V looked over to Forester, he already had 5 cards in his hand and on his brace, the field magic card had been loaded with a Forest card.
"I see you've decided to go first. Is that all?"
"No, I set a monster in def mode. And that will be all." He said, as a facedown card appeared.
V drew his six cards, he made a quick glance and called out, "I summon the Dark Fire Soldier #1 in attack mode, and one card facedown."
A facedown card appeared in front of him, and from the other card came a muscle bound figure, wearing black shoulder guards and gauntlets, had long blonde hair, he was surrounded in flame, and carried with him a curved blade, (1700/1150).
"I'll end my turn there." V said, crossing his arms.
"Fine, I'll take it from here." Forester said, drawing his next card.
"I'll Play my Heart of the Underdog, and set another monster in def mode. I'll end my turn." He said, and another horizontal card appeared along side its partner, and a magic card appeared on the field. It had a picture of a man running through an inferno.
V drew his next card, "I'll sacrifice my Dark Fire soldier to summon this to the field." He said, placing the card down.
Dark Fire Soldier one was engulfed in light and what emerged in its place was a giant beast. It stood 7 feet tall; it wore flesh colored armor on its shoulders, arms, waist and legs. Its face was the same shade as the armor, with piercing black eyes, its helmet resembled a Vikings with the duel horns on the sides, and steaming from every opening of its blue and pinkish outfit was ghastly white hair.
"Say hi to my Great Maju Garzett." (3400/0).
"Your beast is mighty, but I'm not afraid." Forester stated, apparently not impressed.
"We'll see, Maju, destroy his first facedown monster." V commanded.
The beast swung its massive fist and smashed against the facedown monster, what appeared was a female plant monster, she was a bright green creature with thorny skin, blonde hair and red eyes, she wore what appeared to be a pink blossom dress, and instead of arms she had thorny whips. (500/2200).
"Sorry Vaurnut, but your monster has attacked my Prickle Fairy, now watch her effect!" Forester exclaimed.
The Fairy swung her whips at the Great Maju Grazett, the thorns slashed the beast's arm. The Fiend screamed in pain and crouched, holding the wound.
V looked at his brace and saw his monster card was now in defense mode, "What did she do?"
"My Fairy's first effect prevents you from attacking bugs by making you attack her first, the second effect forces the monster attacking her switch to defense mode at the end of the battle. And since your monster has no defense points, you're out of luck." Forester said.
"I end my turn." If he tries to summon another monster to attack me, my facedown Bottomless Traphole, will send it right out of play.
"My turn then," Forester drew his card, he grinned, "I'll set three cards facedown and end my turn." He said, as three cards appeared along side the Heart of The Underdog.
V drew his next card, "I'll switch my monster into attack mode. And now I'll place one monster down in def mode, I'll strike your last monster." He said, as a facedown card appeared and the fiend lunged forward and smashed the other card, however...
"Needle Worm!" V exclaimed as he saw the familiar form of the pink caterpillar with green spots and sharp stingers on both ends appeared, (950/800).
The Worm reared its head back, and fired one of its needles, landing right into V's deck.
"My worm's poison has now decimated the top 5 cards of your deck, and as they are sent to the grave, I'll chain with this!" Forester said, as one of his facedown cards flipped up.
It was a trap card; the picture on it was that of a spiraling thorny bush, "Behold my Magic Thorn!" He said, just as razor sharp barbs shot out and slashed at V!
V focused, and a skin tight barrier of Rema formed around him, the vicious reeds bounced off, but his life points dropped down to 5500.
"My Magic Thorn Trap inflicts 500 points of damage for each card you have to discard from any effect of a monster, magic or trap card, and since it's a permanent trap, you'll have to be even more on your guard." Forester claimed.
V brought down the barrier and said, "I'll place one card facedown and end my turn."
Forester drew his next card, "I drew my Green Phantom King, by the effect of my magic card; I can draw another card by showing it." He said, drawing again.
"I drew the Queen of Autumn Leaves," He drew again, "Man-Eating Plant," again, "Bean Soldier," again, "Silver Fang," again, "Trent," again, "Living Vase," again, "Darkworld Thorns," again, "Yashinoki,"
"Are you going to duel or deck yourself already?" V demanded, getting aggravated.
"Actually, yes. I drew one card that wasn't a normal monster, I set in def mode. And end my turn, but take a look at my hand." Forester said, holding it up.
V counted, and realized Forester had nine cards in his hand, "You have to discard 3 cards."
"And so do you."
"Say what?"
"Say hello to my trap card, Forced Requisition!" He called out as his facedown card activated. It was a picture of a soldier taking a chest from a woman, "Now if I discard a card from my hand, so do you, so say good bye to the last 3 cards in your hand!"
V grimaced, and tossed his cards into the graveyard, the thorns shot forward from the trap card. He blocked with his Rema barrier, but his life points dropped down to 4000.
He drew his next card, "I attack the facedown monster with my Maju." The beast swung down and smashed an eagerly waiting bug.
It was huge, its body was coated in a thick brown exoskeleton, its abdomen and upper torso were separated by a thin spine, its jaws were lined with sharp teeth, and both of its forearms had sharp claws, (650/800)
"Man Eater!" He called out as the beast was swallowed up whole by the giant bug!
"It looks to me that you're out of options." Forester said with a smirk, his life points were at an untouched 8000.
"As long as I have a life point, I'm still in this duel, and you'll have to do better than this if you think you're beating me." V said, "I end my turn, bring it on."
"You asked for it, I draw," he called out drawing his card, "I play my facedown Polymerization, and fuse my Silver Fang with my Dark world Thorns."
Forester's last facedown card flipped up, and two monsters appeared on the field, one was a large silver wolf with bright yellow eyes, and the other was a giant blue plant with thorny stems. They were swept up in a vortex coming from his Polymerization card, and in a bright flash of light, the Fusion was complete. A purple card appeared, and what emerged was a large black dog with a ring of pinkish petals around his neck. and rolled down its back. (2000/1600).
"Down boy, I play my Bottomless Trap hole!" V called out as his facedown card flipped up. A massive pit formed under the mutt and pulled it down and out of play.
"Nice try, I'll now summon my Bean Soldier, and attack your facedown monster." He called out, as he placed the card down on his brace. A pretty big green bean appeared, complete with arms, legs, eyes, hair, red boots and a sword, (1600/1500).
The renegade sprout from a barn took off and charged at V's facedown monster. The Veggie with an attitude cleaved the card in half, but what emerged was a small goblin holding a spear, (500/500).
"Now you've fallen into my Trap, we both get to summon or set a monster from our graveyards. And I chose this!" V's brace shined as a monster appeared on the field.
It was pretty tall; it wore a robe that was mostly black, its shoulder armor covered a good portion of the chest; the color was a teal green. It had a huge neck, with a bald hair with a facemask strapped to its face, which seem to draw immediate attention to its red eye.
"I use my monster's effect to bring my Jinzo back to the field." V said.
"I bring my monster back to the field in facedown def mode," Forester said, "And I end my turn."
V drew his card, and looked at his brace, he looked at a small list on the side of his Rema gauge, with was down to ½ from all of the work today, and checked what cards were still in his grave yard, and The Prickle Fairy was still there, and so was the Man Eater Bug
That leaves only one other monster he would have brought back, but I wonder why? But it means I can do this, but it will be a risk.
V called out, "I play my face down card, Reload. I switch my cards in my hand with two new draws from my deck."
V's facedown magic card flipped, and he stuffed his cards back in his deck, he shuffled, and drew his new cards. "I attack with Jinzo and destroy your facedown monster."
Jinzo's hands filled with energy, and he threw it right at the facedown monster, which appeared to be the Needle Worm again.
"I know with Jinzo on the field my Magic Thorn doesn't work, I'll just wipe out your deck. Say goodbye to another five cards." Forester said, watching V count the five cards. But then was unsettled by V's grin.
"Too bad Forest, I used my Reload card to send this card back to my deck, and when your Needle worm's effect made me discard it, You allowed me to use it!"
"What do you mean?!" Forester demanded.
"I call my monster from the grave, Behold!" V called, holding his arm up into the air. A massive, ghostly hand broke right through the ground!
"What is that?!" Forester demanded.
Another hand soon followed, and then it emerged, a huge specter with a huge sinister grin on its face took up the star lit sky, "Meet my Despair from the Dark." V said, (2800/3000).
"Now watch as he dines on your veggie, attack!"
The ghost's massive hands grabbed hold of the Bean soldier, and threw it into its jaws, and that was the end of it.
Forester growled as his life points plunged down to 6800.
"I end my turn. Your move." V said, looking quite pleased with his two monsters on the field.
Forester drew his card, "I set a monster in def mode." He said, as the monster appeared in front of him, "I end my turn."
If I summon another monster, I can slam his life points twice, but I'm betting that must be another one of his traps. I can't let him get the come back, I have to take the chance and strike now.
"I draw, and now Jinzo destroy his facedown monster!" V commanded.
Jinzo's eyes fired a bright red blast that burned the card, but what emerged was a small tree, but resembled a container, (500/500).
"You've tripped my Fiber Jar, now we start all over again." Forester grinned as V's monsters vanished from the field.
But V kept on grinning, "Yep, but all I see is an empty field, and you've got nothing to hide behind."
He drew his cards, "I now summon My thing in the Crater, and I attack your Life points!" V slammed the card on the card on the brace and the creature emerged as a distorted figure, all that could be seen clearly was a pair of blue eyes., (1000/1200). Some how, it formed a fire ball, and shot it at Forester.
Forester formed a Rema shield and deflected the blast. His life points dropped to 5800.
"I set one card facedown. And end my turn." He said.
"Fine." Forester drew his card, "I play my Polymerization Card, this time I fuse my Beast King of the Swamps and my Snakeyashi."
Once again, he preformed a Fusion, and this time, it was a giant blob of green muck, and a demonic palm tree. The resulting monster was a giant rose, with a green woman sprouting out from the blossom; its stats were 2000/1800. "Meet my Rose Spectre of Dunn, and watch as she wipes out your monster."
The fusion dove forward and smashed the Thing into nothing, but in its place a burning fire ball appeared.
"What's happening?" Forester wondered.
"When ever my Thing is destroyed in battle, he allows me to summon a Pyro from my hand, and I choose to summon this." V said, taking his Thing off the field and summoned another monster, it was man of equal size to V, he wore clothes of a gentleman, dawned with a cape, his hair was shaped like a fireball and colored just like one. His whole body was warm with a powerful essence.
"My Mr. Volcano." (2100/1300).
"I set this monster facedown, and end my turn." Forester said.
"I'll attack with my Mr. Volcano, destroy his Rose." V commanded as he drew his card.
The pyro monster made a gun with his fingers and aimed it at the Rose, "Bang," the volcanic aristocrat said. A blast of fire shot out and roasted the giant weed.
Forester remained calm; the score was V 3000, while Forester had 5700.
"I'll end my turn without playing a card." V said.
As Forester placed the card down, a strange form emerged from it:it was like a blob of fungus with sharp claws sticking out of its forearms and all over its body; it had a solitary eye, and had a tail that curved behind it, (1500/1000).
"What's the deal with that monster?" V asked, all the creatures this guy has been using revolves around plants and inflicting damage, I wonder what he expects to do with that?
"Next I flip summon my Rigorous Reaper." Forest said, as his card flipped up. The monster was a Fire type which surprised V as the card changed into a monster. It was a wooden puppet with spiked knuckles; its head had green beads encircling its equator, and had a mouth running vertical up its face. In its hands was a bright red scythe, and it was
eyeing Mr. Volcano, (1600/100).
"First since it has been flipped we both discard one card from our hands to the graveyard." Forester said, ditching his Woodland Spite, leaving him with one card left in his hand, and watched as V ditched his Trap hole, leaving him with two cards.
"Now I'll attack with my Reaper! Attack his Mr. Volcano!"
V was stunned, What's the deal? His monster has only sixteen hundred attack points; my monster won't even break a sweat.
The Reaper closed in on the Pyro, but Mr. Volcano simply pointed his finger and shot a stream of fire at the plant. The monster immediately burst into flames, but not before it came and nicked V's favorite monster with the scythe the Reaper carried.
V watched as his monster recoiled in pain, "What did your freak do to him?"
"My Monster's second effect lowers the points of the monster that destroyed it by 500 for the rest of the duel. I may have lost 500 life points, but watch what happens next. Lord Poison strike him now!" Forester commanded, as his fungus monster charged forward towards the wounded Mr. Volcano.
It's still not enough, even without those 500 attack points, my monster still out ranks his by one hundred.
Mr. Volcano's eyes flared with rage, his fist erupted in fire. He swung his fist at the incoming monster. Lord Poison couldn't withstand the infernal blaze and vaporized into ash.
Forester remained unfazed; his life points were at 5100, "Finally, its time for you to face my favorite monster."
"What do you mean? My favorite wiped out both of yours." V said, pointing to his injured monster, (1600/800).
"Yes this true, but now watch as my Lord Poison's effect activates, when he is destroyed, I can summon any Plant in my Deck, save for another Lord Poison, Behold!" He said, as he pulled a card from his deck and slammed in on the field.
The creature was dressed in a large white and green robe, it was an elven creature with bright blonde hair and crystal blue eyes, on its back was a pair of giant pinkish butterfly-like wings, in its hands was a staff with leaf like extensions near the top of the head, which was a blue crystal surrounded by a gold ring.
"Meet my Fairy King Truesdale." (2200/1500).
"It doesn't look strong to me." V said, staring at the creature he was dueling for.
"As I said when we first met, he is the lord of the Forest, watch his effect." Forester said, pointing at his monster.
The Fairy King raised its staff, the golden leaves started to glow with an incredible light, and the Fairy King was soaking it up.
"As long as my Truesdale remains on the field, all plants attack and defense raise by 500. Now watch as my monster destroys yours!"
The Fairy King aimed his staff, and a powerful green beam fired at the Mr. Volcano.
V reached for his duel brace, I gotta save him,
Just then, Mr. Volcano raised his hand, as though it wanted V to stop, "Save it for the next time. And use my spirit to help you." said V's favorite monster, as the beam blasted him to dust.
V watched as his monster vanished, and cinched his fist, That was the last straw. LP 1900