New Testament 055: Lonely Star of the Night
Through the power of the Millenium Items, one could read into people's minds, predict their futures, or even control them do acts that went against their very nature. But normally such a power could only be used on one person at a time. "You have finished, my creation.." The scarlet servant known as Fatimah put down the Millenium Tauk. With her own ability she had amplified that items reach, and she saw the fates of all of mankind. "The Mercury Pillar is finished." But no one Millenium Item could influence the holder of another. And in the vast regions of the world, she had seen only two spots where nothing lied. "Then you can tell us how to find the remaining items: the Scales and Ring?" Asked Hieroglyph, and the woman nodded. "A part of the world belongs to the Items, this Items power te..tells us where to collect them." They now saw the same images, an illuminated world with only two blind spots. The Ring was somewhere in Germany, the other all the way back in Egypt. "The Home Land." Yet there was one more thing Fatimah had to say.
"Creat-or. Their ally struggled to track with me.. the Pharaoh.." Ka clanched his fist. "The Lord Raness... He could see the same visions." Hieroglyph was the first to realize how this was possible. "Creator. I believe he used Archons remnants. With it he could have picked up on the visions amplified by the hourglass." There was no telling how much power the puzzle actually held. "That might be true. It matters not, there are ways to reach the Ring and Tauk before they do." He looked at Hieroglyph. "Renew the contacts created by 'Glyph' The ones closest to the the Ring will secure it and wait..." Then his finger pointed at the Lead Pillar. "And then use the Compass to pinpoint their exact coordinates. If any human gets in the way, or claims the item before you do.. exterminate them." The bandaged one liked those orders. "It shall be done, Creator." She left the room immediately, flying into the outside world. "The scales however lie in Egypt still. And there as well, we may find the gate itself..."
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Facade's LP: 4400 Williams LP: 5300
"Stardust.. Dragon?" That appeared to be the name of the sleek blue dragon(2500/2000) that was synchro summoned. "You want to face me with that dragon?" Facade however could only scoff at it, as his own Red Dragon(3000/2000) was clearly the superior. "There is more to this game than sheer power. You yourself should have realized that when we faced the shadows of the netherworld. If that even meant something.." He placed one trap card and ended his turn. "Oh I realize that. But only because my abilities have allowed me to avoid torment over the many centuries. And now that I have come this far, I will not hesitate to crush everything in my path." He did not care why or how Will called out the new Synchro, he could easily kill it. "My turn! I attack with the Dragon Archfiend!" His monster unleashed another hellish flare of energy. "Trap card! Power Frame." Yet this crimson fire could not make contact with Stardust, as a metallic cage surrounded it. "It negates your attack.." The battle phase ended.
"You already have to depend on the protection of traps?" Facade chuckled. "Not just that. Powerframe also strengthens the power of the one it protects." It was a continuous trap, the mechanical frames attached themselves to the blue spirit. "Now he gains attackpoints until he is your monsters equal" Stardust(3000/2000) roared at Red Archfiend with renewed vigor. "So they are. But what will you do? Unlike you, I do not mind sacrificing a card to take one of yours away. I have had so many monsters memorized that I do not even know which one I care about the least." Facade placed one spell facedown and ended his turn. "If you treat the spirits so trivially, then I will do the opposite. I shall beat you with this dragon!" He drew and equipped a card to his attacker. "Silver Wing!" Stardusts wings became bright and silvery. "What?" The enemy had seen that spell before too. "My highlevel Synchro can evade two deaths every turn. He will attack your dragon!" Since they had the same strength points, both could die. "I attack!"
Except the silver wings of Wills Synchro would keep it alive. "You will not succeed!" He activated a very familiar trap card: Prideful Roar. "Huh? But that is.." It was one of the Sentinels cards. "That is how it works, William. I learn and adapt, if I see a curse or a magic I like, I take it." The crimson dragon roared back at the Star dragon, and his attack was increased (3300/2000). "But Stardust still will not die!" The fire clashed with the silver wings, some embers burned more of Carters platform away. "Gh. I set a monster card and end my turn." He was running out of traps and spells to use. ".." Facade drew again. "Tsk." he too seemed displeased with his hand. "Let's see if I should regret this. I sacrifice my Light Imprisoning Mirror, for this spell card: Magic Planter." The white mirror was swallowed by the ground, releasing the skills and powers of the Light-elementals. "Then I can draw two new cards.." However what he picked from the deck appeared to be just as bad. "I set 2 more cards and end my turn."
Williams LP: 5000
But Will did not trust him, with three cards facedown anything was possible. "I summon a monster, Harvest the Angel of Wisdom(1800/1000). I also flip summon Honest(1100/1900)" He called out the fairy which one usually discarded from their hand. "Ghaha.. That card would have come in handy, but your Star is actually a wind-elemental. It's not like you to clash with your own theme like that." In any case, Honest could not combine itself with the Stardust Synchro. However.. "Here I go, I attack your monster again!" He expected to see any of three facedown cards flip face-up, yet nothing happened. "?" Red Dragon Archfiend was slain at last, that had gone almost too easy. "Then.. a direct attack?" He sent Harvest to fire a blast of light at the shadowy villain, and this one hit too. "What are all those traps for then?" However after he had attacked directly once, and before Honest could strike. "Ogre of the Scarlet Sorrow!" The face of Andre wept blood, as the bloody Ogre appeared, imitating Harvests strength (1800/0).
Facade's LP: 2600
While Facade was losing more and more ground, he kept smirking. "Step one, the fodder." Honest could no longer attack. "I use Honests effect! I can return it to my hand." The fairy flew away from the platform. "Step two." He did not even wait for Will to declare the end of his turn. "The ritual." He flipped one of his traps; Nightmare Archfiends. "With this trap I can sacrifice my monster to put nightmare tokens on yours." The Ogre disappeared, and three ghostly fiends haunted the side of William. "Why would you do that?" They were however quite strong(2000/2000). "When such a token stops existing, its controller loses 800 lifepoints." He then flipped his second set card: Curse of Fiend. "Step three: The chaos!" The positions of all monsters on the field were changed, all of Andre“s monsters had to defend. "And now the final step!" He used his final trap, Archfiends Roar. "I pay 500 LP to resurrect one Archfiend in my cemetery, the demon that has the blood of dragons! Come out Red Dragon Archfiend!" The draconic hellhound had returned.
Facade's LP: 2100
Not-Andre placed a trap card. "I have not showed you this before, but now is the chance. Red Dragon Archfiends effect!" It created a fireball between its claws. "When it attacks, it will destroy all defending monsters!" It launched the attack directly at the Herald, sending it to the graveyard. "Draco Meteor!" The flames spread out, threatening to consume the tokens and Stardust. "Even if you can use Silver Wing to save one monster, the others will.." Yet Stardust was the one who disappeared. "Die?" And the three tokens remained on the field. "My Synchro has an effect too. Victim Sanctuary is its name, the dragon can release itself to save others from death by a card effect." The essence of the starry spirit then shot straight through the demon. "The one who dealt out that death will meet a swift end. And then in the endphase. My dragon will be reborn!" Stardust actually came back to his side. However now he had lost the silver feathers and the Power Frame boost(2500/2000). "As I said, my dragon will not die in vain."
He drew a card, and switched all his tokens to attack mode. "Yet that does not mean I will hit you with everything I have. You have one trap left, if it can save your wretched self.. now is the time to use it!" The nightmare phantoms and Stardust all swarmed around the identity stealer, ready to end his threat. "Do not get cocky, William. It does not suit you!" He flipped his trap, Wicked Rebirth. "Gah." It was the worst possible choice. Facade could pay 800 LP to revive one Synchro. "Red Dragon, ghaha.." Again the Archfiend had escaped the cemetery. "For someone with no attachments, you sure like summoning that one monster.." That however did not change the fact that none of his monsters could kill it. "I switch Stardust to defense mode, and end my turn." And he had left his tokens in attack too. But at least Wicked Rebirth prevented monsters from activating their effects. "What would you know?" He drew a card and summoned it. "Nothing!" It was a demonic looking sorcerer, The Archfiend Draco
Facade's LP: 1300
Draco Archfiend, 4/1300/1600 Dark/Fiend
This card can not be special summoned. If this card is face-up on the field, you cannot use it for a synchro summon.
Once during the game you can special summon a lv2 or lower dragon-type monster from your deck for each dragon-type monster on your side of the field.
"With its effect I special summon the Dread Dragon from my deck." Next appeared a dreadlocked level 2 tuner(1100/400). "A tuner?" Was he going to summon a level 6 dragon? Yet the Draco Archfiend could not be used for a Synchro process. "I will finish you with something new, like you wished. Synchro summon; Dread Dragon and Red Dragon!" Instead he combined them for a level 10 monster, a threeheaded monstrocity. "Trident Dragion(3000/2800). When summoned, I can destroy 2 cards on my field." The two extra heads swallowed Wicked Rebirth and Draco. "And I can attack two extra times!" William gasped, he could kill all three Nightmare demons in one turn. And that was his intention. "Enough of you, your body is mine." A trio of flames shot towards the other field, all of the tokens were wiped out. "Aargggh." He took 800 effect damage and 1000 battle damage for each kill. Or so was the plan. "WHAT?" His lifepoints were not low enough. "I discarded a monster from my hand: Hanewata. It reduced all effect damage to zero."
Williams LP: 2000
It was the tuner used to summon Stardust, apparently he had two of them in his deck. "You continue to deny me. I deserve your body.." He ended his turn. "You deserve it?" Carter drew a card, his expression was grim. "You treated souls like dirt, you fooled me into thinking I had seen my brother after his unfair demise. You allowed a great terror to return to my world. What makes you think any of that is going to convince me to give up my body?!" Facade shrugged. "I do not have to care, you can not win anymore. Nothing in your deck will beat my ultimate spirit. You barely have any ground left to stand on." William stared him right in Andre's eyes. "Yes there is." he showed Honest again. "That? I already said it will not work, your savior is a wind-elemental!" Carter shook his head. "No. It can be more, remember this?" His last spell was one both players knew well. "Between the Dawn and Dusk?" But now the younger brother was using it. "You abandoned this when you stopped pretending to be related to me. Now I will use the card I intended to give to my brother." He activated it, turning Stardust into a Light-type. "No!" And it flew forward, charging right into the threeheaded Dragion, powered up by a discarded Honest (5500/2000).
Facade's LP: 0
The attack took away all of his lifepoints, his monsters. "You little.. you will never see your brother again. Every last one of you will die and return to this place anyway!" Facade cursed as all the tiles of his platform crumbled beneath his feet. "You will have changed nothing, treasure your memories for it is all that you will have soon!" He laughed out loud. "... You are wrong." On the other hand Will remained calm. "I have a sign that I will see my brother again. And everyone else who gave their life." He started to think of the Stardust Dragon that way, a sign from a better place. "And we will stop the Magus, and anyone else that threatens the world of Light. It is you who will only have memories to live on. I almost pity you.." He turned away. "You.." And the memory stealer finally fell to the depths below. "It is over.." The only thing left to do was to reach for the light in the ceiling. It finally seemed to be close by, as if the mountain cave had kept time and dueling separate. "Here I come everyone. Here I.." A bright flash enveloped him as he made contact with the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. Except he was returning to the land of the living. Yet when he awoke to a place that definitely felt less sickening and more solid..
"Where am I?" He looked around, this place was only vaguely familiar-looking. "Wait, these are.." It was dark here, and cold. But he could recognize the people around him. "The victims?" He saw the ones he had tried to save at the hospital, even the girl whose soul was not taken yet. "This is Marcus's place!" Now he knew where he had seen this before, this was the duel training area. But why was the power out? "Little boy awake?" A shiver ran down his spine, he was not alone. "Yes the younger brother." He saw someone in the distance, a crowned man with wings. "Now we will have to send him back all over again.."
(To be Continued in New Testament 056: One Ring to find Them)
New Cards used by William Carter
Between the Dawn and Dusk
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Power Frame
New Cards used by Andre/Facade
Draco Archfiend
Dread Dragon
Trident Dragion
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Magic Planter
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Prideful Roar
Nightmare Archfiends
