Omi Vs Stephanie: Friendship or Love?

(After Raimundo's duel, he had gotten congratulations from Pegasus and Odion himself, a slap on the back from Clay and a kiss on the cheek from Kimiko. Omi described it as fighting his way through a cobweb, but now it was his turn to duel, not only with a very experienced duelist, but a friend and possibly secret lover: Stephanie Jones)

Omi: I hope we do well in our duel, Stephanie.

Stephanie: Just so you know, I'm an expert in water-type monsters. I am a dragon of Water, after all.

(Then the intercom sounded again, and the finalists were summoned to the duel arena.)

Pegasus: (to Kimiko.) What's up with Omi-boy, and Stephanie?

Kimiko: A few months back, Omi and Stephanie battled it out to see who was the best Xiaolin Warrior, Omi obviously won, and the two of them have been friends ever since. Now that they're going in a duel together, it's quite an emotional experience.

Kaiba: Emotional, for me to throw up!

(Omi and Stephanie took their places in the arena.)

Omi and Stephanie: Let's duel!

Stephanie: I'll go first by summoning Fiend Kraken (1200/1400) in defence mode

(A large squid came and took it's place on the field.)

Stephanie: I'll end by placing a card face-down.

Omi: I shall summon Neo the Magic Swordsman (1700/1000) in attack position!

(The Warrior took it's place.)

Omi: Now attack the Fiend Kraken!

Stephanie: Activate Last Day of Witch!

Omi: What does that do?

Stephanie: It destroys all spellcasters on the field.

(The swordsman disappeared.)

Stephanie: Sorry, I seen your Spellcaster strategy and planned ahead.

Omi: No! I shall place a card face-down, and end my turn.

Stephanie: I summon Great White (1600/800) in attack, and flip Fiend Kraken to attack!

Clay: The little partner's got a lot of fish to gut.

Stephanie: Now attack his life points directly!

(The hits were successful, and brought Omi down to 1200 life points.)

Omi: I shall activate Numinous Healer! This card increases my life points by 1000 when I take damage to my life points!

(Omi felt lighter as his life points increased to 2200.)

Stephanie: I'll end my turn by activating the field magic card: A Legendary Ocean!

(A huge wave engulfed to field, Omi and Stephanie were floating in the middle of a huge ocean city.)

Stephanie: This card increases all my water type monsters by 200 points, and it also decreases my water monsters level by one star.

Omi: An interesting card for an interesting water deck. I shall summon Giant Soldier of Stone (1300/2000) in defence mode!

(A large stone monster came forth.)

Kimiko: At least he's got a good defence.

Omi: I shall end my turn!

Stephanie: (She drew and raised her eyebrows.) I shall activate the ritual magic card: Fortress Whale's Oath! I sacrifice my Fiend Kraken and my Great White, in order to summon: Fortress Whale (2350/2150) in attack mode!

(A huge whale took it's place in the arena.)

Stephanie: And with the field power bonus, it gets an extra 200 attack points!

(The whale increased to 2550.)

Omi: Not icy.

Yugi: Er… not cool?

Raimundo: Yup.

Stephanie: Fortress Whale attack Giant Soldier of Stone!

(It let out a huge cannon wave that destroyed Omi's monster.)

Omi: This is a most unpredictable predicament. I shall activate Card of Sanctity!

Stephanie: Now we both draw till we have six cards, right?

Omi: Oh yes.

(They both drew until they had six cards each.)

Omi: I activate Monster Reborn! To bring back my Neo the Magic Swordsman!

(The swordsman came up.)

Omi: Now I shall activate Card Destruction, to discard all our hands and draw the same number of cards.

(Omi discarded his four cards and drew four again.)

Omi: I sacrifice my Neo the Magic Swordsman to summon: Summoned Skull (2500/1200) in attack position!

(The fiend rose up.)

Stephanie: He still isn't strong enough!

Omi: I shall place a card face down and end my turn!

Stephanie: Okay, Fortress Whale! Destroy Summoned Skull!

(The whale blasted the fiend away, Omi's life points fell to 2150, but he was still smiling.)

Omi: I shall activate Rope of Life!

Yugi: Yes, good going, Omi!

Omi: Now I discard my entire hand, to resurrect Summoned Skull, and increase his attack power by 800 points!

Raimundo: Way to go, Omi!

(Summoned Skull increased to 3300.)

Stephanie: I activate the trap card: Fish's Agreement to Equality!

Yugi: Another fish card?

Stephanie: If I have a fish monster on my side of the field who is weaker than a monster, I can increase that fish to exactly that of my opponent's over-powered monster.

(Fortress Whale increased to 3300.)

Stephanie: But there's a catch, I have to sacrifice the number of life points to the increased attack points.

(Stephanie's life points fell to 3250.)

Omi: A wise move.

Stephanie: I'll end my turn there.

Omi: I shall summon Ancient Elf (1450/1200) in defence mode! That shall end my turn.

Stephanie: I summon The Legendary Fisherman (1850/1600) in attack position!

Omi: Wait, you need a sacrifice to summon that monster!

Stephanie: My Legendary Ocean helps to summon him without any tributes, remember?

Omi: Oh, I see.

Stephanie: I think I'll end my turn from there, by destroying your Ancient Elf.

(The whale blasted the Ancient Elf away.)

Omi: You have left your Fisherman open wide to my Summoned Skull's attack!

Kimiko: Wide open, Omi!

Omi: Summoned Skull attack the Fisherman of Legend!

(But the attack failed.)

Omi: How is this possible?

Stephanie: My Legendary Fisherman's special ability helps me to be protected from attacks, as long as A Legendary Ocean's on the field.

Omi: A most interesting attack patterns.

Stephanie: I know.

Omi: I have no choice but to end my turn.

(Stephanie drew and gasped.)

Stephanie: First off I summon Flying Fish! (800/500) And I activate Power of Kaishin!

Joey: Uh oh, Omi's in for it now.

Stephanie: I increase my Fortress Whale's attack by 300 points, giving him 3600!

Omi: Oh no!

Stephanie: Attack his Summoned Skull!

(As the fiend was struck down again, and giving Omi 1850 attack points, Stephanie whispered: "I'm sorry.")

Clay: The little partner's left wide open!

Stephanie: Flying Fish, attack Omi's life points!

(Omi got struck down by the fish, and leaving Omi with 850.)

Omi: Go on, your Fisherman has not yet attacked. Finish me.

(Stephanie hesitated.)

Stephanie: No! I end my turn!

Omi: Stephanie. Why didn't you attack?

Stephanie: I didn't want to; please draw something that could destroy my Fortress Whale.

(Omi drew Dark Magic Curtain. He raised a head as a strategy filled his head.)

Omi: I activate Dark Magic Curtain! This card cuts my life points in half.

(Omi's life points fell to 425.)

Omi: Now, I can summon my Dark Magician from my deck!

(Dark Magician took the field with a fancy spinning of his staff.)

Omi: Next I activate the magic card: Knight's Title!

(Stephanie smiled slightly.)

Omi: Whenever I have a Dark Magician on the field, I can modify him, to Dark Magician Knight!

(The Dark Magician turned into a knight version of himself.)

Omi: Because of this I can destroy one monster on your side of the field, which is: Legendary Fisherman!

(The fisherman vanished.)

Joey: Hey, what's the deal? Omi coulda token out that Whale!

Omi: It is not over yet, because I activate Lightning Blade!

Raimundo: What the?

Omi: Once this card is equipped onto a Warrior monster, he increases it's attack points by 800 points!

(The knight increased to 3300.)

Omi: Now attack the Fortress Whale!

Raimundo, Kimiko and Clay: Omi, stop!

(But he continued the attack, but instead of the knight being destroyed, the whale was destroyed and Stephanie's life points were set to 3050.)

Jack: What! That knight should've been toast!

Omi: It is the effects of Lightning Blade! Every single on of my opponent's water monster's attack power is decreased by 500 points!

Yugi: Amazing!

(Stephanie was left open to Omi's attack with just a Flying Fish with just 500 attack points.)

Kimiko: Omi, come on! That fish doesn't stand a chance!

Raimundo: Destroy it, dude!

Joey: What're yah waiting for! Permission to attack!

(Omi hesitated, looking at the Flying Fish and his Dark Magician Knight.)

Omi: No! I shall end my turn!

Warriors: What!

Raimundo: You had her! Why'd yah end your turn!

Omi: Because Stephanie gave up a turn for me, now I can pay back the favour.

(Stephanie smiled as she drew her card, then she laid her hand on top of her deck.)

Clay: What she doin'?

Yugi: She's surrendering.

Kaiba: That's right. And cue ball's the winner.

Roland: Omi Pedrosa has advanced to the next round!

(Omi fell to his knees.)

Omi: I did not want my best friend to surrender in our duel.

(Stephanie came up to him and kneeled to his level.)

Omi: Why did you surrender? You could have put your Flying Fish in defence and survive my next attack.

Stephanie: Let's call it a love for a little monk.

(She gave Omi a kiss on the cheek.)

Stephanie: And love makes us do funny things.

(Both of them laughed.)

Stephanie: And you beat me for a second time.

(She waltzed away, giving a wave to Omi as she went downstairs, and the others re-united with Omi.)

Raimundo: Hey, it's alright.

Kimiko: Stephanie surrendered 'cus she wanted to.

Clay: It was nothing to do with you, partner.

Omi: I believe you are correct.

(Omi and Raimundo gave a hi-5.)

Roland: The next duel will be Chase Young and Hannibal Roy Bean!

(The both of them gave evil glares.)

Hannibal: Ah hope yah brought some bandages, cus you're in for a whooping!

Chase: I wouldn't count on it, bean boy!