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Demon Duelist Legacy-Dark Soul Arc
Chapter 25: The return of the poison
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."
Viper drew and sighed happily. "Ah, to be back in the game after all of this time. And to think that my first opponent is nothing more than a demon who is just learning of his power. This should be easy."
Deondre cracked his knuckles and then pulled his hand back out of his pocket. "Just keep talking all you want buddy. In the end I'll be onto the next battle and you'll be gone."
The snake demon lord glanced down at his hand and snickered. "Oh really? Well then let's see you get past this." He placed a monster face-down on his disk. "End turn."
Deondre drew and grinned. "I'll get past your defense easily." He slapped down his monster. "I summon D.D. Warrior Lady (1500/1600) in attack mode!" A woman in a grey bodysuit wielding a laser dagger appeared on his field. "Attack his monster now!" She lunged and slashed her weapon across the card, tearing it to shreds.
Viper looked down at his duel disk and then held up his card. "Cobra Jar (800/800) allows me to special summon one Cobra Token (500/500) to the field when it destroyed." A normal looking hooded cobra appeared on his field.
Deondre looked at his hand and smirked. "End turn for now."
Viper drew and motioned to his Cobra Token. "Now I sacrifice the Cobra Token to summon my avatar!" The little snake exploded and in its place was a black-robed man with glowing slotted yellow eyes. "Prepare to be poisoned by the power of Snake Demon Lord!" (2000/2500) The robed demon opened its mouth impossibly wide to reveal huge fangs. It charged across the field and bit down on the D.D. Warrior Lady's neck. She shuddered and tapped a button on her belt. There was a flash of light and when it cleared both she and the demon were gone.
Deondre- 7500
Viper- 8000
Deondre continued to smirk. "Now if I am correct, that would be a pretty symbolic loss huh? You're monster just got removed from play and soon you'll be removed in general."
Viper snickered. "Do you even understand what my Snake Demon Lord's special ability is? When it deals you battle damage to you, your life points become infected with a poison counter."
Deondre looked down at his life point gauge, and sure enough there was a little purple square in the corner of the display screen. "What's that mean?"
"It means that every one of your turns you will lose 200 life points for every poison counter you have." Viper slid a card from his hand into his duel disk. "And it's about to get a lot worse for you too, because I'm activating the magic card Poison Injection Device." A syringe appeared in the air next to him and flew over to stab Deondre's duel disk. "This will double the number of poison counters you have."
"And finally I set one card face-down. End turn." The card appeared on the field in front of Viper and he sneered at Deondre. "Alright dog, make your move."
Deondre drew and watched as his life points dropped.
Deondre- 7100
Viper- 8000
The dimension duelist glanced at his hand and frowned, bringing his gaze to his opponent's field. ("What do you have face-down? Is it a bluff or a real trap?")
Viper saw Deondre's hesitation and hissed in a way that sounded a little like a laugh. "What's the matter whelp? Can't decide what to play?"
"I've had just about enough of you." Deondre grabbed the monster he had been considering and slapped it down. "I summon Dimensional Warrior (1200/800) in attack mode!" A red-haired futuristic warrior appeared on his field. "Now attack his life points directly!"
Viper flipped up his face-down card as the monster flew towards him. "Sorry dog, but I've got a little something for you! Activate Poisonous Infection Overload! This will end your battle phase and double the number of poison counters you have."
Deondre glared at the four purple squares on his duel disk. ("Damn...at this rate I'm gonna lose all of my life points.") "End turn."
Viper drew and slid a card into his duel disk. "First I'll use Pot of Greed to draw two cards." He drew two cards and hissed in displeasure. "Well this is disappointing."
Deondre snickered, "Aw, poor snake has a bad hand?"
Viper slid two cards into his duel disk. "Actually, I've got a good hand. It's just that I wanted to avoid to killing you off so fast. Activate my other two Poison Injection Device cards!" Two more syringes appeared and stabbed Deondre's duel disk, leaving him with sixteen purple squares in his life point screen. "Then I'll set one monster face-down on my field and one card as well. End turn."
Deondre drew and winced as his life points plunged downwards.
Deondre- 3900
Viper- 8000
He fanned out his hand and gritted his teeth. ("How am I going to get rid of those poison counters? They'll destroy me in just two turns if I don't do something about them right now.") The only problem was that he didn't see any potential way to fix that. ("Though maybe I don't need to fix it. Maybe I can use this to my advantage.") "First I'll play the magic card Monster Gate!" A portal appeared in the place where his Dimensional Warrior used to stand. "Now I'll draw cards off the top of my deck until I reach a monster that I can summon to the field. The rest of the cards do go to the graveyard, so let's hope for something good!"
He began to draw cards off the top of his deck. Ten cards later he finally came to a monster. Sliding the rest of the stacked cards into his graveyard, he slapped down his new monster onto his disk. "Monster Gate's effect gives me just the paydirt I needed to turn this around. I summon Dark Magician (2500/2100) in attack mode!" The purple-robed spellcaster appeared on his field.
Viper narrowed his slotted eyes suspiciously at the Dark Magician. "What can he do that is so special? He doesn't possess any kind of effect."
Deondre took another card from his hand and slid it into his disk. "That's true, but I have much bigger plans for him. First I'll play the magic card Knight's Title!" The Dark Magician slowly shifted into the form of an armored warrior with a sword. "This will transform him into the Dark Magician Knight!" (2500/2100)
Viper didn't seem impressed. "His attack and defense totals are still exactly the same. What has improved?"
Deondre pointed at Viper's face-down monster. "This has improved! When my Dark Magician Knight hits the field he automatically destroys one card. I choose your face-down monster card!" The Knight tossed its sword and pierced the face-down monster, which was destroyed instantly. "Now, direct attack!" The Knight shot forward and slammed its sword down against Viper, sending him flying backwards a few feet.
Deondre- 3900
Viper- 5500
Deondre slid four cards into his disk. "Now I set these four cards face-down and end my turn."
Viper drew and tossed down a monster. "I summon Ipiria (500/500) in defense mode." A little blue lizard appeared on his field. "When Ipiria is summoned I may draw one card from my deck." He drew and slid another card into his disk. "Now I play the magic card Snakeblood Infusion. This will sacrifice my Ipiria and allow me to summon one Sea Serpent monster from my hand to the field." The little blue lizard screeched and then blew apart. "Now I summon Rainbow Snake Eingana (2200/2400) in defense mode!" A huge rainbow colored snake monster appeared on his field and hissed down at Deondre.
The dimension duelist looked at his four face-down cards and then up at the snake. "Heh, not even worth using my trap on."
Viper placed his final remaining card into his duel disk. "End turn."
Deondre drew and tapped a button on his duel disk. "Before you get all excited and think you've got me with your poison, let me show you my face-down card." One of his four face-down cards flipped up. "Curse of Pain reflects the damage of your poison effect back at you!"
Deondre- 3900
Viper- 2300
He looked at his next card and slid it into his disk. "Now attack his snake! Go Dark Magician Knight!" The knight launched across the field and slashed the snake in half. The two halves of the rainbow-colored snake fell to both sides of the knight, and then both exploded in one huge explosion of light. When the light died down Deondre's Dark Magician Knight was gone.
Viper hissed in delight. "Heheheheh, you're a fool. Rainbow Snake Eingana destroys all monsters on the field when it is killed in battle."
Deondre looked at his field and smirked. "Then I flip up my face-down Soul Resurrection trap card. As long as this remains on the field I may revive one non-effect monster from my graveyard! Return to my field, Dark Magician!" The Soul Resurrection trap card spat out a cloud of white mist that cleared to reveal the Dark Magician back on his field in a crouching position. "The only downside is that it comes to the field in defense mode, so I can't attack you and end the game right now. My turn's at its end."
Viper drew and his smiled widened. "I could simply let my poison counters take you down, but I'd prefer to wipe you out the old-fashioned way. First I flip up my face-down Monster Reborn, reviving Rainbow Snake Eingana to the field in attack mode!" A nearby bog bubbled and the rainbow-colored form of Viper's monster slithered out of it and joined its master on the field.
Viper slid his next card into his duel disk. "Now I play Snake's Venomous Bite to allow my monster to attack you directly this turn." The Rainbow Snake Eingana hissed loudly and slithered back into the bog, disappearing from sight.
Deondre went on his guard instantly. ("This won't be good at all. If this duel is real then I'll be swallowed alive.") A pool of still water near him bubbled and he tapped a button on his duel disk. ("If I time this right...")
The head of the Rainbow Snake Eingana broke the surface of the water and hissed, coming down with fangs open to consume the duelist in its sights.
Deondre bent at the legs and jumped a good ten feet in the air, easily out of its biting distance. He landed next to the mass of its body just as one of his face-down cards flipped up. "I'm not going to go down that easily Viper. Reveal my face-down trap card, Dimensional Warp Field!" There was a flash of blue light and the Dark Magician and Rainbow Snake Eingana were gone.
Viper stared at the spot where they had disappeared. "What happened?"
Deondre held up his trap card. "This is the end of you. My trap card allows both of our monsters to attack us directly. I, technically, took the hit from your Rainbow Snake Eingana, and you're about to take the hit from my Dark Magician." He smiled and tapped his chin. "Now...that would mean that you're about to lose all of your life points. So...bye."
Viper's eyes widened as the form of the Dark Magician appeared in front of him, staff raised. "But I didn't even get a chance to use my Legendary Weapon Card!"
Deondre gave his opponent a little wave. "Them's the breaks. Dark Magic Attack!" The Dark Magician unleashed a wave of inverted light that blew Viper backwards into a tree. The snake demon lord collapsed to his knees and then fell face-first to the ground, unconscious.
Deondre- 1700
Viper- 0
As the holograms disappeared off the field, an open doorway appeared in front of Deondre. He looked over to see if Viper was still there, and after he was sure that the snake demon was not going to follow and cause him any more trouble, he left. ("Now to go and pay Envirius a visit.")
To be continued...
Next Chapter: Battling a loved one; Siegfried vs. Crystal