Chapter 5: Chumley vs. Syrus

"Alright you four winners, it's time for the semi-finals! This is where you can choose to use your regular deck or the deck you dueled with! What are your answers?" Crowler announced of the microphone.

"I'll stick with this Spellcaster deck," replied Syrus.

"I'll...use... Huh. I'm not sure what I want to use. Should I use Banner's deck or my deck?" Jaden asked his pals.

"Jaden, use your deck and I'll use Zane's deck," replied Chumley. Chumley walked over to Zane, nervous about Zane's answer. "Hey Zane, can I...that is...will you let me..."

"You want to use my Cyber Dragon deck. Is that right?" Zane asked.

"Yeah, that's right," Chumley replied, feeling he knew the answer already.

"Promise me one thing first. Promise you'll use it against Syrus. I want to see if my little brother can handle it," Zane answered.

"I will! I promise I'll duel Syrus with it!" Zane took out the deck from his duel disk and handed it to Chumley and smiled.

"Ok. Now that that's settled, Bastian what deck will you be using?" Crowler asked.

"I shall use my burn deck. It will be useful against Jaden's E-Hero's," replied Bastian.

"Now let the duels commence! First up is Syrus vs. Chumley! Begin!"

"I'll go first! I summon Skilled Dark Magician in attack mode!" Syrus declared. "Now I play three Black Pendants! Each card increases my monster's attack by 500 points! So add 1500 to 1900 and you get 3400 attack points! Now since he gains a spell counter each time a spell is played, I can sacrifice him to special summon Dark Magician from my hand, deck or graveyard! So say good bye the Skilled Dark Magician and hello to the original Dark Magician!"

"Why did Syrus do that Zane? Skilled Dark had more attack points than regular Dark Magician," Jaden asked Zane.

"It's because of the Black Pendants. You see when they are sent from the field to the graveyard, the opponent takes 500 points of damage. So you see Chumley just lost almost half of his life points with in just one turn."

"Then I'll throw down a face down to end my turn," Syrus announced.

Syrus-4000/Chum-2500

"Then it's my move! This is gonna get sweet really soon! I'll start off by playing Mystical Space Typhoon! This will destroy your face down card!"

"I don't think so! I activate the trap card, Magician's Arena! This permanent trap allows me to negate your spell cards as long as I remove a card in the graveyard from play! So I'll remove a Black Pendant from play to negate your card."

'Not lic. His card will stop my idea, or will it? I have an idea.' "I'll summon Cyber Dragon in attack mode! Since you have a monster on the field and I don't, I can summon this monster with out a tribute. Now I'll place two cards face down and end my turn!"

"Alright then, my turn! I'll play Pot of Greed! Then I play the field spell known as Dark Energy Field! You see this card lowers the number of stars each Dark attribute monster has by two. So I summon Dark Magician Girl!"

"I activate a trap! Go Attack Reflection unit! So I sacrifice my monster to summon Cyber Barrier Dragon! Now you can't destroy him since he has 2800 defense points!"

"Did I forget to mention that the field also empowers my spellcasters with 500 extra attack points?"

"Not good."

"Dark Magician, attack his monster! Dark Magic Attack!"

"Hold it! Reveal trap! Cyber Wall! As long as I have a monster with 'Cyber' in its name with in my graveyard, you can't destroy my Cyber monsters!"

"I'll end my turn."

"Sweet! Now I'll play Cyber Squads Removed! This little card allows me to remove cards from play equal to the number of cards in my graveyard! So I'll remove your Skilled Dark and your two pendants from play! Now I play Card of Sanctity! We both draw until we have six cards in our hands! Now I play Pot of Greed!"

"I use my trap's effect! By removing my Pot of Greed from play, I get to negate your card!"

"Perfect! Now I play Power Bond! So I merge two Cyber Dragons and a Proto Cyber Dragon, I can summon Cyber End Dragon!"

"I negate your card!"

"Sorry pal, you have no cards left in the graveyard to remove from play! Now I play Limiter Removal! So his attack doubles again to bring it up to 16,000! Attack his Dark Magician Girl!"

Chumley-0000/Syrus-0000

"I forgot to mention one thing about my field card Chum, when I take life point damage when a dark monster is destroyed, you take the same amount. So we both lose!"

"This was an interesting turn of events. It didn't last long for a duel. Any how, our next match will be between Jaden Yuki and Bastian Misawa!"

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Sorry this is a short chapter, I only had 30 minutes to work instead of 45. Tomorrow's chapter will be the last one for a while. I have spring break coming up and I won't be able to put any more documents on the site. Only a few chapters left after this one! Enjoy!