Episode 38: Duelists against the Stars part 1
High above the earth in the black sky, easily illuminated by the light of the three florescent moons, the four duelists on their stone pedestals stared at one another. Nothing came between them, not even a faint whisper of wind.
All four minds were on their tactics, analyzing one another and the opening hands they had drawn.
"I start." Kiro broke the silence as he drew the top card off of his deck, flicking it over to view its face.
Kiro-4000 LP
Yukio-4000 LP
Dementia-4000 LP
Thoth-4000 LP
"Hmm." Kiro pondered for a moment before palming the card and moving another card from his hand into his duel disk. "I summon Gravekeeper's Vassal (700/500) in face-up defense mode." Flicking the card he had drawn up, he slid it into the tray of light under the spot where he had set the monster. "And I set one card face-down. This ends my turn."
A brown robed monster appeared over its orange colored card, crossing its arms over its body as it knelt down onto its knees. Around the monsters face and neck, sans its eyes, was a large, lime green scarf that flew back, landing down the monsters spinal cord. Behind it in a glittering light show, a brown backed card appeared.
"This should be enough for me to test the waters to see what I'm up against." Kiro looked at his rather weak monster crouching before him.
"I go next sweeties." Dementia called out, yanking the top card off of her own deck and adding it to her hand. Jerking out another card she instantly slid it into one of the small, thin dark rectangular slots on her duel disk. "Magic card; Soul Exchange! This will allow me to take the soul of one of my opponent's monsters and summon a high level monster with that energy!"
The Gravekeeper's Vassal began to moan as a pure white blob of energy came blasting from its chest, causing the soulless body to shatter into a million pieces. Blasting across the field, the beam of energy began to swirl itself into a hurricane, forming a strong representation of a human body inside its swirling confines.
"I summon to my field Curse of Vampire (2000/800), attack mode!" Dementia bellowed out, her monster finally forming a colored body. It was a bony monster in navy blue armor. Its stringy green hair sat in a perfect mat on top of its pale skinned head while its dark black caped wrapped around its body for a second before flapping back with a swing of his hand.
Behind him instantly a set card appeared, following the instruction Dementia was manually giving her duel disk by sliding a card into it.
"I set one card face-down, concluding my turn."
Yukio thought about protesting that he didn't want to be doing this, but one slight glance downward told him that there was no way out. Swallowing hard, he yanked the top card off of his deck, feeding it into his hand while he looked over his options. Taking a card, he slid it gently into his own duel disk.
"If I have to do this…" He began, waiting patiently while the card materialized before him. "I activate Black Soul Service. I must activate this card with a discard, but as long as it remains face-up on my field, monsters I control cannot be destroyed by trap cards."
Thrusting a card he yanked out of his hand forward, Yukio showed an orange bordered monster card with the picture of a massive, red haired beast upon its image crouching down like some sort of gorilla. The identical image of the monster appeared on the field before Yukio, snarling like a rabid dog. Its nose was scrunched up on its face, its two nostrils flared open, giving a pig like appearance to the monster. From its lower lip, two large, pearly white fangs jutted upwards past the roof of his nose.
"The card I discard is Zergo's Rage Behemoth (2000/800), whose effect activates instantly upon discarding it. He special summons himself to my field in attack mode!" Slapping another card down next to the Rage Behemoth card, another monster began to appear on Yukio's field, this one a large, slab of marble, shimmering with a pitch-black aura. "And I summon Zergo's Marble Wall (200/2100) in defense mode!"
Fanning open the three card he still held, Yukio nodded as he slid another one out, pushing it into his duel disk before looking up.
"I set this card face-down to end my turn."
"Draw." Thoth spoke gruffly as he yanked the top card from his deck, adding it to his own hand. Freeing another card, it was instantly slid into the plate like duel disk the monster had before him. "I activate Tribute to the Doomed. By discarding one card from my hand I can destroy one monster on the field."
Thrusting a card into his graveyard slot, Thoth jerked his arm forward to point to the hairy beast that was sitting before Yukio. Within moments, the Zergo's Rage Behemoth was covered tightly in bandages, wrapped up tighter than a mummy. The pressure instantly got to it, causing it to shatter into a million data bits.
"I destroy Zergo's Rage Behemoth." Thoth spoke as he revealed another card, sliding it into his duel disk. "Monster Reborn go! I revive one monster in the graveyard to the field and I think I'll choose the very monster I discarded myself."
Erupting into a geyser of sparks, a massive blast of energy came from Thoth's card. From it, a bird headed, brown haired monster came bursting out, flapping out its long, thick, yet fragile wings. Its body was that of a lion, its powerful limbs dangling below it as it circled around above before coming down to a resting spot in front of Thoth.
"I summon Hieracosphinx, in attack mode (2400/1200), ending my turn."
"Lovely" Kiro glanced over the field.
He could see his opponent's weren't going to be easy ones. In their first turns they pulled two monster with 2000 attack points and up. Not only that, but they stripped him and his partner each of their monsters. Luckily, Yukio did have his Marble Wall to defend himself until it came to his turn.
"Draw!" Yanking a card off of his deck, Kiro slid it into his hand before sliding another card out onto his duel disk. "I set one monster face-down defense mode, ending my turn." Before him the set card hologram appeared in a flash of light.
"Then I go darling." Dementia cried out, yanking the top card off of her deck and placing it into her hand. Trusting her left arm forward, she pointed towards Kiro's set. "Go Curse of Vampire, attack his set!"
Blasting across the field, the blue armored vampire came down upon the set card, karate chopping it like a professional, only to find his hand caught in a pair of rough, callused hands on the now, face-up defending monster.
"Not so fast Dementia." Kiro pulled out his deck as he spoke. "You hit my Gravekeeper's Spy (1200/2000), and when it's flipped face-up, I pull a Gravekeeper from my deck with 1500 attack points or less and summon it to the field."
What appeared next to the black robed, tan warrior monster that was still holding onto the hand of the vampire, was a much smaller, robed tan man with a large, gray, blue and yellow striped shepherds cane crossed over its chest. A toxic green aura floated around its body and down through the cane.
"I chose Gravekeeper's Curse (800/800), defense mode." Sliding his deck back into his duel disk, Kiro smirked, continuing to speak. "And Curse's effect kicks in. When it's summoned to the field, my opponents take 500 life points of damage."
Flicking its cane forward, the monster sent out a blast of the green toxic aura, covering both Thoth and Dementia in a green mist.
Kiro-4000 LP
Yukio-4000 LP
Dementia-3500 LP
Thoth-3500 LP
"Seems Kiro plays a nasty Gravekeeper deck." Yukio observed, watching as the Gravekeeper's Spy finally released its hostage, sending it flying back to the vampire's field. "This is good. It means I'm not stuck with some lousy partner who doesn't know how to play."
"Fine, I finish my turn." Dementia scoffed, a bit annoyed how her attack only worked against her in the end.
"Draw!" Yukio cried out, yanking the top card off of his own deck. "Zergo's Cyborg (1500/1700), defense mode!" Not hesitating a second, Yukio slapped down a card from his hand onto his duel disk, causing the card to appear in a vortex of sparks on his own field. On top of the card appeared a cylindrical monster, crossing its two cannon-like arms over its body and burying its wolf-like metal head underneath them. "I end my turn there."
"All you pathetic human and human-like abominations can do is set up defenses." Thoth mocked, yanking the top card off of his own deck and adding it to his hand. "Well watch this! Hieracosphinx attack Zergo's Marble Wall!"
"No you don't!" Yukio cried out, his set card flipping up, instantly shooting out a barrage of metal beams that began to form a prison around the sphinx monster. "My trap card: Cage of Zergo's Captives prevents one monster of my choosing from attacking or being tribute." Looking down, Yukio stared at his two monster cards on the field. "The only price is I have to sacrifice a Zergo monster during each of my turn to keep my cage."
"Is this kid running a Zergo deck? A real one?" Kiro watched Yukio out of the corner of his eye. "Those cards are hard to find. A full set of them anyways."
"Fine." Thoth, like Dementia, annoyed that his move didn't get him anywhere, looked over at Kiro. "It's your turn." His monster fell down in the cage, banging its claws against the steel bars that lay across the bottom.
"Draw!" Kiro yanked the top card form his deck, moving it over to his hand to calculate all of his options. "I set one card face-down." He began, sliding the card into his duel tray of light, the image of the card materializing before him and inches next to its partner set card. "And end my turn with that."
"Here I go!" Dementia yanked her next card from her deck, looking it over well. Smirking, she placed the card into her duel disk; causing two large and blood shot eyes to appear behind her. "I activate the magic card Coercive Magic Eyes. This lets one zombie monster on my field with 2000 attack or less attack my opponent directly this turn." Swinging her arm forward, she pointed directly at Kiro, who braced himself instantly to what he knew was coming. "Curse of Vampire attack!"
Blasting across the field, its cape racing out behind it, the blue armored monster raced straight past Kiro's two defending monsters, swinging up behind the green haired demon and sinking its fangs into the demon's shoulder. Kiro didn't even flinch, or care to attempt to stop the monsters attack, knowing it would do no good. His gem like eyes fell down to his duel disk, watching as a massive chunk of his life points was cut free.
Kiro-2000 LP
Yukio-4000 LP
Dementia-3500 LP
Thoth-3500 LP
Laughing like an insane woman, Dementia had her head cranked back as the monster returned to the field. Subsiding her laughs for a moment, she wiped a tear out of her eye, having formed from laughing so hard.
"I set two cards face-down." Dementia spoke, a bit choked up from the laugh as she slid two cards into her duel disk. One card each appeared on either side of the already set card. "And I activate Burning Blood Rush! This card will cut one monsters attack points in half. But in two of my standby phases, that monster gains twice its original attack."
Moaning as if he was in pain, the Curse of Vampire crossed his arms over its armored chest, growing even paler as he did. (1000/800)
"I chose my own Curse of Vampire. Ending my turn with that."
"Draw!" Yukio cried out, yanking the top most card from his deck, adding it to his hand. "With Black Soul Service out, our monsters can't be destroyed by trap cards. So if she thought she'd be able to protect her vampire that way, it won't work."
Groaning and hissing, the dog-headed cyborg shook a bit before shattering into a million data bits, forming a flowing stream of energy that raced across the field, seeping into the metal bars of the cage still confining the large bird headed monster.
"To keep Cage of Zergo's Captures I sacrifice my Zergo's Cyborg." Pulling a card from his hand, Yukio instantly placed it into his duel disk, causing the card to appear before him. Glowing, the card spit out a beam of light that instantly took form of the large, red haired behemoth monster that once inhabited his field. "I activate also; Zergo's Open Coffin. This lets me special summon one level five or lower Zergo monster to my field. So I'll bring back my Rage Behemoth, seeing as he's a level five monster!"
Slamming its massive, ape like fists together, the monster barked out a massive howl, letting the world know it was alive. (2000/0)
"The only downfalls to my card are its defense becomes zero." Yukio explained the stats, pointing at the vampire once he finished. "But his 2000 attack is more than enough to take out your Curse of Vampire!"
Barreling across the field like a rabid animal, the massive monster began to swing its arm back, ready to strike the weakened master of the night.
"Trap card activate!" Dementia swished her arm through the air, causing one of her cards to begin to rise up.
"Thanks to Black Soul Service, my monsters can't be destroyed due to trap cards." Yukio explained aloud, a bit of hope brewing in his eyes that, that was going to cut Dementia's plan short. But it didn't, the card continued to rise up.
"Doesn't mean I can't save my own monsters hide!" Dementia retorted, the card clicking into an upright pose, glowing with a venomous black light. "Vampiric Immortality will prevent one attack against a monster with Vampire in its name."
Though the beast has arms the size of trees, hitting the chest of the defending vampire didn't even cause the monster to move an inch. Sitting there, it almost appeared as if the monster hadn't even been hit at all.
"But that isn't all." Dementia thrust her arm forward towards Yukio, stabbing into him mentally with her razor sharp nail. The black aura from around her card went blasting off at high velocity, following the red beats path back to its masters field, racing ahead of it and slamming into Yukio. Stumbling a bit from the force, he felt the wind knocked out of him slightly. "It'll deal the difference between our two monster's attack strengths as battle damage to your life points. This is a grand total of 1000 points."
Kiro-2000 LP
Yukio-3000 LP
Dementia-3500 LP
Thoth-3500 LP
"These guys are pretty strong." Yukio growled, sliding the card on his duel disk horizontally. "Thanks to Zergo's Open Coffin, the special summoned monster goes to defense mode during my end phase. So I'm done with my turn."
"I draw," Thoth began, yanking a card from his duel disk. Without a second though, he slid it into his duel disk. "Set one card face-down, and end my turn."
"Draw!" Kiro began his turn, yanking the top card from his own deck and adding it to his hand. "Might as well try." Kiro though, sliding the card on his duel disk horizontally, causing the Gravekeeper's Spy on the field to stand up straight, glaring down its opponents. "Gravekeeper's Spy attack! Destroy her Cruse of Vampire now!"
Cupping its hands, the monster began to form a ball of dark blue energy. Within this ball of energy, pure white ruins began to spiral around, filling the ball with magical energies for the attack. Winding back its arm, the monster launched the attack forward. Almost as an instant reaction, one of Dementia's cards began to rise up.
"I activate my set card; Force of the Night! This card gives one zombie type monster on my field 1000 attack points!" Dementia cried out, a starry beam of light blasting out of the trap card, engulfing the armored monster, causing it to groan as its power shot upwards. (2000/800)
"No you don't." Kiro growled, whipping his arm through the air, causing one of his own set cards to flip up. "I activate Rising Energy! By discarding 1 card from my hand, this card gives one of my monsters 1500 more points of attack." Kiro announced as he slid a card from his hand into his graveyard slot. Smirking, he watched his up-righted trap card send out a massive surge of yellow colored energy, blanketing the Gravekeeper's Spy in its warmth. (2700/2000)
"I won't let that happen." Thoth interrupted, drawing both Dementia's and Kiro's gaze towards him and his now activated trap card. "Pull Off Power! This card drains out all modifications to scores of one monster on the field. I'm choosing of course, your Gravekeeper's Spy!"
"What?!" Kiro's eyes went wide as the yellow aura the surrounded his monster began to fade away, flowing off of the monsters body into a cloud of mist just barely surround it. (1200/2000)
"Good work." Dementia cackled, pleased with her partners help in the matter. She watched as the ball of energy creped closer to her monster. "Now Curse of Vampire, prepare for your counter attack!"
"I have to do something." Kiro realized, scanning his hand for a second before ripping a card out of it, sliding it instantly into his duel disk. "Quick-play magic card activate! Book of Moon flips my Gravekeeper's Spy into face-down defense mode, canceling out the attack!"
The Gravekeeper's Spy instantly vanished from the field, being replaced by a set card. Like-wise, the ball of energy fizzled and melted out of the air, seconds before colliding with the armored vampire monster.
"And I end my turn with that." Kiro spoke, removing his hand from the slot on his duel disk where he had just slid the card in to save himself. As he did, the Vampire monster began to lose what little color it had left, the energy from Dementia's trap card draining off of him again. (1000/800)
"Wow." Yukio had to admit, he was impressed. He felt slightly renewed confidence in his partners dueling, being able to pull of a combo like that to save himself. Even though Kiro was sitting at the bottom of the totem pole in life points, he obviously wasn't going to go out without a fight. "All it means is that this duel isn't one where anyone is pulling any punches."
"Looks like it's my turn to go darlings." Dementia smirked, sliding the top card off of her own deck and flipping it up to stare at its face. "Only one more turn to go my dear servant." She spoke, taking her yellow eyes off of the card, staring at the weakened vampire still sitting on her field. "Soon, you'll feel the blood rush. But thanks to it, you are safe. You see," Dementia looked past her monster to her opponents, continuing to speak as she did, "Force of the Night has a backlash effect. During my turn, if the monster that gained the effect has more than 1000 attack points, it's placed face-down on my deck. Lucky him, he has only 1000 points at the moment, so he's safe."
Pulling out a new card from her hand, she slid it into her duel disk, watching the card form on the field before her. Instantly glowing a bright red light that shot off, surrounding Dementia herself.
"I will start off my turn playing Pot of Greed." Drawing two more cards from her deck, Dementia smiled a bit as she took one of them, sliding it into her duel disk. "I set this card face-down on the field first."
Appearing next to its brethren, the new set card appeared in a ripple of light.
"Curse of Vampire attack Gravekeeper's Curse!" Dementia ordered, sending her armored monster flying across the field. Even though it looked sickly, the monster still managed to throw its arm through the air, chopping into the shoulder of the defending monster, causing its shoulder blade to break instantly. Moaning in pain, the monster exploded into a million little data bits that shot the Vampire monster back to Dementia's field. "And I finish my turn with that move."
"Draw." Yukio remained calm, sliding the top card off of his deck and placing it into his hand. "We have to do something fast. If it gets back to Dementia's turn, her Curse of Vampire will skyrocket to 4000 attack points."
Shattering instantly, the Marble Wall became nothing but energy, feeding into the metal bindings that still held the sphinx monster tight. Yukio slid the actual card into his graveyard slot, looking over his hand afterwards to see what kind of options he had left to work with.
"I am running out of ways to stall Thoth's Heiracosphinx. But he really hasn't done much this duel anyways." Yukio's eyes drifted to the demon adorned in Egyptian artifacts. "He must be letting Dementia take the front of the assaults, while he builds up something big." Looking back down at his cards, he had nothing to help him at the moment. "I have to keep concentrating on getting that stupid vampire off the field before it becomes too much to deal with." With a thrust of his arm, Yukio extended a vile index finger towards the sickly looking man wasting away before Dementia. "Rage Behemoth attack!"
Standing up as it switched into attack mode again, the large pig-like behemoth let out a loud grunt as it sprung high into the air, aiming for its target.
"And right into another one of my devious traps." Dementia smirked, thrusting her arm forward to let her set card flip up, glowing as it activated. "Hellish Ark to Safety prevents all damage dealt to me and a zombie or fiend type monster on my field."
Appearing in a virtual maelstrom of particles, a large, wooden ship surrounded the vampire, acting as a sturdy barrier as the massive red haired beast crashed into the side of it, roaring in pain as its fist burned red.
"To make a long story short darling, Hellish Ark to Safety cuts your monsters points in half, but you get to draw another card for the hell of it." Dementia smirked, her trap card and the large ship vanishing from the field.
Yukio yanked the top card off of his deck adding it to his hand while his apish monster landed on his side of the field again, its hands swollen up as if he had broken them punching the wooden ship. (1000/0)
"I end my turn." Yukio growled, a bit annoyed that his monster had just been tossed aside like a rag doll. "My Black Soul Service only stops traps that destroy monsters on my field. So far, they haven't used any. All of their traps are just throwing our monsters around." Yukio churned the thoughts over and over in his head, watching as the Egyptian demon drew his next card.
"Toxic Sphinx!" Thoth bellowed, slapping a card from his hand face-up onto his duel disk. A huge, black skinned lion-like beast made of stone came bounding out of a geyser of sparks, landing in the air before him. Its head, sitting a bit high up on its body, was that of a fierce cat. Yellow and purple lines traced themselves symmetrically all over the rough, black skin of the monster. (2000/300) "Attack mode!"
Thoth slid his hand off of the card he just played, slashing it through the air until it pointed to the red haired monster that was grunting on Yukio's field.
"Toxic Sphinx attack Rage Behemoth!" Thoth barked his command, demanding respect from the large monster. Obeying without hesitation, the large monster bounded through the air, landing on top of the monster and instantly shattering it into a million data bits once its razor sharp claws dug through its hide.
Kiro-2000 LP
Yukio-2000 LP
Dementia-3500 LP
Thoth-3500 LP
"And with no sacrifices, your Cage of Zergo's Captures effect will expire." Thoth boasted, motioning to his large, tan, bird headed monster in the cage hovering next to him. "Freeing my monster." Letting his arms fold back across his chest, he grunted a bit as he nodded. "I'm done with my turn."
"Draw!" Kiro jerked the top card off of his deck, staring at its face for a moment while his mind drifted over the cards on the field. "Dammit. This is the last turn before that vampire gets a major power boost." Looking up, Kiro's gem-like eyes drifted over to the two sphinx monsters resting on Thoth's field. "Not only that, but I have to deal with those two as well."
Looking over at his partner, Kiro's eyes full upon the two cards he had upright on his field. Growling a bit, he realized that Yukio was completely defenseless at the moment, but he still could be of some use.
"I activate my magic card; Ancient Ying-Yang Clock!" Sliding the card into his duel disk, the magic card formed before him, glowing in a mix of white and black light. "This card destroys all face-up magic and trap cards on the field, letting every player draw a card for each destroyed in this way."
Yukio was a bit shocked, so much so he jerk when the two cards before him shattered instantly, leaving nothing but a faint mist over the spot where they once sat.
"Two cards destroyed, so we all draw twice." Kiro exclaimed, yanking two cards off the top of his deck and placing them into his own hand.
Dementia and Thoth drew their two cards almost in unison, instantly sliding them into their hands. Yukio, who was still in a bit of shock, drew his cards slowly, one at a time. Putting the first into his hand before drawing the second one and repeating the motion with it.
"I'll discard this card," Kiro held up a monster card depicting an Egyptian man in a Anubis mask before sliding it into his graveyard. "When Gravekeeper's Commandant (1600/1500) is discarded from my hand to the graveyard, one Necrovalley is placed from my deck into my hand."
Yanking his deck out of his duel disk, Kiro fanned it open, shifting through cards incredibly fast until he spotted his field card, sliding it out and putting it into his hand. Giving his deck a quick shuffle, he slid it back into his duel disk before yanking a card out from his hand, thrusting it into the side of the light dueling tray.
"Necrovalley!" Kiro bellowed as all around the outside of the floating platforms, large, stone walls virtualized within a matter of moments. A cool, crisp breeze rushed down through the canyon walls, whistling as it raced past the jagged rocks protruding from the side of the valley. "This card makes all of our graveyards off limits. Not only that, but it will make my monsters 500 attack and defense points stronger. Here, watch!" Kiro picked up his set card, flipping it around in his glossy black fingers before slapping it back down vertically and face-up on his duel disk. "Come out again, Gravekeeper's Spy!"
The set card before Kiro shimmered, cracking all over its back before the tan, black robed Egyptian espionage agent came flying out, hovering softly down to the air above where the card used to lay. Glowing for a second, the monster took in the power of the field card around it. (1700/2500)
"And when Spy is summoned, I summon a new monster." Kiro whipped his deck out of his duel disk again, taking one of the monsters he saw after fanning it open and slapping it down next to the flip summoned monster. "Gravekeeper's Spear Soldier!" (1500/1000)
A vortex of sparks and lights erupted from the slot next to the spy, causing a spear wielding monster to come bursting out into the air. Twirling the wooden handled weapon between its fingers and letting its black robed clothing whip in the air that raced by him, the monster made a grand entrance, hovering down next to the Spy. Glowing for a moment as the field card empowered it as well. (2000/1500)
"Don't think I'm done yet." Kiro yanked another card from his hand, sliding it into his duel disk. "I'm activating Nightmare Bindings!"
From out of nowhere, long, iron chains began to fly towards Thoth's Heiracosphinx, wrapping tightly around its body several times before pulling tight, pinning the monster up into an awkward position as it struggled to free itself. Screeching loudly, the monster felt its energy being drained away through the metal chain-links. (1600/1200)
Kiro-2800 LP
Yukio-2000 LP
Dementia-3500 LP
Thoth-3500 LP
"This card constrains your monster, keeping it from being able to be sacrificed and draining it of 800 attack points." Kiro held up his left arm, turning his duel tray to face the opponents so they could see the large numbers in the blue sphere on the top. "And all those points are put into my life points."
Dropping his left hand down, Kiro took a quick swivel to his body, jerking his right hand forward to the monster he had just tied up.
"Gravekeeper's Spear Soldier attack!" Nodding, the spear wielding monster bounded high into the air, throwing its spear down like a javelin right into the head of the sphinx, causing it to whip around violently in pain. Landing on the monsters shoulders, the Gravekeeper's Spear Soldier yanked the spear head out of the skull of the monster, jumping off just as the beast exploded in a fiery death.
Kiro-2800 LP
Yukio-2000 LP
Dementia-3500 LP
Thoth-3100 LP
"Gravekeeper's Spy," Kiro's rotated his body until he was facing Dementia and her vampire servant. "Attack!" Siphoning the energy out of its palms, the Gravekeeper's Spy began to form the ball of blue energy, surging with solid white ruins racing over its surface. Winding back, the monster launched the attack forward, watching it only to vanish into a stream of vapor around the monsters body. "What the hell?"
"So close." Dementia smirked, pointing to her up righted trap card. "Contract with the Red Moon negates 1 attack against a zombie type monster on my field." Dementia smirked, pointing to the vapor that was slowly hovering down over her monster. "But my monster gets a bonus because of it. The attack points of your monster is added onto the attack points of mine!" Cackling, Dementia whipped her head back as the vapor was inhaled by her monster, causing it to stand in a stronger pose, moaning a bit as its power finally started to come back. (2700/800)
"Dammit!" Kiro cursed, watching his female opponent laugh incredibly hard. Yanking a card from his hand, Kiro slapped it down onto his duel disk. "I set one monster in defense mode, ending my turn."
"Draw!" Dementia screamed out, drawing the top card of her deck and pointing towards her Curse of Vampire. "It's been two standby phases finally. Burning Blood Rush will now double its original attack strength. But then afterwards, it'll recalculate in the effect of my Contract with Red Moon, giving it an even bigger bonus!"
The Curse of Vampire began to groan, squeezing its fingers tightly into a fist as a crimson red aura sprung up around him. The blood in the monsters veins that it was actually visible on the outside of the monster. A glimmer appeared in the back of its dead eyes, giving the monster reason to curl its lips up into an evil smirk. Growing taller in its own mind, the monster stood up straight, flexing its own power before the world. (5700/800)
"Looks like it's time to finish one of you." Dementia chuckled, pointing towards Yukio. "Good bye traitor. Curse of Vampire attack him directly! Cursed Vampire Bite!"
Nodding, the monster took off like a bullet, blasting through the air. Its hair and cape whipping out behind it as it charged in full force to the now wide eyed, blue haired young man on the receiving end of the attack.
Freyr picked up a chunk of the crystal that was lying on the ground before him, holding it up so that his three blood red eyes could observe it. He could tell without even looking that Tal was glaring at him, a bit annoyed.
"Why did you just let him walk all over you Lord Freyr, not to mention just literally walking off?" Tal growled, out loud, whipping his arm across his body. "He may not even come back, not after he gets what he wants, which seemed to me to be revenge on Mistress Dementia."
"Nope," Freyr spoke, causing Tal to look at him in confusion. Tossing the crystal back into the pile, Freyr frowned slightly. "Still not ready yet."
"You are not listening to a word I am saying, are you Lord Freyr." Tal hissed a bit, annoyed that he was so blatantly being ignored.
"I'm not ignoring you." Freyr finally spoke, turning to the human. "But you had best watch your tongue before I rip it out of your mouth. I don't need some sassy human telling what to do. I let him go for two reasons, lets see if your small mind can handle this." Closing his two normal eyes, keeping his third eye open and staring at Tal, Freyr began to shake his head slightly. "The boy was hysteric. He had only one thing on his mind. So I wasn't going to get anything out of him. Besides, we'll see him again soon. And two, we have company."
"Company?" Tal looked even more confused, not quite understanding what Freyr was saying.
"Someone who's been here a while, and a new face to my humble little cave."
Just as Freyr spoke, Ronin sat up in a dash, sweat rolling off of his face as his eyes stared out upon the rolling grass hills outside the cave opening. Shaking his head, he realized it was all just a dream...or was it? The powerful attack from the Neo Daedalus was such a nightmare to him that his whole body trembled now.
"That's one." Freyr pointed to the, now, sitting Ronin. Opening his eyes slowly, Freyr let his arm come back down to his side. "And the second one who has been here a bit, but seems to be losing his touch. Isn't that right Kooru?" Freyr's words caused Tal to look back and forth, not seeing the silver haired demon anywhere; he looked back only to finally spot Kooru leaning up against the wall behind Freyr. "It's amazing you weren't jumped on earlier. Thoth was so distracted from his loss to that human boy, and Kiro was too distracted over his girlfriend. Neither of them even sensed your presence."
"Lucky me." Kooru spoke finally, his arms crossed over his chest as his back rested against the wall.
"You've come to face me again have you? I'm surprised you are still alive after our last encounter." Freyr smirked, finally turning to face the opponent who stood behind him. All of the conversation made Ronin twist his body around from where he sat, staring at the two demons and Tal behind him.
Reku's eyes sparkled a bit as he cranked his head back, staring up at the large golden castle that stretch skyward before him. The three of them had finally made it back to Order's home, causing all three of them to breath a sigh of relief.
"I must go…" Reku began, fighting through the pain and jogging across the garden way and in through the open front door. His back still hurt, but it wasn't serious enough to stop him. He was a man on a mission. "Akina must be worried sick about me. Just like I am worried about her."
Flying up the twisting stair case, Reku's mind was focused on the way before him, even though he could hear Gurabe and Chao behind him. Not running, but their foot falls did echo in the golden walls.
Breeching the top of the stairs, Reku continued down the hallway, slowing down only briefly to stifle the pain burning in his back. After a second, he rounded a corner, moving down the hall way past quite a few large wooden doors before turning another corner, moving into a long stretch that led to another turn, but a large wooden door, slightly cracked open with light flooding out into the dark hallway whose only light came from the flickering candles that lined the walls. That door lead to the room where they were keeping the demons to rest when they had been injured. Past it and around the corner would lead to the main room of the castle where he was sure he'd find everyone.
His breathing was deep, as his body protested against the strenuous work he was putting it through, but he didn't care. He kept moving. As he grew closer to the room at the end of the hall though, he could hear female voices seeping out through the cracked door. Though he couldn't understand what was being said, he could distinctly hear the voice of his own personal angel.
With one final push, he managed to swing the door open inwards, stumbling inside and finding himself face to face with Order, Sachiko, Chime and a very shocked Akina who appeared to be having trouble to distinguish reality from fantasy.
"Akina…" Reku swung his arms out, his pleasure mounting as his body lean towards her's, letting her know he was real.
"REKU!" She screamed out, jumping forward and into his arms, pushing him back instantly against the wall. Their lips met, rubbing together for a good long time as they took in one another's warmth. After a long while, the broke, staring into each others eyes. Taking her head in both of his hands, Reku caressed her cheeks as he smiled, happy to see her. "Where have you been?" She chocked out, fighting back her tears of joy.
"It's a long story. But in short," Reku smiled, moving his hands behind her again and pulling her to his chest, "I traveled across two worlds to find you again."
Chao peaked into the room, Gurabe standing in the hall behind him with his arms crossed. Smiling a bit, he joined Order, Chime and Sachiko as the audience to the touching scene unfolding in the corner of the small room.
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CARD OF THE EPISODE
Burning Blood Rush
Quick-play magic
Select one monster on the field to activate this card. Decrease the selected monsters ATK by half. During your second standby phase after you activated this card, the selected monsters ATK becomes double its original ATK.
Yukio: "This card alone holds tremendous strength. For starters, it can be used both offensively and defensively. Slashing an opponents monsters attack points in half, making them easier to destroy, or using it on your own monster can turn almost anything into a high powered bruiser. That is if you can hold onto it for that amount of time that must elapse. It has even more power thanks to the ability to be fast, its quick-play status making it so."
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