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Chapter 36: Paladin Chaos
Shisei groaned under the weight of the items he brought. 'Why did I bring so many Duelist Weekly magazines!"' he asked himself dejectedly. He struggled for a few more minutes, unnoticed by Namia and Ryuko. "Guys… Let's stop for a bit!" he finally collapsed, managing to squeeze this out before hand.
Namia blinked at the state of the blond, he did look really exhausted. She sighed and sat on a boulder. "Ryuko, let's stop for Shisei." she stated.
Ryuko looked at the blond as well, he sighed and began to back towards the hill with his hands behind his head and looking at Shisei with disapproval. "Why did you bri-AUGH!" he was about to tell Sei off before he hit a small pebble backing away. Shisei and Namia weren't listening and only just saw him fall.
"RYUKO!" Namia lunged forward to grab him and only shot over the slightly steep hill herself. Shisei struggled to get up. Just as he came to the hill, he lost his little balance and sailed over the edge.
"AHHHHHHHH!" he cried along with Ryuko and Namia. CRASH! All three of the duelists rested in an odd pile at the bottom of the hill, Shisei moaned in pain and got up to see the Magician of Black Chaos looking at him. "AH!" he backed up, not realizing it was a hologram. Ryuko snickered as Shisei saw the full view.
"What's wrong, afraid of dueling now cause you suck!" Ryuko laughed.
Namia looked at the two dueling men. One of them was a girl with eight fingers around her neck. She had black hair and wore glasses similar to Sei's. The other was a rough looking boy with a bowl bang haircut and dog tags around his neck. He had three fingers positioned on his ring. "Sei, she has one of the fingers we need to have ten!" Namia stated excitedly.
"I noticed." Shisei said, intently watching the duel finish.
Girl's LP/Field/Hand-4600/Attack mode Dark Magician of Chaos (2800/2600) one card facedown/Two hand cards
Boy's LP-2100/Attack mode Barrel Dragon (2600/2200)/Four hand cards
It was the girl's turn. "Alright," she began. "I'll start by attacking Barrel Dragon!" The odd looking Dark Magician before her leapt forward and blasted the cybernetic dragon apart.
"Nice, but I you can't win with just this turn girly!" The boy was obviously happy he wouldn't be losing anytime soon. He was wrong about that.
"I'm not done yet, I use the magic card I took back when I summoned the Dark Magician of Chaos, Monster Reborn!" A rebirth symbol appeared and the Dark Magician glowed behind it. "I revive the original Dark Magician (2500/2100) in attack mode!" Purple robed and proud, the magician appeared before her. "Start taking that finger off now, I use my facedown card, Replay, and split my LP to use Double Spell again, then I discard this card and use your previously discarded Quick Attack!" The duel was definitely over, as the newest mage blasted it's opponent's LP to dust.
Girl-2300
Boy-0
The boy fell to his knees and as he saw the girl approach him, he gave her the finger they must have bet and she added it to her other eight. "Thank you!" she smiled as he left dejectedly through the woods.
Shisei smirked and removed a middle finger, the type of finger she needed to have ten of them all. "Hey, want to duel!" he asked. BAM! Namia smacked him upside the head as the girl turned to the three friends. "Ow! Why did you do that, Namia!" Sei glared but Namia hopped over to the girl and held out a hand to shake.
"My name is Namia Sashimi, the regional champion of London, you!" Namia inquired politely. The girl frowned.
"Um, Reiko Watanabe, and I accept your challenge!" She smirked and readied her disk without waiting for Shisei's name. Namia put her hands up exasperated and muttered something about boys, to which she quickly added "and some girls".
"Shisei Aragashi, I was also wondering something else, before we get started." Sei began after giving his name.
"What?" the girl was busy preparing her deck from the last duel.
"Do you play with all Dark Magician cards, or cards that could be used to help him?" asked Sei. She stopped her shuffling and nodded. "Missing any?" Sei finished, praying the answer was yes.
"Yeah, but only the one. The Dark Paladin." she said sadly.
"Then let's ante a card as well, I'll give you my Dark Paladin if you agree to give me your Dark Magician of Chaos. It's the one of the only cards I need to complete my strategies." he said. He smiled as he thought about owning that card when he faced Yugi in the finals.
Reiko thought for a moment, then nodded. "Okay, I'll give you the card if you win." she agreed. "Now let's stop talking and duel!" she smiled and readied her disk.
Reiko-8000
Shisei-8000
"I start!" Reiko drew and smiled. "Summon Skilled Dark Magician (1900/1700) in attack mode, and I set one card facedown, go!" she stated, egging Shisei on.
"I start with three cards facedown, go!" Shisei smiled, happy with his standard opening move.
"No monsters? That's a sad opening play." Reiko obviously didn't know Sei's strategy, so she wasn't aware he always started off like this.
"I'll now draw." she slid her top card off her deck and looked at it. "I play Pitch Black Power Stone, which wi-" she cut off as a facedown card on Sei's field flipped.
"Nice try, but I play Dust Tornado, and wipe your card off the field!" he smirked. A raging flurry of tornadoes with feathers swirling through them appeared and blew three glowing stones of power away. Reiko gritted her teeth.
"Fine, I just attack you directly! Go Skilled Dark Magician (1900/1700), Dark Magic Attack!" she smirked as the mage powered up and let a huge blast of energy fly at Shisei. Just as the dark energy approached the boy, he flipped a card and it fizzled out.
"Say hello to Nightmare Wheel!" An odd machine appeared and grasped the monster in itself. "This will stop your monster from attacking and defending!" Sei smirked.
"Fine, go!" Reiko glared as Sei drew. 'This kid doesn't seem to have a Dark Magician deck at all, what's his real strategy!" Reiko wondered to herself.
"I start with Fatal Abacus, which gives a player 500 points of damage every time they lose a monster!" Shisei smirked. "I end my turn with one card facedown and Spell Absorption!" A glowing aura of green appeared around him and his magic/trap slot filled up with his facedown cards, Fatal Abacus, Nightmare Wheel, and Spell Absorption.
"Fine, I draw!" She slid her next card off of her deck and growled looking at it as her LP decreased.
Reiko-7500
Shisei-8000
"Oh, and Nightmare Wheel also makes you lose 500 of your LP at each of your standby phases." Shisei added.
"I know. Now I sacrifice my monster for the Chaos Command Magician (2400/1900) in attack mode!" A new monster, this one looking as deadly as the Dark Magician, only considerably less darker, appeared. "I lose another 500 LP to do this, but the pay off is much better, ATTACK!" The magician formed a light vortex of energy, only to be blasted with lightning from the sky. "What happened!" Reiko did the same thing many other duelists do, ignore her opponent's field as her monster was blasted to pieces.
"I played Raigeki Break, which let me discard my last card to blow one of your cards away!" smirked the blond across from her. "So you lost 1500 LP total and it's only been two turns!" Shisei snickered, proud of his opening chains.
"Don't count me out yet, I activate Call of the Haunted, and -" she cut herself off as she saw a glittering ring of bombs appear on her newly reformed monster. "Ring of Destruction." she muttered to herself, sliding the ejected card into her graveyard slot again.
Reiko-3600
Shisei-5600
"You got it right! I'm shocked!" snickered Shisei, proud of his depleted hand and her depleted LP. "Done yet?" he asked.
Reiko smiled slightly as she set down a card. "Your sadly, the same as all the other duelists I've faced, so confident in your strategy you can't see it's flaws." she took two of her four hand cards and discarded them while pressing another card into her magic/trap slot. "I play Polymerization to fuse the two cards I just discarded, D.D. Warrior Lady and Dark Magician Girl!" Shadows of a girl with blue robes tinged with pink and a female warrior wearing silver armor appeared behind her. "Now they fuse into: D.D. Paladin Girl (2000/1500) in attack mode!" she smirked.
Shisei looked at this new monster in shock. The monster itself was a blue armored woman with an oddly shaped sword in her hands. It glowed with white light. "I never heard of that monster!" he admitted freely.
"So you haven't, to bad. I have to end my turn unfortunately, as Polymerization would have had to be activated during my Main Phase 2." she sighed sadly as her D.D. Paladin Girl (2600/2100) floated in front of her protectively.
"HEY! How did your monster get so much stronger!" yelled Shisei in shock at the increase in attack.
"Simple, my monster gains 300 attack and defense points for every monster that includes Magician in it's title that falls to either of our graveyards!" Reiko snickered and Shisei gulped at realizing exactly how screwed he was.
Reiko-3600
Shisei-6100
"Fine, I draw!" he did so with little hope in winning. "I now set one card, go!" he stated. Reiko eyed the card and drew.
"I use the second ability of my monster and remove these two cards from the game," Reiko began. She slid two hand cards into her purse and the D.D. Paladin Girl (2600/2100) concentrated for a moment before blasting the Spell Absorption and the facedown card into another dimension.
"Your monster removes cards?" Shisei asked.
"That's right, I have to remove cards from my hand or field to activate it's removal effect, but now you have no traps to spring!" Reiko stated proudly. Shisei looked at his field and realized this was true, and both he and his opponent were out of hand cards. "Now my D.D. Paladin will directly attack you!" The female paladin raised a glowing blade and cut into Sei's shoulder.
Reiko-3600
Shisei-4500
"I'm done, make your move!" She smiled politely as Shisei drew.
"I think it's time for a refill, I play Card of Demise!" he drew five cards and his eyes went wide. "You want to see whose Paladin is stronger!" he asked. Reiko's eyes went wide as well. "I play Remove Trap on my Fatal Abacus!" the calculating machine with the heads of monsters disappeared. "Next I activate Monster Reborn and summon Chaos Command Magician (2400/1900) to my field!" the magician reappeared as Sei said it would. "Next comes Cost down, and I sacrifice your loser of a monster, for the Dark Magician!" Sei smirked as his favorite monster appeared.
"So you do actually have a Dark Magician. I was wondering for a second there." Reiko said. Shisei didn't even hear her.
"I'm now activating Card of Sanctity and draw six cards." he did so, looking them over quickly. "Finally, I'll activate Polymerization, to fuse both my hand Buster Blader, and Dark Magician to become, the Dark Paladin (2900/2400)!" A black armored Paladin appeared and smirked. The female version of the Dark Paladin only smirked, now that Shisei had a Dark Magician in his graveyard, D.D. Paladin Girl had the same attack power.
"If you haven't noticed, our monsters tie in attack, so unless you come up with a really good strategy, I can blow your monster away with my D.D. Paladin Girl's (2900/2400) effect!" Reiko exclaimed happily.
"I also place two cards facedown, go." Shisei finished. Reiko looked at his monster with awe, she had always dreamed of owning the Dark Paladin since it was released.
'I have to win to claim that monster! No matter what!"' she though to herself. "I start by drawing!" She drew but didn't even look at the card before pressing the effect activate button on her disk. "I remove this card and remove Dark Paladin (2900/2400) from play as well!" she smirked, but Sei activated one of his facedown cards.
"I play De-fusion, and cancel out your effect by summoning Dark Magician (2500/2100) back to the field in defense mode, and Buster Blader (2600/2300) in attack-no defense! Oh crap!" Shisei moaned as he realized he'd made one of the stupidest mistakes ever.
Reiko laughed. "Smooth blondy! My monster's effect may have been negated, but I can still attack your Buster Blader (2600/2300)!" D.D. Paladin Girl (2600/2100), weaker because Dark Magician had escaped the grave, charged forward and slashed at Shisei's monster, dragon wings popping out of her back as Shisei activated a facedown card.
"Activate DNA Surgery, and this lets me change the type of all monster to the one I declare, I call Dragon!" all of the monsters suddenly sprouted wings and their eyes became slits. "This gives my Buster Blader (3100/2300) the boost of attack he needs to blow your Paladin Girl away!" the big and burly swordsman slashed through the other warrior.
"NO!" Reiko moaned but pressed another button on her disk. "I use my monster's last effect, which removes both our monsters from the game." she finished sadly. Shisei shrugged and took his monster off the disk to slide it into his back pocket.
Reiko-3100
Shisei-4500
"Now it's my turn!" Shisei drew and frowned. "I switch Dark Magician (2500/2100) to attack mode and play attack your LP." he finished bored. "I end by setting three more cards." he did so, leaving one card in his hand.
Reiko-600
Shisei-4500
Reiko gulped as she realized she could lose in the next turn. "I draw!" she did so and slid the card into the disk. "I play Pot of Greed!" she slid two more cards from her deck. Her eyes went impossible wide as she saw them. "I'm about to show you my ultimate monster, activate Change of Heart!" Dark Magician looked wicked for a moment as it jumped to Reiko's side of the field.
"Hey!" Shisei growled. Nobody took his monsters like that.
"Tough, I also play the final card in your defeat…. Dedication Through Light and Darkness, which let's me trade the Dark Magician in, for a new monster…!" The world began to glow with an unholy light. The Dark Magician grabbed it's head and squeezed it's eyes shut in pain. Finally letting go of his head, his body was consumed by the light, and he emerged with a tough and rugged look on his face, as well as with a new and considerable odder attire. He waved his new wand and a pot appeared before him. "Say hello to the Dark Magician of Chaos (2800/2600)! I use his effect to re use Pot of Greed!" Reiko smirked and drew twice more. She smiled widely again. "This is the end for you, I activate Monster Reborn, and revive your own Dark Magician (2500/2100)!" she laughed still more. "Now I end it with Heavy Storm, so your last defenses are gone!" Shisei's three facedown cards disappeared with a great and powerful storm.
"No way!" Shisei said aloud, awed by such power. He looked at his single hand card and hoped he was going to get lucky.
"This is it, Dark Magician of Chaos (2800/2600), Dark Magician (2500/2100) blow his LP to pieces!" Both the warrior and the mage bent their knees, and lunged in for the kill.
To be continued
Next Time: The duel heats up as the Dark Magician of Chaos squares off against Shisei's best monsters. But when it comes down to the deciding battle, Shisei finds himself relying on a certain card Osmos gave him (anyone remember it?). Can he possible win against a girl that matches his skill with monsters to her magic and traps? Find out next time on Duel Monsters Maximum!
To Rex: Ah, the power of creative editing. I thought about using his effect from the anime, but I didn't feel like all the "how did that happen" dialogue.
To Myhi: MWHAHAHAHAHAAAA! It's the evil power of the author to keep his readers in the dark. Actually, I got tired of Kou, so I killed him. If he interests me again, I'll bring him back. (yawns bored)
