Team Zero: Crystals

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Chapter 3: Destiny Fights Pt. 1

Falling increasingly faster, Reku felt sick. It seemed to him that he was falling down a tube. Finally his journey ended. He came smashing down on the side of a mountain. Surprisingly, he wasn't hurt in the fall. He still felt a little sick to his stomach.

Pushing his head up he looked around. No one was here. He was alone on this mountain, Ronin and Akina were no where to be found. He slowly got up and brushed himself off. Cracking his joints a few times before he decided to head up the mountain.

He shielded his eyes from the sun, which was strange because before he fell through that portal it was like 11 o'clock at night.

After walking for some time, Reku noticed a cave up ahead on the mountain side. Aiming for it, he made it up the mountain and stood in the cave door. Looking inside, it looked like any ordinary cave: dark, damp, full of rocks. Slowly Reku walked into the cave.

He hadn't realized how hot it was outside until he stepped into the dark cave. It felt like a relief even though he hadn't felt it be so hot outside.

Walking inside, the cave was beautiful. It got brighter the farther he went inside. Crystals hung everywhere and casted weird reflections of the walls. Walking farther he came to a long stone bridge. It extended past a large pool of lava. He could barley see the other end but he could tell that there was another platform at the other end. He was going to start walking until he heard a noise.

Siting in a little cave that sat by the stone walkway was something. It was big and red in color. Reku walked over to it to see what it was. It appeared to be a creature but what kind, Reku didn't know. Reaching out, Reku touched it. It's skin was ice cold and really rough.

Instantly after touching it, three large off center eyes opened. Five mouths opened and roared at Reku who jumped back. This creature stood up on its three legs and roared again. It had no arms of any sort but arms were the least of Reku's worries. The creature started to take chase. Reku had no choice but to take off running down the stone bridge.

"What the hell is this thing!" Reku screamed as he legs pushed faster down the stone bridge. Glancing back over his shoulder, he could see that the three legged creature could run pretty fast and was right on his ass. Despite being about three times bigger than Reku, the creature could move at immense speeds.

Reku suddenly heard someone chanting. He didn't understand the words that were begin chanted but suddenly a red beam of light shout down from the sky and roasted the beast. The resulting shock wave pushed Reku farther down the bridge. He landed on his face. A few seconds past until Reku heard a voice.

"Get up boy." A gruff voice said. Reku lifted his head to see a man dressed in red robes. He was wearing a weird medallion around his neck that had a weird symbol carved into it. A small clear rock was embedded into the medallion. Inside the rock it appeared to be flowing lava.

"Who, are you?" Reku said as he stood up.

Seeing the emerald green duel disk the man smiled. "Well, I am here to test you. I am known as the Sage of Ruby." In a flash of light an identical duel disk appeared on the sages arm. The sage pulled out the dueling deck, which had to be made of 400 cards or more, and held them face out to Reku.

"Wow!" Reku was astonished, the card faces were completely blank. "There is nothing on them!"

"I know, they are called mirror cards." The cards started glowing. "To test you, we see if you can get past your worst enemy."

"Who is my worst enemy?" Reku's deck started to glow and shoots of lightning came off. The lighting bolts collided with the mirror cards which glowed with even more ferocity.

"You own deck!" The huge pile magically shrunk into the same exact deck size as Reku's "I have a perfect copy of your deck, and knowledge on how to use it. We shall duel for possession of the Ruby Crystal."

"Ruby Crystal?" Reku was really confused at this point.

"Yes, the Ruby Crystal. Get over it for now, you probity won't win anyway so let's duel!" Picking up the medallion from around his neck he threw it into the middle of the arena. "The winner will retrieve the medallion."

Reku's duel disk snapped into place. Both he and the sage shuffled their identical decks and slipped them back into their respective deck slots.

Reku-4000 LP
Ruby Sage-4000 LP

"Me first." Ruby Sage said as he pulled six cards off his deck. "Let's see, I will summon your Flame Ninja (1500/1200) in attack mode. A ninja covered in red and black clothing appeared on the field. Right beside it in a flash of light a red and black armored samurai appeared. "And as you know when Flare Ninja is on the field, I get to summon Flare Samurai (1500/1200) to the field from my deck or hand." Ruby Sage said as he shuffled his deck and slipped it back into the slot. "Your move."

"Yea," Reku pulled six cards off his deck. "Well, well, well. I summon my Flare Samurai in attack mode!" An identical armored samurai appeared on Reku's field. Beside it the Flare Ninja appeared as Reku slapped down another card from his hand. "Attack both of your opposites!" Reku called out his command and pointed to the identical monsters. Flying across the field the monster attacked their counterparts. In a flash of light, all four monster were no more.

"Good move, you did good. Anything else?"

"Yes there is, I play Holy Fire! And I end my turn. Holy Fire activates now. Because I have no monsters on my field I get to pull a four star Pyro and Fire monster from my deck. Come forth Warrior of the White Flame (2000/0)!" An armored warrior wielding a double bladed sword with white fire licking off of it appeared on Reku's field.

"Fine," Pulling the top card off of his deck, Ruby Sage didn't even seem to mind. Pulling a card out of his hand he slid it into the duel disk. "I play Soul Release! I release both sets of the Flare Ninja's and Samurais." With that said both he and Reku pulled the monsters out of their graveyards and slid them into the removed from play slot. "Next come Gren Maju Da Eiza (?)" The red and green snake creature appeared on the Ruby Sages field (1600/1600). "Next comes your field magic card, Molten Destruction! Gren Maju gain's power! (Gren Maju Da Eiza 2100/1200)(Warrior of the White Flame 2500/0)"

"You do know that you helped my monster as well?" Reku said lifting an eyebrow.

"Oh yes, I did know. We have identical decks." Ruby Sage pulled another card out of his hand and slid it into the duel disk. "It makes no sense for you to put a card in that didn't help you. Oh but you did include Hammer Shot. It destroys you Warrior."

Out of the sky, a large wooden mallet appeared. At break neck speeds it raced towards the ground smashing the Warrior of the White Flame flat.

"Now, Gren Maju. Direct Attack!" Flying across the field, the large demon snake creature slashed down on Reku's body.

Reku-1900 LP
Ruby Sage-4000 LP

"Now, I set one reverse card and let you go." The smugness in his voice made Reku shudder. He hated this guy. Not only was he using an identical deck to duel with, but he was winning. Yet at the same time, he respected him.

"Although, there is one way left on the field that I can use to destroy that thing." Eyeing his Holy Fire card he smiled remembering its second ability. Slowly he drew his next card. He frowned at what he saw. "For the ability of Holy Fire to work, I need a fire and pyro monster. This won't work." "All right I summon Battle Footballer (1000/2100)(1500/1700) in defense mode and place one reverse card. I am done." A large machine monster that was decked out in football padding appeared crouching down.

Eyeing his Holy Fire card he smiled remembering its second ability. Slowly he drew his next card. He frowned at what he saw. "All right I summon Battle Footballer (1000/2100)(1500/1700) in defense mode and place one reverse card. I am done." A large machine monster that was decked out in football padding appeared crouching down.

"Won't work." Ruby Sage smiled to himself. "I thought that this kid had it but I am kicking the holy shit out of him." Pulling the next card off the deck he slid it into his hand. "You've got power in this deck but yet you can't even beat your own strategies. Go Gren Maju attack the footballer!" In a swift movement the snake creature flew across the field and cut the footballer in half.

Getting the nod, Reku began to draw. Looking at the card he slid it into his duel disk in the magic/trap card zones. "I am done Ruby Sage. I get to summon my Burning Beast (1500/1000)(2000/600) in attack mode." A red rock beast appeared on Reku's field.

Pulling the card off the deck, the Ruby Sage slammed it down on the duel disk. "I summon UFO Turtle (1400/1200)(1900/800) in attack mode!" The green turtle appeared on the field with the UFO for it's shell. "Go Gren Maju, Finish this with claw attack!"

"Wrong, activate my trap Fire Wall! It will stop all attacks form non fire or non water monsters this turn!" The Ruby Sage smiled,

"So, both of these creatures are fire, that did you no good."

"Oh," Reku motioned to his other down card. "I think that Elemental Change will change that. It changes all face up monsters on your field to an attribute I specify. Let see, earth sounds good."

The snake creature came to a halt in front of a massive wall of fire.

"My move." Reku gave an evil smile as he pulled the top card off his deck. "Time to finish this!"

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Hey, Reku is locked in a battle with a sage. And why are they fighting over a crystal. I know but I am writing it.

To John: Chaos has many backup plans.

To Nanashi Minimino: Get some sleep. Only I am allowed to stay up all night.
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