You're probably wondering why I'm not bothering going into detail what my parent's did.
Are you thinking I'm just some whiny brat? But fine, I'll tell you, the reader, since technically, from each other's perspective, we don't exist and these words lack consequence.
Mastering the forbidden arts is a very difficult thing, only crazy dangerous criminals or bookworms manage it most of the time. So, since I'm not going to be a crime boss, I had to study. A lot. Doesn't sound cruel yet, but it will in the paragraph below.
When I don't make enough progress. I don't get to sit at the dinner table. And obviously I don't get any other kind of food that whole day. Of course, my sister is a prodigy progressing at an unnatural rate, and I am not. The fact that I can use Sixth Sense and Cyber Jar, required a lot of sleepless knights and getting past the guardians just so that I don't starve (yes, I failed this often at not matching up to Pikeru's Insane power, I wonder how many she can do now, the last time she managed Last Will, Card of Safe Return, Giant Trunade, Graceful Charity and Time Seal) and then getting whipped, because I get caught after eating a bite anyway. And Pikeru heals me so that nobody sees my scars.
I swear, that bitch got my mum's and dad's psychopathy if she can do that without thinking that anything's wrong.
Obviously these five will just think that I am exaggerating, even though the gambler was about to gun me. They will think that my mom was so worried about me that she had no chance to consider whether she was hiring madmen to find me.
She definetly didn't consider, but only because she didn't want to put up more than the minimum effort above „succeed or... whatever, don't care if you croak or sumfin"
„You know. It would be far easier to believe you if you told us literally one detail.", Hit says.
„I know from experience that wouldn't be enough. And no, that experience was not with Clear Wing Synchro Dragon and Starve Venom Fusion Dragon, I didn't to talk with them about that detail."
It was Ryu-Ran, Gem Turtle, Amorphage Envy, Golem Dragon and yes, even Supply was doubting me, though he gave me part of the food for not making me look like the next card of the Skull Servant archetype.
It is then pretty silent until we arrive at our destination and I am already cursing myself for doing what I'm certain is going to essentially end in me giving up all of my progress at escaping.
I should have gone to the creepy mountain with the dragons, I should.
And I am immediately discovered by Genex Blastfan, who for some reason is a spellcaster rather than a machine.
„I-I never expected you to return on your own, this is incredible news!", he yells.
„Now it's just waiting time.", I say, „Let them fetch someone to fetch us, the way to their ‚abode' is not that long, but let them waste at least a little bit of effort to get me."
„Is it silly that I am worried about the lack of cursing?", Ace wonders.
„I don't think so, but we'll have to pull through with this plan now that we've returned here.", Pipsqueak answers.
We actually do get a Pumpkin Carriage pretty quickly. Time to brace myself. Oh god, why did I have to turn INSANE!?
Mom and Dad are present, sadly, alongside the servants on mine and Pikeru's cards.
They of course fake being concerned about me and I will not write down those cringy quotes.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that Pikeru also was there.
Unfortunately they insist on talking with the friends I made first and tells me to reunite with Pikeru.
I am clammed up, hopefully my friends really are my friends and realize this is not out being overwhelmed with positive feelings.
Although they' still have to realize that I am not an ordinary spoiled ungrateful brat as well.
Dammit, why couldn't it be me with Mom and Dad and them with Pikeru, she would be stupid enough to spill every dirty secret.
„Seriously Curran, I didn't think you could survive one day outside, considering you're never allowed to leave the village!", she says with a cheerful smile.
„huh, well, fuck you.", I wish I could's forced something else out. Something worse.
„I knew swear words would be the first thing you'd learn out there!", she keeps that annoying smile.
„I didn't want to come back.", I mumble.
„Huh? Why not?", she wonders because she is stupid, „Oh, I have an idea! We duel, and if I win you have to stay!"
I don't really intend to follow my end of the bargain, but it will take weeks before I stop hating myself for being retarded enough to try THIS, to try THAT (leaving) again.
„*sigh*, let's get this over with."
Ebon Magician Curran (4000lp) vs White Magician Pikeru (4000lp)
„You go first.", I mumble.
Her cards, when she draws them are created from some ‚cute' little sparkly special effects.
„I summon, myself!", a clone of that *itch appears.
„I activate Trial Accel, I mill all of the original trials to summon Princess me! Then I Special Summon, Servant Sheep Ezekiel! I can do that after summoning a me, in case you forgot. I also get 3 more monsters mentioning me in their texts!"
Yeah, Pikeru gets stupidly broken stuff and this isn't even all of it.
„I choose Princess' Retainer Maibin, Hemmit the Advisor and Emsa the Double! I set 3 cards and end my turn. (DEF: 1400, 1200, 2000 and 0, respectively)"
She kinda narrated her moves in the wrong order, since Trial Accel still requires the original Pikeru to hit the grave. (Do I want the real-real Pikeru to do that? Nah, somehow I don't) and her sheeple servant has to be summoned only after the normal one. But the field stuff happened correctly so, whatevs.
„I normal summon myself and use rise to the trial to equip myself with any number of Trial of the Princess from my deck.", I mutter.
„I use Hemmit's effect, since I am at full LP, I get to negate and destroy one card per turn."
„I try Ties of the Brethren on myself. (Curran LP: 4000-3000)", what an ironic card, since my actual brethren is is an ignorant *itch.
„I activate Pikeru's Graces to negate your LP-paying effect and gain twice as many LP. (Pikeru LP: 4000-6000) Maibin then allows me to draw one card for every 500 I gained. Funny enough, four is the maximum in this scenario."
„I try Double Summon, but you will negate this one too."
„Actually no. I didn't draw any any hantraps.", she says.
„I summon another me and set 2 cards. Your move again."
„First of all, I gain the LP after drawing. Emmsa doubles the 4000 I would gain. (Pikeru LP: 6000-14000) And Maibin draws some more cards, but she only draws up to 4, sadly."
„My 2 mes would take 3000 of that now.", I say.
„I activate Chain Defilement, since 2 effects with the same name were used in a chain, both of those are negated. And the Curran's are destroyed."
„I try a Waboku to not die this turn."
„I use Solemn Scolding, for 3000 I can negate that card. (Pikeru LP: 14000-11000)"
„My last card was Rebound, You're probably not gonna bounce anything, I give up."
(Curran LP: 3000x0=0)
I'm weak and useless and stupid. If only I held out a little bit stronger, she would've drawn herself dead.
„Ah, why are you always like this?"
I run off to my old room, at least that I get to do. I of course have to stay in there and I say some rude words to my parents about having eaten enough in the past few days. Just put in swear words every second words and it will sound rude if you don't believe that could sound rude, but why wouldn't you? Obviously my friends have left me, I knew it would end up like this.
Time it took to make this: 110 days
Duel in the next chapter: Northwemko vs Hit, Pipsqueak and Ace
OC cards:
Trial Accel
Normal Spell
Effect: Treat the name of this card as „Trial of the Princesses" during activation. Send as many copies of „Trial of the Princesses" from your deck to the GY as possible (min. 1) and one „White Magician Pikeru" Special Summon one „Princess Pikeru" or „Princess Curran" from your deck, hand, GY or banished cards.
Servant Sheep Ezekiel
Level 3, Light, Beast-Warrior, Effect
ATK: 1000
DEF: 1400
Effect: This card gains the following effects whether or not you control „White Magician Pikeru" or „Ebon Magician Curran"
neither: Return this card from your hand to the bottom of your deck, to Special Summon 1 „White Magician Pikeru" from your hand or deck
-„White Magician Pikeru": If you just summoned „White Magician Pikeru", you can Special Summon this card from your hand/GY/banished cards, then Special Summon up to 3 monsters mentioning „Pikeru" in their card text. If you summoned monsters beside this card, you cannot use this effect again for the rest of the duel
-„Princess Pikeru": Your opponent cannot activate card effects in reaction to a „Pikeru" monster.
Princess' Retainer Maibin
Level 4, Light, Fairy, Effect
ATK: 800
DEF:1200
Effect: If you gain LP from the effect of a „Pikeru monster", you can draw one card for every 5
00 LP. (Max. 4) Your opponent cannot change LP gain effects into something else. You can change attacks and effects that would target a „Pikeru" monster to this card. If you would use a „Pikeru" monster as tribute or material, you can use this card instead.
Hemmit the Advisor
Level 5, Light, Spellcaster, Effect
ATK: 2100
DEF: 2000
Effect: If you have 4000 or more LP, you can negate one card effect per turn and destroy the card. If you have less than 4000 LP, you can add one card with an LP gaining effect to your hand per turn
Emsa the Double
Level 2, Light, Spellcaster, Tuner, Effect
ATK: 1200
DEF: 0
Effect: During your own turn, you gain twice as many LP from your LP gaining effects. During your opponent's turn, you take no damage if you gained LP this turn.
Rise to the Trial
Normal Spell
Effect: Equip one „Pikeru" or „Curran" monster you control with any number of „Trial of the Princesses" from your deck.
Pikeru's Graces
Counter Trap
Effect: negate one effect that requires LP to be paid and if you do, you gain twice that many LP.
Chain Defilement
Counter Trap
Effect: If the are multiple card effects with the same name in a chain, negate all those card effects and destroy the cards.
