Yu-Gi-Oh!:
Guardian of Death
DUEL 9: The Champ's Challenge.
It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining down and beautiful, serine water splashed on the edge of an island that would be called Paradise. It's only too bad that Patrick Kingston didn't have time to enjoy it. He was in the Duelist Paradise tournament and needed four more Spell Counters. He wanted to see Pegasus's face after he trounced him twice.
Patrick was sitting on the coast, his head racing from his past duels. He heard some people moving past him but didn't care. That is, until one of them put her hand on his shoulder.
"Eliminated?" She had blond hair in pigtails and freckles on her nose. Her ink coat looked kind of hot for a tropical island, but then again, so did Patrick's vest.
"No," he replied calmly, "Just tired. How're you holding up Ms. Hopkins?"
The girl gasped, "Do I know you?"
"No but everyone knows the American Duel Monsters champion and child prodigy of the game, Rebecca Hopkins. Hi, I'm Patrick Kingston," Patrick offered a handshake.
(Why couldn't you do this on the boat?) Anubis asked. Rebecca extended her hand but instead of shaking, pulled Patrick up fiercely, no easy feat for a girl her size.
"Something wrong?" Patrick asked putting his shoulder back in its socket.
"You know about me, it's high time I knew about you. What do you say? I challenge you to a duel with a wager of two Spell Counters!"
Patrick was taken aback but finally answered, "It would be an honor." The two walked over to an area on the beach where they found a dueling arena. The combatants took sides and drew five cards. Rebecca motioned Patrick to start things off.
He drew, "I'll set three cards and one monster face-down in defense. You're turn," Patrick extended his hand.
"I'll set two cards face-down and a monster in defense face-down as well. Pretty boring, eh?" Rebecca motioned Patrick to take his turn.
"Then allow me to kick it up. First I'll activate two spells, Ookazi and Poison of the Old Man! You lose 800 LP and I gain 1200!"
"Fantastic! I gotta say you're better than I thought!" Rebecca cheered with a dark look on her face.
"Oh, but I'm not done. Please allow me to introduce my newest card, I flip summon Cyber Jar! He destroys all monsters on the field including your face-down Millennium Shield!"
Rebecca discarded her monster, "How did you-"
"You've used that strategy way too much Rebecca. It's famous nowadays. Draw five cards and summon monsters level 4 or lower."
"Then," Rebecca set her cards on the field, "Two monsters, in face-down defense!"
"Then I'll set one monster and then summon Sonic Duck in ATK!" A little green duck took form on the field. It wore a bucket as a helmet and a red scarf around its skinny neck.
"It's so cute!" Rebecca chimed in, o you like the cute ones too?!"
Patrick's eye twitched, "Cyber Jar also allowed me to summon my great monster Relinquished!"
Rebecca watched the mutated looking demon with awe, "Maybe I was wrong."
"Now Sonic Duck attack the middle monster!" Sonic Duck took off lightning fast and struck the facedown Witch of the Black Forest, destroying it.
Rebecca picked up her deck, "I'm sure you know I get a monster from my deck with 1500 or less defense points since you destroyed my monster."
Patrick motioned her ahead with his hand, "Proceed. It's your turn now anyway."
"Then I'll summon the monster my Witch of the Black Forest gave me, Shadow Ghoul!" A green beast arose on the field. Its eight eyes opened on its body, glowing red.
"It's not enough Rebecca. Sorry," Patrick informed.
"Obviously you're not familiar with my card, it gets 100 extra attack points for each monster in my graveyard boosting its attack to 1800, 100 more than Sonic Duck!" Rebecca flipped her face-down monster up, "Now I summon Cannon Soldier!"
A mechanical being took shape with a laser mounted on its shoulder, "Its effect allows me to sacrifice one monster and inflict 500 direct points of damage to your life points and I choose Cannon Soldier itself!" Cannon Soldier destroyed itself firing a blast at Patrick's field. The blast struck and drained 500 points from Patrick.
"Finally, Shadow Ghoul gains 100 more ATK since Cannon Soldier is in the graveyard and I attack!"
"Not when I activate Gravity Bind! It-"
"I know," Rebecca interrupts.
"Then I'll set one more card and end my turn," Patrick announced.
"Sad, I activate Raigeki to destroy all of your monsters!" Rebecca's blast rocketed toward Patrick when he flipped over a card.
"Not so fast! Mystical Space Typhoon destroys Raigeki!" A swirling typhoon inscribes the bolt and destroys it, "I'll set one monster and finish my turn."
"I activate my spell Cost Down! It lowers Shadow Ghoul's level from five two three, allowing it to attack under your Gravity Bind destroying your Sonic Duck!" Shadow Ghouls claw pierces a squawking Sonic Duck and destroys it, "Now you can go."
::Crap...:: Patrick thought::She was leading me on!:: Patrick drew his card::Now I'll finish her the same way.::
"I summon Dragon Zombie in attack mode. I'm done"
::He's nuts! I'll annihilate him!:: "Well," Rebecca said, "I'll activate my rarest card, Tribute to the Doomed! I discard Lady of Faith to activate it and pump Shadow Ghoul's attack to 2000! I choose the farthest face-down card!" Patrick's hidden Man-Eater Bug is wrapped in bandages and pulled down by a fiendish hand.
"Next I summon another Cannon Soldier and use Cost Down to make it level 2. Now I activate My Shield and Sword spell card switching all attack and defense points. Now Cannon Soldier attacks Dragon Zombie and wins 1300 to 0!" Cannon Soldier blasts a hole through the already cadaverous Dragon Zombie draining Patrick's LP down to 1200. "To end it, Shadow ghoul attacks Relinquished!"
"But I'll equip Cannon Soldier to Relinquished, making it take the full blow and you lose the 100 point difference. Cannon Soldier is pulled in front of Relinquished just before Shadow Ghoul's claw strikes.
"Fine!" Rebecca huffed, "I'll activate Monster Reborn to bring back witch of the Black Forest and end my turn!"
Patrick drew, "This is it! I activate Relinquished to equip Shadow Ghoul and Relinquished's attack is now 2000! Attack Witch of the Black Forest!" Relinquished uses Shadow Ghoul's claw to decapitate Rebecca's Witch. She began to use its effect, hoping to get a monster to defend her remaining 200 LP.
"Wait Rebecca," Patrick began, "There's no need. I activate my own Monster Reborn to revive one of your Cannon Soldiers." Cannon Soldier now stood against Rebecca, "I'll use its effect to sacrifice it like you did and destroy the last of your LP with direct damage. It's game." The holograms ended and Rebecca gave up her two Spell Counters.
"Fantastic work!" she patted Patrick on the shoulder (which she could barely reach), "You've got potential. I'd like to wish you good lick and congrats. Here's my rarest card, Tribute to the Doomed."
Patrick stared at the spell, "Thank-you, champ."
