Hey everyone! Well, it's the day after Christmas, and things are pretty good. Me and my mate had a great Christmas together. I spent part of it over at my grandma's (dad's side), and ended up playing touch football most of the afternoon with my younger cousin, dad, and three uncles. We had a lot of fun. Eventually, after an hour or 2, we tired out and went to my dad's house. There, my mate met up with us (she had to work till 2 and got there at 3). We had steaks and chicken for dinner on the grill, and afterwards, opened our presents. My step mom got me and my mate a nice camera and printer, and my step brother did a decent job on movies, which was cool. After that, me and my mate went downstairs and played Monopoly with my step brother. I lost first… I had freaking Board Walk and Park Place, but never got to put a house or motel on either! (/Heavily sighs\) Anyways, we went home not long after that and I set up my new printer, camera, GPS (one my mom got me), and a few other things. Needless to say, I've been busy with it, lol. Today, my mate went shopping with my step mom, and I'm home alone. Other than that, it's been a quiet day.
Story wise, things are moving, so no worries, lol.
Last time, the duel for saving Marie and possibly the world has begun, with Jaden and Illidan teaming up to take on Legato. Legato has thus far played smartly, using strategies to throw the duo off. Can Illidan and Jaden manage to defeat the cunning Legato, or are they being set up for a major fall?
Ok, moving on, time for reviews!
Nathan: True, I used the best of Yugi's past decks really to make his current one. I think mostly, it was a combo of his past decks with Yami's final deck. Glad you liked the powered up Dark Magician, although I did use Dark Illusion and Dark Sphere on him. Yeah, I saw that Magic Formula is a card now, and that like you said, it gives a monster 700 attack points instead of 500, plus 1000 bonus life points when sent to the Graveyard. It does suck that it's for only Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl's use only though. Heh, who knows if Illidan will use Chaos Control to win or not again. It could happen… Thanks for the review!
x-knight20: Thanks. Heh, I suppose the true power of the Legendary Demons is due to come out sometime or another. Who knows (other than me, hehe) what Legato has planned. Thanks for the review.
Knives91: Yep, it has begun. Lol, yes, all of the above! LOL! Yeah, I'm sure Jaden will show how a real dunce duels, hehe. Thanks for the review.
DuelistBlake1852: Cool that you're going to use Phantom of Chaos as well. It's a decent card, and good for helping out with summoning the Sacred Beasts much easier. Lol, actually, Illidan has only beat Jaden technically once in a tag team duel, and that wasn't one on one, so who knows what a singles match would turn up. Yeah, Jaden's deck does rock. Heh, I built a cutesy E-Hero deck, with the two fusions E-Hero Flare Neos and Glow Neos in it. Lol, I actually summoned Glow Neos and used it to beat my mate. I was somewhat shocked my strategy to get it out worked, and that it helped me win the game, lol. Who knew the E-Heroes would be that lucky, lol. But yes, things could get bad if the fusion of the Beasts come out. Thank you for wishing me a Merry Christmas. Heh, life has a way of keeping us from things sometimes. Yep, Legato is using some of the cards Marcel did, but not all. Thanks for the review!
Thank you all for your reviews. Wow, only 2 more to go till we're at the 400th review. I do believe this story will beat The Wolves Seal in reviews, and word wise, it will beat ToP I think. Time will tell. Thank you all again though for your continuous reviews. Each of them are helpful and inspiring to keep going. I'm glad people like what I come up with. Heh, makes me glad I have an overactive imagination, hehe.
Thank you all again, and I'm going to go ahead and go now. Enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 72
Quickly glancing at his hand, Illidan called out "Not happening because I activate Magical Dimension! With this spell, I'm allowed to sacrifice a monster on my field to special summon a new Spellcaster Type monster to my field, so farewell Luster Dragon, and hello Rapid-Fire Magician (1600/1200)!"
Rising up from the ground was a strange statue held up by a box like structure with chains holding it in midair. The statue soon opened the top half up, sucking in the sapphire dragon, causing the ruby energy to immediately vanish in mid-flight. Once the doors to the statue closed, it lightly glowed before opening up once more. Coming out in the dragon's place was a mage with long flowing purple hair, a black pair of leather pants, a short sleeved cloak with black flowing cloak, an odd black hat, two black finger cut off gloves, a staff with bird like claws with a small orb clutched within it, and nine different colored spheres forming an arch around him.
"Also, thanks to the special ability of my spell card, I can destroy a monster on your field, so prepare to lose Phantom of Chaos!"
Sneering, Legato remarked "Not quite yet, for I play my Bounce spell. Thanks to this, I can transfer the effect of your spell card to one of your monsters. I think your new one shall do."
Opening it's doors once more, the statue released a red beam into the back of the mage with purple hair. He let out a small scream, but vanished soon enough to silence him.
Growling in frustration, Illidan said "I place two cards face down to end my turn." (Illidan 4000, Jaden 4000; Legato 8000)
"Those were some close calls." Alexis commented.
Nodding in response, Chazz muttered "Very close."
Seeing it was his turn, Jaden drew his card and smiled, saying "Don't worry about last turn Illidan. You got him to use up three face down cards, so now we have a clue what he has face down. Anyways, I think it's time I gave this a shot, so I play my Polymerization spell card, fusing Elemental Hero Sparkman (1600/1400) and Elemental Hero Clayman (800/2000) together to form Elemental Hero Thunder Giant (2400/1500)!"
A small electrical storm without warning flared up, from which came a blue human like creature with some gold armor. The man in blue wore a helmet that covered his entire head, but showed now signs of eye holes. On his back were two wing like structures that were mostly blue. Beside of the blue creature, a stone like large monster with yellow painted feet and edges of shoulder pads, with dark grey filling the rest of his body in, except for his red domed head and a small black circle that was around his neck appeared.
Once the two were fully on the field, they began swirling together. From the swirling, several bolts of electricity began flashing around a large yellow creature with purple on it's large muscular arms and legs. His hands held electricity within them, which made a crackling sound. On his chest was a massive blue sphere, where electricity seemed to constantly be crackling. On his back, he had a pair of wing like structures, and his head was covered with a helmet that showed only his mouth. The large creature let out a small yell and took up an offensive stance.
"Time for Thunder Giant's totally sweet effect! When played, he can automatically crush any monster with less attack points than himself, so I think I'll choose your Phantom of Chaos!"
Letting out a bit of a roar, the massive yellow creature brought both of his arms up to the circle on his chest. Holding his hands apart, electricity began to build between them till a sphere formed. With ease, he flung the sphere of electricity towards the black sphere.
Smirking at this, Legato called out "I think not. I activate a trap card called Divine Wrath. To use this trap, I must discard a card, so I sent my useless Ultimate Offering to the Graveyard. Now that I've discarded, I can negate the special effect of your monster and destroy it!"
A barrier of red energy instantly flared up in front of the electrical sphere, stopping it in it's tracks. The sphere was instantly destroyed, and the red barrier transformed into a bolt of energy, which began racing back towards the large yellow creature.
Quickly pulling a card from his hand to show, Jaden cried out "It's all good, because I play the spell De-Fusion, separating my Thunder Giant back into Sparkman (1600/1400) and Clayman (800/2000)!"
The large yellow creature instantly began to glow with a white light. Before the blast could hit, the large creature split in two, allowing the beam to pass through where nothing stood. The two white glowing lights instantly took form of the blue and gold warrior in an offensive stance and the large grey, black round creature, which took a one-knee defensive stance on a horizontal card.
"Nice save Jaden." Illidan commented with a smile.
Smiling back, Jaden nodded, saying "Thanks, but I'm far from done. I'll now summon my Neo-Spacian Flare Scarab (500/500)!"
Appearing onto the field in a cylinder of fire was a bug like warrior. With the flames dying, it became apparent he had wings on his back, covered by a thick hide, a chiseled body, a helmet that appeared to be like a horned beetle, and a human like face that extended to his neck.
"With every spell and trap on your field, Flare Scarab gains 400 attack points, and last time I counted, you have three, meaning Flare Scarab gains a total of 1200 points (500 + 3 400 1700/500)."
The bug-man creature's body instantly became surrounded by flames upon Jaden's final words, seemingly increasing it's strength.
"Alright, here goes. Flare Scarab, attack Chaos Core with Flaming Arrow!"
Pulling his palms together, the bug-man formed a sphere of hot flames. Aiming for the strange winged creature, the bug-man launched his sphere of flames, intending on incinerating it's target.
Sneering at this, Legato held his hand out at his final face down card, saying "You fools still haven't learned anything. I activate my trap card, Wall of Revealing Light. By paying in intervals of 1000 points, I can erect a wall that will keep monsters out with less attack points than the wall. So, I shall give up 4000 life points, meaning only monsters with more than 4000 attack points can attack."
Appearing before the two monsters on Legato's field was a large green barrier. Upon striking the barrier, the sphere of flames burned out.
Growling lightly with frustration, Jaden sighed, saying "Alright, I'll throw down a face down and switch Bubbleman to defense. That'll have to do it for me." (Illidan 4000, Jaden 4000; Legato 4000)
"He gave up half his life points just to shield himself. That's just great. Only one monster in my deck has 4000 attack points, and even it can't break that barrier." Illidan mused in his mind.
Smirking at the frustration that showed on both Illidan and Jaden's faces, Legato drew his card, but before he could say anything, Illidan called out "Since you just drew a card, my Silent Magician's special ability just kicked in. Each time you draw a card, he gains a Spell Counter, which raises his attack points by 500 (1000 + 500 1500/1000)."
Lightly glowing, the young mage's body slightly grew in height, showing the significance of it's gain in power.
Waving Illidan off, Legato only said "No matter, your mage isn't strong enough to matter. For now though, I activate my field spell's effect, and draw two more cards."
Upon picking up two cards, the white mage suddenly glowed and grew again in height (1500 + 500 2 2500/1000).
"I think it's time I took care of some of your two's pathetic creatures. I believe I'll start with you, young one." Legato coolly said.
Lightly smirking, Jaden calmly said "Bring it on."
"Gladly." Legato replied with an evil grin. "I activate Phantom of Chaos's special ability, allowing me to select one Effect monster in my Graveyard and equip it to my monster. Whatever monster I choose shall dictate my monster's attack and defense points, as well as it's effect. The monster I shall choose is my Harmon, Lord of Striking Thunder (4000/4000)."
Slowly morphing, the black sphere on the field grew in size as lightning began to lick it's outer shell. Bit by bit, the black sphere finally began changing shape. It's new shape had massive thin skinned wings, thin arms with large clawed tips on it's hands, red glowing eyes, two large horns and a chin like horn on it's head, a long powerful tail, and sharp claws and fangs. The creature roared loudly, sending out several shockwaves.
"No way…" Jaden mouthed in shock.
Sneering at Jaden, Legato called out "Phantom of Chaos, destroy Jaden's pathetic Flare Scarab with Cerulean Sky Fire!"
Roaring loudly, the massive black creature opened it's jaws and released a streak of blue lightning towards the bug-man creature.
Waking from his shock, Jaden quickly said "I don't think so, I'm not that easy to take down! Go trap card, Hero Barrier! With this, I can negate your attack so long as I have an Elemental Hero on my field. So much for that attack."
A shield of blue energy immediately formed in front of the bug creature, completely stopping the blast, although the shield seemed to buckle a good bit.
"Not bad mortal." Legato commented. Smirking evilly, he continued on, saying "You may have evaded me this turn, but not next time. I place these three cards face down."
Lightly chuckling, Jaden quickly cut in, saying "Thanks for doing that, because now Flare Scarab gets stronger (1700 + 400 3 2900/500)."
Instantly, the bug-man creature's body was surrounded by flames, making him smirk as his strength increased.
"That was pointless, much like Illidan's mage. I shall end my turn, which means my Phantom of Chaos returns to it's original form (0/0)." Legato calmly stated.
Upon saying this, the large black creature morphed back into it's original sphere form that looked nearly harmless.
"Let's see what the two of you can do now." (Illidan 4000, Jaden 4000; Legato 4000)
Drawing a card, Illidan examined it for a moment. After making a decision, he finally said "I place my Royal Magical Library (0/2000) in defense mode."
A large octagon like building with a doorway in the front part of the building that was open, revealing the inside had several levels with many books in shelves appeared onto to the field.
"I place one card face down and end my turn at that." (Illidan 4000, Jaden 4000; Legato 4000)
Nodding to Illidan, Jaden drew his next card and said "I've got a way around your little trap card now. Meet Elemental Hero Wildheart (1500/1600)!"
A tanned warrior with a tied back black pony tail, a goatee, a strange red set of tattoos on his chest and shoulders, a bare chest and arms, a large sword on his back in a sheath, and a white loin cloth rose up onto the field with a loud battle cry.
"Wildheart, show him what that big bad sword is for by attacking his Chaos Core with Wild Slash!"
Letting out another battle cry, the tanned warrior rushed forward. Along the way, he drew his large sword from the sheath on his back and leapt into the air, preparing to make a strike.
"Have you forgotten my trap card boy? Remember, only monsters with over 4000 attack points can get through my Wall of Revealing Light." Legato smugly admonished.
Wagging a finger, Jaden wryly replied "Not so, because Wildheart has a special ability. He's unaffected by trap cards, meaning he can bust through your little barrier!"
Upon meeting the green barrier, the tan warrior slid through it, as if the barrier wasn't even there. Coming down fast, the warrior slashed the winged creature hard with his sword, which seemed to only stand there in confusion for a moment.
Giving off a small growl, Legato finally smirked, saying "Very well, but Chaos Core has it's own ability. Remember, it still has two Phantom Counters, so I remove one to reduce the Battle Damage to zero."
Backing off, the tan warrior leapt back to Jaden's field while the winged creature only shimmered lightly, as if regenerating it's power.
"I switch Sparkman to defense mode and call it a turn." (Illidan 4000, Jaden 4000; Legato 4000)
Staring intently, Alexis commented "Those two can't seem to just break Legato's defenses."
"Yeah, he's got that barrier up, plus whatever else he can think of." Chazz replied.
"Just keep fighting guys, and don't give up." Alexis whispered within her mind.
Hanging off of the obelisk, Marie looked on with concerned eyes. "Each time I think they're getting somewhere, they get pushed back. Legato built his deck to be defensive, but also totally offensive as well. There has to be a weakness, somewhere within it."
Flinching in pain as she felt even more of her body numbing, she turned more of her Shadow Powers to the barrier she had in place around the child in her. "I may not live if I keep this up, but I can't let an innocent child die due to Legato. I'll give my life to protect this child. I only hope my barrier filters the poison out."
Sneering as he prepared to draw a card, Legato called out "Before I begin, I activate a trap card called Solemn Wishes. Each time I draw now, I gain 500 life points."
Picking up his new card, Legato lightly chuckled and watched the white robed mage grow in height once more (2500 + 500 3000/1000). "Now that I've drawn, I gain 500 life points. Next, I activate a trap known as Greed. Whenever one of us draws outside of our draw phase, we lose 500 life points per a card during our End Phase. Continuing on, I activate my field spell, meaning I get to draw two cards."
Grabbing two cards, Legato eyed them. While eyeing them, he noticed that the white mage glowed once again (3000 + 500 3500/1000). Lightly chuckling, he continued on, saying "I activate Phantom of Chaos's special ability, and once more, I equip it to my Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder (4000/4000) once more."
Transforming before everyone, the black sphere reshaped it's body till it became the large creature it had the turn before.
"Phantom of Chaos, obliterate that boy's Elemental Hero Wildheart with Cerulean Sky Fire!"
Roaring loudly, the large dark creature shot out a blast of blue lightning from it's jaws towards the tanned warrior.
Before contact could be made, Illidan yelled "Forget about me Legato?! I'm still here, so I activate the trap Magic Cylinder, meaning your attack is negated and you lose life points equal to your monster's attack points!"
Two pink barrels with a checker pattern on the ends facing the blast and a yellow question mark on each appeared.
Chuckling darkly, Legato remarked "I have yet to forget you Illidan, hence why I activate the spell Trap Booster. By sending a card from my hand, I can activate a trap card from my hand. I'll dump my Royal Command trap and activate the trap card Trap Jammer. This lets me negate your trap card, thus allowing my attack to continue on."
Slowly, the two pink barrels disintegrated into dust, leaving the tanned warrior unprotected once more.
"I'm not done with you yet Legato, for I activate the spell Book of Moon! This let's me flip Jaden's Wildheart from attack mode to face down defense mode, meaning you have no target anymore!" declared Illidan.
A blue book with a golden moon on the cover appeared before the tanned warrior and began glowing with a dark blue aura. Instantly, the warrior vanished and a horizontal face down card appeared in his place, just in time to miss the blue lightning that had been crossing the field.
Lightly growling with a tint of anger, Legato said "You're becoming a real pain Illidan."
"Glad I'm doing my job right then." Illidan smartly remarked.
"I shall end my turn at this…"
"Not quite, or did you forget about your trap card?! Now you take 1000 points of damage for activating that Greed card." Illidan declared.
Chuckling, Legato coolly asked "Is that so? Then you won't mind when I activate a trap known as Barrel Behind The Door, which let's me switch the damage from myself to you. I hope you enjoy this pain."
The trap card on Legato's field instantly began glowing, sending out a dark aura, which instantly surrounded Illidan. The aura seemed to send pain throughout Illidan, who screamed out and hunched over a bit.
"That does it for me for now. I'd pay closer attention next time Illidan." (Illidan 3000, Jaden 4000; Legato 5000)
"Are you alright!?" Jaden asked anxiously.
After a moment, Illidan stood up fully, but was lightly panting. He finally replied with "Yes, I'll be fine. But at the moment, it's my move."
Quickly picking up a card, he examined it before saying "First off, I forgot to mention my Royal Magical Library's special ability last turn. Each time a spell card is activated, it gains one Spell Counter. So far, it has two. When it has three, I'm allowed to use it's special ability, but more on that soon enough. For now though, I'll send my Silent Magician to the Graveyard in order to activate his special ability. By doing this, I can now special summon his next form, Silent Magician LV8 (3500/1000)!"
Being consumed by white light, the smaller mage vanished, only to be replaced by a taller, more adult version of the previous mage. He still wore the same type of clothing, but his hair was definitely longer, along with his body becoming more mature.
"Next, I play Pot of Greed, meaning two new cards for me."
While picking up two, Illidan heard Legato chuckle darkly, saying "Foolish move Illidan. Did you forget about Greed already?"
"No, but I'm not worried about it at the moment." he simply replied. "Since I just played a spell card, that means Royal Magical Library has three Spell Counters. Due to that, I can remove all three counters to activate it's special ability, which is to let me draw one additional card."
Drawing a new card, Illidan examined it before saying "I play the equip spell Mage Power, and I use it on my Silent Magician. Thanks to this spell card, for each spell or trap on my field, my mage gains 500 points. Since I only have one so far, that means he gains a total of only 500 (3500 + 500 4000/1000 + 500 1500)."
Glowing brightly with white energy, the young mage took up an offensive stance.
"Big deal Illidan. Your monster still can't attack any of my monsters due to my trap card." Legato smoothly reminded.
Nodding, Illidan lightly chuckled, saying "True, but who said I was through. I place a card face down, meaning Silent Magician gets stronger again (4000 + 500 4500/1500 + 500 2000). That's more than enough to break through your barrier."
"Sweetness! I knew you'd figure a way around it Illidan!" Jaden exclaimed.
Smiling over at Jaden, Illidan turned his attention back to Legato, saying "It's time I took that morphing sphere of goop out. Silent Magician, attack Phantom of Chaos with Silent Scepter Blast!"
Leaping into the air, the white robed mage aimed his staff straight for the black sphere creature. Magical energy began building up on the end of the staff, giving off a crackling sound. After a moment of power build up, a white sphere of magical energy formed on the end of the staff. Taking aim, the mage released the sphere straight at the black sphere.
"This won't work Illidan, for I have led you into a trap." Legato smoothly said. "I activate the trap Chaos Burst, which forces me to first sacrifice a monster. I choose my Chaos Core."
Upon those words being said, the strange winged creature vanished, leaving the black sphere creature behind.
"Now that I've done that, I can destroy the attacking monster."
The trap lightly glowed red for a moment before finally shooting out a beam of red energy. The beam smashed through the white sphere instantly, and into the white robed mage, who could do nothing to stop it.
Lightly growling with frustration, Illidan began to say something, but Legato stopped him, saying "Now, now Illidan, that's not all my trap does. Once it destroys your monster, you take damage equal to the total attack points of the monster I destroyed. Since you so kindly increased your monster's attack points to 4500, that means you lost 4500 life points, and of course you lose this duel."
Glowing once more, the trap card released a thunderously strong burst of red energy straight for Illidan.
"No, Illidan!" Jaden cried out.
Chuckling, Illidan stared at the blast and calmly said "That's not a bad move Legato, but I was ready for this. I play from my hand the spell Ring of Defense!"
Appearing before Illidan was a green ring like structure with four panels folded out like a fan.
"Thanks to this spell, I can reduce the damage I'll receive by your trap card to zero."
Gradually, the ring began to spin faster and faster. Finally, the red beam struck the fan, but the beam was instantly dispersed by the ring, leaving nothing to hit Illidan.
Sneering at this, Legato calmly said "Nice save Illidan, but don't forget, Greed will take another 1500 of your life points."
Closing his eyes, Illidan nodded lightly, saying "I haven't forgotten." Reopening them, he pointed at his remaining monster, saying "Thanks to me activating Ring of Defense and Mage Power, my Royal Magical Library has two new Spell Counters. True, it doesn't matter at the moment, but soon enough it will. For now, I move to my End Phase."
Glowing with a dark aura, one of the trap cards on Legato's field fired a beam of black energy at Illidan. Upon being struck, Illidan fell to his hands and knees, instantly crying out in pain.
After a few moments of heavy panting, Illidan muttered "I end my turn." (Illidan 1500, Jaden 4000; Legato 5000)