46. Violet VS Ghost Ryder, Death Duel
"Duel!" Both Ryder and Violet announced as their life points rose to 4000.
"I'll start!" Ryder said, throwing back his scarf. "By this I mean, bringing on your death sentence..."
"What?" Violet said.
Suddenly a blast of dark fogs burst beneath his feet, causing the entire field be engulfed by the Shadow Realm. "This time, your soul won't be mine. I assure you your name will be said in the feeling of sorrow, because once you lose, your life will be taken..." Ryder said. "I can't have a legend still be around once I defeat them."
"No way! He's going to kill her if he wins!" Hide gasped.
"Violet, you can't lose now." Kyu said.
Violet smirked. "Death threats? I think you've hit a new low. I don't plan to lose." Violet said, crossing her arms.
"We'll see. Draw!" Ryder announced, drawing his card. "Now! I activate this, Fusion! To fuse Ghost Count and Headless Knight from my hand!"
"This makes, Ghost Duke! (2000/1700)" Ryder announced as a zombie wielding a long sword appeared, dressed in some rags. "I'll then set a card face down and end my turn."
"Draw..." Violet announced, drawing her card. "I'll too activate Fusion! Fusing Elemental Hero Featherman and Burst Lady!"
"Alright, this card might do the trick." Doxx said.
"Into Elemental Hero: Flame Wingman! (2100/1800)" Violet announced as the hero with one wing materialized to the field, clenching its claws and roaring. "Destroy his Ghost Duke!"
The hero dove forward, slashing its claws at the zombie, creating a giant explosion. Ryder growled as his life points reduced to 3900. "With you monster destroyed, you'll lose life points exactly to the amount your monster's attack points were at." Violet said. As the smoke cleared, the Ghost Duke still stood. "What? Why is it still standing?" Violet said.
"The effect of my Ghost Duke allows it to stay on the field when it is being attacked." Ryder laughed. "So you may have done little damage, but your effect is useless." He said.
"I'll summon Friendog in defense mode (1200/800) and end my turn." Violet announced.
"Draw..." Ryder announced, drawing his card. "The effect of my Ghost Duke is activated, by sacrificing five hundred life points (LP: 3400) it stays up on the field for another turn."
"So this zombie has a side effect..." Hide said.
"Now! Ghost Duke, destroy her Friendog!" Ryder announced, pointing. The zombie charged forward, slashing its rusted sword down across the dog, destroying it.
"Destroying my monster activated its effect!" Violet said. "I can bring back a hero monster and Fusion from my graveyard, to my hand."
Suddenly Violet's graveyard slot popped out the Fusion magic card, then her Elemental Hero Featherman.
"Reveal trap card!" Ryder announced as his trap card flipped up. "Tomb Arc! With this, each time I special summon a zombie or demon, I gain life points equal to half of the monsters attack strength."
"That'll see useless..." Genesis said.
"I'll then summon Death Calibur Knight in attack mode (1900/1800), ending my turn." Ryder announced, smiling.
"Draw!" Violet announced, drawing her next card. "I'll summon Elemental Hero Featherman in attack mode (1000/1000)."
"Hmm..." Ryder smiled.
"Flame Wingman, destroy his Death Calibur Knight!" Violet called out, pointing. The warrior flew forward, slashing his claw through the skeleton knight, reducing Ryder's life points to 3200. "And with the effect of my Flame Wingman, you lose life points to the total amount of attack points your knight had!"
Suddenly Flame Wingman's dragon shaped arm pointed at Ryder, sending a red blast which exploded on contact, reducing his life points to 1300.
"Now! Elemental Hero, Featherman attack his life points directly!" The green feathered warrior flew up, sending a wave of feathers at Ryder. Ryder growled, shielding himself with one arm as his life points reduced to 300.
"Alright!" Hide cheered.
"Violet's got Ryder cornered, he can't win now!" Doxx smiled.
Suddenly Ryder laughed, holding his stomach. "Hey! What's so funny! You're the one losing right now!" Genesis yelled.
"You're all foolish." Ryder said, standing.
"I'll set a card face down and end my turn." Violet announced. "His expression is telling me he's hiding something..."
"Draw!" Ryder hollered, drawing his next card, causing the fog around them to throb with violence.
"What's going on?" Violet gasped, looking around her.
"Did you honestly think because you're such a legend, that it'd be so easy to defeat me?" Ryder chuckled, still holding his drawn card. "Please, you all make me sick to my stomach! Now! I activate this, Necromancy Cemetery!"
Ryder's field magic slot opened and he slid it in, causing the ground stage to rumble. "What's going on?" Genesis squeaked.
"It's an earthquake!" Doxx said, trying to hold his balance.
Violet watched as grave stones began to rise up around the two duelist. "By the activation of this card, I discard half of my deck to my graveyard, and with that, for the rest of the duel I must draw from my graveyard." Ryder said, taking his deck out, shuffling it, then dividing it into one half then discarding it all to his graveyard.
"So, I think I shall begin this turn once again." Ryder said as his Graveyard holster slid out a card. He took it and smiled. "And with this, during my Standby Phase, I can special summon any undead or demon type monster from my hand! So now! I bring forth Goblin Zombie! (1100/1050)"
"And by Special Summoning an undead type monster, I gain life points equal to half of its attack points due to my Tomb Arc!" Ryder announced as his Life Points grew to 850. "Next, I'll sacrifice my Goblin Zombie for this! Vampire Lord! (2000/1500)"
"Vampire Lord?" Hide thought as a black haired pale vampire appeared, holding his long black cape in front of him and revealing a toothy grin.
"Must be a strong monster to have been sacrificed for." Doxx thought.
"And with my Goblin Zombie sent to my graveyard, I can take an undead-type monster from my deck and add it to my hand if its attack strength is lower than twelve hundred." Ryder said, taking his deck and searching. "Also, due to the effect of my Necromancy Cemetery all of my zombie and demon type monsters gain an additional five hundred attack points!"
"No!" Violet gasped as Vampire Lord's attack strength rose to 2500.
"Now! Vampire Lord, attack her Flame Wingman and destroy it!" Ryder hollered, pointing forward.
The vampire lurched forward, a dozen bats flew along side it, hitting the Flame Wingman and destroying it, reducing Violet's life points to 3600.
"Finally, I've hit your life points." Ryder chuckled. "And the effect of my Vampire Lord, allows me to chose a type of card from your deck and have you discard it, so I think you should discard a monster card."
Violet took her deck out, taking a monster card and sending it to her graveyard. "I'll then set one card face down and end my turn." Ryder announced.
Violet drew her next card and smiled. "Your luck has run out, Ghost Ryder..." Violet said. "Now! I activate my magic card, Fusion! In which I fuse my Elemental Hero, Clayman, and Sparkman into this!"
Suddenly the two warriors appeared and began to fuse together, forming one giant warrior. "Elemental Hero, Thunder Giant! (2400/1600)" Violet announced.
"Oh no, another one of these..." Ryder said, faking a yawn. "But it's a shame, my monster is stronger than yours, you won't be able to destroy it!"
"Wrong!" Violet said. "I'll activate my trap card, Miracle Kids!"
"What's that?" Ryder said.
"This trap card reduces the attack of you monster by four hundred for each Hero Kids in my graveyard!" Violet said as the trap card glowed.
"But I haven't seen you put a single monster card in your deck by that name!" Ryder gasped.
"Then you must be blind! When you destroyed my Flame Wingman, you used your Vampire Lord's effect to make me discard a monster card from my deck, to my graveyard, the monster I chose was my very own Hero Kids!" Violet said as Vampire Lord's attack strength reduced to 2100.
"Alright! That was a excellent play!" Hide said.
"And with that, your Vampire Lord is automatically destroyed due to the effect of my Thunder Giant!" Violet said, pointing at Ryder as the vampire exploded. "And this duel is mine, Elemental Hero, Thunder Giant, attack his life points directly!"
Suddenly Ryder's horrified face turned into an evil expression as the thunder giant charged, it's awaiting fist to hit Ryder hard. "Not so fast! I'll activate my trap card, Ghost Shield!" Ryder announced as his only face down card flipped up.
"Not this..." Violet growled.
"And by removing a zombie monster from my graveyard, your attack fails." Ryder laughed as a shield of spirits came, deflecting Thunder Giant's punch.
"Darn it..." Violet growled. "He's tougher than I thought..."
"My turn ends..." Violet said calmly.
"Draw..." Ryder announced, his duel disk sending out a card from his graveyard holster. "And now that I've moved to my Battle Phase, Vampire Lord returns to the field! (2000/1500)"
"What!" Violet gasped.
"Because of it's effect, when it is destroyed by a cards effect, I can special summon it back to the field. And since I special summoned it I gain a thousand life points!" Ryder laughed as his life points increased to 1850. "Then, by using my Necromancy Cemetery's effect, I'll special summon this! Decayed Commander! (1000/1500)"
The disgusting zombie appeared on the field, wielding a rusted sword and wearing a soldier's rusted armor. "And with this, I gain five hundred life points!" Ryder said as his life points increased to 2350. "By summoning my Decayed Commander, I can special summon this, Tiger Zombie! (1400/1600)"
"Heh, you know what this means, I gain more life points!" Ryder announced as the flesh rotten tiger materialized to the field, his life points increased, yet again, to 3050.
"No..." Violet growled.
"Violet dueled hard to bring him down, now he's slowly rising to the top..." Kyu thought.
"Let's not forget the other effect of my Necromancy Cemetery, it gives each of my monsters five hundred more attack points!" Ryder laughed as his Vampire Lord grew to 2500, his Decayed Commander to 1500, and his Tiger Zombie to 1900.
"No way..." Violet gasped.
"Vampire Lord! Attack and destroy her Thunder Giant!" Ryder announced, pointing.
The vampire charged forward, bats surrounded the monster until you couldn't see anything of Violet's Thunder Giant. The bats disappeared, along with Violet's monster, reducing her life points to 3300.
"And with your monster gone, you have nothing to protect you! Tiger Zombie, Decayed Commander, attack her life points directly!" Ryder shouted while holding up a clenched fist.
The two monsters charged, sending Violet hitting the ground hard. "Gosh, those monsters are real..." Violet gasped as her life points reduced to 200.
"Looks like you're in the same position I was a few turns earlier." Ryder laughed. "Some legend you are."
"I don't care if I'm a legend..." Violet growled, standing. "I'm only here to save a fellow friend, but it seems you keep getting in the way. I'm going to shut you down once and for all!"
"I'd like to see that, but it hasn't happened yet..." Ryder smirked.
"Draw!" Violet announced, drawing her next card. "I'll activate Pot of Greed! Allowing me to draw two extra cards."
Violet swiftly drew her next two cards and glanced at them. "Maybe Violet can get herself out... I don't know, it seems slim with her life points at that." Hide thought.
"Next! I'll summon this, Elemental Hero, Bubbleman in defense mode! (1200/800)"
"Bubbleman?" Kyu said, as the warrior materialized to the field, its long blue cape flowing with the fog.
"Once I summon Bubbleman, I'm allowed to draw two more cards." Violet said, drawing her next two cards. "But that's not all..."
"Now, I'll activate my Raise Dead! In which I bring back my Elemental Hero, Flame Wingman! (2100/1800)" Violet announced as the one winged creature formed on the field, roaring as its dragon head for a hand roared with it. "Flame Wingman! Destroy his Tiger Zombie now!"
The creature dove forward, ready to slash it with its claw. "Don't you remember the effect of my Ghost Shield." Ryder snickered as a card slid out of her graveyard. "By removing an undead type monster, I can negate your attack."
"Forgot about that..." Violet admitted as the monster was forced back by a bunch of spirits.
"Heh, there is no hope for you at all." Ryder smiled. "once this duel is over, you're gone, but not gone like your friend Sophia, you'll be gone, for good."
"We'll see about that. I'll set a card face down and end my turn." Violet announced.
"Draw..." Ryder announced, his graveyard holster sliding out another card and taking it. "Now! I sacrifice my Decayed Commander and Tiger Zombie, to summon this!"
Suddenly the grotesque warrior and tiger vanished and the fog began to grow a mound of shadows in the middle of the field.
"Despair From The Dark! (2800/3000)" Ryder announced as the mound of shadows grew evil red eyes and a gaping red mouth that cried out. "And with this being an undead monster, it gains an additional five hundred attack points! (3300/3000)"
"No..." Violet gasped.
"Yes! And with this being the strongest monster on the field, once I get rid of your Flame Wingman, I win this duel! Now! Despair From The Dark! Destroy her Flame Wingman!"
The mound of shadows grew high, then toppling over the flame wingman and began to crush it. "Activate face down card!" Violet announced. "De-Fusion!"
"No..." Ryder growled, narrowing his eyes as the Flame Wingman began to glow, then separating into two different monsters.
"My fusion monster reverts back to the two monsters it once was. Elemental Hero, Featherman (1000/1000) and Elemental Hero, Burst Lady (800/1200)" Violet announced as the two monsters formed, defending themselves.
"Vampire Lord! Destroy her Burst Lady!" Ryder announced, pointing.
The vampire lord flew forward, his group of bats hitting Burst Lady, causing her to fall over and explode into pieces. Violet only smiled as Ryder finished his Battle Phase.
"I'll end my turn now." He announced.
"Draw!" Violet announced, drawing her next card. Violet smirked. "Ryder, you've messed with the wrong girl today..."
"What you say doesn't matter, my field is covered with cards you won't be able to defeat." Ryder smirked.
"We'll see..." Violet smirked. "Now! I sacrifice my Elemental Hero Bubbleman and Featherman to summon this..."
"Heh..." Ryder said. "What you do won't be able to change this duel."
"Elemental Hero, Destruction Soldier! (3000/1500)" Violet announced as the two monsters dissolved and a black armored warrior with blue streaks down it's arms, legs, and torso appeared on the field, wielding a long black sword.
"What's that?" Ryder gasped.
"This monster is your destruction! Now! I'll activate its effect by discarding a card from my graveyard!" Violet announced. "And with that, all magic and trap cards on the field will be destroyed!"
"No!" Ryder suddenly gasped in shock. The warrior let out a loud roar, sending a black wave in all directions, stirring the fog and destroying Ryder's Ghost Shield, Necromancy Cemetery, and Tomb Arc. The destruction of Ryder's Necromancy Cemetery caused his Vampire Lord to reduce to 2500 and his Despair From The Dark to 2800.
"And for each card destroyed, your monsters lose two hundred attack points!" Violet called out as Ryder's Vampire Lord reduced to 1400 and his Despair From The Dark to 2200. "Next, I'll activate the final card in my hand, Elemental Sword!"
Suddenly Elemental Hero, Destruction Soldier's sword began to shine, turning into a blinding gold color. "This card increases my monster's attack by five hundred, also when this card is equipped to one of my Elemental Hero monsters, it unleashes another effect, allowing me to automatically destroy one of your monsters!"
"How can she!" Ryder gasped as his Despair of The Dark disappeared.
"Now! Elemental Hero, Destruction Soldier, destroy his Vampire Lord now!" Violet called forward. The soldier charged forward, slashing the vampire into two halves and destroying it. Ryder shielded himself from the flying debris as his life points reduced to 950. "Also, the effect of my Elemental Sword allows me one more attack, and this time you won't survive this one!"
"No!" Ryder gasped.
"Destruction Soldier! Attack his life points directly!" Violet shouted, pointing forward. The soldier charged forward, slashing the Elemental Sword down across Ryder's chest.
Ryder burst into a scream as the full on attack damaged him, sending him flying to the ground, his life points reducing to 0.
"You lose this duel!" Violet said.
"No! I can't have lost... The shadows will take me..." Ryder said in fear. "No!"
The shadows covered him, engulfing him in darkness. And as the shadow realm died down, it left a lifeless rare hunter on the ground, in the same state that Sophia had become.
"He was afraid of the power he controlled..." Hide said.
Violet fell on one knee. "Now I know Kyu's weakness..." Violet said, taking a deep breath. "Those shadows, it's like they were feeding off my energy..."
"Let me help you..." Genesis said, helping Violet up.
"I guess we should move on..." Doxx said, letting Sophia's body rest on a front row seat of the stage.
"Look..." Hide pointed, still helping Kyu stand.
There was a rusted key on the ground, it looked like Ryder had been holding it for a while. Doxx jumped up the stage and got it, under the key was a wooden key hole. "Looks like an trap door, you think it'll work?" Doxx asked.
"Go for it..." Hide replied.
Doxx slid the key in, and automatically the key was pulled into the key hole, and the floor boards began to lower, revealing a set of stairs into darkness.
"I guess we move on then..." Violet said, panting.
Genesis and Doxx helped Violet and Kyu down. Hide stopped and took a look at the lifeless Ghost Ryder. "Creepy..." He thought, shivering as he entered into the darkness.
CARDS PLAYED
Fusion: MAGIC / Desc: Fuse 2 or more monsters on the field or from your hand into 1 Fusion Monster.
Ghost Duke: Level 6 / 2000/1700/ Dark / Undead / Fusion / Desc: "Ghost Count" + "Headless Knight". This card can't be destroyed by Battle. Pay 500 Life Points during each of your Standby Phases, if you cannot this card is destroyed.
Elemental 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.
Friendog: Level 3 / 800/1200/ Earth / Beast / Desc: If this monster is sent to the Graveyard, you can return 1 "Fusion" and 1 Monster with "Hero" in its name into your hand.
Tomb Arc: PERMANENT TRAP / Desc: Each time a Undead or Demon-type monster is Special Summoned to the field, increase the owner of that monster's Life Points by half of the Special Summoned monsters original ATK.
Death Calibur Knight: Level 4 / 1900/1800/ Dark / Undead.
Elemental Hero, Featherman: Level 3 / 1000/1000/ Air / Warrior.
Necromancy Cemetery: FIELD MAGIC / Desc: When this card is activated, discard half of your deck, to your Graveyard. During each of your Draw Phases, you must draw from your Graveyard instead of your deck (If you run out of cards, you automatically lose the duel). During each of your Standby Phases, you may Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower Undead or Demon-Type monster to the field. Increase all face-up Undead or Demon-type monsters ATK by 500.
Goblin Zombie: Level 4 / 1100/1050/ Dark / Undead / Desc: When this card does Battle Damage to your opponents Life Points, you opponent must put the card on top of their deck, to their Graveyard. If this card is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, you ma put 1 Undead-Type monster with the ATK of 1200 or less from your deck, to your hand. Your deck is then shuffled.
Vampire Lord: Level 5 / 2000/1500/ Each time this card inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent, declare 1 card type (Monster, Magic, or Trap). Your opponent must select 1 card of the declared card and send it to their Graveyard. Also, when this card is destroyed and sent to your Graveyard by your opponent's card effect, Special Summon this card to the field during your next Standby Phase.
Elemental 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.
Miracle Kids: TRAP / Desc: Reduce the ATK of 1 of your opponent's face-up monsters on the field by 400 for each "Hero Kids" in your Graveyard.
Ghost Shield: PERMANENT TRAP / Desc: You can remove any Undead-type or Demon-type monsters from your graveyard, out of play to negate the attack of your opponent's monsters.
Decayed Commander: Level 4 / 1000/1500/ Earth / Zombie / Desc: When this monster is successfully Normal Summoned, Special Summon 1 "Zombie Tiger" from your hand. When this card attacks your opponent's Life Points directly, 1 card is randomly selected from your opponent's hand and is discarded to their Graveyard.
Tiger Zombie: Level 3 / 1400/1600/ Earth / Zombie / Desc: Once per turn, during your Main Phase, if you control this monster on the field, you can equip it to your face-up "Decayed Commander" as an Equip Magic Card OR change it back to a monster in face-up Attack Position. When equipped to a monster by this card's effect, the monster's ATK/DEF is increased by 500 points, and each time it destroys 1 of your opponent's monsters, 1 card is randomly selected from your opponent's hand and discarded to the Graveyard. (1 monster can only be equipped with 1 Union Monster at a time. If the Monster that this card is equipped to is destroyed in battle, this card is destroyed instead.)
Pot of Greed: MAGIC / Desc: Draw 2 cards from your deck.
Raise Dead: MAGIC / Desc: Special summon 1 Monster Card from either you or your opponent's Graveyard onto the field in face up Defense or Attack Position.
Elemental Hero, Bubbleman: Level 4 / 800/1200/ Water / Warrior / Desc: If this card is the only card in your hand, you can Special Summon it to the field. When this card is successfully Normal, Special, or Reversed Summoned when it is the only card on your field, draw 2 cards from your deck.
Despair From The Dark: Level 8 / 2800/3000/ Dark / Undead / Desc: When this card is sent to your Graveyard, from your hand or deck by your opponent's card effect, Special Summon this card to your side of the field.
De-Fusion: QUICK PLAY MAGIC / Desc: Return 1 face up Fusion Monster back to your Fusion Deck. Return all Fusion Material monsters back to the field which created that Fusion Monster.
Elemental Hero, Burst Lady: Level 3 / 1200/800/ Fire / Warrior.
Elemental Hero, Destruction Soldier: Level 9 / 3000/1500/ Dark / Warrior / Desc: This card can only be Normal Summoned by sacrificing two monsters with "Hero" in their names. By discarding 1 card from your hand, destroy all Magic and Trap cards on both sides of the field and decrease all face-up monsters on your opponent's side of the field by 200 for each Magic and Trap card destroyed by this cards effect.
Elemental Sword: EQUIP MAGIC / Desc: A monster equipped with this card gains an additional 500 ATK. When this card is equipped with a monster with "Hero" in it, destroy one face-up monster on the field. The selected monster with "Hero" in its name may attack once again after the activation of this card.