16. Tag Duel! Battle For The Best!
Sophia and Genesis' life points stood at 3300 while Kyu and Yukie's stood at 6000. Kyu had his Dark Blade (1800/1500) and Yukie had her Guardian Keitsu which was equipped with Gravity Axe (1500/1800). Sophia had her Valkyrie Altest (1600/1600) and Genesis had her Diabound Lady, which was equipped with Flame Wrecking (2800/1200).
"I'll have to do something about this duel..." Sophia thought as it grew silent. "My turn, draw!"
Sophia cooly drew her next card. "And because I've drawn, Solemn Wishes gives us five hundred life points!" Sophia announced as the trap card began to glow, letting sparkling rain come down on them, increasing their life points to 3800."Now! I Activate this magic card, Raise Dead!"
"Darn..." Yukie thought.
"I'll use it to bring back Valkyrie Sovite! (1600/1600)" Sophia announced as the pink haired valkyrie materialized onto the field. Suddenly she held her hand up. "That's not all! Valkyrie Sovite's special ability is activated, with this, I'll remove Guardian Keitsu out from play!"
Suddenly the mermaid disappeared, clearing Yukie's monster field. "No! My guardian!" Yukie cried out.
"My turn's not over!" Sophia said.
"What?!" Kyu said, shocked.
"Now! I sacrifice Valkyrie Altest and Valkyrie Brunhilde to summon this one valkyrie!" Sophia announced as the two valkyries disappeared. Sophia then slapped the card down onto the duel disk. "Valkyrie Brunhilde! (1800/2000)"
"Valkyrie Brunhilde! Sophia's strongest monster!" Kyu gasped as the blue haired, well armored, valkyrie materialized to the field.
"Once this is summoned, Valkyrie Brunhilde's attack power is increased by three hundred for each Warrior and Dragon type monster on the field! (2100/2000)" Sophia announced as the valkyrie's attack power increased due to Dark Blade's appearence. "Now! Attack and destroy his Dark Blade!"
The valkyrie let out a battle cry as her horse charged toward the dark warrior, she slashed it into two, destroying it. Kyu growled, shielding himself from the debris which flew at him from Dark Blade, reducing their life points to 5700.
"I'll end my turn right now!" Sophia announced as Valkyrie Brunhilde's attack power reduced to 1800.
"My turn, draw!" Yukie announced, drawing her next card. "Activate magic card, Raise Dead! With this, I'll bring back Guardian Grarl! (2500/1000)"
"Honey, you need to give up on such a weak monster..." Genesis smirked as the dinosaur warrior materialized onto the field. "I'll activate Flame Wrecking's ability and discard a card from my hand to move your guardian into defense mode."
Suddenly Genesis' magic card began to glow and the dinosaur put it's arms over it's head, shielding himself. "Err..." Yukie said. "My turn ends."
"Draw!" Genesis announced, drawing her next card. "And now Solemn Wishes activates!"
Suddenly the trap card began to glow, and sparkling rain came down on the two girls, increasing their life points further to 4300. "Now! Diabound Lady, attack and destroy Guardian Grarl!"
The snake woman blasted a sphere of fire at the dinosaur. "Activate trap card!" Yukie announced. "Guardian Riot!"
"Guardian Riot?" Genesis growled.
"This trap card allows me to bring forth a guardian from my hand and protect my Guardian Grarl." Yukie explained. "So now! Guardian Elma! Protect Guardian Grarl!"
Suddenly Guardian Elma appeared, and then was destroyed by the fireball blast. "No!" Genesis growled. "No way!"
"Heh! Good job Yukie!" Kyu said, giving a thumbs up.
"Good job Yukie..." Genesis said, teasing Kyu's comment. "I'll end my turn."
"Draw!" Kyu announced, drawing his card. "Now! I activate this, Cost Down! With this, I'll be able to reduce all monsters in my hand by two levels!"
"Damn..." Sophia growled.
"And now! I summon this, Android Psycho Shocker! (2400/1500)" Kyu announced as the android materialized to the field. "With this, no one can use any trap cards, so your Solemn Wishes is gone!"
"No!" Sophia cried out as Android Psycho Shocker blasted ray beams from it's eyes, causing the card to explode.
"Heh." Genesis said. "I'll activate Flame Wrecking's ability and discard a card from my hand to shift your android into defense mode."
Kyu just smiled as the android began to glow, kneeling down and guarding itself.
"I'll set a card face down and end my turn." Kyu announced.
"My turn, draw!" Sophia announced, drawing her card. Sophia grinned at her newly drawn card. "Activate magic card, Pot of Greed! Which allows me to draw two cards..."
"And..." Sophia said, revealing the back side of one card, then flipping it, revealing it to them both.
"Walkuren Ritt?!" Kyu said, gasping.
"What's that?" Yukie asked.
"You'll see." Kyu said.
"Now! I activate this, Walkuren Ritt!" Sophia announced, placing the card onto the field. "With this, I can summon all the valkyrie's in my hand to the field! So now! I bring forth Valkyrie Sovite (1600/1600), Valkyrie Altest (1600/1600), and Valkyrie Dritt! (1000/1600)"
"No way!" Yukie gasped.
"Master Kaiba, there's been a bend in the dueling rules, four duelist have started a Tag Duel." Isona noted to Kaiba, who sat at his desk within his office.
"Who are the duelist?" Kaiba asked.
"Kyu-Haru, Yukie, Genesis, and Sophia, sir." Isona replied.
Kaiba specified the rules that no Tag Duels until Team Assignments were at start. And those who violated that rule would be taken out. "I'll let it sly." Kaiba said, walking out to see the duel.
Sophia chuckled "With three new warriors, my Valkyrie Brunhilde grows stronger!" Sophia said as her blue haired Valkyrie's attack power rose to 2700.
"Err..." Yukie said. "We can't lose, and I can't be the cause of it..."
"Also! Valkyrie Sovite's ability it activated, and I'll remove Guardian Grarl from play!" Sophia said as the dinosaur disappeared. "And because there was a monster removed, Valkyrie Altest's attack power matches up with Guardian Grarl!"
Suddenly Valkyrie Altest began to glow, and her attack power increased to 2500. "Also, Valkyrie Dritt's attack power increases by one hundred since there was a monster removed from play! (1100/1600)."
"Now! Valkyrie Altest, attack and destroy Android Psycho Shocker!" Sophia announced, pointing her finger at the android. The valkyrie commanded her horse to charge, and she slashed her sword across the android, destroying it easily. "Valkyrie Dritt, attack their life points directly!"
The short hair valkyrie commanded her own horse to charge, slashing Kyu first, and then Yukie. Both duelist fell to their knees in pain as their life points reduced to 4600.
"Finally! Valkyrie Brunhilde, attack their life points directly!" Sophia screamed with victory. The valkyrie and her horse charged forward, slashing through the air and sending a shock wave of energy at them.
Both duelist fell on their backs, their life points reduced to 1900. Kyu growled in pain, slowly getting up. "Reverse trap, open!" Kyu announced. "Half Level Trap!"
"What's that?" Genesis said.
"This trap card allows me to remove Android Psycho Shocker from play and summon two monsters, my first is Y Dragon Head (1600/1500) and my second is Little Typhoon Kid! (1300/100)" Kyu announced as the mechanical dragon and little caped warrior appeared on the field.
Sophia smirked. "Next, I'll activate this magic card, Fusion Warp!" She announced. "This magic card allows me to remove all monsters on the field from play until my next turn."
"Then she'll be able to keep all her Valkyrie's on the field instead of returning them to her deck because of Walkuren Ritt's side effect." Kyu said.
"We have more trouble then." Yukie said to Kyu.
"We need to push Diabound Lady away first." Kyu said.
"And my turn ends!" Sophia announced.
"Draw!" Yukie announced, drawing her next card. "Activate trap card, Call of The Haunted! With this, I'll bring back Guardian Elma! (1300/1500)"
"Another weak guardian, you need a new style." Genesis said as the woman materialized onto the field. "There is seriously nothing you can do."
"Because I've summoned Guardian Elma, I can equip it with a magic card from my graveyard, and I chose Gravity Axe!"
Suddenly the axe appeared and the woman grabbed onto it, increasing her attack power to 1800. "Now! Activate face down magic card, Magical Reverse Mirror!"
"No!" Both Sophia and Genesis gasped.
"This magic card allows me to use one face up magic card on the field as my own." Yukie grinned.
"You had your chance! Why didn't you take it?!" Sophia said, yelling at Genesis.
"I need to keep my hand..." Genesis said quietly.
"Yeah you're much help!" Sophia said.
"So now! I chose to use Flame Wrecking!" Yukie announced as her Guardian Elma began to get engulfed with fire. Her attack power rose to 2800 and Diabound Lady's strength grew back down to 1800. "Now! Attack and destroy Diabound Lady!"
The woman jumped forward into the air, doing some nice flips then cracking the axe down in between the snake woman, destroying her. Genesis and Sophia growled at the two as their life points reduced to 3300.
After the attack, Yukie's magical reverse mirror disappeared, as well as the Flame Wrecking, clearing Genesis' field.
"And my turn ends." Yukie announced, having only one face down card left on the field, also with her hand.
"Draw..." Genesis growled, drawing her next card.
"Kyu, I'm satisfied with myself, I'll let you take over from here." Yukie smiled.
"It's a pleasure." Kyu smiled, watching Genesis shuffle the cards in her hand.
"Activate magic card, Raise Dead!" Genesis announced. "And I'll bring back Diabound Lady! (1800/1200)"
"Heh." Kyu said as the snake woman materialized back on the field.
"Now! Attack and destroy Little Typhoon Kid!" Genesis announced, pointing.
The snake woman pushed her hands forward, sending a fire ball toward the small warrior. "And because Diabound Lady is attacking your defensive monster, it automatically moves into attack mode!" Genesis said as the warrior unsheathed his sword.
The fire ball blasted the warrior, destroying it and reducing their life points to 200. "Ah!" Yukie gasped.
"Little Typhoon Kid's effect is activated!" Kyu announced.
"What?" Sophia said.
"Heh, I knew you'd go for the weaker monster, that's why I had this monster prepared. Since Little Typhoon Kid was destroyed, you caused battle damage, and for that, his effect causes you to lose the exact same amount of life points that we lost!" Kyu said as Sophia and Genesis' life points reduced to 1600.
"I can't believe you! I alone can beat them!" Sophia said.
"Sorry! I didn't know!" Genesis yelled.
"Draw!" Kyu announced, drawing his next card. Kyu smiled. "And now! I'll summon Z Metal Caterpillar! (1500/1300) I'll then activate this, Raise Dead!"
"No!" Sophia gasped.
"Damn it!" Genesis said.
"This I use to bring back X Head Cannon! (1800/1500)" Kyu announced as the machine materialized to the field. "Now! Combine X Head Cannon, Y Dragon Head, and Z Metal Caterpillar!"
The three machines flew into the air and began to combine, forming into one giant machine.
"XYZ Dragon Cannon... (2800/2600)" Genesis and Sophia growled, feeling the loss already.
"And I'll activate it's effect, by discarding my last card to destroy your Diabound Lady!" Kyu said as he sent his card into his graveyard, causing Diabound Lady to disappear. "Now attack their life points directly!"
"Yeah!" Yukie cheered, jumping into the air.
The machine blasted it's missiles at the two girls, sending shock waves, causing them to fall backwards.
"No No No!" Sophia said, pounding her fists on the ground. "One more turn and I could've taken you down! One more turn!"
Genesis felt the shock wave pretty badly, her eyes twindling around her head and chuckling. A large net covered them, taking them into the air.
Suddenly someone let down a latter and Isona appeared. "Oh great, trouble now..." Kyu thought.
"You two have broken a rule within the tournament, I've been ask to remove you both from this competition at once." Isona said.
"No way!" Quartz called out, appearing in front of Isona.
"It's my orders" Isona said.
"Why is Quartz standing up for me?" Kyu wondered.
"I've been searching to duel him all day and there's no way I've spent hours hiking for nothing!" Quartz said.
A Eliminator Bot appeared, seeing the commotion between Isona and Quartz. "Heh." Kaiba said, zooming in, hearing Quartz yelling about how Kyu should not be disqualified.
"Quartz..." A voice said from the eliminator bot. "If you so badly just entered this tournament to duel Kyu, why not surrender this competition and duel him in the Obelisk Blue Duel Field."
"Kyu, I trust you'll accept his offer." Kaiba said as the camera pointed at Kyu.
Kyu looked at Quartz, his eyes filled with revenge. "Quartz, as much as I hate the fact that you put so much seriousness in a simple game, it bothers me to see a fellow Obelisk Blue student in a dire need of duel." Kyu smirked.
"What do you mean?" Quartz said.
"I accept your challenge." Kyu said.
"Good..." Quartz smiled deviously.
"With that, please get into the helicopter." Isona said as the three duelist climbed up the ladder and into the helicopter.
CARDS PLAYED
Raise Dead: MAGIC / Desc: Special summon 1 Monster Card from either you or your opponent's Graveyard onto the fiel in face up Defense or Attack Position
Valkyrie Sovite: Level 5 / 1600/1600/ Light / Warrior / Desc: When this monster is Normal, Reversed, or Special Summoned, remove 1 monster on your opponent's side of the field out of play.
Valkyrie Brunhilde: Level 7 / 1800/2000/ Light / Warrior / Desc: Increase the ATK of this card by 300 for each Warrior and Dragon monster on the field. If this monster is attacked by a monster with a higher ATK, you may sacrifice 1000 DEF from this monster to keep this monster on the field.
Guardian Grarl: Level 5 / 2500/1000/ Wind / Dinosaur / Desc: This card can only be Summoned Normally, Flip, or Special Summoned when there is a "Gravity Axe" on the field. If this is the only card in your hand, you can Special Summon it without any sacrifices.
Guardian Riot: TRAP / Desc: When your opponent announces an attack on one of your monsters with "Guardian" in it's name, you can Special Summon 1 monster from your hand with "Guardian" in it's name and make it your opponent's new Attack Target.
Guardian Elma: Level 3 / 1300/1200/ Wind / Angel / Desc: This card can only be Summoned Normally, Flip, or Special Summoned when there is a "Butterfly Dagger" on the field. When this card is summoned successfully, you can select 1 appropriate Equip Magic Card in your graveyard and equip it to this card.
Cost Down: MAGIC / Desc: Discard 1 card from your hand to reduce all monsters in your hand by 2 Levels for the rest of the turn.
Android Psycho Shocker: Level 6 / 2400/1500/ Dark / Machine / Desc: As long as this card remains face up on the field, the effect and activation of Trap Cards are negated.
Pot of Greed: MAGIC / Desc: Draw 2 cards from your respective deck.
Walkuren Ritt: MAGIC / Desc: Special summon any monster's in your hand with "Valkyrie" in it's name onto the field. During your end phase, return all monsters you had summoned by this card's effect, to your deck. Your deck is then shuffled.
Valkyrie Altest: Level 6 / 1600/1600/ Light / Warrior / Desc: If a monster is removed from play or sent to the graveyard, increase this card's ATK by equal to the amount of the destroyed monster's ATK until the end of the turn.
Valkyrie Dritt: Level 4 / 1000/1600/ Light / Warrior / Desc: This cards gains 100 ATK for each monster removed from play.
Half Level Trap: TRAP / Desc: Remove 1 monster from your graveyard. Special Summon 2 monsters from your deck or hand, that both equal the amount of Levels of the removed monster to the field.
Y Dragon Head: Level 4 / 1500/1600/ Light / Machine / Union / Desc: Once per turn during your Main Phase, you may change this card to an Equip Magic Card, and Equip it on 1 of your "X Head Cannon", or remove it from being an Equip Magic Card, and place it in Face-Up Attack Position. While this card is an Equip Magic Card, increase the Equipped Monster's ATK and DEF by 400. (A monster can only have one Union Monster Equipped to it. If the Equipped Monster would be destroyed by battle, destroy this card instead.)
Little Typhoon Kid: Level 2 / 100/1300/ Wind / Warrior / Desc: When this card is destroyed and sent to the graveyard due to Battle, you can inflict damage to your opponent's life points equal to the amount of Battle Damage you have taken.
Fusion Warp: QUICK PLAY MAGIC / Desc: Remove all monsters on your side of the field, out of play until your next turn.
Call of The Haunted: PERMANENT TRAP / Desc: Select 1 monster from your Graveyard and Special Summon it in face-up Attack Position. When this card is destroyed or removed from the field, the summoned monster is destroyed. If the summoned monster is destroyed, this card is also destroyed.
Gravity Axe: EQUIP MAGIC / Desc: A monster equipped with this card can increase it's ATK power by 500. As long as this card remains face-up on the field, monsters on your opponent's side can't change their Battle Positions.
Magical Reverse Mirror: MAGIC / Desc: Take control of 1 face up Magic Card and use it as your own.
Diabound Lady: Level 6 / 1800/1200/ Dark / Demon / Desc: Each time this card attacks a Defense positioned monster, switch that monster into Attack Position during Damage Calculation.
X Head Cannon: Level 4 / 1800/1500/ Light / Machine.
Z Metal Caterpillar: Level 4 / 1500/1300/ Light / Machine / Union / Desc: Once per turn during your Main Phase, you may change this card to an Equip Magic Card, and Equip it on 1 of your "X Head Cannon" or "Y Dragon head", or remove it from being an Equip Magic Card, and place it in Face-Up Attack Position. While this card is an Equip Magic Card, increase the Equipped Monster's ATK and DEF by 600. (A monster can only have one Union Monster Equipped to it. If the Equipped Monster would be destroyed by battle, destroy this card instead.)
XYZ Dragon Cannon: Level 8 / 2800/2600/ Light / Machine / Fusion / Desc: "X Head Cannon" "Y Dragon Head" "Z Metal Caterpillar". Remove the required Fusion Material Monsters from the field, out of play to Special Summon this monster ("Fusion" is not needed to summon this card) from your Fusion Deck. Discard 1 card from your hand to destroy 1 card on the field.