Yami no Duelist
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or the cards. I don't own Hello Kitty. I don't own the poem or the songs or the singer mentioned. I own nothing in the story but the characters I made up (Which may or may not be all the characters depending on how the story flows). This is just a Fanfiction I wrote for fun.
Any similarities between my story and others are purely coincidental. And any characters of mine resembling real people happen to be completely unintentional. I tried my best to keep the duels error free however I am only human, sorry. If you find the main character to be offensive I am truly sorry and you have my permission to have her star in a Fanfiction about her death.
I'm trying to upload this edited chapter, I hope it turns out fine.
Means I'm not sure if my calculations are right.
Read and Review Please! It would mean so much.
Ichi
In the morning hours before school just outside the bounds of her middle school and in the park, Christy found herself in the middle of one of the toughest duels she ever played in her life. She sat on the wet green grass hoping she wouldn't ruin her new clothes her mom bought for her just the other day. She new she probably wouldn't but she was always paranoid about these things.
Christy wore an awfully colored green sweater, she liked green, it was her favorite color, but this shade of green was the worst she ever saw. It reminded her of the time she went out to eat at the new Italian restaurant and found a bug in her food and then proceeded to puke all over the place. To go with the ugliest sweater in the world she had the ugliest blue shorts on as well. Yet she cared not, for these were gifts from a loving but fashionably challenged mother.
Her hand trembled as she extended her arm to her trusted deck; hoping it would come through for her. Yet it did not, for as she turned her card toward her face her eyes gazed upon the Ritual Spell to summon Relinquished. She had already lost the monster to her opponent's Spell Delinquent Duo. The spell's effect stated that at the cost of 1000 Life Points he discarded one of her cards, Relinquished, and then she was forced to discard another of her own.
She looked at the grim situation in which she found herself, three cards in hand and none on the field while her opponent had out three Vorse Raiders and a Gemini Elf. Christy gazed into the cold eyes of her opponent, the high school student known by his nickname "the Dueling Crusher."
"How embarrassing," Christy muttered under her breath, "Losing to an idiot who calls himself 'the Dueling Crusher' and plays a stupid beatdown deck." Christy examined her options. Her hand contained two Cure Mermaids and a Spell Card. "My only chance is to bluff." Christy's right hand snatched a Cure Mermaid from her left and threw it on the ground. "I play Cure Mermaid and one card Face Down.
'The Dueling Crusher' drew a card bringing his hand to five. "No matter what card that is, you can't win now." He laughed into the blue sky. "For I am 'the Dueling Crusher' go now Vorse Raider attack Cure Mermaid and reduce her Life Points to zero.
The bluff failed and Christy lost. Her opponent 'the Dueling Crusher' flexed his arm rolling back the short sleeve of his orange shirt that covered his muscles. 'The Dueling Crusher' was muscular and loved to brag about it. He could always be heard talking about his position on the school football team.
Christy always hated losing to guys who tried to act macho or pretend they were better then everyone else, she thought they were stupid. She didn't care how strong they were or about anything else, what always bothered her was how mean they were.
"And now I claim your Cure Mermaid." He snatched the girl's card. "See ya later." 'The Dueling Crusher began to run as fast as he could. " By the way, you should work on your deck." He shouted from the distance.
"Come back here." Christy snatched her deck and chased after the thief. "We did not agree on that." Christy chased after the thief. "Someone stop him." She was too focused on the escaping thief that she failed to notice a large boulder blocking her path. She fell and hit her stomach on the stone. "Oww," she pushed herself to her feet while holding her stomach.
Whilst all this was taking place, another high school duelist was listening to her CD's in the cafeteria, at times humming or even singing along with her cold yet beautiful voice. Her skin was pale white from all the make up she wore; her black hair barely could be noticed on her black gothic dress fell to the floor. Her black fingernails tapped the table in rhythm with her favorite pop song from Japan as her lips; turned black with lipstick mouthed the words to Utada Hikaru's song entitled Hikari. Hikari was not the name of only the song but of this female duelist, yet she preferred to be referred to as "Yamino Ami."
All this came to an end when the bell rang and Yamino Ami lifted onto her back, the black backpack containing a majority of textbooks. The one textbook not in her backpack was the one containing the lessons of geometry. She kept it out for geometry was the class she had in the day's first period. She turned off her CD player and stuffed it into her backpack. She held her geometry book close to her chest, admiring the Hello Kitty book cover protecting it from dust and other such things that may harm a textbook. "Now let the fun begin."
At the start of class the teacher handed back tests from the previous day. Yamino Ami couldn't bear to look. She was too worried about her grade to see what it was. Another student walking by spoke, "Yamino Ami its safe to look you got an A-." How those words tormented her mind, heart, and soul. She made a nest with her arms and placed her head inside and began to silently weep.
"I studied so hard and thrice checked my answers, what went wrong." She wiped her cheeks. "Oh well, it's still pretty good." She checked the ones she got wrong and tried them out again, getting what she hoped were the right answers. She tried to concentrate with all the noise of the other students discussing the grades they had earned on their tests.
The school hours seemed to wash away and soon only sixth period art remained. The teacher had instructed them to go outdoors and paint the sky, requesting they try to work on the texture of the clouds. Yamino Ami got a slight bit creative and painted the sky at twilight with a beautiful mixture of colors, amazingly textured clouds, and the beautiful sight of the sun and moon sharing the same sky.
"Yamino Ami," another art student called out her name, It was her friend Jacob. "Can I see your painting?" She angled it towards him. "Wow that's amazing, I wish I could paint like you. Do you paint a lot at home?"
"Not really," she answered. "My greatest hobbies are playing Yu-Gi-Oh and ranting about Japan letting America make their own movie that is probably going to conflict the plot." She looked at the boy; "Do you play Yu-Gi-Oh?" She asked him.
"No my sister Christy does. She called me saying that a guy named 'the Dueling Crusher' beat her and stole the Cure Mermaid her best friend gave to her. "That sucks doesn't it?"
Yamino Ami just nodded as the bell rang. She handed her teacher the painting and took off on a quest. A quest to find ....the restroom. She did what was needed and hurried off to the park. "I've heard of the 'Dueling Crusher' before. He's usually very mean to his opponents. I guess I'll just have to teach him a lesson."
Yamino Ami headed to the park searching for the one she wished to find. A little child began following her around. She began to speak in a zombie like voice. "What do you want?" She began staring at the kid with a cold gaze. "You do know that what your doing is very impolite, correct? Please stop following me," she paused "or I'll eat you." She attempted to scare the child off.
"Tell me a story." The child demanded.
"You should ask someone you know, not a stranger, but I'll tell you a poem anyway." She tried not to giggle. "Mary had a little lamb," she said with no flavor, "whose fleece was white as snow." The child jumped up and down, it was probable this was one of his favorites. "And everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go. It followed her to school one day which was against the rules, but nobody really cared," she slowed down "when....they...ate.... Mary's little lamb stew." The child ran off crying.
Yamino Ami continued until she found the duelist she recognized as 'the Dueling Crusher.' He was muscular and had short spiky black hair. He wore faded blue jeans and no shirt. He was doing push-ups in the grass. "Hey Dueling Idiot." Yamino Ami called out. The boy turned his head. "So you admit it." She walked over to 'the Dueling Crusher' and stood there.
"Are you going to challenge me to a duel?" He asked. "Cuz I'm ready to go anytime anywhere." He continued working out. "Except Thursday afternoons, I'm always at the gym lifting weights." He bragged. "So are you challenging me or not?"
"Tomorrow, after school. My conditions are, If you win you get my deck and I'm your slave until you die. But if I win you return Christy's Cure Mermaid and then you shall play my penalty game."
"Penalty game, sounds interesting. My conditions are that we have a crowd watching so that the loser will face public humiliation." He smiled.
"I had been hoping you would say that." Yamino Ami walked off. "I hope you can handle my penalty game, baka-san."
"Mr. Idiot?" 'The Dueling Crusher laughed. That's quite a funny thing to call someone. I hope you turn out to be my first worthy opponent. I haven't played any in a year." His voice became a whisper only he could hear, and just barely. "In fact I've only ever had one real challenge."
Late into the cold night Hikari, not Yamino Ami stayed awake preparing her deck. The makeup and lipstick came off with a shower, and now she was Hikari. When she was like this she was a completely different person. She filled her deck with light and dark monsters, a few cute cards, and a dash of air.
"When morrow arrives it shall begin normal but shan't stay that way. An important duel shall commence." She stopped. "If commence means what I think it does." She laughed, "It would be so embarrassing if it didn't." She placed one last card in her deck. "Nighty-night!"
News spread like wildfire and about a quarter of the school planned to watch the duel, and every one else talked about it like it was the biggest thing since the creation of Yu-Gi-Oh the American card game based on Yu-Gi-Oh the Japanese Card game. By the afternoon many decisions were altering and half the school showed up surrounding the two duelists on both sides all talking and shouting until instructed to "shut up."
A neutral party by the name of Harold was to be the announcer and keep track of the scores. "Introducing our two nicknamed duelists, 'the Dueling Crusher," loud applause was given as the young man stood up. He wore dark blue jeans and a blue sleeveless shirt. "And the lovely gothic duelist Yamino Ami," Yamino Ami shuffled her deck. She wore the exact same outfit as yesterday, the day before, the month before. The same outfit she loved ever since she became Yamino Ami a year ago. "Both duel with something at stake. If 'the Dueling Crusher wins, he gets Yamino Ami's entire deck, and she becomes his slave for life. If he loses he has to return a card he had won in a previous duel with one of Yamino Ami's friends, and then play a mysterious penalty game. This is sure to be an exciting duel, who'll win, nobody knows. So place your bets now!"
Yamino Ami waited in disgust as her dueling skills and her opponent's were being bet upon. "I'll go first." They both drew five cards and Yamino Ami drew a sixth, signaling the beginning of her move. I'll set this card Face Down and summon Sangan in attack mode." (A: 1000)
"You just as easily could have placed it face down in defense mode and protected your Life Points. So I presume you have a trap." 'The Dueling Crusher' drew a card, "I'll activate De-Spell just to get a glance at it."
"Correct, it is a trap, one I activate now, Solemn Wishes. With it in play I gain a five hundred Life Point boost whenever I draw." Yamino Ami spoke in a calm voice as if nothing was at stake. "Please, continue your turn."
"I summon in attack mode Vorse Raider." (A: 1900) "Vorse Raider attack Sangan now." 'The Dueling Crusher laughed.' "Well Sangan's special effect lets you fetch a monster from your deck with attack 1500 or less." Yamino Ami quickly did just that.
"And Yamino Ami takes 900 damage dropping her Life Points to 7100. Will she lose to the ferocious power of a beatdown deck? Let's wait and see." Harold narrated the duel."
Yamino Ami drew and her Life Points increased by 500, which as Harold narrated brought it up to 7600. "I play a magic card Torture Room of Nightmares. If ever I should deal you damage by means other then battle or by this card a Torture Room of Nightmares itself; you'll suffer 300 damage extra. Next I summon in attack mode Witch of the Black Forest." (A: 1100) "Your move."
"I'll draw," 'the Dueling Crusher' kept his word, "And summon an additional Vorse Raider. Now I have two strong monsters out, neither of which required a tribute." 'The Dueling Crusher' began laughing.
"You laugh like a villain from a Japanese video game that gets killed in the end, if not sooner. Hurry your turn so I may begin mine."
"Go my Vorse Raiders attack." 'The Dueling Crusher, despite Yamino Ami's words, laughed again.
"One Vorse Raider has destroys Yamino Ami's Witch of the Black Forest and the other attacks her directly, amazing, Yamino Ami doesn't seem to care that she just lost 2700 Life Points and has only 4900 left." Harold's narration continued. Well her dead monster let's her get another from her deck, just like Sangan, only it's defense must be under 1500. What will she pick?"
"My Life Points increase as I draw." She nearly smiled but struggled to resist the urge. "I play this Face Down and play in attack Nightmare Horse which can attack directly." (A: 300) "I'll have it do so."
"And for the first time, 'the Dueling Crusher' takes damage, though it is minimal. He has a whopping 7700 Life Points remaining as opposed to 5400."
He drew. "I summon my ferocious beast by tributing my two monsters, my two Vorse Raiders to Blue Eyes White Dragon." (A: 3000) "Go strike her horse." Once more he laughed. "You'll lose 2700 Life Points."
"I'll activate Torture Wheel it holds your dragon in place and on each of my turns deals you 500 damage and triggers my magic card. Now I'll draw." Harold announced that 'the Dueling Crushers Life Points were now 6900 a 1000 more than Yamino Ami's. "Now I summon Shining Angel." (A: 1400) "Now go Nightmare Horse attack."
'The Dueling Crusher' began to fan his face. "It's getting kind of hot so I'll try to make this quick. I'll Mystical Space Typhoon your offending trap and summon a third Vorse Raider and have both monsters attack." Shining Angel had an effect that went unused.
"That move leaves Yamino Ami with just 2700 Life Points, 3200 once she draws a card," Harold began talking of the many duelists 'the Dueling Crusher annihilated in previously ended duels, and stated that Yamino Ami's chances were slim.
Yamino Ami opened her move with Card Destruction discarding their hands in exchange for new ones. Among her lost cards were three Big Koalas and two light types. "I play Soul Absorption. It raises my Life Points by 500 whenever cards are removed from my graveyard. I'll remove the two light types to special summon Soul of Purity," (A: 2000), "which will attack your weaker monster. Next I play Soul Release on my graveyard."
"Raigeki will rid me of your bothersome monster and allow a direct attack, bringing your Life Points to 1200. You've pulled of a few good parlor tricks, but nothing impressive. That's why you'll lose." Taunted 'the Dueling Crusher.' "You certainly aren't the worthy opponent I hoped for."
"I never knew you were a mind reader." Yamino Ami retaliated as she drew. "The Dark Door shan't let more then a single monster attack per turn. And Stray Lambs will protect me with defensive Sheep Tokens that haven't any attack or defense." In his two following turns 'the Dueling Crusher' did naught but attack. On her following turn Yamino Ami played a Face Down card.
"I win go Blue Eyes attack her 2700 Life Points directly."
"I flip Remains of Yatagarasu allowing me to draw a card." Her 200 Life Points remaining became 700 on her following turn. "My counter attack begins now, she stated." Dark Hole cleared the field and Graceful Charity let her draw three cards then discard two. "I play Soul Release again removing some magic, trap, and monster cards. Then I play DD Borderline, as long as no magic exists in my grave no Battle Phase may be declared. And I summon Chaos Rider Gustav." (A: 1400) "Once per turn I can remove magic cards from my grave and for each one I remove, he gains 300 attack until you end your turn, so I remove my magic cards from play."
"Crap I can't do anything so I play this in Defense Mode." 'The Dueling Crusher' complained. Yamino Ami played a card in Defense Mode as well.
And on her next turn. "So I'll draw. I summon Banisher of the Light in attack mode," (A: 100) "and flip my Armed Ninja," she destroyed DD Borderline, "and play the magic card Cheerful Coffin." Yamino Ami's monster sent all cards destined for the graveyards on a trip to be removed from play. Cheerful Coffin was removed from play and then let Yamino Ami discard three cards from her hand; those were removed from play. And so was DD Borderline. "This ends next turn."
"I doubt it, Blue Eyes White Dragon exterminate her weakest monster. Leave her with 800 Life Points left." Again, he laughed. "Even when you draw you'll have but 1300 Life Points left. You can't win."
I calculated again. I'm not sure but I may have made a mistake the first time. If so the numbers are 1800 and 2300.
"'The Dueling Crusher' may be right," commented Harold. "Yamino Ami needs a miracle to win now. Will she get one?" The air was thick as Yamino Ami drew her card casually. All the high school students waited in suspense for a card that could determine the outcome of a duel.
Yamino Ami threw down the card she had last turn. "I summon and attack you directly with Red Lobster Beast Da Iiza. The attack and defense for this card are both 400x the number of my cards removed from play. And I have nineteen cards removed from play," Harold quickly did the math but Yamino Ami beat him, "7600!"
"I lost. I was wrong Yamino Ami." He offered a handshake but she refused. Here is Christy's card back. Guess it's time for me to play your penalty game, huh?"
"Tomorrow." Yamino Ami walked off. She walked to Jacob's house and knocked on the door. Christy answered. "I believe this is yours," she said handing the card over. Christy smiled and shouted out the loudest thank you in the world. "Don't mention it." Yamino Ami walked away.
As a penalty game, 'the Dueling Crusher' whose real name was Michael, had to volunteer at the homeless shelter for a week. He grew to like it and continued working on all days except Thursdays, which he still dedicated to the gym. Hikari felt proud of these minor accomplishments hoping they would add up. Until then she would waste hours upon hours singing one of her favorite video game songs, "Ai yi yi I'm your little butterfly; green, black, and blue make the colors in the sky."
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Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or the cards. I don't own Hello Kitty. I don't own the poem or the songs or the singer mentioned. I own nothing in the story but the characters I made up (Which may or may not be all the characters depending on how the story flows). This is just a Fanfiction I wrote for fun.
Any similarities between my story and others are purely coincidental. And any characters of mine resembling real people happen to be completely unintentional. I tried my best to keep the duels error free however I am only human, sorry. If you find the main character to be offensive I am truly sorry and you have my permission to have her star in a Fanfiction about her death.
I'm trying to upload this edited chapter, I hope it turns out fine.
Means I'm not sure if my calculations are right.
Read and Review Please! It would mean so much.
Ichi
In the morning hours before school just outside the bounds of her middle school and in the park, Christy found herself in the middle of one of the toughest duels she ever played in her life. She sat on the wet green grass hoping she wouldn't ruin her new clothes her mom bought for her just the other day. She new she probably wouldn't but she was always paranoid about these things.
Christy wore an awfully colored green sweater, she liked green, it was her favorite color, but this shade of green was the worst she ever saw. It reminded her of the time she went out to eat at the new Italian restaurant and found a bug in her food and then proceeded to puke all over the place. To go with the ugliest sweater in the world she had the ugliest blue shorts on as well. Yet she cared not, for these were gifts from a loving but fashionably challenged mother.
Her hand trembled as she extended her arm to her trusted deck; hoping it would come through for her. Yet it did not, for as she turned her card toward her face her eyes gazed upon the Ritual Spell to summon Relinquished. She had already lost the monster to her opponent's Spell Delinquent Duo. The spell's effect stated that at the cost of 1000 Life Points he discarded one of her cards, Relinquished, and then she was forced to discard another of her own.
She looked at the grim situation in which she found herself, three cards in hand and none on the field while her opponent had out three Vorse Raiders and a Gemini Elf. Christy gazed into the cold eyes of her opponent, the high school student known by his nickname "the Dueling Crusher."
"How embarrassing," Christy muttered under her breath, "Losing to an idiot who calls himself 'the Dueling Crusher' and plays a stupid beatdown deck." Christy examined her options. Her hand contained two Cure Mermaids and a Spell Card. "My only chance is to bluff." Christy's right hand snatched a Cure Mermaid from her left and threw it on the ground. "I play Cure Mermaid and one card Face Down.
'The Dueling Crusher' drew a card bringing his hand to five. "No matter what card that is, you can't win now." He laughed into the blue sky. "For I am 'the Dueling Crusher' go now Vorse Raider attack Cure Mermaid and reduce her Life Points to zero.
The bluff failed and Christy lost. Her opponent 'the Dueling Crusher' flexed his arm rolling back the short sleeve of his orange shirt that covered his muscles. 'The Dueling Crusher' was muscular and loved to brag about it. He could always be heard talking about his position on the school football team.
Christy always hated losing to guys who tried to act macho or pretend they were better then everyone else, she thought they were stupid. She didn't care how strong they were or about anything else, what always bothered her was how mean they were.
"And now I claim your Cure Mermaid." He snatched the girl's card. "See ya later." 'The Dueling Crusher began to run as fast as he could. " By the way, you should work on your deck." He shouted from the distance.
"Come back here." Christy snatched her deck and chased after the thief. "We did not agree on that." Christy chased after the thief. "Someone stop him." She was too focused on the escaping thief that she failed to notice a large boulder blocking her path. She fell and hit her stomach on the stone. "Oww," she pushed herself to her feet while holding her stomach.
Whilst all this was taking place, another high school duelist was listening to her CD's in the cafeteria, at times humming or even singing along with her cold yet beautiful voice. Her skin was pale white from all the make up she wore; her black hair barely could be noticed on her black gothic dress fell to the floor. Her black fingernails tapped the table in rhythm with her favorite pop song from Japan as her lips; turned black with lipstick mouthed the words to Utada Hikaru's song entitled Hikari. Hikari was not the name of only the song but of this female duelist, yet she preferred to be referred to as "Yamino Ami."
All this came to an end when the bell rang and Yamino Ami lifted onto her back, the black backpack containing a majority of textbooks. The one textbook not in her backpack was the one containing the lessons of geometry. She kept it out for geometry was the class she had in the day's first period. She turned off her CD player and stuffed it into her backpack. She held her geometry book close to her chest, admiring the Hello Kitty book cover protecting it from dust and other such things that may harm a textbook. "Now let the fun begin."
At the start of class the teacher handed back tests from the previous day. Yamino Ami couldn't bear to look. She was too worried about her grade to see what it was. Another student walking by spoke, "Yamino Ami its safe to look you got an A-." How those words tormented her mind, heart, and soul. She made a nest with her arms and placed her head inside and began to silently weep.
"I studied so hard and thrice checked my answers, what went wrong." She wiped her cheeks. "Oh well, it's still pretty good." She checked the ones she got wrong and tried them out again, getting what she hoped were the right answers. She tried to concentrate with all the noise of the other students discussing the grades they had earned on their tests.
The school hours seemed to wash away and soon only sixth period art remained. The teacher had instructed them to go outdoors and paint the sky, requesting they try to work on the texture of the clouds. Yamino Ami got a slight bit creative and painted the sky at twilight with a beautiful mixture of colors, amazingly textured clouds, and the beautiful sight of the sun and moon sharing the same sky.
"Yamino Ami," another art student called out her name, It was her friend Jacob. "Can I see your painting?" She angled it towards him. "Wow that's amazing, I wish I could paint like you. Do you paint a lot at home?"
"Not really," she answered. "My greatest hobbies are playing Yu-Gi-Oh and ranting about Japan letting America make their own movie that is probably going to conflict the plot." She looked at the boy; "Do you play Yu-Gi-Oh?" She asked him.
"No my sister Christy does. She called me saying that a guy named 'the Dueling Crusher' beat her and stole the Cure Mermaid her best friend gave to her. "That sucks doesn't it?"
Yamino Ami just nodded as the bell rang. She handed her teacher the painting and took off on a quest. A quest to find ....the restroom. She did what was needed and hurried off to the park. "I've heard of the 'Dueling Crusher' before. He's usually very mean to his opponents. I guess I'll just have to teach him a lesson."
Yamino Ami headed to the park searching for the one she wished to find. A little child began following her around. She began to speak in a zombie like voice. "What do you want?" She began staring at the kid with a cold gaze. "You do know that what your doing is very impolite, correct? Please stop following me," she paused "or I'll eat you." She attempted to scare the child off.
"Tell me a story." The child demanded.
"You should ask someone you know, not a stranger, but I'll tell you a poem anyway." She tried not to giggle. "Mary had a little lamb," she said with no flavor, "whose fleece was white as snow." The child jumped up and down, it was probable this was one of his favorites. "And everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go. It followed her to school one day which was against the rules, but nobody really cared," she slowed down "when....they...ate.... Mary's little lamb stew." The child ran off crying.
Yamino Ami continued until she found the duelist she recognized as 'the Dueling Crusher.' He was muscular and had short spiky black hair. He wore faded blue jeans and no shirt. He was doing push-ups in the grass. "Hey Dueling Idiot." Yamino Ami called out. The boy turned his head. "So you admit it." She walked over to 'the Dueling Crusher' and stood there.
"Are you going to challenge me to a duel?" He asked. "Cuz I'm ready to go anytime anywhere." He continued working out. "Except Thursday afternoons, I'm always at the gym lifting weights." He bragged. "So are you challenging me or not?"
"Tomorrow, after school. My conditions are, If you win you get my deck and I'm your slave until you die. But if I win you return Christy's Cure Mermaid and then you shall play my penalty game."
"Penalty game, sounds interesting. My conditions are that we have a crowd watching so that the loser will face public humiliation." He smiled.
"I had been hoping you would say that." Yamino Ami walked off. "I hope you can handle my penalty game, baka-san."
"Mr. Idiot?" 'The Dueling Crusher laughed. That's quite a funny thing to call someone. I hope you turn out to be my first worthy opponent. I haven't played any in a year." His voice became a whisper only he could hear, and just barely. "In fact I've only ever had one real challenge."
Late into the cold night Hikari, not Yamino Ami stayed awake preparing her deck. The makeup and lipstick came off with a shower, and now she was Hikari. When she was like this she was a completely different person. She filled her deck with light and dark monsters, a few cute cards, and a dash of air.
"When morrow arrives it shall begin normal but shan't stay that way. An important duel shall commence." She stopped. "If commence means what I think it does." She laughed, "It would be so embarrassing if it didn't." She placed one last card in her deck. "Nighty-night!"
News spread like wildfire and about a quarter of the school planned to watch the duel, and every one else talked about it like it was the biggest thing since the creation of Yu-Gi-Oh the American card game based on Yu-Gi-Oh the Japanese Card game. By the afternoon many decisions were altering and half the school showed up surrounding the two duelists on both sides all talking and shouting until instructed to "shut up."
A neutral party by the name of Harold was to be the announcer and keep track of the scores. "Introducing our two nicknamed duelists, 'the Dueling Crusher," loud applause was given as the young man stood up. He wore dark blue jeans and a blue sleeveless shirt. "And the lovely gothic duelist Yamino Ami," Yamino Ami shuffled her deck. She wore the exact same outfit as yesterday, the day before, the month before. The same outfit she loved ever since she became Yamino Ami a year ago. "Both duel with something at stake. If 'the Dueling Crusher wins, he gets Yamino Ami's entire deck, and she becomes his slave for life. If he loses he has to return a card he had won in a previous duel with one of Yamino Ami's friends, and then play a mysterious penalty game. This is sure to be an exciting duel, who'll win, nobody knows. So place your bets now!"
Yamino Ami waited in disgust as her dueling skills and her opponent's were being bet upon. "I'll go first." They both drew five cards and Yamino Ami drew a sixth, signaling the beginning of her move. I'll set this card Face Down and summon Sangan in attack mode." (A: 1000)
"You just as easily could have placed it face down in defense mode and protected your Life Points. So I presume you have a trap." 'The Dueling Crusher' drew a card, "I'll activate De-Spell just to get a glance at it."
"Correct, it is a trap, one I activate now, Solemn Wishes. With it in play I gain a five hundred Life Point boost whenever I draw." Yamino Ami spoke in a calm voice as if nothing was at stake. "Please, continue your turn."
"I summon in attack mode Vorse Raider." (A: 1900) "Vorse Raider attack Sangan now." 'The Dueling Crusher laughed.' "Well Sangan's special effect lets you fetch a monster from your deck with attack 1500 or less." Yamino Ami quickly did just that.
"And Yamino Ami takes 900 damage dropping her Life Points to 7100. Will she lose to the ferocious power of a beatdown deck? Let's wait and see." Harold narrated the duel."
Yamino Ami drew and her Life Points increased by 500, which as Harold narrated brought it up to 7600. "I play a magic card Torture Room of Nightmares. If ever I should deal you damage by means other then battle or by this card a Torture Room of Nightmares itself; you'll suffer 300 damage extra. Next I summon in attack mode Witch of the Black Forest." (A: 1100) "Your move."
"I'll draw," 'the Dueling Crusher' kept his word, "And summon an additional Vorse Raider. Now I have two strong monsters out, neither of which required a tribute." 'The Dueling Crusher' began laughing.
"You laugh like a villain from a Japanese video game that gets killed in the end, if not sooner. Hurry your turn so I may begin mine."
"Go my Vorse Raiders attack." 'The Dueling Crusher, despite Yamino Ami's words, laughed again.
"One Vorse Raider has destroys Yamino Ami's Witch of the Black Forest and the other attacks her directly, amazing, Yamino Ami doesn't seem to care that she just lost 2700 Life Points and has only 4900 left." Harold's narration continued. Well her dead monster let's her get another from her deck, just like Sangan, only it's defense must be under 1500. What will she pick?"
"My Life Points increase as I draw." She nearly smiled but struggled to resist the urge. "I play this Face Down and play in attack Nightmare Horse which can attack directly." (A: 300) "I'll have it do so."
"And for the first time, 'the Dueling Crusher' takes damage, though it is minimal. He has a whopping 7700 Life Points remaining as opposed to 5400."
He drew. "I summon my ferocious beast by tributing my two monsters, my two Vorse Raiders to Blue Eyes White Dragon." (A: 3000) "Go strike her horse." Once more he laughed. "You'll lose 2700 Life Points."
"I'll activate Torture Wheel it holds your dragon in place and on each of my turns deals you 500 damage and triggers my magic card. Now I'll draw." Harold announced that 'the Dueling Crushers Life Points were now 6900 a 1000 more than Yamino Ami's. "Now I summon Shining Angel." (A: 1400) "Now go Nightmare Horse attack."
'The Dueling Crusher' began to fan his face. "It's getting kind of hot so I'll try to make this quick. I'll Mystical Space Typhoon your offending trap and summon a third Vorse Raider and have both monsters attack." Shining Angel had an effect that went unused.
"That move leaves Yamino Ami with just 2700 Life Points, 3200 once she draws a card," Harold began talking of the many duelists 'the Dueling Crusher annihilated in previously ended duels, and stated that Yamino Ami's chances were slim.
Yamino Ami opened her move with Card Destruction discarding their hands in exchange for new ones. Among her lost cards were three Big Koalas and two light types. "I play Soul Absorption. It raises my Life Points by 500 whenever cards are removed from my graveyard. I'll remove the two light types to special summon Soul of Purity," (A: 2000), "which will attack your weaker monster. Next I play Soul Release on my graveyard."
"Raigeki will rid me of your bothersome monster and allow a direct attack, bringing your Life Points to 1200. You've pulled of a few good parlor tricks, but nothing impressive. That's why you'll lose." Taunted 'the Dueling Crusher.' "You certainly aren't the worthy opponent I hoped for."
"I never knew you were a mind reader." Yamino Ami retaliated as she drew. "The Dark Door shan't let more then a single monster attack per turn. And Stray Lambs will protect me with defensive Sheep Tokens that haven't any attack or defense." In his two following turns 'the Dueling Crusher' did naught but attack. On her following turn Yamino Ami played a Face Down card.
"I win go Blue Eyes attack her 2700 Life Points directly."
"I flip Remains of Yatagarasu allowing me to draw a card." Her 200 Life Points remaining became 700 on her following turn. "My counter attack begins now, she stated." Dark Hole cleared the field and Graceful Charity let her draw three cards then discard two. "I play Soul Release again removing some magic, trap, and monster cards. Then I play DD Borderline, as long as no magic exists in my grave no Battle Phase may be declared. And I summon Chaos Rider Gustav." (A: 1400) "Once per turn I can remove magic cards from my grave and for each one I remove, he gains 300 attack until you end your turn, so I remove my magic cards from play."
"Crap I can't do anything so I play this in Defense Mode." 'The Dueling Crusher' complained. Yamino Ami played a card in Defense Mode as well.
And on her next turn. "So I'll draw. I summon Banisher of the Light in attack mode," (A: 100) "and flip my Armed Ninja," she destroyed DD Borderline, "and play the magic card Cheerful Coffin." Yamino Ami's monster sent all cards destined for the graveyards on a trip to be removed from play. Cheerful Coffin was removed from play and then let Yamino Ami discard three cards from her hand; those were removed from play. And so was DD Borderline. "This ends next turn."
"I doubt it, Blue Eyes White Dragon exterminate her weakest monster. Leave her with 800 Life Points left." Again, he laughed. "Even when you draw you'll have but 1300 Life Points left. You can't win."
I calculated again. I'm not sure but I may have made a mistake the first time. If so the numbers are 1800 and 2300.
"'The Dueling Crusher' may be right," commented Harold. "Yamino Ami needs a miracle to win now. Will she get one?" The air was thick as Yamino Ami drew her card casually. All the high school students waited in suspense for a card that could determine the outcome of a duel.
Yamino Ami threw down the card she had last turn. "I summon and attack you directly with Red Lobster Beast Da Iiza. The attack and defense for this card are both 400x the number of my cards removed from play. And I have nineteen cards removed from play," Harold quickly did the math but Yamino Ami beat him, "7600!"
"I lost. I was wrong Yamino Ami." He offered a handshake but she refused. Here is Christy's card back. Guess it's time for me to play your penalty game, huh?"
"Tomorrow." Yamino Ami walked off. She walked to Jacob's house and knocked on the door. Christy answered. "I believe this is yours," she said handing the card over. Christy smiled and shouted out the loudest thank you in the world. "Don't mention it." Yamino Ami walked away.
As a penalty game, 'the Dueling Crusher' whose real name was Michael, had to volunteer at the homeless shelter for a week. He grew to like it and continued working on all days except Thursdays, which he still dedicated to the gym. Hikari felt proud of these minor accomplishments hoping they would add up. Until then she would waste hours upon hours singing one of her favorite video game songs, "Ai yi yi I'm your little butterfly; green, black, and blue make the colors in the sky."
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