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The Orichalcos Saga
Fanfic Chapter 188: Prelude to Darkness Pt 2: The Seal of Orichalcos
Episode Basis: A New Evil Pt 2
Previously on Yu-Gi-Oh! Yami thought he finally figured out how to release his long-lost memories. But when he went to the museum to unlock them, something screwy happened. All these monsters started appearing all over the world. But the troubles for Yugi, Yami, and their friends were just beginning. A gang of motorcycle thugs stole the Egyptian God Cards and lured Yami-Yugi into a trap. A guy named Guimo dueled him, playing a strange card called the Seal of Orichalcos which not only raised the attack power of monsters on Guimo's side of the field by 500 points, but trapped the Duelists in an impenetrable circle with something terrible happening to the loser. Yami-Yugi was gaining the upper hand with Valkyrion when Guimo summoned Obelisk the Tormentor! To the good guys' shock, the Seal enabled Guimo to control Obelisk and raise its attack points. Now facing down his own Egyptian God Card, Yami-Yugi must find a way to beat Obelisk again and free himself from the seal before his soul is sealed away forever.
"The Seal of Orichalcos surrounds us, increasing Obelisk's power and giving me complete control of the most powerful monster to ever exist!" Guimo boasted. "None of your monsters have the strength to take on Obelisk."
He's right, Yami-Yugi thought. Obelisk is stronger than ever thanks to that Orichalcos card.
"Obelisk, attack Valkyrion with Fists of Fury!" Obelisk's fist was energized and he slugged the combined magnet warriors destroying it.
(G: 2200)
(Y: 2000)
"Obelisk has stolen your monsters and soon the Orichalcos will steal your soul!"
Yami-Yugi cringed.
"There's not a force in the universe that can break the Seal of Ori…" Guimo's vision suddenly got blurry and he staggered. "Ori… Orichalcos."
"Father," the girl gasped.
"The boss warned us that Egyptian God Cards and Orichalcos magic don't mix," Goggle-Head said.
"If you ask me, Valon, he's just getting too old for this," The maroon-haired boy said.
"Which is why we made him duel first," Raphael said.
"Shut up, all of you!" The girl snapped. "My Father will win, just you watch!"
"Win or not, it will benefit us either way," Raphael concluded.
"I play Graceful Charity," Yami-Yugi said starting his turn. "This allows me to draw three cards as long as I discard two in return." Yami-Yugi slid two cards into his graveyard slot. "Next I summon Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts (1) in defense mode. Then I set one card face-down and end my turn."
Guimo shook his head to clear it and slid the card he drew into a magic and trap card slot. "Obelisk, attack!" Obelisk pounded the lion beast.
"Yugi's field is clean again!" Amara cried.
"This isn't looking good," Joey admitted.
"The Age of Destruction is here!" Guimo declared. "Soon the Earth will be shrouded in darkness! Your soul shall fuel the force that will devastate mankind!"
"What do you mean?" Yami-Yugi asked.
"Even as we speak, a Great Beast is awaking from its ancient slumber to complete what it began centuries ago! But before this beast can arise, it must consume enough souls."
"Talk about déjà vu, doesn't that sound eerily familiar?" Amara asked.
"Yeah, Weevil and Rex said something along the same lines," Joey reminded them.
"Who are you?" Yami-Yugi asked Guimo. "How do you know these events will come to pass?"
"For an all-powerful Pharaoh, you sure ask a lot of questions," Alister cracked. For the first time since the duel began the others looked up and noticed them.
"Just who do you clowns think you are!" Joey shouted.
"Didn't you hear the old geezer before?" Valon retorted. "We're Warriors of Doma."
"Which means what exactly?" Harold asked.
"You might say we're soul collectors," Raphael explained. He held up two cards, both were shaped like the Seal of Orichalcos. "In fact, here are two of our latest acquisitions."
The horrified faces of Weevil Underwood and Rex Raptor were on the card faces with the Orichalcos symbol in the background.
Yami-Yugi gasped, it's just like what Pegasus did to Kaiba and Mokuba during Duelist Kingdom. How do these guys have that power?
"You're nothing but a bunch of lowlifes!" Amara shouted.
"Ooh, that hurts," Alister said sarcastically.
"Give the girl a little credit, Alister," the girl said. "It's not easy to think of good insults on her intelligence level."
The loudest growl on the building at that moment came not from Obelisk but from Amara.
"Make your next move, Yugi," Guimo commanded. "The sooner you move, the sooner Obelisk can crush your life points!"
"Obelisk is indeed powerful but not unbeatable," Yami-Yugi said as he drew a card. "After all, I received him by beating him. I play Monster Reborn to revive Valkyrion the Magna Warrior!"
Guimo scoffed, "A waste of a move, Obelisk beat Valkyrion once before and he can do so again."
"Wrong," Yami-Yugi said firmly. "It's time to say good-bye to that Egyptian God Card. But first… Valkyrion, disassemble!" Valkyrion broke apart and reformed into the Magnet Warriors. "Now I play the magic card Brave Attack which sends my Magnet Warriors into battle. Alpha, attack!" Alpha charged forward and sliced Obelisk with its sword. The Magnet Warrior was destroyed. "Beta, attack!" Beta head-butted Obelisk but only ended up getting destroyed too.
"Your monsters can't even scratch Obelisk."
"Look again, there's actually a quite large scratch on Obelisk." Yami-Yugi was right. A scar had appeared on Obelisk's stomach right where Alpha and Beta hit it.
"What did you do!"
"Brave Attack allows me to combine all my monsters' attack points into one fierce attack."
"Let's see," Joey said. "Alpha had 1400 attack points and Beta had 1500. So that means…"
"Their two attack point total 3100," Amara explained. "Yugi needs to hit it with a monster with at least 1400 attack points to beat Obelisk." The others gawked at how easily Amara figured that out. "What, you didn't think I was just another pretty face, did you?"
"Gamma, attack Obelisk!" Yami-Yugi's last Magnet Warrior charged in and punched the scar on Obelisk's chest. It was destroyed but Obelisk literally cracked up and exploded.
(G: 2100)
(Y: 2000)
His friends cheered Yami-Yugi's victory.
"He just got lucky," the girl said. "My Father will still win."
"I agree, Jonah, at least about the Pharaoh getting lucky," Alister said.
"He'll need more than luck to break the Seal of Orichalcos," Raphael commented.
"I don't need Obelisk to defeat you, I play Card of Sanctity which lets us each draw from our decks until we have six cards in our hands!"
"That's a relief," Tea said. "They'll be even."
"Not quite," Joey rebuked. "That Guido-guy still has that magic circle which gives his monsters a power boost."
"I summon Watapon (2) in defense mode," Yami-Yugi announced.
"But it's still my turn!" Guimo protested.
"But Watapon's special ability allows me to summon it directly to the field if I drew it through a magic, trap, or monster effect."
"That card is worthless anyway, my monster however is not. I summon Warrior Dai Grepher (3)." A dark-haired warrior appeared. His eyes turned red and the Seal of Orichalcos appeared on his head.
(WDG: 1700-2200)
"I reveal my trap card Dark Renewal!" A purple coffin with a jewel at the center appeared. Energy strings connected Watapon and Warrior Dai Grepher with it. "With Dark Renewal, I can sacrifice one monster on both players' side of the field to summon a spellcaster monster from the graveyard. And I choose… Dark Magician (4)!"
"But wait, I never sent your Dark Magician to the graveyard!"
"True but I did. When I played Graceful Charity, I had to discard two cards. One of those cards was the Dark Magician!" The two monsters were pulled into the coffin. The coffin opened again and the familiar purple-haired mage appeared. "Now you have no monsters to protect yourself!"
"All I need is a face-down card," Guimo said setting a card face-down.
"It's now my turn. Dark Magician, attack with Dark Magic!"
"I'm not as defenseless as you might think, Yugi, I play my face-down magic card Shield Wall which creates four Rock Shield Tokens to protect my life points!" One of the tokens was destroyed. "Next I play another magic card called Bronze Knights. Now by discarding three cards from my hand I can create three Bronze Knight tokens!"
"Hold on, you have six monsters!" Yami-Yugi protested.
"That's cheating!" Joey protested. "Page five of the Duel Monster Rulebook clearly states that only five monsters per Duelist are allowed on the field!"
"Then I say it's time for you to get a new rulebook," Raphael cracked. "The Seal of Orichalcos doubles the number of monsters allowed on the field but only for the Duelist controlling it."
"This Seal card makes the Pyramid of Light look like a dime-store trinket," Amara cracked.
"I have no idea what dime-store trinket means and I would still have to agree with you," Tea said.
"And as an added effect," Guimo said continuing the explanation for Raphael. "You can't attack my back row of monsters without going through my front row. Also, each of my monsters gains an additional 500 attack points."
(BK: 500-1000)
"Your lone Dark Magician is nothing compared to my army of monsters!"
He might be right, Yami-Yugi thought. There's no way I can get at his life points now that he has all those monsters on the field. "It's my move." He drew a card. "I place two cards face-down and summon Queen's Knight (5) in defense mode. That ends my turn."
"I draw."
"Reveal trap card!" Yami-Yugi announced. "Dust Tornado! Dust Tornado can destroy one magic or trap card on the field. And the card I want to destroy is… the Seal of Orichalcos!" A large tornado swirled around the Seal.
Once again, his friends cheered. "Adios, Seal of Whos-its," Joey waved.
But as the dust cleared, the Seal of Orichalcos remained.
Raphael laughed, "The Seal of Orichalcos is too powerful to be destroyed by a mere trap card."
"I don't know how much more I can watch," Tea said. "We just have to help Yugi get out of there somehow."
Tristan looked down at Harold's wrist. "Hey Harold, how about your arm band thingie?"
"Huh, you mean my Armlet?" Harold looked down.
"Yeah, we already saw how it can stop other magical stuff maybe it can break this seal around Yugi?"
"I don't know, Tristan, it could be dangerous."
"Come on, how dangerous could it be?" Tristan asked.
"The mixing of two unknown magics?" Harold glared at Tristan. "It may unravel the space-time continuum, warp the laws of physics or eradicate all life as we know it!" He turned his back to Tristan and shrugged saying nonchalantly, "Or it may just cause a tremendous explosion." The non-magical people there face-faulted. "Either way, I don't want to risk it."
"But Harold, doing so might be the only way to save Yugi's life," Tea pleaded. "Please, try."
Harold sighed. "All right, Tea, for you I'll try."
"You're just wasting my time, Yugi," Guimo said. "The only reason you're here is to give up your soul to the Orichalcos! You already saw how your trap card is useless against it. Your dead!"
"Hold on, Yugi, help is on the way," Harold said revealing his Armlet from underneath his dark blue jacket.
"Harold?"
"Time for this seal to feel the power of the Avatar Armlet! Now, Avatar Armlet, activate!" The symbols rose off the Armlet and faced the Seal of Orichalcos. They started spinning. "Take… THIS!" He thrust his Armlet arm out and fired the shield towards the Seal of Orichalcos. The ring of symbols struck the force field that blocked the Duelists. Lightning danced along the clash of the two shields.
The girl motorcyclist gasped and looked like she was ready to jump down there but the muscular man put a hand on her shoulder. "Relax," he said.
"But Master Raphael…"
"Nothing can disrupt the Seal of Orichalcos, not even the Avatar Armlet."
The girl relaxed but just a little.
With a loud war cry, Harold thrust his Armlet towards the Seal. Suddenly lightning struck the Armlet's shield. It traveled in a straight line like electricity on a wire and struck the Armlet. Harold cried out in pain as he was thrown back almost to the edge. Amara threw her body behind Harold and stopped him from going over the edge.
Unknown to anyone, one of the symbols on the underside of Harold's Armlet changed.
"You see?" Guimo asked Yami-Yugi. "Your situation truly is hopeless. Not even the Avatar Armlet can break the seal."
How did he know about the Avatar Armlet? Harold wondered. For that matter, how did he know that the seal would be unaffected by it? Is he just that confident in the seal or is it something else?
"Now where were we?" Guimo asked. "Oh yes, I play a magic card called The Warrior Returning Alive which allows me to bring Warrior Dai Grepher back from the graveyard and I'll summon him in attack mode." Once again, the seal appeared on the warrior's head.
(WDG; 1700-2200)
"Next I play another magic card called The Allied Forces which increases all my warriors' attack strength by 800 points!"
(WDG: 2200-3000)
(BK: 1000-1800)
"Warrior Dai Grepher, attack Yugi's Dark Magician with Slash from Another Dimension!" The warrior sliced his sword across Dark Magician's chest destroying him.
(G: 2100)
(Y: 1500)
"Next I'll have one of my Bronze Knights attack your Queen's Knight."
"This can't be the end!" Tristan protested.
"Not by a long shot," Yami-Yugi said. "I reveal my face-down magic card Magical Academy which allows my Queen's Knight to evade the attack by replacing her with a Spellcaster monster from my deck, like Dark Magician Girl (6)." Yami-Yugi's deck started to shine and a blonde woman wearing a blue, somewhat skimpier version of Dark Magician's robes popped out.
(DMG: Lv. 6-7, 2000-2800)
"Whoa, how did Dark Magician Girl get so strong?" Tristan asked.
"Magical Academy," Amara explained. "When a Spellcaster monster is summoned through Magical Academy, it goes up a level and gains 500 attack points."
"That's right plus the 300 points she gets from Dark Magician being in the graveyard," Yami-Yugi added.
"You still can't get through my army of warriors!"
There is one card that can do that and I need to draw it now. Please, heart of the cards, guide me. Yami-Yugi drew a card. "Perfect, I play Diffusion Wave-Motion!"
"Not that," Guimo pleaded.
"By paying 1000 life points, I can have Dark Magician Girl attack all monsters on the field." Dark Magician Girl swung her staff and fired off crescents of pink energy. First they cut through the stone wall monsters and then the Bronze Knights and finally Warrior Dai Grepher.
(G: 0)
(Y: 500)
Yami-Yugi fell to his knees panting. "Now… return… the God Cards."
"Never, the God Cards are ours." He took Obelisk from the graveyard and threw it up. "Jonah, take it!" The card landed in the girl's hand as the Seal of Orichalcos shrank until it only enclosed Guimo. "No matter what happens, make sure it gets to the Mas… AAAAHHHHHH!" The old man cried out in pain as a vortex opened up and a shaft of light ascended from the circle and into the vortex.
"Father, no!" Jonah cried.
While the others ran to help Yami-Yugi, Joey ran to the edge of the buildings. "Hey, Freak Jobs, hand those cards over now!"
"Or you'll do what?" Alister retorted.
"Come down here and I'll show you what," Joey came back making a fist.
"Hey Raph, I like this bum," Valon said laughing. "He reminds me of me, only dumber and not as attractive."
"So in other words, just like you," Jonah retorted.
"If you want the God Cards back, you're going to have to beat all four of us to do it. But since you're such a good sport, here's a consolation prize!" He threw two cards down to Joey.
They were Weevil's and Rex's soul cards. The cards started to glow and the images of the two boys faded.
"Oh well," Raphael shrugged as they walked away. "At least we got a glimpse of the Pharaoh's dueling strategies." The boys turned to leave.
"But…" Jonah began.
"Look, runt, we knew all along your old man couldn't handle it," Valon said. "Why do you think we made him duel first?"
"You… you…"
"Jonah!" Raphael snapped. "The important thing now is we get the God Cards to the Master. Otherwise, there was no point in even allowing your father to duel."
"Of course you are right, Master Raphael," Jonah said firmly.
Valon snickered but then found himself on the receiving end of Raphael's cold glance. "Be careful about your language, Valon, you know that I'm a much stronger Duelist than you, and I don't want to have to tell the Master that we lost two warriors."
Valon scowled.
Tristan and Amara helped Yami-Yugi over to Guimo's body. Yami-Yugi leaned down and picked up the Seal of Orichalcos card that now contained Guimo's horrified expression. "What type of power could produce a feature similar to the Millennium Eye?" He muttered.
"Maybe this," Tea said. She held up a pendant with a small green crystal on it.
"This is weird," Joey said. "Hey Harold, something about this Duel Disk kind of reminds me that spinning thing your Armlet does."
"Not that you mentioned it, Joey, they knew about the Avatar Armlet and were not worried about having it affect the Seal of Orichalcos." Harold looked out at the city lights. "Yugi, I think this is just the tip of the iceberg."
"Harold, I think you're right."
The next day, the group cornered Weevil and Rex, now freshly returned to their bodies.
"Unhand me you overgrown gorilla!" Weevil demanded of Tristan.
"This is considered harassment!" Rex added.
"Zip it, you little mole, we want to know what you know," Joey threatened.
"And why should we tell you anything?" Weevil asked.
"You'll tell us or I'll fix it so that you'll feel pain whenever you walk," Amara said acidly.
"All we want to know is what happened to you guys yesterday?" Tea asked.
"First I got up and went to the bathroom," Rex started.
"She means after that," Weevil corrected. The two recounted their tale of how they literally ran into Guimo.
"The guy squashed Weevil like a cockroach," Rex tattled.
Weevil popped Rex in the head. "Rex was holding me back," he explained.
"Boy when you guys step in it, you really step in it," Amara cracked.
"We would've won but the guy played some strange card," Rex said. "The Seal of… something."
"The Seal of Orichalcos," Yugi provided.
"Yeah, that's it," Weevil confirmed.
"Did they mention anything about stealing the three Egyptian God Cards?" Harold asked.
Weevil and Rex looked at each other with shocked expressions before Weevil replied, "No, were they really stolen?"
"Yeah," Yugi confirmed. "So if you guys see or hear anything be sure to tell us."
"Of course, will do," Weevil said and Rex nodded his head in agreement. As soon as Yugi and his friends left, the two cackled. "The God Cards are out of Yugi's hands," Weevil said.
"Which means they're up for grabs," Rex finished.
"And soon they'll be all mine," they both said before scowling at each other.
"Okay, let's recap," Tristan said. "First things get freaky at the museum."
"Yup," Harold confirmed.
"Then monsters started appearing all over the world."
"Big time," Amara agreed.
"Now a gang of bikers are stealing people's souls with a Duel Monster Card."
"That's pretty much the gist of it," Tea said nodding her head.
"Why does all this weird stuff always happen to us?" Joey complained. "I swear it's making me starting to like school."
Yugi stopped and stared up at the sky. Joey had a point, lots of weird stuff does happen to them… or rather to him, and his friends get caught up in the maelstrom. His Grandpa gets his soul stolen, then Tea and Joey get their minds taken over by Marik, then Tristan gets turned into a monkey and then Tea gets kidnapped by Panik, not to mention the fiasco Anubis sent them through. Yugi's emotions were torn. On one hand, he was glad to have his friends by his side, but on the other hand he didn't want them caught up in his problems. Maybe what he should do is…
"Yugi!" Yugi was caught off guard as a little girl with blonde hair and half-frame glasses wearing a pink suit literally throws herself into him squeezing him like a lemon. "Oh Yugi, I finally found you!" She squealed.
"Hey, uh… you," Yugi reluctantly replied.
"Hey Yugi, do you know her?" Tea asked.
"Not sure."
"Oh, don't tell me you've forgotten me already, well maybe you'll remember this." She showed him a card. It had the picture of an angel on it. The design was similar to a Duel Monster card but it had no level, no stats, not even text, just a name.
The Ties of Friendship.
"The Ties of Friendship," Harold read. "Hey Yugi, isn't that the card you won at Duelist Kingdom?"
"Yeah, but soon after I gave it away to…"
"Take this card." He handed her The Ties of Friendship.
"The Ties of Friendship?"
"Yeah, I want you to have it, Rebecca."
"REBECCA HAWKINS!" Joey, Tea, Tristan, and Harold all cried out.
"Who?" Amara wondered.
"Something's different about her," Joey noted. "Did she get a haircut?"
"No, she traded her teddy bear in for glasses," Harold said.
"I don't need a teddy bear any more," she said, still hugging Yugi. "I have a boyfriend!"
"Who's that?" Harold asked.
"Yugi, duh!"
Yugi sputtered incoherently.
"Hey Tristan," Amara whispered. "Considering how I'm the new girl on the block, how about a fill-in. Who is this girl and why is she hanging off of Yugi like a cheap suit?"
"Her name's Rebecca Hawkins," Tristan explained also whispering. "Her Grandpa and Yugi's Grandpa are best friends. She dueled Yugi some time back for his Grandpa's prized card but Yugi was able to duel some humility into her. Yugi gave her The Ties of Friendship, the card he won at Duelist Kingdom, as a symbol of the time they spent together."
"Wow," Amara said. The two sweat-dropped as Rebecca continued hugging Yugi while Joey and Harold had to hold Tea back from mauling her. "From the way she's acting, you'd think he gave her a wedding ring."
"I think that's precisely what she considers it," Tristan concluded.
"As if things couldn't get any weirder," Joey said to Harold as Tea growled at how intimate Rebecca was acting with Yugi.
"Joey, in matters like this, it's best to sit back and watch," Harold advised.
"I'll drink to that."
"Oh yeah," Rebecca said. "My Grandpa wants to see you!"
"Professor Hawkins wants to see me?"
"Yup, he's at the museum."
Arthur Hawkins and Solomon Moto stood in front of the Tablet of the Unknown Pharaoh. "Remarkable," Hawkins commented.
"That's my Grandson, very photogenic even on stone."
"Grandpa," Yugi greeted as the kids walked in. "Professor Hawkins."
"Ah, Yugi Moto," Professor Hawkins said. "Just the person I wanted to see. I have a theory that all these monster sightings have something to do with you!"
Yugi gasped as the others all stared at him.
The End
Duel Monster Database
(1)
Name: Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts
Level: 4
Type: Beast
Attribute: Earth
ATK: 1500
DEF: 1200
(2)
Name: Watapon
Level: 1
Type: Fairy/Effect
Attribute: Light
ATK: 200
DEF: 300
(3)
Name: Warrior Dai Grepher
Level: 4
Type: Warrior
Attribute: Earth
ATK: 1700
DEF: 1600
(4)
Name: Dark Magician
Level: 7
Type: Spellcaster
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 2500
DEF: 2100
(5)
Name: Queen's Knight
Level: 4
Type: Warrior
Attribute: Light
ATK: 1500
DEF: 1600
(6)
Name: Dark Magician Girl
Level: 6
Type: Spellcaster/Effect
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 2000
DEF: 1700