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The Orichalcos Saga
Fanfic Chapter 209: The Black Scorpion Pt 3: The Final Dragon Released
Episode Basis: None
Previously on Yu-Gi-Oh! During the middle of a heated duel, Jonah revealed her origins. She revealed that she and her father were made homeless after Guimo was fired by Industrial Illusions. When young Jonah fell victim to a scorpion sting, Dartz appeared and miraculously healed her. From that day on, she and her father had been staunch supporters of Dartz and his agenda. Back in the present, Harold seemed like he was well off with Sanga of the Thunder and over 4500 life points. But Jonah activated a trap card which caused each of her Dark Scorpions to attack Harold directly. Now Harold's down to 500 life points and it looks like he's unconscious.
Something had been bothering Kaiba. When Jonah called, she mentioned that the key to beating Dartz was in Florida. Of all of Yugi's little posse, Amara was one that Kaiba distrusted the least. They really believed that the key to this whole monster scare is stationed in Florida. Come to think of it, Gozaburo's had a base located in Florida. Yes, the key to all this was most certainly in Florida.
Kaiba picked up his phone. "Roland, prepare the jet and connect me to Roberts," he instructed. After a minute or so, he said, "Roberts, listen, drop everything you're doing and book the next flight to Florida… Don't ask questions, just do it. I'll join you there soon."
Jonah's eyebrow twitched as Harold lay against the wall of the Seal of Orichalcos. "Are you really unconscious or are you playing possum in hoping of a draw?" Harold didn't respond. "You know if you don't make a move soon, you automatically forfeit. Do you want that?" She swore. "All right then, I'll make you wake up by destroying your Sanga and Venus with one card: I play Raigeki which destroys all monsters on my opponent's side of the field." Sanga of the Thunder and Venus were destroyed. But Harold didn't react. "Is he dead? I can't capture his soul if Heaven has already claimed it."
Through her complaints, Harold laid there, entire body limp. The remaining Egyptian symbols on his Armlet started to flash in patterns, like a Morse code distress signal.
"Where are we going, Uncle?" The young boy asked.
"I thought we would go visit a friend who lives in Domino," the man answered.
"Daddy's birth place?"
"Of course."
"Uncle, I'm sorry, I know you want me to think more of myself but why should I when others are suffering? Mom taught me that…"
"I know, your mother taught me the same thing. But you can't expect others to worry about you the same way you worry about others. Not everybody is as kind as you are, Harold." The man and boy climbed the steps up to the apartment. The man held the door open while the boy walked in.
"Uncle," the boy said stepping to the center of the room. "There's nobody here. It doesn't look like anyone has lived here."
"Oh, someone will be living here very soon." The boy's mind exploded into pain as he fell forward to the ground.
"That's what you get for not listening to your uncle."
The boy awoke to find himself staring at the ceiling. "Where am I?" He asked. He lifted himself up and looked around. The apartment… wait, how did he know it was an apartment… who was he? The boy tried to remember but all that came was a mind-numbing pain. The boy somehow found his way to the bathroom and spent the next five minutes throwing up. When he felt his body calm down, he felt something in the pocket of the shorts he wore. He took out a folded-up piece of paper. As he opened it, something fell out and to the floor. He picked it up. It was some sort of card. It had the picture of a purple-haired woman with six wings. The name on top of the card read 'Wingweaver.'
Harold took another look at the piece of paper. There were words on it, words that he understood.
Harold Kumara.
"Is that me?" The boy wondered. He looked from the Wingweaver card to the piece of paper wondering what he should do next.
"Always remember to follow what is in your heart."
Harold opened his eyes. It's that same vision again. This is just like what happened at Battle City during my duel with Aaron for the Four Horsemen only this time it was more detailed. It seems like each time I duel, a piece of my past is unlocked. So the more I duel, the more I remember. He saw Jonah standing some ways across from him. It took him a moment to realize the situation. He stood up. "It's my move," Harold said shaking his head to clear it.
"So are you done with your nap?" Jonah asked.
"Jonah, I empathize with your situation," Harold said ignoring her question. "You're worried for this Dartz guy, you want to make him proud of you so he won't throw you back out on the streets like what Pegasus did. But are you really that willing to risk yourself for this guy? I only saw the Seal used twice. But as you yourself said, once someone loses, they lose their soul. Do you really desire to throw yourself into the line of fire for this guy?" Harold saw her eyes lowered and saw the doubt. "Take it from me I've thrown myself into the line of fire quite a few times even before Kaiba let me participate in the Battle City Tournament."
Avatar leapt on to the duel ring. The archaic symbols appeared and began rotating in front of the flames.
Harold said something that caused Tea to cover Serenity's ears. "I don't care about this crummy tournament any more, I won't stand by and watch people I care about get hurt!" Using his Armlet, Harold propelled himself onto the platform. He set up a shield between Joey and Mai and the blast. "I may not be able to stop Marik from winning the duel, but the least I can do is lessen the physical damage!" His shield pushed back the blast.
"Hold on, Yugi!" Harold concentrated hard. Last time he tried using his Armlet, it failed him. He needed it to work for him this time.
A circle of symbols separated Noah from Yami-Yugi. "If you want him, Noah, you'll have to go right through me," Harold declared. "And when I say through me, I mean THROUGH me. You're not getting to him until there's a gaping hole in my body!"
"Ask and you shall receive." Noah lunged at Harold but Harold used his Armlet to push Noah back again.
"IT APPEARS YOU ARE ONE CARD SHORT, PHARAOH," Anubis commented not knowing that it was Yugi and not Yami.
"Yeah, but we're not!" It was Joey, Harold, and Amara which stood in between Kaiba and Yugi and their opponent.
"You two ready?" Joey asked. Harold and Amara nodded. "Let's duel!" They all put on their Duel Disks. "Gilford the Lightning and Gearfried the Iron Knight! Get him!" Joey's two warriors charged Anubis.
"I'll show you who the true master of light is around here," Harold said. "Attack, Serapheem and Wingweaver!" The two fairies combined their energies into a giant orb and sent it at Anubis.
"I've learned that the only thing such suicidal maneuvers do is make the people you care about worry about you! If this Dartz guy is as caring as you make him out to be, then he would be really upset if you just threw your life away."
"What do you know? I was a street urchin until Master Dartz rescued me! He was the only one; nobody else helped me or my father! Pegasus himself didn't care what happened to us!"
"Oh get over your self," Harold snapped making her step back. "You think you're the only one who's had it rough? I don't like to brag about this, but I can't remember my past! I don't remember who my parents were, whether or not I had any siblings, or why I woke up in an apartment in Domino all alone with nothing but a piece of paper and a Duel Monster card in my pocket!"
Master Dartz told me that one of Yugi Moto's friends had amnesia, but I had no idea, his life was almost as hard as mine. Nobody so evil could have a hard life. Could… could I be…
"One day I hope to learn all that stuff about me but until that happens, I'm not going to act like a snake in the grass and complain about how bad my life has been, but instead I'll take charge of my own life and my own destiny! I will make decisions for myself, including the decision to continue to support my friends in good times and in bad, in our darkest hour and our brightest moment. I will continue to follow my heart and right now my heart is telling me to protect all of humanity, and especially the people I love!" He stared at the card he drew. I should thank Yugi for giving me this rare card. "I play Card of Sanctity which allows both of us to replenish our hands with six cards from our deck." As Harold drew his first three cards, he thought about his overall situation. Her Gorg has over 4200 attack points! Even Obelisk the Tormentor couldn't beat that kind of firepower. As for me, all I have are these three Ojama beasts and they don't have a single attack point between them. The fourth card Harold drew was Polymerization. I could combine them but that wouldn't help me much. The fifth card was a magic card called Fusion Weapon. Fusion Weapon increases fusion monsters' attack points by 1500. But that wouldn't even beat her Don Zaloog, let alone her Gorg. What card do I have left?
Suddenly Harold's deck started to glow.
"Joey, something's happening to your deck!" Amara announced. She held out Joey's Duel Disk which had a glowing deck in it.
"Oh man," Joey groaned.
"What does it mean?" Tristan asked.
"The last time something like this happened, I ended up with Hermos in my deck!"
Kaiba was climbing the steps to get onto his plane when he noticed a faint light coming from his deck. "Not again," he moaned. "What the heck is going on here?"
In a forest, cards laid sprinkled around a tree like grass. A dog sniffed one of the cards. The card started to glow sending the dog scrambling for cover.
Harold found himself inside a great hall. A large crystal dragon stood before him. "Where am I? And what the heck is that?"
"Harold," a feminine voice called out. "This is Solon, the last and most powerful of the Legendary Dragons. It is the dragon that will guide the other three together. It has been waiting for you to release it."
"Me?"
"Yes, you, your strength and resolve has made the fates pick you to be the one to unite the other Chosen Duelists against the power of the Orichalcos. But first you must withdraw the sword and join forces with Solon."
"Well, if it'll help Yugi out, then definitely." Harold flew up to the dragon's forehead and pulled the sword out. The crystal statue shattered revealing a large burly gold-colored dragon. "Here goes nothing." He placed his hand on the dragon's snout.
The other three Legendary Dragon cards all stopped glowing leaving all who observed the spectacle bewildered as to what has happened.
Jonah immediately noticed a change in Harold. There seemed to be a hidden wisdom in his eyes, an almost mystic understanding. "Jonah, I know you want to make your master proud of you, but what you are doing is wrong, if your master succeeds, millions of men, women, and children could perish! That's why your master can't succeed and that is why I am going to win!" The look in his eyes was almost scary. "I play Polymerization fusing Ojama Yellow (1), Ojama Black (2), and Ojama Green (3) to form the Ojama King (4)!" Three strange creatures, one yellow with eye stalks, another green with one eye and a third black appeared each letting out small roars appeared briefly before molding together to form a large pudgy creature also with stalk-like eyes and stubby arms and legs. It bellowed a roar. "Hail to the King, baby," Harold cracked.
"Nice try, but your super beast has 0 attack points!"
"Then I guess it's a good thing he has a special ability. Ojama King made it so that you can't summon any more monsters meaning your Gorg can't be powered up by your Dark Scorpion Alliance."
Jonah chuckled, "As usual you ignore the bluntly obvious. Your Ojama King can only void three spots on my Duel Disk. And the Seal of Orichalcos allows me to play up to ten monsters. Remember?"
"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."
"I remember, but it's you who's ignoring the obvious. I know about your seal's ability to play more than the usual number of monsters. But look, all the remaining spots of your Duel Disk are filled up. With your three monsters and two spots deactivated by my Ojama King, you have nowhere to put attacking monsters."
He's right, Jonah realized. I can't summon any more monsters. "It doesn't matter your King still isn't strong enough to beat my Gorg."
"Maybe not yet, but he will be soon… after this." He held up a card with a picture of a burly yellow dragon on it. "I play The Wings of Solon!"
"A Legendary Dragon!" Jonah's face paled as the dragon appeared.
"Solon, attach your self to Ojama King!" The dragon transformed into energy and basically zapped Ojama King. "Solon gives fusion monsters different abilities based on their attribute. In the case of light attribute monsters, it brings their attack and defense points equal to their maximum value. So in other words, Ojama King gains 3000 attack points!"
(OK: 0-3000)
"But wait, I'm not done yet. I play the final card in my hand, Fusion Weapon which increases a fusion monster's attack points by 1500!"
(OK: 3000-4500)
I guess Yugi was right, having the right cards just isn't enough, you need to play them in the right order. If I played Fusion Weapon first and then The Wings of Solon, it wouldn't be effective because Fusion Weapon would raise Ojama King's attack points to 1500, and Solon would only raise it another 1500 to 3000. But by activating The Wings of Solon first, I was able to bridge the gap between the gaping attack and defense points by 3000 instead of 1500 and that means…
Oh no, he's going to attack Don Zaloog again! With only 1200 life points, I'll lose! Jonah sunk to her knees. Harold could hear sobs coming from her.
"Are… are you all right?"
"Harold, before you finish me, promise me something."
"What's that?"
"Promise me you'll save him!"
"Save who, your father?"
"No… save Master Dartz. I'm afraid for him, I'm afraid that this plan will bring about his destruction. Please, do whatever it takes to save him. Promise me!"
Incredible, even though she's about to lose her soul, she still worries about Dartz. "I promise," he said quietly. Then spoke louder, "Ojama King, attack her Don Zaloog with Beast Blaster!" The Ojama King opened its mouth and let out a huge blast of light that totally obliterated Don Zaloog.
(H: 500)
(J: 0)
Tears streaming from her eyes, Jonah looked up at her opponent and gave him a sad smile. Haorld thought that smile made her look kind of attractive. "Thank you, Harold, I was right, you're truly a noble person." She closed her eyes as the Seal of Orichalcos shrank around her. A beam of light shot into the air.
In Dartz's temple, a new edifice appeared next to Rex. It was of Jonah, a light smile on her face.
Jonah's body started to fall towards the pit of scorpions below. Harold quickly fired his Armlet and set up a shield underneath the body. "Please don't fizzle out on me now," Harold said as the shield levitated the body back up to her stone podium. Jonah's devotion to Dartz never ceases to amaze me. She worries about him more than she worries about herself.
"I know you want me to think more of myself but why should I when others are suffering?"
Caring about others versus caring about yourself, which is more important?
"Remember to always follow what is in your heart."
Harold crossed the rock bridge and picked up her body. "Jonah," he muttered. "I promise to save your master, but I also promise to save you. Because that is what my heart's telling me." He lifted Jonah onto his back and left the room. The only problem is I don't know how to save either of them. Oh well, won't be the first time I fought bad guys without knowing what I was doing.
As Harold ran down hallways, he was unaware that a stray tear escaped Jonah's closed eyes.
The End
Duel Monster Database
(1)
Name: Ojama Yellow
Level: 2
Type: Beast
Attribute: Light
ATK: 0
DEF: 1000
(2)
Name: Ojama Black
Level: 2
Type: Beast
Attribute: Light
ATK: 0
DEF: 1000
(3)
Name: Ojama Green
Level: 2
Type: Beast
Attribute: Light
ATK: 0
DEF: 1000
(4)
Name: Ojama King
Level: 6
Type: Beast/Fusion/Effect
Attribute: Light
ATK: 0
DEF: 3000
A/N: Solon was a character in Plato's dialogue Timaeus, though a minor one.