Team Zero: Orichalcos
Chapter 2: The Seal of Orichalcos
Kevin Hunter stretched out on a bench in the airport. He really had lost track of how long he had been there waiting. The sun shown through the windows as people scurried from here to there.
Finally he looked up at a hallway as people started to flood out of the hallway. One person in particular he was waiting for.
Kevin finally spotted the green haired kid as he walked out. He golden colored eyes widened as he saw the blond haired boy.
"Kevin!" Joe Peterson said as he ran over to the boy. "It has been a while."
"Yes it has." Kevin replied as he helped grab one of Joe's bags. Moving they sat down on the bench again.
"So Ronin and them haven't arrived yet?" Joe asked as he stretched out like Kevin had before.
"Not yet, nor has the third person of our team." Kevin said looking at the boy shut his eyes and relax back.
"So who is this mystery person that you got to be on our team. They had better be a good duelist." Joe said in a angerly tone.
"Joe, Kevin!" A female voice rang across the lobby. A blond girl wearing a blue shirt and yellow pants ran across the lobby with her bags.
"Usami?" Joe said standing up with a start. "Wow."
"Yea, I talked to her a week ago and she said she would be glad to be a part of our team." Kevin said as he pulled himself up.
"It has been too long." Usami exclaimed as she got up to the two boys.
"Yes it has." Joe agreed and received a hug from Usami. Then she moved and gave Kevin a hug.
"How are the two of you?" She asked as she let Kevin go and moved her baggage out of the line of traffic.
"We are good. We came here to win and I hope that is what we will do!" Joe exclaimed as he raised his fist up towards the sky.
"Too bad you are up against us too." A familiar voice came from behind Joe and he flipped around quickly.
Kevin and Usami were also surprised to see that standing behind them were the members of Team Zero. Ronin, the one who had spoke, smiling with a overconfident smile on his face.
"No, it is your down fall as you are up against Team Striker!" Usami claimed as she pushed her fist up into the air. Kevin just smiled and nodded. He leaned over and whispered into Joe's ear.
"We came up with that name. What do you think?" Joe face dropped.
"Was I going to get included in on any thing doing with this team!" He angerly whispered back.
"Right, so hey." Reku said rubbing his stomach. "Long flight, we should get something to eat. Who else agrees?" Reku got a unanimous show of hands and the reunited group started to walk off towards the local diner.
A man in a dark blue colored cape walked into the middle of the street. He had long blue hair and golden colored eyes. He was walking down the street looking left and right. Finally he spotted a diner, this is what he was looking for. He quickly move to the front door and opened it up.
Quickly moving, he moved up to the front counter and ordered a cup of coffee and a hamburger. He slowly ate the burger and sipped the coffee while he picked up a newspaper and began to read. The article of interest was a article about the up and coming duel monsters tournament.
"There is one!" Akina proudly said as she pointed to a diner that was across the street from them. They were searching for a good restaurant to eat at.
Avoiding the cars, the seven kids ran across the street to the diner. When they arrived they came up to the large glass door.
A kid in front of them grabbed the door handle and pulled the door open for them. He was about 5' 7" in height with brown hair that had some streaks of blond running through it. He smiled at them and closed his hazel colored eyes.
"Thank you." Everyone said as they walked through the door. The kid just nodded as they all walked through.
Lining up at the counter they looked around for a table. Reku, who was close to the back of the group looked to see the kid walk up next to him but still slightly back a ways. Turning Reku extended a hand.
"Hi, I am Reku." The kid looked startled for a second and almost afraid. He brushed it off and reached out shaking Reku's hand.
"Hi Reku, I am Lucien." Lucien and Reku finally broke there shake.
"Here, let me introduce you." Reku went around the group introducing them one by one. Once they all met each other Reku turned back to Lucien. "So Lucien, would you like to have lunch with us?"
"Um...Sure. Thank you." He smiled as the group headed for a table that would accommodated the groups size.
They hadn't all but just sat down at the table when a flying stool soared overhead and collided into the far wall that they sat near. Reku and them all stood up to see that same man in the dark blue robe standing angerly yelling at the waitress.
"No way am I paying that damn bill. You charge too much." The man said as a duel disk appeared on his arm from beneath his robes.. "I will steal away your soul for this!"
Reku didn't hesitate, he jumped up onto the table and ran over it jumping off at the other side. His duel disk strapped on his arm now snapped into place as he came sliding in between the waitress and the man.
"Woah down there partner." Reku said standing up. "Did I happen to hear you say soul?"
"You sure did." The man said. "And I see that you are a duelist. Well, this is it for you then. Lets duel."
"Wait, that was sudden and uncalled for." Reku said as the man's life point counter went up. His green circle duel disk lit up and opened a small port. This small port let out a spine type field for playing on.
"Let's go." The man said sliding his deck into the slot.
"Fine, let's duel."
Reku-4000 LP
Man-4000 LP
"I start first." The man grumbled and pulled six cards off his deck. "It is time to seal your fate."
"Seal my--fate?" Reku almost smiled at this. "So, go a head. Seal my fate."
"I will. I play a card that is older than the sands of Egypt. A card that powers surpasses the greatest know power in the world. I activate the Seal of Orichalcos!"
"What!" Reku stepped back surprised as a blast of green light shot up from the floor under the man. A terrible chill ran down Reku's spine.
Below the mans feet a circle inside a second circle appeared. Slowly symbols started to appear in the gap between the circles. Then a line slowly started to trace out a six pointed star that once it was done drawing the circle started to expand. As it expanded, tables, chairs, and people that were in it's way just got pushed back violently. Reku braced himself as he figured he was next but the seal just passed right through him and stopped just a few feet behind him.
The man looked up showing that on his forehead a glowing green symbol appeared. The symbol was the same as the one encircling them. His eye now had a shade of red to them.
"Mistress Chime has given me, Dorun, the power of the seal if I help her trap peoples souls with it." Dorun smiled wickedly as he pulled a new card out of his hand. "I activate my magic card; Soda Pop Machine! This continuous magic card will give me one Soda Pop token a turn. Once all my field slots are full then this card will be destroyed. Next I set two cards face down and call my turn to a end."
"The Soda Pop tokens are a weak 100 attack power. Why would anyone use that card? I am more concerned with this Seal of Ori-something. Oh well time to get to work." Reku took in a deep breath and drew a card. "This bad boy will help me take you down. I summon Warrior of the White Flame (2000/0)! Attack him directly my monster!"
A large warrior appeared on the field. He was slim and muscular holding a thin sword with essence of white flames liking off it. Armor adored all his limbs but his head. Raising his sword he started to charge across the field.
"Reveal down trap card! Traitors Poison! This negates your attack." Dorun smiled as a plum of greenish smoke engulfed the warrior monster.
"Then I set one card and end my..." Reku slid one card into his duel disk but as he was saying 'end turn' his monster started moaning and stumbling around. "What's going on?"
"Traitors Poison. It's secondary ability is that it will turn your monster against you and deal half of it's attack to your life points." Dorun laughed as the warrior monster turned around and brought his sword down on Reku's shoulder. Reku screamed as he was pushed to the floor, blood coming out of his new cut.
Reku-3000 LP
Dorun-4000 LP
"My turn." Dorun drew his next card off his deck. His soda machine started clanking and out of the drop slot an unmarked can of soda popped out and landed on the field (100/100). "The seal of Orichalcos increases his power by 500!" Dorun raised his finger to point to the soda can where the symbol appeared on the front of it (600/100).
"Still too weak." Reku announced as he pulled himself up. "Dammit, this is just like dueling in the shadow realm."
"I don't care. I can't summon a monster while I use the effect of Soda Pop Machine so I will just play this, Crave to Fight! I get to special summon one monster from my hand at the cost of 1000 life points. I summon now Cannon Soldier (1400/1300)(1900/1300)." A purple machine monster with a green barrel sitting atop it's head appeared and struck a fighting pose. The seal started glowing on it's head as it's attack power went up.
Reku-3000 LP
Dorun-3000 LP
"It is still too weak to defeat my monster in a battle." Reku proudly stated as the bleeding had almost stopped.
"I know your monsters backlash effect so I am not worried. For now I will sacrifice my Soda Pop Token to deal 500 points of direct damage to you!" Dorun pointed to his little can monster who faded away. The barrel on the Cannon Soldier lit up with energy and he blasted a ray of light straight at Reku!
Reku-2500 LP
Dorun-3000 LP
Searing heat blinded Reku as he coughed from the smoke kicked up. This powerful magic card was much more than a hologram.
"I draw and my monster loses 500 attack but gains 500 defense (1500/500). Now I summon my UFO Turtle in attack mode (1400/1200)." A green turtle monster appeared on the field. It shell was flying saucer shaped and lights started flashing on it. "I end my turn by setting one more card face down."
"That's all?" Dorun asked surprise. He drew the top card off his deck and a Soda Pop Token was produced by his machine. "I reveal the magic card Warp in Space. This will send my turns a head five turns just like five turns had passed on my field. As in I draw five cards and I get five new Soda Pop Tokens." Dorun snapped five new cards off his deck and his soda machine spit out five new Soda Pop Tokens.
"Wait!" Reku pointed angerly at the six monsters on his opponent's field. "You broke the rules! Only five monsters can be in play at one time by one player."
"Don't you know anything? The Seal of Orichalcos gives me the ability to have up to ten monsters on my field at the same time." Dorun laughed at Reku's dumbfounded look.
"What the hell is this card?"
"Time to finish. I sacrifice five Soda Pop Tokens to deal 500 points each to your life points. This is the end! I deal 2500 life points of damage too you now!" Dorun smiled wide as his five Soda Pop Tokens started glowing and disappeared. Then a massive amount of energy was set free from the barrel on Cannon Soldier's head, straight for Reku.
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Yea, the second chapter. What do you guys think?
To john: Got him.
To Blue Eyes White Knight: Got him too.
To LucienShadow Master: Got him also.
To Nanashi: Yea, someone not concerned about a character of my story. Any ways, I have set it to M for a reason. Trust me, you may not see it in the first couple of chapters but it will get much darker and plus the language in it are something sweet and innocent children aren't going to hear as they read my story. I don't know, I might change it later I don't know how the story will pan out yet. If you have trouble with my story you could just put me on Author Alert. That will send you an email when I submit a new chapter or add a new story.
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