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Legends of the Demon Duelist-Duelist Academy Arc
Chapter 38: Desperate race to free the dragon
Negative looked down at her disk. ("Come on…call time on him so that it is my turn.") A few seconds later the device beeped. "You should have attacked. Draw!" She snapped the top card off of her deck and slid it into her disk. "Go Sword that Seals the Dead!" A sword with a skull at the cross-hilt shot across the field and slashed deep into the Ultimate Diamond Dragon's chest. It roared in pain and then turned to stone. "Now your creature is out of reach forever!"
A twisted black lizard appeared on her field. "I summon Twisted Fiend (1900/700) in attack mode and declare an attack on your life points!" Roaring, the creature charged across the field towards Ichigo's body.
Right before the creature hit her opponent's field though a blue barrier of light exploded to life and blocked it.
Ichigo's body snapped around to glare at Negative. "You activated my Draining Shield trap card. This negates your attack and gives me life point gain equal to the attack of your monster."
Negative- 5500
Ichigo?- 3800
Negative snarled and cracked her knuckles. "You weren't even paying attention! How could you have known that my creature was coming for you?"
Ichigo's body smirked and drew. "It's now my turn. Draw!" He snapped the top card off of his deck and frowned at it. ("Wait…if she destroys a monster on my field then I get my dragon back!") "I set this monster in defense mode and end my turn."
Negative drew. "I set one monster face-down and two cards face-down. Then I activate the effect of Twisted Fiend to drain us both of 300 life points! End turn."
Negative- 5200
Ichigo?- 3500
Ichigo's body drew. ("This is unbelievable. She is using Eri's deck to burn out my life points without destroying my monsters.") "I set one card face-down and end my turn."
Negative drew. "Who are you?"
Rikuo, who had been silent for the last couple of turns, chimed in. "Why would you need to ask? You know that he is Ichigo Pilkington."
Daniel shook his head slowly. "No…that's not my son. I'm still not sure who that is, but he isn't Ichigo." This brought a lot of worries to his mind. If this person was in his son's body then where was his son?
Negative snickered at Rikuo. "I'm surprised that you don't know who I am. I've been right in front of your nose for about ten years." She placed a card onto her disk. "I set one card face-down and end my turn by switching Twisted Fiend into defense mode." The black lizard fell to one knee.
Ichigo's body drew. "I set one card face-down and flip up my two monsters! Come out Kaiser Seahorse (1700/1650) and Light Brigadier (1600/1500) in attack mode!" A blue-armored knight and a warrior in orange armor appeared on the field. "Attack Twisted Fiend and the newest defense mode monster now!" The two monsters leapt forward together and brought their blades down at the same time. Light Brigadier's attack destroyed the Twisted Fiend, while Kaiser's was stopped.
Negative waved her hand across her field. "Activate face-down continuous trap card! Go Shadows of Death! Whenever a monster on my field is destroyed you take life point damage equal to its level times 100! Also, the face-down monster you attacked was my Poison Mummy (1000/1800) and when it is flipped up you take 500 life points of damage. In combination, these two effects and the 100 life point backlash you take from attacking my Poison Mummy equals a 1000 life point loss!"
Negative- 5200
Ichigo?- 2500
Ichigo's body frowned and then risked one quick glance at Rikuo. "End turn."
The wolf demon tilted his head to the side questioningly. ("Where do I know you from?")
Negative drew. "This duel is nearing its end. I'll burn away what remains of your life points and then banish your soul from existence!"
Rikuo glanced over at Negative and snickered. "By the way, you don't think that I have known about you? Of course I knew about you. However, I was unsure what to do with you until now. Since you're causing problems, I'm going to banish you from existence if this guy doesn't do it first."
Negative rolled her eyes and slapped a card onto her disk. "Talk is cheap Rikuo! I summon Sangan (1000/600) in attack mode!" A three-eyed ball of fur appeared on the field. "Then I activate the effect of my Tombstone continuous trap card! By sacrificing a monster I can special summon another Zombie Token to the field!" The Sangan disappeared. "And when Sangan is sent to the graveyard from the field I may search my deck for a monster with 1500 attack points or less and add it to my hand." Another zombie appeared next to its two brethren and now Negative had two cards in her hand. "End turn!"
"My turn…draw!" Ichigo's body drew, and then looked over at Daniel. "Your son is safe. At the moment I am keeping his soul within a place of protection, until the darkness game ends. He lost his duel against Negative and until she is gone the darkness will be seeking to claim him." He returned his attention the duel and slammed a card into his disk. "I order Light Brigadier and Kaiser Seahorse to attack your two face-down defenders! Go now my monsters!" Both of his creatures charged and slammed their weapons down on the set cards, destroying them.
Negative flipped both cards face-up. "You've attacked Aura Zombie (1000/1600) and Spirit Reaper (300/200) with monsters that cannot destroy them." The first creature was a hideous walking corpse with a strange aura of white ectoplasm hovering around it. The second creature was a reaper in a strange purple robe.
Ichigo's body frowned. "End turn."
Negative drew. "I summon Chaos Shaman (500/500) in defense mode. Also I set one card face-down on the field." A black-cloaked form with a bull's skull over its face appeared on the field. "I end my turn and activate the effect of Chaos Shaman. By drawing cards from my deck until I reach a monster, you will then take damage equal to half of the drawn monsters attack points." She tugged the top card off of her deck and held it up. "Behemoth of Shadows (3000/2100) means that you lose 1500 life points!" The Shaman charged up a ball of lightning that it hurled across the field into her opponent.
Negative- 5200
Ichigo?- 1000
Ichigo's body drew slowly, attempting to ignore the wisps of smoke that wafted into its nose. "I set one card face-down on the field and order Kaiser Seahorse to attack Chaos Shaman!" The blue-armored warrior leapt forward and slashed the spellcaster in half. "End turn."
Negative- 5200
Ichigo?- 800
Negative drew. "I'm nearly certain I know who you are now. Activate the magic card Soul Exchange, letting me sacrifice your Kaiser Seahorse to set a monster in defense mode. End turn."
Ichigo's body drew. "You think you know who I am? Then let's see just how knowledgeable you really are. End turn."
("Where is the Hell Meteor?") Negative drew. ("With it this duel would be already mine.") "In her dreams lately, Eri has been imagining a horrible ancient duel between two beings of fairly noticeable power. You're one of those two beings, aren't you? After all, Ichigo has a strange resemblance to one of the two in the dream…and perhaps that is why she has a hate for him? Well isn't it funny that you're the actual man of her literal dreams?" She slid a card into her disk. "I activate the continuous magic card Ectoplasmer. As long as this card is in play each of us must sacrifice one monster on our field each turn to deal our opponent half of the sacrificed creature's attack in life point damage." Her Aura Zombie faded away. "That means you lose…"
"Not so fast!" Ichigo's body motioned to one of its set cards. "I activate my Gift of the Mystical Elf trap card! Now I gain 300 life points for every monster in play!" A white light shimmered around him.
Negative- 5200
Ichigo?- 2500
A ball of white ectoplasm flew across the field and slammed into his chest.
Negative- 5200
Ichigo?- 2000
Ichigo's body drew. "Now it's my turn! I set one monster in defense mode and sacrifice Light Brigadier to deal you 800 life points of damage!" A wave of white ectoplasm slammed into Negative.
Negative- 4400
Ichigo?- 2000
Negative drew. "Why won't you answer me? How close am I to the truth? End turn." The Poison Mummy faded away and was replaced by a ball of white ectoplasm that slammed into her opponent.
Negative- 4400
Ichigo?- 1500
Ichigo's body drew. "I'll win this duel. There is too much at stake for me to lose! I summon…"
Negative flipped up her face-down card. "We're in the last turn for you, dear dream wolf. I activate the trap card Summon Negating Spirit. By discarding one card I may stop you from summoning this turn and draw one card."
Ichigo's body frowned and nodded. "Then take you turn."
Negative drew slowly, a sick smile on her face as she held up the two cards in her hand. "One from my trap and one for my turn…and this duel is over."
Ichigo's body gritted its teeth. ("She drew it.")
Negative slid a card into her duel disk. "I know that you are something important to Eri…but she is mine and you will not take her away from me! Go Hell Meteor! Prepare to be crushed!" The red and black ball of fire gathered in the air above them.
Ichigo's body smiled slightly. "The only one of us that is dying today will be you."
"What!?" Negative watched as the Hell Meteor began its descent.
"Reverse card open!" A glowing silver hand mirror appeared on the field. "Spirit Mirror allows me to negate any magic card that targets a player and change its target! Take this…Hell Meteor reflection!" The mirror released a beam of light that slammed into the Hell Meteor and sent it flying back towards Negative. "You're about to be done in by your own card!"
"That's what you think!" The demon spirit's last face-down card flipped up. "I activate the trap card Dark Escape! This negates one damage effect against me by sacrificing one card on my field. I'll give up Ectoplasmer so that I can keep my Spirit Reaper!" The Meteor slowed to a stop and faded out of existence. "Then I set one card face-down and end my turn."
Ichigo's body went silent. ("What can I do…against her? I don't have any cards in my deck that can destroy my own monsters…and without that I cannot get back my Ultimate Diamond Dragon.")
("What are you worried about? You're definitely skilled enough to win.")
Ichigo's body blinked in surprise and looked off to its side, where a phantasmal form floated. ("Ichigo!? What are you doing here? You're at risk as long as you are outside of the area I place you!")
("I'm not in danger. I'm still there…but I'm here to. Keep in mind that by occupying my body you have created a link between us that isn't broken easily.") The phantasmal half-demon smiled and winked.
("But…how could you know that?")
("It isn't important as to how I know…what is important that you save Eri. I know who you are now and that means you must remember. Call out your real power, and summon a creature that exists in my deck. Together we can beat her right now.") Ichigo placed his hand on his own body's shoulder. "It's our turn…and time to end this madness."
Rikuo, Daniel, Negative, and Sammy all blinked in surprise as they heard that.
Ichigo's body nodded and brought its emerald gaze to Negative. "This duel is over! You are no longer needed in Eri's life! My turn…draw!" He snapped the top card off of his deck and with one look at it he knew exactly what was needed. "I will let you know who I am now."
Everyone held their breath…
"My name is Ahran Amero, son of Rikuo Amero. I died protecting my family's honor, and then my soul was tied to the stone that held the sealed away Kilomet Sestros. When the stone was destroyed my soul was freed and found a place to rest within Ichigo Pilkington's body. And now…I will protect my sister from you!!!" Ahran's eyes reflected a determination that couldn't be denied. "First though, I activate the magic card Instant Summon! By discarding one card from my hand and sacrificing a monster on my field I can summon any monster from my hand without worrying about its requirements! So now I sacrifice my facedown to summon out this! Awaken, Destructive Dragon Gondola!" There was an explosion of light from his field as a huge dark blue dragon with numerous red crystals all over its body appeared on the field. (?/?)
Negative's eyes widened. "How do you have that creature in your deck!? It isn't a light monster!"
"I don't have it…but Ichigo does. And since this is Ichigo's deck then Ichigo's cards are my cards as well!" Ahran motioned to his dragon. "Destructive Dragon Gondola special ability activate now! By paying half of my life points I can remove all monsters on the field from play, and then Gondola will be destroyed! Destruction Scream!" The dragon's red crystals shimmered and then released a shotgun blast of energy that pounded the field with red light. As soon as the beams ended the dragon roared and exploded into pieces. "And since I just destroyed a monster on my field, I may bring back my ultimate creature! Come out now, Ultimate Diamond Dragon!" (3500/3500) The titanic crystal dragon appeared on the field and roared angrily.
Negative brushed the smoke off of her shoulder and motioned to her face-up card. "My trap card prevents your effect from working. The continuous trap card Dark Barricade costs 2000 life points per turn but as long as it is on the field you cannot destroy my monsters or remove them from play. So for this turn you cannot finish me off."
Ahran smiled slightly at the phantasmal Ichigo next to him. "Sorry to destroy your hopes Negative, but I was hoping you'd make your monsters impossible to destroy this turn. Because there is a reason my Ultimate Diamond Dragon is the best monster I have." He lifted his hand slowly and pointed at the Spirit Reaper. "Genocide Crystal Explosion!" A glittering ball of light charged up in the mouth of the dragon. "This special attack hits all monsters on your field when used. What makes it so dangerous is the fact that it deals damage through defense."
The Ultimate Diamond Dragon snapped its head across the field and released a single stream of diamond light that slammed into all of Negative's monsters.
Ahran stuck his hands into his pockets and bowed his head slightly. "It was a pleasure dueling you, but now it's time for you to go! As your penalty game I banish you from Eri's body and this plane of existence!"
Negative- 0
Ahran- 750
The dark spirit smiled slightly. "I'll be back. Do you really think that I found Erika through my own power? She was given to me as something of a present. Master Midnight wanted me to keep her under my influence for as long as I could. Trust me Ahran…I'll be back to claim your soul tommorow."
"Tommorow?" Ahran narrowed his eyes slightly. "How could you know that?"
"It's quite simple really. This message is for your ears as well, Rikuo Amero." Negative continued to fade away, but could still be heard clearly. "Kilomet Sestros has requested your prescense tommorow at the arena of his choosing. Understand?"
Rikuo nodded slightly. "I'd be more than happy to end that annoying bastard."
Negative brought her gaze to Daniel next. "You also have a duel. It is against someone I'm sure you will be happy to battle."
Daniel crossed his arms across his chest and sighed. "Sure…let's just make it a regular blow-out."
Finally Negative spoke to all of them at once. "If you wish to know who Midnight is then bring everyone who owns a seal card. Bring anyone else you wish, but those people must be there."
"Where is there?" Ahran continued to glare at Negative.
The dark spirit left three words floating on the wind. "The old mansion."
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"The message has been delivered."
Midnight sat back in his chair and nodded slowly. "Excellent. Prepare the specters for battle."
Kilomet Sestros nodded and walked out, a dark smile across his face. ("Rikuo Amero…you cannot hope to beat me this time.")
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Rikuo stared at Ahran while the boy went to go check on Erika. ("Unbelievable…he found a way to survive. Just like me, he found a way to survive.")
"So how are we going to deal with this?" Daniel whispered quietly. "I'd rather not have to share my son."
Rikuo nodded. This situation did not appeal to him either. "I cannot think of what else we could do though. Unless Jourgen has some kind of special method to fix this…circumstance then our sons will stay connected like you and I was."
Ahran stood up and smiled over at Rikuo. "My father…you are alive." He walked up to Rikuo and wrapped the wolf demon into a big hug.
Rikuo blinked in surprise. "Yeah…I made do with the whole dying thing."
Daniel tapped Ahran on the shoulder. "Umm…can I please see my son now?"
Ahran gasped in remembrance and nodded. A few seconds later his emerald eyes disappeared and were replaced by Ichigo's hazel orbs. "Hey dad."
Daniel smiled and ruffled his son's hair. "I guess life isn't going to get any easier for you, is it?"
Ichigo shook his head. "I don't mind sharing my body with Ahran. He's a great duelist and a pretty cool guy too. Now if you guys will excuse me I have to go find Griff!" The half-demon turned on one heel and ran off in search of his roommate.
Rikuo rolled his eyes and looked over at Eri. "So now I have two kids. I'm sure Jasmine will love that idea."
Sammy blinked in confusion. "So…what just happened?"
To be continued…