Ranma King of Games Chapter twelve
Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh or Ranma ½. There I said it now stop bothering me. What? You don't think that's enough? Why do you people keep bothering me! Just leave me Alone! Fine! You brought this on yourself! (The symbol of an eye appears on Prime's forehead) MIND CRUSH!!!
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From the sidelines Ukyou nervously watched the two combatants studying their hands.
"Nervous? You shouldn't be, Ranma will beat Kaiba easily." Ukyou singled out the voice from the crowd that had gathered and pondered.
"I met you last night." The young man smiled.
"The name is Ashaton, and if I'm correct your name is Ukyou isn't it?" Ukyou nodded.
"Well like I said, Ranma can beat Kaiba if he thinks positively so you can relax."
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Kaiba finished calculating his battle plans and smiled.
"I'm going to enjoy taking you apart Ranma, so I'm going to let you go first." Ranma shook his head.
"Fine, this duel will be for one star chip."
"Only one? Fine, it doesn't matter as long as I beat you and take back my title. Now make your move. Unless your just a scared little girl." Ranma glared.
"No one calls me that and gets away with it. Headless Knight in defense mode!" On Ranma's side of the field a goastly suit of armor appeared and swung it's sword. [1450 1700] Kaiba drew a card and laid it on the field.
"I'll lay a card face down and attack with Spear Dragon." [1900, 0] A blue dragon with a large shovel like head bore down on Ranma's monster and smashed it to bits. Kaiba smirked as Ranma watched his life points went down.
"Spear dragon's effect allows it to deduct the difference between it's attack points and your monsters defense points from your life points."
{Ranma 1800 Kaiba 2000}
"That's not the only effect it has Kaiba, once it attacks it goes into defense mode and with no defense points it's easy game. So I summon the Beast of Gilfer to destroy it!" A large demon like monster with wings and claws appeared on Ranma's side of the field and hurled a ball of hell fire at the Spear Dragon. [2200, 2500] Kaiba smiled as his monster screamed in pain and melted away.
"Thanks Ranma, you did just what I needed; I activate Michizure which allows me to send one of your monsters to the graveyard once one of mine has been destroyed. So say good bye to your beast." An enormous pair of hands reached up out of the ground and dragged Ranma's monster down. For a moment it appeared that it would break free but a second later it was gone.
"You let your anger get to you and now you're paying the price. So now I play the Lord of Dragons and equip him with the Flute of Summoning Dragons to bring out the Red Eyes Black Dragon and the mighty Blue Eyes White Dragon!" Ranma frowned as Kaiba's powerful monsters took their place on the field.
"I can still beat you yet Kaiba."
"Not with out any life points you can't. Blue Eyes, Red Eye's, Lord of Dragons! Attack his life points directly!" Ranma stood stunned as the three creatures bore down on him and smashed against the front of his podium. A second later his life points decreased by a further three hundred.
{Ranma 1500, Kaiba 2000}
"Pegasus said there were new rules remember, and as the man who programmed these dueling arena's I had access to all of them. One of them is that if you have no monsters on the field I can attack directly and subtract one hundred life points for each of my attacking monsters."
"That's cheating!"
"Duel monsters is won by the strongest competitor, and strength comes from information."
"This game is won through heart, not just brains or strength."
"So you think you can prove me wrong? Then just go ahead and try. Now I arm my Lord of Dragons with the Staff of the Dragon King, it switches him to defense mode and gives him eight hundred extra defense points for each dragon on the field. [ LoD 1200, 2600] and with him on the field none of my dragons can be destroyed with magic trap or monster effects." Ranma drew a card from the top of his deck and smiled inwardly. I got my Blue Eye's, great! But I shouldn't risk using it until it can really do some damage. And I if I summoned it now his Lord of dragons would have to many defense points for me to destroy. Ranma took another card from his hand and laid it sideways.
"Stone Soldier in defense mode." Kaiba shrugged his shoulders and rolled his eye's.
"That's the best you can do after that speech? I can't see how I lost to a pathetic duelist like you. But since you must have some secret strategy planned I'll do what you do and also summon a monster in defense mode. Sagi the Dark Clown, entertain me while I wait for this wimp to lose." A demented jester materialized and began to prance around while laughing insanely. "I'll also lay two cards face down, but before I end my turn I'll have my dragons destroy your soldier and attack you directly once more."
{Ranma 1400, 2000}
"Now make your move." Ranma drew a card and laid it on the field smiling.
"I summon the Buster Blader in attack mode." A moment later a purple clad warrior appeared and swung it's massive blade in a circle. "Now attack his Lord of Dragons! With the extra thousand attack points he'll win easily." But just before the atack hit Kaiba flipped a card over and it struck his Dark Clown. Saggie's head was crushed like an overripe melon but it continued to laugh as it disintegrated. Kaiba soon took over.
"Ahhahaha it just keeps getting better and better. My Shift trap card made you send my weak monster to the graveyard, and since Saggi was a dark monster with less then one thousand atack points I can activate my other trap. Meet your doom activate Krush Kard." A moment later holographic lightning appeared around the cards in Ranma's deck and hand and his Buster Blader faded from view.
"What happened?" Kaiba held up a card with the picture of several large germs on the front.
"This is a Krush Kard. It's a virus that infects your deck and kills all of your monsters with more then fifteen hundred attack points. Now you can't use your all powerful blue eye's can you? And with no powerful monsters I just have to keep attacking you directly each turn to win. In fact now that it's my turn I'll summon Youzanryu and do just that." A dragon covered in jeweled scales charged with his companions towards Ranma's podium. [2100 2800] "Say good by to another three hundred life points Ranma." Ranma steadied himself and watched his life points go down.
{Ranma 1100, Kaiba 2000}
I can't let him keep attacking me like that. I have to come up with a way to defeat him. What should I do Yami? but Yami didn't answer, in fact Ranma couldn't sense him anywhere. What's going on? I need you help Yami, why aren't you here? still no answer. Ranma dejectedly laid a card on the field.
"I place this in defense mode." Kaiba pulled a card from his hand and slapped it on the field.
"Time to meet my second Blue eyes Ranma, I'll have him destroy your defense monster and then you can say good by to another three hundred life points.
{Ranma 800, Kaiba 2000}
Ranma sagged down and buried his head in his right hand while surveying the cards in his left. He didn't have any monsters, which meant in two turns he was going to lose. His mother would die and he would have to live with the knowledge that it was all his fault. For a moment he felt like he was going to cry.
I can't do this. I don't have any cards in my deck that can stop those monsters. Kaiba is going to beat me and there is nothing I can do. He shakily reached to draw a card but stopped. What's the point, I should just surrender now and get it over with. He reached out to pick up his deck and leave when he heard something that stopped him.
I can't believe that my son is going to just quit instead of toughing it out. Maybe I was wrong about you being manly. Time and space seemed to stand still around Ranma as he whirled around and faced the faint imaged of his mother. Dressed in her favorite kimono and wearing the Soatome honor blade on her back she sighed and shook her head.
"Honestly, I was so impressed by how you beat Kaiba twice already but you've really lost your focus haven't you. Why is that?"
"Mom, I don't understand. How can you be here?"
"That's not important, now please answer my question. Why haven't you been able to beat Kaiba yet?"
"Well, he's become better then me."
"No you've just become worse then him. I saw your deck and while I was impressed with what you thought up, I realized that you would never win with it. It just doesn't have any heart. Its all about power and not respecting your cards. For a moment I thought I was looking at Kaiba's deck. You've been so worried about what will happen if you lose you've lost sight of the real goal and your deck became a pile of paper and ink."
"But how am I supposed to win, I just can't do it."
"Alone no, but I added a few surprises to your deck before you left. Now draw and see for yourself." Ranma reached out to grab Nodoka but she began to fade away.
"Remember, you can't win these things alone. Ukyou and I are both cheering for you so go and make me proud."
"Mom!" But Nodoka had faded out of sight. Ranma bowed his head and turned back to the dueling board as time resumed.
"Well Ranma, are you ready to give up yet. There's no way you can win with a pathetic deck like that." Ranma nodded his head.
"You're right." Every one watching the duel stopped talking and stared as Ranma reached for his deck.
"But I won't quit." He drew a card from the top without looking at it.
"I realized that I was dueling for the wrong reason. But I've realized my mistake and my faith in my deck has been restored." He flipped the card over and smiled.
"And my faith rewards me with the Swords of Revealing Light!" Everyone gasped and Kaiba growled.
"That will only postpone your defeat for three turns. I will still beat you Ranma!"
"Three turns is all I need, now watch as my swords go to work!" Ranma forcefully laid the card down and smiled as splinters of light appeared around all of Kaiba's monsters.
"Since your monsters can't move they can't attack me directly so I'll summon another Stone Soldier in attack mode and end my turn." Kaiba drew and frowned.
"I already have five monsters on the field so I lay this card face down and end my turn." Ranma drew and smiled larger. "I equip my Stone Soldier with Megamorph, which doubles his attack and defense points." [2600 4000] "Now attack his Youzanyru!" The pile of boulders pulled a metal sword from a sheath on its shoulder and charged down amazingly fast upon Kaiba's monster. A second later it was gone."
{Ranma 800 Kaiba 1500}
"Alright, so you managed to cause damage to my life points, that still won't save you. I set my Red Eyes to defense mode and end my turn." Ranma picked a card from his hand and laid it on the field. "I use Stop Defense and then attack it with my supercharged Soldier." For the second time one of Kaiba's dragons was sent to the graveyard.
{Ranma 800 Kaiba 1300}
"You still haven't beaten me yet Ranma." Ranma smiled feeling his usual confidence coming back. "But I'm getting close. Make your move."
"Oh I will, I summon my third Blue Eyes. Now I have my three most powerful monsters just waiting to destroy you. And your swords effect ends this turn so you had better have a plan." Ranma switched his monster sideways.
"My four thousand defense points should keep me safe for the time being."
"No, they won't, I activate my trap, Defense Paralysis. Your monster is switched into attack mode. My Blue Eye's will destroy it with ease." Ranma watched in surprise as his life points went down. "Then I'll have my two other dragons attack you directly."
{Ranma 200 Kaiba 1300}
This is bad, I don't have any other moves. Mom had better have slipped in a really good card." Ranma drew and outwardly remained calm but inside he was jumping with glee.
This will turn the tide. "Alright Kaiba, I activate the magic card Exchange. We each look at each others hand and pick a card we want from it." A hidden panel revealed itself over both players duel mat and they each laid their cards on it. On the other side a picture of what the other person had appeared and a small slot opened on the side. "I'll take this Monster Reborn, it should come in handy." Kaiba put his card in the slot where it disappeared and then reappeared on the other side. On the outside Ranma was looking worried but inwardly Ranma was smiling. Now if only I can count on Kaiba to be as greedy as usual. He watched as Kaiba looked at his cards. Suddenly his eyes lit up.
"You amateur, once again amaze me with your foolishness Ranma, you used Exchange when you had your Blue Eyes White Dragon in your hand. Of course you can't use it because of my Krush Kard, but that won't stop me. Now lets see what its like to command the worlds four blue eyes all at once. Hand it over."
"Fine." Ranma put the card in the slot and sent it back to Kaiba. Now we'll see who the real amateur is. Kaiba grabbed the card like a child grabs a piece of candy, but the second he added it to his hand holographic lightning appeared and struck his deck.
"What did you do?!" Ranma felt his mirth begin to over flow and soon he was laughing.
"When you grow up on the road you learn that viruses are very contagious. You just nuked every monster in your deck with your own Krush Kard!"
"NO!!!"
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Ukyou and several others watching began to cheer as Kaiba stared in disbelief. But Ashaton looked on puzzled.
"If what Ranma says is true then why didn't Kaiba's monsters disappear? They should have been destroyed…unless." He looked over to the far corner of Kaiba's field where a man dressed in robes and dragon bones stood holding a large staff. "I forgot, Kaiba still has his Lord of Dragons in play which prevents his Dragons from being destroyed by magic, trap or monster effects. And since he's equipped with the Staff of the Dragon King he gets eight hundred extra defense points for each dragon on the field. With forty two thousand defense points it's pretty much impossible for Ranma to attack." Ukyou bit her lip nervously.
"Then what can he do?"
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"Alright Ranma, you've managed to infect my deck, but with my Lord of Dragons in play my three Blue Eyes won't be destroyed, and I can still attack you directly since you don't have any monsters on the field. That means the game will be over."
"Sorry Kaiba but It's still my turn and since MY Blue eyes can't be used you have to discard it back to my graveyard." Kaiba put the card back in the slot and it popped out a moment later on Ranma's side. "Now I'll put it in my graveyard but I might as well not. Because once I use Monster Reborn it will go to the field. And since your Lord of D protects all dragons it won't disappear." A second later Ranma's favorite monster appeared and roared to the heavens."
"I'll lay this card face down and end my turn. Now the last thing to do it to take down your Lord of Dragons." Kaiba drew a card and smiled.
"I'll have one of my Blue eyes attack and destroy yours and then when my other two attack directly you'll be dead. Attack him blue eyes!" The mighty behemoth opened its maw and blasted forth with a mighty wave of white energy. Kaiba began to laugh dementedly as it charged down towards Ranma's last hope but the blast smashed against Ranma's monster and glanced off without doing any harm. He stared in amazement at the faint outline of a demonic monster clutched around the neck of his prized creature. Ranma pulled a monster card from his graveyard with a picture of the beast.
"Remember my Beast of Gilfer that you sent to the graveyard during my second turn? Its special effect allows me to decrease the attack points of an opponents monster by five hundred once its in the graveyard. Since your monster was weaker when it attacked mine it is destroyed and you lose five hundred life points." Kaiba's face became red with rage and a blood vessel appeared on his forehead.
"DAMN YOU RANMA!!! If that's the way you want to play then so BE IT!!! Blue Eyes, attack his own Blue Eyes and then direct attack!!!" Ranma's and Kaiba's monsters crashed against each other and disintegrated while the other one attacked Ranma.
{Ranma 100, Kaiba 800}
"You're down to your last life points Ranma and you have no more cards in your hand. You won't win this. Just make us all happy and give up." Ranma shook his head.
"I'm determined to win. I can't give up. Now I draw." I have an idea of how to win this but I need help from mom. He picked up the card and laid it on the field.
"I play Pot of Greed so I can draw two more cards from my deck." Alright mom, time to see if you really meant what you said. He reached down to pick up the two cards and for a moment he thought he saw the faint outline of his mothers hand on top of his. He slowly brought the two cards up to look at them and then turned stonefaced.
"This duel is over Kaiba. First I summon Copycat to the field." A clown holding a mirror in front of it's face appeared and waited. "Its special effect allows me to copy any card that has been on the field. I chose to copy my Blue Eyes." The clown morphed into a shadowy image of Ranma's Blue Eyes.
[3000, 2500]
"Then I activate my face down card, Black Pendant and equip it to my copycat Dragon. Black pendant raises a monsters attack by five hundred but also inflicts five hundred points of damage to my opponents life points once it is sent to the graveyard. So I attack your Lord of Dragons. With only two dragons on the field its defense points are to low to stop my attack and it is destroyed." A second later Kaiba's monster was destroyed. "And without its special ability all of our powerful monsters are destroyed. Including my dragon and its black pendant."
{Ranma 100 Kaiba 300}
"Then I'll take a page out of your book and attack you directly."
"What are you talking about? You have no monsters on the field." Ranma held up the last card in his hand.
"This will give me four of them. I play the magic card Scapegoat!" on Ranma's side of the field four fuzzy sheep materialized. "They may have zero attack and defense points but they're still treated as monsters so they can attack you directly."
"NO!!!"
"Scapegoats! Attack him directly!" The four sheep yawned and started floating toward Kaiba's podium quickly picking up speed. They bleated as they hit and bounced off and a moment later Kaiba's life points began to drop.
{Ranma 100 Kaiba 0}
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"Alright Kaiba, hand over one of your star chips like we agreed." Kaiba scowled and took the piece of metal off of his glove as if he were being asked to give up a finger.
"I've still got one left so I challenge you again." A large muscular man wearing a business suit and sunglasses stepped foreword and shook his head.
"I'm sorry but according to my employer's new rules that isn't allowed." He opened up a small book and read out loud.
"In order to keep personal grudges to a minimum and prevent weaker players from being hunted contestants can only duel a person once in the first stage of the tournament. This does not apply to the finals or semi finals." Kaiba frowned and turned to leave.
"Then I'll see you in the semi finals Ranma, and don't you forget it!" Ranma sighed and shrugged his shoulders. Of course Kaiba wouldn't change but at least he didn't have to worry about him for a while. Suddenly something heavy grabbed him from behind.
"Congratulations Ranchan! I knew you would beat that creep!"
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From the tower of his castle Maximillion Pegasus watched the two lovers on his security systems television.
"Well, Ranma managed to win. That's good, I certainly can't have Seto Kaiba running around with the power of the pharaoh now can I?" A woman covered in white robes lead a puny boy with large glasses towards Pegasus's desk.
"He says he's ready to go after Ranma, Master Pegasus." Pegasus turned and smiled.
"Are you now?" The boy began to snicker.
"Hoi hoi hoi hoi! I watched the way Ranma fought so ruining his strategy will be simple."
"Alright, you know what to do."
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After he had managed to get Ukyou off of him and said goodbye to Ashaton Ranma tried to make contact with Yami. Saying he needed to sit down and rest after his grueling duel he leaned against a tree and closed his eyes. The next instant he was walking through the chambers of Yami's mind, trying to navigate the mazes and hallways. He finally found Yami in a bedroom lying on a massive king sized bed.
"Gee partner, I can't thank you enough for all your help today. I really couldn't have won that duel with out you." Yami waved his hand dismissively.
"You're welcome." Ranma frowned.
"I was being sarcastic. If mom hadn't been there I would have lost all hope." Yami sat up and his body and clothes began to change. His face became more feminine and skin whiter. His wild hair smoothed down to become long and brownish red. And his clothes transformed into a kimono. Ranma blinked as he realized he was looking at his mother. Yami spoke again but this time he sounded like a woman.
"Like I said, you're welcome."
"Wait a minute! You mean…"
"That was me. You can't just keep relying on me forever Ranma, some day I won't be there and then what will you do? So I decided to let you win this one on your own. Of course that doesn't mean I couldn't offer encouragement from the sidelines the best way I see fit."
"But those cards from mom."
"They really did come from her. In fact there was a letter about them in the suitcase you trashed. I just thought that it would be better if you found out for yourself." Ranma digested this for a moment and then nodded.
"You're right Yami." Ranma cracked his knuckles.
"But if you ever try to look like my mom again the Millenium Puzzle is going to get well acquainted with the bottom of Tokyo bay. Combrende?" Yami smiled at the way this mortal was trying to threaten him but pooffed back to normal and nodded.
"Crystal."
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Authors notes.
Please excuse my bragging but I feel that this was probably the best duel I have ever written. Yes I know Lord of Dragons effect isn't really what I said it was in the fic but still it's good. I know several readers might be angry and confused about attacking directly so let me explain it in more detail. During a duel if your opponent does not have any monsters you can have your monsters attack him directly and inflict one hundred points of damage to his life points no mater what your monsters attack points are. One last thing, Kaiba's Staff of the Dragon King card does not exist, I made it up. Things are about to go into overdrive with this story so check back often for more updates.
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Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh or Ranma ½. There I said it now stop bothering me. What? You don't think that's enough? Why do you people keep bothering me! Just leave me Alone! Fine! You brought this on yourself! (The symbol of an eye appears on Prime's forehead) MIND CRUSH!!!
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From the sidelines Ukyou nervously watched the two combatants studying their hands.
"Nervous? You shouldn't be, Ranma will beat Kaiba easily." Ukyou singled out the voice from the crowd that had gathered and pondered.
"I met you last night." The young man smiled.
"The name is Ashaton, and if I'm correct your name is Ukyou isn't it?" Ukyou nodded.
"Well like I said, Ranma can beat Kaiba if he thinks positively so you can relax."
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Kaiba finished calculating his battle plans and smiled.
"I'm going to enjoy taking you apart Ranma, so I'm going to let you go first." Ranma shook his head.
"Fine, this duel will be for one star chip."
"Only one? Fine, it doesn't matter as long as I beat you and take back my title. Now make your move. Unless your just a scared little girl." Ranma glared.
"No one calls me that and gets away with it. Headless Knight in defense mode!" On Ranma's side of the field a goastly suit of armor appeared and swung it's sword. [1450 1700] Kaiba drew a card and laid it on the field.
"I'll lay a card face down and attack with Spear Dragon." [1900, 0] A blue dragon with a large shovel like head bore down on Ranma's monster and smashed it to bits. Kaiba smirked as Ranma watched his life points went down.
"Spear dragon's effect allows it to deduct the difference between it's attack points and your monsters defense points from your life points."
{Ranma 1800 Kaiba 2000}
"That's not the only effect it has Kaiba, once it attacks it goes into defense mode and with no defense points it's easy game. So I summon the Beast of Gilfer to destroy it!" A large demon like monster with wings and claws appeared on Ranma's side of the field and hurled a ball of hell fire at the Spear Dragon. [2200, 2500] Kaiba smiled as his monster screamed in pain and melted away.
"Thanks Ranma, you did just what I needed; I activate Michizure which allows me to send one of your monsters to the graveyard once one of mine has been destroyed. So say good bye to your beast." An enormous pair of hands reached up out of the ground and dragged Ranma's monster down. For a moment it appeared that it would break free but a second later it was gone.
"You let your anger get to you and now you're paying the price. So now I play the Lord of Dragons and equip him with the Flute of Summoning Dragons to bring out the Red Eyes Black Dragon and the mighty Blue Eyes White Dragon!" Ranma frowned as Kaiba's powerful monsters took their place on the field.
"I can still beat you yet Kaiba."
"Not with out any life points you can't. Blue Eyes, Red Eye's, Lord of Dragons! Attack his life points directly!" Ranma stood stunned as the three creatures bore down on him and smashed against the front of his podium. A second later his life points decreased by a further three hundred.
{Ranma 1500, Kaiba 2000}
"Pegasus said there were new rules remember, and as the man who programmed these dueling arena's I had access to all of them. One of them is that if you have no monsters on the field I can attack directly and subtract one hundred life points for each of my attacking monsters."
"That's cheating!"
"Duel monsters is won by the strongest competitor, and strength comes from information."
"This game is won through heart, not just brains or strength."
"So you think you can prove me wrong? Then just go ahead and try. Now I arm my Lord of Dragons with the Staff of the Dragon King, it switches him to defense mode and gives him eight hundred extra defense points for each dragon on the field. [ LoD 1200, 2600] and with him on the field none of my dragons can be destroyed with magic trap or monster effects." Ranma drew a card from the top of his deck and smiled inwardly. I got my Blue Eye's, great! But I shouldn't risk using it until it can really do some damage. And I if I summoned it now his Lord of dragons would have to many defense points for me to destroy. Ranma took another card from his hand and laid it sideways.
"Stone Soldier in defense mode." Kaiba shrugged his shoulders and rolled his eye's.
"That's the best you can do after that speech? I can't see how I lost to a pathetic duelist like you. But since you must have some secret strategy planned I'll do what you do and also summon a monster in defense mode. Sagi the Dark Clown, entertain me while I wait for this wimp to lose." A demented jester materialized and began to prance around while laughing insanely. "I'll also lay two cards face down, but before I end my turn I'll have my dragons destroy your soldier and attack you directly once more."
{Ranma 1400, 2000}
"Now make your move." Ranma drew a card and laid it on the field smiling.
"I summon the Buster Blader in attack mode." A moment later a purple clad warrior appeared and swung it's massive blade in a circle. "Now attack his Lord of Dragons! With the extra thousand attack points he'll win easily." But just before the atack hit Kaiba flipped a card over and it struck his Dark Clown. Saggie's head was crushed like an overripe melon but it continued to laugh as it disintegrated. Kaiba soon took over.
"Ahhahaha it just keeps getting better and better. My Shift trap card made you send my weak monster to the graveyard, and since Saggi was a dark monster with less then one thousand atack points I can activate my other trap. Meet your doom activate Krush Kard." A moment later holographic lightning appeared around the cards in Ranma's deck and hand and his Buster Blader faded from view.
"What happened?" Kaiba held up a card with the picture of several large germs on the front.
"This is a Krush Kard. It's a virus that infects your deck and kills all of your monsters with more then fifteen hundred attack points. Now you can't use your all powerful blue eye's can you? And with no powerful monsters I just have to keep attacking you directly each turn to win. In fact now that it's my turn I'll summon Youzanryu and do just that." A dragon covered in jeweled scales charged with his companions towards Ranma's podium. [2100 2800] "Say good by to another three hundred life points Ranma." Ranma steadied himself and watched his life points go down.
{Ranma 1100, Kaiba 2000}
I can't let him keep attacking me like that. I have to come up with a way to defeat him. What should I do Yami? but Yami didn't answer, in fact Ranma couldn't sense him anywhere. What's going on? I need you help Yami, why aren't you here? still no answer. Ranma dejectedly laid a card on the field.
"I place this in defense mode." Kaiba pulled a card from his hand and slapped it on the field.
"Time to meet my second Blue eyes Ranma, I'll have him destroy your defense monster and then you can say good by to another three hundred life points.
{Ranma 800, Kaiba 2000}
Ranma sagged down and buried his head in his right hand while surveying the cards in his left. He didn't have any monsters, which meant in two turns he was going to lose. His mother would die and he would have to live with the knowledge that it was all his fault. For a moment he felt like he was going to cry.
I can't do this. I don't have any cards in my deck that can stop those monsters. Kaiba is going to beat me and there is nothing I can do. He shakily reached to draw a card but stopped. What's the point, I should just surrender now and get it over with. He reached out to pick up his deck and leave when he heard something that stopped him.
I can't believe that my son is going to just quit instead of toughing it out. Maybe I was wrong about you being manly. Time and space seemed to stand still around Ranma as he whirled around and faced the faint imaged of his mother. Dressed in her favorite kimono and wearing the Soatome honor blade on her back she sighed and shook her head.
"Honestly, I was so impressed by how you beat Kaiba twice already but you've really lost your focus haven't you. Why is that?"
"Mom, I don't understand. How can you be here?"
"That's not important, now please answer my question. Why haven't you been able to beat Kaiba yet?"
"Well, he's become better then me."
"No you've just become worse then him. I saw your deck and while I was impressed with what you thought up, I realized that you would never win with it. It just doesn't have any heart. Its all about power and not respecting your cards. For a moment I thought I was looking at Kaiba's deck. You've been so worried about what will happen if you lose you've lost sight of the real goal and your deck became a pile of paper and ink."
"But how am I supposed to win, I just can't do it."
"Alone no, but I added a few surprises to your deck before you left. Now draw and see for yourself." Ranma reached out to grab Nodoka but she began to fade away.
"Remember, you can't win these things alone. Ukyou and I are both cheering for you so go and make me proud."
"Mom!" But Nodoka had faded out of sight. Ranma bowed his head and turned back to the dueling board as time resumed.
"Well Ranma, are you ready to give up yet. There's no way you can win with a pathetic deck like that." Ranma nodded his head.
"You're right." Every one watching the duel stopped talking and stared as Ranma reached for his deck.
"But I won't quit." He drew a card from the top without looking at it.
"I realized that I was dueling for the wrong reason. But I've realized my mistake and my faith in my deck has been restored." He flipped the card over and smiled.
"And my faith rewards me with the Swords of Revealing Light!" Everyone gasped and Kaiba growled.
"That will only postpone your defeat for three turns. I will still beat you Ranma!"
"Three turns is all I need, now watch as my swords go to work!" Ranma forcefully laid the card down and smiled as splinters of light appeared around all of Kaiba's monsters.
"Since your monsters can't move they can't attack me directly so I'll summon another Stone Soldier in attack mode and end my turn." Kaiba drew and frowned.
"I already have five monsters on the field so I lay this card face down and end my turn." Ranma drew and smiled larger. "I equip my Stone Soldier with Megamorph, which doubles his attack and defense points." [2600 4000] "Now attack his Youzanyru!" The pile of boulders pulled a metal sword from a sheath on its shoulder and charged down amazingly fast upon Kaiba's monster. A second later it was gone."
{Ranma 800 Kaiba 1500}
"Alright, so you managed to cause damage to my life points, that still won't save you. I set my Red Eyes to defense mode and end my turn." Ranma picked a card from his hand and laid it on the field. "I use Stop Defense and then attack it with my supercharged Soldier." For the second time one of Kaiba's dragons was sent to the graveyard.
{Ranma 800 Kaiba 1300}
"You still haven't beaten me yet Ranma." Ranma smiled feeling his usual confidence coming back. "But I'm getting close. Make your move."
"Oh I will, I summon my third Blue Eyes. Now I have my three most powerful monsters just waiting to destroy you. And your swords effect ends this turn so you had better have a plan." Ranma switched his monster sideways.
"My four thousand defense points should keep me safe for the time being."
"No, they won't, I activate my trap, Defense Paralysis. Your monster is switched into attack mode. My Blue Eye's will destroy it with ease." Ranma watched in surprise as his life points went down. "Then I'll have my two other dragons attack you directly."
{Ranma 200 Kaiba 1300}
This is bad, I don't have any other moves. Mom had better have slipped in a really good card." Ranma drew and outwardly remained calm but inside he was jumping with glee.
This will turn the tide. "Alright Kaiba, I activate the magic card Exchange. We each look at each others hand and pick a card we want from it." A hidden panel revealed itself over both players duel mat and they each laid their cards on it. On the other side a picture of what the other person had appeared and a small slot opened on the side. "I'll take this Monster Reborn, it should come in handy." Kaiba put his card in the slot where it disappeared and then reappeared on the other side. On the outside Ranma was looking worried but inwardly Ranma was smiling. Now if only I can count on Kaiba to be as greedy as usual. He watched as Kaiba looked at his cards. Suddenly his eyes lit up.
"You amateur, once again amaze me with your foolishness Ranma, you used Exchange when you had your Blue Eyes White Dragon in your hand. Of course you can't use it because of my Krush Kard, but that won't stop me. Now lets see what its like to command the worlds four blue eyes all at once. Hand it over."
"Fine." Ranma put the card in the slot and sent it back to Kaiba. Now we'll see who the real amateur is. Kaiba grabbed the card like a child grabs a piece of candy, but the second he added it to his hand holographic lightning appeared and struck his deck.
"What did you do?!" Ranma felt his mirth begin to over flow and soon he was laughing.
"When you grow up on the road you learn that viruses are very contagious. You just nuked every monster in your deck with your own Krush Kard!"
"NO!!!"
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Ukyou and several others watching began to cheer as Kaiba stared in disbelief. But Ashaton looked on puzzled.
"If what Ranma says is true then why didn't Kaiba's monsters disappear? They should have been destroyed…unless." He looked over to the far corner of Kaiba's field where a man dressed in robes and dragon bones stood holding a large staff. "I forgot, Kaiba still has his Lord of Dragons in play which prevents his Dragons from being destroyed by magic, trap or monster effects. And since he's equipped with the Staff of the Dragon King he gets eight hundred extra defense points for each dragon on the field. With forty two thousand defense points it's pretty much impossible for Ranma to attack." Ukyou bit her lip nervously.
"Then what can he do?"
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"Alright Ranma, you've managed to infect my deck, but with my Lord of Dragons in play my three Blue Eyes won't be destroyed, and I can still attack you directly since you don't have any monsters on the field. That means the game will be over."
"Sorry Kaiba but It's still my turn and since MY Blue eyes can't be used you have to discard it back to my graveyard." Kaiba put the card back in the slot and it popped out a moment later on Ranma's side. "Now I'll put it in my graveyard but I might as well not. Because once I use Monster Reborn it will go to the field. And since your Lord of D protects all dragons it won't disappear." A second later Ranma's favorite monster appeared and roared to the heavens."
"I'll lay this card face down and end my turn. Now the last thing to do it to take down your Lord of Dragons." Kaiba drew a card and smiled.
"I'll have one of my Blue eyes attack and destroy yours and then when my other two attack directly you'll be dead. Attack him blue eyes!" The mighty behemoth opened its maw and blasted forth with a mighty wave of white energy. Kaiba began to laugh dementedly as it charged down towards Ranma's last hope but the blast smashed against Ranma's monster and glanced off without doing any harm. He stared in amazement at the faint outline of a demonic monster clutched around the neck of his prized creature. Ranma pulled a monster card from his graveyard with a picture of the beast.
"Remember my Beast of Gilfer that you sent to the graveyard during my second turn? Its special effect allows me to decrease the attack points of an opponents monster by five hundred once its in the graveyard. Since your monster was weaker when it attacked mine it is destroyed and you lose five hundred life points." Kaiba's face became red with rage and a blood vessel appeared on his forehead.
"DAMN YOU RANMA!!! If that's the way you want to play then so BE IT!!! Blue Eyes, attack his own Blue Eyes and then direct attack!!!" Ranma's and Kaiba's monsters crashed against each other and disintegrated while the other one attacked Ranma.
{Ranma 100, Kaiba 800}
"You're down to your last life points Ranma and you have no more cards in your hand. You won't win this. Just make us all happy and give up." Ranma shook his head.
"I'm determined to win. I can't give up. Now I draw." I have an idea of how to win this but I need help from mom. He picked up the card and laid it on the field.
"I play Pot of Greed so I can draw two more cards from my deck." Alright mom, time to see if you really meant what you said. He reached down to pick up the two cards and for a moment he thought he saw the faint outline of his mothers hand on top of his. He slowly brought the two cards up to look at them and then turned stonefaced.
"This duel is over Kaiba. First I summon Copycat to the field." A clown holding a mirror in front of it's face appeared and waited. "Its special effect allows me to copy any card that has been on the field. I chose to copy my Blue Eyes." The clown morphed into a shadowy image of Ranma's Blue Eyes.
[3000, 2500]
"Then I activate my face down card, Black Pendant and equip it to my copycat Dragon. Black pendant raises a monsters attack by five hundred but also inflicts five hundred points of damage to my opponents life points once it is sent to the graveyard. So I attack your Lord of Dragons. With only two dragons on the field its defense points are to low to stop my attack and it is destroyed." A second later Kaiba's monster was destroyed. "And without its special ability all of our powerful monsters are destroyed. Including my dragon and its black pendant."
{Ranma 100 Kaiba 300}
"Then I'll take a page out of your book and attack you directly."
"What are you talking about? You have no monsters on the field." Ranma held up the last card in his hand.
"This will give me four of them. I play the magic card Scapegoat!" on Ranma's side of the field four fuzzy sheep materialized. "They may have zero attack and defense points but they're still treated as monsters so they can attack you directly."
"NO!!!"
"Scapegoats! Attack him directly!" The four sheep yawned and started floating toward Kaiba's podium quickly picking up speed. They bleated as they hit and bounced off and a moment later Kaiba's life points began to drop.
{Ranma 100 Kaiba 0}
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"Alright Kaiba, hand over one of your star chips like we agreed." Kaiba scowled and took the piece of metal off of his glove as if he were being asked to give up a finger.
"I've still got one left so I challenge you again." A large muscular man wearing a business suit and sunglasses stepped foreword and shook his head.
"I'm sorry but according to my employer's new rules that isn't allowed." He opened up a small book and read out loud.
"In order to keep personal grudges to a minimum and prevent weaker players from being hunted contestants can only duel a person once in the first stage of the tournament. This does not apply to the finals or semi finals." Kaiba frowned and turned to leave.
"Then I'll see you in the semi finals Ranma, and don't you forget it!" Ranma sighed and shrugged his shoulders. Of course Kaiba wouldn't change but at least he didn't have to worry about him for a while. Suddenly something heavy grabbed him from behind.
"Congratulations Ranchan! I knew you would beat that creep!"
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From the tower of his castle Maximillion Pegasus watched the two lovers on his security systems television.
"Well, Ranma managed to win. That's good, I certainly can't have Seto Kaiba running around with the power of the pharaoh now can I?" A woman covered in white robes lead a puny boy with large glasses towards Pegasus's desk.
"He says he's ready to go after Ranma, Master Pegasus." Pegasus turned and smiled.
"Are you now?" The boy began to snicker.
"Hoi hoi hoi hoi! I watched the way Ranma fought so ruining his strategy will be simple."
"Alright, you know what to do."
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After he had managed to get Ukyou off of him and said goodbye to Ashaton Ranma tried to make contact with Yami. Saying he needed to sit down and rest after his grueling duel he leaned against a tree and closed his eyes. The next instant he was walking through the chambers of Yami's mind, trying to navigate the mazes and hallways. He finally found Yami in a bedroom lying on a massive king sized bed.
"Gee partner, I can't thank you enough for all your help today. I really couldn't have won that duel with out you." Yami waved his hand dismissively.
"You're welcome." Ranma frowned.
"I was being sarcastic. If mom hadn't been there I would have lost all hope." Yami sat up and his body and clothes began to change. His face became more feminine and skin whiter. His wild hair smoothed down to become long and brownish red. And his clothes transformed into a kimono. Ranma blinked as he realized he was looking at his mother. Yami spoke again but this time he sounded like a woman.
"Like I said, you're welcome."
"Wait a minute! You mean…"
"That was me. You can't just keep relying on me forever Ranma, some day I won't be there and then what will you do? So I decided to let you win this one on your own. Of course that doesn't mean I couldn't offer encouragement from the sidelines the best way I see fit."
"But those cards from mom."
"They really did come from her. In fact there was a letter about them in the suitcase you trashed. I just thought that it would be better if you found out for yourself." Ranma digested this for a moment and then nodded.
"You're right Yami." Ranma cracked his knuckles.
"But if you ever try to look like my mom again the Millenium Puzzle is going to get well acquainted with the bottom of Tokyo bay. Combrende?" Yami smiled at the way this mortal was trying to threaten him but pooffed back to normal and nodded.
"Crystal."
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Authors notes.
Please excuse my bragging but I feel that this was probably the best duel I have ever written. Yes I know Lord of Dragons effect isn't really what I said it was in the fic but still it's good. I know several readers might be angry and confused about attacking directly so let me explain it in more detail. During a duel if your opponent does not have any monsters you can have your monsters attack him directly and inflict one hundred points of damage to his life points no mater what your monsters attack points are. One last thing, Kaiba's Staff of the Dragon King card does not exist, I made it up. Things are about to go into overdrive with this story so check back often for more updates.
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