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Fanfic Chapter 121: Girl Power Pt 2: Old Friends Reunite
Episode Basis: Freeze Play Pt 2
Previously on Yu-Gi-Oh! While Noah subjected Yugi to a virtual maze, Tea was targeted for a Virtual Wars duel by Crump, Big-5 member, former Kaiba Corp. accountant and all-around penguin nut. A premonition dream revealed to Tea that the Dark Magician Girl would be her Deck Master. Dark Magician Girl would prove to be an asset in that she could communicate with Tea mentally and was able to guide her to her first victory round. But Crump wasn't done yet. But seriously, how dangerous can a perverted talking penguin really be?
As Kaiba and Mokuba walked along the path, Mokuba felt his stomach grumbled. He looked at some bushes which contained small berries. "I wonder if those virtual berries have any taste to them, I feel like I haven't eaten in months."
The Kaiba Brothers stopped. Up ahead of them was a log shack, "Some sort of cabin," Mokuba deduced. "Hey, you think anybody's cooking any food in there?"
"I doubt it," Kaiba responded. "This seems a little too convenient." Mokuba was already running towards the door to the cabin. "Mokuba, wait."
"Right," Mokuba said, remembering what happened at the fake orphanage.
"Stay close," Kaiba said as he cautiously opened the door. They were greeted by a flash of light.
The Kaiba Brothers found themselves in a lavish foyer. Their young selves were being escorted in by Gozaburo. Waiting to meet them was a toad-faced butler.
"It's our step-father's old house!" Kaiba realized.
I wish Noah didn't have to show us this flashback. The first few weeks in that house was like living in a nightmare. Gozaburo brought in tutors and experts from all over the world to teach me. And their lessons would go on into the middle of the night. And when Gozaburo himself wasn't keeping an eye on me, his butler Hobson was.
SLAM!
"What in the…"
"Forgive me, Professor," Hobson apologized. "But it appears young Seto was more interested in studying the back of his eye lids than the lesson itself. The boss has no patience for slackers."
"I'm no slacker!"
"Then prove it, continue with your studies, or do you wish to return to the orphanage with your brother?"
"Fine."
But despite all my cramming, Hobson did tell Gozaburo. And with Gozaburo, even a little bit of slacking deserves a punishment, as he revealed to me and Mokuba at dinner.
"Hobson tells me you've been lagging in your studies so you'll no longer have weekends off."
"But I've been working my tail off!"
"Not hard enough in my opinion. Discipline is the only way you're going to crush your enemies."
"But I don't have any enemies!"
"Don't be so sure, you have to learn that you can't trust anyone, trusting is a sign of weakness and shall be rewarded in failure. Hobson!"
"You called, Master Gozaburo?"
"Yes, confiscate all of Seto's toys."
"As you wish."
"Not my toys!"
"Maybe now you'll concentrate more on your studies instead of wasting your brain away."
Hobson told me it was for my own good, but in reality, it was simply for Gozaburo's amusement.
I thought that the way they treated Seto stunk. Nobody deserved to have their toys taken away, even for slacking. Fortunately, I knew how to make him smile. The only trick was getting it past Hobson. But I found a way and set my plan into motion.
"Hey, Hobson!"
"What do you want, little brat?"
"Seto forgot one of his text books. You heard Dad, study, study, study."
"I'll give it to him, now return to your room."
"Sure thing."
I thought that if I saw one more text book, I would barf. Fate must love playing games with me because it was at that moment that Hobson threw a text book onto my back. "One more book for you to study before you sleep."
I have had enough. I threw the textbook away when I saw something sticking out of it. It was a note from Mokuba.
Dear Seto,
I guess you found my hiding place. Remember, Big Bro, they can't take everything away from us. So enjoy my gift but don't let them find it.
Love, Mokie.
Inside was my collection of Duel Monster cards. They were pretty normal cards back then but they were mine and I thought they were special. Then I noticed that Mokuba had drawn his own card.
A Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
The Blue-Eyes White Dragon card was a card whispered only in legends. A card that could wipe out an opponent's life points in one attack. But there were only four ever made and even that was going on sketchy information. I took the make-shift Blue-Eyes White Dragon card onto the balcony that overlooked the courtyard. "One day, I vow to have a real Blue-Eyes White Dragon and then nobody would push me around!"
The scene of young Seto's bedroom faded leaving the present-day Kaiba Brothers in only a spotlight. Everything else was in darkness. A second spotlight shone on Noah who was clapping. "Bravo, bravo," he applauded. "Really tugs at your heartstrings, doesn't it?"
"We've had enough of your games, Noah," Kaiba hissed.
"Oh but the games are just beginning," Noah retorted. "You'll relive every painful moment of your entire lives."
"And what do you hope to gain from all this?"
"What should've been mine to begin with," Noah said cryptically.
Yugi stared at the coin with frustration. "I can't believe after all that, we just came back to where we started from."
"It's a game, Yugi," Yami pointed out. "And games aren't known for being easy."
"Okay, let's see what we do know about this game," Yugi analyzed. "The rules are simple, the number of stars equals the level of the monster behind the door. Beat the monster behind the door and you can go through it."
"We're missing something." Yami looked around. Each of the doors had a different number of stars ranging from 1-4. "Maybe we should go through the doors in numerical order."
"You might be onto something, Yami, so far we've only been going through the one-star door and that only led us back to where we started. So if we go through the one star door…" Yugi went through the door and found a door with two stars over it. "I summon Obnoxious Celtic Guardian!" The guardian charged the monster behind the two-star door and destroyed it. "We did it! Now let's just hope we can find Tea."
"I c… can't feel… my… my toes," Tea said shivering. "Yugi, I wish you were here right now."
"Looks like Master Noah was right," Crump was saying. "Beating you isn't hard at all. First you picked a Deck Master that's only half of the equation." Dark Magician Girl scowled. "Then you make all the rookie mistakes. Beating you should be easier than sliding off an iceberg."
(T: 2250)
(C: 2200)
Tea's hand was still shivering from the cold (and from nervousness). Dark Magician Girl ceased her shaking. "Be strong, Tea," Dark Magician Girl advised telepathically.
Tea nodded, "I set one monster in defense mode and end my turn."
Crump drew a card and smiled lewdly at Tea. "Flying Penguin, attack her face-down card with penguin sword!" The penguin slashed through the card. A pair of wings briefly appeared before disappearing.
"You just flipped over my Skelengel (1) which means I get to draw a card." Tea drew the magic card Magic Formula. This looks like it could come in handy.
"Draw all the pathetic cards you want, because it's only a matter of time before you're frozen in time forever, or my name isn't Adrian Randolph Crump III, master of the art of number-crunching and all-around bestest penguin in the world!"
"You're one weird little bird," Tea commented as she drew a card. It was a monster card called Maha Vailo (2). Maha Vailo? This card won't help.
"Yes it will." Tea looked at Dark Magician Girl. "Maha Vailo contains a special power within it. But the power can only be accessed through a magic card."
"A magic card?" Tea looked at the Magic Formula card she drew as the result of her Skelengel. What do I have to lose? "I summon Maha Vailo in attack mode!" A blue-robed sage with make-shift wings on his back appeared. "Next I play the magic card Magic Formula raising its attack power by 500 points!"
(MV: 1550-2050)
"It's still not enough!"
"Don't be so sure, Maha Vailo has a special power. For every magic card I add to it, I can increase its attack points by 500!"
(MV: 2050-2550)
"Maha Vailo, attack with magic lightning!" The spell caster blasted the penguin.
(T: 2250)
(C: 1850)
Tea breathed a sigh of relief. She was safe… for now.
"Yugi, I'm freezing, I can't feel my toes."
Yugi skidded to a halt. "Tea's voice is getting louder!"
"Yes, we must be close," Yami agreed.
Yugi took another steep and then paused. "Maybe she's…"
"Is something wrong?"
"No, it's nothing. We have to defeat more of Noah's monsters to get through this maze. Then we have to find Tea before it's too late."
"Right, let's go, she needs our help."
"Yeah." But in his mind, he was thinking, Yami says she needs 'our' help, but what can I do that Yami alone can't do? I mean, he can do anything I can do and then some. He's definitely a superior Duelist to me. Yugi continued his trek and came out into the room with four doors. "Not this place again," he moaned. "Okay, now where's that three-star door." Yugi saw it and drew a card. "Swift Gaia the Fierce Knight, attack!"
But Yami noticed that there was something different with this door: three card backs underneath the stars. "Yugi, wait!" But it was too late as Gaia struck the door, a shield appeared and destroyed it.
"How could my monster have been destroyed?" Yugi wondered.
"I tried to warn you," Yami said. "Look at the door. See those three cards, well one of them disappeared when Gaia was destroyed. They must've been face-down cards."
"Then the card that destroyed Gaia must've been Mirror Force."
"Right. Try again."
"Okay. I summon Gazelle, the King of Mythical Beasts!" The monster was revealed: Dark King of the Abyss (3). "Attack!" But as Gazelle leapt at the monster, one of the other face-down cards disappeared.
(DKA: 1200-1900)
Gazelle was thrown back.
One of those face-down cards must've powered up the Dark King to withstand Gazelle's attack. Yugi mentally berated himself for falling for such an obvious trap. "All right then, I play Polymerization fusing Berfomet with Gazelle to form Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast!" Yugi's fusion monster destroyed the Dark King of the Abyss and the door was revealed. Yugi ran through it and found himself back in the room. "Now for the four-star monster!"
"Yugi, wait," Yami cautioned. "Look." Yami pointed to five face-down cards. "More face-down cards, no doubt designed to destroy any monster we summon including our best ones. Let's deal with them before summoning a monster."
"Okay, I play the magic card Heavy Storm! It destroys all magic and trap cards on the field." The level 4 monster was revealed: it was Terrorking Archfiend (4), with over 2000 attack points. "Oh man, what do I have that can destroy a monster with over 2000 points."
"Remember, Yugi, there are ways to destroy monsters besides just attacking."
Yugi thought he knew what Yami was talking about. "I summon the 4-Starred Ladybug of Doom (5)!" A little ladybug appeared and though its attack power was weak, Yugi triggered its special ability which was the ability to destroy all four-star monsters. "Phew, good thing I had that little guy inserted into my deck."
"Yes, it was, now let's go save Tea."
"You got it!" Yugi ran through the door and found himself in an ice cavern. An ice window looked out over Tea's duel with Crump. "Oh no, she's dueling one of the Big-5!" Yugi pounded on the window, "Tea, be strong!"
Tea was oblivious to Yugi's calls, she didn't even see him. "Make your move, short-stuff."
"Okay, gorgeous," Crump said laughing lewdly. "I play Volt Penguin (6) in defense mode along with another card face-down."
"Maha Vailo, attack Volt Penguin with Magic Lightning!" Volt Penguin was destroyed.
But Crump was laughing, "You walked into my trap once again, I reveal my face-down card, Revenge Sacrifice! Revenge Sacrifice lets me take the monster that just attacked me and lets me use it as a sacrifice to summon one of my monsters. Now I play Defender Iceberg (7) in defense mode!" A huge ice monster was raised from the ocean depth. "Next I'll play a card face-down and summon Penguin Torpedo (8) in attack mode!" Crump's Deck Master Ability increased its attack points.
(PT: 550-750)
"Penguin Torpedo can attack your life points directly!" Penguin Torpedo launched on a suicide run and hit Tea.
(T: 1500)
(C: 1850)
The ice moved up to her waist. Tea looked at the cards she held: the trap card she drew and the magic card she had left. "These cards can't help me," she cried. "I'm out of moves."
"You still have one move left," Dark Magician Girl reminded her. "Me. Move me onto the field."
"But…"
"I can protect you, but you must let me."
"All right. I move my Dark Magician Girl onto the field." Dark Magician Girl floated in front of Tea.
"If your Deck Master is destroyed, you automatically lose the duel. But why take the easy way out when I can destroy you the fun way. First I play a magic card called Ocean of Rejuvenation which lets me bring back my old friend, Penguin Torpedo!" The penguin missile appeared again and once again launched on a suicide attack at Tea. It struck her and the ice moved up to below her armpits.
(T: 750)
(C: 1850)
"I feel like a tall cold glass of iced Tea," Cump joked.
Yugi leaned on the ice and cried, "It isn't fair," he whined. "Tea isn't experienced enough and she's about to lose."
"There still is a way for Tea to win," Yami said. "And that's by doing what we did: trusting herself, her cards, and her Deck Master."
"Tea, there is one card in your deck that can win this duel," Dark Magician Girl told Tea. "It's the first magic card you picked."
Tea thought back to when she was choosing her deck. The first magic card she chose was called The Sage's Stone. "But… even if it could help, it must be at the bottom of my deck! How do I reach it?"
"I can help with my Deck Master Ability! But first I must call upon the monsters in your graveyard!" Ancient Elf, Fire Sorcerer, Skelengel, and Maha Vailo appeared. "By combining the energies of your monsters, I can make you draw a card for each one." Four cards appeared in front of Tea. "Tea, is any of the cards the Sage's Stone?"
Tea looked around. She saw the De-Spell card, the Polymerization card, the Gemini Elf (9) monster card and the Sage's Stone card. "I see it!" She grabbed it. "Now… if… I… can just… stupid ice… play it." The ice was making it difficult for Tea to move her arms but she managed to insert the Sage's Stone card into her Duel Disk. "Sage's Stone, activate!"
Yugi's Duel Disk started to glow. A beam of light shot out from the deck and broke through the ice wall separating them. It flew through the air and landed on Tea's Duel Disk.
The Dark Magician (10) appeared on the field.
Both Tea and Crump gasped as the familiar magician monster appeared. Tea looked down and saw that the Dark Magician card was actually on her Duel Disk. "The Dark Magician? Where did he come from? Not that I'm complaining."
"No way! There's no way you could've chosen the Dark Magician, my calculations said you would skip over it!"
"The Sage's Stone enables me to summon the Dark Magician from anywhere for one turn," Dark Magician Girl explained talking outright for the first time in the duel. The two Dark Magicians shared a look and nodded. They crossed their staffs together. "Double Dark Magic Attack!" A sphere of purple and pink energy broke through the Defender Iceberg and devastated what was left of Crump's life points.
(T: 750)
(C: 0)
Crump fell into the water with a loud squawk.
The monsters disappeared as did the ice around Tea. Tea collapsed and fainted, the last thing she remembered was someone calling her name.
Noah scowled. "This isn't over yet," he said. "I still have plenty more tricks up my sleeve and plenty more victims to use them on!"
When Tea awoke, she saw Yugi standing over her. "Tea, are you all right?"
"Yu… Yugi? Oh Yugi!" Tea threw her arms around him. "Yugi, I knew you would come!"
"Its okay, Tea," Yugi assured her returning the hug. "I'm here now, and now that we're back together, we'll stay that way."
Yami watched this display of affection and nodded. As it should be, he thought.
The End
Duel Monster Database
(1)
Name: Skelengel
Level: 1
Type: Fairy/Effect
Attribute: Light
ATK: 100
DEF: 300
(2)
Name: Maha Vailo
Level: 4
Type: Spellcaster/Effect
Attribute: Light
ATK: 1550
DEF: 1400
(3)
Name: Dark King of the Abyss
Level: 3
Type: Fiend
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 1200
DEF: 800
(4)
Name: Terrorking Archfiend
Level: 4
Type: Fiend/Effect
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 2000
DEF: 1500
(5)
Name: 4-Starred Ladybug of Doom
Level: 3
Type: Insect/Effect
Attribute: Wind
ATK: 800
DEF: 1200
(6)
Name: Volt Penguin
Level: 4
Type: Aqua/Effect
Attribute: Water
ATK: 850
DEF: 1400
(7)
Name: Defender Iceberg
Level: 6
Type: Aqua
Attribute: Water
ATK: 0
DEF: 2450
(8)
Name: Penguin Torpedo
Level: 2
Type: Aqua/Effect
Attribute: Water
ATK: 550
DEF: 700
(9)
Name: Gemini Elf
Level: 4
Type: Spellcaster
Attribute: Earth
ATK: 1900
DEF: 900
(10)
Name: Dark Magician
Level: 7
Type: Spellcaster
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 2500
DEF: 2100
Note: The ability to summon the Dark Magician is another of Dark Magician Girl's abilities as a Deck Master. This information comes from "Kent Regal's Deck Master Variation Reference Guide"