Team Zero: Orichalcos
Chapter 14: Rage of a Demigod

Derek and Anna Gautier, with there team mate Lance Magegear made up Team Zone who was going to duel next. They were going to face off against Team Neon.

Lance was a normal boy wearing a red and gray shirt. He ran his hand through his spiky brown hair. The only out of place feature on his body was a scar that ran down the right side of his face. Derek was a tall skinny blond haired kid. He wore a plain white T-shirt and blue jeans and his sister Anna was the same height as him. She had long brownish red hair and wore a black tank top and a pair of blue jeans.

Walking up onto the dueling field, the two teams stared daggers at each other.

"So what shall we do?" The leader of Team Neon, a short black haired boy asked.

"What do you say to one match settles it all?" Derek asked the leader, Adamo Tancredo.

"Leaders?" Adamo asked cocking an eyebrow.

"Naw, I have a powerhouse hitter on my team." Derek said motioning to Lance.

"Him?" Adamo asked keeping his eyebrow cocked.

"What's wrong with me?" Lance asked snapping his deck into his duel disk. "Are you jealous because I am better looking?" He asked copping a smile.

"What? No and no your not." Adamo was shocked by this kid. "Fine, I take you on in a no holds bar match. Winner takes all." Adamo smiled. "Just don't cry when you lose."

"Cry, why would I cry?" Lance asked spinning around to face his side of the field. "But I will comfort you when you lose."

"What!" Adamo was in shock and a tint of rage began to burn in his eyes. "That is it little man, time to duel. I shall start us off and you will lose this annoying man."

"Fine." Lance said shuffling up his deck and slapping it into his deck slot. "Lets go."

'Fine, Duel!" Adamo declared as he pulled his six cards off his deck.

Lance-4000 LP
Adamo-4000 LP

"I will play this first. Stone of Acerbity! This powerful stone will bring the end of you." Adamo laughed as behind him a large circular stone carving appeared. It had four slots set at the top, bottom, left, and right sides of it with ancient writing all around it. "Each time you end your turn I will gain a precious power source needed to summon my ultimate beast."

"And that would be?" Lance questioned picking his ear with his pinky.

"You will see. Now I summon Familiar Knight (1200/1400) in face up defense mode." A large warrior adorned with silver armor appeared crouching over on his card.

"Nice move." Lance said with little interest. "I draw." Snapping the card off his deck he slapped it down onto his duel disk. "I summon in attack mode my Blast Magician (1400/1700) in attack mode." A red mage monster appeared on Lance's field wielding a large staff with a black scythe head on it. "And I play Shield and Sword to flip the attack and defense." Lance smirked as he slid the card into the duel disk (1400/1200)(1700/1400).

"No."

"Yes, Now Blast Magician attack his knight." Lance ordered as his magician flew across the field and slashed through the monster.

"Now we both get to special summon a level four monster from our hands to the field." Adamo said pulling a card out and slamming it down. "Big Shield Guardna (100/2600) defense mode." He smirked as his buff monster with long black hair appeared crouching down behind his large brown and purple Shield.

"Then I summon a monster known as Mechanoid Mage in defense mode (500/2000)." Lance said and a strange android monster that was dressed up like a mage appeared next to the red robed monster. "Turn end." Lance said proudly.

"Wrong. Now before I draw I get a power source, Acerbity Orb 1!" Adamo searched his deck for a card with just a clear orb as a picture. Sliding the magic card into his duel disk it appeared on the bottom most slot of the stone carving. "Now draw!" He yelled as he placed his shuffled deck back into his slot pulling out a new card. "Activate Tribute to the Doomed. I discard a card to the grave and destroy your Blast Magician." He said sliding a hand card quickly into his graveyard. Mummy like bandages shot out and wrapped themselves around the red magician monster before squeezing until the monster broke into data bits.

"Fine." Lance growled sliding his card into the grave.

"Not so high and mighty now are you?" Adamo laughed as he placed a card on his duel disk. "I double the Big Shield Guardna's and end." A second buffed out man appeared behind a large Shield.

"Fine." Lance snapped a card off his deck and looked it over. "I set two face down cards and activate the ability of my Mechanoid Mage. Since I have one card in my hand." He held the card out, back to Adamo. "I get to remove all monster cards in my grave to draw two cards for each. I can only remove up to three monsters but I only have one right now." Lance smirked as he pulled two cards from his Mechanoid Mage's ability. "And I sacrifice him to summon Chaos Command Magician (2400/1900)!" A magician in green attire appeared in place of the android mage. Its green cape flapped in a virtual wind that was kicked up on the field.

"So?" Adamo cocked an eyebrow. "He is too weak."

"True but I will end my turn and you will see how strong he is." Lance ended his turn and Adamo searched his deck again.

"I get to play Acerbity Orb 2 now." A pure black orb appeared in the right hand slot.

Hygin, Archip, and Chime all sat on their bench laid back watching the entertainment.

"Heh, the Stone of Acerbity ended this duel on the first turn it was played." Chime said pleased with the move by Adamo. "I cannot believe that kid has never heard of it at all."

"Yea, I thought everyone knew about the Stone of Acerbity." Archip chimed in to agree.

"Well the rounds are coming to an end. Soon we can start capturing the losers." Hygin said under his breath.

"True. Plus some others." Chime said looking around a bit at the crowd finally resting on Kaiba, Yugi, Joey, and Pegasus that sat at the far end of the dome. "I hope they are ready."

"Draw!" Adamo announced snapping a card off his deck. "Good, I finally drew him. Now I just need to wait one more turn and I will have a virtual demigod out onto the field." Adamo smiled wide as he slid the card into his hand. "Turn end."

"Draw!" Lance announced snapping his card off his deck. "Now to eliminate your threatening thing. Reveal Dust Tornado! This trap will eliminate your Stone of Acerbity!" Lance smirked as his card flipped up sending a large tornado flying across the field and smashing into the stone carving on Adamo's field.

"Or it would have if you hadn't have waited so long." Adamo smirked as the tornado broke apart leaving the stone carving behind him. "Since it has two or more Acerbity Orbs now it is unaffected by magic, trap, and monster effects that would destroy or remove it from the field."

"What!" Lance stepped back. "Fine. I will summon this then, come forth Mechanicalchaser (1850/800)!" A yellow orb machine monster appeared next to the green robed magician. Mechanical arms sticking out holding a variety of weapons in each hand. "Now Chaos Command Magician attack Big Shield Guardna! Chaos Magic Blast!" Lance ordered having his magician shot a green ball of magic energy at the monster. It was broke apart on the monsters huge Shield.

Lance-3800 LP
Adamo-4000 LP

"That was pointless." Adamo said pleased that his opponent had just hurt himself.

"Not pointless. Big Shield Guardna's weakness is if it is attacked it switches to attack mode." Lance smirked as the monster stood up and moved the shield to its side. "Now mechanicalchaser attacks it!" Lance waved his hand down and pointed to it. Flying across the field the mechanical monster smashed through the monsters chest breaking him apart in a humanly scream of pain.

Lance-3800 LP
Adamo-2250 LP

"Aw. No one has ever pulled that stunt on me." Adamo gasped as someone finally exposed his monsters weakness. "That's not cool."

"Oh it is very cool. And soon you will be out of this game." Lance said pleased with his move. "So I end my turn."

"Very well, I gain this Acerbity Orb 3!" This time a yellow orb appeared and flew into left hand slot. "Draw!" He announced snapping a card off his deck. "Now I will finish my combo that will destroy your. Watch as I play Orb of Acerbity's Seal! The finial orb needed to unlock my god monster." Adamo announced holding the card up high in the air. Sliding it into the finial slot on his duel disk a strange hunter green orb with a golden design drawn on it appeared. It flew backwards into the top slot on the stone carving standing behind Adamo.

"What does that mean?" Lance questioned as the four orbs and the stone tablet started glowing.

"It means I win." Adamo laughed as he picked up his Big Shield Guardna and removed his magic cards. "By sending everything on my field to the grave I can summon a demigod of great power."

"A demigod?" Lance stepped back as a large pillar of light sparking with electricity shot up out of the middle slot on Adamo's field. Adamo slid a card onto his duel disk.

The stone carving behind Adamo started cracking and the orbs let off a massive amount of aura waves covering the field in them. Breaking apart, the stone carving fell to the ground leaving a white soul looking thing floating around. Taking a few spins around the arena it flew into the large pillar of light. An inhumanly roar bellowed out as a figure started to emerge from the light pillar.

It was a huge buff man with some strange scales running up the back of its arms and up the side of his face. He was a light lime green color and wearing only a loincloth. A strange golden shield was embedded into the middle of its chest with a strange symbol carved into it. His hair was made of fine golden strands that flew wildly with the power of the demigod. Opening its four eyes to reveal they were solid red and glowing.

"I would like you to meet my best monster. This is my buddy Acerbity, Demigod Seething of Rage (5500/5500)!" The beast howled with a god like roar that echoed through the stadium sending the crowd into an uncontrollable cheer. "Acerbity attack mechanicalchaser! Fist of Godly Wrath!" Wielding back its massive hand a glowing aura emanated off of it. Punching it forward it stopped in mid air and let the shock wave tear across the field ripping the little machine monster to shreds.

Lance-150 LP
Adamo-2250 LP

"Can you pull yourself back?" Adamo questioned in a smug manner as his demigod roared with power. "Oh might I add that he cannot be destroyed by magic, trap, or monster effect. He can only be destroyed through monster battle. End turn." Creasing his lips into a smile.

"Find draw." Lance snapped a card off his deck. "Now does your beast stop or negate magic, trap, and monster effects period?"

"No, just ones that target him to destroy or remove him. He is a god of rage, pure uncontrollable rage." Adamo smirked.

"Right. Activate down magic card." Lance announced pointing to the set card. "Angelic Heavenly Cry. This magic card will let me have 250 life points for each card in your hand." Adamo looked down at the two cards he was holding.

"Ok."

"That is 500 life points to me."

Lance-650 LP
Adamo-2250 LP

"I did that so I could play this. Relevant Cause. It costs me 500 life points."

Lance-150 LP
Adamo-2250 LP

"But now I get to pull a card from my deck and place it on the field. I can only activate it by paying 100 life points." Lance said as the card appeared behind his magician. Slowly his eyes widened and he slapped his forhead. "That's right you said he can't be destroyed by magic, trap, or monster effect."

"Right, I take it you screwed up then." Adamo smirked along with his demigod.

Sighing, Lance reached down and turned his magician horizontally. "I switch him to defense mode and end." The magician crouched down bracing himself on his staff.

"Then I finish." Adamo announced as he drew his card. "Go Acerbity! Godlike Fist attack on his weak magician." The demigod, roaring with energy, wielded back his fist again and shot it forward letting the shock wave race across the field towards the crouching monster. Smoke and dust were kicked up off the ground as the massive attack raced towards the monster.

"You said he was indestructible by trap cards." Lance simply said. "But you are not so powerful. Reveal trap Magic Cylinders! It will send the attack back at your life points!" Two red cylinders appeared on either side of the magician. One of them absorbed the attack in. The other one started glowing with the same aura as the demigod. It suddenly burst forward with a ray of light that flew across the field and knocked Adamo clean off the stage.

Lance-50 LP
Adamo-0 LP

"It was well worth the 100 life points I had to pay to activate it." Lance said walking back to his team mates. "Rage is a waste. Like someone searching for fools gold. It makes a man unfocused and out of control. Without focus you are no more than a beast with no sensible will. That blind rage of that demigod backfired on you." Lance said sitting down.

The crowd was in an uproar as Adamo was helped up by his team mates.

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A demigod was beaten by this strange character. Wow! That just shows how powerful these contenders are. I did try to rush through this but it seems like I did. Sorry.

To LucienShadowMaster: Well it is ok that he is nice. Do take a note on that. Oh and he isn't on a team.

To BEWK: Like I said, 2nd chance. Thanks dude.

To John: You know, it is all in the past now. Time to move forward don't you agree. I will ignore you till next chapter on that zombie vs fiends.

To Vyser Adept of Dragons: Sorry dude, I didn't mean to make your character have such a short duel but that is how it played out.

To Gate guardian32: Well hello. First off yes they should have, a small and minor mistake I made. Sorry. Second, thanks you and thirdly Weevil won that match. Lets hope he doesn't win in future shall we.
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