Metaldix: Chapter 25 ready!
Neverclaw: And you get ready for some double-action!
Disclaimer: Those two don't own Yugioh, but they own this super double-showdown!
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Chapter 25: Four Duelists, Two Teams, One Door
"Soo, let me get this straight," Roy said for the fifth time to everybody. "In this duel, Luke and I have to beat you brothers, and each one has their individual 2000 life points, right?"
"Yes, and don't forget you can use your partner's cards to your advantage!" Angel added.
"But if one of you lose, then the other one will be left on your own," The brother Para smiled evilly.
Once the rules were stated, each player went to their respective dueling grid at each corner of the arena. But besides having to trounce those eliminators hired by Pegasus, they would have to choose between two huge red doors which were right behind them, each one having the same Chinese symbols the brothers had on their foreheads.
"And how will the turns be?" Roy asked again.
"It will be one from each team: we'll let you go first, then I will go, your chest-nut friend will be third and Para last," Dox explained.
"Roy…I'm still not to sure about this…I mean, these guys must be the elite of the elite…" Luke muttered.
"Aww c'mon, don't tell me you're gonna throw the towel now," His friend complained. "You said it yourself, we MUST reach Pegasus castle!"
And after the inspirational comment, Luke merely nodded. –Yes, I said that…But I didn't mention to have to duel to get there…-
"Okaaay, I'll be summoning a face-down monster and a face-down card, that's all."
Two dark silhouettes appeared on his side of the field, one in a horizontal position, the other in a vertical position.
"So, it will be my turn, and I'll summon Monster Tamer (1800ATK/1600DEF) to end your illusion!" A fierce man with a confident smile appeared on the field, a whip in both hands.
"And then, a face-down card will be my conclusion," He finished.
"You certainly have a good solution," His brother complimented him.
"Oh, but it's nothing compared to your recent evolution," The other one answered.
"And what about your—"
"CRAP! CUT IT WOULD YOU!" Roy interrupted the rhymes. "That is SO annoying!"
"Hmph, ok, if it bothers you that much…" One of them said offended.
"We thought you were civilized people, now we won't treat you as such..."
"If you shut up, I guess that's okay…" Luke said, looking at the card he had just drawn…a bad one. "I…I will set a face-down monster and end my turn…"
-Sheesh, Luke is really depressed…Maybe that duel he had against Roxanne dug a really deep hole in him…- Angel watched him remorse, helplessly.
"Now, it will be my turn!" The last of the brothers, Para, drew a card, and laughed with disbelief when seeing it. "I just can't believe every duel we have, THIS card reaches my hand the very first turn!"
"Para, you don't mean…" His brother started grinning with bright eyes.
"Yes…That's right, I will now summon, Labyrinth Wall (0ATK/3000DEF)!"
The ground then started shaking, and on the arena emerged a massive solid labyrinth, with such proportions that it covered the entire arena!
"H-hey! How can this be happening?" Roy exclaimed, looking as every monster on the field vanished into the riddle of walls, even the face-down ones.
"This is where the real game begins…" Dox chuckled.
"What do you mean?" Luke raised an eyebrow.
"You see, now that the Labyrinth has emerged, many rules have changed. To attack our life points, you'll have to make a monster cross to the exit just in front of us; but as we summoned it, if you don't have any monster on your side of the field, we go automatically to anywhere we want in the labyrinth, including your exit leading to your life points. And we will attack someone's life points, that is, if he doesn't have any monster on the whole field."
"And how do we cross this thing, may I ask?" Roy crossed his arms, preparing for a long explanation.
"As you know, each monster has its own star level," Para continued. "Like chess, you'll have to cross the maze in squares; and the maximum spaces you can walk in one turn depends on the card's level."
-That means that summoning higher level monsters will make this faster…- Luke thought.
"And, if your monster is destroyed in the labyrinth, the next monster you summon will be able to restart from the furthest square your monster reached."
"How you command your monster to move is completely up to you, and you can do it by simply touching the squares in that green panel you have to your left," Dox added, and both Luke and Roy noticed the mentioned panel which they had sworn they hadn't seen before. "And you can only move a monster only once per turn, of course, either before or after attacking."
"One last thing, you can't move while in defense position, so if you want to cross it you'll have to flip your monsters," Para smirked. "The Labyrinth will stay on the field, unless you summon a stronger monster than its defense and destroy it, and then everything will change to the previous field."
"But to tell you the truth, this is just a sample of the power we wield!" Dox laughed.
"WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT RHYMES, DAMMIT!" Roy yelled again. "Geez, they're really getting on my nerves, you know?…Ok, I will now flip my Tripwire Beast (1200ATK/1300DEF), and move four spaces into the labyrinth." And after touching four consecutive spaces, his green electricity-ridden beast slowly entered the maze.
"Ha, I see you are a very careless boy! With my Monster Tamer, I will just go to where your Tripwire Beast is and beat it to pieces!" Laughing maniacally, the man ran between the walls desperately, and in a blink of an eye he was right in front of the Tripwire Beast.
"No I'm not! And I'll show you this team's teamwork with a trap card! I'll activate Shift, re-directing your attack to Luke's face down monster!" He smiled, as Monster Tamer was forced to attack its new target, which turned out to be…Warrior Dai Grepher (1700ATK/1600DEF).
"HAHAH!" Brothers laughed in unison. "Is THAT your teamwork?"
"WHAT! Dude, why didn't you summon THAT in attack mode, you always do so! I thought you had a high defense monster!"
"Y-yeah? I see…Sorry…" Luke's chin fell.
"ARGH! Luke, don't you just stand there! DO something! That Roxanne girl may have beaten you, but it's not the end of the world!" After this, Roy's tone calmed down to a much serious one. "Just…Just try to go with the flow, like before, ok?"
Luke raised his head, looking at his partner's eyes, with a different expression this time, totally different from a depressed one. "O…Okay."
Then, he drew a card. "Paradox brothers, prepare for the worst! I will now use my Warrior Returning Alive, returning my Warrior Dai Grepher to my hand, and after that, I'll use the Polymerization card, to fuse it my the Spirit Ryu, forming my Ryu Senshi (2000ATK/1200DEF).."
The blurred shaped of the muscle-bound warrior and the ghostly dragon then merged, forming the muscular purple-armored combatant with his giant blade at hand. "Now, attack and destroy Monster Tamer!" And with one swift swing, the evil tamer fell to the ground defeated, reducing Dox's life points to 1800.
"Now THAT's the Luke I know!" Roy grinned.
"Hehe, thanks. I will move my Ryu Senshi six spaces, and end my turn." Luke said, as his monster advanced, passing the Tripwire Beast by two spaces.
"Hmph, that was a lucky move, that's all," Para said, drawing a card.
"Ooh…What do we have here? I will now summon my Dungeon Worm (1800ATK/1500DEF), in attack position, and place a face-down card," A huge, revolting worm appeared on the field, right besides its owner.
"EWWW! I keep saying it, just WHY do people have to have disgusting monsters in their decks?!?" Angel said.
"We don't know that girl…" Roy muttered, now drawing a card. He looked thoughtful for a moment. "Mmm…I'll move my Tripwire Beast another four spaces, and then change it to defense-position, that's all for now."
"And I will be summoning my Giga-Tech Wolf (1200ATK/1400DEF) in attack mode, and end my turn," Dox said.
"Crap, we can't attack them, but they can attack us…" Luke grumbled. "Well, I will advance six more spaces and end my turn."
"And so it will be my turn!" Para said. "With my Dungeon Worm, I will attack that Tripwire Beast!" His great worm then dug a hole right underneath itself, and reappeared just under the Tripwire Beast, devouring it whole with its huge mouth!
"I will end my turn now."
"Stop it with the boring plays and lame turn endings! I WANT ACTION!" Roy cried.
Noticing everyone's faces, Roy coughed. "Err…Yeah, so… Lucky my monster was in defense mode." Roy sighed. "Now, I summon a face-down monster where Ryu Senshi is, and then I'll end my turn."
On the same square as Luke's fighter, another shadowy card materialized.
"Now is the time where things get interesting!" Dox smirked, drawing a card. "As I now summon Cannon Soldier (1400ATK/1300DEF)! According to its effect, I can sacrifice a monster to inflict 500 points of damage to you, and I'll be sacrificing Para's Dungeon Worm for this!"
The Dungeon Worm instantly disappeared, and the blue-and-yellow machine that emerged fired the great cannon which was on its back, the bullet hitting Luke, reducing his life points to 1500.
"Strange, with that Dungeon Worm you could have been used for many other plans than just a sacrifice to inflict 500 points of damage, I mean, that move wasn't THAT great…" Angel commented.
"No, on the contrary," Luke replied. "After attacking, that Dungeon Worm had to stay on its place until Para's turn started again. And to tell you the truth, I was gonna move back and destroy it…"
"But do not think that was the end of my turn, as I'll use the Polymerization card, to fuse my brother's Giga Tech Wolf and my Cannon Soldier, giving birth to our incredible Labyrinth Tank (2400ATK/2400DEF)!"
The brothers' monsters then fused, forming a purple tank with many drills in its front part, and seemed to have yellow dots as eyes at its sides.
"With it, we'll destroy your Ryu Senshi!" He yelled, as its tank advanced through the labyrinth until it encountered its target, charging against it and devastating it to pieces.
Luke's life points then fell to 1100.
"Damn…" He said, drawing a card and adding it to his now-five card hand. Roy's life points were at the full 2000, just like Para's, and Dox had 1800. On the enormous field, he didn't have anything; Roy had a face-down monster where his Ryu Senshi used to be and six cards in his hand. On the other side, Para didn't have any monster on his side of the field, but a face-down card with five cards in his hand, while Dox had his Labyrinth Tank in attack mode, a face-down card, and three cards in his hand.
"Well, I will set a face-down card, and summon Gaia the Fierce Knight (2300ATK/2100DEF) where my last monster was, and advance seven spaces!"
His cavalier showed on the field, and galloped quietly to the distance.
"Well, with that monster on the field, Luke will no doubt finish the Labyrinth in a few turns!" Angel chuckled.
"Not if we prevent that, our Labyrinth Tank will be sure to destroy that warrior in its due time!" Para smirked. "Also, I have a new friend for you! I summon Jirai Gumo (2200ATK/100DEF)!"
At this, a ghastly, gigantic tarantula crept down from the dark ceiling, much to Angel's dismay.
"Next, I attack the red-haired boy's face-down monster with it!" He said, but then a holographic coin appeared right before his giant red spider attacked.
"Hey, what gives?" Luke asked.
"You see, even though my arachnid has decent attack points, I must flip a coin every time I want to attack," Para explained. "If I call it right, then it will attack, but if I call it wrong…Then my life points will be cut by half…Now, I will go with tails!"
The coin then flipped, jumping into the air and spinning.
"Please heads, please heads, please heads, please heads, please heads…" Angel crossed her fingers, and when the coin fell, it showed tails.
"Oh yes! Mow Jirai Gumo, attack with your great Venom Webs!" The man yelled, as his insect shot out a sticky string which trapped the hidden monster…Or, did it?
"LOSER! You just attacked my Creator (2300ATK/3000DEF)!" Roy laughed madly, as his just-revealed colossus easily set itself free from the web, countering Jirai Gumo's attack and reducing Para's life points to 1200.
"Good one, Roy!" Luke smiled. "Best of all is, that now it's your turn, a fine chance to counterattack!"
"Correct, my friend!" Roy agreed. "So, I'll pass my Creator to attack mode, and I'll also discard one card from my hand to Special summon my Tripwire Beast in defense mode where Luke's Gaia is!"
And thanks to the Creator, the Tripwire Beast was resurrected, curling to a defensive position.
"Now, Creator, Divine Shock Eradicator against Jirai Gumo!" Roy yelled, and a thunder fell from the roof, zapping the spider to death, reducing Para's life points to 1100.
"Brother! Are you alright?" Dox gasped.
"Yes, however, it seems these two are playing with all their might…" Para gulped.
"Heh, then we shall do the same thing, right?" The first one replied.
"FOR SHIT'S NAME, STOP RHYMING!" Roy bellowed again.
"If you are so irate, then you'll be even more when my turn ends," Dox smirked.
"As I now attack your undefended Creator with my Tank Labyrinth!" He ordered, his Tank charging and destroying the Creator with its mighty drills, lowering Roy's life points to 1900.
"You could say they used Jirai Gumo as a decoy to lure your Creator into attack mode…" Luke said, starting his turn. "I'll advance another seven spaces, and end my turn…"
But as Para drew a card, he started to chuckle, until he then burst out laughing!
"Now what's so funny?" Roy said.
"Brother, the grand finale has just commenced…!" Para smiled.
"You don't mean…" Dox gasped.
"Yes…"
"Then hurry up and summon it!"
"But of course!!" Para nodded. "Now, behold the beginning of your end! I now summon, Suijin (2500ATK/2400DEF)!!"
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Metaldix: And there you have it, folks!
Neverclaw: Our first double-duel has begun!
Metaldix: Who will win?
Neverclaw: Oh, and yeah, we decided to do this duel just like the program. Bear with us…
Metaldix: Besides, when will we have the chance to do something like THIS again? Better take advantage of this arc, where rules are made to be broken!
Neverclaw: By the way, guys, we'd like to know who your favorite 5 characters are…
Metaldix:…Along with the top 5 most hated!
Neverclaw: To find out who wins, keep tuned to the following chapters, and review of course!
Metaldix: Sorry people, confused Para's life points wth Dox' in an important move.