Disclaimer/Author's Note:
Hehehe…I broke the streak!! At least, it was broken when I started this
chapter. Although now that people are
vying for my favor, the streak may jump to chapter-bonus-bonus-chapter…whatever. The options are the same as last time, but
will be cut-and-pasted into the end notes.
I need decks, people! I don't
care about theme yet…I'll tell you when to theme the decks. BTW, Mystic is now allowed to submit decks
again!! See if you can beat him! By the way, I understand that reviewing is a
limited option to gain my favor. So, by
submitting decks/plot advancements/sequel ideas, you can also gain my favor. By the way Mystic, a lot of people are
curious about your exchange cards. Good
job!
What's this, you ask? A second author's note paragraph? Well, that's how happy I am to announce that
I can finally unite my two television loves-YuGiOh and Charmed!!! Yes, Charmed.
You heard me. No, I'm not a girl
pretending to be a guy. That's where the
wicca deck theme came from.
Chapter 11-That Old Black Magic
The two duelists drew their cards, Mystic drawing an additional card for his turn. He drew Card Exchange, Time Magic, Hearts, Jack, Reverse Die, and Mirror Force. "Perfect…" he muttered. "I play the field magic card Hearts!" The ground inside the dueling arena became a blank playing card, showing only the heart symbol at two opposite corners. "Then, I summon my Jack in attack mode!" (2200/2200) The duel monsters card spat out a playing card, which then caused its image of a Jack to spring to life and jump out of its card. A black circle appeared in the blank space where the Jack should have been. "I was wondering how that would look on the hologram…" he said. "Then, I lay three cards face down on the field." (Time Magic/Reverse Die/Mirror Force) "Finally, I activate Card Exchange. You claimed to know I had that card, so you should know what it does. But for your boss, I'll tell you anyway. This card has us switch hands with each other. But would you look at that…I have nothing to give you!"
Latoss snarled as he walked over to Mystic and gave him his hand. The two walked back to their appropriate sides of the field. Mystic looked over his new hand; Neophyte Witch, Enhanced Warlock, Power Stripping Potion, Karma, and Power of One. Mystic was new to this particular breed of card; one that was purely promotional. "Alright…This card says I can summon it even if I've already summoned a monster…so I'll summon Neophyte Witch in defense mode!" (1000/1300) A young witch, no older than Mystic himself, appeared on the field, holding an array of branches. "What? You didn't use my magic card?" asked Latoss, drawing a card into his hand. "Well I'm sorry, but I have to do…this! I summon the Ancient Coven in attack mode!" (3000/1000) A fleet of witches in their late thirties appeared on the field. "This card has an explosive attack power, but that attack power is decreased by 1000 for every card in my hand. However, you conveniently destroyed my hand, so I think I'll repay the favor by attacking your Jack!" As the witches gathered their energy and fired it in a huge blast, a pellucid dome mirror appeared on the field and reflected the magic back at the witches.
Latoss snarled again. "Good job, but it's not going to save you. For if my card goes to the graveyard, I draw from my deck until I find a magic card. So let's see…" Latoss drew several more cards before he found a magic card. "So that leaves us with these moves…" he lay two cards face down. Mystic drew. "How unfortunate for you…you've triggered my Drop-Off trap card. So say goodbye to the card you just drew!" Mystic discarded his Jirai Gumo card. "Gold star for you, you figured out how to play a trap card. However, my Hearts field magic gives me 100 points for every suit card I have on the field. And right now, that number is one." Mystic's life points raised to 4100. "And look, I can still do this!" He discarded Latoss' Neophyte Witch and slapped down his Enhanced Warlock card. (2250/2000) "This card's effect allows me to double any bonuses, good or bad, on the field. So if I activate this magic card, it'll be twice as useful!"
Mystic slapped down Karma. A blue potion exploded at the feet of Latoss, who instantly cringed. "This card makes you lose 500 life points for every card in your graveyard. And that number is three, so prepare to lose 3000 life points!" The blue mist floated up to Latoss' Duel Disk, and began seeping into its circuits. Latoss' life points fell to 1000. "Next, I attack you with both of my monsters!" Latoss flipped a card; Freezing Incantation. "This card halts your battle phase and makes you skip your next draw phase as well!" Mystic winced, but gestured for Latoss to take his turn. A second dot appeared on the Jack's card. "Now I activate my ritual magic card, Wiccan Festival of Lights! This card lets me summon an all-powerful being called The Blessed Child!" As a final dot appeared on the Jack's card, a small child appeared on the field. (2000/2000) "This monster's ability lets me draw all the Power of One cards in my deck! You have one, meaning I have the other two. So I activate them now, making my monster's attack 3000! And now I attack your Enhanced Warlock card!" Mystic flipped his face down card. "Activate Time Magic!" A coin appeared on the field and began spinning. It landed on heads. "And now your monster is destroyed!" The Time Wizard's staff turned to a time machine, and Latoss' side of the field started to glow. However, instead of the child being destroyed, it aged into an adult. "Hahaha! You fool! Did you really think that you could destroy my monster using a cheap trick?
"However, I must thank you for evolving my monster so soon. For now it has become The Lord of Magic!" (3500/4000) "Plus, it allows me to destroy all Power of One cards in either player's hand, deck, field, or graveyard so I can equip it with the Power of Three!" Three pointed ovals appeared and formed a three-pronged figure. A ring formed around them, settling about halfway down each oval. The Triquetra faded behind Latoss' monster, raising its attack to 5500. "Now I continue my attack, destroying your Enhanced Warlock monster, along with 3250 of your life points!" Mystic's life points fell to 850. "Soon, Mystic, soon you will be trapped here forever." Mystic paused. "What?"
Latoss chuckled. "I guess I forgot that small aspect, didn't I? The loser of the duel is turned to stone. You'll see soon enough." Mystic was about to draw, but was shocked by his DuelDisk. "Ow!" he said. "Silly boy, did you forget that you can't draw this turn?" asked Latoss. Mystic merely glared as his life points rose to 950. "Well, it doesn't really matter, because you won't be directly attacking me any time soon. Go, Jack!" The Jack grabbed the three tokens off of its card and threw them into the air. They began spinning rapidly, and the Queen materialized next to her son. (2400/2400) "I switch my monsters to defense mode, and end my turn." Latoss drew. "Now I attack your monster with my Lord! Triquetra blast!" The triquetra glowed and three huge beams of energy blasted out of the card, destroying the Jack. "Just try and stop me." Latoss called. Mystic drew. "Yes! Go, Dungeon Dice Land!" The hearts field disappeared to make way for the Dungeon Dice field. "Fool! Now your Queen is destroyed!" Mystic chuckled. "That limitation only affects my monster when it is summoned. Now that it's on the field, it doesn't need the suit fields to live." He ended his turn.
Latoss drew. "Now I play a card face down, then attack your monster!" The two dice from past duels appeared, and were rolled. Mystic's landed on a three, and Latoss' landed on a one. The Lord of Magic's 5500 attack was halved to 2750, and Mystic's monster's defense rose to 2900. Latoss scowled. "You got lucky this time," he said as his life points fell to 850. Mystic drew. "Now I play Curse of Fiend!" 'Wait a minute…this card was never in my deck! Oh well…" The Queen switched into attack mode as the Lord of Magic switched into defense mode. "And now…Queen! Attack the Lord of Magic!" Two dice appeared and began to roll. Mystic's landed on a six. "Yeah!" he cried as his monster's attack rose to 4800. Latoss commanded his die to stop. It landed on a four. "No!" shouted Latoss, as his monster was destroyed with 12 explosive roses. "Now what, Latoss? Your most powerful monster is gone. Plus, I'm winning by 100 life points, and I have a powerful monster on the field. What are you going to do?"
Latoss glared, ad shakily drew a card. "N-no! This card can't help me…at all!" he stammered. 'There's only one way to escape now…' he thought to himself. His hand hovered over his deck. "Good choice. Why go through the agony of defeat while you can just give up now?" Latoss lowered his hand ever so slowly…and an athame shot out of his disk. "I can't lose…you have no idea what would happen!" he whispered. "You'll get turned to stone." replied Mystic. "No…no…far worse than that…" he said. Latoss drew a pair of golden scales from his robe. "We will finish this duel in the land of shadows." he said. The golden object began to shine with light as the cave disappeared and the area around them turned black and misty. "What did you just do? I bet this is some prank." said Mystic. "No, this is no prank. And the rules have just changed. For in the shadow realm, nothing is what it seems." Latoss took his deck out of his duel disk.
"I summon the High Priestess and enhance her with the magic of Ceremonial Knife!" Latoss' cards began to glow, and a woman clad in black clawed her way out of the first card and plunged her hand into the second, drawing a knife. "You'll see…attack!" The priestess rushed towards Mystic and slashed at him. His instincts forced him to dodge, but his arm was cut by the blade. "What? I though this was just a hologram!" shouted Mystic. "Oh no…it's much more than that. And if you won't hold still…then I'll just have to make you! Shadow Spell!" Six chains shot out of one of Latoss' cards and wrapped themselves around Mystic, making him unable to move. "No one has ever come closer to beating me…you should be proud." The priestess walked up to him, stroking his throat with the blade. "Sorry…but you lose." she said. As she was about to slit his throat, Mystic's deck began to glow.
"No! You weren't supposed to be able to control the shadow powers yet!" Four cards shot out of Mystic's deck, three revolving around the fourth. The fourth card transformed into the spinner of Chosen One. "Tell it when to stop, Latoss." Latoss smiled. "Or how about I destroy it? High Priestess, attack that card!" The woman slashed through the top, destroying it. Latoss began to laugh insanely. However, a beam of golden energy flew into one of the other three cards, and all four of them flew back into Mystic's deck, the one card still glowing golden. Then, the Dark Magician streamed out of Mystic's cards to face the priestess. "Fine! If that's how you want to play, I'm just going to have to learn the rules." Mystic thought of how he could power up his monster.... "I play Graceful Dice and Rare Black Die!" A green die shot out of one of his cards, only to explode and be replaced by a black one. The die rolled around and landed on a two, but suddenly flipped to a six. The Dark Magician was infused with six black energies. "Now it's my magic against yours, Latoss." Suddenly, both their decks flew high into the air. "No!" screamed Latoss. 'How could he have challenged me to a shadow duel?!' The Dark Magician and the High Priestess lunged at each other, striking repeatedly. After a while of this, they separated, and began using magic instead. Dark blue energy fired from the priestess' knife, while bursts of black energy flew from the Dark Magician's staff. "Dark Magician! Use all of your power with Hexagram Charge!" The Dark Magician rose into the air and a six-sided figure began to revolve around the tip of his staff, growing smaller and rotating faster until it was a blurred ring only slightly bigger than the Magician's staff tip. The Dark Magician used his Dark Magic attack, but it was funneled back into the hexagram, which then shot out at the priestess, growing larger as it flew.
The Hexagram stopped when it was encircling the priestess, now larger than she. Six black knives of energy formed, and shot into the priestess. She died, and exploded in waves of black energy. Latoss was knocked from his feet and fell into the seemingly solid ground. Just as he disappeared from view, the Wiccan set, a moon phase, and the golden scales were teleported back into the shadow realm. The shadows disappeared, and Mystic went to grab all of his reward. The golden scales disappeared in a flash, flying out of the cave. Mystic went to find the others.
*~End~*
Author's Note
Whee, a slightly longer duel! And guess what-I didn't break the streak after all! So here are your choices:
A) Reveal the plot
B) Reveal the new Millennium Items
C) Reveal the complete information of THREE of the new Millennium Items
D) Reveal the new Egyptian God Cards
E) Reveal the complete information of ONE of the remaining two new Egyptian God Cards.
Same as last time, except now I sound more genie-like! So, one of the five. If you want more info, email me and maybe we can talk. MAYBE. The next number will be 70. If you all can beat that by the end of chapter 12, I'll give you two of the five choices. But I don't think that's possible…hehehe…CHALLENGE!!! By the way, LW, you can use my character. And I've been getting a lot of questions about wicca…all I know is that it's predominately female, although it's not purely female. It involves lots of rituals and belief in supernatural forces. If you're blessed with a power, you can't use it for personal gain. Lots of spells, too.