Forgot to mention in the last part, thanks to bailkatanas for the character Caleb and his deck. Now, on with the fic!
"N...no way!" Clayton stuttered. "You...beat me?"
Clayton: 0000
Caleb: 2650
"As I told you I would. Now, choose your Fate card!" Clayton's eyes widened as a selection of cards appeared before him.
"Why are you using the Fate cards on me? We're on the same side!"
"I'm doing this so we don't get let down by weaklings. Now choose!" Clayton shook as he pointed to the far right card. It turned and revealed The Infection of Fate. Clayton tried to run but found himself blocked by an invisible barrier. He sunk to his knees. This was it. This was the end...
"FATE BREAKER!" A voice yelled. Caleb's Fate cards shattered and the invisible barrier broke. Caleb looked furious as he turned to see a girl he knew as Adela striding up towards them.
"What's this all about, Adela?" Caleb growled. Adela glared at him.
"I could ask you the same thing! You don't use Fate cards on other Begia members! Why are you two dueling anyway?"
"Clayton wasn't good enough to take on the job he was assigned, so I decided to spare Begia the failure Clayton would cause and take over the mission. Clayton was in denial so we had a duel." Adela looked like she was going to hit Caleb.
"Caleb! That order was from Mr. Guerra who need I remind you is higher up in this organisation than you are! He calls the shots, not you! So go back to dueling the rest of the students!" Caleb smirked, shrugged and then walked off. Adela strode up to where Clayton was. "Are you alright, Clayton?" He nodded, still shaking.
"I thought...I was going to be infected..." Adela gave him a comforting smile. "Why do we have to use these cards, Adela?" Adela stood up.
"It's only for a little bit longer. Mr. Guerra doesn't want to use them either, but he's not the one who makes those kinds of decisions." Clayton nodded and stood up, ready to return to his mission. "Need a hand?" Clayton nodded thankfully.
The number of students and teachers alive on Duel Academy Island had fallen significantly. There were now only 12 students and no teachers left. Hayden approached a group of 6 students who were slowly backing away from him.
"It's no good trying to run," Hayden said in a dark voice. "Once the Fate cards know there may be a duel, it wont let duelists escape until someone's fate is sealed." Sure enough, the students soon found themselves unable to move further backwards, almost as though there was an invisible bubble. "Who's going to duel?" The students were rooted to the spot, unable to speak. Hayden sighed and sat down, waiting for one of them to cave in.
Caleb was chasing a student. He was grinding his teeth together as he remembered his duel with Clayton.
He doesn't belong in Begia! Anyone can see that! Why Guerra entrusted him with a job that important is beyond me! The student showed signs of tiring. Caleb picked up the pace, determined to duel this student. As he closed in, a boy leapt out of the bushes and tackled Caleb to the ground. Caleb struggled against his aggressor, finally managing to throw him off. Caleb was in a very destructive mood now. He activated his Duel Disk and kicked the boy on the ground.
"Get up! It's time to seal your Fate!" From the corner of his eye, he saw the boy he had been chasing was running towards them.
"Morris! Don't duel him! I've seen what he can do and...ARGH!" The boy had ran into the invisible barrier created by the Fate cards and was thrown back. The boy called Morris called out to the other boy.
"Kenny! Just run! I'll take care of this creep!"
"I'm going to enjoy crushing you!" Caleb snarled. Morris stared at Caleb with a look of hate.
"Enough talk! Let's duel!"
Caleb: 4000
Morris: 4000
"I'll set a monster face down and end my turn." Caleb announced. Morris picked up his card.
"I summon Regenerating Mummy (1800/1500) and then I'll activate Overpowering Eye! This lets any Zombie on my side of the field with less than 2000 attack points go straight for your life points this turn! Go Regenerating Mummy!" Caleb grunted with pain as the zombie slashed at him.
Caleb: 2200
Morris: 4000
"You can wipe that smirk on your face," Caleb growled as he looked at Morris. "Typical amateurs. They get one hit in and think the game's in the bag. I sacrifice my face down monster for Kiryu (2000/1500). Now, attack that excuse for a monster!"
Caleb: 2200
Morris: 3800
"Amateur?" Morris snorted. "Bit rich coming from you. So far you haven't done anything remarkable in this duel other than insult me." Caleb's eyes narrowed, but Morris ignored this and continued his turn. "I play Call of the Mummy, allowing me to special summon a Zombie monster from my hand once per turn if I don't have monsters on my field. So I'll summon Vampire Lord (2000/1500) set a card and call it a turn."
"I'll play Dark Blade (1800/1500)! Now Kiryu, equip yourself to Dark Blade!" Morris slanted an eyebrow.
"You use Union monsters? Pfft."
"I wouldn't expect you to think much of Union monsters. You just pick a deck type that everyone else is using and make people think you were the one who came up with it!" Morris looked stunned. "Looks like I hit the nail on the head. All you duelists here at the Academy are the same." Caleb turned away for a few moments, then turned around and continued his turn. "Dark Blade gets 900 more attack points when Kiryu is equipped (1800/1500 - 2700/1500), and by destroying Kiryu, Dark Blade can attack you directly!" Morris braced himself. "It's going to get worse for you. I reveal my face down, Roll Out! It allows me to take a Union monster from my graveyard and equip it to an appropriate monster, so Kiryu is re-equipped! Now I'll play Fate's Dice. A virtual dice is rolled, and depending on the number I get to send a number of Fate cards from my deck to my out of play zone. If it lands on a 1 I don't remove any, if it lands on a 6 I remove all Fate cards and all the other numbers function as normal. So let's roll!" A large dice appeared and was thrown. It moved back and forth from several numbers, finally landing on a 4. Caleb removed 4 cards from the game.
"Shit..." Morris muttered, his legs shaking.
"Now Dark Blade attack!" Morris leapt to the side as Caleb's monster charged.
Caleb: 2200
Morris: 1100
"And now...for the end." Caleb announced, holding up a card. "I activate Combination Attack! This un-equips my Union monster, and lets Dark Blade attack again! So, Kiryu destroy Vampire Lord, and Dark Blade will end this!"
"Shit!" Morris yelled as the monsters rushed towards him.
Caleb: 2200
Morris: 0000
The Fate cards approached Morris. Shaking, he selected the second one from the right. It turned to reveal Fate: Eternal Sleep. The picture showed someone lying in a bed looking peaceful which was the last thing Morris thought before everything turned black.
"Eleven students to go." Caleb muttered.
"So, who's next?" Hayden had managed to defeat three of the six students. The remaining three were determined not to duel him. "Well, on your own heads be it. After all, you don't have any food with you." Hayden pulled out a sandwich and started taking small bites out of it. The students stared hungrily at it. Hayden smiled inwardly as he anticipated the next victory.
"Why did this all have to change?" Adela started at Clayton's question.
"What do you mean?"
"We never had to do any of this before. We didn't want to burn down islands or kill people or anything that we're doing now. So why has it all changed?" Adela sighed.
"You'd have to go all the way to the top to even come close to finding that one out. This new hierarchy...we never had it before..." Adela and Clayton looked at each other meaningfully. "There's still two helicopters left. We can..."
"Leave? I don't think so." Adela and Clayton spun round to see Caleb. "I knew something like this would happen! That's why I wanted to be in charge." He activated his Duel Disk. "Let's seal your Fates!" Adela and Clayton looked at each other.
"You're going to take both of us on?" Clayton asked. Caleb nodded. Shrugging, Adela and Clayton activated their Duel Disks and prepared themselves.
New cards...
Fate's Dice
Normal Magic
Image: Reaper of the Nightmare holding a red dice in his hand.
Effect: Roll a six sided dice. If the result is a 6, remove all cards with "Fate" in their name from your deck to your out of play zone. If the result is a 1, do not remove any cards from your deck from play. For any other result, remove from play a number of cards with "Fate" in their name equal to the result of the dice roll.
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