Chapter 38: Fury of the Phantom Knights
"Well, are you going to come quietly, or will we need to do things the hard way?"
Yuto snarled before raising his Duel Disk.
"Ooh, I was hoping you'd choose the hard way. Much more fun."
"I'll fight too-"
Yuto held her back.
"No, I already lost Lulu to this menace, I won't lose anyone else."
"But-"
"Enough! I'm more interested in my doppleganger over here, so you might as well back off."
Relucantly, Zuzu did so.
"Be careful, Yuto."
DUEL!
Yuri: 4000
Yuto: 4000
"I'll start things off with Predaplant Cephalotusnail in attack mode (1300/1200). Then I'll end my turn with two cards face down."
"What? No fusion? Are you taunting me?"
"Is it that hard to believe I got a bad hand?"
"Yes. My draw! I activate the spell Card Destruction! Now, we each discard our entire hand and draw more cards equal to the ones we lost."
Yuri draw 2 cards while Yuto drew 5.
"I set two cards face down and end my turn."
"All that for such little pay off? Let me show you how a real duelist duels. I draw! And what do you know, I drew Polymerization, so I'll activate it, sending
Cephalotusnail and Moray Nepenthes to the graveyard to Fusion Summon Predaplant Chimerafflesia in attack mode!"
The giant mutated plant from their last duel emerged.
"Attack Yuto directly, my Plant!"
"Not so fast! I activate The Phantom Knights of Shadow Veil in my grave, special summoning it to my field!"
Yuto's ghostly horsemen appeared.
"Fine, attack his Shadow Veil!"
"I activate my face down cards The Phantom Knights of Lost Vambrance, preventing my Knight from being destroyed and weakening your weed by 600 points, and I activated 2 of them, so it loses 1200 attack points (2500-1300)."
The plant's vine whip bounced off the ghost harmlessly, causing Yuri to scowl."
"I end my turn."
"I draw! With my 2 Lost Vambrances, I build the overlay network and Xyz summon! Come forth, Rank 2, The Phantom Knights of Cursed Javelin!"
Yuto's reaper appeared, swinging its Javelin wildly.
"Attack, Cured Javelin! Whack that weed with Cursed Soul Strike!"
Yuri smiled wickedly.
"Looks like someone forgot about my "weed's" special ability. Well allow me tor remind you, by stealing 1000 attack points from your monster, I can give them to
Chimerafflesia."
Now it was Yuto's turn to smirk.
"I remembered, that's why I came prepared this time. Cursed Javelin's effect activates! I detach one overlay unit to target your monster. Until the end of this turn, its attack
becomes zero and its effects are negated."
"What?"
Yuri's smirk became a shocked frown as his plant drooped, losing power (2500-0) before being cut in half by the monster's javelin, slashing Yuri on its way down and causing
him to kneel.
Yuri: 2400
Yuto stood over Yuri, hate emnating off of him
"Your reign of terror ends here, Academy scum! I won't let you hurt anyone ever again."
Unseen to anyone, Yuri was grinning.
This fool thinks he has the upper hand, but this is but a minor setback. Watch out, Yuto. Next turn will mark the beginning of the end for you.
Over in the ruins area, Julia was glancing around, having already defeated all of the Obelisk Force that stood in her way.
"How pathetic. They call themselves elite, but they didn't even stand a chance. I may have felt more threatened if they didn't all use the same deck."
"Well, how about we change things up a bit?"
Julia looked over to find Sora leering down at her from a tall pillar.
"You again. Here for a rematch, I assume?"
"I guess you Standard chumps are smarter than you look. But make no mistake, this duel will end very differently from last time."
"We'll see."
DUEL!