…Again? You're making me do this thing again?
What a pain…
I don't get why you people keep bugging me for my opinion. It's really not all that important.
Who am I really?
We already went over this, I'm a Dishonored Hero and I won't stop until I get to the end of my story.
Already I have an annoying re-occurring villainess, what with her ninjas and all…god, I really hate ninjas…
Just the aspect that they don't have any honor in fighting, striking from the shadows and stabbing in the back. The way of a cowardly assassin…
…I guess I'll show that honor can defeat those cowardly methods…
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Chapter 21
Bushido Versus Ninjitsu
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With the night's sky beginning to cover over the duel academy, a familiar cold hearted duelist walked passed his dorm hut looking at a dark blue cell phone with a strap with 'Lunar Samurai' written on it. An hour ago, Ganryu had received a mysterious text message to meet him at his hidden place.
"Going somewhere…"
Ganryu's eyes widened, and he immediately snapped his head backwards just in time to hear…
"…little brother?"
"…Taikoubou…" Ganryu snarled narrowing his eyes at the mysterious teen that was leaning on the hut behind him.
Allowing his wild gray hair to float in front of his eyes, even though his hair was covered with a white bandana, the mysterious Taikoubou jumped from his leaning position making his dark blue short sleeved jacket float slightly over his yellow shirt with a blue and gold Ying-Yang symbol on the chest. With each step he took, his black pants flowed like a flag over his long blue shoes. "Oh little, naïve brother…do you still disdain me so much that you would use my full name? It's Tai…"
"What are you doing here?" Ganryu gritted through his teeth as Tai stopped a few feet in front of Ganryu.
"Hmm…well, the second chosen still has a while till he begins his first challenge," Tai stated shrugging his shoulders. "So since the third chosen was about to face their first challenge, I thought I might as well watch it…"
"So you actually have confidence in me…" Ganryu scoffed a little surprised with his brother's comment.
"…As a brother yes," Tai sighed shaking his head to reveal his sky blue eyes. "…But as a chosen one…sorry about that…"
Turning his back to his brother, Ganryu looked at the message he received on his phone sniffing slightly. "…Why…"
"I'm sorry…did you say something?" Tai asked raising a hand to his ear blinking a few times.
Instead of talking back, Ganryu just ran forward leaving Tai starring at his fleeing brother. That's when he looked down and then bent down to investigate something. With a grimace, Tai shook his head and stood up covering his face with his hand. "…How unbecoming of you Ganryu…"
"…To shed tears for a predestined cause…you know better than that…"
Ganryu hated his brother…
…his father…
…heck, if it wasn't for his mother, he'd probably loathe his entire family.
If you were to ask Ganryu why he hated his family, you'd probably receive a harsh glare or two and get slammed down by Ganryu's feet. Obviously a topic that was sensitive to the cold Samurai using duelist.
If he would think about anything that was somewhat remotely related to his family matters…well…he would break out of the cold hearted stiff character Ganryu had worked so hard to make.
One of the reasons why Ganryu often sought to be alone was the third reason why he had his own secret area on the island. He needed to look at a picture he always kept hidden on his person, what the picture was or where he hid it…were only in Ganryu's mind.
Standing at the beach surrounded by the many large rocks, Ganryu looked up to see that the sky was cleared of clouds. Allowing the moon light to gleam over the beach, a single shadow was cast over the white sand. "…Was this a joke?"
"Well, well, well, glad to see you again cutie."
Ganryu turned his head around to see Seika sitting atop some of the rocks that surrounded the beach, her chin in her hand supporting an evil yet charming smile. "I'm happy to see that you accepted my invitation…"
"…Who are you again?"
Seika could feel the imaginary sword stab right through her skull, sending her falling head first into the sandy beach. Now he may have been cold, but that didn't mean that he had to remember everyone who annoyed Ganryu…they had to annoy him constantly for him to remember people like that.
"IT'S SEIKA!"
"…Nope, sorry, but I don't remember you…" Ganryu replied crossing his arms, making Seika fall back into the sand embarrassed. "…So many people annoy me…how do you expect me to remember every single person?"
"We dueled only at least a week ago!" Seika shouted throwing her arms to the side to glare daggers at the cold-hearted duelist. "Remember! I played with ninjas!"
"…Thanks for reminding me…" Ganryu sighed shaking his head. "So…did you call me out here just flirt and annoy me?"
"Hmm…well, that was half of the plan," Seika teased rubbing her chin. "You see…I was hired to duel you…"
"We already dueled, and incase you don't remember, I managed to defeat you easily," Ganryu replied bluntly with a bored look on his face.
"Ah, ah, ah!" Seika interrupted wagging her finger towards Ganryu. "If you face me again, you won't be disappointed…"
"…Why should I?" Ganryu asked with a dulled look on his face before he began to walk away. "This was a waste of time…"
Seika immediately grinned as she reached for the pouch on the side of her left leg.
In a quick second, Ganryu stopped as three kunai pierced the sand in front of him, readying a large glare for Seika, who stood behind him spinning a kunai in her right hand. "…Still care to walk away?"
"This is the last time…after this, you never come near me again," Ganryu growled lifting his duel disk up to activate it.
"Hmm…oh, you're just too mean…" Seika pouted slipping on her duel disk. "But, I'll leave you a little something to remember me by…but, I don't plan on losing…"
Ganryu didn't see that there was a familiar fog appearing around the two duelists, slowly engulfing the beach.
"Duel!"
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The shadows were beginning to wrap around the top of the roof on the duel academy, everything was beginning to come to an end…
Dias on the other hand, was taking his medicine as usual; hopefully, it would be the last time he would have to take these things. Big Boss and Lucian blinked a few times watching Dias down the pills in a matter of seconds. "Man…if that stuff wasn't legal for you, I'd consider you a druggie."
Finishing the drink of water, Dias narrowed his eyes towards Big Boss's comment. "Get off my case BB, I need these to live."
"Hey, hey, hey, my bad," Big Boss apologized raising his arms up in a defensive manner. "I'm just not used to watching people taking that much medicine. The only time I saw it was in a manga I stole from my daughter when I was bored one day."
"…You must be old if you have a daughter…" Lucian joked taking a step away from Big Boss.
"Hey! I've still got a few good years left!" Big Boss shouted stomping his foot into the ground and waving his arms into the air. "I workout every day, I keep my sexy body, and I eat right everyday! Unlike you brats, I'll be able to live for a long time!"
"…You'll still look older than us no matter what," Dias commented making Big Boss fall to his knees with tears falling from his eyes. Although…the dark aura above Big Boss was a little too much, so Dias shook that sight from his eyes. "One last duel, before the ceremonial…and then…and then…"
"All your hard work will pay off…" Lucian finished.
"Correct…now then…" Dias stated slipping on a blood red duel disk on his left arm and lifting up his deck. "I have to prepare my cards…"
"Good luck with that…" Lucian wished.
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"Now then cutie…how do you want to do this?" Seika asked lifting up her first five cards. "Do you want to flip a coin…perhaps you'll be a gentleman and allow me to go first…or…" (SLP: 8000)
"Draw!" Ganryu shouted pulling his sixth card into his hand. (GLP: 8000)
It was then that Seika's fantasy shattered into small pieces of glass.
"I summon Samurai Grandmaster – Lau in attack mode!" Ganryu announced as his dual katana wielding samurai appeared in front of him, spinning the two blades in his hands (1800/900) while glaring at Seika.
"And I'll set a card face down…turn end…"
"Hmph! Don't think things will be the same like last time!" Seika shouted drawing her sixth card. "Especially since I have this gal! I summon Tekagi Kunoichi!"
A small gust of wind began to wrap around the two duelists, making the sand fly up into the air, blind sighting Ganryu's eyes.
Slowly wiping his eyes clean of the sand, Ganryu was met with a new ninja…this one a young kunoichi wearing a more soft combination of the blue ninja suit. Her long dark hair was tied back with a light blue headband with a few strands in front of her crystal blue eyes. In her hands, was pair of hand claws that gleamed in the moon light as she raised them up into the air towards Lau (1000/400).
"Oh great…weaponry ninjas…just we this needed," Ganryu growled apparently familiar with the set. "What does this one do?"
"Why not ask her yourself?" Seika asked lifting her hand up to her kunoichi who smirked wildly. "Attack Lau, Tekagi Slice!"
In an incredible speed, the Tekagi Kunoichi ran towards the confused samurai, and then with a great leap, the dark haired beauty flew into the air. While Seika immediately pulled out a small golden coin. "Now then! I activate my kunoichi's effect! So I have to flip a coin, and I'll call heads!"
The coin flew up into the air, making Ganryu a little confused as the coin fell on the ground…
…the head's side face up…
The result however didn't catch Ganryu's eye…it was the golden eye that was on the coin.
He didn't even notice that his Samurai Grandmaster was easily ripped to shreds by the deadly kunoichi beauty, until the pixels slammed into him. "What the?"
"Confused? Good!" Seika laughed as her kunoichi landed in front of her with her tongue slightly sticking out. "But allow me to explain cutie! My kunoichi allows me to flip a coin when she's engaged in battle, and if I call it right like I just did…"
"…The opposing monster takes the hit instead!"
"Oh joy, a copy card of Sasuke Samurai…" Ganryu growled slapping his head.
"What ya going to do…" Seika shrugged her shoulders before two set cards appeared behind her kunoichi. "Especially now that I have these in the arsenal."
"What am I going to do?" Ganryu asked lifting his next card up. "I think that's simple…I'll destroy your monster! I summon Drunken Samurai in attack mode!"
Materializing onto the field, another samurai staggered onto the field. This one wearing partially damaged red armor with a black baggy suit underneath it. The samurai had a large black sword that was slung over his shoulder and a gourd at his right waist. With a loud slurring battle cry, the Drunken Samurai fell backwards (1750/1050).
At the sight of the monster's behavior, Seika couldn't help but laugh loudly making Ganryu narrow his eyes in annoyance. "Heh! Looks like your warrior had a little too much of the sake."
"…Attack her ninja!" Ganryu ordered receiving a blank stare from his Drunken Samurai, as if Ganryu was crazy. "Just attack already!"
Staggering back to his feet, the Drunken Samurai ran rather quickly towards the Tekagi Kunoichi. And as the samurai was only a foot away, Seika reached for her coin. "Now then…I can now activate my monster's eff…"
"Or you would, if my Samurai didn't negate the effects of monsters he attacks!" Ganryu interrupted making Seika drop her coin.
"WHAT!?!?!"
In a felt swoop, the Drunken Samurai brought down his large katana at a diagonal slash on the nervous kunoichi…
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!
"…gong?" Ganryu asked now taking note of the large golden gong that his samurai was planted face first into.
"Actually, it's my Edo Gong," Seika stated lifting up a card from her hand. "Not only does it negate your attack, but now I'm allowed to special summon one level four or lower monster from my hand. And I think I'll choose…this guy!"
The sand began to recede allowing another ninja to jump up, this one a rough looking shinobi wearing ripped green camouflaged ninja pants with a fishnet shirt (exposing his toned chest) and a camouflaged vest. A scar raced on the bridge of his nose and his messy emerald hair went past his shoulders. In his hands are multiple iron-spiked caltrops that he immediately threw over onto Ganryu's side of the field (1550/700). "Say hello to my little friend, Makibishi Shinobi!"
"Heh…my samurai can easily beat both of your ninjas," Ganryu stated, until he noticed that his Drunken Samurai jumped up and down, shouting in pain (1750/1050 – 400/0). "What the?"
"Ya gotta watch out for those caltrops," Seika advised wagging her finger towards Ganryu. "Those things will lower all of your monster's attack points by one hundred points for times their level as long as my Makibishi Shinobi is out."
"…I'll set another card face down…" Ganryu growled with the brown backed card appearing behind his Drunken Samurai. "Turn end…"
"Aw…can't you at least make this fun?" Seika pouted lifting up her next card. Looking at her next card, Seika's pout immediately became a cute smile. "Well…if you won't then I will! Especially with my Shinobi-Zue!"
A dark red blur jumped from the rocks behind Ganryu, capturing the cold-duelist's attention towards in front of him. Standing in front of him with a cocky look on his face, was a lone wolf shinobi wearing a red ninja suit wearing with a white bandana covering his dark hair. In his hands was a long red staff that seemed to have blades slicing out of the sides (1200/900). "He kinda reminds me of you cutie."
"Ugh…will you stop calling me that?" Ganryu growled rubbing his temples, he was hoping that he wouldn't have to go through another duel like this, where the duelist he was facing was not only using a type of monsters that pissed him off…but the fact that his opponent had an apparent crush on him was enough to give him ten migraines in a row. "So demeaning…"
"Oh, whatever you say…handsome," Seika giggled making Ganryu slap his head in his palm.
"Can we take five? I want to bash my head against one of those rocks to kill myself," Ganryu asked pointing towards one of the surrounding rocks.
"Aw…but can't you wait till I use my Shinobi-Zue's ability?" Seika asked crossing her arms over her chest. "With him out, he boosts the moral of all ninjas on the field by one hundred points times their levels…"
A powerful fiery red aura surrounded all of Seika's ninjas, making the Tekagi Kunoichi (1000/400 + 300/0), the Makibishi Shinobi (1500/700 + 400) and the Shinobi-Zue (1200/900 + 300/0) stronger. "Now then…Shinobi-Zue! Attack handsome's Drunken Samurai with doppelganger jutsu!"
Performing multiple hand signs, the Shinobi-Zue created ten copies of himself that appeared all around the beach, making the Drunken Samurai look a little confused (not that difficult) and worried. Then taking the staves from their backs, all ten copies of Shinobi-Zue launched themselves towards the samurai and immediately slammed the bladed staves into the open parts of the samurai's armor…
…Making the samurai shatter back into Ganryu. (GLP: 7850)
"And now…tell me if this hurts handsome," Seika sighed raising her hands towards her other two shinobi. "Tekagi and Makibishi…direct attack!"
The kunoichi and shinobi leapt into the air, both of them preparing to strike Ganryu. "Go! Scapegoats!"
At the last minute, four multi-colored goats (0/0 x4) flashed onto the field, two of them taking the attacks from the two shinobi protecting Ganryu from the two ninja. "Nice try…"
"Oh well…well, my ninjas will be able to take you down soon, they're the best…" Seika stated proudly slamming her fist against her chest. "It's too bad that there are rookies out there who…"
"Enough!" Ganryu shouted slamming his foot into the ground. "Look! I hate ninjas! I hate the fact that people find them as entertainment! For all I could care, is that…that…that…there's a blue haired freak all the way across the world using them!"
"Who knows!?! Maybe he's a ramen noodle loving freak who actually came from a damn hidden temple of ninjas!"
Seika blinked quite a few times, she didn't know if Ganryu just made that off the top of his head or what…
…The amount of words Ganryu were the most he used not used on a duel…
…all she knew was this…
…There was definitely someone one sneezing at that comment right now…
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"Man…that Ganryu has quite the tongue on him…" Big Boss admitted raising an eyebrow. He, Dias and Lucian were watching the duel from a dark portal that Big Boss managed to create from his own power…
"Ya got to admit though…he's able to come up with strategies with his samurai deck…" Dias admitted.
"Quite so…" Lucian added.
Neither of them noticed that Big Boss was rubbing chin in deep thought…as if he was planning something. It was defined by the ever growing smile filled with jagged shark-like teeth. 'Ganryu…Ganryu Dashiben, normally a Dashiben would be a thorn in my side…
"Uh…sir?"
'But if I were to play this correctly…'
"Big Boss?"
'…I could possibly use this to my advantage. I just need to prepare a few things…'
"Hello! Anyone in there?"
Big Boss blinked himself back to reality just in time to see that Dias and Lucian were staring at him as if he were crazy. "What? Did I just miss something?"
"You were just dazing off into space…" Dias pointed out making Big Boss sweatdrop.
"Some birds thought you were a statue," Lucian added pointing towards the pigeon that was on top of Big Boss's head.
"Hey! This isn't some free bird house!" Big Boss shouted slapping away the bird in his hair. "You want to stay here; you're going to pay me big bucks!"
Now it was Dias and Lucian's turn to sweatdrop at Big Boss waving his arms at the bird that kept trying to get back into his hair. "Don't just stand there gawking! Help me!"
"Uh, I'm not sure to help…" Dias admitted.
With a well timed and aimed punch, Big Boss slammed the bird flying off the side of the building. Although, an impressive sight, it was somewhat pathetic for the strange Big Boss get into a fight with a bird. Even more so that he was celebrating his minor victory…so much so that Dias and Lucian's sweat droplets began to grow larger.
"Uh…yeah, uh, Lucian…I've got a new order for you," Big Boss coughed trying to change the subject from his recent battle with the bird.
"What is it sir?" Lucian asked, somewhat a little wary of what Big Boss was going to ask of him.
"Head to the Pacific Academy, watch Kurro from the dark and monitor his success," Big Boss stated opening up two dark portals behind him. "You'll know what to do when the time comes…I have another mission to fulfill, and Dias good luck with the rest of what you need to do."
"It was a pleasure Big Boss," Dias replied crossing his arms over his chest. "Hope to work with you in the future."
"If only," Big Boss sighed before Lucian entered the first dark portal. "Till later…"
"Later," Lucian added before disappearing with his dark aura.
"May our paths cross again Dias, I hope we'll be on the same one," Big Boss warned before disappearing into his aura with a dark smile on his face. "See ya!"
The roof was lonely now…especially since Dias realized that quite a few of his underlings wouldn't be returning anytime soon. "…This had better work…"
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"Draw!" Ganryu announced pulling his next card, after scanning it, Ganryu immediately slapped the card onto his duel disk, making the face down card appear in between the two remaining Scapegoats. "I'll just set a defense monster and call it a turn…"
"Not much of a turn," Seika sighed immediately drawing her next card. "Unlike what I'm about to do! I activate the spell card Pot of Greed!"
The green giggling pot appeared before Seika allowing her to immediately draw her next two cards and shatter the pot into many small pixels. "Next, I'll activate the spell card Summoning Jutsu! This allows us both to special summon one level four or lower monster from our decks in defense mode…"
"So take your pick…"
"Fine…I'll choose Bushido Scroll," Ganryu stated fanning out his deck.
"Then I'll choose Ninja Commander Ikusa," Seika giggled lifting her card up.
At the same time, both duelists slapped their selected cards onto their duel disks, making two large clouds of white smoke appear on the field. Seika's green suited ninja Ikusa (700/700) appeared along with the Ninja Soldier Katana (400/400), while on Ganryu's field the smoke disappeared to show a fancy old scroll with a samurai drawn on it (800/400).
"Now then…I think I'll sacrifice Katana for this! Go Ninja – Ken Shinobi!"
Performing another hand sign, the blue clothed Ninja Katana disappeared into a larger cloud of smoke. When this cloud disappeared, another ninja appeared this one a scarred older ninja with a black cloth covering his face and samurai like ninja clothes with a dark colors on it. His face (or what's showing) had multiple scars and had his dark gray hair tied back into a small ponytail going down his back. In his right hand was a small sword that looked somewhat like a katana (2200/1800 + 600/0) that the ninja spun in his hand.
"And now…All four of my Shinobi! Attack his monsters!" Seika commanded as all four of her shinobi other than Ikusa jumped towards all of Ganryu's monsters lifting up their individual weapons.
The face down monster flipped up to show another Bushido Scroll, but along with the other scroll and two scapegoats it was sliced in half by the ninjas. "Unfortunately…I have no other monsters to attack you with this turn so I'll set this card face down…"
The brown backed card appeared next to Seika. "And I'll call it a turn…"
"And during the end phase," Ganryu stated looking through his deck and lifting it up to look through it. "I can take a monster with 'Samurai' or 'Shien' in its name from my deck and add it to my hand!"
"What?!? How in the world are you…" Seika asked before Ganryu lifted up two cards from his deck.
"Those Bushido Scrolls are the cause," Ganryu answered flipping the cards to show that the cards he chose were Samurai of the Void and a samurai that Seika couldn't see what it was. "When destroyed, during the end phase they fall in battle I can add a samurai monster to my arsenal."
"Well then…bring it on handsome," Seika challenged as Ganryu drew his next card.
"As you wish," Ganryu took up the challenge pulling his next card. 'Damn it…I still don't have the Book of Five Rings in my hand…and I still don't have Weapon Trade in to pull off my combo…oh well, I guess I'll have to use a different technique.'
"I summon Samurai of the Void (1700/1400 – 400/0) in attack mode!" Ganryu announced slapping the card onto his duel disk allowing the dark armored samurai to appear with his banner with the kanji for void on his back. Another card popped out of Ganryu's deck and he lifted it up. "And as you remember my samurai allows me to take another one from my deck."
"Don't forget! Your monster loses four hundred attack points due to the Makibishi Shinobi," Seika reminded as one of Ganryu's face down cards.
"Go trap card, Ultimate Offering!" Ganryu announced slapping his next card onto his duel disk. "So I pay five hundred points and I can perform a second summon this turn! So say hello to my Samurai of the Earth (1200/1400 – 400/0)!" (GLP: 7350)
From the sand the earth green samurai erupted from below lifting up his spear and banner. But Ganryu wasn't done yet, another card shot out of his deck and into his hand. "Next! Pay another five hundred to summon Samurai of the Water (1300/1100 – 400/0)!" (GLP: 6850)
This time from the water, the aqua blue samurai leapt next to his fellow feudal warriors, making another card slip out of Ganryu's deck which immediately was slapped onto his duel disk. "Coming up on the list is Samurai of the Flame (1500/1000 – 400/0)!" (GLP: 6350)
"And lastly…it's time for Samurai of the Sky (1400/1400 – 400/0)!" Ganryu finished slapping the last samurai of the five scrolls falling from the sky to glare at Seika. (GLP: 5850)
"I think you remember the samurai of the five scrolls…"
"Oh…yeah…I never got the chance before but those samurai remind me of a certain five colored heroes from a kid show," Seika stated making Ganryu face fault.
"What the? They're not the Super Sentai…" Ganryu growled slamming his fist together.
"You said it, not me," Seika commented making Ganryu growl even more. "Besides…they can't even take down my weakest Ninjas…"
"That's why I've got this…I play another spell card called Wartime Tactics!" Ganryu announced slipping his next card into his duel disk, making the card appear showing many samurai charge towards a burning castle. "Now during the end of this turn alone, if any of my warrior type monsters inflict damage to your life points, I can destroy one monster on the field!"
"Pretty nice effect…too bad you can't inflict any to me," Seika stated, not knowing that Ganryu had another card in his right hand.
"Then I'll play the spell card, Battle Charge!" Ganryu stated as many knights and samurai charging towards each other. "Now watch and learn, all I just have to do is pay two thousand life points…" (GLP: 3850)
Pointing towards his Samurai of the Void (1300/1400 – 650/0), Ganryu cleared his voice and shouted loudly. "Samurai…CHARGE!"
Seika's eyes widened as the Samurai of the Void appeared directly in front of her and slashed his katana across Seika's stomach sending her staggering back. "W-what the?" (SLP: 7350)
"You see, Battle Charge allows me to declare a word, and all monsters who share that word in their name can attack you directly," Ganryu explained as his Samurai of the Void returned to his side of the field. "All I need to do is cut their attacks in half…and I choose Samurai."
"Uh oh…" Seika gulped as the remaining four samurai appeared in front of her.
"Samurai of the Flame (550/1000), Water (450/1100), Earth (400/1400) and Sky (500/1400)," Ganryu growled lifting his hands up towards Seika. "Slice and dice her!"
The Samurai of Flame sliced his large katana, Water and Earth slammed their trident and spear, while Sky pulled back on its bow. In a quick second the four launched their attacks on Seika, making her scream loudly. (SLP: 5250)
"D-Damn it…you really like tough love don't ya handsome?" Seika chuckled as all of samurai jumped away from her.
"…In a sense," Ganryu replied slipping another card into his duel disk. "I'll place this card…and end my turn. And now, thanks to Wartime Tactics…all of your monsters bite the big one!"
In a powerful blast of wind, each of Seika's ninjas shattered into pixels and left the field making Seika immediately bare on the field. "True…but now you lost a lot more life points than I did…"
"You look at the field, and you tell me whose going to win," Ganryu replied crossing his arms.
"Hmm…alright…I say…I'll win!" Seika stated pulling her next card off her deck. "I summon Shinobi Kan!"
Seika's shadow began to waver left and right until it began to crawl on the ground and seemed to stand up from the ground. The shadow then transformed into a fully black clothed ninja that had red eyes, that narrowed down at Ganryu (1600/1200). "Shinobi Kan! Attack his Samurai of the Earth!"
Disappearing back into the shadows, the Shinobi Kan faded from the field, making all of Ganryu's samurai turn their heads left and right. However, the Samurai of the Earth cried out in pain before he fell face first into the sand with many kunai and shuriken stuck between his armor.
A few behind Ganryu, the Shinobi Ken tossed up a small shuriken in his hands before disappearing again to appear in front of Seika. (GLP: 3450)
"And I'll place two cards face down, that's all," Seika giggled with the brown backed card appearing in behind her Shinobi Ken. "I like to see what you can do handsome…"
"… … … … Please…don't call me that…" Ganryu sighed slapping his forehead with his hand and then combed his hair back.
"Way to suck the fun out of pet names," Seika pouted before Ganryu drew his next card.
'…Finally…' After adding the next card into his hand, Ganryu immediately held his hand out over his face down card. "I activate my trap card! Go Call of the Haunted! Now I can special summon my Samurai of the Earth back!"
In a dark cloud the familiar samurai garbed in forest green armor appeared gasping for air. "Now then…I'll play a familiar spell card, go, Weapon Trade-In!"
Quickly fanning out his deck out once more, Ganryu pulled out five separate cards and immediately slipped them into his graveyard. "All I need to do is send five equip spell cards, and then I get a spell card. So I'll send my Tempest Sword, Inferno Blade, Aqua Rapier, Earthen Sword, and Void Sword to my graveyard…"
"And I'll chain with my trap card!" Seika laughed as her face down card flipped up showing many ninja throwing lit bombs at a stone building. "It's a card known as Exploding Tag Assault! It activates whenever you send cards from your hand or deck to the graveyard. After they enter the graveyard, they are immediately removed from play!"
Ganryu's eyes widened as he took his newest spell card from his deck, but all five of his cards were immediately removed from play putting a wrench in his strategy…
…Oh well…
"You may have stopped my first plan…" Ganryu growled lowering his head.
"Eh?" Seika blinked in confusion before a dark aura seemed to appear around Ganryu's body.
Then, quickly snapping his head up, Ganryu revealed that his eyes were now glowing a bright golden yellow color, narrowed to look directly into Seika's soul. Even knowing that she was being glared at those cold eyes…
…chills flowed up and down Seika's spine, making her breathe deeper. 'Wha…what is this?'
"But I have another way!" Ganryu shouted with a very cold tone added to his voice. A powerful dark flame seemed to appear behind all five of his samurai, making them all grab their heads in pain. "The way of the Dishonored Hero! I activate the spell card, Bushido Dishonoring! I must now remove all five of my samurai from play…"
The dark flames grew too powerful for the samurai to survive for long, all of them shattered into the flames that seemed to surround Ganryu. The chills that were sent up Seika's spine were immediately exchanged for the extreme heat of the flames that seemed to grow with each passing second.
"…And now…I can summon my deadliest monster…"
The flames seemed to rise even higher, curtaining the large shadowed being that immediately parted the flames with what appeared to be large blood red claws…
…Whatever what Seika had her eyes gazed upon…it could hardly even once been considered human. It was a demonic being with dark midnight blue skin wearing rusted covered blood red samurai armor that had a pair of black bat wings protruding from the busted out armor in the back. At the demon's hands, were long thick blood red claws…the same ones that had parted the flames…
When the demon locked eyes with Seika, the monster opened up its fanged mouth and allowed its tongue to hang out with a loud cackle filling the air.
"Oh…my…lord…" Seika gasped taking a few steps back, however, her ninja stood tall and didn't seemed phased.
"Meet my Demon Bushido Samurai…the deadliest monster in my arsenal…" Ganryu introduced, his eyes still glowing bright golden yellow.
"But…where are his…" Seika started until Ganryu lifted his hand up.
"His attack and defense are half of the combined attack of the Samurai that were removed from play," Ganryu explained. "And the Samurai of the Five Rings were used…"
The Demon Bushido Samurai cracked its joints loudly (3050/3050) and immediately laughed loudly once more. "Attack her Shinobi Kan!"
Roaring loudly into the air, the demonic samurai immediately slammed its bloody claws on top of the ninja, crushing it into pixels. (SLP: 3800)
"Heh! Jokes on you! I chain my shinobi's destruction with my trap card!" Seika shouted fighting back with her trap card flipping up to show multiple ninjas firing off many flames from their hands. "I activate the trap card, Ninjitsu Art – Phoenix Flower Jutsu! And now, whenever I special summon a ninja monster to the field, I can inflict five hundred points of damage to you!"
Ganryu just blinked a few times as Seika immediately pulled out her deck and flipped through it selecting her own card. "And I'll choose this! Go Shinobi Genin in defense mode!"
Flipping into the air, another ninja appeared wearing a dark version of the other ninja's clothes with red eyes and long way black hair (700/400). In a matter of seconds, the ninja prepared a few hand signs and released a flame that engulfed Ganryu's body. (GLP: 2950)
"And guess what? I can special summon all copies of my Shinobi Genin from my deck," Seika stated lifting up her next two cards and slapping them onto her duel disk, allowing the two copies of the Shinobi Genin appear to fire off a pair of powerful flames into Ganryu. (GLP: 1950)
"With these defenses, I'll be able to take you out easily," Seika giggled placing her finger on her chin.
"…Wrong…you won't be able to take anyone out tonight…" Ganryu growled gesturing towards his Demon Bushido Samurai. "Cause my monster has a few other tricks he can use…continue the onslaught!"
Seika's eyes widened as the demonic samurai immediately appeared in front of her first Shinobi Genin and slammed its claw onto the dark ninja. The force sending Seika flying backwards, making many scratches appear on her skin and clothes. (SLP: 1150)
"You see…my Demon can attack again as long as you have another monster on the field and has a trampling effect…" Ganryu stated as his samurai began to cackle loudly with a demonic laughter. "And now…any last words?"
"Uh…don't end this?" Seika tried.
"…Oh, sorry, but no…" Ganryu cackled throwing his hand towards another one of Seika's Shinobi Genin. "What I was looking for was please…Destroy that ninja!"
With a powerful, red blood swipe, the Demon Bushido Samurai sliced the small Shinobi Genin as if it were nothing more than the very air it breathed itself. The force of the claw was strong enough to make Seika fly again, this time skidding against the sand to the rock walls, knocking her against one of them. (SLP: 0)
As the fog began to dissipate, all of the monsters and cards on the field disappeared as Ganryu slowly walked over to see Seika weakly raise her head up. "Well…I guess you win…handsome…"
"…Who sent you?" Ganryu asked kneeling down to be eye level with Seika.
"… …I guess you deserve that answer…" Seika giggled as the fog began to wrap around her feet. With what energy, Seika lifted her hand up and pointed towards the main duel academy building. Only this time, the roof of the building was lit completely blood red. "I-If you go up there…you'll find the guy who hired me…"
Nodding with his scowl on his face, Ganryu started to walk away from Seika, until he felt a small tug on his pants. Turning around, Ganryu saw the pathetic look that was on Seika's face. "A…a word of a-advice…"
Ganryu nodded once more, waiting for the advice, not noticing that Seika's legs were completely covered with the mysterious fog. "C-Come closer…"
A little bit wary, Ganryu knelt down once more and leaned in to hear what Seika had to say…
…That's when he felt something press up against his lips…
…his eyes widened…his heart nearly stopped…
…When he regained his composure, he realized that his lips were locked with Seika's, the fog now going a lot faster around her body now. As soon as Seika pulled away, she couldn't help but smile. "Hmm…later handsome…"
Still flabbergasted, Ganryu didn't realize that the fog had completely taken over Seika and dissipated with Seika disappearing with it.
"Heh…didn't expect that…"
With a new voice, Ganryu jumped to his feet and turned around to see Big Boss sitting on a rock a few feet between the two. Big Boss obviously amused seeing this, began to clap his hands. "A kiss between two enemies…not to mention between strangers! You certainly know how to add a kick of spice to a night's festivities…"
Shuffling his deck, back into his pocket, Ganryu raised his fists up in a back stance fighting form, preparing for anything.
"Aw…it's nice to see that you're willing to fight," Big Boss chuckled jumping off the rock and taking a step towards Ganryu. "But, I've come not to fight…but rather to give you this…"
With a flick of his fingers, Big Boss produced a small white card and presented it to Ganryu. A little wary, Ganryu snapped the card from Big Boss's hand to see that it was a business card, with Big Boss written in gold with a small chibi version of Big Boss himself giving a thumbs up. Underneath the picture was a cell phone number.
"I know you, you're probably seeking a chance to be a hero," Big Boss stated shrugging his shoulders. "Perhaps I may be able to help you with that…"
"Who are you?" Ganryu asked.
"Read the card," Big Boss stated before he turned towards the main duel academy building. "But, I don't expect your answer now…don't you have to go somewhere?"
"…" Ganryu just glared at Big Boss as he slowly began to leave the hidden beach.
Big Boss just snickered to himself as he watched Ganryu disappear into the distance. "Well…if my plan works, then I may have my next pawn in my game of chess…"
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Card Stats
Tekagi Kunoichi / Wind / LV. 3 / ATK: 1000 / DEF: 400 / Warrior/Effect: This monster is considered to have 'Ninja' in the card name. If this card battles a monster, flip a coin and heads or tails before damage calculation. If you call it right, destroy the opponent's monster with this effect.
Description: A young beautiful young kunoichi wearing a more soft combination of the blue ninja suit. Her long dark hair is tied back with a light blue headband with a few strands in front of her crystal blue eyes. On her hands, are pair of hand claws that gleam in the right light.
Makibishi Shinobi / Earth / LV. 4 / ATK: 1500 / DEF: 700 / Warrior/Effect: This monster is considered to have 'Ninja' in the card name. As long as this card remains face up on the field, lower the attack points of each face up monster on your opponent's side of the field by 100 times their level.
Description: A rough looking guy shinobi wearing ripped green camouflaged ninja pants with a fishnet shirt (exposing his toned chest) and camouflaged vest. A scar is on the bridge of his nose and his messy emerald hair goes past his shoulders. In his hands are multiple iron-spiked caltrops.
Shinobi-Zue / Dark / LV. 3 / ATK: 1200 / DEF: 900 / Warrior/Effect: This monster is considered to have 'Ninja' in the card's name. As long as this card remains face up on the field, increase the attack of all face up monsters with 'Ninja' in the card's name by 100 points times the number of stars on each monster.
Description: A fiery red ninja suit wearing ninja with a white bandana covering his hair. In his hands is a long staff that seems to have blades kept inside of them.
Ninja - Ken Shinobi / Dark / LV. 6 / ATK: 2200 / DEF: 1800 / Warrior/Effect: This monster's effect can only be used once per turn during your opponent's battle phase. Negate one monster attack against a monster with 'Ninja' in the card's name and decrease your opponent's life points by half of the attacking monster's original attack points.
Description: A scarred older ninja with a black cloth covering his face and samurai like ninja clothes with a dark colors on it. His face (or what's showing) has multiple scars and has his dark gray hair tied back into a small ponytail going down his back. In his right hand is a small sword that looks somewhat like a katana.
Drunken Samurai / Earth / LV. 4 / ATK: 1750 / DEF: 1050 / Warrior/Effect: When this card attacks a face up effect monster, negate the effect of the monster this card attacks.
Description: A samurai wearing partially damaged red armor with a black baggy suit underneath it. A large black sword is slung over his shoulder and a gourd at his right waist
Shinobi Kan / Dark / LV. 4 / ATK: 1600 / DEF: 1200 / Warrior/Effect: This card is considered to have 'Ninja' in it's name. When this card is destroyed and sent to the graveyard, you may special summon one 'Ninja' card from your hand or deck.
Description: A black clothed ninja with dark blue skin and red eyes.
Shinobi Genin / Dark / LV. 2 / ATK: 700 / DEF: 400 / Warrior/Effect: This card is considered to have 'Ninja' in it's name. When this card is special summoned, you may special summon two 'Shinobi Genin' from your hand, deck or graveyard.Description: A black clothed ninja with dark blue skin and red eyes, its pitch-black hair is flying wildly into the air.
Ninjitsu Art – Phoenix Flower Jutsu / Continuous Trap / Effect: Whenever you special summon a monster with 'Ninja' in it's name, inflict 500 points of damage to your opponent's life points.
Image: Multiple ninjas firing off multiple flames from their hands.
Demon Bushido Samurai / Dark / LV. 10 / ATK/ DEF/ Fiend/Effect: This card cannot be normal summoned or set. This card cannot be special summoned except by the effect of 'Bushido Dishonoring'. The original attack and defense of this card is half of the combined attack of all the monsters that were removed by 'Bushido Dishonoring' card effect. When this monster attacks with a higher attack than the defense of a monster in defense mode, inflict the difference to your opponent's life points. When this card successfully destroys a monster as a result of battle, if your opponent has another monster on the field, this card may attack again.
Description: A wicked, battle-scarred samurai wearing a broken, blood red armor with a pair of devil wings spurting out of his back. Instead of a weapon, the samurai has blood red demonic claws.
Bushido Dishonoring / Spell / Effect: This card can only be activated when you have five face up monsters on your side of the field with 'Samurai' in their name. Remove all monster cards on your side of the field. Special summon one 'Demon Bushido Samurai' from your deck or graveyard.
Image: A dark samurai figure lifting his bloody sword with a dark flame behind him.
Edo Gong / Trap / Effect: This card can only be activated when your opponent declares an attack. Negate the attack and special summon one level 4 or lower monster from your hand.
Image: A Japanese Samurai being slammed up against a large golden gong.
Summoning Jutsu / Instant Spell / Effect: This card can only be activated during a player's main phase. All player may special summon one level four or lower monster from his or her deck.
Image: A young blonde ninja riding on top of a large toad.
Bushido Scroll / Wind / LV. 3 / ATK: 800 / DEF: 400 / Winged-Beast/Effect: During the end phase this card is destroyed as a result of battle you may add one monster with 'Samurai' in its name from your deck to your hand.
Description: A fancy old scroll with a picture of a samurai.
Exploding Tag Assault / Trap / Effect: This card can only be activated when your opponent sends cards from his hand or deck to the graveyard. Remove all cards that were sent to the graveyard.
Image: Many ninjas throwing lit bombs at a stone building
Weapon Trade-In / Spell / Effect: Send five equip spell cards from your deck to the graveyard to activate this card's effect. After doing so, you may take any spell or trap card from your deck and add it to your hand. The deck is then shuffled.
Image: a young samurai trading a spear for a sack of gold
Wartime Tactics / Spell / Effect: During the turn this card is activated, each time any of your warrior-type monsters inflict damage to your opponent's life points, you may destroy one monster on the field.
Image: Many samurai charging towards a large burning Japanese castle
Battle Charge / Spell / Effect: Pay 2000 life points. Declare one word. All monsters with the declared word may attack your opponent directly this turn. All battle damage your opponent receives from monster affected by this card effect are cut in half.
Image: Many knights and Samurai charging towards each other.
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Dias: Finally…my time has come! All that's left…
Ganryu: Dias!
Rena: Stop this!
Dias: Aw…perfect timing…Finally…my rebirth, shall begin!
The showdown has finally arrived! Next time on the Duelist Twilight special! – Chapter 22: Duel for a Duel
Rena: …Dias…what are you wearing?