49. Ambush! Return of The Ghost Ryder!
As Doxx sat at the ground, panting from his duel, he felt something creep around him. "Whose there..." Doxx said, too weak to get away.
"Your coming with us..." A voice said as two strong arms grabbed him. Doxx felt himself get carried away into the darkness, too weak to break free or even scream.
"Yaaah!" Kyu screamed, falling straight down into a pit of darkness. Suddenly he blacked out, then came back up. He noticed he was sitting at a desk, in one of Mimura's class rooms.
"How'd I get here?" He thought, looking around.
He got up and headed toward the door. "And now the others are gone..." He thought, looking down the hall. The whole school was dark.
"Why is it dark on a day like this?" He said, looking out the window into the shining sunny day.
"Out of the way!" A person shouted, pushing Kyu aside into the wall.
"Wait I know this guy..." Kyu growled.
"Ghost Ryder!" Kyu shouted.
Suddenly Ryder stopped and smiled. "Well well well..." He said, turning. "I'm surprised you're still here."
"Where are my friends!" Kyu demanded to know.
"How should I know... I was long gone before you guys split, besides I have some revenge to take after." Ryder chuckled, holding up his duel disk.
"I don't have time for a duel..." Kyu growled. "I need to find my friends..."
"No, you're going no where until I can defeat you..." Ryder said, his duel disk folding out. "There's no way out, and I won't let you pas until I get a duel, and win!"
Kyu growled. "If I don't duel him, his shadow realm powers will probably get to me..." He thought. "I'll have to accept..."
Kyu nodded. "Fine, I'll accept your challenge!" Kyu said, holding his duel disk up, causing it to fold out.
"Duel!" Kyu and Ryder announced.
"I'll begin!" Ryder announced, drawing his first card. "And I'll summon a monster in defense mode and end my turn!"
Kyu watched as the face down hologram card appeared. "This monster could have a effect, I'll need to play a weak monster to figure it out..." Kyu said, drawing his next card. "Y Dragon Head in attack mode! Now, Y Dragon Head, destroy his defensive monster!"
"Right into my trap..." Ryder laughed as he revealed his monster, "Go! Vampire Lady! (1550/1550)"
"It has a stronger defense..." Kyu gasped as his red mechanical dragon charged, flying into the vampire woman. The vampire defended herself, forcing back the machine and reducing Kyu's life points to 3950.
"Heh..." Ryder laughed.
"I'll set a card face down and end my turn..." Kyu announced.
"Draw..." Ryder announced, drawing his next card. "Now! I shift Vampire Lady to attack mode (1550/1550)"
Suddenly the deathly pale woman stood up, letting her black dress flutter. "Then, I'll summon this, Goblin Zombie! (1100/1050)" Ryder announced. Suddenly a gruesome looking demon popped up from the ground, wielding a long rusted sword.
"Why hasn't he activated the shadow realm yet?" Kyu wondered.
"Vampire Lady! Destroy his Y Dragon Head!" Ryder called forth, pointing at Kyu's lone monster. The vampire lady charged forward, slashing at the machine with her sharp nails, causing the machine to crumble and disappear.
Kyu growled as his life points reduced to 3900. "Activate trap card!" He announced. "Trap Level 4!"
"And what's this?" Ryder said, interested.
"When this trap is activated when you destroy my monster, we're both allowed to special summon a level four monster from our decks in attack mode." Kyu said, taking his deck out and choosing a card. "And I summon Dark Blade! (1800/1500)"
"I'll summon Headless Knight! (1450/1700)" Ryder announced as the headless suit of armor appeared on the field. "And let's not forget about my Vampire Lady's special ability, forcing you to discard a card from your deck of the type I chose!"
Kyu looked through his deck, selecting Graceful Charity and sending it to his graveyard holster. "I'm done with that..." He announced.
"I'll then set a card face down and end my turn!" Ryder announced.
"Draw!" Kyu announced. "Now! I activate this, Fusion! To fuse Pitch Dark Dragon, from my hand, to my Dark Blade!"
Suddenly the black dragon and knight appeared, being absorbed into Kyu's face-up magic card, creating one giant dragon with a knight on its back.
"To make Dark Blade Dragon Knight! (2200/1500)" Kyu announced. "Now! Destroy his Vampire Lady!"
The knight held up his sword, then throwing it down into the Vampire Lady's chest, causing her to explode into digital pieces, reducing Ryder's life points to 3350.
"Err..." He said.
"And with that, Dark Blade Dragon Knight's special ability is activated! Allowing me to remove up to three monsters from your graveyard!" Kyu said as Ryder's Vampire Lady card slid out of his graveyard holster. Ryder took it, stuffing it into the pocket of his blue and white jump suit.
"With this, Ryder can't be able to use his Ghost Shield... It's worked against both Sophia and Violet so far, with my monster, it's bound to bring it down!" Kyu thought, remembering to when Ryder used the trap against Violet and Sophia. "I'll then summon Seraphim Guardner in defense mode (2000/1000). Then set a card face down and end my turn."
Ryder smirked as the angelic brute appeared, wielding a giant shield as well as Kyu's face down card. "Draw..." Ryder announced. "I'll shift Headless Knight to defense position (1700/1450). Now! I sacrifice Goblin Zombie to summon this, Vampire Lord! (2000/1500)"
"He played this card against Violet last time..." Kyu said to himself. "Although it has the same effect as his Vampire Lady..."
"By sending my Goblin Zombie to my graveyard, I'm allowed one undead-type monster from my deck with the attack of twelve hundred or less..." Ryder said, taking his deck out and searching, then choosing a card and placing it in his hand. He then placed his deck back. "Now! Vampire Lord, attack his Dark Blade Dragon Knight!"
"What? My monster is stronger than his, he'll just be destroying his own monster!" Kyu thought, confused by this strategy as Ryder's vampire dove forward, but Dark Blade's black dragon easily stomped on it, destroying it, and reducing Ryder's life points to 3150.
"Reveal magic card, Impulse Revival!" Ryder announced.
"What's that?" Kyu said.
"This card allows me to bring back a monster from my graveyard..." Ryder smiled. "Now! Vampire Lord, return!"
Suddenly a coffin rose up from the ground and opened, revealing the vampire. "Also, it gains an additional five hundred attack points (2500/1500), then forcing it to attack at once! Destroy his Dark Blade Dragon Knight!"
"No!" Kyu gasped as the vampire slashed his long finger nails at the dragon's chest, causing it to explode into digital pieces.
Kyu watched as his life points dropped to 3600.
"I'll set one more card face down and end my turn..." Ryder announced "Oh and also, my Vampire Lord is destroyed due to Impulse Revival's special ability..."
Kyu watched as the vampire vanished in thin air.
Ryder's face turned from a smile to a serious look. His seriousness proved he wanted to defeat Kyu badly, knowing his rank, he'd become the best of the Rare Hunters.
"Draw!" Kyu announce, drawing his next card, glancing at his new seraphim monster. "Now! I activate my face-down card, Fusionic Motion! Which allows me to activate Fusion from my graveyard!"
Suddenly Kyu's magic card transformed into the Fusion magic card. "I'll use it to fuse my Seraphim Guardner with my Seraphim Gunner, from my hand!" Kyu said, placing down Seraphim Gunner to the field, instantly causing the angel to appear and be absorbed into the magic card. "To form Seraphim Gun-Blader! (2500/1400)"
"Oooh, interesting..." Ryder smirked as Kyu's fusion magic card formed into the well buff angel wielding a long hand cannon with a long blade sticking out on top of the gun like a bayonet.
"And by skipping my next Draw Phase. I'm able to attack twice during Battle Phase!" Kyu said.
"Oh no, I should worry now..." Ryder smirked.
"Seraphim Gun-Blader! Attack and destroy his Headless Knight!" Kyu called forth. The angel pointed its blade gun at the headless suit of armor, firing a bullet which penetrated its armor plate and destroying it.
Ryder smirked as he watched Kyu's angered face, determined to find his friends. "Now! Seraphim Gun-Blader, attack his life points directly!" Kyu commanded, pointing forward at Ryder.
The angel blasted another shot, this time at Ryder's chest. Ryder gasped in pain, but then smiled as his life points reduced to 850.
"Activate trap card, Tomb Arc!" Ryder announced as his trap card rose up.
"This trap, he also used this on Violet, it gave him life points equal to half of the attack points of his monsters..." Kyu said. "Is he using the same strategy?"
"If you're wondering, yes I am using the same strategy, but in a different way." Ryder smirked.
Kyu looked on. "I'll set a card face down and end my turn." Kyu announced, leaving one card left in his hand.
"Draw!" Ryder announced, adding the fifth card to his hand. "Now! Vampire Lord returns to my field since it was destroyed by a card effect! (2000/1500)"
"Your monster is too weak to even attack..." Kyu said.
"I know, I'm just using it as my disposal." Ryder said evilly as he grinned.
"What?" Kyu said.
"I remove Vampire Lord from play... So I can summon this..." Ryder said evilly, taking a card from his hand. "Vampire Genesis! (3000/2100)"
Suddenly the ground began to shook and a giant claw came up from the ground, grasping onto Vampire Lord and dragging him down, then the beast began to rise up, a bat-like brute with a buff torso and wide wings.
"I'll activate its effect, by discarding a card from my hand, so I can bring back a monster with the same level or lower." Ryder said, discarding the card he gained from Goblin Zombie's effect. "Now! I bring back Goblin Zombie! (1100/1050)"
"No way!" Kyu gasped.
"Let's not forget about my Tomb Arc's ability either..." Ryder smiled, pointing his hand at his glowing trap card. "I gain life points equal to half of Vampire Genesis' attack power!"
Kyu watched as Ryder's life points increased to 2550. "And I also gain life points due to my Goblin Zombie's appearance." He said as his life points increased once again to 3100. "Now! Vampire Genesis, destroy his Seraphim Gun-Blader!"
Suddenly the giant bat-like vampire screeched, sending out sound waves which blasted into Kyu's angel, destroying it. Kyu held his ears shut in pain as his life points decreased to 3100. "He's tougher than I thought..." Kyu said.
"Now! Goblin Zombie, attack his life points directly!" Ryder called out, pointing forward.
The gruesome zombie leapt forward, slashing its rusted sword across Kyu's chest. Kyu screamed in pain, falling backwards as his life points reduced down to 2000.
Ryder laughed. "Looks like I'm taking the lead now, and it'll be staying that way..." He said. Kyu felt as if Ryder was stepping all over him.
"I can't lose to a person like you... You tried to kill Violet and you took Sophia's soul." Kyu growled.
"Heh..." Ryder laughed.
CARDS PLAYED
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.)
Vampire Lady: Level 4 / 1550/1550/ Dark / Undead / Desc: Each time this card inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent's Life Points, declare 1 card type (Monster, Magic, or Trap). Your opponent must select 1 card of that type from his/her deck and send it to the graveyard.
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 may put 1 Undead-Type monster with the ATK of 1200 or less from your deck, to your hand. Your deck is then shuffled.
Trap Level 4: TRAP / Desc: This card can only be activated when a Monster on your side of the field as been destroyed as a result of Battle. Both players must Special Summon 1 Level 4 monster from their respective decks, in Attack Position.
Dark Blade: Level 4 / 1800/1500/ Dark / Warrior.
Headless Knight: Level 4 / 1450/1700/ Earth / Demon.
Fusion: MAGIC / Desc: Fuse 2 or more monsters on the field or from your hand into 1 Fusion Monster.
Dark Blade Dragon Knight: Level 6 / 2200/1500/ Dark / Warrior / Fusion / Desc: "Dark Blade" + "Pitch Dark Dragon". Each time this card inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent, you can select up to 3 Monster Cards from your opponent's Graveyard and remove them from play.
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.
Vampire Lord: Level 5 / 2000/1500/ Dark / Undead / Desc: 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.
Impulse Revival: QUICK PLAY MAGIC / Desc: Special Summon 1 monster from your Graveyard. Increase the Special Summoned monster's ATK by 500 and have the monster instantly attack your opponent's monsters or life points. Destroy the monster after Battle Damage is accounted for. This card does not bring you to your Battle Phase.
Fusionic Motion: MAGIC / Desc: Activate 1 "Fusion" from your Graveyard.
Seraphim Gun-Blader: Level 6 / 2500/1400/ Light / Angel / Fusion / Desc: "Seraphim Guardner" + "Seraphim Gunner". When this card is in face-up defense position, switch this card's ATK with its DEF. You can skip your next Draw Phase to have this card attack twice during Battle Phase.
Vampire Genesis: Level 8 / 3000/2100/ Dark / Undead / Desc: This card can only be Special Summoned by removing 1 face-up "Vampire Lord" from play, from your side of the field. Discard 1 Undead-Type monster from your hand, to the Graveyard to Special Summon 1 Undead-Type monster from your Graveyard with a Level less than the discarded Undead-Type monster. This effect can only be used once per turn.