Team Zero: Orichalcos
Chapter 40: Giving Your All For the Team
Slashing the brown rectangular card in her hand through the air, Chime slid it in to her duel disk, making the hologram materialize inches in front of her. Smiling, she looked up at the three opponent that still glared at her. "I set this card face down. Now, switching my Orichalcos Myrkvar to attack mode, I'll have him attack and destroy your little Thing in the Crater. Darkness Acid Breath!"
As the large purple skinned behemoth stood straight up, the alien like head flew out of its little skin patch. Hissing, the beast once again sent a stream of acidic smoke hurdling across the field towards the stone wall.
"Ha!" Reku yelled out, pleased with it. "You've activated my trap card. Mirror Force! Now your large monster is going to kill itself." With the glowing mirror like bubble now surrounding the stone wall, Reku smiled as the puke green smoke crashed into it. Reacting to the contact with a stream of white sparks, the barrier sent rays of pure white energy bursting back towards the monster. Piercing through the massive beast, the rays of light tore it to shreds and wiped it off the field all together.
Chime could only smile. Running her long, slender fingers through her light green hair, pushing her bangs back out of her face. "It was a gallant effort, but it too was in vain. You see..." Chime nodded her head towards the spot where the large beast once stood. Air had began to swirl around, collecting the pieces of the beast that were blasted off. Pulling them together like a large vacuum pulling in dirt. Shaping the large rough looking beast once again on her field. Roaring, the Orichalcos Myrkvar crashed to the cement floor in its triumphant return to the field. Still surging with the power of the Orichalcos (4000/2000)
"How did your monster come back!" Ronin yelled out, just as shocked as everyone else.
"Simple, Orichalcos Myrkvar was summoned by using three tributes, remember?" Chime's voice had not changed, still pleasantly annoying. A hint of over confidence could be heard, but she seem far to pleasant. "When it is summoned from three tributes, Orichalcos Myrkvar is no longer able to be destroyed by the effect of a magic or trap card. Only a monster card can destroy this wonderful beast."
"Magic and trap cards are useless!" Reku, Ronin, and Akina all had the same simultaneous thought. Eyes widening with fear, there wasn't much in the way of 4000 attack points that there decks could easily produce.
"I see you realize now how futile it is to keep fighting." Chime slyly said as she pulled a card from her hand and slapped it on her duel disk. "I summon my Doomed Blood (900/1700) here, in my back row of monsters." Materializing behind the purple behemoth monster, a strange humanoid looking beast appeared. Its body was a solid liquid, white as a sheet and reflective in nature. Standing about six feet tall, the beast gained a strange green aura around it as the power of the Orichalcos began to flow through it (1400/1700).
What came as the biggest surprise to Reku, Ronin, and Akina was the fact that the card was in a yellow boarder. It had no effect what-so-ever.
"That ends my turn." Chime let her arms hand down to her side now. She looked a bit drained on energy, but she was still being annoyingly happy in expressions.
"Wait? You said back row of monsters." Reku asked, looking at the placement of her newest monster.
"Yes, back row of monsters." Chime cocked her head to the side, pleased with the stupid question to her. "The Seal of Orichalcos allows me to have a second row of monsters. Giving me the ability to have up to 10 monsters in play at once. A back row, and a front row. Of course, your can't get to the monsters on the back row until there are no monsters on my front row." Chime was actually laughing at this. Her laugh was shrill, dark, and filled with an underline evil.
"Well then, I'll just go through that massive behemoth thing to get to it and then to your life. Draw!" Reku yelled, snapping the top card from his deck. A wave of fear flushed through his face as he looked at what he had to work with. Nothing that really could go through that large beast.
"Now is the time to reveal this trap." Chime said, pointing to her set card. "Hidden Tempest Flux. This trap will destroy all face down cards on the field, including all the set magic and traps you have built up."
Chime's smirk widened as a pulse wave shot up from the ground, followed by a twister of air. Whizzing around, the air became as sharp as knives, slicing the set cards on the field to ribbons. Dying out, the twister left no cards left on the field but the monsters.
"Fine." Reku said, acting unimpressed with the destruction of all the cards on the field, but his eyes showed just howafraid he was.Picking up the knight card on his field, he slapped it down again horizontally. "I shift Bronze Loyal Knight into defense mode. Ending my move."
"Draw!" Ronin announce as soon as Reku ended his turn. "I too shift my knight to defense mode, and I'll summon to the field my Hydrogeddon (1600/1000) in defense mode. Setting one card face down, I'll end my move." Ronin announced, placing the cards on his duel disk.
Over a orange bordered card, a brown four legged beast appeared. Its body didn't appear to be solid, constantly moving and spurting out brown streams. Behind it, a set card appeared vertically.
"Then, my turn." Akina spoke as she drew her card. Nervously she glanced down at her duel disk. Seeing the life point score resting at only 1000 life points, she swallowed hard, but couldn't get past a lump in her throat. "The guys realize that I don't have enough life to combo again to try and destroy that monster. But what can we do?"
"Akina." Reku glanced worried over at her. She seemed to be losing her cool, but was trying not to show it. "Come on dear. Pull it together."
"Magic card go, Jug of Greed!" Akina yelled, sliding the card she had drawn into her deck. "This card lets every player draw one additional card from their deck and add it to their hands." Akina explained, reaching for her deck.
Resting her fingers on the top card, she watched as everyone else pulled the top card from their deck and slid them into their hands. Slowly, she began to slid the card off her deck. Flipping it over, a sigh of relief slid past her lips to see the card she really wanted.
"First off." She began, pulling a card from her hand and slapping it down on her duel disk. "I sacrifice my Gold Loyal Knight in order to summon forth, Fairy in the Crystal (2000/1300)."
Slapping down the card on her duel disk, a stream of energy could be seen shooting through the lines on the duel plate. Flashes of light appeared all around the armored warrior before it vanished, quickly replaced with a large floating, perfectly carved crystal. Inside the floating crystal, a very beautiful fairy looked out at the world.
"Her special ability lets me discard the top four cards of my deck in order to summon four Fairy Tokens (500/500)." As Akina deposited four cards from her deck into her graveyard, four stone statue appeared. Two on each side of the floating fairy monster. "Perfect for this little card. Its time to bring you down, and I'm going to do it in style. Magic card, Oracles Rage Incarnate Seal of Power-Amethyst Crystal!"
The new fairy monster coursed with a light purple aura as the immense power of the crystal surged through it. Almost simultaneously, larger spike like crystals burst out from the side of the otter crystal shell the beast already had. A circular mark appeared on the forehead of the fairy inside.
This was the first time anyone noticed, but the mark was identical to the mark of the Seal of Orichalcos. Just moved to the right side of the circle making a crescent moon look to it instead of a symmetrical star.
The same mark appeared on Akina's head, making her grin as she felt the all too familiar power surge through her body. Pulling a card out of the four cards in her hand, she held it up in the air.
"The power of my crystal will absorb the four monsters tokens on my field plus this monster from my hand. Sonic Duck (1700/700)." Holding the card out, Akina showed the card with a running, light green colored duck on it. Glowing, the card seemed to vanish into the air and the four stone statues on the field next to the fairy monster disappeared as well. Giving their energy to it (5700/1300). "You said I have to beat your nasty little beast in power, so be it. Fairy in the Crystal Amethyst Mode, Attack!"
Rushing across the field at incredible speed, the crystal incased monster slammed its body into the purple monster, running the sharp spikes deep into its skin. It began to turn, spinning its shell around its body so the spikes ripped at the body of the beast.
A sickening tearing noise echoed through the dome as the beast was torn up. Finally, it began to break apart into small data bits.
Chime-1900 LP
Reku-2000 LP
Ronin-2000 LP
Akina-1000 LP
"That ends my move." Akina announced, all of her anger apparent in her darker tone of voice.
"Well, I'll give you credit." Chime smirked as she drew her next card. "That was impressive that you finally did manage to take down my Orichalcos Myrkvar. Few have done that before, but you are far from safe yet." Chime grabbed a card that rested at the far end of the cards she was holding. Pulling it out, she whipped it around. "Finial Destiny Pulse Burst. A magic card that will take the attack of the strongest monster on the field. Deal it to the owner of that monster at half strength. So now don't you wish you didn't do that?"
"What!" Akina's eyes widened with fear, watching the magic card materialize on the field. Glowing, it sent a massive pulse wave out through the air. Leaving a trail of crimson red light behind it as it moved, the pulse crashed around the Fairy in the Crystal and Akina. Forcing her to fly backwards and land on her back.
Chime-1900 LP
Reku-2000 LP
Ronin-2000 LP
Akina-0 LP
"One down, two more to go." Chime spoke, pleased with her first win. She watched as the green circle around the four of them created a identical copy of itself. This new copy began to move in around Akina's body that was lying on the field. Closing in around her, a green pillar of light shot up towards the ceiling of the dome.
Reku was in a panic, running across the field to her, he stood on the outside of the ring, the barrier preventing him from getting in to her. Both of their eyes were filling with tears.
"Akina..." Reku's words were slow and painful.
"Reku, its ok. You need to beat her." Akina's words were also choked. "I did all I could to help us win. You need to keep going. I'm always with you in your heart, dear. Win this, for us."
As her last words escaped her sweet lips, her soul was pulled from her body, leaving Akina a soulless body. Then, a loud series of cracks could be heard. Reku's hand was squeezed so tightly that his knuckles were turning ghost white and had all popped. His nails digging into the flesh on his right hand.
"Aw... Is the little boy getting pissed off cause he lost his girlfriend?" Chime mocked, smirking with a boastful overconfidence. She was twisting her index finger in her hair as she spoke. She didn't even seem phased when Reku snapped his head up, glaring daggers at her.
"Your...an..." Reku was so angry he couldn't even talk straight.
"I know, I know." Chime said, annoyed at the broken record insults she had been getting from them from the start. "Now kiddies, my Doomed Blood has taken center stage (1400/1700) and I'm not done by a long shot. Magic card go, Sword Blade of the Shadow Realm!"
Sliding a green bordered card into her duel disk. Chime watched with pride as the strange liquid beast gained a demonic black hilt of a sword. The blade of the sword was made of formed pitch-black smoke. Coursing with a purple aura, the blade was taller than the monster.
"It makes me discard two cards from my hand to activate, but 3000 additional attack and defense points is never anything to take lightly (4400/4700)." The power of the monster skyrocketed, making Reku and Ronin fill with a sense of fear. "Lets face it, your out of options. Doomed Blood attack Silver Loyal Knight now! Sword of Shadow Magic Slash!"
Whipping the large sword around as if it was as light as a feather, the monster launched itself high into the air. With a mighty swing of the sword, the monster cut the silver armored warrior in two. Roaring in pain, the knight dropped its sword to the ground, landing with a loud crash.
Ronin fell to his knees, his energy suddenly jerked from his body as the monster finally vaporized into thin air. Breathing deeply, Ronin pulled himself back to his feet, glaring at Chime from under his bangs. "Damn you." Was all he could say, winded from the sudden drop in energy in his body.
"By setting this card, I shall end my move." Chime announced, sliding one of the two remaining cards in her hand into her duel disk. A vertical card appeared in front of her.
"Its my turn now!" Reku yelled, stomping back to his dueling spot. Rage coursing through his body. "Draw!" He bellowed, snapping the top card off his deck. "Thanks to Akina's Jug of Greed, I have everything I need." Reku thought, slapping a card onto his duel disk. "I sacrifice my two monsters in order to summon to the field; Mech Dragon Blaster (2500/2000)."
Crashing into existence, a large green scaled dragon monster appeared towering over the field. Standing on two hind legs, the monster glared out at the world. Parts of it body were covered with gears, hatches, and exposed wiring, running all over its body. It was hard to tell if it was a full android, or a dragon fused with mechanical parts.
"I'm not done, next comes a magic card I slipped in just before the match. Feel this, magic card go! Power Bond!" Reku slammed the card he washolding into his duel disk, angerpulsing through his veins. "With this, I am allowed to fuse together Mech Dragon Blaster, Jinzo, and my Barrel Dragon in order to summon my ultimate machine monster."
The green scaled dragon monster fell backwards into a vortex, followed closely by a green android monster and a black armoreddragon with three barrels sticking out. Fusing their energies, a new beast began to emerge from the innards of the vortex.
Landing on the field, the monster was android shaped, covered all over its body with a gum metal colored armor, navy blue in some spots. A helmet that was in the shape of the green dragon used in the fusion covered all but two disk like eyes. From its back, large green scaled wings folded out, slightly glowing in the light of the dome. Two barrels stuck out from each of the monsters shoulders, pointing directly at the white liquid beast.
"Meet my Android Dragon Tyrant (5000/5000)." Reku yelled, introducing the newly summoned monster card. "Here's were it get worse, Power Bond lets me double the attack of this new beast (10000/5000)."
"Now isn't that an impressive little toy." Chime admired in a toying little voice. Making Reku's blood boil even more.
"Shut up you bitch, you listen here. My Android Dragon Tyrant normally has a special ability that hurts badly. I flip three coins. For each heads you say goodbye to one card on the field. Then you lose 500 for each destroyed. I lose 500 for each tails. But..." Reku held up one of the last cards in his hand. "I'm not toying around this time. Magic card activate! Oracles Rage Incarnate Seal of Power-Ruby Crystal!"
Growing around the monster, a ruby red aura became visible. The cracking of metal could be heard, echoing through the dome, as large ruby colored crystalline spikes burst out of the outer armor of the beast. Jutting outwards, the crystals showed a rushing of energy, flowing around inside and coursing into the body of the mighty monster. Roaring, the beast send a shock wave flying outwards across the field. On its helmet, between the eyes of the Mech Dragon Blaster, the circular mark appeared.
As the same mark appeared on Reku's forehead, he lifted his face in a sneer at Chime. "Ruby Crystal gives my monster 1000 more attack (11000/5000), and gives him the power to attack all the beasts on your side of the field." Whipping his arm up, he pointed to the back of his newest monster. "Also, now that he is an essence monster, his magical ability is unlocked to the fullest. Face it, your losing your three cards, and 1500 life points that fast!"
Aiming its cannons, the large beast send a wave of energy blasting out of the barrels. Racing across the field, the bursts of energy wiped the liquid man, his large black sword, and the face down rectangular card clean off the field. Waves of heat actually made Chime have to put her arm in front of her face to shield her eyes.
Finally blowing past, nothing but plums of smoke streamed up from the ground were Chime's monster and set card sat just seconds before. A silence swept over them all, nothing was heard for a few seconds, until Chime let her arm sink to her side again. Looking up, she glared down the large metallic monster that stood before her.
Chime-400 LP
Reku-2000 LP
Ronin-2000 LP
"Chime, for what you did to Akina." Reku whipped his arm out, pointing his arm at their opponent with fingers stretched outwards. "This is the end, Android Dragon Tyrant. Finish this now!"
Taking aim, the large monster charged up its gunsfor the attack. Insides, blood red energy formed into deadly bullets that would shot out in a matter of seconds. Rearing back, the monster braced itself before letting the bursts of energy blast forward from the cannons. The loud blasts sounded like cannons firing, rocking the entire dome.
When the blast reached inches from Chime's body, her lips curled into a awkward smirk. Her eyes filled with happiness. Taking the last card in her hand, she slapped it down onto her green dueling plate.
"When I am attacked directly and I have no other cards on my field I get to summon this monster. Chaos Hell Blitz Duty (100/200)."
Appearing inches in front of the large blast, a small blue skinned imp like monster formed. It curled into a tight ball, letting a small tail with a arrow head at the end wrap around itself. Tucking its head in under its two wire like arms and behind his curled in knees. Then, it was vaporized in the blast of energy.
Chime-5900 LP
Reku-2000 LP
Ronin-2000 LP
"What?" Reku's looked on, confused and shocked that his most powerful attack was blocked so easily.
"Chaos Hell Blitz Duty took the front of your attack you fool." Chime smirked, letting her empty hands fall to her sides. "And of course, it had another special ability. When it is destroyed, I gain life points equal to half the current attack of the monster that destroyed it. You are to kind, giving me 5500 life points like that." Letting her head dip down, she giggled to herself in her own amusement. "And now you should end your turn. You are screwed you know."
"No!" Reku's wide eyes glanced upwards at the black armored monster that rested on his field. "Since it was fused using Power Bond, I take the original attack of the monster as effect damage to my life points." Reku stated, in shock that this was happening. Glancing at his hand, he looked for any way for him to stop it. Sighing in defeat, he bowed his head. "Turn end."
Chime-5900 LP
Reku-0 LP
Ronin-2000 LP
Reku's vision sudden doubled, then tripled. Swaying back and forth, he collapsed to his knees breathing hard. His head spinning, he felt a burning from deep inside. Forcing his himself to look up at Chime, he swore at her as he saw a copy of the seal enclosing itself on his body. Locking in around him, the seal began its process of striping the soul from Reku's body.
"Reku!" Ronin yelled, watching helplessly as his best friend's soul was swallowed up by the circular mark that was around him. Seconds later, Reku's body fell completely to the concrete floor, soulless.
Ronin stood there in disbelief as he now stood alone against Chime. His team mates wiped of their souls. Motionless bodies lay to either side of him.
"Dammit."
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To J.G. the Game Master: Your welcome.
To LuceinShadowMaster: You know, I thought long and hard about asking you to do that.Should have kept mybig mouth shut, no? But it's ok, your proved something to me. Thank you for your help, you can go back to the errors that have become major problems over time. Over looking the small minor, one time errors. Oh, and that hand thing, you understood what I meant. But again, thanks for your help. I'm glad I could realate to you on a personal level. Chime is so thick headed though, she doesn't look at all the angles.
To Dragon and Sword Master: I hope its nothing bad.
To Darksoulkai: I see, and what kind of impression does she leave?
To John: Nope, you shouldn't ever count Chime out.
To Vyser Adept of Dragons: Thats cause Lucien doesn't know how to talk straight. Its all his fault, not mine! (runs away) Ahem, but thank you for your help.
To DragonQueenOfTheSkies: I know, I know all to well. But hey, I write in dark duels, but I prefer the lighter side of the game myself.
To Demon Fan: Yes they could have, had they had cards like that. Just cause I'm pure evil, I didn't let them draw any. Bwahahahahahahahaha...ha...h...a
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