"So, what deck does your sister run anyway?" Chloe asked as she sat down in the audience next too Tyler, Chelsea and Miranda where in the middle off shuffling their decks.
"Well, remember when you asked me why my deck wasn't closer to my fathers?" Tyler asked and Chloe nodded. "My sister's deck on the other hand is closer to my father's but she's modernized it a bit, you'll see once they start dueling."
"Modernize? You mean like what Theresa did when she made her Kaiba deck?" Chloe asked and Tyler nodded.
"Yes, Miranda gave Theresa her blessing to go ahead and make that deck but Miranda's deck has cards that only she could get her hands on thanks to our father." Tyler told her and Chloe blinked before it dawned on her.
"Wait, does that mean she was the Blue-Eyes White Dragons, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon and Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon?" Chloe asked because it was a well-known fact that the last duel of Yugi and Kaiba's professional carriers before they retired featured that card.
"I'm not at liberty to say." Tyler shrugged his shoulders as Miranda and Chelsea drew their opening hands. "But if she does than Chelsea's in trouble."
"Okay, Miranda, if you don't mind I'd like to go first." Chelsea said after looking over her hand, Miranda looked over her hand, shrugged and Chelsea drew a card. "Better be careful, if her deck's anything like her dad's than my Watt monsters will be in trouble." Chelsea thought before picking up three cards. "I set two cards facedown and a monster in defense that ends my turn." Chelsea announced and once the three set cards appeared on the field Miranda drew her card.
"Playing defensively on the first turn? From what I've heard that's pretty out of character for her." Miranda thought as she looked over her hand. "Then again she's probably anticipated me using an upgraded version of dad's deck." Miranda thought before picking up the card she drew. "I activate a Spell Card called Shard of Greed."
"I've heard of that card." Chelsea said with a frown as the spell card appeared on the field. "Hell it was in the original build of my deck until I found out about Pride of the Weak."
"Then you know of its effect." Miranda said and Chelsea nodded. "We'll worry about that later, for now I summon Enraged Battle Ox,"
"Oh crap." Chelsea gulped as the angry Minotaur appeared on the field (4/1700/1000). "Just my luck that the first monster you summon of the game is a monster that inflicts piercing damage."
"And based on your reaction I'd say your defense monster has a low defense?" Miranda asked and Chelsea nodded reluctantly. "Enraged Battle Ox, Axe Slam Attack!" Miranda commanded and the Minotaur let out an angry growl before charging at the facedown monster, revealed to be Wattdragonfly (2/900/100) which he cut in half with his axe bringing Chelsea's life-points down to 6400.
"You may have knocked my life-points down a peg or two but in the process you activated Wattdragonfly's effect!" Chelsea said before picking up her deck. "With it I can search my deck for another Watt Monster and summon it too the field!" Chelsea played the card and a small blue bird with a red face appeared on the field (4/1000/800). "Wattphesant here will do just nicely."
"You realize you could've brought out Wattaildragon with that effect right?" Miranda asked and Chelsea blinked. "It's not like there's any restrictions on what cards you can summon with Wattdragonfly's effect."
"Maybe but there's a reason I brought this gal out." Chelsea said with a grin and Miranda frowned.
"If you say so, I set a card facedown and end my turn." Miranda set the card down and Chelsea activated one of her traps.
"Before I do anything else I activate Shock Draw, since I just took over one thousand points of damage this turn I can draw one card." Chelsea announced before drawing her card, once her draw phase started she drew another. "Oh Miranda, fun little fact about Wattphesant, she's one of the Watt Monsters that can bypass your monster and attack directly."
"Wait, what?" Miranda yelled out once it hit her, Chelsea grinned before playing a card.
"But first I'll bring out the little guy I drew with Shock Draw, Wattfox!" Chelsea played the card and the electric fox appeared on the field (2/800/100). "Now Wattphesant, attack her life-points directly!" Chelsea commanded and the pheasant flew over Enraged Battle Ox before pecking at Miranda bringing her life-points down to 7000. "And since I just attacked directly Wattphesant's effect activates removing Enraged Battle Ox from play for the rest of the turn."
"Oh crap." Miranda gulped as Enraged Battle Ox disappeared from the field, Chelsea pointed at her and Wattfox head-butted Miranda bringing her life-points down to 6200. "I know Wattfox is a tuner monster Chelsea, you should've done a Synchro Summon first."
"Actually this is where my other trap comes in, Urgent Tuning!" Chelsea activated the trap and her two monsters leapt into the air. "I tune Wattfox with Wattphesant to Synchro Summon Wattchimera!" Chelsea played the card and the electric mythical beast appeared on the field (6/1400/1000). "It's your turn Wattchimera!" Chelsea commanded and the beast leapt towards Miranda…..
"Okay, that's enough of that; I activate my trap card Negate Attack!" Miranda activated the trap and Wattchimera bounced off of a force-field. "Before you ask I didn't activate it sooner because I thought you'd only be attacking with Wattphesant."
"And that you could handle the damage?" Chelsea asked and Miranda nodded. "Fine then, I set a card facedown and end my turn." Chelsea set the card and once Enraged Battle Ox returned to the field Miranda drew a card.
"Since I drew a card during my draw phase Shard of Greed gets its first Greed Counter." Miranda said as her spell card's hologram glowed. "Next I play Foolish Burial which lets me send one card from my deck to my graveyard." Miranda played the card before picking up her deck, searching through it and sending the card she was looking for to the grave.
"It's a safe bet that that's a monster she can bring back somehow." Chelsea thought as Miranda pointed at Enraged Battle Ox.
"Now to make sure you don't get any ideas regarding Wattchimera, Enraged Battle Ox, attack!" Miranda commanded and the Minotaur charged towards Wattchimera…..
"I activate Synchro Strike!" Chelsea played the card and too Miranda's surprise Wattchimera's attack increased to 2400. "This trap gives Wattchimera 500 attack points for each monster used to summon him until the end phase!" Chelsea explained as Wattchimera dodged underneath Enraged Battle Ox's axe before ripping his throat out bringing Miranda's life-points down to 5500. "Too think I was worried going into this match."
"Don't get too cocky, encase you haven't noticed I haven't summoned yet." Miranda said before picking up two cards in her hand. "I set a monster in defense and two cards facedown, go ahead and take your turn Chelsea." Miranda announced and Chelsea drew her card once Wattchimera's attack dropped back to 1400.
"Lightning Recharge, this could help." Chelsea thought before playing another card. "First I activate Monster Reincarnation to return Wattdragonfly to my hand." Chelsea announced before discarding a Spell Card and retrieving the monster from her grave. "Now I activate my Lightning Recharge Spell Card, since I have two thunder type monsters with less than 1500 attack points in my graveyard I can remove both cards from play and in exchange I can draw twice." Chelsea pocketed the two cards before drawing twice. "Pride of the Weak, unfortunately the only card in my hand that fits the bill is Wattdragonfly." Chelsea thought before playing it. "First I activated Pride of the Weak."
"Pity you have too many cards in your hand for it to work." Miranda pointed out and Chelsea frowned.
"True but this is just so I don't forget about it once I do have a non-existent hand." Chelsea nodded before playing a card. "For now I summon the monster I recovered with Monster Reincarnation, welcome back Wattdragonfly!" Chelsea played the card and the dragonfly returned to the field (2/900/100).
"You're probably wondering what card to attack with, let me make that decision easy for you." Beth said as her trap flipped up depicting the infamous Ojama Trio charging into battle against a Blue-Eyes White Dragon. "Weak Strike forces you to attack my facedown monster with the weakest card on your side of the field on the condition that that card has less than a thousand attack points and if it's destroyed by the subsequent battle any battle damage is nullified."
"Great, knowing my luck that facedown card's something with a high defense." Chelsea thought before pointing to Wattdragonfly. "Well, it's your funeral, Wattdragonfly attack her defense!" Chelsea commanded and the dragonfly flew towards the facedown card; however her eyes widened when she saw the card. "Please tell me that's not Giant Germ (2/1000/100)!?" Chelsea yelled out as the monster's hologram shattered, Miranda didn't answer the question as the fact that Chelsea's life-points had dropped to 6900 answered it for her. "I'm guessing you have two more of those things on the way?"
"You got it." Miranda nodded as the two more Giant Germs appeared on the field both in attack mode. "So, you plan on attacking again?"
"Yeah but I'm not dumb enough to attack those things." Chelsea said before pointing at Miranda. "Wattchimera, bypass her monsters and attack directly!" Chelsea commanded and the beast leapt towards Miranda…
"Not this time Chelsea, I activate Attack Guidance Armor!" Miranda's trap flipped up and the strange armor attached itself to the germ. "In the past this would only work if you targeted another monster but thanks to I2's ruling that said it could be used to prevent direct attacks….."
"Yeah, yeah, I know." Chelsea grumbled as Wattchimera ripped the germ to shreds bringing Chelsea's life-points down to 6400 and Miranda's down to 5100. "I still have the lead though."
"Yeah, you do, but for how long?" Miranda asked and Chelsea frowned.
"I'll keep it long enough to win this duel! I set one card facedown and end my turn." Chelsea set the card down and Miranda drew her card.
"Man this bites!" Tyler and Chloe blinked before looking up and seeing a visibly frustrated Marcus sitting down in the seat across from them. "First I'm facing possible expulsion and now this!"
"Something wrong Marcus?" Chloe asked and Marcus turned to her.
"You remember how I summoned Five Headed Dragon with Future Fusion back in Battle City?" Marcus asked and the two duelists nodded. "Well I was planning on doing the same thing in my expulsion duel but that strategy's now gone out the window."
"What do you mean?" Chloe asked and Marcus sighed.
"They just released the upcoming forbidden list for the next format right? Well Maria gave me and the other students a sneak peek at it, Future Fusion's banned!" Marcus said as he held up his Spell Card. "What's worse is that the list will go into effect the day before the expulsion duels."
"That's too bad, though if you ask me that card should've been banned when the last Forbidden List was made official due to Chaos Dragons." Tyler added and Marcus glared at him. "I realize that isn't exactly helping but I'm just stating my opinion."
"If you say so but now I need a new tactic!" Marcus groaned before pocketing the card. "So, err, how did the duel between you two go?"
"You heard huh?" Chloe asked and Marcus nodded. "I almost won but he used a trap to reflect Silent Magician's attack."
"Forgot to set Seven Tools of the Bandit again?" Marcus asked and Chloe rolled her eyes at the comment. "So who's the girl Chelsea's dueling?"
"That's my step-sister Miranda." Tyler told him and Marcus blinked. "So far Chelsea's winning but I wouldn't count Miranda out yet,"
"Since I've drawn again my Shard gains a new counter." Miranda said as her Spell Card glowed again. "But my shard won't stay around for much longer, by sacrificing when it has two or more counters I can draw two cards." Miranda said as her Spell Card's hologram shattered and she drew twice, she took one look at one of her drawn cards and grinned. "Well, well, it seems my luck's paying off early."
"What do you mean? You drew a good card?" Chelsea asked as her eyes narrowed. "Well, whatever it is I can tell that I won't like it based on the look on her face alone." Chelsea thought as she watched her opponent make her move.
"Well actually I made two good draws." Miranda said before playing a card. "And it starts with this Spell Card, Soul Exchange!"
"Did you say Soul Exchange?! Oh crap, now you can sacrifice one of your monsters for a high level monster!" Chelsea gulped as it dawned on her.
"That's right, so I sacrifice my remaining Giant Germ and Wattchimera to summon…well I think this guy needs no introduction….." Miranda played the card and both monsters vanished from the field, in the place of her Giant Germ stood the famous Blue-Eyes White Dragon (8/3000/2500).
"Oh great, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, and something tells me that that's not a reprint." Chelsea gulped as she took a step back.
"That's right; I have the originals in my deck courtesy of my dad." Miranda said with a nod before frowning. "Unfortunately I can't attack due to Soul Exchange's side effect so you can consider yourself lucky for now." Miranda added and Chelsea sighed in relief. "I end my turn." Miranda announced and Chelsea drew her card.
"Oh great, off all the times to NOT have Honest in my hand, with it I could've taken down that glorified beat stick." Chelsea thought before switching Wattdragonfly to defense mode and setting a card facedown. "That's all I can do for now." Chelsea sighed and Miranda drew her card.
"I play another one of my father's favorites, Card of Demise, with this I can draw until I have five cards in my hand but in exchange I have to toss my entire hand in five turns." Miranda played the card and drew until she had five cards in her hand. "All right, I have my other Blue-Eyes White Dragons here in my hand, just gotta draw something like Polymerization and the duel's mine!" Miranda thought before pointing to Wattdragonfly. "Blue-Eyes, exterminate Wattdragonfly with White Lightning!" Miranda commanded and the dragon launched its famous attack at the much weaker monster destroying it.
"I activate Wattdragonfly's effect again." Chelsea said before picking up and searching through her deck. "This time I'll use it to summon Wattaildragon in defense mode!" Chelsea played the card and her sole dragon appeared on the field crouching down (6/2500/1000).
"Fine, I'll get past your defenses eventually." Miranda shrugged before picking up a card. "I set this facedown and end my turn." Miranda set the card down and Chelsea drew her card.
"Great, I have my strongest monster on the field and yet it still isn't strong enough to beat that thing!" Chelsea thought before looking at her drawn card. "Hello…" Chelsea thought with a grin before adding it to her hand. "First I switch my Dragon to attack mode!" Chelsea announced and Miranda raised an eyebrow as the monster stood up
"You know there's easier ways to surrender than attacking my dragon with weaker ones right?" Miranda asked and Chelsea grinned.
"Funny, but your dragon's not my target." Chelsea said before playing a card. "It's you!"
"Huh?" Miranda blinked before her eyes widened when she recognized the Spell Card. "Wattkey? Oh crap, that'll let you attack directly with your dragon!"
"You got it!" Chelsea said before pointing at her monster. "Wattaildragon, attack her life-points!" Chelsea commanded and the dragon launched its attack…..
"I set this encase you drew one of your Watt Monsters that can attack directly but this'll do nicely." Miranda said before activating her trap. "Defense Draw here reduces the damage I would've taken to zero and lets me draw a card." Miranda drew her card and Chelsea growled.
"Great, I just wasted one of my best Spell Cards." Chelsea grumbled before sending the Spell to the grave. "I end my turn." Chelsea announced and Miranda drew her card. "Five turns before Card of Demise's side effect kicks in by the way."
"I know." Miranda said with a nod before looking at her cards. "Not what I was hoping for but it'll help." Miranda thought before picking up two cards. "I set two cards facedown, now Blue-Eyes White Dragon, attack Wattaildragon with White Lightning!" Miranda commanded and the dragon launched its attack at Wattaildragon incinerating it and bringing Chelsea's life-points down to 5900. "That'll end my turn." Miranda announced and Chelsea drew her card. "I wouldn't get any ideas about your defenses helping you, I activate Dragon's Rage."
"Crap, that card means your overgrown lizard can now inflict piercing damage." Chelsea said with a frown before looking at her drawn card. "But this trap could help me." Chelsea thought before setting it. "I set one card facedown and end my turn."
"Suit yourself." Miranda shrugged before drawing her card. "Before you say anything, yes I know I have four turns left before I have to toss my hand for Card of Demise's effect." Miranda added before looking at her card. "I'll save this for later." Miranda decided before adding the card to her hand and pointing to Chelsea's facedown card. "Blue-Eyes, you know what to do." Miranda commanded and the dragon launched its famous attack at the monster, revealed to be Wattcobra (4/1000/500) which was disintegrated by the blast bringing Chelsea's life-points down to 3400.
"You may have destroyed Wattcobra, and I good chunk of my life-points, but by doing so you've let me activate his effect!" Chelsea said before picking up her deck. "With it I can add a Watt monster from my deck to my hand." Chelsea explained before adding a card to her hand.
"Maybe but how long can you hold out before my dragon destroys the rest of your life-points?" Miranda asked before looking over her hand. "I end my turn." Miranda announced and Chelsea drew her card.
"I activate the effect of Thunder Seahorse (4/1600/1200) from my hand, by sending this card to the graveyard I can add two Level 4 Light Attribute Thunder Type monsters with 1600 or less attack points too my hand." Chelsea announced before discarding the card, picking up her deck and searching through it, she found the cards she was looking for and added them to her hand. "This had better work." Chelsea thought before activating her trap. "I activate Spiritual Light Art – Hijiri!"
"I should've known you would have a card like that." Miranda said before shaking her head. "I have no traps in my hand so go ahead."
"Gladly, I'm using my trap to Special Summon Wattfox from my Banished area." Chelsea retrieved the monster from her pocket and the tuner monster returned to the field. "Now I activate my other trap card Judgment of Thunder."
"Oh crap." Miranda gulped as lightning struck the famous dragon destroying it.
"You think that's bad? Things are about to get worse for ya, I summon a monster I retrieved from my deck with Thunder Seahorse, Wattcobra!" Chelsea played the card and the electric cobra reappeared on the field (4/1000/500).
"So, you're planning on bringing Wattchimera out again? Please, I beat him once and I'll do it again." Miranda scoffed and Chelsea's grin widened.
"Not exactly, I have another card I want to play." Chelsea said before playing a card. "Synchro Boost, it increases my Cobra's attack points by 500 and its level by one, in short I'm going for a Level 7 Synchro Summon."
"Oh boy, we know what that means." Marcus gulped as Chelsea's two monsters leapt into the air, Wattfox dissolved into two green glowing rings that quickly surrounded Wattfox, once the flash faded Watthydra appeared on the field in Wattcobra's place (7/1500/1500).
"It's time I evened the score a bit, Watthydra attack her life-points directly!" Chelsea commanded and the Hydra charged towards Miranda before biting her taking her life-points down to 3600.
"You may have damaged my life-points but by doing so you've activated my Damage Gate Trap Card." Miranda activated the trap retrieved a card from her graveyard. "With this trap I can Special Summon a monster from my graveyard with an attack equal to or less than the damage I just took so welcome back Giant Germ!" Miranda played the card and one of her germs reappeared on the field.
"Yeah, well that's not all my attack did." Chelsea told her before picking up her deck. "When Watthydra successfully attacks your life-points I can select one card in my deck and remove it from play, why would I do that? That's simple, because in two turns I'll be able to add that card to my hand." Chelsea found the card she was looking for and pocketed it to her hand without hesitation. "I end my turn." Chelsea added and Miranda drew her card.
"Better be careful, that card could be something that protects her monster." Miranda thought before looking at the card she drew. "And yes, I know I only have three turns left before I have to discard my hand." Miranda added before looking at the card she drew. "I activate my Magic Planter Spell Card, in exchange for destroying Dragon's Rage I get to draw two cards." Miranda played the card and Dragon's Rage shattered before she drew twice. "I set a card in defense mode; switch my germ to defense mode and a card facedown." Miranda set the two cards and the holograms appeared on the field. "That ends my turn." Miranda announced and Chelsea drew her card.
"If you think playing defensively will help you then you're wrong, like most of my Watt Monsters Watthydra can bypass your defenses and attack directly!" Chelsea announced and the hydra charged towards Miranda…
"Not this time Chelsea, I activate my trap card Defense of the Royals." Miranda's trap flipped up revealing a large castle which several duel monsters where trying to attack. "This is a pretty situational card so listen up, it can only be activated if I have three Level 8 or higher monsters with the same name and any number of them must be in my hand and my graveyard at the same time, as long as those conditions are met you can't attack directly."
"Do I at least get to change my target?" Chelsea asked and Miranda nodded. "Fine, Watthydra attack her defense monster!" Chelsea commanded and the hydra changed course taking a bite out of the facedown monster, revealed to be Peten the Dark Clown (3/500/1200) which was quickly destroyed.
"I activate the effect of Peten the Dark Clown." Miranda said before pocketing the monster. "You see, by removing him from play I can special summon another from my deck." Miranda pocketed the monster before searching through her deck and playing the card she was looking for, sure enough another copy of the clown appeared on the field in defense mode.
"Great, knowing my luck she's going to sacrifice both of them to bring out another Blue-Eyes White Dragon." Chelsea thought having figured out for herself that Miranda had another copy of the card in her hand thanks to Miranda's Defense of the Royals trap. "I end my turn." Chelsea announced begrudgingly and Miranda drew her card. "Two more turns to go."
"I can count you know." Miranda pointed out before looking at her drawn card. "Perfect, I have the third piece of my puzzle in my hand." Miranda thought before setting the card down. "I set this card facedown and end my turn." Miranda announced and Chelsea blinked before drawing her card. "Let me guess, you were expecting me to use my monsters as tributes for my second dragon?"
"Yeah, pretty much." Chelsea nodded before reaching into her pocket. "Since it's been two turns since I used Watthydra's effect the card I banished for its effect goes to my hand." Chelsea retrieved the card she was looking for and added it to her hand. "Watthydra, attack Peten again!" Chelsea commanded and the hydra charged towards the spellcaster before biting him in two.
"I activate Peten's effect one last time." Miranda removed the second spellcaster from play before searching through her deck and summoning the third in defense mode.
"You'll run out of ways to defend yourself eventually." Chelsea said confidently before picking up the card she retrieved from her pocket and set it facedown. "I end my turn by setting one card facedown, and not to sound like a broken record but in one more turn…"
"I'll have to toss my entire hand, yes I know." Miranda interrupted her as she drew her card. "This will help." Miranda thought before playing the card she drew. "I activate a Spell Card called Burial from a Different Dimension which I use to send the two Dark Clowns I removed from play back to my graveyard." Miranda played the card and returned the two monsters to her graveyard. "Now I play Pot of Avarice!" Miranda played the card and retrieved Enraged Battle Ox, the two Giant Germs and the two Dark Clowns from her graveyard before she returned the cards to her deck, shuffled it and drew twice.
"Great, now you can maintain your defenses with both of your monsters." Chelsea grunted in annoyance as Miranda looked over her cards.
"If all goes to plan that will be the least of her worries." Miranda thought before looking at her newly drawn cards. "I set these cards facedown just in case and end my turn at that." Miranda set the two cards down and Chelsea drew her card.
"She didn't sacrifice her monsters again but why? That was her last chance since her hand will go to the graveyard next turn." Chelsea thought before looking at her drawn card. "Wattgiraffe, as long as she has that damn trap card on the field he's pretty much useless." Chelsea thought before adding the card to her hand. "Watthydra, attack her Dark Clown!" Chelsea commanded and the hydra charged towards the clown before biting it in two.
"You should know the drill by now." Miranda said before pocketing the card and special summoning another copy of the Dark Clown in defense mode. "Judging by the look on your face that's all you can do."
"Pretty much yeah, I end my turn." Chelsea announced and Miranda drew her card. "And you know what that means."
"Yeah, I have to toss my entire hand due to Card of Demise's side effect." Miranda discarded her hand and folded her arms. "And since I technically don't have a hand Defense of the Royals goes to the graveyard." Miranda added as her trap card shattered, Chelsea grinned briefly before noticing the grin on her opponent's face. "But what if I told you that tossing my hand for Card of Demise's side effect was my plan all along?"
"Say what?" Chelsea asked the confusion evident on her facial features.
"I'll let my facedown card explain for me, I activate Dragon's Mirror." Miranda activated the card and retrieved three of her cards from the graveyard. "This Spell Card lets me fusion summon a Dragon Type Monster using cards in my hand or my graveyard, I'd tell you what it is but I'll let you see for yourself." Miranda said before turning the three cards around and all color drained from Chelsea's face when she saw them.
"The Blue-Eyes White Dragons….." Chelsea trailed off as it hit her like a ton of bricks. "Oh no, don't tell me you're going to summon THAT monster, are you?!"
"Well, that depends; do you know any other Fusion Monsters that require these three legendary dragons to summon him? Didn't think so, I fuse my three dragons together to fusion summon The Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!" Miranda played the card and with a mighty roar the massive three headed version of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon appeared on the field (12/4500/3800). "Sorry Chelsea, you've dueled well but this duel's over, first I switch Peten the Dark Clown and Giant Germ to attack mode!" Miranda switched the cards and Peten stood up whilst Giant Germ made a slight movement. "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, slay Watthydra with Neutron Blast!" Miranda commanded and the dragon charged up its attack…
"Sorry but I'm about to win this, not you! I activate Magic Arm Shield to drag your Dark Clown into the path of the blast!" Miranda's eyes widened as Peten was pulled into the blast, the two girls sheltered themselves from the blast that vaporized the Dark Clown. "Well thanks for the duel; I'd say it was a blast but….."
"But that would not only be a bad pun but inaccurate as well." Miranda interrupted her and Chelsea blinked before looking at her score and seeing that Miranda had 600 life-points left.
"How the fuck did you survive that?! You only had 3600 life-points left." Chelsea demanded before noticing that Miranda had activated a facedown card. "Emergency Provisions, should've guessed."
"That's right; since I just sent my other facedown card to the graveyard this Spell gave me just enough life-points to survive this round." Miranda said before frowning. "Off course, as a result of this you can now use Watthydra to finish me off."
"And believe me; I intend to do just that." Chelsea said with a grin as it hit her. "My turn yet?" Chelsea asked and Miranda nodded, Chelsea drew her card, looked at it briefly before pointing to her hydra. "Watthydra, bring this duel to a close!" Chelsea commanded and the hydra charged towards Miranda…..only to hit a forcefield. "What now? You didn't set any traps and even if you did….."
"Technically I did." Miranda said before holding up the card she sent to the graveyard with Emergency Provisions which had the image of a decomposed hand shooting up from a grave, holding a hand full of duel monster cards. "The card I sent to the graveyard with Emergency Provisions is a special one called Defense from Beyond, it's special because it's a Trap Card that can only be activated by removing it from my graveyard but only if it was set facedown first, by removing it from play I can force you to end your battle phase."
"Damn it, that means you can finish me off next turn." Chelsea grunted in annoyance before looking at her hand. "I have to end my turn." Chelsea grumbled as Miranda drew her card; however both girls knew it was merely a formality.
"Megamorph, with this I can finish her off in one hit from my Dragon." Miranda thought before shaking her head. "No, I've already got her beat, no point in going for the overkill." Miranda thought before she added the card to her hand and switching Peten to attack mode. "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, it's time you finished what you started last turn, attack Watthydra with Neutron Blast!" Miranda commanded and the dragon launched its attack at Chelsea bringing her life-points down to 400. "Peten, finish her off with Bloodlust Slash!" Miranda commanded and the clown vanished.
"Where did that clown g…..AGH!" Chelsea yelled out in pain as Dark Clown slashed her across the chest bringing her life-points down to 0. "Great, that's two matches I've lost in a low." Chelsea grumbled as she gathered up her cards.
"Yeah but if it weren't for my quick thinking you would've beaten me." Miranda said as she approached the younger duelist, Chelsea noticed that she was still holding the sole card in her hand and her eyes widened when she saw the card in question.
"Megamorph…..most Obelisk Blue students I know would've played that for the added humiliation." Chelsea commented and Miranda frowned.
"I'm not most Obelisk Blue Students Chelsea, neither is my brother for that matter." Miranda told her before gathering up her cards and returning them to her deck and Chelsea did likewise. "Still you perform like that on Friday and you'll have no problems winning your expulsion duel."
"Thanks for the vote of confidence." Chelsea said with a small smile before noticing that Tyler, Chloe and Marcus where approaching them. "Seems I can't get any luck recently huh?"
"Considering you almost beat her I wouldn't say that." Tyler said as he stepped onto the podium before helping up Chloe and Marcus. "If it's any consolation you did better than most duelists in your dorm have done in the past."
"Tyler, I don't think that's helping." Chloe chimed in and the student sweat-dropped once he realized that she was right.
"Hey, Miranda was it?" Marcus asked and she turned to him. "You have any ideas on where I can get my hands on a copy of that Dragon's Mirror card….."
"You got his by that damn banned list as well huh?" Miranda asked and Marcus nodded. "Damn Chaos Dragons, all I was doing was using Future Fusion to make summoning my Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon easier but they had to go and ruin it, if you ask me it should've been Eclipse Wyvern instead." Miranda muttered under her breath before reaching into her pocket. "I don't have a spare copy on me but I know the card shop got a recent shipment of those cards among others."
"Thanks for the info." Marcus said with a nod before leaving the Duel Field to head over to the card shop, Miranda shook her head and turned to her brother.
"I know she challenged you to prepare herself for her expulsion duel but do you think your duel with Chloe was enough to prepare you?" Miranda asked and Tyler nodded.
"I certainly like to think so." Tyler nodded before noticing a familiar face approaching. "Don't look now but we've got company." Tyler told them and the three students turned around and saw Tracy approaching them. "I thought you had a class to teach?"
"I did, it finished in the middle of the duel between Chloe and Tyler." Tracy corrected him before frowning. "Miranda, you mind giving us some privacy? Need to talk to these guys about what's happening on Friday."
"Sure, my class is starting soon anyway." Miranda said after checking her schedule, she left the arena and once she did Tracy turned to Chelsea.
"Who did you think you where fooling with that story you spun yesterday Chelsea?" Tracy asked and the student blinked. "Checking out the Abandoned Dorm for the hell of it? You're not exactly a model student but you're not stupid."
"It's the truth!" Chelsea asserted and Tracy's eyes narrowed.
"Is it really? Because I asked around the students and night time staff after yesterday's little meeting and as it turns out some students reported hearing the two of you and the guys from Ra Yellow screaming, that's not exactly something I'd expect from a pair of students sneaking off to an Abandoned Dorm as a joke or trying to save their friends." Tracy pointed out the students winced as did Marcus who had just come back from the card shop with a copy of Dragon's Mirror in his deck. "Look I don't want you guys to get expelled but your story has more holes in it than Swiss cheese!"
"Well if you want to be nick-picky that's too da….." Chelsea started but was stopped by Tyler who gave her a stern look, she quickly shut up.
"We'll tell you the truth but not here, we'd prefer to do it somewhere a bit quieter." Tyler responded as his eyes narrowed. "Besides that this will give Andreas, Lance, Brandon and Theresa a chance to join in the discussion."
"Good point, meet me in my office at the Obelisk Blue Girl's dorm in an hour, that should give you enough time to tell the others since Andreas and Lance should be out of class by now." Tracy said before leaving the duel field, once she left Chelsea turned to Tyler.
"Why'd you interrupt me?" Chelsea asked bluntly and Tyler turned to her.
"Because it was clear to me that she saw right through the story you came up with, arguing about it would've made things worse." Tyler told her and Chelsea's eyes narrowed. "You may not like it but at the moment it seems that we only have two supporters on the staff, Hamden and Tracy."
"That's assuming she'll even believe the truth!" Chelsea pointed out with an annoyed scowl. "You want to make yourself sound crazy in front of the top ranked female teacher? Be my guest, I'll miss out on this meeting thank you very….."
"You'll do no such thing." Tyler interrupted sternly and Chelsea turned to him. "Tracy may seem even stricter than Martin but she has our best interest at heart, besides that she's one of the best duelists among the teachers, we'll only benefit from whatever guidance she offers us."
"Ugh, fine, but if we get shipped off to some mental asylum don't say I didn't tell you so!" Chelsea snapped at him before storming off. "I'm off to my dorm room, I need some time to cool off anyway." Chelsea added before walking off.
"I'm going after her." Chloe said as she hopped off the podium. "Who knows? Maybe I can help her calm down." Chloe added before leaving.
"Her temper may scare me but I'm in the same vote as Chelsea." Marcus said as he folded his arms. "No offense but I don't see this ending well for any off us."
"We'll think of something." Tyler told him before the two students left. "I hope so anyway." Tyler thought as they left the duel field.