Team Zero: Orichalcos
Chapter 19: The Element of Gold Pt. 2
"Now that all you have to fight with is gone, I will win." Hygin pointed to the lizard knight on Roger's field. "Go Doriado! Elemental attack on his pathetic monster!" Forming a ball of energy in its hands, the elemental mistress flung it across the field towards the silver armored monster. As it flew, the ball of energy changed colors and texture to look of fire, water, wind, earth, and then back to a pure white ball of energy.
Colliding with the knight, it crashed off it but knocked it to the ground.
"My knight can't be destroyed, but since you have 1700 attack and I only have 1000 I will take 700 points of damage." Roger exclaimed as his knight picked himself up.
Roger-3300 LP
Hygin-2700 LP
Ronin bit his lower lip and narrowed his brow. "No dammit. If Hygin wins his team will keep advancing."
"Now I will set one card face down and end my turn." Hygin said sliding the card into his duel disk. The brown card appeared behind his mistress.
"Draw!" Roger yelled and snapped a card off his deck. "This is about what I have got." Roger grimaced as he slid the card into his duel disk. "I play the magic card Circle around and equip it to my Life Serpent Knight. Now I can attack your life directly because due to its effect."
"I know, if it is equipped to a monster with an attack of 1000 attack or less it can attack directly." Hygin said yawning at the boredom this duel was putting him in.
"Then you know that Life Serpent Knight will attack you directly then. Serpent Sword!" Roger flung his arm forward and pointed to Hygin. Hissing his monster flew parsed the elemental mistress and brought his sword down on Hygin's body. He grabbed his torso where he was slashed.
Roger-3300 LP
Hygin-1700 LP
"And that is all I can do this turn." Roger said disappointed he couldn't do more.
"Too bad that I will now double the damage you take." Hygin said pleased as he drew a card. "Activate face down magic card. Double attack! I discard one monster from my hand, like a second Element Doom, and my Elemental Mistress Doriado can attack twice this turn. So she will attack your knight, twice!" Doriado charged up two energy balls in her two hands. Wielding them back she hurled them at the silver armored knight one hitting right after the other.
Roger-1900 LP
Hygin-1700 LP
"Looks like I can't do any more this turn." Hygin said looking at his hand card. "I will end."
"Draw." Roger snapped a card off his deck and looked at it for a few seconds before realizing it was a perfect card to have. "I activate my second Attack Illusion card! Now go Life Serpent Knight! Attack him (2500/800), Serpent Sword!" Jumping across the field the monster lizard twirled around and cut down Hygin's torso.
Roger-1900 LP
Hygin-0 LP
"Looks like I win you ass hole." Roger said turning to walk out of the ring but noticed that the seal was still surrounding them. Walking to the edge he tried to walk out but the boundary of the seal shocked him and threw him back in. "Ouch!" He yelled as he landed on his butt. Getting up slowly he turned to see Hygin still standing there with his Doriado and a new, rainbow colored monster on the field. It was a small rainbow colored Kuriboh with a strange feather growing out of its head. "What!"
"This monster?" Hygin asked innocently pointing to his new monster. "This is Element Force Kuriboh (300/200). You see, when I have the power of Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth on my field and my life points would hit zero I get to summon this guy. Hey, lucky for me Doriado counts as all those elements. Now thanks to him, my life points are safe and connected to his attack points."
Roger-1900 LP
Hygin-300 LP
"Then the seal boost's his power!" Hygin yelled as the seal appeared on the forhead of the fluff ball (800/200).
Roger-1900 LP
Hygin-800 LP
"What!" Roger was growing more and more pissed as the little fur ball monster jumped around the field. His face started glowing bright red with anger. "Fine, end turn!"
"And if he is destroyed in battle then I lose the duel automatically. Now I will draw this one card." He pulled one card off his deck and slid it into his duel disk. "Set one card face down and have Doriado attack your serpent knight! Elemental Energy!" Charging up the ball of energy the monster shot it out towards the serpent in silver armor. Again, the attack bounced off and the serpent knight fell to his butt on the arena.
Roger-1200 LP
Hygin-800 LP
"I will switch my Element Force Kuriboh to defense mode. And with that I end." Hygin sighed knowing that his fate was in the hands of that Kuriboh.
"Oh this is it!" Roger growled out snapping a card off his deck. "LIFE SERPENT KNIGHT, SERPENT SWORD ATTACK!" His voice booming through the entire stadium as his monster jolted forward. "ATTACK HIS KURIBOH!"
"How about I play this?" Hygin asked calmly pointing to his face down card. It flipped up and started glowing brightly. "Go Attack Guidance Armor. Let's send your attack back to your Mid Shield Gradna!" A silver armor appeared around the body of the monster. Sliding to a holt, the serpent in silver armor turned and charged at the defensive monster. Cutting it in half with one slash."
"NO!" Roger yelled as his monster was being cut in half. "Fine, I end my turn." He said bowing his head. "Just quit stalling, I will win in the end." He jerked his head up quickly. "You have a damn puff ball as your life!"
"A damn puff ball yes but I have won because of that damn puff ball. All I need to do is draw a monster that is at least a 1500 base attack and I win." Hygin said happily as he drew. "Aw perfect, Element Magician (1500/1200)(2000/1200) is perfect to summon!" Hygin said proud as he slapped down the card. A woman monster in lime green and white clothing appeared. As the seal appeared on it's forhead it groaned with power. Cupping its hands it made streams of magic that swirled around one another. Spreading her hands it shot out in streamers of magic that ripped through the lizards armor.
Roger-200 LP
Hygin-800 LP
"And Doriado, finish it!" Hygin yelled as his monster charged up an energy ball in her hands again. Flowing with the essence of fire, wind, earth, and water, she wielded her arm back and launched it at the silver armored monster at full force."
Reku, Ronin, Akina, and Sachiko were in complete amazement as Hygin called his finial attack. Roger had failed to take them out.
Roger-0 LP
Hygin-800
The serpent warrior tumbled to the floor and slowly vanished. The great seal itself was the only thing now that was left on the field. All the other monsters disappeared and the seal began to close itself around the black man. Feeling really weak for some reason, Roger couldn't even move to get away. Not that he could but he didn't even try. A flash of light as the seal finally wrapped itself around the man body. Shooting up into the air the seal vanished and Roger fell to the arena floor, soulless.
Hygin just laughed and walked down to meet his team.
"Hey, you!" Kaiba yelled and walked over to where Team Orichalcos was now standing. Everyone in the crowd and remaining teams were completely silent and still. "Who do you think you are?" He yelled in there faces.
"We know who we are. We are going to save the world." Chime said calmly without flinching at Kaiba's screams. "And Kaiba honey, you could use a breath mint."
"Shut up, I am not going to let you ruin this tournament just because you want to use the Leviathan to..."
"Kaiba honey, who said anything about a Leviathan?" Chime asking interrupting the businessman. "We want to use the souls captured for a much more powerful thing that what that idiot Dartz wanted to use them for. The Leviathan is gone thank to you people." Chime was starting to raise her voice. "No, we seek a much bigger target, a much bigger gem stone if you will." She said looking over her shoulder at Team Zero and Team Striker. She smiled wickedly sending chills down their spines.
"Well you are not going to do it in my tournament!" Kaiba said, taking a mental note to talk to those two teams once this scene was over.
"Too bad we have you at our mercy, right Kaiba boy. Or did you forget the threat we have set around the city, especially this dome. Oh don't worry, as long as you hold this tournament as normal nothing will happen. Just the stealing of a few souls, nothing major." Said in almost a whisper under her breath, Chime and the rest of her team turned and walked out.
Kaiba growled deep in his throat and walked up to the stage. Picking up the microphone he held it to his mouth. "And Team Orichalcos is the winners. We will continue the tournament tomorrow bright and early. Be here to see what happens." He said just before putting the microphone down. "Now to talk to those two teams...where'd they go?" Kaiba's eyes were wide as he noticed that Team Zero and Team Striker were gone. Their benches empty.
Slowly the rest of the stadium started moving to leave. Kaiba glared around trying to find those two said teams but they were no where in sight.
"What is with them?" Raoul asked looking to see Team Zero and Team Striker were gone.
"I wish I knew." Aliya calmly said as she got up. Lucien didn't say anything out loud as he was deep in thought. He simply got up and started to walk out. Aliya and Raoul looked at each other before following.
Running out the door, The members of Team Zero and Team Striker gathered by the wall panting.
"That could have gone better." Joe said leaning back against the wall.
"Yea." Kevin said standing beside him.
Reku looked around to see if anyone was around then he looked kind of up towards the sky. "Ok Order. We need to talk." He said aloud. After a second of silence the seven of them vanished in a pillar of white light. Just seconds after this light vanished, Lucien, Aliya, and Raoul walked out the door of the dome stadium.
"I could have sworn I heard them talking right out here." Lucien said looking around seeing no one else beside his team mates. The wind blew on an empty side of the building. Lucien could now hear crowds leaving out the main door but no sign of any of the voices of Reku and the others.
"Lucien," Aliya walked up next to her friend and put her hand on his shoulder. "You have been acting strange ever since we got here. Actually, no" Aliya cut herself off thinking back. "You have been acting strange ever since you went to go get lunch. When you can back you hadn't actually eaten and that is about the time you first started acting weird."
"Weirder than normal." Raoul threw in with a friendly grin on his face.
"Well." Lucien said looking around again. "At the restaurant I first met the members of Team Zero and Team Striker. They are nice people and all but there is something strange about them." Lucien sighed, releasing his face from the stern look he had put it in. "That is also where I first met the Seal of Orichalcos."
"Really?" Raoul asked remembering back to the duel that had just happened.
"Yea, and one other card I can't really explain." Lucien turned and nodded to Raoul. "Reku called it the Ruby Crystal but the power from it was immense." Just as Lucien was finishing his sentence more teams started to flood out of the door behind them.
"Order!" Ronin called through cupped hands. The group had appeared in a large room filled with puddles of light. Spheres of lights were constantly raising up out of these puddles and floating around the room. Order stood at the far end with her back to the others. Her arms were outstretched to the side raised up to about her head.
"Chosen Ones." She said without turning to them. "Come." Slowly, the group of seven began to walk across the large room. They didn't know what would happen so they tried to avoid contact with the puddles and orbs of light. Once they crossed the room successfully they walked up next to order. In front of her was an open casket with a skeleton inside. The skeleton had on funeral clothes, triggering a reaction from the entire group.
"Gurabe!"
"Sorry to say. As he wasn't of this world, his soul held his body together." Order said lowering her hands to her side.
"Wait." Joe interrupted. "Aren't zombie's soulless?"
"Well, yes and no." Order said looking over at him. "Everyone has a basic soul outline. That was his personality. In order to resurrect him I gave him wandering souls to fill that spot and hold a form in this world. His soul light long since went out. But his soul outline remained. That is why he acted like he did."
"Then would't the seal have captured only one soul?" Kevin asked.
"Well, over time these wandering souls began to form together into a fake soul for Gurabe. The seal took that soul, and all his life with it." She quickly turned and began to walk across the room of light. "Come quickly, we must discuss Chime and what to do about her."
"Wait." Reku said holding out his hand. "We never told you about Chime. How did you know her name?"
"Come quickly, there is something I must tell you about Chime." Order said without stopping. Slowly the rest of the group followed her.
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To John: Ok, I will just nod and agree.
To Vyser Adept of Dragons: Ok, cool.
To LucienShadowMaster: Well, he wasn't surrounded with a light black arua.
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