76. Clash of The Angel and Devil
Quartz and Kyu both stared at Dameon. All thoughts went through their minds, wondering how the outcome of the duel will end. But what worried them both was the effect of Dameon's Devil's Godsend.
Dameon smiled, his life points standing at 2200. "This duel has been so close, but you've only managed to almost get me down by half of my life points." Dameon smiled.
"What makes you think this duel is close to an end!" Quartz growled, his life points standing at 850.
"My life points are still higher than yours, Dameon!" Kyu growled, his life points standing at 3000.
"And for a damn good reason too..." Dameon smiled. "Why do you think Quartz has the lowest life points, because he is the weakest link in this duel, thus far I've been trying to be rid of him first."
"Yet you've failed." Quartz smiled.
"I haven't failed, yet." Dameon smiled.
"What?" Quartz said.
Dameon glanced at their fields, Kyu had only his Saint Goddess of The Gale (4000/4000) while Quartz had his Heavenly Warrior Arcana Knight Joker (4800/2500) which had gotten stronger by one thousand life points due to Saint Goddess of The Gale's special effect.
"I think it's time to end this duel..." Dameon smiled. "Devil's Godsend! (0/0) Attack his Heavenly Warrior Arcana Knight Joker!"
"What! But my monster is way stronger than your god!" Quartz gasped as the devil god rose his giant fist, a long chain let loose as a whip and the god thrashed the chain forward, clashing toward the warrior. Quartz's Heavenly Warrior jumped away, then ran up along the chain, whipping out its sword and stabbing the god in the chest.
The devil god let out a roar as the wound began to glow and rumbled. "Heh, once Devil's Godsend is attacked, its special effect activates. The attacking monster's attack strength reduces to 0."
"But then they will destroy each other..." Kyu growled as the wound in the devil god exploded, destroying both monsters.
"Err..." Quartz growled, losing his best monster on the field.
"With my Devil's Godsend in my graveyard, I'll activate his ultimate effect!" Dameon roared. "By sending a card from my hand, to my graveyard, I'll be able to special summon it back to the field!"
Suddenly the armored god rose up, his flaming black skull head lighting up the area and his chains dangling from his arms and legs. "But once special summoned, Devil's Godsend gains an additional five hundred attack points for EACH AND EVERY card in my graveyard!"
"No!" Kyu and Quartz gasped.
"He's used so many cards in this duel!" Quartz growled.
"Not a lot." Dameon smiled. "I only have twelve cards in my card graveyard, plus the one I discarded just now, that makes a total of sixteen cards, times by five hundred, makes a total of eight thousand."
"Damn... How are we going to beat that?" Kyu growled, looking at the tall creature as his attack points rose to 8000. "But he has no cards in his hand, meaning he won't be able to activate its effect for the next two turns."
"Then there's my chance..." Quartz growled.
"Ok, let's see what you have. My turn ends." Dameon smiled.
"Come on, I need something good..." Quartz growled to himself, drawing his next card. Quartz smiled down at his card, it was a sign of hope, for now. "Now! I'll summon this, Magnet Warrior, Alpha Plus! (1100/1200)"
"Heh."Dameon smirked as the red mechanical warrior appeared, wielding two long swords.
"Activate, Saint Goddess of The Gale's special ability!" Kyu announced. "Every other monster on our field will gain one thousand attack points as long as she's on the field!"
"Now! Attack his life points directly!" Quartz announced, pointing his hand forward as Magnet Warrior, Alpha Plus grew to 2100.
The mechanical warrior charged forward, slashing an X at Dameon. Dameon growled under the pain as he fell to one knee, his life points reducing to 100.
"My turn ends!" Quartz announced.
"My turn, draw!" Kyu announced, glancing down at his card, it wasn't a card that would be useful to him, yet. "Now it's time to end this! Saint Goddess of The Gale, attack the remainder of his life points, now!"
The goddess opened her arms, causing wind to glide forward, ready to strike down Dameon.
"That's what you think, now! Activate trap card, Devil's Release!" Dameon announced as face down card appeared on Dameon's field, then flipped up.
"He has so many of those cards which he can just easily activate from his deck..." Quartz growled.
"It's all apart of his strategy..." Kyu growled.
"This is a wonderful magic card because I'll be able to remove all Devil cards from my graveyard, out of play, so I can reduce your Saint Goddess of The Gale's attack strength by five hundred for each card." Dameon smiled.
"No!" Kyu growled as a stack of cards, including Devil's Advocate and Dread-Root, but not his Devil's Godsend.
"That makes a total of ten cards! Meaning your Saint Goddess of The Gale loses five thousand attack points!" Dameon pointed as Saint Goddess of The Gale's attack strength reduced to 0.
Dameon felt the cool gust fly past him, feeling no harm at all. "Heh." Dameon smirked.
Kyu growled, looking at his card. "How cane we defeat his Devil's Godsend when we can't even attack it? It's unstoppable..." He said to himself.
"I'll set one card face down and end my turn!" Kyu announced.
"Ah, so the card you drew was actually a magic or trap card eh?" Dameon smiled, drawing his next card. "Well I think we all know where this duel is going. Now! I activate Devil's Godsend's special ability! Discarding a card from my hand, I'll bring Devil's Godsend back to the field!"
The chained devil rose back up again. "Oh and let's not forget he gains back all the attack points he had earlier, plus five hundred more attack points due to the card I just discarded" Dameon smirked as the devil grew to 8500.
"Now there's two choices. I destroy you, Kyu-Haru, or your partner, Quartz. Unless your face down card has some ability to stop me..." Dameon smirked.
"Err..." Kyu growled.
"I've decided." Dameon said, holding up his finger. "Quartz..."
Quartz felt his heart jump as he heard his name get spoken. "If you truly respect Kyu-Haru, then he might be your idol. So let's see how your idol does when my ultimate devil god defeats him now! Devil's Godsend! Destroy his Saint Goddess of The Gale!"
"No!" Quartz gasped as the tall devil god whipped his giant chain forward, sending it slashing toward Kyu's lux god.
"Here it goes..." Kyu growled, knowing now it was the end.
"I can't let Kyu lose now!" Quartz growled. "Activate, Magnet Warrior, Alpha Plus' special ability!"
"What!" Dameon growled.
"During battle, my Magnet Warrior Alpha Plus allows me to change 1 monster on the field into a Minus Monster!" Quartz explained. "And the rules with Plus and Minus monsters are that if two of them are on the field, then they must both attack!"
"Heh, so giving up your own life points just to save your petty friend?" Dameon laughed as Devil's Godsend let off electricity, transforming into a Minus Monster. "But don't forget about the effect of my Devil's Godsend, it reduces your magnet warrior's attack to zero."
Suddenly the Magnet Warrior jumped into the air, ready to strike as its attack points reduced to 0.
"Quartz, why!" Kyu growled.
"I respect you, Kyu-Haru, and if it means I need to give up myself to help you defeat Von Bourg, then I'm for it. Don't worry about me..." Quartz smiled. "You changed my life and I'm happy with it. It was an honor to duel along side you."
The Devil God's chain whipped again, smashing Quartz's red mechanical warrior to pieces. "That means you lose, Quartz!" Dameon laughed as Quartz's life points reduced to 0.
Quartz fell to his knee, feeling the darkness weaken him. "Quartz!" Kyu shouted as he vanished into the darkness. After a while the darkness disburse, and a single blank card remained, and an image of Quartz appeared. "You sick..."
"Sick what? I can handle whatever it is you have to say." Dameon smiled. "So that means when your partner loses, then you..."
"This duel isn't over as long as I'm standing!" Kyu growled.
"Errr. Fine then. Let's not forget, that when my Devil's Godsend's effect is activated, it goes straight to my graveyard." Dameon smiled as his devil god vanished again. "But I promise you, it will come back."
"I bet so..." Kyu growled. "But since Quartz is gone, I immediately take the next turn! Draw!"
Kyu looked at his next card and smiled. "I'm going to make sure you won't be able to win this!" Kyu smiled, looking down at his card. "Activate trap card, Call of The Haunted!"
"Heh, so you plan to bring back MY Devil God with a pathetic trap card? Hate to break your excitement but trap cards don't work on gods!" Dameon laughed.
"I'm very clear with that. But I have another monster in mind." Kyu smiled. "Now! I bring back Volstead! In defense mode! (1200/2300)"
Suddenly the black armored horse materialized to the field, arching its head down to shield it self with its metal plated neck.
"No..." Dameon said in pure shock.
"Now! Activate magic card, Level Condenser!" Kyu announced. "By sacrificing my Volstead, I'll be able to special summon a monster from my graveyard, to the field with the same level!"
"Heh, but that's the only monster you had with the level of six." Dameon smirked.
"Right, so since it's now in my graveyard, I'll bring it back to the field!" Kyu announced as his horse vanished, but then reappeared. "And since it went to the graveyard, its special effect activates! Allowing me to bring one magic card from either your or my own graveyard, back to my hand!"
"Err..." Dameon said, his eye twitching.
"And I chose my own Raise Dead!" Kyu announced as the card slipped out of his graveyard holster.
"No!" Dameon gasped.
"I've found a way through your 'unstoppable' devil god, Dameon! And now I'm going to bring a stop to the Killer 9!" Kyu said, sliding the card into his duel disk. "I activate Raise Dead in order to bring Devil's Godsend onto my side of the field!"
A dark light disbursed from Dameon's duel disk, his graveyard holster shot the god card to Kyu, Kyu caught it easily, slapping it down onto his duel disk.
He could feel the dark presence moving to his side of the field as the devil go rose up, starring down at Dameon. "And due to its special ability, when it is special summoned from a graveyard, it gains five hundred attack points for each card in MY graveyard! I count a total of fifteen!"
Suddenly Devil's Godsend rose to 7500. "No!" Dameon roared.
"Now look at you." Kyu growled. "The feeling of losing is devastating, but to you, it kills!"
"Damn you..." Dameon growled. "Damn you all!"
"I refuse to fight with this devil god, so now! I'll have Saint Goddess of The Gale finish this duel now!" Kyu called out, pointing his hand forward. "Saint Goddess of The Gale! Attack his life points directly! End this duel once and for all!"
The goddess opened her arms, causing wind to form and fly forward in a gigantic wave. Dameon screamed in horror as the wave flew through him, damaging him.
Dameon's life points reduced to 0 as the goddess twirled, glowing brightly. "This duel is over!" Kyu growled.
Dameon looked in shock as he fell to his knees. "How could you..." Dameon growled feeling the darkness overwhelm him, just like what happened to Quartz.
"I see, you were just like the other rare hunters, borrowing Von Bourg's power. But you took too much and now its overlapping on you." Kyu figured.
"Damn you..." Dameon growled as he was pulled into the darkness.
The darkness vanished as the sun began to rise, turning the clear sky orange. The sea sparkled and Kaiba let a sigh of relief.
Yukie and Hide cheered in their dorm, dancing happily. "He did it! He did it!" They chanted in unison.
"Good job, Kyu-Haru." Doxx smiled, standing in the middle of his room.
Violet had no longer gone through her spaz. As the sun light came onto her face, she awoken, sitting up and stretching, then yawning.
Marika sat against the tree, she smiled, knowing the Killer 9 were over with. Kyu stood there, he saw the card which Quartz was trapped in glow, then forming into a body, it was Quartz.
"Quartz!" Kyu said, running over.
Quartz sat up, dazed. He saw that Dameon was no longer there. "You did it!" He said.
"Hell yes!" Kyu laughed, helping him up.
A little later, the two made it back to the entrance of the school where Yukie, Hide, Doxx, Violet, and Seto Kaiba himself awaited. "You did it!" Yukie said, crying happily as she ran to him, hugging him tightly.
"Agh!" Kyu said, falling over.
As Yukie got up, she felt warmth in her pocket, she took out the card of her father and it transformed back into Yukie's dad.
He was on the ground, sleeping. Kaiba immediately took out his radio. "I need a medical team up outside, stat!" He yelled into the radio.
Quartz looked at the two cards he held which Genesis and Sophia were trapped in, they began to glow, transforming them back to their old self.
The two girls stood there with confused looks. "How long were we out for?" Genesis asked, blinking.
"Ah, it's great to see you guys back." Quartz said with a welcoming smile.
"What's going on?" Sophia asked, blinking also.
Everyone looked back up to see the sun rising over the volcano, it was a beautiful sight. A medical team quickly came out, putting Yukie's father up on a stretcher and taking him away.
"How come he isn't awake?" Yukie asked.
"He was using shadow magic that Von Bourg let him borrow. It must have taken more energy out of him than the others." Kyu figured.
"Ah..." Yukie replied.
Kaiba stepped up in front of Kyu. "Kyu-Haru. Excellent job... But this still isn't over."
"That's right..." Kyu said, his cheerful face turning to a serious expression. "There's still the matter of Von Bourg. His team may be done for, but he still has the other two Lux Gods."
"WHAT! You beat them all ALREADY!" Sophia growled.
"Like you guys helped." Yukie said, glaring at them.
"We could had!" Genesis whined.
"Sorry guys, but you were trapped in cards most of the week." Kyu sort of laughed. "Now I'm ready to get some sleep, it's been a long night!"
"You deserve it." Hide laughed as they all headed inside.
Kyu was the last one to enter, he took a good second to look back at the forest. The school was now going to be in major danger now. Although the rare hunters and Killer 9 were gone, Von Bourg was still out there, and Kyu knew he wouldn't care for the life of others to get what he wanted.
As Kyu left, Marika appeared, behind her she heard footsteps. She turned and a shocked expression flooded her face. "Brother?" Marika said. "Miyabe?"
"Sister..." Miyabe said as she faced her. "it's been long..."
"Where have you been!" Marika cried, running to him and hugging him.
"I've been... Here." Miyabe said, smiling. "Marika?"
"Yes? Brother?" Marika replied, looking up at him.
"I'm not fully here. I'm falling in and out of darkness... If I want to stay here, I need you... To get me his Lux God." Miyabe replied. "I need it..."
"But..." Marika said.
"Please... It hurts." Miyabe said, stepping back. "I'll be waiting."
With that, Miyabe disappeared into the darkness of the forest. Marika stood there with tears in her eyes. "I'll do it... Brother." Marika said.
The forest was dark and quiet, the only sound that could be heard was rustling in the bushes. Miyabe moved swiftly as he came out into a clearing where the sun shined, as he stepped out of the shadows, his body was replaced with Von Bourg. "Foolish girl..." He laughed evilly. "The rules have changed... Poor Miyabe. Still you try to disobey, but I have you in control now. It's just a matter of time before I attain the single last Lux God..."
With that, the clearing grew dark and Von Bourg's laughter filled the forest.
PREVIEW
Kyu: No! Marika stole the Saint Goddess of The Gale. Is she crazy? We all try to stop her but Von Bourg assist by helping her keep us away. Once she reaches outside, the whole world will fall in darkness. Has Marika just been fooling with us all? Or has Von Borug just gotten to a new low? It's time for the final battle but the odds seem against me as I go to face off with all three Lux Gods without any of my own. The only thing that I know, that can make me succeed, is knowing that my friends are there for me. Next chapter is Release of The Lux Gods! Goddess of The Tide! See you there!
CARDS PLAYED
Magnet Warrior, Alpha Plus: Level 4 / 1100/1200/ Earth / Rock / Desc: During each of you or your opponents Battle Phases, you can change 1 monster on the field into a Minus Monster for the remainder of the turn. If this Plus Monster is in battle with another Plus Monster, that battle is negated. If a Minus Monster is on the field, this monster and that Minus Monster must always attack during Battle Phase
Devil's Release: QUICK PLAY MAGIC / Desc: This card can be activated during your Opponent's Battle Phase, from your deck when you only have 1000 Life Points or less. Remove cards with "Devils" in its name, from play to reduce the ATK of all monsters on your opponent's field by 500 per card.
Call of The Haunted: PERMANENT TRAP / Desc: Special Summon 1 Monster Card from your Graveyard and equip this card to the Special Summoned monster. When this card is destroyed, send the equipped monster to the Graveyard.
Volstead: Level 6 / 2300/1200/ Dark / Beast / Desc: When this card engages in battle, you can activate 1 Trap Card from your hand. When this card is sent to the Graveyard, return 1 Magic Card from you or your opponent's Graveyard, to your hand.
Level Condenser: MAGIC / Desc: You can Sacrifice 1 monster on your side of the field to Special Summon 1 monster of the same Level, from your Graveyard, to the field.