Paul looked again at the card, This can definitely get us out of this lock, but how'd I get it in my deck?
Just then, he remembered back to when he boarded back on to the train.
Flash Back Begins
"Amy is going to miss the train, I hope she's alright." He said, as his brace flashed.
Paul felt his body lift off his feet and go flying backwards!
This is going to hurt... OW! He thought as his head slammed to the door.
The sudden impact had caused several of his cards to fall out of his deck.
Aw man. He thought as he grabbed the mess of cards on the floor.
"You alright?"
Flash Back Ends
I must have picked it up by accident; I didn't bother to look after Amy crashed on the train. Now the only problem I got is, how am I going to get to work? I've got to hold out for a few more turns.
"I set this card facedown, and leave it at that." Paul said.
Ken drew his next card giving him a total of 3 cards in his hand.
"I'll now flip my Facedown card, Aqua Chorus." He said, as his trap card flipped over, it was the picture of a woman praying, and ghostly specters were singing around her.
"This trap gives any monster with a double on the field a five hundred point boost!" Both of the captains' stats jumped in response. (2300/900)x2.
"I now set one monster, and leave it at that." Ken said, as a card appeared in front of him
"My draw then," Amy said, drawing her card. She looked and she still couldn't break through the monster's effects. "I end my turn."
Gearfried was still running circles around the Karbonala Warrior, but the creature was still going strong.
"You're persistent, I'll give you that much. But I've got better things to do than playing tag." Gearfried said, twitching his blade.
Aaron reached for his deck, and looked for what he needed, and realized something.
No way, I lost that card too, but how? I lost the first in the crash but how'd I lose that? I'll worry about it later, I got to finish this fight.
He found what he needed, and loaded it into his brace.
"Smoke Grenade of the Thief!"
A massive blast encompassed Gearfried, and left a bright orange smokescreen.
The Karbonala swung its blade to try and part the smoke, but he too was swept up in it. He looked franticly around himself, but no sign of the Iron Knight.
Just then, the smoke cleared, and there stood Gearfried, a good twenty feet away.
"Bye bye." He said, his blade glowing with a bright light. The purple knight tried to back away, but it was obvious he was a goner.
"IRON FRIECE!" Gearfried swung his blast, spewing a wave of concentrated energy. The Knight was swept up and vaporized like a leaf in a bonfire.
"Looks like the rest of the trip is up to you." Gearfried said, sitting down on the car to watch the rest of the duel.
"Fine, it's my move anyway." Jeni said, drawing her card, "I summon my Amazoness Swordswoman!" Jacob's amazon appeared on her field, her blade at the ready!
"Oh no you don't! I reveal my Bottomless Trap Hole!" Amy called out as her facedown card flipped up.
"Not a chance, I reveal my Dramatic Rescue. This allows me to switch an Amazoness for a card in my hand, I choose my Witch of the Black Forest."
The Sword wielding Amazon vanished from the field, leaving a woman with three eyes, a black robe, and her hair was a violet mess. (1100/1200).
The witch simply bounced over the hole of Amy's trap card.
"I'll end my turn." She said.
Paul drew his card, "Alright! Pot of Greed, I draw two more cards." Paul said, bringing his hand to 4 cards."
He glanced at his hand, "I summon the Gemini Elf." As he placed the card on his brace, a pair of elven women each with similar outfits, one was a white blonde with a greenish outfit, while the second was taller with red hair, tanned skin with a purple outfit. Combined stats were (1900/900).
"Looks like your armor needs some sanding, I'll give you a hand. Activate Dust Tornado!" Paul called out, his facedown card floated up, and a massive twister of bluish wind flew forth and blew apart the Amazoness' armor.
"Now that that's taken care of, I set this card, and I attack the Witch!" He declared as his Elves dove forth, smashing the witch to dust.
Jeni growled, Her lock was gone, and she was down to 5550 lp. But a card came out of her deck, and she added it to her hand.
"I think that's enough." Paul said.
Ken drew his next card, "I summon Commanding Knight to the field." Appearing before him was some sort of knight with an outfit of red and orange ordained for high royality, he carried a sword, and wore a yellow cape. (1200/1900).
"This knight cannot be attacked as long as I have another monster on the field, and every one of my warriors on the field gets a 400 atk point boost."
Aaron watched with amazement, Ken has assembled quite a formidable opposition force, and with each warrior assembled, the A. Forces rise their atk point transfer rate. The Captains are what his whole plan works around. If Paul doesn't get the right monster on the field, the card won't work, and he'll be swarmed. What the hell?
All of a sudden, both Ken and Jeni's fields grew very close to each other, the same happened to Amy and Paul's fields. But just then, Ken and Jeni's monsters attack points were shooting up the charts. Amazon Paladin, 3300, Amazon Fighter, 2700, The Maruding Captains, 3100, and the Commanding Knight, 2600.
"What just happened?" Gearfried demanded.
"They did a field merge." Amy called out.
"Yes, whenever one team wishes too, both team members fields become one, and whatever happens to one's field affects the other. And when one team chooses to the other must too!" Jeni said, marveling at her arsenal.
"However, once the merge occurs, the player loses his battle phase." Paul said.
"I know, so I'll end my turn by setting this card facedown." Ken said.
"My draw then." Amy said, "I summon my Injection Fairy Lily." Amy said, as her hypodermic wielding angel appeared along side her, (400/1500).
"I'll end my turn." Amy said, and waited for Jeni to make her attack.
"My move." She said, "I play the magic card, Card of Sanctity, we now all draw until we have 6 cards in our hands."
When she finished drawing, "I play Dark Core, and remove from the field your Ha Des." She said, discarding one card from her hand to activate a giant black vortex that crushed Amy's monster to dust.
"Now I play Monster Reborn, to revive the card I just sent to the graveyard, Amazon Chain Master." Another Amazon appeared before Jeni, however, this one had very dark skin, same kind of shaggy hair, and carried a large chain, (1500/1300).
"With the added power of A. Forces and Commanding Knight, her Attack is 3100, and gives every one else on the field an additional 200 atk and another 100 to my Paladin. But enough of that, I attack your Fairy Lily." She said, as her Amazon swung her chain at lily.
"I activate Lily's effect; I pay 2000 lp to raise her attack by 3000, that's 300 more than you can take!" She said, as her life points dropped down to 7500, and Lily's syringe grew huge, and fired a blast of energy, right, at the Amazon.
"Thanks, now I'll make use of my monster's effect as well. I pay 1500 lp, to allow her to take any monster I want from your hand!"
Jeni's lp dropped to 3750, but the Amazon's chain circled around Amy's hand, and dragged her across the train towards Jeni!
"Hm, ah, I'll take this." Jeni said, as the chain snapped, and sent Amy flying back!
"Amy!" Paul called out.
Lily circled around, and stopped her from falling clear off the train.
"Now I'll play your monster, Pharaoh's Guardian!" She called out, as Ken's facedown monster vanished, leaving a person resembling Yami the Pharaoh on the field, his multicolored spikey hair and the blue cape on his back fluttered in the wind, but his violet eyes were blank and glossy. (2000/2300).
"What kind of monster is that? Is that Amy's?" Aaron wondered, but watched as its point totals were sky rocketing!
"Amy, what a lovely card you created, with its ability to gain 300 points for every monster except itself on the field, I now have the strongest monster on the field, (4100/4400), and it also adds its power to the A.Forces, making our monsters unstoppable." Jeni said.
"Yeah but your turn is over, and It's now mine." Paul said, drawing, and looked at his card, "I sacrifice my two monsters on the field to set this card in defense mode. And I also set this card and end my turn."
Ken drew his card, "Perfect, I play my Warrior Returning alive, to bring my SwordHunter back into my hand, next I'll play my Black Luster Ritual, sacrificing him and my Gaia the Fierce Knight." He said, playing the cards insaid order, twin urns appeared before a large crest, the two warrior cards were sucked into the green light emerging from the urns. The crest burst like a dam, and emerging from it, was a soldier that looked a lot like Jeregrine, but his face was stony and still.
"My Black Luster Soldier, and with all the power from A. Forces and Commanding Knight, gives him an attack power of 4800. More than enough to crush your puny defenses, and to lose all your life points!"
"Before your praising goes to your head, I reveal my Waboku! Our defenses are staying right where they are!" He said, As his trap flipped over and the trio of priestesses appeared to protect them.
"I'll end my turn there." Ken said, clearly having the game all set for himself.
Amy drew her next card, "I play my Graceful Charity card. I draw 3 cards and discard any two from my hand." She said, drawing her next few cards.
"Alright, I discard my Blue Eyes White Dragon and Jinzo, and now I play my Change of Heart and bring back my Guardian to me." She said, as her magic card's effect pulled the guardian away from Jeni, and back to Amy.
"So what? Its attack is now so pathetic it doesn't make it a threat at all. And besides, the Change of Heart only lasts one turn and you can't attack us at all." Jeni said.
"True, but I can still use him to help me, I sacrifice my Guardian to summon my Dark Magician Girl!" She said, as her monster vanished in a swirl of light.
Emerging from the light, came a young girl, her blonde hair was covered by a cone like hat, she wore a pink cape and skirt, her boots, arm guards and her out fit and hat were all sky blue. Her green eyes flashed, her face bold a bright smile as she held up a small wand, (2000/1700).
"Is that supposed to intimidate us?" Ken asked, in disbelief.
"Not by itself perhaps, but she has more than attack points to make her something to be feared." Amy said, as she held up a card to her face, "For this card in my hand will allow me to summon yet an even stronger monster."
Aaron felt a sudden pull at his sides, No way, impossible; she's got my card too! But it's just what they need, play it Amy!
"I play the magic card Sage's Stone, when this card is played with a DMG is on the field, I can summon this to the field!" She said, as a large stone appeared aside the Magician. It began to flash with dark light, and burst apart to reveal, a tall monster dressed in Purple robes, with a similar hat to the DMG, his hair was light purple, with clear blue eyes. In his hands was a green staff with a gem stone in the head, (2500/2100). "My Dark Magician." She said.
"That's all?" Jeni said, she looked like she was going to die from laughing.
"Not quite, Dark Magician Girl, attack the Amazoness Tiger, Dark Burning Attack!" Amy Called out, as her monster swung her wand, and fired a beam of pink energy that blew the Tiger to bits. "Now that's all for now." Amy said.
"I'll end it then." Jeni said, "I summon my Amazoness Swordswoman, and I'll wipe out your life points in one strike!" She called out as her female army charged for Amy's spellcastors.
"Amy!" Paul called out!
"Don't worry Paul, I got it covered, Negate Attack!" Amy called out, as her facedown card flipped up, creating a swirling vortex, halting the damage from all of Jeni's monsters.
"You're only prolonging your defeat, you'll never match our attack power." Jeni said, ending her turn.
"And I'm afraid you're dead wrong." Paul said, drawing his card. "Perfect, it's time I take this duel by storm." He said.
"How? You have nothing that can break through our army." Ken said.
"Watch, I reveal my facedown monster, Hyozanryu!" He said, as his large dragon of diamond appeared before him, its face was lined with 3 sharp horns, and its eyes were full of rage, (2100/2800).
"And that's going to win the game for you?" Jeni asked.
"Not by himself, but he will give me help, as I do this, I play Polymerization, Combining Amy's Dark Magician with My Buster Blader in my hand.
A swirling vortex appeared on the field, and both their monsters were pulled inside.
They did it, just what they need to break through, here it comes! Aaron thought, as the fusion emerged.
He was tall, thin, decked out in black robes with symbols in golden thread, and golden trim around the edges of his boots, leggings, and the rest of him, his armor and helmet resembled the Dark Magician, but the blue gems found in the armor came from the Buster Blader. His skin was a very light blue, with dirty blonde hair and dark lines under his orange eyes. In his hand, was a huge sword with golden spikes lining the blade, and the whole figure was glowing in light.
"I present to you the Ultimate Magical Swordsman, the Dark Paladin!" Paul called out, (2900/2400).
"So what, that monster has no power to stop us." Jeni said.
"Oh no? Look again." Amy said, as her graveyard was glowing
And beside Paul, his Hyozanryu glowing as well.
The Dark Paladin's attack instantly increased to 3900.
"Our monster gains Five hundred attack points for every dragon that has been played, making it 1000 points stronger."
"But my Black Luster Soldier still has more attack points still." Ken said, his Warrior staring daggers at the Paladin.
"And if you try and attack my Amazoness Fighter or Swordswoman, I won't even be affected at all." Jeni said.
"And the Captain lock is still in play Paul, how do you plan to get through it?" Aaron called ahead.
"Simple, true teamwork. Now watch as I begin." Paul said, holding up his four remaining cards.
"I play Monster Reborn and Call Amy's Blue Eyes White Dragon to the Field." He said, as Amy's large White Beast roared to life as it emerged from her Graveyard.
"I wanted to make sure he got a front row seat, next I summon my Breaker the Magical Warrior to the field." The crimson warrior with its weapon's at the ready appeared as well.
"Now I remove my monster's magic counter to destroy your A. Forces card!" He said, as Breaker's sword burned with blue fire, as he slashed away Ken's Magic card!
"No!!!!" Jeni and Ken called out as the monsters attack points dropped down almost to their original values.
"Amy, you ready for this?" Paul asked.
"Oh yeah, finish it." She said.
"Alright, now to end this duel, I reveal my facedown card. Diffusion Wave Motion!" He called out, his life points dropping by 1000, as the card activated.
The Dark Paladin held up his sword, and a blue sphere appeared in the blade, "Your Lock works by preventing your monsters from being targeted by a monster's attack, well this magic card allows my monster to strike down all your monsters in one shot, and none of there effects will go off, so Jeni, Ken, It's over." Paul said, calmly.
The two looked in horror as the sphere began to send out rings of energy of incredible magnitude!
"Dark Paladin Attack!" Amy and Paul called out.
The Waves of energy began to fire off like a gunshots, and they sliced right through the warrior army.
Ken and Jeni's life points dropped right down to 0.
"NO! It's Impossible!" They wailed.
"Shut up and get off my Train!" A voice called out.
Behind Amy and Paul, appeared a woman with thick gray ash hair, wearing red druid robes, and carrying it her hands was a large branch with a blue gem lodged in the front.
"Ember Barrage!" She called out as multiple bursts of fire shot forth from the end of her staff, and blasted the two intruders right off the train.
Gearfried was swept up in light, and emerged as Aaron, "A Fire Princess, nice Kara." He said.
Kara emerged as her duel monster self vanished, "I didn't want interrupt the duel, so I waited till after they had the rear ends handed to them."
"Speaking of which, mind explaining how you got my Sage's Stone Amy?" Aaron asked.
"When I was walking around in the back car, I found it on the floor by the window." She said.
Must have fallen out when I went to help her after she crashed into the wall, He thought, "Looks like you handled it well."
"Here it is, but what are you doing with Spellcastor cards?" She asked.
"Yeah, I thought you worked with Warrior cards like those two." Paul said, handing over the Diffusion Wave.
"I'll tell you when we get back, and speaking of which, how do we pull a U turn on a train?" Aaron asked.
"No need, take a look." Kara pointed.
They looked over the lining mountain range, and could see the edges of the forest surrounding the castle.
"They just put us on a loop around the valley, so we'll be arriving shortly." She said.
"Well, I just hope we aren't too late. Sarah's gonna kill me." Aaron grimaced.