Draw 5B

Blues, Abandoned Dorm, and Spirits

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"Actually, there's a way to tell if it was Miss Rosencrantz or not," Price answered as he held his hand up to Mustang. "Mustang, is your camera digital?"

"Way ahead of ya," Mustang replied as he held up his camera and pressed a few buttons. "This bad boy should've gotten a good picture of whoever we saw, and… Here we go! Gather round, children!"

With beads of sweat appearing on the back of their heads, Price and Cain looked at the picture displayed on the camera's screen. The picture was a little blurry, but it was enough to see that whoever was on the picture, it certainly wasn't Lillian Rosencrantz. Instead, the figure in the picture was an older gentleman with long hair, dressed in what appeared to be a hat and a cloak of sorts. He certainly was slim though and had wavy hair from his hat.

"What the hell?" Cain exclaimed. "How the hell did we mistake a slim girl for this bozo? Is Rosencrantz even in here?"

"She is," Price answered as he turned back to the footsteps. "I can only assume that she came here before we began our stake out, that's evidenced by the latest footsteps. And since there aren't any fresh footprints that lead to the door out of here, we can assume that she's still in the building somewhere."

"… So we waited out in the cold of night for thirty minutes for nothing?" Cain asked with his left eye twitching slightly. "DAMN IT!"

"In any case, Miss Rosencrantz might be in danger," Mustang stated with a nod of his head. "This guy right here is quite strange, we don't know who he is or what he's here for and…"

Mustang would've continued however, he was interrupted by a loud scream that echoed throughout the entire abandoned dorm, making the trio jump slightly before they turned towards the hallway where the footsteps were leading. The scream itself was high pitched and obviously belonged to a young woman of sorts.

"Well," Price stated as the three men ran towards the hallway. "If we didn't think Miss Rosencrantz was here before, we now know for sure!

"Hurry!"

Thirty Minutes Earlier…

Location: Abandoned Dorm, Basement

Around the time Price, Cain and Mustang were starting to camp out in the bushes of the Abandoned Dorm, a familiar brown haired young woman walked into the basement area – A large backpack slung over her shoulder as she walked into the large circular basement.

The structure itself was built in sections with several pillars with old broken tablets lining the walls while on the ground was a large circle that seemed to be drawn with some weird white paint, although the paint seemed to have flaked away. Lillian sighed loudly as she slid the backpack onto the ground and smiled to herself. 'I may have been sidetracked last night with that weird professor, but tonight is the night, tonight I can finally awaken you!'

Opening the bag, Lillian pulled out a large brush, a mysterious container, and a large book that had seen better days. Placing the brush and container to the side, Lillian lifted up the book to a page that was marked with a fancy red bookmark. "After so long, I can finally bring you to this world…"

Immediately, Lillian pulled the book closer to her and embraced it in her arms. As the young Obelisk Blue student pressed the book close to her body, a ghostly image began to materialize behind her. This ghostly figure towered over Lillian with its warm orange eyes, its long crimson cape billowing from the figure's adorned shoulders – One was a jackal while the other was a bird of sorts. The mysterious shadow's head was adorned with a gold and blue Egyptian headdress that topped his golden masked face.

Lillian slowly turned around, a warm look appearing in her eyes as she gazed upon the mysterious shadow, "Soon… Soon I will finally know your embrace. I can finally thank you for all that you've done for me…"

The ghostly man tried to speak, but when his lips move, no sound emerged.

That didn't deter Lillian from stepping closer towards the ghostly man, a warm look in her eyes, "I know, but please be patient. Soon, very soon, I'll be able to bring you into this world of ours…"

Spinning on her heel, Lillian began to walk towards the other materials she had brought that evening with her, and began to get onto her work. The ghostly man sighed silently and shook his head as she opened up the container to reveal that there was a large amount of white paint-like liquid in it.

With a delicate dip of the paint brush, Lillian began to go around the floor, painting in the exact same area of the worn out circle. As the brush ran across the ground, the white paint-like substance seemed to glow brightly as it sunk into the floor.

TTTT-Twenty Minutes or So Later…-TTTT

A smile appeared on Lillian's face as she finished her drawing on the floor before her, the entire room basked in a bright, beautiful light that emanated from the ground itself. "And it's ready. I swear, I've done this so many times that this design is burned into my very brain… But it's a small price to pay for me to bring you here…"

Throwing the book away from the circle, Lillian slowly began to walk towards the center of the glowing runic circle. Her steps were calm and slow, careful not to step on the paint she had just painted on the ground, eventually Lillian reached the center of the runic circle and lifted her arms up into the air. With a deep breath, Lillian's body began to glow the same color as the runic circle, and as she began to lower her arms, Lillian spoke calmly and slowly, "Oomnipotensrectorharenasplacereaudiclamorem meum.

"Iofferat nummumipsam animam, ut ambularetisin vita...Sicplacet,excitare!

"Etspiritumnouumaerem, iterum frui!"

All of a sudden, the white light immediately transformed into a golden light that unleashed several ghostly birds that flew around the entire room. Lillian smiled brightly as she watched the birds circle her form, and it was at that moment that several spirit like jackals to run around the runic circle. 'It's working! It's working! This time for sure!'

Just as things were looking the brightest, all of the golden ghostly spirits suddenly stopped in their tracks, either on the ground or floating in mid-air. The ghostly images flickered for a few seconds until they changed from brilliant gold to a rich purple, making Lillian raised an eyebrow.

It was then that a loud screech echoed through the basement area, making each and every single ghostly image shatter like glass, the shards falling to the ground around Lillian's body. The young blue student lifted her arms up defensively to protect herself from the weird energy that was dropping onto the ground. "W-What is this…?"

The purple energy began to meld into the ground at Lillian's feet, making her stagger back slightly. Whatever was happening, Lillian didn't want to be here any more, her basic instincts were screaming at her move her legs and get out of there…

Of course, that option was no longer available when a large purple furred, clawed arm erupted from the ground, immediately wrapping itself around Lillian's slim waist. From the purple ooze, two large red eyes appeared and narrowed down on her. "Oh… I've been waiting for soooooooooooo long… Let me thank you for freeing me…"

Lillian's brow was covered in a cold sweat as the eyes began to rise up attached to a jackal-like head with two long jagged ears with two large curved spikes erupting as well. The jackal licked its teeth as it grew closer and closer towards her, and that's when Lillian couldn't maintain her cool…

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"

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"Damn it, where the hell did that scream come from?" Cain snarled as he followed both Mustang and Price through the ragged hallways of the Abandoned dorm.

For a good five minutes, the trio had ran through the hallways trying to find the source of the mysterious scream. Of course, running around like men with your heads cut off is never a wise idea, especially in a dark building that's on the verge of collapse. So, when all three of them reached a widened section of the hallway, the trio stopped dead in their tracks.

"This isn't going to get us anywhere," Price muttered out loud as he looked at the area surrounding them. "At this rate we'll get lost before we find Miss Rosencrantz."

"Well, we did just run off when we heard the scream," Mustang pointed out with his hand drawn to his chin. "Say, Professor, you think you can work your investigative magic again and look at the carpeting to see if we're going the right way?"

"I would," Price stated before he flashed the flashlight towards the ground. "But, there's no carpeting left."

"Damn," Mustang grumbled to himself.

While Mustang was cussing under his breath, however, Price noticed that out of the corner of his eye, Price raised an eyebrow as he walked a little further down the hallway.

"Look," Cain growled loudly as he rubbed his forehead. "I don't wanna sound like the bad guy, but maybe we should leave, at least for now."

"What?" Mustang questioned with his gaze narrowed down at Cain. "You want us to just leave Miss Rosencrantz here?"

"Look, I'm not saying to leave her to what dwells here," Cain spat back with his arms raised up defensively. "I say we just head back to the dorms, get Hund and Pamela on this so we can organize a search party. In fact, we should've told them about this in the first place… It would've really saved us a ton of trouble!"

"And I told ya that she would deny it when she would be confronted!" Mustang countered jabbing a finger at Cain's chest. "We needed to get evidence, but things got out of control!"

"Yeah! Just like every other plan that your messed up mind comes up with!" Cain retorted slapping Mustang's hand away. "We didn't even need to be out here! This wasn't our problem! It was Price's… No, scratch that, it wasn't even his!"

"Hey, guys," Price stated with a flat look in his eyes.

"We're from the same dorm as Lillian!" Mustang shot back throwing his arm to the side. "We've got a responsibility to help out members from our dorm!"

"Yeah right!" Cain barked back. "You probably have some alternative motive for this – Considering the fact that its you and considering she's a girl then it doesn't take too much brainpower to figure out that equation!"

"Guys," Price muttered.

"How dare you!" Mustang gasped with his hands drawn to his chest. "My intentions are as noble as a cool crisp stream!"

"That's polluted with crap!" Cain snarled. "What if I told Tenri about this stunt of yours?"

"You lousy, little," Mustang growled back.

"SHUT UP, THE BOTH OF YOU!" Price roared loudly, making both Cain and Mustang jump at the sudden burst of anger that the usually timid professor exhibited.

'Damn! Where did that come from?' Cain thought.

'Like a one eighty flip,' Mustang pondered to himself.

"That's better," Price sighed as he waved his flashlight over to the hallway behind him. "Now, if you two are done bickering like an old married couple, I think you two would find this quite interesting."

Both Cain and Mustang followed the light to a nearby wall that seemed to have a large piece of paper taped to it that had a large red arrow painted on it that pointed down the hallway. Cain had a large bead of sweat rolling down the side of his head when he saw that sign, "What the hell? Where did that come from!"

"Good question," Price muttered, observing the arrow.

"Could it have been that weird guy we saw out front?" Mustang questioned with a perked up eyebrow.

"If it was, why would he do that?" Price retorted, turning his flashlight down the hallway. "And should we follow it?"

"Are you nuts?" Cain stated dully. "We don't know who the hell that guy was or if this is some sort of trap! I say we should just leave and…"

Before Cain could say another word, Price was standing in front of him, and due to the difference in height between them, Price might as well have been a giant in comparison. "You wanna leave? Then leave. I'm not going to stop you, but if you wanna come, keep your trap shut. Either way, stop your whining!"

And with that, Price began to walk down the hallway at a brisk pace, his back slowly disappearing into the darkness, leaving Mustang and Cain to stare blankly at each other. Mustang smirked before he threw his arms behind his head and slowly began to follow Price, "You heard the professor Cain, feel free to leave. And I'll be keeping Ami's number in my cell phone to boot."

A large blood vessel appeared on the side of Cain's head before he followed both Price and Mustang, "FINE! But I wanna state for the record that this is a stupid and dumb idea!"

"Your complaints have been noted," Price stated back. "Now hurry up!"

'I liked him better when he was only stuttering,' Cain thought.

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Time: 12:05 a.m.

Location: Abandoned Dorm, Basement

The runic circle that covered the floor wasn't as bright as before, but it still was lighting the room enough to show Lillian standing in the middle of the room, stretching her body and cracking her neck. "Damn it…"

Lillian's voice seemed to be deeper and raspier and her eyes seemed to glow a deep red instead of their usual purple. "I may have been able to finally acquired a body, but this form is just so… So… Small! Ugh, I'm starting to get cramped in here!"

"Humph, I thought you would be happy to finally get a physical body in the human world…"

'Lillian' spun around to see someone else sauntering into the room, from what 'she' could see, whoever it was they were wearing a large dark brown cloak that barely brushed the ground each time he took a step. At the collar of the cloak was a lush fur muffler that wrapped around his sharp chin, while the top of his face was covered with a beautiful, white mask that was topped with a lovely dark brown fedora with a bright red feather that popped out from the side of the fedora.

The man smiled as he stopped walking a few yards from 'Lillian'. "Then again, depending on what you are, that could be different… Monsieur or Ma Cherie?"

"Peh," 'Lillian' spat to the side, as 'she' began to walk towards the masked man. "I could care less about what you call me, all I know is that you've got a bigger body, like moths to a flame you humans can't resist but to draw to me, can't you?"

"I would suggest that you refrain from coming closer, Monsieur," the masked man advised with his calm smirk still plastered over his face. "I would prefer not to hurt the body of a young lass, especially one who is being forced to move."

"Then this will be easy to finish!" 'Lillian' roared as she ran across the runic circle towards the masked man.

With a loud audible sigh, the masked man threw his left arm to the side, sending the cloak upwards to reveal a rather formal business suit covering his slim figure, however, what was more important was that several strips of paper flew from his cloak and surrounded 'Lillian's body. 'Lillian' stopped in her tracks when the strips of paper flew about 'her' body, however, they didn't just float.

After a few moments, sparks of electricity began to surge from the scraps and into 'her' body. 'Lillian's body convulsed as the electricity coursed through 'her', there were no burn marks, but however, a large purple aura surged from 'her' form. The aura climbed higher and higher as it transformed into a large jackal headed, purple furred demon with several Egyptian styled pieces of jewelry around its neck and two large horns erupted from its back. "DAMN IT! YOU… YOU'RE A…"

"Wow," the masked man chuckled as he allowed his cloak to flow back over his body. "You're faster on the take than most other Duel Spirits, usually they can't spot a DS Hunter until the last few moments. So congrats, Monsieur End of Anubis, you have earned the right to know you were challenged by moi!"

The End of Anubis, a powerful fiend-type monster in the game of duel monsters, was standing over the still convulsing Lillian, his body completely covered in sparks as her was and preventing him from moving. "Damn you, you accursed human!"

"Tsk, tsk," the DS Hunter clicked his tongue a few times at the End of Anubis. "And here I was thinking that we could settle this without resorting to name calling. Oh well, what's done has been done, I suppose this means that now I should finish the job…"

The DS Hunter lifted his right arm up, revealing that strapped to his right wrist was a sleek duel disk that had several weird markings on it. "Be thankful, for you now have a chance to survive in this world, Monsieur End. Unless… Unless, you can't form your deck here in this world."

The End growled loudly as all of the scraps of paper immediately flew around the area, covering the floors and walls of the basement. The DS Hunter smirked as he held his duel disk covered arm up into the air, "Monsieur End, moi really thanks you for making this transaction so much easier… But, moi would like to make you a deal, if you are interested."

"A… Deal?" The End of Anubis growled.

"Yes, one that moi thinks that you'll be more than grateful to take," the DS Hunter chuckled as the smirk on his face began to become devious.

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Five minutes later…

"Yeesh, I can't believe we followed those arrows," Cain grumbled as the trio walked through the hallways, having slowed down a touch so they would be able to follow the arrows correctly. "If I die because of this and you two live, I'm haunting you both!"

"Oh no, it's Cain, the midget ghost!" Mustang joked playfully as he sidestepped a punch thrown by the smaller blue student.

"I'm not a midget damn it!" Cain snarled loudly.

Price was so close to berating the two blues again for causing a ruckus, but still, everyone dealt with problems in a different manner, and crude humor seemed to work for these two quite well. At least they weren't as loud as before.

Still, they were walking through the hallway, with an arrow that occasionally took them down further or around a corner, just like now when there was an arrow that pointed towards one direction when there was a fork in the road…

As soon as the three rounded the corner, they saw that there was a bright light at the end of the hallway, which caused all three of them to stop dead in their tracks. Price turned back to the slightly bickering blue students and asked, "Does this place still get electricity?"

"I don't think so," Mustang answered as the three turned towards each other. "Think this could be it?"

"If it's a trap," Cain muttered with his arms crossed over his chest. "Then it's certainly got enough bait, almost seems kind of rude to let all of this preparation go to waste."

"I thought you weren't into this idea?" Price questioned as all three of them slowly walked down the hallway.

"Don't get the wrong impression," Cain snarled back with his arms crossed. "I'm just coming along cause I know that I wouldn't sleep if I left you two to your own devices, well, I can say that about Mustang."

"Quite a low blow," Mustang pointed out with a smirk. "Then again, you're usually about the low blows, now aren't you?"

"Shut up," Cain chuckled.

Soon, all three of them reached the end of the hall, entering into the large basement area that was lit up by what appeared to be a large runic circle that glowed with a dull white light. And standing in the middle of said circle was none other than Lillian herself, with her back to the group. Among the runic circle were several scraps of paper that seemed to glow in a different colored light, which made the whole scene quite odd.

"See, no trap," Mustang pointed out as he tapped Cain's arm a few times with the back of his hand. "Just the girl we were looking for."

"Who's standing atop of a glowing circle!" Cain retorted with his arms crossed. "How about the fact that she's got her back to us and we're yelling out but she hasn't even looked at us! She could just be a scarecrow of her!"

"I don't think so," Price stated as he turned over his shoulder. "Both of you, stand in the hallway. If there is any danger, I want you two to run for it, go get help and bring it back here. If anyone's going to risk their life, it's going to be me."

"You won't hear me complaining," Cain stated as he walked backwards towards the hallway. "Good luck."

"Cain!" Mustang growled before he turned back to Price. "We're not going to leave ya Price, we chose to come along, and we're sticking to ya!"

"Is that why you're backing away to the hallway?" Price questioned with a roll of his eyes, it was true, Mustang was edging himself back to the hallway where they all entered through.

"Uh, well, you see," Mustang chuckled, all the while backing up.

"I'm just teasing Mustang," Price snickered with a large smirk on his face. "I thank you for all that you've done for me, just promise me to get out of here if danger is present. I don't want to endanger any of my students any further."

"No worries," Mustang answered as both he and Price walked in different directions.

Price fitted his flashlight into his pocket and slowly made his way towards Lillian, his hands kept at his sides as he got closer. "Miss Rosencrantz, are you alright?"

Slowly, Lillian began to turn around, her eyes wide and red as she stared directly into Price's soul. "P-Professor?"

"Yeah, Price," the red professor stated as he lifted his hand up towards Lillian, a smile on his face. "I don't know what's going on here, but Miss Rosencrantz, it can't be safe here. Please, come with me to…"

At that very moment, Price leapt backwards, just in time to dodge the large ghostly purple furred clawed hand that crashed into the ground right where he was standing. The claw slowly lifted itself up and clenched its clawed fingers together as the arm slowly floated around Lillian's body.

"Price!" Cain shouted.

"Professor Price!" Mustang shouted at the same time as Cain.

A large devilish smirk appeared on Lillian's face as a more devilish, ghostly form began to pulsate from her body. "So… When did you notice?"

"The eyes are a dead giveaway," Price answered quickly as he rolled his eyes. "You'd have to be colorblind not to notice."

"Impressive, for a human," Lillian spoke in a much more deeper, raspier voice as the aura around her began to grow more solid forming into the large jackal-like demon – The End of Anubis that towered over Lillian's form.

"Wow, don't see that everyday," Price admitted with a bead of sweat rolling down the side of his head.

"I should think not," The End of Anubis chuckled as Lillian's head drooped down slightly. "But then again, I doubt you'd see any other day after I'm done with you."

"Big talk coming from an overgrown mutt," Price countered with his arms lifted up slightly.

"Insolent human!" The End of Anubis roared loudly as it slammed both of its claws hands into the ground around Lillian's body. "How dare to speak to me like that!"

"Oh yeah?" Price sighed with his hand waved a few times. "Why don't you come over here and make me stop?"

The End of Anubis snarled loudly at the smirking Price that was quite a few yards away from him. Both Mustang and Cain blinked a few times at what was happening before them – The normally timid professor was mouthing off to what appeared to be a demon in the form of a Duel monster, then again, ever since Price took those glasses off, he managed to pull a few out of character stunts this evening.

Cain turned towards Mustang with a dull look in his eyes, "Uh, do you have any clue what's going on here?"

"You're going to have to be more specific about that," Mustang questioned with a serious look on his face. "Are you talking about the large demonic ghost that's hovering over Lillian's body? The fact that Price is taunting said demonic ghost? Or that the demon doesn't seem to attacking Price for the rude comments?"

"How about all of the above!" Cain snarled back.

"Alright, I'll give a crack at it," Mustang mumbled as he rubbed his chin a few times. "First off, if I had to guess what the big guy is, he might just be that one monster… Ya know, its that one card. Damn, I can't remember its name! It had an Egyptian name or…"

"You mean the End of Anubis?" Cain replied flatly and dryly with his eyes mimicking his voice tone.

"YEAH!" Mustang laughed with his arms crossed. "Yep! That's definitely the End of Anubis, and if that thing's here, then there are two explanations for what's going on – Either this is a duel disk going haywire or we might just bee looking at the one thing that we've been looking for in people."

Cain raised his gloved hand up to his mouth and closed his eyes, "… A duel spirit…"

"Yeah," Mustang replied. "As for why Price is taunting the big thing… Hell if I know. But as to why its not going after Price, maybe its because of that weird glowing circle that they're standing in. But once again, hell if I know."

"So basically, what you're saying," Cain muttered with a dulled look in his eyes. "Is that you're useless in this situation."

"Now that's just rude," Mustang countered.

While the two of the blues stopped talking to each other in order to watch the continued skirmish between professor and demonic duel spirit, a familiar cloaked figure appeared behind the two Obelisk Blue duelists, a smirk on his masked face.

Meanwhile, back in the basement…

"Any reason why you're not moving?" Price questioned with a raised eyebrow at the End of Anubis. "Come on, what's your game plan?"

"Insolent human," The End of Anubis snarled as it lifted its clawed hands up into the air. "If I was capable of moving, I would rip your limbs off of your body! But as such, at the moment, I am bound to this small body which cannot move at the moment."

"So basically, you're trapped," Price concluded. "As long as you're possessing Miss Rosencrantz you can't move from where she stands."

"In a manner of speaking, yes," The End of Anubis growled as he ran his clawed hands over Lillian's body, ruffling her clothes and hair in the process. "But, the same hold true here, you can't get close to her either lest you want to become prey for my claws. And I'm not so attached to this body right here that I wouldn't shed a tear if I were to dig my claws into her flesh…"

"So, we're at a stand off?" Price questioned raising an eyebrow.

"In a sense," Anubis cackled as he pulled one of his claws away from Lillian's body and pointed them towards Price. "However, even if I were to claw her up, I'd still be trapped down here without a physical body of sorts, and your body is actually starting to look a lot more comfortable for me to reside in, rather than being trapped inside this scrawny little body."

"So, you want me to give you my body or something?" Price questioned with his head tilted slightly. "You're rather depraved…"

"I'd say more along the lines of desperate," Anubis replied with its arms lifted up once again. "After finally reaching this world, I will be willing to do anything to remain here. And if I wasn't bound here, I would not be dealing with you. In any case, your reason for being here is this girl, correct?"

"I can read your intentions a mile away," Price scoffed back at Anubis. "You want me to make a trade, you take my body and you let her go."

"Indeed," Anubis admitted. "However, is it not a fair deal?"

"Hell no!" Price snapped with his eyes narrowed down at Anubis. "You steal her body and act like its property! And frankly, I'd rather kick your ugly ass out of Miss Rosencrantz's body than give up mine!"

"I figured as such," Anubis sighed with a shake of its head. "You humans are full of contradictions, you want to save this girl, but you're not willing to sacrifice in order to save her."

"I shouldn't have to sacrifice myself to save her!" Price retorted with his arm lifted up into the air. "Now, do you have a point to this conversation, or are you just trying to waste time?"

"Hardly," Anubis growled as he lifted his arm up, which in turn made Lillian lift her arm up as well to reveal that there was a duel disk. "I have a manner for us to settle this problem. While I have been in this body, I have the privy to access her memories as well as her movements, from what I can tell by your clothing, you are one of the professors of this school she attends… One that specializes in the art of Duel Monsters as it seems, therefore…"

"You want to settle this with a duel?" Price interrupted with his arms crossed.

"Yes, you win and I'll vacate this body," Anubis cackled trailing a clawed finger down the side of Lillian's body, almost causing a rip in the side of her uniform. "You lose, I'll leave this body and take yours, either way, the girl will be freed from my grasp."

Price lowered his head for a few seconds before he reached into his overcoat. "Fine! If that's how it's going to be, then I'll beat you and whatever grasp you have over Miss Rosencrantz I'll shatter!"

"Impressive words for such a small human," Anubis cackled as he lifted his arm up, making Lillian do the same thing, activating the duel disk attached to her arm. "You have quite a mouth on you, countless years ago, you would've had your tongue cut out for having such disrespect towards a powerful creature as myself."

"Good thing we're not in your time," Price replied as he pulled a duel disk from his jacket and slapped it on his wrist, activating the device. "Now, are you about done, or are you going to just keep standing around?"

"Wow, it looks as though Price's really getting pissed off here," Mustang admitted raising an eyebrow at the scene that was occurring in front of him. "I never thought I'd see him like this, even with that weird alter ego of his."

"I'm a little pissed off myself at this demon," Cain stated with his arms crossed over his chest. "He's acting all high and mighty and he's using a helpless girl as a bargaining chip! Frankly, I'd go over there and smack him upside his head!"

"Then what's stopping you?" Mustang questioned with a raised eyebrow.

"Cause I know that if I do, I'd either be dooming myself or Miss Rosencrantz over there," Cain retorted.

Neither of the blues noticed that the masked figure was slowly getting closer and closer to them, a large smirk appearing on his face.

"Let the torture begin!" Anubis laughed as Lillian drew the first five cards from the top of the deck in her duel disk. (ALP: 8000)

"I prefer to say 'Duel'," Price retorted as he pulled off the top five cards from his deck. (PLP: 8000)

"Soon, it won't matter what you say," Anubis cackled as he moved one of his fingers, making Lillian draw once more. "My draw, now, call forth the third card from the left in attack mode, my slave."

Lillian didn't react to the order but then she reached for the card that Anubis had pointed out. For a moment her hand stopped but then continued as she lifted it up and slapped it onto her duel disk. The moment that the card appeared on her duel disk, several ghostly spirits began to wrap in front of her and Anubis, immediately forming into a spirit dressed in fancy gold and blue Egyptian robes that had a headdress of Horus atop of his head.

The ghostly spirit lifted its arms up to reveal a pair of tablets that had several Egyptian characters written on them (0/0). Anubis cackled as he lifted his arms up slightly. "Let me introduce you to the Pharaoh's Advisor, one of the first of the last monsters you'll ever see. That will be all."

Price slowly drew his next card and looked at his hand, 'He summons a monster with zero points in attack mode and doesn't even set a card… Monsters with zero attack points tend to be tricky. But, frankly if I can hit him hard and hit him fast, then I can get a great lead on this demon!'

Looking closer at his cards, Price nodded as he pulled a single card from his hand, "Looks like fate itself wants me to win! I summon Arch Mech Sensou in attack mode!"

A powerful blue explosion erupted in front of Price, immediately forming into the blue armored, mechanized warrior. As soon as the machine landed on the ground, it threw several punches and kicks through the air before it stomped down onto the ground (2300/500).

"Nice, he got his favorite monster out quick," Mustang noted out loud.

"Yeah, with its summoning ability," Cain muttered to himself. "That thing is good for second turn players, but still… I doubt that Advisor is a mistake."

"True," Mustang grumbled. "But considering the situation, what choice does he have but to attack?"

"Sensou!" Price roared as he threw his arm forward, making the Arch Mech leap through the air and fly towards the Advisor. "Crash his monster into the ground!"

Anubis didn't even flinch as Sensou slammed his fist into the ghostly monster, crushing it into the ground with several spirits erupting from its 'corpse'. All of the spirits wrapped around Lillian's body, making the young woman yelp loudly as they surged around and through her! (ALP: 5700)

"What the?" Price questioned as Sensou leapt backwards, which allowed Price to see Lillian now on the ground, holding her sides as she shivered terribly. "What the hell did you do to her!"

"What I did?" Anubis cackled loudly as he licked his lips. "Oh no, I didn't do a thing… At least not at on purpose. You see, foolish human, even though I lack a physical body, I can still strike you and this girl. And it seems that just the fact that my presence is here, so will the attacks we launch will be real as well.

"So, essentially you just struck the very person you're trying to help."

"You bastard!" Price snarled loudly as he stomped forwards, however, several ghostly spirits erupted from the ground where the Advisor stood. "What's happening now?"

"Oh, this," Anubis cackled as Lillian pulled four cards from her deck, holding up the cards in front of her. "It's her monster's ability, when the Advisor is destroyed as a result of battle, for every five hundred points of damage that I took from that instance of battle, we are allowed to summon one level two or lower normal zombie monster from her deck.

"Since the damage was well over two thousand, then that means that four monsters will appear! So, woman! Call out two Pharaoh's Servants and two Pharaonic Protectors!"

Lillian did as she was told and slipped the cards onto her duel disk, making four more ghostly monsters appear before her, two of them were dressed in yellow Egyptian clothes with a long spear in their ghostly hands (900/0 x2), while the other two were dressed in fancy light purple Egyptian robes covering their ghostly bodies with their arms crossed over their chests (900/0 x2). Through their ghostly skin, one could see the bandages underneath and all four of the mummies wore pristine white masks over their faces.

"Yeesh, I know you're an Egyptian based monster," Price muttered under his breath as he slid a single card into his duel disk, making it appear behind Sensou. "But even this?"

"Foolish mortal," Anubis cackled as Lillian drew another card into her hand from her deck. "Do you honestly believe I would use such mundane strategies if my hand wasn't forced? No, these 'cards' that you see belong to this little wench that I reside in!"

Lillian didn't even bat an eye when that insult was slapped onto her.

"Now, enough wasting time!" Anubis roared as Lillian lifted up a card from her hand. "Now wench, play this card – The spell Solidarity!"

As the spell card appeared to Lillian's left, immediately creating a powerful blue aura to erupt over all four of her mummified monsters making them grow larger (900/0 + 800/0 x4). "Now, since there's a zombie in the graveyard, the Pharaoh's Advisor, all other zombies on my field gain eight hundred attack points.

"But this is just the beginning of the end! Now my slave, play the card furthest to the right!"

Lillian struggled to not reach for the card, but after a few moments she slid the card into her duel disk, creating several sparks that erupted over all four of her mummies, making their masks crack wildly (1700/0 + 1000/0 x4). "Thousand Energy! Now, each level two normal monster now gains a thousand attack points!"

"Oh… Crap," Price muttered loudly with a large bead of sweat rolling over his head.

"We're ending this now!" Anubis roared loudly as it slammed its claws into the ground. "Pharaoh's Servant number one! Destroy that excuse of a monster!"

The first of the four ghostly mummies lifted its arms up into the air, and countless bandages flew from the mummy's arms and wrapped around Sensou's arms. The machine began to pull its arms away from the bandages however, before it pulled the bandages free, the Pharaoh's Servant appeared before Sensou and stabbed both of its arms into the machine's chest, sending sparks and parts flying through the air.

A few of the parts slammed into Price's body, making him stagger backwards as Sensou shattered into pixels. (PLP: 7600)

"And now, to end this," Anubis cackled as the remaining three mummies charged over the field. "Do be careful not to rough up my new body too badly though!"

Price lifted his duel disk up as a shield as the two Pharaonic Protectors jabbed their spears at him. The blades skidded over Price's duel disk and stabbed into his shoulders, making the professor stagger backwards from the force of the two weapons. As he stepped back, the weapons were pulled from his shoulders and allowed two spurts of blood to pop from the professor's shoulders. "GURK!" (PLP: 2200)

"Oh crap! Professor Price!" Mustang shouted as the last of the four mummies began to stagger towards Price.

"I play my trap card – Defense Draw!" Price announced as a powerful barrier erupted in front of him, knocking the Pharaoh's Servant staggering backwards. "S-So not g-g-going to happen now…"

"Humph!" Anubis scoffed as Price slowly drew another card into his hand. "So you just bought yourself some more pain. Wench, set a monster face down and two cards face down!"

Lillian quickly did as she was told and fitted the cards into her duel disk, making the face down cards appear in front of her controlled form. "Turn end. And it's at this time that I must pay the price for this move, all four of the monsters I have face up must be destroyed."

All four of the mummies shattered like glass, their bandages falling to the ground in front of Lillian. The girl seemed to shudder at the sight of them.

Price groaned as he slowly stood up, 'I guess I should be glad that the pain wasn't as bad as it was. Although, it still hurts!'

Price reached for his deck and immediately pulled his newest card into his hand, his eyes trailing over the six cards he held. "… Alright, I play the spell card, Future Fusion! Now, I can send my three Quantities from my deck to my graveyard, in two turns I can summon Heavy Artillery Q-3 from my fusion deck!"

"It's too bad you won't last that long," Anubis cackled as Price fitted the three cards into his duel disk's graveyard slot.

"We'll see about that!" Price announced as he slipped another card from his hand into his duel disk. "I play another Continuous Spell – Clock Over!"

A bright light erupted from Price's Duel disk, immediately allowing three lights to erupt from Price's graveyard slot, allowing the three Quantities to appear in front of him, all three of them striking a dramatic pose (500/400 x3). "Thanks to this spell, I can now summon all three these guys from my graveyard… However, they can't attack, be tributed and can't be used in a Synchro summon."

"So you just wasted my time again?" Anubis questioned as Price wagged a finger.

"I don't see this as a waste," Price announced as he spun around another card from his hand. "Especially since I'm playing Polymerization! Now, I can fuse all three of these monsters together right away!"

All three of the Quantities leapt up into the air, transforming into several parts that began to meld together and combine into a large familiar mechanized warrior that was armed with the teeth with weapons, including a familiar rocket launcher (2500/2400). "Q-3!"

"Not a bad move," Mustang muttered with a smirk on his face. "Not only does he have a powerful monster, but in two turns, if he has a second copy, then he'll have a second powerhouse to his name."

"We kinda forgot that he was a professor," Cain stated with a shrug of his shoulders. "Of course he'd have skills."

"Now, Q-3! Attack…" Price started…

However a powerful roar echoed through the air, making Q-3 stagger backwards with Price holding his duel disk up. As the roar died down, Anubis began to cackle loudly, "You humans are so hopeless, even at a Threatening Roar will make you shiver in your boots."

"Great, so much for an attack that turn," Price muttered as he reached for the three remaining cards in his hand. "I set a card face down, and end my turn!"

"No, you don't end it just yet," Anubis cackled as it lifted its hand up, making Lillian do the same. "Before you end your turn, my wench plays the trap card – The First Sarcophagus!"

The ground began to quake wildly, allowing the earth in front of both Lillian and the End of Anubis to open up, which unleashed a large golden, stone sarcophagus onto the field. "Now, you can end your turn… Which allows this Sarcophagus to open up and allow the Second Sarcophagus to appear!"

The golden sarcophagus opened up, allowing a second, if not fancier sarcophagus to float over the field. "Now, it's my turn, draw you little woman."

Cain gritted his teeth at the sight of the two Egyptian coffins, "Great, now what is Price going to do?"

"Is that sarcasm in your mouth?" Mustang questioned with a wave of his hand. "Because of that, we now know that the big monster over there is using Miss Rosencrantz's deck…"

Cain rolled his eyes, "Look, unless Price has a card destruction spell or trap in his hand, things are going to get messy, you know as well as I do that Rosencrantz managed to become a blue because of that deck.

"It may be predictable, but because of that, a lot of players are lulled into a false sense of security when she brings out something new."

Lillian did as she was told, drawing another card from her deck and then reached for her duel disk, "Next, we'll flip up the face down monster that's set on our field – Des Lacooda!"

The face down monster on Lillian/Anubis' field flipped up, allowing a large decrypted, mummified camel to appear onto the field with dust seeping from its mouth (500/600 + 800/0). Anubis cackled loudly as Lillian drew from the top of her deck once more. "Now, since this creature was flipped, we are allowed to draw once more… And then we can flip it face down once again!"

As Lillian set the monster card back onto her field, the camel disappeared into the card back onto the field. "Now, one card face down, and turn end."

The set card appeared before Lillian, and Price sighed loudly. "That's all?"

"Don't misunderstand human," Anubis cackled with its tongue out. "The final event is about to occur, you may have survived one kill, but you won't be able to survive another!"

"We'll see about that," Price stated as he drew from the top of his deck. Looking at the newly drawn card, a smirk appeared on Price's face. "If you wish it to be so, luck will always be on your side…"

"Hmm?" Anubis questioned as Price slipped a card into his duel disk.

"Go! Mystical Space Typhoon!" Price roared as a powerful storm swept through the basement area. "Now, I'll destroy the First Sarcophagus!"

"NO!" Anubis snarled as it slammed its fist into the ground, making a large portion of the ground crack under the pressure. "Reverse set! Magic Jammer!"

Lillian quickly slipped a single card from her hand into the graveyard, which immediately transformed the face down card on her field into a large cloud of smoke that crashed into the powerful windstorm, cancelling both of them out.

Price clicked his tongue behind his teeth.

"Damn it," Mustang muttered. "So close!"

"… Who runs Magic Jammer any more?" Cain questioned with a large sweatdrop rolling down the side of his head.

"… You're missing the big picture here," Mustang sighed. "Cause unless Price can pull off a miracle, then next turn he'll be up against an army of the undead again."

"You know I can hear you both, right?" Price yelled as he held up a card from his hand. "Besides, I don't care if an army does appear before me, I won't allow anyone to harm my students! I summon Cerberus Cannon!"

Three mechanical howls echoed through the air as a large three headed wolf-like machine crashed into the field next to Q-3, its blue and silver armor gleaming in the light from the ground (1000/1000). The large mechanical beast snarled loudly as all three sets of glowing red eyes zeroed in on Anubis.

"Now, this monster's a Union monster!" Price announced as he snapped his fingers, the large mechanical Cerberus leapt up into the air above Q-3.

A few moments later, the machine crashed into Q-3's other shoulder, revealing that the main body of the Cerberus Cannon had drawn in the legs and the three heads of the machine transformed into three long barrels (2500/2400 + 500/0).

"New weapon!" Mustang laughed loudly.

"Yeesh, you just had to go with a reference like that," Cain muttered with a roll of his eyes.

Price couldn't help but sigh slightly at the two Obelisk blues behind him, "In any case, Q-3 Cerberus Unit! Attack the face down monster!"

Shifting its metallic body to the side, Q-3 aimed with three barreled cannon and fired several rounds through the air and into the face down Des Lacooda. The rounds exploded and lit the card ablaze before the flames dispersed through the air and past Lillian and Anubis's bodies. Anubis looked as the sparks began to turn blue and encircle his body, "What trickery is this?"

"No tricks," Price answered with his arms crossed. "It's just that once a monster equipped with Cerberus Cannon gains a trample ability! So, you take damage through your monster's defense! And look where all the sparks are!"

The sparks immediately crashed into Anubis's body, making the demon howl out loud, sure a few sparks hit Lillian, but they did minor damage when compared to the burning pains that Anubis was dealing with. (ALP: 3300)

"Ha! That's what you get for messing with my students!" Price roared loudly as he lifted his hand up. "You come here trying to steal a student's body and then you try using her as a shield, I won't allow you to do this sort of stuff… Not as long as I'm a professor!"

"You assume I planned this for a while," Anubis snarled with its clawed arm raised up. "No, this was a last minute ordeal. I did want to come to this realm, but in order for that to happen, a human must open the door for a duel spirit like me. And depending on our individual abilities, each of us has to appear in this world in a different manner – Someone as strong as me is only limited to resorting to stealing a physical body.

"But as I said, I didn't do this, rather, you have your so-called student to thank for that. She was the one trying to open the door to the Duel Spirit realm, I was just the one who reached the door first… If anything, you have this wench right here to blame for all of this happening!

"She was the one who brought me to this world!"

"Yeah, but you were the one who took her body," Price retorted as he slipped a single card into his duel disk. "And frankly, whatever her reasons are for trying to make this 'door' of yours open, I don't care at the moment. All I care about is getting you out of her body!"

"Humph," Anubis growled loudly. "Feel free to interpret how you wish human, are you ending your turn?"

"Yeah, I am," Price stated as the second Sarcophagus began shudder and open, unleashing a sarcophagus that was made out of pure gold over the field.

"Good, for now that means the Third Sarcophagus is now on the field!" Anubis laughed loudly as all three of the Sarcophaguses began to glow brighter and brighter with each passing second. "Now that we have all three of the cards out on the field we can automatically send them away to summon the king of this deck!"

All three of the sarcophaguses shattered into millions of sand particles that wrapped around the two duelists. Price blinked a few times as he watched a large, tall figure (even taller than the End of Anubis!) walk from behind both Lillian and Anubis through the sand. From the sand stepped a towering masked man, one with royal orange and golden Egyptian robes you would see on royalty covering his dark blue, muscular body. The man's face was covered with a golden mask while on his shoulders were two ebony colored statue heads – One of Horus and the other of Anubis. The monster in question stopped walking as it reached the center of the field and lifted its hand up into the air.

All of the sand that was surrounding the two duelists and duel spirit began accumulating into the monster's hand, refining itself into a large and fancy broadsword (2500/2000 + 800/0). Anubis scoffed at the sight of this monster, "Meh, real classy Sprit of the Pharaoh, you always gotta show off, don't ya?"

The Spirit of the Pharaoh turned over his shoulder and leered at Anubis, almost looking ready to attack the duel spirit.

That's when Price's eyes widened at the sight of the monster, 'This… This monster! It's the same thing I saw last night!'

The Spirit of the Pharaoh turned back to Price and stabbed its sword into the ground, instantly making the ground shake. After a few moments, four coffins erupted from the ground, several cracks lining the coffins. "Now, this pharaoh has a commanding ability! When special summoned by the First Sarcophagus, the Spirit of the Pharaoh immediately special summons four level two or lower normal zombie monsters from the graveyard!

"So, this army returns!"

All four of the coffins shattered, immediately unleashing the four mummies that had initiated the original onslaught against Price, the Pharaonic Protectors and Pharaoh's Servants (900/0 + 800/0 x4). "Now wench, draw our next card!"

Lillian didn't move. Her dulled over gaze was drawn over to the Spirit of the Pharaoh that stood before her. For a moment, a tear began to cascade down from the side of her face and fell to the ground.

Anubis snarled loudly as he lifted his clawed hand up to Lillian's torso and wrapped his clawed hands around her neck. "Hurry up and draw, you wretched bitch!"

With the pressure being applied to her neck, Lillian immediately drew from the top of her deck, holding up the cards in her hand towards Anubis. "Finally, now, play the continuous spell – Now!"

Lillian slipped the card into her duel disk, creating a large spell appear behind all five of the zombie monsters at Anubis's field, the spell itself showed the Spirit of the Pharaoh standing before several Egyptian soldiers with his hand held high. "Order of the Pharaoh, this card gains three separate effects, depending if the following cards are in the graveyard – The First Sarcophagus grants all monsters on this side of the field an additional one hundred attack and defense points for each zombie in our graveyard. Des Lacooda, Pharaoh's Advisor and one Goblin Zombie are what reside in this graveyard at the moment, so that's three hundred more points for each monster on my field!"

The Spirit of the Pharaoh (3300/2000 + 300/300) and the four mummies around the field (1700/0 + 300/300 x4) became engulfed in a powerful golden aura. "The Second Sarcophagus prevents my monsters from being affected by non-targeting effects. And Third Sarcophagus prevents the Order from the Pharaoh from being destroyed by spell or trap cards!"

"Crap," Price muttered to himself as Lillian held up one of the two remaining cards from her hand.

"But we're not done, not yet! Play that spell now!" Anubis laughed loudly as Lillian slipped the card into his duel disk, creating a pair of vortexes behind the Pharaonic Protectors and Pharaoh's Servants. "Double Fusion! Now for the mere cost of five hundred points, there can be two Fusions this turn!" (ALP: 2800)

The two vortexes began to pull in both the two Pharaonic Protectors as well as the two Pharaoh's Servants, the two types of monsters getting drawn into their own individual vortexes. "Now, arise my two new monsters!"

Both vortexes shattered like glass, and standing to the Spirit of the Pharaoh's right was a tall, sleek mummy dressed in long flowing purple robes with two white porcelain masks covering his face while in its wrapped hands were a pair of ankhs (2300/0 + 800/0). While from the other vortex emerged a large muscular Egyptian mummy dressed in golden, rusted armor that was covered with bandages draped over its mummified body while there were several spears mounted on its back whiled two were in its hands (2300/0 + 800/0). "Pharaonic Advisor and Pharaoh's Guardsman! And since there are four more zombies in the graveyard, all three of my monster's become stronger!"

The Order of the Pharaoh began to grow brighter, strengthening the Spirit of the Pharaoh (3600/2300 + 400/400), Pharaonic Advisor (3100/0 + 700/700) and the Pharaoh's Guardsman (3100/0 + 700/700).

"Holy shit!" Cain shouted with his eyes widening. "If that's really Rosencrantz's deck, how the hell did this combo fly under the radar?"

"If you really wanna know," Mustang answered with a wag of his finger. "It's because Lillian Rosencrantz isn't here as a duelist, she's here on an educational venue."

"Wow, that's really interesting," Price growled as he kept his eyes on the dueling field. "But in case you didn't notice, I'm up against three terrors of the crypt!"

"Are all humans like this?" Anubis questioned with his head tilted. "It matters not. Thanks to my two new monsters, not only are my spells and trap safe from destruction, but so are they. Non-targeting effects can no longer affect them. So you cannot destroy my cards other than by destroying my monsters through battle…

"But I doubt that's going to help you, Spirit of the Pharaoh! Eliminate his Machine!"

The Spirit of the Pharaoh sighed loudly before he charged forward, his sword grasped tightly in his hands as he rushed Q-3. However a large totem pole with loud speakers in it emerged onto the field between the two monsters. For a second, the Spirit of the Pharaoh stood right there and eyed the weird machine that stood before him…

However, a few seconds later, a large sonic shockwave erupted from the totem pole and sent the Spirit of the Pharaoh staggering back. As the totem pole shattered, Price pulled off the top card from his deck, "Too bad I had set Command Silencer! Which allows me to negate one attack and allow me to draw one card in return!"

"True," Anubis chuckled as Guardsman lifted up its arms and the two spears in its hands. "But, that means that now my Guardsman and Advisor now have fair game against this atrocity of this machine of yours! Guardsman! Lead us off!"

The spear armed mummy dashed over the field, prepared to stab both of the weapons into machine, however, Q-3 merely threw the Cerberus Cannon towards the Guardsman, catching the brunt of the spears' attacks. Unfortunately, when the spears pierced through the cannon, the weapon exploded into a fiery burst that caused the Q-3 to stagger backwards (2500/2400). (PLP: 1400)

"Humph, I take it that the monster weapon took the hit for your monster," Anubis cackled as it licked its teeth. "Too bad it won't be able to help you with this attack! Advisor! Finish this!"

Tossing the ankhs into the air, the Pharaonic Advisor threw its hands forward, sending several bandages through the air towards Q-3. The bandages wrapped around the Heavy Artillery's arms and legs, immediately crushing the metal until the arms were ripped out from the Q-3's body. And with a quick spin, the powerful mummy slammed the dismembered arms into Q-3's body, shattering the rest of the machine into millions of parts that slammed into Price's body, sending him flying back a few feet. "AAAAAAAAARRRRGH!" (PLP: 100)

The three cards in Price's hand fell to the ground as he landed on his back, as he bounced from the ground, blood spurted from Price's mouth with his eyes widening.

Both Cain and Mustang stepped forward from the hall and ran towards Price, "Professor!"

"You humans really are foolish!" Anubis roared, sending a powerful shockwave through the room that stopped both Cain and Mustang in their tracks. "This battle is still in the works, and should either of you lay a hand on him, this battle will be over with – And I'll claim his body!"

"Get over yourself you demented dog!" Cain snarled throwing his arm over to the side. "The guy's wounded over here! At the very least let me finish this duel for him!"

"I am not interested in some pipsqueak," Anubis growled back.

Something snapped inside Cain's mind. "YOU WANNA SAW THAT AGAIN YOU FLEA INFESTED MONGREL!"

"Gladly!" Anubis laughed loudly. "You're as small and pathetic as a mouse, yet you don't realize that I can easily crush you! Now, I have no intention of allowing you mortals of interfering in my affairs, however, I'm a reasonable duel spirit…"

Anubis lifted up its clawed hand and snapped its fingers. A cloud of smoke erupted to the right of the dueling field. The smoke began to disappear and in its place was a large hourglass that had the sand in the top portion quickly slipping down into the lower portion. "This hourglass slips for exactly two minutes. When the sand runs out, this man will forfeit his body to me if he's not back on his feet.

"You may try to wake him up, but you are not to touch him… Better hurry, not too much longer…"

"Great, if this doesn't go well," Mustang groaned loudly. "We're going to have this sexist beast as our professor… I thought we'd get away from the perverted professor cliché."

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Anubis snarled.

TTTTTTTTT

Price stared into space, not really looking at anything in particular – The ceiling, the two loud young men who were standing over him, anything. The pain was circulating through his body, almost as if it were moving along with his heartbeat. This rush of Anubis was powerful, and the fact that the pain was real was practically overwhelming.

Price wanted to help Lillian Rosencrantz, but at this point, what could Price do?

He was weak.

He has always been weak.

Even at his strongest, he was weak.

And this just proved it.

Not even the face down card that he had could help him out at this point.

All Price wanted to do now, was close his eyes and rest…

"I would advise against that," A noble voice sounded, making Price's eyes shoot wide open.

Slowly Price began to sit up, realizing that everything in the basement had frozen still – Cain and Mustang were still standing over where Price was, Anubis had his head held up laughing and Lillian… Well, she was already like a statue except for when Anubis told her to move.

But Price… Well, he could move.

So slowly he stood up.

And when he stood up straight, he realized something.

He wasn't alone.

Standing before him was none other than the Spirit of the Pharaoh, the one who had just lead the assault of Anubis's rush. And this Spirit was looking down on Price with its arms crossed, "Good to see that you're back on your feet, Professor Price."

"What is this?" Price asked quickly. "What's going on? And what the hell do you want?"

The Spirit of the Pharaoh shook his head slightly and sighed, "You are entitled to all of those answers to those questions. First, consider this as such as an… Astral projection of yourself. An out of body experience if you will."

"Huh, and I take it you were the guy who put me in this?" Price questioned with a flat look in his eyes.

"Yes, you could say that," The Spirit answered back. "I felt it necessary to do this in order to speak to you."

"Well, job well done," Price replied as he waved his hand a few times. "What'd ya need?"

"Quick to the point," The Spirit chuckled with a smile on his blue face. "I can respect that. My request is simple, destroy Anubis."

"… Simple's hardly the word I'd use," Price admitted with a bead of sweat rolling down the side of his head. "In case you didn't notice, I'm getting my tail handed over here… And you had a hand in it!"

"Not by choice!" The Spirit barked back. "Besides, you've got a hundred life points still. You can probably turn this around. Heck, you're the only one who can stop this creature from wreaking havoc in this world, and to save Lily."

"… Lily?" Price questioned with his head tilted slightly.

The Spirit of the Pharaoh lifted his hands up and chuckled sheepishly, "Oh, m-my apologies. I've gotten so comfortable to call Lillian Lily that it's become habit of mine. In any case, I only request that you please help her… You may even destroy me to save her, please, I beg of you…"

"And how the hell am I supposed to pull that off?" Price questioned with the flat look in his eyes returning. "In case you haven't noticed, I'm kinda about to lose. Not only this duel, but also my body!"

"I realize that this is tough," The Spirit replied with his head lowered slightly. "But remember why you even bothered trying to help her in the first place. You said you were a professor and that you wouldn't allow one of your students to be harmed. Where did that passion and determination go?"

"Heh, I still have that inside me," Price answered with his arms crossed. "But, frankly, before I continue to help, I think I'm entitled to know what the hell she was doing in the first place. Cause frankly, from what Anubis said, this is… Lily's fault."

"Unfortunately, that is true," The Spirit answered back with a loud sigh. "And it's a long story… So…"

"Mind if we get the short version?" Price requested with his arms raised slightly. "I don't know if you live here all your life like this, but this astral world is kinda freaking me out."

"My apologies," The Spirit replied with a slight bow. "Then allow me to tell my tale. Tell me something, have you ever heard of the Rosencrantz family?"

"It sounds familiar," Price answered.

"They are a dueling family," The Spirit explained. "For the last three generations, the Rosencrantz family had produced several talented duelists in Lily's family. They were quite famous and managed to gain a large amount of fame, especially considering the fact that each of them ran an Egyptian deck, such as Gravekeepers, Horus decks, or in Lily's case – A Spirit of the Pharaoh deck. Of course, when you have a following that large, a family can attract a large amount of attention, both good and bad.

"Ten years prior to this year, when Lily was only six, she was kidnapped by some very bad men. She was held hostage by a group of people who wanted to extort some money from the Rosencrantz family."

Price couldn't help but take a step back, truth be told, the young professor had heard of the Rosencrantz family, but he had never heard of this. Then again, it's possible that the whole thing could've been covered up by the family… "That's… Some story, but what does this have to do with this?"

"When this whole incident occurred," The Spirit answered with his head lowered slightly. "It was the first time I appeared in this world, with an astral form as well. However, due to the connection that I had with Lily, I was able to appear physically in this real world and save her from those vile fiends… I won't go into the details, as they are a little gory."

"Ugh," Price gagged with his tongue out.

"Ugh indeed," The Spirit chuckled slightly. "In any case, I had saved her from those losers, and ever since then, she's been able to see me and sense me. Although, she hasn't been able to hear me, if she had, then I would've told her to refrain from trying to summon me to this world countless times. But, I believe she's enamored with me, thinking that I'm her savior all this time."

Price just stood there and sighed loudly. "Alright, I've heard enough. And this place here is starting to give me a headache. Send me back."

"So, will you try to help Lily?" The Spirit asked again as Price spun around and slowly walked towards his physical body.

Price stopped in his tracks and looked over his shoulder with a warm smile on his face, "I was planning on doing that all along, even if you didn't ask. And I'll do it without destroying you."

"What?" The Spirit questioned.

TTTTTTT

"Time's almost up," Anubis cackled as he watched the sand begin to dwindle down to its last grains. "I would suggest that both of you stand clear of my new body, this process tends to be a little… explosive."

"Damn it," Mustang growled as he stood up and patted the deck case at the back of his belt. 'I should've taken over, Price may be a professor, but this is a duel spirit he's up against… These guys are almost like instant pro league duelist… If only I could take over.'

"Damn it, now I'm gonna have to deal with this," Cain sighed as he leaned over the still unmoving Price. "We're going to have to have some insane creature living in…"

At that moment, Price lifted his head up quickly… Which unfortunately made both Cain and Price knock heads together with a loud clanking sound.

"ARGH!"

"SONVA-!"

Cain was now on the ground clutching his bruised forehead while Price was doing the same, except he was on his two feet with a few tears in the corners of his eyes. Mustang and Anubis looked to each other with beads of sweat rolling down both of their heads. However, the older Obelisk Blue student coughed slightly and smirked at Anubis, "Too bad, looks like you won't get that instant win after all."

"Humph," Anubis growled. "Don't think for a second that just because he's back on his feet, he won't win. He only has a hundred life points left, and nothing can help him this turn."

"I wouldn't say that, you overgrown mutt," Price sighed as he rubbed away the bruise that was on his head and slowly began to pick up the four cards from the floor. "I've seen worse comebacks performed. Now, put a muzzle on that face of yours and let me end this duel!"

With his hand of cards gathered back, Price returned to where he stood originally and drew from the top card from his deck, giving him a hand of five cards. Before he reached for his hand, Price looked at Lillian and then at the Spirit of the Pharaoh. '… I'm not a fan of sob stories, so I'm not about to let another one take place!'

"Since it's my second stand by phase," Price announced as his Future Fusion spell glowed brightly. "So now I can special summon the second Q-3 from my extra deck!"

From the spell card, a second Heavy Artillery appeared on the field and adjusted the rocket launcher on its shoulder (2500/2400). Anubis scoffed at the sight of the large machine, "This useless piece of junk? Meh, how pathetic are you to play something like this again?"

"I'd hold your tongue," Price continued as he turned a card around his hand. "I play the spell card Dark World Dealings, now we both get to draw a card and then discard a card from our decks."

Anubis lifted his hand up, forcing Lillian to draw the next card from her deck. The card was held up to allow the jackal to look at it and its face curled slightly, 'Ah… This trap card, Creed of the Pharaoh, once I play this card I can use its effect to inflict one hundred points of damage to this fool's life points for each zombie in the graveyard. The only cost is that I have the First Sarcophagus, so then I can burn away the rest of your life points and get my new body…'

"Discard the card we didn't draw," Anubis cackled as Lillian slipped a copy of Nightmare Steel Cage into her duel disk's graveyard.

"And I'll discard Quillbolt Hedgehog," Price announced as he slipped the card into his duel disk. "Next, I'm playing another spell card, this one known as De-Fusion! So, Q-3, thanks for all your hard work!"

The large armed machine leapt high into the air, transforming into a large orb of light that shattered into three separate splashes of light that crashed onto the floor, forming into the three Quantity monsters (500/400 x3).

"These three monsters again?" Anubis questioned with his red eyes narrowed. "Are you trying to insult me?"

"Not really," Price stated holding up one of the remaining cards in his hand. "But I can still insult ya – You purple haired mutt. I wasn't don't yet, I can still summon this, I summon Soul Blaze! "

A powerful flame erupted over Price's body, instantly forming into a tall masculine being made out of blue flames that had its arms crossed at Anubis (500/500).

"Another weakling?" Anubis chuckled. "Is your deck full of those?"

"Weakling?" Price questioned with a raised eyebrow. "Tell me something Anubis, what do you think of the girl you're possessing?"

"What does that matter?" Anubis growled loudly with its eyes narrowed down at Lillian. "But I'll consider it your last request with your free will, she's nothing more than a weak human, trying to find a way to find a way to bring this monster…"

Anubis gestured towards the Spirit of the Pharaoh. "To this plain of existence. You humans are so foolish, trying to do anything to…"

"That's enough!" Price roared as he reached for his graveyard. "Let me tell you something Anubis, when people love others, they do grow weaker, but it's nothing to be ashamed of. True weakness lies elsewhere because this is not true weakness. Only those who know weakness will be truly able to become stronger… And you Anubis, you don't know true weakness!"

"Wow, marvelous words!" Mustang announced with a applause.

Cain tilted his bruised head slightly. "Huh, why does that sound familiar?"

Price ignored everything else and slapped a card onto his duel disk from his graveyard, "Now, from my graveyard I special summon Quillbolt Hedgehog!"

A ring of light appeared in front of Price giving him a fifth monster, this one a small, if not cute, yellow furred rodent with several bolts sticking out of its back (800/800) that squeaked loudly.

"That card…" Mustang muttered with his eyes widening.

"Yeah, does that mean that," Cain chuckled, a large smirk plastered over his face.

"Ugh, you dare lecture me about weakness," Anubis growled loudly. "And yet, you just keep on summoning weaklings! They stand no chance against my army of the undead! In fact, the first thing I'm going to do with your body is get rid of such trash!"

Price merely closed his eyes as he lifted up one of the remaining cards in his hand up into the air. "Then I have nothing more to say to you. I play Giant Trunade!"

Anubis's red eyes widened as a powerful windstorm swept up both of his spell cards, making the Spirit of the Pharaoh (2500/2000), the Pharaoh's Guardsman (2300/0) and the Pharaonic Advisor (2300/0) all stagger backwards from the windstorm's fury.

"So what?" Anubis yelped like a dog and threw his arm to the side. "None of your weakling monsters can do a damn thing to me or my slaves! And you can't summon again! Your entire field's full and you already normal summoned!"

"Are you stupid?" Cain chuckled crossing his arms.

"What was that you rat?" Anubis snarled.

"Quillbolt Hedgehog," Cain pointed out with his hand gesturing towards the cute little monster on Price's field. "It can only be special summoned while there's a tuner monster on Price's field… And I'm guessing that Soul Blaze there is a Tuner monster, right Professor?"

"Hell yeah," Price replied with a smirk on his face before he lifted his hand forward and snapped his fingers. "And I've got just enough for one of the best that I've got! I tune my Soul Blaze to all four of my other monsters!"

The fiery man roared loudly, making his entire body erupt into two rings of blue flame that surrounded the other four of Price's monsters, transforming them into five gleaming stars of light. Price threw his hand up into the air, making the flames rocket up into the air around the five stars. "Walking the path of Heaven, justice is myself so I am Justice! Synchro summon Sensou Mech – Kirin!"

The flames immediately crashed in front of Price, and immediately began to rise up again, this time forming into a tall being made out of flames. It only took a few seconds for the flames to scatter away, revealing a tall mechanical warrior that towered over Price's body. It had ebony colored, oriental styled armor with red trim on it and many silver wires erupting from the back of its head, making it look as though it was actually mechanical hair.

The machine crossed its arms in front of its guarded mechanical face and struck a devastating pose that sent several sparks erupting from its body (2500/2000).

"Humph! This is your big move?" Anubis spat out with its red eyes narrowed. "This machine's no stronger than your previous one!"

"Not yet," Price stated as the Sensou Mech – Kirin lifted its right fist up, creating a powerful blue flame around its fist (2500/2000 + 400/400). "But when Soul Blaze is used as a Synchro material, it automatically equips to my Synchro monster and grants it a power boost of four hundred points!

"And now, Kirin! Attack Pharaonic Advisor!"

The dark armored machine dashed forward with its fist pulled back, and with blinding speed, slammed its steel palm into the Advisor's chest. For a moment, the two monsters just stood there, but as if on a time delayed mechanism, the Advisor was propelled through the air and crashed into Anubis's body, making him stagger backwards. "URK!" (ALP: 2200)

However, surprisingly, the Advisor only bounced off of Anubis and landed on the ground, its ankhs scattering across the ground. Mustang noticed this and lifted his hand up, "Professor! I have a question! Why didn't his monster get destroyed?"

"An excellent question!" Price chuckled with one of his fingers lifted up. "You see, Kirin has a very powerful ability, but considering his stats and this ability, he has a standard. He doesn't destroy those who are weaker than him. Rather, he welcomes the challenge of them to come back and try to overcome his strength.

"In game terms, he can't destroy monsters who have a lower level than him."

"Then you just wasted a lot of my time!" Anubis snarled as the Advisor slowly stood back up. "All I need to do is replay my spells next turn and I'll destroy…"

"Kirin! Attack the Guardsman!"

Before Anubis could finish his sentence, Kirin had quickly leapt over to the Guardsman and slammed its leg into the mummy's gut, sending the undead soldier flying right into Anubis's face, knocking both of the duel monsters to the ground. "GARGH!" (ALP: 1600)

As both duel monsters returned to their feet, Anubis rubbed its jar. "What the…"

"I told you, Kirin has a powerful ability," Price answered pumping his fist up into the air. "For each non-tuner monster that was used in his Synchro Summon, Kirin gains an additional attack for each non-tuner! And I had four, so that means that Kirin gets a total of five attacks!

"And frankly, he doesn't like you, so he's aiming the attacks directly at you Anubis! So let's continue this! Attack Guardsman and Advisor once again!"

Both of the Mummies looked at each other before Kirin quickly appeared at both sides of the monsters, grabbing one arm from each of them and immediately threw them into Anubis again, making the mummies fly over Lillian's head. For the third time, Anubis was knocked off his feet and onto the ground with his two monsters. (ALP: 400)

"You sonva…" Anubis growled, only to realize that both the Spirit of the Pharaoh and Kirin were standing over him. "What are you doing? You're under my control! You can't…"

Once again, Anubis was interrupted when both Kirin and the Spirit of the Pharaoh punched the jackal demon right between the eyes, making the demon's eyes bug out when the back of his head collided with the ground, creating a large crater around where Anubis's head had collided with the ground. (ALP: 0)

"Wow, don't normally see that everyday," Mustang chuckled as all of the monsters on the field slowly began to disappear.

"… After all the crap we saw today, that's what you're claiming disbelief to?" Cain questioned with a raised eyebrow. "The fact that the Spirit of the Pharaoh attacked Anubis alongside Kirin?"

"Yeah, pretty much," Mustang admitted as Lillian slowly fell to her knees.

The only monster that was left was just the Spirit of the Pharaoh who had knelt down before Lillian and offered a hand to the young woman. For a moment, Lillian's eyes remained glassy as they were through out the entire duel, but when she saw the Pharaoh's hand, her eyes lit up and she reached for his hand. "Y-You're… You're finally here!"

However, the moment that her hand touched the Spirit of the Pharaoh's, the royal monster began to disappear once more. Lillian's eyes began to quiver as she sulked forward, "Why? Why?"

Before she could break down, a heavy feeling plopped down on her shoulders, and it turned out that there was a large red jacket that was covering her shoulders. When Lillian looked up, she saw Price standing in front of her – Only his red overcoat was now draped over Lillian's body and it was easy to see the black long sleeved, button up shirt he was wearing over his slim body. "Miss Rosencrantz, I have a feeling you did this little stunt to help the one who saved your life or to bring him to this realm as thanks… But let me say this. A bond is a deep connection that can never be broken, even if apart, heart and heart will always be connected, even across worlds, stages of life, or even dimensions."

Lillian turned to the side, trying to hide the blush on her face when she heard Price say that. At the same time, Price was slowly putting on his glasses and sighed loudly.

"That was pretty awesome," Mustang chuckled.

"I think I've heard these lines before," Cain muttered under his breath. "I just can't quite put my finger on where…"

"F-Fools…"

Everyone turned towards Anubis, who's body was slowly fading away from this world, heck, his arms and legs were gone from the elbows and knees. "D-Don't think for a minute… That… This is over with… You may have beaten me, but with my arrival, the floodgates will open."

"And what's that supposed to mean?" Mustang questioned as he walked closer to the disappearing Anubis.

"Heh, where's the fun in that?" Anubis questioned as only his head and chest were the only parts of him in this world, and those were starting to dissipate. "I came to this world… But I'm not the only one… who has that desire."

And soon only Anubis's head remained, but was slowly disappearing. "Enjoy…"

Just like that, Anubis was gone.

"Great," Cain growled as he threw his arms behind his head. "Can we leave now? I'd like to get some sleep tonight. Even if its just an hour or so…"

Meanwhile…

"Hmm, I did not expect him to be here. But still, he has become a lot stronger if he can overcome and banish a duel spirit all on his own. I will have to keep an eye on him while I am stationed here."

And with a flutter of his cape, the mysterious DS hunter began to disappear into the darkness.

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Time: 10:30 a.m.

"And with that, our first official class if over with," Professor Pamela announced with a warm smile on her face. "Thank you all for coming today, and be sure to keep up your reading!"

"Yes professor!"

Pamela sighed with joy as she watched the students begin to pack up their belongings to leave. She always got a natural high when she watched them all do their best in her hard class…

… Of course, they weren't the only ones who had worked hard this morning. "Professor Price, are you alright?"

Seated behind the desk with his head face down on the top of the desk was none other than Price (who was currently wearing a large red vest in place of his overcoat), his eyes were barely open behind his glasses and he had been yawning all morning. And this moment was no different, with a large yawn, Price sat up. "M-My apologies, Miss Lavivista… I was u-up all n-n-night studying the c-class's material and…"

"Aw, you poor thing," Pamela cooed with her hands brought up to her face. "Well, aside from your yawning, I think you did a good job today."

"T-Thank you," Price yawned again, tears appearing in her eyes.

"In fact, why don't you take a break?" Pamela suggested. "You've got an hour before your next class right? How about you take that time to recharge your batteries, I'll take care of any loose ends around here."

"A-Are you s-s-sure?" Price questioned. "I… I can help y-ya know…"

"Price, you're only human," Pamela responded helping Price out of the seat and began to push him out of the room along with the students. "Now, as your superior, I'm telling you to do two things. One, call me Pamela and two, take a little break."

"Uh, o-okay," Price muttered as he was pushed out into the hallway.

Price allowed a lot of the students to walk away, emptying most of the hallway. But shaving a few minutes off his time of rest wasn't going to kill Price, the exhaustion maybe… But the emptied hallways allowed Price to slowly make his way over to the breakroom…

"P-Professor Price?"

He didn't get too far from the classroom when Price stopped in his tracks when he turned around, seeing Lillian standing in the hallway with a paper bag clutched to her chest with a large blush on her face as she looked away from Price's gaze. "Oh, Miss R-R-Rosencrantz, h-how are you t-t-today?"

"… glasses…" Lillian muttered.

"W-What?" Price questioned.

"… P-Please remove y-y-you're g-g-glasses," Lillian quietly requested as her face turned a little bit redder.

"W-What? W-Why?" Price questioned a little taken back at the request.

However, before Price could get an answer, a pair of ghostly hands appeared alongside Price's head and grabbed onto the sides of Price's glasses. "W-What the?"

Price recognized the hands, they belonged to the Spirit of the Pharaoh! From what he could gather, the Spirit of the Pharaoh was standing behind Price and was pulling onto his glasses. "My apologies Professor Price, but Lily made a request, and I feel as though…"

"M-Miss R-Rosencrantz!" Price yelped as he grabbed his glasses, trying to keep them on his head. "P-Please, c-c-c-call him off!"

"L… Lily," Lillian replied as she walked up closer to Price. "P-Please, c-c-call me Lily, and… and I have y-your coat h-h-here…"

"T-Thank you, but, p-please w-what's going on here?" Price moaned as his grip began to slip from his glasses.

"Well, Professor, it would seem that the same thing that happened when I saved Lily," The Spirit of the Pharaoh explained, finally pulling the glasses away from Price and held it in mid-air over Price's head. "She's become enamored with the one who saved her, and since I explained that to her when we were finally escorted to her room, she simply wants to say thanks for the evening prior to today."

"B-But what does t-t-that have to do with my g-g-glasses?" Price yelped with his eyes closed tight.

"Y-You didn't have glasses when you helped me," Lily answered as she placed the paper bag in Price's arms. "S-S-So… I wanted to s-s-she that v-v-version of you a-a-again!"

It was at that moment that the door to the classroom opened up once more, this time allowing Pamela to enter into the hallway with a briefcase, "Oh Professor Price, you're still here and…"

That's when Pamela saw the glasses in the air, unlike Price or Lily, she couldn't see the Spirit of the Pharaoh, so all she saw was the glasses that floated in the middle of the air. For a moment, that's all she saw before her eyes lit up and a bright smile appeared on her face, "Price! Price! Price! Do you see this! There's a ghost here! A spirit! A phantom! You never told me you were haunted before!"

Tears appeared in the corners of Price's eyes, 'The things I do as a teacher…'

TBC

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Card Stats

Double Fusion / Normal Spell / Effect: Pay 500 Life Points. Send, from your hand or your side of the field to the Graveyard, Fusion Material Monsters that are listed on a Fusion Monster Card, and Special Summon that monster from your Extra Deck. (This Special Summon is treated as a Fusion Summon.) You can use this effect up to two times this turn.

Image: Two polymerization images merging together.

This card was used by Yuki Judai in the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX anime.

Pharaoh's Advisor / Dark / LV. 2 / ATK: 0 / DEF: 0 / Zombie/Effect: When this card is destroyed as a result of battle and you take battle damage, for every 500 points of damage you took, special summon one level 2 or lower normal Zombie-Type monster from your deck (monsters special summoned with this effect cannot be used in a Synchro Summon).

Description: into a spirit dressed in fancy gold and blue Egyptian robes that had a headdress of Horus atop of his head.

Order of the Pharaoh / Continuous Spell / Effect: This card gains the following effects if the listed cards are in either player's graveyard:

-) The First Sarcophagus: For each Zombie-Type monster in your graveyard, increase the ATK and DEF of all face up monsters on your field by 100 points.

-) The Second Sarcophagus: Face up Zombie-Type monsters on your side of the field cannot be destroyed by non-targeting effects.

-) The Third Sarcophagus: This card cannot be destroyed by spell or trap card effects.

Image: the Spirit of the Pharaoh standing before several Egyptian soldiers with his hand held high

Pharaoh's Guardsman / Dark / LV. 4 / ATK: 2300 / DEF: 0 / Zombie/Fusion/Effect: [Pharaoh's Servant + Pharaoh's Servant] As long as this card is face up on the field, your opponent cannot destroy face up Continuous Spell or Continuous Trap cards. Once per duel, while this card is in the graveyard, by removing two 'Pharaonic Protector' cards from your graveyard you may special summon this card from your graveyard.

Description: a large muscular Egyptian mummy dressed in golden, rusted armor that was covered with bandages draped over its mummified body while there were several spears mounted on its back whiled two were in its hands

Pharaonic Advisor / Earth / LV. 4 / ATK: 2300 / DEF: 0 / Zombie/Fusion/Effect: [Pharaonic Protector + Pharaonic Protector] As long as this card is face up on the field, your opponent cannot destroy Zombie-Type monster cards with non-targeting effects. Once per duel, while this card is in the graveyard, by removing two 'Pharaoh's Servant' cards from your graveyard you may special summon this card from your graveyard.

Description: a tall, sleek mummy dressed in long flowing purple robes with two white porcelain masks covering his face while in its wrapped hands were a pair of ankhs

Clock Over / Continuous Spell / Effect: When this card is activated, select one Machine-Type monster from your graveyard with 500 or less ATK. Special summon all cards with the same name of the selected monster to your side of the field in Face Up attack mode. Monsters special summoned with this card cannot attack, cannot be tributed, and cannot be used for Synchro Summon. When all three of the special summoned monsters are removed from the field, destroy this card. When this card is destroyed, destroy all special summoned monster with this card's effect.
Image: A red armored warrior with a horn on its helmet standing in front of a frozen explosion.

Cerberus Cannon / Dark / LV. 3 / ATK: 1000 / DEF: 1000 / Machine/Union: Once per turn, during your Main Phase, if you control this monster on the field you can equip it to one Machine-Type monster as an Equip Spell card, OR change it back to a monster in face-up Attack position. When equipped to a monster by this card's effect, that monster gains 500 ATK. When the equipped monster attacks a defense position monster and attacked monster's DEF is lower than the equipped monster's ATK, inflict the difference to your opponent's life points. (A monster can only be equipped with 1 Union Monster at a time. If the equipped monster would be destroyed, this card is destroyed instead.)

Description: a large three headed wolf-like machine with blue and silver armor, along with three cannons mounted on its back.

Soul Blaze / Fire / LV. 2 / ATK: 500 / DEF: 500 / Machine/Tuner: When this card is sent to the graveyard due to a Synchro Summon, you may equip this card to a face up Synchro monster on the field. Increase the ATK and DEF of the equipped monster by 400. When the equipped monster attacks, your opponent cannot chain spell or trap cards until the end of the damage step.

Description: a tall masculine being made out of blue flames

Sensou Mech – Kirin / Light / LV. 7 / ATK: 2500 / DEF: 1500 / Machine/Synchro/Effect: [1 Machine-Type Tuner monster + 2 or more non-Tuner Machine-Type monsters] For each non-Tuner monster that was used with this card's Synchro monster, this card gains an additional attack during the battle phase. This card cannot destroy a monster with a lower level as a result of battle.

Description: a tall mechanical warrior with ebony colored, oriental styled armor with red trim on it and many silver wires erupting from the back of its head, making it look as though it was actually mechanical hair.

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It's… CLUB WEEK!

Newspaper club?

Did you hear about this?

About a mysterious phantom that roams the grounds at night?

So, what does your computer say?

-shrugs-

L-L-Let's do our b-b-best everyone!

So, this is what you do…

Don't underestimate us.

I am the Die Hard Kaiser!

Next time

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