Chapter 11

Creepy Crawlers

*Author's note* Who remembers that commercial from the 90's? *End Author's note*

Kurt and Will had continued deeper into the forest. They notice several Insect monster watching them as they walked.

"Okay," Kurt said. "This is getting annoying. All that buzzing and shit is getting one my last nerve."

"Indeed," Will responded.

Suddenly, a haunting melody came from deeper in the forest. It made the insects go berserk and lass out at Kurt and Will.

"What the hell the hell is going on?!" Kurt yelled as they ran away from the chasing monsters.

"You expect me to know?!" Will answered him as the reached a clearing. There was a man sitting a on rock. He had a whistle in his hand and was playing it. The person looked up and stopped playing. "So, you finally got here. It was about god damn time. I'm Locust, one of the Judges."

"Do they always have to say that?" Will muttered.

"I hope you liked my Jade Whistle battle summon trick," Locust said with a grin.

"You caused those bugs to go berserk?" Kurt asked.

"Indeed I did. So, who is to be my victim?"

"I will duel you," Kurt replied.

"Very well traitor," Locust said.

"Oh! Now they start with the traitor shit," Will pointed out.

"Shut up," Kurt said to Will and turned his attention back to Locust. "I choose Lord of Dragons as my Deck master." The image of the Lord of Dragons appeared as he said those words.

"And I choose..." Locust seemed to be thinking, trying to figure out what to use. "Insect Princess." The female insect monster took form around him.

"A guy play as a female monster?!" Will said in shock. "This could get creepy."

(Kurt: 8000 Locust: 8000)

"I go first," Locust said. "I set one monster, place one card facedown, play Insect Barrier, and end my turn."

Insect Barrier?! Kurt thought to himself. Is this guy stupid or something?! He should know all of my monster in my deck are Dragons.

"My turn," Kurt said. "I summon Spear Dragon (1900/0) and attack your set!"

"Not so fast," Locust said waving his finger. "I activate DNA Operation! This card allows me to change all monsters on the field to a sub type of my choosing, and I select Insect!" The Spear Dragon shot his attack at the facedown monster, but the web of light generated by Insect Barrier stopped the attack cold.

"Damn it! I end my turn!"

"I flip summon Parasite! (500/300) When the monster is successfully flip summoned, I can shuffle it face up into your deck. When you draw it, it is instantly special summoned, take you 1000 life points and all of your monsters become insects." Locust threw his Parasite card to Kurt. "Take care of my card now," Locust said mockingly.

"Shut up!" Kurt said while shuffling it into his deck.

"Now I play Jade Whistle! When I play this card you must place one Insect monster at the top of you deck."

"Damn it!" Kurt yelled. "That keeps me from drawing anything good next turn!"

"Exactly. Evil little plan isn't it?" Locust asked.

"Just shut up and continue!" Kurt yelled back.

"Very well. I summon Leaping Grasshopper! (1000/1200) Now I activate Ant Colony! This card require me to sacrifice one Insect monster on my side of the field and I can special summon two Army Ant Tokens! (500/1200) And now because of Leaping Grasshopper's effect I special summon Insect Queen from my hand! (2200/2400) And she gets 200 more attack points for every insect of the field! (3000) And now I sacrifice one Army Ant Token (2800) so she can attack your Spear Dragon!"

(Kurt: 7100 Locust: 8000)

"And thanks to have Insect Princess as my Deck Master, my Insect monsters get 500 extra attack points every time the kill a Insect type monster on your side of the field. (3300) And at the end of my turn when my Insect Queens attacks, I produces an Insect Token (100/100) and the presence of this monster raises my Queen's attack by another 200. (3500) I end my turn."

Kurt looked at his hand and saw nothing that could deal with the Insect Barrier. "My turn. I draw your Parasite and summon it to the field which raises your Queen up to 3700. Now I set one monster facedown, place one card facedown and end my turn."

(Kurt: 6100 Locust: 8000)

"First, I play Jar of Greed, drawing two cards. Then I place one card facedown and I summon Neobug! (1800/1700) (3900) And I have Insect Queen sacrifice my Army Ant Token attack your set monster!"

"Holy-Barrier Mirror Force!" Kurt yelled out.

"No!!" Locust watched in horror as his field was wiped clean of monsters. "Damn it! I end my turn."

"I summon Lord of Dragons, (1200/1000) and next I play Dragon Calling Horn and special summon Tyrant Dragon (2900/2500) and Red-Eyes Black Dragon! (2400/2000) And now I flip summon Grand Dragon! (2000/100)"

"So? None of your monsters can attack me because of my Barrier."

"I'm not done yet! I play Stomping Crash on your Barrier!"

(Kurt: 6100 Locust: 7500)

"No! I'm doomed!"

"That's right! Lord of Dragons! Tyrant Dragon! Grand Dragon! Red-eyes Black Dragon! Direct attack!" Kurt commanded.

"I activate Body Strengthening Supplement Nutrient Z!"

(Kurt: 6100 Locust: 11500)

"That still doesn't stop my monsters from attacking!" Kurt yelled at him.

(Kurt: 6100 Locust: 3000)

"I end my turn."

"I play Black Hole, and then I summon my Deck Master, Insect Princess to the field., (1900/1200)" Locust said stepping up to the monster zone.

"Why did you do that?" Kurt asked.

"Because in case you haven't noticed, I don't have a hand right now. I attack your Life Points with my Princess!"

(Kurt: 5200 Locust: 3000)

Kurt drew his card and grimaced, it wouldn't help him, but it would work to save his Life Points. "I place one card face down and end my turn"

Locust drew and also grimaced at his card. "I place one card facedown and attack directly with Insect Princess!"

(Kurt: 3300 Locust: 3000)

Kurt drew his card as was relived at what it was. "I summon Lord of Dragons to the field and activate my facedown Dragon Calling Horn to summon Death Vorstagalf! (2200/1700) and I equip my Deck master with Power of Teamwork! (2800)(2400) Death Vorstagalf! Attack!"

"I activate Cry of the Living Dead! Bringing back my Insect Queen (2200) and who is powered up to be equal as Death Vorstagalf by her effect! (2400)"

Death Vorstagalf and Insect Queen clashed violently; both died.

(Kurt: 3300 Locust: 2500)

"What?! No! How did that happen?!"

"Death Vorstagalf still destroyed a monster card even though it cost its life. Now I attack Insect Princess!" Kurt ran forward and punched Locust in the gut.

(Kurt: 3300 Locust: 2400)

"Damn it....I lost." And with those words, Locust shattered.

"I see," Will said. "He may not have run out of Life Points, but the Deck Master effect kicked in. When it is destroyed, you automatically lose."

"Another one dead," Kurt said remorsefully, looking down at his hand which hand returned to being human. "I killed him..."

"Get over it," a voiced called out. Kurt looked over to see Max, Ryo, and Hope approaching them. "He knew the risks if he didn't win and now he is paying for it," Max continued.

"But... I killed him... with my own hands"

Max grew angry and grabbed Kurt by his collar. "Listen up! Just because you are responsible for someone dying doesn't mean it is the end of the world!" Everyone else looked at Max in shock, as if he knew first hand the guilt Kurt was feeling.

"Max?" Hope began to ask, but she was cut short by Max.

"I'm sorry; I said too much," Max said while dropping Kurt. "Well, are you going to take you Ante Card or what?"

"What do you mean?" Will asked.

"I see whoever you were dueling forgot to tell you," Ryo said. "From now on the Judges are dueling by Ante Game. In other words, the winner of the duel takes one card from the loser."

"Oh," Kurt said, still a little bit in shock. "I take the Nutrient Z then."

"Well, it is getting dark," Max began to say. "Might as well camp out here."

"Okay," everyone else in the group said.

They soon had a campfire going and were talking about themselves, but Max refused to say anything more about that blurt out from earlier.

The figure that had been following grinned. "It is my turn finally. And I will make sure that Max pays dearly for what he did to me."

End Chapter