Okay! So this is the secound chapter... takes a deep breath I hope you guys like this one a little better then the first chapter, since it's the actual duel. Will Rachel and Alexei succeed in beating Para and Dox, the famous Tag-Team Duelists? Let's find out in this next chapter of GX; Twenty Years Later!
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh, Zelda Truesdale, Rachel Bolt, Ariel Kaiba, or any affiliated characters to Yu-Gi-OhThough I really wish I did... .. The makers of Yu-Gi-Oh and my dear friend, Ruin Queen of Oblivion(As is her penname) does. Full credit goes to D-Hero Danny for the card "Yield Tribute", Cyber Commander for the cards "Full House", "Cresent Moon Queen", "Scorpion's Den", and Ruin Queen of Oblivion for the cards "Raijin" and "Gate Guardian King"
Chapter Two
Obelisk and Osiris; Rise of Gate Guardian King
The stage is set. The first duel of the year was just getting underway, the four Duelists drew their opening hands. Alexei set his backpack down and looked over his hand with unease. Rachel glanced towards her partner with a frown. Great... She thought. my duel partner for this is a Sliffer Red who has about as much confidence as Syrus. I hope he duels better then it looks like he does, or this duel is going to be a flunk, and my name'll go down the drain. Alexei glanced at Rachel and sighed. Oh man... another pressure duel. He thought. This isn't good. She'll kill me if we lose this. Calm down, Alexei. This is just another duel, against one of your friends back home. Alexei took a deep breath as Para spoke up.
"I'll take the first move." He draw his card. "And I will play the magic card called Cost Down. This will decrease the level of all monster cards in my, and my brother's, hands until my next turn, at the cost of one card to the grave." He sent one card to the graveyard. "Next I will summon Labyrinth Wall in defense mode." The Labyrinth rose up, and Alexei frowned slightly. Great... they already have a monster with three thousand defense points on the field! I'm so dead... Frowning, he focused his attention to his hand. "I will end my turn with two cards facedown."
"About time! I'll take the next move!" Rachel drew her card and smiled a little. "I'll play the card Yield Tribute! This allows me to Special Summon any monster five levels or higher in my hand without the cost of a tribute! I'll summon my Freed the Matchless General in attack mode!" The long haired warrior appears. "I still have my normal summon, so I'll summon Don Zaloog, also in attack mode!" The thief king appears next to Freed, twirling his shortswords once around his hands. "One card facedown, and that'll do it for now."
"Now it is my move," Dox put in as Rachel ended, "and I will summon Jirai Gumo, in attack mode." The freakishly large three-eyed spider appeared. "I will now play this card! It is called Tribute Doll! It allows me to sacrifice one monster on my, or my brother's, field and summon a level seven monster from my hand!" Jirai fades from the field. "And I will summon Raijin!" A red crown-looking monster appears with a face in the middle of it. "Now I play Quick Attack, now my monster can attack this turn, even though the round is not done! Now Raijin, attack that girl's Don Zaloog!"
Rachel laughed and countered, "I activate my trap card, Negate Attack!" The vortex raised up infront of Don and absorbed the fire creature's attack.
"Fine. You were lucky to..." Dox started
"Have negated Raijin's attack!" Para finished for his brother.
"I will end my turn now." Dox finished.
Alexei took a deep breath and drew his card. "I draw!" he looked over his hand... I have two of my Realm Warriors... but nothing right now to destroy that Raijin, let alone the Labyrinth Wall... but, at least I can stall for some time. "Okay, I'll play my magic card, Gathering of Souls! This special summons four 'Realm Tokens' to the field in defense mode!" Four cute little spirits appeared, all hugging each other. "Next... I will set two cards facedown and play my Full House magic card! This allows me to draw six cards, but in this case, it will allow both me and my partner to draw three!" Rachel and Alexei draw three cards. "I'll end my turn with one more facedown card."
That move caused Rachel to look at Alexei. What is he thinking? Those tokens won't last ten secounds against their decks. She frowned as she thought, as the Academy's Kaiser- Zelda Truesdale- walked into the arena dome. Rachel noticed that Alexei looked nothing more then down-right determination. Maybe he does know what he's doing, but we'll find out. It's Para's turn, and all he has are those weak... things.
"My move!" Para exclaimed. "And I will activate Dark Designator card! Now I can call the name of one monster in someone's deck and they must draw that card. Brother, you have Suijin, do you not?"
"Of course, Brother!" Dox pulled Suijin from his deck.
"Now I play the magic card called Pot of Greed! This allows me to draw two cards." Para draws two cards from his deck and laughs. "Now I will play this magic card, Card Destruction!"
Alexei's eyes widened for a moment, his chance. "Hold it, Para! I activate Magic Drain! This card will negate and destroy your Card Destruction unless you can discard a magic card from your hand!"
"I will discard my Tribute Doll to keep my magic card. Now we must discard all cards in our hands, and draw the same number of cards." The Duelists discards their hands and draws new ones. "Now I will set one card in facedown defence mode and end my turn."
"Whatever, my turn. And I'll use Freed's effect to bring one level four warrior to my hand, instead of drawing," Rachel said as she pull a card from her deck and shuffled it. "You know, you helped me when you played that Card Destruction! Now I'll play Magic Reborn this works the same as Magician of Faith's effect!" Rachel pulls one card from her graveyard and adds it to her hand. "Now I'll activate the card I just brought back, Yield Tribute! Now I will summon my Cresent Moon Queen!" The dark female warrior appears.
"Not so fast!" Dox countered.
"Yes! Not so fast, girl!" Para added.
"I activate my trap card, Torrential Tribute!" Dox finished his counter.
Alexei frowned deeply as one of his own cards revealed itself. "No! I activate Seven Tools of the Bandit! This will negate and destroy your Torrential Tribute, keeping Rachel's Crescent Moon Queen, as well as our other monsters, safe from harm! And I will take the damage myself." He flinched just a little as the lifepoints dropped by a thousand.
Rachel looked at Alexei and smiled a little. "Thank you for that, Alexei, was it? well, either way, now I equipt my Cresent Moon Queen with Gravity Axe-Grarl! This increases my Moon Queen's attack by five hundred points! Now I'll activate Graceful Charity." Rachel drew three cards and went to discard two of the ones in her new hand, when Alexei activated his last facedown card.
"I activate my last facedown, Disgraceful Charity. Now Rachel gains the cards she just discarded back," Alexei nodded towards Rachel, who replaced the cards back to her hand.
"Now I'll play Scorpion's Den and Mustering of the Dark Scorpions!" Rachel exclaimed as a room fill with treasure replaced the Duel Arena. "Now I can summon any Dark Scorpions I have in my hand to the field, and they gain five hundred attack and defense points. Say hello to my little friends; Meanae The Thorn and Kyra the Skilled!" Two female warriors appear, both wearing similar outfits. One has a whip, giving it a crack, the other has two glowing longswords. "Both in attack mode. Now, Meanae, attack Para's facedown monster!" The monster destroyed was a Magician of Faith.
"Thank you for that. Now I can retreive a card from the graveyard." Para withdrew the card he had discarded earlier, Tribute Doll, from the graveyard and added it to his hand.
"Whatever. Crescent Moon Queen, destroy that Wall!" The dark warrior attacks the Labyrinth Wall, but is knocked back. "What? How!"
Para smirked as a facedown activated. "I activated my trap card, Castle Walls! It increases the defense of my Labyrinth Wall by five hundred."
"Ugh... fine. I end my turn with two cards facedown." Rachel growled as she placed the cards facedown.
"Now it is my turn. And I activate Monster Reborn, and Monster Reincarnation, to summon from the grave, two monsters you will learn to fear. I send one card to my graveyard and revive Para's Sanga of the Thunder, and my Suijin!" The two Gate Guardian peices appear.
"An excelent move, my brother!" Para praised.
"Yes, and I will my turn with one card facedown."
Alexei rolled his eyes. "God, you guys are annoying... I draw." He draws his card. "Now I will set two cards facedown, and because there are four Duelists, there can be two field cards! So I will play my Temple of the Kings field card!" The temple dedicated to an ancient pharoh rises within the den. "Next I will switch all of my Tokens into attack mode. Now, I will have three of my tokens attack Dox's Raijin!" Three of the cute little blue spirits float over to attack Raijin, but get blasted away. Rachel's eyes widened as she stared at Alexei. What kind of amateur move is that! He'll lose us the duel! I'll strangle him! However, Alexei's and Rachel's lifepoints do not drop an inch. The Paradox brothers looked as surprised as Rachel did.
"Wha--?" Rachel blinked as she didn't finish the question...
"How is that possible?" Para questioned, inturupting Rachel.
"For you not to take damage?" Dox made Para's question clearer.
"You see, these tokens aren't like others." Alexei explained with a bemused smile on his face. "They make all battle damage go down to zip when they're attacked, what's more is now I can summon three other monsters to replace them!" Three larger spirits replaced the three tokens. "Now I'll sacrifice one of my Spirits to summon this; Mystical Beast of Serket! Now, check this, comrades; I send my Temple and Serket to the graveyard to summon one of my most powerful monsters! Meet my Gatekeeper; Realm's Gatekeeper to Hell!" As he called the name, a huge spirit in devilish robes appears, hitting his hand with a blackish red mallet. "I'll end my turn, now."
Para draws... then jumps back suddenly, as did Dox, and they went into another flipping sequence. "Against..."
"The Trinity..." Dox continued where Para left off...
"They can't defend..."
"Cut it out you two, that gets more annoying every time you do it," Ariel called down the Brothers from the stands.
"Uhh... right." Para and Dox landed in their spots, and Para continued his turn. "I will sacrifice my Labyrinth Wall to activate Tribute Doll! Now I can summon this monster, Kazejin! Now we will sacrifice our monsters to summon the all-power Gate Guardian King!" The four Gate Guardian peices locked onto each other, forming what looks like the original Gate Guardian with a red crown. "Now, Gate Guardian King, destroy Alexei's Gatekeeper!"
"Hey, not so fast, baldy! I activate Draining Shield, this negates your attack and adds it to our lifepoints!" Rachel countered. "It's my turn to save your tail, slacker."
Dox laughed. "Not if I activate this trap card called Bad Reaction to Simochi! This reverses effects that add to your lifepoints, and instead reduces your lifepoints!" Rachel didn't flinch as their lifepoints dropped, but Alexei wasn't as unphased, allowing himself a grunt in disgust and pain.
Para grinned at his brother. "Well done, brother. We are still in the lead in this duel. I will end my turn, now."
Rachel snorted as she drew her card. "About time! This duel's over after this turn. That's a promise, El Calvo Brothers." I just drew a Ring of Destruction... Rachel glanced at her partner. I wonder if he has a card to reverse this... I'll just have to trust him, sadly. "I'll set one card facedown and end my turn."
"A foolish mistake, from a foolish girl," Dox seemed pleased with himself as he drew his card, but Rachel laughed. "What are you laughing at?"
"You! I activate my trap, Ring of Destruction, and I'm targeting your Gate Guardian King!"
"But you will lose this duel!" Para chided.
"Like hell we will, I activate my facedown card Barrel Behind the Door!" Alexei grinned as he activated the trap.
"But it will not work, for I activate my Mystical Space Typhoon!" Para countered.
"I activate Judgement of Anubis, I'll negate and destroy your Typhoon, and what's more, I'll even destroy one of my own monsters to make sure this duel is done and over with!" Alexei countered one final time as he dsicarded a card from his hand and his Gatekeeper disappeared. Para and Dox scream like little girls as they're struck with the the grande total of thirteen thousand five hundred direct damage. "Hey, if you can't handle a duel, comrades, don't duel."
Ariel walked down to the duel arena, the teacher that looks like Crowler scoffed and left in a storm of rage. Zelda smiled slightly. It looks like there will be a little more compition then just Rachel Bolt. This Alexei Krustev guy is pretty good.
With the first duel of the school year won, Alexei has met a possible friend, and perhaps he will meet a rival later. For now, he walks to his dorm to meet his roommates. Find out what happens next in the next chapter! Chapter Three: Sliffer Red's Dorm; Omega's Des Guardias