"Make your move," Serena told Edam.
Edam drew his opening hand. "I will set these two cards face down, then play this monster in defense mode. It is your turn."
"I summon Ruby Dragon (1600/1800) in attack mode. And I'll have it attack your face down monster."
"You have attacked my Wall of Illusion (1000/1850). You take 250 Life Points damage and your Dragon returns to your hand."
Serena: 3750, Edam & Adora: 4000
"It is my sister's turn now," Edam continued.
Adora looked over her hand. "I will play this magic card card," she said. "Elemental Spring. Whenever a monster returns from the field to its owner's hand then we will gain 500 Life Points. Next I will summon Fushinotori (1200/0) the spirit monster."
"Spirit monsters?" Serena asked. She had heard Fader say something about them, but never had any first hand experience with them herself.
"Spiriti monsters are a special monster type that retun to their owner's hands at the end of any turn. My Fushinotori will now attack your Life Points directly since you have no monsters in play." Serena was struck dead on by the fire-bird. Her Life Points dropped as her opponents' rose.
Serena: 2550, Edam & Adora: 5200
"What happened?" she shouted. "How did you gain life?"
"When Fushinotori attacks your Life Points directly it allows us to gain an amount of life equal to the damage we inflicted," Adora explained. "I will also chain my attack with my brother's face down trap card, the Robbin' Goblin. Each time you suffer an attack to your Life Points then you must discard a card from your hand."
Serena grimaced as she discarded one of the cards from her hand, the Ruby Dragon. Dueling these two was going to really difficult. Their decks seemed to be a perfect match, complimenting each other and sharing the same strengths. They had the strength of each other to work off of, but she only had her own strength to rely on.
"I will end my turn now," Adora announced. "And we gain another 500 Life Points as my Fushinotori returns to my hand."
Serena: 2550, Edam & Adora: 5700
Serena drew her card. When she looked at it she considered playing it right away but hesitated. "I'll lay this card face down," she said. "And I'll set a monster in defense mode to protect my Life Points. My turn is over." She wanted to attack, but if she did, she'd only get her monster returned to her hand and cause the twins to gain another 500 Life Points.
Edam drew another card. "It is my turn once more. I will summon Don Zaruug (1400/1500). Then I will equip him with the magic card, Bow of Falling Stars. It will reduce his attack points by 1000 but it will allow him to attack your Life Points directly. Don Zaruug, attack!"
Serena: 2150, Edam & Adora: 5700
"Thanks to both his own ability and the effects of Robbin' Goblin," Edam continued. "You must now discard two cards from your hand, leaving you with only one card remianing."
Serena drew her next card and looked at the two that she had in her hand. She could eliminater all of the monsters in play with the Dark Hole that she just drew but without another monster in her hand she would be leaving herself wide open to attack from Adora next turn. The other card she had in her hand could help, but it would also help Edam and Adora right now. She couldn't play either but she also couldn't afford to lose the cards from the effects of more discarding.
"I'll lay these two cards face down and end my turn," she said with a sigh, placing the two cards into her magic and trap card slots.
"You believe that you can protect your cards from your hand from our effects by placing them into play," Adora said as she drew. "But they are no more safe in play then in your hand. I play the magic card Premature Activation."
"What does that do?"
"It flips over one of your face down cards on the field. If it is a trap card, it is destroyed. If it is a magic card, it is immediately activated and its effect resolved. I choose that card," Adora said pointing to the middle card on Serena's field. Serena flipped over the card to reveal the Dark Hole.
"Your Dark Hole is activated," Adora announced. "All monsters on the field are destroyed." As she spoke the swirling vortex consumed all of the in play monsters, sending them to the graveyard and leaving Serena defenseless.
"You've made a mistake Adora," Serena said. "You just eliminated your brother's monsters, which were your best defense. And I'm guessing that you've only got spirit monsters in your handwhich won't be on the field after you end your turn. and the odds of mdrawing a monster from my deck to attack you with are very high, even without any other cards in my hand."
"Wrong," Adora corrected. "You won't be drawing any cards at all."
"How are you going to stop me?"
"I summon Yatagarasu (200/100), the eight giant crows, in attack mode," she announced as a murder of black birds appeared in play in front of her. "When Yatagarasu damages you, you are forced to skip the draw phase of your next turn. Yatagarasu attack her! And now I end my turn and gain 500 Life Points as it returns to my hand."
Serena: 1950, Edam & Adora: 6200.
Serena smiled. "You may have prevented me from getting a draw phase but I'm not done yet. In fact with all the discarding you two were making me do I figured a little insurance would be a good idea."
"What?" the twins asked.
"Reveal face down card, Pot of Greed. I now draw two more cards," Serena announced picking up the two cards off the top of her deck. "I'll lay this one face down, and then summon Sapphire Dragon (1900/1200) in attack mode to attack your Life Points directly."
Serena: 1950, Edam & Adora: 4300.
"Your turn Edam," Serena said to the boy.
"I will set a monster in defense mode and end my turn."
Serena paused for a second, debating whether or not to attack Edam's new monster. They still had one other card face down in play, but they hadn't activated it during her last attack. She was on the offensive and needed to keep up the momentum to make up the lost ground. "I'll set this card face down," she said placing a third card into her magic and trap card slot. "And I'll attack your face down monster with the Sapphire Dragon."
"You've attacked my Soul-Hunting Spectre (300/300)," Edam told her.
The Sapphire Dragon's attack slammed full force into the Spectre but nothing happened. "What?" Serena exclaimed with shock.
"Soul-Hunting Spectre cannot be deestroyed by battle," he explained. "Making it the perfect defense."
"I end my turn then."
Adora drew. "I play the magic card, Dimensoinal Hole," she announced. ablack hole sucked up Serena's mosnter, removing it from the field. "Until the end of your next turn you Sapphire Dragon is placed out of play. Now I'll summon the Fushinotori to attack your Life Points again."
Serena: 750, Edam & Adora: 4300.
"Now, because of Fushinotori's effect , we will gain another 1200 Life Points."
"Not this time," interrupted Serena, shaking her finger at the female twin. "You don't get to pull the same trick twice. I'm activating my trap card."
"Trap card?"
"Drug Reaction," Serena said as she activated her Duel Disk causing the card image in play to flip up. "Now any time that you would gain Life Points you'll lose them instead. So you've just cost yourself 1200 Life Points plus 500 more when Fushinotori returns to your hand."
"My turn is over then," Adora said dejectedly.
Serena: 750, Edam & Adora: 2600.
Serena drew her next card. "You may have my Sapphire Dragon out of play until I end my turn, but I've still got one more way to damage your Life Points. I could have acitvated this card earlier but it would have just helped you out as well. Not anymore though. I activate Rain of Mercy to increase my Life Points by 1000. Normally it would raise your own Life Points by 1000 as well, but with Drug Reaction in play it becomes 1000 points of damage."
Serena: 1750, Edam & Adora: 1600.
"My turn is over now," Serena said. "And my Sapphire Dragon is back in play."
"I will set another monster," Edam said. "That is all."
"My turn again then." Serena looked at Edam's face down monster. With his Soul-Hunting Spectre in play and immune to any kind of attack from Serena's monsters, there'd be no point to summoning another monster, unless he wanted her to attack it. She wasn't going to play into his hand though; she had her plan and the lead for the first time in this game. "I end my turn without attacking."
"You have just lost Serena," Adora told her.
"How do you figure?"
"You fell for my brother's bluff. You should have attacked his monster. If you had, then I would not have the nesesary monsters in play for my move. But now I can sacriifce my brother's two monsters to summon the Yamata Dragon (2600/3100)."
"I'm not impressed," Serena told her. "If you attack with Yamata Dragon then I only lose 700 Life Points leaving me with more than a thousand remaining. And since Yamata is a Spirit monster it will return to you hand and cost you 500 Life Points when it does."
"This game will not go beyond this turn," Adora continued. "You forget that we still have a face down card, which I activate now: Ultimate Offering. By paying 500 Life Points I can summon an extra monster this turn. I will summon Asura (1700/1200), which has more than enough strenth to eliminate your remianing Life Points after my dragon destroys yours. Yamata Dragon attack now!"
"No," Serena said calmly and forcefully.
"What?" the twins said together. As the Yamata Dragon moved forwad to strike the Sapphire Dragon with its mutiple heads it stopped. A magic card was blocking its path.
"Activate Switch!" Serena shouted. The Sapphire Dragon vanished from the field. "I summon the Bloodstone Dragon (2900/1600)! Not only have I changed the target of your attack to my stonger mosnter, since my Sapphire Dragon returned to my hand, it activated your Elemental Spring card and my Drug Reaction card, costing you another 500 Life Points."
Serena: 1750, Edam & Adora: 600.
Edam spoke up. "Your dragon is stronger than ours by only 300 points. We will have 300 left after your counter attack."
"Not after I activate my Dragon's Special ability. I pay 1500 Life Points to double the amount of battle damage done by the Bloodstone Dragon when it destroys an opponent's monster in battle this turn, increasing the damage to 600." Serena paused to stare into the eyes of her opponents. "Bloodstone Dragon attack with Blazing Claws of Rage!" The beast roared and tore through the Yamata Dragon with two swipes of its powerful claws.
Serena: 250, Edam & Adora: 0.
"You've lost," Serena said with triumph. "Your test is over, and I've passed."
Edam drew his opening hand. "I will set these two cards face down, then play this monster in defense mode. It is your turn."
"I summon Ruby Dragon (1600/1800) in attack mode. And I'll have it attack your face down monster."
"You have attacked my Wall of Illusion (1000/1850). You take 250 Life Points damage and your Dragon returns to your hand."
Serena: 3750, Edam & Adora: 4000
"It is my sister's turn now," Edam continued.
Adora looked over her hand. "I will play this magic card card," she said. "Elemental Spring. Whenever a monster returns from the field to its owner's hand then we will gain 500 Life Points. Next I will summon Fushinotori (1200/0) the spirit monster."
"Spirit monsters?" Serena asked. She had heard Fader say something about them, but never had any first hand experience with them herself.
"Spiriti monsters are a special monster type that retun to their owner's hands at the end of any turn. My Fushinotori will now attack your Life Points directly since you have no monsters in play." Serena was struck dead on by the fire-bird. Her Life Points dropped as her opponents' rose.
Serena: 2550, Edam & Adora: 5200
"What happened?" she shouted. "How did you gain life?"
"When Fushinotori attacks your Life Points directly it allows us to gain an amount of life equal to the damage we inflicted," Adora explained. "I will also chain my attack with my brother's face down trap card, the Robbin' Goblin. Each time you suffer an attack to your Life Points then you must discard a card from your hand."
Serena grimaced as she discarded one of the cards from her hand, the Ruby Dragon. Dueling these two was going to really difficult. Their decks seemed to be a perfect match, complimenting each other and sharing the same strengths. They had the strength of each other to work off of, but she only had her own strength to rely on.
"I will end my turn now," Adora announced. "And we gain another 500 Life Points as my Fushinotori returns to my hand."
Serena: 2550, Edam & Adora: 5700
Serena drew her card. When she looked at it she considered playing it right away but hesitated. "I'll lay this card face down," she said. "And I'll set a monster in defense mode to protect my Life Points. My turn is over." She wanted to attack, but if she did, she'd only get her monster returned to her hand and cause the twins to gain another 500 Life Points.
Edam drew another card. "It is my turn once more. I will summon Don Zaruug (1400/1500). Then I will equip him with the magic card, Bow of Falling Stars. It will reduce his attack points by 1000 but it will allow him to attack your Life Points directly. Don Zaruug, attack!"
Serena: 2150, Edam & Adora: 5700
"Thanks to both his own ability and the effects of Robbin' Goblin," Edam continued. "You must now discard two cards from your hand, leaving you with only one card remianing."
Serena drew her next card and looked at the two that she had in her hand. She could eliminater all of the monsters in play with the Dark Hole that she just drew but without another monster in her hand she would be leaving herself wide open to attack from Adora next turn. The other card she had in her hand could help, but it would also help Edam and Adora right now. She couldn't play either but she also couldn't afford to lose the cards from the effects of more discarding.
"I'll lay these two cards face down and end my turn," she said with a sigh, placing the two cards into her magic and trap card slots.
"You believe that you can protect your cards from your hand from our effects by placing them into play," Adora said as she drew. "But they are no more safe in play then in your hand. I play the magic card Premature Activation."
"What does that do?"
"It flips over one of your face down cards on the field. If it is a trap card, it is destroyed. If it is a magic card, it is immediately activated and its effect resolved. I choose that card," Adora said pointing to the middle card on Serena's field. Serena flipped over the card to reveal the Dark Hole.
"Your Dark Hole is activated," Adora announced. "All monsters on the field are destroyed." As she spoke the swirling vortex consumed all of the in play monsters, sending them to the graveyard and leaving Serena defenseless.
"You've made a mistake Adora," Serena said. "You just eliminated your brother's monsters, which were your best defense. And I'm guessing that you've only got spirit monsters in your handwhich won't be on the field after you end your turn. and the odds of mdrawing a monster from my deck to attack you with are very high, even without any other cards in my hand."
"Wrong," Adora corrected. "You won't be drawing any cards at all."
"How are you going to stop me?"
"I summon Yatagarasu (200/100), the eight giant crows, in attack mode," she announced as a murder of black birds appeared in play in front of her. "When Yatagarasu damages you, you are forced to skip the draw phase of your next turn. Yatagarasu attack her! And now I end my turn and gain 500 Life Points as it returns to my hand."
Serena: 1950, Edam & Adora: 6200.
Serena smiled. "You may have prevented me from getting a draw phase but I'm not done yet. In fact with all the discarding you two were making me do I figured a little insurance would be a good idea."
"What?" the twins asked.
"Reveal face down card, Pot of Greed. I now draw two more cards," Serena announced picking up the two cards off the top of her deck. "I'll lay this one face down, and then summon Sapphire Dragon (1900/1200) in attack mode to attack your Life Points directly."
Serena: 1950, Edam & Adora: 4300.
"Your turn Edam," Serena said to the boy.
"I will set a monster in defense mode and end my turn."
Serena paused for a second, debating whether or not to attack Edam's new monster. They still had one other card face down in play, but they hadn't activated it during her last attack. She was on the offensive and needed to keep up the momentum to make up the lost ground. "I'll set this card face down," she said placing a third card into her magic and trap card slot. "And I'll attack your face down monster with the Sapphire Dragon."
"You've attacked my Soul-Hunting Spectre (300/300)," Edam told her.
The Sapphire Dragon's attack slammed full force into the Spectre but nothing happened. "What?" Serena exclaimed with shock.
"Soul-Hunting Spectre cannot be deestroyed by battle," he explained. "Making it the perfect defense."
"I end my turn then."
Adora drew. "I play the magic card, Dimensoinal Hole," she announced. ablack hole sucked up Serena's mosnter, removing it from the field. "Until the end of your next turn you Sapphire Dragon is placed out of play. Now I'll summon the Fushinotori to attack your Life Points again."
Serena: 750, Edam & Adora: 4300.
"Now, because of Fushinotori's effect , we will gain another 1200 Life Points."
"Not this time," interrupted Serena, shaking her finger at the female twin. "You don't get to pull the same trick twice. I'm activating my trap card."
"Trap card?"
"Drug Reaction," Serena said as she activated her Duel Disk causing the card image in play to flip up. "Now any time that you would gain Life Points you'll lose them instead. So you've just cost yourself 1200 Life Points plus 500 more when Fushinotori returns to your hand."
"My turn is over then," Adora said dejectedly.
Serena: 750, Edam & Adora: 2600.
Serena drew her next card. "You may have my Sapphire Dragon out of play until I end my turn, but I've still got one more way to damage your Life Points. I could have acitvated this card earlier but it would have just helped you out as well. Not anymore though. I activate Rain of Mercy to increase my Life Points by 1000. Normally it would raise your own Life Points by 1000 as well, but with Drug Reaction in play it becomes 1000 points of damage."
Serena: 1750, Edam & Adora: 1600.
"My turn is over now," Serena said. "And my Sapphire Dragon is back in play."
"I will set another monster," Edam said. "That is all."
"My turn again then." Serena looked at Edam's face down monster. With his Soul-Hunting Spectre in play and immune to any kind of attack from Serena's monsters, there'd be no point to summoning another monster, unless he wanted her to attack it. She wasn't going to play into his hand though; she had her plan and the lead for the first time in this game. "I end my turn without attacking."
"You have just lost Serena," Adora told her.
"How do you figure?"
"You fell for my brother's bluff. You should have attacked his monster. If you had, then I would not have the nesesary monsters in play for my move. But now I can sacriifce my brother's two monsters to summon the Yamata Dragon (2600/3100)."
"I'm not impressed," Serena told her. "If you attack with Yamata Dragon then I only lose 700 Life Points leaving me with more than a thousand remaining. And since Yamata is a Spirit monster it will return to you hand and cost you 500 Life Points when it does."
"This game will not go beyond this turn," Adora continued. "You forget that we still have a face down card, which I activate now: Ultimate Offering. By paying 500 Life Points I can summon an extra monster this turn. I will summon Asura (1700/1200), which has more than enough strenth to eliminate your remianing Life Points after my dragon destroys yours. Yamata Dragon attack now!"
"No," Serena said calmly and forcefully.
"What?" the twins said together. As the Yamata Dragon moved forwad to strike the Sapphire Dragon with its mutiple heads it stopped. A magic card was blocking its path.
"Activate Switch!" Serena shouted. The Sapphire Dragon vanished from the field. "I summon the Bloodstone Dragon (2900/1600)! Not only have I changed the target of your attack to my stonger mosnter, since my Sapphire Dragon returned to my hand, it activated your Elemental Spring card and my Drug Reaction card, costing you another 500 Life Points."
Serena: 1750, Edam & Adora: 600.
Edam spoke up. "Your dragon is stronger than ours by only 300 points. We will have 300 left after your counter attack."
"Not after I activate my Dragon's Special ability. I pay 1500 Life Points to double the amount of battle damage done by the Bloodstone Dragon when it destroys an opponent's monster in battle this turn, increasing the damage to 600." Serena paused to stare into the eyes of her opponents. "Bloodstone Dragon attack with Blazing Claws of Rage!" The beast roared and tore through the Yamata Dragon with two swipes of its powerful claws.
Serena: 250, Edam & Adora: 0.
"You've lost," Serena said with triumph. "Your test is over, and I've passed."