Yu-Gi-Oh: Team Zero Duelists
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Chapter 22: Come to first round, Handicap match
The two teams met in the first convenient ring that was open. Ronin and a short black man walked onto the field.
"Hi I'm Ronin, caption of Team Zero." Ronin extended his hand to the man.
"Nice to met you, jerk." The black man said with a scuff. "I am Roger Smith, and I will set this up for you." He walked to the end of the platform. "You and me tuff guy, winner takes all."
On the sidelines, Reku was getting tiered of this guy. Even though it was against his best judgment he jumped onto the field. Akina tried to grab his arm but failed at doing so.
"Hey jerk, why not take me on?" Reku's duel disk snapped into place.
"Better yet, why not I take on both of you?" Roger pointed at the two boys.
"Fine here, Ready Reku?" Ronin activated his duel disk and looked at his friend.
"Yep." Reku nodded and then looked back at his opponent.
"Duel." came from the three competitors.
Reku-4000
LP
Ronin-4000 LP
Roger-4000 LP
All players drew five cards from their respective decks.
"I will start us off seeing how I am out numbered." Roger motioned to the duelist who nodded in response.
Roger drew a card. "All right boys I play two cards face down and my Warrior Dai Grepher (1700/1600) in attack mode." A large burly man with a steel sword appeared on the field. It made a few grunting noises at its arrival. "Go boys." The man smirked.
"Reku, take your turn next." Ronin looked at his buddy.
"Right. Draw." Reku snapped his card off his deck. "I will play my Reflect Bounder (1700/1000) in attack mode and end my turn." A large humanoid creature with mirrors all over its body appeared and made clanking noises.
Ronin drew his first card. Glancing at his cards he pulled one out. "I will play my Fiend of Dark Waters (1600/1000) in attack mode and one face down card." A large, bluish-purple creature appeared on the field. It was slimy looking and had a long snout like appendage. It walked upright with sharp claws at the ends of all its arms and legs. "Okay Roger, take your turn."
"Very well boys." Roger drew his next card. "All right, now I will attack your Fiend of Dark Waters, Go Warrior Dai Grepher." The warrior charged across the field and cut through the Fiend monster. A loud painful ripping sound was heard as the sword ripped through its skin.
Reku-4000
LP
Ronin-3900 LP
Roger-4000 LP
"All right, next I place a defense monster and end my turn." Rogers defense card appeared and he smirked at the two kids.
Reku drew his card. "All right, this bastared is a jerk. I will have to take him out." "Now I place one card face down and summon Robotic Knight (1600/1800) in attack mode." The robotic machine appeared on the field and held up its sword which gleamed in the light. "Here we go, Reflect Bounder attack his Warrior Dai Grepher now." The mirrored creature shot beams of light out of its mirrors towards the warrior.
Roger smiled coldly as he flipped up his trap card "Nice try boy but I have Negate Attack." Reflect Bounders attack stopped instantly but Roger wasn't done yet. "Next I activate Soul Life. It allows me to gain 1000 attack points during your main phase 2."
Reku-4000
LP
Ronin-3900 LP
Roger-5000 LP
"Fine, Ronin take this guy out". Reku never took his eyes off of Roger for a second as he spoke.
"Okay." Ronin snapped his next card off his deck. "All right, I play my Aqua Fighter (1500/1200) in attack mode." A blue humanoid figure appeared on the field. It had oversized forearms and hands which he pounded together. "Next I play my down card, Hydra Fusion. I get to fuse my Fiend of Dark Waters in my grave and my Island Turtle form my deck to form my Island of Fiend Turtles (2200/2600). A large Turtle creature standing on its long blue reptilian legs appeared. A long neck with a blue lizards head on top roared as it appeared.
Reku smiled, he knew what Ronin was doing with his fusion.
"All right, Now the effect of my Fiend of Dark Waters activates. I may return Aqua Fighter from the field to my hand and gain 1000 life points." The warrior disappeared in a glow of light as Ronin picked the card up off the duel disk.
Reku-4000
LP
Ronin-4900 LP
Roger-5000 LP
"Next, Island of Fiend Turtles, attack his Warrior Dai Grepher. Turtle slash!" The monster lunged forward and slashed the warrior in half.
Reku-4000
LP
Ronin-4900 LP
Roger-4500 LP
"I believe that would make it my turn, right?" Roger cocked an eyebrow at the boy who just nodded to him. "Good."
Roger drew a card. "I sacrifice my face down monster to set a monster in defense mode." The face down card glowed but its appearance hadn't changed from before. "Next one card face down and that is all from me".
Reku didn't trust this guy. His strategy wasn't obvious enough to Reku. One look at Ronin and Reku could tell that the feeling was mutual.
Drawing, Reku was happy with what he got. "Yes, this is the first time I have ever gotten to use this card." In his hand he held Mech Dragon Blaster (2500/2000). "Now I sacrifice my two monsters on the field to summon my rarest card, Mech Dragon Blaster!" A large dark green dragon appeared on the field. Machinery dawned on many parts of its body. Random spots on the creature was covered with gears, wires and metal plates. "Attack the defense card!"
Mech Dragon Blaster roared and opened its mouth to the face down card. Inside was a large barrel like in a bazooka. A fireball could be seen forming inside the barrel that suddenly shot out at the card. The fire raced across the field with incredible speed and crashed into the face down card.
"Good, but not strong enough to take out my Millennium Shield (0/3000)." Roger laughed to himself at tricking the kid.
Reku-3500
LP
Ronin-4900 LP
Roger-4500 LP
"Ronin, take it." Reku growled out at his own disappointment. He should have seen that coming but he went against his gut and it cost him. He was in last place with life point count but he certainly wasn't out.
"Right, let me see." Surveying the field and his hand he really didn't see a way to get past that huge defense...yet.
Ronin drew a card. He looked at while at his new card then slipped it into his duel disk. The card appeared in front of him. "One card face down and now Roger," Ronin pointed to the black man "Go."
Akina and Sachiko were both watching from the sidelines. Sachiko had here arms cross watching the battle.
"We can't lose to this guy." She uncrossed her arms "It's two on one for gods sake".
"Yes, well this guy is good and I think..." Akina trailed off and looked at Roger. "He has something else planned."
"Why do you say that?" Sachiko looked at her friend with curiosity in here eyes.
"Look at Roger's eyes. He is much better than a strong monster and a good defense."
"I couldn't agree more." A voice came from behind the two girls.
They both stiffened up with fright and slowly turned around. Behind them was the kind and gentle old man Mr. Yoshiharu. He smiled at them and closed his eyes. "I agree Akina. Roger is holding on for a strategy. Right now he is buying time with a high defense. And..." Mr. Yoshiharu looked at Roger and then back at the two girls. "if it is the strategy that he is famous for those two are in trouble."
"Well what is he famous for?" Sachiko turned back to look at Roger.
"It's what earned him the title: Destroyer Duelist." Mr. Yoshiharu kept calm but a fear grew in his eyes.
The three duelist stood in the ring staring at each other. They had mad a silent agreement to take a breather to think of a strategy.
Ronin bit his lower lip. "Damn it. With that defense none of our monsters can get through. He has been dominating this duel since the start." Ronin looked at his Island of Fiend Turtles and then glanced over at Reku's Mech Dragon Blaster "We both have kick ass monsters but none of them can get past his 3000 defense." Ronin started to taste blood in him mouth from biting his lip too hard.
Reku was in about the same boat. A scowl on his face he looked at his powerful dragon that stood before him. "What the hell good dose it do to have strong monsters out if even then we can't break through that ungodly defense?" Reku glanced down at his hand. "Damn, no quick fix strategies in sight. I need to do something before this guy gets going on the attack."
"All right little boy's, let's dance." Roger snapped the next card off his deck. "Let me get this rolling, I play my creature Life Serpent Knight (1000/800)." A large silver armored figure appeared on the field. Lifting up its head the two boys saw that inside the suit of armor was a large reptilian creature.
"And what can he do" Reku cocked an eyebrow.
"Good question boy." Roger grabbed another card in his hand. "I play an equipment magic card known as Circle Around." Showing it to the boys he slid it into his duel disk. "This card allows one monster equipped with this card to attack my opponent's life points directly but only if that monster has 1000 attack or less." Then he slid the last card in his hand into his duel disk. "I activate my Attack Illusion. This equipment magic card allows my monster to pretend to have 2500 attack points when it attacks successfully." Roger held up his pointer figure and waved it at the boys. "Now don't get me wrong, It is only a illusion so my monster still gains the ability to circle around our troops and attack you directly."
The reptilian creature roared with power. Its eyes glowed an ominous manner.
"Oh and boys." Roger called out in a smug manner. "My Life Serpent Knight can't be destroyed in battle by any monster". Roger erupted in laughter as both Reku and Ronin tensed up bracing themselves.
"This is what I was afraid of." Mr. Yoshiharu glared sternly at the field. "Roger was the first person to think of that strategy."
"Oh" Sachiko stepped back from the ring. "That guy is unstoppable and will deal 2500 points of damage each turn".
Akina just nodded and stared at her friends "Reku, Ronin, be strong. I still believe in you."
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There,
the first duel of the tournament. No, John this is not meant to be
Joe. Be patient please as the tournament rolls on. I will probity get
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