The Duel Masters Tournament
"I'm Marie, the Fallen One."
The bug army continued to draw closer, gnawing and chewing their way towards the Senvas.
"I'll handle the Moths, what about you?" Marie asked.
"Oh, I think squashing these pests will be too easy." Gearfried crowed.
ROAR!!! Went a Man Eater!
"Ok, maybe just a little difficult." Gearfried gulped, but raised his blade.
"Just try and stay alive." Marie said, as she jumped into the air and flew towards the Great Moths.
Gearfried's eyes focused hard, and his foes broke through the roof, he pulled back his blade, and called out, "Come on! Show me what you got!"
A Needle worm was the first to take a shot; it reared back its head, and aimed, firing a large needle right at Gearfried.
At the last second, Gearfried lowered his shoulder; the heavy plate of steel blocked the needle, but managed to crack a tiny hole in it.
"It looks like these Buggers are tougher than they look, I think I can handle these puck shots, but I can't keep up with many more." He said.
Soon the combined worm army fired, Gearfried's blade started to shine, "IRON FRIECE!" He called out, as a massive blast of energy blew apart the needles and took out a good piece of the worms.
"I hope the Fox, is holding her own up there." He said, readying for the next volley.
Up in the sky, Marie dove straight for the moths.
"Hope you don't mind if I 'axe' you for a leg. AXE OF DESPAIR!" She shouted, as a large and sharp axe appeared in her hand. It seethed with energy, as though it wanted to kill the giant insect.
However, Bbbiizzzzzz!!!
Marie looked up to see a Killer Needle dive bomb from the sky, right at her!
"Urgh!" She groaned, as she pushed with all her might to narrowly dodge the killer hornet.
"That was close! What now?" She said, as she looked, and saw the moths start to flap their wings, and a massive cloud of purple, poison pollen come right at her!
"Oh sh-"
It's time to kiss your Maggots goodbye, Iron Fierce!!!" Gearfried shouted as he blew away the remaining Needles. He looked up to see how Marie was doing and saw the cloud of poison!
"Kunai with Chain!!!" He shouted as his shield's point opened, and out of came a metal hook with a chain attached flying towards Marie.
"Huh?" She said, as the chain wrapped around her and dragged her out of the way.
"You alright?" Gearfried asked.
"Look out!" Marie shouted, as the Man eater bug grabbed a hold of him from behind, crushing him in between its fore claws.
"Let him GO!!!" She shouted, as she dove down to its thin waist, and with a swing of her axe, cut it in half! The Insect roared in pain as it exploded into shadowy fumes.
"Gearfried, you still breathing?" Marie asked the knight.
"Just barely, thanks for the save." He said, spreading his arms to stretch.
"Don't thank me yet, here come they come." She said, as the two moths came flying in, along with a swarm of Killer Needles.
"Oh give me a break!" He said weakly, as he readied his blade for another Iron Fierce.
"What? An arm? A leg?" Asked a very deep voice.
Gearfried and Marie looked down to the street and saw the Giant Soldier of Stone with his swords drawn.
"Looks to me like you need a hand." He said.
"Great timing, how much longer till the tournament?" Marie asked.
"Twenty minutes, we have to finish them fast." The soldier said, crossing his swords together.
"Let's light 'em up!" Gearfried said, all of his red jewel portions glowing.
The needles descended from the skies as they flew down towards the Senvas. Gearfried lunged into the air and sliced two in half, Marie flew upwards and began to hack away at the wasps from hell. Stone Soldier watched as the bugs got closer; he threw his swords into the air, and crushed a whole swarm with a mighty clap. He held out his massive fists and caught his weapons, covered with splattered bugs.
Gearfried landed on Soldier's shoulder, "We aren't breaking through, you think you can give me a boost of energy?" He asked.
The stone giant nodded his head, the crest of Offense glowed brightly.
Gearfried closed his eyes and started to draw in all his attack strength into his weapon, it started to spark and shine with bright light. He pulled it back to his side, and continued to charge with the crest's energy.
Marie halted from her extermination to see Gearfried charging for a full power blast. "Fry time, Ciao!" She said, as she dived away from the swarm and raised her right hand, the crest of Focus started to shine.
Gearfried's blade turned a bright green; the energy was becoming more intense and focused. Gearfried turned his attention to the swarm as they dropped from the sky like hail.
"Say hello to my fly swatter! IRON SHOCKWAVE!!!" He shouted, and he swung his sword, a massive tidal wave of energy simply vaporized the swarm of giant wasps. But just as the wave of energy came towards the moths, with a flap of their humongous wings, they blew away the shockwave!
"You have got to be kidding me." Gearfried said in absolute disbelief.
Just then, the moths began to send their poison pollen mist straight at them!
The Stone Soldier raised his massive arms to block the pollen, but as soon as the pollen touched the rock skin, it began to melt.
"Hold on, I'll try and block it." Gearfried said, drawing what strength he had left to activate his crest of Defense.
A Millennium shield appeared in front of the Giant, but the shield immediately started to corrode.
"It's too strong! I don't have the power to hold it back!" Gearfried shouted in pain, as he struggled to keep the shield up.
Not far up in the sky, Marie watched as Gearfried and Stone tried to hold off the Great Moths attack, but she knew even though the rules of the card game don't matter much in battle, The Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth had an attack power of 3500, therefore its strength in the real world just be as powerful.
She looked at the Moths, each were bigger than the size of a bus, and their bodies seemed to be coated in a thick exoskeleton, strong enough to take a direct hit from her axe.
"It looks like they can take any form of heavy blow, but I wonder. Maybe that's it!" She said, focusing heavily on the wings of the giant monsters.
She then looked at her friends, Soldier tried to hold the shield against the toxic dust, as it continued to turn to sizzling sand. And Gearfried was now without strength, and couldn't even move.
"I got to try, if not for me, then for them." She said, tightening her grip on her axe. She closed her eyes, and took off towards the moths.
"HEYAH!!!" She shouted as she swung her axe across the brow of one of the giant leviathan. She flew past the bug's huge form, and narrowly dodged the smog of the poison as it singed her black wings.
Come on, follow me you stinking roaches! She said to herself as she turned her head over her shoulder. She saw the two massive monarchs turn about and started to give chase. "That's it, follow the birdie." She said as picked up speed.
Soldier looked up and saw the two monsters turn their attention to Marie and gave her chase, at an unusually fast speed for creatures of such size. "She's leading them away, but what is she thinking?" He wondered.
Gearfried, raised his head towards the retreating insects, and Marie. He noticed her path, it was steadily going upwards. "You can't really expect them to be that stupid." He spat, "She'll never get rid of both of them in one strike."
"What are you blabbering about?" The giant asked.
"I'll tell you when we get there, after her." The tired knight commanded. The giant gave heed and marched after the fallen one.
Marie finally came to a halt and spun around, she was over a quarter a mile above the Moths, as they struggled to climb further into the sky.
"They maybe strong, but they're fatter than elephant and twice as heavy. I got to do this fast and in one strike, here goes." She said, as she raised her axe. The deadly weapon glowed with a dark light, a sizzled with an evil energy.
The moths grunted and screeched in high tones, flapping their massive wings, and wailing in frustration as they tried to reach their prey high in the sky.
Marie closed her eyes, the energy of the axe grew to its climax. And in a bright flash, her arms were stretched to her sides, and in her hands, were twin Axes of Despair, each gleamed with the light of the noon sun. Her shadow has upon the Monsters as they grew blind in the light of the sun, and had no eyelids to cover their eyes.
"May the light of creation, and the Shadows of Destruction, join as one, and grant me the strength, to damn you to the depths of Hell!!!" She shouted as she flipped and shot downwards to towards the monsters.
"Shroud of Darkness Blade!!!" She shouted, as her axes burst with a dark fire!
The great moths released their poison wind towards the light; Marie crossed her axes, and cut through the toxic dust. One of the giants screeched as Marie shot right for it. She brought her axes apart, and with a mighty SLASH!!!
She carved the monster into for giant chunks that were flying towards the other beast. However, waiting for her on the other side was a fog of the vile smog!!! The other monster had anticipated her move, and had laid her a trap!
Marie's form began to start to dissolve in the poison, her pink dress was burning itself away, her wings were vanishing, and she was falling!
"Gaia Discus!!!" A large stone sword flew up and slashed the Moth to pieces! Marie like a stone was plummeting down into the streets. Just then, in an incredibly fast blur, she was plucked from the sky.
She awoke on top of a building, her wings were no more than stumps, her body was singed, and her blonde hair burned. Her dress was no more than a few strips of pink fabric, and she was held in a very strong grip.
She was in the battered metal arms of Gearfried, Her black flesh turned a shade of crimson. But Gearfried remained emotionless; she thought her appearance would cause the shy Aaron inside the metal shell would cause him to shake with embarrassment. "Aaron, are you ok?" She asked.
Gearfried simply nodded, she noticed his red eyes were blank. His eyes were closed.
She simply smiled, but soon was covered in a huge shadow, "Ooh! Peep Show!!!"
Dan inside the giant soldier, shook with fear, when he saw the look of absolute hatred on Marie's very pissed face!
"Dan, how much longer till the start of the tournament?" Gearfried asked.
"Oh crap five minutes!!!" Dan said as he shrank down to his human form.
The other two Senvas changed back as well, Jess was fully healed, and Aaron was back to normal strength. "WHOA!!!"
Which to say wasn't much.
"Nice work Aaron." Dan laughed.
"I aim to please." He said, as he tried to get off the ground.
Then the three senvas ran towards the Mirage Tower, the chiming of the town clock rang like whips at their heels as they ran.
The clock striked noon, and the three Duelists had just made it to the parking lot, the doors of the tower began to shut.
"We're never going to make it!!" Jess said.
"Oh yes we are!!!" Dan said as he grabbed a hold of his friends collars, and threw them on to his back.
"What are you doing?" She demanded.
"Oh No." Aaron said, in disbelief and horror.
"What?" She asked.
"Hold on tight!!!" Was all he said.
"LET'S GO!!!" Dan shouted, as his legs started picking up incredible speed!
"WWHHOOAAA!!!" The two on his back wailed as they were going 65 mph down the lot and right through the door as it slammed behind.
Dan hit the breaks into a screeching halt, sending the two on his back flying off. Aaron grabbed a hold of her arm and flipped, he landed on his feet and braced to catch her and slid to a stop.
"You learn fast." Dan said.
"It was either that or pack an airbag." Aaron said.
"Um, Aaron." Jess said, her face was bright red.
"Yes?" Then he saw his hand was a little high on her chest, "Uh oh." He said.
He soon was flying across the lobby, his head on the floor lying against the front desk.
"Ouch." He said weakly.
"Are you participating?" Asked the desk clerk.
"Yes, where do we go from here?" Dan asked.
"Take the elevator to the 49th floor. From there you'll be plugged into the virtual world. Everything will be explained once you enter." She said.
The three senvas stepped into the elevator, and followed their instructions to the 49th floor. On that floor, were hundreds, upon hundreds of virtual pods of Seto Kaiba's design, each side by side.
Soon each of the senvas were loaded inside, the virtual covers slid over their eyes, and the bodies were locked in place. They all looked at their crests one last time.
Let the games begin, Dan though to himself, And may the journeys be great. As drifted into cyber slumber.
Jess closed her eyes, Please, let me live long enough to help them. She too was then separated from her body.
Aaron watched as the world around him vanished into digital pixels and bright lights, May we find what we seek, and face what we have come to battle, let the great battle of Sloano begin.
They vanished into cyberspace, and that's where the fun begins.
To be continued.
Next Time: Aaron wakes up in the plains of Sloano, he finds out he is to protect the hierarchy from the assassins of the Land of Nograj. But before he even gets on his way, he is forced to duel a guy named Chou, A warrior Duelist who wants Aaron's Deck and the Black Luster soldier within. Soon Aaron realizes the true power of his opponents deck master and how strong his opponents forces truly are. Can Aaron master Gearfried's Deck Master ability in time or will he lose everything in his first match?
Next Time at The Duel Master's Tournament
Aaron V.S Chou, the Sword Hunter
"I'm Marie, the Fallen One."
The bug army continued to draw closer, gnawing and chewing their way towards the Senvas.
"I'll handle the Moths, what about you?" Marie asked.
"Oh, I think squashing these pests will be too easy." Gearfried crowed.
ROAR!!! Went a Man Eater!
"Ok, maybe just a little difficult." Gearfried gulped, but raised his blade.
"Just try and stay alive." Marie said, as she jumped into the air and flew towards the Great Moths.
Gearfried's eyes focused hard, and his foes broke through the roof, he pulled back his blade, and called out, "Come on! Show me what you got!"
A Needle worm was the first to take a shot; it reared back its head, and aimed, firing a large needle right at Gearfried.
At the last second, Gearfried lowered his shoulder; the heavy plate of steel blocked the needle, but managed to crack a tiny hole in it.
"It looks like these Buggers are tougher than they look, I think I can handle these puck shots, but I can't keep up with many more." He said.
Soon the combined worm army fired, Gearfried's blade started to shine, "IRON FRIECE!" He called out, as a massive blast of energy blew apart the needles and took out a good piece of the worms.
"I hope the Fox, is holding her own up there." He said, readying for the next volley.
Up in the sky, Marie dove straight for the moths.
"Hope you don't mind if I 'axe' you for a leg. AXE OF DESPAIR!" She shouted, as a large and sharp axe appeared in her hand. It seethed with energy, as though it wanted to kill the giant insect.
However, Bbbiizzzzzz!!!
Marie looked up to see a Killer Needle dive bomb from the sky, right at her!
"Urgh!" She groaned, as she pushed with all her might to narrowly dodge the killer hornet.
"That was close! What now?" She said, as she looked, and saw the moths start to flap their wings, and a massive cloud of purple, poison pollen come right at her!
"Oh sh-"
It's time to kiss your Maggots goodbye, Iron Fierce!!!" Gearfried shouted as he blew away the remaining Needles. He looked up to see how Marie was doing and saw the cloud of poison!
"Kunai with Chain!!!" He shouted as his shield's point opened, and out of came a metal hook with a chain attached flying towards Marie.
"Huh?" She said, as the chain wrapped around her and dragged her out of the way.
"You alright?" Gearfried asked.
"Look out!" Marie shouted, as the Man eater bug grabbed a hold of him from behind, crushing him in between its fore claws.
"Let him GO!!!" She shouted, as she dove down to its thin waist, and with a swing of her axe, cut it in half! The Insect roared in pain as it exploded into shadowy fumes.
"Gearfried, you still breathing?" Marie asked the knight.
"Just barely, thanks for the save." He said, spreading his arms to stretch.
"Don't thank me yet, here come they come." She said, as the two moths came flying in, along with a swarm of Killer Needles.
"Oh give me a break!" He said weakly, as he readied his blade for another Iron Fierce.
"What? An arm? A leg?" Asked a very deep voice.
Gearfried and Marie looked down to the street and saw the Giant Soldier of Stone with his swords drawn.
"Looks to me like you need a hand." He said.
"Great timing, how much longer till the tournament?" Marie asked.
"Twenty minutes, we have to finish them fast." The soldier said, crossing his swords together.
"Let's light 'em up!" Gearfried said, all of his red jewel portions glowing.
The needles descended from the skies as they flew down towards the Senvas. Gearfried lunged into the air and sliced two in half, Marie flew upwards and began to hack away at the wasps from hell. Stone Soldier watched as the bugs got closer; he threw his swords into the air, and crushed a whole swarm with a mighty clap. He held out his massive fists and caught his weapons, covered with splattered bugs.
Gearfried landed on Soldier's shoulder, "We aren't breaking through, you think you can give me a boost of energy?" He asked.
The stone giant nodded his head, the crest of Offense glowed brightly.
Gearfried closed his eyes and started to draw in all his attack strength into his weapon, it started to spark and shine with bright light. He pulled it back to his side, and continued to charge with the crest's energy.
Marie halted from her extermination to see Gearfried charging for a full power blast. "Fry time, Ciao!" She said, as she dived away from the swarm and raised her right hand, the crest of Focus started to shine.
Gearfried's blade turned a bright green; the energy was becoming more intense and focused. Gearfried turned his attention to the swarm as they dropped from the sky like hail.
"Say hello to my fly swatter! IRON SHOCKWAVE!!!" He shouted, and he swung his sword, a massive tidal wave of energy simply vaporized the swarm of giant wasps. But just as the wave of energy came towards the moths, with a flap of their humongous wings, they blew away the shockwave!
"You have got to be kidding me." Gearfried said in absolute disbelief.
Just then, the moths began to send their poison pollen mist straight at them!
The Stone Soldier raised his massive arms to block the pollen, but as soon as the pollen touched the rock skin, it began to melt.
"Hold on, I'll try and block it." Gearfried said, drawing what strength he had left to activate his crest of Defense.
A Millennium shield appeared in front of the Giant, but the shield immediately started to corrode.
"It's too strong! I don't have the power to hold it back!" Gearfried shouted in pain, as he struggled to keep the shield up.
Not far up in the sky, Marie watched as Gearfried and Stone tried to hold off the Great Moths attack, but she knew even though the rules of the card game don't matter much in battle, The Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth had an attack power of 3500, therefore its strength in the real world just be as powerful.
She looked at the Moths, each were bigger than the size of a bus, and their bodies seemed to be coated in a thick exoskeleton, strong enough to take a direct hit from her axe.
"It looks like they can take any form of heavy blow, but I wonder. Maybe that's it!" She said, focusing heavily on the wings of the giant monsters.
She then looked at her friends, Soldier tried to hold the shield against the toxic dust, as it continued to turn to sizzling sand. And Gearfried was now without strength, and couldn't even move.
"I got to try, if not for me, then for them." She said, tightening her grip on her axe. She closed her eyes, and took off towards the moths.
"HEYAH!!!" She shouted as she swung her axe across the brow of one of the giant leviathan. She flew past the bug's huge form, and narrowly dodged the smog of the poison as it singed her black wings.
Come on, follow me you stinking roaches! She said to herself as she turned her head over her shoulder. She saw the two massive monarchs turn about and started to give chase. "That's it, follow the birdie." She said as picked up speed.
Soldier looked up and saw the two monsters turn their attention to Marie and gave her chase, at an unusually fast speed for creatures of such size. "She's leading them away, but what is she thinking?" He wondered.
Gearfried, raised his head towards the retreating insects, and Marie. He noticed her path, it was steadily going upwards. "You can't really expect them to be that stupid." He spat, "She'll never get rid of both of them in one strike."
"What are you blabbering about?" The giant asked.
"I'll tell you when we get there, after her." The tired knight commanded. The giant gave heed and marched after the fallen one.
Marie finally came to a halt and spun around, she was over a quarter a mile above the Moths, as they struggled to climb further into the sky.
"They maybe strong, but they're fatter than elephant and twice as heavy. I got to do this fast and in one strike, here goes." She said, as she raised her axe. The deadly weapon glowed with a dark light, a sizzled with an evil energy.
The moths grunted and screeched in high tones, flapping their massive wings, and wailing in frustration as they tried to reach their prey high in the sky.
Marie closed her eyes, the energy of the axe grew to its climax. And in a bright flash, her arms were stretched to her sides, and in her hands, were twin Axes of Despair, each gleamed with the light of the noon sun. Her shadow has upon the Monsters as they grew blind in the light of the sun, and had no eyelids to cover their eyes.
"May the light of creation, and the Shadows of Destruction, join as one, and grant me the strength, to damn you to the depths of Hell!!!" She shouted as she flipped and shot downwards to towards the monsters.
"Shroud of Darkness Blade!!!" She shouted, as her axes burst with a dark fire!
The great moths released their poison wind towards the light; Marie crossed her axes, and cut through the toxic dust. One of the giants screeched as Marie shot right for it. She brought her axes apart, and with a mighty SLASH!!!
She carved the monster into for giant chunks that were flying towards the other beast. However, waiting for her on the other side was a fog of the vile smog!!! The other monster had anticipated her move, and had laid her a trap!
Marie's form began to start to dissolve in the poison, her pink dress was burning itself away, her wings were vanishing, and she was falling!
"Gaia Discus!!!" A large stone sword flew up and slashed the Moth to pieces! Marie like a stone was plummeting down into the streets. Just then, in an incredibly fast blur, she was plucked from the sky.
She awoke on top of a building, her wings were no more than stumps, her body was singed, and her blonde hair burned. Her dress was no more than a few strips of pink fabric, and she was held in a very strong grip.
She was in the battered metal arms of Gearfried, Her black flesh turned a shade of crimson. But Gearfried remained emotionless; she thought her appearance would cause the shy Aaron inside the metal shell would cause him to shake with embarrassment. "Aaron, are you ok?" She asked.
Gearfried simply nodded, she noticed his red eyes were blank. His eyes were closed.
She simply smiled, but soon was covered in a huge shadow, "Ooh! Peep Show!!!"
Dan inside the giant soldier, shook with fear, when he saw the look of absolute hatred on Marie's very pissed face!
"Dan, how much longer till the start of the tournament?" Gearfried asked.
"Oh crap five minutes!!!" Dan said as he shrank down to his human form.
The other two Senvas changed back as well, Jess was fully healed, and Aaron was back to normal strength. "WHOA!!!"
Which to say wasn't much.
"Nice work Aaron." Dan laughed.
"I aim to please." He said, as he tried to get off the ground.
Then the three senvas ran towards the Mirage Tower, the chiming of the town clock rang like whips at their heels as they ran.
The clock striked noon, and the three Duelists had just made it to the parking lot, the doors of the tower began to shut.
"We're never going to make it!!" Jess said.
"Oh yes we are!!!" Dan said as he grabbed a hold of his friends collars, and threw them on to his back.
"What are you doing?" She demanded.
"Oh No." Aaron said, in disbelief and horror.
"What?" She asked.
"Hold on tight!!!" Was all he said.
"LET'S GO!!!" Dan shouted, as his legs started picking up incredible speed!
"WWHHOOAAA!!!" The two on his back wailed as they were going 65 mph down the lot and right through the door as it slammed behind.
Dan hit the breaks into a screeching halt, sending the two on his back flying off. Aaron grabbed a hold of her arm and flipped, he landed on his feet and braced to catch her and slid to a stop.
"You learn fast." Dan said.
"It was either that or pack an airbag." Aaron said.
"Um, Aaron." Jess said, her face was bright red.
"Yes?" Then he saw his hand was a little high on her chest, "Uh oh." He said.
He soon was flying across the lobby, his head on the floor lying against the front desk.
"Ouch." He said weakly.
"Are you participating?" Asked the desk clerk.
"Yes, where do we go from here?" Dan asked.
"Take the elevator to the 49th floor. From there you'll be plugged into the virtual world. Everything will be explained once you enter." She said.
The three senvas stepped into the elevator, and followed their instructions to the 49th floor. On that floor, were hundreds, upon hundreds of virtual pods of Seto Kaiba's design, each side by side.
Soon each of the senvas were loaded inside, the virtual covers slid over their eyes, and the bodies were locked in place. They all looked at their crests one last time.
Let the games begin, Dan though to himself, And may the journeys be great. As drifted into cyber slumber.
Jess closed her eyes, Please, let me live long enough to help them. She too was then separated from her body.
Aaron watched as the world around him vanished into digital pixels and bright lights, May we find what we seek, and face what we have come to battle, let the great battle of Sloano begin.
They vanished into cyberspace, and that's where the fun begins.
To be continued.
Next Time: Aaron wakes up in the plains of Sloano, he finds out he is to protect the hierarchy from the assassins of the Land of Nograj. But before he even gets on his way, he is forced to duel a guy named Chou, A warrior Duelist who wants Aaron's Deck and the Black Luster soldier within. Soon Aaron realizes the true power of his opponents deck master and how strong his opponents forces truly are. Can Aaron master Gearfried's Deck Master ability in time or will he lose everything in his first match?
Next Time at The Duel Master's Tournament
Aaron V.S Chou, the Sword Hunter
