The Second Round: Raimundo Vs Odion
(The Warriors, Stephanie, Yugi, Joey and Mai were all in Raimundo's room helping him prepare.)
Raimundo: So, what tips have you got on this guy?
Mai: Joey's fought Odion once before, maybe he has the answers.
Joey: Simple, if he summons the Mystical Beast Serket, make sure yah destroy it ASAP.
Yugi: (Back to his former self.) Joey just won, if Odion hadn't summoned that fake God card, Joey would have lost.
Joey: Oh Haha! I still won, and I think that's all that counts.
Kimiko: So what else does Odion have apart from a Mystical Beast?
Joey: Oh right, his decks filled with traps. So make sure yah got something to cancel 'em out.
Kimiko: I got just the thing! (She pulled out her deck, scanned it and gave Raimundo a card.) It's called Cold Wave; it temporary cancels out all traps until the end of your opponent's next turn.
Raimundo: Thanks. Let's hope it comes in handy.
(He added it to his deck. Then the intercom sounded again and Roland summoned the duelists to the rooftops again.)
Hannibal: This oughta be a good one. A've got my money on Odion!
Kaiba: Raimundo, Odion, take your places.
(The two activated their Duel Disks.)
Odion and Raimundo: Let's Duel!
Odion: I shall start first with: Temple of the Kings! (A huge Temple rose up.) This puts a limit to the magic and trap cards that can be played in a turn.
Raimundo: Why would yah wanna do that?
Odion: You shall see soon enough. I place two cards face-down and end my turn.
Raimundo: Wait, aren't you gonna summon a monster?
Odion: So attack my life points.
Raimundo: Oh well, he asked for it! I summon Baron of the Fiend Sword (1550/800) in attack mode! Now attack Odion directly!
Odion: Activate Mirror Force, to destroy your Baron!
Raimundo: Shoot!
Kimiko: What've we told you about trap cards, Rai!
Raimundo: Alright, I place two cards face-down and end my turn!
Odion: Good, I place two more traps face-down and end my turn!
Raimundo: More traps? I need to be more careful. I summon Warrior Dai Grepher (1700/1600) and end my turn.
Odion: I place down two more cards and end my turn!
Raimundo: I think I got me an idea. I place a monster face down in defence! And end my turn.
Odion: I end my turn!
Joey: Yup, he was always this annoying.
Raimundo: Hah! I flip up the Stern Mystic! (1500/1200) It's special ability allows me to see all of your face-down cards at the cost of you seeing mine.
Odion: Very well. You shall see my face-down cards!
(The five cards turned up, it was three Embodiment of Apopis' (1600/1800), a Judgement of Anubis and a Magic-Arm Shield. Raimundo got confused with the three Embodiments of Apopis'.)
Raimundo: Wait, hold up! Those are monster cards, how can you set them down as magic or trap cards?
Joey: I forgot to mention them! They're trap monsters! Careful with them!
Raimundo: Can't be all that bad.
Odion: Now for your trap cards!
(Raimundo flipped them up to be: Magic Cylinder and Premature Burial.)
Odion: Hmph, continue.
Raimundo: I sacrifice Warrior Dai Grepher and The Stern Mystic to summon and old friend! Tyrant Dragon!
(Kimiko gasped with joy as Rex's former card rose to Raimundo's aid.)
Raimundo: Now, attack his life points directly!
Odion: Activate one Embodiment of Apopis!
(A snake warrior thing entered the field and took the blast, sending Odion to 2700 life points.)
Raimundo: Whew, well this is easier than expected. I place a card face-down and end my turn.
Odion: My turn, I shall activate Giant Trunade. To return all our face-down cards to our hands. I activate Lightforce Sword, which designates a random card and removes it from play for four turns.
(The sword hit Kimiko's Cold Wave card.)
Raimundo: Shoot, maybe I should have activated that ages ago!
Odion: And I re-activate Temple of the Kings and place two cards face-down, and I end my turn.
Raimundo: (Sarcastically.) There's a change. (He drew the magic card Chosen One.) I activate Chosen One!
Jack: Why thank you.
Chase: I can sense Raimundo's plan. He plans to use his Shen Gong Wu cards as a sacrifice to summon one of his powerful monsters.
Jack: Why would he? The Shen Gong Wu cards can make him win easy! Easy!
Chase: Let's see what Raimundo's plan is.
Raimundo: Okay, three cards, ones a powerful monster and the other two are magic cards, choose the monster, and he gets to summon itself to the field, but choose the magic, then they're all discarded.
Odion: A game of luck is too risky, even for you.
Raimundo: Okay! Go!
(A spinner circled around the three cards and stopped to the one on the left, it flipped itself up to be Sword Hunter, Raimundo's rarest card.)
Raimundo: Haha!
Clay: Woo, the partner actually has a chance!
Kimiko: Come on, Rai! You're almost at the finish line!
Omi: But this is a duel, not a race.
(Everyone slapped their heads.)
Raimundo: I'm feeling a bit generous today, I'll end my turn, but if you can't draw a good card then, it's game over.
Kimiko: Rai, what're you doing!
Raimundo: Being a fair duelist.
Yugi: You must give him credit that is an honourable move.
Odion: You have my gratitude. Now I activate Cup of Sealed Souls!
Joey: Yikes! Rai, he's summoning it!
Odion: Next, I activate Seal of Serket! These two combined with Temple of the Kings to summon Mystical Beast Serket! (2500/2000)
(A huge scorpion monster rose with a huge roar.)
Raimundo: It's huge!
Kimiko: I hate scorpions!
Clay: All the right reasons!
Omi: You can defeat it, Raimundo. The heart of the cards shall guide you through!
Raimundo: Maybe being generous today wasn't a good idea.
Odion: I apologize for summoning the beast, but your foolishness has cost you the duel! Mystical Beast, attack Sword Hunter!
(The beast sucked in Sword Hunter, bringing Raimundo to 3950. Omi, Kimiko and Clay watched in disgust, Kaiba didn't seemed fazed, but Bakura went to the end of the spectator stand to throw up.)
Odion: Now my Mystical Beast gains half of your rarest card's attack power, making it 3725!
(The Warriors gasped.)
Raimundo: I'm all out of options. Even my Tyrant Dragon can't beat that thing! (He drew.) Aha! I activate my Swords of Revealing Light!
(Swords scattered all over the field.)
Raimundo: That outta buy me some time. I summon Slate Warrior (1900/400) in attack position!
Omi: That is it, Raimundo. Summon as much monsters as possible!
Odion: I don't think you should celebrate just yet! Activate Life Absorption!
Raimundo: What's that?
(A worm thing clutched onto Raimundo's chest.)
Odion: Now once every turn, you lose 1000 life points.
(He let out a scream as his life points went to 2950.)
Odion: I'll end my turn!
Raimundo: Duelling with a parasite on yah isn't easy! I summon Axe Raider (1700/1150) in attack position!
(The monster rose.)
Odion: I'll end my second turn. And you lose 1000 more life points!
(Raimundo's life points went to 1950.)
Raimundo: (He drew.) Hm, Ants in the Pants, that could be useful. I activate Ants in the Pants!
Odion: What does that do?
Raimundo: For every turn that passes by, I can summon two Ant Tokens (500/500).
(Two ants joined the other three monsters.)
Raimundo: I think I'll end my turn.
Odion: End my final turn. Your swords are gone and your life points are at 950!
Raimundo: My last turn, if I can't summon the card I'm looking for, I'm creamed!
(He drew Pot of Greed.)
Raimundo: I activate Pot of Greed!
Yugi: This has to be the two Raimundo's looking for.
Joey: Otherwise he's toast by that worm thing.
(Raimundo dramatically drew the and seen what they were: Mystical Space Typhoon and Sun Chi Lantern.)
Raimundo: I activate Sun Chi Lantern!
Odion: What!
Raimundo: I can destroy any number of monsters on my side of the field.
(Axe Raider, Slate Warrior and the two Ant Tokens all disintegrated.)
Raimundo: Then I can add the total attack points to my Tyrant Dragon!
Odion: Which comes to 7500!
Raimundo: Enough to wipe your Serket out, along with your life points!
Kaiba: Raimundo was never this powerful when we duelled.
Raimundo: Now, Tyrant Dragon! Destroy the Mystical Beast Serket!
(It let out a blast that destroyed the Serket and the rest of Odion's life points. Raimundo then collapsed as the parasite dissolved away. Odion helped him up.)
Odion: An excellent display, young Pedrosa. Here is my rarest card: Embodiment of Apopis. And good luck in the next rounds.
Raimundo: Thanks, dude. I thought I was done for when you summoned that Serket.
Odion: I look forward to our next rematch.
Roland: Raimundo Pedrosa advances to the next round! The next match is Omi Pedrosa Vs Stephanie Jones! We shall take a fifteen minute intermission to prepare yourselves.
Stephanie: Our rematch is here, Omi. Only in Duel Monsters.
Omi: I do not care what the game is, we are still in competition. And I hope that you play to your fullest extent.
Stephanie: I will, you just worry about yourself. I don't wanna defeat the person I love that easily.
(Everyone turned their intentions on Stephanie at the last sentence. Jack Spicer couldn't help bursting out laughing.)
Omi: I know.