A/N: Thank you again to everyone who reviewed. Here is another chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own YGO or any of the characters in it. I do however own my OCs and I'd like to think the plot is original, though I'm sure someone else has done something similar to it at some point.
Taro Motou and his best friend Ronin Jounouchi walked through Battle City. Neither of them had dueled yet, but both had watched a few duels on their walk through the city.
"How do you know who you should duel?" Ronin asked Taro.
"I usually wait for people to challenge me," Taro explained to his friend.
"Did I hear someone say they were waiting for a challenger? Well wait no longer, Fingal is here!" A short boy with bright orange hair appeared to their left.
"You want to duel?" Taro asked, eyeing the boy.
"That's what I said isn't it?" The boy rolled his eyes at Taro, "are you up for a duel against ME?"
Taro smiled, "Let's duel!"
Taro: 4000
Fingal: 4000
"You can go first," Taro offered.
Fingal smirked from over top of his cards, "I play Balloon Lizard (500/1900) in defense position and end my turn. You do know what that does don't you? During each of my Standby Phases a counter is put on this card and when my Balloon Lizard is destroyed I inflict that number times 400, damage to your life points!"
Taro studied Fingal's Balloon Lizard carefully and then looked to his cards, "I play Peten the Dark Clown (500/1200) in defense mode and place one card face down."
Fingal smiled and drew a card, "I play one card face down and end my turn,"
Taro drew a card and glanced at his hand, "You can keep your Balloon Lizard, so long as I don't destroy it, it poses no threat to me."
Fingal grinned, "but if you don't destroy my Balloon Lizard, how will you get to my life points?"
"Like THIS!" said Taro, playing Solar Flare Dragon (1500/1000), "I end my turn."
Taro: 4000
Fingal: 3500
Fingal's eyes grew wide as he saw his life points descend, "what happened? You didn't even attack me!"
"My Solar Flare Dragon inflicts 500 points of direct damage to your life points at the end of each of my turns," Taro explained to the younger boy.
Fingal glared defiantly at Taro, "don't think you'll defeat me that easily! I play Pot of Greed, which allows me to draw two more cards," Fingal drew his cards and looked them over thoughtfully, "I play Roulette Barrel. Do you know what that does? It allows me to roll a six-sided dice twice, pick one result and destroy a face up monster on your side of the field with a level equal to my roll!"
Taro frowned, and hoped that Fingal's roll would not equal 4.
Fingal and Taro watched as the dice rolled for the first time, spinning over and over, finally to land on 6. Fingal glared and the dice and rolled again, this time, it slowed to a stop, balancing precariously between 4 and 5, before landing on 4.
"Hah!" cried Fingal, smirking, "say goodbye to your Solar Flare Dragon!" He grinned as Taro's dragon disappeared from the field.
"Savor your victory while you can because I can guarantee it won't last long," Taro grinned at his hand, "I play Ojama Trio!"
Fingal frowned, "what does that do?"
"Ojama Trio is a trap card that allows me special summon three Ojama Tokens in defense position to your side of the field, these Tokens have 0 attack points and cannot be used as Tributes for a Tribute Summon. When one is destroyed, they inflict 300 points of damage to you!" Taro explained as Ronin cheered, Ronin had seen his friends deck in action numerous times and new what was to come.
Fingal still looked confused, but examined his hand, "I play Inaba White Rabbit (700/500) and also play Robbin' Goblin. Because of this card, each time one of my monsters attacks your life points directly; one card from your hand is randomly sent to the graveyard! And now Inaba White Rabbit! Attack his life points directly!"
Taro: 3300
Fingal: 3500
Taro's Raging Flame Spirit was sent from his hand to the graveyard, but Taro was confused, "Why would you play a monster with less attack points than mine? Is attacking my life points really worth that?"
Fingal smirked, "That's the trick, Inaba White Rabbit is returned to my hand at the end of my turn!"
Taro frowned as the card was returned to Fingal's hand. Drawing another card Taro grinned, "I play two cards face down and now, I sacrifice your Ojama Tokens to summon Lava Golem (3000/2500) to your side of the field!"
Fingal stared at the 3000 attack point monster Taro had just given him, a thousand questions running through his head.
Taro smiled at his opponent, "I guess I should explain what I just did, since Ojama Tokens can't be used as Tributes for a Tribute Summon can they? But I didn't Tribute them for a Tribute Summon, I Special Summoned Lava Golem offering them as Tribute."
"But why would you GIVE me monster that powerful?" he stared at Taro, wondering if he was in his right mind.
Taro grinned, "There's a catch, during each of your Standby phases, you lose 1000 life points."
Fingal frowned as he watched his life points descend.
Taro: 3300
Fingal: 2500
"That's nothing compared to what Lava Golem is going to do to you!" exclaimed Fingal, "Destroy Peten the Dark Clown!"
Taro watched as his clown was destroyed, and drew a card, "I play Soul Absorption. Now, each time a card is removed from play, I gain 500 life points."
Fingal was completely confused, "but that doesn't help you now… never mind, it doesn't matter. Lava Golem, ATTACK!"
Taro: 300
Fingal: 1500
Taro was grinning and Fingal didn't think that was a good sign, "Thanks to you, I can now activate Inferno Tempest! When I recieve 3000 or more damage, Inferno Tempest removes all monsters in each of our decks and graveyards from play, and since I have Soul Absorption in play, I gain 14000 life points!"
Taro: 14300
Fingal: 1500
Fingal gasped as he watched Taro's life points increase, "No way!"
"And not only that, but I play Gravity Bind, since Gravity Bind stops all monsters with a Level 4 or higher from attacking, your Lava Golem is useless!"
Ronin was cheering so hard he thought he might lose is voice, the small crowd that had gathered to watch the duel was chattering excitedly about Taro's spectacular move.
Taro: 14300
Fingal: 1500
Fingal looked at his hand, he had nothing that could even begin to counter such a move, but he wasn't about to give up, he drew a card and sighed, nothing in his hand could help him!
Taro had to admit he admired Fingal for not giving up, he wasn't sure he would have been able to take what he had just doled out to his opponent, he drew a card and when he looked at it, he had to admit that he felt bad for Fingal, "I play Graverobber's Retribution, during each of my Standby phases this card inflicts 100 points of direct damage to your life points for each of your monsters removed from play."
Fingal sighed, "Game over for me then…"
Taro: 14300
Fingal: 0
"I've never seen anything like that!" Said Fingal; handing over the two locator cards and key pieces he had won, along with his rare card Judgment of Anubis.
"A lot of good that card did me!" Fingal grumbled handing it to Taro, "It could have saved me in that duel, and a never drew it!"
Taro looked at the younger duelist, "My dad always tells me that to win, we need to trust in the Heart of the Cards."
Fingal sighed, "well, it seems to work for you, I might as well give it a shot."
Taro smiled, "if you ever want some tips, come by the Kame Game Shop, I'm sure my dad would be willing to give you some pointers!"
Fingal looked at Taro in awe, "The Kame Game Shop? That means… Yugi Motou, King of Games is your DAD?"
"You bet!" Said Ronin butting in, "that's where he gets all that talent!"
Taro blushed and looked away.
"Just wait til I tell all the guys at school! I dueled Yugi Motous SON!" Fingal hurried off, probably to tell all his friends about the duel.
Ronin grinned, "I think you've got fans already Taro! You'd better watch out, next thing you know girls will be fighting to get to you, but don't worry, I'LL take care of that for you."
Taro laughed as he and his friends headed away from the spot where he had dueled Fingal and through the winding streets of Domino City.
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