Team Zero: Orichalcos
Chapter 17: Toons in the Elements
A burst of light appeared in the middle of the golden chamber Order was in. She frowned seeing just a bunch of bones lying on her floor now.
"Gurabe is no longer."
A tear rolled slowly down her face as she walked to were his arm was. His duel disk was lying on the ground with 'Gurabe's' wrist bones. Grabbing one of the cards in one of the slots she pulled it out. More tears fell down her face as she looked at the Amber Crystal card.
Pegasus and Hygin topped a peak of a small hill. A slight breeze blew Pegasus's white hair back a bit.
"Ready Pegasus?" Hygin asked as his duel disk locked into place and he turned to face the large man in the red suit. "Now you will lose you soul to the Orichalcos."
"Been there. Done that." Pegasus said holding up his arm showing he did not have a duel disk. "Plus I can't duel you here without one of those."
Hygin sighed and deactivated his duel disk. "Idiot. I said you could get a shot at me but I guess you don't have enough brains to bring a duel disk to play with." He turned slightly and sighed. "Dammit go get one."
"Fine." Pegasus growled as he turned walking back down the hill.
The round between Team Punks and Team Skateboarders was just getting underway as Pegasus walked back into the dome. Walking up to Kaiba, Joey, and Yugi he moved to a bag that was sitting on the floor by the empty chair where he would be sitting if he were going to stay.
From the bag he pulled out a duel disk and a deck case which he opened and pulled the deck out of it.
"And where are you going to Pegasus?" Joey asked looking at him.
"That guy Hygin has challenged me to a duel." Pegasus said simply. Kaiba's eyes widened slightly.
"Hygin is a member of Team Orichalcos." Kaiba was about to get up but Pegasus held out his hand.
"No Kaiba-boy, You have a tournament to worry about. Let me deal with this." He said sadly as he walked away. Yugi, Kaiba, and Joey watched the red suited man go.
Reku, Roinin, Akina, and Sachiko didn't know what was going on but they also watched the red suited man walk out of the dome.
Hygin tapped his foot impatiently as he waited for Pegasus. A smile cross his face as the white haired man topped the hill finally. He lowered his left arm and his duel disk slid out into place. "Ready finally?"
"Yea." Pegasus said sliding the duel disk onto his arm and having it snap into place. He pulled out his deck and started shuffling it. Hygin did the same with his deck.
"Well this is good. I will be back before the round is over." Hygin said smoothly snapping his deck into the deck slot. "Lets do this."
"Fine." Pegasus said placing the deck into his own deck slot.
"Duel!" Both yelled snapping five cards off there decks.
Pegasus-4000 LP
Hygin-4000 LP
"I start!" Hygin yelled drawing his sixth card. "Time to take you down a notch Mr. Big Shot. I play this!" Snapping a card high into the air he flipped it around revealing the Seal of Orichalcos! From under Hygin's feet the strange six pointed star in the two rings appeared and spiraled out covering the field and locking the two of them in. A black aura shot off Hygin as the seal appeared in it's spot on his forehead. "Now feel this! I summon Element Valkyrie (1500/1200) and thanks to the seal it gains more power (2000/1200)!"
A red haired women monster wearing red and light blue skin tight clothing appeared wielding a huge staff of sort. One end burned with raging fire while the other end seemed to have a never ending stream of water gushing out of it. The sacred mark of the Orichalcos appeared on it's forehead and she was soon covered in a dark aura as well.
"End turn Pegasus." Hygin announced, pleased with his move. Pegasus looked wearily around the large green circle he and Hygin were now imprisoned in.
"Draw!" Pegasus yelled snapping a card off his deck. "I play this Toon Table of Contents. I will pull a card with Toon in it's name or is named Manga Ryu-Ran from my deck and place it in my hand." The white haired man snapped his deck out of its slot and shifted through it coming to the card he wanted. "I play the magical Toon World card!" He smiled sliding the card into his disk. "I pay 1000 life points and I am allowed to unleashed a mystical world were toons are free to run and play!"
Pegasus-3000 LP
Hygin-4000 LP
"Now feast your eyes on this beauty. Go Toon Mermaid (1400/1500) in attack mode!" A large pale brown clam shell appeared on the field with two large blinking eyes. Opening the shell a green haired Mermaid with a bow and arrow. She and her clam looked rather cartoony. "Just to let you know. My toons can't be attacked. No toon is ever hit with an attack that damages it, hence why they are able to come back again and again to do another wonderful showing." Pegasus said acting rather smug. "I set one card face down and end my turn as Toon Mermaid can't attack on the turn she is summoned to the field."
"I see, but since you played a water monster my Element Valkyrie can't be taken control of by you." Hygin smirked as he drew his next card. "I summon Element Saurus (1500/1200) in attack mode." A large brown dino monster with smoke rolling out of its mouth appeared next to the Valkyrie. The seal appeared on it's forehead and it roared back with power, shooting fire all over the place (2000/1200). "Neither can attack your monster so I set this face down and end my turn."
"Good, I play this! Cost Down!" Pegasus yelled as he snapped the Cost Down card off his deck and flipped it around. He quickly sent a card to the grave and slapped new monster down onto the field. "I summon Blue Eyes Toon Dragon (3000/2500) in attack mode!" The legendary dragon monster reincarnated into a cute and cuddly toon monster appeared on the field before Pegasus. "Next my set card, Mystik Wok. I sacrifice my Blue Eyes Toon Dragon to gain it's attack power in life points."
A giant Wok appeared on Pegasus's field over a huge fire. Blue Eyes Toon Dragon looked around surprised with his new surrounding before learning that he was sitting in this huge Wok. Screeching It jumped up out of the Wok only to get hit on the head by a large spoon. Falling back into the Wok unconscious it sizzled as the whole scene disappeared from the field.
Pegasus-6000 LP
Hygin-4000 LP
"And finally the Monster Reborn to revive my Blue Eyes!" Pegasus announced as his white dragon reappeared patting its butt from sitting in the Wok.
"Are you about done?" Hygin asked after a huge yawn. He was quite board with Pegasus's antics.
"I am now Hygin. Let see you get past this monster. I now have everything needed two wipe out your life points in two turns. You see, as long as another toon doesn't exist on your field I can attack you directly with my toons." Pegasus smirked and his dragon, finally done patting his burned spots, nodded in agreement then bared his toonish teeth.
"Your tactics don't scare me Mr. Big Shot and once I win I will take your soul with my great seal. Now Draw!" Hygin snapped a card off his deck and looked it over. "I summon Homunculus the Alchemic Being to the field in attack mode (1800/1600)(2300/1600)!" A strange man appeared next to the dinosaur and the Valkyrie. His left arm and leg were dark grayish black and a strange inhumanly feeling flew off him. The sacred seal appeared and glowed brightly on his forehead. "His effect is I can change his attribute once per turn. This turn I will keep him as light just because of my set trap card!" Hygin pointed to the set card and it slowly flipped up. Pegasus gasped at the sight of the card.
"Chaotic Gift!"
"Right, I forget sometimes that you made this game so you know all the cards." Hygin said in a rather modest voice. "Chaotic Gift allows me to sacrifice a monster of Light and Dark attribute from my field to allow one remaining monster to attack you directly. I will sacrifice my Element Valkyrie and Element Saurus to allow my Homunculus to attack you directly. Ready?" Hygin cocked his eyebrow as his monsters vanished into a ghostly white light that flew into Homunculus's body. A white and black aura erupted off him. "Direct attack!" Hygin yelled and his monster ran across the field jumping into the air and punching Pegasus right on the chin sending him flying to the ground.
Pegasus-3700 LP
Hygin-4000 LP
"Well Mr. Big Shot. That would be my turn once I set these two cards face down. What do you have left?" Hygin asked as Pegasus struggled back up to his feet. His two new cards flashed to life behind his monster.
"Plenty!" Pegasus yelled snapping a card off his deck. Frowning he just put the card in his hand and pointed to Hygin. "I pay 500 life points now so my toon monster can attack you directly!" Pegasus smirked as his monster started chuckling. "Go, White Lightning Burst!"
Pegasus-3200 LP
Hygin-4000 LP
The toon dragon monster sucked in a deep breath turning it into a large blue ball monster. Jerking forward the monster opened it's mouth to shoot out a ray of light surging with electricity. Flying past his monster, the blast hit Hygin smack in the chest sending him spiraling to the ground and sliding back to the edge of the seal.
Pegasus-3200 LP
Hygin-1000 LP
"And now I end my turn." Pegasus smiled knowing there wasn't much Hygin could do now to stop him. But a look of worry soon crossed his face as Hygin stood up smiling.
"Then I will draw and we shall see." Hygin said pulling a new card off his deck. "I play Pot of Greed to draw two cards." He smirked pulling two new cards off his deck. "Yes!" He quickly slid one of the cards into his duel disk and the holographic card appeared before him. "I play Doriado's Blessing. I sacrifice my Homunculus the Alchemic Being and summon this monster! Go Elemental Mistress Doriado (1200/1400)!" The strange man disappeared and so did the magic card. In its place a lovely woman stood with long blond hair and clean white robes. A red head piece soon had a new addition as the green mark of the Orichalcos appeared (1700/1400).
"So she is treated as not only a light monster but a monster of Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire." Pegasus recited as he remembered the card.
"Right Mr. Big Shot. Now watch this move. I play Fuh-Rin-Ka-Zan. This trap only works when a monster of Earth, Wind Water, and Fire is on the field but Elemental Mistress Doriado counts as all of them so she is all I need. I will activate its effect so I may draw two new cards." Hygin said pulling two new cards off his deck.
Pegasus bit his lip. "That doesn't make sense! Fuh-Rin-Ka-Zan has four abilities that a player can chose from. One being to draw two cards. The other three are the ability to discard two cards from my hand. Destroy all monsters on my field or destroy all my magic and trap cards. If he would have destroyed my Toon World, my Blue Eyes Toon Dragon would be destroyed and I would be defenseless from his attack."
"You looked stunned Pegasus." Hygin said looking at the white haired man.
"Well, I think you made a mistake by doing that." Pegasus smirked.
"You are wrong old man. I have this still!" Hygin pointed to the other face down card. Flipping up it was a second Fuh-Rin-Ka-Zan! "This time I chose the effect to destroy all magic and trap cards! This in turn will wipe out all toon monsters on your field." Hygin smiled wide as a burst of light appeared under Pegasus's favorite green book destroying it and the blue and white dragon on his field. "Now that you are wide open I will finish you." Hygin said proudly.
"You can't!" Pegasus protested pointing to his monster. "She isn't strong enough!"
"I do have two more magic card to play Mr. Big Shot. I activate this magic card Ritual Weapon. It equips to a ritual monster that is level six or less. I get to up its attack and defense by 1500 points." A strange cross bow type of weapon appeared on the arm of Elemental Mistress Doriado and she pointed it at Pegasus (3200/2900). "The next is the magic card known as Double Attack. I can discard this monster known as Element Doom, a four star monster, to allow the three stared Doriado to attack twice this turn." Hygin said proud as two arrows were loaded into the strange cross bow. Pulling them back the woman shot them both at Pegasus hitting him right in the chest and knocking the white haired man to the ground.
Pegasus-0 LP
Hygin-1000 LP
Deactivating his duel disk, Hygin smiled wide as the sacred seal began spinning and slowly closed on Pegasus's laying body. In a burst of green light, Pegasus's soul was taken from his body. Hygin laughed coldly and walked back down the hill. His task completed.
Hygin walked in and sat down just as the duel between Team Punks and Team Skateboarders came to an end. Team Punks were the winners. That left one more round in the first rounds. Team Orichalcos was to face Team Gold.
"So I take it you come back the victor." Chime said as Hygin sat down.
"Took him apart." Hygin simply said getting comfortable. "So who is playing in the next round?"
"I guess we will see." Chime smiled at him.
From across the arena, Reku, Ronin, Akina, Sachiko, Joe, Kevin, and Usami was glaring at Hygin and the rest of his team. They didn't like that both Gurabe and Pegasus were gone but yet both members of Team Orichalcos came back with their souls. Things were going to heat up even though the rounds were coming to an end.
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So which deck did you like better? Archip's Fiend deck or Hygin's Element deck? Tell me what you think, now is your chance to influence the story. Whatever you pick will have an effect coming shortly. And yes I did use the anime rule that toons cannot be attacked by non toons. Since this is supposed to be in the anime's world after all.
To john: They are done by one? You mean down by one.
To LucienShadowMaster: Well, another helpful writers tip: Broad Chapter Titles. Just like then, my chapter title could have ment any and or all three of them. Oh and it would have been 3000 thanks to the seal but yes, every time the monsters on the field change (ie. remove one, add one) it trigers a replay and he can chose not to attack.
To Vyser Adept of Dragons: Well, we'll see now won't we? And thanks for keeping a count of that, now next time you could tell me what it is.
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