Disclaimer/Author's Note:
Here's the second edition of the duel between Sean and Aldrai…got some mail about it. Gonna try and make it less confusing…hope everyone likes it! But do not be mistaken…I have the original in storage…
Yu Gi Oh- Tournament of the Eclipse
Chapter 17-Cloaks
Mystic had received his items, and he and Aarion were gone for the day in training. Meanwhile, Adriel and Aldrai were left at camp to talk. "Hey Adriel, I never told you this, but I'm glad for you that Aarion came back." Adriel, who had been throwing sticks at a tree root, looked up. "Really? I mean, it seems to me that you and Mystic don't like him that much." Aldrai looked away as he responded, "It's just that something didn't feel right about him. I don't know if you'd remember, but was he ever really into ancient magic and stuff?"
"I don't remember that much, but not more than any normal kid. We played dragons and knights and all that, but nothing more than that…at least nothing I can remember." He sighed. "Of course, it's been years since then. The last time I saw him, I was seven. He was nine…which I don't understand, now that I look back at it. Why would a third grader hang out with a first grader? It couldn't have been pity…kids that young don't have pity or anything like that." He fell silent, pondering. "Maybe it's just because you were friends when you were little kids. I don't really know a lot about it, so maybe not…" Adriel sighed. "No, our parents barely knew each other. Just because we knew each other." They stopped talking for a while.
Until five or so that afternoon, Aldrai and Adriel sat in independence of each other. Aldrai knew Adriel was probably thinking about Aarion and his personal vendetta for befriending him. And he was, because that was his nature. A brooder. When Mystic and Aarion came back, they were tired out. Mystic had learned his new powers, and Aarion was pleased that his mission was succeeding. "Hey guys, what's been happening?" asked Mystic breathlessly. Adriel, who had been modifying his deck, responded with a short "Nothing." Mystic grinned in spite of the empty response. "Well this magic stuff is really cool, I'm glad I can be involved. Where's Aldrai? Aarion said there's a good chance that he's an item holder, too." Adriel pointed to a tent. Mystic walked into it to find Aldrai snoring. "Wake up!"
While Mystic made fruitless attempts at waking his friend, Aarion sat down next to Adriel. "What's up?" he asked. "Nothing…but why did you hang out with me when we were little? I mean, I was two years younger, I'd think you'd have had some sort of issue with that." Aarion sat for a second, thinking. "To tell the truth, I don't really know why. I mean, I just kind of felt that you were cool for your age, I guess. Come to think of it, you have a girlfriend, don't you?" Adriel nodded, thinking back to the days where he had gone everywhere with his girl. Then he realized that was about a week ago. Less, actually. Or wait, had it been a week? He was losing track of time rapidly.
"Thought so. But yeah…don't really know why. It doesn't really matter now…we need to find Aldrai and Mystic opponents. We're both qualified for the finals, but Aldrai and Mystic both need two more phases. That's what matters." Adriel sensed something off, but chose to disregard it for the moment. Meanwhile, Mystic had finally woken Aldrai up. "Hey…what's up?" asked the half-asleep teen. "We're gonna find you an opponent." They began walking around, trying to weed out any remaining duelists. "Hey…there's an easier way to do this." commented Aarion. He activated his DuelDisk and flipped to the monitoring channel. "There are two duelists within a quarter of a square mile. One uses elementals…to hell with that. Too easy. The other…fiends…yes…come on." Aldrai had no say in this, but complied anyway.
They walked around until it turned dark. Their target had eluded them thusfar. "Okay, can we give up now? I want food." sighed Aldrai exasperatedly. "No…he's right next to us." said Aarion. "What?" asked Adriel. "The necklace told me. By the way, take two steps to your right." Adriel quickly obeyed, and a split second later, three throwing knives hit the spot where he landed. Flown into a strange rage, he lifted the rod and it began to glow. His target began to glow gold as well. A golden eye appeared on his forehead, and his eyes turned blank. "Show yourself or I will banish you to the shadows forever!" shouted Adriel. Aarion quickly thrust his arm out. "No!" Adriel snapped out of his spell. Aarion looked a bit pale.
However, the threat worked. Aldrai's opponent - to – be jumped out of a tree. He was clad in a night-blue cloak that covered almost all of his body. What little that showed was a dark tan color. His unkempt black hair was spiked. His eyes were a dark brown and the rest of his face was hidden by the collar of his flowing cloak. By his overall appearance, the group mentally decided that he was Asian. "I am your opponent. I go by the name of Sean Kahland."
Sean Kahland
Age: 15
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 150 lb
Hair: Black, spiked
Eyes: Dark Brown
Appearance: Very baggy black jeans, gray shirt with a skull design, black sneakers, black fingerless gloves, black deck holder. Also has a skull and dragon tattoo on his left arm and a silver earring on his left ear.
Personality: Quiet, doesn't talk that much and has a bit of a hard time making friends because of that. Once you open up to him, he's a nice guy. Somewhat cocky when dueling but isn't arrogant or anything. Loyal friend who's brave enough to go into any situation.
Deck Type: Fiend
Sean flung off his cloak to reveal a very dark attire. "Hm." He said, looking at each of them in turn. He thrust his arm in Adriel's direction, and they all tensed. "You. You are my first target. We battle for entrance into the finals. In addition, I will give you any three cards in my deck if you win. In contrast, if you lose, you must give me your Dark Paladin, Dark Magician, and Buster Blader. Do you accept?" Aldrai nodded tentatively. The two duelists activated their DuelDisks and drew their six-card hands. Aldrai was to go first since it was he who was challenged. He had a hand of Suijin, Cost Down, Sanga of the Thunder, Kuriboh, Gemini Elf, and Dark Magician. "Oh no! I forgot to edit my deck!" he shouted. "I'll just have to do what I can…I summon Gemini Elf in attack mode. Then I end my turn." (1900/900) The twins and a facedown card appeared and Sean drew. "I play a monster in defense mode, and these face down." He lay a card down on the field in defense mode and two cards behind it. Aldrai drew again. "I'll save this card for later and attack your facedown monster!" The twin elves launched themselves at the card back and destroyed the monster within. Nuvia the Wicked was shown for an instant before being destroyed. "Your move, Sean." Sean slipped a card from the top of his deck into his hand. "I play the field magic card Pandemonium! This card allows me to negate the life-point payment required by all archfiend monsters." As the field turned into a decrepit, shrinelike area, Aldrai asked "you don't have any archfiend monsters, so why bother?"
Sean played a card. "Because now I have one." A knightlike monster appeared on the field. "Meet Shadowknight Archfiend. This monster has an impressive 2000 attack points, more than enough to destroy your elves." (2000/1600) "Shadowknight Archfiend, attack!" The monster jumped above the twin elves, and slashed through both with a single swipe. Aldrai's life points went down to 3950. "Hey, your monster only did 50 damage, but its attack points are 100 higher than my elf!"
"That's because although my knight has 2000 attack points, its effect says that all battle damage done to you with this card is halved. So take your turn." Aldrai drew a monster into his hand; Big Shield Gardna. "I summon Big Shield Gardna in defense mode!" (100/2600) The long-haired monster appeared behind its large shield. "Your move." Sean drew calmly again. "I summon another archfiend monster to the field, Infernalqueen Archfiend." (900/1500) "Since I can't destroy your monster, I end my turn." Aldrai drew another card. "If I summon this, I can destroy his monster! But if one of his two facedown cards is Mirror force or something like that, I could be in big trouble! I have Kuriboh just in case, though…so I should be fine." Aldrai switched the card with his Big Shield Gardna and slipped the weaker card into his graveyard. "I summon Summoned Skull in attack mode!" (2500/1200) "Now, I attack your knight!" The Summoned Skull launched a wave of lightning at the knight, but it was dispelled as the archfiend slashed through the monster, and Aldrai lost another 250 life points. He did some math. "How could you destroy my monster? 250 damage means 500 more attack points…how did your monster get 3000 attack points?!"
Sean laughed. "My queen's effect lets me give any of my archfiend monsters 1000 attack points at each standby phase. Including yours. So if you don't mind, I'd like to make my move." As he was about to draw, Aldrai shouted, "Before you do, I lay this card face down." Sean drew. "First, I power up my queen to even her out a bit, trading her bonus for the one I gave to my knight. Then, I summon Vilepawn Archfiend in attack mode!" (1200/200) "Now since you've left your field wide open, I'll attack with all three of my monsters!" As the monsters threw themselves at Aldrai, he flipped a card. "I play Negate Attack! This card prevents you from doing any damage to me for the rest of the turn. Now if you don't mind, I think I'll draw." Aldrai pulled a trap card from his deck. "Since you've entered your standby phase, I'm powering up my Vilepawn by 1000 points!" Aldrai grimaced. "I knew you would. I set a card face down and end my turn…" Sean drew. "I'm not falling for that…but I have no card to destroy your trap. So for now, I power up my queen again, setting her at 1900 attack points! Then, I summon Darkbishop Archfiend in defense mode!" (300/1400)
"This attack will almost eliminate you, but you'll still have a few life points left. So I attack you with my knight, queen, and pawn, totaling 3100 damage!" The three archfiends launched themselves at Aldrai, who was defenseless to stop them. His life points fell to 600. However, as he drew, he began to laugh. "Why are you laughing? I just powered up my knight, meaning you have a monster with 3000 attack to worry about."
Aldrai flipped his card, Change of Heart. "I activate this on your knight!" Sean smiled slightly as a large die appeared on the field. "What?!" shouted Aldrai. "If this die lands on a three, your card will have no effect. Now roll!" The die began to spin, accelerating in speed before dropping onto the ground. It slowly stopped rolling, and it landed on a five. "No! Now you gain control of my knight!" Aldrai grinned triumphantly. "That's right. And now I activate the magic card Cost Down to slash two levels off of each of the monsters in my hand!"
Two swords appeared in front of the new card and Aldrai traded the knight for a new card. As the Sanga of the Thunder card appeared on the field, it looked as if it were about to shatter, before the two swords impaled two of its level stars. Sanga popped out of the card. (2600/2200) "And now I attack your queen with her miniscule attack power of 900!" Sanga puffed itself up before expelling several large bolts of electricity. They hit the queen, who exploded in a mist of darkness. Sean's life points fell to 2300, almost halved. He drew angrily. "Fine…and now you will know the wrath of my archfiends! First, I sacrifice my bishop to summon Skull Archfiend of Lightning! Then, I play Megamorph on your Sanga! And since your life points are lower, your monster's attack power goes from 2600 to 1300, not even close to my monster's 2500! So now I attack you and eliminate you from the duel!"
However, the archfiend's lightning was merely absorbed by Sanga, who shot out a more concentrated blast. The monster was destroyed, dropping Sean's life points down to 1000. "No! I switch my pawn to defense mode and end my turn…" Aldrai drew. "To utilize this card to the best of its abilities, it has to be face down for now. So I set this card face down and attack your pawn with my Sanga!" Sanga expelled another powerful blast, which enveloped the pawn and destroyed it. Sean focused before drawing. "I have no more monsters…there's only one way I can stop him from annihilating me…" Sean drew slowly. "Yes! I summon Dark Necrofear by removing three of my monsters from my graveyard. And I summon her in defense mode!" (2200/2800) Aldrai drew his next card, which was a rare card called Chain of Life. "I just drew, which triggers my trap, Chosen One!" The ever-so-familiar trap appeared on the field. It began spinning, landing on the monster card Aldrai set. "Now I summon Suijin! And I know your Dark Necrofear has a defense higher than either of my monster's attack powers, so I end my turn after setting this card face down." (2500, 2400) Sean drew. "I set a monster in defense mode and end my turn." Aldrai drew again, hoping to end the duel quickly.
"Yes! I sacrifice Sanga and Suijin to summon Kazejin!" (2400/2200) As the last piece of the Gate Guardian appeared on the field, Sean paused to ask Aldrai, "Why sacrifice those two powerful monsters for one of about equal power?" Aldrai flipped his trap to explain. "This is why. I activate Chain of Life, which summons out my other two pieces from the graveyard! At a cost of 100 life points each, of course." (Aldrai-400, Sean-1000) "Then again, I have to skip both my battle phase AND my next draw phase…but it's worth it. Because now, I sacrifice all three to summon the almighty Gate Guardian!" (3750/3400) "NO! AHHH!!!" In his haste, Aldrai had slapped down the Gate Guardian in the wrong position. "Oh well…it's not like I'd get a battle phase anyway…" He ended his turn. Sean drew his card. "Now I play Polymerization! I use my Dark Necrofear on the field and my Dark Ruler Ha Des to summon Dark Ruler Necrofear!" (2800/2600)
"Your monster can't defeat mine, though!" shouted Aldrai. Sean chuckled. "But in a way, it can. At a cost of 600 life points, technically. I attack your Gate Guardian with my Dark Ruler!" The new fusion monster rammed itself into the Gate Guardian and was destroyed. However, a dark purple spirit remained, and flew into the Gate Guardian. The huge behemoth warped over to Sean's side of the field. "That is the effect of my monster…if it is destroyed by an opponent's monster, I gain control of that monster!" Sean began to laugh maniacally as a storm began to brew on the horizon…
*~End~*
Author's Note
Wow…so long…and it's just a rewrite, too! I'm really sorry! And the second part might take even longer…ugh…I really loathe school…but love it, because I wouldn't have met my new group if I didn't go to school. Seriously, they rock.