"This could be it, folks. This duel could decide it all." The finals were just about over. The only ones left to duel are Sting and Natsu and they'll be using Rogue's and Gajeel's dragons as well as their own.
"This is the moment we've been waiting for." Natsu said as he got himself ready. "Time for Fairy Tail to rise to the top."
"Be careful. No telling what your opponent will try. Especially since he'll be using Rogue's dragon." Erza said.
"No way is he going to make it easy." Laxus said.
"Who cares? It's also time these guys see what a guild is really all about. These guys have it coming." Natsu said.
"You better win. I don't want my dragon to be used by you, but we're in a critical moment right now." Gajeel said. As Fairy Tail was getting themselves ready for this duel, Sabertooth was feeling some pressure.
"Sting, it's all up to you now." Minerva said.
"You got to win this." Orga said.
"I know." Sting said. He might have been brushing these guys off earlier, but seeing Rogue and Minerva lose is a wakeup call for him to take this serious.
"You have Skiadrum. You'll be fine." Rogue said.
"You better or else my father will not let us live this down." Minerva warned him and Sting understands that.
"I don't think we can wait any longer. So both of you better come down." It was time for it to begin. Sting was heading down until he came across his master.
"Master Jiemma?" Sting said.
"I have something for you, Sting." Jiemma said and was handing him a card. "Take it and the instant you draw it, I want you to play it." Sting took the card, but was confused.
"I've never even heard of this card." Sting said.
"It's one of a kind. Just do as I say and victory will be yours." Jiemma said. Sting didn't understand, but he had no real reason to doubt Jiemma. So he placed the card in his deck and went to face the challenge.
"This is it. It's now or never for both guilds." Sting and Natsu went down and had strong conviction and determination for what they're doing. "So many duels. So many challenges. It's all lead up to this moment. We're about to see who the better guild is."
"Let's duel!" Both of them said and were all set to go and had both Skiadrum and Metalicana ready for the battle. When the duel officially started, the marks started glowing again as two more dragons were about to collide.
"I'll make the first move." Sting said as he drew his card. "I'll start by activating the spell card, White Blinder. This spell nullifies the effects of one spell or trap on the field and turns it useless. I'm using it on Rogue's Call of the Haunted." The trap went completely dull and powerless.
"Why would he use that on his own card?" Lisanna asked.
"When Call of the Haunted is destroyed, the monster it brought back is destroyed with it." Mirajane said. "Sting just made that ability useless."
"Next, I'm summoning Enreen: Archer of Holy Light!" Sting said and a white dressed archer came on the field with 1400atk points. "I activate Enreen's ability. If I sacrifice a spell or trap, I gain 400LP. So I'm sacrificing my useless Call of the Haunted." His archer shot an arrow through the card and it turned to stardust and gave Sting energy as his life points went to 4400. "I place one card facedown to end my turn."
"My turn!" Natsu said as he drew his card. "I summon Fire Dragon Talon to the field." Natsu summoned his martial artists with flames around his feet looking like dragon talons and had 1500atk points. "Time to see what Metalicana can do. Attack Skiadrum!" Metalicana went on the attack and was heading for the dragon.
"I activate my trap! Light of the Guardian Angel!" Sting said. "Thanks to this trap, one monster can no longer attack and it can't switch battle modes, but it can't be destroyed and the controller takes no damage. I'm using it on Skiadrum!" A bright light surrounded Skiadrum and blocked Metalicana's attack.
"Impressive move by Sting."
"I don't get it. Why would he use that on his own monster?" Gray said. "It's completely frozen now."
"If Skiadrum is the only monster Sting has on the field, Sting will be protected from any damage from now thanks to that trap." Laxus said.
"Most probably would have used that trap on their opponent's monsters, but he didn't." Erza said. "He's cleverer than I thought."
"Salamander's making my dragon look pathetic!" Gajeel said.
"Skiadrum might not be able to be attacked, but your archer can. Show him, Talon. Blazing Stomp!" Natsu said. His fighter jumped up and slammed its feet against Sting's archer and his life points dropped down to 4300.
"Here goes!" Sting said. "I'll start by summoning Lancerin: Lancer of Holy Light." Sting said. He summoned out a knight-like soldier with a lance and had 1800atk points. "Next, I'm activating Reinforcements of Holy Light. This allows me to summon a Holy Light monster from my deck when I have another one on the field as long as it's level four or lower. So I'm summoning out Garu: Guardian of Holy Light in defense mode." He summoned out a shield warrior and it had 1900def points. "Now for the fun part. Lancerin, attack his Fire Dragon Talon." His lancer jumped at Natsu's fighter and slashed against it. Talon was destroyed and Natsu's life points dropped to 3700.
"You're going to need more than that to beat…." Natsu didn't finish that sentence as a laser shot through him from Lancerin. "What just happened?"
"That's my lancer's special ability." Sting said. "When he destroys a monster, he can deal 300 points of damage."
"Only 300? Is that really the best he can do?" Natsu taunted.
"Watch it. I'm not the one who is losing here." Sting said.
"We'll see about that." Natsu said.
"I guess you're right. I end my turn." Sting said.
"The two of them seem even at the moment. Who will make the move that will change everything?"
"Natsu's doing pretty well so far, but that Sting is not holding his punches." Lucy said.
"And neither of them have summoned their actual dragons yet. I'm a little worried on what might happen when they do summon them." Wendy said.
"Here we go!" Natsu said and drew his next card and looked at what he had to work with. 'I don't have anything at the moment that can take his lancer in my hand. So I better take him down now.' "I'll start by having Metalicana attack your Lancerin! Go, Iron Dragon Slasher!" Metalicana charged at the target, but Garu stood in the way. "Hey! Down in front! What's going on?"
"It's Garu's special ability. With him on the field, he's the only monster you can attack." Sting said.
"That's just fine because when Metalicana attacks a monster in defense mode and has more power, the difference is dealt to you as damage." Natsu said. Metalicana flew in and slashed against the defender with it being destroyed and Sting's life points went down to 3200.
"I guess I should thank you for destroying him." Sting said.
"Thank me? What for?" Natsu said.
"Garu has one other ability. When he's destroyed, the monster that destroyed him loses 1000atk points." Metalicana was surrounded by a white light and lost power to 2000atk points.
"Come on! You're making my dragon look pathetic!" Gajeel shouted.
"I'll summon Scale Guard in defense mode." Natsu said and his dragon-like creature came on the field with 1900def points. "I'll also play one card facedown to end my turn."
"Back to me!" Sting said. "I'll play my Pot of Greed. That means I draw two more cards." He drew the two cards, but he was surprised at one of the cards he drew. 'It's that card! The one Jiemma gave me.' Sting wasn't entirely sure if he should play this card. He doesn't even know how to use it. He looked over at Jiemma and Jiemma was telling him to do.
"Why is Sting just standing there? Is he confused as to what to do next?"
"Quit stalling and let's just do this!" Natsu said. Sting looked over the card and it seemed simple enough.
"You asked for it. I activate Impenetrable Fortress." Sting said. A giant white castle was forming right behind him. Everyone was confused as to what that card was.
"What is that?" Wendy asked.
"I don't know. I've never heard of that card before." Lucy said. Sting and Natsu's duel disks started to act strange as static was coming out of them.
"What's going on down there?" Rogue said.
"This is odd. I have no memory of Sting ever playing that card before." Rufus said.
"It worked. It's really working." Jiemma said.
"What are you talking about?" Makarov said.
"Father, what have you done?" Minerva asked.
"You see, my research team created that card." Jiemma said.
"You created that card?!" Gray said.
"Wait just a minute. That means it's not an official card to be used in legal tournaments." Erza said.
"Sting is cheating. He's using an illegal card." Laxus said.
"I am?" Sting said. He and all of Sabertooth seemed to be acting like they knew nothing about this.
"It's not cheating. If it was, the duel would have been stopped automatically." Jiemma said. "It's just the first of many of the most powerful cards that will ever be created."
"So since you created this card, tell us what it does." Makarov demanded.
"Very well." Jiemma said. "First, it isn't affected by spells, traps, or monster effects and one doesn't need to pay a penalty to use it. What's more is that all monsters that are in attack mode must attack. There is no option unless they can't like Skiadrum….but that's not the only purpose of that card."
"What do you mean? Answer me!" Makarov said.
"My research team has placed a virus in the card." Jiemma said. "A virus that's traveling through the duel system network."
"A virus?!" Lucy said.
"What are does this virus do?" Erza said.
"I've looked around and I've met duelists who aren't even trying and enjoy being defeated and I hate it." Jiemma said. "That is why I created the virus where every duel will be that of survival. One where if you lose a duel, your duel disk will be destroyed. This virus will revolutionize the dueling world. It will be one where the strong survive and the weak perish!"
"He's mad!" Natsu said.
"That's insane!" Gray said.
"It will also be a world where Sabertooth will rule over." Jiemma said.
"We never agreed to this, Jiemma." Rogue said as all of Sabertooth seemed objective to the idea.
"Father, even I must say that this is pure madness." Minerva said. "I might be one for power, but not like this."
"So you guys really had nothing to do with this?" Natsu said.
"No, we didn't. Believe me, Natsu." Sting said. "We wanted to compete in this tournament like any other duelist would, but not like this. We had no idea he was planning something like this."
"Is that also why you tried to create the ultimate duelists in that research lab?" Erza said. "Was all of it part of your mad plan to rule over the world?"
"You can't do this. There are duelist around the world that duel just for the love of the game." Gray said. "You can't transform it like a means for survival. It depraves the very purpose of dueling."
"Say whatever you like. The virus is already working." Jiemma said. "All Sting has to do is win this duel and Sabertooth will take its rightful place on top. Power will rule over all and Sabertooth will be that power."
"Forget it!" Sting said. "I'm not helping you with crazy plan of yours. This duel wasn't suppose to be like this. I'll just forfeit the duel."
"Don't you dare! Let's keep this duel going." Natsu said.
"But why? The virus is already spreading and dueling will be changed for the worse for everyone." Sting said.
"If you really feel bad about it, help us find a way to stop it. We might get the answer if we keep the duel going." Natsu said.
"Natsu is right." Makarov said. "This duel must keep going. The answer to stopping that virus must be within and I have a feeling that Impenetrable Fortress must be the key. Perhaps if you destroy it, the virus will be stopped."
"But how? This card sounds so powerful." Sting said.
"Sting, look at this!" Natsu said as he held his dragon mark. "We both have marks of the dragons. We're suppose to work together, especially in times like this. I'm sure that if we do that now, we will find the answers we're looking for. Put your faith in me and together we'll stop your master's crazy plan." Despite all that they've been told, Natsu wants to keep fighting and it's renewing Sting's spirit.
"That's it. Don't give up." Makarov said. "Every card has a weakness. You just need to figure out this one's and we don't have much time."
To Be Continued….