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Chapter Three: Master of the Light
The woman glared at Drake and shook her hair out, she glanced at Ryu as if checking to see whether he had any part in the separation, once she was sure he hadn't she returned her withering gaze to Drake. "So you do have a little fight left in you. It doesn't matter, you won't remember any of this after we leave the Shadow Realm."
Drake was panting and sweating, it had taken an exertion of the spirit, which here was the physical, to free himself from the dark spirit that he taken control. Slowly he limped over to Ryu and helped him stand, placing an arm around the older boy's shoulders so they could assist each other in walking. "Ryu is coming with us, you don't have a choice about the matter."
The spirit's near hysterical laughter caught both of them off guard, that was the last thing they had been expecting. After over a minute of the laughter she caught her breath and spoke, "You? Not giving me a choice? Omegus will put you in your place." She raised the card high above her head and a blinding light issued forth from it.
The two duelists stared up in amazement at the eight foot tall black and silver armored demi-god that stood above. He raised his shining sword and swung it down upon them attempting to slice them in half. They were both experienced fighters and were able to react in time to avoid it. At the same moment the two pushed away from each other splitting them apart and letting Omegus' blade pass harmlessly through the air.
Omegus turned towards the closest one, Ryu, and attacked again. This time, in his weakened state, Ryu wasn't able to dodge. His luck held out for one brief instant as in pure blind instinct he flung his arms up to stave off the blow, and the blade connected with his impenetrable gauntlets, saving his life and hurling him nearly thirty feet through the air. He passed out on contact.
It was time to stop this, Omegus was Drake's monster, his favorite monster, and he sure as hell wasn't going to let this dark spirit command him. Drake was the only one who could stop it because neither he nor Ryu knew how to summon a monster like the spirit had done. He focused all of his will power and shouted to his monster as it came in for the attack. "Omegus, stop this now!"
The giant monster suddenly stopped, blade hovering mere inches away from Drake's skull. It was confused, not knowing whose orders to follow, Drake's or the spirit's. It kept switching its gaze back and forth between the two. The spirit finally cracked and shouted at it. "Omegus, what the hell is wrong with you? When I say attack you attack, you're my monster, you're my slave!."
That was the deciding point, the monster turned and focused its gaze at the spirit ready to attack on Drake's command. Drake looked towards the spirit that so resembled his sister, and yet was so filled with malice. Had this spirit resided within the Millennium Disc while his sister had it, was it in some way part of his sister, the dark part of her?
He shook his head, refusing to believe such a thing, it was his darkness and was merely trying to play mind tricks, it couldn't be anything else. "Omegus is no slave to anyone, and if anything he'll obey me because we have a bound of the heart. Because my heart is linked to my cards the cards within it are linked to me. Free us all from the Shadow Realm spirit, or I will have Omegus destroy you, even if it means trapping us all here." The spirit snarled and waved her hand freeing them all, and engulfing them in light.
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Back in the alley, Ryu regained consciousness and checked his watch, 7:30 p.m. "Damn, I'm gonna kill him." Ryu still had tons of homework to do and only five and a half hours to do it. Not to mention the loss of his Blue Eyes and the attempt on his life. He walked back to his apartment to find Hinata standing outside the door, "You stalking me or something?"
"Well I just came from America and I need a place to stay, you know I wouldn't want to pay for a hotel room, and…" Ryu droned out the rest of her words, "Whatever. Just go inside already." Ryu walked over to the kitchen table and sat down to do his homework as Hinata went straight to the T.V. Ryu couldn't concentrate on his homework, he kept thinking about his Blue Eyes and how he lost it. He took out his gun and placed it in front of him on the table "I'm getting my card back, Malik or whoever is gonna regret the day he decided he wanted my Dragon."
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It was a mere hour later that found Drake back at the docks to deliver the Blue Eyes, with only a vague recollection of how he got it. He remembered challenging Ryu to a duel in which the stakes were a card set by each player's opponent, but he didn't really remember the duel or his trip to the docks. It was confusing but every time he started to think about it, the thoughts just seemed to slip away, as if they were greased.
Drake's arms shot up to shield his eyes as bright lights came up illuminating the darkness. In front of him was the dueling platform he had used in his duel against the Rare Hunter, but everything else that had been in the room was gone, except for the robed figure that stood on the opposite end of the dueling platform, a Rare Hunter waiting for him. "I got the Blue Eyes, so I guess that means I'm Rare Hunter now right? All official and everything?"
The feminine laugh that answered him wasn't what he was expecting. What he had been expecting was a gravely almost scary voice to tell him that he had done well, and his next mission would come soon, not a woman's laughter. "You might have gained the approval of the others, but I won't accept you until you've proved you can do well against a Rare Hunter of true skill. One like me, me and the Blue Eyes that you are about to give me."
"What? This is bullshit! I did everything I was told and now I'm being challenged to a duel by yet another Rare Hunter who doesn't think I'm up to snuff. That and I have to give her, you, the Blue Eyes that I won?"
The woman tossed back her hood revealing chestnut hair and amazing blue eyes. She was gorgeous, and about eighteen, with a smile that made Drake think of secluded corners he knew at Domino High, secluded corners couples used. He shook the thought and tried to make it seem like he was just looking at her, instead of staring at her. Unconsciously he stepped onto the platform which raised to playing level, and he shuffled his deck. He placed the Blue Eyes in the transfer slot and watched her pick it up and shuffle it into her deck. "Ready Drake?"
He wasn't even remotely surprised that she knew his name, it just figured. "Absolutely, and what might I ask is your name?"
"I'm Kirani, and I'm the Master of Light. Believe me, it's a title I earned when I became the top ranked light-based deck user in the world. Not only that but being a Rare Hunter has given me even rarer cards, so don't expect to stand a chance against me."
Kirani: 2000
Drake: 2000
"As a gentlemen its my right to give the lady the first move. So please, take it."
She smiled acceptingly and drew an opening hand of six cards and surveyed them. She had told him she played using a light-type deck, so he could expect plenty of mainly weak cards. Light cards weren't all that powerful in general, though there were some good ones. "I summon Dunamis Valkyria(1800/1050) in attack mode, not only that but I'll add the field card Luminous Spark which raises light type's attack by 500 and their defense by 400." Dunamis' attack was altered to 2300 and its defense to 650.
"I'll close my turn by playing God's Blessing, which will give me five hundred extra life points every time I draw a card."
Drake smiled as he realized that the duel might be tougher then he thought. Already she had an impressive monster out on the field and a way to raise her life points every turn. But it didn't matter, he'd win anyways, he always found a way. "I have to thank you for the light-type field, because it powers up my Chaos Magician(2400/1900) to (2900/1500). Chaos Magic attack!" The spellcaster raised his staff and sent a blast of magic at the warrior destroying it.
Kirani: 1400
Drake: 2000
"That was a good one, but it hardly does any good with God's Blessing on the field. Now that I draw my life points raise by 500, and then I'll just summon Wingweaver(3250/200) whose increased attack strength is more then enough to annihilate your spellcaster." She gave that dazzling smile again and he nearly melted in his shoes. Of course he came to his senses when the angel blasted his magician to smithereens with rose petals.
Kirani: 1900
Drake: 1650
Drake grinned at the card he had drawn even as he played it. "It doesn't matter how powerful your monsters are, because I have others ways to get at your life points. I play the magic card Revolution, it takes 200 life points from you for every card in your hand."
Kirani: 1300
Drake: 1650
"Not only that, but I can play Dian Keto the Cure Master to raise my life points by 1000 and set a monster in defense. Your light deck is boring me so far, can't it do anything better?"
Kirani: 1300
Drake: 2650
Kirani scowled, an expression that didn't look right on her beautiful face, but she shrugged it off and drew. She still had the advantage, even if it wasn't in life points. "I'll set Super Star(1000/300) in defense mode. Normally this little guy is terribly weak, but he makes up for it with his effect which is to power up light main-types attack by 500 including himself and to power down dark-types by 400."
Kirani: 1800
Super Star's attack rose to a decent 1500 and Wingweaver's to an impressive 3750. She called her attack and blasted his spellcaster into the cemetery. "You sent him right to the graveyard, but the advantage of Magician of Faith is that when he's flipped like he is in battle then I can select a magic card in my graveyard and add it to my hand."
Drake smirked as he established his plan, and it was a good one. "I'll set this monster in defense, and then I'll play two magic cards. The first is Dian Keto which I recovered from the graveyard so I can raise my life points to 3650. The second is Change of Heart to steal the heart of the Wingweaver and make it my own for this turn."
Kirani gasped in horror as the monster took his side of the field, three thousand seven hundred fifty attack points arrayed against her. "I set a card and then call an attack against Super Star!" The little monster never stood a chance, and was splintered into tiny pieces under the assault.
But she began to smile again when it returned to her side of the field as she drew her card, adding yet another 500 life points to her score. "You didn't accomplish anything that way, all you did was remove on of my bonuses, but because of my next monster it doesn't even matter. I summon the Blue Eyes White Dragon(3500/2100) in attack mode! Now I'll play Horn of the Unicorn to power him up even further to 4200! Blue Eyes use your white lightning to destroy his defense monster."
Drake smirked yet again when the monster was destroyed, vaporized took quickly to be visible. "Yet again you attacked a monster with a flip effect. This one was the Vindictive Old Magician, who when flipped gets nasty and retaliates, letting me destroy on of your monsters...and I choose the Blue Eyes."
Kirani: 2300
He drew and then slapped down his next two cards as quickly as he could. He could feel victory coming ever nearer. "I will play two magic cards this turn, the first is Humble which reduces your Wingweaver's attack by 1000 for the next two turns. The second is Monster Reborn to revive the Blue Eyes(3500/2100). Now I'll use his White Lightning to remove that winged woman. The angel screamed in terror as the lightning swept over her, but soon she was no more.
Kirani: 1050
Drake: 3650
Kirani meekly set two cards and a defense monster, then ended her turn. Drake began his turn by summoning Neo the Magic Swordsman(2200/600) in attack and setting a card of his own, but his lead took a sharp deep as a strange flotation ring attached itself to his dragon and a spinning wheel appeared in front of Kirani. "I activate my face down cards, Destruction Ring and Wheel of Protection!" In one massive blast the Blue Eyes exploded, taking with it most of Drake's life points.
Kirani: 1050
Drake: 150
"Now that its my turn again I know all I have to do is summon a monster with an enhanced 2350 attack strength or higher and I'll win. Sad isn't it. So now I summon Thunder Lady(2400/400) and I attack to finish the duel."
"I activate Mirror Force!" The attack was reflected and Thunder Lady was destroyed, but Kirani's defense monster wasn't effected.
Kirani: 1550
"I'll play Wizard Mentor to transform Neo into the Black Paladin(2900/2400), and by discarding a card I can negate the effect of a face up magic card, I'll do so on both God's Blessing and Luminous Spark." Black Paladin swept his blade in a swift arc and Kirani's defense monster was destroyed.
Kirani took a deep breath, drew...and placed her palm on the top of her deck. "I can't summon anything this turn, so I automatically lose since you have the Black Paladin. Congratulations, and welcome to the Rare Hunters." The lights blacked out once more, and Drake was left to find his way out of the dark, and make his way home for some much needed sleep.
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Next Time: Next time, Battle City announcments are made and soon after Battle City begins, but with so many hidden agendas, how will things turn out?
Chapter Three: Master of the Light
The woman glared at Drake and shook her hair out, she glanced at Ryu as if checking to see whether he had any part in the separation, once she was sure he hadn't she returned her withering gaze to Drake. "So you do have a little fight left in you. It doesn't matter, you won't remember any of this after we leave the Shadow Realm."
Drake was panting and sweating, it had taken an exertion of the spirit, which here was the physical, to free himself from the dark spirit that he taken control. Slowly he limped over to Ryu and helped him stand, placing an arm around the older boy's shoulders so they could assist each other in walking. "Ryu is coming with us, you don't have a choice about the matter."
The spirit's near hysterical laughter caught both of them off guard, that was the last thing they had been expecting. After over a minute of the laughter she caught her breath and spoke, "You? Not giving me a choice? Omegus will put you in your place." She raised the card high above her head and a blinding light issued forth from it.
The two duelists stared up in amazement at the eight foot tall black and silver armored demi-god that stood above. He raised his shining sword and swung it down upon them attempting to slice them in half. They were both experienced fighters and were able to react in time to avoid it. At the same moment the two pushed away from each other splitting them apart and letting Omegus' blade pass harmlessly through the air.
Omegus turned towards the closest one, Ryu, and attacked again. This time, in his weakened state, Ryu wasn't able to dodge. His luck held out for one brief instant as in pure blind instinct he flung his arms up to stave off the blow, and the blade connected with his impenetrable gauntlets, saving his life and hurling him nearly thirty feet through the air. He passed out on contact.
It was time to stop this, Omegus was Drake's monster, his favorite monster, and he sure as hell wasn't going to let this dark spirit command him. Drake was the only one who could stop it because neither he nor Ryu knew how to summon a monster like the spirit had done. He focused all of his will power and shouted to his monster as it came in for the attack. "Omegus, stop this now!"
The giant monster suddenly stopped, blade hovering mere inches away from Drake's skull. It was confused, not knowing whose orders to follow, Drake's or the spirit's. It kept switching its gaze back and forth between the two. The spirit finally cracked and shouted at it. "Omegus, what the hell is wrong with you? When I say attack you attack, you're my monster, you're my slave!."
That was the deciding point, the monster turned and focused its gaze at the spirit ready to attack on Drake's command. Drake looked towards the spirit that so resembled his sister, and yet was so filled with malice. Had this spirit resided within the Millennium Disc while his sister had it, was it in some way part of his sister, the dark part of her?
He shook his head, refusing to believe such a thing, it was his darkness and was merely trying to play mind tricks, it couldn't be anything else. "Omegus is no slave to anyone, and if anything he'll obey me because we have a bound of the heart. Because my heart is linked to my cards the cards within it are linked to me. Free us all from the Shadow Realm spirit, or I will have Omegus destroy you, even if it means trapping us all here." The spirit snarled and waved her hand freeing them all, and engulfing them in light.
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Back in the alley, Ryu regained consciousness and checked his watch, 7:30 p.m. "Damn, I'm gonna kill him." Ryu still had tons of homework to do and only five and a half hours to do it. Not to mention the loss of his Blue Eyes and the attempt on his life. He walked back to his apartment to find Hinata standing outside the door, "You stalking me or something?"
"Well I just came from America and I need a place to stay, you know I wouldn't want to pay for a hotel room, and…" Ryu droned out the rest of her words, "Whatever. Just go inside already." Ryu walked over to the kitchen table and sat down to do his homework as Hinata went straight to the T.V. Ryu couldn't concentrate on his homework, he kept thinking about his Blue Eyes and how he lost it. He took out his gun and placed it in front of him on the table "I'm getting my card back, Malik or whoever is gonna regret the day he decided he wanted my Dragon."
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It was a mere hour later that found Drake back at the docks to deliver the Blue Eyes, with only a vague recollection of how he got it. He remembered challenging Ryu to a duel in which the stakes were a card set by each player's opponent, but he didn't really remember the duel or his trip to the docks. It was confusing but every time he started to think about it, the thoughts just seemed to slip away, as if they were greased.
Drake's arms shot up to shield his eyes as bright lights came up illuminating the darkness. In front of him was the dueling platform he had used in his duel against the Rare Hunter, but everything else that had been in the room was gone, except for the robed figure that stood on the opposite end of the dueling platform, a Rare Hunter waiting for him. "I got the Blue Eyes, so I guess that means I'm Rare Hunter now right? All official and everything?"
The feminine laugh that answered him wasn't what he was expecting. What he had been expecting was a gravely almost scary voice to tell him that he had done well, and his next mission would come soon, not a woman's laughter. "You might have gained the approval of the others, but I won't accept you until you've proved you can do well against a Rare Hunter of true skill. One like me, me and the Blue Eyes that you are about to give me."
"What? This is bullshit! I did everything I was told and now I'm being challenged to a duel by yet another Rare Hunter who doesn't think I'm up to snuff. That and I have to give her, you, the Blue Eyes that I won?"
The woman tossed back her hood revealing chestnut hair and amazing blue eyes. She was gorgeous, and about eighteen, with a smile that made Drake think of secluded corners he knew at Domino High, secluded corners couples used. He shook the thought and tried to make it seem like he was just looking at her, instead of staring at her. Unconsciously he stepped onto the platform which raised to playing level, and he shuffled his deck. He placed the Blue Eyes in the transfer slot and watched her pick it up and shuffle it into her deck. "Ready Drake?"
He wasn't even remotely surprised that she knew his name, it just figured. "Absolutely, and what might I ask is your name?"
"I'm Kirani, and I'm the Master of Light. Believe me, it's a title I earned when I became the top ranked light-based deck user in the world. Not only that but being a Rare Hunter has given me even rarer cards, so don't expect to stand a chance against me."
Kirani: 2000
Drake: 2000
"As a gentlemen its my right to give the lady the first move. So please, take it."
She smiled acceptingly and drew an opening hand of six cards and surveyed them. She had told him she played using a light-type deck, so he could expect plenty of mainly weak cards. Light cards weren't all that powerful in general, though there were some good ones. "I summon Dunamis Valkyria(1800/1050) in attack mode, not only that but I'll add the field card Luminous Spark which raises light type's attack by 500 and their defense by 400." Dunamis' attack was altered to 2300 and its defense to 650.
"I'll close my turn by playing God's Blessing, which will give me five hundred extra life points every time I draw a card."
Drake smiled as he realized that the duel might be tougher then he thought. Already she had an impressive monster out on the field and a way to raise her life points every turn. But it didn't matter, he'd win anyways, he always found a way. "I have to thank you for the light-type field, because it powers up my Chaos Magician(2400/1900) to (2900/1500). Chaos Magic attack!" The spellcaster raised his staff and sent a blast of magic at the warrior destroying it.
Kirani: 1400
Drake: 2000
"That was a good one, but it hardly does any good with God's Blessing on the field. Now that I draw my life points raise by 500, and then I'll just summon Wingweaver(3250/200) whose increased attack strength is more then enough to annihilate your spellcaster." She gave that dazzling smile again and he nearly melted in his shoes. Of course he came to his senses when the angel blasted his magician to smithereens with rose petals.
Kirani: 1900
Drake: 1650
Drake grinned at the card he had drawn even as he played it. "It doesn't matter how powerful your monsters are, because I have others ways to get at your life points. I play the magic card Revolution, it takes 200 life points from you for every card in your hand."
Kirani: 1300
Drake: 1650
"Not only that, but I can play Dian Keto the Cure Master to raise my life points by 1000 and set a monster in defense. Your light deck is boring me so far, can't it do anything better?"
Kirani: 1300
Drake: 2650
Kirani scowled, an expression that didn't look right on her beautiful face, but she shrugged it off and drew. She still had the advantage, even if it wasn't in life points. "I'll set Super Star(1000/300) in defense mode. Normally this little guy is terribly weak, but he makes up for it with his effect which is to power up light main-types attack by 500 including himself and to power down dark-types by 400."
Kirani: 1800
Super Star's attack rose to a decent 1500 and Wingweaver's to an impressive 3750. She called her attack and blasted his spellcaster into the cemetery. "You sent him right to the graveyard, but the advantage of Magician of Faith is that when he's flipped like he is in battle then I can select a magic card in my graveyard and add it to my hand."
Drake smirked as he established his plan, and it was a good one. "I'll set this monster in defense, and then I'll play two magic cards. The first is Dian Keto which I recovered from the graveyard so I can raise my life points to 3650. The second is Change of Heart to steal the heart of the Wingweaver and make it my own for this turn."
Kirani gasped in horror as the monster took his side of the field, three thousand seven hundred fifty attack points arrayed against her. "I set a card and then call an attack against Super Star!" The little monster never stood a chance, and was splintered into tiny pieces under the assault.
But she began to smile again when it returned to her side of the field as she drew her card, adding yet another 500 life points to her score. "You didn't accomplish anything that way, all you did was remove on of my bonuses, but because of my next monster it doesn't even matter. I summon the Blue Eyes White Dragon(3500/2100) in attack mode! Now I'll play Horn of the Unicorn to power him up even further to 4200! Blue Eyes use your white lightning to destroy his defense monster."
Drake smirked yet again when the monster was destroyed, vaporized took quickly to be visible. "Yet again you attacked a monster with a flip effect. This one was the Vindictive Old Magician, who when flipped gets nasty and retaliates, letting me destroy on of your monsters...and I choose the Blue Eyes."
Kirani: 2300
He drew and then slapped down his next two cards as quickly as he could. He could feel victory coming ever nearer. "I will play two magic cards this turn, the first is Humble which reduces your Wingweaver's attack by 1000 for the next two turns. The second is Monster Reborn to revive the Blue Eyes(3500/2100). Now I'll use his White Lightning to remove that winged woman. The angel screamed in terror as the lightning swept over her, but soon she was no more.
Kirani: 1050
Drake: 3650
Kirani meekly set two cards and a defense monster, then ended her turn. Drake began his turn by summoning Neo the Magic Swordsman(2200/600) in attack and setting a card of his own, but his lead took a sharp deep as a strange flotation ring attached itself to his dragon and a spinning wheel appeared in front of Kirani. "I activate my face down cards, Destruction Ring and Wheel of Protection!" In one massive blast the Blue Eyes exploded, taking with it most of Drake's life points.
Kirani: 1050
Drake: 150
"Now that its my turn again I know all I have to do is summon a monster with an enhanced 2350 attack strength or higher and I'll win. Sad isn't it. So now I summon Thunder Lady(2400/400) and I attack to finish the duel."
"I activate Mirror Force!" The attack was reflected and Thunder Lady was destroyed, but Kirani's defense monster wasn't effected.
Kirani: 1550
"I'll play Wizard Mentor to transform Neo into the Black Paladin(2900/2400), and by discarding a card I can negate the effect of a face up magic card, I'll do so on both God's Blessing and Luminous Spark." Black Paladin swept his blade in a swift arc and Kirani's defense monster was destroyed.
Kirani took a deep breath, drew...and placed her palm on the top of her deck. "I can't summon anything this turn, so I automatically lose since you have the Black Paladin. Congratulations, and welcome to the Rare Hunters." The lights blacked out once more, and Drake was left to find his way out of the dark, and make his way home for some much needed sleep.
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Next Time: Next time, Battle City announcments are made and soon after Battle City begins, but with so many hidden agendas, how will things turn out?