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11/27: I finished this 2 days ago but couldn't upload, but thanks to my friend I now can. Sorry for the delay (even if you're not paying attention to this anymore...)


Chapter 11:
Oblivious

Kini was puzzled, actually, confused to be exact. If this was indeed a Shadow Game then at least somebody had to stop it. She backed up a little slowly and regained her composure as she watched the girl in front of her. 'This is bad, really bad.' She told herself over and over. She quickly glanced towards Jaden, whose duel was at the same time as hers, and also saw some type of dark energy surrounding him, or was she hallucinating?

"Aw, what's the matter, girl? You having trouble finding that perfect card, or a boyfriend?" Lili teased, watching Kini's fretful expression.

"Who're you calling girl, girl? You're barely thirteen!" Kini retorted back.

"Barely thirteen? Ha! I'm not a new-born teen!"

"You're not?" Kini asked, confused by this comment.

"I may look like a twelve year old, but in reality I'm actually seventeen. The only reason I look this way is because of Turner's syndrome." Kini whipped another card from her deck and looked at it before staring over its brim and into Lili's eyes.

"Turner's syndrome?"

"I'd figure you would've guessed by now." Lili smirked tauntingly at her, her eyes gleaming as she thought of a mischievous plan.

"Whatever! I play Phoenix!" From Kini's side of the field erupted a bright flaming ball that soon disappeared to reveal a brilliant yellow and red feathered bird with wings outstretched; its amber eyes stared at Lili unmercifully. "Now I play Flame of Bond! This magic card allows me to play another winged beast with the word 'high' in their name, and I choose High Beast Gryphon!" Beside the phoenix a brilliant golden brown gryphon arose, its feathers gleaming. Its blue eyes glanced over to the phoenix before looking back at the 12-year-old enchantress.

"Aw, they look so cute together, the two! But being a love sorceress I have authority over relationships, like Cupid, so I think I'll break them apart!" Whipping out another card she placed it onto the field. "I play Change of Heart! Now that phoenix belongs to me for one turn! Bye-bye, Grphy." The phoenix floated to the other side and then flew into the air and spread its magnificent wings. Six balls of fire emerged and with one giant flap it shot a beam of fire to the gryphon, which remained helpless. KIni knew she couldn't do anything to the Change of Heart card with her spell and trap cards on the field. The gryphon shattered into pieces and the phoenix fluttered back down onto Kini's side of the field, its three tails' feathers rustling.

"Ugh!" She had lost 400 life points due to the attack against one another. "I summon Amazoness Chain Master to the field!" A tan, muscularly built woman came onto the field with a bronzed chain attached to her hands; she was dressed in blue tiger fur. Her grey hair was tied in a ponytail and her yellow eyes reflected that of a fearsome warrior; she watched the enchantress menacingly. "Attack Chain Master!"

With a fearsome battle cry the Amazoness flung the chain and it speared the enchantress; the spellcaster's cry of despair faded as she disappeared into a bunch of tiny fragments. With another two attacks by Kini's other two monsters Lili's life points were sent careening to a stop at 550. 'Wait, this can't be right…if she's in a Shadow Duel then surely she'd be fighting back a little bit better…what's going on? Huh?' She then saw that the only people noticing she was even in such a duel were Jaden and her dad. The others, even her friends at the side of the arena, were oblivious to her Shadow Duel.

"They can't hear you, or see your desperate situation. Everybody thinks that were just doing a normal duel. That's just what this card was programmed to do."

"Programmed?"

"Yeah, and I'll show you its true powers. I play this card in face-down defence position and play the trap card Mirror Wall!"

"Oh great…," Kini muttered, knowing what would happen if she attacked. Lili then pointed at Kini. "Your move."

"Since I can't attack I'll switch my Amazoness to defense mode and equip it with Horn of Light!"

"Hehehe," Lili giggled evilly, eyes glinting the demon in an innocent girl's body. "Now I flip-summon my Princess of Tsurugi!" A blonde-haired girl dressed in a red and pink robe stood up and then flung eight crystal daggers at Kini, making her grunt in pain. Immediately, the shadow cage let loose a strand of black energy that imbedded itself in the creature's back, making her eyes glow red as blood. Black strands of shadow energy coursed and wrapped itself around her body like the vines of a wall-clinging plant.

"The Twilight Society will be pleased…"


This was short, I'm sorry it was short! Okay, in the next chapter we're gonna get some info about Jaden's duel with Sirius (not Syrus, I reapeat, not Syrus)! So tune in (if you haven't already lost interest, which I hope you didn't)!