Team Zero: Orichalcos
Chapter 27: Win! Akina vs Rex
Akina looked down at her duel disk as the emerald green field snapped into place in front of her. Watching as the score shot up to the normal 4000 life points, she looked over her shoulder at her team sitting on the bench. There eyes were warm and comforting.
Akina-4000 LP
Rex-4000 LP
Akina bit her lip slightly as she pulled her first five cards. "Rex Raptor is the worlds best dinosaur duelist. Dino's are known for their brute force and beat stick prowess. I'll need to see how well he wields them around before I make to big of a move on him."
"Time to duel." Rex called from his end of the field, snapping his opening six cards. "I'll start us off." He announced as he slapped down the card he had drawn. "I summon my Two Headed King Rex (1600/1200) in attack mode for my opening move. Turn end." Rex called out as a large, two headed, purple dinosaur appeared on the field before him. Snarling, it look ferociously at Akina.
"My move then." Akina drew the top card off of her deck and flipped it over. "I summon my Mage Orb Holder (500/600) in defense mode." A small woman monster in yellow robes holding a small clear white orb with both hands. "Her special ability allows me to pick up the top three cards from my deck and summon all monsters of three star or less to the field. All the rest go to my grave." Sliding the top three cards off of her deck, Akina's face dropped as she looked at the three green bordered cards. "All go to the grave." She sighed as she slid the cards into her graveyard slot.
Rex threw his head back in laughter. "That was pathetic." Rex continued to snicker as Akina slid a card into her duel disk.
"I set one more card face down and end my turn." Rex continued to snicker as Akina stood behind her orb holding woman.
"I thought I was going to get a challenge. Seeing how your team mate bet so much on you." Rex finally drew a card and flipped it over. "I can special summon Gilasaurus (1400/400) to the field in attack mode!" A dark brown raptor looking monster appeared on the field next to the twin headed purple behemoth. "If you had a monster in your graveyard, you could special summon it, but..." Rex continued to snicker. "You don't."
"What is your point?" Akina growled as Rex slipped another card onto his duel disk.
"I summon my Kaitoptera (1400/1000) in attack mode." Next to the two dino monsters already resting on Rex's field, a tan pterodactyl monster burst to life. Squawking, it flapped its wings to get airborne. "One more card, Polymerization!" Rex quickly slid the magic card into the slot on his duel disk. A stream of energy shot through the duel disk as the two new summoned dinosaur monsters began to fly backwards into a vortex of light. The vortex finally slowed to a halt, revealing a much larger, gray pterodactyl monster. Crashing down to the ground, it shook the whole ring.
The crowd was roaring with excitement and cheers. Akina tried her best to block them out, she needed to concentrate. She hadn't ever seen a few of these monsters before. She had no clue as to what to do with them, or what they could do. Her best hope was to stick to her strategy.
"Introducing Horned Saurus (2000/1800)!" Rex announced, pointing to the large new dino. A new, darker, smile dawned his face as he pointed to Akina. "Horned Saurus, use your ability to attack her directly!" Akina's eye widened as the gray dinosaur took off into the sky. Circling around Akina it finally opened its mouth and launched a barraged of energy rings down onto Akina's body.
Akina-2000 LP
Rex-4000 LP
The pure energy of the shock waves pushed Akina down to her knees. Looking up, she growled as Rex pointed to her Orb Holder.
"Two Headed King Rex attack now!" After the orders were given, the large purple twin headed dino stomped across the filed and crashed its foot down onto the little woman.
"Open trap." As Akina pressed a button on her duel disk, the set card on her field flipped up and started glowing. "This trap is known as Replacement on the Front Lines! When a monster is destroyed, I can replace it with a monster of the same star level from my hand. The Mage Orb Holder had three stars so I chose to summon my Swordsman of Landstar (500/1200) in defense mode!" Akina pushed herself up off her knees and slapped a new card from her hand down onto her duel disk. A new, toy box like monster appeared on the field crouching down behind its sword and shield.
"Weaklings." Rex smirked again. "Alright, I end my turn."
"Good." Akina smiled as she drew her top card. "I summon a monster known as Razor Blade Eye (700/300) in defense mode!" A large white floating circle monster appeared on the field. It was about an inch thick disk. Out of holes in the side of it long curved blades shot out and an eye appeared in the center of one side of the disk. "I'll set one card face down and end my turn." A brown backed card rippled into existence behind the new floating disk monster.
"You are a very, very sad duelist. Hiding behind such weak monsters." Rex couldn't help but continue to snicker at Akina's plays. Reaching down, he snapped a new card off his deck. Sliding it in between cards in his hand he pointed to Akina's swordsman. "Two Headed King Rex, Stomp attack!"
"Not so fast." Akina smirked for the first time, pressing a button on her duel disk a trap card flipped up. "Negate Attack will stop all attacks by you this turn."
"Wow, weak monsters and stalling." Rex's sarcasm made his head tilt to the side in annoyance. "I get so tired of facing weak opponents. Will you just die already!" Rex angrily groaned as he ended his turn.
"Here it is, my chance to take down his dino's and take control of this duel." Akina slid the top card off her deck and looked at it. "I summon my monster Soul Stealer Jar (0/0)." A large metallic gray jar appeared on the field. The lid popped off and a large light red transparent hand popped out.
"That was stupid, the Soul Stealer Jar only works if it is flipped summoned. If you do that, you could have paid 400 life points each to remove both of my dino's from play." Rex, still looking very amused at Akina's play, commented.
"That wasn't my plan, now watch as I activate a magic card." Akina slid one of the two cards in her hand into the duel disk. "Bronze, Silver, and Gold Sword Ritual will let me sacrifice three monsters from my hand or field to summon up my three loyal knights!" Akina announced as her three monsters on the field began to slowly vanish into thin air.
In the place of the three monsters, three identical knights dressed in armor of Bronze, Silver, and Gold appeared. Holding up their long swords, the three knights banded together to a team.
"I have summoned, Bronze Loyal Knight (1400/800), Silver Loyal Knight (1500/900), and finally Gold Loyal Knight (1600/1000)!" Akina announced, sending the crowd in an uproar.
"Oh great." Rex sighed, he remembered back to watching Akina in her first duel in this tournament using these same knights.
"I'll invoke the power of my Gold Loyal Knight!" Akina yelled out as her golden knight monster raised its sword high up pointing to the roof of the dome. A faint golden aura blasted off the knights sword. Flying around Akina's field, the golden light seemed to be absorbed into the three knights themselves. (Bronze Loyal Knight 2400/800)(Silver Loyal Knight 2500/900)(Gold Loyal Knight 2600/1000).
Akina-1000 LP
Rex-4000 LP
"By giving 1000 life points, I am able to raise the attack of my monsters by 1000." Akina smiled wide at Rex who was growling deep in his throat. He was trying to prevent this from happening. "Go my Bronze Loyal Knight, attack his Two Headed King Rex! Bronze Saber!" Akina's monster nodded to the command and took off charging at the purple behemoth. Twirling the long bronze saber around in his hand, the knight finally stabbed the sword through the monster. Roaring in pain, the dinosaur burst into small data bits.
Akina-1000 LP
Rex-3200 LP
"Next, Silver Loyal Knight, attack his Horned Saurus with your Silver Saber!" Akina called out as the bronze armored warrior returned to her field. The silver armored knight raised its sword up and took off at a dead charge towards the gray dinosaur. Jumping just before it reached the gray dino, the knight whipped its sword around cutting the head off the Horned Saurus.
Akina-1000 LP
Rex-2700 LP
"Oh no." Rex's eyes widened as the last knight began to move slowly towards his open field.
"Gold Loyal Knight, Golden Saber!" Hearing the command, the golden knight flew across the field and slashed its sword across Rex's body. Growling, Rex looked up at the golden knight returning to its masters field.
Akina-1000 LP
Rex-100 LP
"I'll get you for this." Rex growled as his life point score dropped. (Bronze Loyal Knight 1400/800)(Silver Loyal Knight 1500/900)(Gold Loyal Knight 1600/1000).
The crowd was in shock at the marvelous play by this girl against a champion duelist like Rex Raptor. Reku, Ronin, Sachiko, Joe, Kevin, and Usami all smiled wide at Akina's awesome move.
"Those knights are really powerful." Sachiko commented getting a nod from the two boys she was sitting next to.
"And not at all easy to get. The loyal knights are really rare and valuable cards. Seeing how they are so rare, the odds of you actually getting all four of the cards, the three knights and the ritual together is no easy feet." Ronin smiled and put his arm around Sachiko's shoulder.
"Yea...and you really don't want to know how hard it hit my wallet." Reku said looking up at Akina with her three knights. "I pitched in and helped her buy them. And seeing that last move, it was well worth every cent of it." Ronin and Sachiko just smiled at Reku and looked back up to the duel.
"Before I end my turn, I can use the ability of my Bronze Loyal Knight! I trade the last card into my graveyard, to pull out a card that is in there. Once this card is used, it is removed from play. I set the card then." Akina quickly snatched up the card her duel disk spit out and slid it in behind her three knights.
"Time to take you out girly." Rex snapped the top card of his deck off and looked at it. Smiling he looked up at Akina. "I do have a plan to wipe your knights out, and take control of this duel back. We are almost done, once I wipe out the last 1000 life points you have.
"Try it then." Akina boldly stated, watching as Rex slapped a card down on his duel disk.
"I summon up my Balloon Lizard (500/1900) in attack mode!" A reptilian monster the was blown up like a balloon appeared hovering above Rex's field. Floating around, it didn't seem to be much of a threat to anyone. "Next up is this magic card, watch as I evolve my monster with Ultra Evolution Pill!" A strange two colored purple pill appeared floating in the air in front of the floating lizard. Swimming through the air, the lizard grab ahold of the pill with its jaw and quickly swallowed the whole thing. From deep within the lizards belly, something started glowing with mass amounts of light. Slowly the lizard began to grow and change shape.
"What is happening?" Akina's voice starting to tremble as the large new lizard revealed itself to be a large black Tyrannosaurus-Rex.
"My Ultra Evolution Pill has evolved my little reptile into a full fledge dino. Meet Black Tyranno (2600/1800)!" Rex's new large dinosaur growled and looked around at the three knights that were waiting on Akina's field. "Now my Tyranno, attack Bronze Loyal Knight and finish this duel. I win." Rex smiled as his large black creature stormed across the field. A flash of light and a burst of energy and Rex watched his Tyrannosaurus-Rex be pushed back to his field. "What the?"
"I am not quite finished yet." Akina smiled as she pointed to the set card she had on the field. It flipped up to reveal Negate Attack. "I brought back my Negate Attack so to stop you if you tried to pull a stunt like this." The dome itself was shaking at some of the roars from the crowd.
"Fine, I end my turn." Rex's disgruntled frown soon turned into a smart ass grin. "But this turn will be your last."
"Don't bet on it." Snapping a card off her deck she held it up. "There is one effect I haven't used yet on my knights. Silver's ability to switch the mode of a monster. But even if I do that, his monster has 1800 defense points." Bringing the card she drew into eye sight she looked over at the large black dinosaur. "I sacrifice my Bronze Loyal Knight to summon my favorite monster in my deck, come out, Fairy in the Crystal (2000/1300)!"
The bronze armored knight faded away slowly to be replaced by a large hovering crystal with a beautiful fairy inside. Akina then pulled two more cards off her deck and slid them into her graveyard.
"I send two cards from the top of my deck to the grave to activate the ability of my monster. I summon two Fairy Tokens (500/500) in attack mode to the field." Two large stone carvings of fairies appeared next to the large Crystal fairy. "And now, to finish you off." Akina smiled as she pointed to her silver armored knight monster. "I activate his ability to shift your monster to defensive mode right now!" Nodding, the sliver warrior held out its sword towards the black dino. A sparkly silver aura shot off of it, forcing the dino down to its knees.
"No, this can't be!" Rex's eyes were wide with fear as he knew what was about to happen to him.
"Fairy in the Crystal, attack Black Tyranno!" Akina yelled to her monster. Spinning with incredible speed, the large fairy monster shot rays of light flying all across the dino's body. Finally, the monster roared and shattered the hologram. "Time to end, Gold Loyal Knight, Attack him now with your Golden Saber!" Smiling, the golden knight began to charge towards Rex who was frantically looking at the two cards in his hand, looking if there was anything he could do. Whipping its sword around, the golden knight slashed across Rex's body sending him flying backwards to the floor.
Akina-1000 LP
Rex-0 LP
Bowing his head, the dinosaur duelist trudged off the field to the bench where his team was sitting. Akina, jumping with joy, jumped off the arena and met her friends on the ground.
"You did it." Reku smiled, giving her a big hug. Moving, the four of them sat back down on the bench. Watching as Kaiba made his quick stroll up to the middle of the arena.
"You all know the drill by know. Ten minute break for you fans." Looking down to both sides he then spoke into the microphone again. "Next up, Team Punks will face Team Renaissance." Kaiba then flung the microphone to a suit standing by the end of the arena and walked back to his chair.
Yugi watched as Kaiba made his way back to his seat. Looking over at the team known as Team Zero he began to think to the spirit that lived in his puzzle.
("I think that you are right Yugi.") The spirit said back to the young boy. ("I think that there is something more to those kids than meets the eye.")
The ten minuets passed by very fast and soon the two teams had met in the arena. Lucien walked up to meet the leader of Team Punks. A tall, broad shouldered boy with messy brown hair. He was wearing a black leather jacket that covered a black and red T-shirt underneath.
"I'm known as Oryon, how do you want this thing to go down?" The boy, Oryon, asked Lucien who looked back at his team.
"Let's go one on one." Lucien said turning back to Oryon.
"Fine. Will." Oryon said holding up his hand. Snapping his fingers a boy from behind him stepped forward. He had short spiky black hair and tan skin. Looking like he might have an Egyptian heritage, he looked at the back of Oryon. "Will, you will duel first." Oryon ordered his team mate without looking at him.
"Ok Oryon." Will said back to him, holding up his arm with his duel disk on it. Humming to life, the disk snapped into place.
"Alright then." Lucien said turning around. Looking back and forth he mentally gave the look asking which one would like to play first. Slowly, Aliya stepped forward.
"I'll go first for us Lucien." Aliya said also letting her duel disk snap into place.
"Alright." Lucien nodded and walked up to her. Putting his hand on her shoulder he smiled warmly at her. "Be careful out there."
"I will." She smiled back and walked past him. Both of the remaining team members walked off the field leaving only Will and Aliya on the arena floor. "Ready?" She asked calmly as he was shuffling his deck.
"Never been more ready in my life." Will replied back.
"Duel!" Sending the crowd into another uproar, the next duel was about to start.
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Alright, sorry guys and gals. I have frankly been lazy these past couple of weeks so no updates. Plus recently I have been a bit tied up in my book. But back to the job now, and have been working on this a bit recently. So it will be updated and back in the flow I hope. May slip from time to time, but I'll keep at it. Anyways, hope you enjoyed.
To Dragon and Sword Master: Um...I never have ever made a reference to Reku's father. He has been mentioned, but has never made an appearence in my fic.
To John: Yes, very deep.
To LuceinShadowMaster: You have way to much fun, you know that. Fun is good.
To Demon Fan: Yes, I will.
To Vyser Adept of Dragons: Well, there was Rex. I give him credit. He is underestimated in the anime. He really is a good duelist.
To BlackHornet19: Yea, It was pretty cool.
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