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Demon Duelist Legacy-World Tour Arc
Chapter 7: Awakening the Forbidden
Allon drew. "I...." All thoughts were immediately blown out of his head as the Nightmare Wheel attacked his life points. Clutching his skull, he fell to the ground and screamed as fire burned through his brain.
Allon- 7000
Diabu- 1500
Diabu and the Lord of the Art both laughed in amusement at the boy's pain. "Do you understand what precious thing I was talking about?" He gave Allon a few seconds to answer, but when the still screaming boy didn't answer, he continued. "It was your sanity! If you run out of life points, there won't be anything left but a useless husk of a being."
Allon could barely register his opponent's voice though. All he could think about was the fact that he could feel the holes in his mind.
Diabu crossed his arms across his chest. "So are you surrendering?"
Allon somehow managed to get back onto his feet. "Of course not....I'm not done yet." His slightly glazed over eyes looked at the card he had drawn. "First...I'll activate Card of Sanctity. Now both of us will draw until we hold six cards in our hand." He started to draw off the top of his deck until his hand was full again. ("Alright...now's my...chance.") He clutched his skull and waited for the pain to fade away before he slid his cards into the disk slots. "I set two cards face-down and end my turn."
Diabu drew his card and slid it into his disk. "I set one monster face-down. End turn."
Allon drew and fell to the ground screaming instantly, the Nightmare Wheel's enhanced damage effect destroying another piece of his sanity.
Allon- 6000
Diabu- 1500
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Rikuo slid back into and gave control back to Daniel. He didn't see any reason to use up his limited energy watching the darkness sphere.
Daniel looked over at Amy in surprise. "Err....hey there Amy. What are you doing here?"
The brown-haired girl stared at Daniel for a few seconds, and then grabbed the ears on top of his head, rubbing them gently. "Are these things real? I thought Rikuo..."
Her sentence was cut short as Daniel's eyes rolled back into his head and he collapsed into a dead faint.
She blinked at his prone body for a few seconds, before Deondre sighed from behind her. "I'd advise you not to do that. He's still extremely girl-shy." Amy nodded and looked back at the dog demon.
Deondre grimaced as he held his hand against the wound in his stomach. "Amy, did you see CJ somewhere around here?"
Amy shook her head. "Nope. Is he here with you guys?"
Deondre nodded, though he muttered under his breath, "I guess not."
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Allon got back to his feet, though this time he couldn't immediately remember what he had planned on doing. ("I know that I had a plan...what was it though?")
A pair of ghostly hands reached out of his graveyard slot and grabbed a card each from his hand, yanking them into the graveyard.
His blurred thoughts barely understood what that meant. ("I...remember....something. I need to protect the...middle card from those hands?") He placed it onto his disk. "I set one monster in defense mode and end my turn."
Diabu drew his card and slid a card into his duel disk. "I set one card face-down and end my turn."
Allon drew and clutched at his head, crashing to the ground and screaming as the Nightmare Wheel burned into his brain once again. Then the pair of phantom hands shot out of his graveyard slot and stole two more cards out of his hand, leaving him with only one card.
Allon- 5000
Diabu- 1500
The pain demon tilted his head back and laughed. "This is why humans are so weak. A demon would be able to withstand the pain enough to battle on. What's your excuse for not being able to fight it off?"
Allon had his now glazed over eyes staring numbly at the ground.
Diabu frowned and crossed his arms. "This is ridiculous. Why am I even wasting my time with you?"
"Because...I'm not....beaten....yet..." Allon blinked a few times and the glaze over his eyes faded slightly. He came to his feet once again, though this time much more shakily than normal.
Diabu cackled. "Human, you're just making this all the more fun for me."
Allon looked at his remaining card. ("I can't use this.") "End turn."
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Daniel walked around in the blackness that surrounded him warily. "Rikuo? You here?"
"I'm right here Daniel." The ancient wolf demon spirit materialized right in front of him. "I see you passed out again?"
Daniel blushed and stared down at the ground. "Well....er....yeah...."
Rikuo sighed. "What's it with you and women? At this rate we're never going to find you a mate."
"I'm not really looking for one at the moment." Daniel brought his eyes up to meet his counterpart's. "What I am interested in is information about the Dark Demon Knights. Who are they and why were you so surprised when Diabu announced that he was one?"
Rikuo took a deep breath and pondered. ("How much information should I actually give him? Telling him too much might be dangerous, while telling him too little...") "I don't know who they are."
Daniel face-fell, but he quickly recovered. "What do you mean!? You just..."
"I don't feel like divulging that information at the moment. Bye." Just like that, Rikuo faded away.
Daniel stared at the space where his counterpart had been moments ago. ("Did he just blow me off?") "Rikuo, you jerk, get back here right now!!!"
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Diabu drew and a deep laugh rumbled out of his chest. "I love this. You're coming apart on me. Soon, there won't be anything left of you. End turn."
Allon drew and his mind quivered in pain as the Nightmare Wheel burned another hole into his thoughts. The phantom hands of appeared once more and grabbed both of the remaining cards that he was holding. "End..."
Allon- 4000
Diabu- 1500
Diabu drew. "Alright, I'm getting bored now. Lord of the Art, attack his drained Gear Golem!" The demon launched across the field and in one claw slash, the metal monster was no more.
Allon- 2500
Diabu- 1500
Allon let out one strangled cry of pain, and then his mind shut down.
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Deondre felt it. He felt Allon's fall. ("Damn you Rikuo. Why'd you let him do it?")
The darkness sphere pulsed rapidly. Within it, the game was coming to a close.
And Deondre could do nothing but watch. ("Come on Allon. You're better than this. Don't lose to some sad excuse of a demon.")
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Diabu discarded a card into his graveyard so that his hand size was six cards again. "End turn."
Allon twitched a couple of times, but otherwise made no move to draw his card.
"It's just as I thought. You're nothing, human. Oh well, you put up something of a good fight." Diabu watched as the darkness flowed from out of the sphere and began to wrap around Allon's body.
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Allon sighed and dropped his hand of cards to the ground. "What's the point!? No matter how hard I try, I just can't figure out when to play what cards!"
Daniel picked up the dropped cards and smiled. "Ah, I see what your problem is. You're looking at this in all the wrong ways." Taking each of the cards, he placed them side by side on the table. "You can't look at each of these cards in separate. I always think that it is best to look at each card as part of a puzzle."
Allon came to his feet, his eyes covered by the shadows of the darkness around him.
Diabu sighed and crossed his thin arms across his chest. "A stubborn one, hmmm? How pitiful. Just give up."
Allon's eyes lifted out of the shadow. "No. I see now. The answer has been sitting in front of me. You've lost." His eyes were glimmering in the darkness. "It's so clear to me now. Reveal face-down cards!" Three of Allon's face-down cards flipped up at once.
"First I reveal my two Dark Factory of Mass Production magic cards! These will allow me to pick up two normal monsters from my graveyard apiece and place them into my hand." His graveyard slot shuddered and spat out four cards, which he picked up. "And my final card spells the end for you Diabu! Activate Compulsory Evacuation Device!"
The pain demon let out a wheezing breath from his lipless face. "What's that supposed to do? Sending a monster back into my hand won't be enough."
"Who ever said that I was sending one of your monsters back to your hand? I'm using my trap to send one of my monsters back to my hand! Namely, I'm targeting my face-down monster card!" The face-down card faded away as he grabbed it off of his duel disk. "Maybe you shouldn't have toyed with me so much? I've just won this duel." He pulled the monsters off of his duel disk and slid them into his graveyard.
Diabu slid backwards a couple of feet. "You couldn't have...how?"
Allon took the five cards in his hand and slid them across his duel disk top, each one sliding into a monster zone. "That's right!!! I've collected the necessary pieces of the puzzle!" Behind him, a faint blue outline of a pentagram appeared. The outline grew brighter and brighter, until it began to purge the darkness. "Demon or not, you can't stand against the power of this monster. I summon Exodia the Forbidden One!"
A pair of huge golden arms shot out of the pentagram, followed by a pair of huge golden legs. And then a golden torso followed them. The final product looked like an ancient god, the broken chains around its wrists showing that it was free.
Diabu hissed in anger. "You little...."
Allon wasn't listening anymore. "Exodia..." The god placed his palms together, and they began to glow brightly, forming a huge ball of golden light. It got brighter and brighter, until the light from it threatened to engulf everything. "...OBLITERATE!!!" Silently, Exodia pushed the ball forward. It shuddered and then turned into a beam of energy that swallowed up Diabu.
Allon- 4000
Diabu- Exodia Loss
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The darkness sphere shuddered and then faded away, revealing both Allon and Diabu.
Rikuo felt the sphere collapsing and immediately took over for Daniel. He snickered over at Diabu. "Lost to a human? You're not a Dark Demon Knight." Cracking his knuckles, the wolf demon approached the kneeling pain demon slowly. "Get ready for death."
Allon stepped between the two. "No. He lost to me, and I promised that if he did lose, his only punishment would be that he would leave. Honor that promise."
Rikuo scowled and twisted his head to the side. "Fine. I suggest that he leaves right now though."
Diabu stood up and growled at Allon. "This changes nothing between us, human. Now I have you in my sights, and by the time I am done, you'll be dead." The lights above the arena flickered, plunging the room into one seconds worth of darkness. When the darkness cleared, Diabu was gone.
Rikuo growled at Allon warningly, and held out his hand. "If you ever touch my duel disk again, you'll lose your hand."
The red-haired boy removed his deck and the duel disk, which he handed to the wolf demon. "Thank you for the deck, by the way."
"Keh! Like I'd ever want to use as cowardly of a method as Exodia." Rikuo turned and walked over to Deondre. "Now where's the ape-horse?" His ears twitched and he ducked under a lazy punch that was aimed for his head. "Ah, there you are."
CJ sighed. "What's it going to take to get your respect?"
"Kill me," Rikuo replied evenly. "And no, Sestros didn't count."
"Whatever. For your information, while you guys were playing I got the card." He flicked the brown-backed piece of cardboard to the wolf demon, which caught it casually and held it in front of his face.
"The Key of Helomtes." He scowled at the card. Its picture depicted a sickly key made of muscle tissue. "Helomtes...." Pocketing the card, he casually turned and walked past CJ and Deondre. "Let's go. We've got four more of these damned things to find."
Deondre removed his hand from his stomach to find not even a scar from where he had been pierced. "That guy...jeeze."
CJ nodded. "He's such an inconsiderate..."
Amy crossed her arms across her chest. "He needs to work on his public image. Team Topdeck can't afford to have its leader acting like such a jerk." She didn't hear the sighs from CJ and Deondre off to her side.
Looking down at the Exodia cards that he had fanned out in front of him, Allon thought, ("He's not so bad.")
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The boy curled his legs deeper into his chest, tears streaming down his face. ("Leave me alone...I don't want you in me.")
("It's a bit late for that. You've called me here and I'm not leaving.") The prescense extended its will forward, wrapping mental claws around the boy's mind.
Screams echoed out in the night....and then they were followed by another bout of insane laughter....
To be continued...
Next Chapter: The next target; The Key of Incestros
Author's Notes: To Darkstar71-Thank you for your offer. I already know what will happen though. However, I would like it if you could somehow send me the actual episodes. I feel deprived for knowing what to expect, but not actually seeing it.
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