Okay, to all my adoring fans, I apologize deeply for not putting up new chapters, so here's another couple of chapters to appease you here on must warn you people, things are getting a little less kid-friendly, so if you don't like profanity or nasty behavior, feel free to leave now. Be sure to take your coat at the door. I will not censor my work for anyone who wants it, because I feel that profanity, like other forms of dialogue, are a form of expression. Of course, the cussing I used is not too bad. The worst I've had was the "b"-words. I won't use the most virulent profanity here, because even I feel that's too much.
Anyways, enjoy the chapters and let me know what you think! ;)
NOTE: For those confused as to why Chelsea calls Vampire Lady's bite a sexual experience, play Bloodrayne 2.
Most say dreams are only a slumber movie, meant to entertain the sleeper during the night so his brain doesn't get bored while his body is in a near-comatose state. That didn't stop people like Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung from trying to interpret the symbols and images found in dreams and trying to make sense of them.
In my youth, dream intertrepation books were one of my obsessions. I used to weasel out those books written by obscure authors who used Jung or Freud's research to try to make sense of the stories told in your sleep and make the best of it. However, I eventually dropped the hobby when I turned to Duel Monsters.
If I was still reading those books, they might say that the dreams I had now would have meant that I was undergoing some personal tragedy with a rejected romance and that my parents beat me mercilesssly in my youth and forced me to do unreasonable things.
Unfortunately, considering that the dreams I've had remind me of a certain video game I remember playing with my brothers, I highly doubt that the dream interpretators know jack about dreams and what they mean.
Yu-Gi-Oh Jr.: Sister of Anansi Chapter 24: Nightmare WheelPisaro felt a strange energy. "Hmmm...that's odd. I swore that some ancient magic was being invoked at the camp." He turned to the shadows. "Doppler!"
The cloaked figure appeared. "Yes, Master Pisaro?"
"Something is not right," said Pisaro, rubbing his chin. "I felt a strange magic activate in the camp. I have a feeling that we may need more spies in the finals."
"But surely, the only one who can use magic other than you," said Doppler. "Is the Ishtar woman."
"Yes, and that bothers me," said Pisaro, a bead of sweat dribbling down his brow. "This magic was pinpointed in the cabin of the Dark Magician Girl."
Doppler made an invisible gape. "No way, you mean that cabin where 30 percent of the finalists are?"
"Yes, something tells me that one of those girls might have magic as well." He wiped his brow. "So we will have to keep a closer eye on those three. Thus, you will join Ares in the finals, under a new disguise, of course, and watch over them."
"I see," said Doppler with a slight chuckle. "I see you have need for me AFTER all."
"Be warned, do not anger me more than is necessary." Doppler gave a feral scowl. "Else your existence will be CUT SHORT!"
"I understand, Master," said Doppler, bowing. Mentally, he chuckled. The fool is in the palm of my hand.
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Lina was in a dream, she found herself standing outside of a tall tower in a small medieval town. "Where am I?" she mumbled.
A shadowy figure approached and Lina turned to him. The figure had a long puce cape and short white hair and pointed ears, but that was all Lina could make out in the moonlight that flooded the area. The figure looked up and Lina followed his gaze to a window at the top of the tower. A woman came out and leaned over the window, and then the figure removed a sleek silver flute and put it to his lips, playing an eerie melody.
Lina rubbed her head. I know that tune from somewhere, a video game I think, but I can't put my finger on it. Talk about deja vu!
Suddenly, the scene shifted and Lina found herself IN the tower. She saw the woman from behind and noticed that she had long silver hair and pointed ears...just like the man did. "Okay, NOW this is going into the Twilight Zone," she mumbled.
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Diane was having her own dream.
She found herself in the streets of a city, but she had no idea where she was, any signs she saw were blurred by the dreamscape. People were walking around, carrying duel disks.
"This place...it has to be Duelatopia," she said to herself. "That or I'm back in time and witnessing Seto's Battle City!"
She then saw a young woman, about sixteen, taking pictures with a digital camera. Diane walked up to her and waved. "Hiya!"
The woman slowly put her camera down and blinked. "That's odd, I've never seen you before."
Diane looked her over. The woman had waist-length strawberry-blonde hair and blue eyes. She wore a tee-shirt with a Duelist Camp logo on it(from the looks of the shirt, this girl had been in Twilight's cabin) and a blue windbreaker over it. She also wore a light blue mini-skirt over a pair of denim knee-length shorts.
"So, aren't you going to tell me your name, or do ghosts not talk?" asked the girl with a sly smile.
"Ghosts? I'm not a ghost!" said Diane, backing up in shock.
"Well, then maybe you're a duelist?" asked the girl, getting up, putting her camera into her purse, and unsheathing a Duelatopia disk from her backpack. "I could use another rise to my gem luster." She put the disk on and showed the gem in it, it was Green.
"Uh, I..." said Diane, not sure how to explain her situation. But she knew for certain that this was Duelatopia.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce myself," said the girl, smiling. "I don't want to duel without making introductions. Tell me your name."
"Diane," said Diane softly. "Diane Arachne."
"Oh, I see," said the girl. "That name is familiar for some reason, and that face..." She studied Diane's face carefully. "It also looks familiar, but I can't say why." She extended her hand. "The name's Chelsea. Chelsea Ramset."
Diane gaped. "No way! You're related to Peter, Yugi Junior's friend?"
Chelsea paused. "How did you know about my father?"
"Your...your DAD?" gasped Diane, backing up. Okay, this is one weird dream...I'm talking to the daughter of one of Yugi's friends?
Just then, a male voice barked out. "Hey there, Chesley!"
The girls turned to see a very "punk"-looking guy, rainbow mohawk and leather jacket included.
"It's Chelsea, you lamebrain," scowled the girl angrily. "Get it right!"
"Heh, you're just as virile as always, babe," said the man.
Cheslea rolled her eyes. "A loser as much as ever, Edan. And 'virile'...I didn't think you could use such COMPLEX words."
"Hmph, you sure have no sense of fun, don't ya?" asked the guy. Diane noticed that he hadn't noticed her yet.
"I have a sense of fun," snorted Chelsea. "I prefer not to waste it on ugly beasts like you. My father's fiends are more beautiful than you."
"Oh, so you want to wager that?" grinned Edan.
"Why should I make another stupid wager like last October, Edan?" scoffed Chelsea. "You'll never impress me enough to make me your girlfriend, not even by winning this tournament, which won't be happening!"
"Oh yeah?" grinned Edan. "You think you can get to the top? Your old man was the same way, until some freaky fairy girl kicked his ass!"
Diane was a little stunned. Peter Ramset lost to a fairy duelist? I know Duelatopia is still going on...
Chelsea's eyes showed rage and her lips turned into a sinister snarl. "I. Hate. You."
Diane backed up to avoid getting in the crossfire. "Show that jerk who's boss!" she whispered.
"Let's make it interesting, Chelsey," grinned Edan. "Whoever wins the duel kicks the loser off the island!"
"Fine," said Chelsea. "I can't wait to get your smelly baboon butt off this place! Just being here, you stink the place up!"
Edan smirked wickedly. "Aaaaand...if you lose, babe, you become my personal servant for two weeks after the tournament!"
Diane had a feeling that 'personal servant' was a cover term for something a lot less wholesome. She squeaked. "Oh!"
Chelsea felt the same way as her cheeks turned red and her face became a mask of loathing disgust. "Fine, but if YOU lose, you have to hand over your deck and leave Duelatopia forever!"
"Sure thing, not like I'm gonna lose THIS time," said Edan with a chuckle. "I've been pumping my deck up since my last defeat and now it's unstoppable! Not even your fetid zombies can beat me!"
Diane was shocked to hear the deck theme of Chelsea. "She's got a Zombie deck?"
"We'll see, I've been fixing MY deck as well," grinned Chelsea. "Let's duel."
The two did the usual actions to begin the duel, and soon their disks were activated and their decks in place. The life meters were set at 8000.
"Time to duel!" said Edan.
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Lina heard footsteps and turned to see the man enter the room. "Hello, Rosaly. Are you doing well?"
"Yes, Saro," said the woman, turning to him.
Saro?That name sounds familiar, thought Lina as the man passed by her and leaned onto the windowsill. The woman tracked his movements as soon the two were looking out of the window.
"Rosaly, I've decided to do it," said the man. "I've decided to destroy the human race. They do not deserve to exist."
"Saro..." said Rosaly with a sad look in her eyes. A tear began to form in her right eye.
"Rosaly, please stay here until the end comes. Once humankind is no more, I will return for you," said the man, Saro.
"Please...Saro..." whispered Rosaly as the tear trickled down her face. As it did so, it transformed into a ruby, a real gem encased by salty tears, sliding down her cheek. She closed her eyes and hung her head as the tear and ruby fell to the ground. The ruby shattered into gemdust as it struck the ground.
"Until then, be good," whispered Saro, hugging Rosaly softly. He walked back to the stairs and dissappeared into them. His footsteps faded and Rosaly turned to the window. Lina walked up to the window and saw the man leave under cover of moonlight.
"Saro..." whispered the girl. She looked to the full moon hanging in the sky. "Someone please...stop Saro!"
Lina turned to comfort the girl, but then the place exploded with light! "Whoa!" she cried.
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"Ladies first," said Edan with a smirk as the two drew their hands. "Although, to be honest, once I win this duel, you won't be a lady much longer." He snickered sinisterly.
Chelsea's loathing grew as she drew a card. "All right then, I'll set a card face-down and a monster in defense mode and that ends my turn." The cards appeared before her, the monster appeared sideways.
"Heh, haven't changed, have you?" said Edan with a grin as he drew a card. "I'll start by playing Pot of Greed." The jar appeared and spat out two cards. "Then I'll play Nobleman of Crossout on your monster! Say bye-bye!" The noble knight appeared.
"No!" cried Diane. "I have that card!" She knew what was coming next. Chelsea had probably put an effect monster down and now all copies of it would be removed from the duel!
"Nice try," said Chelsea, flipping up her face-down card. "But not good enough. Here's a trick I learned from my friend's father...MAGIC JAMMER!"
"Oh crap!" cried Edan as he saw his opponent shove a card into the discard slot and his Nobleman shattered.
"Not only that," grinned Chelsea as the card popped back out. "But the card discarded is a monster which can be summoned without tribute if it is discarded from my hand by a card effect! Meet DESPAIR FROM THE DARK!" A huge black shadow emerged and revealed a frightening red shadow face. (2800/2300)
"Double crap!" moaned Edan, holding his forehead.
"Any more boneheaded moves you'd like to make?" grinned Chelsea.
"Yeah," said Edan, looking over his cards. "I set a card face-down and a monster in defense mode." The cards appeared before him. "And that's it for me."
"All right, Chelsea! Go, girl!" cried Diane.
Edan looked at her, but scratched his head. "What's that? I swore I heard someone shouting."
"Huh?" asked Diane, looking about.
"Don't worry," whispered Chelsea. "He can't hear or see you. Nobody but I can hear or see ghosts."
"I'm not a..." Diane began to say.
"What the hell are you doing?" snapped Edan to Chelsea. "If you have the time to talk to yourself, you have the time to make your move!"
"Fine," said Chelsea, drawing a card. "I play a monster in defense mode." The card appeared behind her ghost. "And I destroy your face-down monster with my Despair From The Dark! Go, use Spectre Blast!"
The creature cackled and fired a ball of darkness from its hands.
"Activate Negate Attack!" said Edan, flipping up his card. A vortex swallowed the blast.
"Fine, I end my turn," said Chelsea.
"And I begin mine," chuckled Edan, drawing a card. "I had a reason to protect my monster, because its effect can only be activated by flip-summoning it!" He flipped his card up. "Meet my Medusa Worm!" A giant red worm with spines all over its body burst from the card. (500/600)
"Yikes!" cried Diane.
"When this card is flip-summoned, I can destroy one monster on your side of the field, and I'm choosing your Despair From the Dark!" The worm impaled the ghost, who howled as it turned to stone and shattered. But Chelsea's life meter didn't change.
"Huh?" thought Diane. "Why didn't she lose life points?
Chelsea sighed and walked up to her. "Hey, come back here!" shouted Edan. "I'm not done yet!"
"Calm down, I need to do something," said Chelsea. She turned to Diane. "You'd better stand by me so I won't look like a lunatic."
"Oh, I see," said Diane. "Okay, if you say so." She followed Chelsea back to the spot she had been.
"The reason there was no damage to my life points," said Chelsea under her breath. "Was because the rules were errated when Mary Mouto had her child. I'm guessing you're from the past, so you follow the old rule about monster destruction inflicting damage to life points. Well, that's changed. From now on, destroying monsters with card effects has no effect on your life points. Industrial Illusions errated that rule after several people complaining of unfair difficulty after a freak accident with a Mirror Force wiped out their life points."
"Oh," said Diane.
"Are you done yapping? It's still my turn," said Edan. He swapped cards. "I sacrifice my Medusa Worm for Criosphinx in defense mode!"
The ugly worm vanished into light and was replaced by a giant half-creature with the lower body of a lion with a red tail decorated by a gold collar and the upper body of a blue-skinned humanoid with curled ram-like horns, red circles under its eyes, and gold armlets. Twin wings of greem plumage sprouted from the back of the lower body. (1200/2400)
"This baby has a nifty effect," chuckled Edan. "As long as he's face-up, every card returned to your hand immediately forces you to discard a card from your hand!"
"Uh oh!" said Diane.
"And to end, a card face-down," said Edan. The card appeared behind Criosphinx. "And I end my turn."
"Hmph," said Chelsea. "You're gonna have a hard time bouncing my cards back to my hand, Edan. You may have gotten rid of my Despair, but I can bring it back." She drew a card. "But first, I'll play Stop Defense on your Criosphinx!" The sphinx shifted from a crouching position to a battle position. "And then I'll summon Vampire Lady in attack mode!" A beautiful and yet creepy woman with fangs appeared.
"Activate Compulsory Evacuation Device!" said Edan, flipping up his card. "Say goodbye to your Vampire Lady!" The vampiress vanished.
"Drat," said Chelsea as she put the card back in her hand and the Criosphinx pointed to her cards. She sighed and discarded her Dark Dust Spirit.
"This isn't good," mumbled Diane.
"I end my turn," sighed Chelsea in disgust.
"Then it's my turn!" said Edan, drawing a card. "And I summon Maoi Interceptor Cannons in attack mode!" Three Easter Island statues rose up. (1100/2000)
"Huh? Why did you do that?" said Chelsea. "Next turn, I'll bring my Vampire Lady back and hit you hard!"
"Wrong, YOU are the one who's gonna get hit hard!" laughed Edan. "Because I activate two magic cards. First, my Gift from a Martyr card!" The card appeared, showing the ghost of Dunames the Dark Witch hovering over a kneeling man in a ragged outfit. "I send my Maoi Interceptor Cannons to the graveyard and increase my Criosphinx by the Cannons' attack for this turn!" The statues vanished into light which sparkled over Criosphinx, raising his attack to 2300. "Then I'll play Double Attack!" Another card appeared, showing Marauding Captain chopping apart a straw dummy. "By discarding a monster from my hand, a weaker monster can attack twice! So I'll discard my Megarock Dragon!" The card was shoved into his discard slot. "And since he's eight-stars, Criosphinx gets to attack twice! Criosphinx, wipe out that face-down monster with Stone Fist of Ages!"
The sphinx galloped forward and punched the card, which exploded. An aged turtle wearing a crown and with a pyramid for a shell appeared briefly before it too exploded into a pile of dust.
"That was my Pyramid Turtle you destroyed," grinned Chelsea. "By sending it to the graveyard, I get to summon a zombie from my deck...and I summon Vampire Lord to the field!" The vampire rose up from the ground in a pool of light. (2000/1500)
"Heh, I'll just wipe it out too, or did you forget about my Double Attack card?" laughed Edan. "Criosphinx, destroy that Count Dracula!"
The sphinx plunged his fist into Vampire Lord, obliterating him. Chelsea's life meter dropped to 7700.
"First blood to me," grinned Edan wickedly.
"Hmph, so you got better, but not by much," said Chelsea. "Is that all?"
"Yep," said Edan as Criosphinx's attack dropped back to 1200.
Chelsea drew a card. "Then it's my turn, and I play this magic card, the Book of Life!" The card appeared.
Edan gasped. "No, that's what took me out last time!"
"That's right, so you know how it works," chuckled Chelsea. "You lose one of your monsters in the graveyard(in this case, Megarock Dragon) and I get to summon my Vampire Lord back!" The wicked vampire returned to the field as Edan was forced to shift his Megarock Dragon to his removal slot. "Now, time to get rid of that god-awful rock-face! Vampire Lord, attack Criosphinx with Shroud of Night!"
The vampire flung out his cape and bats flew from it, ripping apart the giant sphinx creature. Edan's life meter dropped to 6700.
"And since you lost life points, I get to send one of your deck to the graveyard, so I choose a monster," said Chelsea. Edan discarded a card from his deck and shuffled it before returning it to his disk. "Your turn."
Diane was in awe at the duel going on. I wonder if this is what I'll experience when I get to Duelatopia. She turned to Chelsea. "Why didn't you declare trap or magic? You could have weakened him greatly!"
"Not really," said Chelsea. "You see, his deck is a rock deck, so all his monsters have dangerous effects. However, he has few magic or trap cards to protect his monsters, and anyways, even if he did pack Mirror Force, you know about Vampire Lord's second ability?" She grinned.
Diane grinned. "Oh yeah, Vampire Lord comes back the next turn after it gets destroyed by a magic or trap card! Silly me!"
Edan snorted. "You may have won that battle, Chelsey, but you are far from winning the war! Is that your turn?"
"Yes," said Chelsea. "Your move."
Edan drew a card and grinned. "Now this is gonna get interesting!" He flipped up his face-down card. "I activate my trap card, Rock Bombardment! By discarding a rock monster from my deck..." He searched out a card and threw it into his discard slot before shuffling his deck. "To do 500 points of damage to you!"
Diane screamed as a rock boulder smashed Chelsea to the ground, scattering her cards. She moaned and slowly got up, nursing her back as blood coursed down her face. "Chelsea!" she screamed.
Edan looked about. "I swore I heard something shouting..."
"That's right, you did," said Chelsea with a chuckle. She coughed up blood. "That's a ghost come to destroy you!"
Edan laughed. "Har har har, just because you own zombies doesn't mean you're like that kid in The Sixth Sense!"
"Maybe I am," chuckled Chelsea, wiping her lips off. She smirked a bloody smile as her life meter dropped to 7200. "Is that all?"
"Not yet," said Edan as the trap vanished. "Next, I'll set Stone Statue of the Aztecs in defense mode and end my turn." He chuckled as a green stone statue which looked like a blocky Mayan statue appeared. (300/2000) "And that ends my turn. Just try to crack it!"
"I will," said Chelsea.
Diane was trying not to vomit, even though she knew the damage Chelsea was suffering was just illusion. She couldn't close her eyes, this duel had drawn her in. She then noticed that many others had been drawn in and were watching the duel eagerly.
"I play the field magic, The Netherworld!" Chelsea slapped down a card and a gray mis covered the ground. The crowd began to shiver in fear. "This card grants all my zombies a 500-point attack bonus, which means your Stone Statue is stone scrap to my Vampire Lord!" Vampire Lord rose to 2500 attack.
"Aw crap," moaned Edan.
"And now I'll play Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower in defense mode!" Chelsea slapped down a card an a tall tower made of human skulls rose up. (500/2000) "And it gets 500 attack from the power of the Netherworld." The tower's attack rose to 1000. "But I'm not attacking with it."
"I know about that stupid Bone Tower," growled Edan. "You did a number to me with that thing last time we dueled! You plopped down DNA Surgery to turn my rock monsters into zombies, so when I special summoned some of my rock monsters, they turned into zombies and then that tower wiped out my deck!"
"That's right," grinned Chelsea. "Every time a zombie is special summoned, you lose two cards from your deck. And now...I sacrifice and banish my Vampire Lord to bring forth a monster you've not seen before...behold my Vampire Genesis!" The vampire melted into light and out of the light emerged a truly hideous creature. It looked like a purple-skinned demon wearing a ragged cape and no shirt. Large tusks came from its lower jaw and its body and arms were muscular. (3000/2000)
"Whoa!" cried Diane in awe.
"Not only does this vampire god gain 500 attack from the Netherworld," grinned Chelsea as her new monster rose to 3500 attack. "But since he was special summoned, my Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower's effect activates!" The tower fired beams from the eyes of all its skulls and zapped Edan's duel disk and a robot arm shoved two cards from the deck to his discard slot. "But wait, there's more!"
"Not more," said Edan.
"Yes, more," cackled Chelsea. "I activate Vampire Genesis' effect! Once per turn, I can discard a zombie..." She discarded what Diane saw to be a Ryu Kokki. "And special summon a weaker zombie from the Graveyard! So my Vampire Lady's back!" Vampire Genesis let out a roar and the vixen vamp crawled out of the ground. (1500/1550) "And don't forget the effects of my Netherworld and Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower!" The skull tower blasted Edan's disk again and he lost another two cards as Vampire Lady rose to 2000 attack. "Now, Vampire Genesis, annihilate that statue with Unholy Blast!"
The vampire god roared and fired a ball of shadow into the Stone Statue of the Aztecs, vaporizing it.
"And now Vampire Lady, hit him with a direct attack!" ordered Chelsea. She laughed as the female vampire leapt on Edan's neck and sucked her fill with a deep bite. Diane squealed and covered her eyes as Edan howled in pain as torrents of blood gushed from his body in sprays of grossness, pooling around him. Obviously, most of the crowd was squeamish too, and some mothers covered their children's eyes and took them away.
"Consider that the ONLY sexual experience you'll ever get with a woman, you freak," laughed Chelsea as Edan's life meter dropped to 4700. "Next turn, you are finished because I'll summon another zombie to the field and blow you away! Oh, by the way, Vampire Lady has the same deck-disrupting effect as Vampire Lord, so I declare a trap card and you must discard it from your deck!"
Edan scowled and took his deck out, tossed another Rock Bombardment into the graveyard, shuffled the deck, and put it back.
"I see where this is going," grinned Diane. "You're destroying his deck!"
"Well, it's not intentional," grinned Chelsea. "But some of my cards do remove cards from my opponent's deck. It's pretty useful. I took down an Exodia deck once."
"Wow," said Diane in awe. Sonja would be in deep trouble if she met this girl in real-life. But I don't think Chelsea's been conceived yet.
"I end my turn," said Chelsea.
Edan was red in the face from pure anger. "You're going to suffer greatly once I kick your ass!"
"There are some children around here, you knucklehead!" shouted Diane. "Watch your tongue!"
Edan ignored her and drew a card. "I activate a trap card, Sixth Sense!" The card flipped up, showing a woman clutching her head as energy came out of it. "Since you're so fond of creepy Satantistic psychic things, I thought you might like it that I have a card which reflects you! Har har har!"
Diane squealed in terror. "Eek!"
"It's the occult, you moron," snorted Chelsea. "And not everyone who does the occult is evil. Haven't you ever seen the TV series Charmed?"
"Chelsea, are you in danger?" whispered Diane.
"No, it won't hurt me, but this card will help him," sighed Chelsea. "You see, that card allows Edan to pick two numbers and a dice is rolled. If the dice lands one one of the called numbers, he gets to draw that number of cards. If he calls wrong, he must send the number that landed of cards from his deck to the graveyard."
"Oh, so it's a risk," grinned Diane. "Something a Wheeler might use."
"Yeah, maybe," said Chelsea. "My friend Yui uses it in her deck. She has ways to get the cards she loses back."
"What are you yapping to yourself about?" demaned Edan.
"Nothing, call your damn numbers," scowled Chelsea.
"Fine...2 and 6!" Edan said. A black dice shot from the card, each face marked with runes symbolizing 'dots.' The dice bounced on the ground once, twice, and then stopped at a two. "All right, two cards for me!" He drew two carsd from his deck. Looking at them, he cackled. "Excellent, now I can get rid of those annoying idiots!" He played a card. "I play Monster Reborn to bring back my Stone Statue of the Aztecs!" The green statue returned.
"Big deal, I crushed it before, I can crush it again," yawned Chelsea.
"You won't be able to, as I sacrifice my Stone Statue for a monster in defense mode!" The statue vanished into a card. "Then I play Dian Keto the Cure Master, put a card face-down and end my turn." A glowing energy covered
"Hmph, is that all?" grinned Chelsea. "You're slipping, Edan." She drew a card. "But just in case, I set a card down." The card appeared before her. "Now my Vampire Genesis, destroy that face-down monster!"
The vampire god fired a beam of light, but it stopped as Edan's face-down card flipped up. "My Ordeal of a Traveler trap activates!" laughed Edan.
"Crap," said Chelsea.
"You know the rules," said Edan with a grin as he held out his hand. "Pick a card, any card. If you guess it right, you get to attack. Guess it wrong and your monster is sent back to your hand!"
"Errr..." growled Chelsea. "Bastard. I call the second card from the right as a trap card!"
Edan flipped his card, only showing a green corner of it. "Wrong! It's a magic card! Say goodbye to your Vampire!" The Vampire Genesis vanished and was forced back into Edan's hand.
"Oh no," said Diane.
"And since it's a continous trap, I can do that each time your monster attacks!" laughed Edan. "I usually use this with Criosphinx to screw up my opponent's hand, but it works as a wall too."
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Lina found herself standing on a platform and watched as a blue-haired man wearing a strange outfit plunged his blade into a monster's chest. The monster howled and collapsed with a crash onto a giant throne behind him.
What now? thought Lina.
"There, it's done," gasped the man as his friends watched him.
Lina then blinked and walked about to the throne. She gaped as she saw one of the hero's companions, who was covered in sweat and blood like her friends. "No way...ALEXA?" She shook her head as she recognized the face of Machus' secretary. "This dream is weird!"
The woman who Lina thought was Alexa wiped the blood from her forehead. "Farlyn, we've done it, the Ruler of Evil is now dead!"
"Yeah," said a beautiful woman with long hair and wearing a robe. "But what about Pisaro?"
Lina gasped again. That's the kook who's using the Seal of Orichalcos! Maybe this dream is going to show me what he looks like!
Just then, she saw the man from the first dream rush in with an armored monster and skeletal warrior. He gasped in horror. "Esturk...dead? How?"
"Pisaro!" shouted the blue-haired boy in rage. The other turned to him.
Lina was besides herself. "So, this is Pisaro..." Then she recalled something. Wait, these scenes are too familiar...a game somewhere I used to play when I was a teenager... She tried to wrack her brains for information on the video game she had played, but it was on the tip of her tongue.
"You murdered Celisa, you bastard!" snarled the boy, Farlyn. He aimed his sword at Pisaro. "You destroyed my foster family and slaughtered innocent people, and also kidnapped Alena's people! You will PAY!"
Pisaro sneered. "So...you were the one who defeated the Ruler of Evil..."
Tension filled the air. It looked like the two trios were about to lunge at each other, until a strange small imp-man carrying a pitchfork flew in. "Pisaro! Emergency!"
"What?" asked Pisaro, turning to the imp.
"Rosaly's gone! Someone broke into the tower of Rosaville!" cried the imp.
Pisaro scowled. "Damn! Everyone, back to base! This hero can wait!" As he ran off, Lina thought he heard the person mumble. "So, that 'hero' we destroyed in the village was a fake..."
"What's he bothered about?" asked the other woman.
"Come back here, coward!" screamed Alena.
"Forget it, Princess," said Farlyn, his rage fizzling as he leaned on his sword. "We can destroy him at any time. I'm more concerned about getting out of here first and healing our wounds. Nara, could you..."
"Say no more," said the other woman, who clasped her hands and prayed. "Behomuzun." Sparkles of light surrounded the three and all the wounds suffered in the battle just before vanished. "That should hold us until we get to the healing spring outside of the Evil Palace."
"Let's go," said Farlyn. The three left through a door.
"This is...getting crazy..." mumbled Lina. Everything went white.
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"Well, since I can't risk attacking with my other monster, I end my turn," sighed Chelsea.
"Great," said Edan, drawing a card. "Now I flip-summon my Guardian Sphinx into attack mode!" A stone sphinx appeared. (1700/2400) "Say goodbye to your Vampire Lady too!" The vampiress was forced back into Chelsea's hand.
"Yikes!" said Diane in horror.
"Now I summon Giant Soldier in Stone in attack mode!" said Edan. The stone golem rose up and drew its stone blade. "Now, my two monsters, attack her directly!"
The two golems trampled Chelsea and she was visibly mangled. Her life meter dropped to 4200. "You monster!" screamed Diane, balling a fist up.
"No," whispered Chelsea. Diane turned to her. "I promise, he will regret his pride. His heart is ugly, and I know, as the daughter of an artist, I know what is beautiful and what is ugly." She reached for her deck and smirked. "Is that all?"
"Yeah, I end my turn," said Edan.
"You fool," said Chelsea. "You should have used Guardian Sphinx's second effect, flipping it face-down."
"You can't shift a monster into defense mode after flip-summoning it!" said Edan.
"Normally, no," said Chelsea. "But Guardian Sphinx has a special ability to flip into face-down mode each turn. You could have flipped it face-down and then flipped it up again to return all my cards to my hand. However, it won't work if I destroy your sphinx!"
"Hah, like you have anything in your deck stronger than your Vampire Genesis," grinned Edan.
Chelsea slowly pulled a card from her deck. "Actually, I do. I play Graceful Charity, allowing me to draw three cards in exchange for two." She drew three cards and discarded two. "And since I discarded Fear From the Dark from my hand, it gets summoned to the field!" A smaller version of Despair From The Dark appeared. (1700/1000) "Next, I play Card Destruction! You know the rules!"
Edan scoffed and shoved his entire hand into the graveyard, as did Chelsea. The two drew five new cards each. "It doesn't matter, because you just activated this card, Elephant Statue of Blessing!" He laughed wickedly as a golden energy surrounded him. A loud trumpeting was heard.
"Oh crap," said Chelsea. "Forgot about that."
"What?" asked Diane, confused.
"Elephant Statue of Blessing is a rock monster with a special effect," said Chelsea. "You don't summon it, you keep it in your hand so that your opponent forces you to discard it. Then you get 2000 life points."
"That's right, baby," chuckled Edan as his life meter rose back up to 6700.
"Crud," said Diane in disgust. "But you can take those life points again, right?"
"Right, but it'll take a little more work," said Chelsea. She looked at her hand and smirked. "And I have just the cards to send this jerk-a-zoid to the showers for good!"
"Like how?" grinned Edan. "Nothing in your deck is powerful enough to defeat me!"
"You're wrong," said Chelsea. "I play another Book of Life!" She slapped a card down. "Removing your Elephant Statue of Blessing to summon another monster from my graveyard, one which was sent to the graveyard through Card Destruction!" The Elephant Statue was sent to Edan's removal slot. "Behold my father's creation! Miyu the Vampire Princess!"
A dark mist filled the air and a beautiful pale-skinned woman rose up from the mist, baring fangs. Her eyes opened and Diane saw that they were dead white. (1300/100)
"Heh, that thing's gonna stop me?" said Edan.
"Yes, she will, because of her special abilities," grinned Chelsea. "You see, her first ability allows her to absorb the souls of the dead. For each zombie in my graveyard, she gains 600 attack points! From Graceful Charity and Card Destruction, as well as your stupid monsters, I now have eight zombies in the graveyard!"
The souls of Despair From The Dark, Pyramid Turtle, Vampire Lady, Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower, Vampire Genesis, Clown Zombie, Dragon Zombie, and Red Moon Baby appeared and were sucked into Miyu's body, raising her attack to 3700!
"Holy sh!" cried Edan, backing up.
"And don't forget that my Netherworld grants both my zombies a five-hundred attack bonus!" laughed Chelsea as Fear From the Dark rose to 2200 and Miyu rose to 4200. "Also, I didn't forget about your trap card. Your Ordeal is no more!"
Miyu bared her fangs and the Ordeal Of A Traveler card shattered. "What?" cried Edan.
"That's Miyu's second effect," grinned Chelsea. "Whenever Miyu is special summoned successfully, she can destroy one of my opponent's magic or trap cards!"
"That was my only defense!" gasped Edan.
Diane then realized something. "So that's why he didn't use Guardian Sphinx's effect! He had his trap to bounce monsters back into your hand, and hoped you'd attack him again with the trap in effect!"
"Exactly," said Chelsea, turning to Edan. "Now, let's see how much you like losing your monsters! Go, my spectral monsters, destroy his rockheads!"
Miyu flung her staff out and waves of darkness ripped apart Guardian Sphinx while Fear From The Dark clamped onto Giant Soldier of Stone and destroyed it. Edan's life meter dropped to 3300.
"Heh, this duel isn't over yet," said Edan.
"It will be soon," said Chelsea. "I set one card face-down and end my turn." The card appeared before her.
Edan drew a card and grinned. "Heh, a monster face-down and I end my turn." He smirked wickedly.
Chelsea looked at the card before Edan. "That's your Cyber Jar."
"Maybe," said Edan.
Diane gulped. She'd better not attack if that's a Cyber Jar! She'll lose her monsters!
Chelsea drew a card and smirked. "This duel is over. I play the magic card, Double Spell!" She slid the card into her disk and it appeared. "By discarding a magic card from my hand, I can activate one magic card from your Graveyard!"
"What?" gasped Edan.
Chelsea discarded a Violet Crystal. "You know what they say, Edan. The past comes back to HAUNT you." A card slid into her hand and she slapped it down, making it appear. Edan howled in horror as he recognized it.
Diane saw it and grinned. "Yes! That jerk's Nobleman of Crossout!"
The nobleman appeared and slashed the Cyber Jar to bits, removing it from play.
"Now...my beautiful Miyu...FINISH HIM OFF!" howled Chelsea. The princess grinned ferally and flashed her staff, blasting Edan with waves of darkness and sending him to the ground. His life meter hit zero. "I win."
Edan groaned as he got up. "No..." he moaned, holding his head as the disks deactivated and everything returned to normal.
Chelsea came up and held her hand out. "You know the wager! Hand over your cards and leave Duelatopia forever."
"Do I have to?" begged Edan.
"Yes, a duelist always honors his wagers," snarled Chelsea. "If you had won, I would have...submitted to you without a fight." She grimaced. "Now you must do the same."
Edan sobbed and threw his disk to the ground. "Take it, bitch! I swear, I'll get my revenge!" He got up and stormed off.
Diane turned to Chelsea. "Yes! That takes care of Mr. Pervert!" She laughed. "Your deck is awesome!"
"Thank you," said Chelsea as she picked up the cards and pocketed them. "But I couldn't have won without your support and the Heart of the Cards, like Yui's family believes in. I'm glad you were there. That's sort of the mistake my father made, when he dueled Shane in Duelatopia twenty years ago..." She turned to Diane and smiled. "Say, how about we have a nice un-official duel, you and me?"
Diane was excited. Me, dueling against the progeny of Peter Ramset! Awesome!
However, before she could reply, everything went white. "WAIT!" she screamed, but her voice faded into nothing.
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Lina and Diane both awoke at the same time and thought the same thought. What was that dream all about? And why did I dream it?After a few minutes, they went back to sleep and slept peacefully for the rest of the night.
Little did both females know that the glowing necklace in Diane's bedstand was to blame, and they weren't the only ones to suffer strange dreams because of the weird necklace. Giselle dreamt about touring a planet called Drool with Ares, wearing weird costumes and riding a familiar beast. Brigit dreamt she was a Sailor Senshi who was a part of Section 13. And the girl who lost to Dione had a nightmare about Malfoy seducing her as Hermione was sauntering in Goth attire and making out with Ron's sister Ginny. Nobody got much sleep that night.
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Twilight failed to get any sleep either. I fear I have awakened a demon, she thought glumly.
ORIGINAL CARDS
Miyu the Vampire Princess
Type:
Light/Zombie/Effect
Level: 7
ATK: 1300
DEF:
200
Effect: This card gains 600 ATK for each ZOMBIE in your
graveyard. When this card is special summoned successfully, destroy
one of your opponent's magic or trap cards.
NEXT CHAPTER: The first duel of the Monster Valley Finals begins! It's fire vs. water in this epic match-up called "Convulsion of Nature!" Don't miss it!