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Episode 4: Noir Cross Part 2: Glare – The Hollow Spirit
'Her face… it's so blank… What did they do to her?' Laeon asked himself looking at Glare. Laeon began shuffling his card and got ready for duel two. The last duel took a lot out of him but he wasn't going to give up now.
Laeon's LP: 8000
Glare's LP: 8000
"I will go first…" Glare said barely talking. She was so quiet. She seemed so different than Mare. Why was she here? "I call Reborn Zombie (1000/1600) to the field in attack mode."
A decaying what seemed to be peasant rose from the concrete beneath them and screamed a hellish wail.
"And to end my turn I set a card face-down. Your move…" As Glare said this she sat down with her head buried in her knees.
"Alright then!" Laeon drew his card and arranged them in an order of strongest to weakest. "I play Goblin Attack Force (2300/0) in attack mode and I will attack your Reborn Zombie!"
Tens of ghoulish green men wielding clubs and hammers pummeled their fists together. As soon as they appeared on the field, the charged the one man army that was Reborn Zombie.
"I activate my face-down card, Spirit Barrier. Now as long as I have a monster on my side of the field, I don't lose any life points."
"Your zombie will be gone though!" Laeon yelled ordering his goblins to finish the zombie losing life points or not. Once the goblins were done, there was nothing but a pile of bones. The goblins then laid down and went to sleep.
The pile of bones then seemed to reconstruct back into its original form. Reborn Zombie came back some how. "How did you do that!" Laeon asked as his goblins slept peacefully in defense mode seeing as that was their ability. After they attack, they are switched to defense mode.
"I didn't do anything…" Glare said. "It was him…" she then pointed at Reborn Zombie. "He isn't destroyed as a result of battle, so I guess you lucked out of that one."
"Hmm… I guess you're right, but, I guess I will just play a card face-down and end it…"
Glare stood back up and drew her card. Her face was so blank Laeon couldn't make out her expression. Laeon learned how to read the person's expression by his father but Glare must've learned how to be nothing but a hollow shell.
"I play Soul Absorbing Bone Tower (400/1500) in attack mode…" she whispered quietly placing her card on her flat duel-disc.
A giant tremor was made in the ground and a giant pillar of bones erected from the tremor. Giant white orbs circled the ten-story pillar resembling innocent souls killed by the demented.
"That is one big zombie monster thing…" Kazuma whispered staring in awe at the giant bone pillar. He then whistled and looked at Laeon. "Don't worry dude… I got this one!"
"Secondly I will play Tribute to the Doomed." Glare said waking Laeon up from his little day-dream. "This card allows me to destroy one monster your side of the field as long as I discard a card from my hand, which I will do now…"
Laeon now didn't have any defenses as he saw a giant mummy hand pull each of his goblins' legs and drag them underneath. "You're pretty good!" Laeon said scratching his nose. "If you thought that was good, wait till you see what I discarded, meet Despair from the Dark (2800/3000)." Glare said as the giant behemoth of shadows rose from the darkness of the shadows.
"Wait, how did you do that? That's a level 8 monster, and you didn't sacrifice anything!" Laeon said boosting his confidence. "Think again, when my Despair from the Dark is discarded from my hand, its automatically special summoned to the field."
"Damn, didn't know that one." Laeon said readying for a hard barrage of zombie attacks. "But there is a surprise in it for you too…" Laeon said smiling.
"We will see about that, Despair from the Dark, direct attack with your Shadow Clench attack…" Glare commanded as she watched the giant behemoth grab hold of Laeon. As he did this he squeezed as hard as he could, which make Laeon scream in pain.
Laeon fell to the floor after the attack. His wound on his arm opened more. His visions got blurry then clear again. He opened his eyes wide to see the decaying Reborn Zombie punch him vigorously knocking back on the floor. As soon as his back touched the solid cement, a giant blue orb shot at his stomach symbolizing Soul Absorbing Bone Tower's attack.
Laeon's LP: 3800
Glare's LP: 8000
"Laeon," Izumi screamed again and again, ", get up! You can't quit now!" "Yea Laeon, you can beat her!' Kazuma yelled along with her. Mareg just stood there not knowing why where they cheering, enjoying the constant gauntlet of duels.
"Who said I'm giving up?" Laeon asked everyone wiping the blood off of his lips. "I still have life-points so I'm not quitting!" He started to yell again as he drew his card.
"Now it all starts like this!" Laeon looked at his card and smiled. "I activate the magic of Pot of Greed! This card allows me to draw 2 cards from my deck!"
A green glass pot with a rather ugly face appeared on Laeon's right side. It then smiled and spat out two card in Laeon's hand. "Thanks." He said as he flipped his face-down card up. "Go Jar of Greed! Now this card allows me to draw one more card!" A big light red jar that appeared to have a small mouth, spat out another card which Laeon added to his hand. "And finally, I activate the spell card Chest of Greed!" A giant brown chest appeared in front of Laeon. The lid which seemed to have large fangs at the edge, opened revealing seven more cards! "This card only works if I used Pot of Greed and Jar of Greed in the same turn. If I did, I get to draw seven cards!" Laeon took the seven cards in the chest and of course, added them to his hand.
"Wow… you added a giant chunk of deck to your hand, good job…" Glare said sarcastically.
"Yeah, for both of us… I play Dark Hole!" Laeon said holding his card above his head.
A giant hole appeared in-between Laeon and Glare sucking in all of Glare's monsters. Seconds passed and the monsters didn't return.
"You see when I activate Dark Hole, it destroys all of our monsters on the field, but since you were the only one that had any monsters, you're screwed!" Laeon explained in his cocky voice.
"You may think so, but I don't." Glare said staring at Laeon and activating her face-down trap card. "Go Call of the Haunted." "Ah crap…" Laeon whispered as he recognized the card. "This card allows me to bring back one monster in my graveyard and I choose Reborn Zombie…"
Pile of bones reconstructed back into the decaying man. Its sinister smile gazed into Laeon creeping him out incredibly. "What kind of deck-type is zombie, honestly?" Laeon asked himself aloud.
"Scare you?" Mare asked as she placed her Reborn Zombie monster-card back onto her duel-disc.
"No way! I play the mighty Big Shield Guardna (100/2600) in defense mode!" Laeon said as the small holding the giant decorative shield rose from the ground roaring his battle-cry.
"And finally I'm going to play 5 face-downs and end my turn!" Laeon ended his turn without exceeding the 6 card limit in his hand.
"Pathetic…" Glare whispered and drew her card. "First I will set a card and play Nightmare Horse (500/400) in attack mode. Now wait until you see my Nightmare Horse attack."
A horse made of dark flames, covered in wraps and ropes, formed all around creating the one horse.
"Are you blind? My guardna has 2100 more defense points than your Nightmare Horse's attack points! You must want to lose some life points don't you?" Laeon said still wiping another speck of blood off of his lips.
"I'm not talking about your guard, I'm talking about you." Glare explained. "My Nightmare Horse can direct attack you even though you do have monsters on your field."
"What?" "It's true; just feel the power of my Nightmare Horse's Dark Fire Stomp attack."
The dark horse galloped toward Laeon, stomping and glancing on top of him causing 500 points of damage to Laeon's life points.
Laeon's LP: 3300
Glare's LP: 8000
"Laeon she is schooling you!" Kazuma yelled with dispersion. "She has taken out more than half of your original life points! You have to win!"
"I know that Kazuma... but that last duel took a lot out of me…" Laeon said slowly rising back to his feet.
"Still, pathetic… To end my turn I will play Polymerization to fuse my Nightmare Horse and my Spirit Reaper (300/200) in my hand to create Reaper on the Nightmare (800/600)."
A cloaked menacing old a wielding a giant sickle appeared on the field. He then jumped on Nightmare Horse thus creating, Reaper on the Nightmare.
"Whatever…" Laeon said drawing his card then activating it as soon as he saw it. "All right Cost Down!" Two swords reigned down and slashed through Laeon's cards in his hand. "Now by discarding one card from my hand o the graveyard, all monsters in my hand are reduced two levels! Which means my Buster Blader (2600/2300) only requires one tribute, so I sacrifice my Big Shield Guardna to bring him out!"
The dark knight wielding his giant sword appeared before the pile of dust that was Big Shield Guardna. The knight let out his terribly loud battle cry and stabbed he sword in the ground. From there, he leaned on his sword readying for his master's command.
"Now I will activate the ultimate equip spell card called Mage Power and I will equip it with my Buster Blader!"
Buster Blader glowed silver and gold all around him, including his sword.
"Now my Buster Blader gains 500 attack and defense points for every spell and trap on the field including itself. Well lets see, I count five how much do you count?"
Glare just stared at Laeon revealing she didn't care. She just wanted him to carry on the duel.
"Alright, that means 2500 and 2600 is 5100 and his defense is at 4800! Now he has nearly doubled in attack points and defense points!" Laeon was pumped now.
"Too bad my Spirit barrier prevents me loosing damage." Glare reminded Laeon. "Ah, damn it. You actually thought I forgot about that didn't you? That's why I have my little tornado called Mystical Space Typhoon! This card destroys 1 spell or trap on the field and I choose Spirit Barrier! Eat that zombie-girl!" Laeon revealed getting even more pumped up.
The turquoise colored tornado lowered to the ground from the sky wiping the Spirit Barrier card off of the field. The tornado then decimated along with the card.
"So what now that my Buster Blader's attack is 4600, its still enough to put a major dent in your life points! So, my Buster Blader, attack Reaper on the Nightmare with Dragon-Fang Slash!"
The glowing knight ran towards the mysterious and frightful zombies. He then repeatedly slashed and stabbed the marauding beasts causing major damage to Glare's life points.
Laeon's LP: 3300
Glare's LP: 4300
"Hey why isn't your reaper destroyed?" Laeon asked. "That's his special ability; he isn't destroyed as a result of battle." Glare answered slowly, trying to revive from the last attack.
"You have to be kidding! Argh! Damn it! I guess I will play a card face down. Your move…" Laeon was less pumped up and more disappointed and aggravated. Her zombies never died! But at least his Buster Blader was back at 5100 attack points from playing his face down card.
Glare was now uneasy about dueling Laeon. He seemed serious at points of the duel but to him, he was basically an incompetent moron. "If you thought my Reaper on the Nightmare's last ability was bad, wait for his second one, his direct attack."
The ghost riding reaper galloped towards Laeon for and immediate direct attack.
"I had a feeling he had some effect like that, so that's why I activate the card I just set, Skill Drain! Now by pay 1000 life points, all monsters effects on the field are nothing!" Laeon revealed to Glare's surprise. Steam came off of every monster on the field revealing their gone effects.
"And since your reaper was going to direct attack but can't now, you're immediately attacking my Buster Blader!"
The reaper swung its sickle at Laeon, Buster Blader the stopped it by stashing the sickle in two. "No…" Glare whispered as she saw her reaper get slain by the dark knight. After Buster Blader continuously slashed Reaper on the Nightmare, he finished them off by stabbing it making it a pile of dust.
Laeon's LP: 2300
Glare's LP: 100
"Alright Laeon, you're almost there! One more attack and she is gone for sure!" Izumi and Kazuma cheered. "That's not going to happen," Glare said confidently ", I switch my Reborn Zombie into defense mode. I then summon Pyramid Turtle (1200/1400) in defense mode. I end my turn…"
"Am I so pathetic?" Laeon asked Glare. "I know it is hard… you aren't like the other two… You didn't commit those crimes, they did. But you are a suspect and this can all end now. You can start all over Glare… it's not impossible, all you have to do is throw the past away and open up for the future…"
"No… who are you to say that I can start over… You're no one… that's what…" Glare answered back looking at the floor. "Glare…"
"If you won't open up for yourself, I will open you for you! I flip my face down card Fairy Meteor Crush and equip it with Buster Blader!"
Buster Blader's armor became red with power and anger. "If you don't know what this card does, then I will tell you, your monsters aren't safe in defense mode or in any mode for that fact. The difference from my Buster Blader's attack points and your monsters' defense points will be deducted from your life points when I attack, so Buster Blader, destroy her Reborn Zombie!"
Buster Blader stabbed his sword into the cement and put his hands together. A giant red meteor was seen in the distance. "I'm sorry Glare, but it's the only way! Open up!" The meteor struck Reborn Zombie demolishing it into pieces.
Laeon's LP: 2300
Glare's LP: 0
"That's it Glare, will you listen now?" Laeon asked as he walked over to her and touched her shoulder. She pushed him away and walked backwards toward Flare and Mare. "She is with us and stop trying to get in her head you damn control freak!" Flare snapped as they guarded Glare from Laeon.
"I just want to help…" Laeon whispered. "You can help by dueling me! And unlike those two, I don't lose! So let's go!"