Team Zero: Crystals

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Chapter 10: What to do with Madness

Joe-4000 LP
Kevin-3100 LP

"Good move, but..." Kevin smiled as he slid the Drillago card into his graveyard. "...Not quite good enough. Draw!" He slid the card into his hand and gave a laugh. "I play my magic card Polymerization to fuse my Dark Magician and my Buster Blader together to form Dark Paladin (2900/2400)." The dark looking fusion monster appeared on Kevin's field. It held up its sword threatenly towards Joe's Dark Magician. "Next I play Mystical Space Typhoon on your face down card."

"Good." The down card flipped up at the wind blew towards it. "It's call Magic Devastating Finish! When it is destroyed it destroys all magic and traps on the field and you can't conduct any battles this turn."

"Fine, I set one card face down and end my turn." Kevin said sliding a card into his duel disk.

"Okay, he doesn't have any cards in his hand so his magic negating effect of Dark Paladin isn't possible by him."He smiled to himself. "I draw!" Joe announced as he snapped the card off his deck. Holding it up he smiled and flipped it around. "I play Monster Reborn to revive your Buster Blader (2600/2300)." A warrior armored in black appeared next to Joe's Dark Magician. "And I play my own Polymerization to fuse them into Dark Paladin!"

Another monster just like Kevin's appeared opposite of it. The monsters were perfect fusion of their two fusible monsters. They glared at each other for a few minuets.

"I set one card face down and end my turn." Joe commented as he slid the last card in his hand into his duel disk.


Reku sat in class staring out the window at the clouds in the sky. The math teacher was going on about math problems and writing examples on the board.

"Wow," Staring at on of the clouds as it passed between the earth and the sun. "I wonder where Chaos is andwhere willhe will strike next." Clenching his fist under his desk Reku smiled. "I can't wait to use my Ruby Crystal again in battle."

/Flashback/

/"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 handling the power of the Ruby Crystal card. Red sparks still were shooting out of the slot at a violent pace and showed no sign 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./

/End Flashback/

The powers of the crystal were immense and Reku wanted to try it out again. The only thing that worried him was Order said something about a draw back but Reku couldn't see one, yet.


"Here we go!" Kevin said as he pulled one card off his deck. "I will summon D.D. Warrior Lady in attack mode. It will attack your Dark Paladin now!"

"Woah, hold your horses. I play my Trap of Tainted Skills! It destroys one monster with an effect form the field that is 2000 attack or lessif I discardtwo cards off the top of my deck." Drawing and discarding the armored lady slowly disappeared from play. "That was too close for comfort. If that attack had gone through my monster would have been removed from play."

"Fine, Dark Paladin attack his Dark Paladin now."

Charging towards each other the monsters hit right in the middle of the field. A white ball of energy was created form their swords clashing. That light covered them completely and then died down. Nothing was left of either monster.

"I am done." Kevin said motioning with his free arm to Joe.

"Draw!" Joe snapped the top card off his deck and placed it on his duel disk immediately. "I summon Breaker the Magical Warrior (1600/1000) in attack mode." A large red warrior wielding a sword appeared on Joe's field. "It gains attack from being summoned successfully (1900/1000). Now direct attack him!" Joe pointed to Kevin and Breaker took off.

"You should have destroyed my trap instead of worrying about 300 more points of damage. I reveal my trap Magic Cylinders! It reflects the attack back at your life!"

Jabbing the sword forward, a tube appeared the sword went down instead. Small lightning bolts shot off as the sword went in. Another tube appeared right next to it and shot out a stream of yellow light that flew back in hit Joe, knocking him down.

Joe-2100 LP
Kevin-3100 LP

"It's my move!" Kevin said as he held up his duel disk. He slowly pulled the top card off his deck and flipped it over. "I summon Slate Warrior (1900/400) in attack mode and end my turn." A large yellow monster with a blue head appeared on Kevin's field. It took a fighting pose like a boxer would do.

Drawing his next card Joe Smiled slightly. "I summon my Gemini Elf (1900/900) in attack mode." To twin elves appeared on Joe's field. They stood close to each other and look evilly at the yellow fighter.

"Gemini Elf, Attack his Slate Warrior!" The two elf monsters took off running. The grabbed each other's hand and spread out a ways. As they ran passed Slate Warrior, they close lined him. Falling backwards though Slate Warrior grabbed their arms and then all three disappeared.

"Luck." Kevin mumbled under his breath as he slid his card into his graveyard.

"Next come a direct attack by Breaker!" Jumping across the field the monster brought its sword down on Kevin's body.

Joe-2100 LP
Kevin-1200 LP

"End turn now." Joe said motioning to Kevin.

"Okay then I draw and set one monster card face down. Go."

"I draw, and play Breaking New Magical Research. I get to pull two magic cards from my deck and activate them immediately. All this costs me is 1000 Life Points."

Joe-1100 LP
Kevin-1200 LP

"The first is Life Cutting Buzz Saw! This will cut our life point totals in half!"

Joe-550 LP
Kevin-600 LP

"And the second is Jug of Greed. It lets us both draw one card form our decks." Pulling one card off each of their decks Joe slipped his into his duel disk. "I set mine face down and attack your monster now!" Breaker jumped across the field and cut through the face down card in one slice. "Go Kevin. Take your last move."

"What ever you say." He was smiling before he even drew. "Remember you played Jug of Greed. It allowed me to draw my Change of Heart. I will take Breaker to my side and finish this with one direct attack. Go!" The warrior started to charge towards Joe. It raised it's sword for the attack.

"Remember when you said that was reckless. Neither of us took advantage of Breaker's ability and now we both paid for it. I play Contagion of Madness. I will still take 1900 but you will lose 950 do to my magic card."

Joe-0 LP
Kevin-0 LP

Deactivating their duel disks the two boys walked across the field to each other. The shook hands at a hard duel.

"You are the first person I have tied with in my entire journey." Kevin said rubbing the back of his head.

"Well, I won't say that it was an easy duel for either of us." Joe said also rubbing his head.

"Team Zero won't stand a chance!" The both said in unison as the pointed to the sky.


The morning went by fairly quickly in school. During lunch, the four kids got together to eat as they always did. After eating and talking about these strange new crystal cards they noticed that the lunch period was almost over. Ronin, being a nice guy, offered to dump everyone's trays. He took them to the garbage can to the outside eating area. He dumped the garbage in and set the trays in the designated spot.

He turned around to walk back but instead fell in a hole. Not an ordinary hole but a shadow hole. One that lead to the shadow realm.

Falling for a few seconds, Ronin finally landed on the 'ground' of the shadow realm. Looking around he didn't see anyone but he could feel them. He quickly jumped up looking back and forth

"Show yourself." He demanded as he pulled out a duel disk from his back pack and his dueling deck.

"Why Ronin, why such harsh words?" Gurabe asked walking past Ronin as if nothing was going on. Gurabe already had a duel disk activated. He walked to the other side of the field and turned around. "I see that you know what is coming. So let's duel."

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And now a shadow game. What fun. Oh and sorry for the delay in getting this chapter up. That blasted school got in the way of my evil plans...er I mean getting a story up. Yea that's it!

To John: Yes he has and I heard you the first time. Look at Nanashi's response below.

To John: Yes he has and I heard you the first time. Look at Nanashi's response below.

To darksoulki: Well, I guess so but he/she won't show up for a bit. I have a lot to get through but if you send me one, deck type, clothing, attitude, and be very patient and a good reviewer I will add them. Also say the word for any made up cards you have that you want them to have or if you want me to handle that. Heh, my story is becoming a story of sent in characters!

To Nanashi: He will never learn. Oh and to Kevin and Joe being characters, well let's just say that they aren't going anywhere for a while.
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