CHAPTER 5
SOLO DUELIST
Yugi and Joey re-enters the building
"There he is," said the announcer. Yugis opponent is already on the stage to begin the match. The opponent looks like he's an American or somewhere like that.
Joey sits back down at the table where Tea and Tristan along with Mai awaits them
"By the way Joey, I thought you gave Yugi that Red-Eyes Black Dragon didn't you?" Tristan asks
"Yeah, but Yugi gave it back to me yesterday. He convinced me that I'll need it." Yugi steps onto the stage
"In this final preliminary match-up, Dan Krelin versus Yugi Mouto."
"I hope you're ready for one heck of a beating Yugi," said Dan. "I bet you have never faced a duelist like me before"
"That's what everyone says before I've dueled them"
Suddenly Yami speaks into Yugis mind "Yugi, I think he may be right, I sense he has a strong deck and will, I don't think he flew all the way from America just to loose to us"
Yugi thoughtfully speaks back, "alright, lets use this as our warm-up for the real thing"
Then Yugi yells out YU-GI-OH, and begins his transformation into: Yami-Yugi
"Lets duel, and how about we save our star chips for the tournament?" Yami- Yugi asks
"Very well then, I shall go first"
DAN: 8000
YUGI: 8000
"I shall begin my play by playing my Feral Imp in attack mode" Dan announces
The little green imp appears in its attack position, ready for battle (1300/1400)
"Then I end my turn" Dan also announces
He's trying to draw us to attack, Yugi guesses
I believe that you're right Yugi, Yami agrees. He didn't play any trap cards, and a weak monster like that, he is drawing us to attack. Lets just see why.
"I play my Neo the Magic Swordsman in attack mode"
The female warrior appears, sword ready to use to casts her spell (1700/1000)
"Then I shall play one card face down, on the field, then send my Neo the Magic Swordsman to attack your Feral Imp.
Neo casts her spell, increasing her attack points to 2200 for the typical advantage, then uses the attack to blast the Feral Imp away.
DAN: 7100
YUGI: 8000
"And that puts an end to your Feral Imp" Yugi went
"Nice move Yugi Mouto, but now I play my Whitty Phantom in attack mode"
The elven phantom in his purple outfit appears (1400 / 1300)
"Then I shall equip my Whitty Phantom with one of my favorite cards: Sword of Deep-Seated to increase both his attack and defense power by five- hundred points and send him on the attack"
The Whitty Phantom's new weapon appears in his hand (1900/1800), then runs up to Neo the Magic Swordsmon (2400/2300), breaks through Neo's sword, destroying her.
"Your Neo the Magic Swordsman has met her end"
Blast him, Yami-Yugi curses
DAN: 7100
YUGI: 7300
"Then to end my turn, I equip my Whitty Phantom again with Dark Energy, then change the field into Yami for my Whitty Phantoms advantage"
Whitty Phantoms new Dark Energy appears to make him bigger and buffer (2200/2100), then suddenly the entire area turns pitch-black mixed with dark purple, turning the entire arena into Yami, a world of darkness, increasing Whitty Phantoms power even more (2400/2300) since it's a fiend.
"Oh man, that doesn't look to good for Yugi" Tristan went.
"Now how is Yugi going to beat that guy"
Man, that guy really is good, Yugi thinks to himself
Yugi draws a card, the Dark Magician
No good, I need two offerings, Yugi thinks to himself
"I play a monster in defense mode"
The card appears face down, then Yugi ended his turn
Dan just stood there, looking at his hand as soon as he drew another card
"I shall equip my Whitty Phantom with Stim-Pack to increase his attack and defense by seven-hundred"
Again the Whitty Phantom grew stronger (3100/2300)
"Then I'll lay this card face down onto the field"
The card appears, leaving him only one magic/trap slot left open
"Then for your defending monster, I play my Stop Defense to switch it to attack mode"
"Oh no" Yami-Yugi sounds very surprised
Then the defending monster switches into attack mode, revealing itself to be Alpha the Magnetic Warrior (1400/1700)
"Attack Whitty Phantom, destroy that monster now" Dan commands
And then the Whitty Phantom charges up an attack this time, blowing the Alpha the Magnetic Warrior away
Dan just stood there with a smile on his face as Yugi looses some more life points
DAN: 7100
YUGI: 5600
"That took a chunk out of Yugi's life points" Joey worriedly went
"It's a good thing they both didn't wager any star chips" Mai said
"Hey Seto, Yugi's getting beaten up," Mocuba said
Kaiba said, "I know, looks like this guy really knows what he's doing. But knowing Yugi, he'll take that guys victory, and use it against him, he always have done that before"
"You really think he could still make it?"
"Possibly"
Yugi draws out another card, "I play this card, my Pot of Greed"
The pot with a head on it appears, and throws two cards to Yugi, allowing him to draw two cards
These two cards will help me make a great comeback, Yugi thinks to himself
Then lets use them, Yami suggests
"I play my Swords of Revealing Light" Yugi announces
"Swords of Revealing Light? I've heard of that card, what is it?" Dan asks, sounded a little worried
"It prevents you from attack for three turns" Yugi explains
Then the Swords of Revealing Light hits the ground right in front of the Whitty Phantom
Then Yugi ends his turn
The Whitty Phantom suddenly gets weaker during Dans Standby stage (2900/2300)
Then Dan draws a fresh card
"I activate a magic card, De-Spell" Dan went, activating his only faced down card
"Oh no," Yugi is worried he'll use it on the Swords of Revealing Light, then attack Yugi directly
"I'll use it to destroy my Stim-Pack, and then end my turn" Dan unexpectedly went
The Whitty Phantom returns back into its original form before Dan played the Stim-Pack on it
Why in the world did he do that? Yugi thought to himself
During his stand by, his Whitty Phantom gotten two-hundred points weaker, it must've been a secondary effect from the Stim-Pack card
It also seams that he's been playing nothing but one monster during the entire duel.
So it seems what I call a solo duelist. A duelist who only uses one monster, and just do whatever he can to make it more powerful, just like Mai does with her Harpy Ladies
Only two turns to go, Yugi draws a new card, and plays it
"I play my Celtic Guardian in defense mode"
The Celtic Guardian appears face up, kneeling in his defense position (1400/1200)
"Then I end my turn" Yugi announces
Dan draws another card, wondering what his opponent is up too
"I equip my Whitty Phantom with another Sword of Deep-Seated"
"What?"
Whitty Phantom again grew stronger that he now carries two swords (2900/2800)
"Then I end my turn" Dan announces
It's now or never, Yugi went
Yugi draws a new card, but saves into his hand
"First, I shall play my Brain Control on your Whitty Phantom" Yugi declares
Dan knows what the Brain Control does, "oh no"
The mighty Whitty Phantom jumps towards Yugi's side
"Then I shall offer both of these monsters in order to summon my ultimate and personal favorite monster"
Again as always, a blank card appears behind both of the two monsters (Celtic Guardian and Whitty Phantom), and gets sucked in, and out comes: the Dark Magician
"And thanks to your Yami field card, my Dark Magician gains a bonus" Yugi went
The Dark Magican powers up his staff with the powers of darkness from Yami (2700/2300)
Dan is now completely defenseless
"Go, Dark Magic Attack" Yugi commands, as the Dark Magician makes a direct attack on Dan's life points, nearly knocking him down
DAN: 4400
YUGI: 5600
Yugi's friends cheers back at his table, cheering him for thinking up of a great dueling strategy such as that one
"See what I mean Mocuba, Yugi doesn't give up that easily" Kaiba went
"Yeah, I see what you mean"
Dan thinks, terrific, thanks to the second effect of both of my Sword of Deep-Seated, they've both been return to the top of my deck instead of the graveyard
Dan waits until the scouter has his next draw (one of his lost Sword of Deep-Seated into its memory banks)
Yugi's scouter shows that Dan has drawn another card, and that's it's in both scouters memory
Yugi then remembers something that his grandfather has told him about those equip cards
Yugi, the best of the equip cards that I know of, is the Sword of Deep- Seated" Said Yugi's grandfather
"Sword of Deep-Seated, what's that?" Yugi asks
"It increases the attack and defense strength of any monster you control by five-hundred, plus if this card, or the monster that it's equipped to is destroyed, then instead of going to the graveyard, it goes to the top of its owners deck instead"
"Wow, that cards sounds powerful"
"That and the Axe of Dispair has the same effect, except it effects the monsters attack strength instead"
So that's what that new card was that the scouter drew for him, Yugi went. It's one of his two Sword of Deep-Seated cards
"I shall play a monster in defense mode, then end my turn" Dan announces
The card appears face down, then the Swords of Revealing Lights has disappeared
It appears he has no trap cards in play, Yugi thinks to himself
"I play my Mammoth Graveyard in attack mode"
The zombie dinosaur appears, but gains no bonuses from Yami (1200/800)
"Then I'll activate my trap card: Life Force Sword"
The only laid down trap card reveals itself, shooting out a sword, hitting Dans Sword of Deep-Seated
That should keep him from using for five turns, Yugi thinks to himself
"Dark Magician, Dark Magic Attack"
The Dark Magician blasts the defending Giant Soldier of Stone away
"Mammoth Graveyard, attack now"
The Mammoth Graveyard charges in, smashing into Dan's life points directly
DAN: 3200
YUGI: 5600
Dan draws his second Sword of Deep-Seated
"I shall play my Pot of Greed" Dan announces.
Dan did, actually drawing real cards this time
"Perfect" Dan went. Then he turns back towards Yugi. "This shall be the beginning of your defeat Yugi"
Dan lays one card face down, Yugi could tell that it's not the Sword of Deep-Seated because he's been keeping an eye on it with the scouter (the bars appear in the scouter, and Yugi kept an eye with the one that it represents), it was one of the two cards that it drew
"Then I shall play a monster called Senju of the Thousand Hands face up in defense mode"
The man with a thousand hands appears in its defensive position, and since it's a fairy type, the Yami took an advantage over it and lowers its power a little (1200/800)
Dan then said, "according to its power, I can search my deck for any ritual monster I want, and I shall do it down"
Dan opens his deck slot, searches his deck, found the card, re-shuffles and puts the remaining cards back in
"I end my turn"
"Fine then," Yugi went. "I offer my Mammoth Graveyard for my Summoned Skull"
The skull monster appears, rising from the bottom
"I activate my trap card," Dan went
The card he laid earlier turns out to be Trap Hole
"Darn it" Yugi curses, as he watches his Summoned Skull gets destroyed by that trap card
Yugi curses it, "Dark Magic Attack"
The Dark Magician blasts Senju away with some magic
Yugi then ends his turn
"I shall now reveal what my ritual monsters are," Dan said as soon as after he drew a new card
He holds up his two cards, "and I have enough monsters in my hand to use it. Since this duel will be coming to an end"
"Wrong Dan, this duel is just getting started" Said Yugi
To Be Continued.
What are the two cards? Can Yugi still beat Dan?
Next Chapter: Solo Duelist Part Two
Yugi is suffering, as Dan uses his ultimate ritual monster, that Yugi is very familiar with in the past. Will Yugi loose, or will he as always find a way around?
SOLO DUELIST
Yugi and Joey re-enters the building
"There he is," said the announcer. Yugis opponent is already on the stage to begin the match. The opponent looks like he's an American or somewhere like that.
Joey sits back down at the table where Tea and Tristan along with Mai awaits them
"By the way Joey, I thought you gave Yugi that Red-Eyes Black Dragon didn't you?" Tristan asks
"Yeah, but Yugi gave it back to me yesterday. He convinced me that I'll need it." Yugi steps onto the stage
"In this final preliminary match-up, Dan Krelin versus Yugi Mouto."
"I hope you're ready for one heck of a beating Yugi," said Dan. "I bet you have never faced a duelist like me before"
"That's what everyone says before I've dueled them"
Suddenly Yami speaks into Yugis mind "Yugi, I think he may be right, I sense he has a strong deck and will, I don't think he flew all the way from America just to loose to us"
Yugi thoughtfully speaks back, "alright, lets use this as our warm-up for the real thing"
Then Yugi yells out YU-GI-OH, and begins his transformation into: Yami-Yugi
"Lets duel, and how about we save our star chips for the tournament?" Yami- Yugi asks
"Very well then, I shall go first"
DAN: 8000
YUGI: 8000
"I shall begin my play by playing my Feral Imp in attack mode" Dan announces
The little green imp appears in its attack position, ready for battle (1300/1400)
"Then I end my turn" Dan also announces
He's trying to draw us to attack, Yugi guesses
I believe that you're right Yugi, Yami agrees. He didn't play any trap cards, and a weak monster like that, he is drawing us to attack. Lets just see why.
"I play my Neo the Magic Swordsman in attack mode"
The female warrior appears, sword ready to use to casts her spell (1700/1000)
"Then I shall play one card face down, on the field, then send my Neo the Magic Swordsman to attack your Feral Imp.
Neo casts her spell, increasing her attack points to 2200 for the typical advantage, then uses the attack to blast the Feral Imp away.
DAN: 7100
YUGI: 8000
"And that puts an end to your Feral Imp" Yugi went
"Nice move Yugi Mouto, but now I play my Whitty Phantom in attack mode"
The elven phantom in his purple outfit appears (1400 / 1300)
"Then I shall equip my Whitty Phantom with one of my favorite cards: Sword of Deep-Seated to increase both his attack and defense power by five- hundred points and send him on the attack"
The Whitty Phantom's new weapon appears in his hand (1900/1800), then runs up to Neo the Magic Swordsmon (2400/2300), breaks through Neo's sword, destroying her.
"Your Neo the Magic Swordsman has met her end"
Blast him, Yami-Yugi curses
DAN: 7100
YUGI: 7300
"Then to end my turn, I equip my Whitty Phantom again with Dark Energy, then change the field into Yami for my Whitty Phantoms advantage"
Whitty Phantoms new Dark Energy appears to make him bigger and buffer (2200/2100), then suddenly the entire area turns pitch-black mixed with dark purple, turning the entire arena into Yami, a world of darkness, increasing Whitty Phantoms power even more (2400/2300) since it's a fiend.
"Oh man, that doesn't look to good for Yugi" Tristan went.
"Now how is Yugi going to beat that guy"
Man, that guy really is good, Yugi thinks to himself
Yugi draws a card, the Dark Magician
No good, I need two offerings, Yugi thinks to himself
"I play a monster in defense mode"
The card appears face down, then Yugi ended his turn
Dan just stood there, looking at his hand as soon as he drew another card
"I shall equip my Whitty Phantom with Stim-Pack to increase his attack and defense by seven-hundred"
Again the Whitty Phantom grew stronger (3100/2300)
"Then I'll lay this card face down onto the field"
The card appears, leaving him only one magic/trap slot left open
"Then for your defending monster, I play my Stop Defense to switch it to attack mode"
"Oh no" Yami-Yugi sounds very surprised
Then the defending monster switches into attack mode, revealing itself to be Alpha the Magnetic Warrior (1400/1700)
"Attack Whitty Phantom, destroy that monster now" Dan commands
And then the Whitty Phantom charges up an attack this time, blowing the Alpha the Magnetic Warrior away
Dan just stood there with a smile on his face as Yugi looses some more life points
DAN: 7100
YUGI: 5600
"That took a chunk out of Yugi's life points" Joey worriedly went
"It's a good thing they both didn't wager any star chips" Mai said
"Hey Seto, Yugi's getting beaten up," Mocuba said
Kaiba said, "I know, looks like this guy really knows what he's doing. But knowing Yugi, he'll take that guys victory, and use it against him, he always have done that before"
"You really think he could still make it?"
"Possibly"
Yugi draws out another card, "I play this card, my Pot of Greed"
The pot with a head on it appears, and throws two cards to Yugi, allowing him to draw two cards
These two cards will help me make a great comeback, Yugi thinks to himself
Then lets use them, Yami suggests
"I play my Swords of Revealing Light" Yugi announces
"Swords of Revealing Light? I've heard of that card, what is it?" Dan asks, sounded a little worried
"It prevents you from attack for three turns" Yugi explains
Then the Swords of Revealing Light hits the ground right in front of the Whitty Phantom
Then Yugi ends his turn
The Whitty Phantom suddenly gets weaker during Dans Standby stage (2900/2300)
Then Dan draws a fresh card
"I activate a magic card, De-Spell" Dan went, activating his only faced down card
"Oh no," Yugi is worried he'll use it on the Swords of Revealing Light, then attack Yugi directly
"I'll use it to destroy my Stim-Pack, and then end my turn" Dan unexpectedly went
The Whitty Phantom returns back into its original form before Dan played the Stim-Pack on it
Why in the world did he do that? Yugi thought to himself
During his stand by, his Whitty Phantom gotten two-hundred points weaker, it must've been a secondary effect from the Stim-Pack card
It also seams that he's been playing nothing but one monster during the entire duel.
So it seems what I call a solo duelist. A duelist who only uses one monster, and just do whatever he can to make it more powerful, just like Mai does with her Harpy Ladies
Only two turns to go, Yugi draws a new card, and plays it
"I play my Celtic Guardian in defense mode"
The Celtic Guardian appears face up, kneeling in his defense position (1400/1200)
"Then I end my turn" Yugi announces
Dan draws another card, wondering what his opponent is up too
"I equip my Whitty Phantom with another Sword of Deep-Seated"
"What?"
Whitty Phantom again grew stronger that he now carries two swords (2900/2800)
"Then I end my turn" Dan announces
It's now or never, Yugi went
Yugi draws a new card, but saves into his hand
"First, I shall play my Brain Control on your Whitty Phantom" Yugi declares
Dan knows what the Brain Control does, "oh no"
The mighty Whitty Phantom jumps towards Yugi's side
"Then I shall offer both of these monsters in order to summon my ultimate and personal favorite monster"
Again as always, a blank card appears behind both of the two monsters (Celtic Guardian and Whitty Phantom), and gets sucked in, and out comes: the Dark Magician
"And thanks to your Yami field card, my Dark Magician gains a bonus" Yugi went
The Dark Magican powers up his staff with the powers of darkness from Yami (2700/2300)
Dan is now completely defenseless
"Go, Dark Magic Attack" Yugi commands, as the Dark Magician makes a direct attack on Dan's life points, nearly knocking him down
DAN: 4400
YUGI: 5600
Yugi's friends cheers back at his table, cheering him for thinking up of a great dueling strategy such as that one
"See what I mean Mocuba, Yugi doesn't give up that easily" Kaiba went
"Yeah, I see what you mean"
Dan thinks, terrific, thanks to the second effect of both of my Sword of Deep-Seated, they've both been return to the top of my deck instead of the graveyard
Dan waits until the scouter has his next draw (one of his lost Sword of Deep-Seated into its memory banks)
Yugi's scouter shows that Dan has drawn another card, and that's it's in both scouters memory
Yugi then remembers something that his grandfather has told him about those equip cards
Yugi, the best of the equip cards that I know of, is the Sword of Deep- Seated" Said Yugi's grandfather
"Sword of Deep-Seated, what's that?" Yugi asks
"It increases the attack and defense strength of any monster you control by five-hundred, plus if this card, or the monster that it's equipped to is destroyed, then instead of going to the graveyard, it goes to the top of its owners deck instead"
"Wow, that cards sounds powerful"
"That and the Axe of Dispair has the same effect, except it effects the monsters attack strength instead"
So that's what that new card was that the scouter drew for him, Yugi went. It's one of his two Sword of Deep-Seated cards
"I shall play a monster in defense mode, then end my turn" Dan announces
The card appears face down, then the Swords of Revealing Lights has disappeared
It appears he has no trap cards in play, Yugi thinks to himself
"I play my Mammoth Graveyard in attack mode"
The zombie dinosaur appears, but gains no bonuses from Yami (1200/800)
"Then I'll activate my trap card: Life Force Sword"
The only laid down trap card reveals itself, shooting out a sword, hitting Dans Sword of Deep-Seated
That should keep him from using for five turns, Yugi thinks to himself
"Dark Magician, Dark Magic Attack"
The Dark Magician blasts the defending Giant Soldier of Stone away
"Mammoth Graveyard, attack now"
The Mammoth Graveyard charges in, smashing into Dan's life points directly
DAN: 3200
YUGI: 5600
Dan draws his second Sword of Deep-Seated
"I shall play my Pot of Greed" Dan announces.
Dan did, actually drawing real cards this time
"Perfect" Dan went. Then he turns back towards Yugi. "This shall be the beginning of your defeat Yugi"
Dan lays one card face down, Yugi could tell that it's not the Sword of Deep-Seated because he's been keeping an eye on it with the scouter (the bars appear in the scouter, and Yugi kept an eye with the one that it represents), it was one of the two cards that it drew
"Then I shall play a monster called Senju of the Thousand Hands face up in defense mode"
The man with a thousand hands appears in its defensive position, and since it's a fairy type, the Yami took an advantage over it and lowers its power a little (1200/800)
Dan then said, "according to its power, I can search my deck for any ritual monster I want, and I shall do it down"
Dan opens his deck slot, searches his deck, found the card, re-shuffles and puts the remaining cards back in
"I end my turn"
"Fine then," Yugi went. "I offer my Mammoth Graveyard for my Summoned Skull"
The skull monster appears, rising from the bottom
"I activate my trap card," Dan went
The card he laid earlier turns out to be Trap Hole
"Darn it" Yugi curses, as he watches his Summoned Skull gets destroyed by that trap card
Yugi curses it, "Dark Magic Attack"
The Dark Magician blasts Senju away with some magic
Yugi then ends his turn
"I shall now reveal what my ritual monsters are," Dan said as soon as after he drew a new card
He holds up his two cards, "and I have enough monsters in my hand to use it. Since this duel will be coming to an end"
"Wrong Dan, this duel is just getting started" Said Yugi
To Be Continued.
What are the two cards? Can Yugi still beat Dan?
Next Chapter: Solo Duelist Part Two
Yugi is suffering, as Dan uses his ultimate ritual monster, that Yugi is very familiar with in the past. Will Yugi loose, or will he as always find a way around?
