Summoner Wars

A Card Captor Sakura/Yu-Gi-Oh crossover

Episode 9: Summoner's New Tricks.

By Razor Knight

Last update: December 18, 2006

"Let's do this fair for everyone," Sakura said. "We'll play to eight thousand life points."

"Gonna take a while," Syaoran muttered.

"Oh, don't worry, it won't take me more than three turns to defeat you both."

"I doubt that," Yugi said. "In any case, ladies first."

"How nice of you," Sakura said. "Well..." She looked at her hand and then draw another card. She already had a few new cards to show her friends. "I'll set two cards, and activate Poison. This card hits my enemy for half my monsters' total attack points, on each standby phase, costing only five hundred points to me."

Syaoran smiled. "Nice, but won't do any good if you have no monsters. "

"I know that," Sakura said. "Now, Yugi, show me what you can do."

"Okay, I'll start with..."

"Oh, wait," Sakura said. "I almost forgot to activate those two cards. They're Decay and Despair. Decay is a nice little card that will lower your monsters' AP each turn, and I have to pay five hundred points one single time."

'That could be dangerous' Yugi thought.

'We'll have to find a way to get rid of all those magic cards. '

"Also," Sakura continued, "Despair is... Well, since I stupidly gave Hope and my two guardians to Syaoran, I had to compensate with this one. It lets me fuse with some of my cards, but also, it recovers a thousand of my life points when sent to the graveyard. So, I'll become Healer Sakura!"

Sakura walked into the field, her suit becoming a white robe and her staff becoming woody and golden. Her numbers weren't low, standing to a thousand attack but compensating with fourty-five hundred defense, and that had been the position chosen by her.

Sakura's life points were, right now, five hundred points above her foes. "And now, Poison!"

Syaoran and Yugi were surrounded by a greenish mist, coughing as their lungs filled with the fowl gas. Sakura smirked as the effect passed. "It's funnier when you can feel the effect of the cards, isn't it?"

"Not really," Yugi snapped. "Anyways, it's my turn at last."

"Of course."

Yugi looked at his card. Alpha, Gamma, Monster Reborn, Tribute to the Doomed and Michizure. He drew Mystic Elf and smiled. "Okay, time to get you back to your place. I activate Tribute to the Doomed and sacrifice my Mystic Elf to destroy your Healer!"

Sakura laughed coldly as the elf vanished, but she remained there. "Dumb move for someone with your skills, you should've guessed this card would have effects. First one is, I can't be destroyed by anything but monsters."

Yugi frowned. "Okay then, I set a monster and a card and end my turn. "

"My turn," Syaoran said.

Sakura nodded. "Hold your breath."

Poison hit again, and Syaoran sighed. "You know, you're losing as much as we are."

"I know, and I have ways to improve that."

"Good," Syaoran said. "I special summon Kerberos, which means I won't be able to summon anything else this turn and the next one. I also set two cards and activate this!"

Sakura frowned. Gravekeeper's Helper, it meant... "Nice of you, but I really don't need to attack to destroy you both."

"It's just so you don't get any funny ideas," Syaoran countered.

Just then, Rebecca and Anzu walked out of the elevator. "Wow, look at that big cat!"

"I'm no cat," Kerberos snapped at the blonde girl.

Sakura smiled. "So, Syaoran, is that all?"

"Yes."

"Good, my turn. First off, my Healer's second effect, easy to guess, is that I heal a thousand life points in each of my standby phases. "

'So the more that card stays...'

Yugi nodded. 'The harder it'll be to defeat her.'

"Now, let Poison have fun again." After that effect passed, she smiled "Don't worry, the poison's not deadly, but it'll sure give you a hard time. Oh, and for my dear guardian, Decay!"

While Poison was just a gassy, shapeless cloud, Decay was a miniature grim reaper. It shot forwards, passing right through Kerberos, and the cat staggered back.

"You okay, Kerberos?" Syaoran asked.

The feline nodded. "Nothing I can't handle." Actually, his attack had gone down by two hundred points, making it even harder for him to destroy the Healer.

"And to end this turn, I set a face-down card."

Yugi frowned as Poison hit again. "We really have to get rid of that one."

"I'll take this chance to activate my face-down cards," Syaoran said. "First one is Solemn Wishes, which'll only matter in my turn. But the second is, as you can see, Ceasefire, and it'll deal five hundred points per effect monster in play."

Sakura was hit by an invisible force and staggered back, as her life points dropped to sixty-five hundred. "Damn..."

"And surprises won't end there," Yugi said as he looked at his lattest draw. "I activate Fairy's Feather Duster!"

"Thanks," Sakura said, "one of the cards you destroyed was my Despair."

"How?" Syaoran asked.

"It was sent back to the deck after destroyed, just like Hope. I'm just a lucky girl."

"Either that, or she's got more than one Despair," Anzu noted.

Yugi frowned. "I set one monster and end my turn."

Just then, the rest of the crew arrived via elevator, with Jou and Kaiba insulting each other for whatever reason they'd found this time around. "Wow, we're in time for a good duel."

Kaiba smirked. "Oh come on, Yugi. You can't be losing against a newbie like Kinomoto."

Sakura turned to Kaiba, her glare was one sound effect away from a furious growl. "Windy, go."

The group gasped as the wind spirit knocked Kaiba into the far wall of the room. "Well, I'm not messing with her," Jou noted.

"Will he ever get tired of insulting with the wrong girls?" Honda asked.

Kaiba peeled himself off the wall and groaned. "Today's just not my day."

"Just be glad I didn't use Firey," Sakura snapped. "Anyways, it was Syaoran's turn, I believe."

"Good thing, since I get five hundred life points from Solemn Wishes. Also, I'll equip this card, Stimpack, to Kerberos. Now, Kerberos, destroy her Healer!"

"Sorry, Sakura," Kerberos said right before tackling her out of the field.

"That's all for now."

Sakura frowned. "Nice. Okay, now... First, I'll summon Corrupt."

"She's full of new tricks, huh?" Jou noted. The new card was female, as most Sakura Cards were, and it was wearing a gray, raggy robe, and her fingers dripped a greenish liquid, possibly poison. Her attack wasn't too high, set in eighteen hundred points.

"And that's making it harder to defeat her," Anzu said.

"Syaoran will win," Mei Ling said. "If that Motou guy's as good as he said, then there's no way to beat them both."

Sakura laughed at that. "Comes to show you know nothing about duels, or about my new cards. I activate this one, Burial. For a thousand life points, I can bring back a monster. I choose Yugi's Mystic Elf. "

"That won't stand Kerberos' attack," Shizuka noted.

"I know that, but I don't have to worry about him. Corrupt, attack Kerberos!"

Syaoran frowned "You'll hurt yourself."

"Not at all, thanks to Corrupt's effect."

As Kerberos was hit, he fled to Sakura's side of the field, and his eyes turned pitch black. "What?" Yugi said. "I thought the two guardians were immune to controlling effects."

"They're my guardians," Sakura said, "so I can bypass that. Now, Kerberos, attack Syaoran!"

Syaoran was tackled by Kerberos, and stood up clutching his chest. "That... Hurt."

"Good thing for you, that's all I can do for now."

Yugi looked at his drawn card and smiled. "Kerberos is too dangerous a creature to have as enemy, so... I play Dark Hole!"

Sakura spat some choice curses as all the monsters were destroyed, but then chuckled. "Big deal, you're out of monsters too."

"And that's why I'll use this. Monster Reborn, bring Kerberos back!"

"Sakura's fried," Jou mused as Kerberos returned.

"Hmph. It's taking them too long to defeat her," Kaiba noted.

"Kerberos, Attack!"

Sakura fell flat on her back and winced. "No way..."

"Your turn, Syaoran."

"Thanks. First, Solemn Wishes give me a bit more life. And now..." He frowned. Gemini Elf was his lattest draw, and that'd be good enough for now. "I summon my Gemini Elf, and attack you."

Sakura's life points were now down to sixteen hundred, one more attack from the lion and she'd be down for good. Everyone guessed she was far from beaten, however, as she drew her next card and laughed. "You know, I didn't care much for Suzaku's cards, except this one. Guess I was right getting one of them... Suzaku's Treasure, activate!"

Syaoran and Yugi looked at each other, as both were thinking the same way. Depending on what Sakura got, she could quite finish off one of them this turn.

The summoner looked at her five new cards and "I'll start by activating Shot. I'll destroy Kerberos, and the damage will all go to..." She stopped as she looked at Syaoran, then frowned for a few seconds. "Yugi."

"What the heck?" Kaiba almost shouted. "She could've defeated Li with that."

Anzu smiled. "Guess she still loves him, even turned evil."

"That's not true, I just want to beat them both in the same turn."

"Sure, that's your excuse," Syaoran said with a smile.

Sakura glared at him, though not as hard as she'd want to. "I set a face-down card, then end my turn."

Yugi frowned. "Let me guess, you'll activate that card now?"

Sakura chuckled. "I think you figured me out. I'll activate my trap card, Despair!"

"Again?" Mei Ling muttered.

"Stupid recyclable cards," Jou said. Though, admittedly, he'd love to have one of them himself.

"My life goes up, and I summon my Devil Sakura form."

Sakura's newest suit was a bit extreme, as she wore a tight, black leotard that left a lot of her cleavage exposed, and a pair of black demon wings grew from her back Her arms and legs were uncovered, and her hand nails had grown larger, and were painted black.

"Oh my... She looks gorgeous," Tomoyo said. The other females in the group, except for Mei Ling, turned to look at her questioningly.

"Really stunning, if I may say so," Yugi said. "Too bad that suit won't last long. I set a card and end my turn."

"Hah. Having no monsters won't do you any good," Sakura noted.

"Syaoran, if she attacks, use my card," Yugi said in a low voice.

Syaoran nodded. "It's my turn again, so I get a few more life points." He looked at the drawn card and sighed. "Just what I needed. I'll sacrifice my Gemini Elf to bring forth the Dark Magician Girl, and I equip her with Book of Dark Arts."

The magician was three hundred points too strong for Sakura, but she didn't seem to care. "Oh, you got to use your favorite pet."

"Indeed. Attack!"

Sakura giggled. "Nice try. My Devil form ends the current battle phase when attacked."

"Ouch, that's some effect," Mai noted. "These three are too even, can't really say I know who'll win."

"Yugi will win," Jou said.

"He's not alone there," Mei Ling noted.

"What can Li do?" Kaiba said. "His skills seem average at most."

It was Sakura's turn again. She drew a card and shrugged. "Well, guess I'll have to get rid of one of you. First off, I'll use this, Suzaku's Potion, to recover two thousand life points."

"Thought you said you only kept one Suzaku card around," Yugi noted.

"I lied. Anyways, guess I'll have to attack Yugi." Sakura reached her left hand forwards, and a blast of darkness shot from it.

Syaoran frowned. "I'll play Yugi's card... Mirror Force!"

Sakura was knocked out of the field by her own blast. "Aww... I thought you loved me."

"Know what they say, love hurts," Syaoran mused.

"It's Yugi's turn, then," Sakura said. She was quite aware she was open for attack, but also, even Kerberos wouldn't be able to beat her in one turn.

Yugi looked at the one card he had, the one he'd just drawn, and smiled. "Well, Syaoran, I guess I'll have to trust your luck. I set a face-down card and end my turn."

Syaoran rose an eyebrow. "Good, I'll see what I can do. First off, I get five hundred more points from Solemn Wishes, then..." He drew a card and stared at it. "No way."

"What's up, got a bad card?" Sakura teased.

"Oh, nothing like that. You told me I shouldn't give up hope, and here it is."

Anzu frowned. "He got that Hope card..."

"And I hope he's not gonna dress in skimpy outfits," Jou joked.

Syaoran knew Yugi's card would help him, and decided to risk activating it now. "Let's see... First I activate Yugi's card." As the card rose, he nodded. "Premature burial. For eight hundred life points, I can bring a monster back from my graveyard. And I choose Kerberos!"

Sakura chuckled. "That's good, but he can't defeat me."

"Not yet," Syaoran said, "but I'll play Hope..."

Kerberos nodded. "That card can be used like Polymerization."

Syaoran nodded. "I fuse my Dark Magician Girl and Kerberos!"

"What? But there's no card like that!" Kaiba protested.

"There were no cards like those fusions Sakura played before we met her," Yugi noted.

"Besides, he's about to win," Jou snapped. "Shut your trap for once, rich boy."

As the two monsters fused, everyone noticed there wasn't a lot changed. The Dark Magician Girl was riding on Kerberos' back, her staff pointed at Sakura. Syaoran smiled. "Well, look at this..."

"Stop drooling," Sakura snapped.

"Are you sure? Because I'll win as soon as I do that."

Sakura frowned. "That monster only has three thousand attack points. You were better off with them separately."

"You sure? This monster is the Dark Beastmistress, and her first effect is, she wins five hundred attack for each fusion played, including herself."

"That's only fourty-five hundred," Shizuka noted.

"It has a second effect, I suppose?" Sakura asked.

"Indeed. It can absorb life points from me and Yugi and add them to her attack points."

Sakura made the mental calculation and gasped. "No way..."

Syaoran smiled as the monster's attack grew to eighty-four hundred, more than enough to wipe Sakura's life points out. "This duel's over. Attack!"

Sakura fell to her knees as the fused monster hit. "Syaoran..."

Syaoran looked at Sakura as the battlefield vanished, along with his Dark Magician Girl. "Sakura, it's okay..."

Sakura stood up and rushed at him, hugging him tight. "Sorry for everything."

Yugi smiled. "Well, all we have to do now, is find Suzaku."

Jou shrugged. "Bad guy arriving in three... two... one..."

Suzaku appeared in the room. "Well, I guess you really slowed my plan, Pharaoh."

"See, they're too predictable," Jou noted. His friends sighed in defeat.

"Suzaku, it's time to end your evil scheme!"

Suzaku laughed. "Hardly. I still have to go visit my ancestor's land, and release her most powerful card. It'd be easier with Kinomoto and you allied with me, but I see that's not going to be possible now. So, farewell, Pharaoh, hope I don't see you again."

Kaiba frowned as Suzaku vanished. "Damn it, he run like a coward."

"Most powerful card?" Sakura repeated. "Oh no..."

Kerberos nodded. "Indeed, he's going to try and release the card that destroyed the original Suzaku."

Yue sighed. "And unfortunately for us, he's stronger than her ancestor was. He may be able to do it."

Tomoyo frowned. "Wait a minute... Wasn't Suzaku in love with Clow?"

Yue nodded.

"And she had descendants, I guess, since this Suzaku says she's his ancestor?" Tomoyo asked.

Kerberos nodded.

"So... Doesn't that mean Sakura and that Suzaku guy are... Cousins?"

Yue and Kerberos looked at each other, then at Sakura, then nodded slowly.

Sakura sighed. "Can this get any weirder?"

Kaiba chuckled. "Girl, I'm still lamenting asking that while around Yugi."

"So, what now?" Anzu asked.

"Now, we go and stop Suzaku before he releases that card," Sakura said, glaring at the spot Suzaku had been standing on a minute earlier.

A/N: Hey, I'm not the only fanboy out there making up new cards. :P

About those new cards... Well, Sakura will keep them, but... Not going to tell what'll happen yet.

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.