Addressing reviews from chapter 3:
Drago: Yes it is those three cards, one will be making an appearance soon, as in this chapter.
MercyChimes: That is a distinct possibility, I'll think about the last pairing.
Now for the fourth chapter of this surprisingly well received story.
"What is happening?" Strong's eyes widened in horror as Yuri set the pendulum scale.
"With this scale I can summon monsters level 2 through 7 all at the same time!" Yuri declared with a fire in his eyes.
"Swing pendulum of the soul! Draw an arc of light across the ether! Pendulum summon!"
"Starve Venemy Dragon and Predaplant Drosophyllum Hydra both in attack mode!" Starve Venemy Dragon Level 7 Pendulum scale: 1 (2500/2000), Predaplant Drosophyllum Hydra Level 5 (800/2300).
(Leo Corporation HQ)
"Mr President," a stocky, fair-skinned man with black hair that had four grey bangs at the front wearing blue-lensed hexagonal glasses with a grey business suit burst into a dimly light office, "What is it Nakajima?" came the voice from a young man with purple eyes and grey hair who was sitting on a chair minding his own business. "Sir there have been reports of a strange new summoning method with powerful fusion summoning too?" The gray haired teen raised an eyebrow "Fusion you say? Show me a live feed." The teen pushed his glasses up his face as he thought "Could it have started already..?"
(Stadium [1])
Up in the stands Yuzu, Gongenzaka and Shuzo looked on in utter disbelief.
"Pendulum…" Yuzu stumbled over her words stunned from this surprising development.
"Alright! That's the power of You show's ace Yuri!" Shuzo pumped his fist excited that Yuri was now on a path to victory (mainly just happy about getting the new Arc system).
"Now Fly trap's pendulum effect activates! It switches the attack and defence points!
King attack (4400 – 1100)
"I then activate Starve Venemy's effect! I target one monster on your field, negate its effect, make it lose 500 Atk and finally you take 500 points of damage! Gluttony Spore!" Vines extended out of Venemy constricting the bulking behemoth sucking the life out of the monster before numerous small spores attacked Strong.
King attack (1100 – 600)
Strong (3800 – 3300)
"I play Seed Cannon Salvo's effect sending Predaplant Lilylizard to the graveyard you lose another 300 life points!"
Strong (3300 – 3000)
"Next by banishing Predaplant Ophrys Scorpio I activate Hydra's effect causing your monster to lose more attack points, 500 to be exact!"
King attack (600 – 100)
"I activate Cordyceps ability from the graveyard by banishing this card I can special summon two Predaplants from my graveyard! Revive and sprout again! Predaplant Darlington Cobra and Predaplant Lilylizard!"
"Cobra's effect adds Polymerization to my hand and Lilylizard allows me to draw one card from my deck."
"I activate my second polymerization fusing Lilylizard and Cobra together!"
"It's coming…" Yuzu clapped her hands together.
"Obscured predator of legend! Sweet-smelling flower that invites the abyss! Now become one and from hell beneath your petals, give birth to a new terror! Fusion summon! Level 8! Starve Venom Fusion Dragon!" 2800/2000 PS: 4.
In the Leo corp CEO's room the teen simply smirked "Father is he really the forefront of an invasion? My how your 'standards' have fallen."
"Battle! Starve Venemy attack Battleguard king!" Yuri was brutal in his tone and execution as the vines tightened around king's body as the behemoth went down causing its destruction.
Strong (3000 – 600)
"This is the true finale! Starve Venom direct attack!" The dragon flew with Yuri on its shoulder as the cut of Strong's path to an action card.
The vine this time constricted Strong robbing him of his remaining life points.
Strong (600 – 0)
Yuri: Win!
The crowd erupted into applause as a dark fog descended off of Yuri.
"Huh…" Yuri grabbed his head, "What happened?" Yuri's curious gaze went over to see Strong laying on the ground unconscious "What's Strong doing on the ground?" Yuri wasn't able to delve further into his train of thought before Nico approached much to his surprise he announced something he wasn't expecting, "That was quiet an exquisite win Yuri." Nico pressed the microphone into Yuri's face much to the latter's distaste "You must tell us about that new summoning method you used." Yuri was confused to say the least "What are you talking about?" Nico about to speak was interrupted by the appearance of Yuzu and co. "Yuri you did it!" Yuzu throw herself on top of the Purple haired boy causing him redden. "I always knew you could do it!" Gong shoved Yuzu off Yuri crushing Yuri in a massive hug, "G-G-Gongenzaka get-t-t off me I can't breathe!" Gong loosened his strangle hold allowing Yuri room to breathe. Yoko had also come down with the others to witness her son's victory "You did well Yuri you did well." She ruffled Yuri's hair leading the boy to let out a small smile.
(Leo Corporation HQ)
"Pendulum…" Purple eyes zeroed in on the name of this new summoning method and of its inventor, "Yuri Sakaki the adopted son of Yusho who disappeared three years ago and foster brother of Yuya Sakaki who vanished seven years ago." The president's curiosity as Nakajima moved to another screen showing Yuri's Win/Lost ratio and other information "It's a 50% win rate, he's a year 8 [2] in Maiami Second Middle School and learns at You show duel school, yet he has the ability to perform powerful fusion summons," he fixed his glasses and leaned back "Nakajima keep an eye on this boy and alert me if the sensors go off again." Nakajima stiffened as he spoke "You don't think he could be…" a piercing glance from the purple eyes across from him told more than words could ever say, "Yes Mr. President I'll notify you if I see anything." He left the room trembling as he walked.
(You Show Duel School)
Yuri was rubbing his temples viciously "Okay one more time…" he asked Yuzu and Gongenzaka in front of him "I did what exactly?" Yuzu replied confused Yuri wouldn't remember what had happened "You created a new summoning method called 'Pendulum'…" Yuri was even more confused "Pendulum?" Yuri threw his arms in the air before folding them in annoyance, "Never heard of it! You must be delusional!" Yuzu grabbed Yuri's arms shocking the boy in this unusual show of aggression "Yuri you dolt! Check your deck if you don't believe me." Yuri took the hint rather quickly not wanting to risk the wrath of Yuzu's fan, much to Yuri's amazement he had found that some of his cards had indeed changed, "This is certainly an interesting development," Yuri looked Yuzu dead in the eyes, "what did you all this method again my dear?" Yuzu's guard dropped Yuri seemed to have a way of flustering her, "It's called Pendulum Yuri…" Yuzu flushed, "Pendulum huh?" Yuri looked into his extra deck, "Starve Venom has changed as well?!" Yuri, Yuzu and Gong all looked at the now pendulum fusion monster, Gong was the first to raise a question "What do you think you'll do about this then Yuri?" Yuri smirked "Two things my friend, First I'll have to get this summoning method mastered then I'll be a certain favourite for the Maiami championship," Yuri opened out his palm envisioning the world in his hand "second once I win the championship my journey to be the strongest duelist and stand alone in the world can begin!"
"Err…Yuri?" Yuzu could see the malice of Yuri's expression which only came out when he fantasized a little too much, "You're making that face again" Yuri snapped out of his fantasies when he heard that sentence "Guess I got carried away again didn't I?" Yuri laughed rubbing the back of his head while Yuzu and Gong sighed not noticing Shuzo burst into the room behind them.
"YURI!" Seven years had passed and Shuzo was still as loud as ever to Yuri "I'd like the use of my eardrums!" Yuri sneered "What do you want?" Yuri's remark seemed to have no effect on Shuzo's enthusiasm "We've got a line of people standing outside waiting to see you pendulum summon again!" Shuzo flicked his hand towards the front door and sure enough there was a massive queue of people running outside the door, "How long have they been standing there for?" Yuri was attempting in vain to count the amount of people that were present "About fifteen minutes." Yuri's face fell "You do know I barely understand how I got the damn thing in the first place?" Shuzo's face also fell as his brow furrowed "Will you attempt it at least?" Yuri looked at him in distain ready to say screw it before Yuzu intruded "Yuri just try and do it." Yuri looked into Yuzu's face, his expression softened as he grasped his hands around hers "Ok Yuzu I'll try it."
(Fusion Dimension)
"Do it again!" Shouted the Professor from his throne who was looking on disapprovingly as Yuya fell to the floor for the 100th time this day, a haggard Yuya struggled to his feet "Professor…" Yuya's voice was strained "I'm not sure I can do this anymore…" Yuya held his limping arm beside his body looking towards the Professor he expected some show of sympathy, "You'll continue until I'm satisfied!" Yuya felt his tear ducts swell, he once again wanted to rebel the fire was more fierce this time it took a severe beat down by his Academia half to quell an attempt at rebelling "Yes, Professor I'll continue." Yuya readied himself for attempt no.101 the Professor looked on in interest at the particular cards he used "With scale 1 Stargazer magician and scale 8 Timegazer magician I set the pendulum scale!" the rainbow coloured word Pendulum appeared on Yuya's duel disk as the two magicians appeared either side of him, Yuya's chant mirrored Yuri's on every level "Swing pendulum of the soul! Draw an arc of light across the ether! Pendulum summon!"
"Appear Odd Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" Behind Yuya the dragon with dual coloured eyes let out a roar as Yuya turned around ecstatic that he had finally pendulum summoned, standing up from his throne the Professor walked over to Yuya, "Well done Yuya, this'll prove very useful for future plans." Yuya smiled genuinely for the first time in seven years "I finally did it! I finally did it!" Yuya could barely contain himself, "Yuya calm down." Yuya's smile faded and was replaced by a small smirk "Now let me take those cards," Yuya deactivated his duel disk handing the cards in question over "The invasion of standard is coming we'll need every tool possible at our disposal. Pendulum will prove very useful."
(Standard dimension) (Night)
Yuri and Yuzu were walking out of You Show, it may have taken a lot of tries 279 to be exact but Yuri had finally managed to pendulum summon, the look of elation on everyone's face as he did it was something to behold.
"So Yuri…" Yuzu could still feel the excitement radiating off of Yuri as they walked out of the duel school together "Did you finally figure out how to combo fusion and pendulum summoning I heard you talk about it to my dad earlier." Yuri smile grew wider "You should learn not to eavesdrop Yuzu" Yuri shook his finger in Yuzu's face "but for your information I might of thought of a few ideas but I'll wait until my next duel to entertain you my strategies." Yuzu shoved Yuri for his condescending attitude causing both to laugh and both to miss the person approaching from behind.
"Stop!" Came the voice of the man grabbing onto Yuri's shoulder.
"Who the hell are you?!" Yuri was surprised by this unwarranted development.
"That's not important but what is important is that you are Yuri correct?" The man cocked his head, his face barely visible.
"That would be correct."
"Duel me and if you win I can give you any card you want." This proposition peaked Yuri's intrest "Any card you say?" Yuri raised an eyebrow at the seeming impossibility of this statement, "Correct but if I win I get your deck. Do we have a deal?" The man held out his hand in anticipation "I don't know a card for a deck doesn't seem like a fair deal." the man jabbed his finger in Yuri's face "Even for the card you most want in the world?" Yuri still uncertain of this deal pondered over his choices while Yuzu butted in.
"Come on Yuri, you don't have to do this," she shook Yuri's arm resorting to attempting to drag the boy away, "the price is too high plus your mother is waiting for y-" Yuri didn't seem to be listening as he made the declaration of his card choice while shaking the man's hand "I want Ultra polymerization if I win." What Yuri said and thought were two different things "there is no way he has that card only the best of the best at Academia have that card." It would be safe to say Yuri was definitely shocked when the man held up the card in question. "It's a deal."
[Let's Duel]
Yuri: 4000 Unknown: 4000 Cards x5
"I'll go first." Yuri was quick to declare to get this over as soon as possible he had to come straight out of the blocks and that meant bringing out the big guns right away, "With scale 1 Predaplant Moray Nepenthes and Scale 8 Predaplant Fly Trap I set the pendulum scale," The brightly coloured word pendulum appeared on Yuri's disk as the two carnivorous plants appeared either side of him, "with this I can summon monsters level 2 through 7 simultaneously! Swing pendulum of the soul! Draw an arc of light across the ether! Pendulum summon!"
"Appear Starve Venemy Dragon!" Level 7 (2500/200) SC: 1
"I need to start strong I set one card face down and end my turn, your move!"
Cards x1
"I draw, I special summon Swap Frog by discarding Dupe Frog from my hand," A golden frog with red horns and markings all over its body appeared onto the field, "his second effect sends Ronintoadin from my deck to the graveyard, his last effects sends him back to my hand."
"Why would you do that?" A perplexed Yuzu said still annoyed Yuri didn't listen to her.
"You'll see now," the man was laughing manically "I special summon back Swap Frog by sending another Swap frog from my hand and sending another Ronintoadin to the grave, now I remove Dupe Frog and Swap frog from my grave to special summon back the two Ronintoadin I sent to the grave earlier." The two country frogs with red and black markings appeared, "Since I control 3 monsters I tribute them all to summon SLIFER THE SKY DRAGON!" the twin mouthed dragon flapped his wings dramatically as it let out a deafening roar. Slifer the sky dragon level 10 (X000/X000).
Yuri and Yuzu both stood back in shock, they thought this card was just a legend.
"In case you don't know Slifer gains 1000 Atk for every card in my hand, I hold 2 meaning he has 2000 Atk points."
"That's a nice monster but it still has less attack then Starve Venemy."
"Astute observation Yuri but you'll soon see how wrong you are I set my last two cards face down your move."
Slifer Atk (2000 – 0)
"I draw." Yuri thought into himself "It's obvious he is going to manipulate the monsters attack via his facedown cards but I don't think it'll get over Venemy."
"I play Predaplant Recycling, I send Predaplant Cordyceps from my hand to the graveyard to draw two cards."
"I chain Appropriate so now every time you draw outside the draw phase I can draw two cards!"
Slifer Atk (0 – 2000)
"I activate Starve Venemy's effect targeting one monster on your field it has its effects negated, loses 500 attack points and you lose 500 lif-" Yuri was distracted by an error message flashing on his duel disk, "What's happening," he snarled "why isn't the effect working." The man laughed as he held his head "Slifer can't be target by card effects, so you can't negate his effects." Yuri clenched his fist, "No matter Starve Venemy attack Slifer!"
"So you attack, I activate Reckless Greed allowing me to draw two cards at the cost of not drawing for the next 2 turns."
Slifer Atk (2000 – 4000)
"Now Slifer's Atk is higher! Slifer attack back!"
Yuri (4000 – 2500)
Yuri grunted as he began his next move "I set one monster face down and another card, your move."
"I draw, I play salvage bringing two Ronintoadin back to my hand then I activate Shield crush destroying your face down monster"
"It was Cephalotus Snail."
"Slifer attack directly and end this, your deck is mine!"
"I activate a trap Predaplant Reborn bringing back the Cephalotus snail you destroyed earlier in defence mode."
"Humph…I end my turn."
"I draw, I summon Predaplant Lilylizard."
"Hahahahah, didn't you know when you summon a monster in attack position with less than 2000 attack points Slifer automatically destroys it!"
Slifer's second mouth let out a blast of lightning destroying the plant.
Yuri sighed "Your move."
"I can't draw because of reckless greed but that doesn't mean anything I activate card destruction sending my hand to the graveyard to draw 3 new ones, I summon Treeborn frog," Level 1 100/100 "Next I discard a card to summon Fishborg Blaster back from the grave, I tune level 1 Treeborn frog with level 1 Fishborg Blaster to synchro summon Puralis, the Purple Pyrotile" Level 2 Synchro/Tuner (800/1400)
"You can synchro summon as well?!" Yuzu was now convinced that Yuri would lose, he on the other hand looked quite pleased with the situation.
"I play Double summon allowing me to summon Oyster meister," Level 3 (1600/200) "I tune Puralis and Oyster meister into the level 5 synchro monster Servant of the sky Dragon!" Level 5 (2100/2000) "Servant's effect activates it gains attack points equal to the difference in our life points."
Servant attack (2100 – 3600)
Yuri clapped his hands grinning mockingly much to the surprise of the man and Yuzu, "That's another nice monster but you do realise that you've used all of the cards in your hand which means that he now has no attack points."
Slifer attack (4000 – 0)
"No!" The man held his head in disbelief before returning to normal "No matter Servant attack Yuri directly, you can't escape this time!"
"That's where you are wrong I activate Moray Nepenthes' pendulum effect activates the attacking monster gains a predator counter and its effect is negated."
Servant's Attack (3600 – 2100)
Yuri (2500 – 400)
"Your turn…"
"I draw, I activate Ivy bind castle, this card negates the effect of every monster on your field and prevents them from ever being able to attack."
"AH! NO!" The man devolved into insane babbling.
"I activate the effect of Cordyceps from the graveyard summoning back Lilylizard and Cephalouts snail, Lilylizard effects allows me to draw 1 card which I now activate." Yuri flipped the drawn card around much to the dismay of the man and the delight of Yuzu, "using polymerization I fuse together my two Predaplants together! I fusion summon! Level 8! Starving Venom Fusion Dragon!" Level 8 (2800/2000)
"Its effect triggers since it was fusion summoned it gains the attack of one special summoned monster on your field since you control only one it gains the attack of your servant!"
Venom Attack (2800 – 4900)
"This is the true end! Starving Venom attack Slifer!"
"No way!"
Unknown (4000 – 0)
Yuri: Win!
"Phew…" Yuri wiped the sweat from his forehead, "That was close." Yuri noticed that the man had passed out on the ground the card Yuri wanted was lying on top of his body.
"Yuri!" Yuri turned after picking up the card to see Yuzu running towards him fan and all "Don't EVER do that again you dolt!" Yuri's face was completely red by the time Yuzu was finished beating him "Yuzu-u-u you're going to kill someone one day" Yuzu just got worse "You risked your DECK for a SINGLE card!" Yuri continued to speak in between thwacks "But it was a powerful one at that only a few people ever owned that card, now one of them is me." Yuzu relented to let Yuri explain himself further "First this card's activation cannot be negated and second you can banish the card to target the fusion monster that was summoned and bring back the monsters used to summon said monster." Yuzu watched as Yuri gazed at the card in wonder "Just imagine the possibilities! The synergy!" Yuzu sighed knowing full well what Yuri was thinking about earning him another whack "Yuri don't you dare do what I'm thinking!" Yuri rubbed his face "I won't! I won't! Jesus! I'm going to report you for assault soon!"
"Says the guy who constantly gives people rashes and poisons them with his plants."
Yuri was deeply offended "I'm sorry but those people only get what they deserve plus it's not my fault they 'accidently' fall into poison ivy or 'accidently' get their hands stuck in my Fly Traps."
The air quotes on the word accidently was the dead giveaway to Yuzu on how Yuri knew full well what he was doing, "You can be a real evil bastard at times Yuri."
"Old habits die hard Yuzu…Old habits die hard." With that Yuri left returning to his house.
Waiting on him at the door was Yoko.
"Yuri where have you been you were supposed to be here over 30 minutes ago." Yuri's eyes widened "Sorry mother I was busy attending to some business at the Duel School nothing less nothing more."
For the third time today Yuri was beat "Do you seriously expect me to believe that rubbish? What do you take me for an idiot?"
"How did you know?"
"It quite often doesn't take a genius to know when you are lying" Yoko jabbed her finger into Yuri's face "I can see the mischief in your eyes don't lie straight to my face again or you'll be sorry." Yuri trembled "Y-Y-Yes mother…"
(Fusion Dimension)
"It's nearly time." Yuya lay on his bed and opened out his arms "The day will finally come I'll return to the standard dimension and this time it'll be even easier than the XYZ dimension because now We've got pendulum on our side." There was a knock on Yuya's door "Come in." He looked up from his bed to see a small boy with Cyan hair tied into a ponytail standing in the door way "What do you want Sora?"
A/N: Chapter four done. This was easier to write but I still stopped and started about 3 times.
I hope you enjoyed the Slifer cameo, the other two gods will appear much later on in the story.
I decided to make Yuri and Yuya's pendulum summoning chant the same for two reasons, one I can't be assed to make a new one for Yuri and second because all of the counterparts end up using a certain summoning method like their counterparts (i.e. how the bracelet girls fusion summon) I decided to make it that why.
I'll be returning to work next week so uploads will be moved to probably once every week or two weeks, here are the notes and now the new cards as well.
This chapter along with chapter 3 has been updated due to a massive cock up with the life points
Notes:
[1]To be honest I couldn't be assed naming it different.
[2] I'm not sure myself what 8th grade translates to in my school system so take that with a pinch of salt interchange it if you want.
New cards:
Predaplant Recycling: Send one Predaplant monster from your hand to the grave to draw 2 cards. In all reality it was just made so the Slifer user could chain appropriate.