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Demon Duelist Legacy-Dark Soul Arc
Chapter 25: The Legendary Weapon of the Air
It didn't take Yami long to reach the square chamber where he would duel his opponent. ("And after that it's on to battle the man behind all of this.") When he arrived he found his opponent.
For this dueling occasion, Seren had worn his very best finery. He'd put on a nice cream-colored business suit that fit in well with his feathery white hair. His pale, yet beautiful features smiled calmly as he watched his opponent enter the chamber. ("So I get the Pharaoh hmm? I would have preferred Rikuo, but oh well.") He put on his best smile and bowed to the King of Games. "Greetings Pharaoh. That is who I am speaking to, correct?"
Yami nodded sharply, his duel disk clicking into place. "That's right. Now who are you?"
Seren lifted up from his bow and clicked his duel disk into place. "Seren Teska, the lord of Crane Demons."
Yami frowned. "So our mystery enemy has some of the demon lords under his control? Why would you obey him? Doesn't he need your soul to use the Legendary Weapon Card of your clan?"
Seren chuckled and nodded. "Yes, but that doesn't mean that he is required to steal my soul. He told me of his divine purpose for doing all of this, and I was more than willing to join his cause. Plus it's been a good way to pass the time while I lived on through the centuries." He drew his five card hand. "Enough about that though. I'll go first, since you technically are challenging me?"
Yami nodded. "Very well." He drew his five.
Seren drew his sixth card and gracefully placed a card onto his disk. "I'll start this off on a light note. I summon Harpy Lady (1300/1400) in attack mode." A hybrid of a bird and a woman appeared on his field. "Then I'll set two cards face-down and end my turn."
Yami drew and grabbed a card from his hand. ("Now the question is, is that Harpy Lady his deck theme or is it there to throw me off. Wind deck or Harpy Lady deck?") He threw down a monster onto his disk. "I summon Dark Blade (1800/1500) in attack mode. Now attack his Harpy Lady!" A black-armored warrior appeared on his field and charged, sword raised to slice the Harpy Lady apart.
Seren tapped a button on his duel disk. "And when you blindly charge, I play my Mirror Wall trap card to cut the attack of your monster in half." A wall of crystal sprang up between the Dark Blade and the Harpy Lady. The warrior's blade slammed into the crystal wall and he faltered. (900/1500)
("I guess that answers what kind of deck he plays.") Yami continued to look his hand over for any kind of answer to his opponent's trap.
Seren pointed at the weakened warrior. "Harpy Lady counter-attack!" The woman screeched and snapped her claws across the warrior's body, cutting him apart in one hit.
Yami- 7600
Seren- 8000
Yami already had his defense planned. "I set two cards face-down and end my turn."
Seren drew and slid a card into his duel disk. "Now I play the magic card Harpie's Feather Duster! This will blow away all of your magic and trap cards on the field." A sharp wind picked up and was launched across the field, instantly destroying the two face-down cards that Yami has set.
The Pharaoh looked at his remaining three cards and gritted his teeth. ("I can't believe I forgot that Harpie's Feather Duster could deal with my face-down traps.")
Seren tossed down another monster. "You're making this too easy Yami. I summon Birdface (1600/1600) in attack mode!" A horrendous bird monster appeared on his field and screeched along with the Harpy Lady as they both placed Yami into their sights. "Directly attack his life points!" The two monsters launched across the field and slammed their claws into his body, sending him stumbling backwards.
Yami- 4700
Seren- 8000
Seren looked at his remaining face-down card and grinned. "End turn."
Yami drew. ("If this is a Harpy Lady deck, then that face-down card is most likely a Shadow of Eyes trap card. That will cause me a lot of damage if I set the wrong monster in defense mode.") "I set this monster face-down on my field."
Seren sighed and tapped a button on his duel disk. "You're going to lose at this rate Pharaoh. Activate the trap card Shadow of Eyes! This will immediately change you monster into attack mode!"
The card shuddered and flipped over to reveal a man with a huge shield, though he remained in a crouching position. "I'm not anywhere near beaten yet. Big Shield Gardna's (100/2600) special ability allows me to negate one effect that targets him when he is face-down, so therefore he is still in defense mode." Yami slid two of the cards he was holding into his duel disk. "Now I set there two cards face-down and end my turn."
Seren drew and slid another card into his duel disk. "Your monster may be safe, but your trap cards certainly aren't. Activate another Harpie's Feather Duster!" Another funnel of wind launched towards Yami's field, but this time it was stopped when it was about halfway there.
Yami pointed at his flipped trap card. "Magic Jammer allows me to discard one card from my hand to negate your magic card." The wind funnel quickly dissipated.
Seren glanced at his hand and smirked. "That's not the only wind I possess though." He slid a card into his duel disk. "For example, I have this Mystical Space Typhoon magic card that will instantly destroy your remaining face-down card." A sharp wind blew across the field and shattered Yami's remaining trap. "Since neither of my monster's can beat your Big Shield, I'm just going to have to end my turn." He knew that he could attack the monster once, and then its special ability would force it into attack mode, but he had other plans.
Yami drew and slid the card into his duel disk. "It looks like for all of your dusters and cyclones, you still won't stop me. Card of Sanctity forces both players to draw until they have six cards in their hands." He quickly drew his six and looked them over to see what his new strategy was going to be. "Alright, now I activate the magic card Soul Exchange! This will allow me to sacrifice your monsters instead of mine." He smiled as Seren's monsters started to fade. "The thing is....I'm going to be sacrificing my own monster too. For now I summon Egyptian God Card, The Winged Dragon of Ra!"
Behind him there was a huge flash of light, followed by a huge form that appeared right behind him. It looked like gigantic bipedal golden dragon. "This is your end Seren, the Winged Dragon of Ra will finish you off and then I will move on to your boss." (3000/5600)
Seren shook his head sadly. "You forget that by playing Soul Exchange you are not allowed to attack me this turn."
Yami didn't forget. "Of course, but let's see you stop me from using Ra in one turn." He slid two cards from his hand into his duel disk. "Now I set these two cards on my field and end my turn."
Seren drew and fanned out his seven cards with a smile on his face. "You asked me to stop Ra. So that is exactly what I will do." He slid a card into his disk. "First my final Harpie's Feather Duster to sweep away your face-down cards!" Another funnel of green wind consumed all of Yami's cards instantly. "Then I shall summon Cyber Harpy (1800/800) in attack mode." A Harpy Lady wearing black armor appeared on his field. "Next up is the magic cards Rose Whip and Cyber Armor, raising my monster's attack power by a grand total of 1000 points." The Harpy screeched in delight as she was encased in a form fitting bodice of steel and a thorned whip appeared in her grasp. (2800/1800)
Yami still wasn't impressed. "So far all I see is another one of your monsters for me to cut down."
Seren smirked and slid another card into his duel disk. "My next play is to use the magic card Pot of Greed to draw two cards from my deck." He drew his two and slid another card into his disk. "Here is the final blow against Ra. I activate my ultimate weapon, the Legendary Weapon Card Winged Bow!" The Cyber Harpy attached the Rose Whip to her belt and an elegant bow shaped like a bird's wing appeared in her grasp. "With my Legendary Weapon Card attached to her, my Cyber Harpy gains two very useful effects. The first one raises its attack points by 500 points!" (3300/1800) "And the second allows my monster to attack all creatures on my opponent's field each turn. Now my Lady, crush The Winged Dragon of Ra now!" The Cyber Harpy pulled back the string of the bow and an arrow appeared. She released her hold on arrow and it shot across the field to tear right through the mighty God Card.
Yami- 4400
Seren- 8000
Yami looked down at remaining three cards with a smile on his face. ("And you're falling right into my trap.")
Seren nodded to Yami. "Alright Pharaoh, try and beat that."
Yami drew and slid two cards into his duel disk. "Don't worry; I have a plan you will not be able to beat. First I set these two cards face-down, and then I summon Kuriboh (300/200) in defense mode." A little brown furball appeared on his field. "For my last play, I activate the magic card Monster Reborn to revive your Harpy Lady under my control!" There was a flash of light on his field and the bird-woman appeared next to Yami's Kuriboh. "End turn."
Seren drew and pointed at Yami's Harpy Lady. "Attack now Cyber Harpy!" The bird-woman on his field raised the Winged Bow and aimed it at Yami's monster.
The Pharaoh smiled and tapped a button on his duel disk. "And now my new play is ready to begin. You see I realized something about Harpy Lady decks, and that is that they use a lot of equipment magic cards to power up their monsters. So I figured out how to use that to my advantage with this trap card. Reveal Collected Power! This will transfer all of your monster's equipment cards to my Harpy Lady!"
Seren's Cyber Harpy shimmered and then all of her weapons and armor disappeared right as the arrow from her bow was launched. (1800/800) Yami's Harpy Lady glowed and then looked exactly like the Cyber Harpy had just moments before. (2800/1900) The Harpy Lady snapped up her new bow and fired an arrow that tore right through the first one and right through Seren's Cyber Harpy.
Yami- 4400
Seren- 7000
Seren looked down at his hand and frowned. "I set one monster face-down and one card face-down. End turn."
Yami drew and a look came into his eye. It was the look that spelled doom for many a duelist. "First, Pot of Greed." He drew two cards. "Then Premature Burial. At the cost of 800 life points I may revive Ra from my graveyard for one turn." The ground at his feet was consumed in a torrent of light as the huge form of the Egyptian God rose out of the ground. (0/0)
Yami- 3600
Seren- 7000
"And for the finale I normal summon Dark Gaia of the Gale to the field since it is the last card in my hand." He placed the monster card on the disk and a knight riding on top of a purple horse appeared on his field. "It's over Seren! I flip up my face-down Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your face-down card!" A sharp wind struck the demon's face-down card and blew it apart.
Seren looked at his face-down monster and paled. ("No....that's just a Harpy Lady. Without my Mirror Wall, she's useless to me!")
Yami pointed at Ra. "Now to finish you off. First I trigger the special ability of the Winged Dragon of Ra! God Phoenix!" The golden dragon roared and was encased within a form of fire that made it look like some kind of phoenix. It sprayed out a wave of fire that instantly destroyed Seren's face-down Harpy Lady. "And that only costs me 1000 life points too."
Yami- 2600
Seren- 7000
"Then I activate the special effect of The Winged Dragon on Ra that allows me to sacrifice my monsters to it. Every time that I do, its attack power increases by the attack power of sacrificed monster!" Yami's three monsters on his field exploded in bursts of flame. The fire from their deaths swirled around the golden form of The Winged Dragon of Ra as its attack power increased. (5400/4100)
While outwardly he was gritting his teeth in frustration, inwardly Seren was smiling. ("This is all according to my plan.")
Yami pointed at his already enormous Egyptian God Card. "And now to use the final effect of Ra! By sacrificing all but one of my life points, I may increase its attack power by the sacrificed number!" (7999/4100) "Now this duel is over! Winged Dragon of Ra, attack with God Breath Cannon!" The dragon opened its jaws wide and unleashed a pillar of flaming energy that blew Seren into the wall of the chamber, where he slid to the ground, unconscious.
The Pharaoh walked up to his opponent and then he looked down at the his duel disk, where the Winged Bow Legendary Weapon Card still resided, thanks to his Collected Power. "I'll just hang onto this until you awaken." With that said he slid the card into his deck and walked through the open hallway.
The moment he left Seren opened his eyes and smiled. "By all means, you're more than welcome to borrow it. I'll get it back." He stood up and brushed off his suit. Whistling a little tune he went out the way Yami had come in. ("Now onto phase two of my plan.")
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Deondre emerged into some kind of jungle area. ("When did I get outside?") He sniffed the air and was sure that this wasn't some kind of illusion. "Alright, so where's my opponent?"
His ears twitched a little as he heard something rustle in a bush behind him. He hopped forward just in time to dodge a knife that was aimed for his neck. Spinning around, Deondre found himself looking at a man wearing the black cloak of an Emissary. "Great, another one of you guys. So what do you want?"
The man pulled back his robe to reveal a black ponytail. He smiled enough to reveal a pair of long fangs. "I am Viper, the demon lord of snakes. My apology if my attack seemed unprovoked, but I had to be sure that it really was the dog demon lord I was facing."
Deondre bristled a little. ("Why did I have to be a dog? Why did Daniel get something people fear, while I got something people keep as a pet!?") He growled angrily, his eyes shimmering in the faint light of the jungle. "Let's just get this over with."
Viper clicked his duel disk into place and nodded. "As you wish. Are you ready to be destroyed?"
Deondre clicked his duel disk into place and drew his five. "Yeah right, I'm not going to lose to you. I've got a destiny ahead of me."
Viper drew his five cards and hissed quietly. "What destiny is that? Is there a chew toy out there somewhere that is calling your name?"
Deondre narrowed his eyes and lifted his lip a little to show his fangs. "You want to start dealing low blows, huh? Fine, just watch as I wipe you out completely."
To be continued...
Next Chapter: The return of the poison