Vyser D: Once more I am surprised at the lack of reviews. Maybe its just because it's the summer time and people are spending less time at the computer. As have I…but enough, I just continue the story for fun, not for the reviews. However, I would appreciate some criticism.
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Chapter 28: Backfire
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"I'm not defending," Cain stated as his Ghosts followed his movements. "I'm having all four of my Ghosts attack Horus the Black Fame Dragon!"
Kiro just laughed at hearing his opponent's last move! "This is so convenient! He's taking himself down!"
As the Ghosts flew towards the large silver Dragon, Terri and Goliath jaw dropped at the sight. "What are you doing!"
Horus just fired his black flame towards the four ghosts, however at the last second, the four ghosts flew out of the way and one of the Ghosts flew directly into the forehead of the giant hawk dragon. As soon as the ghost made contact with the dragon, a large explosion sent the dragon falling on top of Kiro. Although the dragon wasn't destroyed, it had dizzy marks where its eyes were as it fell on top of Kiro. "What the heck just happened?" (KLP: 1100)
Lifting the Chaos Spiritualist's card from his graveyard, Cain just snickered to himself a little. "As long as a Chaos Spiritualist exists in my graveyard, any damage that involves with my Chaos Ghost Tokens is done to you instead of me…and I still have three more ghost tokens!"
"NO! PLEASE MERCY!" Kiro pleaded as he covered his head.
"…Chaos Ghost Tokens…Ghost Kamikaze!" Cain ordered as the rest of Cain's Ghosts charged into the fainted Horus exploding on contact and catching Kiro in the explosions.
(KLP: 0)
When the smoke subsided both of Kiro's dragons had vanished as did he. The only thing that remained was a card that blew over to Cain. As Cain gazed at the picture he slowly walked over to Terri and handed it to her. "I'm sorry…"
"It's okay…It wasn't really Kiro," Terri sobbed holding the card close to her.
"What a rip off!"
The three duelists turned just in time to see Risely fall on his back, they all flinched at the crash noise. "My spleen!"
Goliaht just chuckled at the sight of the man in pain. "That has got to hurt!"
As Risely stood to his
feet, his armored duel disk hummed to life. "Okay now, its time for
one of you guys to duel me!"
Risely bent his spine back and forth, causing a few cracking noises to fill the still hot volcano. "Dang, I really should have taken the ladder down instead."
"No kidding," Terri commented as Risely recomposed himself.
Risely looked at the three duelists with a plastered grin on his face. "Anyway, who's first?"
"First for what?" Cain gasped, that last shadow duel with Kiro really took a lot of energy out of him.
"To duel of course," Risely answered as everyone had a confused look on his or her faces…even Risely. "Is something wrong?"
"I take it that you are also in leagues with the Arch Corporation," Goliath stated lifting his duel disk.
Risely, being the dolt he usually was, just smiled with a sly look in his eyes. "You better believe it! I'm head of the security of the Corporation and of Mt. Ablaze! And I've been given orders to eliminate all three of you."
"Well, you're obviously doing that," Cain stated thinking of a plan. "I can't duel this guy, especially after this last duel. Who knows how long till this volcano goes off…and with that gate behind us won't open…wait a minute…"
Rubbing the back of his head, a sad look appeared on Risely's face. "I guess you could say that, I mean, that pawn I just used didn't really work. And I can't really believe I listened to Roxas on that one."
Terri's eyes widened, realizing that Risely was referring to…"Did you send Kiro duel us with that weird shadow magic?"
"You better believe it girly," Risely said activating his armored duel disk. "And now, I'm ready and willing finish off what he started!"
Goliath just stepped forward, his duel disk just hummed to life. "If that be the case, then I shall be your opponent."
An arm held up before Goliath, as he traced the arm back its owner, his eyes widened seeing Cain on his feet with a determined look on his face. "Sonryu…what are you doing? You're in no condition to duel once more in the shadows."
"Goliath…stay out of this," Cain muttered walking towards Risely.
Snapping his cards into his duel disk, Risely cracked his neck readying himself for the duel that was about to take place. "This is awesome…with you already weakened from that last duel, you'll be easy pickings."
"Remember I defeated you last time we dueled," Cain gasped holding his burnt arm. That lava scalded his skin, but that wasn't going to stop him.
A powerful orange aura surrounded Risely as his life point counter began to flash a few times. "Yeah…but last time you faced me, I was using a practice deck. And just like my talents that got me my job at the Arch Corporation, my real deck is nothing to sneeze at."
"You said that you were head of security right?" Cain asked breathing hard.
With a smile, Risely just simply replied. "Yep!"
"Then you should know how to open that gate behind us, right?" Cain questioned.
Goliath smiled to himself; he instantly knew what Cain was up to. "I see what you're doing Cain. Even if we did defeat Risely, we would have no way of getting out of this terrible place."
"Well, naturally I do," Risely answered rubbing the back of his head. "But, I'm not going to tell you how to do it."
"Yeah right, I bet you just don't know how to and you are covering up your tracks," Cain retorted as Risely stomped his foot on the ground. Like with Kiro, the volcano seemed to react with his anger.
"No one calls me a liar! There's a small rock near the metal of the gate," Risely scoffed raising his nose into the air. "Underneath that rock is a button that activates the emergency gate opener."
A huge drop of sweat appeared on the back of Cain's head, guess he didn't expect to get the answer so easily. Risely must've been dropped on his head as a child. "Gee, I guess I shouldn't have underestimated your intelligence."
"Believe it! And after I take you three brats down I'll finally get some respect!" Risely laughed before he rubbed his chin. "I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T! I mean…S-M-A-R-T!"
"Yeah, you sure are smart," Cain sighed before he turned towards one of the walls. "Hey look! It's a wolf!"
"Yeah right…why would a wolf be here?" Risely chuckled as Cain groaned.
"You're right…it's just a rock wall," Cain groaned, however, when he looked at Risely again, his eyes became filled with confusion. "What the hell?"
Risely just turned his back to them with excitement. "A rock wall! Where? Where is it?"
Completely unaware that his three targets were escaping by using the escape button that Risely mentioned earlier, Risely just looked at where Cain was pointing. "Wait a minute…that shorty didn't say which wall I'm supposed to look at!"
Risely just turned to see that no one was standing in front of the now open gates. "They're gone…uh oh…"
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"Stupid fish."
Spitting out a fish from his mouth, a familiar wet figure emerged next to the dock. Shaking his wet blonde hair, he sighed in disappointment. "Damn it…it'll take me a while to get my hair back to its lightning strike position."
A few minutes passed as the teen sat down at the dock drying his yellow blazer. "Last time I go on a boat with Vic being captain…"
"Well, Rioko, this is certainly quite a situation you got yourself caught up in." Rioko just tossed a small pebble onto the water. "Why'd I even caught up with these guys? I mean, I came to this school just to enjoy dueling…maybe get a career in dueling.
"And even possibly get a girlfriend in the process. I guess that was just a pipe dream…maybe I should think of a transfer.
"Though…its not all bad, at least I've made some…interesting friends. And it is pretty funny to piss off Cain."
At a quick look at the smoking volcano, Rioko noticed three people running from the volcano. From a distance, he could only see the color of the tallest guy. As the three people ran closer towards the dock, Rioko's eyes widened at the sight of the people. "I don't believe it…"
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"Who's that at the dock?" Terri asked pointing towards the blonde haired guy on the docks.
"It kind of looks like…" Goliath started while the three continued to run.
"Rioko!" Cain shouted as Rioko waved his arms from the docks.
"You guys!" Rioko yelled loudly before he raised his eyebrow. "What the?"
Cain, Goliath and Terri turned around just in time to duck a midair skateboarding Risely. Risely unfortunately couldn't stop, so he just continued to the docks till he slammed into Rioko sending the poor teen into the water with a huge splash. "Who was that?"
"Where in the world did that Skateboard come from?" Terri asked as the three reached the docks.
Stepping on the board, Risely sent it into his arms quickly throwing it among the rocks. "It's a Tony Hawk brand all the way from California. But anyway, its time to duel and lose your soul!"
"Hold on!"
Everyone turned towards the side of the dock to see Rioko standing in the water with a few fish struggling to get free from his blazer. "I just dried myself off! You're paying for my dry cleaning!"
"Like hell I am!" Risely shouted as Rioko jumped onto the dock then shook himself a lot till all of the fish were out of his blazer and he was semi dry.
"Those two act one in the same…" Cain sighed as Rioko took out his duel disk and deck.
"I don't have any clue as to what's going on, but from the looks of my friends," Rioko stated noticing the burn marks on Cain, and the tears on Terri's eyes. "Adding in the fact that you were chasing them, you must've have been the cause of them suffering…and that Risely, is something I don't approve of!" (RioLP: 4000)
Noticing the active duel disk, Risely just laughed and turned his back to Rioko. "Whatever, fish boy, I've got bigger fish to fry…and that includes that shrimpy duelist."
"Risely, if my body was in so much pain right now, I'd kick your ass!" Cain yelled holding his arm.
"You couldn't even touch me if you wanted," Risely crackled loudly.
A loud slamming of wood caught an ounce of Risely's attention behind him. "You just don't want to duel me cause you're scared!"
His eyes now determined, Risely's duel disk beeped to life and his life point counter increased to the maximum. "I've never been afraid of anything in my life…'except for Hauner'…but I'll be more than glad to introduce you to fear once this is over!" (RisLP: 4000)
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Meanwhile, on an island miles away from Mt. Ablaze…
Roxas sat in front of his computer screen, displaying the image of Risely standing across Rioko on the docks. The image reflected off his glasses showing that he was staring dead on the screen. "Risely…what in the world do you think you're doing?"
Two spotlights flickered to life behind Roxas showing two different people, their faces masked hiding their identities.
One was a teenaged girl; a small black mask covered her eyes and forehead leading up to her beautiful red hair. On a small black necklace around her neck, rested a shadow charm coin between her baggy gray shirt. The black vest that covered her shirt had multiple gear symbols on it, as were her long baggy black pants.
The other was a muscular teenaged man; his eyes were covered with a large pair sunglasses that reached the bottom part of his short crimson hair. His popped up black overcoat collar covered his neck. "Master Roxas…do you require us to deal with these fools?"
Keeping his stare at the screen, Roxas just shook his head. "No…I don't require yours or Machina's services right now, Hiro. Only if Risely allows those fools to be able to escape, that's when you two will be needed…"
The apparent Hiro and Machina saluted towards Roxas before the spotlights over then flickered off. "Yessir!"
"Probability of Risely failing this is actually quite large, more than a definite 70 percent…however…there seems to be something behind the scenes allowing these foolish duelists. I wonder…"
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"You sure you don't want to give up?" Risely asked snapping the top card from his deck into his hand. "After all, this is going to be a shadow game…"
"Frankly you idiot, I really don't give a damn," Rioko replied as Risely hovered his hand. "I may not know what was going on, but I'm not going to allow you hurt any more of my friends."
A horizontal card appeared before Risely. "Very well, then I'll start off easy with a face down defense monster."
"No defense scares me!" Rioko announced adding a sixth card into his hand. "So I'll summon this gal! Go Thunder Nyan Nyan (1900/800)!"
A large thunder bolt shocked the ground before Rioko and the joyous thunder stripped girl appeared with the multiple drums. Rioko wasted no time… "Thunder Nyan Nyan! Take out that defense!"
Surging with electricity, the Thunder Nyan Nyan charged towards the face down card. All of a sudden, a blue skinned beast with long wild red hair emerged from the card and caught the Thunder Nyan Nyan's arms. Along with a surprised look on his face, Rioko was suddenly thrown back with his monster. "What in the world is that?" (RioLP: 3700)
As the blue monster knelt back down crossing its arms, Cain knew what monster that was. "Its called Back Up Gardna (500/2200). If Risely has that in his deck, then…"
Jumping back to his feet, Rioko slid two more cards from his hand into his duel disk. "Cain, don't tell me. Even though Risely's a stupid idiot and this is probably a dangerous duel, its still a duel, and it needs to be fair."
"Honor…that's something I haven't seen in a while," Risely stated drawing his next card.
"Hey Goliath…why is Rioko here?" Terri asked, this made Cain and Goliath think the same thing.
"Good question…you mind answering that Rioko?" Goliath asked as Risely slid a card into his duel disk.
"Sorry, but he's temporarily busy," Risely stated as a spell card appeared before him showing a beautiful woman with a shinning treasure in her hands. "Cause I play the spell card, Guardian's Treasure!
Discarding his entire hand, Risely quickly snapped two more cards from the top of his deck. "And here's how it works, first I must send five cards into the graveyard then I get to draw two new cards. And then for the rest of the duel I can draw two more cards…
"Which is fine for me! Cause now I play my equip spell card on Gardna, Shooting Star Bow – Ceal!"
From the sky above, a silver bow landed in front of the Back Up Gardna. The blue beast quickly raised the bow from the ground and raised it in front of him as protection. "This gives him the ability to attack directly, but lowers his attack points by 1000 (0/2200)."
Terri just stood there dumbfounded at the move. "Well, that's just dumb, why would he do that?"
"Cause with that bow out, he's now able to summon something really dangerous," Goliath explained as Risely slapped his last card in his hand onto his duel disk.
"Big guy is right! I summon Guardian Ceal (1700/1400)!" Risely shouted as a large flame erupted in front of him. The flames began to form together into a red armored dragon like beast with wings and a long tail. With a loud roar, the beast landed on the dock, putting much pressure on the wooden structure.
"Big deal! My Thunder Nyan Nyan is more than a match for your overgrown lizard," Rioko stated as the Gardna began to glow blue and the bow disappeared from its hands (500/2200). "What in the world?"
Risely smirked as the bow appeared in the clawed hands of Ceal, and almost instantly the weapon became engulfed in flames. "That's why I've got Gardna's effect, any equip card on him, I can equip the card to another card on the field, so I'll outfit Ceal with his weapon of choice! (700/1400)"
"So what if you got a monster that can attack me directly?" Rioko stated looking at his face down cards. "I've got Negate Attack and my Thunder Charge cards face down prepared for any situation."
"You're right…if I was planning to attack you with the bow," Risely stated with a question mark appearing over Rioko's head. "Ya see, all I have to do is sacrifice one equip card on Ceal (1700/1400), and he can instantly destroy one monster on the field! And I'm thinking your monster!
The Bow in Ceal's hand began to form into a large fireball, which Ceal immediately pitched right into Thunder Nyan Nyan. As soon as the orb of fire made contact, the cute monster was engulfed in a fiery explosion making Rioko cover his eyes with his duel disk. "And let's not forget I still have his regular attack! Ceal attack with flaming claws!"
As the rampaging guardian charged towards Rioko, an unseen force held the guardian back. Rioko sighed in relief as he raised his arm over the now revealed trap card. "Not so fast, I've got Negate attack."
Ceal just growled at Rioko, before returning to Risely's side of the field, Risely just grinned like a dope and waved his empty hands. "Fine, and seeing as how I have no more cards in my hand, I'll end my turn."
"Man this good," Terri stated watching Rioko draw. "With only two cards, Risely won't be able to make much of a move next turn."
"You never know," Cain replied sitting on the ground. "Guardian decks can be really tricky to use as well as being unpredictable. 'I jut hope this guy doesn't have that one guardian card I've heard so much about."
"I'll just set a monster on the defensive," Rioko stated as the card back appeared in front of him. "I just hope my monster will be enough."
"That's all eh? Fine with me!" Risely announced drawing his next card, then he drew again as Guardian's Treasure glowed brightly. "This card really brings back memories, back when I was training to a master of weapons."
"What?" Rioko questioned with a drop of sweat appeared behind his head.
"You see, years ago I was devastated with a loss of all my family on a cruise liner," Risely stated as the beginnings of a flashback started to occur.
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The sea ravaged against the large boat, as a young Risely grasped hold of the nearby bars of the ship. As the boat began to tip over, Risely watched a young blonde hair boy reach for what Risely thought were the young boy's brother and sister.
(I had lost my former life on that day, I was only 6 years old at the time, but I gained a new life)
As the morning sun gleamed over the beach near a building that had multiple weapons hanging near it, an old monk walked on the beach. From the corner on his he spotted the knocked out young Risely.
(People thought, that there was only one survivor from that terrible cruise disaster…but they were wrong. I just secluded myself from society for years on end.)
The hammer struck the hot iron, the intense heat causing Risely to sweat uncontrollably. Using the tongs, Risely lifted the hot iron and placed it into the large amount of water near him. From the steam Risely lifted the metal to reveal a beautiful sword that gleamed in the light.
(Only my master and I knew the truth of what happened on that night…or so we thought. During my days of training with various weaponry, I met the man who would give me another life…Leon Arch…)
The black suited Leon stood in front of the bruised and battered Risely, in his hands was a deck of duel monster cards. "Risely Havoc, one of the only two survivors of the accident that happened many years ago. Presumably considered dead…well that's a wrong statement."
(That was the first time I was introduced to duel monsters, and to the new world that had changed. Mr. Arch had offered me a place in the new world…as head of security for the Arch organization. Not only that but he gave me this island.)
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"These cards represent my life, nothing can stop them from winning!" Risely announced.
Rioko rubbed his head and just snickered. "We really didn't ask for your life story, but I'll admit that was quite a story."
"And this will be quite the move! I activate pot of Greed! So I can draw two more cards!" Risely announced as the green grinning pot appeared before him allowing him to draw two more cards from the top of his deck. "Alright, I drew it…I activate the spell card Gravity Axe – Grarl! And equip it to my Back Up Gardna!
A powerful spinning axe slammed directly into the dock before the Back Up Gardna, which made the beast promptly take hold of the weapon. (1000/2200). "Next I'll place a card face down, and summon this bad boy! I summon Guardian Grarl (2500/1000)!"
A loud splash emerged from the water and a powerful man with a dinosaur head that roared loudly. The monster's yellow vest was chained around its neck and it had leg armor over his black shorts. At the sight of the daunting dinosaur, Rioko's jaw just dropped. "How in the world did you summon a level five monster?"
"Simple, if Grarl was the only card in my hand, I can special summon him," Risely explained as the Back Up Gardna (500/2200) threw Grarl (3000/1000) his signature axe. "And I don't have to explain that my Back Up Gardna sends the Gravity Axe to Grarl! And now, Grarl! Attack his defense monster with Gravitational Slam!
Roaring loudly the dinosaur guardian slammed its powerful axe into the face down monster revealing a monster that looked like green battery robot (0/1900) that was quickly shattered. "And now, I'll have Ceal attack you directly!"
Just as Ceal charged towards Rioko, a second green battery robot (0/1900) appeared before him and blocked the attack. When with an electric charge, the battery robot pushed Ceal back into Risely sending the two to fall back onto the rocky ground connected to the dock. (RisLP: 3800)
With a great sigh of relief Rioko pointed towards his now activated trap card that had a lightning rod being electrified by a bolt of lightning. "Nice try Risely, but my Thunder Charge activates when you destroy a thunder monster, after that I get to summon another Thunder monster with the same name. And I had another Batteryman D (0/1900) to replace the one you broke."
Pushing with a loud grunt, Risely managed to get Ceal off of him and jumped back onto the dock. "Whatever…I'm ending my turn."
"Guys a thought just occurred to me," Terri stated as Goliath and Cain looked towards her. "What's going to happen to us if Rioko loses?"
Apparently that though hadn't really come up in their minds until now. Cain turned his eyes next to the dock to see that there was a boat next to the wooden structure. "I trust Rioko…but it wouldn't hurt to have some insurance…"
"And now it comes back to me," Rioko stated drawing his next card. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Cain, Terri and Goliath walking down to the docks and trying to get past Risely. He instantly knew what they were trying to do. "I see…well, it does look like Cain is in real pain. So I'll just have to provide a distraction.
"Now then, I play Graceful Charity!" Rioko announced as a bright light rained down on him. Risely just gazed at the beautiful light while Cain, Terri and Goliath managed to sneak past him. Snapping the top three cards off his deck, Rioko quickly slipped two into his graveyard. "Now then…its time for a great combo! I play my spell card Battery Charger!" (RioLP: 3200)
A powerful surge of electricity surged in front of Rioko as a familiar orange battery robot appeared in a great pose (0/0 1000/0). "So I can pay 500 life points in order to summon Batteryman AA!"
"Where'd he come from?" Risely asked before he noticed that Cain, Terri and Goliath were behind Rioko now. "And how'd you people get there?"
"I've got the answer to both of your questions…Graceful Charity," Rioko answered as he lifted the Batteryman AA card from his duel disk and slid it into his graveyard. "But pay attention! Cause now I sacrifice my Batteryman to summon…
The Batteryman just exploded into a flurry of sparks and electricity. From the sparks emerged a powerful machine in the shape of dragon composed of multiple machine parts and its eyes glowed red. In its chest was the same Batteryman AA that was used to sacrifice for it. "Super-Electromagnetic Voltech Dragon (2400/1000)!"
"Heh, its even weaker than the base attack of Grarl, I'm not scared of that toaster oven," Risely laughed as sparks began to cause the Voltech Dragon to glow bright orange. "Okay, now what is happening?"
A huge smile crept its way on Rioko's face as his Dragon roared into the air. "You see, when my dragon is tribute summoned, depending on what monster he was tributed for he gains a different effect. And since I tributed Batteryman AA for him, he gains 1000 attack points!" (3400/1000)
"Yikes! That's one bad monster!" Terri yelped as Rioko slid another card into his duel disk.
"But don't think I'm done! I play my spell card Overload Summon! Now during this turn I can summon another monster," Rioko announced as his spell card appeared showing a Cyber Dragon roaring against a second Cyber Dragon that was materializing in front of it. "And since one is never enough, I'll sacrifice my Batteryman D to summon a second Super Electromagnetic Voltech Dragon (2400/1000)!"
Risely just stood back as a second Voltech Dragon appeared in a mess of sparks before Rioko, only this one was glowing a bright green light. "Aw man…I don't even want to know what this one is capable of…"
Raising his right arm into the air, Rioko made both of his dragons roar into the air loudly with sparks erupting from their mouths. "Well, then, why don't I show you how they work in battle! I'll have my green Voltech attack your Guardian Ceal!"
Slamming its mechanical claws into the dock, the green Voltech Dragon opened its mouth to reveal a powerful high tech cannon in its mouth that was charging with green electricity. Risely just stepped back looking at his graveyard. "I have to wait to activate my card, it can only stop one attack for every five cards I remove from my graveyard."
Ceal just panicked before the green electrical cannon fire blasted from the cannon and electrified the guardian till it turned into ash. (RisLP: 3100)
"And now, I'll have my other Voltech Dragon take out your Guardian Grarl!" Rioko announced as his other dragon readied its orange electrified cannon and immediately fired at the powerful guardian.
Rioko's smiled faded as a powerful barrier reflected the attack into the sky, Risely's smile however, had reappeared. "Nice try, but my spell card activates while it's in the graveyard. Its called the Bury God's Relief, all I have to do is remove 5 cards in my grave so I can negate your little firework display."
"Why'd Risely wait to use that?" Terri replied as Rioko just slid a card into his duel disk.
"Cause, even though it's a powerful card, it's very costly, he could only afford to use it once so far," Goliath stated. "Losing Grarl at this strength would be costly at this time in the duel."
"Lost a spark already Risely?" Rioko asked as Risely narrowed his eyes towards his opponent.
With a quick snap, Risely drew the next two cards into his hand. "You wish, I'll show you that I can't lose like this!"
"Then how would you like to lose?" Rioko commented as Risely scratched his chin.
"Well…actually I don't know," Risely stated before shaking his head. "Wait a minute! What am I doing? I've got a good move right here! I activate my spell card Lock of Nightmare!
As Risely slid the card into the duel disk, the ground began to rumble shaking the dock violently. Suddenly, from the water emerged multiple chains that flew into the air around the orange Voltech Dragon. Rioko could only watch his dragon was chained to the dock while Risely was laughing his head off. "What a card! First it lowers your monster's attack points by 800 (2600/1000), then I gain that amount of life points." (RisLP: 3900)
Holding his forehead, Rioko could only groan loudly. "Great…anything else you want to tell me?"
"Actually yeah! Your monster can't be used as a sacrifice now," Risely continued before Grarl roared loudly into the air. "I get it Grarl…but not that it matters, your dragon's no match for my Guardian. Now then Grarl! Show him the blade of your axe Grarl!
The powerful guardian charged towards the chained down dragon, when all of a sudden a metallic ring covered in bombs appeared around the dinosaurs next. The bombs began to count down, giving Risely and Grarl a worried look. "What the heck is that thing?"
"It's a little thing called Ring of Destruction, and it destroys a monster on the field of my choosing," Rioko answered as streams of tears flowed from Grarl's eyes. "And that's not all, we both take damage equal to the destroyed monster's attack points!"
The bombs all clicked at once and the huge dinosaur was covered in a blazing hellish fire that forced both Risely and Rioko to the ground. The force also sent Cain, Goliath, and Terri into the boat. As the two stood up they just watched their life points begin to click down. (RisLP: 900) (RioLP: 200)
Risely's head lowered as he slid his card into the graveyard, small tear droplets seemed to fall on his armored duel disk. "No one…and I mean no one…senselessly murders my monsters!"
"Whoa…this doesn't seem to bode well." Rioko looked towards his friends in the boat. From the looks of it, Goliath was the only one who recovered fast enough. It was then…Rioko came to his decision. "Goliath! Get them out of here! I'll finish this guy!"
Nodding to his peer's request, Goliath took Terri's duel bracer, which immediately transferred the duel points into the boat's computer. Almost immediately the boat sped from the docks, waves begin created from behind it.
Risely just dropped his jaw at the boat speeding off. "Hey! I was supposed to take away their souls and get a promotion!"
"Sorry, but the only one you're duel today…is me," Rioko stated as Risely growled loudly.
Clenching his teeth and tightening his fist, Risely glared daggers at his current opponent. "You'll pay dearly for making me lose my mango."
"Don't you mean promotion?" Rioko asked with a huge sweat drop on the back of his head appearing.
"Right…what'd I say?"
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Cain groaned as he sat up in the boat. "Oh my aching back…what the?"
As Cain looked at the sea around him and the fact he was in the boat he noticed that Goliath was staring back at the holograms back at Mt. Ablaze's dock. "Goliath! What the hell are we doing on this boat?"
"I'm sorry Sonryu…but Rioko asked me to get us out of there," Goliath replied, his voice filled with pain.
Snapping his head to see the duel, Cain just watched as a huge explosion wrapped the dueling arena forcing huge waves to swell behind the boat and block the duel. "Rioko! You dumbass!"
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Roxas: They are all fools! First Maxwell, then Gron, and finally Risely…Though Gron and Risely I can understand.
Hiro and Machina: Sir, allow us to deal with the fools.
Roxas: I'll need to save one of you…Hiro! Go! Succeed where my co-workers have failed!
Hiro: Yessir!
I will not fail you Master Roxas – Chapter 29: Fake Hero
