Colette's turn-
"Alright now before I draw I'll activate my trap card, Solemn Wishes," Colette said then drawing her card. "So during each time I draw a card I'll gain 500 life points."
"500 life points isn't a lot," Mai told her. "With those weak monsters, your life points will drop a lot more than 500 life points each turn."
"Humph," Colette grunted then continuing her turn. "I'll show you. First I play Graceful Charity and draw three cards then discard two from my hand. I'll discard Marie the Fallen One and Maiden of the Moonlight to the graveyard."
As she sent the two cards in her graveyard, she continued talking.
"With Solemn Wishes, I'll gain another 500 life points, putting me at 8050." But that's not all. I'll play one card face down and summon this, Injection Fairy Lily (400/1500) in attack mode."
"Mai!" Yugi told her instantly remembering that card's capabilities. "Watch out for that card, it can increase its attack points dramatically."
"Yugi, I can take care of this," Mai told him ignoring his advice. "You worry about yourself."
"Now for the last card I'll play this turn, I'll equip my Fairy Lily with Shooting Star Bow," Colette began. "That lowers Lily's attack by 1000 making her attack zero."
"Why would you play a card that weakens your already weak monster?" Mai asked.
'Oh no,' thought Yugi.
"Because it lets Lily attack your life points directly," Colette said. "Go Lily! Attack Mai directly!"
An archery bow materialized in Injection Fairy Lily's hands and her ride- able booster shot shrunk to the size of an arrow. Then, she pulled back on the bow and fired the booster shot like an arrow.
"Now I'll pay 2000 life points and that'll increase Lily's attack to 3000," Colette said smirking towards Mai.
As Mai's smile had faded into a silent gasp, the arrow-sized booster shot grew several times fold to the size of a missile and it hit Mai virtually in her chest 3000 direct damage.
"Your turn," Colette said and laughed tauntingly.
Colette: 6050
Mai: 5000
Kurt: 7500
Yugi: 4700
Mai's turn-
"So you're better than I thought," Mai said to her, drawing her card. "Well let's see how well you can keep it up with this. I'll begin by playing one card face down and sacrifice Harpie's Brother to bring out Harpie's Pet Dragon (2000/2500) and with three Harpies on the field will increase her attack and defense to 2900/3400!"
Colette had a sign of shock at the looming-in-power Pet Dragon.
"You should be worried," Mai told her. "Now Harpie's Pet Dragon, attack her Mystical Elf, Fearsome Fire Blast!
The red, chained dragon exhaled a jet of fire towards the blue-skinned elf wielding the Rod of Silence. The elf created a thick soundproof barrier around herself to endure the attack. But Colette had something planned.
"Hold it," Colette said. "I activate my trap card, Enchanted Javelin!"
A strange looking javelin appeared and a white aura surrounded it as it pointed towards Harpie's Pet Dragon. Soon after the aura enveloped the entire javelin, it gave off a blinding white light. The javelin then divided into many tiny beams of light and landed onto Colette healing her life points.
"Enchanted Javelin heals my life points by your dragon's attack points," Colette explained as her life points increased by 2900.
"It still doesn't save you from my dragon's attack," Mai said as her Pet Dragon continued its fire-breathing frenzy.
As thick as Mystical Elf's barrier was, the Pet Dragon's boosted attack was too much for it and the shield shattered. The flames engulfed the Mystical Elf and she was cremated alive.
"Now that your best defense is wiped out, I'll move on to your Fairy Lily," Mai said to Colette. "Now my Harpie Lady Sisters, attack Injection Fairy Lily! Tri-Attack!"
The three Harpie Ladies formed another triangle made up of their combined power and fired the blast at the weak Fairy Lily. But Colette intervened once again.
"You should really stop attacking head on," Colette told Mai. "I activate my trap card, Shift switching your Harpie's attack to one of my face down Nimble Momongas."
As the bow and arrow wielding fairy switched battle positions with one of Colette's face down cards, Mai answered back.
"Now you're the one who's fallen into my trap," Mai replied. "I activate my trap card, Trap Jammer, negating your Shift trap card and placing your Fairy back where it belongs."
As quickly as Injection Fairy Lily switched places with a face down card, it switched back with it. The combined attacks wiped her out. Even though it was basically a direct attack, Colette kept a serious look on her face, as if she knew what she was doing.
'Why didn't Colette use Lily's special ability to make it stronger than Mai's Harpies?' Yugi thought to himself.
"That ends my turn," Mai said, now looking confident.
Colette: 4100
Mai: 5000
Kurt: 7500
Yugi: 4700
Kurt's turn-
"So, you're reaping the benefits from my Ultimate Offering, are you?" Kurt asked Yugi drawing his card and his sinister serpent from the graveyard. "Well your monsters won't be around for much longer."
Yugi knew what was coming next.
"I'll discard my Sinister Serpent from my hand and I'll destroy your face down card," Kurt said placing his reptile back into the graveyard.
His monster's effect activated again. This time, X-Head Cannon's twin shoulder artilleries fired two missiles towards the face down card. As they collided, an explosion was created and as the smoke cleared, Yugi's face down card was gone.
"You wasted your use of Sinister Serpent," Yugi told the German duelist.
"And why's that?" he asked.
"Because the card you just destroyed was a ruse," Yugi showed him the card. "You just destroyed my Thousand Knives, a useless card unless I have a Dark Magician out on the field."
Kurt groaned after being duped then smirked, "Don't think you got off so easy. You still have a Summoned Skull, in attack mode. Attack, XYZ-Dragon Cannon! Total Annihilation!"
The merged machine monster obeyed its master and powered up to launch its attack once more. X-Head Cannon's shoulder artilleries shot two more missiles, Y-Dragon Head fired a second blast of energy from its mouth, and Z-Metal Tank unleashed another barrage of bullets. The bullets were the first to hit all over Summoned Skull's body but not life-threateningly, the blast of energy hit right in the fiend's chest, but the attack that did the most damage were the two missiles. The impact of the missiles left Summoned Skull to ashes.
"That'll end my turn," Kurt said with a smug smile on his face towards Yugi.
Colette: 4100
Mai: 5000
Kurt: 7500
Yugi: 4400
Yugi's turn-
Yugi looked at his hand and saw nothing that could help him.
'I have to draw something good,' Yugi thought.
Yugi placed his hand on the top card of his deck and drew it slowly. As Yugi looked at it he sighed.
"I have finally drawn the card I need to stop your Dragon Cannon," Yugi told him.
"Oh?" Kurt questioned in disbelief.
"Yes," Yugi told him. "I play Return of the Doomed. By discarding one monster card from my graveyard, I can return a monster that was destroyed this turn back to my hand— namely Summoned Skull.
"A lot of good that'll do," Kurt said. "It returns at the end of your turn."
"Yes but I have a card of equal attack power to my Summoned Skull," Yugi continued. "I'll sacrifice my face down card to summon the Dark Magician (2500/2100) in attack mode!"
As the face down card vanished, Yugi's purple-armored spellcaster appeared and faced Kurt's Dragon Cannon.
"It's still weaker than my Dragon Cannon," Kurt said. "You sure you beat Seto Kaiba?"
"Yes I have," Yugi replied. "But your monster's the weaker one."
"What do you mean?"
"The card I discarded was Gilfer Demon. If he's in the graveyard, I can equip to any monster and reduce its attack by 2800. That makes your Dragon Cannon have an attack of 2300."
Kurt's eyes widened at what he heard.
"That's right," Yugi said, letting out a small smile. "Now Dark Magician, attack XYZ-Dragon Cannon! Dark Magic Attack!"
The magician aimed its staff towards the weakened fusion monster and fired a blast of black magic towards it, causing it to shatter like glass. The bits and remains of the Dragon Cannon flew towards Kurt, whom shielded his eyes as if it was a real attack.
"My turn is over," Yugi said and his Summoned Skull returned to his hand.
Colette: 4100
Mai: 5000
Kurt: 7300
Yugi: 4400
Colette's turn-
When Colette drew her card, she giggled girlishly.
"What is it?" Mai asked impatiently.
"I play Card of Sanctity," she said playing her magic card. "Now we all draw until we have a hand of six cards.
Colette had no other cards in her hand and she happily drew six cards.
'Perfect,' Kurt thought as he drew his extra cards. 'These people are all helping me out and they don't even realize it.'
Colette looked on at her six cards in sheer bliss.
"Could you make your move already?" Mai asked in anger.
"Fine," she said, acting serious. "First of all, from Solemn Wishes I gain 500 life points from drawing Card of Sanctity, then I gain another 500 life points for playing Card of Sanctity, and I gain 200 life points from Marie the Fallen One. That puts me at 5300."
'700 life points each turn?' thought Mai. 'This could be a problem, if she keeps drawing extra cards.'
"But that's not all," Colette continued. "I play Airknight Parshath (1900/1400) in attack mode and I'll equip him with Elf's Light to make him a 2300/1200. Now my Airknight, attack her Harpie Lady Sisters, Angel Blade!"
The winged knight unraveled its wings; his sword illuminated a bright gold and flew towards the three airborne Harpies. It slashed all three of them with one mighty blow and sent them all to the card graveyard. As they faded, their Pet Dragon cried out for them as its attack points reverted back to its original 2000.
"Now who's the one losing?" Colette gloated to Mai.
"Keep smiling," Mai said scowling. "It's only a matter of time until I crush you."
"Well that'll be a while," Colette said, drawing a card. "Every time my Airknight deals damage to you, I draw a card. And every time I draw a card, I gain 500 life points."
"Are you done yet?" Mai asked.
"I suppose so," she said smugly.
Colette: 5800
Mai: 4650
Kurt: 7300
Yugi: 4400
Mai's turn-
'Okay she took me off guard,' Mai thought while drawing her card. 'No big deal. Thanks to her, I've got a lot of cards at my disposal.'
"First I switch my Harpie's Pet Dragon to defense mode and I'll play Amazoness Fighter (1300/1300) in attack mode," Mai said.
Her red, winged dragon shielded itself and beside it, appeared a muscular woman ready for a fight.
"I'm aware of that card's effect," Colette said. "And it's pretty sad to use that poor excuse for a female."
"She may look strong," Mai said, "But she's about to get stronger. I play Amazoness Spellcaster to switch the original attack with your Airknight. That'll make Airknight Parshath a 1700 and my Amazoness Fighter a 1900! Now, my Amazoness Fighter, attack her Airknight!"
The temporarily powered Amazon obeyed and leaped into the air, coming down with a dropkick to the fairy knight's face. The attack broke the fairy's neck and it faded to the graveyard.
"I'll end my turn now," Mai said, still serious.
Colette: 5600
Mai: 4650
Kurt: 7300
Yugi: 4400
Kurt's turn-
"Normally, I'd attack Colette's life points directly," Kurt said to Yugi while drawing his card and returning Sinister Serpent back to his hand. "But that wouldn't really be fair. Besides, I'm dueling you, Muto."
"As if you're really a gentleman," Mai snapped at him. "You tried to get a kiss out of me on the boat for a duel, and you lost."
"Only because I had to use half of your second-rate deck," he replied. "Had you taken on mine, you'd be sleeping in the hallway."
"Really?" Mai skeptically asked. "I never saw you duel, but if you can't even work with another duelist's deck, you can't be all that great."
Kurt just smirked at her, "Once Muto's lost, you're next. I was going to spare you until we dueled in the finals, but not anymore."
"Hey are we dueling?" Yugi asked him.
"Fine," Kurt said turning back to face Yugi. "I play the magic card, Exchange and I'll exchange hands with you, Muto."
Kurt left his side of the field and over to Yugi's side.
"Now we both show each other our hands and take one card from each other's hands," Kurt explained.
Kurt showed the seven cards in his hand. They consisted of: Sinister Serpent, Exiled Force, X-Head Cannon, Y-Dragon Cannon, Z-Metal Tank, Card Destruction, and Raigeki Break.
Yugi showed the six cards in his hand consisting of: Lightforce Sword, Beta the Magnet Warrior, Neo the Magic Swordsman, Berfomet, Swords of Revealing Light, and Summoned Skull.
"I'll pick Exiled Force," Yugi said taking the card and adding it to his hand.
"And I'll take Summoned Skull," Kurt said taking Yugi's fiend and placing it in his hand. He then walked back to his side of the field.
"Now I'll sacrifice my face down card to bring out your Summoned Skull (2500/1200) on my side of the field," he began. "Then I'll play Card Destruction, sending our entire hands to the graveyard and we draw the same number to our hands."
As Yugi sent his cards to the graveyard, he returned Exiled Force back to Kurt.
Kurt looked at his new hand and smiled, "And now I'll play Fusion Gate, allowing monsters to be fused together without using a Polymerization."
Suddenly, the white cubed field the four duelists were playing on turned black and the floor made an endless number of dark green lines that crossed evenly to make hundreds of square tiles. It seemed a lot like an old virtual-reality game.
"Now I'll offer my Beastking of the Swamps from my hand and Summoned Skull to fuse them together to create..."
"Wait a minute," Yugi intervened. "I've never heard of that kind of fusion between those monsters. I've never even heard of Beastking of the Swamps."
"I guess you've never heard of the fusion-material monsters," Kurt said. "They're extremely rare cards that can only be obtained by being one of the best in the World Tournament. I was given three different ones and they've all been very useful. They can be used as a substitute in any fusion with another monster."
Yugi was surprised to have just discover these cards' existence and listened on.
"As I was saying," Kurt continued. "I'll offer Summoned Skull and Beastking of the Swamps to create... Black Skull Dragon (3200/2500)!"
As the green swampy monster appeared on the field, it and Yugi's monster were both lifted off the ground. A portal opened up in the middle of the sky and they were both sucked in. What emerged from the portal was a mighty black dragon with an armor of bones covering its body and blood red eyes. The dragon landed back on the ground and unleashed a deafening roar to its opponents.
"Now Black Skull Dragon!" he commanded. "Attack the Dark Magician! Molten Fireballs!"
The mighty dragon exhaled several black balls of red fire towards the Dark Magician. The spellcaster had no chance. After the first fireball hit, a cloud of smoke was created with several explosions from each fireball. When the smoke blew away, Dark Magician was reduced to ashes.
Kurt laughed victoriously at the sight of Yugi's expression.
"You see," Kurt told him, "My deck can take advantage of any deck out there. People are most surprised when I use their cards to make even stronger fusion cards. You can start your turn now."
Colette: 5600
Mai: 4650
Kurt: 7300
Yugi: 3700
Yugi's turn-
'He's right,' thought Yugi. 'His deck seems to be one step ahead of me all the time. He hasn't even lost 1000 life points yet. Yami would know what to do...'
Yugi reminisced to some of the many victories his counterpart had accomplished and never completely losing his cool. Especially his victory over Pegasus and Marik. Suddenly, he shook his head.
'No! Yami would never expect me to think like this,' Yugi thought to himself looking down at the bag holding the shattered Millennium Puzzle at his feet. 'I've just begun to duel...'
"Are you going to make your move today?" Kurt asked him.
"Yes and I'll start right now!" Yugi proclaimed and he drew his card...
NOTES: I'm sure you all know Harpie's Pet Dragon only gets +300 for each Harpie Lady on the field but the show used Harpie Lady Sisters as three Harpie Ladies. Well, to make a little like the show, I gave it the same effect as in the Duelist Kingdom saga.
Also I'm unsure about fusion monsters being able to attack the same turn they're summoned. There have been arguments from both sides I have heard from. Well in short, there's no real rule that says they can't attack the same turn they're summoned, so that's what I went with.
"Alright now before I draw I'll activate my trap card, Solemn Wishes," Colette said then drawing her card. "So during each time I draw a card I'll gain 500 life points."
"500 life points isn't a lot," Mai told her. "With those weak monsters, your life points will drop a lot more than 500 life points each turn."
"Humph," Colette grunted then continuing her turn. "I'll show you. First I play Graceful Charity and draw three cards then discard two from my hand. I'll discard Marie the Fallen One and Maiden of the Moonlight to the graveyard."
As she sent the two cards in her graveyard, she continued talking.
"With Solemn Wishes, I'll gain another 500 life points, putting me at 8050." But that's not all. I'll play one card face down and summon this, Injection Fairy Lily (400/1500) in attack mode."
"Mai!" Yugi told her instantly remembering that card's capabilities. "Watch out for that card, it can increase its attack points dramatically."
"Yugi, I can take care of this," Mai told him ignoring his advice. "You worry about yourself."
"Now for the last card I'll play this turn, I'll equip my Fairy Lily with Shooting Star Bow," Colette began. "That lowers Lily's attack by 1000 making her attack zero."
"Why would you play a card that weakens your already weak monster?" Mai asked.
'Oh no,' thought Yugi.
"Because it lets Lily attack your life points directly," Colette said. "Go Lily! Attack Mai directly!"
An archery bow materialized in Injection Fairy Lily's hands and her ride- able booster shot shrunk to the size of an arrow. Then, she pulled back on the bow and fired the booster shot like an arrow.
"Now I'll pay 2000 life points and that'll increase Lily's attack to 3000," Colette said smirking towards Mai.
As Mai's smile had faded into a silent gasp, the arrow-sized booster shot grew several times fold to the size of a missile and it hit Mai virtually in her chest 3000 direct damage.
"Your turn," Colette said and laughed tauntingly.
Colette: 6050
Mai: 5000
Kurt: 7500
Yugi: 4700
Mai's turn-
"So you're better than I thought," Mai said to her, drawing her card. "Well let's see how well you can keep it up with this. I'll begin by playing one card face down and sacrifice Harpie's Brother to bring out Harpie's Pet Dragon (2000/2500) and with three Harpies on the field will increase her attack and defense to 2900/3400!"
Colette had a sign of shock at the looming-in-power Pet Dragon.
"You should be worried," Mai told her. "Now Harpie's Pet Dragon, attack her Mystical Elf, Fearsome Fire Blast!
The red, chained dragon exhaled a jet of fire towards the blue-skinned elf wielding the Rod of Silence. The elf created a thick soundproof barrier around herself to endure the attack. But Colette had something planned.
"Hold it," Colette said. "I activate my trap card, Enchanted Javelin!"
A strange looking javelin appeared and a white aura surrounded it as it pointed towards Harpie's Pet Dragon. Soon after the aura enveloped the entire javelin, it gave off a blinding white light. The javelin then divided into many tiny beams of light and landed onto Colette healing her life points.
"Enchanted Javelin heals my life points by your dragon's attack points," Colette explained as her life points increased by 2900.
"It still doesn't save you from my dragon's attack," Mai said as her Pet Dragon continued its fire-breathing frenzy.
As thick as Mystical Elf's barrier was, the Pet Dragon's boosted attack was too much for it and the shield shattered. The flames engulfed the Mystical Elf and she was cremated alive.
"Now that your best defense is wiped out, I'll move on to your Fairy Lily," Mai said to Colette. "Now my Harpie Lady Sisters, attack Injection Fairy Lily! Tri-Attack!"
The three Harpie Ladies formed another triangle made up of their combined power and fired the blast at the weak Fairy Lily. But Colette intervened once again.
"You should really stop attacking head on," Colette told Mai. "I activate my trap card, Shift switching your Harpie's attack to one of my face down Nimble Momongas."
As the bow and arrow wielding fairy switched battle positions with one of Colette's face down cards, Mai answered back.
"Now you're the one who's fallen into my trap," Mai replied. "I activate my trap card, Trap Jammer, negating your Shift trap card and placing your Fairy back where it belongs."
As quickly as Injection Fairy Lily switched places with a face down card, it switched back with it. The combined attacks wiped her out. Even though it was basically a direct attack, Colette kept a serious look on her face, as if she knew what she was doing.
'Why didn't Colette use Lily's special ability to make it stronger than Mai's Harpies?' Yugi thought to himself.
"That ends my turn," Mai said, now looking confident.
Colette: 4100
Mai: 5000
Kurt: 7500
Yugi: 4700
Kurt's turn-
"So, you're reaping the benefits from my Ultimate Offering, are you?" Kurt asked Yugi drawing his card and his sinister serpent from the graveyard. "Well your monsters won't be around for much longer."
Yugi knew what was coming next.
"I'll discard my Sinister Serpent from my hand and I'll destroy your face down card," Kurt said placing his reptile back into the graveyard.
His monster's effect activated again. This time, X-Head Cannon's twin shoulder artilleries fired two missiles towards the face down card. As they collided, an explosion was created and as the smoke cleared, Yugi's face down card was gone.
"You wasted your use of Sinister Serpent," Yugi told the German duelist.
"And why's that?" he asked.
"Because the card you just destroyed was a ruse," Yugi showed him the card. "You just destroyed my Thousand Knives, a useless card unless I have a Dark Magician out on the field."
Kurt groaned after being duped then smirked, "Don't think you got off so easy. You still have a Summoned Skull, in attack mode. Attack, XYZ-Dragon Cannon! Total Annihilation!"
The merged machine monster obeyed its master and powered up to launch its attack once more. X-Head Cannon's shoulder artilleries shot two more missiles, Y-Dragon Head fired a second blast of energy from its mouth, and Z-Metal Tank unleashed another barrage of bullets. The bullets were the first to hit all over Summoned Skull's body but not life-threateningly, the blast of energy hit right in the fiend's chest, but the attack that did the most damage were the two missiles. The impact of the missiles left Summoned Skull to ashes.
"That'll end my turn," Kurt said with a smug smile on his face towards Yugi.
Colette: 4100
Mai: 5000
Kurt: 7500
Yugi: 4400
Yugi's turn-
Yugi looked at his hand and saw nothing that could help him.
'I have to draw something good,' Yugi thought.
Yugi placed his hand on the top card of his deck and drew it slowly. As Yugi looked at it he sighed.
"I have finally drawn the card I need to stop your Dragon Cannon," Yugi told him.
"Oh?" Kurt questioned in disbelief.
"Yes," Yugi told him. "I play Return of the Doomed. By discarding one monster card from my graveyard, I can return a monster that was destroyed this turn back to my hand— namely Summoned Skull.
"A lot of good that'll do," Kurt said. "It returns at the end of your turn."
"Yes but I have a card of equal attack power to my Summoned Skull," Yugi continued. "I'll sacrifice my face down card to summon the Dark Magician (2500/2100) in attack mode!"
As the face down card vanished, Yugi's purple-armored spellcaster appeared and faced Kurt's Dragon Cannon.
"It's still weaker than my Dragon Cannon," Kurt said. "You sure you beat Seto Kaiba?"
"Yes I have," Yugi replied. "But your monster's the weaker one."
"What do you mean?"
"The card I discarded was Gilfer Demon. If he's in the graveyard, I can equip to any monster and reduce its attack by 2800. That makes your Dragon Cannon have an attack of 2300."
Kurt's eyes widened at what he heard.
"That's right," Yugi said, letting out a small smile. "Now Dark Magician, attack XYZ-Dragon Cannon! Dark Magic Attack!"
The magician aimed its staff towards the weakened fusion monster and fired a blast of black magic towards it, causing it to shatter like glass. The bits and remains of the Dragon Cannon flew towards Kurt, whom shielded his eyes as if it was a real attack.
"My turn is over," Yugi said and his Summoned Skull returned to his hand.
Colette: 4100
Mai: 5000
Kurt: 7300
Yugi: 4400
Colette's turn-
When Colette drew her card, she giggled girlishly.
"What is it?" Mai asked impatiently.
"I play Card of Sanctity," she said playing her magic card. "Now we all draw until we have a hand of six cards.
Colette had no other cards in her hand and she happily drew six cards.
'Perfect,' Kurt thought as he drew his extra cards. 'These people are all helping me out and they don't even realize it.'
Colette looked on at her six cards in sheer bliss.
"Could you make your move already?" Mai asked in anger.
"Fine," she said, acting serious. "First of all, from Solemn Wishes I gain 500 life points from drawing Card of Sanctity, then I gain another 500 life points for playing Card of Sanctity, and I gain 200 life points from Marie the Fallen One. That puts me at 5300."
'700 life points each turn?' thought Mai. 'This could be a problem, if she keeps drawing extra cards.'
"But that's not all," Colette continued. "I play Airknight Parshath (1900/1400) in attack mode and I'll equip him with Elf's Light to make him a 2300/1200. Now my Airknight, attack her Harpie Lady Sisters, Angel Blade!"
The winged knight unraveled its wings; his sword illuminated a bright gold and flew towards the three airborne Harpies. It slashed all three of them with one mighty blow and sent them all to the card graveyard. As they faded, their Pet Dragon cried out for them as its attack points reverted back to its original 2000.
"Now who's the one losing?" Colette gloated to Mai.
"Keep smiling," Mai said scowling. "It's only a matter of time until I crush you."
"Well that'll be a while," Colette said, drawing a card. "Every time my Airknight deals damage to you, I draw a card. And every time I draw a card, I gain 500 life points."
"Are you done yet?" Mai asked.
"I suppose so," she said smugly.
Colette: 5800
Mai: 4650
Kurt: 7300
Yugi: 4400
Mai's turn-
'Okay she took me off guard,' Mai thought while drawing her card. 'No big deal. Thanks to her, I've got a lot of cards at my disposal.'
"First I switch my Harpie's Pet Dragon to defense mode and I'll play Amazoness Fighter (1300/1300) in attack mode," Mai said.
Her red, winged dragon shielded itself and beside it, appeared a muscular woman ready for a fight.
"I'm aware of that card's effect," Colette said. "And it's pretty sad to use that poor excuse for a female."
"She may look strong," Mai said, "But she's about to get stronger. I play Amazoness Spellcaster to switch the original attack with your Airknight. That'll make Airknight Parshath a 1700 and my Amazoness Fighter a 1900! Now, my Amazoness Fighter, attack her Airknight!"
The temporarily powered Amazon obeyed and leaped into the air, coming down with a dropkick to the fairy knight's face. The attack broke the fairy's neck and it faded to the graveyard.
"I'll end my turn now," Mai said, still serious.
Colette: 5600
Mai: 4650
Kurt: 7300
Yugi: 4400
Kurt's turn-
"Normally, I'd attack Colette's life points directly," Kurt said to Yugi while drawing his card and returning Sinister Serpent back to his hand. "But that wouldn't really be fair. Besides, I'm dueling you, Muto."
"As if you're really a gentleman," Mai snapped at him. "You tried to get a kiss out of me on the boat for a duel, and you lost."
"Only because I had to use half of your second-rate deck," he replied. "Had you taken on mine, you'd be sleeping in the hallway."
"Really?" Mai skeptically asked. "I never saw you duel, but if you can't even work with another duelist's deck, you can't be all that great."
Kurt just smirked at her, "Once Muto's lost, you're next. I was going to spare you until we dueled in the finals, but not anymore."
"Hey are we dueling?" Yugi asked him.
"Fine," Kurt said turning back to face Yugi. "I play the magic card, Exchange and I'll exchange hands with you, Muto."
Kurt left his side of the field and over to Yugi's side.
"Now we both show each other our hands and take one card from each other's hands," Kurt explained.
Kurt showed the seven cards in his hand. They consisted of: Sinister Serpent, Exiled Force, X-Head Cannon, Y-Dragon Cannon, Z-Metal Tank, Card Destruction, and Raigeki Break.
Yugi showed the six cards in his hand consisting of: Lightforce Sword, Beta the Magnet Warrior, Neo the Magic Swordsman, Berfomet, Swords of Revealing Light, and Summoned Skull.
"I'll pick Exiled Force," Yugi said taking the card and adding it to his hand.
"And I'll take Summoned Skull," Kurt said taking Yugi's fiend and placing it in his hand. He then walked back to his side of the field.
"Now I'll sacrifice my face down card to bring out your Summoned Skull (2500/1200) on my side of the field," he began. "Then I'll play Card Destruction, sending our entire hands to the graveyard and we draw the same number to our hands."
As Yugi sent his cards to the graveyard, he returned Exiled Force back to Kurt.
Kurt looked at his new hand and smiled, "And now I'll play Fusion Gate, allowing monsters to be fused together without using a Polymerization."
Suddenly, the white cubed field the four duelists were playing on turned black and the floor made an endless number of dark green lines that crossed evenly to make hundreds of square tiles. It seemed a lot like an old virtual-reality game.
"Now I'll offer my Beastking of the Swamps from my hand and Summoned Skull to fuse them together to create..."
"Wait a minute," Yugi intervened. "I've never heard of that kind of fusion between those monsters. I've never even heard of Beastking of the Swamps."
"I guess you've never heard of the fusion-material monsters," Kurt said. "They're extremely rare cards that can only be obtained by being one of the best in the World Tournament. I was given three different ones and they've all been very useful. They can be used as a substitute in any fusion with another monster."
Yugi was surprised to have just discover these cards' existence and listened on.
"As I was saying," Kurt continued. "I'll offer Summoned Skull and Beastking of the Swamps to create... Black Skull Dragon (3200/2500)!"
As the green swampy monster appeared on the field, it and Yugi's monster were both lifted off the ground. A portal opened up in the middle of the sky and they were both sucked in. What emerged from the portal was a mighty black dragon with an armor of bones covering its body and blood red eyes. The dragon landed back on the ground and unleashed a deafening roar to its opponents.
"Now Black Skull Dragon!" he commanded. "Attack the Dark Magician! Molten Fireballs!"
The mighty dragon exhaled several black balls of red fire towards the Dark Magician. The spellcaster had no chance. After the first fireball hit, a cloud of smoke was created with several explosions from each fireball. When the smoke blew away, Dark Magician was reduced to ashes.
Kurt laughed victoriously at the sight of Yugi's expression.
"You see," Kurt told him, "My deck can take advantage of any deck out there. People are most surprised when I use their cards to make even stronger fusion cards. You can start your turn now."
Colette: 5600
Mai: 4650
Kurt: 7300
Yugi: 3700
Yugi's turn-
'He's right,' thought Yugi. 'His deck seems to be one step ahead of me all the time. He hasn't even lost 1000 life points yet. Yami would know what to do...'
Yugi reminisced to some of the many victories his counterpart had accomplished and never completely losing his cool. Especially his victory over Pegasus and Marik. Suddenly, he shook his head.
'No! Yami would never expect me to think like this,' Yugi thought to himself looking down at the bag holding the shattered Millennium Puzzle at his feet. 'I've just begun to duel...'
"Are you going to make your move today?" Kurt asked him.
"Yes and I'll start right now!" Yugi proclaimed and he drew his card...
NOTES: I'm sure you all know Harpie's Pet Dragon only gets +300 for each Harpie Lady on the field but the show used Harpie Lady Sisters as three Harpie Ladies. Well, to make a little like the show, I gave it the same effect as in the Duelist Kingdom saga.
Also I'm unsure about fusion monsters being able to attack the same turn they're summoned. There have been arguments from both sides I have heard from. Well in short, there's no real rule that says they can't attack the same turn they're summoned, so that's what I went with.