It was now night and Hiccup and Camicazi was still at the Academy campus surrounded by the clones of Krogan. Then suddenly the clones began to part creating a path to them and Asmund.
"I can't believe you did that to Agnar," said Hiccup.
Asmund merely laughed.
"I don't care what it takes, I'm gonna take you down!" Hiccup yelled at the top of his voice. Then suddenly appearing directly behind him was the spirit of Honest. "Honest!"
Honest turned his eyes to Asmund. "Asmund…"
"I see that you joined forces with Hiccup now," said Asmund curtly.
"Honest, I promise you that I will save Asmund," Hiccup promised. He then immediately activated his duel disk. "If it's the last thing I'll do."
"And what makes you think that I need saving?" Asmund asked. "In case you didn't realise I don't want to be saved."
"Nightshroud has twisted your mind!" Hiccup yelled. "Now you're you believe that his way is best."
Asmund laughed. "How ironic, you claim that you wish to save me yet it is you who needs to be saved, you and Camicazi."
Hiccup and Camicazi merely narrowed their eyes.
"Don't let your ears be deceived by the voice of that spirit," said Asmund folding his arms.
Honest looked saddened. "You're wrong."
"Don't you realise that Honest is here because he believes in you! He's here for you!" Hiccup yelled.
"I believe in nothing now devoting myself to Nightshroud," said Asmund.
Honest closes eyes and then vanished.
Camicazi then raised her duel disk and activated it. "Hiccup, let's do this together."
Hiccup nodded.
"Fine! I can defeat you at the same time, kill two birds with one stone if you will," said Asmund with a smile on his face as he activated his duel disk. "You all know the rules of a three-way duel, everyone is fair game and we each have 4000 life points."
Hiccup and Camicazi at then began to position themselves.
"Let's duel!" they yelled.
Hiccup: 4000
Camicazi: 4000
Asmund: 4000
"Since it virtually two against one I'll go first," said Asmund as he drew. He then immediately held the card out. "And I play Clear Phantom in attack mode."
Suddenly appearing on the field was Clear Phantom. (ATK: 1200/ DEF: 1400)
"Sadly I can't attack any of you on the first turn, but that doesn't stop me from playing this facedown," said Asmund as he placed a card facedown on the field. "And then I activate the spell card Attribute Loftily!" He then played a spell card which the picture of a lottery machine with attributes on the wheels. The moment appeared on the field the lottery machine depicted on the card appeared next to Asmund. "Now when you monster is summoned to the field its attribute will change at random."
"My move then," said Camicazi as she drew. "And I'll play Celestial Knight Cancer in attack mode!"
Suddenly appearing on the field was the star consolation of Cancer. Seconds later after blinding light Cancer appeared on the field in a defensive position, holding his shield firmly in hand. (ATK: 700/ DEF: 1900)
"Ready whenever you are, Camicazi," said Cancer.
"Don't forget thanks to my Attribute Loftily your monsters effect is about to change," said Asmund.
Immediately the lottery machine began to activate and they watched as the circles began to spin until they landed on the Water Attribute symbol.
"Looks like your Cancer is now Water Attribute monster," said Asmund with a smile.
"Still doesn't stop me from play two cards facedown," said Camicazi as he placed two cards facedown on the field.
"It's my move now," said Hiccup as he drew and immediately held the card out. "And I summon Dragon Knight Hookfang in attack mode!"
Suddenly appearing on the field was Hiccup's fierce looking Dragon Knight in red armour with mace hand. (ATK: 1600/ DEF: 1000)
"Now let's see what your monster's Attribute will be," said Asmund as he turned his gaze onto his lottery machine. The circles began to spin into the air and a Fire Attribute symbol. "Looks like your monster stain is a Fire Attribute monster."
Hiccup then placed two cards facedowns on the field. "And I'll also placed two cards facedown."
Hiccup then smiled as he looked at Camicazi. "It's only been a while since we have a tag match, Camicazi."
"How can I forget that?" Camicazi smiled broadly. "It was the first duel but I got to play Celestial King. That was back when we try to save everyone from that strange world we were trapped in. We really acted like a real team back then and we can do the same here."
"And save everyone like we did before," Hiccup nodded.
"Those are just memories of a couple of fools," Asmund sneered. "I'm going to do everything in my power to eliminate such an unsightly view from my vision."
Asmund then immediately drew from his deck and immediately held the card out with a large smile.
"I think the two of you remember this card," he said showing the card he drew to them which was Clear World.
He then immediately placed in his field card slot and immediately crystals began to appear directly above them and they found themselves in a wasteland. As the crystals began to glow the Krogan clones vanished into thin air.
"Not this field spell card again," Camicazi groaned.
"Yeah, now will receive a negative effect depending on our monsters attribute," Hiccup groaned.
"And since Hookfang is a Fire Attribute monster on your side you will take 1000 point of damage at the end of each of your turns," said Asmund pointing at Hiccup.
"You're kidding me," Hiccup groaned.
He then pointed at Camicazi. "And for a Water Attribute you are now forced to discard a card from your hand at the end of each of your turns."
Camicazi grimaced.
"And next I summon Clear Rage Golem to the field!" Agnar announced.
Suddenly appearing on the field was a crystal and appearing inside of it was the rocky creature that gave Agnar so much trouble before. (ATK: 1600/ DEF: 1800)
"And naturally it has has no effect on me," Asmund smirked. "Clear monsters have no Attributes rather face up on the field. That means I don't receive any negative effects due to Clear World. Now I'll have Phantom attack Hookfang!"
"But Hookfang has far more attack points," Hiccup pointed out.
Phantom emerged from the crystal and fired tentacle-like tail directly at Hookfang, who then quickly drew his mace and not the tail away. The tail then came sailing back towards Phantom and pierced it in the eye in its chest and was instantly destroyed.
Hiccup: 4000
Camicazi: 4000
Asmund: 3600
"Why did you do that?" Hiccup demanded.
"So that I can activate Phantom's special ability," Asmund explained. "When it is destroyed I can destroy one monster on the opponent's side the field."
"Oh no," Hiccup panicked.
Hookfang was then destroyed and turned into pixels.
"And then you have to send the top three cards from your deck to the graveyard," Asmund said gleefully.
Hiccup then reluctantly send the top three cards of his deck to the graveyard which were Dragon Knights Barf, Scaldy and Stormfly.
"And now since you have no other monster to protect your life points, Rage Golem can attack you directly now Hiccup," Asmund smiled.
Rage Golem then emerged from the crystal preparing to attack Hiccup.
"And whenever this card successfully launches a direct attack, you take 300 point of damage for each card in your hand," said Asmund.
"So that was the same," Camicazi gasped.
"Not if I activate my facedown card, Dragon Knight Reinforcement!" Hiccup announced revealing his facedown card. "Now I draw the top card of my deck and if it's a monster I can immediately summon it to the field. Anything else to go straight to the graveyard and I take 500 point of damage."
"You're waging everything on the top card of your deck?" said Asmund.
"I have faith in my deck and my faith has never gone unrewarded," said Hiccup as he drew he looked at the card and smiled. "I now summon Dragon Knight Meatlug in defence mode!"
Suddenly appearing on the field was the husky looking female Dragon Knight, who took on a defensive position. (ATK: 1300/ DEF: 2000)
Camicazi then nodded. "And next I activate my Trap Strap, trap card!" she announced revealing her facedown card. "This card activate whenever my opponent played a trap card. When the card is activated it allows me to reset that card back onto the opponent's field!"
Hiccup's face down card and reappeared on the field.
"Thanks for the assist," Hiccup smiled.
Asmund glared at them.
"My trap card has another effect," Camicazi continued. "I'm able to summon a Celestial Knight directly from my deck! And I think I'll choose my Celestial Knight Leo!"
Then suddenly appearing on the field was the star consolation of Leo and then a bright light covered the field and appearing directly in front of them was Leo. (ATK: 2500/ DEF: 1900)
"I am here," said Leo folding his arms.
"You ready?" Camicazi asked.
"Just leave it to me!" said Leo.
"Don't forget that my Attribute Lottery spell card now activates," Asmund reminded. They then all watched as the lottery machine began to spin its wheels again, first on Meatlug and it stopped on the Earth Attribute symbol, then came Leo and it stopped on the Wind Attribute Symbol.
"Now for the effects of Clear World," Asmund continued and turned to face Hiccup. "Since Meatlug is an Earth Attribute monster you are now forced to destroy a monster on your side the field and the end of each of your turns."
"That's just perfect," Hiccup groaned.
Asmund then looked directly at Camicazi. "And since Leo is now a Wind Attribute monster you can no longer activate any spell cards."
"But I can still activate Leo's special ability," said Camicazi. "I'm now able to take one Celestial Knight from my deck and place it in my spell and trap card zone. So I'll Celestial Knight Taurus!"
Immediately appearing on Camicazi's field was the star consolation of Taurus.
Asmud narrowed his eyes knowing there was no way he could attack now. "Your monsters are too strong for me to fight, so I've got no choice but to stop my attack."
Rage Golem then retreated back into the crystal.
"Instead I drew the spell card, Clear Wall and end my turn," said Asmund as he placed a spell card on the field.
He then looked directly at his opponents. 'They've certainly got their teamwork down. I need to find a way in order to cut that bond quickly.' His eyes then turned to Hiccup. 'Unfortunately, Hiccup is fully protected thanks to Phantom. However…' He then turned his eyes upon Camicazi.
"Why is he giving me a funny look? It started to creep me out," Camicazi asked.
Asmund merely laughed. "You could say that I'm trying to locate the truth."
Then suddenly his eyes glowed blue and Hiccup knew instantly what was trying to do.
"Be careful, Camicazi!" Hiccup warned. "This guy has the power to read people's hearts!"
"Yeah, I know," Camicazi nodded already feeling Asmund's presence inside of him.
Asmund chuckled. "Resist all you want, but it's useless. I can read your heart like an open book. There is nothing you can hide from me."
Hiccup noticed that Camicazi was now completely still and knew that he was already under the influence of Asmund.
"Camicazi! Pull yourself together!" Hiccup cried.
Asmund merely laughed knowing that Hiccup's attempts were futile.
Asmund then suddenly found himself in a in a starry night sky with no sign of land anywhere. In fact the only thing he could see were the consolations of the Zodiac that was shining quite bright.
'So this is Camicazi's will,' he said as he looked around.
Then suddenly he saw the shadow of the Celestial King blocking his path.
'That's the Celestial King,' he noted. The Celestial King stood there in all his grandeur and surrounding him with the Celestial Knights. 'It looks like his will was not without defences. The Celestial Knights are protecting his heart.'
That's when he noticed that regarding a small light in the distance.
'I see. They're trying to protect that single light,' he said as his eyes glowed blue once again. However the Celestial King and his Knights were preventing him from reading Camicazi. 'As long as they are there standing there guarding, reading Camicazi's heart will be impossible to read.'
However when the Celestial King cast a shadow over the light, he noticed that the shadow had a very familiar look to it.
'I see, so that's what you're trying to hide,' he smiled. 'It looks like I found your darkness without reading your heart.' The silhouette of Hiccup then appeared out of the shadow. 'It's so obvious, I can't believe I didn't see it beforehand. Your darkness is in fact Hiccup Haddock.'
In the real world Camicazi was still in a daze and Hiccup was doing his best to snap her out of it.
"You all right?" Hiccup asked.
"You and Hiccup are very similar in many ways," said Asmund. "As a result, when the two of you combined your powers your virtually unstoppable. However, at the same time it is also your greatest weakness as well. Because deep in your heart you wish to settle things were Hiccup. It's almost like the moon trying to eat the sun."
Hiccup could tell that Camicazi was weakening.
"Don't listen to this quack!" Hiccup yelled. "He's trying to turn us against one another!"
Asmund smirked at him. "You're wasting your breath, it's already too late. I've already read Camicazi's heart and I know the truth about you."
Hiccup looked back at Camicazi. "Camicazi, don't fall for his lies!"
Camicazi just stood there in a days. "I… I…"
"Camicazi! I can easily ground what your heart desires!" Asmund promised. "That's exactly why I set up this Triangle Duel. You now have the perfect opportunity to defeat Hiccup."
"This duel… is for me?" Camicazi stared.
"That's right! The one who's supposed to beat Hiccup is not me, but you," said Asmund his smile getting wider. "Now fight on and defeat Hiccup!"
"I… Hiccup," said Camicazi as her will began to fade. "I will defeat Hiccup."
"Camicazi don't!" Hiccup pleaded.
Asmund smiled.
"It's my turn now," said Camicazi as he drew and then held out the card he drew. "And I play my Graceful Charity which means I can draw three so long as I discard to."
She then drew three cards from her deck and discarded Celestial Knight Aquarius and Gemini. Her eyes then turned towards Hiccup and they narrowed.
"Don't do it," Hiccup pleaded.
"I then summon Celestial Knight Sagittarius!" Camicazi announced.
Immediately the star consolation of Sagittarius appeared on the field and then began to take form as the Centaur with bow in hand. (ATK: 1600/ DEF: 1000)
"And by lowering it attack points by thousand he is able to attack my opponent directly," Camicazi inform them looking directly at Hiccup.
Sagittarius then grabbed an arrow from his quiver and placed it perfectly in his bow. (ARK: 1600-600)
"Now Sagittarius attack Hiccup directly!" Camicazi commanded.
"Camicazi, don't!" Hiccup pleaded.
Sagittarius then fired his arrow and excelled towards Hiccup piercing him in the heart and forcing him to fall down on one knee while clutching his heart.
Hiccup: 3400
Camicazi: 4000
Asmund: 3600
"Camicazi, how could you?" said Hiccup.
Asmund then laughed. "No one in the world does not have a sliver of darkness in their heart. And within that darkness hides the truth of themselves, their fear for the future, despair and absolute loathing. Every time you fight in a duel with your friends there one true goal is to defeat you, but you only add to their disappointment every time you win increase in the darkness in their hearts.
"I… I will not lose to you," said Camicazi looking at Hiccup.
"And there is my perfect example. While she claims, she's your friend the truth of the matter is she fears of being defeated by you. Now that fear has consumed her allowing me to redirect her efforts to her one true enemy… you."
"Hiccup," said Camicazi narrowing her eyes.
"There's just no stopping it! One needs to think on these things," said Asmund in a carefully way. "And you are plenty of time on thinking that what your consumed by Nightshroud."
Hiccup looked at Camicazi, unsure on what to do.
"Hiccup, why don't you release Camicazi from her burden?" Asmund suggested.
"I… I…" said Camicazi again and again.
Then suddenly she fell to her knees as if she was in great pain and clutched her heart.
"I hope this works," said Hiccup getting to his feet. "I activate my trap card, Damage Interest!" He then revealed his facedown card to be a trap card. "Whenever I receive damage from in battle, I can redirect the damage I take and doubly directly to my opponent!"
A burst of light and shot up the trap card and struck Camicazi knocking her to the ground.
Hiccup: 3400
Camicazi: 2800
Asmund: 3600
"That's right, Hiccup," said Asmund smiling. "Take Camicazi out so that we can face one another as we ought to from the beginning."
Camicazi then began to pick herself up. "I now activate my facedown card, Damage Capture!" she announced revealing her facedown card to be a trap and Asmund merely smiled. "This activate when I receive damage! I can then add the damage I take on to one of my monster's attack points until the end of the turn."
Leo then roared as it attack points began to rise exponentially. (ATK: 2500-3800)
"I will not lose this battle!" Camicazi said strongly "Leo…!" Asmund chuckled slightly believing that Camicazi would attack Meatlug. "Leo…!"
Then suddenly Camicazi stopped and then began laughing and Hiccup quickly followed.
Asmund eyes widened in shock. "This cannot be! You were never under my control!"
"Leo attack Rage Golem!" Camicazi commanded.
"I've been waiting for this," Leo smiled.
Leo then began turning towards Asmund, much to his shock.
"All this time it was an act!" Asmund roared.
"Not completely," said Camicazi. "I do truly want to win against Hiccup. But that is quite obvious for any duellist."
"And I have course was to win against Camicazi," Hiccup added. "I don't want to lose to her, but then again it would be quite fun if she did beat me."
"Yeah, what you saw wasn't my darkness it was in fact my lights," Camicazi explained.
"You should have known that the moment we accepted this duel that we would never quit battling."
Asmund couldn't believe what was happening, he had been duped. The two of them have been acting the entire time just to catch him off guard.
"We don't have to use dirty tricks in order to beat our opponents," Hiccup continued and then pointed directly at him. "You must be very confident in your own ability to use such tricks. Manipulated Agnar in the hopes to find the chink in his armour, you try to turn us against one another. Face it, you're the one who's given up even before he started!"
"Leo attack Rage Golem with Regulus Impact!" Camicazi commanded.
Leo's hand then began to glow as he charged towards Rage Golem.
"Don't forget I still have Clear Wall on my field!" Amsund reminded. "As long as it remains on the Clear monsters on the field in attack mode cannot be destroyed in battle and if I receive damage that's less than 1000 point I can reduce it to 0."
"But my attack is way over 1000," Camicazi reminded.
"In that case I send my spell card to the graveyard and reduce the damage I would take to 0."
"Thanks our combo, we were able to destroy your spell," said Hiccup with a small smile on his face.
Asmund narrowed his eyes as his spell card vanished from the field and Leo found himself hitting a wall of some kind forcing him to retreat backwards.
"I'll end things by placing two cards facedown on the field," said Camicazi as she lay to cards on the field facedown.
"And senses the end of my turn I'm forced to destroy a monster on my field," said Camicazi. His eyes then turned to Sagittarius. "And I choose Sagittarius."
Sagittarius then turned into pixels.
"But he's not going to leave the field altogether, and whenever a celestial Knight is destroyed I can place them in my spell and trap card zone," Camicazi reminded as the star consolation of Sagittarius appeared on her field.
"Don't forget since Cancer is now Water Attribute monster you're forced to discard a card from your hand," Asmund reminded.
Camicazi didn't say a word as she discarded Pisces from her hand.
"This is only the start," said Camicazi.
Hiccup nodded. "Yeah, because now it's time for me to carry on where Camicazi left off."
"And I'll sacrifice Meatlug which allows me to play Dragon Knight Toothless to the field!" Hiccup announced as he played the card he drew.
Meatlug was consumed by a whirlwind and once it dispelled standing there was Toothless with his arms folded. (ATK: 2500/ DEF: 2200)
"I can summon him with only one sacrifice of you have a monster on the field," Hiccup explained.
All eyes then turned to the lottery machine as the wheel began to spin, and then stopped on the Wind Attribute symbol.
"Looks like your monster doesn't lose its Attribute," Asmund noted.
"You're not the only one can play a card," said Camicazi revealing her one of her facedown card. Her facedown card revealed to be a trap card which showed Leo covered in the starry bright light. "I activate Leo's Light! I can only activate this card when Leo is on the field and when the opponent summons a monster. Now I'm able to retrieve two Celestial Knights from my deck and place them in my hand."
Camicazi then immediately began looking through her deck and pulled out Celestial Knight Capricorn and Libra.
Camicazi then looked at Hiccup. 'As much as I want to beat Hiccup, my main priorities defeating Asmund. I owe Hiccup a massive debt and the best way I can repay it is by helping him defeat this new evil.'
"No matter what you say you will never sway us," said Camicazi looking directly at Asmund. "Our friendship is unstoppable just like our teamwork and together were going to take you down!"
"I like to see you try," Asmund snarled.
"Be careful what you wish for," said Hiccup. "Since Toothless is a Wind Attribute I'm no longer the play spell cards, but that doesn't stop him from attacking your Rage Golem! Okay, bud, attack with plasma blast!"
"Coming right up," said Toothless as he took into the air and formed a plasma orb in his hands.
He then immediately tossed it directly at Rage Golem and immediately it exploded upon contact.
Hiccup: 3400
Camicazi: 2800
Asmund: 2700
"And you're not out of the woods just yet," Hiccup continued. "You now take damage equal to your monster's attack power thanks to Toothless a special ability."
"What?"" Asmund stared.
He then witnessed as toothless fired yet another plasma blast and this time it struck him creating a massive explosion that consumed him.
Hiccup: 3400
Camicazi: 2800
Asmund: 1100
"Nice play, Hiccup," Camicazi smiled.
"Thanks," Hiccup smiled back as he grabbed a card in his hand. "I'll then placed this facedown and end my turn."
Asmund got to his feet completely winded by the attack. "I'll get you back for that."
"There's no way you can overcome the bond of my Celestial Knights," said Camicazi strongly.
"And the same goes for my Dragon Knights," Hiccup added.
"And there's no way you can overcome our friendship either."
"Together we will put an end to Nightshroud's plans and free our friends." Hiccup then looked directly at Asmund. "Make this easier for yourself and surrender now, Asmund."
Asmund narrowed his eyes at them and then saw the spirit of Honest directly behind Hiccup.
"Please listen to him," Honest pleaded.
Hiccup looked at Honest. 'Don't worry Honest, I'll bring him back I promise.'
"I know you will," said Honest as he began to fade.
"You guys don't know a single thing about me!" Asmund roared. "I'll destroy you and then erase you from existence! I will drag you taking and screaming into oblivion and then watching satisfaction as you will have your nightmares again and again!"
Asmund then began to laugh like a madman.
"And I think I'll start with you Hiccup," he said as he drew. He then held the card out. "I play Pot of Greed, allowing me to draw two card."
He then drew his two cards and held one of them out. "I then activate the spell card, Clear Sacrifice! Now I can summon a high-level monster by removing monsters with Clear in its name from my graveyard."
"This is the same card he played before," Hiccup remembered.
"Then we know what's coming," said Camicazi.
"I remove Clear Phantom and Clear Rage Golem from my graveyard," said Asmund as phantom and Rage Golem appear directly behind him and then vanished into thin air. "And in their place I summon the mighty Clear Vice Dragon!"
Suddenly appearing directly behind Asmund was a large crystal and appearing inside of it was a dragon. (ATK: 0/ DEF: 0)
"Now that's a monster and a half…" said Camicazi.
"And just like all my other Clear monsters, he is unaffected by Clear World as he has no attribute," Asmund smiled. "And whenever he battles a monster in attack by always been double than that of the opponent's monster."
Hiccup grimaced knowing what was going to come next.
"And his first target shall be Toothless!" Asmund announced pointing directly at Hiccup.
Vice Dragon's head then emerged from the crystal. (ATK: 0-5000)
"Destroy Hiccup with cleansing breath!" Asmund commanded.
Vice Dragon then unleashed his dragon breath attack upon Toothless.
Camicazi looked at Hiccup with a panicked look. "Hiccup!"
"I'll make you forget all!" Asmund smirked. "Existence, memory, everything!"
Attribute Lottery
Continuous Spell Card
Whenever a monster is summoned to the field that monster's Attribute will change at random. The effect will continue so long as this card remains face up on the field.
Card image: lottery machine with attributes on the wheels
Leo's Light
Trap Card
Activate only when you have a face up celestial Knight Leo on your side the field. When your opponent summons a monster of the field you can add two Celestial Knights from your deck directly to your hand.
Card image: showed Leo covered in the starry bright light