Hey people! I'm back with the tenth chapter of Not A Normal Reality. Okay, so first off, I would like to give a huge thank you to everyone who helped me with constructing a deck for Alyssa. I really, really appreciate. There will be a duel in this chapter so I hope you all like it. I am really sorry if it isn't that great. Some of Alyssa's cards are from the other Yugioh shows, so please don't shoot me if those cards aren't actually in this series. Now, a thank you to the following people who reviewed the last chapter:
WereDragon: I'm glad that you think that a fire deck suits Alyssa too. Don't worry about not reviewing, it's no big deal. Thanks for the cards. I actually used all of them in Alyssa's deck.
Kinghy: Thanks. I wasn't sure how this story would turn out, so if it's going rather slow, I am sorry.
Blue Hurricane: I was thinking about having some people from Alyssa's world come to the Yugioh 5D's world, but it may change. I've changed my mind about things in the story so many times.
Atemfan1: She is starting to understand, but it will be a little while longer before she fully gets it.
Agent of the Divine One: There is definitely turbulence coming. Some from the original series, and some for Alyssa.
Flamaij: I have a good idea on how I want this story to end. Hopefully I won't get writers block for this story. That's what happened to my other one.
Nigsea: Thanks for the review. That's how I pictured Tanner's reaction from what I've seen of his personality.
Kitsunkuruoshii: Thanks for the review.
Nanoflash: I bet some people are wondering that as well. Well, I'm not really into the big romance stuff. Basically, I gag if there's to much fluff. Yes, I know, I'm weird. Anyways, I am trying to put hints in the story that Alyssa is starting to like Yusei, but I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how to actually get romantic stuff in there. I'm not really big on the whole Aki and Yusei pairing either.
Now for the disclaimer: Go read the past chapters. Sorry, I'm just feeling lazy right now, and Solum's deck belongs to Agent of the Divine One.
Chapter Ten: A Duel With Conditions
"Hey, Alyssa, how about putting this card in your deck?" Rua asked. I turned to look at the card, and saw a cute looking faerie looking back at me.
"AH! Way to cute!" I cried out before ducking behind the counter. I peeked out and saw that Rua now wore a very dumbfounded expression on his face.
"Um, why is Alyssa hiding behind the counter?" Ruka asked, coming up beside Rua.
"All I did was show her this card and she flipped," Rua said while showing Ruka the card.
"Aw, it's so cute!" Ruka said.
"That's the point," I said while coming out from behind the counter. I finally realized that I looked like a complete dork, and the manager yelled at me to get away from the counter. "I stay away from anything that is too cute."
"Why?" Ruka asked.
"Let's just say that my mother, in one of her attempts to make me more of a girl, all but locked me in this store where everything is really girly, like fuzzy stuffed animals, romance movies and novels, etc.," I said shuddering at the memory. Having a few older brothers can really take some of the girl out of you. "After that, I've stayed away from anything super girly."
"So, you're more into, what, horror and bloody stuff?" Rua asked, looking confused.
"Sort of," I said, "Hey, does anyone know where Solum went?"
"He probably just went to get something," Tanner said. By the look on his face, I could tell that he was trying not to laugh. Confused, I turned around, and came face to face with a very ugly looking monster. Well, monster mask.
"AAAHHH!!" I screamed and grabbed onto the person next to me.
"Oh god that was awesome!" said the person in the monster mask, which was actually Solum.
"What was the scream for, Alyssa? I thought you liked the kind of stuff," Tanner said in a rather mocking voice. I clenched my hands into fists.
"Alyssa, could you please let me go before you draw blood?" Yusei asked.
Realizing that I had grabbed onto him in my moment of terror, I quickly let him go and I felt my face heat up from embarrassment. That's just my luck. I pretended to look at some cards so that the others wouldn't see my red face. Unfortunately, this wasn't my luckiest day.
"Hey, Alyssa, if your face was any redder, then you would blend into the book shelf perfectly," Solum said between laughs. This just got everyone laughing again. Ruka was trying not the laugh and I didn't even dare look at Yusei.
The embarrassment that I had been feeling moments before dissolved into anger. I walked over to where Solum had set the mask down, picked it up and hit him square in the face with it.
"What the hell was that for?" Solum said while rubbing his nose.
"To shut you up!" I roared, "When we get back to The Tops, I want to have a duel with you. I win, you don't pester me like that again, and that goes for you too, Tanner!"
"Okay," Solum said, "but if I win, then you have to wear this cute kitty mask for the rest of the day, and all day tomorrow."
"You're on!" I said. Solum and I shook hands on it. "Now, I just need to finish getting my deck and we'll be good to go."
"But Alyssa, you need don't even know how to duel or the rules of it," Rua said.
"Oh yeah," I said. God, I why was such an idiot today?
"Oh well, you can't back out now," Tanner said, looking rather cheeky.
"I'll duel but since I don't know how to, I'm able to have someone help me," I said.
"Fine."
"Hey, Rua, something wrong?" I asked Rua. I had noticed that he looked a little sad.
"Nothing is wrong. I just thought that I would get to duel you first," Rua said.
I could have slapped myself. I had completely forgotten that I had promised Rua that he could duel me first.
"Well, you will be dueling me first. This isn't actually a real duel since someone may be helping me. Also, this is just a learning duel. My first actual duel will be with you," I said, and it was the honest truth. I didn't think of my up coming duel as my first official duel because I'm still learning and I may have help.
"Awesome! Hey, I have an idea! Why Yusei help you? He's the best duelist out of all of us! Will you help her, Yusei?" Rua said, looking at Yusei.
"If she wants my help, I'll help her," Yusei said, looking at Rua then looked at me, "Do you want my help?"
"Sure," I said shrugging my shoulders.
So, the next hour was spent picking out cards for my fire deck. Let's just say that by the time we left the store, I was going to scream if I saw any more duel monster cards.
"So, how do we decide who goes first?" Ruka asked.
She, Rua Yanagi and Tanner were all seated on the couch. Solum and I were sitting on the floor across from each other with a duel mat placed out in front of us. Yusei was sitting on the recliner behind me. We had returned to tops and were now trying to figure out who goes first.
"Bomb, foot, cockroach?" Solum asked, looking at me.
"Sure," I said before putting my hand out.
"Wait, what's bomb, foot, cockroach?" Yanagi asked.
"It's like rock, paper, scissors," Solum said, "Bomb beats foot, foot beats cockroach and cockroach beats bomb."
"On the count of three," I said, "One. Two. Three."
I had picked foot and Solum had picked cockroach.
"Sweet. I get to start," I said while drawing my five cards.
"Let's duel!" Solum said while I just looked at him.
"Why did you say that?"
"It's just something you say to start off a duel," Solum said, "Now go!"
"Okay, okay," I said.
Alyssa: 4000; Solum: 4000
I drew a card, then looked at the cards that I had in my hand. So far I had Solar Flare Dragon, Ultimate Baseball Kid, Little Chimera, Molten Destruction, Backfire and Necklace of Command.
'Okay,' I thought to myself, 'Let's see how much I remember.' Everyone had been telling me the different kinds of cards there were and that there were different ways that they could be played when we were picking out my deck. Now I wanted to see how much I could remember on my own.
"I play Little Chimera (Atk 600, Def 550) in attack mode, and I place one card face down and end my turn," I said.
"My turn," Solum said while drawing a card, "I summon Blue Ranger in attack position (Atk 1600 Def 2000), and because I was able to successfully summon it, I can equip the spell card Power Lance to it."
"My Little Chimera's special ability activates! Because your Blue Ranger is a water attribute monster, he loses four hundred attack points while my Little Chimera's attacks points are increased by 500!"
Little Chimera: (Attack: 1100) Blue Ranger: (Attack: 1200)
"I attack your Little Chimera with my Blue Ranger!" Solum said.
"I activate the continuous trap card Backfire," I said while flipping over the card, "I do take damage from your attack, but you also lose life points because this cards deals direct damage of five hundred points for every fire attribute card that you destroy."
Alyssa: 3900; Solum: 3500
"I put one card face down and end my turn. Not too bad, Alyssa. Looks like I've going to have to step it up. Are you sure you haven't dueled before?" Solum asked. I just flashed him a grin.
"My move," I said, drawing a card. "I play Pot of Greed which allows me to draw two more cards."
I drew and the cards that I drew were two that I was having a little trouble understanding. "Hey, Yusei, what are these cards again?"
"That one is a tuner monster," Yusei whispered while pointing to Magna Drago, "and that one is a synchro monster. You need to use a tuner monster and non-tuner monsters to summon that card."
"Okay, I think I get it. Thanks," I said. "I play Solar Flare Dragon in attack mode. (Atk: 1500, Def: 1000) I then equip my dragon with Necklace of Command. Then I place two cards face down and end my turn. Oh, and you lose another five hundred life points during my end phase because of Solar Flare's special ability."
Alyssa: 3900; Solum: 3000
"I draw," Solum said, "Then I tribute Blue Ranger and Power Lance to bring out Triceratops in attack mode. (Atk: 2300, Def: 1900) Now, I attack your Solar Flare Dragon."
Alyssa: 3100; Solum: 3000
"Since you sent the monster that I had equipped Necklace of Command to to the graveyard, I can either choose to draw a card or make you discard one. I choose to draw." I drew my card and saw that it was Monster Reborn.
"I place one card face down and that's it for my turn."
"My turn," I drew my card, which was Ultimate Baseball Kid. "First, I activate the spell card Monster Reborn to bring back my dragon. Solar Flare Dragon: 1500, 1000
Then I play the card Double Summon. This card let's me summon my two Ultimate Baseball Kids onto the field in one turn, all in attack mode. Ultimate Baseball Kids: 500, 1000. Because of Baseball Kids' effect, they gain 1000 attack point for every fire monster that I have on my field, and I have two. That means that both my kids get a power boost of 2000 points. Ultimate Baseball Kids: 2500. 1000. Now I attack your dinosaur with my baseball kid!"
"Not so quick, Alyssa. It seems that you have forgotten about my face down card," Solum said, "Activate trap! Mirror Force! This card destroys all monsters on your side of the field that are in attack mode."
"Say what!?" I said, as I was forced to place all my cards in my graveyard. That one had caught my off guard. 'Damn, now what am I supposed to do?' "But you still lose life points because of Backfire, and if my math is correct that makes it 2000 points."
Alyssa: 3100; Solum: 1000
"I end my turn," I said. I could have played Magna Drago, but I was getting sick of doing this, and my head was starting to hurt.
Looking some what surprised, Solum drew his card. "I play the spell card Double Summon. Because of this card, I can summon Black Ranger and Red Ranger to the field in attack position. Black Ranger: 1700 ; Red Ranger: 1800. Also, my rangers have a special ability that allows them to each gain 500 attack points from every ranger on the field. Black Ranger: 2200; Red Ranger: 2300 Since you don't have any monsters to defend yourself, I can attack you directly with both monsters to wipe out the rest of your life points."
Alyssa: 0; Solum: 1000
"And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the game," Tanner, who was keeping score, said, "With Solum as the winner, and Alyssa having to wear the kitten mask!"
"Good duel, Solum," I said as we pounded fists.
"Same for you. For your first time, you did really well," Solum said, "but you still have to wear the mask."
"Give it here," I said, taking the mask from Ruka and putting it on, "I feel stupid." Everyone else just laughed.
"How come you just gave up like that?" Rua asked looking confused.
"I dunno," I replied with a shrug, "My head started to hurt from thinking and remembering so much."
"Well, that's kind of the point of the game," Yanagi said in an almost snobbish way.
"I know that," I said putting my hands on my hips.
"I think what Alyssa meant by that, is that it's only her first time dueling so she isn't used to all the mental stuff that goes into dueling," Yusei said from where he sat.
"Uh, yeah, right," I said. I was stunned that Yusei had said that, and the weirder part was is that it was true. Creepy.
"Hey, the Fortune Cup starts tomorrow!" Rua said, "I can't wait to duel!"
"You're dueling? I thought it was Ruka who got asked to duel in the tournament," I said with confusion.
"Well, Ruka gets tired when she duels, so I am going to be dueling for her," Rua said.
"Oh," I said while looking at Ruka. Part of me wanted to ask what Rua meant by that, but another part of me didn't want to pry. I decided not to pry. Then something struck me. "Wait, what's the date tomorrow?"
"The 25th," Tanner said, "Why?"
"I get to get this stupid cast off and replace it with a brace," I said gleefully, "Thank god. It's going to be a relief to be able to walk on two feet again and get rid of these awful crutches."
"Well, this should burst your happy bubble," Tanner said. I turned to look at him and noticed him grinning. Not something unusual, but something very rare, "You have to wear that mask to the hospital and to the Fortune Cup!"
I felt my smile disappear immediately. "Aw, fruit loops. I forgot about this stupid thing."
So, there you have it folks. The tenth chapter, and the first duel. This is the longest chapter that I have every written. I am so sorry if that duel was complete crap. I haven't actually written thought out duel out, so that was a first. Anyways, thanks for reading and see you next chapter. Oh, and there may be some fluff in the next chapter. Bye till then!