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If you have the time, REIVEW!
Chapter #19: Final Showdown (II)
*~*~*Reader's POV*~*~*
"Funny, I think that I have misplaced my deck." Dieen said casually.
"Without a deck, you can't duel at all!" Elaya responded angrily.
"If I can't find my own, I'll get someone else's." She began to laugh as a duel disk morphed on her arm and her entire body morphed into Joey's.
"Joey?!" Elaya shouted. She looked behind her to still see her friend Joey waiting at the sidelines, then back again, to see his doppelganger. "What is going on?!"
"Remember?" Dieen asked in Joey's voice, "I can shape-shift into anything and anyone."
"Just draw your cards!" Elaya shouted with her eyes narrowed. [In order to save my friends I have to duel against them.]
"And one more thing." Dieen said. "This was a cute trick my good friend Marik taught me; he used it against Joey, isn't that right, Wheeler?" When she got no response from Joey, she continued. "All monsters that are destroyed on the field will be destroyed..but, you receive the pain of when it is attacked. You and your monsters share a life bond, and when it dies, so will you-well, after a couple of attacks anyways. That shouldn't be a problem for now, will it, my little healing sister?" Dieen laughed. "Don't forget. If you have no monsters on the field, I can attack your life points directly, causing you to be in more pain than you've ever imagined."
\\ Elaya! I need to come out! You can't take this type of duel! \\
// I can. Just protect my friends. //
\\ But what about you?! \\ Elaya didn't answer Justi's question. She didn't have the answer for it.
"Just draw." She said. And they both did.
"For my first move," Dieen said, "I play two cards face down and summon Swordsman of Landstar (500/1200)!" Two cards appeared on the field along with Joey's soldier-except that his eyes were red.
[Let's see.] Elaya thought. [With a weak monster like that, she must have cards to power it up with. Or to bring my monsters attack strength down.] She looked down at her hand. She had a Mask of Weakness, Trap Hole, Monster Reborn, Prevent Rat, Kuriboh and Princess of Tsurugi. [Perfect!]
"For my move, I'll place two cards face down, and end my turn."
"Shame. Oh well, I guess the faster your turns are over, the faster I'll win." Dieen said-still with Joey's voice and body. "Swordsman of Landstar, attack her face down monster card!" Dieen knew that it was a monster card, she could feel it. And she also knew that it was weak. The other card on the field was either a trap/magic card. The only flaw in her sensing power, is that she never knew which monster was played, or if it was a magic or trap card. Even though the card could be stronger, Dieen had placed Graceful Die and Skull Die on the field face down, to lower that monsters ATK points and raise hers. She didn't want to use Graceful Die just yet..she wanted to see what she had to roll in order to beat the face down monster.
When the Swordsman went in for the attack, nothing happened.
"No!" Dieen shouted.
"You should really think out your plan. Reveal face down monster!" Elaya cried as she flipped over the card. There, in a seat of sword like diamonds sat the Princess of Tsurugi (900/700) unharmed.
"Since she was flipped, her special ability was activated. For every magic and or trap card you have on the field, 500 life points get taken away from you. Princess, attack her face down cards and see which are magic and traps!"
The Princess of Tsurugi then stood up, leapt in the air and sent an array of diamonds on the two face down cards. They pierced the cards straight through, and Elaya watched as smoke began to pour out of them. Soon, the images of Graceful and Skull Die appeared on the cards and the entire gang watched as Dieen's LP sank to 3000.
"Alright Elaya! What a way to stick it to her!" Tristan cried from behind her.
"Yeah! And look! Dieen doesn't have that slight life point lead!" Téa announced.
"Now, Princess of Tsurugi, attack the Swordsman of Landstar with Diamond Shower [1]!" Elaya cried. Just as the warrior was about to send a shower of diamonds, Dieen said, "Just because I lost life points for the magic and trap cards, I can still use them. So I use Graceful Die on my Swordsman of Landstar!"
[How could I forget that? The magic cards or trap cards that Tsurugi had attacked in order to bring down Dieen's life points didn't lose their power. She can still use them! Dammit!]
The little fairy popped up and threw the die on the ground.
[As long as it isn't a one, that solider will be okay; and regardless what happens on the Skull Die's roll, that Princess is doomed, and so are Elaya's life points-and her health.] Dieen thought and smiled as the die rolled up a three.
"Oh no!" Teresa mother cried. Tristan, Joey, and Yugi's grandpa had explained to her how duel monsters worked earlier in the Cage. This was one of the cards that they showed her.
"Lucky me. A three. That means that Landstar's attack points rise all the way up to 1500. That's more than enough to demolish your Princess." The diamonds that landed on the soldier simply rebounded and crashed into the ground. "But, just for fun, I'll use Skull Die to hopefully lower your life points even more." The little demon dropped the die.
"If that die rolls anything higher than a one, she'll lose more life points..right?" Teresa asked nervously.
"Yes, but remember, your daughter still has that one face down card. And that can help her." Yugi's grandfather whispered.
"Help nothing!" Joey said, turning to the two elders. "The lower number on the die, the better. Let's just pray that Elaya will get lucky like Dieen and roll a one!"
The die then stopped and the whole gang let out a sigh of relief. The die had rolled a one-but it would still mean that she would lose 600 LP-unless she had a plan with that face down card.
"Oh well." Dieen said aloud. "Destroying you're only defence will not only cause you to lose 600 life points and to bring you into some pain, but it will also leave you wide open for a direct attack. Go! Swordsman of Landstar! Attack the Princess of Tsurugi!"
Just as the swordsman's sword came within inches of the Princess' head, Elaya cried out, "Activate the trap card, Mask of Weakness!" The card lifted and a grotesque mask appeared and covered the Swordsman of Landstar's face.
"This trap lowers your monster's attack points by 700, making him 100 ATK points lower than my Princess." Elaya smiled and watched as the sword, for the second time, have no effect on the Princess of Tsurugi. "Now! Attack again with Diamond Shower!" This time, the attack worked and sent eight long diamonds through the soldier's body. "Feel the pain of loss Dieen!" Elaya cried. But, Dieen began to laugh. "What's so funny?" Elaya asked, afraid of the answer.
"Remember how I can redirect pain? Same rules applied here. Whoever I become will be whoever feels the pain." She laughed again as Swordsman of Landstar disintegrated into tiny bits.
Elaya whirled around, "NO! JOEY!" She threw her arm out and the Scales began to glow.
// Please Justi..protect them, please.. They mean a lot to me and it will kill me to see them hurt. // As soon as she passed that thought to her other half, a streak of light came out of the Scales and was going straight for Joey. It reformed as a shield and blocked the negative effects of Dieen's powers. Instead of Joey feeling the pain like he had previously done against Marik, it went to Elaya. She winced a bit, but that was all. The monsters that were involved were weaker monsters, but she knew that the higher the ATK strength, the higher amount of pain.
"Wait a minute." Joey said aloud as the yellow shield faded. "What just happened here?"
"By the power of her Millennium Item, I guess that she can heal people by making the pain of it go to her instead." Yugi said.
[This is going to be easier than I thought.] Dieen said. [She may be a very strong duellist, but how much can she handle? She'll be taking in her own pain when I attack and my pain when she attacks. Interesting..]
[Now, with nothing protecting her life points] Elaya thought gasping for air and struggling a bit with the pain. [I can attack on my next turn.]
"Very well done 'Elaya.'" Dieen said. "You've done better than I expected. Let me tell you that this duel won't get any easier and that you should back out now."
"Dream on Smoky." Elaya responded gaining back her composure as the pain finally receded. "I'll switch Princess of Tsurugi into defence mode. Your move."
"Fine." Dieen said, finally changing herself from Joey's body to her ancient form. "Now, I'll summon a personal favourite. White Magical Hat! (1000/700)" A man wearing a white cape along with a white cap appeared on the field. "Attack Princess of Tsurugi!"
The duel monster sent a power ball towards Elaya's only monster. She was destroyed easily but it brought Elaya pain. She managed to stay standing and waited until the pain went away.
"Now, White Magical Hat, attack her life points directly!" And the monster did so, sending another wave of pain over Elaya. The entire group watched in horror as her life points dropped to 2850.
"Elaya!" Mokuba and Teresa shouted. Teresa and Téa were close to tears, but the others told them to remain positive and that she'll find a way out of this.
"If I recall, White Magical Hat's effect was that I can randomly discard one card in your hand to the Graveyard; and I chose the second card to the left." Dieen said with a smile as she knew that she had picked out the last decent strong monster in her hand. Elaya frowned and winced in pain as she took out Prevent Rat (500/2000) and placed it in the Graveyard to join her Princess of Tsurugi and Mask of Weakness.
"Make your move Elaya. It could be your last." Dieen said, morphing her body into Yami's.
"I draw." Elaya said. "And I play the magic card, Pot of Greed." She then drew two more cards. [Please deck, I need your help! Give me a card that can reduce her life points!] She then drew the Flame Champion and Queen Bird.
I'll summon Flame Champion (1900/1300) in attack mode. And also, one card face down in defence. Now, go my Champion, Flaming Sword! [2]"
Knowing what was coming Elaya braced herself for the pain as her Flame Champion sliced Dieen's White Magical Hat, reducing her life points further by 900. The same shield that protected Joey, protected Yugi, and the pain was far worse than before. She still managed to stay standing, but she wished that she could sit lie down for a bit.
"Now." Elaya said slowly. "Attack her life points directly!" This attack made Elaya buckle over in pain and fall to the ground. Dieen's life points dropped to a mere 100. Elaya smiled knowing that she was very close to winning.
Her friends cheered behind her and she began to stand up again. "Your move."
Dieen drew and reformed herself into her ancient form again. "I'll summon Griggle (350/300) in defence position and Dancing Fairy (1700/1000) also in defence position."
"I'll blow your defences to smithereens!" Elaya cried. But just as she was about to draw her card, Dieen smiled, "4000 life points please!"
"What?" [I don't understand, I didn't do anything to her cards.] "It's simple really. My Griggle gives me 3000 LP when it's your turn, AND my Dancing Fairy gives me another 1000 LP during my standby phases."
"No..it can't be!" Elaya cried.
"It is. I guess that the playing field is equal again, isn't it?" She laughed again. That's when Elaya remembered something. Although the Dancing Fairy effect lasts until the duel is over, Griggle's effect only lasts once. She drew her card and was happy to see that she drew Storm Sister (2800/2800), but knew that she'll need to tribute four monsters in order to summon it.
"Go, Flame Champion! Wipe out her two defences!" The monster destroyed them with ease, but this time no pain came to her. She figured that since Dieen hadn't changed her form into anyone else's, no one but she got the pain.
After the smoke settled, Elaya realized that Dieen had morphed into someone else-after the attacks. Elaya's eyes went wide as she stared at her next opponent.
"Kaiba?"
[1] & [2] I don't know if those are the real names of the attacks they do..I just have the cards.
If you have the time, REIVEW!
Chapter #19: Final Showdown (II)
*~*~*Reader's POV*~*~*
"Funny, I think that I have misplaced my deck." Dieen said casually.
"Without a deck, you can't duel at all!" Elaya responded angrily.
"If I can't find my own, I'll get someone else's." She began to laugh as a duel disk morphed on her arm and her entire body morphed into Joey's.
"Joey?!" Elaya shouted. She looked behind her to still see her friend Joey waiting at the sidelines, then back again, to see his doppelganger. "What is going on?!"
"Remember?" Dieen asked in Joey's voice, "I can shape-shift into anything and anyone."
"Just draw your cards!" Elaya shouted with her eyes narrowed. [In order to save my friends I have to duel against them.]
"And one more thing." Dieen said. "This was a cute trick my good friend Marik taught me; he used it against Joey, isn't that right, Wheeler?" When she got no response from Joey, she continued. "All monsters that are destroyed on the field will be destroyed..but, you receive the pain of when it is attacked. You and your monsters share a life bond, and when it dies, so will you-well, after a couple of attacks anyways. That shouldn't be a problem for now, will it, my little healing sister?" Dieen laughed. "Don't forget. If you have no monsters on the field, I can attack your life points directly, causing you to be in more pain than you've ever imagined."
\\ Elaya! I need to come out! You can't take this type of duel! \\
// I can. Just protect my friends. //
\\ But what about you?! \\ Elaya didn't answer Justi's question. She didn't have the answer for it.
"Just draw." She said. And they both did.
"For my first move," Dieen said, "I play two cards face down and summon Swordsman of Landstar (500/1200)!" Two cards appeared on the field along with Joey's soldier-except that his eyes were red.
[Let's see.] Elaya thought. [With a weak monster like that, she must have cards to power it up with. Or to bring my monsters attack strength down.] She looked down at her hand. She had a Mask of Weakness, Trap Hole, Monster Reborn, Prevent Rat, Kuriboh and Princess of Tsurugi. [Perfect!]
"For my move, I'll place two cards face down, and end my turn."
"Shame. Oh well, I guess the faster your turns are over, the faster I'll win." Dieen said-still with Joey's voice and body. "Swordsman of Landstar, attack her face down monster card!" Dieen knew that it was a monster card, she could feel it. And she also knew that it was weak. The other card on the field was either a trap/magic card. The only flaw in her sensing power, is that she never knew which monster was played, or if it was a magic or trap card. Even though the card could be stronger, Dieen had placed Graceful Die and Skull Die on the field face down, to lower that monsters ATK points and raise hers. She didn't want to use Graceful Die just yet..she wanted to see what she had to roll in order to beat the face down monster.
When the Swordsman went in for the attack, nothing happened.
"No!" Dieen shouted.
"You should really think out your plan. Reveal face down monster!" Elaya cried as she flipped over the card. There, in a seat of sword like diamonds sat the Princess of Tsurugi (900/700) unharmed.
"Since she was flipped, her special ability was activated. For every magic and or trap card you have on the field, 500 life points get taken away from you. Princess, attack her face down cards and see which are magic and traps!"
The Princess of Tsurugi then stood up, leapt in the air and sent an array of diamonds on the two face down cards. They pierced the cards straight through, and Elaya watched as smoke began to pour out of them. Soon, the images of Graceful and Skull Die appeared on the cards and the entire gang watched as Dieen's LP sank to 3000.
"Alright Elaya! What a way to stick it to her!" Tristan cried from behind her.
"Yeah! And look! Dieen doesn't have that slight life point lead!" Téa announced.
"Now, Princess of Tsurugi, attack the Swordsman of Landstar with Diamond Shower [1]!" Elaya cried. Just as the warrior was about to send a shower of diamonds, Dieen said, "Just because I lost life points for the magic and trap cards, I can still use them. So I use Graceful Die on my Swordsman of Landstar!"
[How could I forget that? The magic cards or trap cards that Tsurugi had attacked in order to bring down Dieen's life points didn't lose their power. She can still use them! Dammit!]
The little fairy popped up and threw the die on the ground.
[As long as it isn't a one, that solider will be okay; and regardless what happens on the Skull Die's roll, that Princess is doomed, and so are Elaya's life points-and her health.] Dieen thought and smiled as the die rolled up a three.
"Oh no!" Teresa mother cried. Tristan, Joey, and Yugi's grandpa had explained to her how duel monsters worked earlier in the Cage. This was one of the cards that they showed her.
"Lucky me. A three. That means that Landstar's attack points rise all the way up to 1500. That's more than enough to demolish your Princess." The diamonds that landed on the soldier simply rebounded and crashed into the ground. "But, just for fun, I'll use Skull Die to hopefully lower your life points even more." The little demon dropped the die.
"If that die rolls anything higher than a one, she'll lose more life points..right?" Teresa asked nervously.
"Yes, but remember, your daughter still has that one face down card. And that can help her." Yugi's grandfather whispered.
"Help nothing!" Joey said, turning to the two elders. "The lower number on the die, the better. Let's just pray that Elaya will get lucky like Dieen and roll a one!"
The die then stopped and the whole gang let out a sigh of relief. The die had rolled a one-but it would still mean that she would lose 600 LP-unless she had a plan with that face down card.
"Oh well." Dieen said aloud. "Destroying you're only defence will not only cause you to lose 600 life points and to bring you into some pain, but it will also leave you wide open for a direct attack. Go! Swordsman of Landstar! Attack the Princess of Tsurugi!"
Just as the swordsman's sword came within inches of the Princess' head, Elaya cried out, "Activate the trap card, Mask of Weakness!" The card lifted and a grotesque mask appeared and covered the Swordsman of Landstar's face.
"This trap lowers your monster's attack points by 700, making him 100 ATK points lower than my Princess." Elaya smiled and watched as the sword, for the second time, have no effect on the Princess of Tsurugi. "Now! Attack again with Diamond Shower!" This time, the attack worked and sent eight long diamonds through the soldier's body. "Feel the pain of loss Dieen!" Elaya cried. But, Dieen began to laugh. "What's so funny?" Elaya asked, afraid of the answer.
"Remember how I can redirect pain? Same rules applied here. Whoever I become will be whoever feels the pain." She laughed again as Swordsman of Landstar disintegrated into tiny bits.
Elaya whirled around, "NO! JOEY!" She threw her arm out and the Scales began to glow.
// Please Justi..protect them, please.. They mean a lot to me and it will kill me to see them hurt. // As soon as she passed that thought to her other half, a streak of light came out of the Scales and was going straight for Joey. It reformed as a shield and blocked the negative effects of Dieen's powers. Instead of Joey feeling the pain like he had previously done against Marik, it went to Elaya. She winced a bit, but that was all. The monsters that were involved were weaker monsters, but she knew that the higher the ATK strength, the higher amount of pain.
"Wait a minute." Joey said aloud as the yellow shield faded. "What just happened here?"
"By the power of her Millennium Item, I guess that she can heal people by making the pain of it go to her instead." Yugi said.
[This is going to be easier than I thought.] Dieen said. [She may be a very strong duellist, but how much can she handle? She'll be taking in her own pain when I attack and my pain when she attacks. Interesting..]
[Now, with nothing protecting her life points] Elaya thought gasping for air and struggling a bit with the pain. [I can attack on my next turn.]
"Very well done 'Elaya.'" Dieen said. "You've done better than I expected. Let me tell you that this duel won't get any easier and that you should back out now."
"Dream on Smoky." Elaya responded gaining back her composure as the pain finally receded. "I'll switch Princess of Tsurugi into defence mode. Your move."
"Fine." Dieen said, finally changing herself from Joey's body to her ancient form. "Now, I'll summon a personal favourite. White Magical Hat! (1000/700)" A man wearing a white cape along with a white cap appeared on the field. "Attack Princess of Tsurugi!"
The duel monster sent a power ball towards Elaya's only monster. She was destroyed easily but it brought Elaya pain. She managed to stay standing and waited until the pain went away.
"Now, White Magical Hat, attack her life points directly!" And the monster did so, sending another wave of pain over Elaya. The entire group watched in horror as her life points dropped to 2850.
"Elaya!" Mokuba and Teresa shouted. Teresa and Téa were close to tears, but the others told them to remain positive and that she'll find a way out of this.
"If I recall, White Magical Hat's effect was that I can randomly discard one card in your hand to the Graveyard; and I chose the second card to the left." Dieen said with a smile as she knew that she had picked out the last decent strong monster in her hand. Elaya frowned and winced in pain as she took out Prevent Rat (500/2000) and placed it in the Graveyard to join her Princess of Tsurugi and Mask of Weakness.
"Make your move Elaya. It could be your last." Dieen said, morphing her body into Yami's.
"I draw." Elaya said. "And I play the magic card, Pot of Greed." She then drew two more cards. [Please deck, I need your help! Give me a card that can reduce her life points!] She then drew the Flame Champion and Queen Bird.
I'll summon Flame Champion (1900/1300) in attack mode. And also, one card face down in defence. Now, go my Champion, Flaming Sword! [2]"
Knowing what was coming Elaya braced herself for the pain as her Flame Champion sliced Dieen's White Magical Hat, reducing her life points further by 900. The same shield that protected Joey, protected Yugi, and the pain was far worse than before. She still managed to stay standing, but she wished that she could sit lie down for a bit.
"Now." Elaya said slowly. "Attack her life points directly!" This attack made Elaya buckle over in pain and fall to the ground. Dieen's life points dropped to a mere 100. Elaya smiled knowing that she was very close to winning.
Her friends cheered behind her and she began to stand up again. "Your move."
Dieen drew and reformed herself into her ancient form again. "I'll summon Griggle (350/300) in defence position and Dancing Fairy (1700/1000) also in defence position."
"I'll blow your defences to smithereens!" Elaya cried. But just as she was about to draw her card, Dieen smiled, "4000 life points please!"
"What?" [I don't understand, I didn't do anything to her cards.] "It's simple really. My Griggle gives me 3000 LP when it's your turn, AND my Dancing Fairy gives me another 1000 LP during my standby phases."
"No..it can't be!" Elaya cried.
"It is. I guess that the playing field is equal again, isn't it?" She laughed again. That's when Elaya remembered something. Although the Dancing Fairy effect lasts until the duel is over, Griggle's effect only lasts once. She drew her card and was happy to see that she drew Storm Sister (2800/2800), but knew that she'll need to tribute four monsters in order to summon it.
"Go, Flame Champion! Wipe out her two defences!" The monster destroyed them with ease, but this time no pain came to her. She figured that since Dieen hadn't changed her form into anyone else's, no one but she got the pain.
After the smoke settled, Elaya realized that Dieen had morphed into someone else-after the attacks. Elaya's eyes went wide as she stared at her next opponent.
"Kaiba?"
[1] & [2] I don't know if those are the real names of the attacks they do..I just have the cards.