Okay, well, I'm back from vacation! And it was great! Anyway, I was so happy with last duel! I really wanted to Chazz to win with only a few lifepoints left, and I had already planned how Chazz would win with that combo and the effects/stats of the gryphons, but the rest of the duel I was making up as I went along, so I was so happy when it turned out Chazz would actually win with only 100 lifepoints left!
Also, I already have chapters 12-15 planned out. I know pretty much wat is going to happen in them, and by the end… nah, I won't spoil it. Anyway, I really just need to decide exactly wat the decks will be. Well, enjoy! RER!
Oh, and before I forget, any scene transitions will be displayed by a double gray bar, with wat the scene is transitioning to in between. Also, if it is going to a place like the bad guy's headquarters, or where a group of people are meeting, I will probably just put "somewhere" and then describe where it is in the actual story.
Monsters, Magic, and More!
"Is anyone there?" Syrus asked at the desk for the card shop.
"Oh, I'll be there in just a second!" Syrus heard Ms. Dorothy say. About 10 seconds later she emerged from behind the curtain. "Hey there Syrus," She said," What can I do ya for?"
"Um," Syrus stammered, "Did you get that new set that came out?"
"Sure did!" Ms. Dorothy replied with a smile.
"Well can I please buy one?" Syrus asked, putting money on the counter. "I heard there were some good new vehicroids in there."
"Sure!" Ms. Dorothy said, taking the money. She took out the card pack and handed it to Syrus. The background was forest green, and it had a picture of a glowing magician cloaked in green holding a jade staff (A/N: This is just a random monster picture that I just made up right now).
I gotta look through these cards fast, Syrus thought as he opened the pack. I don't wanna be late for Alexis' surprise. He saw the first card was a spell card with a bunch of small monsters on it. The next a strange monster with a bunch of drills. His third card was a girl cloaked in red holding a staff. His next card was a trap card with a green monster stuck to a pool of purple goo. His fifth card was a magic card with the picture of a sunsetand a river. He then flipped to his last card. It featured two arms hand in hand with power surging between them.
Just then Jaden ran by the card shop, and when he saw Syrus in it, he stopped and yelled "C'mon Syrus! We don't wanna miss the ferry!"
"What?" Syrus asked, looking up. "Oh, okay! Coming!" Syrus quickly put the last card in his deck(he didn't have time to read its name or effect, but he saw it had gold lettering, so it can't be too bad, can it?) and put the other cards in his back pocket. Then he began running into the hallway and then to the ferry with Jaden.
They finally reached the ferry, and everyone (Alexis, Chazz, Bastion, Zane, Kaito, and Masato) else was already on the ferry. Jaden quickly scanned his ID card and went on to the ferry. Syrus scanned his but it didn't work! He instinctively turned his card around and scanned it, correctly this time, and boarded the ferry. As if on cue, the ferry left as soon as Syrus was on board.
"Well," Bastion remarked. "That went a lot better than last time. So, Alexis, what do you have planned for us."
"Well," Alexis said with happy anime eyes (A/N: I know, bad writing, but you know what I'm talking about! Its the semi-circle eyes, that look sort of like two shift + 6s) "
See for yourself!" She held up a flyer.
" 'Come see the amazing world famous magician Arkana (A/N: Well, I bet you can predict what is gonna happen (and if you don't, you really need to see battle city))," Chazz read aloud. " 'Be amazed by his spectacular magical masterpieces. And all duelists, bring your decks, for one lucky person will be able to duel the master magician!' Sounds like a junky show to me."
"Oh come on!" Alexis said. "It sounds fun!"
"Well, I don't really like magic shows either," Syrus groaned.
"Why not?" Alexis asked.
"I don't want to talk about it," Syrus said. "Let's just say it involved therapy. Lots of therapy..."
"Well, I think it sounds fun!" Jaden remarked optimistically.
Bastion and Kaito sighed and simultaneously said, "I just hope his tricks aren't too hard to figure out." Freaked out, they exchanged odd glances then took a step away from each other.
"Oh come on guys!" Masato said. "Honestly, I don't really wanna see it, but why not give it a shot!"
"Because,"Zane said, finally speaking. "Some of us have better things to do."
"Well," Alexis said. "If you don't wanna do it, I can always show the chancellor these!" Alexis took out7 pictures from her pocket.
"What are those?" Kaito asked.
"Each of these is a picture of you in the girl's obelisk blue dorm," Alexis explained. "Anyone who doesn't see the show is going to be expelled."
"BUT WE WERE NEVER IN THE GIRL'S DORM ANYWAY!" The boys yelled.
"I know," Alexis said winking. "But I took a digital editing class. I knew it would be useful! Well, except for Jaden and Syrus. Those pictures are from when you really were in the girl's dorm."
"You were in the girl's dorm?" Chazz asked.
"Well... uh... yeah! I guess..." Jaden said. "But we had good reason to!"
"Which is...?" Chazz asked.
"Well," Jaden explained. "Some girl wrote me a love letter that was 'from Alexis' that told me to go to the girl's dorm, but then Syrus found it and thought it was for him, and so he went to the girl's dorm, and then Alexis dueled me, and if I lost me and Sy would be expelled, but I won, but we dueled at the girl's dorm, so that's why we were there."
"Right." Chazz said. "Whatever."
"So," Alexis asked. "Are we going to the magic show or not?"
"Oh, we are."
"Uh, yes! Definitely!"
"Well, of course!"
"I guess I will since you're basically forcing us t-OW!"
"Shut up Jaden," Chazz said quietly after he jabbed Jaden in the ribs with his elbow.
"Good!" Alexis said with happy anime eyes. She then turned around, leaned on the railing, and watched the sea.
For the rest of the boat ride, Alexis just watched the sea while the guys talked quietly to each other about dueling and how weird Alexis was acting. When they finally reached shore, they departed from the ferry and Alexis led them to the theater, which was only about 5 blocks from the port. They walked in to the main room (in this theater there is only a main room and the actual theater). It was pretty big; it had plain white walls and white marble floors. All around were banners, flyers, and posters about Arkana's performance. However, not one showed his face. Also in the main room was a closed concession stand. There was a good size crowd in the theater; the doors to the theater were open but it seemed that most of the people hadn't noticed. The octet entered the theater and found good seats in the first row...
Behind the curtain, with Arkana (A/N: Remember, this is how I said I would do scene transitions? Well, anyway, it is! deal with it!)
Arkana opened the curtain a crack and looked at the people entering the theater. What a big crowd for this show! He thought. I knew putting spells on my poster would help me get people. And it is all thanks to those shadow games. Speaking of which, who shall be my victim for this show... He scanned around the room, and then he saw 8 teenagers enter, each wearing a duel academy uniform (well, except for one, which had black clothes and overly spikey black hair.) Hmm... the ones in red... they are supposed to be the easiest, so now which one should I defeat? He saw a red-haired one and a brunette talking happily to each other. Too much confidence... Then he saw the third one in red; he was short and had a lot of blue hair. He was looking down at the ground. The boy was listening on the other two red's conversation, but he wasn't really participating. Yes. Low self confidence; he will be easy to defeat. He's the one...
Back with everyone else...
(A/N: Everyone I talk about here is the order they're in the seats, going from left to right) Alexis was... just sitting in her seat. Not doing anything, although she did have the happy anime eyes. Zane was watching Alexis and being freaked out by her behavior. Kaito was reading a book. Masato and Jaden were talking about dueling, and Syrus was listening in, but not talking. And on the end, Bastion and Chazz were just sitting and moping."Y'know, have you noticed something odd?" Bastion asked.
"Like what?" Chazz asked in his snottish attitude.
"Well, first of all, don't you think it's strange that there isn't any admission fee at all? And there isn't any staff."
"Hmm... that is strange." Chazz agreed.
"Also," Bastion said. "I've been asking random people, and nobody has heard of this guy before, despite the fact that he is 'world famous'"
"Something fishy is going on here." Just then the lights started to dim. "Oh, and it looks like we're going to have to stay and found out what that something is," Chazz said as he pointed to the exit doors which were automatically closing, and then locking.
"This could be bad."
"Well, just shut up," Chazz whispered. "Alexis is looking over here. And the way she's been acting, she'll probably beat us up if we talk during the show." Bastion just nodded and laughed silently.
"Ladies and gentleman!" A voice said from speakers scattered around the room. "Prepare yourself to be amazed by the master magician, Arkana!" The curtains opened revealing a man in a red suit and a red tophat. He also had a mask which covered the upper part of his face, andhad green and black vertical stripes.
"Welcome!" Arkana cried. "To the most spectacular show on earth! I can assure you that this show will be one you will never forget!" And thanks to my shadow magic, I won't be doing meretricks... The show droned on, until finally Arkana did a finale in which he made 3 copies of himself, which could actually hold things and move around. "And now, as I promised, I will give somebody the honor of dueling me!" He pretended to look upon the audience (which had quite a few people waving their hands to get picked; they had become fans of his during the show, after all, his 'tricks' were pretty good!), when he then looked at the blue-haired boy and declared "You! In the front row with the blue hair! You shall duel me!"
"Umm... I'm not very good," the boy said.
"Oh come on Sy!" the brunette boy said. "You'll do fine!"
"Jaden I don't want to!" the blue-haired boy yelled.
"Oh, why not?" Jaden said. "I bet you'll win!"
"Yeah right," 'Sy' said as he reluctantly climbed onto the stage.
"Your name is 'Sy'?" Arkana asked.
"Well, 'Sy' is actually short for 'Syrus'" Syrus explained.
"Oh, okay." Arkana said. "Now prepare to duel!" A red and green duel disk (that matches his outfit) appeared on Arkana's arm. Arkana then gave Syrus a normal white and blue duel disk (which he made magically appear). Arkana drew 5 cards and said, "You first."
Arkana: 4000; Syrus: 4000
(A/N: Okay, this is random, but i'm going to start saying how many cards are in both player's hands, just to help me so I don't make a person use more cards than they have, so that is going be the random numbers. Also, when they summon monsters, it afterward in parentheses it will say (level;attack/defense)) "Okay," Syrus said as he drew his sixth card. "I set a monster(5) and end my turn."
That's it?Arkana thought as he drew. This will be easier than I expected. "First, I summon Skilled Dark Magician(5;1900/1700) in attack mode! Then I play Toon Table of Contents, which allows me to move one toon card in my deck to my hand, and I choose another Toon Table of Contents. I'll then use that one to get my third Toon Table of Contents. And finally, I use that to get a Toon Cannon Soldier(5;1400/1300)! However, now that 3 spell cards have been activated while Skilled Dark Magician has been in play, I can tribute him to special summon Dark Magician(2500/2100) from my deck!" The younger magician began to grow, and soon he was a Dark Magician cloaked in red. "Now, attack his face-down!"
A redish jet with toon eyes appeared. "You attacked my Jetroid!" Syrus declared. "When you attack him, I can activate a trap from my hand, and I choose Sakuretsu Armor(4)!"
"All right Syrus!" Jaden cheered out from the audience.
The armor enclosed around Dark Magician, but when Dark Magician came in contact with Jetroid, Jetroid and the armor disappeared, and Dark Magician attacked Syrus directly.
Arkana: 4000; Syrus: 1500
"What happened!" Syrus exclaimed.
"This," Arkana said, holding up a magic card. "It is called Dark Magic Illusion(4). It allows me to change the target of your card from my Dark Magician to one of your monsters, leaving you open to an attack.(A/N: Okay, this is what would really happen, don't tell me that dark magician attacked twice! Here is what happens: Dark magician attacks, sakuretsu armor activates, dark magic illusion activates and changes target to jetroid, jetroid is destroyed, because a monster entered/left Syrus' side of the field a reply occurs, dark magician attacks directly.) And because it is obvious I'm going to win, I think I'll start a shadow game!" The walls of the theater melted into the shadow's darkness...
"But how did you do that without a shadow card!" Syrus exclaimed.
"A shadow what?" Arkana asked.
"Uh... nothing! But how did you make a shadow game!"
"A magician never reveals his secrets," Arkana laughed.
"But then why!" Syrus demanded.
"Because," Arkana explained. "I realized that using the shadows, I could bring back my love Katherine! But I soon realized defeating people one by one would take too long. So I organized a show, in which I would duel one somebody in the audience. But however, not for just their soul, but for everyone else's, too!"
"So that means if I lose, everyone here will lose their soul!" Syrus yelled as his eyes widened.
"That's right," Arkana said. "I also enchanted all of my advertisements with shadow magic, so some people who saw them would be hypnotized into seeing my show."
So that's why Alexis has been acting so strange, Syrus thought.
"And now I end my turn." Arkana declared.
Syrus shakily drew a card(6) and activated it. "I activate Graceful Charity, so now I can draw three cards and discard two. Okay, so now I play Polymerization, fusing Rescueroid (A/N: With cards like rescueroid, it doesn't give the attack, so i'm just going to be making it up for some cards)(1000/1800) with my Kyuukyuuroid(800/1200) to form Reskyuukyuuroid(3;2300/1800) in defense mode. I then activate De-Fusion(2) to summon back Rescueroid and Kyuukyuuroid. I summon Decoroid(1;500/500) in defense mode and end." A small red car, a truck, and an ambulance all appeared on Syrus' side of the field, but looked very weak compared to Arkana's Dark Magician.
"Dark Magician attack the Rescueroid!" Arkana declared after he drew a card(5). The Dark Magician jumped over to Rescueroid and prepared to crush it with its staff. Just as it was about to destroy Rescueroid, Decoroid jumped and blocked the attack, however, Decoroid got destroyed in the process. Then Decoroid reappeared on the field. "What happened!"
"My monsters' special effects." Syrus said, smiling. "First, my Decoroid prevents you from attacking any other monster. Second, my Rescueroid returns any monster that is sent to my graveyard as a result of battle to my hand. Third, my Kyuukyuuroid special summons any monster returned to my hand from the graveyard."
"Fine." Arkana said. "I play the spell card Fissure(4) to destroy your Decoroid. I then end my turn."
After Syrus drew a card(2) he declared, "I summon Submarineroid(1;800/1800) in attack mode!" The small submarine appeared on the field. "And his special ability allows him to attack directly! But not only that; he'll switch to defense mode afterward, so I won't take any damage from him!" The submarine launched itself at Arkana. When it returned to Syrus's side of the field, is submerged so only its periscope was showing.
Arkana: 3200; Syrus: 1500
"I set a magic/trap(0) and end my turn."
"You'll pay for that," Arkana said as he drew(5).Hmm... if I attack Submarineroid, it'll just get summoned back. If I attack Kyuukyuuroid, Rescueroid will bring it back to his hand, allowing him to play it again. Therefore, I must "Attack Rescueroid!" Dark Magician raised its staff and let a Dark Magic attack out on Rescueroid, instantly destroying it.
"You activated my trap!"Syrus declared. Uh oh... Arkana thought. This could be trouble... "It's called Super Charge, and now that you've attacked a machine-type monster, I can draw two cards from my deck(2)!"
Phew... Arkana thought. "I set two magic/traps(4) and end my turn."
Syrus drew his card(3). "First I switch my Submarineroid into attack mode!" The submarine reemerged from the ground. "And now I attack!"
"Sorry, but I activate Sakuretsu Armor," Arkana said. The armor covered Arkana and when Submarineroid came in contact with him, it exploded.
"Fine. I set three magic/traps(0) and end my turn." My combo should destroy his Dark Magician this turn. Syrus thought.
Arkana drew his card(5). "Okay, Dark Magician, attack Syrus's last monster!"
"You just fell into my traps!" Syrus said. "I activate my first trap, Entry Forbidden! No Entry! This switches your Dark Magician to defense mode, and randomly discards a card from your hand!" Dark Magician kneeled in defense and Toon Cannon Soldier was sent from Arkana's hand to his grave(4). "And now that your Dark Magician has switched to defense mode, I can activate my other trap Tragedy, which destroys all of your defense position monsters!" Dark Magician was dragged down into the graveyard by a dark hand.
"I thought you had something like this planned," Arkana chuckled. "That's why I set this: Call of the Haunted!" Arkana's Dark Magician reappeared on the field. "Now attack his Kyuukyuuroid!" Dark Magician quickly fired a blast at the machine and destroyed it. "I end my turn."
Syrus drew his card(2). "I set a monster and a magic/trap(0), and then I end my turn."
"Not doing plays as well as you were earlier, now are you?" Arkana asked, smiling, as he drew his card(5). "Look at what I just got, Nobleman of Crossout(4), so now say good-bye to your face-down monster!"
A man in silver armor appeared, and slashed his sword through Syrus's Gyroid(1000/1000). "Oh no!" Syrus cried. "Now I'm defenseless!"
"Oh yes!" Arkana declared. "Now Dark Magician, end this duel!" Dark Magician fired a blast a Syrus, but two cylinders materialized. The blast went into one, and came out the other, right into Arkana.
Arkana: 700; Syrus: 1500
"How did you like my Magic Cylinder?" Syrus asked.
Arkana, now bruised, replied, "Impressive, but don't think you have me just yet. I activate the spell, Give and Take(3)! You get to draw cards until you have 5 in your hand(5) but I get 1000 lifepoints for each card you draw!
Arkana: 5700; Syrus: 1500
Syrus drew his hand, but saw it was worthless. "Well," Arkana said. "Judging from your face, I bet your hand isn't so good. I set a magic/trap(2) and end my turn. There isn't any way you can win. Why don't you just surrender?"
He's right... I can't win...Syrus thought. He looked down at the ground and slowly began to place his hand on his deck...
"NO!" Someone shouted. Syrus looked up and saw Jaden standing up. "You can't just give up Syrus! The game isn't over until the last lifepoint is gone!"
"Yeah bro." Zane said, standing up. "There is always hope. Believe in your deck."
"You can do it Syrus!" Kaito shouted, as he too stood up.
"Yeah Syrus!" Someone else exclaimed, shouting up.
"Don't give up!" Another person yelled. Many other people stood up and encouraged Syrus, until everyone in the entire room was standing up chanting "Syrus! Syrus!"
"Syrus," Jaden said calmly.(somehow Syrus could hear him over everyone else in the room. What? it's the shadow realm!) "Don't give up. You still have one more card to draw."
Syrus straightened up, with a determined look on his face. Syrus drew his card(6) and his face fell. "Jaden... you're wrong... I don't have a card to draw..." Then he regained his confident expression. "I have five! 'Cause I activate the card I got, Reload! This lets me shuffle the five cards in my hand back into my deck, and then draw five more!" Syrus did this, but he paused after drawing his fourth card. He inspected his hand... so far he really didn't have anything that would help him. Although he had to trust his deck. There had to be a card in his deck that could save him. He took a deep breath and drew... He had drawn the card he put in his deck earlier today! United We Stand... Syrus thought to himself as he quickly read the effect. When he finished, he smiled. "Alright, time to win!"
"Oh really? How!" Arkana laughed.
"With this!" Syrus declared. "First I summon Patroid(4;1200/1200) in attack mode and activate Scapegoat(3)!" The four sheep and the cartoon police card appeared on Syrus's side of the field.
"So?" Arkana asked.
"So I have United We Stand(2)!" Syrus said as he put the spell in his duel disk. "This increases my Patroid's attack and defense by 800 for each of my monsters, and because of Scapegoat, I have 5! So now my Patroid has 5200 attack points! But that's not all; I also activate Limiter Removal(1), so now my Patroid's attack is 10400, but he is destroyed at the end of the turn! And now..."
You will attack, and fall into my trap Arkana thought.
"I activate Patroid's special ability!"
"What?"
"It lets me see one set card on your side of the field, and I choose your magic/trap!" The card flipped up, showing a Sakuretsu Armor.
"Well, it seems you can't win because of my Sakuretsu Armor."
"Why not?" Syrus asked.
"Because, Patroid will be destroyed at the end of the turn no matter what!"
"Yeah," Syrus defended, "But I still have my sheep tokens to defend me!"
"I don't think so," Arkana said. He then shows Syrus a spell card in his hand. It had a picture of a green sphere with a circle of energy around it. "This is Diffusion Wave-Motion. For one turn, it will allow one level 7 or higher spellcaster--such as my Dark Magician--to attack all monsters on your side of the field!"
"Well, then it's good I have the final card in my hand!" Syrus declared. "I activate Search & Destroy! So now I can 'guess' what your face-down is to destroy it, and I obviously know it's Sakuretsu Armor!" Arkana's face-down card shattered. "And now, Patroid, attack Dark Magician and end this duel!" The police car zoomed down and rammed over Dark Magician, and then bashed into Arkana, sending him flying to the other side of the stage.
Arkana: 0; Syrus: 1500
The entire audience cheered for Syrus as the theater returned to normal. Arkana had fainted, due to loss of soul. "I did it?" Syrus asked nobody. "Yes! I did it!" He cheered as he jumped up and lunged his fist straight up into the air.
Created Cards
Dark Magic Illusion; Quick-Play Spell; You can activate this when a spell or trap card targets a "Dark Magician". Switch the target of the card to a monster on your opponent's side of the field.
Give and Take; Spell; Select and activate one of the following effect: -Draw cards until you have 5 cards in your hand. Increase your opponent's lifepoints by 1000 for each card you draw. -Your opponent draws cards until s/he has 5 cards in his/her hand. Increase your lifepoints by 1000 for each card they draw.
Search & Destroy; Continuous Spell; You can only activate this card's effect once per turn, during your Main Phase. Select one set card on your opponent's side of the field and declare a card name. Then look at the set card. If the set card is the declared card, destroy that card. If the set card is not the declared card, inflict 1000 points of damage to your lifepoints and return the set card to its original position.
Yay! I finally finished! Sorry it took so long, but for the past week hasn't really been working whenever I wanted to work on this (I uploaded the document to and i worked on it directly from Anyway, I hoped you enjoyed it! Also, somebody's OC is gonna appear in the next chapter...
Oh, and I'm having a little competition! The competition is telling me what the other 5 cards Syrus got in his pack. Either put him in your review (oh, and REVIEW!) or private message me. The prize is a spoiler for an up-and-coming chapter! And if u don't want the spoiler but want to enter the competition, just tell me that in your entry. And all the cards Syrus got are real cards so don't tell me they aren't. Lastly, they end of the competition will be when somebody correctly tells me all the cards Syrus got or when I update my next chapter, whichever comes first. If I update before someone gets them all right, then the winner will be the person with the most right. Good luck!
(Oh, and now this is my longest chapter! Yay!)