Team Zero: Orichalcos

Chapter 11: Burning Damage. First to Zero!

"What? What have you drawn?" Aliya asked as Qui slowly lowered the card from high above her head. "How will it unlock the second ability of your monster?"

"Simple." She said flipping it around. "Recognize it?"

"Yea." Aliya said unsure of herself. "It is a Mirror Force trap card."

"Right." Qui said flipping it back around to look at it. "The Mirror Force trap card destroys all monsters that are in attack position when one monster attacks."

"I know what the card does." Aliya said calmly and as nicely as possible.

"All that it is, what do you think of the card?" Qui asked quizzically.

"um..." Aliya was taken back. "Well..., it is a good card."

"Very good. Watch. I set one card face down and use the first effect of Attack Wheel Machine LV 7 to increase my life and decrease yours." The Mirror Force appeared on the field as a brown backed card and the cannon discharged sending the white energy towards Aliya.

Aliya-1400 LP
Qui-1200 LP

"I end my turn. (Attack Wheel Machine LV 7 0/2500)" Qui announced to Aliya.

"Fine." Aliya drew her card. "Yes! First my Cure Mermaid and Fire Princess do their thing." Aliya announced as the water sprinkled her and the fire engulfed Qui.

Aliya-2200 LP
Qui-700 LP

"And now I play Pot of Greed. I have Spell Absorption so I gain 500 more life points. When I gain life my Fire Princess deals you 500 life points of damage." Aliya smiled as she drew her two cards and Qui was showered with fire.

Aliya-2700 LP
Qui-200 LP

"NO! I drew two monster cards. I was so close." Aliya frowned at her failed attempt. "Ok. I will end my turn."

"All right." Qui said happily and drew her card. "Ready to lose?"

"No." Aliya said slowly turning her head to the side as she talked.

"Too bad. I activate the second ability of my Attack Wheel Machine LV 7. I activate Mirror Force!" Qui pointed to her down card and it slowly flipped up.

"Wait! You can't do that!" Aliya protested

"Sorry but I can. I must reveal a trap card that has been set on the field at least one turn. Once I show you I must remove it from play and give up all but 50 life points.

Aliya-2700 LP
Qui-50 LP

"Now I can win. Watch. I give my machine a free 3000 attack (3000/2500). Next a coin flips and if I get heads all 3000 points come out of your life. If tails I gain the 3000 life."

"A gamble!" Aliya said shocked at what Qui said. A wave of terror fled over her face as the holographic coin appeared on the field. A burst of energy and the coin flipped up into the air spinning. All the teams and the audience gasped as the coin began to fall. Slowly it bounced off the hard floor of the arena. Spinning on it's side the coin finally fell down showing tails.

"Well, you don't lose and I gain 3000 life."

Aliya-2700 LP
Qui-3050 LP

"Now I must skip my next draw phase but I will summon this." Qui said placing a monster on the field. "I summon Aqua Fighter (1500/1200) in attack mode." A Ronin favorite monster appeared on Qui's field. It's large oversized arms were pounded together and it's two beady eyes glared at Aliya. "Attack Fire Princess!" She ordered and the monster punched through the female warrior.

"No my strategy!" Aliya cried as her monster was punched down.

Aliya-2500 LP
Qui-3050 LP

"And thanks to Aqua Fighter I get to draw one card when he destroys a monster." Qui said drawing her free card. "I will set it face down and end my turn." She said motioning to the newly set magic or trap card.

"Then I draw. I will still get the 800 from Cure Mermaid sending me up into the safe zone." Aliya smiled as her life points safely surpassed 3000.

Aliya-3300 LP
Qui-3050 LP

"Do you think she is safe yet?" Raoul asked leaning over to Lucien.

"I really don't know." He replied. "She still has a chance to win this."

Ronin sat back and smiled. "Well, she isn't steam rolling this one like that last guy did."

"True." Sachiko said leaning against him.

"I believe that it Qui Ping, second in command." Reku said looking at them. "She isn't second in command for nothing."

"Hey...Reku." Akina said catching his attention.

"Yes honey?" He asked looking towards her.

"Why do you know so much about that Team Ling?"

"Yea." Ronin sat up and looked at him. Reku's eyes widened as he looked around at his team mates.

"Well...you see." He said stumbling with words. "Team Ling...Xue, Qui, and Zhen Lin..."

"An all attractive female team." Sachiko said stating the obvious.

"Really?" Akina said getting right up in Reku's face.

"Wait Akina." Reku said sliding back into Ronin who just placed his hand on Reku's back and pushed him forward. "I...I..."

"Yes." Akina said getting a fire burning in her sweet blue eyes.

"I," Reku bowed his head, "studied them before you and I..."

"Ok." Akina said smiling and turning back to the duel.

"Do you even know what he means when he said studied?" Ronin asked.

"Oh yea, but it is just because he is male." She said smiling. "Just don't be looking at them now." She moved her hand to his back and shoved him off the bench to the floor.

"Why would I look at them now?" Reku said in a very childish innocent voice. He pulled himself back onto the bench. "You are the only one I am looking at now."

"Blissful ignorance." Sachiko whispered under her breath so that no one else could hear.

Aliya was watching this whole scene out of the corner of her eye as were most of the teams. She then put her fist up to her mouth and cleared her throat. "I will now summon Bazoo the Soul Eater (1600/900)." A strange baboon appeared on the field squatting over. "I will remove Fire Princess from my graveyard to up its attack by 300 points until the end of your next turn." The baboon was then seen eating a sphere with a rainbow light coming off it. Stretching back it roared with the newly gained power (1900/900).

"What will he do?" Qui asked bringing her attention back to the duel at hand.

"He will attack Aqua Fighter!" Aliya commanded and the large baboon charged across the field tackling the blue beast.

"Reveal Trap! Negate Attack!" A swirling vortex pushed the baboon off the blue warrior and pushing him back to Aliya's field.

"Then I must end my turn." Aliya said with a hint of disappointment. "I cannot lose. I just can't."

"I can't draw because of using the second effect of my Attack Wheel Machine LV 7 but that is ok." Qui said shrugging. She then raised her hand and pointed to the Cure Mermaid. "Attack that my Aqua Fighter!" The blue warrior flew across the field and punched the mermaid square in the face breaking both of them to pieces. "And it still destroyed a monster so I get to draw." She smiled as she got to draw. "I will hold it and end my turn."

Aliya drew her card and looked at it. "I play my second Fire Princess (1300/1500) in defense mode." A second princess monster appeared on the field. "And I play Messenger of Peace. First off Spell Absorption gives me 500 life and you lose 500 life because I do have a Fire Princess on the field." Aliya announced as Qui was showered in flames again.

Aliya-3800 LP
Qui-2550 LP

"And Messenger of Piece forbids either of us from attacking with a monster that has more that 1500 attack." Aliya said motioning to her card. "I will end my turn."

"And I will draw." Qui said calmly drawing. "I activate Pot of Greed to draw two cards." She slid the said card into her duel disk and pulled off two card from her deck. "Perfect. I set one card face down and end my turn." The brown backed card appeared on her field in a ray of light.

"I draw then." Aliya said weary of Qui's move. "I must pay 100 life points to keep Messenger of Peace so I will do that first." She said looking down at her life point counter.

Aliya-3700 LP
Qui-2550 LP

"Then I summon my last Fire Princess in defense mode and end my turn." An identical female princess appeared on the opposite side of the baboon.

"I draw and declare this duel over." Qui said holding up a card from her hand. "I activate Life Tide! Our life points must be within 4000 base life points of each other but we switch life point totals. This card would be last to resolve because of its own effect."

"And due to Spell Absorption I gain life and you lose life before the switch." Aliya said frowning.

"Our life points were within 2000 when we started." Qui smiled at her new total.

Aliya-1550 LP
Qui-4200 LP

"Next I reveal a trap to you. I reveal my Waboku trap card and remove it from play to reduce my life to 50 and to give my monster attack again (3000/2500)."

Aliya-1550 LP
Qui-50 LP

The giant holographic coin appeared in the center of the field and flipped high up into the air. Spinning several times it finally decided to fall.

"Tails please." Aliya begged in her mind as the coin hit the floor. Flipping over several times the impacts echoed in the now dead quiet stadium. Aliya's eyes widened at the results as a wave of pure white light flooded over her body. The coin had flipped up heads.

Aliya-0 LP
Qui-50 LP

The crowd was silent for a few more seconds before erupting in roaring cheers. Lucien and Raoul bowed their heads but got up to go and support their team mate.

It was now a tie. One to one on wins. Next Lucien would half to face the final member of Team Ling, Zhen Lin.

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Aliya lost. Sorry but it wasn't in the cards for her.

To Vyser Adept of Dragons: Thank you

To Lucien: Sorry but you forgot that Seven Colored fish gave its power to Attack Wheel Machine LV 7. And it all came donw to a flip of the coin, but look how close that was! 50 to 0!

To Nanashi: Anytime man. Anyways what is with you and the name Francis? Oh and what kinda cream was it? Ameretto?

To John: Do you mean tribute two Summoned Skulls? It is a seven star mosnter. And you also forgot that Seven Colored fish gave it's power to Attack Wheel Machine. That pulled her through.
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