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Urei groaned and fell forward onto Anthia. In that second, Anthia had managed to get control of herself. She tried to lift her head up, trying to see who had saved her. But all she managed to see was a pair of beat up shoes and a worn pair of jeans. The person grunted as he lifted Urei off of Anthia and threw him of to the side. Then two pieces of a broken cane fell to the floor.
"Damn, they don't make canes like they used too," the person said.
Now that Urei was off of her, Anthia could manage to get a good look at the person. "Aaron!?" Professor Aaron pick Anthia picked her up and sat her against the wall. "Uh Aaron, I'm going to throw up!" Aaron quickly jumped into a room nearby, and came back with a trashcan. Anthia took the trashcan and started violently throwing up.
"I saw the your duel and came as fast as I could." Professor Aaron said. "I would have been here sooner if it weren't for my leg."
Anthia stopped vomiting for a moment. She took deep breaths and tried to steady herself. "Aaron thanks." She bent her head and continued to vomit.
"No problem," Aaron said.
There was a loud groan, and Aaron turned to see Urei standing up. He was unsteady on his feet. He clutched his head were Aaron had hit him. "Damn you!" He shouted. "You took that feast way from me! I'll kill you!"
Aaron actually chuckled. "I've heard that before." Aaron lifted his arm and activated his duel disk. "How's about you and me have a little duel to settle things. What do ya say?"
Urei pondered the thought for a moment, but activated his duel disk. "Since you attacked me I'll go first," he said as he drew his hand and a sixth card. " Echo of Sorrow in attack mode (1000/450)." A transparent woman, who was weeping loudly, appeared on the field. "Then I set two cards facedown and end my turn."
Aaron drew a card. "I summon Underworld Accountant in attack mode (?/0)." A large, decrepit, black calculator appeared on the field. Protruding from the top of the calculator was the upper half of a human skeleton. "Now I activate Underworld Accountant's effect. For every card in my hand, Underworld Accountant gains 300 attack points (0-1200/0)." The skeleton leaned forward and typed 300x4 into the calculator, leaving 1200 on the screen. "Now my Underworld Accountant will attack your Echo of Sorrow!" The skeleton on Underworld Accountant opened its mouth and spit black flame towards Echo of Sorrow.
"I activate the trap Negate Attack!" Urei shouted. "This trap stops your attack and ends your battle phase."
Aaron shrugged. "I set one card facedown (1200-900/0) and end my turn."
Urei drew a card. "Now Echo of Sorrow's effect activates! For every one of my main phases Echo of Sorrow is faceup on the field, you lose 200 life points." Aaron winced as a black aura appeared around him (ALP: 4000-3800). "Next I summon Flying Despair in attack mode (1700/1200)." A large, contorted, black raven appeared on the field. "Now my Flying Despair will destroy Underworld Accountant!" Flying Despair flapped into the air and came down on Underworld Accountant.
"I activate the trap card Doubling Funds!" Aaron shouted. "This card will double the attack points of my monster for this turn (900-1800/0)." Underworld Accountant grabbed Flying Despair and spit black flame into Flying Despair, destroying it (ULP: 4000-3900).
"I set a card facedown and end my turn," Urei growled (1800-900/0).
Aaron drew a card (900-1200/0). "I summon Imperial Banker in attack mode (1500/1000)." A man in a grey business suit appeared on the field. He was holding a large book labeled 'Bank Records' in his arms. "Now my Imperial Banker will destroy your Echo of Sorrow!" Imperial Bank lifted his book up, and a storm of papers shot out of the book, blowing Echo of Sorrow away (ULP: 3900-3400). "Now my Underworld Accountant will attack your life points directly."
"I activate Call of the Haunted!" Urei shouted. "I use this to special summon my Flying Despair in attack mode." Flying Despair appeared in front of Urei, and tore Underworld Accountant apart with its talons (ALP: 3800-3000).
"That activates the effect of my Imperial Banker," Aaron said. "When either of us special summons a monster, we must discard a card from our hand." Urei sighed as he discarded a card. "Now then, I'll end my turn by setting one card facedown."
Urei drew a card (ALP: 3000-2800). "I summon Soldier of Despair in attack mode (1300/1400)." A man wearing a set of black armor appeared on the field. He was wielding a large, black sword and a back shield. "Now my Flying Despair will destroy your Imperial Banker!" Flying Despair flew towards Imperial Banker.
"I activate Mystical Space Typhoon!" Aaron shouted. "I use it to destroy your Called of the Haunted, which in turn destroys your Flying Despair!" Mystical Space Typhoon erupted across the field, blowing away both Call of the Haunted and Flying Despair away.
"I activate my trap Lingering Curse of Despair!" Urei said. "When a monster of mine is destroyed, I can lower the attack points of one of your monster by 600 (1500-900/1000). Then I activate the effect of my Soldier of Despair. When a monster of mine is sent to the graveyard, I get to special summon a monster with 1000 attack points or less from my graveyard, and I chose Echo of Sorrow. Now my Echo of Sorrow will destroy your Imperial Banker!" Echo of Sorrow started to sob loudly, before throwing her arms back wide, screamed towards the sky, and shooting a black energy at Imperial Banker, destroying it (ALP: 2800-2700). "I end my turn."
Aaron drew a card. "I activate Overdrawn! This card allows me to draw three cards, but then I have to discard two at the end of my turn." Aaron drew three cards. "Now I activate the spell card Shallow Grave! This allows us both to special summon a monster from our graveyard in defense mode." Aaron set Imperial Bank while Urei set his monster. "Now I sacrifice my monster to summon Demon Debt Collector in attack mode (2200/1800)." A large demon appeared on the field. It was wearing a black business suit, and it was hold a large coins. "Now my Demon Debt Collector will attack your Echo of Sorrow!" Demon Debt Collector laughed madly as he took a handful of coins from his bag and threw them at Echo Sorrow, destroying her (ULP: 3400-2200). "I set one card and end my turn," Aaron said as he discarded two cards. "And one more thing I should mention, during each main phase, Demon Debt Collector inflects 200 points of damage to you."
"Urei drew a card (ALP: 2700-2500). "I flip monster faceup, that being Echo of Sorrow. Next, I activate the spell card Pot of Greed, which allows me to draw two cards." Urei drew two cards. "I activate the spell card Ancient Rules! This allows me to special summon a level 5 or higher normal monster. So I special summon Totem of Unending Sorrow in attack mode (0/3000)." A large statue of crying man appeared on the field. " But it won't be around for long because I activate the spell card Infernal Change Copy! If I pay 1000 life points, I can change the type of one of my monsters (ULP; 2200-1200), so I change my monster to a dark tuner!"
"Dark Tuner," Aaron said, rubbing his chin. "I don't think I've heard of them before."
"They work like regular tuners, only in reverse," Urei said. "Now I dark tune my Totem of Unending Sorrow and my Echo of Sorrow to dark syncho summon Angel of Immortal Sorrow (2700/2100)!" A black portal appeared above the field. An angel, with long black-feathered wings extended, emerged from the portal and floated down to the field. She was wearing a long, dirty white tunic, and her head was hung low. She had long black, disheveled hair. She was moaning and whimpering quietly. "Now she'll attack your Demon Debt Collector!" Angel of Immortal Sorrow lifted her hands and shot bolts of black lightning at Demon Debt Collector, destroying it (ALP: 2500-2000). "Now I activate her effect, if I sacrifice a monster, she gains a second attack!" Soldier of Despair screamed with pain before evaporating and being absorbed by Angel of Immortal Sorrow. "Now my Angel of Immortal Sorrow will destroy you!" Angel of Immortal Sorrow lifted her hands and shot black lightning at Aaron.
"I activate Nutrient Z, which gives me 4000 life points when I take 2000 or more points of damage!" Aaron shouted (ALP: 2000-6000), before Angel of Immortal Sorrow's attack slammed into him. The force of the impact threw Aaron off his feet, and sent him flying downing the hallway before hitting the ground (ALP: 6000-3300). "Ah…that hurt," Aaron groaned as he got to his feet. Aaron limped back to where he was standing before the attack. "Cursed leg," he muttered.
"You'll have a lot more to complain about now, because I activate spell Meteor of Destruction, which hits you with 1000 points of damage!" A small meteor appeared above them and slammed into Aaron (ALP: 3300-2300). "I set a card facedown and end my turn."
Aaron drew a card. "I activate Premature Burial, to bring my Demon Debt Collector (ALP: 2300-1500). Next I summon Info Banker in attack mode (300/100)." A large machine appeared on the field. It was square in shape with a monitor and keyboard sticking out on each side. "Now I activate the spell card Inflation! This card increases the level by 1 and decreases its attack points by 500 (300-0/100 LV: 1-2)."
"Was there a point to that?" Urei asked.
"Yes," Aaron said, "because Info Banker is a tuner monster! So now I tune Info Banker and Demon Debt Collector to synchro summon Blaster Banker in attack mode (2600/2200)." A humanoid robot appeared on the field. It was wearing a black business suit, and two large cannons were mounted on both of his shoulders.
"Oh yes, and just what are you going to do with that?" Urei sneered. "Destroy my monster with an effect? Well if you were, you're out of luck because I activate the trap Protection of the Unwilling Souls, which protects my monster from all monster effects and traps." Urei smirked. "Tough luck, fellow."
To Urei's surprise, Aaron smiled. "Yes, you would be right IF I was going to destroy Angel of Immortal Despair, which I am not. I'm going straight for your life points!"
"What..?!" Urei shouted in alarm.
"I activate Tax Refund!" Aaron continued. "This spell will allow me to take a spell or trap from my graveyard and added it to my hand." A card slipped out of Aaron's graveyard and Aaron took it. "Now I activate the card I took, Overdrawn which as you know allows me to draw three cards. Now here's the kicker, for every card I discard from my hand you get hit with 400 points of damage. I'm going to discard three, and if my math is correct, which it always is, 3 times 400 equals 1200. So you'll get hit with 1200 points of damage, which is all that you have."
"Oh crap," Urei said, his voice cracking.
Aaron discarded his three cards. Blaster Banker nodded, and leveled its cannons at Urei. Aaron smiled, waved and said, "Goodbye!" And Blaster Banker fired, the blast smacked Urei dead center. Urei screamed in pain, and was blasted off his feet (ULP: 1200-0). Aaron sighed with relief as Blaster Banker and Angel of Immortal Despair. The sigh turned into a groan however as pain jolted up his leg. Aaron unclipped a walky-talky from his belt and spoke into it. "This is Professor Aaron calling Security Center. I'm in the Main Building, on the fourth floor, west hallway. I'm going to need two stretchers, Dr. Inoue, and a couple of Security Officers."
"Understood," came the reply. "They will be on their way shortly."
"One more thing," Aaron added. "Tell Dr. Inoue if he has an extra cane to bring it."
"Roger." Aaron lowered the walky-talky and clipped it back to his belt. He leaned against the wall to relieve his bad leg of some pressure. Suddenly, Urei let off a blood-curdling scream. Aaron, unable to do much of anything because of his leg, turned to look at Urei. Urei had pulled into a fetal position and started sobbing, except instead of tears, he was sobbing a black liquid. The sobs stopped and Urei laid on the ground, unmoving. It took about ten minutes before Dr, Inoue, five security guards, four baring the two stretchers, and even Chancellor Arthur can running down the hallway.
"Thank goodness your alright!" Chancellor Arthur said as he came to a stop in front of Aaron. One of the security guards was holding a cane, which he immediately handed to Aaron. The security guards set to work, restraining Urei and whisking him away on the stretcher. Two remained behind with Dr. Inoue to tend to Anthia, whose injuries seemed to be physiological at best.
"I'm a little banged up, but I'm okay," Aaron replied. "I'll assume that that was one of the missing students."
Chancellor Arthur nodded. "Yes, that brings our total up to three. That just leaves one more." He laughed dryly. "Shouldn't be that hard to find." Aaron opened his mouth to reply but was cut short while an enormous pillar of flame erupted from the courtyard. It rose at least 100 feet in the night sky before it dispensed, leaving behind a small wisp of smoke.
"I think we've found them," Aaron said to no one unparticular.
Arthur sighed. "It's going to be a long night."
Aaron's Cards
Underworld Accountant
Type: monster/dark/machine-effect
Level: 3
Stats: (?/0)
Effect: This card gains 300 attack point for every card in your hand.
Imperial Banker
Type: monster/earth/spellcaster-effect
Level: 4
Stats: (1500/1000)
Effect: When ether player special summons a monster, they must discard one card. If not, the special summon is negated.
Demon Debt Collector
Type: monster/dark/fiend-effect
Level: 6
Stats: (2200/1800)
Effect: At the beginning of each main phase, inflect 200 points of damage to your opponent.
Info Banker
Type: monster/light/machine-effect/tuner
Level: 1
Stats: (300/100)
Effect: If this card is faceup on the field, send it to the graveyard to special summon a level 2 tuner monster from the graveyard.
Blaster Banker
Type: monster/light/machine-effect/synchro
Level: 8
Stats: (2600/2200)
Effect: [1 tuner monster]+[1 or more non tuner monsters] During your main phase, you can discard as many as 5 cards from your hand. Inflict 400 points of damage to your opponent for each card discarded.
Overdrawn
Type: normal spell
Image: the goblin from Second Coin Toss crying as in front of a glare banker who his holding his hand out for something.
Effect: Draw three cards. At the beginning of the end phase, discard two cards.
Tax Refund
Type: normal spell
Image: the goblin from Second Coin Toss dancing happily, waving an envelop that has TAX REFUND stamped on it.
Doubling Funds
Type: normal trap
Image: money magically appearing a in a box labeled yearly funds.
Effect: Select one monster you control. That monster's attack points are double until the end of the turn.
Urei's Cards
Echo of Sorrow
Type: monster/dark/fiend-effect
Level: 2
Stats: (1000/450)
Effect: For every one of your main phases this card is faceup on the field, inflict 200 points of damage to your opponent.
Flying Despair
Type: monster/dark/winged beast
Level: 4
Stats: (1700/1200)
Effect: none
Soldier of Despair
Type: monster/dark/warrior-effect
Level: 4
Stats: (1300/1400)
Effect: When one of your monsters is destroyed, special summon one monster with 1000 attack points or less to the field.
Totem of Unending Sorrow
Type: monster/dark/rock
Level: 8
Stats: (0/3000)
Effect: none
Angel of Immortal Sorrow
Type: monster/dark/fiend-effect/dark synchro
Level: -6
Stats: (2700/2100)
Effect: [1 dark tuner]+[1 or more non tuner monsters] Sacrifice any number of monsters you control. This monster gains one additional attack for each monster sacrificed.
Infernal Change Copy
Type: normal spell
Image: small fiends walking into a machine and coming out as horrible, contorted demons.
Effect: pay 1000 life points. Change the type of one monster you control.
Lingering Curse of Despair
Type: normal trap
Image: A murder with a dark aura around him, while his victim lays at his feet.
Effect: Activate when a monster you control is destroyed. Lower the attack points of one of your opponent's monsters attack points by 600 until the end of the turn.
Protection of Unwilling Souls
Type: continuous trap
Image: a wizard conjuring a wall of souls to protect himself from an attack
Effect: None of your monsters can be destroyed by the effect of a monster or trap.