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Legends of the Demon Duelist-Chaos Arc

Chapter 29: It's now or never; Chaos vs.….

Rykiel clutched his side, feeling his blood drip to the floor. "This…how could I have lost? I am supposed to be the perfect being…" Gritting his teeth against the pain, he touched his hand against the wall in front of him and it opened up like a door, revealing a dark passageway. "I…must….locate….Chaos…." Stumbling through the opening, he tried to ignore the fact that he could feel his ribs through his flesh.

As he wandered down the hallway….his mind started to flicker with memories.

Dr. Collins watched the floating form of Rykiel through the glass tank in front of him. "The ultimate duelist…and the ultimate demon. Rykiel…you will be perfect. I'll be rich, and all those who mocked me will fall."

Rykiel stumbled and crashed to the ground. Snarling, he forced himself to his feet and continued on his way down the path. "I will not fall!"

Rykiel punched a hole through the glass tube…

"I have made it too far! I will not die here!"

Collins clutched futilely at the claw that rested around his neck, squeezing tightly. "Rykiel…"

"Silence, old man." The genetic demon snapped the doctor's neck without a second thought…and then he looked to the wall where he saw his deck and disk. "I will not be controlled."

Rykiel remembered his mental promise, and he pushed on. "I will not fall!"


A few minutes later he made it into the back chamber of the Chaos Whale. The place he had simply dubbed 'the meeting room'. And it was here that a huge prismatic crystal rested on a glass pedestal.

Rykiel watched the pulsing of the crystal and fell to his knees. "Chaos…I suggest you come here quickly. Your enemies grow near." His ears perked up as he heard footsteps from not too far away. "Damn it…"

Rikuo was the first to enter the room. "Ah, there you are Rykiel. How are things?" He licked his lips and cracked his knuckles. "You have nowhere to hide."

"I'm not hiding." Rykiel slumped against the crystal, his eyes closed. "I would….never…hide from….you…" He crashed to the ground, unconscious from the loss of blood he had suffered before.

"Stupid…" Rikuo began to approach the crystal….and then blinked as cracks started to appear along its surface. "What in the hell is this?"

The eight seal-holders all felt like running. Something about this situation rang out as wrong to them.

"Dad…let's go…" Eri started to step backwards…

The crystal's cracks grew…and then it shattered. Nothing happened for a few seconds, and then an explosion like that of a bomb went off. Everyone was hurled to their backs.

Ichigo growled at the vortex that had formed. "I won't let you! Chaos, I won't!" Grabbing his disk, he leaped straight for the vortex.

"Ichigo!" Daniel took over his body again just in time to watch his son disappear within a glowing hole of prismatic light. And then something even worse happened….the vortex crystallized, turning into a huge lump of prismatic crystal that crashed to the ground.

Everyone else groaned and stood up slowly, staring at the crystal…

Daniel and Rikuo as one looked around…and realized that their children had disappeared.


Ichigo slowly opened his eyes….and groaned. "Oh man…what hit me?"

"One, two, three, four…"

"Skipping down the lane…"

"Five, six, seven, eight…"

"Across the lovely plains…"

"Nine, ten…"

Ichigo slowly came to his feet. "Good…I've wanted to run into you again before the day ends."

Now that he standing he could see that he that he was on a flat stone surface that was hovering within a prismatic void. "How pleasant…I'm trapped in nowhere."

The prismatic energy of the void was parting and he already knew who it was. "Chaos…"

"Hiya!" The prismatic-haired killer literally skipped from the void right onto the platform. "Oh I remember you! You're that weird mean boy."

The half-demon's eyes narrowed. "Yes…and I'm going to make you pay for what you have done."

Chaos' eyes lit up happily. "You mean you wanna play? YAY!" She started dancing around her end of the platform.

Ichigo would have face-fallen…but images of what she could do flashed in his mind. "Let's go!" His duel disk turned on.

"Ow…where am I?"

Ichigo snapped his head back. "What are you doing here?"

"What are you talking about?" Eri leapt up and glared at him. "And who's the freaky kid in the dress?"

"Gonna get to play….gonna get to play!" Chaos continued to dance around.

"Get out of here!" Ichigo nearly screamed in the face of the demoness.

Eri responded by snap-punching him in the voice-box, leaving him on his knees and gasping for air. "Don't ever tell me what to do!" She walked past him and turned on her duel disk. "From what I can gather you're Chaos. Well then I'd love to get rid of you."

"You wanna play too?" Chaos squealed and hopped to the far end of the field. "Then let's start!" Five glowing cards appeared in her hand, though there was no deck to be seen around her.

Ichigo popped his voice box back into place and stood up. "Eri! Don't do this!"

Eri- 4000

Ichigo- 4000

Chaos- 4000

"Come play!" Chaos waved her hand and a card appeared in it. "I'm gonna set this card face-down on the field, and then this little monster in defense. End turn!" She struck a little pose and giggled to herself.

Eri snapped the top card off of her deck. "This shouldn't be too hard. I summon Spirit Reaper (300/200) in defense mode and set one card face-down. It's your turn." She glanced at Ichigo. "And don't tell me to go, because it is too late."

Ichigo's eyes twitched and he drew. ("Damn it…I have to finish this fast then.") "I summon Cyber Shadow-Sentinel in attack mode!" (1500/1300) A silver robot appeared on his field. "Attack the set monster now!" It launched forwards and slammed its fists down on top of the monster, blowing it apart.

Chaos skipped up and down. "You attacked my Skelengel!" (900/600) "When it is flipped up I draw one card!" Another card appeared in her hand.

Ichigo snarled and slid a card into his disk. "I set one card face-down and end my turn."

Chaos waved her hand and a new card appeared in it. She slid it amongst the rest of her cards and grasped another one. "New plan. Now you try to survive." She smiled sweetly and the card faded away. On her field stood a metal-covered demon that was colored pure black. "I summon Death Kaiser!" (1800/1600) "Attack the stupid machine now!" It leapt forwards and slashed through Ichigo's robot. "And I set this little card face-down."

Eri- 4000

Ichigo- 3700

Chaos- 4000

Eri drew. "So far I'm not impressed! I sacrifice Spirit Reaper to summon Ryu Kokki!" (2400/2000) Her monster disappeared and was replaced by a hideous bone snake. "Attack Death Kaiser! Doom Poison!" Hissing, the snake spat out a glob of purple goop that hit the demon and dissolved it. "And now your life points go down."

"No no no…" Chaos shook her head in childish denial. "I have this little continuous trap on my field." One of her two set cards flipped up. "It's called Chaos Reversal! Any damage I would take whenever a dark or light monster is destroyed because of battle is done to you instead!" Giggling, she pointed at her other face-down card. "And my other card is Loss of Life. This card treats any destroyed monster as if it was sacrificed. And when Death Kaiser is sacrificed I get to draw two cards." Sliding two cards off of her deck, the girl grinned at Eri's pale face. "So I win…bleah!" She stuck her tongue out at the demoness.

Eri- 3400

Ichigo- 3700

Chaos- 4000

"Why you little…" Small veins appeared on Eri's forehead. "I'll….I'll….end my turn."

Ichigo drew and took a deep breath. ("I have to try and get rid of Chaos before she can hurt Eri.") Looking at his hand he groaned. ("Except I have no monsters in my hand.") "I set one card face-down and end my turn."

Chaos waved her hand and another card appeared. "Yay! It's my turn! And from my hand I'll play Graceful Charity. Now I draw three cards and discard two." Three new cards appeared in her hand and then two of them disappeared. "Okay, the stage is set! And soon fun time will begin! Until then, I set a monster face-down and two cards face-down too."

Eri drew. "You little brat. I can't believe that he was actually worried about you being some kind of threat." The demoness slapped a new card onto her disk. "I summon Hellmare in attack mode!" (1500/500) A horse made of blue fire appeared on her field. "Attack the set monster now!" It snorted and leapt over to the set card, bringing its hooves down onto it and shattering it instantly. "Now Ryu Kokki, attack her life points directly!" The bon snake hissed and spat a glob of poison towards Chaos, but it stopped halfway there and dissolved. "A trap?"

"Nopers!" Chaos did a little ballerina spin and smiled. "You destroyed my Hane Kuriboh (300/200) and when it is destroyed as a result of battle, all life point damage to me is zero for this turn!"

Eri's eyes widened and she clenched her fists. "End…turn." Now she looked incredibly pissed off.

Ichigo drew, staying as cool as he could. ("Damn it all to hell….") He still had no monsters that he could summon to the field. "I end my turn."

"Damn it Ichigo!" Eri snarled at him…and then softened when she saw the hopeless look on his face. "What's…"

Chaos drew and started to cheer. "It's show time….It's show time….It's show time!"


Daniel punched the crystal…and withdrew his throbbing hand from it. "OWW!"

"You won't get through it…it's impossible to break." Ryu frowned as he watched the crystal… "However…" He reached over and picked up a duffel bag he had carried with him. "Perhaps we can see what is going inside."


Chaos stopped in mid-skip and then stuck her tongue out at both demons. "Bleah! I remove two light monsters and two dark monsters from my graveyard!" Though nothing physically happened, they could only take her word for it. "And that'll let me summon my best play-toys! Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of the Beginning and Chaos Emperor Dragon-Envoy of the End!" (3000/2500) (3000/2500)

The platform began to shake. A light-covered form rose down from the void and landed on the girl's field. It was the blue-armored warrior that Ichigo remembered so well.

And the other form was so big that it nearly couldn't fit on the square. It was a huge blue-scaled dragon that was covered in certain areas by gold and silver armor. Roaring, the monster brought burning fire eyes down to look at Eri like she was some kind of snack.

Ichigo growled low in his throat…feeling helpless because he was unable to do anything.

Eri shuddered at the sight of the things. "The Chaos Gods…." Her father had told her about them…but to see them here…and to face them.

Chaos hugged one of the legs of the Chaos Emperor Dragon. Though it didn't respond, both demons felt her connection to its power. "These two are my favorite toys. They always make games so much fun." Her smile was impossibly innocent. "Though I guess you guys won't like them so much in a minute. But I hope you had fun thinking you could win."


Everyone had gathered together in the crystal room, and hovering on the ceiling was a view of within the dimension. At the moment there was nothing but prismatic void though.

"Maybe if I move this here…" Ryu fiddled with an odd golden projector that was sitting on top of the crystal. He looked up at the ceiling, frowned, and then fiddled with the machine again. "Maybe this way….or maybe if I turn it that way a little bit."

Rikuo leapt forwards and slammed his fist onto the machine. It whined and the picture flickered onto the platform. "Problem solved Jourgen, now show me my princess!" He looked up, as did everyone else….

And they all gasped at once.

"Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of the Beginning…." Kenshin couldn't believe that one of his best monsters was in the possession of Chaos.

"Chaos Emperor Dragon…" Deondre vaguely remembered seeing the monster once, but now that he looked upon it in all of its glory the memories came flooding back in. "Eri and Ichigo are fighting that thing?"

"They're fighting both of them…" Siegfried felt that this was unfair. How could two novice (at least in his mind) duelists hope to defeat something like the legendary Chaos Gods?

"Daddy's coming Princess!" Rikuo slammed his claws against the crystal over and over again, but nothing could break the surface. Nothing.


"Let the party begin!" Chaos pointed at Eri. "Chaos Emperor Dragon, attack Ryu Kokki now! Apocalypse Burst!" The dragon snarled and released a wave of prismatic fire that hurtled towards Eri's field.

To be continued…