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Demon Duelist Legacy-Dark Soul Arc
Chapter 33: The first loss
Envirius's laughter echoed across the huge chamber. "And that's it. You're all finished." The smoke around him settled to reveal him showing them his two cards. "Monster Reborn and my Dagger of Butterflies-Elma." He slid the Monster Reborn into his duel disk. "I revive Supreme Dark Soul-Sloth to the field!" The shadow shield appeared on his field. "And now I activate my Dagger!" The pair of ornate daggers appeared over the shield. (300/3000)
Yami felt his face break out into a cold sweat. ("No...I can't stop him this time.")
Kaiba didn't look much more pleased either.
Envirius smiled and pointed to his monster. "Good-bye. Activate infinite soul drain combo!"
The Supreme Dark Soul-Sloth groaned, though it didn't activate its loop.
Joey held up his face-down card. "Sorry Envirius, but I've got the answer for you loop right here. I'm activating my trap card, Graverobber. This lets me steal one card from your graveyard and use it immediately. So I 'm gonna take your Confiscation and make you toss your Dagger of Butterflies into the graveyard. And since it went from your hand to your graveyard, it ain't comin back."
Joey- 6000/7000
Yami- 7000/7000
Kaiba- 7000/7000
Envirius- 3700/7000
Envirius looked at his graveyard and groaned. "That was impressive Joey. I must admit that. End turn."
Joey drew and sighed. "I drew Lightning Blade. End turn."
Yami drew and the card was shot out of his hand. "And there goes King's Knight. (1500/1300) End turn."
Kaiba drew and rolled his eyes. "Deck Destruction Virus." ("It would be perfect, if I had a monster I could use it with.") "End turn."
Envirius drew and slid the card into his duel disk. "Activate Recruiting Force. Now we each draw five cards from our decks and summon any four star or below monsters we get. The rest of the cards we discard into our graveyards. But since my Sniper's Sight is in play, you all pretty much lose the top five cards of your decks."
The three duelists sighed and slid the top five cards of their decks free. With a quick glance at them, they slid them all into the graveyard.
Envirius drew his five and a smile slid across his face. "It's time to start ripping all of your life points apart. I summon Supreme Dark Soul-Greed, (1000/1000) Supreme Dark Soul-Pain (3000/0) and Supreme Dark Soul-Hate (2000/2000) to the field in attack mode!" Three blobs of darkness appeared on his field. The first took the shape of a vase, the second took the shape of a sword and the third took the shape of an axe.
The dark-suited man smiled and pointed at Yami. "And guess who is first on my list for destruction, Pharaoh. Attack!" The shadowy forms launched across the field, but were stopped by a swirling vortex.
Kaiba held up his face-down card. "While I don't like Yugi at all, his loss means that I'm out a body shield. So I use Negate Attack to defend him for this turn."
Envirius nodded to his opponents. "Then take your turn, boys."
Joey looked down at his deck and then over at Yami.
Yami nodded to him. ("We have to win this.")
Joey drew and frowned. "I drew Panther Warrior." (2000/1600) The card was blown out of his hand. "That doesn't mean I'm out yet."
He grabbed a card and slid it into his duel disk. "Go Giant Trunade!" A huge wind hit the field, blinding everyone with whipped up dust. When the wind died down, all of Envirius's cards, his Seal of Dark Souls included, were off the field. "I'll end my turn."
Yami drew with smile on his face. "Now let me see, since you can't stop me, I think it is time to end this duel."
Envirius looked at his four monsters and chuckled. "Very funny Pharaoh, but you can't beat me that easily."
Yami slid his card into his duel disk. "Oh can't I? Go Monster Reborn, Reviving the Winged Dragon of Ra from the graveyard for a turn!" The ground in front of him exploded into flame as the huge golden form of the Winged Dragon of Ra emerged from the ground. (0/0)
Envirius looked at the dragon, and then at his life points.
Yami smiled. "I see that you understand your predicament. Since all I have to do is sacrifice all but one life point to raise Ra's attack points, I can finish you off in one attack. Go, Life Infusion effect!" (6999/6999) The Winged Dragon of Ra howled as it became infused with the power of its master. "Now attack Supreme Dark Soul-Greed!" The dragon arched its head and charged up a huge ball of flame. "God Breath Cannon!"
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The dragon opened its jaws wider and wider, until the ball that developed was big that it could destroy both Siegfried and his knight in one flash of black flame. Teryops gave one final growling noise, and then it exhaled, sending the ball of black flame barreling down to consume Siegfried's monster.
The German Demon Duelist allowed himself a small smile. "I activate..."
"...the trap card Holy Mystical Infusion!" A white light illuminated his knight. "This will increase my creature's attack points by 500 attack points times the number of cards in my hand!" (3500/2000)
His other face-down card flipped up as well. "Next up is the quicklplay magic card Call to Arms, allowing me to play any equipment magic card in my hand!" His smile couldn't be anything less than predatory as he slid a card from his hand into his duel disk. "I play the Legendary Weapon Card Thunder Claws! This will raise the attack power of my monster by 3000 points!" The knight was surrounded by a field of electricity that raised its attack power. (6500/2000)
"Of course, that doesn't mean my knight's special ability isn't about to be activated." Siegfried smirked. "When it battles with a dark attribute monster, such as your Shadow Dragon, it doubles its attack points!" (13000/2000)
The knight kicked his horse into a charge, lance extended. He slammed through the sphere of black flames and charged at Teryops. "Knight of Chivalry, counter-attack!" The armored warrior launched through the air and ran the dragon through.
Shadow Dragon-Teryops screeched as it was blown back into scraps of shadow.
Siegfried- 8000
CJ- 8000
Rikuo- 5700
Ryu- 8000
Deondre- 8000
Yamidra- 30200
As the form of her dragon faded from around her, Yamidra looked down at the pit of her monster field and then back over at Siegfried. "You...." She smiled darkly. It was the first emotion any of the demons had seen out of her. "I'm going to kill you right now." One of her two face-down cards flipped up. "First the magic card Pot of Greed, so that I can draw two cards." A pair of cards appeared above the five in front of her.
"Then I set five monsters on my field." Five of the cards that hovered in front of her flew over and set themselves in row before her. "And now I will crush you, foolish cat. Activate Hell Dragon Ritual." The five cards in front of her exploded.
"I will summon a beast that is capable of wiping all of you out. This is still not my best, but it will be enough for all of you." Up above her, the 'sky' started to turn red. Lightning flashed in the distance and a huge form could be seen approaching the castle that hovered in the middle of the void.
Ryu broke down into a cold sweat.
Rikuo glanced over at his friend. "What's the matter? Whatever it is can't be that dangerous."
The dragon demon still couldn't take his eyes off the approaching form. "Rikuo, you have to understand that I know all about these monsters that she is summoning. It's like watching monsters out of a fairytale suddenly appear before you. And if I am correct, then the creature she is summoning is going to be a problem."
Rikuo snorted and waved his hand dismissively. "Yeah right. We'll destroy whatever it is."
Then the creature arrived and Rikuo decided to rethink his opinion...
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Envirius smiled as his monster was destroyed. "Pharaoh, you've just made your last mistake. Attacking Supreme Dark Soul-Greed triggers its special ability!" The shadow vase exploded as it was hit by the attack. "I am allowed to draw a card from my deck for every 1000 attack points of damage I am supposed to take." He drew five cards off the top of his deck and added them to his current five.
Yami shrugged. "It doesn't matter. You've just taken over 5000 life points of damage, so this is the end for you."
Envirius motioned to his life point total. "Is it? I can't take battle damage from the loss of my Supreme Dark Soul-Greed. Too bad you didn't know that, or maybe you wouldn't have wasted all but one life point just to give me a five card draw."
The Pharaoh understood his mistake all too well. ("Oh no...")
Envirius looked at the magnificent form of the Winged Dragon of Ra with a calm smile on his face. "Well? Are you going to end your turn or what?"
Yami looked down at the ground and then at his hand. ("I'm not beaten yet. Even with only one life point, I will win this duel.") "First I sacrifice the Winged Dragon of Ra to summon Dark Magician Girl (2000/1700) in defense mode!" The giant golden God Card faded and in its place was a female magician in a crouching position. "End turn."
Kaiba drew, glad that stupid combo was off the field. He looked at his card and snickered. "I summon Ryu-Kishin Powered (1600/1200) in defense mode." An armored fiend monster appeared on his field in a crouching position. "Then I set two cards face-down. End turn."
Envirius drew and slid four cards into his duel disk. "First, I think it's time to recover some of my lost life points." He slid a card into the fifth slot. "I activate Emergency Provisions to sacrifice all four of my face-down cards." The four cards exploded and his life points rose.
Joey- 7000
Yami- 1
Kaiba- 7000
Envirius- 7700
Envirius sighed in relief. "Now that I have some breathing room, I'll activate this magic card. It's called Soul Exchange. It allows me to sacrifice your monsters, as well as my own."
He grinned and slid another card into his duel disk. "That means that you all lose! Go Crest of the Dark Souls!" Both Kaiba's Ryu-Kishin and Yami's Dark Magician Girl faded, as did all three of Envirius's Supreme Dark Soul monsters.
The field shuddered and then a huge pillar vines exploded free of the ground. The vines writhed around insanely fast, and then formed into an archway. The arch slowly turned brown as an inky blackness within the center of the opening appeared. The darkness spread until the arch became what it was meant to be. A portal.
Envirius's voice echoed across the chamber. "Pharaoh, Seto, and Joey! Let me introduce you to the monster that rules over the planes of demon-kind. The overseer of the end of the world." The inky blackness of the portal stretched outwards as a black-robed form walked through it and onto Envirius's monster field.
It turned to face the three duelists, and its robes fell away to reveal a form bristling with spikes and muscle tissue. The demon howled and the arch behind it shattered into nothing. "Dark Tyrant Imperium (7000/0) in attack mode!"
Yami could feel the sweat dripping down his face, but he knew that they still had one turn thanks to the down-side of Envirius's Soul Exchange magic card.
Envirius slid a card into his duel disk. "And now I trigger the magic card Quick Attack, which gives my monster to attack right now." He tapped his chin with a fingernail and looked at the three. "Now if I am correct, I get to kill one of you now. The question is...who?" He smiled at the delicious situation he had before him. ("I could kill the Pharaoh. I should kill the Pharaoh. But...") Joey Wheeler made a good target too. So did Seto Kaiba.
He debated it with himself, while his three opponents all held their breath.
Kaiba knew that he had an ace in the hole. His Shrink magic card would save him or the Mutt, but Yugi only had one life point left. ("Don't pick Yugi...")
Envirius snapped his fingers resolutely. "I've decided who I'm going to attack." His sinister smile told them that he had a plan. "I'll play this card from my hand. It's a little something called Multi-Attack, which allows my creature to attack all of you." The Dark Tyrant on his field howled and flew across the field, claws poised to run through its first target.
Yami braced himself with the knowledge that he had failed. He had been unable to stop the world from being destroyed.
The Dark Tyrant brought its claw down....
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Rikuo Amero had faced off against some scary things before, but this monster took the cake, so to speak. ("By the gods........")
It was over 200' long from one end to the other. It had its massive body curled around the castle. In a way, it reminded him of Saint Dragon Osiris. The biggest difference was the fact that even the Egyptian God didn't look so horrible. Along its body were huge blood red spikes that dug into the castle foundation. Its snake-like form attached to a head seemed to be nothing more than a circular cavern of teeth that rotated around in huge circles. The monster lowered its blender-like mouth down at the group and from deep within its maw, a small red dot appeared and began to grow.
Yamidra didn't seem bothered by the monster in the slightest. "Let me introduce you. This is Hell Dragon God." (10000/10000)
Ryu took a choice couple of steps back, as did Rikuo.
CJ, Deondre and Siegfried didn't seem so bothered by it. After all, it couldn't attack them yet. They had time to gather up a defense against it.
The ball of fire within the Hell Dragon God's maw got bigger and bigger, until it was big enough that it could engulf all five of their fields in one hit. "My Hell Dragon God's first special ability allows it to attack every monster on the field the moment it is summoned. Since my Yamidra's Blessing card gives it the power to deal damage through defense, almost all of you are about to die. Go Inferno of the Gods." The Hell Dragon exhaled and the miniature sun fell down on top of all five duelists at once.
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Yami had heard Kaiba activate his Shrink magic card to cut the attack of the Dark Tyrant in half, but it didn't matter. It was still enough to wipe out his life points. (3500/0)
He heard a crack and he felt the pain. He felt the claws enter his stomach and send him flying backwards and out of the dueling arena. However, there was no pain when he hit the wall of the chamber, or when he fell the ten feet to the ground. Then there was nothing.......
To be continued...
Next chapter: A Losing Battle
Author's Notes: Interesting what the roll of a die gets you, huh?