Team Zero: Orichalcos
Chapter 12: From the Ashes Rise the Phoenix
Lucien and Raoul walked up the stairs to meet Aliya as she deactivated her duel disk. She turned around to face them, a look of failer plastered on her face.
"Are you going to be ok?" Lucien asked walking up to her.
"Oh," She smiled weakly and patted him on the shoulder. "A loss is a loss. I will be fine. Just win this for us Lucien."
"You sure?" He questioned as she walked passed him and Raoul.
"I'll be fine." She said without turning around. She slowly walked to the bench and sat down.
Raoul sighed and looked back at Lucien. "Good luck buddy." He said as he started to walk back to the bench and sat down.
Lucien snapped his duel disk into place and walked to the middle of the field where Zhen, the last member of Team Ling, was already shuffling her deck. Lucien popped out his deck and gave it a quick shuffle before handing it off to Zhen to shuffle. Smiling she was the shortest of all of Team Ling. She had dirty water brown hair and wore a hunter green shirt with three navy blue stripes running through the middle across her breasts.
"Ready to duel boy?" She asked taking her deck back. "I may be the lowest rank in my team but I am no push over."
"I would hope for a good duel." Lucien said shakily as he slipped his deck back into the slot. "Let's see what you got."
"Fine. I will start." Zhen said turning and walking to her side of the field drawing her five as she went. Lucien turned and did the same.
Lucien-4000 LP
Zhen-4000 LP
"I will start off our fine duel with this monster. I summon White Magician Pikeru (1200/0) in attack mode!" A little strawberry pink haired monster appeared on Zhen's field. She was wearing white robes and a strange scapegoat shaped hat. Her magic wand was bursting with color as she twirled it about. "I set up two face down cards and end my turn." Two brown backed cards appeared behind the small magician.
"Then I draw." Lucien announced as he drew his sixth card. "I will start off with one monster in face down defense mode." A horizontal brown card appeared in front of Lucien.
"I will chain that with my face down Scapegoat card." Zhen pointed to her face down card revealing four colored sheep the appeared two on each side of Pikeru. "It gives me four sheep tokens (0/0) to help me."
"I will set two cards face down and end my turn." Lucien finished.
"Too bad. Pikeru gives me 400 life points for each monster on my field. I have four scapegoats and of course White Magician Pikeru. That is 2000 more life points." Zhen smiled as she snapped her card off her deck. White Magician Pikeru twirled her wand around showering Zhen in a spray of light.
Lucien-4000 LP
Zhen-6000 LP
"I will bring my turn to an end." She said as the rainbow color rain faded away.
Lucien drew his card and smiled at what he had drawn. "That may help." He picked up his face down monster. "I play Pot of Greed!" Flipping the card over he slid it into his duel disk and pulled two new cards off his deck. "I will next flip summon my face down monster Magician of Faith (300/400) to get back my Pot of Greed." A purple haired lady appeared on the field swinging around her crescent moon staff. "And I sacrifice it to summon Spell Canceller (1800/1600)!" The magician faded away and a large bug like machine took it's place.
"No." Zhen stepped forward. "Spell Canceller stops all magic cards from being played."
"Too true." Lucien smiled. "Spell Canceller attacks White Magician Pikeru!" The bug like machine powered up a strong laser beam that shot out towards the now cowering little magician.
"Reveal trap Mirror Wall!" Zhen pointed to the down trap card. From the middle of the arena a large glass wall appeared. The laser beam hit one side of it and refracted back to the Spell Canceller. Then a small stream of the laser continued on towards the little magician. "Mirror wall halves the attack of your Spell Canceller (900/1600). So sorry to say but he is gone." And just like that Pikeru knocked the laser blast aside and shot her own rainbowed laser towards the bug machine in a powerful counter attack. Hitting the machine it exploded on contact.
Lucien-3700 LP
Zhen-6000 LP
Lucien growled as he had to slid his powerful monster into the graveyard. "I will have to end my turn then." He said angrily but not angry at Zhen as a person.
"I draw and gain 2000 life points. Now I will pay out those 2000 life points to keep my Mirror Wall active on my field. My loop strategy has come into full focus." She smiled and looked at her next card. "I play the magic card Magic Formula giving my Pikeru an additional 500 attack power (1700/0)." A strange book appeared in front of Pikeru. She smiled and started to read it intently. "Now Pikeru attacks!" Still reading, Pikeru held up her wand and shot a swirling vortex of rainbowed color towards Lucien. Engulfing him he grunted as the attack took it's toll on his body.
Lucien-2000 LP
Zhen-6000 LP
"I reveal my trap. Phoenix Backlash Strike! This trap works only if I lost more than 1500 life in a battle phase. I deal you 1500 points of direct damage and draw two cards from my deck." Lucien said as he pulled two new cards.
Lucien-2000 LP
Zhen-4500 LP
"Good job reducing me some. I will now end my turn." Zhen said proud even though she lost some life.
Raoul and Aliya had sat in complete silence since the duel had started. Suddenly Aliya stood up and started to turn to leave.
"Hey ah...Aliya. Where ya going?" Raoul asked reaching out his hand to her.
"The little girls room. That is all." She said with a smile and a wink. Turning she walked out of the door that led to the rest rooms.
"Why do I doubt that." Raoul asked himself under his breath. Sighing he turned his attention back to the duel just as Lucien drew his next card.
"That may work but I will need to do a little bit of work to get past that stupid Mirror Wall. I must say, she has erected a good defensive barrier between her monsters and my monsters." Looking at the small white magician twirl her wand in her fingers as she continued to read the magic formula book he grimaced. "And thanks to that thing her life is unchanged due to Mirror Walls backlash effect."
"Are you going to make a move or," a smile spread her lips thin as it curled up her face, "are you out of options?"
"Sorry to say but I am not giving up!" Lucien declared looking over his shoulder to where his team mates should have been sitting. Only Raoul sat there now smiling at him. Aliya was gone and Lucien had a feeling he knew where she went. Turning his head back he picked a card out of his hand. "I play the magic card; Card Destruction!" Now we must throw out the cards in our hand to replenish them with the same number cards from our decks." Lucien slid the seven remaining cards into his grave and pulled seven new cards. Zhen only discarded and drew four cards.
That same smile spread across Zhen's face again. "So, get anything good this time?"
"Very." He smiled but pointed to his graveyard. "But the best card I got is right in my graveyard."
"What?" Zhen was taken back. That was the strangest declaration anyone had ever made.
"Right but first I play my down trap card Call of the Haunted to revive my Magician of Faith (300/400) in attack mode." The purple haired female appeared on the field resting on her crescent moon staff. "And the magic card I play will get back the monster I am talking about. I play Monster Reborn! This will let me revive my Hand of Nephthys (600/600), a monster I discarded with my Card Destruction." Lucien smiled as a female Egyptian clad warrior appeared on his field. She wore a head dress of the Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys.
"What good will two weak monsters do you?" Zhen asked and her Pikeru looked up from the book it was reading.
"I will tell you. Thanks to the fact that now I have two monsters on my field I can activate my Hand of Nephthys special ability. I can sacrifice it and my Magician of Faith to summon this..." Holding a card up that was in his hand he slapped it down onto a free space on his duel disk. The two females faded away to be replaced with a large fiery golden phoenix that screech sent waves of cheers flowing from the surrounding audience. "...Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys (2400/1600)!"
Zhen face paled at the sight of the large phoenix monster but smiled non the same. "Even if it tries to attack my Pikeru my Mirror wall will cut its attack down to a mere 1200. Sorry, good try though." Zhen clapped her hands slow and rhythmic for a show of good sportsman ship and to be rude at the same time.
"To bad I don't need a lot of attack to attack a Scapegoat! Go Sacred Phoenix, Phoenix Fire!" Lucien pointed to the small fur ball monster. It squeaked in fear as the large phoenix shot a huge fireball form its jaws towards it. Even though the power was halved the attack still succeeded to incinerate the small fuzz ball. "I will set one card and end my turn." Lucien declared as the card appeared before him. "Just hold on at least one more turn, then all will be prepared."
"Draw!" Zhen declared snapping the card off her deck. "My Mirror Wall cost me 2000 life points."
"Too bad that now you only will gain back 1600 from you Magician Pikeru. That is ultimately a loss of 400 from you current standings." Lucien said and Zhen growled as her life fell.
Lucien-2000 LP
Zhen-4100 LP
"Now that he has started attacking my Scapegoats I will lose at least 400 life points each turn. I must find a way to keep that from happening." She thought before she looked down at the card in her hand. Smiling she slid it into her duel disk. "I activate Tribute to the Doomed. I discard one card and destroy your monster!" Sliding a card into her graveyard Zhen smiled as mummy style wrappings started to wrap themselves around the large Phoenix's body.
Lucien slid the card into his graveyard slowly almost depressed.
"I now play a second White Magician Pikeru (1200/0) in attack mode and have the first one attack you directly!" A second magician monster appeared next to the first. The first one lifted its wand while still reading its book and fired it's massive rainbow ray straight at Lucien.
"Reveal Negate Attack." Lucien said in a sad voice. His card flipped up and the swirling vortex stopped the attack dead in its tracks. "Also it ends your battle phase." Lucien said raising his head up slowly.
"Too bad. I end my turn and let you try to take me down again." Zhen said with a cocky smile plastered onto her face.
Lucien looked down at his duel disk. "Aliya, I am almost done. Wait for me." Drawing his card his graveyard started glowing and a fire tower burst out. Forming a huge fire ball on Lucien's field, the fire slowly started to disperse leaving the large golden Phoenix of Nephthys (2400/1600) on Lucien's field.
"Wait!" Zhen pointed to the large bird with a shaky finger. "How did it come back?"
"You destroyed it with a card effect, when that happens I revive it at my next standby phase." Lucien smiled and pointed to his monster. "It doesn't like being destroyed so when it comes back it gets it's pay back. It will now destroy all magic and trap on the field." Flapping its wings back the large phoenix sent waves of fire across the field, burning up the large glass wall and the magic book Pikeru was reading (1200/0).
"NO!" Zhen yelled as she watched her wall being torn down so easily.
"Sorry, but next I summon to the field my Solar Flare Dragon (1500/1000)!" A large fiery molten snake monster appeared next to the burning phoenix monster. "Both monsters attack Pikeru's!" Lucien ordered and his two fiery monster sent out streams of fire balls that flew across the field covering it in holographic fire. Screaming, the two magicians were burned alive in front of Zhen.
Lucien-2000 LP
Zhen-2600 LP
"Next I will end my turn and my dragon deals you an additional 500 points of damage." Lucien pointed as his Solar Flare Dragon's ability kicked in and it shot a blade of fire at the female duelist.
Lucien-2000 LP
Zhen-2100 LP
Zhen sighed and drew her card. "I set a monster in defense mode and end my turn." Was all she did. A brown backed card appeared next to the three remaining goats.
Lucien drew his card and slapped it down onto his duel disk. "I summon a second Solar Flare Dragon to place a Solar lock on you. Now you can't attack either of them and they will deal you a total of 1000 life points of damage each time my turn comes to an end." He pointed to the remaining goats. "Attack all of them." He ordered and the three monster tokens were engulfed in waves of flame from all three of the fiery monsters. "End turn. Now you take the damage."
Lucien-2000 LP
Zhen-1100 LP
"Draw, and I set another monster in defense mode. I end." Zhen said disappointed in her weak move.
"Then I win." Lucien declared as he drew. "Solar Flare Dragon's attack the face down monsters!" He ordered and his two fiery serpents shot out streams of fire that incinerated the two face down monsters leaving Zhen's field wide open. "Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys, Direct attack with Phoenix Fire!" Commanded Lucien and the large fire ball erupted from the mouth of the giant bird monster crashing into the Chinese female duelist.
Lucien-2000 LP
Zhen-0 LP
Lucien was shuffling his deck when he was tackled by his team mate Raoul. Both of them fell to the ground laughing.
"Dude, we won." Raoul voice echoed across the stadium along with the cheering crowd.
"Yes we did." Lucien said from his place under the African American boy.
"And most importantly...," Raoul smiled like a little kid. "We got the donuts!"
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To Vyser Adept of Dragons: If my story last long enough I have four open teams: Team Zone, Team Neon, Team Punks, and Team Skateboarders. Most likely I think he will either be on Team Zone or Team Neon.
To John: No he uses more of a Phoenix deck in my story and ok you just said Maju Garzett in you last review and Maju Garzett is seven stared.
To LucienShadowMaster: Sorry...whatever.
NOTE: Alright, people. I am very thankful to have you guys as readers and reviewers but you are starting to push my buttons. I have only highest respect for you people, mainly the writers who know what it is like. Hey Lucien, I rushed through this chapter, why not tell everyone what littlest most insignificant error you can find. Listen, I have no problem with constructive criticism that will help my writing. That is what I expect out of you guys. I don't want a bunch of yes men or yes women. But right now all I am reading in your reviews are you guys bitching about little tiny things that mean nothing. Demanding things of me and telling me what to do. I almost don't see why I am trying if all I am getting is reviews like this. I am on the verge of deleting this story and my Last Guard story because that is just getting flamed to. Do you guys want them deleted?
So tell me why I dont' feel welcome here anymore? I am trying my best and mistakes are a part of being human. I find a lot of errors in your guys stories that I just let slide because I know how hard it is to be a writer here. These stories are really mine, my own world that I was kind enough to share with you. I am so sorry if you don't like them. So review and we shall see what happens. If I am mad enough I will just hit the delete button and two stories are gone. I think one of the stories is going anyways. I have other story ideas I am holding that I didn't want to write out because I was doing this. So this might be the last post of my Team Zero Saga. I would be really sorry to see it end this way but it looks like it might. And if that is so I may have just lost all the reviewers I have ever had. In that case on my finial words, good bye to all of you. At least I had people coming back to insult my story over and over again. I will miss you all because without most of you I would have never gotten this far.
Then my finial question. What do you think...are you going to complain, bitch, and whinemore and lose this story which you have all told me serveral times is really good or are you going to help my writing get better? Learn to grow, and stop nit picking at every small thing I do? Once agian, I only hold the highest respect for you people but...forget it. Please tell me what you think and I am sorry either way.
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