Andreas drew his card and looked over his hand, his deck hadn't changed much since his duel against Otto in the Battle City Semi-Finals but he had a few surprises in store for Tryna.
"Amazoness Paladin, anyone who's seen Theresa duel knows that that monster's a Support Card for the Amazoness Archetype so it's a good bet that that's what her deck's based around." Andreas thought as he thought back to Nicola's duel against Theresa back in Battle City. "Theresa's an excellent duelist and she knows how to use the Amazoness cards effectively, Tryna on the other hand…who knows how good she is." Andreas thought before turning to Tryna. "I'll let you go first."
"My, my, aren't we a gentlemen." Tryna said plainly before drawing an additional card. "I start by activating Reinforcement of the Army; this allows me to add one Level 4 or lower Warrior Type monster to my hand from my deck." Tryna played the card and picked up her deck, she searched through it before adding the card she was looking for to her hand and shuffling her deck. "Now I summon the first of my Amazoness Army, Amazoness Swords Woman!" Tryna played the card and a redheaded female warrior in a blue fur bikini appeared on the field wielding a sword (4/1500/1600). "And I set this card facedown for later, take your turn if you dare." Tryna set the card and Andreas drew his card.
"This isn't exactly my best hand but I've had far worse." Andreas thought as he looked over his cards. "Come forth Enraged Battle Ox!" Andreas played the card and the angry Minotaur appeared on the field with a snarl (4/1700/1000). "I am well aware of the fact that Swords Woman's effect means the damage from this battle will come out of my life-points, however since the difference is a mere 200 points of damage I can live with it, Enraged Battle Ox, AXE SLAM ATTACK!" Andreas commanded his monster and the ox let out an angry growl before charging at Swords Woman…
"Or so you think, I counter your attack with my Trap Card Half Counter!" Tryna activated her trap and the two monsters on the field started glowing.
"What on Earth….." Andreas wondered before his eyes widened as Swords Woman's attack increased to 2250. "Where did she get that power boost?"
"From your own monster, until the end of the turn Half Counter takes half of an attacking monster's attack points and adds them to the target's attack points." Tryna explained with a grin before pointing to Swords Woman. "Amazoness Swords Woman counterattack!" Tryna commanded and the woman let out a battle cry before charging at the Minotaur, the Minotaur tried to decapitate her with his axe but Swords Woman ducked underneath the blade in time before running through the minotaur with her sword, nothing happened for a few moments before Enraged Battle Ox dropped his axe and fell to the ground it's hologram shattering seconds later. "I thought you had talent but all I've seen so far is a fool that rushes into battle."
"We'll see about that." Andreas growled as his life-points dropped to 7450. "I set two cards facedown and end my turn." Andreas announced once Swords Woman returned to Tryna's side of the field.
"Why would she use Half Counter on Amazoness Swords Woman? The battle damage would've come out of Andreas's life-points anyway." Chelsea wondered and Brandon stroked his chin.
"Maybe it's because she knows that Enraged Battle Ox, despite having a very good effect, isn't one of Andreas's best monsters." Brandon offered with a shrug as Tryna drew her card.
"And that she was hoping to use Swords Woman's effect on a stronger monster?" Chelsea asked and Brandon nodded.
"It seems your friends are smarter than you are Andreas." Tryna commented before looking at her drawn card. "Which is bad news for you because I am about to take you to the home of the Amazons."
"The home of the Amazons, if that card in her hand's what I think it is then that can only mean one thing." Andreas realized as she played the card.
"I activate Amazoness Village!" Tryna played the card and the scenery changed to a Tribal Village in a jungle. "This has two effects, first it grants all Amazoness Monsters an additional 200 attack points….." Tryna explained as Swords Woman's attack increased to 1700. "The other effect is simple; when you destroy one Amazon another will take her place."
"I knew that, and I also know that you can only activate that card's effect once per turn." Andreas pointed out with a grin.
"You may know that but that knowledge won't save you from my Swords Woman's attack!" Tryna pointed out as her Swords Woman let out another battle cry before charging at Andreas…
"No but this will, I activate my trap card Battle Instinct!" Andreas activated his trap and picked up a card. "This trap card can only be activated if you declare a direct attack and I lack the means to defend myself otherwise, now that those conditions are met I can Special Summon one Level 4 or lower Beast Type monster from my hand such as Berserk Gorilla!" Andreas played the card and the orange gorilla appeared on the field with an angry howl (4/2000/1000).
"Very clever, Swords Woman, hold off your attack for now!" Tryna commanded and Swords Woman returned to Tryna's side of the field. "I could've attacked but I don't trust his other trap card, for all I know it could be something that would've negated Swords Woman's attack." Tryna thought before looking over the rest of her hand. "I end my turn for now." Tryna announced and Andreas drew his card. "I know your monster must attack if he's able too so you may as well get it over with."
"Not just yet, I have a Spell Card I want to play first." Andreas said before playing the Spell Card in question. "It's called Block Attack and with it….."
"You can force my Swords Woman into defense mode." Tryna interrupted as her Swords Woman knelt down. "I suppose you're going to attack now?"
"That's why, go Berserk Gorilla!" Andreas commanded and the gorilla charged towards the Swords Woman. "Now I activate my trap card Defenders Intersect, with this I can force your Swords Woman back into attack mode!"
"Then you just wasted your Spell Card." Tryna said as the Swords Woman stood up, the gorilla punched Swords Woman in the stomach, Tryna waited a few moments for Swords Woman to throw her sword at Andreas but it never happened and her hologram shattered. "What? Why didn't my Swords Woman's effect take affect? Your life-points should have depleted!"
"Normally it would have but that's the other effect of Defenders Intersect, any monsters it forces into defense mode lose their effects!" Andreas announced and Tryna's eyes widened as her life-points dropped to 7700
"It seems I understated your abilities." Tryna admitted before picking up her deck. "However thanks to the effect of Amazoness Village I can now summon another Amazoness monster in her place, you like beasts so much? Then allow me to introduce a beast of my own! Come forth Amazoness Tiger!" Tryna played the card once she found it and a red tiger with a gold collar appeared on the field (4/1100/1500). "My tiger has two effects; she gains 400 attack points for each Amazoness monster I control on top of the bonus she gets from being in my Village." Tryna explained as Amazoness Tiger's attack points shot up to 1700. "The other effect comes from being the loyal pet and protector of the Amazons, as long as she's on the field she's the only Amazoness monster you can target." Tryna added once she finished shuffling her deck.
"Very well, I set a card facedown and end my turn." Andreas announced and Tryna drew her card. "I knew this wasn't going to be easy just from watching the others duel but at least I have field control for the moment." Andreas thought before looking at Berserk Gorilla "As strong as my gorilla is I'll need to sacrifice or use it in a Synchro Summon soon, its effect will be too much of a liability if Tryna summons something stronger."
"Agreed Andreas but fret not for we can win this match." A voice rang out and Andreas blinked before grinning slightly.
"My Duel Spirit I assume?" Andreas asked as Tryna looked over her hand.
"Yes but I cannot reveal my true form to you until you summon me." The Duel Spirit responded and Andreas nodded. "Be warned, my power has been significantly weakened due to your imprisonment in the Orichalcos."
"Yeah, I had a feeling that would be the case." Andreas thought with a frown before turning to Tryna who was still considering her next move.
"I activate a Spell Card that isn't available in your world yet, it's called Gift from the Hunt Goddess." Tryna played the card and its hologram appeared on the field, it was a Continuous Spell Card depicting Amazon Queen approaching the Temple of Artemis whilst a crowd of Amazons watched on anxiously. ""This requires two things: that I have Amazoness Village in play, and that I have a monster with Amazoness in its name on my side of the field now that both conditions are met I can draw an extra card during my standby phase and when a monster is slain by an Amazoness I can draw two cards."
"Okay two things, Number 1: how come she has a card that's not even out in our world for another three months and Number 2: that's gotta be broken!" Lance protested and the other students nodded in agreement.
"Not quite Lance." Silent Magician said as she folded her arms. "Part of the advantages of being a Spirit Word resident is that we get cards months before the Real World; I've never understood how that works either."
"And as I was about to say there is a side effect." Tryna added as she folded her arms. "If all of the Amazons on my side of the field fall in battle or by a card effect Gift from the Hunt Goddess will be destroyed as well." Tryna explained and the students nodded. "There's also the fact that if I use both drawing effects in the same turn I have to skip the next draw phase as well as during the standby phase."
"Okay that doesn't seem too bad now that you've explained it a bit better." Theresa admitted with a frown. "But you'll still draw from a successful attack."
"Exactly, and that's exactly what I'm about to do right now." Tryna nodded before playing her drawn card. "First I equip my Tiger with another Spell Card called Beast Fangs; being a Beast Type user yourself I trust you know how this works."
"Indeed, it increases the equipped monster's attack points by 300 points." Andreas nodded with a frown as Amazoness Tiger's attack points rose to 2000. "Sadly for you your Tiger is only strong enough to match my Gorilla hit for hit, any battle that takes place will result in a draw taking Gift from the Hunt Goddess with it."
"Oh ye of little faith, I haven't even summoned a monster yet." Tryna said as she held up a card. "Allow me to correct that by summoning Amazoness Fighter to the field!" Tryna played the card and another woman appeared on the field, she had long brown hair in a ponytail and brown eyes and was wearing a blue fur bikini (4/1500/1300).
"Wow, she kind of looks like you Theresa, and you would look good in that…..." Marcus commented only to get punched in the back of the head by the female Obelisk Blue Student.
"Marcus, get your mind out of the gutter now." Theresa warned him and Marcus groaned.
"Marcus, you really should watch what you say around females." Lord of Dragons warned him as Marcus got up. "Especially females with cards as powerful as Armed Dragon Level 10 as their Duel Spirit."
"Yeah, yeah, I heard the same thing all the time from my dad, well besides the Duel Spirit part for obvious reasons." Marcus responded and Lord of Dragons chuckled. "Come to think of it the Duel Spirits we've faced so far have all had names other than their Duel Monster ones, do you have one?"
"Ortar, but I prefer Lord of Dragons personally." Lord of Dragons answered and Marcus shrugged.
"Now let's get down to business." Tryna said as her tiger's attack points increased to 2400. "Amazoness Tiger, attack Berserk Gorilla!" Tryna commanded and the tiger let out a growl before leaping at Berserk Gorilla and ripping its throat out bringing Andreas's life-points down to 7050. "And now that my tiger's destroyed a monster Gift from the Hunt Goddess's effect activates." Tryna said as Gift from the Hunt Goddess's hologram glowed and she drew twice. "Excellent, this will make for an excellent combo with Gift but first things first…." Tryna thought before adding the cards to her hand and pointing to Amazoness Fighter. "Amazoness Fighter, attack his life-points directly!" Tryna commanded and the fighter charged towards Andreas…
"I activate Defense Draw!" Andreas played the card and grimaced as he was punched in the stomach by Amazoness Fighter. "This reduces the damage from Amazoness Fighter's attack to zero and allows me to draw a new card." Andreas said before drawing a card.
"Very well, I enter my second main phase and activate a companion card to Gift of the Hunt Goddess." Tryna said before playing a card and the card's hologram appeared depicting an amazon walking around Amazoness Village whilst carrying a newborn baby in her arms whilst the transparent image of a beautiful woman's face watched from the sky with a smile on her face. "Blessings from the Hunt Goddess, this has the requirements of Gift but also requires the presence of Gift of the Hunt Goddess on the field, as long as it's on the field when a monster of mine successfully slays one of your monsters in battle the battle damage gets added to my life-points."
"There's got to be some kind of drawback to this combo." Chelsea protested and Tryna nodded.
"Indeed there is, if Gift is destroyed for any reason whilst the two cards are on the field I must remove all copies of both cards on the field and in my deck from play." Tryna explained with a frown before setting the other card she drew with Gift. "But I wouldn't worry about that just yet, take your turn Andreas." Tryna added and Andreas drew his card.
"Okay, that's a pretty powerful combo." Andreas thought before looking over his hand. "Perfect, I have what I need to put that kitten to sleep!" Andreas thought before playing a card. "I summon Ape Fighter in attack mode!"
"Humph, another ape, do you plan on summoning a petting zoo next?" Tryna asked mockingly as the ape in cargo pants appeared on the field (4/1900/1200).
"Laugh all you want but this monster's about to put a dent in your strategy." Andreas said and Tryna scoffed.
"Did you forget Amazoness Tiger's other effect so soon? As long as she's on the field you can't attack another Amazoness." Tryna pointed out before noticing the grin on his face. "What are you planning?"
"This, I activate a Quick Play Spell Card called Forbidden Chalice!" Andreas played the card and a small golden cup appeared in front of Amazoness Tiger which she lowered her head into so that she could drink from it.
"Thank you but my tiger didn't need feeding." Tryna said before noticing two things, Amazoness Tiger seemed to be in pain and that she had lost all her gained attack points besides the bonus from Beast Fangs and an additional 400 points that is. "What have you done?"
"Forbidden Chalice is somewhat of a Double Edged Sword." Andreas said as Tryna looked at her monster concerned. "It increases the attack of the targeted monster by 400 points but in exchange its effects are negated until I end my turn but by then your Tiger will be destroyed." Andreas explained before playing another card. "But first I activate Mystical Space Typhoon and use it to destroy Beast Fangs!" Andreas played the card he had just drawn the a tornado washed over the field before shattering Beast Fangs and reducing Tiger's attack points to 1500.
"Err, why didn't he destroy either of her Hunt Goddess cards?" Chelsea wondered as she scratched her head in confusion.
"He probably has something else planned for them." Tyler assumed as Andreas grinned before he pointed at Amazoness Tiger.
"Ape Fighter, attack her tiger!" Andreas commanded and the ape charged towards the weakened monster…..
"Fortunately I anticipated this." Tryna said before activating her card, it was another new card this time depicting Marauding Captain getting in the way of an attack on Troop Dragon that was being launched by a Blue-Eyes White Dragon. "Fight as One, this trap card requires the presence of two level four or lower monsters on my side of the field and when the weakest monster is targeted for an attack the strongest monster will take the hit instead, unfortunately it comes with a price, the surviving monster can't attack during my next turn."
"And thanks to Fighter's effect the battle damage will be reduced to zero." Andreas realized with a frown as Ape Fighter changed its course towards Amazoness Fighter, Ape Fighter punched her through the stomach destroying her. "There's one good thing I can take away from that however, when Ape Fighter destroys a monster in battle his attack points increase by 300." Andreas explained as his monster's attack points rose to 2200.
"That maybe so but by destroying one Amazon you've triggered the effect of my village allowing me to summon Amazoness Blow Piper!" Tryna played the card and another Amazoness appeared in Amazoness Fighter's place, she was tanned like that others with long purple hair and brown eyes, she was wearing a green fur bikini top and a loincloth around her waist and, as the name implied, she had a blow pipe in her hand (3/800/1500) and her attack increased to 1000 thanks to the presence of the village.
"This village is getting on my nerves." Andreas thought before picking up the card he had drawn with Defense Draw. "I set a card facedown and end my turn at that." Andreas announced and Tryna drew her card once the effects of Forbidden Chalice wore off.
"First I move into the standby phase triggering the first effect of Gift of the Hunt Goddess." Tryna announced before drawing an extra card. "But my standby phase isn't done yet because now the effect of my Blow Piper activates." Tryna announced as her weaker monster put a dart in the pipe before firing it at Ape Fighter reducing its attack points by 500. "As you can see my Blowpiper specializes in in poison darts that slowly kill the opposition, in short during each standby phase she will drain one monster you control of 500 attack points leaving Ape Fighter in a perfect position to be done away with."
"Maybe but due to the effect of your own trap Amazoness Tiger can't attack until your next turn." Andreas pointed out and Tryna chuckled.
"Who said that I would be attacking with my Tiger? I think it's time I summoned my duel monsters counterpart!" Tryna said before playing the second card she drew. "I summon Amazoness Paladin!" Tryna played the card and the mirror image of Tryna appeared on the field (4/1700/300).
"Whoa, I'm seeing double!" Marcus blinked and the other students facepalmed.
"My Paladin gains 100 attack points for each Amazoness Monster on my side of the field as well as the bonus she gets from being in my village." Tryna explained as her monster's attack points increased to 2100. "Do the math Andreas, you are in for a world of pain, Paladin attack Ape Fighter!" Tryna commanded and her counterpart charged towards Ape Fighter before slicing the monster in two. "Don't forget, thanks to the effects of Gift and Blessing I get to draw two more cards and get 400 life-points added to my score." Tryna added before drawing twice before her life-points rose to 8100 whilst Andreas's life-points dropped to 6650.
"Aren't you forgetting something? You used both drawing effects in the same turn, you have to skip your next draw phase and you won't be able to use Gift's second drawing effect." Andreas pointed out before bracing himself for a direct attack from blowpiper.
"Off course I didn't! It is my own card after all!" Tryna insisted before looking over her cards. "I switch Amazoness Blowpiper to defense mode and set the two cards I just drew facedown." Tryna announced as her weakest monster knelt down in defense mode and her two set cards appeared on the field. "I end my turn at that."
"Huh? Why didn't she follow that up with a direct attack? Sure it's only a thousand points of damage but battle damage is still battle damage!" Chelsea wondered and Tyler stroked his chin.
"She probably figured that Amazoness Blowpiper would serve her better in defense mode." Tyler reasoned as he turned to Chelsea. "Amazoness Blowpiper isn't exactly the strongest card in the game after all."
"Aren't you forgetting that the girl you're talking too uses Watt Monsters?" Chelsea protested with a scowl and Tyler shook his head.
"That's different, your Watt Monsters make up for their low attack with powerful effects, all Blowpiper has is her effect to weaken monsters." Tyler pointed out and Chelsea frowned. "On one hand with all the cards she's been drawing she'll deck herself out if she's not careful."
"Yeah but that's if she doesn't wipe out Andreas first." Lance chimed in earning an annoyed glare from Andreas as he drew his card. "What? I'm just saying!"
"Yes, your just saying that whilst I'm well within earshot!" Andreas pointed out with a scowl before looking at his drawn card and the cards in his hand. "This could help quite a bit." Andreas thought before playing the card. "I activate One Day of Peace, not only does this allow us both to draw a card but any battle damage inflicted by either of us becomes zero until my next turn."
"Humph, that was very clever." Tryna admitted before she and Andreas made additional draws. "However Gift of the Hunt Goddess does not require battle damage to be inflicted to activate it's second drawing effect, any way you look at it I'll draw a number of three cards by the time your turn begins." Tryna added and Andreas smirked. "Do you have a reason for being so happy?"
"Why yes, it's the fact that making you draw so many cards will eventually cause you to deck out." Andreas responded and Tryna looked at her deck before realizing there were only seventeen cards left in it. "Your combo may be powerful but what good will it do you when you run out of cards to draw?" Andreas asked as he adjusted his glasses and Tryna smirked.
"You think you have my strategy all figured out? Think again." Tryna said as she looked at her newly drawn card. "Gift and Blessing are only two components of my deck strategy; you haven't seen it in full."
"Then allow me to eliminate one such component, I activate Tribute to the Doomed." Andreas played the card and discarded a card from his hand. "I toss one card and in exchange I can destroy Amazoness Paladin!" Andreas announced as bandages shot towards Paladin…
"You'll have to try harder than that to destroy my counterpart!" Tryna interrupted before activating one of her traps. "I counter with Dramatic Rescue, since you've targeted Amazoness Paladin with a Spell Card this allows me to return her to my hand and summon another Amazoness in her place!" Tryna's trap flipped up and Amazoness Paladin vanished before the bandages could wrap around her. "As for her replacement, I summon Amazoness Chain Master!" Tryna played the card and in her counterpart's place stood a woman with silver hair that was long and wild who was wearing a blue pokadotted fur bikini and was holding a chain as her name implied (4/1500/1300) and her attack increased to 1700 thanks to the village.
"And as soon as you summon Paladin on your next turn she'll be even stronger than before." Andreas said with a frown as he sent his cards to the graveyard. "Worse yet her Tiger will be able to attack again on her next turn." Andreas thought as he glanced towards the ferocious beast and then towards his facedown card. "I set that as a bluff two turns ago, should I risk it?"
"I'd say it's worth the risk at the moment." The duel spirit advised him and Andreas nodded.
"I'm not done yet, I activate my facedown card Pride of the Pack!" Andreas activated his trap and another new card flipped up this time depicting a pack of lions charging through the African wilderness. "This trap card requires that I have at least four beast or beast-warrior type monsters in my graveyard and I get to draw one card for each monster of those types in my graveyard, however if I draw another copy of any of the cards in my graveyard then I end my turn and I must skip my next turn."
"That's gotta be one of the stupidest risks I've seen since I joined this academy!" Chelsea said with a facepalm as Andreas started drawing his cards. "When did he get that card anyway? Wasn't it just released in a booster pack?"
"It wasn't during Battle City, I would've noticed if he had brought a new card." Marcus told her with a look of confusion on his face. "Maybe his partner in the Tag Team Tournament got it for him."
"Yeah but like I said, it's a stupid risk! Just look at what Tryna has on her side of the field!" Chelsea protested as Andreas drew five cards, four from the monsters already destroyed and one from the card he discarded for Tribute to the Doomed, and looked over them.
"Your concerns may be valid but you have nothing to worry about Chelsea." Andreas said as he turned to her. "I drew two monsters, two Traps and a Spell Card with that card; none of them are cards present in my graveyard."
"Well that's a relief." Chelsea sighed as Andreas sent his trap to the graveyard.
"But I'm not done yet! I set three cards facedown and summon Des Kangaroo in attack mode!" Andreas played the cards and a green kangaroo in a purple jacket appeared on the field, it was wearing boxing gloves and it made a few jabs (4/1500/1700). "I know what you're thinking, this monster doesn't look like much, but his effect makes up for that fact!"
"What effect?" Tryna demanded and Andreas smirked.
"If the attack of a monster that attacks this card is lower than the defense of this card the attacking monster is destroyed. "Andreas explained and Tryna scoffed.
"You fool! None of my monsters fit the criteria for his effect besides Blowpiper and I'd be suicidal to even consider attacking with her!" Tryna said with a smirk and Andreas maintained his poker face. "Nice try but not good enough!"
"I shall end my turn at that." Andreas said simply and Tryna skipped her draw phase due to Gift's side effect.
"First I use Blowpiper's effect to drain 500 attack points from Des Kangaroo!" Tryna announced as her weakest monster fired her blowpipe at the Kangaroo bringing his attack points down to 1000. "Those facedown cards must be bluffs! There's no way they could be of any help to him now!" Tryna thought with a grin before playing the card. "Remember Amazoness Paladin? She's back and stronger than ever before!" Tryna played the card and her counterpart returned to the field and her attack rose to 2200 due to the presence of Chain Master on the field.
"That's just what I was hoping for! I activate Chain Destruction!" Andreas announced and Tryna's eyes widened as a chain went through her counterpart's chest and into her deck. "Admittedly this one of the more situational cards in the game but it's served me well now! This can only be activated if you summon a monster with 2000 attack points or less and every other copy of that card in your deck is sent to the graveyard." Andreas said with a smirk.
"And since Paladin has a base attack of 1700 she was a perfect candidate for that trap!" Tryna realized as her eyes widened. "Very clever but aren't you forgetting something? I still have a Paladin on the field!" Tryna pointed out and Andreas grinned.
"I'm not worried; in fact hit me with your best shot!" Andreas taunted her and Tryna scoffed.
"My best shot? If you're that eager to lose you should've surrendered." Tryna said with a smirk before switching Blowpiper to attack mode and pointing to her tiger. "And with Amazoness Tiger's attack at 2900 thanks to the village and the number of Amazoness monsters on my side of the field your defeat will come swiftly." Tryna said before pausing. "Question is who to attack with? Amazoness Chain Master can easily take out that joke of a monster clearing the path for my stronger monsters, Amazoness Tiger can cause the most damage from his attack…..but I can't let Paladin's sisters go unavenged!" Tryna decided before pointing to her counterpart. "Amazoness Paladin, avenge your sisters and attack Des Kangaroo!" Tryna commanded and her counterpart let out a fierce battle cry before charging at the Kangaroo.
"Thank you! I activate my Quick Play Spell Card Reliable Guardian!" Tryna's eyes widened when she heard that as Des Kangaroo's defense increased to 2400. "This is a counterpart card to Rush Recklessly but where Rush Recklessly increases the attack of a monster by 700 points Reliable Guardian does the same thing for his defense!"
"And with Des Kangaroo's effect…." Tryna's eyes widened as she turned to her Paladin. "Halt your attack! It's a trap!" Tryna called out but it was too late, Des Kangaroo ducked under Paladin's blade and uppercutted her causing her hologram to shatter. "You'll pay for that! I use the effect of my village to special summon another Amazoness Swords Woman from my deck!" Tryna announced as the redheaded swords woman returned to the field. "Your defense may be too tough for her to crack but not my tiger's! Amazoness Tiger, teach him a lesson he won't soon forget!" Tryna commanded and her tiger leapt towards Kangaroo…
"Did you forget about my remaining facedown card this early?" Andreas asked and Tryna blinked…but her eyes widened when she saw the trap. "Go Mirror Force!"
"NO! NO! ANYTHING BUT THAT TRAP!" Tryna yelled out as her tiger's attack was reflected back at her remaining monsters destroying them all. "I must say, you have been a worthy opponent Andreas."
"And I can say the same for you." Andreas admitted as he sent his three cards to the graveyard and Tryna did likewise with her monsters.
"Why didn't he use that card on Paladin?" Chloe wondered as Theresa stroked her chin.
"Amazoness Village's second effect can only be used once per turn, by making her waste it on Swords Woman he ensured that she could not use its effect again." Theresa realized with a nod.
"My facedown card is useless! It's Amazoness Archers; it was a backup plan on the off chance that he somehow destroyed Amazoness Tiger." Tryna thought before playing a card. "I activate Emergency Provisions and I use it to send my remaining facedown card to the graveyard to add a thousand life-points to my score." Tryna played the card and her facedown card vanished as her life-points increased to 9400. "I end my turn." Tryna announced and Andreas nodded before drawing his card.
"I activate Card of Sanctity!" Andreas played the card and drew until he had six cards in his hand, Tryna didn't draw any however as her hand was full. "Sorry to say Tryna but I'm about to destroy your combo."
"How do you intend to do that?" Tryna asked and Andreas turned one of his drawn cards around, Tryna's eyes widened when she saw it. "Heavy Storm? NO!"
"Yes." Andreas said simply before playing the card, a storm washed over the field destroying Amazoness Village, Gift of the Hunt Goddess and Blessings From The Hunt Goddess in that order. "And don't forget Blessing's side effect."
"I didn't forget." Tryna said angrily before retrieving the other copies of her two Spell Cards and sticking all three copies in her top. "Now onto…" Tryna said before noticing the looks she was getting. "What? Do you see a pocket in this outfit? I have to improvise sometimes!"
"God I'd love to be those cards right now…." Marcus muttered only to get punched in the back of the head by Theresa, Chloe and Chelsea. "That was totally worth it!"
"Thank you, you three would make fine Amazons." Tryna said before turning to Andreas. "Do you have another move to make?"
"I don't know if I should take that as a complement or not." Chloe whispered to the other girls who nodded in agreement.
"Yes I do." Andreas said as he played a card. "I activate Polymerization, fusing Big Koala in my hand and Des Kangaroo on my field in order to fusion summon my best monster, the Master of Oz!" Andreas played the card and the two monsters fused together and out of the portal emerged the massive koala (9/4200/3700).
"Finally, my true form is revealed." The Master of Oz bellowed revealing himself to be Andreas's spirit guide. "Are you ready to end this master?"
"Indeed I am." Andreas said with a smirk before pointing to his monster. "Master of Oz, attack her life-points directly!" Andreas commanded and the massive monster launched its fist at Tryna bringing her life-points down to 5200.
"All that move did was allow you to have a small lead." Tryna said as she dusted herself off. "I'll still have more than enough life-points to continue."
"That's wear your wrong, I activate a Quick Play Spell Card De-Fusion!" Andreas played the card and turned to his duel spirit. "Sorry, has to be done."
"I understand." Master of Oz said with a nod before splitting up into its individual components, Des Kangaroo appeared on the field first with its attack sore intact and it was quickly followed by a massive koala carrying a tree (7/2700/2000).
"Next I activate another quick play spell card, Rush Recklessly! And I use it on Big Koala!" Andreas played the card and Big Koala's attack rose to 3400. "Now my beasts, attack her life-points directly!" Andreas commanded and Des Kangaroo struck first punching Tryna in the face, when she looked up from the punch she saw Big Koala's tree collide with her bringing her life-points down to 300.
"It doesn't matter!" Tryna said as she got to her feet. "I may only have 300 life-points left but I still have life-points left!"
"Sorry but this duel is over because I have one last card to play." Andreas said before activating another card from his hand. "A Quick Play Spell Card called Super Polymerization, I must discard the last card in my hand to use it but it allows me to fusion summon Master of Oz once more!" Andreas played the card and the two monsters fused together to form Andreas's best monster. "Master of Oz, are you ready to end this?"
"Yes I am!" Master of Oz said with a nod before pulling his fist back and punching Tryna again bringing her life-points down to zero.
"I have fallen in battle." Tryna admitted as she got up and deactivated her duel disk as did Andreas. "I must admit, it's been so long since that has happened that I have forgotten what the stinging pain of defeat feels like."
"Facing defeat is never easy; it doesn't matter if you're a human or a Duel Spirit." Andreas said with a nod as Tryna turned towards the portal.
"You have gained the loyalty of an extremely powerful duel spirit; don't let it go to waste Andreas." Tryna said before stepping through the portal, Andreas sighed in relief as he turned to the others.
"Master of Oz huh? Not too shabby." Chelsea said with a grin which Andreas returned. "But I think my Duel Spirits better."
"You would say that." Andreas said with a chuckle as he turned to her. "But only because your duel spirit's a Synchro Monster with the ability to attack directly."
"And what's that supposed to mean?" Chelsea challenged him and Andreas smirked.
"Just a simple fact, if you hadn't destroyed Skill Drain when you did your duel would've ended a lot differently." Andreas said and Chelsea growled.
"Break it up you two! This isn't a contest over whose duel spirit is superior." Chloe said getting in between them. "Especially since mine's the best one!" Chloe added and the two duelists face-faulted.
"You're one to talk!" Chelsea protested before grinning. "Oh yeah, I almost forgot, you're up next!" Chelsea added and Chloe blinked.
"But why am I being tested? My duel spirit's already been established." Chloe asked before pointing to Silent Magician.
"You will see momentarily Chloe." Silent Magician told her as a figure stepped through the portal, the monster was almost instantly recognizable as Celtic Guardian (4/1400/1200).
"Which one of you is Chloe Richardson?" Celtic Guardian asked and Chloe stepped forward without hesitation. "Good evening milady, I am Reynkor, the Retrained Celtic Guardian."
"Retrained? Don't you mean Obnoxious?" Lance asked and Reynkor face faulted. "What? What did I say?"
"Do you have any idea how humiliating that name is too me?" Reynkor asked as he got up, his sword turned into a Duel Disk that matched the colors of his outfit and he strapped it on. "It matters not; I am here to help this young lady reach her potential and nothing more."
"I'm sure you won't mind losing somewhere along the way." Chloe said as she activated her duel disk. "What will happen if I summon Silent Magician though? Unlike the other Duel Spirits she's in the same room as me." Chloe thought as she glanced towards her Duel Spirit.
*meanwhile at the tech services department*
The tech staff at Duel Academy where sum of the best money could buy, Kaiba saw to that personally, but where often overworked due to the Academy's sheer size, in fact many of the technicians where lobbying to Kaiba to build them another office outside of the main building to alleviate the workload and make it easier for students with tech problems to get them fixed, tonight however they were busy trying to figure out why the students were at the abandoned dorm, to make matters worse Martin, Jeff, Maria and Tracy where watching over them.
"It's been four hours since we caught them on the security tapes." Jeff said as he took a sip off his coffee. "What on Earth are they doing down there?"
"Whatever it is we'll find out soon enough." The lead technician said as he typed away at his computer.
"Sir, you may want to look at this, same goes for the teachers!" Another technician called out and the five of them went over to his console. "I've been checking the duel logs, there have been four duels in a row in the past four hours, and all of the ID Tags match the duelists that have been caught on the cameras."
"So that's what they're doing." Tracy said as she bent over for a closer look. "You can't identify their opponents?"
"I tried but the opponents aren't registered on our systems or Kaibacorp's for that matter and since there are no cameras in the Abandoned Dorm I can't get footage of the duels either." The technician responded as he typed away at his console. "Another duel just started, can't identify who the opponent is but the ID Tag matches Chloe Richardson's duel disk."
"Can you shut it off?" Martin asked and the technician shook his head.
"Tried that during Chelsea Cunningham's duel, something is blocking the signal and I'm not sure what it is." The technician responded before motioning to the other technicians. "They are trying to disrupt the signal but they are having no luck."
"What could possibly be blocking the shutoff signal? It's supposed to be foolproof." Martin wondered as he stroked his chin. "Unless….."
"You're not suggesting that they somehow got into a Shadow Duel are you?" Jeff asked with a shudder. "Those things are the reason that dorm's off limits."
"Well if they were forced into it we can go a bit lighter on the punishment." Martin said with a deep, concerned frown. "That's if they won, we both know the duel logs don't record the winners of the match, just the participants." Martin added and the other teacher's expressions turned grim at that prospect.