Nice try Chloe but it seems fate's not on your side." Kimberly said as Chloe sent her spellcaster to the graveyard. "Any other moves you want to make?"
"Actually yes, there is." Chloe said activating her trap. "I activate Call of the Haunted to bring Dharc back." She said as her spellcaster returned to the field. "Are you done yet?" Chloe asked and Kimberly looked at her hand.
"Yeah, I'm done." Kimberly said sending Soldier and Archfiend's Roar to the graveyard; Chloe drew her card and smirked.
"I sacrifice Dhark to summon Cybernetic Magician in attack mode." Chloe announced and Dhark disappeared from the field, in the spellcaster's place stood a magician in white, high tech looking robes with a pair of blue pants underneath it and carrying a small, high tech looking staff (6/2400/1000). "Cybernetic Magician, attack Terrorking Archfiend." The magician pointed its staff towards Terrorking Archfiend and lightning emanated from the staff striking Terrorking and causing the hologram to shatter.
K: 7600
C: 7000
"That ends my turn." Chloe announced and Kimberly drew her card.
"All right, first I use Archfiend's Oath again and I guess that the top card in my deck is Cyber Archfiend." She said as her lifepoints dropped to 7100, she drew her card and smirked. "Well would you look at that, luck's on my side again." Kimberly said adding the monster to her hand. "Next I activate Heavy Storm to destroy all spell and traps on the field." Chloe blinked in confusion as the scenery changes caused by Pandemonium where whipped away by a tornado, both girls shielded themselves before the storm dissipated.
"That makes no sense, now your Archfiends will do you more harm than good." Chloe pointed out.
"It'll make sense soon enough." Kimberly said as she sent Archfiend's Oath and Pandemonium to the graveyard. "I set a card facedown and a monster in defence, your move." Kimberly said and Chloe drew her card. "I activate Thunder Of Ruler, sorry but your Cybernetic Magician's going to have to wait a bit longer before attacking." Kimberly said and Chloe groaned.
"Fine, I set a monster in defence mode and call it a turn." Chloe said placing the monster down, Kimberly drew her card and smirked.
"Just need her to set another monster and my plan will be in motion." Kimberly thought before picking up two cards. "I set two cards facedown and I sacrifice my facedown monster to summon Dark Ruler Ha Des in attack mode!" Kimberly announced and the hologram of the facedown card disappeared and in its place stood a green demon clad in heavy robes with a skull design on the frount appeared on the field (6/2450/1600).
"Crap, that thing's stronger than my Magician!" Chloe thought once she saw the stats.
"I end my turn at that." Kimberly announced causing confused looks from the other duellists.
"Why didn't she attack? Ha Des is stronger than Cybernetic Magician." Lance wondered as he watched the duel.
"If she's planning what I think she's planning than Chloe's in trouble." Theresa said plainly as she watched the duel, Chloe drew her card and looked up at Ha Des.
"Nothing in my hand can beat her Dark Ruler, and whilst her reasons for not attacking my Magician confuse the hell out of me I'd better take advantage of it." Chloe thought. "I switch my Magician to defence mode and set another monster facedown, that ends my..." Chloe never finished because of Kimberly's next move.
"I activate my trap card, Nightmare Archfiends!" Kimberly grinned as the facedown card flipped up. "All I need to do is tribute your magician and I can summon three Nightmare Archfiend tokens to your side of the field." Chloe blinked as Cybernetic Magician was consumed by flame and three identical demons appeared on the field alongside Chloe's facedown monsters, black in colour and with blue hair (6/2000/2000). "Not only are they weaker than Ha Des but when their destroyed you suffer 800 points of damage to your lifepoints." Chloe gulped when she heard that. "You where saying?"
"I end my turn." Chloe said as Kimberly drew her card.
"First I activate my trap card Battle Scared, as long as this is on the field both players have to pay lifepoints to keep Archfiends on the field." Kimberly said as the trap card flipped up.
"Then I guess it's a good thing you don't have any archfiends." Chloe laughed nervously.
"Thanks for the reminder; I summon Infernalqueen Archfiend in attack mode." Kimberly played the card and a female demon in a purple cloak appeared on the field, her eyes where glowing red and she was wearing a red helmet (4/900/1500).
"Oh great just what I need, as Lance would say if he was in this situation me and my big mouth at least she's weak enough for my monsters to destroy." Chloe gulped before she saw the stats of Kimberly's new monster.
"You may think that now." Kimberly said picking up another card. "But you won't soon; first I activate Card of Sanctity allowing us to refresh our hands." Kimberly said and both girls drew until they had six cards, Kimberly looked at her new cards and smirked. "I equip my queen with the equip spell cards Axe of Despair and Black Pendant increasing her attack power by one thousand and five hundred respectively!" The queen grabbed onto an evil looked axe and at the same time a pendant appeared around her neck causing her attack to skyrocket to 2400. "Infernalqueen, Ha Des, attack her Nightmare Archfiends!" Kimberly commanded and both monsters charged forward, Infernalqueen chopped one of the nightmare archfiends in half and Ha Des launched a spell at the other.
K: 7100
C: 4550
"That ends my turn." Kimberly announced and Chloe drew her card.
"Man this is hopeless, our lifepoints are nowhere near each other and even if I switch my remaining Archfiend to defence mode she'll still do..." Chloe thought before she looked at the card she had drawn, the frown on her face quickly turned into a grin. "I have to thank you for giving me your archfiend tokens." Chloe grinned causing Kimberly to blink in confusion. "Why? It's simple, because without them I wouldn't be able to summon my next monster and turn this duel around."
"What is she blabbering on about?" Marcus blinked.
"You're asking me?" Lance asked.
"I sacrifice my remaining Archfiend Token alongside my two facedown monsters to summon Gilford the Lightning!" Chloe announced as the Archfiend Token and her facedown monsters disappeared from the field and in their place stood a mountain of a man covered almost completely in armour and carrying a massive sword (8/2800/1400).
"What? That thing wasn't in her deck before!" Lance yelled in surprise at the sight of her new monster.
"And he has an effect as well, you see the three tribute summon is completely optional but necessary for his effect, when he's summoned this way I can destroy all your monsters on your side of the field." Chloe grinned and Kimberly's cool composure was gone in an instant, Gilford charged the two fiends and his sword started charging with lightning, he slashed both fiends and Ha Des was the first to fall, Infernalqueen was the next to fall but not before Black Pendant fired a beam at Chloe striking her in the chest.
K: 7100
C: 4050
"Oh I forgot to mention, when Black Pendent is destroyed and sent to the graveyard you suffer 500 points of damage." Kimberly said as she sent the four monsters and her equip cards to the graveyard.
"Yeah? Well guess what, Gilford can still attack!" Chloe grinned. "Go Gilford attack her lifepoints directly with Lightning Sword!" Chloe commanded and Gilford charged at Kimberly and slashed her with her sword.
K: 4300
C: 4050
Kimberly winced as she got up staring down the warrior and Chloe. "So what if you were able to narrow the gap between our lifepoints? I'm not done yet." Kimberly asserted folding her arms. "Are you done yet kid?"
"Yeah, just remember that this kid tore through your strategy like a hot knife through butter." Chloe said as Kimberly drew her card.
"Sorry kid, I hate using this but you've left me with no choice." Kimberly sighed. "I remove Terrorking, Infernalqueen and Ha Des from my graveyard to summon Dark Necrofear to the field in attack mode!" Kimberly pocketed the monsters and the fiend from Lance's duel with Dwayne appeared on the field.
"Crap, if I destroy that thing you'll just take control of Gilford." Chloe gulped.
"Huh? Oh right, Dwayne mentioned that she watched his duel with Lance." Kimberly thought before picking up two cards. "As for my Normal Summon I'll use it to set a monster in defence mode and a card facedown, your move." Chloe nodded and drew her card.
"Silent Magician? I can't use her, not with Dark Necrofear on the field." Chloe frowned as she saw her monster. "Gilford attack her defence with Lightning Blade!" Chloe commanded and Gilford charged forward.
"Sorry kid but no dice, I activate Shift to change your target to Dark Necrofear!" Kimberly announced as Gilford changed its course and slashed Necrofear down the middle, once Gilford returned to Chloe's side of the field he started clutching his head in pain.
K: 3700
C: 4050
"I may have lost my lead but it was worth it." Kimberly said as Gilford walked over to her side of the field.
"Maybe but I still have a normal summon." Chloe said as she played the card. "I set a monster in defence mode and end my turn." Chloe announced as the hologram of the facedown monster appeared on the field and Kimberly drew her card.
"I summon a second Terrorking Archfiend to the field." Kimberly announced as the Terrorking returned to the field. "And I activate Stop Defence and use it on your monster." Chloe's eyes widened but she flipped the monster up reluctantly revealing it to be The Unhappy Maiden (1/0/100)
"I can't watch." Marcus said covering his eyes.
"Gilford, attack her monster and be done with it." Kimberly said simply, Gilford charged forward and slashed The Unhappy Maiden down the middle.
K: 3700
C: 1250
"Terrorking, finish it." Kimberly commanded but Terrorking didn't move. "Terrorking I said finish it!" She yelled.
"Yell all you want, he won't listen." Chloe said holding up The Unhappy Maiden. "When Unhappy Maiden's destroyed in battle your battle phase ends immediately."
"Okay fine, if you think that delaying your defeat by one turn will help you then I'll end my turn." Kimberly announced and Chloe drew her card and grinned.
"My defeat will be delayed for a lot longer than that." Chloe said before pausing. "You know what I mean!" She added before summoning a monster. "I summon Silent Magician Level Four in attack mode!" Chloe played the card and her magician appeared on the field seemingly unintimidated by the two more powerful monsters on Kimberly's side of the field (4/1000/1000).
"So? I saw your test duel kid and I know that thing's effect, Gilford will destroy it before you can even get it strong enough to beat Terrorking." Kimberly said folding her arms.
"Then you'll be familiar with my next card." Chloe grinned turning a card around and showing it to be Level Up!
"You're not." Kimberly gulped.
"I am, I activate Level Up tributing Silent Magician to bring out her strongest form and my strongest monster, Silent Magician Level 8." Chloe sent level 4 to the graveyard and Silent Magician Level 8 appeared on the field staring down Kimberly's two monsters (8/3500/1000).
When he saw Chloe's monster Eddie couldn't help but let out an impressed whistle. "Looks like our rookie might pull this off after all."
"Don't count Kimberly out just yet, she made it into Obelisk Blue for a reason." Martin said as he watched the duel.
"Silent Magician, attack Terrorking Archfiend!" Chloe commanded and Silent Magician pointed her staff at the fiend and fired a beam at it completely engulfing the fiend.
K: 2200
C: 1250
"On my next turn my Gilford's coming home." Chloe said picking up another card. "But just to be safe I'll set this card facedown and end my turn."
"You're assuming that they'll be a next turn." Kimberly said confidently as she drew her card. "I activate Lightning Vortex to get rid of your magician." Kimberly said discarding a card from her hand.
"She won't be defeated that easily, I activate Magic Jammer to negate the effect of the Spell Card." Chloe said discarding her Magical Exemplar (4/1700/1400) and purple fog blocked the lightning from making contact with her Magician.
"Your annoyingly persistent, you know that?" Kimberly asked rhetorically. "I'll switch Gilford to defence mode and end my turn." Kimberly said as Gilford knelt down.
"I've been called worse things." Chloe shrugged as she drew her card. "Silent Magician, attack Gilford!" Silent Magician pointed her staff at Gilford and fired a beam at him engulfing him. "That ends my turn." Chloe announced.
"Don't celebrate too soon." Kimberly said tossing Chloe's Gilford the Lightning back at her and she caught it, barely but she caught it, and sent it to her graveyard whilst Kimberly drew her card. "I may like Chloe but there's no way in hell I'm losing to a rookie, I don't care if it's here or at the tournament." Kimberly thought before looking at her new card. "I set a monster in defence mode and end my turn." Kimberly said and Chloe drew her card.
"Silent Magician, attack her defence!" Chloe commanded and Silent Magician pointed her staff at the monster and fired a beam at it revealing it to be a red shoe with teeth and a single eye (2/500/300) which was quickly disintegrated.
"What is it with women and shoes?" Lance said...only to be met with glares from Chloe, Kimberly and Theresa. "I'm shutting up now!"
Chloe turned her attention back to her magician and too her surprise her magician was kneeling down. "What the hell? I didn't switch my monster's position!" Chloe exclaimed.
"No but my monster did." Kimberly said holding up her card. "My monster was Bite Shoes and when it's flipped I can shift one monster to defence mode." Kimberly said sending it to the graveyard.
"Ugh, fine I'll end my turn." Chloe groaned and Kimberly drew her card.
"Sorry to do this to you kid but the duels over." Kimberly thought setting the card she had drawn. "I set one card facedown and end my turn." Chloe drew her card and switched Silent Magician back to attack mode.
"Silent Magician, finish it!" Chloe commanded and her magician pointed her staff at Kimberly who smirked.
"Nice try but I activate my trap card Magical Cylinder!" Kimberly said flipping her card just as Silent Magician fired its beam. "Sorry Chloe but you were right on one thing, Silent Magician IS finishing the duel just not in the way you intended." Kimberly said as the beam went in one cylinder and out the other striking her in the chest.
K: 2200
C: 0000
"Damn it." Chloe said as she got up. "I knew I should've set that card." Chloe said causing Kimberly to raise an eyebrow.
"What card?" Kimberly asked as the holograms disappeared, Chloe held up the last card in her hand revealing it to be Seven Tools of the Bandit. "Why didn't you set it? You could've won."
"I didn't think you'd draw anymore traps." Chloe admitted with a sigh as she returned the cards in her graveyard and on the field to her deck and deactivating her duel disk. "It was a good duel though so I guess I can't complain."
"Yeah, maybe we can duel again in the tournament." Kimberly said as the two girls got off the duel field.
"Well that only leaves one duel to go, Andreas vs. Rajin." Brandon said as he turned to the two boys. "Spirits vs. Nature, this should be a interesting match."
"Indeed it should." Rajin said hopping on the duel field as did Andreas.