Team Zero: Orichalcos

by Rex the Emerald Dragon

The third part in my Team Zero line up. Watch Team Zero fight the sacred power of the Orichcalcos. See if they can prove themselves worthy duelists in the eyes of the best three duelists in the world. Plus some other interesting characters!

10. Aliya vs Qui! Duel of Life

Team Zero: Orichalcos

Chapter 10: Aliya vs. Qui! Duel of Life

Qui Ping walked back up onto stage and snapped her duel disk into place. "I will not lose."

Aliya walked forward extending her deck to the other girl. "Please don't screw this up. Please." She thought as she grabbed Qui's deck and started to shuffle it. The crowed was eagerly waiting for there next match to start. After returning the decks the two girls walked to opposite ends of the dueling field.

"I will even let you go first." Qui said drawing her first five cards off her deck.

"Why thank you." Aliya said pulling her five starting cards as well.

Aliya-4000 LP
Qui-4000 LP

Aliya drew her first card off her deck and flipped it over in front of her face. "This will work...I hope." She smiled to herself as she slipped the card onto her duel disk. "I will summon Fire Princess (1300/1500) in attack mode!" Right in front of Aliya appeared a fiery red clothed princess holding out her wooden staff. "I will set one card face down and end my turn."

"Then I draw!" Qui announced as she drew her card off her deck. "I will summon Space Mambo (1700/1000) in attack mode!" On the field a large electronic fish appeared. It's yellow and green electronic lines lit up as it floated onto the field.

"Reveal trap. Go Bottomless Trap Hole!" Aliya announced as her trap flipped up sucking in the large fish monster. "This trap will destroy and remove from play your monster because it has more than 1500 attack." Aliya smiled while Qui slowly slid her card into the 'out-of-play' slot.

"Fine, I set one card face down as well and end my turn." Qui slid a card into her duel disk and the holographic rendering of it appeared on the field before her.

Aliya drew her card slowly and flipped it over. This duel was going perfect for her. "I play Mystical Space Typhoon and destroy your face down card!" Aliya announced as the giant typhoon ripped apart the face down card. "Next I summon Cure Mermaid (1500/800) in attack mode." By the princess a mermaid appeared in attack mode.

"Ok..." Qui seemed kind ofboard for some reason. All most as if she were trying to rush Aliya on.

"Both Fire Princess and Cure Mermaid will attack directly!" Aliya pointed to Qui and her two beast flew across the field smashing into Qui.

Aliya-4000 LP
Qui-1200 LP

"I will set up a face down card and end my turn." Aliya proudly said as her card appeared face down behind the two female monsters.

Qui drew and looked forlorn at her card. "I set a monster face down and end my turn." She said in a very monotone voice. Almost with a sad tint to it.

"Great! She is already done. I didn't screw this up for our team." Aliya breathed a deep sigh of relief then she drew her card. "Cure Mermaid will give me 800 free life points. But at the same time Fire Princess will deal you 500 points of damage thanks to her effect. She deals 500 damage to you each time I gain life points." The mermaid monster flipped around to face Aliya and spay her with a light drizzle of soft refreshing water. At the same time the Fire Princess held out her staff and shot a stream of fire towards Qui circling her with massive flames.

Aliya-4800 LP
Qui-700 LP

"Next I will send Cure Mermaid to attack your face down monster!" Aliya announced having her mermaid monster fly passed her and launch a stream of water hurling towards the face down card.

A thin smile creased Qui's lips as the water hit the card. "Thank you." She said catching Aliya by surprise. "The monster you attacked is called Attack Wheel Machine LV 1 (0/1500) and it will be your downfall!" Once the water fell to the ground a large wheel on a large steel frame appeared. On the wheel there was a bucket that was completely filled with a white light.

"What is that card?" Aliya asked in complete surprise.

"Well, If when it is attacked and if it survives the battle I may sacrifice him for the next level of monster." The wheel faded away to reveal a bigger wheel with an extension to the front with a large cannon. "Attack Wheel Machine LV 3 (1500/2000) in defense mode. My new level 3 monster absorbed all the attack of the monster that attacked its previous form." Qui smiled.

"Fine." Aliya started at her hand for a second before looking up. "I will end my turn."

Qui smiled wide at the sight of her next card. "I will set one card face down and activate the special ability of Attack Wheel Machine. I may give up its attack to send that damage back to your life points!" The giant wheel moved and dumped the white light into the back of the cannon on the front. The cannon erupted with an earth shaking 'boom' that sent the energy towards Aliya.

Aliya-3300 LP
Qui-700 LP

"Then I will end my turn. (Attack Wheel Machine LV 3 0/2000)" Qui smiled as the smoke disappeared from the cannon.

"Aliya!" Lucien yelled through cupped hands. "You are still good. Keep up the fight!"

"For the donuts!" Raoul added through cupped hands also. Lucien reached out and gave him a slap across the head.

"Thanks guys." Aliya smiled at them over her shoulder. Turning around she drew her card. "I gain 800 life points and you will lose 500. This duel is about done." Once again the sequence where Aliya isdrizzled and Qui is engulfed in fire replayed.

Aliya-4100 LP
Qui-200 LP

"Then I will end my turn..."

"No you won't." Qui interrupted Aliya as her face down card flipped up. "This trap is called Fierce Fighting Force. It says that if you end your turn without attacking, all monsters on your field become face up attack position and must attack a monster on my field. All I am required to do is send my hand to the graveyard." Qui slid her hand cards into the grave as the two female monster were surrounded in a strange lime green glow.

"NO!" Aliya yelled as her two monster took off charging across the field. Both of them hitting the large wheel monster then sliding back to Aliya's field.

Aliya-2900 LP
Qui-200 LP

"And Attack Wheel Machine LV 3 needs to survive two attacks in the same turnbefore it can be sacrifice for this." Qui produced a fearsome looking card from her deck before slapping it down. It was a much bigger wheel yet with a larger cannon and a strange hose that connected itself to Qui's duel disk appeared in place of the smaller wheel. "Attack Wheel Machine LV 7 (2800/2500)!"

"What!" Aliya gazed up at the large wheel machine that now towered in the middle of the field.

The crowed gasped in an excited tone of fright. They were all on the edge of their seats watching as Qui turned the duel slowly around for Team Ling.

Kaiba smiled to himself. "An Attack Wheel Deck. Haven't seen one of them in a long time." He muttered under his breath.

"True Kaiba-boy." Pegasus replied to him. "Andlevelseven is going to give that girl one really big problem."

"Is that card really that powerful?" Joey asked butting into the conversation.

"Kuriboh is too powerful for you Wheeler." Kaiba replied to the intruder.

"Kaiba!" Joey shook his fist in front of Kaiba's unflinching face. "Watch yourself."

"And now that your turn is over," Qui smiled as she drew her next card. The large wheel started to spin. It dumped half of the contents of the bucket into the cannon and the other half down a funnel that led to the hose. "I give up half of it's attack to my life and the other half to inflict damage (0/2500)." The hose filled with the white liquid and ran into Qui's life point counter while the cannon sent a charge off towards Aliya. The explosion kicked up dirt and smoke around Aliya's body.

Aliya-1500 LP
Qui-1600 LP

"But now your monster is useless to you." Aliya said coming through the smoke. "No more attack and I am not giving you another level boost."

"Who said there was a level passed level seven?" Qui asked. "This is the highest level needed to wipe you off this field."

"Really?" Aliya asked. "Then prove it."

"Fine. I will summon Seven Colored Fish (1800/800) and give up half of my life points to transfer it's power into my Attack Wheel Machine!"

"You can do that?" Aliya's eyes widened as the large multi-colored fish monster turned into white light and flew into the bucket on the wheel.

Aliya-1500 LP
Qui-800 LP

"Now my Attack Wheel Machine LV 7 (1800/2500) is powered up. Too bad I can't use its ability until next turn so I will end." Qui waved her arms around as the machine came to a complete holt.

"I must do something. I cannot let that thing blast me too many more times." Aliya hated the feeling that she might fail this yet. "What if I lose? I..., I...," She bit her lip and drew her card. She was suddenly sprinkled with the water from Cure Mermaid and Qui was once again engulfed in a blaze of fire. She was taken by complete surprise then it kicked in as to what was happening.

Aliya-2300 LP
Qui-300 LP

"That's right. My Cure Mermaid and Fire Princess kicked in giving me life and subtracting yours." Aliya smiled almost forgetting that. "I will summon Gren Maju Da Eiza (?) and activate my face down card; Monster Recovery! With this card I may return the Gren Maju Da Eiza and my hand to my deck. Then draw three new cards." Aliya shuffled her deck as the hologram of the red snake disappeared. "And I will play Spell Absorption. This magic card will give me 500 life points whenever a magic card is played. And thanks to my Fire Princess you will lose 500 life points."

"Really?" Qui said, impressed with Aliya's smart move. Now she couldn't play any magic cards without hurting herself fatally. "Smart move."

"Thank you. I have no magic to play myself right now so I will end my turn." Aliya said in a proud voice.

"But don't get me wrong." Qui said drawing her card. "We aren't done yet."

"Didn't think we were." Aliya replied.

"And they keep at it." Chime said thrilled with herself. "So who do you think will win?" She asked her two team mates.

"Does it matter?" Hygin asked in a non caring voice.

"I think that one from Team Renaissance." Archip said cutting into Hygin before he could say more. "She just needs to play a few cards right and she won't even need to break a sweat."

"True, true." Chime smiled.

"It really doesn't matter. In the end all their souls will be ours." Hygin said turning back to the duel.

"What do you think Hygin? Which one?" Chime said grabbing his shoulder to let him know who was the boss. Hygin's face contorted as Chime dug her finger nails down into Hygin's shoulder.

"The Team Ling girl." He spit out and she let go of his shoulder. Rubbing it he glared at her. "The Attack Wheel Machines are nothing to take lightly. Level seven is the worst of all because it can heal as well as hurt."

"But she only has 300 life points left. After her sacrifice that only leaves her with 1200 life points." Archip whined to Hygin. "I have never heard of these Wheel Attackers or whatever but they don't seem that great."

"Oh?" Hygin cocked an eyebrow. "Just you wait for the second effect of Attack Wheel Machine LV 7. You will see."

"Ahh." Chime butted in and pointed to the far end where Kaiba, Yugi, Joey, and Pegasus were sitting. All four of them were glaring at Team Orichalcos. "Aren't they cute when they are mad? Especially Kaiba."

"Yes Miss Chime." Archip quickly agreed.

"Just you wait. Once we get Pegasus alone his soul is ours." Hygin said sitting back.

"And we must manipulate the other teams any way we can." Chime said getting serious and sitting back as well. Crossing her arms and legs she continued to watch the duel.

Holding the card up to her face Qui smiled wide. "I drew just what I needed."

"And what is that?" Aliya asked as Qui's smiled just widened bigger and bigger.

"The way to unlock the second ability of Attack Wheel Machine LV 7. Watch!" She held the card up way high in the air. The roar of the crowd shook the stadium.

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Gasp! What will happen. Let's keep reading and find out shall we? Oh, and for those of you who don't have me on their author alert (bravo to the two of you that do), I will be working more on my Last Guard of the Spirits fic. Just since it isn't as big of a name with you I just don't think you look out for it as much. Just to let you know that is where some of my focus will be on. But don't worry, I will get this Team Ling vs. Team Renaissance done in due time.

To John: Gurabe will do what he wants. And did I ever say the it was going to be Gurabe? And what is that? Garzett isn't an important part of his name so you didn't capitalize it.

To LucienShadowMaster: Glad you like it.

To Nanashi: Donuts, I was smoking donuts. And I am sorry if you take this rudely but this is my world and I will do with it as I please. I take control of my world as the writer and that is one privilege that the writer gets. I am sorry if I didn't explain it good enough for you but you know that you can always ask me and I will post cards I make up for you. As for real cards, that is why I am typing on Last Guard of the Spirit. I have used one fake card, I think, and that is Gravekeeper Kiro. And if you didn't see it look above to the top of the reviews. Here is Monster Steel Tunnel for you:

Monster Steel Tunnel
Normal Trap
Effect: You may only activate this card after you take life point damage due to a direct attack from a monster your opponent controls. You may Special Summon one monster from your deck with equal or less attack of the monster that just attacked you to the field in face up attack or defense mode.
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