Okay, time for chapter 3, and back to the duels.
I hope no one minded the filler chapter last time, I hate fillers myself, but you gotta use them every so often in order to explain things.
Anyway, continuing on.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything that I didn't create.
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"Only two things are infinite,
The universe and human stupidity,
And I'm not sure about the former."
-Albert Einstein.
Some people find it strange that I've turned to the ancient art of Bushido, and allow my deck to reflect as such.
I don't find it strage at all, my parents have always been supportive of me (seemingly perfering me over my sister Miranda), and no one forced me into learning Bushido.
My current opponent is far from the honorable status of a samurai, even less honorable than other people in his profession, or even the duelist who's deck he emulates.
Lets see who can win, martial arts, or modern science...
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CHAPTER
3:
EVERYTHING'S RELATIVE
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The limo stops outside the Navy Pier, which was at the moment in full swing.
"Why are we here?" Darren asks, getting out of the limo with the others close behind.
"I got a message while I was waiting for you guys that an Orichalcos duelist would be waiting for us out here, but I don't see anyone suspitious..." Marie says, glancing around before a man steps out of the shadows.
He would stand out in most crowds, wearing tan slacks and a black sweater, with a lab coat over it. He is wearing thick sunglasses that prevents you from seeing his eyes, and has a greying fu-manchu mustache, and long greying hair.
On his arm is the Orichalcos Duel Disk.
"Guten Tag, children," he says with a german accent. "I am Doctor Demetrius Finnigan, Dueling Professor and expert in the theories of Duel Relativity."
"Wait, Finnigan? The disgraced professor from North Academy?" Wendy asks, folding her arms. "I've heard of you, you where once one of the best duelists in Germany, but you never had an original idea in your life, all you did was copy the ideas of your collegues, and when you where a professor at North Academy, it was even worse. You stole term papers from students that showed promise, and published them as your own, and bribed them with rare cards to keep them quiet when they found out. Not that it lasted, you where eventualy caught, and now your a disgrace, and of course now you've fallen even faller by working for the Orichalcos."
"Wendy Wheeler, such knowledge for someone so young," Dr. Finnigan says, and his duel disk suddenly activates. "The lord of the Orichalcos has given me the choice of my opponents, and I think I'll duel you!"
"Fine with me," Wendy says, activating her own duel disk.
"LETS DUEL!" The two say in unison.
"I will start," Dr. Finnigan says, and draws. "I'll start with two cards face down, and activate the field spell, Relativity Field!" He says, and the area plunges into darkness as stars appear around them. "And that's it for me."
Wendy draws. "I summon, The Six Samurai-Zanji (1800/1500), in attack mode!" She says, and a golden-armored samurai, carrying a scythe appears. "Now, attack him directly!" She commands, and the samurai charges forward slashing through Dr. Finnigan, lowering his life points to 6200.
"Go trap card, Damage Condenser, so I'll discard this card..." he says, discarding a card from his hand. "And I can special summon a monster from my hand with attack points that are equal to or less than the damage I just took, like my Science Soldier (800/800)!" He says, and a futuristic warrior appears in defense mode.
"Ookay, I'll place this card face down to end my turn," Wendy says.
"Hold it, first I activate the trap card Draw Paradox, now we can only draw cards on our opponent's draw phase, so its my turn, and you can draw," Dr. Finnigan says, and Wendy shrugs, drawing a card. "And I'll summon my Cyber Soldier of Dark World (1400/1200), in attack mode!" He continues, and a bulky blue machine appears. "And I'll play my Pot of Greed," he says, and draws two cards.
"This is highly unusual," Ariel says.
"What?" Katie asks.
"He's just summoned two monsters that are usualy regarded as being worthless, except with one trap card..." Ariel says. "Wendy, watch out for his face down card!"
"No comments from the Peanut Gallery," Dr. Finnigan says, and selects two cards. "Before I do anything, I will play the spell card, Quick Summon to normal summon this monster, Kinetic Soldier (1350/1800)!" He says, and a metalic soldier appears.
Great, I can't tell Wendy what this means, I just hope that she can figure this out, Ariel thinks.
"And I'll replace my Relativity Field with this, the Seal of Orichalcos!" Dr. Finnigan says, and the unnatural wind blows up as space fades away, and the seal appears above them, and decends onto the field, and the seal appears on Dr. Finnigan's forehead, and he laughs evily as his eyes glow red, and Cyber Soldier's attack rises to 1900, Kinetic Soldier's attack rises to 1850, and Science Soldier's attack rises to 1300. "And I'll end my turn with one card face down."
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Standing on the roof of the entrance to the Navy Pier, is the three Orichalcos Swordsmen watching the duel as it goes on.
"Soldier Revolt, huh?" Kari says. "Who uses that combo these days anyway?"
"Not very many people even know it can be used," Damien says, rubbing his chin. "When Alister used it against Seto Kaiba, it might've been the first time anyone ever actually pulled it off, because of the complexity of the combo."
"Its not exactly the Ancient Dragon monsters, but those are 3 fairly weak monsters," Kennith concludes.
Kari nods, and turns back to watch the duel.
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Dr. Finnnigan draws, and then before Wendy can continue, he interrupts her. "Go trap card, Solider Revolt!"
"Soldier Revolt?" Wendy asks.
"This handy little trap card can only be played when I have these three monsters on the field, and then it destroys all cards on your field and hand!" Dr. Finnigan says, and Wendy's monsters, spells, and trap cards shatter, and she discards her hand.
"Fine, I'll end my turn," Wendy says, and drawing as Dr. Finnigan starts his turn.
"I'll summon my Laplace, Demon World Arithmatician (1000/800 + 500)!" He says, and a demonic man with a skull headress appears. "And now my four monsters, attack her directly!" He commands, and the 4 monsters strike at Wendy, pushing her back against the wall of the seal as her life points fall to 1450. "And I'll play the spell card Scrodinger's Pernicious Cat, to end my turn."
"I can't believe this, Wendy is down to less than 2000 life points, and Finnigan has nearly all of his!" Katie says worriedly.
"And if she loses the duel, she loses her soul!" Darren says.
Come on Wendy, this guy might be good, but I know you're better than him, Ariel thinks. When we dueled against each other in the Duelist Dimension finals, neither of us would give up, we just kept going, you know this duel isn't over yet, you've just got to play the right cards.
Wendy groans as Dr. Finnigan draws. "I'll play, Card of Sanctity!" She says, and draws 6 cards, while Dr. Finnigan draws 2. "And now, I'll activate the continuous spell card, Samurai Sparing grounds, this card works sort of like Call of the Mummy, only on warrior monsters with Samurai in its name, like the Six Samurai-Nisashi (1400/700)!" She says, and the green armored samurai appears. "And I'll place one card face down, and normal summon The Six Samurai-Irou (1700/1200)!" She says, and a black armored samurai, carrying a long sword appears. "And since I have two Six Samurai monsters, I can special summon my Great Shogun Shien (2500/2400)!" She continues, and a red armored samurai carrying a katana appears. "And my Grandmaster of the Six Samurai (2100/800)!" She continues, and a white haired samurai with an eye patch, and carrying a large sword appears.
"Four samurai in one turn? Not a bad move, I'll give you that, but you still can't destroy all my monsters," Dr. Finnigan says.
"Oh really, what if I equip Nisashi with my Legendary Ebon Steed?" Wendy asks, and a black horse appears, and the green armored samurai climbs onto it. "And use Rush Recklessly on him. Now Nisashi, destroy Kinetic Soldier, Double Energy Katana Strike!" She commands, and the samurai slashes through the mechanical warrior, lowering Dr. Finnigan's life points to 5950. "Irou, destroy his Science Soldier, Dark Sword Slash!" Wendy continues, and the dark samurai slashes through the futuristic soldier, lowering Dr. Finnigan's life points further to 5550. "Shien, destroy his Cyber Soldier of Dark World, Legendary Blade Attack!" She continues, and the red armored samurai's sword glows with fire, and slashes through the robot, lowering Dr. Finnigan's life points even further to 4950. "And I'll end my turn there."
"Why didn't she destroy his Arithmatician?" Darren asks.
"Because she knows about his special ability apparently," Ariel says. "When the Arithmatician is destroyed as a result of battle, the opponent loses life points equal to the amount of cards on the field times 300, so she'd lose."
Wendy draws as Dr. Flannigan starts his turn. "I think I'll play my best combo now, I play the spell card Dueling Consistents, by sacrificing a Monster, a Continuous Spell, and a Continuous Trap, like my Draw Paradox, Laplace, and Scrodinger's Pernicious Cat..." he says, and the three cards vanish. "To summon this monster, the mighty, Brain Dragon (2800/2200 + 500)!" He says, and a huge serpentine black and green dragon appears with the seal branding itself onto its forehead. "Now, attack her Great Shogun Shien, Shadow Inferno Attack!" He continues, and the dragon sends a burst of fire at the red armored samurai, destroying it, and lowering Wendy's life points even further to 550. "And its your move."
Thankfully I can draw normaly now, since his Draw Paradox card is gone, Wendy thinks, and swiftly draws a card. "Okay, I'll switch my three remaining samurai to defense mode, and set one monster in defense mode to end my turn," she says.
Dr. Finnigan draws one card, then draws two more. "Thanks to the effect of my Brain Dragon, I can draw 2 in addition to the one I just drew, in exchange for putting two more back in my deck," he says, and takes two cards out of his hand, and shuffles them into his deck. "And I'll summon my Cyber Falcon (1400/1200 + 500), in attack mode!" He says, and a mechanical bird appears.
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"Cyber Falcon? That card is outdated, and underused, why use it now?" Kari asks, brushing her blue hair back.
"Just because its an outdated card, doesn't mean its without its uses," Damien says. "And not to mention, with the Seal of Orichalcos the Cyber Falcon is now stronger than most of Wendy's monsters, with the exception of Shien, the Grandmaster, and of course Yammoto and Minnanato."
"Why does the boss want Katie and her friends to go through all these low level duelists anyway, why not just have us duel them now?" Kennith asks.
"Because for his plan to succeed, he needs all the souls he can get, and the best way to do that is to use lesser duelists," Damien says. "Besides, this is nothing more than a giant game of chess when you think about it, and in chess, you always send out your pawns first before your higher pieces."
"I never did understand chess..." Kennith says.
"That's because Chess is a thinking man's game, Kennith, and you don't qualify," Kari says with a laugh.
"Hardy-freakin'-har," Kennith says.
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"Cyber Falcon, destroy her Six Samurai-Irou, Metalic Talons Attack!" Dr. Finnigan commands, and the metalic bird flies forward, clawing at the samurai, and the dark warrior shatters into pixels. "Now Brain Dragon, destroy her Grandmaster!" He continues, and the dragon sends a burst of dark fire, wiping out the warrior.
"Thanks, now I can add one of the Six Samurai from my graveyard to my hand," Wendy says, and takes a card out of her graveyard.
"Fine, your move," Dr. Finnigan says.
He's got me down to two monsters, and 550 life points, if he draws another monster, I'm through, and I'll have let down Katie, this next card better be something good... she thinks, and draws slowly as her next card glows with a bright light as she draws it, seeing the border, and the label, she smiles. "I play the Card of Divinity known as Samurai Command Summoner!"
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"What, she can use a Card of Divinity too? I thought the light would only give those cards to their servants!" Kennith says in shock.
"Apparently Katie's friends are also classified as Servants of the Light, as long as they are participating in this conflict," Damien says. "This changes nothing, we can still beat them, as long as we have the Orichalcos on our side, nothing can beat us."
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"This card can only be played when I have less than 1000 life points, and at least three monsters in my graveyard with Samurai in their name, now I can special summon two light warriors to the field, so lets welcome Yammoto, the Noble Samurai (2200/2000)..." she says, and the golden armored samurai appears, drawing his katana. "And Sashia the Samurai Squire (1700/1500 + 300)!" She continues, and the female samurai appears, drawing her bow.
"What's the point? Neither of them can beat my Brain Dragon," Dr. Finnigan says.
"True, but I can use their effect to do a combination attack for 2600 and destroy your Cyber Falcon!" Wendy says, and the two monsters attack in unison, and strike down the bird, lowering Dr. Finnigan's life points to 4250. "And I'll place this card face down to end my turn."
Dr. Finnigan draws two cards, and shuffles two more back into his deck. "All right, Brain Dragon, destroy her Sashia, and win me the duel!" Dr. Finnigan says, and the dragon sends a huge burst of dark fire at the samurai.
"Sorry, but I activate the trap card Book of Tao, doubling the attack of my two light monsters, and since its too late to call off your attack..." Wendy counters as the two samurai's attack increases.
"My monster is destroyed, and you win on your turn!" Dr. Finnigan realizes in shock as his Brain Dragon is destroyed, lowering Dr. Finnigan's life points to 3550. "You won't get away with this, my colleagues will avenge me!"
"Big words from such a coward," Wendy says, and draws. "Now Yammoto, Sashia, finish him off!" Wendy commands, and Yammoto first slashes through Dr. Finnigan, lowering his life points to 1350, then Sashia notches an arrow into her bow, and launches it at Dr. Finnigan, who falls back with a scream as the seal closes in around him.
"Well, that was interesting," Marie says, yawning a little. "Come on, we should check in at a hotel before we do anything else."
The others nod, and return to the limo, which drives off in the direction of downtown Chicago.
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Card Paradox, Brain Dragon, Laplace, Demon World Arithmatician, Dueling Consistents, The Field of Relativity, and Scrodinger's Pernicious Cat where all used by Eisenstein in season two of Yu-Gi-Oh GX.
Soldier Revolt was used by Alister in the two part episode "Flight of Fear."
Book of Tao, Yammoto, the Noble Samurai, and Sashia, the Samurai Squire where all created by Cyber Commander, full credit goes to him.
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Samurai Sparing Grounds
Continuous Spell
Image of Grandmaster of the Six Samurai and Yammoto, the Noble Samurai in a swordfight with Sashia and the Six Samurai standing around them. As long as this card is active, when you have no monsters on the field, you may special summon one monster with "Samurai" in its name from your hand to the field.
Samurai Command Summoner
Spell Card/Card of Divinity
Image of light bursting down onto Yammoto the Noble Samurai. This card can only be played when you have less than 1000 life points, and have at least 3 monsters in your graveyard with "Samurai" in their name. Special summon two light warrior monsters from your deck.
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Well, both Katie and Wendy have dueled against an Orichalcos duelist, and made it out alive, will the others do the same?
We'll find out next chapter, when its Renee's turn to take on an opponent that uses a deck that focuses less on monsters, and more on the opponent's deck. Can Renee win before she runs out of cards? Find out in, "State of Destruction."