Team Zero: Crystals

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Chapter 16: Messenger of Destruction Dragon

The sun rose on a beautiful day. Coming down for breakfast, Reku over heard Kevin complaining in his dinning room.

"What? Why didn't you guys wake me up?" Kevin asked begging with Joe. "Team Chaos is the only team that I can't get a hold of. They are in the hospital after the world tournament."

"That would be my doing." Reku said as he walked over and opened his refrigerator. Pulling out the milk carton he grabbed a glass. "He lost our shadow duel."

"Morning Reku." Joe said taking a bit of his cereal. "Your parents went to town, they said if you go anywhere to lock up the house." That last part he said through the cereal in his mouth.

"Yep, it's your vacation from school so there is no reason for not dueling me now." Kevin said eager to prove his skills.

"Fine, want to do it now?" Reku asked finishing off his milk in one huge gulp. "I'll take you on."

"Okay, I'll go get my duel disk." Kevin went flying up the stairs. Joe moved from his place behind the table and walked over to Reku.

"Watch it, he is pretty good. Me and him tied when we played."

"Tied?" Reku was surprised at this.

/flashback/

/"I draw." Pulling the card off his deck he saw just what he wanted. "I summon Goblin Attack Force (2300/0) in attack mode!" A team of green goblins appeared on Joe's field. "Next my face down card, Gallant Charge! I get to sacrifice one monster into your monster to deduct the attack from your attack. Go Gallant Blader of Gold, attack it at the cost of half of my life points.

Joe-150 LP
Verion-1600 LP

Swinging its sword at the large monster, it made a large glowing scratch on it. Breaking into small golden pieces of dust it flew into the monster's cut. It roared in pain at this act and it's attack totals dropped (400/4000).

"Next comes Goblin Attack Force, Go attack Zergo's True Form!" The group of goblins charged across the field, bringing their clubs down on Zergo's True Form the duel disk indicated a loss.

Joe-150 LP
Verion-0 LP/

/end flashback/

"Joe has improved since the last time I faced him. I almost wonder if he is better then me now and he says that Kevin is tough? I almost am worried now, but I take any challenge any time."

Reku, Joe, and Kevin walked out of Reku's house and locked it. Reku walked in front taking the boys to a special dueling spot. Coming down to the bridge, Reku slid down the slop to a grassy field by the river.

"I used to come here to duel all the time." Reku said taking his spot. "This is my favorite dueling spot."

"Cool, then let's get this started." Kevin said activating his duel disk. He took a place across from Reku who was activating his duel disk.

Reku-4000 LP
Kevin-4000 LP

"I am going first though." Reku smiled and drew six cards. Looking at his cards he smiled "I got my buddy Jinzo right her first off."He grabbed a different card."I summon my Robotic Knight (1600/1800) in attack mode." A robot made to look like he was commander appeared on Reku's field. "I am done now."

Drawing his sixth card, Kevin smiled just like Reku did. He pulled on card out and placed it on his duel disk. "I summon Skilled White Magician (1700/1900) in attack mode!" A magician in white robes appeared on Kevin's field. It held it's staff out towards the Robotic Knight. "One card face down and I am done."

"Why didn't he attack?" Drawing his next card he picked up Robotic Knight he placed his Jinzo on his disk. "I sacrifice my Knight to summon my Jinzo!" The green robot appeared on Reku's in the flash of light it always produced. It crossed its arms like it always did (1200/1500). Reku did a double take at that attack score. "Wait, my disk must be busted. He only has half his attack!"

"Not quite." Order's voice rang out over the area. "You used your Ruby Crystal on Jinzo last. I told you it had a price, just not in the same duel as you played Jinzo."

"And you decided not to tell me of this before why?"

"As chosen ones you must discover these things on your own."

"Well that's cheap." Reku said up to the sky. "How do I get his attack back to normal?"

"Your medallion. Place it on your deck when you are not dueling and it will recharge your deck." Order's voice grew distant then disappeared.

"Okay?" Kevin said looking at Reku. "Do you want to start over, after 'recharging' your deck?"

"No, I never back down. Let's go. I place one card face down and end my turn."

"Okay, If you are sure." Drawing his card he placed it on his duel disk. "I sacrifice my Skilled White Magician to summon Summoned Skull (2500/1200) in defense mode. I am done now."

"Defense mode? Don't be taking it easy on me just because I have a half attacked Jinzo." Drawing his next card he looked at it. "I sacrifice Jinzo to summon Twin Headed Fire Dragon (2200/1700)." The large red and blue monster appeared on Reku's field in place of the lowered attack monster. "Attack the Skull now!" Two streams of fire shot out incinerating the Summoned Skull in a blaze of glory. "That is my turn."

"Remember you said you don't want me taking it easy on you?"

"Yea, I don't."

"Who said I was?" Almost whispering it as he drew his next card. "I sacrifice my Skilled White Magician and Summoned Skull..."

"You can't sacrifice them, they are in your graveyard!"

"I know, I sacrifice them to summon Chaos Emperor Dragon-Envoy of the End (3000/2500)!" The large green monster appeared on the field. It was laced with gold all around it. Roaring, Reku shrank back.

"He wasn't being easy on me, he was trying to get a powerful monster out."

"Now that's impressive." Joe commented from the sidelines

"Shut up over in the peanut galleries." Reku yelled from his side of the field towards Joe.

"Hello, I am still here." Kevin said waving his arms up and down. "I pay 1000 Life points to activate my monsters devastating ability!"

Reku-4000 LP
Kevin-3000 LP

"What ability?" Reku asked getting wide eyed as all the cards on the field slowly disappeared.

"Chaos Emperor Dragon-Envoy of the End destroys all cards on the field and in our hands. Then it inflicts 300 points of damage to you for each card destroyed." Kevin slid the four cards in his hand and the two cards on his field into his grave. Reku did the same with the four cards in his hand and the two on the field. That totaled up to be 12 so Reku's life went down by 3600 life points.

Reku-400 LP
Kevin-3000 LP

Reku's jaw almost hit the ground at the life point loss. "What the hell?" was all he could spit out.

"Devastating, know what I mean? I have to end my turn there since I have nothing to play." Kevin said looking at the stunned look on Reku's face.

Drawing his card, Reku placed it in his duel disk. "I play my Pot of Greed." Reku slid two more cards off his deck. "I summon my Little Chimera (600/550)(1100/550)." A small gray cat appeared on Reku's field. It bared it's claws and hissed at Kevin. "Attack him directly!" Reku, still dumbfounded pointed to Kevin.

Reku-400 LP
Kevin-1900 LP

"Next I set one card face down and end my turn." Reku said sliding his last card into his disk.

"Okay then." Kevin drew. "Oh, you won't last with this perfect one. I summon Twin-Headed Behemoth (1500/1200) in attack mode!" A purple dragon with two heads on two long neck appeared on Kevin's field. "Attack his monster now! Twin fire burst!"

Two large fire ball shot out of the dragons mouths. Flying across the field the incinerated the Little Chimera. But a card flipped up on Reku's field.

"I activate my Crest of the Fiery Spirit! If a fire monster is destroyed i get to pull another fire monster this is one level higher or lower to the field and negate all life point damage. Seeing as Little Chimera is two stared I get either a one stared monster or a three stared monster. I choose my Gren Maju Da Eiza, a three stared monster!" The large red snake monster appeared on the field (?)(800/800). "For your two monsters removed from the game it gains attack. Now my turn." Drawing a card, Reku hoped that he would get his Soul Release to power up Gren Maju. Looking at the card he frowned andslid it into his duel disk. "I set one card and switch Gren Maju into defense mode. That is my turn."

"Good, I will finish this now!" Drawing his next card he placed it on his disk. "I play Vorse Raider (1900/1200)." The green colored monster with his deadly weapon appeared on Kevin's field growling deep in its throat."Now Twin-Headed Behemoth attack his monster now!" Kevin pointed to the red sanke monster.

"Not quite! I play Fire Magnetism! This trap works if I have only a fire monster on the field that is 1000 attack or less. It switches it into attack and adds 2000 attack to it. Plus all monsters on your field must attack it (2800/800). I just give half my life to use it."

The twin headed dragon was grabbed by a massive red claw which pierced it in two making it explode into data bits.

Reku-200 LP
Kevin-100 LP

Then the Vorse Raider met the same fate of being pierced threw by a large red claw as it tried to attack the monster.

Reku-200 LP
Kevin-0 LP

Reku deactivated his duel disk and started to run up the hill. Kevin deactivated his duel disk as he started to run after Reku. Joe did the same. Jogging along side of Reku after both boys caught up to him.

"Reku where and why are we running?" Joe asked keeping pace with Reku.

"Yea?" Kevin prodded.

"I have to go warn my girlfriend." He was panting and picking up speed. "This may have been a friendly duel but she may not be so lucky if it is a servant of Chaos."

"Girlfriend?" Both Joe and Kevin fell back a bit and looked at each other. They both shrugged and jogged to keep up.

"You have a girlfriend?" Joe asked as he caught stride with Reku.

"Yea, you guys have met her. You did yesterday when she was at my house." He looked to one of them then the other. "You remember Akina, right?"

"Oh yea," Kevin said remembering the two girls that he met the day before. "She is your girlfriend."

"Yea, and we had better hurry." Reku said as he came to his truck and popped open the door. Joe and Kevin ran around to the other side and crawled in the passenger side.

Speeding off, Reku, Joe, and Kevin headed straight for Akina's house.

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Yes, The all mighty crystals have a backlash effect. Order warned them.

To John: Don't forget to invite yourself to the party.

To Darksoulki: He did, how do you think he got the crystal card? The same way Reku, Ronin, and Akina did. I just didn't type it out. I have enough to get through.

To Nanashi: He first beat the sage, which I didn't type out but he did beat them. Oh and all the crystals are named like that. They are all Oracles Rage Incarnate Seal of Power-(Whatever) Crystal. I just use the (Whatever) Crystal name as a shorter version. If you read back I did cap that for each crystal card.
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