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Demon Duelist Legacy-Dark Soul Arc
Chapter 28: The Torture King vs. The Grand Dragon
Ryu entered his challenge room to find a ball of darkness waiting for him. He ran his nails through his golden hair and frowned. ("So straight to a darkness game hmm?") It wasn't that he minded, it was just that he disliked the fact that as of lately people were playing darkness games more often than what should have been necessary. ("Oh well. I'll beat whoever is in there and then move onto the leader of this.") Taking a deep breath and clicking his duel disk into place, he walked into the darkness.
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Joey drew and slapped down his card. "I summon Alligator's Sword (1500/1200) in attack mode!" A green-scaled lizard warrior appeared on his field.
Aishito flipped up his remaining face-down card. "And to make sure you don't win, I'll flip up another Offerings to the Doomed, blowing your Jinzo away and leaving you with just one monster!" The final red beam blew Jinzo apart.
Joey pointed at Aishito. "You're still in trouble! Direct attack!" The reptile warrior flew across the field and slammed its sword down on the older man's shoulder.
Joey- 7500
Aishito- 6400
Aishito nodded to Joey. "A small price to pay. I pass, since I have no cards and cannot draw because of my magic card."
Joey drew again and slapped down another monster. "Now I summon Battle Warrior!" (700/1000) A visor wearing fist-fighter appeared on Joey's field. "Now, direct attack again!" The two monsters launched forward and slammed their respective attacks down on Aishito, sending him skidding backwards.
Joey- 7500
Aishito- 4200
Aishito drew and threw down his own monster. "I summon Spell Weaver (1500/0) in attack mode!" A man wearing prism robes appeared on his field. "Now attack the Battle Warrior!" The monster shot out a beam of rainbow light that blew the warrior into nothingness.
Joey- 6700
Aishito- 4200
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Ryu was greeted by the sounds of a pipe organ when he entered the sphere. The haunting noises of the unseen instrument radiated around him like a disease.
"Jourgen...how good of you to come."
Ryu felt himself unintentionally froze up. In front of him was a creature that Rikuo had said he had banished from this plane. A creature so unholy that he still haunted the dragon demon in his dreams.
Giovan Garlin went into a deep bow. "I see that you survived your first death alright." He ran a hand through his black mustache and smirked. "We'll have to remedy that situation."
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Joey drew and slid his Alligator's Sword into the graveyard. "I sacrifice my monster to summon Maximum Six (1900/1200) in attack mode!" A purple four-armed giant appeared on his field and it threw a small white die out of one of its hands. "Whatever number the roll lands on will determine just how powerful my monster is going to become!" The die landed on a five. (2900/1200) "Now Maximum Six, attack his Spell Weaver now!" The monster charged across the field and pummeled Aishito's spellcaster into the ground.
Joey- 6700
Aishito- 2800
Aishito knew that he was running out of time, but he knew he could draw something to turn this situation around. "I draw!" He pulled the card off the top of his deck and smirked. Sliding it into his duel disk, his smile continued to widen. "Activate Swords of Revealing Light!" Green glowing swords crashed down on Joey's field. "Now you will not be able to attack for three turns."
Joey drew and grinned. "I play Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your Swords of Revealing Light." A sharp wind blew across the field and blew the glowing swords apart.
Aishito paled. ("I lost to Joey Wheeler...")
Joey pointed at his opponent. "Maximum Six, direct attack!"
Right before the purple giant's blow knocked him unconscious; Aishito could still only think ("I lost to Joey Wheeler....")
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Ryu narrowed his eyes at the nightmare in front of him. "You're banished from this realm Sestros. Don't darken our world with your black heart."
Giovan drew five cards off the top of his already shuffled deck. "I'm not leaving...not yet. I still have a chance at life, thanks to Envirius. All I have to do is defeat you and I'll walk out of this sphere with a new body. Your body."
Ryu drew his five as well and then his sixth. "I thank the gods that I got you instead of Rikuo getting you. If he saw you again I doubt he would react as well as I am, and you killed me." He slid two cards into his duel disk. "I set two cards face-down on my field." He placed a monster face-down and vertical on his disk. "Then I set one monster in defense mode. End turn."
Giovan drew with a dark smile on his face. "Just to let you know Jourgen, your kind tastes delicious when you add some oriental spices." He placed down two cards on his field and then tossed out his monster. "Torture Knight (1700/2000) in attack mode." A knight monster with armor made completely of spiked chains appeared on his field. "Attack his face-down monster!" The knight charged across the field and in one downward slash Ryu's face-down monster was gone.
Ryu held up his creature. "When you destroy Masked Dragon (1400/1100) in battle, I may special summon one dragon sub-type monster from my deck to the field. I summon another Masked Dragon in defense mode!" A white and red dragon appeared on his field, its wings wrapped around its body protectively.
Giovan continued to smile. "It's too bad this isn't a darkness game with my personal twist, or else you would have the dead form of your dragon at your feet right now."
Ryu drew and slid his Masked Dragon into the graveyard. "I sacrifice my creature to summon Infernus the Pyro Dragon (2200/2000) in attack mode!" His field was consumed in flames and then a towering snake-like dragon made of flames appeared on his field. "Attack his Torture Knight now!" The dragon roared and launched across the field, its flaming form illuminating the pitch darkness of the sphere.
Giovan pointed at his face-down cards and flipped it up. "If the mutt and I could agree on one thing, it's that you run into traps far too easily! Reveal the trap card Nightmare Wheel!" A bone wheel appeared on his field, but then it shuddered and exploded.
Ryu pointed to one of his face-down cards that had flipped face-up. "Dragon's Bead allows me to discard one card from my hand to negate any trap card that targets a dragon monster on the field." Infernus's attack engulfed Giovan's Torture Knight and blew the monster apart.
Ryu- 8000
Giovan- 7500
Ryu wasn't smiling though. He was stern, "I will not listen to your mind games Sestros. The only thing I will do is send you back to your exile, so that I must never look upon your horrible face again."
Giovan drew and placed a monster in defense mode and one card face-down. "You're a fool Jourgen. I cannot be beaten by you."
Ryu allowed the beginnings of his own dark smile cross his face. "Oh? And you can be beaten by Rikuo, who was once your most powerful servant?"
Giovan slid a card into his duel disk. "A minor technicality. As soon as I am in control of your body, I will find him and kill him."
Ryu threw in dryly, "In his sleep most likely."
Giovan shrugged. "If that is what it comes to. End turn."
Ryu drew and slid a card into his duel disk. "It will never come to that though. I play Monster Reborn to revive my Crystallis the Ice Dragon (2200/2000) from my graveyard and bring it to my field!" Next to the burning form of his Pyro Dragon a huge pillar of ice formed. It shuddered and then exploded as the form of huge snake-like dragon made of ice appeared. "Now I attack with Infernus!" The fire dragon shot across the field, only to get intercepted halfway there by a pair of cups.
Giovan snickered from behind his flipped up Magic Cylinder trap card. "I'm not so easily beaten."
Ryu slid a card from his hand into his graveyard. "The Dragon's Bead negates your trap." The cups shuddered and exploded into pieces. "Continue your attack Infernus!"
Giovan flipped up his next card. "No chance! Activate the trap card Ring of Destruction!"
Ryu slid the final card in his hand into his graveyard. "Once more, I negate your trap." The steel ring that was about to blow his dragon apart shuddered and exploded into dust. Finally Infernus landed its head-butt, blowing the face-down monster apart.
Giovan sneered. "Torture Machine-Juicer's (800/1200) effect activates now!" A metal box with legs appeared on his field and lunged over to swallow up Ryu's monster.
"Sestros, I will not allow you to hurt my dragons! Reveal face-down card, Nexus Warp!" A portal appeared in the middle of the field and sucked by Crystallis and Infernus into its swirling mass. "This trap will fuse my two monsters into something that you cannot defeat. A creature with the power to shut down any effects that target it!" An echoing roar came from the portal and a pair of eyes, one red and one blue, appeared from within the vortex. A huge head slowly slithered out of the portal, followed by the snake-like body of the enormous beast that had been created from the fusion of Crystallis and Infernus.
The new monster was made up of both fire and ice, and yet somehow it didn't destroy itself. The two elements that made up its body had somehow found a harmony. "Sestros! Let me be the first to introduce you to Grand Nexus Dragon!!" (2800/2000)
The dragon lifted its head up into the darkness and roared. It looked down at the Torture Machine that was still headed towards it. The Grand Nexus Dragon snorted and with a flick of its tail the metal box was destroyed. "Grand Nexus Dragon cannot be the target of any effects or abilities, so now I have creature that is immune to your horrible Torture Machines!"
The giant fire-ice dragon lifted its head once more and roared. "And, since we are still in the battle phase that means that my monster can attack your life points directly!" Ryu's new monster opened its jaws and it unleashed a torrent of ice-blue and flame-red energy that engulfed the demon.
Ryu- 8000
Giovan- 4700
Giovan slowly came to his feet with rage burning in his eyes. "For that, I will make sure to torture your soul a little before I take over your body." He drew and slid two cards into his duel disk. "I set one card face-down and play Pot of Greed to draw two cards." He drew his two and slid one card into his duel disk. "Then I set this. End turn."
Ryu drew and his silver eyes burned in the darkness. "Sestros...you're finished. Grand Nexus Dragon is immune to all target effects, so therefore the only way to win against it is to beat it in battle. And your torture deck strategy, while effective, does not give you very many powerful attackers." He slid one card from his card into his duel disk. "I set this face-down and attack your life points directly!"
The Grand Nexus Dragon howled and sprayed Giovan with another wave of energy.
Ryu- 8000
Giovan- 1900
Giovan drew and laughed deeply. "Jourgen....Ryu...whatever you wish to be called. This is it. You're about to lose your body to me."
Ryu frowned. "Prove it Sestros."
Giovan flipped up his two face-down cards and slid a card into his duel disk. Then he discarded two monsters into the graveyard. "I activate the ritual magic card Anointment of Torture! By sacrificing the two monsters in my hand, I may special summon forth my ultimate monster!" On the field in front of him a spiked cage exploded out of the ground. The cage door creaked as it slid open to reveal a demon covered in spiked chains and holding a whip with a huge metal spike at the end. "My physical avatar has come to kill you Jourgen! Torture King (2800/3000) in attack mode!" The demon cackled insanely, cracking its whip back and forth.
Giovan's fang-filled grin was something to be feared. "For you see I have also activated my Gathering of the Torturous magic card, which allows me to special summon all three of my Torture Machine monster cards from my deck to the field!" There was an explosion in front of him as the hellish forms of his three Torture Machines appeared on the field. "Now I have Torture Machine-Juicer, Torture Machine-Flayer and Torture Machine-Splicer in play!" The three machines screeched and made horrible noises that sounded like screams. "Now I activate my final face-up card, Polymerization!" The three Torture Machines slid in all the same direction, slamming right into the Torture King.
The three machines blew apart and their parts began to attach to the Torture King, changing it and covering it with all forms of torture devices, big and small. When the transformation was complete a much more deadly looking version of the Torture King was in play. "Torture King Reborn (3600/3600) is now on the field. This is the ultimate culmination of my years as a practitioner of the beautiful art of suffering!" The Torture King Reborn released another deep echoing cackle, the sound seeming to feed the darkness around them.
Ryu watched the creature impassively. "Sestros..."
Giovan smirked, waiting for his opponent to say something defiant. ("I love watching people trying to resist the darkness and despair.")
"...you are nothing. You are not even worthy of dueling me. For all of your bluster, you were never a challenge, in this life or the previous. All you were was a petty villain who thought himself supreme. So make your last pathetic move."
Giovan felt his right eye twitching rapidly. "You....you...."
Ryu's silver eyes didn't flinch back in the slightest. "Shut up."
Giovan pointed at Ryu's Grand Nexus Dragon. "DIE!" The Torture King Reborn launched across the field, ready to rip the fire-ice dragon apart.
Ryu's face-down card flipped. "Dragon's Gathering is a trap card with an effect that will end this duel right now. This allows me to choose one dragon sub-type monster from my deck and place it onto the field. Then if there is a fusion between the two creatures, I may create it." His deck spat out the monster and he slapped it onto the disk.
The darkness around them was shattered as the magnificent form of a huge golden armored dragon that crashed down next to the Grand Nexus Dragon. It lifted back its head and cried out, the sound so melodic that Giovan could barely stand it.
Ryu coldly watched as the two creatures on his field fused into one. Their forms melded together, until the final product came into existence before him. "Sestros, the supreme god of dragons has come for you. He wants to fulfill a promise he had made long ago."
The new dragon roared with such force that it blew the Torture King Reborn backwards. It stood 70' from snout to tail-tip, with a wingspan three times as long. It hovered in the air above Ryu, looking for all the world like a god. It looked like the Grand Nexus Dragon, except that it wore the golden armoring of the Grand Emperor Dragon. Its quicksilver-colored eyes glowed with such intensity that Giovan was sure that alone would be enough to kill him.
Ryu looked up at the god dragon and smiled wistfully. "You were stricken down by Rikuo's father before. Face my father now."
Giovan stumbled back. ("The king of the dragon demons...")
Ryu's gaze never left his opponent as he spoke. "This is the monster that even Rikuo wouldn't have deserved. The only person who deserves its true wrath is you." The dragon roared again, the entire temple shaking wildly around them. "Sestros, feel the power of the Dragon God Nexus-Envoy of Divinity!!!" (6000/6000)
The Dragon God looked down at Giovan and let out a low growl that shook the room. Then its gaze went to the Torture King Reborn and it roared in rage. "Looks like he spotted his quarry." It opened its huge maw and a ball of light, ice and fire energy developed within it. "Before my monster attacks, however, I am going to activate its special ability! By sacrificing 1000 life points, I may increase its attack strength by 2000 for one turn." (8000/6000)
Ryu- 7000
Giovan- 1900
Giovan looked at his Torture King, and then he brought his gaze to glare at Ryu. "This is not over! I...will...be....back!"
Ryu matched the Torture King's gaze easily. "Perhaps...but for now, return to the hell that Rikuo placed you in. Dragon God Nexus, attack his Torture King Reborn with Torrential Divine Wave!" The Dragon God unleashed a wave of energy so powerful that not only to it completely obliterate both Giovan and his monster, but it also slammed into the back wall of the chamber and shattered huge hunks of stone. As soon as the dragon finished its attack it roared in victory and then faded away.
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Rikuo walked into his chamber with his sword drawn. He really didn't intend to duel this time. His plan was to kill whoever they put against him, and then move on.
Unfortunately, the ball of darkness that sealed off the other side of the room told him the truth about his predicament. ("I'm going to have to fight to win this. So be it.") He sheathed the Howling Sword and stepped into the darkness, duel disk already clicked into place.
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The first thing that he saw was the black-robed form before him. He smirked and stepped a reasonable distance from his opponent. "Alright, you've got your wish. I'll be your opponent." He smirked enough to show off his fangs. "It's been a while since I've played someone in a duel though, so you had better go easy on me."
The black-cloaked figure threw its cloak aside...
Rikuo's jokes disappeared in an instant. "You..."
Daniel already had his duel disk in place. "When I'm done with you, there won't be anything left but a bad memory. So let's get this duel underway, shall we?"
To be continued...
Next Chapter: Yami vs. Hikari