Well, here comes chapter 35, and things are getting interesting.

Let me tell you something first, a couple of years back I was a member of a Yu-Gi-Oh RPG, and I was running out of good ideas for characters, heck, I really didn't have any.

Then an idea came to me, for a character that was different than anything else on the site, in more ways than one.

So the character Katelyn Adams was born. The daughter of Rogue and Remy LeBeau, who had lost her memory when she was younger, and gained more power than any of most of her fellow X-Men. She was the first in Rogue's line to pick up a duel disk, becoming the first official Queen of Exodia.

But she's certainly not the last, when I created an RPG that would be a Yu-Gi-Oh second generation site, I decided to create her daughter, at first I didn't give her that much thought, but now...

Well, lets just say that the carachter Marie Huebner has changed a lot since then.

And now, we'll see just how she's changed.

Also, we have a guest star from another show, who? You'll just have to find out.

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or X-Men Evolution.

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Mutation, it is the key to the evolution of every species on this planet.

However, a lot of people don't understand those of us who have evolved even more than they have. People like me, the mutants are misunderstood.

But we're not the only people in history that have been persecuted. Christians, Jews, Wiccans, Blacks, you name it, whoever is different from people that are in power have been persecuted because of it.

But I'm getting double, not only because I'm a mutant, but because I'm a Christian, unlike the Global Community, which is controled by a man I believe to be pure evil.

But that's a different story.

Right now, my opponent is a creature of the night that should've been lost to folklore in my opinion.


God, please help me against this being of evil...

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CHAPTER 35:

INFERNALVANIA

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In this part of the Duelist Dimension, it is trapped in eternal night. Withered trees are all around, and very few duelists can be found in this desolate landscape.

Walking down a path, with no light to guide her other than the full moon, is Marie Huebner, still alone as she looks straight ahead.

I have never seen a night as dark as this, Marie thinks, shaking her head. No light can shine through these shadows, but what could they hide?

A wolf howled in the distance, or at least Marie hoped it was a wolf.

"Come to me, my child," A voice on the wind whispers in the goth's ear.

"What on earth..." Marie says, looking around. "Who said that?"

"Just keep walking, and you will find out," the voice says.

Its a sure sign that your going crazy when you start listening to voices in your head, Marie thinks, as she keeps walking.

Directly in front of her is a huge castle, crafted out of black obsidian, it looks like something out of an old movie.

Welcome to castle Dracula... Marie thinks to herself as she walks into the castle.

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After walking through several empty hallways, Marie finds herself in a room with stone walls, and torches in every corner.

Resting in front of her is a black coffin, with what at first glance might look like a cross, but the problem is that it is facing upside-down, and Marie didn't like that.

The Reversed Cross, a symbol of the Devil and Antichrist, Marie thinks, and tenses up as the coffin lid slides off, and a figure emerges from it.

It is a man with pale green hair, and deathly white skin, wearing a purple outfit and a long cape, he hisses at Marie, showing fangs.

"Finally, my prey has arrived," he says in a Romanian accent.

"Hey, I ain't gonna be no one's prey," Marie says, readying her duel disk just in case. "And aren't you Vampire Lord, a Duel Monster?"

"Well, if that is how its going to be, then you'll have to duel me to survive," the vampire says with a nod as he activates a black duel disk with a bone-like spine for a design. "But since I'm a Spirit Eliminator, the rules are different, much different..."

"What do you... huh?" Marie starts, but then realizes that she's glowing a golden color.

Over the course of her life, Marie had shape-shifted on several occasions, into both animals and humans, but that never gave her any physical pain. This on the other hand was different, she could feel every inch of her body aching as she transformed this time, her bones rearranging and growing, her skin hardening. When it all ends, she sees that Vampire Lord is staring in shock at his opponent.

"It can't be..." he hisses.

"What? What happned to me?" Marie says, and then we get a good look at her transformed self, and its obvious what it is. A huge golden dragon, that looks more like a gryphon in my opinion, but that's still a shocker.

"You're Ka, its, the Winged Dragon of Ra!" Vampire Lord says in shock.

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"MILLIONS OF DUELISTS IN THE WORLD, AND I HAD TO MAKE AN ENEMY OUT OF THE ONE WHO'S SOUL HOUSES THE WINGED DRAGON OF RA!" Doppler screams as she punches the wall in fury of what she's seeing.

"I think your overreacting, Doppler, a soul that powerful will greatly benefit the master's cause once one of us strips it of her body," a voice from one of the screens says.

"Dartz, what do you want?" Doppler demands of a man on the screen who is shrouded in shadows.

"I just happened to be on the line, Doppler. Your minions are worthless compared to the power of the Winged Dragon, but if she survives your plots, my servants will deal with her," the man, now confirmed as the master of the Orichalcos Dartz.

"I can't believe that Strongheim even hired that girl as his Represenative for Mutants, I don't even know what's so special about a girl who wears too much make-up," Doppler mutters.

"I really have no idea, but I don't want to find out, just watch the duel, Doppler," Dartz says, and the screen shuts off.

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"This changes nothing, we're still dueling, and I'm going first," Vampire Lord says, and draws. "I'll start with one card face down, and summon my Zombie Werewolf (1200/1000), in attack mode!"

A grey-furred wolfman with red eyes appears, and holds his head back in a howl.

"Your move."

Marie draws, and looks her hand over. Not a bad opening hand, and I've got part of a combo right here, but its not easy to bring out, she thinks. "I'll start with two face down cards, and then I'll summon my Man with Wdjat (1500/1600), in attack mode!"

A man in red robes, with the eye of horus appears.

"And I'm going to use his effect now, to take a look at your face down card," Marie says, and the face down card is revealed to be a trap called Dubious Red Moon. "Thought so, so I'll activate my spell card, Nobleman of Crossout, so your face down card is removed from the game, as is any other copies you have," she coninues, and two cards slip out of Vampire Lord's deck. "Now Man With Wdjat, attack his Zombie Werewolf!"

The spellcaster blasts away the werewolf, and Vampire Lord's life points fall to 7800, but he laughs.

"Foolish girl, don't you know that by destroying my Zombie Werewolf, I can summon another one who will be even stronger?" Vampire Lord says, and the werewolf appears again, this time with 1700 attack points. "Is that all?"

"Yeah, that's all," Marie says, unphased by the monster.

Vampire Lord draws. "I'll summon my Vampire Lady (1550/1500), in attack mode!" He says, and a female vampire with green hair appears. "Now Vampire Lady, attack her man with Wdjat, Vampire Bite attack!"

The female vampire bites into the spellcaster's neck, and he explodes as Marie's life points fall to 7950.

"And thanks to her effect, you have to discard a monster from your deck, but thanks to my deckmaster ability, you have to discard two."

Marie searches through her deck, and shows two cards, Exodia Necross and Swarm, the Rapid Evolutionary.

"But you activated my spell card, Revenge Sacrifice, which will first destroy your Vampire Lady..." Marie says, and the vampire is grabbed by two demonic hands. "And then I can summon a monster that is level 5 or 6, such as my Cyber Dragon (2100/1600)!"

A metalic serpentine dragon appears as Vampire Lady vanishes.

"Fine, one card face down, your move," Vampire Lord says.

Marie draws. "I'll play my spell card, Reasoning. You declare a monster level, and I draw until I reach a monster, if that monster is the level you said, its sent to the graveyard, but if its not, I get to summon it to the field."

"Fine, I'll pick level 4," Vampire Lord says with a growl.

Marie picks up four cards, before grinning at her fifth. "Too bad, because the monster I've drawn is this one, Hungarian Horntail, the Fierce Dragon (3400/1800)!"

A huge black scaled dragon with spines running down its back, and a tail covered with spines appears with a roar.

"Well, that is impressive," Vampire Lord says.

"And thanks to my trap card Disgracefull Charity, I get back the cards I discarded," Marie says, and takes 4 cards out of her graveyard, and adds them to her hand. "Two of which I'll place face down, and have my Cyber Dragon attack your Zombie Werewolf, Strident Blaze Attack!"

The machine dragon sends a blast of energy that wipes out the werewolf, and Vampire Lord's life points fall to 7400, and the werewolf is replaced by another one, this one with 2200 attack points.

"Now Horntail, destroy his last werewolf with Searing Flame attack!"

The dragon sends a blast of fire at the werewolf, but a cylinder appears.

"That would be my Magic Cylinder trap, it absorbs your attack, and sends it back at your life points," Vampire Lord says, and the fire hits Marie, who cringes as her life points fall to 4400. "Hmm, though you are an impressive duelist, and not to mention pretty good looking, maybe I'll just make you my bride instead of taking your body like I was going to do..."

"Okay you've got a lot of explaining to do," Marie says, interrupting the vampire. "Why the heck would you want to take over my body?"

"Part of my deal with Doppler, I beat you in a duel, and I get to go to the real world in your body," Vampire Lord says. "You think mutants have it bad? Vampires have existed longer than that, and we've faced persecution before, its not a very well known subject, but there was purges of vampires during the middle ages and into the Renaisance. At least no one's tried to shove a stake into your heart, or thrown holy water on you, at least they haven't almost wiped out the mutants!"

"You don't think they haven't tried?" Marie screams. "No matter how hard we try, no matter what, the humans don't trust us. I can understand where your coming from, but your going about it wrong, you can't just go and try to eradicate the human race for their past mistakes. They will learn, there is a chance that we can make it out of this alive, but if you won't listen, go ahead, take your turn."

"Oh I will," Vampire Lord says, and draws. "And I think I'll activate a field spell, its called Infernalvania!"

A dark mist falls upon the room, and they're suddenly transported outside to where a giant castle appears behind Vampire Lord.

"But we'll get to that in a second, first I'll summon my Vampire Bat (800/800 + 200)!"

A hideous bat appears.

Oh crap, that can only mean one thing, Marie thinks, looking around at the field.

"And now, I'll activate the effect of my field spell, I discard one card from my hand," he says, showing a Vampire Lord. "And I destroy all monsters on the field, which would normaly be a problem for me, because it would destroy my bat, but by discarding another one from my deck, my bat stays."

The bat breaks into smaller bats, and then reforms, while Marie's two dragons explode.

"And now, I'll play my Book of Life spell card, which will revive my Vampire Lord (2000/1500 + 200)," Vampire Lord says, and a copy of himself appears. "And in return, your Hungarian Horntail is destroyed."

Marie growls as she takes the card out of her graveyard.

"Now my two monsters will attack you directly!" Vampire Lord says, and the two monsters charge at Marie.

"Sorry, but I'm activating my deckmaster's special ability, I discard two cards, and your monsters lose half their attack points," Marie says, and places two cards in her graveyard as the attacks hit, and her life points fall to 2800.

"Fine, discard two spell cards now," Vampire Lord says.

Marie takes out a Pot of Avarice and Contract With Exodia.

"Go ahead, take your turn," Vampire Lord says.

Marie closes her eyes as her hand inches towards her deck. What if I can't do it, this whole duel could be riding on this next card, and it might not even help me, what do I do...

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Deep in the recesses of Marie's mind, the gothic duelist is curled up into a ball, trying not to cry as she fights the duel of her life.

"Who am I kidding, best duelist in the UNAS, second best in the world, third best counting Katie, and I'm getting my butt handed to me by a horror movie reject, maybe it was all luck that let me win those duels, maybe I don't really have that much skill..." she sobs to herself.

"Now, now, chere, Remy's granddaughter shouldn't be talking about herself like that, non?" A voice with a cajun accent says from nearby, and a hand reaches out that lifts Marie up.

"Huh?" Marie says, and then gets a good look at the man.

He's not too much older than she is (probably an imprent from her grandmother, not from my own powers, she thought), wearing a dark brown trench coat. He had short brown hair, a slight goatee, and stares at Marie with eyes that are red on black.

"From what Remy's heard, you've become quite a good duelist, chere," Remy LeBeau, aka Gambit, Marie's grandfather says. "Just because you've taken a few hits like that, doesn't mean that you should give up, that's not the Marie I've grown to admire."

"Your right, but, I don't know, its just that I'm not really sure about myself, I mean..." Marie says.

"Marie, Remy might just be a memory stored up in that pretty little head of yours, but he knows things," Remy says. "Do you think that your the first mutant in your family to face tough challenges?"

That's right, my grandmother was the one who released Apockalypse from his prison, but she was also the one who sealed him back away, of course he got out again later, but my mom stoped him that time, she thinks remembering back through the Apockalypse incidents. And my mom did play a part in the Orichalcos disaster (I've got that planned for a different fanfiction), sure she was brainwashed for a time, but she came through in the end.

"You're right," Marie says with a slight smile, her confidence now boosted. "Thanks..." she says, and opens her eyes in the real world as she draws.

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Back in the real world, only a few seconds have passed.

Marie looks at the card she's drawn, and grins. "I activate my Monster Reborn spell card to bring back my Cyber Dragon!" she says, and the metalic dragon appears again. "And now, I'll activate my Power Bond spell card, and I'll use it to fuse together two of my Cyber Dragons, to summon my Cyber Twin Dragon (2800/2100 + 2800)!"

A twin-headed machine dragon appears with a roar.

"And here's where it ends, I'll attack your Vampire Bat, double strident blast!"

The machine dragon blasts at the bats, Vampire Lord's life points fall to 2800, as the bat reforms.

"No matter, as soon as you end your turn the negative effect of Power Bond will bring your life points to 0," Vampire Lord says with a laugh.

"Oh really, well I guess you didn't know that Cyber Twin Dragon can attack twice," Marie says.

"What!" Vampire Lord says in shock.

"Now Cyber Twin Dragon, finish him off, use Double Strident Blast!" Marie commands, and the machine dragon blasts through the last bat, and Vampire Lord's life points fall to 0.

"I can't believe it, you win..." Vampire Lord says as Marie returns to normal, the vampire turns to ashes.

Well, that was an interesting way to get into the finals, Marie thinks, as her duel disk registers her at 10 DP.

Suddenly a card comes floating down to her, and she catches it in mid-air, and looks at it.

Now this card I could use, she thinks, and walks out of the room.

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Infernalvania, Zombie Werewolf, Dubious Red Moon, and Vampire Bat were all used by Camulla throughout the 3 episodes that she showed up.

Hungarian Horntail, the Fierce Dragon is a card created by Cyber Commander, he gets full credit.

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Vampire Lord-Gift of Dracul: When the discarding effect of "Vampire Lord" or "Vampire Lady" is activated, the opponent must discard two cards of the declaired type.

Winged Dragon of Ra-Power of Sol: Discard two cards from your hand to cut the attack of all the opponent's monsters by half. Life Sacrifice: Pay life points to add the amount paid to a monster on your field.

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Hmm, that didn't take as long as I though it would, and you got a look at a later villain.

Anyway, next up Katie's dueling to find her spot in the finals. Her opponent has a deck filled with monsters from the ancient past. Can the spellcasters beat the dinosaurs this time? Find out in, "Hunting Instinct."