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Chapter 13: Dark vs. Light
Brujah slid a card into his field magic card zone. "The all-powerful Lair of Ten-thousand Demon Lords!"
The ground around the arena twisted and tore, huge chunks of earth being ripped up around the four. Huge dark spires rose up high into the sky and a ring of dark earth surrounded the field. The spires touched and formed a darkened dome, which shut off the arena from the rest of the world. The last thing Daniel heard was the maniacal laughter of Brujah and Caine before the top of the dome slammed shut.
Daniel slammed his fists against the holographic stone, hating how it was so realistic that he couldn't get into it. "Oh come on! Show me my sister!"
A cold giggle from the side brought his attention to a woman in black who was one of the members of Team Makai. "What's the matter? Afraid for your little sister?"
Daniel's lips curled into a snarl and he considered trying to stop the duel. He knew he was being way too protective of Rebecca, but he felt that he had good reasoning because of his want to keep her safe. "Bring her back now."
The woman smiled and revealed that same fake fangs that the rest of her team had. "Or you will what? Strike me? Strangle me with your pretty leather jacket?"
Daniel trembled in unspoken rage, but thankfully kept his temper in check. He still wasn't sure about his connection to Rikuo and he didn't think his darker half would be so kind to the woman.
Rikuo snarled from inside Daniel's head. ("Let me kill her...")
Daniel took a deep breath and looked back at the stone of the hologram. ("Maybe later.")
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Rebecca glanced around in confusion and fear. This place seemed so unnatural; it had to be a hologram. She was surrounded by a dark green glow that flooded the field and illuminated Brujah and Caine in a way that made their eyes and teeth glow in the dark. She shivered involuntarily and took a step back.
"Rebecca, don't let their stupid scare tactics work on you." CJ wasn't really all that afraid of these jerks. He knew they were just trying to scare their opponents into surrender.
Brujah's voice seemed to reverberate off the stone walls to create a perfectly demonic sounding voice. "Foolish mortal! You dare to question the power of The Lair of Ten-thousand Demon Lords?"
CJ chuckled. "I question nothing but why you feel the need to act like such a freak."
Rebecca shared in his laughter. She couldn't help but feel better when CJ was around. He was so very foolhardy that he bordered on suicidal sometimes, but on that same note the supreme confidence he had also was the perfect morale boost she needed right now.
Brujah growled, the very earth around him responding to his rage. "Let's see just how powerful you two are when I separate you with this magic card! I play Obscuring Nightmare!" The green glow of the lair was suddenly cut off by a shroud of blackness that left Rebecca alone in darkness of the chamber.
"CJ? What happened? What does his card do?" When no one responded she felt a cold hand grip her heart. What had happened?
Her duel disk suddenly beeped, saying it was her turn. She realized what had happened. Brujah's magic card must have cut her off from CJ. She drew her card and smiled. "Alright then, let's see just how cut off I am." She slid her magic card into her duel disk. "I trigger the magic card Card of Sanctity. This will force all players to draw until they hold six cards in their hand." She drew six cards and even in the dark shroud she could see the perfect card to end this madness. "Now it's time to get rid of your shroud Brujah! I activate the magic card Swords of Revealing Light!" The air around her shimmered and the shroud faded, giving her a clear view of the field and the life point totals.
CJ- 6450
Rebecca- 10, 950
Brujah- 3250
Caine- 1150
CJ threw her a winning smile. "Thanks for the save Rebecca." He pointed at his new hand of six cards that was thanks to her magic card.
Rebecca grinned as you pointed over at their opponent's field. "That's not all my magic card did."
Hovering around both Brujah's and Caine's fields were glowing green swords of light that stop their monsters from attacking for the next three turns. The two Team Makai duelists were growling in feral anger.
Rebecca looked her hand over once more and already saw the combos that would turn this duel around. "I set three cards face-down on my field and I will sacrifice 1500 life points to use the special ability of my Angel of Creation Venus. Her special ability allows me to summon any number of Mystic Shine Ball monster cards from my deck and hand to field, and all it will cost me is 500 life points per monster. I will summon all three." The three glowing balls that hovered around Venus floated down and landed on CJ's field since they had no room on her field. She still had her four Kuribohs filling it.
CJ- 6450
Rebecca- 9450
Brujah- 3250
Caine- 1150
Rebecca slid one of the Mystic Shine Balls into her graveyard and slapped down her new monster. "Now I sacrifice a Mystic Shine Ball to summon my Angel of Judgment Saturn (2400/0) in attack mode!" A purple skinned angel appeared and bowed to Rebecca. "End turn."
Brujah drew and laughed, the sounds once more echoing off the cold stone walls. "Watch this foolish girl! I'll destroy you and every hope you had of winning this duel with Team Makai's ultimate monster card. Of course I will need my partner's Archfiend Soldier and Queen Archfiend (900/1300) to do it." Caine nodded and slid his two monsters into the graveyard, while Brujah slid his Vilepawn Archfiend into the graveyard. "Prepare to pay tribute to the ultimate Archfiend! I sacrifice three monsters to summon the god of all demons!"
CJ tensed up. He had heard of a card that was said to be one of the most powerful demons, but for this guy to have it meant that they might be in more trouble then he wished to let on.
Brujah tossed his monster onto his disk and darkness flooded the arena that was so complete that even Rebecca's Swords of Revealing Light shuddered and then exploded into particles of Light. A howl of anguish and pain radiated from the patch of darkness that was so powerful that even her Angels of Creation and Judgment shuddered in fear.
From deep within the darkness Brujah's voice rang out, "Prepare to meet your end at the claws of the invincible Archfiend Emperor (5000/0) in attack mode!" A shadowed claw bigger than Rebecca's entire body reached out of the darkness. It wrapped tightly around her Angel of Judgment and with one squeeze Rebecca's monster was destroyed.
CJ- 6450
Rebecca- 6650
Brujah- 3250
Caine- 1150
She looked over at the darkness that shrouded the space between her and CJ once more. Her face went pale as she realized that she was cut off from her partner again. This time though she didn't have a way to shatter the darkness. She was on her own.
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CJ looked at his hand and then at the pitch blackness in front of him. His duel disk beeped to indicate that it was his turn now. He drew a card and then looked his field over. He had no cards face-down in his magic/trap zone, but thanks to Rebecca and her monster management he had a Kuriboh token (300/200) and two Mystic Shine Balls (500/500) on his field, all of which were in defense mode. He now had seven cards in his hand and his opponent had a creature with 5000 attack points. ("I have something that can beat it, but the problem will be summoning it.") "Alright, I play Graceful Charity! This magic card allows me to draw three cards from my deck and then discard two into my graveyard." He drew his three and slid the cards into his hand, and then chose two cards to slide into his graveyard. "Now I will set three cards face-down on my field, and then I will sacrifice one of Rebecca's Mystic Shine Balls to summon The Legendary Fisherman (1850/1500) in defense mode." A tan-skinned man riding a shark and carrying a harpoon appeared on his field in a crouching position. "End turn."
From deep within the darkness caused by the Archfiend Emperor Caine's voice leapt out at him. "Now watch as we show you the power of our Demon God. You see by sacrificing Demon sub-type monsters from our hand we can permanently increase our Emperor's attack power by the attack strength of the sacrificed monster cards. I discard 3000 attack points worth of monster cards and increase the power of our Archfiend Emperor by that amount." (8000/0)
CJ gulped in fear as a gigantic claw extended from the darkness and was about to slam down on his Legendary Fisherman. "Hold on! I trigger my face-down trap card Sakuretsu Armor. This will destroy your monster and leave my Fisherman safe." His trap card shuddered and exploded. "What!?"
Caine's laughter shook the stone of the lair as the Emperor's claws came down and tore the Legendary Fisherman instantly to shreds. "Did I neglect to mention that our creature is immune to the effects of almost all magic, trap, and monster effects that our opponent controls?"
CJ took a deep breath and slid his monster card into his graveyard. ("Remember CJ, you want your water attribute monster in the graveyard or else your combo cannot work.")
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Rebecca's disk beeped and before she even drew she switched her monster to defense mode. She had heard everything Caine had said, meaning that one hit on her Angel of Creation from their Emperor would instantly wipe her out. She drew her card and she couldn't help but smile. ("It might work.") "I set one card face-down and end my turn."
Brujah's cold laughter reached her ears and she shivered. This was his terrain, and she was at a disadvantage here. "What's the matter little girl. Understanding you cannot win against the night? Well it will only get worse as I discard all but one card in my hand to fuel our Emperor Archfiend's attack strength." (14500/0)
Rebecca looked at their monster's attack total and bit her lip. ("What can I do to something with that much attack power? It's immune to almost all of my destruction effects and eventually I will run out of monsters to defend myself with.")
Brujah's voice came to her this time at an almost civil level. "Little girls should stay out of the way of demons. Too bad you weren't clever enough to figure that out. Now I will use the last card in my hand to annihilate you. I activate the equipment magic card Fairy Meteor Crush on our monster. This gives it the power to deal damage through defense. Now Archfiend Emperor, attack one of her pitiful Kuribohs!" The claw arose from the smoky darkness before her dove for her monster.
Rebecca pressed a button on her duel disk and prayed the trap would work. "I activate Negate Attack! This will stop your attack for this turn and end your battle phase." The claw stopped inches from her Kuriboh token and then it withdrew into the cloud of blackness.
"A nice save little girl but you won't be able to protect yourself forever. End turn."
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When CJ heard what Brujah had done to their monster he had almost thought of giving up right there, but then Brujah had admitted that Rebecca had somehow stopped their creatures attack for the turn. ("She's not giving up and neither will I.")
He drew a card and felt sweat pour down his face. This trap card might work, but only if he was lucky enough to time correctly to his partner's trap card. Normally that wouldn't be a problem for him, but since he couldn't see or hear his partner playing the trap would be blind luck at best. ("But it's that or surrendering.") "I will set one card face-down on my field, and then I will activate the magic card The Cheerful Coffin. This card allows me to discard up to three monster cards from my hand to the graveyard." He picked up the two cards he needed and slid them into his graveyard. He now had only one card left in his hand, but it was the card that would win the duel if he got it out correctly. "End turn."
Caine drew and cackled. "I discard the remainder of my hand to power up our Emperor even more!" (18000/0)
"Now Emperor attack his Mystic Shine ball and end the game for him." The claw broke the surface of the roiling blackness and dove for his second to last defense.
CJ flipped his face-down card up. "Try this on for size Caine! I reveal my Mystical Space Typhoon magic card. This allows me to destroy one magic or trap card on the field, and I will aim for your Fairy Meteor Crush equipment magic card, which eliminates your Emperor's special power to deal damage through defense!" The claw may have still crushed his Mystic Shine Ball, but at least his life points were safe.
Caine snarled out, "End turn."
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Rebecca's disk beeped and she drew her card. "I play the magic card Terraforming, which allows me to search my deck for one field magic card and place it into my hands!" She pulled her deck free of the disk and looked it over, before deciding their best chance was to take another Sanctuary in the Sky. She placed the card in her hand, shuffled up her deck and put it back in her disk. "I now activate Jar of Greed, which allows me to draw a card." She drew one card off the top of her deck and she smiled. "Now to banish your darkness and make you face the light! I play Sanctuary in the Sky!" As the earth around her trembled she knew that the duel was finally going their way.
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("Rikuo is it just me or is the earth trembling again?")
("Normally I'd say it is just so that you would think you are insane, but this time yes it is.")
Daniel took a few steps back as a huge pillar of light exploded out of the top of the dome and instantly destroyed it, leaving the field open again. Rebecca's shining temple was back on the field and it had dispelled all of the darkness. That wasn't what Daniel was looking at though. He was looking at the enormous monstrosity that was taking up both Brujah's and Caine's fields. (Ummm....Rikuo....")
("Damn....that's a big demon.")
("My sentiments exactly.")
The thing that stood on the two Team Makai duelists field stood at least 100' tall, and was covered in bony protrusions and corded red muscle. It howled and the windows on nearby buildings instantly shattered. It turned its enormous head downwards and sneered at Rebecca and CJ, like they were simply in its way on the path to victory.
Rebecca smiled back up at it. "I never liked demon sub-type monsters, with the exclusion of Kuriboh. Now I'll end my turn."
Brujah drew. "You think that removing the lair has stopped the Emperor? Fools, he cannot be killed. I play Pot of Greed to draw two cards off the top of my deck." He looked at the cards and smiled. "Now prepare to lose all of your pitiful monsters in one sweep. First I play this magic card Tribe Change, which will turn our Emperor into a spellcaster sub-type monster. Then I shall play the magic card Diffusion Wave-motion, which allows one level seven or higher spellcaster monster to attack every monster on our opponent's field." The Archfiend Emperor howled and slammed one of its two claws into the ground. In one blast of energy, Rebecca and CJ were defenseless. "End turn."
CJ drew and sighed in relief. "We've won."
Brujah and Caine both scoffed at him. "Yeah right."
CJ shrugged. "Fine then don't believe me. First I shall summon forth my secret weapon! I sacrifice a water, fire, wind, earth, light, and dark attribute monster from my graveyard to summon Nexus the Conqueror (3500/3000) in attack mode!" A magnificent warrior in gladiator armor appeared wielding a huge sword. He saluted CJ and then lifted his weapon into a striking position. CJ looked over at Rebecca and nodded. "Show them."
Rebecca smiled. "I flip up my face-down card Holy Judgment, which allows me to discard a card from my hand to destroy one card on the field." She slid the card in her hand into the graveyard.
Brujah sneered, "Little girl you are a fool. What makes you think you can win with that. It can't destroy our Archfiend Emperor."
The top of Rebecca's sanctuary thrummed with energy and then released a burst of light that slashed down the Type Change card on Brujah's field. "At what point," Rebecca added, "Did I become so deaf I didn't hear you the last time? We're not after your Emperor yet, we're after the card that makes him a spellcaster."
CJ nodded, "Right. I need the Archfiend Emperor to be a demon sub-type monster for my plan to work. Now reveal face-down card!" A card on his field flipped up and both Brujah and Caine went pale. "I see you know what Riryoku does. It takes half of one monsters attack points and adds it to the attack points of another. Meaning let's take that 18000 attack point total of your monster and add it to Nexus's attack points instead." Nexus bellowed out a war cry as his attack power shot upwards. (12500/3000)
Brujah snarled. "You won't win that easily against us. Only one of us will lose. The other will still have the Emperor on his field and since Riryoku only lasts one turn you can't win."
CJ sighed and slid the other card he was holding into his duel disk, "Just for saying that I'm going to have to add some power to our monster. I equip Nexus with the magic card Excalibur, which doubles his attack points." Nexus's sword was replaced by a much thinner blade, but his yell came with such intensity that even though he stood at only about 8' tall, the 100' Archfiend Emperor trembled in fear. (25000/3000)
Brujah snorted. "What did that accomplish? One of us will still survive the attack."
CJ waved his finger in the air in front of him. "Nope, because when Nexus battles a demon sub-type monster he may attack one more time afterwards."
Rebecca mirrored CJ. "So therefore you're both about to get knocked out of the tournament."
CJ pointed at the weakened Emperor. "Go Nexus the Conqueror! Attack with Excalibur Holy Wave!" The gladiator leaped into the air so far that he was staring the Emperor into the eye at the apex of his leap. He slammed his sword down into its skull and a golden wave of power ran down the immense monster's body, instantly splitting it in half. The backlash damage sent both Brujah and Caine flying out of the ring.
CJ- 6450
Rebecca- 6650
Brujah- 0
Caine- 0
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Right after the duel Rebecca smiled and handed Daniel his duel disk that she had been using. "Told ya I could do it."
Daniel smiled and shrugged. "Never said you couldn't." She walked past them and pressed her COC into the lock, the metal device beeping and sliding open the door. "So shall we enjoy the spoils of war?"
Everyone nodded and filed in, but Daniel froze. He smelled something. ("Why do I smell that someone is approaching us rapidly?")
Rikuo chuckled from inside his skull. ("I'm finally rubbing off on you idiot.")
Daniel frowned but didn't respond. ("Have you recovered from the wounds you have taken from the duel against Viper?")
("Yes I have. I know the smell. It is an emissary from the Corporation.")
("We had better stop him before he involves my friends.")
("Let me deal with him.")
("I still don't trust you. Let me deal with it.")
("Feh! Whatever you want idiot.")
Daniel glanced at the open house and then went down the road. ("Here we go again.")
To be continued...
Next Chapter: Rikuo's war
Author's notes: Hola and stuff everyone! I hope all of you have been enjoying the duels so far. I know that the attack points of the last duel were pretty high, but it was meant to be that way. Anyway, if you want your character to be in this story just let me know about them and I'll put them in. Later.