Destroying the Meta
Chapter 13: Don't go into the tall grass!
To give a little recap of what is going on; Squid is facing some girl that completely said trash about my friends up in the duel tower. I don't even know the girl's name! But Squid took a big lead in his last turn making her life points drop more than half. Now what is she planning to even the playing field?
"I flip my two monsters into attack!" the girl said having both her Cold Enchanter and her Frozen Reaper appeared once again onto the playing field. "Now I tribute both of them so I can summon Ice Master!" A white and blue dressed woman appeared on the field. Most of her face was covered by a mask, she had blonde hair, and she was holding a scepter with a snow flake on the top [2500/2000].
"Hehe, even though you brought out a formidable monster, my monster is still superior to yours!" Squid said with a laugh.
"Yes it is," the girl also said with a smirk, "But my next card will solve both of those problems! I activate Absolute Ice Wall!" The tower was now full of ice and the air got chilly.
"Aw… that's cold…" Squid said in a joking manner.
"Now I will activate Ice Master's ability. She can put an ice counter on any card once per turn. So she'll put an ice counter on your Black Tyranno." Black Tyranno's feet froze to the floor [2100/1800].
"Ok…. wait…. what just happened?!" Squid said in confusion.
"Hehe, it is because of my Absolute Ice Wall," the girl explained with a grin, "It makes any monster with an Ice counter drop its attack by 500 per counter and not attack. Now your dinos will be frozen just like they should be!"
"Hey! It was never proven that the dinosaurs were extinct because of the Ice Age!" Squid wittily replied.
"What?! Hmp, whatever. Even if you're right, it won't stop my Ice Master's attack!" The woman raised her scepter as a blizzard surrounded the field and destroyed Black Tyranno [Squid = 4800]. "Now all I have to do is freeze your monsters and kill them. You can't bring out a monster to destroy me."
"Don't think you have me in a lock yet!" Squid said drawing his card, "Especially with the card I just drew! I'll special summon Gilasaurus!" A raptor came out of the summoned card [1400/400]. "Now I'm generous. Now you can special summon one monster from your graveyard… too bad all of your monsters were being sent back to the deck instead!"
The girl made a sour face, "I summon my Cold Sorcerer, which, when summoned, I get to place an ice counter anywhere on the field, so I'll choose your Gilasaurus." The raptors feet froze to the ground.
"Haha! I don't care!" Squid said jumping, "I'll activate Super Evolution Pill! Which means I tribute my Gilasaurus, so now for the next three turns I can beckon whatever dino I want without tributes."
"What?!" the girl said, looking like she just found out her cat died or something.
"Haha! Yes!" Squid gloated, "Now I summon Ultimate Tyranno!" A giant T-Rex appeared in front of Squid [3000/2200]. "He must attack all your monsters, so without further ado, Tyranno attack her Ice Master!" Squid's dinosaur ran up to Ice Master and tore her apart with his ferocious teeth [Girl = 3200]. "Now Tyranno, attack her last monster!" Squid's dinosaur ran up to eat the sorcerer, but he disappeared before the dinosaur had a chance. "What?"
"My Cold Sorcerer works a lot like the card Cyber Valley," the girl explained drawing a card.
"What?!"
"I said my Cold Sorcerer works a lot like…"
"What?! Just kidding, I heard you the first time," Squid said with a laugh.
The girl became ticked but she continued," I can remove from play him when you attack to draw a card."
"Fine, draw your card, but I'm ending my turn," Squid said, "And I highly doubt you can beat my dino."
The girl drew her card, "Don't be so sure," she said looking at her new card, "I'll activate Heavenly Strike. Now I get to place an Ice counter on your Tyranno!" Tyranno's feet frozen to the ground [2500/2200]. "Next I play Girl Next Door and end my turn."
As I watched I didn't notice that more and more people were coming up to see this duel; including someone whom I have seen before. He was standing right beside me and it was at this moment I took notice. "Hey!" I told him, "You're that guy from the boat!"
"Ok…" the man said completely weirded out by why I was talking to him.
"You fought that kid that was cussing the whole time and destroyed his meta deck!"
"What's your point?" the man said, now not caring.
"We have the same goal!" I said, trying to get him to listen to my nonsense, "To destroy the meta!"
He pondered for a second and then said, "So what deck do you run?"
"Cloudians," I said, finally making some kind of conversation with this mysterious man.
"And do you think you can destroy the meta with that?" he asked, still looking at the duel."
"Yeah," I said.
"Wrong answer," he replied, "You don't destroy the meta with a certain deck. That would just make a new meta. No, you destroy the meta with pure skill."
I never really thought of it that way. I was going to reply when I was interrupted by the duel.
"I summon Shiva!" the girl said as a woman with a giant ice blade coming from her right arm appeared onto the girl's field [2500/2100].
"Woah, what did I miss?" I asked, completely confused of what was going on.
"Well…." Tyler started, "Shiva was special summoned because Ultimate Tyranno had one ice counter, and so did Girl Next Door."
"Oh…" I said, now trying to pay attention to the duel.
"Now Shiva has a special ability, I can search out a Heavenly Strike from my deck once per turn," the girl said pulling a card from her deck, "So essentially, I can stop all your monster attacks and put Ice counters on your field every turn!" Squid's face showed his frustration. "I'll activate my Heavenly Strike to put an Ice Counter on your Tyranno, making it loose a total of 1000 attack points! Now Shiva, slice it into pieces!" Shiva cut Squid's Tyranno in half [Squid = 4300]. "And I'll end my turn."
"I'll draw!" Squid said drawing his card, "And since it's the last turn for my Super Evolution Pill, I better utilize it. I call upon Frostosaurus [2600/1700] and he gains 500 attack for every ice counter on him!"
"What the!?" the girl said completely surprised. Everyone else, including me was also confused.
"It makes sense, he is a dinosaur made of ice," Squid said trying to boost his argument.
"Makes sense…. drat!" the girl said.
"Frostosaurus, assault Shiva!" Frostosaurus's neck stretched out and tackled Shiva [Girl = 3100].
"I'm ready for you! You see, since I took battle damage, I can special summon Frozen Kuriboh of Doom from my hand!" A little brown fuzz ball with white streaks in his hair with giant massive claws and white demon like wings appeared [0/0]. "Since your Frostosaurus is level 6, Frozen Kuriboh gains ice counters equal to half its level: 3! But why put ice counters on it? Well Frozen Kuriboh gains levels equal to how many ice counters on it, and gains attack points equal to it's level [2000/0]!"
"It still can't beat my Frostosaurus!" Squid said even though I could tell in his voice that he was skeptical about his statement.
"My turn!" the girl drew her card, "And Girl Next Door gains its second counter. Now I use Heavy Storm!"
"But I don't have any spells or traps…"
"But I do," said the girl as her wall and spell card were destroyed, "Since Girl Next Door was destroyed, I get to redistribute the counters, like onto Frozen Kuriboh [3000/0] and not only that, but I get to summon Shiva from my deck!" Shiva yet again appeared onto the girl's field [2500/2100]. "Now I'll search out Heavenly Strike from my deck and Kuriboh will attack your Frostosaurus!" Frozen Kuriboh's claws swung out and crushed Frostosaurus [Squid = 3900]. "Now Shiva will attack directly!" Shiva sliced through Squid [Squid = 1400]. "Let's see if you can get out of this," the girl said with a smile and a wink.
Squid drew his card, "DON'T GO INTO THE TALL GRASS!" he yelled.
"What the?!" the girl said a little frightened by his randomness.
"I play my Tall Grass field spell card!" Squid said as tall grass appeared all over the field. "And I'll summon my Black Veloci [1800/300]." A black raptor appeared clothed by the shadows of the grass. "Black Veloci, eat that Kuriboh alive!" The raptor disappeared into the tall grass right before our eyes. The flying Kuriboh searched for the raptor in the grass and saw moment. It prepared to defend itself when the raptor jumped from behind the Kuriboh just as a lightning bolt had struck. It wrapped it's sharp teeth around the now defenseless Kuriboh and took it down into the tall grass to eat [Girl = 2900].
"What?!" the girl exclaimed, surprised at what just happened, "How did your puny raptor beat my super powered Kuriboh?!"
"Well," Squid began, "My Black Veloci gains 400 ATK whenever it attacks, and then Tall Grass makes it gain another 1000 whenever it attacks a monster with a higher level. Making it a grand total of 3200 attack points!"
The girl swore, "Don't think you can kill my Shiva! My turn!"
"Not yet," Squid said, "I set a card. NOW it is your turn."
"Fine," the girl said drawing her card, "I'll use Shiva's ability to get Heavenly Strike to my hand. Now Shiva attack!" Shiva cut through the grass gracefully and stabbed the malious raptor in the neck [Squid = 300].
"Now I activate Survival Instinct, good thing I had exactly five dinos in my hand when you made me forsake my hand. So I gain 2000 life points! [Squid = 2300]."
"It doesn't matter how many life points you gain! I'll just tear them to shreds!"
"But that move wasn't to acquire life points," Squid said drawing his card, "It was to summon this! Tyranno Infinity!" A giant dinosaur, sparkling with a rainbow veil. "Now it gains 1000 ATK for each of my removed from play dinosaurs!"
"Wha… what?!"
"So now it has more than enough attack to kill your Shiva [5000] and with Tall Grass, it has enough attack to finish you off!"
"F***!" the girl swore as her monster was devoured by the gigantic dinosaur [Girl = 0]. "Whatever! Don't think you've won yet! I have my two other teammates to teach you boys a lesson!"
"Bring it!" Squid replied, "Forrest and Tyler can beat you guys any day! Common Tyler, show them how you can beat them."
"Alright," Tyler said going to where Squid was standing. A big muscular girl switched places with the other girl.
"I could probably crush your head with my two hands," she said with a Russian accent.
"Um… Squid…. Forrest…." Tyler said now regretting going before Forrest.
"You can accomplish this!" Squid said enthusiastically.
"Ok…" Tyler said as he prepared his duel disk.