Chapter 12:
I smirked at Alexis. "Yeah, I'll duel you now if you want."
As I walked upon the duelling platform, I heard a small crowd yell out 'go Erika!' I looked in their direction and saw my fan club. Sure it was weird for people to like me like they did but I really did respect them all.
Suddenly, I realised that I didn't have my duel disk! I completely freaked out.
"Uh... One problem," I said. "I don't have a duel disk."
"Here, use mine," a female voice said.
I looked at her. It was the girl who Alexis just defeated.
She handed me her duel disk. I gave her a smile. "Thank you very much."
I strapped the duel disk onto my arm. I took out my deck, approached Alexis and handed her my deck. "Your shuffle."
We exchanged decks so we could shuffle our opponent's deck. We then handed them back after shuffling them thoroughly.
"Good luck," I said to her as I went back to my end of the arena.
"Likewise," she replied. "Let's have some fun!"
"Now you're talking!" I said as I got my duel disk ready and put my deck in its slot.
"Let's duel!" We said at the same time.
"You can go first," I told her. "You are the challenger."
"Okay then," she said as she drew a card. "I play Etoile Cyber in attack mode."
A woman with long brown hair appeared on the duelling platform. She wore a tutu and had bits of red covering her pale blue skin. She looked like a pretty ballerina. I saw that she had 1200 attack points and 1600 defence points.
"I'll play two face downs and end my turn," Alexis declared. She slotted two cards into the spell and trap card zone on her duel disk. The two cards appeared face down in front of her.
I loved this holographic technology. Maybe I should make my own fan club on its inventor and founder of the school. Gosh he's so cool! He's such a good duellist! And I love his monsters – a whole deck of-
"Hey, Erika, it's your move now," Alexis said as I snapped out of my daydream.
"Thanks," I said as I drew my card.
I looked in my hand. The deck I had on me was my wind deck. In my hand were simple cards such as Elegant Egotist and Harpies Pet Dragon. I already knew that I was going to play the card I just drew.
"I summon Harpie Lady 1 in attack mode!" I declared.
A woman with long red hair flew down to the playing field. She had arms with green feathers, wings. In the place of hands, she had long and sharp claws like a hawk. I always thought that she was a rather pretty creature.
"Erika! She only has 1300 attack points!" Alexis warned me.
I smirked. "No she doesn't. My Harpie Lady's ability increases the attack of all wind monsters by 300 points."
Harpie Lady's attack suddenly rose from 1300 to 1600.
"I'll then play the spell card Elegant Egotist," I declared as I placed the face up spell card into the spell and trap card zone. I then searched through my deck for a card, found it, and then shuffled my deck again. "I special summon Harpie Lady Sisters from my deck!"
As I placed a card on my monster card zone, three more Harpie Lady's appeared. One looked like the one that was already on the field, the second had short orange hair and the third had spiky blue hair. All three ladies were wearing golden armour. This card had 1950 attack and 2100 defence points.
"And thanks to my first Harpie Lady, these three lovely ladies gain 300 attack points making their attack rise to 2250," I told Alexis. "I'll attack your Etoile Cyber with my first Harpie Lady!"
Harpie Lady 1 swooped in to claw Alexis' Etoile Cyber. Suddenly Alexis placed an arm out to the field.
"You activated my trap card – Dobl Passé!" She declared.
A pink trap card revealed itself.
"It allows your Harpie Lady to attack my life points directly instead of my Etoile Cyber. My Etoile Cyber then can attack your life points directly."
My Harpie Lady swooped passed Etoile Cyber and went straight for Alexis. Her claws slashed her. Alexis flinched as her life points went down from 4000 to 2400.
I saw Etoile Cyber swiftly move towards me. She did a twirl then came in and kicked me before going back to her side of the field.
"Oh and in the damage step, Etoile Cyber's attack damage raises by 500, giving you 1700 points of damage," Alexis informed me.
My life points went down from 4000 to 2300.
"Did you see how she didn't flinch when Alexis' monster attacked her directly?" I heard a guy say. "I've only seen Zane be able to do that."
I smirked a little. Since I knew that we had something in common with our duelling made me confident in this duel.
"I think I'll attack your Etoile Cyber with my Harpie Lady Sisters," I told Alexis, ignoring her second face down card.
The Harpie Lady Sisters swooped in and together launched a beam towards Etoile Cyber, causing her to shatter into pieces.
"I activate my trap card Call of the Haunted to bring my Etoile Cyber back from the graveyard," Alexis declared as her life points went down from 2300 to 1350.
Etoile Cyber appeared back onto the field.
"I'll play two cards face down and end my turn," I told Alexis as I placed two cards face down in my spell and trap card zone.
Alexis drew her card. "I'll play Blade Skater in attack mode."
A purple woman appeared on the field. She wore a tutu and had skates for feet.
"I'll activate the spell card polymerization and fuse her with Etoile Cyber to create Blade Skater."
Both of Alexis' monsters disappeared and fused together to create a monster with purple hair. She wore a tutu and pink shades covering her eyes. Like Blade Skater, she had blades for feet.
I remembered seeing this monster when I first met Alexis. It was the monster which she had defeated the teacher with.
"Since you have two monsters on the field, Blade Skater's attack is doubled to 4200," Alexis informed.
I heard people gasp. I looked into the audience. Most people looked as if the duel was just about to end. I saw Zane. He looked as if he knew I had something up my sleeve.
"I'll attack your Harpie Lady Sisters with my Blade Skater and end the duel," Alexis declared.
Blade Skater put her arm up. It suddenly changed into a fully armed cannon. I smirked.
"Sorry Alexis, but I'm no pushover," I said. "I activate my trap card – Negate Attack."
A vortex appeared in front of my monster. Blade Skater launched her attack. The beam went straight into the vortex and disappeared.
Alexis looked disappointed but somehow impressed. "I hate you, Erika," she said as a joke.
"I love you too," I replied, as a joke, back.
"It's your turn Erika."
"Thanks," I said as I drew a card.
"I'll activate the spell card Pot of Greed," I declared.
A green pot appeared on the field.
"As you know, it lets me draw two cards from my deck," I said as I drew two cards.
As I gazed at my cards, a smirk hit my face. I just drew my ace card – and now it was time to summon it.
"I sacrifice Harpie Lady 1 and Harpie Lady Sisters to summon Simorah, Bird of Divinity!" I said as I sent my first two monster cards to the graveyard and placed my new monster on the monster card zone.
A large green bird flew down to the field. It glistened like gold. Its impressive look matched its attack power – 2700 attack and 1000 defence points.
"I'll attack your Cyber Blader," I declared.
Simorah launched a strong storm of wind at Cyber Blader. Alexis' life points depleted to 750 but Cyber Blader remained on the field – her effect meant that she couldn't be destroyed by a monster's effect as long as Erika had at least one monster on the field.
"I'll end by playing another face down," I declared.
Alexis drew a card. "I'll play Pot of Greed to draw two cards."
She drew the top two cards from her deck. She took one of them and played it on the field. "I summon Cyber Tutu in defence mode."
A girl with pink hair, also wearing a tutu, appeared on the field defending herself.
"I'll switch Cyber Blader into defence mode and end my turn by setting two cards face down."
"Damn," I thought. "If she didn't set those two cards, Simorah's effect would have depleted her life points down to zero!"
"Let's go!" I said as I drew a card. "I'll attack Cyber Tutu with Simorah."
"I'll activate Negate Attack," Alexis declared as a pink trap card rose on her side of the field.
In the same way as I had negated Cyber Blader's attack, Alexis did that to Simorah's.
"Okay, I'll end my turn," I said with a smile.
Alexis drew her card and smirked. "I'm going to destroy your Simorah in this turn."
I smiled. "Try your best."
"I summon Cyber Gymnast in attack mode," Alexis declared.
I was surprised that she summoned that monster. It only had 800 attack and 1800 defence points – it would be better to play her in defence.
"First I activate my trap card – reckless greed which allows me to draw two cards." Alexis said as she drew two cards.
"I'll activate Cyber Gymnast's effect now," Alexis declared. "By sending one card from my hand to the graveyard, I can destroy a face up attack positioned monster on your field."
Simorah disappeared. I felt rather annoyed that my ace card could be destroyed so easily.
"I'll switch all of my monsters into attack mode and attack you directly."
As all of Alexis' monsters went to launch their attacks, I raised my arm in front of me.
"I'll activate my trap card – Negate attack."
It was very handy having Negate Attack in my deck. I had three of them.
Alexis was slightly annoyed – it was twice that I prevented her from winning the duel. "It's your turn."
I drew my card. "I'll activate my face down trap – Hysteric Party. It allows me to discard one card. If I do this I can special summon as many Harpie Lady Cards from the graveyard as I can."
I discarded one card from my hand to special summon Harpie Lady 1 to the field. She had 1600 attack and 1400 defence, thanks to her effect.
"I think I'll attack your Cyber Tutu," I declared.
Harpie Lady destroyed Cyber Tutu and depleted Alexis' life points to 150.
"Erika! You could've won!" She yelled.
"I know," I told her. "Find a way to win next turn otherwise I promise that I will win in my next turn."
"Okay then," Alexis said as she started her turn. She wasn't allowed to draw a card because of Reckless Greed's effect. "I'll play a face down. Then I'll attack your Harpie Lady with Cyber Blader and then attack you directly with Cyber Gymnast."
Cyber Blader sent Harpie Lady 1 to the graveyard while Cyber Gymnast attacked directly. Yet again, the attack didn't make me flinch a bit. My life points went down to 1000.
"Your turn Erika," she said.
I drew a card. "This is where it ends. I play the field spell Harpies Hunting Ground"
I placed the field spell card in its slot. I then discarded a card from my hand.
"I activate the continuous trap Hysteric Party to special summon my Harpie Lady 1 and Harpie Queen," I said.
"But her name isn't Harpie Lady!" Alexis said. "You can't special summon her from the grave!"
I smirked. "Yeah I can, Harpie Queen's ability allows her to be called Harpie Lady when she's on the field or in the graveyard."
Both Harpies flew back onto the field. Harpie Queen's long emerald hair glistened and her pure white wings shined like an angels.
"Thanks to Harpies' hunting ground, two of your spell and trap cards are discarded to the graveyard since I special summoned two Harpie Ladies."
Alexis sent both of her cards to the graveyard.
"Thanks to Harpies' Hunting Ground, my Harpies get a bonus 200 attack and defence plus the 300 attack from Harpie Lady 1."
Harpie Lady 1's attack rose to 1800 while her defence rose to 1600. Harpie Queen's attack rose to 2400 and her defence to 1400. Since I had two monsters on the field, Cyber Blader's attack doubled to 4200 but there was still Cyber Gymnast in attack mode.
"This was a fun duel Alexis," I confessed. "No one has lowered my life points that long before."
"It was fun!" Alexis admitted with a smile.
"Okay! Let's go Harpie Queen Attack Cyber Gymnast!"
As Harpie Queen destroyed the monster, Alexis' life points depleted to zero.
Alexis smiled. "You win. You're the Queen of Obelisk Blue."
"No," I confessed. "I didn't defeat those other girls – you did. It wouldn't be fair. Plus you'd be better at the job description."
I smiled at Alexis who looked surprised at my words. She smiled back. "Well you're definitely the Angel of Obelisk Blue."
