"Luck how do we know where we're going?" Marcos asked.
"Look if they really want us to come find Lucas then they'll send somebody to have us get pointed in the right direction." Luck began to explain, "Look also since that there were four of them we only have three more tries to find out where Lucas is heading."
"Well the first try was just a tip right?" Thomas asked.
"That's right, so now we have to decide who's going to duel first."
"I will duel." Thomas raised his hand as they began to walk faster down the street. People would look at the group as they were some sort of gang. Everybody thought it was wierd for them to be walking so fast, and just all of them together looked like an odd group.
"Alright then Thomas it's all you." Luck was up front leading the way. He had everything set out and had a good idea where ever Lucas might be. They both knew of some haunted castel that was up in the mountains, the legend was that four amazing duelist were there. They were supposed to be ghosts that dueled whoever entered and took their decks. If Luck was right then those Four Horsemen were there and Lucas was their target.
"Alright so what do we do?" Marina asked Lyle as they brought Blaze in from the beach after his duel with Lucas.
"Well I'm at a loss." Lyle said as he rubbed his chin.
"What do you mean?" Marina asked a little shocked.
"Well it's because if Lucas was really trying his hardest to escape he would've gotten rid of his tracking devise in the SaviorZero." Lyle pointed out.
"So what he screwed up, that's good for us."
"No Lucas would not make a retarded mistake like that if he was really trying to escape."
"So what are you saying?"
"I'm saying that he planned this escape."
"There's no way he planned this. He's been under watch ever since he got here. He's had no time for that."
"Agreed...but did you see what happened with his duel against T.J? He took him off of his bike then dueled him."
"So?"
"He knows our strategies inside and out. He knows out of the three of them Blaze was able to do much more damage. Blaze was the faster one, Soran...Soran is an amazing duelist but his deck is hard to control without using any normal spell cards thanks to the turbo duel rules."
"So you think he wants us to find him?"
"Well only Soran can stop him now. So maybe he wants Soran to find him. We have no other choice. We have to believe that this is all a trap that he is setting up to duel with Soran."
"So we purposley fall for the trap he's setting up for us?"
"Exactly."
"I say we take him out for good." Melissa walked up and interrupted the conversation between Marina and Lyle.
"Lady Melissa good to see you." Lyle said.
"Yeah I bet it is. If this really is a trap then wemake him think we are falling for it and trap him ourselves."
"What do you mean?" Lyle asked.
"We have Soran duel him, win or lose, Soran must plant a small explosive devise on Reborn. Then after the duel we get the rest of the duelist experiments out there and find him. They find him, circle him, set off the explosive and swarm him. They then pick him apart and bring him back here for further studies."
"He's only good to us alive though."
"I never said dead, I want him in a coma." Melissa demanded.
"Wait that's a risky idea!" Marina pointed out, "He could die in a coma!"
"So what as long as we get the needed information of the subbeing we will be able to create the perfect syrum for the Dark King."
"Syrum? What syrum?" Marina asked clueless.
"Marina..." Lyle sighed, "The Dark King want's to know how the light was created. We need to find that out, once we do we then move on and try to contain it so we can give him that energy or whatever it was. From there the Dark King's dueling power and his duel energy will surpass anyothers."
"So all of this because the Dark King wants to expand his power!"
"Do you have a problem with that Professor Marina?" Melissa asked.
"Yes I do!"
"What are you going to do about it?" Melissa asked in anger.
"Duel...if I win then we take a diffrent approach to getting Lucas back here..."
"If I win?"
"Then will go with your strategy..." Marina sighed in dissapointment as she uttered those words.
"Fine then...deal." The two shook hands and walked over to their respective sides.
Melissa: 4000
Marina: 4000
"Let's duel!"
"Alright you guys let's rest up. We've been walking for a few hours." Luck said sitting down relaxing by a tree. They were now in the forest area where the haunted castle was foretold to be.
"Thank goodness." Thomas sat down.
"Yes we're outside!" Marcos celebrated by climbing up a tree and hanging upside down.
"Huh..." Shin was quiet as he sat down.
"Why you quiet Shin?" Thomas asked.
"Lucas...man. If we find him...what if we have to duel him? Who's gonna do it? In our last duel it could've gone either way. I was so close to losing and at the same time...so close to winning."
"Well maybe you two can put that aside. I mean you are coming to rescue him."
"Yeah, but he sacraficed himself so I wouldn't get thrown out of here."
"I understand your position." Thomas said.
"Yeah right..."
"Shin look we are a team. We travel together, fight together, we are always togeteher. Lucas will forgive you, like you said. He sacraficed himself so as far as I'm concerned there is nothing that needs forgiving."
"You know what you're right." Shin said as he stood up, "Thanks Thomas."
"No problem." Then two shook hands then a rustle in the bushes distrued the four.
"What was that?" Marcos asked.
"Maybe a duelist!" A voice from the bush called as a red haired kid came out. He had green eyes, he wore a black long sleeved shirt, jean pants, and black shoes.
"Who are you?" Thomas asked reading his duel disk.
"Me..." The boy's eyes turned white, "My name is Gregory...and all I have to say is...power through famine." Gregory then slipped his deck in his duel disk and looked at Thomas with his blank white eyes.
"Then let us duel!"
Thomas: 4000
Gregory: 4000
"I'll start off!" Gregory said drawing one card, "I'll start off by busting out my Blackwing-Vayu the Emblem of Honor(800/0)!" On the field a black winged bird wearing a neck high jacket and had orange spiked hair appeared on the field, "I'll activate Cards for Black Feathers! By getting rid of one blackwing mosnter from my hand and sending it out of play I can pick up two more cards!" Gregory had sent away his second Vayu the Emblem of Honor and drew two more cards, "I'll top off my turn by placing down a facedown card!"
"I draw!" Thomas took the top card off his deck with his heavy french accent declaring his action.
"And I activate my facedown frenchie! My facedown card is Royal Oppression! Now everytime you special summon a monster, or use a card to special summon a monster, I can give up eight hundred life points to negate it! Same with me if you don't want me to bust out any monsters then you have to give up eight hundred life points."
"Well played...I guess." Thomas looked at the six cards in his hand, "I'll now summon Sacred Knight's Spearholder(800/400)!" In the fores a girl with long pink hair dressed in armor t big for her made her apperance.
"Your monster has the same attack as my monster!"
"I know, but what you don't realize is that I'm now playin the card Sacred Sword to raise me monster's attack by six hundred points!"
Sacred Knight's Spearholder's Attack: 1400
"Now my Spearholder attack!" The spearholder held it's overgrown spear high in one hand, as in the other it held it's new sacred blade. It then thrusted it's spear into the blackwing monsters chest.
Thomas: 4000
Gregory: 3400
"I shall now end with a facedown!"
"Alright then frenchie my turn! I'll activate Allure of Darkness! This allows me to draw two cards, but then I must get rid of a dark monster from my hand! If I don't have any then I remove every single card in my hand from play. Lucky for me I've drawn my third Vayu so now it'll be the second one out of play!" Gregory put his third Vayu in his pocket.
"Why would you do that? I know of the blackwings abilities and it seems you are not reaching their potential." Thomas pointed out.
"Don't worry about it!" Gregory yelled, "I'll now put down my Blackwing-Blizzard the Far North(1300/0) in defense position!" Then a white bird on the field with black feathers on the tips of it's wings and on it's face appeared.
"Why summon a weak monster?"
"Just sit back and watch! I'll end now."
"Then my turn! I shall draw and summon Apprentice Knight(1000/1000)!" On the field a girl with short orange-red hair dressed in knights armor stood next to Thomas's Spearholder. "Then I'll attack your monster with my Knight! Apprentice Knight attack!" The female knight struck down the bird.
"Ha! Thanks!" Gregory called.
"Huh? Why?" Thomas asked.
"You'll learn soon enough!"
"Now my Spearholder attack!" The spearholder then shoved her spear and blade in Gregory's chest.
Thomas: 4000
Gregory: 2000
"Guah!" Gregory cried out in pain.
"Now it's my turn! My draw! I'll now summon Blackwing-Gale the Whirlwind(1300/1000)!" A small black bird with a yellow face, blue eyes, and green colored hair on the top of it's head, soared in and took the field. "Next with my monsters effect I can halv one of your mosnters attack points! I pick your Apprentice Knight!"
Apprentice Knight's Attack: 500
"Now Gale the Whirlwind attack!" The small bird then struck down the knight.
Thomas: 3200
Gregory: 2000
"So you manage to do some damage huh?"
"I'll do more than that. I end my turn."
"I draw! I now summon Horse of Floral Knights(400/800)!" A white horse in white, gold, and pink like armor appeared on the field.
"So what do you plan on doing?"
"Well first I shall attack!" Thomas's Spearholder then struck down Gale the Whirlwind.
Thomas: 3200
Gregory: 1900
"Now my Horse attack!" The Horse rushed over to Gregory and headbutted him.
Thomas: 3200
Gregory: 1500
"Then I'll end my turn."
"Then I draw! Next I'll summon my second Blackwing-Gale the Whirlwind(1300/1000)! Now with three dark monsters in my graveyard I can special summon my Dark Armed Dragon(2800/1000)!"
"I'll give up eight hundred life points to stop that!"
Thomas: 2400
Gregory: 1500
"Now if I activate my trap card! Icarus Attack! By giving up one Blackwinged mosnter on my field I can destroy two cards! I pick my trap card and your facedown card!"
"What!" Thomas was shocked as Gregory destroyed his own trap card and Thomas's trap card which was Floral Shield.
"Now my monster shall come to life!" A large dark armor razor bladed dragon took the field, "With my dragon's effect if I remove one monster from my graveyard, as long as it's a dark monster, then I can destroy one card on the field! I pick your Spearholder!" The large dragon swung it's tail destroying Thomas's Spearholder.
"No..." Thomas said in shock.
"Now Dark Armed Dragon attack that horse!" Gregory pointed towards the lower level moster. This one attack would win the duel.
Melissa: 4000
Marina: 4000
"Don't hold back girl! This is my draw!" The duel between Melissa and Marina had started and it was Mellisa's draw. "I summon Fabled Krus(1000/800)!" On the field a small blue fiend like girl with long black hair and bat wings arose, "I'll end with that."
"My turn!" It was Marina's turn now, "I'll summon a monster in defense mode and throw down a facedown card to end it!"
"I'll then start my move!" Melissa drew her next card, "I'll now activate my monster Fabled Grimrow's(1700/1000) effect and send it to the graveyard to add one Fabledm monster from my deck to my hand!" Melissa showed Marina a picture of a grey, almost blue skinned girl, with long black hair, dressed in black crow feathers, with a golden tiara and black crow wings. She sent the card to the graveyard and searched through her deck. "I pick to bring my Fabled Raven(1300/1000) to my hand!" Melissa showed Marina a picture of a man dressed like a crow in black armor tipped with red razor blade wings.
"So you plan on summoning it?"
"Actually yes I do! I now summon my Fabled Raven(1300/1000)!" The card Melissa showed Marina came to life, "Now I'll activate Lightning Vortex and discard one card to destroy your monster!" Melissa pointed towards the facedown monster which turned out to be Dewdark of the Ice Barrier(1200/800). The blonde haired man dressed in red ninja clothes was destroyed.
"I activate my facedown card!" Marina declared, "I'll now bring back my monster!" Once again the blonde haired, red clothe ninja appeared on the field.
"Like it's going to do you any good! I'll now activate Card Destruction!" Melissa discared the remaineder of the cards in her hand and drew two new ones while Marina drew her new four new cards. "Now get this! Two monsters that I sent to the graveyard were Silva Warlord of Darkworld and Goldd Wu-Lord of Dark World! Whenever they are sent to the graveyard I can special summon them to the field!"
First Silva Warlord of Darkworld(2300/1400) appeared on the field. A large brown skeletol demonic like devil with razor blades emitting from it's forearms, and spikes emitting from it's elbows and shoulders, with large wings spread out across the field with two large silver horns coming out from the sides of it's mouth.
Second Goldd Wu-Lord of Dark World(2300/1400) a large black colored fiend wearing large gold armor as two large wings of armor spread out from it's back, as it had large gauntlets on it's writst as it held a large black axe with a golden edge.
"No way..."
"This duel isn't over! Now by sending my Fabled Grimrow to the out of play zone along with my Broww Huntsman of Dark World I can special summon my Chaos Sorcerrer(2300/2000)!" On the field a lue skinned fiend monster dressed in black robes and a magician's helmet stood next to Melissa's other monsters to complete her monster field. "Now I'll tune both my Fabled Raven with my Silva Warlord of Dark World!"
2(*Fabled Raven)+5(Silva Warlord of Dark World)=7
"Meet the monster that will win this duel! My Ancient Sacred Wyvern(2100/2000)!" A large long white dragon, with long golden hair and large black markings all over it's body. Marina knew this duel was over already, Melissa was Kai's right hand woman for multiple reasons. This was one of them. "Now I'll start by attacking with my Goldd Wu-Lord of Dark World!" The large Wu-Lord swung his axe splitting Marina's monster in half.
Melissa: 4000
Marina: 2900
"Now my monsters effect kicks in! When my life points are higher than yours my monsters attack is raised by the diffrence!" Melissa pointed towards her dragon as a black and gold aura surrounded her dragon.
Ancient Sacred Wyvern: 3200
"Now Fabled Krus attack!" The small little bat girl flew over to slap Marina.
Melissa: 4000
Marina: 1900
Ancient Sacred Wyvern's Attack: 4200
"Now Ancient Sacred Wyvern attack with Light Destruction!" The large dravon roared as a white blast surrounded by a dark aura finished Marina off. "Looks like we're going with my plan." Melissa said as she began to walk off.
"Lady Melissa we have an emergency!" Lyle said after an intern ran up to him.
"What?" She asked angrily.
"Lucas has come up."
"Okay so?"
"He's dueling Soran."
"What just happened?" Gregory asked as Thomas still stood.
"I activated my Floral Shield from my hand! It allows me to draw one card and negate your attack!"
"Crap..." Gregory muttered under his breath., "I'll end my turn."
"Like you had a choice." Thomas teased. He drew now holding five cards in his hand, "I'll activate Instant Fusion and fuse my Horse with a second Spearholder from my deck! Now meet Centaur Mina(2200/1600)!" A girl with long pink hair and the lower torso of a brown horse appeared dressed in knights armor and held a large sword and a shield. I'll now end with a facedown card!"
"Then I'll attack your pathetic Centaur with my Dragon!" The large dragon went to strike down Centaur Mina only to find the attack hit to perfection.
Thomas: 2200
Gregory: 1500
"Ha! Next turn this duel is over!"
"Thank you so much for destroying me Centaur."
"What do you mean? You activated my trap card Liberty at Last! When one of my mosnters is destroyed in battle I can return two monsters to the deck! I choose your Dark Armed Dragon!" The large destructive dragon then turned into a purple plasma energy and returned back to Gregory's deck.
"No!"
"Now you are wide open and it's my turn!" Thomas declared drawing one card, "Now I'll summon Fleur Synchron(400/200)!" A small orange seed plant with a meacing looking face appeared on the field, "Next I'll follow up by activating Potion of Revival! This allows me to bring back one mosnter from my graveyard! I pick my Centaur Mina(2200/1600)!" The Centaur knight appeared once more preparing for battle.
"I'm in trouble..."
"Yes you are because now I'm tuning the both of them!"
2(*Fleur Synchron)+6(Centaur Mina)=8
"Now meet a monster who fightrs for freedom! Fleur de Chevalier(2700/2300)!" On the field a woman knight with large pink flowers sprouting from here helemt stood tall iner her silver armor as the outlines of gold shined even in the dark forest, her red cape flowed as she drew her spear. "Au revoir enfant." Thomas said as his Fleur de Chevalier stuck her blade in Gregory's chest ending the duel.
Thomas: 2200
Gregory: 0
"Huh..." Thomas put his deck back together and walked over to the fallen Gregory. He looked at Gregory's deck. "This deck is based off using the blackwings to summon his dragon everything else is just extra. The way he constructed this deck is magnifique, but I gagne' so we must keep moving." Thomas stood up and looked at his friends.
"So these guys are getting stronger huh?" Luck asked.
"Oui."
"Well then...so do we."