Chapter 54
A Tortured Soul!
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Time seemed to slow down as the Wandering Alchemist began to charge towards Abel.
Goliath and Tai managed to jump in through the entrance…
Big Boss turned slightly to the right to see the two enter the room…
…Just as the Wandering Alchemist slammed his fist directly into Abel's cheek sending him flying backwards towards the tube tank to crash right into the machine…
"Hey what's happening?" Mustang asked trying to look past Goliath's giant body. "I can't see!"
After a powerful pressure was added to the tank, the glass shattered allowing the red liquid to flow to the ground next to everyone's feet. Cain just lifted up his hand up to form a victory sign. "Take that you damn bastard!" (ALP: 6200)
"W-what in the world?" Goliath questioned starring at was happening. Cain had his right arm, his monster just socked someone who looked almost like Cain and there was a strange green and black haired man at the entrance with a wicked smile watching the entire thing.
"…He's doing well so far…" Tai sighed lowering his head.
"Hey! Let me see!" Mustang protested…although it fell on deaf ears.
"…You two just joined the party…" Big Boss chuckled turning towards the broken tank with Abel lying amongst the broken glass. "Good thing too…it's about to get wild here…"
Mustang was able to hear all of that, yet still couldn't see a thing that was happening in the room. "Come on already! This is so stupid…I'm about to miss the best part…"
"Try to get up from that!" Cain challenged lift his right fist towards the broken tank.
A smile began to grow on Abel's face, giving him a powerful large amount of energy to stand up shakily. As soon as the evil being was up on his feet, he lifted his arms to his head and cracked his neck straight. "If you insist…I may have to step up my game once more…"
Cain's eyes widened at this as he watched Abel jump from the broken tank, pulling broken shards of glass from his body. 'He's been toying with me all this time?!?'
"Now then…it's time for you to face the true power of this deck!" Abel laughed out manically with a dark aura appearing around his body. "I may not have known how you did that little trick to block that rock…but it won't matter soon!"
"Bring…it…on…" Cain replied lifting his duel disk up. '…Hope I'm not pushing this too far…'
Big Boss couldn't help but stare at Goliath and Tai, as well as Mustang who was squeezing his way past the two blocking the door. "…Great…just what we need down here…more brats…"
"…Who the heck is this?" Mustang asked gesturing towards Big Boss.
"An enemy?" Goliath questioned raising an eyebrow.
"Nope!" Big Boss laughed crossing his arms. "I'm just here to watch the many body changing freak and the little guy."
"HEY!"
"Oh, stop denying it!" Big Boss shouted with a laughing tone in his voice. That's when he turned towards the other teenaged duelists. "Say, maybe you could tell me something about that little shrimp…"
"What in the world could he want with Sonryu?" Goliath retorted narrowing his eyes and turning his focus back on Cain.
Big Boss just rubbed his chin. "Well, he kind of reminds me of an anime character…"
"Edward Elric?" Mustang suggested not watching the duel that was about to continue.
"…Uh, not really," Big Boss stuttered. "He reminds me of Toshiro Hitsugaya…"
"What!?!" Mustang, Goliath and Tai shouted at the same time, not noticing the blood vessel appearing on the back of Cain's head.
"Ya know, now that he mentions it…his height is about the same…"
"Mr. Sonryu must be a Bleach fan…"
"…I wonder if that's his natural hair color?"
"GUYS!" Cain roared turning away from Abel, his eyes now looking extremely demonic. "First of all…I'm not short! I'm not a Bleach fan! And this is my damn natural hair color!"
"And in case you all haven't noticed I'm in the middle of a duel facing freaky, red haired dumb ass, and I don't need comments from the peanut gallery!"
A wicked smile appeared on Abel's face as he slowly drew his next card. 'Now then…while he's distracted…nah, where's the fun in that?'
The large Soldier Production Factory began to hum loudly, before the green tube opened up to allow a muscular man wearing a black soldier's uniform with a metal armor coating. Over his eyes, a pair of night vision goggles were glowing an eerie red. At the man's side, a small katana sword was immediately draw and lifted into the air (1000/1000). "I activate the effect of my Soldier Production Factory! Allowing me to create a Token SOLDIER!"
"What the?" Cain questioned looking at the weird monster.
"Next up…" Abel chuckled lifting his next card, a spell card with a picture of a young man holding out a form to a teenaged blonde haired man (who looked oddly familiar). "…I play the spell card, SOLDIER Recruitment! So by discarding my SOLDIER Swordsman…"
As Abel slid his card into his graveyard, two more Token SOLDIERs (1000/1000 x2), exactly like the first one appeared next to the original with their katanas raised into the air. "I can summon two more Token SOLDIERs!"
"Yeah, but remember, I still have my Emblem of the Crescent Moon!" Cain announced as a large emerald appeared into the fifth hole of the large moon emblem. 'Only two more to go…then I can use the big gun I have stashed in this deck…'
"Thinking about using that card's effect?" Abel asked with a demented look on his face, Cain's eyes widened in surprise that this fiend may have know what Cain's card does. "…Well too bad, that's why I have my spell card…Counter Absorption!"
Above the two duelists appeared a large silver vortex that began to absorb all of the jewels that were fitted into the large Crescent Moon. Cain's jaw dropped to the ground out of shock. "W-what the hell!?!"
"This spell card destroys all counters on the field," Abel explained as his deck began to shoot out five cards. "And then…I get to draw one card per counter destroyed!"
"Hold on! That's an outlawed card!" Goliath shouted raising his arm into the air. "You can't play that!"
"…Hey, I'm evil," Abel explained lifting his cards up. "What do you expect?"
"…Good point…" Mustang commented rubbing his chin in interest.
"Next…I summon SOLDIER Grunt!" Abel laughed as a fourth soldier (1000/1000) along with the Token SOLDIERs, all four of them raising their swords into the air.
"Okay…what's with all the weak monsters?" Cain asked raising an eyebrow at all of the soldiers preparing to attack…
Abel chuckled lifting up his next card, another spell card showing many SOLDIER Grunts slashing at a large dragon. "I play SOLDIER Rush! All I need to do is pay two thousand life points…" (ALP: 4200)
All four Soldiers ran towards Cain's monsters, each ready to swing their katanas. "…And my monsters can attack you directly!"
"…Oh crap…" Cain cursed out loud with a dulled look appearing on his face. He didn't even notice the topaz that was fitting itself into the first hole of the Crescent Moon Emblem.
In sync, all of the Soldiers jumped high into the air spinning their katanas until they were past Cain's monsters and were directly over the short duelist. As soon as Cain looked up, all four of the Soldiers brought their swords down at the same time towards Cain…
CLANK!
…Only to have Cain block the four katanas with his right arm, the young duelist struggling to not allow the blades to cut him. Everyone starred in amazement at Cain being able to block the blades without getting his arm sliced to ribbons…
…Even more amazing was the sound when the katanas met with Cain's arm…one at which Mustang took note of. "…I just noticed this…but Cain has his right arm back…how is that possible?"
A large smirk appeared on Tai's face, pocketing his hands. "Oh, I think it's called delicious irony…"
"What are you fools waiting for?" Abel questioned his monsters, making them all turn back in fear. "Strike that shrimp down!"
Cain didn't even realize it, but it was then all four of the SOLDIERs slammed the soles of their metal tipped boots into Cain's chest, sending him flying backwards… (CLP: 2800)
…All four of the soldiers' swords had ripped off entirely Cain's right sleeve…
In order to stop him from flying into the wall, Cain slammed his right hand into the ground and immediately pulled him back to the ground allowing everyone to see Cain's new right arm…
"What in the?!?"
"Heh…told ya…"
"…That is delicious irony…"
"Just image the comments…"
"…Okay, I take back my Toshiro Hitsugaya comment…now he does resemble Edward Elric…though, maybe a combination of the two…"
"Oh just shut the hell up!" Cain roared lifting his right arm up in the light, making the metallic sheen gleam on his finely crafted light steel arm. "I didn't have a choice in the matter!"
"Yeah, pretty much," Tai admitted with a sly look on his face as he shrugged. "With a little trick I managed to pick up, I was able to get shorty here…"
"HEY!"
"…Whatever, a replacement arm by combining him with his duel monster spirit…"
"Does that mean that his duel spirit is…?" Mustang started noticing that his Die Hard Lancer was standing behind him.
"No…think of him as a copy now…" Tai explained not minding the daggers that Cain was glaring at him.
"Stop insulting me!" Cain roared with many blood vessels appearing on the back of his head.
Abel just chuckled as he lifted his next three cards up from his hand. "In case you haven't noticed boy…but it's still my turn… and with these three cards as back up, my SOLDIER army will not fall to the likes of you."
"…We'll see about that you messed up freak…" Cain shot back standing up straight.
"Elric Wannabe!"
"Pompous headed windbag!"
"Cosplaying Dumbass!"
"Freaky eyes!"
"Shorty!"
"URGH! Just end your turn!" Cain growled through his teeth.
"Already did little man…" Abel laughed making Cain have blood vessels appear on the back of his head.
Instead of roaring, Cain calmly drew his next card. "Okay…Alchemic Fusion!"
The Flame and Wandering Alchemist immediately disappeared into a large red transmutation before forming into the taller version of the Wandering Alchemist wearing an overcoat with flame decals on it (2400/1600). The Steel Flame Alchemist glared daggers at Abel…
"Prepare for an ass kicking!" Cain growled lifting his next card up. "Cause now I summon…"
"…I play Renegade SOLDIERS!" Abel laughed as one of his face down cards disappeared, the three monster card zones that remained on Cain's side of the field began to glow blood red. "…This trap makes it so you can't summon anything more…by filling up your monster card zones!"
Three Token SOLDIERS (1000/1000 x3) jumped from the blood red panels and immediately crouched down on the field, crossing their arms in a defensive manner in front of Cain. At the sight of the monsters, Cain's eyes became demonic once more. "Damn it! I don't want these monsters!"
"Too bad! You don't get a say in the matter!" Abel laughed raising his hand over his next card. "And now, I activate my trap card, Peace Treaty!"
Abel's face down card flipped up to show a blonde haired swordsman signing a paper in front of a brown haired man wearing a black short sleeved jacket. "This card doesn't fit my style…but it'll work, especially when two or monsters are special summoned on your side of the field during this turn. Now, neither of us can perform a battle phase during this turn, and then we both draw one card…"
A card shot from the top of both players' decks into their hands. "You keep drawing cards; you're going to deck out…"
At Cain's observation, Abel lifted his duel disk up to show that his deck wasn't even at half yet. Cain's eyes widened at the sight. "What the hell!?! How many cards do you have I that deck?"
"Oh, about seventy," Big Boss answered pulling a piece of gum from his pocket and immediately popped it into his mouth.
"And he's able to draw any card he wants?" Goliath asked amazed at the fact of Abel's draw strategy.
"Well…he doesn't really have that many monsters other than those token cards," Big Boss explained after chewing a little bit more. "And he's lined up his deck with draw cards, so he's able to replenish his resources…"
"You sound like you made the deck," Mustang noted rubbing his chin.
"…In a sense…" Big Boss replied lifting up a small packet of gum. "Gum anyone?"
"Sure…" Mustang replied taking a piece and immediately popping it into his mouth.
"...Damn it…" Cain cursed lifting another card into his duel disk. "I'll end my turn…"
With an accomplished smile, Abel lifted his next card into his hand. "I'll skip my Factory's effect this turn…"
Cain raised an eyebrow at that. He thought that card was Abel's main strategy card. "…Instead, thanks to the effect of the monster I drew with Peace Treaty…if you have two token monsters on your side of the field…"
Slapping the card onto his duel disk, Abel started to make his field spark with electricity making all of the Token SOLDIERS yell out in pain. "…So give it up!"
From the electricity, a mysterious young man walked out from the surge with a smooth smile on his determined face. His black clothes didn't have sleeves, yet had a pair of shoulder pads made of dark metal. In an instant the man drew a large sword that had a pair of holes at the base of the blade, and spun the blade as if it were nothing. "For the Selfless Mercenary…and yet this is another card that doesn't fit my style."
After popping a small bubble from his mouth, Big Boss shrugged and crossed his arms. "Hey, you're the one who wanted the best strategy for this chance…isn't my fault if their named that way…"
"Big Boss…after this I'll need a vacation," Abel laughed before the electricity began to surge through all of the Token SOLDIERS. "…Anyway, you're probably wondering about my Mercenary's attack and defense."
"Well, when he's summoned to the field, every token on the field is automatically destroyed!"
The electricity pulsed through out all of the Token SOLDIERS' bodies, before making them shatter into pixels; Cain covered his face with his metallic arm to block the remains. "…And for each one destroyed by this monster's effect, its attack and defense become the number of tokens times eight hundred!"
The Selfless Mercenary jumped into the air, his sword glowing a mystic light green glow as his stats began to rise (4800/4800). No one seemed to notice that six wires were broken in half on the Soldier Production Factory. "Attack his Alchemist! MAKO Saber Slash!"
In a matter of seconds, the Mercenary had sliced right down the middle of the Alchemist, although nothing seemed to happen, until a bright crack of light began to go through the Steel Flame Alchemist. The warrior cried out in pain before disappearing into flames. (CLP: 400)
"Nice try! Go Option Hunter!" Cain shouted as a bright red aura surrounded his body. "This trap increases my life points by the attack of the monster that was just destroyed!" (CLP: 2800)
"Back to where you were eh?" Abel chuckled fitting his next card into his duel disk, making the card appear behind his Mercenary. "Not too bad…but I'll set this face down and switch my SOLDIER Grunt to defense mode, and we'll see how you deal with my monster."
"I'll take out your strongest monster and I'll do it a matter of turns!" Cain challenged drawing his next card. 'And this card will do the trick!'
'My strongest monster? Hardly, it's only the third…' A crooked smile slowly appeared on Abel's face as he watched Cain look over his hand.
"I'll set a monster on the defensive," Cain announced turning his attention to his Crescent Moon Emblem. 'Only two counters…I still need five more counters…'
"And then, I'll set this card down as well and end my turn."
"That's all you got?" Abel chuckled before throwing his head back in pure evil laughter. "I knew you were reckless…but this is just stupid!"
"I hate to admit it," Tai sighed lowering his head in shame. "…But he's right…"
"Sonryu may have some luck, but with his deck shrinking and life points running low," Goliath added rubbing his chin thinking of any ideas that Cain might be able to get out of this situation. "He's running low on options…"
"Hey!" Mustang announced with an amazed look on his face. "This gum squirts!"
"It's from across the seas…" Big Boss replied pulling another piece into his mouth. "About the only thing good they make…"
"Back to what I was saying, this duel is almost over," Abel chuckled once more combing his hair back. "…But before that, how about I make your suffering even worse little guy?"
"Oh god…you're not going to tell us your life story, are you?" Cain moaned, however, he already knew the answer.
"Actually no," Abel replied crossing his arms. "…Tell me…what do you remember about Evo-Gens?"
Cain immediately remembered what Leon Arch said to him, about how Evo-Gens were chosen ones who were born to be able to communicate with the Arch Gods…or were for that matter.
"Thinking about what that weak Leon, and his explanation of the Evo-Gens?" Abel guessed with a dulled look covering his face. "Well, he was halfway right in a sense; however, an Evo-Gen can communicate with monster spirits."
"…Some people, such as a Yuki Judai, were considered some of the earlier Evo-Gens. However, as you can see Evo-Gens of today are endowed with a few special abilities. Me for example, I have strength, from what I could tell, that maybe your friend Mustang…"
"…Is an Evo-Gen?" Mustang finished with a confused look on his face. '…Maybe I can use that to my advantage…with the ladies!'
"...From what I was able to see from his duel with Entei…that he was able to merge with his duel spirits," Abel continued with his smirk shrinking slightly. "I wouldn't be surprised that he's able to use their powers to his advantage too…and then for a prime example would have to have been that brat Roxas and his power of probability…"
"However, you don't have such a power little guy…and against someone like me with this great power, you'll destroyed in a matter of minutes!"
Cain lowered his head…knowing that he was in trouble.
"Seems like reality just shocked into you," Abel chuckled pulling his next card, and allowing the Soldier Production Factory to create another Token SOLDIER (1000/1000) that immediately raised his katana into the air. "…Good thing too, I'd rather not make our audience too disappointed that you weren't tuned into your own destruction… I'll switch my SOLDIER Grunt to attack mode…And now, Selfless Mercenary! Attack his Garnet Alchemist!"
The Mercenary quickly jumped in front of the shielded warrior, and managed to slice and dice the alchemist into nothing more than a mere second. Cain's eyes widened at his best defense were shattered quickly.
In the next second, Abel lifted up another card from his hand and lifted it up. "Next, I'll activate the quick play spell card, Relentless Strike! All I have to do is destroy one monster on my side of the field…so bye bye SOLDIER Grunt!"
A powerful strike of lightning struck the soldier, shattering the monster into pixels. That's when a powerful red aura surrounded the Selfless Mercenary, making the monster turn his attention towards the face down card. "…so my monster can attack again!"
With a quick movement, the Selfless Mercenary quickly stabbed his sword directly into the back of the vanquished monster. However, before the warrior was able to pull his sword back, both the Mercenary and the set card shattered into pixels. Even Abel's eyes widened at that. "W-what the world just happened!?!"
"That face down monster you destroyed…was my Sync Alchemist (1500/1300)," Cain chuckled slipping his monster card into his pocket. "And here's what he was able to do, remove the monster that destroys him! So say goodbye to your strongest monster!"
Blinking a few times, Abel slowly began to chuckle as two puffs of large smoke began to appear onto the field. In a matter of seconds, the smoke fell to the ground allowing two new Token SOLDIERS (1000/1000 x2) to appear next to the third. "It doesn't really matter if that was my strongest monster or not! You see, when my SOLDIER Grunt is destroyed I can special summon two more Token SOLDERS to the field…and this is more than enough to take you down a few pegs!"
"That must've been his plan all along!" Goliath gasped as all three SOLDIERs began to run towards Cain.
"Cut him to ribbons my soldiers!" Abel laughed out loud.
Just as all three of the token monsters were about to slash at Cain, the Wandering Alchemist appeared out of now where crouching down in a defensive manner. The three soldiers stopped moving and slowly backed off. "Great…now what?"
A large ruby fitted itself into the second slot of the Emblem as Cain lifted up a spell card with a transmutation circle on it with multiple blood stains across it. "My spell card, Forbidden Alchemy is what happened. When I have no monsters on my side of the field, I can special summon one removed monster to my field…"
On cue, a card shot out of Cain's deck into his hand. "Take a guess who I chose!"
"Whatever," Abel retorted shrugging his arms. "I'll just end my turn…"
"Time to take this duel by the swords!" Cain roared pulling his next card from his deck. At the sight of the card, Cain nodded. "You may have Evo-Gen power…but I have the Armor Piercing Alchemist (1800/1300)!"
In a dark transmutation circle, the military Alchemist appeared on the field lifting his metallic claws up into the air with a determined look on his face. Puffing out a few rings of smoke, the Alchemist was sizing up the Token SOLDIERS. "Next I'll switch Wandering Alchemist to attack mode…And now…CHARGE!"
The Wandering and Armor Piercing Alchemists looked at each other embarrassed at Cain's attack order. They shook it off and ran towards two of the Token SOLDIERS; the two slammed their automail fists into the faces of the two soldiers, sending them flying into Abel. (ALP: 2900)
"D-Damn it…that was a cheap shot…" Abel coughed noting the last two large wires on the Soldier Production Factory where snapped in two. "…I hope you enjoyed it, because it's the last time you're getting me to lose life points so easily…"
"We'll see about that," Cain replied fitting another card into his duel disk. "Turn end!"
"Alright, now that shorty got rid of that Mercenary, things should move a lot more smoothly," Tai sighed combing back his hair in relief.
Big Boss just shook his head before popping another piece of gum into his mouth. "Nope…don't count on it…"
"What?" Mustang questioned looking at the weird character. "What makes you say that?"
"…That Toshiro wanna-be thinks that the mercenary was Abel's strongest monster…" Big Boss explained watching Abel draw his next card. "…it's actually the third strongest monster in that deck…there are two even more powerful creatures that can make the Selfless Mercenary tremble in fear…"
That's when the large Soldier Production Factory began to spark and glow as cracks began to run all over the machine. Cain and his two alchemists stepped back as pure energy began to seep from the machine. "…And it's appears that the second strongest monster is about to make its appearance…"
"I forgot to tell ya shorty," Abel laughed as a card shot out from his deck. "Every time a Token SOLDIER was destroyed, my Soldier Production Factory gained one counter. And when there's eight counters…I can special summon this monster!"
The large machine shattered into nothing but junk, showing a mysterious phantom like man floating to the ground where the machine once was. His long silver hair was flowing past his shoulders, waving in a non-existent wind. The man's muscular body was covered with black like cloak with silver armor on his shoulders and arms.
That's when the warrior lifted his weapon, a large ten foot long katana that gleamed brightly in the light. "…Destined Swordsman…the perfect SOLDIER (2800/2100 + 900/0)!"
"How in the world is your monster getting stronger?!" Cain questioned as his two alchemists began to sweat at the sight of the new monster.
"His attack is increased by three hundred points for each 'SOLDIER' in my graveyard…" Abel explained gesturing towards his last Token SOLDIER, who was currently crouching down in a defensive manner. "And now…Destined Swordsman, slaughter that Armor Piercing Alchemist!"
In a great flash of speed, the Destined Swordsman flew directly towards the Armor Piercing Alchemist. Just as the warrior was about to be cleaved in two, a powerful wall appeared blocking the slice slightly…however the wall didn't do the trick, the sword cleaved through the Alchemist as if it were butter.
Cain breathed a sigh of relief taking note that his life points hadn't change. 'Thank goodness I had Transmuted Shield…otherwise I'd lose a lot of life points…'
"I don't get it…why didn't that guy attack the Wandering Alchemist?" Mustang questioned raising an eyebrow. "I mean, Cain would've lost more life points…if his attack were successful…"
"First of all that's Abel, who used to be Alucar, who was called Origin," Big Boss explained with an annoyed look on his face as if he had done that for many different times. "Second, he's actually a sadist; he likes to prolong the suffering of his opponent's…"
"…I don't care if he's the former prince of DDR!" Cain roared slamming foot into the ground.
"Well, actually, now that you mention it…" Abel chuckled with a drunken smile appearing on his face.
"Just end your turn!" Cain shouted making Abel step back a little.
"Yeesh…no need to shout," Abel sighed as a card appeared behind the Destined Swordsman. "Go ahead and show me what you can do…"
Slowly, Cain drew his next card and his eyes widened at the sight of the card. That's when Cain muttered something that wasn't loud enough for people to hear.
"You say something little guy?" Abel asked with a crooked smile. "Or did it just dawn on you that can't possibly win?"
"…Actually, I said how someone like you could possibly think he can win…" Cain replied, this time a smirk appeared on his face.
"What was that?!" Abel growled narrowing his eyes.
"You keep talking that you're all superior to me," Cain replied lifting up the spell card, The Water Stone of the Wise. Two monster cards slipped out of his graveyard when he drew three cards. That's when a sapphire appeared into the third slot of his large emblem. "And that's just pissing me off! If you had real strength, then you wouldn't have needed my sister!"
"That's what you say," Abel scoffed to the side with a sweatdrop appearing on the back of his head.
"It's a fact! People who want to become stronger need to find it within themselves," Cain continued looking at all three of his newly drawn cards. "Take me for example, when we first dueled you played those Archfiend monsters. At first, I thought that you strong because you managed to make me quiver in fear…but that just scare tactics! Same with our earlier duel!"
That's when Cain lifted his metallic right arm into the air, it almost looked like his arm was glowing brightly. "This arm…my old one once burned your memory into my mind with that scar you left me…and then you took it away from me…"
"…This new arm represents my own strength! And what do you have to show your strength? A copy of my face! That just proves that you don't have what it takes to make your own power so you take it from others!"
"Man…shorty really hit the nail on the head…" Big Boss laughed making everyone sweatdrop that this guy was laughing at his own comrade.
"Yeah, thanks a lot Big Boss," Abel growled, his teeth oozing out with sarcasm.
"I activate the spell card, the Crucified Rose!" Cain announced as many vines wrapped around the only face down card on Abel's side of the field. The card was immediately crushed into pixels. A large topaz fitted itself into the fourth slot of the Crescent moon emblem. However, the Wandering Alchemist knelt down in pain (750/1300). "And I'll end my turn with two cards face down…"
"I'll show you power!" Abel roared nearly ripping his next card. "Destined Swordsman!" The handsome swordsman lifted up his long sword. "Attack his Alchemist!"
In a quick flash, the swordsman appeared right in front of the weakened Wandering Alchemist. Time seemed to slow down as the Destined Swordsman began to bring his sword down…
…That's when a powerful vortex blocked the blade making the swordsman growl in annoyance and jump backwards with a pissed off look on his face. "Great, Negate Attack…you just keep prolonging the torture…"
"Never again…" Cain growled lifting his next card, that's when his eyes seemed to glow a slightly bright silver. "…never again will I be tortured by the likes of you! I summon, Wandering Alchemist (1500/1300)!"
In a mere second another Wandering Alchemist appeared right next to the first one, the two just starred blankly at each other for a few seconds before a card shot out from Cain's thinning deck. "Now then…it's time you meet my favorite monster! Alchemic Fusion!"
"Has he ever fused two of the same monsters before?" Mustang asked whispering to Goliath.
"I've only seen Sonryu with this deck a few times…" Goliath replied watching as both of the same alchemists were absorbed into a large bright red light. "…And in the times I've seen him duel with these cards, he's only fused different monsters."
"It must be a powerful monster if he's fusing the same monsters…"
The bright red light died down to show that the two same monsters had become one in the same…the fused monster looked exactly like its components, only with a more determined look on his face as well as his right red sleeve was ripped off to show his shining automail right arm (2700/1900). The monster cracked his neck and raised his fists towards Abel. "So meet the star of my deck! The Fullmetal Alchemist!"
"Heh, big deal ya little snot, you've got nothing on my swordsman!" Abel laughed as Cain lifted his next card up. "Huh?"
"That's why I'm outfitting my monster with Automail Blade!" Cain shouted as the Fullmetal Alchemist clapped his hands together and made the top part of his automail arm into a sharp blade (2700/1900 + 800/0). "And now, attack his Swordsman!"
With a nod, the Fullmetal Alchemist ran until he jumped into the air above the Destined Swordsman. A smile appeared on the Swordsman's face as he quickly raised his katana up to block the blade of the Fullmetal Alchemist. Seeing this, the Alchemist quickly swung his left leg towards the head of the swordsman, who immediately ducked down and jumped backwards…
…While still maintaining his smile…
"Enough playing around, finish that weakling!" Abel commanded as his swordsman sighed in disappointment.
Both monsters leapt into the air, both preparing to slash at each other, at that moment, Cain lifted up his next card. "I activate the spell card, Alchemic Finisher!"
Once again, time seemed to slow down as a coin with a sennin eye appeared in the air, flipping around before coming to the ground. Everyone held their breaths as the coin landed on the ground…
…Totally ignoring that the two monsters flew towards each other both spinning around to slash the other.
Time had stopped as both monsters floated in the air, everyone waiting for something till happen…
…That's when blood had started to fall to the ground from the two monsters, but then the Destined Swordsman fell towards the ground with blood streaming from his mouth. Abel's eyes widened as he watched his life point counter fall. (ALP: 900)
"They're almost even…" Tai gasped before sitting on the ground. "…I can't keep taking this stress…"
"Little guy's got some potential," Big Boss noted rubbing his chin. 'I may be able to use this kid for my future plans…if he can beat Abel…'
"Play time's over runt," Abel laughed pulling his next card. At the sight of it, his eyes seemed to glow a bright red and an evil laugh began to erupt from his mouth. "And I see you forgot something…"
"And what did I miss?" Cain asked before looking at Abel's field to see smoke rise up from the ground surrounding the last Token SOLDIER. "What in the?!"
"That face down card you destroyed was SOLDIERS of Revenge!" Abel laughed as two more Token SOLDIERS (1000/1000 x2) appeared next to the first one. "Take a guess on what this card does…"
"What in the world is he doing?" Mustang asked turning towards Goliath. Then determining the serious look on the Colossal Kaiser's face, Mustang's eyes widened. "Oh crap…"
"Now, I'll activate my spell card, Graveyard Resolution!" Abel laughed lifting his spell card up, showing a deck begin cut in two by a large katana. "Here's how this card works, we lose half of our life points…"
A dark aura surrounded both duelists, slowly draining them both of their energy. (CLP: 1400) (ALP: 450)
"And then, both of us can put as many cards from our decks into our graveyard," Abel finished pulling out his deck. "And you have to at least put one in the graveyard…"
"Fine, and that's what I'll do," Cain replied slipping the top card from his deck into his graveyard. 'Damn it…Swords of Revealing light…oh well, I don't think he's noticed yet…'
"And I'll put all of these!" Abel laughed sliding in a majority of his deck into his graveyard.
"What the? How many cards does he have in there?" Mustang asked remembering the amount of cards that were in the graveyard before.
"In my graveyard now reside fifty-three cards," Abel answered slowly lifting his next card. "But now…it's time for shorty to meet the real key monster of my deck!"
"And he needed those tokens to sacrifice!" Goliath concluded as all three of the Token SODLIERS shattered into a dark light.
"Correct Kaiser!" Abel laughed slapping his card onto his duel disk. "I make a triple sacrifice, in order to summon…ORDER OMEGA!"
The three beams of dark light began to twist and turn until it began to warp out of control. The beams were starting to fall back to show an extremely large dark angelic being that looked to be made of an uncertain type of metal that glowed with a dark aura as a familiar Swordsman appeared in the middle of the dark angel's chest, forming one dark feathered angel wing appearing on the back of the monster (1000/1000).
"Three sacrifices…for something like that?" Cain questioned as the aura around the ORDER OMEGA began to pulsate.
"Yes…for you see, my monster has two unique abilities…" Abel cackled as be began to float upwards in front of his large monster. "One of which is to combine with any monster in my graveyard and gain it's attack and defense points added to it's own. I choose Destined Swordsman (1000/1000 + 2800/2100)."
Abel then began to merge into the middle of the large monster's head, making the monster's armor like skin become blood red. "His other effect then allows him to gain one hundred points per card in my graveyard…and they are fifty-two cards in there (3800/3100 + 5200/5200)!"
"Oh crap!" Cain shouted noting that Abel was beginning to charge up.
"I think I like this form," Abel laughed lifting the monster's arms up into the air. "And now…to blast your alchemist and you to kingdom come! Bloody Halos!"
Out of nowhere, many blood red rings of energy flew towards the Fullmetal Alchemist who stood tall in front of the attack.
"Trap card open! Negate Attack!" Cain shouted as a second vortex appeared to absorb the large rings. "Sorry, I just thought two of these cards would be helpful…"
"Funny…but you know as well as I do, you have nothing left," Abel laughed loudly as Cain drew his next card.
"I think you're the one forgetting something…" Cain coughed pointing towards his Crescent Moon Emblem…this time with many jewels in all open slots.
"Big deal…so what can that little thing do?" Abel chuckled as the Emblem began to crack into many pieces.
"Simple, all I have to do remove my emblem," Cain replied as his emblem shattered like glass and a card shot out his deck. "And I can play this card! All I have to do is equip it to Fullmetal Alchemist!"
The shards of glass began to combine into a large glowing orb that landed in the Fullmetal Alchemist's metallic right arm. In a few seconds the orb transformed into a large jewel covered sword with a crescent moon emblem in the hilt of the sword. "The Divine Truth – Radiant Saber!"
"A-and what can that little toy sword do?" Abel stuttered a little bit, a little worried about the weapon, he never heard about that card.
"Simple, during my main phase, for every card I have removed from play, I can remove the exact amount of cards…" Cain explained as his alchemist raised the sword into the air. "…From your side of the field!"
"NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!" Abel shouted out as the Fullmetal Alchemist jumped into the air.
The alchemist immediately threw the sword right into the chest of the of the dark Angelic monster, making the monster's body turn into glass. In a matter of seconds, the monster shattered into pixels dropping Abel to the ground on his butt. "T-t-that's not fair…"
"Relax my monster can't attack this turn…" Cain replied lowering his head.
Hearing that, Abel stood up on his feet and smiled a demonic smile. "Then you're about to lose next turn…"
"I don't think so…" Cain replied lifting his next card up into the air, another spell card that had two monsters defusing in front of a transmutation circle. "I play, Alchemic De-Fusion!"
The Fullmetal Alchemist nodded before splitting back into the two Wandering Alchemists (1500/1300 x2), both with the same determined look on their faces. "And both of them can attack!"
"T-this can't be happening!!!" Abel cried out as the first Wandering Alchemist ran towards him.
"Do it Cain!" Tai cheered while still sitting on the ground.
The first Wandering Alchemist slammed his foot into Abel's shin, while the second one and Cain began to run behind him. "That was for Ami!"
That's when the second Alchemist chopped his right arm down on Abel's left shoulder sending the dark duelist kneeling. "That was for my family!"
"And…" Cain shouted appearing right in front of Abel preparing his own right fist. "THIS IS FOR ME!"
The next instant, Cain slammed his metallic arm right in between the eyes of the dark duelist, sending the duelist flying backwards with all of his cards flying out of his pockets and duel disk.. (ALP: 0)
"He did it!" Mustang cheered throwing his fist into the air.
"…Impressive…" Goliath complimented watching the two Wandering Alchemists disappear into light. 'I now know it…Sonryu, you will get my gift…'
Cain sat on the ground panting heavily, taking in the fact that the dark shadows were still around. "Oh right…I still have to assign a punishment…"
"Abel…you will…experience your greatest fear…"
Those words stuck Abel as he slowly stepped onto his feet, making a look of complete terror appear on his face. "W-what!?! No!" A dark shadow appeared behind the dark duelist, making him turn around to see a large dark cloaked figure behind him with a skull for a face. "N-no! I-I-I have my new life!!"
The cloaked figure completely engulfed the screaming duelist, before returning to the shadows where it once came from. The only thing that was left of Abel…was his tattered blood covered clothes that laid on the ground where he once stood…
"It's finally over…" Cain moaned before falling back our of complete exhaustion. "…So tired…"
"That was just freaky…" Mustang commented crossing his arms in disappointment walking over to Cain and peering into the small teen's face. "…But good job shorty!"
"Shut up…or you're next!" Cain sputtered out glaring daggers at the Die Hard Duelist.
That's when a small clapping sound echoed through the room, Cain couldn't move his head but everyone else turned to see Big Boss pocketing the large amount of cards into his pockets. "Very good little man…I am glad that you won your duel against one of my best henchmen…"
"Does that mean you're going to duel next?" Goliath asked as Big Boss rubbed his chin.
"Nope!" Big Boss laughed making everyone sweatdrop at his comment. "Actually, the little guy saved me quite a bit of money. You see, tomorrow I was supposed to pay Abel, writing his checks is quite a hassle, what with him changing his names…"
"Who exactly are you?" Mustang asked as a dark aura appeared behind Big Boss.
"You know who I am…" Big Boss replied taking a step back, allowing the dark aura to cover his body slowly. "…I'm Big Boss…" That's when the dark aura completely engulfed the mysterious green and dark haired man. "Till we meet again in the future!"
A few moments passed after Big Boss left, the four duelists stood and sat where they were, until Cain turned towards Mustang. "Hey…Mustang…"
"Yeah little guy?" Mustang asked making a blood vessel appear on the back of Cain's head.
"I just beat a creepy guy who used a bunch of illegal cards and you still insult me!?!" Cain roared jumping to his feet with some energy he managed to find. "You are unbelievable!"
"Look who's talking!" Mustang shouted back making sparks fly between the two duelists. "Toshiro!"
"Damn it! I'm not a cosplayer!" Cain retorted slamming his metallic fist into the ground.
"Hard to tell with that metal thing on your body," Mustang chuckled pointing towards Cain's metallic arm.
"It wasn't my choice to put it on!" Cain roared lifting his metallic fist towards Mustang's face. "You want a taste of it?"
Goliath just chuckled watching Cain chase Mustang around the room. "Heh…those two act like they're brothers…"
"Yet, Mustang always hits on Cain's sister," Tai pointed out with his eyes closed. "So that's really strange…"
"True…though…that's what makes things interesting…" Goliath laughed out loud crossing his arms.
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Mustang: That was great!
Cain: About time you realized that!
Mustang: Well, enough about that! We've got to get ready for the next chapter! And it's my favorite!
Cain: I'm not…I hate answering questions…
There's still time! You can ask more questions before next time on ATD – Chapter 55: Question
Mustang: So come on people! You can ask questions of any character! Including characters who were in the series!
Cain: As long as they don't ask about my height, I'm good about any question…
Mustang: True…but, remember! They are allowed to make comments to the characters too! So, don't forget to put your questions in your reviews or in the official forum!
Cain: …You're trying to get them to call me small…
Mustang: You just figured that out?
