Neb: I do not own Yugioh Duel Monsters, this is a fanfic about a Thunder Deck I was thinking about called the Ancient Storm. I hope you enjoy.
I am Dezugomi Muken, a fourteen year old boy who goes to school and plays card games. I have blue and black hair, green eyes, and pale skin. People call me Dezu for short. Before I came across Duel Monsters, my focus was soccer and studying the ancient myths of the Chimera. At first I was studying random Greek mythology, but I started focusing on that one creature. Some of my favorite novel and Manga writers would give this creature the odd abilities that didn't fit its lore to make the creature either unique or hard to kill. It didn't make sense to me and I would often complain about it. Then I came across Duel Monsters, and begun playing with polymerization. That was when those stories turned into my favorite stories. They gave me ideas for updating the fusion mechanic. I begun generating fake cards online that would assist in the update, and I sent them to the creator of the game.
Months have passed and I had received no response, perhaps I was ahead of myself. Perhaps the creator either had no time to read over my ideas, or maybe he receives too much mail from fans to even bother. I was surprised the following morning when I got a package back from Pegasus. He stated the card Ideas were good, but he had ideas of his own. He told me to enter this deck into a local card shop tournament. That he pulled strings with some of his employees that he had placed inside Kaiba Corp to make these legal cards. There was also a golden bracelet with an eye of Horus sticking out of it. I put the bracelet on and smile, that was nice of Pegasus to give me an Egyptian gift shop item.
So that's why I am here. I entered my local cardshop and started my first duel. It was a guy who was big, tanned, and muscular. Someone who you'd think focus on sports like I once did. Maybe the game called out to him as well.
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"I'll stat things off," the Muscular man yelled. "I summon Dark Blade in attack mode! Then I equip my Black Pendant to him! Now that I have a twenty three hundred monster on the field I set two cards face down and pass."
"You've used up your hand so early," Dezu pointed out.
"Shut up and play," the big man growled.
"The back row will be annoying," Dezu figured. "I should start with one monster like he did and bait out his possible trap cards." Dezu smiled as he drew his card. "I Summon the Ancient Storm, Tes!" A woman with white long hair sitting on cloud carrying a lightning bolt appeared.
"Never seen that card before," the big man admitted. "What does it do?"
"I will show you," Dezu grinned. "Her first ability is to add a Polymerization to my hand! Her second ability will come when she is used as material! I fuse my Ancient Storm, Tes with my Mystical Sheep! They become Ancient Storm Goat Lady!" The woman with white long hair on the cloud was now flying, covered with electrical energy and had goat horns. The Goat Lady had 2400 attack and 1700 defense "When Ancient Storm, Tes is used as material for a fusion summon, the fusion summoned monster gains the ability to attack twice! That is stacked on her own ability that when she attacks I can target a face down card my opponent controls and send it to the graveyard!"
"What?", the muscular man responded with fear. "Where did you get such a strong monster?"
"This is the Ancient Storm!" The Dezu grinned as he declared his attack. "Attack his Dark Blade and send his left face down card to his graveyard!"
"You fool," The Muscular man laughed. "I activate Negate Attack! I end your battle phase and save one of my back-row face down cards!"
"What?", Dezu responded in shock. "How could this be?"
"Hahahaha!"
"Shut up! I place a card face down and end my turn."
"I better take care of that obnoxious monster! I activate the card you tried to get rid of Tiki Soul! This trap card can become a level four, rock, light monster with 1000 attack and 1800 defense! Then I shall tribute it for my Kiryu! Kiryu has an ability that allows itself to equip to my Dark Blade! While equipped my Dark Blade with gain 900 attack! Now that he has black pendant and Kiryu equipped to himself, my Dark Blade is now a thirty-two hundred attack power monster! I must admit, your fusion monster caught me off guard, but now I am the true victor! Dark Blade, attack his pathetic monster!"
The first blood had been drawn. Dezu's Goat lady was destroyed and he went down from eight thousand life points to seven thousand two hundred. If Seto Kaiba hadn't changed the rules from life points being four thousand to eight thousand, Dezu would be in far more trouble. Luckily this game was far from finished.
"I draw for turn," Dezu yelled. "I activate Fusion Reserve! By revealing a fusion monster from my fusion deck I can grab one of the materials listed from my deck! I reveal Ancient Storm Dragon Man! With that I can grab my Ancient Storm Hurican from my deck. A man with short blue hair and a golden cuff on his right arm that was similar to Dezu's bracelet was added to his hand. It also allows me to take my Polymerization back from my graveyard!"
"What?!"
"Now I activate my Polymerzation fusing two of my Ancient Storm monsters from my hand! I saved these monsters because they have particular abilities that work great paired together. My Ancient Storm Hurican can change type as a fusion material from a Thunder to a Dragon! My other monster, Ancient Storm Cyclonis, can banish up to two Ancient Storm monsters from my graveyard and allow me to draw up to the amount of monsters I banished when he is used as fusion material." Cyclonis looked like a man with red spiky hair, purple eyes, and tanned skin. He had a tornado follow him within the picture
"He's regained hand advantage," the muscular man shook.
"Behold, Ancient Storm Dragon Man! A man with a human body and a blue dragon head and blue dragon wings appeared. It had twenty six hundred attack and one thousand defense "That's not all."
"There is more!"
"Of course, My Ancient Storms give their fusion monsters abilities when they are fused into them. Hurican gives my fusion the ability to be immune to battle destruction and Cyclonis gives him an extra one thousand attack!"
"That makes him a thirty eight hundred beater who can't be destroyed by battle! Please have mercy."
"My fusion monster has it's own ability as well," Dezu smiled. "He can bring back a banished Ancient Storm Fusion Monster to the field!"
"What?!"
"Come back my Ancient Storm Goat Lady! Unfortunately you are out of face downs and she no longer holds her ability to attack twice. Still, her being a twenty four hundred monster helps."
"I can't believe this brat is beating me!"
"Ancient Storm Dragon Man attack his Dark Blade!"
"My Kiryu will be destroyed instead," the muscular man pointed out. "Saving my Dark Blade!" His life points went down six hundred from the attack.
"Dark Blade is now only powered by the black pendant meaning my Goat Lady can attack over him!"
The man lost his Dark Blade and took another one hundred points of damage. "My Black Pendant has an ability as well! When it is sent to the graveyard you take five hundred points of damage!"
"Chip damage," Dezu sighed. His life points went to six thousand seven hundred life points. The muscular man however was at seven thousand three hundred life points. Dezu had the field and hand advantage, but life point advantage belonged to the muscular man.
"Is it my move you pathetic brat?"
"I end my turn," Dezu decided.
"Good," the man grinned. "He drew his card and then grinned. I discard one card to special summon my Dark Grepher!" He discarded his Dark Armed Dragon. "Don't worry though, I have a second Dark Armed Dragon here in my hand!"
"What?!", Dezu yelled.
"I Special Summon my Dark Armed Dragon, because I have exactly three Dark Monsters in the graveyard! Unfortunately I am out of cards in my hand, I can't use my Dark Grepher's ability like I originally planned. However, My Dark Armed Dragon has the power to crush your monsters anyway! I banish a dark monster to activate my Dark Armed Dragon's ability! Destroy his Ancient Storm Dragon Man! Then I use that ability a second time to destroy your Ancient Storm Goat Lady!"
Dezu grunted as he saw his monsters crushed before him.
"Now attack directly my Dark Armed Dragon!"
Dezu took twenty eight hundred damage. Then the Dark Grepher attacked causing him to lose another seventeen hundred life points. That was forty five hundred damage in total, meaning he went from six thousand seven hundred life points to twenty two hundred life points.
"What a one sided duel! I can't believe this idiot think he could ever beat me! Go ahead with your last pathetic turn."
"I draw," Dezu responded. He wasn't going to lose to this cocky bastard. He had plenty of cards in hand and still a good chunk of life points. The only problem was, the muscle man's ability to reclaim field advantage was unfortunately good. He had to do at least seven thousand and three hundred damage this turn or else the muscle man will finish him off with another ridiculous card. The plus side was that the man was out of cards in hand and had no back row cards. That meant the only threats were the two monsters in front of Dezu. Dezu looked at the card he drew and smiled. It was his Ace monster, Ancient Storm Diabolos. A man with black hair and red markings painted all over his body. He was a level five monster with two thousand attack. That wasn't what made him impressive however. He has the ability to banish Ancient Storm Monsters in the graveyard as extra material for a fusion summon using himself as material. Unlike the others he doesn't give the fusion monster that uses him as material any extra abilities, but that didn't matter, because the other Ancient Storm in Dezu's hand was another Ancient Storm, Tes. "I play Ancient Storm Tes!"
"Another one! Ah who cares, grab your polymerization."
"Actually her effect doesn't just give me Polymerization," Dezu pointed out. "I can grab a card that lists Polymerization within it's name."
"I see," the muscular man smiled. "It doesn't matter, because no monster you bring out will kill me, an I can assure you. You will be doomed on your next turn!"
"So confident," Dezu growled under his breath as the bracelet with the eye of Horus on his right arm glowed. A golden eye formed on Dezu's forehead as he pulled out his Greater Polymerization. "It's time to end this! I fuse together my Ancient Storm Chimera with Greater Polymerization! He fused his Ancient Storm Tes, his Ancient Storm Diabolos, his Ancient Storm Hurican, and his Ancient Storm Cyclonis into a fusion monster that could only be summoned with up to four Ancient Storm Monsters with different names, Ancient Storm Chimera. The Beast was a mix of a goat, A dragon, a lion, and serpent. "My monster gains the effects of three of my Ancient Storms and my Greater Polymerization! My Greater Polymerization gives it the immunity to card effect destruction and gives it piercing! My Ancient Storm Tes gives it the ability to attack twice, the Ancient Storm Hurican gives it immunity to battle destruction, and the Ancient Storm Cyclonis gives it plus one thousand attack!"
"Wait, b-but it's orginal attack is four thousand!" It was true that the thunder monster originally had four thousand attack and four thousand defense. With the boost from Cyclonis it was now a five thousand attack monster who could attack twice. "N-no this isn't fair, I didn't understand your deck! I would have saved my negate attack for this had I known."
"My Goat Lady would have sent it to the grave yard," Dezu shrugged. "I'm sorry, but it's over. My Chimera attacks your Dark Armed Dragon!" that was twenty two hundred damage. Then it attacks Dark Grepher that was thirty three hundred damage."
"That's only fifty-five hundred damage," the muscle man pointed out. "I could still... I can't do it."
"What do you mean? Your recovery has been pretty good so far."
"If I draw my dark hole, your monster will be immune to it," the man sighed. "I've got nothing that can stand up to it attackwise, and I don't have any cards that banish or bounce your monster. I'll have to give up and restructure my deck."
"You can't give up," Dezu responded. "Things were getting good!"
"I'm sorry I was being harsh," the man smiled. "My name is Gozen and I work for Pegasus."
"Pegasus?"
"He wanted me to face you in a duel to test your decks ability, and I have to say I think you have what it takes. Pegasus has a mission for you to challenge Seto Kaiba."
"H-how can I beat him?"
"The deck and the Millennium Bracelet should do it. Kaiba is obsessed with fighting an ancient pharaoh. If he sees that bracelet, he'll want to duel you."
"That doesn't make any sense," Dezu responded.
"That's what I said to Pegasus," Gozen smiled. "He was insistent though."
"What does Pegasus get out of me beating Kaiba?"
"That doesn't matter. You owe him for the deck and the bracelet!"
"Alright! Fair enough..." Deku looked down and then nodded. "Fine, I'll find a way to beat the guy."
"Please use the cards Pegasus gave you," Gozen nodded. "I mean his extra additions. The Ancient Storms are the cards you came up with, and I know he gave you more then that. Add Pegaus's engine and you are sure to beat Kaiba."
