Chapter 6: Duelist of Dark Phantoms
"YUGI! Oh Goddess! Tristan why!?" (Uncontrollable Sobbing)
Shades of pink transgress into more violent shades of crimson as the wave of blood covers the two young duelists.
"I'm sorry Teana, but it had to be done!" Tristan turned his back away from her and began walking over towards Mai, who stood looking just as shocked as Teana had been, until......... A dark voice fills the room as time slows to a haltered stop, at least for everyone except Tristan.
"SO! THOU HATH HEARD THE ANCIENT PROPHICY! THOU KNOWST TOO MUCH FOR THINE OWN GOOD! I SWORE TO MINE MASTER THAT THE PATHETIC DRAGON LORD, KAIBA WOULD BE ABLE TO FINISH YOU OFF! I SEE NOW THAT I UNDERESTIMATED YOUR POWER, WHAT WITH THE PIECES TO BOTH EXODIA AND DESTINY BOARD IN YOUR DECK, I COULD SEE HOW PEOPLE WOULD HAVE A HARD TIME DEFEATING YOU! BUT, HOW DOES SHE FAIR IN A DUEL, I WONDER......... SHE SHALL FACE ME IN A DUEL FOR SOULS." Without wasting any time the spell that frozen his companion Teana was broken as she stared blankly around the room. She noticed a black light glowing from the top of the red platform and saw a figure clad in complete black with many belts and metallic objects thrown on to "accessorize."
The figure spoke, softer than when he was not visible, "Come on girl! I challenge thee to a duel. Yet to make it worth thoust while, I shall give thee a chance to win back thy secret lover's soul, poor little pharaoh, his time was not meant for yet. Do you accept?" A dark cloud formed inside the frail girls mind as words whispered softly, 'Come.........closer.........to the platform.........' and she moved closer with each word, until she was at the base of the blue platform. The spell suddenly broke, and she looked around seeing the blood-soaked body of her long lost love and decided that she would not lose him!
"DEAL! Let's Duel!"
After a short walk and a small incline they were ready.
"We'll both start this duel with new rules, first off: the life point count will start at 8000 instead of the original 2000, and lastly, you are only allowed five cards in your hand at anytime."
"I agree, now let's get this over with. Let's go! I have no fear." She indeed was very prepared for this, because after their little encounter during the Duelist Kingdom tournament, Teana had asked Mai for some pointers, and with her trusted Femme Fatalle Deck, which incorporated some of Mai's strategy with two of her own. She was more than ready to toast this guy!
They drew their first hands. Teana acquired two Rain of Mercy magic cards, a Bad Reaction to Shimochii trap card, a Pot of Greed, and her Forgiving Maiden. 'Not bad' She thought to herself. Yet the mysterious duelists' hand will remain a secret.
"Since I called the challenge, and to respect your gender.........you may go first girl."
"My name is Teana Gardener! How are you anyway?!"
"I will reveal myself to the one who can be victorious against me! Now move!"
'Right.........if I play this trap card on the field then set my monster in defense mode, then if he attacks I can.........wait! I've got it!' A smirk slowly formed across her face.
"Alrighty then are you ready......... I draw my first card," (Gets Upstart Goblin.) "Now I'll set this card facedown on the field and activate Pot of Greed, allowing myself to draw two more cards from my deck." (Gets Marie the Fallen One, and Gemini Elf.) "Now I'll summon my Forgiving Maiden in defense mode. Your move."
"I'm afraid all I can do is place this monster facedown on the field and end my turn."
'WHAT! He's playing this game like an amateur! No.........maybe he's trying to lure me into a trap? Oh well.........'
(Draws Cyber Shield)
"I summon the power of the twins, go Gemini Elf, attack his facedown monster!"
'That's it..........................."
"I couldn't have planned a better move myself.........oh wait, I already did. You see, I wanted you to attack my creature, thus activating its special effect. Jowls of Control! Thanks to my Jowls of Dark Demise, your Gemini Elf is mine for one full turn!"
"You just played right into my trap you lousy creep! Activate Bad Reaction to Simochii!(BRTS) This cards effect causes any increase in life points to my opponent, say you! To be converted to decreases instead."
"Is that all......... well I think I can do better than that! I'll summon my other precious monster, the Archfiend Soldier in attack mode, and since I still can't attack your powerfully defensive Maiden, I'll just set two cards on the field and end my turn."
(Teana draws for her turn, gets Goblin's Secret Remedy, and regains control over the Gemini Elf.)
"Okay.........so I'll play these three cards. First: Upstart Goblin, which would have normally increased your life points by 1000 in order to allow me to draw a card from my deck, but since BRTS is on the field........."
"I lose them instead......... I get the picture, so.........you've managed to deal 1000 damage to me in one turn. PATHETIC!" (Standings so far: Mysterious duelist 7000, Teana 8000)
"don't be so sure on that! Activate the next two cards! Rain of Mercy X2! Which raises my LP count by 2000 giving me 10,000, and drops your LP by 2000, making your LP 5000! Oops.........I forgot to draw for Upstart Goblin." (Gets Birdface.) "Now I'll summon Birdface in attack mode, and since its effect allows me to pull any card with Harpie in its name from my deck, I'll do just that!" (Chooses Harpie Lady) "Next, I'll kamikaze my Gemini Elf with your Archfiend Soldier!" The twins charged the menace of the dark until all that was left of them both were a pile of cyber dust.
'Errr...........................I'm underestimating her skills! Better be extra careful now.' He drew a card with lightning speed whilst grinning. 'Perfect,' He thought. "Now I'll activate one of my facedown card, Call of the Mummy! This card allows me to special summon any Zombie type creature from my hand to the field as long as there are no other monsters present on my side, it also allows me to play a Zombie type with any star level! Now behold the power of the Dokurorider!"
Another whirling vortex of cybernetics created the holographic image of a skeletal zombie clad in the bones of the past fallen, idly sitting upon the seat of a motorcycle, which was also incased with bone, and the fixture over the headlight looked as if it were the skull of the Winged Dragon #1!
Astounded, and confused, Tristan watched from the sidelines but quickly remembered something familiar about the card that was just summoned. 'Bones.........he used that card against Joey when we were lured into that cave by Bandit Keith on duelist Kingdom island! Wait a minute!' "That's a ritual monster! You need to have the ritual magic card, and sacrifice enough monsters to obtain seven star levels before you can play that creature!"
"Yes, I am aware of that, but you see, Call of the mummy allows me to play any Zombie-type monster, even ritual creatures, but don't think that's all I'm doing! I'll play this field magic card! Activate Wasteland! Which raises my monsters attack and defense by 300 points, giving the Dokurorider a total of 2100 points, now Dokurorider! Attack the flying menace, revving rush!" The hellish bone rider charged forward towards the completely exposed armored bird, colliding with it turning it to nothing but a pile of feathers and microchips, as the zombie reappeared on the mysterious ones' side of the field. "Since my turns not over yet, I'll lay one card facedown on the field, and now I'll end my turn."
"You will pay for harming my bird!" (draws a card, gets her second Pot of Greed)
"Now, I'll activate my second Pot of Greed, and draw two more cards." (Obtains Change of Heart, and Labyrinth Wall.)
"Next I'll activate one of the cards I just drew, Change of Heart! I'll take over your Dokurorider, and sacrifice it to place a monster facedown in defense mode, 'And since you activated that Wasteland magic card, my monster gets a field power boost, giving it a total defense of 3300!' Now I'll activate another magic card! Goblin's Secret Remedy! Which i choose to use on you and normally it would raise your life points, but due to the certain circumstances, you lose 600 points instead, (MD: 4400, Teana: 9700 due to the damage caused by the destruction of the Bird Face.) It's your move creep!"
"I plan on it! I'll summon Gagagigo in attack mode and end my turn!" 'You can't win, silly little girl, you will be no match for my next creature, the Ultimate Fiend, Masked Beast!'
(Teana draws a Graceful Charity)
'I just need one more magic card, and I could beat this creep in just two or three more turns.'
"I'll play Graceful Charity, and draw three cards, yet discard two."
(Draws, gets another Harpie Lady, Polymerization, and the Shadow of Eyes trap card.)
"Next, I'll discard my Harpie Lady, and the Shadow of Eyes, and activate the magic of Polymerization! Fusing both the Forgiving Maiden, and Marie the Fallen One into the fairy of judgment! St. Joan arise!" the forms of the two females twisted and warped to form the sleekly armored female knight that was St. Joan, she held in her right hand, a sword of power, the blade glowing a bright white, as if the power of the faeries were possessing the ancient blade.
(St. Joan stats- A:2800 D:2000)
(Gagagigo stats- A:1850 D:1000)
"Go St. Joan, Flying Arrow Strike!" Hidden wings appeared at Teanas' command as the femme knight took of through the air with blinding speed flying directly through, and destroying the Ancient Water guardian, dealing 950 points of additional damage to the mysterious duelist. Dropping him down to 3450 life points.
"YOU! YOU CHEEKY LITTLE GIRL! I will destroy you!" (Draws card, frowns at said card.) "Not what I needed, but it will have to do for now. I play Scapegoats,(and four little tiny different colored goats appeared on the field in defense mode,) and I'll activate the magic of the Swords of Revealing Light! Let's see what that facedown monster could be." As the card slowly flipped over, the field was transformed from the wasteland to a never ending inescapable walled labyrinth.
'What?! Labyrinth Wall, and with a field power bonus no less!'
"Well, I see you've found my Labyrinth Wall, and by the look on your face I would say you weren't expecting it! Anyway, I'll draw." (Gets Card Destruction, has four additional cards in hand, other has two.) "Activate Card Destruction, which makes us discard both of our hands to the graveyard and draw the same amount that we just discarded." (Gets Raigeki, Shield and Sword, Invigoration, and Harpie's Feather Duster.)
"That's it! It's over for you mister creepy! I first activate the magic card Harpie's Feather Duster, which destroys all of the opponents magic and trap cards on the field, thereby negating the effect of your SoRL card, and getting rid of your facedown card as well. Now to get of those pesky Scapegoats, I'll activate a favorite card of Espa Roba, and if he wasn't hospitalized because of the shock Joey gave him during the Battle city tournament, then maybe he would appreciate this more, activate Raigeki! Destroy all the monsters on his side of the field! next, I'll switch my Labyrinth wall into attack mode, and activate the power of the Shield and Sword magic cards reversing the attack and defense of all monsters on the field for one turn, and finally, I activate the equip magic card of Invigoration, which when equipped to a rock, pyro, or thunder type creature raises the attack by 500, and lowers the defense by 300 points, making the Labyrinth Walls attack power equal to 3800! Labyrinth Wall, Attack!"
"NOOOO! I ........................... I .................Lost! I.........Don't .........LOSE!"
Darkscythe1: So how was that? I've got the next chapter ready to type, hope you all like bugs! Weevil and four others will somehow end up in the shadow realm, and what is with this mysterious duelist, and is he the one in control, or is there someone even more powerful pulling the strings? To find out look for Chapter 7: The Foresting Feud! Thankies, ad I will be updating my other fics ASAP! so plz. read the to if youlike this story, you'll love the others, read them, reeaaddd thheeemmm, yyoooouuuuu wwaannnttt ttoooo rreeeaaaddd tthhheeeemmmmmm...................... sorry, feel asleep, words of warning, never try to hypnotize anyone through a computer screen, it will only backfire and put you to sleep. See ya latta space cowboy^-^" Sorry, I miss Outlaw Star, whhaaaaa! why did Toonami cancel Outlaw Star! Anyway, i've now got the great song Jessica, by Dir en Grey stuck in me head, la lalala la lala, bye again. must I keep begging you all, REVIEW!!! plz......
"YUGI! Oh Goddess! Tristan why!?" (Uncontrollable Sobbing)
Shades of pink transgress into more violent shades of crimson as the wave of blood covers the two young duelists.
"I'm sorry Teana, but it had to be done!" Tristan turned his back away from her and began walking over towards Mai, who stood looking just as shocked as Teana had been, until......... A dark voice fills the room as time slows to a haltered stop, at least for everyone except Tristan.
"SO! THOU HATH HEARD THE ANCIENT PROPHICY! THOU KNOWST TOO MUCH FOR THINE OWN GOOD! I SWORE TO MINE MASTER THAT THE PATHETIC DRAGON LORD, KAIBA WOULD BE ABLE TO FINISH YOU OFF! I SEE NOW THAT I UNDERESTIMATED YOUR POWER, WHAT WITH THE PIECES TO BOTH EXODIA AND DESTINY BOARD IN YOUR DECK, I COULD SEE HOW PEOPLE WOULD HAVE A HARD TIME DEFEATING YOU! BUT, HOW DOES SHE FAIR IN A DUEL, I WONDER......... SHE SHALL FACE ME IN A DUEL FOR SOULS." Without wasting any time the spell that frozen his companion Teana was broken as she stared blankly around the room. She noticed a black light glowing from the top of the red platform and saw a figure clad in complete black with many belts and metallic objects thrown on to "accessorize."
The figure spoke, softer than when he was not visible, "Come on girl! I challenge thee to a duel. Yet to make it worth thoust while, I shall give thee a chance to win back thy secret lover's soul, poor little pharaoh, his time was not meant for yet. Do you accept?" A dark cloud formed inside the frail girls mind as words whispered softly, 'Come.........closer.........to the platform.........' and she moved closer with each word, until she was at the base of the blue platform. The spell suddenly broke, and she looked around seeing the blood-soaked body of her long lost love and decided that she would not lose him!
"DEAL! Let's Duel!"
After a short walk and a small incline they were ready.
"We'll both start this duel with new rules, first off: the life point count will start at 8000 instead of the original 2000, and lastly, you are only allowed five cards in your hand at anytime."
"I agree, now let's get this over with. Let's go! I have no fear." She indeed was very prepared for this, because after their little encounter during the Duelist Kingdom tournament, Teana had asked Mai for some pointers, and with her trusted Femme Fatalle Deck, which incorporated some of Mai's strategy with two of her own. She was more than ready to toast this guy!
They drew their first hands. Teana acquired two Rain of Mercy magic cards, a Bad Reaction to Shimochii trap card, a Pot of Greed, and her Forgiving Maiden. 'Not bad' She thought to herself. Yet the mysterious duelists' hand will remain a secret.
"Since I called the challenge, and to respect your gender.........you may go first girl."
"My name is Teana Gardener! How are you anyway?!"
"I will reveal myself to the one who can be victorious against me! Now move!"
'Right.........if I play this trap card on the field then set my monster in defense mode, then if he attacks I can.........wait! I've got it!' A smirk slowly formed across her face.
"Alrighty then are you ready......... I draw my first card," (Gets Upstart Goblin.) "Now I'll set this card facedown on the field and activate Pot of Greed, allowing myself to draw two more cards from my deck." (Gets Marie the Fallen One, and Gemini Elf.) "Now I'll summon my Forgiving Maiden in defense mode. Your move."
"I'm afraid all I can do is place this monster facedown on the field and end my turn."
'WHAT! He's playing this game like an amateur! No.........maybe he's trying to lure me into a trap? Oh well.........'
(Draws Cyber Shield)
"I summon the power of the twins, go Gemini Elf, attack his facedown monster!"
'That's it..........................."
"I couldn't have planned a better move myself.........oh wait, I already did. You see, I wanted you to attack my creature, thus activating its special effect. Jowls of Control! Thanks to my Jowls of Dark Demise, your Gemini Elf is mine for one full turn!"
"You just played right into my trap you lousy creep! Activate Bad Reaction to Simochii!(BRTS) This cards effect causes any increase in life points to my opponent, say you! To be converted to decreases instead."
"Is that all......... well I think I can do better than that! I'll summon my other precious monster, the Archfiend Soldier in attack mode, and since I still can't attack your powerfully defensive Maiden, I'll just set two cards on the field and end my turn."
(Teana draws for her turn, gets Goblin's Secret Remedy, and regains control over the Gemini Elf.)
"Okay.........so I'll play these three cards. First: Upstart Goblin, which would have normally increased your life points by 1000 in order to allow me to draw a card from my deck, but since BRTS is on the field........."
"I lose them instead......... I get the picture, so.........you've managed to deal 1000 damage to me in one turn. PATHETIC!" (Standings so far: Mysterious duelist 7000, Teana 8000)
"don't be so sure on that! Activate the next two cards! Rain of Mercy X2! Which raises my LP count by 2000 giving me 10,000, and drops your LP by 2000, making your LP 5000! Oops.........I forgot to draw for Upstart Goblin." (Gets Birdface.) "Now I'll summon Birdface in attack mode, and since its effect allows me to pull any card with Harpie in its name from my deck, I'll do just that!" (Chooses Harpie Lady) "Next, I'll kamikaze my Gemini Elf with your Archfiend Soldier!" The twins charged the menace of the dark until all that was left of them both were a pile of cyber dust.
'Errr...........................I'm underestimating her skills! Better be extra careful now.' He drew a card with lightning speed whilst grinning. 'Perfect,' He thought. "Now I'll activate one of my facedown card, Call of the Mummy! This card allows me to special summon any Zombie type creature from my hand to the field as long as there are no other monsters present on my side, it also allows me to play a Zombie type with any star level! Now behold the power of the Dokurorider!"
Another whirling vortex of cybernetics created the holographic image of a skeletal zombie clad in the bones of the past fallen, idly sitting upon the seat of a motorcycle, which was also incased with bone, and the fixture over the headlight looked as if it were the skull of the Winged Dragon #1!
Astounded, and confused, Tristan watched from the sidelines but quickly remembered something familiar about the card that was just summoned. 'Bones.........he used that card against Joey when we were lured into that cave by Bandit Keith on duelist Kingdom island! Wait a minute!' "That's a ritual monster! You need to have the ritual magic card, and sacrifice enough monsters to obtain seven star levels before you can play that creature!"
"Yes, I am aware of that, but you see, Call of the mummy allows me to play any Zombie-type monster, even ritual creatures, but don't think that's all I'm doing! I'll play this field magic card! Activate Wasteland! Which raises my monsters attack and defense by 300 points, giving the Dokurorider a total of 2100 points, now Dokurorider! Attack the flying menace, revving rush!" The hellish bone rider charged forward towards the completely exposed armored bird, colliding with it turning it to nothing but a pile of feathers and microchips, as the zombie reappeared on the mysterious ones' side of the field. "Since my turns not over yet, I'll lay one card facedown on the field, and now I'll end my turn."
"You will pay for harming my bird!" (draws a card, gets her second Pot of Greed)
"Now, I'll activate my second Pot of Greed, and draw two more cards." (Obtains Change of Heart, and Labyrinth Wall.)
"Next I'll activate one of the cards I just drew, Change of Heart! I'll take over your Dokurorider, and sacrifice it to place a monster facedown in defense mode, 'And since you activated that Wasteland magic card, my monster gets a field power boost, giving it a total defense of 3300!' Now I'll activate another magic card! Goblin's Secret Remedy! Which i choose to use on you and normally it would raise your life points, but due to the certain circumstances, you lose 600 points instead, (MD: 4400, Teana: 9700 due to the damage caused by the destruction of the Bird Face.) It's your move creep!"
"I plan on it! I'll summon Gagagigo in attack mode and end my turn!" 'You can't win, silly little girl, you will be no match for my next creature, the Ultimate Fiend, Masked Beast!'
(Teana draws a Graceful Charity)
'I just need one more magic card, and I could beat this creep in just two or three more turns.'
"I'll play Graceful Charity, and draw three cards, yet discard two."
(Draws, gets another Harpie Lady, Polymerization, and the Shadow of Eyes trap card.)
"Next, I'll discard my Harpie Lady, and the Shadow of Eyes, and activate the magic of Polymerization! Fusing both the Forgiving Maiden, and Marie the Fallen One into the fairy of judgment! St. Joan arise!" the forms of the two females twisted and warped to form the sleekly armored female knight that was St. Joan, she held in her right hand, a sword of power, the blade glowing a bright white, as if the power of the faeries were possessing the ancient blade.
(St. Joan stats- A:2800 D:2000)
(Gagagigo stats- A:1850 D:1000)
"Go St. Joan, Flying Arrow Strike!" Hidden wings appeared at Teanas' command as the femme knight took of through the air with blinding speed flying directly through, and destroying the Ancient Water guardian, dealing 950 points of additional damage to the mysterious duelist. Dropping him down to 3450 life points.
"YOU! YOU CHEEKY LITTLE GIRL! I will destroy you!" (Draws card, frowns at said card.) "Not what I needed, but it will have to do for now. I play Scapegoats,(and four little tiny different colored goats appeared on the field in defense mode,) and I'll activate the magic of the Swords of Revealing Light! Let's see what that facedown monster could be." As the card slowly flipped over, the field was transformed from the wasteland to a never ending inescapable walled labyrinth.
'What?! Labyrinth Wall, and with a field power bonus no less!'
"Well, I see you've found my Labyrinth Wall, and by the look on your face I would say you weren't expecting it! Anyway, I'll draw." (Gets Card Destruction, has four additional cards in hand, other has two.) "Activate Card Destruction, which makes us discard both of our hands to the graveyard and draw the same amount that we just discarded." (Gets Raigeki, Shield and Sword, Invigoration, and Harpie's Feather Duster.)
"That's it! It's over for you mister creepy! I first activate the magic card Harpie's Feather Duster, which destroys all of the opponents magic and trap cards on the field, thereby negating the effect of your SoRL card, and getting rid of your facedown card as well. Now to get of those pesky Scapegoats, I'll activate a favorite card of Espa Roba, and if he wasn't hospitalized because of the shock Joey gave him during the Battle city tournament, then maybe he would appreciate this more, activate Raigeki! Destroy all the monsters on his side of the field! next, I'll switch my Labyrinth wall into attack mode, and activate the power of the Shield and Sword magic cards reversing the attack and defense of all monsters on the field for one turn, and finally, I activate the equip magic card of Invigoration, which when equipped to a rock, pyro, or thunder type creature raises the attack by 500, and lowers the defense by 300 points, making the Labyrinth Walls attack power equal to 3800! Labyrinth Wall, Attack!"
"NOOOO! I ........................... I .................Lost! I.........Don't .........LOSE!"
Darkscythe1: So how was that? I've got the next chapter ready to type, hope you all like bugs! Weevil and four others will somehow end up in the shadow realm, and what is with this mysterious duelist, and is he the one in control, or is there someone even more powerful pulling the strings? To find out look for Chapter 7: The Foresting Feud! Thankies, ad I will be updating my other fics ASAP! so plz. read the to if youlike this story, you'll love the others, read them, reeaaddd thheeemmm, yyoooouuuuu wwaannnttt ttoooo rreeeaaaddd tthhheeeemmmmmm...................... sorry, feel asleep, words of warning, never try to hypnotize anyone through a computer screen, it will only backfire and put you to sleep. See ya latta space cowboy^-^" Sorry, I miss Outlaw Star, whhaaaaa! why did Toonami cancel Outlaw Star! Anyway, i've now got the great song Jessica, by Dir en Grey stuck in me head, la lalala la lala, bye again. must I keep begging you all, REVIEW!!! plz......
