"I first play Remove Trap, destroying Ultimate Offering," Yugi said playing
the magic card. "And I'll flip summon my face down card, Sonic Bird
(1400/1000). And with its effect, I can take one ritual magic card and add
it to my hand."
As Yugi flipped his face down card, an eagle with a jetpack on its back appeared on the field. As it arrived, Yugi looked through his deck for a ritual magic card.
"I pick Black Luster Ritual," Yugi said, adding it to his hand then shuffling his deck. "Plus I'll summon forth Sengu of the Thousand Hands (1400/1000) in attack mode. Like Sonic Bird, Sengu has an effect too. Except when he's summoned to the field, I can add a ritual monster card from my deck to my hand."
An orange fairy with many, many arms appeared beside Sonic Bird. Like before, Yugi looked through his deck for a ritual card.
"I pick the ritual monster card, Black Luster Soldier," Yugi said adding the card to his hand and he shuffled his deck again. "And now I'll play Black Luster Ritual and by sacrificing Sonic Bird and Sengu, I ritual summon the Black Luster Soldier (3000/2500)."
As Yugi played the magic card, the ritual had begun. Behind Yugi's two monsters appeared two urns with columns fire rising out and an insignia of two swords crossing in an x in front of a shield. The columns of fire took in the two monsters and were raised up into the sky. The two separate flames merged together and came down on the swords and shield insignia.
When the flames parted and vanished, an armored warrior wielding a curved sword and a shield just like the insignia was standing alone, defending Yugi's life points.
"Powerful monster..." Kurt said looking at it. "It's a shame it still isn't powerful enough to take down my Black Skull Dragon."
"True," Yugi answered. "But to give my monster some support, I'll place these two cards face down, ending my turn."
'What an idiot,' Kurt thought. 'He just gave away his entire strategy right now. And I just need one more card to bring out my powerful card.'
Colette's turn-
As the French duelist drew her card, she gained 500 life points from Solemn Wishes and another 200 life points from Marie the Fallen One.
"I just drew one of my strongest cards," Colette boasted to Mai. "I'll sacrifice one of my face down Nimble Momongas to summon Saturn, Angel of Judgment (2400/0) in attack mode."
'I think I've heard of that card before,' thought Yugi, looking on at the card. 'It has some powerful effect when it's played along with a magic card.'
As one of the face down cards vanished, a purple-skinned, winged woman dressed in a robe appeared to the field.
"That's one of your strongest cards?" Mai questioned. "2400 is nothing compared to what I have."
"Oh? Well she strong enough to take out your Amazoness Fighter," she retorted. "Attack Saturn! Cosmic Rings!"
The Angel of Judgment spread its wings and flew high into the air. She raised up her right hand and created a multitude of rings so close together, it looked like one large ring. She then hurled it towards Mai's Amazon. The ring bisected Mai's monster, but her life points remained the same.
"You're lucky that your Amazoness Fighter prevented you from losing life points," Colette said. "Next time you might not be so lucky. That ends my turn."
Colette: 6300
Mai: 4650
Kurt: 7300
Yugi: 3700
Mai's turn-
When Mai drew her card, she quickly made her move, "I begin by playing two cards face down and I'll summon Amazoness Paladin (1700/300) in attack mode."
A blonde-haired woman wielding a katana sword appeared to the field and as she arrived she had a slight luminescence of red light.
"For every Amazoness on my side of the field, she gains 100 more attack points, putting her at 1800 attack," Mai added. "And I'll play Monster Reborn, reviving Amazoness Fighter (1300/1300). With her presence, Amazoness Paladin's attack power increases to 1900. That ends my turn."
Kurt's turn-
"Your end shall soon come," Kurt said drawing his card, but Yugi quickly reacted.
"Well you won't be attacking this turn," Yugi said. "I activate my trap card, Thunder of Ruler. That means you have to skip your battle phase."
"Then I'll pass my turn," Kurt said in annoyance.
Yugi's turn-
"Now it's time for you to feel the pain," Yugi told Kurt, looking at his drawn card. "I play Mage Power, powering up my Black Luster Soldier. And it powers up my monster by 500 for each magic or trap card on my side. I see two right now. That increases my Black Luster Soldier's attack to 4000."
Suddenly, Mage Power took effect and made Black Luster Soldier give off a red glow.
"I'll also summon Dark Magician Girl (2000/1700) to the field," Yugi said. "And since my Dark Magician's in the graveyard, her attack increases to 2300. Now Black Luster Soldier, attack Black Skull Dragon! Chaos Slash!"
The armored warrior lifted up his curved sword and slashed it downward creating a black force of energy. The energy grew bigger as it approached the skeletal dragon. When the attack collided, the Dragon was blown away and was completely destroyed, taking with it 800 of Kurt's life points.
"And now Dark Magician Girl, attack his life points directly!" Yugi declared.
His female spellcaster fired a light purple blast of energy directly at the German duelist causing him to lose 2300 life points.
"I'll end my turn," Yugi said.
Colette: 6300
Mai: 4650
Kurt: 4200
Yugi: 3700
Colette's turn-
When Colette drew her card, she got giddy.
"You're done for now," she told Mai.
"Am I?" asked Mai.
"Yes," she began. "I first gain another 700 life points from Solemn Wishes and Marie the Fallen One. And now I play my field card, Sanctuary of the Sky."
Suddenly, the virtual world they were playing on was covered in thick white clouds. Behind Colette emerged a heavenly palace.
"First I'll sacrifice my Angel of Judgment to activate her special effect." Colette proclaimed. "And that is that I can deal damage equal to the difference between me and my opponent's life points. My life points are at 7000 and yours are at 4650. So Saturn will deal 2350 damage to your life points!"
Suddenly, Colette's monster contained itself in a purple orb of light and surrounded it with a thick ring. It was a scale purple version of Saturn. The attack launched itself and crashed into Mai, taking more than half of her life points.
"Scared yet?" Colette asked her. "And now to put you in an even bigger scare, I'll summon a monster of unrivaled power. I summon Mars, Angel of Power (0/0)."
A rather winged, muscular man wielding a powerful war hammer appeared on Colette's field, yet the card's attack power read zero.
"That's your monster of unrivaled power?" Mai asked.
"You should be scared," Colette said. "This is a very powerful fairy card. His attack and defense is equal to the difference of my opponent's life points. So that makes him a 4700/4700."
Mai tried to maintain her seriousness but she simply couldn't.
"You're just lucky that because I used my Angel of Judgment's special effect I have to skip my battle phase," Colette explained. "I'll end my turn. So enjoy your last turn."
Colette: 7000
Mai: 2300
Kurt: 4200
Yugi: 3700
Mai's turn-
When Mai looked at her card, she sighed loudly.
"Well all I can do is summon Amazoness Tiger (1100/1500) in attack mode," Mai announced. "For every Amazon card on the field, this tiger's attack is increased by 400 that has Amazoness in its name. So my tiger's attack is increased by 1200, making its attack power 2300. Plus Amazoness Paladin's attack is increased to 2000 for having two other Amazons on the field."
"A bunch of weak monsters won't save you," Colette told her.
"True but my Tiger protects all of my other Amazons," Mai said. "So most of my life points are safe for now."
"You really are stupid, aren't you?" Colette interrogated. "Come next turn, Mars's attack power will increase by 700 from my cards' effects. That'll make him a 5700 attacker. And 3100 more attack power than your Tiger. You just wasted your turn."
'We'll see,' Mai thought to herself.
Kurt's turn-
"You'll pay for that," Kurt said to Yugi, drawing his card. "I first play Pot of Greed, letting me draw two cards. Then I'll play Foolish Burial placing Catapult Turtle into my graveyard and I'll play Monster Reborn to revive Catapult Turtle (1000/2000) in defense mode."
Just as Kurt slipped the monster into his graveyard, he quickly took it back out and placed it on the field. He then shuffled his deck.
"Now I'll play one card face down and summon Magical Scientist (300/300) in attack mode." Kurt said, now smirking evilly. "Here's what's going to hurt. By paying 1000 life points, I can summon one level 6 or lower fusion monster from my fusion deck for one turn."
As the weak scientist appeared on the field, he was grinning just like Kurt.
"So I'll pay 3000 life points to bring out Roaring Ocean Snake (2100/1800), Empress Judge (2100/1700), and Punished Eagle (2100/1800)."
Three glass cylinder tubes rose out from the ground containing some sort of liquid and each holding a different kind of monster in hibernation. One held a long red sea serpent encircled around the inside of the tube. Another tube had a dark red haired woman with bits of blue paint on her face and a red jewel in the center of her forehead. The third tube held a mighty blue-green eagle that had a battle scar on its head. Suddenly, all the monsters in the tubes opened their eyes and the glass cracked. After several seconds passed the tubes shattered, the liquid holding the monsters flowed out, and they were free.
"But I won't use them to attack," Kurt said. "Instead I'll sacrifice all three of them to activate Catapult Turtle's special effect to deal damage equal to half of their attack points. Launch them, Catapult Turtle!"
Roaring Ocean Snake first mounted on to Catapult Turtle's launcher and in seconds was jettisoned towards Yugi, colliding into him for 1050 direct damage. Empress Judge was next and was launched as well to deal another 1050 damage. Punished Eagle was the last but was launched just as hard and hit Yugi again taking yet another 1050 life points.
"That hits you for a total of 3150 damage," Kurt told Yugi. "That puts you at almost nothing. That ends my turn."
Colette: 7000
Mai: 2300
Kurt: 1200
Yugi: 550
Yugi's turn-
"You still have 1200 life points," Yugi pointed out, drawing his card. "You could've brought out another fusion monster and wiped out the rest of my life points."
"I know," Kurt answered. "The end is soon to come and I shall finish you off with the rare card I was given. Come next turn."
"Very well," Yugi said. "I play my magic card, Exchange to exchange hands with you Kurt."
Yugi walked over to Kurt and showed him his hand: Valkyrion the Magna Warrior and Polymerization.
Kurt as well revealed his hand: Sinister Serpent and Mystical Sheep #1.
"I'll take Polymerization," Kurt said, taking it from Yugi's hand.
"And I'll take Mystical Sheep #1," Yugi said adding the card to his hand and returning back to his side of the field.
"Too bad there aren't any monsters capable of being fused with Mystical Sheep," Kurt said.
"That's where you're wrong," Yugi told him. "There's one monster with power you can't imagine. And one of them is on the field.
"What are you talking about?" Kurt asked.
"Just watch this," Yugi said. "I'll summon Mystical Sheep #1 (1150/900) in attack mode. And with your Fusion Gate, I'll offer Black Luster Soldier and Mystical Sheep and remove them from play to fusion summon... Dragon Master Knight (5000/5000)!"
As the two monsters levitated into the sky, a portal took in the two monsters and they were gone. What emerged from the portal was Black Luster Soldier riding on a mighty, three-headed dragon. The dragon was known only as the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon. Each head of the dragon roared mightily towards Kurt.
"No!" Kurt gasped. "That's not possible! I've never heard of that fusion."
"It isn't a very easy one to pull of," Yugi said. "To normally accomplish this, I'd have to have the very rare Black Luster Soldier and the even rarer Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon. A card only found in Seto Kaiba's deck. But thanks to your fusion material monsters, I was able to substitute for a Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon."
"Such a powerful card," Kurt marveled. "However, the card I have prepared for you is unbeatable."
"That isn't all," Yugi said. "Dragon Master Knight also has another effect; its attack power is increased by 500 for each dragon type on the field. Harpie's Pet Dragon therefore increases his attack to 5500."
Kurt was still in amazement to see a monster with such a devastating attack power.
"Now Dragon Master Knight," Yugi began. "Attack Magical Scientist! Raging Dragon Slash!"
The three dragon heads each fired a blast of white lightning and Black Luster Soldier's sword illuminated black then he slashed the air creating a Chaos Slash. The four attacks merged and closed in the weak scientist.
"I'll have to intervene," Kurt said. "I activate my trap, Negate Attack!"
The massive attack was only several feet away before hitting until it was sucked into a portal until it was completely negated.
"Nice try," Kurt said. "Not only does that stop your dragon's attack, but you battle phase ends for this turn."
"Fine then, I'll end my turn," Yugi said.
Colette's turn-
"Your end is here," Colette said to Mai, drawing her card. "I don't need to set anything either, your life points are gone. From Solemn Wishes and Marie the Fallen One, I gain another 700 life points, putting me at 7700. My Angel of Power's attack increases to 5400. Mars, Angel of Power, attack Amazoness Tiger! Tectonic War Hammer!"
The Angel of Power spread his wings and took to the skies. He readied his war hammer and raised it high over his head as he did a 30-foot freefall back to the ground. The war hammer was the first to strike the earth and an enormous shockwave shot towards Mai's Amazoness Tiger.
"Sorry hun," Mai said. "I activate my trap card, Mirror Wall! That cuts your monster's attack power in half to 2700!"
As the quake closed in on the tiger, a wall of thick glass that reflected light in many directions rose up. The quake ran straight into the wall and shot back to the Angel of Power. The attack hit him with full force caused him to feel fatigued.
"He's still stronger than your tiger," Colette said. "Attack!"
The fairy monster did not stop. He flapped his wings once to launch himself towards the Amazoness Tiger. His war hammer was once more raised over his head but this time, he was ready to strike the tiger down.
"Activate Trap card!" Mai declared activating her last face down card. "Amazoness Archers!"
Suddenly five female Amazons each armed with bows and arrows. All five of them shot one arrow each at the Angel of Power. All five arrows pierced the male monster's chest and weakened him.
"That weakens your monster even further by 500 attack points, to 2200," Mai said. "Some Angel of Power."
"Oh no!" Colette shouted as her arrowed fairy closed in on the tiger, showing no signs of stopping.
As the weakened Angel of Power's hammer was about to fall, Amazoness Tiger struck first by leaping forward and driving its claws into its opponent. Mars, Angel of Power dropped to the ground and his body claimed defeat.
"I still don't lose any life points," Colette said. "Thanks to my Sanctuary of the Sky, I don't lose any life points if my fairies are destroyed in battle."
"You forgot something," Mai said. "Amazoness Archers works on all of your monsters. That means your face down monster is flipped face and has to attack my Amazoness Tiger because you can't attack any other Amazons."
Suddenly, Colette's face down monster flipped face up revealing to be her Nimble Momonga (1000/100). The small rodent glided towards Mai's tiger but Mai's two trap cards activated. Arrows found themselves in the rodent's body and Mirror Wall came up cutting its weakened attack further.
"First Amazoness Archers cuts your monsters attack by 500, making its attack 500 and Mirror Wall weakens it even further to make it a 250 attacker," Mai said.
Amazoness Tiger swept its claw with ease wiping out Nimble Momonga, taking with it 2050 of Colette's life points. But because the monster that was destroyed was Nimble Momonga, she gained 1000 life points.
"I'm not finished just yet!" Colette shouted to Mai. "I'm France's best duelist! I place four magic or trap cards face down and play one monster card face down in defense mode, ending my turn."
Colette: 6650
Mai: 2300
Kurt: 1200
Yugi: 550
Mai's turn-
As Mai drew her card, she looked at it and smiled.
"This duel's over Colette," Mai told her.
"Oh is it?" she asked.
"Yes it is," Mai said. "I won't pay for Mirror Wall, so it's destroyed. And now I play another Cyber Harpie (1800/1300) in attack mode and equip her with Cyber Shield to increase her attack by 500, making her attack 2300! Plus, Harpie's Pet Dragon's attack is increased to 2300 because of Cyber Harpie's presence."
"You sure you want to attack?" Colette asked smugly. "To be honest, I've got you in the palm of my hand."
"That's where you're wrong," Mai said. "I play Harpie's Feather Duster to wipe out all of your magic and traps on the field!"
Suddenly, a great gust of wind came and Colette's face down cards and her Sanctuary of the Sky blew away. As they were destroyed, all that remained was Kurt's Fusion Gate.
Colette gasped in fear.
"That's right," Mai said. "You're finished. Attack her face down card, Cyber Harpie, Cyber Slash!
Mai's armored Harpie obeyed and flew towards the face down card. She swung both claws in an x-formation destroying the card, revealing to be Fairy's Gift. After it was wiped out, Colette was wide open.
"Now, Amazoness Fighter, Paladin, Tiger and Harpie's Pet Dragon, attack Colette's life points directly!" Mai declared.
Mai's four monsters all nodded towards her then charged toward their opponent. Amazoness Fighter ran the fastest and dealt a drop kick to Colette's life points. Amazoness Paladin was following closely behind then delivered a powerful slash across Colette's stomach. Amazoness Tiger was beside the Paladin and clawed at Colette. And Harpie's Pet Dragon remained where she was and unleashed a wave of fire towards Colette as a grand finale. All four of the monster's attack was 7900 damage to Colette.
"You've lost," Mai said to Colette. "That ends my turn."
Colette sighed heavily as her portion of the field blacked out.
Colette: 0
Mai: 2300
Kurt: 1200
Yugi: 550
Kurt's turn-
"You've just made things easier for me," Kurt said to Mai.
"How so?" Mai asked.
"That fairy of hers would've been hard to defeat," Kurt explained. "That raw power would've been quite the obstacle."
"Well you're going to face it next," Mai said. "Actually I'm pretty sure Yugi's going to take you out."
As Kurt drew his card, he tried hard to keep laughing, "Well no one will be attacking anymore."
Yugi and Mai were both dumbstruck at what he was talking about.
"Don't know? Fine, I'll show you," Kurt said, "I play Metamorphosis! To morph my Magical Scientist into the rare card I was talking about. Thousand Eyes Restrict!"
Yugi gasped at the name of the card he heard.
The metamorphosis began. Magical Scientist's whole body began to shake. He suddenly began to grow greatly, so great his lab coat was ripped to shreds. His neck stretched to several feet and leaned forward, his feet merged together making a point, and he grew a tail that extended over eight feet. Suddenly, his skin tone changed from a humane white to a dark red. His arms grew out and his fingers changed into monstrous claws. His chest had two holes opened up and let out a green luminescence like eyes. His belly opened up like a circular mouth and around grew sharp fangs. His back split in two and opened up like wings. Round bumps began to rupture all over its body from its neck, to its arms, to its wings, and pretty much everywhere else. The metamorphosis ended with the scientist's head was covered with gold that formed a large eye. The monster looked exactly like what Yugi remembered.
"How?" Yugi asked. "How did you get... this?
"This is a new card that has yet to be released to the public," Kurt said. "Salazar offered it to me just for the price of defeating you and taking some card of yours. It doesn't matter how strong your Dragon Master Knight is; as long as Thousand Eyes Restrict is on the field, no other monster can attack or even change positions. But the best part is that it takes control of one of my opponent's monsters like a magic card. I choose your Dragon Master Knight. Say goodbye to Duelist Kingdom, Yugi Muto. Thousand Eyes Spell!"
Suddenly all the eyes on Thousand Eyes Restrict's body shined green from all around. The golden eye on the monster's head looked directly at Yugi's Dragon Master Knight. Yugi's monster illuminated green and began to move against its will.
"Not quite," Yugi said. "I activate my Quick-Play Magic card, De-Fusion!"
Suddenly Kurt's monster began to glow white all over. Suddenly the light dispersed and Thousand Eyes Restrict was gone. As it vanished, Dragon Master Knight was returned to normal.
"What!?" Kurt shouted. "My supreme fusion monster... gone..."
"That's right," Yugi said. "I was sure your rare card was some fusion monster since that seems to be your specialty."
Kurt fell to his knees, in what seemed to be inevitable defeat.
"I pass..." he said, knowing what was to come next.
Yugi's turn-
Yugi didn't even bother drawing his card; he simply went to his battle phase.
"Dark Magician Girl!" Yugi announced. "Attack Catapult Turtle!"
The female spellcaster obeyed and fired another purple blast of magic, destroying the turtle leaving Kurt open for a direct attack.
"Now, Dragon Master Knight!" Yugi shouted. "Attack Kurt's life points directly! Raging Dragon Slash!"
The three heads of the dragon each fired a blast of white lightning and Black Luster Soldier unleashed his Chaos Slash and altogether created a devastating attack. The attack hit Kurt Schneider directly and left him in a virtual cloud of smoke.
"Damn..." Kurt said as his life points dropped to zero, and the duel had ended.
The room they were standing in changed back into pure white.
The defeated German duelist walked over to Yugi and presented him the fusion card, Thousand Eyes Restrict.
"I'm a man of my word," he said. "Take it."
"How did Salazar get this?" Yugi asked, taking it.
"Don't ask me, one of his suits showed me the card and told me what to do," he answered. "I couldn't believe how powerful it was. So I agreed to try and take you out."
"You shouldn't make deals with Salazar," Yugi told him. "He can be very dangerous."
"I'll keep that in mind," he said. "But still, that was without a doubt, my toughest duel. By the way, here's your Polymerization."
"Oh yeah," Yugi said, taking back his card. "Also, here's your Mystical Sheep #1."
Kurt took back his card and slipped it back into his deck, "I didn't think there was such a card like Dragon Master Knight. It must be the strongest fusion card in terms of attack and defense."
"Yeah," Yugi nodded, picking up the bag holding his Millennium Puzzle.
Colette had walked over to Mai and said, "The better duelist won."
"Yeah," Mai agreed. "But great duel. You duel with the best of them."
"Thanks," Colette said. "I'd love a rematch though."
"Sure thing," Mai replied.
"I'll get the door," Kurt said walking over to the door and grabbed the doorknob to open it for the rest of the duelists...
As Yugi flipped his face down card, an eagle with a jetpack on its back appeared on the field. As it arrived, Yugi looked through his deck for a ritual magic card.
"I pick Black Luster Ritual," Yugi said, adding it to his hand then shuffling his deck. "Plus I'll summon forth Sengu of the Thousand Hands (1400/1000) in attack mode. Like Sonic Bird, Sengu has an effect too. Except when he's summoned to the field, I can add a ritual monster card from my deck to my hand."
An orange fairy with many, many arms appeared beside Sonic Bird. Like before, Yugi looked through his deck for a ritual card.
"I pick the ritual monster card, Black Luster Soldier," Yugi said adding the card to his hand and he shuffled his deck again. "And now I'll play Black Luster Ritual and by sacrificing Sonic Bird and Sengu, I ritual summon the Black Luster Soldier (3000/2500)."
As Yugi played the magic card, the ritual had begun. Behind Yugi's two monsters appeared two urns with columns fire rising out and an insignia of two swords crossing in an x in front of a shield. The columns of fire took in the two monsters and were raised up into the sky. The two separate flames merged together and came down on the swords and shield insignia.
When the flames parted and vanished, an armored warrior wielding a curved sword and a shield just like the insignia was standing alone, defending Yugi's life points.
"Powerful monster..." Kurt said looking at it. "It's a shame it still isn't powerful enough to take down my Black Skull Dragon."
"True," Yugi answered. "But to give my monster some support, I'll place these two cards face down, ending my turn."
'What an idiot,' Kurt thought. 'He just gave away his entire strategy right now. And I just need one more card to bring out my powerful card.'
Colette's turn-
As the French duelist drew her card, she gained 500 life points from Solemn Wishes and another 200 life points from Marie the Fallen One.
"I just drew one of my strongest cards," Colette boasted to Mai. "I'll sacrifice one of my face down Nimble Momongas to summon Saturn, Angel of Judgment (2400/0) in attack mode."
'I think I've heard of that card before,' thought Yugi, looking on at the card. 'It has some powerful effect when it's played along with a magic card.'
As one of the face down cards vanished, a purple-skinned, winged woman dressed in a robe appeared to the field.
"That's one of your strongest cards?" Mai questioned. "2400 is nothing compared to what I have."
"Oh? Well she strong enough to take out your Amazoness Fighter," she retorted. "Attack Saturn! Cosmic Rings!"
The Angel of Judgment spread its wings and flew high into the air. She raised up her right hand and created a multitude of rings so close together, it looked like one large ring. She then hurled it towards Mai's Amazon. The ring bisected Mai's monster, but her life points remained the same.
"You're lucky that your Amazoness Fighter prevented you from losing life points," Colette said. "Next time you might not be so lucky. That ends my turn."
Colette: 6300
Mai: 4650
Kurt: 7300
Yugi: 3700
Mai's turn-
When Mai drew her card, she quickly made her move, "I begin by playing two cards face down and I'll summon Amazoness Paladin (1700/300) in attack mode."
A blonde-haired woman wielding a katana sword appeared to the field and as she arrived she had a slight luminescence of red light.
"For every Amazoness on my side of the field, she gains 100 more attack points, putting her at 1800 attack," Mai added. "And I'll play Monster Reborn, reviving Amazoness Fighter (1300/1300). With her presence, Amazoness Paladin's attack power increases to 1900. That ends my turn."
Kurt's turn-
"Your end shall soon come," Kurt said drawing his card, but Yugi quickly reacted.
"Well you won't be attacking this turn," Yugi said. "I activate my trap card, Thunder of Ruler. That means you have to skip your battle phase."
"Then I'll pass my turn," Kurt said in annoyance.
Yugi's turn-
"Now it's time for you to feel the pain," Yugi told Kurt, looking at his drawn card. "I play Mage Power, powering up my Black Luster Soldier. And it powers up my monster by 500 for each magic or trap card on my side. I see two right now. That increases my Black Luster Soldier's attack to 4000."
Suddenly, Mage Power took effect and made Black Luster Soldier give off a red glow.
"I'll also summon Dark Magician Girl (2000/1700) to the field," Yugi said. "And since my Dark Magician's in the graveyard, her attack increases to 2300. Now Black Luster Soldier, attack Black Skull Dragon! Chaos Slash!"
The armored warrior lifted up his curved sword and slashed it downward creating a black force of energy. The energy grew bigger as it approached the skeletal dragon. When the attack collided, the Dragon was blown away and was completely destroyed, taking with it 800 of Kurt's life points.
"And now Dark Magician Girl, attack his life points directly!" Yugi declared.
His female spellcaster fired a light purple blast of energy directly at the German duelist causing him to lose 2300 life points.
"I'll end my turn," Yugi said.
Colette: 6300
Mai: 4650
Kurt: 4200
Yugi: 3700
Colette's turn-
When Colette drew her card, she got giddy.
"You're done for now," she told Mai.
"Am I?" asked Mai.
"Yes," she began. "I first gain another 700 life points from Solemn Wishes and Marie the Fallen One. And now I play my field card, Sanctuary of the Sky."
Suddenly, the virtual world they were playing on was covered in thick white clouds. Behind Colette emerged a heavenly palace.
"First I'll sacrifice my Angel of Judgment to activate her special effect." Colette proclaimed. "And that is that I can deal damage equal to the difference between me and my opponent's life points. My life points are at 7000 and yours are at 4650. So Saturn will deal 2350 damage to your life points!"
Suddenly, Colette's monster contained itself in a purple orb of light and surrounded it with a thick ring. It was a scale purple version of Saturn. The attack launched itself and crashed into Mai, taking more than half of her life points.
"Scared yet?" Colette asked her. "And now to put you in an even bigger scare, I'll summon a monster of unrivaled power. I summon Mars, Angel of Power (0/0)."
A rather winged, muscular man wielding a powerful war hammer appeared on Colette's field, yet the card's attack power read zero.
"That's your monster of unrivaled power?" Mai asked.
"You should be scared," Colette said. "This is a very powerful fairy card. His attack and defense is equal to the difference of my opponent's life points. So that makes him a 4700/4700."
Mai tried to maintain her seriousness but she simply couldn't.
"You're just lucky that because I used my Angel of Judgment's special effect I have to skip my battle phase," Colette explained. "I'll end my turn. So enjoy your last turn."
Colette: 7000
Mai: 2300
Kurt: 4200
Yugi: 3700
Mai's turn-
When Mai looked at her card, she sighed loudly.
"Well all I can do is summon Amazoness Tiger (1100/1500) in attack mode," Mai announced. "For every Amazon card on the field, this tiger's attack is increased by 400 that has Amazoness in its name. So my tiger's attack is increased by 1200, making its attack power 2300. Plus Amazoness Paladin's attack is increased to 2000 for having two other Amazons on the field."
"A bunch of weak monsters won't save you," Colette told her.
"True but my Tiger protects all of my other Amazons," Mai said. "So most of my life points are safe for now."
"You really are stupid, aren't you?" Colette interrogated. "Come next turn, Mars's attack power will increase by 700 from my cards' effects. That'll make him a 5700 attacker. And 3100 more attack power than your Tiger. You just wasted your turn."
'We'll see,' Mai thought to herself.
Kurt's turn-
"You'll pay for that," Kurt said to Yugi, drawing his card. "I first play Pot of Greed, letting me draw two cards. Then I'll play Foolish Burial placing Catapult Turtle into my graveyard and I'll play Monster Reborn to revive Catapult Turtle (1000/2000) in defense mode."
Just as Kurt slipped the monster into his graveyard, he quickly took it back out and placed it on the field. He then shuffled his deck.
"Now I'll play one card face down and summon Magical Scientist (300/300) in attack mode." Kurt said, now smirking evilly. "Here's what's going to hurt. By paying 1000 life points, I can summon one level 6 or lower fusion monster from my fusion deck for one turn."
As the weak scientist appeared on the field, he was grinning just like Kurt.
"So I'll pay 3000 life points to bring out Roaring Ocean Snake (2100/1800), Empress Judge (2100/1700), and Punished Eagle (2100/1800)."
Three glass cylinder tubes rose out from the ground containing some sort of liquid and each holding a different kind of monster in hibernation. One held a long red sea serpent encircled around the inside of the tube. Another tube had a dark red haired woman with bits of blue paint on her face and a red jewel in the center of her forehead. The third tube held a mighty blue-green eagle that had a battle scar on its head. Suddenly, all the monsters in the tubes opened their eyes and the glass cracked. After several seconds passed the tubes shattered, the liquid holding the monsters flowed out, and they were free.
"But I won't use them to attack," Kurt said. "Instead I'll sacrifice all three of them to activate Catapult Turtle's special effect to deal damage equal to half of their attack points. Launch them, Catapult Turtle!"
Roaring Ocean Snake first mounted on to Catapult Turtle's launcher and in seconds was jettisoned towards Yugi, colliding into him for 1050 direct damage. Empress Judge was next and was launched as well to deal another 1050 damage. Punished Eagle was the last but was launched just as hard and hit Yugi again taking yet another 1050 life points.
"That hits you for a total of 3150 damage," Kurt told Yugi. "That puts you at almost nothing. That ends my turn."
Colette: 7000
Mai: 2300
Kurt: 1200
Yugi: 550
Yugi's turn-
"You still have 1200 life points," Yugi pointed out, drawing his card. "You could've brought out another fusion monster and wiped out the rest of my life points."
"I know," Kurt answered. "The end is soon to come and I shall finish you off with the rare card I was given. Come next turn."
"Very well," Yugi said. "I play my magic card, Exchange to exchange hands with you Kurt."
Yugi walked over to Kurt and showed him his hand: Valkyrion the Magna Warrior and Polymerization.
Kurt as well revealed his hand: Sinister Serpent and Mystical Sheep #1.
"I'll take Polymerization," Kurt said, taking it from Yugi's hand.
"And I'll take Mystical Sheep #1," Yugi said adding the card to his hand and returning back to his side of the field.
"Too bad there aren't any monsters capable of being fused with Mystical Sheep," Kurt said.
"That's where you're wrong," Yugi told him. "There's one monster with power you can't imagine. And one of them is on the field.
"What are you talking about?" Kurt asked.
"Just watch this," Yugi said. "I'll summon Mystical Sheep #1 (1150/900) in attack mode. And with your Fusion Gate, I'll offer Black Luster Soldier and Mystical Sheep and remove them from play to fusion summon... Dragon Master Knight (5000/5000)!"
As the two monsters levitated into the sky, a portal took in the two monsters and they were gone. What emerged from the portal was Black Luster Soldier riding on a mighty, three-headed dragon. The dragon was known only as the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon. Each head of the dragon roared mightily towards Kurt.
"No!" Kurt gasped. "That's not possible! I've never heard of that fusion."
"It isn't a very easy one to pull of," Yugi said. "To normally accomplish this, I'd have to have the very rare Black Luster Soldier and the even rarer Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon. A card only found in Seto Kaiba's deck. But thanks to your fusion material monsters, I was able to substitute for a Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon."
"Such a powerful card," Kurt marveled. "However, the card I have prepared for you is unbeatable."
"That isn't all," Yugi said. "Dragon Master Knight also has another effect; its attack power is increased by 500 for each dragon type on the field. Harpie's Pet Dragon therefore increases his attack to 5500."
Kurt was still in amazement to see a monster with such a devastating attack power.
"Now Dragon Master Knight," Yugi began. "Attack Magical Scientist! Raging Dragon Slash!"
The three dragon heads each fired a blast of white lightning and Black Luster Soldier's sword illuminated black then he slashed the air creating a Chaos Slash. The four attacks merged and closed in the weak scientist.
"I'll have to intervene," Kurt said. "I activate my trap, Negate Attack!"
The massive attack was only several feet away before hitting until it was sucked into a portal until it was completely negated.
"Nice try," Kurt said. "Not only does that stop your dragon's attack, but you battle phase ends for this turn."
"Fine then, I'll end my turn," Yugi said.
Colette's turn-
"Your end is here," Colette said to Mai, drawing her card. "I don't need to set anything either, your life points are gone. From Solemn Wishes and Marie the Fallen One, I gain another 700 life points, putting me at 7700. My Angel of Power's attack increases to 5400. Mars, Angel of Power, attack Amazoness Tiger! Tectonic War Hammer!"
The Angel of Power spread his wings and took to the skies. He readied his war hammer and raised it high over his head as he did a 30-foot freefall back to the ground. The war hammer was the first to strike the earth and an enormous shockwave shot towards Mai's Amazoness Tiger.
"Sorry hun," Mai said. "I activate my trap card, Mirror Wall! That cuts your monster's attack power in half to 2700!"
As the quake closed in on the tiger, a wall of thick glass that reflected light in many directions rose up. The quake ran straight into the wall and shot back to the Angel of Power. The attack hit him with full force caused him to feel fatigued.
"He's still stronger than your tiger," Colette said. "Attack!"
The fairy monster did not stop. He flapped his wings once to launch himself towards the Amazoness Tiger. His war hammer was once more raised over his head but this time, he was ready to strike the tiger down.
"Activate Trap card!" Mai declared activating her last face down card. "Amazoness Archers!"
Suddenly five female Amazons each armed with bows and arrows. All five of them shot one arrow each at the Angel of Power. All five arrows pierced the male monster's chest and weakened him.
"That weakens your monster even further by 500 attack points, to 2200," Mai said. "Some Angel of Power."
"Oh no!" Colette shouted as her arrowed fairy closed in on the tiger, showing no signs of stopping.
As the weakened Angel of Power's hammer was about to fall, Amazoness Tiger struck first by leaping forward and driving its claws into its opponent. Mars, Angel of Power dropped to the ground and his body claimed defeat.
"I still don't lose any life points," Colette said. "Thanks to my Sanctuary of the Sky, I don't lose any life points if my fairies are destroyed in battle."
"You forgot something," Mai said. "Amazoness Archers works on all of your monsters. That means your face down monster is flipped face and has to attack my Amazoness Tiger because you can't attack any other Amazons."
Suddenly, Colette's face down monster flipped face up revealing to be her Nimble Momonga (1000/100). The small rodent glided towards Mai's tiger but Mai's two trap cards activated. Arrows found themselves in the rodent's body and Mirror Wall came up cutting its weakened attack further.
"First Amazoness Archers cuts your monsters attack by 500, making its attack 500 and Mirror Wall weakens it even further to make it a 250 attacker," Mai said.
Amazoness Tiger swept its claw with ease wiping out Nimble Momonga, taking with it 2050 of Colette's life points. But because the monster that was destroyed was Nimble Momonga, she gained 1000 life points.
"I'm not finished just yet!" Colette shouted to Mai. "I'm France's best duelist! I place four magic or trap cards face down and play one monster card face down in defense mode, ending my turn."
Colette: 6650
Mai: 2300
Kurt: 1200
Yugi: 550
Mai's turn-
As Mai drew her card, she looked at it and smiled.
"This duel's over Colette," Mai told her.
"Oh is it?" she asked.
"Yes it is," Mai said. "I won't pay for Mirror Wall, so it's destroyed. And now I play another Cyber Harpie (1800/1300) in attack mode and equip her with Cyber Shield to increase her attack by 500, making her attack 2300! Plus, Harpie's Pet Dragon's attack is increased to 2300 because of Cyber Harpie's presence."
"You sure you want to attack?" Colette asked smugly. "To be honest, I've got you in the palm of my hand."
"That's where you're wrong," Mai said. "I play Harpie's Feather Duster to wipe out all of your magic and traps on the field!"
Suddenly, a great gust of wind came and Colette's face down cards and her Sanctuary of the Sky blew away. As they were destroyed, all that remained was Kurt's Fusion Gate.
Colette gasped in fear.
"That's right," Mai said. "You're finished. Attack her face down card, Cyber Harpie, Cyber Slash!
Mai's armored Harpie obeyed and flew towards the face down card. She swung both claws in an x-formation destroying the card, revealing to be Fairy's Gift. After it was wiped out, Colette was wide open.
"Now, Amazoness Fighter, Paladin, Tiger and Harpie's Pet Dragon, attack Colette's life points directly!" Mai declared.
Mai's four monsters all nodded towards her then charged toward their opponent. Amazoness Fighter ran the fastest and dealt a drop kick to Colette's life points. Amazoness Paladin was following closely behind then delivered a powerful slash across Colette's stomach. Amazoness Tiger was beside the Paladin and clawed at Colette. And Harpie's Pet Dragon remained where she was and unleashed a wave of fire towards Colette as a grand finale. All four of the monster's attack was 7900 damage to Colette.
"You've lost," Mai said to Colette. "That ends my turn."
Colette sighed heavily as her portion of the field blacked out.
Colette: 0
Mai: 2300
Kurt: 1200
Yugi: 550
Kurt's turn-
"You've just made things easier for me," Kurt said to Mai.
"How so?" Mai asked.
"That fairy of hers would've been hard to defeat," Kurt explained. "That raw power would've been quite the obstacle."
"Well you're going to face it next," Mai said. "Actually I'm pretty sure Yugi's going to take you out."
As Kurt drew his card, he tried hard to keep laughing, "Well no one will be attacking anymore."
Yugi and Mai were both dumbstruck at what he was talking about.
"Don't know? Fine, I'll show you," Kurt said, "I play Metamorphosis! To morph my Magical Scientist into the rare card I was talking about. Thousand Eyes Restrict!"
Yugi gasped at the name of the card he heard.
The metamorphosis began. Magical Scientist's whole body began to shake. He suddenly began to grow greatly, so great his lab coat was ripped to shreds. His neck stretched to several feet and leaned forward, his feet merged together making a point, and he grew a tail that extended over eight feet. Suddenly, his skin tone changed from a humane white to a dark red. His arms grew out and his fingers changed into monstrous claws. His chest had two holes opened up and let out a green luminescence like eyes. His belly opened up like a circular mouth and around grew sharp fangs. His back split in two and opened up like wings. Round bumps began to rupture all over its body from its neck, to its arms, to its wings, and pretty much everywhere else. The metamorphosis ended with the scientist's head was covered with gold that formed a large eye. The monster looked exactly like what Yugi remembered.
"How?" Yugi asked. "How did you get... this?
"This is a new card that has yet to be released to the public," Kurt said. "Salazar offered it to me just for the price of defeating you and taking some card of yours. It doesn't matter how strong your Dragon Master Knight is; as long as Thousand Eyes Restrict is on the field, no other monster can attack or even change positions. But the best part is that it takes control of one of my opponent's monsters like a magic card. I choose your Dragon Master Knight. Say goodbye to Duelist Kingdom, Yugi Muto. Thousand Eyes Spell!"
Suddenly all the eyes on Thousand Eyes Restrict's body shined green from all around. The golden eye on the monster's head looked directly at Yugi's Dragon Master Knight. Yugi's monster illuminated green and began to move against its will.
"Not quite," Yugi said. "I activate my Quick-Play Magic card, De-Fusion!"
Suddenly Kurt's monster began to glow white all over. Suddenly the light dispersed and Thousand Eyes Restrict was gone. As it vanished, Dragon Master Knight was returned to normal.
"What!?" Kurt shouted. "My supreme fusion monster... gone..."
"That's right," Yugi said. "I was sure your rare card was some fusion monster since that seems to be your specialty."
Kurt fell to his knees, in what seemed to be inevitable defeat.
"I pass..." he said, knowing what was to come next.
Yugi's turn-
Yugi didn't even bother drawing his card; he simply went to his battle phase.
"Dark Magician Girl!" Yugi announced. "Attack Catapult Turtle!"
The female spellcaster obeyed and fired another purple blast of magic, destroying the turtle leaving Kurt open for a direct attack.
"Now, Dragon Master Knight!" Yugi shouted. "Attack Kurt's life points directly! Raging Dragon Slash!"
The three heads of the dragon each fired a blast of white lightning and Black Luster Soldier unleashed his Chaos Slash and altogether created a devastating attack. The attack hit Kurt Schneider directly and left him in a virtual cloud of smoke.
"Damn..." Kurt said as his life points dropped to zero, and the duel had ended.
The room they were standing in changed back into pure white.
The defeated German duelist walked over to Yugi and presented him the fusion card, Thousand Eyes Restrict.
"I'm a man of my word," he said. "Take it."
"How did Salazar get this?" Yugi asked, taking it.
"Don't ask me, one of his suits showed me the card and told me what to do," he answered. "I couldn't believe how powerful it was. So I agreed to try and take you out."
"You shouldn't make deals with Salazar," Yugi told him. "He can be very dangerous."
"I'll keep that in mind," he said. "But still, that was without a doubt, my toughest duel. By the way, here's your Polymerization."
"Oh yeah," Yugi said, taking back his card. "Also, here's your Mystical Sheep #1."
Kurt took back his card and slipped it back into his deck, "I didn't think there was such a card like Dragon Master Knight. It must be the strongest fusion card in terms of attack and defense."
"Yeah," Yugi nodded, picking up the bag holding his Millennium Puzzle.
Colette had walked over to Mai and said, "The better duelist won."
"Yeah," Mai agreed. "But great duel. You duel with the best of them."
"Thanks," Colette said. "I'd love a rematch though."
"Sure thing," Mai replied.
"I'll get the door," Kurt said walking over to the door and grabbed the doorknob to open it for the rest of the duelists...