Kimberly and Charles backed off a good distance from each other so that they could begin their duel, Maria sat down on a nearby bench in order to watch the duel and both duellists activated their duel disks.
"I must warn you milady." Charles said as the two duellists drew their opening hands. "My father outfitted my deck with the most powerful cards possible."
"Power means nothing if you don't have spell or trap cards to back them up." Kimberly pointed out with a smile.
"Ah yes, touché'." Charles admitted. "Since I'm a gentleman I'll say ladies first." Charles added and Kimberly drew her first card.
"Right, I start off by activated the Field Spell Card Pandemonium!" Kimberly played the card and the scenery changed to the hellish arena.
"Ah yes, you used Archfiends in your duel against that dreadful Madame Ruska." Charles remembered as he looked around the scenery. "I'm not the least bit surprised that you have this spell in your deck."
"I didn't even get to use the majority of my cards in that duel so don't get too ahead of yourself." Kimberly said picking up a card. "As far as monsters go I start things off by summoning Infernity Archfiend in attack mode!" Kimberly played the card and a demon with spiked up red hair and purple skin appeared on the field, he had a green gem on his forehead and was smartly dressed (4/1800/1200). "I set two cards facedown and end my turn." Kimberly played the cards and Charles drew his.
"That's a strong opening move, but with that said let's see how you handle this move!" Charles said picking up a card. "First I activate a Spell card of my own called Heart of the Underdog!" Charles played the card and smiled. "This card's effect won't come into effect until my next draw phase but in the meantime I'll summon a monster of my own, Beaked Snake in attack mode!" Charles played the card and a small green snake with a beak appeared on the field hissing at Kimberly (3/800/900).
"You're kidding, right?" Kimberly asked as a massive sweatdrop rolled down her head. "That thing's nowhere near as strong as my Archfiend." Kimberly added and Charles chuckled in amusement as he picked up two cards.
"What was it you said earlier about power being useless without Spell and Trap cards? I set two cards facedown and end my turn." The holograms of the two facedown cards appeared behind Beaked Snake and Kimberly drew her card.
"On one hand that monster's incredibly weak, on the other his facedown cards might be traps in anticipation of me attacking." Kimberly thought as she looked at her drawn card. "Then there's Heart of the Underdog, I don't even know what that card does but since he stated that it won't come into effect until his draw phase it obviously can't help Beaked Snake." Kimberly thought.
"Having a bit of trouble deciding what to do are we? Why don't I simplify it for you?" Charles asked as he activated one of his traps. "I activate the trap card Common Charity; this lets me draw two cards from my deck in exchange for removing from play one Normal Monster from my hand." Charles pocketed the monster and drew two cards.
"Well that's one mystery solved." Kimberly thought. "I sacrifice Infernity Archfiend to summon Lesser Fiend in attack mode!" Infernity Archfiend disappeared from the field and in its place stood a demon with two sets of arms and a dog's head, its body was muscular and it was wearing brown pants (5/2100/1000). "Lesser Fiend, attack Beaked Snake now!"
"Perfect." Charles thought as the fiend charged forward towards the snake, it grabbed the snake by its head and tore it in half.
C: 6700
K: 8000
"I activate my Trap Card Death and Rebirth which will..." Charles went to activate the trap but nothing happened. "What on Earth is going on, why isn't my trap activating?"
"Probably because any monster that Lesser Fiend destroys is removed from play rather than sent to the graveyard." Kimberly explained and Charles's eyes narrowed...before he chuckled.
"It seems I underestimated your intelligence, a mistake I won't be repeating." Charles said before folding his arms. "Are you done?" Kimberly looked at her hand and Charles drew. "Ah perfect, I drew a normal monster."
"And that helps you, how?" Kimberly asked...before doing a double take when she saw him draw again. "Hey, you've already drawn!"
"Oh yes, I forgot to explain Heart of the Underdog's effect didn't I?" Charles asked before smirking. "As long as it's on the field and I draw a normal monster during my draw phase I get to draw another card, if the new card is a normal monster as well I draw again, the process continues until I either run out of cards to draw or I draw a Spell, Trap or Effect monster."
"You run an Exodia deck, don't you?" Kimberly asked folding her arms with a smirk. "I mean that's two cards you've played that let you draw extra cards."
"Please, I don't dabble in Alternate Win strategies." Charles scoffed before looking at his drawn card. "A Spell Card but a useful card none the less, I activate the spell card Enchanting Fitting Room!" Charles played the card and too Kimberly's surprise his lifepoints dropped to 5900. "At the cost of 800 lifepoints I'm allowed to look at the next four cards in my deck and any Level 3 or lower normal monsters among them are immediately special summoned to the field." Charles picked up the cards and looked at them before picking up two. "My lucky day, I summon Dragon Zombie (3/1600/0) and Alinsection (3/950/700) both in defence mode." Charles played the cards and the two monsters appeared on the field. The first was a large purple, decaying dragon with a large mouth and the other was a small purple insect with nasty looking pinchers; both monsters knelt down almost as soon as they were summoned and Charles shuffled his deck.
"If bringing out two weaker monsters to face my monster is supposed to impress me then I'm sorry to disappoint you, but it doesn't." Kimberly said folding her arms.
"Remember the monster I drew first? It's a Level 7 monster with more than enough attack points to deal with Lesser Fiend." Charles chuckled as he picked up the card. "I sacrifice my two monsters to bring out Hronzanryu in attack mode!" The two monsters vanished and in the place of Dragon Zombie stood a massive slender dragon, it was silver in colour with a orange belly, had a horn in its nose and two additional horns on the top of its head (7/2100/2800).
"I don't know about you but you just sacrificed two monsters to bring out a monster with the same attack points as a monster that requires one sacrifice." Kimberly said folding her arms. "Not only is that a waste of your spell card but you're going to have to do better than that if you want to beat me."
"Funny you should mention that, I activate one of the cards I drew with Common Charity's effect, Shield and Sword!" Charles played the card and Kimberly's eyes narrowed. "Judging from the look on your face you are well aware of what this spell card does, am I correct?"
"Yeah, it swaps the attack and defence points around." Kimberly said as Lesser Fiend's attack dropped to 1000 whilst Hronzanryu's attack rose to 2800.
"Quite so, now Hrozanryu attack Lesser Fiend!" Charles commanded and the dragon took flight.
"I was hoping you'd do that." Kimberly said and Charles raised an eyebrow. "I activate my Trap Card Hate Buster!" The card flipped up and Charles blinked. "This trap can only be activated if a Fiend Type monster I control is selected as an attack target and as the name implies Lesser Fiend is such a monster."
"All right, what does it do?" Charles asked.
"What it does is destroys both monsters and inflicts damage to the opponent equal to the attacking monster's attack points." Charles's eyes widened as a chasm opened up on the field and the two monsters where dragged into hell, he winced as the dragon breathed fire at him before being dragged into the chasm which subsequently closed up.
C: 3800
K: 8000
"You have anything else you want to do or are you going to keep defeating yourself?" Kimberly asked before Charles picked up the other card he drew with Common Charity's effect.
"As I matter of face there is something else I wish to do, I set this card facedown and end my turn." Charles announced as the facedown card appeared on the field, Kimberly nodded and drew her card; she looked at it for a few moments before adding it to her hand and picking up another card.
"In that case I summon Shadowknight Archfiend to the field in attack mode!" Kimberly playing the card and a demon in silver armour appeared on the field, its skin was ghastly grey, he had long blue hair and was wielding a sword in one hand and had some nasty looking claws in the other (4/2000/1600). "Shadowknight, attack his lifepoints directly!" Kimberly commanded and Shadowknight charged towards Charles.
"Did you really think I'd be defeated THAT easily?" Charles asked as he activated his trap. "I activate Birthright, this allows me to Special Summon one Normal Type monster in my graveyard to the field in attack mode and I'm sure my monster needs no introduction." Charles said as Hronzanryu returned to the field by bursting out of the ground.
"Hold your attack Shadowknight." Kimberly commanded and Shadowknight returned to her side of the field. "I end my turn."
"So you should." Charles chuckled as he drew his card. "Well what do you know? The card I drew is a normal monster." Charles added the monster to his hand and drew another due to Heart of the Underdog's effect, "Oh look at that, another Normal Monster!" Charles drew again and frowned. "I drew a Trap Card."
"Judging from the look on your face it's not a very good one." Kimberly pointed out and Charles looked up at her.
"We'll see about that, I set the card I just drew facedown and summon the first monster I drew, Vorse Raider, in attack mode!" Charles played the cards and the hideous Beast Warrior appeared on the field (4/1900/1200). "Hronzanryu, attack Shadowknight Archrfiend now!" The dragon took flight and let loose with a breath of fire incinerating the knight.
K: 7900
C: 3800
"Vorse Raider I command you to attack her lifepoints directly!" The Beast Warrior charged forward and Kimberly grinned.
"You'll have to do better than that because I activate my Trap Card Archfiend's Roar, at the cost of 500 lifepoints I can bring back Shadowknight Archfiend from the graveyard!" Kimberly activated the card and Shadowknight Archfiend returned to the field even as her lifepoints dropped to 7400. "Small price to pay compared to your Beast Warrior's attack."
"That is very true." Charles nodded in agreement. "Vorse Raider, halt your attack at once!" Charles called out and Vorse Raider returned to his side of the field.
"Only thing is Shadowknight Archfiend will be destroyed as soon as Charles ends his turn due to Archfiend's Roar's side effect." Kimberly thought with a frown. "I'd better hope that I draw something good during my draw phase."
"I end my turn at that." Charles said and a chasm opened up under Shadowknight Archfiend sending him plummeting down to hell. "The side effect of Archfiend's Roar?"
"Yeah, it is." Kimberly nodded as she drew her card.
"I activate the Trap Card I set last turn, Dark Scheme." Charles announced as the trap flipped up. "You can choose to negate this effect by discarding a card from your hand but I don't see why you would, you see it allows us both to draw two cards in exchange for discarding two cards."
"In that case I won't negate it." Kimberly said as both players discarded two cards from their hands and drew additional ones.
"Use my gift wisely." Charles advised her as he looked at his new cards. "Excellent."
"Oh, I will." Kimberly said looking at her new cards. "I set a monster in defence mode and two cards facedown, you're move!" Kimberly announced as she played the cards she drew thanks to Dark Scheme alongside a third card the once that she had drawn during her draw phase, Charles said nothing and drew his card.
"No Normal Monster this time but this will suffice." Charles said as he looked at the card. "I summon Coach Goblin to the field in attack mode!" Charles played the card and a small goblin appeared on the field wearing a yellow t-shirt and black pants (4/1200/1500).
"How does that help you exactly?" Kimberly asked raising an eyebrow.
"You'll see soon enough, now Hronzanryu attack her defence monster!" The dragon took flight again and breathed fire at the facedown card revealed to be Sangan (3/1000/600) which was quickly incinerated.
"I'm assuming you're familiar with Sangan's effect." Kimberly asked and Charles nodded.
"I didn't come to be England's National Champion without becoming familiar with the effects of most monsters." Charles said as Kimberly searched through her deck before finding a monster and adding it to her hand. "Now Vorse Raider, Coach Goblin, I command you both to attack her lifepoints directly!" The two monsters charged forward and attacked Kimberly, Vorse Raider with its blade and Coach Goblin with his fists.
K: 4300
C: 3800
Kimberly forced herself to her feet and glared at Charles. "Are you done?"
"As a matter of fact, I am." Charles said before remembering something. "Oh yes, Coach Goblin's effect now activates, by sending one card from my hand to the bottom of my deck I can draw one card during my end phase." Charles sent the card to the bottom of his deck and drew a new card, Kimberly said nothing and drew her card.
"It's time I took care of that dragon." Kimberly thought before playing a card. "I activate Silent Doom, this lets me special summon a Normal Monster from my graveyard to the field in defence mode and thanks to Dark Scheme I have just the card." Kimberly played the card and Warrior of Zera appeared on the field in defence mode (4/1600/1600).
"So? That monster's defence points can only protect it from Coach Goblin!" Charles pointed out and Kimberly grinned.
"There's a reason I brought him out with Pandemonium on the field." Kimberly said picking up a card. "It's fairly well known that Warrior of Zera is used by Fairy users to bring out Archlord Zerato but he has his uses for Fiend users like me." Kimberly said and Maria did a double take.
"You're bringing out THAT monster?" Maria said the surprise evident on her face.
"Yeah, I know it's been a while since I've had the opportunity to use it." Kimberly grinned. "This monster can only be summoned by sacrificing Warrior of Zera whilst Pandemonium is on the field and since I meet those requirements I tribute Warrior of Zera to summon Mazera DeVille in attack mode!" Warrior of Zera stood up and slowly started to mutate and grow, eventually he was transformed into a massive winged demon whose head and wings closely resembled Warrior of Zera's helmet as well as it's nasty looking claws, it was grotesquely muscular and was wearing purple pants (8/2800/2300). "If you think he's bad enough due to the fact that he's stronger than your dragon then you're in trouble."
"What do you mean?" Charles asked.
"When he's summoned this way and Pandemonium is on the field my opponent is forced to discard three cards from their hand at random." Kimberly explained and Charles picked up three cards.
"Well. I guess there's no use in hiding it any longer." Charles said turning the cards around revealing them to be three pieces of Exodia, Right Arm, Right Leg and the Head to be exact.
"I thought so." Kimberly said with a triumphant grin as Charles sent the cards to the graveyard.
"Don't get too cocky, the Exodia pieces where merely a backup plan." Charles said defiantly, Kimberly shook her head and pointed to Mazera.
"Mazera DeVille attack and destroy Hronzanryu now!" Kimberly commanded and the demon took flight before putting it's claws together, a large ball of energy formed between them and it launched it towards the dragon destroying it.
K: 4300
C: 3100
The demon landed besides its mistress who smirked triumphantly. "Looks like I've beaten you're best card and your backup strategy in one fell swoop." Kimberly said and Charles chuckled.
"You really think that dragon was the best I've got? Sorry to disappoint you but that is far from the case." Charles said folding his arms.
"In that case I end my turn." Kimberly said and Charles drew his card.
"Ah yes a Normal Monster, not only that but it's exactly the card I was looking for!" Charles said before drawing another card due to the effect of Heart of the Underdog. "I've drawn a spell card but no matter." Charles shrugged before playing it. "I activate De-Spell, this lets me destroy one spell card on the field."
"Let me guess, Pandemonium?" Kimberly asked. "If that's the case than Magic Jammer will prevent my field spell's destruction." Kimberly thought looking at her trap.
"Actually no, Heart of the Underdog has lived out its usefulness so I'm destroying that instead." Charles said as the Hologram for Heart of the Underdog shattered.
"That's pretty callous don't you think?" Kimberly blinked as Charles sent his two Spell Cards to the graveyard, a quick glance over at Maria confirmed that the older woman was thinking the same thing.
"Don't tell me an intelligent woman like you believes in that Heart of the Cards nonsense." Charles scoffed. "My father has a saying, you must make sacrifices to get ahead in life and the same applies to Duel Monsters." Charles added as he picked up the card he drew first. "Allow me to demonstrate by sacrificing Vorse Raider and Coach Goblin to summon my strongest monster, the mighty Gogiga Gaggagido."
"Yeah, I'm not even going to try to pronounce that monster's name." Kimberly said as a massive sweatdrop rolled down her head.
"Believe me; it took me several days to pronounce its name correctly when I first got it!" Charles responded before playing the card, the two remaining monsters vanished from the field and in the place of Vorse Raider stood a humongous beast that seemed to be half reptile, half machine (8/2950/2800).
"Crap, that thing's stronger than my Archfiend Empress!" Kimberly thought as her eyes widened.
"Hang in there Kimberly!" Maria shouted from the sidelines.
"Go my beast, slay Mazera DeVille this instant!" The monster charged towards Kimberly's demon and tore it in half with its bare hands.
K: 4150
C: 3100
"I shall end my turn at that!" Charles announced and Kimberly drew her card before remembering something.
"My Level Conversion Lab trap card, I completely forgot about it." Kimberly thought as her eyes darted towards her second facedown card. "This could help me turn things around but in the meantime I'd better play it safe." Kimberly thought before looking at her card. "I start by activating the Spell Card Allure of Darkness, by removing from play a Dark Type monster from my hand I'm allowed to draw two more cards." Kimberly removed from play the Bite Shoes (2/500/300) that she had added to her hand thanks to Sangan's effect and drew two new cards after pocketing the monster. "I set a monster in defence mode and end my turn." Kimberly set the monster and Charles drew his card.
"I'll take a page from your playbook; I activate my own Allure of Darkness." Charles played the card and, after removing a card from play, he drew two cards. "Sorry to have to disappoint you dear but that monster won't be protecting you for much longer, I activate my Spell Card Nobleman of Crossout to remove your facedown monster from play."
"Don't count on it." Kimberly said chaining the Spell Card's activation with one of her traps. "I activate Magic Jammer; by discarding a card from my hand I can negate the activation of your spell card." Charles frowned as she discarded a card from her hand and they sent their cards to their graveyards.
"That was a minor setback." Charles shrugged.
"Again with the callousness towards his own cards, no matter I'll teach him a lesson in the Heart of the Cards." Kimberly thought.
"Besides I drew another card with Allure of Darkness and whilst not quite as potent as Nobleman of Crossout it still has its uses." Charles said playing the card. "I activate Stop Defence to force your facedown monster into attack mode!" Kimberly's eyes widened but she reluctantly flipped up the monster revealing it to be Cyber Archfiend (4/1000/2000) a metallic looking winged demon. "Now I summon Gene Warped Warwolf in attack mode!" Charles played the card and a strange wolf like being appeared on the field, it stood on its hind legs and had two sets of arms (4/2000/100). "Before you ask, no it doesn't have any hindering special abilities, now Gene Warped Warwolf attack and destroy Cyber Archfiend." The Warwolf charged at Cyber Archfiend before choking it to death and reducing Kimberly's lifepoints to 3150. "Now my ultimate beast, attack her lifepoints directly!"
"This is going to hurt on so many levels." Kimberly muttered as she braced herself for the attack, the huge monster charged at Kimberly and slammed its fists into her.
K: 200
C: 3100
"If it wasn't for Magic Jammer I would've lost and I'd be out of the tournament." Kimberly thought as she forced herself to her feet. "I can't lose at this early a stage, for Nathan's sake I have to continue!" Kimberly thought as she looked up at Nathan. "Are you done?"
"Indeed I am, but unless you draw something useful on your next turn you're finished!" Charles nodded and Kimberly drew her card.
"I activate Card of Sanctity to refresh our hands!" Kimberly played the card and both players drew until they had 6 cards in their hands, Kimberly's eyes lit up when she saw two of her new cards. "Charles, I'm about to give you a lesson in the Heart of the Cards."
"What this nonsense again, for the sake of argument I'll humour you and ask just how you intend to do that?" Charles scoffed.
"I will with the trap card that you gave to me via Dark Scheme, Level Conversion Lab!" Kimberly activated the card and a large six sided die appeared on the field. "Here's how it works, I show you one monster in my hand that die rolls, if it lands on one that monster is sent to my graveyard, if it lands on anything above one then that number becomes that particular monsters level for the rest of the turn."
"So you're risking everything on the roll of a dice? Okay, I'm game." Charles shrugged. "Show me the monster." Kimberly did so revealing the monster to be Archfiend Empress (8/2900/2100). "Funny, I thought Mazera was the strongest monster in your deck."
"You thought wrong now go dice roll!" The giant dice rolled across the field. "Come on Heart of the Cards, give me anything bellow 5 and above 1." Kimberly thought biting her lip as she watched the dice slow down eventually landing on 4. "YES!"
"Blast, how lucky can you get?" Charles cursed as she picked up the card.
"And now that I can summon her without a sacrifice I summon my deck's strongest monster, Archfiend Empress in attack mode!" Kimberly played the card and a female demon appeared on the field, her skin was purple and she was wearing a revealing black and white dress with a matching headdress and she was carrying a sinister looking staff (4/2900/2100).
"Doesn't matter, next turn my ultimate beast will destroy her and another one of my monsters will finish you!" Charles said and Kimberly smirked.
"We'll see about that, now Archfiend Empress, attack and destroy Gene Warped Warwolf!" Kimberly commanded and the empress pointed her staff at the wolf like creature and lightning emerged from it striking the wolf in the chest destroying it.
K: 200
C: 2200
"I set a card facedown and end my turn!" Kimberly set the card down and Charles drew his card.
"You're finished; I summon Giant Red Seasnake in attack mode!" Charles played the card and a large red seasnake appeared on the field (4/1800/800). "Now my ultimate beast, clear the path for my seasnake and destroy Archfiend Empress!" The monster charged towards the empress and Kimberly smirked.
"Sorry, but you've just defeated yourself." Kimberly said activating her trap. "I activate my trap card Magic Cylinder!"
"NO!" Charles's eyes widened as the massive monster went in one cylinder and out the other striking its own master.
K: 200
C: 0000
"Defeated by my own monster..." Charles trailed off as the two duellists deactivated their duel disks and returned their cards to their decks. "I suppose there are worse fates."
"You have no idea." Kimberly thought thinking back to Nathan's duel against Michael back at Duel Academy as she approached him. "I'll be taking my prize now." She said holding her hand out.
"Off course, I know when I'm beaten." Charles said digging into his pocket and retrieving his locater cards before handing them over. "And off course my rarest card." Charles said digging through his deck and handing it over.
"Summoned Skull (6/2500/1200), not bad and it should fit my deck like a glove." Kimberly commented before adding it to her deck, Charles walked off and she pocketed the locater cards. "Four down, two to go." Kimberly thought.
"Nice duelling, though I've seen better." A female voice rang out from behind her and Kimberly turned around seeing Karen standing behind her, Kimberly's eyes narrowed when she recognised her.
"You're one of the girls that duelled Andreas and Marcus yesterday." Kimberly realized and Karen smirked.
"So what if I am? You intend to call the cops on me?" Karen scoffed. "I'll be out of here before those idiots get within five minutes of the docks."
"What do you want then?" Kimberly demanded.
"I need you to give a warning to a friend of yours on my behalf, the Osiris Red student to be precise." Karen said folding her arms.
"What do you want with Chloe?" Kimberly demanded.
"Relax; it's not me that has a beef with her." Karen said narrowing her eyes. "It's another agent of the organisation that employs me and just between you and me I don't trust him at all."
"Why don't you trust him?" Kimberly asked folding her arms. "Did he refuse to let his penis get within your STD infected ass?"
"Cute." Karen said rolling her eyes. "Most of the employees at the organisation have beefs with someone, mine is against my older sister for example, but this agent...he's not just angry with the kid, he wants her dead." Karen said as she started to walk off.
"Wait!" Kimberly called out to her and Karen stopped in her tracks and looked over her shoulder at the younger woman. "Why was my brother targeted by your organisation, he never harmed anyone?"
"Who does she mean by her brother? Wait; is this the same girl Michael let go?" Karen thought as her eyes narrowed. "Definitely fits her description." Karen thought. "You mean that kid Michael defeated on Duel Academy Island?" Karen asked and Kimberly nodded, Karen smirked and shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly. "By all reports you and your brother got in the way, you're lucky that idiot didn't drag you into the Orichalcos with him!" Karen said before continuing to walk off...or she would've if not for the fact that Kimberly span her around and punched her in the mouth.
"How dare you talk about my brother that way you bitch?" Kimberly snarled as Karen looked up at the Duel Academy student the look on her face being a mixture of surprise and pain, Phillip Masters, who was passing through the area, saw the confrontation and got in between the two women.
"Hey, hey, hey, no need to get violent!" Phillip said standing in between the two women. "Never thought I'd be unhappy to be in-between two attractive women but what can you do?" Phillip thought.
"This is none of your business!" Kimberly spat at Phillip who was trying his hardest to defuse the situation.
"Is this really the way to behave after losing a duel?" Phillip asked and Kimberly's eyes narrowed. "I had heard that you had found an opponent."
"She wasn't her opponent, I was." Phillip looked up and saw Charles approaching. "Surprised your still here Phillip, weren't you eliminated?"
"Just because I'm out of the tournament doesn't mean..." Phillip started but was cut off by the site of Karen tackling Kimberly to the floor and brawling with her. "Oh for God's sake, what is they're issue with each other?" The Irish duellist said clearly getting annoyed by this point. "Okay Charles, you said that you where her opponent, did you win?"
"No, I almost did but she used Magical Cylinder on me." Charles said folding his arms. "We should separate them before either of them gets injured."
"True, better us than the cops right?" Phillip asked. "I'll grab Kimberly, you grab Karen."
"You have a deal." Phillip said and the two men went to separate the two women and eventually they did...unfortunately for Phillip and unfortunate placement of his hands gave Kimberly the wrong idea.
"Are you trying to grope me asshole?" Kimberly yelled and Phillip's eyes widened.
"No, I swear..." Phillip started but his response was cut off when Kimberly's foot collided with his balls. "That...wasn't...where...I...meant...to...grab...you." Phillip said in a high-pitched voice before falling over. "That...came...out...wrong..." Phillip realized as he clutched his balls in pain.
"Worry about your balls later." Charles said as he helped him up. "I can't believe I just said that."
"Wait, if your here then who's restraining the woman with the longer hair?" Phillip said just as his voice was returning to its normal pitch, Charles's eyes widened in realization.
"Oh dear, this is bad." Charles said turning around just in time to see Kimberly bull rushing Karen only to be wacked in the face by Karen's duel disk.
"That'll teach you to cheap shot me bitch!" Karen spat before strapping her duel disk to back onto her arm.
"Wait, Charles isn't that the same duel disk those Orichalcos Duellists have been using?" Phillip asked the moment he saw the disk.
"Yes it is." Charles said kneeling down in front of the unconscious Kimberly. "Give me one reason why we shouldn't call the cops on you."
"Oh, that's easy." Karen said digging into her pocket and producing 6 locater cards. "As of five minutes ago I'm a Battle City Semi Finalist and those idiots in the police force are under orders not to arrest anyone who's a semi-finalist." Karen said before walking off. "If I were you, I'd be more interested in getting her to the hospital." Karen said before leaving the area.
"She has six locater cards already?" Phillip blinked before shaking his head. "She's right; we'd better call for an ambulance."
"It's already taken care of." Maria said walking up to the pair with her hands behind her back. "I appreciate your efforts to break up the fight boys; my only regret is that it ended like this."
"No problem." Phillip said with a nod. "She took a pretty nasty hit and considering how heavy these things can be..." Phillip said looking at his own duel disk.
"Let's try not to dwell on that Phillip." Charles said standing up and turning his attention to Maria. "I know she's a duel academy student but I don't think I caught your name."
"Maria, I'm a teacher at Duel Academy and Head Mistress for Osiris Red." Maria introduced herself as the ambulance pulled up.
"What happened here?" One of the paramedics said running up to Kimberly.
"She got into a fight with another female duellist; it ended with the other woman whacking her on the head with her duel disk." Maria said as the Paramedic loaded Kimberly onto the stretcher, she frowned when she saw him riffling through Kimberly's pockets. "I'm a representative from Duel Academy and I can tell you right now that that isn't necessary as Duel Academy will cover her medical expenses."
"That works for me." The paramedic shrugged as he loaded her into the ambulance and closed the door behind him, Maria got her cell phone out and Phillip raised an eyebrow.
"Who are you calling?" Phillip asked.
"I'm calling my co-workers at Duel Academy who came with me on this trip." Maria answered as she waited for a response.
*elsewhere in the city*
Mike was in the middle of his second Battle City duel this time against an Australian Duellist called Ray Lanza who's deck specialized in dinosaurs, so far the match was fairy even as Ray had his copy of Ultimate Tryanno (8/3000/2200), a massive dinosaur with hunger in its eyes on the field as well as the field spell card Jurassic World which, alongside changing the scenery to a thick jungle with a volcano in the distance, increased Ultimate Tryanno's attack and defence to 3300 and 2500 respectively as well as a faceup Seismic Shockwave which had been activated two turns earlier and its final turn was approaching, Mike's side of the field was empty due to Ultimate Tryanno's effect save for a single facedown card, the lifepoints where as follows.
R: 2200
M: 100
"Well mate, it's been fun but come next turn the fun will end!" Ray, a man with short brown hair which was currently under a fairly sizable fedora and blue eyes who was wearing a brown jacket with a red jumper underneath it, blue jeans and black boots, said with a grin as Mike drew his card.
"We'll see about that!" Mike said defiantly before looking at his drawn card. "I summon Giant Red Seasnake in attack mode!" Mike played the card and the seasnake appeared on one of the only remaining spaces Mike had (4/1800/800). "And I activate the trap I set last turn Torrential Tribute which I chain with Emergency Provissions, by sending Torrential Tribute to my graveyard I gain a thousand lifepoints!"
"Oh crap." Ray muttered as a huge tidle wave cleared the field of monsters and Mike's lifepoints increased to 1100. "Even with the extra lifepoints my dinos will feast on your lifepoints next turn."
"There won't be a next turn, I activate Premature Buriel to bring back an old friend from earlier in the duel at the cost of 800 lifepoints!" Mike played the card and grinned even as his lifepoints dropped to 300. "So welcome back to the field the one, the only, the almighty..."
"GET ON WITH IT!" Every other duellist in attendance yelled simultaneously and Mike facefaulted.
"Yesh, all I'm doing is putting on a show for the cameras." Mike muttered under his breath as he got back to his feet.
"He's almost as bad as you are Lance whenever you try to impress a girl." Chloe teased him.
"Yeah...HEY WAIT A SEC!" Lance agreed just before he realized what he was agreeing with.
"Right, as I was saying." Mike said retrieving the card. "Welcome back to the field my second strongest monster Leiva-Dragon – Daedulas in attack mode!" Mike played the card and the gigantic seasnake returned to the field (8/2600/1500). "But where would be the fun in leaving it there?"
"You have something else to summon?" Ray blinked.
"As a matter of fact yes, I can now summon a monster that can only be summoned by sacrificing Daedulas at his current stage so..." Mike sent the monster and Premature Burial to the graveyard. "I summon my strongest monster, Ocean Dragon Lord – Neo Deadulas!" The seasnake on the field started to evolve until it was much bigger in height, had two heads and more closely resembled a dragon in its current form (9/2900/1600).
"Holy shit, that's huge!" Marcus whistled as Andreas nodded in agreement, Nicola on the other hand gulped loudly, whilst that was going on Martin got a call on his cell phone.
"Neo Deadulas, attack his lifepoints directly." The dragon's heads opened their mouths and breathed water at the older duellist.
R: 0000
M: 300
"Nice duelling kid!" Ray said deactivating his duel disk and approaching him, he extended his hand out for a handshake which Mike was happy to accept before handing over his Locater Cards and Ultimate Tryanno.
"Thanks, but this doesn't really fit in with my deck." Mike said looking at the Dinosaur.
"I'll take it." Theresa said stepping forward. "I've been working on a Dinosaur deck anyway." Theresa added.
"That seems fair to me." Ray shrugged before handing over the card to Theresa, he left the area without another word and the crowd started to disperse.
"Mike, where the hell did you get that powerful a card, I know Brandon helped you strengthen your deck but that's ridicules?" Lance asked confused and Mike laughed.
"I've had that thing in my deck like forever man!" Mike said looking at Neo Daedulas proudly. "Problem is that I haven't been able to use it until now!"
"Guys, we have a situation." Martin said and the others turned their attention to him. "Maria just phoned me, Kimberly's in hospital with a possible concussion after being hit in the head with a duel disk."
"You're kidding? Who attacks someone with a duel disk?" Marcus asked and Martin turned his attention to him.
"I don't joke about things like serious injuries but it's funny you should mention that, it was an old friend of yours." Martin said and Marcus blinked.
"Did you say old friend? But none of my buddies from New York would do...wait, was it Karen?" Marcus asked and Martin nodded. "We'd better get to the hospital."
"Agreed, I'll call the limo driver and have him drive us there." Martin nodded getting his cell phone out.