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Legends of the Demon Duelist-Chaos Arc

Chapter 6: The Dragon Wolf

"Why do you hate my son?" Daniel didn't ask the question with malice or anger…just curiosity.

"Because he's engaged to my princess thanks to stupid human rules." Rikuo lifted his head haughtily. "If I had any choice in the matter, then I would have killed him. For your sake though I just dropped a few rocks on him."

"You mean boulders, right?" Daniel rubbed his eyes with his hands. "I mean…seriously, how did you lift those things? I saw them, and they were huge! Even CJ shouldn't have been able to life those things!"

"I have my methods…" Rikuo snickered and rubbed his index finger under his nose.

"Could you both please let me be badly injured in peace?" Ichigo groaned quietly from his bed in the hospital room. "Please?"

Daniel nodded and grabbed Rikuo by the collar, dragging him out. "You and I need to talk, Yami."

-

"Are you awake?" Ken waved his hand in front of the unmoving form sitting cross-legged in the middle of the helicopter floor. "We're here!"

"I hear you," the cloaked form slowly stood and looked up at the pilot. "Basil, what's the deal? Where's the Seal?"

"The Seal is located in a cave near the top of the middle of the island," Basil's British accent yelled over the whirl of the helicopter blades. "Now hurry up and get out so that I can go land this damn thing! If Kaiba Corporation security figures out we are jamming their radar, then I'm sure any concept of stealth we had will be useless!"

Ken looked out the window at the fact that they were at least 100 feet still in the air. "I think I'll pass, thank you."

The cloaked form casually opened the door of the helicopter and walked out, immediately disappearing as he fell. Without the slightest worry he dropped towards the ground, eyes still closed.

When he landed everyone on the island heard the explosion.

Standing up from the crater that he had created, the cloaked form brushed some dirt off of his cloak and went to stand in the middle of the strangely flat area of mountain-top. A few moments later he started his chant…a strange lilting tune that echoed across the air. ("I know you can hear this Rikuo…it is something only you will understand. A special challenge made only by great warriors. Come and face me, so that I can wipe you out.")

-"Damn it Rikuo, listen to me when I'm chewing you out!" Daniel growled at the fact that his other half wasn't even looking at him anymore.

Rikuo's ears were perked straight up, and his eyes were narrowed. "Normally I wouldn't yell…but SHUT UP!"

Daniel's eyes also widened at this. "Wow….what's wrong?"

Rikuo listened for a few moments longer and felt cold shivers run down his spine. "He's back…after all this time…"

Though Daniel wasn't mentally linked with Rikuo anymore, he immediately understood….and he shivered as well. "You mean…it's him?"

"Yes. He's sending out a challenge…and it's one that I will not turn down." The wolf demon removed his backpack and took out his duel disk. "I want you to stay here with the others and make sure they will be safe. You know as well as I do that this guy is dangerous…extremely so in fact."

As much as Daniel disliked it, he knew that Rikuo was right. "Can you defeat him alone?"

"I very much doubt it," Rikuo took a deep breath and smiled weakly. "But then again, I am a miracle worker. So who knows…maybe I'll be able to crush him in one attack…"

"But it took both of us working in perfect unison to…"

Rikuo held up his hand. "I know…but still, I have to go. Running from him won't help this situation, because if I did so then no one on this island would be safe." Slowly he turned and met Daniel eye to eye. "This is the being who planned on killing countless thousands if I didn't duel him. I doubt that in all the time he has been away that he has undergone any kind of change of heart."

Daniel quietly nodded. "Don't lose, that's all I ask. If you die….then I'll have to be the one to explain to Eri what happened. And I like living, so that's not really an option."

Rikuo smiled and opened the window right next to him. "Keh! You'll live if she attacks…I think."

-

A silver eye and a golden eye opened at once as a scent reached a pair of sensitive nostrils. "You're coming…and quickly. Good, because killing people isn't appealing to me at the moment. I'd prefer to just kill you." Turning slowly, he watched a small dot at the bottom of the mountainside quickly approach. ("Come Rikuo. Come and face me to complete our battle. You will die…and I will feed your soul to Chaos.")

-

Rikuo made the last necessary leap and did a casual forward flip onto the flat mountain-top. As he slowly raised his eyes, he saw his opponent. "I was hoping that I was wrong and that it wasn't you calling…oh well, I guess we don't always get what we want, do we?"

The cloaked form undid the clasp on its covering and threw it aside. "Enough of your pitiful jokes, Amero."

Rikuo frowned as he faced a face that looked just like his. "Fine, then let's get this done. I'd love to mop the floor with your freakish ass."

Other than the eyes and some slight facial differences, the challenger looked exactly like Rikuo, down to the ears and tail. What made him different was the fact that his eyes reflected a darkness that Rikuo had lost long ago. Parting his lips, the look-alike began to speak, "I am Rykiel, the genetically engineered combination of Rikuo Amero, Daniel Pilkington and Ryu Zaytel. I am the perfect duelist and the perfect warrior. You cannot defeat me, incomplete specimen."

Rikuo gritted his teeth and clicked his duel disk into place. "That's what you said last time and I still defeated you."

"No single duelist can defeat me," Rykiel lifted his hand and clicked his duel disk into place. "In fact...you're doomed."

Rikuo- 4000

Rykiel- 4000

Rikuo snickered and drew. "We'll see about that." Looking at his hand, he slid a card into his disk. "I set this face-down and set a monster in defense mode. End turn."

Rykiel closed his eyes, a strange black, gold, and red aura building around him. "My turn…draw!" As the top card came off of his deck, an explosion of energy swept across the mountain-side.

Rikuo shivered again. ("He never lost any of his power…")

Holding the drawn card up, Rykiel opened his eyes and slid it into his hand. "I summon Dark Salamander (1900/0) in attack mode." An explosion of black flame reached up from his field and formed into a towering bipedal lizard-like creature. "Attack now." Opening its jaws, the creature spat out a wave of flames that consumed the set monster.

Rikuo's lip curled and he held the card up. "You just activated the effect of Union Builder (200/100) and when he is flipped up I can take one union monster from my deck that is level four or lower and summon it to the field! Go X-Head Cannon (1800/1500) in attack mode!" A blue and yellow robot appeared on his field.

Rykiel slid two cards into his disk. "I set these and end my turn."

Rikuo frowned at the calmness in the voice of his opponent. ("So freaking calm…") He drew. "I sacrifice X-Head Cannon to summon Machine King!" (2200/2000) A humanoid robot appeared on his field. "This guy's effect increases his attack by 100 points for every machine monster in play!" (2300/2000) "Rocket Punch now!" The machine lifted its arm…

Rykiel snapped his fingers. "Reverse card open…go Dark Balance. This continuous trap card will work whenever a dark monster of mine is attacked by a stronger monster. The attacking monster will have its attack points lowered to the same number as my monster, and I'll lose life points equal to the reduced amount."

The Dark Salamander opened its jaws and released another wave of black fire that slammed into the Machine King and blew it apart.

Rikuo- 4000

Rykiel- 3600

Rikuo gritted his teeth and slid a card into his disk. "I set one card face-down on the field. End turn."

Rykiel drew. "You understand I'm going easy on your so far, right?"

"Stop bullshitting me," Rikuo spat onto the stone next to him. "Just take your turn."

"As you wish," Rykiel placed a card onto his disk. "I summon Shadow Keeper (1600/1700) to the field in attack mode." A single black steel robot holding a metal spear appeared on the field. "Then I attack your life points directly." Silently, the robot lifted its spear and aimed it at Rikuo.

The wolf demon waved his hand over his field. "You want to play traps? Then I'll play traps too! Go Sakuretsu Armor!" A suit of steel armor appeared on the field. "This trap card will destroy your attacking monster."

"Are you so certain?" Rykiel discarded a card from his hand. "I activate the effect of Shadow Keeper. At any time I may discard a card from my hand to create one Shadow Keeper Token (0/0) which will be destroyed instead of my monster." A shadowy version of the monster appeared and immediately blew apart. "Now as I was saying, Shadow Keeper attacks you life points directly!" The monster wound up and threw the spear across the field, slamming Rikuo right in the chest.

Rikuo- 2400

Rykiel- 3600

Rikuo fell to his knees and sucked in his breath as pain ran through his chest.

Rykiel slid a card into his disk. "End turn."

Rikuo took a couple of seconds to compose, and then he stood up and drew. "I set a monster in defense mode and end my turn."

Rykiel drew. "Reveal Composed Thoughts! This trap card lets me pay 500 life points to look at your hand and then force you to shuffle one card of your choosing back into your deck."

Rikuo- 2400

Rykiel- 3100

Rikuo growled and flipped his hand over. "Z-Metal Tank, (1500/1300) White Cyber-Wolf (1000/1800) and Soul Exchange." He turned his cards back around and shuffled one into his disk.

Rykiel lifted his hand and pointed at the face-down monster. "Go Shadow Keeper!" The machine monster threw its spear and pierced the face-down card.

Rikuo's lips curled slightly as the entire field was destroyed in one echoing explosion. "You just destroyed Cyber Jar (900/900) and its special ability destroys all monsters in play. Then we both draw five cards from our deck and special summon any level four or lower monsters to the field in face-up attack mode or face-down defense mode."

Rykiel drew five cards, his expression fairly close to unreadable. "I set a monster in face-down defense mode and summon Chaos Ghost (1700/1700) in attack mode." A prismatic specter shimmered onto the field.

Rikuo slid five cards off of his deck. "I set a monster in defense mode."

Rykiel rifled through his cards slowly. "I'll just be moving on to my second main phase now." He inserted a card into his disk. "Now I activate Devil's Storm. I'm sure you remember what this card does, don't you Rikuo?"

The wolf demon snarled…

Rykiel slid a card into his graveyard. "That's correct, it will let me destroy all cards on the field at the cost of one card from my hand." A huge storm of fire swept across the field and destroyed everything, leaving nothing in its wake but ash. "And then I play the continuous magic card Spirit of Balance. As long as the field is empty this card can be played. Now whenever you play or set a card I may do the same."

Rikuo had seen this combo before…and he knew what was coming.

Rykiel placed a card face-down on his disk. "I set a monster in defense mode. Then I'll play the magic card Fair Playing Field. This card activates when I have no cards in my hand and you have over one. Now you discard half of your hand and I draw that many cards."

Rikuo growled low in his throat and discarded three cards.

Rykiel didn't smile or sneer while he drew three. "Activating Fair Playing Field ends my turn immediately."

Rikuo drew. "Then let me tear down your defenses! Go Soul Exchange! With this magic card I can sacrifice monsters on your field to summon my own. Though I won't be able to attack this turn, now I summon…" Rikuo had the card up in the air and ready to come down.

Rykiel held up the card that had been sacrificed. "This card is called Sealing Tower. If used in sacrifice whatever monster is summoned because of this will have its summon countered."

Rikuo's eyes widened as not only did he have to discard Jinzo, but he just had sacrificed his battle phase.

Rykiel slid a card into his disk. "And did you forget that Spirit of Balance lets me play a card now? My new card is the magic card Spirit Mutiny. If a monster you were going to summon was destroyed or countered, it now is special summoned to my field at the cost of one hand card." There was a flash of light in his monster zone as Jinzo appeared and chuckled coldly at its master. (2400/1500)

Rikuo gritted his teeth. "Maybe, but because of what you just did I can still make a normal summon this turn!" He slapped a card onto his disk. "Go White Cyber-Wolf (1000/1800) in defense mode!" A white-colored robot wolf appeared on the field in a crouching position. "And when this monster is normal summoned I can special summon A Black Cyber-Wolf (1800/1000) from my deck to the field!" Next to the white wolf a black one appeared. "I summon it in defense mode and end my turn."

Rykiel slid Jinzo into his graveyard. "Spirit of Balance lets me play a card because you did. So I'll sacrifice Jinzo to summon Dark Judge (2000/2000) in attack mode." A demon in judge's robes appeared on the field. "This monster also has a special ability that has to do with balance…do you remember what?"

Rikuo frowned. "When summoned you get to draw cards until you have the same number in your hand as I do."

Rykiel drew once. "That is correct. And now the turn is mine." He drew another card and actually showed a crack of a smile. "Out of all of my cards, which one was the hardest to defeat?"

Rikuo paled. "No…not that card…"

Rykiel slid a card into his disk. "Go Flames of Hell. This magic card requires that I sacrifice a monster on my field." The Dark Judge roared in pain and burst into flames. "When I do so, I may special summon Master of Inferno; Diablo (2000/1700) in attack mode!" A red-skinned devil holding a spiked whip appeared on the field. "And when summoned to the field Diablo immediately activates an equipment magic card from my deck called Necrowhip." Removing a card from his deck, the demon inserted it into his disk. In the hands of Diablo a whip made of red muscle tissue appeared.

Rikuo felt sweat slide down his face. ("That card lets Diablo revive as many monsters from his graveyard as he has empty monster spaces each turn…")

Roaring in rage, Diablo cracked the whip onto the ground. There was an explosion of fire as four forms rose up out of the ground.

Rykiel looked his new field over. "Dark Salamander, Dark Judge, Jinzo, and a monster that I discarded that is known as Dark Cerberus." (2800/2000) A huge three-headed wolf appeared on the field behind all of the revived monsters. "This creature has the special ability that makes it the only monster you can attack as long as it is in play."

Rikuo didn't like these odds. Now he was stuck with one useless card in his hand and staring down not only five impossibly strong monsters, but his own Jinzo as well. ("Which means that I can't activate traps.")

Rykiel glanced over at Diablo and then at each of his assembled monsters. "This is more than enough attack power to kill you next turn. End turn, since Diablo prevents me from attacking the turn it is summoned."

Rikuo stood there, suddenly unsure what to do. ("I should have expected this…I mean, this guy is the culmination of both my skill and Jourgen's….") His lips lifted just a tiny bit. ("Finally, someone to force me past my own limits.")

To be continued…

To Seeker of the Soul: Honestly, Ken would have probably won that.

To Adriel: It's cause I have good memory of cards. Unfortunately, that is as far as my memory extends.

To whitewolf: We shall see who gets this next seal, shan't we?

To Rex: Deondre plays a big combo deck. As for the typo, pay it no mind.

To Bobbomp: I finished that whole chapter page one to fifteen in one sitting, and you are calling me a bad author?

To Anime Albino: Indeed he could have.

To Sinister: I've never heard of someone having a problem with cursing or calling people Bro in typing. Oh well, I guess you learn something new everyday.

To GryphinWyrm: You are more than welcome to use Dark Magic Nova, so long as you properly attribute it.

To The Real Agent Smith: Nope, you guessed incorrectly.