Here it is, the chapter you've all been waiting for! And here I thoguht it was goingto be shorter than other chapters...until the last two turns took four pages each. Well, anyway, I'd like to thank my reviewers, which I negelcted to do last chapter...
Wolf-blades-wings: I don't think I'm going to be changing it. Seriously. It's a common literary device known as repetition. Yes, I know, it breaks the rules, but I honestly think it sounds better this way. If it's just me...too bad, I write the story. Thanks anyway!
giga-crusher: Very observant of you! Yeah, I'd have to agree that those are their Soul Cards. For a more detailed explanation of Soul Cards, visit Cyber-Commander's Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfic: Yu-gi-oh: The Thousand Year Door! It's my favorite Yu-gi-oh fanfic...
BEGIN THE CHAPTER! Althoguh I can't help feeling like I've forgotten something...
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"Jaden, are you sure you want to do this?" asked Danny, floating down near him (though not near enough to be shocked) as the students settled into their seats. Well, most of them. Some of the bigger ones were still trying to ram down the magic-sealed doors.
"I don't really have a choice in the matter, do I?" Jaden responded, drawing five cards. "Besides, the cards in my deck are superheroes!" he smiled. "We gotta stick together, right?"
"Heh, heh," responded Phantom, sitting on the floor. "Well, do your best. Send her packing for me."
"You may go first, human," said Desiree, drawing her five cards as the life point meters set at 4000 apiece.
"Alright, then!" shouted Jaden, drawing a card. "Sweet!" he said, looking down at it. "I summon Elemental Hero Clayman (800/2000) in defense mode!" In blast of earthy light, the defensive wall of the Elemental Heroes appeared. "Then, I'll throw down a facedown, and turn it over to you, genie-girl…or genie-ess…or…what do they call female genies?"
Desiree chose to ignore his rambling, focusing instead on formulating a strategy. –Of course, defeating him won't be that difficult,- she thought, -But even so, I'd better be careful…this is my one shot at freedom!- "I will also place a card facedown…and then I'll set a monster in facedown defense mode and end my turn."
"Ah, stayin' cautious, huh? That's cool," said Jaden, drawing a card.
"Mew!" (A/N: Let's see YOU describe that noise.)
He looked at it and smiled. "Hey, little buddy! Long time, no see!"
"Mew!" it said again, indicating a card in Jaden's hand.
"You want me to play that? Okay! I'll summon Winged Kuriboh (300/200) in defense mode!" Jaden said, as the fluffy brown furball with wings that we all know and love appeared on the field. "That'll do for now. Well, that and another facedown card."
Danny finally blinked, having stared for so long, and then rubbed his eyes. –Was that a…Winged Kuriboh? What was it doing out of the card?- he thought.
Desiree drew a card herself, bringing her hand back up to five. Looking at the cards she now held, she smirked. "I'll summon the Mystic Lamp (400/300) in attack mode!" It was a lamp, alright, in the style of the old Arabian lamps. However, unlike most lamps, it had strange runes, or hieroglyphs on it. "Have to stay true to your roots!" Desiree said. –Even if you do despise them…- "They great thing about this monster is that it can attack you directly…so go to it, my monster! Attack that little brat with Smoking Scorch!"
"Sorry, Delilah, or whatever your name was, but I've got a trap card: Super Junior Confrontation! Now, your attack is negated, and the monster with the lowest attack points on your side of the field has to battle the lowest defense points on my side! So block that Scorch, Winged Kuriboh!"
"Mew!" went Kuriboh with determination as smoke slowly rose from the "spout" of the lamp…followed closely by a column of fire!
"Where there's smoke, there's fire, as the saying goes," said Desiree, chuckling to herself as Winged Kuriboh was fried.
"Yeah, and where there's a fire, there's a firefighter!" retorted Jaden, gesturing to his facedown card. "You activated my other trap when you destroyed Winged Kuriboh: Hero Signal!" From the now face-up card, a yellow spotlight shone up onto the invisible force field. It had a styled black H in the center of it, the sign of the Elemental Heroes. "This card allows me to Special Summon a monster from my deck with Elemental Hero in its name…and I select Elemental Hero Bladedge, (2600/1800) in attack mode!" And so the monster with sharper edges than the King of Game's hairdo appeared.
"Jaden's doing pretty good so far," said Syrus, trying to calm himself down.
"Don't jinx it!" shouted Alexis.
"This match doesn't need jinxing for Jaden to lose. That monster is rarely used except in a certain strategy I've seen before, and Jaden is in for a rough time," said Bastion.
Wait, Bastion?
The others looked to where the source of the voice was…to see Atticus. "Was…that you?" asked Jazz.
"Yep!" said Atticus. "I just thought I'd fill in for that old party pooper Bastion for a couple seconds!"
"That was a pretty good imitation!" said Syrus.
"Thanks. I try my best," said Atticus, in a perfect match of Syrus's voice.
"Hey!" shouted Syrus.
"Shh!" said Sam, indicating Jaden, who was drawing his next card. While the commotion up here was going on, Desiree had also put a facedown spell or trap card down, as well.
"Alright!" said Jaden. "Bladedge, attack Mystic Lamp with Slice and Dice attack!" As soon as Jaden had spoken, the monster being spoken to outstretched its arms and flew straight towards the lamp…
"I activate my trap card, Shift! Now I am allowed to choose your Bladedge's target…and I choose my facedown monster!" As she spoke this, Bladedge turned slightly and continued his flight path.
"Fine by me!" said Jaden. "Go get 'em, Bladedge!" And Bladedge swooped down, intent on cutting whatever monster was underneath in half. The monster revealed itself…it was another lamp, but larger, and without runes. Bladedge struck the lamp…and bounced off flying back into Clayman! There was a loud crash, before Bladedge got up, shaking himself off. He looked behind him…and Clayman was no longer there! "What happened?" asked Jaden, more than a little confused.
"Simple," said Desiree, grinning. "That was my Ancient Lamp (900/1400), and when it is attacked while in face-down defense mode, it can switch the target back to one of your monsters! And if I'm correct, Bladedge has a trampling effect, so the difference between his attack points and Clayman's defense points…"
"…Comes out of my life points…" Jaden said, even as his meter fell to 3400.
"Yes. And, I'm not done yet! I activate my other trap, Raigeki Break! Now, by discarding a card," and she did so, "I can destroy one card on the field…so say goodbye to Bladedge!"A fierce bolt of lightning came down and fried Bladedge to a crisp! "And guess what?" she said, as her graveyard started to glow green. "The card I sent was Ectoplasmic Energy Sample, so now that it's in my graveyard, I can draw two cards!" And she did so. "Do you end your turn, Jaden?" she asked, smugly.
"Sure, but first I'll lay two cards facedown," he said.
"Good," she said, her voice like poisoned honey as she drew. "Now, for my Ancient Lamp's other effect!"
"This thing has two effects?" asked Jaden fearfully.
"Mm-hmm. Now, I can Special Summon from my hand this card: La Jinn, the Mystical Genie of the Lamp (1800/1000)!" From the spout of the lamp, in typical genie fashion, came a green-skinned apparition with a wispy mustache and pointy ears. "Plus, I'll play the Continuous Spell Card 3 Wishes!"
The spell card appeared on the field, its image foreboding. "Now," said Desiree, "Don't think this card can only be used three times! But, we'll get to that later. This card can only be activated, and only stay on the field, so long as La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp is on the field. Now, once per every one of my turns, I can activate one of three effects. The first one: I gain 500 life points. The second one: I can raise La Jinn's attack points by 500 until the end of the turn. The third one: I can destroy one monster on your side of the field whose attack points are less than La Jinn's."
"That's a…pretty powerful card…" said Jaden, even more fearfully.
"Yes, it is…got it."
"Got what?"
"If I raise my genie's attack by 500," Desiree explained, "My total monsters' attack points become 3600…more than enough to finish you off! Go, my monsters! Finish him!"
The crowd went into an uproar as the Ancient Lamp rushed toward Jaden, smoke came from Mystic Lamp's spout, and electricity crackled around the genie's fingertips. All the attacks hit Jaden at the same time, the boom echoing through the arena as panic set in, and people started screaming and ramming the doors. Desiree's cackle, quite unbecoming of a girl like her, broke into the panic, casting an eerie calm over the room…except for Bastion, who was crying silently.
"Don't fret too much. I wasn't serious about making you my husband. I just wanted to scare you! Although I do owe a favor to Ember McLaine, for recommending me that class…I'm sure a hormone-driven youth like yourself would enjoy being the husband of a girl like herself…"
"Thanks, Desiree, but I don't think that's going to matter…" Jaden said, still standing, as the dust cleared…with a smile on his face? "This duel isn't over!" Sure enough, his life point reader read 300!
"What? That's impossible!" Desiree shouted. "I did NOT make a mistake in my calculations!"
"No, you didn't," agreed Jaden. "Well…you made one. You forgot to factor in my facedown card…it was a trap called Insurance! See, when it's activated, another magic or trap card on the field is returned to my hand…then, for every Insurance card in my hand, I gain 500 life points! And you can probably guess what my other facedown card was," and with this he showed her the other Insurance. "Pretty sweet, huh?
"Yes," said Desiree, a little grudgingly, "Very 'sweet' indeed…I'll end my turn, but just you wait…"
"Okay then," said Jaden, drawing a card. He looked at it, smiled, and placed it in his Duel Disk. "I summon Elemental Hero Bubbleman (800/1200) in attack mode!" In a flurry of water and air, Bubbleman appeared, brandishing his Bubblegun. "And if I summon him when there are no other card on my field, I get to draw two cards! So here's one," and he drew a card. –Sweet! Burstinatrix!- "And here's card number two! –Perfect!-
"Not bad, but your life points are so low that when my genie attacks that Bubble, you will go pop!" said Desiree.
"Does everybody have to make that joke?" asked Jaden. "Anyway, I activate the spell card Mirage of Nightmare! Now, come your standby phase, I get to draw until my hand has four cards in it, but during my standby phase, I have to dump the same number of cards I drew! I'll also place two cards facedown…and then I cast Polymerization in order to fuse my Bubbleman with my Burstinatrix (1200/800) in order to create Elemental Hero Steam Healer (1800/1000!)"
The Heroine of the Elemental Heroes appeared momentarily before she and Bubbleman swirled together in the portal. Finally, they emerged as one, a giant robotic suit of armor with two large water tanks and a red and purple color design.
"Now, admittedly, my Steam Healer isn't the strongest Hero…but it has a great effect! When it destroys a monster, like that Mystic Lamp of yours, that monster's attack points are added to my life points! So go! Attack with Bubble Flare Combination!" As Jaden said this, a large gust of steam blew out, along with two or three bubbles and an occasional spark. It completely covered the Mystic Lamp, and when it disappeared, so had the Lamp itself! Jaden's life points rose to 700, while Desiree's fell to 2600."I end my turn," Jaden said.
Desiree drew a card, bringing her hand up to five. Jaden drew as well, bringing his hand up to four. Suddenly: "I activate my facedown Quickplay Spell Card, Emergency Provisions!" Jaden shouted. "Now, by sending spell and trap cards to the grave, I get 1000 life points for each one! So, I'll send Mirage of Nightmare and my facedown Insurance in order to gain 2000 life points!" And his life points rose to 2700.
"That was a pretty good move," said Jazz, up in the stands, still sweating a little. "Jaden managed to get rid of Mirage of Nightmare, plus get back up in the high life point zones."
"The question is whether he can stay there," said Alexis.
"He'd better," said Chazz, arms crossed. "If that genie beats him, I won't be able to!"
Desiree looked down at her card –Darn,- she thought. –If this were my second 3 Wishes card, I could finish him off! Oh well…- "I'll activate the effect of 3 Wishes that allows La Jinn to gain 500 attack points!" La Jinn's attack increased to 2300. "Attack, my genie, with Fire from the Sky!" The Mystical Genie of the Lamp raised his arms up toward the sky, and almost instantly a gigantic fireball fell from it! The fireball roasted the Elemental Hero to a crisp and reduced Jaden to 2200. Then, the Ancient Lamp rushed toward him, knocking him over and dropping his life points to 1300.
"Then I'll play Different Dimension Capsule! Now, I place a card inside the capsule, and in two turns, I get it back!" The pharaoh-tomb shaped capsule appeared, opened, accepted the card, closed, and then finally went underground. –Good thing I played that…the card I was wanting hit nearly the bottom of my deck!- "I'll end my turn with a facedown card." The Genie's attack fell back to 1800
Jaden slowly got up and drew. He looked down. "Alright…" he said, "I'll summon Sparkman (1600/1000) in Attack Mode!" The brains of the Elemental Heroes appeared in a flood of electricity. "Then, I'll play H-Heated Heart! Now, I select one monster, like my Sparkman, and it gets its attack increased by 500 points!" Sparkman ascended up to 2100, and then Jaden continued: "Sparkman also gets a trampling effect, too, and your genie only has 1000 defense points!"
"Too bad it's in attack mode," said Desiree, a little boredly.
"Yeah, but it won't be for long! I equip Sparkman with his Spark Blaster!" The gun that appeared in Sparkman's hand was compact and jet-black. It looked like it could do some serious damage. "This card allows me to shift the battle position of any card I choose three times…so I choose defense position for your Genie!" Immediately Sparkman shot one of his blasts from the Spark Blaster. A small bolt hit the genie, crackling electricity forcing it down into defense mode. "Now, attack!" Jaden shouted, as Sparkman shot electric power from his hand…
"I activate my trap!" Desiree shouted. "Negate attack!" The spark stopped just short of hitting the genie.
"Alright, then I'll have Sparkman use his next shot on himself!" Jaden shouted. Sparkman pointed the Spark Blaster down, shot, and crouched. "That, and I'll throw down a facedown. That'll do for now, Daisy.'
"That's Desiree," said the genie girl, drawing her next card. Looking down at it, she smiled. "And I may not know what your name is, but soon it'll be mud! I cast another 3 Wishes, and use the first one's effect to heal me 500 life points!" Energy flowed from the first card as the second appeared on the field. Desiree's life points went up to 3100! "Then I use the second in order to destroy your pathetic Sparkman! Genie, obliterate!"
"You stole that from Exodia," mumbled Jaden, even as a very large ball of water destroyed Sparkman.
"Say what you will. I switch my genie to attack mode, and do so!" shouted Desiree.
The genie created a large block of pure granite. It slowly floated over Jaden's head. Then… "I activate my facedown card: Draining Shield! Now instead of losing life points because of your attack, I gain them!" Sure enough, as the block fell, it struck a light-green force field, giving Jaden 1800 life points!
"Grr…Ancient Lamp, you attack him!" she shouted, the lamp rushing towards Jaden, knocking him over again, and totaling his life points at 2200. "I end my turn," Desiree said.
"She's got him in quite a lock," said Jazz. "No matter what he summons, Desiree destroys it with those two 3 Wishes cards of hers!"
"And most likely, she has a third one of those in her deck somewhere, too," Tucker said.
"I'm not liking the look of this," said Syrus, scared as a Kuriboh facing off against a Blue Eyes White Dragon.
"Okay, my draw!" Jaden shouted. "Not bad," he said, looking down at the card he just drew. "I cast O-Oversoul! Now I can summon any card with the words "Elemental Hero" in its name from the grave to the field, and I'll summon Elemental Hero Bubbleman in attack mode!" The card that was already used once appeared again. "And I think you remember his effect!" said Jaden, drawing two cards. The last one he drew caught his eye. –I think I can beat her…- he thought, a strategy forming in his head. "Okay, I summon Hero Kid (300/600) in defense mode!" Jaden shouted, as a small kid in a rocket-armor-suit appeared, doing a back flip before crouching in defense. "And when a Hero Kid is summoned, I can Special Summon up to two more form my deck! Come on out!" The other two kids appeared in midair, one doing a twirl and the other doing a dance before settling down. "Then, I play the spell card The Warrior Returning Alive! Now, I can bring back one Warrior-type monster to my hand…like Elemental Hero Clayman!" And Clayman slid out of his graveyard. "But he's going right back in the grave! I cast Polymerization to fuse my Clayman and Bubbleman together!" Bubbleman and Clayman stepped into the swirling portal, and it began to spin…"That way, I can create the Ultimate Defensive Wall of the Elemental Heroes: Elemental Hero Mudball Man! (1900/3000)"
The monster that appeared did, indeed, look like a mudball. It had giant balls fro arms and legs, slightly featured to make them look more like…well, you know. Hands and feet. "Plus," said Jaden, "If you're wanting to bring this big boy down, then you'll need to increase La Jinn's attack by 500 with one 3 Wishes, then destroy him with the other, then attack my Hero Kids, but I'll still have a monster left!"
"You've started to babble," said Desiree, drawing a card. "Now that it's been two turns, my capsule reappears, along with the card inside…" True to her word, a sarcophagus- shaped hole in the ground appeared, quickly followed by the capsule. It opened up, the card went into Desiree's hand, and it shattered. "I'll just save this for next turn…as for now, I play the spell card Graceful Charity, in order to draw three cards and discard two…" And she did so. "I then play my third 3 wishes…and use its effect, along with both the others, to destroy your annoying-at-best Hero Kids!" The genie spread his arms out…one Hero Kid turned into a cactus, one turned into a shovel, and one turned into a banana! Then, the random assortment of objects shattered. "I end my turn," said Desiree.
"Jaden is in a whole bunch of trouble," said Tucker, who was nibbling on his fingernails as Jaden drew his next card.
"Yeah…" said Alexis. "If he doesn't get something good on this draw, he's dead…and so is Bastion…"
"Just great!" shouted Chazz. "If he loses, everyone dies. If he wins, he gets all the glory. IT'S NOT FAIR!"
"My Card of Sanctity! Good thing I added it to my deck! Now we each draw until we have six cards!" And they did so. "Sweet!" shouted Jaden. "I'll throw down a facedown and cast Monster Reborn, to revive one monster from the graveyard: Winged Kuriboh!"
"Mew!" sang the ball of fluff, reappearing.
"Hah! You think I don't know that thing's effect? When it's destroyed ,you don't take Battle Damage for the rest of the round!" Desiree drew a card. She looked at it, smiled for a second, and then put it in her Duel Disk. "I'll play the spell card Mystical Space Typhoon, allowing me to destroy a spell or trap…like your facedown Transcendent Wings!"
"Lucky guess," said Jaden, even as it was destroyed by a typhoon of wind and lightning.
Desiree continued. "Then I use all 3 Wishes cards to raise my genie's attack by 500 for each one…" The genie rose to 3300. "Then, I will play the spell card I searched for when I used my Different Dimension Capsule: Magical Mayhem- Genie's Freedom!" With that, the genie slowly retreated into his lamp, which began to glow with magical energy…shortly after he was completely inside it, the lamp began to crack!
"Oh no!" said Sam.
"What's wrong?" said Jazz.
"I'll tell you what's wrong," Atticus said, "The Magical Mayhem cards are extremely powerful, rare, and deadly. Genie's Freedom is one of the most."
As if these words were some kind of cue, the lamp burst open instantly as Atticus said those words. La Jinn appeared again, growing taller, broader, and more muscular…even though the arena was well lit, shadows seemed to alight upon his body, which had somehow grown legs. "This is the truest form of my fiend, La Jinn the Mystical Genie! (/3000) Although his defense points are always 3000, his attack points are equal to the combined attack points of the monsters used to summon him…and I can only summon him by playing Magical Mayhem- Genie's Freedom and sacrificing one La Jinn and one Ancient Lamp on the field. And at the time, their total points were 4200! (4200/3000)"
"That's way too much!" shouted Syrus, standing up in his seat.
"There's no way Jaden's gonna be able to beat that!" said Chazz.
"He will beat it!" Jazz snapped. Then, looking back, she mumbled, "He has to…"
"You know, young man, the reason I chose a Genie's Freedom deck is because that's exactly what I'm after. Freedom. After long years of my magic only being usable to serve mere mortals, I will truly be able to unleash my true cosmic powers upon the world, just as La Jinn's true might has been unleashed!"
"Um, that's great and all, but…"
"Don't interrupt, boy!" Desiree snapped. She was obviously in the middle of a rant. "The only thing I have to do to regain my freedom is bring back a soul. The more powerful, the better. Best if it is won in a duel. But I don't care about any of that. The master said I needed a soul, not a powerful one, then he would wish me free. I do not know why souls won in duels are best, though. Only the master knows."
"The master? Who is the master?" asked Jaden.
"I do not know that, either. But you need not concern yourself with that, considering you're going to be a boy toy within the next few turns! La Jinn, attack his pathetic mud-dweller with Cosmic Clash!" As Desiree finished, the genie put his hands together in one large fist, slowly moving them above his right shoulder. They separated slightly as there was a large, powerful, white glowing in between his hands, though the fingers were still touching. The energy eventually reached outside his hands, in a spherical shape, though they did not move apart anymore. Two smaller spheres appeared on either side of his hands, and started slowly moving around the large orb, causing it to look somewhat like an atom, or a planet with two moons. The chaotic genie brought the glow down slowly, the glow consuming Mudball Man…
The Amity Park Police Department reports the sound as being so loud, citizens' ears were ringing for hours, even though they could not actually hear the noise. Animals all over town seemed disgruntled and fearful for hours, covering their ears and attempting not to lose consciousness. It was to be assumed, then, that despite what was not heard, the attack made a noise.
Okay, I'm exaggerating. Sue me. What, you really thought Maximillion Pegasus was stupid enough to make a card with such disastrous results? Again, I mean…
The attack was pretty loud, though. It actually sent Jaden off his feat, even though it never struck him. When everyone got out from under their seats (except Danny Phantom, who stuck his intangible head out from under the floor), Mudball Man was gone. Absolutely vaporized. Then Jaden realized: Mudball Man's card had disappeared! "Mew!" went Winged Kuriboh, appearing and pointing up to the sky. Jaden looked up…to see a card slowly floating down…he grabbed it.
"Thanks, buddy," he said.
"Mew." And then it disappered. Well, its Duel Spirit disappeared back into its body…you get what I mean…
"Alright," said Jaden, putting Mudball Man in the graveyard, "My draw!" He looked down. "I'll place a card facedown and end my turn for…scratch that for a second. Why are your 3 Wishes cards still on the field? I thought they needed La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp to be here to stay around!"
"La Jinn the Mystical Genie is here," said Desiree, gesturing to the Mystical Genie.
"But not 'of the Lamp'." Said Jaden, having a good point.
"La Jinn has an effect. His name is treated as La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp at all times."
"Oh…" said Jaden. "I end my turn,"
"Good," said Desiree, drawing a card. "I place this card facedown," she said, the card she just drew appearing on the playing field. "I then use all three of my 3 Wishes to heal my life points…" and her life points rose all the way up to 4600! "And don't think your Kuriboh is worthy of my genie's real attack! Get rid of that little pest!"
The genie bent down, s slow, throaty chuckle emerging from where his mouth probably would be if we could see it through the shadows. He slowly bent down and flicked Kuriboh, who soared through the air for a couple feet before shattering. Jaden looked angry, even as Desiree smirked, and said, "I end my turn."
Jaden slowly reached for his deck. –Well, you've helped Yugi Muto out a lot…so, Heart of the Cards…please guide my hand!- And Jaden drew. The entire school held its breath for the second time this week, as Jaden slowly lifted the card to eye level. "Okay, Desiree," Jaden said, finally getting the name right, "You've threatened my friend. You've threatened my town, and the rest of the world as well. You've endangered countless lives, and to top it all off, you've flicked my best friend Kuriboh away like he was some kind of worthless bug! That's the last straw! I'm going to stop you from hurting anyone else! The Elemental Heroes will make sure of that!"
"And just what are you going to do, little boy?" asked Desiree. "Your heroes have all been vanquished! All but two or three, anyway, and none of them are exactly useful in this situation!"
"Maybe not alone," said Jaden, grabbing a card from his hand. "But together…well, that's another story. I cast Monster Reincarnation! Now, by discarding a card from my hand, I can bring a monster back to my hand! And the monster I choose is Elemental Hero Burstinatrix!" And he did both things he'd just said. "Oh, and the card I discarded was Elemental Hero Necroshade, and when he's sent to the graveyard, I get to summon an Elemental Hero from my deck! So come on out, Elemental Hero Avian! (1000/1000)"
"You put that thing in attack mode? You're going to lose!" said Desiree.
"Not quite. I cast Polymerization to fuse my Burstinatrix with my Avian in order to summon my Elemental Hero Flame Wingman! (2100/1200) Then, I'll play the field spell Skyscraper!" From the ground suddenly burst up at least a dozen tall buildings, each with one having a giant needle on top of it, which Flame Wingman alighted upon. "The Elemental Heroes will do anything to protect the city they love! So when they attack a monster whose attack points are higher, my Heroes gain 1000 attack points!"
"Fine, you'll barely avoid getting crushed when you attack my genie. So what?"
"So I play this: Miracle Kids!" Jaden shouted, his facedown trap revealing itself. "Now, one of your monsters loses 400 attack points for every Hero Kid in my graveyard!" Suddenly, even as Desiree drew back in horror, the spirits of the three brave warrior-children flew out of Jaden's graveyard, and through the genie, reducing his points to 3000 even! "Now, even though Flame Wingman has a Superpower that lets him deal damage to you equal to a monster's attack points, that won't finish you off. Still, he can destroy that genie of yours, which is probably the focal point of your strategy. So go! Attack with Skydive Scorcher!"
Elemental Hero Flame Wingman leapt into the air, twirling once before heading into a deep dive…straight towards La Jinn! Flames surrounded him as his attack points skyrocketed to 3100! But then: "I activate my facedown card: Mirror Force! Now your attack is negated and all your monsters in attack mode are destroyed!" Indeed, the wall of light that sprung up sent Flame Wingman flying into the air, his own flame consuming him.
"It appears you've just been beaten," said Desiree. "I mean, your monster was just destroyed, you've nothing to protect yourself with…give up now, so you don't have to face my genie's direct attack!"
"This isn't over, Miss Enchantress!" Jaden shouted, holding up the last card in his hand. "It's not over until the last card is played!"
"So play your silly card! I doubt you can conjure up a miracle twice in a row!"
"Actually, that's exactly what I'm conjuring up…a miracle!" Jaden said, flipping the card around. "Miracle Fusion, that is!" Desiree gasped, apparently knowing what the card was. "Miracle Fusion lets me fuse creatures in my grave and on the field, so long as they are Elemental Heroes and are removed from play afterwards. So I'll remove Elemental Hero Flame Wingman and Elemental Hero Sparkman in order to create Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman! (2500/2100)"
"No…"said Desiree, almost silently.
"And guess what? Shining Flare Wingman gets a 300 point boost for every Elemental Hero in my graveyard! So, let's count! Clayman, Bladedge, Bubbleman, Burstinatrix, Steam Healer, Mudball Man, Necroshade, and Avian! 300 times 8 equals 2400…plus 2500 equals 4900!"
"No!" Desiree said, drawing back.
"Oh, and by the way, the name's Jaden Yuki, genie-girl, and don't you forget it!"
-Jaden Yuki? Of course!- Desiree thoguht, her eye that wasn't hidden behind hair widening.
"Oh, and did I forget to mention my Wingman has the same effect as is his non-electric counterpart? So all 4900 of his attack points are aimed straight at you, even after counting out the genie! Attack with Seraphim Shine!"
Instead of flying up into the air like usual, Shining Flare Wingman spread his arms, everything below the elbows pointed up, above his shoulders. Out of his chest, a massive light started shining, the force and purity behind it affecting La Jinn before it even touched him.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!" shouted Desiree, as the light ripped through La Jinn the Mystical Genie…then through the three 3 Wishes cards…then through the force field (at the top)…then through her, reducing her life points to negative 300 (even though technically the reading was 0). The force hit her so hard, in fact, that she was "ripped" into ectoplasmic shreds, which quickly vaporized!
But the light didn't stop there. It continued on and on, harming not one innocent soul (except their eyes, which were slightly blinded), but purging every trace of the evil magic from the Academy, including Bastion's force field, which of course meant he fell to the ground.
There was a short silence before everyone started to cheer. Well, almost everyone. Bastion was too busy saying "Thank you!" over and over again hysterically while hugging Jaden, Crowler was too busy peeking out of his hiding spot, and Danny Phantom had gone invisible and/or intangible.
Suddenly, Danny Fenton burst in through the door. "I fainted! What'd I miss?"
Everyone was too busy celebrating to realize: if Danny had fainted, he couldn't have gotten outside, even if someone had tried to carry him out.
"Oh, not much, just the near destruction and salvation of our school!" Tucker shouted. "But don't worry, I got it on tape for you," he lied.
"Thanks," said Danny.
Looking over at Jaden, who was on the shoulders of a massive crowd, he silently contemplated. –How come Jaden and I were the only ones who could see that Kuriboh?- He smiled, contemplating the weird turn his life had taken over these past few years. –I get the feeling I'll be learning about more than dueling this year…-
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Desiree reformed inside the Ghost Zone. It was times like these that made her glad she couldn't die anymore. –Although when the Master gets hold of me, I may wish I could…- As if on cue, Behemoth, a red, four-armed monster came in, and set a small microphone-like device on the air in front of her. "Um…hello?" she asked, hoping that the voice guaranteed to come out of that mike would somehow not respond.
"Did you bring me a soul?" asked the Master.
"I…no, sir. I did not," she said, reluctantly.
"I see," he said. "Well, that's a pity. Well ,you have 30 seconds to talk your way out of Behemoth eating you."
Desiree glanced up. Unlike most killer beast henchmen with bulging muscles, this one had a brain, and it had understood the Master completely. It was grinning.
Desiree quickly started speaking. After all, if you went inside Behemoth, you didn't come back, immortal or not. "It's not my fault, sir! I was up against Jaden Yuki!"
There was a long silence. Longer than 30 seconds. Desiree hoped this meant that she wasn't going to be eaten. "Fine," said the Master, finally. "You have regained your afterlife. However, you have lost my trust. It will be a long time before you go out to get any souls, and a longer time before you regain your freedom. Behemoth, come back."
And so the monster picked up the microphone and floated off, leaving Desiree alone to stew in her defeat.
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Ancient LampType: Spellcaster/ Effect
Attribute: Wind
Level: 3
Atk: 900
Def: 1400
Card Description: A lamp with purple smoke coming out, strange runes written on the side.
When this face-down Defense Position card is attacked by your opponent's monster, you can make 1 opponent's monster (except the attacking monster) be attacked instead. While this card is face-up on the field, you can Special Summon 1"La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp"from your hand.
Note: This card was used by Kaiba several times in the anime and, though I'm not 100 percent sure, I'm 98 percent sure that it will be a real card in the near future. If you're reading this in the near future, greetings from the past!
3 Wishes
Type: Continuous Spell
Attribute:-
Level:-
Atk:-
Def:-
Card Description: A human, looking startled, holding a lamp. A genie is floating in the air, his tail attached to the spout of the lamp.
This card can only be played if there is a card with the name 'La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp' on your side of the field. If, at any time, there is not a 'La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp' on your side of the field, this card is destroyed. You cannot make any Normal Summons or Sets while this card in on the field. Once every one of your turns, you may activate 1 of this card's 3 effects.
Heal yourself 500 Life Points
Raise the attack of one 'La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp' by 500 points until the end of the turn.
Destroy one monster on your opponent's side of the field with less attack points than one of your cards named 'La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp'
Insurance
Type: Trap
Attribute:-
Level:-
Atk:-
Def:-
Card Description: A room with infrared lasers, something valuable on a pillow inside it
When you activate this card, return one spell or trap card to your hand. Then, gain 500 life points for every 'Insurance' card in your hand.
Note: This card was originally used in the Yu-gi-oh! GX episode 'A Hassleberry Hounding'. All creative credit goes to the writers of that episode.
Elemental Hero Mudball Man
Type: Warrior
Attribute: Water OR Earth (I don't know, okay!)
Level: 6
Atk: 1900
Def: 3000
Card Description: Mudball Man crouching in Defense Mode.
Note: This card was originally used in the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX episode 'For the Sake of Syrus'. All creative credit goes to the writers of that episode.
Magical Mayhem- Genie's Freedom
Type: Normal Spell
Attribute:-
Level:-
Atk:-
Def:-
Card Description: The same human shown on the 3 Wishes card, holding a lamp that it was crackling with purple smoke and magical energy.
You can only activate this card when there is a card named 'La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp' and a card named 'Ancient Lamp' on the field. Sacrifice both those cards in order to Special Summon one 'La Jinn the Mystical Genie' to the field.
La Jinn the Mystical Genie
Type: Fiend/ Effect
Attribute: Dark
Level: 10 (Yes, 10!)
Atk: ?
Def: 3000
Card Description: La Jinn, towering high above a lot of buildings. A blimp is flyng near his head in the background.
This card cannot be Normal Summoned. This card can only be Special Summoned using the card 'Magical Mayhem- Genie's Freedom'. This card's attack is equal to the combined attack of the cards used to Special Summon it. This card's name is treated as 'La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp'.
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Wow...that was long. Hope it turned out satisfying for all of you! By the way, this isthe first chapter in which none of the characters used Pot of Greed. Seriously. I dare you to find one. Also, I wasn't entirely sure about the Insurance card's episode. Please tell me if I'm wrong! I still think I'm forgetting something...oh well.
THIS SPACE NO LONGER FOR RENT. IT HAS BEEN PAID FOR BY EDITED 10-3-06: Edited 3 Wishes' effect, corrected a couple typos. Also, I put Jaden's facedown card appearing twice. I don't think anyone's noticed, but...
