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"Insolence!" the vampire snarled loudly as a red aura erupted over his body, making Mustang stagger backwards slightly from the energy that was thrown towards his body. "You have far too much pride for one so weak! Do you have no clue who you are standing before?"
Mustang blinked a few times at what just happened, and looked at the mysterious vampire who still had energy radiating from his body. 'Well now, looks like my suspicions are well founded… I had a feeling that one of these guys was involved, although, I didn't expect to see that he'd be this powerful.
'Things just got interesting.'
"So, Mr. Vampire," Mustang chuckled as he regained his composure. "Or should I refer to you as Curse of Vampire?"
"Oh? I was wondering if people would recognize me in this world," Curse admitted with his eyes still narrowed down at Mustang. "Still, you're getting in the way of the feast I had planned for this evening. Begone!"
"Sorry to tell ya, but I'm not budging," Mustang stated as he reached into his overcoat. "Especially when there are bloodsuckers on the loose who could potentially hurt people that I care about. And if you truly are the Curse of Vampire, then you should know about this."
Pulling his arm from his jacket, Mustang revealed a pocket duel disk that he immediately slapped onto his right arm, making it fold out. "I know that things like you know that you can't possibly turn down a chance like this."
For a moment, there was a moment of silence through out the woods until…
"Ha ha!" Curse laughed loudly before he turned back to a serious look in his face. "Forgive me, it's just that I find you so amusing."
"What?" Mustang questioned with a raised eyebrow.
"Your challenge to me is nothing more than a dream," Curse explained. "And an excessive dream can cost you more than you might think… I do not see a need to fight against you, you useless mortal. Even if I won this little battle of yours, what would I possibly gain? Your blood would more than likely leave a terrible taste in my mouth for many nights."
"What can you gain?" Mustang repeated with his arms held out. "I know what all you guys want – A physical body."
Price stopped putting his shirt back over his body and lifted his head up, 'A physical body? Wait… Isn't that like…'
"So, you'll relinquish your body should I win?" Curse mused with a fang filled smirk. "A tempting offer, but if your stakes are high, then what are mine?"
"Do you even need to ask something like that?" Mustang replied as he reached into another pocket and pulled out a deck of cards that he easily slipped into the holster of his compact disk. A moment later, the disk began to fold out, revealing the five card slots.
"Fight to live, it's my only amusement," Curse chuckled as he lifted his left arm up, allowing a large orb of red energy to appear on his arm. The energy popped and formed into a blood red duel disk that had a bat-wing design on it as well as being armed with a deck in the deck slot. "So, enjoy your last moments on this earth – Tonight, I shall make a toast with your blood." (CLP: 8000)
"Big talk, let's see you back up those words!" Mustang announced as both duelists pulled out the top five cards from their decks. "Duel!" (MLP: 8000)
"Such fire in your heart," Curse chuckled as he looked over the cards in his hand. "It is admirable to see, therefore, you may take the first turn."
"Much obliged," Mustang stated as he drew the top card from his deck. 'Hmm… Let's think for a second, what would a Curse of Vampire play? Vampires would seem to clichéd for him, and that End of Anubis character didn't even use his own deck – He forced Lillian to duel for him.
'So, this is practically business as usual for me… No problem there!'
Mustang smirked as he slapped a card onto his duel disk, making a face down card appear in front of him. "I'll start with one monster in defense mode, then one card face down… And to end my turn, I'll play Heart of the Underdog!"
As the spell card materialized on the field, Mustang smirked brightly at the card, "A good draw engine card, and one of my favorite cards to boot! Turn end!"
'H-H-Heart of the U-Underdog?' Price thought as he buttoned up the last article of clothing – his coat – on his frame. 'He runs a normal deck?'
"An interesting choice," Curse stated as he slowly plucked a card from the top of his deck. "But it's all for naught. To start my turn, I play a spell card – One known as Dark World Dealings."
Mustang's eyes widened when he heard that, 'A dark world deck? Why would a vampire play 'HIS' deck?'
As the card appeared, Mustang closed his eyes and imagined a younger man with long black hair, pale skin and dressed in a black version of his school uniform – his back to Mustang. 'No! That person's gone!'
"Is your blood as weak as you?" Curse questioned as he drew the top card from his deck. "To tremble at my first card…"
"I'm not trembling cause of you fang face," Mustang answered as he drew. "Now then, I'll discard this monster."
"And I too shall discard a monster card as well," Curse stated as the two duelists fitted the cards into their duel disk's graveyard. "And I shall continue my turn. I choose to summon this – Lonefire Blossom in attack mode!"
The ground before Curse erupted, forming into an odd little plant that seemed to have flames pouring out of its bulb (500/1400).
"… Plants?" Mustang questioned.
"A flower of blood blossoms in the darkness," Curse explained as his Lonefire Blossom began to glow red. "Is truly a masterpiece of beauty – I activate Lonefire Blossom's effect, by tributing a plant on my field, I can special summon another plant from my deck… And since Lonefire is a Plant itself…"
The blossom burned into a bright blaze, immediately allowing a dark flame to erupt in front of the vampire. Slowly the flames receded to reveal a rather striking, green skinned beauty of a woman. It was almost as if the monster card – Vampire Lady had been allowed to mature into a luscious young woman before becoming a vampire, but her green skin was covered in rose themed tattoos and she was wearing a dress entirely made out of roses that had blood dripping from the thorns.
The deadly beauty bowed slightly as she licked her lips (2800/2100) as Curse laughed loudly, "It would be rude not to introduce this young lass – meet Rose, the Night Bringer. Normally, her effect would benefit her summoning, but since she was at the bottom of my deck, I figured I'd make it up to her by making her the first monster to attack with this turn.
"So, Rose, please do the honors."
Rose smiled evilly as she lifted her hand up into the air towards Mustang's face down monster, and suddenly several thorn covered vines shot out from the ground around Rose's feet and flew through the air. Mustang didn't even flinch as the vines slapped into the face down monster, revealing a cloak covered creature with a boney staff in its hand and a porcelain mask covering its face (600/700). The vines wrapped around the monster before it shattered like glass.
"Thank you," Mustang chuckled as he reached for his deck. "The monster you just destroyed was my Phantom Magician, and when destroyed, I can summon out a certain kind of monster from my deck, as long as it has less than a thousand attack points."
"Ah yes, but that's only if your monster goes to the graveyard," Curse chuckled as the vines around Rose's feet immediately dug into the ground and pulled out the Phantom Magician's cloak from the ground and wrapped it around Rose's shoulders. "However, when Rose destroys a monster as a result of battle, it doesn't go the graveyard, it becomes an equip card to her."
"Oh, ho! Impressive!" Mustang laughed loudly with a large grin on his face. "I wasn't expecting that!"
"As I can tell," Curse snickered as he snapped his fingers. "Rose also possesses other abilities, by destroying the monster she has equipped, I can activate one out of three effects. One of which is to destroy one spell and trap card on your field for every five hundred attack points the destroyed equipped monster.
"Since your magician only has six hundred attack points, I can only destroy one card you have… And since I don't want to deal with such bland monsters, I'll destroy your face up spell card!"
Rose grabbed a hold of the cloak and threw it up into the air, shattering it into millions of thorns that flew towards Mustang's field.
But still, Mustang looked calm. "I applaud you for such an excellent opening move, but its not going to work. I play my trap card – Steel Resolve!"
Mustang's face down card immediately flipped up, revealing the image of the same youth that was on the Heart of the Underdog taking a punch to the face by a shadowed goon, all the while a small girl hiding behind the youth. "When you activate a card effect that would destroy one or more of my cards on the field, I can activate this counter trap – Now, by revealing one level four or lower normal monster from my hand, not only can I negate that effect, but I can also destroy the card as well!"
Curse's eyes widened as Mustang turned a card around in his hand, revealing a yellow bordered card that had a weird monster card on it. As Mustang did so, the trap card glowed and allowed the youth on the picture to appear onto the field, taking the attack of the thorns.
When the thorns stopped falling, the youth narrowed his eyes at Rose, making the beautiful monster gasp at the cold glare he was shooting her. And almost instantly she yelped out in terror and disappeared into a cloud of black smoke. Curse's eyes widened, "Rose! No!"
"There's more," Mustang chuckled as he spun the card of choice in his hand. "If the card that was destroyed by this effect was a monster card, I can summon the monster I just revealed to the field – So, welcome to a round of sound of Masked HERO Dusk Crow!"
Leaping from the trap card this time was young armored hero covered with black and purple armor with talons on hiss feet and arms, while his face was covered with a helmet that gave him a look of a crow. Around his neck was a billowing cloak that made the man look as though he had dark feathered wings (1200/1000). For a moment, the Underdog youth and Dusk Crow looked to each other before they nodded to each other.
And with that, the Underdog youth and Steel Resolve disappeared.
"H-Heroes?" Price muttered.
"Mustang! When did you change your deck?" Tenri questioned loudly from her hiding spot.
"Well, it was over the summer," Mustang answered with a shrug of his shoulder. "Most of my Die Hard cards were considered being booted from fair play with their effects and stats – Since that was the case, I didn't want to hear how people think my title was acquired through cheating means. I got my status and title with my own hard work, and with a deck like this, I'll prove it."
"D-Die Hard?" Price questioned, turning towards Hibiki who had been taking pictures of the duel thus far.
"Hmm? Didn't you know megane-kun?" Hibiki asked. "Mustang here is the Die Hard Kaiser, the best duelist on the island."
It took a few moments for that fact to sink into Price's head. "W-W-What?"
"Enough!" Curse hissed loudly as a dark light began to emerge from the ground at his feet. "This duel is still on, and since a level five or higher plant monster was destroyed, I can activate the effect of the monster I discarded with Dark World Dealings – Revival Rose!
"Since Rose was a level eight monster, I can call upon my Revival Rose to guard me!"
From the ground three roses popped out, but from the center of the flowers, there was a single eye in each of them that blinked a few times (1300/1300). "Then to end my turn, I shall set two cards face down."
As the two cards materialized, Mustang drew from the top of his deck, "Then I get to draw!"
Looking at the card, Mustang smirked as he turned it around, "And the monster I drew was a normal monster called Masked HERO Fountain, which activates the effect of Heart of the Underdog! Now I get to draw once more!"
Mustang pulled the top card from his deck and smirked as he turned it around, "And wouldn't you know it? It's another normal monster! This one's Masked HERO Gust! So another draw for me!"
Pulling off his next card Mustang nodded at it and tossed it into his hand, "Unfortunately, my third draw wasn't as lucky, but I'm not complaining. Now, I'll normal summon Masked HERO Gust in attack mode!"
A powerful surge of air erupted through the woods, allowing another masked hero to arrive on the scene – This one dressed in light green armor with fan-like protrusions from his helmet and a long silver scarf wrapped around his neck (1500/1600). "Now then, since you went on the assault, it's only fair that I do the same! Gust! Attack Revival Rose!"
With a powerful leap, the masked hero flew through the air and immediately dropped down to slam his foot right into the middle of the three roses, instantly shattering them into millions of petals.
"And now for Dark Crow's turn!" Mustang announced as he threw his hand forward, making the cloak wearing crusader dash forward.
"I don't think so!" Curse roared loudly as he snapped his fingers, making one of his face down cards flip up. "I play the trap card Thorns of Blood, during the turn a plant type monster is destroyed I can activate this card. Not only do I take no damage for the rest of the turn, but I am then allowed to take one 'Rose' monster from my deck and add it to my hand."
Dusk Crow threw a punch towards Curse, however several thorns erupted from the ground and took the punch for the vampire. "It was a good attempt, just not good enough."
"Not bad at all," Mustang stated as he slipped two cards into his duel disk. "But let's see if you can keep this up!"
"I assure you, I will," Curse stated as he drew from the top of his deck, giving him four cards in his hand. "This turn shall start off with this, my spell card – Seed Cannon."
Another plant began to emerge from the ground, this one looking rather demonic, with having orange bulbs on it. "Now, whenever a plant monster is summoned, I am allowed to place one Plant Counter on it… But we'll get to that later, for now I play my trap card Limit Reverse, so now I can call upon my Lonefire Blossom once more!"
The ground erupted with the familiar, fiery plant spouting fire appeared on the field again (500/1400), and one of the flowers on the Seed Cannon began to bloom. "And just like before, I'll tribute my plant to use its effect! This time I choose to special summon Blood Rose!"
The ground surged as a towering black rose whose spiked roots erupted from the ground, around the roots of the rose were several corpses shriveling into husks as lines of crimson reach up the stem to a hideous mouth-like rose bud with fanged petals and writhing 'tongues'.
Tenri and Hibiki screamed loudly as the fanged flower screeched even louder (0/0), and yet another flower on the seed cannon bloomed. "But I'm not done, not by a long shot, I play a spell card known as Monster Reborn! So, guess who's returning to the field…"
Mustang gritted his teeth at the sight of the Lonefire Blossom (500/1400) reappearing on the field, as a third flower bloomed on the Seed Cannon. "And like before, I'll use its effect to summon another plant monster, this time however, I'll go with something a bit more… Practical – the mighty Gigaplant!"
Price blinked a few times at the sight of the familiar gigantic Venus Fly-Trap (2400/1200), the same monster that Eiji had used against him in the first duel Price had with the academy. All too well he knew what this monster was capable of, and once again, the Seed Cannon's fourth bulb bloomed. "And now, I can dual summon this monster, allowing me to access its powers!"
And for a fifth time, the final bulb on the Seed Cannon bloomed. "And its powers are simple, allowing me to special summon one plant or insect from my hand or grave. And since I detest most insects, I'll choose a plant in the graveyard, so please return Rose, the Night Bringer!"
With a loud screech of the Gigaplant, several petals began to fly down from the sky and float in front of Curse, immediately allowing the rose-dressed woman to reappear, this time with her arms over her chest (2800/2100). "However for the time being, I'll keep her in defense mode."
"Humph, and now you'll use Seed Cannon's effect," Mustang chuckled with his arms crossed. "Meaning now I'll take five hundred points of damage for each counter that's on it… And it's got a full five."
"Hmm, don't be upset," Curse chuckled as he snapped his fingers, making the Seed Cannon point all five of the flowers towards Mustang. "You brought this upon yourself. Seed Cannon! Fire!"
All five of the flowers began to focus down on Mustang and immediately several volleys of seeds that flew towards the Die Hard Kaiser, however, he just stood there as the seed moved past his body. A few seeds struck his body and made small tears and rips in his overcoat and one even made a fine cut on his handsome face.
Slowly blood dripped from the cut and made Mustang narrow his eyes. (MLP: 5500)
"And literally, first blood to me," Curse chuckled as the Blood Rose screeched loudly, its body becoming more and more demonic. "Of course, its at this point in time that Blood Rose's effect comes into play, whenever one of us takes effect damage, my flower blossomed from the blood savors the flavor of pain, gaining attack and defense points equal to the damage we just took.
"So, you don't have to be a genius to guess what it gains."
The 'tongues' of the Blood Rose wagged about as the large body grew more diabolic thorns (0/0 + 2500/2500). "And now, I think its time we get rid of those disgraces you call monsters. Blood Rose! Claim your first meal of the night! Strike down that Dusk Crow!"
All of the 'tongues' on the Blood Rose flew forward, immediately heading towards the masked hero – Who didn't move an inch.
"Don't think so!" Mustang announced as he pushed a button on his duel disk. "I play the trap card – Negate Attack! So, your attack is negated and your end phase ends!"
"However desperate you fight," Curse mused before he fitted the last card in his hand into his duel disk. "My victory does not change."
"Come on Mustang! Don't let that pale freak get the better of you!" Tenri called out as Mustang drew from the top of his deck.
"Not like I was going to let him do that in the first place," Mustang called back as he drew. "Alright, I didn't get a normal monster right now, but I can still use what I've got on the field."
"All you've got are two weaklings out on the field," Curse scoffed. "And while you may be able to sacrifice them for something stronger, you cannot win against my garden of darkness."
"Let me tell you something, bub," Mustang scoffed with his eyes narrowed down at the Curse of Vampire. "I don't have any tribute monsters in this main deck, all the monsters in here are level four or lower."
"Then you're a bigger fool than I thought," Curse sighed loudly. "What sort of duelist would run a deck that didn't have anything stronger than a level four monster?"
"Clean your ears out," Mustang retorted. "I said MAIN DECK, I've got plenty of fire power in my extra deck that I can bust out against ya! Ya see, the Masked Heroes, like their Elemental Hero counter parts have fusions – But, Masked Hero fusions are different, they require a certain spell that can summon them.
"However, when I got a hold of this deck, I managed to get a few cards that while kept with this theme, but still brought out a new power for the Masked Heroes – Dual Fusion!"
"Dual Fusion?" Price, Tenri and Hibiki questioned from their hiding spots.
"Gust! Dark Crow!" Mustang called out to the two heroes who nodded to each other before the stood side by side.
Suddenly, both heroes lifted on arm up – The left for Gust and the right for Dusk Crow – and threw those arms to the other side with their arms bent. For a moment, when their shoulders touched, their arms formed a perfect 'W' before they began to form into pair of powerful lights. Gust was a powerful green and Dusk Crow was a mysterious purple.
"DUAL FUSION!" Mustang called out as the two lights began to merge together.
Instantly the light disappeared and in the two monster's place was a new monster – This one dressed in light armor and jump suit – only the right side was green and the other side was black. The hero's face was covered with a simple mask that had two visors on each side and a small horned crest at his forehead. As the warrior lifted his hands up, a powerful surge of wind erupted through the forest, practically blowing everyone a few inches from where they were and revealing a long silver scarf that was draped around the hero's neck (2500/2000). "Meet another masked hero – Midnight Twister!"
"Wow, that's… That's so fandom!" Hibiki cheered out as she took several pictures of the dueling field.
"That's awesome Mustang!" Tenri cheered even louder.
Price blinked a few times at the monster and then at Mustang, 'I honestly didn't see him using cards like that… Still, I can't help but stare in awe at it.'
"Now then, I think I'll outfit this guy with one of the Masked Heroes' signature weapons," Mustang announced as he held up the card he just drew. "One that works for any Hero! Moto Rider!"
A loud engine roar blasted through the air, allowing Midnight Twister to jump up into the air. As he flipped through the air, a sleek and fast motorcycle revved onto the field where the warrior stood. A second later, Midnight Twister landed on the motorcycle and revved the engines loudly. "And now, for the attack! Midnight Twister! Run over that Gigaplant"
Then with a loud roar of the engine, Midnight Twister rode towards the Venus Flytrap monster with Curse smirking wildly, "You fool! Did you think that that I would allow my monster to fall prey to your attacks? I activate my trap card – Mirror Force! Now your attack…"
Before Curse could continue, a powerful storm swept through the woods forcing all three of his rooted monsters to billow backwards (2400/1200 = 1200/2400) (2800/2100 = 2100/2800) (2500/2500 = 2500/2500). And even though he pushed his duel disk's button again to activate his Mirror Force, the trap never activated, and the masked hero plowed the front tire of his motorcycle into the Gigaplant's bulb, shattering the monster into a lot of plant debris. "URK!" (CLP: 6700)
"Yeah! An eye for an eye!" Mustang laughed loudly as he pumped his arms a few times.
"Impossible!" Curse roared loudly. "Why didn't my trap go off, and why did my monster's strengths switch?"
"Oh that, well, my combo came into effect," Mustang explained as Midnight Twister rode back in front of him. "First there's Midnight Twister's effect, when he attacks, any non-hero monsters get their stats flipped… And it's permanent, at least until he attacks again.
"Then there's my Moto Rider, it can only be equipped to a Masked HERO, but when it is, when that hero attacks you can chain any spell or trap cards. In addition, when the equipped monster destroys a monster in battle, I get to nuke one spell or trap card on the field, so naturally, I chose to nuke your face down card – Since you kindly told me what it was."
The Curse of Vampire gritted his teeth and growled loudly at Mustang, "You accursed human! How dare you do that?"
"How?" Mustang mused. "Its cause I'm daring!"
However, before Mustang could continue, several thorns erupted from the ground near Curse's feet and stabbed through his torso, allowing a large amount of black blood to seep from the vampire's body. "GARGH!" (CLP: 6200)
"What in the world?" Mustang questioned as the blood flew through the air and seeped into Blood Rose's body (2500/2500 + 500/500).
"Blood Rose has another effect," Curse coughed as the wound on his body began to close up. "Whenever a Plant monster is destroyed, the owner of that monster loses five hundred life points. And since my rose gains attack and defense for any amount of damage that either of us take, that means that even if you take down my other members of my dark garden, then you still will help out with one of my strongest creature's strength."
'One of his… That means he's got more of these things floating around his deck?' Mustang shook his head as he looked at the four cards in his hand. "I end my turn."
"Yes, that is all you can do," Curse stated as he drew from the top of his deck and narrowed his eyes. "Now, Rose, the Night Bringer! Stand to attack mode… But since her attack has lowered thanks to your monster's pathetic ability…
"Blood Rose! Remove his monster from the field! Bloodied Thorns!"
With a loud roar, the tongued rose summoned several vines that flew towards the Midnight Twister and slammed into the hero. The vines wrapped around the hero's body and the Moto Rider and began to pull the warrior's limbs tighter and tighter and away from the main body. However, the monster shattered before the scene became too gruesome. (MLP: 5000)
"Taste the blood of your pathetic monsters," Curse laughed loudly as he held his arms up. "Your pathetic monster has been destroyed and it's only the beginning of my festival of blood.
"Rose! Feast on his blood with a direct attack!"
Once again, the green skinned beauty lifted her hand up and summoned countless vines that flew through the air towards Mustang. However, a smirk appeared on his face just as the vines were about to collide with his body. "I play my trap card! Defense Draw!"
With a spin on his heel, Mustang kicked the vines up into the air, and surprised Rose as he drew from the top of his deck. "Just be glad that all my trap card can do is lower the damage to zero and allow me to draw another card from my deck."
"You fool, now you're just struggling against the inevitable," Curse chuckled as he fitted the last card in his hand into his duel disk, making it appear in front of him. "Try as you might, your struggling will not…"
"You done yet?" Mustang asked with his brow narrowed down at the Curse.
"What?" the Curse of Vampire muttered as he blinked a few times.
"Sure, you've got powerful monsters, and you managed to take down one of my heroes," Mustang admitted with a dull look on his face before he drew a card from his deck and smirked at it. "But, just attacking with powerful monsters isn't a strategy, and I'll show you a real strategy! Check it, I just drew Masked HERO Rekka, so now I can draw again!"
When Mustang pulled his next card however, his eyebrow raised a little bit, 'Well, well, well, I didn't expect to see you here so soon… I don't need you right now, but it's good to have ya in my hand.'
"This time, I didn't draw a monster, but I can still summon Masked HERO Rekka in attack mode!"
As soon as Mustang slapped the card onto his duel disk, a powerful flame in front of him. And stepping from the flame was another masked hero – this one covered with blazing red armor with yellow spikes about it (1600/1000). The warrior nodded his head as he crossed his arms over his chest.
"And now, for the true power of the Masked Heroes – Mask Change!"
A bright light erupted over Rekka's body, making the man place his hands on both sides of his belt. Then on his chest armor, several cracks appeared, with a large amount of steam erupting from his body, it wasn't long until the rest of his armor was following suit with countless cracks spiraling from his armor.
Until finally with a loud battle cry, the Masked Hero's armor shattered from his body with a bright flame surging over his body. "So, give it up for Masked HERO Goka!"
The flames began to subside, but still flew about the air as a new hero stood in place of Rekka, this one dressed in brighter red armor that had curved horns on his helmet and shoulder pads while he wore a black and orange jumpsuit over his slim body. The warrior slammed his fists together, creating a powerful surge of flames that flew through the woods (2200/1800).
"That's what I call a monster!" Tenri was in awe at the sight of Goka, her eyes as bright as the stars above.
"You said you'd show me a strategy, but I've yet to see this so called strategy," Curse of Vampire stated with its arms crossed. "But that monster is pathetic, and it has no beauty at all in its form."
"No monster is pathetic," Mustang stated as a powerful red energy erupted over Goka's body (2200/1800 + 400/0). "And Goka's no slouch! For each HERO in my graveyard, he gains one hundred attack points! And thanks to your dark world dealings, I dropped a Hero in my graveyard in the first turn!"
"It cannot topple my Blood Rose," Curse pointed out.
"He doesn't have to," Mustang stated as he threw his hand forward. "He's gunning for Rose, the Night Bringer! And what's a plant's worst fear? FIRE!"
Holding its hands up, Goka revealed the two powerful flames that had completely engulfed the hero's hands, making Rose gasp loudly. "Now… Kamen Punch!"
With a quick dash, Goka immediately appeared in front of Rose and slammed his fist directly into her stomach. That started a chain reaction which lit the beautiful flowery beauty aflame and burnt her to ashes. (CLP: 5700)
"Fool, did you forget about my other monsters?" Curse roared as the thorns stabbed into him again, allowing Dark Rose to roar loudly once again (3000/3000 + 500/500), while at the same time, the Revival Rose (1300/1300) sprouted from the ground. "My monster's effects activate at this moment!" (CLP: 5200)
"So I've noticed," Mustang stated as he took two cards from his hand and slid them into his duel disk. "But I'm not worried. Turn end."
Curse drew his next card and smirked at the sight of it, "You will be worried, I play the spell card – Fragrance Storm. Now, by destroying one face up plant monster, I can draw a card, and since Revival Rose is useless to me, it makes the perfect monster for this!"
The Revival Rose shattered into millions of petals that flew around the Curse of Vampire's body, allowing him to draw a card. "And just like your Heart of the Underdog, should I draw a Plant-type monster, I can reveal it to you to draw another card, and look what I just drew."
The vampire turned the card around, revealing a monster known as Bloodied Seed, the card glowed a bright green to signify that it was indeed a plant, and allowed Curse to draw another card. "In addition, since I destroyed another plant monster, I suffer another five hundred points of damage." (CLP: 4700)
The thorns stabbed into Curse's body, however he only smirked as the Blood Rose grew even larger (3500/3500 + 500/500).
"Anyone got any weed clippers?" Mustang joked with a smirk on his face.
"Keep making jokes," Curse announced as he slapped a card onto his duel disk. "I summon Bloodied Seed from my hand!"
As soon as Curse slapped the card onto his duel disk, a large seed appeared on the ground in front of the vampire, this monster coated with blood (0/0). "Next, I play my trap card – Bamboo Scrap! And while this card doesn't fit the theme, it certainly helps with my feast of blood – by tributing one Plant-Type monster on my field, I can special summon two Plant Tokens.
"Be gone my Bloodied Seed!"
The seed shattered into millions of spores that floated around the air.
"Sure, go for it," Mustang stated with a smirk on his face as the spores began to float down to the ground.
"You misunderstand," Curse stated with a smirk on his face. "I do not aim to summon to my field, they are summoned to yours!"
Mustang's eyes widened as two large flowers popped up in front of him, both of them with black petals and dripping with blood (800/500 x2). "Take heed, they are in defense mode. But still, that activates my Bloodied Seed's effect, allowing me to special summon one level three or lower plant monster, other than itself, from my graveyard, so, reveal yourself once again – Lonefire Blossom!"
Once again, the fiery flower appeared on the field in front of Curse (500/1400). Mustang moaned loudly at the sight of the monster, "Man, don't you have any other moves?"
"Hmm, complain all you want," Curse stated as his Blossom shattered once again. "It will fall unto deaf ears! Lonefire, I sacrifice you to bring out Dark Rose Knight!"
'What? I was expecting another Rose, the Night Bringer or Blood Rose,' Mustang thought to himself as he watched as the dark flames in front of Curse began to subside.
And stepping from the flames was a dark armored knight with a long purple cloak that had several rose designs embroidered on the fabric. The warrior itself held onto a shield that had a black rose design on it (1000/800). "Now watch and be amazed, as I now sacrifice my Knight to use its effect. Now, I can special summon any plant monster from my graveyard… So, return my beauty!"
Holding its shield up, the Dark Rose Knight immediately shattered into millions of black petals that danced about the clearing. A few seconds later, Rose, the Night Bringer (2800/2100) reappeared in all of her glory, with a slightly irked look on her face.
"There she is," Mustang chuckled. "So, are you going to attack now?"
"I'd be a fool to do so when you have two face down cards," Curse stated as he lifted up the last card in his hand up. "But that doesn't mean I can't inflict damage to you this turn, I play the spell card, Weed Pulling! Now, all level three or lower plant monsters on the field are destroyed, but currently, that only refers to monsters on your side of the field!"
Mustang's eyes widened as he watched both of the flowers on his field shatter into millions of pixels. Curse smirked as he pulled off two cards from his deck, "Then for each plant that was destroyed, I can draw one card. So, that means two cards for me. However, during the turn I use this effect I cannot use the cards and I must skip my battle phase.
"However, that doesn't mean I can't hurt you. Blood Rose's effect now activates! Since you lost two plant monsters, you take five hundred points of damage for each of them!"
Mustang's eyes widened as he watched the thorns erupt from the ground and aim right at him… However, the Die Hard Kaiser quickly jumped up at the last second and dodged the thorns as they crossed paths. "Ha!" (MLP: 4000)
"Dodge all you like," Curse hissed loudly as Blood Rose began to grow larger (4000/4000 + 1000/1000). "But that still won't change my monster's attack. Turn end."
Mustang took a second to look at the field. He still had his two face down cards as well as his Heart of the Underdog and Goka. Then there were the two cards in his hand, two other monsters.
With a shake of his head, Mustang smirked as he drew from the top of his deck, "My draw!"
Looking at the card, Mustang raised an eyebrow, but smirked, "I didn't draw a normal monster. However, I did draw this! The spell card Hand Destruction, so, now both of us drop two cards from our hands and then draw two different cards from the top of our decks."
Curse narrowed his eyes as he tucked the two cards he had in his hand into his duel disk's graveyard slot (the cards were Revival Rose and a spell card – Garden of Dark Roses). Both duelists drew from the top of their decks and Goka's body began to grow much more brighter (2600/1800 + 200/0). "The two monsters that I discarded were both heroes, so Goka's attack points increase as such. But I'll activate my trap card – Birthright! Now I can call back Masked HERO Bassols!"
In a bright light, another, more muscular hero appeared on the field, this one dressed in bulky gold and black armor with his dark gray jump suit covering his body (1000/700). The flames around Goka dissipated slightly, but still covered him fully (2700/1800).
"These monsters of yours disgrace my dark garden," Curse snarled. "Why do you play such creatures?"
"Why?" Mustang mused. "Why not? I think they're just plain awesome. Now, I think its time I continue my move! I play my spell card – Mask Change! This time, I'm choosing Bassols!"
Bassols slammed his fists together, making a powerful bright light over the monster. Once gain, several cracks appeared over the masked hero's armor until it shattered with a bright light.
As the light began to die down, another new Masked Hero appeared on the grassy field – dressed in white armor with a gold trim on it. The warrior had a long rapier in its hand and had a long flowing black cape attached to the warrior's shoulder pads. However, the most interesting aspect of the Masked Hero… Was that this hero was clearly female (2800/3000). "Meet Masked HERO Daian!"
"Hmm, an elegant monster, I suppose," Curse admitted with his eyes rolled at the sight of Goka Regaining its strength (2800/1800). "However, neither of your monsters are strong enough to defeat either of my Roses."
"Don't you know anything about Heroes?" Mustang replied as he looked at the card he had in his hand. "When two or more heroes are together to fight evil, they combine their strengths together! I play Attack Union!"
Both of the Masked Heroes turned towards each other and nodded at each other. Then both of the Heroes leapt high into the air, both of them spinning through the air before the dropped down towards Blood Rose and extended their legs to deliver a pair of powerful kicks. Curse smirked wildly as he threw his hand up into the air, "If you're so insistent of granting me your body, I will not deny your wish!
"Blood Rose! Finish his ridiculous monsters off!"
The tongues on the rose flew through the air, aiming to take out the two heroes, however a powerful surge of wind and flames erupted around the two heroes (2800 + 2800 = 5600), and knocked the tongues away. Curse's eyes widened as both of the Heroes slammed their feet into the rose's roots and covered the entire rose with flames that burned it nothing but embers. (CLP: 4100)
"And in case you didn't realize," Mustang stated with a wild smirk on his face. "Attack Union allows me to combine my two monsters' attack into one. And guess what, thanks to Daian's effect, I can now summon a level four or lower hero monster from my deck to the field!
"So, give it up for Masked HERO Fountain in attack mode!"
With his arm lifted up, Mustang immediately snapped his fingers and allowed another hero to fall from the sky in front of him, this one dressed in light blue armor with a long white scarf billowing from his neck. The warrior lifted his hand up and revealed that he held onto a blue rose in his hands (1000/1400).
"You're not the only one who can summon a monster!" Curse hissed loudly as two bright lights emerged around his field, creating two Revival Roses in front of him (1300/1300 x2). "Thanks to your earlier efforts, I had discarded a second Revival Rose from my hand, and now, I am able to draw on both of their powers."
"Yeah, yeah," Mustang nonchalantly stated with a wave of his arm. "So you get your two roses back, congrats."
Curse huffed loudly as he drew from the top of his deck, his eyes gleaming at the sight of the card he just drew. "Your sarcasm is only a front for the fear that I can smell – I play the spell card, Pot of Avarice! Now, return to my deck Gigaplant, Blood Rose, Dark Rose Knight, Lonefire Blossom, and Bloodied Seed! Grant me more strength to overcome this foolish human!"
Five flower petals flew from Curse's graveyard slot, and immediately transformed into the fore-mentioned cards. The vampire immediately took hold of the cards and slipped them into his deck, allowing the cards to shuffle themselves into his deck. And then with simple flick of the wrist, the Vampire pulled the two cards from the top of his deck. "Hmm, interesting. It would appear that the night has decided to favor me with this turn."
"Huh?" Mustang questioned with a raised eyebrow.
"I summon Blue Rose Maiden!" Curse announced as a large flower bud erupted from the ground in front of him.
The flower was definitely a rose, but it had blue petals instead of the usual red. The blue rose began to bloom and in the center of the flower sat a rather beautiful, if not sad young girl with pale skin, leafy blue hair and dressed in a blue rose petal covered dress over her small frame (400/800).
Mustang eyed the sad beauty and raised an eyebrow at the monster, 'That's odd, I would've figured he'd try to bring out another Lonefire Blossom and get Blood Rose back out…'
"Now, my maiden," Curse chuckled as he held his hand up towards the Blue Rose Maiden. "I believe it is time to use your natural ability… I tune my level one Blue Rose Maiden to my two level four Revival Roses!"
"Tuning?" Price, Tenri and Hibiki all gasped as the Blue Rose Maiden shattered into millions of rose petals that flew around the two Revival Roses, which had also exploded into millions of red petals.
Mustang narrowed his eyes as he watched the petals dance about the field until finally they began to form into a large towering creature that stood before Curse. The creature itself was at least twenty feet tall and was vaguely humanoid. However, the rose petals began to fly off of the creature's body, revealing a dark armored warrior with several roses erupting from beneath the armor of the warrior. A long black cape billowed from the armor's shoulders and a vine covered sword was grasped in the armor's hands (2900/2000). "This is the king of my deck – The Black Rose King!"
"… That would be so cool, if it wasn't going to be used against me," Mustang admitted with a nervous smirk on his face.
"You haven't seen the worst of it yet, I activate the spell – Black Garden!" Curse laughed out loudly as the ground erupted with several thorny vines that flew around the two duelists, forming into a large cage around the two of them. In addition, countless black roses bloomed on the cage. "Now, in this hallowed garden's presence, any time one of us summons a monster, that monster's attack and defense will be cut in half and the opposing duelist shall receive a Rose Token.
"However, I shall not fall prey to this – I discard one card from my hand to activate Dark Gardener!"
Discarding one of the final two cards from his hand, Curse fitted the last card in his hand into his duel disk, making the final card materialize in front of him. The card itself showed a demonic gardener watering several roses that have rows of teeth on their petals. "Now, as long as this card is face up on the field, I need not fear the effects of my garden. But that's besides the point…
"Rose! It is time to finally gain your revenge! Destroy Fountain!"
Raising her fingers to her lips, the Night Bringer blew a kiss towards the masked hero, allowing several thorny vines to follow suit and aim for the hero.
Mustang snapped his fingers and made one of his face down cards flip up, "I have no intention of allowing my heroes to fall so easily! I play Covering Fire! Now, Fountain gets a back up boost from Goka! So now my monsters will be…"
However, as Mustang explained this, several vines erupted from the ground and ensnared his trap card, covering the card before they crushed the trap card into nothing. "What the…"
"Perhaps I should explain," Curse chuckled as he pulled off the top cards from his deck. "You see, my Black Rose King has three separate effects, which effect he gets depends on what the top card of my graveyard is. For example, if it was a trap card like it is now – I can negate the activation of one of your spells or traps and destroy it, and all I have to do is send the top two cards from my deck to the graveyard. And I should point out that now, my attack continues!"
Rose's vines continued on their path, and immediately wrapped around the Masked Hero before they crushed him into nothing but flying pixels. (MLP: 2200)
With a smirk, the Night Bringer snapped her fingers and lifted up the blue rose that Fountain held in his hands. "And let's not forget that my monster's attack doesn't send your hero to the grave, it becomes an accessory for my lovely little Rose… But more importantly, that means your Goka doesn't receive any more attack points.
"Black Rose King! Slay Goka!"
The tall knight drew his sword high over his head and immediately leapt over the field and brought his sword down on the fiery hero, slicing the hero in two pieces that fell to the ground. The pieces disappeared into a powerful flame that danced through the air around Mustang's body. (MLP: 2100)
"And another thing I should note," Curse laughed loudly as he reached for his deck. "When I activated his effect, Black Rose King forced me to discard two cards, and the top one was a spell card, my second Black Garden. So, since there is a spell card now atop of my graveyard, I can use another effect of his.
"And the one that entails spell, I can now draw till I hold five cards in my hand!"
Curse slipped the five cards from the top of his deck into his hand, "Much better, now I can finally access more from my garden – For my second main phase, I shall place two cards face down and then I'll activate Rose's ability – Sending your Fountain to the graveyard to inflict an additional thousand points of damage to you!"
Rose smirked as she tossed the blue rose up into the air, making the petals of the flower scatter about before they transformed into several orbs of light that shot from the air and around Mustang's body. "Grrr…" (MLP: 1100)
"You are the so called best duelist on this island?" Curse mused as he brought one of his hands up to his mouth and smirked at Mustang. "Then things will become all the more interesting once I have acquired my new form, a true king will appear. To end my turn, I play a second Seed Cannon!"
Tenri bit her lip as the large five budded flower appeared on the field once again. "Mustang! Be careful! He's trying to do that trick again!"
"Indeed, and with my Black Garden," Curse chuckled. "This pathetic attempt is over with!"
"Don't get your hopes up," Mustang stated as he drew from the top of his deck, making him blink a few times as he looked at the card he just drew. "I'm still in this game, you Fright Night reject."
"Perhaps, but it won't be much longer for you," Curse chuckled loudly. "This carnival of blood is starting to bore me, so end your pathetic little turn and grant me what I so desire."
"How about you let me show you what I can truly do," Mustang answered back as he pushed a button on his duel disk. "I play my spell card, Spellbook in the Pot! Now, both of us draw three more cards!"
"Fine by me," Curse chuckled as he slowly drew from the top of his deck. "I could use a refresher."
"Too bad you won't get to use it," Mustang answered looking over the cards in his hand. "I summon Diehard Wanderer!"
A large amount of dust began to fly up around the two duelists, and harmonica music began to play through the air. Slowly, stepping from the dust was a young man with long, shaggy black hair that billowed down past his shoulders which were covered with an old, brown and silver cloak. In the man's hands that popped out of the cloak was a small harmonica that he played with each step (1000/800).
"Well, he just wandered into the wrong location," Curse laughed loudly as he snapped his fingers. "My Black Garden ensnares your monster and cuts its attack in half!"
Several vines immediately wrapped around the Wanderer's body, however, the young wanderer simply just continued to play his harmonica (500/800). While at the same time, a large black rose erupted from the ground in front of the Curse of Vampire (800/800), making one of the buds on the Seed Cannon open up. "And at the same time, I get a Rose Token, so, thank you for doing this – It'll make defeating you all the easier."
"Next, I play a spell card!" Mustang continued as he fitted a card into his duel disk, making a ghostly spirit appear in front of him. "I play Silent Doom! So now I can special summon a normal monster from my graveyard in defense mode – Return Masked HERO Trooper!"
From the ghostly spirit, another Masked Hero stepped onto the field, this one dressed in a black jumpsuit with gold armor covering his body and a sharp helmet that had a purple visor and silver mouth-guard on it (800/400 – 400/0). As the warrior crouched down onto the ground, countless vines erupted from the ground and wrapped around his body. At the same time, another black rose (800/800) sprouted from the ground and the second bulb on the Seed Cannon bloomed.
Curse raised an eyebrow at the odd monster. "What in the world are you trying to accomplish? If you wanted to lose, you could just surrender."
"I'm not aiming to surrender," Mustang retorted as two cards popped out from his dueling deck. "I'm aiming to wind! Now, here's the real kicker about my trooper, while on the field and graveyard, he's considered a normal monster, so I can use my Silent Doom to bring him out. But then there's his true effect, when special summoned, I can call out all other copies of him from my hand or deck, and I've got both of them in my deck!"
Mustang slapped the cards onto his duel disk, making two more of the troopers appear in front of him, both of them crouched down as the vines wrapped around them (800/400 – 400/0 x2). Curse laughed loudly, "You fool! Do you realize what you're doing? You're just making this all the easier for me to vanquish you!"
However, only one more Rose Token emerged from the ground (800/800), making a third flower bloom on the Seed Cannon. Mustang smirked at the field, "Yeah, but now you've got a field filled of weeds, so you can't get any more tokens."
"Like I need them," Curse cackled loudly with his arms raised up high into the air. "I don't need to summon any more monsters, I have my Seed Cannon! And next turn, I can use its effect to end this mockery of a duel."
"You don't get a next turn," Mustang answered as he threw his hand up into the air. "Cause now, I'm bringing out the big guns! You see, Diehard Wanderer has a unique trait, one that you yourself used – He's a tuner!"
Curse's eyes widened as the harmonica playing wanderer shattered free from the vines, forming into four green rings of light that flew over Mustang's body and the three troopers that were on his field. "I tune my level four Wanderer to my three level two Masked HERO Troopers!"
The three troopers each transformed into two stars each, all of which collided with Mustang's body – And the moment they did, a powerful surge of light erupted around Mustang's body, completely covering the duelist for a few seconds until a powerful iron covered fist erupted from the tower. "To Synchro summon – Masked Banchou!"
The tower shattered like glass, revealing that Mustang was now dressed in a long, flowing black overcoat with several rips and tears in it, along with a blood stained red shirt and black pants. Covering his face was now a steel mask that had a yellow visor over his eyes and a large black hat that had an 'M' symbol atop of it. The newly dressed Mustang crossed his arms and narrowed his eyes down at the Curse of Vampire (2800/2400).
"W-What in the world?" Price gasped from the bushes. "What just happened?"
"… Its one of Mustang's tricks," Hibiki answered, taking a few more photos of the duel.
Curse stepped back slightly at the sight of Mustang transforming into a masked monster, but then smirked at the sight of all the vines that wrapped around Mustang's body (1400/2400), "You fool, did you think that your little trick would be enough to spare you from my Garden's snare? How childish."
"… Nope," Mustang stated as he lifted up his arm, revealing that he still had his duel disk on. "I knew it was going to happen, when facing a deck filled with roses, I had a feeling I'd have to deal with a Rose Garden, but it didn't matter to me – Especially when Masked Banchou is still stronger than your Rose Tokens!"
Mustang cracked his knuckles loudly, "And I still have Daian out on the field – Meaning I can bust out another monster from my deck when I destroy one of your monsters!"
'True, but none of your attacks will never reach me,' Curse thought to himself as he looked down slightly. 'My trap will stop him in his tracks, and I still have my own insurance just in case you try something…'
"But first," Mustang announced as he threw his hand over towards his final face down card, making it life up. "The Masked Banchou needs a little bit of a boost – So I'm activating the trap card – Synchro Strike! Now I can bolster my attack points by five hundred for each monster that was used in Masked Banchou's Synchro summon, so that's two thousand points!"
Mustang flexed his muscles as a powerful fiery aura erupted over his body (1400/2400 + 2000/0). "And now… I'll go on the attack! I'm going to topple that titan of yours!"
Using his powerful legs, Mustang dashed across the field, running directly towards the Dark Rose King, his arms held back. Curse laughed loudly as he pushed a button on his duel disk, "You foolish mortal! That will be your last mistake! Wall of Thorns! Destroy him!"
The ground shook as countless thorny vines erupted from the ground and flew towards Mustang, aiming to grapple him. However, Mustang threw his arms forward and began to unleash an onslaught of punches that swept the thorns, in addition, a large ghostly spirit of the Masked HERO Rekka appeared Mustang's charging form and aided Mustang in deflecting the thorny vines. Curse's eyes widened as Mustang leapt through the remaining vines and flew towards the surprised Dark Rose King. "WHAT!"
Without answering, Mustang spun around and quickly slammed his fist into the Dark Rose King's chest armor, sending the king staggering backwards. At first, the attack looked as though it had done nothing to the plant themed monster, but then, several cracks began to web their way through the King's armor. The royal monster roared out before it shattered into millions of petals that flew around the Curse of Vampire's body. "No… But my trap… It… It should've destroyed all of your monsters!" (CLP: 3600)
Mustang landed on the ground and cracked his neck a few times, "It should've, it could've, but it didn't. Don't underestimate me vampire – When Synchro summoned with three or more normal monsters, the Masked Banchou gains the ability to negate the activation of a spell or trap card by simply removing one normal monster from my graveyard.
"And thanks to you, I've got plenty to use."
"Then, t-t-that means," Curse gasped as he staggered backwards.
"Your face down cards don't matter!" Mustang announced as he threw his fist to the side, holding his thumb down towards the Curse.
"YEAH! GO FOR IT MUSTANG!" Both Tenri and Hibiki cheered loudly.
'He was just playing with that vampire,' Price thought as he watched Mustang jump back to his side of the field. 'But still…'
"Heh, maybe," Curse spat as he regained his confidence. "But you forget one thing!"
"Oh?" Mustang questioned as he tilted his head slightly.
"Yes! You couldn't help but showboat, could you?" Curse cackled loudly as he held his arms up into the air. "Even if you had attacked my Rose Tokens with both of your monsters, from what I've seen, your monsters are weak! You couldn't deplete my life points unless you had a level four or lower monster from your deck with at least eighteen hundred attack points.
"But that's moot! Even if you do have a monster of that strength, you can't defeat me! And thanks to my Seed Cannon, you'll lose automatically and…"
Curse didn't get a chance to finish, for at that moment, Mustang immediately appeared before one of the three Rose Tokens and slammed his foot into flower's bulb, shattering it into millions of purple petals that flew past the Curse. "WHAT NOW!" (CLP: 1000)
With a wag of his finger, Mustang chuckled loudly, "Did I say that the Masked Banchou had only one effect? Nope! You see, depending on how many normal monsters were used in its Synchro summon, it grants me several effects. Since I used at least two, I can attack twice a turn! Which means…"
"This duel's over!" Hibiki and Tenri cheered loudly as the Masked HERO Daian leapt high into the air.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Curse screamed loudly as the Masked Hero sliced the sword through one of the rose tokens and sliced it in two! (CLP: 0)
For a moment, everything was calm, but slowly, the Black Garden began to wither with several petals slowly falling to the ground as all of the monsters on the field began to disappear and the outfit that Mustang was wearing to reveal his Obelisk Blue uniform. Then with a spin on his heel, Mustang smirked at the group in the bushes with a bright gleam of light glistening from his teeth. "And just like that, judgment from the Kaiser has been rendered.
"… Kaiser's ruling – Defeat!"
Curse stumbled backwards until he stepped on his cloak and fell to the ground. "Who… Who are you!"
"Are you deaf?" Mustang replied with his eyes narrowed down on the shaking blood sucker. "I'm Mustang! The Die Hard Kaiser of Pacific Duel Academia! Now, repeat after me!"
"Huh?" Everyone questioned as Mustang pointed towards Curse of Vampire.
"This world," Mustang stated as he pumped a fist towards Curse. "Say it!"
"T-This world!" Curse yelped loudly as a dull blue aura popped over his body.
"Is made of," Mustang continued as he sprung up two of his fingers into a peace sign.
"Oh for the love of," Price sighed loudly. "I didn't think anyone in this day and age would recall a reference this obscure…"
"I-Is made of," Curse yelped as he slowly began to fade away.
"LOVE AND PEACE!" Mustang cheered loudly with a goofy smile on his face.
Curse yelped out loudly his entire body began to fade away, "L-Love and p-p-peace!"
And like that, Curse disappeared from the world, several cards spilling onto the ground where the vampire was once seated at. Mustang smirked at the sight of the cards and spun around towards the group behind him, "Dude, I rock."
"So many references in one match," Price muttered loudly with his head lowered.
"Aw, who cares?" Hibiki replied as Tenri ran out and wrapped her arms around Mustang's waist, catching the Kaiser off guard. "If he can pull it off, then it's no problem, megane-kun. Besides, I was able to get a lot of pics, so I can use them…"
"I want those pictures that you took of me!" Price yelped out as he tried to reach for the camera.
"No, no, nyan!"
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Time: 1:25 p.m.
Location: Duel Academia Times Club Room
"Wait, there was really a vampire?" Cain questioned as he looked at the photos, which came out clearly showing Mustang facing off against the Curse of Vampire. Luckily for Price, the pictures that Hibiki took of him were not in the pile that Cain was looking through.
"Was there ever any doubt?" Mustang replied as he leaned forward.
Price sighed loudly, thankfully he and the two Obelisk Blue duelists were the only ones in the Newspaper Club's room this afternoon – But, that didn't lower Price's embarrassment level from the events that occurred the previous night…
"I'm not going to get into that," Cain sighed loudly with his hand to his head. "In any case, I'm still surprised that you found this vampire. Was it…"
"Yep," Mustang interrupted with a nod of his head. "Turns out that this guy was just like the one before…"
"So, you wanna run this story?" Cain questioned with a sigh.
"But of course!" Mustang laughed loudly with his arms crossed over his chest. "We'll call this the 'Midnight Lurker Brought to Justice', I think it'll really grab everyone's attention of when I kick this guy's ass!"
"Like you need your ego to grow even larger," Cain muttered under his breath. "In any case, while you were chasing this batty tale, I managed to take charge and assigned roles to our little makeshift group. That includes you Mustang and your red headed little stalker.
"And earlier this morning, that little nerd friend of yours – Maxwell brought me another interesting idea for a story that we can run as well. Apparently earlier this morning someone posted a pic on the forums, and in the few short hours, it's already gotten several responses and hits."
Reaching into his overcoat, Cain produced a small printout that he slid across the table and right in front of Mustang and Price. It only took a moment for both of them to register what they were looking at – Price had tears in his eyes and Mustang was trying to suppress his laughter.
Apparently Hibiki-tan managed to get one of the photos away from Price's grasp – cause the picture that Cain had just shown was of that mysterious maiden that had been used as bait for the Curse of Vampire.
"Apparently, there's been a sighting of a mysterious, ghostly beauty in the woods," Cain stated as he rolled his eyes at the photo. "If you ask me, it could just be some girl trying to get attention… Hey, what's with those weird looks on your faces?"
Price didn't answer, all he did was slam his head into the table that he was seated at and Mustang's smile curved like the crescent moon.
'Why is it like this?' Price thought with tears welling up in the corners of his eyes.
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Card Stats
Masked HERO Bassols / Earth / LV. 3 / ATK: 1000 / DEF: 700 / Warrior
Masked HERO Gust / Wind / LV. 4 / ATK: 1500 / DEF: 1600 / Warrior
Masked HERO Rekka / Fire / LV. 4 / ATK: 1600 / DEF: 1000 / Warrior
Masked HERO Fountain / Water / LV. 4 / ATK: 1000 / DEF: 1400 / Warrior
Masked HERO Daian / Earth / LV. 8 / ATK: 2800 / DEF: 3000 / Warrior/Fusion/Effect: This card can only be special summoned by the effect of 'Mask Change'. When this card destroys an opponent's monster and sends it to the graveyard, you may special summon one Level Four or Lower monster from your deck.
Attack Union / Normal Spell / Effect: Select 2 face-up 'Masked HERO' monsters you control. This turn the 2 monsters can attack 1 monster together. Their ATK is equal to their combined ATK.
These cards were used by Yuki Judai from the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX manga
Blood Rose / DARK / LV. 8 / ATK: 0 / DEF: 0 / Plant/Effect: Each time a player on either side of the field is dealt effect damage, increase the attack and defense of this card by the amount of damage dealt. As long as this card is face up on the field each time a plant type monster is destroyed, inflict 500 points of damage to the controller of that card.
Description: A towering black rose whose spiked roots are burrowing into a cemetery at night, corpses shriveling into husks as lines of crimson reach up the stem to a hideous mouth-like rose bud with fanged petals and writhing 'tongues'
This card was created by MetalOverlord, thanks dood!
Rose, the Night Bringer / LV. 8 / DARK / ATK: 2800 / DEF: 2100 / Plant/ Effect: This card can be Special Summoned by removing from play 2 "Rose" monsters on your side of the field. If this card destroys a monster as a result of battle, equip the destroyed card to this card as a spell card. By destroying one Card equipped to this card, activate one of the following effects.
-Inflict damage to your opponents Life Points equal to its ATK.
-Destroy all monsters on the field with an ATK equal to or lower than the destroyed card.
-Destroy Spells/Traps on the field for each 500 ATK the equipped monster had.
Image: What appears to be a fully grown Vampire Lady, but coated in rose tattoos and a long dress made entirely out of roses, dripping with blood from the thorns.
MichaelDJ54 created this card, so he takes all of the credit.
Diehard Wanderer / Dark / LV. 4 / ATK: 1000 / DEF: 800 / Warrior/Tuner: Treat this card as a normal monster card. Once per duel, you control two or more Normal Monsters on your side of the field, you may special summon this card from your hand or graveyard. Each player can only activate the effect of 'Young Wandering Hero' once per duel.
Description: a young man with long, shaggy black hair that billowed down past his shoulders which were covered with an old, brown and silver cloak. In the man's hands that popped out of the cloak was a small harmonica that he plays
Masked HERO Trooper / Light / LV. 2 / ATK: 800 / DEF: 400 / Warrior/Effect: While this card is face up on the field or in the graveyard, treat this card as a normal monster. When this card is special summoned, you may special summon as many 'Masked HERO Trooper' cards from your hand or deck.
Description: a masked warrior dressed in a black jumpsuit with gold armor covering his body and a sharp helmet that had a purple visor and silver mouth-guard on it
Kamen Banchou / Dark / LV. 10 / ATK: 2800 / DEF: 2400 / Warrior/Synchro/Effect: [1 Normal Tuner monster + 1 or more Normal non-Tuner Monsters] While this card is in the graveyard or on the field, treat this card as a normal monster. This card gains the following effects for depending on the number of Normal non-Tuner Monsters that was used for this card's Synchro Summon:
-) 1 or more: This card is unaffected by your opponent's targeting card effects.
-) 2 or more: This card can attack twice during the battle phase.
-) 3 or more: While this card is face up on the field, when your opponent activates a spell or trap card, by removing one Normal Monster from your graveyard, you may negate the activation of that card and destroy it.
Description: a sleek, mysterious man dressed in a long, flowing black overcoat with several rips and tears in it, along with a blood stained red shirt and black pants. Covering his face was a steel mask that had a yellow visor over his eyes and a large black hat that had an 'M' symbol atop of it.
Steel Resolve / Counter Trap / Effect: When your opponent activates a card effect that would destroy one or more cards on the field, by revealing one level four or lower Normal monster from your hand, you may negate that card's activation and destroy it. If the card that was destroyed with this card's effect was a Monster, you may special summon the monster you revealed from your hand.
Image: the same youth that was on the Heart of the Underdog taking a punch to the face by a shadowed goon, all the while a small girl hiding behind the youth
Masked HERO – Midnight Twister / Dark / LV. 8 / ATK: 2500 / DEF: 2000 / Warrior/Fusion/Effect: By sending one DARK 'HERO' and one WIND 'HERO' from your side of the field to the graveyard, you may special summon this card from your fusion deck. This card is considered to be a WIND monster in addition to being a DARK monster. When this card attacks, switch the ATK and DEF of all face up monsters on the field other than monsters with 'Masked HERO' in their names.
Description: A light armored warrior, with the right side green and the left with black/purple, with a simple mask covering his face with two visors on each side and a small, sharp horned crest at his forehead and he has a long silver scarf that was draped around the hero's neck
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Next time…
So, you think you can talk to me like that you red?
I… I won't let you…
Show your strength!
Can I really do this?
Do you require power?
Wait… T-That's why you started this?
Its kinda cool, don't ya think?
That's enough!
Is this what you want?
Next time on ROAD
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Weakness Role