The Infinity Chronicles

by Wolf General

AU A story of heroes, life at Duel Academy, threats from beyond the stars, comedy...and a whole bunch of other strange things that happen to a group of students.

12. Adriel versus Riddle

Disclaimer: No I do not own Yugioh GX.

The Infinity Chronicles-Second Semester Arc

Chapter 12: Adriel versus Riddle; Guesswork Duel

"Where am I?" Eri looked around her, and saw nothing but pink and red fire. "What's going on?"

"Dreams suffer…dreams of love, futures, and otherwise…" The voice came from everywhere at once, and the fire burned brighter. "I feel that my time comes soon. I am nearby, and I need you soon."

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Eri's eyes opened, and she stared up at the ceiling of her bedroom. ("Was that a dream?")

The banging on her door got louder. "Eri, open up already! It's time for the tier four!" The voice was Adriel's.

Looking at her bedside cabinet, Eri sighed and picked up the deck box that sat there. "I'll defeat you, Resshin. For the sake of my pride, my new deck will win."

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"Good morning, ladies and gentlemen!" The announcer from yesterday's three tournaments yelled into the microphone, while sitting back in his chair that overlooked the duel ring. "Today is the day for the big top tier four tournament, also known as The Big Hello Tournament, named as such because it allows the top duelists of the school to welcome new students the best way they can, with a bunch of great duels!" Up above the stands a group of holographic boards lit up.

Match Ladder

1st Round: Adriel vs. Riddle

2nd Round: Resshin vs. Forward

3rd Round: Mitosha vs. Ichigo Pilkington

4th Round: Eri vs. Reverse

The announcer grinned and pointed up into the air. "Let the greatest eight duelists in the school begin!"

Adriel glanced up at the screen and growled under his breath. ("Those bastards…they entered Ichigo into the tournament to make sure that it was just us and them. That means it's four against two in the end. However…") He inserted his deck into his duel disk and looked across the dueling field. "Since Resshin seems so hot to duel us, I'm guessing that he's the boss of your little gang, correct?" He readjusted his new personalized Obelisk Blue uniform, which had golden dragons embedded into the chest area.

From across the field, the large-bodied Obelisk Blue from before shrugged his shoulders. "He might be, he might not be, what do you care?"

Adriel drew his opening five cards. "I care because he's the guy I'm going to wipe out in the next round. You won't last very long against me when I'm serious!"

"A shocking declaration made by Adriel Zaytel, the currently second-ranked duelist of the academy! Let's see if he can back up his claims!" The announcer pointed down at the two of them. "Begin now!"

"Duel!" Both of them yelled at each other and drew their opening hands.

Riddle- 4000

Adriel- 4000

Riddle drew the first card. "I will begin, if you're so confident!" Adding the drawn card to his hand, he inserted a card into his graveyard. "I discard a card from my hand to special summon The Tricky (2000/1700) from my hand to the field!" A spellcaster with a question mark instead of a face appeared on his field. "Then I place one card face-down on my field. End turn."

"Amazing and to be expected of a duelist of Obelisk Blue, Riddle summoned a level five 2000 attack monster in his first turn!" The announcer seemed rather excited today, since yesterday had been rather boring.

Adriel drew. "I'll break your monster right now!" He threw a card onto his disk. "Come out now, Lunar Dragoon!" A pale gold-armored warrior holding a spear with a crescent-shaped blade appeared on his field. (1600/1300)

Riddle chuckled as he noticed the color of the card. "That's a normal monster, so what can it possibly do to my 2000 The Tricky?"

Adriel inserted a card into his duel disk. "I activate Dragon Mount! This equipment magic card raises the attack of a Dragoon in play by 500 points!" A pale gold dragon appeared on the field and the warrior leapt onto its back. (2100/1300) "Lunar Dragoon, attack The Tricky!"

"Reverse card open!" Riddle's face-down card flipped up. "My trap is called The Tricky's Riddle." Taking a card from his hand, he held it up in front of his face. "The Tricky's Riddle forces you to guess the type of a card in my hand. If you guess incorrectly, then your monster is destroyed and you take 500 points of damage. Guess correctly and my trap is negated. So, what is this card?"

Adriel shrugged. "A magic card?" A loud buzzer sounded. "Crap…"

"Too bad." Riddle flipped the trap card he was holding over. "Therefore…" The Lunar Dragoon and its mount exploded. "The effect of The Tricky's Riddle also returns it to my hand after activation, at the cost of you being allowed to draw a card."

Riddle- 4000

Adriel- 3500

Adriel drew and Riddle returned the trap to his hand. "I place two cards face-down on my field and end my turn."

Riddle drew. "I place two cards face-down on my field and attack you directly! The Tricky, attack his life points now!" His spellcaster flew right at Adriel's body, crashing into the half dragon-demon. "What's this, no good trap?"

Riddle- 4000

Adriel- 1500

Adriel brushed himself off and then pointed at one of his set cards. "I activate the trap card Dragoon Order!" There was a flash of light as a green dragon-armored warrior holding a spear with feathers attached to it appeared on his field in an explosively windy entrance. "Dragoon Order activates when I am attacked directly. After the attack completes, I special summon a level four or lower Dragoon type monster from my deck to the field! My choice is Aero Dragoon!" (1100/1100)

Riddle laughed. "Pitiful…you're running out of life points and you bring out another normal monster? What happened to your other monsters? I thought you ran Raw Element Dragons?"

"Raw Element Dragons are strong, but they are also far too base for this kind of duel." Adriel drew. "I place two cards face-down on my field and switch Aero Dragoon to defense mode." His monster dropped to one knee and held its spear up in front of it. "End turn."

From up in the stands, Resshin frowned. ("So far I'm not impressed. A pair of normal monsters and a couple of weak cards is the best you have, Adriel Zaytel?")

Riddle drew. "You're pitiful if this is your best." He inserted a card into his duel disk. "I place one card face-down and attack with The Tricky!" His monster tackled the Aero Dragoon and shattered it. "End turn."

Adriel drew, and suddenly smiled. "Thanks for underestimating me for the first couple of turns. You're already done."

"….." Even the announcer didn't know what to say to that. Everyone in the entire audience had gone silent, and Riddle blinked at Adriel like he had lost his mind. "Come again?"

"You heard me." The half dragon-demon flipped the drawn card in his hand up for everyone to see. "I activate Giant Trunade!" A powerful blast of wind blew all magic and trap cards off the field. "This card returns all magic and trap cards to their owner's hands." Flipping one of the returned cards over, he smiled. "Treasure Map activates when it is sent back to my hand from the field. I discard it to the graveyard and draw two cards!" Now that he had six cards in his hand, he was sure of it. "Yup, you'll be beaten during the next turn." Throwing a card onto his disk, he pointed at his field as a blue dragon-armored warrior holding a trident appeared on his field in an explosion of water. "I summon Aqua Dragoon in attack mode!" (900/900) "When this monster is summoned and I have no cards in play, I draw two more cards from my deck." Adding two cards to his hand, he had to smile even more. "I play the magic card Dark Factory of Mass Production!" Two cards left his graveyard. "This magic card lets me add two normal monsters from my graveyard to my hand!"

"You're gathering your monsters, but for what reason? There's nothing they can do to beat me alone…" Riddle suddenly figured it out. "Wait a second…"

"You figured it out?" Adriel sighed. "Sheesh, took you one turn too long!" A magic card appeared on his field. "I activate Polymerization!" The Aero Dragoon and Lunar Dragoon appeared on his field again. "I fuse Lunar, Aero and Aqua together to create Storm Moon Dragoon!" The three monsters disappeared, replaced by a caped dragon-armored warrior holding a long pike. Its green and blue armor shimmered in the light of the dueling arena. (2900/2700) "Also, I equip it with the equipment magic card Dragon Legacy Spear!" The monster's spear was replaced by a multi-colored spear. "The equipped Dragoon monster gains 200 attack points for each of its level stars! Storm Moon Dragoon's level is eight!" (4500/2700)

Riddle gasped at the amazing attack points of the fusion. "Still…still it can't beat me this turn!"

"You're right." Adriel pointed at his graveyard. "Dragoon Mount activates now, allowing me to pay 500 life points to return it to my hand once per turn." The Storm Moon Dragoon leapt into the air and when it landed it was standing on the back of a magnificent green and blue riding dragon. (5000/2700)

Riddle- 4000

Adriel- 1000

Adriel pointed at The Tricky. "Get rid of that thing! Storm Slash!" The Dragoon flew in on its mount and slashed through the monster easily.

Riddle- 1000

Adriel- 1000

Riddle braced himself and frowned in displeasure. "You're getting way too happy about this…"

Adriel inserted a card into his duel disk. "I play the magic card Super Dragoon Jump!" His Storm Moon Dragoon yelled out a battle cry and leapt skywards, disappearing from sight. "My monster is removed from the game, and during my second turn it will return." The riding dragon and Legacy Spear shattered. "I place two cards face-down and end my turn."

Riddle drew. ("When it returns some kind of effect must trigger…") "I activate the magic card Question! What is the bottom monster in my graveyard?"

Adriel tapped his chin. "The Tricky?" A buzzer sounded. "I didn't think so. It would be whatever you discarded to special summon The Tricky, right?"

Riddle frowned even deeper. "That's correct. It is The Excite." A spellcaster with an exclamation point for a face appeared on his field in a crouching position. (1700/2000) "Also, I place four cards face-down and end my turn."

Adriel snapped his fingers. "I activate my face-down Pyro Clock of Destiny, increasing the turn rate by one!" He drew and grinned. "Game over, my friend. At this time my Storm Moon Dragoon returns, and deals you half of its original attack in damage to your life points."

Riddle and the audience gaped as the blue and green dragoon dropped out the sky and rammed its original spear through the Obelisk Blue's body. "…That's...impossible…"

Riddle- 0

Adriel- 1000

"And Adriel Zaytel is the winner!" The announcer shouted in excitement into his microphone, nearly breaking the speakers. "That means the next duel is Resshin against Forward…" He blinked as a Ra Yellow student tapped him on the shoulder and handed him a slip of paper. Opening it, he blinked at what it said. "Oh…kay…well, Forward withdraws from the tournament at this time, so Resshin wins by default!"

The crowd booed loudly, while Resshin just smirked calmly as he looked at Adriel, who was walking away from the dueling ring. ("Interesting…perhaps I will enjoy dueling you more than I thought I would.")

"Fine, the next duel is what everyone is actually looking forward to anyway!" The announcer pointed up into the air. "Ichigo Pilkington, the Blue Osiris, versus the newcomer Mitosha!" The same student tapped the announcer on the shoulder and handed him another folded of piece of paper. Reading it, the announcer let out a scream of frustration. "This is ridiculous! I have here in my hand a signed forfeit note by Ichigo Pilkington! However, since the rules say that if this is somehow a trick we are to disqualify Mitosha, I'll simply let her advance for now." He looked to the Ra Yellow student. "Contact the main office and ask them to please locate Ichigo Pilkington. We need his vocal confirmation on that note." The student nodded and ran off.

Resshin just kept smiling. ("She'll be disqualified, but not before she gets to duel whoever wins in the next duel.")

"Very well!" The announcer clapped his hands together. "Our last top eight duel, Erika Amero versus Reverse!"

Eri was already walking onto the dueling ring, and the brown-haired Ra Yellow student stepped out onto the field, his duel disk already in place.

Up in the stands most of the students were unsure how this was possible, since unlike Ichigo, Reverse had just arrived at the academy.

Reverse looked up at the groups of students and smiled, readjusting his glasses. "They're wondering how it is possible I'm here, of course. It's simple…I challenged the top students and defeated them in duels the first two days I was here. That boosted my rank enough before the tournament roster was decided."

Eri growled low in her throat. "You're with Resshin…"

Reverse adjusted his glasses, the light reflecting off them. "Let me tell you something interesting too. Well, it's actually a question. How did you enjoy my present to you?"

She looked at him questioningly. "What present?"

The boy snickered. "A little brown-haired one with cutest ears…" His eyes appeared past the light shining from his glasses. "He got what was coming to him for beating my brother like that." Those cold grey eyes glimmered suddenly with a malicious look. "And by order of Resshin, this is where I get to place upon you a fun little handicap." He glanced up at the front row of stands and at Adriel. "That guy was lucky that Riddle didn't get a chance to use his confusion ability, because if he did then your friend would still be down here, not even sure what his cards were anymore." He tapped the collar of his yellow jumper. "My power is a little more straight-forward…"

"I've heard all I needed to hear from you." Eri inserted her duel disk into her deck and activated it. "Duel!"

Reverse- 4000

Eri- 4000

"Let it begin! Who will win in this duel, I wonder! Will it be Erika Amero, the current number one duelist in the school, or will it be Reverse, the mysterious Ra Yellow who with his brother Forward tore into the top eight rank at the school in under three days?" The announcer's hands started to shake. "I can't handle the suspense! Hurry up and get started!"

Reverse just glanced up at the announcer. "Relax, my friend. Very shortly this duel will be getting very…interesting." His grey eyes flashed and he looked at Eri. "Very…very…interesting." The tone sent shivers up the spine of everyone who listened to it.

To be continued…