Chapter 24: Duel Between Friends
Disclaimer: I do not own Cardcaptors or Yugioh. I do own Erin.
Blair and Erin were in Pegasus's mansion for a complete weak of recovery. Pegasus was true to his word when he told Sakura and Li, Erin's parents that he'd have medics come over to his mansion and look over the two injured girls. Blair was unconscious for the most part and her injuries weren't major except for maybe mentally. Now Erin's injuries were the worst during the week. She had nearly bleed to death thanks to Demonica's Earthbound Immortal inflicting major damage to her during the Shadow Duel. Pegasus suspected that if Erin and Yugi's Life Points went down to zero, Erin most likely would've died even if her soul was taken. Erin survived her injuries and was making a full recovery. At the moment, Phineas, Ferb, and Joey her three allies in this conflict sat around trying to discuss their next move, Yugi had bailed them out thanks to Obelisk the Tormentor and all three of the boys were previewing the tag Shadow Duel Erin just participated in.
Joey winces as he sees Earthbound Immortal Ccapapu attack Erin twice in the same Duel "No wonder Erin didn't fair to well against that thing."
"Who wouldn't?" Phineas asked him "Erin had no way of knowing what deck Demonica had. Funny thing is she beat Demonica's partner one-on-one."
Ferb was silent watching the first Duel Erin had as he remarked "That second-in-command seems to improve his deck after he was defeated by both Erin and Joey. He knew about Yugi's God Card."
"Had Yugi not been there with us Erin would've be dead! I'm telling you two, I'm not liking MFWD, they are out for blood. They are worse then anything I've had to deal with and I've had to deal with a lot of evil beings, from Marik and his Rare Hunters to just about anything...I've never seen an evil organization like MFWD go so far into wanting to see their foe dead. Now soul taking yes, but not going past that level."
"You're onto something there" Phineas admitted.
"Too right I am!" Joey said forming a fist in anger "We've gotta find their base and we've gotta do this quickly"
"What you three must do is settle down and form a plan together with Erin and Blair" Sakura told the three boys as she over heard Joey's latest comment.
Joey sighs "The more we think of one the more they plot to steal your cards at any means necessary even if it means killing your daughter."
"That hurts knowing that is the case" Sakura admitted "However we must also go into this with a clear mind, the enemy won't hesitate to rush out and use our aggression against us."
"She's right" Phineas remarked to Joey "No use rushing into things without a plan. There's only one good thing that comes out of Duels like this."
"I'm lost on that part" Joey told Phineas "What do you mean? What good comes out of this duel?"
"We now know what decks we are up against" Ferb told Joey "The second-in-command of MFWD has Archfiends, Demonica's deck seems to be a high level Dark Strategy Deck with it's goal of getting out her Earthbound Immortal and Wicked Dreadroot out. No doubt we'll see those two again."
Joey then got it "So you're saying we try to pull a Kaiba out and look for a weakness in the decks?"
Phineas nodded "Correct! Look it's not like we're going to have Yugi with us every single time to bail us out when things go wrong like it did last week. So if we study our opponents deck together we can determine how things are going to go down and seak out a weakness, Demonica already told us one weakness of an Earthbound Immortal."
"I'm lost that thing can't be targeted by an attack" Joey told him.
"Earthbound Immortals must have a Face-up Field Spell Card" Ferb told Joey "In other words no Face-up Field Spell Card out means that the Earthbound Immortal can't be brought out or if the field spell is destroyed the Earthbound Immortal is destroyed."
"So that's it's weakness!" Joey said snapping his fingers "Lucky for me I can handle her! I don't have a Field Spell Card in my deck!"
"But she might" Phineas told Joey "She already knows that is a key thing for an Earthbound Immortal, so the goal would probably be best for us to make sure she can't get a Field Spell Card out."
"Plus that's not her only card that is problematic" Ferb told his brother.
"That's right The Wicked Dreadroot must be dealt with too" Phineas said looking at Demonica's best monster "And Demonica says that's her best Monster...That Monster might be a little hard to overcome but I'm sure we can think of something."
The head doctor watching over Blair and Erin's condition comes out to inform Pegasus "Mr. Pegasus sir, the two girls have made an excellent recovery. Blair's coming around and Erin is set to go."
"Good work" Pegasus told the doctor turning to Sakura and Li "I believe you two should go in to see your daughter."
"We will" Syaoran Li said "Come on Sakura, let's see our Erin."
"Let's!"
The two parents open the door to see Erin looking around amazed to have made it. She looks over herself seeing that she was dressed in a hospital gown and her Obelisk Blue Girls only Dorm outfit had been completely washed from her blood and cleaned. She felt better and was at full strength. She turns to see Blair coming around. Blair rubbed her neck "Gee, what happened to me was it all a dream?"
Erin saw her sitting upright then Blair saw Erin in her hospital gown answering her own question "NO! I wasn't dreaming! Oh Erin! I'm sorry to have been the one that caused you to get so badly injured."
"Don't worry about it" Erin told her "You and I are besties and we'd do anything for one another including rescuing each other. I know you'd do the same for me."
Blair blushes agreeing with her "You're right, I would!"
The two girls heard the door open and Erin saw her mother and father coming inside "Mommy! Daddy!"
"Erin!" Sakura said running over to her daughter and hugging her joyfully and a bit too hard as Erin was now struggling to breathe "I'm glad you've made it!"
Erin's face was turning blue as Syaoran Li saw what his wife was doing "Sakura! If you don't let go of your hug around Erin, we'll lose her for sure!"
"Oh?" Sakura asked she then sees what she was doing to her daughter and let go "Sorry sweetie!"
Erin was gasping for breathe and only took one moment to catch it then she too hugged her mother glad to see her mom after what even she'd known as having a near death experience "Mommy!"
"There, there sweetie mommy's here" Sakura told Erin rubbing Erin's back as she heard Erin sobbing joyfully and happy to see her mother.
"And so am I" Syaoran Li said.
"Daddy!" Erin shouting hugging him as well.
Syaoran Li held his daughter "You've been through a lot last week. No one should've had to go threw that."
"You aren't saying I can't Duel anymore are you daddy?"
Li sighed "You can Duel if you want, but I'm more concerned of you taking Shadow Duels. This was the second time we had to get medics. The first time Chancellor Sheppard had you in his sick bay and now we had to get you to Pegasus's mansion for medics to come over. I'm very worried for you Erin."
Erin blushes as he looked at her poking her nose "You can Duel but try to avoid Shadow Duels if you can...Especially with ones involving MFWD."
"I'll try to daddy" Erin promised.
The two parents were having their family time with their daughter knowing that Erin was very close to death. Blair looks at Sakura "Sorry, Mrs. Syaoran."
Sakua heard Blair speaking and turned "About what?"
"You know about Demonica kidnapping me" Blair told her.
"It wasn't your fault" Sakura told her and Li agreed with his wife "No one can predict what this MFWD was going to do. One surely wouldn't have expected them to try a kidnapping on you while you were leaving Duel Academy."
"You aren't mad I put Erin into this mess?" Blair asked.
Li frowned "Too be honest about that, I'm partly upset at that knowing that Erin got hurt trying to rescue you, however the biggest thing about me is that I'd be very, very, very upset at Erin for not going to rescue you. Sakura and I've taught Erin that if one of your friends are captured you must do what you can to save them! You might've been the focus on the matter of Erin going to rescue you but I'd be more concerned if my Erin didn't go to rescue you."
Blair blushes not believing how kind Erin's father was being to her. She then saw what he meant.
"You two got other guests" Sakura told her daughter "Would you like to see them?"
"Sure!" Erin said she turns her head to see that they were near a restroom in Pegasus's mansion "Just let me and Blair shower and get dressed."
Blair saw that she too was in a hospital gown blushing "Yeah...I'm in agreement with Erin, if the Doctors cleared us, we would like to get cleaned and dressed."
Sakura giggled knowing how important good hygiene was to girls "I don't see the problem in that."
Both Blair and Erin get up and head towards bathroom to shower. Like all showers the shower could only have one person inside it but both girls managed to get in anyway and take a shower. During the shower it is Blair that told Erin "Thanks for rescuing me"
"You're welcome" Erin told Blair "Of course I feel as if I didn't do much."
"What do you mean?" Blair asked her.
Erin sighs "Unlike the time of my First Shadow Duel, I didn't get to finish the enemy off, and I also lost faith in myself almost giving up."
Blar turned to Erin looking at Erin's eyes "I'm not sure when I passed out in Demonica's stomach but I saw you dueling with all your might...However I did see the Earthbound Immortal come out and heard that it could attack you directly so under that circumstance I don't fault you for wanting to quit. And don't worry about it, you had Yugi with you and he helped you to win. His win is your win as well."
Erin felt better at Blair's words. Blair looks at Erin more smiling "Once everything is clear, would you like to settle things?"
"Settle things?" Erin asked in the same thing her mother would've done when she was her age.
Blair giggled "I love that tone of yours."
This caused Erin to blush as this was a habit she got from her mother sounding clueless when she wasn't she was just a bit slow to catch on things.
Blair then spoke "I'm talking about this, I think it's time we settle this fact, who is stronger? Me or you?"
Erin smiled "Sure! I'd love to take you on and why don't you spend the night with me at my house in my room! We'll duel there!"
Blair winked as she shook Erin's hand "You got yourself a Duel tonight!"
The two girls completely take their shower and dry off. Once dry they try on their outfits, Erin was now in her Obelisk Blue Girls only dorm outfit while Blair was in her Slifer Red jacket.
The two girls now enter the room cleaned and in their outfits for the day minus the boots or shoes.
Once back in both girls allow Pegasus, Ferb, Joey and Phineas to come in.
"Erin!" The four boys shouted"
"Hey Mr. Pegasus! Ferb, Joey and Phineas!" Erin said waving to them.
"Blair!" Phineas told her "How's it going?"
"I'm fine now" Blair answered them "Sorry for letting them get to me."
"There wasn't anything none of us could've predicted that to happen" Phineas said "Luckily the chip that you hid on you worked."
"It certainly did" Joey told her.
Pegasus looks at Erin "I'm glad you are okay Erin-Girl. Did you learn anything from your duel with Demonica?"
Erin blushes remembering the Pharoh's words which echoed into her mind "Things may look bad now but you have to have hope."Erin then spoke what was on her mind "I learned two things, I learned how dangerous Demonica is, and that despite what she had, that I need to believe in myself no matter what the situation I'm in is. Plus I need to trust my fate in the heart of the cards"
Pegasus smiled "I see Yugi-Boy's rubbed off on you in a good way."
"Still" Erin sighed "I just wish I was more prepared to duel Demonica."
Pegasus looked at Erin "There are somethings in life Erin-Girl that one can't prepare for."
"But Kero has always said expect the unexpected."
Kero heard his name called "AND I STILL GO BY MY WORD! I've always told that to your mother, but these Duel Monster Cards have amazing surprises. Pegasus did you create the Earthbound Immortal cards?"
"I didn't have a hand in making those cards" Pegasus answered "I learned my lesson on trying to make God Cards, that I wouldn't want to make that mistake again. However I've read something online about the Earthbound Immortals."
"Which is?" Erin asked.
Pegasus showed his student an article "According to this article there are many strange symbols or shapes on the ground. Look at one in particular does any look familiar?"
Erin checks it out and gasps, Blair catches this as well as, Ferb, Joey and Phineas. It is Erin that answered "Why, I recognize Ccapapu! It seems the shape is in the ground."
"Exactly" Pegasus said "Now if you look at the other shapes what do you all see?"
Blair answered one of them "I see a spider one...Ew gross!"
"I see a lizard like one" Joey said.
"I see two strange bird like ones" Ferb admitted.
Erin frowned the other two "I also see a monkey one and a Whale one..."
"Okay..." Joey said after a while "What's the point of all this Pegasus?"
Pegasus answered "Oh Wheeler, use common since for once. Now let me tell you, these seven shapes...Are a strong indication of how many Earthbound Immortals there are."
"SEVEN OF THEM!" Joey shouted.
"Correct" Pegasus said.
"All of them would have the ability to attack the player directly I assume" Phineas said in a logical way.
"Most likely" Pegasus said.
"Where are you getting at?" Sakura asked him.
Pegasus answered "We already know Demonica has one of the Earthbound Immortals and it's Ccapapu. I'm going to say this...MFWD might have high ranking members that may also have Earthbound Immortals."
"Great" Joey muttered.
Li then got where Pegasus was getting at "So are you saying...That Blair, Ferb, Phineas, Joey and Erin need to take these members on?"
Pegasus nodded "Yes, the sooner the better. Plus at the locations where the strange shapes are in."
"Why should they do that?" Sakura asked "Erin's got a bad run-in with just one of them."
Phineas answered "It'll be incredibly hard to do, but I think I see Pegasus's plan. If the five of us go against an Earthbound Immortal near the area where the shapes are we can perhaps put them to rest so the other Earthbound Immortals can't be used."
"Will it work?" Syaroan Li asked.
Sakura pulls out the Sleep Sakura Card "I think it can and it's all probably going to have the Sleep Card work on them!"
Li smiles "That's right! The Sleep Card puts anything to sleep!"
"Or" Sakura said "I could erase them from all eternity with the Seal Card."
"That's one powerful card there" Li admitted remembering the Seal Card "The secret last Sakura Card to make fifty three Sakura Cards."
"What's it do?" Joey asked.
Sakura answered "The Seal Card is most likely the most powerful Sakura Card I have. When cast it should make anything it covers completely disappear never to return."
"You mean like real like banishing them?" Joey asked.
Sakura nodded "Yes, banishing things forever or until I decide to return them."
Li remembered the Seal Card "When Sakura and I went against it we had no idea what we were up against. Day-by-Day people were vanishing. When Sakura used one of her Sakura Cards trying to protect us or her, the Seal Card seem to steal those too immediately after usage."
"What about your Guardians of the Sakura Cards?" Blair asked interested in such a powerful Sakura Card.
Sakura answered "Not even Kerroberrous and Yue the two Guardian Beasts of the Clow were unable to defeat the Card and disappeared as well."
Joey gulped "That sounds like the Seal Card is the Ultimate Sakura Card if it was able to make two powerful beasts whom are Guardians of the Sakura Cards to not defeat. May I call it the God Sakura Card?"
Sakura smiled turning to Pegasus "It's ether we can go through with that plan take away the big threats to us by putting them to sleep or sealing them away forever."
Pegasus agreed "Right, it's time we strike back"
"Sweet World Road trip!" Joey shouted.
"We should do this as a team" Phineas told Joey.
"Oh we will" Joey said "We'll cut the opponents off from using Earthbound Immortals!"
Blair nodded "Indeed!"
"Great!" Pegasus said "I'll inform Eriol about this to see if he can assist us in someway as we take this offensive. Let's meet in three days to discuss this."
"Right!"
With this after making sure if it was okay for Blair to go to Erin's house for the night, the group split up with Pegasus focusing on the mission or at least the starting part. Once at Erin's house Joey suggested that Phineas and Ferb come over to his house for the night so that Blair and Erin could have some girl time together. Syaroan Li had left to see Eriol to inform him of the mission his daughter would soon participate in and to see if Eriol had anything to help with real life battle damage leaving Sakura alone with her daughter and Blair. Sakura would be the only witness of the Duel between Blair and Erin. She was excited wanting to see it. She waits till seven dressed in pink pajamas with Kero at her side.
"Has Erin gotten better Sakura?" Kero asked.
"Oh she's improved greatly!" Sakura told her Guardian "She beat Demetri with ease!"
She locks the front and back door seeing Li wouldn't be getting home till nine or ten. Sakura then knocks on Erin's door.
"Who is it?" Erin asked.
"It's me sweetie, may Kero and I come in?"
"Sure mommy!"
Sakura turned the door nob and opened her daughter's door then entered the room. Erin was in her own pajamas facing Blair whom was in her own pajamas. Both girls were barefoot and had their Duel Disks on their arms.
Blair turned to Erin "Ready to Duel?"
"You bet!" Erin told her "I'm more than ready!"
Blair smiles "Don't hold back on me!"
"I don't plan to!" Erin declared "Just don't hold back on me!"
"Won't ever!" Blair said.
The two activate their Duel Disks and shout "DUEL!"
Blair's Life Points: 4000
Erin's Life Points: 4000
"I'll go first" Blair offered.
"Go ahead" Erin said.
Blair smiles "Alright then!"
She checked her hand "First I'll start by setting a Monster Face-down, then I'll end my turn."
Blair set one of her monsters face-down and ended her turn.
"It's my move!" Erin announced "I draw!"
Erin drew her card then checked her hand "I'll start by summoning my Blazing Impachi to the field in attack mode!"
Blazing Impachi appears on the field ATK: 1850
"Next" Erin announced "Battle! Blazing Impachi attack Blair's face-down monster, Burning Fire Trail!
Blazing Impachi raised it's fist then slammed it down onto the field sending a fire wave at Blair's Monster. Blair smiled as her monster was revealed "Too bad! The Monster you are facing off against is Marshmallon! And it has two special abilities, one of which is it can't be destroyed by battle! Then the second is, when it's attacked while face-down in defense mode, it inflicts one thousand points of damage to you!"
Erin gasps as Blair's monster which looked like a small marshmellow with eyes appeared and wasn't destroyed. It then sent a blast at Erin reducing her Life Points.
Erin's Life Points: 3000
"I walked into that one" Erin muttered, she checked her hand "I'll set one card face-down and end my turn."
"It's my move!" Blair announced "I draw!"
Blair drew her card "Now I summon The Creator Incarnate!"
A second Light Attribute Monster appeared ATK: 1600
"Next" Blair announced "I'll activate The Creator Incarnate's special ability, by offering him up and another Light Monster, I can Special Summon The Creator!"
Blair's two monsters disappeared and in their place was a huge Light monster ATK: 2300
Erin found herself smiling as Blair had a Monster similar to her Sacred Phoenix only hers stronger.
"Battle!" Blair announced "The Creator attacks your Blazing Impachi!"
"I don't think so!" Erin told Blair "I'll activate my Trap Card: Shield!"
Blair watches as a black shield appeared over her Blazing Impachi "I can only activate this Trap Card when you declare an attack with a monster or activate a monster's effect that does damage to me. For this one attack or effect damage, I negate that and I get to put it face-down for next turn!"
Blair watches smiling "So you defended yourself nicely, incredible!" she checks her hand feeling confident that Erin wouldn't be able to dust her monster just yet "Turn end!"
"It's my move!" Erin announces "I draw!"
Erin drew her card then checked her hand "I summon Hand of Neypthys!"
Hand of Neypthys appears on the field ATK: 600
"Next" Erin announces to Blair "I'll activate Hand of Neypthys' special ability! By offering it up and any other monster on my side of the field, I can Special Summon from my hand or deck...Sacred Phoenix of Nepthys!"
Sacred Phoenix of Nepthys appears on the field ATK: 2400
"That's incredible!" Blair announced seeing that both girls had monsters that they could Special Summon.
"It gets even better!" Erin told Blair "Battle! Sacred Phoenix of Nepthys attack The Creator with Sacred Flame Wave!"
Sacred Phoenix of Nepthys flew into the air and sent a powerful fire wave that rushed downward and onto Blair's Monster whom took the blow and was shattered destroyed. Blair braced herself as her Life Points fell.
Blair's Life Points: 3900
"How's that for starters?" Erin asked Blair "I don't know what ability the Creator has but he certainly didn't have the attack points needed to keep him out!"
Blair hums "We'll see Erin, won't we?"
Erin smiled "Indeed, turn end!"
"It's my move!" Blair announced "I draw"
She then smiled "I'll set one monster face-down then place one card face-down turn end!"
"It's my move!" Erin announced "I draw!"
Erin drew her card "Sweet! I'll summon my Elemental Hero Blazeman!"
"An Elemental Hero monster?" Blair asked as Elemental Hero Blazeman appeared ATK: 1200
"You bet!" Erin announced "Now I activate Blazeman's Special ability! When he's summoned I can search through my deck and add to my hand one Polymerization Spell Card!"
With this she gets her Spell Card "Now I'll activate Polymerization! With it I fuse Elemental Hero Blazeman with a Volcanic Scattershot in my hand in order to Fusion Summon Elemental Hero Nova Master!"
Elemental Hero Nova Master appears on the field ATK: 2600
Erin then looks at Blair "When Volcanic Scattershot is sent to my hand to the Graveyard due to an effect it burns up five hundred of your Life Points!"
Blair grits her teeth as her Life Points fell.
Blair's Life Points: 3400
"Now" Erin announced "Battle, Elemental Hero Nova Master attack Blair's face-down monster with Nova-Flare !"
"Not attacking with Sacred Phoenix?" Blair asked.
"I have my reasons!" Erin told her as Nova-Master took aim, gathering in a huge ball of fire and threw it at Blair's Monster.
Blair watches as her monster is revealed to be "Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter!"
The wolf monster howls and is destroyed easily.
Erin smiles "Now when Elemental Hero Nova Master destroys a monster by battle, I get to draw one card from my deck!"
"Hold on their!" Blair warned Erin "Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter has a special ability that's only activated while it is face down, known as a Flip Effect, when my wolf's Flip Effect is used I can destroy any card on the field and I choose your Sacred Phoenix of Nepthys but the down side is I have to discard the top three cards from my deck to the Graveyard."
The destroyed wolf's spirit seems to plunge into Erin's Sacred Phoenix of Nepythys and it is destroyed first. Once it was destroyed Nova Master's Ability activated allowing Erin to draw one card.
"That was a mistake" Erin warned Blair after she drew her card.
"We'll see won't we?" Blair asked.
"Indeed!" Erin told her "Turn end!"
"It's my move!" Blair announced "I draw!"
She drew her card "I summon Thunder Nyan-Nyan!"
Thunder Nyan-Nyan appeared on the field ATK: 1900
"Turn end" Blair announced.
"It's my move!" Erin announced "I draw!"
She drew her card and her Standby Phase lit up "Not sure what your move was Blair but during the Stand by Phase if Sacred Phoenix of Nepthys was destroyed due to a Card effect, she comes back, destroying all Spell or Trap Cards on the field! So, here she comes Sacred Phoenix of Neypthys, come on out! Flame Revival!"
Blair smiled as her Trap Card and Erin's Shield Trap Card was destroyed "I was hoping for that!"
Erin blinked "What do you mean?"
Blair answered "My destroyed card was known as Light From Beyond the Grave! And it's a Trap Card that activates when it has been destroyed by a card effect, it allows me to return all monsters in my Graveyard to my deck reshuffle the deck and I get to draw one card for each Monster returned plus my Light Monster I have out Thunder Nyan-Nyan can't be destroyed by Battle until the end of your turn.
Erin watches as a powerful flash of light erupted from Blair's Graveyard returning her The Creator, The Creator Incarnete, Lightsworn Wolf, Marshmellon, and another Monster that Blair had to discard due to Lightsworn Wolf's effect forcing Blair to discard three cards from the top of her deck.
This meant Blair was able to draw five cards, giving her a full hand of six cards!
"That's amazing!" Sakura announced.
"Sure was" Kero admitted "Blair played Sacred Phoenix of Nepythys's effect well, she got rid of Erin's Shield Trap Card and her Trap Card can only have it's effect activated when it was destroyed.
Erin frowned checking her hand "You're Monster might not be able to be destroyed by battle but while she's in attack mode, I can still do damage to your Life Points! Battle, Nova Master attack Thunder-Nyan Nyan! Nova-Flare!"
Elemental Hero Nova Master took aim and threw another ball of fire at Thunder Nyan-Nyan. The attack connects but Blair's Monster wasn't destroyed thanks to Blair's Trap Card however the Battle Damage was dealt.
Blair's Life Points: 2700
"Now" Erin announced "Sacred Phoenix of Nepthys shall attack Thunder Nyan-Nyan as well! Sacred Flame Wave!"
Erin's monster took and attacked Blair's Monster which tanked the attack too. Still damage was dealt to Blair.
Blair's Life Points: 2200
"Turn end" Erin announced.
"It's my move!" Blair announced to Erin "I draw!"
She checked her hand "Oh-dear Erin, looks like you are in trouble now!"
Erin didn't like how Blair said that as she bit her lip "What have you got?"
"I got seven cards in my hand mostly thanks to Light from Beyound the Grave's help, now I'll use them to good use, first I'm going to play my Vlyon Prism Tuner Monster!"
Her prism appears on the field ATK: 1500
"Next" Blair announced "I'm going to tune my level four Vlyon Prism Tuner Monster with my level four Thunder Nyan-Nyan in order to Synchro Summon Avenging Knight Parashath!"
In a bright flash of light Blair's level eight Synchro Monster appeared ATK: 2600
"That is bad!" Sakura said seeing this remembering that Blair used this combo on Joey.
"Why is that?" Kero asked.
Blair answered "I'll activate Vlyon Prism's ability, by paying five hundred of my Life Points, I can attach it to any Light Monster on the field, and at the moment I'll use it on my own Synchro Monster!"
Sakura frowned "Now the equipped monster gains 1000 attack points!"
"THAT'S NOT GOOD FOR ERIN!" Kero shouted.
"Indeed" Sakura said.
Erin watches as Blair's Synchro Monster gained one thousand attack points. 2600-3600
"He won't be your only problem!" Blair told Erin "I'll activate my Shinato's Arc Ritual Spell Card."
Erin gulped "Not that."
"Oh yes, that" Blair said chuckling "Now I must send monsters from my hand to the Graveyard to equal eight stars or more. So I'll send D.D Warrior Lady from my hand and a Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands to my Graveyard in order to Ritual Summon Shinato, King of a Higher Plane!"
Shinato appears ATK: 3300
"Great" Erin muttered as she thought That's two monsters with over three thousand attack points!
"Now" Blair announced "Revenge time! Battle, Avenging Knight Parashath, attack Elemental Hero Nova Master! Avenging Slash!"
Avenging Knight Parashath attacked Erin's Elemental Hero Nova Master and it was destroyed dealing heavy damage to Erin's Life Points.
Erin's Life Points: 2000
"And now" Blair declared "Shinato, shall attack your Sacred Phoenix of Nepthys! Heavenly Wave!"
Erin watches as Shinato attacked her Sacred Phoenix of Nepthys destroying it. She was glad her monster wasn't in defense mode for if it was Shinato would've defeated her this turn...Instead she took the Battle damage and was still standing.
Erin's Life Points: 1100
"With that I end my turn" Blair said confident she could win this now and why wouldn't she be this confident, she had just destroyed Erin's two monsters and Avenging Knight Parashath could deal piercing damage.
Even Sakura was worried "Oh man, Erin might've lost this one."
"Why's that?" Kero asked "Is it because she's facing off against two monsters with over three thousand attack points?"
"There is that yes" Sakura said "I've seen Blair duel against Joey and Joey lost to her thanks to to the same monsters you see on the field. Anyway Avenging Knight Parashath deals piecing damage."
"That means she can't defend herself!" Kero announced.
"Exactly" Sakura said looking at her daughter's Life Points "And she only has Eleven hundred Life Points left which should be easy for Avenging Knight Parasath's attack to finish Erin off on Blair's next turn, ether that or Shinato attacks and destroys Erin's defense monster and deals damage to Erin equal to that monster's attack points."
"Oh, man Erin's really in trouble then" Kero muttered.
Erin remembered Yugi's words and remained focus even when her mother didn't think Erin could win this one "It's my move!" Erin announced "I draw!"
Erin drew and she drew her Fox Fire. She smiles seeing Fox Fire "I'll summon Fox Fire in defense mode!"
Fox Fire appears on the field DEF: 200
"Next" Erin announced "I'll activate my Spell Card, Phoenix Revival, I can only activate this card when I have a Fire Attribute Monster on my side of the field! It allows me to Special Summon any monster on my side of the field that was destroyed by battle last turn ignoring Special Summoning conditions. Then I get to draw two cards! So Sacred Phoenix of Nepthys, come on out!"
Sacred Phoenix of Nepthys appeared once again out of a powerful burst of fire ATK: 2400
Erin drew two more cards afterward. She rechecks her hand seeing she had drawn enough Trap Cards to help her out for at least this round. What she needed was Fusion Recovery so she could get out her Fusion Monster, but she didn't get it this turn and besides Fox Fire Phoenix Kyubbi Mode's effect wouldn't defeat Blair yet. Blair needed one more monster at least. Still with these two monsters Erin knew she'd survive this encounter and decides to go for it "I'll set one card face-down and end my turn!"
Blair smiles "Nice one Erin but it looks like I win this round! It's my move, I draw!
She drew her card "I summon the Calculator in attack mode!"
A calculator appeared on the field ATK:?
"What's with the question mark?" Kero asked.
Blair answered "The Calculator is incredible, you see it's attack points are the combined total of all my monsters levels times three hundred!"
Erin gulped seeing that Blair really had a dangerous level two monster but she could still win this round Blair had now three monsters. There were two level eight monsters and one level two monster making the total level count eighteen and it's attack points shot up. ?-5400
"Now" Blair announced "My Avenging Knight Parashath shall attack your Fox Fire!"
Erin was ready for it "Hold on their Blair, I'll pay one thousand Life Points and activate my Counter Trap Card: Volcanic Ash Cloud!"
Erin paid one thousand of her Life Points. Erin's Life Points: 100
Volcanic Ash spews into the room causing Sakura to look alarmed but she remembered that this was just a hologram and calmed down. Blair looked around "What's going on? I can't see a thing!"
"Exactly after I pay one thousand Life Points to activate this Trap Card" Erin announced "Volcanic Ash Cloud, negates your monster's Attack and automatically ends your Battle Phase and halves the attack points of all your monsters till the end of my next turn!"
Blair blinked in amazement "NO WAY! You survived that one!"
She watches as all of her current monsters had their attack points halved 3600-1800, 3300-1650, and 5400-2700.
"I did survive that one" Erin admitted to Blair.
"I end my turn!" Blair announced "Let's see what you can do!"
Erin smiled "I plan to win and turn this Duel around, it's move, I draw!"
Passionate Duelist plays
Just as Yugi had done in placing his fate in the heart of the cards Erin closed her eyes then drew the card. When she had opened her eyes she seen what she had drawn "Nice!"
Erin decides to play it "I activate Spell Card: Fusion Recovery!"
"Lot of good that'll do you!" Blair told her friend.
"Oh it's going to do me a lot of good!" Erin returned Blair's challenge "Fusion Recovery allows me to search threw my Graveyard and add to my hand one Polymerization and one Fusion Material Monster. So I'll return my Polymerization Spell Card, then Elemental Hero Blazeman!"
Erin returned her two monsters "Next, I'll summon my Elemental Hero Blazeman!" Erin summons Elemental Hero Blazeman ATK: 1200 "However seeing that I only have one Polymerization means his effect is useless but he won't be there for long, for I have all the pieces of the puzzle to end this duel right now!"
"I don't see it" Blair told her "Your highest attacking monster is Sacred Phoenix and due to Volcanic Ash Cloud's effect when you end your turn my monsters will have their attack points back to normal!"
Erin smiled "I'll activate Spell Card: Polymerization!"
Blair blinks "You're not serious are you? What Fusion could possibly beat my set up?"
Erin answered "You're about to find out! I'll fuse my Fox Fire, with my Sacred Phoenix of Nepthys, both of which are on my side of the field in order to Fusion Summon, my own best monster, Fox Fire, Phoenix Kyubbi Mode!"
Erin's Fox Fire, and Sacred Phoenix fused into one becoming Erin's best monster Fox Fire Phoenix Kyubbi Mode ATK: 3000
"Three thousand attack points?" Blair asked "Even if you go for my Calculator I still have enough Life Points left to defeat your monster and end the duel."
"Too bad I'm not going to attack with Fox Fire Phoenix Kyubbi Mode to defeat you Blair" Erin said.
"What do you mean?" Blair asked alarmed.
Erin answered "I'll activate Fox Fire Phoenix Kyubbi Mode's Special ability! By offering up one Fire Type Monster and giving up it's attack during the Battle Phase, I can have Fox Fire Phoenix Kyubbi Mode destroy all Monsters on your side of the field."
"Not good" Blair muttered "But I could probably win next turn if I get a monster over twelve hundred attack points!"
"There's more" Erin told Blair which silenced her friend allowing Erin to continue "For each monster Fox Fire Kyubbi Mode destroys by it's effect you take eight hundred points of damage!"
Reality set into Blair "Oh-no!" the raven haired girl took a step back not believing Erin actually won even with her huge set up "This can't be! I have the perfect set up!"
"You mean you HAD the perfect set up" Erin said "Now Fox Fire Phoenix Kyubbi Mode, I offer up Elemental Hero Blazeman in order for you to activate Sacred Phoenix Kyubbi Inferno!"
Blair watches as Elemental Hero Blazeman vanishes from the field and Fox Fire Phoenix Kyubbi Mode gathers in a huge fire attack sending it out like a nuclear bomb nuking Blair's side of the field destroying all of her monsters in an intense blazing inferno. As the fire makes it's way over to Blair, the Raven haired girl actually smiled even in defeat as she thought Good Job Erin! You won against me fair and square. I'm proud to be your best friend.
The blazing fire gets to Blair incinerating the rest of her Life Points ending the Duel in Erin's victory.
Blair's Life Points: 0
Erin's Life Points: 100
Passionate Duelist ends
Erin smiles as she ran towards her best friend. Blair was still smiling even though she had been defeated. Erin reached out towards Blair's hand as the recoil had wiped Blair off her feet and onto her butt. Blair accepted Erin's hand and allowed Erin to help her up "You won. Congratulations."
"Thanks Blair!" Erin told her best friend "We should Duel each other again one day."
Blair smiles nodding "You bet we will! Always look towards the rematches one day. But right now it looks like we all have to prepare for something."
Sakura agreed as she walked over towards the two girls "Excellent Duel you two."
"Yeah!" Kero said he looked at Erin "I didn't know your Fox Fire could grow up big and strong! In short she's acting like me when she's in Fox Fire, Phoenix Kyubbi Mode!
Erin giggled at Kero's comment as the real Fox Fire appears at her shoulders watching and laughing as well "Why don't you tell it to her Kero? She's out at the moment."
Kero stares at Fox Fire seeing her once again "Keep on a lookout to protect Erin Fox Fire."
The Duel Monster spirit nodded it's fury head. Sakura turned towards the time to see it was time for the girls to get ready for bed "Well ladies time for bed shortly."
"Ah!" Erin muttered looking at the time which was eight thirty "Till Nine mommy? I want to spend more time with Blair."
"Okay" Sakura said to her daughter "Thirty more minutes but you should both get ready for bed by brushing your teeth."
"Will do Mrs. Syaoran" Blair told her.
Sakura leaves smiling happy to have saw her daughter win. Sakura returned to her own bedroom sitting down to rest her tired legs. She waits wondering how things were going to end up soon. She knew Eriol would've agreed with Pegasus's first ever assignment on the offensive. The removal of the Earthbound Immortals or sealing them away so they could never do harm again. She just hoped her daughter and her friends were up to the task.
End of chapter
Erin has defeated her best friend Blair in a Duel. This Duel was really close and I tried to make it so that the two girls were nearly even in the end. Similar to how Yugi and Joey did in their first ever Duel...I don't think I succeeded in doing so but her Fox Fire Phoenix Kyubbi Mode wins her another Duel again. Anyway I've been asked if I plan to make a Synchro Monster or an XYZ version of Fox Fire for Erin, and sadly as much as I'd love to...I DON'T KNOW how I would be able to make her stronger in a Synchro Monster or XYZ Monster, her Fusion Form's effect is pretty good and nearly makes it impossible for one to defeat it fully. So at the moment, the jury is still out that I possibly could, but I'm heavily leaning towards NO.
Anyway next chapter is Chapter 25: Joey and The Monkey: Erin and her friends set off to stop MFWD from using the Earthbound Immortals. Joey comes across a Duelist whom has the Monkey Earthbound Immortal. Can Joey's amazing luck prevail over an Earthbound Immortal?
Special Cards
Yeah, I have to do this again, luckily there isn't as much in this one just two! One for Blair and one for Erin.
Light from Beyond the Grave
Type: Trap
Effect: Activate only when this card has been destroyed by a Card Effect, Select One face-up Light Attribute Monster on the field then Return all monsters in your Graveyard, reshuffle the deck and Draw one card for each Monster returned the Light Attribute Monster you've selected can't be destroyed by battle until the end of your opponent's turn.
Owned by Blair
Volcanic Ash Cloud
Type: Counter Trap
Effect: Pay 1000 Life Points to activate this card's effect. Activate only when your opponent declares an Attack, Negate the attack and End your opponent's Battle Phase, until the end of your turn, all of your Opponent's Monsters have their attack points halved.
Owned by Erin