Authors Note: At the end of this chapter, you'll notice the new cards section, which is where cards I have made for these dues will be displayed. This chapter just has the two, but more will appear in later chapters. Please review this fic, I need lots of reviews!
Chapter 2
The sun was brightly shining overhead as Rory stood in the grounds of Duel academy, in the finishing stages of a duel. The tall boy in front of him was cheap practice before he got a chance to duel Richard again, and ultimately, it was practice for his duel against Michael.
A large amount of the school, especially those who had seen Rory's impressive duel against Dreadroute the year before, had been discussing this, and marvelling at the chimeratech overdragon, only to stop talking when Rory arrived. Even Zane Truesdale, the previous year's top duellist, who had recently joined the pro league, had shown interest when his younger brother had told him.
Rory placed a card on the field barely thinking, finishing the rest of his opponent's life points. There weren't many good opponents for him in his year anymore, which is why he had taken to duelling older students, and why he was particularly excited about Michael.
Though he claimed he only lost from his separation from his deck, he secretly knew that Michael's strategy would have beaten his deck as well. But this time, his trick wouldn't work.
Numerous people had noticed this cheap trick, including Professor Crowler. He claimed that it was the only reason Rory had lost, and thus, placed Michael in Ra as a punishment.
As Rory walked away from his opponent, mulling this all over in his head, he saw Richard jogging towards the main school building. He smiled and walked over to him.
"Richard. I haven't seen you all day. Are you up for a duel?"
"What? No thanks Rory. I need to do something important."
Richard proceeded to jog on, but Rory stepped in to his path, one eyebrow raised in suspicion.
"What exactly do you need to do?"
"I promised someone I would duel them."
"Fine." Rory muttered, though he was not quite convinced. His friend was generally easy-going, and refused to live by schedules, so this behaviour was quite odd.
"As I remember it, you owe me a duel or two." Came a voice from a tree above Rory as Richard walked away. Rory looked up to see a tall boy with short brown hair, a blue blazer and a light blue duel disk strapped to his arm. Damien.
"Ah, Damien. I see you got the new duel disk after all." Rory smiled, as his other friend dropped from the tree to stand beside him.
"Yep. My parents sent it to me this morning."
"What's up with your parents?" Rory asked. "I mean, I know Richard is an orphan, but I've never been told about yours."
"Oh." Damien said, his eyes staring blankly. "When I was a baby, my mother died, so my dad sent me to live with a business associate of his. Those two who I live with now are my family, but my tuition and everything is paid by my real dad. He visits every now and then, and gives me rare cards. He gave me Daedalus, and taught me to play duel monsters. Then a couple of years ago, he disappeared. I haven't seen him since. That's why I came to this school. So that I can become the world's greatest duellist in his honour. I must become the king of games!"
Five minutes later, Damien and Rory clambered in to the large vault Damien had constructed in the attachment to his room, which had formerly housed the portal for Dark Dreadroute. Now, it had been redecorated, with large stone pillars circling a large spherical hole in the floor, going down about three feet, and with rounded edges.
Rory looked at the dip questioningly, and Damien smiled, turning to him to explain. "This is my newly created Duel monsters coliseum. Here, the monsters summoned in a duel can fight amongst a mass of scenery, uploaded by field spell cards. So, are you ready to try it out?"
Rory nodded, standing on a large platform above the coliseum. Damien stepped on to the opposite platform, and placed a card quickly in to the pillar beside him.
Damien suddenly vanished, to be replaced by Michael, though Rory could not see how he could possibly be here. He gasped, his eyes widening.
"Sorry." Michael said, though in Damien's voice. "I have made a simulation of Michael for this little duel. He shall be the one fighting, but he fights with my new deck."
Understanding, Rory grinned, as a duel disk shot between the two pillars beside him, and he placed his deck in to the slot.
"I'll go first." Damien smiled "I start by summoning my sea serpent warrior of darkness in attack position. Then I place a card facedown, and end my turn."
In front of Damien, a large blue skinned warrior clutching a massive spiked rod appeared, and stuck its staff in to the pillar closest to Damien, holding it to keep itself elevated. (1800/1500)
"Fine." Rory laughed. "I summon my Zure, knight of Dark World in attack position. Next, I equip him with the sword of dark destruction."
A tall, armoured warrior appeared next to Rory, and swung its sword through mid air, landing on the ground. (1800/1500). Then, in its free hand, a second sword appeared, with a large demonic head upon the hilt. (2200/1300).
"Now, my knight attacks your sea serpent!" Rory yelled, as his soldier leapt forward, clashing blades with Damien's sea serpent, until eventually, the water dweller's rod snapped in half, and he exploded, sending Damien's life points down to 3600, as Rory set a card face down.
"All good." Damien smirked. "I summon placid squid in attack position."
As Damien grinned, placing his new card in attack position, a small blue squid appeared in front of him, and squealed at the large knight in front of him. (500/500)
"Next up, I activate my torrential tribute! When a monster is summoned, every card is destroyed!" Damien laughed, as a whirlpool stirred beneath the squid, sucking in both monsters and destroyed them. "And thanks to my squid's effect, I can special summon a water monster from my hand. So I summon my Bitelon!"
A massive purple serpent appeared, wrapping itself around Damien. It had enormous teeth, with one large red staring eye. Then Rory noticed that it was not a serpent at all, and that the part that he believed to be the whole body was just the neck, revealing a big, armoured body with four legs and a tail. (2400/1000).
"Now, I play my 'a legendary ocean' card, set one card, and send my monster to attack!"
The creature, pulled away from Damien, dropping in to the pool of water that had gathered below the moment Damien had placed his field card in to the slot in the pillar. Great ruins then burst forth, smashing high up to the ceiling. (2600/1200).
Then, the monster stretched its neck up to Rory, biting in to him, and sending him backwards, nearly falling over. He stumbled, but pulled himself back to his feet quickly, as his life points fell to 1400.
He scowled, and drew a card. He instantly smiled at his hand, and began his strategy. "I activate my graceful charity! It allows me to draw three cards, and discard two, namely my shining abyss and my curse of dragon!"
Rory picked up three cards, and discarded the two he had mentioned, before lifting a card in to the air. "Now I activate my monster reborn to bring back my curse of dragon in attack mode!"
In front of Rory appeared the large bone dragon, which snarled at Damien's Bitelon. (2000/1500)
"If you're quite done, I'll point out that your monster is still far too weak to win!" Damien smirked. "You'll never beat Michael like this!"
"That's because my strategy is not yet complete! I tribute the shining abyss and Zure in my graveyard to summon my chaos emperor dragon – envoy of the end!"
Next to Rory's first dragon, his larger, signature monster appeared, it's dark blue scales reflecting the ominous glow from the water. (3000/2500)
"Now, I activate my face-down card, level conversion lab. It lets me select a monster in my hand, say my invader of darkness, and lower its level."
Rory tossed out the dice, which rolled beneath the water, before stopping just on a four, but before it could finish moving, the Bitelon smashed in to it, knocking it on to a five.
Rory grinned. "That doesn't matter. I tribute my curse of dragon to summon him anyway!"
The large, golden armoured soldier appeared next to Rory and the chaos emperor dragon, lifting its sword angrily. (2900/2500)
Damien stared in awe at Rory's two best monsters, both ready to tear apart his last monster and end his life points.
"I activate a face-down card!" he mumbled. "My gravity bind! It forces all monsters of four or more stars to stay where they are and not attack!"
Rory smiled and ended his turn. "That trap won't stop me forever. Soon my monsters shall break through!"
"I play monster reborn" Damien gulped "Summoning my placid squid back in attack position. Then I tribute it to use my share the pain card, so you have to also destroy a monster!"
Rory sighed, as the squid reappeared for a moment, before evaporating, and destroying Rory's invader with it. Suddenly, a small wave floated in towards where the squid had been, a giant shadow floating in it.
"Now, with my monster's effect," Damien began "I can special summon my Levia Dragon Daedalus straight to the field. Then I tribute him for my Ocean Dragon Lord – Neo Daedalus."
As the sea serpent surfaced, it had already begun to glow and transform in to its more powerful self.
"Now I use cost down on this card in my hand, making it level seven, but since my ocean is also on the field, it becomes level 6!"
"Wait a minute!" Rory gasped. "That means it was a nine star monster to start with! And you're going to summon it with one tribute?"
"Right you are!" Laughed Damien, as the arena trembled, and the bitelon vanished in to nothingness. "Now say hello to my very own, Oceanic Carcharadon!"
The enormous pillars next to Damien smashed simultaneously as the arena shook, and an enormous shadow appeared under his platform, at least five times the size of Daedalus. Suddenly, the water burst apart to reveal an enormous fin, and the top of a giant shark's body. Its body was at minimum thirty feet long, and as the shark rose higher and higher, Rory caught a glimpse of hundreds of thousands of teeth, all glinting with murky red blood. (3300/1800)
(3500/2000)
"Fortunately for you, my new warm-blooded shark needs a turn to charge his power, and thus none of my monsters can attack this turn. But next turn, you shall be wiped from existence. You see, my monster can negate the effect of trap cards that target him and destroy them. So on my next turn, I will destroy my own gravity bind. And so that you don't strike first with your monster's effect, I activate ookazi"
Rory was still gaping in awe and horror at the mighty monster before him, as the fireballs flew forwards and crashed in to him, knocking his life points to 900.
Rory was now beginning to lose hope, as the bloodthirsty beast in front of him seemed impossible to destroy. With immunity to traps, and 3500 attack points, Rory was stumped for a plan.
"I play fissure, to destroy your Daedalus!" Rory grinned, pleased to destroy one of the giant creatures in front of him. "Then I set one monster in defence and end my turn."
"Foolish error, Rory!" Damien smiled "And you shall regret it. By leaving your emperor in attack position, you have triggered my carcharadon's effect. When he attacks, destroys a monster and inflicts battle damage to your life points, he can attack any other monster on your field that I choose. So, go forth my ultimate destroyer shark!"
The water crashed apart in waves as the shark proceeded forwards to Rory's dragon, hovering just above the surface of the water. As the shark proceeded, Damien's trap shone, but shattered within seconds.
The beast lumbered forwards, opening its jaw and leaping from the water, swallowing the dragon whole and smashing in to Rory with its bulk as it turned, knocking him to 400 life, and creating a pool of blood under the shark in the water.
After bobbing for a moment in the water, the shark got the scent of the blood, and spun towards the face-down card. It smashed in to it, and even as its image appeared, a small witch, the shark chopped it up, and returned to Damien's field, smashing tidal waves across the lengths of the arena.
Rory was now certain that he would fall, but continued anyway. He looked at the life point counters, and grimaced as he saw Damien's still at 3600 and his at only 400.
"Well, what you missed is that you destroyed my witch of the black forest." He told Damien coldly. "That means that I can add a monster to my hand with low defence points."
Rory rummaged through his deck, and drew a monster, smiling. "Now I use the monster I added, my reflect bounder! And I summon it in attack position!"
A large, red, mirror-covered monster appeared, holding its arms apart menacingly. (1700/1000)
"Haven't you learnt anything? Now my Carcharadon will kill you for your foolishness!"
"We'll see. I set a card and end my turn."
"You are a fool, Rory. My Carcharadon is unaffected by traps! Now attack him through that Mirror monster and end the duel!"
The great shark launched itself again, Ramming in to the red monster on Rory's field, and sending massive shockwaves across both sides of the arena.
"What?" cried Damien, as his platform shook tremendously.
"The effect of my reflect bounder bounces your monster's attack back at you when you attack my monster. And so that I lose no more life points, I activate my trap, Waboku. And guess what? Since it targets me, and not your shark, I get to keep it, and lose no life points!"
Damien roared in anger as his life points exploded downwards and hit 100. "Fine, but since your monster battled, it's destroyed by its own effect, and since I still have points, you are about to lose. So I set a card, and end it there."
"Wrong again Damien," Rory laughed as he drew a card "I activate monster reincarnation to put my chaos emperor Dragon back in to my hand, and remove from play my invader of darkness and my reflect bounder to summon him."
As a card entered Rory's grave, and the dragon reappeared, Rory smirked evilly. "Now I play my dian keto the cure master, giving me 1000 extra life points, and a chance to use his effect and blow this duel apart!"
Damien frowned, but smiled, and flipped his face-down card "I activate my torrential tribute trap card. When you summon your dragon, all monsters on the field are destroyed, and one of my sharks effects means that if one is destroyed, and I have another in my hand, I can special summon it. So you lose, Rory!"
"Not quite. Caught in your own paradox, Damien!" Rory smiled
Damien looked down at his field, and saw his torrential tribute card shatter immediately. "What? But how?"
"Your Carcharadon negates the effect of all trap cards that target him and destroy them. Thus, when your card aims to destroy all monsters, you target him too. So that's game set Damien!"
Damien gasped, amazed by the genius strategy conjured right under his nose. He barely even noticed as the shark, the water and Rory's dragon exploded, and a massive fireball smashed in to him, launching him from his platform to the ground, and the holograms disappeared, along with the ones making the pillars appear destroyed.
"Brilliant work, Rory!" Damien smiled, standing up as the black-haired boy approached. "I'd say you're nearly ready to take on Michael now!"
"Yes, it would appear so." Rory grinned "Nice work yourself, and I think that your well on your way to becoming king of games in your dad's honour. When you got that shark going, I thought I was finished!"
The two boys laughed, and across the island, two other boys were just about to begin their duel.
"So, Richard, you are Rory's friend. Well, then it would appear that you are my next opponent, and my cards will be set upon you. Prepare for your demise."
"Oh really." Richard smiled. "I think that you're the one going down, Michael!"
NEW MONSTERS FROM THIS DUEL
PLACID SQUID
ATK/500 DEF/500
LEVEL 2
WATER
AQUA / EFFECT
When this card is destroyed outside battle, you can special summon any water monster from your hand. If this card is destroyed in battle, draw 1 card.
OCEANIC CARCHARADON
ATK/3300 DEF/1800
LEVEL 9
WATER
FISH / EFFECT
All of the tributes for this card must be WATER type. When this card is summoned, none of your monsters can attack on the same turn. Also, you may negate the effects of any trap cards that target this monster and destroy them. When this card inflicts battle damage to your opponent, except when attacking directly, he can attack another monster on your opponent's field. If this card is destroyed as a result of battle, you can special summon another Oceanic Carcharadon from your hand. This card cannot be special summoned, except by the effect of Oceanic Carcharadon.