Well here we are, Chapter 3! You may be getting annoyed with the Entrance Exam but like I said in the last chapter: it may finish in this one. Well actually it may not have finished yet… If you want to know read the chapter!
Well have fun reading and enjoy!
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Chapter Three: Holy Warrior-Paladin!
Kiba, panting and breathing heavily, placed his hand on the top card of his deck. His life points were at 1700 and all he had on the field was one facedown magic or trap card. In his hand he held three cards but it was this card that he was about to draw that was going to determine if he remained in the duel or not. His heart beating rapidly and pumping against his chest, he could feel the sweat falling from his forehead into his eyes. This had been a very intense battle but like he said: 'This is far from over!'
But Kiba's opponent had a grand advantage on this duel. Sankaku had Goddess of Extermination Ruin (ATK: 2300) with Contract of Fulfilment and Cosmo Queen (ATK: 2900), brought back to life with Genuine Birthright, in attack mode with a set monster beside the queen of the cosmos. The professor held a simple card in her hand.
Kiba slowly drew the top card from his deck and gulped. 'Please… Please make this draw a good…' he pleaded.
'Come on Kiba…' Sora prayed for him as well. Sora watched as Kiba angled his card so he could see it.
"Yes!" he cheered. "I set one card and end my turn." he said placing his set card into his Duel Disk. (3)
"That's it? That was your big move that was going to save you?" Sankaku asked. Kiba simply nodded a yes with his head as an answer. Sankaku shrugged. "You're funeral… But before that, it's my turn." she said as she drew her card.
Kiba looked down at his two-facedown cards and grinned. "Come and attack me!" he challenged.
Sankaku cocked an eyebrow and looked at Kiba. "What are you planning?" she asked.
"Well if you want to know come and attack me." he answered.
Sankaku sighed and looked at the card she drew. "Very well… Ruin finished it off with Exterminating Pierce!" she commanded.
The goddess jumped into the air and pointed her staff towards Kiba's chest. She cocked a grin and began to chuckle. Kiba kept his determined look with the smile on his face that he had earlier. The goddess dove forward towards Kiba and jolted her staff forward.
"Quick-Play spell card activate!" Kiba shouted. "Scapegoat!" Four sleepy small sheep appeared all with their eyes closed and snoring (DEF: 0).
"You like to use those Quick-Play spell cards to save your gut, don't you?" Sankaku asked annoyed.
Kiba grinned showing his front teeth. "I sure do! Now let me explain my Scapegoat, I get to summon four Sheep Tokens in defence position on my side of the field." he explained.
The goddess pierced through the red sheep with her staff and returned back to Sankaku's sides. "You just got lucky…"
"Yup!" Kiba chuckled.
"Well now my Ruin will attack another one of your sheep." Sankaku said as her goddess pierced through another one of the sheep. "And finally my Cosmo Queen will destroy the third one."
The monarch of space recreated the two orbs, one black and one dark purple, and released them in the air. The two orbs slammed into the blue token destroying it. Kiba simply smiled and raised his gaze at Sankaku.
"Once again… It was just luck." she sighed. "I end my turn." (2)
Kiba chuckled and drew the top card of his deck. "Guess its time for my comeback!" Kiba placed the card he drew into his hand. "Awesome!" he shouted.
"What did you draw?" she asked.
"These little guys: Cat Ear Tribe (ATK: 200)!" he called out summoning his new monster.
Three cats appeared all of a different colour and wearing different outfits. They all were wearing a human military outfit. One had orange fur, the other white and the last one was blue.
Sankaku bursted out in laughter. "I was scared for a moment that it was going to be something big but now… that is pathetic!" she said continuing to laugh.
"Keep on laughing, but I equip my Cat Ear Tribe with Full Moon to increase their attack points by 300 (ATK: 500)." Kiba said as a small appeared over the three cats' heads.
"Kiba… What are you thinking?" Sora asked surprised.
"Don't worry… There's more to them then meets to eye." Kiba answered then looked back at Sankaku. "Cat Ear Tribe attack Cosmo Queen!" Kiba ordered.
"Are you mad?" Sora asked in gasp.
The three cats all charged towards the queen of space. They all pounced on her and with simple scratch destroying her and the Genuine Birthright. The queen screeched in pain and Sankaku's life points dropped to 4300. Sora's jaw dropped and Sankaku had an expression of shock on her face.
"How did… How did you do that?" Sankaku asked in shock.
"Easy, with my Cat Ear Tribe's effect." Kiba answered. "Any monster that battles with this card has their original attack points reduced to 200."
"What!" Sankaku gasped. "How could such a weak monster destroy my strongest monster?"
"I already answered that question." Kiba said annoyed. "I would love to explain it again."
"No need…" Sankaku said regaining her old self. "I will still win this duel."
"Fine, then I end my turn." (3)
Sankaku drew her card and added it into her hand. She now held three cards in it. "Well I can do is switch my Ruin into defence position (DEF: 2000) and set one card to end my turn." she said with a sigh. (2)
Kiba drew his card and examined Sankaku's side of the field. 'My Cat Ear Tribe only reduces attack points, so I guess I'm stuck for now.' he told himself looking at the goddess. "I set one monster to end my turn." Kiba said slapping the facedown monster card on his Duel Disk. (3)
"Well that was a very short turn." Sankaku said drawing her card. She looked at the card and smirked. "Say good bye to your Cat ear Tribe! I activate the spell card Smashing Ground!"
"Huh?" Kiba spat out.
"This card will destroy the monster with the highest defence points on your side of the field, and sadly the only face up monster you have is Cat Ear Tribe." Sankaku explained then snickered. A giant hole appeared where the three cats were standing. They all, at once, fell into the darkness of the hole were destroyed.
"My Cat Ear Tribe!" Kiba shouted sending the orange coloured card into the graveyard. "That was one of my favourite monsters!" he barked. "You are going to pay."
"Well now I can switch my Ruin back into attack mode (ATK: 2300) and she will destroy both your facedown monster and that token!" Sankaku laughed out. "Now attack!"
The goddess jumped into the air as usual and dived forward to destroy the token first. She repeated the same attack for the facedown monster on Kiba's side of the field. The monster she had destroyed was a giant white rat holding a skull with both its hands.
"Say hello to my little friend, Giant Rat (DEF: 1450)!" Kiba cried out. "When this monster is destroyed as a result of battle I can special an Earth main-type monster from my deck in attack position with 1500 attack points or less." he explained taking out his deck from the slot. "And I choose… Rescue Cat (ATK: 300)!" A white cat appeared wearing a yellow helmet with a green line going around it and a whistle around its neck.
"Another one your little kittens?" Sankaku said mockingly.
"Remember you insulted one of my cats?" Kiba asked referring to Cat Ear Tribe.
Sankaku growled. "I end my turn." (2)
Kiba grinned and drew his card from his deck. "Alright now I activate my Rescue Cat's ability! By sending it to the graveyard I can special summon two level 3 or lower Beast sub-type monsters from my deck." He explained taking his deck out once again from the slot.
"Level 3 monsters are usually weak, none of those monsters you'll bring out will be able to destroy my Ruin." Sankaku said.
Kiba simply ignored the comment and took out the two cards from his deck. He shuffled his deck and placed it back into the slot. "Alright I summon Death Koala in defence position (DEF: 1800) and Death wombat (ATK: 1600)!"
A brown furred koala appeared eating some leaves from its front pouch. Its eyes were half closed of fatigue and it yawned in boredom. The wombat had a darker shade of brown from the koala and it was sleeping even if it was in attack position.
"How are they supposed to save you?" she asked looking at the two marsupials on Kiba's side of the field. "They are just weak like your other monsters."
"Well I'm sorry to say but you won't be seeing them long because I'm going to sacrifice them." Kiba told Sankaku. "So now I'm going to sacrifice both my monsters to summon the legendary Beast-Warrior of Egypt- Holy Warrior-Paladin of Jackal (ATK: 2700)!"
The Egyptian Beast-Warrior monster appeared on the field replacing the two Australian monsters from before. It had the end of a jackal but the body form of a human still with hair and claws. Its armour was a bright teal colour with two golden weapons that he held in each hand. The jackal humanoid also had a purplish blue cape. The jackal howled as it appeared on the field.
"This is one of my favourite monsters!" Kida exclaimed. The creature growled and looked straight into the goddess' eyes with anger.
"What is this creature?" Sankaku asked gasping in fear.
"You'll find out soon enough, but first lets get rid of that facedown card." Kiba said pointing at the only facedown card in the magic and trap card zone. "I activate my own Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy that facedown card." The same black tornado appeared from the beginning of the duel but this time on Sankaku's side of the field.
"Why didn't you destroy the Contract of Fulfilment?" Sora asked. "That could of destroyed Ruin."
"But I don't want to destroy Ruin, do I know?" Kiba said with a giant grin on his face. "Holy Warrior-Paladin of Jackal destroy Goddess of Extermination Ruin!"
The jackal warrior nodded and jumped forward. He jolted his left arm forward piercing his weapon into the goddess right shoulder. The goddess screeched in pain as she was destroyed and the Fulfilment of Contract as well.
Sankaku bit her lip as her life points dropped to 4000. "I will still be able to destroy your Jackal." she said taking the blue card off her to Duel Disk and about to place it in the cemetery.
"Not so fast…" Kiba said stopping Sankaku. "When my Holy Warrior-Paladin of Jackal destroys a monster, it is sent to the top of the deck." he explained with a giant grin on his face.
"But that's… That's… Impossible!" Sankaku cried out in horror.
"Go on, place Ruin on the top of your deck." Kiba said laughing. Sankaku placed the blue card facedown on the top of her deck.
"I get it!" Sora exclaimed. "Now she won't be able to summon another monster this turn."
"And that ends my turn." Kiba said in triumph. (2)
Sankaku snorted and groaned a bit before drawing her card, which everyone knew was Goddess of Extermination Ruin. Sankaku looked down at her three-card hand and sniffed. 'The only monster I have in my hand is Ruin, the other two are Ritual spell cards and I don't have enough stars to do anything.' she sighed and looked back up to Kiba. "I end my turn." (3)
"Kiba you can win now!" Sora cheered for him on the sidelines.
Kiba nodded and drew his card. 'She still has one facedown monster, wonder what if could be?' he wondered staring at the facedown monster. "Alright I summon Berserk Gorilla (ATK: 2000)!" Kiba said placing the monster card onto his Duel Disk.
An orange fire primate appeared howling and beating on his chest rapidly. It roared as it breathed fire from its mouth and roared once again. The ape snorted for a few seconds then restarted his howling.
"Alright here we go!" Kiba cried. "Holy Warrior-Paladin Jackal attack her facedown monster!"
The jackal humanoid nodded at Kiba and jumped forward towards the facedown. It lanced his weapon forward and pierced it through the facedown monster. The monster was destroyed and like last time, Sankaku had to place back on the top of her deck.
"Where did you get such an annoying card?" she asked placing the monster back onto the top of her deck.
"I got it from my older sister on my twelfth birthday." Kiba replied looking down at the card on his Duel Disk. "This is my favourite monster." he said. "And with him… I'm going to win this duel!"
"Well you can only inflict 2000 life point damage on my so…" Sankaku said.
Kiba cocked a grin and chuckled. "Berserk Gorilla attack her life points directly!" he ordered. The angry ape charged forward and blasted a torrent of blazing flames at Sankaku. The teacher grunted in pain as her life points dropped to 2000. "Well I think I've caused enough damage in on turn." (2)
Sankaku sighed and drew her card from the top of her deck. Everyone knew it was the card Holy Warrior-Paladin of Jackal had destroyed earlier. She looked down at the card, Holy Elf (DEF: 2000) it was the Light version of Dark Elf. "Very well kid, I see that my defeat is just around the corner." she said in defeat. "I will set this monster facedown to end my turn." (3)
Kiba drew his final card and placed a smile of victory on his face. "This was one awesome duel but it has to end now." he told Sankaku.
"Agreed," she replied in a sigh. "I hope you make it to at least Ra Yellow."
"Osiris Red wouldn't bother me either, as long as I get in." Kiba answered cocking another smile. "Alright I sacrifice Berserk Gorilla for Manticore of Darkness in attack position (ATK: 2300)."
The orange primate disappeared and was replaced with a very strange creature. The creature had the body of a human crossed with a lion, but with the full head of a male lion with gold fur. The Manticore also had a huge scorpion tail that moved on its on with poison at the tip. And two huge wings, on each side, that were dark blue that faded into light purple at the end of the wings.
"Well I guess this is the end, correct?" Sankaku asked. Kiba simply nodded to answer the question. Sankaku smiled. "You are one of the few that was able to surpass my strategy… Congratulations!"
Kiba gave her a thumbs-up and grinned. "Alright Manticore of Darkness attack her facedown monster."
The strange mixture of animals flew into the air and dove down towards the facedown. It slashed the facedown and destroyed it. Kiba had caught a glimpse the monster. It was a blue skinned woman with long golden hair. She was wearing a green dress; it was a Holy Elf (DEF: 2000).
Sankaku sighed and extend her arms sideways to full extent. "Well, time for you to finish this." she said. "Attack me now!" she ordered.
Kiba nodded. "Holy Warrior-Paladin of Jackal attack…" Kiba paused, then smirked. "Attack Sankaku-Sensei directly!"
The jackal humanoid turned his head over his shoulder and nodded. It jumped forward and stabbed his golden, right, weapon into Sankaku. Instead of frowning in pain, Sankaku grinned and fell on one knee as her life dropped rapidly down to 0.
'Congratulations, Kemono Kiba.' said a strange voice to Kiba's ears. Kiba looked around the room but no one seemed to match the voice. He shrugged and watched as the holograms disappeared and the field began empty.
"That was one awesome duel." Kiba said in triumph.
"Good luck, Kemono!" Sankaku cried out to him as she walked away from the platform.
Kiba jumped off the platform and went to talk to Sora. "That duel was amazing, you were stuck so many times but you managed to pull out of it!" Sora said amazed.
"Thanks," Kiba greeted rubbing the back of his head.
'Will number 26 please report to Field number 9, please!' said the annoying voice from the speakers.
"Well that's me, are you going to come see me?" she asked.
Kiba nodded with a grin on his face but a heavy hand slapped onto his shoulder stopping him from moving. Kiba turned his head to look over his shoulder and saw a very tall man. The man was very tall and was wearing an Osiris Red trench coat. He had black eyes but was bald on his head but his moustache took up for it.
"What's the big deal?" Kiba asked annoyed.
"Sorry kid but once you finish your duel you must leave." the man explained in a low, cold voice. He dug into his pocket took out a ticket. "Here is your ticket on the boat and from there you will learn which dorm you are in."
Kiba sighed and turned his attention to Sora. "Sorry I can't watch you duel, so I'll see you on the boat." Kiba said running off towards the exiting doors.
'Kemono Kiba…' she told herself with a grin. 'You are one special boy.'
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Well finally, Chapter 3 finished the entrance exam and now onto Duel Academy. I'm not quite sure in how many chapters the next duel will be so heck, just be patient.
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Thanks for reading!