Disclaimer: See Chapter 19 for details
Chapter 20: The Black Gate Test, Part IV: Next In Line
"One down. Who is going to be next?" Damien teased. "Oh well, I'll set this one card face down and end my turn." (Okay, I have to get rid of that Lord of Dragons in my next turn, because, thanks to that, Plasma Eel doesn't affect the Blue Eyes White Dragon.) he thought.
Yugi drew. "You will pay for that!" he announced.
"Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Wrong again! You'll be paying Yugi, with your life points first!" he declared as he gained life points. (D's LP: 11950)
"That's enough! You will pay for this by the end of this duel! Now, I summon Big Shield Gardna (100/2600) in defense mode and set one card face down. That will end my turn."
"No it won't!" Damien interrupted. "Your Valkyrion will pay as my Plasma Eel lowers its attack to 3000!" he announced.
"Look out hot shot! I set one card face down and summon Amazoness Paladin (1700/300) in defense mode. Then, I'll set one card face down to end my turn." She announced while Kevin drew.
(He's gonna pay for destroying Tea..) he thought, studying his cards and field. "Now I sacrifice Luster Dragon #2 in order to summon Kaiser Glider (2400/2200) in attack mode! Then I'll play Dragon Treasure, increasing its attack power by 300 points to 2700!" he exclaimed. (Just try attacking me now...) he thought watching Damien, who rolled his eyes at Kevin. He softly growled.
"In case you've forgotten already, Cyber-Tech Alligator's attack is lowered to 2000 now thanks to my Plasma Eel! Soon, I'll destroy you!"
Kaiba drew. (Let's see. I don't want to sacrifice Lord of Dragons, but I can sacrifice my Blue Eyes and be rid of that accursed Plasma Eel. And I just drew a card I can use.) he thought. "I now sacrifice my Blue Eyes White Dragon!" he declared as the dragon glowed, about to be sacrificed.
"Hold on Kaiba! I'm no amateur! Reverse trap card, Sacrifice Shift! With this magic card, I decide which monster you sacrifice, for the bargain price of 1000 life points!" he exclaimed happily. (D's LP: 10950)
"Now you will sacrifice Lord of Dragons!" he ordered as the dragon returned to its normal state, and the magician monster disappeared.
"In order to summon Twilight Zone Dragon (1200/1500)!" he announced as the freestyle dragon came onto the field.
"Now I'll end my move." He angrily stated.
"What's that!? I couldn't hear you over my plasma eel weakening your strongest monster to 2500 attack points!" laughed Damien.
Joey drew. (Luckily for me, I'm plasma eel free. Heh heh that rhymes.) he thought. "I'll summon Panther Warrior (2000/1600) in defense mode and then I'll set this one card face down and end my turn."
Damien drew. (D's LP: 11450) "Even more luck! Because I've drawn Card Destruction!" he snickered while everyone discarded their hands and drew new ones. No one's strategy was badly ruined. (D's LP: 11950)
"Look at what I've drawn! It's a card that will help me destroy one of you in two turns! Go my mighty Different Dimension Capsule!" he yelled as a blue capsule formed from the ground. "Now I can seal this card in my capsule from my deck and remove it from play for 2 turns! Then, the card automatically comes into my hand! So in my second turn from now, one of you will be gone." He threatened as everyone became worried.
"Now then, I'll summon Infernalqueen Archfiend (900/1500) in defense mode and then I can discard this Desrook Archfiend from my hand to instantly special summon my Terrorking Archfiend (2000/1500) back to the field in defense mode. To finish my move, I'll discard two cards from my hand to invoke my deck master special ability!" he announced as even more blue orbs flew into his deck master. (D's LP: 28975)
(NO WAY! He has almost 30,000 life points!) Joey thought.
Yugi automatically drew. "Hmm. I sacrifice Big Shield Gardna in order to summon Death Volstargaf (2200/1700)!" he announced as his gigantic demon rose onto the field. "Now I'll end my turn." (D's LP: 30475)
Mai drew. "My move!" she announced, "and I'll start by summoning Amazon Chain Master (1500/1300)!" Another amazon monster with a golden chain materialized on the field. "I'll end my turn here."
Kevin drew. "Let's see. I can't sacrifice Cyber Tech Alligator and I've got Kaiser Glider on the field, with the same attack power as Mystical Knight of Jackal. Hmm..." he pondered, (I've got it!) "Kaiser Glider, attack Mystical Knight of Jackal!" commanded Kevin as everyone stared at him, however Kaiser Glider unleashed a golden fire blast, melting at the knight. Kaiser Glider remained on the field.
"What?!" Damien yelled. "Your monster should be destroyed as well."
"But he wasn't thanks to his special effect. Whenever my monster battles a monster with the same attack strength, it's not destroyed." He explained while ending his turn: (Cyber-Tech Alligator: 1500/1600)
Kaiba drew. (Ah. Not bad) "Now I summon Twin Headed Behemoth (1500/1200) in defense mode, then I'll end my turn." (Blue Eyes White Dragon: 2000/2500)
(If I can draw a dark monster, I can set him up for my Crush Card combo. No one had better force me to throw away this hand.) thought Kaiba.
Joey drew. "Go! Wyvern Warrior (1500/1200) in defense mode! Then I'll activate Dice of Defense! Roll!" he commanded while the die dropped. It slowly came to a stop on 5. "A five! Oh yeah! That boosts Wyvern Warrior's defense power by 2000 to 3200! I'm untouchable!" he snickered.
Damien drew. (D's LP: 35475) "First, I activate another card you all may remember! Advanced Placement! Ta-da!" he announced as he drew 3 cards from his deck, while his five opponents each drew one.
"Now to activate my deck master special ability!" he chuckled.
"Hold on! You've activated my trap card!" Kevin yelled. "Full Graveyard! For the rest of your turn you can't discard more than one card per effect into the graveyard!" he slyly smiled. "Plus, you lose 60% if you have more life points than I do!" he added. (D's LP: 14190)
(Oh no. Then I have to pay for my Archfiend monsters) thought Damien. (D's LP: 12890)
Damien growled. "If you think I'm done, you're sadly mistaken. I activate this magic card next, Pandemonium!" he announced as the arena transformed into a dark, devilish battlefield. "This magic card removes my payment for archfiend monsters and when one is destroyed I can search my deck for a new one that has a lower level than the one destroyed!"
"Now that that's finished, time to destroy your Amazon Chain Master." He stated. Mai smirked. "Terrorking Archfiend, attack the Amazon Chain Master!" he commanded while the demon slashed the amazon monster.
"Reverse trap! Mirror Wall!" Mai sprung while a reflective wall immediately created a boundary between Amazon Chain Master and Terrorking Archfiend.
"Terrorking Archfiend Dice Roll!" retorted Damien while a die dropped on the playing field.
"You see, if I roll a 2 or a 5, your Mirror Wall will be destroyed and I can continue my attack." Damien explained while the die began to roll. It landed on a 1. He growled while Mai sighed a sigh of relief. (Terrorking Archfiend: 1000/1500)
"I'm not done yet!" he interrupted. "I activate Return to Base! For the bargain price of 1500 life points I can return Terrorking Archfiend to my hand!" he snickered while the monster's essence flew back to its card on the duel disk and then Damien snatched it and added it to his hand. (D's LP: 11390)
"Now I can activate Tribute to the Doomed! By discarding Terrorking Archfiend, I can destroy Amazon Chain Master!" he explained while a mummy bandage wrapped around her.
"But hold on. Amazon Chain Master has an effect!" Mai responded. "Before she leaves, she lets me steal one card from your deck!" she explained as the halfway-mummified amazon wound-up her chain.
(Great. I don't know what monster this guy has in his deck, but almost every high powerful duelist I know keeps one of these in their decks.) she thought. "And the card I choose is Raigeki!" she announced while her amazon threw the chain at Damien's deck, striking the card and throwing it backwards, where Mai caught it.
"Next turn I'm going to get to blow your defense away, and then we'll win this duel!" she declared.
"I'll summon Darkbishop Archfiend (300/1400) in defense mode and end my turn." Damien grumbled.
"But before you do, take a look at my trap card!" Yugi exclaimed while a card flipped up. "Compulsory Evacuation Device! With this trap I can return one card on the field back to its owner's hand!" he explained.
"I'll choose to return Magnet Valkyrion to my hand, which will destroy your Kiseitai and Plasma Eel!" he declared while the two attachments exploded and the magnet warrior's essence flew into his card that Yugi snatched from his plate.
Yugi drew. "Now I summon Retrained Elven Swordsman (1400/1200) in attack mode! Then I'll discard Magnet Valkyrion from my hand to special summon Alpha, Beta, and Gamma the magnet warriors back from the graveyard!" he explained as his three magnets materialized from under a black vortex.
"Now remember my Death Volstargaf? He gains 200 attack points for each magic card played while he's on the field, and I count 4. So now Death Volstargaf (3000) attack Darkbishop Archfiend!" commanded Yugi while the demon unleashed his metallic blue blast, completely annihilating the archfiend monster.
"Have you forgotten about my powerful Pandemonium magic card? I can add a level 2 Archfiend monster to my hand, the only one there is: Vilepawn Archfiend! Next turn, you won't be able to attack my Archfiend monsters!" said Damien. Mai drew.
"Not unless we can destroy them so get ready!" Mai announced while she drew. "I activate the magic card I stole from you, Raigeki!" she announced, while a lightning bolt came an impaled Infernalqueen Archfiend.
(I think Mai should have saved that card when he had more monsters on the field.) Kevin thought.
"Now I switch Amazoness Paladin into attack mode! Amazoness Paladin attack his life points directly!" Mai commanded as the paladin chopped at Damien with her sword. (D's LP: 9590)
"To finish my move I'll summon Amazoness Swords Woman (1500/1600) in attack mode, which also boosts the attack power of my Amazoness Paladin by 100 points." She explained.
Kevin drew. (Hey this card could help soon.) he thought. "I activate Cost Down! Then I can summon Meteor Dragon (1800/2000) in attack mode! Meteor Dragon and Kaiser Glider attack Damien's life points immediately!" he commanded while a scorching red fireball joined the golden fire blast attack on Damien's life points. (D's LP: 5390). Damien simply shrugged off the attack. (Cyber Tech Alligator: 1000/1500)
Kaiba drew. (Ah! Finally I can destroy that stupid Plasma Eel!) he thought. "I activate Fusion! Now Blue Eyes White Dragon fuse with my other 2 Blue Eyes White Dragons!" he announced while everyone, especially Kevin, watched in awe.
"Reveal Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon (4500/3800)! Now go my Ultimate Dragon and feed on his life points! Neutron Blast attack!" commanded Kaiba while the mighty dragon unleashed three lightning blasts, which merged in mid air and aimed directly at Damien.
"Finally someone falls into this trap! Activate trap card, Chaos Field!" he announced as his trap shook, and the three headed lightning blast paused. "Now this will pit your strongest monster against your team's weakest!" he announced as Alpha the Magnet Warrior appeared on Damien's field.
"Feel the wrath of your "friend", Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon!" said Damien while the lightning blast resumed, completely blowing through Yugi's magnet warrior. "And not only that, but since the attack ironically has 3100 damage on Yugi's life points, he loses the duel!" laughed Damien.
"Wrong." replied Yugi. "Because my trap card has saved me, just like yours saved you!" he announced as Damien recovered from his state of shock. "Since your attack would take away over 2000 of my life points, my Nutrient Z trap card gives me 4000 extra life points (Y's LP: 7000) before your attack does any damage." He explained. (Y's LP: 3900)
"Very well." He announced while Joey drew.
"I switch Panther Warrior into attack mode and then sacrifice a scapegoat so my panther can attack your life points directly!" Joey announced while the blue goat disappeared and Panther Warrior flew full speed at Damien and his life points. (D's LP: 3390)
"Yeah! We almost got him down to zero!" Joey cheered. Damien drew.
(Augh! This card won't let me draw anything.) he thought.
"Yeah!" Kevin cheered. "Apparently he can't draw any cards, so his life points won't be going up!"
"On the contrary." Damien unfortunately interrupted. "My Different Dimension Capsule magic card returns the card I've chosen to my hand." He explained while the capsule door opened and the back of a card flew onto Damien's plate, which he snatched and added to his hand.
"Are you ready to see what I've chosen? It's going to bring one of you down right this very turn!" he explained while the gang looked at each other, except Kaiba. "It's one of two magic cards I personally created for this duel! Final Flash!" he exclaimed while he activated the magic card. Instantly a giant golden twister appeared on the field and absorbed everyone's deck master onto the playing field.
"No way! A magic card that forces us to summon our deck master!" Mai yelled.
"Wait Mai. We're not in any danger, because he has the weakest deck master of all of us!" Joey reassured.
"Look again Joey. He wouldn't have activated that magic card if it wasn't going to help him. He has some plan to destroy one of our deck masters, and when it goes, so do we." Yugi responded.
"Ding ding ding!" Damien proclaimed. "Yugi's right. Remember those blew orbs that flew into Kisetai every time I activated its deck master special ability? Well those orbs are about to finish one of you off, because Kisetai has 23 of those blue orbs in him, so his attack points increase by 2300!" explained Damien much to the gang's demise as Kiseitai's strength rose to 2600.
"Go Kiseitai, finish off Mai by attacking the Cyber Harpie!" instructed Damien as the parasite wrapped itself around Mai's deck master, squeezing it tightly until it exploding into dust. "As you know, when the deck master is gone, so is the duelist!" he laughed as he snapped his fingers and Mai disappeared in the same style as Tea.
"And let me just go ahead and tell you all, next on my agenda to eliminate is Kevin." He announced while Joey was hurt by Mai's departure.
(That's two down, four to go. And they don't even know some of the secrets that lie inside my deck!) laughed Damien to himself.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CARDS PLAYED ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Big Shield Gardna: ****/100/2600/ Warrior /Desc: If this Monster is facedown when a Magic card targets it, negate that Magic card. At that time, this Monster changes to face-up defense mode. At the end of a Damage Step in which this Monster was attacked, it changes to attack mode.
Amazoness Paladin: ****/1700/300/ Warrior /Desc: Increase this card's attack strength by 100 for each Monster card on your Field with [Amazoness] in its name.
Kaiser Glider: *******/2400/2200/ Dragon /Desc: This card is not destroyed when it battles a monster with the same ATK. When this card is destroyed and sent to the graveyard, return 1 monster on the field to its owner's hand.
Dragon Treasure: EQUIP MAGIC/Desc: A Dragon-Type monster equipped with this card increases its ATK and DEF by 300 points.
Sacrifice Shift: TRAP/Desc: Pay 1000 life points. Until the End Phase in which this card is activated, whenever your opponent plans to sacrifice a monster, you may select which monster is to be sacrificed.
Twilight Zone Dragon: *****/1200/1500/ Dragon /Desc: The effect of a Spell or Trap card cannot destroy this card unless the spell or trap card has a specific target. This monster is not destroyed as a result of battle when it battles a monster with an ATK of 1900 or less.
Panther Warrior: ****/2000/1600/ Beast-Warrior /Desc: You must sacrifice a monster on your side of the field for this card to attack.
Card Destruction: MAGIC/Desc: Both players must discard their current hands and draw the same number of the cards they discarded from their respective decks.
Different Dimension Capsule: MAGIC/Desc: After this card is activated, it remains face up on the field until your second standby phase. Select 1 card from your deck, and then shuffle your deck. Remove the selected card from play and place it facedown. During your second standby phase, destroy this card and add the selected card to your hand.
Infernalqueen Archfiend: ****/900/1500/ Fiend /Desc: The controller of this card pays 500 Life Points during each of his/her Standby Phases (this is not optional). When this card is specifically designated as a target of the effect of a card controlled by your opponent, when resolving the effect, roll a six-sided die. If the result is 2 or 5, negate the effect and destroy the opponent's card. As long as this card remains on the field, during each Standby Phase increase the ATK of 1 Archfiend monster by 1000 points.
Desrook Archfiend: ***/1100/1800/ Fiend /Desc: The controller of this card pays 500 Life Points during each of his/her Standby Phases (this is not optional). When this card is specifically designated as a target of the effect of a card controlled by your opponent, when resolving the effect, roll a six-sided die. If the result is 3, negate the effect and destroy the opponent's card. When a "Terrorking Archfiend" on your side of the field is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, you can send this card from your hand to the Graveyard to Special Summon the "Terrorking Archfiend".
Death Volstargaf: *****/2200/1700/ Fiend /Desc: When this monster inflicts battle damage, inflict 500 points of direct damage to your opponent's life points. This monster's attack points increase by 200 for every magic card played.
Amazon Chain Master: ****/1500/1300/ Warrior /Desc: When this monster is sent to the graveyard by a card effect, take one card from your opponent's deck and add it to your hand.
Twin Headed Behemoth: ****/1500/1200/ Dragon /Desc: If this monster is destroyed and sent to the graveyard, it is special summoned with an ATK and DEF of 1000 during the end phase of the turn. This effect can only be used once during the current duel.
Wyvern Warrior: ****/1500/1200/ Warrior Type
Dice of Defense: EQUIP MAGIC/Desc: Equip this to one face-up defense position monster on your side of the field. Roll a 6-sided die. The rolled number is multiplied by the equipped monster's level and the result is added to their defense points.
Full Graveyard: TRAP/Desc: For the remainder of the turn that this card is activated, your opponent cannot discard more than 1 card from his or her hand per effect. Cut your opponent's life points 60% if they have more life points than you do.
Pandemonium: FIELD MAGIC/Desc: Neither player has to pay Life Points during the Standby Phase for Archfiend monsters. Each time a player's Archfiend Monster Card(s) are destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, except as a result of battle, that player can select 1 Archfiend Monster Card from his/her Deck that has fewer Level Stars than the destroyed card and add it to his/her hand.
Mirror Wall: PERMANENT TRAP/Desc: Reduce the ATK of all of your opponent's attacking Monsters by half.
Return to Base: TRAP/Desc: Pay 1500 life points. Return one monster on your side of the field back to your hand. You may also pay 1000 more life points to special summon a monster with less stars than the returned monster to the field. (tributes still apply for level 5 and up)
Tribute to the Doomed: MAGIC/Desc: Discard 1 card from you hand to the Graveyard to destroy 1 Monster Card on the field (regardless of position).
Darkbishop Archfiend: ***/300/1400/ Fiend /Desc: The controller of this card pays 500 Life Points during each of his/her Standby Phases (this is not optional). When an Archfiend Monster Card on your side of the field is specifically designated as a target of the effect of a card controlled by your opponent, when resolving the effect, roll a six-sided die. If the result is 1, 3, or 6, negate the effect and destroy the opponent's card.
Compulsory Evacuation Device: TRAP/Desc: Return one monster card on the field to the owner's hand.
Retrained Elven Swordsman: ****/1400/1200/ Warrior /Desc: This monster is not destroyed as a result of battle when it battles a monster with an ATK of 1900 or more.
Raigeki: MAGIC/Desc: Destroy all monsters on your opponent's side of the field.
Amazoness Swords Woman: ****/1500/1600/ Warrior /Desc: The opponent takes all Battle Damage to this card's controller that he/she takes from a battle involving this monster.
Cost Down: MAGIC/Desc: Discard 1 card from your hand. Downgrade all Monster Cards in your hand by 2 Levels until the End Phase of the turn this card is activated.
Meteor Dragon: *****/1800/2000/ Dragon Type
Fusion: MAGIC/Desc: Fuse 2 or more monsters from your hand or on your side of the field to form a fusion monster.
Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon: *********/4500/3800/ Fusion/Dragon/ Desc: "Blue Eyes White Dragon" + "Blue Eyes White Dragon" + "Blue Eyes White Dragon"
Chaos Field: TRAP/Desc: You may activate this card when your opponent attacks. Immediately take control of the monster with the lowest ATK strength on your opponent's side of the field, and immediately switch it into face up ATK position. (All battle damage goes to the owner of the monster who had the lowest ATK strength monster)
Nutrient Z: TRAP/Desc: This card can only be activated during your opponent's Damage Step. During this turn, if you take Battle Damage of 2000 points or more, increase your Life Points by 4000 points before the damage is subtracted from your Life Points.
Final Flash: MAGIC/Desc: All deck masters are special summoned to the playing field until the end phase in which this card is activated.
Chapter 20: The Black Gate Test, Part IV: Next In Line
"One down. Who is going to be next?" Damien teased. "Oh well, I'll set this one card face down and end my turn." (Okay, I have to get rid of that Lord of Dragons in my next turn, because, thanks to that, Plasma Eel doesn't affect the Blue Eyes White Dragon.) he thought.
Yugi drew. "You will pay for that!" he announced.
"Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Wrong again! You'll be paying Yugi, with your life points first!" he declared as he gained life points. (D's LP: 11950)
"That's enough! You will pay for this by the end of this duel! Now, I summon Big Shield Gardna (100/2600) in defense mode and set one card face down. That will end my turn."
"No it won't!" Damien interrupted. "Your Valkyrion will pay as my Plasma Eel lowers its attack to 3000!" he announced.
"Look out hot shot! I set one card face down and summon Amazoness Paladin (1700/300) in defense mode. Then, I'll set one card face down to end my turn." She announced while Kevin drew.
(He's gonna pay for destroying Tea..) he thought, studying his cards and field. "Now I sacrifice Luster Dragon #2 in order to summon Kaiser Glider (2400/2200) in attack mode! Then I'll play Dragon Treasure, increasing its attack power by 300 points to 2700!" he exclaimed. (Just try attacking me now...) he thought watching Damien, who rolled his eyes at Kevin. He softly growled.
"In case you've forgotten already, Cyber-Tech Alligator's attack is lowered to 2000 now thanks to my Plasma Eel! Soon, I'll destroy you!"
Kaiba drew. (Let's see. I don't want to sacrifice Lord of Dragons, but I can sacrifice my Blue Eyes and be rid of that accursed Plasma Eel. And I just drew a card I can use.) he thought. "I now sacrifice my Blue Eyes White Dragon!" he declared as the dragon glowed, about to be sacrificed.
"Hold on Kaiba! I'm no amateur! Reverse trap card, Sacrifice Shift! With this magic card, I decide which monster you sacrifice, for the bargain price of 1000 life points!" he exclaimed happily. (D's LP: 10950)
"Now you will sacrifice Lord of Dragons!" he ordered as the dragon returned to its normal state, and the magician monster disappeared.
"In order to summon Twilight Zone Dragon (1200/1500)!" he announced as the freestyle dragon came onto the field.
"Now I'll end my move." He angrily stated.
"What's that!? I couldn't hear you over my plasma eel weakening your strongest monster to 2500 attack points!" laughed Damien.
Joey drew. (Luckily for me, I'm plasma eel free. Heh heh that rhymes.) he thought. "I'll summon Panther Warrior (2000/1600) in defense mode and then I'll set this one card face down and end my turn."
Damien drew. (D's LP: 11450) "Even more luck! Because I've drawn Card Destruction!" he snickered while everyone discarded their hands and drew new ones. No one's strategy was badly ruined. (D's LP: 11950)
"Look at what I've drawn! It's a card that will help me destroy one of you in two turns! Go my mighty Different Dimension Capsule!" he yelled as a blue capsule formed from the ground. "Now I can seal this card in my capsule from my deck and remove it from play for 2 turns! Then, the card automatically comes into my hand! So in my second turn from now, one of you will be gone." He threatened as everyone became worried.
"Now then, I'll summon Infernalqueen Archfiend (900/1500) in defense mode and then I can discard this Desrook Archfiend from my hand to instantly special summon my Terrorking Archfiend (2000/1500) back to the field in defense mode. To finish my move, I'll discard two cards from my hand to invoke my deck master special ability!" he announced as even more blue orbs flew into his deck master. (D's LP: 28975)
(NO WAY! He has almost 30,000 life points!) Joey thought.
Yugi automatically drew. "Hmm. I sacrifice Big Shield Gardna in order to summon Death Volstargaf (2200/1700)!" he announced as his gigantic demon rose onto the field. "Now I'll end my turn." (D's LP: 30475)
Mai drew. "My move!" she announced, "and I'll start by summoning Amazon Chain Master (1500/1300)!" Another amazon monster with a golden chain materialized on the field. "I'll end my turn here."
Kevin drew. "Let's see. I can't sacrifice Cyber Tech Alligator and I've got Kaiser Glider on the field, with the same attack power as Mystical Knight of Jackal. Hmm..." he pondered, (I've got it!) "Kaiser Glider, attack Mystical Knight of Jackal!" commanded Kevin as everyone stared at him, however Kaiser Glider unleashed a golden fire blast, melting at the knight. Kaiser Glider remained on the field.
"What?!" Damien yelled. "Your monster should be destroyed as well."
"But he wasn't thanks to his special effect. Whenever my monster battles a monster with the same attack strength, it's not destroyed." He explained while ending his turn: (Cyber-Tech Alligator: 1500/1600)
Kaiba drew. (Ah. Not bad) "Now I summon Twin Headed Behemoth (1500/1200) in defense mode, then I'll end my turn." (Blue Eyes White Dragon: 2000/2500)
(If I can draw a dark monster, I can set him up for my Crush Card combo. No one had better force me to throw away this hand.) thought Kaiba.
Joey drew. "Go! Wyvern Warrior (1500/1200) in defense mode! Then I'll activate Dice of Defense! Roll!" he commanded while the die dropped. It slowly came to a stop on 5. "A five! Oh yeah! That boosts Wyvern Warrior's defense power by 2000 to 3200! I'm untouchable!" he snickered.
Damien drew. (D's LP: 35475) "First, I activate another card you all may remember! Advanced Placement! Ta-da!" he announced as he drew 3 cards from his deck, while his five opponents each drew one.
"Now to activate my deck master special ability!" he chuckled.
"Hold on! You've activated my trap card!" Kevin yelled. "Full Graveyard! For the rest of your turn you can't discard more than one card per effect into the graveyard!" he slyly smiled. "Plus, you lose 60% if you have more life points than I do!" he added. (D's LP: 14190)
(Oh no. Then I have to pay for my Archfiend monsters) thought Damien. (D's LP: 12890)
Damien growled. "If you think I'm done, you're sadly mistaken. I activate this magic card next, Pandemonium!" he announced as the arena transformed into a dark, devilish battlefield. "This magic card removes my payment for archfiend monsters and when one is destroyed I can search my deck for a new one that has a lower level than the one destroyed!"
"Now that that's finished, time to destroy your Amazon Chain Master." He stated. Mai smirked. "Terrorking Archfiend, attack the Amazon Chain Master!" he commanded while the demon slashed the amazon monster.
"Reverse trap! Mirror Wall!" Mai sprung while a reflective wall immediately created a boundary between Amazon Chain Master and Terrorking Archfiend.
"Terrorking Archfiend Dice Roll!" retorted Damien while a die dropped on the playing field.
"You see, if I roll a 2 or a 5, your Mirror Wall will be destroyed and I can continue my attack." Damien explained while the die began to roll. It landed on a 1. He growled while Mai sighed a sigh of relief. (Terrorking Archfiend: 1000/1500)
"I'm not done yet!" he interrupted. "I activate Return to Base! For the bargain price of 1500 life points I can return Terrorking Archfiend to my hand!" he snickered while the monster's essence flew back to its card on the duel disk and then Damien snatched it and added it to his hand. (D's LP: 11390)
"Now I can activate Tribute to the Doomed! By discarding Terrorking Archfiend, I can destroy Amazon Chain Master!" he explained while a mummy bandage wrapped around her.
"But hold on. Amazon Chain Master has an effect!" Mai responded. "Before she leaves, she lets me steal one card from your deck!" she explained as the halfway-mummified amazon wound-up her chain.
(Great. I don't know what monster this guy has in his deck, but almost every high powerful duelist I know keeps one of these in their decks.) she thought. "And the card I choose is Raigeki!" she announced while her amazon threw the chain at Damien's deck, striking the card and throwing it backwards, where Mai caught it.
"Next turn I'm going to get to blow your defense away, and then we'll win this duel!" she declared.
"I'll summon Darkbishop Archfiend (300/1400) in defense mode and end my turn." Damien grumbled.
"But before you do, take a look at my trap card!" Yugi exclaimed while a card flipped up. "Compulsory Evacuation Device! With this trap I can return one card on the field back to its owner's hand!" he explained.
"I'll choose to return Magnet Valkyrion to my hand, which will destroy your Kiseitai and Plasma Eel!" he declared while the two attachments exploded and the magnet warrior's essence flew into his card that Yugi snatched from his plate.
Yugi drew. "Now I summon Retrained Elven Swordsman (1400/1200) in attack mode! Then I'll discard Magnet Valkyrion from my hand to special summon Alpha, Beta, and Gamma the magnet warriors back from the graveyard!" he explained as his three magnets materialized from under a black vortex.
"Now remember my Death Volstargaf? He gains 200 attack points for each magic card played while he's on the field, and I count 4. So now Death Volstargaf (3000) attack Darkbishop Archfiend!" commanded Yugi while the demon unleashed his metallic blue blast, completely annihilating the archfiend monster.
"Have you forgotten about my powerful Pandemonium magic card? I can add a level 2 Archfiend monster to my hand, the only one there is: Vilepawn Archfiend! Next turn, you won't be able to attack my Archfiend monsters!" said Damien. Mai drew.
"Not unless we can destroy them so get ready!" Mai announced while she drew. "I activate the magic card I stole from you, Raigeki!" she announced, while a lightning bolt came an impaled Infernalqueen Archfiend.
(I think Mai should have saved that card when he had more monsters on the field.) Kevin thought.
"Now I switch Amazoness Paladin into attack mode! Amazoness Paladin attack his life points directly!" Mai commanded as the paladin chopped at Damien with her sword. (D's LP: 9590)
"To finish my move I'll summon Amazoness Swords Woman (1500/1600) in attack mode, which also boosts the attack power of my Amazoness Paladin by 100 points." She explained.
Kevin drew. (Hey this card could help soon.) he thought. "I activate Cost Down! Then I can summon Meteor Dragon (1800/2000) in attack mode! Meteor Dragon and Kaiser Glider attack Damien's life points immediately!" he commanded while a scorching red fireball joined the golden fire blast attack on Damien's life points. (D's LP: 5390). Damien simply shrugged off the attack. (Cyber Tech Alligator: 1000/1500)
Kaiba drew. (Ah! Finally I can destroy that stupid Plasma Eel!) he thought. "I activate Fusion! Now Blue Eyes White Dragon fuse with my other 2 Blue Eyes White Dragons!" he announced while everyone, especially Kevin, watched in awe.
"Reveal Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon (4500/3800)! Now go my Ultimate Dragon and feed on his life points! Neutron Blast attack!" commanded Kaiba while the mighty dragon unleashed three lightning blasts, which merged in mid air and aimed directly at Damien.
"Finally someone falls into this trap! Activate trap card, Chaos Field!" he announced as his trap shook, and the three headed lightning blast paused. "Now this will pit your strongest monster against your team's weakest!" he announced as Alpha the Magnet Warrior appeared on Damien's field.
"Feel the wrath of your "friend", Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon!" said Damien while the lightning blast resumed, completely blowing through Yugi's magnet warrior. "And not only that, but since the attack ironically has 3100 damage on Yugi's life points, he loses the duel!" laughed Damien.
"Wrong." replied Yugi. "Because my trap card has saved me, just like yours saved you!" he announced as Damien recovered from his state of shock. "Since your attack would take away over 2000 of my life points, my Nutrient Z trap card gives me 4000 extra life points (Y's LP: 7000) before your attack does any damage." He explained. (Y's LP: 3900)
"Very well." He announced while Joey drew.
"I switch Panther Warrior into attack mode and then sacrifice a scapegoat so my panther can attack your life points directly!" Joey announced while the blue goat disappeared and Panther Warrior flew full speed at Damien and his life points. (D's LP: 3390)
"Yeah! We almost got him down to zero!" Joey cheered. Damien drew.
(Augh! This card won't let me draw anything.) he thought.
"Yeah!" Kevin cheered. "Apparently he can't draw any cards, so his life points won't be going up!"
"On the contrary." Damien unfortunately interrupted. "My Different Dimension Capsule magic card returns the card I've chosen to my hand." He explained while the capsule door opened and the back of a card flew onto Damien's plate, which he snatched and added to his hand.
"Are you ready to see what I've chosen? It's going to bring one of you down right this very turn!" he explained while the gang looked at each other, except Kaiba. "It's one of two magic cards I personally created for this duel! Final Flash!" he exclaimed while he activated the magic card. Instantly a giant golden twister appeared on the field and absorbed everyone's deck master onto the playing field.
"No way! A magic card that forces us to summon our deck master!" Mai yelled.
"Wait Mai. We're not in any danger, because he has the weakest deck master of all of us!" Joey reassured.
"Look again Joey. He wouldn't have activated that magic card if it wasn't going to help him. He has some plan to destroy one of our deck masters, and when it goes, so do we." Yugi responded.
"Ding ding ding!" Damien proclaimed. "Yugi's right. Remember those blew orbs that flew into Kisetai every time I activated its deck master special ability? Well those orbs are about to finish one of you off, because Kisetai has 23 of those blue orbs in him, so his attack points increase by 2300!" explained Damien much to the gang's demise as Kiseitai's strength rose to 2600.
"Go Kiseitai, finish off Mai by attacking the Cyber Harpie!" instructed Damien as the parasite wrapped itself around Mai's deck master, squeezing it tightly until it exploding into dust. "As you know, when the deck master is gone, so is the duelist!" he laughed as he snapped his fingers and Mai disappeared in the same style as Tea.
"And let me just go ahead and tell you all, next on my agenda to eliminate is Kevin." He announced while Joey was hurt by Mai's departure.
(That's two down, four to go. And they don't even know some of the secrets that lie inside my deck!) laughed Damien to himself.
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Big Shield Gardna: ****/100/2600/ Warrior /Desc: If this Monster is facedown when a Magic card targets it, negate that Magic card. At that time, this Monster changes to face-up defense mode. At the end of a Damage Step in which this Monster was attacked, it changes to attack mode.
Amazoness Paladin: ****/1700/300/ Warrior /Desc: Increase this card's attack strength by 100 for each Monster card on your Field with [Amazoness] in its name.
Kaiser Glider: *******/2400/2200/ Dragon /Desc: This card is not destroyed when it battles a monster with the same ATK. When this card is destroyed and sent to the graveyard, return 1 monster on the field to its owner's hand.
Dragon Treasure: EQUIP MAGIC/Desc: A Dragon-Type monster equipped with this card increases its ATK and DEF by 300 points.
Sacrifice Shift: TRAP/Desc: Pay 1000 life points. Until the End Phase in which this card is activated, whenever your opponent plans to sacrifice a monster, you may select which monster is to be sacrificed.
Twilight Zone Dragon: *****/1200/1500/ Dragon /Desc: The effect of a Spell or Trap card cannot destroy this card unless the spell or trap card has a specific target. This monster is not destroyed as a result of battle when it battles a monster with an ATK of 1900 or less.
Panther Warrior: ****/2000/1600/ Beast-Warrior /Desc: You must sacrifice a monster on your side of the field for this card to attack.
Card Destruction: MAGIC/Desc: Both players must discard their current hands and draw the same number of the cards they discarded from their respective decks.
Different Dimension Capsule: MAGIC/Desc: After this card is activated, it remains face up on the field until your second standby phase. Select 1 card from your deck, and then shuffle your deck. Remove the selected card from play and place it facedown. During your second standby phase, destroy this card and add the selected card to your hand.
Infernalqueen Archfiend: ****/900/1500/ Fiend /Desc: The controller of this card pays 500 Life Points during each of his/her Standby Phases (this is not optional). When this card is specifically designated as a target of the effect of a card controlled by your opponent, when resolving the effect, roll a six-sided die. If the result is 2 or 5, negate the effect and destroy the opponent's card. As long as this card remains on the field, during each Standby Phase increase the ATK of 1 Archfiend monster by 1000 points.
Desrook Archfiend: ***/1100/1800/ Fiend /Desc: The controller of this card pays 500 Life Points during each of his/her Standby Phases (this is not optional). When this card is specifically designated as a target of the effect of a card controlled by your opponent, when resolving the effect, roll a six-sided die. If the result is 3, negate the effect and destroy the opponent's card. When a "Terrorking Archfiend" on your side of the field is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, you can send this card from your hand to the Graveyard to Special Summon the "Terrorking Archfiend".
Death Volstargaf: *****/2200/1700/ Fiend /Desc: When this monster inflicts battle damage, inflict 500 points of direct damage to your opponent's life points. This monster's attack points increase by 200 for every magic card played.
Amazon Chain Master: ****/1500/1300/ Warrior /Desc: When this monster is sent to the graveyard by a card effect, take one card from your opponent's deck and add it to your hand.
Twin Headed Behemoth: ****/1500/1200/ Dragon /Desc: If this monster is destroyed and sent to the graveyard, it is special summoned with an ATK and DEF of 1000 during the end phase of the turn. This effect can only be used once during the current duel.
Wyvern Warrior: ****/1500/1200/ Warrior Type
Dice of Defense: EQUIP MAGIC/Desc: Equip this to one face-up defense position monster on your side of the field. Roll a 6-sided die. The rolled number is multiplied by the equipped monster's level and the result is added to their defense points.
Full Graveyard: TRAP/Desc: For the remainder of the turn that this card is activated, your opponent cannot discard more than 1 card from his or her hand per effect. Cut your opponent's life points 60% if they have more life points than you do.
Pandemonium: FIELD MAGIC/Desc: Neither player has to pay Life Points during the Standby Phase for Archfiend monsters. Each time a player's Archfiend Monster Card(s) are destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, except as a result of battle, that player can select 1 Archfiend Monster Card from his/her Deck that has fewer Level Stars than the destroyed card and add it to his/her hand.
Mirror Wall: PERMANENT TRAP/Desc: Reduce the ATK of all of your opponent's attacking Monsters by half.
Return to Base: TRAP/Desc: Pay 1500 life points. Return one monster on your side of the field back to your hand. You may also pay 1000 more life points to special summon a monster with less stars than the returned monster to the field. (tributes still apply for level 5 and up)
Tribute to the Doomed: MAGIC/Desc: Discard 1 card from you hand to the Graveyard to destroy 1 Monster Card on the field (regardless of position).
Darkbishop Archfiend: ***/300/1400/ Fiend /Desc: The controller of this card pays 500 Life Points during each of his/her Standby Phases (this is not optional). When an Archfiend Monster Card on your side of the field is specifically designated as a target of the effect of a card controlled by your opponent, when resolving the effect, roll a six-sided die. If the result is 1, 3, or 6, negate the effect and destroy the opponent's card.
Compulsory Evacuation Device: TRAP/Desc: Return one monster card on the field to the owner's hand.
Retrained Elven Swordsman: ****/1400/1200/ Warrior /Desc: This monster is not destroyed as a result of battle when it battles a monster with an ATK of 1900 or more.
Raigeki: MAGIC/Desc: Destroy all monsters on your opponent's side of the field.
Amazoness Swords Woman: ****/1500/1600/ Warrior /Desc: The opponent takes all Battle Damage to this card's controller that he/she takes from a battle involving this monster.
Cost Down: MAGIC/Desc: Discard 1 card from your hand. Downgrade all Monster Cards in your hand by 2 Levels until the End Phase of the turn this card is activated.
Meteor Dragon: *****/1800/2000/ Dragon Type
Fusion: MAGIC/Desc: Fuse 2 or more monsters from your hand or on your side of the field to form a fusion monster.
Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon: *********/4500/3800/ Fusion/Dragon/ Desc: "Blue Eyes White Dragon" + "Blue Eyes White Dragon" + "Blue Eyes White Dragon"
Chaos Field: TRAP/Desc: You may activate this card when your opponent attacks. Immediately take control of the monster with the lowest ATK strength on your opponent's side of the field, and immediately switch it into face up ATK position. (All battle damage goes to the owner of the monster who had the lowest ATK strength monster)
Nutrient Z: TRAP/Desc: This card can only be activated during your opponent's Damage Step. During this turn, if you take Battle Damage of 2000 points or more, increase your Life Points by 4000 points before the damage is subtracted from your Life Points.
Final Flash: MAGIC/Desc: All deck masters are special summoned to the playing field until the end phase in which this card is activated.