Disclaimer/Author's Note:
I was going to start the story with a long string of curses, but I don't have time. I'll keep it short-I turned off the anti-anonymous review thing, so now you can all review. And I hope you do, because I need encouragement, because I'm failing my accelerated comp sci class at school, and I might just decide that endlessly and overly studying, although much less interesting than writing, should take top priority. *gasp* So, do your best to convince me. By the way, Mystic's deck is highly original, so don't expect to understand the cards until he plays them.
Yu Gi Oh- Tournament of the Eclipse
Chapter 7-Luck of the Dice
Waking up the next morning, Adriel found that Mystic had already gotten up and
Left for other matters. Aldrai was still sleeping soundly on his side of the tent. Going through his morning ritual, he eventually found himself in front of the burned out campfire. A note was wedged under a stone.
"Adriel and Aldrai-
When I woke up this morning, some guy was waiting outside of our camp for a duel. He's leading me to some unused duel arena. If you hurry up, you might catch the end of my first duel in the tournament. He says we're going into the arena. You can check a map of the island on your DD.
Later-
Mystic"
Rousing Aldrai, Adriel got his stuff together and started to pack up. Aldrai soon followed after muttering about how nine was an unsightly hour to wake up. After all the camp gear had been packed, the two set off for the arena, a futuristic model of the coliseum.
At the arena, Mystic had shuffled his deck, waiting for his opponent to do the same. His opponent, an unknown who apparently majored in warriors, was wearing old-style Greek armor with a gold and white duel disk, which was far brighter than Mystic's, whose disk was mainly black, with the details silver. "It's time to duel!" said Mystic's opponent. Looking up his opponent, Mystic read that his opponent was named Elias Morre. "Let's go, Elias." said Mystic.
Elias smiled and finished shuffling his deck. "Please, call me Eli." he said as he slid his deck into his duel disk. Mystic did the same, and the duel commenced. Eli, making the first move, drew his cards first. "I summon the Celtic Guardian in attack mode and lay three traps face down." (1400/1200) The warrior appeared, dressed in his usual suit. Drawing his hand, Mystic looked at his cards. They were Eternal Child of Light, Dark Magician, Magic Cylinders, Whimsical Goddess, Mirror Force, and Spades. "I summon Goddess of Whim in attack mode and place two cards face down." (950/700) A tall, thin woman dressed in a simple green dress with hair made up of green leaves materialized on the field. Eli drew another card. "I summon Neo the Magic Swordsman in attack mode to go along with my Celtic Guardian!" (1700/1000) "Then, I attack your goddess with Celtic Guardian!" Suddenly, a large image of a coin appeared in front of Mystic. Eli looked surprised. "Surprised, huh? My goddess' effect allows me to flip a coin if I wish. If I call it right, then her attack is doubled. I say Tails! Now go, coin toss!"
The coin flipped into the air, and, indeed, landed on tails. As the Goddess of Whim attack had become 1900, it blocked the Celtic Guardian's attack, wrenched its sword from his fists, and stabbed him through. She threw the sword at Eli, dealing him 500 points of direct damage. Scowling, Eli ended his turn. Mystic drew Dungeon Dice Land. "Perfect…Now, I activate the Field Magic card, Dungeon Dice Land! Then, I activate Goddess of Whim's effect, this time calling heads!" The coin materialized again and landed on heads. Mystic's Goddess' attack power could be seen rising. "Now I attack Neo, activating Dungeon Dice Land! A dice was expelled from Mystic's DD into his hand. A similar die was deposited into Eli's hand. Mystic went first. Rolling it onto the field, a hologram materialized after the dice had stopped rolling, displaying a 4. The four black dots lifted themselves from the die, and imbued themselves within the goddess, whose power rose even more from 1900 to 2600. Eli rolled his die, which landed on a two. Neo's attack rose a mere 200 points.
"Go, Whimsical Goddess!" The goddess clenched her fist, and green energy began to accumulate around it. After a second or so, she twisted her arm around her shoulder, then flung it at Neo. The swordsman was hit dead on with a green ray of destruction, which shot through him and into Eli, causing him 700 points of damage. Mystic smiled as he ended his turn, the Whimsical Goddess calming down and relaxing again. So far, he had all of his life points, while Eli had already lost 1200 of his own. Smirking, he waved his hand at Eli, who drew a card. "I summon Gladiator Warrior!" (1500/1200) A lithe figure materialized on the field wearing an old tunic and carrying a dented sword.
"This card's effect lets me pay 1000 life points to tribute it to summon Gladiator Breaker!" (2450/1650) Eli slapped down the new card. As the Gladiator Warrior left the field, a taller, stronger figure appeared. He had curly brown hair and deep green eyes. He was clad in a tunic and wielded a shortsword. "Then, I play Gladiator's Helmet to increase my warrior's attack by 300!" A platinum-colored helmet materialized upon the head of the Gladiator Breaker, blocking out most of his face. "Now, I attack your Goddess of Whim!" Two dice were spat out of the opponent's duel disks. Mystic rolled a three, and Eli rolled a two. "That's still enough to destroy your goddess!" he exclaimed. As the gladiator charged Mystic, a coin appeared on the field. "I call tails," he said hesitantly. The coin landed on heads, reducing the Goddess of Whim's attack to 625. Laughing, Eli ordered his monster to attack. Mystic flipped Mirror Force. "Now your monster is destroyed!" he called. "Wrong. Gladiator Breaker has several effects, depending on what magic cards I equip him with. Since Gladiator's Helmet is in play, I can negate a magic or trap card affecting my side of the field, but I have to discard a card from my deck."
"Then I activate Magic Cylinders!" Eli started to laugh hysterically. "Were you listening to what I just said?"
"Then…you can use his attack twice in the same turn?" Eli nodded as his Gladiator Breaker smashed through the barrier and destroyed Mystic's goddess, making him lose 2300 life points. Mystic shuddered as his monster was brutally slashed apart. He was internally debating whether or not to surrender. His hand hovered precariously over his deck. And then, Adriel and Aldrai burst in. It took them a second to take in the scene, but Aldrai eventually asked what was going on.
"Hey Mystic, what's up?" Mystic paused. "I'm losing, and I don't think I can win. I have no cards in my hand that can help. No matter what I do, he's going to win. Just look at the field!" Aldrai noticed, again, that Mystic's side was devoid of anything except for Dungeon Dice Land, which wasn't going to help him much, while Eli had two face down cards and a powerful monster on the field. Adriel started yelling at Mystic. "Hey, last night you told me you were a good duelist. And I don't care if you're losing, but one thing I know is that a duelist never gives up. And for you to give up when you have almost half your life points left is pathetic. If you can't at least try to come back from this, you don't deserve to win this tournament." A tense moment passed. Mystic's hand went to his deck, and Adriel looked down.
"To keep Dungeon Dice Land on the field, I must now roll a die. If I roll a one, it is destroyed. But the odds of that are pretty low." He rolled, and the die landed on a six. "You're lucky that wasn't my battle phase…now I summon Eternal Child of Light in attack mode!" (1000/500) Adriel looked up to see a pellucid infant appear on the field, sleeping. "Then, I set a card face down and end my turn." Eli drew. "Is that all you have? I just drew Gladiator's Sword, meaning that my monster gains 700 attack points, and one of its other effects has become useable. But you'll see soon enough." The gladiator's sword was replaced by a shining blade, somewhat thicker and longer. His attack rose to 3450. "Now attack!" Eli's Gladiator began his assault. Mystic pressed a button and flipped his Time Magic magic card. "This card allows me to sacrifice my monster to summon its adult form, Eternal Light Being!" An enlarged version of the Time Wizard's staff appeared on the field, and the spinner rotated until it stopped at a time machine. The field turned into a semi-transparent black cylinder of sorts, Mystic being at one end and Eli at the other. As the time pattern accelerated in Eli's direction, the child woke and struggled to stand. As time began to accelerate, it stood and started to grow larger, until it was taller than either Mystic or Eli.
Its short hair grew to long, silver waves, and it sprouted two silver wings. A silver robe appeared on its body, and its now open eyes changed to silver as well. Throughout this transformation, its attack and defense rose from 1000 and 500 to 4000 and 3000. Slowly, the vortex stopped, and Mystic smiled triumphantly, although his smile was somewhat dampened. "Why didn't your monster lose attack points?"
"That's my gladiator's effect through the sword-it can't lose attack points."
"Speaking of attack…" The four just noticed that the gladiator had resumed its rush towards the Eternal Light Being. "No! Stop!" shouted Eli. But too late, the dice had appeared. Rolling his die, Mystic received a five, while Eli received a four. "No!" shouted Eli, whose monster's attack was still only 4150, while Mystic's was 5000. The light being shielded itself with its wings, then threw the gladiator forward and shot a flurry of razor sharp feathers from its wings, destroying the gladiator. Some of the feathers passed the gladiator and hit Eli, who lost another 850 life points, making his score 950, while Mystic still had 1700. Eli was forced to end his turn, and Mystic drew Raigeki. 'Won't help me now…' he thought. "Again, I must roll a die." This time, the object landed on a three. "Good…now I attack you directly!" Quickly, Eli flipped Enchanted Javelin. As the light monster's attack shredded him, his life points staggered up and down erratically, eventually settling where they were before the attack.
"I draw." Said Eli, who then smiled. "I activate the ritual magic card Legions of the Empire! By removing four warriors from my graveyard, I can summon Ancient Empire from my deck! Although this card only has 3000 attack points, it can attack three times in the same turn, and can't be destroyed until its attack power hits zero, although it loses 100 attack points every time it should be destroyed by battle, and 1000 for every time it should be destroyed by a monster effect, magic or trap card.. That's because you can't truly destroy an army…the fighting spirit can never die." As Eli summoned the card, thousands upon thousands of soldiers rushed onto the field, not fitting in the hologram. "Now attack the Eternal Light Being!" The dice were rolled, and Mystic rolled a four. Eli rolled a five. The Eternal Light Being's 4700 attack overwhelmed Eli's empire's 4000, and several soldiers were destroyed, more filling their positions. As his life points fell to 250, Eli called out "Attack again!" He had an odd glint in his eyes. Unbeknownst to Mystic, Eli had been chipping away at his die, and he had finally finished. So while Mystic rolled a one, Eli 'managed' a six.
"Hahaha!" he shouted. "Although I actually don't know what your card will do, I know that the effects get better the higher the number you got!" Six black circles rose from the die into the air, and began to shower Eli's army with black mist. The mist cleared, and each of his warrior's armor was now pitch black. His army's attack rose to an astonishing 5800, too much even for Mystic's 5000. In unison, each soldier threw his sword into the Eternal Light Being, who was banished from the field. Mystic lost 800 life points, landing him at 900. "Now attack him directly!" As Eli thrust his arm out, and Mystic prepared for defeat, Adriel and Aldrai noticed something-Eli's army was asleep. "What?" he questioned himself. Mystic began laughing. "Look at your card more closely. There's probably a reason this happened." And, indeed, there was. For if Ancient Empire destroys a monster, it cannot attack again in the same turn.
Mystic drew a card, and rolled to save Dungeon Dice Land. He rolled a two. "Now I activate Raigeki!" Eli's warriors woke up just in time to see the apocalyptic lightning bolt crash down upon themselves. Smiling, Mystic looked through the smoke to see Eli's army still alive, though decimated, and stuck with a low attack power of 1900. "I set a card face down in defense mode and end my turn." Eli drew. "Now I play Banner of the Gods, raising my army's attack power by 700! Then, I attack your face down monster!" In addition to his monster's boosted attack power of 2600, Eli rolled a four, giving his monster a total of 3400. Mystic rolled a 5, making his face down Kryuel's 1700 defense power 2700, still not enough to withstand Eli's attack. As his army went to sleep, Eli watched as a coin appeared on the field. "Heads…" called Mystic. 'Come on…it's gotta be heads…' thought the teen.
That coin toss seemed unusually slow, more than a tense moment passing. As the coin finally settled, its two sides became visible in its flipping-a blank side and a millennium symbol on the other. It stopped on the eye, declaring Mystic's claim correct. From the coin shot a blast of dark energy, striking Eli's army. Its attack was reduced to 1600, its bonus from the battle phase gone.
Mystic smiled. "Your monster doesn't look so strong now. And with only 1600 attack points, it won't take much to win now!" He drew a card and rolled a die, landing on a five. "Now I summon Baby Dragon in attack mode!" (1200/700) Eli snorted. "That's still not enough…and I'm sure that I'll roll another high number." The battle phase began, and the two dice were rolled. Mystic's landed on a fair six, while Eli, who was overconfident, threw his die too hard, causing it to bounce off a rock and land on a one.
"No!" he cried. The souped up Baby Dragon let loose an extremely large fireball that blasted through Eli's army. When the dust settled, the last soldier could be seen weakly standing, holding the banner in its weak arms. Silently, it fell to the ground, and the wreckage of the dead soldiers disappeared from the field. Eli dropped to his knees. "But no one's ever beaten my army. It's impossible!" Their DuelDisks resetting, Mystic walked over to his opponent and stuck his hand out. Not looking up, Eli detached the phase from his belt and gave it to Mystic, who now had a full moon and a first quarter.
Eli got up silently and Mystic held out his hand. "I've already given you your reward. What do you want?"
"I wanted to say 'good duel', but I changed my mind." he said, turning around. Eli threw something at Mystic, then hurled a smoke bomb at the ground and disappeared. Picking the object up, Mystic saw that it was a note. It read:
"To whomever defeated me-
Your troubles are just beginning. I am the first of many who will now be trying to eliminate you. I have been ordered to tell you that the rules change throughout the various stages, so that you may be ready to take on my successor in the next stage. Stage two demands that you and your opponent both wager at least one card, much like Battle City. Good Luck…"
Mystic showed the note to Adriel and Aldrai. All three of them were happy to know this, although it didn't feel quite right. Then, Aldrai realized something crucial; "Um…guys? I'm still only a first-phase duelist…"
*~End~*
Author's Note
There you go-Mystic's first duel, and to Mystic; I hope it was up to snuff. Anyways, I haven't gotten any decks, and I (no offense to him) would like Mystic to take a load off for a while, at least until the end of next chapter. I need more enemies, and remember that I said that this story wouldn't end with just this tournament. Wait a minute…I didn't? Well, now I have. So be nice, and I might stick you in the sequel to this story. It all depends on whether I like the deck…I need a profile for each duelist, just copy and paste any of the three in this story, and fill it out. That way, if I decide to put you in the next story, I won't have to ask you. One last thing-if you get an email from me, that is a good sign…