With Shini's and Mira's duel done, semi-final number two was about to be coming underway.
"And now, Zack Volcano vs Nova Frost!" the female announcer yelled.
The only person who truly wasn't comfortable in the room was Shini. He had the feeling Nova would use some other cards to finish off Zack quickly, and then D-Day would come towards Shini. D or V. Defeat or Victory.
Mira looked into his eyes. "Shini, you need to win this tournament. There is only two more tournaments after this, and they are Magic Decks and Trap Decks. Zack, me, and Nova scored for the school finals already, winner of that moves onto the grand championship."
Shini nodded. "I figured, Mira. So why did you three enter again?"
"Just for the fact trying to lock out others, and Zack and I was trying to stall Nova, but obviously, Nova will make it into the finals with you," Mira said softly.
"Okay. So what is the School Championship like?"
"Battle Royale," she said softly.
Shini looked at her. "Guess we got to team on Nova. But who are we those to let win to get to the grand championship?"
"We'll just have to see, Shini. Also, hate to spoil the surprises, but being even runner-up will get you Pro status."
"I didn't come here just for the points. I came for the bracelet."
"Good luck then, Shini. Nova's cheating ways is going to make him win right about . . . . . Now," she said. Suddenly, five cards from Nova's hand turned into the ultimate being, Exodia the Forbidden One.
"Yup. As I always heard, he is a cheater, and the best way to beat a cheater is play his games," he grinned.
"Okay. Good luck, Shini," Mira called.
Zack came off the stage, mumbling under his breath. And with that, Shini came out.
"And we got our finalists! Shini Laser and Nova Frost!" the female announcer yelled. "Nova, what do you call to go first?"
"Heads," Nova grinned.
The coin was flipped, and within a few seconds of it dropping, it was tails. Shini took a sigh of relief, drawing his first six cards plus the standard hand. Seeing he had no non-tribute monster, monsters leveled 1-4, he could of called mulligan. However, he knew if Nova was going to do what he thought Nova was going to do, that wouldn't matter.
However, that peace of winning was quickly shatter from the darkness surrounding the room. He knew that meant one thing, Shadow Game.
"You haven't even started the duel and you want a Shadow Game, Nova?" Shini glared, but was hoping no one was tripping out or being used as a human shield.
"You have no chance of winning, Shini. So, even surrender now and only yourself be sent there, or go on and the whole room is as risk," Nova grinned.
"So you are using the whole team as a human shield?" Shini asked.
If everyone's eyes was on them before, they were by now. "You might want to rephrase that, Shini."
"Well, let me ask this. Ever played poker before?"
"Why are you bringing up that card game?"
"I consider my life the minimum bet, and if I go on, I'll have one chance to beat you," Shini nodded.
"You can say that. What is more worthwhile, your supposed "friends" surviving or you trying one shot at me?"
"Both of them are worth while, but I don't think you are keeping your word. I'll go on with the duel," Shini announced. A large cheer came on the duel, and Shini nodded. "I go and set three cards. No monsters. Go ahead, Nova," Shini nodded, looking into his eyes.
Nova laughed. "So, Shini, you think you can beat me with three traps?"
"Well, noticed whenever I didn't normal summon a monster in face-up attack position, I always won?" Shini grinned.
"You won't this time. You don't even have a set monster," he said, drawing his 6th card. "I play Pot of Greed!"
Shini quickly did the math. Two Dian Keto the Cure Masters, Cyber-Stein, probably the three Cyber Dragons and the Polymerization after the extra two cards. That was exactly seven. Bingo.
"I now play two Dian Keto the Cure Masters," Nova yelled.
Shini said nothing, just grinning and thinking in his mind, "He thinks I am falling into his trap, but he is falling into mine."
"I now summon Cyber-Stein!" he yelled.
"And you give up 5000 of the 6000 LP you have to summon Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon?" Shini softly said, looking at him.
"Now you are learning. Just realize I have four more cards in my hand," he grinned.
Shini looked at the opposite side of the field. No traps, but one really large monster with a small Frankenstein look-alike on the field.
"Now with that settled, I use Polymerization, discarding my three Cyber Dragons for Cyber End Dragon. Now, since you have no monsters on your side of the field, I attack directly for 9200 damage!"
Within a few seconds, Shini's figure was clouded in dust. People knew if Shini fell to the ground, the duel - and them - were done for. If Shini was up with maybe a trap hidden by the smoke, the duel might be continuing on. After a while, the smoke was cleared. Shini was standing there with one Scapegoat in front of him, and one trap up.
"So you hid behind Scapegoats and activated Dimension Wall for no reason?" Nova laughed.
"Well, forget Cyber End Dragon's effect? "If it attacks a monster in defense position with a lower defense than this monster's attack, do the difference as battle damage." Scapegoat has 0 defense, and Cyber End Dragon has 4000 attack. Dimension Wall negates that damage and sends it back to you," Shini grinned.
Nova's eyes went buggy eye mid-sentence. "NO!" he screamed, but it was too late. The dark hole of the Shadow World sucked him in. The whole entire ring screamed in joy, all running into the stage. Professor Blaze was shocked, also joining in. If you were to look at it, you could almost mistaken it for when a Japanese team winning the World Series in Japan. The body-waves, the throwing up, and everything was happening to him. Don't think it was bad. It was pretty good in Japanese terms. Shini just closed his eyes and relaxed, knowing that meant only two friends to face against in school championship, not two friends and one rival.