20. Legend VS Rank
"What do you mean I can't bring up my ranks?!" Quartz said, slamming his fist down on the desk of Seto Kaiba.
"It's impossible, you were beaten twice, your special needs are unecessary." Kaiba said, deleting the three stars on Quartz's file, leaving him with 2 left.
"No! Why should I have to suffer for someone who was defeated by Violet Brahn?!" Quartz hissed.
"It's your attitude, possibly, you always have a bad one. Thus telling me you're not being respectful to much students here." Kaiba said, standing up.
Quartz growled in anger. "Well what if I defeat Violet?" Quartz asked.
"If she accepts your challenge, you'll gain two stars." Kaiba said.
"Why can't I gain more, she's like a legendary duelist!" Quartz complained.
"Better than nothing. Now if you excuse me, I've got important business to take care of." Kaiba said.
"Business? All you ever do is snoot around area's, watching Kyu-Haru..." Quartz hissed, but suddenly an idea came to his mind. "Business, huh... So seeing that I won't challenge Violet, who else would allow me to earn a high ranking?"
"Do you even notice that rank is nothing here, it's what you learn, if you care so much about rank, join the Alley Duelist or The Rare Hunters." Kaiba said.
"What if I were tod defeat you in a duel?" Quartz asked, smiling deviously.
"That's a whole other story." Kaiba said.
"Why, are you afraid to lose all that you've gained?" Quartz asked, leaning on the table, his back facing Kaiba.
"Fear is nothing, it only holds you back." Kaiba said.
"Then I challenge you to a duel, here and now!" Quartz said, swiftly turning, pointing his finger at Kaiba.
Kaiba smirked. "Fine, but if you had any conscience, you would know you're totally out of my league." Kaiba boasted.
"We'll see." Quartz said as his duel disk folded out.
Kaiba opened his desk drawer, taking out his own duel disk and slipping his deck in. "Duel!" They both announced, Quartz who was a few feet away and Kaiba standing behind his desk.
"I'll begin, draw!" Quartz announced, drawing his card. "Daemon Devil, defense mode (1000/1200)."
Suddenly a black demon appeared, guarding itself with it's large hands.
"I'll then set a card face down and end my turn."
"Draw!" Kaiba announced, taking his next card. "Blade Knight in attack mode! (1600/100) I'll then use this, Stop Defense!"
"What..." Quartz growled.
"This magic card forces your Daemon Devil to shift into attack position (1200/1000)" Kaiba said as the devil stood up into it's attack position. "Now! Blade Knight, attack and destroy his Daemon Devil!"
The knight charged forward, slashing the demon in half with it's sword, reducing Quartz's life points to 3600. "Activate Daemon Devil's special effect now!" Quartz commanded. "It allows me to Special Summon Daemon Devil back on the field in defense mode (1000/1200) when I discard a demon type monster from my hand!"
Kaiba smirked. "I'll set two cards face down and end my turn." He announced.
"Draw!" Quartz announced, taking his next card. "Now! I sacrifice Daemon Devil to summon this, Hell Poemer! (2000/1400)"
"Hmm..." Kaiba said.
"Hell Poemer! Attack and destroy his Blade Knight!" Quartz announced, pointing at the knight. The demon let out a moan, sending out a purple gas from it's mouth, dissolving the knight and decreasing Kaiba's life points to 3400.
Kaiba growled, angered by his suddenly depletion of life points. "This you will pay for." Kaiba growled.
"Angry already?" Quartz taunted.
"You have no clue who you're dealing with, young boy." Kaiba hissed.
"Young boy... You dare to challenge me with names..." Quartz growled. "I'll set a card face down and end my turn."
"Draw!" Kaiba announced, drawing his next card. "Reverse magic card, Raise Dead!"
"Hmph..." Quartz said.
"And I'll bring back Blade Knight! (1600/1000)" Kaiba announced as the knight returned to the field. "I'll then reveal my magic card, Cost Down!"
"No..." Quartz growled.
"Now two levels are taken from each monster that is in my hand! Now! I sacrifice Blade Knight to summon this, Blue Eyes White Dragon! (3000/2500)" Kaiba announced as a monster card rose up, revealing the dragon. Suddenly the card began to glow and the dragon crawled out of the card picture, roaring.
"The almighty Blue Eyes." Quartz smirked. "You take pride in such a rare card but it has now power."
"Blue Eyes! Attack and destroy his Hell Poemer!" Kaiba announced, pointing at Quartz's demon. The dragon roared, firing a blue lightning blast right at the demon, causing it to explode.
Quartz began to laugh. "You've now fallen into my trap!" He said. "Hell Poemer's effect is activated!"
Suddenly a misty hand rose out of Kaiba's graveyard holster, pulling away a random card from his hand and pulling it into his graveyard slot. "As long as Hell Poemer remains in my graveyard, you'll lose one card randomly after everyone of your Battle Phase."
"This technique is old." Kaiba said.
"Old, but helpful to take down the almighty Seto Kaiba." Quartz smiled.
"I'll end my turn now." Kaiba announced, only having one card in his hand left.
"Draw...." Quartz announced, swiftly drawing his next card. "And now! I'll remove Hell Poemer, Daemon Devil, and Death Gargoyle from my graveyard to summon this great demon..."
Suddenly three glowing spirits appeared on the field and began to merge into one, creating one single demon. "Dark Necrofear! (2200/2800)" Quartz shouted as the demon's eyes opened widely.
"I'm not a fool, I've known every single card created." Kaiba said.
Quartz smiled. "Reveal trap card! Slick Attack!" Quartz announced.
"No..." Kaiba growled.
"With this trap card, I can force your Blue Eyes White Dragon to attack my Dark Necrofear!" Quartz laughed. "Now attack!"
The dragon blasted another lightning blast, aiming for the Dark Necrofear. The attack was successful and Quartz's dark necrofear was destroyed, leaving his life points at 2800.
"And with that, Dark Necrofear's effect is activated! Now I gain control of your Blue Eyes White Dragon!" Quartz laughed as the demon's spirit exploded out of Quartz's graveyard holster, slipping into the dragon's eyes, causing it to glow an eerie purple. It then flew over to Quartz's side of the field, facing Kaiba. "And attack his life points directly!"
The dragon unleashed a purple hazy mist at Kaiba. Kaiba screamed in pain as the attack hit him hard, reducing his life points to 400.
"This is going swell... As soon as I take over his company, I will be number one..." Quartz thought. "I'll set two cards face down and end my turn!"
"Draw..." Kaiba announced. "How dare he take my Blue Eyes away from me."
"I can see the anger in his eyes... He'll just duel sloppy now." Quartz thought, smiling to himself.
"I'll set a card face down, then summon Black Pearl Dragon in defense mode (1300/1500). My turn ends." Kaiba announced.
"Draw..." Quartz announced, drawing his next card and smiling. "I activate this, Revival of Demon Dragon!"
"What?" Kaiba said in shock.
"I bet you haven't seen this coming, it's a special made card." Quartz said. "By sacrificing your Blue Eyes White Dragon, I can activate it's effect."
Suddenly the dragon dissolved and disappeared out of sight. "How dare he use my dragon as his own toy." Kaiba growled, clenching his fist.
"Now that I've satisfied my magic card's effect, I can now summon this, Death Demon Dragon! (3400/2400)" Quartz announced as a black red eyed dragon began to rise up from the ground, spreading it's black wilted wings and revealing sharp black spikes along it's neck and tail.
"Err..." Kaiba growled, knowing he would need more power to defeat Quartz.
"How does it feel to have such power against you..." Quartz taunted.
"You know nothing of what it feels like. To feel your defeat coming by such a powerful monster." Kaiba growled. "You know nothing."
Quartz smirked. "I'm sure. But now I can activate Death Demon Dragon's special ability. It let's me draw cards and whatever demon monsters I draw, are summoned to the field." He explained.
He started to draw cards, stopping until he had three new cards. "And Now! I summon this, Mad Calibre Demon! (600/700)" Quartz announced as a demon which looked like a bat rose to the field. "When this demon is summoned it automatically summons three Calibre Demon Tokens! (x2 600/700)"
Suddenly three small bats appeared on the field, flapping their wings wildly. "I still have two more monsters, I'll now summon another Mad Calibre Demon!" Quartz announced. "And it'll also summon two more Calibre Demon Tokens! (x2 600/700)"
"What? How can you summon more than five monsters?" Kaiba said in shock.
Quartz smiled. "Part of my plan. I've made it so that as long as Mad Calibre Demon remains on the field, I can have any amount of Calibre Demon Tokens on the field to my hearts content..." He said.
"Err..." Kaiba said.
"I'll then sacrifice one my of Calibre Demon Tokens to summon this, Demon of Hell! (1800/1000)" Quartz announced as the grey winged demon, wielding a large rusted sword came up from the ground. "This demon warrior gains one hundred attack points for each other demon on the field."
With that, Quartz gave a laugh as the demon's attack power increased to 2400. "And now! Demon of Hell, destroy his Black Pearl Dragon!"
The demon flew forward, slashing the black dragon into pieces, destroying it. Kaiba growled, shielding his face from the debris which flew at him.
"You're wide open for a final assault!" Quartz said, pointing his finger at Kaiba. "Now, Death Demon Dragon, destroy him and his career!"
The spiked dragon opened it's maw, unleashing a wave of black fire toward Kaiba. "Reverse trap, Attack Nullification!" Kaiba announced as his trap card flipped up.
Suddenly a large vortex appeared in the sky, sucking in the black fire, causing the attack to be invalid.
"With this trap card, your attack is invalid and your battle phase ends!" Kaiba said.
"Reveal trap card!" Quartz announced. "Black Wave!"
"What?" Kaiba said in shock.
"This trap card allows me to sacrifice the first four cards on top of my deck to skip your next two draw phases." Quartz smiled. "Now there'll be no hope of you winning."
Kaiba smiled. "You underestimate me, child." He said. "I don't need a draw phase anymore. My deck tells me I will win this duel!"
"What?" Quartz said, confused.
"Activate magic card, Pot of Greed!" Kaiba announced. "Which allows me to draw two cards!"
"No... But what are the chances of you getting any strong cards." Quartz growled.
Kaiba drew his two cards quickly and smiled. "Gotcha..." He said. "Activate magic card, Soul Absorption!"
Suddenly the magic card appeared. "What's that for..." Quartz snapped.
"With this, each time I remove a card from play, I gain five hundred life points. Now I will summon this, Chaos Emperor Dragon! (3000/2500)" Kaiba announced as the giant armored dragon appeared on the field.
"No..." Quartz growled, looking up at the dragon.
"Yes, and to summon it, I needed to remove a dark and light monster from play, out of my graveyard." Kaiba said, remembering back to Blade Knight and Black Pearl Dragon. "And since I remove those monsters, I gain an additional one thousand life points due to my Soul Absorption magic card! (LP: 1400)"
"No, one of the rarest cards in duel monsters... against me... This can't be!" Quartz said in shock.
"Yes, then you'd know that Chaos Emperor Dragon comes with an ability, a very powerful one. To activate it I need to sacrifice one thousand life points! (LP: 400)" Kaiba explained. Suddenly the dragon unleashed a giant blaze of fire, surrounding all the monsters, destroying them easily. "With this, all cards on the field and in our hands are sent to the graveyard, and you lose three hundred life points for each card, allowing me to win the duel!"
"No..." Quartz growled as his life points reduced to 0.
"Let this be a lesson to you, Quartz, if I ever see you up to business I will wipe you out of this school before you ever know it!" Kaiba threatened as he quickly left his office.
Quartz had his back to the door, sighing with relief, but then suddenly he smiled. He held the collar of his Obelisk Blue uniform to his mouth. "You got all that?" He said.
"Yes sir!" A man's voice said into a hidden ear phone.
"It's only a matter of time, Seto Kaiba, before I'll be the one taking your place..." Quartz said evilly, casually walking down the hall.
CARDS PLAYED
Daemon Devil: Level 4 / 1200/1000/ Dark / Demon / Desc: If this card is sent to your graveyard by battle, you can discard 1 Demon-Type monster from your hand, to Special Summon this monster in face up defense mode.
Blade Knight: Level 4 / 1600/1000/ Light / Warrior / Desc: When there is only one or no cards in your hand, increase this card's ATK by 400. Also if this is the only card on your side of the field, this card can negate the effects of Flip effect monsters destroyed by this monster in battle.
Stop Defense: MAGIC / Desc: Switch 1 Defense Positioned monster into Attack Position.
Hell Poemer: Level 5 / 2000/1400/ Dark / Demon / Desc: When this card has been sent to the Graveyard as a result of battle, this card's effect is activated. As long as this card exists in your Graveyard, your opponent must discard 1 card randomly from his/her hand at the end of his/her Battle Phase. Neither player can Special Summon this card from the Graveyard.
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
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.
Blue Eyes White Dragon: Level 8 / 3000/2500/ Light / Dragon.
Dark Necrofear: Level 8 / 2200/2800/ Dark / Demon / Desc: This card can only be Special Summoned by removing 3 Demon-Type monsters in your Graveyard from play. When this card is destroyed in battle or by your opponent's card effect, it is treated as an Equip Magic Card at the end of the turn. Equip 1 of your opponent's monsters with this card. As long as it is equipped with this card, you control the equipped monster.
Slick Attack: TRAP / Desc: Force 1 monster on your opponent's face-up monsters to attack any other monster on the field. (No Battle Phase will be entered when this Trap Card is activated.)
Black Pearl Dragon: Level 4 / 1500/1300/ Dark / Dragon.
Revival of Demon Dragon: MAGIC / Desc: Sacrifice 1 face-up Dragon-Type monster to Special Summon 1 "Death Demon Dragon" from your hand or deck, to the field.
Death Demon Dragon: Level 8 / 3400/2400/ Dark / Demon / Desc: This card can only be summoned by "Revival of Demon Dragon". During each of your Standby Phases, you can draw cards until you've stopped drawing monster cards (Any other cards that have been drawn by this card's effect is returned to the top of our deck). For each Demon-Type monster you've drawn, Special Summon them to the field in face up defense position.
Demon of Hell: Level 5 / 1800/1000/ Level 4 / Dark / Demon / Desc: Sacrifice 1 face up Demon-Type monster on your side of the field to Special Summon this monster. Increase this card's ATK by 100 for each Demon-Type monster on the field.
Mad Calibre Demon: Level 3 / 600/700/ Dark / Demon / Desc: When this card is Special Summoned to the field, summon 3 "Calibre Demon Tokens" (Level 3 / 600/700/ Dark / Demon.) in face up defense position. (As long as this card exists on the field, there is no limit to how many "Calibre Demon Tokens" are on the field.)
Attack Nullification: TRAP / Desc: Negate the attack of your opponent's monster and end their Battle Phase.
Black Wave: TRAP / Desc: Discard the top 4 cards from your deck, to your graveyard to skip your opponent's next two Draw Phases.
Pot of Greed: MAGIC / Desc: Draw 2 cards from your deck.
Soul Absorption: PERMANENT MAGIC / Desc: Increase your life points by 1000 for each card removed from play.
Chaos Emperor Dragon: Level 8 / 3000/2500/ Dark / Dragon / Desc: This card can only be Special Summoned by removing 1 Light and 1 Dark monster in your graveyard, from play. Pay 1000 of your Life Points to send all cards in both players' hands and on the field to the Graveyard. Inflict 300 points of damage to your opponent's Life Points for each card that is sent to the Graveyard by this effect.