Team Zero: Orichalcos

by Rex the Emerald Dragon

The third part in my Team Zero line up. Watch Team Zero fight the sacred power of the Orichcalcos. See if they can prove themselves worthy duelists in the eyes of the best three duelists in the world. Plus some other interesting characters!

39. Some How

Team Zero: Orichalcos

Chapter 39: Some How

Chime let a rude giggle slip past her lips. Closing her eyes, she held her head in her arm to stifle the laugh before looking back up at her three opponents. "With monsters like that, you'll never beat me or hope to ever beat me."

Against Chime stood the bronze, silver, and gold armored warriors from Akina's deck. All six of them, the three knights and the three duelists, glared back at Chime with looks that would kill if they could.

"You watch yourself." Akina grumbled out loud to Chime. Raising her arm in the air, she snapped it down so to extend her palm out towards the Orichalcos Abhorrence that was still sitting on Chime's field. "With the special ability of my Gold Loyal Knight I can pay 1000 life points in order to increase the attack of all three of my Loyal Knights by 1000!" Following Akina's announcement, the beeping sound of the life points going down echoed through the dome.

Chime-4000 LP
Reku-4000 LP
Ronin-4000 LP
Akina-3000 LP

(Gold Loyal Knight 2600/1000)(Silver Loyal Knight 2500/900)(Bronze Loyal Knight 2400/800)

With clanking armor, the golden knight raised its long silver bladed sword in both hands and took off at full speed towards the dark scaled beast. "Gold Loyal Knight, attack Orichalcos Abhorrence with your Golden Sword Slash!" With a push of the legs, the golden knight shot up into the air in front of the beast. Doing a twist in mid air, the knight wielded his sword high above his head and let gravity bring him down, cutting the large beast in two from the top of its wolf like head to the ground below. Sparks shot from the sword as it crashed against the concrete floor.

Chime-3600 LP
Reku-4000 LP
Ronin-4000 LP
Akina-3000 LP

Jumping up, the golden knight flew through the air backwards till it landed in front of Akina again. Chime looked sick for a second as the two halves of the monster fell in two different directions and thumped to the floor. After laying there for a few seconds, the monster finally broke into small data particles that flew through the air.

"There," Akina clenched her fist in approval at what she had accomplished. "Your all powerful monster has left the field." Akina's eyes widened as Chime began to laugh again.

"You thought that Orichalcos Abhorrence was my most powerful monster?" She chuckled, pointing to her set card. "Well you will be in for a surprise. But first, open trap card. Defenders of a Split Soul! When a monster is sent from my field to the grave I may activate this card to summon three Split Soul Tokens on my field in defense mode."

As the trap card glowed with a brilliant light, three dark gray blobs appeared floating in mid air. Twirling in mid air for a bit, the blobs finally sprouted long tentacle like arm which it wrapped around its more spherical body at least two times. Its body finally stopped moving, giving it a polished metal look (0/2000x3). Soon thought, a green aura shoot around the monsters as the power of the Orichalcos was infused into them (500/2000x3).

Looking over the three metal looking monsters, Akina grabbed one card from her hand with out looking down. Holding it up to her face to make sure it was the right one, she slid it into her duel disk. "I set one card face down, ending my turn." She called out as the vertical card hologram appeared before her.

"Pathetic again." Chime mockingly observed as she reached for her deck. "My move then, draw!" Smiling, she slid the card into her hand and ran her delicate fingers over the tops of the five hand cards she now had. Stopping on one at the far end, she pulled it out and whipped it through the air. "I told you that Orichalcos Abhorrence wasn't my strongest monster. This isn't even mybest monster, but it is more than enough to take you out. I make a triple sacrifice in order to summon my Orichalcos Myrkvar (3500/2000)!"

The three metallic sphere monster vaporized in a burst of light, creating a large shadow form towering on the field in their place. The monster stood on its two hind feet, standing tall and straight, balancing itself with a long, pointed tail. The skin of the new beast was light purple in color, oozing with slime that gave it a slippery and glossy look. The beast stood with no arms what-so-ever, just a torso with a strange hump at the top for a head. The skin on this hump pealed open like a hatch door, letting a strange snake like alien head emerge out. Hissing, the new head that had only a mouth full of razor sharp teeth gained the glowing green mark of the Orichalcos on its dome like cranium (4000/2000).

"Orichalcos Myrkvar, attack the Bronze Loyal Knight now." Chime ordered to the large beast, pointing to the target she wished. "Wipe out that fools monster and a good chunk of his life. Darkness Acid Breath!"

Opening the mouth on the snake head, the beast sent a pale green spray shooting out towards the bronze armored warrior monster. Flying across the field in a hurdling comet of acidic toxins, the attack moved ever closer to the warrior with each second.

"Wrong!" Akina yelled, jerking her hand high in the air. "The Loyal Knights are true friends, just me and my team mates are. Activate special ability of the knights, All For One!"

As Akina cried out, the Silver and Gold Loyal Knights jumped over next to their comrade and crossed their swords over the Bronze Loyal Knights already raised sword. The acidic blast crashed into the barrier of swords, stopping it dead in its tracks. Snapping their swords down, the three knights sent streams of the attack splattering all across the field.

"When one of the Loyal Knights is attacked by a monster that has at least 1000 more attack points than it and the other two Loyal Knights are face up on the field, they can work together to negate one attack per turn." Akina explained as her gold armored warrior landed back on her field. "You cannot beat our team work Chime, now just give in."

"Your teamwork is pathetic. You still can't beat me, and the odds should clearly be in your favor. Do you three really suck this bad at this game?" Chime asked, grabbing another card from her hand and slipping it into her duel disk. "Magic card activate, Crimson Blood Draw. This magic card lets me draw three cards if I have three or less cards in my hand. Which," Chime fanned out the cards she had in her hand to show that she indeed had only three cards, "I have. So I will draw three times." Slowly, she pulled the three cards off her deck and gazed at their faces. Smiling she looked up. "This card ends my turn. Your move."

Nodding slightly, showing he had heard, Reku placed his right finger tips on the top of the deck in his emerald green duel disk. A small sigh escaped his lips as he pulled the top card off his deck and flipped it over.

"The effect of Bronze Loyal Knight is this. I may trade one card in my hand for a card of the same type in my graveyard." Reku said, holding up a card from his hand. Flipping it over, he showed it to Chime. "I only have a monster in my grave, so I trade my Warrior of the Black Flame card for my Thing in the Crater."

Spitting out the monster card in his graveyard, Reku picked it up and quickly deposited the said warrior monster. Without moving to far, Reku slapped the card onto his duel disk.

"I summon Thing in the Crater again in face up defense mode (1000/1200)." Bursting up next to the Bronze Knight, a large stone wall appeared curving around a pool of lava in the center of it. In a cave in the back of the wall, two little beady eyes peered out in anger. "I'll set two cards face down and that is all I can do on my move."

Ronin started to draw his cards as soon as Reku's set card holograms appeared. Looking at the cards he was now holding, he silently held one of them up so the back was still towards Chime. "I set one card face down. Then you'll feel how our team work is going to bring you down. Activate the ability of my Silver Loyal Knight!"

Nodding without looking at Ronin, the silver armored monster raised its sword high into the air above its head. A blue aura began to lick of the sides of the sword, twirling in air like smoke off a fire. Snapping the sword down towards the large purple monster, a blast of the same blue aura shot off towards the beast. Colliding with the chest of the large beast, it fell down to its knees and wrapped its slithery tail around its body.

"What did you do?" Chime asked, almost concerned about what they did.

"Silver Loyal Knight lets me change the mode of one monster on the field. I chose to change your Orichalcos...thingy...into defense mode (4000/2000)." Ronin explained with a large smile creasing his face. "Now Its Akina's move." He said, turning to her and winking.

She knew what she had to do, reaching for her deck she began to pull off the top card. "Draw!" Sliding the card in between two cards already in her hand, she held up her duel disk so it was vertical beside her head. "I'll give up another 1000 life in order to increase the attack of my monsters by 1000."

Chime-3600 LP
Reku-4000 LP
Ronin-4000 LP
Akina-2000 LP

(Gold Loyal Knight 2600/1000)(Silver Loyal Knight 2500/900)(Bronze Loyal Knight 2400/800)

"Gold Loyal Knight, attack that beast now with your Golden Sword Slash!" Akina announced, whipping her right arm around her body so that it was angled towards the floor with her fingers outstretched.

Crouching down, the golden warrior launched itself high into the air, flying towards the purple slimy beast. Angling its sword to stab right through the chest of the beast as it flew. Inching closer and closer before Chime held up something that pulled all attention from the attack to the duelist.

"Well, I'll give you that you pathetic people did make one good move, but thanks to this monster, your attack came in vain." Flipping the card in her hand around, it showed a orange bordered card with a picture of some endless vortex. "This monster is known as Chaos Time, Vortex of Eternity (0/0). By discarding it directly from my hand to the graveyard, I get to use its power to negate one attack on my monster, and half the life points of my opponents."

Stabbing out with its sword, the Gold Loyal Knight was surprised to see it sinking deep into a spiraling vortex inches from the monster. Bursting with electrical energy, the monster was sent flying backward landing on its back on Akina's field. Sparks of electricity could visibly be seen shooting up the armor of the knight as it lay there in complete shock.

Three more surges of lightning blasted from the vortex, crashing into Akina, Reku, and Ronin. Causing the three of them to topple backwards in pain just like the knight.

Chime-3600 LP
Reku-2000 LP
Ronin-2000 LP
Akina-1000 LP

Laying there, none of them could feel anything but a sickness rising in their stomachs. The numbness shot through their veins with lightning speed, causing the only thing for them to do is let out moans of pain.

"She's kicking their asses so easily!" Joe commented, slamming his fist into one of the benches. "How can they be doing this badly?"

"Chime seems to have a far greater set or cards than any I've ever encountered or read about." Lucien said, walking over to Joe, Kevin and Usami with his own team following close behind. "Her strategy has countered every move that any of them have made, and she has kept them all down from the start."

"Yeah." Kevin nodded, looking concerned at the three bodies of their friends lying behind their dueling field cards.

"You three are more pathetic than any other duelist I have ever seen." Chime almost scowled as she spoke. "Its weak scum like you that drives me to wipe your sorry asses off this planet. Only the strong should survive, and the strong should survive under my control. No one will be able to stop me."

"...And...take away...our...right...to think...for..ourselves?" Reku growled, slowly pushing himself up so he was sitting on the field. The world around him was still spinning, and a very bile taste coated the inside of his mouth.

"Yes, exactly. Free thought causes all the problems in the world." Chime nodded, but wasn't pleased with Reku's tone of voice. "Hate, discrimination, jealousy. Leading into wars, death, destruction, pain. As a race, humans should ban together and take over other species of life in all different worlds. But as long as there is free thought, humans will never work together, so there needs to be one omnipotent brain, my brain."

"We each are our own human being, we need to be able to think for ourselves and make up our own minds." Akina's words were slow, but much more coherent than Reku's first attempt. She was also pushing herself back up. Ronin was also moving around, trying to get on his feet.

"No. Have you not been paying attention to anything I have been saying?" Chime asked, disgusted with Akina's objection.

"You are just like your damn father." Ronin grumbled, finally righting himself to standing straight up. "You both are chasing the same stupid goal with the same jacked up ideals."

"I AM NOT LIKE MY FATHER!" Chime screamed out, shocking everyone. "That ass hole didn't care. He was going to even wipe out my mind and make me a full obedient slave. He didn't care about anyone but himself. No matter how loyal a servant was to him, their mind was still going to be erased."

"And you don't care about anyone but yourself." Reku shot back.

"I do care. I won't recklessly go around wiping every mind I meet. Those who are truly loyal will follow me without hesitation. But as your friend Ryokurio demonstrated, just a little free thought and they think they can take over again." Chime motioned to the collapsed body of Ryokurio laying on the floor. "That is why I will always make sure that I am the most powerful person. So any one who might turn against me won't stand a chance."

"Enough." Kaiba yelled from behind Chime, almost scaring her. Turning around, she smiled warmly at the brown haired businessman.

"Kaiba hun. What brings us the pleasure of your unneeded interruption?" Chime asked in a very pleasant and warm voice.

"As head of this tournament, I order this duel be stopped this instance." Kaiba bellowed up to the green haired woman. She just smiled and closed her eyes.

"Kaiba, you are no longer in control of this tournament." She calmly said, snapping open her eyes. As she did, a wave of energy pulsed out of her body, sending Kaiba flying backwards to the ground. "I am the one in control now."

Gasps ran through the crowed as the most powerful man in the dome was shoved back by an invisible hand. Yugi and Joey were to their feet as well, rushing down to where Kaiba was just barely pushing himself back up off the floor.

"Are you ok Kaiba?" Yami asked, again in control of Yugi's body.

"I'll be fine." Kaiba growled, slamming his hand down to the floor before pushing himself up. "But this duel is off, now!"

"Kaiba, sweetie." Chime again closed her eyes and let a smile crease across her lips. "Didn't you hear me? Your not in control of this tournament anymore." Her tone was annoyingly pleasant still, making Kaiba grind his teeth in frustration. "Now if you don't mind, it is my turn and I am going to finish this duel up. These weaklings have tried to prove their power and failed miserably. It is time, draw!" Chime yelled, snapping the top card off her deck. Whipping it high above her head, pulsating light burst off of it.

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No matter how much of an advantage Team Zero scores, Chime is knocking it right out of them. Let see if there is anything that they can do to save themselves.

Again, I am sorry about that huge time where there was no sign of me. I was still working on this, but my time was always so short. I was having a time in my life were so much was going on, I didn't even have time to sit down. Didn't forget about you guys, and didn't quit on my stories. I'm still here, and I hope I won't get that busy again for a while.

To J.G. the Game Master: Well, I can drive people crazy with my ability to remember random and pointless information at random and pointless times. You don't want to know, trust me.

To LuceinShadowMaster: What have we talked about when you think you believe something? Anyways, I'll give you that, it did seem like a short chapter, but word count wise, it is right about my average per document. Higher than some previous chapters. To me though, it did seem to fly right by. Sorry 'bout that. Oh, and since your one of my...?spell checkers?... I'd appreciate it if you would point out things to me, now more than ever. Just to see something. Thanks...but I don't even really believe I needed to ask you to do that...

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