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Demon Duelist Legacy-Dark Soul Arc
Chapter 11: CJ's new strategy
CJ drew and he smiled to Joey. "I think it is time to reveal my new deck strategy. And by the time it is done, you two clowns will be all washed up!"
He slid the card he had drawn into his duel disk. "First I activate the magic card Pot of Greed, which lets me draw two cards from my deck." He drew two cards and slid one into his disk.
"Now I activate the card that will get my winning strategy started. Activate Awakening of the Spirit! This magic card requires that I sacrifice two monsters from my hand or field to get it started, so I discard the D.D. Crazy Beast (1400/1400) I drew and my Manticore of Darkness to activate my magic card!"
A wave of golden light enveloped CJ and as it cleared he looked completely different. He was wearing a suit of light weight gold armor. In his arms rested a heavy looking and ornately crafted sledgehammer. The weapon pulsed with an inner light that seemed to illuminate the whole field. His duel disk hovered in front of his, as did his hand of cards.
Joey stared at the glowing warrior in awe. "CJ?"
CJ smiled back at his friend and then he brought his attention to his opponents. "No. At the moment I am not CJ. I am Banisher of the Dark." (2800/3500)
Peten took step back to get some distance between himself and CJ. "What kind of strategy is this? By turning yourself into a monster you have accomplished nothing at all."
CJ smirked and hefted the hammer. "We'll see who has accomplished nothing. I will now attack your life points directly Peten!" He picked up into a charge, hammer poised to strike.
Peten tapped a button on his duel disk. "You will attempt to attack my life points, you mean. Reveal Magic Cylinder! This will...." The trap shuddered and exploded. "WHAT!?"
CJ sneered and brought his hammer down on the exposed clown's forehead. Since the blow was only a hologram it didn't do anywhere near as much damage as it could have, but it still dazed the Emissary.
CJ- 7400
Joey- 6900
Peten- 3500
Saggi- 8000
Saggi stared at his dazed partner. "What happened to his trap card?"
CJ slung the hammer over one shoulder. "Banisher of the Dark's special ability allows him to negate any trap effects that try and work on him. End turn."
Peten slowly came to his feet and he drew his card. "You...you think we will be defeated by you!?" He slid a magic card into his duel disk. "I activate the magic card Combining Forces!" A huge vortex opened up between Saggi and Peten. "Get ready for a whole new duel boys!"
Saggi snickered as he was sucked into the vortex, with Peten following after him seconds later. Their respective fields faded as well.
CJ and Joey stared at each other. "Did we win?"
"Not quite," A stereo voice said from within the vortex. As the smoky swirl disappeared, it revealed a Duel Monster wearing a mask that was half black and half white. He wore regal robes and a silver-black duel disk.
"Now you must contend with one opponent. Combining Forces is a special magic card that fuses two partners together to form a single duelist. This new duelist starts with the combined life totals of his two parts, a new deck and a new starting hand. A new deck master is also created."
All of the spotlights in the area snapped on and framed the new creature in light. "I am Sagen, King of Darkness." (1000/2000)
CJ chuckled and hefted his hammer into a striking position. "You aren't that tough."
Sagen chortled. "Don't you understand yet that brute force won't win you this duel? My deck master ability will make sure of that too." He drew five cards from his new deck and slapped down a monster. "First I summon Saggi the Dark Clown (600/1500) in defense mode." The disfigured dark creature appeared on the field in a crouching position. "Then I set two cards face-down, end turn."
Joey drew and he flipped up one of his two face-down cards. "Go Life Point Removal System! This allows me to pay all but 2000 life points to draw one card from my deck for every 500 life points I have lost because of this!"
CJ- 7400
Joey- 2000
Sagen- 11500
He drew nine cards off the top of his deck and flipped his next card. "Now I activate Aura Armor! It requires that I sacrifice half of my life points, but I can only trigger it when I have 2000 or less life points remaining. It summons a player token to the field with attack and defense equal to half of my life points!" A suit of draconic armor appeared and flew over to snap onto Joey's body. As soon as it was done he looked like a dragon knight. (1000/1000)
CJ- 7400
Joey- 1000
Sagen- 11500
Then Joey slid four cards into his duel disk. "Next up is four cards face-down on my field and the magic card Emergency Provisions. I will sacrifice all four of my set magic and trap cards to gain 1000 life points per card." The four cards exploded and Joey's life points skyrocketed.
CJ- 7400
Joey- 5000
Sagen- 11500
"Next I activate the magic card Red Eyes Transmigration! This ritual requires that I sacrifice a Red-Eyes Black Dragon and a warrior sub-type monster from my field and/or hand." He slid one card into his graveyard. "There's the Red-Eyes! And I'm the warrior!" Then he exploded into flames.
CJ's eyes widened and he considered running in to save his friend, until a being strode out of the flames that left him unable to say anything at all.
The being was wrapped in armor that made it look like a humanoid Red-Eyes Black Dragon. As the fires around it died down the helmeted warrior lifted his head to reveal Joey. "I am the Lord of the Red!" (3400/3000)
CJ snickered and looked over at Sagen. "I bet you're worried now."
The dark king remained silent throughout all of it.
Joey's hand of remaining cards floated behind him. His duel disk floated there too. "Now I activate the magic card Lightning Blade, which raises my attack power by 800 points!" A sword appeared in his hand that was crackling with electrical energy. (4200/3000)
"Now Sagen, get ready...because here I come!" Joey charged across the field, slashing Saggi apart. The pieces of the clown shuddered and then pulled themselves back together.
Sagen chuckled in his stereo voice. "Don't you fools understand that brute force won't beat me that easily? My deck master ability makes all destroyed Clown monsters instantly regenerate." He tapped his duel disk and both of his face-down cards flipped up. "Now I'll make you pay by activating the trap card combo that will wipe you both out! Go Deck Destruction Virus and Deck Annihilation Virus combo!" A purple mist sprayed across the field towards both duelists.
CJ motioned back to one of his face-down cards. "Activate Warrior's Defense! This will defend Lord of the Red from the effect of the Virus. And since Banisher of the Dark is already immune to trap effects, I don't have to worry for myself."
Sagen chortled. "Do you even know what Deck Annihilation Virus and Deck Destruction Virus do? Deck Destruction Virus destroys all monsters in both of your decks and fields that have attack totals of 1500 or higher, while Deck Annihilation Virus attacks all of your monster cards with 1500 or less. All you have left is Lord of the Red and Banisher of the Dark."
Joey frowned as his hand was completely wiped out. His deck was out of monsters now too. ("I've only got one monster remaining.")
CJ looked even more worried. ("That's most of my deck.")
Sagen looked over at CJ. "Well, are you going to take your turn?"
CJ's duel disk popped the top card of his dwindling deck free and the card floated over to him. It hovered in front of him, waiting for his orders. He looked at it and scratched at his chin. ("Hmm...this has real potential if used right.") "I set this card face-down on the field and end my turn."
Sagen drew and slid two cards into his duel disk. "I set these two cards face-down on my field." Then he slid another card in. "Now to start you annihilation. I play the continuous magic card Test of Strength." A glowing box appeared around him. Another connecting box appeared around Joey and CJ, though this one was glowing bright red. "Welcome to the proverbial endgame gentlemen. First let's set the barrier strength. By paying all but one life point I will make it so that you will only be able to attack if you somehow get a monster with over 11499 attack points onto the field."
CJ- 7400
Joey- 5000
Sagen- 1
"Now let me explain to you how exactly this works. First off I must send all of my cards to the graveyard." He took all of his cards off of his duel disk and slid them all into the graveyard. All that remained was him and the barrier. "Now the fun part of this game begins. You see, I may not draw anymore cards from my deck for the rest of this game, but in five turns I will win. So I suggest you make this count. Turn one ends now!" Behind him a glowing square lit up.
Joey's duel disk floated to in front of him and he drew. He looked at the card and frowned unhappily. ("This won't help at all.") "End turn."
The red box of energy began to close in on the two and it started to get hotter. The two partners moved a little closer to each other, duel disks still hovering in front of them.
Sagen snickered from underneath his mask. "Do you understand the nature of my card now? In four turns the two of you will be burned alive by this magic card."
CJ drew and slid the card into his hovering duel disk. "This duel is over for you Sagen! Go Heavy Storm!" A heavy tornado picked up from within the box, but quickly died down.
Sagen cackled and clutched his stomach to hold in the laughter. "Oh I'm sorry, but you can't destroy the Test of Strength effect. Such a waste of your two face-down cards."
CJ growled. "End turn."
Behind Sagen another box lit up and the flaming red box around Joey and CJ slid in closer. Now the air around them was starting to shimmer as it got hotter and hotter.
Joey drew and bit his lower lip. "CJ, I think I have a way to move this along."
CJ nodded back to his partner. "I trust you."
Joey slid the card into his duel disk. "Activate Polymerization, fusing Lord of the Red and Banisher of the Dark together to form one ultimate warrior!"
The two duelists were violently thrown aside as their armors combined to create a gold plated version of the Lord of the Red that hovered in the middle of their now combined fields, its new stats hovering above it. "Red Banisher (5000/5000) armor complete. End turn." The box slid in a little closer.
CJ drew and gritted his teeth. "This card won't help me, so I'll discard it. End turn."
A third box lit up behind Sagen. "Keep at it boys. You've got a 5000 monster on the field, but it's going to take more than that to defeat me."
Joey drew and slid his two cards into the graveyard. "Graceful Dice and Skull Dice can't help us here, so I discard them. End turn."
CJ wiped a few gathering beads of sweat from his forehead. It had to be at least one hundred degrees inside the box now. He drew and slid the card into his duel disk. "Excalibur doubles the attack power of our Red Banisher armor." (10000/5000) "End turn."
A fourth square lit up behind Sagen, and the box slid in much closer around the two duelists. Suddenly the temperature inside the box had become about one hundred and fifty degrees.
Fighting off the excruciating pain, Joey drew his next card. He could barely see it through the glow of the fire, but he could tell it was a trap. "Cr...." He collapsed face-first to the dirt of the ring. Just like that CJ was alone in a living hell.
He looked down at his deck, knowing that no card he had would increase the armor's attack by 1500 points. ("We've....lost.") He collapsed face-first to the dirt, the heat around him intensifying. He felt himself slipping into a sleep that he would never wake up from.
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He looked out the window of his office and at the full moon. How he loved to bask in its radiance on nights like this. ("Nights where I know I will emerge as the victor of everything.")
Then he felt it. It was faint, but.... ("The sealed weapon is awakening...")
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(".....no......it.....can't........end.......like this.") CJ found himself slowly coming to his feet, despite the boiling feeling that was coming off of his skin.
Sagen watched this with interest. ("Does he think he can win this with one card? He should just lie down and die.")
Wreathed in the glowing red of the chamber, CJ suddenly seemed a figure straight out of hell. "You....won't....hurt...my.....friends!!!"
Sagen crossed his arms and scoffed. "And you intend to stop me?"
CJ lifted his hand to the air. "Give....me.....strength....please.....Red....Banisher....." The armor shuddered and then snapped on around him. He looked at his duel disk and then at his opponent. ("The flames.....I won't stop.....not yet!")
Sagen snorted derisively. "You can't get to me, fool. The Test of Strength barrier stops you from attacking."
CJ was surrounded by flames now, as the box increased the heat.
And yet through it all Joey wasn't being hurt at all. The fire didn't seem to touch him. A barrier had sprung up that protected him from harm. And the threads of energy from that barrier was coming from CJ.
"Nexus the Conqueror, activate deck master special ability." CJ's voice no longer wavered, though he was being put through excruciating pain. "Nexus allows me to draw cards from my deck until I find an equipment card and place it into my hand instead of drawing this turn." He started to draw off the top of his deck, ignoring the fact that he could see the flesh of his hand bubbling.
("I won't let you hurt any of these people. I won't let you hurt my friends. I swear it! Just give me the strength to protect them!") He drew his next card and slid it into his duel disk. "I activate the Legendary Weapon Card Guardian Maul!!!"
A huge and ornate hammer appeared in front of him. It pulsed with a light all its own, energy flowing around it. He curled his hands around its handle and felt his entire body charge with power. "Its special power transfers the Red Banisher's defense to its attack points, and then it doubles its defense!" (15000/10000)
Sagen trembled at the flowing energy from the Guardian Maul. "This cannot be! How do you have a Legendary Weapon card!?"
CJ slammed right through the barrier, the Maul held high above his head. "NOW DIE!!" He slammed the weapon down on Sagen's head, the fused Emissary exploding into shadows as his soul was banished from this realm.
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Joey awoke to find himself in the middle of clearing in the forest. He looked over at the unconscious body of CJ and slowly climbed to his feet. "What the heck happened?" He walked over to CJ and hefted the bigger man in a fire-man's carry. He sighed and started walking. They'd find somewhere eventually to use as shelter for the night.
To be continued...
Next chapter: The Moonlight Thief
Author's Notes: I'm sure this must have been a confusing chapter. It was for me and I wrote it. I will go over it though and simplify it. So please review.
Props to Edo's and his Yugioh page for giving the info on some of Joey's cards that he used in this chapter.