Summoner Wars

A Card Captor Sakura/Yu-Gi-Oh crossover

Episode 2: Friendly Duel.

By Razor Knight

Last update: June 9, 2006

"Dark Magician, end this duel!"

Zenith fell to his knees, eyes wide with shock as his life points dropped to zero. This kid had, indeed, a right to be called the best duelist in the planet. "You... Won. So as promised, I won't challenge you again. However, there's many like me who'll come and challenge you. We won't rest until you're one of us, Yugi Motou."

Yugi smirked at the bald man. "Well, then tell them I'll be waiting. "

'This was easy. Almost too easy.'

Yugi nodded at the Pharaoh. 'I know, but still challenging. Let's go back to the store and tell grandpa about this.'

As Yugi rushed back to the store, someone, or something, was staring at him, hiding in the shadows of an alley. 'Yugi Motou... He is a strange one, I can sense two energies within him.' the figure thought, vanishing into the shadows in the blink of an eye.

Touya looked up from a card listing as four customers entered the shop. He blinked as he saw who they were: Sakura, Yukito, Tomoyo, and that Li kid. "What are you doing here, Sakura?"

"I just fought a woman who had cards like those you sell in this shop, but those have magical powers. For what I know, someone sent her and others to look for more magicians for their master's army. "

Touya paused for a second as he noticed Sakura's uniform had a burnt mark near the top. "Are you okay?"

The brunette nodded. "I defeated her in a duel, but got a bit bruised. Nothing serious."

"How could you fight her, you didn't have any monster cards..."

Sakura smiled and produced her Sakura Cards. "With these."

"... How?"

Yukito shrugged. "Clow told me about the ancient kings and pharaohs using those cards instead of long, bloody battles to decide the outcome of a war. It wasn't a game like nowadays, but a serious tool, used often to decide the fate of entire kingdoms."

"I can guess why Sakura's cards were able to fight that woman's monsters, then," Syaoran said. "Clow must've foreseen the return of those magical cards, and made sure his Clow Cards were fit to fight them should he ever need it."

"Yes, indeed he..." Yukito stopped and looked at Sakura and Syaoran, knowing immediately his friends had also sensed it. As he turned to the door, he saw a guy around Sakura's age walk into the store. He was wearing a blue highschool uniform, and also a golden chain hanging from a leather belt in his neck, which in turn had a strange, head-sized golden pyramid hanging from it.

But that wasn't the strangest thing about him. His hair was spiky, standing in a way that defied all gravity laws, and was apparently black, with red and yellow highlights. Either he dyed his hair that way, or he had some seriously fucked up genes.

"Who are you?" Sakura asked looking at the newcomer.

"I'm Yugi Motou," Yugi said, then noticed something. 'Pharaoh?'

The Pharaoh nodded. 'She's not looking at you. She's looking at me.'

"There are two magic entities within your body," Sakura said.

Yugi blinked in awe. He'd guessed the Pharaoh's spirit would be magical, but his own spirit... "What you're sensing in me, well... It's not easy to explain."

"Trust me, kid," Kero said as he floated from Sakura's shoulder, hovering until he was floating in front of Yugi, "whatever your story is, she's seen her own share of unbelievable things."

Yugi blinked. "I see..."

"Yugi, your grandfather went out for a while, but he told me he'd be back in a few hours. This girl here's Sakura, my sister, and her friends."

"Well..." Yugi sighed. "You may remember those monsters that were attacking all around the world a few years ago..."

Sakura nodded. "I do. I fought a few of them myself."

"With duel cards?" Yugi asked.

"You... Could say that," Sakura said and focused in her cards. Sword. Shield. Fly. She mentally called upon their powers, and each manifested in her. A medieval-looking sword and kite shield, along with angel wings in her back. "I have cards, but they're not like those the cards that woman used against me."

"Woman?"

"Yeah. She called herself Seraph, and challenged me to a card duel. "

"And Sakura here kicked her ass," Kero said.

Yugi chuckled at that, then nodded. "I'm just done fighting someone called Zenith, who talked about a master and world conquest... Same old, at least for me."

"So it looks like we've got a common enemy," Syaoran said. "I've heard you're the best duelist of the country, and I thought you could help us."

"Yeah, they say I am," Yugi said.

'No time to gloat,'

'I know that. What do you think?'

The Spirit fell silent for a moment, then shrugged. 'I'd have to see what she's capable of before I can decide. Her cards don't look like anything I've seen before.'

"I take it you and your other half are discussing this?" Sakura asked.

"You're the first one that can see him without us... Switching places," Yugi said. "The short story is, I'm the host of the spirit of an Egyptian Pharaoh, who was the one that originally sealed the monsters away. He's helped me fight any evil who'd use these monsters for their own greedy goals."

"Will you help us?" Sakura asked.

Yugi looked at his puzzle for a moment, and when he rose his sight again, Sakura could see a change in his eyes, a wisdom that wasn't there before. "As your friend said, we have a common enemy, one that I intend to fight. I will need al the help I can get, but first I must know what your cards' strengths and weaknesses are."

"And how can we do that?" Sakura asked.

"Can I see the cards?" The Pharaoh asked.

Sakura nodded and waited as the Pharaoh examined the cards. She saw Syaoran had a hand in his jean's pocket, most likely holding a spell in case the spike-haired boy tried anything funny. After a minute of looking at the different card, he frowned. "I... These cards aren't like any I've seen before. If you don't mind, I'd like to have a duel with you."

"Well..." Sakura said doubtfully.

"Just for fun, don't worry," the Pharaoh said. "If I intimidate you, I'll let Yugi duel you instead. I can still watch the duel."

"No need for that," Sakura said. "I'll duel you, but I must warn you my cards aren't just holograms."

"I'm well aware of that. Trust me, this won't be the first time I have a duel where the rival's monsters could burn me alive. And most likely won't be the last time either."

Sakura nodded, then turned to Kero and Yukito. "I'll leave you two out of the battle, and see what I can do with my other cards."

Yugi gasped. "They're card spirits?"

"No... It's hard to explain. The forms they're using right now are not their real forms, they're Kerberos and Yue, my two guardians. My cards aren't just for duels, they were designed to fight monsters and evil creatures... I've been doing that for a few years now, but last time I fought was when those monsters from your card game appeared."

"I see. Let's have this duel outside, I want to know what your cards look like when summoned."

Sakura nodded, and the group followed the spike-haired boy outside.

"Okay, let's make this battle a standard, to four thousand life points," Yugi said and offered Sakura his cards.

"I agree..." Sakura said and blankly stared at the cards.

"Shuffle them, I'll shuffle yours, that way neither of us can stack the decks."

"I see..." Sakura grabbed Yugi's deck and frowned. She noticed Yugi looking at her deck amusedly. "Hoe? What's wrong?"

"Your deck... How many cards do you have?"

"Fifty-three... Fifty-five if I add my two guardians."

"Too many," Yugi said. "I'd suggest you cut that down to fourty cards, that's the minimum allowed for duels."

"Why are too many cards bad?" Sakura asked.

"The more cards you have, the less chances of drawing the right ones at the right time you'll have," Syaoran guessed.

"That's right," The Pharaoh said. "I'll let you choose your cards, as I see they're all different." Sakura nodded, giving Yugi's deck back, and then looked at her deck for a moment before closing her eyes. "What's she doing?" The Pharaoh asked.

"Much like what you and Yugi do, talking to her cards," Yukito explained.

After a minute, Sakura opened her eyes, and reached her free hand out. Several cards fled out of her deck and into her other hand, and she put them back into her pocket. "Yukito, Kero, I'll need you for this fight." The two guardians nodded and vanished. Sakura looked at her deck and smiled. "I'm ready."

The Pharaoh nodded and put his deck into his duel disc. Sakura blinked, as for some reason she hadn't noticed the artifact on his arm until now. The space between them lit up much like when she'd faced Seraph, forming an identical battlefield, and Sakura blinked as she felt magic in it. "I'll let you make the first move," Yugi said, "just remember you can't attack right away."

Sakura nodded and produced five cards, then drew a sixth one. Looking over at her hand, she smirked. Big, Firey, Speedy, Time and Twins, and the sixth card was Lock... From what the cards had told her, this was quite a good starting hand. "Okay, I'll set a face-down monster and two face-down cards, and end my turn."

The Pharaoh nodded. He had enough experience in duels to know those two face down cards could be traps, and also, the face-down monster could have a flip effect. All in all, defending had never been his favorite strategy. For this one fight, however, it was the wisest way to go. He looked at his hand and smiled. Perfect. "I set a monster face down, and one face down card... And end my turn."

Sakura frowned. "I see..." She drew another card... Cloudy. "I guess I'll have to make the first attack. I summon Big!"

"1300/1300... Not bad for a first try, but it could be better."

Sakura chuckled. "It's got an effect. As long as this card remains in the field in face-up position, each of my monsters get a boost of five hundred attack points during each battle phase."

Yugi smirked. "I see. Interesting card, I admit it." She also had the two face-down cards he had to worry about, but Big wasn't enough yet for him to be worried.

"That's not all. I activate Twins!"

Her opponent blinked at the new card. A couple identical elf-like creatures. "And what does it do exactly?"

"You'll see... Twins, copy my Big."

"I see... It lets you copy one card... And doesn't vanish?"

Sakura pointed up at the magically formed numbers above her head. They dropped five hundred points, to three point five thousands. "I can use the skill once per turn, and it'll let me copy any card in face-up position, but at the cost of five hundred points."

'Good, she's not using godlike spells and monsters.' Yugi said.

'She could still mean trouble,' The Pharaoh admitted. 'But if she attacks now, she'll find a little surprise waiting for her. '

"Big, attack his face-down monster!"

"Not so fast," the Pharaoh said. "I activate my trap, Mirror Force. It reflects your attack back, destroying all your monsters in attack position."

Sakura stared at her two cards as the original reverted back to cards, and floated back to her, standing hovering besides her. The copied Big simply vanished. "Hoe?"

"Graveyard," the Pharaoh explained. "Monsters there can be played back into the field with certain cards, although I don't know if you have something like the Monster Reborn card."

Sakura nodded. "Well, seems like I'll be unprotected next turn. I set another face-down card and end my turn."

'She must have something planned.' Yugi commented.

'We won't know until we attack.'

"Okay then..." Yugi drew a card and nodded. "Just what I was waiting for. I sacrifice my face-down monster to summon my Summoned Skull!"

Two point five thousands and one point two thousands. Sakura smirked. It's attack didn't really matter now. "That card would leave me quite close to zero life points... If I gave it a chance to attack. I activate my trap card, Time!"

Yugi frowned as Sakura's life points dropped down to two point five thousands, and an elderly man wearing a cloak that covered most of his face appeared right in front of Sakura. The Pharaoh asked what Yugi was wondering. "And what's that card's effect?"

"For a thousand life points, it stops your monsters from attacking me for one turn."

'Like my Swords of Revealing Light,' Yugi said.

'Similar, yes, but dangerous for the user.' "Okay then... I set two face-down cards and end my turn.

Sakura looked at the battlefield. Three face-down cards, that could mean trouble for her... Not counting that skeletal demon Yugi had summoned. As she drew her next card, she smiled. "Well, to start this turn, I activate my spell card, Mist. It destroys all trap and spell cards on your side of the field." She saw the Pharaoh frown and chuckled. "But it's not fair that you have one monster and I have none, so... Twins, copy his Summoned Skull!"

'She's down to half her life points, and we haven't even attacked her,' The Pharaoh mused.

'Remember we beat Noah with way less life points than that. '

"After that, I activate my spell card, Speedy. It lets a monster attack twice per turn, but lowers it's attack by five hundred points. "

"Not going to do you any good," Syaoran commented.

"It will. I equip Yugi's Summoned Skull with it!"

'Oh fuck...'

'Such language, Yugi...'

"I set a monster face-down on the field, and... End my turn. I also discard Time so I don't have to lose another thousand life points."

'She didn't attack?'

'It's obvious she wants us to attack her face-down card, Yugi. '

'So what will we do now?'

'Attack it. I want to see as much of her deck as I can. And we're still winning.'

"Hmmm... We've got company," Tomoyo commented. True, people was starting to gather around the duel area, apparently attracted by the prospect of Yugi dueling someone in public.

The Pharaoh didn't seem to mind the attention. "Okay, to begin my turn... I activate Tribute to the Doomed. I discard one card from my hand to destroy one of your monster cards. I choose your Summoned Skull."

As the Summoned Skull vanished, the others could see a Dark Magician card fly to the graveyard. "Why that card, it's powerful," Syaoran wondered.

"Now, I set another face-down monster... And attack your face-down monster with my Summoned Skull."

Sakura chuckled. "You attacked my Lock card."

The Pharaoh blinked as a massive, golden lock appeared when the card flipped. "No attack points, but three thousand defense points," he said. "Damn..."

"Like my cards so far?" Sakura asked as the Pharaoh's life points dropped to three thousands.

"Indeed. You're doing good for a beginner. Now, I end my turn."

Sakura nodded and drew another card...

A/N: Never said I wouldn't have duels span for more than one episode... But at least I'm not making them take the whole episode. (Or having the duelists rant on about their pasts and how they had the delusion the good guy f'ed their lives up and that's why they'd joined the forces of evil...) Thanks for the suggestions about Sakura's deck, and yes, I agree Yue and Kerberos were too powerful. I made some modifications to them, you can also check the Sakura Cards listing I'm uploading along with this episode.
Disclaimer: I own neither Card Captor Sakura nor Yu-Gi-Oh, I'm just using the characters of those shows for my own little story.