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Chapter 32: Open mind
With some help from Yugi and Devan, Rebecca got CJ off of the dueling ring and down to the infirmary.
Rebecca returned less than three minutes later with her deck ready. She ran onto the dueling ring and looked up at Giovan. "I'm ready to duel, you freak."
Giovan threw her a cold glare. "Little girls shouldn't talk that way to their betters."
Rebecca laughed. "You're not my better. You're not even a snake's better. You're nothing more than a freak of nature. You're an unholy creature that should not ever have been born."
Giovan's scowl got deeper and deeper, anger quite evident in his eyes. "You little..."
Rebecca struck the final blow. "When you were born your parents should have thrown you out with the garbage. You were a mistake, Giovan Garlin."
His eyes started to glow a light red. He almost instantly regained his calm and motioned down to his team. "Kaigen, destroy her."
The cloaked figure nodded to his master and climbed into the dueling ring. His jet black duel disk clicked into position.
Rebecca's duel disk clicked into place too. "By the time I am done you will be nothing more than a pile of ash on the ground, murderer."
Giovan raised and dropped his hand. "Next game of Team Topdeck vs. Team Emissary! The little brat versus Kaigen! Begin!"
Rebecca drew and slid two cards into her duel disk. "I'm going to set these two cards face-down on the field. Then I will summon Hysteric Fairy (1800/800) in attack mode." A red-skinned fairy in a blue business suit appeared on Rebecca's field. "End turn."
Kaigen drew and in his monotone said, "I summon Giant Germ (1000/100) in face-up defense mode." A purple blob appeared on his field. "End turn."
Rebecca drew and shook her head at her opponent. "Do you think I am dumb enough to attack your Germ? Not only will you get to summon the other two of them to the field and deal me 500 life points of damage, but you will also gain demons in the graveyard to sacrifice for your Dark Necrofear." She slid a card into her duel disk. "I play the magic card Pot of Greed, which lets me draw two cards from my deck." She pulled her two new cards free and looked her hand over. ("There we go...This will deal with his Giant Germ.")
She slapped a new monster onto her duel disk. "I summon Banisher of the Light (100/2000) in defense mode!" A man in monk's robes appeared on her field in a crouching position. "As long as he is face-up on the field all of your cards that are sent to the graveyard are removed from play instead. This means that your Giant Germ is leaving the game, so its special ability won't work. Hysteric Fairy attack!"
The suited angel flew across the field and slammed into the blob, the fiend creature shivering and then fading away to Kaigen's removed from play pile.
Rebecca grinned proudly. "End turn."
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"All right Rebecca! Show that jerk that we won't tolerate a duelist who takes his games too far!" Yelled Joey.
From next to him Yugi nodded. "I must admit that is quite a clever play. As long as her Banisher of the Light is on the field then Kaigen's demons will be going into the removed from play pile, which means that all of his recursion cards will become all but useless."
Siegfried crossed his arms across his chest. "I think it is a little early to congratulate her on anything though. At the moment we are unsure what cards Kaigen may be holding in his hand. What if he draws the Hell Meteor card?"
Yugi frowned. "If he does then I can only hope that she had a face-down card that can deal with it."
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Kaigen drew and slapped a monster onto his disk. "I summon Giant Orc (2200/0) in attack mode." A giant grey monster wielding a spiked bone club appeared. "Attack her Banisher of the Light." The monster charged across the field, only to have its club swing stopped by a glowing blue-green barrier that sprang up right before it could hit the Banisher.
Rebecca held up one of her trap cards. "Sorry, but you attacked my Draining Shield. It negates the attack of your monster and raises my life points by your creature's attack strength."
Rebecca- 10, 200
Kaigen- 8000
Kaigen slid two cards into his duel disk. "I set two cards face-down and end my turn."
Rebecca drew and slid her Hysteric Fairy off of her disk, inserting the card into her graveyard. "I sacrifice my Hysteric Fairy to summon Angel of Judgment, Saturn (2400/0) in attack mode." A purple-skinned angel in white robes appeared and bowed to Rebecca, before turning her attention to Kaigen's Giant Orc.
Kaigen flipped his face-down card. "I reveal the trap card Bottomless Trap Hole, which sends your Angel straight into the removed from play pile." A hole opened up underneath the angel and tendrils of gray smoke reached up form the pit. They wrapped around the Angel and in one sharp pull she disappeared, never to be seen again.
Rebecca frowned and slid a card from her hand into her duel disk. "Don't think you're even close to beating me. I set one card face-down and end my turn."
Kaigen drew and slid two cards into his duel disk. "I set these two cards face-down on my field. End turn."
Rebecca drew and set one monster from her hand onto her disk in face-down defense. "I set this monster and end my turn."
Kaigen drew and set one monster face-down. "End turn."
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Siegfried, arms still crossed, frowned. "It looks like we have reached the stalemate part of the game."
Kaiba nodded. "Neither of them will attack in fear of a trap card on their opponent's field."
Joey and Devan tapped their feet impatiently.
Yugi looked at Rebecca's face and smiled. "She's not afraid of him. She's waiting for something."
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Rebecca drew and removed her face-down monster from her duel disk. "I sacrifice my face-down monster card to summon Celestial Knight (2200/0) in attack mode." An angel in shining silver armor wielding a platinum pike appeared and bowed to her. "His special ability allows me to sacrifice a light monster from my hand to destroy one monster on your field." She slid one of the cards from her hand into the graveyard. "Say your farewells to your Giant Orc." The Knight wound up his weapon and threw it across the field, the spear slashing through the gray-skinned monster and blowing it to pieces.
Kaigen flipped up his face-down card. "I reveal Michizure. This trap triggers whenever I lose a monster on my field. It will destroy one monster on your field. I target your Celestial Knight." A crack in the ground appeared under Rebecca's monster and he disappeared from play.
Rebecca's smile wilted. She looked at the last two cards in her hand and frowned. "End turn."
Kaigen drew and slid his face-down monster into the removed from play pile. "I sacrifice my face-down demon to summon Dark Ruler Hades." A large robed demon appeared and laughed, its voice booming across the field. "Darkness Pulse!" The Dark Ruler charged up a black ball of energy between its palms and threw it across the field at Rebecca's Banisher of the Light." Right before the attack hit another blue-green barrier of light appeared and stopped the attack.
Rebecca smiled and slid her second Draining Shield into her graveyard. "I suggest you be careful. If you keep this up I will gain more than enough life points to win this duel."
Kaigen's reply was to tap a button on his duel disk, flipping up one of his face-down cards. "I reveal the continuous trap card Bad Reaction to Simochi. Whenever you try to gain life points you will instead lose them."
Rebecca- 7750
Kaigen- 8000
Rebecca's smile was gone now. She felt a cold sweat break across her forehead. ("That card negates my deck's entire strategy.")
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Despite the fact that Kaiba wanted Rebecca to win, he couldn't help but smile a little at the fact that her annoying life gain strategy was being turned against her.
Siegfried shook his head sadly. "It's over for her. She cannot win now that her deck's entire strategy has been negated."
Yugi shook his head as well, but for a different reason. "She can win. I promise you that she can win."
Joey looked the field over and scratched the back of his head in confusion. "How's that Yug?"
"I saw one of the two cards she is holding. It had more than enough power to defeat Kaigen. I don't understand why she is withholding it, but if she plays it her chance of winning will increase."
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Kaigen slid a card into his duel disk. "I set this card face-down and end my turn."
Rebecca drew. ("If I summon Jinzo and use my face-down card, he will be more than powerful enough to win this duel for me. But...") Her mind flashed to images of her brother. ("....what if Jinzo doesn't obey me? I remember hearing from Deondre that during the PQ tourney Jinzo wouldn't work for Daniel at one point.")
Kaigen stood tall across the field, watching her with his crimson eyes that glowed from underneath his hood. What she saw in those eyes was a darkness and hatred that no human should be able to possess.
Rebecca steeled her resolve. If Jinzo didn't obey her then so be it. "I sacrifice Banisher of the Light to summon Jinzo!" (2400/1500) Thankfully the green armored humanoid appeared on her field and chuckled in its cold mechanical voice. She smiled to him. ("Thank you Jinzo.")
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Yugi looked relieved. ("Whatever reasons she had for not playing Jinzo before are now gone. Now she has a chance.")
Joey scratched the back of his head. "Errr...was that the big play Yug?"
Yugi shook his head a little. "Just watch and you will see Joey."
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Rebecca flipped her face-down card. "I activate the magic card Monster Reborn to revive the monster I sent to the graveyard with the effect of my Celestial Knight. Come forth Guardian Angel Joan (2800/2000) in attack mode!" An orange-haired woman in white robes appeared and stretched her wings. Divine light gleamed from off of her body, plunging the entire field into light. She pointed at the Dark Ruler. "Attack with Holy Blast!" Joan charged up a ball of glowing light energy that she threw at Kaigen's Dark Ruler.
Right before the blast arrived though Kaigen flipped up his face-down card. "I reveal the quick-play equipment magic card Ability Negate." A steel clamp flew from his field and attached to Rebecca's Jinzo. "As long as this effect is in play you Jinzo will not have any special abilities."
Joan's blast hit the Dark Ruler and he gave out one screeching cry of pain before he was destroyed.
Rebecca- 7750
Kaigen- 7650
Rebecca's eyes went wide as she realized what that meant. "My Joan's special ability..."
Still in his monotone, Kaigen finished for her. "...means you gain life points equal to the original attack of whatever monster she destroys. However, because your Jinzo has no special ability my Bad Reaction to Simochi trap card means instead of you gaining 2450 life points you lose 2450 life points instead."
Rebecca- 5300
Kaigen- 7650
Rebecca face twisted in anger. "Jinzo attack his life points directly! Cyber Shock!" The green armored monster charged up a ball of dark energy within his cupper palms. Then he threw it across the field at Kaigen. Right before it hit though a pair of cups appeared on Kaigen's field. The blast flew into one of them and then came out of the other one, sending the attack across the field to hit Rebecca directly.
Rebecca- 2900
Kaigen- 7650
Kaigen slid his trap card out of his duel disk and placed it into his graveyard. "It's a shame you attacked my life points directly while my Magic Cylinder was on the field. When I activate it any damage that I would take from an attack is dealt to you instead."
Rebecca couldn't hear him though. She was on her knees and choking for air as the energy from Jinzo's attack had badly damaged her body. ("It....burns...")
For a moment the crimson red eyes under Kaigen's hood seemed to fade. The Emissary looked as if he was about to go over and help the girl.
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From up in his seat Giovan clenched his fist and extended his mind to Kaigen. ("She is your enemy....")
Instantly the crimson glow of Kaigen's eyes was back, the two hooded orbs glowing brighter and brighter with every passing second. ("Of course my master.")
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Rebecca slowly got to her feet, eyes locked onto Kaigen. "I...will not give up. You don't scare me!" When the only response she got was a blank stare from her opponent though, Rebecca wasn't so sure whether she could win or not. She nodded to her opponent. "End turn."
Kaigen drew and slid his new card into his duel disk. "I play Pot of Greed, which allows me to draw two cards from my deck." He drew his new cards and then slid all three of the cards in his hand face-down into his duel disk. "End turn."
Rebecca knew that all of those cards were traps, and as long as her Jinzo had Ability Negate equipped it would be unable to use its special ability to negate all trap cards on the field. ("I need to draw the card that will turn this around.")
Her hand inched towards her deck and she drew...
To be continued...
Next Chapter: A Puppet without strings
Authors Notes: Hey there everyone. I was just looking at my reviews and I wanted to thank everyone who had ever posted a review for me, namely:
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