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Legends of the Demon Duelist-Rival School Arc
Chapter 15: Cat Fight
The elevator opened to a large torch-lined stone chamber. In the center of the large room there was a stone platform arena. And standing in the middle of it was Nevan, looking the same as she had before. Excluding of course he new demon parts. "I've been waiting for you. This time I'll simply kill you."
Eri stepped forwards slowly, he hands trembling. ("Can I do this…")
Ichigo placed a hand on Eri's shoulder. "She's a fake. You're the true cold-hearted bitch."
"Thanks, ass." Eri glared back at him…and then realized that he was smiling. ("He thinks this is all fun and games….")
Ichigo patted her on the shoulder again and held a card out to her. "A little good luck token."
Eri held the card up…and blinked at it. "It's blank?"
"It was Cyber Shadow-Moonblade." Ichigo tapped the side of his forehead. "If our Seals are in tune…then you should be able to use it well."
Eri slid the card into her deck and looked up at Nevan.
Nevan smirked and motioned with her hand for Eri to come. "Come here…and meet your maker dog."
Eri stepped onto the arena and took her place. "Let's begin. I want my demon blood back."
Nevan- 4000
Eri- 4000
Nevan snapped her fingers. "It's time for the darkness to fall!" All around them the light was sucked out of the room as a cloud of blackness fell over the arena.
Eri shivered as cold ran down her legs. ("The air is so heavy…")
Nevan drew. "I'll begin at a slow pace, since this is the first time you've ever experienced a darkness game as a human." She placed a card onto her disk. "Just a monster in defense mode and that is it. End turn."
Eri drew slowly, a cold weight in her stomach. ("Fear…why must I experience fear?") "I place a monster face-down and end my turn."
Nevan drew. "I'll play a magic card. Tribute to the Doomed lets me discard one card from my hand to destroy a monster in play." Mummy wrappings flew out of the ground and swallowed Eri's set monster. "And now that you are defenseless….I attack! Go Master Kyonshee!" (1700/1000) An undead monk with an ofuda over its face appeared on the field. "Now I reveal my face-down Spirit Reaper!" Her face-down card shimmered up and turned into a purple-robed reaper. (300/200) "Direct attack!" Kyonshee flipped through the air and punched Eri right in the gut.
The ex-demoness fell to her knees and gasped in pain, clutching at her now badly bruised gut.
Nevan- 4000
Eri- 2300
"Now I attack you directly with Spirit Reaper!" The reaper slashed its scythe across Eri's chest, blood spraying out of the huge wound left in her. "And when my reaper damages you lose a random card from your hand!" One card from Eri's hand disappeared. "End turn."
Nevan- 4000
Eri- 2000
Eri cried out in pain, and somehow found the strength to draw. "I'm…not beaten yet!" She stumbled to her feet, blood staining the lower part of her shirt. "I play the continuous magic card Lurking Shadow! This card, while in play, takes any cards that are discarded from my hand and returns them to my hand after being discarded! Also, I play Soul Exchange!" Master Kyonshee disappeared. "I sacrifice Master Kyonshee to set one monster face-down on the field. End turn."
Nevan drew. "This is your end already! I play another Tribute to the Doomed!" She discarded another hand card and mummy wrapping swallowed up Eri's set monster. "Then I sacrifice Spirit Reaper to summon Vampire Lord!" (2000/1500) The reaper disappeared and was replaced by a pale humanoid who bowed slightly to its prey. "Direct attack!"
Eri grabbed a card that was spat out of her graveyard. "Necromancy Golem (2000/2100) has a special ability that can only be activated from the graveyard! When I use it your attack is negated and your monster destroyed!" She slid the card into her skirt pocket, meaning that it was removed from play. Meanwhile the Vampire Lord exploded into dust.
Nevan slid a card into her duel disk. "I set one card face-down and end my turn."
Eri drew. "First I activate Heavy Storm!" A blast of wind shattered her magic card and Nevan's set card. "Then I set one monster card face-down and end my turn."
Nevan drew. "During my standby phase Vampire Lord returns!" The pale humanoid shimmered back onto the field. "Attack the set monster now!" It launched forwards and snapped its cape over the set monster card. The card fluttered apart into dust. "End turn."
Eri drew. "I set a monster face-down. End turn." She winced as pain spiked through her chest.
Nevan drew. "Vampire Lord attacks!" The undead lord waved its hand over the set card, which exploded into dust.
Eri slid the card into her graveyard. "Sanctified Soul (100/100) activates its ability when sent to the graveyard! Now we both draw until we are holding six cards in our hand!" She drew five cards and Nevan drew four.
Nevan's eyes ran over her new hand and she sneered. "You might recognize my next card. I activate Situational Despair!" The card appeared on her field and Eri gulped. "During your turn if you do not attack then I draw one card from my deck for every monster you have in play. Also, I set one card face-down and a monster face-down. End turn."
Eri drew slowly, her eyes narrowed. "You think to use my own strategy against me?" She placed a card onto her disk. "I set a monster face-down and end my turn."
Nevan drew. "Now I draw…"
"Hold it!" A blast of purple energy flew out of a card in Eri's hand and hit Situational Despair, blowing it apart. "I discard Fear of Greed (250/350) from my hand to the graveyard to negate an effect that would let you draw cards and destroy the card that is causing this effect."
Nevan growled and bared her fangs. "Vampire Lord, show her the error of her ways!" The undead lord lifted its hand and the face-down exploded.
Eri shuffled the card into her deck. "Bone Sorcerer (450/600) has a special ability that lets me shuffle it into my deck when it is destroyed as a result of battle. Then I draw cards off of my deck until I come to a monster. That monster is special summoned to my field, but it cannot attack as long as it is in play." She picked up the top card of her deck and threw it down. "Go Bone Grunt!" (1200/200) A bone-armored warrior appeared on the field in a crouching position.
Nevan snarled louder. "End turn!"
Eri drew. "I play Dark Magic Scrying! Now I shuffle my hand into my deck and draw magic cards until I have the same number!" She shuffled her hand into her deck and drew until she had five magic cards in hand. "Now I activate the magic card Vase of Charity!" A silver ornate vase appeared on her field. "This card lets me draw four cards and then I must discard two!" She snapped four cards off of her deck and then discarded two from her hand. "Now go Mystical Space Typhoon!" A blast of wind shattered Nevan's set card.
The current demoness clenched her fist angrily. "You little insect…"
Eri slid a card into her disk. "I activate Tribe Persecution! This card lets me name a monster type in play. All monsters of that type will now be destroyed! Undead!" Both Bone Grunt and Vampire Lord exploded into dust. "And when Bone Grunt is destroyed I take a Bone Sorcerer from my deck and add it to my hand." She replaced the card she had just used with her new one. "Now to make sure that your monster doesn't come back! I activate Grave Shield!" A bone padlock appeared over Nevan's graveyard. "This card prevents you activating cards from your graveyard at the cost of 300 life points to me each turn. I also set a card face-down and one monster face-down. End turn."
Nevan drew. "Fine, so what if I can't use Vampire Lord? I still have this…" She held up a card. "Apocalypse Comes! This magic card lets me special summon all zombies in my hand to the field, though their effects are now sealed! Come out now Despair From the Dark, Dark Dust Spirit, and Regenerating Mummy!" (2800/3000) (2200/1800) (1800/1500) The first monster was so huge that the only thing that could be seen was its hands. Second was a mottled corpse covered in spikes and radiating decay. Third was a mummy which was surrounded by an aura of blue energy.
"Finally…I play the continuous magic card Trap Stasis. As long as this card is in play whenever a trap card activates it freezes on the field, leaving its effect trapped it a permanent state of inactivation."
Eri glared. That meant her traps were useless.
Nevan pointed at the set monster. "Regenerating Mummy!" The smallest undead monster floated across the field and slammed its fist through the set card, blowing it instantly apart.
Eri held up Bone Sorcerer and shuffled it into her deck. Three cards later she threw another Bone Sorcerer.
Nevan pointed at it. "Dark Dust Spirit!" The next undead slashed through the spellcaster.
Eri repeated the process and got Bone Sorcerer once more.
Nevan trembled in complete rage. "Damn you! Go Despair from the Dark!" The huge claw dropped onto the monster and blew it apart.
Eri shuffled the card in again and drew it from the top, placing it down.
Nevan took a deep breath. "You can't escape forever. End turn."
Nevan- 4000
Eri- 1700
Eri slowly drew. "I summon Tribute Bird!" (700/1400) A bird statue made of gold and silver appeared on the field. "This monster is a level three, but by discarding a card from my hand I can double its level stars." She slid a card from her hand into the graveyard. "So now's it a six! Activate Death Ritual of Lithmus!" A huge black-grey spire lifted into the air. "This card requires that I sacrifice eight level stars of monsters! So I give up Tribute Bird and Bone Sorcerer!" Both monsters disappeared. "Come out now, Swordsman of Death Lithmus!" (0/0) "Reveal face-down card, Dark Spirit of the Silent!" Her card flipped up and froze in place. "Because there is a trap card face-up on the field Lithmus now has 3000 attack and defense points!" (3000/3000) The white-clothed swordsman drew its sword and leapt forward, slashing through the Despair from the Dark. "End turn!"
Nevan- 3800
Eri- 1700
Nevan drew. "This is too perfect. I activate the magic card Clean Slate. Now I name a card type and all face-up cards of that type are destroyed. Trap." The frozen Dark Spirit of the Silent trap card shattered. "I cannot attack during the turn that my card is activated, but it doesn't matter. Now Lithmus has no attack points." (0/0)
Eri dropped to her knees. There wasn't a single card in her deck that possessed the power to turn this around now. ("What could Luna or Lumina do for me…I don't have an answer.")
"That's been your problem since day one. You never had a deck. All you had was a random gathering of cards with no purpose. Prepare to lose." Nevan stepped forward and cracked her knuckles. "Erika Amero…your blood is better with me. So let me bury you here, and then you can avoid ever showing your failure to your father." She sneered. "He'd probably kill you if he found out how you had lost that which he prides so much."
Eri closed her eyes, the pain from her previous blows overwhelming. ("Could she be right? Is that all I am…to father? To myself? Nothing more than a demon…nothing more than blood. And without that blood…") Tears started to form at the corners of her eyes. ("I'm nothing…")
"HAAA!" Eri snapped her foot out, only to have Rikuo casually catch it and fling her aside.
"You're telegraphing every single move to me." The wolf demon turned to face her, his ki not showing the slightest bit of sweat. "Perhaps this is too hard for you?"
"NO!" Eri leapt up, her clothing stuck to her from all of the sweat she had expelled.
Crying out in pain, Eri dropped to her butt and clutched at her stomach. "Damn it…"
Rikuo rolled his eyes and tapped his foot against the hardwood floor of the room. "Would you like me to go easier on you?"
Eri's only response was to snarl and leap at him…and his response was to calmly slam his fist right into her stomach again.
"I am…" Eri tried to stand up. She tried to reinforce what was left of her pride. But in the end pain won out, and she fell to her knees again.
"You are nothing. You are nothing to anyone, your father especially." Nevan unhooked her whip from her side and cracked it a couple of times. "You are nothing to me. Nothing more than the loser I got my new demon blood from. Don't worry, I'll put it to good use though, unlike you."
"Ah! This is the life!" Rikuo Amero stretched out across the beach chair and looked out at the ocean. "I never knew that Hawaii was such a nice place." He readjusted his sunglasses and yawned.
After he had defeated Rykiel and regained his age, the wolf demon had taken a much needed vacation. And now he was enjoying the warmth of the sun on his bare skin.
("I wonder what Eri is doing right now.") Stretching again, Rikuo glanced to his side and made sure his deck box was right on the stand next to him. "I won't let you out of my sight again." He closed his eyes….and slowly drifted into sleep.
Eri tried to stand up again, only to crash to the ground because of the burning pain in her ribs. "I…."
Nevan cracked the whip once more. "You are nothing to me. Stupid foolish bitch." The new demoness motioned to Lithmus, who stood kneeling on the field. "You and that monster have a lot in common actually. He needs a trap in play to be a threat, just like you need your demon blood in your body to be a threat to me. And just like him I'll be sending you to the graveyard very shortly."
Eri clenched her fist tighter. "I…"
While Rikuo snoozed, a single mote of light came out of his deck box and blew away like a rocket.
"I…am….Erika…Amero…" Eri stood up, her eyes locked onto Nevan's.
"What?" Nevan frowned. "Stay down…"
"I am…the night…" She got to her knees.
"I said stay down!"
"I am the hunter…" She stood up slowly.
Nevan snapped the whip out, leaving a bloody gash across Eri's cheek. "STAY DOWN, HUMAN!"
"I am more than blood. I am more than a demon." Eri stood up fully. "I am love…anger…fear…envy…happiness…." She placed her hand on the top card of her deck. "…truth…lies….friendship…rival…"
Nevan growled deeper. "You're nothing! I am the true demoness!"
"No." Eri narrowed her eyes. "I am!" She pulled with every remaining ounce of her strength, the card seeming to cling for a few moments before coming free. Eri held the card up to her right eye…
Nevan stepped back, her demon senses detecting something….it was like a power so strong that she could barely realize it was approaching.
"This is…" Eri held the card out. "Hope of Faith!" Light slammed down onto the field, blowing away the darkness and leaving both duelists standing in the arena again.
Ichigo blinked in surprise. "The darkness game is gone?"
"Hope…of Faith…" Nevan stumbled backwards.
Eri held her hand out at Lithmus. "This card requires that I sacrifice one monster from my field!" The Swordsman blew apart into dust. A pillar of red light fell down onto the field, and then it split into a white column and a black column. From within both columns a lone form lowered onto the field.
The first form revealed was a humanoid in black armor. It held a sword at its side and as light filtered onto its face, Eri gasped in surprise. "I am Yami Knight!" (6000/0) It struck a pose and held its sword out in front of it.
"Father…" Eri stared at Yami Knight…
The second form that lowered onto the field was a knight it white armor. In one hand it held a large golden shield. "I am Hikari Knight!" (0/6000) It struck a pose alongside the other, and then they both went back to back and pointed at Nevan. "Prepare to lose!" They yelled in unison.
"Dad?" Ichigo stared at Hikari Knight.
"6000 attack points?" Nevan gasped. Pain ran through her body as she felt her ears and eyes change back to normal.
Yami Knight glanced back at Eri. "Daughter of the worthy Rikuo Amero…." He and his brother bowed their heads.
Eri, her demon blood restored, pointed at Dark Spirit of the Silent. "Yami Knight, attack with Blade of Darkness!"
The zombie actually tried to defend itself right before it was cut in half, the pieces fading into dust.
Nevan- 0
Eri- 1400
Nevan dropped to her knees. "I lost…" She slammed her fists into the stone floor.
Eri held up the now blank card. She tossed it to Ichigo, right as an elevator rose up from the center of the arena. "That's your ride. Go get him Pilkington."
Ichigo caught the card and inserted it into his disk. "Don't worry, I will." He nodded to Hikari and Yami Knight right before he stepped into the elevator and descended into darkness.
To be continued…
To Adriel: It might be. It might just be.
To Seeker of the Soul: That's a shame. I personally think that was a cool arc.
To G.O.T. Nick: OO Huh? Your logic in the second sentence confuses me.
To Erestor: You can assume he stayed behind with the rest of them.
To Neo Arkadi: They're not dueling at North School. They're dueling at the Asylum. When the meet is held both schools meet in neutral territory.
To Bobbomp: I suppose you think right.
To Anime Albino: Yup, I was.
To Raine: I wasn't going to use your character because you currently are writing a story based in my universe with that same character in it. I won't step on anyone's toes by making their characters do things that they didn't want to have happen.
To Dais: Nice one.