Chapter 27: All's well that end's wellâalmost
"How could you beat me?" growled Paul furiously. "I had you beat; you were done for" "You dueled well Paul. I never had so much trouble with demons. But you need to be more honorable in your fights. Toying your opponent is just asking for a surprise turn of events." "Don't you dare lecture me" said Paul again. "Since you don't want to hear any lectures, I suggest you keep your end of the promise and leave. I don't want to see you in these parts ever again." Paul turned to leave. "Okay, I'll go. But I guarantee that the name of Paul "The Reaper" Grimm will be feared once again." Paul started to journey into toward the noon sun and eventually disappeared over the horizon. Once he was far enough, he turned around and smiled. Out of a pouch he pulled out the dark magician of chaos card. "Now for the Masamune." Paul got away with a chaos monster after all.
The archangels, Joan, and Shinato bid Danny farewell and returned to the sanctuary in the sky. The dark scorpions also came to Flur with Jacob. Apparently, the chaos witch doctor sent him to the gap between dimensions. When Shinato was repairing everything, he managed to get him out. But he was fuming over the lost of the chaos soldier. He turned down Danny's offer to stick around and gave the dark scorpions a rude sign when they teased him about being taken out so quickly. They took their leave shortly after they dropped Alice and the other tavern girls off. Everyone left Danny and Alice to themselves, although Danny still held the now sleeping Lindsey in his arms. "You are such a terrible man Danny" said Alice with slight anger. "How could you let that madman get away with what he did?!" "Paul has received enough punishment to last him a long time. He finally realizes that he was not as invincible as he thought." "Well, I hope you're looking for about 20 new roommates because me and the girls have no where to go." "Can't you just stay here in the city? I can talk to the chief. Me and him and make sure that you and the others have normal lives here. "And what will we do here? Our skills will only be appreciated by dirty old men, vengeful wives, or blackmailers. Do you have a problem with us staying with you?" "No it's not that" Danny nervously scratched his head. "I'm just a little nervous living with a small army of women. Plus I don't have the room. I'm going to already have to make another small room for my new apprentice here." He smiled at Lindsey. "That's just fine Danny. Because from what I heard, the amazons have been looking for you too. They want to move closer to you. We can build a city together. A small forest paradise which will be every man's fantasy to visit. And you will be the only man allowed inside. What do you think?" Danny started to sweat a little. He heard Shinato's voice in his head. Go ahead son. It's obvious that you want it. Who wouldn't? Just be a good boy okay? Okay Alice, we'll do it." The hospital elder also found his way to Danny. "Mr. Chambers, thank you so much for helping to save the city. I see you found Lindsey. Have you made up your mind?" "I have elder. I will take Lindsey under my wing. I want to talk to Shinato to see if I can train both Lindsey and Demetra to be valkeryes." "Female Paladins?" "Why not?" said Danny with a smile. "Priestesses always did what I did with more style, and everyone likes priestesses and valkeryres more anyway." He smiled. I guess you know best then. If it's alright with you, I'm giving you permission to take her now. She's your responsibility now. Just please let her visit her family and friends here every couple of days here." "You have my word elder." He nodded and returned to the hospital. Alice, grateful and relieved to be near the man she loves, walked close to Danny. And Rosa her task completed, ran to an alley, activated her time warp, took one last look at Danny and was hopefully returning to a safer and happier future. And from afar off, another shadowy being looked at Flur from afar off. He had observed all that happened and was impressed. "Well done Danny. You may make my mission a little more amusing. I'm coming soon to take what beings to me." He laughed, turned into a winged woman, and sped off.
Epilogue
Want to now what happened to everyone after the story. Here it is:
Danny Chambers- Danny married Alice finally and all those who were with him started to work on their paradise. Once completed, Danny has been elected to take charge of the new amazon nation. Eventually even elves and faeries wanted to merge with the promising city. It soon became a sister city to Flur.
Paul Grimm- Paul kept his word about leaving Danny alone. He still never plans on attacking Danny again. His rare hunters disbanded and Paul has gone solo trying to reclaim the Masamune sword from the underworld.
Lindsey Dobson- Lindsey became the apprentice that Danny always wished he had. She inherited Danny's deck and since she was to become a valkerye, she furthered her training by learning magic from Danny and the elves and became quite the bow slinger with the amazon's training. She's growing up to be a beautiful and powerful warrior.
Demetra Novax- The instant she became revived, she was commissioned to be a wandering priestess. For about a year, she would return to Danny to renew her white magic and holy powers. In addition, her spirits were released and she was forbidden to use necromancy. Grateful for her next chance at life, she completed her refreshing training and traveled the world, healing the sick and aiding the weak.
Dark Ruler Ha des/Shinato- After his failed attempt to conquer the world, the surviving demons were now too doubtful and scared to cause too much trouble. Shinato and the other angels laughed at Ha des frustrating attempts to regain his former glory.
Rosa Greywind- Indeed, through the efforts of Atamus, the angels and all those who fought in the struggle of chaos was successful in saving the future. She rejoined Matthias and the rest of the A forces. With light and darkness in balanced, there was no need to hide anymore. Mankind prospered once again. Rosa and Matthias married also.
Jacob Chambers- Tired from all the teasing he received from the scorpions, Jacob went solo. He wandered the lands and became known as a spunky but obnoxious warrior. He visits Danny every now and then. Danny asked an amazon warrior to join Jacob along with Pfil and Pamela to look after him. They accepted. Recently Jacob came across the mysteriously rebuilt spirit temple and after going in and winning and impossible fight, Jacob has gained the aid of the legendary sphinxes.
Madalgo and Maho- The two magicians set up a magic shop in the amazon nation. They also built a magician school for both white and black magicians. White Magician Periku and Lindsey Dobson are among some of the students there. The two young magicians also help Madalgo and Maho perform magic shows for festivals.
Fairy King Truesdale- Now that the dark lord was gone, peace returned to the sea dwelling folk. Truesdale formally apologized for his involvement with the reaper and an alliance treaty was signed between Danny and Truesdale. He has given the other former rare hunters a home in his kingdom and all of them have changed for the better. On a sadder note, still no efforts were made to get Terrell from the shadow realm. On being asked why, Truesdale offered no comment.
Nurse Angel Lily- Although disappointed that Danny married already, Lily occasionally visited Danny in his dreams. She continually reminded that she would have her turn with him once he passed on. Shinato ordained Lily the official Guardian Angel of the new amazon nation and was made the sixth archangel. Danny would be the seventh once he died.
The mysterious shadow warrior has not been seen around since that last time at Flur. He had has manifested himself in Danny's dream though. Not knowing what's in store for him involving this strangely familiar man, Danny is now polishing his skills.
Credits
I would like to thank Paul Grimm and Jacob Stoker, real life duelists, for their involvement and input in this story. I would also like to thank Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of Yugioh, for creating the one of the best animes and the absolute best card game. Just for the record, the last duel was stylized. It started out as an actual duel but some changes had to be made to fix come timing and calculation mistakes. Also note that Paul does not really have an archfiend deck. He went away and I didn't have his actual deck to use for the story. Also, to follow storyline, Lily's card was substituted for Dunames Dark Witch. I hope they don't edit that card. Down with Upper Deck editing!
(Does his best Mario impersonation) thank you so much for reading my story. See you next time! Hopefully original fan art will be available in the future. Stay tuned