DUEL – Yugi v.s. Calli: Streets of Domino: 4-12-04: Monday: 7:45 P.M.
Yugi decided that he would go first and drew a card. He didn't have much of a hand, but that may have been a good thing. Being able to play all your cards at once on the first move would leave him an empty hand, which he doesn't need this early on. He selected three cards. "For my first move I'll summon Alpha The Magnet Warrior 1400/1700 in attack mode! Next, I shall place these two cards face-down, and end my turn." Calli smiled and drew a card, beginning her turn.
"Alright then. First I'll place a card facedown, then summon LaJinn The Mystical Genie of The Lamp1800/1000!" The large green genie appeared on the field when she placed the card down. "Now I'll have him attack your Magnet Warrior, knocking off four hundread of your lifepoints!" LaJinn began charging an attack in its hands, then threw it at Yugi's magnet warrior. However, Yugi was prepared.
"I activate my trap card, Negate Attack! It stops your monsters attack and ends your battle phase!" Calli shrugged upon seeing the trap card stop her genie's attack, it wasn't any big deal to her. "That ends my turn," she announced. Yugi nodded and drew his next card. It was exactly what he needed right now so he could do some good damage to her lifepoints. However, her face-down card worried him, so he needed to take that out first.
"To start my turn, I'll play Mystical Space Typhoon on your face-down card!" Yugi's spell card appeared on the field and a typhoon blew away Calli's trap, a Sakaretusu Armor, which would have destroyed Yugi's monster if he attacked. "Next, I shall summon Gazelle, The King of Mythical Beasts 1500/1200 in attack mode!" The Gazelle materialized on the field and released a mighty roar, announcing its presence on the field. Calli chuckled.
"Both of your monsters are too weak to destroy my LaJinn. I was hoping for a far better challenge from the great Yugi Motou. This is how a second rate duelist would play!" Yugi smirked. "That may be, but sometimes the simplist strategies can be effective. I'll end my turn for now." Calli drew her next card and carefully studied her hand. She had read up on Yugi before accepting this job from her master and knew how Yugi dueled. He'd probably spring that face-down card on her when she attacked. However, that didn't worry her too much.
"First I'll place this card face-down on the field, then I shall summon my Shadowknight Archfiend 2000/1600!" Yugi looked at the threatening fiend monster. He had never seen a level four monster with two-thousand attack points before. "Now I shall use my LaJinn to attack your magnet warrior again! Go my genie and destroy his monster!" LaJinn began charging another attack and threw it at Alpha. However, Yugi was ready yet again.
"I activate this quick spell card, Rush Recklessly! It adds 700 attack points to all my monsters for this turn, giving my magnet warrior 300 more attack points than your LaJinn!" Alpha hit LaJinns attack back at it with its sword like it was swinging at a ball with a bat. The attack made contact with LaJinn, blowing the monster apart and lowering Calli's lifepoints down to 3700.
[Lifepoints: 4000/3700]
"Heh, well played, Yugi. You not only destroyed my LaJinn, but you managed to keep me from attacking with my Shadowknight. I'll end my turn for now." Yugi grinned and drew his card. This was going to be easier than he first thought it would be. He drew his card and looked at it carefully. His Magic Cylinder Card. He'd need a spellcaster on the field though in order to use it. He didn't have one in his hand now, so he'd save it for later. However, he did have one card he could use.
"I'll place this monster card in face-down defense mode, then a card face-down, ending my turn." Calli couldn't help but chuckle a bit more. Yugi seemed to be playing more defensively than offensively, which was fine for her, because her strategy was going to kick in now. She drew her card.
"Firstly, I'll have to pay 900 lifepoints in order keep Shadowknight Archfiend on the field. But behold, I'm also activating this trap card, Battle Scared!" Yugi raised an eyebrow at this trap. This was the second card she played that he had no idea what it did. "In order to understand its effect, I'll have to explain archfiend monsters like Shadowknight here. Archfiends are similar to chess pieces. There's a pawn, a rook, a knight, a bishop, a queen, and a king. Each of them require a lifepoint payment when I enter my standby phase. Battle Sacred here doesn't prevent me from losing lifepoints for keeping them out, but it does force you to pay the same ammount!" Yugis eyes widened and he looked down at his lifepoint counter as it lowered 900 points along with Calli's.
[Lifepoints: 3100/2800]
"See? Now I shall summon my Vilepawn Archfiend 1200/200 in attack mode! As long as he remains on the field, you can't attack any other archfiend monster. So, to strengthen him, I'll add on the Axe of Despair spell card, increasing his attack points by 1000." [Vilepawn: 2200/200] Yugi was beginning to get slightly worried now. He had never heard of these archfiend monsters before and from the looks of it Calli had several in her deck, along with traps and spell cards that corresponded with them.
"I have a nasty feeling about your face-down monster, so I will take out your other two monsters. Go forth Shadowknight and Vilepawn! Eradicate his Gazelle and Magnet Warrior!" The two monsters charged forth towards Yugi's monsters, but Yugi had a surprise for Calli yet again.
"Go, Spellbinding Circle!" Yugi's trap card revealed itself and shot a circle towards the Vilepawn Archfiend, ensnaring it and stopping its attack. "As long as my Spellbinding Circle is on the field, your monster can not attack or change its battle position!" Calli smirked. "Very well, but that doesn't stop my Shadownight though!" The Shadowknight Archfiend easily cut through Yugi's Gazelle, slicing its head off and blowing it into a thousand pieces. Yugi's lifepoints went down by 500 points.
[Lifepoints: 2600/2800]
On the sidelines Yugi's friends watched him duel against Calli. None of them had ever heard of archfiend monsters either, not even Kaiba. He was rather intrigued by these cards and was wondering if they held other special abilities. "Yugi's not looking too good right now," Duke replied. Joey just scratched his head. "I dunno. Yugi is putting up a good fight, and I'm sure he's got something planned that'll wipe the floor with this pasty looking broad."
"Well maybe, but she's using cards I don't think even Yugi has seen before. She could be hiding something from him," said Tea. She looked over to Serenity to see that she was watching the duel rather intently. She recalled that since their little experience in that virtual world that she wanted to learn more about that game and would watch a duel carefully and try to learn, which appeared to be what she was doing now. Tea had no idea how she could be so calm as Yugi was fighting for something very important to him.
"Before my turn ends, I'll play this spell card, Pandamonium!" Yugi looked on again with interest as the entire area around them changed. Several twisted and deformed columns appeared out of the ground, along with a strange arch in the middle of the field. The area around them also turned into a thick red fog. "What kind of spell did you just play, Calli!?" Yugi called. Calli chuckled. "You'll find out soon enough. I'll end my turn now, so you can begin, unless you want to surrender now?"
Yugi growled and drew his card. He finally got what he needed, the Dark Magician Girl! He'd summon it now, but Yugi didn't feel it was the right time just yet. However, if needed, he could stop one of Calli's monsters attacks for one turn. But, if she summoned another, he was going to be prepared, and he had just the card in his hand to use.
"I'll play this card face-down and end my turn. But rest assured that I will defeat you." Calli couldn't help but laugh at Yugi's last statement. "Are you kidding me!? You haven't even attacked me yet!" Calli drew her next card. "How do you plan to win if you don't attack?" Yugi just gave a smug look. "I don't need to attack defeat you." Calli laughed more. "Yeah, right. Well, we'll see if you can back up your claim. Now, 900 lifepoints will be sacraficed for Shadowknight, and 500 more for Vilepawn!" Yugi looked down at his lifepoint counter as it went down 1400 points.
[Lifepoints: 1200/2800]
"Wait!" Yugi called out, "How come your lifepoints didn't go down!?" Calli smiled and waved her hand at the Pandamonium spell card. "Pandamonium saves my lifepoints from being sacraficed to keep my archfiends on the field. It also allows me to summon another archfiend monster from my deck that has fewer level stars than any that you might destroy." Yugi looked panicked now. If Calli didn't attack again this turn...
"First I'll summon my Terrorking Archfiend 2000/1500 in attack mode, I couldn't summon him unless I had another archfiend on the field. Now, I'll play this spell card, Equipment Swap! It allows me to target any equipment spell card on the field and put it on one of my monsters. So, I'll choose my Axe of Despair on my Vilepawn and place it on my Terrorking!" [Terrorking: 3000/1500] Yugi watched on, waiting for Calli to attack.
"Now, Terrorking Archfiend, wipe out his face-down monster!" Terrorking raised its sword and leapt into the air, bringing itself down on Yugi's face-down card, Big Shield Guarder, easily cutting through its 2600 defense points and destroying it. "I'd trade that shield in for something a little better next time," Calli replied, but noticed Yugi had a grin on his face. "Something funny?"
"Oh, not really. You just increased my lifepoints by 3000 is all," Yugi replied as a trap card appeared on the field. It was the card he played face-down on his last turn, Enchanted Javelin. "Enchanted Javelin adds the attack points of your monster to my lifepoints after damage calculation. Since no damage was done, I get a solid 3000 extra lifepoints."
[Lifepoints: 4200/2800]
"Well, I'll just have to fix that, won't I? Shadowknight, attack him directly!" Shadowknight lunged forward and attacked Yugi directly. However, Yugi just grinned wider. "I'm afraid that won't do anything. I'm discarding this monster, Kuriboh! Once it's discarded to the graveyard, the battle damage done by one of your monsters becomes zero!" Calli snarled. Now he had more lifepoints than he originally started out with! "Fine. I'll end my turn." Yugi nodded with a smile and drew his next card, and it was exactly the one he needed too. Looking at his hand now, he had Dark Magician Girl, Sage's Stone, and Monster Reborn. Using all of these, plus his face-down Magic Cylinder, he could take Calli down.
"First I'll play Monster Reborn, reviving Alpha The Magnet Warrior 1400/1700! Next, I'm going to sacrafice him in order to summon my Dark Magician Girl 2000/1700. Lastly, I'llactivate this spell card, Sage's Stone, which can only be played when Dark Magician Girl is on the field, allowing me to summon forth from my deck, The Dark Magician 2500/2100!" Calli raised an eyebrow at Yugi's move. Him summoning his Dark Magician to the field has always meant a bad thing for any duelist that faced Yugi.
"I'll end my turn now,' Yugi announced. Calli widened her eyes confused. "You're not attacking?" Yugi shrugged. "I already told you that I don't need to attack you in order to defeat you." This really pissed Calli off, to be hearing something like that from her opponent. 'How dare he!' she said inside her head. 'The absolute nerve of that boy! He'll regret that!' Calli drew her next card and was pleased with what she saw. Yugi was going down!
"This ends it, Yugi! First, you lose 2200 lifepoints thanks to my Battle Scared trap card so my archfiend monsters can stay on the field! Next, I'll play this spell card on my Terrorking Archfiend, United We Stand!" Yugi watched without saying a word. "It increases my monsters attack and defense points by 800 for every monster I have on the field, including the one I attach it to! So my Terrorking Archfiend will receive an an additional 2400 attack and defense points! [Terrorking: 5400/3800]"
"Oh no!" Tristan yelled, "That can't be good!" Mokuba whipped around to Tristan. "Naw, you think!? Of course it's not good!" Tea and the others looked on with worry. Kaiba especially, seeing a monster actually stronger than his Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon. As a matter of fact, it just shot down his spirits even more than they were. "This will definitely not end well!" Joey yelled.
"Your friends are right, Yugi! It won't end well, because I'm going to obliterate you! In fact," Calli played a card from her hand, "I'd say this is Checkmate!" The spell card, Checkmate, appeared on the field. "This allows my to attack your lifepoints directly with my Terrorking Archfiend! Go forth, my creature, and wipe out his lifepoints!" The Terrorking took to the air once again, aiming right for Yugi. However, Yugi just smiled. "You've activated my trap card, Magic Cylinder!" The trap appeared on the field as well as two cylinders that the Dark Magician moved between of.
"I couldn't activate this trap unless I had a spellcaster on the field! Now, I'm going to end this, by sending your attack right back at you!" The Terrorking flew into one of the cylinders and a few seconds later flew out of the other, going right back towards Calli, ready to attack.
"What!? No, this can't be!" Calli yelled, crossing her arms and bracing herself for her monsters attack. The Terrorking flew past her other two archfiends and slashed at Calli, sending her sailing to the ground painfully, and wiping out her lifepoints.
[Lifepoints: 2000/0000]
Yugi grinned as Joey ran over and locked Yugi in a headlock. "Yeah! Who's my main man, eh!? I knew you'd wipe the floor with her, Yug! You didn't even have to attack her to do it either, that's just amazing in itself!" Yugi grinned widely and slipped out of his friends headlock. "Thank you, Joey. Now, there's something I need to do." Yugi walked up to Calli, who was still laying down on the ground facing the sky, and bent down next to her.
"You're going to return my cards, and then you're going to go to jail for what you have done to my grandfather," Yugi replied coldly. Yugi looked at her more carefully and noticed that she was unconcious. "Great," he muttered. The others quickly ran up next to him as Yugi rose to his feet. "Great duel, Yugi! That was one of the best ones I've seen in a long while!" Duke congratulated.
"Yeah, talk about slamming your opponent into the dirt!" Tristan replied. Kaiba bent down to Calli and began searching her body for the egyptian god cards. However, he turned up with nothing. "She doesn't have them on her," he replied. "She must have passed them onto one of her colleagues." Yugi's eyes widened. That precious few minutes that he lost track chasing after her! She must of gave them to someone else during that short time! "Damnit!" Yugi cursed. Tea's cellphone quickly rang a few seconds later. She dug around in her purse, pulled out her phone, and answered it. "Hello?"
"My, your friend needs to watch his mouth," came a disguised voice. Tea's eyes widened and she looked around on the streets and windows. She didn't see anybody. "How...where are you?" she asked. "More importantly, who are you and how did you get this number?" That caught everybodies attention. "Who is it, Tea?" Serenity asked.
"Who I am and how I got this number is of no concern to you. Put Yugi on. Now." Tea pulled the phone away and looked at it, then at Yugi. "They want to talk to you, Yugi." Yugi reached over and took the phone from Tea. "Who is this?" he asked.
"That will be revealed in due time, Yugi. But first off, I want to congratulate you on defeating Calli. You are as good as they say you are, not having to attack that entire duel. I must say, I'm impressed." Yugi's eyes narrowed. "Where are you?"
"I'm in a safe location far from you and your peanut gallery. I not only watched but listened in onr your duel by using one of Kaiba's satelites, which is very easy to do once you have control over his entire network," the voice chuckled. "You're the one who hacked Kaiba Corp's computer system!?" Yugi yelled. Now Kaiba was brought to attention and grabbed the phone from Yugi. "Listen here, you little punk! When I find you, you're a dead man! You hear me!? A dead man!"
"Ow, could you yell that any louder? Yes, I'm the one who hacked your system. Oh, it was very easy to do, I'm surprised nobody else attempted to do it. Of course, I'm not your typical person," the voice replied. "What do you mean?" Kaiba asked. "Ah, that is yet another thing that I will reveal later. Well, I should be going now, got a rare hunter guild to operate, plus I'm still going through all this data that I 'borrowed' from you," the voice chuckled. "Tell my brothers and sisters I said hi!" The phone clicked and the dial tone was heard. Kaiba grunted and closed Tea's phone, handing it back to her.
"What did he mean...brothers and sisters?" Kaiba mused. "Is that something he said?" Mokuba asked. "Yes, he said for me tell his brothers and sisters hi," Kaiba replied. "What could he mean by that?" Serenity asked.
"I don't know," said Yugi, "but it seems one thing is definitely clear. The rare hunters are back." Everyone nodded and looked down at Calli. "Tea, you should call the police and get them down here. Tell them we caught the one who hurt my grandfather," Yugi told her. Tea nodded and flipped open her cell again, dialing the number.
"So what now?" Joey asked. "Should we head to the hospital now and check up on your grandfather?" Yugi nodded and began making his way to Kaiba's limo. "Someone will have to stay here for the police," he replied.
"Me and Duke here can do that, the rest of you can go on ahead," Tristan replied. The group nodded and Tea closed up her cell. "They'll be here in a few minutes," she informed. "Alright, let's get moving. The rule still stands though, one way trip," Kaiba told them as he entered the drivers side of the limo. Everyone else filed inside of the vehicle, save for Duke and Tristan, and drove off down the road. A few minutes later, Tristan and Duke saw three sets of sirens coming towards them, and began putting together what they should tell the police.