Disclaimer:I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! GX or the rest of the franchise or any music in this story, I own Claudio Osbourne and the Jukebox Hero Archetype, aside from a select few made by all the authors/readers who submitted them. And all other OCs and cards submitted original creators.
Chapter 12: Instincts and Sacrifice
At the Obelisk Blue Dorm, Axel was back in the room he had shared with Fidel after the latter recovered the former from the cliff. In front of them, a big spread of hamburgers, boneless chicken wings, and a bottle of soda was laid out on the table.
"Alright, amigo," Fidel said. "Got us some food to eat, a lot from what you ordered from the cafeteria. But don't you think you..." The words died in his mouth once he started seeing Axel start eating by the mouthful and handful. "Whoa, did that duel really take a lot out of you? I mean, we've done the Survival Duels before and I never seen you in the state that I saw you back at the cliff."
After downing the food with the soda to chase it, the Volcanic Duelist burped before replying, "I can't explain it either; but you should have seen Claudio, he was worse than I was after the duel and had to go to the infirmary."
"Damn," the Metal Gear duelist cursed, as he took a small plate of the same food, "What's going on here?"
"Maybe what Claudio's friends were saying are worth listening," Axel figured, which got Fidel's attention. "After Claudio and I collapsed, I heard Kurogasa and Jachin say something about the Bio-Bands; about how some strange energy was sucked out of us through them."
"That's loco," Fidel exclaimed. "We haven't felt anything back at West Academy, so why is it happening now?"
However, standing outside their room was Adrian eavesdropping on the conversation.
'So the Bio-Bands are causing the problems,' He thought, 'and this could only be the beginning...'
Later in the morning came to Duel Academy, where Claudio was still at the Infirmary and doing what Axel was doing last night... eating to regain his strength. Melody came and brought him some breakfast in bed, and it surprised her that the J-Hero duelist would just scarf it down. Also hearing about the Ra's condition, Kenji, Alexis, Bradshaw, and Kairi came to check up on him. They all were just as surprised as Melody when seeing him eating his food.
"Whoa, I thought he was down and out from his duel," Kenji gasped.
"Yeah, he doesn't look sick," Alexis stated.
"Actually, he was still kind of out of it when I came in so I brought him some breakfast from the cafeteria," Melody said. "But as soon as I set it down for him, he started pigging out."
"And all of this because of dueling last night," Kairi asked. "Unbelievable..."
"Though, Axel had to be the same way and I bet he could confirm it," Bradshaw shrugged.
"Maybe it is because of the Bio-Bands," Alexis said, "You guys did say something about what Kurogasa and Jachin said."
"Yeah, they were there and they told us what they saw," the Magician duelist said. "Mikoto was with us when it happened."
Gulping down his food, Claudio said, "And if the Bio-Bands are things that ran me and Axel into the ground, Viper's gotta be answered."
"And about Axel," the Gladiator Beast duelist spoke up, "Sorry man, I didn't know he would pull something like that."
"You know him?" the J-Hero duelist asked.
"I took a year at West Academy before Alister discovered me for an internship," Bradshaw explained, "The same with Kairi and Erika, except I recommended her while she was still choosing schools."
"So, you both knew about the branched Academies for a while," Melody asked.
"Yup," Kairi nodded, "Another reason why this is the year we enrolled here."
"Anyway," Bradshaw interjected, "I know Axel, but the last thing he would do is take hostages for a duel." He then rubbed his head, "I know this is asking much from you, but don't hurt him too bad."
"Give me one good reason, man," Claudio said, "Because I don't care what kind of training he went through, he's got a long day ahead of him when I find him."
"Because it was orders from Viper, so he was just as surprised when the duel was over on the Bio-Bands," Bradshaw replied.
That's when Melody snapped, "Claudio, you can beat up Axel all you want... I'll find Viper and tear him apart! I hated being dangling over that cliff!"
Everyone gasped, except Claudio.
"Well, if everyone's in high spirits I guess Claudio's okay." Fonda said, walking back into the infirmary.
"With all the talk about Claudio's eating habits rivaling Jaden's and revenge, I'd said yes," Kenji stated.
The nurse laughed before turning to Claudio, "But Claudio, it was serious what happened to you. I'm going to recommend you don't duel for the rest of the day until I can confirm that the Bio-Band is what really did this to you. So far, you're the only that suffered like this. You may want to take it easy despite you looking well enough to walk..."
"Weird and I'm as healthy as my grandmother after she beat pneumonia," the J-Hero duelist joked after he started going back to pigging out. "But you better get to Viper, because I can tell you he'll be the one telling me and you that I'm getting soft because of that duel."
"Don't talk with your mouth full," Melody scolded.
"Yes, dear," Claudio grinned.
Leaving out of the Obelisk Dorm, Kurogasa and Jachin were talking about what happened last night.
"I got the word around about the Bio-Bands, but people are still reluctant," Kurogasa stated. "People won't believe me..."
"Yeah, me too," Jachin added. "Our friends have though, but we knew it was going to be a long shot with the rest... guess society's beating us for now."
"Excuse me, gentlemen."
Both boys turned to see Professor Viper walking up to them.
"Hello, Professor Viper," Kurogasa greeted politely. "Is there anything we can help you with?"
"It's been brought to my attention that you two are spreading rumors about my Bio-Bands," the West Academy professor replied. "Is there something you need to tell me?"
"Yes," Jachin spoke up. "We saw the duel between Claudio and one of your students, Axel Brodie. Both of them had problems moving or staying on their feet after the duel was done."
"And you say my Bio-Bands are the cause?" Viper asked. "What proof do you have?"
"Our own eyes," the Persona duelist continued as he and Kurogasa held their Bio-Band arms up. "We saw some dark auras inside these things after your duel with Atticus and after the last duel we saw something leave the Bio Bands and then shoot somewhere into the forest."
Staying calm, Viper was feeling a little paranoid, 'Have they figured it out?' He then thought again, 'No, otherwise they wouldn't be confronting me with so much...' Out loud he said, "It seems to me, you two are on the long list of students that didn't approve of my demotion of Mr. Rhodes. Well, get over it... if the Obelisks are the best, then he's not fit to be one."
Kurogasa and Jachin narrowed their eyes at the Professor.
"And since you are accusing me of lies, as punishment you two will duel in front of the student body," Viper continued. "I suggest you play with everything you have otherwise you'll find yourself like Mr. Rhodes; in your case, Jachin, as a Silfer you'll be expelled!"
The boys gasped, "We won't duel; your Bio-Bands will send us to the infirmary!" the Haos duelist protested.
"And you forgot by failing to comply with your daily Survival Duels will have you expelled as well." Viper countered. "And with those rumors, I should. But I figure showing the student body your lies will be sufficient enough. After all, the majority doesn't share your thoughts, and from what else I hear they are supposed to be thinking against me. Now, I suggest you prepare your decks for the afternoon. Good day." He then walked away from the boys, hiding the smirk from them.
"Damn, what's he thinking?" Kurogasa cursed. "He's going to risk our health on this?"
Jachin gasped as he led the Haos duelist far away from Viper. Once done, he replied with, "That's because he'll probably do something to lower the Bio-Bands energy absorption before then! Think about it..."
Kurogasa snapped his fingers. "Right, that's why he's waiting for the afternoon; to have time." He then smirked. "But I got the remedy if you're up for it..."
"What's the plan?" Jachin asked...
Later, Jaden, Reyna, Syrus, Allyson and Hassleberry were walking out of the main building.
"I gotta find me a duel," Jaden stated. "Maybe I should find more of the guys from the branch Academies."
"But haven't you heard about Claudio?" Syrus protested. "He collapsed after the last duel he had."
"But he's fine now," Reyna noted, "If anything, that duel just made him hungry when I peeked into the infirmary and he was wolfing down four trays of breakfast."
"Sounds like Private Osbourne last year when he was in the woods for week with you, Sarge," Hassleberry stated.
"Still we should look out for what caused him to be in the infirmary," Allyson said worriedly.
"Come on, Allyson," Jaden said, wrapping an arm around his girlfriend. "It's not like we're out to get axed from the island."
"Jaden!"
Everyone looked straight ahead and saw Jesse and Crystal run up to them.
"Hey you two, what's up?" Reyna greeted.
"Is Claudio alright," Jesse asked. "We heard from Kurogasa earlier about how he dueled and plum collapsed.
"He's fine, just acting like Jaden on eating habits," Allyson replied, giggling.
"Hey..." He grumbled.
"Anyway, aside from the rumors about the Bio-Bands we heard from Kurogasa and Jachin, there was a crazy one about Claudio retiring," Crystal added.
"He won't retire because his guitar's still here and he's not leaving it with Viper," Jaden figured. "And also..."
"AAHH!"
Suddenly, Hassleberry's scream interrupted as he felt a something bite his butt, "I've been hit!" Once he collapsed to the ground, everyone could see a female crocodile was the culprit, and still had mouth clamped on him. "Requesting backup..."
"Down, girl!"
"Shirley, stop that!"
Soon, Jim and Yuri with Kylie hopping along rushed in to calm the suddenly aggressive crocodile and managed to get her off of the dino duelist. Soon, the female croc was calm as she was enjoying being petted by the South Academy Duelists.
"You should keep that croc on a leash; she nearly bit off my rear end!" Hassleberry shouted in anger as he stood up, rubbing his rear end. "What's next, the kangaroo's going to kick me to the ground?"
Kylie gave him the evil eye and was about to hop over to the Ra when...
"Kylie, don't you start," Yuri scolded as the kangaroo slump his shoulders down.
"And sorry about that," Jim said to Hassleberry. "But Shirley's not responsible for her actions."
"Who is responsible, Jim?" Jaden asked.
"Not 'who', 'what," the South Academy duelist corrected, "Ever since last night, there's been some powerful electro-waves that caused Shirley's fighting instincts to go wild, since she's a reptile."
"Oh..." the Senior Silfer nodded.
"You didn't get any of that, huh?" Reyna asked, to which her brother shook his head.
"Just take a look at this," Yuri said, pulling out a grey device with a meter on it. "Yesterday, some strong electro waves sprung up and caused Shirley to act violent in the middle of the night. Jim had to call me down to his dorm so we and Kylie could calm her down."
Jesse snapped his fingers, "That's was around the same time Kurogasa and Jachin were talking about!"
"Seriously?" Allyson asked.
"Yeah, after that we decided to check it out," Jim said as Yuri helped him to strap Shirley to his back, "We need to check the forest because that's when Shirley went wild."
"And she's fast for someone who usually waits around for food to act," Yuri giggled.
Later, somewhere in the forest, Adrian was looking around until he saw an old building amongst the trees.
"Well Viper, the jig is up," He stated. "I know where you're hiding."
Inside the old building, Viper was contemplating about the recent events while staring at the containers, seeing the amount of energy bubbles inside.
"Thanks to you, Claudio and Axel, your donation has exponentially increased my expectations," He smirked. "Soon, the entire student body will follow your lead. But as for Kurogasa and Jachin, I'll only take a fraction of theirs in order to make sure I teach them not to compromise my plans to the public."
Suddenly, a loud beep was sounded making Viper turn to the screens. One of them was giving of the sound, showing off the rustling of the bushes. "What's going on?" He got his answer when he saw Jim's head pop out, carrying the meter Yuri had. "Someone else is trying to find out my secrets? Well, Mr. Cook, as long as you are not around to many prying eyes... you just became my next donor..." He then pressed a button on the panel.
Back the bushes, Jim and Yuri led the gang through the bushes.
"It was somewhere around here that electro-wave meter was at its strongest," Jim stated. Soon, the meter's handle climbed to near max. Afterwards, Shirley started flailing violently on his back. "Yuri..."
The Indigenous duelist took Jim's handkerchief from his neck and tied it around Shirley's eyes, making her calm once more. "There you go, Shirley." She said, soothingly.
"Why are you doing that?" Allyson asked.
"When a crocodile's eyes are closed, they are instinctively calm," Yuri explained. "So even with these electro-waves, she won't be flailing around like that anymore."
"Thanks," Jim nodded as he continued to lead the group.
Next, a growling was heard which only alerted Syrus, Reyna, and Jesse in the back. They turned to see Hassleberry walking slowly, but with dinosaur slit pupils in his eyes staring at Jim and Shirley.
"Uh, Hassleberry," Reyna asked, "You okay?"
"Rrragh!" the dino duelist snarled as he made a breakaway towards the crocodile and its owner. But before the two could notice, Kylie jumped him and double kicked Hassleberry out the way.
"Kylie, what you do that for?" Yuri scolded the kangaroo. But then she got her answer when Hassleberry charged at her, and she was quick to counter the charge and force him on his belly. This gave her the chance to put him in a headlock while sitting on his back to keep him grounded. "Okay, what the heck's going on with you?"
"It must be his Dinosaur DNA acting up," Syrus figured. "He told me and Jaden last year about an accident that caused him to replace a bone in his leg with dino bone. So that will make him part dinosaur..."
"Which makes him part-Reptile," Jim concluded. "Since his fighting instinct's gone haywire, looks like I'll have to beat it out of him in a duel! Hey dino boy!" Hassleberry responded with his eyes on Jim. "Instead of fighting with Shirley, Kylie, or Yuri, how about we have a fair game?" Hassleberry narrowed his eyes as a response, and stared at his duel disk arm. "Yuri, get over here and get Shirley. Quick!"
Yuri quickly released the dino duelist, who quickly stood up himself while the South Academy girl rolled over to Jim, unstrapped the pack with Shirley and put it on her back.
"Wow, that was cool," Reyna said in awe.
"Right, never seen moves like that," Crystal added.
"But why's Jim trying to get a duel from Hassleberry now?" Allyson wondered.
"Dinosaurs are some of my favorite animals, and fossils to excavate," Jim replied. "In fact, crocodiles and dinosaurs share a common ancestor in being reptiles. So that would make Shirley and Hassleberry cousins now." Soon, Hassleberry growled as he turned on his duel disk and drew his opening hand. "And he still has some instinct in him as a duelist, so he should focus his attention on me."
"Looks like he's dueling by instinct," Jesse figured.
"But what if tries to attack us again," Syrus whimpered.
"He won't, but you guys better stand back," Jim stated as everyone else stood to the side with Yuri and Kylie. Then, the South Academy duelist pulled out his duel disk, which was like a grey-colored boomerang, strapped it on and drew his opening hand. "Let's go!"
Hassleberry: 8000
Jim: 8000
Hassleberry growled, drawing his sixth card. He then played his card bringing out a small, brown velociraptor growling menacingly at its opponent. (3/1400/400)
"That's Gilasaurus," Jaden said, "And he Special Summoned it, meaning he can summon another one.
The dino duelist continued, putting another monster card on the field, bring it out a flaming, chicken-like dinosaur with blue, orange, and red colored. (2/1200/0)
"Alright, he's got everything set up for Tuning them up," Yuri exclaimed. "That's Jurrac Gallim, a Tuner Monster."
The dino duelist roared along with his monsters as Gallim burst into flames, transforming into two Tuning rings that surrounded Gilasaurus to transform into three stars. More flames erupted from the process, bringing out a larger, Velociraptor-type dinosaur with a blue head, flaming red body, and green feet which had curved claws on the big toes. (5/?/?)
"Jurrac Velphito," Yuri continued, "That beast gains ATK and DEF equal to Synchro Material monsters used." Velphito growled, staring at the opposition. (5/?-2600/?-400)
Hasslberry then inserted a facedown card.
"A 2600 ATK monster on the first turn," Crystal said, impressed. "The guy's out of his mind and he's still got a good monster out."
"Still, he should be wary of Jim's deck," Yuri interjected. "There's a reason he knows so much about dinosaurs. And if Hassleberry's dueling by instinct, then it has a limit."
"And I say that seeing Hassleberry duel like this is cool," Jaden said.
"I agree with ya, Jaden," Jesse added.
"As long he's not trying to hurt people," Allyson said, wary of the dino duelist in his current state.
"It's my turn now," Jim announced, drawing his sixth card. "I summon the monster Flint Cragger!" After playing his card, he brought out a skeleton of a dinosaur with a crest-like head that rose out of the ground. (3/800/1300) "Next, I activate his special ability! By sending him to the graveyard, I can deal 500 points of damage to you, Hassleberry!"
The fossil unleashed a fireball from its mouth, blasting the dino duelist on his back.
Hassleberry: 7500
Jim: 8000
Afterwards, Flint Cragger went back into the hole it dug itself out of.
Hassleberry rubbed the pain on his head, and stared at Jim with anger. "Hey, what was that for?" He shouted, and that was when everyone noticed that his eyes were noticeably gone back to being human.
"He's snapped out of it," Syrus stated.
"At least he's back to normal," Allyson added.
"But what about Jim," Crystal wondered. "Without that monster he sent to protect himself, Hassleberry will dominate the duel with a monster with 2600 ATK."
"Oh, he'll be fine," Yuri waved off. "I'd say, if Hassleberry didn't Synchro Summon, he'd have a better time if that was all Jim was going to do."
Jim then pulled out a Spell Card from his hand, depicting two fossils heading into a fusion vortex. "I activate the Spell Fossil Fusion!"
"Fossil Fusion?" Hassleberry asked, "What kind of card is that?"
"Gotta say, you oughta be ashamed of yourself," the South Academy duelist chuckled a bit. "You call yourself an expert Dino Duelist." Hassleberry grumbled, "This Spell card Fuses Monsters from both of our graveyards to make a Fossil Fusion Monster."
Soon, the ground started rumbling having the spectators stand their ground as two rock slabs from both sides of the field rose up. On Hassleberry's side, was a fossil of Gilasaurus. On Jim's side was Flint Cragger embedded within the rock slab. Then, the two rock slabs melded together and formed a bright light behind Jim.
"I excavate the remains of your Gilasaurus and my Flint Cragger, and Fusion Summon Fossil Dragon Skullgar!"
The light disappeared and brought forth a dinosaur with steel-hard body and spikes along its back. Red eyes peered from its skull head and looked upon Jurrac Velphito. (6/2500/0)
"Well, I'll be," Hassleberry gasped. "Who knew you could mix and match your fossils like that?"
"Obviously, you never took Intro to Archeological Dueling," Jim stated. "Unearthing fossils is lesson one. Loved that course so much, I took it twice and got an A both times."
"Yeah, it was thanks to having that class during his second time that I passed," Yuri added.
"It still doesn't mean that you can beat me my monster," the dino duelist stated. "Have you noticed that your monster's 100 ATK short?"
"Then I guess, you can think about this card I have," Jim continued as he inserted another card into his disk. It depicted a giant fist dropping out of the sky, "I activate the Spell, Fossil Hammer! This destroys one of your monsters with the highest level, and you're forced to Special Summon one from your graveyard in attack mode one with a lower level."
The dino duelist gasped as he saw a giant rock fist drop out of the sky and smashed the Synchro monster into pixels.
"And the only monster you can summon is your Jurrac Galim."
"Aw man," Hassleberry grumbled as he retrieved the monster card in question and put it out on the field, letting the chicken-like dino return. (2/1200/0)
"Now Skullgar, take out that monster!" Jim commanded as the towering fossil stomped across the field and then stomped down on Hassleberry's dino, flattening the creature.
Hassleberry: 6200
Jim: 8000
"Guess those instincts didn't help you out there," the Fossil duelist stated.
"Actually, they did," Hassleberry grinned, making Jim and the others looked confused. "Since you destroyed Gallim, I can destroy the monster that destroyed him. An eye for an eye they say, but you can discard a card to negate the effect. So what's it going to be?"
The Fossil Duelist looked over his three-card hand to make his decision, and decided. "I'll discard!" He announced as he discarded his monster. "But it still means, I can play my Gogogo Golem in defense mode." He announced, bringing out a giant monster with a body made of a rock fortress and had metal limbs with black fists. (4/1800/1500) "I'll end my turn."
"So nearly Hassleberry got the best of this round, despite losing life points," Yuri said. "But let's see what else he could do with those instincts of his."
"It's my move," Hassleberry announced, drawing his next card. "I summon Jurrac Velo!" A strange looking velociraptor appeared in front of the dino duelist. It had blue claws, a yellow-green colored body and a red colored head. It snarled at the knight with bloodlust. (4/1700/1000"Tear apart that rock to shreds!"
Velo roared as it charged at the stone monster. But once the raptor reached the defender, the dino was repelled by a giant punch.
"Once per turn, while in Defense mode, my Golem can't be destroyed in battle." Jim explained.
"Then it's your move now." Hassleberry concluded.
"Alright, then I'll get right to it," the Fossil duelist stated, drawing his next card. "I start with Dowsing Bang!" He announced, while inserting a Spell card depicting a pair of Dowsing Rods. "This Spell will remove a monster from your graveyard, like your Jurrac Velphito and then destroy a monster your field of the same type but a lower level! Meaning Jurrac Velo's going to the graveyard!"
Soon, a giant pair of hands came out of the Spell hologram holding a pair of dowsing rods. Once it they spread apart, the ground broke apart and released the fossil remains of Jurrac Velphito, startling everyone. The fossil then took Velo in its mouth and then jumped back into the ground with it.
"Man, Hassleberry can't keep a monster on the field long enough to defend himself," Jesse stated.
"Now, I attack you directly with Fossil Dragon Skullgar!" Jim announced as his fossil monster charged in and slammed Hassleberry with its tail.
Hassleberry: 3700
Jim: 8000
"But what about the facedown card," Crystal stated, "Hassleberry's getting beat left and right."
"I then summon Sample Fossil," Jim continued, playing a monster card. It released a machine that looked to be made of rock, with a tank like torso and wheels. Its green 'eyes' lit up and its club-like hands raised up towards the ground. (2/?/0) "When this card is Normal Summoned, it can dig up a Dinosaur Monster up to level 4 and put it on my side! Lucky for you, it can't attack!"
Hassleberry gasped as the new monster launched its hands into the hole and brought out a fossil of Jurrac Velo with a stand underneath it, like it was part of an exhibit. (4/1700/1000). "Give him back!"
"But if I did, I wouldn't be able to borrow its ATK," the Fossil Duelist stated as a white glow, surrounded Sample Fossil. (4/?-1700/0)
"Four monsters, and Hassleberry's going to be in for a fight with just two of them," Jesse stated.
The dino duelist grinned at his opponent, "Well, if you're not going to give it back... I'll just destroy all of them with my trap card!" He then revealed his facedown card, showing off a trap that depicted a giant meteor falling towards Earth, about to impact. "This is Jurassic Impact! And once activated, when I have fewer life points than yours, I can destroy all monsters on the field and hit you with 1000 points for each one you control! It's payback time!" He shouted with his eyes becoming dinosaur slit ones.
"Oh no," Jim gasped as he looked up into skies, and saw burning meteors which ended up blanketing the field and tearing it apart, blowing up all of his monsters. He then felt the burning sting of the flames hitting him.
Hassleberry: 3700
Jim: 4000
"Whoa, what a comeback!" Yuri gasped as Kylie's eyes went wide at the destruction of the field. "He completely took everything Jim had!"
"Nice one, Hassleberry," Jaden cheered, seeing his friend smirk.
"Yeah, but the side effect is that no one can Summon monsters until the end of Jim's next turn," Syrus added.
"At least he was able to do what he needed," Allyson figured.
Jim chuckled, "Looks like I underestimated you quite a bit. But I won't be making the same mistake again. Take your turn, mate."
"You got it," Hassleberry replied, drawing his next card. "I'll place two cards facedown and defer back to you!" He concluded, inserting two of his cards into his disk.
"Alright then," Jim announced, drawing his next card. "I'll just set one card facedown and then let you go." And once he said that, the lava from Hassleberry's trap card had vanished.
"Now they're clear and Hassleberry has shot to deal out more damage," Crystal stated.
"Here I go," Hassleberry announced, drawing his next card. "I summon the Tuner Monster, Jurrac Aeolo!" Once he played his card, it brought out a white egg with flames on it. Soon, it cracked apart on the top and released a baby blue and yellow Allosaurus. (1/200/200"I then use his special ability, sacrificing him to the graveyard and then Special Summoning Jurrac Velo from the graveyard since it's has to be Level 4 or below!"
Everyone watched as the baby vanished into pixels, and brought back the smaller, Jurrac raptor to the field. (4/1700/1000)
"And then, I activate the Field Spell card Jurassic World which boosts the strength of all my dinos by 300!" He continued, inserting his card into the Field Slot. Once it closed, it transformed the forest into a more primitive one which also included an inactive volcano. Jurrac Velo was now feeling right at home. (4/1700-2000/1000-1300) "Velo, attack the enemy directly!"
Velo charged with great speed and then got Jim's disk arm with a sharp bite.
Hassleberry: 3700
Jim: 2000
"And from that damage, I activate Shock Draw!" Jim countered, revealing his facedown card. "I draw 1 card for every 1000 points I lost this turn." He then drew out two cards.
"It's your move, soldier," Hassleberry concluded.
"Right then," the Fossil Duelist announced, drawing his next card. "First, I activate Burial from a Different Dimension which puts up to three monsters that's Banished back into our graveyards, and I choose your Jurrac Velphito and my Flint Cragger."
Both players then took out their respective Banished monsters and placed them back into their graveyards.
"We know what's coming now," Allyson stated as Jim pulled out another card.
"Now, I'll start excavating more cards with Fossil Fusion!" the Fossil Duelist announced with a grin. "And this time I remove the monsters, Flint Cragger and Jurrac Velphito from the graveyards in order to Fusion Summon my Fossil Dragon Skullcrush!" Both monsters that were banished came back as fossils once more, and fused into a fusion vortex in the ground. Rising from it, was a large skeleton of a triceratops that roared towards the opposition. (7/3000/0)
"Here we go again," Syrus said, preparing for what was coming next.
"I activate the trap, Hunting Instinct!" Hassleberry interrupted, revealing a trap card depicting a food chain: The dinosaur hunts the snake, the snake hunts the frog, the frog is hunting the butterfly, and the butterfly is hunting the flower. "Since you Special Summoned a monster, I can special summon a dinosaur monster from my hand! And I pick another Jurrac Velo in attack mode!"
In blaze of flame, an identical raptor to the one of the field appeared. (4/1700-2000/1000-1300)
"That monster," Reyna asked, confused
"A bad move," Yuri said.
"But he could have set a trap," Allyson pointed out.
"Actually it was a great move," the Fossil Duelist announced, "In fact, he would have lost more points if he left it defense mode, since Skullcrush does piercing damage."
"I knew it," Hassleberry grinned.
"So, you deserve my respect for figuring out the monster but your dino's still going down!" Jim shouted as the fossil monster charged in and ran through the Jurrac dino with its horns. Hassleberry braced himself as the fossil continued to charge and then hit him with the second Velo, shattering against the duelist.
Hassleberry: 2700
Jim: 2000
"Ouch," Reyna winced. "He may have saved some points, but he still got clobbered."
"It's cool, he's still got a special ability to use," Jaden replied.
"And I activate his special ability also," the Jurrac duelist continued, "I can special summon Jurrac Ptera from my deck in defense mode!"
Soon, flames erupted and brought out a green, flaming pterodactyl that defended with its wings. (3/800-1100/1500-1800)
"Looks like that's it for me," Jim concluded.
"And I'll get my chance," Hassleberry announced, drawing his next card. "Perfect! I summon the Tuner Monster, Jurrac Brachis!" He announced as he brought out a flaming, red and purple brachiosaurus that rose up from the ground. (3/1000-1300/1000-1300)
"Sweet, another Synchro Monster!" Reyna cheered.
"I tune Level 3 Ptera and Level 4 Velo, with Level 3 Brachis!" The Jurrac duelist continued as Brachis stomped the ground, becoming three tuning rings to surround Ptera and Velo, becoming seven stars total.
"What lead to the original death of the dinosaurs will be brought back to bring in the new era of the world! Synchro Summon! Impact, Jurrac Meteor!"
The light of the Synchro Summoning, shot up to the skies before disappearing.
"Huh, what happened?" Crystal wondered.
"Did the Synchro Summoning fail?" Jesse asked.
Kylie then whimpered before hiding behind Yuri, who looked concerned, and even felt Shirley tensing up despite being calm when her eyes were covered.
"What's wrong with you two?" She asked as she patted Shirley and looked into the kangaroo's eyes, following them to the skies and gasped herself. "It didn't fail, look!"
Everyone turned to the point where Yuri was looking, and gasped as well. They saw a flaming, spiked meteor pushing through the atmosphere, getting closer and closer.
"Wait a sec, I see a monster in there!" Jaden pointed out, and he was right. A meteor was attached to the back of a dinosaur with rough, bump silver scales, a long powerful tail, and with green and blue arms. (10/2800-3100/2000-2300) "It's huge!"
"Don't tell me he's going to destroy everything again," Syrus said.
"That's exactly what I'm going to do despite the irony of that dinosaur could have caused the Ice Age to wipe out the rest of them," Hassleberry stated. "When Jurrac Meteor's Synchro Summoned, I can destroy all cards on the field!"
Crystal gasped, "He'll be destroying his own monster and it barely hit the field!"
"Not all of them, I activate Interdimensional Matter Transporter!" Hassleberry announced, as he revealed his facedown card. "Before Meteor destroys himself, I'll remove him from the game until the End Phase! Leaving everything else to go!"
Soon, the monster broke apart from the meteor and floated back up to the sky and left the flaming rock to impact the earth, burning up Jurassic World and Jim's Fossil Monster, shattering them all.
"But what's in it for you?" Jim said over the fire, "You have nothing left to play and I could very well end it on my next turn!"
"Because Meteor has another effect! I can Special Summon a Tuner monster from the graveyard!" the Jurrac duelist explained, retrieving a monster from his graveyard. "Come back, Jurrac Aeolo!" Once placed the card back on the field, the baby Allosaurus returned to the field. (1/200/200) "But then, I can send him back the graveyard in order to bring back Jurrac Velo per the effect!" The baby dino vanished once again, and brought back the young velociraptor for another go. (4/1700/1000) "And he'll attack directly!"
With quick foot work, the Jurrac monster dashed across the field and rammed Jim to his back.
Hassleberry: 2700
Jim: 300
"It's almost done," Hassleberry concluded, "Now, I end my turn and Jurrac Meteor returns to field without the big rock on its back. In flash, the dino carrying the meteor was back having its body become hardened black after the impact of the meteor. (10/2800/2000) Soon, the fire had been extinguished leaving the original forest area right where it was.
"Alright, he's almost got the win!" Jaden cheered.
"These Jurrac Monsters are great!" Jesse added.
"And you guys forgot about the weird energy readings that Jim and Yuri were talking about earlier..." Syrus sighed.
"You're in trouble, Jim," Yuri said, "What are you going to do?"
'Don't know, Yuri,' the Fossil Duelist thought to himself looking at his two cards. 'I got a Rock Monster in the grave already and my final Fossil Fusion ready to play. But I need to get a high-level monster into his graveyard over level 7... which means I need THAT card!' He then drew his next card, "I activate Pot of Greed!" The grinning pot appeared, letting Jim draw two more cards. "Now I activate Specimen Inspection!" He announced, inserting his Spell card into the disk. It depicted a fossil exhibit at a museum. "I send one monster to the graveyard, like my Fossil Tusker and you have to send a monster to your graveyard that matches the type and level I announced. And I pick a Level 7 Dinosaur monster!"
Hassleberry sighed as he searched through his deck and pulled out the monster of Jim's choice. "Jurrac Spinos, I'll discharge you."
"Now, I play my final Fossil Fusion!" Jim continued, playing his fusion card, "I remove Sample Fossil and your Jurrac Spinos to Fusion Summon Fossil Dragon Skullgios!" The two monsters appeared as their fossilized state and went into fusion vortex in the ground. Soon, a bunch of dinosaur bones erupted from the vortex and reformed into the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. (8/3500/0) "And then, I'll give him Invigoration to boost his ATK by 400!" the skeleton growled as his bones started glowing bright grey. (8/3500-3900/0)
"Lucky for Hassleberry, his monsters aren't in defense mode," Reyna pointed out, "Otherwise he wouldn't have another turn to spare."
"Skullgious, attack Velo!" Jim commanded as his dino skeleton charged towards the shorter raptor dino.
"That will leave him with 500 points plus another monster from his deck," Crystal figured, "Due to the Special Ability of Velo."
Suddenly, Jim snapped his fingers and shouted, "Wait!"
On command, Skullgios stopped right when it was going to bite Velo.
"Why he'd stop?" Hassleberry asked.
"Sorry, but I have to talk about his Special Ability," the Fossil Duelist stated, "During the Damage Step, my monster can swap the original ATK and DEF of your monster!" Everyone gasped as the points of Velo were changed. (10/1700-1000/1000-1700) "And by dealing 2900 points of damage, it's all she wrote!" He then snapped his fingers once again, having his Fossil sink its teeth into Velo, crushing the dino into pixels and ending the game.
Hassleberry: 0
Jim: 300, Winner.
But as soon as the duel was over, both Jim's and Hassleberry's Bio-Bands flashed bright orange and caused two bright orange and black beams to shoot out from them and zoom over to somewhere else.
Jim was able to see it, but then started shaking and whispered, "I'm all tuckered out..."
Hassleberry was shaking as well, before he fell to his knees.
"Hassleberry!" Jaden and Jesse cried.
"Jim!" Yuri and Crystal gasped.
"That's weird," Hassleberry said, weakly, "Something sucked the life out of me..."
"So it's true," Jim added, as he weakly raised his Bio-Band arm. "When the duel ended, I could feel it activate and drained me. And now, I'm going to have a bit of nap if you don't mind!" He then collapsed on his belly.
"Over and out, boys and girls," Hassleberry added as he fell over on his back.
"Oh no!" Yuri shouted as she, Syrus, Crystal, and Kylie ran over to Jim.
"We gotta get them to the infirmary," Reyna added as Jesse and Jaden helped her get Hassleberry.
In the lab, Viper saw the conclusion of the duel via the spy cameras, impressed with the results of the Bio-Band absorption.
'Thank you gentlemen,' He smirked. 'Your energy will make a wealthy donation!' He then thought about two other people and put his screen set to the profiles of several students. Two came up to the front: Kurogasa Kururugi and Jachin Chong. 'For meddling into my affairs and compromising my goal, I should make it Bio-Bands high enough so it would shut you two up. But since your duel will be a public one with all the teachers watching, I'll have to set it back to where I began with the opening day. That should humiliate you two enough that no one will heed your warnings about the Bio-Bands again.' He then chuckled as he made the necessary changes before leaving. "Then, I'll continue my work in the private setting."
Meanwhile, Jachin and Kurogasa were outside the Obelisk Blue dorm going over their plan to expose Viper.
"You're gonna WHAT?" Jachin asked in disbelief.
"I'm gonna tweak our Bio-Bands high enough so that it would cause us to just drain a little extra, but not to point of us collapsing and us being unconscious." Kurogasa said.
"Damn man, that's crazy."
"Maybe, but it's the only way of how we're going to expose Viper to what he's really up to." Kurogasa said.
"Yeah, I know." Jachin said. "But even if we go through with this? How are we gonna tweak it?"
"That's where you come in." The Haos Duelist said.
"Me?" The Persona Duelist asked confused.
"Yep. You got your duel disk on you?"
"Uh... yeah, sure." Jachin said pulling out his duel disk from his backpack.
"Good." Kurogasa said then pulling out a card from his deck, which happens to be Haos Laserman. "I need you to call Laserman out."
"Okay, sure, but why?" Jachin asked taking the card.
"You'll see."
"Alright, if you say so," Jachin said then placing Laserman's card on the disk, "Come forth, Haos Laserman!" A white and gold ball dropped to the ground and opened up. A bright light shone and a huge white and yellow marked robot with 4 long barrels on its shoulders, 2 on each side stacked on top of the other, appeared.
"Hey Laserman!" Kurogasa called making the robot turn to him.
"Greetings, User Kuro." The robot said in a computer monotone voice. "How may I be of assistance?"
"I need you to do some adjustments..."
Later on, everyone was called to the main arena by Viper who was confused as to why he wanted a duel to take place all of a sudden.
"Everyone, I have a brief announcement to make so listen up!" Viper announced, gaining full attention. "This duel is to punish those who spread rumors and lies about myself and my methods. As you all have heard, these two people have said my Bio-Bands are causing people to collapse." He then looked around the room, "And I seen nearly the entire student body and faculty member here, so it's false. But to show how true my statement is, I'll bring in the accused! For it may be their last duel!"
Soon, Kurogasa and Jachin had come into the arena from opposite sides causing people to gasp.
"Those two?" Bradshaw gasped.
"And if Viper's mad at them, they're going to be gone after this!" Kairi added.
"Kurogasa..." Mikoto gasped.
Xiu Zhen narrowed her eyes at Jachin, 'It shouldn't have been this way, Jachin... maybe you'll focus on real people instead of card crushes."
"I expect you two to duel with everything you have," Viper told the boys, once they reached the dueling spots of the arena. "If you succeed in impressing me, I may overlook your transgressions." He then proceeded to one of the lower level seats.
"Well Kurogasa, let's hope we don't disappoint the Professor," Jachin said with a kind smile.
"Won't be doing that since I always play my hardest," Kurogasa replied with a shrug. "Just come at me with everything you have."
"Deal!"
Both players activated their disks and drew their opening hands.
"GAME ON!"
Kurogasa: 8000
Jachin: 8000
"Well, I'll go first if you don't mind. And since we're supposed to go out... Ore no ta-n!" Kurogasa announced, drawing his sixth card. "I summon Haos Juggernoid in defense mode." After he played his card, the light unleashed a giant white and yellow colored tortoise monster hiding within its shell. (4/1000/2000) "I then place one card facedown." He concluded, inserting his facedown card.
"That defense won't help you out against me," Jachin stated, drawing his sixth card. "I place one card facedown." He inserted a card into his disk, "And then, I activate the Spell Card of Sanctity, and then I'll chain it with Offerings to Doomed, and then Chain Summoning!"
Everyone gasped as they saw the Persona duelist play three cards in the same Chain Link.
"He's aiming to summon three monsters in a turn," Allen figured out.
"It was like that guy they sent against Jaden last year," Lyra added. "The one with the Monarchs..."
"You're not wasting any time, aren't you?" the Haos duelist asked with a smile.
"He said, play aggressively and that's what I'm going to do," the Persona duelist replied back with a smile. "First, Chain Summoning resolves giving me the chance to Normal Summon three times this turn. Next, Offerings to the Doomed destroys your only monster by giving up my next Draw Phase, but that's okay since I have Card of Sanctity having us both draw until we're holding six of them. And with four cards added, I can spare the Draw Phase!"
Soon, Chain Summoning flashed to spread its magic over Jachin's side of the field. Then, Offerings to the Doomed fired a light laser to blast Juggernoid into pixels. Finally, Kurogasa drew two cards while Jachin drew four.
"This new kid's not putting up much of a fight," Chazz scoffed. "Jachin's going to walk all over this new kid."
"Bet he'll win with more tact than you did against me," Sam teased, making the Ojama duelist grunt.
"Now to take advantage of Chain Summoning," Jachin announced, putting three monster cards on the duel tray, "I summon my Personas Tomoe Gozen, Penthesilea, the Amazonian Queen, and Lucia the Blind Saint!"
First appearing was Tomoe Gozen; a woman with short, light brown hair in wearing golden, samurai's armor complete with a helmet and drew out her sword ready to fight. (4/1900/100)
The second, Penthesilea, an iron-masked queen clad in silver armor, feminine from the figure, with a tiara on her head and wielding a dagger and a rapier... (4/1000/1000)
The third, Lucia, a white-haired woman in a white Saint's robe and her eyes and throat covered in bandages. Oddly, she carried a sliver plate that had two eyes on it. (4/1000/1000)
"Ladies, meet Kurogasa," Jachin introduced, "Kurogasa meet the three ladies planning to deal a triple-direct attack! Especially since Penthesilea gives all Warrior-Type monsters an extra 200 ATK, meaning she and Tomoe are powered up!"
Silver light surrounded the two female warriors in question. (4/1900-2100/100), (4/1000-1200/1000)
"Well, if you weren't so focused on summoning, you forgot to check my trap card," Kurogasa announced, as he showed off the trap card. It depicted a dragon monster looking a copy of itself. "It's called Chronic Déjà Vu! And it activates when you summon a monster, which I used once Lucia was summoned."
"What does it do," the Persona duelist asked.
"It summons a token monster for each monster you control, and that would be three my friend," the Haos duelist explained. "They all have the same stats and effects as Lucia!"
Jachin gasped as three lights appeared on Kurogasa's field, bringing out three clones of Lucia in defense mode. (4/1000/1000) x 3 "So that means, I can't destroy them in battle."
"And that will help him immensely when it comes to Synchro Summoning," Mikoto stated. "All he needs is a Tuner."
"Glad I didn't jump the gun," Kurogasa sighed in relief.
"You're not out of the fire, yet," Jachin warned, "Look at what I saved facedown to make the best of my draw." He then pressed the button on his card, showing off a glowing card in the hand of a grey-haired boy wearing black glasses over his grey eyes. "This is my Spell, Persona Fight! For every Persona on the field, I can have them gain 200 ATK plus piercing damage for this turn!"
The glowing card appeared in front of Jachin, letting hold it within his duel disk hand. He then crushed it and shouted, "PERSONA!" The shattered remains of the card floated from Jachin's hand and flew around the three Persona monsters, boosting their strength. (4/2100-2700/100), (4/1000-1600/1000), (4/1200-1800/1000)
"Uh oh," The Haos duelist said, bracing himself.
"Ladies, attack those clones!" the Silfer shouted as his monsters charged at a respective Lucia clone.
"Taste my Blade of Honor!" Tomoe shouted, slashing the first clone.
"True Eye's Beam!" Lucia cried, firing twin beams into the second.
"Feel the Amazon Wrath Strike!" Penthesilea yelled, stabbing through the third.
Each of the strikes, unleashed a wave towards the Haos Duelist to translate the piercing damage.
Kurogasa: 4900
Jachin: 8000
"Three grand in damage," Jethro stated, "Jachin's giving Hell."
"And it's only the beginning if Kurogasa delivers as much as he's getting," Vincent added.
"He'd better get ready to counterstrike," said a new voice, proving to be Adrian taking a seat next to Tetsu.
"Where have you been?" Tetsu asked.
"Nowhere, really," Adrian replied. "Just took me longer to get here."
Dusting himself off from the impact, Kurogasa said, "You certainly are strong for someone whose monsters usually have 1000 ATK and DEF."
"Just like when you saw me tagging with Xiu Zhen the day of the Tag Duels, we both have ways of making our monsters a threat whether seemingly weak, or strong." Jachin replied. "It's your turn." Once he declared it, his Persona monsters powered down. (4/2700-2100/100), (4/1600-1000/1000), (4/1800-1200/1000)
"Ore no ta-n," Kurogasa shouted, drawing his next card, making seven in his hand. He then inserted one of them, "I activate Double Summon, giving me two monsters for the price one!"
"Now he's summoning more," Fidel noted.
"Time for Double the Tuners, with Haos El Condor and Barrier Resonator," the Haos duelist continued, playing two monster cards. One was the Aztec masked man floating in the sky. (3/1300/1100) The second was a short, fiend holding up a tuning fork and drumstick with a pack with lightning rods on its back. (1/300/800)
"Here we go," Jethro added.
"I tune one of the Level 4 Déjà vu Tokens with Level 1 Barrier Resonator!" Barrier Resonator struck its tuning fork and vibrated, dissolving into a sphere of aura that split into one glowing ring. The rings encircled one of the Lucia clones, reducing her to a framework that split into four glowing stars. The stars aligned within the rings before connecting as one, bursting into light.
The light of justice will always prevail! Let it shine on the darkness of injustice! Synchro Summon! Appear now, Haos Contestir!
A beam of light shot out of the rings and a warrior-like creature that looked mechanical appeared. He was armored from the chest, yet wearing a white-colored jumpsuit underneath it. (5/2200/1800)
"Next, I activate Contestir's ability! When he's successfully Synchro Summoned, I can discard one card from my hand to cut your dragon's attack power in half, but by doing so, I can't destroy it in battle!" Kurogasa said as he discarded one card from his hand to the graveyard. Contestir unleashed an aura that drained Lucia of her strength. (4/1000-500/1000)
"And number two; I tune another Level 4 Déjà Vu Token with Level 3 El Condor!" He continued as El Condor chanted in foreign language before becoming three glowing rings. They encircled another Lucia clone, reducing her into another four glowing stars. The light erupted from the Synchro Summoning process...
"From the depths of a dark heart, let the light shine on your heart with its blessing! Synchro Summon! Appear now, Haos Lars Lion!"
When the light appeared a majestic female angelic warrior appeared. She was dressed in white robes with crescent moons on them, and several strands of the robe flying over her. She had light purple armor over her chest and a crown on her head. (7/2500/2000)
"And with her Synchro Summoning, she gives all monsters on my side of the field 500 ATK," Kurogasa explained as Lars Lion enveloped everyone on his side of the field with a holy light. (7/2500-3000/2000), (5/2200-2700/1800), (4/1000-1500/1000)
"Lucia, brace yourself," Jachin said, as the Blind Saint raised her silver plate for defense.
"Lars Lion, attack with Sagittarius Arrow!" The Haos Duelist commanded as a bow formed on Lars Lion's wrist and an arrow made of light was formed as well. She fired the arrow and it hit the Blind Saint's plate, but impact threw her back.
Kurogasa: 4900
Jachin: 5500
"Contestir, your turn to attack," He continued, "Power Fist," Contestir leaped from his spot and performed on axehandle slam onto Lucia's plate, with a shockwave hitting Kurogasa again.
Kurogasa: 4900
Jachin: 3300
"Their first turns attacking, and they are dishing out the business," Alex exclaimed. "I'm enjoying this!"
"You and me both," Vincent smiled. "Kurogasa's dueling with a lot more power than normal."
"I then place one card facedown to end my turn," Kurogasa concluded, while inserting a facedown card. "Let's see some more, dude!"
"Be careful what you wish for," the Persona duelist warned, beginning his next turn. "I activate the Spell Persona Evolution! This makes all my monsters evolve into their Persona Immortal forms! I was just testing the waters with you, but now I know I can't win unless I use my best! But thing is, with only two cards left, I can only evolve Lucia and Penthesilea into Persona Immortals Juno and Artemisia!"
Two monsters in question were enveloped in tower of light with only their silhouettes visible, showing off their growth.
First, the light around Penthesilea's evolved form started to fade away and showed off wearing Persian Battle Armor and dress combination, wielding a chain whip. (8/2400/2000) Then, Lucia's light faded away to show off her red and blue, ballroom gown with a peacock's ornament feather around her. (8/2400/2000)
"For Juno's effect, none of your feminine monsters can touch her," Jachin explained, looking to his ballroom gown clad Immortal. "As for the new Artemisia, all warrior monsters gain 1000 ATK!" He stated as a sliver aura surrounded the second Immortal stretched out her whip while Tomoe, spun her blade around. (8/2400-3400/2000), (4/1900-2900/100)
'If only I could take more energy away from this duel like I did the last,' Viper said, smiling. 'But I can't wait to see the look on their faces when their claims are proven false.'
'You want us to just fight Viper, we'll give you all we got,' Jachin thought. "Alright, Tomoe go and attack Contestir!"
"I activate my facedown card, Self Tribute!" Kurogasa countered, revealing his facedown card. "By paying 1000 life points, I save all monsters from being destroyed by anything!" A red aura surrounded the Haos Duelist, translating the payment.
Kurogasa: 3900
Jachin: 3300
Tomoe shouted a battle cry as she pierced through the Synchro Monster's torso and then cut up... but it then reformed itself thanks to the light of Self Tribute.
Kurogasa: 3700
Jachin: 3300
"Well, since he's sticking around, I'll have Artemisia whip him down!" Jachin continued as his Persona Immortal sent out quick lashes of her whip, beating down Contestir to the ground.
Kurogasa: 3000
Jachin: 3300
"They really hate being forced into this duel," Spencer stated, staring at the moves being played so far.
"From what they were saying about the Bio-Bands, I think want this to be over and done with," Fonda added. "If this is truly causing the recent collapses in duels, then we should stop it."
"But it's been authorized," Ray replied, "How can we stop it without a lawsuit waiting to happen? Viper could really blame it on the students not being tough enough, if you think about it from his end."
"I end my turn." Jachin concluded.
"You know, if those rumors are true," Kai spoke up, "We could get blamed for what Viper's doing..."
"Of course," Valencia stated. "We had a hand in monitoring the Bio-Bands thinking process, but I guess Viper hid from us again."
"Then, it'll be easy to talk since we know we're not responsible for what Kurogasa and Jachin have said." Kal noted.
"Good thing I saved my monsters, this turn," Kurogasa stated, drawing his next card. "You're really tough, difficult if I lose everything, huh?"
"I'd say," the Persona duelist replied.
"Then I better stop your Tomoe from taking out my monster," the Haos duelist added. "Lars Lion, do your thing!" The angelic warrior launched another light energy arrow, firing at the non Persona Immortal, piercing through her body and shattering her to pixels.
Kurogasa: 3000
Jachin: 3200
"And since Contestir isn't a female, he can go after Juno!" He continued as Contestir charged forth and tackled Juno to the ground, shattering her into pixels.
Kurogasa: 3000
Jachin: 2900
"I then, place another card facedown to end my turn." He concluded.
"It's slowed down now, but then again he can't touch a 3400 ATK monster right now," Jeremy stated.
"I hear you," Lily added. "That's asking for trouble."
"It's my move," Jachin announced, drawing his lone card. He then inserted the card into his disk, "I activate Persona Gift! With this, I can draw two cards for every Persona monster on my field." He then drew out two more cards. "Good cards; now, I summon Persona Konohana Sakuya in defense mode!" He announced, playing his monster card. A veil of flames erupted from the ground and inside was a raven-haired young woman wearing a white priestess robe with cherry blossoms emblazoned on it. (4/1000/1000)
"I do not like yours and Kurogasa's plan, Jachin," She said, telepathically.
'I know how you feel, but it's the only way we can warn everyone here about Viper's Bio-Bands,' He replied in thought, while inserting another card. "Now I activate the Continuous Spell, Heartful Cry!" The card image depicted two of the Persona Immortals fighting each other with the others trying to quell the battle, "Since I have two Personas, whether initial or Immortals, this card removes two monsters on your side of the field, and I choose your Déjà Vu Token and Lars Lion!"
Kurogasa gasped as both mentioned monsters vanished into sparkles.
"The only way you're getting your Synchro Monster back is if either of us is dealt at least 1000 points of damage to the other." Jachin explained, "Artemisia, attack!"
The Immortal cracked her whip against Contestir's legs causing him to fall on his face, and with another beating to the back, he shattered into pixels.
Kurogasa: 2300
Jachin: 2900
"That's my turn." Jachin stated. 'And even if he tries to deal the damage to himself release his Lars Lion, he won't be able to deal enough to me for the win!'
"My field's bare, but I'm not out yet!" Kurogasa announced, drawing his next card. Once he saw the cards in his hand, and then rechecked his facedown cardand the field he announced, "FINAL TURN!"
"Final Turn?" Mikoto parroted. "Does he have the duel won?"
"The only way to know is to see him go through with it," Lily replied. "I would think so since Jachin has nothing to protect his monsters, but the only way to beat his Persona Immortal is to fight."
Kurogasa inserted one card into his disk, "I play Monster Reborn to revive my Haos Contestir!" The angelic ankh appeared in the sky, flashing its light to revive Contestir taking up a fighting stance. (5/2200/1800) "And then, I summon the Tuner Monster Haos Monarus!" He continued, playing his monster card and brought out his butterfly-winged fairy. (3/1000/1200)
"Here comes the Synchro Summon," Vincent stated.
"I tune level 5 Contestir with Level 3 Monarus!" the Haos duelist announced as Monarus brightened up, reducing itself to three Tuning Rings and encircled Contestir, making it five stars and let the process began...
"Grinding light of the heart's soul, pierce and shatter through the darkness! Synchro Summon! Appear now! Haos Omega Leonidas!"
A beam of light shot out of the rings and then his ace white and yellow scaled dragon appeared. (8/3000/2500)
"Now, I activate his Special Ability!" He continued, "Once per turn, I can absorb half of one monster's attack from my graveyard until the end of the turn, so now I absorb Contestir's attack!" A faint image of the Synchro Warrior appeared and absorbed into Leonidas. (8/3000-4100/2500) "And then, I'll also use my Shine Palace Equip Spell, giving him 700 ATK and DEF!" He continued as Leonidas absorbed more light into its body. (8/4100-4800/2500-3200)
"Thanks for all you help, Artemisia,' Jachin thought as Artemisia braced herself.
"Now attack Artemisia with Omega Eraser!" Kurogasa commanded as the Omega symbol appeared in front of the dragon's mouth and fired a huge blue laser beam at the Immortal, knocking her off the field and made her vanish.
Kurogasa: 2300
Jachin: 1500
"And thanks to that damage being at least 1000, Heartful Cry brings back Lars Lion!" He continued as sparkles back to his side of the field, returning Lars Lion to him. (7/2500/2000)
'And now Konohana will be destroyed as well,' Xiu Zhen thought, with some hint of satisfaction.
"And even though I could beat your final monster, I won't," Kurogasa stated.
"And I thank you for that," Jachin smiled.
"You won't be saying that after I play this, the Trap Synchro Prominence!" His set card rose up, revealing a trap depicting two twin, blue tornadoes, "This card will inflict 1000 damage to my opponent for every Synchro Monster on the field! And I have two!"
'No!' the League Champion duelist grumbled.
Jachin and the other spectators gasped as a flood of energy was suddenly released from the Trap card, engulfing Jachin's entire field ending the game.
Kurogasa: 2300, Winner
Jachin: 0
Kurogasa and Jachin were just in time to see the lights of their Bio-Bands flashing a bit. They saw the energy auras being sucked out of them, but smaller than what occurred from Axel's and Claudio's duel. Still, the absorption was enough to send them to their knees and tiring themselves out, stunning the entire arena. But none so more as the visiting professors, standing in shock.
"So it's true," Kal muttered.
"That also would explain why he would cancel our classes in favor of more Survival Duels," Valencia figured.
"I think we should have a talk with him," Kai added.
Soon, the crowd got more in uproar as they were talking amongst themselves and even being wary of their Bio-Bands. Seeing this, Kurogasa and Jachin looked up to each other. Kurogasa mouthed a "Mission Accomplished" while Jachin mouthed back a "No problem."
If anyone was stunned more, it was Viper seeing the result of the duel as far as the Bio-Bands and quickly walked out of the room without anyone noticing.
'Impossible,' He thought, 'I set the Bio-Bands to the lowest level! How could those two slip through the cracks?' He was then alerted to a beeping noise in his Duel Pilot and found a message from Valencia. He opened it up and it said:
[We need to talk about your Bio-Band Technology. Meet us with Miss Fontaine and the other faculty members in 10 minutes]
Deleting the mail, he growled, "I was so close! You will pay dearly for this Mr. Kururugi and Mr. Chong..."
He was then alerted to another beep, but it was different from the normal Duel Pilot's alert. The West Academy Professor was able to calibrate his Duel Pilot to alert him of anything happening around his secret lab. He opened up the alert and saw an early video recording of Adrian snooping around his lab, seeming like he came from the back of the building. He rechecked the time, and it was indeed before the time that Jim and Hassleberry dueled. Suddenly, Viper's angry scowl turned to an evil smirk.
"Well, well, well, Mr. Gecko," He said, "Looks like you've just saved my plans... I will have to repay you shortly..."
He then got himself prepared to deal with the faculty meeting that he was to be reprimanded for, preparing an alibi...
Chapter End
