Terra VS Kaiba
Miriku POV
CLANNNG! CLANNG!
"All right, nemutai (sleepyhead)! Up and at 'em! It's time for breakfast!"
I glared from under my blanket at Bakura, who was banging a spoon against the bottom of a frying pan right above my head. "What time is it?" I growled.
"Ten thirty," he replied smugly, turning to exit the room. "I'm not that stupid, you know."
I waited patiently, listening. There was a loud thump, then a lot of smaller thumps, each one punctuated by a curse in a different language.
"Care to repeat that statement?" I called, just as smugly.
"Tojikomeru (shut up)!" Bakura snapped. I could hear everyone in the kitchen roaring with laughter.
Smiling to myself, I got dressed and headed down the stairs. Entering the kitchen, I smelled waffles, bacon, syrup, jam, etc.
"You talk in your sleep, you know," Mikey said, as I sat down at the table.
"How would you know that?" I asked defensively.
"Oh—just a hunch." She imitated my voice. "I summon Dark Magician! Dark Magic Attack!"
Everyone burst out laughing. I blushed, realizing that I had been having that exact dream.
Looking around, I changed the subject. "Where are Yuugi, Merekai, Kaiba, and Terra?"
Jane shrugged. "The first two are in the kitchen, cooking breakfast. The second two haven't come down yet—I'm guessing they're still asleep."
Dustil glanced nervously towards the downstairs hall. "I hope they haven't managed to get at each other—I honestly can't decide who would win if they started trading punches."
At that moment, Terra trudged in, yawning. "Morning, guys."
"Mornin'," everyone replied.
Jane leaned across the table. "Are you feeling better today?"
Terra smiled tiredly at her. "A little."
"Where's the food?" Terrance muttered irritably. He looked over towards the kitchen and hollered, "Hurry up, Waffle Woman! I'm starving!"
Merekai poked her head out of the kitchen. "My name's Merekai! And the waffles are almost re—"
Suddenly, a resounding clang echoed through the house.
"Yuugi!" Merekai exclaimed. "That was the bacon!"
"Gomen, gomen!" Yuugi said quickly, picking up the frying pan. "I can make more!"
Merekai sighed in exasperation, bringing a plate full of waffles out onto the table. "Eat up, guys! The bacon'll be out in a few minutes!"
At that moment, Kaiba entered. He had a preoccupied look on his face—and we knew something must have been up when he sat down at the table without comment and began to nibble on a waffle.
Everyone at the table exchanged surprised looks. This was a very different Kaiba than from the night before.
Another clang echoed from the kitchen. "Yuugi!" everyone exclaimed.
Yuugi poked his head out of the kitchen, grinning sheepishly. "At least it wasn't the bacon this time!"
Jonouchi sighed, grumbling about how he didn't understand a word of what anyone was saying.
Terrance elbowed him, grinning. "Don't worry—you'll be coming over to my house, and all we speak is English!"
Jonouchi edged away from Terrance a bit, eyeing him nervously.
"Stupid girl," Kaiba suddenly muttered, making everyone jump. Terra glanced sharply at him.
"You know what?" Dean asked thoughtfully, when everyone was finished with breakfast. "We still haven't had that dueling spree…"
Terra blanched. "That was just a joke!"
"Really?" Kaiba asked blandly. "Sounded like you meant it to me." He snorted. "I doubt you'd be able to beat anyone, anyway."
"Was that a challenge?" Terra asked coolly. Everyone fell silent.
Kaiba smirked at her. "Bring it."
Terra POV
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, YOU DON'T HAVE DUEL DISCS HERE!"
I sweatdropped. Miriku had been worrying about how to break that to Kaiba—she'd told me so herself.
Miriku winced. "No, that's not what I said!" she exclaimed. "We have fake Duel Disks—things that look like the real ones, but don't have the holographic projectors or anything."
"I still think you Americans are LTBs (low-tech bastards)," Kaiba grumbled.
"Hey!" Terrance exclaimed. "Just because our president is a dumbass doesn't mean everyone in America is!"
"I beg to differ," Kaiba retorted.
I growled at him. "Okay, now you are definitely going down!"
Kaiba crossed his arms. "Try me."
Miriku opened her mouth to speak.
"And I'm not dueling without a properly-working Duel Disc," he snapped.
"Damn you."
She reached into her pocket, and pulled out what looked like a tiny book. It grew to normal size before our eyes, and Miriku began to flip through it, murmuring to herself.
"There's gotta be something in this stupid book!" she exclaimed.
Yuugi peered at the page she was on. "How about this one?"
She glanced down at the page again. "Which one! …Oh. I didn't see that one."
She smiled sheepishly. Everyone else sweatdropped.
She read off some weird-sounding words, and a streamer of silvery-blue mist spiraled out of the pages. Only Miriku and the YuGiOh characters—except Jonouchi—didn't look surprised.
Figures.
Anyway, two tendrils of mist wound themselves around our decks, and the rest dissipated.
"There," Miriku said triumphantly. "This spell projects a three-D image of any two-dimensional figure it's been tuned to. In this case, YuGiOh—Duel Monsters—cards. You'll still have to play on a table, though."
"This sucks," Kaiba grumbled, sitting down at the kitchen table across from me.
I grinned, sliding my deck across the table for him to shuffle. "Deal with it."
Kaiba glared daggers at me, before sliding me his own deck.
Miriku POV
After Terra and Kaiba were done shuffling each other's decks, they drew five cards.
"Duel!"
Terra: 8000
Kaiba: 8000
Merekai pulled a coin out of her pocket. "Heads or tails, Kaiba?"
Kaiba studied the coin a moment—a normal, uninteresting quarter—and said firmly, "Tails."
Merekai flipped the coin onto the table—and it turned up heads.
"Yes!" Terra exclaimed. "I'll go first!"
She drew a sixth card, and studied her hand. "Hmm…I think I'll summon Amazoness Swords Woman (ATK-1500, DEF-1600)!"
As she slapped the card onto the table, a miniature woman in a fur bikini holding a huge sword appeared. She hollered, swinging the sword in a large arc.
"…Cooool!" Terrance exclaimed, pretty much summing up everyone's feelings.
"Now I'll put one card facedown and call it a turn. Your go, Kaiba-boy."
I saw Kaiba's eye twitch—he hated being called Kaiba-boy, because Pegasus called him that. And I knew Terra knew that.
He drew a card, and scanned his hand. "I'll also put two cards facedown. And then…"
He smirked. "I have never gotten a hand this good before. I activate the magic card Polymerization!"
"Oh, she's in for it now!" Yami murmured.
"I'll fuse the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons in my hand to summon—the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (ATK-4500, DEF-3800)!"
Three Blue-Eyes White Dragons appeared on the field, and were quickly sucked into a vortex above them. There was a roar, and the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon crashed to the table. Of course, since it was a hologram, it didn't do any damage—but it sure sounded like it. And even with the smaller scale of the holograms, the dragon was still almost a foot high.
"Holy sh—" Dustil began, but was cut off by a solid thump on the back of the head, compliments of Bakura.
Kaiba smirked. "Now, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon! Attack her Amazoness Swords Woman! Neutron Blast!"
A sphere of energy built up in each of the dragon's three mouths. It fired all three, and they swirled together into one, which hit Terra's Amazoness Swords Woman square in the chest.
Terra grinned, moving her monster to the Graveyard pile. "Any Battle damage done to me through Amazoness Swords Woman is subtracted from your life points."
Kaiba growled, punching it into the calculator John had brought out for him.
Terra: 8000
Kaiba: 5000
"Fine. I'll end my turn."
Terra drew her next card, so that she now had five. "Hmm…I'll set two more cards facedown, put one monster in defense mode, and end my turn."
Kaiba smirked, drawing his next card—giving him two in all. "Playing defensive, are we? Well, I can solve that problem!" He slapped a card onto the table. "I summon Luster Dragon (ATK-1900, DEF-1600)!"
A dragon that was about one-tenth the size of the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon appeared on Kaiba's side of the field. Its body was black, and it was covered in dark blue armor.
"Not so fast!" Terra snapped. "I activate Trap Hole! If the monster you just summoned has an attack of one thousand or more—which it does—it's sent to the Graveyard."
The card flipped face up. A large hole appeared beneath Luster Dragon, and it was sucked in and destroyed.
Kaiba growled at her. "I still have one monster on the field. Go, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon! Attack her facedown monster!"
The dragon did just that—firing another triple-blast of energy at Terra's monster. She laughed as it was flipped face-up. "Cyber Jar's flip effect destroys every monster on your side of the field."
True to her word, the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon was sucked into the jar, which exploded.
"Now each of us draws five cards, and we summon every monster we draw that's level four or less, as long as there's room on the field."
Kaiba nodded, drawing his five. "Very well…I summon Cave Dragon (ATK-2000, DEF-100)!" A squat, greenish-yellow dragon appeared on the field in attack position.
"Kaiser Sea Horse (ATK-1700, DEF-1650)!" A man with bluish-purple, full-body plate armor appeared next—in attack mode—wielding a barbed spear and hexagonal shield made of the same materials as his armor."
"And Luster Dragon (ATK-1900, DEF-1600)!" A second Luster Dragon appeared on the field, also in attack position.
The other two cards—the spell card Mystical Space Typhoon and Luster Dragon #2 (ATK-2400, DEF-1400)—were added to his hand.
Terra nodded, and drew her own cards. "I'll summon Amazoness Paladin (ATK-1700, DEF-300)!" A woman appeared on Terra's side of the field, dressed in a white skirt, bikini top, and tattered blue cape, wearing a gold tiara and carrying a slim sword.
"Amazoness Swords Woman (ATK-1500, DEF-1600)!" A twin of the first monster Terra had played appeared, brandishing her sword.
"And finally, Amazoness Tiger (ATK-1100, DEF-1500)!" A large tiger appeared, roaring its defiance at the monsters on Kaiba's side of the field.
Terra smirked as she added the monsters Steel Ogre Grotto #2 (ATK-1900, DEF-2200) and Mobius the Frost Monarch (ATK-2400, DEF-1000) to her hand. "Amazoness Paladin and Amazoness Tiger's effects raise their attacks by one hundred and four hundred points, respectively, for every card on my side of the field with 'Amazoness' in their names—including themselves!" As she spoke, Amazoness Paladin's attack shot to 2000, while Amazoness Tiger's went up to 2300. "And," she continued, "When Amazoness Tiger is face up on my field, she's the only Amazoness you can attack!"
Kaiba swore under his breath. "I'll put one card facedown end my turn."
The stats stood thus; Kaiba had two cards in his hand, whereas Terra had three. Kaiba had Cave Dragon, Kaiser Sea Horse, and Luster Dragon on his side of the field in attack mode, as well as two cards facedown. Terra had in attack mode Amazoness Paladin, Amazoness Fighter, and Amazoness Tiger, as well as two facedown cards.
Terra drew her next card, and smirked. "I'll activate the spell card Axe of Despair, and equip it to—"
"Not quite! Kaiba retorted. "I activate Magic Jammer! Your card is destroyed."
A glowing green ring of runes appeared around the newly-formed axe, and blue smoke issued from it. The axe shattered into pixels.
Terra growled as she sent it to the graveyard. "Screw it, then. Amazoness Tiger, attack his Cave Dragon!" The tiger leapt at the dragon, claws extended, and ripped it to pixels.
"Amazoness Paladin—get his Kaiser Sea Horse!" Amazoness Paladin swung her sword, cutting Kaiba's monster in two.
Terra nodded. "I'll end my turn.
Terra: 8000
Kaiba: 4600
Kaiba drew, and a smirk played across his face. "You're in for it now. First, I'll activate the magic of Monster Reborn, to bring my Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon back to the field!" Even as he spoke, the huge, three-headed dragon appeared on the field. "And I'll activate the trap card Call of the Haunted, to bring from my graveyard one Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" One of the two facedowns on his field flipped up, and the dragon reappeared.
"Now, I'll activate the spell card Megamorph, and equip it to my Blue-Eyes White Dragon! As long as my life points are lower than yours, this card doubles my dragon's attack!" Terra groaned.
"Now, Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon, attack that Amazoness Tiger!" The dragon shot its trademark triple-blast at the Tiger, who shattered with a scream. Amazoness Paladin's attack dropped to 1900.
"Kaiser Sea Horse, attack her Amazoness Swords Woman!" Kaiser Sea Horse charged forward, ramming his barbed spear through Terra's Amazoness Swords Woman and destroying her. Amazoness Paladin's attack dropped to 1800.
"And now, Blue-Eyes White Dragon, attack that Paladin!" The second dragon fired its own trademark blast of blue-white lightning at the Paladin, which exploded into pixels. As Terra's life points dropped lower than Kaiba's, Megamorph halved the Blue-Eyes White Dragon's original attack to 1500.
Kaiba smirked. "I'll end my turn."
Terra: 900
Kaiba: 4300
Terra growled at Kaiba as she drew. "First, I'll activate two copies of Dian Keto the Cure Master, to increase my life points to twenty-nine hundred. And now, I'll activate the trap card Chithonian Polymer!"
Suddenly, and orange-red creature that appeared to have been made out of flames darted over to Kaiba's side of the field and dragged the Blue-Eyes Ultimate dragon onto Terra's. "Thank you, Cybernetic Revolution booster packs! This card allows me to take control of any one Fusion Monster on your side of the field!"
She grinned. Now, I'll activate the spells De-Spell and Change of Heart to take control of your Blue-Eyes—and to remove Megamorph!" The dragon was dragged across the field to stand next to the Ultimate Dragon, attack points returned to 3000.
"Blue-Eyes White Dragon, attack his life points directly!" Blue-Eyes fired its lightning directly at Kaiba, bringing his life points to thirteen hundred.
"Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon—do your stuff!" The dragon charged up its triple blast, and fired.
"Not so fast!" Kaiba snapped. "I activate the trap card Magic Cylinders! Your attack is reflected back at your own life points!" The blast flew into one cylinder and out the other, slamming right into Terra's face.
Terra: 0
Kaiba: 1300
Kaiba crossed his arms. "Not only are you an LTB, but…"
He smirked. "You play a pretty good duel."
He stood up and walked off, all of us staring after him.
Terra stood up and marched over to me. "Did I just almost beat Seto Kaiba? And did he just compliment me on my dueling?"
Yami nodded. He was obviously shocked. "That…seems to be the case…"
Yuugi stared at Terra. "I don't know if you know this already, but Kaiba has never complimented anyone—for anything."
Terra turned back to me, eyes wide. When she spoke, her voice was stunned. "Miriku…"
"Yeah?"
"Make sure I don't hit the floor too hard…"
And she fainted.