Team Zero: Orichalcos
Chapter 16: A Soul Snatcher Gone
A strange amber colored light ran itself through the lines of the Seal of Orichalcos as it rested on the 'floor' of the shadow realm. Gurabe growled looking at the massive skull monster standing on the field opposite of him.
"Draw!" He announced and snapped a card off his deck. He looked disappointed at the monster he draw. Growling he pointed to his face down card. "Go Card Destruction!" The magic card flipped up and he slid the six cards in his hand into the grave and snapped six cards off his deck. "Card Destruction lets us discard our hands and draw the same number of cards." "I know what the card does." Archip growled as he slid his two cards into the grave and drew two cards. "Good, then I end my turn." Gurabe said disappointed he didn't draw his crystal card. "At this point it is the only thing that can stand up to the power boost that thing gets from the seal."
"And I draw." Archip snickered at the card. "I will switch Summoned Skull to defense mode then play my face down card Zero Gravity!" Just as the skull demon kneeled down a blue aura surrounded it and it stood up straight along with the three red demon vampires. "Summoned Skull attack your middle vampire demon! Lightning Strike!" The skull monster roared and shot a burst of electricity at the monster. Screaming in pain the vampire zombie broke up into small bits.
Gurabe-1900 LP
Archip-4000 LP
The red demon monster then reappeared on Gurabe's field crouching down in defense mode as per its effect. Then the magic card that had been dormant on Gurabe's field started glowing wildly and shot a stream of light at Archip.
Gurabe-1900 LP
Archip-3700 LP
"Remember my Cost of Crossing Realms deals you 300 points of damage each time a monster comes to the field from the graveyard." Gurabe said displeased with the life point loss he had.
"Right, so I end my turn with that." Archip said. "And thanks to the sacred seal you won't escape when you lose this duel." The seal that was glowing brightly on his forehead sent off a green aura.
Drawing a card Gurabe smirked at what it was. He might stand a chance after all. "I activate the magic ritual card Hell's Grave Side! I sacrifice a total of eight stars to summon this." Two of the Zombie Demon Vampris's faded out of sight and a large gray man slowly was formed from shadows. "Hell Grave Digger (3500/3500)!"
The large gray man monster appeared. He was bald and had two horns sticking out. He held a demonic looking shovel and he was dressed in a black leather vest with no shirt and a pair of torn pants.
"I can give up his attack to summon on monster back from the grave so I bring back one of my Zombie Demon Vampris's. And if you don't remember when two of them are on the field I get to pull the third Zombie Demon Vampris from anywhere!" The other two demon monsters appeared next to the first one and the large grey shovel holder. "That also deals you 600 points of damage!"
Gurabe-1900 LP
Archip-3100 LP
"Turn end." He smirked as his zombie army growled wickedly at the fiend duelist.
"Go Jinzo, Cyber Energy Shock attack!" The leader of Team Psycho, Nick Sarch, yelled as his android blasted the opponent, a girl in a normal blue shirt with long brown hair.
Nick-1100 LP
Girl-0 LP
Pegasus decided to do the honors this time and walked up onto the stage. "Team Psycho is the winner!" He yelled through the microphone sending the crowd again into an uproar. He was turning to walk back down to where Yugi, Kaiba, and Joey were sitting when over his shoulder a spark of lightning caught his eye. Turning he saw that it was coming from down the hall towards the duelist's bathroom.
Against his best instincts he started walking that way. No one noticed him as they were all taking off for the break. The hall way was empty as far as people went so Pegasus wasn't running into anyone. Coming to the bathrooms he took a deep breath and looked around. No one was there. She he stuck his head through the open door of the ladies room to see the large shadow bubble of a shadow game.
"W..what!" He said pulling his body into the door. He had expected to see the seal on the ground with two duelists, not a shadow game!
"Don't you know that it isn't polite to stick you head into the girls room?" A males voice came from behind Pegasus startling him. Turning he found himself face to face with Hygin.
"Who are you?" He asked backing up into the wall by the door.
"I am Hygin and you are going to come with me Pegasus." He said turning and starting to walk to the door that led outside.
"Why would I go with you?" Pegasus questioned as Hygin kept walking.
"Because I am going to give you a free shot at me. Won't you take it?" He said without turning or stopping his pace. He finally walked out the door when Pegasus gave up and followed him.
Archip slowly drew a card and looked at it. "I summon Opticlops (1800/1700)(2300/1700) in attack mode!" A large muscled demon monster appeared roaring as the Seal of Orichalcos appeared on it's forehead above it's one eye and below a red horn sticking out. "Opticlops attack a Zombie Demon Vampris!" Archip yelled and the fiend monster ran straight through the red demon monster. "And Summon Skull, Lightning Strike!" He yelled throwing his hand towards another one. The skull monster shot a burst of electricity towards the crouching demon monster blasting it apart.
Gurabe bit his lip as he slid the second monster into his grave. "Dammit, now that two of them aren't on the field I can't use my combo and I need to start attacking him before he gets anymore power."
"And I end my turn. Zombie boy care to try again?" Archip mocked as it was his fiend army's turn to laugh wickedly. Staring at his deck for a second Gurabe snapped the top card of and smiled at what he saw. "Looks like my strategy will still come into play. I activate Zombie Relive! I get to revive any monster from either graveyard and change them to a zombie type monster. If they are already a zombie monster they gain 500 attack power." The red demon creature appeared crouching over again next to its twin on the field (1500/1700). Then the third demon monster appeared next to the other two crouching down as well.
Gurabe-1900 LP
Archip-2500 LP
"Now that my Cost of Crossing Realms has damaged you, Hell Grave Digger destroy Opticlops! Shovel Slash!" Roaring the monster brought the demonic shovel down like a sword cutting the one eyed beast in half. Its two halves roared in pain.
Gurabe-1900 LP
Archip-1300 LP
"Well you triggered my Michizure trap. I will use it to destroy Hell Grave Digger!" The large gray beast roared as is slowly vanished into thin air.
"Damn you." Gurabe growled as he slide his powerful ritual monster into the grave. "I set one face down card and end my turn."
"Good, Now I can win." Archip announced as he flipped his drawn card around. "I play Lightning Vortex. I discard a second Opticlops to whip out all life on your field!" A burst of lightning flew out of the sky above the three demon vampires wiping them all out in a burst of electrical energy. "And Summoned Skull, Lightning strike!" Roaring the skull monster shot a ray of electricity at the open zombie.
"Reveal Call of the Haunted! I get back Hell Grave Digger!" Gurabe yelled as the trap flipped up and the gray shovel wielding monster appeared on the field and the lightning fizzled out. "And don't forget that I had a monster that crossed the realms."
Gurabe-1900 LP
Archip-1000 LP
"Dammit."
"Hup up up." Gurabe lifted his index finger and waved it back and forth like a mother does when she is punishing children. "Temper, temper."
"Fine I will play these face down and end my turn." Archip grumped as two cards appeared behind his large skull monster.
"Draw!" Gurabe announced placing his fingers on the top card of his deck. Pulling it off an amber light shot through the lines on the seal.
"What is going on?" Archip gasped noticing this. The bubble dome that the seal made was starting to glow with the same amber light.
"I activate this..."
"I activate Dust Tornado to destroy your Cost of Crossing Realms!" Archip yelled as a large tornado picked up blowing the said card to pieces.
"Too bad it won't help as I activate this! Amber Crystal!" A burst of amber colored light shot through his monster as from its cold dead skin crystalline spike popped out. A strange symbol similar to the seal appeared on Gurabe's forehead. The monster was roaring as a new amber colored aura. "Amber crystal changes my beast into an essence monster and gives it 1000 more attack (4500/3500)! Now he can attack additional times for each card I discard from my hand. Too bad for you I don't need to. Go Hell Grave Digger Amber Mode! Amber shovel slash his monster!" Roaring the monster swung its shovel towards the skull monster.
"Activate trap Negate Attack!" Archip yelled as a vortex appeared inches from the monster's skull and sucking up the large monsters shovel. "It negates you monsters attack and stops your battle phase."
"I know what it does." Gurabe snapped looking at his hand. "Fine I end my turn."
"Goodie." Archip said in a childlike voice drawing his card. "Yes, I do have a chance left." He flipped the card around and slapped it down onto the duel disk. "I sacrifice Summoned Skull to summon Great Maju Garzett (0/0)!" A large red boned armored monster appeared in the spot of the skull monster howling and moaning evilly. It gargled out a howl of power as it jumped (5000/0).
"What happened?" Gurabe demanded to know as the monster became so strong.
"Great Maju Garzett's attack becomes twice the original attack of the monster sacrificed for it. Plus it gains 500 from the seal! (5500/0)" The seal appeared on the forehead of the large fiend monster as it started glowing in a black aura. "Attack his monster!" Archip yelled pointing to the large gray and amber colored monster. Howling the monster charged across the field and tackled the monster. Pushing back as black and amber lightning bolts shot off.
Gurabe-1400 LP
Archip-1000 LP
"I only take half the damage from a monster that would damage me. Plus my monster can't be destroyed because he is an essence monster." Gurabe explained as his monster roared back and grabbed his chest.
"Fine I end my turn." Archip announced proudly.
Drawing a card Gurabe growled as he moved his Hell Grave Digger to defense mode. "I switch him to defense mode and end my turn." His large monster crouched down to one knee growling angry with the lack of power.
Drawing Archip slid it face down and ended his turn without any words being spoken, just waves of the hands.
Drawing also, Gurabe ended his turn.
"Watch this." Archip said raising and lowering his eyebrows as he drew his card. His face down card flipped up showing a bright ray of light bursting through a Big Shield Gaurdna and smacking a shadowy player. "My trap Lack of Pain Killers will give my monster the ability to deal damage threw defense and double the damage a player takes. All I must do is discard one card." He said proudly as he slid the card into his graveyard. His monster roared and tackled the large gray monster again sending a wave of light that made all the cards on the field vanish.
Gurabe-0 LP
Archip-1000 LP
Gurabe fell to his knees weakened suddenly by something. His vision blurry he managed to see that the seal around them started to enclose itself on him.
"What is going to happen to you is this." Archip said proudly walking towards him. "The seal gets your soul now." He started chuckling happily as Gurabe started screaming in an unearthly tone.
Soon his eyes went blank and his body collapsed to the floor lifeless. Soon after that the skin and muscle tissue started to disappear leaving only a skeleton lying on the floor of the shadow realm which slowly turning into the tile floor of the womens' rest room.
"I see," Archip said surprised, "he was a living dead. He needed that soul to keep his body together. Oh well then." Archip slowly walked out the door. Laughter could be heard down the hallway as he walked.
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Well A duel in a rest room. I just had to have one and you know it. Anywas sorry about the delay in this chapter. I have been working out a coworked fanfic that should be appeareing soon. I will drop the details when they are all worked out.
To John: Was it sweet enough?
To I Like Cheese: Rawk sounds like a noise a dying bird would make.
To Goddess IANAW: I will never go near that horrid place ever agian...ok?
To LucienShadowMaster: Well I assume since the Seal is a greater form of magic it would get the soul.
To Vyser Adept of Dragons: Yes, I had to have at least one duel in a rest room in my story.
To SilverDragonPigeon: Ok then, I really don't go looking for stories but if I catch your story I will give it a shot. Since you seem to have such a great taste in stories (killing ego rant)
To Gate Guardian32: Ok, even I have better spelling than that. But thank you...I think.
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