Yu-Gi-Oh!
Reuniting Darkness with Light
Ch. 11: In a Duel Without A Paddle
Everyone in the jungle stopped at a house that seemed to be made up of jungle straw.
Joey tries to call for some other friendly Duelist nearby, "Hello, anybody there? I'm Joey Wheeler, the Godfather of Games." He goes into the hut carefully.
Noticing a black iron pot hanging above a campfire without a fire, Millie said, "This is cold, nobody must've been here for a long time." Valon sighs, "I was hoping for something to try to cook our fish in." Mako volunteered, "Allow me, I've been cooking fish since I was a tadpole."
Lilly asks them, "Why don't we spend the night here?" Tristan kneels to her, "Ms. Lilly, the honorable Tristan Taylor, at your service."
BANG! A gunshot was heard, causing most of the others to duck to the ground!
Fortunately for them it was only Joey, he came out of the hut with a long rifle, "Hey, I've found a gun!" Tristan gets up, annoyed, "So we've heard." Joey flips the rifle and in a flash that gun turns into an Equip Spell Card, "Originally it was an Equip Spell Card known as Long Cobalt Shot, once equipped to a warrior-type monster, it serves as a lower-level monster killer or Spell or Trap destroyer before the wielder attacks." Duke sighs, "Luckily for us, we're Duelists, not cards."
Yugi suggests, "We could use it to hunt some food, we do eat a lot anyway." Duke agrees with Yugi, "Great idea," towards Joey, "hey, Jessie James, get me some filet minion, medium rare." Joey was furious, "My name ain't Jessie James, Dice Tex." Duke argues, "My name ain't Dice Tex." Tristan takes the card from Joey, "Fine then, why don't I go hunt some food then?" Joey asks Tristan, "Why you?" Tristan explains, "Because you eat more than you hunt, Joey!"
Millie asks, "Will somebody go hunting before it gets too dark?"
The three began to fight over the chance to go hunting first, until Tristan's elbow bumps into the face of a red elephantine Duel Monster in golden armor (Elephant Statue of Disaster; type: rock-effect-Earth/LS: 3/ATK: 1500/DEF: 0). The poor creature ran off into the jungle in a state of panic.
Duke said, "Whoa! Those Republicans are everywhere." Mai said, "That's the junior branch."
All of the sudden, Yugi, Joey, Tristan, and Duke's decks began to glow, getting brighter in one direction. Yugi looks up to Rafael and asks, "You will look after the girls, won't you, Rafael?" Rafael nods, "You can count me, Yugi." Téa asks, "Why? Are you four going to hunt for food?" Yugi answers, "No, and yes, our decks are glowing brighter as we point them in the direction that Elephant Statue of Disaster ran away towards. It could lead us to some of these Great Spirit cards."
Téa says to Yugi, "Be careful." Joey said, "We wouldn't leave a little defenseless dude like him alone in the jungle," Tristan agrees, "He needs a bunch of bigger defenseless dudes to help him." Yugi knew that they were partially joking, so he replied, "Speak for yourselves."
The four men ran off into the forest for food and the answers to the glowing decks. So far they only made it as far as an ordinary clearing… then from out of the ground popped out four menacing creatures that have got to be some of Marcus Pangaea; a fat farmer that appears to be covered in weeds, a large creature that looks more like a bear than a human, a mountain man, and a hippy girl that would be considered gorgeous if she be shaved (hairy allover).
Duke gawked at the farmer, "He's been on it." Tristan said, "I can't believe it's a bear-man." Joey said to the hippy girl, "I'm not going to help you shave your legs." Yugi groaned, "Let's just duel them, get some food for everybody, and get out of here."
The mountain man laughed, "By orders of Marcus Pangaea, you are officially ours until you're just like the other Duelists who lost to us, slaves under our master's power!"
Knowing that this is bad, Duke is taking off his shoes! Tristan asks, "What are you doing, Duke? You need them!" Duke answered, "Taking off my shoes!" Tristan asked, "Why?" Duke answers, "People can run faster without their shoes." Tristan said, "You coward, you should never leave a friend behind!" Duke corrected his big friend, "I'm leaving anybody behind; I just want us to run before it's too late!" Tristan asked, "Too late? For late?" Duke explained, "Until their magic hits us." Tristan took off his shoes and replies, "We can't outrun magic!" Duke realized, "We don't have to outrun magic, we just have to stand and duel." Joey groans, "What a hypocrite."
As the boys let their Duel Phoenixes unfold into Duel Disk forms… their opponents' Duel Disks are like a massive axe (mountain man), a mountain with a few caves beside a frozen river (bear-man), a flowery Duel Disk (hippy woman), and a Duel Disk that looks like it's been constructed from several used beer bottles, beer cans, and joints (fat farmer).
Joey asks Yugi, "Hey Yuge, is it just me or have we been placed in the movie 'Without A Paddle'?" Yugi responded, "Well, Tristan couldn't commit, I was a little timid, and you were not afraid of anything. But that was in the past."
The mountain man laughed, "You don't get it, do you? This ain't going to be a tag team duel!"
Tristan asks out loud, "WHAT? This is going to be four ordinary duels?" The hippy woman said, "In one hand, yes, but in the other, some of us created by Lord Pangaea possesses a small bit of the dark side of the Balancéa." Duke asks, "Does that mean you can have as many cards and abilities as you want while your opponents get to play by ordinary traditional rules?" The villains nodded, "Only when we want it. So that's a 'no' to your question."
The fat farmer said, "If you beat one of us, not only will you each win 5 Phoenix Feathers, but you will also be awarded with these collection of 'Duel Monsters' cards, plenty of food for you, and a lot of other things." Yugi sighs, "I guess that's reasonable."
Joey asks, "Which one of ya are we gonna be facing?"
The bear creature looks at Duke Devlin and said, "I, War Bear, be dueling Duke Devlin." Duke groans, "Why do I always get the big guy first?" Tristan said, "How come I didn't get the bear instead of you?" Duke closed his eyes and shouts, "I don't know!"
The hippy shows Joey a little leg, "How about a duel with me, Joey Wheeler? My name is Belle Flower." Joey blushed a little but was determined, "Okay, I know I've faced tougher girls than you, but I'm taken and I am going to stick with her!"
The fat farmer said, "I, Pot Farmer Elwood, shall be dueling against Tristan Taylor!" Tristan had a 'basically drawn' confused look on his face (it went back to normal as he turned to the others) and asked his friends, "The most obvious name of an enemy in the book and Marcus Pangaea had to pick that stupid name?" Joey sighs, "Who cares? At least you're taking him on, besides you're the craziest of us here."
Yugi groans and sighs at the mountain man, "I guess I have to duel you. Who are you anyway?" Yugi's opponent said, "You may call me Mountain Max."
The duel between Duke and War Bear began! "Let's duel!"
War Bear: 8000 LP
Duke Devlin: 8000 LP
War Bear growls, "I play the Spell Card, Bear's Home Cave (spell card/continuous), set a card facedown, and summon Grizzly Bear in attack mode!" A big brown grizzly bear appeared before Duke's opponent (Grizzly Bear; type: beast-effect-Earth/LS: 2/ATK: 1000/DEF: 1000), behind them both appeared a large cave.
War Bear explains, "My Grizzly Bear's special ability calls out two more Grizzly Bears." Two more Grizzly Bears came out of the cave. "And the cave allows me to pick any monster with 'Bear' or 'Grizzly' or 'Koala' or 'Panda' or 'Kuma' or 'Akuma' somewhere in its name for each monster of the same sort I summoned… so I choose Big Koala (type: beast-Earth/LS: 7/ATK: 2700/DEF: 2000) and Spectral Bear (type: beast-effect-Light/LS: 4/ATK: 1500/DEF: 1500)!"
Two beast-subtype monsters that look as their names suggest appeared beside War Bear's Grizzly Bears. Duke said, "It's pretty obvious that most of the monsters you have in your deck are bear-related monsters." War Bear chuckles, "How unbearable!"
Duke: 7000 LP
Duke starts his turn, "I pay 1000 Life Points to play Summon Dice (spell card)." A dice compartment on his Duel Phoenix and he plucked one out so he can roll it, "If I roll a one or a two, I can summon two monsters in one turn. A three or a four will allow me to summon a monster from my graveyard. But a five or a six lets me summon a high-level monster without a tribute." He rolls and it lands on a five. "Perfect!" He returns the die into its compartment and says to War Bear, "I now summon Orgoth the Relentless (type: warrior-effect-Earth/LS: 7/ATK: 2500/DEF: 2100)!" The blue, purple, and gold armored warrior with a really big sword appeared!
Duke commands, "Orgoth the Relentless, attack the Bear monster in the middle!" War Bear interrupts, "I play Gravity Bind (trap card/continuous); now nothing with 4 or more Level Stars can attack!" Duke groans, "Fine! I end my turn!"
War Bear draws, "You know, I'm not all that evil, it's you humans who are!" Duke asks, "What brought that up, Papa Bear?"
War Bear explains, "Since the dawn of time, we (animals) and you (humans) were gifted with this once beautiful paradise to live in harmony, we animals are happy with what we have, all we ever wanted was our natural habitats, our personal habits for looking for food, and our means of survival. We were happy… until you humans took it all away! You invented your own needs but run out of space for it, and why are you leaving our planet? So you could slowly destroy another paradise? I won't let that happen, and neither will Master Pangaea!"
Duke interjects, "He is evil! Don't you know you're working for an enemy that you're despise the most?"
War Bear roars out, "Shut up! I now play the Seal of Destiniop (spell card/field)!" The golden magic circle formed around them and the mark of the Destiniop forms on the left side of War Bear's snout!
"When this card is activated, the Destiniop Ring appears and surrounds the field. People can enter or leave, even if the game is still on. Only the same kind of Destiniop's power can eliminate the Seal of the Destiniop. Any other power cannot negate or affect the Destiniop. At the end of the game, inside the Destiniop Ring, the winner will bestowed with a special power or card to him. A player who uses the golden Seal, gains powers of light & becomes a kindhearted soul, while his monsters power up of 2000 extra Defense Points. A player can play non-monsters on the field at maximum of up to 40 Spell/Traps Cards set or activated on the field, as well as four Field Spell Cards at the same time."
Duke said, "I know what Destiniop does!" War Bear said, "Then you should also know the awesome powers of the second level of Light! The power of Destiniop Betanos (spell card/field)!" A secondary golden layer surrounded the golden circle! "This card can only be played if the Seal of Destiniop is on the field. At the end of my Main Phase 1, I increase my Life Points by 2000 for each monster on your field. You may reverse Life Point pay ups into Life Point gaining. For example if I played Injection Fairy Lily, I would've gained 2000 more Life Points and she would keep her 3000 additional Attack points."
Duke asks, "Is there a third level?" Tempted, War Bear roared, "Yes! That's why I'm playing Destiniop Gammanus (spell card/field), which can only be activated if the Seal of Destiniop and Destiniop Betanos are activated on the field. All magic and trap cards that affect the controller on this card are negated and re-modified. As well as gaining 15 more monster zones, allowing me to play up to 20 monsters!" War Bear said that as the third layer appeared!
War Bear said, "My Spectral Bear would attack twice since there are no Dark monsters as long as if there was no Orgoth on the field, but thanks to Gravity Bind, that's not possible!" (Spectral Bear's effect: If you declare an attack with this card and your opponent controls no Dark monsters, it can attack again.) "Now I summon Polar Bear (type: beast-effect-Water/LS: 2/ATK: 1000/DEF: 1000) (effect: If 'Umi' is face-up on the field, this monster cannot be declared a target for Spell or Trap effects or become attacked) and Golden Bear (type: beast-effect-Earth/LS: 5/ATK: 2000/DEF: 1500) (effect: This card gets 300 additional Attack points for every monster it destroys)!" Both bear monsters look as their names suggested.
War Bear continues, "Next I play Card of Safe Return (spell card/continuous) and special summon Werebear (type: beast-warrior-effect-Earth/LS: 1/ATK: 500/DEF: 500) (effect: As long as 'Forest' is active on the field, if it is destroyed on the field, you can choose to Special Summon onto your field at the end of your turn with an increase of 500 Attack power. If this effect is activated, you must discard 1 card from your hand. If you can't, treat this card as a warrior-subtype)!"
"Then comes Razor-claw Bear (type: machine-effect-Earth/LS: 4/ATK: 1500/DEF: 1500) (effect: Whenever this monster attacks, its Attack increases by 1000 points. It can't attack directly.), River Bear (type: beast-effect-Water/LS: 3/ATK: 1100/DEF: 1300) (effect: For every fish-subtype monster on your and/or your opponent's side of the field and/or in your and/or your opponent's Graveyards, this card gains 500 Attack points and you gain 500 Life Points during your Standby Phase as long as this card is face-up), and Forest Bear (type: beast-effect-Earth/LS: 2/ATK: 1000/DEF: 1000) (effect: As long as this card is face-up and you control a face-up 'Forest', 'Forest' can't be affected by any card effect)!"
Duke asks, "Can I take my turn now?" The Werebear nods. Duke shouts, "I play Dice Dungeon (spell card/field) and Dimension Dice (spell card/continuous) to turn this duel into a dice game. As well as Megamorph (spell card/equip) to double Orgoth's Attack strength!"
Orgoth the Relentless: ATK: 5000
Duke says to War Bear, "Choose your monster, War Bear!" War Bear said, "I choose Werebear and I play United We Stand (spell card/equip) to him; giving him 800 additional Attack and Defense points for each monster on the field!"
Werebear: ATK: 9300
Duke groans, "I hope my luck saves me from utter chaos!" He rolls a die… it lands on a six, Orgoth's doubled strength doubles again!
Orgoth the Relentless: ATK: 10,000
War Bear nonchalantly sighs, "I roll!" The die lands on… a five; Werebear's Attack strength plummets by half!
Werebear: ATK: 4650
Duke feels the same strength as his Orgoth flowing through him as he shouts out, "Orgoth, diamond blade strike!" Orgoth shouts out (in unison with Duke at the same time), "DIAMOND BLADE STRIKE!" As the Werebear tries to claw Orgoth, the sword split him down the middle!
War Bear: 5350 LP
Orgoth suddenly regressed down to a mere Mokuba size (if Mokuba was a kid again that is)!
Orgoth the Relentless: ATK: 1250
Duke's turn starts since the last attack was War Bear's… "I play Dice of Empowerment (spell card), for one turn, I'll sacrifice Life Points depending on the roll of the die!"
"NO!"
FLASH! Duke was suddenly found himself in one of Zoë Pangaea's castle's temple-like sub-basements. Right before him stood a humanoid statue of crystal in the center on a round stone pedestal with a Seal of Balancéa. This golden statue looks just like Duke himself, in armor that like the suit of armor on Orgoth the Relentless but more flexible, only this statue looks like it's trying to pull a sword out of his left hand.
Duke said, "This handsome-looking dude must be one of the Great Spirit cards!" He grabbed the hilt of the sword in the statue's hand and pulled hard, suddenly the sword came out! The statue shattered and released the armored Duke Devlin look-alike in metallic scarlet armor. Duke asks, "Who are you?" The warrior kneeled before Duke and said, "I, Meijin the Gambler, am at your service, my master."
FLASH! Duke quickly changed his mind, "Never mind, I play Pot of Greed (spell card) to draw two new cards." He did so. "And now I summon in Orgoth's place, Meijin the Gambler (type: spellcaster-effect-Divine/LS: 5/ATK: 0/DEF: 0)!" Orgoth vanished, replaced by Duke's Great Spirit monster!
Serenity and the others arrived to see the duel! Serena the Warrior appears and says, "It's Meijin the Gambler, one of the Great Spirits!"
Meijin shouts, "My Attack and Defense is equal to those of the monster sacrificed to summon me multiplied by the resulting number by rolling a die! My special abilities allow me to do all sorts of gambling acts within the duel, as long as it involves drawing cards, discarding, etc." Duke and Meijin said in unison, "And I roll a die now!" He rolls it and it lands on a five, giving him five times more power than the weakened Orgoth!
Meijin the Gambler: ATK: 6250
War Bear panics, "The Great Spirits on the other hand, they're too powerful for ordinary animals." He rolls a die for his Polar Bear… it hits a one; reducing the monster's Attack to practically nothing!
Polar Bear's ATK: 0
Duke rolls a die, it hits six again!
Meijin the Gambler: ATK: 12500
Duke suddenly leaped into his new monster and became one with it, "Ice Storm Dice!" Duke/Meijin shot blue dice from his knuckles at War Bear, the dice expand from normal size to a massive Volkswagon car size and crushed him!
War Bear: 0 LP
As the duel ended, Duke blacked out and got zapped with a strange new outfit similar to Meijin's! Along with two more zaps of light into his deck!
Serenity came to Duke's aid, "Leave Duke alone, executioners!"
Joey asks his sister, "How'd you all get here?" Mai answers, "We heard 'Diamond Blade Strike' coming from Duke back at Jungle Hotel, so we decided to help you guys out."
Joey said, "You can't; I'm going up against a hippie Executioner called Belle Flower!"
To be continued…
Next time: What? Joey got turned into a girl by that hippy? How will he deal with it? Mai would love to see this!
The monsters I wanted to show you in War Bear's Deck;
Meek Bear (type: beast-effect-Earth/LS: 3/ATK: 1000/DEF: 2000): If either player plays a card effect, pay this face-up card as a Tribute to negate that card effect and destroy it.
Striped Bear (type: beast-effect-Earth/LS: 4/ATK: 1000/DEF: 1000): As long as this card is face-up on the field, draw 1 extra card on your next Standby Phase.
Clone Bear (type: beast-effect-Light/LS: 1/ATK: 0/DEF: 0): When you or your opponent summoned, flip summoned, or special summon a monster that has 'bear' or 'koala' or 'panda' or 'Kuma' or 'Akuma' on it, special summon this card from your hand and copy the card.
Wild Shape Bear (type: spellcaster-effect-Dark/LS: 1/ATK: 0/DEF: 0): When you summon this monster, select one card from the hands, field, or Graveyard of you or your opponent, then copy the text of the selected card onto this card.
Battle Bear (type: beast-warrior-effect-Earth/LS: 2/ATK: 900/DEF: 1000): This card can attack twice in a turn.
Bear Form Changeling (spell card/quick-play): If a monster card is summoned, flip summoned, or special summoned, play this card. This card becomes a monster with the same text as the summoned monster, except it will be a beast-subtype and will have 'Bear' or 'Koala' or 'Panda' or 'Kuma' or 'Akuma' somewhere in its name.
Akuma's Treasure (spell card/continuous): This card's effect is only effective if it's in the Graveyard. At each Standby Phase, a player gains 500 Life Points for each card in his/her Graveyard.
Pandemonium Watch-bear (type: beast-effect-Dark/LS: 4/ATK: 1300/DEF: 1800): As long as this card is face-up on your side of the field, 'Pandemonium' cannot be destroyed by your opponent's card effects.
War Bear (type: beast-warrior-effect-Dark/LS: 6/ATK: 2500/DEF: 2000): As long as this card is face-up on the field, no monster you control with 'Bear' or 'Grizzly' or 'Koala' or 'Panda' or 'Kuma' or 'Akuma' can be affected by any card effect. Once per turn, you may Special Summon 1 monster (regardless of summoning conditions) with 'Bear', 'Grizzly', 'Koala', 'Panda', 'Kuma', or 'Akuma' in its name to your side of the field. Increase the ATK of this card by 300 points for each card with 'Bear', 'Grizzly', 'Koala', 'Panda', 'Kuma', or 'Akuma' in its name in either player's Graveyard.
Dire Bear (type: beast-fusion-effect-Light/LS: 5/ATK: 2000/DEF: 1800): Pandemonium Watch-bear + Werebear. This card can only be fusion summoned normally. As long as 'Forest' is active on the field, if it is destroyed on the field, you can choose to Special Summon onto your field at the end of your turn with an increase of 500 Attack power. This effect only works as long as the fusion-material monsters still remain in the Graveyard.
Bears' Landscape (spell card/continuous): This card can only be played if 'Forest' is active on the field. As long as this card is face-up on the field, put a Big Bear Token (type: beast-token-effect-Earth/LS: 2/ATK: 1000/DEF: 1000) into play at your Standby Phases. If a Big Bear Token is destroyed, put two Bear Cub Tokens (type: beast-token-effect-Earth/LS: 1/ATK: 500/DEF: 500) on the field. As long as these Tokens are on the field, each one gets 500 additional Attack and Defense points for each Big Bear Token and Bear Cub Token (excluding themselves) on the field.
Big Bear Token (type: beast-token-effect-Earth/LS: 2/ATK: 1000/DEF: 1000): As long as this monster is on the field, it gets 500 additional Attack and Defense points for each Big Bear Token (excluding itself) and Bear Cub Token on the field. If this monster is destroyed, put two Bear Cub Tokens on the field.
Bear Cub Token (type: beast-token-effect-Earth/LS: 1/ATK: 500/DEF: 500): As long as this monster is on the field, it gets 500 additional Attack and Defense points for each Big Bear Token and Bear Cub Token (excluding itself) on the field.
Des Koala (type: beast-effect-Dark/LS: 3/ATK: 1100/DEF: 1800): Flip: Inflict 400 points of direct damage to your opponent's LP for each card in your opponent's hand.
Big Koala (type: beast-Earth/LS: 7/ATK: 2700/DEF: 2000)
Des Kangaroo (type: beast-effect-Dark/LS: 4/ATK: 1500/DEF: 1700): When the ATK of a monster that attacks this monster is lower than the DEF of this monster; destroy the attacking monster. Damage calculation is applied normally.
Master of OZ (type: beast-fusion-Earth/LS: 9/ATK: 4200/DEF: 3700): Big Koala + Des Kangaroo
Frenzied Panda (type: beast-Earth/LS: 4/ATK: 1200/DEF: 1000)
Gyaku-Gire Panda (type: beast-effect-Earth/LS: 3/ATK: 800/DEF: 1600): The ATK of this card increases by 500 points for each monster on your opponent's side of the field. When this card attacks with an ATK higher than the DEF of your opponent's Defense Position monster, inflict the difference as Battle Damage to your opponent's Life Points.
Maji-Gire Panda (type: beast-effect-Earth/LS: 4/ATK: 1000/DEF: 800): As long as this card is on the field, each time a beast-type monster(s) is destroyed, increase the ATK of this card by 500 points.
Gyaku-Maji-Gire Panda (type: beast-fusion-effect-Earth/LS: 2/ATK: 800/DEF: 900): Gyaku-Gire Panda + Maji-Gire Panda. As long as this card is on the field, each time one of your monsters is destroyed (excluding this card), increase the ATK of this card by 500 points. The ATK of this card increases by 500 points for each monster on your opponent's side of the field. When this card attacks with an ATK higher than the DEF of your opponent's Defense Position monster, inflict the difference as Battle Damage to your opponent's Life Points.
March of Koala (spell card): Special Summon 1 Level 4 or less Monster from your Cemetery with 'Koala' in its name from your Graveyard, then Special Summon 1 Monster from your hand of the same name.
Silent Rebirth (spell card): Special Summon 1 normal Monster from your Cemetery in face-up defense mode. While that card is on the Field, it cannot attack.
Polymerization (spell card): Fuse 2 or more Fusion Material Monsters to Fusion Summon a Monster to the Field from the Fusion Deck.