Ruler of the Gentle Darkness (Chapter Ten)
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh GX.
With the duel over the older generation was falling fast; of all of their duelists none of them had won at all and the only one of the younger generation to lose was against a transcendent being. Seeing Mai be defeated like that was completely shocking an eye opening. Perhaps Yugi and Pegasus were right.
"Attention duelists; the next two names will now be chosen" the MC called. The remaining duelists turned to the screen as it cycled through names once again. After a moment it stopped on two names.
Serenity Taylor vs. Chazz Princeton
"Looks like it's my turn now" Chazz said with his usual smirk.
"Alright Serenity; you got this" both Joey and Tristan encouraged her. Both of the duelists stepped out into the field and faced one another with Chazz brimming with arrogant confidence and Serenity showing as much confidence as she could, but still looking a little nervous.
"Duelists; select your Deck Master" the MC called.
Chazz smirked "I choose Ojama King." As Chazz said that a massive monster appeared behind him; the infamous Ojama King.
Serenity shuffled through her deck for a moment before picking a card "I select Goddess with the Third Eye." On the field behind Serenity a woman with a third eye on her forehead wearing a green robe appeared.
"Duelists let the match begin" the MC announced.
"I'll star this off" Chazz said drawing a card. "First I play this card in defense mode. And then I place one card facedown; your move."
Serenity drew a card and looked at her hand. "Alright; first I'm going to activate my Deck Master's special ability; Fusion Vision."
"Fusion Vision" Chazz said with a frown.
"With this ability I just discard one spell card from my hand" Serenity said discarding a single card. "And in return I can take fusion material monsters in my hand, send them to the graveyard, and in return I can summon a Fusion Monster."
"I need a card like that" Jaden murmured to himself quietly.
"So I send Marie the Fallen One and The Forgiving Maiden to my graveyard" Serenity began as the monster's briefly appeared on the field and vanished leaving a bright light. "And in return I summon St. Joan." On the field a woman in armor appeared with a sword in her hands (2800/2000). "Now go St. Joan attack his defense position monster."
St. Joan charged at Chazz' monster, which flipped up, revealing a chest with its lid open revealing an endless row of teeth. "You've revealed my Dark Mimic LV 1. When he's flipped up I get to draw one card." Chazz drew a card from his deck.
"One card or not your monster will still be destroyed" Serenity said.
"Not when I activate my facedown card Sakuretsu Armor" Chazz said revealing his facedown card. "With this trap card your St. Joan is destroyed." Sakuretsu Armor shot forward, enveloped St. Joan and destroyed her.
"My St. Joan" Serenity whispered in shock shielding her eyes from the blast. Once the blast ended she sighed "Alright; I place one card facedown and end my turn."
"My move" Chazz said drawing a card. "I activate the effect of Dark Mimic LV 1; during my standby phase I can sacrifice him and summon out Dark Mimic LV 3." His first Dark Mimic left the field and a slightly bigger one came into play (1000/1000). "Next I summon Armed Dragon LV 3 in defense mode." Armed Dragon LV 3 appeared on the field crouched in defense mode (1200/900). "Your move."
Serenity drew a card "I summon Lady Panther in attack mode." A panther monster appeared on the field wielding a staff and shield (1400/1300). "Lady Panther destroy his Dark Mimic." Lady Panther charged forward and slashed right though Chazz's monster. Thankfully it was in defense mode so Chazz lost no life points.
"You've now activated Dark Mimic's special ability" Chazz said. "When he's destroyed as a result of battle I get to draw two cards." Chazz drew his two cards.
"Very well; I end my turn" Serenity said.
"My move again" Chazz said drawing a card. "I activate the effect of Armed Dragon LV3. Sacrificing him I can now summon out Armed Dragon LV 5 to the field." Chazz's smaller dragon vanished from the field and in its place came Armed Dragon LV 5 (2400/1700). "I'm not done yet because I summon to the field Mystic Swordsman LV 4." On the field a mystical swordsmen glowing with power appeared on the field (1900/1600).
"Oh man, two monsters" Tea said nervously. "Serenity can't stand up to that."
"Mom" Thomas whispered quietly hugging his father's leg. Tristan patted his head softly also worried for Serenity.
"Armed Dragon attack her Lady Panther" Chazz ordered. His Armed Dragon shot a large blast of power that hit Lady Panther destroying it.
Chazz: 4000
Serenity: 3000
"And now that you're wide open Mystic Swordsman LV 4 attack her life points directly" Chazz ordered. Mystic Swordsman charged forward and slashed Serenity directly.
Chazz: 4000
Serenity: 1100
"Serenity" all her friends called worried.
Chazz was smirking 'This isn't much of a duel' he thought. "I guess I'll end my turn, but before that happens Armed Dragon's special ability activates. Since he destroyed a monster this turn I can send Armed Dragon LV 5 to the graveyard and in return I can summon Armed Dragon LV 7 to the field." Chazz's Armed Dragon LV 5 vanished and in return Armed Dragon LV 7 appeared on the field (2800/1000). "I place one card facedown end my turn I guess."
Serenity look at her hand; none of her cards could stand up to either of Chazz's monsters and he had been one upping her the entire time. 'He's good and I don't have the cards to defeat him.' Then she spotted one card in her hand 'Wait that would help, but I don't have the right card yet.'
"Come on, make your move already" Chazz said impatiently.
"I draw" Serenity said. "And now I activate Pot of Greed."
"Draw all the cards you want; it won't help you" Chazz said confidently.
"I activate Swords of Revealing Light" Serenity shouted. Chazz widened his eyes as light swords flung down on the field and blocked his monsters.
'Swords of Revealing Light… she actually drew Swords of Revealing Light' Chazz thought in disbelief. 'Damn she got lucky.'
"And now your monster's can't attack for three whole turns" Serenity said to him.
Chazz merely shrugged "It doesn't matter; three whole turns will only delay the inevitable. So I guess I'll draw this card and end my turn."
'Alright I got three turns to get the right cards; I must get the right card in order to summon my most powerful monster' Serenity thought before drawing a card. It was Moisture Creature (2800/2900). 'This will help, but I still need another card. I guess I can build up my defenses.'
"I summon Shadow Tamer in defense mode" she said summoning another female monster into defense mode (800/700). "And then I activate the spell card Double Summon. I sacrifice 300 life points and then I can summon another monster to the field and the monster I choose to summon is Fire Princess in defense mode." Another female monster with fire dancing around her appeared on the field (1300/1500). "That ends my turn."
Chazz: 4000
Serenity: 800
"Not bad, but it won't help you" Chazz said drawing a card. "Two turns to go."
Serenity drew a card 'Still not the right one' she thought. Looking at her hand 'I can still build up my defenses.' "Next I'm going to summon Witch of the Black Forest to the field in defense–"
"I think not" Chazz interrupted her. "I activate the Deck Master special ability of Ojama King; I send the top three cards from my deck to the graveyard." Chazz plucked three cards and discarded them "And in return for three turns you can't use three of your monster slots for three turns."
"Aw man that is so unfair" Joey complained. He really didn't want to see his sister lose as well.
"And I think I'll make this duel even more imposing" Chazz smirked. "I switch my Mystic Swordsman to defense mode and then I activate my facedown card Level Up. This spell card sacrifices a level monster on my field and upgrades it so goodbye Armed Dragon LV 7 and say hello to Armed Dragon LV 10." Chazz's LV 7 dragon vanished and a much more massive dragon took its place with a mighty roar (3000/2000).
Serenity stared wide eyed at the massive monster that stood on Chazz's field 'Oh man.'
"And with that you have one more turn left" Chazz said.
Serenity drew a card with shaking hands and saw it was a trap card 'Still not the right card.' "I pass there's nothing I can do" she said.
Chazz then drew a card "Well I think I'll clear your field first; I activate the special ability of Armed Dragon LV 10. I send one card from my hand to the graveyard and in return all monsters on your field are destroyed."
"What" Serenity cried.
Chazz discarded his card "Armed Dragon destroy her monsters; Dragon Talon Terror." Armed Dragon roared and blue energy blades shot from its body and destroyed Serenity's monsters. "And with that I'll end my turn and your Swords of Revealing Light are gone as well." The swords vanished "Didn't get much out of your three turns did you."
Serenity looked down to her deck 'My last draw… I need the one card.' Shakingly Serenity reached for her deck before looking up to her family to see them all giving her supportive looks. Breathing in to steady her nerves Serenity drew her card and looked at it before gaining a smirk, which was unlike her.
"It's time to end this duel" she said making Chazz frown. "And it starts with this card; Shinato's Ark" she said revealing the card she just drew.
"Shinato's what" Chazz said shocked as Serenity activated the card.
"Shinato's Ark works by me sacrificing a monster" Serenity said. "And I sacrifice the Moisture Creature from my hand." Moisture Creature appeared on the field and flew into Shinato's Ark, where the massive ship then glowed "And with my offering being accepted I can now summon forth the most powerful Ritual Monster; Shinato, King of a Higher Plane."
With that a massive monster with six large wings and four arms appeared on the field and descended until touching the ground silently (3300/3000).
"And now I will end this duel" Serenity said.
Chazz grunted "Your Shinato might be powerful, but it won't be enough to defeat me."
"Actually it will especially when I equip it with my facedown card Fairy Meteor Crush" Serenity said revealing the facedown card she placed down at the beginning of the duel. "With this card equipped to Shinato every monster in defense mode he attacks you take damage equal to the difference in points."
"Oh no" Chazz gasped.
"Shinato, attack his Mystic Swordsman with Light Bombardment" Serenity ordered. Shinato formed a massive ball of light in his hands before launching it at Mystic Swordsman; it hit and destroyed the swordsman.
Chazz: 1600
Serenity: 800
Chazz grunted from the attack "I'm not beaten yet" he said.
"Actually you are" Serenity pointed out. "When Shinato destroys a monster in defense mode you take damage to equal to the destroyed monster's attack points."
"Oh… crap" was all Chazz could say as Shinato blasted him a second time.
Serenity: 800
Chazz: 0
"And the winner of the duel is Serenity Taylor" The MC announced.
"Alright Serenity" Triston and Joey all cheered as Triston hefted his son Thomas into the air and they both cheered and rushed out to Serenity. Chazz, surprisingly, accepted his defeat with quiet dignity and when Serenity declined to take his rarest card Chazz merely walked back to everyone else.
"Good duel out there Chazz" Jaden complimented.
"It was good, but not great; I need to get better" Chazz said before going to sit by himself. Everyone knew this was just Chazz coping with his loss trying to get over it and not lash out at anyone by accident.
It took both the MC and Kaiba to get everyone to shut up and focus for the next match. The computer had already flashed through names and the next two names appeared.
Jim Cook vs. Rebecca Kaiba
Kaiba smirked as he watched his sister-in-law step into the dueling arena; whatever deck this Jim used he knew it wouldn't be enough to beat her.
"Duelists select your Deck Masters" the MC called.
"I select Sample Fossil" Jim said as a large rock golem appeared behind him.
"And I select Guardian Angel Joan" Rebecca said as a woman with large angel wings appeared behind her.
"Alright duelists; begin" the MC announced.
"Alright ma'am, ladies first" Jim said.
"Why thank you" Rebecca smirked drawing a card. "I summon Luster Dragon in attack mode" she said and a dragon appeared (1900/1600). "And with that I place two cards facedown. Your move."
"Thank you" Jim said drawing a card. "I summon Shell Knight in defense mode." On the field appeared a fossil-shaped knight monster (0/2000). "I now activate Shell Knight's special ability; when he's summoned you lose 500 life points automatically." Rebecca winced slightly as her points dropped.
Jim: 4000
Rebecca: 3500
"I then place one card face down; your move" Jim said.
Rebecca drew a card "I sacrifice Luster Dragon in order to summon Luster Dragon #2" she called. Her original luster dragon vanished and in its place was an emerald green dragon much larger than the other one (2400/1400). "Now my Luster Dragon destroy his Shell Knight."
"Not so fast; I activate my trap card Sakuretsu Armor" Jim said activating his trap card. "Now the monster that's attacking is destroyed."
"I think not; I respond with my spell card Stamping Destruction" Rebecca countered. "Since I control a dragon type monster I can target one spell or trap card you have on the field and negate its effect so Sakuretsu Armor is useless." Jim's trap card was destroyed "And now Luster Dragon can continue its attack; go."
Luster Dragon slashed down Shell Knight destroying it "Good move" Jim said recovering from the blast.
"It gets better; Stamping Destruction has another effect" Rebecca said. "Since I destroyed your trap card you take 500 points of damage." Jim winced as he got a backlash of attack.
Jim: 3500
Rebecca: 3500
"And with that I'll end my turn" Rebecca said.
'She's good' Jim thought drawing a card. 'She's tied the game up all over again, but I still got a few tricks left in this deck.' "I place one card in defense mode and that'll do for now."
"Then it's my move again" Rebecca said drawing a card. "I summon Injection Fairy Lily in attack mode." On the field a lily monster with a large syringe appeared on the field (400/1500). "And now Luster Dragon attack his defense monster." Luster Dragon launched its attack and it hit revealing Jim's monster.
Jim smirked "You just attacked my Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo and when he's flipped face-up all monsters on the field that are special-summoned are destroyed." Jim's monster was destroyed, but so was Rebecca's Luster Dragon.
"I still have a monster left" Rebecca said. "Go Injection Fairy Lily." Her remaining monster flew at Jim "And thanks to her ability I can give up 2000 life points to increase her attack points by 3000." So while Rebecca lost life points…
Jim: 3500
Rebecca: 1500
… Injection Fairy Lily gained attack points (400+3000=3400/1500). Her attack struck Jim head on sending him flying back from the sheer power of the attack.
Rebecca: 1500
Jim: 100
"Whoa, that attack almost singlehandedly took out Jim" Syrus said amazed.
"I know, but Jim still has a chance to come out on top" Jesse said. Jaden also agreed, but internally he was worried about Jim.
"And with that I'll end my turn; attack me if you can" Rebecca taunted.
"I'll do more than that" Jim said. "To make sure you can't pull anything like that again I activate my Deck Master special ability. It's called 'Fossil Digging' and Sample Fossil allows me to dig around in your graveyard for monsters that have been laid to rest."
"So you're stealing one of my monsters" Rebecca summarized.
"You could put it that way" Jim smirked. "I select Luster Dragon." Luster Dragon flew from Rebecca's graveyard and landed on Jim's field in defense mode looking like a fossil (1900/1600). "Next I summon to the field Flint Cragger in attack mode." On the field appeared a fossilized dragon shaped monster (800/1600). "Next I activate Flint Cragger's special ability; I send him to my graveyard and you take 500 points of damage." Flint Cragger vanished into Jim's graveyard and a beam shot out and struck Rebecca.
Rebecca: 1000
Jim: 100
"I'm not done yet because now I activate Fossil Fusion" Jim said. "With this I can take a monster in my graveyard and fuse it together with a monster in your graveyard to create a new one."
"You're using my own monsters against me" she grunted looking at her duel disk.
"I now fuse my Shell Knight with your Luster Dragon #2" Jim said as both monsters flew from their graveyards and merged together. "And now I summon to the field Mesozoic Fossil Knight – Skullknight." On the field a fossilized warrior with dinosaur bones made into armor wielding an ancient sword appeared on the field (2400/1100).
"Oh man, it looks like another victory for the younger generation" Joey said crossing his arms.
"I don't think so Wheeler" Kaiba said getting raised eyebrows from the others. "Just watch."
"Now Skullknight destroy her Injection Fairy Lily" Jim ordered. Skullknight attacked her monster.
"Not so fast; I activate the trap card Gravity Bind" Rebecca countered. Her trap card was revealed and Skullknight was stopped in its tracks. "With Gravity Bind all level 4 and higher monsters on your field can't attack."
Jim grunted as his Skullknight jumped back over to his field. "I guess I have no choice, but to end my turn."
"Then it's my move" Rebecca said drawing a card; despite everything that was happening she was still brimming with confidence. "You were a good challenge Jim, but just quite enough of a challenge."
"We both still have life points" Jim insisted. "And it's not over until one of us hit zero and I don't see you miraculously summoning a monster with more than 2400 attack points anytime soon."
"Did you forget that a Deck Master can be moved into play at any time during the duel" Rebecca smirked making Jim go wide eyed. "I now move Guardian Angel Joan into the field." Rebecca's Deck Master jumped into the field her wings spread wide (2800/2000).
"2800 attack points" Jim gasped. "It's over."
"That's right" Rebecca said. "Guardian Angel Joan; attack his Skullknight with Guardian Light." Guardian Angel Joan formed balls of light in her hands before launching it at Skullknight and obliterating it in a fabulous display of light.
Rebecca: 1000
Jim: 0
"And the winner of the duel is Rebecca Kaiba" the MC announced.
Jim sighed a bit before deactivating his duel disk before petting Shirley "Oh well girl, we did our best" he said. Shirley gave a soft growl in response.
Rebecca walked up to him "That was a great duel Jim; I had a lot of fun."
"I did too" Jim said shaking hands with the woman. "I suppose I should give you my card now."
"No, keep it" Rebecca said surprising Jim. "Your deck is unique Jim; it's a deck only you can use and I think it should stay that way."
"Thanks" he said with a smile before the two of them walked off to join their respective parties where they received various congrats despite the results.
"Alright we'll now proceed to the last match of the First round" the MC announced. "The last two duelists please step up; Marco and Aster Phoenix."
Both Marco and Aster stepped up and faced each other; Aster with determination and Marco with a blank look. Both of them activated their duel disks "Duelists select your Deck Master."
"Already got it" Aster smirked. "I select Destiny HERO – Plasma." Behind Aster a monster with very heightened demonic features appeared with a grunt.
"I select Vain Knight" Marco said in a blank tone. On the field behind him a knight in pure white armor with black tunic carrying a white circle shield with a matching white broadsword appeared.
"Alright the final duel of the first round will now begin" The MC called.
Aster spoke to Marco "I saw you with Reiner when we arrived… are you working together with him."
"What gave it away 'Destiny Duelist'" Marco asked in a sarcastic tone.
"Call it a hunch" Aster responded. "You realize of course that you're just a pawn in his game; the moment you outlive your usefulness he'll finish you."
"I already know that" Marco said simply making Aster wide eyed, as well as the rest minus Reiner, who merely smirked. "I do not care; my life has been filled with nothing, but lying in the darkness guarding the will of the Supreme King. I hated it and so when Master Reiner offered me the chance to escape I took it."
"A traitor because of hatred; that's the worst kind" Aster glared at him. "I'll be sure to crush you; destiny, and I, will make sure of it."
"You know nothing about destiny" Marco said with a small glare, which looked very fierce. "Now enough talk and let's get this over with."
"Fine, I'll start out" Aster said drawing a card. "I summon Destiny HERO – Diamond Dude in defense mode" Aster said as his destiny hero appeared on the field (1400/1600). "Now I activate the effect of Destiny HERO – Diamond Dude; I reveal the top card on my deck and if it's a spell card I discard it and then I get to use it my next turn." Aster drew a card "The card I drew is Destiny Draw so I send it to my graveyard and I get to activate it next turn. To end my turn I place one card facedown."
Marco drew a card "I summon White Defender in defense mode." On the field appeared a bulky, hulk-like monster with huge muscles; he was all white as well (200/2100). "Next I activate my Deck Master special ability; Vain Backup. When I summon a monster to the field and I have another monster that is the same name as the one I summoned I can summon it to the field. So I summon two more White Defender's, both in defense mode." Two more of the same monster's appeared on the field. "And with that I end my turn."
"Then it's my move again" Aster said drawing a card. "And since it's been a turn I get Destiny Draw back, which I will now activate. I discard Destiny HERO – Double Dude so now I can draw two cards." Aster drew his two cards and smirked "Next I summon Destiny HERO – Dunker in defense mode." Another Destiny HERO appeared on the field; this one was huge and muscular with a medusa-like face (1200/1700). "Next I activate the effect of Destiny HERO – Dunker. First I send Destiny HERO – Disk Commander to my graveyard and in return you lose 500 life points."
A backlash of energy hit Marco, but he didn't even flinch.
Aster: 4000
Marco: 3500
"To end my turn I place one more card face down" Aster said.
Marco merely drew a card "I activate Graceful Charity; now I draw three cards from my deck and discard two." Drawing his three cards Marco discarded two "Next I sacrifice one of my White Defender's in order to summon out White Sorceress." On the field appeared a female monster wearing all white with long white hair and blue eyes wielding a small staff (2100/1500). "Now my Deck Master special ability activates and I summon another White Sorceress." A second white Sorceress appeared on the field. "Now my White Sorceress attack; destroy his Destiny HERO – Dunker."
"I activate my trap card D – Counter" Aster said. "Since you targeted one of my Destiny HERO's your attacking monster is destroyed."
"You fool; White Sorceress is unaffected by trap cards on the turn she is summoned" Marco said.
"She what" Aster gasped as his trap card was destroyed. White Sorceress destroyed Aster's Destiny HERO – Dunker.
"Now my second White Sorceress attack his Diamond Dude with White Magic Attack" Marco ordered. His second White Sorceress attacked and destroyed Aster's other Destiny HERO. "I place one card facedown and end my turn."
Aster grunted and drew a card "I activate Doctor D. With this spell card I can remove from play Destiny HERO – Dunker and in return I can summon to the field Destiny HERO – Disk Commander." On the field Aster's Destiny HERO appeared (300/300). "And since Disk Commander was summoned from the graveyard I get to draw two cards."
"Draw all the cards you want; it won't make a difference" Marco said blandly.
"We'll see about that; I summon Destiny HERO – Doom Lord" Aster said summoning a new destiny hero to the field (600/800). "I now activate Doom Lord's special ability. I can remove from play one monster on your field for two turns and I choose one of your White Sorceress's. In exchange I can't attack this turn." One of Marco's White Sorceress's disappeared off the field. "With that I end my turn with one more facedown card."
"My turn" Marco said drawing a card. "I activate my facedown card White Returning." The spell card depicted a monster coming through a white portal. "I can activate this card whenever a monster of mine is removed from play. I can bring it back to the field." White Sorceress reappeared on the field.
Aster cursed "I just got rid of her."
"Apparently not" Marco said. "Next I activate Heavy Storm; say goodbye to your two facedown cards." Aster's D – Formation and Destiny Signal appeared briefly before vanishing. "Next I sacrifice my White Defender in order to summon White Machine." Marco's defender vanished and a machine monster with spiked shoulders and knees appeared on the field with glowing blue eyes (2100/2000). "And of course you know what that means."
Aster scowled "Your Deck Master ability."
"That's right; I now summon a second White Machine." A second White Machine appeared on the field. "And now White Machine attack his Disk Commander." White Machine launched a ray blast that hit Disk Commander destroying it.
Marco: 3500
Aster: 2200
"What; why did I lose life points" Aster shouted.
"When White Machine attacks I have the option of choosing whether or not to inflict piercing damage" Marco explained. "If I choose to do so my other monsters, other than White Machine, can't attack this turn. So now my other White Machine attacks; destroy his Doom Lord." His Second White Machine monster destroyed Aster's Doom Lord.
Marco: 3500
Aster: 900
"And with that I end my turn" Marco said.
"Oh man, I haven't seen Aster be dominated like this before" Syrus said nervously.
"This doesn't look good" Jesse agreed while the others looked just as nervous.
"My draw" Aster said drawing a card. "I activate Pot of Greed to draw two more cards." Aster got his cards and smirked. "I move my Destiny HERO – Plasma into play." Destiny HERO – Plasma moved into the field with a grunt (1900/600).
"What's he planning" Alexis wondered. No one had an answer.
"Next I activate my Polymerization card; I fuse Destiny HERO – Plasma with the Destiny HERO – Dogma in my hand in order to summon my Destiny End Dragoon." On the field both monster's merged together and formed a new more massive and demonic looking monster (3000/3000). "Per dueling rules Destiny End Dragoon becomes my new Deck Master. Next I activate Destiny End Dragoon's special ability; I can destroy one of your monsters and in return you take damage equal to that monster's attack."
"Alright Aster" Jaden cheered. He knew Aster had a plan.
"So I choose to destroy one of your White Machine's" Aster said. "Go Dragoon" he shouted. Dragoon launched a blast that hit one of Marco's White Machine's and destroyed it giving Marco damage, but once more he didn't flinch.
Marco: 1400
Aster: 900
"Now normally Destiny End Dragoon wouldn't be able to attack when he activates his effect, but I now activate his Deck Master ability" Aster said. "It's called 'Destiny Luck End.' It works by me flipping a coin and if it lands on heads I get to attack with him and if it doesn't my monster is destroyed."
"What, but if he loses his monster he loses the duel regardless" Syrus cried.
"He's risking too much" Jim agreed.
"I guess that's how destiny works" Jesse said.
"Let's just hope that destiny is on our side" Jaden said.
Aster then flipped his coin and it flipped through the air before it landed in Aster's hand. Aster looked at the coin and smirked broadly "Well what do you know; destiny favors me with Heads." Aster got various cheers in response "Now Destiny End Dragoon attack his White Sorceress." Destiny End Dragoon roared and launched a blast of energy that destroyed Marco's White Sorceress.
Aster: 900
Marco: 500
"You claim I know nothing about destiny, but it appears that destiny is favoring me" Aster smirked.
Marco was silent until a massive dark aura surrounded him, similar to Jaden's aura, startling everyone. Marco looked up with a fierce glare "You know nothing about destiny; you know nothing about what it's like to have a destiny set out for you from the very beginning. You've made your own destiny, mine was forced upon me. And now I will break away from this wretched destiny and it'll start with your demise. My turn."
Marco drew a card and smirked maliciously "First I play monster reborn to bring back my White Defender." White Defender reappeared back on the field. "Next I activate the field spell card; Offering to the Stars." A bright white glow surrounded the two of them before a massive star symbol appeared below them. All of it was glowing white. "With this field spell card on the field no spell and trap cards can be activated by you for the first turn it's activated and when one of us lose all our life points our soul will be sent to the stars."
"Our souls" Aster gasped as did everyone else.
"Yes, and another ability this card has is that when I first activate it I get to draw one card" Marco's smirk widened. "And now I'll show the true power of Destiny" Marco drew his card and darkness flowed all around his hand.
"The Wicked Dreadroot" he shouted getting even more wide eyes. "I summon you by sacrificing my three monsters." Slamming the card on his duel disk it sparked erratically with black light before Marco's White Sorceress, White Machine and White Defender all vanished in a massive erupting flash of dark light. Then on the field a monster so massive it stood forty stories high appeared. It was all white in color with splotches of blue and had wings that were large and devil-like with its face looking just like Obelisk the Tormentor, but more demonic-like (4000/4000).
"Ho-Holy… that thing is huge" Jesse stuttered in fear. Everyone agreed with him silently.
"Now Wicked Dreadroot, show this fool how powerful you really are" Marco said viciously. "Show them your Divine Dividing ability." The Wicked Dreadroot's eyes glowed and Aster was shocked when he saw his monster crouch down weakly. He gasped when he saw his monster was now half as powerful (3000-1500=1500/3000-1500=1500)
"What the… my Dragoon" was all Aster could say in shock.
"This is The Wicked Dreadroot's special ability; Divine Dividing. All monsters on the field, other than him of course, lose half of their strength in both offense and defense" Marco said and took immense delight in Aster's shock and fear. "Now show this fool why you're called the 'wicked'. Dreadroot use Fist of Death."
Dreadroot's fist glowed with darkness before throwing a single punch that hit Destiny End Dragoon and destroyed him making Aster scream as the backlash hit him. Even if Dragoon wasn't his Deck Master Aster would've still lost.
Marco: 500
Aster: 0
"It seems destiny wasn't on your side" Marco smirked as the white star underneath them converged and surrounded a weakened Aster. "Now your soul will be sent to the stars." A white energy pillar shot up and enveloped Aster making him scream out before he fell back with his body disintegrating into white particles.
"Aster… no" Syrus whispered in shock as his body began to shake.
"He's gone" Jim said with a similar look.
"No… no" Jesse said in denial, but as much as he wanted to deny everything, he couldn't. Alexis said nothing, but hug Jaden tightly; Jaden hugged her back just as tightly. Chazz, still sitting by himself, merely clenched his fists tightly knowing there was nothing he could do.
"Supreme King" Marco said to Jaden. Jaden looked up and his eyes turned golden as he glared hatefully at Marco. "You have now seen the true power of one of the Wicked God's. You are in possession of one of the three. And once you are defeated… I will pry it from your cold, lifeless hand and present it to Master Reiner."
"If that's how it is… then I'd love to see you try it" Jaden said in a deadly voice flaring his darkness powers, which dwarfed Marco. "Remember who you're talking to… traitor." Marco merely turned and walked away.
They lost another friend… and how many more would they have to lose to end this.
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