"Are you done your turn?" asked Mya. "Your Shadow Skull rammed itself
straight into my Mirror Wall, and that was your monster for the turn, you
can't summon anymore. So as soon as you end your turn I can attack you
directly."
"Not so fast whelp," Discord stated. "I'm not out of moves yet. I'll lay these two cards face down. And then play Kiss of the Shadow."
"What's that?"
"Very simple," she explained. "This card allows me to pay half of my Life Points to special summon a Shadow monster from my deck and special summon it to the field in face down defense mode; and thanks to you it only costs me a sparse 225 Life Points."
Mya: 2000, Discord: 225.
"If that's all you're going to do then you may as well just give up now." Mya drew her card. "I attack your face down monster with my Cyber Harpy!" The Harpy Lady cracked her whip and lashed out to the hidden monster on Discord's field. Before the whip could connect though the monster revealed itself in a dark flash.
"What a shame," Discord said with an air of mock sympathy. "Your poor Cyber Harpy hit my Shield Shadow (0/3000). Such an embarrassment to your grandmother's favorite card, don't you agree?"
"Shut up!" Mya shouted.
"Poor girl," chided Discord. "Still touchy over your grandmother?"
"Just get on with the match!"
"As you wish. You've just lost 700 Life Points from your reckless attack."
Mya: 1300, Discord: 225
"It's still much higher than your Life Points," said Mya. "I'll be fine."
"Are you so sure? Did you forget about the penalty of this game?" Mya was about to ask, when the dark chains thast were binding her feet began to spread. The shadow continued to spread as it crawled up her legs, ending just before her hips. "Still as fine as you thought? The shadows are much colder than people think, most people can't bare the stress and give up, some just collapse."
"J-just make y-your move," said Mya as she bit back against the numbing sensation of the cold.
Evo and Jaina continued to watch above the match on the catwalks of the near emtpy and dark factory. "She's not going to last much longer," Jaina commented. "You still determined not to help her?"
"We cannot," Evo replied. "This is a contest for the control of a God card. Is she cannot defeat her opponent then she was not worthy of the card in the first place. Only the chosen can weild the power of Obelisk."
"And if she does lose?"
"Do you think that I would let this Discord leave here. Just because I will not interfere in the natural order does not mean that I will sit idly by and let this woman escape with such power."
"Then we watch," Jaina said and turned back to the events on the field.
Discord had just drawn her card and was now examining it and the other cards in her hand. "I'll summon the Shadow Orc (2200/0) in attack mode, and lay this card face down."
"Going to attack?"
"I'm no fool girl. I know the effects of your Mirror are continuous, and I will not lose this match. I'll pass for the rest of my turn."
"Your funeral. You've left your Orc in attack mode and an easy target for my Harpy. I just have to attack once more and this game and your challenge for my Obelisk will be over. Rose Whip attack!"
"Activate face down card! Misdirection!" Ass the rose whip decended upon the Orc it was enveloped by shadows as was the Shield Shadow. They were both pulled down into the field and by the time the whip struck the two monsters had been switched and the whip once again struck the Shadow Shield."
"What happened?"
"My trap card," Discord explained, holding up the pink coloer card. "By paying half of my Life Points I can change the target of your attack to another monster on my field. Once again your Harpy was outclassed."
Mya: 600, Discord: 112.
Once more the shadowy chains wrapping themselves around Mya began to spread, not stopping until they encompassed all of her legs and much of her chest. She had all but lost the feeling in her legs and the cold was becoming unbearable. "I'll lay this card face down and end my turn."
"You don't have much time left, or Life Points. Not long at all now."
"You have less Life Points then I do," shot back Mya.
"Not for long, though I'll have to make a small sacrifice first. I'll attack your Harpy with my Orc!"
Mya was confused. "What are you doing? Your monster has 100 less attack than mine. Not only that but my Mirror Wall will cut that attack in half. You're commiting suicide."
"Not quite. I activate the trap card Trap Theft to steal your Mirror wall card and move it to myside of the field."
"Trap Theft? That card requires the user to pay 1000 Life Points though."
"Not when I activate my other face down card Unfair Loophole. I simply discard a card from my hand, the Shadow Jar (900/700), and it reduces the Life Point cost of my Trap Theft to 0. Your Mirror Wall is now under my control."
"Your Orc still isn't a match for my Cyber Harpy, it's destroyed."
Mya: 600, Discord: 12.
"My turn isn't over yet. I now play the magic card Oblique Absorbtion!"
"What does that do?"
"I can remove as many Shadow monsters as I want from my graveyard from play. For each one that I remove I gain 400 Life Points."
Mya: 600, Discord: 1612.
"Make your move girl. I promise that I'll make your death as fast and painless as I can."
"I'm sure," Mya scoffed. "But I'm going to let you win. I made a promise to my mother to protect Obelisk. My grandmother and grandfather went through a great deal of pain and hardships to get it."
"And all those pain and hardships are about to blinked out and become worthless because you couldn't protect it. Thier sacrifices mean nothing."
Mya's hand rested on her deck. "No. I will not let them down. There's still at least one card in this deck that I know can defeat you." She drew her card. Her expression faltered.
"Not the card is it?" Discord said wickedly.
"No. It wasn't Obelisk, but it will do," Mya said with a smile. "I summon the Flying Kamakiri #1 (1400/900) in attack mode!"
"Going to annoy me with a little gnat?"
"Hardly. I just need the monster to do this! I activate the Holy Wind Ritual by offering my Harpy Lady and Flying Kamakiri #1 to summon the Devine Harpy (2450/2750)!"
"Impressive monster," complimented Discord. "But you still don't stand a chance against my Shield Shadow, even if I didn't have the power of your Mirror Wall."
"But you're not going to have the power of my Mirror Wall for very much longer."
"What are you going to do?"
"Play these," she replied, holding up two magic cards. "You're not the only one who can remove monsters to gain life. I first play the White Wind card, and place my Flying Kamakiri in my graveyard and gain Life Points equal to its attack."
Mya: 2000, Discord: 1612.
"And now I play the equip magic card Silver Wings to raise my Harpy's attack to 3150!" Glowing silver wings appears behind the Devine Harpy, extending out to great lengths covering Mya's whole field.
"As high as your attack is you can't beat my Shield Shadow, your attack willl get cut in a heartbeat."
"That's what you think. I forgot to tell you about Devine Harpy's special ability."
"Special ability?"
"I can pay 1500 Life Points to destroy all your Magic and Trap cards, including my Mirror Wall!" The Harpy's wings began to flap out and a whirlwind of feather blew across the field shattering the Mirror Wall and Misdirection trap cards. "Now Devine Harpy attack with Hurricane Force! Your Shield Shadow has been destroyed."
"I must admit," Discord said as she drew her card. "You are proving much more difficut then I imagine you would be. But I finally have the solution. I activate the Magic card Tome of Ancient Knowledge. We both search our decks for a card and add it to our hands." Discord then picked up her deck and began to thumb through her deck, as Mya did the same.
"No need to guess what I'm taking is there." Mya said as she revealed the God Soldier Obelisk (4000/4000).
"I take Autonomous Action Unit." She then rearranged the cards in her hand, looking over them. "This game is over I'm afraid."
"Your not really in a position to be declaring victory, unless you're conceeding."
"I'll remember that smug look on your face. The look you had just before you lost it all. This duel, Obelisk, and even your life. The shadows will finish crawling up the rest of your body and it will cover you completely, locking into a prison of darkness for the rest of your life. And I will walk out of this factory with this image of your smug face and the satisfaction of knowing that you are trapped in an endless void for the rest of time."
"Were you going to talk all night? Or were you going to duel?"
"I will duel, and you will die! I lay this card face down and then play Card Destruction!" Discord and Mya both discarded their cards to the graveyard and drew a new hand. "You have no clue of what's in store for you do you? Not only am I going to destroy you, but I'm going to do it with the very card that so dear to you, the God Soldier Obelisk! I activate the face down Autonomous Action Unit by paying 1500 Life Points I revive your God Soldier and there's nothing you can do to save yourself!" In a crash of thunder and lightning the field began to glow. And with a final burst of energy the giant blue soldier began to rise out of the ground until it dwarfed over the entire field. "Obelisk!" Discord shouted. "God Hand Crusher attack! Send her to the shadows forever!"
"Not so fast whelp," Discord stated. "I'm not out of moves yet. I'll lay these two cards face down. And then play Kiss of the Shadow."
"What's that?"
"Very simple," she explained. "This card allows me to pay half of my Life Points to special summon a Shadow monster from my deck and special summon it to the field in face down defense mode; and thanks to you it only costs me a sparse 225 Life Points."
Mya: 2000, Discord: 225.
"If that's all you're going to do then you may as well just give up now." Mya drew her card. "I attack your face down monster with my Cyber Harpy!" The Harpy Lady cracked her whip and lashed out to the hidden monster on Discord's field. Before the whip could connect though the monster revealed itself in a dark flash.
"What a shame," Discord said with an air of mock sympathy. "Your poor Cyber Harpy hit my Shield Shadow (0/3000). Such an embarrassment to your grandmother's favorite card, don't you agree?"
"Shut up!" Mya shouted.
"Poor girl," chided Discord. "Still touchy over your grandmother?"
"Just get on with the match!"
"As you wish. You've just lost 700 Life Points from your reckless attack."
Mya: 1300, Discord: 225
"It's still much higher than your Life Points," said Mya. "I'll be fine."
"Are you so sure? Did you forget about the penalty of this game?" Mya was about to ask, when the dark chains thast were binding her feet began to spread. The shadow continued to spread as it crawled up her legs, ending just before her hips. "Still as fine as you thought? The shadows are much colder than people think, most people can't bare the stress and give up, some just collapse."
"J-just make y-your move," said Mya as she bit back against the numbing sensation of the cold.
Evo and Jaina continued to watch above the match on the catwalks of the near emtpy and dark factory. "She's not going to last much longer," Jaina commented. "You still determined not to help her?"
"We cannot," Evo replied. "This is a contest for the control of a God card. Is she cannot defeat her opponent then she was not worthy of the card in the first place. Only the chosen can weild the power of Obelisk."
"And if she does lose?"
"Do you think that I would let this Discord leave here. Just because I will not interfere in the natural order does not mean that I will sit idly by and let this woman escape with such power."
"Then we watch," Jaina said and turned back to the events on the field.
Discord had just drawn her card and was now examining it and the other cards in her hand. "I'll summon the Shadow Orc (2200/0) in attack mode, and lay this card face down."
"Going to attack?"
"I'm no fool girl. I know the effects of your Mirror are continuous, and I will not lose this match. I'll pass for the rest of my turn."
"Your funeral. You've left your Orc in attack mode and an easy target for my Harpy. I just have to attack once more and this game and your challenge for my Obelisk will be over. Rose Whip attack!"
"Activate face down card! Misdirection!" Ass the rose whip decended upon the Orc it was enveloped by shadows as was the Shield Shadow. They were both pulled down into the field and by the time the whip struck the two monsters had been switched and the whip once again struck the Shadow Shield."
"What happened?"
"My trap card," Discord explained, holding up the pink coloer card. "By paying half of my Life Points I can change the target of your attack to another monster on my field. Once again your Harpy was outclassed."
Mya: 600, Discord: 112.
Once more the shadowy chains wrapping themselves around Mya began to spread, not stopping until they encompassed all of her legs and much of her chest. She had all but lost the feeling in her legs and the cold was becoming unbearable. "I'll lay this card face down and end my turn."
"You don't have much time left, or Life Points. Not long at all now."
"You have less Life Points then I do," shot back Mya.
"Not for long, though I'll have to make a small sacrifice first. I'll attack your Harpy with my Orc!"
Mya was confused. "What are you doing? Your monster has 100 less attack than mine. Not only that but my Mirror Wall will cut that attack in half. You're commiting suicide."
"Not quite. I activate the trap card Trap Theft to steal your Mirror wall card and move it to myside of the field."
"Trap Theft? That card requires the user to pay 1000 Life Points though."
"Not when I activate my other face down card Unfair Loophole. I simply discard a card from my hand, the Shadow Jar (900/700), and it reduces the Life Point cost of my Trap Theft to 0. Your Mirror Wall is now under my control."
"Your Orc still isn't a match for my Cyber Harpy, it's destroyed."
Mya: 600, Discord: 12.
"My turn isn't over yet. I now play the magic card Oblique Absorbtion!"
"What does that do?"
"I can remove as many Shadow monsters as I want from my graveyard from play. For each one that I remove I gain 400 Life Points."
Mya: 600, Discord: 1612.
"Make your move girl. I promise that I'll make your death as fast and painless as I can."
"I'm sure," Mya scoffed. "But I'm going to let you win. I made a promise to my mother to protect Obelisk. My grandmother and grandfather went through a great deal of pain and hardships to get it."
"And all those pain and hardships are about to blinked out and become worthless because you couldn't protect it. Thier sacrifices mean nothing."
Mya's hand rested on her deck. "No. I will not let them down. There's still at least one card in this deck that I know can defeat you." She drew her card. Her expression faltered.
"Not the card is it?" Discord said wickedly.
"No. It wasn't Obelisk, but it will do," Mya said with a smile. "I summon the Flying Kamakiri #1 (1400/900) in attack mode!"
"Going to annoy me with a little gnat?"
"Hardly. I just need the monster to do this! I activate the Holy Wind Ritual by offering my Harpy Lady and Flying Kamakiri #1 to summon the Devine Harpy (2450/2750)!"
"Impressive monster," complimented Discord. "But you still don't stand a chance against my Shield Shadow, even if I didn't have the power of your Mirror Wall."
"But you're not going to have the power of my Mirror Wall for very much longer."
"What are you going to do?"
"Play these," she replied, holding up two magic cards. "You're not the only one who can remove monsters to gain life. I first play the White Wind card, and place my Flying Kamakiri in my graveyard and gain Life Points equal to its attack."
Mya: 2000, Discord: 1612.
"And now I play the equip magic card Silver Wings to raise my Harpy's attack to 3150!" Glowing silver wings appears behind the Devine Harpy, extending out to great lengths covering Mya's whole field.
"As high as your attack is you can't beat my Shield Shadow, your attack willl get cut in a heartbeat."
"That's what you think. I forgot to tell you about Devine Harpy's special ability."
"Special ability?"
"I can pay 1500 Life Points to destroy all your Magic and Trap cards, including my Mirror Wall!" The Harpy's wings began to flap out and a whirlwind of feather blew across the field shattering the Mirror Wall and Misdirection trap cards. "Now Devine Harpy attack with Hurricane Force! Your Shield Shadow has been destroyed."
"I must admit," Discord said as she drew her card. "You are proving much more difficut then I imagine you would be. But I finally have the solution. I activate the Magic card Tome of Ancient Knowledge. We both search our decks for a card and add it to our hands." Discord then picked up her deck and began to thumb through her deck, as Mya did the same.
"No need to guess what I'm taking is there." Mya said as she revealed the God Soldier Obelisk (4000/4000).
"I take Autonomous Action Unit." She then rearranged the cards in her hand, looking over them. "This game is over I'm afraid."
"Your not really in a position to be declaring victory, unless you're conceeding."
"I'll remember that smug look on your face. The look you had just before you lost it all. This duel, Obelisk, and even your life. The shadows will finish crawling up the rest of your body and it will cover you completely, locking into a prison of darkness for the rest of your life. And I will walk out of this factory with this image of your smug face and the satisfaction of knowing that you are trapped in an endless void for the rest of time."
"Were you going to talk all night? Or were you going to duel?"
"I will duel, and you will die! I lay this card face down and then play Card Destruction!" Discord and Mya both discarded their cards to the graveyard and drew a new hand. "You have no clue of what's in store for you do you? Not only am I going to destroy you, but I'm going to do it with the very card that so dear to you, the God Soldier Obelisk! I activate the face down Autonomous Action Unit by paying 1500 Life Points I revive your God Soldier and there's nothing you can do to save yourself!" In a crash of thunder and lightning the field began to glow. And with a final burst of energy the giant blue soldier began to rise out of the ground until it dwarfed over the entire field. "Obelisk!" Discord shouted. "God Hand Crusher attack! Send her to the shadows forever!"