53. The Sirens' Gambit - Part 3.
Mallow, Vivian and Bow.
All three took on a Shadow Siren, Mallow took on Marilyn, Vivian went after Beldam and Bow wanted to settle the score with Doopliss.
Eventually Mallow ended with no cards in his hands and his fate now rests in Pot of Riches, Bow had Doopliss on the ropes for quite some time, now the God of Darkness - Dark God looms over her, while Vivian managed to defeat her sister however the moment Beldam's Life Points hit zero a dark creature rose behind her.
Beldam was smiling, the black mist behind her became thicker, a face started to form around the glowing, red eyes.
Vivian's victory over her sister was short-lived, her Brotherhood of the Fire Fist - Dragon (1800 ATK) had destroyed the Necro Torturer, a grotesque, deformed creature with a wooden coffin strapped to it's back after the hideous creature was defeated her Tiger King (2200 ATK) brought the Necro Lord: Azazel to his knees, this brought the Life Points of Beldam to nothing.
For the rest Vivian had one card facedown in her Spell/Trap card Zone, Beldam's Field was currently empty.
(Beldam: 0) - (Vivian: 6200)
'My foolish sister, did you really think that Azazel was the only strong Monster I had in my Deck?' Dramatically she spread her arms, the shadows behind her slowly disappeared revealing a gigantic creature, shaped like a humanoid figure with red skin, red glowing eyes, the hands and feet of a man, on it's back twelve wings six on the right and six on the left, a scaly, barbed tail dragged behind the creature, it's head was goat-like in appearance with two horns growing out of the front of it's head curving upwards, the horns were partially covered by it's dirty, brown hair.
Black fur was covering the chest and private parts of the demon while several goat skulls hung around it's neck. (5000 ATK)
(Beldam: X) - (Vivian: 6200)
'This Vivian is Azazel, the Fallen, a Monster that can only be Special Summoned while I lose the Duel when Necro Lord: Azazel is in my Graveyard as long as Azazel, the Fallen is on my Field I cannot lose the Duel, the only setback is when I Special Summon this card all cards in my hand must be discarded and during each Standby Phase I must discard at least one card or else Azazel is destroyed.' Beldam discarded the rest of her hand into the Graveyard, as soon as she did Azazel slowly stepped forward a black goo dripping from it's maw.
'And here is the best part my dear Vivian, Azazel can attack all Monsters on the Field! Fallen Radiance!'
Azazel's wings all spread at the same time, darkness descended upon the Field, Vivian has problem breathing as the darkness weighted heavy on her, however Vivian managed to keep herself standing her Monsters weren't that lucky.
(Beldam: X) - (Vivian: 200)
Doopliss was laughing, he had just Summoned his ace Monster God of Darkness - Dark God. (3000 ATK)
Bow was staring at the hulking mass of pure darkness, it's one eye was fixated on Bow, mist poured out of it's mouth.
'Told you, you cannot win slick!' The Ancient One said with a chuckle.
Bow looked at the Field, besides his Monster Doopliss also had Full Moon Mirror a Spell card that took the form of a green egg with ten eyes, of which nine were open, Doopliss had this card on the Field since the start of the Duel yet she still didn't know what the card exactly did.
Bow herself controlled three Monsters, her Athena, (2600 ATK) Fairy Archer (1400 ATK) and Dunames Dark Witch. (1800 ATK)
For the rest she had Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen.
'Doopliss, I do not only control more Monsters than you, I also have a lot more Life Points left, not to mention Fairy Archer can deal 400 points of damage for each Light Monster, which I now have three of and you have only a thousand Life Points left, even if you take away one of my Monsters as long as I have Athena whenever I Summon a Fairy you take 600 damage and Athena has an Effect that allows me to Special Summon a Fairy, so that Special Summon and the Normal Summon of two Fairy Monsters will deal 1200 Damage total which will also destroy you.' Bow sounded confident.
(Doopliss: 1000) - (Bow: 3900)
'Your confidence will be your undoing slick, I command the God of Darkness to attack Athena!'
The hole in the stomach of the creature started to glow then a beam of darkness shot out of the creature's stomach it shot through Athena.
'Whenever my God of Darkness destroys a Monster by Battle it deals an extra 700 Damage!'
Bow braced herself the beam of darkness first shot through Athena completely disintegrating the graceful woman, then the beam hit Bow, she was knocked back a bit but managed to keep her footing.
(Doopliss: 1000) - (Bow: 2800)
'And since another Monster was destroyed my Full Moon Mirror gains another Counter.'
At long last the final eye on the green egg opened up, all ten eyes started to glow with a mysterious light.
'Now I will show you why you cannot win next turn slick, for I activate One Day of Peace.' Doopliss played his Spell card, it briefly appeared on the Field.
'We both Draw a card then until your next End Phase neither of us takes any damage.' Doopliss explained, both players drew their card.
'And finally I will show you what Full Moon Mirror can do, by sending it to the Graveyard I can activate the Infinite Fiend Mirror Field Spell from my Deck!'
As Doopliss played his card the eyes on the egg all changed to mirrors, then with a cold laughter a reaper-like creature clad in black robes appeared above the egg, it was connected to the egg by a long tail, in it's green-scaled hands it held a round mirror, the reflection of God of Darkness was visible in the mirror.
'When Infinite Fiend Mirror is on the Field a Duelist who controls God of Darkness must Special Summon as many Dark God Tokens as they can, those Tokens have the same stats and Effects as the real one.' Doopliss explained, in front of the God of Darkness four smaller versions of the monstrosity appeared. (3000 ATK x4)
Bow started to sweat, Doopliss noticed.
'See now slick? You cannot deal damage during your turn.
Doopliss took a card from his hand.
'I shall Set this and my turn ends slick.' The reversed card appeared behind the original God of Darkness.
'Bow stay calm now.' She thought trying to calm herself down.
'This creature is powerful, with his Field Spell that thing is even stronger, those Tokens were created with the original God of Darkness, my guess is the Tokens go when the original goes, now with the high Attack power of that Monster and it's Effect it must have some kind of drawback, I have a hunch let's see if I'm correct, if not I lost anyway.'
Bow drew her card.
'I change my Monsters to Defense Mode, Fairy Archer knelt down and held her bow in front of her, while Dunames knelt down and shielded herself with her arms. (Fairy Archer: 600 DEF, Dunames: 1050 DEF)
'I end my turn.' Bow said.
'Before you do that I activate my Return Talisman slick!' Doopliss cackled, his facedown card opened up.
'When you didn't Summon a Monster during your turn a Return Token is Summoned to your side of the Field.' Doopliss explained, before Bow appeared a silver circle covered in runes, a smaller identical circle was spinning around in the center of the bigger ring. (1000 DEF)
Doopliss drew his card.
'Now you get it slick, God of Darkness take out her Monsters!' Doopliss yelled, first two of the Tokens started to charge their beam, the real one followed shortly after then one by one Bow's Monsters were felled by the blasts of darkness, Bow braced herself as the three beams homed in on her, seconds later she felt an intense pain ripping through her body, she to the ground.
(Doopliss: 1000) - (Bow: 700)
'I must end my turn slick.'
Bow slowly stood up: 'My hunch was correct your Monster and therefor it's Token copies lack the ability to attack directly.'
Doopliss laughed: 'Might be slick, but you only have 700 Life Points left, even if you don't Summon a Monster you get a Return Token which my God of Darkness can destroy and deal 700 damage to you.' Doopliss spread his rather short arms all the while he was laughing.
'He's right.' Bow thought: 'I have no Monster strong enough to defeat his Dark God in battle, I do have another Fairy Archer in my Deck, even if I manage to draw it, I need two other Light Monsters to be able to beat him with her Effect.'
'Bow come on, don't give up now, you're so close.' Mario whispered, Geno looked away from the other Duels.
'It's not looking good is it?' He asked.
'Either Bow Summons three Monsters including Fairy Archer or she loses.' Mario told Geno.
'Damn, Mallow and Vivian aren't faring any better at this point.'
Bow was still hesitating.
'Come on Bow you can get through this!' Mario yelled, he knew all too well she couldn't hear him.
At that point a familiar, warm feeling filled Mario's body at the same time it happened to Bow as well, Mario's pocked started to glow as did Bow's Deck.
The only thing Bow could hear was Doopliss' laughter, the warm feeling enveloping her filled her with determination, she drew her card and placed it in her Duel Disk without even looking at it, the card appeared vertically placed in front of her.
'I end my turn.' She stated.
'Thus you gain a Return Token slick.' Doopliss added, one of the silver rings appeared before Bow. (1000 DEF)
'God of Darkness - Dark God attack the Return Token and bring me victory! You're done for slick!' Doopliss cackled.
'I'd hoped you would do that.' Bow calmly replied cutting Doopliss' laughter short.
'I activate my Trap card! Ruby Star: Art Attack!'
A gigantic version of the Ruby Star appeared behind Bow, Doopliss cursed loudly as he saw the star.
'Kinda ironic don't you think slick?' Bow said in a taunting tone.
'The one Crystal Star you wanted to use to take out the safe haven I created is now gonna be your undoing.' Bow touched the Crystal Star which violently started to shake as if it wanted revenge on Doopliss as well.
'First of all I target your Dark God.' The Crystal Star shrunk a bit and started to hover above Doopliss' Monster.
'Now I can Banish any amount of cards from either my Field or Graveyard.' Bow explained, she took: Athena, Fairy Archer, Dunames Dark Witch, Nova Summoner and Gellenduo from her Graveyard, the five cards were sucked into the Ruby Star then the Return Token followed them as the sixth card.
Once again the Ruby Star started to glow, six times it circled around the Dark God leaving a rainbow-colored trail behind it, Doopliss shielded his eyes against the bright light.
'Now for every card I Banished your Monster loses 500 Attack Points!' Bow shouted, one-by-one the rainbow trails exploded the Dark God became weaker by each one. (3000- 0 ATK)
'Doopliss, when a Monster loses all it's Attack Points by this Effect the Monster is destroyed and you take Damage equal to the Original Attack Points of that Monster!' Bow crossed her arms, cracks appeared in the air all around the Dark God suddenly the cracks exploded giving way to multiple beams of light they pierced through the Dark God and it's Tokens, a multitude of screams filled the hall as all Monsters were destroyed.
Doopliss was spinning around trying to find a way out but everywhere he looked cracks appeared around him.
'You're not gonna wiggle your way out this time.' Bow said: 'It's over slick.'
Then countless beams of light pierced the Ancient One, Doopliss' scream was heard all throughout the hall, when the light faded only the sheet was there.
(Doopliss: 0) - (Bow: 700)
Grodus was pacing around in the last room of the Palace of Shadows, Grave was leaning against a wall following Grodus' moves.
'It's over.' Grave then spoke.
Grodus stopped pacing, he simply looked at Grave.
'Doopliss died, the light of the Crystal Stars vaporised him, he stood no chance, fitting he got killed by the Crystal Star which he misused.'
Grodus stared at Grave for a few seconds then he shrugged: 'Doopliss was an extra asset, he thought he could become the third Shadow Siren, Beldam only used him, he never was a part of the Sirens, never would become one either.'
Mallow was on a turning point, he was in a bit of a bind against Marilyn, Mallow's Field was completely empty except for Majespecter Cat - Nekomata in one of his Pendulum Zones, Marilyn currently had no Monsters either but she had Skill Drain and Royal Oppression active.
With Royal Oppression Marilyn could block Mallow's Special Summons including his Pendulum Summons, with Skill Drain active Mario's Effects were useless, of course Marilyn used Monsters like Beast King Barbaros that benefited greatly from Skill Drain, at this point it was still Mallow's turn, he just had activated his Pot of Riches which allowed him to draw two cards.
(Marilyn: 1650) - (Mallow: 900)
Mallow had his eyes closed, his fingers on the top cards of his Deck, he took a deep breath then drew.
Mallow gave a hard look at the two cards, not really the most useful cards.
'This ain't cutting it, at least I can block one more of her Special Summons should I need it.' Mallow thought.
'I Set one card and end my turn.' He stated, before Mallow appeared a hidden Monster.
Marilyn grunted happily as she drew her card.
'Guh.' She grunted, before her appeared another Goblin Attack Force, the goblins were waving their weapons around. (2400 ATK)
'Guh!' Marilyn grunted, with loud roars the army of Goblins charged in.
Mallow's hidden Monster disappeared and got replaced by the giant, green-skinned toad Ogama, the Goblins trampled all over the creature.
Marilyn grunted, it was clear she could see her victory.
Mallow hesitated he only had Archfiend Eccentric in his hand, when he saw his new card his heart skipped a beat.
'I Set my Pendulum Zone with Archfiend Eccentric.' Mallow stated the demonic-looking creature appeared in the colored crystal.
'I Pendulum Summon Ogama and Kyubi!' Mallow shouted, Marilyn simply grunted as her Royal Oppression started to glow, the lights surrounding the two Pendulum crystals died out.
(Marilyn: 850) - (Mallow: 900)
'I'd knew you would do that Marilyn, you want to deal the finishing blow, well if this doesn't work you just might do that.
Mallow took the last card from his hand: 'I activate a second Pot of Riches!' This time Mallow shuffled Ogama, Kyubi and Bunbuku into his Deck again he drew two cards, without saying anything he placed both in his Duel Disk, both cards appeared facedown in his Spell/Trap card Zone.
'I end my turn.' Mallow stated.
Marilyn drew her card, she briefly looked over her hand then dropped her cards as she apparently didn't need them any longer.
'Guh!' She roared, the Goblin Attack Force started to charge forwards.
'I activate Majespecter Gust!' Mallow shouted, Mallow's Trap card opened up. 'This card allows me to Special Summon a Monster from my Pendulum Zone.' Mallow explained, the cat in the crystal disappeared.
'Gah!' Marilyn grunted, her Royal Oppression started to glow again, Nekomata got obliterated by a beam of light before it could appear.
(Marilyn: 50) - (Mallow: 900)
'And that Marilyn was your mistake!' Mallow shouted, the army of Goblins quickly approached him.
'I activate my Spell card: Wavering Eyes!'
The Goblins stopped dead in their tracks.
'Allow me to explain, with this Spell card I can destroy as many Pendulum Monsters from Pendulum Zones as I can, then I can activate Effects based on how many Monsters destroyed, however I only need the first Effect which deals 500 points of damage!'
Marilyn staggered backwards, she looked around the room she could see Beldam and Vivian looking at her, then the scream of Doopliss filled the room, Mallow could see the panic in Marilyn's eyes at that point the crystal containing Archfiend Eccentric cracked, a beam of pure light shot forth from the crystal.
'Vivian!' Marilyn suddenly screamed, the first time they actually heard her talking: 'I...am...sorry...' The Shadow Siren slowly said as it took a great deal out of her, then the beam of light struck her, all that remained were purple shadows that slowly dissolved.
(Marilyn: 0) - (Mallow: 900)
Tears welled up in Mallow's eyes, he slowly sank to his knees.
'This ain't right!' He howled: 'She didn't deserve this! Beldam you knew this would happen!' Mallow bellowed.
Vivian was shocked by the sudden death of her sister.
'That was to be expected.' Beldam said.
'What do you mean?' Vivian asked, her voice trembling.
'Well my lovely, Doopliss was a fool drunk on power, getting destroyed by that Crystal Star was his just deserts and Marilyn...' Beldam shrugged.
'You don't care do you?' Vivian hissed.
'In this world only the strong matter, you should know that Vivian.' Beldam casually replied: 'Marilyn was less than a puppet, a weak and pathetic creature fighting for my attention...' Beldam started but she got interrupted by a scream from Vivian: 'She died because of you Beldam! You warped mind so that she became that wicked creature! She was vying for your attention! Marilyn wasn't worthless! You are Beldam! You are worthless!'
Beldam yawned: 'You done screaming?' She said sounding irritated.
'Forget it.' Vivian hissed, her entire body was trembling, her Deck started to glow.
'I tried to save you Beldam, but this, this I cannot forgive you!' She yelled as she drew her card.
'I Summon another Brotherhood of the Fire Fist - Dragon.' One of Vivian's warriors stepped on the Field, the many flaming dragons appeared behind it. (1800 ATK)
'Next I Set this and end my turn.' She stated a vertically placed card appeared behind her Monster.
'Now it ends Vivian!' Beldam cackled.
'The Effect of Azazel activates I must now discard the card I just got.' Beldam said, as she wanted to discard the card Vivian stopped her.
'I activate my Trap card Emerald Star: Clock Out!' Vivian shouted, one of her two cards disappeared, a radiant light illuminated the room once more, a gigantic Emerald Star appeared behind Vivian, Beldam shielded her eyes, she hissed as she drew back a bit.
'Now this is a gamble sister.' Vivian said: 'First of all each Duelist must control a Monster or else this Effect cannot be used, then I must Destroy another card I control.' Vivian pointed at her second Set card, it disappeared.
In the middle of the Field appeared a large clock with the numbers one through six on it.
'This clock will spin if it stops on a two, four or six you skip this turn, if it stops on a one, three or five I must skip my next turn.'
The hand on the clock started to spin it started to slow down until it had almost stopped it passed the two Beldam grinned as the hand almost stopped at the three then at the last minute it jumped to the three, the clock started to flash and multiple smaller clocks all appeared around Beldam, the hands were spinning fast then slowly came to a stop.
'Beldam you now automatically go to the End Phase of your turn, which means you don't get to discard your card, since you didn't fulfill the requirement of Azazel you lose!'
Beldam cursed loudly, Azazel slowly turned around it's glowing eyes fixated on Beldam.
'No I refuse to die, I won't be killed by a weakling like Vivian!'
(Beldam: 0) - (Vivian: 200)
Suddenly a portal opened in mid-air a slender figure stepped out of it. 'Syn!' Beldam snarled.
'You and your Shadow Sirens had their chance.' Syn spoke she gracefully landed on the ground.
'The Shadow Queen even graced you with an actual resident of the Realm of Darkness and still you ruined it.' Syn pointed her finger at Beldam.
'Syn, they had a Crystal Star how was I supposed to deal with that?' Beldam replied.
'Enough.' Geno suddenly shouted.
Syn turned around.
'Come Syn let's end this now.' Geno growled.
'Not yet Geno, I have one more surprise for you.' She made a gesture with her hand Azazel roared then burst in flames, with one last screech the creature exploded into a thin black mist, at the same moment Beldam gasped for breath then she fell on the ground just like Marilyn she dissolved into nothingness.
'Dealing with a creature that powerful is dangerous, the creature dies and the strain it put on you will be your own demise.' Syn spoke, then she remembered Geno was there.
'Right you wanted to fight me, not yet the time, proceed into the tower behind you, on top lies the key you need to continue beyond this room.' With these words Syn simply disappeared.
Next time:
With the Shadow Sirens gone Syn stepped to the front.
Declining Geno's challenge for a Duel it was Syn who challenged the group instead, they needed a key resting atop a tower, sounds simple enough however Syn has a trick up her sleeve. ''The King of Ghosts'' Coming next.
Card details:
God of Darkness - Dark God (updated)
Type: Fiend/Effect
Attribute: Dark
Level: 10
ATK: 3000
DEF: 1000
This card cannot be destroyed by battle or declare a direct attack. If this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle, inflict 700 damage to your opponent.
Full Moon Mirror (updated)
Continuous Spell card
Each time a monster on the field is destroyed, place 1 "Full Moon Counter" on this card (max. 10). If there are 10 "Full Moon Counters" on this card, you can send it to the Graveyard to activate 1 "Infinite Fiend Mirror" from your hand or Deck.
Infinite Fiend Mirror
Field Spell card
Activate only by the effect of "Full Moon Mirror". While a player controls a "God of Darkness - Dark God", that player must Special Summon as many "Dark God Tokens" as possible, with the same Level, Type, Attribute, ATK, DEF and effects as that monster. If there is no "God of Darkness - Dark God" on the field, destroy all "Dark God Tokens" on the field.
Return Talisman
Continuous Trap card
During your opponent's End Phase, if they did not Summon a monster this turn, Special Summon 1 "Return Token" (Fairy-Type/DARK/Level 2/ATK 1000/DEF 1000) to their side of the field in Defense Position.
Note: The above 4 cards were first used by Sarina during Episodes 78 and 79 of the Yu-Gi-Oh GX anime, all credits goes to the creative writers of those episodes.
Azazel, the Fallen
Type: Fairy/Effect
Attribute: Dark
Level: 12
ATK: 5000
DEF: 4000
This card can only be Special Summoned from your hand when your LP become 0 and you have ''Necro Lord: Azazel'' in your Graveyard. As long as this card remains face-up on the Field you cannot lose the Duel. This card cannot be removed from Field except when destroyed by Battle or by it's own Effect. This card's Effects cannot be negated. This card can attack all Monsters your Opponent controls once. When this card is Special Summoned you must Discard all cards in your hand. During your Standby Phase you must discard all cards in your hand. When you do not discard any card when this card is Special Summoned or during your Standby Phase this card is Destroyed.
Ruby Star: Art Attack
Normal Trap card
You can only activate when your LP are lower than 1000. When this card is activated Target 1 Monster your opponent controls, then Banish cards from your Graveyard or your side of the Field, the Target Monster loses 500 ATK for each card Banished. When the ATK of the Target Monster becomes 0 with this Effect Destroy that Monster then deal Damage to your Opponent equal to the Original ATK of the Destroyed Monster.
Emerald Star: Clock Out
Normal Trap card
This card can only be activated during your opponent's turn. This card can only be activated when all Duelists control at least 1 Monster, if not all Duelists control a Monster at any time when this card is Face-Up on the Field this card is Destroyed. To activate this card's Effect one card you control must be Destroyed (except this card). Roll a six-sided die and apply the following Effect.
2, 4, 6: Your opponent's turn goes to the End Phase.
1, 3, 5: You must skip your next turn.
Note: The above 3 cards were created by me for this story only.
