Chapter 170: The First Attack, Part 2

The score was at Drifter: 2900 and Daniel: 1400.

The Drifter still was in the lead while Daniel slowly struggled to defeat each of the Drifter's monsters and knocking them down slowly. The Drifter than activated a magic card no one has ever seen before, Carnal of God which summoned 5 Diabound Curses, creatures of mysterious power.

The Drifter laughed. "These Diabound Curses (5x 1800/1200) will protect me." He said. "But now! I'll activate one of their effects!"

"An effect..." Daniel growled.

"Now! Diabound Curse, drain his XYZ Dragon Cannon!" The Drifter called out, throwing his arm out.

Suddenly the creature jumped at XYZ Dragon Cannon, invading it's body. A dark cloud formed around the machine, lowering it's attack points to 1000.

The Drifter smiled as he held up one card. "What did that thing just do?!" Kai said.

"I must sacrifice my own Diabound Curse to bring you down! Now! I sacrifice my two Squall Knights to summon E.M.S The Infinite! (2500/2000)"

Suddenly a giant warrior with heavy armor and a giant sword materialized to the field."No... If he attacks I lose this duel." Daniel growled.

"Now! Attack and destroy his XYZ Dragon Cannon!" The Drifter yelled. The warrior dove at the machine ready to disassemble it.

"Reverse magic card, Shrink!" Daniel announced as his magic card flipped up. "This will reduce your warrior's attack strength by half! (1250/2000)"

The warrior slashed through XYZ Dragon Cannon, creating a giant explosion, reducing Dan's life points to 1150.

"And now! Squall Knight (500/700), attack his life points directly!" The Drifter announced. The Knight charged at Dan and slashing it's sword at him.

Daniel let out a cry as his life points reduced to 650. Daniel fell to his knee, hurt bad.

"Dan! Get up!" Jess cheered on.

"It's only a good thing... I don't think he can attack with those Diabound Curses..." Daniel said.

"Who said I couldn't." The Drifter cackled. "But for you, I'd like you to experience the true power of Diabound Curse first so I end my turn."

"Bad mistake...." Daniel smirked, drawing his next card.

"What are you talking about..." The Drifter said, a bit shocked.

"Activate magic card, Reclaim of Magic!" Daniel announced. "By discarding 2 magic cards, I can re-use a magic card from my graveyard!"

"No..." The Drifter growled.

"Now! I activate Raise Dead to bring back XYZ Dragon Cannon! (2800/2600)" Daniel announced as the machine returned to the field. "I'll then activate De-Fusion which will return my machine into the three monsters it once was."

Suddenly the machine split back into X Head Cannon, Y Dragon Head, and Z Metal Caterpillar. "What use is this..." The Drifter said.

"Now! X Head Cannon, attack and destroy his Squall Knight!" Daniel announced, pointing at the knight. The machine pointed it's two cannons on it's shoulders and fired two balls of energy at the knight, destroying it and reducing the Drifter's life points to 1600. "Y Dragon Head, attack his remaining Shield Token!"

The dragon opened it's mechanical jaw, firing a fire blast, destroying the stone shield. "Hmph..." The Drifter said.

"Now I move into my Main Phase 2." Daniel said, taking the last card in his hand.

"What?! He's not finished yet?!" The Drifter gasped.

"Now! I'll activate my last magic card, Brave Attack!" Daniel yelled.

"No!" The Drifter gasped.

"Yes... This magic card allows me to combine my monster's attack into one. I plan to defeat your E.M.S The Infinite and all your life points. You should have used your Diabound Curses more wisely." Daniel smiled. "A duelist would look more into the duel instead of toy around. Now! X Head Cannon, Y Dragon Head, Z Metal Caterpillar... Attack!"

All three monsters dove directly at the giant warrior, smashing themselves into the warrior and slowly cracking it until the last monster bashed into it, destroying it.

"No... I lost...." The Drifter gasped as his life points reduced to 0.

The last four of the Diabound Curses disappeared and the Drifter's body began to glow. "What's going on?" Kai said.

"No! Please don't leave me..." The Drifter begged as a dark essence began to leave his body. It seemed like a dark soul was leaving him because he had failed to win the duel.

The Drifter began to laugh insanely. "That's enough for me..." Daniel said, turning around and leaving.

"Hmm... Well performance." Wolfgang said, slightly clapping his hands. "His courage is good but not good enough."

"Plan of attack?" A woman asked.

"Dageki is already planning something for our little Paul." Wolfgang smiled. "Whiley will give us other plans for the others."

Daniel came home, throwing his black school jacket to his chair and falling in his bed. "Carnal of God... Diabound Curses.... I could feel the fear but I couldn't really feel it...." Daniel said in his mind. "Why would he let himself lose like that...."

Daniel remembered he still had the card of the map of the city. "What are they planning to do..." He asked himself.

Allen collapsed onto his bed also. "Whiley is in this I know it." He growled, looking at the pile of cards on the floor. "I should fix my deck better... Just in case. But then again I'm tired... I should get to sleep I already have a test to do." He said in his mind.

Mink sat at her bed, looking at her cards. "My deck... My cards. I have a rival too and I can't let my friends down. If they have that Carnal of whatever then my rival will have it too." She said. She laid down, looking through her deck and slowly fell to asleep.

Jess, still longing for her father laid alone in her bed. "Where are you dad..." She said, cuddling up. She could still hear the words 'Diabound Curse' go through her head.

Something was eating the inside of her. Jess grumbled, throwing her deck at the wall. She wished her father was there but he wasn't Jess slowly came to asleep.

Kai sighed, sitting in a giant sofa. He wondered what he had gotten himself into. Just after he met Dan, all sorts of trouble was coming around. It made him wonder if he should ignore Dan or move back to New York. The thoughts put him to sleep.

"So... What can I do to stop Whiley.... What are his plans?" Dan asked. Suddenly he fell asleep.

Mink, Allen, Jess, Kai, and Daniel were all dreaming. From their point of view, they could see the entire city. A giant flash flew by them and the city came to ruins.

Everyone gasped and yelled for each other. A giant pyramid was in the sky, covered in dark clouds. It was a mystery to what was going on and what had been going on while everyone was in America.

Everyone quickly woke up in shock.

The new day arose and Daniel slowly got ready. Daniel saw his teacher walking through the hall way from the window. Daniel knew there was something wrong with the school and was starting to wonder.

"Our teachers..." Daniel said out loud.

"What about them?" Kai asked.

"They're strange..." Dan replied, "as if they're hiding something."

"I've heard about this at our old school that the teachers were extremely strict." Jess said, looking up into the sunny sky.

"I thought Paul should have been here by morning." Mink said.

"Well we can't always rely on Paul to do everything for us." Allen grumbled. "He's always work."

Daniel began looking through his deck and pulled out the first card. "What's that there?" Kai asked.

"Death Volstargaf...." Daniel said, looking at the card. "I haven't been much attached to it..."

"I see." Mink said. "The heart of your deck hasn't been much reliable eh?"

"Something's wrong for sure and it's hiding from us. Something dark and sinister, ready to emerge. Is this really the card I can rely on anymore?" Daniel asked.

"Everyone always has a key card in their deck. It's what keeps everyone going. Are you saying that you can't go on anymore?" Jess asked.

Daniel looked back to when he used the Millennium Tauk. It shocked him from existence. Paul also felt what Dan was feeling.

"I mean... Come on it's your favorite card how can you get 'un-attached' to it?" Allen said.

"Maybe it's just me... All this craziness." Daniel said.

Suddenly a hand reached out, snatching the card right out of Dan's hand. "And what do we have here?" Mr. Gral said, Kai's gym teacher.

"It's mine and I was going to put it away." Dan said, trying to take back the card but the teacher just placed it in his pocket.

"Don't expect to be getting it back. We do not accept games during school." Mr. Gral said, sternly.

Daniel felt just as worried, thinking he'll never see his favorite card ever again. "No...." Daniel growled. "You feeble old man."

Daniel stood up. "No, don't make things worse!" Mink said.

Suddenly a student who looked a little older than everyone else stepped up. "Hand it back." He said.

"A student who stands up against their mentor will seriously be punished." Mr. Gral snarled.

"And a teacher who likes to take away what kid's give their heart into must really have a cold heart. So tell me, Mr. Gral, do you have a cold heart?" The student ask.

"Tell me your name boy." Mr. Gral demanded.

"Roberto Higgins." Roberto smiled.

Suddenly Mr. Gral's face went white. "I'm sorry sir, here is your card back." Mr. Gral said, slapping the card down next to Dan's arm.

"Uh..." Daniel said, confused.

"Wow...." Mink said as Mr. Gral went off in a hurry.

"Roberto is it?" Allen said.

"Yeah." Roberto smiled, looking at everyone and giving Kai a look.

"So what makes you so special to the teachers?" Kai asked.

"Family. Or what everyone likes to say, a rich one." Roberto sighed. "The school favors me a lot because we can easily buy out this dump."

"So why not do it?" Jess asked.

"Someone's gotta learn here. School is important." Roberto said, looking up at the fancy building. "But enough about this dumb old school, I see you all are interested in Duel Monsters."

"Hell yeah!" Allen said.

"Yes." Kai replied. "Do you own any cards?"

"I do." Roberto said, taking out a wide deck.

"May we see?" Jess asked.

"Nah, I like to save the excitement for when we actually duel." Roberto smiled.

"You mean you want to duel one of us?" Allen asked.

"No. Just not here. Any dueling here and they'll take our cards and burn them, even if it's me." Roberto said, shoving his deck into his pocket. "Trust me, I've seen it."

Suddenly the school bell rang. "Well they're not in a hurry to start school." Mink said, sarcastically.

"Yeah. Well I'll see you guys later, sometime." Roberto waved, picking up his book bag and quickly walking off.

"It's at least nice to see a good face around here now a days." Jess sighed.

"Yeah, nice..." Kai said.

Everyone had hurriedly scattered to their classes since the time to get to class on time was way shorter than their old school. Mink came into her botany class and stopped to pant at the door.

"Good your on time." Miss. Tagura smiled.

Miss Tagura crouched down infront of some flowers, watering them. "Yeah." Mink said, laying her bag on a bench and taking a breath.

Daniel sat at his desk with last nights homework. Daniel had some bags under his eyes because he was up late. The duel last night had taken some hours and he had to quickly finish what was left of his homework.

"Show of hands of how many of you finished homework." Mr. Tamaki asked. It was shocking because Daniel rose his hands, and then 3 other people. Mr. Tamaki laughed but then put a serious look. "Was the homework too hard for most of you? Or do you all just not like to listen to my lessons?"

Some people looked down but Daniel felt a sigh of relief. He wanted to make a good impression of school but Mr. Tamaki seemed to just glare at him like he never even cared about this new and strict school.

Kai began to drift off in his mind, wondering how he can save the world again with his friends. Roberto was at his gym class. He looked at the building and seemed to be staring at Kai, telling him he's watching his every move.

"Freaks... All of them." Kai growled, accidentally breaking his pencil.

Paul packed up his suit case with his cards and his Duel Xero. Body guards swiftly let him onto his plane. "Yes, I will be there soon." Paul said in his cell phone then turning it off.

"Have a good flight sir." Paul's employee said.

"Thanks. And be sure to leave messages if there are any calls for me. I might be back in a while." Paul said going up the small set of stairs onto his plane.

Paul quickly slid his suit case in the seat pocket and sat down, buckling his seat belt up. "Lady's and gents..." The pilot went on. The pilot went through the security system even though no one else was on board the plane. "And remember... Have a good flight."

"Dageki, are you in?" Wolfgang's voice asked in a radio.

"Here and waiting for the challenge." Dageki smiled, throwing back his short black hair. "He's all mine baby. I expect we'll be over in a few short hours."

Dageki then hit some buttons and in no time, flew off in the plane which Paul was riding right now. Dageki licked his lips, liking the feeling of his heart beating for excitement to actually duel his rival.

CARDS PLAYED

E.M.S The Infinite: Level 7 / 2500/2000/ Warrior / Desc: Each time this card destroys 1 Monster Card on your opponent's side of the field due to battle, increase this monster's ATK by 700.

Shrink: QUICK PLAY MAGIC / Desc: Reduce 1 monster's ATK on the field by half for the remainder of the turn.

Reclaim of Magic: MAGIC / Desc: Discard 2 Magic Cards from your hand, to the graveyard to activate 1 Magic Card from your graveyard.

X Head Cannon: Level 4 / 1800/1500/ Machine

Y Dragon Head: Level 4 / 1500/1300/ Union / Machine / Desc: Once per turn during your Main Phase, if you control this monster on the field, you can equip it to your "X Head Cannon" or "Z Metal Caterpillar" as an Equip Magic Card or change it back to a monster in face up Attack Position. When equipped to a monster by this card's effect, that monster's ATK and DEF is increased by 400. (1 monster can only be equipped with 1 Union Monster at a time. If the monster that this card is equipped to is destroyed in battle, this card is destroyed instead)

Z Metal Caterpillar: Level 4 / 1500/1600/ Union / Machine / Desc: Once per turn during your Main Phase, if you control this monster on the field, you can equip it to your "X Head Cannon" or "Y Dragon Head" as an Equip Magic Card or change it back to a monster in face up Attack Position. When equipped to a monster by this card's effect, that monster's ATK and DEF is increased by 600. (1 monster can only be equipped with 1 Union Monster at a time. If the monster that this card is equipped to is destroyed in battle, this card is destroyed instead)

Brave Attack: MAGIC / Desc: Sacrifice monsters on your side of the field to combine the sacrificed monster's ATK all together and do damage to one of your face up opponent's monsters on the field.