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Chapter 44: The Lord of Dimensions Arises
Kaiba smiled at the look of horror that crossed his opponent's face. ("I love watching them do that.") "You know that means that I will just sit here and gain life points, while you slowly deck yourself and hide behind your defenses. Now you have no choice but to try and attack. So come..." He motioned to his Blue-Eyes White Dragon. "And meet your doom!" His laughter echoed across the arena.
Deondre drew and grimaced at the card he had drawn. This was the first time he had ever gone against an opponent who didn't try to use beatdown on him. Now he had to rethink his entire strategy or else he would wind up drawing his entire deck. "End turn."
Kaiba drew, the card instantly being slashed apart by the secondary effect of Card of Demise. "And now my Card Sanctum raises my life points by 1500." The shrine released an unearthly glow that enveloped Kaiba. "End turn."
Deondre- 6100
Kaiba- 4700
Deondre drew and hissed in annoyance. ("Another card I can't use.") "End turn."
Kaiba smirked at his superior position over his opponent in this duel. "I see you are starting understand that as long as I don't attack you can't touch me with anything." He drew his card, the shrine shined its light on him, and he nodded to Deondre. "End turn."
Deondre- 6100
Kaiba- 6200
Deondre drew and he groaned in frustration. "End turn."
Kaiba drew, looked at his card, then nodded back to his opponent. "End turn."
Deondre- 6100
Kaiba- 7700
Deondre couldn't believe this. All of his hard work was being undone by one stupid magic card. ("I need a way to kill that damn thing.") He drew and scratched at his chin. Now was the best time to go over his field and see if he could do anything about this situation. ("Let's see...") He had three cards face-down and his D.D. Beacon in play with one counter on it. He still had four Magical Silk Hats on his field and underneath one of them was a monster. Underneath two of them were trap cards. The last one contained his Dark Magician. He currently had four cards in his hand too. ("And I can't use any of them to take out Kaiba. All of these cards are defensive in nature.") "End turn."
Kaiba drew and didn't even bother to look at his card. "End turn."
Deondre- 6100
Kaiba- 9200
Deondre drew and his eyes widened at the card he had drawn. ("This might have a chance to work.") He slid a card from his hand into his duel disk. "I activate the magic card Dimension Hole. This effect teleports one of my Magical Silk Hats off of the field until the beginning of my next turn." As one of his hats disappeared, a counter appeared over his D.D. Beacon.
"Then I play another the magic card D.D. Gathering, which lets me search my deck for any monster with D.D. in its title." He pulled free the thin remains of his deck and grabbed a monster card out of it. A third counter was over his D.D. Beacon.
"My next move requires that I bring my face-down monster out of hiding." One of the three remaining Magical Silk Hats lifted up and the face-down brown-backed card underneath it floated off the side. The hat landed back on the ground and all three of the magical top hats spun in a circle rapidly, concealing which one was now empty.
Kaiba rolled his eyes. "Is this going anywhere? Or are you just wasting my precious time?"
Deondre ignored him. "Now I flip up my D.D. Scout plane into attack position." The metal pod appeared and hovered on his field. A fourth counter appeared over his Beacon. "Now to finish my combo I sacrifice my Scout Plan to summon D.D. Dragon (1200/1500) in attack mode." A crystalline dragon appeared on his field and screeched. The fifth counter appeared on his D.D. Beacon and Deondre smiled. ("Alright, now we just need to wait a turn.") "End turn."
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CJ watched the field fearfully. If Deondre lost his duel then they were out of the tournament. If he won though... ("Better not Jinx it.")
Daniel crossed his arms across his chest. ("This is getting to be nothing more then one big standoff.")
Rikuo's voice sound rather peeved. ("Shut up. You have no idea how to properly wait out your opponent, do you?")
("Wait them out?")
("Deondre is getting ready for something very big.")
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Kaiba drew and looked at Deondre's field appraisingly, his mind churning to try and remember what D.D. Beacon did. Unfortunately for him he was coming up with nothing but blanks. He had never heard of the card before and therefore it was going to be a liability for him until he figured out a way to destroy it. ("That shouldn't be too hard.") He slid a card face-down, filling up his magic and trap card spaces. ("Next turn I will trigger Dust Tornado in response to the next card he plays. That way his Beacon will no longer be around and the mysterious threat it represents will be gone.") "End turn."
Deondre- 6100
Kaiba- 10,700
Deondre drew and watched as his fourth Magical Silk Hat returned to the field. "Alright, it's time to pin you down Kaiba." He slid a card into his duel disk. "I activate the magic card D.D. Stasis Field! This will leave all of your magic and traps useless for three turns!"
Kaiba pressed a button his duel disk. "In response I trigger Dust Tornado!" A blue bubble of energy formed over the field and anchored all of Kaiba's cards face-down. His Dust Tornado never had activated.
Deondre smiled and pointed at his duel disk. "D.D. Stasis Field is so good for one reason only. You are not allowed to chain anything to its activation. And since you used up all of your magic and trap spaces, you cannot play magic or trap cards for three whole turns."
Kaiba's eyes narrowed at this announcement. ("He's right...I'm locked out of magic and traps for three turns...")
Deondre looked at the Blue-Eyes White Dragon and smiled. "Now I can trigger one of my face-down cards without fear. I activate the trap card Provocation!" The trap card flipped up and Kaiba's dragon roared in uncontrollable rage. "As long as this trap remains on the field you must attack every creature on my field that has the name Magical Silk Hat." He smiled and tipped his cap to Kaiba. "Have a nice time hitting my hats, dragon boy. End turn."
Kaiba drew and clenched his fist in anger. His Blue-Eyes White Dragon had to attack one of his opponent's Magical Silk Hats now. He lowered his head down to look at the steel floor. "Damn you..."
Deondre smiled and crossed his arms across his chest defiantly. "Come on Kaiba, pick your hat."
Kaiba snapped his hand up and pointed at the hat on the far left. "Burst Stream!" The dragon charged up its attack and fired, the lump of energy destroying the hat instantly. As the smoke cleared a pair of face-up cards revealed themselves, much to Kaiba's horror. ("No...")
Deondre pointed at Kaiba and grinned. "You, my dear sir, hit the jackpot! You've activated my double trap combo! Spell-Binding Circle and Shadow Spell!" A glowing circle appeared around the dragon and its attack power was drained. (2300/2500)
Then the Shadow Spell went off and a storm of chains appeared from the face-up trap card, instantly tying up the massive dragon and draining it of 700 more attack points. (1600/2500)
Kaiba trembled in silent rage. "End turn."
Deondre drew and waved his hand with a flourish. "Now I negate the effect of Magical Silk Hats!" The top hats disappeared off the field and revealed his Dark Magician. "Dark Magic Attack!" The Dark Magician raised its staff and in one flash of inverted light Kaiba's dragon was gone.
Deondre- 6100
Kaiba- 9800
Deondre whistled innocently to his opponent. "End turn."
Kaiba drew...and smiled. "Well this is unexpected. You shouldn't have dropped your Magical Silk Hats defense."
Deondre narrowed his eyes. "Why is that?"
Kaiba slapped down his new monster. "I summon Blue Eyes Hatchling (800/800) in defense mode!" A little white dragon hatchling appeared on Kaiba's field and screeched at the Dark Magician.
Deondre rolled his eyes. "What kind of comeback is this?"
Kaiba pointed at his hatchling. "Activate Special Ability! Instant Evolution!" The little hatchling exploded into digital bits. "You see when I sacrifice Blue Eyes Hatchling I may special summon a Blue-Eyes White Dragon from my hand to the field."
Deondre went pale. "No..."
Kaiba sneered and slapped down his third dragon. It appeared in a flourish of light, roaring in anger at the sight of the Magician. "Good bye, you sad excuse for a spellcaster! Burst Stream!" The dragon unleashed its attack and the Dark Magician was instantly annihilated.
Deondre- 5600
Kaiba- 9800
Kaiba chuckled darkly. "Looks like we are back where we started. End turn."
Deondre drew his card. "Wrong Kaiba. Say good-bye to your third dragon."
Kaiba snorted and waved his hand dismissively. "Your false threats waste both our time."
Deondre flipped up one of his face-down cards. "Activate Soul Resurrection! This trap card can revive one non-effect monster from my graveyard. I choose to return the Dark Magician to the field." The card shimmered and released a white mist that clouded a spot on the field. When the mist cleared it the Dark Magician stood in back on the field.
Kaiba raised one of his eyebrows questioningly. "A defense?"
Deondre shook his head and pointed to his D.D. Beacon. "Now it's time to crack the egg, so to speak. I sacrifice D.D. Beacon to summon the mighty stasis magic card Dimensional Armor to my field!" The green device exploded and in its place was a glowing suit of crystalline blue armor. "Now watch Kaiba as your third dragon gets blown away forever. Go Dimensional Armor! Attach to my Dark Magician!" The crystal armor snapped onto the spellcaster and the entire field was engulfed in light.
When the light cleared, a new magician stood in the position where the Dark Magician had been. It had crystalline blue robes, a long crystal blue staff, and long blond hair. "Say hello to the greatest magician this side of the Different Dimension! Different Dimension Dark Magician!" (2700/2700)
Kaiba didn't look impressed. "I'm starting to question your math skills. For all the lights and smoke that accompanied your monster's arrival, it still doesn't add up to my Blue-Eyes White Dragon."
Deondre waved his finger up near his face. "Tsk tsk tsk...you should know that every good magician always has a trick up his sleeve. For example, the special ability of my Different Dimension Dark Magician is that when he is special summoned to field he removes one monster on it from the game." The Magician slammed its staff into the ground and a portal appeared beneath the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Screeching a roar of surprise, Kaiba's last dragon was gone.
Kaiba felt the blood drain from his face. Until the end of his opponent's next turn he still couldn't use magic or trap cards. And with a 2700 attack monster on his opponent's field, he was wide open to be destroyed.
Deondre knew the look on Kaiba's face. "You think that it is over?"
Kaiba frowned, defiance shining in his eyes. "You wish I was that easily broken! I still have over 8000 life points remaining. You won't be able to get to get rid of my life points before it is too late. Once I have access to my traps and my magic cards again this entire duel will turn around on you."
Deondre sighed and slid one of the cards in his hand into his duel disk. "I play the ritual magic card Dimensional Rift! It requires that I sacrifice up to nine level stars worth of monsters, so I sacrifice my Triple D Magician and this D.D. Scout Plane in my hand." The two monsters appeared in front of a giant crystalline gateway. They both exploded into particles of light that sprayed over the gate of the portal. For a moment nothing happened, and then the gate opened.
The being that strode out of the portal could only be described as a king. His futuristic armor glimmered in the light of the dueling arena, his platinum blond hair looked like spun gold. In his hand he held a scepter made of the same crystalline material as the robes of the Different Dimension Dark Magician. "Kaiba, allow me to introduce you to his majesty, The Lord of the Different Dimension!" (4000/2500)
Kaiba grimaced, though it quickly changed into a small smile. "Heh, do you really think that your monster impresses me? He's just like the rest of your monsters. Nothing but smoke and mirrors."
Deondre bowed to the Lord. "If you could milord, show this guy what you can do." The Lord of the Different Dimension nodded and slammed his scepter head first into the ground.
There was a loud explosion and Kaiba heard his graveyard slot whine in protest. "What're you doing!?" As if on cue Kaiba watched as phantom images of all of the monsters in his graveyard wafted out of the slot and then faded like puffs of smoke.
Deondre's voice broke the hanging silence that followed the effect going off. "When the Lord of the Different Dimension hits the field all monsters in every graveyard are removed from play."
Kaiba's coat billowed in the wind that had picked up around them. "You've removed my Blue-Eyes White Dragons from the game. All of them. For that I will destroy you. As soon as I get my trap and magic cards back then you will be decimated."
Deondre's sharp words snapped him out of his building anger. "Were you listening before? There is no next turn for you Kaiba! Reveal my final face-down card, Return from a Different Dimension!" A portal ripped open behind him. "This trap card costs half of my life points to work, but its effect tends to be worth the hefty cost. It allows me special summon as many monsters as I can from one players removed from play pile. Guess whose pile I am picking?" The portal groaned as all three of Kaiba's Blue-Eyes White Dragons came through it at once, the three titanic beasts forming a half-circle behind the Lord of the Different Dimension.
Kaiba stared in horror as his own dragons prepared to annihilate him. ("This is impossible! I am the world champion of Duel Monsters! He's just some low level duelist! How can he be doing this!?")
Deondre pointed at Kaiba. "Blue-Eyes White Dragons! BURST STREAM!" All three of the dragons unleashed their attacks at once. The concussion from the blast shattered most of the lens on the cameras surrounding the arena, and threw everyone in the arena to their butts.
Deondre- 2800
Kaiba- 800
As the smoke from the triple Burst Stream blast cleared, the unconscious form of Seto Kaiba could be seen lying face-first on the ground.
Deondre continued to stare across the field, eyes shimmering in the torch light.
The dueling ring was lowered to ground level and Daniel ran up to check on his friend. He waved a hand in front of Deondre's face and when he got no reaction he chuckled. "Wow...he passed out from the intensity of the moment."
CJ rolled his eyes and picked up Deondre in a fireman's carry, taking him off the field as the holograms faded. Joey went over and got Kaiba off the field too.
Giovan smiled coldly. "I suppose that brings up to the main event, wouldn't you agree gentlemen?" He addressed the question to Yugi and Daniel.
As one they nodded and walked into the dueling arena. They took their spots across from each other and smiled warm-heartedly.
"Despite whatever happens..." Yugi began.
"There won't be any hard feelings." Daniel finished for him.
They let those words hang in the air as their other selves took over.
Yugi's eyes closed. When they opened their possessed such a powerful intensity to them that was so out of character on Yugi's face that Yami had to be in control.
For the Daniel the change left him much different. As his already wild red hair reached his back and his eyes turned amber-golden and slotted, he slid back from the fore-front of his own mind and gave Rikuo control.
Silence hung over the ring as the two spirits faced off.
Finally Yami broke it. "I am curious to see just how powerful of a duelist you really are Rikuo. I've never seen you or your host duel before. How about we have a little game?"
The wolf demon chuckled as his duel disk clicked into place. "Sure."
Yami's duel disk clicked into place and he nodded. "Let's duel!"
To be continued...
Next Chapter: Rikuo vs. Yami
Author's notes: And the finals are down to the final stretch. Who will win in the end?
Oh, and to all the Kaiba fans in the audience, please do not hate me. If you are displeased with me let me know and I will make it up to you later in the storyline. I already owed Joey a victory, and if Kaiba won then where would the drama of this duel be?
As always, Read and Review please. For they are the energy that encourages me to write this story.