Team Zero: Orichalcos
Chapter 15: Dangerous Place; A Ladies Room
"Team Zone is the winners of the match!" Kaiba flung his hand up in the air sending the crowds into an uproar again. "Come back soon for the next match!" He said with less enthusiasm and walked off stage.
Chime stood up as the crowd was getting ready to go for the break between matches. "Archip, Hygin, I am heading off to the ladies room. Keep an eye out for any opening we can get Pegasus away." She said before turning and walking down the hallway to the duelists private bathrooms.
Chime stood at the sink smiling at herself in the mirror. "All goes according to plan. Soon we shall have the souls of powerful duelist and I can take what my father could not."
"How about I stop you here and now?" A gruff voice came from a stall in the bathroom.
"And who might you be?" Chime said smirking and closing her eyes.
"I might be your worst nightmare." Said the voice as a purple shadow fog came from under the sides and the door of the stall. In a burst the door swung open and a long silver hair boy in a formal dress suit walked out.
A smile crossed Chimes face and pushed on the sink counter so she was facing him standing up straight. "And does my worst nightmare have a name?"
"Not one you will be around to remember." Gurabe walked forward towards her.
"Oh come on now. I want to know who tried to stop me at least." Chime said seemingly unaware of the approaching boy.
"Tried!" Gurabe stopped in mid-stride. "Who said I would try. I will stop you."
"And you are again? I keep missing you name?" Chime said walking over and leaning against a wall.
"I didn't give it." Gurabe growled. "But if you must know. I am Gurabe, the only stealer of souls around here."
"Really, and Mr. Gurabe do you really plan to stop me?" Chime asked still in her relaxed, unworried posture.
"Or would you like to leave Miss Chime alone and take me on?" Archip asked as he walked into the ladies bathroom. "I don't think you are good enough to face the strongest person living today. You shall take me on in a duel right now!" Archip demanded as his green duel disk slid out and created the spine dueling field.
"When you speak of the strongest person living today you may be talking about her but I am the strongest person to ever have lived in history." Gurabe announced as his duel disk snapped into place. "Fine I will take out your flunky but after words I am coming after you." He said pointing to Chime.
"Fine Mr. Gurabe. Have fun now." She said walking out of the girls room.
Archip watched her go before turning back to see purple and black shadows starting to engulf the two of them. Gurabe was smiling wickedly as the shadows of the shadow realm started to form into the shadow bubble that normally appears with a shadow game.
"Shadow magic!" Archip said, eyes wide as the shadow realm finally closed up, sealing its victims inside. "Chime told me about the shadow magic. But we are not good enough to use it so we compensate." He said holding up a card and flipping it around so Gurabe could see it. "This is our magic."
"And that would be... the magic I have been sensing this whole time. The Seal of Orichalcos that Order told us about."
"Well it sounds like this Order is a smart person. Now lets duel!" Archip announced as he slammed his deck into the deck slot.
Gurabe-4000 LP
Archip-4000 LP
The next two teams walked up on the field and set there terms. Shaking hands and shuffling decks they walked to opposite sides and began to duel in a one on one match.
"Hey Yug." Joey whispered nudging the spiky haired duelist in the ribs. "Where did the other one go?" He asked motioning down to were Team Orichalcos sat. Only Chime and Hygin were sitting there now.
"I don't know Joey." Yugi responded. "I have a bet though." Kaiba snarled under his breath.
But they weren't the only one noticing. Reku sat with his head resting on his fist. His leg propped up his arm. "I don't like this. For some reason I am starting to get a terrible feeling down my spine." He sat in thought for a second before he realized it. "The same feeling I had whenever I was forced into a shadow game!"
Ever since receiving the first exposer to the shadow games, Reku, Ronin, Akina, and Sachiko with some others became more aware of their presence. Clenching his fist he slowly turned his head to the crowd and looked through it. Finally he spotted his friends. Kai and Ryokurio sat there watching the match but Gurabe was nowhere in sight.
"Damn, I'll bet there is a shadow duel going on here." Reku thought as he bit his lip. "But Gurabe can usually handle himself. Especially since he has a Crystal Card. He will know how to use it." And a smile slowly crossed his face. "Maybe we will weaken that Team Orichalcos by one member."
"I start us off you foolish human." Gurabe announced snapping his first six cards off his deck. "I summon Zombie Demon Vampris (1000/1700) in attack mode!" Gurabe slammed down a card and the monster started to appear on the field before him. A large red demon monster with a black shaggy mane of hair around it's head and four glowing eyes. From its upper lips came two fangs like a vampire has. It roared and stuck a battle pose. "I will set up two face down cards and call my turn to an end."
"Then I draw." Archip smirked as he snapped a card off his deck. "Too bad the best I have got in this hand is this. I summon Aswan Apparition (500/500) in defense mode." A red ghostly fiend swirled around Archip and snickered with its skull like face towards Gurabe. "I will set up only one face down card and end my turn."
"Too bad you had such a lousy first hand." Gurabe smiled drawing his card. "I activate my down magic card. Family Summon! I get to pull another monster from my deck with the same name as a monster on my field. I summon a second Zombie Demon Vampris!" A second red demon monster appeared next to the first one. Gurabe smirked and kept shifting through his deck. "When two Zombie Demon Vampris's are on the field outside a battle phase then I get to pull the third one from anywhere." Then an identical demon zombie appeared next to its brother.
"Such an army you have assembled." Archip smiled as the three demon monster growled at him.
"Yes it is. Go Zombie Demon Vampris number one. Attack Aswan Apparition!" Gurabe ordered and the first red vampire demon roared charging across the field. About half way across a faint light blue glow appeared around him and he fell to his knees. The other two mimicked the motion in the blue glow but the apparition on Archip's field seemed to straighten itself up.
"Zero Gravity switches the modes of all of our monsters." Archip slid the card into his graveyard as his fiendish monster gave a wicked cackle.
"Fine I end my turn." Gurabe announced out loud. "Good thing my monsters have 1700 defense points. His little thing only has 500 attack."
"Draw!" Archip yelled, his voice echoing throughout the shadow realm. "I activate this magic card. Fiend's Hell Blade! If I only have one fiend on my field it gains enough attack power to be 100 points higher than whatever it is attacking." Archip said as his little apparition gained a wicked looking black bladed sword. "Oh, and it can now deal damage through defense mode. Attack my Aswan!" Howling like a ghost the monster hurdled across the field and slashed down on the middle demon vampire (1800/500).
Gurabe-3900 LP
Archip-4000 LP
"Because of Aswan Apparition's ability I get to put Zero Gravity back on top of my deck. See whenever he deals damage to you I get to put any trap in my grave on top of my deck. Now my turn is..." Archip started to say sliding the said trap on top of his deck.
"Not until my monsters ability kicks in. Since there are two of them on my field outside of a battle phase the third will come from anywhere." Gurabe said as his vampire demon monster appeared back on the field. "And it is my turn again." Gurabe happily drew a card off his deck. He quickly placed it into his duel disk. "I activate Cost of Crossing Realms! It will deal you 300 life points of damage every time a monster is revived from the grave!"
"Really, good move." Archip said in a less than approving tone.
"Right, now I will leave my monsters in defense and call my turn over." Gurabe smirked.
Archip snapped the top card off his deck and smiled seeing his Zero Gravity card. "I will play the magic card Pot of Greed to draw two cards!" Sliding the card into his duel disk he snapped two cards off his deck and smiled at his draw. "Now Mr. Gurabe, I feel it time to show you what power I have."
"Fine, show me what power you have." Gurabe said still very unimpressed.
"I will. I drew exactly what I needed. Ready, cause I am going to do this whether you are or not." Archip pulled one of his new cards out of his hand and his field magic slot opened. "I activate the Seal of Orichalcos!"
A green pillar of light shot up from the ground beneath Archip and symbols started flying through the light. Slowly across the 'floor' of the shadow realm green lines started drawing themselves in a large circle. Soon the outer circle was formed along with the inner one. The symbols stared burning there light in the gap between the two circles and the green light slowly formed a six pointed star inside the circle. This same design drew itself on Archip's forehead.
A dark purple aura flowed around Archip as he slowly raised his head. His eyes burned with rage and hatred. "Welcome Mr. Gurabe to the hell on earth."
Gurabe looked around as a shiver shot up his spin. "Why am I afraid of this thing so much? I have seen the darkest and most powerful shadow magic but this thing gives me a weird vibe."
"Now I sacrifice my Apparition to summon Summoned Skull (2500/1200)!" Archip announced as the skull demon appeared on the field in front of him. He roared and lightning spark shot off him. The Seal of Orichalcos appeared on it's forehead and it roared as its power shot up (3000/1200) by 500 points. "The seal gives my monster 500 additional attack points!"
Chime smiled as her Orichalcos stone around her neck gave a weird green aura. Hygin smirked as he watched it.
"So Archip is doing good."
"Yea."
Reku, Ronin, Akina, Joe, and Kevin all jerked back suddenly. They each pulled out there Crystal cards and watched as an aura of each respective color flew off them.
"Dammit." Ronin said looking around. "What is going on?" He asked under his breath.
"All I can put together is that Gurabe is dueling that other member of Team Orichalcos." Reku answered to him in a shocked voice.
"Gurabe!" Ronin and Akina looked behind them to see only Ryokurio and Kai watching the duel. Gurabe was gone! "So that means that he must have used his crystal." Kevin said from his bench next to Team Zero's bench.
"Not necessarily." Reku cut in. "Mine did the same thing when the Seal of Orichalcos was played."
"Well lets hope zombie boy can hold his own." Joe said in his whispered voice.
Lucien, Aliya, and Raoul couldn't hear what the two teams were saying but they were watching with curiosity.
"What do you think they are talking about?" Raoul asked his team mates under his breath.
"Who knows." Aliya responded. "They seem like two strange teams."
"I wonder." Lucien simply said as his eyebrow narrowed. Slowly flashbacks flew into his head.
/Flashback/
/"I start first." The man grumbled and pulled six cards off his deck. "It is time to seal your fate."
"Seal my--fate?" Reku almost smiled at this. "So, go a head. Seal my fate."
"I will. I play a card that is older than the sands of Egypt. A card that powers surpasses the greatest know power in the world. I activate the Seal of Orichalcos!"
"What!" Reku stepped back surprised as a blast of green light shot up from the floor under the man. A terrible chill ran down Reku's spine.
Below the mans feet a circle inside a second circle appeared. Slowly symbols started to appear in the gap between the circles. Then a line slowly started to trace out a six pointed star that once it was done drawing the circle started to expand. As it expanded, tables, chairs, and people that were in its way just got pushed back violently. Reku braced himself as he figured he was next but the seal just passed right through him and stopped just a few feet behind him.
The man looked up showing that on his forehead a glowing green symbol appeared. The symbol was the same as the one encircling them. His eye now had a shade of red to them./
/"I am tired of this!" Reku snapped. He 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 unhumanly 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 an 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 it's 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/
He continue to watch them in silence.
"Now Mr. Gurabe." Archip said sliding two cards into his duel disk. "I set two cards face down and end my turn." Two face down magic or trap cards appeared behind the demon skull monster. "Take your best shot at my fiends now that they are infused with the Orichalcos magic!" Archip began laughing coldly as Gurabe just growled and narrowed his eyes.
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Also if you don't know. The duel disks for Team Orichalcos is the same one used by Dartz and his swordsman.
To LucienShadowMaster: I hate when that happens.
To BEWK: Well thank you.
To Vyser Adept of Dragons: I am honored that you read my work.
To John: You know it.
To Goddess IANAW: Yea, that was mean of him wasn't it
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