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The Way of the Dreamer
Chapter Ten-Professional Duel Pt. 2; Heaven Descends
Drawing, Eizan looked over at Katsu and smiled that ever-present smile of his. "Well Katsu, I guess it's gotten to that point, hasn't it?"
Turning, Katsu nodded. "Indeed, time to stop holding back so much. Time to show them the full wrath of the Divine Duelists!"
"I play Heavenly Recall to shuffle any number of angels on my field back into my deck and then draw that number of cards from my deck, plus one." Eizan began as Uranus and Pluto vanished from the field and he held up the two cards before combining them with his deck and shuffling, then drawing three cards. Now he had six cards in hand and just his three weak Holy Shine Spheres (500/500) on the field, plus two set cards. At the same time Yusuke had his Templar Swordsman (2550/900) and two set cards, Ukon had his defense mode Shining Teutonic (1200/2200) and two set cards, and Shizuka with Paladin Spierel (1800+600/1300) and Paladin Drevos (0+600/2500), along with three set cards.
"I play Polymerization, that I do." he called as a fairly common magic card appeared on the field. A vortex appeared on his field and the three balls of light were drawn into it, swirling faster and faster as they were pulled closer and closer to the center. After a few seconds there was a burst of light, and what emerged was a humanoid figure, but made entirely of the same unearthly light as the three spheres had been formed from.
"Holy Shine God (1800/1800) is summoned by combining my three Holy Shine Spheres, and when summoned destroys all magic and trap cards on the opponents fields." he continued. Raising its arm the being of light spread its fingers wide and released a wave of light from its palm, striking the various set cards on his opponents fields and shattering them. Eyes wide in terror, the three siblings watched as the creature lowered its arm, its task complete.
"That will end my turn, that it will." Eizan smiled at the effectiveness of his move. However, it was odd that he had done so little, since he held five cards in hand still and his monster was weaker than any other on the field, except for Ukon and Katsu's defense mode monsters. Still, Eizan didn't seem at all worried. It was as if he were expecting something.
Drawing, Katsu grabbed the card he had drawn a few moments before thanks to the Jar of Greed Yusuke had tried to destroy. Ramming it into a magic card zone, he startled everyone when a temporal warp appeared on the field, twisting and pulling all of the monsters on the field into it, including it mighty Divien Dragon-Excerion.
"Temporal Disruption destroys all monsters on the field and then allows each player to draw one card for each of their own monsters destroyed." the Ra Yellow teacher explained, causing each of the siblings to gasp in surprise as they lost two mighty monsters, as well as all of their defenses!
"I chain with my set card, that I do!" Eizan called over the roar of the vortex, one of the cards he'd set much earlier in the duel flipping up. "Fusion Separation sends one fusion monster on the field back to the fusion deck and then special summons the components from wherever they are. During my next stand by phase the fusion monster is re-summoned and if the components are still in play they are removed from the game."
True to his word the creature of light broke into three pieces which then molded themselves into spheres, which were then drawn into the rip in space-time.
Once the field was cleared of all the monsters, each player set to work drawing cards; two for Katsu and Shizuka, one for Yusuke and Ukon, and three for Eizan, since he'd lost his three Holy Shine Spheres in place of his one Holy Shine God.
"Now I summon Guard of Excerion (1200+300/2000) in defense mode," Katsu continued, a man in shining silver armor made to look somewhat like the mighty dragon, bearing a large shield made of the scales of the same beast and with the image of its face imprinted on its front. "And then I play Monster Reborn to revive one of my mighty Divine Dragon-Excerion's (1500+300/900) from the graveyard, gaining three hundred attack points from Soldier of Excerion."
Once again the silver covered leviathan appeared, blue flames dancing about. Letting loose another roar, it glared at the three opponents across from it, each of their fields empty.
"As for his effects..." Katsu trailed off, a slight frown on his face. "Since Throne of Excerion counts as being a Divine Dragon-Excerion while in the graveyard, I am forbidden from getting the same effect twice from them. So I will take one thousand attack points from the other Excerion in the graveyard, and the ability to attack twice after destroying a monster from those two." he explained as the flames wreathing his monster nearly doubled in size. "However, he's not done. You see, Brood of Excerion is another perfect tool for getting around Excerion's handicap. Brood's allow me to give a Divine Dragon-Excerion one of three effects, which just so happen to be the same effects as those printed on my dragon's card. However, Brood of Excerion is not a Divine Dragon-Excerion, therefore I am allowed to stack those effect. Therefore, I give Divine Dragon-Excerion another one thousand attack points!"
With another Earth-shaking roar, the beast's flames grew in size yet again as his power grew to a heart-stopping thirty-eight hundred, with the ability to attack twice after destroying monsters. Then again, there weren't any monsters to destroy, but that only meant a direct attack this turn instead. A direct attack that would defeat either Shizuka or Yusuke right now, or leave Ukon with just two hundred life points!
"Divine Dragon-Excerion (3800), attack Shizuka directly! Divine Flame Strike!" Rearing back its head, the dragon formed a large ball of sapphire flames in its maw. In fear, Shizuka watched as the attack was prepared and she had nothing available to halt it.
Snapping its head down, the dragon released the burst of fire, moving unimpeded towards the defenseless young sister duelist.
Which is why is surprised everyone, even Katsu and Eizan, when a burst of light suddenly formed in front of the attack, halting it in its tracks and holding strong as the flame lost power and eventually died down.
"What was that?" Katsu demanded of the female duelist, who responded with wide eyes by shaking her head.
Their attention was then pulled over to Ukon, who was chuckling lightly under his breath. "When Eizan summoned his Holy Shine God, he destroyed a special magic card; one of the best defense cards in the game, in my opinion." the brown haired duelist explained. "It's called Sanctity of the Buried, and it allows me to remove five cards in the graveyard from play to negate an attack." Fanning out the cards he had chosen from his graveyard, he dropped them casually into the breast pocket of his shirt.
Snickering, Katsu set a card face down. "Good teamwork. You care about your sister a great deal. That is good." he said as he ended his turn, allowing Yusuke to draw, beginning his turn.
"That's right, we do care about each other. We fight as a team and we trust in one another to pull the others through." he declared boldly, while he currently only held three cards. "I set one monster in defense mode and end my turn."
"My move!" Ukon called the instant his brother finished. "Since I have no monsters on my field at the start of my turn and it is not the first round, I am allowed to pay five hundred life points to special summon a monster from my deck to the field." (ULP:3500)
On his field appeared another knight in the now familiar armor of the Teutonics, the white shield with the black cross on his arm. His banner showed the image of a mound of snow with dozens of snow flakes falling all around it.
"Blizzard Teutonic (0/0) in defense mode. Also, I set one card face down and end my turn." he finished, a single card appearing behind his lone monster. Turning to his sister, he nodded, an encouraging look in his eyes.
"Draw!" Shizuka called, giving her four cards, better than either of her brothers had been left with. "I summon a monster in defense mode and end." she called, a defense monster appearing on her field, but nothing else. It was odd, since none of the three siblings had done much else to protect themselves, despite the ferocity of Katsu's dragon.
'Then again, they really can't. Once she ends her turn, Holy Shine God will return, and that means all magic and trap cards will be destroyed. But with just one defense monster each, there's not much they can do to survive anyway.' Kazuki realized as he watched. He'd been tight spots before himself, but this was completely different. 'And to think, there's three of them against just two teachers, but their still pinned down.'
Drawing, Eizan waited a moment as his creature made entirely of light reappeared on his field, aimed its arm at Ukon's single set card, and fired a single blast of light.
"Chain!" Ukon called, though neither Eizan or Katsu seemed at all surprised as the card flipped up. "Desperation Draft activates when it is removed from the field, and it allows me to create two tokens of a monster I have in play." Once he had finished explaining, two copies of his single monster appeared on either side of him, both crouching in defensive stances.
Glancing at the nine cards in his hand, Eizan began to plan. Everyone waited in anticipation of what kind of maneuver he could have in store, having so many cards to choose from.
"I will re-summon my Uranus, Angel of Good Will (1800/0) in attack mode." he said as the brown winged angel appeared, its power once again at full and its smile wide. "Next I will activate a continuous magic card, Angelic Array. This increases the attack points of all Angel monsters on my field by three hundred." he pressed on as the image of the card appeared at his side, emitting a silver light which washed over his two monsters, increasing the attack points of both to twenty-one hundred.
"Now, to further assist my angels, I will bring the duel closer to Heaven, that I will." Eizan declared, taking the middle card from his hand and placing it into his field card zone. Instantly above his head appeared a large temple, its style seemingly Roman. It was made of a very light colored and beautiful stone, and seemed to be emitting its own inner light. "Sanctuary in the Sky makes all life point damage to me from Angels being in battle zero, that it does."
Setting a card face down, Eizan nodded to his monsters. "Uranus (2100), attack Yusuke's defense mode monster!" Lifting his fingers and emitting waves of light, just as before, Uranus blasted Yusuke's set card...which failed to shatter!
"Heh, you attacked Templar Centurion (1700/900)." Yusuke explained to a surprised Eizan. "He can't be destroyed in battle at all. That means I'm safe."
Nodding at this, Eizan looked at his monsters. "And because Uranus couldn't destroy him, I am not allowed to search my deck for a card. Well done." Turning to look over the remainder of the field, trying to decide the rest of his move. "Holy Shine God, attack and destroy Shizuka's set monster, if you would."
Raising both arms, palms out, the shining being released two streams of light which took only a few seconds to evaporate the target monster, leaving Shizuka's field empty. Of course, with both of her brothers still in action, she wasn't entirely defenseless.
"I set one more card face down and end my turn." Eizan declared as a third face down card appeared in front of him, backing up his two monsters.
Drawing, Katsu glanced his five cards over for a moment. "I set two cards face down and then I summon Speaker for Excerion (1200+300/1500) in attack mode." A man in silver robes, styled like a dignitary of a more ancient era appeared.
"It would be pointless to attack Shizuka, since one of the other two would just block with their monsters, I'll instead have Divine Dragon-Excerion, attack and destroy Blizzard Teutonic!" he called, his voice cold as ever. Opening its jaws wide, the dragon let loose a scorching wave of the blue flames, quickly eliminating the target. "And then attack one of the tokens!" he called, and the dragon obeyed, again incinerating the target. "Speaker for Excerion (1500), attack and destroy the final token!" he ordered.
Reaching into his cloak, the robed man searched for something before flinging his arm out in a wide arc, a silver dust settling over the target monster, who looked at his now powder-covered limbs in confusion...until the dust suddenly ignited, causing him to twist in agony before collapsing to the ground and becoming nothing more than ashes on the ground.
"Turn end." Katsu declared.
Gulping, Yusuke drew a card. He was now the only one on his team with a monster, and although it was immune to destruction by battle, it would only be a matter of time before either opponent managed to destroy it with some other method, and until then there was the fact that he couldn't keep on protecting his siblings forever.
"I play Kings Ransom to pay one thousand life points, allowing me to draw four cards!" he called, his life point meter dropping nearly by half as he slipped new cards from his deck into his hand. (YLP:1300)
Smirking, he shot a glance at Eizan and his monsters. "Holy Shine God is a mischievous little bugger, ain't he? After all, whenever summoned he nukes all of the enemies magic and trap cards. But that's not all. When destroyed in battle, he does the same thing. This makes him hard to counter, often." he said aloud, building up to something as he fiddled with a card in his hand. "But if it's not destroyed in battle, then that threat is gone. So I play Smashing Ground, destroying the monster on my opponents field with the highest defense score!"
All around Eizan's monster of light the ground began to crack and chip until it was completely surrounded, at which point the earth caved in, pulling the creature into the void before sealing up.
"That was very well done, that it was. I must admit, I'm surprised you knew of Holy Shine God's last effect." Eizan applauded.
"I'm not done yet." Yusuke called. "Now that it's safe to set cards again, I'll set these two cards. End." he finished, pleased to have dealt with a monster which had been a serious threat to him and his siblings. Still, they weren't out in the clear yet, thanks to Katsu and his freakish dragon!
"My move!" Ukon called, now more confident thanks to the efforts of his younger brother. "I play one of my rarest cards, Temple of Birth!"
There was a low rumble as a stone structure appeared behind Ukon, styled much like Eizan's Sanctuary in the Sky except much, much smaller (in comparison). Once it was fully formed everyone was rather shocked as Eizan's Uranus, Angel of Good Will, as well as Katsu's Divine Dragon-Excerion, Guard of Excerion and Speaker for Excerion, and then even Yusuke's Templar Centurion all shattered. No visible attack had been launched, they just simply fell apart and faded away.
Next Ukon fanned his deck out and five dots of light flew out of the cards and entered the temple, filling its insides with an almost eerie glow. Satisfied, Ukon shuffled the deck and returned it to its position, his opponents both fixing him with a hard stare, though Eizan's was weakened by his seemingly endless natural kindness.
"Allow me to explain. Temple of Birth, at the time of activation, destroys all monsters on the field, and then removes five monsters from my deck from play. Over the next three turns I may not set or summon a monster in any way, no exceptions. However, once the three turns have passed those five monsters I chose are instantly special summoned. Until then, it's up to my magic and trap cards, as well as the efforts of my brother and sister." Ukon explained, a dignified tone in his voice.
"Fair enough." Katsu growled. "However, you destroyed my Speaker of Excerion, allowing me to take a card with 'Excerion' in its title from my deck and add it to my hand." Taking a grand total of about thirty seconds, Katsu looked through his deck, took a card, shuffled, and returned it to its slot. Looking back up at Ukon he added, "Anything else?"
Nodding, Ukon set one card face down, leaving him with just one in hand.
Taking that as the signal, Shizuka drew. "I summon Paladin Aise (1500/1600) in attack mode." A warrior in golden armor appeared, radiating a holy light of sorts. "Paladin Aise, attack Katsu's life points directly!"
Slashing his sword through the air, the holy knight released a crescent of red light which struck Katsu in the stomach, causing him to double over ever so slightly and wincing a tiny bit. However, the damage wasn't terrible and still something he could deal with. (KLP:2000)
"I'll set three cards face down and end." Shizuka smiled sweetly as large images of her cards appeared between her and her monster, emptying her hand. Apparently the threat of Eizan's Holy Shine God had been a heavy weight for all three to deal with.
"Draw." Eizan said, sounding determined, yet still his gentle disposition overshadowed it. "I summon a monster in defense mode, that I do." A horizontal card appeared before him. Looking up his vision fell on the temple on Ukon's field. Narrowing his eyes slightly, he slowly exhaled and then turned to Katsu. "Your turn, that it is."
Nodding, Katsu drew. "Excerion's Rebirth to revive one of my Divine Dragon's from the graveyard!" he called as the serpentine beast once again appeared, glaring with immense fury at Ukon and his field.
"Since I have one Divine Dragon, one Brood of Excerion and Throne of Excerion in the graveyard, I get two effects, so I will once again take a one thousand attack boost, double attacks when I destroy a monster, and its third ability; allowing em to deal you damage equal to the attack points of a monster Excerion destroys!"
All told, the beast now had twenty-eight hundred attack points thanks to Soldier of Excerion and Throne of Excerion, plus the terrifying threat of two possible attacks per turn and dealing huge amounts of damage each attack.
"I summon another Brood of Excerion (700+300/400) in attack mode, and then I'll have my Divine Dragon-Excerion (2800) attack Paladin Aise!"
"I wont let you!" Yusuke shouted, extending an arm over one of his set cards. It flipped up to reveal a trap card, a small winged devil with a red die on it. "Skull Dice allows me to roll-"
"And then divide Excerion's attack by the roll." Katsu finished for him, sounding irritated. "Meaning that unless you roll a one, Excerion will perish."
"You got it!" Yusuke called as the little demon emerged from the card, dropping his die. The red cube bounced along the ground for a few seconds, constantly changing sides. Finally, Yusuke smiled wide as Katsu clenched his fists when the die stopped, four white dots facing up for all to see.
"Now your monster has its attack cut down to just seven hundred!" Yusuke cheered.
As the dragon snapped its head down, flames blazing, it was surrounded by a red light, which began to shrink, constricting the beast. It was odd, though, because Katsu's monster itself didn't seem to be growing weaker, despite the effects of the trap card. Then, with a mighty howl and a lurch of its body, the red outline burst and the attack continued, full force!
"You were reckless, Yusuke." Katsu nearly smiled. "While in the graveyard, Guard of Excerion protects all other Excerion monsters on the field from targeting effects."
Eyes wide at hearing this, Yusuke watched as the overwhelming blast of flames continued on their path towards his sisters monster.
"Thanks, Yusuke." Shizuka beamed at her brother. "However, I can take care of it. Reveal set card, Divine Aid, which doubles the attack points of a Paladin on the field for the turn."
The set trap card flipped up and her monster began to glow with a golden light emitting from the card. Swinging his sword, he released another crescent of light which cut into the blue flames, instantly causing them to fade away as it cut through, finally reaching Katsu's monster and decapitating it. (KLP:1800)
Turning back to Katsu and Eizan, she said, "When Paladin Aise destroys a monster in battle, his attack points increase by that monsters level times one hundred."
True to her word, the gold armored warrior on her field grew in size and the intensity of the sheen of his armor rose slightly as his attack power came to a rest at two thousand.
Again clenching his fists tightly, Katsu took one card from his hand and set it down next to the other one he had set the turn before. Narrowing his eyes on Yusuke he growled "Go."
Gulping hard, a look of obvious fear on his face after the look Katsu had just given him, Yusuke drew. Upon seeing his card, however, his face did a complete one-eighty. Grabbing his three other cards in hand he began his move.
"I summon another Templar Centurion (1700/900) in attack mode." he began as an exact copy of his last monster appeared on the field. "Next I set two cards face down and then I play Card of Sanctity, allowing each of us to draw until we hold six cards!"
As his two face down cards appeared in front of him, Yusuke drew six new cards, followed by Ukon drawing five, Shizuka with six, three for Katsu, and finally Eizan drew twice. Fanning their new cards out, each player examined their new options, though it was most relevant for the three siblings right now.
"I play another Called to Crusade to allow me to special summon another Templar from my hand, and this time I summon Templar Warlord (2700/1000) in attack mode!"
The new monster was bigger than any other monster any of the siblings had summoned all duel, dressed in bright gold armor and mounted on a brown war horse, its muscular form also coated in light chain mail. A sword hung on either side of the saddle and a third at the warriors waist, sheathed in favor of the long lance in his arm.
"Templar Warlord, attack Brood of Excerion (1000)!" Kicking his mount with his stirrups the knight directed his charge at Katsu and his weak attack mode monster.
Uncurling his fingers, Katsu waved an arm over one of his two set cards. "Excerion's Divine Flight negates one of your attacks and allows me to take a card with 'Excerion' in its name from my deck and add it to my hand."
Upon command, the immature version of Katsu's key monster lifted itself into the air, seeming to fly for the first time, as indicated by its sluggish movements. However, it was enough to get above the charging monster and avoiding its attack. At the same time, Katsu was flitting through his deck, again searching for a card of his choice before shuffling and returning his disk.
"Well, that only blocks one attack." Yusuke reasoned, pointing again at Katsu's small monster. "Templar Centurion, attack!" Brandishing his sword the smaller knight ran across the field and swung down, splitting Katsu's creature in half. (KLP:1100)
Raising and arm to protect himself from the flying shards of holographic light. At the same time he extended his arm over his other set card, which flipped up. "Altar of Sacrifices activates when a monster on my field is destroyed. I am allowed to special summon a monster of equal or lesser level from my deck to the field."
Instantly his deck popped three cards out for him, which he took and looked over. Quickly he decided on the one he wanted and set it on his duel disk before placing the other two on top of his deck, which was then shuffled by the duel disk. On his field appeared the third of the small Broods (700+300/400), curled up defensively.
"Alter of Sacrifices also increases my life points by the total attack points of the monster I lost and the monster I summoned." Katsu explained as a yellow light descended on his duel disk and his life point meter flashed to show the increase. (KLP:3100)
Gritting his teeth at seeing Katsu dance out from underneath his thumb, Yusuke then remembered something. "Templar Centurion has a very useful effect. Whenever he deals life point damage, an equal amount of damage is then dealt to a monster on the field. I dealt you seven hundred damage, so now that same amount will be dealt to Brood of Excerion! And since he's in defense mode, that's three hundred points of overflow!"
Taking a dagger from his hip, Yusuke's monster flung it at Katsu's monster, imbedding itself in the young dragon's side, slaying it.
Grinning at the effectiveness of his move, Yusuke passed to his older brother who drew with a bit of a flourish, setting him at seven cards. However, because of his Temple of Birth, he was still bared from summoning a monster in any way this turn.
"All I can do is set these two cards face down. Your turn, Shizuka." he sighed as two brown backed cards appeared on either side of the one he had set the turn before, nearly filling his magic zones.
"Don't worry Ukon, I'll finish up where Yusuke left us." the younger sister said as she looked up from her seven card hand, a plan already in her mind.
"Bond of Brothers to pay one thousand life points and then special summon two level four or lower monsters of the same type as a monster I already have in play." she began as two cards were ejected from her deck, which she promptly slapped down. (SLP:2700)
First was the familiar form of a Paladin Spierel (1800+300/1300), a copy of the monster Katsu had destroyed a few turns back with his Temporal Disruption. The second was another golden armored warrior, this one wielding a long handled axe in his hands.
"Paladin Spierel, whom I'm sure you recognize, and then Paladin Kendre (1400/1600)." she introduced. "However, I'm going to now sacrifice Kendre for Paladin Nexus (2400/2000) in attack mode."
In a flash, the axe wielding knight vanished and was replaced by a man in silver and gold armor, a decorated broadsword held up parallel to his face by both of his hands. Although imposing by himself, this was added upon by the ominous red light which encased his body.
"Paladin Nexus gains three hundred attack and defense points for every Paladin monster in my graveyard, and right now that would be fifteen hundred for the five Paladins that have been sent there." she declared as her monster shot up to thirty-nine hundred attack points.
"I now equip Paladin Aise with Armor of God to increase his attack and defense by seven hundred, in addition to the three hundred he gets from Paladin Spierel." she said as she slipped another card into her magic zone and light weight armor made of some sort of unnatural material, as if solid light, clapped onto her monster.
"Now, for the matter of Eizan's set cards..." she trailed off, drawing everyone's attention to the three cards Eizan had set. "I play Shadow Dispersion, which can only be played while I have a Paladin in play. It allows me to discard a card to destroy either all face down monsters on the opponents field, or all face down magic and trap cards."
Slipping a card from her hand into her graveyard, Shizuka grinned as Paladin Nexus swung his sword in a wide arc in a downward slant towards Eizan's field. The air in the path of said swing began to instantly ripple with the force of the attack, shattering all three of Eizan's cards.
"Now, before I finish of Katsu, I'd say it's a pretty safe bet that Eizan plans on using his monster to block an attack. So, let's use that to our advantage." she said coyly, focusing on the silver haired professor's lone monster, the only card remaining on either teachers field. "Paladin Aise (3000/2300), attack Eizan's monster and go get yourself some more attack points!"
Unsheathing his sword, the warrior in the unearthly armor marched across the field, contrasting from the previous attacks of similar monsters who had sprinted across the field at breakneck speeds. Once he stood over Eizan's monster he lifted his sword, tip towards the ground, and thrust down, piercing into the card and the faint image of a man in monks robes.
"In truth," Eizan said as he placed the monster into his graveyard and then holding his hand over his deck, which, to everyone's surprise, extended a new card into his waiting fingers. "It didn't matter who you attacked with first. You attacked Ascending Man (500/1200), who when destroyed increases my life points by five hundred and allows me to special summon another Ascending Man from my deck to the field, that he does." (ELP:7550)
Calmly, the teacher laid the card that his deck had given him down onto his field, a horizontal card with a man in monk robes crouching in submission on top of it appeared.
"I see." Shizuka slowly shifted her head up and down in an understanding nod as it sunk in. "I've only got two more attacks this turn, and you can block them both." Eizan nodded the affirmative. "Well then, I'll just rip them in half here and now!"
Simultaneously the two remaining monsters on her field slashed their blades down, striking the ground at the same time and releasing identical blasts of light which surged through the ground at Eizan's field. The one from Nexus seemed to be moving faster and hit first, followed up seconds later by the one from Spierel, cutting Eizan's final monster in half less than a second after it appeared. (ELP:8550)
"Finally, before I end remember that Ascending Man is a level four monster, so Paladin Aise gained four hundred attack points." she concluded.
"Draw!" Eizan called, and for the first time all school year, he looked serious. "I summon a monster in defense mode and set two cards face down, that I do. End."
"My move!" Katsu said, his tone as serious and cold as ever. "Graceful Charity." As the familiar image of an angel raining light down on Katsu's deck appeared, he drew three cards before placing two from his hand into his graveyard. This was followed up by a card being ejected from his deck, which he quickly snatched up.
"One of the cards I discarded was another Priest of Excerion (0/0), allowing me to place the final Divine Dragon-Excerion into my hand from my deck." he explained. Taking another card from his hand he slapped it down onto the duel disk, a horizontal card appearing in front of him in response.
"That monster in defense mode and two cards face down, just like my partner. End."
"Alright, let's do this." Yusuke said, drawing to start his turn. "I summon Guardian Templar (1800/2000) in attack mode!" A man in shining steel armor appeared, a spear in his hands which he began to twirl experimentally. "His effect is like my Templar Centurion, only for him I have to negate the damage I do to your life points to instead deal double that amount to a monster of my choosing."
Eizan and Katsu both nodded, though it really didn't matter a great deal immediately, since their monsters were in defense mode. Still, it was good to have such information.
"Now I'm going to use my Templar Warlord's effect, skipping his attack this turn to make all Templars on the field immune to any form of destruction until the end phase."
Leaning back on his mount, the larger warrior on his field stuck his lance into the ground and then drew his sword, pointing towards Katsu's field. In response the other two knights underneath him both stepped forward, weapons at the ready as a white aura seeped from their leader into them.
"Templar Centurion, attack Katsu's defending monster." Drawing his sword, the named monster rushed across to the opposing field and slashed down, and was surprisingly deflected by a large silver shield in the arms of a large man in heavy silver armor.
"I have more than just one Guard of Excerion (1200+300/2000) in my deck." Katsu said as his monster pushed against the back of his shield, forcing the opposing monster to back off. "And now you also take the overflow damage." (YLP:1000)
"Yeah, but Templar Warlord's other effect now comes into play. When a Templar battles a monster, but fails to destroy it, that monster has its attack and defense points reduced by its level times two hundred." Yusuke shot back.
"Meaning my Guard of Excerion loses eight hundred defense points, I see." Katsu commented, though for some reason his tone actually seemed off-hand. "And yet, it fails, because once again that would be a targeting effect, and I still have a Guard of Excerion in the graveyard, protecting my Excerion monsters from targeting effects."
Clenching his teeth, Yusuke muttered something under his breath, though no one was quite sure what it was he said exactly. Turning his gaze forty-five degrees, he settled on Eizan. "Well, I still have Guardian Templar. Attack his defending monster!" he commanded.
Twirling his spear, the burly warrior jumped into the air and brought the tip of his weapon crashing down toward Eizan's field.
"I wont allow it." Katsu countered, pressing a button on his duel disk. "I activate Negate Attack to defend my partner."
As the offending monster descended, an invisible wall materialized in the way of the attack, which he bounced off of before returning to his controllers field. Growling, Yusuke ended his turn, leading to Ukon drawing.
"Since I still am not allowed to summon any monsters I pass." the brown haired man declared. However there was a bit of a smirk as he did this, and everyone knew why. Next turn he would be allowed to summon the five monsters he had removed from play.
"Draw." Shizuka called, raising her hand to three cards. "Ukon, Yusuke, looks like we'll need to change our attack pattern a bit, thanks to Katsu's Guard of Excerion being in the graveyard." As she said this her two brothers nodded in understanding. Once they had agreed, she turned back to her opponents.
"First things first, I summoned Paladin Xellos (1900/1200) in attack mode!" Another knight in shining armor, just like just about any other monster the three siblings had summoned all duel, appeared. However, this one was emitting a faint yellow glow. "Paladin Xellos powers up all paladins on the field by one hundred per paladin. Currently that's four hundred each."
The yellow glow around her new monster began to grow in intensity and overlapped her other monsters, enveloping each in its brilliance. Quickly their attack points sky-rocketed, Xellos coming out at twenty-three hundred, Aise halting at thirty-eight hundred, Spierel with twenty-five, and finally Nexus with forty-three hundred.
At seeing such incredible attack power, most people in the audience watched excited, sure it was the end game. Others began to either cheer or grumble, depending on which end of a certain bet they were. For others it was just awe-inspiring.
"Paladin Aise (3800), attack Eizan's defending monster!" Drawing his sword the now very beefy warrior charged across the field and slashed upward, cutting Eizan's monster card in half.
To Shizuka's shock, though, a golden light began to flow out of the destroyed card, covering her offensive monster, who responded by relaxing his muscles and stumbling backward. As he did so, his attack points began to tick down for all to see, coming to a halt at an even two thousand.
"Your defense monster..." she said, pointing at Eizan. "It was Pluto, Angel of Weakening (1500+300/0), powered up by your Angelic Array. Since I still did battle with it, my monster lost eighteen hundred attack points."
"That it was." Eizan answered. "However, that's not all. I activate one of my set cards, Tears of an Angel." The face down card flipped up, revealing a green border with a bolt of lightning in the corner, meaning it was a quick-play. "When an Angel monster is destroyed I can fuse it with an Angel in my hand. So I fuse Pluto, Angel of Weakening with Neptune, Angel of Emancipation (1700/0)."
As he explained he slipped the card from his hand into his graveyard, along with the destroyed monster and the magic card. Then he slapped a card from his pocket onto the field.
His new angel stood taller than any previous, probably about seven feet high. From his back extended two large crimson colored wings, adding to his menacing appearance, compliments of the stern and cut-throat look in his eyes.
"X, Angel of Fear (2500+300/1600) descends and casts his judgement on the field, that he does." Eizan introduced as Shizuka's monsters seemed to shrink back in fear of the new opponent. Still, it was far too weak to beat them. Wasn't it?
"I don't know why you bothered summoning him, and in attack mode no less," Shizuka said, though her tone did sound somewhat weary. "But I wont let you break my stride. Paladin Nexus (4300), attack X, Angel of Fear (2800)!"
Despite her commands, her monster refused to comply. Instead, the mighty and significantly stronger knight only seemed to be overcome with even greater fear as he ducked away from X.
"But...how?" the youngest of the siblings asked. "Neither you nor your opponent has any set cards to keep me from attacking. What did you do?"
As if you answer her question, Eizan held up his hand, which now held only one card. Unsatisfied, Shizuka was about to restate her question when she realized what he meant. At the end of his turn he'd been holding four cards, and was reduced to three when he fused Neptune with Pluto. However, he was suddenly down two cards.
Nodding, Eizan spoke. "One of X, Angel of Fear's effects is known as Fear Counterstrike, allowing me to discard my hand to prevent your monsters from attacking this turn."
"Well, if I can't attack him, I can at least keep him at bay myself. I end my turn, but tread cautiously, Eizan Kiske and Katsu Yoriyoi. My brothers and I do not bluff, and we are very intent on winning this duel." she finished, since she was unable to attack.
Drawing, Eizan began his turn. "X, Angel of Fear, attack Ukon's life points directly!" On command, the angel with blood-red wings fired twin beams of light from its eyes, intent on burning away most of the eldest of the three's remaining life points.
"Activate face down card, Seal of Ice!" Ukon shouted as crystalline prisms of ice formed at the base of the angel's feet. From there the ice began to grow upwards, new layers forming to shoot older crystals upwards, swiftly encasing him entirely. "Now your monster is trapped until you can manage to change his attack points."
"Very well." Eizan nodded. "I set one card face down and end my turn, that I do."
Drawing swiftly, Katsu began his turn. Eizan had taken a risk for him, forcing Ukon to use up one of his set cards. Still, Seal of Ice was a card that Katsu himself could have dealt with fairly easily, since it wasn't too much trouble for him to alter the attack scores of his monsters. Either way, though, it left Ukon with only two other set cards.
"I summon a monster in defense mode and set one more card face down. End." he said as the horizontal card appeared next to his Guard of Excerion, and another card parallel to the other one he had set last turn.
"Goody. My turn." Yusuke said, a cocky grin once again affixed to his face. "I summon a monster in defense mode and then I have my Templar Warlord attack Katsu's Guard of Excerion directly!" Hoisting his spear out of the ground, the mounted knight kicked his steed into action, barreling across the field, lance extended.
"I activate the set card, Blitz Counterstrike!" Katsu called as his trap card flipped up. In the path of the charging attack formed a shield made entirely of light and crackling with electricity. Once the spear met said barrier, it bent inwards, then pushed back, forcing the spear backwards. Then, before anyone could react, electricity burst from the shield, striking the horse and its rider and burning holes through both of them.
"This card costs me five hundred life points, but it destroys your attacking monster and allows me to draw a card." the Ra Yellow teacher explained, flicking a card off of his deck, giving him four in hand. (KLP:2600)
"You just don't die, do you!" Yusuke practically screamed. "Fine, since I can't beat either your or your partners monsters, I'll end there." he muttered, folding up his hand of four cards.
Chuckling, Ukon drew, giving him a hand of six. Of course, the real reason he was chuckling..."It's time. Three turns have passed, and I shall summon my choice monsters!"
Taking the five cards from his pocket, Ukon laid them down one at a time. Each one was nearly identical to the last, with very minor differences in their armor. The real distinguishing factor, as with the rest of his monsters, was the different banners.
"Celestial Teutonic (2500/2500)," A man on horseback, his banner showed the image of the sun and the moon together, surrounded by dozens of glittering stars. "Tempest Teutonic (2400/2300)," A banner displaying a maelstrom of wind with rain and lightning mixed in. "Starburst Teutonic (2200/1800)," Holding a banner with what looked like a star exploding was third. "Flash Teutonic (2100/1600)," the fourth monster's banner was pure white. "And Blitz Teutonic (1900/0)!" Final was a man on foot, his banner depicting a bolt of lightning.
"Next, to give them the needed power to finish you off, I play the Allied Forces, boosting each of them by two hundred for every warrior or spellaster on my field. I have five, so each one gains one thousand attack points!"
Much like what had been seen two duels earlier with the Gradius cards, the audience waited with baited breath as each monster gained a huge power boost, thanks to the vast numbers of them on the field.
"I play Flash Strike." he pushed on. "For every monster on my field whose attack I skip I am allowed to destroy one card on my opponents field. I skip the attack of Blitz Teutonic (2900), Flash Teutonic (3100) and Starburst Teutonic (3200) to destroy three cards on your field!"
From the sky...erm, ceiling rained three shafts of light, each one piercing into a card on the field, one striking Katsu's set card, another hitting his set monster, and the third striking Eizan's middle set card, all three shattering into millions of pixels of data.
"Tempest Teutonic (3400), attack Katsu's Guard of Excerion!" Ukon commanded. Charging across the field, banner inserted into a holster on the back of his saddle, the chosen warrior unsheathed his sword and swung down...and then suddenly stopped as its mount kicked up its front legs, neighing in a panic, and then retreating.
Sliding his last card into his graveyard, Eizan spoke. "Seal of Ice keeps me from attacking, but I can still use X's effect of Fear Counterstrike to keep you from attacking, that I can." Eizan explained.
Blanching at seeing such an opportunity ruined, Ukon looked at the remaining cards in his hand, then the two he had left set on the field before ending.
"Draw." Shizuka called, giving herself a hand of two cards. Looking over the entire field, her vision suddenly came to a stop on Eizan and his trapped monster. "Ukon," she said, though she did not turn to her brother. "You did will. You've now made it possible for us to finish them off."
To this, both Eizan and Katsu lifted their eyebrows, curious.
Seeing their curiosity plainly, Shizuka continued. "Once X, Angel of Fear came into play it became practically impossible for us to harm either of you. Katsu had a solid defense between having his Guardof Excerion in the graveyard to protect his monsters from effects, plus another on the field, teamed with various traps to maintain a solid defense. We were then going to go after Eizan, but with X's effect of Fear Counterstrike we couldn't do anything. But thanks to Ukon's attacks forcing him to use X's ability, he no longer has any cards to discard."
Widening his eyes slightly, Eizan waited for her to finish. When she did not say anything he asked, "Will you be attacking me then, instead of Katsu this turn?"
"You bet I am!" Shizuka cried, her tone very energetic. "Paladin Nexus, attack X, Angel of Fear!" Hefting his claymore, the mighty knight charged in, arms raised over his head.
"I wont allow this, that I will not." Eizan said, pressing a button on his duel disk. Instantly on of his two remaining set cards flipped up.
There was a flash of light from within the prison of ice, amplified by the prismatic design of the ice. When it cleared the shattering of glass could be heard, and it was revealed that Nexus had stopped just before running straight into the pile of ice, which had caved in on itself. Eizan's angel was no where to be found.
"What...happened?" Shizuka asked, blinking repeatedly.
"I activate my set card, Rise to Heaven, that I did." Eizan explained, very calmly as he point at the now face up card. "It removed X, Angel of Fear from the game, where he will remain until my next end phase. However, I do gain his attack as life points." (ELP:11350)
"So...you opened yourself up to a direct attack?" Yusuke asked, scratching his chin in confusion.
"He wanted the life points to survive my attack and then get X back next turn." Shizuka said, understandingly. "Well, fine, I'll play your game. Paladin Nexus, attack Eizan directly!" Lifting his sword again, the large warrior resumed his charge.
Depressing another button on his duel disk Eizan smiled in his ever friendly manner as his other set card activated. "You made a mistake, Shizuka. After all, if that had been my plan then I would have removed Nexus to gain far more life points, as well as preventing X's destruction since Nexus was the only one with enough attack points to defeat X, Angel of Fear."
"Then...what is your-" Shizuka began to ask, but her voice caught itself in her throat when she looked at the second trap card, which had fully revealed itself. "Oh hell..."
"Jusgement of Heaven can only activate when I am attacked directly," Eizan said, mostly for the sake of those watching. "It removes all of your attack mode monsters from the game."
There was a huge flash of light above Shizuka's field, and when it had faded her field was completely empty, except for the one card she still had face down.
Eyes wide, she continued to stare in horror at Eizan, the man who had anticipated her move so well that he'd managed to gain as much as possible, both in terms of life points and also in clearing her field! How had he done it? She was a professional rank duelist!
"I...I summon a monster in defense mode and end my turn." she finally said, her eyes slowly beginning to narrow with frustration.
"Then it is my turn once again, that it is." Eizan said, topdecking. "I play Graceful Charity." Drawing three new cards, he calmly took the two cards on either side and inserting them into his graveyard. "I discard two Repayment of Losses, so I now am allowed to draw two more cards."
Most of the audience now were rather surprised by just those two simple, intermingling plays. He had just topdecked himself to three cards! And using a card that normally promotes no hand advantage!
Drawing the new cards, Eizan looked his now descent options open when his eyebrows shot up for a moment in surprise, though it went unnoticed by most.
"I will set one card face down and then summon Ascended Man (1200/500) in defense mode." In place of the cards he had used just a turn before now appeared a single set card. Next was a man who looked just like the Ascending Man he'd defended Katsu with earlier, only his robes where white and he seemed to have a new, inner glow. Also he had large wings that spread back about five feet or so, though currently they were curled around his body.
Turning to his partner, he finished up with a nod. "Katsu, it's time you did what you should have done last turn." he ended. At the same time his crimson-winged angel reappeared on the field, free from Ukon's trap card since it had left the field.
"I decided to exercise patience." the head of Ra Yellow responded, though if he was trying to make a joke then the effectiveness was swallowed up by his stone cold persona. Snapping a card off of his deck, he began.
Holding a hand out over his graveyard, he waited for a second or two for it to spit a card out, which he slipped into the side pocket of his yellow blazer. "I remove my second Priest of Excerion in the graveyard from play to special summon the third and final Divine Dragon-Excerion (1500+600/900)."
There was an audible roar that filled the stadium as the field once again was intruded upon by one of the silver scaled dragons. However, the question on most peoples mind was in connection with Excerion's attack points. After all, the Soldier of Excerion destroyed a while ago only gave a three hundred point boost...
"So," Ukon said in his matter-of-fact tone. "The monster you had set and which I consequently destroyed last turn was another Soldier of Excerion, was it?"
"It was." Katsu affirmed. "However, what you should worry about is Excerion's power."
"Why's that?" Ukon scoffed. "The strongest it could get is thirty-one hundred, since you can't stack the effects of Excerion, no matter how many are in your grave."
"You forget." Katsu said, his tone still a low growl, despite the fact that he seemed to be pleased with something. "You forget that Brood of Excerion is different from having a Divine Dragon-Excerion in the graveyard. Excerion get's an effect for each copy of it I have in the graveyard. However, the Broods do not get counted as extra Excerion's while in the grave. Instead, while in the grave they give each Excerion on the field either one thousand attack points, a second attack if it destroys a monster in battle, or the ability to deal direct damage equal to the attack points of a monster it destroys. Therefore, I am allowed to use the Broods to my hearts content."
Eyes wide, Katsu watched as the shining leviathan howled lightly while the flames around it grew exponentially. Once the growth of his monster had stopped, Katsu spoke again.
"I choose to increase Divine Dragon-Excerion's attack by one thousand for Throne of Excerion and then another two thousand for two of the broods. Then I will give him his other two effects from the two Excerion's in the graveyard, and then I shall bestow on him the ability to deal a destroyed monsters attack as direct damage." Eyes wide, everyone took in the site of the monster at fifty-one hundred attack points.
'Wait,' Kazuki said to himself. 'I don't understand. All he did was use a Brood to give his monster the same text twice. That doesn't make any sense, as it shouldn't make a difference as to the effectiveness of the ability.'
"I play Excerion's Wingbeat!" Katsu called, slapping the card from his hand into a magic zone. "This card requires me to have a Divine Dragon-Excerion on the field, and destroys all enemy magic and trap cards!"
The flames circling the dragon began to move faster around it's body and then began to gather on its back. Then they shifted and took the shape of four magnificent sapphire wings of flame, which it began to beat furiously. With each flap it released a rain of blue flames which washed over the fields of the three siblings, burning away their set cards, followed by powerful gusts which blew the ashes away.
"I chain with my set card," Ukon shouted over the beating winds. "Waboku to prevent you from dealing us battle damage this turn!"
"Activate face down card," Eizan called back. "Angel's Mandate costs me one angel from my field, but then it negates any card effect you use."
With a solemn look, the monk on his field broke apart into thousands of dots of light from the feet up. The lights became swept up in a spiral of wind which carried them across to Ukon and his set card, swirling around the image of his trap card before shattering it.
"Also, when Ascended Man goes to the graveyard I am allowed to draw one card and then special summon another from my deck." Drawing from his deck, Eizan picked up a second card which was ejected from the middle of his deck and placed it sideways on the plate of his duel disk.
His trap card gone, Ukon took an involuntary step back. He had lost both of his defense cards, and Allied Forces was also gone, weakening each of his monsters. Then again, even with his magic card they still wouldn't have stood a chance against Katsu's dragon.
"I see that you know what's coming." Katsu said solemnly. "Divine Dragon-Excerion (5100) attack with Divine Flame Strike!"
Curling back its entire body, the dragon prepared its massive attack. Clenching his teeth, Ukon waited the few seconds it would take, though they felt much longer to him. On either side of him his brother and sister were both watching him with worried expressions.
"Don't worry about me, you two. Just finish it." he finally said, then turned back to Katsu's beast and nodded.
As if on cue, Excerion snapped its head down and released another volley of its flames, consuming Ukon's Celestial Teutonic (2500). Then the dragon reared back again and spat out two smaller balls of fire, though they were still big, nearly as big as Ukon himself. One after the other they struck the ground in front of Ukon, bursting on impact.
"Now you will lose twenty-five hundred life points from Excerion, who inherited that effect from having another Divine Dragon in the grave, and then again for my having a Brood of Excerion in the graveyard. Together that is seventy-six hundred points of damage." Katsu explained, though if he was happy with this was hard to tell. (ULP:0)
Hanging his head, the oldest of the three dueling siblings turned around and walked out of the arena. As he dropped the two feet down to the ground, he called over his shoulder, "Use it." To this, Katsu and Eizan both raised their eyebrows.
"He's right." Shizuka sighed, reaching for her deck, Yusuke following suit. "Magic card activates from our decks!"
At the same time both duel disks beeped and ejected cards from the decks, which Shizuka and Yusuke picked up and slipped into their respective magic zones.
"Farewell Sacrifice!" they called simultaneously. Both Eizan and Katsu watched with blank stares, neither having heard of this card.
"This is a card Pegasus made just for us to use in this duel." Yusuke explained. "It can only be used in a team duel, and activates when a teammate loses. All remaining members of the team shuffle their hands, decks and graveyards together." They both did so.
"Then we may exchange cards from our side decks with our restored decks." Shizuka continued as she and her older brother took a number of cards from their pockets and set them on top of their decks, then sifted through their cards and took a number of cards out before shuffling again. "Finally, we draw five new cards each." Again, they did so.
"I see." Eizan mused. "Now that your teammate is out, you need to change strategies, that you do. Up until now, you've used a hard paced pattern, first with Yusuke using his Templars effects to weaken our monsters. Next with Ukon to use his large number of monsters to try and whittle down our resources. Finally, Shizuka, with the impressive attack abilities of her Paladins, to try and finish us off. However, since Ukon is now lost from the circuit, you both need to adjust how you play, that you do."
Both siblings nodded in response, confirming what he and Katsu had known all along.
Once it was obvious that neither sibling had anything else to do concerning the new card, Katsu took another card, decreasing his hand to two as he did so. Pausing before slipping it into his magic zone, though, he cast a glance to his left, watching his partner, who nodded in the affirmative. Narrowing his eyes with determination, Katsu activate the card.
"Reparations allows all players to discard up to three cards from their hand and then draw that many cards from their deck." he said as he and Eizan both held up a single card, half of their current hands, and in Eizan's case, the card he had kept in his hand after playing Graceful Charity; the same card which he had taken special notice of.
At the same moment, they spoke, turning their chosen cards around to show their opponents.
"Soul Renewal!" Eizan called at the same time that Katsu declared "Soul Burial!" At the same time they dropped the cards into their graveyards, and then again with the card they had each left in their hand.
Instantly their duel disks beeped and began to shoot cards out of their respective graveyards while at the same time ejecting their decks.
"This card activates upon being discards, that it does." Eizan explained. "It shuffles my hand, deck and graveyard together and allows me to then draw five new cards, much like your Farewell Sacrifice does. However, I am not allowed access to my side decks, that I am not." Drawing five new cards, plus two more for discarding Soul Renewal and his other card from his hand.
"I, however," Katsu interjected. "Would rather keep my graveyard as is, for the most part. So I am discarding my Soul Burial card which allows me only shuffle a maximum of ten cards from my graveyard into my deck, but I do gain one hundred life points for each card I shuffle in. Then I draw until I hold five cards" Fanning out eight cards, he shuffled them into his deck and then drew seven cards, five from his Soul Burial and then two from his Reparations.
"It's almost as if it's a whole new duel, that it is." Eizan smiled. "Shall we continue?"
To Be Continued...
That was fun. Some intense dueling, ne? And now it's about to get even more so. Crazy.
I would now like to announce that with this chapter I have reached and passed the one hundred page mark on this story. This chapter started on page ninety-nine and ended on page one-fourteen. Therefore this is also one of, if not the longest chapter of this story so far. So yay! Raise the roof...or something like that.
Also, since my bike is currently in the shop I am now walking to and from work. Today I felt inspired to start assigning theme songs to various characters from this story. So far I only have a few, but it's growing. In truth, I got this idea from Seeker of the Soul, who I think got the idea from kubo Tite, the writer of Bleach, but either way it's a cool idea. As such, if anyone wants a character portrait for a certain character, including trivia data about a character, along with theme song, let me know in a review or a Private Message or something like that.
And speaking of music...the next chapter will be a few days down the road, since I'm going to a concert tomorrow right after work (For once I'm glad I live so close to D.C., allowing me to go see Trapt and Shinedown in one place in one night!). Also, at work it's getting more busy, since the system I've been supposed to be using is finally up and running, and we've been running tests on it all week long. This means that I will no longer have several hours a day while at work to write. Which is unfortunate. That's been the key to my speedy updates these past few chapters.
Anyway, enough rambling. Next chapter I will finish the duel, I promise...unless it gets to be too long. I don't have any of it scripted, and since I reshuffled the decks, you never know what could happen.
Original Cards-
Katsu (Unless states otherwise they're by Nick)-Alter of Sacrifices (Me), Soul Burial (Me), Blitz Counterattack (Me), Reparations (Me), Throne of Excerion (Me), Brood of Excerion, Speaker for Excerion, Guard of Excerion, Excerion's Divine Roar, Soldier of Excerion, Priest of Excerion, Excerion's Wingbeat, Temporal Disruption (Seeker)
Eizan- Uranus, Angel of Good Will (Seeker), Heavenly Glow (Used last chapter, I forgot to mention I made it), Angelic Array, Angel's Mandate (Seeker), Ascending Man (Seeker), Ascended Man (Seeker), Pluto, Angel of Weakening (Seeker), Neptune, Angel of Emancipation (Seeker), Tears of and Angel (Seeker), X, Angel of Fear (Seeker), Rise to Heaven (Seeker), Judgement of Heaven (Seeker), Holy Shine God (Seeker), Fusion Separation, Soul Renewal (Seeker), Repayment of Losses (Seeker), Ascension (Used last chapter, but again, I forgot)
Yusuke/Ukon/Shizuka-All mine unless it's a card you specifically recognize from the show
Next Time-The duel has taken a new shape as the decks are reset, strategies altered, and the number of opponents for Eizan and Katsu to defeat is down by one. It's time for the end game, but who has the resolve and the power to go to the end?
Next Time-Professional Duel, Pt. 3; Heaven's Cries