Craig W M: Well, hello there.
TRD: Hey.
Craig W M: Yeah, there's nothing more for me to say. D:
TRD: We don't own anything to do with Yu-Gi-Oh, and just our OC's?
Craig W M: That'll do. Also, I know it's Christmas, but we had our Christmas chapter a few chapters back, so this'll not be anything to do with Christmas. :]
Chapter 11: Black-Out
It had been two weeks since the events of Hayley's birthday, and the discussion about the day had finally died out, and the daily routine had been returned to, and with no sign of any oncoming threat of the Anarchists, everyone around the school was allowed to relax; but with the end of the year gradually getting closer, the smarter of those had began revising for the end of year and graduation exams already. Although, one day, the entire Academy got called into the main classroom for an announcement.
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"So, what've we been called here for?" asked Chazz, entering the classroom, looking stubborn as usual, with his black key still around his neck.
"Well, basically, we're going to Domino City tomorrow possibly," began Craig.
"That's why we're on different sides, the left side wants to go to Domino City, but the right side wants to have a day back at Duel Academy, for some reason that their not disclosing," explained Alexis further, who was on the left side, who had most of the school, whereas the right side had not as many people on it.
"Correct," said Sheppard, appearing on the screen at the front, "And so, to decide this, we're going to have a duel between two duelists, one from each side, and this random selector will choose which duelists are dueling,"
A random selecting machine appeared next to Sheppard, and began spinning around with many nametags inside, and when it eventually stopped, Sheppard pulled out two nametags, one from each side.
"Jacob Smith and… Craig Thresher!" announced Sheppard, as Jacob, a third-year Obelisk got up out of his chair swiftly, and walked down towards the Duel Field. Craig, however, had his mouth open with glee as he heard this, Jacob, was Flo's older brother, and one of the best duelists within the third year.
"Well, we're not going anywhere quickly," moaned Hassle berry doubtfully, who had dueled Jacob before, and had been destroyed.
"This is going to be awesome," replied Craig, rising out his chair slowly.
"Don't kill each other," muttered Flo, having witnessed Craig and Jacob's arguments before.
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"What on Earth have you even accepted this duel for?" asked Jacob spitefully. Jacob wore a short-sleeved blue shirt, and had black, slightly spiked hair with green eyes.
"Because we're going to Domino City tomorrow, you're not going to beat me again," replied Craig, who immediately remembered the last time they had dueled.
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"Machine King! Attack him directly!" attacked Jacob, as the colossal machine launched a blast towards the thirteen year-old Craig, taking him to the ground, "Thanks for the warm-up before Duel Academy," Craig: 0
Jacob: 4000
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"Well, I've changed my Deck since the last time slightly," said Craig, slotting his Deck into his white Duel Disk with a red outline.
"As have I, I've heard all about your Synchros, and to be honest, I hate Synchros. You, Hayley and Bastion will spread these atrocities around this school, since they're working so well right now. I preferred Duel Monsters the way it was, so I'm going to stop this right now," explained Jacob, placing his Deck into his blue Duel Disk.
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"Why would you hate Synchros? And how is he going to stop them?" asked Bastion, eager to find out.
"He was talking to me about this the other day, apparently there's a card that can literally take out Synchros," replied Flo.
"Let's duel!" said both of the duelists.
Craig: 4000
Jacob: 4000
"I'll start things off; I activate Hand Destruction, forcing us to discard two cards, and draw two as well," activated Jacob, doing the action as he said it, and Craig repeated it so, "And then, I'll Summon out Giga-Tech Wolf (1200/1400) in Attack Mode, and I'll play two cards face-down to end my turn,"
Craig looked surprised at Jacob's move, having listened to his earlier claim about his anti-Synchros, and had expected something that was to be close to impossible to destroy.
"If that's all you can play, then I'll step it up a notch; I Summon out Junk Synchron (1300/500), and thanks to his ability, I can Summon out the Level 2 monster Gamma Chick (0/0) in Defense Mode from my Graveyard," said Craig.
"How dare you even summon a Tuner monster in this duel…" snarled Jacob, staring at the small monster evilly.
A smile grew on Craig's face, knowing if he could agitate Jacob, he'd make more mistakes.
"I guess you'll love my next move then, because Junk Synchron is going to give Gamma Chick a Tune-Up!" announced Craig, much to the annoyance of Jacob, who cringed.
Junk Synchron dissolved into the air, and transformed into a blast of green light which surrounded Gamma Chick, as both began to transform.
"Junk Warrior (2300/1300)… let's roll!" said Craig, as the purple warrior emerged from the tunnel, and stared down at Jacob's Giga Tech Wolf, "Also, since Gamma Chick was destroyed, Gamma the Magnet Warrior(1500/1800) appears in Attack Mode!"
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"Good job you showed Craig those Synchros, sis," commented Taniya, entering the room at the beginning of the school, and was standing over Bastion and Hayley, "He's become a better duelist since."
"Yeah! Come on Major! You've got him now!" cheered Hasselberry.
"Weren't you upset earlier about how we weren't going to Domino City now?" asked Flo, as Hasselberry didn't reply.
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"Junk Warrior… let's take out the trash!" attacked Craig, as Junk Warrior charged towards Giga-Tech Wolf, and shattered the machine into many pieces, making Jacob slightly cringe as well, "Then, Gamma the Magnet Warrior, attack him directly!"
Craig: 4000
Jacob: 1400
"I activate Damage Gate," interrupted Jacob, "This allows me to Summon a Monster with Attack Points less than the amount of damage I just took, so I bring forth, Wise Core (0/0),"
"It's… got no Attack Points…" reminded Craig.
The white egg-looking shape appeared from the Trap Card, and opened up to reveal a mysterious portal.
"Doesn't matter – I activate my other Trap Card, Ring of Destruction. This equips to my Wise Core, and destroys it, but doesn't inflict any damage as it has no Attack Points," explained Jacob, as the Wise Core exploded, "And now… it begins…"
"Now what begins?" questioned Craig, looking worried.
"When Wise Core is destroyed by a card effect, I can summon out Machine Emperor Wisel Infinity (2500/2500) in Attack Mode! But you'll still see the full extent of this beast's power on my turn," replied Jacob, pointing to the sky as the white machine rose upon to the field, towering over the over monsters, and the machine contained the same vortex that the Wise Core had.
"I guess I'll end my turn. You're up," ended Craig, staring up at the machine.
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"Oh God! Anyone know what these cards do?" asked Hayley, asking what everyone was thinking.
"If you plan on using Synchros against it, it can be loads of trouble," replied Taniya, having obviously read up on these cards, "But I presume you'll see what I mean next turn."
Jacob drew his card, but didn't notice it; he felt he didn't need the card, just the card he had out.
"Now watch, as my anti-Synchro weapon sets to work, Wisel Infinity can absorb your Junk Warrior, absorb it, and then transfer its power to itself!" explained Jacob, as Junk Warrior attempted to resist and the portal on Wisel Infinity sucked it in, and Junk Warrior's power was transferred to Wisel Infinity (2500/2500 – 4800/2500),"
"Junk Warrior…" muttered Craig, before thinking to himself, "That thing has got 4800 Attack Points, even my strongest monsters can't destroy that. This could be over…"
"Machine Emperor Wisel Infinity, take out his Gamma the Magnet Warrior!" attacked Jacob.
The giant machine fired a blast towards Gamma the Magnet Warrior, which was destroyed on impact, and knocked Craig backwards.
Craig: 700
Jacob: 1400
"Is this all the great Craig Thresher has?" laughed Jacob, sneering at Craig recover.
Throughout the next few turns, Craig played defensive, and Wisel Infinity destroyed Beta, Alpha, Zeta and Omicron the Magnet Warriors, each being smothered with no chance of survival.
"I thought you said you improved your Deck," insulted Jacob.
"I did, and I'll prove it, Jacob. I Summon out Magnetic Synchron (1000/1000) in Attack Mode," summoned Craig, as the smaller white Magnet Warrior appeared, as most thought he'd gone insane.
"If you want to surrender, you can push the surrender button on your Duel Disk," said Jacob, sweatdropping at Craig's weaker monster.
"Well… if you're so clever, you'll know Magnetic Synchron can Tune with monsters on your side of your field, so I'm taking my Junk Warrior back from inside of your Wisel Infinity, and Tuning Magnetic Synchron with Junk Warrior!" explained Craig.
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"Looks like we're going to Domino City after all!" celebrated Bastion, hugging Hayley through the obvious result of this battle.
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A ball of light appeared from Wisel Infinity, and transformed back into Junk Warrior, and landed down on Craig's side of the field, much to the shock of Jacob.
"You've attempted to beat me by cancelling out my Synchros. But that ends now, Magnetic Warrior (3000/2500), come forth!" said Craig, as the much bigger magnet warrior leaped out from the green light and onto the field, and withdrew a sword from its side pocket, "And since Wisel Infinity hasn't got Junk Warrior any more, it reverts back to its original Attack Points (4800/2500 – 2500/2500), and finally, Magnetic Warrior gains half of the non-Tuner monster's Attack Points that was used to Summon it (3000/2500 – 4150/2500),"
"Wait, that's 4150 against 2500, and I have 1400 Life Points… that means?" figured Jacob.
"It's over, Magnetic Warrior, let's take out that Wisel Infinity!" attacked Craig, just as Magnetic Warrior slashed the giant machine into two symmetrical pieces, then blasting Jacob with the remaining electrical energy it had stored.
Craig: 700
Jacob: 0
"It's agreed then," said Sheppard, re-appearing into the classroom, "I don't know if anyone realized, but yesterday, the bridge connecting Duel Academy and Domino City was opened; even though it's only supposed to be for deliveries, we're going to be the first to use it tomorrow!"
After the announcement, most were quick to file out, except for a few. Craig walked towards Jacob, who looked down after his defeat, and offered his head, before Jacob slapped Craig's hand away, refusing to accept it.
"You got lucky…" muttered Jacob.
Craig mimicked this in a high-pitched voice and turned around and walked out of the classroom and towards the Slifer Dorm.
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It was the evening before the trip to Domino City, and the Slifer dorm were eating in the canteen. Since Craig had no-one left to talk to in the Slifer dorm, he was sitting on a table at the back of the room by himself.
"Craig?" said Taniya, entering the canteen, as Craig looked up towards Taniya, she continued, "A package just came through for you on the last boat of the day."
Craig slowly got up out of his bench, and walked out of the Slifer dorm towards the package that was outside. Staring at it, Craig saw a fairly large package, more wide then high, taped up all around.
"Has it been checked?" asked Craig, suspicious.
"Why would it need to be checked?" replied Taniya, "It's apparently from your dad."
At this point, Craig walked towards the parcel, and pulled off some of the tape, before eventually opening the entire thing, and then reading the note that was on the inside.
Craig, I'm going away for a couple of months, so I thought I'd send you over an early birthday present. See you soon, Dad.
Having read that, Craig opened the remainder of the package up, and stared, mouth open at the contents inside.
"A Duel Runner," said Taniya in awe. Bastion had given Hayley a Duel Runner for her birthday and had his own. Bastion had also been announced by Seto Kaiba himself to have created them.
"How did my dad get one of these? They cost loads," said Craig.
"I had a hand in it," said a voice and they turned to see Bastion and Hayley walking towards them.
"You?" asked Craig.
"Yup, your dad wanted to get you an early birthday present and wrote to me when he heard about the Duel Runners. I spoke to Seto and he sent one over to your dad, at no cost," said Bastion.
"NO COST!" shouted Craig.
"Two reasons, it's a present and you've already paid for it but helping to save the school. In fact, I believe that Seto's exact words were, 'If you're helping to save the world then the Runners are free. If the World is taken over then don't bother to pay because we'll all be dead anyway,'" Bastion chuckled, and the others sweatdropped.
"Seto has a weird sense of humor," said Taniya.
"Yeah, so anyway Craig, Bastion and I are fixing up our Duel Runners in the workshop that Chancellor Sheppard set up, do you want to join us?" asked Hayley.
"Sure thing Hayley," said Craig.
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"Craig, what is that?" asked Flo, walking towards the workshop and staring at Craig on the ground by the Runner, painting over the blue in a white colour. She had seen Hayley's Duel Runner briefly and saw that she was also working on her and Bastion was fixing a few things on his own. Hayley's had been just pink in the beginning and now it was getting a makeover.
Craig stood himself up and grinned; for a joke he had planted a sign in the ground that stated 'This is a Duel Runner, Kaiba Corp's newest invention. If you want a bigger picture, Google it'. Craig had been prepared for the question, and pointed Flo towards the sign and Flo withdrew her PDA from her pocket and immediately searched it up. Flo read up, and immediately wished to ask no more on the subject, and so walked on, muttering vaguely "Boys…" to which Craig and Bastion laughed and Hayley grinned.
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Craig jumped up from the ground, and stared at his Runner, which he had painted over the blue with a white layer with three red stripes running around the entire bike.
"You finished it then?" asked Taniya, "I'm impressed, it looks good,"
"Thanks," replied Craig with a grin.
"What do you think of mine and Bastion's Taniya?" asked Hayley. Taniya looked at the Duel Runners. Hayley's, having been originally pink was now white with a pink seat that looked like a saddle and had pink designs in the shape of a six sided star on the back. It now had a pink horn protruding from the front with a crown around it and had pink headlights that resembled eyes. All in all, what had started out as a regular motorbike was now an imitation of a white unicorn with pink on it.
Bastion's had been a regular motorbike as well, now it resembled a bird in flight, it was thunder-yellow with black lightning bolts and a black and yellow seat and even had matching wings attached.
"Very impressive," said Taniya.
"I'm calling mine Thunderbird," said Bastion proudly.
"Mine's called Princess Unicorn," said Hayley.
"Both names suit them, what about you Craig?" asked Taniya.
He shrugged, "I'm still thinking about it." Taniya nodded and told them to pack up.
Bastion locked the Runners up in the workshop and he and Hayley went to their dorm. Taniya walked back with Craig and when they arrived back at Slifer he ran up to his dorm. Most of the other Slifers had gone to bed, and those who hadn't were being forced to by Taniya.
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It was the morning of the Domino City field trip, and the coaches that were prepared to leave were stacked together one by one in a line, set to leave. Craig had left the hospital ward just as the morning began, having checked up on James, and set off for the coaches.
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Having survived the coach trip, everyone walked off the coach, most fearing the worst having crossed the newly-built bridge, and almost everyone had gathered around the coaches discussing what was to happen.
"So Bastion, Hayley, what are you guys going to do?" asked Aster.
"Bastion and I are going to go and try earn our Duel Runner licenses," said Hayley, holding Bastion's hand.
"Good luck," said Sartorious.
"License?" asked Atticus confused.
"Yes, you need to be able to drive your runner in any direction and once you can drive it you have to have a test duel so that you know that you can concentrate on dueling and driving," said Taniya.
"Ok, sounds complicated," said Atticus.
"It is," said Bastion and then waving goodbye, he and Hayley walked off with their Duel Runners to where they would hopefully get their licenses.
Everyone else had dispersed from the area, Craig had looked for someone to spend the day with, but everyone he even knew slightly had already left.
"Good to know who your friends are," muttered Craig under his breath, walking towards the city.
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"Favourite colour?" asked Bastion, walking through the city with Hayley, as they joked around asking each other personal things while going to the Duel Runner testing zone.
"No idea, you?" replied Hayley, smirking slightly.
"No idea as well," added Bastion, "We're not very good at this…"
"Definitely."
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Craig entered the card shop, only attempting to take a look around, and check out what was being said when the shopkeeper called out,
"Could Craig Thresher please report to the main desk of the shop please,"
Craig saw no harm in possibly being needed, so he walked up towards the main desk, where he received the information that 'an order had been placed for him'. Craig took the order, it was an ordinary pack of Duel Monster cards; flicking through the six cards, Craig saw none of these cards having any benefit towards his Deck, and was just about to put them back into his rucksack outside when a slip of paper, roughly the same size as a card, fell out. In big writing, the words 'Turn Left' were written across the card. Suspicious, Craig turned his head left slowly, and saw another piece of paper attached to a lamppost, this time reading 'Walk straight, second left,' Reaching the second left, attached to a bin was another piece of paper stating 'Straight to the end of the lane, last alleyway on your left'. Walking towards the end of the road, Craig realized this part of the town was the poorer parts of the town, it had transformed from rich to poor within one street, it was the crime-filled area, the part they had not been told to go down specifically.
Craig walked down the small alleyway, continuously looking left and right on his way down, when suddenly, two lights flashed simultaneously.
"You actually followed the paper? You're thicker than I thought," laughed a voice, which Craig recognized instantly.
Craig activated his Duel Disk in precaution, "If a duel is what you want, then I'm ready,"
"A duel? No… I thought I'd just show you my new trick,"
"What new trick?" wondered Craig.
Suddenly, the pair of lights began moving towards Craig, and began getting faster and faster, and it swiftly passed Craig, who instantly recognized the device. It was a Duel Runner. The Duel Runner was black and had three red stripes circling all the way around it; Craig looked annoyed, how his older brother had got his hands on a Duel Runner? Walking back out of the alley, Craig attempted to look for his older brother once more.
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Someone else who was wandering around on their own, was Chazz Princeton; and due to his stuck-up nature, no-one had any wishes to spend the day with him. Chazz however, had sat down in a café by himself, searching through his Deck in the sign of any improvements.
"Chazz Princeton?" asked the waiter politely.
"What's it to you?" replied Chazz.
"I'm asked to pass this note to you, from the guy sitting in the chair by the table next to the wall," explained the waiter, passing a folded piece of paper to Chazz, who immediately opened it, read it, and stared suspiciously at the person who had supposedly sent it, who had gotten up and left money on the table, and walked straight out of the café, Chazz recognized the person as someone who had purple hair, a blue jacket over a white t-shirt, and black trousers. Chazz did the same, leaving money on the table, walking out and searching for which way the person had left.
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Craig: 3700
Guard: 0
"Coming through!" yelled Craig, running past the guard, whom he had just defeated, and running up the stairs frantically, deactivating his Duel Disk and looking back on the parked Duel Runner outside, predicting Ryan had gone into the building.
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Chazz, with a blank look on his face, entered the elevator of the building next to Craig's, looking back at the street, with the building next to the one he was about to enter, which had these new 'Duel Runner holding zones' which weren't being used, which Chazz thought was a waste of space. However, he entered the elevator without looking back again and pressed the button that took him to the rooftop.
The lift opened, and Chazz looked straight outside. There was a Duel Field imprinted onto the top, and had been drawn out poorly, by some sort of amateur. On one side of the Duel Field stood the man who had supposedly delivered the note.
"Who are you? What do you want? And why did you send me a note just to get me up here?" asked Chazz.
"Too many questions, but I'll still answer them all. My name is Thunder, I wanted to see if it was true, so I enquired with the note. Only a Key holder would've been so suspecting to follow instructions on a letter," introduced Thunder.
"Surely you could've realized I was a Key holder by the key around my neck?" asked Chazz.
"We have to be sure," replied Thunder, beginning to unzip his jacket, eventually taking it off, revealing a black key, much darker then Chazz's, who cringed at the sight of who was obviously to be his opponent.
Chazz, feeling slight fear, which very rarely hit him, attempted to turn and run, but a wall of black flame blocked his way, which curled around into a circle, trapping both of the duelists inside; as Chazz again cringed at his position.
"Chazz. The only way you can escape here is by defeating me in a duel. When I'm defeated, my key gets destroyed, as do I, and the disappearance of my key eliminates the fire. What's it going to be?" explained Thunder.
"No-one defeats the great Chazz Princeton! You're on," said Chazz with a sudden burst of eagerness, and activated his Duel Disk, attempting to stare down his opponent.
"Let's put that theory to the test then," replied Thunder, activating his Duel Disk.
"Let's duel!" yelled both duelists, Chazz with more flair then Thunder, who simply grinned.
Chazz: 4000
Thunder: 4000
"I'll begin," said Thunder, "I'll Summon Thunder King Rai-Oh(1900/800), and then activate Graceful Charity, discarding two and drawing three, then I'll play a face-down to end my turn."
"My turn!" began Chazz, "I activate Ojama Ride, by sending each Ojama Yellow, Green and Black, I can Special Summon three Level 4 or below Union Monsters, so I'm bringing out Y-Dragon Head (1500/1600), Z-Metal Tank (1500/1300) and W-Wing Catapult (1300/1600), each in Defense Mode. And then I combine Y-Dragon Head and Z-Metal Tank together, to create, YZ-Tank Dragon (2100/2200) in Attack Mode,"
Each of the two machines separated into smaller components, and re-arranged to form the bigger tank dragon, which Thunder cringed at seeing.
"Now you're scared, YZ – Dragon Tank, take out Thunder King Rai-Oh!" attacked Chazz, as the head of the dragon slowly opened, and fired a laser towards the Thunder monster, which was destroyed upon impact.
Chazz: 4000
Thunder: 3800
"And that'll end my turn," finished Chazz, with a look of glee upon his face.
"And starts mine," Thunder began, pulling a card from his Duel Disk, "I'll activate my face-down card, Bit Shoot, which allows me to Special Summon a Reflector Bit(0/0) in Defense Mode. And I'll also summon out Apocatequil (1800/1200) in Defense Mode as well,"
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Craig ran onto the roof, looking straight in front of him and seeing Ryan on his Duel Runner, looking smug.
"You took your time," joked Ryan.
"Your Duel Runner was at the bottom?" reminded Craig.
Ryan pointed to a small circular device on the side of his Duel Runner, then took out a small remote out of his pocket.
"Teleport device," stated Ryan, as Craig nodded his head, "And really, you've just wasted your time, look over there."
Craig stared in the direction Ryan saw, and looked surprised to see a black circle of fire, which he could see through, and saw Chazz and a mystery opponent. Craig knew what this meant instantly, and became distracted and Ryan reversed towards Craig, than accelerating towards the edge of the building closest to the fire, and gaining as much speed as possible before jumping over the small gap between the two buildings, and landing next to the line of fire, just next to Chazz's opponent's side.
"So, why did I come up the building again?" asked Craig to himself.
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"Good to see you, Ryan. How does it go?" questioned Thunder, spotting the Duel Runner through the see-through black colour.
"It goes fine. This is your opponent? He looks weak," replied Ryan.
"I'll show you weak!" yelled Chazz, "I'll switch W-Wing Catapult into Attack Mode, and W-Wing Catapult attacks Reflector Bit, and YZ- Dragon Head also attacks Apocatequil!"
Both monsters were eliminated by the attacks, and both Ryan and Thunder laughed under their breath.
"If you weren't weak, you would've known Apocatequil's ability," said Ryan.
"When Apocatequil gets destroyed, I can Summon Oracle of the Sun (1000/2000) from my Graveyard," explained Thunder.
Chazz was just about to ask about how Oracle of the Sun got in Thunder's grave, but remembered Graceful Charity was activated on Thunder's first turn.
"I'll end my turn there," finished Chazz.
"Once again, it's my turn, and I activate Monster Reborn, bringing back Apocatequil from my Graveyard, and then both these smaller monsters are being sacrificed for the by far stronger monster, Lightning Punisher(2600/1600)," said Thunder, as the human-like monster arose, thunder building up in his hands, "Lightning Punisher, take out his YZ- Tank Dragon!"
The blue-haired human-like monster fired two electrical bolts, one from each hand, straight into both parts of YZ- Tank Dragon, which exploded, and Chazz flew back slightly, but re-gained his posture just.
Chazz: 3500
Thunder: 3800
"I'll end my turn with a face-down," finished Thunder.
"And it begins mine…" muttered Chazz, still staring at the monster that was facing him, "I'm switching W-Wing Catapult into Defense Mode, "Then I'll add X-Head Cannon (1800/1500) to my defenses as well,"
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Hayley and Bastion had somehow miraculously finished their tests in record time, now they could drive their Duel Runners and Duel at the same time. It had been hard but they both had the balance and driving skills to pull it off the first time round. Bastion's uncle had taught him how to drive a motorbike a few years ago when Bastion had asked him for lessons after seeing him race professionally. Hayley's Amazon training had come in handy, giving he an advantage. After earning their licenses the had gone to a café to celebrate and were just leaving the café, when Bastion looked down at his key, where there was a small beam of light emerging from it, although the beams stopped a few centimeters away from Bastion, and pointed in a direction of a rooftop. Spotting this, Hayley recognized that hers was doing the same. In different areas of Domino City, the exact same was happening to Alexis, Hasselberry, Flo and Taniya, and the beams all pointed to the same rooftop.
"Shall we?" asked Bastion getting on his Duel Runner with a grin.
"Let's," said Hayley determinedly, getting on her own Duel Runner. They both started their engines and kicked off, zooming down the streets.
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Thunder drew his card pleasingly, staring down Chazz, who looked slightly fearful, yet willing to continue.
"I'll Summon Electric Virus (1000/1000) in Attack Mode, and I'll equip this monster with not one, but two Electro-Whips, each boosting his Attack and Defense by 300 (1000/1000 – 1600/1600)," said Thunder, as the small creature appeared from the card, and was holding two whips, both of which larger then it was.
Chazz cringed, knowing he would be monster-less by the end of this turn.
"Electric Virus, attack W-Wing Catapult; and Lightning Punisher, take out that X-Head Cannon!" attacked Thunder fiercely, as Chazz watched as both his monsters were eliminated from the game, "And then, I'll leave you to have your shot. I end my turn,"
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"You all get led here to by some beam?" asked Taniya, spotting all six Key holders standing outside the building. Bastion and Hayley were chaining their Duel Runners to the Duel runner parking space.
"Yeah, any idea why?" asked Bastion, taking off his helmet, as Taniya replied with a shake of her head.
"Well, there's only one way to find out…" said Flo.
"Forward march!" yelled Hasselberry, as he ran into the building they were outside and up the stairs, everyone else followed behind including Aster, Sartorious and Sarina, who had been with Alexis and Atticus when Alexis' key had begun to glow.
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'This is it then…' thought Chazz, 'If I don't draw a game-changer here, the Chazz is out…'
"Hurry up and draw a card already," ordered Thunder.
"You can't change a duel like this by simply hoping. Besides, you have no monsters, you can barely get a strong enough monster onto the field," added Ryan, still sitting on his Duel Runner.
As Ryan spoke, his voice gradually got quieter and quieter for Chazz. Opening his eyes, Chazz no longer found himself in the black circle of fire, but found himself outside a temple, his black key glowing, as it pulled him inside the temple, Chazz found himself curious, and so let himself be pulled inside. Inside, Chazz noticed eight massive tablets all in a straight line, all glowing of a colour, one for each of the Key holders, except for one, which was a normal stone, although there was an orange-glowing tiger on it. Chazz assumed that was Taniya's tablet, and that she had already been here during her duel. Chazz was halted in front of the black tablet, where he saw an outline of a dragon, and there was one hole in the tablet, which looks similar to a dragon's claw. Taking a guess, Chazz inserted his key into the hole, and listened as he heard a dragon roar ferociously, releasing a glow of light in all directions, forcing Chazz to close his eyes. Opening his eyes again, Chazz found himself in the black circle of fire again, and as his key glowed black, he drew his card.
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"Craig!" yelled Flo, running up to Craig and hugging him, "You're alright,"
"I always keep out of trouble," joked Craig, "How'd you get here?"
"All of our keys pointed a beam of light in this direction, but now it's gone…" replied Hayley.
"Must be because you can see the duel now, mine never glowed," pointed out Craig.
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"So, repeat what you said earlier, kid on the motorbike," said Chazz, grinning.
"It's a Duel Runner. I said you don't have any monsters, so you couldn't Tribute Summon a strong enough monster," repeated Ryan.
"Yeah well, take that back. See, if I have a 'Armed Dragon' card in my hand, I can discard my entire hand, along with the Armed Dragon, to bring out the ultimate Dragon…" began Chazz.
"Oh. Good luck Thunder," said Ryan.
"Don't tell me you got one of those cards as well!" yelled Thunder fearfully.
"It's time to Chazz it up! Chazz it up… with the Black Majestic Armed Dragon(3200/2500)!" said Chazz, as a burst of black light shone out of Chazz's Duel Disk, and a colossal black dragon appeared onto the field, and let off a ferocious roar that shook Thunder, "Black Majestic Armed Dragon, rock his world by attacking that Electric Virus with Majestic Flame Breath!"
The dragon released a black shot of flame from its mouth, which came close to scorching the miniscule monster.
"Not this time. Activate Negate Attack, blocking your Attack and immediately ending the Battle Phase," retaliated Thunder, as the flame disappeared into a portal.
"Yes, but now, I can activate Black Majestic Armed Dragon's ability. Once per turn, I can give up 1000 of my Life Points, to deal you with 2000 Life Points of damage,"
The dragon released two bursts of flame from his mouth, one smaller than the other, as one hit Chazz, the other hit Thunder.
Chazz: 2500
Thunder: 1800
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"If Chazz holds out one more turn, he'll win," stated Bastion.
"I'm not sure, Thunder looks as if he'll take this match on this turn now," replied Alexis, spotting the grin on Thunder's face.
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"Chazz, on my field, there are two monsters. One's a Level 7, and one's a Level 3. Now, that equals 10. Which means…" began Thunder, as Ryan began laughing under his breath as well, "If all my monsters on the field have a Total Level of 10, I can sacrifice them all to bring out the last Duel Monster you'll ever see,"
Slowly, the circle of fire closed in around Thunder, and the black Anarchist sign on his mark glowed black, and Ryan's glowed red.
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A mirage of colours appeared in the room, as they all wondered what was happening.
"I'm assuming the Black may be about to Summon a Dark creature; but why didn't this happen during the Orange's duel?" questioned Larke.
"I've no idea," muttered Karādorein, "Blue, try and find out why," he was still slightly sore from his sword fight with Bastion and wanted revenge on him.
Upon saying this, the blue glow from the room vanished, having teleported into Domino City.
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"When the destruction begins, and the circle closes in; the darkness widens and reveals… a world without light!" yelled Thunder, "Dark Black Thunderbird (3500/0), come forth!"
The circle threw flames into the air, as a bird appeared, it was the same size as the dragon, flew onto the field, and let off a cry that shook even the people on the ground.
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"Chazz'll survive this turn, though, right?" asked Flo to Craig.
"It depends on what this beast can do…" replied Craig quietly, attempting to figure what it could do.
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"Know what the best part is? I can give my Life Points to Dark Black Thunderbird, so I'll give Thunderbird (3500/0 – 5299/0) all of my Life Points except one!" explained Thunder
Chazz: 2500
Thunder: 1
"But I'll still survive this turn," said Chazz hopefully.
"You wish, Dark Black Thunderbird can also equip itself with Equip Cards in my Graveyard, so I'm giving Dark Black Thunderbird(5299/0 – 5899/0) both Electro-Whips that Electric Virus had!" continued Thunder, as the Thunderbird grew in size over Armed Dragon, which looked puny in comparison.
Chazz fell to the ground, knowing now that he would only face defeat.
"Dark Black Thunderbird, attack his Majestic Armed Dragon with Thunder Shockwave!" attacked Thunder, as the bird released a ball of electricity in its mouth, before blasting it towards the dragon, which was instantly destroyed, and took Chazz down with it.
Chazz: 0
Thunder: 1
At that moment, Chazz stared up as he saw a colour crystal appear down from the sky, holding nothing inside it so far. The black fire circle closed in around Chazz, as Thunder slowly edged over to Chazz.
"You lost; now it's time to give yourself up for a worthier cause," said Thunder, bending down to Chazz's level whilst saying it.
Chazz screamed as he was sucked into the Colour Crystal, there was a flash of black light, there; the others saw him, a tiny image trapped in the crystal. Then, something happened; the colour black began to disappear! Everything that was black had its colour drained completely. Hayley and Bastion's keys glowed pink and yellow respectively and their colour stayed, Bastion's pants and hair stayed black and Hayley's hair also stayed black, however Sarina's hair was siphoned of its colour and turned white. Hayley stared at her, poor Sarina. Then Chazz's colour crystal flew up into the sky and both Hayley and Bastion knew that it went straight to Karādorein.
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Chazz's Colour Crystal zoomed into Karadorein's hand. He smirked as he looked at it and then gently tossed it upwards and it attached itself to the giant Crystal in the middle of the ceiling, where Etain was already, Chazz's part of the crystal then glowed black.
"One down… several more to go…" said Karādorein, grinning evilly.
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Thunder walked over to Ryan, where they looked down as both of their signs stopped glowing, and Ryan stared over at Craig, who simply stared back, attempting to find a way to get over to Ryan's building.
"Get on," ordered Ryan, "Before he finds a way over."
Thunder clambered onto the back of the driver's seat, and Ryan quickly turned around and began riding down the stairs. Craig ran straight down the stairs on his building, getting to the bottom and watching Ryan drive off, disappearing at the end of the road.
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"Congratulations Thunder, you've proved your worth for us," complimented Karādorein, "But for you, Ryan, you've had many opportunities to take out their Red. Why haven't you done it,"
"I'm waiting for the right moment," muttered Ryan.
"That was the perfect moment!" yelled Karādorein, slamming his fist down on the table, "One more chance, that's all I'm giving you."
Ryan nodded fearfully.
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Craig W M: That's all from me folks. Considering there's about a 0.000000001% chance of being another chapter before Christmas…
TRD: Happy Christmas from both of us. ;]
Craig W M: Adios!
