Yu-Gi-Oh!
Dawn of Fate
CHAPTER FOUR – YOU WANTED A GOD…
"Draw!"
Draco looked down at his hand as he added the new card, Breaker the Magical Warrior. So far, him and Jonouchi had been doing quite well in the duel, mostly because the Death Eaters nervousness over the possibility of being eaten had caused them to loose concentration. Jonouchi had already succeeded in pulling off his Nightmare and Angel Dice combo, much to the misfortune of the second Death Eater. While Draco had lost his Zombyra the Dark was well as his Destiny Board cards to the graveyard, he still had Magic Cylinder set on the field. In terms of damage he dealt to the other side, the second Death Eater's only monster on the field was equipped with Mask of the Accursed while first Death Eater had fallen into a trap he set with Wall of Illusion, and as a result had no monsters on the field.
"I summon Breaker the Magical Warrior, sign of attack!" he shouted, slapping the card for the red armored spellcaster onto his Duel Disk. The monster appeared from the depths of the Shadow Realm almost instantly, sword and shield at the ready. "Breaker has a special ability; when he is normal summoned, I can add a magic counter onto him to increase his power by three hundred."
A light went on under the panel that the card was on, indicating the counter that brought the monster's power up to nineteen hundred.
"Breaker the Magical Warrior! Directly attack that Death Eater!" Draco shouted, pointing to the first Death Eater. The man panicked a moment as the monster ran toward him, before screaming as the spellcaster's blade went right through him. Although the attack was largely illusionary, it still felt like it was real.
Draco Malfoy: 3800
Katsuya Jonouchi: 3400
Death Eater 1: 1350
Death Eater 2: 3200
The second Death Eater looked as his companion nervously. "Oui, Suichi, maybe we should get out of here…?"
The Death Eater glared at him. "Shut up; even if we could, where would we run to, you moron?" he demanded, before drawing a card. "Serpent Soldier, sign of attack! Destroy Wyvern no Senshi!"
Jonouchi brought his arms up to cover his face as the armored Serpent Soldier easily sliced through his Wyvern Soldier. The teen just smirked, however, as the monster returned to the Death Eater's side of the field.
"That was just a scratch!"
Draco Malfoy: 3800
Katsuya Jonouchi: 3200
Death Eater 1: 1350
Death Eater 2: 3200
"My turn now!" Jonouchi exclaimed, drawing from his deck, a huge grin spreading out on his face as he looked at the card he drew. Draco resisted the urge to sweatdrop; he had to have the worst game face he had ever seen. "You're gone now! Toki no Magician, sign of attack!"
Pocket watch with hands and feet was the best way to describe the monster Jonouchi summoned. Draco just stared at the odd little creature as it rose up, holding a little staff with a small clock on it. Instead of numbers, however, the clock had a handful of strange symbols mixed in with skulls. The hands on the clock staff were rotating rapidly, as if in some kind of strange roulette. Jonouchi was also staring up at that staff, though for a different reason than Draco.
"Not a skull… not a skull…" he prayed under his breath.
Draco looked down at him, giving him a strange look; what did he mean, "Not a skull"! Apparently, he was not going to get a chance to find out. The clock hands landed on one of the strange symbols, getting a whoop of triumph out of Jonouchi.
"All right! Toki no Magician, Time Magic!"
The little Time Magician responded immediately, waving its staff. Suddenly, the whole of the Death Eaters sides of the field seemed to be sucked into the light of a time vortex. The serpent creatures the two of them were commanding withered away with age right before their eyes. When the light dimmed, nothing was left of the creatures but empty husks of armor.
"It's still my turn," Jonouchi announced, holding up a card, "and I play the magic card Dead Alive to summon my Wyvern no Senshi back from the grave!"
An ankh appeared on his side of the field, only to slowly dissolve back into the Wyvern Soldier he had lost previously.
"Wyvern no Senshi, directly attack the Death Eater!"
The first Death Eater shouted out in surprise as the warrior class card attacked him, loosing his balance and falling to the ground. Up above, the Millennium Scale rotated so the empty basket was pointing toward the fallen dark wizard. The basket teetered a moment, before dropping down.
"It's game over for you!" Draco declared. The Death Eater's head came up in surprise at the announcement, fright written clearly on his face.
Draco Malfoy: 3800
Katsuya Jonouchi: 3200
Death Eater 1: 0
Death Eater 2: 3200
The second Death Eater watch in horror as, without warning, a set of alligator-like jaws came up from the floor and engulfed his companion. The jaws descended into the darkness once more, not even leaving a scrap of clothing behind. The remaining Death Eater stood in his position for a long moment, trembling from head to foot, before he crumpled to the ground, passed out cold. Both Jonouchi and Draco sweatdropped.
"He fainted…" Draco said, disbelieving.
"That ain't right…" Jonouchi replied.
An annoyed grumbling came from deep within the shadows; apparently, Ammit was not too thrilled about that either.
"Sorry, Ammit," Draco apologized, shrugging his shoulders. "At least you got one body out of the deal."
The young wizard reaching out a hand for the Millennium Scale, and the Item floated down to him, dispelling the Shadow Realm as it did so. Once the Scale was safely returned in his backpack, he went over to the passed out Death Eater and rummaged through his pockets. Jonouchi crossed his arms, frowning.
"You know, I don't think he has a Puzzle Card on him," he said.
"That's not what I'm looking for," Draco replied, reaching into the man's inner robe pocket before pulling out a long stick of wood. He snapped the wand into pieces and tossed them to the ground, grinding them under foot for good measure.
"C'mon, let's go find the others," he said as he turned back to Jonouchi.
-.oOOo.-
Marik and Yami Bakura's eyes both seemed to widen to the point where that was the only thing on their face as they started down at the ground. When the second Death Eater said he was activating a field magic card called Land of Snakes, he was not kidding; the entire ground had been covered with electronic snakes… slithering, writhing snakes. Yami Bakura teetered where he stood, and Marik shot him a concerned look.
"You okay, tomb robber?"
Yami Bakura's eyes never strayed from the ground. "Imb my time imb Khemet, da most bobular trab imb dombs was a snake bit… any domb robber's worst fear w's fallin' into a deep, dark hole… and den, someding scaly crawling ub you…"
Marik sweatdropped as a violent shudder went through the tomb robber's whole body.
"Pull yourself together, Indiana…" he muttered under his breath. "We have more important things to worry about."
Yami Bakura attempted to glare, but given his current state of being sick and half scared out of his mind, it did not work out too well. Though, he had to admit, they did have more important things to worry about. On the first Death Eaters side of the field was a monster he had called Serpent Lord. While the monster normally had twenty-three hundred attack, it had a special effect that enabled it to receive an additional two hundred points of attack for each monster with "Serpent" in its name on the field. Of course, considering that the two of them had nothing but monsters named "Serpent" something, that made it a major problem. The second Death Eater, while he did not have any monsters on the field at the moment, the field magic card he just laid down increased the attack and defense of monsters with "Serpent" in their name by five hundred points.
On their side of the field, Yami Bakura had his Dark Necrophilia in defense mode, having used a Book of the Moon card to switch it to that position when the Serpent Lord had come out. Marik had Gravekeeper's Spy in defense mode as well as Gravekeeper's Spear Soldier in attack, both of which were only still there because he had had a Waboku card set that saved him. The Gravekeeper also had another card set face down, but Yami Bakura could not even guess what it was.
"I choose to end my turn now," the second Death Eater announced, a cocky smirk on his face. Marik fought the urge to roll his eyes. Of course the man was not going to summon anything; he had no need to. Neither of them were stupid enough to summon a low attack monster, only to have it destroyed by the Serpent Lord.
"It's my turn!" he announced.
Marik Ishitar: 2500
Yami Bakura: 1200
Death Eater 1: 3400
Death Eater 2: 3000
Marik bit his lip as he put a hand on the top card of his deck. If ever there was a time he needed his God Card, it was now…
"Draw!"
Marik's expression did not change as he looked upon his new card, and the Death Eaters snickered, taunting the Gravekeeper. Yami Bakura knew better than they did, however…
"I summon another Gravekeeper's Spear Soldier," Marik announced as the Gravekeeper card appeared on his side of the field. "I also reverse the trap card, Ultimate Offering!"
The trap card he had set on the field previously flipped over, revealing the Ultimate Offering card. Yami Bakura smirked; he had to admit, that was a good move.
"At the expense of five hundred of my own Life Points," Marik continued, holding up the card he drew previously, "I can summon another monster of my choosing."
The wind suddenly picked up, swirling around Marik, as if the God was anticipating its own arrival to the battle. The Death Eaters took a step back; they were obviously new to the dueling scene, but they were smart enough to realize exactly what he was doing.
"Two Gravekeeper's Spear Soldiers and Gravekeeper's Spy; offered as sacrifice to summon God of Sun Dragon, Ra!"
Total silence reigned as the monsters on Marik's side of the field disappeared into a flurry of golden sparkles. For a moment, it looked like nothing was going to happen, when suddenly rays of light broke through the clouds overhead. There was a burst of light, and the clouds dispersed as a miniature sun descended from the heavens. Marik crossed his arms over his chest and spoke in Hieratic the prayer to unlock the full power of the God Card. There was the grinding of metal on metal, and wings came forth from the sun above, followed shortly by claws, tail, and head as the God of Sun Dragon slowly stretched itself out. The God settled down behind Marik, glaring down at the two opposing Death Eaters.
"Kami-sama's attack and defense is dependant on the monsters sacrificed to summon it," Marik explained. "Of course, that means Ra's attack is at forty-two hundred."
The God above let out a mighty roar at that, as if to exemplify the point.
"Ra no Yoku Shin Ryuu, attack Serpent Lord!" he shouted. "Holy Inferno Flames!"
The God of Ra opening its beak-like mouth, and for a moment, a large flame swirled to life there before the God let loose the full power of the attack on the first Death Eater's monster. The serpent creature seemed to melt where it stood, before disappearing into electronic nothingness.
Marik Ishitar: 2000
Yami Bakura: 1200
Death Eater 1: 2000
Death Eater 2: 3000
Both Death Eaters were shaking as Marik ended his turn. The first announced his turn and drew a card, and ended up setting whatever he drew in face down defense position before concluding his turn. Yami Bakura smirked as he announced his turn and drew, making sure he held up the Duel Disk so he would not have to look down. He glanced over to the second Death Eater, whose face had drained of all color.
"Don' dink I forgot about youb," he announced. "Nob do cocky now, eh? I subbon Dragon Zombie, sign ob addack, and I change Dark Necrobillia to addack mobe."
The tomb robber whooped in triumph as he ordered both of his monsters to attack. The combined might of the two monsters easily put the second Death Eater and his field card out of the fight, much to Yami Bakura's relief.
Marik Ishitar: 2000
Yami Bakura: 1200
Death Eater 1: 2000
Death Eater 2: 0
"Because your partner is unable to continue, the next turn goes to me," Marik announced, drawing a card. "I summon Gravekeeper's Assassin. Assassin, attack the face down card!"
The assassin's knife lanced out, slicing through the Death Eater's defense position monster. A Serpent Soldier appeared briefly before it disappeared into the graveyard. With barely a word from Marik, Ra's attack came next, scorching the dark wizard where he stood. When the half electronic, half real flames disappeared, the Death Eater was on his back, unconscious.
Marik Ishitar: 2000
Yami Bakura: 1200
Death Eater 1: 0
Death Eater 2: 0
Marik and Yami Bakura whooped in triumph as their monsters disappeared before turning to give each other a high five. In the meantime, the second Death Eater went over to his companion and tried to get him to wake up, with no luck. Growling under his breath, the Death Eater stood and took out his wand, the action getting the two boys attention.
"I'll be taking that God Card, regardless!" he announced. "Avada—"
"Stupify!"
Both tomb robber and Gravekeeper blinked as the Death Eater hit the ground unconscious, revealing the old man they had met before arriving at their current point.
"You muggles, you should listen to your elders," the old man tisked, raising his wand as if to perform a memory charm. Marik stamped his foot, annoyed.
"Okay! Just because we left our wands at home does not make us muggles!"
The old man looked like he was going to have a heart attack.
-.oOOo.-
Yami Seto winced as the Dark Serpent Lord destroyed one of his Blue Eyes White Dragons. In the turn following his appearance, he was miraculously able to pull off his hikari's Lord of Dragon combo, in which he summoned the effect card Lord of Dragon and then special summoned all three Blue Eyes onto the field by using two Dragon Summoning Flutes. Unfortunately, the first Death Eater had countered that by equipping his monster with the Rod of Snakes, a magic card that he said increased the monster's attack by two hundred points as well as something else. What that "something else" was, however, he did not say.
"I set one card on the field," the first Death Eater announced, "and end my turn."
Yami Seto: 350
Yami Yugi: 2800
Death Eater 1: 4000
Death Eater 2: 3800
"It's my turn. Draw!" Yami Yugi announced, drawing a card as he gazed out on the monster on his side of the field.
The only reason his Black Magician had survived this long was because the Death Eaters were too concentrated on picking Yami Seto off first. This fact had enabled him to take some pot shots at them, but it was only a matter of time before they got annoyed with that and start focusing more serious power his way, instead of the effects of monsters they had throw at him until this point. He looked down to the card he just drew and smirked as he set it on the field, before turning his gaze to the second Death Eater; he had a Serpent Soldier on the field and a Serpent Guardian, a flip effect monster he had flipped over himself, and failed to return it to defense position.
"Black Magician, attack Serpent Guardian!" he shouted. "Black Magic!"
The second Death Eater shielded his eyes as the Black Magician's attack easily blew away the serpent monster. The man glared at the pharaoh as the magician returned to his side of the field.
"That will teach you not to leave yourself wide open," Yami Yugi said with a smirk. "End turn!"
Yami Seto: 350
Yami Yugi: 2800
Death Eater 1: 4000
Death Eater 2: 2300
"Little brat," the Death Eater snarled as he drew a card. "I'll wipe that smirk off your face. I sacrifice Serpent Soldier to summon Serpent Scorpion Rider!"
The Serpent Soldier disappeared, only to soon be replaced by a serpent creature atop a scorpion. The scorpion snapped its claws in anticipation, knowing its two thousand attack points was about to put someone out of the fight.
"Reverse trap card!" the first Death Eater exclaimed, surprising both spirits. "My Hand in Yours."
Yami Seto blinked, a dull look on his face as the trap card swung up, showing a picture of two hands clasped together.
"And what, pray tell, does this one do?" he asked in a deadpan voice.
The Death Eater smiled almost pleasantly, though the high priest was reminded of a cat that cornered its prey.
"Oh, nothing much," he answered. "Just when my partner sacrifice summons a monster, it enables me to special summon a monster of the same level from my hand."
Yami Seto frowned as yet another Serpent Scorpion Rider appeared on the first Death Eater's side of the field. This was not right; he hoped that Pegasus person did not take notes from these people.
"This applies to the whole field, by the way, including your side," the second Death Eater cut in. "Though, you won't get a chance to use it, as I see a Lord of Dragon still in attack position."
Yami Seto grit his teeth before putting an arm up to shield himself from the impending attack. It never came, however, and after a moment, the high priest got up enough courage to look. He sweatdropped in embarrassment, seeing that the monster had been stopped cold by a giant Hexing Circle. A quick glace over at the pharaoh's side of the field confirmed that.
The Death Eater growled under his breath, before slipping in a magic card.
"I activate the quick magic card, Dark Mark!" he announced. "This destroys any monster I choose in addition to forcing the owner to discard a card from hand."
Yami Seto gave the Death Eater another dull look as his Lord of Dragon was sent to the graveyard. After it disappeared, he discarded his Crush Card, knowing as it was he was not going to get a chance to use it.
"End turn!"
The high priest announced his turn before drawing a card… and cursed under his breath. Of course, now he got Obelisk in his hand. A lot of good it would do him now; even if he had Ultimate Offering active on the field, he still could not summon, as he did not even have four hundred Life Points left.
"You know, priest," Yami Yugi muttered softly. "The team players in a duel like this are called 'partners' for a reason. Partners share things with one another."
Yami Seto looked at the pharaoh like he grew another head. Was he offering to let him use his Black Magician in order to get the God onto the field? That would mean that Yami Yugi would be wide open to attack from the first Death Eater… unless…
The high priest's mouth twisted up into a smirk. "Arigatou, pharaoh. I always wanted to know what it was like for you to summon one of these…"
Yami Yugi tossed him his own smirk, as well as a thumbs up. Yami Seto held up his God Card.
"I offer my two Blue Eyes White Dragons, and my partner's Black Magician, as sacrifice to summon God of the Stone Tower, Obelisk!"
The three monsters disappeared in a collection of blue sparkles, and a blue light from above shot down, engulfing the high priest in its light. He turned his head slightly and watched in awe as the God, Obelisk, appeared from within the light. So this was what it was like to summon a true God… it was just… unreal.
Yami Yugi chuckled slightly at his priest's reaction, before reaching for one of his cards. "By your own card, I can also summon a monster of the same level from my hand."
The Death Eaters just stared in utter horror as the serpentine red dragon, Osiris, descended from a thunder-filled sky to settle next to Obelisk.
"Your defeat is at hand!" Yami Seto declared. "Obelisk! Attack Serpent Scorpion Rider! God Hand Crusher!"
Obelisk's mighty fist descended down on the second Death Eater's helpless Serpent Scorpion Rider. The monster's attack power had already been reduced because of Yami Yugi's Hexing Circle, and that effect helped in putting the Death Eater out of the fight.
Yami Seto: 350
Yami Yugi: 2800
Death Eater 1: 4000
Death Eater 2: 0
When the dust from the God Card's attack cleared, the second Death Eater was passed out cold on the ground. The remaining Death Eater looked down at his partner nervously, before switching his two monsters to defense position and ending his turn, hoping that the two defending monsters would give him some time to think.
Yami Yugi was going to make sure he was not going to get much of a chance.
"Osiris!" he shouted. "Attack Dark Serpent Lord! Thunder Force!"
The once terrifying Dark Serpent Lord disappeared in a flash, thanks to the Saint Dragon. Yami Yugi tossed the high priest another smirk, giving him the go ahead to finish the Death Eater off. Yami Seto was more than happy to take the last turn, drawing his final card.
"I activate the magic card, Dead Alive!" he announced. "Blue Eyes, back to the battlefield!"
The high priest took his Blue Eyes White Dragon from the graveyard – making sure that it was the one the Death Eater had destroyed previously – and returned it to his field next to Obelisk. He narrowed his eyes at the dark wizard, who was trembling where he stood.
"I'm not fond of those who hurt the ones I care about," he said in a murderous tone. "Blue Eyes! Attack his Serpent Scorpion Rider! Burst Stream!"
The Blue Eyes White Dragon opened its jaws wide, unleashing the full thunderous power of its Burst Stream attack on the Death Eater's final monster. The man fell to his knees as his monster disappeared into the graveyard, staring up at the inevitable.
"Obelisk! Directly attack the player! God Hand Crusher!"
The God's fist came down once more, and it was not long before the final Death Eater joined his partner in unconsciousness.
Yami Seto: 350
Yami Yugi: 2800
Death Eater 1: 0
Death Eater 2: 0
You know, for all your cheeriness, you're a bitch when you're angry…
Yami Seto jumped at the voice in his mind, surprised to hear it. Hikari! How are you feeling?
Seto mentally grunted. Like shit.
The high priest just chuckled. I guess that means I get to stay in control for a while.
Seto grunted again before falling silent. Yami Seto turned his attention back to the real world again just in time to see the pharaoh snapping the wands of all three Death Eaters.
"We should get out of here before they wake up," Shizuka said, making the high priest jump. She had been so quiet throughout the whole duel, he forgot she was there.
"Good idea, but… now what?" Yami Yugi asked. "Where do we go? What do we do? There are obviously more of them out there. We can't just duel against each and every one of them."
Yami Seto crossed his arms – a sharp tingling reminding him that one of those arms was broken – and a thoughtful look came to his face. He remained liked this for a good minute, before a slow smirk appeared.
"Pharaoh… how good are you at riding a bike?"
Yami Yugi just blinked.