Chapter 31: All Power For One! Re-Enter Ryokurio

As the large Black Skull Dragon (3200/2500), Meteor Black Dragon (3500/2000) and the Black Molten Dragon (3800/3000) stood upon Oryon's field, Lucien's field contained the four monarchs standing tall and firm against the black dragons (2400/1000)x4).

Lucien-2100 LP
Oryon-3000 LP

It was still Lucien's move so he looked down at the seven cards that were in his hand. Oryon had blown all of the cards he had on that last move, so he was out of options. Grabbing two card, Lucien prepared to finish his move.

"I set two cards face down and end my turn." Lucien called as two brown back cards rippled into existence on his field behind his four monsters.

"Draw." Oryon called out, snapping the next card off his deck. "I'll be he played back down his Negate Attack that he retrieved with his Mask of Darkness on his last move. Well," Oryon shrugged to himself, "might as well make him use it up." Pointing to the new frozen monarch, Oryon took a deep breath to call the attack. "Black Molten Dragon attack his Mobius the Frost Monarch! Molten Inferno Eruption!" Snapping open its powerful jaws, the dragon monster proceeded to shoot massive black and red flames from deep in his throat towards the monster.

"Open Negate attack!" Lucien yelled again as his trap flipped up, stopping the attack for a second time in a swirling vortex.

"My turn is now over." Oryon called, pleased that now he knew his opponent might just be out of things to stop him. He wasn't counting on it, but he was safe to presume so a bit.

"Draw!" Lucien announced as he added the new card to his hand. Looking at it, he pondered what to do next. Before even thinking to hard on it, he decided to play a magic card that was there. "Activate Graceful Charity! This magic card will let me draw three cards and then discard two cards from my hand."

Lucien proudly snapped three cards off his deck and glanced over their faces. Spotting the only magic card amongst them, he quickly formulated what needed to be done. Grabbing two cards from his new hand, he slid them into his graveyard slot.

"Now I play my set card." Lucien called out, pointing to the set card on his field. Flipping up he revealed the magic card that he had pulled back once already. "I play Monster Reborn to revive a monster that I sent there with my Graceful Charity. Come back Sacred Phoenix of the Nephthys (2400/1600)!" Fading away, the magic card was soon replaced by a brilliant flaming bird, shining bright gold. Screaming out in power, the large bird floated behind the four Monarchs.

"So now you have another monster that reins at 2400 attack power. What good is it really going to do you against my black dragons?" Oryon asked, not sounding rude or impatient, but curious.

"This." Lucien flipped over a new card and slid it into his duel disk. "I never thought I was actually going to use this card on this magnitude. I activate a magic card known as Monarch Guild Force." The magic card appeared on the field, showing a shadowy monster gaining massive amounts of energy from off the image of the card. A strange metal symbol rested in the chest of the shadowed monster, shining in gold and silver. "I designate a monster that doesn't have 'Monarch' in its name. Then I sacrifice all monsters with Monarch in their name to boost the attack of the selected monster by 2000 points per monster sacrifice. But I must send all cards in my hand to the graveyard." Quickly folding up his hand, he slid it into his graveyard.

"Wait...Woah!" Oryon was speechless at the declaration made by Lucien. The four large monsters on the Lucien's field faded away, sending streams of energy into the body of the large phoenix.

"I sacrifice all four of them to increase my Phoenix's attack power by 8000! Since his attack is raised over 4000 due to the magic card, my phoenix would be destroyed at my end phase...if the duel didn't end right here. Phoenix (10400/1600) attack Black Molten Dragon with Phoenix Fire!" Lucien roared out to, the now, only monster resting on his field. In an eruption of flames, the large bird shot stream of fireballs out at the black dragon. Melting the body of the massive beast before impact had even occurred, the massive monster burst apart into data bits.

Lucien-2100 LP
Oryon-0 LP

Oryon looked down at his duel disk, disappointment washed through his black and red lined eyes. He had failed in his quest to stop Joey Wheeler from using the legendary Red Eyes Black Dragon. Even so, he looked up at Lucien who was at this point shuffling his deck back together. Then, in an odd way, he smiled warmly.

"Thanks, that was an awesome match." Oryon's voice came nicely, catching Lucien off guard a bit.

"I expected him to be furious about not going on to face Joey." Lucien was startled, but shook it off and smiled back. "Yeah, it was a fun match. You are a great Red Eyes player."

"Thanks, I hope to get better." Oryon turned and walked off the stage to the bench. Lucien followed suit and moved back to his bench. Kaiba was quick about getting back on stage to speak once again.

"And Team Renaissance is the victors. After the ten minuets break, Team Psycho will face off against...Team...Orichalcos." Kaiba hated to admit it to himself, but he had to keep things running smoothly in the tournament. Even if he knew what kind of power was coming next.

Ryokurio pulled the door to the room shut. Hearing the clicking of the lock as it latched into place, he turned and began to walk down the empty hallway.

Tightening his fist, he brought his arm up in front of his face. The green circular duel disk sat on his arm with his newly constructed deck in the slot. The symbols carved into the circular part of the disk started to glow with the same green aura that the seal appears with. In reaction to this, the six pointed seal appeared on his forehead, turning his eyes a darker shade of red.

Rounding the corner at the end of the hallway, he made his way into the elevator at the end and began to descend down to the ground floor.

The ten minuets had passed by quickly, now that everyone was back and ready for the next round. The five people stood in the ring, Chime and Hygin stood up against the opposing team who was just standing there. The leader of the team, a short, brown haired boy, walked forward to the light green haired woman. His white T-shirt and black baggy pants, along with the style of hair he had, messy like he didn't even bother to comb it, gave him almost a look of being psycho.

"So, I, Nick Sarch, leader of Team Psycho, challenge you to a one on one match for it all. Winner of this match wins the round!" The boy, Nick, proudly exclaimed.

Chime searched his eyes for a second, making the boy back down a bit just from her unwavering stare. Smiling, she nodded and finally broke the hypnotic gaze she had on the boy. "Fine, but you will duel our newest recruit."

"Oh..." Nick looked slightly lost, but he didn't dare lock eyes with Chime again. "And who would that be?"

"Me." A colder voice rang from down the hallway. Slowly, the figure walked out into the center of the dome, bringing forth a sudden wave of gasps. Ryokurio, slowly and steadily, made his way to the ring and hopped up on it. "I will be your opponent."

"Fine." Nick, who now was just pleased with having an opponent, activated his duel disk and slid his deck into it. Ryokurio's duel disk folded out into its spine like dueling platform.

"Ryokurio!" Reku shouted from his place on his teams bench. "What the hell are you doing?"

"Shut up, Reku." Ryokurio snapped back to the boy without even looking at him. "You stay out of this, all of you. Cause now, you are my enemies." Ryokurio prepared to duel his opponent, hoping that Reku and the others didn't try to start some sort of fight.

"What is he doing." Usami, now with a terrible sick feeling inside, asked under her breath. Joe and Kevin, who both were in utter shock, looked over at their team mate to see tears slowly trickling down her cheeks.

"I..." Kevin began, reaching out he patted her on the back. "...wish we knew."

"Dammit, what is going on." Ronin's anger almost drew all the attention to him. He had stood up in a start, looking at the duelist now standing on the field preparing to duel.

"Ronin, you stay out of this as well."

"Why!" Ronin demanded angrily to know. "What are you doing."

"What I want." Ryokurio finally looked down at Ronin, glaring in anger Ronin quickly got the message. Nodding, he sat down looking very sad. Ryokurio looked back to his opponent and started to draw his hand. "Lets duel now. I start."

Nick-4000 LP
Ryokurio-4000 LP

Hygin looked over at his boss. "Has he ever even play tested that deck, or did he stupidly run in there blind."

Smiling to his question, Chime looked over at the man sitting next to her. "I doubt he has, but I have faith in his skills. This match won't last long."

Smirking, Ryokurio didn't even look at the five cards he had pulled off his deck for his first hand. "Start us off boy." His voice was darker, more wicked. His only problem was that he was facing towards the bench that Team Striker sat on, staring at his crying sister. He tried to avoid looking down at her, and on the boy drawing his sixth card.

"Big mistake." Looking at his hand, Nick smirked and looked up. "Turn end."

"What mistake?" Ryokurio drew his sixth card. "That was the worst opening play I have ever seen." Grabbing one card, he slid it onto his duel disk. A strange two headed phantom dragon appeared on the field before him. Its circular body hovered just above the arena with its phantom like wings sticking out the back. "Phantom Dragon Twin Head (1500/1000) attack him directly!" Opening both of its mouths, the large dragon monster shot out streams of white smoke, covering Nick's side of the field in a thick fog.

Nick-2500 LP
Ryokurio-4000 LP

"Now I end my turn." Ryokurio stated, watching as Nick coughed and brushed away the fog by waving his hand in front of his face.

"Draw!" He yelled, snapping the card off his deck and whipping it out in front of his face. "I'll activate Cost Down!" He yelled, sliding a card from his hand into the duel disk. Grabbing another card, he quickly deposited it into his graveyard and then proceeded to slap down another card onto his duel disk. "I summon the Psycho Shocker himself. Come out Jinzo (2400/1500)!" Smiling with a proudness, Nick watched as his android monster formed on the field before him. Crossing its mechanical arms, the monster glared down at the white dragon monster.

"Try and attack." Ryokurio bluffed, watching as Nick almost started to declare an attack.

"No, Phantom Dragons can't be attacked on the next turn after they are normal summoned." He said, showing off his knowledge of duel monster cards. "Instead, I'll pump up my Jinzo with this, Megamorph! (4800/1500)" The holographic card appeared behind the green armored monster, glowing, it shared its aura with the monster powering it up. "Megamorph doubles the attack of my monster because my life points are lower. Now I end my turn."

"Then it is my turn." Ryokurio confidently snapped a card off his deck and stared at its face. "I activate the magic card, Phantom Net of Sealing! Now if I can summon up monsters until I have more than you do, I can stop all attacks against them. Plus, it will negate all attack changes to that monster."

"Oh no!" Nick looked up at his mighty android. "All you need to do is summon one more phantom dragon and I am trapped."

"Yep, but due to Dual Summoner," Ryokurio slid the said magic card into his duel disk, "I can summon twice this turn. So watch as I call forth Phantom Dragon Baby (1200/1300) and Phantom Dragon Shatter (800/500) in attack mode!"

A small dragon that looked like it was just newly born appeared on the field next to the 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. On the other side, A small phantom dragon sat curled up in a broken egg shell that was dark gray with dark blue spots all over it. It had an oval shaped skull and large beady eyes. Looking rather cute, it gave a little baby like noise at Nick.

"Now my magic card activates." Ryokurio smirked as his magic card started glowing. "Since I have two more Phantom Dragons than you have monsters, your strongest monster cannot attack and you lose all boosts or decreases to its attack and defense points." A strange net shot out of the card image, showered in a phantom white glow around the ropes that made up the net. Large steel balls were at the four corners, pinning the net to the ground around the large green android (2400/1500). "Make your last move." Ryokurio stated, nodding slightly, Nick drew his card.

"Turn end, there is nothing I can do." He sadly stated. "But I want to see your little dragon monsters get past my massive android. Jinzo is more powerful than all three of your little dragon monsters."

"Maybe so," Ryokurio didn't even looked at the card he had just pulled off his deck. "But you don't know anything about the Phantom Dragons if you think that your little android is going to stand up to them. I sacrifice all three of my weaker dragons to summon up this monster!" Grabbing a card from his hand, Ryokurio didn't hesitate to slap it down onto his duel disk. Little bolts of rainbow colored light shot off as the disk read the card.

All three of the dragon monster faded away slowly forming a large dragon in their place. It stood on its two hind legs, towering far higher than the previous dragon. Its long, slick neck stretched out with a diamond shaped head at the end. It large eyes focused on the green android. Like all the other dragons in his deck, this one was white and transparent. It large wings folded out from the back, large spikes stuck up off the edges of the wings as it created a massive gust. Its forclaws were designed with spike like scales as well, creating a robe like look down its arms. A ghostly white aura flowed from around him.

"Phantom Dragon Quiet Purity (3000/3000)!" Ryokurio roared at the arrival of his new monster.

"Yea, but..." Nick looked at Ryokurio, catching his attention. "Since you don't have more phantom dragons than I have monsters, your little net is gone!" Just as the words rolled off his lips, the net around the monster vanished letting it stand up and stretch out again (4800/1500).

"I don't care. If Quiet Purity is summoned by sacrificing three phantom dragons, its ability activates. I can destroy every monster on your field or I can destroy every magic and trap card on your field. I'll go with the monsters!" Smirking wickedly, the dragon that belong to him sent off massive waves of aura. As they went passed the android, it vanished with a ripple of yellow and white light. "But I cannot finish you without playing this." He sighed as he almost had forgot about it. Grabbing another card in his hand, it slid right into his field magic card zone. "I play the Seal of Orichalcos!"

Yelling its name, the seal began to form around the square ring. Its outer layer formed first, glowing bright green as the symbols around it came into view. Next, the lines started to form the six pointed star under their feet, locking them inside the ancient seal.

Both Team Zero and Team Striker were on their feet, amazed at Ryokurio actually playing that card.

"Dammit, what is he thinking!" Reku growled under his breath.

"Quiet Purity attack (3500/3000)!" Ryokurio demanded, the seal glowing brightly on his and his monsters foreheads. Opening its powerful jaws, the monster formed an orb of that same smoke all the dragons use to attack with. Glowing brightly with a white and light blue light, the orb shot out at tremendous speeds towards Nick. Crashing into him, he was thrown backwards into the 'wall' of the seal.

Nick-0 LP
Ryokurio-4000 LP

Slowly encircling him, Nicks soul was quickly captured by the green, glowing circle that closed in around him. His body now laid motionless, soulless, on the dueling field. Grumbling something to himself, Ryokurio walked off the field and made his way down to his place on Team Orichalcos's bench.

The crowd, as well as the remaining teams were in complete shock from the scene. Reku hit the bench in frustration with his fist. Usami had broken down into streams of tear, cuddling herself in Kevin's chest who was trying his best to comfort her. Kaiba, who didn't know the whole situation, didn't seem to see why everyone was starting to break down. Slowly walking back on the stage, that suit tossed him back the microphone.

"Team..." Bitting his lip for a second, and clenching his fist, he looked down at Team Orichalcos as they sat smugly on their bench. Chime shook her finger in the air like a mother does when scolding a young child. Sighing, Kaiba continued with his sentence. "...Orichalcos is the winner. Next round will commence in ten minuets. Team Zone will face Team Striker!" Whipping his hand up into the air, he pointed to the ceiling of the dome with his four fingers. Even though still stunned, the crowd erupted in cheers again.

Nick was pulled off the stage by his team mates. Quickly, they rushed him out of the dome down the hallway.

Ryokurio just sat on Team Orichalcos's bench, watching as the lifeless body of Nick was rushed out of the dome. A cold and wicked simile seemed to crease his lips, as the green seal appeared on his forehead.

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To John: You did good.

To Dragon and Sword Master: Yes, a few good friends, and a few loyal readers. Well, technically Oryon only showed he had two red eyes. But made the fusions by reviving one.

To Vyser Adept of Dragons: I know someone who runs a solid Monarch deck. She isn't half bad either with them. Don't know how realistically it would be to cupple it with a phoenix deck, never tried.

To LucienShadowMaster: Nope, but a fusion of them would be cool. Now I should get back to the homework I'm suposed to be doing.

To Timaeus the Golden: Why thank you.

To Darksoulki: I don't think I am that good, and he has his own style to focus on. But thanks for the compliments.

To Demon Fan: You know, I don't really know. He might be, that is a possibility in my world.
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