Arliss and Antonio rolled around, trading punches with the other, clothing covered in blood. All around them it looked like a war zone, destruction and mayhem rampant. Cars were flipped over, an apartment was on fire, the road tore up so bad that itwould take a year to finally get it fixed.
Neither cared.
They just wanted to see the other dead.
"DIE!" Antonio snarled, strangling Arliss even as the King of Hunters dug his fingers into the Italian's back and pulled with all his strength, trying to rip his spine out.
"Die?" Arliss gasped out, headbutting Antonio. "That's the best ya can do?" He scoffed, rolling to his left and spinning on his back, clipping the Italian assassin on the chin. "Pathetic!"
Antonio shook his head violently. "I am…one of the High Priests of Rome, one of the 9 heads of the last families of Romulas. You think you can stop me?" He reached for Arliss, hauling him up and throwing him into a parked car. "You are but an insect to me, signor!"
"God, you're annoyin…and unoriginal!" Arliss leapt at Antonio, grabbing two fistfuls of hair and ramming Antonio's face into a shop window. "I suppose this is the part of the story where I correct you and tell you of my great linage and how this will be an amazing fight?" The King of the Rare Hunters chuckled darkly, punching Antonio in the balls. "Bullshit."
The European man roared in agony, falling to his knees. "Idioto…"
"Yea, I'm the idiot…my balls atleast work, ya gippy asshole."
Arliss' mocking was cut short when Antonio managed to snake his hand up and give the Rare Hunter a taste of his own medicine.
"Mother…mother…mother…" Arliss whimpered, falling to the ground, the two of them groaning in agony.
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Nessa watched on as the Soul of Purity and Light rushed at her, swirling around the Dark Marauder. However, at the last moment, the warrior raised his terrorking sword and slammed it into the ground, sending the soul back.
"My Dark Marauder's effect: By discarding a dark monster from my hand, I can negate one attack." She smirked as she placed her Armageddon Knight into her graveyard.
Vera merely shrugged. "Postponing the inevitable…simply foolish." She noticed that the Dark Patience card had flashed as she set a card on the field. "And…what was that?"
"Patience." Nessa said simply, drawing her next card. "I will now summon the Dark Grepher to the field." The new dark warrior appeared, the gray skinned swordsman flexing his muscles as he smirked. "And now, I will activate his effect. I will send the Dark Crusader to the graveyard to send another one to my graveyard." The Dark Patience card flashed twice. "And I end my turn."
Vera nodded. "I do not know, nor do I care, what you are planning. Instead, I focus only on defeating you. First, I will send this, my Zeradias, Herald of Heaven, to the graveyard to call forth this: The Sanctuary in the Sky!"
The ground rumbled, Nessa looking about as the alley faded away, revealing the ancient sanctuary. Nessa's dark monsters snarled, shielding their eyes from the light.
"Is that suppose to stop me?" Nessa asked mockingly.
"No…but this will: I summon Agent of Creation-Venus!" Beside the Soul of Purity and Light there appeared the blonde haired agent, her hands clasped over her heart. "Next, I will reduce my lifepoints by 500 to summon a Mystical Shine ball from my hand to the field." The orb hovered around Venus, swirling about her head. "Next, I will activate The Love of Venus." She shrugged. "That will play an important role later. Next, I will attack your Dark Marauder with my Venus!"
Nessa held up her hand. "I will send my Doomsday Horror to the graveyard to negate your attack." The Dark Patience card flashed yet again.
"Then I will just have to attack with my Soul of Purity and Light!" The soul swirled about, striking down the Marauder, sending a blast of light at Nessa. (Nessa- 3200)
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Arliss panted, slowly rising to his feet. "Ok…can we both agree…not to do that again?" He covered his crotch.
Antonio managed a nod. "A…agreed, signor."
"Good."
"Good."
The two looked at each other, before both darted away for cover. Arliss was the first one to finally come to his senses, able to think clear enough to summon some healing magic. Still, Antonio was getting back to his feet just as quickly, though he looked a bit worse for wear.
The two of them had gone 4 rounds and were looking for more. Antonio had a broken nose and bruises all over. Arliss had a nasty gunshot wound to the shoulder that was taking more time to heal then he expected. Still, the two of them were not ready to give up just yet. Arliss wanted his diary back, and Antonio wasn't about to surrender it without a fight.
Charging his fists with dark magic, summoning the shadow star, and tensing his muscles, Arliss rushed forward from his cover, right into a hail of gunfire, twisting and turning as he tried to gain the upper hand.
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Nessa laughed as she stood up, drawing her next card. "Finally…you are showing some spunk! About damn time!" She held out a card. "I activate my Dark Grepher's effect, discarding my Sangan to send a Kuriboh to the graveyard." As the Sangan hit the graveyard, the Dark Patience card flashed, the eyes of the Red Armored Dark Magician snapping open. "Five monsters, with the Sangan, have entered the graveyard since I played this spell card. I have waited…for a very long time…for this card's effect to activate. Now, fully charged, I can use the Dark Patience spell." Nessa held up a single finger. "The first effect would allow me to send one card in the graveyard into my deck. The second, which I choose to use, allows me to do 500 points of damage directly to your lifepoints."
The Dark Magician's arm emerged from the card, firing off a blast of energy and sending Vera slamming into the wall of the Sacntuary. (Vera-2300)
Vera shook her head violently, working to clear the cobwebs. "All that…for that little of an effect?"
Nessa chuckled. "Oh, so impatient. This card stays…and every time a dark monster goes into the graveyard…the spell reactivates. And you saw how fast I can send monsters to the graveyard." She held up the last card in her hand. "And by the way…there was another reason I was sending so many monsters to the graveyard. I activate The Beginning of the End!" Nessa removed 5 dark monsters from her graveyard. "When there 7 or more dark monsters in my graveyard, I can remove 5 to draw three cards." She looked over her new hand. "Next, I will summon the Dark Crusader."
From the ground below, the dark armored monster burst forth, great sword in hand, the red haired, skulled-headed monster cackling wickedly as he glared at Vera.
"Dark Crusader, attack the Agent of Creation!" The warrior nodded, leaping at the agent, dodging the Asteroids, only for the Shine Ball to appear, taking the hit and rapidly reforming.
"I have activated my downface card, the Guardian of Life, which forces you to attack the weakest monster first, then The Love of Venus, which prevents my monsters from being destroyed in battle. And finally, thanks to the Sanctuary, my lifepoints are protected." The Italian duelist laughed. "You see, silly girl…while you kept dumping your monsters, I have set up my all powerful protection spell." She held out her hand. "Soul of Puirty and Light, Agent of Creation, attack the Dark Grepher and the Dark Harpy!" The two monsters leapt forward, firing off twin blasts of light that reduced the two dark monsters to ash. (Nessa-2600)
Nessa drew her next card, taking in her near empty field, when compared to Vera's bulging side of the field. "I activate another Beginning of the End, removing 5 cards to draw 3. And Vera…this card is very true…for this is the beginning of the end."
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"Best give up now, signor." Antonio taunted. "I will not return to lord Sartorious without this book in hand."
"Then I guess you aren't returning."
Antonio turned just in time for Dhmitri to sock him in the jaw, Missy's hand snapping forward and grabbing the Diary of Marik as Antonio stumbled back. "What he said." Missy said, shrugging at Arliss.
"That's the best you could think of?" Arliss asked, raising an eyebrow.
"You want me to give the diary back?" Missy asked snidely.
Arliss' eyes flashed back. "Watch it…"
"Let 'er be, da." Cassandra said, Hayden walking beside her, the two grinning at the sight.
"You look like hell." Hayden said simply.
Arliss growled. "Then we must look like twins, ya scotish bastard." He adopted a scotish accent for the last insult.
"Good…almost bought it." Hayden laughed.
"Where's mum?" Cassandra questioned.
They all heard an explosion in the alley, Arliss pocketing the diary. "Where ya think?"
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Vera scoffed. "Are you pretty words suppose to scare me? Frighten me…please. My protection spell is unbreakable."
"You'd think so…but I have the beast that can shatter your lock." Nessa's eyes flashed black as an aura of dark magic surrounded her. "With 3 dark monsters in the graveyard, I can special summon this…my Dark Armed Dragon!"
The Sanctuary shook violently as Nessa screamed, the aura surrounding her shifting and transforming into the great Dark Armed Dragon. The beast snarled, claws digging into the ground as it roared, Vera falling down as the entire battlefield shook. Towering over the duelists, the dark dragon bellowed as it thrashed out, barely controlled by Nessa's focus and will.
"The Dark Armed Dragon is the most powerful beast I control. You see, by removing from play a dark monster from play, I can destroy a card on the field. But you see…there are only two cards I need to destroy in order to defeat you…"
Vera's eyes widened as she realized the fatal flaw of her protection spell if Nessa went after the cards Vera feared she would…
"Dark Armed Dragon, destroy the Sanctuary in the Sky, the Soul of Purity and Light, and the Asteroid Belt!!"
Vera could only watch on as the dragon fired off three whirling blades from its' chest, the first slicing the Soul of Purity and Light in two, the second taking out the asteroid defense, and the other shattering the main tower of the Sanctuary, causing the field spell to shudder and break apart.
"Now…lets do the math. You have 2300 lifepoints. Your Shine Ball has 500…and my dragon has 2800…care to wager what will happen next?" Nessa smirked. "Dark Armed Dragon, destroy the Shine Ball!"
Vera cried out as the dark dragon unleashed all its fury, the blast going right through the shine ball of sending her into the alley wall, blood oozing from the cuts on her face.
"You're not pretty anyone." Nessa said snidely.
Vera spit at her. "Antonio will make you pay…"
"Antonio is gone." Arliss said coldly, entering the alley. Hayden and Cassandra flanked him, Dhmitri and Missy behind them watching the rear. "Turned tail and left your lop-sided ass."
"Lop-sized?" Hayden whispered.
"Buffy reference." Missy said with a grin, one of the only people in the Hunters to share the King's 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' fetish. "She does look a little like Glory."
Vera stared up at Arliss, hatred written all over her face. "My family…"
"Won't find us in time." Arliss said coldly. "Cassandra."
His daughter nodded, punching Vera out cold. "That's for 'urtin' me mum!"
Nessa smiled. "Thanks sweetie." She glanced at Vera. "What do we do with her?"
"Bring her with us." Arliss said with a smirk. "Always good to have a bargaining chip.