15. Tree-Top Rumble.

After trying to get the Crystal Star from the mayor and seeking out the lost key to Bow's cabin, why were the X-Naut soldiers after a random key? I believe there is more in that cabin and I intend to find out what.

Mario and Mallow entered the cabin there Luigi was waiting.

'Where is Goombella?' Mario asked, Luigi shook his head: 'Haven't seen her, probably still looking, I think we should investigate this cabin.'

Mario scratched his chin. 'Okay we give Goombella an hour, if she isn't back then we gonna search for her.'

Bow stood up: 'There must be something in this basement, I mean why else would those X-Nauts steal the key to this cabin?' She wondered.

'No time to wait around, let's go.' Mario said as he opened the door to the basement, they walked down the stairs there they found a small room filled with wine-racks full with bottles of wine, Mario carefully checked each and every bottle. 'Look here, one bottle is missing, only empty spot in the rack.' Mario muttered, Mallow looked at the empty space then he checked the spot with his hand. 'Got it, hidden button in the back, would activate when a bottle is placed in it, but this will work.' Mario muttered then a loud click was heard, a part on the side wall moved aside.

They now looked in a small, long hallway.

'Where does it lead?' Bow wondered.

'Direction of the Great Boggly Tree if you ask me.' Mario replied: 'Punio said the Crystal Star was hidden under the Tree, but he didn't know how to enter, seems he did know where the Star was hidden.' Mario looked at Bow. 'Bow we need your permission to search this place.' Mario stated.

'Well seems my friend had to guard the Crystal Star well I didn't make that deal with Punio so you have my permission.'

Then all of a sudden all D-Gazers went off everybody activated them, it showed a screen of Lord Crump, Lord Crump stood in the middle of some hangar, he was flanked by two soldiers, next to him stood Azrael. 'People of Boggly Woods.' Lord Crump started: 'You might have seen my soldiers walking outside.' Lord Crump paused the screen zoomed in on one of the soldiers.

'This a military invasion.' Lord Crump continued: 'What we want is the Crystal Star, we tried to get it peacefully but your mayor Punio did not want to listen.' Again Lord Crump paused. 'This message is broadcasting to all devices so we know you hear this.' Azrael added.

Lord Crump spoke again: 'We give you until midnight to hand over the Crystal Star, if you fail to do so my soldiers will start to methodically search everything.' The camera zoomed in on Azrael, the demon spoke: 'We give our soldiers eight hours to find the star before we begin to burn your forest down.' The camera zoomed back out.

'If you want to give us the star you only need to get to our ship, it has been cloaked all this time, but now I shall uncloak it.' Mario and the others looked out the window there a familiar ship appeared, it was The Blade, the ship the Axem Rangers used when they were in the service of Smithy, it was an axe-shaped ship.

'We destroyed that ship.' Mallow muttered.

Mario looked at his friend: 'Lord Crump is supposed to be a master mechanic, he simply had to patch it up, but I can see it is barely holding it together.' Mario noticed.

Then the camera zoomed back in on Azrael: 'Mario I know you are listening.' He spoke: 'I hereby challenge you and your team at the top of the Great Boggly Tree.' The camera zoomed back out then changed Mario and the others could see Goombella tied to an iron pipe.

Then the camera turned back to Azrael: 'As you can see we have something that belongs to you, I think you know what you have to do.' Then the screen turned black.

'That bastard!' Mallow shouted: 'Mario, Luigi we need to go!'

Mario appeared at the top of the tree first he was closely followed by Mallow, Luigi arrived a few seconds later, the top of the tree was different then Mario expected it to be. It consisted of a lot of branches weaved together so it formed a path, few other branches covered in leaves stuck out, Mario looked up to see the actual tree top but nobody could stand there it was completely made of leaves, Mario looked around but saw nothing of interest.

Then all of a sudden they heard someone clapping slowly. 'There!' Mario shouted as he turned to the side, there in mid-air stood Azrael the demon folded his arms. 'So you've finally came.' Azrael said.

'Let Goombella go! She has nothing to do with this!' Mallow shouted, Azrael shook his head: 'Neither have I, the Crystal Star is Lord Crump's mission, my mission is to kill you Mario. That girl is Lord Crump's hostage, I merely used her to lure you here.'

Mario closed his eyes, shadow wings sprouted out of his back, horns grew out of his head, his hands changed into claws, a tail also appeared.

Azrael unfolded his arms. 'I see, so this is what nearly killed Grave, here I was hoping Grave would have held back his powers against you, seems he didn't you actually nearly killed him.' Mario and Azrael stared each other down for a few seconds then both activated their Duel Disks and both of their left eyes started to glow golden, Azrael spread his arms: 'I am not about to make the same mistake Mario, I shall not underestimate you! Now Mario! Come at me! Attack me any way you like!'

'Mallow let's go!' Mario shouted Mallow's Duel Disk and D-Gazer activated.

(Azrael: 8000) - (Shadow Mario: 8000) - (Mallow: 8000)

Azrael drew his opening hand, Mario and Mallow did the same.

'I shall have the first move.' Azrael said, he choose a card from his hand.

'I activate Shinato's Ark.' The demon stated, the wooden boat Mario had seen from the distance appeared on the Field, clearly it was stranded.

'Azrael, you do realize a boat needs water right?' Mallow sneered.

'I shall end my turn here.' Azrael stated completely ignoring Mallow.

'Mallow please, don't enrage him.' Mario whispered: 'I shall draw my card.' Mario stated and he drew his card. 'I summon Heroic Challenger - Spartan!' Mario shouted, the warrior holding the spear and sword appeared. (1600 ATK)

'Then it will be my turn again.' Azrael said, he drew his card.

'I summon Darklord Ukoback.' A small Fairy appeared it had black wings and wore a thick chain around his body. (700 ATK)

'I shall end my turn with a facedown card.' Azrael stated it appeared behind his monster.

Mallow saw Mario was worried. 'Mario, don't worry we can take him down.' Mallow drew his card. 'I activate Rising Air Current!' Mallow played the Spell card the forest disappeared all Duelists stood in the sky.

'Now I summon Luster Dragon!' Mallow continued, the sapphire dragon appeared before Mallow. (1900- 2400 ATK)

'Attack Ukoback!' Mallow commanded.

'No Mallow!' Mario shouted, Azrael grinned: 'Too late!' The demon shouted, his Trap card spun around: 'Fallen Angel's Bewitchment, when I control a Dark Fairy I can change the attack target.' Azrael explained, Luster Dragon turned around the attack struck Spartan.

Then the front of the ark opened up, Spartan was sucked into it.

'What the hell Azrael? What trickery is this?' Mario said.

'That is the Effect of Shinato's Ark, when a monster is send to the Graveyard it got trapped in my ark, for future purposes of course.'

(Azrael: 8000) - (Shadow Mario: 7200) - (Mallow: 8000)

'Mario, I'm sorry...' Mallow gasped then Mario felt something: 'My foot!' He yelled Mallow and Mario looked at Mario's left foot which had changed to stone. 'Heh heh heh.' Azrael laughed: 'Finally a Shadow Game with a punishment! The two of you will make fine statues!' Azrael cackled.

Then he drew his card. 'I sacrifice Ukoback for Darklord Desire.' He exclaimed, the small Fairy disappeared and got replaced by a dark angel with red wings, clad in heavy black armor. (3000 ATK)

'Desire destroy Luster Dragon!' Azrael shouted, the Darklord uses his claw-like gauntlets to rip the dragon to shreds.

(Azrael: 8000) - (Shadow Mario: 7200) - (Mallow: 7400)

A small part of Mallow's left foot turned to stone, Luster Dragon got sucked into the ark.

'Now Surprise Attack From Beyond, which allows my monster to attack again during the End Phase.' Azrael narrowed his eyes as he looked at Mario, then at Mallow, then back to Mario after a minute he turned his gaze to Mallow. 'Desire! Destroy Mallow!' Azrael commanded.

Mario cursed loudly he used the darkness to erect a barrier around Mallow.

'Tsk tsk tsk Mario, now THAT is cheating!' Azrael bellowed he casted a spell that destroyed Mario's barrier then Desire struck Mallow.

(Azrael: 8000) - (Shadow Mario: 7200) - (Mallow: 4400)

Both of Mallow's legs and a part of his upper body changed to stone.

'Seems you're not strong enough to protect your friend Mario.' Azrael sneered. 'You can't get into my mind Azrael, Mallow knows I will do everything to protect him!' Azrael chuckled: 'Anything?'

Mario gave the demon a dirty look, then Mario drew his card.

'I summon Double Lance from my hand.' Mario stated, the warrior holding the two spears appeared. (1600 ATK)

'Now I use Double Lance's Effect to summon a second one from my hand.' Mario continued, another of the Double Lance appeared, it knelt. (900 DEF)

'I create the Overlay Network with these two monsters!' Mario shouted, the black vortex opened up in the sky, the two monsters were sucked in. 'Xyz Summon! Come forth Heroic Champion - Excalibur!' The warrior clad in red-heavy armor came down the vortex, he carried the mythical sword in his hand. (2000 ATK) 'I Detach two Units to double the ATK of Excalibur until your next End Phase Azrael.' The warrior let out a war-cry, the two orbs surrounding him disappeared. (2000- 4000 ATK)

The two Double Lance were sucked in the ark.

'Now I have one more card to add, the Spell card Riryoku!' Mario played another card from his hand. 'This halves the ATK of your monster and gives my monster that same amount.'

Two beams of light connected Excalibur and Desire their attack powers changed. (Desire: 3000- 1500 ATK), (Excalibur: 4000- 5500 ATK)

'Excalibur attack Desire!' Mario shouted, Excalibur rose his sword then sliced the head of Desire clean off, the ark opened Desire was sucked in.

(Azrael: 4000) - (Shadow Mario: 7200) - (Mallow: 4400)

Azrael looked pretty calm as his entire lower body was changed into stone.

'This makes things interesting.' Azrael said, he didn't seem to be bothered.

'I'll end my turn here.' Mario said, Excalibur became a bit weaker. (5500- 4000 ATK)

Azrael drew his card. 'I activate a Field Spell! The Great Flood!'

Mallow and Mario braced themselves as water washed over the Field, the sky of Mallow's Field Spell disappeared, the ark was now floating in the water, Mario and Mallow stood both on a small island, Azrael stood on the front of his ark.

'Mario, Mallow your end draws near! I control Shinato's Ark and The Great Flood which means I pay half of my Life Points!'

More stone slowly appeared around Azrael, only his head and arms were not made of stone.

(Azrael: 2000) - (Shadow Mario: 7200) - (Mallow: 4400)

'I summon Keeper of the Ark in defense mode!' Next to Azrael on the ark a man appeared, he appeared to be really old, his face was covered in wrinkles, he wore plain white robes, had a long gray beard and long gray hair, he was leaning on a oakwood staff. (0 DEF)

'As long as the Keeper is on my Field I cannot draw cards, neither can I Normal Summon monsters.' Azrael said, he spread his arms, his eyes started to glow, the darkness around the Field intensified.

'Instead I can call upon any monster from my Ark, ignoring the Summoning Condition, any monster that is Summoned through this Effect becomes Level 0!' The front of the ark opened up, on the deck Darklord Desire appeared. (3000 ATK)

'I use the Effect of Desire by giving up 1000 of his attack points I can send one monster to the Graveyard.' Azrael explained, Desire got weaker. (3000- 2000 ATK) 'Say goodbye to Excalibur!' Desire smacked the warrior into the water and was sucked into the ark.

'Desire attack Mario!' Azrael yelled, Desire shot forward striking Mario with his claw-like gauntlets.

(Azrael: 2000) - (Shadow Mario: 5200) - (Mallow: 4400)

Slowly Mario's left leg and a part of his right leg turned into stone.

'Now I activate a Spell card, The Dark Door!' Azrael placed the card in his Duel Disk it appeared next to the Ark: 'Now you can only attack with one monster per turn.' Azrael grinned: 'And with that I shall end my turn, which means Desire disappears into the Ark again.' The doors slowly opened again and Desire was sucked back in.

'You're wide open Azrael.' Mallow said: 'Draw!' He shouted.

'I summon Sonic Shooter in attack mode!' A bird-man came falling down from the sky, he had purple skin, right above the water he stopped. (1300 ATK) 'Attack Keeper of the Ark!' Mallow shouted.

Azrael chuckled: 'I activate the Effect of my Keeper.' The doors of the Ark started to open. 'When it is my opponent's turn when they attack I can summon a monster from the Ark to defend me.'

In front of the Keeper Luster Dragon appeared. (1600 DEF)

'Now your Sonic Shooter must attack Luster Dragon.' Azrael explained.

'I activate Ego Boost!' Mallow shouted, the attack of Sonic Shooter rose to 2300, Sonic Shooter crushed Luster Dragon by kicking it, Luster Dragon was sucked back into the Ark. 'I'll end my turn.' Mallow said.

'My turn.' Azrael said: 'I use the Effect of Keeper to summon Desire!'

Again the Darklord appeared on the Ark. (3000 ATK)

'I pay 1000 of his attack points to send away Sonic Shooter.

The Darklord leaped through the air and punched Sonic Shooter into the water where the monster was sucked into the ark.

'Desire attack Mallow!' Azrael cackled, this time Mallow got punched in the gut by the Darklord, Mallow cringed, slowly his upper body changed into stone.

(Azrael: 2000) - (Shadow Mario: 5200) - (Mallow: 2400)

'And as I end my turn Desire returns into the Ark.' Azrael said, the Darklord disappeared.

'Azrael, it shall end this turn.' Mario said, he drew his card, then Mario took another card from his hand. 'I summon Heroic Challenger - Thousand Blades!' A warrior wearing thick metal armor appeared he carried a spear in his hand and he had many, many swords on his back. (1300 ATK)

'I use Thousand Blade's Effect! By discarding this Heroic Challenger - Night Watchman from my hand.' The monster fell from the sky into the water where he was sucked into the Ark. 'Now that I have done this I can Special Summon one monster from my Deck!' Mario shouted another Double Lance appeared in the water. (1700 ATK)

'I create the Overlay Network!' Mario shouted, the vortex opened again his monsters were sucked in. 'Xyz Summon! Come forth Heroic Champion - Gandiva!'

Out of the vortex an armored woman riding a horse appeared, she had a bow attached to her wrist, she drew an arrow and pointed it at the Keeper.

The horse was magically walking through the air. (2100 ATK) 'Come on Azrael, let's do this! Gandiva attack!'

The woman drew back the arrow, the front of the Ark opened and Excalibur appeared this time. (2000 DEF)

'I use Gandiva's Effect! I Detach one monster!' Mario removed the card, Thousand Blades fell into the water and was sucked into the ark.

'Now I destroy one monster that you Special Summoned!' Gandiva drew her bow and fired a shot through the head of Excalibur the monster disappeared back into the Ark.

Mallow was cheering. 'Gandiva attack the Keeper!' Mario shouted, Gandiva drew another arrow, aimed her bow then fired one shot through the heart of the old man, slowly the man fell down, then rolled into the water, he was moaning as slowly the Keeper was sucked into the Ark.

Azrael looked at Mario, then he looked at Gandiva suddenly he started to laugh. 'You're pushing me to the limit Mario! I like it!'

Azrael folded his arms. 'Then show me what you can do.' Mario replied.

Slowly the demon drew his card, Mario saw he was still calm.

'First I use Book of Moon.' He stated Gandiva disappeared and got replaced by a facedown card. 'Now you cannot me Special Summoning monsters, now I empty my Ark, I can do that by destroying all monsters and I gain 500 Life Points for each of them, but if Keeper is in the Ark all monsters are Banished instead.'

The souls of the following monsters came out of the Ark: Ukoback, Desire, the two Double Lance, Luster Dragon, Spartan, Excalibur, Sonic Shooter, Night Watchman, Thousand Blades and finally the Keeper, the souls flew out to the heavens, a bright light surrounded Azrael.

When the light faded only his right foot was encased in stone.

(Azrael: 7500) - (Shadow Mario: 5200) - (Mallow: 2400)

'You know that the great flood is a divine punishment in many religions.' Azrael said in a soft tone. 'The great flood destroys all life but won't last forever!' Azrael shouted, slowly the water started to disappear, the Ark once again got stuck in the trees, Shinato's Ark slowly started to fall apart.

'Now that Shinato's Ark is destroyed I get to summon Shinato, King of a Higher Plane!' A bright light blinded Mario and Mallow for a second, then the heavens broke open and the six-winged Fairy slowly descended down upon the Field. (3300 ATK)

'If Shinato attacks a defending monster your Life Points get halved and I gain the Life Points you lost.' Shinato spread his arms, six purple orbs with different Kanji on them appeared in a circle in front of Shinato. 'Divine Ring Attack!' Azrael shouted, the orbs changed into a circle of light, Gandiva reappeared in place of the facedown card, a blinding light followed, Mario screamed as he got enveloped by the light as well.

(Azrael: 10.100) - (Shadow Mario: 2600) - (Mallow: 2400)

Mario started screamed as his complete upper-body got covered by stone.

The stone around Azrael's foot completely disappeared.

'Mario let me deal with Azrael I've got a plan.' Mallow said as he drew his card.

'I activate Monster Reborn to summon Gandiva!' Mallow shouted, the woman on horseback appeared on the Field again. (2100 ATK)

'I sacrifice Gandiva for a defending monster.' Mallow said, Gandiva disappeared and a reversed card appeared in her place.

'Next I use Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy The Dark Door!'

The powerful storm blew over taking out the Spell card.

'Turn end.'

Azrael drew his card. 'I attack your facedown monster Mallow!' Azrael shouted, Shinato created his ring again. 'Divine Ring Attack!' Azrael bellowed, the facedown card disappeared and a dragon with a handcuff on its head and tail appeared, Shinato blew it up, Mallow got enveloped by the light and he changed further into stone.

(Azrael: 11.300) - (Shadow Mario: 2600) - (Mallow: 1200)

'You destroyed my Handcuffs Dragon, which means it Equips itself to your monster, meaning that Shinato loses 1800 ATK!' Mallow said, the Handcuffs Dragon reappeared, its head bound Shinato's arms the tail bound its legs. (3000- 1500 ATK)

'You dare to dishonor a divine being?' Azrael slowly said: 'Anyway I set a facedown card and I end my turn.' Azrael stated a reversed card appeared behind Shinato.

'Damn Azrael put us in a predicament here.' Mario thought.

'That facedown card is clearly there to protect his Shinato, but how? Clearly it won't be an obvious card like Call of the Haunted.' Mario scratched his chin then he drew his card. 'Anyway if I destroy Shinato, Handcuffs returns to Mallow's Field, if Shinato somehow returns he merely has to attack Handcuffs Dragon to destroy Mallow.'

'I use the Spell card The Warrior Returning Alive!' Mario shouted: 'I take Double Lance from my Graveyard!'

The card slipped from Mario's Graveyard. 'Now I summon it.' Mario continued Double Lance appeared on his side of the Field. (1700 ATK)

'Next I use Premature Burial to summon Gandiva!' Mario played another Spell card his Life Points decreased part of his face got turned to stone.

(Azrael: 11.300) - (Shadow Mario: 1800) - (Mallow: 1200)

The woman on horseback reappeared once again. (2100 ATK)

'Mallow, I have to take you down.' Mario bluntly said.

'Mario why?' Mallow gasped.

'Azrael can nearly take you down, if he does you change to stone forever, I cannot live with that guild if that happens, I asked you to help me in this Duel, and besides if I lose you need to be able to escape.' Mario said, Mallow nodded. 'Yes your magic can protect me right?' Mallow sounded nervous. 'Yeah I can.' Mario replied.

'Okay Double Lance attack mallow directly!' Double Lance looked confused, Mario nodded at his monster then Double Lance charged at Mallow and gently tabbed him on the shoulder.

(Azrael: 11.300) - (Shadow Mario: 1800) - (Mallow: 0)

'Azrael since I defeated Mallow your Shadow Game has no more grip on him!' A black mist came from Mario it enveloped Mallow when the black mist disappeared Mallow was no longer covered in stone.

'Gandiva destroy Shinato!' Gandiva drew an arrow, the arrow struck Shinato between the eyes, in a burst of light Shinato disappeared together with the Handcuffs Dragon.

(Azrael: 10.700) - (Shadow Mario: 1800) - (Mallow: 0)

Azrael pressed a button on his Duel Disk, a weird machine appeared.

'The Time Machine Trap card!' Mario said: 'I knew it was something like that.' Azrael was laughing the doors of the machine opened and Shinato stepped back out. (3300 ATK)

'Mallow the Duel will ride on this one card I have, the moment we saw Shinato in the distance I started to gather information of what we were dealing with. I found something about experimental cards that were never stated for release, those cards being The Great Flood and Keeper.' Mario whispered, Mallow nodded that he understood: 'Good luck.' He said.

'Azrael I set a facedown card and I end my turn.' The card appeared behind Gandiva.

Azrael drew his card. 'Shinato destroy Gandiva!' Azrael commanded, the divine ring was created again, Gandiva got destroyed by the blinding light, more of Mario's face and parts of his arms changed to stone.

(Azrael: 10.700) - (Shadow Mario: 600) - (Mallow: 0)

'The Duel will be decided now.' Mario said, he drew his card.

'I activate my facedown card Return From the Different Dimension!'

Mario's Life Points were halved by the card, he got so encased in stone that only his eyes were free, he could barely reach his Duel Disk and cards.

A great void opened above the Field, five monsters dropped down from it, the first two were Double Lance. (1700 ATK x2) The third one was Excalibur. (2000 ATK) he was followed by Spartan. (1600 ATK) And finally Thousand Blades. (1400 ATK)

(Azrael: 10.700) - (Shadow Mario: 300) - (Mallow: 0)

'Next I create the Overlay Network!' Mario shouted, the small vortex opened up, Thousand Blades and Spartan were sucked into the vortex. 'Xyz Summon my second Excalibur!' Another Excalibur dropped down from the void. (2000 ATK)

'I detach two monsters from Excalibur to double its attack!' The two orbs surrounding Excalibur disappeared, the warrior let out a war cry. (2000- 4000 ATK)

'Now I use Heroic Growth on my first Excalibur to double its attack again!'

Excalibur let out a greater war cry as his attack rose as well. (4000- 8000 ATK)

'Finally I use Monster reborn to summon Gandiva again!' Mario barely managed to play the Spell card, yet again Gandiva came in galloping. (2100 ATK)

'Excalibur take down Shinato!' The first Excalibur charged in it cleaved the Fairy in half with his sword.

(Azrael: 6000) - (Shadow Mario: 300) - (Mallow: 0)

'Gandiva!' Mario bellowed, she aimed her bow and hit Azrael right between the eyes, slowly stone started to form around his legs.

'Double Lances charge!' Mario relentlessly continued a total of four lances stabbed Azrael in his chest and stomach.

Half of Azrael's Body was encased in stone now.

Azrael closed his eyes, he was laughing like crazy.

'So you finally lost it, Azrael it's over! Excalibur attack!'

The legendary sword struck Azrael in his neck, slowly the rest of his body changed to stone while the stone around Mario slowly started to disappear.

(Azrael: 0) - (Shadow Mario: 300) - (Mallow: 0)

Mallow and Luigi hugged Mario. 'You did it bro!' Luigi cheered.

'And you think it would be that easy?' A familiar voice sneered, Azrael appeared in mid-air. 'I knew it would have been that easy.' Mallow sighted.

The stone Azrael dissolved into darkness. 'That was merely a shadow version I created, though it drained me of most of my magic, you are in luck I have to leave, Lord Crump can solve his problem himself now.' With these words Azrael disappeared.

'Well at least we forced him to retreat and he left his cards here, I'd say we send those experimental cards back to their owners.' Mallow said as he picked up the cards, Mario in the meantime removed Return From the Different Dimension from his Deck. 'Now to take down Crump, save Goombella and find the Crystal Star.'


Next time:

With Azrael gone only Lord Crump remains, Crump musters the remaining X-Naut Soldiers to take Mario and his friends down.

Will Mario be able to defeat Crump? Or will Crump have one last trick up his sleeve? 'Mechanical Rhythm.' Coming next.


Card details:

Shinato's Ark (anime effect)

Continuous Spell card

Every monster sent to the Graveyard is trapped in the ark. You can destroy all monsters within the ark to gain 500 Life Points for each monster destroyed. When this card is removed from the field, you can Special Summon 1 "Shinato, King of a Higher Plane" from your hand.


Shinato, King of a Higher Plane (anime effect)

Type: Fairy

Attribute: Light/Effect

Level: 8

ATK: 3300

DEF: 3000

This card can only be Summoned when "Shinato's Ark" is removed from your side of the field. When this monster attacks a Defense Position monster your opponent controls, inflict damage to your opponent equal to half of their Life Points, and you gain the same amount.


Darklord Ukoback

Type: Fairy

Attribute: Dark

Level: 3

ATK: 700

DEF: 1000


Fallen Angel's Bewitchment

Normal Trap card

If there is a DARK Fairy on your field, you can change the attack target of an attacking monster.

Note: The above 2 cards were used by Midori Hibiki in the Yu-Gi-Oh GX ,manga. All credits goes to the creative writers of that manga.


Surprise Attack from Beyond

Normal Spell card

The End Phase of this turn is also treated as a Battle Phase. During this special Battle Phase, the monsters you control that were Summoned and that battled in this turn can attack again.

Note: The above card was used by Marik in Yu-Gi-Oh Episode 141 The Final Face Off - Part 4. All credits goes to the creative writer of that episode.


Keeper of the Ark

Type: Spellcaster/Effect

Attribute: Light

Level: 12

ATK: 0

DEF: 0

When you control ''Shinato's Ark'' and ''The Great Flood'' you can pay half your LP Special Summon this card from your hand, Deck or Graveyard. As long as you control this card you cannot draw any card nor can you Summon monsters except with this card's Effect. Once per turn during your turn Special Summon a monster from ''Shinato's Ark'' in Attack Position. Once per turn during your opponent's turn Special Summon a monster from ''Shinato's Ark'' in Defense Position, the summoned monster must be attacked. During the End Phase send any monster summoned by this card's Effect back to ''Shinato's Ark''. When this card is in ''Shinato's Ark'' when you destroy all monsters in ''Shinato's Ark'' Banish them instead. Monsters Summoned through the Effect of this card are always treated as Level 0 Monsters.

Note: The above card was created by me for this chapter specifically, nobody is allowed to use this card.