"I – I don't know how it happened, exactly."
"Just tell me what's goin' on, sis."
"Mai and Yugi. They're outside."
Jounouchi froze. His eyes squinted into the darkness and quickly scanned the area beyond, but couldn't see far through the blinding blackness the night had become.
"What? What're they doin' out here? Mai should be back at the hotel resting."
A shrill voice cut through the night air.
"We don't have time to rest when we're being swarmed by monsters!" Jounouchi was answered by the blonde, who appeared suddenly behind him.
A thick fog had settled over the area as though the clouds from overhead had descended, and with it came a thick stench. Mai limped toward Jounouchi slowly, using Yugi as a comfortably-sized crutch. Yugi walked with a slight limp as well. One arm rested protectively over his midsection. He breathed through his free hand covering his mouth and nose.
"Mai! What's wrong?" Jounouchi shouted. "Did something happen at the hotel?"
"Obviously something has, you twit, but you clearly aren't paying attention," Seto snapped from beside Jounouchi. He turned to the injured woman. "Kujaku. Can I presume the hotel is no longer an available refuge?"
"Kaiba, if you want to go back there, be my guest. But I sure as hell won't be joining you."
Seto chewed on a retort while he calculated alternate plans.
"Did you guys get out of there okay?" Jou asked his friends with concern.
"Barely," Yugi sighed.
"Frankly, I think we're lucky we haven't been eaten alive yet."
"What happened?" Anzu chimed in.
"The two of us were keeping to ourselves when someone knocked on the door," Yugi started, quietly.
"Try slammed," Mai corrected. "To be more accurate, I thought it sounded like somebody was trying to beat the door down with a raw ham. I kind of figured maybe Jou was back, and found some food."
"Let me guess," Seto interrupted. "You actually opened it and invited some monsters right in."
"Hey, it wasn't our fault! We really thought it was one of you idiots." Mai protested. "And anyway, it wasn't another one of those zombie monsters from the card game on the other side of the door."
"Then who was it?" Anzu asked fearfully.
Yugi caught his friend's eye and answered. "It was Yori. From the game testing."
"Yori?" Anzu asked quizzically. "I don't understand. What did she want with you two?"
"My best guess," Mai responded, "would be that the woman wanted to have us for dinner. And I don't mean by invitation." She looked down at her fingernails and poked at her cuticles. "I'm sorry, but I look too good to die that way."
"I don't get it, Mai. What are you saying?"
"We're saying, Anzu, that whatever is happening around here apparently can affect people as well. This Yori chick you guys seem so fond of wasn't normal."
"Mai's right. She didn't look anything like the woman we saw at the testing booth. Her skin looked gray, and there was this… non-presence about her, if you know what I mean."
"Eh, not really, Yug'." Yugi sighed and tried to think of a way to elaborate.
"It's hard to describe. Her face was blank. It's like she… like she didn't know what she was doing, or even who she was. Honestly, it reminded me of the way people looked, after…" Yugi paused, eyes glued to the ground.
"Spit it out already," Seto commanded, annoyed. "We're wasting time."
"…After Pegasus used his millennium eye on them." Anzu gasped, and Jounouchi groaned. Seto only rolled his eyes.
"You don't think…?" Anzu started. "You don't think he could be behind all of this, do you, Yugi? I mean, I know he died, but – his company, somehow?"
Yugi hesitated.
"What's going on here really doesn't strike me as something Pegasus could have been involved in." Seto pitched in. "That man has such a hard-on for his monsters that I don't believe he, nor his devoted followers, would allow his company to make such a display of them." Anzu scowled in disgust at the man's crude phrasing, but Seto paid no notice to her displeasure.
Yugi furrowed his brows.
"You don't look convinced, Yug'," Jounouchi commented. "Don't know that I have a say one way or the other," the blond shrugged.
Yugi shook his head. "But I do know that Yori – whatever was left of her – was definitely after us," he explained.
"No kidding," Mai agreed.
"So then, what did you do?" Anzu asked.
"We dodged that woman and tried to find another room." Mai went on explaining the rest of the trouble she and Yugi had faced since exiting the suite, ending where they had left the enormous beast floating in the dirtied pool. Shizuka and Anzu stood huddled together, worry creasing both of their faces, and when Mai had finished Shizuka weaseled between the woman and her "crutch" and forced a tight hug on her. Mai winced and the young girl made herself step back, retaining a choked sob.
"At least everybody is together now," Anzu offered. Shizuka tried to smile but the expression wouldn't come. Without thinking, she stepped closer to her brother.
"I'm interested in knowing why," Seto butt in, staring at the injured pair with a dark tone lacing his voice, "you're sporting KaibaCorp's latest disk system before it's hit the market? Even a security disaster does not give you an excuse to loot my park." Mokuba stood beside his brother, and slightly behind, with his arms crossed. Jounouchi tried to stifle a tiny laugh when he realized that the younger Kaiba brother in such a pose reminded him of a guard dog. He decided to try keeping his mouth shut.
Yugi's face reddened. He lifted Mai's arm off his shoulder and removed some knotted wire from around his shoulders and back, revealing a bundle of three older model Duel Disks tied together as securely as Yugi could manage. He and Mai each wore the new model on their arms.
"We didn't intend to steal them, Kaiba." Yugi's voice shook. "But we found out on our way over from the hotel, these actually work."
Seto snarled. "Don't insult me. I know they work! I tested –"
"Against the monsters, Kaiba," Mai asserted. "We were attacked and used these against the monster, and we destroyed it." Seto missed a beat, staring at the two loaded up with Duel Disks.
"That's absurd." he spat. "How many times do I have to remind you people that my Solid Vision technology creates holograms?"
"Yeah? Well those holograms were pretty dang effective against Dartz's minions back when," Jounouchi reminded him smugly.
"Remember what we learned back then about the parallel world of monster spirits?" Yugi asked with a touch of cheer. "Holograms or not, those monsters came from somewhere, and they had real power. I think we're dealing with more of the same."
Seto rubbed the bridge of his nose and muttered quietly, "Why did I have to get stuck in here with you dweebs?" Aloud, he addressed Yugi and Mai. "Take them off." Yugi and Mai shared a glance.
"No, Kaiba," Yugi argued boldly.
Seto raised his eyebrows. "No?"
"I'm sorry we took your merchandise and I promise we'll return them when this is all over..."
"If..." Jounouchi muttered pessimistically.
"...But right now we need some effective weapons, and we found them."
"And I am not permitting you to use my newest merchandise in your little make-believe solution. I am not asking, nor will I repeat myself again. Take. Them. Off. You can keep the old floor models if you feel so in need of a pacifier, but Mokuba and I will hang on to the valuable machinery until it can be returned." Seto seethed.
Mai leaned all her weight on her strong leg and crossed her arms, her bare arm acting as a sort of shield to the equipment on the other. Yugi nodded to her.
"Just let it go. I'll give you one of these instead," Yugi offered, lifting the bundle of older disks. He slid the newer model off his arm and handed it to Seto, who handed it off to his brother. Mokuba slipped it onto his own arm. "We were going to let him have one anyway."
"One," Mai emphasized but relented and traded out the new for the old. Seto took it from her hand before she could reach out to him.
He scoffed. "Oh, you were going to let me use my own product? Do you people forget that I am the man who invented this technology?"
"It's not like that, Kaiba," Yugi offered quietly, but the scowl on his face told Yugi to let it go.
Anzu, unable to keep herself quiet any longer, jumped in to defend her friend. "Leave him alone, Kaiba! We're all just doing the best we can. We need to protect ourselves and look out for each other, and that's all Yugi was trying to do." Seto kept silent, strapping the disk to his arm. Yugi caught Anzu's eye and shook his head.
Jounouchi stepped closer to his short friend and propped an elbow on his shoulder. "So Yug', who're you givin' those out to?" Yugi smirked and handed him the last Duel Disk.
"I could only take five with me."
"So do these things really work?" Jounouchi started to load his deck into the deck slot but Yugi stopped him.
"You might want to take out your non-monster cards from your deck and set them aside. I don't think they'll have an effect." He shrugged and did as Yugi suggested. "And there's one other thing I'm not sure I understand."
Yugi glanced first at Mai, then spoke louder to the group as a whole. "I don't think every monster is effective. Mai and I each summoned a monster against a Goblin Zombie that popped out, and only my monster was able to attack. Although Mai's monster was stronger than mine hers was destroyed. I wasn't able to determine what makes the difference."
"Great," Seto pitched in. "Not only are you trying to force your incredulous solutions, but you'll even admit that your plan is flawed and unreliable."
Mai rolled her eyes. Yugi wanted to address the comment and defend his intentions and show the CEO how real their game had become.
He reached for his cards to demonstrate, and a wave of ice surged through his veins when he pulled the quantity of cards from his pocket, only revealing half of his deck.
"No," Yugi whispered, then a rush of mutterings erupted followed by a string of "nononono!". His wide eyes snapped up to meet Mai's face, which seemed locked in an expression of confusion. "My cards! I left them on the table in the room! I – I wasn't thinking when we had to leave so quickly, and I left half of my cards!"
"What are you gonna do?" Mai shrugged back at him cooly. "We're not going back there. We couldn't get up to the top floor again if we tried," she reasoned.
Seto snorted. "What kind of duelist leaves their deck behind? This only further justifies my holding onto the valuable merchandise."
Jounouchi plopped a heavy hand on Yugi's shoulder, ignoring Seto's comment. "Hey man, we're just gonna have to stock up on "ammo" at the gift shop. They sell packs of cards over there, and we ain't too far from it. Heck, I could use some boosters myself." Jou gave a sly glance toward the towering brunet. "An' if Rich Boy's gonna spend all night spoutin' this shit about merchandise, he can cover our tab and call us even when you an' me save the fuckin' world... again." Jounouchi was giving his small friend a wide grin. Yugi only managed a dry laugh.
Seto flickered a glare at them both. "So far I haven't seen you do much of anything."
Jounouchi put up his fists. "You ain't seen nothin', don't mean it didn't happen." He growled at Seto, but took a breath and turned back to Yugi. "Come on. Let's go get us some more cards."
Seto huffed and spun on his heel, and began walking away from the group. "I refuse to remain a part of this," he muttered, and glanced over his shoulder to verify that Mokuba was following him.
He wasn't.
Behind him, Mokuba's body was turned to face Seto, with one foot forward as if he were about to follow. His head was wrenched in Yugi's direction. The boy flipped his wrist upward and stared at the contraption which Seto, his brilliant and very capable brother had built.
"Let's go, Mokuba," Seto encouraged coldly. Mokuba's eyes locked onto his.
"What if it really does work, Seto? Shouldn't we give it a try?"
"No." Seto punctuated.
"But..." Mokuba persisted, without quite knowing how to argue his point.
"But what?"
Mokuba was silent, kicking gently at a pebble on the concrete.
"We have a lot of money," he finally answered. Seto blinked.
"Your point?" He asked, saving his biting sarcasm for someone else.
Mokuba breathed in and gathered his courage. "A few packs of cards – even a couple of Duel Disks – isn't going to hurt us, and you know it. I think we should go with them." He stared hard at his brother, his guardian, willing him to feel his determination. Willing him to be swayed.
Seto's stone-hard glare spelled that he wasn't having it, and Mokuba grasped for a plan B.
"You know... I don't have my own cards either. I'll bet you don't have an extra deck for me tucked away in your briefcase."
"You don't need cards," Seto growled. "You have me, and I have a gun."
"And you still missed," Jounouchi spat from the sidelines. Seto growled.
"But what if we get separated again?" Mokuba pleaded, taking a different approach, snatching Seto's attention back from Jounouchi. He let the question hang in the silence. When Seto finally opened his mouth to reply, Mokuba cut him off. "I'm already carrying this; why not use it, if it works? Why not trust Yugi? What's it going to hurt?"
Seto's face was set in a deep scowl. He eventually heaved a sigh. Jounouchi tried not to laugh lest he disturb the peace while he watched Seto's transformation take place.
Mokuba was quick again and spun toward Yugi, before Seto could say anything more. "There are two gift shops in the park and both of them sell booster packs; but I'm sure you already know that." Yugi nodded. "There's one northward, a pretty far walk, but then there's the one just on the other side of the monorail depot."
"That's the one I had in mind," Jounouchi spoke up.
"On the other hand," Mokuba turned back to his brother, "We just came from the depot, and it wasn't looking too good over there. We'll need to get past the monsters to get to the gift shop." He flashed his set of violet eyes at his brother, trying to impose his will some more.
Seto narrowed his eyes at the boy, shaking his head as a warning. Mokuba stepped back and pursed his lips. Seto spoke under his breath.
"If it gives me an opportunity to down a few more of these bastards and get closer to the bottom of this disaster, then point the way. How many are there?"
"Two of them," Honda answered.
"Red Ogre and Giant Axe Mummy," Mokuba expanded.
"Fantastic." Seto flashed his signature smirk. "Big and slow; nothing to it. Let's go." Seto turned to the three duelists in the group behind him just as he pulled the pistol out from the folds of his coat. "Listen up. You three may be content relying on nothing but your little "band-aid" solution to save all your asses, but I am not. So long as my brother's safety is on the line, I will be the one running this show. If you want to follow behind with your light effects, I won't stop you. But don't think I won't be slinging arrows of my own."
Seto led the way to the monorail depot ahead, in the direction from which Mokuba and his two companions had just come. He kept his eyes open for Berserk Dragon the whole way but saw nothing. He cocked his drawn pistol and motioned for the rest of the group to remain a distance behind him. He saw Yugi with his arm extended in front of his torso and a card in his opposite hand, ready to summon at the drop of a hat, and rolled his eyes.
Seto snaked around the corner of the depot where he spied the monsters his brother had warned of, and quietly approached them.
The enormous Ogre's attention was drawn in his direction but seemed not to notice the CEO directly. Seto held his weapon at arm's length and pulled the trigger, acting before Yugi had even a chance to jump in. The sound of the muted gunshot did little to disturb the still quiet of the night. Globs of the monster's flesh exploded behind itself. Anzu and Shizuka grimaced and covered their faces from the sight.
The force of the fleshy blowout alerted the nearby Axe Mummy. It was drawn to Seto and slowly lumbered towards him, but it had taken no more than a few steps before it met an identical end at Seto's hand. After quickly surveying the area, he let his hand holding his weapon fall slowly to his side.
"Let's go, but move with caution," he spoke quietly to the group behind him. "There may be others."
Not far from the depot, after ducking under the monorail track overhead the group reached a small star-shaped cluster of buildings, connected by a short tunnel from the point of one "star" to the point of the other. The buildings were lined with large glass panels for windows on every side, leaving the inside of the building exposed and vulnerable. Seto shifted while Mokuba pressed in a code to release the lock. The building was dark inside.
Mokuba paused before pushing the door open to throw a glance up at his brother.
"Everything okay?" he asked. Seto shifted again.
"I don't want to stay here long. We should get what we're here for and split. I don't like how open this place is. Don't turn on the lights." Mokuba nodded, pushed the door wide open, then led the way inside. Seto squeezed past him immediately, holding out his weapon with one hand and pushing Mokuba back behind him with the other. A quick scope of the place revealed no immediate danger, but Seto shot a glare at the boy. "Be more careful than that!" he hissed to Mokuba. He kept his finger stationed alongside the trigger guard, but lowered his gun to mid-chest height. Mokuba shrunk behind Seto, quietly apologizing.
Ignoring all motions for caution, Jounouchi burst to the front of the group and traipsed with determination to the aisle where the Duel Monsters cards were displayed. Yugi tried to stop him but ended up following closely behind instead.
Seto shrugged it off.
"You want to go in there half-cocked with the lights out," he muttered, "go ahead. When you die I'll have one less idiot to babysit." he said without feeling.
When Seto caught up with the two boys, Mokuba jumped ahead and began sifting through booster packs with them. He grabbed a handful himself, gauging his brother's facial expression to see if perhaps he'd grabbed too many. Seto only turned away from the display to pace around the other aisles.
Yugi picked up two varieties of packs, having settled on "Magician's Blast", but spotted a set called "Force of Light" and snatched up a few packs. Jounouchi had grabbed up a handful of a set called "Chaotic Soul". Mokuba studied the display a long time, trying to imagine how Seto might choose. Then he remembered that Seto would likely have a mental catalog of the full list of cards contained in each set, and just know which one he would prefer. He finally resolved to grab one of everything available, and two of the titles that felt promising.
Yugi waved Mai to the shelves of colorful boxes, but she shook her head.
"My own deck is more than sufficient," she said.
When the three boys each crammed four or five packs into their pockets they returned to the rest of the group.
"Are we through wasting time here?" Seto pitched in before any of them could say a word. Jounouchi scowled at the CEO's impatience, but Mokuba only nodded.
"We got what we came for, Nii-sama. Let's head out."
The group allowed themselves to be led once more by the cold brunet, who snaked through the aisles and around displays with caution. Jounouchi, still narrowing his eyes at Seto, was holding up the rear. He followed the group past a display of colorful candies wrapped in plastic and shoved a handful into his jacket pocket. He'd felt an odd sort of glee, "borrowing" merchandise from a store with it's company's owner standing just over his shoulder. Justifying himself with Mokuba's words, a few sweets wasn't going to hurt them either.
He quietly popped a green ball of sugar into his mouth. In the same second, he heard the shrill, unmistakeable sound of shattering glass, and a spray of it rained against his back. A breeze from outside rushed in and immediately the air stank. Jounouchi was too startled to do anything but freeze in place, his fingers still raised up to his lips. Footsteps crunched behind him, and he slowly glanced over his shoulder.
Seto and Yugi whirled at the sound. Seto instinctively aimed his gun out straight, Jounouchi being the first in his line of fire. The teenager snapped into action and dropped into a low crouch, getting out of Seto's aim. As soon as he'd moved low, a heavy thud came against his back, hard. Jounouchi felt the broad shape of what felt like a foot, knocking the wind out of him.
Unable to breathe or move, Jounouchi ducked his head and silently hoped Seto wouldn't accidentally shoot him.
Yugi moved into position and placed a card on his readied Duel Disk. A fountain of light erupted in the middle of the group. Seto scowled at the illuminating display as Yugi's Magician's Valkyria took the stage. He called out an attack, powerfully but not too loudly. A stream of purple light burst from the magician's bulky staff and surrounded the intruder in a thick cloud.
Illuminated features of an ugly face with wild spiked horns came into view. The body was obscure, seeming shapeless and undefined at times while the light flickered against it, while at other moments it flashed little glimpses of a well-defined muscular body. There didn't seem to be any legs. Jounouchi, slowly recovering, wondered silently how he could have been kicked by something without defined legs. It was as if the monster Yugi was fighting were made of shadow, colored a deep reddish hue.
As if the light from Yugi's attack were matter, the cloud constricted around the ghoul. An arm, sculpted and muscular, was formed out of the red shadowy mass. Seto pulled his trigger and shot a bullet at the form while it was constricted.
The bullet seemed to move right through the creature. Somewhere in back of the shop, the group heard something break.
"What the hell?" Seto all but mouthed.
"Kaiba, you fuckin' missed, again!" Jounouchi growled at the CEO. "You really suck at this."
"I didn't miss, you twit!" Seto hissed. "My bullet went right through. Yugi's attack can't possibly work either. Fear From the Dark is stronger than his Magician's Valkyria."
"Damn," Jounouchi whispered. "Is that really this thing's name?"
Seto calculated, ignoring Jou.
"This thing can morph its shape in and out of a solid state. I have to get a shot when its core has a form." Seto raised his gun again, but before he could get a clear shot, the purple cloud of light increased its force and the monster shattered into tiny pieces, leaving nothing but a pile of ash behind as evidence it had ever been there.
Yugi stared at the pile, unsure of what to say. He actually hadn't expected that to work, his monster being weaker as Seto had stated. Jounouchi clapped him on the back.
"Good goin' buddy. Looks like your idea really does work."
Mokuba shot a look of bewilderment up to his brother, but Seto's face was set in a scowl as he stared down at his weapon. Jounouchi turned to him.
"So what's all this about 'You don't need cards, I have a gun!' bull you're playin'?" Jounouchi jabbed without humor. Seto breathed in deep and clenched his fist, craving to send it into Jounouchi's cheekbone, but his eyes caught movement in the pile of ashes.
Jounouchi and Mokuba followed his gaze just in time to watch a dark reddish-black shadow emerge.
"What?" Honda groaned.
"It's back guys!" Yugi shouted. "Now what?"
"Attack it again," Jounouchi answered, carelessly slapping a monster onto his own Duel Disk. But just as he spoke, the ghoul lunged forward revealing its solid state and attacked Yugi's Magician's Valkyrie. The blue-clad magician was sent to the grave.
Shizuka gasped, glued to a display of stuffed plush Duel Monsters to one side of the group.
No time for mourning was left before Jounouchi called out an attack to a monster holding a mirror up where its face should be. The mirror reflected the enemy's form, and Jounouchi's mime-like creature morphed into an identical copy and attacked.
With Fear of the Dark's features more clearly defined, Jounouchi could see its eyes bulge just before it shattered once more. A little wisp of smoke danced up from a new pile of dusty ashes.
Jounouchi's eyes flickered about the shop, looking for more enemies. None came, so he let himself relax.
Seto kept his blue eyes glued to the pile of ash on the floor. His steady finger on the trigger itched waiting for it to return. When nothing happened, he let the gun fall to his side. It was then that Seto took the time to evaluate the monster Jounouchi had thrown out to save them. He furrowed his brow, mouth set in a scowl.
"You summoned Copycat to protect yourself? What a reckless move!"
"Isn't that a weak monster?" Anzu asked, unsure, drawing from her minimal Duel Monsters experience. "I thought the card has zero points?"
"It can be a very powerful monster, if used correctly," Seto answered.
Yugi's face was set in deep concentration when he began to speak. "Mai summoned Harpie's Pet Dragon against Goblin Zombie and it lost, although it had more attack points. My monster, Queen's Knight, was also stronger than our enemy but weaker than Mai's Pet Dragon. That has to mean than there's another factor besides attack points."
"Uh... defense points?" Jounouchi called out stupidly. Yugi gave him a little smile and shook his head.
"Don't think so, Jou."
"What about, like what my brother said," Mokuba chimed in, "about the physical attacks? Yugi's monster attacked this thing with a magic attack while it wasn't in a solid state and it was destroyed. But it came back. Then Jounouchi got it with its physical reflection in its physical state..." he trailed off, hoping others would understand what he was getting at.
Yugi nodded. "That's a good point, Mokuba. Maybe that's why we had to kill it twice, and it hasn't come back again: we got it in each of its forms. But that doesn't apply to the creature we fought earlier in the other building."
"The monsters we've used were different types: dragon, warrior, spellcasters," Mai added. "Although, both of the spellcasters triumphed, so did your warrior, and I don't see any connection between those types."
"Attribute," Seto barked. "That's the only factor that makes any applicable sense." All eyes turned toward Seto and his definite answer. "Of the four ally monsters summoned, the three which carried out successful attacks had an attribute of Light. In lore, the undead are typically weak to Light or Holy attacks. So, Yugi, perhaps I'll concede that your little trick seems to have an effect, but there's no denying that it's conditional."
Yugi nodded thoughtfully. "That makes sense, Kaiba." He glanced around at everyone holding a Duel Disk. "From now on we ought to make sure we're summoning Light monsters. It's possible that other attributes might not work, like Harpie's Pet Dragon. But there's something else I'm still not sure I understand."
Yugi looked down at the card in his hand, Magician's Valkyria, then glanced at Jounouchi's Duel Disk still holding his Copycat card, although it was no longer displayed as a Solid Image.
"I didn't recognize our enemy as any card I'd seen before, until Kaiba said its name. It was too late when I realized that Fear of the Dark, in Duel Monsters, has more attack points than the monster I threw out. But... my monster still managed to win. And Jou, you played Copycat, which replicates the monster it attacks, including attack and defense points."
"So, my monster woulda had the same attack, and in our game that means they both woulda been destroyed." Jounouchi rubbed his chin. "Don't make sense!"
Yugi was thoughtful.
"Unless our monsters, being creatures of Light, have – not just effective attacks, but – stronger attacks against the undead?"
"Like a field effect!" Jounouchi added. Yugi nodded.
"That's what I was thinking."
"That's so cool!" Anzu cheered. "You guys always fight on the side of good. Now you have your own army of "holy weapons" to fight off these hordes with!"
Seto rolled his eyes with a grimace.
Yugi allowed a small smile to tug at his lips. He was able to help protect his friends. He felt confidence bubbling up in his chest, a sensation he had grown more accustomed to since Atem's departure.
"Jii-san always says that everything in life is a puzzle," Yugi chimed to his crowd. "We may be fighting for our lives, guys. But this is just another puzzle, and it has to have a solution. We're going to find it."
A/N: Good evening everyone!
Thank you all so much for sticking with this story! I haven't been receiving a whole lot of feedback lately, and it would be great to know what you guys are thinking.
Superlong chapter is long. Things are progressing, but we've still got a ways to go! Hopefully I can get ahead a few chapters and start working more on my next idea, although I know I'll be waiting a while after Revenant ends to post anything new. I'm just swamped with all my various writing projects, most of which are not actually fanfiction right now. (Consequently, I'm not quite as invested in any of them as of yet, either.)
Monsters used in this chapter:
Giant Axe Mummy & Red Ogre: repeats from a previous chapter
Fear of the Dark: 1700ATK/1500ATK
Ally monsters:
Magician's Valkyria: 1600ATK/1800DEF Spellcaster, Light
Copycat: 0ATK/0DEF Spellcaster, Light (When this card is summoned target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls: this card's ATK and DEF become equal to that monster's original ATK and DEF.)
Thanks so much for joining me! I hope to see you next time.
~omgagr