Chapter 8: More Deeper and Deeper
Author's notes:
GAH! Forgot to thank my reviewers! Fifilafemme, you get a bear claw and a ham and cheese croissant! JC Maxwell-Yuy, you get a bear claw.
I do NOT own Yu-Gi-Oh!. . .ah, I give up. The rest of it is at the end of this chapter.
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Mai watched the duels calmly. Nothing interesting seemed to be happening. A growl from her left caught her attention. Malik Ishtar wore an extremely sour expression. Raphael looked as emotionless as ever. Mai wasn't sure which duelist she despised more. Malik HAD trapped her in the Shadow Realm for some time, but she KNEW that Raphael had been staring at her in a less than appropriate manner for some time. Why else would he have returned Pegasus' package to her after she had thrown it out a window?
Watching those two losers duke it out would be a waste of her time. Instead, she turned her attention towards Joey's duel. The girl he challenged already had two monsters on her side of the field. Out of curiosity, Mai got close enough to the girl's duel disk and read the effects.
WTF-44
DJ Iroha
"Who is she talking to, and why is she unzippin' her vest?"
Light/Chatterbox; 3; 1000/1600; Common (Short Print)
WTF-21
DJ Zilch
This face-up monster is unaffected by any and all Monster Effects (except for the one printed on this card).
Earth/Stalker/Effect; 2; 1200/100; Common (Super Short Print, but no one is supposed to know this)
How did this girl hold a field advantage with THOSE kinds of monsters? Neither of them were particularly powerful, and the female DJ didn't have any effect whatsoever. Joey's field was completely empty, save for a single set Magic/Trap card. The girl smiled dangerously. She played a Magic card. Joey's mouth hung open.
WTF-53
Undying Sword of Rage
This card is used to Special Summon "DJ Sakura". You must offer up
monsters (or just one big lunker) from your field or hand whose star
level total is 6.
Short Print; Ritual (Magic)
After reading the effect, Mai felt like mimicing Joey's expression. Ritual monsters were always bad news. A monster tile next to the female DJ started to glow. The sound of a motorcycle engine reverberated from the lit tile. Mai noticed that several other people turned towards the sound, including three of her former coworkers. All three wore unreadable expressions.
A red motorcycle appeared from the floor. The rider wore a red helmet and a red-and-white body suit with many, many patches on it. The figure got off of the motorcycle and unzipped the body suit WAY down. The suit flipped open, to reveal bandages around the chest area, and nothing else. The zipper hung a few inches short of fully unzipped. The figure took off its helmet. A woman with delicate Oriental features regarded the scene before her coldy. Her long black hair was bound somewhat uselessly in a ponytail. She put the helmet on the motorcycle. The motorcycle and helmet disappeared.
"Wow. . .she's hot," Joey mumbled. Mai put a hand to her lips. Did she just say the same thing too?
Amelda's eyes went wide. His nose bled.
Raphael turned extremely red before turning back to his duel.
Malik turned his attention to the newly-summoned monster. His nose also bled. He wiped the mess away with the back of his hand. "Wow. . .she's hot," he said dreamily.
Ishizu Ishtar chose that moment to look in Mai's direction. "Wow. . .she's hot," Ishizu mumbled, then put a hand to her mouth, shocked beyond belief. Seto Kaiba regarded the other Ishtar with an arched eyebrow, then made the mistake of looking up.
"Wow. . .she's hot," the CEO of Kaiba Corp. said, completely unabashed. Mokuba looked up and echoed his older brother's sentiments.
Tea and Ryou turned towards Mai. "Wow. . .she's hot," they said in unison. Ryou shot a puzzled look at Tea, who looked far too pale to be healthy.
Something around Ryou's neck glowed. The tomb robber had made his appearance. He looked at the woman who seemed to be the center of everything. His eyes glazed over.
"Wow. . .she's hot," he said, in a less-than-innocent way. Yugi turned towards all the commotion.
"Wow. . .she's hot," he echoed. Something around his neck flashed. The pharoah stared at the woman Yugi had been staring at moments before. The words out of his mouth were the same as everyone else's. The pharoah turned several shades of red before relinquishing control to Yugi.
Several minutes later, everyone but Varon and the girl who summoned the woman had made a comment on the woman's appearance. She hadn't so much as batted an eyelid. She must be used to such comments.
"Now I'll use her ability and equip her to DJ Iroha. Go, DJ Sakura!" The woman vanished. One of the other monsters moved. In moments, the brown-haired girl had unzipped her vest part of the way down. Her expression had changed from happy to arrogant.
"Iroha, attack his Life Points directly!" Joey flew from his feet, his Life Points dropping fast. He dusted himself off, and glared at his opponent.
"That wasn't very nice, Rebecca," he said, as if he were scolding a child. Rebecca giggled.
"DJ Zilch, it's your turn! Take out the rest of his Life Points!" DJ Zilch turned to Rebecca and nodded before aiming a fist at Joey's shocked mug. Joey flipped his face-down card up. It was Offerings to the Doomed.
"But. . .I thought. . ." Rebecca stammered, as DJ Zilch vanished from the field.
"Oh yes I can!" Joey said, triumphantly. He adopted one of the stupid expressions Mai had grudgingly come to like. Rebecca rolled her eyes.
"I'd like to see you TRY and win with 500 Life Points," she said, and stuck her tongue out at her opponent. Iroha stood with her arms crossed across her chest, ready to take on anything.
"Well. . .here goes," Joey said, and regarded his hand. He began to smile. He played a Magic Card with a picture that looked somewhat familiar. Mai read the card's effect.
WTF-2
Graceless Charity
This card cannot be activated if it is the only card in your hand. Draw
two cards from your Deck, then discard three cards from your hand.
Common (Magic)
Joey discarded three, leaving him with two cards. Would they be enough? Judging by the smirk on his face, he seemed to think so.
"I play Enemy Controller, and turn your monster into Defense mode!" Iroha's eyes widened as she suddenly found herself down on one knee. Only then did Mai notice that the "pants" that she thought DJ Iroha wore were really pants legs. A few inches of skin between her skirt and her pants legs showed whitely. A thump came from behind Mai. She turned around. Varon sat behind her, his nose bleeding freely. Mai sighed. Men were such idiots.
"Now I summon Mataza the Zapper!" A reject from an old samurai movie showed up, sword at ready.
"This card allows me to attack twice, so to heck with your union monster! Mataza, attack!" Mataza's sword flashed. The card behind Iroha shattered, and Iroha looked up, startled and dazed. Her eyes widened as she saw Mataza's sword come far too close to her for comfort. A girlish scream echoed through the hall, and DJ Iroha left the field.
"Let's see you top that, you whiny brat," Joey said, with his usual smirk. Rebecca glared.
This was going to be far more interesting than Mai had anticipated. She made herself as comfortable as she could, and watched.
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Author's notes:
I do NOT own Beatmania IIDX (insert style here), any of the characters (because they're property of GOLI Matsumoto), or any of the other monsters that I metioned.
DJ Iroha first appeared in 9th Style. She's talkative, into voodoo, and occasionally gets possessed. The one that possesses her is DJ Sakura, who was mentioned in Chapter 3. All who see her are doomed to comment about her. . .it's a bad, bad running joke. The rest of her story will be introduced later.
DJ Zilch first appeared in 5th Style. He's hopelessly smitten with DJ Nyah, and even beat her once (thus the reason why she can't destroy him. . .see Chapter 2 for more details). He also collects mecha models.
"Undying Sword of Rage" is a reference to DJ Sakura's IIDX RED background. In her picture, she's shown wielding a sword. Apparantly, she has a thing for swords. . .and motorcycles.
Offerings to the Doomed is a Magic card that destroys one face-up monster on the field. . .but the person who played it must then skip his/her/its next Draw Phase. I abuse this card.
Graceless Charity was thought up by me. Thank you to my friends, who supported me on the card idea. It's also a spoof of Graceful Charity (draw three, discard two).
Enemy Controller is an Ultra Rare from Invasion of Chaos (I'm fairly certain of this. . .but not completely certain). Joey used its first effect, which puts an opponent's monster in Defense mode.
Mataza the Zapper also appeared in Invasion of Chaos, as a Rare. It can attack twice (and, as a bonus, it goes under Gravity Bind). Mataza's attack is 1300 (compared to Iroha's Defense of 1000). Because of the way Union monsters work, Mataza had to attack Iroha twice. The first attack got rid of DJ Sakura (the union monster). The second attack killed poor Iroha.
"More Deeper and Deeper" is one of the remixes of Dive, and first appeared on Dance Dance Revolution 5th Style (for PS2). It made its first arcade appearance on DDR MAX. This one is the easiest. I don't own this song; BeForU does!
Reviews are welcomed, as always.