Team Zero: Orichalcos
Chapter 29: Running at Darkness
Shifting uneasily at Aliya's strange play, Will finally pulled the brown backed cards smoothly off of the top of his deck. Sliding the card into his hand he looked over his hand. Aliya's last move had given him a fresh hand because she had played Card of Sanctity. A risky move, for you don't know what your opponent can get as help.
"With her UFO Turtle in defense mode she can use his ability to summon a fire monster from her deck with 1500 attack strength or less. But if she flip summons her set Stealth Bird I will take 1000 life points of damage. So my obvious target would have to be to take out that bird before it burns through my life." Will, keeping his face completely lost of all emotion, looked down at his duel disk. The bright white numbers indicated he still had 3000 life points. "Obvious though is not maybe what is key here. If I were to attack first and ask question latter, I might find myself in a trap. The UFO Turtle is the key point in this. What she will grab is crucial to my next move."
Studying his opponent carefully he made his mind up quickly and pointed to the crouching turtle. "Go Necro Rage Demon! Attack the UFO Turtle now!" Will ordered the large beast monster. Charging across the field, the monster left a trail of green light from the glow that surrounded its body behind. Sliding, the monster whipped its sword in it right hand around and cut the monster turtle in half. Bursting apart, the monster sent a shock wave felt by both players out.
Smiling, Aliya pulled her deck out. "UFO Turtle lets me pull a monster from my deck with 1500 strength or lower and summon it to the field in attack mode." Fanning out her deck she grabbed on card without even thinking about it. "I summon my Solar Flare Dragon (1500/1000)!" White and yellow rippling lights appeared where the turtle monster once sat. In a flash a molten fiery dragon monster appeared in that spot. Made of molten rock and flame, the monster gave a hissing growl at Will.
"Aw, Solar Flare Dragon, I see." Still keeping his face void of any emotion, Will saw the new monster and Aliya's plan began to fall into place. "She knows that if I see her plan that I will have to make a choice. By attacking her Stealth Bird she will have an opening to bring out her second Solar Flare Dragon and locking me down, but my Newdoria can't beat the defensive power of the monster, just prevent it from being flipped. On the other hand, if I destroy Solar Flare, she will have an opening to deal a massive amount of damage. I'll bet she thinks I'll make a bad one, but I have my Newdoria on the field. Thanks to it, I can wipe out her whole monster field making her efforts useless."
Aliya eyed him as he seemed to ponder in his mind. Slowly he raised his hand and pointed to her dragon monster. "Go Newdoria, attack her monster now!" Nodding, the wicked monster flew across the field. With the power bonus he got from the field card: Hell's Necro Playground, his power matched that of the fiery snake. Ramming into the monster they both burst apart into small data bits. "And thanks to the special ability of my Newdoria, I'll get to destroy one monster on the field so say goodbye to your set card!" Will gave a slight smirk as the face down card burst apart leaving Aliya's field bare of any cards what-so-ever. "Turn end girl. Since I am holding seven cards, I will discard a card to keep my had at six." Sliding a card out of his hand he slid it into his graveyard. Aliya recognized the card as a monster named The Earl of Demise (2000/700).
Smiling wide, Aliya pulled a card off her deck. "I'll have to thank you."
"And why is that?"
"Because you took care of half of my problem with minimal loss on my side." Aliya's tone was that of a happy school girl. "Newdoria has a devastating effect and since you took care of it yourself, I don't have to worry about it." Grabbing another card in her hand she whipped it out and slapped it down on a monster zone. The duel disk buzzed and beeped as the monster card was read. "Plus you gave me the fuel to charge my Bazoo the Soul Eater (1600/900)!" Materializing on Aliya's field, a large blue baboon monster. Yellow locks of hair stuck out around the side of the monster and ran to its back. Lock in its jaws was a bright sphere of light, a soul.
"Oh no." Will was so calm still it almost was hard to tell he was being sarcastic. The major give away was that he rolled his eyes up and looked around for something more amusing to look at.
"Really, watch as I remove from my graveyard my Cure Mermaid, Stealth Bird, and UFO Turtle to up its power by 300 each. (2500/900). Now feel his wrath! Bazoo, Soul Strike!" Aliya yelled pointing to the monster on Will's field. "With only 2100 attack points, you monster won't last long." Ripping off a part of the sphere it was eating, the large blue baboon hurled it towards the strange monster. Hitting it right in the chest, the metallic looking soul began to engulf the monster whole and finally destroying him.
Aliya-3900 LP
Will-2600 LP
Smiling, Aliya glanced over her hand again, she was holding three cards, a monster, a magic, and a trap. "Hmm...those two cards won't do much right now and I don't think that they would be very useful in this duel. But just to bluff him out, I'll set them down." Grabbing the magic and trap card, Aliya slid them into her duel disk. "I set two cards and end my turn. My Bazoo will keep his attack till the end of your move so just try and defeat him."
"Draw!" Will card slipped off his deck easy. Smirking slightly he held up a card. "I activate Mystical Space Typhoon and I chose to destroy my Hell's Necro Playground!" A large gust of wind suddenly kicked up from behind the boy, ripping up the ground as it slowly twisted into a tornado. Finally the wind passed leaving nothing on the field.
"What!" Aliya couldn't figure out the point to doing this.
"Next, from my graveyard I sacrifice three fiends, my Earl of Demise, Dark Jeroid, and Newdoria to summon up this powerful monster of ultimate darkness." Flipping the three cards up between his index and middle finger, Will showed the three named monsters to Aliya before thrusting forward a single card lock between his thumb and ring finger keeping the three named monsters behind it. "I summon Dark Necrofear (2200/2800)!"
An eerie noise ran through the dome as a blue skinned woman materialized on the field. Her round, bald head shined slightly in the lights but a pure black aura flowed around her body. Wearing strange armor, the monster keep a wooden doll lock in her arms to her side.
"Now Dark Necrofear attack Bazoo!" Will calmly ordered. With the command, the monsters eyes shot open wide, beams of red energy burst out from her eye balls. Flying across the field, the beams hit the baboon monster dead on but slowly flickered off leaving nothing.
"Um..." Aliya knew what was going to happen and she had no control over her monster as it began to throw a piece of that sphere at the monster in a counterattack. Like before, the monster was engulfed in the shiny material and destroyed, but not taking the pure black aura with it. "Now you will end your turn and get my monster."
"You have it already figured out." Will's smirk was still wide as the aura began to float over the baboon monster. "I end my turn, and here comes you monster." Right on cue, the are lock itself around the blue baboon and drug it across the field to rest on Will's field. Growling, the baboon turned to face its new opponent, eyes now spheres of pure red. (Bazoo 1600/900)
"My move." Aliya's voice starting to waver again. Snapping the card off she added it to her hand giving her two cards. "I play Premature Burial to bring back Solar Flare Dragon in attack mode!" Aliya said sliding the card into her duel disk. Instantly the molten snake dragon appeared once again on the field.
Aliya-3100 LP
Will-2600 LP
"Now I summon up a second one! I have you Solar Locked." Aliya announced as a second dragon appeared on the field next to the first one. "That ends my turn. And due to their effect, I can deal you 1000 life points of damage." Opening their mouths, the two dragons shot out blades of fire the crossed into an 'X'. Running down the field, the x hit Will causing his life points to drop.
Aliya-3100 LP
Will-1600 LP
"Now I crush you." Will's card that he had drawn was quickly slipped into his duel disk. "I play Sword of Deep Seated on Bazoo to raise its attack and defense by 500 (2100/1400). Now I activate my double Tribute to the Doomed, By discarding two cards I destroy two monsters." Will smirked as he held up two identical magic cards. Glowing brightly, the holograms began to spit out mummy wrappings as he discarded two cards. Wrapping themselves around the two fire dragons, they squeezed the two of them, breaking the holograms into small triangles.
"No." Aliya's eyes were wide with terror as she stared down at her monster less field. He had left her open and helpless.
"And now I remove three cards from my grave." Will said pulling out three cards and holding them up. "Necro Rage Demon and the two cards I discarded. Melchid the Four Face Beast (1500/1200) and Mefist the Infernal General (1800/1700) to increase the monkey's attack by 300 for each (3000/1400). Now, you're wide open, ATTACK!" Will yelled snapping his finger out towards Aliya who shook now again with fear. Wielding back the whole sphere of the soul the monster launched it foreword in a powerful display of arm strength. Crashing into Aliya it sent her sliding back.
Aliya-100 LP
Will-1600 LP
"No!" Lucien and Raoul thought simultaneously as they watched Aliya slide back. No one else seemed to notice but Lucien could make out a shine in Aliya's closed eyes. A clear liquid that was forming by the end, a tear.
"Now I..."
"NO!" Will was interrupted by a roaring girls voice from across the ring. "You have scared me witless in this duel, have torn through every strategy I set up, you have stolen my monster and beat me with it, but you will not win, cause I end it here." Opening her eyes, Aliya indeed have tears coming but her eyes themselves were orbs of fiery determination. She was not going to lose, and she knew it in her heart. "Open set card!" She yelled pressing a button on her duel disk. "Inferno Tempest! This works only if I lose 3000 life points from one attack, which I did, now you are done. Inferno Tempest will remove all monsters from our graveyards and deck from play."
Complying, both duelist pulled their decks out and began to remove all monsters. Sliding them into the RFP slot (removed from play), Aliya pressed another button on her duel disk.
"Open D.D. Dynamite!" She called as the trap flipped up. A strange device appeared in the center of the ring with sticks of dynamite sticking out all over it. Ticking down, the device exploded sending a wave of heat and dust through the whole dueling arena.
Aliya-100 LP
Will-0 LP
"Wait, why did you use Inferno Tempest? I woulda lost even if you didn't." Will protested as the holograms faded away. Turning Aliya began to walk off the arena. "Well."
"Payback." Aliya said turning her head to face him. Smiling warmly she didn't seem mad. "For scaring me so much in that duel. Still was pretty fun, good game." She continued to walk off the field and met Lucien and Raoul sitting on the bench.
"Aliya." Lucien said standing up to meet her as she returned to the bench. "That wasn't like you to do something like that."
"Oh." She slightly started to blush. "Well he really did start to scare me. I didn't know if I could go on, but you guys gave me strength to continue. Plus," she looked down at her deck. "Kind of a fake out. Now the next people who face me may be more cautious to summon up too powerful of monsters. But that isn't the only way I can deal mass amounts of damage."
"I see, sneaky girl." Lucien said playfully with her. Turning his head he looked at Joe who just sat there on his bench watching them. "Why again did you do that for her?"
"Do I need a reason?" Joe seemed to be really wise as he spoke. But the smile on his face made him seem friendly still. "I just enjoy watching a good duel as well as being in them. That guy was just getting into her mind, so I got into her mind too."
"But we are against each other, we are on rival teams? I can understand friends through different teams, but you just helped her to win."
"Maybe so." Joe said smiling a bit wider. "But there is nothing wrong with cheering, who said I can't cheer for another team. She was freaked, it would of been kind of sad if the duel ended right there."
"So you did it for the show?" Raoul asked coming up to Lucien and Aliya.
"Partially." A child like quality in his face made him seem a lot less serious. "Partially cause I hope we face each other. All three of us try our best to search around for the best duelists." He said pointing to Kevin and Usami with his hand as he said the three of them. "You seem pretty tough, but you have a duelist heart. That guy wins by intimidation technics. You win by heart. I think it would be more fun to face you than him."
"Yea." Usami threw in and Kevin just nodded, agreeing with his team mates.
"Alright, well I hope we face each other too." Lucien said giving a thumbs up as he turned passed his team mates and walked up the stairs to the ring. There Oryon was already standing there waiting for him to come for their duel.
"Lets go!" He said a bit agitated at the wait.
"Right." Lucien nodded. Watching his duel disk snap to life as he shuffled the deck handed to him by the boy across from him. After he was convinced it was shuffled enough, he offered it back to Oryon who grabbed it out of his hand and gave Lucien his deck back. Sliding it into his deck slot as he walked back, Lucien turned to look at Oryon who was also just reaching his end of the field.
"Listen up boy." Oryon said holding up his duel disk. "I have to win this, I have more going on than you could possibly comprehend."
"Alright, well then you had better expect a fight." Lucien said, holding his duel disk in the same matter. "I ain't going to let you win."
Lucien-4000 LP
Oryon-4000 LP
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To Vyser Adept of Dragons: Thanks for the compliment though.
To Gate Guardian32: That is how it went.
To John: I didn't know I made feind decks so well.
To LuceinShadowMaster: Yes, thank you, I guess I have never thought about it before, but you are right in the context of how duel/dual is suposed to be used.
To Demon Fan: Thanks.
To BlackHornet19: Thanks to you too. Yea, back to the grind so I'm back to working harder.
To Darksoulki: Yes...yes he did.
To Dragon and Sword Master: Yes, we all need some encouragement at times. Now about the cards, I won't say one way or the other, but i'll let you people judge.
Necro Rage Demon
1800 atk/1800 def/7 star/dark/demon(fiend)
Effect: During your battle phase, as long as this card is face up on your side of the field, no magic or trap cards may be activated by either player. When this card inflicts damage to your opponets life points as a result of battle, destroy all magic and trap cards on the opponets side of the field.
Hell's Necro Playground
Field Magic
Effect: Decrease the level of all demon(fiend) and undead(zombie) type monsters in both players hands by one level. Increase the attack of all demon and undead type monsters on the field by 300 points.
Note: This card is not mine. It was sent to me.
And for all of you that don't know:
Dark Jeroid
1200 atk/1500 def/4 star/fiend/dark
Effect: When this card is Normal Summoned, Flip Summoned, or Special Summoned successfully, select 1 face-up monster on the field. As long as the monster remains face-up on the field, decrease its ATK by 800 points.
I didn't do it as it was summoned like it is stated, I waited until he was ready to attack to do the attack decrease.
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