Testament 037: Final Duel: Champion
Stull running through the long endless hallways of the arena floors, Carter and company stumbled upon an unexpected sight. They halted in their tracks, hiding behind the corners, because Ananka sensed a disturbance. "What is it?" Ned whispered while poking William. He sighed and took a quick peek. "Huh." He saw one of the usually quite secretive white coats, walking out in the open, pressing several buttons on doors. "What is he, he is not a judge or even a janitor." He wondered and tried to get a closer look. Only then did the man turn around and nearly spotted his observers. "Ggh." Will retracted his head at the last possible second. The coat stared back for a few more moments, and then finished his task, sealing off the door he was messing with. Then when he was gone, they could breathe easily again. "Who was that? Why is he shutting down rooms and lockers?" Zoro asked, but not even Ananka knew. "He is not...common." Carter had seen something else as well, under his hood: pale glowing eyes..
Jacksons LP: 300
Dark Gaia completed his attack. and managed to slay the Symbol, inflicting damage. Yet something was wrong. "He lived?" The audience saw it, he saw the lifepoint count, and twitched. "Might I ask, why you did not die. I am certain I inflicted 1900 damage, thats what my counter says." That was more then what Jackson had left. "You did, but my technique was not a flip technique." He spoke with a soft and caring voice, next to him stood a female monster card(1800/700). "You struck me, Cybele of the Lovers. Yet before you did, you activated my abilities when Gaia's flipping effect resolved. When a monster effect resolves, I give the controller 600 lifepoints." So his lifepoints were 2200 and not 1600, before he received 1900 damage. "Tsch, after all those annoying memories, you still refuse to die." Dark Gaia retreated to his field again. It was exciting for the audience, they really though he was a goner. "Also, you activated a trap card." Cybele Doe flipped Damage Equals Soul Energy. "We received 1900 damage.."
Cybele, Symbol of the Lovers 4/1800/700 Light/Fairy/Persona
Only one 'Persona card' of the same name can be on the field at the same time.
This card gains the following effects depending on the last card effect's type that was activated, excluding the effect of a 'Persona' monster.
Monster: When the last effect resolves, you gain 600 life points.
Spell: When the last effect resolves, you lose 1000 life points.
Trap: When the last effect resolves, you gain 700 life points.
"So we can summon a Persona that has less then 1900 attackpoints." He searched his deck and summoned. "Mother Harlot, ehehee." A woman came to the platform, seated on a throne of skulls no less (1600/1400). "Now, I guess its up to me, to set my unfortunate sibling free." Arahabaki's soul was still trapped inside Nero's mind. "Do your worst. End turn." He/she cackled and drew a card. "What is her annoying effect?" Jacob wondered. "The Damage equalizing trap does not count towards a Persona, so the last effect activated was a monsters." That would be Dark Gaia. "My monster effect is: I can discard a monster card to kill one type of monster. I declare death upon all fiends on the field!" Apparently she had a tribe-infecting virus-like quality, as Dark Gaia was reduced to a skeleton by her influence. "He is wide open, if he attacks now. Jackson will win.." Cleo commented as she was basically cheering for him in her own way. And Colin held his breath, the duel could be decided in this very moment.
Mother Harlot, Symbol of the Empress 4/1600/1400 Dark/Spellcaster/Persona
Only one 'Persona card' of the same name can be on the field at the same time.
This card gains the following effects depending on the last card effect's type that was activated, excluding the effect of a 'Persona' monster.
Monster: Discard one card from your hand and name one attribute. Destroy all monsters on the field of the chosen attribute.
Spell: Once per turn, discard one card in your hand.
Trap: Destroy one face-down spell or trap card on the field.
Jackon waited until he felt a familiar pulse, and he smiled. "Arahabaki is freed, now we can finally end this!" The Harlot opened her hand and made an energy blast for Jacob. "You... mock me!" Jacob sweated as it came close. Unfortunately it never arrived. "I remove Necro Guardna in my grave from play, to negate your attack!" They had forgotten he had discarded that earlier with Super Fusion. "Damn. He wont lose either!" So Doe placed a trap and a monster card and ended his turn. "Ggh, bringing me this close to defeat, all of you annoy me. But, once I win, all your souls will make me infinitely stronger!" He activated a spell."Fifth Hope! I can send the elemental cards back to my deck, to draw two cards!" He sent back Stratos, Burst Lady, Sparkman, Ocean and Bubbleman, and drew his cards.
"Heh. And since there is nothing else on my field or in my hand, I can draw a third card." He liked these cards very much. "Again I see that mind of yours at work, its hope is it not? You think that with only one Dark Fusion card left, he can't possibly fusion summon, right?" He played a spell called, Dark Calling. "WRONG!" It was the darker version of Miracle Fusion. "I can Remove the materials in my cemetery, to Dark Fusion summon something!" He removed Malicious Edge and a LV.6 Fiend, Lightning Golem, from play. "My greatest and most fiendish card: Evil Hero Malicious Devil (3500/2100), the strongest Evil Hero." Doe gulped, before him stood a darkblue leatherclad demon, his face was masked and his claws were lethal. "It is you, who will face defeat, you!" The Devil flew into the air, lashing out with both claws. "No, not yet. Not to you!" But he flipped his trap, Protection From One's Mind. "I block your attack!" He returned Orpheus and Abaddon to the deck to shield his monsters against the Devils claws.
"What, you want to die by Nero's hands instead?" He felt insulted. "You still think you can find and save Nero, psh." Then he placed a two trap cards facedown, leaving his hand empty. That was sad for Harlot, since now she was stuck with her spell based powers, which was her negative effect. "I know where he is, I know how to free him." The Hermit told him about the doors, the chains, everything. "Spell card: The Tarot. If you send your monsters to the deck, so can I." He sent five Persona monsters (Cybele, Arahabaki, Shiva, Scathach and Norn) back to his deck, and drew two new cards. A trap card and Lucifer. "You can not stop me, Jacob." Doe shifted voices again, as he normal summoned Lucifer, Symbol of the Star. It could be summoned without tributes, but then its stats were halved (1500/800). He also placed the trap facedown. "We know he is in there somewhere, we are of course familiar with such feelings. He is the true owner of this soul, not you!" He then finished his turn. "Meh, you bore me now, its time to settle this."
The Tarot, Normal Spell
This card's effect does not change the effect of a Persona monster card. Choose five Persona monster cards from your graveyard, add them to your deck, and shuffle it. Then draw two cards from your deck. If both drawn cards were Persona monster cards, you may shown them to your opponent to draw one more card.
"I Flip my Spell card!" It was Nero's turn, and he looked like a man at the end of his patience. "Dark Fusion Recovery!" He played the evil version of Fusion Recovery. "You should be able to tell what this does, I add Dark Fusion and a fusion material uses for a Dark fusing to my hand." He retook the spell and E-hero Avian, which was used earlier to call out Inferno Wing. "Then, I combine it with Wildheart in my hand!" He played the spell to Dark Fuse Wildman and Avian into the wind ruling demon. "Evil Hero Wild Cyclone (1900/2300)" Since a spell had been activated, Doe could use Lucifers effect (1000/300) to add a normal spell card from his deck to his hand: Extension of One's Mind. But his defense could not be lowered any further, so that was the end of that effect. "Cyclone may be inferior to Malicious Devil. However you can not activate any traps or spells during his strikes if he declares an attack. And he kills all set MT cards if he delivers damage!" The Cyclonic fiend started up a tempest.
Dark Fusion Recovery, Normal Spell
Add 1 'Dark Fusion' and 1 fusion material monster that was used for a 'Dark Fusion' fusion summon, from your graveyard to your hand
"Then we will not wait for his attack, will we?" But Lucifer Doe responded with a trap card, Mind Infection, before the enemy could declare his battle phase. "This will wipe out all your monsters, while mine get sent back to the deck!" He shuffled five cards into his deck. Malicious Devil and Wild Cyclone succombed to their mental infections and fell down. "Now your evil ones are all gone, while my souls are all alive once more." Jackson stated. "If you persist, so can I." Yet, the dying Evil Heroes healed their wounds at the endphase, and rose up again. Wild Cyclone was summoned in defense mode too. "What, how?" He cursed. "I activated my trap card, Evil Mirage." The darker version of Elemental Mirage, the same trap he used against Christine. "All your hard work was for nothing after all. You can not win this, ever!"
Mind Infection, Normal Trap
Choose five monster cards from your graveyard, and send them back to your deck. Destroy all monster cards on your opponent's side of the field that are in attack position. Skip your next battle phase.
"Draw!' It was the symbolists turn, and he drew a trap card. However with Wild Cyclone still a threat, its effectiveness was questionable. Mother Harlot was no longer stuck with her negative effect, but as long as it was not her monster effect, she was useless. And Nero had no set cards on his field anymore. "I set a trap and.." Luckily he had another card in his hand. "Play this magic card: Extension from One's Mind. I can add any Persona I wish, to my hand. I choose...Death." The card which won him the duel against Ananka. "I sacrifice Lucifer, Harlot and his facedown monster (Support Consciousness Anger), to tribute summonThanatos, Symbol of the Death (3500/3500)." The villain just smirked. "So you want to kill me with that eh?" Their strongest cards were each others equals as well. "Death also represents a change, spirit. A change for the good of all." Thanatos Doe talked with his sinister tone again. Sadly as a drawback to Mind Infection, he could not attack this turn, something that Jacob was well aware off.
Extension of One's Mind, Normal Spell
After the activation of this card, choose one 'Persona' monster card from your deck, show it to your opponent, and add it to your hand. The hand is then shuffled.
"Ha, even if you could attack me, they would die together. You can not attack anything besides Malicious Devil, as long as it is on the field." It was his turn again, and he drew. "And this will be terribly easy, all I have to do is suicide slam that monster, and attack directly with the Cyclone." The only thing that could stop him, was Doe's last card, that facedown trap. Thanatos waited for the words, and kept his hand close to the trap. "A..!" That was the first letter of the word, and he was about to react. Except then something odd happened. Malicious Devil refused to strike, no, Nero refused to enter his battle phase. "Gghk, what is this?" He cursed. The crowd was as curious as he was, even the Outerdeck host. "Did he forfeit his attack, because he feared that trap?" Marcus asked his bodyguard. "I do not know sir." The man shrugged. Still struggling, Nero ended his turn. "Odd, Nero didnt seem like the type to hold back, until now." But there was a reason for everything and Thanatos understood why it happened.
"He did it." Jacob flinched. "He is still inside you, struggling to break free. Just now it was not you that ordered the Devil to stop, it was him." The fact that his opponent started to grind his teeth, proved that he was right. "It ends with this draw." He summoned a monster card, another Support Consciousness, Sadness (500/500). "Union monster?" Sadness equiped itself to Deaths Persona, strengthening him (3700/3700). "This strike will take down your Malice, and your chains, Jacob." The symbol jumped forward, cutting the Evil Hero in half with his sword. "Ghk!" And the cut did not stop there, it travelled into Jacobus's body, into his mind, straight at the chained door. "No!" And the chains were broken... The scene was silenced, as if they knew the severity of the situation. Thanatos spoke once more. "Nero, can you hear us."
Nero's LP: 1050
Support Consciousness-Sadness 3/500/500 Water/Spellcaster/Union
Can only be equipped to a 'Persona' monster card. A monster equipped with this card gains 200 attack and defense points, and when a monster equipped with this card succesfully attacks and destroys an opponent's monster as a result of battle or its own effect, discard one card from your opponent's hand.
He spoke to the soul inside the mental cage that was Jacobs viciousness. The first door had been opened, and he was no longer held back. "I am..Nero?" He wheezed, as he suffered a bit from the cut. "It worked?" Only Colin and Cleo seemed to notice the change, the rest of the people thought he was just over-reacting. He took a deep breath and exhaled, it had been several hours since he had been able to do that. "Yes, you are him." Jacksons said. All the while the people were yelling at the two gamers to get on with the duel already. "That means, that I...wait. If I am here, then where is...the other me? If the duel is still going on, then.." At the same time, due to Support Consciousness Sadness, he had to discard a card from his hand: Elemental Hero Burstinatrix. "The Elemental?" He was too confused, and worried. "I think I should.." And then, to the symbolists dismay, he started to convulse. "Hgkh! N..no!" His calm appearance returned to a sadistic one. "One last shot, Jackson!" He drew a card. "You still, are not gone?"
"Of course not, this game wont end until one of us dies. That is the rule of a shadowgame. You may have freed Nero, but mentally I am still the stronger one!" He then flipped the spell card during his draw phase still. It was actually thanks to this that he survived. "This card is from a friend: Spell Textbooks!" This was one of Glyphs cards, a strange textbook opened. "I can add the top card from my deck, to my hand. And if its a spell, I can activate it immediately!" He drew and his face twisted into a truly hideous expression. "Dark Calling!" Colin gasped, he knew what the plot was. "I Fusion summon, Infernal Sniper!" He combined the Clayman in his graveyard with Burst Lady, to call out the same Evil Hero (2000/2500) that gunned down Christine. "If a cheap shot is what it takes, you will get one!" He laughed, he was sure to win now. As soon as his draw phase was over, the standby phase would begin and he would inflict 1000 damage to Jackson. "You never learn, your fate is already...written down!" Except, he forgot about a trap.
Spell Textbooks, Quickplay Spell
Discard your hand. Draw 1 card from your deck. If it is a spell card, activate its effect.
The one that had not been triggered last turn. "Mind Impact! I sacrifice myself, to defeat all lesser creatures on the other side!" Thanatos was level 10, while both Evil Demons were only level 8. So all monsters on the field were destroyed by the Impact, before a shot could be made. "No, NO!" And Jacob really started to lose it. "You can not do this, you son of a..!" He swore loudly. "The same trick wont work twice, Jacob. Its a shame, but you had to push us both to the edge." Suddenly images of all Persona Monsters appeared behind Jackson, as they spoke in unison. "Let our final card be your ultimate destiny, Arcana Draw!" Doe drew his last card, and summoned to the field. "They chose me: Attis, Symbol of the Hanged (1100/1000). I am enough to stop this torment, and erase you from Nero's mind. As one must die at the end of game, by your own rules." Nero was unguarded, so Attis took out his curved dagger. "This is your judgment." He leaped forward and stabbed the spirit of Jacob in the chest, dropping his lifeforce to zero.
Nero's LP: 0
Attis, Symbol of the Hanged 3/1100/1000 Dark/Fiend/Persona
Only one 'Persona card' of the same name can be on the field at the same time.
This card gains the following effects depending on the last card effect's type that was activated, excluding the effect of a 'Persona' monster.
Monster: Once per turn, choose one card from your opponent's hand. If it is a monster card, remove it from play. If it is not, discard one card from your hand.
Spell: Once per turn, choose one card from your opponent's hand. If it is a spell card, remove it from play. If it is not, discard one card from your hand.
Trap: Once per turn, choose one card from your opponent's hand. If it is a trap card, remove it from play. If it is not, discard one card from your hand.
"Argh! You..all of you." He reeled backwards, falling from Nero's physical body. "This is not the end, you.." The spectre started to wither, vanishing into the wind. "I am Eternal, I can not die. Death is not the end, its only..a change.." He cackled, before the pain caused him to scream, and then he was finally gone. "Its over, Nero..everyone."
(To be continued in Testament 038: Take your Price)
New Cards used by Nero Jacobus
Evil Hero Malicious Fiend
Evil Hero Wild Cyclone
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Dark Calling
Dark Fusion Recovery
Spell Textbooks (+)
New Cards used by Jackson Doe
Symbol of the Lovers - Cybele
Symbol of the Empress - Mother Harlot
Support Consciousness - Sadness
Symbol of the Hanged - Attis
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The Tarot
Extension of One's Mind
(+) Based on the spell Yugi used in Battle City and the Ceremonial Duel