Chapter 4: A whale of a duel
"I'll go first, as I'm a girl." Namia winked at Mako, who didn't seem fazed at all. "Alright, I'll summon, Blazing Inpachi (1850/0) and set two card face down. End turn." she smiled. Starting off with an 1850 attack monster was a very good move indeed.
"Is that piece of charcoal supposed to scare me?" Mako questioned. "I'll summon Cure Mermaid (1500/800), as well as set three cards facedown, go." he commanded.
"With pleasure, you just better hope you get lucky, with the cards I have!" Namia gloated.
"I'm not scared, so just make your move!" Mako demanded once again.
"Alright, alright!" she drew, and smiled as she played the card. Now I'll play Change of Heart-" she was cut off by her opponent's interjection.
"Hold on, I'll activate Magic Jammer, this'll stop your plan!" he smiled at his play and let an angered Namia continue.
"Alright, then I'll just summon Solar Flare Dragon, in att-" once again, Mako interrupted.
"Now now girly, what's your rush, I'll activate, the last two of my facedown cards, first, comes Interdimensional Matter Transporter!" he roared in satisfaction. The card flipped face up and the matter transporter began to charge up. "This card will remove a monster on my side of the field until the end of your turn, and then I'll chain it with Torriental Tribute! This makes the sea swallow all of our monsters, only, I don't have any!" Mako tossed his head back and laughed as Namia twitched and sent her two monsters to the graveyard.
"Okay, you made your point laughing boy, I'll end my turn there." she ended her turn.
"Well well well, how did you ever come to be a regional champion of any area, much less London!" Mako questioned as his mermaid reappeared and he drew.
Up in the stands, Shisei and Kou had been anxiously watching the results of the duel. "So she is the regional champion of London!" Shisei stated. "Whoa, she sure doesn't look it." It was true, Namia was tall and had a dark skin color, she had crimson red eyes and long blond hair that made her stand out more.
"Yeah, well looks can be deceiving, I just hope she wins!" Kou said, though he had no idea why he wanted her to win so badly.
"Well, now that my mermaid is back on the field, I'll activate, A legendary Ocean!" he told her, suddenly, the holograms began to form the very look of a raging storm at sea, and the duelists could barely be seen. "This field magic card will be treated as Umi and it adds an extra 200 attack points to my monsters." Mako shook with laughter at how easy this was. "So now I'll summon, Mermaid Knight (1700/900)!" the very picture of a warrior version of Cure Mermaid appeared next to her counter part. "And when Umi is on the field, she can attack twice, but I'm still not done, I'll activate the last card in my hand, Gravity Bind, which will make it so that all monsters level 4 or higher, cannot attack!" Mako smirked as he slid the card down.
Namia raised an eyebrow at the fact that Mako had only level four monsters on the field. "Um, you realize that both of the monsters you have are level four, don't you?" she smiled a tad at his predicament.
"You really are stupid!" he stated, shaking his head sadly. "A Legendary Ocean also downgrades all water monsters down one level, so the creatures I have are level three now, sorry!" he then declared his attack. "Now, my Mermaid's direct attack her LP!" after the statement both of the mermaids rushed and slashed poor Namia, then Mermaid Knight attacked once more, as though for good measure.
Namia-3100
Mako-8800
Namia winced as she saw her LP score drop to less than half of the normal. 'One more attack like that and I'll need surgery."' she joked to herself, though she didn't feel like laughing at the moment.
"I'll let you go now." Mako told her, he was more confident than ever that he would win this duel.
"Alright, now prepare to meet your maker!" Namia stated, she slid the top card off of her deck and added it to her hand. "Okay, now I'll set this monster in defense, and play these two card face down. End turn" she stated.
"Are you sure, you can't beat my strategy by being defensive, you know." he drew and smiled. "Now say hello to the card that will help me defeat you!" Mako activated a trap card. "This card is call The Tower Of Babel." A giant tower that seemed endless appeared in the mid section of the field "This card will easily limit you on the magic cards you may need to play." Mako laughed at Namia's look of confusion. "You see, the tower of Babel will gain counters as we play magic cards" Mako started his explanation. "And when four counters are played, the one who played the magic card, will have to take 3000 points of direct damage!" Mako stated simply, then he sighed and redid his explanation as the audience was in a dumbfound silence.. "Or in other words, when four magic cards have been played, the one who played it will receive the damage." After the audience understood, he ended his turn.
Kou stared at the tower in awe. 'How is she going to win, if she can't play but only four magic cards, plus, Mako might play three just to get the ball rolling."' Kou thought to himself. Then he did something odd, something that just sort of happened. "GO NAMIA!" he shouted, forcing the people in the immediate vicinity to cover their ears.
"Wow, you sure are enthusiastic!" Sei stated, shaking off the pain in his ears. "Maybe you should go hump her leg, lover boy." he finished, as he got hit by his best friend.
"So, Shisei, you and your friend seem to be enjoying yourselves." a voice stated from behind the two of the boys. They both looked up to see Osmos.
"What do you want!" Sei asked, he scooted a little farther away from the silver haired man. "Come to murder someone?" he knew he shouldn't have said that, but he wanted Kou to believe him, and the only way that that would have happened was if he put his own neck on the line for some proof.
"Not at all, just come to get a better view." with that he sat down, and Shisei didn't feel like staking his life anymore, so he stayed quiet and continued to watch the match.
Namia looked at her trap cards that lay face down. 'Darn, he didn't attack me, he's probably going to rely on that Cure Mermaid to up his LP into the higher zones."' she looked at her hand and did the only thing she could. "I'll end my turn there." Mako smiled.
"Now the move is mine, and soon the sea shall swallow you up!" he drew his card to begin his turn. "Now I'll activate, Pot of Greed, which will allow me to draw two cards" he activated the card, and waited to see if Namia would foil it.
Namia bit her lip, she could activate the Jar Robber card she had facedown, but that was a quick play magic card, and she would be closer to getting four counters on that stupid Babel card. She didn't risk it.
"Hmm, now I'll play Giant Trunade, to return to our hands, the magic and trap cards on the field. Then I'll reactivate all of my cards, excluding the tower of Babel now, my Cure Mermaid will attack your defense!" Mako shouted, his Mermaid flew across the field and blew a deadly kiss at the monster.
"You attacked, The Thing in the Crater(1000/1200)!" she smirked as the monster went to the graveyard. "He lets me special summon one pyro monster from my hand, so I'll summon, Molten Behemoth (1000/2200), in defense mode and it has more than enough defense points to protect me, sorry." Namia smirked as Mako frowned and ended his own turn.
Namia Drew, and instantly, she knew how to turn Mako's whole strategy around. "I'm sorry, but your going to lose Mako!" she stated triumphantly.
"How do you figure? Mako questioned.
Namia just tossed him a card. "Now I would like to special summon that card by offering the two monsters on your side of the field." she stated, Mako just stared in horror at the card she tossed him.
"No, you can't." he said, looking up at her. Then, he nodded in solemnest. He tributed the two monsters on his field and slid Lava Golem (3000/2500) in attack mode. The overlarge golem appeared in the front of Mako's field, and it immediately began to melt. "Are you done?" Mako questioned. He had been over come with despair.
"Yeah, so go." Namia smiled as Mako's move dropped his LP.
Namia-3100
Mako-8600
"I- I'm done with my turn." Mako said after he drew.
"Well now, looks like your about to lose!" Namia smirked. "Now I'll activate Monster Reborn, to revive Solar Flare Dragon (1500/1000)." the mighty dragon appeared on the field and roared. "And since you lose 500 LP during my end phases, you'll lose 1500 LP total every two turns!" she said, relieved that she managed to gain the upper hand in the duel.
"I'm not out yet!" Mako yelled as he drew. "Hah, Cure Mermaid, now I'll get 800 LP back, even though I lose 1500!" he yelled, the ray of hope he needed was here. Namia frowned. 'Now he's going to keep getting LP back, this is going to take a while."' Mako then ended his turn.
"Now you'll see the power of my deck!" Namia stated, she drew, and smirked. "Now I'll activate, Bad Reaction to Simochi, which will reverse the effect of LP gain, sorry, your still going to lose LP, and now even more!" Namia yelled.
Mako twitched in frustration as she ended her turn. "Now I'll go." he drew, and smirked. "Now I'll finish this duel." he inserted a Magic card into his duel disk. "Now, let me show you the power of The Fortress Whale's Oath, which means that I'll sacrifice the two monsters on my field, to summon Fortress Whale (2550/2350) and now I'll play, Giant trunade, to blow all Magic, and trap cards back into our hands!" Mako smirked at his start of a comeback. "This is the end for you! Fortress Whale (2350/2150), attack her Molten Behemoth (1000/2200) " he declared the attack, and the 30ft what slipped under the water, and resurfaced up above the Behemoth. Then it slammed down, blowing the other beast into digital dust. "Now, I'll reactivate my field magic card, The Legendary Ocean, and end my turn." he set the card in the field Magic card zone, and motioned for her to make her move.
Namia-3100
Mako-6800
The duel had so suddenly switched around in favor of Mako, Namia was just staring at the field. 'I'll never win at this rate, but I can't give up!"' she told her self, she drew, praying for a pyro monster. 'No, fire, but not pyro, oh well, my Dragon's doomed."' she thought to herself. "Summon Iron Blacksmith Kotetsu (500/500) in defense mode, and now I'll set this card face down, as well as switch my Dragon to defense mode (1000) that's it for me."
Namia-3100
Mako-6300
"Hahahaha, now I'll show you the power of water!" Mako drew and smirked. "Now prepare for the end, I'll summon Gagagigo (2050/1200) and he has over 2000 attack, thanks to the legendary ocean. So now, I'll attack, destroy her monsters my creature, you first, Gagagigo, attack her Dragon!" he declared the attack and his newly summoned creature rushed to destroy the Dragon.
"Hah, you've activated my trap card, a little something I like to call, Backfire, now, whenever a fire monster is sent to the graveyard from the field, you lose 500 LP!" Namia cried triumphantly.
"Who cares, you can only summon once per turn, so I'll just get in two direct attacks, and you'll lose." Mako stated simply. "Now, my Whale, attack her Kotetsu!" the monster repeated the action that destroyed the Behemoth to obliterate her final defense. "End turn." Mako stated.
Namia-3100
Mako-5300
"Wow, she sure knows how to turn things around, doesn't she, Kou?" Sei asked his fanged friend. Once again, he was ignored as Kou was staring to intently at the match to hear the question that was directed towards him.
Shisei only sighed and began to watch the match again.
'Okay, now I'm close to done, I have no defense monsters already set, and I'm only a turn away from losing the duel."' Namia recapped her plight, as she put her hand over her deck. 'Please be a card I can use!"' she silently prayed. She slid the card off of her deck. As she looked at it, she was shocked. Tears of joy began to stream down her cheeks. "I'm sorry, Mako, but I won." she stated wiping her eyes.
"Yeah right, you bluff to much!" Mako said. Though he couldn't hide the fact that he was worried.
"First, I'll play Card of Sanctity!" she yelled. "Now we each draw until we have 6 cards in our hands." the fire and water duelist did so. "After this, I'll remove my Solar Flare Dragon from play, to special summon, Inferno(1000/1900)." A giant flaming creature that was undistinguishable except for the flames surrounding it appeared. "Next, Shield and Sword will Switch attack and defense values for one turn." Namia set the third card in her series down.
"Where is all of this nonsense going?" Mako questioned, rolling his eyes.
"Just watch, now I'll play Riryouki, which will add half of your Fortress Whale's (2550/2350)attack, to my Inferno's (1900/1100), giving it a total of 3175attack points." Two orbs of energy appeared and drainedstrength fromthe whalewhile adding it to the Inferno."Then I'll play Soul Release, and remove my Burning Inpachi, Behemoth, and Kotetsu from the game." the card's effect activated, and the cards were ejected from the graveyard. "Finally, Return from a different Dimension allows me to play as many monsters as I can that were removed from play, so all of my monsters will return to me!" Namia raiser her hands up as the beasts came back to her. "Unfortunately, that will cost me 2000 of my LP, but it's a price to pay, to destroy you!" she yelled. "Now, Inferno (3175/1100), Destroy his Fortress Whale (1275/2350)!" she shouted to the flames of power. "And when you lose a monster to Inferno, you also lose 1500 LP!" she continued.
Namia-1100
Mako-1800
"NO!" Mako cried out, not so much because of his LP drop, but because he had just seen his precious Fortress Whale destroyed.
"And now, my Solar Dragon will destroy Gagagigo, and my other monsters shall direct attack! Now my creatures, end this duel!" the beasts obliged, and Solar Flare Dragon destroyed the Gagagigo and then Burning Inpachi finished the duel.
Namia-1100
Mako-0
Mako fell to his knees, he knew he had been defeated, but it was his own fault, now he would never find his father. "Hey, don't be so down!" Namia walked over and stated. Mako looked up and she helped him to his feet. "Thanks, Mako."
"For what?" Mako questioned, bewildered.
"For showing me my limits, and letting me know that I could win, even in the bleakest of situations, I thank you for this." she stated.
Mako smiled. Namia returned the smile.
"YAYYYYY!" the entire stadium cheered for the two extraordinary duelists. As they left the stage.
"Now that's sportsmanship, eh folks." the announcer questioned rhetorically. "But , any ways , now the next match is scheduled to begin, that's right, Kouichi Nandao vs. Rex Raptor, will the duelist please report to the duel arena.
Kou looked down at the arena and took a deep breath. "Well, Sei, wish me luck!" he ordered, and then, he jumped over the railing, ready to test his skill against a regional champ.
Next time: Kou and Rex both start off with some of the best combos in the game, but can Kou really beat a regional champion, and what is with Osmos, what is he looking for? Find out next time on: Duel Monsters Maximum!
