"YOU MURDERED MY (insert family title here)!" How often has that been used? Heh, heh. Yes, time for the fated, foreshadowed rematch between Baron Von Stupor and Lighty von Light-Light! What's interesting is that this is the first duel I had documented when I originally began writing the fanfiction (before I stopped for an exorbitant amount of time). __; The second was the 3v3 duel (that I had lost [and thusly gone on hiatus]). Anyway, I can't think of anything else to say, so here's chapter 12.
"Chapter 12: Pain"
By: Agent Baron
Von Stupor, now at the mercy of the deranged and grieving Lighty von Light-Light, was forced into a duel with him to even the score. His confidence would be higher had he possessed his original deck, but unfortunately he is once again forced to use weaker cards from his miniscule collection. By his honor, he must fight.
"I'll go first," said Lighty. "I'll first set one M/T and play 'Graceful Charity', so that I may draw three cards and discard two. Next, I summon the Hysteric Fairy!"
The snooty fairy appeared on the field and adjusted her glasses prior to putting her hand on her hip and staring down Von Stupor.
"I'll set one M/T and end my turn," Von Stupor grumbled.
"I'll do the same, Von Stupor. You know, unlike my brother, I know the true strategy behind your deck. It's nothing but defense, defense, but that's because dueling isn't always about offense. I'll end this turn without attacking."
"I'll set one M/T and summon the Servant of Catabolism! This monster is allowed to attack your Life Points directly. Go, my servant, attack Lighty's Life Points directly!"
A beady eyed mollusk appeared, with a clear blue snail shell attached firmly to it. Seen through the shell, various colored spheres floated about inside it. Suddenly, the monster fired one of the spheres and struck Lighty square in his chest, knocking his Life Points down to 7300.
"I'll set one M/T and end my turn…" Lighty mumbled, staring down Von Stupor. His snide face had disappeared.
"I will set one M/T card and play 'Mask of the Accursed' on your Hysteric Fairy! This card restricts your monster from attacking, and during each of my Standby Phases, you will lose 500 Life Points!"
Suddenly, an ugly tribal mask shot from nowhere and planted itself on the Hysteric Fairy. The mask was green and many multicolored lines swirling about it. In many places, there appeared to be nails partially hammered in. The Hysteric Fairy grabbed at the mask and tugged fiercely, but couldn't remove it.
"Next, I order my Servant of Catabolism to attack your Life Points once more!" Von Stupor commanded.
Obediently, the bizarre creature lobbed another colored sphere, bouncing it off of Lighty's head, sending his Life Points to 6600.
"Alright, I'm tired of this. I'll sacrifice my Hysteric Fairy to tribute summon the Airknight Parshath! That destroys your 'Mask of the Accursed', and I'll use my monster to attack your servant!"
A majestic knight adorned with patterns of wings about his armor appeared on the field and challenged Von Stupor's odd creature. As it began to launch an attack, it suddenly leapt into a large cylinder.
"I shall activate my trap," Von Stupor announced. "'Magical Cylinder', this card negates your attack on me and inflicts it instead as direct damage to your Life Points!"
"What the…?!" Lighty sputtered. As he looked to his side, another cylinder had situated next to him. His monster burst from it and slashed him across his chest. Bearing a surprised expression, it returned to its place on the field.
"This… this is impossible!" Lighty growled, furious. "How are you doing this so easily?!"
Maybe… maybe this deck isn't so bad after all. It is fighting quite hard, even without the benefit of high attacking monsters, Von Stupor thought. Regardless, as Yugi said, I should believe in my monsters with all my might! Liver of the cards, guide me! "I will set one more monster and order my monster to attack your Life Points directly!"
Another sphere lobbed at him, his Life Points sank to a scant 3500.
"This is where things turn around for you, Von Stupor!" Lighty taunted. "I will activate 'Seal of Orichalcos'! We'll see how powerful your ragamuffin replacement deck matches against the powers of the orichalcos! I will set one monster and end my turn!"
"First, I'll activate my trap card, 'Needle Wall'! Monsters on your side of the field are numbered from my right to my left one through five. During each of my Standby Phases, I will roll a die, and the monster that has the resulting number is destroyed! On a six, I roll again."
The evil seal of orichalcos made its design and lowered itself into play, pushing the train car off of its rails as a number one appeared above the set card on Lighty's field. On either side of the card, a pair of walls appeared, lined with needles, begging Von Stupor to roll the correct number.
And here, I take the offensive! Von Stupor thought to himself. "I will flip-summon my set monster, Jowls of Dark Demise! It allows me to take control of one of your monsters for the turn Jowls of Dark Demise is summoned! Also, the monster I control may attack your Life Points directly! Next, I will flip summon your Neo the Magic Swordsman and play 'United We Stand' on my servant, increasing his attack by 800 points for every face-up monster I control, bringing it to a grand 3100! Now, I'll attack you directly with all three monsters and I want my deck back!"
A purple fog appeared over the field and mysterious jaws emerged from it, consuming the set card on Lighty's field. Dragging it back to Von Stupor's field, a stone warrior resembling a six-headed male Shiva emerged from it. As both the jowls and the Neo lent the servant some of their power, all three of them launched a strike that fell short of a field generated by three robed priestesses who appeared to defend Lighty from being defeated.
"What's this?! 'Waboku'?" asked Von Stupor, surprised.
"Yes, I activated my 'Waboku' trap card," Lighty admitted, calmly. "I'm not out yet."
"Blast…"
"I won't let you beat me… I must avenge my brother! I will play 'Raigeki', which will destroy every monster on your side of the field!"
Lightning shot down onto the field, exploding both Von Stupor's Servant of Catabolism and his Jowls of Dark Demise.
"Now," Lighty continued. "As you should be aware, my magic swordsman gains a 500 point attack boost from 'Seal of Orichalcos'! I order it to attack your Life Points directly!"
"Not yet! I activate 'Gravity Bind'! All monsters of Level 4 or higher cannot attack!"
Neo leapt at Von Stupor for a mighty attack, but the sudden gravitational force slammed it hard to the ground.
"And now, for my turn, I shall summon yet another Servant of Catabolism! Next, I'll play the magic card, 'Mage Power'! This increases a monster's attack by 500 points for every M/T card on my side of the field! My servant's attack power increases to 2700! I will attack you directly with my servant!"
"And I'll destroy that stupid monster again with 'Sakuretsu Armor'! This destroys any one attacking monster!"
Suddenly a spiked suit of armor appeared on Lighty. Using the armor, he blocked the sphere that shot at him, reflecting it back at the servant, felling it.
"I'll next set one M/T and summon the Mask of Darkness! I order it to attack your Life Points directly!" Lighty declared.
A plain, yet evil mask appeared on the field and glared at Von Stupor with glowing red eyes. It shot at him quickly, striking him in the stomach and lowering his Life Points to 6600.
"This marks the turnaround of this duel," Lighty commented, and ended his turn.
Von Stupor simply set one monster and ended his turn.
"I'll summon the Magician of Faith and end my turn," Lighty announced as a young robed girl, appeared onto the field with a number over her head as per Needle Wall.
As Von Stupor drew his next card, a loud crash was heard and Neo had been impaled by the Needle Wall card. Lighty sneered as Von Stupor set one monster, ending his turn.
"I'll summon the Shining Angel and end my turn," Lighty said, a robed angel descending from the sky as a number appeared above its head.
"I will flip summon my Needle Worm, which will send the top five cards on your deck into the graveyard! Next, I tribute it to summon 'Marie the Fallen One'!"
Just then, out from the ground crawled an angel with black skin, wearing a pink dress. It smiled coyly at Lighty's Shining Angel.
"I order Marie to attack the Mask of Darkness!" ordered Von Stupor.
En route, however, Lighty jumped in the way, wearing another set of Sakuretsu armor, and intercepted Marie with a hard chop to her throat, felling her.
"You're not getting away, Von Stupor. You're falling right into my plan," Lighty said to him.
"Plan?" Von Stupor asked, curious.
"I set one M/T and summon a second Hysteric Fairy. That ends my turn… ha ha."
"This should disrupt things!" Von Stupor announced. "I shall flip summon 'Morphing Jar #2'! Because I have flip summoned this monster, we now must return all cards on the field to their respective decks and shuffle them. We then draw until we have the same number of monster cards that were returned, and all other cards are sent to the graveyard! Special summon all level four or lower monsters that you drew in face down defense position! I set two monsters by Morphing Jar #2's effect, and I set one more and end my turn!"
"Ahaha… you have just helped me, Von Stupor. That little replacement deck of yours has ensured your defeat!"
"Oh…?"
"I'll flip summon all of my monsters! Asura Priest, Shining Angel, Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands, and Mudora! Manju's effect allows me to bring a ritual magic or ritual monster card to my hand from my deck! Next I'll play the ritual magic card, 'Shinato's Ark'! By sacrificing two weaker monsters from my hand, I am able to ritual summon my ultimate monster, Shinato, King of a Higher Plane!"
Von Stupor quaked as from the heavens, a great monster fell. A blue plated humanoid white-robed giant, with four wings of gold. It stared at him with unforgiving eyes. Behind it were the remaining four units of Lighty's horrific troop.
"You still can't attack because my Gravity Bind is in play!" Von Stupor reminded him.
"I know that!" he cackled. "That's why I'll activate my 'Dust Tornado' trap card! This destroys one magic or trap card on the field, and allows me to set one of my own! I choose your 'Gravity Bind'!"
A massive dust storm arose and carried Von Stupor's 'Gravity Bind' away into the sky.
"Asura Priest has a special effect, too, you know…" Lighty said with a despicable grin.
The Asura Priest looked upon Von Stupor eerily. It appeared to be a warrior of stone, modeled after the Indian goddess Shiva.
"Asura Priest is also allowed to attack all monsters on the field at once… Attack, my priest!" Lighty roared.
Using its two mighty sets of arms, it destroyed both of Von Stupor's set monsters, which turned out to be Yomi Ships. Before they went down, their curse managed to inflict mortal wounds on the Asura Priest. It mysteriously split open and crumbled to pieces.
"Oh, I know those cards," Lighty said to him. "They destroy the monster that destroyed it. Hah… looks like only one of my monsters goes down for this circumstance, however…"
Von Stupor was silent.
"That leaves all of my other monsters… and here, you have no more monsters on the field, and no more face-down M/T cards. My monsters' attack power reaches 7800, you know. Did you know that you have just lost the duel?"
"Before you attack… may I ask you a question?" Von Stupor asked him.
"Hmmm… you know… I guess I could grant you that much."
"If you succeed… and you bring about this new beginning… what with reviving your 'great beast'… do you think you will be spared?"
Lighty stepped back, shocked. He pondered the question for a moment, then appeared visibly insulted. "My monsters, attack!!!"
All at once, Lighty's monsters rushed Von Stupor. They pummeled, blasted, and slashed his Life Points all the way down to zero. The monsters then faded from the duel, and the seal of orichalcos closed in on Von Stupor's fallen body. A great beam of light shot up from the seal, and before long, all that laid was a lifeless body.
Approaching the body, Lighty extracted Von Stupor's deck from his duel disk.
"Hah. You won't be needing this anymore," he said to the empty shell and left, headed back for the headquarters.
OH GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE?! "You beast!" is what you're probably thinking. Unfortunately, I had to end the story somehow. Sorry it ends on such a bitter note, though. Seemed like the noblest way. I let my stories write themselves to an extent, and so even my surprise, that's just how it went. =/