Team Zero: Orichalcos
Chapter 21: Demonic Fiends and Ghastly Dragons Pt 1
Ryokurio stood a brave stance against the two guys. The night air was turning crisp as Ryokurio reached into his pocket and pulled out a deck of cards. Freezing half was out of his pocket he looked at the two of them, grinning quite childishly. "Could I barrow a duel disk. I left mine at home."
"Do you people never come prepared to a duel!" Hygin yelled unstrapping his duel disk and taking his deck out of it. A flick of his wrist and he threw it to Ryokurio who grabbed it out of mid flight. Pulling it down in front of his face he admired the green circular duel disk. Strapping it onto his wrist the flap at the side of it slid open and the spine like dueling field folded out. Across from him, Archip's duel disk did the same.
"I'll take it that since Hygin no longer has his duel disk that I will be dueling." Archip said placing his shuffled deck into the deck slot. The screen of the duel disk lit up and numbers appeared counting up the life points.
Ryokurio-4000 LP
Archip-4000 LP
Shuffling his deck, Ryokurio also snapped it into his deck slot. Snapping them one at a time, he pulled five cards off his deck.
"I start this." Archip announced snapping six cards off his deck. "I am setting it face down on my field in defense mode." Archip said as he placed it horizontally on his duel disk. "And this too." He smiled sliding a card from his hand into a magic and trap zone slot. "That is all for now."
"Making it my turn. Draw!" Ryokurio announced snapping a card from his deck. "I will set three cards face down and summon Phantom Dragon Defender (300/1800) in defense mode." Ryokurio slid the four cards into his duel disk. On the field, three brown backed card flashed into appearance and a strange small dragon monster that was transparent. It had a small round body with short arms and legs. A long neck stuck out and it surrounded its body in large wings.
"What is that thing capable of?" Archip asked seeing the effect monster.
"Almost all phantom dragons come with the ability that they can't be attacked until the end of my next turn. But almost all of them have weak attacks and most of their support cards make them lose that ability." Ryokurio sighed thinking about it. "But they are very powerful none the less. So make your move."
"With pleasure." Archip smiled drawing a card. Sliding it into his hand he held his palm out towards his set card. "I flip summon Brain Jacker (200/900)." A large purple brain like object appeared on Archip's field. It had demonic claws and wings jutting out of it and a large eye ball. It began to fly across the field and landed on the head of the strange dragon. Roaring, the dragon hovered to Archip's field.
"Let me guess, Brain Jacker lets you take control of my monster." Ryokurio said noticing the actions on the field.
"Yep. Now it will give you 500 life points at each of your standby phases, or it would if I didn't do this." Archip smiled picking up the card. "I sacrifice it to summon Summoned Skull (2500/1200) in attack mode!" The transparent dragon monster faded away along with the strange brain monster. A strange large walking skeleton with purple muscles appeared in its place. Off of its body small zaps of electricity shot out. "Attack directly my skull! Lightening Strike!"
"Sorry but I have Sand of the Soul Hourglass!" Ryokurio yelled as the said trap flipped up. "This trap will work by allowing me to change the attack of a monster equal to its defense if I send two cards from my hand to the grave." He said sliding the last two cards in his hand into the graveyard slot. The trap card started glowing and streams of light shot out at the lightning that flowed towards Ryokurio making it shrink in size.
"No!" Archip realized as him monsters attack decreased (1200/1200).
Ryokurio-2800 LP
Archip-4000 LP
"So you saved your self from taking the additional 1300 life points. Clever move." Archip smiled as his face down card flipped up. "Remove Trap will make sure you don't do it again." The said magic card flipped up on Archip's field and in a burst of sparks and bits of data, the trap card blew to pieces. "Now your move left you without a hand for any options. And thanks to me, the only monster you had is gone. So take your turn and hope for the best."
"Don't have to, watch this." Ryokurio said drawing a card. Flipping it around her looked at the face of it. Frowning he pointed to one of his set cards. The card flipped up to show a magic card. "I discard one card to activate Monster Reincarnation. I will get my Phantom Dragon Defender back from my grave and place him in defense mode once again. Your move."
"So who is this Pharaoh that you keep talking about?" Reku asked Order as a change of subject. "You said that he and his friends worked together to stop Dartz, but who is he."
"Well he is actually at your tournament." Order said getting complete blank stairs from the seven kids. "He is also one of the best three. Inside that golden pyramid the world champion Yugi Motou wears lives an ancient Pharaoh."
"How can that be?" Joe asked with a hint of disbelief in his voice.
"Dude, with all we have seen do you doubt it?" Ronin asked over his shoulder. "I don't, especially coming from you Order. You have never lied to us about anything."
"Still it is hard to believe." Kevin said to support Joe.
"Well we technically aren't even on Earth anymore, do you believe that?" Akina asked the kids.
"Well yea, I guess that is true." Joe said thinking about it more.
"I do remember once Order told me something like that." Reku said thinking back. "She once told me that there are plenty of things in this world that we wouldn't believe. A lot of powerful magic that comes into play."
/Flashback/
/"Reku Yamashita!" Order almost yelled. "I am surprised at you. I figured that once you got the crystals power you would see the truth. Nothing in the world, as you know it, is normal. Many supernatural events take place every day that just isn't recorded by your media. The world has many mysteries. There is magic beyond your wildest dreams out there. Angels and demons, both invisible to the eye and ones as plain as day. Great seals of powerful magic and mysterious forces that never are explained. Forces lying in the roots of ancient civilizations and some that reach far beyond the boundary of earth. Ancient spirits that walk among us or in the body of others. Nothing is as it seems. The greatest mystery of all is why I married Chaos!"/
/End Flashback/
"I started to realize that we do have a lot of strange power but we are carving our own destiny." Reku commented looking back at her. "And you seem to know a lot of what goes on in the world magic and supernatural wise. How is that?"
"I get really board sitting over here all day." Order gave a childlike grin.
"Draw!" Archip yelled snapping the card off his deck and pointing to the ghostlike dragon. "Attack Summoned Skull, Lightning Strike!"
"Wrong." Ryokurio held up his hand. "Phantom Dragons can't be attacked for one turn so your attack does nothing to me." Grinning at Archip's failure as the lightning shot completely through the dragon monster and exploded on the ground around him.
"Curse your stupid dragon. I set this and end." Archip growled as he slid a card into his magic and trap zone. A flash of light and it appeared behind the skull as a brown backed card.
Ryokurio slowly pulled the next card off his deck and placed it on his duel disk. "I summon Phantom Dragon Baby (1200/1300) in defense mode." A small dragon that looked like it was just newly born appeared on the field next to the defending dragon already there. It was white and transparent, like a ghost, with a fat little body with short stubby arms and legs. A short tailed curled up behind it and an oval head with a cute little face tucked into its body. Folded up little wings were on its back. "Turn end." Ryokurio called with the appearance of his dragon.
"Good, that means I can do some more damage to your life." Archip remarked as he flipped his newest card around. He smirked at the green bordered card. "I activate this magic card which will devastate you. Makiu the Magical Mist!" He announced sliding the card into his duel disk. A surge of power ran thought the duel disk as it was slid in.
"What does it do?" Ryokurio asked looking at the virtual clouds forming above the field. Slowly, a mist like rain began to fall from the clouds.
"It works only if Summoned Skull or a thunder type of monster is on my field. Now I destroy all monsters on your field whose defense is less than the attack of my skull. Now lets see, both 1300 and 1800 are aren't they?" Archip smirked wickedly as his skull monster raised its arms up shooting a burst of electrical energy into the center of the clouds. "All I give up is my attack this turn. So go now! Destroy all his monsters!" Archip roared as the burst of lightning shot down from the clouds wiping the two dragons off the field in an explosive burst of light.
"Go trap card, Phantom Dragon Soul Salvage!" Ryokurio yelled thought the loud booming of the lightning strike. When the light faded Ryokurio's field was empty but two cards were now in his hand. "I activated my trap which works because you destroyed one or more Phantom Dragons with a magic or trap card. Those dragons were added to my hand instead at the cost of 200 life points per dragon." Ryokurio explained as his life readjusted itself.
Ryokurio-2400 LP
Archip-4000 LP
Aliya sat in a chair in the room assigned to Team Renaissance. It was facing out the window at a sky turning dark with night. Their room was located on the opposite side of where the duel was taking place but she was thinking about one of the competitions.
/Flashback/
/Aliya was standing outside the dome listening to the cheering fans. She couldn't tell if Lucien had won or not. She was holding a smooth rock in her hand that she threw into a large tree that was standing next to the dome. Birds fluttered out of it as the rock hit the branches.
"Well, I am a failure." She said bowing her head.
"I don't think so." A voice came from down the hallway behind her. The building had no door, just an opening to a hallway that led to the arena.
"Lucien?" She asked swiveling around. "Is that you?"
"Not quite." Ryokurio said making his way out of the shadows of the hallway. Stopping as a wave of terror fell over her face. She took a few quick steps backwards to get away from him. "Oh no, please don't be afraid. I am not going to hurt you."
"Really?" Aliya sensed that he was telling the truth.
"Oh, were are my manners. My name is Ryokurio Itakura." He said extending his hand to her to shake. Taking it Aliya shook his hand.
"I am Aliya Renon. Hey um..." She seemed to shy off a bit from him. /
/End Flashback/
"Ryokurio..." She was deep in thought about what he had done. He seemed more to her now than just some random stranger.
At the same time Lucien was in the sower and Raoul was sitting at the table of the room eating a pizza they had ordered. His feet were kicked back up on the table and he was flipping through channels on the TV of the room.
"What is it about him." She just couldn't figure it out. Something was different about him. Not only that but Lucien was very disturbed also. He had something happen to him when he went out to get something to eat at the restaurant. "I don't know exactly what is going on in this tournament but something big is going on and I think it is going on between a few of the team. That first team, Team Zero and the ones that followed them, Team Striker seem to have some hidden secrets. I also think that Ryokurio is going to be involved in it some how."
She shook her head as she realized what she was thinking. "Why should I care? Nothing too big can be happening. It is probably just a rivalry between the teams and Ryokurio just must be really nice. No more." She stood up, disgusted with how much thought she was putting into it.
"You ok Aliya?" Raoul asked through the mash of pizza in his mouth.
"Yea, I am fine." She said without looking at him. Flopping down on her bed she rolled over to look at the celing. "So why can't I get him out of my mind. Ryokurio..." Her thoughts trailed off as she thought about the words he spoke to her before.
Archip crossed his arms across his body. "Don't you realize yet that you don't have enough power to stop us?"
"I don't do I?" Ryokurio said cocking his eye brow. Slowly he pulled a card off his deck. "I think I have more than enough to take you apart piece by piece."
"You talk big talk but look at the score board. You haven't even touched my life and you, you are slowly killing yourself off." Archip smirked at this fact. "Nothing you have can stop me, two of your three hand cards are two pathetic dragons. Nothing that can stand up to my skull."
"Maybe, but I summon Phantom Dragon Baby (1200/1300) back to the field in defense mode." Ryokurio announced as the baby dragon once again appeared in front of Ryokurio. "That is it for my turn."
"And it is the end for you." Archip's voice was dark and sinister as he gazed at his new card. Slowly the slot on his duel disk opened up for a field magic card. "Activating Seal of Orichalcos!" He yelled as the seal started to glow on his forehead. A pitch black aura flowed around him as the green lines of the seal formed under his legs. In a burst of energy, the completed seal shot out from under his legs and trapped Ryokurio in its ancient magical seal.
"Not this thing." Ryokurio growled as he noticed the power of the seal all around him.
"Yep, now my fiend gains 500 attack (3000/1200) and your soul will provide the energy needed to move our plans forward." Archip smirked as he slapped a new card down. "I summon Mystic Clown (1500/1000) in attack mode." He snarled as the odd clown monster appear next to his skull monster. The seal started to glow above its one eye on its forehead increasing its power (2000/1000). "And I summon him in my back row of monsters making it so you can't attack him without going through my front row of monsters. Your move." He called as his demonic clown with eye balls all over its purple body took an awkward stance to fight in.
"Ok then." Ryokurio said not paying attention to Archip anymore. The duel disk he was borrowing had a ring of symbols around its body that were glowing bright green. He was entranced by their glow and just for a second the Seal of Orichalcos flashed on his forehead. Grabbing his head as if he had a sudden burst of pain he looked up to see Archip waiting for him to move. "Draw."
A strange set of light flowed through the golden chamber emitted from the crystal cards present. They all seemed to be reacting to something.
"The Seal of Orichalcos!" They all exclaimed noting that they had seen them glow like this before.
"I now sacrifice my Phantom Dragon Baby to summon Phantom Dragon Drake (2500/1500) in attack mode!" Ryokurio announced as his baby dragon vanished and was replaced by a larger serpent dragon with four large wings and a ferocious dragon head. Like the others, its body was white and transparent. "Now I play Phantom Dragon's Silver Soul! This magic card allows my Phantom Dragon on the field to gain 700 attack power plus the ability to attack twice in one turn if I discard a monster from my hand with Phantom Dragon in its name." Ryokurio explained slipping the Phantom Dragon Defender into his grave. The large serpent dragon started to ripple with a silver essence (3200/1500). "But he lost his immunity to do so." Ryokurio sighed pointing to The skull monster and the clown monster. "Phantom Silver Burst attacks!"
The large dragon sent powerful streams of silver colored fog out of its jaws at the two monsters on Archip's field. First engulfing the Summoned Skull then taking the Mystic Clown with it.
Ryokurio-2400 LP
Archip-2600 LP
"Impressive move." Archip said recovering from the shock wave of the attack. "Too bad that you aren't going to be around long enough to do another move like it." His lips curled into a smile as the seal on his forehead started to shine bright with its green glow. "Just you wait, the seal will capture your soul by the end of this duel and you will be out of our way forever."
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To Vyser Adept of Dragons: I hope I answered a few of your questions. For the rest, put them in a jar for a rainy day.
To John: Wait no more my friend.
To The Golden: Hehe, hope you don't mind me calling you that. But for any rumors you may have heard. It is not that tri color haired boy that was in the spot light for all of the tv series.
To Demon Fan: (nods and agrees)
To Gate Guardian32: Sorry but you were a bit out match by the others wanting Archip to duel. But you made complete sense to me.
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