CHAPTER TEN: To Defeat a God
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Drake Anderson was a successful fiend duelist, and ranked fourth in the Duel Academy's official list of top ten duelists, under Zane Truesdale, Alexis Rhodes, and Chazz Princeton, even though the Slifer Red wonder, Jaden Yuki, would have been able to beat him in a duel if they had dueled. Currently, he was dueling one of the top Ra Yellow duelists, a new student who went by the name of Kyo Amakusa. Kyo used a fairy deck, and it was an exact counterpart to Drakes.
They were dueling out on the beach near Duel Academy, as it was a Sunday, and they had time to themselves. Kyo had 5400 life points, five cards in his hand, two cards face down in his magic/trap card zone, and had his powerful Shinato, King of a Higher Plane (3300/3000) face up in attack mode. Drake on the other hand, had one card face down, one card in his hand and two Goblin Attack Forces (2300/0), in defense mode. He had only 1500 life points.
"Face it," grinned Kyo. "It's over Drake. Your fiends can't overcome my fairies." "Oh yeah?" shot back Drake. "Need I remind of that day, two months ago, when I…."
Kyo flushed. "Yeah I know, you beat me in five turns with 8000 life points. But this time, I'm gonna win! Since I just destroyed your Goblin Elite Attack Force (2200/1500), I'll have to end my turn now."
Drake drew, and his two groups of green goblins snickered for seemingly no reason. As he drew, Drake grinned. "Well, Kyo, I just drew the card to defeat your so called King of a Higher Plane and reduce your life points to zero." Kyo's eyes narrowed, but he didn't say anything. "I sacrifice my two Goblin Attack Forces to bring out one of my most powerful fiends! Meet Marju Garzett (?/ 0)! The two groups of goblins disappeared, and were replaced by a new disgusting creature. A gigantic mess of flesh, bone, gristle and hair appeared on Drake's side of the field. It looked like a Summoned Skull with long, purple hair coming down it's back.
"My Marju Garzett's ATK is equal to the combined ATK of the sacrificed monsters. It's attack points are 4600, but I do remember saying that I'd beat you this turn itself!" Kyo gasped. There was only one card in Drake's deck that was capable of such devastation. "I activate Ultimate Offering. This lets me pay 500 life points to summon an extra monster this turn." His life points dropped to 1000. "I sacrifice Marju Garzett to summon his far more powerful counterpart, Great Marju Garzett (0?)!"
The powerful fiend disappeared, and was replaced by another, indescribable new beast. It looked like the body-pars of all living creatures combined to make one walking… thing. "Great Marju Garzett's ATK is double that of the sacrificed monster." Kyo sighed in resignation, as Drake continued, "For a mind-blowing total of 9200! Go, attack his fairy with Curse of the Fiend."
With an unearthly moan, the Great Marju Garzett hurled itself onto the six-winged angel, who tried to defend itself, but was immediately crushed.
(Drake: 1000, Kyo: 0)
Kyo sighed. "Another round to you, Drake." Drake extended a hand as the holograms disappeared and said, "Good match." Kyo was about to shake it, when he glanced into the sky and uttered, "What the hell?"
Immediately after hearing the cry, Kaiba tore off towards the cockpit, leaving a very bewildered Yugi behind. He leaned over and looked out of the window and swore, using words he didn't even know were a part of his vocabulary. For, hovering next to the plane was a large orange dragon. Its wings were flapping slowly, and it looked furious. Any fan of Duel Monsters would recognize it. It was the Tyrant Dragon (2900/2500).
The pilot was new to this job. This was, in fact, the first time he was flying the Kaiba Corp. private jet. It was high paying, $300,000 a year. Heaven knows the pilot needed it. He was originally flew commercial planes, but the stress began to get to him, so he signed up for this job. But gigantic orange dragons attacking the plane weren't exactly part of the job description…. Seto Kaiba was standing behind him, booming out orders.
"Don't you know how to fly this thing? Get it off the damn' autopilot, and full speed towards the nearest landing strip!" The poor pilot was on the verge of losing his wits and muttered, "Sir…, um, dragon ahead of… us?" Kaiba roared in fury and bellowed, "YOU'RE FIRED! GET OFF THIS DAM'N CHAIR AND LET ME FLY THIS THING!" The terrified man nodded meekly and leapt off the chair. Kaiba sat down and gritted his teeth. Time to see if those practice runs with the Blue Eyes White Jet had really paid off. He put on the seat belt and grabbed the joystick. He was just about to accelerate, when he saw what the pilot had said was true. A Tyrant Dragon was staring right at the plane. "HELL!" he roared, but thought, "Marik." How could a hologram be facing them at forty-five thousand feet? The beast roared and spat fired at the jet. It wasn't powerful, but did singe the nose of the plane. Kaiba winced. Definitely not a hologram. He got off and said to the pilot, "Congratulations. You're now officially the pilot of my private jet. Fly this thing out of here." He then tore off, a plan spinning through his mind.
Joey stared out of the window. Somehow, a terrible Black Ptera (1000/1000) was floating outside their window. "What the heck?" he muttered, even as Tea squealed at the creature's disgusting appearance. There was a cry, and he saw a gigantic red beast flying towards them. It was surrounded by smoke. "Damn," muttered Joey. He knew exactly what it was, having faced it in the quarter finals of the tournament he had just won. It was the Ultimate Obedient Fiend (3500/3000).
Chancellor Sheppard was having a heated conversation with his most senior colleague, Dr. Vellian Crowler. "Vellian, listen to me," he said urgently. "That plane is carrying the owner of this school, and is being attacked by a group of monsters twenty-thousand feet above us! We have to do something." Crowler was extremely bewildered, which was unusual for him.
"What can we do, Chancellor?" he said worriedly. "You said I yourself: they're twenty-thousand feet up, and descending fast. They're being attacked by a group of holograms, which is strange, though I don't understand how, but they're too high up." He took a sip of wine. Chancellor sighed and banged fist down on his desk. "Oh I know exactly what to do," said a voice from the door.
Chancellor glanced up to see a tall teenage boy who had short green hair. He was in the Obelisk Blue uniform. "Zane," he said shortly. Normally, he respected the boy, but now he was in a tense situation. "I was passing by in the corridor," he chuckled, "And couldn't help overhearing your conversation."
"What do you think?" said Chancellor. "Well, if you put together all the facts, the solution seems quite easy. All we have to do is fly up there in a helicopter and take out those monsters." "With what?" said Crowler, tentatively. "Well, sir, it's a matter of logic. With our own monsters. There is no possible way that those things are anything other than holograms, meaning someone is controlling them from a nearby location. I can do it myself, or have you forgotten that the only cards that surpass that card belong only to Yugi Moto and Seto Kaiba themselves."
Chancellor was stunned. Zane was brilliant, but even Chancellor himself, who was normally an easy-going chap, found it hard to swallow such an idea. "Zane… you do realize that the helicopter is a one-seater, don't you? If you go up there, you're alone." Zane nodded. "Yes. I know how to fly a chopper: don't ask how. I'll summon a few monsters and tear them apart. Then Mr. Kaiba can land his plane on the empty space near the volcano."
Chancellor raised an eyebrow. Why would Zane even care what happened up there? He wasn't obliged to rescue them. As well as that, he didn't have the right to risk one of his student's lives. "I don't think so, Zane," he said quietly. Zane's eyes flared, but didn't say anything. "Why?"
"Well, if you go up there, you're life will be in danger. What if one of those monsters blows you out of the sky? It'll be my fault, as I would be the one who sent you up there."
Zane said calmly, "I'm sorry, sir." "Wha-…" gasped Chancellor, but Zane was already gone. Crowler shrieked and ran after him, but they didn't have a hope. Zane had been known to complete a hundred meters in just eleven seconds.
Kaiba snarled at the oncoming flood of monsters that were effortlessly floating towards them. The plane wasn't fast enough. There was only one option. He clicked on an intercom than connected him to the cockpit. "Slow the plane down as much as you can." He heard a pale 'okay' from the other end. He snarled in anger and put on his Duel Disk. He knew that this would be difficult to pull off, but he would try. The others were busy gaping out of the window and the oncoming monsters. Good. He would deal with this himself.
He was just about to walk off, when he heard a deep voice say, "Stop Kaiba!" Seto didn't even need to turn around to see who it was. "If you're going to fight those monsters," said Yami quietly, "You're not doing it alone. I'm coming with you." Kaiba chuckled mirthlessly. "Fine. But don't get in my way." Joey was about to say something, but Yami said, "No Joey. It's too dangerous. My Puzzle will only be able to protect two people at once. I'm sorry, but you can't come."
Joey sighed anime-style, but said nothing. Kaiba and Yami walked off, both their Duel Disks activated, determined looks on their face. They walked towards the end of the plane, where there was a small trap door. It was located in the area where flight-attendants normally worked on long-haul flights. Kaiba bent down, and it snapped open. He was carrying a wireless intercom, and muttered into it, "Slow the plane down." The pilot had already slowed down to about three hundred miles per hour and had descended to twelve thousand feet. Here at least. The air was breathable.
Kaiba slipped through the trap door and Yami heard a thud as he dropped onto the floor of the area bellow. Yami followed. They were now in the dark tail cone of the plane.
"Kaiba, what's going on?" he said quietly. "Relax, Yugi," he chuckled quietly. He then turned on a light, illuminating the place. It was filled with parachutes. "Lucky for us," Kaiba explained, we've got a very slow tail wind. We can easily open the cone."
He walked over to a small glass box on the wall and protecting his eyes with one hand, smashed the glass with his elbow, revealing a lever. Kaiba pulled it ad suddenly, the back of the cone fell open to the outside air. Yami shivered. As Kaiba said, there was no wind, but coming from a place like Egypt, twelve thousand feet wasn't exactly in his toleration zone. Kaiba ignored the cold and shielding his eyes from the blinding sun, looked out. He activated his Duel Disk, and slapped two cards onto it. He muttered, "If those things are holograms, then we'll use holograms to beat them ourselves."
"Different Dimension Dragon (1200/1500) and Vorse Raider (1900/1200)!" The ogre-like beast armed with an axe appeared in the sky and roared at the army of monsters. A light blue and white dragon then appeared. It had four wings and a long tail, and wasn't a very impressive looking dragon. "Attack now!" he roared. The Vorse Raider readied itself and rushing forward, slashed a bunch of Yata-Garasu's (200/100) to bits. It twirled around and jabbed its weapon into the gut of a Slate Warrior (1900/400), destroying it.
The Different Dimension Dragon opened its mouth and fired a blue blast of energy at a group of Black Ptera's (1000/1000), obliterating them. Another Slate Warrior tried to behead it with it's halberd, but the dragon roared and dodged, and then tore the warrior apart (literally). Yami slapped down three cards on his Duel Disk and said quietly, "King's Knight (1600/1400), Queen's Knight (1500/1600), and Jack's Knight (1900/1000)!" The knights nodded and flew out into the fray, their swords easily slashing apart any opposition.
Marik sneered at the picture hovering in the air. Those poor fools. His Rod did indeed prove to be extremely powerful, letting him create Shadow creatures over a thousand miles away. The Pharaoh's Puzzle was letting his beasts exist in this plane of reality as real monsters, and not holograms, but the idiot was too weak to maintain them for too long. They would give way eventually. He raised an eyebrow as he watched his army destroy the group, combining their powers. The Pharaoh and Kaiba then resorted to summoning their more powerful monsters, i.e. Valkyrion the Magna Warrior (3500/3850) and the XYZ Dragon Cannon (2800/2600). The new machines easily annihilated most of his monsters.
Marik grinned. Time to take it up a notch. His Rod glowed and most of the monsters disappeared. Yami was in for the surprise of his life.
Kaiba raised any eyebrow at the disappeared monsters. "What's going on?" he growled. Yami had a bad feeling. "I'm not sure…" Suddenly, they heard a horrible roar from above them. Yami stepped onto the piece of metal that had opened up and looked out. He almost fainted. A gigantic red dragon was above them. It's sinuous form extended to a measurement that seemed to be miles long, and there was obviously more of its body unseen, as part of it was bellow the clouds. The blue jewel on its head seemed to practically pulse with power, and the two immense, teeth-filled maws beneath it were crackling with energy. It's fully extended wings now eclipsed the sky. Lastly, the two, weak-looking claws just beneath its wings were razor-sharp, and looked as ready to reap destruction as the rest of it's arsenal. It was the Egyptian God, Slifer the Sky Dragon.
Yami nearly fell out of the plane. "Marik," he seethed. Kaiba was also shocked. "How do we beat it?" he growled. "We have nothing that even comes close to it." Yami had to agree. Slifer was the second most powerful Egyptian Gods. Only Ra surpassed it. He felt almost sad. Slifer was his first God card, and it was the one he felt most comfortable playing. And now it could destroy him. Kaiba drew a card and muttered, "If I'm going to go out, I'll go out fighting." He slapped the card down and said, "I summon my most powerful monster, the Blue Eyes Shining Dragon (3000/2500)!"
There was a screech and a massive, metallic dragon hurtled out of the sky. It was covered in hard-scales, and had a three pronged crown on its head. It roared at Slifer, who roared back, shaking the dragon to the core. Yami grimaced. The Shining Dragon was powerful, but it's power was dwarfed by Slifer. "I summon my Dark Paladin (2900/2400)!" The armored warrior appeared and raised its scimitar. It was only about ten feet tall, dwarfed by the massive Shining Dragon and the immeasurable God.
All of a sudden, Slifer roared and fired a blast of energy at Yami's monster. Yami gasped, even as the Dark Paladin slashed its staff at the ball. "He can't handle it!" he thought frantically. The blast was too powerful, and progressively pushed it backwards. The Shining Dragon roared and fired it's own blast of energy at the ball. The Dark Paladin let lose of backlash wave of power, and the combined energies of Light pressed back the God's attack, and blew it apart. The Blue Eyes Shining Dragon roared weakly, and the Dark Paladin was gasping with exertion.
Yami and Kaiba went pale. How were they supposed to beat it when its first attack had nearly crushed their most powerful monsters? In the game, its power had been reduced so that it wasn't unfairly powerful, but this was the real monster: an invincible beast. Kaiba snarled and said, "I'll show that overgrown snake which is the most powerful dragon of all! Attack with Shining Neutron Blast!"
The dragon opened it's maw and fired a translucent beam of blue energy at the God. At the same time, the Dark Paladin slashed it's staff downwards, creating a massive flash of power that lanced towards the God, reflecting a thousand faucets of light and color. The two blasts hit Slifer at the same time, and there was an explosion. The influx of light and power was too much of Seto and Yami, and they were blown off there feet. The smoke and dust began to clear. "Is it over?" muttered Kaiba. It was far from that. The warrior and dragon had given it their all, but Slifer was still untouched. In fact, it seemed completely unfazed by the attack.
Yami felt hopeless despair. "It's over…" he thought. "There is no way to win against it." Kaiba had fallen to his knees, unable to take it. He was going to be destroyed. "Kaiba," Yami said slowly. "We have to try. Our monsters are still powerful in their own right. We might be able to do it.
Before Kaiba could answer, there was a metallic screech from beneath them, and Kaiba leaned over and gasped. There was a massive, metallic beast bellow them. It was a large three-headed snake like dragon that had powerful metallic wings and a snake like tail. Each head roared, showing they had no fear. "Cyber End Dragon (4000/2800)?" he gasped. "That's probably the most powerful machine monster in the game. It's extremely rare. I don't know who might have it."
The Cyber End Dragon flapped its wings and rose up to their level. Below it, Kaiba could make out a helicopter. It was barely three hundred feet below them, and in the still quiet and tension between the monsters, Kaiba could make out a voice yelling, "Super Strident Blaze!" The three heads each sent out a blast of golden energy at the dragon. The blasts combined, and hurtled towards Slifer.
The God roared and let out blasts of energy from both it's mouths. "it can't do this alone," realized Yami, and said, "Dark Paladin, Dragon Slayer Slash!"
The powerful warrior brought down it's sword and the wave of multi-colored energy hit Slifer's blast.
Kaiba sighed in resignation, and commanded his dragon to attack. It did, and the blasts of the Blue Eyes Shining Dragon, Cyber End Dragon, and Dark Paladin were now pressing against Slifer. The two dragons were flapping their wings, trying to force the God back, and Kaiba could actually make out the sweat pouring down the warrior's brow.
Yami roared in anger and the aura around his Puzzle exploded, empowering all three monsters. They continued their attacks with renewed vigor, but it was too no avail. Slifer was too strong. Suddenly, Slifer roared and opened its mouths to their fullest extent, and the blasts of energy surged out, easily overpowering those of its opponents, hurtling towards them and the plane. At that second, Yami bellowed, "Kuriboh! Defend!" He slapped the card onto his Duel Disk.
A wall of uncountable fur balls appeared in front of Yami, protecting them from the amazingly powerful attack. All the fur balls were incinerated, and the blast just fell short of the three monsters. Yami sighed. "Close call." Kaiba snarled, "In case you haven't noticed, Slifer is till out there. It can still destroy us, and I don't like the idea of being torn apart by a divine wave of energy."
But Yami wasn't listening. "Kaiba," he commanded. "What?"
"We have to unleash that." Kaiba's eyes glowed in realization. "No. It's too powerful. We'll all be destroyed." "It's the only option. Either take the chance of being destroyed by it, or be destroyed by Slifer."
Kaiba sighed. "Fine. We'll do it. But I'm not strong enough." "I'll help you. The time is now." Kaiba nodded as Yami's Puzzle began pulsating with golden energy.
Zane couldn't believe what he had just done. He had actually hi-jacked (sort off) the Duel Academy's helicopter to come out and save someone whom he had never met. But at this point, that was the least of his worries. The God card was too powerful, and even his Cyber End Dragon paled in comparison. At that second, he heard two voices yell
simultaneously, "SHINING NOVA ATTACK!"
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P.S. If I've messed up with the time difference between GX! And the original series, sorry about that. In my story, this will be the time difference (about five years from the end of the Millennium World arc).