Legends of the Demon Duelist Rival Schools Arc

by Wolf General

Third arc of Legends of the Demon Duelist. The Duelist Academy and North School. Two places of learning that focus on their students learning the game of Duel Monsters. Not everything is as it seems though. Can Ichigo figure out how to defeat Vincent

2. First Encounter

Disclaimer: No I do not own Yugioh.

Legends of the Demon Duelist-Rival School Arc

Chapter 2: First Encounter

"5001, 5002, 5003, 5004, 5005!" Ichigo felt like he was on fire, but he knew that no matter what he did he couldn't let himself get any weaker.

"Hey Ichigo, I brought you some…" Eri stepped into the room, turned bright red, and then spun away. "Would you put some clothing on please?"

"Why?" Ichigo finished his 5010th push-up and hopped up onto his feet. "I need to keep my strength up."

"Do you have to do it with no shirt on?" Eri growled and closed her eyes. She hurled the bento she had brought for him at his head and turned to look at the door.

Ichigo caught it without even looking and hurled it onto the hospital bed. "I'm still getting used to having one arm. Sweat-soaked cloth would be a hindrance." He snapped his arm out a couple of times. "What's the matter with me not wearing a shirt anyway?"

"Gods you're an idiot!" Eri stomped out and slammed the door behind her.

Ichigo shrugged and returned to his push-ups. "5011, 5012, 5013…."

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"10349, 10350, 10351…" Adriel felt his muscles burn. ("I will not surrender to pain! My vow is to defeat Pilkington, and to do that I must overcome my physical weakness. The Dark Halo makes him nearly a god, and to surpass him I must defeat the limitations that bind me to this world.")

He'd been exercising for ten hours straight, and at the current rate he was probably going to surpass the 20000 push-up mark in the next two hours or so.

The sound of clapping brought him out of his exercise. "That's pretty impressive."

Adriel looked over to see a boy about the same age as him sitting on a rock. He had dark red hair and was wearing oddly dark-colored clothing. "Can I help you with something?"

"Why certainly you can!" The boy hopped off of the rock. "My name is Rudy, and I'm here to challenge you to a little duel. Accept?"

Adriel frowned and stood up. "Fine. I suppose you might be worth my time." He reached over to his backpack and pulled out his duel disk.

Rudy- 4000

Adriel- 4000

Rudy held up his arm, which had a strange circular version of the normal duel disk on it. "I'll begin this duel by playing a magic card from my deck."

Adriel just had finished putting his duel disk on when he heard this. "A magic card from your deck?"

"That's right. It's called Ultimate Ante." The circular disk hummed and Adriel's duel disk made a curious whirring noise. "Now I have upped the stakes of this duel. Whoever loses will have their deck destroyed by their duel disk."

"What?" Adriel started to step forwards, his fist lined up to remove this fool human's head.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you. Ultimate Ante will activate if you move farther or closer than 10 to 15 feet from me. So run or fight, you'll be losing every card in your precious deck." Rudy smirked and drew. "Now then, let the games begin!"

Adriel ground his teeth and growled from low in his throat. "Why you…"

Rudy placed a card onto his disk. "I'll just set one card face-down and end my turn."

"I hope that deck doesn't mean much to you." Adriel drew. "I summon Masked Dragon (1400/1100) in attack mode!" A red and white dragon appeared on his field. "Attack his face-down monster now! Dragon's Fireball!" The dragon spat out a ball of fire that hit the set card and was deflected skywards. "What?"

"You attacked my Golem Sentry (800/1800) and that was a big mistake. Not only was your attack wasted, but you just lost 400 life points." Rudy smirked as a stone monster that resembled a door appeared on the field.

Rudy- 4000

Adriel- 3600

Adriel growled and slid a card into his disk. "I set a card face-down and end my turn."

Rudy drew. "The effect of Golem Sentry lets me flip it face-down once per turn." The stone door disappeared and was replaced by a horizontal brown-backed card. "And I also set a monster in defense mode and one card face-down on the field. End turn."

Adriel drew. "It's my turn now!" ("His Golem Sentry will send one monster on the field back to my hand when it is flip summoned.") He couldn't allow that to happen. Looking at his hand, the half dragon demon smirked and opened his field magic card slot. "Activate Dragon's Haven!" All around them huge piles of treasure exploded out of the ground. In this place, all battle damage from Dragon combat will be zero! Now I summon another Masked Dragon!" Another white and red dragon appeared on the field. "Now I attack your two monsters with my dragons! Dragon's Flame!" Both dragons released blasts of flames that slammed into the two set monsters. Both flipped up. One was the Golem Sentry, but the other was a green-skinned man in a martial artist's uniform. "Because of Dragon's Haven, all damage to me is zero."

"Perhaps so…" Rudy snickered. "But my Legendary Jujitsu Master (1300/1800) sends any monster that battles with it while it is in defense mode back to the owner's hand." One of the two Masked Dragons disappeared.

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

Rudy drew. "You're not as good as I thought. I play the magic card Smashing Ground! This will destroy the highest defense monster on your field!" A fissure appeared in the earth and sucked the dragon out of sight. "Now I switch my two monsters into attack mode and attack your life points directly!" Both of his monsters stood up and charged.

"Reveal Dragon's Spirit!" A phantom version of the Masked Dragon appeared on the field and snapped its wings out, stopping both attackers cold. "This trap activates during a turn that a dragon monster on my field has been destroyed. All life point damage to me is zero for this turn!"

Rudy grimaced and pointed at his Golem Sentry. It shimmered and turned back into a set card. "End turn."

Adriel drew. ("I will not lose to you. Ichigo Pilkington would not lose to one such as you, and neither will I.") He slid a card into his disk. "I set a card face-down and summon Masked Dragon in attack mode!" The red and white dragon reappeared on the field. "Attack the Legendary Jujitsu Master now!"

Rudy pointed at his set card. "It's not that easy to take me down! I reveal Book of Moon. This quickplay magic card forces your monster into face-down defense mode." The Masked Dragon shimmered and changed into a set card.

Adriel closed his eyes. "End turn for now."

Rudy drew. "I flip up Golem Sentry!" The stone door appeared on the field. "When flip summoned I send one monster on your field back to your hand!" The Masked Dragon disappeared. "Now it's over! Both of my monsters attack you directly!" Both monsters charged forwards and slammed into Adriel, sending him sliding backwards a couple of feet. "Move back much farther and Ultimate Ante will take your whole deck with it."

Rudy- 4000

Adriel- 1500

Adriel growled and clutched at his chest. He was already tired from his exercise, and now this didn't make it any better on his body. ("But I will surpass my limitations!")

Rudy pointed at his Golem Sentry. "I switch my monster into face-down defense and end my turn." The stone door disappeared and was replaced by a set card.

Adriel snapped the top card off of his deck. "Defense will not repel me! Reveal Call of the Haunted! This trap card will revive one monster from my graveyard!" His graveyard Masked Dragon reappeared on the field. "Also, I summon another Masked Dragon!" Both of his new dragons roared and one of them spat a blast of flame that slammed into the Legendary Jujitsu Master and blew it apart. The other one did the same to the set card, flipping up the Golem Sentry. "End turn."

Rudy- 3900

Adriel- 1500

Rudy drew. "I was warned about your rush attacks, but I have the necessary method to finish you off in my hand already! I send Magnet Warriors Alpha, (1400/1700) Beta, (1700/1600) and Gamma (1500/1800) to the graveyard to special summon Valkyrion the Magnet Warrior!" (3500/3850) A huge robot made up of three different colored pieces appeared on the field.

"Valkyrion the Magnet Warrior?" Adriel threw up his hands just in time to watch one of his Masked Dragons get cut in half. "But Dragon's Haven negates the damage to my life points! And when sent to the graveyard, I can special summon one dragon monster from my deck with 1500 or less attack points to the field! Go Pitch Dark Dragon!" (900/600) A black dragon appeared on his field in a crouching position.

"I'm not done yet." Rudy slid a card into his disk. "I play the continuous magic card Magnetic Breakdown. When Valkyrion would be destroyed I send it to the graveyard and special summon its three pieces to the field in defense mode. Also, I set one card face-down and end my turn."

Adriel looked down at his deck. "I draw!" He looked at the drawn card and frowned. "I switch Masked Dragon into defense mode and…."

"And then it switches right back! Reveal Staunch Defender!" Rudy smirked as the Masked Dragon and Pitch Dark Dragon both stood up. "This trap activates during your battle phase. It forces all of your monsters to attack on creature on my field!" Both Dragons screeched in pain as Valkyrion launched forwards and slashed them both apart.

"When destroyed, I special summon another Masked Dragon through the effect of Masked Dragon!" The red and white dragon appeared on his field, and then howled as it was forced to fight Valkyrion. It only got to taste living for a moment, and then it was destroyed as well. "And that Masked Dragon lets me special summon Twin-Headed Behemoth!" (1500/1200) A two-headed dragon appeared on the field and was slashed apart. "And when destroyed it reforms at 1000 attack and defense!" It reappeared with one head this time, and was immediately destroyed. "I set one card face-down and end my turn."

Rudy drew. "What in the hell was that all about?" He looked at the drawn card and then pointed at Adriel. "Die!" Valkyrion stood completely still. "I said die!"

"It heard you, but there's nothing it can do to help you in this situation. You see, I flipped up Negate Attack. This trap card lets me negate your attack and end your battle phase." Adriel took a deep breath. "So are you done for the turn?"

Rudy nodded. "End turn."

Adriel looked down at his deck. ("I have no cards left that can take down his Valkyrion. It has too many attack points…") He felt a pulse from his deck and looked down at it. ("Jin's Destructive Storm? It cannot deal enough damage to end this turn.") His deck pulsed again. ("So be it. Show me your power!") "It's my turn! Draw!" He looked at the drawn card and his eyes widened. "It's over."

"What?" Rudy frowned and pointed at his life point counter. "I have 3900 life points remaining!"

"And I'll rip every single one away from you right now!" He slapped the drawn card onto his disk and a huge storm of wind exploded onto his field. "Come out now, Cyclone Dragon!" (1500/1200) The wind formed into a dragon-like shape. "Reverse card open! Dragon's Explosion! This continuous trap card lets me discard dragons from my hand to do one of two things. Either I destroy a monster on the field with attack equal to or less than that of the discarded dragon…or I take the level stars of that monster, add one, and then deal you 100 points of damage times that number!"

Rudy's eyes widened. "Damn it…but there's nothing that can overcome the attack of Valkyrion."

"So what? I'm not using that effect." Adriel held up his three remaining cards. "Drill Dragon, (2800/1000) Grand Emperor Dragon, (2000/2500) and Tyrant Dragon (2900/2500) equals 2600 life points of damage!" His face-up card released a blast of fire that swallowed up Rudy for a few moments.

Rudy- 1300

Adriel- 1500

Rudy coughed a couple of times and brushed the smoke away from his body. "You miscalculated…because I'll finish you off now."

"I'll be doing the finishing here! Cyclone Dragon, attack Valkyrion the Magnet Warrior now!" The wind dragon released a spinning swirl of wind that the magnet warrior deflected with its sword. Letting out one screech of pain the Cyclone Dragon was blown apart by its effect. "Cyclone Dragon's special ability activates now! When this monster is destroyed all magic and trap cards in play are destroyed! Then you take 500 life points of damage for each destroyed card!" A huge blast of wind blew apart Dragon's Haven, Dragon's Explosion, and Magnetic Breakdown.

Rudy- 0

Adriel- 1500

Rudy stared down at his disk as it made a sucking noise and his deck was pulled into it. A few seconds later a small storm of cardboard bits were shot out of the device. "My deck…" His eyes fell upon Adriel. "You!"

Adriel shuffled his deck and removed his duel disk from his arm. "You're the one who activated that stupid card in the first place. Don't blame me for your misfortune." He barely realized that Rudy was moving until he felt a fist drive across his face and send him crashing to the ground. The stress of the duel and the exhaustion from his workout caught up to him in this moment, and now he felt pain. ("No! I mustn't succumb to such mortal weaknesses!") He slowly tried to stand, only to get kicked in the ribs and sent to the ground again.

"They said for me to disable you before the meet, but they never really specified the method I was supposed to use!" Rudy kicked again and heard a satisfying crunch. "I was just going to make things easy on you by destroying your deck, but you just had to win didn't you? Now you get to taste the power of a student of North School in combat!"

("This guy is from North School?") Adriel coughed up a few drops of blood as he felt another rib give slightly to a kick. ("A student of North School….I cannot lose to a student of this school! I am Obelisk Blue and I will not be overcome by anyone!") Adriel caught the next kick and tugged sharply, sending Rudy to the ground. "I will not lose to you!" The half dragon demon leapt to his feet and kicked Rudy in the ribs, sending him sliding along the ground until he finally hit a tree twenty feet away from where he started.

Gasping in pain, Rudy stumbled to his feet. "How did you…."

Adriel cracked his knuckles. "Let me help you forget about the pain of losing your deck."

Rudy stood up slowly, lifting his hands in a kickboxing stance. "I'll tear you apart, weakling."

Adriel slid his legs back….and then charged. "I'll rip you apart!" His fists came in like a raging storm. "Rage of Typherious!" The storm warped slightly and started to glow green.

"What in the…" Rudy felt his defenses stop the first few hits, but the next 400 or so landed all across his front. Giving out one weak cry of pain, he stumbled backwards. "How did you…."

"The demon martial arts….are not something to be trifled with." Adriel crackled his knuckles again.

Rudy growled angrily and charged in. "Take this!" His fist came in with remarkable speed and connected with Adriel's cheek. The half dragon demon's head snapped back. "HAH! You're not that tough." His fist started to withdraw back into his stance…

"Actually…" Adriel's head snapped back into place and he reared back his right fist, which was glowing a light blue color. "…I needed an opening in your defenses for this one to hit! Crystallis Pillar!" He drove his fist into Rudy's stomach, and then the energy exploded outwards like a gush of water.

Rudy flew backwards through the air, crashing through tree after tree. Finally he came to a stop when he slammed right into a rock. Sliding to the ground, he let out a whimper and then passed out.

Adriel fell to his knees and clutched at his ribs. "I'll be taking you…into the…Principal…." He fell flat to his face. "Right after I take a nap…."

To be continued…

To Bobbomp: Donnie Z huh? You must be on pretty good terms with the king of thieves.

To Anime Albino: He wasn't that bad. He just drew nearly nothing by monsters.

To Sinister: Not a clue. I've got a lot of school things to worry about at the moment, so for now I really only have time to focus on writing for one arc.

To Seth: How do you use having one arm to your advantage?

To Adriel: Naw, never mind. Looking back on the writing, I see that while I could salvage it would take too much of my already scarce time.

To Master of Exodia: Exodia isn't a very exciting deck type to normally play out. I'll consider it, but honestly it doesn't sound all that interesting. No offense to your real life deck meant though.

To White Wolf: Your reasoning is kind of scary in that respect.

To Seeker of the Soul: Bah! Screw it, I have this story to keep me occupied. And yes, three cheers for Griff.

To The Obsessive Zero Fan: You'll see how he handles it very soon.

To Esyphelon: I have your character in my files, but honestly I don't think the reading public is going to want to see another Chaos deck.

To Star AJT: Oooooo…..an armor look-alike deck. That has caught my interest, though the armor deck concept makes me cringe for some reason. Another character in the candidate files.

To gohan: The answer is he can't.

To Nanashi Minimino: Wow…I don't think I possess the influence to cause the destruction of this website. Besides, I wouldn't want to do that to the other fanfiction writers anyway.

To falcon demon general: I greatly appreciate how long you have been with me in my writing, but I make no promise as to whether or not I'll be able to use a Guardian deck. Tekken (from DA Arc) has that department filled at the moment.

To G.O.T. Nick: I knew I'd get a rise out of you. I am such an evil man. Oh yes….

To GryphinWyrm: Well….that is a possibility. Tell Eli to send in a character too, and as for the Stone Warriors…I'll try it if you give me a card list.

To Isumo: Maybe. Your guy's deck is nearly a dead ringer for my real life machine deck.

To Lance Murdock: Like Miroku? If I do use him, he may not approach Eri. No joking on that matter. I'm dead serious.

To queenofgames90: An all female card deck? Brilliant! That goes into the candidate files!

To Aremen: I'll see if I can use your character. Keep in mind that a good friend of mine submitted a character that uses a very similar deck strategy.

To Behemoth Celestia: No offense, but my brain hurts right now. That's why I don't handle original cards too well. He went into the candidate folder, because maybe I'm just being stupid right now.

To Hogwarts-Knight: I just need the character, deck type, and that's about it.

To Dais: A wind/bird deck? Brilliant! Another candidate!

To Rex: Who says he will get his arm back?