Team Zero: Orichalcos
Chapter 3: Brief the Teams
Reku shielded himself as the massive amount of light barreled towards him. Hoping for the best he press the 'activate' button on his duel disk. A trap card flipped up and started glowing.
"Face it you lose all of your life!" The blast of light hit Reku in a violent explosion that threw him back against the wall of the seal.
Reku-0 LP
Dorun-3000 LP
"Chime wanted the souls of strong duelist. I have wasted my time." Dorun said grimly and turned to walk away. Walking to the edge of the seal he collided into the seal's wall and stumbled backwards. "What the...?"
"I am still in this." Reku announced as he pulled himself up. "My trap, Spark of Life activates when my life points hit zero. I will gain 500 points for free."
Reku-500 LP
Dorun-3000 LP
"That won't do you any good. Stop wasting my time." Dorun complained as he turned around. "Cannon Soldier." He pointed to the turtle monster. "Attack it with Cannon Blast!"
"Second trap go. Two Man Flame Thrower! This will equip to two fire monsters and turns them into one all powerful monster. There attacks and defense add together plus 500 attack." A large gray device appeared on the field. The Warrior of the White Flame knelt down and rested the machine on the Turtle's shell (3400/1600).
"What? Wait..." Dorun was too late though as the blast of light hit the two monsters and slid off like nothing. Then the flamethrower let out a flame at it's barrel and shot a stream of fire in a counter attack.
Reku-500 LP
Dorun-1500 LP
"Reveal my trap card!" Dorun grunted as the face down card flipped up on his field. "Live and Learn. If I lose half my life points in one battle phase I get to decrease your monster's attack in half."
"What?" Reku growled as his monsters stats dropped (1700/1600).
"I now activate the magic card Scapegoat! This magic card gives me four sheep tokens in defense mode (0/0)(500/0)x4)." Four multi colored sheep monsters appeared on the field in front of Dorun. "End turn."
"Draw. And since the monster know as Warrior of the White Flame is combined with the Two Man Flame Thrower his effect is negated. Now I summon Robotic Knight (1600/1800) in attack mode." A robotic monster appeared dress up in a outfit that made him appear to be a commander. "Knight and Flame throwing duo! Attack two sheep!" The two monsters let out a spray of attacks on two of the multi colored monsters.
"My move. My machine will give me a Soda Pop Token and I end my turn." The machine spit out a another pop can.
"I am tired of this!" Reku snapped. "I need a card to finish him. He just keeps coming back!" Reku placed his fingers on his deck. A soft ruby colored glow came from the top card as he pulled it off. Reku's eyes widened. "I didn't put this card in my deck! It should still be in my deck box." In his hand, his Ruby Crystal gave a small pulse wave that flowed off. "Well, Order did say it would be where destiny wants it." He slid the card into his duel disk. "I activate Ruby Crystal on my Robotic Knight!"
"Ruby Crystal?" Dorun's face twisted into a completely confused look. "I have never heard of that card." His eyes widened as the slot in which held the card started shooting out sparks that were ruby in color.
The Robotic Knight moaned and grabbed it's head. Crystalline spike that were also ruby in color shot out of it's body. It howled in an unhumanly tone. It finally stopped and let ruby colored smoke pour off of its body (2600/1800)
"My Ruby Crystal gives 1000 more attack power plus the ability to attack all the monsters on your side of the field!" Reku announced in an devilish tone. A strange ruby colored symbol appeared on his forehead just like the seal on Dorun's head.
Dorun noticed thought that the Seal's bubble that locked the two duelists in, was flowing faster and faster. Lightning bolts of ruby color shot out of places and the seal itself shot through with a ruby coloring.
"Robotic Knight Ruby mode! Attack all his tokens!" Reku commanded and the monster flew across the field. One slash of it's sword and a blade of ruby colored light devastated Dorun's field. "Now my Flamethrower monsters! ATTACK!" Raising the flamethrower the two monsters shot out the stream of fire that engulfed Dorun.
Dorun fell to his knees as his life point counter hit zero.
Reku-500 LP
Dorun-0 LP
"NO CHIME, SPARE ME! STOP THE SEAL!" Dorun yelled up into the air as the seal itself closed around him. A burst of green light and it all was gone. Dorun's body fell over limp, lifeless. The Seal of Orichalcos card popped out of his duel disk.
Running over to him. Reku picked up the card and looked at it. Now in the picture of the seal was Dorun with a terrified look frozen on his face.
"He is gone." Reku simply stated as every one in the restaurant ran up to him. "His soul was taken by his very own card."
"Where does this power come from?" Ronin asked snatching the card out of Reku's hands. "And how in the hell did he do all that?"
"I don't know." Reku said looking back at everyone. "...But we never got to eat."
Everyone dropped to the floor anime style before getting up angry at him.
Sitting back down at the table. Reku slumped back and rubbed his shoulder where his monster had hit him.
"So who do you guess Chime is?" Akina asked looking down the table. "He talked about them a few times."
"True. I really don't know." Joe answered before noticing that there was an empty chair at the table. "Hey, were did that Lucien go?" Everyone looked around. No one had noticed that he was gone.
Walking down the street with his hands in his pockets, Lucien walked farther away from the restaurant. He sighed and kept walking away not looking back. He held up his arm where he wore a bracelet that jingled a bit as he walked.
"I'll bet that they are a part of this tournament too. At least I have seen that one duel." Lucien thought to himself as he walked farther down the street.
The mysterious woman, Chime, knelt before the symbol again. Slowly a tablet lifted out of the floor in front of Chime. In the center of the tablet was a glowing sphere of light. A sudden burst of energy and the light grew stronger. Chime frowned at this.
"Dorun was defeated and the seal captured him. I will have to get our replacement for my team." She frowned and pulled out a cell phone from her pocket. Snapping it open she press an auto dial and held it up to her ear.
She listened to it ring a few seconds before someone answered at the other end.
"Did you get them set up and armed?" She paused and listened to the response. Smiling at the answer she let out a pleased noise from deep in her throat. "Good." One motion, she snapped the phone shut and placed it back into her robes.
Late that evening, one of Kaiba's domes was filled with dueling teams from all over the world. The dome was filled with talking and laughing. Even some yelling.
Team Zero stood along with Team Striker. They talked amongst themselves about that strange duelist that afternoon and the weird seal card he played.
"I really tell you guys. It felt like the same power that we feel from the crystal cards." Reku told them as they all looked at each other.
"Strange." Ronin replied before his attention was brought to a large stage in the middle of the dueling ring.
Maximillion Pegasus stood along with Seto Kaiba, Yugi Motou, and Joey Wheeler. Kaiba moved and spoke into a microphone.
"Welcome duelists to..." Kaiba glared at Pegasus who glared back, "the Tournament of Kings!" The duelists shouted and cheered shaking the dome stadium. "This tournament will pit 16 different teams against each other. These teams are the best in the world." More cheering came from the duelists. Pegasus took the mic from Kaiba and took center stage.
"Duelists!" More cheering came as the great creator of Duel Monster spoke to them. "The winning team will get a chance to take on the team we have standing right up here!" Pegasus motioned to the three gentlemen behind him. Yugi, Kaiba, and Joey waved to the teams. "The best duelists in the world! Team Kings of Games!"
Kaiba stood up and took the mic back from Pegasus. Clearing his throat he cracked his neck and squeezed his free hand into a fist.
"Tomorrow this dome will be filled with people. Duelists do your best and take the gold!" Kaiba thrust his hand up in the air getting a positive response from the crowd. "The list of par ups will be posted first thing at sun rise. Get some rest, prep your deck, and prepare yourself for the most extreme tournament in the history of the world!" Once again, Kaiba's words got a positive response from the crowd. He turned to walk back but turned around as he forgot to say something. "And don't cry when I beat you." This, made the crowd silent and a coughing sound was made. "GET OUT OF HERE!" Kaiba demanded pointing to the door.
Walking out of the dome, Team Zero headed to the luxurious motel located right next to the dome. Going in they found there way to their room.
"Wow, this is going to be a good tournament." Akina said flopping down on one of the four beds in the room.
"True. It is time to prove our wroth as duelists." Ronin said flopping down on one of the remaining three beds. Reku and Sachiko followed suit and found their own beds.
Kaiba opened the door to his office. Ripping his tie off he threw it onto a nearby couch and sat down at his desk. Picking up a pen he started scribbling on a piece of paper.
Suddenly the door to the room burst open and a kid with spiky black hair came running in. Mokuba Kaiba ran up to his brother's desk and slammed a paper down on the desk in front of Seto.
"Mokuba, how many times have I told you not to disturb me while I work?" Kaiba angerly asked his brother.
"A million times, that's not important." Mokuba pointed to the paper. It was a list of the teams entered for the tournament. "Look at Team number 16."
Kaiba's eyes widened. He couldn't believe what he was reading. The team was registered as Team Orichalcos.
"This had better be some sick joke Mokuba." Kaiba said slamming his hands down on his desk getting closer to the paper.
"I had hopped it was but that is what they are registered as." Mokuba replied. "Should I get Yugi, Joey, and Pegasus back up here?"
"... ..." Kaiba was speechless for words. He didn't quite know what to say. "...Um, yes, Mokuba, get them."
"Sir." A pink haired girl stuck her head into Kaiba's office. "A letter is here and urgent. It is from Team Orichalcos."
Running across his office he grabbed the letter out of the hands of the girl. Ripping it open he read the letter quickly. Kaiba's eyes widened at what he read.
"No. This can't be."
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Well the tournament will get started soon. Lets see what happens shall we?
To Nanashi: You know me too well.
To John: Not what you thought it was. Sorry but that card will play a much bigger role soon.
To LucienShadow Master: Reku:) We know how you feel. We have to strap Rex down to his chair to get him to type on our story. Akina has to sit there and poke him with a stick to get him to do anything. Lazy lazy man he is.
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