Author Name: Shawn Sousa
Title: Darkness vs. Darkness, Part 2
Rating: Again, probably 15 or over
Warnings: Holographic death images
Genre: Action
Summary: After defeating (and killing) the first duelist in the series of 5 in level two of the tournament, Mort, Hayku goes on into the next room, and prepares his deck to face duelist #2. But will the awesome power of Obelisk the Tormentor be unleashed again?
NOTE: this does NOT actually include any of the characters within the anime/manga series, this is merely based around the card game, and some of the concepts in the anime.
DARNKESS VS. DARKNESS, PART 2
Hayku had just walked into a brightly lit corridor. "Its time for a deck switch," he says, oblivious to the fact that he had just killed some one, "I'm guessing that there's someone watching this whole thing, and he might have told my opponent about my deck." He takes his deck out of the Kaiba Corp. issued Duel Disk. "Sorry Obelisk, you're going to have to sit this next one out." He sits down in the middle of the hallway, pondering which deck to use. Finally, he knows. He takes out deck box from his pocket, removes its contents, and reviews his deck. "Perfect," he mutters, "The perfect deck to stand up against what's up next," He stands up, and continues to walk. As he walks to the end of the corridor, to a door which holds Lord-knows-what, he inserts the deck into the deck slot for the Duel Disk. "Whatever it is." On the other side of the door, Crump stood waiting, deck in hand, listening to his master speak to him. "I sense that he has changed his deck. Quick, use the Gravekeeper's Deck. Hand me the Anti-Fiend-Chaos-Beatdown one. I'll save it for another duelist." "Yes, Master," Crump says. "As you wish."On the other side of the door again, Hayku lay waiting. 'Should I go on?' He thought. 'Yes' said a voice in his head. It sounded vaguely like the voice of Obelisk the Tormentor. "If you say so," Hayku responded to the voice that only he heard, and he steps to the door, which again opens by itself. "Welcome," Hayku heard as soon as his feet entered the room. "Are you ready to meet your doom? I've heard that the Shadow Realm isn't that good of a place. You should tell me how it's like once I banish you there! HA ha ha ha ha ha!" Hayku saw that the voice came from a middle-aged man, with a few white hairs. He was wearing a business suit with the Kaiba Corp. insignia in the upper-right hand corner of his suit jacket. His Duel Disk was one of a model that Hayku had never seen before. It looked as if the man had 5 short spikes going along his left arm. His deck was located on the bottom of his wrist in a compartment and his graveyard zone, empty, lay above his wrist. "My name is Crump. I am duelist number 2. Let's get this over with, because I have better things to do. Once you're out of my sight, I can fix my deck. Don't worry, this won't take long. Let's duel." As he said this, with a high-pitched, slightly demonic-sounding voice, the duel disk on his arm activated. The spikes shot out of his arm, just wide enough to place his cards in. The deck zone switched positions with the graveyard zone, and Hayku could now see a 4-digit life point calculation zone. Hayku, with his highly calculative mind, automatically saw a flaw in the model: the duel disk could only calculate life points up to only 9999 points. He would have to remember that if he ever saw this type of duel disk again. An opponent life-point increase deck, just for the fun with it. What a novel idea! Taking all this in took only a second for Hayku, for a moment after Crump activated his duel disk, Hayku activated his own. The two parts came together, and he heard the humming of the internal hologram system. "Let's get our game on!" sorry, total GX rip-offHayku responded. "I can see that you won your last match, so, for that, I'll go first. I draw." Crump said. A card shot out of his deck.
Crump 8000
Hayku 8000
"Aha. This is great. Just the combo I need. I set one card, and I play the field spell card Necrovalley. I'm sorry if you're afraid of the dark, for that is where you're going to be now!" Hayku felt the room grow colder, and he saw it get darker. "It appears that this game will continue in a graveyard, the home of the Gravekeepers! Now I play Gravekeeper's Assailant, in attack mode!" A dark robed monster appeared before Crump. He was wielding a long, curved dagger, and he was ready to attack. "I end my turn." "Great," Hayku responded, "Now I can really get this duel started. I draw!" Unlike Crump's Duel Disk, he had to manually draw his cards. "Awesome! First, I'll summon Elemental Hero Sparkman onto the field in attack mode." An electrifying figure now stood before Hayku. One feature that both Duel Disks had in common was holographic monster summoning abilities. "Then I play the Enemy Controller spell card!" Hayku continued. Now, a video game remote popped up. The cord fired into Gravekeeper's Assailant's head. Then, Sparkman jumped up, and took hold of the controller. As he does this, he gets a shock and gets sacrificed. However, the Assailant was now on Hayku's side of the field! "Thanks Sparkman. I'll make it up to you. Now for the fun part. Gravekeeper's Assailant, attack his Life Point directly!" The Assailant rushed forward, with his dagger in front of his, and cut right through Crump.
Crump 6000
Hayku 8000
"Now I through down a face down and end my turn. You're move!" "Very well, I draw." Again, another card leapt into Crump's hand. "And now the Assailant returns to my side of the field." I know how the card works; just get on with the duel!" "Okay. I'll play another Gravekeeper's Assailant onto the field in attack mode!" "Not so fast! I activate my Torrential Tribute" "Well I chain! Solemn Judgment" A wall of water had appeared on the field, but then an old man had put his hand in the way to stop it. "I may lose half of my Life Points, but I get to destroy you're card."
Crump 3000
Hayku 8000
"And now, say goodbye to your Life Points!" Both cards went up to attack Hayku at the same time. He flies back, I pain. "Ahhhh"
Crump 3000
Hayku 4000
"And I end my turn, your move." "Finally! Yes!" Hayku yelled after drawing his card. "Just what I need! First, I'll play the spell card Dark Hole" From the darkness, a black hole appeared. It sucked up the twin monsters and they disappeared with the hole. "Then I summon Elemental Hero Burstinatrix!" A flame woman appeared before Hayku. "Now Burstinatrix, attack his Life Points directly. Burstfire!" She created a fire ball in her hands, and runs toward Crump. As she got close, she threw the fire ball at him. Hayku thought that he could smell some thing burning, but it must have been something with his duel disk. It happened every time he used Burstinatrix. Whatever.
Crump 1800
Hayku 4000
"This duel is almost done! Because of that, I end my turn." "Thank you. Now I draw." He pondered a moment with his cards and then said, "This is great. First, I'll play Smashing Ground." A giant hand assaulted his monster and sent it to the graveyard. "And now, I'll play Gravekeepers Spear Soldier!" Another black robed monster appeared before Crump. This one, instead of having a large dagger, was wielding a long spear. "Attack!" The Soldier threw his spear at Hayku, and he thought that he really felt the pain.
Crump 1800
Hayku 2000
"I end my turn." "Okay, I have only a couple more chances. C'mon deck!" He drew another card. After looking at what it was, he yelled out with glee. "Yes! PERFECT! Now, I play the field spell card Skyscraper. Not only does it help my monsters, but it replaces your Necrovalley!" When he threw down the card onto his Duel Disk, a cityscape appeared around them. "And now, I summon my Elemental Hero Clayman onto the field in attack mode." A giant clay figure now occupied the field. "Attack, because with the help of Skyscraper, my monster gains 1000 attack points! Let's go Heroes!" The humanoid clay figure punched the spear-wielding foe into pieces.
Crump 1500
Hayku 2000
"Your turn to go." "And I will accept it gladly, "responded Crump. "Yet again, I will draw. Yes! And now, for a taste of your own medicine! Dar Hole!" Again, a black hole appeared over the field, only this time, Hayku's Clayman was the one who was to be sucked in. "No!" Hayku exclaimed "Yes! And now I play Mystic Tomato!" A tomato with an evil grin pasted on its mouth appeared on the field. "Attack!" The tomato jumped at Hayku, and took a bite out of him.
Crump 1500
Hayku 600
"Oh no, I'm almost done!" "Yes you are. But alas, you have one more turn." "Yes I know. Let's make this one count." He prayed before drawing what very well might be his last card. "YYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" He began jumping up and down with glee. "I PLAY URIA, LORD OF SEARING FLAMES!" "No! you can't have that!" "WELL I DO SO DEAL WITH IT! NOW I ACTIVATE HIS SPECIAL ABILITY, DEATH FLAME! FOR EACH NUMBER OF MONSTERS IN OUR HANDS AND ON THE FIELD, YOU LOSE 1000 LIFE POINTS AND BECAUSE I HAVE A MONSTER IN MY HAND, AND YOU HAVE A MONSTER ON THE FIELD, THAT'S 2000 POINTS! GO URIA! FLAMES OF HELL!" Uria, who looks like the evil version of Slifer the Sky Dragon, ate the monsters, and regurgitated them as a huge ball of blue, white, orange, and blackish-red flames. "NOOOOOOOOOOO!" The ball of flame hit Crump, and it sent a shockwave throughout the room. It blackened the room, and Hayku swore that he could see the Skyscrapers falling around him. Then it ended. Hayku heard a bing noise. When he looked up, all was gone, but the charred remains of his foe.
Crump 0000
Hayku 600
And then he heard a laugh. It came from inside of his body. It was an evil, dark laugh. A laugh that celebrated all the damage that one card had caused. He turned around from the rubble, and walked through the newly opened door, and into a hallway, at the end of which was a door which housed challenge number 3…
