Notes: Now it's getting exciting
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Harry Potter and the Duel Academy
Ch. 12: Is this a Test?
HG: 8000
DG: 8000
"You can go first, Daphne."
"I'm using the Pendulum Zones in this duel."
"I suppose that's one way of speeding things along."
"On one end I place Moonlight Wolf."
Lunalight Wolf
LV6
Pendulum Scale 1
Light
Beast-Warrior/Pendulum/Effect
2000/1800
A tall purple-skinned woman with a long wolf tail now took to the field. An orange mask covered most of her face, and her long hair looked like a second tail.
"On the other end I place Moonlight Tiger."
Lunalight Tiger
LV3
Pendulum Scale 5
Light
Beast-Warrior/Pendulum/Effect
1200/800
A small tiger-striped cat-girl now crouched on the field. A mask covered the right half of her face.
"I Pendulum summon three monsters: first is Moonlight Blue Cat."
Lunalight Blue Cat
LV4
Dark
Beast-Warrior/Effect
1600/1200
A blue girl adorned with cat ears and tail now appeared. She had a crescent-shaped mask over her left eye.
"Up next is Moonlight Crimson Fox."
Lunalight Crimson Fox
LV4
Dark
Beast-Warrior/Effect
1800/600
A girl in red with fox ears and a long fox tail now stood next to the cat. A mask covered the right half of her face.
"And finally, here comes Moonlight Yellow Marten in defense mode."
Lunalight Yellow Marten
LV4
Dark
Beast-Warrior/Effect
800/2000
A girl in yellow with a long tail now crouched on the field. A mask covered the left half of her face.
"I play Pot of Greed, and then I set a card and end my turn."
"I summon Chronodiver Regulator."
Time Thief Regulator
LV4
Dark
Machine/Effect
600/200
A small robot dog appeared out of nowhere.
"If I control no other monsters, I can tribute this card to special summon two Chronodiver monster with different names from my deck in defense position, except this card of course. First, here's Chronodiver Reuse."
Time Thief Winder
LV4
Dark
Psychic/Effect
1800/1300
A silver-haired man appeared in a flash of light. He wore sunglasses, a purple suit, a blue scarf, a black glove on his right hand, and a silver glove on his left hand. The silver glove was covered in blue Tron lines.
"Second, here comes Chronodiver Time Recorder."
Time Thief Chronocorder
LV4
Dark
Machine/Effect
1000/1000
A strange machine now hovered onto the field.
"Third, when Reuse is summoned, I can add one Chronodiver card from my deck to my hand, except Reuse obviously."
"Wait a minute," Daphne interjected, "This wasn't the deck you used for the entrance exam."
"Of course not. Why would I use the exact same deck? That deck was made specifically for the exam. Since then I've been going back and forth with what kind of deck I should use next. After doing some research, I discovered this archetype. With how many classes I've been taking, I thought it was rather amusing to use a deck based around time. Anything else you'd like to know?"
"Uh, no, I'm good. Continue what you were doing."
"Thank you. I'll set three cards, and next I'll Overlay Time Recorder and Reuse to Xyz summon Chronodiver Perpetua."
Time Thief Perpetua
Rank 4
Dark
Psychic/Xyz/Effect
1900/2500
A woman with long red hair emerged from a portal. She wore a white blouse, a black skirt, and a black coat with pink trim. She only had her left arm in the coat, and on her left hand was a silver glove that was just like the one Reuse wore except fingerless. Two small orbs of energy circled her glove.
"I play Pot of Greed, and now I play the spell Chronodiver Start-Up to special summon a Chronodiver monster from my hand. I summon Chronodiver Bezel Ship in defense mode."
Time Thief Bezel Ship
LV4
Dark
Machine/Effect
1000/2000
A large rather pointy ship appeared in the air.
"I play the spell Overlay Regenerate. I can attach this card to my Xyz monster as material."
Perpetua now had three orbs circling her glove.
"I'll also play the continuous spell Chronodiver Hack. I can target one Xyz monster I control, it gains 300 attack for each material attached to it. That means 900 attack."
CP: 1900/2500 - 2800/2500
"I'll attack your Cat."
Perpetua walked up to the Blue Cat and punched her with her silver-gloved hand.
DG: 6800
"I end my turn."
"I activate the effect of my Moonlight Wolf. By banishing the materials I need from the field, in this case two Moonlight monsters, I can fusion summon a new Moonlight monster. Behold the beautiful beast that dances in the moonlight: Moonlight Cat Dancer!"
Lunalight Cat Dancer
LV7
Dark
Beast-Warrior/Fusion/Effect
2400/2000
A tall woman in purple tights twirled into view. She had long red hair, and a mask covering her eyes. Her outfit was adorned with long cyan ribbons, and she held a dagger in each hand. Her cat tail was twitching.
"My new fusion monster can't be destroyed in battle. I don't know what you're up to, Granger, but I activate my continuous trap Moonlight Serenade Dance."
"You're about to find out what's in store. I activate my trap Chronodiver Retrograde. When a spell or trap is activated while I control a Chronodiver Xyz monster, I negate the activation and attach it to a Chronodiver Xyz monster I control as material."
Perpetua now had four orbs around her glove.
Daphne looked annoyed, but continued, "I'll summon Moonlight White Rabbit."
Lunalight White Rabbit
LV2
Dark
Beast-Warrior/Effect
800/800
A woman with long white hair and rabbit ears now stood on the field. An orange mask covered the top half of her face, and she wielded a large hammer.
"Once per turn, I can tribute one other Moonlight monster to activate the effect of Cat Dancer."
The White Rabbit disappeared.
"I'm afraid I'm activating another trap," Hermione said, "I activate Xyz Block. When my opponent activates a monster effect, I detach one Xyz material from my monster; I negate the activation, and the monster is destroyed."
One of the energy orbs flew over to the Cat Dancer and exploded.
Daphne tried not to look nervous, "I Pendulum summon Moonlight Emerald Bird in defense mode."
Lunalight Emerald Bird
LV4
Dark
Beast-Warrior/Effect
1200/1000
A green-skinned woman with decorative wings now knelt on the field. The right side of her face was covered by a mask.
"All I can do is end my turn."
"I can detach a material from Perpetua to special summon a Chronodiver monster from my graveyard."
Perpetua snapped her fingers and one of the energy orbs disappeared.
"I special summon Regulator. Now I'll Overlay Regulator and Bezel Ship to Xyz summon Chronodiver Redone."
Time Thief Redoer
Rank 4
Dark
Psychic/Xyz/Effect
2400/2000
This new monster looked very similar to Reuse. His outfit was still black and purple, but his hair was white, he had a black cape, and the gloves had switched hands. Like his companion, two small orbs of energy circled his glove.
"I activate my trap Chronodiver Flyback. I target one Chronodiver Xyz monster I control, in this case Redone, and then attach one Chronodiver card from my hand or deck to it as material."
Redone now had three energy orbs around his glove.
"I play the spell Allure of Darkness. I draw two cards, and then I banish a Dark monster from my hand. However, if I don't have a Dark monster, I send my entire hand to the graveyard. I can banish Chronodiver Start-Up from my graveyard, and then target one Chronodiver Xyz monster I control; I attach three different Chronodiver card types to it as material. Redone gains one monster, one trap, and one spell."
Redone now had six orbs around his glove.
"I detach a card from Redone to activate an effect. The effect depends on what kind of card it was. It was a trap, so I place one face-up card you control on top of your deck."
Redone clenched his glove into a fist, and with a bright glow, one of the energy orbs shot at the Emerald Bird, sending it flying off the field.
"Now I activate Chronodiver Hack. I target Chronodiver Redone to power up. He gains 1500 attack."
CR: 2400/2000 - 3900/2000
"Now attack her directly."
Redone winked at Perpetua, and then rushed across the field and raised his glove inches from Daphne's face. There was a flash of blinding light.
DG: 2100
"Your turn now Perpetua."
She nodded at Redone, and then with a wave of her hand, she sent a wave of light at Daphne.
DG: 200
"I end my turn. I don't want to brag, but there's little you can do, I'm afraid."
Daphne said nothing, but she had to agree. She still wasn't about to surrender.
"I set a monster and end my turn."
"During my standby phase, I can attach the top card of your deck to my Redone as material. You're deck isn't bad, Daphne, you just had a bad draw."
Ron came running up the stairs, but stopped when he saw the duel was still going.
"Perpetua, attack her face-down monster."
She leapt into the air and landed on the card. To no surprise, it was the Emerald Bird.
"Redone, finish her off."
He clenched his gloved fist and a wave of energy flashed across the field.
DG: 0
Daphne sank to the ground, "I didn't even get a hit in once."
Hermione didn't know what to say.
"I wish I could've seen the rest of that duel."
"Ron? How long have you been there?"
"I only just caught the end. I see you had a perfect victory, as if there was any doubt."
Hermione blushed, "Oh, Ron, stop it. I'm sure you did an excellent job yourself."
Ron walked over to Daphne, "I know you're a bit devastated right now, but if you could drag your friend Millicent to the infirmary, she took a bit of a tumble."
"Huh? Oh, yeah, sure," she walked past them and went down the stairs, "Maybe if I switch up my deck a bit..."
"Come on, Ron," Hermione said, "We have to catch up to Harry."
NL: 8000
PP: 8000
"I'm going first! I summon Hammer Shark."
Hammer Shark
LV4
Water
Fish/Effect
1700/1500
It was a large hammerhead shark...as in its head was a literal hammer.
"I can reduce the level of this card by one..."
HS: LV4 - LV3
"...and then I can special summon one level 3 or lower Water monster from my hand. So here comes Big Jaws."
Big Jaws
LV3
Water
Fish/Effect
1800/300
A shark with abnormally large teeth now swam onto the field.
"I Overlay Hammer Shark and Big Jaws to Xyz summon Underwater Mothership Aero Shark."
Submersible Carrier Aero Shark
Rank 3
Water
Fish/Xyz/Effect
1900/1000
"I equip it with Aqua Jet. It gains 1000 attack!"
UMAS: 1900/1000 - 2900/1000
"I end my turn. Beat that, loser!"
"I summon Night Rose Knight."
Twilight Rose Knight
LV4
Dark
Warrior/Tuner/Effect
1000/1000
"When this monster is summoned, I can special one level 4 or lower monster from my hand. I summon Evil Thorn."
Evil Thorn
LV1
Dark
Plant/Effect
100/300
A small plant with a flower on one end and a thorn-covered seed on the other. The spiky seed looked like a grenade.
"I can tribute this monster to inflict 300 damage to you."
The seed exploded, sending spikes flying at Pansy.
PP: 7700
"Now I can special summon two more Evil Thorn monsters from my deck in attack position."
Two more of those creepy plants sprouted.
"I equip my Knight with the spell Synchro Hero. She gains 500 attack, and her level is raised by 1."
NRK: LV4, 1000/1000 - LV5, 1500/1000
"I play the spell Dual Summon to summon Blue Rose Dragon."
Blue Rose Dragon
LV4
Dark
Dragon/Effect
1600/1200
A small black dragon made of blue flower petals appeared on the field.
"I Tune Night Rose Knight and my two Evil Thorns to Synchro summon Black Rose Dragon."
Black Rose Dragon
LV7
Fire
Dragon/Synchro/Effect
2400/1800
The black dragon covered in red rose petals and thorns appeared with a snarl.
"I activate my dragon's effect: I destroy all cards on the field. Black Rose Gale!"
The dragon roared, and a flurry of rose petals enveloped everything. The field was now cleared.
"Way to go, stupid," Pansy growled, "Now neither of us can do anything."
"When my Blue Rose Dragon is destroyed and sent to the graveyard, I can either a Black Rose Dragon or a Plant monster in my graveyard and special summon it. Black Rose Dragon is back on the field."
The dragon erupted from the ground.
"I play Pot of Greed, and then I equip my dragon with Thorn of Malice. She gains 600 attack."
BRD: 2400/1800 - 3000/1800
Now I can attack you directly."
The dragon whipped its thorn-covered tail at Pansy.
PP: 4700
"I set a card and end my turn."
"I play Pot of Greed, and then I summon Double Fin Shark."
Double Fin Shark
LV4
Water
Fish/Effect
1000/1200
A blue shark with eyes on both sides of its jaws now appeared.
"When it's normal summoned, I can target one level 3 or 4 Water Fish monster from my graveyard and special summon it in defense mode, but its effects are negated. I bring back Hammer Shark. If I control a Water monster, I can special summon Silent Angler from my hand."
Silent Angler
LV4
Water
Fish/Effect
800/1400
A large brown anglerfish swam next to the shark.
"I Overlay my Hammer Shark and my Silent Angler. Rise from the darkness of the abyss! I Xyz summon Bahamut Shark."
Bahamut Shark
Rank 4
Water
Sea Serpent/Xyz/Effect
2600/2100
A large draconic shark came forth with a roar. It had two energy orbs circling it.
"Once per turn, I can detach a material from this card to special summon one rank 3 or lower Xyz monster from my extra deck, but this monster can't attack. I summon Numbers 47: Nightmare Shark in defense mode."
Number 47: Nightmare Shark
Rank 3
Water
Sea Serpent/Xyz/Effect
2000/2000
A large blue and white shark with scythe arms and bat-like wings flew onto the field.
"When this card is special summoned, I can attach one level 3 Water monster from my hand or side of the field to it as material. Once per turn, I can detach a material from my Nightmare Shark, then I target one Water monster I control; this turn it can attack directly. So now my Double Fin Shark can attack you despite that stupid dragon on your field."
The shark swam over to Neville and chomped at him.
NL: 7000
Pansy looked smug, "I end my turn."
"I summon Botanical Lion."
Botanical Lion
LV4
Earth
Plant/Effect
1600/2000
A lion with a wooden body and a flower for a mane roared as it acme onto the field.
"I banish one Plant monster from my graveyard, and then I target one defense position monster you control; it's changed to attack position, and its attack is now 0. I'm talking about your Nightmare Shark obviously."
N47:NS: 2000/2000 - 0/2000
"I attack your Nightmare Shark with my Dragon."
Black Rose Dragon whipped the Shark with its thorny vines.
PP: 1700
"Hey, it's still standing."
"Of course it is. Thorn of Malice makes it so your monsters can't be destroyed by a monster equipped with it. However, that doesn't stop it from being destroyed by Botanical Lion."
The lion leapt across the field to sink its jaws into the Shark.
PP: 100
"I end my turn."
Pansy was seething, "You won't beat me, you spineless goon! I summon Cutter Shark."
Buzzsaw Shark
LV4
Water
Fish/Effect
1600/500
A red, white, and black shark with buzz saws on its fins leapt into view.
"I can target one Water monster I control to special summon from my deck in defense position, one Fish monster with the same level, but with a different name. Its effects can't be activated this turn, and I can't special summon monsters from my extra deck except Xyz monsters. I target Double Fin Shark, so I can special summon Spear Shark."
Spear Shark
LV4
Water
Fish/Effect
1600/1400
A red and yellow shark with a spear on its nose swam onto the field.
"Now I'll Overlay Cutter Shark, Double Fin Shark, and Spear Shark. Show yourself, most powerful ruler of the deep sea! Your sharp fangs shall exterminate everything! Xyz summon Numbers 32: Marine Biting Dragon - Shark Drake!"
Number 32: Shark Drake
Rank 4
Water
Sea Serpent/Xyz/Effect
2800/2100
A large, red and black, shark-like dragon emerged with a roar. It had three energy orbs surrounding it.
"I'll attack your Lion with my Drake. Depth Bite!"
The sea serpent stomped over to the lion-like plant and smacked it with its fin.
NL: 5800
"When my Shark Drake destroys a monster by battle and sends it to the graveyard, I can detach one Xyz material to special summon the destroyed monster to your side of the field in face-up attack position, and it loses 1000 attack."
An energy orb was sent flying into the graveyard, pulling the Lion back to the field.
BL: 1600/2000 - 600/2000
"If I do this, my Shark Drake can make a second attack!"
Botanical Lion returned to the field, only for the Shark Drake to smack it away again.
NL: 3600
Pansy was laughing, "How do you like that? What are you going to do now? I end my turn."
Ron and Hermione were walking up the stairs to see that the duel was still going.
Neville, meanwhile, looked confused, "What am I going to do? I'm going to attack your Shark Drake with my Black Rose Dragon. You were so pleased with yourself about your constant attacks, you seem to have forgotten that you only have 100 life points left."
Pansy's smirk quickly disappeared.
"Black Rose Dragon, attack her Shark Drake. Black Rose Flare!"
The dragon shot a beam of energy and petals at the Shark Drake, blowing it up.
PP: 0
Pansy was now throwing a tantrum, "NO! I can't lose to Longbottom! Do you know what everyone else will say if they find out?!"
That's when Ron stepped forward, "Just go back to your dorm and get stuffed."
"That's what you get for underestimating Neville," Hermione added.
Pansy shrieked as she ran past them down the stairwell.
"Thanks, guys," Neville said, feeling rather bashful.
"You really showed her what you can do, Neville," Hermione said.
"It's just like my brother Bill said, you have a lot of potential if you just concentrate."
"I hope to face him again someday," Neville replied.
"Now come on," Hermione said, "We have to get to Harry."
"Yeah," Ron said, "Who knows which of these Obelisk gits he has to duel."
