Chapter 4; Mystery in the graveyard
(Before this chapter begins I want to apologize about the long time it took between this chapter and the previous one, I had been on vacation and learning the post link meta in order to rebuild the decks of the characters to fit in the new meta. Also I apologize for the mistake on crystal wing synchro dragon's summoning conditions in chapter 2. Enjoy the chapter also if you like the story leave a comment with an idea you would like to see in a next chapter)
Around 8AM the airplane containing Sonic and his friends arrived at the airport of Berlin. Sonic waited for his friends to wake up. Once they gathered they had breakfast.
"So what's the plan for today?" Tails asked.
"We split and look just like always. This time we take the fast way and search only the center. I doubt that the wielders of the god cards will be hiding in suburbs. They will hide in the center to avoid attention." Sonic replied.
"What about me? Who will I join today?" Silver asked
"Come with me." Jet said "we will search together."
"Ok."
"Oh Sonic I fotgot!" Tails suddenly said.
"What?"
"There has been a change in the game meta. A large one."
"And what does it contain?"
"A new kind of monsters and a new kind of rules."
"New monsters?"
"Yeah link monsters."
"Link what?" Knuckles said confused.
"I'll explain. The dueling field changed. Now there are no pendulum zones. The pendulums go to the far left and far right spell and trap card zones. Also there is an extra zone on the field called the link zone. We're gonna have to go and have our duel discs modified for this. Now on that link zone can either go a link monster or a monster summoned from the extra deck. If an extra deck monster is on the link zone you can't summon any more monsters from the extra deck."
"That's trouble for me." Sonic said "I'm gonna have to rebuild the entire deck to find a way to summon sky ruler."
"Furthermore you can summon a link monster to the link zone by tributing a set of monsters. The number and type of monsters are described on the link monster card. Then you summon it in the link zone. Now here's the good part. Each link monster had up to 8 arrows around the card picture pointing towards 8 directions on the field. Up ,down ,right, left, top-right, top-left, down-right and down-left. If one of these arrows point your field it transforms that monster zone that it is targeting into a link zone allowing you access to more monsters from the extra deck!"
"Cool so they wanna promote strategy in the game." Jet said.
"Then before we search for a god card, we're gonna have to have our duel discs modified and adjust our decks." Sonic decided.
They all agreed and spent the next few days buying cards, trading cards and remaking their decks. The fifth morning they grouped.
"We all ready?" Sonic asked. They all nodded yes.
"Then let the search begin
Once they were done they left the airport and headed for the center of the in the end no god card existed there. They roamed the center and visited a lot of museums. In the afternoon they visited a beer bar.
"Man the place is awesome" Knuckles said almost choking as he was eating his steak of meat."
"The exact opposite of Paris" Wave said looking at the rainy weather.
"Well still a good place." Sonic said while Amy was sitting with her head on his shoulder as always.
"It looks like this city is a part of the oncoming future. I asked if they have any legends for the city but almost no one remembers. It's like supernatural isn't a thing here." Jet said.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that." Amy suddenly said.
Everyone looked at her.
"What do you mean Ames?" Sonic asked.
"I heard about a rumor for a graveyard in the suburb just outside of town. Several people have disappeared when they visited the tombs of their loved ones in that graveyard."
"Brrrr… why did you have to say that now Amy? you creeped me out now." Wave said scared.
"And you believe this is something supernatural?" Tails asked
"I don't know. But it is a possibility. I mean we are living proof of the existence of supernatural."
"Sounds interesting. I say we go find those missing people." Sonic suggested.
"What?! Are you nuts?" Wave screamed causing everyone to look at them.
"I know that we are proof of the supernatural. But I am 100% sure that they are just some goons kidnaping people, taking their cards and keeping them somewhere so that they won't turn them in to the police."
"To tell the truth I remember one case like this we had to deal with back home." Tails said.
"Right. So who's in?" Sonic asked them.
They looked at each other.
"All of us."
"Then let's go!"
They paid the bill and rode their runners towards the suburb where the rumor originated from. Sonic Tails and Knuckles went to the police station, informed the cops of their suspicions and asked for permission to go over there and, should they find the thieves, to arrest them. After they got permission they went to the graveyard. They were about to go in when Tails stopped them.
"Guys wait. We need a plan!"
"What plan Tails? It is simple. We go in there, we find those duelist-goons and kick their butt. Not so hard huh?" Knuckles suggested.
"No Knuckles. If they are goons who scare people to kidnap them and steal their cards, they will one person at a time. Someone has to go in first and if they show up we go in and arrest them."
"Not me!" Wave said immediately.
"Me neither." Jet said as well.
"I kinda hate graveyards" Silver admitted.
"I'm not going in there without Sonic." Amy said determined.
"I wanna kick some butt. I'm going."
"Knucks I think it is best if I go." Sonic stopped his friend.
"Why you?"
"Cause I know martial arts. When they see I'm not scared they will attack me. I can take them down. You on the other hand well…. Let's just say that you couldn't see a single saw movie with us."
"Oh yeah right. Maybe it's the best if you go." Knuckles remembered.
Sonic headed inside after his friends wished him good luck. He made his way through the tombstones looking left and right for any movement. Nothing. Absolute silence. It was as if this place was dead itself.
Suddenly he heard strong footsteps behind him. He turned around and saw a zombie twice as toll as him. It started making creepy sounds. Sonic also saw at his left and at his back 2 more zombies coming from behind the tombstones as if they were hiding. They approached him in a creepy way.
"Who the hell are you three?" Sonic asked annoyed.
The biggest zombie stopped for a second as if it was shocked that Sonic was not scared and then charged on him. Sonic stepped to the side and tripped it. The zombie at his back was also approaching Sonic at the same time. The result was that the biggest zombie fell on him. The zombie to his left put his hands in a pocket.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you!" Tails' voice was heard.
Without the zombies realizing it Tails had sneaked behind him and was targeting him with a gun.
"Put your hands in the air please."
The zombie reacted immediately but raising its hands as high as it could. The rest of the team joined them as Knuckles approached the other 2 zombies while pointing a gun at them as well. Sonic who had understood it was just masked people removed the masks. Then they tied up the 3 'zombies' together.
"I believe we have our zombies huh team?" Sonic mocked the masked men.
The team laughed. Sonic searched their pockets and found a deck box with several rare cards.
"So.. it was you 3 who stole the .. could you 3 gentlemen please inform us where you've hidden the people from whom you stole the cards?".
"We did steal the cards. But we didn't harm anyone. We just scared them and told them to drop their rarest card or we would make them zombies as well. But they were never seen again."
"Cut the lies. You have their cards!" Knuckles said while 'breaking' his joints to scare them.
"NO! Please no! we swear we didn't harm anyone!"
"Sonic I think they're telling the truth." Amy said.
"Amy I understand that you're sympathetic but there are missing people here. Where are they if these goons don't know?"
Suddenly they heard footsteps and chants. They all hid behind the tombstones and looked at the origin of the chants. Several masked men were moving through the graveyard to the back side. They were all holding skulls with black lit candles on them. Some of them were also carrying some bodies.
"That's them!" the biggest masked man said.
"Who are 'them'?" Wave asked.
"The ones being carried…. are the people we scared!"
"It's them? Then what is all this?" Jet said
"Had I not been a horror movie maniac I would say it is a DEVIL RITUAL." Sonic said.
"Devil!.. Can I go outside please? I'm not feeling very well." Wave said. She hated these things.
"Ok but take my gun with you and guard those clowns. Make sure they don't get away." Tails said giving her his gun.
"Ok" she said and made the 3 masked men move to the exit.
"Now what do we do?" Tails turned to Sonic.
"We follow them."
They sneaked behind the group and followed them to an open space behind the graveyard. There one of the group carved a pentacle star on the ground and put the skulls with the candles on the edges. Then they started whispering chants again. Soon someone charged on someone else and started dragging him to the pentacle star.
"No PLEASE! I BELIEVE!"
"YOUUUU DO NOT BELIEEEEVE!" The hooded man said loudly. And then he threw him into the middle of the pentacle star. He then pointed his hand towards him and whispered some words. The pentacle star released an orange light which engulfed the man. And in a second it transformed into a large flame that burned the man from top to toe. Amy looked away and rushed into Sonic's hug who was shocked from this sight. The flame was extinguished by itself but the person was no longer there. Only his ashes. The hooded man then ordered the others.
"Bring the sacrifices. Asmodeus is hungry!"
Sonic decided to stop them. He jumped out of his hiding place.
"Then I guess he will starve to death!"
The hooded man turned around and saw Sonic.
"Well,well… special sacrifice. The duel king. Asmodeus will be so pleased."
"You're not gonna sacrifice those innocent people to your demon! I will stop you!"
"NO SONIC!" Silver screamed.
Sonic turned around. He saw Silver moving towards them. He stood infront of the hooded man.
"Are you a duelist?"
"Yes."
"Then fight me!"
"You? Hahahaha. Funny joke."
"Fight me! And I swear you will meet judgement and punishment!"
"Silver stop. Let me handle this!" Sonic tried to stop him.
"No! I wanna be helpful to you guys. You have allowed me to join you in this journey. Now let me o something for you!" Silver said activating his duel disc.
"Ok then. I guess asmodeus could do with an appetizer." The hooded man activated his duel disc as well.
"DUEL!"
"I'll start" Silver declared.
"I forgot to mention" Tails said"the starting player doesn't draw a card anymore."
"Silver is strong. He will make it." Sonic said.
"I summon goblindbergh. His effect allows me to special summon a level 4 monster from my hand like raiden hand of the lightsworn. Now I activate his effect. I send the top 2 cards of my deck to my graveyard. and 1 of them was eclipse wyvern. I banish judgement dragon from my graveyard due to her effect. Next I activate the effect of the perfomage trick clown sent to the graveyard with raiden. I lose 1000 LP(Silver LP 7000) and I summon it back. Now I overlay both of my monsters to xyz summon Minerva the exalted lightsworn. Thanks to her effect I send the top 3 cards of my deck to the graveyard. I mill lumina lightsworn summoner, lyla lightsworn sorceress and another raiden. Because all 3 of them are lightsworns I draw one card for each. Now I set one card and play soul charge. Special summon my wyvern and my 3 lightsworn monsters. Then I pay 1000 LP for each ( Silver LP 3000 ). Now I tribute minerva wyvern and raiden to link summon decode talker!"
"So that's a link summon" Jet said in awe.
"I activate again wyvern's effect to banish punishment dragon!Now I activate lumina's effect. I discard lumina from my hand to summon another lumina. Now I activate the new lumina's effect to summon my raiden. Raiden activate your effect. I send to the graveyard glow up bulb and wulf lightsworn hunter and because he was sent to the graveyard he is special summoned. Now i synchro summon using raiden and lumina to synchro summon Michael the arch-lightsworn. Finally I activate glow up bulb's effect to mill the top card of my deck to summon it. And look at that another wulf. Here he comes. Now I tribute lumina and wulf to summon the link monster proxy dragon. Now I tune glow up bulb and Michael to synchro summon crystal wing synchro dragon! And before my turn is done I overlay my 2 wulfs to xyz summon my daigusto emeral. Thanks to his effect I detach my wulf to put him Minerva and lumina to the deck and extra deck and draw 1 card. I set one last card and end my turn by milling 3 cards from my deck due to michael's effect."
"One turn and a full field. This is bad. My turn. I draw. I summon tour guide from the underworld and activate her effect."
"I activate my crystal wing's effect to negate it and destroy your tour guide."
"Damn. I special summon scarm malebranche of the burning abyss from my hand because I don't control any spell/trap. Now I summon cir malebranche of the burning abyss. I overlay them to xyz summon dante traveler of the burning abyss. I activate his effect by detaching scarm."
"I play my set card. Lost wind. It negates your monster's effect and halves it's attack."
"Damn you! I shall send you to the burning abyss. I discard calcab Malebranche of the burning abyss to xyz summon using dante as an xyz material. Come forth! Beatrice lady of the eternal! I activate her effect!"
"I play my last set card. Breakthrough skill. It negates your monster's effect!"
"Damn you! In my end phase I activate scarm's effect and add farfa Malebranche of the burning abyss to my hand. I end my turn with a face down."
"My turn. I draw."
"I activate beatrice's effect!"
"I activate breakthrough skill effect in my graveyard to negate your monster effect."
"Damn you!"
"Now I play 1000 LP (Silver LP 2000) and banish your Beatrice!"
"NOOO! Still dante's effect to add scarm to my hand from my graveyard. and cir's effect special summons dante back!"
"Michael! Attack dante!"
"I activate his effect to add cir to my hand."
"Proxy dragon! Decode talker! Daigusto emeral! Attack!"
"AAAAH! (Satanist LP 1500)
"Damn. I didn't end it." Silver thought "I play the spell that grass looks greener. Your deck has 33 cards and mine has 45. So I mill 12 cards to the graveyard. and 3 more for Michael. I end my turn."
"My turn.. ha..ha..ha..hahahaha…ahahahahaahhahahaha!"
"What's the big deal?!" Silver said.
"I activate dark core to discard my scarm and banish your proxy dragon!"
"Nooo!"
"I also play… raigeki! All your monsters are dead!"
"Sonic isn't that card banned?" Amy asked but Tails answered.
"Not anymore."
"Oh no. Silver!"
"I activate Michael's effect. I return 2 lightswornd to my grave so I will have 8 left. And I gain 600 LP. (Silver LP 2600)"
"I summon farfa and scarm due to his effect. Now I overlay them for dante! I mill 3 cards and he gains 1500atk! Attack him!"
"AAAAH(Silver LP 100)
"It's over kid. Not even your god can save you! Hahahahaha!"
"Maybe he won't… but I will!"
"Dream on!"
"End your turn already!"
"I have to worn you. The card sent to my graveyard is electromagnetic turtle. Even if you find a way to summon judgement dragon I will survive and end you next turn!"
"My turn. I draw…."
"Silver… everything ok?"
"Sonic… my deck never fails me." He said smiling.
"How?"
"I remove one light monster my eclipse wyvern and one dark monster, my twilightsworn lumina shaman to summon black luster soldier- envoy of the beginning!"
"NOOO!"
"Now I add judgement dragon and punishement dragon into my hand because wyvern was banished. I summon judgement dragon for having 4 different named lightsworns in my graveyard. now I special summon fairy tale snow from my graveyard by banishing the 4 lightsworns and 3 spell cards. Now that 4 lightsworns are banished I summon punishment dragon!"
"So what. You don't have enough life points to activate punishment dragon's effect."
"Not yet. But once I play mystic wok I will have enough. I tribute snow to gain her attack points as LP!"
"NOOOO!"
(Silver LP 1950)
"Punishment dragon! Activate your effect! For 1000 LP(Silver LP950) all cards in our graveyards and banished return to the deck! Except for lightsworn monsters!
"No way!"
"Black luster soldier! Banish dante!"
"NOOO!"
"JUDGEMENT DRAGON AND PUNISHMENT DRAGON! ATTACK WITH HEAVEN'S RIGHTEOUS BLAST!"
"NOOO!( Satanist LP 0)
"He did it!" Tails screamed.
They all ran to Silver and congratulated him.
"I don't care if you won.." they looked at the satanist "I will send you all to asmodeus!" he screamed while being engulfed in flames. Al his supporters retreated. Sonic and his friends saw him growing in size. He became red and horns grew on his head. His eyes were red full of evil. He was no longer a human. It was the devil!"
"I sacrificed my body! Now asmodeus will rise and turn this world into the burning abyss! Where you will all suffer for all of eternity!"
"No you won't!" Sonic screamed while raising his right hand. His sign started shining. His friends' sings also started shining. A blue laser beam was shot from all of their shines and went directily for Sonic's arm.
"If you can summon your god" he said while his sign started shining more " I will summon mine!"
A giant light was emitted by Sonic's mark. Once this light disappeared they all witnessed the lunar dragon standing above Sonic.
"With the power of this dragon god! I condemn you back to the burning abyss!"
The lunar dragon's body started emitting another blue light. The devil charged at him but he was repelled by the light. He tried to throw fireballs at Sonic but the lunar dragon used his tail to send them back.
"Darkness! Go back to hell!" Sonic screamed while at the same moment the lunar dragon unleashed a giant blue beam which pushed the devil inside the pentacle star. The same flames that engulfed the dead supporter engulfed asmodeus. Once they were gone they saw a portal closing. The lunar dragon disappeared and their marks stopped shining.
"Sonic" Amy said hesitantly "is it over?"
"Couldn't be more over baby." He said smiling.
They headed outside where Wave was waiting for them. The police arrived soon afterwards and they arrested the 3 'zombies' while the victims awoke and got their cards back. According to their saying they were ambushed by the 'zombies' but while running away they were knocked out somehow. Sonic and his friends escorted them to the hospital where they received gratitude from the chief of the police for their service and their bravery. Afterwards Sonic and his friends returned to the airport. Inside their private jet they decided to travel to the other big cities with their runners so they would see Germany's land. After drinking some wine to relax from the adventure they had they all slept immediately.
