Team Zero: Orichalcos

Chapter 18: The Element of Gold Pt. 1

Everyone was returning to there seats after the last break of the day for the finial round to begin. Team Orichalcos was set to face off against Team Gold.

"I hate it." Yugi said aloud to his two team mates. "Pegasus must have been beaten by that duelist."

"Yea." Kaiba said standing up and stomping to the arena.

"I still don't like this." Yugi complained to Yami in his mind.

("I know Yugi. There is just too much at risk and at least this way we can get back their souls rather than if they blow up the city killing millions. We must not try and anger them.")

"They are holding all the cards."

("The deadly ones.") Yami simply said.

"Let this finial match begin!" Kaiba growled into the microphone before walking back down to his seat.

The leader of Team Gold, a short black man in dark leather and built out very well for his size, walked up to meet Chime, Hygin, and Archip.

"Roger Smith!" Reku and Ronin said amazed to see the man.

"Wow, it has been awhile." Ronin said still shocked to see the man standing up there activating his duel disk.

/Flashback/

/The two teams met in the first convenient ring that was open. Ronin and a short black man walked onto the field.

"Hi I'm Ronin, caption of Team Zero." Ronin extended his hand to the man.

"Nice to met you, jerk." The black man said with a scuff. "I am Roger Smith, and I will set this up for you." He walked to the end of the platform. "You and me tough guy, winner takes all."

On the sidelines, Reku was getting tiered of this guy. Even though it was against his best judgment he jumped onto the field. Akina tried to grab his arm but failed at doing so.

"Hey jerk, why not take me on?" Reku's duel disk snapped into place.

"Better yet, why not I take on both of you?" Roger pointed at the two boys.

"Fine here, Ready Reku?" Ronin activated his duel disk and looked at his friend.

"Yep." Reku nodded and then looked back at his opponent.

"Duel." came from the three competitors.

Reku-4000 LP
Ronin-4000 LP
Roger-4000 LP/

/End Flashback/

"He was our first match in the World Tournament." Reku said remembering the man.

"And remember his deadly 2500 direct damage combo?" Akina asked.

/Flashback/

/"All right little boy's, let's dance." Roger snapped the next card off his deck. "Let me get this rolling, I play my creature Life Serpent Knight (1000/800)." A large silver armored figure appeared on the field. Lifting up its head the two boys saw that inside the suit of armor was a large reptilian creature.

"And what can he do" Reku cocked an eyebrow.

"Good question boy." Roger grabbed another card in his hand. "I play an equipment magic card known as Circle Around." Showing it to the boys he slid it into his duel disk. "This card allows one monster equipped with this card to attack my opponent's life points directly but only if that monster has 1000 attack or less." Then he slid the last card in his hand into his duel disk. "I activate my Attack Illusion. This equipment magic card allows my monster to pretend to have 2500 attack points when it attacks successfully." Roger held up his pointer figure and waved it at the boys. "Now don't get me wrong, It is only an illusion so my monster still gains the ability to circle around your troops and attack you directly."

The reptilian creature roared with power. Its eyes glowed an ominous manner.

"Oh and boys." Roger called out in a smug manner. "My Life Serpent Knight can't be destroyed in battle by any monster". Roger erupted in laughter as both Reku and Ronin tensed up bracing themselves.

"This is what I was afraid of." Mr. Yoshiharu glared sternly at the field. "Roger was the first person to think of that strategy."

"Oh" Sachiko stepped back from the ring. "That guy is unstoppable and will deal 2500 points of damage each turn"./

/End Flashback/

"He was quite the powerful duelist." Sachiko added remembering that duel.

"I hate to say it about that ass hole." Ronin said slightly quieter. "But if he is good enough we may have to not worry about that Orichalcos team. He could take them out!"

Roger growled and activated his duel disk and pulled his deck out. "I don't have time to waste on this crack ass team. One duel, I will take you all on at once if you want. One duel, winner takes all."

"Fine, I can stand that." Hygin said activating his duel disk again. "I will take you on, winner takes all!"

"Are you sure you can do this?" Chime asked almost concerned about her team mate.

"Yea, Pegasus was a nice warm up." Hygin said shuffling his deck and handing it to Roger.

"Did you say that you beat Pegasus?" Roger asked handing back his deck.

"Yep. Easy win." Hygin turned to walk to his end of the field. A wave of fear crossed Roger's face at the idea of someone beating the creator easily. Rumors had it that Pegasus doesn't duel because he had a deck of unstoppable monsters. Turning, Roger slipped his deck into his deck slot and pulled his first hand.

"Duel!" Both yelled, and the crowd roared with this, the finial match of the first round.

Roger-4000 LP
Hygin-4000 LP

"I start!" Hygin yelled snapping a card off his deck and slamming it down. "I summon my Element Doom (1500/1200) in attack mode!" A wicked fiend monster appeared on the field in front of Hygin and growled at Roger. It had light brown skin and large black wings. It whipped it's long tail around and cracked it's green tipped end on the ground. "And I set up two face down cards. End turn."

Roger shakily drew a card and looked at it. "Life Serpent Knight. I may have a better chance than what I though. I can pull my 2500 damage combo quickly if I can score the other two cards." Roger smiled wide and slid a card from his hand into his disk. "I play Pot of Greed to draw two cards." Snapping the two new cards he frowned that not a one of them was a magic card at all. He just set a monster card on his duel disk in face down defense mode. "I end my turn."

"Will you give up?" Hygin asked drawing a new card.

"Why?" Roger asked.

"Because the power you are facing in my deck will destroy your piece by piece." Hygin smiled at the card. "So give up and receive your punishment quickly."

"Punishment!" Roger was taken back. "Listen here little man. I will never lose to you so let's get back to my victory."

"As you wish." Hygin placed a new monster onto the field. "I summon Element Soldier (1500/1200) in attack mode." A hologram of a warrior in light brown armor appeared next to the large fiend. It swung around it's staff and snapped it down pointing to Roger's set monster card. "Attack it my Soldier!" Hygin yelled as him monster charged across the field and slammed it's staff down upon the brown card hologram.

"You hit my monster card Mid Shield Gardna (100/1800) which has more defense than you have attack!" Roger smirked as a warrior monster with long flowing gray hair appeared knocking the staff attack back with a shiny blue shield.

Roger-4000 LP
Hygin-3700 LP

"But now that you have an Earth Monster on the field both my monsters have the ability to negate effects of monsters they destroy." Hygin called raising his hand high in the air and his two element monsters glowed with a light brown aura. "I think I will end my turn then." Hygin said looking at the field.

Roger quickly snapped a card off his deck and seemed pleased with it. "I first summon my Life Serpent Knight (1000/800) in attack mode." A shadowy lizard monster in silver armor holding a small sword and shield appeared on Rogers field next to his shield baring monster. "And I add this magic card Attack Illusion! Now it will have the illusion of having 2500 attack power when it is attacking but its attack is still considered as its base attack. See, all an Illusion. I attack your Element Doom!" Roger yelled pointing to the fiend monster. Hissing the monster flew across the field and cut down the monsters chest (2500/800). The monster seemed unaffected at first but then howled in pain as he burst in half.

Roger-4000 LP
Hygin-2700 LP

"Then I will set one card face down and call my turn to an end." Roger smirked as a card appeared face down behind his serpent and shield monster.

"What do you make of this?" Ronin asked Reku while they were sitting on the bench watching the match. "This match seems to be going in favor of Roger but that can't seriously be the full power of Team Orichalcos."

"I agree." Reku said calmly. "This guy has fallen into a high defense monster and left himself open for a loss of his monster. I am not sure if he is really all that good at all at this point."

"But what if he is holding back?" Akina asked looking at them.

"Then Roger may be in for more than he bargained for." Reku simply said.

Drawing a card slowly Hygin creased his lips into a thin, wicked smile. "Now to play the card that is well known as the sealer of duelist. And three duelists here know that they cannot interfere." Hygin said looking down at Kaiba, Yugi, and Joey who were now all upon their feet. They knew what was coming.

"What are you babbling on about?" Roger questioned but soon wished he hadn't. A dark black aura flew off Hygin as his field magic slot slid open and a card was placed in it slowly.

The green rings appeared with the strange symbols under Hygin's feet. In a burst of energy the rings shot out and engulfed Roger and the entire ring. The lines to form the six pointed star slowly started drawing themselves in a rhythmic pattern. Finally the line met back forming the point under Hygin's feet. Energy from the lines waved up creating a luminous green glow across the silent stadium.

"What do you think?" Hygin asked in a much darker voice. Almost sounding pure evil the Seal of Orichalcos appeared on his forehead and glowed brightly. "I have created a ring where this battle goes to a new level. Our souls are now on the line and neither of us can leave this ring of death until one person wins."

"What!" Roger looked all around him at the glowing green seal. Then he looked back to see the soldier had the same mark of the seal on its forehead and it's attack had moved up by 500 points (2000/1200). "What is going on here?"

"The Seal of Orichalcos gives all my monsters the ability to gain 500 more attack power. Also I am granted the power to play up to ten monsters. Now Mr. Hot Shot what do you have to stop me?" Hygin laughed as his monster glowed with a black aura. "But I am not done yet, reveal face down magic card Doriado's Blessing. I will sacrifice my Soldier to summon this monster. Come forth Elemental Mistress Doriado (1200/1400)(1700/1400)." The woman in a red head dress appeared on the field. He white robes fluttered back in an invisible wind.

"What can she do?" Roger asked as the seal started to glow in the middle of the star on her head dress.

"She counts as a light monster as well as a monster of earth, wind, fire, and water." Hygin smiled as his last face down card started to slightly glow.

"Wow, five elements at once. What an amazing ability." Roger rolled his eyes as his sarcastic comment rolled off his lips.

"It is amazing. Thanks to her I can activate this trap. Fuh-Rin-Ka-Zan!" The face down trap flipped up revealing the said trap. "Thanks to it I can use the ability to destroy all magic and trap cards on your field!" Hygin roared out and Doriado cupped her hands together. In a small ball of light, she shot a ray of light out that destroyed all the magic and traps on Roger's field. "Get it now? You are finished!" Hygin roared with laugher as did his monster. Roger grimaced as he slowly slid the two cards he had on the field into his graveyard.

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Ok, I thought I would give Hygin a second chance to duel seeing as some of you were debating whether he was good enough or just lucky. Also, as most of you have probibly already noticed, I have been working a lot in my Last Guard of the Spirits. I will have part 2 of this up soon but then I will go back to focusing on that one. I thank you all who are waiting and still reading.

Oh and for those of you that don't know and or don't remember Roger Smith (yes I know the name. Don't own that either) I have done a little back tracking to my older work. If you want to know about that duel I flashed back to it is in the story Team Zero: Duelists, Chapter 22: Come to first round, Handicap match. True it may have been a long time ago and my writing skills were much poorer then but it is still nice to know. So if you don't know or don't remember him, you might check out that chapter and the one after that because the duel extends into that one to.

To LucienShadowMaster: Fuh-Rin-Ka-Zan, and here is a second chance to see Hygin work his elemental magic.

To Vyser Adept of Dragons: That is why I chose it, don't see a lot of element decks around. But I thought since Doriado came out I would use her in my fic. Oh and apperently I mixed up to and two. No big deal right?

To John: No, you wrote: "It did. And now the crystal card holders are done by one." You know what though, no harm done. And I take it from your "Fiends rock" that you chose Archip's fiends?

To Goddess IANAW: Yea, that is why I chose it. Good for your friend.

To Gate Guardian32: I'll see what I can do.

To Demon Fan: Ok, I'll give Hygin one more chance to duel. Hope you enjoy this duel more.

To Whirlpool of Reality: Yea, it did do really good in that duel, didn't it.
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