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Tokyo Tournament
Chapter Fifteen-Realizations
Also Entitled: Jin Juzi Nai Hua Hua
The man looked at the screens before him with a frown. All missions had failed. He spoke to the man who was ever-present at his side, "It is unfortunate that not one of them was defeated. All four challenged, and they all won. Oh well. No loss at all there, I still have enough duelists at my disposal. It won't take long for them to fall."
. . . Floor One, in front of the elevator shafts . . . -
Giyan's brow curved downward as he stared at the indicator for the elevator. Both had frozen in their movement, one showing that the elevator was both at floor five and floor six. He assumed that there was some sort of malfunction causing this, but the fact still nagged at him somewhat. He was currently leaning against the wall opposite the doors to the elevator in question.
A few feet to Giyan's right was Rebecca Hawkins, who had tucked her teddy bear under her arm and was waited impatiently for the elevator as well. After several minutes, she took her deck out of her Duel Disk and scanned through it. Still later, she shuffled the cards and inserted them back into her Duel Disk before turning to Giyan. She addressed him a bit sharply, "Hey, you were on the same plane as I was, right? So you're a pretty good duelist."
Giyan turned his head to her and replied quietly, "I can hold my own."
"Well, now you're gonna have to hold your own against me, because I'm challenging you to a Duel!"
Giyan raised his eyebrows before replying, "I'm sorry, but there are some important things I have to deal with upstairs right now and I don't have time to face you."
Rebecca snorted before persisting, "You're just a coward who's afraid to lose any of his cards! Besides, the elevator's been stuck for half an hour, there's plenty of time before it'll arrive."
Giyan sighed. He hated having to put aside the task at hand, but he also hated having to decline a challenge. Rebecca had a point, the elevator would not arrive for some time. Ten minutes, then, perhaps . . . "Very well," he replied after consideration, "but let's make it quick, I have business to attend to." With that, the two activated their Duel Disks.
Rebecca: 4000 Giyan: 4000
"You don't have to worry about this being quick," said Rebecca as she drew her sixth card, "you'll be done in just a few turns. I set one card facedown, and a monster in defense mode before ending my turn." Both cards appeared on the field, one perpendicular to the other.
Giyan drew while peering at Rebecca's field. He had heard a great deal about her unusual strategy, and he knew that speed would be of the essence to defeat her. "I summon Dark Blade (1800/1500)," he declared as he slipped the Monster card onto his Duel Disk. Before him a black-armored knight appeared. Its black cape looked like a shadow flowing across the wearer's back, and ruby-colored eyes glowed maliciously through the thin visor of the knight. The knight carried twin razor-sharp cutlasses that shone brightly. "Next I'll place a card facedown," continued Giyan as the brown card appeared behind his Dark Blade. "Now, Dark Blade, attack her facedown monster!" The black-armored knight glided across the field with the silence of a shadow and struck the horizontal card in front of Rebecca. The card was revealed momentarily as the Witch of the Black Forest (1100/1200) before the witch cried out and vanished.
Rebecca grinned as she found her monster and Giyan ended his turn. She then drew her own card and smiled happily as she began the infamous talk-to- stuffed-bear routine, "Look at what we drew, Teddy!" She then took on a deep voice and spoke on the bear's behalf, "Yep, yep, that's a good card, Rebecca!" Giyan could not help but sigh at the girl's actions. "Now, I'm playing Graceful Charity, which lets me draw three cards and then discard two!" She flipped three cards off the top her deck with gusto before selecting two different cards from her hand and sliding them into the graveyard to join her Witch. "And now, I'll show you what a genius I am! I activate my facedown Final Destiny, discarding five cards from my hand to destroy every card on the field!"
Her entire hand, save one card, was tossed into the graveyard with great enthusiasm. A large missile then screamed out of the sky and struck the field, generating a huge mushroom cloud. When the dust cleared, the field was totally empty, and Rebecca was talking to her bear again, "Gosh, you're a genius Rebecca! Why, thank teddy, now let's attack him." After whirling the bear about in the air a few times, she reverted her attention back to the Duel. "Now, I'll summon Cannon Soldier (1400/1000) and attack directly!" A purple humanoid robot with a long-barreled cannon for a head appeared before her, then launched a laser from its cannon, striking Giyan in the chest.
Rebecca: 4000 Giyan: 2600
Giyan drew his card and smiled slightly in approval of Rebecca's good move. There was more to this girl than even he had thought. It would take a bit of effort to counter her attack. "I summon one monster facedown in defense mode," he declared as he set the monster on the field, "and that's all for now."
"Your monster won't do a thing to help you," said Rebecca as she drew her own card and laid it down, "now I'll draw two cards thanks to my Pot of Greed." She took two more cards off of the top of her deck and examined them briefly before playing both. "First I'll summon Stuffed Animal (1200/900)." A stuffed bear appeared on the field. That's right, a stuffed bear. Nothing vicious at all about it. Well, except for the mouth with razor sharp teeth running from its left shoulder to its right hip. "And then I play Black Pendant on Cannon Soldier, increasing its attack by 500!" continued Rebecca as a necklace imbedded with a purple jewel appeared around the Cannon Soldier's mounted cannon, and its power increased to 1900/1000. "Now," commanded Rebecca, "Cannon Soldier, attack his facedown monster!" The cannon soldier launched another blast from its cannon, revealing the card to be a red wall with a fanged purple face before it was destroyed.
"That was my Wall of Illusion (1000/1850)," explained Giyan briefly, "when it is attacked, the attacking monster returns to its controller's hand."
Rebecca frowned as she picked up her Cannon Soldier, but brightened as she ordered the Stuffed Bear to attack. The bear's strange mouth wrapped around Giyan's leg in a hard bite and the doll growled as it assaulted him.
Rebecca: 4000 Giyan: 1400
"One more thing before I end my turn," said Rebecca, "because Cannon Soldier returned to my hand, the Black Pendant went to the graveyard, meaning you lose 500 more Life Points." Giyan cringed as he watched his Life Points drop even further.
Rebecca: 4000 Giyan: 900
Giyan closed his eyes and tried to calm himself before drawing his card. [I can't allow myself to lose], he thought, [if I lose this Duel, I'll be out of the tournament, and I won't be able to complete my duties as Yi Gai Dai Jun! I must win...]. He looked at the card he had drawn and grinned, [now that's more like it], "I play Change of Heart, allowing me to take control of your Stuffed Animal!" The half angelic, half-demonic apparition appeared in the air above the field before melding into Rebecca's one remaining monster and causing it to walk over to Giyan's side of the field. "I then sacrifice it to summon my Chaos Command Magician (2400/1900)!" A green- armored mage took the place of the stuffed bear, the ruby set in his staff glowing with power. "Chaos Command Magician, attack directly!" The mage raised his staff and fired a blast of red magic at Rebecca, who threw up her arms (nearly dropping her bear) to shield herself from the blast.
Rebecca: 1600 Giyan: 900
Rebecca frowned as she drew her card, "How dare you kill my Stuffed Animal for that ugly Magician! You big meany!" Giyan's jaw, for the first time in his life, dropped. Now that just wasn't fair! "I play this monster in defense mode, plus a card facedown!" Both cards appeared in front of Rebecca, and her hand was left empty.
Giyan grinned at the card he had drawn. With this he could immediately win the Duel! "I summon Neo the Magic Swordsman (1700/1000)," he declared as he placed the card down, "Neo, attack her defense monster!" Before Neo's blade could make contact with the horizontal card, Rebecca acted.
"I activate Waboku, preventing all damage to me and my monsters for this turn!" Three blue-robed priestesses appeared before her, causing Neo to stop his attack. Giyan frowned as he ended his turn. Rebecca, on the other hand, grinned as she drew her card, "I sacrifice my facedown monster to summon Shadow Ghoul (1600/1300)!" A green zombie that seemed to belong in a sci-fi show appeared. A spectator might describe it as a green insectoid space zombie from Pluto. Naturally, this is quite inaccuracy. There is no life on Pluto, because, you see, it is too cold to support life, my good human-I mean, friend. "Shadow Ghoul gets a hundred extra attack points for every monster in my graveyard. Right now that means 800 after all the monster I discarded for Final Destiny and Graceful Charity. So now my adorable Ghoul has 2400 attack points!" She pointed her finger sharply at Neo and ordered her zombie, "Shadow Ghoul, destroy Neo the Magic Swordsman!" The green zombie lumbered after the armored mage and struck him with a tremendous claw, obliterating him.
Rebecca: 1600 Giyan: 200
"An excellent strategy, Rebecca," Giyan complimented, "however, you have now forced us into a stalemate. Both of us have monsters with 2400 attack points, and neither of us wants to attack. So I'll just take this opportunity to play Dian Keto the Cure Master, which gives me 1000 Life Points." An orb of light appeared in front of Giyan, basking him in white light and boosting his Life Points.
Rebecca: 1600 Giyan: 1200
"Just because you got a few more Life Points doesn't mean you're any closer to winning," said Rebecca as she drew, "it just means that you'll last a little bit longer. I summon a monster in defense mode and end my turn."
Giyan looked at the card she had set and came to the horrible realization that he couldn't attack it. If he did destroy it, he would give Rebecca's Shadow Ghoul just enough power to destroy his Chaos Command Magician. He grimaced and hoped that the card he drew would help. "I set this monster in defense mode," he said as he laid the horizontal card on the field, "and that's all."
Rebecca grinned as she drew, "Then it's time I show you the card that's going to win me this duel!" She slid her two monsters off the field and into her graveyard before setting a monster on the field. The hologram that appeared before Giyan was at first just a blur of scrambled pixels, but within seconds they took the form of a tremendous white-scaled dragon with eyes of sapphire. It opened its great wings and let out a challenging roar. Several onlookers gasped and Giyan's eyes widened as they were exposed to, "The Blue Eyes White Dragon (3000/2500)!" Rebecca smiled as her most powerful monster appeared on the field, its image fuzzy due to the fact that Kaiba had ripped in half some time ago. "Blue Eyes White Dragon, destroy his Chaos Command Magician with White Lightning!" The mighty dragon launched a blast of lightning from its maw, blowing the mage in front of Giyan to pieces.
Rebecca: 1600 Giyan: 600
"You might as well give up," Rebecca told Giyan," there's no way you can beat the Blue Eyes White Dragon. Not only does it have an unbelievable attack power, but it also represents a great lesson that Yugi taught me."
"Yugi?" Giyan muttered silently.
"Yugi taught me about the Heart of the Cards after we dueled," explained Rebecca, "he taught me that if you believe in your deck and your friends, then you can never be beaten. Since that day, I haven't lost a single Duel."
Giyan thought to himself silently. [Faith in one's friends as well as oneself . . .], he smiled, [so simple, yet so important in the road of life. Yet I myself forgot that lesson in my sense of duty. It is with this faith that I shall complete my mission, and win this Duel. Yamato, Lin, Kirbin, Term . . . I thank you for being with me on our journey.] He looked up, "Your story speaks of a valuable lesson, Rebecca," he said, "but I too believe in my friends and my deck. So let's find out what happens when two people who believe in the Heart of the Cards duel each other." He flipped the top card off of his deck, "I play Hand Rebirth! This Spell forces us to discard our current hands and draw five cards each!" He placed all of the cards in his hand into his graveyard, then he and Rebecca took the top five cards off their respective decks. Giyan grinned as he examined his new cards, "I now play Monster Reborn, reviving my Dark Blade." The black knight reappeared in front of Giyan, its twin swords raised high. "Next I flip Spear Cretin (500/500) into attack mode, and sacrifice him for the Summoned Skull (2500/1200)!"
A small man with bat wings on his back and wielding a spear replaced the horizontal card on Giyan's field, but was then replaced by the skeletal demon. Giyan then took a card from his graveyard and placed it on his field in defense mode. "Allow me to explain," he said, "when Spear Cretin is flipped and destroyed, we are both allowed to summon a monster in facedown defense mode from our respective graveyards." Rebecca nodded and copied Giyan's previous movement by searching her graveyard and placing a monster on the field.
"I don't see what you plan to do now," she said, "you have three monsters on the field, but all of them are weaker than my Blue Eyes White Dragon. You still don't stand a chance."
Giyan grinned, "I beg to differ. Now one card is going to win me this Duel. Specifically, the Spell card United We Stand!" An aura of power appeared around the Summoned Skull, and a strand of energy also connected it to the Dark Blade. "United We Stand gives my Summoned Skull 800 attack points for every face-up monster on my side of the field. So now I flip up Neo the Magic Swordsman, which will give the Summoned Skull a grand total of 4900 attack points!" Neo replaced the horizontal card, and a strand of energy connected it to the skull demon, which now glowed with awesome strength. "Now to finish this! Summoned Skull, use the might of your comrades and destroy the Blue Eyes White Dragon!" The Skull gathered the energy of itself and the other two monsters into its claws, gathering the power into a ball. It then released the ball at the Blue Eyes White Dragon, which bellowed as it was struck, then vanished with a tremendous explosion.
Rebecca: 0 Giyan: 600
A cheer rose from the crowd around them that had grown with the appearance of the legendary dragon. Rebecca looked quite upset as she approached Giyan with the Blue Eyes and her two chips. Upon seeing her mood, Giyan immediately denied the dragon. "I don't think I should have that dragon," he explained, "you just got knocked out of the tournament, I'm not about to demand any other prize. Besides, it's yours because your grandfather had it. I won't be the one to take away a family heirloom."
"Well then, take my Shadow Ghoul," Rebecca pressed as she offered the card.
"Look, I can't take any of your cards," said Giyan, "if you were someone else, I might accept one of your cards, but you are connected to every one of them in a special way. Now, if you had a card that you won in the tournament-"
Rebecca smiled and handed him another card, "The Swords of Revealing Light," Giyan read as he took it, "who'd you get this from?"
"I won it in the tournament," she said simply, "beat some guy with the worst Exodia deck imaginable. He called himself 'Rare Hunter'."
Giyan smiled back at Rebecca in thanks, and heard the elevator ring as it reached the ground floor. He turned to see Kirbin and Joy walk out through the twin doors. When Kirbin spotted Giyan, the pink-haired teen ran over to him and held out three cards. "These are yours," he said simply, "I know you have to get going, so go." He then walked off, and Giyan looked over the three cards.
[Lord of Light, Duke of Darkness, Warrior of Balance], he mentally read as he made his way into the elevator. He saw not effects on the cards, but words flashed through his mind as the doors closed and he read was not written there, [Such power]. He shuffled the first two monsters into his deck and placed the third into a small slot in his Duel Disk for his Fusion monsters, then waited as the elevator ascended. Soon, the most important even in his life would occur.
G.O.T. Nick: And so Giyan is revealed to be the rightful owner of the three cards that summon the Warrior of Balance! What is their significance? What is the duty that he constantly thinks of? What does the alternate title say? Wh- is jumped on by the REAL G.O.T. Nick, who beats the double to a pulp, drags him to a cell, and throws him in
Real G.O.T. Nick: Sorry, evil clone got out again. Anyways, the chapter's over, but I have an important announcement! After two more chapters, I'll begin writing the finals! I figure I have twenty-two more chapters to write before I finish this baby up and start writing the sequel. I'll work like sixty to put up the next twenty chapters and hopefully get them up before by one-year anniversary on ff.net. It's a long shot, but hey, it took me just a week to post this chapter. Anyways, until next time, review and READ MY OTHER STORIES!
Vaurnut: You'll get to remember them eventually. Besides, compared to some of my favorite authors, my use of OCs is pitiful.
GymRat: I fear no luggage! So long as it stays on the other side of the road and I don't bother it I should survive an encounter with it . . .
michael-91: WILL YOU SHUT UP ABOUT THE CHAPTERS BEING TOO LONG!? I'LL DO WHATEVER I WANT! Also, don't tell me I need more action in my duels or any of that, because YOU don't happen to have any Yu-Gi-Oh works of your own. And, about your story, you need to improve your grammar.
Tokyo Tournament
Chapter Fifteen-Realizations
Also Entitled: Jin Juzi Nai Hua Hua
The man looked at the screens before him with a frown. All missions had failed. He spoke to the man who was ever-present at his side, "It is unfortunate that not one of them was defeated. All four challenged, and they all won. Oh well. No loss at all there, I still have enough duelists at my disposal. It won't take long for them to fall."
. . . Floor One, in front of the elevator shafts . . . -
Giyan's brow curved downward as he stared at the indicator for the elevator. Both had frozen in their movement, one showing that the elevator was both at floor five and floor six. He assumed that there was some sort of malfunction causing this, but the fact still nagged at him somewhat. He was currently leaning against the wall opposite the doors to the elevator in question.
A few feet to Giyan's right was Rebecca Hawkins, who had tucked her teddy bear under her arm and was waited impatiently for the elevator as well. After several minutes, she took her deck out of her Duel Disk and scanned through it. Still later, she shuffled the cards and inserted them back into her Duel Disk before turning to Giyan. She addressed him a bit sharply, "Hey, you were on the same plane as I was, right? So you're a pretty good duelist."
Giyan turned his head to her and replied quietly, "I can hold my own."
"Well, now you're gonna have to hold your own against me, because I'm challenging you to a Duel!"
Giyan raised his eyebrows before replying, "I'm sorry, but there are some important things I have to deal with upstairs right now and I don't have time to face you."
Rebecca snorted before persisting, "You're just a coward who's afraid to lose any of his cards! Besides, the elevator's been stuck for half an hour, there's plenty of time before it'll arrive."
Giyan sighed. He hated having to put aside the task at hand, but he also hated having to decline a challenge. Rebecca had a point, the elevator would not arrive for some time. Ten minutes, then, perhaps . . . "Very well," he replied after consideration, "but let's make it quick, I have business to attend to." With that, the two activated their Duel Disks.
Rebecca: 4000 Giyan: 4000
"You don't have to worry about this being quick," said Rebecca as she drew her sixth card, "you'll be done in just a few turns. I set one card facedown, and a monster in defense mode before ending my turn." Both cards appeared on the field, one perpendicular to the other.
Giyan drew while peering at Rebecca's field. He had heard a great deal about her unusual strategy, and he knew that speed would be of the essence to defeat her. "I summon Dark Blade (1800/1500)," he declared as he slipped the Monster card onto his Duel Disk. Before him a black-armored knight appeared. Its black cape looked like a shadow flowing across the wearer's back, and ruby-colored eyes glowed maliciously through the thin visor of the knight. The knight carried twin razor-sharp cutlasses that shone brightly. "Next I'll place a card facedown," continued Giyan as the brown card appeared behind his Dark Blade. "Now, Dark Blade, attack her facedown monster!" The black-armored knight glided across the field with the silence of a shadow and struck the horizontal card in front of Rebecca. The card was revealed momentarily as the Witch of the Black Forest (1100/1200) before the witch cried out and vanished.
Rebecca grinned as she found her monster and Giyan ended his turn. She then drew her own card and smiled happily as she began the infamous talk-to- stuffed-bear routine, "Look at what we drew, Teddy!" She then took on a deep voice and spoke on the bear's behalf, "Yep, yep, that's a good card, Rebecca!" Giyan could not help but sigh at the girl's actions. "Now, I'm playing Graceful Charity, which lets me draw three cards and then discard two!" She flipped three cards off the top her deck with gusto before selecting two different cards from her hand and sliding them into the graveyard to join her Witch. "And now, I'll show you what a genius I am! I activate my facedown Final Destiny, discarding five cards from my hand to destroy every card on the field!"
Her entire hand, save one card, was tossed into the graveyard with great enthusiasm. A large missile then screamed out of the sky and struck the field, generating a huge mushroom cloud. When the dust cleared, the field was totally empty, and Rebecca was talking to her bear again, "Gosh, you're a genius Rebecca! Why, thank teddy, now let's attack him." After whirling the bear about in the air a few times, she reverted her attention back to the Duel. "Now, I'll summon Cannon Soldier (1400/1000) and attack directly!" A purple humanoid robot with a long-barreled cannon for a head appeared before her, then launched a laser from its cannon, striking Giyan in the chest.
Rebecca: 4000 Giyan: 2600
Giyan drew his card and smiled slightly in approval of Rebecca's good move. There was more to this girl than even he had thought. It would take a bit of effort to counter her attack. "I summon one monster facedown in defense mode," he declared as he set the monster on the field, "and that's all for now."
"Your monster won't do a thing to help you," said Rebecca as she drew her own card and laid it down, "now I'll draw two cards thanks to my Pot of Greed." She took two more cards off of the top of her deck and examined them briefly before playing both. "First I'll summon Stuffed Animal (1200/900)." A stuffed bear appeared on the field. That's right, a stuffed bear. Nothing vicious at all about it. Well, except for the mouth with razor sharp teeth running from its left shoulder to its right hip. "And then I play Black Pendant on Cannon Soldier, increasing its attack by 500!" continued Rebecca as a necklace imbedded with a purple jewel appeared around the Cannon Soldier's mounted cannon, and its power increased to 1900/1000. "Now," commanded Rebecca, "Cannon Soldier, attack his facedown monster!" The cannon soldier launched another blast from its cannon, revealing the card to be a red wall with a fanged purple face before it was destroyed.
"That was my Wall of Illusion (1000/1850)," explained Giyan briefly, "when it is attacked, the attacking monster returns to its controller's hand."
Rebecca frowned as she picked up her Cannon Soldier, but brightened as she ordered the Stuffed Bear to attack. The bear's strange mouth wrapped around Giyan's leg in a hard bite and the doll growled as it assaulted him.
Rebecca: 4000 Giyan: 1400
"One more thing before I end my turn," said Rebecca, "because Cannon Soldier returned to my hand, the Black Pendant went to the graveyard, meaning you lose 500 more Life Points." Giyan cringed as he watched his Life Points drop even further.
Rebecca: 4000 Giyan: 900
Giyan closed his eyes and tried to calm himself before drawing his card. [I can't allow myself to lose], he thought, [if I lose this Duel, I'll be out of the tournament, and I won't be able to complete my duties as Yi Gai Dai Jun! I must win...]. He looked at the card he had drawn and grinned, [now that's more like it], "I play Change of Heart, allowing me to take control of your Stuffed Animal!" The half angelic, half-demonic apparition appeared in the air above the field before melding into Rebecca's one remaining monster and causing it to walk over to Giyan's side of the field. "I then sacrifice it to summon my Chaos Command Magician (2400/1900)!" A green- armored mage took the place of the stuffed bear, the ruby set in his staff glowing with power. "Chaos Command Magician, attack directly!" The mage raised his staff and fired a blast of red magic at Rebecca, who threw up her arms (nearly dropping her bear) to shield herself from the blast.
Rebecca: 1600 Giyan: 900
Rebecca frowned as she drew her card, "How dare you kill my Stuffed Animal for that ugly Magician! You big meany!" Giyan's jaw, for the first time in his life, dropped. Now that just wasn't fair! "I play this monster in defense mode, plus a card facedown!" Both cards appeared in front of Rebecca, and her hand was left empty.
Giyan grinned at the card he had drawn. With this he could immediately win the Duel! "I summon Neo the Magic Swordsman (1700/1000)," he declared as he placed the card down, "Neo, attack her defense monster!" Before Neo's blade could make contact with the horizontal card, Rebecca acted.
"I activate Waboku, preventing all damage to me and my monsters for this turn!" Three blue-robed priestesses appeared before her, causing Neo to stop his attack. Giyan frowned as he ended his turn. Rebecca, on the other hand, grinned as she drew her card, "I sacrifice my facedown monster to summon Shadow Ghoul (1600/1300)!" A green zombie that seemed to belong in a sci-fi show appeared. A spectator might describe it as a green insectoid space zombie from Pluto. Naturally, this is quite inaccuracy. There is no life on Pluto, because, you see, it is too cold to support life, my good human-I mean, friend. "Shadow Ghoul gets a hundred extra attack points for every monster in my graveyard. Right now that means 800 after all the monster I discarded for Final Destiny and Graceful Charity. So now my adorable Ghoul has 2400 attack points!" She pointed her finger sharply at Neo and ordered her zombie, "Shadow Ghoul, destroy Neo the Magic Swordsman!" The green zombie lumbered after the armored mage and struck him with a tremendous claw, obliterating him.
Rebecca: 1600 Giyan: 200
"An excellent strategy, Rebecca," Giyan complimented, "however, you have now forced us into a stalemate. Both of us have monsters with 2400 attack points, and neither of us wants to attack. So I'll just take this opportunity to play Dian Keto the Cure Master, which gives me 1000 Life Points." An orb of light appeared in front of Giyan, basking him in white light and boosting his Life Points.
Rebecca: 1600 Giyan: 1200
"Just because you got a few more Life Points doesn't mean you're any closer to winning," said Rebecca as she drew, "it just means that you'll last a little bit longer. I summon a monster in defense mode and end my turn."
Giyan looked at the card she had set and came to the horrible realization that he couldn't attack it. If he did destroy it, he would give Rebecca's Shadow Ghoul just enough power to destroy his Chaos Command Magician. He grimaced and hoped that the card he drew would help. "I set this monster in defense mode," he said as he laid the horizontal card on the field, "and that's all."
Rebecca grinned as she drew, "Then it's time I show you the card that's going to win me this duel!" She slid her two monsters off the field and into her graveyard before setting a monster on the field. The hologram that appeared before Giyan was at first just a blur of scrambled pixels, but within seconds they took the form of a tremendous white-scaled dragon with eyes of sapphire. It opened its great wings and let out a challenging roar. Several onlookers gasped and Giyan's eyes widened as they were exposed to, "The Blue Eyes White Dragon (3000/2500)!" Rebecca smiled as her most powerful monster appeared on the field, its image fuzzy due to the fact that Kaiba had ripped in half some time ago. "Blue Eyes White Dragon, destroy his Chaos Command Magician with White Lightning!" The mighty dragon launched a blast of lightning from its maw, blowing the mage in front of Giyan to pieces.
Rebecca: 1600 Giyan: 600
"You might as well give up," Rebecca told Giyan," there's no way you can beat the Blue Eyes White Dragon. Not only does it have an unbelievable attack power, but it also represents a great lesson that Yugi taught me."
"Yugi?" Giyan muttered silently.
"Yugi taught me about the Heart of the Cards after we dueled," explained Rebecca, "he taught me that if you believe in your deck and your friends, then you can never be beaten. Since that day, I haven't lost a single Duel."
Giyan thought to himself silently. [Faith in one's friends as well as oneself . . .], he smiled, [so simple, yet so important in the road of life. Yet I myself forgot that lesson in my sense of duty. It is with this faith that I shall complete my mission, and win this Duel. Yamato, Lin, Kirbin, Term . . . I thank you for being with me on our journey.] He looked up, "Your story speaks of a valuable lesson, Rebecca," he said, "but I too believe in my friends and my deck. So let's find out what happens when two people who believe in the Heart of the Cards duel each other." He flipped the top card off of his deck, "I play Hand Rebirth! This Spell forces us to discard our current hands and draw five cards each!" He placed all of the cards in his hand into his graveyard, then he and Rebecca took the top five cards off their respective decks. Giyan grinned as he examined his new cards, "I now play Monster Reborn, reviving my Dark Blade." The black knight reappeared in front of Giyan, its twin swords raised high. "Next I flip Spear Cretin (500/500) into attack mode, and sacrifice him for the Summoned Skull (2500/1200)!"
A small man with bat wings on his back and wielding a spear replaced the horizontal card on Giyan's field, but was then replaced by the skeletal demon. Giyan then took a card from his graveyard and placed it on his field in defense mode. "Allow me to explain," he said, "when Spear Cretin is flipped and destroyed, we are both allowed to summon a monster in facedown defense mode from our respective graveyards." Rebecca nodded and copied Giyan's previous movement by searching her graveyard and placing a monster on the field.
"I don't see what you plan to do now," she said, "you have three monsters on the field, but all of them are weaker than my Blue Eyes White Dragon. You still don't stand a chance."
Giyan grinned, "I beg to differ. Now one card is going to win me this Duel. Specifically, the Spell card United We Stand!" An aura of power appeared around the Summoned Skull, and a strand of energy also connected it to the Dark Blade. "United We Stand gives my Summoned Skull 800 attack points for every face-up monster on my side of the field. So now I flip up Neo the Magic Swordsman, which will give the Summoned Skull a grand total of 4900 attack points!" Neo replaced the horizontal card, and a strand of energy connected it to the skull demon, which now glowed with awesome strength. "Now to finish this! Summoned Skull, use the might of your comrades and destroy the Blue Eyes White Dragon!" The Skull gathered the energy of itself and the other two monsters into its claws, gathering the power into a ball. It then released the ball at the Blue Eyes White Dragon, which bellowed as it was struck, then vanished with a tremendous explosion.
Rebecca: 0 Giyan: 600
A cheer rose from the crowd around them that had grown with the appearance of the legendary dragon. Rebecca looked quite upset as she approached Giyan with the Blue Eyes and her two chips. Upon seeing her mood, Giyan immediately denied the dragon. "I don't think I should have that dragon," he explained, "you just got knocked out of the tournament, I'm not about to demand any other prize. Besides, it's yours because your grandfather had it. I won't be the one to take away a family heirloom."
"Well then, take my Shadow Ghoul," Rebecca pressed as she offered the card.
"Look, I can't take any of your cards," said Giyan, "if you were someone else, I might accept one of your cards, but you are connected to every one of them in a special way. Now, if you had a card that you won in the tournament-"
Rebecca smiled and handed him another card, "The Swords of Revealing Light," Giyan read as he took it, "who'd you get this from?"
"I won it in the tournament," she said simply, "beat some guy with the worst Exodia deck imaginable. He called himself 'Rare Hunter'."
Giyan smiled back at Rebecca in thanks, and heard the elevator ring as it reached the ground floor. He turned to see Kirbin and Joy walk out through the twin doors. When Kirbin spotted Giyan, the pink-haired teen ran over to him and held out three cards. "These are yours," he said simply, "I know you have to get going, so go." He then walked off, and Giyan looked over the three cards.
[Lord of Light, Duke of Darkness, Warrior of Balance], he mentally read as he made his way into the elevator. He saw not effects on the cards, but words flashed through his mind as the doors closed and he read was not written there, [Such power]. He shuffled the first two monsters into his deck and placed the third into a small slot in his Duel Disk for his Fusion monsters, then waited as the elevator ascended. Soon, the most important even in his life would occur.
G.O.T. Nick: And so Giyan is revealed to be the rightful owner of the three cards that summon the Warrior of Balance! What is their significance? What is the duty that he constantly thinks of? What does the alternate title say? Wh- is jumped on by the REAL G.O.T. Nick, who beats the double to a pulp, drags him to a cell, and throws him in
Real G.O.T. Nick: Sorry, evil clone got out again. Anyways, the chapter's over, but I have an important announcement! After two more chapters, I'll begin writing the finals! I figure I have twenty-two more chapters to write before I finish this baby up and start writing the sequel. I'll work like sixty to put up the next twenty chapters and hopefully get them up before by one-year anniversary on ff.net. It's a long shot, but hey, it took me just a week to post this chapter. Anyways, until next time, review and READ MY OTHER STORIES!