Last time........

Ayana: Okay, as if my day couldn't have been bad enough today. I got into a huge fight with Toorima because I was daydreaming about Bakura. Big deal if Bakura almost killed us five years ago, he's paid his debt to society. Anyways, I enter the virtual world that Seto Kaiba created before being committed and now I'm facing some French broad named Jolie Marthis. I just hope I'm ready for this one.

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Chapter Two: Visions

Ayana stood a few inches away from Jolie, who was moving her hair back with her hand. The new rules in the virtual world were the same as Battle City: high sacrifice level, the whole schbang. Although, the rules stated 8000 Life Points now. Plus, people could play by the Deck Master rule. Ayana never did like playing the game like that. She'd always have problems picking a good Deck Master. Her deck theme was based on monsters of darkness and light, like the yin-yang. Who knows what the heck Jolie had in her deck if anything.

The golden duel disks turned on and 8000 Life Points were read on the life point meter.

Ayana -- 8000
Jolie -- 8000

The two duelists drew five cards from their decks. Jolie grinned at her hand. Ayana didn't seem to like the hand she had.

"Who should go first?" Ayana asked. Please not me. she thought.

"I tink you should go first, mon ami." Jolie said. "After all, how are you going to prevail with a hand full of traps and magics, huh?"

Ayana couldn't believe it. Jolie was right. She hd nothing but magic and trap cards in her hand. How could Jolie have known that? She shrugged it off and drew. Finally, a monster.

"I will set two cards face-down and set this monster in defense." Ayana said, as the cards appeared.

"Very well." Jolie drew a card. "That won't do you any good though. I play this Magic Card, Eye of the Destroyer."

[Okay, author note, any made up cards, I like to give a brief explanation of them. Here goes.]

Eye of the Destroyer
Type: Magic
Effect: Choose a face-down card on your opponent's field and call Magic or Trap Card. If one of the cards is the choice you have made, destroy it and remove it from play.

Jolie put the card in her disk and a red glowing eye appeared on the field.

"Oh great. I just wanted to see that." Ayana said sarcastically.

"Really? Well then, I'm guessing the face-down card on the far left is a trap card." Jolie snapped her fingers.

The eye appeared on the face-down card and it started to burn away, destroying Ayana's Trap Hole.

"Now did you really tink I'd fall for somezing like zat? Well, I don't think so. Now I'll summon this monster, Chiron the Mage [1800/1000]."

An armored male centaur holding a staff appeared on Jolie's field.

"If I call that face-down card correctly, it will be destroyed. I call a Trap card."

Ayana's eyes widened as Chiron's staff turned into a mirror and reflected Ayana's Ominous Fortunetelling, destroying it.

"Your line of defense is almost crumbling. Now to reveal your monster. Chiron, destroy it!"

The centaur's mirror turned back into a staff and blasted lightning at the face-down monster, revealing Darkfire Soldier 1 [1700/1100], destroying it.

"So, what are you going to do now?" Jolie asked, setting a card face-down.

Jolie grinned as Ayana drew a card.

"Stop! I activate my trap card, Drop Off!"

"What?!"

Ayana was in a fix. She had to discard her Dark Magician to the Graveyard, since it was the card she just drew.

"Did your Dark Magician go bye-bye? I'm so sorry for that inconvenience."

"How did you know it was a Dark Magician?" Ayana asked.

"Because you just told me, girly."

Ayana had nothing more but Magic and Traps in her hand.

"I'll set this face-down and end my turn." Ayana exclaimed.

"Very well then." Jolie drew a card. "Then I'll just summon my new friend to the field, Spear Dragon [1900/0]."

The giant blue dragon with the long nose appeared on the field next to Chiron.

"I don't think my monsters want to attack you. You have that Mirror Force after all."

Ayana couldn't believe it. How could Jolie know what Ayana was going to use? This isn't fair at all. Not at all.

"I'll set this card face-down and end my turn." A face-down card appeared next behind her monsters.

Ayana drew a card. Another monster, but it was Buster Blader. But she had to do something about that face-down card.

"I activate Harpie's Feather Duster!" Ayana shouted, placing the card in her disk.

A heavy wind started to pick up. Jolie grinned.

"I think not. Gryphon Wing!"

The wind halted and started to blow in Ayana's direction. In a matter of seconds, he face-down cards were destroyed.

"Got anymore bright ideas?" Jolie taunted.

"Yes I do. I'm going to activate Tribute to the Doomed!" Ayana said, activating it. "And I'll discard this card to destroy your dragon."

Ayana looked at her Buster Blader card and discarded it. Bandages flew at Spear Dragon and destroyed it.

"Next, I'll activate this Magic Card, Meteor of Destruction!" Ayana inserted the card in her disk. "By paying 500 Life Points, I can blast away 1500 of yours away!"

A giant meteor crashed in Jolie, knocking her near the steps of the Pantheon. She slowly got up and wiped away the blood from her mouth. That was another new addition to the virtual world. The pain felt real and you would receive wounds. It was like a screwed up Alice in Wonderland version of the Matrix, but instead there were giant monsters.

Ayana -- 7500
Jolie -- 6500

"You finally struck oil there, Ayana. But now I'm mad. Meteor of Destruction also allows a monster to attack you, and that monster is Chiron!"

Chiron blasted lightning at Ayana, who screamed in pain. Her schoolgirl uniform was starting to burn a bit, but only a small hole formed on her sleeve.

Ayana -- 5700
Jolie -- 6500

Jolie drew a card and grinned.

"I was waiting to use this card for quite some time now. First, I'll use Pot of Greed." Jolie said, drawing two new cards. "Then, I'll activate Black Illusion Ritual and offer my Chiron."

A golden urn with an eye in the center of it appeared behind Chiron. He was slowly lifted into it and purple fire shot up. When the fire cleared, Relinquished appeared [0/0].

"That's all?! Why didn't you keep Chiron?! You could've had an advantage! Are you going easy on me?!" Ayana yelled.

"Easy? Non, mon ami, I am going all out. I'm just buying my time." Jolie snickered. "And I'll end my turn with my remaining two cards face-down on the field."

Two face-down cards appeared behind Relinquished, who was staring at Ayana with no emotion at all. Ayana drew a card and knew it was her time to strike back.

"I summon Skilled Dark Magician [1900/1700] in attack mode." she said, as the magician appeared from a black mist.

"Yeah, and?" Jolie said. "What's that going to do. You don't have your Dark Magician anymore. It's worthless."

"So you say. I activate Coins from Heaven, allowing us to draw until we have six cards in our hand." Ayana said as they both drew.

One of the magician's three medallions flashed green. Jolie looked confused, then her eyes widened. She grinned. I see what you're doing. Good luck.

"Next, I use Emblem of Dragon Destroyer to bring Buster Blader from my graveyard to my hand." Ayana said as the card ejected from the disk. She pulled the card out and grinned. "Next up, I'm going to play Move Dead to bring my Dark Magician to my hand." Another card ejected from the disk and Ayana grabbed it.

The magician's amulets were glowing green, all three of them.

"Get ready for this! Skilled Dark Magician! I offer you to summon my Dark Magician!"

A misty cyclone formed around the monster. When it cleared, Dark Magician [2500/2100] appeared. Jolie grinned.

"I see, but now guess what I'm going to do. I activate a trap called Heart Attack!" she laughed revealing the trap.

Heart Attack
Type: Trap
Effect: Whenever your opponent Normal Summons, Flip Summons, or Special Summons a monster to the field, inflict direct damage to him/her by equal amount of points of the summoned monster's ATK.

A faint purple aura surrounded Ayana. She started to moan in pain and grabbed her chest. She fell to her knees and cried out. She screamed in pain as electricity surged throughout her body.

Ayana -- 3200
Jolie -- 6500

"Was that a little too much for you?" Jolie snickered.

"Shut up! I'm not done with you yet! I play Polymerization to fuse my Buster Blader with my Dark Magician to form the Dark Paladin [2900/2400]!"

The Dark Magician and Buster Blader started to glow white and merge together. As the light cleared, the Dark Paladin stood in its place. He grinned evilly at Jolie, who didn't seem worried.

"And he gains 500 additional ATK because of your Spear Dragon in the graveyard!" Ayana said as the ATK of Dark Paladin started to increase to 3400.

"Oh really? What would you do if I were to activate this? Seal of Ice, activate!"

Seal of Ice
Type: Trap - Permanent
Effect: Choose a monster on the field. The chosen Monster can't attack or be sacrificed. If the chosen Monster's ATK changes, this card is destroyed.

In a matter of seconds, Relinquished was incased in a wall of ice.

"I see. You thought this thoroughly, didn't you?" Ayana asked. "But I have a question, Jolie. Out of all the people in this world, why me? Why go after me?"

"Because you were available." Jolie said.

"That's not a good answer and I know you're lying. Don't give me that crap." Ayana screamed.

"I'm not lying. Now is that your move?"

"After I set this card face-down, yes." Ayana said as a face-down card formed on the field.

"Fine." Jolie drew a card. "Relinquished, absorb the Paladin, now!"

Relinquished opened its "mouth" and started to pull the Dark Paladin into itself. It was too late. Relinquished had absorbed the paladin and its ATK raised to 3400. The ice shattered. Ayana grinned.

"Stop right there! I activate a Trap Card! Really Eternal Rest!" Ayana said, revealing the trap.

Jolie's eyes nearly bugged out of her head.

"Non! Not that!" she screamed. Why didn't my clairvoyance see that? she thought.

Relinquished slowly started to melt into a bubbling blue liquid. Ayana looked at her Dark Paladin, who was melting with it. I'm sorry. she thought. The paladin nodded its head as it melted entirely with the Relinquished. Jolie looked furious.

"I can't believe a little short stuff like you did that to me! I didn't want to use this in this duel at all, but you left me no choice!" she raged.

"What are you talking about?" Ayana asked.

"I play a monster called Black Death! It can only be Special Summoned if I lose a monster on my turn! Come forth, Black Death!" Jolie yelled, laying the card on the field.

Black Death
Type: Dark - Fiend
Level: 8
ATK: 0
DEF: 0
Effect: [you'll find out]

Ayana blinked in confusion as a small black cat appeared with bat-like wings and a scorpion-like tail. Its claws were jaded and its eyes were red as blood. Then, Ayana recognized this creature. Bakura was accompanied by it five years ago to shatter the Hikarizuishou. It was the avatar of Lilith!

"What are you doing playing a monster like that? It doesn't even have attack points." Ayana said.

"Oh, you'll zee what it can do, zoon enough!" Jolie said, rage in her eyes.

Ayana drew a card and grinned.

"I play Monster Reborn to revive my fallen Dark Paladin!" Ayana said as the Dark Paladin appeared in a flash of light.

Jolie grinned wider, waiting for the attack. Come on, destroy it! DESTROY IT! she thought.

"Dark Paladin, destroy the Black Death monster!" Ayana called.

The Dark Paladin twirled its staff and blasted Black Death with black lightning. The monster hissed and exploded.

Ayana -- 3200
Jolie -- 3100

Jolie laughed evilly and drew a card from her deck.

"Hey! What do you think you're doing?! It's still my turn!" Ayana said.

"That's the beauty of Black Death! When it's destroyed as a result of battle, I can draw a certain monster from my deck, shuffle it, and Special Summon the monster to the field!" Jolie said, doing exactly that. "Meet the one who will give us all infinite power! Lilith [3000/2800]!"

Ayana's eyes widened as she heard that name. The sky started to darken in the virtual world. Everyone looked around as the winds started to pick up. Lightning struck the Pantheon and started to destroy it. To everyone's dismay, a giant creature emerged from the ruins of the Pantheon. The creature had long black hair, white skin, black bat-like wings, black fingernails, and no face. She was enormous and terrifying to Ayana and everyone else.

Goddess of Destruction - Lilith
Type: Dark - Fiend
Level: 12
ATK: 3000
DEF: 2800
Effect: This monster can only be Special Summoned by the effects of "Black Death." When successfully Special Summoned, if an "Orb of Eternity" is in your Hand, automatically play it. Also, you may pay all but 1 Life Point to increase the ATK of Lilith even more.

Orb of Eternity
Type: Magic - Equipment
Effect: When equipped to Lilith, increase her ATK by 500 points for every monster in both Graveyards.

"Wh-why doesn't she have a face?" Ayana asked.

"Why? Because her master decides her face. She must become one with someone to decide her facial expression. But first, I'll use this Magic Card, Orb of Eternity!"

A giant jaded orb appeared in Lilith hands. Something weird about it though. Green lights that resembled fireflies' lights were flying around it and giggling was heard, as were many other voices.

"The orb......." Ayana said speechlessly.

"That's right. This is the exact orb that killed many others five years ago. In the card game, it can increase Lilith's ATK by 500 for every monster in the Graveyard. That means my Chiron, Spear Dragon, and Relinquished, so there's an automatic 1500 there. But then, there's your Skilled Dark Magician, Darkfire Soldier, Dark Magician, and Buster Blader. That's 2000 there. Altogether, an additional 3500 is added to Lilith's ATK, making her 6500 in ATK." Jolie cackled.

Ayana didn't know what to do. She was staring the destroyer in its face. She didn't know what to do. She was going to lose.........

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Next Time:

Bakura: The destroyer has been summoned and Ayana is on the brink of destruction. Jolie offers herself to Lilith to make Lilith even more powerful. Ayana must believe in herself if she wants to beat Lilith and Jolie. But the question remains, where did Jolie get the cards needed to summon the destroyer? Find out on the next addition of "Apocalyptic Revelation: Destroyer."