Episode #37- Ryu Showdown, Part 2
"Duelists, allow me to introduce one of my Dragons," Kevin declared as the light began to fade and the creature took shape, "This is Biolizard- The Ultimate Life Form!" This creature indeed look like a powerful being of destruction. But the blubbery shape didn't really show a skeleton under its dirty orange scales. Its bulging legs could even carry its stone-gray underbelly off the ground; the tail swung limply past Kevin's position and the head wasn't all that much to look at either, but a gaping mouth like a salmon opened to a hollow throat, big enough to take in a Dark Magician whole. The Dragon even carried a life support system on its back. It seemed like Biolizard was not the ultimate life form as Kevin suggested; if anything, the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon caught everyone's eyes.
"Has Kevin gone and lost it already?" Marik asked amongst the crowd.
"I doubt that bronto-size Komoto Dragon can even pull off a scratch against Kaiba's dragon." Tristan added on.
"Your monster only has an attack of 2900. What makes you think it can overpower my Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon?" Kaiba mocked.
"My Biolizard can issimulate the attack power of one of my monsters in my Graveyard." Kevin butted in, "And I just had an increase in power not only by my Spirit Cannon, but my Biolizard as well. I just have to remove my Blue-Eyes White Dragon from my Graveyard to increase its attack."
"By half?" Kaiba tried to guess the effect.
"Nope, full power. Thanks to my Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Biolizard's attack power climbs to 5900." Kevin declared. A stream of light ejected from his Graveyard and surged itself into the machine on Biolizard's back. Biolizard responded with a painful roar to the ears.
"It still can't attack with it this turn." Kaiba pointed out.
"Don't think I know that. But with all the monsters that are removed from play, I may lose power to my Spirit Cannon but Biolizard will get stronger and stronger." Kevin announced.
"He's not joking around." said Ashley.
"Are you quite through?" Kaiba lost patience.
"Yeap, that about covers it. But I suppose now would be a good of time as any to fire my Spirit Cannon."
"Don't think you're out of it. Because you summoned Biolizard, it ends your turn automatically." Kaiba pointed the downside of Mechanism of Chaos.
"I suppose so. Though I just used it's effect right when it appeared, so I highly doubt you'll have a chance to attack it this turn as well. And just so you know, my Spirit Cannon is now infused with a shot of 2900 points." Kevin finished his turn.
The turn went to Kaiba as he drew his next card. 'I only have 3000 Life Points left. If Kevin gets another monster in the Graveyard I'm gonna lose. I can't, not twice in the same tournament.' He thought. Kaiba already had a hand to counter Kevin. The drawn card was his Egyptian God Card, Obelisk the Tormentor. "Kevin, I'm sorry this Duel has to end so soon, and here I was hoping more of a challenge from you."
"What is he...talking about?" Kevin looked back to us.
"It's not going to be pretty, I can tell you that much." I shook my head after answering to Kevin.
"First is De-Fusion to separate my Ultimate Dragon into three Blue-Eyes White Dragons." Kaiba began his big counter by dismantling his Ultimate Dragon back to their original forms. "Next I'll sacrifice them all to summon my Egyptian God Card, Obelisk the Tormentor." The Dragons reunited of blasts of light and shifted their united form to the blue demonic God.
"That's your Egyptian God Card?" Kevin gulped.
"Though I need two monsters to destroy Biolizard, so I place one monster in defense mode and two trap cards. That ends my turn." Kaiba finished and passed turn to Kevin.
"This'll be easy. Now I'll fire my Spirit Cannon!" Kevin announced. The ancient looking cannon started to hum with energy as it built up a charge. Kevin grabbed the gem floating about the jar as if the Ruby was really there and shoved it into a dent in the jar. "Fire!" Kevin commanded and an aurora blast of light headed straight for Kaiba.
"Activate Barrel Behind the Door and Ring of Destruction!" Kaiba declared his trap cards. 'I will not lose to him. If I don't activate Ring of Destruction right now, I'll lose the remainder of my Life Points by his Biolizard.' He thought as first a revolver appeared in his hand and the fired shot from Spirit Cannon was sucked into it; and the Ring of Destruction choked Biolizard's neck. It let a massive roar despite the collar tightened over its pipes connected to the machine on its back.
"What the?" Kevin trailed off.
"I refuse to lose, especially to a mouse like you." Kaiba stated, "First my Barrel will activate, sending the 2900 points aimed at me to go straight for you." He aimed the revolver and fired. Kevin jolted back in recoil and saw the damage on his counter reduce to 3600. "Next, as for Ring of Destruction, I rather not see my Obelisk get totaled by Biolizard. So I plan to destroy it and send both of our Life Points to zero." Kaiba explained further as the necklace of grenades exploded right on Biolizard. "This Duel is over."
"Not quite Kaiba, since Ring of Destruction was targeted to Biolizard, it's deactivated even before it goes off." Kevin cocked. Biolizard threw its gray-lipped jaws at the ring and tore it off like nothing. "So you've managed to drop my Life Points. No big deal."
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The only disturbance ever since Serenity left was a groan. Then Mai turned over to her side and opened her eyes slowly. "What the?" She said to herself and shot her eyes in all directions. Mai finally pushed herself to at least sit on the bed in the dimly lit room. "Well, I'm not in darkness anymore, but why? Is the tournament already over?" She kept to herself and browsed the room with eyes alone still, "Wait, I thought I heard Miranda like she already defeated Marik." Mai finally got to her feet, without the heel boots. Off to one side, on the table was her Deck, jacket, and boots.
A scent trailed her senses further, the smell of cheap hairspray. Already she recognized it, as well as gaining all her memory back; Joey, Tea, all of them. 'No way, he's here too?' Mai thought and gathered herself together. She slipped right into her boots and got towards a window. The blimp landed already, near a metal tower that reached high into the sky. She just saw smoke settle at the top and could barely see a wing of Kaiba's Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon.
"What is going on up there?" Mai asked herself and quickly got out of the room. She managed out of the blimp and towards the tower.
"I can still attack with Biolizard." Kevin concluded, "And Obelisk only has an attack of 4000. Biolizard, attack Obelisk now with Dark Energy Virus!" He declared aloud. The genetically engineered beast threw its head back and fired a sphere of dark energy towards Obelisk.
"I'll play this magic card from my hand. A quickplay called Reversed Summoning: this card returns Obelisk to my hand and calls forth the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons I used to summon him in defense mode." Kaiba made quick play of his card as the target changed from Obelisk to one of the Blue-Eyes White Dragons. Biolizard made quick work of one of them and the other two remained, Kaiba's Life Points were unharmed from the last assault."
'Crud! If he would have done that sooner, I would have called Biolizard's special ability.' Kevin thought in anger.
"You've made a big mistake Hunter. By destroying both my Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Cyber-Stein, I can play the most powerful Dragon in MY Deck." Kaiba declared, "I suppose this ends your turn now."
"Yeah..." Kevin kept his stance and Biolizard maintained its large amount of attack power.
"So I'll begin the destruction. By pulling the Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Cyber-Stein out of my Graveyard, I summon Chaos Emperor Dragon- Envoy of the End!" Kaiba declared. The massive vibrations came back just as it did with Biolizard and a new Dragon emerged.
Its entrance roar about as ear-shattering as Biolizard's; from the vibrations that juggled my view, I could manage to see the dirty gold rimmed wings expanding with blue sapphire color. The rest of its body followed the particuliar pattern as it made its entry with the rims of skeletal armor, right to the fully covered head trailing a fiery mane of red color.
"Dang, I don't wanna get on that Dragon's bad side." Ashley cracked a small joke and the vibrations ended.
"Chaos Emperor Dragon? You have that too?!" Kevin startled himself.
"It get's better Hunter. I suppose I don't need my Egyptian God Card to beat you. This is Chaos Emperor Dragon- Envoy of the End, for obvious reasons." Kaiba began as his Life Points dropped to 2000, "With it, I can pay 1000 of my Life Points to destroy all of the cards on the field and in our hands except for my Dragon."
"You forget, my Biolizard can't be destroyed by any effects that destroys monsters." Kevin reminded. "On top of that, it still carries an attack of 5900."
"I can still do a great deal of damage whether your Lizard is destroyed or not." Kaiba barked back, "Now my Envoy of the End, obliterate everything with Chaos Destruction Flare!" By that, the newly summoned Dragon threw its head back to create full impact of inferno on every card on the field and at hand, it destroyed Kaiba's two remaining Blue-Eyes White Dragons in the crossfire and scorched the cards in their hands. "To add on, you take 300 points of damage for every card destroyed. And with only 2950 left that do much than if I'd attacked you."
"So that totals out to..." Kevin did the math to himself, "4200 points!" He cried before the blaze struck his field. The Cave Cwelling Dragon was obliterated, but Biolizard remained with only smoke floating off its hide. Nonetheless, Kevin's Life Points dropped to zero in an instant.
"The winner is Seto Kaiba!" Kathy waited until the end to comment on anything, but the ferocious Drago Duel left her speechless.
"No, I lost." Kevin muttered with a shadow over his face. Then looked to Kaiba with a smile of accomplishment across his face. "I admit defeat Kaiba. That was a close Duel." Kevin said as the Duel Discs deactivated and the two Dragons disappeared.
Mai has just made it to the top of the stairs after see flashes of light from the Duel indicating summoned monsters and heavy hits. She leaned her ear against the metal and almost heard the conversation outside.
Kevin sighed and shook his head after disengaging his Duel Disc. "I think I'm gonna go check on Mai now. I have no other business being here." he said.
"Don't say that." I butted in, "I have to say that was an impressive Duel."
"Yeah, but I doubt anyone's with Mai at the moment. Fox is still up here." Kevin nodded to Raikoukou, still on my right side of paces. Kevin started his way towards the door to the stairs. He opened it and was to find the ironic and the least expected.
Mai waited until the door was open to give him a quick "Hi!"
"MAI?!" Kevin cried. Everyone, including myself, got a stone-shocked impression.
To be continued...
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New Cards played
Sprit Cannon: Continuous Trap: You can tribute this card during your Standby Phase. Inflict half of the ATK points of all monsters in your Graveyard to your opponent's Life Points.
Biolizard- The Ultimate Life Form: Dragon/ Dark. Monster/Effect, 8/2900/2900. This monster can only be Special Summoned by the effects of "Mechanism of Chaos." This monster cannot be destroyed by any effect of magic, trap, or monster effects that destroys monsters. Once per turn, during your Main Phase, remove 1 monster from your Graveyard to increase this monster's attack by the selected monster. When this monster attacks, you can select two Attributes. This monster can attack all face-up monsters with the selectd Attributes. Damage calculation is applied normally.
Reversed Summoning: Quickplay Magic. This card can only be activated during your opponent's turn. Select one monster that required Tribute(s) to be summoned. Return that card to the owner's hand and Special Summon the number of monsters from your Graveyard needed for the selected monster to be Tribute Summoned on the field in face-up attack or defense position.
"Duelists, allow me to introduce one of my Dragons," Kevin declared as the light began to fade and the creature took shape, "This is Biolizard- The Ultimate Life Form!" This creature indeed look like a powerful being of destruction. But the blubbery shape didn't really show a skeleton under its dirty orange scales. Its bulging legs could even carry its stone-gray underbelly off the ground; the tail swung limply past Kevin's position and the head wasn't all that much to look at either, but a gaping mouth like a salmon opened to a hollow throat, big enough to take in a Dark Magician whole. The Dragon even carried a life support system on its back. It seemed like Biolizard was not the ultimate life form as Kevin suggested; if anything, the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon caught everyone's eyes.
"Has Kevin gone and lost it already?" Marik asked amongst the crowd.
"I doubt that bronto-size Komoto Dragon can even pull off a scratch against Kaiba's dragon." Tristan added on.
"Your monster only has an attack of 2900. What makes you think it can overpower my Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon?" Kaiba mocked.
"My Biolizard can issimulate the attack power of one of my monsters in my Graveyard." Kevin butted in, "And I just had an increase in power not only by my Spirit Cannon, but my Biolizard as well. I just have to remove my Blue-Eyes White Dragon from my Graveyard to increase its attack."
"By half?" Kaiba tried to guess the effect.
"Nope, full power. Thanks to my Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Biolizard's attack power climbs to 5900." Kevin declared. A stream of light ejected from his Graveyard and surged itself into the machine on Biolizard's back. Biolizard responded with a painful roar to the ears.
"It still can't attack with it this turn." Kaiba pointed out.
"Don't think I know that. But with all the monsters that are removed from play, I may lose power to my Spirit Cannon but Biolizard will get stronger and stronger." Kevin announced.
"He's not joking around." said Ashley.
"Are you quite through?" Kaiba lost patience.
"Yeap, that about covers it. But I suppose now would be a good of time as any to fire my Spirit Cannon."
"Don't think you're out of it. Because you summoned Biolizard, it ends your turn automatically." Kaiba pointed the downside of Mechanism of Chaos.
"I suppose so. Though I just used it's effect right when it appeared, so I highly doubt you'll have a chance to attack it this turn as well. And just so you know, my Spirit Cannon is now infused with a shot of 2900 points." Kevin finished his turn.
The turn went to Kaiba as he drew his next card. 'I only have 3000 Life Points left. If Kevin gets another monster in the Graveyard I'm gonna lose. I can't, not twice in the same tournament.' He thought. Kaiba already had a hand to counter Kevin. The drawn card was his Egyptian God Card, Obelisk the Tormentor. "Kevin, I'm sorry this Duel has to end so soon, and here I was hoping more of a challenge from you."
"What is he...talking about?" Kevin looked back to us.
"It's not going to be pretty, I can tell you that much." I shook my head after answering to Kevin.
"First is De-Fusion to separate my Ultimate Dragon into three Blue-Eyes White Dragons." Kaiba began his big counter by dismantling his Ultimate Dragon back to their original forms. "Next I'll sacrifice them all to summon my Egyptian God Card, Obelisk the Tormentor." The Dragons reunited of blasts of light and shifted their united form to the blue demonic God.
"That's your Egyptian God Card?" Kevin gulped.
"Though I need two monsters to destroy Biolizard, so I place one monster in defense mode and two trap cards. That ends my turn." Kaiba finished and passed turn to Kevin.
"This'll be easy. Now I'll fire my Spirit Cannon!" Kevin announced. The ancient looking cannon started to hum with energy as it built up a charge. Kevin grabbed the gem floating about the jar as if the Ruby was really there and shoved it into a dent in the jar. "Fire!" Kevin commanded and an aurora blast of light headed straight for Kaiba.
"Activate Barrel Behind the Door and Ring of Destruction!" Kaiba declared his trap cards. 'I will not lose to him. If I don't activate Ring of Destruction right now, I'll lose the remainder of my Life Points by his Biolizard.' He thought as first a revolver appeared in his hand and the fired shot from Spirit Cannon was sucked into it; and the Ring of Destruction choked Biolizard's neck. It let a massive roar despite the collar tightened over its pipes connected to the machine on its back.
"What the?" Kevin trailed off.
"I refuse to lose, especially to a mouse like you." Kaiba stated, "First my Barrel will activate, sending the 2900 points aimed at me to go straight for you." He aimed the revolver and fired. Kevin jolted back in recoil and saw the damage on his counter reduce to 3600. "Next, as for Ring of Destruction, I rather not see my Obelisk get totaled by Biolizard. So I plan to destroy it and send both of our Life Points to zero." Kaiba explained further as the necklace of grenades exploded right on Biolizard. "This Duel is over."
"Not quite Kaiba, since Ring of Destruction was targeted to Biolizard, it's deactivated even before it goes off." Kevin cocked. Biolizard threw its gray-lipped jaws at the ring and tore it off like nothing. "So you've managed to drop my Life Points. No big deal."
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The only disturbance ever since Serenity left was a groan. Then Mai turned over to her side and opened her eyes slowly. "What the?" She said to herself and shot her eyes in all directions. Mai finally pushed herself to at least sit on the bed in the dimly lit room. "Well, I'm not in darkness anymore, but why? Is the tournament already over?" She kept to herself and browsed the room with eyes alone still, "Wait, I thought I heard Miranda like she already defeated Marik." Mai finally got to her feet, without the heel boots. Off to one side, on the table was her Deck, jacket, and boots.
A scent trailed her senses further, the smell of cheap hairspray. Already she recognized it, as well as gaining all her memory back; Joey, Tea, all of them. 'No way, he's here too?' Mai thought and gathered herself together. She slipped right into her boots and got towards a window. The blimp landed already, near a metal tower that reached high into the sky. She just saw smoke settle at the top and could barely see a wing of Kaiba's Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon.
"What is going on up there?" Mai asked herself and quickly got out of the room. She managed out of the blimp and towards the tower.
"I can still attack with Biolizard." Kevin concluded, "And Obelisk only has an attack of 4000. Biolizard, attack Obelisk now with Dark Energy Virus!" He declared aloud. The genetically engineered beast threw its head back and fired a sphere of dark energy towards Obelisk.
"I'll play this magic card from my hand. A quickplay called Reversed Summoning: this card returns Obelisk to my hand and calls forth the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons I used to summon him in defense mode." Kaiba made quick play of his card as the target changed from Obelisk to one of the Blue-Eyes White Dragons. Biolizard made quick work of one of them and the other two remained, Kaiba's Life Points were unharmed from the last assault."
'Crud! If he would have done that sooner, I would have called Biolizard's special ability.' Kevin thought in anger.
"You've made a big mistake Hunter. By destroying both my Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Cyber-Stein, I can play the most powerful Dragon in MY Deck." Kaiba declared, "I suppose this ends your turn now."
"Yeah..." Kevin kept his stance and Biolizard maintained its large amount of attack power.
"So I'll begin the destruction. By pulling the Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Cyber-Stein out of my Graveyard, I summon Chaos Emperor Dragon- Envoy of the End!" Kaiba declared. The massive vibrations came back just as it did with Biolizard and a new Dragon emerged.
Its entrance roar about as ear-shattering as Biolizard's; from the vibrations that juggled my view, I could manage to see the dirty gold rimmed wings expanding with blue sapphire color. The rest of its body followed the particuliar pattern as it made its entry with the rims of skeletal armor, right to the fully covered head trailing a fiery mane of red color.
"Dang, I don't wanna get on that Dragon's bad side." Ashley cracked a small joke and the vibrations ended.
"Chaos Emperor Dragon? You have that too?!" Kevin startled himself.
"It get's better Hunter. I suppose I don't need my Egyptian God Card to beat you. This is Chaos Emperor Dragon- Envoy of the End, for obvious reasons." Kaiba began as his Life Points dropped to 2000, "With it, I can pay 1000 of my Life Points to destroy all of the cards on the field and in our hands except for my Dragon."
"You forget, my Biolizard can't be destroyed by any effects that destroys monsters." Kevin reminded. "On top of that, it still carries an attack of 5900."
"I can still do a great deal of damage whether your Lizard is destroyed or not." Kaiba barked back, "Now my Envoy of the End, obliterate everything with Chaos Destruction Flare!" By that, the newly summoned Dragon threw its head back to create full impact of inferno on every card on the field and at hand, it destroyed Kaiba's two remaining Blue-Eyes White Dragons in the crossfire and scorched the cards in their hands. "To add on, you take 300 points of damage for every card destroyed. And with only 2950 left that do much than if I'd attacked you."
"So that totals out to..." Kevin did the math to himself, "4200 points!" He cried before the blaze struck his field. The Cave Cwelling Dragon was obliterated, but Biolizard remained with only smoke floating off its hide. Nonetheless, Kevin's Life Points dropped to zero in an instant.
"The winner is Seto Kaiba!" Kathy waited until the end to comment on anything, but the ferocious Drago Duel left her speechless.
"No, I lost." Kevin muttered with a shadow over his face. Then looked to Kaiba with a smile of accomplishment across his face. "I admit defeat Kaiba. That was a close Duel." Kevin said as the Duel Discs deactivated and the two Dragons disappeared.
Mai has just made it to the top of the stairs after see flashes of light from the Duel indicating summoned monsters and heavy hits. She leaned her ear against the metal and almost heard the conversation outside.
Kevin sighed and shook his head after disengaging his Duel Disc. "I think I'm gonna go check on Mai now. I have no other business being here." he said.
"Don't say that." I butted in, "I have to say that was an impressive Duel."
"Yeah, but I doubt anyone's with Mai at the moment. Fox is still up here." Kevin nodded to Raikoukou, still on my right side of paces. Kevin started his way towards the door to the stairs. He opened it and was to find the ironic and the least expected.
Mai waited until the door was open to give him a quick "Hi!"
"MAI?!" Kevin cried. Everyone, including myself, got a stone-shocked impression.
To be continued...
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New Cards played
Sprit Cannon: Continuous Trap: You can tribute this card during your Standby Phase. Inflict half of the ATK points of all monsters in your Graveyard to your opponent's Life Points.
Biolizard- The Ultimate Life Form: Dragon/ Dark. Monster/Effect, 8/2900/2900. This monster can only be Special Summoned by the effects of "Mechanism of Chaos." This monster cannot be destroyed by any effect of magic, trap, or monster effects that destroys monsters. Once per turn, during your Main Phase, remove 1 monster from your Graveyard to increase this monster's attack by the selected monster. When this monster attacks, you can select two Attributes. This monster can attack all face-up monsters with the selectd Attributes. Damage calculation is applied normally.
Reversed Summoning: Quickplay Magic. This card can only be activated during your opponent's turn. Select one monster that required Tribute(s) to be summoned. Return that card to the owner's hand and Special Summon the number of monsters from your Graveyard needed for the selected monster to be Tribute Summoned on the field in face-up attack or defense position.