Chapter 43
Robin was walking to his first class of the day, he had science with Professor Banner, Robin reached the classroom and sat at his desk, there wasn't many other students in the classroom at the moment although that wasn't anything unusual, Robin was usually one of the first to arrive.
After a few minutes some of the others arrived but they was still missing more than half the class, even Jaden had arrived and he was usually always late to class.
It was at this point that Professor Banner entered the room, "Ok class today we will be learning about" he said but stopped abruptly when he saw that so many students was missing, "Where is everyone" he asked.
"Did Crowler set up another surprise test and forget to tell us" asked Robin, "I doubt it, I'm sure I would have heard about that from someone" said Bastion, "Now that I think about it, I haven't seen Syrus or Chumley all day" said Jaden.
"Well I suppose we'll just have to start the lesson without them" said Banner as he started his lesson.
1 hour later.
Everyone left the classroom except for the Key keepers who stayed behind to discuss where everyone was, the entire group thought that something seemed very strange, no one else had showed up during their entire lesson.
"Is it just me, or does something seem strange about this" Alexis asked Robin, "It's not just you, I don't like this one bit" answered Robin, "I think that we should look around the school and see if anyone else is missing" suggested Bastion.
Everyone searched the school and found that over half the students was missing as well as Dr Crowler.
"Something strange is definitely going on" said Robin, "Do you think that it's the next Shadow rider" whispered Bastion while making sure that there was no one else nearby, "I'd bet my deck on it" said Robin.
"Jaden haven't you tried calling Syrus" asked Alexis, "Hey, that's a great idea" said Jaden as he pulled out his phone, the rest of the group seemed to be frustrated that Jaden hadn't tried this already.
Jaden called Syrus and was relieved when he answered his phone, "Hey Sy, I was wondering where are you, I didn't see you in class today" said Jaden, Syrus said something that seemed to upset Jaden.
"Oh course I noticed you where gone, we're friends after all" said Jaden, Syrus said something and Jaden sighed, "I know and I'm sorry, I just didn't what to put you in anymore danger" said Jaden.
The rest of the group had no idea what Jaden and Syrus was talking about, "Just ask him where he is" whispered Robin wanting to get this over with, "Oh right, hey Syrus where exactly are you" said Jaden.
Jaden became confused by what Syrus said next, "Wait why are you there" asked Jaden, Syrus said something and Jaden became more confused, "Ok then, I think that we'll just come down and see for ourselves" said Jaden as he hung up.
"So what did he say" asked Bastion, "Syrus said that he's down by the south of the island with all of the others, he said that their building a coliseum for some lady" said Jaden unable to believe his own words, "What" said several members of the group at once.
The group arrived at the south of the island and found that Syrus had in fact been telling the truth, he and all of the other missing people was putting the finishing touches on a huge coliseum.
"Guys do you have any idea what's going on here" asked Jaden, "No, but I'm going to find out" said Robin as he walked towards the coliseum closely followed by the others.
The group entered the coliseum and found Crowler putting some bricks into place, "Crowler what the hell is going on here" shouted Robin causing Crowler to drop a brick onto his foot.
"Don't take that tone with me young man" winced Crowler as he held his acing foot, "What is going on" asked Robin sounding even more annoyed then before, "This nice woman came to the island and asked us to build her this coliseum in exchange for some rare cards" answered Crowler as he got back to work.
"What woman" questioned Bastion, "That would be me" said a voice, everyone turned around and saw a very muscular woman with dark red hair and blue eyes, she also had a scar going down the right side of her face, and she was wearing a black glove with a golden eye in the centre.
"Ms Tania we've just about finished your coliseum" said Crowler as soon as he saw the woman, "Yes excellent, this will make the perfect battle ground" said the woman named Tania.
"Battle ground for what" asked Chazz, Tania smiled "For when I defeat you and the other Key keepers" she said pointing to the Spirit key around Chazz's neck, Crowler stopped working and a look of horror appeared on his face, "But that means that you're a Shadow rider" he said.
"Yes I am, now do you want your payment or not" said Tania but Crowler had already run away, "Or well, no big loss there" she said, Tania spent the next few minutes giving all the students rare card as payment for building the coliseum.
"Ok, now that that's out of the way which of you four will be my opponent" said Tania looking at the group, "There's five of us" stated Alexis, "You don't count, I don't want to duel a woman" said Tania clearly offending Alexis.
"Now, which of you boys will it be" said Tania as she studied the four boys, "You look like a big strong man, but do you think that you can handle me" said Tania pointing to Bastion, "I'm prepared to handle anything" said Bastion as he opened his jacket to reveal his six decks.
"Impressive, I personally have two decks, one is of knowledge and the other is of courage, which one would you prefer" said Tania as she held out two decks, "I chose the deck of knowledge" said Bastion as he placed one of his decks into his duel disk.
"Be carful Bastion, who knows what types of tricks she might try to get your soul" said Jaden, "Who said I wanted his soul" said Tania, everyone was confused by this, "What are you talking about" asked Bastion.
"Allow me to explain, I don't want your soul, I want you" said Tania, this only confused the group more, "I come from the Amazoness tribe, a tribe that is all women, so if I want a husband then I have to find one" explained Tania.
"Wait, you want to marry Bastion" said Alexis, "Only if he proves himself worthy of me" said Tania, "So I get fireballs thrown at me, and Bastion gets a date, how is this fair" said Robin.
"Sorry but I won't be marrying you any time soon" said Bastion as he activated his duel disk, Tania placed her deck into a large duel disk and activated it.
"I'll go first" said Tania, "I summon Amazoness archer in attack mode, and I think that that's all for now" she said, "Not a very smart move for the deck of knowledge" thought Bastion.
Amazoness archer ATK 1400 DEF 1000 LV 4 EARTH warrior.
Bastion started his turn, "I summon Oxygeddon in attack mode, and I'll use him to attack your monster" said Bastion, Oxygeddon destroyed Amazoness archer.
Oxygeddon ATK 1800 DEF 800 LV 4 WIND dinosaur.
Tania LP 4000 – 400 = 3600.
"I see that you're the type of man that likes to take charge, I like that" said Tania winking at Bastion, Bastion blushed and then shuck his head to try and refocus his mind, "I end my turn" he said.
Tania's turn started, "I use the effect of Amazoness spy, by revealing one other Amazoness monster in my hand I can special summon her" said Tania as she revealed Amazoness paladin in order to special summon Amazoness spy in attack mode.
Amazoness spy ATK 800 DEF 1200 LV 3 EARTH warrior.
"Now I'll normal summon Amazoness paladin in attack mode, and my Paladin gains 100 more ATK points for each Amazoness monster I control including herself" said Tania.
Amazoness paladin ATK 1700 DEF 300 LV 4 EARTH warrior.
Amazoness paladin ATK 1700 + 200 = 1900.
"Now my Paladin attack his monster" ordered Tania, Oxygeddon was destroyed by Amazoness paladin, "Now Amazoness spy attack him directly" ordered Tania, Amazoness spy attacked Bastion directly.
Bastion LP 4000 – 100 = 3900.
Bastion LP 3900 – 800 = 3100.
"What's Bastion doing, he usually plans for things like this" said Jaden, "Bastion's a strategist and a planner, he usually altered his deck for each opponent he faces, but he's never seen Tania duel before so he's going in blind" said Robin who was beginning to doubt that Bastion was a good choice for a Key keeper.
Bastion's turn started, "I summon Hydrogeddon in attack mode and use him to attack your Spy" he said as Hydrogeddon attacked and destroyed Amazoness spy, "And when Hydrogeddon destroys a monster I can summon another one from my deck" explained Bastion as another Hydrogdden appeared on his side of the field.
Hydrogeddon ATK 1600 DEF 1000 LV 4 WATER dinosaur.
Tania LP 3600 – 800 = 2800.
Amazoness paladin ATK 1900 – 100 = 1800.
Tania smiled "When Amazoness spy is destroyed by battle I can add one Amazoness monster from my graveyard back to my hand" she said as she added Amazoness archer back to her hand.
Bastion was clearly annoyed by this, "I place a card face down and end my turn" he said, "Face down, aww are you planning a little surprise for little old me" said Tania causing Bastion to blush again.
Tania started her turn "First I'll summon Amazoness archer in attack mode, then I'll use the effect of Amazoness baby tiger, this card can be special summoned from my hand or graveyard when I summon a Amazoness monster" explained Tania.
Amazoness archer ATK 1400 DEF 1000 LV 4 EARTH warrior.
Amazoness baby tiger ATK 500 DEF 500 LV 2 EARTH beast.
Amazoness paladin ATK 1800 + 200 = 2000.
"That's not all, my cute little Baby tiger gains 100 ATK points for every Amazoness card in my graveyard, and I'll also equip my Amazoness archer with Amazoness heirloom" said Tania.
Amazoness baby tiger ATK 500 + 100 = 600.
"Now Amazoness paladin attack one of his monsters" ordered Tania, one of Bastion's Hydrogeddons was destroyed.
Bastion LP 3100 – 400 = 2700.
"Next I'll attack your other monster with Amazoness archer" said Tania, Amazoness archer attacked the other Hydrogeddon despite having less ATK points, "Thanks to my Amazoness heirloom my monster isn't destroyed, but my Heirloom will destroy your monster" explained Tania as Hydrogeddon was destroyed.
Tania LP 2800 – 200 = 2600.
"Now my Baby tiger attack him directly" said Tania, Amazoness baby tiger attacked Bastion directly.
Bastion LP 2700 – 600 = 2100.
"But I'm not done yet, now I'll use the effect of Amazoness archer, by tributing two of my monsters I can inflict 1200 points of damage to your LP" said Tania as she tributed Amazoness archer and Amazoness baby tiger.
Bastion LP 2100 – 1200 = 900.
Amazoness paladin ATK 2000 – 200 = 1800.
"Finally I'll place a card face down and end my turn, your move big boy" said Tania, Bastion blushed even brighter than before.
Bastion started his turn, "I use the effect of Duoterion, by discarding this card I can add a Bonding spell or trap card from my deck to my hand" said Bastion as he discarded Duoterion in order to add Bonding-H2O to his hand.
"Now I'll use my face down card Bonding-DHO, this card allows me to shuffle one Duoterion, one Hydrogeddon and one Oxygeddon from my graveyard back into my deck in order to summon Water dragon cluster from my hand" said Bastion as Water dragon cluster appeared on his side of the field.
Water dragon cluster ATK 2800 DEF 2600 LV 10 WATER sea serpent.
"And when Water dragon cluster is special summoned it stops your monsters from using their effects and reduces their ATK to 0" explained Bastion, "Alright, Bastion can finish this duel right now" said Jaden.
Amazoness paladin 1800 – 1800 = 0.
"Water dragon cluster attack her Paladin" ordered Bastion, "Sorry but I'm using my trap card, Amazoness shamanism, this card will destroy all of my Amazoness monsters and then it lets me summon an equal number from my graveyard in defence mode" said Tania as Amazoness paladin was replaced with Amazoness spy.
Amazoness spy ATK 800 DEF 1200 LV 3 EARTH warrior.
"Water dragon cluster continue your attack" said Bastion, "No" screamed the rest of the Key keeper but it was too late and Amazoness spy was destroyed allowing Tania to add Amazoness archer back to her hand.
"What's Bastion doing, surly he know that that was a stupid thing to do" said Chazz, "I don't think he's paying attention to this duel anymore" said Robin noticing just how much Bastion was blushing while looking at Tania.
"Wow look at that, if your attack had succeeded then you would have won, I'm really starting to like you" said Tania, "I feel the same way" thought Bastion unable to take his eyes off of Tania.
"It's a shame that this duel is over now" said Tania as she started her turn, "I summon Amazoness archer in attack mode, and since I just summoned a Amazoness monster I can special summon Amazoness baby tiger from my graveyard" she said.
Amazoness archer ATK 1400 DEF 1000 LV 4 EARTH warrior.
Amazoness baby tiger ATK 500 DEF 500 LV 2 EARTH beast.
Amazoness baby tiger ATK 500 + 400 = 900.
"Now my Archer use your effect and end this duel" said Tania as she tributed Amazoness archer and Amazoness baby tiger in order to inflict 1200 points of damage to Bastion's LP.
Bastion LP 900 – 1200 = 0.
Bastion fell to his knees, "Don't worry my love, you may have lose this duel but now you get me" said Tania as she walked up to him, "Hold on, there's no way I'm letting you take Bastion" said Jaden as he climbed down from the stands.
"Do you mind, me and Bastion have a wedding to plan" said Tania as she snapped her fingers and a large tiger jumped down from the other side of the stand, "Bass, please escort our guests out" said Tania.
The tiger name Bass roared and began to run at the group, "First wolfs, now a tiger" thought Robin as he and the others ran out of the coliseum, as soon as everyone was outside a large metal gate came down preventing anyone from getting back it.
"No, Bastion, Bastion" shouted Jaden as he desperately tried to open the gate, "It's no use Jaden, he gone" said Alexis, "But what are we going to do now" asked Jaden, "There's nothing we can do, but wait and hope that he ok" said Robin.
