Team Zero: Orichalcos
Chapter 6: King of the Sea of Blood
Ronin slid the next card from its place on his deck and flipped it around.
"Yes, Hydra Fusion has never let me down. I just need to use it right." Sliding the card into his hand he looked at what else he had. "This duel is just starting!" Grabbing a card he slammed it down onto his duel disk. "I summon Humanoid Slime (800/2000) in defense mode." A gel beast in a yellow vest appeared on Ronin's field crouching down. One of his arms, shaped like a long scythe, it wrapped around it's front to protect itself. "I set one card face down and end my turn."
"Nice try but it won't work." Rhea smiled as she pulled a new card off her deck. "This magic card will cause some fun. I activate Knife Launcher! I will equip it to my Invader of Darkness to increase it's attack by 300 points (3200/2500)." A strange gray box with a trigger and five slots with knives pulled down by straps appeared on the field. The large demon monster picked it up and aimed it at the gel beast.
"What does your little toy gun do?" Ronin asked cocking his head to the side.
"You will see. Go my Knife Launcher, destroy what he has left!" The launcher released one knife that flew across the ring and stabbed through the gel beast breaking it up into little gel blobs that fell all around the ring. The knife itself kept flying and collided with Ronin's chest breaking into white bubbles of light. Ronin grabbed his chest in pain as it hit though.
Ronin-1600 LP
Rhea-4000 LP
"When a monster with Knife Launcher destroys a monster in battle, you lose life points equal to half of the stats of the mode that monster was in. Since your monster was in defense with 2000 defense. You lose 1000 life points." Rhea giggled as Ronin snarled at her.
"Cheap card. My move!" He announced as he drew. "Pot of Greed lets me draw two cards!" Ronin pulled his two new cards off his deck.
"I know what the card does." Rhea rolled her eyes as he explained.
"Whatever. I activate my down trap, go Call of the Haunted! I will bring back Humanoid Slime!" As the said trap flipped up the gel beast returned but started glowing again. "I sacrifice Humanoid Slime to summon Kaiser Bass (2400/1000)." A slimy demonic looking bass appeared on his field. "I play him in defense mode and set one card face down. End turn."
"Then I will defeat you in this turn." She drew a card off her deck. "I play Trail of Hell (1300/900)!" A large coffin appeared on the field. Opening a demonic sword popped out and hovered next to it. "Attack his defense!" Swinging open, the coffin knocked the sword flying towards the fish monster. Stabbing through it's head the monster screeched in pain and broke apart. "Go, direct attack!" Rhea ordered and her monster slinged another knife at Ronin directly.
"Reveal Negate Attack!" Ronin's trap flipped up and the knife was sucked into a vortex inches from Ronin's face.
"Lucky. Fine I will end my turn and let you go." Rhea smiled as her two monster gave evil sounds of laughter to Ronin.
"I know what I must do." Ronin announced as he snapped the next card off his deck. "Reveal Hydra Fusion! I will fuse Kaiser Bass from my grave and Terrorking Salmon from my deck to summon..." A large white fish appeared on Ronin's field. It's head was just the skull with no flesh or scales and the rest of its body was covered with a ghostly fire mane. "King Death Fish (3000/2000)!"
"I will say that your new monster is impressive but my most powerful monster still trumps it by 200 points." Rhea smiled as her Invader of Darkness held up his Knife Launcher gun.
"True but I activate my Sacred Shark Fin on my monster!" A large fin jutted out of the monsters spine and started giving the monster an eerie glow. It roared as it's attack power jumped up (3900/2000). "My fin gives it an additional 900 attack power. Finally I will summon Worm Drake (1400/1500) in attack mode." Ronin placed the last card in his hand onto his duel disk and the green scaly worm monster with its eyeball in it's mouth appeared screeching at Rhea.
"I see." Reku said at Ronin's last play.
"See what?" Sachiko questioned looking at him.
"I had seen Ronin draw Hydra Fusion but he didn't play it on Humanoid Slime to make Humanoid Worm Drake. That is where I was lost." Reku looked back up at Ronin. "For Hydra Fusion to work one of the monsters must be a water attribute and one must be in the grave while the other is in the deck. Worm Drake must have been in his hand. That is Hydra Fusion's greatest downfall."
"And he saved Sacred Shark Fin to gain a greater attack point advantage." Akina threw in also.
"Now!" Ronin exclaimed and pointed to the Invader of Darkness. "Go my King Death Fish attack her Invader! Ghostly demise!"
Ronin announced and the ghost spit out a stream of white fog that covered the field. Rhea looked around confused before covering her head screaming. Ronin's fish monster came out of the fog and ate the large beast whole.
"Next my Worm Drake attacks Trail of Hell!" Out of the fog the worm monster flew and tackled the coffin and sword breaking them to pieces.
Ronin-1600 LP
Rhea-3200 LP
"I end my turn. Go ahead Rhea." Ronin smiled as the fog started to disappear leaving Rhea's field empty and Ronin with two monsters ready for battle.
"Fine, That was a good move but Team Trap 'um will prevail. I draw!" Sliding her new card into her hand she looked up at Ronin. "Davis may have jacked up the first round but I will not lose this second to you. I also have a water card, would you like to see it?"
"Water card?" Ronin blinked in surprise. "Sure, why not. What kind of water card would fit your deck strategy."
"This one." She pulled a card from her hand and flipped it around. "Sea of Dark Water. This field magic card is needed to be in play for me to summon an all powerful monster." A wave of black and dark gray waters flooded out from behind Rhea and covered the field. "As long as this card is in play allaqua, fish, and sea serpentmonsters that are also dark monsters round there attacks up to the nearest 1000 mark. Your King Death Fish goes up 100 more points (4000/2000) seeing as he is a fish with a dark attribute."
"So why help me?" Ronin questioned looking at his monster's power.
"Like I said, it needs to be in play to summon an all powerful monster. Next comes the magic card Stream of Black Blood. This ritual can only be activated if Sea of Dark Water is on the field. I sacrifice the two monsters in my hand, The Kick Man (1300/300) and a second Invader of Darkness for a total of 11 stars. Just perfect to summon this beast."
Out of the water a large blue and dark green beast started to raise up. It's head was the shape of a dragon and it's long slender neck reached it's body which jutted out in scales. Its arms and all four of its wings spread out and it whipped it's long scaly tail out of the water. At the end of its tail was a flipper like mermaids have on there tails. It stood a good 15 feet tall and roared out into the crowd sending cheers flying through them. This monster slid it's two tongues in and out of its mouth like a reptile does and it stepped forward splashing Ronin with virtual water.
"I summon the king of the Dark Sea. Born in the River of Black Blood and swimming down to the sea to one day rule it. The one, the only, may I introduce Drakamous, King of the Sea of Blood (5000/5000)!"
"Wow," Ronin cranked his head to the side at the powerful beast. "That thing have an effect?"
"Why yes it does Ronin." Rhea responded pleased that he had asked. "It destroys all monsters that aren't affected by Sea of Dark Waterso say goodbye to Worm Drake. It's effect states that if I destroy all monsters on your field he cannot attack this turn but..." In a wave from a powerful roar the worm monster broke apart and left the field. "...your king fish survives. Now my beast will attack. See, when also he attacks I lose all cards on my field and in my hand but I only have one card, the Sea of Dark Waters so it goes away and so does that 100 point bonus of yours (3900/2000)."
The beast charged up a large blast of purple energy in its jaws. Roaring it shot it out blasting the water to the side. Hitting the large fish it roared and tried to push the energy ball back but it soon succumb to power and disappeared in a flash of violet light.
Ronin-500 LP
Rhea-3200 LP
"Well that worked better than I thought it would. I got those cards while you were dealing with my Invader. Now Drakamous will rule the field and there is no monsters in your deck that has 5000 attack that easily and with only 500 life points left, you will be out in no time." Rhea giggled at her triumph.
"Dammit." Ronin growled.
"I end my turn. Go ahead, you may surrender to me now."
"What can I do?" Ronin narrowed his brow as he thought. "None of my monsters come close to 5000 attack and I have no cards in my hand or on the field. She wiped out my defense and offence in one fell swoop. Should I just give in to her? Can I win? What can I use to win?"
Chime uncrossed her legs and leaned forward resting her head on her intertwined fingers.
"Let's see if you are as powerful as your team mate."
"Come on Ronin." Reku cheered on in his head. "This bitch has nothing on you."
"Ronin!" Sachiko stood up and cupped her hands yelling at her boyfriend. "Don't you dare give up!"
Looking over his shoulder, Ronin gave Sachiko the thumbs up and a big smile. Then he turned and looked at Rhea.
"Rhea, I will win. Just you watch." Ronin drew his card and slipped it onto his duel disk. "I set one monster in defense mode and end my turn."
"Pathetic." Rhea smirked as she drew her card. She looked at it and immediately slid it into her graveyard. "Go Drakamous! Attack his defense monster!" Powering up another blast of violet energy the dragon monster sent it flying across the field and destroying the brown backed card.
"You destroyed Mother Grizzly (1400/1000) which allows me to summon a monster that is 1500 attack or less that is a water monster. I chose to summon Unshaven Angler (1500/1600)." A blue bear monster faded out of sight as a blue fish monster that was all mouth and barely no body appeared.
"Then I am done again." Rhea said curious as to whether Ronin could indeed win.
"This will take some luck." Ronin announced as he held up his drawn card. "I need Deadalus and Umi to destroy that thing. Come on baby, give it to me." He slid the card into his duel disk slot. "I play Great Gains and Losses. Now I draw six cards and send three of those cards to the grave.
Fanning out six cards Ronin's heart fell. There was no Deadalus in sight. Ronin's plan was so perfect but if failed on him.
"All right, I will just give up." Ronin started to move to put his hand on his duel disk indicating a forfeit. Closing his eyes tight he bit back the bad feeling of what he was doing.
"Yes, he is giving up." Rhea smiled wide as she saw what he was doing.
"Guess you aren't as good as your team you command." Chime leaned back and crossed her legs again. "No point in stealing his soul with my Orichalcos power. He is too weak."
"Why is that weakling in this tournament?" Kaiba questioned in his mind. "I saw that beast coming from a mile away."
Yami glanced over to see Kaiba's displeased look. He sighed, not even bothering arguing with him. He knew what he was thinking by now.
"I will..." Ronin began before his eyes snapped open. He flipped his hand back up into view. "...send these three cards to the grave." He slid three cards into the graveyard.
"What!" Rhea was all ready to give her victory speech when he gave in but she startled her with this sudden play.
"I now sacrifice Unshaven Angler which normally counts as two tributes for a water monster but I only need him for one to summon Orca Mega-Fortress of Darkness (2100/1200) in attack mode." A large Orca whale appeared on the field. On top of it was a military style air pad and cranes. Making its whale noises at Rhea, she smirked at the minimal attack.
"Too weak."
"So?" Ronin cocked in eyebrow as he slid a card into his duel disk. "Go monster reborn. I revive a monster I sent there myself. I summon back Torpedo Fish (1000/1000)." A fish that was green and in the bodily shape of a torpedo appeared on the field smiling a big wicked grin.
"Far too weak."
"Stop saying that!" Ronin stamped his foot. "Watch this. I sacrifice my Torpedo Fish to Orca's effect. I destroy one monster on the field so..."
"...my Drakamous." Rhea face dropped at this realization.
The Torpedo Fish zoomed across the field jumping out of the water hitting the large dragon right in the chest causing the field to be covered in smoke. A dragonish roar could be heard as the monster disappeared in the veil of smoke.
"And go Orca, Direct attack!" Ronin announced as the large whale flew into the smoke bank. Rhea saw the large massive whale coming towards her and she braced herself for the impact. The whale tackled her arms forcing her to her knees.
Ronin-500 LP
Rhea-1100 LP
"End turn." Ronin said finally able to see as the smoke cleared while the whale flew through it.
"I draw then." Rhea said pulling herself to her feet. Drawing the card she smiled at it. "I got Mirror force. I can stop his big whale with this card." She moved it to her duel disk. "I set one card face down and end my turn."
"Won't work." Ronin said drawing his next card and sliding it into his hand. "I have this monster. I summon Cannonball Spear Shellfish (1000/1000). I can sacrifice him to Orca's effect to destroy a magic or trap." A small red monster in a spear like shell appeared on the Orca's back. Shooting off at a god like speed it smashed into the down Mirror Force destroying it on contact.
"NO!" Rhea screamed as her card was destroyed.
"Orca direct attack!" Ronin ordered as his whale monster flew across the field and tackling Rhea. This send her falling to her back.
Ronin-500 LP
Rhea-0 LP
Davis and his other team mate ran up and helped Rhea down off the stage. Ronin breathed deep and deactivated his duel disk shuffling his deck back together. The crowd was in a mass uproar by the last second victory.
Pegasus walked up the stage and placed his hand on Ronin's shoulder. Reku, Akina, and Sachiko ran up on stage next to Ronin. Pegasus smiled and put his microphone in front of his face.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Team Zero is our first round winners!" The crowed roared again. "There will be a brief break between each match. Be back in about ten minuets." He then removed the microphone and looked down at Team Zero. "Good going. Keep up the good work." And with that he turned and walked off stage.
"Wow." Was all Ronin could say.
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Team Zero won round one. That moves them to round two. Let's see, Team Striker will face Team Blitz next. Let's see what happens shall we?
To LucienShadow Master: Cool, and I like Invader of Darkness too. He is so...cool.
To Vyser Adept of Dragons: If you want to send in a character I will find a why to slip them in. I could use a character for a team. Just send me a basic bio of looks and acts. You could send in a deck or just tell me what type of deck he/she uses and I can go from there.
To John: Who is Guarabe? Gurabe is a character of mine that yes will show up soon. I will leave none of my characters out of this fic.
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