Chapter 2: Rau Makes a Stand

Rau looked at his opening hand and smiled at one of his custom cards, but wanted to save it for later. He chose another and put it on his duel disk, "I summon 'Proto-Cyber Dragon' (1100-600) in attack mode." Rau's metallic dragon appeared on his side of the field. "Then I'll end by playing one card face down." The back of the card appeared behind Proto-Cyber Dragon as Rau ended his turn.

Drake drew and sneered evilly, "I will emerge victorious because I now summon my 'Daemon Devil' (1200-1000) in attack mode." A black demon appeared on the field, with two black wings and a devils looking face. "Now I'll lay down two cards face down." Drake said as he put the cards into the duel disk and as the images appeared behind his fiend. "Now, Daemon Devil, attack his Proto-Cyber Dragon!" The demon leapt forward ready to slay the machine.

"Hang on, I activate my 'Attack Reflector Unit' trap card." Rau's face down card flipped up, and Proto-Cyber Dragon evolved into Cyber Barrier Dragon, which looked like Cyber Dragon but with a new piece of head gear. "This evolves my Proto-Cyber Dragon, which is also named Cyber Dragon as long as it's face up on my field, into 'Cyber Barrier Dragon' (800-2800) in attack mode."

"Thanks for putting him in attack mode, now you'll take even more damage than you would have without him!" Drake said cockily. His Devil continued the assault.

"I put him in attack mode for a reason, because once per turn, if he's in attack mode, I can negate one of your attacks." Sure enough, Barrier Dragon began to glow a slight green as Daemon Devil stopped in its tracks and returned to Drake's side of the field.

"Fine, you just got lucky, so I'll play one card face down. Make your move!" Drake said in an annoyed tone of voice.

Rau drew and smiled at his card, "Now I activate a new card. It's called 'Blood Notebook'." An odd looking notebook appeared on Rau's field. "For every interval of 4 stars that your devil has, I can summon a 'Blood Token' (0/0), which means I get a Blood Token." A blood drop fell out of the note book and turned in a big blob. "Now, I sacrifice it for my 'Cyber Dragon' (2100-1600) in attack mode. You remember my dragon right?" Rau's metallic dragon appeared behind him from underneath the ground and roared loudly. "Now I attack your devil with my Cyber Dragon, strident blast!"

Just when Rau's monster's attack was about to hit, a tazer beam came out of no where and blocked the attack. "Nice try, but I activated my 'Tazer Gun' trap card which negates one of your attacks. Anything else you want to do." Drake said.

"As a matter of fact there is, I'll place one card face down and end my turn." Rau said as his card appeared on his side of the field. 'Now if he tries to special summon, it'll be pointless.' Rau thought to himself.

Drake drew and frowned at what he had gotten, 'It's not great but it'll have to do.' Then he played the card down and said, "I summon 'Death Cretin' (1600/1700) in defense mode, and switch my demon to defense mode." Both of Drake's monsters knelt down and crossed their arms in front of each other. "I'll end my turn by playing two cards face down." Drake's cards appeared before him.

Rau drew and smiled, he knew he had the upper hand now, "Time to meet a new Cyber Dragon, I sacrifice my Barrier Dragon in order to summon 'Cyber Blast Dragon' (2500/2200)." The new dragon looked like a supped up version of Cyber Dragon, and its tail was a big hole the size of a cannon ball, and it looked like it could blow through anything. "Now, I attack your Daemon Devil with Cyber Blast Dragon, blast cannon!"

Rau's dragon powered up energy in its tail cannon and fired a massive energy ball which hit the devil, and then the devil shattered into pixels. Then Drake's life points lowered down to 3000. "Hey, what's up with that, my monster was in defense mode so I shouldn't have lost any life points at all!" Drake practically yelled.

"Oh, it's my Blast Dragon's special ability, whenever it sends a monster to the graveyard, you lose 1000 life points. Now I'll attack your Death Cretin with my Cyber Dragon!"

The Death Cretin was obliterated by the strident blast from Rau's Cyber Dragon. "Thanks because when you send my Death Cretin to the graveyard, I can special summon my 'Death Lunger' (2700/1200) from my hand to the field in attack mode!" Drake's newest monster appeared before him, but then shattered. "What the…" Drake started to say.

"You won't be summoning anything soon." Rau said as his face down card flipped face up, revealing a dark horn with black wings on it. "I activate my 'Horn of Darkness' which activates when you special summon a monster, the monster is destroyed. So what will you do now, Drake?" Rau said.

Drake: 3000Rau: 4000

"Simple, summon another strong fiend to take you out with, first I activate my 'Cost Down' magic card, and by discarding one card from my hand to the graveyard, all my monster's are lowered in level by 2 stars. Now I summon 'The End of Anubis' (2500/0) in attack mode." A weird looking purple creature appeared out of the shadows. "Now I'll attack your Cyber Dragon with my End of Anubis!" The purple creature shot forward a ball of dark energy as Rau's metallic dragon roared in pain before shattering. "With one card face down, I'll end my turn! Looks as if I made this an even contest." Drake said as Rau's life points took a hit.

Drake: 3000Rau: 3600

"Not really Drake!" Rau retorted as he drew another card from his deck. "I now activate the magic of 'Polymerization' to fuse together the two Cyber Dragons in my hand to create the 'Cyber Twin Dragon' (2800/2100) in attack mode." A cyber dragon emerged from the vortex, except it had two heads and two tails. "Now, I attack your End of Anubis now with my Twin Dragon!" One of the two dragon heads shot a beam of energy which destroyed End of Anubis as Drake life points lowered yet again to 2700. "To top it off, my dragon can attack twice during the same battle phase which means I'll be ending this duel, RIGHT NOW!" Rau pumped his fist forward as the second head shot a beam of energy forward.

The energy was about to hit its target when 4 sheep appeared out of no where to intercept the attack. "Or you would've had I not activated my 'Scapegoat' magic card. Is it my turn?" Drake asked impatiently.

"Not yet," Replied Rau as two cards appeared before him, "I place two cards face down. Now you can go." Rau answered back to Drake.

Drake drew another card, "I summon my 'Gila Monster' (1600/1000) and now I'll activate my 'Tribute Doll' magic card. This card tributes my monster so that I can summon a level 7 monster from my hand, so now I'll summon my second 'Death Lunger' in attack mode." Drake's familiar Death Lunger appeared on the field. "Next I'll play the magic of 'Trap Booster' which, at the cost of one card in my hand," Drake discards one card from his hand to the graveyard, "Now I activate the trap card 'Demonic Wave' which powers up all of my fiends by 700 attack points." An energy beam transferred itself from the Demonic Wave trap card to the Death Lunger as its attack rose to 3400 attack points. "Now, I attack your Twin Dragon with my Death Lunger! Lunger Slash!"

Death Lunger dashed forward about to slash away at the Cyber Twin Dragon when the dragon split apart as the Lunger went in between the two dragons in it's place. "In case you're wondering, I activated my 'De-Fusion' magic card just in the nick of time." Rau said.

"Well fine, I play a card face down, then I have to end my turn because of my card-less hand." Drake said as he showed that he indeed had no more options for this turn.

Rau drew his card and looked over his options before saying, "I activate my 'Pot of Greed' drawing two more cards." Rau drew and smiled. "Now I sacrifice my two Cyber Dragons for one I'm sure you've never seen before. I summon my 'Cyber Slash Dragon' (1000/1000) in attack mode." Rau's new dragon looked like Cyber Dragon but it had many pointy objects coming out of its sides, all along its body, it looked more ragged and sharp, and it was much larger than the original Cyber Dragon. "I'll end my turn with two cards face down." Rau said as his face down cards appeared before him.

"You are going to leave your monster in attack mode with only 1000 attack points, bad mistake." Drake said as he drew one card, making his hand total one. He looked at the card before erupting into laughter. "I will now show you one of my rarest cards, I remove three fiend type monsters from play…" The cards were spat out of his duel disk as he placed them in his pocket. "Now I can summon the almighty 'Dark Necrofear' (2200/2800)-(2900/2800) in attack mode!" Drake's new monster looked like a purple woman holding a doll in its arms, surrounded by an eerie purple aura. "Now, my Dark Necrofear will attack your Cyber Slash Dragon!" Dark Necrofear went flying towards the dragon as it was about to punch a hole through it. However, right before the Dark Necrofear was about to hit the dragon, it was blown apart to tiny pixels as Drake's life points reduced to a total of 2100. "Why did THAT happen?" Drake questioned.

"Simple, when my Dragon fights a stronger monster, it gains 2500 attack points putting it at 3500." Just then a silver spirit flew around the battle field and took control of the Slash Dragon, and then the dragon went over to Rau's side of the field. "Ok, now it's your turn to explain." Rau said.

"Simple really, it's Dark Necrofear's special ability. Whenever it is destroyed as a result of battle, I gain control of one monster on your side of the field, but you only have one so it wasn't hard to chose who I wanted. Now I attack you directly with your Slash Dragon!"

"Not before I activate my face down 'Enchanted Javelin' trap card, now I gain its attack points in life points." Rau's life points rose to 4600, but then dropped again to its original 3600.

"Now I'll attack you directly with my Death Lunger, lunging slash attack now!" Drake's lunger flew forward and slash Rau across his chest as Rau kneeled down in pain as his life points went down to a mere 200. "I'll end my turn now!" Drake said confidently.

Drake: 2100Rau: 200

Rau drew, now having four cards in his hand and said, "I'll activate another Pot of Greed and my face down 'Jar of Greed." Rau said as he drew three new cards. "Now, my final Pot of Greed." Rau said as he once again drew two new cards to add to his growing hand. "Now 'Monster Reborn' revives my Proto Cyber Dragon in attack mode." The familiar grey dragon appeared in attack mode. 'Yes, I have the cards I need to make this a run away defeat. "Now to end this duel, I play 'Power Bond' and fuse that Proto Cyber Dragon with the other two in my hand to create the almighty 'Cyber End Dragon' (4000/2800) in attack mode!" A mechanical dragon arose from the ground that had three head and two magnificent wings. "Now Power Bond doubles my monster's attack strength. (4000/2800)-(8000/2800) Now I'll activate three cards, all of them being 'Limiter Removal'! Each one doubles my machines attack points! (8000/2800)-(16000/2800)-(32000/2800)-(64000/2800) Maybe now you'll see that I belong here." Rau said.

"Maybe, but then again, maybe not, because I play the quick-play spell card 'Battle Fusion' which adds your monster's attack points to my monster's attack points. Now counter attack Death Lunger!" (3400/1200)-(67400/1200)

"I thought you might do that because of that hidden face down, but I have another card too, my own 'Battle Fusion' and I believe you know it's effect. (64000/2800)-(131400/2800) I'm sorry, but I can't lose, I have to show you that I belong here, now Cyber End Dragon, attack and obliterate his Death Lunger along with the rest of his life points!" 'Sorry Drake' Rau thought to himself.

The blast sent Drake flying to the end of the arena, he got up weak and bruised from the massive attack and said weakly, "Ok, you win this round kid, good job, you're better than I thought." Drake said before walking off the stage and out of the arena.

Rau turned around and left the dueling arena feeling extremely proud of himself, however he had no idea that he was being watched through a secret camera on the ceiling.

Watching the duel was none other than former Kaiser of the academy, Zane Truesdale. 'Hm, that kid's got talent using those Cyber Dragons, lets see hoe he does against me though.