Face the Duelists
Chapter Two: The Frog Swamp, Part One
Darren placed a stack of shirts into his suitcase. Finally, a two days wait was over, which meant that Darren could go to Duel Academy. His parents were happy when he told them the day he won his entrance duel; they went off and told their friends and other family members. The only one that didn't know he was going to the school of dueling was his brother. They couldn't get in contact with him because he was preparing for a tournament that was coming up soon.
"Darren! Hurry up or you won't make it on time to get on the boat," his mother yelled from down stairs. He zipped up the suitcase and put it on the floor. He quickly put his current deck into his duel disk and grabbed his spare cards. After looking around his room, he picked up the suitcase and ran down the stairs and into the kitchen where is parents were standing with their coats on. "Good, lets go."
They exited the apartment and ran to the blue car that was parked in front of them without locking the door behind them. His father put Darren's bags in the trunk of the car and got into the drivers seat, his mother beside him and Darren in the back. "What time do you have to be there Darren?" his father asked as the started the car and drove of towards the pier.
"Uh, the man who called said one, but we have plenty of time since it is only twelve thirty," Darren said. His father grunted and still drove as fast as he could. Darren was sixteen and stood about 5'11''. He had just cut his black hair short enough that he could no longer run his fingers through it. Now that he was attending the academy, he wore his yellow and white jacket with a black or navy blue shirt under it and dark blue jeans. His duel disk was always on his right arm.
"All most there, I can already see the ship at the pier," his father said. Darren leaned to his left to see trough the front window. His dad was right, a large ship was at the pier and tons of people, either dressed in red, yellow or blue, were all crowded together. His dad whistled as he saw all the people. "Look at all the people you get to duel Darren. I'm sure you can take them though," he said, laughing.
They parked by a fence and everyone got out. Darren's father got the suitcase and cards, but soon gave the cards to Darren. The trio walked up to the gate opening and was stopped by a man in a police uniform. "Sorry, the pier is closed off, only Duel Academy students and family are aloud to enter," the man said. Darren pulled out a yellow card out of his pocket. On the top right hand corner was the Duel Academy symbol and in the center was Darren's name written in black. It had come in the mail the day before with a letter telling him to present it to the guard at the pier.
He showed the card to the man and he nodded. "My mistake, go ahead and get on the boat. It will be leaving soon." The small family walked through the opening and ran down to the boat. They finally reached the area where everyone was standing and stood still. They didn't have to wait long before a man dressed in dark gray overalls with the Duel Academy logo on his chest came off of the boat and told everyone that they could go ahead and get onto the boat. Darren picked up the suitcase and looked at his parents. "I guess I will see you this summer," Darren said. His father patted him on his shoulder and nodded. Darren's mother hugged him and gave him a kiss on his cheek.
When he got to the ramp to get on the boat, he turned and waved to his parents before walking up the ramp, other students behind him. Before he could go anywhere, he had to give his suitcase to a man, but he got to keep his cards. The man told Darren that they were going to transport the luggage to the dorms once on the island and that the students will get their dorm number before getting off the boat.
After the luggage man, Darren talked with another man. This one gave him a map of the boat and told him what the boat had on it. One of the things that he listed that Darren couldn't wait to see was the duel arena, which was on the third floor. Darren nodded and headed for one of the many staircases. Tons of people were going up and down the stairs as they explored the boat. Darren wasn't going to look around for now, he really wanted to go down to the duel arena and either watch some duels are participate in a duel.
He had to fight past the crowd to go down the stairs. After about thirty minutes of walking, he finally got to the third floor. He could hear a duel going on all ready. When he fought past another crowd, he could see that the duel was over and that the loser was stepping off of a very large platform. The winner was a short man dressed in blue and white; he was obviously an Obelisk Blue student. He had short blonde hair and a pair of large glasses that rested on the bridge of his nose.
"Does anyone else want to face my powerful frogs!" he shouted. A few of the students whispered to each other, but no one volunteered. Finally Darren stepped out of the crowd and raised his hand.
"I'll duel you since no one else will," Darren said. The boy smiled and motioned for him to step onto the platform. "Okay, first tell me your name," Darren said as the stepped onto the large platform. He boy grunted. "Fine, I'll tell you mine first, I'm Darren. Now tell me yours."
"My name is Tyler. Now lets duel," Tyler said. "I'll go first." He drew six while Darren drew five and both of their life points went up to 8000. "Okay, I'll start off by setting one monster and one face down card. I'll end there," Tyler said.
"Okay, I draw." Darren said. He looked at the six cards in his hand. "Okay, I'll start off by summoning my Proto-Cyber Dragon in attack mode (1100/600)." A large dark gray, mechanical dragon appeared on the field. The dragon had wires hanging off of the side of its body, which sparked a lot. "Now, attack his face down monster!" The dragon charged up a blast in its mouth before firing it at the card. Upon impact, the card blew up into tons of pieces and revealed Tyler's T.A.D.P.O.L.E.
"Thanks, now my T.A.D.P.O.L.E's effect kicks in. I can bring all of my T.A.D.P.O.L.E.s from my deck to my hand and I have a total of two in my deck right now," the boy said. He placed his hand in front of his deck and two cards popped out in different sections.
"I guess I will end my turn then," Darren said with five cards in his hand. Tyler nodded and drew a card which now gave him a total of seven. He looked at his cards and began to think of what to do. After finally deciding, he smiled and looked up at Darren.
"I summon Mother Grizzly to the field (1400/1000)," he said. A giant grizzly bear appeared on the field. Its fur was a dark gray and she didn't look too happy. "Now I'll have my grizzly attack your Proto-Cyber Dragon." The grizzly roared and ran at a fast speed at the large dragon. It raised its paw and revealed sharp claws. She slammed its paw into the dragon and pulled out a large collection of wires, making the dragon fall over and explode and making Darren's life points drop down to 7700. (Darren: 7700;Tyler: 8000)
Tyler ended his turn with six cards in his hand. "My turn," Darren said. He drew a card and looked at what he had. "I play my spell card Pot of Greed, which allows me to draw two cards." Darren drew two off of the top of his deck. "I'll summon Breaker the Magical Warrior in attack mode (1600/1000). My Breaker also gets a three hundred power boost from the counter I just gave him (1900/1000).
"Then I will attack your Mother Grizzly with my magical warrior. Go Breaker, destroy his grizzly!" The warrior ran toward the bear and hit it with his blade. The Grizzly broke into thousands of pieces and Tyler's life points went down to 7500. (Darren: 7700;Tyler: 7500)
"Man we have been making some short moves," Tyler said. Darren ended with six cards in his hand. Tyler drew one card. "I play my Graceful Charity card which allows me to draw three then discard two from my hand." He drew three and looked at his hand. "I'm going to go ahead and discard both of my T.A.D.P.O.L.E. cards. Next I'm going to play my field spell card A Legendary Ocean!" A large building appeared behind Tyler and water began to flood the arena and it didn't stop until it reached the players knees.
"This card drops all water monsters down to level one and it gives them a 200 power boost in both attack power and defense," Tyler said. He then pulled another card from his hand. "Next I summon my Beelze Frog (1200/800)." A large black frog with red markings and two blue wings appeared on the field. "My frog not only gets a 200 boost, but since I have three T.A.D.P.O.L.E.s in my graveyard, he gets another 900 attack power boost making him at a total of 2300 (2300/1000). Now, go my frog and destroy his magical warrior!"
The frog let out a long tongue that began to move toward Breaker. It in a swift motion, the frog wrapped the tongue around Breaker and put him into it's mouth and then swallowed him. Darren's life points dropped down to 7300. (Darren: 7300;Tyler: 7500) Tyler ended with four cards in his hand Darren grunted and drew another card. He had to think of something quick, because he didn't think he had a monster that he could summon and then destroy his frog.
"Err, I'll just set monster face down and end my turn," Darren said. There really was nothing he could do at this point. He just hoped that Tyler didn't draw something good. He looked at the six cards in his hand, seeing if there was something he might be able to do his next turn.
Tyler drew a card and smiled. "Prepare to meet one of the coolest frogs. First I play my Pot of Greed card which allows me to draw two cards," Tyler said as he took the top two cards off of the top of his deck, giving him a total of six cards. "Next I'm finally going to play my face down card, Lightning Vortex. This lets me destroy all monsters on your side of the field as long as I discard one card from my hand and I'll discard my Treeborn Frog."
Suddenly, lightning began to hit the field and destroyed Darren's face down. Shining Angel appeared, but Darren couldn't use his effect. "Next I'm going to play Polymerization and I will fuse the tree Des Frogs in my hand to make the D.3.S Frog (2500/2000)!" Three green frogs appeared on the field and a purple vortex appeared behind them. All three got sucked into the vortex and then suddenly a very large green frog with red eyes appeared on the field next to Tyler's Beelze Frog.
"Like my Beelze Frog, the D.3.S Frog gets a boost from my ocean and since I have a Treeborn Frog in my graveyard he gets another 500 attack points, which makes him at a total of 3200 (3200/1200)! I'm not done there. I use the last card in my hand, which is Premature Burial, to summon back my Mother Grizzly. All I have to do is sacrifice 800 of my life points to do so." (Darren: 7700; Tyler: 6700)
A black hole appeared on the field and Darren could see Mother Grizzly pulling herself out of it (1400/1000). "And since she is a water type, she gets a boost from my ocean (1600/1000). Since you have nothing on your side of the field, I can attack you directly with all three of my monsters. Go, attack Darren directly!"
The Beelze Frog moved first. He swiftly let his tongue come out of his mouth and slap Darren. The D.3.S Frog did the same, only this frog knocked Darren down. Then the Mother Grizzly ran up to Darren and hit him in the chest while he was on the ground. All of these attacks sent his life points down to 600 (Darren: 600;Tyler: 6700). "You won't win this duel Darren so you might as well give up," Tyler said, laughing.
To Be Continued…
I hope this was long enough for you Ancient Gear Golem fan. I think I should have cut it off sooner, but there wasn't a good spot. I should have chapter three up soon. Keep on Reviewing.