Shout Outs...
Guardian Master: Well it's hard not to re-use a guy like that.
Endermon: Yeah I know. Glad you're willing to make suggestions though. As for Duke I had to addresses him and/or Tristian sooner or later.
SMP: Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.
Infinite Freedom: I actually planned to develop it slower. So the J.B./Serenity thing is ahead of schedule. Not that I have a schedule... And I needed to make Gonda look up someone's skirt once. At least. Maybe more.
lightningstrxu: What can I say, I try.
ZK Chromedragozoid: I don't do Original Cards without a good reason. But thank you anyway.
Kojiro Kiseragi: That's more than some people can say.
ttoad: Ah. Point.
Demonfan: Which line?
Blue-Eyes White Knight-BEWK: Thanks man.
Ninja Wolf 25: Glad you enjoyed it.
Elemental Balance: That was something I made up on the spot.
Tyjet Ansatsu: For those interested in knowing, we did duel. We're 1 for 1.
PaleHorse07: I'm doing fine for villains for the moment, but thanks.
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"Ah, a quiet evening..." Maria said to herself. "In two days the dance will be here and my Dark Knight shall sweep me from my feet..." She added, latterly skipping into her dorm's common room. Spotting Falcon, the headmistress, at a table she smiled. "Good evening!" She chirped.
"...Not so loud..." Falcon whimpered as Maria looked at her. Stepping over she leaned in to look at the teacher.
"What is the matter, you look flushed?" Maria said tapping her chin. "And you have been under the weather for the past few days, no? And you've lost some weight too..."
"I'm fine..." Falcon said as Maria set a hand on her forehead.
"Oh mon Dieu! You are burning up!" Maria exclaimed. "We must get you to the nurse!"
"I said I'm..." Falcon began as she stood up shakily. "F-fine..." She gasped leaning on the table.
"No questioning me Dame Falcon! You are not well!"
"Okay..." Falcon said allowing Maria to take her arm and lead her to the door. "But I'm sure this... will pass... in a..." She mumbled Maria lifting on her arm, unable to hold her up as she collapsed to the floor.
"Falcon? Miss Falcon!?" Maria called out, shaking her shoulder. "Dieu, ceci est très mauvais... Help! I require help down here!" She screamed, footsteps approaching quickly.
"Lu Sept what is this foolish--" Skyla began before spotting the scene. Quickly rushing over and shoving Maria aside she knelt down to examine the teacher. "Don't just stand there!" Skyla bellowed at the frozen girl. "CALL THE DOCTOR!"
"O-Oui!" Maria replied, pulling her PDA out and typing quickly.
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"What is wrong with her...?" One of the girls in the gaggle of Obelisk girls asked as they waited outside the infirmary, Maria pacing in front of the door.
"She just collapsed?" Another asked.
"She hasn't been eating like she should have..." Another one of the girls added.
"I should have done something earlier..." Maria said, chewing on a thumbnail. "I've been so busy with the dance I hadn't noticed... I should have noticed... I--"
"Should haves will not help her now." Skyla said, leaning against the wall. "And the same goes for your worry. The doctors are well trained, they can manage this." She declared.
"Buh... but..."
"But nothing!" Skyla said harshly. "We can do nothing but wait." She said, a hand moving to her chest. "Nothing but wait..."
"...Someone you know...?" Maria ventured.
"Don't. Go. There."
"O-oui..." Maria replied. "I wish that such awful things didn't happen to such good people."
"Tragedies rarely work that way..." Skyla said, looking downwards. "I... Respected her. She seemed to know... Just... How to treat me..."
"Yes..." Maria said with a smile. "She always did..." She added as the door opened.
"Thank you Doctor." Waltman said as he exited the room, sighing before looking at the gathered group. "Okay girls, I'll let you know the situation."
"Is she going to be okay Mr. Waltman?" Maria asked, clasping her hands together. "What is the matter with her?"
"She should have come in earlier to examine her problems..." Waltman began. "Weakness and fatigue, loss of appetite and weight, fever, headache, swollen gums... The Doctor believes, but cannot confirm that it's..." He paused, shaking his head.
"We are not simple children Mr. Waltman." Skyla said her arms crossed. "What is it?"
"...Cancer. Leukemia to be precise..." Waltman finished. "For now Professor Falcon will be sent off island by helicopter until the morning. Until then we need to let her rest, so it's best you get some sleep. Falcon only said one thing before I was ushered out." He said as teary-eyed girls looked at him. "She wants you all to enjoy the dance and not worry. Be strong for her girls... Be strong..." He said before moving to leave.
"Wait." Skyla said causing Waltman to stop. "Who will... assume her duties until she is able to return?"
"...You seem oddly hopeful Skyla." Waltman said. "You know despite treatment only seven percent are cured, and that's assuming it's Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. And after treatment she may be too weak to return."
"I'm not hopeful. Merely confident."
"...I will be searching for a replacement for her position until the time she is able to return. Until then Professor Trammel will assume her duties."
"Very well."
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"To Falcon..." Maria offered as herself and the gathered girls inside the common room held drinks. "May she rise above this to return once more!"
"I can drink to that!" One girl said with a sad smile as Professor Trammel walked into the room.
"Greeting Ladies." He began, getting the attention of the group. "I won't mince words with you: Myself and Falcon were never close but I respected greatly her as did you all. Until her temporary, and despite Waltman's thoughts to the contrary it is temporary, substitute is chosen I will manage these dorms as I do with the boys dorm. Only I won't shower here." He joked, inciting a small laugh. "For now, live your lives and enjoy your dance this Monday. Have fun as to assure your headmistress she has little to worry about save mending her own health."
"Such mindless affection..." Someone remarked, heads turning to look and Rosetta Endchild, leaning against the wall.
"I beg your pardon Young Endchild." Trammel addressed. "Did you have something to say?"
"Only that mourning the departure of that... Woman is unneeded." Rosetta clarified. "Only a celebration is required."
"And what has she done to earn such scorn?" Trammel growled.
"It was at Falcon's insistence that Maria and not Rosetta entered the Friendship Tournament." Skyla clarified. "As I recall she mentioned that sending a 'spoilt brat like her' would reflect badly upon the dorm."
'The reason I decided on Terry over Richard...' Trammel thought to himself. 'At least he came within a hair's length of defeating that Slifer Slacker.'
"That woman doesn't know talent when it stands before her!" Rosetta declared. "And I do hope that her very permanent replacement will recognize such better than that ill-talented wench!"
"Silence your tongue Rosetta!" Trammel bellowed as students glared at the skater. "Alexis Falcon is far more talented than you could ever hope to be. Perhaps if you had listened to her your loss to the Slifer girl would be non-existent."
"So the wench got lucky, that's all!" Rosetta retorted, cutting the air with her arm. "I've more skill than she will ever know or posses!"
"You talk a big game when she's not here to trounce you..." Trammel hissed. "However, I shall have that honour in her place."
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"So, how are you finding things so far?" Dark Cross asked as Mr. Night Time walked beside him, back in his dark uniform as they traveled the torch lit halls.
"I find things quite to my liking, thank you." Mr. Night Time replied. "And thank you for the cards. I am ready to resume my campaign of fear, with my improved deck! There is... Someone in particular I wish to introduce... To the new Dark World!"
"Indeed..." Dark Cross replied. "You will meet our leader in a few days... And we have a special test lined up for you."
"A test?" Night Time replied.
"Yes." The agent said, nodding. "Just to see if you truly fit the standards of the Neo Hunters. And to test a few... Items we've uncovered. But that isn't until a few days from now... So look over your deck my new friend... Soon we will see what you are made of..."
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"Alright Young Lady..." Trammel began as he and Rosetta stood outside the dorm, the girls gathered about them. "And I use the term loosely..." He muttered. "Let's duel!"
Rosetta: 4000
Trammel: 4000
"And I shall begin!" Rosetta began. "Now I will show off my new and improved deck, which is assured to snare that handsome J.B. from that witch!"
'She wants that Slacker?' Trammel thought to himself. 'And here I thought she was the BRAINS of the family...'
"Now I summon White Knight Swordsman in attack mode!" Rosetta continued, an armoured warrior with a large sword rising to the field. (4/1200/1200) "One more card face down, and my turn is finished."
"Then I draw!" Trammel replied, taking a card. "And I summon Tenkabito Shien in attack mode!" He called out, summoning a samurai on horseback. (4/1500/1000) "Now attack with Honoured Battle!" He cried out, his samurai charging across the field, slashing at the opposing swordsman, cutting it in two.
Rosetta: 3700
Trammel: 4000
"And now I activate Michizure!" Rosetta declared. "And now I can destroy your monster!"
"Under normal circumstances yes." Trammel replied sagely as the trap card shattered, his monster unaffected. "But Tenkabito Shien's effect allows it to be unhindered by any trap you set. Now I set one card face down and end my turn."
"Very well... I draw!" Rosetta cried out, drawing. "And I now summon White Knight's Lancer in attack mode!" She added, another armoured warrior rising, this one with lance in hand. (4/1500/0) "And thanks to my Swordsman being in the graveyard all White Knight monsters gains three hundred additional attack points!" (4/1500/0-4/1800/0)
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"A simple strategy, but effective." Skyla said, watching on. "She deliberately allowed Trammel to terminate her monster to active Michizure and empower her monsters."
"Yes, but things haven't gone right so far for her..." Maria stated.
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"Now destroy his weak samurai with Blessed Lance!" Rosetta cried out, her monster rushing across, leaping into the air to impale rider and horse, shattering both.
Rosetta: 3700
Trammel: 3700
"Very good, but allow me to make a point student." Trammel began. "Your monster is not immune to trap cards! Activate Chthonian Blast!" He called out, flipping his card. "And now I destroy the monster with the lowest attack, or in this case the only monster, on the field and we both take half of its attack points as damage!" He called out as the Lancer shattered apart.
Rosetta: 2800
Trammel: 2800
"Blast you!" Rosetta growled. "I activate Double Summon, which lets me normal summon another monster this turn, and I chose White Knight Guardna in defense mode!" She called out, a warrior with two shields on it's arms rising to the field, kneeling defensively as it held both shields before it. (4/800/2000-4/1100/2000) "I set one more card face down and end my turn."
"Double Summon? A new card filled with new possibilities..." Trammel mused as he drew. "But enough of that. I activate the effect of Inferno, removing Shien from play to summon it to the field!" He called out, his fireball rising to the field. (4/1100/1900) "And now I summon Hand Of Nephthys!" He added, his female monster rising to the field. (2/600/600) "And now I offer both to special summon the Sacred Phoenix Of Nephthys from my deck!" He added as the two monsters vanished from the field, his fiery monster rising above the battlegrounds, wings spread as its flames illuminated the evening sky. (7/2400/1600) "Now attack! Phoenix Eternal Blaze!" He cried out, his monster spitting a fireball at the opposing warrior, shattering it. "And thus I conclude my turn."
"And I draw!" Rosetta said, taking a card. "Now I play Pot of Greed to draw two more cards!" She added before drawing again. "Perfect... I activate Hammer Shot! This will destroy your Phoenix!"
"Are you forgetting something?" Trammel asked as his monster shattered. "My monster will return next turn!"
"I'm counting on it!" Rosetta explained. "I set my last two cards, face down and end my turn."
"Very well then... Activate the Phoenix Eternal Flame and return!" Trammel called out, as the golden monster reappeared to the field. (7/2400/1600) "And now your cards shall be destroyed by my monster's sacred flames!."
"But first I use Waboku!" Rosetta declared, flipping up her card before the flames washed over her field. "And now I know why that handsome fellow uses it, it's so handy a trap card preventing me from taking any form of battle damage for the turn."
"For now, perhaps." Trammel began. "But your other card was wasted needlessly."
"Was it?" Rosetta asked as a column of light rose from her field. "You see that card was called The Sealed Gates, and by destroying it I can remove the White Knights Swordsman, Lancer and Guardna and call out my White Knight's Lord in attack mode!" She cried out as another armoured monster rose up, a ball and chain weapon in it's hand. (7/2000/2000)
"Interesting strategy, using my ability against me..." Trammel mused. "Very well then, I summon Flame Ruler in defense mode!" He said, his trench coat wearing flame manipulator rising to the field. (4/1500/1600) "My turn ends."
"And mine begins!" Rosetta declared drawing a card. "And I activate Card of Demise to draw until I have five cards in my hand!" She added, drawing her cards.
"Yes, but five turns from now you must discard your hand." Trammel reminded.
"It will be over by then." Rosetta replied. "I active Block Attack to force your monster to defence mode!" She called out as the magnificent bird landed, folding its wings. "Now attack, with Blessed Smashing Grace!" She cried out, her monster swinging about it's mace before charging, smashing the bird apart with it's mace. "And for every monster it destroys you lose three hundred life points!"
Rosetta: 2800
Trammel: 2500
"Lastly, I activate the Two-Man Cell Battle, and during our end phases we may select one level four or lower monster to special summon." Rosetta added. "And I choose to summon Blade Skater in defense mode." She added the purple skater rising up, arms crossed. (4/1500/1600)
"I admit, that was well played..." Trammel said as he drew. "But hardly a play like this one... First I offer Flame Ruler, using it's ability as two tributes for any fire monster to summon the spirit monster Yamata Dragon in attack mode!" He called out, a massive multi-headed snake-like dragon rising to the field. (7/2600/3100) "Next I set two cards face down, and I attack with Multi-Flame Firestorm!" Trammel cried out the multiple heads of his monster blasting fire at the opposing warrior, destroying it.
Rosetta: 2200
Trammel: 2500
"And thanks to its effect I draw until I have five cards if I deal battle damage to you." Trammel said drawing his cards. "Without risk of a later discard too."
"Perhaps, but as a Spirit Monster it must return to your hand at the end of the turn!" Rosetta declared.
"Assuming of course that it remains on the field..." Trammel explained. "I activate Monster Gate! And by offering Yamada Dragon I can pick up cards from my deck, discarding them until I reach a monster I can summon." He explained, the dragon vanishing as Trammel went through his deck. "And now I summon Firestorm Prominence in attack mode!" He called out, discarding three cards as a fiery crocodile rose to the field. (7/2000/1500) "And now my turn is over, but first I take advantage of your spell card, summoning Fire Kraken in defense mode." He added as a fiery octopus rose to his field. (4/1600/1500)
"As I knew you would!" Rosetta declared, drawing. "Now I activate Harpie's Feather Duster, destroying any of your spell or trap cards on your field!" She called out, a wind rising up to destroy Trammel's two face down cards. "Next I activate Polymerization, fusing Blade Skater on the field with Etoile Cyber in my hand to create Cyber Blader!" She cried out, her other monster rising to the field, merging with the existing monster to form a purple and red female skater. (7/2100/800) "And thanks to it's effect I can double it's attack power when you have two monsters on the field. So thank you for helping me win!" (7/2100/800-7/4200/800)
"Silly, silly Rosetta..." Trammel chided. "I knew you would use Polymerization the moment you summoned Blade Skater... I know what you're up to... Attack me as I am and you will lose the duel, this I promise."
"Dear Teacher..." Rosetta hissed. "You and Falcon do not see the greater design of my power and skill! I simply cannot be defeated by the likes of you or her! Neither of you match my grace! By beauty! My style! And more importantly... My DECK! Attack him now my Cyber Blader! Attack and destroy Firestorm Prominence with Skate Slasher!" She cried out, her monster rushing across to slice the opposing monster in twain.
Rosetta: 2200
Trammel: 300
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"No!" Maria shrieked. "He cannot lose! Not to HER!"
"Trust me..." Skyla began, the beginnings of a smirk pulling at her lips. "She's already lost."
"Huh?"
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"Do you see now?" Rosetta said, eyes wide as a small ember remained where the reptile once stood. "Do you now see my POWER! You cannot defeat the Queen of the Rink!"
"Power yes." Trammel said with a smirk. "But like those Science Fiction films would say... I detect no intelligent life before me..."
"You DARE!?" Rosetta shrieked. "My monster it poised to crush you!"
"Actually all it's done is activate the effect of my Firestorm Prominence!' Trammel declared as the remaining ember set a fire that began to set the field ablaze.
"What is this!?" Rosetta cried out as her monster began to sweat.
"Once my Prominence has been destroyed by battle I may destroy every single monster on the field... Save face up fire monsters... Like my Fire Kraken." Trammel explained. "As for everything else, namely Blade Skater... They simply cannot handle the heat!" He called out, the Cyber Blader shattering apart. "Now being as you've exhausted your hand I assume it is my move now..." He continued, drawing a card. "And I swap Fire Kraken to attack mode and then summon Invasion of Flame in attack mode!" He called out, a massive wall of flame with a grinning face rising to the field. (3/1300/1200) "Now for the turn no trap cards can be activated, not that I've any to worry about to begin with... Now direct attack! Aqua Napalm and Smouldering Breath!" He called out, the two monsters sending streams of flame at Rosetta, coating her in flames as she brought her arms about her face. (1600 + 1300 :: 2900)
Rosetta: 0
Trammel: 300
"Your attitude, demeanour, lack of respect and overconfidence have all contributed to your failing grade tonight." Trammel said simply as Rosetta fell to her knees. Smirking slightly he turned on his heel, nose in the air as he walked away. "Class dismissed."
"This... Is not over you pompous fool..." Rosetta growled. "Not... Over..." She added as someone tapped on her head.
"One more thing!" Maria added, snapping her fingers. "Skyla..."
"Understood." The icy girl said as she lifted a bucket over Rosetta's head, mud spilling out onto her head. "Strange... I found that unusually... Satisfying..." She added as the gathered girls giggled and laughed at the fallen Endchild.
"GAHAHAHA!?" Rosetta shrieked aloud, jumping to her feet. "YOU PEASANTS! FOOLS! YOU DARE SOIL MY SOFT AND LUSCIOUS SKIN WITH MUD! YOU DIRTY MY UN BLEMISHED WITH THIS FILTH!"
"Mud with snakes in it to be precise." Skyla replied as Rosetta froze for a moment, her face twisted in horror.
"I think you broke her." Maria muttered before the Endchild girl screamed, running about in circles clawing the mud from her hair. "Was there any snakes in it?"
"No." Skyla replied. "I merely wished to observe her reaction."
"I think we can agree on that it was most enjoyable."
"Verily." Skyla replied before turning about to return to the dorm.
"If only I had a camera..." Maria mused. "Serenity would so love me for it..."
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White Knights Swordsman, Lancer, Guardna and Lord, along with The Sealed Gates and Card of Demise are Anime Only cards and are not printed to the best of my knowledge.
