Convener - A human that has the abilities to control the elements, Water, Fire, Light, Dark, Wind, and Earth.
They have always existed ever since the ERA Realm's creations, the six other realms had similar concepts and they have been incorporated within the seventh realm. However, one common thread is that all the seven realms had is Duel Monsters. A simple yet complex card game that was beloved by all. Two to four opponents battle each other using cards that contain the spirits of Duel Monsters. The Ancient Egyptians were the first the use them using stone tablets, then thousands of years later, a man named Pegasus Crawford brought the game back in card format. Over the years, the card game evolved and incorporated six different summoning mechanics (Ritual, Fusion, Synchro, XYZ, Pendulum, and Link).
I admit that when I cam and visit this realm disguised as a human, I realized how popular this game was. I miss the days I ventured in this world with Luminas and her brother. The game was what connected us together. However, Lumina's brother uses the game he loves to challenge Erebus to a duel, he won but the excess use of energy broke him apart into six cards. I have no idea where they went but I believe they went to six other realms. Erebus probably destroyed them so he won't be revived but I had a hand in retrieving them. The plan didn't work according to plan and they were scattered all over the world. I tried finding them but they were already at the hands of six powerful duelists with the title of Duel King. I calculated a plan in order to bring them together, but since I need my watchers together in one area for me to become a human again, the only solution was Astral Projection.
I manage to find all of them, but they were living in different locations. All of them have strong energy as Duelists. I was about to intervene but the cards from Luminas's brother's soul know that need to be together, but something was missing from them. The Duel Kings know something is missing from their cards, their spirits. Where did they go?
I have a bad feeling that Erebus is behind this somehow.
Thoth's Journal Entry - Beta
Inside an empty kitchen, a girl in her early teen years was organizing her deck on a kitchen island. The table was scattered with hundreds of Duel Monster cards. She was reorganizing her deck, her grey eyes carefully studying each card to make sure that they are balanced and support the deck properly. She manages to make two decks from the messy pile. The first was a water deck with support cards like Umi, A Legendary Ocean and mostly Water Attribute monsters to support each other. The last was a dark attribute deck filled with Spellcasters and Fiends as well as some support cards as Yami in order to increase their attacks as well as some traps in order to stop the activation of spells and traps.
The girl sighs again, she really wants to get into the game but with how complex it was will all the six summonings incorporated, it was pretty hard to digest all the information. She looks back at the pile in front of her. Many Normal and Effect monster cards were left scattered on the table. She cleans up the mess and puts all the cards back into a pink toolbox covered in blue star stickers. This is her DuelBox, where cards the girl doesn't use is stored for potential future use. She puts her Water and Dark decks back inside the deck holsters strapped to her brown belt with a silver buckle with a blue star imprint and walks back to her room.
She stops when she notices, her cousin, Daniel or Danny for short was watching T.V. He had solid blue hair tied into a ponytail with a white band and dark grey eyes. He wore a simple white hoodie jacket over a black turtleneck shirt, jeans, grey socks, and white shoes.
The girl notices that he was watching a Duel Tournament duel. She looks at it with interest. Danny looks up and smiles, "Hey, Delia! Come on, sit next to me! You'll love this duel! It's between Bandit Keith and Seto Kaiba." Delia shrugs her shoulders, why not? It will give her some more information on how others duel. She takes a sit on the couch beside her cousin.
She looks at the duel, the duelists were Bandit Keith and Seto Kaiba. Keith Howard or Bandit Keith as people rather refer to him was a duelist with a gambling addiction and lust of victory. While Seto Kaiba was a CEO of Kaiba Corp, developer of games.
Bandit Kieth wore an American Flag bandana that covered most of his blonde hair and brown eyes covered by his sunglasses. He wore an open black leather vest with golden studs over a red T-shirt, white jeans and black boots.
Seto Kaiba was an imposing figure standing over six feet tall with brown hair and piercing blue eyes. He wore an outlandish white trench coat with his company's logo on it, over a black shirt, black jeans with a belt that also has his company's logo on it. and matching boots. His additional accessories were silver gauntlets, a pair of extra belts wrapped around his upper arms and shins.
The Life Point counter for Bandit Keith was 3000. On his field were three cards face down. Seto Kaiba was at a disadvantage with 200 LP and two cards face down. The last few moves felt like a blur to Delia. Kaiba summons Kaibaman and uses his ability to special summon Blue Eyes White Dragon from his hand. Bandit Keith smirks as he has cards to negate it and activates a trap. Kaiba counters it with a spell card called Return of the Dragon Lord to summon another Blue Eyes White Dragon, which he sent to the Graveyard earlier in the duel using another card effect earlier in the duel. This move destroys Keith's trap. The bandit tries another strategy, but Kaiba already has a comeback. The CEO uses his face down card to destroy Keith's remaining face-down card which allows him to special summon another Blue Eyes White Dragon. He then uses Fusion to create Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon. The two cousins were amazed by the three-headed dragon's appearance. The fused dragon then takes Bandit Keith's life points down to zero.
Danny stands up in excitement, cheering on Seto Kaiba's victory. "Alright, Kaiba! You showed him!" Delia wonders how Danny idolizes such an arrogant person. She could imagine a cheeky, older Danny wearing a trench coat in a similar fashion to Kaiba's. She gets up from her seat and grabs her DuelBox. "Hey Delia," Danny said, "Do you want to duel with me and my friends? I've improved my Blues-Eyes Deck and even added some Synchro Monsters for further support!" Delia smiles at Danny's dedication to modify his deck plus he has gotten used to the Synchro Summoning method. Delia frowns as her skills were not as good as his. The girl declines his offer and goes back to her room.
Danny frowns as Delia retreats back to the safety of her room. The blue haired boy shook his head, his cousin always retreats back to her room. She rarely comes outside now and would rather draw, read some manga, or play some video games. A social hermit as Danny would put it. He then takes out a white cell phone and calls his friends to meet up at their local hang out.
Inside Delia's Room, Delia was looking at the mirror absentminded. She has light blue hair tied into two pigtails using two magenta hair bands, a magenta hoodie jacket with the letter D on the right side of the jacket over a black T-shirt, regular jeans, and grey shoes with magenta check logo and soles. Her additional accessories were her signature Blue Star Necklace and her belt with deck holster attached to her hips.
Her room was quite spacious with pink walls and white wooden floors. She had a bed with pink and blue sheets and white pillows. On the right side of it was a brown cabinet where Delia stores her manga and video games. There was a flat screen TV that hangs above her white wooden desk. Finally, there was a closet door which houses her clothes.
Delia closes her bedroom door and goes to sit on her pink and white rolling chair and goes to her desk. She opens the drawers and puls out her sketchbook and pencils (graphite and coloring). She opens the sketchbook to a black page and gets out a graphite pencil. The young girl then starts to draw and after a few hand strokes, she manages to draw a woman looking at the sunset with bubbles floating around her. She then lays out the blue pencils of different shades and starts to color with one of them. However, her mind was wandering back to what Danny said earlier. She wasn't the best in socializing but something else was nagging at her mind. Could she be as good as Danny or even surpass him? Those little thoughts were etched into her mind while she continues to color.
She wasn't even halfway done with her coloring when she saw the sun starting to set. She felt a craving of Leche Pudding coming up. Delia will finish her coloring once she gets a taste of her favorite dessert. She informs her aunt, Michelle Crystalline that she will be going out for a while and she will be back before dusk.
Delia jogs to the Shokuhin Kissaten Café as it was the closest to her aunt's mansion. She goes inside the pink and yellow café where she meets Kayla and Karen doing some homework. She calls out to the two girls, who were waitresses of their family own café.
Kayla was the older sister with light brown, shoulder-length hair and blonde bangs and matching eyes, and fair skin. She wore a pink and light yellow skirt with white lace, a light yellow skirt, black leggings, and light blue and pink sneakers. Her additional accessories was a red headband with white wings and three ribbons on each side with colors (pink, black, and yellow) to match her clothes.
Karen was the younger sister with black hair and blond bangs. Her eyes were emerald green eyes with a youthful and playful tinge and fair peach skin. She wore a headband that was similar to her sister's only it was green with the ribbons being blue, yellow, and red and smaller wings. She wore a green and white shirt with white lace, a black skirt with white lace and flower themed apron, white over-the-knee socks with a green stripe at the top, and green Mary Jeans Shoes with black soles.
"Hello, Delia!" Kayla greeted, "Here to get some Leche Pudding again?" Delia nods again as she loves that desert, a popular easy-to-make Filipino custard shaped like an egg. It was yellow but brown on top due to the caramelization of the sugar. Delia pats her jeans pocket and pulls out her wallet to confirm she has money to purchase it.
After purchase, Kayla allows Delia to sit with her and her sister. "Delia I decide to go into Duel Monsters," the café waitress declared, "I went with a Madolche Deck since it fits with my theme of café and sweets." Delia smiles at Kayla's interest in getting into the game, but she herself was still getting into the game.
"You're getting into Duel Monsters now?" Karen asked, "Pffft! You should've done it when it was still popular." "Oh, that's right," Kayla said, "the new generation of Conveners has been bringing to Duel Monsters to life without dueling or even duel disks. I guess because of that, dueling is starting to lose public interest." Delia tenses after Kayla's statement, she felt guilty that her kind was responsible in the public slowly losing interest in Duel Monsters. "Oh, right Delia you are a Convener right?" Kayla asked. Delia looks up with concern in her eyes which confirms Kayla's suspicion. "Really!" Karen jumps in excitement, "You are a Convener! So can you summon Duel Monsters?" Delia frowns at Karen's question. She knows that Conveners have been around for years, but not many people know that they have been categorized into different types.
The common and well-known Conveners were those that control the elements - Water, Fire, Light, Dark, Wind, and Earth.
The uncommon ones were those that have different abilities. Those can easily be explained like clairvoyance and fortune telling.
The rare ones were those with abilities that not many could explain, teleportation from one space to another, manipulation of pure energy, and the most well-known summoning creatures from different worlds, in this case, summoning Duel Monsters from cards just like the Ancient Past. This is where the public mostly gets the concept that Conveners could do just anything. Delia sighs and wonders if people these days do their research.
"Hey, Delia!" Kayla snapped. The young waitress's voice snaps the young girl's wandering thoughts. "Are you okay? You were dozing off again." Her light brown eyes were worried by the light blue haired girl's attitude. "You know, Delia I know you don't speak a lot, as you prefer using actions but it wouldn't hurt to speak your mind out."
Delia blinks at Kayla's statement, she never thought about it. She always had that in mind but for someone to point that out was something else.
Karen interrupts this train of thought and asks if both Delia and Kayla would duel. "Great idea," Kayla said, "But I think it would be nice if we had Duel Disks. The experience would be fantastic! But since we don't have any, we'll just stick to the traditional table format." Kayla sets up a table for the Dueling Table Top setting. A small table with two chairs facing each other, and on the table were placemats that were Madloche themed. The placemats were formatted to the current game, two rows of seven cards with two Extra Monster Zones in the middle, one for each player. The front row was the five Main Monster Zones, on the left was the Field Zone and on the right was the Graveyard. The back row as the Spell and Trap Zone with the far left and the far right in which the Pendulum Zone was set. The far left was the Extra Deck and the far right is where you insert the main deck.
Delia takes the seat on the left which was blue while Kayla takes the seat on the right which was red. The two girls put their Main deck and Extra Deck in the correct positions.
"Alright then, let's flip a coin," Kayla said as she gets out a coin, "Well use it to see who goes first, which side do you want? Heads or Tails?" Delia points to the Heads side. "Alright I'll take Tails," Kayla said. The brunette tosses the coin into the air and it lands on the table. The result was shown. Delia was second and Kayla was first. The two girls draw five cards. "DUEL!" They both shouted and their life point counter goes to 4000 instead of the normal 8000 for learning sakes.
KAYLA LP: 4000
DELIA LP: 4000
"Alright, I'll go first," Kayla declared. She draws her cards and her total hand of cards goes to six. She had three monsters, two spells and one trap card in her hand. Kayla looks over their effects and looks back at Delia, who was looking at her hand as well. "I place one monster face down and one card face down. I end my turn." Kayla puts the monster card sideways to indicate it was in defense mode but on the back of the card was shown. Her face down card also had its back shown to hide the card's identity.
"I draw!" Delia exclaimed as she looks at her hand after her Draw Phase. In her hand were two normal monsters, an effect monster, one spell, and two traps. She summons one of her monsters, Space Mambo in attack mode. The card depicts an ocean sunfish with lines going around it and swimming in space. She then sets her two traps cards fade down and declares an attack on Kayla's face-down monster.
Kayla smirks at such a rash decision, "Too bad my facedown monster was Madolche Maramalmaide. She has 2000 DEF so you take damage from the difference of your monster's attack and my monster's defense." She flips her cards to reveal a maid with shoulder length amber hair and matching eyes. She is wearing a maid outfit sitting on a jar with orange jam on top of a puzzle shaped, ice cream cookie. Delia grits her teeth as Space Mambo has 1700 ATK with Madolche Maramalmaide has 2000 DEF. So she lost 300 LP.
DELIA LP: 4000 → 3700
She goes to her second main phase and Normal Summons, Lost Blue Breaker, a blue crustacean monster with two heads. Its ATK was 1400 but has 0 DEF. Delia ends her turn.
KAYLA LP: 4000
Field:
Madolche Marmalmaide ATK: 800 DEF: 2000
1 card face down
DELIA LP: 3700
Field:
Space Mambo ATK: 1700 DEF: 1000
Lost Blue Breaker ATK: 1400 DEF: 0
2 cards face down
"It's my turn, I draw!" Kayla said, "I summon Madolche Puddingcess in attack mode! Then I activate her effect. When there are no monsters in my graveyard, she gains 800 ATK and DEF!" The monster card shows a picture of a young girl with blonde curly hair and light blue eyes. She wore an elegant European dress that was based on pudding cake with a brown stripe bow attached on her left hip. Her additional accessories was a silver tiara, a pearl necklace, white gloves, white stockings and red bows attached to her ankles.
Madolche Puddingcess ATK: 1000 → 1800 DEF: 1000 → 1800
"Now I target your Space Mambo and you have to discard it to the graveyard plus since my Puddingcess has 1800 ATK and your Space Mambe has 1700 ATK, you lose 100 LP," Kayla explained. Delia puts her Space Mambo Card into the Graveyard Slot. "Then I activate her secondary effect after Madolche PUddingcess deals battle damage I can target 1 card you control and destroy it. So I choose your Lost Blue Breaker Card." Delia discards Lost Blue Breaker into the graveyard.
DELIA LP: 3700 → 3600
"Poor Delia, she has no monsters to defend herself," Karen notes.
Kayla goes to her Second Main Phase, "I summon Madolche Butlerusk in Attack Mode and then I activate his effect. When there is another Madolche Monster in the field, I can add 1 Field Spell Card from my deck to my hand. And since I did that I activate the Field Spell Madolche Chateau." She slaps the Field Spell Card on the Field Spell Slot. "I end my turn," she said.
KAYLA LP: 4000
Field:
Madolche Marmalmaide ATK: 800 DEF: 2000
Madolche Puddingcess ATK: 1800 DEF: 1800
Madolche Butlerusk ATK: 1500 DEF: 800
Field Spell: Madolche Chateau
1 card face down
DELIA LP: 3600
Field:
2 cards face down
Delia draws her card and sets one monster face down since she has no monsters right now to destroy her strongest monster on the field. So she ends her turn.
KAYLA LP: 4000
Field:
Madolche Marmalmaide ATK: 800 DEF: 2000
Madolche Puddingcess ATK: 1800 DEF: 1800
Madolche Butlerusk ATK: 1500 DEF: 800
Field Spell: Madolche Chateau
1 card face down
DELIA LP: 3600
Field:
1 monster card face down
2 cards face down
"Is that all?" Kayla asked, "I attack with Madolche Puddingcess again!" Delia flip summons her monster, which was Snowman Eater and activates its effect which destroys Madolche Puddingcess in the process. Kayla lost 100 LP from the battle calculation. "I activate Puddingcess Third Effect which allows me to shuffle her back to the deck if she's destroyed by battle or card effect." She puts her card and shuffles it back to her deck. She then ends her turn.
KAYLA LP: 3900
Field:
Madolche Marmalmaide ATK: 800 DEF: 2000
Madolche Butlerusk ATK: 1500 DEF: 800
Field Spell: Madolche Chateau
2 cards face down
DELIA LP: 3600
Field:
Snowman Eater ATK: 0 DEF: 1900
2 cards face down
Delia draws her card and sacrifices Snowman Eater to Tribute Summon Genocide King Salmon*. She targets Madolche Butlerusk. Kayla uses her Butlerusk's effect to shuffle him back to her deck but suffers 900 LP damage.
KAYLA LP: 3900 → 3000
Delia then activates one of her face-down cards, the Spell Card Cyclone* to destroy Kayla's Madolche Lesson Trap Card. She was relieved that one less face down card to worry about. She goes to the second main phase by setting two more cards face down before ending her turn. The light blue haired girl was impressed by how versatile Kayla's Madolche Deck was, but for now, she has the lead in term of Life Points.
KAYLA LP: 3000
Field:
Madolche Marmalmaide ATK: 800 DEF: 2000
Field Spell: Madolche Chateau
1 card face down
DELIA LP: 3600
Field:
Genocide King Salmon ATK: 2400 DEF: 1000
3 cards face down
"My turn, draw!" Kayla cried, "I summon Madolche Mewfeuille in Attack Mode and activate his effect. I can Special Summon a Madolche monster from my hand in Defense Mode. And I choose Madolche Baaple!" Madolche Mewfeuille was a pink stuffed kitten doll with blue eyes and wore a purple vest. While Madolche Baaple was a sheep with orange cream as horns with purple sprinkles on one and vanilla cream for its body and fur. His face, arms, and legs were peach.
"I activate Madolche Baaple's effect, which allows me to target one of your attack position monsters and switch it to defense mode. Which means you can't switch your monster to your attack mode until your next turn." Delia puts her monster in Defense Mode. Kayla end her turn
Delia draws her card and notices that she draw the card she needs. She plays A Legendary Ocean and puts it in her Field Spell Area. "Whoa, you got A Legendary Ocean?" Karen said, "That means all of your Water Monsters on the field gain 200 ATK and DEF Points!" "That's not at all Karen. She can reduce the level of her Water Monster to 1," Kayla adds. She activates a Legendary Ocean's effect and tribute summons Genocide King Salmon to summon Levia-Dragon-Daedalus. She activates her monster's effect using A Legendary Ocean's effect by treating it as the Umi Spell Card. Levia-Dragon-Daedalus forces both players to send every card from their field to the graveyard. Karen admits that it was hard to keep track of them but Delia manages to clear the entire board. Kayla was shocked at Delia's turn around.
"No way," Kayla muttered, "You manage to clear the entire field?" Delia smiles before activating a Spell Card, Double Summon. Since she already Normal Summons once she has to make the second one count. She chooses Amphibious Bugroth MK-3, a machine type, effect monster with 1500 ATK and 1300 DEF. She then declares a direct attack on Kayla which makes her lose half of her life points.
KAYLA LP: 3000 →1500
On her second main phase, she uses the Magic card, Salvage to retrieve her Lost Blue Breaker and Snowman Eater from her Graveyard and returns them back to her hand. She ends her turn by setting one card face down.
KAYLA LP: 1500
DELIA LP: 3600
Field:
Amphibious Bugroth MK-3 ATK: 1500 DEF: 1300
1 card face down
"Alright, time to turn this duel around!" Kayla said, "Since you destroy all of my Madolche Monsters, they go back to my Deck and I shuffle again." The brunette then she gets all her Madolche monsters cards from her graveyard and shuffles her deck. She then normal summons, Madolche Chouxvailer. He was depicted as a young boy with spiky blond hair. His attire was black ship captain attire with a red feather on the cap and piano designs on the seams of his coat, white jeans, and black boots. He was riding a white horse doll with lime green hair and hooves. In his right hand was a candy cane sword."
"I attack Amphibious Bugroth with Madolche Chouxvalier," Kayla declared. Delia retaliates by using her trap card, Impenetrable Attack to stop the destruction of her monster but at the cost of her life points.
Delia LP: 3600 → 3400
"I end my turn with a face down," Kayla declares.
Delia draws her card and smiles as has Umi in her hand. She puts the Field Spell on the correct slot. She gives a small smile and activates Amphibious Bugroth MK-3's effect and declares a direct attack to take the rest of Kayla's Life Points.
KAYLA LP: 0 LOSE
DELIA LP: 3600 WIN
"Whoa, that's it?" Karen said. "I was surprised that Delia manages to win," Kayla said. "I mean I got a good head start but Delia manages to use her wits to win the duel." "That's so cool!" Karen said, "With your wits and determination, you can become a great duelist! And since you're a Convener that will elevate your status even more." Delia shakes her head no, as much it was cool to be a Convener Duelists, she still has a lot to learn from the game itself. It didn't help that the six different summoning methods complicated things further. She really wants to get into the game but the complexity of those added mechanics felt overwhelming Maybe she should take things slowly and try to learn the oldest summonings first, Ritual and Fusion. Both need spell cards in order to bring them out, Ritual Spell Cards and Fusion* respectively. The only difference was that Ritual Monsters don't go to the Extra Deck but Fusion Monsters do. Delia sighs as she always gets the Ritual and Fusion monsters mixed up because both of them use spell cards.
"Delia?" Kayla asked, "Are you dozing off again? Come on, it wouldn't hurt to speak your opinion." Delia manages to speak but it was quiet, "I'm not ready yet." "You're not ready to become a Convener Duelist?" Karen asked. "No, I haven't mastered everything from the game," Delia said. "You don't have to," Kayla said, "I mean even duelists from the Pro Circuit are still learning new things from the game. So even the experts are learning something from the game. I'm going to learn XYZ and Link summoning since the Madolche has support there." "That's so cool!" Karen said, "Maybe I should get into the game too!"
"You do that," Delia comments. She then looks at the window and notices that it was dusk. "Oh no, it's almost dark!" Delia cried. "Huh, our duel lasted that long?" Kayla asked. "I promise Auntie that I would back before night time!" Delia explained, "I'm going to be in huge trouble!" "Then let me go with you," Kayla said, "Haven't you heard about people disappearing in this city?" Delia nods at her response, she already knows about the disappearances in which both Convener and Duelists vanish with no explanation. A shiver went down her spine after thinking about those strange cases. It was a good think Kayla decides to accompany her, she couldn't imagine what would happen if she went by herself.
Kayla tells her sister that she will be back after dropping Delia off at her mansion. Karen wonders why since it would be easier for Delia to call Michelle to pick her up. Kayla assures it was a short walk to the mansion and that she brought her cellphone so she can get a taxi to drive her back home. As the two girls begin the walk to Michelle's mansion, Delia looks up and sees the sun slowly dipping into the horizon. The moon was starting to become more opaque after every minute passes.
"Delia do you know where you're going?" Kayla asked. "Yes, this is the pathway to..." the light blue haired girl stops and notices that the landscape around them has drastically changed. "Are you sure this is the way?" the brunette asked, "Let's go back to the shop." Delia wasn't sure that was the safest option as everything started to crumble and wither around them.
*Japanese Translated Cards - English Cards
Genocide King Salmon - Terror King Salmon
Cyclone - Mystical Space Typhoon
Fusion - Polymerization
A/N: Hey everyone, I hope you all enjoy reading this chapter. As for why Kayla didn't use her Madolche support spells and trap cards is because she believes her Madolche Monsters' effects were mandatory, not optional. Remember she is still learning the game like Delia is, so she won't fully understand how Trigger Effects work.