The Elite
Ch:2 The new rules and Joey's duel with a fusion master.
"Welcome to the Dueling Elite tournament!" Pegasus yelled as the duelists cheered, when the cheers stopped he continued. "Well folks I hope you had plenty of rest during your time over here since this will be a tournament like none other before it. In one hour, the tournament will start and all of you must go to different areas so that we all can have a quest to make it to the top. Now however on to the new rules that will be used in this tournament.
As like before on Duelist Kingdom, there will be field advantages to certain monsters played on the field and you'll need 10 star chips to get to the semi-final rounds. However the rules from Battle City are also applied here too. Meaning once you lose you must give the victor your rarest card. Also you will be using the duel disk system that Kaiba Corp. has developed and donated to this tournament so that duels can be played everywhere. But that's not all folks, because here are the rules that make this tournament so special.
All around the island are special computers that are activated once a duel begins. When a duel begins a computer will pop up and tell you, randomly, the dueling rules you must abide to. The rules are basic One on One, Deck master, tag team, 2 on 2, or Challengers choice. This type of dueling is why you needed a partner to enter. This tournament shall be a true test of your dueling skill to the utmost and only the strongest will survive. The only place on the Island for JUST One on One Matches is the steps up to the castle. But before any of you get any ideas, only duelists who have gained 8 star chips are allowed to go there. You will have three days to get 10 star chips and there will only be ten slots that can be filled. So get ready and begin in one hour." As the people cheered Pegasus walked away.
Joey scratched his head as he started walking with his sister through the valley area of the island. "Man that's a lota new rules don't you think sis. I mean its kind of confusing."
Serenity waved him off. "Oh don't worry Joey; I'm sure we'll be just fine. We can do anything if we stick together."
As Joey looked at his sister for a minute he smiled down at here. "Yeah you're right, let's take on everyone and win!" Serenity laughed at Joey and both left to find a challenger. But then a challenger found them.
"Hey you!" Yelled a 14 year old to the pair, they stopped their walk and saw the guy with a girl that looked a little younger than him. "Are you Joey Wheeler?" The boy asked
"Uh yeah that's me watcha want?" Joey asked as he looked over the kid. He had brown hair in a spike style that wore a blue jacket, kaki pants, red shirt. Next to him the blue haired girl wore a pink blouse and tan skirt.
The boy smiled at him, and lifted his arm up to show his duel disk. "This is great, I challenge you for one star chip."
Joey smiled at the kid "A challenge eh? Well alright, lets go." Joey Grinned as he too activated his duel disk. "Eh?" Was all Joey said as he was getting ready a holographic screen popped up from the ground, a robotic voice soon spoke up.
'New tournament rules random selection activating. Selecting rule limits.'
"Eh? Whats this all about?"
"Don't you remember Joey Wheeler! Pegasus said that this would happen remember what he said a little bit ago?" The kid addressed Joey.
Soon this fact dawned on Joey and scratched his head in embarrassment. "Oh yea I remember now, thanks…uh who are anyway."
It was now the kids turn to look embarrassed. "Oh sorry, I'm Alex Morphius, the fusion master." He said with pride while he turned to the girl. "And this is my little sister and partner, Mina the Fairy Queen."
"Hey." Was all the girl said.
"Nice ta meet-cha so are you ready."
"I was born ready Joey."
As if on cue the computer spoke up. 'Tournament rules randomly decided duel will be… one on one battle.'
"Well I guess we were the lucky ones in starting this tournament off easy on these new rules."
"Tell me about it, so anyway you go first Alex."
"Alright I will." With this both combatants drew their cards the duel started
Joey: 4000 Alex: 4000
(AN: For this story Joey's deck will mostly be from my Yugioh deck.)
As Alex looked over his cards and smiled as he decided what to do. "First I'll play these two cards facedown and then I'll put this card in face down defense mode. And that'll be it for me.
Joey looked at his own hand and then at Alex. Joey could tell that the kid knew what he was doing and probably had a few traps hidden under those cards. Joey had never faced a fusion deck before and that gave Alex an advantage. He then looked at his hand, he had 2 monsters 3 traps and 1 spell card, and he then decided what to do. "Well Alex I'll do the same thing, I'll put one monster down and 2 cards facedown. Now it's your move."
Alex smiled, happy that Joey was taking him seriously. As he drew, his smile got wider at what he drew. "Perfect, I knew you were good at this game, but I could tell that my deck type confuses you, so I'll make the first move. First I'll use polymerization to fuse my face down Spirit Reaper with my Nightmare horse into the devastating Reaper on the Nightmare (800/600)."
"Eh? What's the deal, that thing won't even make a dent in my defense monster."
"Oh ye of little faith. My monster has a special ability that makes it a monster of nearly impossible to beat. You see my Reaper can go past your monsters and attack directly! Go attack his life points directly!"
At the command, Reaper on the Nightmare jumped over Joeys card and slashed Joey's life points pushing him back and damaging his points (3200). Alex laughed again.
"Don't think that was the only thing my monster does, for you see when he attacks directly, I get to choose a card from your hand to send to the graveyard. Quite an evil little card isn't it?" His smirk however was gone as he saw his reaper get struck by lightening and shatter like glass. "W-what happened!"
"What's a matter Alex, didn't think I wouldn't be prepared for something like that." He then showed him one of his face down cards which depicted a cannon soldier being struck down by a bolt from the sky. "This trap card called Divine Wrath is a powerful card. With just discarding my Sinister Serpent, I was able to negate your Reapers discard effect and destroy it. I may have still lost a card, but you lost a good monster
"GGRRR, clever, very clever, but don't get over confident, because this duel aint even close ta being over! I set this card in defense and end my turn."
"Alright, now come on deck give me something good." He smiled at what he got. "That's what I'm talking about, I'll put my Luster Dragon in attack and flip Sasuke Samurai #4 (1200/1200) in attack and attack your monster." The spear totting samurai charged and the monster turned face up to D.D Warrior Lady(1500/1600).
"Ha! You just lost four hundred life points."
"We'll see, my monster has an effect too. I flip a coin and if I call it right I get to destroy your monster and I call heads." Joey flipped a coin and sure enough it was heads. "Yes! Now get rid of his monster and attack his life points directly!"
"Nice try, reveal Negate Attack!"
When the Sasuke hit the shield it was thrown back, Joey having seen Kaiba use the card so many times, knew its effect so he didn't attack with his Luster Dragon.
"I'll admit that was close but don't think I'll let you beat me that easy, I've been waiting too long to just lose so fast."
"Whatya mean by that?"
"I am one of the top 20 duelists in Japan right now, incase you didn't know, considering all you top 5 guys just seem to forget about everyone else. Anyway I was accepted into the last two tournaments and I did better than most would have thought. In fact the only reason I was unable to reach the semi finals was the question of time. I ran out of time even though I had gained a place among the best. But not this tournament, I'm gonna make it all the way to the top this time."
"That's right bro you're gonna go all the way in this one." Cheered his little sister.
Joey just shook his head in amusement. "That's a good dream but you're one flaw is that you have to get past 'ME' ta get where you wanna go and in case 'You' don't know, I'm a great duelist."
"You tell em Joey!" Serenity cheered.
Alex smiled as he drew his card. "You're right I have to get by you first, and I will. First, I'll activate fissure to get rid of that annoying Sasuke #4." The ground under Sasuke crumbled and gave way, destroying him. "Next I'll use polymerization on my Zombra of the dark and my King of the Swamp to create one of my most devastating monsters, the mighty 'The Last Warrior From Another Planet(2350/2300)" What emerged was a hulking figure with yellow skin and glowing red eyes. He had cybernetic shoulder pads with deadly cannons and his right arm was a giant cybernetic claw that was dragging on the floor. "Ha! Lets see you stop him. Now my monster, destroy his last monster!" The creature lifted his claw, and struck down Joey's dragon and lowering his life points (2750). "This monster has a special ability as well, for as long as he's on the field you can't summon a monster of any kind on the field. Its your turn though I doubt you can find a monster that can stop me." Alex gloated.
Joey looked over his hand for a minute and drew his card then smiled. "Its true I can't summon but that doesn't mean that I can't set a monster." So Joey put a monster facedown then Alex's warrior destroyed it. This went on for two more turns until Alex got impatient.
"Come on Joey I want a match stop stalling and let me beat you already."
"We'll see about that cause my stalling got me the card I need, I use the card Hammer Shot!" Up above Alex's monster, a giant hammer floated in the air. "This card destroys the strongest monster on the field, and since your monster is the strongest he's done." As Joey said this, the hammer went down on the beast and flattened it with ease. "With that monster gone I can now summon a monster, and I summon Giant Orc(2200/0)!" The sumo type gray orc with a bone mace appeared. "Now attack his life points directly!" The monster smashed down and tore a huge chunk of life points off Alex(1800) then went into defense mode.
"GRRR! You'll pay for that!"
"I doubt that, your strongest monsters gone and I put this card face down." As he finished Alex was laughing up a storm.
"Y-you think 'THAT' was my best monster! Please, that one wouldn't even hurt a flea on the real monster I have. But I need time to prepare for him so I'll use Swords of concealing light to stall for a bit." Soon Joey's side of the field was surrounded by black swords.
Joey had nothing in his hand to stop this, all he could do now was build up his defense but so far he had gained just monsters and no real good traps and spell cards. It was after the 2nd turn the swords disappeared. When this happened Joey had 3 monsters in defense and was waiting for Alex to make his move.
"Now it is time. That stall card was just enough for me to create my ultimate monster. First I'll use the des Kangaroo and Giant Panda from my hand and use my polymerization."
When the three cards disappeared, the ground shook as a portal opened from the ground. What jumped out was the strangest looking creature Joey had ever seen. It was giant koala like creature with kangaroo muscular legs and kangaroo tail. It had green fur with a yellow belly fur and a scar on his left eye. On its paws were boxing gloves and on its kangaroo type feet were giant boxing shoes. To finish off he was wearing a strange purple vest. People would think this monster ridiculous, but only if they didn't know it was the fourth strongest fusion in the game. When he emerged fully Joey could only say one thing.
"Whoa that is a big monster."
"Meet my ultimate fusion as well as my rarest card, Master of OZ(4200/3700)!"
"Wow it power is off the charts!" Was all Serenity could say.
"Go get em bro!" Yelled Alex's sister.
"Now before I attack, I'll make him even stronger by using the field magic card Gia Spirit which increases his power by 500 points (4700/3200)!" Sprouting behind the monster was a giant tree and the monster got even bigger. "He now has enough power to make a Blue-eyes Ultimate Dragon look weak."
Joey shook off his awe at the creature and became focused again. "Yeah, just because its strong doesn't make him invincible." Joey stated as he looked at the face-down card that was his Man-eater bug.
"Do you really think I'm that stupid? I know that, but thanks to this card strength DOES mean everything. I flip over my trap card Skill Drain! With just a mere cost of a thousand life points (800) this card can negate any effect card." Joey cringed as he saw electricy hit his face down man-eater negating its effect.
"Now my monster, destroy the left facedown monster." With this command, Master of OZ wound his fist back and with a mighty explosion destroyed Joey's Man eater Bug without any problems. "Ha! So much for your man eater, I guess he was allergic to giant pandas."
Joey could only growl. "If you think that I'll be beaten by that giant panda-roo thing so easy then you have another thing coming!" Joey kept up a good front but inside he was starting to get nervous he only had 2 monsters protecting him now, things looked dim for Joey.
"You can do it Joey!" Joey turned to see Serenity cheering him on. "Don't give up, as you said power isn't everything in the game. I know you can think of something to stop his Master of Oz." Serenity assured.
Joey looked at her soulful eyes and cracked a smile. "Yeah you're right sis! This duel an't over!" As he was about to draw he closed his eyes in hope. 'Heart of the cards, guide me.' With this Joey drew his card and as he looked at it, his smile got bigger. "ALRIIIIGHT! Alex your through, I just drew the card that has never let me down during any of my duels."
"And what card is that praytell?" He asked in genuine curiosity.
"First I sacrifice my two face down monsters, then I summon my Red Eyes Black Dragon." As on cue, Joeys trademark monster emerged and roared its power to all.
"So you got your monster out, so what, it's nowhere near the power needed to destroy my monster."
"True at first it appears so, but I'm not done. Next I'll activate my facedown card scapegoats." On either side of Red Eyes were two pairs of goat tokens. "Alone these monsters are weak, but I activate the magic card United We Stand! This card joins my monsters powers together to create a force few can match giving my dragon 800 more Atk. and Def. points fro each monster on the field and I count 5; this raises my monster up to…lets here…to 6400 attack points total!"
"OH NO!" Alex and his sister gasped.
"That's right, now Red Eyes, OBLITERATE!" The dragon reared his head back as the red ball of energy formed in his mouth while the scapegoats were giving the attack their energy. He soon thrust his head forward and fired his red blast that shook the earth. The Master of Oz stood for a moment but the attack disintegrated his body and ended the duel.
JOEY(2750) ALEX (0)
Afterwards:
"That was an awesome duel Joey, here is my Master of Oz and my star chip."
"Thanks man, you did a great job I hope to see you in the finals later."
"We'll see man we'll see." Was all Alex said as he left to go for more duels.
Joey smiled and looked at Serenity. "Ya ready to go Serenity?"
"Yeah Joey lets go, we have a long way to go from here" With this both brother and sister walked while unknown to them Sadi looks on with a smile on his face.
"It has begun."
To be continued:
