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Chapter 28: Team Emissary vs. Team Destruct
Giovan raised his hand up and the randomizer flickered through the names of the next two teams that would go against each other in the tournament. Finally the names came to a stop on Team Emissary and Team Destruct.
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Deondre stared at the board. It actually made alot of sense that Giovan would enter his own team into his own tournament. "Team Emissary?"
"That would be us," A voice said from the doorway that led into the arena.
Everyone spun around to watch a trio of black cloaked men walk into the room. They took their position in the first team square.
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Ryan Paine grinned and re-adjusted his yellow cap as he looked upon Team Emissary. "What fun. We get a bunch of freaks in cloaks to smack around."
Thomas Green brushed back some locks from his mop of brown hair and snickered. "Yeah. This should be an easy win."
The final member of Team Destruct was a much older man in a leather jacket. He simply called himself Leader. Tugging on the sleeves of his shirt he sneered at the lead member of the opposing team. "What's the matter tough man? Cat got your tongue?" He leaned in and spat into the folds of the Emissary's cloak.
The Emissary didn't respond to the insult. He slowly tuned his head to look up at Giovan. "Milord?"
Giovan scratched his chin in thought. If there was one thing he could not allow is was his personal soldiers to be made fools of. Luckily he had the perfect idea in mind. He looked down at Team Destruct and smiled. "Let me make you a deal friends. How about all three of your duel against the best member of my personal dueling team?"
Leader couldn't believe his ears. With both Tom and Ryan backing him up, they would win the duel with ease. "You kidding? Of course we accept a deal like that."
The two Emissaries stepped back and the one in the middle climbed into the ring.
Giovan looked down at Team Destruct. "Excellent! Your opponent shall be Kaigen!"
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Deondre frowned as he watched Team Destruct climb into the ring. "This is just stupid. Why would Garlin want his team to lose? There's no way that one guy will be able to beat three opponents at once."
Yugi however knew never to underestimate any opponent. ("This is going to be interesting indeed...")
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Giovan lifted his hand up and then threw it down. "Quarter-finals round three! Team Destruct vs. Kaigen! Begin!"
Kaigen raised his arm from within the folds of his cloak and his jet black duel disk clicked into place. He drew his five cards and then his sixth. In a flat monotone he said, "I set three cards face-down and set one monster in defense mode. End turn."
Ryan was the first to go for Team Destruct. He drew and slapped down a monster. "I summon Thunder Nyan Nyan (1900/800) in attack mode!" A cat-girl pounding on a drum appeared on his field. "Now attack his face-down monster!"
The Thunder Nyan Nyan beat on her drum rapidly, creating a booming explosion of sound that shattered Kaigen's face-down monster.
Ryan grinned proudly. "That takes care of that."
What he didn't notice was that Kaigen was searching his deck for something. "You have attacked my Giant Germ. (1000/100) When this monster is destroyed in battle it special summons two more of itself from my deck to the field in attack mode. It also deals you 500 points of damage."
Ryan- 7500
Leader- 8000
Thomas- 8000
Kaigen- 8000
Kaigen slapped two more of the purple-brown blob monsters onto his field.
Ryan slid a card into his duel disk. "Was that supposed to scare us? I'll set this card face-down on the field and end my turn."
Leader drew and slapped down his own monster. "I summon Mad Dog of Darkness (1900/1400) in attack mode." A horse-sized demon dog appeared on his field. He pointed at one of Kaigen's two Giant Germs. "Attack!"
The dog lunged across the field and slammed into the blob, splattering it.
Ryan- 7500
Leader- 7500
Thomas- 8000
Kaigen- 7100
Leader slid a card into his duel disk. "Just like Ryan did I'll set one card face-down and end my turn."
Thomas drew and set one monster in defense and one card face-down. Then he ended his turn.
Kaigen drew and switched his last remaining Giant Germ into defense mode. He looked over their fields and flipped his face-down cards. "I reveal three Mystical Space Typhoons, destroying all three of your face-down cards." Three small tornadoes blew across each player's field, shattering their face-down cards. He then picked up his Giant Germ and slid it into the graveyard, slapping a new monster down in its place. "I summon Dark Ruler Hades (2450/1200) in attack mode." A demon in ornate robes appeared and unleashed a gout of booming laughter.
Leader sneered, "Please, we can deal with that easily."
Kaigen's graveyard spat out his three Giant Germ cards and he placed them into the folds of his robe. "Now I remove three demon sub-type monsters in my graveyard from the game to summon Dark Necrofear (2200/2800) in attack mode." A vampire woman carrying a mannequin appeared next to the Dark Ruler. "Dark Ruler, attack with Darkness Pulse against Ryan's monster." The Ruler reached out with his hand and a ball of pulsing black light enveloped Ryan's Thunder Nyan Nyan, destroying it instantly.
Ryan- 6950
Leader- 7500
Thomas- 8000
Kaigen- 7100
"Now Dark Necrofear, crush Leader's dog." The vampire woman snapped her eyes wide open and a blast of red light shout out of them, carving Leader's Mad Dog of Darkness apart.
Ryan- 6950
Leader- 7200
Thomas- 8000
Kaigen- 7100
Kaigen slid the last card in his hand into his duel disk. "End turn."
Ryan drew and placed a monster in defense mode. "End turn."
Leader drew and did the same. "End turn."
Thomas drew. "I'll sacrifice my face-down monster card to bring out my Summoned Skull (2500/1200) in attack mode." A large demon made up of bone and muscle tissue appeared on his field and roared. He pointed at Kaigen's Dark Ruler. "Lightning Strike!" The Summoned Skull charged up a blast of lightning and blew the Dark Ruler to pieces.
Ryan- 6950
Leader- 7200
Thomas- 8000
Kaigen- 7050
Thomas grinned at his teammates, who had each thrown him a thumbs-up. "End turn."
Kaigen drew. "I switch my Dark Necrofear to defense mode." The vampire woman crouched, a dark bubble of force now surrounding her. Then Kaigen placed a new monster on is duel disk. "I summon Protector of the Sanctuary (1100/1900) in defense mode. As long as this monster is on the field none of you may draw cards outside of your draw phase." A small building appeared on the field, with a neon outline of a creature protecting it.
Thomas shook his head. "It's sad to watch someone get put on the defensive."
Kaigen flipped his face-down card. "I reveal Card Destruction. This means all of you discard your hands. Since my Protector of the Sanctuary is on the field though, you may not draw cards to replace the ones you discard."
Team Destruct, in unison, blanched and slid their hands into their graveyards.
Kaigen, face still hidden, nodded to them. "End turn."
Ryan drew. "I'll sacrifice my face-down monster to bring out my own Summoned Skull." Another one of the bone and muscle tissue demons appeared. "Now I'll have it destroy your Protector of the Sanctuary!" The monster charged up a powerful blast of lightning and in one flash Kaigen's Protector was gone. "End turn."
Leader drew and grinned. "Isn't this just the time for weird stuff to happen? I sacrifice my face-down monster to summon my Summoned Skull." A third bone and muscle tissue demon appeared on the field. "End turn."
Thomas drew. "I'll place a monster in defense mode and end my turn."
Kaigen drew and slid the card into his duel disk. "I play Pot of Greed, which allows me to draw two cards." He drew his new cards and slid one into his duel disk. "I play Monster Reborn to revive my Protector of the Sanctuary in defense mode." The neon outline monster reappeared on his field.
He slid his second card into his duel disk. "Now I use Card of Sanctity, which forces all players to draw until they hold six cards in their hand. In your case though, you draw no cards thanks to my Protector of the Sanctuary." He drew six cards and looked them over.
Then he slid two cards into his duel disk. "I'll set two cards face-down. Then I will sacrifice my Protector of the Sanctuary to bring out my own Summoned Skull. End turn."
Ryan drew and frowned. "I'll set this card face-down and end my turn."
Leader drew and busted up laughing. "Perfect timing! I play the magic card Black Pendant, which will raise the attack power of my Summoned Skull by 500 points." A black jeweled pendant appeared around the demon's neck. Its aura flared to life. (3000/1200)
He pointed at Kaigen's Summoned Skull. "Now attack!" His Summoned Skull powered up a large blast of lightning and unleashed it at his opponent's monster.
Kaigen flipped his face-down card. "I reveal the trap card Mirror Force." The lightning from Leader's monster slammed into a blue barrier of light and dissipated. "This will stop your attack and reflect it back at your team's collective fields. All of your attack mode monsters will be destroyed." The barrier unleashed a spray of white beams of light that instantly destroyed all of Team Destruct's Summoned Skulls.
Leader slid his monster into his graveyard and smiled a little. "At least there is one upside to this. When my Black Pendant is sent to the graveyard you lose 500 life points. End turn."
Ryan- 6950
Leader- 7200
Thomas- 8000
Kaigen- 6550
Thomas drew. "End turn."
Kaigen drew and slid a card into his duel disk. "I activate the magic card Hell Meteor. This will deal one player on the field 4000 points of direct damage." Above him the sky seemed to cry out in pain as it was torn open, revealing a pulsing dimension of light and flame that floated above the field. From deep within the dimension a ball of black and red flames started to develop, getting larger and larger with each passing second.
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"4000 life points of damage!?" Yugi clenched his fists at his sides. He snapped his head up at Giovan. "How is that fair!?"
Giovan smiled down at the King of Game and shrugged. "What's the matter Yugi? Don't think you can defeat something like that?"
Yugi growled out, "You may as well be cheating! That card is not fair!"
Giovan shrugged it off. "Once again I say, don't think you can handle it Yugi?"
This time Yugi went silent, his glare promising Giovan that when they met in a duel, his cheating would not win for him.
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The dimension howled and thrashed in the air like a living thing, spouting jets of flame and bursts of smoke and light.
Kaigen's monotone had broken, unveiling a voice thick with anger. "Can you feel the flames? Can you feel them crying out for your blood? Can you feel them crying out for your soul? CAN YOU!?"
All three members of Team Destruct stumbled away from the roaring rip in the sky. Even for a hologram it seemed far too real.
From underneath his concealing cloak Kaigen sneered. "What you look upon is the very flaming abyss where people go when they die. A place where there is no relief and there is no peace. Nothing is there but death and pain......" His head dropped a little to look at the ground. "It is a place of eternal torment, where nothing can withstand its wrath."
Ryan felt cold shivers run up and down his spine. "Are you insane or something!? It's just a card!"
Kaigen's hooded head snapped up and from underneath the folds of his black cloak Ryan could see a pair of crimson red glowing eyes glaring at him. "Just a card huh? Let me show you just what this card really is." He flipped his other face-down card. "First I trigger the magic card Endurance Drain, which will double the damage of any one magic card of my choosing. Therefore now my Hell Meteor does 8000 points of damage."
Ryan had moved all the way back to the edge of the ring. "I give in....I give in!!"
Kaigen's reply was so cold that for a moment even the burning flames of the building Hell Meteor seemed to slow down. "It's a little too late for that, don't you think?" The Hell Meteor dropped out of the air towards its target, the ball of black and red flame the size of a house now. "NOW DIE!"
Leader and Thomas had to throw themselves out of the way as the Meteor slammed into Ryan. They heard screams of pain that the Meteor seemed to feed off of, getting bigger for a moment, and then in one thunderous blast it exploded, engulfing the ring in flames.
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From down on ground level the remaining duelists had to brace themselves, lest they would be hurled straight against the wall by the force of the Hell Meteor's explosion. The blast grew bigger and bigger, filling the room with hellish red and black flames that licked at the skin of everyone in the room.
Up in his seat Giovan had already turned on the speakers next to him, the echoing beauty of Beethoven's 5th Symphony playing in his ears as he watched the three members of Team Destruct be burned to a literal crisp. Just as the song reached its final crescendo their bodies faded from the flames, leaving nothing left but scorch marks in the ring.
Ryan- 0
Leader- Unable to play
Thomas- Unable to play
Kaigen- 6550
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As the flames finally died down Kaigen had returned to his inanimate state, seeming cold and emotionless once again. The ring lowered and the cloaked man climbed down, walking over to rejoin the other emissaries.
Everyone stared at the scorch-marks in the arena where Team Destruct had been a moment before. Finally it was Yugi who spun around and looked up at Giovan. "What happened to them!?"
Giovan rested his head in his palm and sighed. "What do you think happened? What happens to people when fireballs as big as houses drop on them?"
Yugi could barely contain his anger. He could feel it bubbling to the surface. Even the Egyptian God Cards weren't capable of that kind of destruction.
Giovan stood up in his chair and looked down at the assembled duelists, Beethoven's 5th Symphony still playing in the background behind him. "On that note, Team Emissary is the winner." He snapped his fingers. "Oh yes, before I forget! Let me remind you all that I have now turned up the pain system on the duel disks to a whole new level." He motioned to the scorch marks in the ring where Team Destruct had been. "As you can see, now all of the damage you can take from the cards is quite real."
He looked down at the screen, which had the last two team names on it. "On that note, it's time for round four of the Quarter-finals! Team Topdeck vs. Team Makai!"
All three members of Team Topdeck snapped their eyes wide open as the four gothic freaks that Rebecca and CJ had sent packing came in through the double doors.
To be continued...
Next Chapter: Dimension vs. Dimension
Author's notes: Well this was a tough chapter for me. Doing a three on one duel is never easy. As for how Team Makai came back...well let's just say all shall be explained in the next chapter.