"Blue Eyes White Dragon, attack the Spirit of the Harp!" shouted Jaina. The
stone carving that had once been Serena's monster shattered easily againat
the crushing power of the Blue Eyes' attack. Serena's Life Points harshly
fell.
Serena: 700, Jaina: 4000.
"Did I forget to mention that any of your monsters that get destroyed after my Gorgon's Eye turn them to stone cost you life points equal to half of their defense when they are destroyed? I did, didn't I? Well at least you know now."
"I did know already Jaina," corrected Serena. "That's why I had a trap card waiting. The Numinous Healer which increases my Life Points by 1000 points, right back to the way they were.
Serena: 1700, Jaina: 4000.
"I suppose you feel good about yourself now?" Jaina asked.
Serena ignored her comment and drew her card. "I'll lay these two cards face down and then set another monster in defense mode."
"You just don't learn. the Gorgon's Eye is a continuous trap card, which means that it will transform every monster that you set in defense mode to stone. I'll attack with the Blue Eyes again and you will still lose Life Points."
"But I won't lose even close to the 3000 that I would have lost if the Blue Eyes had attacked directly. My monster was the Unhappy Maiden (0/100) and its low defense means I only lost a mere 50 Life Points. and thanks to my trap cards I'll gain that back plus a lot more."
"Trap cards?"
"First is the Solemn Wishes that you so generously gave me in our exchange, and the second was another Numinous Healer which increased my life Points another 1000 plus 500 more for having a Numinous Healer card already in the graveyard. Add to that the 500 points I get for simply drawing my next card and my Life Points have just shot up 2000 points."
Serena: 3650, Jaian: 4000.
"A decent recovery," Jaina complimented. "But you still catch match power with the Blue Eyes right now."
"I don't need to. I play the Swords of Revealing Light to stop your assualt for three turns."
"Your Swords are a weak defense Serena. They won't protect you forever."
"They don't need to last forever. Just long enough for me to get the cards I need. And while you're trapped I gain Life Points with every card that I draw."
Serena: 4150, Jaina: 4000.
"I summon the Fairy's Gift (1400/1000). And to prevent it from turning to stone, I'll play it in attack mode."
"Counting on your Swords to protect you?"
"They will. For two more turns."
"No they won't. Not after I play the De-Spell card to destroy your Swords. Blue Eyes attack the Fairy's Gift!" Serena's glowing swords vanished from hte field and the BLue Eyes that had been frozen in space and time only seconds ago began to move its head and flap its wings once more, it then unleashed its White Lighting attack and destrroyed the small Fairy.
Serena: 2550, Jaina: 4000
Serena drew her card. "I'll play a monster in defense mode. My Four-Faced Beast (1500/1200) may turn to stone but it won't cost me as many Life Points."
"I hate to tell you Serena, but your monster isn't going to be able to help. Not against the card that I just drew," Jaina said with a wicked smile tracing its way onto her lips.
"What card?" asked Serena, nervous.
"The strongest card in all of Duel Monsters. A card so powerful that only one of it was ever made. Serena my dear, welcome to Toon World!"
"Toon World?" Serena said with horror. "I read about that card in my grandfather's journals. But you can't have that card."
"Why not?" Jaina asked.
"That card belonged to Maxamillion Pegasus, the creator of Duel Monsters. Only one copy of that card was ever made and there's no way that he would ever let it out of his deck."
"I told you that I wasn't using the same deck as before."
"You're trying to tell me that the deck you're using is Pegasus'?"
"Do you find that so hard to believe? I told you that we each have shadows of the past hanging over us. You play with your grandfather's cards, I play with mine," Jaina announced with pride.
"That means you're..."
"Jaina Pegasus."
"How?"
"I'm guessing that you don't need me to explain the biological process of procreation to you. I'd expect a big girl like you would already know it. So I assume that you'd like to know who he married."
"From what I knew of him, Pegasus was obsessed with his dead fiance, Cecilia."
"He was, my grandfather loved that woman very much."
"So what happened?"
"Duelist Kingdom happened. And my grandfather lost to Yugi Moto."
"I don't understand," said Serena.
"After his duel with Yugi my grandfather was tired, and in his weakened state he was attacked and had his Millennium Eye stolen from him. The attack and violent theft left him in poor condition. He was at the brink of death and was rushed to the best medical facilities in the world. His physical injuries were easily healed, but the metal stress had taken its toll on his system and he lapsed into a coma."
"I didn't know any of this."
"No one does," Jaina replied. "My grandfather was in a coma for a year before he came out of it."
"That explains how he missed the Battle City Tournament."
"His recovery still took time after he awoke, but the nurse that tended to him cared about him very much. The two fell in love. A classic case of Florence Nightingale syndrome, but a romantic tale nonetheless. They married within ten years and my father was born another four years after that."
"That means that your father is eighty-five years old!"
"He would be, if he were still alive. He died about twenty-nine years ago at the age of fifty-four. He left my mother with child. Me to be precise. I was born six months later. My mother died at the age of fourty-eight. I was only seven. Industrial Illusion should have rightfully belonged to me at that point, but I couldn't claim my inheritance until my eighteenth birthday. Until then the Board of Directors would run the company. Less than a year before I was to turn eighteen and take over the company it was purcahsed by Mr. Evo."
"How did Evo manage to purchase one of the largest companies in the world?'
"Industrial Illusions had fallen into debt. The Board of Directors had run the company into the ground with bad decision after bad decision. Evo offerered the means to save the company and restore it to glory. He had built a fortune by the age of twenty by being the son of a famous industrialist, one of the few men to come out of The End in a good way. Evo didn't want to be in his father's shadow anymore and so left and made his own start, beginning with Industrial Illusions. He made me Vice President the day of my eighteenth birthday and as an added gift, gave me my grandfather's deck, the other item that I was to recieve as part of my inheritance."
"What had happened to Maxamillian Pegasus?"
"He survived through The End long enough to institute his humanitarian efforts but a few years later he was attacked by someone who believed he was still in posession of the Millennium Eye. When they discovered that he didn't have it, they killed him."
"That's incredible," Serena said. "I'm sorry about your grandfather though. I know how you feel."
"It's enough of a history lesson for today," added Jaina. "It's time to finish this duel. My Toon World card is activated by paying 1000 of my Life Points. This card will now transform all of my monsters into Toon versions of themselves, and it's going to start by changing your Blue Eyes White Dragon into the Blue Eyes Toon Dragon (3000/2500)."
"No!" Serena shouted in protest as her monster was enveloped by the wierd fog emanating from the Toon World book on the field. It was sucked into the book and when it emerged it appeared as a demonic looking cartoon.
"It may cost me 500 Life Points per monster to attack now but my Toon World grants every one of my Toons the ability to attack your Life Points directly. My Toon Dragon bypasses your Four-Faced Beast all together and leaves you hanging by a thread."
Serena: 50, Jaina: 2500.
Serena: 700, Jaina: 4000.
"Did I forget to mention that any of your monsters that get destroyed after my Gorgon's Eye turn them to stone cost you life points equal to half of their defense when they are destroyed? I did, didn't I? Well at least you know now."
"I did know already Jaina," corrected Serena. "That's why I had a trap card waiting. The Numinous Healer which increases my Life Points by 1000 points, right back to the way they were.
Serena: 1700, Jaina: 4000.
"I suppose you feel good about yourself now?" Jaina asked.
Serena ignored her comment and drew her card. "I'll lay these two cards face down and then set another monster in defense mode."
"You just don't learn. the Gorgon's Eye is a continuous trap card, which means that it will transform every monster that you set in defense mode to stone. I'll attack with the Blue Eyes again and you will still lose Life Points."
"But I won't lose even close to the 3000 that I would have lost if the Blue Eyes had attacked directly. My monster was the Unhappy Maiden (0/100) and its low defense means I only lost a mere 50 Life Points. and thanks to my trap cards I'll gain that back plus a lot more."
"Trap cards?"
"First is the Solemn Wishes that you so generously gave me in our exchange, and the second was another Numinous Healer which increased my life Points another 1000 plus 500 more for having a Numinous Healer card already in the graveyard. Add to that the 500 points I get for simply drawing my next card and my Life Points have just shot up 2000 points."
Serena: 3650, Jaian: 4000.
"A decent recovery," Jaina complimented. "But you still catch match power with the Blue Eyes right now."
"I don't need to. I play the Swords of Revealing Light to stop your assualt for three turns."
"Your Swords are a weak defense Serena. They won't protect you forever."
"They don't need to last forever. Just long enough for me to get the cards I need. And while you're trapped I gain Life Points with every card that I draw."
Serena: 4150, Jaina: 4000.
"I summon the Fairy's Gift (1400/1000). And to prevent it from turning to stone, I'll play it in attack mode."
"Counting on your Swords to protect you?"
"They will. For two more turns."
"No they won't. Not after I play the De-Spell card to destroy your Swords. Blue Eyes attack the Fairy's Gift!" Serena's glowing swords vanished from hte field and the BLue Eyes that had been frozen in space and time only seconds ago began to move its head and flap its wings once more, it then unleashed its White Lighting attack and destrroyed the small Fairy.
Serena: 2550, Jaina: 4000
Serena drew her card. "I'll play a monster in defense mode. My Four-Faced Beast (1500/1200) may turn to stone but it won't cost me as many Life Points."
"I hate to tell you Serena, but your monster isn't going to be able to help. Not against the card that I just drew," Jaina said with a wicked smile tracing its way onto her lips.
"What card?" asked Serena, nervous.
"The strongest card in all of Duel Monsters. A card so powerful that only one of it was ever made. Serena my dear, welcome to Toon World!"
"Toon World?" Serena said with horror. "I read about that card in my grandfather's journals. But you can't have that card."
"Why not?" Jaina asked.
"That card belonged to Maxamillion Pegasus, the creator of Duel Monsters. Only one copy of that card was ever made and there's no way that he would ever let it out of his deck."
"I told you that I wasn't using the same deck as before."
"You're trying to tell me that the deck you're using is Pegasus'?"
"Do you find that so hard to believe? I told you that we each have shadows of the past hanging over us. You play with your grandfather's cards, I play with mine," Jaina announced with pride.
"That means you're..."
"Jaina Pegasus."
"How?"
"I'm guessing that you don't need me to explain the biological process of procreation to you. I'd expect a big girl like you would already know it. So I assume that you'd like to know who he married."
"From what I knew of him, Pegasus was obsessed with his dead fiance, Cecilia."
"He was, my grandfather loved that woman very much."
"So what happened?"
"Duelist Kingdom happened. And my grandfather lost to Yugi Moto."
"I don't understand," said Serena.
"After his duel with Yugi my grandfather was tired, and in his weakened state he was attacked and had his Millennium Eye stolen from him. The attack and violent theft left him in poor condition. He was at the brink of death and was rushed to the best medical facilities in the world. His physical injuries were easily healed, but the metal stress had taken its toll on his system and he lapsed into a coma."
"I didn't know any of this."
"No one does," Jaina replied. "My grandfather was in a coma for a year before he came out of it."
"That explains how he missed the Battle City Tournament."
"His recovery still took time after he awoke, but the nurse that tended to him cared about him very much. The two fell in love. A classic case of Florence Nightingale syndrome, but a romantic tale nonetheless. They married within ten years and my father was born another four years after that."
"That means that your father is eighty-five years old!"
"He would be, if he were still alive. He died about twenty-nine years ago at the age of fifty-four. He left my mother with child. Me to be precise. I was born six months later. My mother died at the age of fourty-eight. I was only seven. Industrial Illusion should have rightfully belonged to me at that point, but I couldn't claim my inheritance until my eighteenth birthday. Until then the Board of Directors would run the company. Less than a year before I was to turn eighteen and take over the company it was purcahsed by Mr. Evo."
"How did Evo manage to purchase one of the largest companies in the world?'
"Industrial Illusions had fallen into debt. The Board of Directors had run the company into the ground with bad decision after bad decision. Evo offerered the means to save the company and restore it to glory. He had built a fortune by the age of twenty by being the son of a famous industrialist, one of the few men to come out of The End in a good way. Evo didn't want to be in his father's shadow anymore and so left and made his own start, beginning with Industrial Illusions. He made me Vice President the day of my eighteenth birthday and as an added gift, gave me my grandfather's deck, the other item that I was to recieve as part of my inheritance."
"What had happened to Maxamillian Pegasus?"
"He survived through The End long enough to institute his humanitarian efforts but a few years later he was attacked by someone who believed he was still in posession of the Millennium Eye. When they discovered that he didn't have it, they killed him."
"That's incredible," Serena said. "I'm sorry about your grandfather though. I know how you feel."
"It's enough of a history lesson for today," added Jaina. "It's time to finish this duel. My Toon World card is activated by paying 1000 of my Life Points. This card will now transform all of my monsters into Toon versions of themselves, and it's going to start by changing your Blue Eyes White Dragon into the Blue Eyes Toon Dragon (3000/2500)."
"No!" Serena shouted in protest as her monster was enveloped by the wierd fog emanating from the Toon World book on the field. It was sucked into the book and when it emerged it appeared as a demonic looking cartoon.
"It may cost me 500 Life Points per monster to attack now but my Toon World grants every one of my Toons the ability to attack your Life Points directly. My Toon Dragon bypasses your Four-Faced Beast all together and leaves you hanging by a thread."
Serena: 50, Jaina: 2500.