The six duel academy students made their way down the pier each of them looking towards their destination, the ship where the leader of the Orichalcos duelists was hiding out, the boys where walking ahead of the girls since Lance wanted to duel next.
Chloe and Theresa were walking side by side towards the back of the group; Chloe was pretty shaken up due to the events of her last duel whilst Theresa was getting over her surprise at seeing her mom. "So, your mom never told you she was in the city?" Chloe asked Theresa and the older duelist turned to her.
"If she had then I probably would've spent the last two nights of the tournament in her hotel room rather than Brandon's." Theresa said honestly and Chloe nodded in understanding. "Though I admit, my shyness around her may have had something to do with it, she hates embarrassing me in public."
"Sounds like my mom….my biological mom that is." Chloe said sadly and Theresa winced, Chloe shook her head deciding to try to change the subject. "Actually there's something that's been bugging me ever since we met your mom."
"Oh?" Theresa asked raising an eyebrow,
"Your mom said that you told her a lot about me, does she know about….." Chloe trailed off and Theresa sighed.
"She does but I didn't tell her, I told her about you the day after you told me and Brandon about your dad, she told me that she was one of the cops that responded to the 911 call about screams of pain coming from your apartment." Theresa said and Chloe shuddered as she remembered the memory.
"Yeah, I remember." Chloe said as she glanced towards her scarred arm. "That was when my dad….." Chloe trailed off and Theresa nodded realizing what she was talking about. "It's a small world huh? What next was Marcus's dad one of my social workers or something?"
"That would be a hell of a coincidence." Theresa agreed before sighing. "Chloe, I don't want to sound like I'm nagging you or anything but are you sure you're okay after Ramon's murder attempt? That collision with the wall did look pretty nasty, not to mention the fact that he tried to kill you in the first place." Theresa pointed out and Chloe winced.
"The only area that hurts is my rib area and I've already felt around there, none of my ribs feel broken." Chloe said and Theresa frowned.
"You should have it looked at anyway, just to be on the safe side." Theresa told her and Chloe smirked a little.
"Theresa, you are aware of how much that sounded like nagging, right?" Chloe asked and Theresa smiled a bit, before she could respond however the two girls realized that the group had come to a stop and looked up. "Why aren't we moving?" Chloe asked and almost in answer to her question a loud maniacal laughter rang out.
"Does that answer your question?" Brandon asked as he turned to the two girls, they brushed past the boys with Kimberly following them from behind until they reached the front of the group, however they could see no source of the laughter.
"That's creepy." Lance muttered and Chloe nodded in agreement. "Okay Mr. Funny Bone, why don't you show your face already?"
"Mr. Funny Bone, was that the best you could come up with?" Chloe asked and Lance sweat-dropped whilst laughing nervously.
"Not all my jokes are inherently funny." Lance admitted.
"I thought none of his jokes where funny." Marcus muttered but quickly shut up when Lance shot him a glare.
"Actually I have to agree with the chubby one." A harsh sounding voice rang out and the chuckling figure emerged, he was tall and gaunt with red, spiky hair, a scar down the right side of his face and blue eyes, he was clad in a red tranchcoat with a red t-shirt underneath, blue jeans and black boots but what caught the student's attention was the Orichalcos disk on his arm. "Greetings duelists, I am your second challenger."
"Am I supposed to be scared off you? If you're anything like Ramon than this will be a piece of cake." Lance said as he activated his duel disk; however Jeff stopped him as his eyes narrowed.
"Drew Michaels, what are you doing with these bastards?" Jeff demanded and the man scoffed.
"You call THEM bastards when Duel Academy did THIS to me!" Drew demanded as he pointed to his scar, he grinned broadly when he saw Theresa. "Ah if it isn't my one true love Theresa, still as beautiful as ever I see."
"You dated this psycho?" Chloe, Lance, Marcus and Brandon asked her and Theresa frowned.
"Yeah, we were dating before his accident." Theresa said before sighing. "We met when I graduated to Ra Yellow, he was a new student at the time and some assholes from Obelisk Blue where picking on him, I intervened and we bonded pretty quickly."
"Some might say it was love at first sight." Drew continued as he folded his arms. "Personally I've never believed in that sappy bullshit but it wasn't long before we started dating, and then the accident happened."
"Kaibacorp was presenting prototype Duel Runners to the academy; think a motorbike specifically designed for dueling on the go." Theresa continued ignoring the odd looks she was getting from the younger students. "Yeah I think it's pretty stupid as well, after the presentation Drew somehow talked me into taking it for a joyride."
"What can I say? I've always been a motorbike enthusiast." Drew shrugged his shoulders at the comment. "Besides they said that the Academy would be the first ones to get the finished versions so I figured why the hell not?" Drew added and Jeff frowned.
"That may be true but the prototypes were never intended for public use." Jeff pointed out with a frown. "The students that tested them reported that the steering was difficult at best and impossible to control at worst, however there was a storm at sea that night so Kaibacorp couldn't take them back to the mainland until the following morning."
"And as Drew found out, he got the one that was impossible to control." Theresa added with a frown. "He ended up crashing face first into a tree, if he didn't have his helmet on he would've been killed."
"There are days where I wish I was killed." Drew said with a frown. "Believe it or not I was very handsome back then but the accident robbed me off that AND my position at Duel Academy WHILST SHE GOT OFF SCOTT FREE!" Drew said as he pointed to Theresa.
"Okay, can somebody elaborate on that?" Lance asked as he, Marcus and Chloe scratched their heads in confusion.
"It didn't take long for the teachers to find out, not because of the crash but because a visibly terrified Theresa stormed into Martin's classroom saying that there had been an accident, once she calmed down she explained the whole thing." Jeff explained with a frown as he remembered that day. "Drew was rushed to the infirmary as soon as he was discovered; thankfully neither duel runner was damaged in the crash because that would've made it worse."
"And then came the time for punishment." Martin added with a frown. "The two students had not only broken Duel Academy's rules but several laws as well, as hard as it may be to believe there was a time when I considered expelling someone who is now one of my best students, after chatting with both students it was decided that Theresa would be let off unpunished as she was challenged and not the other way around, Drew on the other hand was expelled."
"We also decided not to press charges." Jeff added and Drew scowled at that. "We figured he had suffered enough and we didn't want to put him through the system so to speak, and then the lawsuit came." Jeff added with a frown.
"Drew's family claimed that Duel Academy hadn't properly secured the runners and if they had then the accident wouldn't have happened." Martin added earning him a confused look from Chloe.
"But that makes no sense, there's no way you could've prepared for it because of the storm." Chloe pointed out and Martin nodded in agreement.
"And that was exactly why the judge practically laughed the lawsuit out of court." Martin added before turning to Theresa. "On the other hand that incident did scare Theresa straight and she became one of the best students at the academy."
"The stern talking too I got from my mom helped matters." Theresa added sheepishly before frowning. "That still doesn't explain why you're with these bastards Drew."
"I was approached two weeks ago, they promised me vengeance against Duel Academy for what their negligence did to me!" Drew said as he spat to the side, he activated his Duel Disk and pointed to Theresa. "And I'm starting with you!"
"Yeah, sorry but you'll have to go through me first!" Lance said as he stepped forward, however Theresa blocked him with her hand.
"Lance, I know you want a shot at these bastards but this is personal." Theresa said as she activated her own duel disk. "There's just one thing I want to know before we start Drew, why didn't we encounter you during the tournament?"
"As much as I hate to admit it, I was eliminated by the National Champ of Italy, my mighty fiends crushed by glorified ballerina dancers." Drew said as he spat to the side. "But now is the time that I will redeem myself!"
"What is it with you and dating fiend users?" Lance whispered to Theresa who sweat-dropped as she heard the question.
"This is really not the time Lance!" Theresa said bluntly before stepping forward and taking off her backpack, she started searching through it to decide on a deck and Drew scoffed.
"Choosing your deck huh? How many decks do you have now? 100? 200?" Drew asked and Theresa frowned before picking up a deck and loading it into the slot.
"22, but I'll only need only to defeat you!" Theresa said as the two duelists drew their opening hands, the students and the teachers backed off knowing how the Orichalcos Duels worked and Theresa frowned. "If you're still the gentlemen I remember from back then, ladies first!" Theresa said and Drew shook his head.
"Hell no, I want to go first!" Drew before drawing his card quicker than Theresa could protest, Drew looked at the cards in his hand and the newly drawn card before frowning. "No sign of the Orichalcos, I had better draw it before this duel ends!" Drew thought before playing the drawn card. "I start by summoning the mighty Fabled Dyf in attack mode!" Drew played the card and a green skinned demon appeared on the field, however the monster was oddly angelic in appeared with long silver hair and green wings (3/1400/1700).
"Fabled? That's a new one on me." Lance commented as he scratched his head in confusion, Jeff frowned as he scratched his chin.
"It's a recently released Archetype, similar to the Dark World monsters in a lot of ways." Jeff commented and Lance turned to him. "Theresa's in for a fight, that's all I'm saying."
"Please, that monster's pretty weak!" Lance said with a grin and Jeff shook his head.
"You'll regret underestimating my monster punk!" Drew said before picking up a card. "In the meantime I set a card facedown and end my turn at that." Drew set the card and Theresa drew her card whilst eyeing Drew's monster suspiciously.
"I start by activating the Spell Card Reinforcement of the Army, this lets me take a Warrior type monster from my deck and add it to my hand." Theresa played the card and picked up her deck, she searched through the deck before finding the card she needed, adding it to her hand and shuffling her deck before returning the deck to her slot.
"You're warrior deck? Is this an insult?" Drew scoffed as she sent her spell to the graveyard. "Whilst it's true that that thing is almost as old as your fairy deck we both know that it's your weakest deck."
"I know, and considering you were only at Duel Academy for barely two weeks before getting yourself expelled I shouldn't have to use my stronger decks to defeat you." Theresa pointed out and Drew growled.
"Why's he making such a big deal about her using her Warrior deck?" Marcus asked Brandon who frowned in response.
"Like Drew said it's one of her oldest decks, it's also the one that's had the least amount of modification since she created it." Brandon answered as he watched the duel. "Initially it was just a Warrior Toolbox deck and aside from minor changes it remained that way, at least until I2 started releasing Synchro and Tuner monsters, then it became a deck focused on controlling the field until she could get enough monsters on the field for a Synchro Summon, hell most of the Synchro Monsters we added to Chloe's deck where cards Theresa used in her Warrior deck, since she's created her other decks however this deck has been neglected, the only time she brings it out is for matches where she feels that victory won't require a lot of strategy."
"Now I remove Reinforcement from play so I can Special Summon Spell Striker in attack mode!" Theresa played the card and the small Viking appeared on the field (3/600/600) and Drew laughed out loud at the monster.
"You can't be serious; I've seen Barbie Dolls more intimidating than that thing!" Drew scoffed and Theresa grinned.
"I'm not done Drew, for my next move I summon Trident Warrior in attack mode!" Theresa played the card and a new monster appeared on the field, it was a muscular human in green armor with a matching helmet and cape who was wielding a trident as its name suggested (4/1800/1200). "Under normal circumstances his effect would now activate allowing me to Special Summon a Level 3 monster from my hand, unfortunately Spell Striker was the only Level 3 monster in my hand."
"Well I guess I'd better start my own strategy!" Drew said as his facedown card flipped up revealing a rather unsettling image of a man about to chop off another man's hand as he reached for a treasure chest. "Left Arm Offering, now in exchange for tossing my entire hand this trap will allow me to add one Spell Card from my deck to my hand." Drew discarded the rest of his hand and searched through his deck, he found the card he was looking for and added it to his deck.
"Isn't that card on the Forbidden List?" Chloe asked and Drew frowned.
"It is, this infamous Trap Card was originally used by Marik in the original Battle City but after that I2 realized how broken it is they banned it's use from all major tournaments." Drew explained as he sent his trap to the graveyard. "Why is it broken? Because it's the kind of Trap that's ideal for any deck that requires monsters in the graveyard, need a way to summon Dark Armed Dragon? Boom Left Arm Offering; need Exodia Pieces in your graveyard for Exodia Necross? Boom Left Arm Offering, you get the idea." Drew said before smirking, "Off course since this tournament is operating under the Traditional Format the Forbidden List was never a concern for me, and in my case it helps my Fabled deck immensely!"
"What do you mean?" Theresa asked but to her surprise Dyf's eyes glowed briefly before the monster disappeared from the field. "Where did your monster go?"
"To my graveyard, you see when a Fabied Monster is discarded from my hand I can tribute Dyf in order to Special Summon it from my graveyard." Drew explained as he swapped out the cards and played it. "Out with the old and in with Fabled Dianaira in attack mode!" Drew announced as a much larger monster appeared on the field, this one closely resembled the Minotaur from Greek Mythology but had a purple, muscular body and helmeted head, it was wearing blue, black and gold pants and gloves and was ready for battle (8/2800/100). "Not only is he powerful but his effect is equally as powerful, once per turn I can change the effect of the first Spell Card you play to "Your opponent discards one card from his hand." Drew explained with a grin and Theresa frowned at this.
"Yeah, pity you didn't have him around to prevent me from using Reinforcement of the Army, otherwise you would've been able to prevent this." Theresa said as she pointed to Spell Striker. "Since I summoned Spell Striker by removing a Spell Card from play he can bypass your overgrown bull and attack you directly!"
"Hey wait a minute….." Drew trailed off as Theresa pointed to her monster.
"Spell Striker, attack his life-points directly!" Theresa commanded and the small Viking charged towards Drew, it slid right between Dianiara's legs before leaping up and slashing Drew across the chest.
T: 8000
D: 7400
Spell Striker quickly returned to Theresa's side of the field avoiding Dianiara's attempts to make a grab for him, once he returned to Theresa's side of the field Theresa picked up two of her cards. "I set two cards facedown and end my turn." Theresa announced as she set the two cards and Drew frowned before drawing his card.
"Well I won't keep you in suspense about the card I retrieved from my deck via Left Arm Offering last turn." Drew said as he played the card. "I activate the Seal of the Orichalcos!" Drew played the card and Theresa braced herself as the seal completely surrounded the two duelists, soon afterwards the Seal appeared on the foreheads of Drew and his monster increasing his monster's attack to 3300 at the same time. "If it's any consolation I won't be as foolish as Ramon was to try to murder you in the middle of the duel."
"That's probably the first smart decision you've made in years." Theresa retorted and Drew growled as he heard that, he picked up his newly drawn card and played it.
"I set a card facedown, now Dianara I command you to attack Spell Striker now!" Drew commanded the massive fiend who charged at the much smaller warrior, Spell Striker was pounded into dust by the fiend's fist; however Theresa took no damage from the battle.
"Confused? Spell Striker has a third ability which allows me to not take any damage from a battle involving him." Theresa explained as her trap card flipped up revealing a wrestling ring where one wrestler was reaching out for a tag to a wrestler that looked like WWE Wrestler Rey Mysterio. "Not only that but by attacking one of my warriors you've triggered my Desperate Tag trap card, since you destroyed a Warrior on my side of the field I can special summon…."
"Yeah, yeah I know what it does," Drew interrupted her with a smirk. "Do you honestly think that Hunter was the only one scouting your duel against that steroid abusing idiot? That trap will allow you to Special Summon another Warrior from your hand and since it's continuous you can use it for as long as you like." Drew added and Theresa frowned before picking up a card.
"Okay Mr. Know It All, let's see how you like Command Knight in attack mode!" Theresa played the card and the blonde woman appeared on the field ready for battle (4/1200/1900) and her attack increased to 1600 thanks to her own effect as did Trident Warrior's, though in his case his attack increased to 2200. "But I'm not done yet, I activate my other Trap Card Limit Reverse, this lets me special summon a monster with 1000 or less attack points from my graveyard, and since I only have one Warrior in my graveyard, let alone a weak one, it should be pretty obvious who's coming back." Theresa said as Spell Striker returned to field.
"Yeah, so what, I know that thing's side effect." Drew said cockily as he folded his arms. "You even try to shift that midget to defense mode and it'll be destroyed alongside Limit Reverse," Drew said before looking at the card he drawn. "But just to be on the safe side I'll set this facedown and call it a turn." Drew set the card facedown and Theresa drew her card.
"Perfect, I have what I need to take out that overgrown cow!" Theresa thought before playing the card she drew. "I summon the Tuner Monster Attack Gainer in attack mode!" Theresa played the card and the small boy in red armor appeared on the field (1/0/0). "You claim to have been present for my first match in the tournament, even if it was unofficial, let's see how good your memory really is, Attack Gainer it's time to give Spell Striker and Trident Warrior a tune up!" Theresa commanded and the three warriors leapt into the air, Attack Gainer vanished and three golden rings surrounded Spell Striker and Trident Warrior. "I tune Attack Gainer with Spell Striker and Trident Warrior so I Synchro Summon a monster that's bound to give you a Colossal fight, Colossal Fighter in attack mode!"
"Was that bad pun really necessary Theresa?" Lance shouted from the sidelines and Theresa turned to her friend with a smirk as the blight flash enveloped the field.
"The king of bad puns is calling one of my puns bad, I don't know if I should be honored or sad." Theresa joked as her mighty warrior crash landed on the field (8/2800/1000). "Back to business, on top of getting a bonus from Command Knight Colossal Fighter gains a hundred attack points for each warriors in our graveyards, obviously you don't have any but I have three so that means my fighter gains a total of 700 attack points!" Theresa explained as the fighter's attack increase to 3500. "On top of that Attack Gainer's effect now activates reducing your monster's attack by a thousand." Theresa explained as the fiend roared in pain as his attack points dropped to 2300.
"I knew that!" Drew retorted with a frown.
"Then you'll know what's coming up next, Colossal Fighter I command you to attack that overgrown bull now!" Theresa commanded and the fighter charged towards the bull….
"I knew I'd need this, I activate the trap card Half or Nothing." Drew activated his trap and grinned. "I saw you use this in the Battle City Finals so you should know what it does." Drew said as he waited for an answer.
"Fine, I chose to end the Battle Phase." Theresa said as Colossal Fighter returned to her side of the field, she picked up one of the cards in her hand and set it. "And that ends my turn." Theresa announced and Drew grinned before drawing his card.
"Ah perfect." Drew muttered before playing the card. "I activate Card of Demise, this lets me draw until I have five cards in my hand but in exchange I have to send all cards in my hand to the graveyard after five turns." Drew explained before drawing five cards.
"But since your deck revolves around discarding cards it fits in perfectly." Theresa said with a frown. "I thought Kaiba had the only copy of that card in his deck, where did Drew get his hands on it?" Theresa thought as she waited for Drew to continue his move.
"Dianara, attack Command Knight!" Drew commanded and the fiend charged towards Command Knight with an intimidating roar….
"I don't think so!" Theresa said as her trap card flipped up. "I activate my trap card Waboku which protects…"
"You're monsters and you're life-points from my monster." Drew interrupted her as Dianara returned to his side of the field after smashing the three priestesses to pieces. "Just make your move already!" Drew said angrily and Theresa drew her card.
"Then it's time I picked up where I left off last turn." Theresa said as she pointed to Colossal Fighter. "Colossal Fighter, finish the job and destroy Dianara!" Theresa commanded and the warrior charged towards Drew's fiend…
"I think not, by discarding Honest (4/1100/1900) from my hand your fighter's attack points will get added to Dianara's attack points!" Drew discarded the card and too Theresa's surprise the fiend's attack points jumped to 5800, before she could protest however Colossal Fighter was smashed to pieces by the fiend's mighty fist.
T: 5700
D: 7400
"You mean to tell me that I2 actually released a set of Light Type Fiend Monsters?" Theresa asked as she prepared to use Colossal Fighter's effect.
"Yep, that's what separates the Fabled series from every other Fiend archetype in the game." Drew said with a cocky grin. "I seem to remember you being the religious type so to use a comparison from the bible think of them as fallen angels." Drew added and Theresa frowned as she heard that, she picked up Colossal Fighter and placed it back on the disk, seconds later the warrior returned to the field with both its power boosts in effect. "Don't tell me, Colossal Fighter's effect?" Drew asked and Theresa nodded. "He may have his power boost but until the end of the turn so does Dianara."
"And that's why I'm ending my turn with a facedown card." Theresa set the card and Drew grinned before drawing his card.
"What's the matter Theresa? Not as invincible as you think you are?" Drew taunted her with a grin. "Let me guess, your loss to Eddie has dealt a serious blow to your over inflated ego?"
"It would've if I had an ego to be bruised." Theresa retorted and Drew scoffed.
"Don't play dumb with me; back when we were dating you thought you could take on Pro League duelists with both hands tied behind your back, all because you graduated from Osiris Red to Ra Yellow in record time." Drew pointed out and Theresa smirked.
"If you're trying to throw off my game by bringing up the past then don't, besides it won't work." Theresa responded with a smirk. "I started dating you when I was 16; I've grown a lot since then."
"Yeah, I can see that." Drew said and Theresa growled when she realized what he was talking about.
"I wasn't talking about my breasts Andrew." Theresa snapped at him as her eyes narrowed. "What I meant was that I'm not the same person I was back then."
"Yeah right, next thing you'll tell me is that the sky is red and Santa Clause is real!" Drew scoffed and Theresa's eyes narrowed. "I saw the way you acted towards the brat that beat Otto and Ramon during the Battle Royal, she used your own trap against you and you chewed her out for it!"
"Okay, first off that had nothing to do with ego." Theresa asserted as her eyes narrowed. "Second, I have a duel to win so let's stop bringing up the past and focus on the present!" Theresa added as she waited for Drew to make his move, Drew grumbled some choice words under his breath before finally drawing his card.
"Ah perfect, I drew another Honest." Drew thought with a grin as he looked at the card. "Dianara, attack Colossal Fighter!" The mighty fiend let out a roar before charging at the warrior. "And now I activate my second Honest's effect…"
"Yeah I thought that might be the case, which is why I'm activating my trap card Chivalry!" Theresa's trap flipped up and Drew blinked. "Ironically you could use a lesson in this but I digress, my trap can only be activated when you activate an effect monster's effect during the Battle Phase, not only does it negate the effect but it also destroys it!" Theresa explained and Drew's eyes widened before he sent Honest to the graveyard, Dianara's attack didn't budge one inch and Colossal Fighter decapitated the fiend with a punch.
T: 5700
D: 7200
"Well, so much for your best monster." Theresa said confidently but her confidence soon disappeared when she saw the cocky smirk on Drew's face. "That wasn't your best monster?"
"Not even close." Drew answered as he picked up a card. "In the meantime however I may as well set up some defenses, with that in mind I set a monster in defense mode and a card facedown, you're move!"
"This is not good, if that overgrown piece of steak wasn't his best monster than what is his best monster?" Theresa thought as she drew her card. "He still has four more turns before Card of Demise's side effect kicks in, until then I'd better keep him on his toes." Theresa thought before looking at the card that she had just drawn. "Command Knight, attack his defense!" Theresa commanded and the blonde warrior charged towards the facedown monster; however her eyes widened when a grey jar with a grinning face inside it appeared on the field (2/700/600) just long enough to be split in two by Command Knight's sword. "Morphing Jar, why am I not surprised you have a monster like that in your deck?"
"Sometimes the predictable moves are the best." Drew shrugged before sending the cards in his hand to his graveyard; Theresa did likewise and both duelists drew five cards. "Sure it's risky what with Colossal Fighter's effect and all but it plays to my advantage."
"Really, you think it was worth it? Your monster just forced me to discard two warriors and you know what that means." Theresa said as Colossal Fighter's attack increased to 3700.
"True, but just look at these beauties that I'm summoning in defense mode!" Drew said as two monsters appeared on the field, the first monster was a small, three headed red dog (2/1000/400) and the second monster was a small, humanoid elephant (3/1600/1000). "Meet The Fabled Cerburrel and The Fabled Ganasha, what do they have in common? I can summon both monsters when they are discarded to my graveyard and that's not even the best part, Cerburrel just so happens to be a Tuner Monster."
"You're an idiot you know that? There's no way I'm letting you keep those things on the field long enough for a Synchro Summon and even with the boost from the Orichalcos those things are still pretty damn weak!" Theresa said with a face palm as the seal appeared on the two monsters heads increasing their attack points to 1500 and 2100 respectively….however Theresa was caught by surprise when Ganasha's attack increased even further to 2300.
"That's the other part of Ganasha's effect, when he's Special Summoned by his effect his attack increases to 2300, only downside is that he's removed from play as soon as he leaves the field." Drew explained and Theresa nodded.
"Doesn't matter as far as I'm concerned, Colossal Fighter, put that puppy to sleep!" Theresa commanded and the warrior charged towards the monster….
"Don't count on it, I activate Negate Attack to…well negate your attack!" Drew activated his trap and the fighter's fist bounced off of a force field.
"Fine, I'll settle for ending my turn." Theresa announced and Drew grinned before drawing his card. "At the moment the best he can do is a Level 5 Synchro, and whilst there's a lot of Level 5 Synchros none of them come close to Colossal Fighter's power, the only way I'd be in trouble is if he decided to Synchro Summon Ally of Justice Castaster."
"Good because I only need one last piece of the puzzle, and thanks to Morphing Jar I have just that!" Drew said as he discarded a card from his hand. "By discarding a card from my hand I can Special Summon The Tricky in attack mode!" Drew played the card and the mysterious spellcaster appeared on the field (5/2000/1200) and as soon as it appeared on the field the seal appeared on its forehead increasing its attack to 2500. "Before I forget however, the monster I discarded was Dandylion (3/300/300) and when he's sent to the graveyard I can special summon two Fluff Tokens!" Drew explained as two grey spores appeared on the field with cute looking faces (1/0/0) "Now the stage is set for me to use all three of my stronger monsters in a Synchro Summon!"
"Wait a minute, you're going to do a Level 10 Synchro Summon?" Theresa yelled out in shock as the three monsters leapt into the air.
"Why yes I am, off course those things are next to impossible to pull off since most Tuners are at least Level 3 or bellow but your attack last turn made it possible!" Drew explained as Cerburrel disappeared and two green rings surrounded The Tricky and Ganasha. "I tune The Fabled Cerburrel with The Fabled Ganasha and The Tricky to Synchro Summon my mightiest creature, come forth FABLED LEVIATHAN!" Drew yelled out as a bright flash enveloped the field, Theresa shielded her eyes from the flash and when it faded she looked up, in the place of The Tricky stood a purple skinned demon with long red hair and blood red wings, it was clad in gold armor and had a red mask around its eyes (10/3000/2000) and as the Seal appeared on its forehead the monster's attack increased to 3500. "Remember what I said earlier about this Archetype being closely related to fallen angels? This is the closest relative to the fallen angels and he's about to go to town on your defenses!"
"Nice try Drew but even with the Seal Colossal Fighter's a lot stronger." Theresa taunted him and Drew grinned.
"Aren't you forgetting something?" Drew asked before pointing to Command Knight. "You're knight's served you well but her low attack points and effect means she may as well have a bullseye painted on her chest."
"I'm not worried; even if you attack Command Knight Desperate Tag will save my life-points and let me summon another Warrior." Theresa said defiantly and Drew grinned.
"Believe me, I'm well aware of that problem and I'm about to fix it." Drew said as he played a card. "I activate Mystical Space Typhoon and use it to destroy Desperate Tag!" Drew played the card and a storm washed over the field, Theresa shielded herself as Desperate Tag's hologram shattered and once the storm died down she glared at Drew whilst she sent her trap to the graveyard. "Now for the fun part, Fabled Leviathan why don't you show Command Knight why you are so feared and, well, attack her now!" Drew commanded and the fiend pulled a jet black sword from seemingly out of nowhere, it charged at Command Knight and cut her in half with one swipe.
T: 3600
D: 7200
"And with Command Knight gone Colossal Fighter loses any additional attack strength it had." Drew said with a smirk as Colossal Fighter's attack dropped to 3300…only to rise to 3400. "Ah yes, I forgot that Command Knight's a Warrior as well."
"And even if you destroy him I'll bring him back with his Special Ability." Theresa added with a smirk. "Good luck getting to my life-points with this monster on my side of the field."
"I'll worry about that later." Drew said before looking at the rest of his hand. "You're move." Drew announced and Theresa drew her card.
"He obviously discarded Dandylion hoping that I'd target them for an attack, leaving one of my monsters open to an attack from his Leviathan." Theresa thought with a frown as she glanced up at the massive fiend, the two tokens certainly stood out when stood next to the fiend but that wasn't her concern and without a second thought she picked up two cards in her hand. "I set a card facedown, a monster in defense mode and I switch Colossal Fighter to defense mode that ends my turn." Theresa set the two cards and once Colossal Fighter crouched down Drew proceeded to draw his card.
"You are hoping that whatever your facedown card is will power up Colossal Fighter once it's in the graveyard? Too bad, the card I just drew will put that Fighter out of commission!" Drew said with a grin as he played the card. "I activate Dark Core."
"Crap, that card will remove Colossal Fighter from play!" Theresa realized as her eyes widened, Drew discarded a card for the cost and a dark portal opened up below the warrior, struggle as he might the warrior was sucked into the portal and once he was sucked in completely the portal closed. "You'll pay for that!" Theresa growled as she pocketed Colossal Fighter.
"Please, Colossal Fighter was the only monster you have whose attack strength rivals Fabled Leviathan." Drew scoffed before grinning. "Who knows? Maybe if you were using you're fairy deck instead you could bring out that fairy that almost won you the championship, but even if you did my Fabled Leviathan would still outclass it, and speaking of which, Fabled Leviathan attack her defense monster now!" Drew commanded and the fiend drew his sword again before charging at the facedown monster, the tuner monster Sword Master (3/1200/0) briefly appeared on the field before being cut in half by Leviathan's sword. "I shall end my turn at that, but honestly I was expecting a better challenge, maybe you're friend with the bad hairdo would've made for a better challenge."
"Buddy, you're the last person on Earth who should be giving out fashion advice!" Lance yelled out from the sidelines as Theresa drew her card.
"And to add to what Lance just said I'm not out of this match yet!" Theresa said as she looked at her drawn card. "I activate The Warrior Returning Alive, this lets me retrieve a Warrior type monster from my graveyard and return it to my hand." Theresa activated the card and after retrieving Sword Master from her graveyard she added it to her hand. "Now I activate another spell card, namely Rendering Tuning and this lets me special summon Sword Master back to the field." Theresa played the card and as soon as it was played the tuner monster returned to the field ready for battle.
"That was a wasted effort." Drew scoffed as Theresa sent her trap to the graveyard. "Leviathan tore through that monster's pathetic defense points once and he'll gladly do it again!"
"Who said anything about him being played in defense mode?" Theresa asked earning herself a look of confusion from Drew. "I special summoned Sword Master in attack mode."
"Well, if you're that eager to lose than you should've just surrendered!" Drew scoffed as he stared down the weak tuner. "What could you possibly do with that monster?"
"Well for one thing he can inflict damage to your life-points even when attacking a defense monster and I seem to remember the fact that Dandylion Special summons his tokens in defense!" Theresa pointed out and Drew's eyes widened. "But first things first, I'm special summoning another monster from my graveyard, Quilbolt Hedgehog!" Theresa retrieved the monster from her graveyard and played it, soon afterwards a small orange hedgehog appeared on the field; however what was strange about the creature was the fact that it had various nuts and bolts in place of its quills (2/800/600).
"That wins the award for most oddly cute monster in the game." Lance muttered under his breath as the monster appeared on the field.
"Wait a minute, that's a Machine Monster." Drew realized as the small hedgehog crouched down to indicate that it had been special summoned in defense mode. "What's it doing in your Warrior deck?"
"Here's the thing Drew, at no point during the duel did I say that I was using my Warrior Deck, you just assumed that because I used Reinforcement of the Army earlier." Theresa pointed out and Drew stared at her in confusion. "You want to know the truth? This is one of my prototype decks, one of three centered entirely around Synchro Monsters, you just happen to be facing the one that has a lot of warriors in it."
"I don't know if I should be less or more insulted." Drew said as he spat to the side. "You don't consider me worthy of one of your main decks?"
"Well considering you was barely in Ra Yellow for two weeks before being expelled, yes, that is exactly the case." Theresa said with a frown and Drew growled. "Back to business though, in case you haven't noticed I've yet to do a Normal Summon but my next move will change that." Theresa said before playing a card. "I summon Enraged Battle Ox in attack mode!" Theresa played the card and the angry Minotaur appeared on the field (4/1700/1000). "Battle Ox, Sword Master, attack his fluff tokens!" Theresa commanded and the two monsters charged towards the tokens, the tokens never stood a chance and where cut clean through.
T: 3600
D: 4300
"That does it!" Drew growled as his life-points plummeted. "On my next turn Leviathan will finish you off."
"Oh, will he really? How do you expect to do that when I still have over three thousand life-points left to spare?" Theresa asked with a smirk and Drew said nothing as he looked at his hand.
"That's easy, first I'll activate Lightning Vortex to clear the field, then I'll activate Delinquent Duo to get rid of the rest of her hand and lower my life-points to the point where I can use Megamorph to finish her off!" Drew thought but stopped when he saw her trap flip up. "You're using Urgent Tuning?"
"That's right, and as you should know by now this trap lets me do a Synchro Summon during my Battle Phase, so Sword Master, go ahead and give Enraged Battle Ox and Quilbolt Hedgehog a Tune Up!" Theresa said as Sword Master, Enraged Battle Ox and Quilbolt Hedgehog leapt into the air. "Do the math Drew, I'm about to do a Level 9 Synchro Summon, and the Synchro Summon that will end this duel, I tune Sword Master, Enraged Battle Ox and Quilbolt Hedgehog together so I can Synchro Summon Mist Wurm in attack mode!" Theresa played the card and a bright flash enveloped the field, when it faded a massive monster appeared in Enraged Battle Ox's place, as the name suggested it was a worm but it was a massive grey one that looked ready for battle (9/2500/1300).
"Nice try but you're monster falls a bit short at defeating Leviathan!" Drew said cockily, however his cockiness soon disappeared when the worm leapt towards Leviathan and swallowed it whole. "What on Earth just happened?"
"Mist Wurm's effect, that's what! You see when this big guy is Synchro Summoned I can return up to three cards on your side of the field to your hand, or in this case Extra Deck!" Theresa explained and Drew's eyes widened.
"No, Leviathan's effect activates from the graveyard, I'm defenseless!" Drew thought as he returned Leviathan to the extra deck.
"Mist Wurm, attack his life-points directly!" Theresa commanded and the massive worm leapt towards Drew and slammed its body into him.
T: 3600
D: 1800
"I'm still in this!" Drew said defiantly and Theresa shook her head before picking up a card.
"Unless you have a method of bringing back Leviathan your days are numbered." Theresa said sternly before looking at the rest of her hand. "I'll end my turn." Theresa said and Drew nervously drew his card.
"I set a monster in defense mode, that's it for me." Drew said as he set the card and Theresa drew her card. "Even if I used Lightning Vortex on that thing I have no way to bring back Leviathan and none of my current monsters have the ability to do much damage on their own, at least my set Morphing Jar 2 will force her to return that thing to her extra deck." Drew thought as he waited for Theresa to make her move.
"Sorry Drew but it's over." Theresa said as she played a card. "I activate Shield Crash which destroys your last line of defense!" Theresa played the card and Drew's eyes widened as the facedown monster shattered. "Mist Wurm, finish him!" Theresa commanded and once again the massive worm leapt towards Drew and slammed his body into him.
T: 3600
D: 0000
Theresa turned her head as the seal closed in around Drew's unconscious body and stole his soul; once Mist Wurm's hologram disappeared she deactivated her duel disk and returned to her friends. "I knew he took his expulsion hard but I never thought he'd take it that hard."
"People react to bad news in different ways Theresa; maybe if we had just suspended him instead none of this would've happened." Jeff agreed but Martin shook his head.
"Suspension for not only breaking the school's rules but the law as well? What kind of message would that have sent to the other students?" Martin said sternly as he glanced towards Drew's unconscious form. "The path he took after his expulsion is regrettable to say the least but the board of directors made the right decision." Martin added and Theresa frowned.
"Who knows? Maybe if I was expelled as well I would've joined the organization with him?" Theresa said with a shudder. "I'm just glad that whole incident was enough to scare me straight, for now let's focus on finding the next duelist." Theresa added and the others nodded in agreement before walking towards the ship.
*meanwhile*
"Another duelist has failed." Michael said as he watched the closing moments of the duel. "Too bad, Drew was one of my strongest minions."
"Yes, but he was far too confident." The leader commented with a frown. "He used to date Ms. Daniels; he should've known that she would find a way out of the mess."
"True enough, I should've intervened and insisted that Lance duel him instead." Michael said before looking at a camera that showed the next duelist. "Mr. Reynolds' opponent is ready; let's see how he handles this."