"Fader, no!" Serena shouted. Anotehr few seconds later Dennis too was
struck by the powerful claws of the Berserker Dragon and was thrown to the
dirt about a dozen meters from Serena, Vega and Beezy.
"Dennis!" Vega shouted, her words echoing those of Serena. She glared with hatred at the massive beast as it was perched high a top the cliffs. She began to glow ominously orange, changing to red and then finally to bright white. "Star Inferno!" As she yelled this five balls of fire appeared out of nowhere and surrounded the Berserker Dragon. In a flash the five of them linked together by streams of flame and a massive eruption burst forth from the ground enveloping the Berserker inside the sonfining lines of the burning star.
"What the hell was that?" Beezy asked her.
"A rare magic card that I aquired after Battle City," she explained. "It also happens to be my most powerful attack in the DMO universe. That's only the second time I've been able to use it."
"Too bad it didn't work the way you wanted it to," came a reply from the cliff. The flames dissipated and sas they began to clear the Berserker Dragon's head pushed through and roared. It lept off the high cliff and landed immediately infront of Vega. Quickly it spun around and smashed into her with its gigantic tail, knocking her away.
Serena jumped backwards, dodging the next attack of the ominous beast and putting a little distance between them. She then began to glow white as she started to shift her Paladin form into that of the stronger Blue Eyes White Dragon. She underestimated the Berserker's speed though and in the blink of an eye she found herself being crushed in the iron grip of the dragon's giant claws.
"Let go!" Beezy shouted.
The Berserker turned at him and snorted a laugh. "I have what I'm after. You don't need to die today."
Beezy's eyes narows. "I said let go."
"And if I don't?"
"Then you won't live to regret it."
"Big talk for such a small man," it roared. "Let's see if you make a big enough meal!" Without further warning the dragon lunged at Beezy with its humungous jaws wide open, planning to swallow the young Sword Hunter.
"Metalmorph!" Beezy shouted. In the amount of time that it took the dragon to lunge forward to snap beezy up, he was covered from head to toe with brgiht and shiny armor. Beezy hadn't been eaten when hte Berserker's jaws had slammed shut. The dragon's jaws had never shut at all, being held open by the newly energized Iron Sword Hunter, and Beezy's own determination. The two of them pushed against each other, pushing their own bodies to the limits as the dragon attempted to crush and swallow Beezy and Beezy held open the beasts mouth, staving off his demise.
"You can't keep this up forever," the dragon choked out, his words muffled by the fact that his mouth was being wedged pen and he had an Iron Sword Hunter on his tongue. "Your armor will fade soon enough."
"Maybe so," Beezy replied. "But whose strength will fade first, yours or mine?"
"My strength won't fade."
"Won't it? Berserkers are very strong monsters," he explained. "But they have a major flaw; they lose power as time goes on. You'll get weaker the longer this struggle lasts." Time ticked by. Drggin on. Each second accompanied by the pounding of Beezy's heart. After feeling the hot breath of the Berserker, and feeling the strain on his body to keep the dragon's mouth open, Beezy realized soemthing. "You know," he said as he struggled. "I think you might be right. I'm not going to last longer than you. So. I'll. Just. Give. Up!" With a final triumphant heave Beezy threw up the Berserker's jaw before it slammed down, chomping the young man.
It was at that moment that Vega had just pushed herself to her feet; just in time to see Beezy lost in the Berserker's maw. She cried out for her young new friend and the dragon twisted around to the Fire Princess. She braced herself for another attack, but it never came.The Berserker Drgaon crashed to the ground and Vega watched in awe as it shattered in a pixelized explosion. When everything had cleared, Serena had been released and Beezy was ther, kneeling on the ground, grasping one of his swords in both his hands, pointing it stright into the air. Right where the Berserker's head had been.
Dumbfounded Vega ran over to Beezy, where she was joined by Serena. "What happened?" she asked him.
"I gave up," he replied.
"What do you mean you gave up?" asked Serena.
"I knew that it was right. Even if it did lose strength over time that my armor would fade before he was too weak."
"So?"
"So I had to finish it quickly," continued Beezy. "We were even in strength up until the very moment before I let him bite down. As soon as I felt that I was the slightest bit stronger than he was I pushed all of my strength and the last few seconds of the Metalmorph armor and forced his jaw open just enough that I had enough time to draw one of my swords. When he bit down to swallow me, the sword was driven straight into his brain.
"Good job Beezy," Fader called out. The other whirled around to see the Dark Magician propping himself up agianst the cliff face with one ar,. his other arm clutching at his virtual ribs.
"Fader!" Serena cried out and rushed over to him, taking his arm and draping it over her shoulder to help him keep balance.
"Are you alright?" Beezy asked.
"I'm fine," Fader lied. "Vega you should check on Dennis." Vega dashed off. "I'll be okay."
"You look like hell," Beezy commented with a laugh.
Fader laughed out a reply around the pain, "At least I don't smell like the inside of a dragon's mouth."
"You can hardly stand," Serena scolded.
"Beezy was right. The Berserker Dragon lost its strength as the battle went on," Fader said. "Unfortunately I took a hit when it was still at its peak. But I'll be fine." He took a few shaky steps away from Serena. "Double Magic!" he said into the air. A gentle rain then came over him and washed away the pain and injury. When it was gone, Fader was completely healed.
Serena stood back and stared. "How did you...? That was Rain of Mercy right?"
"I can use my Double Magic support card to copy the support ability of anyone near me. I figured it would be a useful trick."
"To say the least," Dennis said as he and Vega rejoined the group. "Now let's get out of here before anything else comes along."
* * *
Within the hour the group of five had left the Necrovalle and had moved to the next agreed upon stop. fader was eerily silent during the whole journey to hte transit hub and offered up no conversation of opinions on where they should go next. The group had decided without him. They appeared in the new 2world and craned their necks upwards to stare at the skyscrapers that towered over them.
"Not exaclly what you'd expect in a fantasy game," Fader commented.
Serena explained, "Welcome to Dominia. We thought it would be interesting to place some of the Duel Monsters into a real world setting."
"Based on Domino it looks like," Beezy added.
"Yes, but this is Domnio as it was about eighty years ago."
"I still say that we should have split up," argued Dennis. "There were three servers that we still had to search. It would have been faster to split up to cover the most ground. We're wasting time going through them one by one."
"You think we're wasting time," Fader said. "But we're being mart and careful. We've already seen that a lot of your frineds are dead. And four of us were incapacitated by that Berserker Dragon before Beezy defeated it. If we split up we split our resources and reduce our chances of getting out of here alive. We're sticking together."
"Who do you think you are?" Dennis shouted. "You just popped in here and started barking out orders. You don't know this world half as well as Vega or Serena or I do. And on top of that you won't answer any of our questions."
"I don't expect you to respect me Dennis, that's fine; we don't know each other well enough to base that respect on. But what you do have to do is trust me."
"Trust has to be earned."
"fair enough," conceeded Fader. "So just give me a chance to earn that trust."
"We'll see," Dennis replied. "I'm going to take a quick look around." Without wating for any kind of answer from anyone else he took off up into the air and dissappeared behind one of the tall buildings.
Vega walked up to the Dark Magician and placed her hand on his shoulder. "Don't get mad at him Fader. We've both been in here a long time, too long; and we've lost a lot of frineds." She paused. "We just want to go home."
"I know Vega," he replied. "But I just want to make sure that we all make it out of here." At that moment a large explosiion was heard and a split- second later a burst of white energy blasted the wall of the building right above them. Vega took off around the corner in hte same direction that Dennis had gone, followed closely by Fader, Serena and Beezy. When they whipped around the corner they found something they never expected to see. Serena gasped. they were looking into the eyes of a Blue Eyes White Dragon.
"Surprised Kaiba?" the dragon asked them. "Surprised to see your precious monster?"
"You're not real," Serena shot back. "Not one of the real, true Blue Eyes."
"Real? Real is all relative Kaiba. Reality can be changed, especially here in this world of yours."
"What are you talking about?"
Ignorning Serena's question the Blue Eyes reared back and shouted out, "Toon World!" Everything began to twist; the Blue eyes, the buildings, the ground, even the sky itself changed. In a few seconds they were no longer in Dominia, the metropolis server; they were in Toon World now, face to face with the Blue Eyes Toon Dragon, its devilish grin and manaical laughter.
"Dennis!" Vega shouted, her words echoing those of Serena. She glared with hatred at the massive beast as it was perched high a top the cliffs. She began to glow ominously orange, changing to red and then finally to bright white. "Star Inferno!" As she yelled this five balls of fire appeared out of nowhere and surrounded the Berserker Dragon. In a flash the five of them linked together by streams of flame and a massive eruption burst forth from the ground enveloping the Berserker inside the sonfining lines of the burning star.
"What the hell was that?" Beezy asked her.
"A rare magic card that I aquired after Battle City," she explained. "It also happens to be my most powerful attack in the DMO universe. That's only the second time I've been able to use it."
"Too bad it didn't work the way you wanted it to," came a reply from the cliff. The flames dissipated and sas they began to clear the Berserker Dragon's head pushed through and roared. It lept off the high cliff and landed immediately infront of Vega. Quickly it spun around and smashed into her with its gigantic tail, knocking her away.
Serena jumped backwards, dodging the next attack of the ominous beast and putting a little distance between them. She then began to glow white as she started to shift her Paladin form into that of the stronger Blue Eyes White Dragon. She underestimated the Berserker's speed though and in the blink of an eye she found herself being crushed in the iron grip of the dragon's giant claws.
"Let go!" Beezy shouted.
The Berserker turned at him and snorted a laugh. "I have what I'm after. You don't need to die today."
Beezy's eyes narows. "I said let go."
"And if I don't?"
"Then you won't live to regret it."
"Big talk for such a small man," it roared. "Let's see if you make a big enough meal!" Without further warning the dragon lunged at Beezy with its humungous jaws wide open, planning to swallow the young Sword Hunter.
"Metalmorph!" Beezy shouted. In the amount of time that it took the dragon to lunge forward to snap beezy up, he was covered from head to toe with brgiht and shiny armor. Beezy hadn't been eaten when hte Berserker's jaws had slammed shut. The dragon's jaws had never shut at all, being held open by the newly energized Iron Sword Hunter, and Beezy's own determination. The two of them pushed against each other, pushing their own bodies to the limits as the dragon attempted to crush and swallow Beezy and Beezy held open the beasts mouth, staving off his demise.
"You can't keep this up forever," the dragon choked out, his words muffled by the fact that his mouth was being wedged pen and he had an Iron Sword Hunter on his tongue. "Your armor will fade soon enough."
"Maybe so," Beezy replied. "But whose strength will fade first, yours or mine?"
"My strength won't fade."
"Won't it? Berserkers are very strong monsters," he explained. "But they have a major flaw; they lose power as time goes on. You'll get weaker the longer this struggle lasts." Time ticked by. Drggin on. Each second accompanied by the pounding of Beezy's heart. After feeling the hot breath of the Berserker, and feeling the strain on his body to keep the dragon's mouth open, Beezy realized soemthing. "You know," he said as he struggled. "I think you might be right. I'm not going to last longer than you. So. I'll. Just. Give. Up!" With a final triumphant heave Beezy threw up the Berserker's jaw before it slammed down, chomping the young man.
It was at that moment that Vega had just pushed herself to her feet; just in time to see Beezy lost in the Berserker's maw. She cried out for her young new friend and the dragon twisted around to the Fire Princess. She braced herself for another attack, but it never came.The Berserker Drgaon crashed to the ground and Vega watched in awe as it shattered in a pixelized explosion. When everything had cleared, Serena had been released and Beezy was ther, kneeling on the ground, grasping one of his swords in both his hands, pointing it stright into the air. Right where the Berserker's head had been.
Dumbfounded Vega ran over to Beezy, where she was joined by Serena. "What happened?" she asked him.
"I gave up," he replied.
"What do you mean you gave up?" asked Serena.
"I knew that it was right. Even if it did lose strength over time that my armor would fade before he was too weak."
"So?"
"So I had to finish it quickly," continued Beezy. "We were even in strength up until the very moment before I let him bite down. As soon as I felt that I was the slightest bit stronger than he was I pushed all of my strength and the last few seconds of the Metalmorph armor and forced his jaw open just enough that I had enough time to draw one of my swords. When he bit down to swallow me, the sword was driven straight into his brain.
"Good job Beezy," Fader called out. The other whirled around to see the Dark Magician propping himself up agianst the cliff face with one ar,. his other arm clutching at his virtual ribs.
"Fader!" Serena cried out and rushed over to him, taking his arm and draping it over her shoulder to help him keep balance.
"Are you alright?" Beezy asked.
"I'm fine," Fader lied. "Vega you should check on Dennis." Vega dashed off. "I'll be okay."
"You look like hell," Beezy commented with a laugh.
Fader laughed out a reply around the pain, "At least I don't smell like the inside of a dragon's mouth."
"You can hardly stand," Serena scolded.
"Beezy was right. The Berserker Dragon lost its strength as the battle went on," Fader said. "Unfortunately I took a hit when it was still at its peak. But I'll be fine." He took a few shaky steps away from Serena. "Double Magic!" he said into the air. A gentle rain then came over him and washed away the pain and injury. When it was gone, Fader was completely healed.
Serena stood back and stared. "How did you...? That was Rain of Mercy right?"
"I can use my Double Magic support card to copy the support ability of anyone near me. I figured it would be a useful trick."
"To say the least," Dennis said as he and Vega rejoined the group. "Now let's get out of here before anything else comes along."
* * *
Within the hour the group of five had left the Necrovalle and had moved to the next agreed upon stop. fader was eerily silent during the whole journey to hte transit hub and offered up no conversation of opinions on where they should go next. The group had decided without him. They appeared in the new 2world and craned their necks upwards to stare at the skyscrapers that towered over them.
"Not exaclly what you'd expect in a fantasy game," Fader commented.
Serena explained, "Welcome to Dominia. We thought it would be interesting to place some of the Duel Monsters into a real world setting."
"Based on Domino it looks like," Beezy added.
"Yes, but this is Domnio as it was about eighty years ago."
"I still say that we should have split up," argued Dennis. "There were three servers that we still had to search. It would have been faster to split up to cover the most ground. We're wasting time going through them one by one."
"You think we're wasting time," Fader said. "But we're being mart and careful. We've already seen that a lot of your frineds are dead. And four of us were incapacitated by that Berserker Dragon before Beezy defeated it. If we split up we split our resources and reduce our chances of getting out of here alive. We're sticking together."
"Who do you think you are?" Dennis shouted. "You just popped in here and started barking out orders. You don't know this world half as well as Vega or Serena or I do. And on top of that you won't answer any of our questions."
"I don't expect you to respect me Dennis, that's fine; we don't know each other well enough to base that respect on. But what you do have to do is trust me."
"Trust has to be earned."
"fair enough," conceeded Fader. "So just give me a chance to earn that trust."
"We'll see," Dennis replied. "I'm going to take a quick look around." Without wating for any kind of answer from anyone else he took off up into the air and dissappeared behind one of the tall buildings.
Vega walked up to the Dark Magician and placed her hand on his shoulder. "Don't get mad at him Fader. We've both been in here a long time, too long; and we've lost a lot of frineds." She paused. "We just want to go home."
"I know Vega," he replied. "But I just want to make sure that we all make it out of here." At that moment a large explosiion was heard and a split- second later a burst of white energy blasted the wall of the building right above them. Vega took off around the corner in hte same direction that Dennis had gone, followed closely by Fader, Serena and Beezy. When they whipped around the corner they found something they never expected to see. Serena gasped. they were looking into the eyes of a Blue Eyes White Dragon.
"Surprised Kaiba?" the dragon asked them. "Surprised to see your precious monster?"
"You're not real," Serena shot back. "Not one of the real, true Blue Eyes."
"Real? Real is all relative Kaiba. Reality can be changed, especially here in this world of yours."
"What are you talking about?"
Ignorning Serena's question the Blue Eyes reared back and shouted out, "Toon World!" Everything began to twist; the Blue eyes, the buildings, the ground, even the sky itself changed. In a few seconds they were no longer in Dominia, the metropolis server; they were in Toon World now, face to face with the Blue Eyes Toon Dragon, its devilish grin and manaical laughter.