I would like to give a special thanks to lordsoftheRoses who co-wrote this chapter with me. The character Raza belongs to him. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy!


In the hallway, Spiral and Azusa were still running trying to find the Arcana member Samuel and Kasumi Griffan.

"Spiral…" Azusa spoke up. "Are you sure you can handle Samuel? It sounds like he's pretty strong"

"I don't care how strong he is." Spiral said. "I'm going to make both him and Ryu pay for what they've done! When I find them, I swear to God I'm going to kill them!"

"Spiral, do you even hear yourself right now?!" Azusa shouted, grabbing Spiral by the collar of his shirt and stopping him. "You sound like a maniac! That's nothing like you at all!"

Spiral gritted his teeth and kept walking forward. "… Okay, I've calmed down… but I'm still going to take down Samuel AND Ryu for everything they've done."

As Spiral continued to walk, Azusa looked down and continued to follow Spiral.

"Okay, but if you go crazy again, I'm going to smack you." Azusa said.

Spiral was in too serious of a mood to make any witty quips and just kept moving.

"I understand." He simply said.


In large, dark, mostly empty room, a man with a white cloak wrapped around him entered. The lone source of light in the room was a massive glass sphere containing white, ethereal clouds twisting around within it. The man removed his hood to reveal he had a bald head and pale skin. He was Casamir, one of the members of the Arcana.

A chain coming out of nowhere and wrapped itself around Casamir's arm and then it pulled on him, slamming him into the ground.

"Whup, looks like somebody's going off script!" A voice said. "Now the whole play is ruined! Thank you for messing up EVERYTHING! Now I got to go back to community theater!"

Casamir forced himself up and slid his hand down his opposite arm, breaking the chain.

"Who's there?" Casamir asked. "Show yourself!"

"Behind you, Mr. Oblivious!"

Casamir turned to see nothing.

"No, no! I mean behind you to your left!"

Casamir looked to his left and still nothing.

"No, no! I meant behind you to your left to the right to the left to the diagonal of the seventh pillar underneath the star of Bethlehem!"

Casamir looked in every direction he could think of.

"Oh, wait, I meant to say in front of you the entire time!"

Casamir turned around to see Raza standing in the original direction he was looking. Raza was leaning against the wall and clapping.

"There ya go!" Raza said. "Give that man a cookie! He finally found me!"

"Who are you?" Casamir asked.

Raza just smirked. "Your worst nightmare." He stepped off the wall and stood where he was with his hands in his coat pocket. "Does your mother know what you're doing? Staying out this late, my goodness. You are a naughty, naughty boy."

"Answer me." Casamir said. "Who are you?"

"You got some nerve." Raza's tone changed. "Do you even know what you are, you insignificant worm?"

"I am Arcana Number XVI: Casamir the Tower. The power of the Arcana grants me great destructive power. All it would take is a simple thought to crush your body into the ground."

"If it's so easy, do it."

Raza got slammed down by an invisible force into the floor.

"You feel that?" Casamir asked. "That is the weight of several neutron stars. A neutron weighs about 5 billion tons and you are already dead."

"Wow, wasn't expecting that!" Raza said as he just did a kip-up back onto his feet, surprising Casamir. "That science mumbo jumbo doesn't work on creationists. Take that shit over to Tom Cruise's house."

"That's impossible." Casamir said. "No object can survive the pull of this gravity! You shouldn't even have any matter left, let alone walk so casually!"

"Maybe I should put this into words you can try and understand." Raza said, adjusting his hat. "I guess you can say I am like a god, a god for a new world order."

"The only god in this world is Grandmaster Ryu."

"Is that why you decided to play Starscream to his Megatron? I know for a fact you've turned traitor on him."

"I am ending this pointless conflict now."

"AHAHAHAHAHA! POINTLESS CONFLICT?!" Raza laughed. "I'm sorry, but you're indicating there's a conflict with a real point to it! When in reality the only real POINT in any conflict is to beat the ever living shit out of people! Whether it be nations, groups or individual people, the only point in anything we do is driven by violence and hatred!"

"I will not argue." Casamir said. "You bring a valid point, but as it stands I must wipe out all who know of the Arcana's existence."

"Then you've got about a half a billion gypsies to go because a lot of people know the Arcana, you little shithead. I mean, the Arcana isn't exactly taboo knowledge."

"You know what I mean!" Casamir said. "I figured a 'god' wouldn't understand this situation."

Raza held his finger up. "'Like a god'. Anyone who calls themselves a god is an idiot and a fool. Which makes your master, Ryu or Dragon or whatever, is the dumbest idiot and the biggest fool in the world!"

Veins popped out of Casamir's arms in anger. "I will silence you!"

"Go ahead! Put more gravity on me, scientologist! It's great for relieving my stress!"

"I will destroy you where you cannot survive." Casamir said as he activated his Duel Disk. "By destroying your soul!"

"THAT'S the spirit!" Raza exclaimed as a snake slipped out of his sleeve and turned into a Duel Disk.

Raza (LP 4000) Casamir (LP 4000)

"I'll go first!" Casamir said as he drew his first card. "I summon a monster face-down in defense mode and place two cards face-down! Then I activate the Continuous Spell Prohibition! I declare a card name and you can't summon it or activate its effects! I declare Diabolus, The Chained Serpent! That ends my turn!"

Raza drew his first card. "First, I activate the Field Spell Venom Swamp!"

"I'll counter by activating my face-down Dark Bribe!" Casamir said. "This'll negate your Field Spell and you draw one card!"

Raza drew one card. "I summon Venom Serpent (Lv.4 1000/800) in attack mode!" Raza said. "Now I'll have Venom Serpent attack your face-down monster!"

Venom Serpent lunged at the face-down monster, which was revealed to be Morphing Jar (Lv.2 700/600) and destroyed it.

"Since Morphing Jar was flipped over, we have to discard our entire hands and draw five new cards." Casamir stated as he discarded two cards and drew five more.

Raza discarded the five cards in his hand and drew five more from his deck.

"I end my turn by placing two cards face-down!" Raza said.

"My turn!" Casamir said as he drew his next card. "I activate my face-down Reckless Greed so I can draw two more cards! However, I have to skip my next two Draw Phases!" He drew two more cards from his deck. "I place another card face-down and summon Deep Diver (Lv.3 1000/1100)! Now I activate the Spell Card Shield and Sword to flip all of our monsters' attack and defense points! Deep Diver, attack Venom Serpent!"

Deep Diver attacked Venom Serpent and destroyed it, inflicting Raza with 300 points of damage.

Raza (LP 3700) Casamir (LP 4000)

"I activate the Trap Snake Whistle!" Raza said. "Since a Reptile monster was destroyed, I can summon a Level 4 or lower Reptile monster from my Deck! I'm going to summon Venom Snake (Lv.3 1200/600)!"

"I end my turn!" Casamir said.

Raza drew his next card. "I activate Premature Burial to bring back the Venom Boa in my Graveyard at the cost of 800 Life Points! Now I tribute my two monsters to summon Vennominon the King of Poisonous Snakes (Lv.8 0/0)! Since he gains 500 attack points for each Reptile monster in my Graveyard and there are seven of them there, Vennominon now has 3500 attack points! Attack!"

Raza (LP 2900) Casamir (LP 4000)

Vennominon shot the snakes from his cape at Deep Diver, they bit him and he was destroyed, inflicting Casamir with 2500 points of damage.

Raza (LP 2900) Casamir (LP 1500)

"I'll place one card face-down and end my turn!" Raza said.

"I activate the Spell Card Calamitous Xyz!" Casamir said. "I can only activate this card while I have less than 2000 Life Points and lets me send Xyz Material Monsters from my Deck to the Graveyard to Xyz Summon! I'm sending my two Level 6 Ally of Justice Enemy Catchers to Xyz Summon Grand Machine of Disaster (Rank 6 3300/2600)!"

Casamir had transformed into a large sentry mech with many bombs equipped to it.

"Now I activate my face-down Trap Reverse Morale!" Casamir said, his voice coming out of the mech. "During my turn only, I can decrease the attack power of all monsters on your side of the field by 100 for each card in my Graveyard! Since there are eight cards in my Graveyard, your monster loses 800 attack points! Now I'll attack!"

The mecha launched one of the bombs at Vennominon and it exploded, inflicting Raza with 400 points of damage.

Raza (LP 2500) Casamir (LP 1500)

"I end my turn!" Casamir said.

Raza drew his next card and smirked. "I activate Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy Prohibition! I now summon Diabolus, the Chained Serpent (Lv.0 3000/2000)!"

A burst of green flames erupted in front of Raza. Then something coiled itself around the area. It was a giant, long, green-scaled snake with demonic red eyes, which didn't even look like snake eyes, fangs that looked more like they belonged on a dragon, and chains wrapped along the length of the snake's body.

"How the hell did you summon that?!" Casamir shouted.

"I can summon Diabolus, my Soul Card, at any time." Raza stated. "Now I activate the Spell Card Venom Drain! By banishing a Reptile monster from my Graveyard, I can increase Diablous' attack power by the banished monster's Level times 300! I banish Vennominon to increase Diabolus' attack to 5400! End this now!"

With a snap of Raza's fingers, Diabolus lunged its head at Grand Machine of Disaster and chomped down on him, reducing Casamir's Life Points to 0.

Raza (LP 2500) Casamir (LP 0)

As Raza walked a bit forward, Diabolus was still out and Casamir's upper body was popping out of its mouth. Being bitten by a giant snake was causing blood to drip from Diabolus' mouth and Casamir to cough up blood.

"Damn you, you monstrosity!" Casamir ranted while the snake was nibbling on him. "There will be retribution against you! You have made an enemy of the Prophets and the Arcana! They will not rest until-"

A chain wrapped around Casamir's neck, choking him and Raza pulled himself up to him and grabbed a hold of his head, crushing the bones in his jaw. Casamir was forced to look into Raza's snake-like eyes.

"YOU HAVE NO IDEA THE KIND OF HELL YOU HAVE WROUGHT!" Raza growled at him. "YOU THINK WITH YOUR LAST BREATH YOU CAN THREATEN ME?! I AM RAZA! UMBRA! ANGUIS! I AM THE SHADOW SNAKE! I AM THE WRATH OF THE GODS! I AM THE LEADER OF THE UMBRA AND I AM THE MAN WHO KILLED YOU AND CAST YOU INTO THE FIRES OF HEEEEELL!"

Just before Diabolus bit down on Casamir's body, Raza used the chain to rip his head off. He then held the head up and looked at it.

"And the demons of Hell will point and laugh at the headless man who thought he could kill the Devil." Raza said.

Just as Daibolus vanished, the door opened and Ryu walked into the room.

"What is the meaning of this?" Ryu asked.

"Oh, hello there." Raza casually said to him. "This belong to you."

Raza tossed the decapitated head toward Ryu.

"You know, for supposedly an all-powerful being you don't even know what's going on in your own bathroom." Raza said, then looking around quizzically. "This is the bathroom, right? 'Cause I already took several shits in here."

Ryu said nothing and just looked at Raza.

"… Give me a reaction, damn you!" Raza growled.

Ryu continued to say nothing. Raza held onto the tip of his hat, trying to contain his rage, then moved the tip of his hat over his eyes and then moved it back up again and started to giggle.

"You better hope that the orphan and his little friends are able to defeat you because if I have to waste my time and come back down here to defeat you, it's not just going to be me who's going to be irritated you wasted their time. You're going to have to deal with ALL of Umbra! Including Lord Sheh! And I know you don't want that, oh 'God among Men'!" Raza began to disappear between his green flames. "And at least crack a smile! I took care of your garbage for ya!"

The flames and Raza disappeared.


English Voice Cast

Todd Haberkorn Spiral

Christine Marie Cabanos Azusa

Paul St. Peter Ryu

Doug Erholtz Raza


Preview

Azusa: Only four members of the Arcana left! And it looks like I'm gonna be fighting in the next chapter!

Spiral: You can do it, Azusa! Next time on Arcana of Fate! The Star!

Azusa: I have to do this! I must! For Spiral!


Raza's Cards

Venom Drain

Spell

Select 1 Reptile-type monster on your side of the field and banish 1 Reptile-type monster in your Graveyard. Increase the ATK of the selected monster equal to the Level of the banished monster x300.

Diabolus, the Chained Serpent

Reptile/Soul/Effect (ATK 3000 DEF 2000)

Level/DARK

During either player's turn, you can Special Summon this card from your Extra Deck. As long as this card remains face-up on the field, you cannot lose the Duel. When this card is destroyed, you lose the Duel. This card cannot be destroyed as a result of battle except when this card battles a Soul Monster. When this card attacks a Defense Position monster, increase the ATK of this card by 500 when the battle is resolved. When this card attacks an Attack Position monster, increase the ATK of this card by 1000 when the battle is resolved. If an effect would activate that would decrease this card's ATK, this card is not affected and Special Summon 1 "Diabolus Head Token" (Reptile-type/DARK/Level 0/ATK ? DEF ?) whose ATK and DEF are equal to the ATK and DEF as a face-up "Diabolus, the Chained Serpent" you control. When this card is destroyed, destroy all "Diabolus Head Tokens" on your side of the field.

Casamir's Cards

Calamitous Xyz

Spell

You can only activate this card while you have 2000 or less Life Points. Select 1 Xyz Monster in your Extra Deck and send the corresponding Xyz Material Monsters from your Deck to the Graveyard. Special Summon the selected Xyz Monster.