19. The Great Hero Deck
Kyu stretched his legs, sprawled on the ground getting ready for a game of Soccer during the Nightly Gym.
"Wow, I can't believe I signed up for this." Kyu said to Doxx.
"Yeah, it's pretty elemental to have gym during night, you get more sleep at it." Doxx replied, getting up. "Oh wait look, they're going to announce the winner."
Kyu looked up at the scoreboard which was showing a Ra Yellow student girl, accepting a trophy and an envelope. "Who's she?"
"That's Violet Brahn." Doxx said. "One of the top students in duel."
"Wow, she must be pretty damn good to have won a competition like that." Kyu said, laughing and standing.
He looked at Violet, who seemed to have her eyes looking downward, her face was just straight. "To everyone else in Ra Yellow, she's their idol." Doxx noted.
"Wow, I might have to challenge her sometime." Kyu said.
"Ha!" Doxx said. "Sorry, but no one has been able to beat her, she's nearly at Legendary Rank."
"Wow, she's that great?" Kyu said.
"Yup." Doxx said. "C'mon"
The two ran to their game. Kyu slumped toward his room and collapsed into his bed. "Nightly Gym got ya good eh?" Hide said, peeking from the bottom bunk.
"You have no idea." Kyu said, rubbing his eyes.
"Well unless you have enough energy, this note was found on the ground today." Hide said, giving him the note. Kyu took the note and unfolded it.
Kyu, I didn't meet you at the tournament, but I found out earlier you had been disqualified, it's unlikely for an Obelisk Blue student to get into that situation. Meet me at the Obelisk Blue duel arena after class.
-Brahn.
"Violet?" Kyu thought. "She probably wants to duel me."
Kyu instantly fell asleep and the time he knew it, Yukie and Hide were shaking him. "Kyu get up! You need to get ready!" Hide said.
"Ready for what?" Kyu asked.
"School!" Yukie said, pulling him out of the top bunk, sending him falling to the ground.
"Argh!" Kyu said, resting on the ground.
"Kyu-Haru! Get up, if you're late, you'll ruin my reputation of being a roommate with you!" Yukie laughed.
Kyu got up, slipping on his Obelisk Blue uniform and headed out, yawning. Suddenly Violet walked by, throwing her jet black hair back as she went by, not even looking at Kyu.
"Violet... Oh yeah..." Kyu said.
Kyu starred at the note, he didn't know, but he felt an uneasy presence around it, as if she cursed it with a powerful strong essence. "If I'm having these kind of feelings, she must really be a powerful duelist..." Kyu thought. "I can't turn down her offer, I'm not the kind of person... But then again, her expression..."
The class bell rang and Kyu jumped. Everyone began to leave and Hide and Doxx came up to him. "Kyu, I heard the news, are you really going to accept her challenge?" Doxx asked.
"I have to, I don't want to disappoint her, but I don't have a good feeling." Kyu said.
"Are you sick?" Hide asked.
"No, just this bad feeling telling me she's not the duelist to take easily." Kyu said. "But I have to duel her! I have a code to keep!"
"What is that?" Doxx asked.
"Go with your gut and my gut is telling me to go for it!" Kyu said, shoving papers into his book bag and heading off. Kyu entered the dueling arena where Violet sat patiently, reading a Duelist Card Book.
"I was sure you would come." Violet spoke out, standing up. "I've heard a lot about you, not one loss from anyone since the beginning, even beating Quartz, twice."
"If you truley are a strong duelist, I must be the one to test your skills." Violet said. "This is no freindly duel no more."
Violet quietly walked toward her side of the field and Kyu jumped up, running toward his side of the field. "As much as you wish it to be, my instinct tells me to duel with game."
"Then duel!" Violet announced as her duel disk folded out, she slid her deck in, causing her life points to increase to 4000. Kyu also slid his deck into his duel disk, increasing his life points to 4000.
"Draw!" Violet announced, drawing her card. "Element Hero, Clayman, in defense mode! (2000/800)
Suddenly a giant stone warrior materialized to the field, shielding himself with it's huge arms.
"I'll then set a card face down and end my turn!"
"Draw!" Kyu announced, drawing his own card. "X Head Cannon in attack mode! (1800/1500)"
Suddenly the machine materialized to the field, ready for an attack. "X Head Cannon, attack!" Kyu announced, pointing at Clayman.
"What?" Violet said calmly.
Suddenly the X Head Cannon lunged forward, ready to punch through. The machine did but failed, causing it to destroy himself. Kyu's life points lowered to 3800. "Activate magic card, Reborn Hero!"
"Excellent!" Doxx said.
"This magic card allows me to discard a card from my hand to bring back X Head Cannon but with more attack points! (2300/1500)" Kyu explained as the machine returned back to the field. "But unfortunately I wasted my battle phase. So I'll set a card face down and end my turn!"
"Draw..." Violet said calmly, drawing her card. "I'll summon Element Hero, Sparkman (1600/1400) in attack mode."
"More of these Hero monsters..." Kyu thought.
"Violet's main deck theme is Element Hero's... Although they are weak, they possess strong powers." Doxx said.
"Really..." Yukie said.
"I'll then activate this, Fusion!" Violet announced. "Fusing Sparkman and Clayman together."
Suddenly the two warriors jumped into the air, forming together into one giant warrior. "Element Hero, Thunder Giant! (2400/1600)"
"Ah! That's stronger than my X Head Cannon..." Kyu gasped.
"Thunder Giant's special ability is activated, once I've summoned it, it destroys a monster on the field that has less attack points than itself." Violet said as the giant slapped it's large hands together, sending a wave at Kyu's X Head Cannon, destroying it.
"I can't let that attack me directly, activate trap card!" Kyu announced as his face down card flipped up. "Trap Level 4! This trap card activates when my own monster is destroyed, we both have to special summon a level 4 or lower monster from our decks."
"I summon Element Hero, Featherman (1000/1000)." Violet said calmly as the green suited warrior materialized in mid air, his wings flapping.
"And I'll summon Chamber Hound! (1700/1400)" Kyu announced as the demon dog materialized to the field.
"Element Hero, Thunder Giant, attack and destroy his Chamber Hound." Violet said, pointing at Kyu's demon dog. The giant rose it's foot and let it come crashing down, destroying the dog. Kyu growled, shielding his head with his arm as the wind broke loose, blowing at him as his life points reduced to 3300.
"Chamber Hound's effect is activated! It allows me to special summon a monster from my hand with the level of 6!" Kyu said. "And I summon, Android Psycho Shocker! (2400/1500)"
Violet smiled. "I'm glad you are putting your all in this duel." She said.
"I'm glad to be dueling you, from hearing all these great things about you." Kyu laughed.
"My turn ends." Violet announced.
"Draw!" Kyu announced, drawing his enxt card. "I'll summon Y Dragon Head, in defense mode (1600/1500). And now! Android Psycho Shocker, attack and destroy Element Hero, Featherman!"
"Reveal magic card..." Violet announced, pointing at her only face down card. "Hostage!"
"This magic card switches the target of the attack to the strongest monster on the field, my Thunder Giant." Violet said as the android dove toward the giant. The giant reached toward the android and both destroyed themselves in an explosion.
"Why would she do that to destroy her strongest monster?!" Kyu said, surprised.
"Don't be fooled Kyu! Featherman is on of three cards she needs!" Doxx shouted.
"What? So that monster is part of an important strategy?" Kyu thought.
"I end my turn."
"Draw..." Violet announced, taking another card. "Now, I activate Fusionic Motion. This allows me to return a certain card back to my hand."
"Fusion...." Kyu gasped.
"Next, I'll summon Element Hero, Burst Lady (1200/800)" Violet announced as a woman in a red suit appeared on the field. "I'll then activate Fusion to fuse both Featherman and Burst Lady together!"
Suddenly both hero's were engulfed in a spiraling tornado of fire and began to fuse. "And with that I've created Element Hero, Flame Wingman! (2100/1800)"
"Flame Wingman?" Kyu thought as the combined hero flew down, spreading it's wing, causing a gust of wind to fly around.
"Flame Wingman, attack and destroy Y Dragon Head!" Violet announced, pointing at the red mechanical dragon.
The warrior dove down with it's one wing and slashed the dragon in half with it's huge claw, causing it to explode. Kyu growled, shielding himself from the explosion.
"Also... Flame Wingman's ability is activated. Since it destroyed your monster you lose life points equal to the amount of Attack Points Y Dragon Head had." Violet explained as Flame Wingman pointed it's claw at Kyu, sending a beam of fire toward him.
Kyu screamed in pain as he was pushed back by the blast, reducing his life points down to 1700. "Kyu's life points are almost gone! And he hasn't even touched Violet!" Yukie said in shock.
"My turn ends." Violet announced.
Kyu got back up. "My turn, draw!" Kyu announced, taking his next card.
"Surprised he hasn't given up yet..." Violet said, her eyes opening a little more wider.
"Now! I activate these two cards, Weak Revival and Raise Dead!" Kyu announced, showing the two cards to Violet. Kyu smiled, feeling his good win now. "With Weak Revival, I'll bring back X Head Cannon! (1800/1500) but due to it's effect, it's attack power decreases by one thousand! (800/1500). And I'll use Raise Dead to bring back Y Dragon Head! (1500/1600)"
"What..." Violet said, figuring out Kyu's plan.
Kyu took the last card in his hand. "And now! I'll summon this, Z Metal Caterpillar! (1500/1300)" Kyu announced as the small tank materialized to the field. "Now, X Head Cannon, Y Dragon Head, and Z Metal Caterpillar! Combine into XYZ Dragon Cannon! (2800/2600)"
All three monsters jumped into the air, combining together, forming Kyu's favorite monster, XYZ Dragon Cannon. "The great monster, a favorite toward this boy." Violet thought.
"Now! Attack and destroy Flame Wingman!" Kyu announced, pointing at the hero.
The machine pointed it's cannons toward Flame Wingman and blasted. The cannons each launched one missile and exploded around Flame Wingman. The hero screamed in pain and exploded into pieces, decreasing Violet's life points to 3300.
"Alright! Kyu scored one with his XYZ Dragon Cannon!" Hide cheered.
"And my turn ends!" Kyu announced.
"My turn, draw..." Violet announced, taking her next card. "Now, reveal trap card, Mechanical Magic Mirror! With this, I'll use it to use a magic card from your graveyard, and I chose Raise Dead which will aide me to bring forth Element Hero, Thunder Giant! (2400/1600)"
"Why would she do this... Her effect can't possibly work on my monster whose stronger than hers." Kyu thought.
"I'll then use my own Raise Dead to bring back Element Hero, Flame Wingman! (2100/1800)" Violet announced as the hero returned to the field. "And now, I'll activate this, Brave Attack!"
"No... Kyu's lost now..." Doxx said, surprised.
Kyu smiled, already knowing the effect. "Brave Attack will combine Thunder Giant and Flame Wingman's attack power together into one powerful attack." Violet explained as they lunged forward, targeting XYZ Dragon Cannon with a powerful attack strength of 4500.
The two bashed into the machine, destroying it and themselves. Kyu watched his life points reduce to 0. Violet smiled. "You were a great duelist." She said as she walked forward, shaking his hand.
"It was a pleasure to duel." Kyu smirked, accepting her hand shake. "But I will challenge you to a rematch later."
"I'll be glad to accept that rematch." Violet said, walking off.
"Did you see that! He actually lost!" Sophia gasped from behind the balcony.
"I saw clearly." Genesis said. "But how? That hero deck seem to have done the trick..."
"Did he even let his guard down?" Sophia thought. "Why was it easy for her, but hard for us?!"
The three carefully approached Kyu. "Are you ok?" Yukie asked.
"Why wouldn't I be?" Kyu asked.
"You lost..." Hide pointed out.
"Yeah well you can't win them all!" Kyu laughed, scratching the back of his head.
"Well you put up one hell of a fight." Doxx said, patting him on the back. "Just can't wait to see that rematch."
CARDS PLAYED
Element Hero: Clayman: Level 4 / 800/2000/ Earth / Warrior.
X Head Cannon: Level 4 / 1800/1500/ Light / Machine.
Reborn Hero: MAGIC / Desc: Discard 1 card from your hand to Special Summon 1 monster card from your graveyard, to the field. Increase the selected monster's ATK by 500.
Fusion: MAGIC / Desc: Fuse 2 or mroe monsters on the field or from your hand to create 1 Fusion Monster.
Element Hero: Sparkman: Level 4 / 1600/1400/ Light / Warrior.
Element Hero: Thunder Giant: Level 6 / 2400/1600/ Light / Warrior / Fusion / Desc: "Element Hero: Sparkman" "Element Hero Clayman".When this Monster is Summoned, destroy 1 face up monster on your opponents side of the field that has a lower attack strength than this card.
Trap Level 4: TRAP / Desc THis card can only be activated if a Monster was destroyed. Both players must Special Summon 1 monster with a level of 4 or less, to the field in Attack Position.
Chamber Hound: Level 4 / 1700/1400/ Dark / Beast / Desc: When this card is destroyed due to battle, Special Summon 1 Level 6 monster from your hand.
Element Hero: Featherman: Level 3 / 1000/1000/ Air / Warrior.
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.
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.)
Hostage: QUICK PLAY MAGIC / Desc: When your opponent announces an attack on one of your opponent's monsters, switch the attack target to the monster with the highest ATK.
Fusionic Motion: MAGIC / Desc: Return 1 "Fusion" from your graveyard, to your hand.
Element Hero: Burst Lady: Level 3 / 1200/800/ Fire / Warrior.
Element Hero: Flame Wingman: Level 8 / 2100/1800/ Air / Warrior / Desc: "Element Hero Featherman" "Element Hero: Burst Lady". This monster can be Summoned only by "Fusion". When this Monster destroys a Monster as a result of Battle, do direct damage to your opponent's Life Points equal to the amount of ATK of the destroyed monster.
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
Weak Revival: MAGIC / Desc: Special Summon 1 monster from your Graveyard, to the field. That monster's ATK is reduced by 1000 ATK.
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.
Mechanical Magic Mirror: TRAP / Desc: Activate 1 Magic Card from your opponent's graveyard.
Brave Attack: Combine the ATK of all of your face up monsters and deal damage to your opponent's monster or Life Points (If attack directly). Destroy your monsters at the end of your turn.