Well, here we go again, and the Pirates are back in action.
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or Metroid, unfortunately.
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Hola, I'm here for another installment of this little story.
You already know who I am, so I'll get right to the point.
My roommates, other than being rivals, are possibly the only things standing between a group of Space Pirates and taking over the world. Theo already knows about this, and now I'm starting to learn about it.
My current opponent uses a deck based around something that has both been a helper and a threat to man, the power of fire. Fire can create and destroy; it can give life and take it away.
When a forest burns, it cleanses the ground of the old, and brings new life.
My opponent doesn't care about the life-giving properties, she just cares about the destruction it brings, but I can still win, I hope.
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CHAPTER 6:
GIFT OF PROMETHEUS
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"Cassie, I'm telling you that I have no idea how your book got into my bag!" Sarah says, in yet another argument with Cassie.
The four friends are seated in the Cafeteria the next day, apparently one of Cassie's text books had found itself inside Sarah's book bag.
"Yeah, I'm sure that the book just jumped into your bag on its own, give me a break!" Cassie says.
"You want a break, Dragon-girl? I'll give you a break!" Sarah says, and lunges for Cassie, and the two start fighting right there in the middle of the lunchroom.
"Are they like this in the dorm room?" Theo asks.
"No, this is one of the quiet days," Lauren says with all seriousness.
"Eesh, that's not good," Theo says.
"Yeah, they must've been in a good mood," Lauren says, and lounges back in her chair.
That's when the lights suddenly shut off, and steel doors fall over the entrances and the windows.
"Okay, that's something that doesn't happen everyday," Sarah says as she and Cassie stop fighting.
That's when a spotlight falls on a figure that had entered silently. It is a woman with short charcoal-black hair, and wearing a low cut red dress with red opera gloves and a duel disk with flame markings on it.
"Greetings students," she says in a Mediterranean accent. "The name's Clara Hephaestus, the Greek Queen of Flames, I represent my employers who have an interest in your skills. So if you will just sit tight, we will be leaving in less than an hour."
"And if we say no?" One student asks.
"Then I will not hesitate to kill you one by one," Clara says, brandishing a laser pistol. "However, I'm willing to give you a sporting chance. If one of you will be willing to step forward and duel me, you will all be spared, if the person loses, you will all be brought to my employer."
Employer? She's gotta be working for Valcouri, maybe I should… Sarah thinks, but she's too late.
"I'll take your challenge, Fuego Loco Chica," Lauren says, stepping forward.
"What did she just call her?" Sarah asks.
"If I remember my Spanish, more or less she called her a Pyromaniac girl," Theo says.
"All right, your challenge is accepted," Clara says, and activates her duel disk and Lauren gets closer before doing the same.
"LET'S DUEL!" The two say in unison.
"Age before beauty," Lauren says with a small chuckle.
"Thanks hey wait a minute!" Clara says, but draws anyway. "I start with this monster, my Tenkabito Shien (1500/1200)!" She says, and a horse gallops in, carrying a rider in red armor, and wielding a sword as the horse rears back on its hind legs. "One card face down, and it's your move."
Lauren draws. "I summon my Amazoness Paladin (1700/300 100), in attack mode!" She says, and a blonde woman warrior appears, drawing a sword. "Paladin, attack her Shien with Blade of the Amazons attack!"
The Amazoness general charges forward, and slashes through the warrior, lowering Clara's life points to 3700.
"Reveal trap card, Backfire!" Clara counters, and a burst of fire engulfs Lauren, and when it fades away, her life points have fallen to 3500.
"Fine, I'll place this card face down, and end my turn," Lauren says. If he attacks, I can activate my face down Dramatic Rescue, and switch my Paladin with my Swordswoman, and she'll take all the damage, she thinks to herself.
Clara draws. "I'll simply set a monster in defense mode, and call it a turn," she says.
Lauren draws. "Okay, I summon my Amazoness Fighter (1500/1300), in attack mode!" She says, and a muscular woman in a bikini appears, raising her fists. "Now, attack her face down monster!"The female warrior punches at the face down monster, which is revealed to be a demon in robes and with three faces.
"That was my Stray Asmodian (1300/1700), a little too strong for your fighter to destroy," Lauren says with a chuckle.
"Yeah, but not my Paladin, Amazoness Paladin, destroy her Stray Asmodian with Blade of the Amazons!" Lauren commands, and the paladin slashes through the fiend, and Lauren's life points fall again to 3000.
Then, to her surprise, her life points rise to 3800, and Clara's rises to 4500.
"How did that happen?" Lauren asks.
"That was my Stray Asmodian's special ability, whenever he is destroyed as a result of battle, both of us gain 800 life points," Clara says. "His effect represents one half of the element of fire, the Flames of Renewal, while fire destroys, it can also renew life."
"Okay, I'll just place this card face down, and call it a turn," Lauren says.
Clara draws, and opens her field slot. "This lunch room is getting boring, I activate the field spell City of Brass!" She says, and a huge city appears around them, as its name suggests, the buildings are made of bronze, and in the distance you can see flames rising.
"What exactly does this do?" Lauren asks.
"As long as this card is on the field, fire monsters gain 200 attack and defense points, and lose a level," Clara explains.
"So it's a fire version of A Legendary Ocean?" Lauren asks.
"Pretty much, yeah," Clara says. "And, I think I'll play this equip card Fire Fever on your Paladin."
A fiery aura appears around the Amazon general, and she seems to grow sick.
"What was that?" Lauren demands.
"My Fire Fever spell card, a vile disease that sometimes plagues mortals when they enter the planes of fire. Now on each of your turns, your Paladin loses 400 attack points, and if her attack drops to 0 because of this card, she is destroyed, and Fire Fever goes back into my deck," Clara explains with a cackle. "And now, to deal with your fighter, I summon my Mr. Volcano (2100/1300 200/ 200)!"
A tall man with short red hair and wearing a white and green suit and black cape appears with fire swirling around him appears.
"Now Mr. Volcano, destroy her Fighter, Flame Fist attack!" Clara commands, and the fire lord gathers flames in his fist, and punches the Amazoness fighter, who shatters. "Its your move."
Lauren draws, and sigh as her Paladin's attack falls to 1400. "I'll set one monster in defense mode, and call it a turn," she says.
Clara draws. "I summon my Darkfire Soldier #1 (1700/1100 200/ 200)!" She says, and a warrior surrounded by fire appears , drawing a sword. "Now, attack her face down monster!"
The flaming soldier slashes at the face down monster, which is revealed to be a small girl.
"That was my Amazoness Girl (300/300), and when she is destroyed, I can summon another Amazoness Girl to the field," Lauren says, and takes a card out of her deck, and the small girl appears again.
"Fine, Mr. Volcano, destroy her second Amazoness Girl!" Clara says, and the flaming sorcerer punches at the girl who shatters, and is replaced by a third. "Its your move now, make it count."
Lauren draws, and her Paladin's attack falls to 1100. "I activate my Earthenware Jug," she says, and takes a card out of her deck before drawing 3 cards. "And I'll place one card face down, and remove my Amazoness Paladin from the game, to summon this monster, my Amazoness Princess!"
Another woman appears, wearing the same indecent clothes as the other Amazons, but wearing golden jewelry and a tiara.
"And she gains 300 attack for every Amazon on the field other than herself," she says, and the Princess' attack rises to 2400. "Which is more than enough to destroy your Mr. Volcano, Princess, destroy her monster with Royal Scimitar Slash!"
The Princess draws a scimitar, and charges forward, slashing at the flaming monster, which shatters and Clara's life points fall to 4400 and Lauren's falls to 3300.
"I'll place this card face down, and end my turn."
Clara draws. "I switch my Darkfire Soldier to defense mode, and set one monster in defense mode to end my turn," she says, and her flaming soldier kneels in defense mode.
Lauren draws. "I remove my Princess from the game, to summon my Amazoness Queen (3000/3000)!" The Amazon who appeared seemed to be the most regal one yet. She still wasn't dressed with much decency, but the bikini top was made of bronze, and the loincloth seemed to be silk, and she had a golden girdle. She wore a long, purple cape, golden jewelry, and a golden crown on her head. She held a scimitar that glowed with golden light.
"Woah, that is impressive," Cassie says.
"Yeah, she's one of the strongest Amazon cards in the game, I'm impressed that she has one," Theo says.
"What? How did a rookie like you get a card that rare?" Clara demands.
"Its simple, I won an all female tournament awhile back," Lauren says. "The prize was any two cards in the game that involves female monsters, and the opportunity to create my own card. I picked these two cards, and you'll see the card I created soon enough."
"Fine, whatever, continue your turn," Clara says boredly.
"Okay, I'll activate Heavy Storm!" Lauren says, and all spell and trap cards are blown away. "Now Amazoness Queen, destroy her Darkfire Soldier, Sacred Scimitar attack!" She commands, and the regal Amazon slashes through the flaming soldier with her scimitar. "And I'll place this card face down to end my turn."
Clara draws, glancing nervously at the Amazoness Queen, but grins when she sees the card she drew. "I activate this ritual card, go Incandescent Ordeal!" She says, and selects a monster from her hand. "So, I'll sacrifice my Tyrant Dragon, to summon my Legendary Flame Lord (2400/2000)!"
A man carrying a long staff appears, wearing a blue pointed hat and orange robes, his hand glows as flames burn around him.
"Okay, that is somewhat impressive, but its too weak to destroy my Queen," Lauren points out.
"Hmm, your right, I'll have to do something about that, like equip him with Salamandra, which will raise his attack points to 3100," she says, and the flames around the lord intensifies. "Now, attack the Queen, flame magic attack!"The fire lord sends a burst of fire at the queen, who shatters, but Lauren's life points are untouched.
"You activated my trap card, it's a handy little thing called Queen's Loyal Subjects, when my Amazoness Queen is destroyed, I can pay half of my life points instead of taking the damage, and special summon to the field 5 Amazons from my deck, so first of all we have my Amazon Archer (1400/1000), in attack mode!" She says, and a female warrior carrying a bow and arrow appears, drawing the bow back. "Then my Amazoness Blowpiper (800/1500)!"
A female warrior carrying a blowpipe appears, and slides a dart inside, holding it up to her lips in preparation.
"My Amazoness Chain master (1500/1300)!"
A woman carrying a long chain appears.
"A second Amazoness Paladin (1700/300 400)!" She says, and a second Paladin appears, drawing her sword.
"And finally, my Amazoness Tiger (1100/1500 2000)!"
A large tiger appears with a roar, pawing at the ground.
Lauren's life points fall down to 1500, but she grins. "Is that all for your move?" She asks.
"Uhh, yeah…" Clara says, now nervous.
Lauren draws. "All right, I activate my Blowpiper's special ability, lowering your monster's attack by 500 points," she says, and the blowpiper shoots a dart into the lord, and his attack falls to 2600. "Now Amazoness Tiger, attack her Legendary Flame Lord with Maul of the Great Cat!"
The tiger pounces on the sorcerer, and he shouts as he is torn to pieces and Clara's life points fall to 3900.
"Now Paladin, attack him directly!" She continues, and the Paladin slashes at Clara, lowering her life points further to 1700.
"Blowpiper, attack her with Blow Dart attack!"
The blowpiper loads a dart, and shoots Clara with it, lowering her life points to 900.
"Chain Master…"
"Please, have mercy…" Clara says, seeing how the Amazon is readying her chains.
"Yeah, like you where going to show us any. Chain Master, finish her off, Chain Rend attack!" Lauren commands, and Chain Master wraps her chain around Clara's neck, and pulls, the fire duelist screams as her life points fall to 0.
The Amazons give Lauren a smile before vanishing.
"You might have won, but I had no intention of keeping my end of the bargain…" Clara says, drawing out her gun as the roof breaks open. "Ahh that will be my ride."
A group of aliens jump down from strange craft above them to gather up the students. Sarah's arm shifts into a laser cannon, and Cassie draws out a gun.
"Pirates…" the two girls say, and start to fire on the invaders, but to little effect.
That's when all of a sudden, a figure jumps down from the hole the Pirates had made, slashing at the pirates with blades, and combined with the blasts from the two girls, and half the pirates lie dead. The ground begins to shake as the building starts to collapse.
"Sarah, get the other students out of here…" the figure says in a commanding voice.
"But…" Sarah starts.
"You still have work to do, now go!" The figure says, and Sarah nods.
"Come on, this way!" She says, and blasts a hole in the wall of the Cafeteria as the students start to stream out.
Sarah was the last one to go, but there was no sign of the strange figure, Clara had escaped with the Pirates.
"Come on Sarah, lets go!" Theo shouts, and Sarah ducks through the hole in the wall, and they barely get out in time before the whole cafeteria collapses.
Sarah stares at what used to be the cafeteria, and pauses to think. Who was he? There was something familiar about him, but I couldn't place it… she thinks to herself, and looks out at the horizon.
She knew that their adventure was just beginning.
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City of Brass was made by "Man Called True" for his fanfiction "Yu-Gi-Oh: Tilting the Balance," all creative credit goes to him.
Fire Fever, Amazoness Girl, Amazoness Princess, Earthenware Jug, and Amazoness Queen were made by Cyber Commander.
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Queen's Loyal Subjects
Counter Trap
Image of a group of Amazons bowing before the Amazoness Queen. This card can only be activated when "Amazoness Queen" is destroyed as a result of battle. Any battle damage is negated. You must pay half your life points to use this card. You may special summon up to 5 monsters from your deck with "Amazoness" in their name, or is named "Amazon Archer" to the field.
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Well, there you go, another chapter is done.
Next chapter, its Cassie's turn again, and love fills the air as she meets up with the boy of her dreams. However, she is going to have to duel him first in order to really get her feelings out. Can she do it? Find out in, "Wild Hearts."