Team Zero: Orichalcos
Chapter 8: The Blitz Team, Soul Duelist Pt. 2
Joe and Kevin watched in amazement as a pillar of yellow smoke rose from the spot where the massive naked monster known as Soul Guard #3 once stood. It plumed up towards the top of the dome where the Tournament of Kings was being held. The audience was dead silent now. Every now and again you heard a slight whisper but no one had a clue as to what was going on.
"When you destroyed Soul Guard #3 you activated the trap I set on the field." Ray said pointing to the card that had flipped up. The picture of a pillar of yellow smoke explained that but there was a huge shadowy figure of a dragon monster also on the card.
"What is it?" Kevin questioned as the yellow smoke was forming into a huge cloud above them.
"A trap known as Sky Top Soul Revival." Josh announced to Kevin's question.
"And it marks the power that will destroy you." Ray threw in. He pulled out his deck and began shifting cards until he found what he wanted. Smiling wide he held it up to his face and looked passed the card to the confused Kevin and Joe. "A beast that was formed by the souls of Soul Guards one through three. See when I activate Sky Top Soul Revival I must remove Soul Guard #1 and #3 from my grave from game."
"And I remove Soul Guard #2 also." Josh added in as the two of them pulled out the said cards and placed them in the 'out-of-play' slots.
"Now we can summon this beast. Sky Top Soul Dragon (3500/3000)!" A large mustard yellow dragon monster appeared out of the large cloud above the duelist. Flapping its wings it slowly made its descent down to the field below it. Landing on its four feet it whipped its long neck around and roared. The spikes that ran from the top of its head down to the tip of the tail started glowing like light bulbs casing a mustard yellow glow across the stadium.
"Aw...Shit." Joe exclaimed as his move just backfired on him. Big time. "I...will set one card face down and call my turn to an end." Joe's card appeared behind his Armored Warrior.
"Then I will draw." Josh announced pulling his card off his deck and flipping it over. "Activate Permanent Magic card Soul Scroll! Now whenever a player with a monster on the field with Soul in it's name draws a card they gain 1000 life points. Now I summon Soul Knight (1800/1100) in attack mode. I lose 500 life points so he can attack Blade Knight!" Josh pointed as a monster in light green armor that covered all its body but its face which was that of a young man. It charged across the field and slashed up the blue knight monster.
Joe-3000 LP
Kevin-3200 LP
Ray-1100 LP
Josh-3000 LP
"Oh, and I set one card face down. End turn." Josh's set card appeared face down on his field.
Kevin looked at his deck for a few seconds before pulling the top card off. "I will set two card face down and set one monster in face down defense mode. End turn."
"Fine." Ray said pleased as he drew a card. "Oh and thanks to Soul Scroll, I gain life because of Sky Top Soul Dragon." Ray smiled as his life points shot up.
Joe-3000 LP
Kevin-3200 LP
Ray-2100 LP
Josh-3000 LP
"Now, my Sky Top Soul Dragon requires a sacrifice of a monster with soul in it's name to attack. I will sacrifice my partners Soul Knight," Taking a pause to get a nod from Josh he continued, "and destroy Gallant Armored Warrior! Go Sky Top Soul Burst!" The dragon monster roared loudly before a large white and yellow ball of energy formed in its mouth. Sparks of white light shot off as waves of energy rippled through the air. A burst of energy and the attack ripped across the field towards the white armored knight.
"Reveal trap." Joe pointed to his down card and it flipped up. "Go Mirror Force, reflect his attack and defeat his monster!"
"I will counter that with my down Soul Negater! I pay 1000 life points to negate a magic or tarp cards activation. Sorry but no." The mirror force barrier ripped apart as souls flew passed it. The large attack continued through and engulfed the Gallant Armored Warrior whole.
Joe-1900 LP
Kevin-3200 LP
Ray-2100 LP
Josh-2000 LP
"So next I play a magic card. Soul Blast! This card allows me to pay 2000 life points to have a second battle phase after my end phase. So I will summon my Soul Trion (300/300) and end my turn." A small triangle monster appeared on the field. It was transparent and had two cartooney eyes on it.
Joe-1900 LP
Kevin-3200 LP
Ray-100 LP
Josh-2000 LP
"I sacrifice Soul Trion to attack Joe directly now. Good bye. Sky Top Soul Burst!" The dragon monster roared again and charged up a massive energy ball. It blasted out and across the field towards Joe.
Kevin squeezed his fist together tightly before reacting. "I reveal down trap Call Force Delta! I summon a monster to the field to intercept one attack. That monsters attack is halved. I will summon my Dark Magician of Chaos (2800)(1400) and stop your attack!" A black leathered magician monster appeared on the field in front of Joe. It raised it staff to protect itself from the oncoming attack. It was engulfed and Joe was spared.
Joe-1900 LP
Kevin-700 LP
Ray-100 LP
Josh-2000 LP
"Kevin...Thank you." Joe exclaimed in shock. He didn't expect Kevin to do such a grave sacrifice to save him.
"Oh Kevin." Usami whispered from the bench behind them. It wasn't loud enough for the two on the field to hear but the surrounding teams could hear it. "So noble."
"I have saved my partner, we are still in this." Kevin exclaimed almost weakly. "And since you ended your turn..., Joe make this turn count. You know what we need to win." Kevin said boldly. Joe nodded and drew his card.
"I have no clue as to what we need." Looking down at the card he smiled. "Maybe this will help me get it. Whatever it is?" Joe flipped the card around. "I play Pot of Greed! I draw two cards." Quickly Joe snapped the two cards off his deck and looked at them. "Call of the Haunted and Ghost of Kuriboh. What good do these do?" Thinking a second he decided to go ahead and use it. "I summon Ghost of Kuriboh (300/200) in defense mode and set one card face down ending my turn." A ghostly gray Kuriboh appeared in front of a brown backed card. "Once Ghost of Kuriboh is in the graveyard I can use it to save my life points."
Josh smiled as he drew his card. "I summon Soul Trion (300/300) in defense mode and activate Draw to Soul. Now with this you must attack my monster first. Just in case. I end my turn." Josh smiled as his small triangle monster started glowing with a faint blue light.
"Then it is to me." Kevin said pulling the top card off his deck. "I will flip my set monster. Sapphire Dragon (1900/1600) come forth." A large blue rocky dragon monster appeared on the field roaring at the much larger yellow dragon. "Reveal face down magic card, Dragon Sacred Blast Summoning. I destroy Sapphire Dragon to summon the legendary Blue Eyes White Dragon (3000/2500)!" The small blue dragon faded away and was replaced with the large white scaled one.
Kaiba jumped up in a start. "What the hell is he thinking playing that blue eyes in my presence?" Kaiba demanded angrily. He slowly sat back down.. "Sooner or later I will win that from him. All the power of the Blue Eyes is mine and mine alone."
Kevin looked over to Joe who was surprised by the move. "Joe." Kevin said closing his eyes and moving his head back to the field. "If we hope to win this tournament. We must do it together. I had hopped I could save this but it seems not so. I have the feeling that your set card is Call of the Haunted. Activate it if I am right, call back your Gallant Armored Warrior."
"Ok." Joe said pressing the button and watching his white armored monster appear on the field. "Why Kevin? What is the meaning of this? Neither of our monsters have enough attack to beat that Sky Top dragon."
"After we left when Reku had beaten Chaos I found out something. A power that was unmatched and brought us closer together. Our fates are intertwined. I hoped we would not need it but the time has come. To open the future we must win and I will use this card to light the way." Kevin explained as he slipped a card into his duel disk. "Activate Polymerization. I fuse Blue Eyes White Dragon and Gallant Armored Warrior together to summon..."
The two said monsters disappeared into a large vortex but a shadowy man started to walk out. As the light flooded over the body of this man a white and blue armor plating on the Gallant Armored Warriors normal white one. A new helmet adorned his head that was the shape of a Blue Eyes White Dragon and a cape of dark blue slung down his back with a picture of wings imbedded into it. Holding out its sword it revealed the blade was solid white and surging with electrical power.
"...Blue Eyes Gallant Warrior (3400/3000)!" Kevin announced as the crowed went dead silent. This new monster had never been heard of before by anyone. Not even the powerful Kaiba with his super computer had found out about this monster.
"Woah..." Joe stared in amazement at the new monster.
"Still not strong enough." Ray said coming back to the duel. He also was in awe at the new monster.
"So?" Kevin asked as he pointed to Soul Trion. "We must attack that anyways. Go Burst Stream Blade!" Kevin pointed to the small triangle monster. The great knight charged across the field and, like a knife through hot butter, cut the monster in half.
"I set one card face down and end my turn." Kevin announced as the card appeared.
"Too bad." Ray snapped the card off his deck. "I will still win. Watch as I activate Heavy Storm to destroy your set card!" A massive wind picked up and blew away Kevin's set Ring of Destruction. "To bad. Now I summon Soul Guard #2 and sacrifice him so Sky Top Soul Dragon will destroy Blue Eyes Gallant Warrior!" A massive energy burst out of the yellow dragon's mouth, flying at a tremendous speed towards the calm knight.
Kevin's head slowly lifted out of the shadows of being bowed and started cold eyes at Ray. "I said we will open the door to the future, and Blue Eyes Gallant Warrior is the key we need. Counter attack!" Hearing this the knight monster jumped towards the large stream of energy. Screaming its battle cry it slashed down and the streams of energy ripped out towards both sides of its sword. The stream parted like water as the warrior cut through the energy right up to the body of the dragon. Slashing down it send a blade of energy down the body of the dragon ripping it in half.
"What...?" Ray looked confused at the monster as it howled in pain. It broke apart in a burst of light sending small yellow data bits across the field. The Blue Eyes Gallant Warrior landed on the ground in front of Ray and nodded. "How in the...What the...?"
Joe-1900 LP
Kevin-700 LP
Ray-0 LP
Josh-Loss of partner
"Let me explain." Kevin said clearing his throat. "First, Gallant Armored Warrior is the most fusible warrior card in the game. He can fuse with almost anything. Secondly, Blue Eyes Gallant Warrior had to attack the Soul Trion first before it could attack the Sky Top Soul Dragon. Thirdly, Blue Eyes Gallant Warrior absorbs the attack points of every monster it destroys in battle until the end of my end phase. So his new 3700 attack was stronger than your 3500 attack. And finally, when you lost all your life points your partner lost as well."
"Wow." Josh was at a loss of words but he deactivated his duel disk. "That was...impressive. Good game guys."
"We thought we would have the upper hand in a two on two duel but I guess your team work was much greater." Ray said extending his hand to Kevin.
"Thanks. You were no easy opponents." He said taking it and shaking it firmly.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Team Striker advances on!" Kaiba said to the audience sending them into an uproar. Smiling he walked over to Kevin. "Don't expect to keep that Blue Eyes much longer. I will win it from you."
"Watch it." Joe said as he grabbed Kevin and pulled him off the stage. They both sat down and breathed a sigh of relief. They had won.
"Wow, Kaiba is freaked out about Kevin's Blue Eyes." Reku observed as he walked over to Team Striker. "I never thought about him playing it in front of Kaiba."
"Hey, congrats." Ronin said slapping Joe on the back. "You two did great."
"Team work." Kevin said. "Without Joe's Gallant Armored Warrior I would have never been able to summon enough power to win that."
"And without Kev saving me I wouldn't have been around to help him." Joe threw in. The kids were all relived that their teams had made it through to the next rounds.
Lucien sat straight up watching Team Zero and Team Striker out of the corner of his eye. A female sitting next to him nudged him in the rib cage to catch his attention. She had dark brown hair with many braids with Duel Monster shaped hair clips. She was a slim girl who stood just a little below average.
"Yes Aliya?" Lucien asked brining his attention to her.
"Don't be so paranoid." Aliya Renon said. "We don't have to put on a better show then those two teams. We just have to win."
"Yea." Raoul Cooper, a African-American boy who sat on the other side of Aliya commented. He was tall and had broad shoulders. He looked as if he was built to be strong. "Just as long as we get through this. And don't make a fool of ourselves."
"Raoul." Aliya turned her head to him. "You always make a fool of yourself." Lucien just laughed at his friend. He sighed and looked back over at Team Zero and Team Striker.
"I just was trying to study them to see what would be the best deck to use against them. I met them in the diner the other day." Lucien suddenly looked very concerned.
"What?" Aliya asked seeing Lucien's concerned face.
"That one of Team Zero that didn't duel. I believe his name is Reku. He had a...really powerful card."
/Flashback/
"I am tired of this!" Reku snapped. 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. In his hand, his Ruby Crystal gave a small pulse wave that flowed off. 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 its body. It howled in an inhumanly 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 a 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 its 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/
/End Flashback/
"I am not sure if I have a card that even comes close to that power. What if he uses it. I didn't see any drawbacks what so ever."
"Was it a fake?" Raoul asked.
"No and neither was a large green circle card. It was called the Seal of something."
"Well let's not bother ourselves with such things." Aliya said noticing Seto Kaiba walking back up onto stage.
"Ladies and gentlemen. The break is over. Let's get back to the tournament at hand. Next up Team Ling will face Team Renaissance. Come up here and set the rules. Then begin this duel." Kaiba's voice, like usual sent waves of excitement roaring out of the crowd. He glared at Kevin before he walked off stage.
"Well let's go Team Renaissance." Lucien said as he and his team walked up onto stage to face Team Ling.
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Well another chapter up. Tell me what you think of it and please if you are out there I encourage you to review. Now Team Renaissance will face Team Ling. What will come of this battle.
To LucienShadowMaster: Look, your team is up next. Wish them luck.
To Vyser Adept of Dragons: He will show up in a later chapter but not too far away.
To john: Is your bad feeling gone now?
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