Team Zero: Crystals
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Chapter 8: Rise first essence monster of Ruby
Panting, Reku looked at his hand. He didn't have much that could even work in a combo to take him down. He drew his next card and glanced over it. "Dekayak, he might help me if I use him right. I hope Alpino is right next to him." "I switch my warrior to defense mode (1500/500)." Turning the monster card on its side. "I also set one monster in defense mode. I am done with my turn."
"Pathetic, I wanted a duel form you." Drawing his next card, Black Lizard slipped it into his hand. "Attack the Warrior of White Flame my Blood Hunter!"
Shooting out a ray of light, Blood Hunter blew the warrior to shreds. The small pieces of the monster were sucked up by the vacuum side of the gun. (Blood Hunter 2300/1000)(Blood Black Lizard 2100/1000)
Reku-4000 LP
Black Lizard-4000 LP
"You having a hard time keeping up with all my monsters abilitys?" Black Lizard laughed as he pointed to the downed card. "Go my lizard pet, attack that monster."
Jumping across the field, the Blood Black Lizard came down on top of the face down card. In a flash of light, both duelist saw a machine decked out in football gear holding off the attack from the lizard.
"My defense was Battle Footballer (1000/2100). Just enough defense to stop your attack." Reku smiled weakly.
"Go then, beat me at my own game." Black Lizard boasted, seeing that Reku was having a hard time standing. "If you can."
Drawing a card, Reku slid it into his duel disk as a magic or trap. Next, pulling a card out of his hand, he place a monster on the duel disk. "Set one card and I summon Dekayak the Mech Warrior (1600/15000) in attack mode. Next, I turn my Battle Footballer to attack as well."
Shifting its position, the machine football player moved into attack mode as a large light blue monster with four mechanical arm and a circular crown of horns on it's head appeared next to it.
"End turn." Reku stumbled a bit but held himself up.
"Draw! I play a new magic card, Blood Lizard Fangs! It will up the attack of the Blood Black Lizard by an additional 500 attack (2600/1000)." Opening its mouth, the lizards fangs grew at an incredible speed to a much longer set. "Now, go Blood Hunter, attack the Footballer now! Blood Hunt!"
"Not so fast there buckaroo." The face down card flip up on Reku's field. Glowing, the card produced a large grey machine that had a hose type spray at the front. "Two Man Flamethrower! It combines my monsters into one creature with 500 extra attack points (3100/3600)."
The blast of light still flew towards the to monster holding up the giant flamethrower. Hitting it, it fizzled out as the flamethrower powered up for the counter attack. Shooting out a stream of fire, it melted the Blood Hunter instantly.
Reku-4000 LP
Black Lizard-3300 LP
Reku noticed that his opponent was laughing. Looking over, Black Lizard had his eyes shut and was indeed chuckling to himself.
"Whats..so funny?" Reku asked, almost hesitantly.
"Without Blood Hunter on the field, the Blood Black Lizard has no allegiance to anyone anymore. But thanks to the ability of the Connection Blood Tube he still keeps all the attack he gained. The only loss is the 400 from Blood Hunter not being on the field (2200/1000). I end my turn."
A large golden coin appeared in the middle of the field between both duelists. It flipped up into the sky at immense speeds and twirled there for a few seconds.
"What is going on now?" Reku looked up at the spinning coin.
"Well, Without Blood Hunter on the field, at the end of the turns a coin must be flipped. If heads Blood Black Lizard will remain on the same field, tails and he shifts sides."
Falling down, the coin landed on tails. Blood Black Lizard roared and crawled over to Reku's field. As soon as it got there it wrapped its tail around the large flamethrower. In a few seconds it had crushed the machines sides inward. Finally the machine blew up taking the football monster and Dekayak with it.
"What now?" Reku asked jaw dropping at the effects of this thing.
"Well, when Blood Black Lizard changes sides, it destroys one card on that players' field automatically. Seeing how your flamethrower treated them like one monster they fell together." A cold smile crossed Black Lizards face.
"Fine then, but you left me with one extremely powerful monster." Reku drew the next card off his deck. "Go now, attack him directly my Blood Black Lizard!" Jumping across the field, the monster bared its teeth down into the robed mans shoulder.
Reku-4000 LP
Black Lizard-1100 LP
"I end my turn." Reku said as the coin once again reappeared on the field. Flipping up it landed on tails again. Hissing at the result the monster moved over to Black Lizard's side. With its tail it cracked its own teeth, destroying the magic card on it (1700/1000).
"My move then." Black Lizard pulled the card off his deck. "You are going to enjoy this, I summon a second Blood Black Lizard to the field (1400/1000)." A second scaly black monster appeared on the field. "They will both attack you directly!" Hurdling across the field, the two lizards collided with Reku's body at the same time.
Reku-900 LP
Black Lizard-1100 LP
"Damn, should have protected myself better." Reku's concentration in this duel was terrible. If he had been thinking he would have sacrifice the lizard last time for his Jinzo which he was holding.
"I end my turn." Two coins appeared this time instead of one. "First the 1700 attack one, is..." The coin flipped and landed on tails. The monster hissed again as it trudged over to Reku's field again. "Oh, and if you don't have any cards on your field it will attack you for 500 points of damage directly."
Reku-400 LP
Black Lizard-1100 LP
Grabbing his gut where the monster tail had hit him, it was a miracle that he was still standing.
The other coin flipped up but landed on heads so the monster didn't move an inch.
Shaking violently, Reku looked at his hand. He almost drop the cards a few times but managed to keep a hold of them. "I think that I am done."
That is when he noticed it. His body felt warm and tingly. He wasn't shaking anymore and he could think straight. Looking down at his feet, he saw the Ruby Crystal glowing a bright red. Glancing over his shoulders he saw Akina's and Ronins doing the same thing but in there own colors.
"It is complete chosen one!" Order hollered to Reku who looked at her. "Draw the power of the Ruby Crystal."
"Right, I draw the Ruby Crystal but first I sacrifice your monster to summon Jinzo (2400/1500)." The large green robot appeared on Reku's field. Crossing its arms, it was ready and waiting for the order from its master.
"So what? I will have 100 life after this attack."
"No, because..." Picking up the Ruby Crystal lying on the ground next to him he held it up towards Black Lizard. "...I play Ruby Crystal!"
Shining brightly, all three crystals filled the room with their glow. The light slowly shrunk into small card shapes. Reku held his out to his opponent for a second before sliding it into his duel disk. Ruby colored sparks shot out of the slot that the card went into.
Jinzo roared and clutched his head. All over Jinzo's body Ruby spikes shot out. His armor slowly turned into the Ruby color but still maintained the green coloring in it. On top of its head a crown of small Ruby diamonds formed and fitted down into the skin on Jinzo's head.
A red aura started to flow off him as he staggered about. Straightening up that aura burst out violently shooting all over the room. Jinzo roared with power as his eyes burned with a ferocity that just isn't seen in any normal Duel Monster.
Reku started chuckling. His duel disk was still making noise as if having trouble power of the Ruby Crystal card. Red sparks still were shooting out of the slot at a violent pace and showed no signs of quitting. The medallion around Reku's neck also had a red aura that emanated around it. Lifting his head up, Reku revealed on his forehead he had the same symbol that was carved into the medallion and that rested on the back of the Ruby Crystal card.
Smiling, Order watched as Reku and his monster flowed with power. This is what she wanted to see out of him and the others. "On any less of a man or a woman, the power of the crystals would drive you mad. Your entire body would be in jeopardy of being ripped limb from limb, brain from your skull. I never doubted your power though Reku, you are one of the ones I knew could summon a essence monster and still have control of yourself and it."
"Well, well, well." Reku chuckled somewhat evilly. "Look how the tables turn on one like you." Reku pointed to his new Jinzo monster. "I want to introduce the power of my first essence monster. Jinzo Ruby Mode!"
"Essence monster?" Ronin, Akina, Puppetmaster, Eagle, and Black Lizard all shot back in surprise talking in unison with one another.
"Yes, Essence monster." Reku closed hiseyes, smiling with a slight smirk. "When Pegasus created this game he based it on knowledge of monster from 5000 years ago." Reku took a short break to chuckle again, "but when he did, he captured their weaker versions. An essence monster captures the true soul of the monster and brings it to the surface. Essence monsters are not only indestructible but have all their powers unlocked as well."
Ronin and Akina looked at each other shocked. That is when they noticed that their crystal cards were glowing with blue and purple auras. Holding them up closer to their faces, they could feel the overwhelming power of these cards.
"Now Jinzo Ruby's power has been unlocked. Jinzo has never been fond of traps as we know. Pegasus barley scratched his true power. We must both send all traps from our decks, hand, and field to the grave." Jinzo chuckled as his aura reached both players decks. They removed them and thumbed through finding all traps. Sliding them into their graveyard slots Jinzo laughed again.
"So, I still will come out of this fine." Black Lizard smiled coldly. "You red bug there isn't going to beat me in this attack."
"Oh," Reku cocked and eyebrow. "Sorry to disappoint you but the power of the Ruby Crystal not only ups the attack of essence monster it creates by 1000 (3400/1500) but it also allows it to attack all the monsters on the field!" Pointing to the Blood Black Lizard on his opponents field he smiled again. "Too bad you only have one. Go Jinzo Ruby mode attack that lizard now! Essence Psycho Shocker Blast!"
Forming a red and black energy ball between its cupped hands which spun violently. Jinzo Ruby heaved it out towards its opponent. Flying across the field at a terrible fast speed, the energy ball hit the Blood Black Lizard and enveloped it in red light. Black Lizard shielded his eyes from the bright light. All he could hear was Reku's voice.
"You lose."
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Hey, that is what those things are slightly capable of. Watch out for what Ronin's and Akina's can do. And don't bombard me with questions about the crystals and the essence monsters, I will get to that later.
To John: Yea!
To darksoulki: (nods and agrees)
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