Sdrive: Well, here I am again, here to grace you all with my talents. Well, this time, because I promised him, I am allowing the Belated Peace Writer duel next. But because I'm being so nice, and since I should really let one of the actual cast duel, I'm going to make the Belated Peace Writer do the Disclaimer.
Peace: NO!!! I DON'T WANNA!
Sdrive: It's the price you pay.
Peace: Oh please, have mercy.
Sdrive: On one condition,
Peace: ANYTHING!
Sdrive: Since I am feeling really happy since I am listening to my newly aquired Anime CD, thanks Zenryo!
Zenryo: -thumbs up-
Sdrive: And because of this I am feeling VERY merciful…
Joey: So, can I have Junk Food?
Sdrive: Not THAT merciful
Joey: DAMN
Sdrive: I am going to let you skip the Disclaimer.
Peace: -sigh of relief- PHEW
Sdrive: But you have to duel one of the most ANNOYING of Marik's Rare Hunters.
Peace: Which one?
Sdrive: Well, let's just say you know him as the "I'm going to Exodia you with my Exodia"
Joey: That could be almost anyone.
Sdrive: Hey Vuvvles, not mine, yours, oh and great Fic. Everyone, go read Game Over by Vuvvles, and then after that you can read his Continue Gold Edition. In order to understand the concepts of jokes here, you have to read Gold Edition, and in order to understand THAT you need to read Game Over. And I promise, the rumors aren't true, just as Vuvvles said at the beginning it is NOT I repeat NOT poisonous to your health!
Vuvvles: -thumbs up-
Peace: Good lord no.
Sdrive: Hey, I could make you face, Espa Roba, who was renowned as 'The Greatest Psychic in the- shhhhhhhh! I'm trying to pretend to be psychic, Steve! Stop talking into the headset so loud! I already know what's in his hand, I heard you the first time! I think he can hear you talking! You guys need to be quiet, or he'll hear you and figure out I'm cheating!- World'. Also Vuvvles joke.
Vuvvles: -another thumbs up-
Peace: I'll take on Exodia dude.
Sdrive: I thought so. Now, in order to get you out of the disclaimer, hmmm, hey I know, -travels to the Country of Japan- hey Yûko!
Yûko: Hello Sdrive, been a long time,
Sdrive: It has, could you do the disclaimer?
Yûko: It will cost you a price. Hmmm, I know, let me be the next duelist that the Pharaoh has to face as a guest appearance and you have yourself a disclaimer.
Sdrive: Deal.
Yûko: Sdrive Doesn't Own, Yugioh, XXX Holic (where I find my origins), Tsubasa (where I can ALSO be found), or any of Vuvvles Jokes.
Sdrive: Thanks, see ya next chapter.
Yûko: See ya then. Now, Watanuki, bring me my beer.
Watanuki: You have drank too much already!
Sdrive: Also, being on the safe side, incase Refuse Pay is a card created by Mad Bless You, it's his not mine. K? K! On with the story already!
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Peace was walking out of the Hotel. He had a peaceful night (A/N No pun intended. Sorry, last one, I swear) and was ready for the days challenges. He walked off to find a good restaurant. On his way he saw Alice, he waved to her and she waved back. He kept going and before he knew what was happening a cloaked figure blocked his path. "Who are you?" Peace asked the cloaked figure.
"I am here to challenge you to a duel. When I win I'll take your rare card to Master Marik."
"Dream on Rare Hunter!" Peace shot back as his Duel Disk unfolded. He placed his deck in it and drew his hand. "With the changes I made to my deck there's no way I'll lose to you! What's your name anyway?"
"My real name will not be revealed. But you can call me Saguchi, Saguchi the Exodia Duelist!"
"EXODIA!" Peace exclaimed.
"Yes, Now, I have 6 Rare cards!" Saguchi said allowing Peace to see them.
"Good, that means I'll be in the finals if I win!"
"That's IF you win. Now, let's duel!" Saguchi inserted his deck into the Duel Disk and both players' life points rose to 8000. "First turn honors are mine!" Saguchi said drawing his cards. "I play Angles Gift allowing me to draw three and drop two." Saguchi drew three cards and then discarded two to the graveyard. "I'll discard my Dark Elf and Skelengel, then I'll play my Pot of Greed, Greed is good." Saguchi drew his two cards and smiled. "I lay one monster on guard and one card under the table and end my turn."
"It's my turn!" Peace declared. "I activate Bait Doll to destroy your set card!" The card flipped up to reveal an Axe of Despair. "Darn, well, Now I activate own Pot of Greed. "I now play Dark Hole to obliterate the field of all monsters."
The swirling vortex appeared sucking up a three eyed furry creature. "You fool, your Spell Card triggered my hidden Sangan's effect. Now I search my deck for this, the Right Leg of the Forbidden One!" Saguchi said while he added the card to his hand."
'He has at least one piece of Exodia in his hand' Peace thought. "I summon Regenerating Mummy in attack mode!" Peace said as a mummy appeared on his side of the field. Its stats showed it to be an 1800/1500. "Go Regenerating Mummy! Attack the player!" The mummy went towards Saguchi and slashed him with its claws. Saguchi's Life Points dropped to 6200. "That ends my turn," Peace said.
"DRAW!" Saguchi yelled as he picked his card from his deck. "I activate the Sealing Swords of Light!" Saguchi cried as the swords rained from the sky and landed on Peace's side of the field. "Also I lay a monster on guard and that ends my turn. Mark my words, in just three turns, I will have won the duel!"
"The Sennen Symbol quickly shown on Peace's forehead. 'The Sennen Scale tells me he's not bluffing. He must have more than one Exodia piece in his hand. I just have to figure out how many. Hey, I bet I know just how to do it too!' "Hey Rare Hunter, how many Exodia pieces do you have in your hand?"
"What do you think I am, stupid? I'm not telling you."
"What? Are you afraid to hide how many you actually have in your hand? I thought that the 'almighty Exodia' wasn't scared of anything. A common duelist like me could never defeat it."
"You know what, you're right. Fine I'll tell you. I have 4"
The Symbol again flashed on Peace's forehead. Peace started smiling, "I don't believe you," he said. "I think you have less than 4 pieces." Saguchi looked a little troubled by this statement. "Well, at least I know he doesn't have 4, but he seems pretty confident either way. I'll take a guess at three pieces. Which leaves me a bit to be worried about, because he obviously doesn't have one, and if he isn't bluffing about being sure that he'll win in three turns, then I have to be careful.' "It's my move!" Peace said as he drew his card from the duel disk. 'This card could help me later' Peace thought. "I sacrifice my Regenerating Mummy to summon the Summoned Skull!" The mummy disappeared in a flash of light and the summoned Skull took its place. It rose from the ground and the swords appeared around it. "That will end my turn."
"And begin mine. I lay one card under the table and one monster on guard ending my turn"
"It's my turn!" Peace yelled.
"And response to you beginning your turn, I activate the Jar of Greed!"
"Yippie," Peace said sarcastically. "You know, you could have drawn the card you just drew through the powers of Jar of Greed last turn if you didn't have Jar of Greed in the way. It takes up room in the deck and just gets in the way. Now, to continue my turn," Peace looked at the card he drew. 'This would be awesome if I could just get to his life points,' Peace thought. "I set a card under the table and summon Drillago in attack mode."
"That was your second turn! One more and I win." Saguchi drew his card and smiled. I summon Dark Elf!" The Elf appeared smiling evilly. "I sacrifice 1000 life points to destroy that Drillago of yours!" The Dark Elf went over to Saguchi and pulled a small glowing orb from him. She focused her energy and watched as the orb became black. She smiled evilly at it and threw it at Drillago. Drillago blew to pieces as Peace's life points dropped down to 7600 and Saguchi's life points dropped to 5200. "That will end my turn."
Peace drew his card and smiled. "I drew the Mystical Space Typhoon which I use now!" The swords dissipated letting the Summoned Skull stretch out its wing like features. "Go Summoned Skull! Lightning Strike!" The Skull charged up its lightning attack and struck the Dark elf. Saguchi thought he saw a demon inside of the lightning. The lightning struck the Dark Elf and she blew to pieces. Then something shot out of the lighting bringing electricity with it. It hit a card in Saguchi's hand and the card was sent to the graveyard. Saguchi looked up and noticed Peaces Face Down card was activated. "I activated Robbin' Gobblin" Peace stated.
"What does that do?" Saguchi asked frightened.
"Whenever I do damage to your life points you automatically lose one card in your hand!" The goblin went back into the card.
Saguchi's life points dropped to 4700. He looked at his hand and grinned. Soon he started laughing uncontrollably. When he saw Peace's skeptical face he explained. "You missed my Exodia Piece. You took my Big Eye!" Peace looked a bit annoyed but ended his turn all the same. Saguchi drew his card. "Ahh perfect. I lay a card under the table and a monster on guard and that ends my turn. Prepare to lose it all!"
"Meh, I doubt it." Peace said as he drew the card. "I activate the Sealing Swords of Light!" The magical swords rained down on Saguchi's side of the field. His field was bathed in light and his monsters were revealed. "Two Witches of the Black Forests and a Wall of Illusions!"
"NO! Had you attacked I would have won!"
"Nice try Rare Hunter, but I ALWAYS look both ways before stepping into a trap. I summon the Goblin King in attack mode." A little Goblin appeared sitting on a throne. "My Goblin Kings special ability raises its attack and defense for every fiend on the field. That's 2 so Goblin King is a 2000/2000. I send it to destroy your Wall of Illusions!" The Goblin King got off the throne and destroyed the wall. It then disappeared in a flash of light. "Goblin King goes back to my hand and that does it for me."
"Saguchi drew his card and smiled wickedly. "HA! I sacrifice a Black Forest Witch to lay a monster on guard, and then I take the Right Arm of the Forbidden One, putting it in my hand. You're time is almost up. I lay one card under the table and I switch my witch to attack, attacking your down monster!"
The witch formed a shadow ball and threw it at the down card. A tiny reptilious creature appeared and then blew to pieces. "That was my Sinister Serpant! Next turn if I decide to bring him back from my graveyard and place him into my hand I may."
"Fine, I end my turn."
Peace drew his card, carefully. "He was stupid enough to not attack my skull with the witch and send it to the grave yard. He could have pulled the last Exodia piece. But he might do it next time. I just have to hope that I have drawn something that will save me! Peace looked at his card, he got an idea, he just had to hope it worked. "AND NOW, I SUMMON! SERVANT OF CATABOLISM!" A snail appeared on the field and it's stats showed it to be a 700/500.
"What does that do?"
"Servant of Catabolism's special ability allows it to attack your Life Points directly!"
"NO!"
"And now Servant of Catabolism, attack the player!" The snail shot out some acid that hit Saguchi in the stomach. Saguchi's Life Points dropped down to 4000. Suddenly from the acid a goblin shot up and snatched a card from Saguchi's hand and shoved it into the Graveyard.
"NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!"
"I'm guessing that I just beat Exodia!"
"Na-never, I will find a way to bring it back!"
"You won't bring it back! Summoned Skull, attack the Witch of the Black Forest!" The Skull charged up its lightning and blasted the Witch. The Goblin again burst out of the lightning and grabbed another card out of Saguchi's hand.
"Grrrr"
"And there goes another."
"I take what would have been the last piece from my deck and put it in my hand," Saguchi said as his life points dropped to 2700.
"I end my turn."
"I have to draw the card I need." Saguchi reached for his deck and pulled a card but he just frowned. "I lay a card on guard and end my turn."
"And now it's my move!" Peace exclaimed. "I lay a under the table. Now Servant of Catabolism, attack his life points!" The snail shot more acid at Saguchi and his life points lowered to 3300. "And now Summoned Skull attack his monster!" The Summoned Skull blasted the monster and Peace ended his turn.
"Saguchi drew his card and laughed. "I lay a card under the table and end my turn!"
"And now I draw!" Peace began.
"In return I activate Backup Soldier!"
"Oh no you don't! I activate Seven Tools of the Bandit!"
"NOOOO!!!"
Peaces life points dropped to 6600. "And now, I send my Servant to attack you and the Skull to attack the last monster you have." The card got destroyed by the skulls lightning and the snail shot Saguchi in the face with acid. His life points dropped to 2600. "I end my turn."
Saguchi drew his card but frowned. "I lay two cards under the table and end my turn."
"And it's over! I draw! I attack you with the Summoned Skull!"
"I activate my Face Down card Spell of Pain!"
"No!" Peace yelled. Summoned Skull attacked Saguchi but Peace's life points fell instead of Saguchi's. Peaces Life Points stood at 4100. "Servant of Catabolism, attack the player!" The Snail shot its acid and then Saguchi's Life Points dropped to 1900. "I end my turn.
Saguchi drew his card and placed it on the duel disk. "I lay a monster on guard and end my turn"
"Its my turn! I summon Chaos Necromancer to attack mode! It gains 300 attack points for every monster in my graveyard. So that makes it a 900 attack point monster!" Now, attack his monster!"
"You attacked my Stone Soldier of the Aztecs! It has a toughness of 2200."
Peace's Life Points dropped down to 2800. "It won't be standing so tall when I'm done with it! I attack with Summoned Skull! Blast that Soldier away!"
"I activate my face down Shrink Card!" Now your monster loses half of its attack power." The summoned Skull shrunk down to half of its own size. The lighting went hit the towering monster but it remained strong. "And due to your carelessness you now have a total of 1550 life points! My Life points are now higher!"
"Not for long. Servant of Catabolism, attack the player!" The servant shot its acid causing Saguchi's life points to drop down to 1200. "That ends my turn."
Saguchi drew his card and smiled. "I lay a monster on guard and end my turn!"
"It's my move!" Peace exclaimed drawing his card. "First off, I summon Goblin King! And due to the fact that I have the Chaos Necromancer, and the Summoned Skull are on the field it becomes a 2000/2000. Next I equip it with the Axe of Despair making it a 3000/3000. Now! Summoned Skull attack the Stone Soldier of the Aztecs!" The Skull Blasted the stone statue with it's lighting. "Now, Goblin King attack the on guard monster!" The Goblin King threw the Axe and a Mystical Elf was destroyed.
"NO!! I'm DOOMED!"
"GOOD! HELLO FINALS! Chaos Necromancer and Servant of Catabolism, attack the player!" The monsters went towards Saguchi and drained his life points. Peace walked over to Saguchi and took his last 6 cards. "Awesome! I'm in the finals!" He said to himself.
Suddenly Saguchi got the Sennen Symbol and Marik was speaking through him. "Well done, Dueling you is going to be fun," Marik said. "And when I win you will become my mind slave."
"You wish," Peace said.
"Just you wait! You will be mine!" Saguchi fell to the ground and Peace noticed that the Hospital wasn't too far away. He picked up Saguchi and took him out to the hospital.
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Sdrive: And there we are. Ok, sorry if this chapter was kinda lame. I realize it. Peace, I almost made you just get 5 cards but then I realized that would have been a card short and I would have had to write ANOTHER duel for you before the finals. I figured just one card wasn't worth the time and effort so I let you be the first one into the finals. So don't expect yourself to be dueling again anytime soon. REVIEW TIME! (hey, I got a lot of reviews for this chapter )
Reaver of Heaven: AWESOME, I have you back as a reviewer, yay! Yes, I did utilize the new mages. In all acuatlity, with the exception of 5 cards that is my real deck in real life. Well it was, I have made like 5 changes to it since then. Yeah, I agree that it did. And once I started actually winning a lot more regularly then what I was, it was a lot easier to say, well dog gone it, I'm gonna use my real deck. Nice to see you reviewing again and thanks for the compliment.
Moczo: THANK YOU! As you may have seen, I used the EXACT JOKES. I did publicize you and I again thank you. I just figured I should credit you with them.
Angry Wonton: Ok Ben, I'm only going to say it once, GET A FREAKING LIFE! IF ALL YOU CAN DO FOR AMUSEMENT IS TORTURE THE AUTHORS ON FFN THEN YOU SHOULD SERIOUSLY FIND SOMETHING BETTER TO DO WITH YOUR TIME!
Mina: It's ok take your time. Yeah I just realized that my email didn't work and I didn't realize that one of my favorite stories had been updated like 8 times and I didn't realize it, YIKES! Thanks for the compliment.
Silver Dragon Iron Claws: Thanks. Actually the hardest part was the ending. I finally just took my deck and drew the cards and that's how the ending came. I pitted my real life cards against his cards in the story and that's how it ended. Yes, yes you did. School projects –shudders- If you ever read my fic, Love Will Only Go So Far (which bye the way everyone, I have the next two chapters already written but I want to make sure I have three written in advance so when I update I still have two chapters to fall back on that I can update at any time. So really you are all waiting for the fifth chapter to be written so that you can read the third, weird huh?) you will see a similar school project that is mentioned in the third chapter. This project was an actual project that me and my friend THE Belated Peace Writer actually had to do for our U.S. History Class at the end of last year. I went to his house at like 4:00 and didn't leave till 12:00 at night. So basically I had TWO school days, OY! Please hurry and write the sequel to Desert Shadow, I am eagerly awaiting it. I keep checking your Bio to see if it's there and it isn't. Oh, and thanks, I worked hard on that Poem LOL.
Otaku Sarri: It did arrive and I have to find time to write the letter back. –Looks around- whoops, uh, none of you other than her know what I'm talking about huh? Oh well. UPDATE TAINTED YEARS DARN YOU! Oh, and after I'm done posting this next chapter I am starting a new Pokémon fic. Not sure EXACTLY what its going to be called but I got the idea off of a weird thought I had. It will actually be part of another story but that will be severely longer than the thing I will be writing and I want this to be posted sooner so I will eventually take it off of FFN and put it on the other story. Or I may just leave them as two different stories even though it will be in the same fic, who knows? Dang, if I keep this up then my Disclaimer and response to reviews will be longer than the actual chapter itself. Weird.
Zenryo: I changed that part just to make you seem like a nicer guy. Also because Peace pointed out that I had some life point mistakes and I went back to fix it. Mostly everything else you said I have already responded to at school so no need to say it again.
Peace: Yeah I told you this online a while ago but might as well mention it again. I had planned to do something else before I changed it and then I just forgot to change the life points. So I went back and changed it. And if you really care, I might just put it in later but hell here you all go, Pandora came back because Sayora WANTED him to come back. Ok? She WANTED it so therefore she got what she wanted. Although she wanted him to win too and he didn't LOL. Or did sheeee?
Sdrive: Well there ya all go. Ok, preview for next chapter. Yami travels around and soon meets Yûko. He thinks she's part of the Magic Seekers but her role in this duel is far larger. And it will take "god" like powers to beat her. Next time on the Masters Tournament.
Power to the Hikari's.