"Man, where is he?" Marcus thought as he paced back and forth, his match in the tournament was starting soon but there was no sign of Tyler anywhere. "If Tyler's any later then they'd consider it a forfeit and we'll lose without getting a chance to duel!"
"Sorry for the wait Marcus." Tyler said with a yawn as he approached his tag team partner. "To make a long story short I had another go at cracking the encryption on that laptop we found."
"No luck?" Marcus asked as he turned to him and Tyler shook his head, that was when Marcus noticed Tyler's bloodshot eyes. "Dude, what the hell, did you stay up all night working on that encryption?!"
"I understand that your upset but I was trying to help us get a leg up on those Orichalcos Duelists." Tyler said as the two boys entered the arena where Anton and Alexander where waiting and they stepped onto the arena. "I may be tired but I'm still an excellent duelist."
"Yeah but what if you doze off in the middle of the duel?" Marcus pointed out with a frown. "Can't we get a delay or something like your dad did for Chloe when Otto destroyed her original deck back in Battle City?"
"Already asked about that, Martin said that as much as he wants me to duel at my best this, unlike Battle City, is a school run tournament and the teachers are having a hard enough time working their schedules around the tournament as it is." Tyler told him with a frown. "For now let's focus on the duel."
"Good, I was wondering when you were going to stop bickering." Anton commented as he and Alexander activated their duel disks, Tyler and Marcus did likewise and the four duelists drew their opening hands. "We'll use the same order as the previous duels starting with myself, then Tyler, then Alexander then Marcus, any objections?"
"I'm okay with using that order." Marcus said as he looked over his hand, Tyler nodded in agreement and Anton drew his first card.
"Very well, then allow me to start this duel off with a bang!" Anton said before looking at his drawn card. "And I start with a Spell Card known as Pot of Duality, in exchange for my ability to Special Summon a monster this turn this lets me look at the top three cards in my deck, one card of my choice will go to my hand and the others will be returned to my deck." Anton explained before picking up the three cards and revealing them.
"Okay, I recognize one of those cards as Reinforcement of the Army but I've never seen the other two before." Marcus thought as Anton picked up Reinforcement of the Army and added it to his hand before shuffling the other cards into his deck and sending the Spell Card to the graveyard.
"Now I play the Spell Card I just added to my hand, the old but extremely useful Reinforcement of the Army!" Anton played the card and started searching through his deck; once he found the card he was looking for he added it to his hand and shuffled the deck again. "To conclude my move I set two cards facedown and a monster in defense mode!" Anton announced and once the three cards appeared on the field Tyler drew his card.
"Damn, I forgot to change my deck, I was prepared to use my other deck not my psychics." Tyler thought once he had a good look at the contents of his hand. "I set two cards facedown and I summon Psychic Commander!" Tyler played the cards and the small general in the floating tank head appeared on the field (3/1400/800).
"Opening things up with a tuner are we? The only way that thing can be of any use to you is if we don't draw a monster with more than 1900 attack points." Alexander pointed out and Tyler frowned.
"I end my turn." Tyler announced and Alexander drew his card.
"Wait, didn't Tyler say he was using his second deck?" Chloe asked Chelsea who nodded in response as they watched the duel.
"Yeah, I was at Tyler's room this morning but I didn't see his second deck anywhere, I assumed that he had already swapped his decks out." Chelsea responded and Chloe frowned. "I don't like this, he's clearly tired from the night he spent working on that laptop we found and he's dueling with a deck he wasn't prepared to use."
"He'll be fine, I've faced his Psychic Deck before remember?" Chloe pointed out as she turned to Chelsea. "I know how good it is."
"Is that all you have to say? That's too bad." Alexander said as he looked over his hand. "I activate the effect of Burner, Elemental Dragon of Fire (3/1000/200), by discarding him and one other dragon from my hand I can special summon the mighty Blaster, Elemental Dragon of Calderas from my deck!" Alexander announced before discarding the cards and searching through his deck, once he found the card that he was looking for he played it and a huge, menacing looking dragon appeared on the field, its scales where lava rad and it had massive wings (7/2800/1800).
"Did you say Elemental Dragons? That's a new one." Marcus commented with a gulp as he stared down the massive dragon.
"I'm not surprised you haven't heard of them Marcus." Alexander said as his dragon roared menacingly. "The Elemental Dragons are extremely rare cards in England and Japan, they haven't even been released over here yet, but when you have a dad as well connected as I do then you can get these cards for cheap." Alexander added before retrieving the two cards in his graveyard and pocketing them. "For my next move I banish the two dragons in my graveyard to Special Summon a second Elemental Dragon, Tempest, Elemental Dragon of Cyclones!"
"Oh great, your summoning another one?" Marcus gulped as a second dragon appeared on the field; this one was just as big as Blaster but was blue and purple in color (7/2400/2200).
"Yes but that's not all, you see the other dragon I banished was a third Elemental Dragon, Tidal, Elemental Dragon of Cascades (7/2600/2000) and if he is banished then I can search through my deck for another Water Type Dragon monster and add it to my hand." Alexander explained before picking up and searching through his deck again, once he found the card he was looking for he added it to his hand.
"Off course both monsters will be returned to your hand once Marcus ends his turn." Tyler pointed out and Alexander nodded in response. "That is, off course, if those monsters are still on the field."
"And they won't be! I'm using my two Elemental Dragons to construct an overlay network!" Alexander announced as both monsters faded into white orbs of light. "Come forth to your duty Gaia Dragon the Thunder Charger!" Alexander played the card and the orbs formed into a new monster, it was a dragon with the famous monster Gaia The Fierce Knight on top of it, the dragon was white in color and had red armor (Rank: 7/2600/2100).
"Who would've thought that I2 would make so many members of the Gaia family?" Marcus commented with a gulp as he stared down the XYZ monster.
"Indeed however unlike that Synchro Monster this card has an effect, but I won't go into that just yet." Alexander said before playing a card. "Next I play Super Rejuvenation, now being a fellow Dragon user I'm sure you know what this does Marcus."
"Yeah, during the end phase you'll draw a card for each dragon you've discarded this turn." Marcus said with a nod as he frowned. "And since you discarded four cards you'll draw four more."
"Correct but for now I set two cards facedown." Alexander added as he set the cards. "And I end my turn thus activating the effect of my Spell Card!" Alexander added before drawing four cards and Marcus drew his card.
"So that's the Elemental Dragons huh?" Chelsea commented as she folded her arms. "Hate to face them in the next round if they beat Marcus and Tyler."
"You've heard of them?" Chloe asked and Chelsea nodded.
"Yeah but this is my first time seeing them in action, like Alexander said they are really rare cards." Chelsea responded as she shrugged her shoulders. "What's weird is that there's no footage of them on YouTube."
"Your right, that is weird." Chloe agreed as she watched the duel. "Especially given how powerful they are."
"Yeah well, if they do beat Tyler and Marcus and we do face them in the next round we'll be ready for them." Chelsea added as they watched the duel.
"I start with a Spell Card of my own, Cards of Consonance!" Marcus announced before discarding a card. "By discarding one weak Dragon Type Tuner I can draw two cards!" Marcus added before he drew twice.
"And knowing your deck I'm sure that the card you discarded was White Stone of Legend." Anton responded and Marcus nodded before retrieving the card from his deck.
"That's right and I use its effect to add the Blue Eyes White Dragon to my hand!" Marcus added as he shuffled his deck. "But I'll get to that in a bit, so I set a monster in defense and two cards facedown." Marcus announced as the three cards appeared on the field. "And that ends my turn." Marcus added and Anton drew his card.
"You've met my partner's monsters; now allow me the pleasure of introducing my own! First I slip summon my facedown monster, the beautiful, the eloquent Queen's Night!" Anton flipped the card up and the beautiful female knight appeared on the field (4/1500/1600).
"Queen's Knight? Is he running Arcana Knight Joker?" Marcus thought as he waited for Anton to continue his move.
"But I'm afraid that my maiden won't be staying for long." Anton admitted before picking up the card and slipping it into his graveyard slot. "You see I'm about to Special Summon a monster with a very potent ability, but to do so I first have to send a Level 4 Light Type Warrior Monster to the graveyard." Anton explained as Queen's Knight shattered. "Come forth to the field Ignoble Knight of Black Laundsallyn!"
"Yeah I'm not even going to try to spell that guy's name!" Marcus grunted as a new warrior appeared on the field, this one was wearing black armor and had long flowing black hair, he had glowing red eyes and was wielding a sword (5/2000/800).
"Honestly you're the first person I've met who's had trouble with the spelling." Anton commented as he picked up a card. "In fact most of my opponents have trouble pronouncing my night's name." Anton added before playing the card. "For my normal summon I call forth Rescue Rabbit to the field."
"Rescue what now?" Marcus asked as a new monster appeared on the field, this one was a small rabbit appeared on the field, it had a small yellow helmet, goggles and a walkie talkie on its body and had red eyes (4/300/100) and most of the female members in the audience cooed when they saw the monster.
"Don't let its admittedly adorable appearance fool you, this monster is very lethal." Anton said as he pocketed Rescue Rabbit. "You see I can banish Rescue Rabbit in order to Special Summon two Level 4 Normal Monsters from my deck, so come forth Noble Knight Atorigus!" Anton played the cards once Rescue Rabbit disappeared from the field two knights appeared on the field, they had blonde spiked up hair, was wearing silver armor and wielded large swords (4/1800/1800).
"I know what that monster does and I also know that both monsters will be destroyed during the end phase." Tyler pointed out before frowning. "But you have a different purpose in mind for them, don't you?"
"Am I that obvious? Don't answer that, first I play a Spell Card called Card Destruction." Anton said as he and the other duelists discarded their cards and drew the same number of cards. "Now I use my two weaker knights to construct an Overlay Network!" Anton announced as the two knights transformed into white orbs of light. "In order to exceed summon Artorigus, King of the Noble Knights!"
"You're summoning the same monster only in XYZ form?" Marcus asked and Anton ignored him as another knight appeared on the field, this one had black spiked up hair and a matching goatee, he had silver armor on and was wielding a sword (Rank: 4/2000/2000). "He doesn't look so tough compared to other exceed monsters."
"Appearances can be deceiving." Anton said as he retrieved three of the cards he had discarded. "There's a reason I used Card Destruction before summoning him as Antorigus has a very lethal effect, first when he is XYZ summoned I can take up to three Noble Arms equip Spells from my graveyard and equip them to him as long as they have different names, so I equip him with Noble Arms Arfeudutyr, Caliburn and Gallatin!" Anton announced as the three swords appeared on Antorigus's armor and his attack increased to 3500 almost immediately.
"You had all three Noble Arms Cards in your opening hand?" Tyler asked and Anton merely shrugged his shoulders in response.
"Luck of the draw, need I say more?" Anton asked with a grin. "Now onto the effects of these cards, the extra 500 attack points are from Caliburn and the extra 1000 attack points are from Gallatin." Anton explained with a grin. "They have far more interesting effects but they don't matter right now, what does matter is Arfeudutyr's effect, whilst the other swords give attack points this one takes them away, five hundred to be precise." Anton explained as Antorigus's attack dropped to 3000.
"There has to be a reason for that." Marcus reasoned and Anton nodded.
"Indeed there is, you see the equipped monster permanently loses five-hundred attack points when I target a set card that my opponent controls, such as the card on Tyler's left, that card is destroyed." Anton explained as the facedown card shattered. "But then there's Artorigus's other effect and his most lethal one! I discard one Overlay Unit….." Anton trailed off as he sent one of the knights to the graveyard. "And I destroy any number of Spell or Trap Cards up to the number of equip spells equipped to him!"
"Wait, what?!" Marcus yelled out as his and Tyler's facedown cards were destroyed. "That's gotta have some kind of drawback!"
"Unfortunately for you it doesn't." Anton responded before looking over the field. "Now who to attack…."
"Go after Tyler," Alexander told him and Anton turned to him. "Even if he uses his Commander's effect he'll still lose life-points."
"That's an excellent point." Anton acknowledged before turning to Tyler.
"You won't be doing any attacks; I chained your monster's effect with my Threatening Roar Trap Card." Tyler said as he held up the trap. "So feel free to use any other effects that you want to."
"Very well, I shall." Anton said as the weaker knight disappeared from the field. "I activate the effect of Ignoble Knight, by sacrificing one Noble Knight from my side of the field I can add one Noble Arms equip spell to my hand." Anton explained before searching through his deck, once he found the card he was looking for he added it to his hand. "And to conclude my move I set two cards facedown and I activate the Field Spell Noble Knight Stronghold!"
"This archetype has a field spell as well?" Marcus asked as the scenery changed, it looked like the English Countryside and there was a castle in the foreground.
"Yes it does but I will get to its effect in a moment, feel free to take your turn Tyler." Anton announced and Tyler drew his card.
"As a fantasy buff I can't help but get a laugh out of the irony of knights teaming up with dragons." Chloe commented and Chelsea nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, I see what ya mean." Chelsea said as she watched the duel. "On a more serious note I've heard of these Noble Knights, it's an archetype that hasn't been released over here yet."
"So Noble Knights and Elemental Dragons are both rare cards in other words?" Chloe asked and Chelsea nodded in response. "They don't have any other cards as nasty as that XYZ Monster do they?"
"Nah, at the moment that monster's the only XYZ in the set." Chelsea responded as she shook her head. "As far as effects go I'm not sure, like with the Elemental Dragons this is my first time seeing them in action." Chelsea admitted as they watched the duel.
"Those XYZ monsters are going to be a problem unless I do something about them." Tyler thought before looking at his drawn card. "I activate a Spell Card called Arkhasic Record, I draw two cards but if I've used either of them they both get removed from play." Tyler played the card and quickly drew twice. "And I haven't used either of these cards so I get to keep them."
"It's not like they'll help you against our powerhouse monsters." Alexander pointed out with a grin and Tyler frowned.
"We'll see about that." Tyler said as he added the cards to his hand. "That field spell's obviously got something to do with Equip Spells especially since the Noble Knight Archetype relies on them." Tyler thought as he looked over his hand. "I play a Spell Card called Emergency Teleport, with this I can Special Summon another Level Three or lower monster from my hand or deck, and I choose to summon Raizbellt the Regulator!" Tyler played the card and a new monster appeared on the field, it was a man who was almost completely covered in armor that was black and silver in color, his right hand glowed a sickly green as he stared at his opponents (3/800/800).
"Very impressive, if it was any stronger at last." Anton said as he folded his arms. "Summon a Level one monster and I may be intimidated."
"That won't be necessary because by Special Summoning this monster I've activated his effect!" Tyler said as Raizbellt pointed his hand towards Psychic Commander. "With I can target one face up Psychic Type Monster I control and increase his level by up to three until the end of my turn so I increase my commander's level to five!" Tyler explained as Psychic Commander's level increased to five. "And as anyone who's seen me duel can tell you Psychic Commander is a Tuner Monster so I tune him and Raizbellt together!" Tyler announced as the two psychic monsters leapt into the air.
"A Level Eight Synchro Summon, how quaint." Alexander commented as Psychic Commander dissolved into five Synchro Rings that quickly surrounded Raizbellt. "Well let's get this over with, what are you summoning?"
"Why don't I show you?" Tyler asked as he played the card and once the bright flash faded a new monster appeared on the field, a monster that many recognized as Thought Ruler Archfiend (8/2700/2300).
"Ah yes, you used that card in your expulsion duel against Dmitri Romanoff, didn't you?" Anton asked and Tyler remained silent. "If it could defeat my King I'd be worried."
"Encase you haven't noticed I still have a normal summon to do." Tyler said as he played the card. "I summon Genetic Woman in attack mode!" Tyler played the card and the woman who had used in his previous duels appeared on the field (4/1700/1200). "I know I normally use her in combination with Psychic Lifetrancer's effect but I'm willing to make an exception just this once, I play a Spell Card called Psi-Impulse!" Tyler played the card and Genetic Woman vanished from the field. "First I tribute one Psychic Type Monster I control and in return two effects activate, first all the cards in your hand get returned to the deck."
"Now hold on a minute!" Anton went to protest but thought better of it when Tyler shook his head and the two duelists returned their cards to their hands. "And what is the other effect?"
"It's quite simple, I draw three cards." Tyler explained before drawing three cards. "That should slow them down a bit." Tyler thought before setting two cards. "I set two cards facedown, now Thought Ruler Archfiend; attack Gaia Knight, The Thunder Charger!" Tyler commanded and the monster reached forward with its claws….
"You didn't think it would be that easy would you?" Alexander asked as his trap card flipped up. "I activate Reinforced Space, now each XYZ monster we control gains three hundred attack points for each overlay unit attached to it!" Alexander announced and Tyler's eyes widened as Gaia Knight's attack increased to 3200, the dragon dodged the claws and pierced the fiend through the chest destroying it and bringing Tyler's life-points down to 7500.
"Just be thankful it isn't my move for another two turns, otherwise your facedown cards would be destroyed as well." Anton added and Tyler frowned.
"I end my turn." Tyler announced and Alexander drew his card once Gaia Dragon's attack returned to its original amount.
"Hmmm, more Elemental Dragons, I could summon them but for all I know Tyler has a Bottomless Trap Hole set." Alexander thought before adding his monster to his hand. "Gaia Dragon, attack…Marcus's facedown monster!"
"Wait, what?!" Marcus yelled in surprise before the dragon charged towards his facedown monster, revealed to be Troop Dragon (2/700/800) which was quickly skewered by Thunder Charger's lance. "Thanks for that because you just activated my Troop Dragon's effect….." Marcus started only to wince as his life-points dropped to 6200. "What just happened?"
"My Thunder Charger's effect happened, put simply if it attacks a monster in defense mode it inflicts piercing damage." Alexander explained with a grin as Thunder Charger returned to his side of the field. "Now I believe you were about to explain the fact that when Troop Dragon is destroyed you can summon two more in his place?"
"Err, yeah that's right!" Marcus said with a nod as he played the cards and two more Troop Dragons appeared on the field.
"He's likely to tribute those dragons to summon Blue-Eyes White Dragon." Alexander thought with a frown before smirking. "Whilst my facedown card isn't another copy of Reinforced Space it'll still do an adequate job of protecting me if and when Marcus decides to attack, and the same will go for this trap!" Alexander thought as he looked over the cards in his hand. "I shall end my turn with a facedown card." Alexander announced and Marcus drew his card.
"Okay, this is my best shot at getting my best monster on the field and I'd better take it!" Marcus thought before picking up the two remaining Troop Dragons and sending them to the graveyard. "You guys may have your best monsters on the field but I'm about to bring out mine, I tribute my two weaker dragons to bring out my best monster the one, the only, the mighty Blue-Eyes White Dragon in attack mode!" Marcus played the card and the two weaker dragons vanished from the field, seconds later the mighty white dragon appeared on the field with a roar (8/3000/2500).
"How drove." Alexander said as he rolled his eyes. "That monster may have been powerful and dreaded once upon a time but now? All he amounts to is a glorified beatstick and my Elemental Dragons fulfill that purpose better than he could any day." Alexander added as he stared down the dragon. "Why do you think it's getting a reprint after all these years of Seto Kaiba owning the only three copies?"
"Mock it all you want, he's still stronger than Thunder Charger!" Marcus pointed out before pointing to Thunder Charger. "Blue-Eyes White Dragon, attack with White Lightning!" Marcus commanded and the dragon fired its famous attack at the XYZ monster disintegrating it and bringing Alexander's life-points down to 7600.
"You may have destroyed Thunder Charger but there are more moves that I can make!" Alexander responded as he sent his three monsters to the graveyard.
"I set a card facedown and end my turn." Marcus announced and Anton drew his card.
"Ah yes, this'll do nicely, I summon Noble Knight Joan to the field in attack mode!" Anton played the card and a female knight appeared on the field, you couldn't see most of her body due to the fact that most of it besides her lower jaw was covered in armor that was silver and gold in color (4/1900/1300). "I assure you that Joan is more than just a member of the 1900 club."
"Then why don't you show us?" Marcus asked and Anton grinned.
"Oh, I shall." Anton said with a grin. "Noble Knight Joan, attack…the Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"
"Wait, what?!" Marcus yelled out as the female knight charged towards the dragon, the dragon looked towards the knight before firing its famous attack at her disintegrating the female warrior before she could even cross the field. "Why waste a strong card like that?"
"I'll show you; for starters if Joan attacks she loses 300 attack points." Anton grunted as his life-points dropped to 6600. "It's a small price to pay compared to her other effect, when Noble Knight Joan is destroyed in battle or by a card effect I can target a Level 4 or lower Warrior Type Monster in my graveyard add it to my hand." Anton explained before retrieving a card from his graveyard and adding it to his hand.
"That's likely Queen's Knight which means he has another copy of Ignoble Knight in his hand." Tyler thought as he glanced towards Artorigus.
"But that's not all because since a Noble Knight Monster with under two-thousand attack points was destroyed in battle the effect of Noble Knight Stronghold activates." Anton added with a grin. "Simply put this Field Spell's effect lets me search through my deck for a monster with knight in his name like so." Anton added before picking up and searching through his deck, once he found the card he was looking for he added it to his hand. "Unfortunately it comes with the side effect of activating once per turn."
"That's good to know at least." Marcus grunted before glancing up at Tyler who seemed to be barely awake at this point. "Man, I hope Tyler drank a whole can of Red-Bull before the duel started, otherwise we're in trouble!"
"Now then, that only leaves my king and considering the fact that sending my king into battle against your monster would be suicide and Tyler's field is wide open….." Anton trailed off before pointing to Tyler. "Artorigus, attack Tyler's life-points directly!" Anton commanded as the king charged forward…..
"I activate my Trap Card Pin-Point Guard!" Tyler activated the trap and retrieved a monster from his graveyard. "Since you just declared an attack I can special summon Psychic Commander from my graveyard in defense mode!" Tyler announced as the Psychic Tuner Monster returned to the field. "Don't bother trying to attack instead, for this turn only Psychic Commander can't be destroyed by battle or card effects."
"Well played." Anton acknowledged as his king returned to his side of the field. "I end my turn for now." Anton announced and Tyler drew his card. "If I had used Artorigus's effect again he wouldn't have been able to use his trap, no matter, I'll make up for that mistake next turn." Anton thought with a frown as Tyler looked over his hand.
"I sacrifice Psychic Commander….." Tyler trailed off as the tuner monster disappeared from the field. "So I can summon Storm Caller to the field!" Tyler played the card and in Psychic Commander's place stood a large ape like cyborg that was blue in color and a large, strange device was strapped to his head (6/2300/2000).
"You had me worried for a second there Tyler." Anton commented with a smirk. "And whilst Storm Caller may be strong it isn't strong enough to make a dent in my king's armor though you can attack my partner's life-points directly."
"A direct attack is my plan, but it's on you! I activate my Trap Card Battle Teleportation!" Tyler announced as his trap card flipped up. "Now that I've activated it I can target Storm Caller and have him bypass your king!"
"What? No!" Anton yelled out once it hit him. "Wait a minute, unless that has a drawback that's incredibly broken."
"It does, once my Battle Phase ends you'll get Storm Caller for the rest of the duel." Tyler explained and Anton's shocked expression turned into a smirk. "But I'll get to that in a minute! Storm Caller, attack Anton's life-points directly!" Tyler commanded and the monster took flight before blowing strong winds at Anton bringing his life-points down to 4300.
"Well, thank you for the strong monster." Anton commented smugly.
"Don't get too attached to him." Tyler commented as Storm Caller floated over to Anton's side of the field. "I set one card facedown and end my turn." Tyler set the card down and Alexander drew his card.
"A duelist like Tyler wouldn't give us such a strong monster without some strings attached, what's he up too?" Alexander thought before looking at his drawn card. "I activate Heaven's Lost Property!" Alexander announced before the four duelists drew three cards and discarded two. "At the moment I have two Dragon Type Water Monsters in my graveyard, why do I bring this up? It's because I'm about to banish them to Special Summon Tidal, Elemental Dragon of Cascades!" Alexander pocked the two cards and the large water dragon appeared on the field (7/2600/2000).
"Great, more Elemental Dragons," Marcus grunted as he stared down the monster. "He maybe strong but my Blue-Eyes is stronger!"
"Very true but I never said anything about my dragon being on the field long enough for you to destroy it!" Alexander said before activating his trap. "I activate Interdimensional Matter Transporter and I use it to banish my Elemental Dragon until the end phase!" Alexander announced as the dragon vanished from the field.
"Wait, what? Why didn't you protect Thunder Charger with that card?" Marcus asked and Alexander grinned as he pocketed the dragon.
"Two reasons, and I'm about to reveal two of them." Alexander said as he picked up his deck. "First when my Dragon is banished I can add another Water Type Dragon Monster from my deck to my hand." Alexander explained as he added the card. "Next I activate my trap card Return from a Different Dimension, and since two of your friends are found of using this card I'm sure explaining its effect will be pointless."
"Yeah, you get to summon as many monsters from you're removed from play spot as possible at the cost of half of your life-points." Marcus said with a nod as Alexander winced as his live-points dropped to 3800 two copies of tidal and a younger version of the monster appeared on the field (4/1600/2000). "I don't recognize the weaker monster."
"It's Steam, Elemental Dragon of Water, think of it as the Water equivalent of the monster I discarded to get Blaster in my hands." Alexander explained before playing another card. "And speaking of which I activate Monster Reborn and I use it to bring back that very dragon! Burner, Elemental Dragon of Fire!" Alexander played the card and the lava red dragon appeared on the field. "Now I use my two weaker dragons to construct an overlay network!"
"Here we go again!" Marcus grunted as the two dragons transformed into white orbs of light.
"Get used to it; I have one more to do after this one!" Alexander said after playing the card. "To XYZ Summon Queen Dragon Djinn!" Alexander played the card and a new monster appeared on the field, it was a female warrior riding a dragon made of fire, the warrior was blonde and was wearing blue spiked armor (Rank: 4/2200/1200).
"Okay, she doesn't look too bad." Marcus admitted as he stared down the monster. "And I mean both in looks and in attack strength."
"You're not the only one to make such comments about my queen and you won't be the last." Alexander commented as the two stronger dragons transformed into orbs of light. "Now I construct a second overlay network to XYZ Summon my second Gaia Dragon the Thunder Charger!" Alexander played the card and the latest iteration of Gaia the Fierce Knight returned to the field.
"You realize that I'm just going to destroy that big guy all over again right?" Marcus asked and Alexander grinned before picking up a card.
"You're certainly welcome to try." Alexander answered as he set the card. "I set one card facedown and I shall end my turn."
"He paid half his life-points just to bring back Thunder Charger?" Chelsea asked as they watched the duel. "I'll admit I'm not a big expert when it comes to XYZ monsters but there's gotta be stronger rank sevens than that!"
"You're asking the wrong girl, I'm still getting used to Synchro Monsters." Chloe answered as she shrugged her shoulders. "But still I have to agree; unless that facedown card is another Reinforced Space he just cut his own life-points in half for nothing."
"Well I'm not about to let this opportunity pass me up!" Marcus said as he added his drawn card to his hand and pointed too Gaia Dragon. "Blue-Eyes White Dragon, deep fry that Dragon Charger with White Lightning!" Marcus commanded and the dragon opened its maws to prepare the attack….
"Nice try but not good enough! I activate my trap card Covering Fire!" Alexander announced and Marcus's eyes widened when he heard that. "Now he gains my Queen's attack points making him much stronger than your famous dragon!" Alexander added as Gaia Dragon's attack increased to 4800, he flew over the attack and pierced Blue-Eyes White Dragon through the chest destroying it and bringing Marcus's life-points down to 3400. "If you wish to continue to defeat yourself we won't stop you."
"Yeah, yeah, very funny, but I still have a move or two that I can do!" Marcus said as he picked up two cards. "I set a card facedown and I summon Alexandrite Dragon!" Marcus played the card and the beautiful crystal dragon appeared on the field (4/2000/100). "And I end my turn at that." Marcus announced and Anton drew his card.
"It would be a simple matter for me to destroy their facedown cards with my king's effect so why did they set those cards?" Anton thought before looking at his drawn card. "I activate my king's effect…"
"And I'll put your king in chains! Fiendish Chain that is!" Tyler activated the trap and Anton's eyes widened as his king became ensnared by chains. "You won't be doing any attacks or using his effect as long as these chains ensnare him!"
"Did you forget about your own card already?" Anton asked as he pointed to Storm Caller. "You may have prevented my king's effect and any further attacks from him but the monster you gave me is more than strong enough to make up for it! Storm Caller, attack your former master directly!" Anton commanded and the psychic monster took flight…..
"I knew you wouldn't be able to resist that!" Tyler responded as he activated his trap which depicted a man clutching his head in pain whist several Psychic Monsters surrounded him. "Go Psychic Betrayal! This trap can only be activated if an opponent's Psychic Type Monster declares an attack, instead of attacking it lets loose a telepathic attack that attacks the brain waves…"
"Anyone have a translator for what Tyler's saying?" Marcus asked as he scratched his head in confusion, Alexander and Anton could only shrug their shoulders in response and Tyler sweat-dropped.
"Sorry, channeled my father for a bit there." Tyler said sheepishly before clearing his throat. "In game turns the Psychic type monster is destroyed and it takes the other monsters on your side of the field with it, downside it that I have to cut my life-points in half to use it!" Tyler said before wincing as his life-points dropped to 3750. "But at the same time it activates Storm Caller's effect!" Tyler added as Storm Caller, Artorigus and Alexander's two dragons shattered.
"What effect?" Anton asked only to wince as his life-points dropped to 4300. "Never mind, I believe I just found out."
"Yes, you have, when Storm Caller is destroyed by a card effect the controller takes damage equal to the card's original attack." Tyler explained and Alexander's eye's widened.
"Wait a minute, if that's effect damage then….." Alexander trailed off as his life-points dropped to 1500. "Anton! You just cost us the duel!"
"No I haven't, what are the chances of either of them drawing their own copies of Monster Reborn? Besides even if you're eliminated I'll still be in the duel!" Anton pointed out and Alexander breathed a sigh of relief. "I end my turn!"
"You really shouldn't have said that!" Tyler said as he drew his card. "I activate Monster Reborn to bring back Thought Ruler Archfiend!" Tyler played the card and the psychic type monster returned to the field. "It's been a good duel guys but this is over, Thought Ruler, attack Alexander's life-points directly!" Tyler commanded and the archfiend reached forward with his claws before slashing him across the chest and bringing his life-points down to zero. "Marcus, it's your turn, if you want to use my monster to finish Anton off feel free."
"Thanks, I will." Marcus said with a nod as he drew his card. "And I'm ending this in style! I activate Dragon Rebirth! I banish Alexandrite Dragon to bring back an old friend!" Marcus announced as the weaker dragon disappeared and in its place stood the famous dragon, Thought Ruler Archfiend floated over to his side of the field and Marcus pointed to his two monsters. "Thought Ruler Archfiend, Blue-Eyes White Dragon, punch our ticket to the next round!" Marcus commanded and the two monsters launched their attacks at Anton, they hit in that order bringing his life-points down to zero.
"Here are the winners of the match, Tyler Kaiba and Marcus Reynolds!" Martin announced and the crowd cheered in response as the four duelists deactivated their duel disks, whilst they did that Martin turned to Kaiba. "I see you taught your son well."
"If that's some snide comment about him channeling me, don't go there." Kaiba warned him before shaking his head. "Otherwise, I completely agree."
"You had me worried there Tyler, I thought you were going to pass out on me." Marcus commented as he approached Tyler.
"Actually I had a power nap during the opening match, helped me keep my energy up." Tyler answered before noticing that Anton and Alexander had approached them for handshakes.
"That was an excellent duel, good luck in the next round." Anton told them and Alexander grinned before nodding in agreement, Tyler and Marcus nodded as well before accepting the handshake.
"Good to see that the duels so far have ended in good sportsmanship." Chelsea commented as she and Chloe got ready to leave.
"Yeah, definitely, maybe tomorrow will end the same way?" Chloe offered as the two girls made their way out of the stands.
"Come back tomorrow morning where Cameron Matthew and Jessica Stevens will take on Fred Goff and Heath Chen and Thomas Newborne and Rajin Kanda will take on Ora Spence and Sarah Baker." Martin announced over the PA causing nearly every student to groan at that.
"Well, that idea just got tossed out the window, nuked, set on fire and launched into space." Chloe commented earning a confused look from Chelsea.
"Where the hell did you come up with THAT sentence?!" Chelsea asked and Chloe could only shrug her shoulders in response. "Anyway let's head back to the dorm, Tyler said that he'll bring my laptop over personally."
"Sounds good, I want to chill before my next class anyway." Chloe agreed as she followed her roommate out of the arena.
*later on*
"Man it's been four hours, where is he?!" Chelsea groaned as she paced back and forth in the dormroom that she shared with Chloe, Chloe had just come back from her class and saw Chelsea pacing back and forth.
"He still hasn't come back yet?" Chloe asked and Chelsea nodded. "You have another laptop don't you?"
"Yeah, my back-up one in case the main one kicks the bucket." Chelsea responded with a nod. "But here's the thing, you remember my homework that Tracy gave me a few hours before that Tag Team Orichalcos Duel?" Chelsea asked and Chloe nodded. "Well I haven't had a chance to make a backup off it; the only copy is on my main laptop and its due right after tomorrow's matches."
"What about the USB Stick she gave you?" Chloe asked and Chelsea shook her head.
"Good idea but the last time she let a student use a USB on their computer and one of DA's computers the network got hit by a nasty virus." Chelsea responded as she folded her arms. "She nearly lost her job as well, I don't know the details but since then me and the other IT Students were told to save it to our own USB sticks."
"What happened to the student?" Chloe asked and Chelsea shrugged.
"He got an expulsion duel since it was found out that he didn't even know that his computer was infected." Chelsea responded as she sat down. "He won and graduated from the academy later that year."
"I think it's a safe bet that he's a lot more careful nowadays." Chloe commented and Chelsea nodded in agreement. "Anyway, relax, Tyler's a good guy and like you he's really good with computers, I'm sure he'll get it back to you safe….." Chloe never got a chance to finish as Tyler burst into the room clearly out of breath. "Ever heard of knocking?"
"Sorry girls but this is urgent!" Tyler said before turning to Chelsea. "Chelsea, how badly would you kick my ass if I told you that your laptop was stolen when I was dueling?"
"That would depend on whether you locked the door or not." Chelsea said as her eyes narrowed and Tyler nodded.
"Good thing I locked the door then." Tyler responded and Chelsea's eyes widened.
"If this is a joke it's not funny!" Chelsea said and Tyler gave her a look that told her that he was serious. "Do you have any idea who did it?"
"No but I've alerted security and the others, their searching the island as we speak, your free to join in the search if you want." Tyler responded and that was all the girls needed for them to follow Tyler out of the dormroom.