Chapter 6: fight at the museum
When Shun got up the next morning he was surprised to find Dan eating at the table with Alice "hey Shun" Dan causally said "really" Shun said more to himself than anyone "what did you expect of Dan" Skyress said "I don't know maybe a proper greeting" he said before sitting down and eating "so what day is it today" Dan asked in between stuffing his face "oh it's Friday why do you ask" Alice said "well you said I had to go to school could I wait before registering, I mean it's the end of the week and I still need some time to recover" Dan said with this Shun said "not a chance if I have to so do you" with this Alice just decided to stay out of it "now march down to the school and register" Shun said "but I'm a year off middle school" he said "then say you're a year older than you are" Shun said before thinking 'it worked for me' "alright fine, I'm going" Dan said before leaving "are you sure Dan will be alright" Alice said a bit concerned "he be fine, come on it's time we left to" Shun said as the two left
As the two were approaching the school a motor cycle pulled up in front of them "how's it going" the driver said, when Alice recognised the voice as Shark's "Shark" with this shark removed his helmet for a minute "of course, there's something I need to talk to you about" with that Shun said "I'll see you later" as he wanted to make sure Dan doesn't get into any trouble "so what is it Shark" Alice asked "listen, I'll get to the point I know this guy named Weasel his part of small gang, they once tried to get me to join but I told them I wasn't interested and to get lost, anyway the guy weasel comes to find me after the gangs leader's Scorch and Chills apparently changed after getting position of certain cards" Shark said "number cards" Alice said making the connections "yeah anyway apparently their planning something big tonight, that's why weasel sort me out he thinks they're going to pin it on him, I'm looking details now, but when I do find out what their planning, can I count on you for help" he asked "sure" Alice replied "alright after school hang around the mall I'll meet you their" he said before driving off leaving Alice to go to school
The school day was what Alice would call average day she had after all had gotten used to it, afterwards though the day took an interesting change as Dan meet back up with her and Shun "alright that's done now, Alice brawl… I mean duel" Dan said excited as Alice gave in "alright, but not here" she said before the three of them went to the mall
When at the mall Dan was hyped up for the new game "all right let's do this" Dan said as a red duel disk formed on his arm and a red mark appearing near his eye "this is awesome" he said looking at the duel disk and though the deck "right Drago" he asked "focus Daniel" Drago said getting Dan back on track "alright let's do this" he said, with that Alice shifted into that of duel gear with her hair going blond, Dan was little taken aback with how much Alice looked like masquerade "duel" she said as they started
Turn 1: Dan 4000LP
"Alright then first I summon blast magician in ATK mode" ATK 1400 level 4 "now since I have that on my field I can summon this monster" Inari Fire ATK 1500 level 4 "now, uh let's see, okay I play graceful charity now I draw 3 cards and discard 2, so I'm sending my Darkfire Soldier 1 and 2 to the graveyard, now by ah" Dan paused as he didn't remember what exactly was the next step "banish Daniel" Drago reminded him "right by banishing one of my Darkfire Soldier's from my graveyard then I can summon Inferno" ATK 1100 level 4" and now I overlay my three monster's in order to summon my friend Drago" Rank 4 ATK 2500 "I'm ready Daniel" with this Dan was done "alright your up and don't go easy"
Turn 2: Alice 4000LP
"Alright I draw" Alice said as drew and looked at the cards in her hand 'Hydranoid' she thought as she looked at her options "why are you hesitating, you can fuse those 3 cards in your hand" Astral said looking over at her 'but I can't use Hydranoid he was masquerades, but it is my only option, still I shouldn't, but Dan didn't want me to go easy on him, but I shouldn't, and he probably wants me to play Hydranoid' she continued her mind going back and forth between doing or not doing it "Alice play the card on the far right" Astral said after seeing how distraught this made her feel "all right I play Card Destruction, now both of us discard our entire hand and draw cards equal to the cards in our hand" she said 'I won't use Hydranoid no matter what' she said to herself as she looked at her new hand "alright I play one monster face down in defence mode and two cards face down"
Turn 3: Dan 4000LP
"Okay so I draw one card, now we'll use one overlay unit to boost your strength before you take down the face down Drago" he said as Drago blasted the face down card and reviled it to be the mystical elf
Drago destroys skilled dark magician no damage
'Daniel you should have summoned another monster to attack' Drago said to him before Dan said "sorry buddy I don't have any other monsters" with this Dan ended his turn
Turn 4: Alice 4000LP
"why are you so hesitant, it's not like it matters if we lose" Astral said 'he's right it doesn't matter if I win or not' Alice thought before responding to him "sorry I feel like every time I duel I'm putting my friend at risk if I lose but right now I only have to have fun, thanks for reminding me" with that her attention was drawn to her opponent
"Alice who are talking to" Dan asked
"me no one, my turn right" she said getting back to the game 'Drago's practically invincible until he runs out of overlay units so I need to delay tactics till then' Alice thought before moving "remember his dragon will have 4000 attack points before you can destroy it" Astral said as Alice moved "alright I play one card face down and a monster in defence mode"
Turn 5: Dan 4000LP
"Alright first I draw now Drago attack" he said as Drago attack
Drago destroys skilled white magician no damage
'Daniel you I told you to summon another monster' Drago scolded Dan "relax buddy I'm gonna summon one now" Dan replied 'but you can't attack again this turn' Drago said "I can't" Dan asked 'no' Drago replied "alright I guess I end my turn"
Turn 6: Alice 4000LP
"Alright I draw" Alice said thinking about how to continue 'Drago's effect is over but he still has 4000 attack points how can I deal with that' Alice thought looking over her hand 'the highest I have is black luster soldier but that's not enough' she thought before Astral interjected "your black luster soldier special ability allows it to destroy one monster in exchange for its attack" with this Alice was about to play when they were interrupted when a motor cycle drove between them
"Shark" Alice said as she recognised he was the person on the motor cycle "sorry to interrupt but I need to borrow your friend for a bit" Shark said to Dan and Shun "but we were in the middle of the match" Dan said "sorry but he did say he needed help earlier, we can pick this up some other time okay" Alice said as Dan was disappointed "alright" Dan said before switching "since Alice can't shun I challenge you" with this Shun was passive as he wasn't interested but wasn't against it either, it was at this point that shark though another helmet at Alice "get on" he said as she fixed the helmet approaching the bike "when are you getting back" he asked before getting out his duel disk for Dan's challenge "I don't know" Alice said getting on the bike "this might take a while, but don't worry I'll bring her back unharmed" Shark said to Shun "you might want to hold on" he said before driving off
Soon the cycle stopped arriving at a museum "alright they should be here any minute, how are you" he said glancing back at Alice who looked sick "I'm, walking home later okay" she said "it's already late but since it was your first time I guess it was rough ride" Shark said as two more cycles arrived their occupants getting off having a conversation "where's weasel the runt said he'd be here" they said before catching sight of Alice and Shark "sorry but visiting hours are over" Shark said as the two laughed him off "you may be tough but you're not nearly as tough as us and that little girl won't be much help against us" the taller one named Scorch said as his partner agreed with marks appearing on them "they both have number cards" Astral said as Alice had an idea "if you want to get in your gonna have go through us" she said with Scorch asking "ok what's the wager" with this Alice responded quick "if you win then my number card is yours, but if I win you walk away from this museum" with this the two looked at each other "okay then you're on" Chills said "lets duel" all four said starting
Turn 1: Scorch 4000LP
"What do you say we get this duel started, it's my turn I draw, I place a monster face down in defence mode, I end my turn by placing two cards face down" he said looking to his partner
Turn 2: Alice 4000LP
"it's apparent from the way these two are interacting they are used to duelling as a team" Astral said while Alice drew a card "your right it's obvious they duel like this a lot, they might have all sorts of tag strategies" Alice said looking at her hand 'okay I'm pretty sure I can't attack the first turn of a tag duel but either way I gonna play defensively' she thought looking over to Astral before Playing "first I summon one card face down in defence, then I'll play two card face down and end my turn"
Turn 2: Chilli's 4000LP
"it's my turn I draw I summon pompadour blizzardon" 1400 ATK Level 3 "then I place two cards face down and end my turn, once this train gets going it doesn't stop" he said while scorch added his two cents "your gonna wish you stayed in bed tonight girl"
Turn 4: Shark 4000LP
"well your gonna wish you stayed out of the water because I'm summoning big jaws" 1800 ATK level 3 "and that also lets me summon shark stickers" ATK 200 level 3 "you see I can bust out this monster whenever I summon a fish type monster to the field, I overlay big jaws and shark stickers, with these monsters I can build the overlay network and XYZ summon submersible carrier arrow shark" Rank 3 ATK 1900 "and now I activate it's special ability, once a turn by using an overlay unit Arrow shark can dish out 400 points of damage for every card in my hand"
Shark said as Astral commented on the move "an excellent move he is skirting around the rules by using a special ability to deal damage" while Alice was equally impressed as shark continued his move
"Since I have four cards in my hand I'm dealing 1600 damage to Scorch"
Scorch 4000LP – 1600LP = 2400LP
Only to be meet by Scorch's laughter "we were hoping you'd do that" he a said looking at Chilli's as he picked up saying "I activate my trap blizzard egg level 5, when a special ability does damage it allows the duellist who took damage to summon a level 5 monster from his hand but if he has no monster to summon then that duellist gets slammed for five hundred damage himself"
"So that mean's" Alice started as Astral filled it in "he is gambling on scorch having a level 5 monster in his hand which is quite a reckless the risk for him to take"
"Let's see, I summon level 5 baggy-pants lavasaurus" Level 5 ATK 2100 "and now to really heat things up, I activate my trap flame egg level 5, when I take damage from a special ability flame egg grants my team mate the power to summon one level 5 monster from his hand but if he doesn't have one to summon then he takes 500 points of damage" he said looking over to Chilli's "you're about to learn why nobody messes with us" he said summing a level 5 monster in defence mode DEF 2100
"this is not right, both of them had level 5 monsters in their hands" Astral though as Alice was also occupied in her own thoughts 'their teamwork's impeccable, they must have a dozen strategies worked out in advance and a way to tell what cards the other is holding, with that in mind there is an immediate problem with two level five monsters Scorch can XYZ summon his number next turn and with the risk they took Chilli's is probably going to be able to do it on his next turn as well, so when it's my turn I should go after Chilli' Alice thought as Shark had his own thoughts 'I smell a rat' while the Scorch activated his second face down "and now to end this I play flare level 5, thanks to this trap you take 500 points of damage for every level 5 monster on our fields we've two level 5 outs so we're talking a 1000 points of damage and it's all for you shark"
Shark 4000LP – 1000LP = 3000LP
"Shark are you okay" Alice asked as Shark got knocked down by the Shockwave
Shark answered as he got up "fine I place two cards facedown and end my turn"
Turn 5: Scorch 2400LP
"And now the fun really begins, first I switch my facedown monster to attack mode here comes Flamesaurus" Level 4 ATK 1800 "Flamesaurus special ability activates and that means it becomes level 5, now I can overlay Flamesaurus and baggy-pants lavasaurus with these two monsters I build the overlay network, I summon Number 61: Volcasaurus" Rank 5 ATK 2500 "nice going Scorch" Chills commented on his partner "I'm not done yet, I'm gonna make it know what happens to little chumps, I activate Volcasaurus special ability by using one overlay unit one of your monsters is destroyed and you take damage equal to its attack points, say bye bye to Arrow Shark and say hello to a world of hurt
Arrow Shark destroyed Shark Loses 1900LP
Shark: 3000LP – 1900LP = 1100LP
"Shark" Alice called out
"Be careful if we don't take out his Volcasaurus before his next turn he'll devastate any monster we try to attack with" Shark said as Scorch continued
"I wouldn't be too concerned about that I don't need it to take you out Shark because now Volcasaurus can attack you directly"
"I activate my trap Zeus's breath, this card can blow off your monsters attack"
"it looks like you lucked out this time, you may think your safe but one way this is ending you're going to lose and your number gonna be ours I place two cards facedown and end my turn"
Turn 6: Alice 4000LP
"Okay I draw, first I flip summon Gagaga Gardna" Level 4 ATK 1500 "next up I summon Skilled Dark Magician" Level 4 ATK 1900 "I'm not sure summoning Utopia would be a good idea in this scenario" Astral said while Alice replied "if I was only summoning Utopia you'd be right but I have something else in mind, I activate the trap Blooming of the Darkest Rose with this trap I can Summon a rose token to any field and for the every monster on the field I get another token, so with five monsters in total that's five token's three for me and two for shark" Alice said as the Five tokens were summoned Level 2 DEF 800 "now I overlay my 3 level 2 rose tokens to XYZ summon Number 45 Crumble Logos the Prophet of Demolition" Rank 2 ATK 2200
"oh look Chilli's a number card" scorch said mocking as Chilli's continued "whatever will we do scorch, oh wait I know I'll activate the Avalanche trap card and freeze your number in its tracks preventing it from ever being able to attack, how do you like that kid your big bad monsters been iced" Chilli's said as Scorch add some info "and guess what if you're thinking of using its special ability think again if you do you'll be taking 500 points of damage"
Alice took a second before considering her options "it doesn't matter by using one overlay unit his special ability lets me block Volcasaurus special ability as long as it's one the field"
Alice takes 500 damage 4000LP – 500LP = 3500LP
"Good call, leaving Volcasaurus with his special ability would have cost us more life points next turn" Astral said as Alice continued "that was the thought but with less attack points Volcasaurus will wide it out next turn not to even start with Chilli's Number, it's not over though because now I can overlay Gagaga Gardna and Skilled Dark Magician to XYZ summon again, I XYZ summon Number 39 utopia" Rank 4 ATK 2500 'okay we should be in pretty good position here, Shark has two rose tokens for defence plus with Utopia Number 45 won't be in danger yet, but should I risk an attack they still have a face down but given they already tried to stop me from attacking I might be in the clear' with this she looked over to Astral who replied without needing the question "it's risky but you should attack" he said "right Utopia attack Chills Icebergdon"
Utopia destroys Icebergdon no Damage
"With that done I place one card face down and end my turn"
Turn 7: Chills 4000LP
He drew his card seeming a bit agitated "I play three cards face down and end my turn" he said
'Alright I prevented him from summoning his number' Alice thought a bit happy "something is not right" Astral said while shark had his own thoughts but kept them to himself ready to take his turn
Turn 8: Shark 1100LP
"it's my turn I draw first, I'm activating a spell card XYZ's gift when there's at least to XYZ monsters on the field I can use XYZ gift to draw two more cards, next I summon needle sunfish" Rank 3 ATK 1500 "now I activate the surface spell card from my hand this allows me to summon one water monster from my graveyard so watch out cause Big Jaws is coming back for more" level 3 DEF 300 " and now I overlay level 3 Needle Sunfish and Big jaws, with these two monsters I build the overlay network and XYZ summon Black Ray Lancer" Rank 3 ATK 2100 "next I activate Needle Sunfish's special ability since this guy was sent to graveyard Volcasaurus loses 500 attack points, what are you waiting for Black Ray Lancer attack Volcasaurus, go shimmering spear slash"
Before the Attack hit Chills activated a trap "I activate compensation exchange, this trap card stops Black Ray Lancer attack, but now my life points get hit with Volcasaurus ATK points"
Chills 4000LP – 2000LP = 2000LP
"That's not good" Alice said worried
"he takes the hits and I dish them out" Scorch said as Chills added "that's how the leaders of the pack roll" he said a Scorch moved "I activate volcanic abyss with this can check out one of your hands and if there's a monster card it gets sent back to your deck, let's see you holding any monster cards pipsqueak"
"He means me doesn't he" Alice said as "yes he is and he is trying to prevent you from summing a monster next turn" Astral said as her cards were shown to all duellists
'Ritual Raven and Blast Magician' Shark observed
'since she has two monsters I have a choice, that Blast Magician could be a problem since it can destroy any monster and that Raven won't be an issue' Scorch thought before continuing "send Blast Magician back to your deck you can keep that useless raven for now" he said as Alice silently complied
"I'll play one card face down and end my turn"
Turn 9: Scorch 2400LP
"I draw" he said before retreating to his thoughts 'these annoyances ruined our strategy, but chills will be able to summon his Number next turn so with a monster reborn in my hand I can get Volcasaurus back next turn, then have its special ability devastate them' his thoughts were interrupted when Shark activated a Trap
"Now I'm activating icy crevasse, so now I can destroy one monster and slam you with damage equal to its attack"
"So you're trying to take out my partner and his monster are you well by activating force change I can make pompadour blizzardon and me take the fall instead"
Pompadour Blizzardon Destroyed Chills takes 1400LP of damage Chills 600LP
"Next turn I activate the volcanic eruption spell card it erupts for 500 points of damage during each of my turns, my turns over"
Turn 10: Alice 3500LP
"I draw" Alice said before she looked over to Shark 'my life points are still pretty high but sharks aren't and if we draw he'll lose pretty quick and without a partner I'll be close behind' while she was in her head astral looked at the card she pulled "we have everything we need to win" he said causing her to check the card "I just have to play this right, first I summon Ritual Raven"
"Think you can win with that push over" Scorch said confident
"You don't know it's special ability do you" Shark asked
"Of course we do that card can be used as the entire tribute for a ritual summon for a dark type monster" Chills said as the two still didn't seem troubled
"Well since it will come as no surprise I activate Black Magic Ritual using this card and Ritual Raven I can summon this card, Magician of Black Chaos" level 8 ATK 2800 "now I'll use my Magician of Black Chaos to attack Volcasaurus"
Magician of Black Chaos destroys Volcasaurus Scorch Loses 800LP
"Now Utopia Attack Chills directly"
Utopia attacks Chills 600LP – 2500LP = 0LP
"and since your partner doesn't have a move to use its sharks turn, right" Alice asked not entirely sure
Turn 11: Shark 1100LP
"Right you are now Black Ray Lancer Attack scorch directly"
Black Ray Lancer Attacks Scorch 1600LP – 2100LP = 0LP
Alice and Shark win
"I'm surprised that went as good as it did" Shark said to Alice's surprise "why is that" she asked as her appearance changed back to normal and he said "they were cheating" with this Alice thought about their moves "that would explain some things but are you sure" she asked as he nodded "why are they striped cats" Astral asked "no cheater not cheetah it's a term for someone who plays dishonestly" she explained as Astral set about to claim the number cards "observation number 6 not every dualist in this world duels with honour some are willing to comprise the spirits if it means wining" he said before witnessing the memory, which left him speechless " what happened to us chills" scorch said getting up "I don't know I don't remember nothing" chills said before they both saw Shark before running "do you really have that bad a reputation" Alice asked as he approached his bike "yeah, you might get one yourself if you hang around me too long" he said putting on his helmet "I don't mind" she said offhand as he offered her the spear "no way I'm walking home, see you in class okay" she said before he smirked and rode off