Chapter 4
Azurada VS the President of Kaiba Corporation!
"WHAT?!"
"You heard me. A duel."
"Sure, why not?"
I readied my deck in preparation for the duel.
Kaiba interrputed. "No. Not here. Follow me to the roof."
So I did...
"Are you ready Azurada?"
"Sure, but i got a way on deciding HOW we'll go first. Let's see the bottom card of our decks. Whoever has the strongest monster gets to go first."
"Fine."
I showed my bottom card. The Twin-Headed Fire Dragon (2200/1700.
He showed his Vorse Raider (1900/1200).
Heh. I'll go first.
Kaiba: 4000LP Azurada: 4000LP
I drew and placed a card facedown and summoned Dark Blade in attack mode (1800ATK.
Kaiba drew, then i activated my Thunder of Ruler to force him to skip attacking this turn. He summoned Battle Ox and used Polymerization to fuse it with Mystic Horseman to become Rabid Horseman (2000 ATK) then he placed a card facedown and ended his turn.
I drew. I placed a card facedown and played Nobleman of Extermination to destroy Kaiba's facedown card and remove it from play. Heheh. I killed his Crush Card. Since it was a trap, I told him he had to remove any other Crush Cards he had in his deck from play. I think I pissed him off. For my next move i summoned Pitch-Dark Dragon (900 ATK). I heard Yugi mutter something about this being how I started my first duel with Yugi.
And he was right. I used PDD's effect to equip itself to Dark Blade to power-up by 400 ATK/DEF (2200/1900). Dark Blade destroyed Rabid Horseman. (K: 3800LP)
It was Kaiba's move now. He grinned and placed a monster in defense mode. So i decided to flip it myself by activating my facedown card. A trap called The Spell Absorbing Life. It revealed Kaiba's Cyber Jar and canceling out its effect. Then my Life Points went up by 400 for every effect monster on the field (Cyber Jar only. Pitch-Dark Dragon was equuiped to Dark Blade.) (A: 4400LP). He then played a magic card called Eternal Rest, which destroys all equipped monsters. (Dark blade dies, along with PDD.
I drew and summoned Neo Bug (1800) and attacked his Cyber Jar (boom.
Kaiba drew and summoned Dark Gremlin in Defense mode (1600/1800). He then placed one card facedown and ended his turn.
I drew. I placed a monster in defense mode and another card facedown.
Kaiba got cocky after he drew. He swapped his Dark Gremlin to attack mode and equipped him with Axe of Despair to increase DG's ATK by 1000 (2600/1800) and ordered it to atk my Neo Bug.
...He fell for it. I revealed my trap: REALLY Eternal Rest, a trap version of Eternal Rest. So Dark Gremlin was destroyed.
I drew. and started laughing. I sacrificed Neo Bug and a facedown monster to summon my most powerfuel monster: Cosmo Queen (2900/2450)
I orderd Cosmo Queen to attack Kaiba directly (K: 900LP.
Kaiba grew pissed and summoned Kaiser Sea Horse (1700) and used fissure to destroy Cosmo Queen. He then ordered Kaiser Sea Horse to attack ME (A: 2700LP.
My move. I summoned Royal Magical Library in defense mode (0/2000) and played a card facedown.
Kaiba laughed when he drew. He used Kaiser Sea Horse's effect as a Double Tribute to summon a well feared LIGHT monster: Blue Eyes White Dragon (3000 ATK). He then used Megamorph to DOUBLE BEWD's attack (6000 ATK). His last card for the combination was Fairy Meteor Crush. The same effect my Pitch-Dark Dragon gave Dark Blade other than the 400 ATK point power-up. He ordered Blue Eyes to wipe out my Library.
I frantically serched for the button on the DuelDisc to activate my trap.
"Don't bother, Azurada. We both know how this will turn out."
"Oh, I know all right. I activate... (beep) Magic Cylinder!"
"WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"
The purple-robed monks of my Library summoned 2 Cylinders. One Cylinder caught Kaiba's attack and sucked it up. The other spewed out the White Lightning... right... at... Kaiba.
Kaiba: 0LP I won.
Kaiba went ballistic that he lost. Mokuba ran over to Kaiba to comfort his brother.
"It's Okay, big brother. you fought a good duel."
It was a shock to me that Mokuba was Kaiba's brother. For a second, i thought Mokuba was a girl with that long black hair.
Isono gave me a briefcase full of cash.
"It's for purchasing your own home of choice." said Isono.
"Wow... thanks..."
Mokuba looked at me for a minute. "Wow... You came out of nowhere and beat Seto... just like Yugi did... except you didnt have Exodia! Fufufufu..."
Another day, another duel. i guess that made ME 2nd Best.
I decided to wade it out at Yugi's place again before I go looking for a good house to live in. But i couldn't sleep well. I had this strange dream...
"Help! Is anyone there?? HELP!"
A silhouetted being ran around as if it was in a frantic search.
"Hello?! Please someone, answer me!"
I called back. "I'm right here!"
The being looked in my direction and ran towards me.
"Uhhhh, you look familiar. have we met?"
The being was a girl, on her knees, panting hard from running.
"Have you ever tried the Olympics? At this rate, you'll at least get second place in CrossCountry!"
She managed to catch her breath and rose up.
"Woah! You're Dark Magician Girl!?"
"Yes. I need your help."
"MY help? How am I able to help?"
"An unknown evil had risen in both your world and mine. I managed to trap him in your world, but he must be destroyed immediately!!"
"Evil? What evil? Lady, I'm no superhero, so how am I supposed to beat the evil you speak of?"
"Because you are chosen to obtain this Millennium Item. The Legend speaks of Seven Millenium items and their legacy. But what the legend did not speak of was an EIGHTH Millennium Item."
"... I'm new to this whole Milleninium Item stuff"
So she filled me in about Duel Monsters originally being the Shadow Games, and its relation to the Millenium Items. Apparently some pharoah locked away a powerful evil, but at the expense of his own memory. The pharoah's name was Yami, and resided in the Millenium Puzzle.
"You mean to tell me that this Yami guy's spirit lives in Yugi's Puzzle?! Now i know i'm getting ahead of myself! But what about this 8th Item you mentioned?"
Dark Magician Girl pointed towards me. "Right behind you..."
Like a regular fool would, i looked behind me. And it was some sword stuck in the statue of a sphinx. Almost like King Arthur with Excalibur stuck in a huge rock. So i tried pulling it out.
"RRRR. That butterknife has to be wedged in there tight!"
"Trust in yourself. And put your heart into it! Embrace the Heart of the Cards!!"
"Heart of the who?! Don't explain, I'll figure it out!"
So I tried harder on pulling the sword out. I did as instructed and started to psyche myself into thinking that I CAN pull it out. But what of the Heart of the Cards? Did it have to do something with... my cards?
My deck started to glow out of my pocket. As well as the sword. I tried pulling it out again, giving it my all!
And to my surprise the sword came out!
Dark Magician Girl jumped in joy. "I was right! You ARE the one! You now have in possession... The Millennium Sword!"
And I woke up with a scream. I woke up Yugi on accident and his Millennium Puzzle glowed. He has that serious look again. Wait a minute... Isn't it.
"...Yami?"
"WHAT?!"
"You heard me. A duel."
"Sure, why not?"
I readied my deck in preparation for the duel.
Kaiba interrputed. "No. Not here. Follow me to the roof."
So I did...
"Are you ready Azurada?"
"Sure, but i got a way on deciding HOW we'll go first. Let's see the bottom card of our decks. Whoever has the strongest monster gets to go first."
"Fine."
I showed my bottom card. The Twin-Headed Fire Dragon (2200/1700.
He showed his Vorse Raider (1900/1200).
Heh. I'll go first.
Kaiba: 4000LP Azurada: 4000LP
I drew and placed a card facedown and summoned Dark Blade in attack mode (1800ATK.
Kaiba drew, then i activated my Thunder of Ruler to force him to skip attacking this turn. He summoned Battle Ox and used Polymerization to fuse it with Mystic Horseman to become Rabid Horseman (2000 ATK) then he placed a card facedown and ended his turn.
I drew. I placed a card facedown and played Nobleman of Extermination to destroy Kaiba's facedown card and remove it from play. Heheh. I killed his Crush Card. Since it was a trap, I told him he had to remove any other Crush Cards he had in his deck from play. I think I pissed him off. For my next move i summoned Pitch-Dark Dragon (900 ATK). I heard Yugi mutter something about this being how I started my first duel with Yugi.
And he was right. I used PDD's effect to equip itself to Dark Blade to power-up by 400 ATK/DEF (2200/1900). Dark Blade destroyed Rabid Horseman. (K: 3800LP)
It was Kaiba's move now. He grinned and placed a monster in defense mode. So i decided to flip it myself by activating my facedown card. A trap called The Spell Absorbing Life. It revealed Kaiba's Cyber Jar and canceling out its effect. Then my Life Points went up by 400 for every effect monster on the field (Cyber Jar only. Pitch-Dark Dragon was equuiped to Dark Blade.) (A: 4400LP). He then played a magic card called Eternal Rest, which destroys all equipped monsters. (Dark blade dies, along with PDD.
I drew and summoned Neo Bug (1800) and attacked his Cyber Jar (boom.
Kaiba drew and summoned Dark Gremlin in Defense mode (1600/1800). He then placed one card facedown and ended his turn.
I drew. I placed a monster in defense mode and another card facedown.
Kaiba got cocky after he drew. He swapped his Dark Gremlin to attack mode and equipped him with Axe of Despair to increase DG's ATK by 1000 (2600/1800) and ordered it to atk my Neo Bug.
...He fell for it. I revealed my trap: REALLY Eternal Rest, a trap version of Eternal Rest. So Dark Gremlin was destroyed.
I drew. and started laughing. I sacrificed Neo Bug and a facedown monster to summon my most powerfuel monster: Cosmo Queen (2900/2450)
I orderd Cosmo Queen to attack Kaiba directly (K: 900LP.
Kaiba grew pissed and summoned Kaiser Sea Horse (1700) and used fissure to destroy Cosmo Queen. He then ordered Kaiser Sea Horse to attack ME (A: 2700LP.
My move. I summoned Royal Magical Library in defense mode (0/2000) and played a card facedown.
Kaiba laughed when he drew. He used Kaiser Sea Horse's effect as a Double Tribute to summon a well feared LIGHT monster: Blue Eyes White Dragon (3000 ATK). He then used Megamorph to DOUBLE BEWD's attack (6000 ATK). His last card for the combination was Fairy Meteor Crush. The same effect my Pitch-Dark Dragon gave Dark Blade other than the 400 ATK point power-up. He ordered Blue Eyes to wipe out my Library.
I frantically serched for the button on the DuelDisc to activate my trap.
"Don't bother, Azurada. We both know how this will turn out."
"Oh, I know all right. I activate... (beep) Magic Cylinder!"
"WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"
The purple-robed monks of my Library summoned 2 Cylinders. One Cylinder caught Kaiba's attack and sucked it up. The other spewed out the White Lightning... right... at... Kaiba.
Kaiba: 0LP I won.
Kaiba went ballistic that he lost. Mokuba ran over to Kaiba to comfort his brother.
"It's Okay, big brother. you fought a good duel."
It was a shock to me that Mokuba was Kaiba's brother. For a second, i thought Mokuba was a girl with that long black hair.
Isono gave me a briefcase full of cash.
"It's for purchasing your own home of choice." said Isono.
"Wow... thanks..."
Mokuba looked at me for a minute. "Wow... You came out of nowhere and beat Seto... just like Yugi did... except you didnt have Exodia! Fufufufu..."
Another day, another duel. i guess that made ME 2nd Best.
I decided to wade it out at Yugi's place again before I go looking for a good house to live in. But i couldn't sleep well. I had this strange dream...
"Help! Is anyone there?? HELP!"
A silhouetted being ran around as if it was in a frantic search.
"Hello?! Please someone, answer me!"
I called back. "I'm right here!"
The being looked in my direction and ran towards me.
"Uhhhh, you look familiar. have we met?"
The being was a girl, on her knees, panting hard from running.
"Have you ever tried the Olympics? At this rate, you'll at least get second place in CrossCountry!"
She managed to catch her breath and rose up.
"Woah! You're Dark Magician Girl!?"
"Yes. I need your help."
"MY help? How am I able to help?"
"An unknown evil had risen in both your world and mine. I managed to trap him in your world, but he must be destroyed immediately!!"
"Evil? What evil? Lady, I'm no superhero, so how am I supposed to beat the evil you speak of?"
"Because you are chosen to obtain this Millennium Item. The Legend speaks of Seven Millenium items and their legacy. But what the legend did not speak of was an EIGHTH Millennium Item."
"... I'm new to this whole Milleninium Item stuff"
So she filled me in about Duel Monsters originally being the Shadow Games, and its relation to the Millenium Items. Apparently some pharoah locked away a powerful evil, but at the expense of his own memory. The pharoah's name was Yami, and resided in the Millenium Puzzle.
"You mean to tell me that this Yami guy's spirit lives in Yugi's Puzzle?! Now i know i'm getting ahead of myself! But what about this 8th Item you mentioned?"
Dark Magician Girl pointed towards me. "Right behind you..."
Like a regular fool would, i looked behind me. And it was some sword stuck in the statue of a sphinx. Almost like King Arthur with Excalibur stuck in a huge rock. So i tried pulling it out.
"RRRR. That butterknife has to be wedged in there tight!"
"Trust in yourself. And put your heart into it! Embrace the Heart of the Cards!!"
"Heart of the who?! Don't explain, I'll figure it out!"
So I tried harder on pulling the sword out. I did as instructed and started to psyche myself into thinking that I CAN pull it out. But what of the Heart of the Cards? Did it have to do something with... my cards?
My deck started to glow out of my pocket. As well as the sword. I tried pulling it out again, giving it my all!
And to my surprise the sword came out!
Dark Magician Girl jumped in joy. "I was right! You ARE the one! You now have in possession... The Millennium Sword!"
And I woke up with a scream. I woke up Yugi on accident and his Millennium Puzzle glowed. He has that serious look again. Wait a minute... Isn't it.
"...Yami?"