-1Chapter 15: A Sexy Duel

A/N: Hmm long chappie and fast update? Don't get used it. It was just a coincidence.

It was a nice Sunday afternoon as Izual walked through the forest. "I seem to be going to the forest a lot lately…" thought Izual, collecting his thoughts. He looked up at the purple-ish sky, signifying the sunset was coming. He smiled. He always enjoyed sunsets, it something he always use to do with… his thought disappeared as he crashed against someone, by not paying attention where he was going. He stumbled backwards and fell down. He scratched the back of his head.

"Sorry…" said Izual, then he noticed it was Suri. He chuckled. "If we keep meeting like this we are gonna need some helmets…" Suri looked at him and smiled.

"What are you doing in this part of the forest?" she asked with her innocent smile. Izual slowly stood up and walked towards Suri, who remained on the ground.

"Just taking a walk, helps me think." said Izual as he offered his hand to help her up. She gladly took it and stood up. "What about you?"

"Taking a break from studying with Bastion." said Suri as she let go of his hand. Izual rose his eyebrow.

"Studying with Bastion? The guy is a genius." said Izual, seeing the image of them studying.
"Next Albert Einstein I say. Yeah, I been spending a lot of time with him lately, closest friend I have in the academy." said Suri. This caught Izual's attention.

"Why not spend time with me?" he blurted out, unsure of why. He could never understand this girl. He had only talked to her twice, yet she had already caught his attention. Just looking into her lovely green eyes brought back so many memories, most of which he couldn't access without thinking of Shade, which he incredibly disliked, but knew he was going to some day. Just seeing her face brought strange feelings to Izual. A strange warm, fuzzy feeling within him, making it a bit awkward for him. While he blamed it on the fact she was extremely beautiful, he knew there had to be something more than that.

"What?" asked Suri, with a confused face. It appeared as if she couldn't make out the statement. Izual let out a sigh of relief.

"I said, how come you're spending so much time with him?" repeated Izual, curious. It was as if her smile faded for a moment, but came back almost instantly.

"He's great and funny, when he doesn't lose me in complex stuff that is. 'Sides, he's been helping me a lot lately. He even gave me a tour of the school." She said, smiling.

"I could have given you a tour if you had asked…" he said, in a low voice, mostly to himself. Then he realized what he said. He punished himself mentally, while asking himself why he had said that. Was he really feeling this feeling of…Jealousy?

"Huh? Speak up, or else I won't be able to hear." said Suri, with a curious face. Izual knew he had to do it. He took a deep breath.

"Do I know you from somewhere?" he asked, and for a brief moment, he could see a sparkle in her eyes.

"Maybe." she said as she rested against a tree. He heard the word "maybe" but that didn't answer anything.

"Maybe? Maybe yes, or maybe not?" asked Izual, growing highly. Suri just gave him a playful smile.

"You'll have to figure that on your own, eh?" said Suri. Izual groaned.

"Your name doesn't ring a bell, but your appearance does." said Izual, confused a tad.

"I'm pretty girl, I'm sure you seen many of those." said Suri, playing around with the subject.

"But you're not like the other girls…" said Izual, trying to find reason in his questioning.

"So are you going to be on the tournament?" asked Suri, skillfully changing subjects. Izual looked at her and sighed.

"Yeah, I registered the other day. How about you?" asked Izual. Suri chuckled.

"Registered. I think it's time I take my leave…" And with that she started leaving.

"Wait where you going?" asked Izual.

"Girl's dorm. I'm sleepy, I'll catch you tomorrow." said Suri.

"Wait! Why wouldn't you answer the original question?" asked Izual.
"Because it's not worth you remembering, then it's not worth saying." said Suri and with that she left a confused Izual.

…

A group of students looked at the papers hanging on the walls on Monday morning. The tournament was taking over class time. There was a lot of people signed up. Izual looked at his opponent's name, Tainji Musterblake. Huh, rhymes with Justin Timberlake. thought Izual as he noticed that he was second bracket.
"What's that mean?" asked Izual, confused. Bastion chuckled behind him.
"It means you get to duel during the afternoon, so go get some rest." said Bastion. "I'm second bracket as well, so I'm going to go fix my deck. Want to join me?" Izual nodded and they went to duel. They spend the morning fixing the decks till the night when they went to the designated area. It was the same area where Jaden had dueled Chazz. There, they found his group of friends. They found Jaden with a bandage around his arms, and several other injuries.

"What happened?" asked Bastion, surprised at Jaden's injury.
"The duel. It's more real than you think. Jaden barely managed to escape it, but it was probably worse for the loser. " said Christy.

"What happened to the loser?" asked Izual, very curious.
"He got burned, badly, by Flame Wingman's fire." said Jaden. Bastion and Izual looked confused.

"But it's only a hologram…" said Izual but before they could answer they called his name to duel. "Gotta go win, later." He stepped into the arena and saw his opponent, dressed stylish for the duel.

"Ready to duel?" asked Izual, his hands glowed but instead of the usual pink, it was a darker glower as if tainted.

"I was born sexy…err….ready I mean." said Tainji as he drew his cards. "I'll go first. I will set one sexy monster down, and two face-down. Your go." said Tainji. Izual looked with a face that said the classic 'wtf? What's wrong with this guy? Stupid author… Izual looked at his hand and smiled. This duel could end quick.

"I play Horus, the Black Flame Dragon LV 6." said Izual as a small black fire appeared, seeming to give off heat. But from the flame a mechanical figure slowly emerged head first. At first glance it seemed to be a hawk, a hawk with such a piercing red stare that one couldn't help but feel as if doom was about to fall. But the ominous feeling almost became comical, prompting nothing but laughter at the round shape that seemed to waddle out of the misleading black flames. Due to its weight, it seemed unlikely that its short stubby wings would be able to support it in the air. The only semi-dangerous thing about the avian creature would be it's talons, seemingly covered in an extra coat of metal, which matched with other pieces of its metal casing. But even without them, it wouldn't pose much of a threat, because that was all it had. It snapped its beak menacingly, trying to intimidate the opponent with it's glowing red stare, but all it did was prompt a laugh. 1600 attack wasn't much to worry about. Tainji laughed as well some of the audience.

"What an unsexy beast!" said Tainji, looking at the mockery of a monster. "What's that going to do? Sit on my monster?" Izual face had no expression, as his hand glowed darker as the beast roared. The fat hawk did an incredible leap, that seemed impossible with all it's weight, and seemed to float over the set monster as it started falling. The monster flipped revealing to be a lady with black dress and fancy black tipped to once side. Her hand seemed to be burning, but she apparently. Despite the fact that a big fat metal chicken with dangerous talons coming straight at her from above, she didn't seem to mind. As the bird landed and crushed her, waves from the impact spread out, shaking everything in distance, as if a bird that heavy had actually appeared.

"You monster! You killed the sexy Fire Sorcerer! At least her equally hot effect activates." said Tainji as from her grave fire came and hit Izual with enough force to knock him down. However, there was something wrong. This fire. It wasn't a hologram. His shirt caught on fire and he moved franticly about. He rolled in circle the till the fire was out, which took some of his shirt, as well burnt him a bit. Tainji smiled as he remove from play two cards off his hand as a cost for Fire Sorcerer's effect.

Izual: 3200

Tainji: 4000.

"It's what happens to unsexy people." said Tainji. Izual grew angry and so did his monster.
"I set a magic or trap and end my turn." said Izual and that triggered something in the bird. The short rotund bird gave out a silent cry as it was once more engulfed in black fire. But unlike before, its silhouette could still be seen in the center of the dark mass. It twisted and writhed in the flames heat, seeming to grow and elongate within the ever moving expanse of the fire. Once more the head was the first to emerge, and the once smooth metal head seemed to be etched with feathers, arching back away from a sharp looking beak that cemented it's resemblance to a bird of prey even more. Its round egg-like body was no where to be seen, instead replaced with a far larger and more elongated torso. Each one of the formerly stubby wings now stretched at least the length of its body, wispy trails of red energy seemed to rise off the sharp metal feathers. The talons were larger, more pronounced, and seemed to dig into the ground in anticipation, a reptilian-type tail thrashing against the ground behind it. Unlike its former incarnation, this was not a beast to laugh at, and its attack of 2300 made it all too clear that it could, and would, deliver the promised defeat. The crowd looked at the monster, no more laughter around. Even Tainji looked at the beast with some fear, but merely chuckled. "Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV 6 is nothing to chuckle at." said Izual as his turn ended, two big mechanical eye balls rose from the ground, with mechanical arms to it's side.

"So now you have one strong unsexy beast." said Tainji, as he drew a card. "Since I removed my two D.D. Scout Planes, they come at the End Phase of the turn and since they were removed at the end phase of YOUR turn, they come back there, perfect timing for my turn. Now meet my very sexy Amazon Archer!" A young woman appeared, with grayish brown hair. She seemed to be wearing skirt,, but it looked like it had been cut along the side and tied together at the waistband on the one side, giving it a lopsided look, but allowing the archer the most movement possible. She seemed to be wearing a tailored coat so it would only reach a few inches lower than her very small tube top she was wearing, leaving a good amount of skin showing in her skinny waist. Many of the crowd's male population cheered. Izual looked at it, and smiled a bit, but he felt darkness again, yet kept grinning. Male instinct before darkness, after all.

"I will use her effect." said Tainji as the two D.D. Scout Planes turned into arrows with sharp tips. "By sending two monsters from my side of the field, I can inflict 1200 damage to you. Go, my sexy archer, shoot him!" The archer loaded the arrows and shot Izual with deadly accuracy, hitting right in the gut. His eyes widened at the pain. The arrows pierced deep, as the blood started trickling. What's happening…these…these are real arrows! thought Izual as he fell to the ground.

Izual: 2000

Tainji: 4000

Izual knew he couldn't remove those arrows or he would bleed too much and lose consciousness. Despite the piercing pain, he had to remove them. He remained on the floor, the crowd silent. The tension was high, and it was killing the crowd. Jaden smiled. He knew what he had to do.

"He's on the floor, quick, somebody teabag him!" said Jaden, and everyone started at him, even Izual, who was in extreme pain, stared at him. "Don't blame me! Blame the author." The crowd sighed. At least it broke the tension.

Izual slowly stood up, blood dripping from where the arrow pierced him. He needed to win this fast.

"God, unsexy people sure manage to stay up a lot." said Tainji. "I play the Mask of Brutality on my sexy archer. You are obviously not worth seeing her face." The beautiful archer's face was covered by a egg-shaped mask colored orange with a green section on top. The mouth had evil teeth with a spike on the chin. Claws were coming out of it's eye sockets. "This raises my very sexy Amazon's attack by 1000, making it 2400. This makes it stronger than your pathetic dragon. I will set a magic or trap face-down and now, my Amazon, destroy him." The Amazon Archer pulled out another arrow and aimed at metal bird on Izual's side of the field. Just before it fired the arrow, the masked changed. White horns appeared around the mask, five in total. This mask barely covered all the face. The claws had disappeared and blue glow came from the eyes. You could still see some skin between bottom part of the mouth and the upper. As the Amazon shot the arrow, the great bird shot out a burst of flames that incinerated the arrows as well the archer itself. Tainji stepped back from the flames, as they were a lot hotter than regular flames.

Tainji: 3400

Izual: 2000

"What happened?" asked Tainji, confused. Izual grinned a little bit.

"I activated my trap, Mask of Weakness. It reduced your monster's attack by 700, making it too weak for my Horus. And since you ended your turn …" Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV6 roared madly and enraged. It flashing briefly with a white light before bursting into flame. But this flame was no ordinary fire, lacking the bright reds and yellows and instead, was a myriad of darker hues, the light taking a nose dive toward the indigo and violet end of the color spectrum. The flames were so hot, that Izual seemed to be sweating already. Within the dark inferno an even darker shape had begun to materialize, the exact silhouette hard to distinguish through the tongues of flame that surrounded it. Two metallic feathered looking wings ripped through the upper portion of the remaining fire, the slightly reddish colored steel gaining unearthly blue highlight in the glow cast by the licking tongues of flame. With a beat of its wings, Izual's monster shot out of the fire, the downdraft caused by the propelling stroke extinguishing the steadily dying flame in one huge draft of air. The metallic dragon-like being hovered in the air for a moment or two, wisps of the strange fire seeming to cling to the edges and sharp angles formed by its metal casing before it settled down on the field in front of Izual with an audible thump, the bird like head turning to stare at the opposing field that could only promise one thing. Complete and utter defeat. The final level. Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV 8. With it's 3000 attack, it roared and Tainji backed away. Izual chuckled. Tainji's worried seemed to disappear as he recalled his face-down card.

"Very big monster, too bad it won't do anything." said Tainji as he flipped his face-down card, Offerings to the Doomed. Very rare-looking orange artifacts appeared. "With this card, I can-What's going on!?" shouted Tainji as he stopped mid-sentence and jumped away from the card, as the giant dragon shot out black fire against the rare artifacts and melted them, causing extreme heat on Tainji's side of the field.
"Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV 8 does not take kindly to spell cards. He can choose to negate any he, or I, want to." said Izual and Tainji started panicking.
"But but but" stuttered Tainji as the dragon slowly walked towards, stomping the ground as he did, as in the end was coming. "If you shoot that fire, I will die! And with my life, so goes my sexy body!" Izual glared, the pain from the arrow as well as the blood leaving was getting to him. He clenched his fist as the giant dragon leaped and landed in front of Tainji, causing a big shockwave, as if a little earthquake. Tainji jumped. The dragon wrapped it's tail Tainji and started walking as Tainji tried to get out. Izual moved closer to his dragon as it started walking towards the nearest wall. The crowd wondered what it was doing then they saw him fling Tainji from the tail into the wall, creating a solid hit and shout of pain from Tainji. He crushed some of the wall, Izual looked up.
"Who's sexy now, bitch?" said Izual, the crowd just looking at Tainji. Izual backed up to his original spot. He looked at the life points.

Tainji: 300

Izual: 2000

He knew Tainji didn't lose but he could tell Tainji had at least lost consciousness.

"Tainji Musterblake, you have ten seconds to get up or suffer a default loss." said a voice in the intercom. Izual knew he had won, but the blood-defiance started getting to him, forming a small puddle on the floor. The seconds passed and Izual got declared the winner. The crowd was surprised but clapped at the great duel. Izual slowly left the area, almost stumbling and he encountered a worried Jasmine.
"Izual!" she said, looking at him. "What are you doing?"

"Bringing sexy back." he said, smiling as he became unconscious and fell side ways, so the arrows wouldn't get pierced deeper by Jasmine, into Jasmine's arms.