Author Name: Shawn Sousa
Title: Darkness vs. Darkness, Part 3
Warnings: I think that we are mature enough for imaginary hologram Yu-Gi-Oh death scenes. Aren't we?
Genre: Yu-Gi-Oh! I-I mean…um…Action! Yeah that's it!
Summary: After killing two of his opponents in a row, Hayku gears up for duel number 3. But will another death occur? Or will the 3rd duelist be too much for Hayku?
NOTE: this does NOT actually include any of the characters within the anime/manga series, this is merely based around the greatness of the card game, and some of the awesome concepts in the anime.
Darkness vs. Darkness, Part 3
Hayku had just left the rubble that his Uria, Lord of Searing Flames had caused. Again, he is oblivious. To him, damage is nothing. But in the corner of his mind, a memory appeared. It was a memory that he thought he would never witness again…..
A
young, thirty year-old Hayku was skipping home from another wonderful
day at college. He unlocks the door, and steps in.
"Mom, I'm home! Mom?" Hayku said that last line with a worried tone, for he now saw that the phone line had been cut. He enters his mother's room and saw her dead body, limp, with gunshot wounds to the head, chest, and neck. "MMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!"
Back in the present, Hayku shook the image out of his head. "I wonder how his family will feel after they discover that he's dead. Did he even have a family? Or was he alone?" Whatever. It was time for another deck switch. "Hmmmmmmm. I wonder which deck I should use. Oh I know! Let's burn the competition, Thestalos! Shit. I probably shouldn't have said that out loud. Now they will make a deck to counter mine. No matter, I'll still beat whatever lousy competitor is up next!" Hayku, in his long, pitch black trench coat, swept his long legs toward the other end of the hallway, putting his new choice of deck in his Duel Disk. As he neared the door, it opened automatically again, as if it was waiting for him. He steps through the door way, into the room, ready to face his next challenge. "Get in here!" Hayku heard an annoying, croaking, impatient voice say. "I, Nezbitt, formally of the Big 5 and Kaiba Corp., do not have all day, you know. I want this to end already, so I can go back to talking with my girlfriend, dammit!" "Fine," Hayku yelled. "Let's get our game on!" At that, they both activated their Duel Disks. Nezbitt, unlike Crump, had a normal Duel Disk. At the same time, the two parts came together, and then the 1 part went to the left side and locked in place. "I'm the third duelist you're to face. To see who will go first, let's roll," Nezbitt said as he reached into his pocket, and took out a dice. "I call odds!" he yelled as he threw the dice into the air. As it landed, it began spinning on its edge. It spun for what seemed like forever for Hayku, until he finally saw it slowing down. Eventually, it came to a stop. "Ha!" Hayku yelled after he saw what number had been rolled. "A four! That means I go first! I draw!"
Nezbitt 8000
Hayku 8000
Hayku pondered his move, and then he yelled, "I summon Blazing Inpachi (1850/0) in attack mode." A giant log monster appeared before Hayku. A second after it was summoned, it suddenly burst into flames. The only part of its body that wasn't engulfed was the big number 18 on his chest. "Now I throw down a face down, and end my turn. Your move." "Ok," said Nezbitt "I draw. And now I summon the Injection Fairy Lily (400/1500) in attack mode!" A tiny fairy dressed in hospital clothes, wielding a giant syringe, had been summoned before Nezbitt. "No wait! I activate Bottomless Trap Hole!" "Well it's just too bad that my monster is under the 1500 attack point limit on your card, so you just wasted it!" A large hole had appeared on the bottom of the dueling field, but it disappeared. 'Dammit,' Hayku thought 'How'd I forget about the limit?' "I end my turn" Nezbitt continued. "Now I go. Draw!" As Hayku drew another card from his deck, he whispered, "Solar Flare, Solar Flare…" As Hayku saw the card that he had just drawn, he yelled out loud. "Yes," he exclaimed, "Now I play the Solar Flare Dragon (1500/1000)!" As soon as he had thrown the card onto his Duel Disk, the whole dueling field was overcome with fire. From the flames emerged a scaly horned dragon, ready to attack. "Now I set a card, and end my turn." As the words escaped his mouth, the Dragon reared its head back, and launched a ball of flame at Nezbitt. Hayku saw the white hairs on his opponent's head singe. "Oops, did I forget to tell you about my Solar Flare Dragon's second effect? Every time I end my turn, you lose 500 Life Points.
Nezbitt 7500
Hayku 8000
Your move." Hayku finished. "Ok" Nezbitt began, "I draw," After thinking for a moment, Nezbitt continued, "place a card in defense mode and attack with my Lily, because it gains 3000 attack points at the cost of 2000 of my Life Points,"
Nezbitt 5500
Hayku 8000
"Attack his Dragon, Lily!" The monster's syringe filled with a red liquid that seemed like blood. The tiny winged nurse than grew triple-fold, and ran toward the dragon of flame. She stuck her syringe into the opposition's head and squeezed it. The liquid ran out. And she returned to her original size and original side of the field. Meanwhile, Solar Flare Dragon was obliterated.
Nezbitt 5500
Hayku 6100
"My turn is over. Go." Hayku draws yet another card and places it in his hand. "Aha! Now, I sacrifice my Blazing Inpachi for my Thestalos, the Firestorm Monarch! (2400/1000)" An armored monster with flaming red hair and a fire ball in its hand had just appeared. "And because of its special ability, I get to take one card out of your hand and out it in the graveyard! I choose the card on your right!" "Shit! There goes my Exodia's Right Leg. Heheheheheh." "Now Thestalos, attack his Lily!" The monster threw his fireball at the fairy, burning her to a crisp.
Nezbitt 3500
Hayku 6100
"Ha ha. I'm halfway down the road to beating you. Now I activate my face down Call of the Haunted trap card to bring back my Solar Flare Dragon from the dead!" A grave stone had appeared on the field, and a spirit rose from the open grave. It was the spirit of the Solar Flare Dragon! It solidified, and Hayku found the card in his graveyard, and placed it on the field. "I end my turn and you lose another 500 Life Points!" Again, the dragon reared back its head, and fired another fire ball at Nezbitt.
Nezbitt 3000
Hayku 6100
"Go." "And I will, but first, I must draw. Aha!" Nezbitt said this after he laid eyes on the card that he had just drawn. Perfect. Now, I lay a monster face-down on the field and my turn is done." A chill ran down Hayku's spine. 'What did he just put down?' he wondered. Whatever, it was his turn to go now. "I draw, and I remove my Blazing Inpachi from the Graveyard out of play, in order to play my Spirit of Flames (1700/1000)!" A giant, Obelisk the Tormentor-like red monster had crowded the dueling arena. "He gains 300 attack points on my turn. So now, Spirit, attack one of his face-down monsters!" A brief image of right arm floated in the air before the Spirit of Flames obliterated it. "One down, one to go! Solar Flare dragon, attack his other face down monster!" this time, I tree jar appeared. Nezbitt yelled, "Aha! You've just activated my Fiber Jar's special ability, Game restart! The graveyard, hand, and deck go together and we shuffle. Then, we draw 5 new cards." They both did the motions that Nezbitt had just explained, and they both looked over their new cards. "It's still my turn, so…I attack with Thestalos directly!" The monster covered in armor ran up to Nezbitt, and threw a ball of flame right at his face. He yelled out in pain.
Nezbitt 600
Hayku 6100
"Ha ha, you're almost done! Now a set a card and I end my turn. Draw, Nezbitt." "I will, and…" "And you just activated my trap card, Ring of Destruction! I equip it to my Thestalos! Thanks buddy." A ring had just appeared on Thestalos' finger, and he walked to the middle of the room. The ring exploded, along with Thestalos himself, and his remains damaged both Hayku and Nezbitt. "And I win. Not even Exodia can save you."
Nezbitt 0
Hayku 3700
"You lose, Nezbitt. Only two more now…huh?" Hayku had stopped speaking for he saw that the room was aflame! Thestalos imploding had caused the holographic image generator on Nezbitt's Duel Disk to overload, and it exploded as well, causing, him to die, leaving the room to burn with Hayku still inside! He thought fast for a way to get out. The doors were welted, so they wouldn't open. Hayku was starting to feel light-headed. The effects of the smoke was getting to him. He started flailing around on the ground, looking for a way out. Finally, he saw it: an air vent (why is it always an air vent?) positioned on his left. He struggled to open it, but soon enough, he succeeded. He crawled through the tiny opening, his lungs screaming for air. They found it in the vent, but it was scarce. Hayku continues to crawl through, looking for a way out. The claustrophobia-inducing vent ended at a flap. Hayku goes through, ready to do anything to escape the inferno behind his. When he went through, he saw that his insanity had caused him to make a mistake. He was now flailing his arms again, but this time through air, as he had forgotten to notice that every time he beat a duelist, the hallway went uphill. When he face Nezbitt, he was on the 33 story of the building whose windows Hayku was now passing as he free fell 3,300 feet toward solid concrete…
