44. Deadly Game of Rare Hunters
Night fell and Yukie walked down the hall with some of her girl friends. "See you guys tomorrow!" Yukie said, stopping before her room door.
"Bye Yukie!" Her friends said, going over to their dorm room.
Before Yukie grabbed the door knob a quick chill went down her back. "Eh... What a weird feeling..." She said, grabbing her shoulders.
"Yukie Ishikawa..." A low voice said. Suddenly she felt a hand on her back but before she could scream, another hand came around, covering her mouth, quickly she fainted.
The sun rose and a rooster woken Hide and Kyu up. Hide bounced around, trying to slip on a boot. "Looks like Yukie left early." He said as Kyu put on his school uniform.
Both students came running out, heading for class until Yuko, one of Yukie's friends came to them. "Yuko, hi!" Kyu said.
"Hey, you guys seen Yukie any where?" Yuko asked.
"Nope, she probably left early for class." Hide said.
"She has a study session with me before class started, she was suppose to meet me at the library but she never showed up." Yuko said, worried.
"Strange... Yukie wasn't at the room when we woke up." Kyu said. "We better get to class."
"Sorry, Yuko, we'll keep you updated if anything comes up!" Hide said as the two left.
Lunch came by, there was still no sign of Yukie. "I'm getting worried, it's not like her to just disappear like this." Hide said, poking at his food.
"Maybe we should check security out, see if anything is wrong." Doxx said. "Yukie may have gotten lost, there's a bunch of camera's around."
"Sounds good to me." Kyu said, getting up.
They arrived at the small office where a bunch of screens showed of the halls ways in the school. "So you think a student might be missing?" A security guard asked.
"Yes, last time we heard of her was that she was coming from the bath house." Kyu said.
The guard went to a screen where it showed three girls walking, one was Yuko, the other was Yukie. "There she is!" Hide pointed.
It showed Yukie waving by to Yuko, and then some black cloak behind her. "What's that?" Doxx said.
The guard zoomed in. It was a tall cloaked figure and on top of it's hood was a symbol. "A rare hunter!" Hide gasped.
"What would one be doing here?" Kyu said.
The guard acted, grabbing his radio. "We have an intruder in Duelist Academy, a Rare Hunter has broken into the academy, be on your search." The guard said, and began to leave.
"What about Yukie?" Kyu asked.
"We'll be working on it." The guard said, but it didn't rest their satisfaction.
"Whatever! We need to find her now, who knows where they are now, or how far they've gotten from the island. Besides! Why would they want Yukie?" Kyu said.
"They must be after the card vault..." Doxx suddenly said. "It's suppose to be a secret, but they must have found out about the card vault."
"The place where they keep the rarest cards?" Kyu said.
"Yeah, and I know they can't get through it, they're using Yukie as a hostage until they can get to the cards." Doxx said.
"We have to go save Yukie then!" Hide said. "But where is the card vault?"
Both Kyu and Doxx shrugged. "Down in the basement." Violet suddenly said, entering the room.
"Violet?" Kyu said.
"I see your friend is missing, we have to go find her if the Rare Hunters are in on this." Violet said. "I'll help."
"I will too." Doxx smiled.
"Me too." Hide said.
"Alright then, let's get going!" Kyu said.
The four ran down the halls, seeing a door with a "Student's Forbidden" sign on it.
"Are you sure? If we get caught, we'll be in serious trouble." Hide said, looking to his left and right.
"Don't worry, I'll make sure nothing happens." Violet said, opening the door. There was a dark corridor leading down to a long flight of stairs.
They slowly moved down until there were the sound of mumblings. "They must be behind this door..." Kyu said, listening to it.
Suddenly the door opened and Kyu fell forward. "Kyu!" Hide said, grabbing onto his arm but his weight pulled Hide out. Doxx held onto Hide but failed and all three boys toppled over each other on the ground.
Violet stepped over them, looking at the group of Rare Hunters. "Well look who we have here." A Rare Hunter said, closing the door behind them, and locking it.
They arrived to a lounge area with a round couch and table in the middle of the round room. "Where's Yukie!" Kyu said, standing up.
The group of Rare Hunters gathered in front of the door opposite to the side of the room Kyu and his friends stood at.
"The girl?" The main leader said, amused.
"Give her back to us!" Kyu said, holding his fists.
"Duel us and we'll think about it." The leader said.
"We'll all duel you!" Violet hissed.
"No, just you..." The leader said, pointing at Kyu.
"Fine..." Kyu said, standing. He slid his deck into his duel disk. His duel disk then folded out and turned on.
"Duel!" The Rare Hunter and Kyu announced.
"Draw!" The Rare Hunter said, drawing his first card. "I'll special summon Raptor X in attack mode (1300/200)"
"Special summon?" Kyu said.
"The effect of my Raptor X allows me to special summon it to the field." The Rare Hunter smiled. "But I've got two more in my hand so now! I bring forth my last two Raptor X's! (2x 1300/200)"
"Three monsters in one turn!" Doxx gasped.
"It's a good thing he can't attack on the first turn." Hide said.
"That's where your wrong kid." The Rare Hunter smiled, taking another card from his hand. "Now! I'll activate this, First Attack!"
"The chances are of using that card on a first turn are slim!" Violet said. "He's just lucky..."
"This magic card allows me to attack during the first turn. And seeing that you of no other monsters, looks like you'll be in a lot of trouble." The Rare Hunter cackled.
"No way!" Kyu gasped.
"Now, my three Raptor X's attack his life points directly!" The Rare Hunter announced, pointing.
Sophia and Genesis walked by the door of the basement, laughing along. "So I told him he could kiss my..." Sophia went on when suddenly there was a giant boom.
"What the!" Genesis screamed, jumping back in sudden shock.
"Something exploded!" Sophia said.
"Ugh..." Kyu said, falling to one knee as his life points reduced to 100.
"Kyu!" Hide called out.
"In just one turn, I've reduced you to practically nothing." The Rare Hunter laughed. "And you know the code of the Rare Hunters, once I win, I gain all your rare cards. Your life is about to become more harder now."
"I don't think so." Kyu smiled, drawing his next card.
"Huh?" The Rare Hunter said.
"I'll activate this, Cost Down! Which will reduce all levels of monsters in my hand by two!" Kyu said. "Then I'll summon this, KC Catapult Cannon! (0/0)"
"Heh, you've got to be kidding me." The Rare Hunter laughed as his gang laughed behind him as the machine appeared, it pointed a small cannon toward the Rare Hunter. "Such a weak monster against my army of raptors?"
"Next, I'll use this, Level Off!" Kyu announced. "This magic card allows me to summon any level three or lower monsters from my hand, to the field. So no! I summon this, X Head Cannon! (1800/1500), and Seraphim Gunner! (1800/1200)"
"What! How can you summon those when they're all level four monster!" The Rare Hunter shouted as the machine and shot gun wielding angel appeared on the field.
"Did you not figure that my Cost Down magic card reduced it's level by two? Making it a level two monster!" Kyu said.
"No way!" The Rare Hunter gasped.
"Now! I'll equip X Head Cannon to my KC Catapult Cannon, raising it's attack strength by five hundred!" Kyu explained as the X Head Cannon leapt up, connecting to the Catapult Cannon. "Now attack his Raptor X!"
The X Head Cannon grasped the two controls on the catapult cannon, aiming at the middle raptor and firing a large missile at it, destroying it.
"Errr..." The Rare Hunter growled, shielding himself from the blast as his life points reduced to 3000.
"The effect of my KC Catapult Cannon allows my X Head Cannon to attack again if you still have a monster on the field!" Kyu explained.
"No!" The Rare Hunter gasped.
Sophia and Genesis came walking down the stairs, seeing Kyu battling the Rare Hunter. "What the!" Sophia squeaked.
Suddenly everyone moved their heads toward the two. "Sophia? Genesis?" Doxx said.
"We didn't see anything! We're leaving right now!" Genesis said, panicking as they began to go back up when suddenly two Rare Hunters chased after them, grabbing them then throwing them down with the others.
"Great, you just had to drag me down here..." Genesis said, punching Sophia in the arm. "What's going on anyway?"
"Yukie was kidnapped, we followed the security camera's here, now the Rare Hunters are trying to get into the Card Vault."
"Those damned Rare Hunters! Why do they always ruin everything!" Sophia said, crossing her arms.
"Now! X Head Cannon, destroy the rest of his raptors now!" Kyu announced, pointing.
The X Head Cannon guided the catapult cannon at the two raptors, firing two missiles and destroying them, reducing the Rare Hunter's life points to 1000.
"Finally! Seraphim Gunner, attack his life points directly!" Kyu announced, pointing at the Rare Hunter.
The angel pointed it's shot gun at the Rare Hunter and fired. The Rare Hunter screamed out loud in horror as he fell backwards, his life points reducing to 0.
"Our leader!" A Rare Hunter said in shock.
"Now let us through!" Kyu shouted angrily.
"Never!" A Rare Hunter said, moving forward.
"You'll have to get through us all!" another Rare Hunter said. Five other Rare Hunters stood around Kyu, ready to duel.
"Kyu let us help!" Hide said.
"No way! We're not helping you!" Sophia said, pointing.
"Don't worry guys, let me handle them." Kyu smiled, holding a thumbs up.
"Are you sure, Kyu-Haru?" Violet asked.
"Duel!" The five Rare Hunters announced.
Kyu's life points rose to 4000, while the other five Rare Hunter's life points rose to 4000 each. "I'll begin!" Kyu announced, taking his first round of cards. "One monster, face down defense mode and two cards face down, my turn ends!"
"A wasteful turn." The first Rare Hunter chuckled, drawing his first card. "I'll summon Goblin Attack Force in attack mode! (2300/0)"
Kyu smiled as the goblin appeared on the field, wielding a giant club. "Destroy his monster!" The first Rare Hunter announced, pointing.
The goblin charged forward, smashing its club down on the monster, revealing it. "You've attacked my Cyber Pod! (900/900) Activating it's effect!"
Suddenly the pod exploded, taking in the goblin with it's explosion. "Now we each pick up five cards from the top of our decks and summon any level four monsters we have in our hands!" Kyu said.
"Kid, you've got to be kidding us." One of the Rare Hunters laughed as all five took their cards.
"Injection Angel Lily (400/1500) and Vorse Raider! (1900/1000)" The first Rare Hunter announced.
"I'll summon Kaiser Seahorse(1700/1650), KC-5 Assault Soldier (1800/1500), and Big Shield Guardna! (100/2600)" The second Rare Hunter announced.
"I'll summon Blade Knight (1600/1000), Marauding Captain (1200/400), and Melee Fighter! (1400/500)" The third Rare Hunter announced.
"I'll summon Ruby Dragon (1600/1200), Sapphire Dragon (1900/1600), and Black Pearl Dragon! (1500/1300)" the fourth Rare Hunter announced.
"And I'll summon Chamber Hound (1700/1400), Machine Sniper (1800/800), and Hell Soldier! (1200/1000)" The last Rare Hunter announced.
"This is a impossible predicament to get out of, what was Kyu thinking getting into this type of duel! He'll really lose!" Sophia said.
"The girls right, you have no chance of winning." A rare hunter said.
"I still haven't summoned my set of monsters." Kyu said, taking his five cards. "Now! I'll summon X Head Cannon (1800/1500), Y Dragon Head (1500/1600), Z Metal Caterpillar (1500/1300), Seraphim Guardner (1000/2000), and Seraphim Sabre! (1600/1500)"
Suddenly all five Rare Hunters laughed. "That's it? I thought you had something better, you're as gone as the girl we took." The first Rare Hunter laughed.
"Now! Our army of monsters will destroy your weak monsters and win this duel!" the third Rare Hunter said.
"Attack!" All five Rare Hunters announced, pointing at Kyu in the middle of their circle.
Kyu became surrounded by monsters, he looked around and smiled. "Activate trap card, Attack Nullification!"
Suddenly tons of energy was disburse from the trap, throwing back all the rare hunter's monsters back to their positions. "Now your battle phases are ended." Kyu said.
"Then our turns are done!" the Rare Hunters said.
"Draw!" Kyu announced, drawing his card. "Now! I'll fuse all my X, Y, and Z monsters together!"
Suddenly all three machines launched to the air, connecting together into one giant machine. "XYZ Dragon Cannon! (2800/2600)" Kyu announced as the machine revealed its round of cannons.
"Hmm, Kyu-Haru's most favorite monster, but it won't do you no good to destroy our monsters." A Rare Hunter said.
"Next! I'll sacrifice both Seraphim Sabre and Seraphim Guardner to summon this..." Kyu said, holding the card. "This card represents my anger, and the anger of which you all started..."
"A card that represents Kyu's anger? This is new..." Doxx said.
"This is creepy... I've never seen Kyu so angry before..." Hide thought.
"Destructive Dragon Gondola! (?)" Kyu hollered as the giant dragon with red pearls all over its body, materialized to the field.
"What's that!" The fifth Rare Hunter said in shock.
"Allow me to show you what this monster of my anger can do!" Kyu yelled. "By sacrificing half of my life points (LP: 2000) it will destroy all cards on the field!"
"No!" The first Rare Hunter gasped as the others began to whisper.
Suddenly the red pearls on the dragon began to shine, and cover the field in a eerie red color. "Ha! That means your XYZ Dragon Cannon will be destroyed!" a Rare Hunter said.
"Not when I activate this, Fusion Hibernation!" Kyu said. "With this, my fusion monster will be protected from any card effects!"
The red light grew intense, everyone shielded themselves from the dragon's effect. "No way!" Hide gasped.
"And now, I'll activate this magic card, Spiritual Guidance! This card allows me to remove monsters from my graveyard, and for each one, my XYZ Dragon Cannon can attack!" Kyu said. "But my monster's too weak, so I'll activate this last card, Pump Up! Doubling the attack of my XYZ Dragon Cannon!"
"No!" All five Rare Hunters said in shock as the machine's attack strength rose to 5600.
"So I remove all five monsters from my graveyard to win this duel!" Kyu said. "Now! XYZ Dragon Cannon, attack all their life points directly!"
"A mere kid, against five duelist... How can this be!" A rare hunter said as the giant machine fired missile every where. All the rare hunters screamed in pain, falling to the ground.
All their life points reduced to 0 and Kyu won the duel. "No way!" Doxx said in shock.
Kyu's vision was doubled, he felt really weak. Hide and Doxx ran over and Kyu began to sway, almost falling but Doxx and Hide helped him.
"Let's get out of here already!" Sophia said.
"Can't they locked the door..." Violet said.
"But how did we get in?" Genesis asked.
"They must have locked it in the inside, but not the outside." Doxx replied. "We might as well move on, there's more rooms beyond that door so more rare hunters may be out there, we have to defeat them and save Yukie."
"Let's go now..." Violet said as they reached to the other side of the room.
CARDS PLAYED
Raptor X: Level 4 / 1300/200/ Dark / Dinosaur / Desc: You may treat the Normal Summon of this card as a Special Summon. If you select Special Summon, your opponent may select a Monster Card from his/her Graveyard and Special Summon the monster to the field.
First Attack: MAGIC / Desc: You may attack during the first turn of a duel.
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.
KC Catapult Cannon: Level 6 / 0/0/ Light / Machine / Union / Desc: This card can only be equipped to "X Head Cannon". Increase the equipped monster's ATK by 500. The equipped monster can continue it's Battle Phase as long as there is a monster on the field. When the equipped monster is destroyed due to battle, send this monster to the graveyard instead.
Level Off: MAGIC / Desc: Sacrifice half of your Life Points to Special Summon all Level 3 or lower monsters from your hand, to the field.
X Head Cannon: Level 4 / 1800/1500/ Light / Machine.
Seraphim Gunner: Level 4 / 1800/1200/ The Attack points of this monster increases by 300 for each Angel-Type monster on the field.
Goblin Attack Force: Level 4 / 2300/0/ Earth / Warrior / Desc: When this card attacks, this card is shifted into Defense Position at the end of Battle Phase. The position cannot change until the second turn after the activation of this card's effect.
Cyber Pod: Level 3 / 900/900/ Rock / Dark / Desc: FLIP: Destroy all monsters on the field. Both players must then pick up (not draw) 5 cards from the top of their decks and show them to each other. Both players must then Special Summon any Monster Cards with a level of 4 or lower on the field. The rest of the cards picked up at placed in the players' hands
Injection Angel Lily: Level 3 / 400/1500/ Earth / Angel / Desc: This card's effect can be activated only during the Damage Step of either player's turn. Pay 2000 Life Points to increase the ATK of this card by 3000 only during the Damage Step.
Vorse Raider: Level 4 / 1900/1000/ Dark / Warrior.
Kaiser Seahorse: Level 4 / 1700/1650/ Light / Sear Serpent / Desc: If you sacrifice this monster to summon a Light-type monster, this card counts as 2 sacrifices.
KC-5 Assault Soldier: Level 4 / 1800/500/ Earth / Warrior.
Big Shield Guardna: Level 4 / 100/2600/ Earth / Warrior / Desc: Negate the activation of a Magic Card that designates this 1 face-down monster. At that time, flip this card into face-up Defense Position. If this card is attacked, change the Battle Position of this card to Attack Position at the end of the Damage Step.
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.
Marauding Captain: Level 3 / 1200/400/ Earth / Warrior / Desc: As long as this monster remains face-up on the field, your opponent cannot select any other Warrior-Type monster on your side of the field as an attack target, when this monster is normal summoned successfully, you can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower monster from your hand.
Melee Fighter: Level 3 / 1400/500/ Earth / Warrior.
Sapphire Dragon: Level 4 / 1900/1600/ Wind / Dragon.
Ruby Dragon: Level 4 / 1600/1200/ Wind / Dragon.
Black Pearl Dragon: Level 4 / 1500/1300/ Dark / Dragon.
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.
Machine Sniper: Level 4 / 1800/800/ Earth / Machine.
Hell Soldier: Level 4 / 1200/1000/ Dark / Demon / Desc: When this Monster is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, do damage to your opponent equal to the amount of Battle Damage by the controller of this card
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.)
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.)
Seraphim Guardner: Level 4 / 1000/2000/ Light / Angel / Desc: The DEF of this monster increases by 300 for each Angel-Type monster on the field.
Seraphim Sabre: Level 4 / 1600/1500/ Light / Angel / Desc: The ATK of this monster increases by 300 for each Angel-Type monster on the field.
Attack Nullification: TRAP / Desc: When your opponent declares an attack, negate the attack and end your opponent's Battle Phase.
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.
Destructive Dragon Gondola: Level 8 / Dark / Dragon / Desc: When this Monster is successfully Summoned, sacrifice half of your Life Points. During the turn this card is activated, destroy all Monster and Magic cards on the field (including this card).
Fusion Hibernation: QUICK PLAY MAGIC / Desc: During the turn this card is activated, any face-up Fusion monsters cannot be targeted by Magic, Trap, or Monster card effect.
Spiritual Guidance: MAGIC / Desc: Sacrifice half of your Life Points to activate this card. Select 1 face-up Monster on the field. You can remove monsters from your graveyard, out of play to have the selected monster attack again during your Battle Phase for each removed monster.
Pump Up: MAGIC / Desc: Double the ATK of 1 face-up monster on the field for the remainder of the turn.