Yu-Gi-Oh! ORichalcos

The duel is heating up. Yako has the Wicked Avatar out, the very card that drove him to kidnap Tea and start the R.A. Project, and Hazel is defenceless.

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Anyway, onto the duel…

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In the Sky that Night Part 3

Yako, Gekko, and Hazel all gaped in shock at the gigantic black serpent hovering above them.

Gekko was the first to speak. "Just…how big is that thing? And what is it?"

"The Great Leviathan," whispered Hazel in shock, Seal glowing on her forehead, eyes glowing green briefly. "He slithers across the sky. His awakening is near."

"That's what you're trying to unleash?" asked Gekko in horror. "That thing dwarfs even a God monster!"

"Except for one," said Yako. "Because that monster isn't the Great Leviathan." His voice shook as the whispers in his head grew louder. "It's the Wicked Avatar."

Then the voices rose, and he screamed, and screamed again as the pressure from the voices intensified, driving him to his knees. Above him, the Wicked Avatar roared, sonic waves driving everyone back – and waking up everyone else in the city at the same time

"Yako!" yelled Gekko. "Yako!" He thought furiously. "Talk to me Yako!" he yelled. "Why is the Wicked Avatar taking on the form of the Leviathan? There's no monsters on the field, so the Wicked Avatar should be in its dark sun form!"

Yako struggled for a moment, looking Gekko in the eye. "Gekko…you remember my duel with Yugi Muto, don't you. What the Avatar did that night?"

Gekko's mouth almost fell open. "You reflected Yugi with Fiend's Sanctuary…and the Wicked Avatar took his form, even though there was a stronger monster on the field…"

Yako nodded. "My greatest folly…" he whispered.

"Prepare to face the wrath of your own Avatar! The wrath of the boy who secretly hates you and your shape!

"But this is even worse…" whispered Yako, closing his eyes. "It's not that the Wicked Avatar is mimicking the Leviathan…it's mimicking the power contained within the Seal of Orichalcos itself!" He trembled as he got to his feet again. "With strength like that…I might not be able to control it."

"No, you shan't," declared a crisp, ancient voice.

The Tenma twins gasped as the image of a tall man appeared above the duel. A man known to all of those present, with long flowing aqua coloured hair, garbed in heavy tan robes, with a gold eye and a green eye.

"You use the power of a force of evil," declared the man. "This Wicked God monster is not a real God, and yet it has the power of one through the strength and concept of an idea. And now your consorting with its evil is punishing you, Mr. Tenma."

Yako gritted his teeth. "You…" he said. "Dartz, the president of Paradius."

"I'm honoured," remarked Dartz sarcastically, smiling.

There was a roar from the Wicked Leviathan form of the Wicked Avatar as it saw Dartz. Dartz looked up at the Wicked God and smiled. "Look at that creature. The Orichalcos has exposed the darkness in its heart – darkness that is total and complete."

"No it isn't," said Yako, looking Dartz in the eye. "The only reason the Wicked Gods are just that is because their darkness is mine…" he said. "I left that darkness behind after Yugi Muto destroyed it…"

"And yet, it was still able to trick you into thinking that you had destroyed the Wicked God cards," commented Dartz with a dry chuckle.

"Maybe that was for the best," said Yako. "I'm cursed to guard these cards – or blessed to do something like that in the time I spend imprisoned in this building!" He clenched his fist. "Leave now!" he yelled, sweeping his arm back. "Let's get back to the duel!"

"Master Dartz?" asked Hazel nervously.

"Don't worry, Miss Valentine," Dartz reassured her. "Tenma won't wipe out your life points as long as the eternal Seal of Orichalcos is on the field. He does not wish to claim your soul. Take advantage of that. Defeat the Wicked Gods! You've beaten them twice already."

With that, the image of Dartz disappeared with a last high laugh.

Yako clenched his fist. "My turn's over Hazel," he said. He looked across the field at his opponent. "Hazel?"

Hazel didn't answer, just drawing her card mechanically, looking at it, and trembling.

This went on for about a minute before Gekko sighed. "Yako, let's just skip her turn. If she has any objections, she can voice them."

Hazel didn't speak, but she looked up defiantly.

Yako drew, and a fresh wave of noise cascaded through his head. "Ack!" he groaned. No…I just need one more turn, he thought desperately. He added the card to his hand. Mystical Space Typhoon…, he thought. He selected another card. "I activate the spell card, Pot of Avarice!" he said. "By returning five monsters from my graveyard to my deck, I can draw two cards!" he declared. "I select my Daybreakers, Summoner Monk, and the Wicked Dreadroot!" he said, holding up the five cards. He slotted one at a time into his deck, shuffling after each card, and then placed his deck back into his disk and drew two new cards.

He keeps on going…, thought Hazel. Then I will too!

"I summon Shining Angel in attack mode!" declared Yako, placing the card on his disk.

A four winged, muscular angel appeared. (1400/900)

"The Wicked Avatar mimics the form of my Angel!" said Yako. He looked up at the gigantic black serpent. "Well?" he asked. "Are you going to stop wasting your time up there and get back down here, then?"

The Wicked Avatar roared, but it was already reforming into a black Shining Angel. (1401/1401)

"Now, Shining Angel, attack directly!" called Yako. The angel charged forward and kicked out, dropping Hazel to 2400 life points. Hazel clutched her stomach with a groan of pain.

Yako closed his eyes. I'm sorry, he thought. "Wicked Avatar, attack her directly!" he yelled.

The black angel dived forward and hit Hazel with a double-footed kick.

Hazel screamed in pain, thrown to the floor, her life points decreasing to 999.

She got to her feet glaring at him. "That all you got?" she asked.

Yako looked at her, and then he slid a card into his disk. "I play one card facedown and end my turn," he said. The backed hologram shimmered into view.

Hazel drew, brimming with confidence. "My turn!" she yelled with new intensity. "I summon Cyber Gymnast!" she cried, placing the card sideways onto the scythe zone of her disk.

A powerfully built masked woman appeared, wearing a purple jumpsuit, and then crouched before Hazel. (800/1800) The Seal appeared in her head, boosting her to 1300 attack points.

Gekko was impressed. "Good defence," he remarked. "The Wicked Avatar takes on the highest attack strength on the field, but if the defence strength of a monster is higher than that, even the Wicked Avatar can't take it down."

"Next I play Card of Demise!" declared Hazel. "I draw until I have five cards, but in five turns I lose my whole hand!" She drew the cards with a flourish, and smiled. "I discard this one," she said, sliding one into the graveyard. "That activates Cyber Gymnast's special ability, allowing me to destroy one monster in attack mode that you control! So say goodbye to Shining Angel!"

Yako gasped as Cyber Gymnast charged into Shining Angel, and the angel shattered. The Wicked Avatar quickly reformed into a black Cyber Gymnast. (1301/1301)

"I play a card facedown. That will end my turn," said Hazel, slotting the card into her disk.

Yako drew again, and suddenly gave a cry of pain. Black smoke began to shroud his body, and he looked at his card through his blurry vision.

"Yako," declared a voice. "Yako."

All of a sudden, Yako was back in the desert of black sand, and his black doppelganger was standing in front of him.

"You have no choice, Yako," whispered the Wicked Avatar. "Accept me. Let me into your heart again."

"No," said Yako, shaking his head. "I will not be the avatar of your vengeance!"

The Wicked Avatar snarled and vanished again in a spray of dark sand.

Yako returned to reality with a gasp, looking at his drawn card. I control my fate!, he declared in his mind, knowing that the Wicked Avatar could hear him. He slotted the card into his disk. "I play the spell card Star Shuffle!" he called. "With this spell I can sacrifice a monster from the field, and switch with a random one in the graveyard that has the same level!" He sifted through his graveyard. "I only have one ten star monster in my graveyard," he said.

Hazel froze. When did it get there?, she thought. No, wait! He must have discarded that card when I played Heaven's Lost Property! Oh, this is bad…

"I sacrifice the Wicked Avatar!" yelled Yako.

The Wicked Avatar emitted a screech, and returned to its dark sun form, before shattering. The pieces began to reform, blue fog wafting around the feet of the duelists. The form of a serpent appeared – gigantic, with sickly pink skin, small arms, dark wings, and a monstrous head, twin blades framing its fiendish face under its large beak. (?/?)

"Wicked Eraser!" yelled Yako. "Come forth!"

The Wicked God monster screeched, opening its beak.

Hazel grimaced, and braced herself.

"The Wicked Eraser gains 1000 attack points for each of your cards," Yako reminded her. "With three cards, the Eraser has 3000 attack and defence points!"

Good work!, thought Gekko. Not only can Yako get rid of her defence now, but he's set aside the temptation of the Wicked Avatar!

But attacking isn't my aim, thought Yako. I've brought back the Wicked Eraser for one purpose only! And the facedown card on my field is the key to this combination!, he thought, raising his hand above his disk. All right! Let's do this!

"I reveal my facedown card!" called Yako, touching the button on his disk. "Mystical Space Typhoon! With this spell card, I can destroy one spell or trap card on the field!" He looked Hazel in the eye. "And the card I'm choosing is…the Seal of Orichalcos!"

"What?" asked Gekko.

"What?!" yelped Hazel.

A lightning laced tornado appeared, tearing at the walls of the Seal of Orichalcos. But green light shone from the Seal, and tore the tornado to pieces.

Hazel sighed, and then burst out laughing, the Seal still glowing strong in her forehead. "I thought you had a plan when you played that card. Don't you remember that the Seal of Orichalcos is invincible?"

Yako ignored her. "Now…" he said. "This is it." He raised his arm into the sky. "I sacrifice the Eraser!" he declared.

"What?!" asked Hazel and Gekko in unison for the second time in so many minutes.

The Wicked Eraser screeched, and straightened its form. It began to turn black, until it shredded into black ash. A tornado with the remnants of the Wicked Eraser's head at the eye formed from the ash, and it began to tear at the field, burning through Cyber Gymnast and Hazel's facedown card.

All three of the group shielded themselves.

"What's going on?" asked Hazel through her arms.

"You know that when the Wicked Eraser goes to the graveyard it takes everything on the field with it," explained Yako. "But in addition to that, I can destroy it during my turn, thus triggering its special ability!"

The cloud of ash faded, but the Seal was still going strong.

Hazel burst out laughing. "Did you think the powers of the Wicked Eraser could destroy the Seal of Orichalcos?" she asked incredulously. "You can't destroy the Seal! It's invincible-" and then she stopped talking, breaking off in shock.

The Seal's dome-like barrier was shining. And a most astonishing phenomenon was happening to it.

It was cracking.

I love doing this. Boo-yah!

And now I'm gonna leave you guys hanging, so sorry about that. I'm so evil.

You all saw my reasoning for Avatar's transformation, congratulations to those who guessed and were right. The idea was ripe for the picking for the Wicked Avatar to transform into the Great Leviathan. For some reason, some media articles refer to it as the "Grand Dragon Leviathan," which I think is freaking awesome.

Egads, I be rambling again.

So please review, everybody!