Chloe woke up with a yawn before sitting up in her bed; she had gotten the best night's sleep she had had in a long time following her duel against her dad but right now she was more concerned with tonight's matches than anything else…..that is until her roommate shouting at her laptop screen broke Chloe's train of thought.
"Get back here you piece of shit!" Chelsea yelled at the screen as she used her mouse to input commands, Chloe blinked before leaning forward for a closer look and seeing that Chelsea was playing a game on it. "Yes! Last unit routed! Next stop, the square and after that Rome itself, that should be a snap!"
"Good morning Chelsea." Chloe said whilst trying to hold back her giggles as her roommate practically jumped out of her skin. "Getting a bit competitive?"
"Yeah, just a bit." Chelsea said with a sheepish grin once she regained her composure. "Are you feeling okay after last night?"
"I'm still not sure about that." Chloe responded with a sigh before turning to the laptop screen. "What are you playing?"
"It's an RTS called Rome: Total War: Barbarian Invasion." Chelsea responded before noticing the confused look on Chloe's face. "Oh yeah, I forgot that you're not much of a gamer outside of duel monsters, basically RTS means Real Time Strategy and the Total War series is a series of War Games set in different periods."
"That sounds cool." Chloe said with a shrug as she started getting dressed. "I would've thought that you'd be more into shooter games personally."
"Chloe, I think you mean FPS." Chelsea informed her as her roommate searched through the closet they shared for her clothes. "Besides, you think that just because I have the shortest temper in Duel Academy means that I like to play FPS games?"
"Did I accidentally insult you or something?" Chloe asked sheepishly and Chelsea shook her head as she continued to input commands.
"Nah, nothing like that, it's just that I prefer games that actually require the ability to think." Chelsea added as she resumed playing her game whilst Chloe picked out a pair of jeans and a black stomach exposing long sleeve top. "Besides if I wanted to beat off a bunch of short tempered boys and not so short tempered girls I'd do it tomorrow at the duel arena in front of everyone."
"Err…..Chelsea…" Chloe trailed off whilst she tried to hold back hysterical laughter, Chelsea blinked a couple of times before she realized what she had just said.
"How the hell did that sentence make it past the "in my head" stage!?" Chelsea said as she facepalmed. "At least I said it in here and not in front of anyone else."
"That's true." Chloe admitted as she sat down on the bed. "Could be worse, you could've said it as Beth was standing outside the door." Chloe added and Chelsea shuddered.
"Can we please get back on topic?" Chelsea insisted and Chloe sighed.
"Fine, we were talking about the game you were playing right?" Chloe asked and Chelsea nodded. "I guess that makes sense since those kinds of games can help out at the academy." Chloe shrugged as she removed her nightgown and put on her jeans, as she put them on a thought suddenly occurred to her. "Wait, don't you have Duel Theory around this time?"
"That class ended an hour ago, I thought you'd be awake by the time I got back but obviously that wasn't the case." Chelsea answered before checking the time. "It's coming up to twelve actually, good thing my next class isn't until two o'clock." Chelsea added and Chloe's eyes widened as she quickened her pace, something that Chelsea caught on to. "Was it something I said?"
"Err, yeah, I have Gym Class in an hour!" Chloe said as she finished putting on her jeans and her top. "Why didn't you wake me up sooner?"
"I figured you could use the lie in after your duel last night." Chelsea responded with a shrug. "Besides I would've woken you up in time." Chelsea said as she turned around and saw her roommate brushing her hair in front of the mirror; Chelsea couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at her top choice. "Wait, you have gym class, yet you're wearing a long sleeve top?"
"Chelsea, the last time I wore a short sleeve top to gym class the teachers ended up finding out about the abuse I suffered growing up." Chloe answered and Chelsea winced "Don't you remember Theresa coming over from Obelisk Blue to comfort me?"
"Yeah, I do but we didn't have enough time to say hi since I had to get to class." Chelsea pointed out and Chloe nodded. "And yeah I almost forgot about that, if it weren't for that class my first meeting with Lance would've ended with me kicking him in the nuts."
"A fact that I'm sure he appreciates." Chloe said jokingly as she picked up and put on her blazer. "How much time do I have?" Chloe asked and Chelsea quickly checked the time on her IPod.
"About half an hour and that's if you want to get there early, if you hurry you can get over there with plenty of time to spare." Chelsea told her and that was all the incentive Chloe needed to hurry to the door…..only to be greeted by Lance. "Good morning Lance." Chelsea greeted him.
"Yeah, morning, now if you excuse me I have to get to…..wait, don't you usually have Gym Class with me?" Chloe asked once it hit her. "What are you doing all the way over here?" Chloe asked and Lance shook his head.
"You didn't get the memo did you?" Lance asked and the two girls shook their heads. "Jeff called in sick this morning; they couldn't find a substitute in time so his classes are cancelled for today."
"That's a relief." Chloe said as she sat down on the bed. "I nearly had a heart attack because someone didn't wake me up at a decent time."
"I already explained my reasons." Chelsea said as she rolled her eyes. "Anyway Lance, call it a hunch but I get the feeling that you came over for reasons other than that."
"Was it that obvious?" Lance asked before turning his attention to Chloe. "Last night was pretty rough, you feeling okay?" Lance asked before blushing furiously. "Man that sounded wrong out of context!"
"To be fair I'm pretty sure there's no way we can explain the context without sounding crazy." Chelsea responded before grinning broadly. "Now, are you sure there's nothing between you two?" Chelsea teased them earning her a pair of mock death glares. "Little tip guys, don't use the death glare against someone who's mastered the art." Chelsea added and Chloe shook her head.
"Let's just pretend that slip-up never happened and move on." Chloe said as she shook her head. "But yeah, I'm feeling fine after last night, in fact with that behind me I'd rather worry about tonight's matches."
"True enough, Evan told me that we'll be in for a fight against Jason and Nicky." Lance responded before hearing two other female Osiris Red students giggling behind his back. "I knew I should've closed the door behind me!" Lance sighed before stepping forward and closing the door behind him. "And before that Beth's team is facing off against Kimberly and Nathan."
"Don't tell Beth but I don't think her team will win that match, as much as I'd like a shot at her team anyway." Chelsea admitted as she turned to Lance. "Beth's a good duelist and Tommy…..I haven't seen his deck in action but he's gotta be good to make it into Ra Yellow, but Kimberly and Nathan practically know their decks blindfolded."
"I have to agree there." Lance said with a nod before checking his watch. "The matches start at 1:00 which gives us half an hour to get to the duel field." Lance said before turning around. "Well, I'd love to stay and chat but Evan said he'd meet me in the Main Building and I don't want to keep him waiting." Lance said before he opened the door. "See you later." Lance added before closing the door.
"We'd better get moving as well." Chloe said as she stood up. "I don't know about you but I don't want to miss these matches."
"Yeah, same here, I mean, who knows? Maybe I'm wrong about Beth's team's chances?" Chelsea admitted before unplugging her laptop and following Chloe out of their dorm room.
*sometime later*
The students poured into the Main Duel Arena ready for the second day of the tournament to begin, the only students who weren't in the audience off course where the four students who were competing in today's matches and they were busy doing some last minute preparations, little did they know that three other spectators were also there.
"How did Victor persuade me to come here again?" Sarah muttered under her breath as she leaned forward on the skywalk, she and two other robed figures were waiting for the tournament matches to start but for reasons other than the students. "You have your orders, I'm sure you remember them?"
"Yeah, target the winners of the second match." One of the figures said in what sound like an American male accent. "After we beat them we'll get the hell off the island."
"You'd better." Sarah said with a scowl as she turned to them. "Logan and Katrina have already failed and the least said about the experiment with Robert the better, I'm sure that I don't need to remind you what the price of failure is."
"Don't worry about us, those two will be a piece of cake." The second figure, this time a female who was speaking with a Russian accent, responded. "Trust us Sarah, Victor will have their souls."
"Trust a pair of hired guns? Victor may as well ask me to kiss a Crocodile on the lips whilst he's at it." Sarah thought as she watched the first two teams enter the arena. "Watch this duel closely, neither of the two teams will be your opponents but if you beat the other team they will be your new target."
"Not like we have anything better to do." The American thug shrugged as the two teams stepped onto the podium.
"Well Tommy, here's hoping we do better than Rachel and Kyle did yesterday." Beth commented to her teammate, a short nerdy looking student with short black hair and blue eyes behind a pair of thick glasses, as they shuffled their decks.
"Indeed." Tommy agreed as they finished shuffling their decks. "Though we have one advantage over them, we didn't bet all our chips on summoning one monster."
"And if you think that'll help you then you're welcome to try." Nathan responded as he and his stepsister activated their duel disks, Tommy and Beth did likewise and the two duelists drew their opening hands. "But like it or not, the odds aren't exactly in your favor."
"Neither was Yugi Motuh's when he competed in Duelist Kingdom and the original Battle City." Tommy responded as he pushed his glasses up his nose. "And look how well that turned out for him."
"…did you seriously just compare yourself to The King of Games?!" Nathan asked as a pair of massive sweat-drops rolled down his and Kimberly's heads. "Look I know his story's a great underdog story that has had way to many movie adaptations to list but if you have then you've just set yourself a ridiculously high bar for you to match in this duel."
"How about we just decide on the order we're dueling in?" Kimberly said eventually and the other students nodded in agreement, "Okay, the order that the last two matches used seemed to work well so why change it?"
"Sounds good to me, and that means you'll go first followed by me, Nathan and Tommy in that order." Beth responded and Kimberly nodded before drawing her card. "From what I remember from her Battle City duels Kimberly uses a Fiend Deck, mostly revolving around Archfiends." Beth thought before looking at her drawn cards. "But that works fine for me because if I can keep her from activating Pandemonium then she'll have to pay to keep her fiends on the field and with my cure/burn deck I should be able to finish this quickly."
"I start my turn by discarding Archfiend General from my hand, by doing this I can add a certain Field Spell Card from my deck to my hand!" Kimberly discarded the fiend and started searching through her deck, she found the card she was looking for and added it to her hand before shuffling her deck. "And now I'm activating it, go Pandemonium!"
"Well, so much for keeping it off the field." Beth thought as the scenery changed to the hellish arena featured on the card's artwork.
"Next I activate Trade-In; all I need to do is discard one Level 8 monster from my hand….." Kimberly trailed off before discarding the card. "And I get to draw two cards in exchange." Kimberly added before drawing her cards. "I set two cards facedown and I summon Shadowknight Archfiend!" Kimberly played the cards and the demonic knight appeared on the field brandishing his sword (4/2000/1600). "That ends my turn." Kimberly announced and Beth drew her card.
"Well since Kimberly's not wasting any time in getting her strategy going why should I? I summon Nurse Reficule the Fallen One!" Beth played the card and the fairy in the nurse's outfit appeared on the field (4/1400/600). "Now I activate Upstart Goblin, normally I'd get to draw a card and you'd gain a thousand life-points but with my Nurse on the field…"
"Beth, we were present for your duel against Chelsea a few weeks back." Kimberly reminded her as Beth drew her card. "You don't need to remind us." Kimberly added before wincing as her team's life-points dropped to 7000.
"Sorry, force of habit." Beth admitted before picking up her drawn card alongside another card. "I set these facedown for later and end my turn." Beth announced and Nathan drew his card.
"I'll start my turn by summoning Breaker, The Magical Warrior in attack mode!" Nathan played the card and the magic using swordsman appeared on the field (4/1600/1000) and his attack increased to 1900 via his effect. "But that Spell Counter isn't staying around for long, I'm removing it to destroy Beth's facedown card on the right!" Nathan announced and the warrior charged towards Beth's facedown…..
"I chain Breaker's effect by activating the trap, go Gift Card!" Beth activated the trap and Kimberly and Nathan's eyes widened as they were hit by a spell from Beth's Nurse bringing their life-points down to 4000, Breaker then cut the trap card in half destroying it.
"Sorry Kimberly." Nathan apologized as Beth sent her trap to the graveyard.
"Don't be, you had no way of knowing that that trap card was her set card." Kimberly told him and Nathan nodded in response before picking up two cards.
"I set two cards facedown and end my turn." Nathan set the two cards down and Tommy nodded before drawing his card.
"I activate Reinforcement of the Army, with this I can add one Level 4 or lower Warrior Type Monster from my deck to my hand." Tommy played the card and picked up his deck, he searched through it and once he found the card he was looking for he added it to his hand and sent his Spell Card to the graveyard.
"Okay, he's running Warriors; this shouldn't be too much off a problem." Kimberly thought as she glanced at both of her opponents. "I know Beth runs Anti-Cure from her duel against Chelsea a few weeks ago but her deck doesn't have any synergy with Tommy's."
"Now I summon Absolute Crusader in attack mode!" Tommy played the card and a warrior in gold and silver armor appeared on the field, he had a silver cape on and was carrying a sword (4/1800/1000). "I set two cards facedown and end my turn." Tommy set the cards and Kimberly drew her card.
"And now that it's my standby phase the effect of the monster I discarded last turn activates!" Kimberly announced as the transparent image of a hideous, vaguely female fiend flew into Shadowknight's body. "Imprisoned Queen Archfiend, as long as she's in the graveyard and Pandemonium is active one of my Level 4 or lower monster's attack increases by one thousand."
"That's going to be a pain in the ass." Beth grunted as Shadowknight Archfiend's attack increased to 3000.
"Not as big a pain as that nurse, anyway I activate my Allure of Darkness Spell Card, I draw two cards but unless I banish one Dark Type Monster from my hand my whole hand gets discarded." Kimberly played the card before drawing twice and pocking a monster. "Speaking of your nurse, Shadowknight, attack Nurse Reficule!" Kimberly commanded and the knight charged towards the nurse…
"I activate my trap card Waboku to protect my life-points and my monster!" Beth activated her trap and the three priestesses appeared in Shadowknight's path stopping its attack.
"Guess we'll have to put up with that nurse." Kimberly grunted in annoyance before looking at the two cards she had drawn with Allure of Darkness. "I set two cards facedown and end my turn." Kimberly announced and once the two cards appeared on the field Beth drew her card.
"I start my turn by switching my nurse to defense mode!" Beth announced as the nurse crouched down. "Now I equip her with the Equip Spell Card Mist Body!"
"Ugh, you're using this combo again?!" Kimberly grunted as Beth's nurse became shrouded is mist.
"If it isn't broke don't fix it." Beth shrugged in response before turning her attention to Nathan. "That's all for my turn." Beth announced and Nathan drew his card.
"I activate my facedown card Pitch Black Power Stone!" Nathan announced as the titular stone appeared on the field…..
"I see what you're up too but it's not going to work, I activate my facedown card Fiendish Chain!" Tommy announced as several chains ensnared Breaker. "Now you can't attack or use Breaker's effect!"
"Or so you think, I activate Dust Tornado and I use it to destroy Fiendish Chain!" Kimberly activated the trap and a tornado ripped through the field….
"I don't think so; I chain Dust Tornado with my Seven Tools of the Bandit Trap Card!" Tommy activated the trap and winced as his life-points dropped to 7000, however he grinned as he watched the tornado subside. "Nice try."
"Well, if I can't destroy Beth's Nurse I'll make do with destroying your crusader, I discard one card in my hand to the graveyard to Special Summon The Tricky in attack mode!" Nathan discarded the card and the mysterious spellcaster appeared on the field (5/2000/1200).
"Your right, Absolute Crusader won't be around for much longer but neither will The Tricky!" Tommy announced as his warrior vanished from the field. "Since you just Special Summoned a Level 5 monster I can tribute my crusader to destroy it!" Tommy announced and Nathan frowned as The Tricky shattered into a million pieces.
"Fine, since I haven't Normal Summoned this turn I'll set a monster in defense mode and that ends my turn." Nathan announced and Tommy drew his card.
"This is not too bad." Tommy thought as he looked over his hand. "I start with a Spell Card called Hero's Return, with this I can Special Summon a Warrior Type Monster from my graveyard as long as I don't mind the fact that it will be destroyed during my end phase!" Tommy played the card and Absolute Crusader returned to the field.
"You think we're worried? That warrior won't be around long enough to prevent another Special Summon!" Nathan pointed out and Tommy grinned before pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose.
"I didn't bring him back with the intention of keeping this guy around for much longer." Tommy answered with a grin as he picked up a card. "I summon the Tuner Monster Rose Warrior of Revenge!" Tommy played the card and the red-haired female warrior appeared on the field (4/1600/600). "Rose Warrior, it's time you gave Absolute Crusader a tune up!"
"Gee, I wonder what you're going to summon." Nathan muttered sarcastically as the two warriors leapt into the air, Rose Warrior dissolved into four green Synchro Rings that quickly surrounded Absolute Crusader, once the flash faded Colossal Fighter landed on the field with a thud (8/2800/1000).
"Yeah I know Colossal Fighter is a popular card among Warrior Users in the school, especially after Chloe used it to beat Thomas Newborne, but as my tag partner said, don't fix what isn't broken." Tommy answered as Colossal Fighter's attack points increased to 3000. "Colossal Fighter, attack Breaker!" Tommy commanded and the massive warrior charged towards the much weaker magician…
"I activate Shift and I use it to force you to target my brother's facedown monster!" Kimberly activated the trap and Colossal Fighter changed course, it reared back its fist before colliding with the monster, revealed to be Apprentice Magician (2/400/800) which was quickly destroyed.
"And that in turn activates Apprentice Magician's effect!" Nathan continued before searching through his deck, he found the card he was looking for and quickly set it on the field.
"She evidentially knows about Colossal Fighter's self-revival effect, otherwise she would've forced me to target Shadowknight." Tommy thought before looking over his hand. "I'll end my turn at that." Tommy announced and Kimberly drew her card.
"Okay, first Imprisoned Queen Archfiend's effect activates no prizes for guessing what monster I'm choosing to target." Kimberly started as Shadowknight Archffiend's attack increased to 4000, she looked at the card she had drawn and smirked. "I hope you weren't relying on that trap Tommy!" Kimberly said with a smirk but Tommy kept his cool. "Because I'm destroying it so that I can Special Summon the Tuner Monster Trap Eater!"
"Oh crap!" Tommy gulped as Fiendish Chain got grabbed by a long tongue and pulled into the massive mouth of Trap Eater (4/1900/1600).
"I guess you were, to bad!" Kimberly commented before playing another card. "And for my Normal Summon I'm bringing out Sangan!" Kimberly announced as the small three eyed fiend appeared on the field (3/1000/600).
"And you call my moves predictable?" Tommy asked as he looked at Kimberly's three monsters. "It doesn't exactly take a genius to realize that you plan on bringing out Chaos King Archfiend!"
"Okay, yeah, you got me there; let's see you do something about it!" Kimberly challenged him as her two monsters leapt into the air, once the flash faded Chaos King Archfiend was indeed on the field (7/2600/2600). "And since Sangan has been sent from the field to the graveyard I get to add another monster to my hand." Kimberly announced before adding the monster.
"This is gonna hurt!" Tommy gulped and Kimberly smirked before pointing to Colossal Fighter.
"Shadowknight, attack Colossal Fighter!" Kimberly commanded and the monster charged towards the much larger warrior before cutting him down the middle bringing Tommy's life-points down to 6000.
"I use Colossal Fighter's second effect to revive its self from the graveyard!" Tommy announced as the massive warrior returned to the field.
"Fine, I'll just attack him with Chaos King Archfiend!" Kimberly announced and the fiend disappeared from the field only to reappear behind Colossal Fighter. "And I use Chaos King's effect to switch the monster's stats around!" Kimberly added as Colossal Fighter's attack and defense became 1000 and 3000 respectively, the monster was subsequently impaled through the chest by Chaos King's claws destroying it.
"And once again I bring him back using his effect." Tommy announced even as his life-points dropped to 4400 and Colossal Fighter returned to the field.
"I end my turn at that." Kimberly announced and Beth nodded before drawing her card.
"On one hand I don't normally rely on attacks to get the job done." Beth thought as she looked over her hand. "On the other hand it's in our best interest to eliminate Kimberly's Synchro Monster before its effect wipes out Tommy's life-points." Beth thought before turning to Tommy. "Can I borrow Colossal Fighter?"
"Go ahead!" Tommy said with a nod as Colossal Fighter marched over to Beth's side of the field, Beth gave him a nod of gratitude before turning her attention to Kimberly.
"Thanks, now Colossal Fighter, attack Chaos King Archfiend!" Beth commanded and the fighter charged towards the fiend before punching it through the stomach and destroying it bringing Kimberly's life-points down to 3600. "And for some extra damage I'll move to my second Main Phase and activate Card Loan, as long as I pay a thousand life-points….." Beth said before wincing as her life-points dropped to 7000.
"Knowing your deck that's likely a heal card." Kimberly pointed out and Beth nodded.
"That's right, with this I draw one card and normally you'd gain a thousand life-points but…..well I think it goes without saying…." Beth trailed off before Kimberly and Nathan winced as their life-points dropped to 2600 and 3000 respectively. "I end my turn which means that the card I just drew goes to the bottom of my deck." Beth added before placing the card at the bottom of her deck once that was done and Colossal Fighter was back on Tommy's side of the field Nathan drew his card.
"Okay, first I activate Spellbook inside the Pot which means we all get to draw three extra cards." Nathan activated the Spell and all four duelists drew three cards. "Next I move one Spell Counter from Pitch Black Power Stone to Breaker….."
"You just made a mistake, one of the monsters I drew was the Tuner Monster Effect Veiler and by discarding her I can negate Breaker's effect for the rest of the turn." Tommy discarded the card and Nathan frowned as Breaker lost the three hundred attack points it would've gained.
"Maybe but my sister isn't the only one who can Synchro Summon, first I summon Magical Exemplar in attack mode!" Nathan played the card and the green haired sorceress appeared on the field (4/1700/1000). "Next I activate Foolish Burial which I use to send one monster from my deck to the graveyard." Nathan added as he picked up and searched through his deck, he found the card her was looking for and sent it to the graveyard.
"And that in turn activates Exemplar's effect." Tommy added as two orbs floated around Magical Exemplar.
"Right and now I give up those tokens to Special Summon the monster I just sent to the graveyard, Night's End Sorcerer!" Nathan played the card and the two orbs vanished, after they were gone a short blonde boy in ragged clothes appeared on the field (2/1300/400). "But before I do anything else Night's End Sorcerer's effect activates which lets me remove two cards in my opponent's graveyard from play so say good-bye to those two warriors Tommy!"
"Oh shit!" Tommy winced before removing Rose Warrior of Revenge and Absolute Crusader from play, once they were gone Colossal Fighter's attack returned to normal. "Well, at least the worst you can do is a Level 6 Synchro."
"Wrong Tommy or did you forget about the monster I Special Summoned last turn?" Nathan asked and Tommy blinked. "In fact I'll go ahead and flip summon it, come on out Magicat!" Nathan flipped the monster up and a small white cat in magician's robes appeared on the field (2/600/500). "But as you've probably guessed her, Exemplar and Nights End aren't staying around for long because Night's End Sorcerer is a Tuner Monster!"
"I knew it!" Tommy winced as did Beth as the three monsters leapt into the air, Nights End Sorcerer dissolved into two green glowing Synchro Rings that quickly surrounded Exemplar and Magicat. "Are there any Level 8 Spellcaster Synchros to begin with?!"
"There is and you're about to meet him, I tune Nights End, Magicat and Magical Exemplar to Synchro Summon Sorcerer of the Dark Arts!" Nathan played the card and once the flash faded a tall man in magician's robes appeared on the field, the robes where gold in color and he had a long beard that was grey in color (8/2400/2000).
"That's pretty weak for a Level 8 Synchro." Tommy pointed out and Nathan shook his head.
"True but he's got a few tricks up his sleeve but first things first, since Magicat was used to Synchro Summon a Spellcaster monster I can take one Spell Card from my graveyard and place it atop my deck." Nathan announced as he placed the card atop his deck.
"I wouldn't be surprised if that's Spellbook inside the Pot." Beth thought as she watched Nathan make his move.
"But we'll get to that in a minute because now I'm activating my Sorcerer's effect, I remove the remaining Spell Counters from Pitch Black Power Stone…." Nathan trailed off as he sent his trap to the graveyard. "And in return I can destroy one Monster and one face-up Spell or Trap Card for each non-monster used to summon my Spellcaster, that's two cards so I'll destroy Mist Body and Colossal Fighter!"
"Crap!" Tommy and Beth yelled out simultaneously as their respective cards shattered.
"Sorry Beth, I guess I jumped the gun by using Effect Veiler on Breaker." Tommy apologized but Beth shook her head.
"Relax, if he attacks Nurse Reficule then my life-points will be protected by the fact that she's in defense mode, if he attacks you you'll still have some life-points left." Beth pointed out and Tommy nodded once he realized she had a point.
"Actually I won't be doing any attacking this turn." Nathan responded and the two students blinked in confusion. "If I use my Sorcerer's effect I have to skip my Battle Phase so I'll end my turn at that." Nathan added and Tommy breathed a sigh of relief before drawing his card.
"So, Chelsea, does Beth use any other cards to protect Nurse Reficule?" Chloe asked as Tommy looked over his hand.
"Besides Misty Body I'm not sure." Chelsea answered as she turned to her roommate. "All I know about Beth's deck is that it's Anti-Cure and that she's beaten me a bunch of times with it."
"I would've thought you'd know her deck since you're her girlfriend and all." Chloe shrugged her shoulders and Chelsea frowned….before a cheeky grin crept onto her face.
"Well that depends, do you know Lance's deck as well as you know your own?" Chelsea asked and Chloe shook her head.
"Nah, he changes that thing so much that I can hardly keep up with it." Chloe answered only to blush like a madwoman when she realized what Chelsea was implying. "And Lance is not my boyfriend."
"The day I believe that is the day I listen to Justin Bieber." Chelsea answered with a grin ignoring the mock death glare that she was getting from her roommate.
"Okay, I may have lost Colossal Fighter to that magician's effect and even if I bring it back he won't get a power bonus from….hello….." Tommy thought as an idea popped into his head. "I set three cards facedown and I summon Black Knight of the Round in attack mode!" Tommy played the cards and a tall knight in jet black armor appeared on the field (4/2000/1600).
"A level four monster with 2000 attack points? There has to be some kind of drawback unless it's in the same class as Gene-Warped Warwolf and Alexandrite Dragon." Nathan thought as he stared at the monster.
"Black Knight, attack Breaker the Magical Warrior!" Tommy commanded and the knight drew his sword before charging at the magical knight and cutting it in two bringing Nathan's life-points down to 2900. "Unfortunately my knight has a drawback, if it inflicts battle damage then I have to discard one card from my hand, if I can't then my Knight's destroyed." Tommy added before sending a card to the graveyard. "And I end my turn at that." Tommy announced and Kimberly nodded before drawing her card.
"Why would he play a card like that when there's Normal Monsters with similar stats?" Chloe wondered out loud and Chelsea shrugged.
"You got me; my guess is because those two monsters aren't warriors." Chelsea commented before it hit her. "That is unless he has a way of getting Colossal Fighter back!"
"And the card he discarded was another warrior." Chloe realized with a nod as Kimberly looked over her hand.
"For starters my Imprisoned Queen's effect activates!" Kimberly announced as Shadowknight's attack increased to 5000. "No point in attacking Beth's monster, its effect may be a pain but it's in defense mode." Kimberly thought before pointing to Black Knight. "Now then, Shadowknight, why don't you show Black Knight what a real knight is all about?" Kimberly commanded and the demonic knight charged towards the monster…
"I activate my trap card Powerful Rebirth, with this I can Special Summon one monster from my graveyard and increase its level by one and its attack points by 100." Tommy activated the trap and a monster that Kimberly recognized as the Tuner Monster Sword Master (3/1200/0) appeared on the field with its level and attack increased to 4 and 1300 respectively.
"Fine by me, you just cost yourself the duel!" Kimberly said before pointing to Sword Master. "Shadowknight, attack Sword Master and eliminate Tommy!" Kimberly commanded and the knight changed its course…..
"Thanks but no thanks; I activate my trap card Rage Resynchro!" Tommy activated the trap and Kimberly blinked as Sword Master and Black Knight leapt into the air. "This handy little trap lets me Synchro Summon a monster from my graveyard and I'm using my two warriors to do it!"
"Wait, what?!" Kimberly and Nathan yelled out simultaneously as four blood red versions of the Synchro Rings surrounded Black Knight and seconds later Colossal Fighter was back on the field with its attack back at 3000.
"Fine, I'll just target Colossal Fighter instead!" Kimberly announced as Shadowknight Archfiend charged towards the Synchro Monster….
"Do you always charge in without thinking things through? Don't answer that, I activate my last facedown card Sekeretsu Armor!" Tommy activated the trap and Kimberly's eyes widened as the demonic looking armor attached itself to Shadowknight Archfiend before self-destructing taking the knight with it. "Fortunately for you there's still your normal summon."
"I know that." Kimberly said plainly before picking up four cards. "I set three cards facedown and a monster in defense mode and that ends my turn." Kimberly announced only to blink in surprise as Colossal Fighter's attack increased to 3500. "What the….."
"Rage Resynchro is more than just an Urgent Tuning variant." Tommy informed them as he pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose. "During the end phase of the turn that it's activated Rage Resynchro increases the attack of the summoned monster by 500 points."
"Note to self, try to get my hands on that card." Nathan thought as Beth drew her card,
"This is gonna hurt but if Nathan attacks Nurse Reficule with Sorcerer of Dark Arts then I need to be prepared." Beth thought before picking up two cards. "I set two cards facedown and I activate another Upstart Goblin!" Beth activated the Spell before drawing a card from her deck and the two siblings winced as their life-points dropped to 1900 and 2000 respectively.
"That nurse is starting to get annoying." Nathan grunted in annoyance as Beth added the card she had drawn to her hand.
"Starting?" Kimberly asked her step-brother with a dull look on her face.
"I was trying to be polite about it." Nathan responded with a smile before they turned their attention to Beth.
"We'll see just how far that politeness takes you two because I'm activating the card I just drew, my last copy of Upstart Goblin!" Beth activated the Spell and drew one card before the siblings winced again as their life-points dropped to 900 and 1000 respectively.
"Is that all you've got?" Kimberly asked and Beth smirked before looking over her hand.
"Actually…yeah it is." Beth said and Nathan wasted no time in drawing his card. "Let me guess, Spellbook inside the Pot?"
"That's right but I'm not going to activate it just yet." Nathan responded before adding the card to his hand. "Because I'm getting sick of that nurse so I command Sorcerer of Dark Arts to attack Nurse Reficule!" Nathan commanded and the sorcerer started casting another spell….
"This is going to hurt….." Beth grunted before activating her trap. "I activate Interdimensional Matter Transporter and I use it to remove my Nurse from play for the rest of the turn." Beth said as her nurse was sucked into a portal.
"Don't worry Beth, my fighter will protect you." Tommy added and Beth shook her head.
"Trust me Tommy; it's better for both of us that I take the hit." Beth told him and Tommy blinked before nodding reluctantly.
"I didn't think you and Chelsea where into that kind of stuff but I won't judge, Sorcerer of Dark Arts; attack her life-points directly!" Nathan commanded and Beth braced herself as the spell hit her directly bringing her life-points down to 4600.
"He's so lucky that I'm not down there with Beth." Chelsea grunted as she blushed like a madwoman.
"I end my turn with a facedown card." Nathan announced as Nurse Reficule returned to the field…..
"And I activate Shock Draw; since I just took two thousand points of damage this lets me draw two cards!" Beth announced before drawing two cards, once she did Tommy drew his card.
"And I'll join my tag partner in drawing outside of the draw phase; I activate Heaven's Lost Property!" Tommy activated the Spell Card and all four duelists drew three cards before discarding two. "And since the cards I just discarded where two more warriors…" Tommy trailed off as Colossal Fighter's attack increased to 3700.
"Great, as if that thing wasn't strong enough." Nathan grunted and Tommy smirked before pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose.
"It gets better or haven't you noticed that I now have enough power to finish you off? Colossal Fighter, attack Sorcerer of Dark Arts!" Tommy commanded and the warrior charged towards the sorcerer before punching it through the stomach. "One down, one to…."
"Look again!" Nathan interrupted him and Tommy looked up in time to see that Nathan's life-points where down to 300. "Remember me facedown card? It's a Quick-Play Spell Card called Rush Recklessly and whilst it's an old card it still has its uses like keeping me in the duel!"
"Yeah, you're still in the duel but just barely." Tommy retorted as he folded his arms. "All it will take is a direct attack from Beth's nurse and Nathan will be out of the tournament."
"Aren't you forgetting something? There's still my turn to go before you can take your turn." Kimberly answered and Beth just smirked.
"Well in that case I won't keep you." Tommy said before looking over his hand. "I end my turn at that." Tommy announced and Kimberly drew her card only to blink in surprise as Colossal Fighter's hologram shattered. "Ah yes, that's Rage Resycnchro's unfortunate side effect, the monster that's summoned with it is destroyed during the end phase of my next turn." Tommy explained with a frown.
"I hope Kimberly has a way to get rid of that nurse for good, otherwise we'd be the second Obelisk Blue team to be eliminated." Nathan thought as he watches his sister look over her hand.
"I activate Pot of Avarice!" Kimberly played the card before retrieving Imprisoned Queen Archfiend, Shadowknight Archfiend, Trap Eater, Sangan and Chaos King Archfiend, returned them to their respective decks and drew twice. "And I end my turn with a facedown card."
"That's it? Too bad, I actually expected more from a pair of Obelisk Blue Students." Beth commented as she drew her card. "Damn, it's not a heal card but I can still use it to finish them both off!" Beth thought before playing the card. "I activate Monster Reborn and I use it to revive Colossal Fighter from Tommy's graveyard!" Beth announced as Colossal Fighter returned to the field with his power boost mostly intact.
"And whilst he's lost its power boost from Rage Resynchro he still has more than enough attack power to win us the duel!" Tommy said confidently as Beth switched her nurse back to attack mode.
"Then why waste any more time? Nurse Reficule, attack Nathan's life-points directly!" Beth commanded and the nurse flew towards Nathan…..
"Big mistake, I activate Dimensional Prison!" Kimberly activated the trap and Beth's eyes widened as Nurse Reficule was sucked into a portal. "Look on the Brightside; you can still attack with Colossal Fighter."
"I hardly consider that the Brightside!" Nathan quickly chimed in.
"Well too bad! Colossal Fighter, attack Nathan's life-points directly!" Beth commanded and the massive warrior charged towards Nathan…
"Sorry Beth but by Special Summoning Battle Fader (1/0/0) from my hand I can negate the attack!" Kimberly announced as the small clock like fiend appeared on the field stopping Colossal Fighter in its tracks.
"I guess it's up to Tommy to finish you off then." Beth grunted before turning to Nathan. "But contrary to popular belief I have more than one monster in my deck and I happen to have one such monster in my hand." Beth said as she played a card. "And I set it to end my turn at that!" Beth announced and Nathan drew his card.
"He won't get a chance; first I activate Spellbook Inside the Pot again!" Nathan played the card and all four duelists said nothing as they drew three cards each.
"Damn, if I had drawn this whilst Nurse Reficule was still on the field we would've won!" Beth thought as she looked at her copy of the Spell Card Rain of Mercy.
"Next I special summon The Tricky via its effect again!" Nathan announced as he discarded a card and the mysterious Spellcaster returned to the field (5/2000/1200). "Next I summon Frequency Magician in attack mode!" Nathan played the card and a short man in a magician's outfit appeared on the field (2/800/400). "Now my magician's effect activates which adds a Spell Counter to him!" Nathan explained as a small orb orbited around Frequency Magician. "And next I activate Miracle Synchro Fusion!"
"What is he up too?" Beth thought as Sorcerer of Dark Arts and The Tricky appeared on the field again only to be sucked into a portal.
"I banish Sorcerer of Dark Arts and The Trick to Fusion Summon Supreme Arcanite Magician!" Nathan played the card and a tall magician in midnight blue robes appeared on the field (10/1400/2800). "I know he doesn't look like much but that'll change soon because when he's fusion summoned he gains two Spell Counters and a thousand attack points for each one!" Nathan explained as Supreme Arcanite Magician's attack increased to 3400.
"Is that it? Not much of a finishing move!" Tommy said confidently and Nathan shook his head.
"Just watch, now I activate Frequency Magician's second effect, I give up his Spell Counter to increase Arcanite's attack by 500." Nathan explained as Supreme Arcanite's attack increased to 3900. "Oh yeah, I almost forgot, Frequency Magician's a Tuner Monster!"
"Oh crap!" Tommy gulped as Frequency Magician and The Tricky leapt into the air, Frequency Magician dissolved into two green Synchro rings that quickly surrounded The Tricky.
"I've heard my colorful language used when I used this combo but each to their own!" Nathan shrugged his shoulders just before a bright flash enveloped the field, once it faded a shorter version of Supreme Arcanite Magician, this time in white robes appeared on the field (7/400/1800). "Meet Supreme Arcanite's younger brother Arcanite Magician and like Supreme Arcanite he gains two Spell Counters and a thousand attack points for each one." Nathan explained as Arcanite's attack increased to 2400.
"He still doesn't look like much!" Beth commented as she folded her arms and Nathan shook his head.
"Just watch, next I use Monster Reborn to bring back The Tricky!" Nathan played the card and The Tricky returned to the field.
"And that's my cue; I activate my trap card Return from a Different Dimension!" Kimberly activated the trap and winced as her life-points dropped to five hundred. "It may cost me half of my remaining life-points but it also allows Nathan to finish you both off in this turn." Kimberly added as Sorcerer of Dark Arts and the first Tricky appeared on the field.
"Look again; we both have monsters on the field!" Tommy said confidently and Beth nodded in agreement but Nathan shook his head.
"Yes but not for long, I activate the final part of the two Arcanite's effects, by giving up a Spell Counter on each I can activate one of two effects, either I draw one card for each magician or I destroy one card on the field, no prizes for guessing my choice." Nathan explained as the two magician's attack points dropped to 2900 and 1400 respectively and they cast spells at Colossal Fighter and Beth's facedown card destroying them both.
"Not that it matters but my facedown monster was Sangan." Beth explained as she searched through her deck, once she found the card that she was looking for she revealed it to be another copy of Nurse Reficule before adding it to her hand.
"I thought that might be the case." Nathan said with a nod before pointing at his opponents. "Go my magicians, finish this duel!" Nathan commanded and the five magicians launched their attacks at the opponents bringing their life-points down to zero.
"Here are the winners of the match, Kimberly and Nathan Troy!" Martin announced and the crowd cheered as the four duelists gathered up their cards.
"Man, this bites; out of all the Osiris Red teams that have competed in the tournament so far they have all been eliminated." Chloe overheard another Osiris Red student complain to his friend and frowned once she realized he had a point.
"If things continue the way they are we may be the only students representing Osiris Red left." Chloe commented to Chelsea who looked up from her laptop.
"Yeah and for you it'll be Battle City all over again." Chelsea said with a nod before frowning. "I'm not sure if I can handle that pressure though, how did you handle it?"
"Mostly by doing the best I could in spite of the competition." Chloe answered with a shrug before thinking of something. "Do you have any hard feelings about Beth being eliminated?"
"Nah, not really, she's good but her team was out of their league in this match even if they almost pulled out an upset victory." Chelsea answered with a frown. "Don't get me wrong, I would've liked to have a match against her team but even Beth admitted that she was having her doubts going up against Kimberly and Nathan."
"Ah well, maybe we'll get some revenge for them in the next round?" Chloe suggested as she shrugged her shoulders and Chelsea frowned.
"Let's worry about making it past this round first." Chelsea responded and Chloe nodded in agreement as the crowd cheered again and the two girls looked up. "It looks like the next match is starting."
"And I'll have to miss the end of it; my next class is in a half hour." Chelsea told Chloe after checking the time on her computer clock. "Good thing Duel Academy's been uploading the matches to their YouTube page."
"Are you sure? I'm sure the teachers will understand if you don't want to miss the match." Chloe answered but Chelsea shook her head.
"It's with Tracy and we both know how strict she is, she's almost as strict as Martin." Chelsea said with a sigh and Chloe frowned, whilst that was going on the two teams where busy shuffling their decks.
"Nicky, for the last time relax, what happened a few weeks ago won't happen again." Jason reassured her and Nicky turned to him.
"I wish I could Jason but how do I know that for sure?" Nicky asked and Jason sighed once he realized that she had point.
"Kind of wish I could tell her that it won't happen again." Lance thought as he fitted his deck into the deck slot. "But I won't be able too without sounding crazy."
"That's good and all Jason." Evan said as he finished shuffling his deck. "But encase you haven't noticed we have a match to do and unless Nicky wants to surrender rather than risk it….."
"No!" Nicky interrupted him as she finished shuffling her deck. "I'm not pulling out after we've come this far!"
"What she said." Jason said with a nod and Lance frowned before turning to Evan.
"That was a bit harsh, don't you think?" Lance asked and Evan shook his head.
"Maybe but it lit a fire under her which means she'll be motivated to put on a good match." Evan answered and Lance nodded when he realized that he was right.
"Well in that case let's duel!" Lance said and the other three duelists nodded in agreement.