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Chapter 29: Dimension vs. Vampire
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.
Rebecca was the first to break the silence. "What are you freaks of nature doing here!?"
The leader of the group, Brujah, slid his sunglasses off and smiled. "What's the matter little girl? Not happy to see us again?" Rebecca's frown answered him better than any words ever could.
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Giovan nodded down to Deondre and Brujah. "Now roll your COCs and let us see who goes first." Both leaders nodded and threw their COCs, watching the cubes bounce until they came to a stop.
Deondre's landed on a one.
Brujah's landed on a five.
Deondre shuffled his deck and slid it into his duel disk. "Good, I get to knock you freaks out of this tournament."
The third member of Team Makai, a huge man in a leather overcoat, stomped onto the dueling ring and took his position across from Deondre.
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Giovan looked at his watch and frowned. "This match will decide which team goes onto the finals. Lunch is going to be served in half an hour and I for one do not intend to miss it. Deondre vs. Gangrel! Begin!"
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Deondre drew his five and then his sixth. ("It's kind of funny to watch him change the rules of the tournament to suit his personal needs.") He slid two cards into his duel disk and placed a monster onto his disk in defense mode. "End turn."
Gangrel drew a card from his deck and placed down a monster. "Prepare yourself for Gil Gars (1800/1500) in attack mode." A demon in purple armor wielding a sword appeared on his field. "Now Gil Gars attack his face-down monster!" The demon leapt across the expanse, slashing Deondre's monster in half.
Deondre shook his head and held up his face-down monster card for Gangrel to see. "Everyone always attacks my face-down Dimensional Warrior. (1200/800) I almost feel bad for you vampire boy. You see when my Dimensional Warrior battles another monster it removes itself and the other monster from play."
Gangrel growled and took the Gil Gars monster card off of his deck, sliding the card into his back pocket. "I'll set one card and end my turn then."
Deondre drew and slapped a monster onto his disk. "I summon D.D. Warrior Lady (1500/1600) in attack mode." A woman in a grey bodysuit carrying a laser dagger appeared on the field. "Now attack his life points directly."
Gangrel flipped up his face-down card. "Go right ahead and attack me, but prepare yourself as you slam right into my Fearful Earthbound continuous trap card!" Around Deondre a set of brown jaws appeared out of the earth, poised to bite down on him in an instant. "As long as this trap card remains on the field you will take 500 life points of damage every time you declare an attack against me!"
The jaws began to close around Deondre, but he pressed a button on his duel disk and they froze. The jaws seemed to shudder in pain, right before they exploded.
Deondre smiled and flipped up his face-down card. "Mystical Space Typhoon says forget that. You see when it is activated it will destroy one magic or trap on the field, meaning your Fearful Earthbound isn't a threat anymore." The D.D. Warrior Lady slammed her dagger right into Gangrel's chest, sending him stumbling back in pain. He clutched at his ribs; a bloody gash had developed from where the hologram had cut him.
Deondre- 8000
Gangrel- 6500
Deondre stared at the wound his monster had created. ("I need to be careful. If I'm not I may just wind up sharing his pain.") He slid a new card into his duel disk. "I'll set one card face-down on the field and end my turn."
Gangrel drew and slid a card into his duel disk. "I play the magic card Vampirism!" On his field a pale man dressed in a count's clothing appeared. "This will allow me to pay any amount of life points in intervals of 1000. For every 1000 I pay you lose 1000 life points." He sneered, his fangs glistening in the light. "I'll pay 6000 life points."
The vampire count spun around and bit down on his neck, drinking in his blood. He stood there, eyes wide and teeth clenched as the hologram inflicted huge amounts of damage to him. As soon as the vampire was done Gangrel collapsed to his knees.
Deondre braced himself as the vampire flew over to him and bit down. He felt the teeth enter his neck and he felt his blood being drained out of him. His body started to feel weaker and weaker, until soon he could barely keep his eyes open. After what felt like hours he collapsed to his knees, barely able to keep conscious.
Deondre- 2000
Gangrel- 500
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Giovan tapped his fingers together in thought. ("That was quite a risky move that Gangrel did. Considering that I have turned up the realism of the holograms, I'd think he would be more careful with his life points.")
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Gangrel slowly came up to one knee and slid a new card into his duel disk. "Now I play the magic card Damage Recovery. This allows me to gain back all life points that I have lost this turn." A woman in white robes appeared next to him and brushed his cheek with her hand. Tingles ran through his body and he stood back on his feet, almost completely healed except for the gash in his chest from the wound that Deondre's D.D. Warrior Lady had dealt him.
Deondre- 2000
Gangrel- 6500
Deondre still had his head lolling downwards, blood dripping from his neck to the steel underneath him.
Gangrel sighed and shook his head. "It's quite sad to watch someone who is unable to take the pain. Well let me put you out of your misery with this monster." He took a card from his hand and played it onto his disk. "Say hello to my Vampire Lady (1550/1550) in attack mode!" A blue-skinned woman dressed in a form fitting purple gown appeared and giggled, baring her fangs.
Smiling enough to show off his own fangs, Gangrel pointed at Deondre. "Go show the weakling your kiss my dear!" The Vampire Lady lunged across the field, teeth bared to drain Deondre of more of his blood. Right before she arrived though Deondre's D.D. Warrior Lady leaped into the way. The two female monsters wrestled for a moment before the Vampire Lady bit down on the D.D. Warrior Lady's neck. The blond-haired woman's eyes narrowed weakly. She grappled onto the Vampire Lady and pushed a button on her belt. There was a flash of light and both monsters disappeared.
Deondre- 1950
Gangrel- 6500
Deondre somehow managed to pull himself to his feet, eyes drooping in exhaustion. "You slammed right into my D.D. Warrior Lady and her effect. When she battles a monster I may choose to remove both her and the other monster from play."
Gangrel pointed across the field at his drained opponent. "True, but my Vampire Lady's effect still activates. When she deals you life point damage I may call one card type and you must remove one card of that type from your deck and place it into your graveyard. I'll call trap."
Deondre popped his deck out of his duel disk and looked through it, using every bit of his remaining energy to stay focused. 'I'll discard a Dimensional Warp trap card from my deck." He shuffled his deck and put it back into his disk. Then he took the Dimensional Warp card and slid it into his graveyard.
Gangrel looked his hand over and slid two cards into his duel disk. "End turn."
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Rebecca bit her lower lip as she watched Deondre weakly draw his next card. "Is he going to be okay?"
CJ took his eyes off of the duel and looked over at Rebecca. "He'll be okay.....I think."
Amy frowned. "He had better be okay. Team Topdeck's rise to the top is riding on his shoulders."
CJ sighed. ("When did we ever elect her as our manager anyways?")
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Deondre looked at the card he had just drawn and narrowed his eyes. He had never put this card into his deck. ("This is...")
Gangrel snickered at him from across the field. "What's the matter? Still haven't caught your breath yet?"
Deondre brought his attention back to the duel. He was still exhausted, but if he could get this out onto the field his chance of winning was much better. "Actually no, I've caught my breath." He slapped a monster onto his duel disk. "I summon D.D. Lancer (1500/1000) in attack mode!" A man in futuristic armor wielding a laser lance appeared. "Now I order my monster to attack your life points directly!" The Lancer raised his weapon and yelled a battle cry, picking up into a charge at Gangrel.
Right before it reached him though a hole opened up into the ground right underneath the Lancer's feet. He stopped in mid-air and feel in. From deep inside the pit screams of pain could be heard and his monster's lance, now bloodied, was spat up and out of the hole, landing at Deondre's feet. The weapon shivered and then exploded into digital dust.
Gangrel cackled and held up one of his two traps. "You just ran right into my Vampire Pit Trap. It destroys one attacking monster and drains the owner of said monster by its attack total."
Deondre- 450
Gangrel- 6000
Deondre stumbled, his vision starting to fade. He collapsed to the ground, gasping for air.
From up in his seat, Giovan thought now was the best time to add in, "You understand that if you pass out we immediately give the win to Team Makai, correct?"
Exerting every bit of willpower Deondre had left, he got back on his feet. "I'll...set two cards face-down and end my turn."
Gangrel drew. "I'll set a monster in defense mode and end my turn."
Deondre drew and slid a card into his duel disk. "I play....the magic...card.....Monster....Reborn....reviving...." He forced his eyes open and took a few heaving breaths. "....D.D. Lancer in defense mode." The laser lance wielding monster reappeared on his field in a crouching position.
"Now I play the Magic card Cost Down." He slid a card from his hand into the graveyard. "This reduces the level of all monsters in my hand by two. Now I'll sacrifice my D.D. Lancer to summon Dark Magician (2500/2100) in attack mode!" The purple-robed spellcaster appeared on Deondre's field and lifted his staff.
Gangrel chuckled. ("If he attacks I'll trigger my Magic Cylinder trap card, which will drain him of his monster's attack strength in life points.")
Deondre flipped one of his three face-down cards. "Now I reveal Knight's Title! This card will transform Dark Magician into Dark Magician Knight! (2500/2100)" The purple-robed spellcaster started to change, his robes changing into armor and his staff changing into a sword. "Now his special ability triggers. When my Dark Magician Knight comes to the field he immediately destroys one card on the field. I choose your face-down magic/trap card." The knight arched his arm back and then threw his sword into the air. It slammed into Gangrel's face-down card and destroyed it instantly.
Gangrel wasn't too worried. He still had his face-down monster card to protect him from attack.
Deondre flipped his next card. "Now I activate the magic card Nobleman of Crossout, which will remove your face-down monster from play." A man in shining silver armor appeared and lunged across the field. In just two quick slices Gangrel's face-down monster card was gone.
Now Gangrel was afraid. ("I'm wide open to attack!")
Deodre smiled weakly, his legs starting to give out on him. ("It's now or never. Do or die.") He flipped up his last face-down card. "I reveal the trap card Return from a Different Dimension. At the cost of half of my life points I will special summon as many monsters as I can from one of our removed from play piles. That means I will return your Gil Gars and Vampire Lady from the removed from play pile to the field under my control."
Next to Deondre's Dark Magician Knight both of Gangrel's old monsters appeared.
Shakily, Deondre pointed at Gangrel. "Full force attack!"
The three creatures launched across the field and slammed their weapons down all at once on Gangrel, the mock vampire screaming as dozens of bloody cuts were opened up on his skin.
Deondre- 225
Gangrel- 150
Deondre smiled weakly, right before he crashed face-first to the ground. Seconds later Gangrel did the same.
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Up in the stands, Giovan stood up and started to clap wildly. "That was a superb maneuver! Because both players are out cold Deondre wins by default because his life point total is higher."
Team Makai stared up at Giovan.
Team Topdeck cheered as the ring lowered. They ran over and made sure that Deondre was still alive. After checking his pulse, Amy nodded in relief. "He'll be okay. We just need to get him to a bed."
CJ didn't hear her. He was too busy mocking Team Makai as they stomped off angrily.
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Giovan looked up at the clock on the wall and smiled. "That's lucky. It's lunch time." Without giving a word of congratulations to the other duelists he walked off to eat.
To be continued...
Next Chapter: Downtime before the Semi-finals
Author's notes: Another chapter complete. Anyway, if you are reading this then please send in a review, even if you really don't have anything to say. I'd just like to know how many people are still reading this fic. Thanks.