Duel Academia Legends
By: DarkStorm
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh!
Chapter Five: New Partner
As the Duel between Kisho and Mercy raged on, the stage looked like this; Kisho had 5500 Life Points no cards in his hand and one hidden card on the field. Mercy on the other hand had 12000 Life Points, her Guardian Angel Joan (2800/2000) out on the field and 3 cards in her hand, and it was still Mercy's turn.
I don't get it, from what some of the first years told me he's suppose to be good, I mean he did beat Professor Tavarius. "Kisho you're really disappointing me here."
"I'm sorry," Kisho stated with a hint of sarcasm in his voice. "I'm sorry I couldn't give you a run for your money."
"Well I guess I'll have to look else where," Mercy calmly stated. "I'm done with my turn."
"Okay," Kisho stated calmly drawing a card from his deck. "It's about time I took out that Guardian Angel Joan of yours."
"Oh and how do you plan on doing that?" Mercy stated.
"Simple with this!" Kisho stated placing the card in his Duel Disk, "I'll activate Dimension Fusion!"
"Dimension Fusion, what a good card," Caden stated. "It will allow Kisho the option of summoning all monster that were removed from play."
"Yeah but that also means Mercy can summoned any monster removed from the game!" Gellert stated.
"Now I'll bring back both my Legendary Flame Lord (2400/2000) and Wall of Illusion (1000/1850) in attack mode," Kisho stated as both of his monster reappeared on the field and his Life Points dropped to 3500.
"No matter I get my Banisher of Radiance (1600/0) back as well!" Mercy stated as her monster reappeared on the field in attack mode. "And that move cost you 2000 Life Points!"
"Well sometimes you've got to give up Life Points to get what you need," Kisho stated as he looked at his Legendary Flame Lord.
"That is why you gave up Life Points to get him back?" Mercy questioned. "He doesn't even have enough attack points to stand up to my Guardian Angel Joan."
"This turn, Guardian Angel Joan isn't the monster he's battling," he then pointed to Mercy's Banisher of Radiance, "Flame Lord show her monster why you're Legendary!" Kisho yelled as his monster made a huge flame ball in his hand, it fired the blast as it hit Mercy's monster destroying it and reducing her Life Points to 11200.
"My turn!" Mercy stated drawing a card. "Now Guardian Angel Joan, destroy that Legendary Flame Lord again!"
Guardian Angel Joan quickly fired off an arrow aimed at Kisho Flame Lord, quickly responding the Legendary Flame Lord used its staff to try to hold the arrow back. The arrow hit the staff dead on causing it to start to crack.
"Reveal Trap Card!" Kisho yelled as his hidden card revealed itself. "Covering Fire!" Kisho stated looking at the card. "It will allow my Wall of Illusion to give its attack points to Legendary Flame Lord, increasing its attack points by 1000!" Kisho yelled as his Legendary Flame Lord attack jumped up to 3400.
"What? NO!" Mercy screamed.
"Now counter attack!" Kisho yelled as his monster knocked the light arrow aside and ran over to Mercy's Guardian Angel Joan, it let out a huge fireball in the monster face causing it to yell in pain before exploding and reducing Mercy's Life Points to 10600.
"My…Guardian…" Mercy stated in shock. He took out my Guardian Angel Joan. She looked over at Kisho who had let out a sigh. Maybe…maybe I was wrong about him not being good enough.
Kisho noticed Mercy looking at him, "Huh?" Kisho stated. "Something wrong Mercy. I'm sorry I took down your fave monster."
"No, its just…" she let out a sigh.
"What's going on?" Gellert asked. "Mercy seems different."
"Kisho there is a reason I challenged you, and at least I should let you know why…" Mercy held her head down
"Hey," Kisho stated, "Don't look so bummed out, I mean whatever reason you challenged me to this Duel, it doesn't really matter, because I'm having a blast."
"Yeah," Mercy stated picking her head up.
"Listen everyone Duels for a reason, so you don't have to feel so bad," Kisho stated calmly. "The reason I Duel and the main reason I came to Duel Academy was to get better, to tell you the truth back where I'm from I don't win to many Duels, in fact I'm always being told I have good potential. So I decided to come to Duel Academy to lose that whole title, to prove I know how to use that potential instead of being told I've got it."
"Kisho…the reason I've been dueling you hasn't been as nice as yours," Mercy stated. "You see I need a partner for a Tag Team Duel."
"Is that it?" Kisho asked. Mercy nodded her head. "Well all you had to do was ask, sure I'll team with you!"
"Is Kisho nuts or did he just accept a challenge for a partnership with someone he just meet?" Gellert exclaimed.
"It would seem that way," Caden responded. "He sure is an interesting character."
Kisho looked at Mercy who had a tear streaming down her face.
"Huh?" Kisho was taken aback by her reaction. "I thought you wanted me to team with you."
"Yeah I did but you suck!" Mercy barked.
"Tough words coming from a second year Slifer Red," Caden noted.
"HEY NOW!" Kisho said folding his arms. "Give me a chance! Besides this Duel isn't over yet."
"It might as well be," Mercy calmly stated.
As the Duel stood Kisho had 3500 Life Points and two monsters out on the field, his Legendary Flame Lord, and Wall of Illusion, which were both in attack mode. Mercy on the other hand had 10600 Life Points, and four cards in her hand, and it was still her turn.
"Well are you going to finish your move?" Kisho asked as he folded his arms.
"Yeah," Mercy stated with a smirk, "I'll play a Field Spell, The Sanctuary in the Sky!" As she placed the card in the Field Card Slot a white light fired off.
"Geez!" Kisho, Caden and Gellert yelled at the same time. When the light died down they all realized they were standing on a huge cloud and behind Mercy was a huge palace.
"This Field Spell will come in handy in a second," Mercy stated. "But first I'll have to summon this monster!" She quickly placed the card down on the reader as a monster in red armor appeared on the field. "Say hello to The Agent of Force – Mars (0/0)."
"Well thanks to you my Legendary Flame Lord gets on Spell Counter," Kisho stated as a small white dot glowed on his monsters staff.
"I'm not worried about that at all," Mercy retorted. "Because my new monsters attack and defense power is equal to the difference between our Life Points."
"Difference between Life Points?" Gellert looked dumbfounded.
"Well because Mercy's Life Points are 10600 and Kisho's Life Points are 3500, so if I did the math correctly her monsters attack and defense power is 7100!" Caden exclaimed.
On cue Mercy's monster started to glow as its attack and defense power increased.
"Damn!" Kisho spat out. "Well it's a good thing you already had a battle phase otherwise I'd be done."
"Yeah," Mercy stated. "Well I'll end with these two cards hidden," two cards appeared on the field behind The Agent of Force – Mars.
"My turn then!" Kisho quickly drew a card from his deck. "Okay I'll play Pot of Greed!" Kisho quickly drew 2 cards as a Spell Counter appeared on his Legendary Flame Lord.
I wonder what's up with those Spell Counters? Well I'll finish him off before he gets the chance anyway. Mercy thought.
"Okay I'll place two hidden cards switch my Wall of Illusion to defense mode and that's all from me," Kisho signaled for Mercy to go after his cards appeared on the field.
"Well that's all Kisho can do," Gellert stated.
"But why didn't he change his Legendary Flame Lord to defense mode?" Caden questioned.
"You're not fooling me for a second," Mercy stated drawing a card, "You left your Legendary Flame Lord in attack mode hopeful that I would attack it, but I don't need to attack it to win."
"You don't?!" Kisho took a step back.
"Because I have this Trap, Meteorain!" Mercy's Trap flipped up revealing a picture a man with a bunch of Meteorites raining down on him. "This Trap allows the difference between my monsters attack and your monsters defense to come out of your Life Points, so go my Agent of Force – Mars win me the duel!"
"Not so fast!" Kisho exclaimed as he revealed a Trap Card, "Blast with Chain!" Kisho card showed a picture of a chain of dynamite. "This Trap can be equipped to any monster on the field, in turn it backs the monster up with 500 extra attack points." Kisho quickly pointed to his Wall of Illusion as its attacked jumped up to 1500.
"What was the point of that?" Gellert asked. "It still doesn't protect Kisho from losing the Duel.
"You must have really lost it Kisho," Mercy stated.
"Not really, because my Blast with Chain has another effect," Kisho quickly revealed his second card, which turned out to be Emergency Provisions. "You see if its destroyed while its equipped to a monster, then it will go off, destroying one card on the field. On cue Kisho Trap Card exploded his Life Points jumped to 4500 and a spell counter appeared on Legendary Flame Lords staff, a huge chain shot out of the smoke wrapping itself around Mercy's monster.
"Damn!" Mercy shouted as her monster exploded.
"Yeah, looks like I survived your attack Mercy," Kisho said with a smile. "But I've got to say, that's one cool monster you've got there."
"Thanks," Mercy stated calmly, "But why are you complementing me?"
"Cause were friends now," Kisho stated. "Besides, I said I'd team with you so that means this is more like a practice than a real Duel."
"You're a strange guy," Mercy stated calmly, "Besides just because you said you'd team with me doesn't mean I want you on my team."
"Huh? But isn't the whole reason-"
"Yes, but this is more like a test, and so far you're failing!" Mercy pointed at Kisho. "You're not living up to your hype at all. 'A teacher-beater, the next #1 ranked Duelist at the academy,'" she let out a sigh. "I guess I've got bad taste.
"Thanks," Kisho stated in a less than pleasant mood. I wonder who's spreading these rumors. Kisho sighed.
Uh oh, I guess using Kisho as a chick magnet is backfiring. H-hey y-ou finish…right?" Gellert nervously blurted out.
"Yeah I'm done," Mercy looked at Gellert with a puzzled look on her face. What's his deal?
"Good then," Kisho stated as he drew a card. "I'll summon my White Magician Pikeru (1200/0) to the field!" Kisho stated as his cute Spellcaster appeared on the field. "And I'll switch my Wall of Illusion back to attack mode, now all three of you direct attack!" Kisho yelled.
Legendary Flame Lord let out a blast of fire that engulfed Mercy, while Wall of Illusion blasted her with a black energy ball; followed by White Magician Pikeru attack that was a bright white ball. Mercy yelled out in pain as her Life Points dropped to 6000.
"Hope that didn't hurt too much," Kisho stated concerned.
"I'm fine," Mercy stated taking in a deep breath. This isn't good; I've got to find a way to turn this around. "I'll go!" Mercy barked as she drew a card. "I guess I owe you an apology Kisho."
"Huh?"
"When I said you sucked. I'm really happy you said you'd team up with me, cause you're just the Duelist I need on my team, and with me as the leader will definitely be the best Tag Team out there," Mercy threw her fist up into the air.
"Thanks," Kisho sighed.
"She's very modest," Caden sarcastically commented.
"But even though you said you'd team with me, that doesn't mean I'm going to go easy on you. So I activate Celestial Transformation, now I can summon one Fairy-type monster from my hand, in exchange that monster is destroyed at the end of the turn, and its attack is halved. So come on out The Agent of Creation – Venus (1600/0)!" The ground lit up as Mercy's monster appeared on the field, but as soon as the monster appeared it kneeled over in pain as it attack was halved to 800.
"I don't see why you'd do that?" Kisho scratched his head. But I know I'm about to find out.
"That's because The Agent of Creation – Venus has a special ability," Mercy took her deck out of her holder and started searching through it. "I can give up 500 Life Points to summon a Mystic Shine Ball (500/500) from my deck to the field. Mercy Life Points quickly dropped to 5500. A clear balls appeared on the field next to The Agent of Creation – Venus.
"Huh?" Kisho stared at the new monster dumbfounded. "You've lost me, that monster is weak."
"That's why I plan to sacrifice them!" Mercy held up the last card in her hand, "Now I summon my Moisture Creature (2800/2900) in attack mode!" Mercy stated as her monster appeared on the field.
"Huh, a pair of eyes in a liquid blob?" Gellert stated.
"Who cares what the monster looks like, just look at its power!" Caden stated excited. Kisho looks like you have your hands full, like you did against Professor Tavarius. Lets see that Duelist Finish you showed everyone back at the test site.
"Now which monster to attack?" Mercy stated as she twirled her hair. "I know your Legendary Flame Lord, seeing as it has all those counters and you've yet to activate its special ability I don't want to run into it later."
Moisture Creature responded by creating an opening in its water body, it quickly sucked in the Flame Lord and started to suck the moisture of the creature until it looked like a prune.
"Gah! What a way to go Legendary Flame Lord," Kisho stated as his Life Points dropped to 4100. Not only that, but if she'd left my Legendary Flame Lord alone I could have used its special ability.
"Okay Kisho I'm done for now," Mercy stated.
"Kay," Kisho drew a card, "Thanks to White Magician Pikeru's Special Ability I gain 400 Life Points for all the monster on my side of the field, and seeing as I have two." Kisho looked at his Duel Disk as his Life Points jumped up to 4900. "I'll throw a hidden card on the field, and switch both my monster back on the defense. I think I'll call it a turn."
"Okay then," Mercy drew a card, "Good I'll play an Equipment Spell, Fairy's Meteor Crush!" She held up the card, which had a picture of a shooting meteorite. "This card has the same effect as my Meteorain Trap Card."
"Talk about not backing down," Kisho stated. "Go ahead.
"Right," Mercy stated. "Attack his White Magician Pikeru!"
On cue her monster smothered Kisho's monster as he watched in horror as the monster suffocated. As soon as White Magician Pikeru stopped breathing the monster left Kisho's side of the field and rejoined its owner. Kisho Life Points were reduced to 2100.
"I'm finish," Mercy stated. "I've got to say though, this has been the best duel I've been in."
"That's good Mercy," Kisho stated as he drew a card. "I'm having a blast as well," he eyed the card in his hand. "Now its time I turn this match around. So I'll play my hidden card, Reckless Greed." Kisho trap revealed a man standing over a chest of gold. "As the card suggest I get to be a little greedy and draw 2 cards, but for my reckless greed," he closed his eyes, "I can't draw for my next two draw phases."
"A risky move," Gellert commented.
"But it could pay off," Caden stated.
"Now," Kisho drew his two cards and looked at it. "I'll summon my Senju of the Thousand Hands (1400/1000) to the field." Kisho monster appeared on the field, with all one thousand of its hands. "This monster got a cool special ability it allows me to move 1 Ritual Monster from my deck to my hand." Kisho removed his deck from its holder and searched for his monster, he quickly decided, shuffled his deck and put it back in its holder. "And this one's a Fairy-Type."
"No way it couldn't be-" Mercy face turned white.
"I'll activate Shinato's Ark!" Kisho placed the card on the reader as a huge Ark appeared on the field. "Now I'll give up my Wall of Illusion and my Senju of the Thousand Hands to summon Shinato King of a Higher Plane 3300/3000." The two monsters disappeared as they were sucked into the Ark, as soon as the monsters disappeared the Ark started to crumble apart as a blue angel appeared from the rubble.
"No way," Mercy whispered to herself. All of a sudden images flashed in Mercy's head. It was pictures of her being blasted by Shinato King of a Higher Plane…but it wasn't Kisho's monster, it was someone else's.
"Mercy?" Kisho tilted his head sideways.
Mercy shook her head. "Huh?"
"You spaced there for a second, you okay?" Kisho asked.
"Yeah," she heaved a sigh, but she still looked like she'd seen a ghost. Shinato, not this monster, not here, I-I can't win. I've-I've got to get away!
Kisho noticed the change in Mercy's mood. "You okay?"
"Yeah…" Mercy forced out. "Continue."
"Okay," Kisho said still concerned. "I'll play the Spell Card, Enemy Controller!" All of a sudden a huge video game controller appeared on the field. "Now I can force one of your monster into defense mode."
"What?" Mercy stated as her Moisture Creature rolled up into a ball.
"Huh?" Gellert and Caden yelled at the same time.
"Now attack Shinato King of a Higher Plane!" Kisho yelled out, the monster formed a white ball in its hand, and slammed it into Moisture Creature causing the monster to explode. "Guess you're wondering why I turned your monster into defense mode before I attacked huh?" Kisho asked Mercy, who still looked like she'd seen a ghost, "Well you see when Shinato attacks a monster in defense mode, the original attack points of the monster come directly out of your Life Points!" Kisho smiled as Mercy's Life Points were reduced to 2700. "Sure it doesn't give me the win, but it does put me in a much better position."
"Yeah," Mercy sighed.
"Something's not right," Caden stated. "Mercy's whole mood just change.
"Could it have something to do with Kisho about to win this Duel?" Gellert asked.
"That would make sense but…"
"M-my turn," Mercy drew a card from her deck. There's no way I can win now…Shinato I've…damn it. All Mercy could see in her mind were the images of herself being attacked by Shinato over and over again, while the image of the person who ordered the attack was smiling, as the person watched Mercy yell out in pain. The most important Duel, the one chance to escape and Shinato…DAMN IT! She screamed in her head.
Kisho noticed the pained look in her face. W-what's going on, why is Mercy-
Before Kisho could finish his thought a blood curling scream was heard from Mercy, as she clutched her head and fell over.
"Mercy!" Kisho yelled running over to her side.
"M-make it stop!" She whispered to herself as she curled up into a ball after staring back at Shinato.
"Make what stop?" Kisho asked confused.
Gellert and Caden ran to Kisho side. "Kisho turn off your Duel Disk right now!" Caden yelled.
"Huh?" Kisho was a bit taken back by Caden snappy demand but did as he said.
"It's okay Mercy," Caden said in a soothing voice. "The monster it's gone now."
Kisho looked over at Gellert with a very confused look on his face. Gellert just shrugged his shoulders.
Mercy slowly opened her eyes and looked back towards the Dueling field and saw the monster was gone. I-I. She looked up at Kisho who was holding her in his arms. I can't let them know…I-I can't let them see-
"Are you okay?" Kisho asked concerned. "Can you stand?"
"Y-yeah," Mercy stated as Kisho let her go she slowly stood up; her legs wobbled a little.
"I'm sorry, did I do something?" Kisho asked concerned. "Its just-"
"Don't worry about it," Mercy stated getting defensive.
"Does it have something to do with-"
"It's okay Caden," Kisho quickly interrupted him. "I think we should postpone the Duel for now," he reached into his pocket and pulled out a piece of paper and a pen. He quickly jotted down his PDA number and handed it to Mercy. "Here, seeing as were teammates now," Kisho stated handing it to her.
Mercy sighed and took the paper from Kisho. She then turned away and ran towards the Slifer Red girl's dorm. Thank you, Kisho.
"Wait!" Gellert yelled out as she continued to run. He let out a sigh. "I don't get it."
"I don't think we can," Caden stated looking at Gellert after Mercy was around the corner. "But I think that monster had something to do with it," he looked at Kisho Duel Disk which still had Shinato King of a Higher Plane on it.
"I guess so, weird girl," Gellert stated. But still Kisho had his back against the wall and managed to make a very impressive comeback.
"But why did you let her go Kisho, we could have asked her?" Caden questioned.
"Trust me, when she's ready to talk she will," Kisho stated. "We're teammates now, and teammates look out for each other."
"She did look pretty distraught," Gellert noted.
"Well it's getting pretty late," Caden stated looking up at the sky which was starting to turn dark. "Thanks for a very entertaining Duel Kisho."
"Heh, it was nothing," Kisho stated with a smile, but his smile quickly faded as his thoughts drifted back to Mercy. I wonder what happened to her, if Shinato has anything to do with this, then it must be related to the fact she's a second year Slifer Red.
"Nice to meet you Gellert," Caden stated before making his way back towards his dorm.
"Well I guess we best get going," Kisho stated as he started to walk in the direction of the Slifer Red Dorm.
"Acutally there's a couple of things I need to take care of, I'll see you back at the dorm," Gellert stated with a smile.
"O-oh okay, well I guess I'll see you then," Kisho stated he waved goodbye and started to walk towards the dorm.
Gellert watch as he disappeared around the corner. "I guess I'll report this," he pulled out a cell phone and dialed a number. "He could be the one were looking for…"
DarkStorm: Sorry for the long hiatus, but Duel Academia Legends is back! So read, review and enjoy.