Team Zero: Crystals

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Chapter 19: Jade and Hematite, Dark City Duel.

Ronin sat in a small steel room. All that was in this room was a chair, a table, and a locked door. His deck sat on the table with the medallion recharging it. Tal had informed him how to do it as he told him to wait here while the test was prepared.


Tal stood on top of a roof watching a truck drive down the street. He smirked as he knew that Reku and his friends were in the truck.

"Not only does Ronin have to face this challenge. He must face it too. They can face it together and probably both fail." He smiled again as he descended from the roof quickly.

Driving along, Reku and the others were still looking for Ronin. They hadn't seen any sign of him what so ever. Suddenly the truck jerked as something hit the passenger side. Jerking his head over he saw Akina being pulled out the open door and a cloaked man pulling her out. Reku slid to a stop and jumped out grabbing his and Akina's deck as he went.

"STOP YOU!" He yelled as he flew down the ally that Tal had taken Akina down.

In the back of the truck, all four kids were shoved up against the front from Reku's sudden stop. They were all piled on top of one another.

Opening his eyes, Kevin saw a yellow piece of fabric in his face. He quickly realize that Usami was the only one wearing anything with yellow on and judging by how it was shapped he assumedthat this must be her butt. He gave a childish grin and blushed like mad as the butt came closer to his face. Suddenly it was ripped up and Usami turned around grabbing her butt and blushing with embarrassment.

Joe and Ryokurio hovered over Kevin who was the only one still laying on the truck bed. Ryokurio reached down and grabbed Kevin by his collar, he twisted it and lifted Kevin off the ground and well off his feet.

"Did you touch my sisters butt?" He asked forcefully. "Answer me punk!"

"He didn't." Usami said, "well not on purpose. Let him down brother." Kevin fell to the floor as Ryokurio let him go. Suddenly all four of them fell downwards. The bottom of the truck had turned into white ripples that engulfed all of them.

Running after the robed man, Reku didn't even care that his legs ached. His lungs burned and his heart was pounding.

"STOP!" He yelled. Suddenly, unsuspectingly, the man stopped and turned around. He smiled which made Reku even more furious.

"You want her back?" He asked casually as if it was no big thing. He got an angry nod from Reku and a deadly glare. "Fine, but first you must pass a test. Will you accept?"

"Yes, I will do anything for her!" He panted out.

"Good." The shadows started to move out of the bottom of his cloak again. It enveloped both Tal and Reku in a thick purple and black fog. Then the fog dispersed and nothing of either of them were left.


Getting up and looking around,Ryokurio, Usami, Joe, andKevinhad arrived in smoking set of ruins. Walking for a little bit they came to an opening. Something scampered under a piece of metal making it clank and scaring the group. They saw that it was a destroyed city. Smoke poured out of buildings and craters in the ground. In the center of this opening was a destroyed water fountain. Brown water poured over the side and down onto the stone street.

"Chosen one!" Two voices echoed from the fountain. Two robed men were sitting on the edge. One was dressed in a green colored robe and the other was in a dark steel grey, almost black robe. "You have come." They said in unison again.

"Chosen one!" Joe looked around at the four of them. "Us?"

"Yes." The one in thesteelish robe stood up and walked towards them. "Joe Peterson. Your test awaits for your crystal card! I am the Hematite Sage."

"And you, Kevin Hunter. I am your test the Jade Sage!" The one in green robes walked over to him.

"We get crystal cards!" Joe and Kevin looked astonished at the two sages.

"Yep if you can beat both of us, seeing as we are in pairs of two what do you say to a double test duel?" The Jade sage suggested putting on a duel disk.

"I think it is fine." The Hematite sage said doing the same thing.

"We are ready for any test you give." Joe said snapping his duel disk into place.

"Good." Both sages said holding out cards that had absolutely nothing on them. Blasts of lightning bolts shot off them towards the decks of Joe and Kevin.

"Our Mirror cards will give us an exact copy of your decks so you can face yourself in a duel. We also gain knowledge of..." The Jade Sage's eyes widened and then he chuckled a bit. "Well, you have some interesting cards in this deck boy."

"Lets duel now." Hematite Sage said as he took a place on one side of the rectangular opening. "We will let the boy named Kevin start us off."

"Fine." Kevin said shuffling his deck and slipping it into his deck slot. Joe did the same and both boys went and stood at the other end of the dueling field.

Kevin-4000 LP
Joe-4000 LP
Hematite sage-4000 LP
Jade sage-4000 LP

All four of them drew their opening hands and looked over them. Kevin picked up his sixth card and looked at it.

"I go first." He pulled one card out of his hand and placed it on his duel disk. "I start with Blade Knight (1600/1000)." A large blue armored monster appeared on Kevin's field. It held up its sword towards its opponent. "I set one card face down and pass my turn."

Hematite sage pulled the card off his deck next. "I will go after him then. I summon Breaker the Magical Warrior (1600/1000)(1900/1000) in defense mode and end my turn." The red robed warrior appeared on the field crouching down.

"Good, draw!" Joe snapped the card off his deck. He pulled one card out of his hand and placed it on the duel disk. "I summon Life Serpent Knight (1000/800)!" A large silver armored reptile creature appeared on the field. It held up its sword and it's shield.

"Makin it my move." Jade Sage drew from his deck and looked at the card. "I will play this, Dark Magic Curtain! I pay half my life points to summon a Dark Magician (2500/2100) from my hand to the field!"

Kevin-4000 LP
Joe-4000 LP
Hematite sage-4000 LP
Jade sage-2000 LP

A large skeleton holding a curtain appeared on the Jade Sage's field. Throwing the curtain back the Dark Magician stepped out onto the field.

Smiling, the Jade Sage pointed to Kevin. "All right, I am done. Since no one could attack on the first turn I let you go boy."

"All right." Kevin said frowning a bit seeing his powerful card on the opponents field. He drew his next card. "I sacrifice my Blade Knight to Summon Dark Magician Girl (2000/1700)." The blue knight faded away and a girl monster in blue robes appeared on his field. "Next comes the magic card Sage's Stone!" The face down card flipped up. A purple orb appeared on the field that slowly took form into a monster as Kevin place one card from his hand onto his duel disk. "Sage's Stone lets me play a Dark Magician from my hand or deck if I have Dark Magician Girl on the field." The purple robed monster appeared on Kevin's field.

"Wow." Usami looked at Kevin admiring his great play. "Not only is he cute but he has some good skills. Very few people can use the Dark Magician effectively accept the duel king himself."

"Next the magic card Dedication Through Light and Darkness! It lets me offer the Dark Magician to summon from my deck Dark Magician of Chaos (2800/2600)!" The black clad magician appeared on Kevin's field. "I have no magic card in my grave yard worth taking back so I won't take one. That is Dark Magician of Chaos's special ability. Anyways attack the Dark Magician! Chaos's Dark Magic Attack!"

Flipping its staff around the magician shot out a black and purple ball of energy at the purple robed magician. Being enveloped by the orb, the Dark Magician card was removed from the duel disk and placed in the out of play slot due to the other effect of Dark Magician of Chaos's.

Kevin-4000 LP
Joe-4000 LP
Hematite sage-4000 LP
Jade sage-1700 LP

"Dark Magician Girl gains 300 attack from the Dark Magician in my graveyard (2300/1700). Now it will attack Jade Sage for the win there!"

"Hold it!" Hematite Sage held up his hand and pointed to his defending Breaker. "I can defend my partner with Breaker the Magical Warrior!"

Shooting a stream of purple energy, Dark Magician Girl aimed it for the Jade Sage but Breaker got in the way of the blast destroying it.

"Then I am done!" Kevin said as his Dark Magician Girl fell back onto his field.

"I draw!" The Hematite Sage declared as he pulled one card off his deck "I summon my Life Serpent Knight (1000/800) in defense mode and end my turn with one face down card!" Another serpent knight appeared on the field.

Joe pulled the next card off his deck. He pointed to the Jade Sage. "Attack him directly!" The Life Serpent Knight nodded and started to charge across the field towards to open Jade Sage. Coming out of nowhere the other Life Serpent Knight got in the way and intercepted the attack. Knocking the sword away, Joe's Life Serpent Knight returned to Joe's field.

"Don't you know that Life Serpent Knight can't be destroyed in battle?" the Hematite Sage questioned Joe on his bad attack against his partner.

"Fine, one card face down and I end my turn."

"Good," the Jade Sage drew one card off his deck. "I set two cards and end my turn."

"Then it is my turn." Kevin said as he pulled one card off his deck.

"Hold on, I activate my face down card, Ring of Destruction!" A ring with grenades appeared around the Dark Magician of Chaos's neck. The Jade sage laughed slightly."It will destroy Dark Magician of Chaos! Then it will deal 2800 life points of damage to both of us."

Exploding, the Dark Magician of Chaos was blown to smithereens and small pieces of shrapnel hit Kevin. A few more flew towards the Jade Sage. Stopping short, the pieces of shrapnel and smoke were sucked up in the barrel of a gun.

"And Barrel Behind the Door will deal the damage I receive to you, Killing you off!" The gun shot off towards Kevin.

"NOOOOO!" Usami screamed from the sidelines.

Joe, seeing this almost didn't get his trap off in time. "Hold it, I play Damage Fan! At the cost of half my life points I can negate the damage dealt to life points once!" A large, ancient fan appeared on Joe's field. Waving in up and down the shot by the gun was cancelled out.

Kevin-1200 LP
Joe-2000 LP
Hematite sage-4000 LP
Jade sage-1700 LP

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To darksoulki: Yes, Must keep readers happy. If you don't your story loses readers. I try to at least update once a day or more.

To john: Yes I know. I can randomly spit out card names and boost its ego too.
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