Chapter Thirty-Five:
Truth of Revenge, Part Four
Shinta looked around, surprised by the sudden darkness.
"What the hell?!" he exclaimed. He tried to touch the darkness, but he couldn't. His hand was sent back towards him.
"Shinta Menzuro, would you please stop fooling around? I want to duel already..."
Shinta turned to face his black-cloaked opponent. The man's duel disk was already activated.
"W-what's going on?" asked Shinta. "What's with this darkness? And, most of all...who are you?!"
The man smiled, and threw off his cloak. There, now, stood a man dressed in purple clothing. He had on his face a grin, and his hair was dyed purple. His eyes were also purple.
"My name is Doctor." he said. "And this is a Shadow Game."
"Shadow Game...what the hell is that?" asked Shinta.
"That's a long story..." said Doctor. "You can ask me later, if you survive the duel. But I'll tell you that, in here, you'll have an entirely different experience than in a normal duel..."
Shinta raised his eyebrow, and observed Doctor's face. He seemed young, perhaps around twenty. "You...I've seen you before. In a dream."
"A dream, eh?" asked Doctor. He smiled. "Interesting. Tell me later. For now, activate your duel disk. I want to duel you...and with more Life Points than usual, if you don't mind..."
"I don't. How many?"
"Twenty thousand."
Shinta was surprised. "That many? What are you, a sadist or something?"
"I am indeed." said Doctor, a sweet smile on his face. "I had a brother as well, but he died...he was a masochist. He was very happy when he died..."
Shinta shivered. "You have a twisted family, Doctor..."
"Perhaps. Let's duel, though. I want the pain to begin..."
Shinta complied, activating the machine. He prepared himself.
Shinta: 20000
Doctor: 20000
"Doctor..." he said, drawing five cards. "Why did you want to duel me? Was there a specific reason?"
Doctor's smile vanished. "Yes. Because you are the younger brother of Kenshin Menzuro!"
Kenshin sure did have a lot of enemies. Did he owe them money?
This thought occurring to him, he asked, "Did Kenshin owe you money or something?"
"No, you idiot!" Doctor yelled, annoyed. "I hated him for a different reason!"
"Oh..." said Shinta. Then another thing occurred to him. "Wait. You're, like, twenty or something. Kenshin died about twenty years ago...so how can you know him? Or, at least, hate him?"
"Heh heh..." said Doctor, smiling. "That's a secret for later, Shinta Menzuro. For now, let's get this duel started. You may go first..."
"Alright!" said Shinta. He drew a sixth card. "I play the spell card, Quick Monk! Now I can special summon three Monk Fighter Tokens to the field, in attack mode (500/500 x3)!"
Three miniature versions of Monk Fighter appeared on the field, flaunting their strength with conceit. Shinta sighed, seeing their behavior.
"Um...next I'll play Monk Punching Bag, giving all of my Monk monsters two hundred extra attack points per turn! I'll do so for each Monk right now (700 x3)! Finally, I'll set a card face-down and end my turn."
"My turn." said Doctor, drawing. "I summon Fusion Test Subject (200/200) in defense mode. And then I use his effect! I can sacrifice him in order to special summon a fusion material monster of any monster in my fusion deck, but only if it's level four or lower. And so I special summon Demonic Beast (1900/1800) in attack mode! Now, go! Destroy his first Monk Fighter Token!"
Shinta shrugged as his monster was destroyed. "These Tokens have the same effect as Monk Fighter. I don't take an damage when they're destroyed in battle."
"Fine." said Doctor, setting two cards face-down. "I'll play those guys, and then I end my turn."
"My turn!" said Shinta. He drew. "Perfect! I play Connection of Friendship, discarding a card from my hand in order to destroy all monsters you have on your side of the field...!"
"Not so fast!" said Doctor. He revealed his face-down cards. "First up is Imperial Order, which will stop all spell cards for as long as it remains face-up on the field!"
After Shinta discarded the card from his hand, his spell card blew up, sending pieces everywhere.
"Then comes the second card in my combo! Second Order of the Emperor! I can pay five hundred Life Points during each of my standby phases in order to stop any negation that happens to my side of the field, though it will still happen to you!"
"Damn it!" swore Shinta. A monster appeared on his side of the field, though. It was a black-robed version of Monk fighter, a dagger at his belt. "Well, the monster I discarded was Monk Stealth Striker (200/200), which is special summoned when discarded. I guess then I'll sacrifice one of my Monk Fighter Tokens in order to special summon...Monk Virus Carrier (1500/1200)! Here's his effect: he'll decrease the attack point of all monsters on your side of the field by five hundred points (1400). And then I'll normal summon Chu-Ske the Mouse Fighter (1200/0), making my army four monsters strong. Now, let's use Monk Punching Bag!"
Each Monk punched the punching bag, increasing his own strength (1700) (1400) (900) (400). "Now, my Virus Carrier will attack and destroy your weakened Demonic Beast!"
The sickly Monk coughed, but still was able to punch, and knock out, the beast. Doctor shrugged, mimicking Shinta from earlier (DLP: 19700).
"And then my other three monsters will go out on an all-put attack! Go!"
The three monsters each struck Doctor, cutting and bruising him. He merely smiled...
Doctor: 17200
"What the hell?! Are you enjoying...getting hurt...?"
Doctor's smile grew. "Remember how I said that my brother died? Well...I killed him."
Shinta was shocked. "Wha-what?!"
"Yes...I killed him, and absorbed him within me...I fused us...it made me both a masochist, and a sadist...it made dueling in the Shadow Realm the best thing ever..."
"Oh, damn..." said Shinta, wide-eyed. "Do you ever have a reason for dueling me, besides that?"
"Oh, yes. Kenshin beat me, several years ago. I didn't use very much of my strength, but my brother didn't believe me. So I dueled him, killed him, and absorbed his soul within my body. This was about five years after my loss...I had become something greater in that time...I learned that Kenshin had died, though...so I searched for his sister. I found something better. Several years later, I learned that he had a brother who was just like him. Shinta Menzuro, I want to defeat you to prove to my brother inside of me that I wasn't lying."
"All of this..." said Shinta, his eyes still wide. "You killed your own brother, got me into this duel...all because your brother thought you were lying?! What are you?!"
Doctor smiled. "An Inhuman...one with the power of Soul Absorption."
"Inhuman?" question Shinta, but Doctor shock his head.
"That comes later. For now, let's continue with this duel. You can't escape unless you beat me..."
"Fine!" said Shinta. "I will! I end my turn."
Doctor drew. "And now, Shinta Menzuro, I will show you the true horror of the Shadow Realm..."
Doctor: 16000
"First, I'll pay for my two cards...the delicious pain...then comes something else. I'll play the spell card, Graveyard Slash!"
His Demonic Beast monster appeared next to Shinta. Shinta raised an eyebrow, but the dog attacked him, sending him to the ground. His left shoulder was stuck, and it was now bleeding...
Shinta: 18100
"What the hell...? Blood...? Why does it hurt...?"
Doctor smiled... "That's right...you didn't know that the pain is real, in Shadow Games..."
He started to laugh. "You won't win, Shinta Menzuro! Neither will anyone in your team!
"Team Revenge will win, Shinta Menzuro!"
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Next Time:
Truth of Revenge, Part Five
Justin Maker is dueling the mysterious leader of Team Revenge, Gishinki. Who is Gishinki, and why does he hate Justin so much? All will be revealed in this next chapter!
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Author's Note: So doctor is an Inhuman as well? Wowza.
Spirit Domination, Body Domination, and Soul Absorption. Hey, isn't that last one the name of a card?
Now there are four duels started, and the fifth will as soon as I get it up. Hopefully today...
On another note, I finally caught up to Vyser Dragoon's A Tortured Duelist. If you're reading this, Vyser, I'd like you to know that it's a good story. Also, I recommend it to anyone who needs a good story to read.
By the way, I'm feeling much better, but still a little ill. And I'm almost out of Sluggy Freelance Megatome debt (long story involving my dear mother buying it for me...)! Only $25.50 left to go! And I have about Twenty-Five dollar's worth of babysitting tomorrow! Plus, I have fifty cents in my wallet...(xD)
Please R&R!
-Salazare