I now play my Forest magic card, raising my Monster's attack to 3000. And I
end my turn."
V drew his next card, and his eyes flashed, "I call upon the soul
of my Monster!" He said, as a ghostly presence of his Favorite appeared.
"What are you doing!?" Forester demanded.
"I'm fulfilling my monster's wish and use his soul to create this
card, Behold my monster, Inferno!"
Mr. Volcano was swept up in flames, until there was nothing but a
huge fire ball. Within the heated flames, a pair of eyes could be seen along
with a mouth of fire, (1100/1900).
"Now I set this card, and use my new monster as a sacrifice to
summon my Twin Headed Fire Dragon!" V called out as his fire born monster
was swept up into a stream of light.
With an explosion, the creature appeared. Its body was muscled and
lacked any limbs, save for vestigial arm under itself. Its twin heads were
furious with bright red eyes, atop them were forked horns, four each, and
the whole creature remained in the air by its two wings flapping on its
back. (2200/1700).
"You seem to be quite foolish; your monster isn't a match for
mine." Forester said.
"We'll see, but I guarantee this duel will be won by the strength
given to me by my fallen comrade." V said, bearing his gaze on Forester.
Forester wasn't shaken by V's determination and confidence, and
drew his next card.
"I play the magic card, Pot of Greed. I draw two more cards." He
said.
He looked at his new cards, and his eyes bulged. Yes! My most
powerful creature, once I play this card, I will be recognized as a stronger
duelist than even Tobias. I just need two more monsters on the field to
summon it.
"I summon Arcane Archer of the Forest in Attack mode!"
A creature similar to the one that V had chased earlier appeared,
(900/1400).
"As long as I have a Plant on the field, he is safe from any of
your attacks. And Now, Fairy King Truesdale destroy his dragon with your
mighty staff!"
Truesdale's staff charged up, and with a thunderous blast, a
powerful beam shot towards V's Monster.
"Open facedown Card, Waboku! It will render your attacks useless
for one turn!" V said, as his trap card activated and a trio of women dress
in blue robes appeared infront of the dragon. A barrier formed infront of
them, and the blast impacted on the surface.
"Urgh!" Forester growled. It matters not, I need only summon one
more monster before my ultimate weapon emerges and crushes him once and for
all.
"Since you can't do anything else, it's my turn!" V declared
drawing his card, "Now I activate my facedown card, Sixth Sense!"
His facedown trap flipped up, and shined, it was a picture of a
woman with a vision coming to her, In front of it appeared a die.
"You have to roll the die, I call out two numbers, if one is the
result, I can draw that may cards, if I call it wrong, I have to send that
many cards from my deck to the graveyard." V explained.
"You expect this to help you?" Forester asked.
"This trap will signal the end for you, I call 5 and 6, Roll!" V
called out.
"Fine, Roll." Forester called to the die.
coming to a halt, 2, 3, 5, 1, 4, 6, 2, 1.
"FIVE!" Forester couldn't believe it.
"Thanks, you've been a big help." V said, drawing 5 new cards.
Keep it up, You're only two turns away from being crushed.
Forester grumbled.
V looked at his cards and then glanced at Forester, "This Duel is
over, you're done."
"Impossible! You haven't defeated me yet!" Forester called back.
"Watch and learn, I first play my Molten Destruction Field Magic
Card. It will destroy your Forest and leave your monsters attack strength
now equal to mine."
V loaded the magic card, and watched as the forest around them
burned away into a volcanic wasteland. Vaurnut's Twin Headed Fire Dragon was
absorbing the flames and its attack rose by five hundred, now equal to the
Fairy King.
"Now I play my United We Stand and my Axe of Despair,
strengthening my monster's attack to 4500!" He said, as his magic cards
powered up his monster even further.
"It still isn't enough to defeat me." Forester boasted.
"Watch as I play my ScapeGoats, see what happens!" V said, as his
next magic card was loaded. 4 different colored sheep appeared on the field,
they lacked atk and def, but they were strengthening the Fire Dragon by
another 3200 atk and def points!
The Dragon's size had doubled, and it was roaring with an
incredible rage! (7700/4500)
"And to finish my Dragon's strength, I play my Salamandra, raising
his attack power by 700!" V said, loading the card, and watched as the
Dragon's eyes flashed and its attack rose to 8400!
"Impossible!" Forester exclaimed, if it destroys my Fairy King, I
lose everything!
"And now for my final card, the card that will defeat you and your
mulch monsters once and for all." V said, holding the card in his hand.
"What is it?" Forester demanded.
"One of my deadliest weapons; so powerful, it requires 1500 to
use. I play my Genocide magic card!" V called out as he loaded the card.
The image on the card was that of a great inferno laying waste to
a planet!
"This card allows me to chose one type of monster and remove all
of that type from my opponent's hand, deck, and graveyard. And I choose
Plant, So all of them are gone!"
"No!" Forester called out, as his Fairy King vaporized and the
cards in his deck and his graveyard were smoking.
"You forgot the basic rule of Fire, Forester, wood burns. Your
monsters were never meant to win a battle against my deck, and now without
your strongest creatures, your weakest are easy pickings."
The Twin Headed Fire Dragon's 4 eyes focused on the Arcane Archer
and Forester.
"Now Forester, you know why you weren't chosen to fight on this
tournament, you aren't worthy, so now its time for me to end this." V said,
raising his arm towards his opponent.
Vaurnut pointed a finger right at Forester, V's bluish-green eyes
flashed, "LEARN YOUR PLACE!"
Forester was frozen with fear, THIS CAN'T BE!
"Twin Headed Fire Dragon, Attack now with Double Inferno Flare!"
The beast's mouths filled with incredible heat that rivaled the
heat from the magma around them. It released the fire, and twin streams of
Hellfire spewed forth and incinerated the Arcane Archer in an instant.
Forester put up a Rema barrier, but the heat was sucking the strength right
out him.
The fire vanished as well as everything else, leaving the two back
in the woods.
V LP: 400 Forester LP: 0
V looked at his Duel brace, the decal of the Twin Headed Fire
Dragon head. "Thank you."
He looked at his Rema level; it was now at 1/8th. "It's been a
tough day." He said, as he walked over to Forester, who was now out cold.
He reached over and took the Fairy King Truesdale, "I better get
this back to the Castle, Aaron probably is running out of time."
He turned around and started to walk back the way he came.
Just then, ZING!
V's Dueling brace flashed, the Twin Headed Fire Dragon's wings
encompassed him. A blue arrow smashed against the wings.
V looked over his shoulder, it was Forester, and he had become the
Arcane Archer.
"You still picking a fight with me?" He asked.
"I won't stop until I defeat you, one way or another!" He fired
another arrow.
In V's deck, the Mr. Volcano card flashed, and in his hand,
another card flashed.
Fairy King and Mr. Volcano appeared and caught the arrow!
Forester froze, "Impossible, why would my monster protect you?"
"You fight unjustly, you used this card to harm people, and now
you lost him. Now he is loyal to me. Feel the Wrath of your own rage!" V
shouted.
The two monsters pulled the arrow back, then threw it back at
Forester!
"NOOOOO!!!!" He tried to block it with his Duel Brace.
The blazing blue arrow collided with his deck, and all of a
sudden, the deck began to pulsate with incredible energy!
"What's happening?!!!" Forester demanded, the power pulsating
within his deck was going out of control.
The arrow must have pierced something powerful in his deck, and
all the power in the arrow must have released the strength inside the deck.
I better get out of here!
V took one last look, then made a dash for the castle as fast as
he could.
Meanwhile Forester's body was quaking from the incredible force
coming from his deck. A line of white light circled around him, and a ring
appeared on the ground. The force was becoming more focused, drawing all the
power to a single point.
Forester.
V, at the moment was running as fast as his two legs could take
him.
I can feel the energy from here, it's going to be a big bang!
Just then, another figure appeared in the shadows of the trees,
looking at the white light forming in the forest.
"That fool! How could he be so stupid to destroy it?!" He growled.
"Tobias, Return immediately. It is too late to salvage it now, let
the fool perish." said a voice coming from a Duel Brace on his arm.
"Understood." Tobias answered.
He looked again at the light, "So long, fool." And with that, he
vanished into the darkness of the night.
Just then, Forester's body began to stiffen up. His skin was
turning hard and rough and darkening to a shade of brown. His legs were
fusing together and then his face was frozen in a sign of pure agony. Then,
his hair sprouted into green leaves, his arms withered away into branches,
and he sprouted to full bloom.
And that was it, the white ring's energy imploded with a massive
BBBBOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!
The resulting shockwave was spreading right through the forest,
trees were bursting into splinters! Leaves were breaking into dust, and the
wave of destruction was closing in on V!
This is not good! V thought to himself, as he tried to out run the
wave of destruction!V tried his hardest, but the powerful force was gaining ground, slowing
down, but still coming.
V looked at his duel Brace, his Rema was real low. "I just need a
little, if I push too far, I'm going to be out of commission."
He heard the growing destruction closing in on him, "Oh what the
hell? SPIRIT MERGE!"
His brace burst into a streamer of light that wrapped around him,
his body increased in mass, and was wrapped in flames.
"Dark Fire Soldier #2!" V's merged form burst from the light, and
made an incredible burst in speed.
The blazing warrior shot like a bullet straight out of the forest,
just as the shockwave finally came to a halt.
The night came to end, as the sun rose above the horizon.
The bright sun light rose on the Aaron's sleeping eyelids, causing
him to wake up from his slumber.
He yawned, "What happened?" he asked, looking around the room,
seeing nothing clearly.
He remembered his glasses weren't on, and looked around to find
them. He made out their shape on the nearby nightstand and picked them up
and put them on.
"Much better. Huh? What's that?" He wondered, seeing a card on the
nightstand.
He picked it up and looked at it, "Fairy King Truesdale? I wonder
who left it?"
"Ah, you're awake." A voice came from down the room.
Aaron turned to see Amy, "I was wondering if you were going to
make it. You were already sprouting leaves when Vaurnut brought the cure."
"What? Since when did he start caring?" Aaron asked.
"Since you saved his life from that arrow, and since the
accident." Amy said, sitting down on a bed next to him.
"Accident? What happened?" Aaron asked.
Meanwhile, V was watching the sun rise over the damaged forest.
Whatever was in Forester's deck is long gone, as well as the
forest's security deposit. I wonder what it was?
"Yo V." A voice came from behind.
Vaurnut looked behind him, and saw Aaron walk towards him, "I
heard what you did for me. I wanted to say thanks."
"It wasn't a problem. Forester was all Bark and no bite." V
smirked.
"Amy said you were friends with the guy I ended up replacing, but
she didn't tell me what happened to him." Aaron said, he wasn't sure if he
should ask, but it was a risk he was willing to take.
V reclined on the balcony, "His name was Matthew; he was a smart
ass, but a good kid. He ran with the best of us, and was pretty good with
his deck."
"What kind of monsters did he run?" Aaron asked.
"A very strong Union Deck, it was a surprise how well it worked.
He was really proud of his Monsters, and he was a Dark Blade as his monster
form."
"So what happened to him?" Aaron asked.
V paused for a second, "It was a freak accident. He and I had
gotten into a fight with a Possessed Dark Soul atop a high story tower. The
fight had set the building ablaze, and some people had been trapped inside."
Flashback Begin
Dark Fire Soldier #2 was running down a hall blazing with fire,
walls were already crumbling.
Behind him was a Dark Blade, his armor was smoking from the oven
like environment.
"How many more people unaccounted for?" V asked his Duel Brace.
"There's a woman missing who's believed to be trapped on the 25th
floor. Hurry, the supports are burning away fast and the building's going to
collapse!" Said Chuck on the other end of the line.
"She's three floors down." Matt said, "Let's move it!"
V took out one of his swords, and pulled away to the side as they
reached the end of the hall. "Get back." He told Matt.
He swung his saber and sliced the door to the stairwell open, and
a massive blast of fire spewed forth from the sudden air.
"Let's take the express!" V shouted as he leaped and dropped
through the center of the stairwell.
"Show off." Matt said, diving head first.
27, 26, time to hit the brakes! V thought, as he pulled out his
blades and plunged them into the walls.
Using the blades as a volt, he flipped over and landed on the
cement.
Matt pulled out his blades and clung them to the floors railings,
and used the centrifugal force to flip him onto the floor.
The two burst through the door, and found the halls to be seas of
flame. And at the far end was a large figure that appeared to be composed
completely of orange flame. It appeared demonic , the creature had horns
like a ram and a spiked tail, and its eyes were full of malice.
"You again? I thought getting you ass handed to you the first time
was enough to get the message across." Matt said condescendingly.
"True, you are a mighty force to be reckoned with, but as long as
I have this trump card you can't touch me." The Dark Soul said.
"Trump card?" V wondered.
Just then, V understood what he meant, the woman was trapped
behind the door the demon was blocking!
"What will you do? If you strike too powerfully, the woman on the
other side will perish. You attack too weakly and I'll roast you. And if you
do nothing you and her shall all perish in the rubble of this building."
V was stuck, he didn't know how to handle this.
But Matt was already, "Seiyaryu, Razor Flame!"
A blast of fire shot up from the floor and struck the soul from
below!
Dark Blade charged forward, "V, get the girl and get out of here!"
"Matt wait!" V called out, but the Warrior dove forward, and
tackled the soul down into the pit of flames below them.
Dark Fire ran after him, but as he approached the pit, a massive
explosion blew fire up through the hole.
"MATT!!!!" V cried, just as the building began to collapse around
him.
Flashback end
"I managed to get her out of there, and jumped out the window as
the building crashed into the dust. All of us visited the ruins, to pay our
last respects to him." V said.
"Oh man, I'm sorry about that." Aaron said, starting to regret
asking.
"No, it's alright, you deserve to know." V said.
Aaron looked at the Fairy King card, "I suppose you want this
back."
"Nope, I run with fire, water just isn't my style. Besides you
probably need it a lot more than I do." V said.
"Well, thanks I-, wait, are you saying my deck isn't good enough
for you?" Aaron questioned.
"Well last I checked you barely put a dent in Jacob's life points,
so that makes me think you need a little more work."
"Oh that does it; break out your cards V. I'm going to wipe the
floor with ya."
"Bring it on rookie. I need the laugh today." V said, taking his
deck out.
Down the hall, Amy and Jacob were watching.
"So you think those two will get along?" Amy asked.
"Remember V's Salamandra card? It was given to V by Matt and those
were the same words that passed between them. I think it's a good sign."
Jacob said.
"I hope so." Amy said.
Deeper inside the chambers of the castle, two of the dragon
statues began to resonate.
"The ties are growing stronger; this team may be the ones to turn
this tournament around." Jeregrine said, solemnly.