New Testament 029: Dead End of Paradise
Nero ran as fast as he could while carrying an unconscious body, he never looked back. "Blast it Will, what did we come here for? To trade one life for another?" He had no idea what was happening to his friend, but he feared the worst. There was no sighting of the enemy either, that worried him. They came as a pair, either one could have slipped through. "We went about this all wrong, didn't we? This is not like.." He stopped. "No." Almost at the exit, he saw the entity. "..." The taller armored one blocked the way out, and he was probably not going to let him through. "You can not have her." He placed her gently on the floor and stood in front of her. "You will have to take me on instead!" He raised his dueldisk as well. Archon merely tilted his head, as if he was trying to understand his actions. "Well? Why aren't you.." And then he suddenly released a wave of energy that knocked the duelist down, and he was enveloped in a silver-ish light. "Coming..at me?" Nero stood up again, only to be swallowed by the same light.
Williams LP: 8000 Zakarias's LP: 8000
"How.." Williams Carter attack had failed, ten thousand attackpoints could not even reach this enemy. "Depth Amulet is your answer. The 'controller' of this trap can discard a 'card' to negate any attack. And this card lives for three of your rounds." Chainsaw Insect stood unharmed, instead the Armored Black dragon would have to die. "You removed the limits with that spell, the cost is heavy isn't it?" Will nodded grimly but was not going to give up on it. "Another quickplay spell: Cyberdark Reverse. I can undo the fusion of Cyberdarklings." Cyberdark Dragon was returned to the Fusion deck, Cyberdark Keel (800/800), Edge(800/800) and Horn(800/800) came from the deck to the field, and Rainbow Dragon was sent back to the cemetery. "And you save yourself at the utmost edge before the abyss. Let us not forget that which is binding you to my terms." He pointed at the claw-monster which was still removed from play and holding his leg. "Low life or high life, the end draws for you once the Unredemption has completed."
Zakarias drew a card from his fleshlike dueldisk. "The strategy is a simple one; creations of all kinds that can expedite the process lie in my legion." He summoned a spellcaster-monster this time, a woman of the Light-element. "And there are those that grow stronger from the process, like my Silent Magician(1000/1000). Each drawn 'card' adds half of her original attack to her total strength." He entered the battle phase, Chainsaw Insect came in first. "Ggh, and when that bug does battle, I have to draw..." The grinding saw pincers cut Cyberdark Horn into shrapnel. "You understand." A new card came from Carters disk, luckily not another piece of this twisted puzzle. But Silent Magician LV4 powered up nonetheless(1500/1000). "Attack." She sent magic from her wand to smite Cyberdark Edge, leaving Keel as the last functioning machine. "I will end here." William heard it and entered his draw phase. "Oh no." Unfortunately his next draw was again a card he did not know. "How many of these did he smuggle into my deck, and how?"
This time his left hand was shackled down to the hospital roof, giving him little to do with it besides motioning his dueldisk. "These cards.. there are five of them, aren't there?" He asked the villain, who was surprised to get this 'rhetoric'. "You are correct, you saw through that quickly Carter." He smirked. "I can see it now. Four claws for each of the directions, and a center piece to finish me off. This is like the power of Exodia." Except Exodia granted the collector victory, not defeat. "Indeed, when the Unredeemer's name is known and his body is completed, your soul will belong to us. Now ..we continue." Even if he had wanted to do something about this odd combo, he could not think about that if he could not even get passed his monsters. Nothing in his hand could get passed his Depth Amulet. "One more turn." He looked at Future Fusion on his field. "Draw." As he drew a card, Silent Magician gained another spellcounter for another attackboost (2000/10000). "I summon Cyber Valley (0/0) in attack mode. And I set a trap card face down."
His turn was over, his hand was empty for the time being. "Another monster answers my call, come out Bistro Butcher." A fiendish chef with a hook for a hand appeared(1800/1000), this card was also and old familiar. "If that attacks me, I have to draw twice.." But the first one to attack was Chainsaw Insect, who charged Cyber Valley. "You triggered his effect?" Even Will was surprised he fell for it. "Then I remove Valley from play, to remove your monster as well." The bug and the mechanical serpent both disappeared into a portal to the next dimension. "Quaint decision, you still have to add to your hand." He remarked correctly, Valley gave the controller a new card when it removed itself. "Tsk." Next the Butcher gutted the remaining Cyberdarkling for spare parts, sending 2 more cards to Williams hand. One of those was the third piece of the Unredeemer. "Ah, the north." His other leg was chained down. "Damn it all." And he had nothing left, Silent Magician(3000/1000) had powered up twice due to all the draws and attacked him directly.
Williams LP: 5000
The burning magic sent him back a great deal, almost to the edge of the rooftop. "Ugh. Real energy, just like with the Orichalcos duels." He coughed. "Yes, you have faced this before. But you would do well to remember that those fools from Atlantis were nothing compared to us." Will recovered. "Is that true? Are you so different from those people, are your goals any different?" Zakarias's perpetual smirk almost faded. "They were just mortals praying a to a false god. We have a true god, the Ka is our maker and our teacher. You could not begin to understand his grand design. But to ease your mind before your soul begins its purpose, I will tell you one thing." He tapped the side of his lead helmet. "We are deathless, we are beyond mind heart and mind. Ours is a world of pure life force, yours is a world polluted with id and ego. The only reason you will get to keep your body is to act as an anchor between both realms, your heart stays here, your mind will be ours." His turn was finally over. "I do not think so." Now Carter could attack.
"Future Fusion activates now." The continuous spell was about to summon Chimeratech Overdragon from the fusion deck. "Has that much time passed already? And you selected the Overdragon? I may not know my machines, yet I do believe that card destroys all other cards on your field when it appears." He did not mind that at all, since it would also mean the destruction of Future Fusion. If the spell left the field, the fusion monster would leave as well. "Did you think I came unprepared?" But the duelist flipped his face-down card. "Trap card: Cyber Repairer. My opponent can draw 1 extra card." That was a change of pace. "In exchange for that, none of my machines can be destroyed this turn." Finally Chimeratech appeared on the field, sporting six heads for the six materials that were used for its (delayed) fusion process. Each head added 800 points to the total (4800/4800). His spells were wiped away from the floor. "Future Fusion left the field, but its effect of killing the monster it fused can not affect it anymore."
"You plan to fight back?" Carter nodded, sending the sixheaded machine to attack Zakarias's legion. "It has six heads, so it can attack up to six monsters at once." The first head sent a stream of white energy to decimate the Bistro Butcher, causing 3000 damage to the fiend in one blow. "Not activating Depth Amulet, eh?" He already knew why; a trap that negated attacks was useless against a monster that could attack until everything was dead. He would run out of cards first. "Next your Magician." During the last draw phase the spellcaster had taken in the maximum amount of spellcounters, it(3500/1000) would not go any higher than this. It was still nothing compared to the Overdragon, who obliterated her in an instant. "I am not just fighting back, I am fighting to win this!" His turn was over.
Zakarias's LP: 3700
"That is what 'you' believe." Zakarias drew. And during his standby phase, Depth Amulet destroyed itself. "Yet can you sustain that faith in the face of all adversity?" He summoned another monster, one no duelist saw coming. "Neo-Spacians Glow Moss?" The plant monster from the Neos series was placed down, a card he thought only Nero used. "Every monster serves our case, William." The Moss could attack and force the opponent to draw at the same time. Depending on what he drew, an effect would follow. "This deck is almost..incoherent." He took one card, and showed to his opponent that it was a spell. "Then my monster can strike around yours." Glow Moss attacked Carter directly, inflicting almost no damage. "And now for my own spell: Mind Wipe." He gasped, that card forced William to send all cards in his hand back to the deck, and draw three new cards. "No." One of those was the Southern Claw of the Unredeemed, which shackled his remaining hand. "Closer and closer to the end. The Inevitable end."
Williams LP: 4700
Before his turn was over, Zakarias placed two trap cards face-down on the field. "Yes, the end. But you did not say whose end it was, did you?" He drew a spell from his deck and smirked. "It is time to revive what I was forced to destroy: Overload Fusion!" He could now remove machine materials in the cemetery and fuse together a dark-type machine monster. He removed Edge, Horn and Keel. "Cyberdark Dragon(1500/1000) returns and equips Rainbow Dragon to itself a second time." The four thousand rainbow attackpoints were shared with the black fusion(5400/1000) all over again. "Next I normal summon my newest machine monster: Cyber Dragon Zwei (1500/1000)" A Cyber Dragon appeared, looking a bit different from its original self. "I can reveal a card in my hand to make this cards name 'Cyber Dragon'." He revealed the spell Glow Moss had given him. "Evolution Burst! I also play it" Cyber Dragon Zwei quickly released a burst stream from its mouth. "When 'Cyber Dragon' is on the field, I can kill any one card with this card." The evolution blast destroyed the Moss creature of Zakarias. He chose that thing because it had a 1/3 shot at ending his battle phase prematurely. Plus the less cards he drew, the better.
Western Claw of the Unredeemed One, 2/300/200 Light/Spellcaster
When this card is added to your hand, it is removed from play. As long as this card is removed from play, you can not concede the game.
Nothern Claw of the Unredeemed One, 2/300/200 Light/Spellcaster
When this card is added to your hand, it is removed from play. As long as this card is removed from play, you can not concede the game.
Southern Claw of the Unredeemed One, 2/300/200 Light/Spellcaster
When this card is added to your hand, it is removed from play. As long as this card is removed from play, you can not concede the game.
"..." The enemy had no shields left, no amulets. One attack would resolve this dangerous duel. "Chimeratech Overdragon, attack!" The six heads fired one combined energy beam. "You will not succeed, human. Trap: Half or Nothing." He activated his left face-down, a trap that blocked the beam. "Either you half all your monsters attack, or you end your attacks all together. That is the choice." William flinched. "You know what I will do." Grumbling he accepted cost # 1: Chimeratechs(2400/0) weakened attack then passed through and hit Zakarias. "But another direct attack will still.." Next came the Cyberblack Dragon(2700/1000) and its dark flames. "No, it can not. Second trap: Confusion Chaff!" But that attack only released a blinding light, which blinded the assailant. "This trap forces a second direct attacker to do battle with the first direct attacker." Confused as it were, the fusion turned around and struck Overdragon instead. Cyberdark was the stronger of the two, so Chimeratech died and its controller lost LP. "This is not good.." He still had Cyber Dragon Zwei(750/1000), allthough it's attackpoints were too low to take out all of the enemy's lifepoints. "Final..direct attack." It struck anyway, reducing Zakarias to near zero levels. "Set Trap card, end turn."
Williams LP: 4400 Zakarias's LP: 550
Just then a certain somebody was dropped onto the rooftop. "Ghua!" He coughed up blood. "Nero?!" Will gasped, his friend was in bad shape. "Oh?" Zakarias turned his gaze upwards and saw his floating companion holding the woman in his hands. "You certainly kept me waiting, Archon." The silver knight landed on the floor, tossing the girl aside. "C-curse you." Jacobus managed to spit out. His dueldisk was broken. "You bastards. Why didn't you just.." Zakarias looked back at Will. "Kill him? Because my partner knows I select the souls here, he is merely along for the muscle. The truth is, we never needed Colins soul to complete the portal. We merely need one of the seven who saw our creator." He drew his card. "What..did you say?" Both their eyes widened with a terrifying realization. "I am saying, Carter, you will be the sixth. And your soul will be mine..now!" He played a spell Dark Designator, a spell that allowed the player to send any card from the deck to the opponents hand. "Hear the name of the Unredeemed One!"
"Paradius!"
Paradius the Unredeemed One, 3/1000/1000 Light/Spellcaster
When this card is added to your hand, it is removed from play. When 'Western Claw of the Unredeemed One', 'Eastern Claw of the Unredeemed One', 'Southern Claw of the Unredeemed One', and 'Nothern Claw of the Unredeemed One', in addition to this card are all removed from play. You lose the game.
The Designator sent the fifth piece to Carters hand. "Carter?" Nero could see the chains now, a fifth appeared to bind the neck. "No!" Zakarias then dispelled the holograms of both Cyberdark and Cyber Dragon, walking up close to his opponent. "You..you.." He looked straight in his face. "Paradius; when all five parts are removed from play...you lose." He snapped his fingers, and a hellish fire covered Wills body from head to tie. "Aaaaagh!" He screamed out loud, the fire burning his disk and all but six cards in his deck to ashes. At the same time, the chains held him in place and zapped his lifepoints to nothingness. "Stop it!" Jacobus cried, to no avail. He wanted to stand up but Archon now held him in place with his foot. "Stop.." A second later William Carter fell to the floor. His body was unharmed, the fire had consumed his soul instead. A small flame swirled in the hand of the fiend. "This will be the sixth." He spread out his hand, and the burning soul shot away into the distance, becoming one with the portal. William Carter was no more.
(To be Continued in New Testament 030: To a Better Place)
New Cards used by William Carter
Cyber Dragon Zwei
New Cards used by Zakarias
Silent Magician LV4
Bistro Butcher
Neo-Spacian Glow Moss
Western Claw of the Unredeemed One
Nothern Claw of the Unredeemed One
Southern Claw of the Unredeemed One
Paradius, the Unredeemed One
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Mind Wipe
Dark Designator
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Half or Nothing
Confusion Chaff
