Yu-Gi-Oh!:
Guardian of Death
DUEL 13: Climax
The crowd roared. Patrick looked dead at Pegasus. His anger could be felt throughout the entire arena. The audience didn't know the history behind Patrick and Pegasus's feud, but the tension spoke volumes.
"Now," Krocketts began trying to cut through the fire between Pegasus and Patrick, "There will be a 10-minute intermission-"
"No," Patrick cut off, "It starts right now!" He pointed his finger downward to show he meant it.
"These are Master Pegasus's rules! You'll need all the time you've got to-"
"No," Pegasus cut off as well, "It will commence."
Krocketts sighed, "Very well, prepare the ring." Krocketts waved his hand in exhaustion. People working for Pegasus stormed the field and made sure the arena was up to another duel so soon. After the ok Pegasus stepped down to the arena floor. He stood on one side of the arena motioning Patrick to his place.
"Come on little Patrick. You wanted this so badly, now you've got it."
Patrick took his place, "Why?"
Pegasus cocked his head to one side, "Whatever do you mean?"
Patrick frowned, "Why'd you do this? You want revenge for the last time I beat you? Are you truly so damn vain?"
Pegasus merely chuckled, "More than that. You beat me when I was injured and couldn't think straight. Now, I'll crush you and take your Lava Golem, the very card you used to cheat me."
"You wanna talk about cheating someone? How about stealing my Relinquished to open the Shadow Realm?!" Patrick began shouting angrily, "How about luring me into a tournament to get me to lose a card that whipped you?! How about trying to-?!"
"How about shutting your big mouth?!" Pegasus cut off, "Can't you settle yourself in public?" The audience had hushed. A pin could be dropped a mile away and be heard. People began muttering things about the two duelists.
"You think I care about your pathetic audience? They've shut-up so let's get to this and duel!" Patrick responded.
"Fine!" Pegasus turned his head, "Krocketts! Set it off!"
"Very well. Ladies and gentlemen in attendance and millions of duelists and fans alike watching at home, this is the championship match of the Duelist Paradise Tournament!" The fans still stood in stunned silence, "The challenger is from Winchester, Kentucky and has come from obscurity and won the tournament. The Duelist Paradise winner, Patrick Kingston!"
Fans finally began to snap out of it, "And his opponent, the creator of Duel Monsters and King of the Cards, Pegasus J. Crawford!" The fans finally began to applaud a bit, "If Pegasus wins he gets Lava Golem and if Kingston wins he'll receive Toon World and be given a rare powerful card that has never been released!"
Pegasus and Patrick set their cards down and the LP counters rose to 2000. The two said together, "Duel!"
Patrick studied his hand and drew a card, "I'll set these two cards face-down and activate Pot of Greed!" A devilish green jar arose laughing maniacally. Patrick drew his two new cards, "Now I set two new cards and summon Jinzo#7 in attack mode," Patrick's cybernetic monster took form, "His attack can strike directly so I don't need to wait on monsters anyway. You're already down by 500."
Pegasus drew a card, "I'll activate Dian Keto the Cure Master! Now I'm in the lead!" An elderly woman flashed light on Pegasus, increasing his LP by 1000 to 2500. Patrick also had the elderly woman on his field.
"I guess I'll activate my Dian Keto as well!" Patrick smirked.
"Then let me even this up like it truly should be," Pegasus began, "by putting my self back in the lead. I activate Masked Doll! It negates any bad side effects of cards I play!" An odd doll arose on the field, the golden eye of Anubis on its head and a cylinder in its chest, "Next, Masked Doll negates the 500 LP I pay to activate Tremendous Fire! Meaning you lose 1000 LP and I lose nothing!" A great flame spread across the arena. Most hit Patrick reducing his LP to 2000 again, but some went towards Pegasus and was absorbed by his doll's cylinder.
"Next," Pegasus continued, "I play Toon World!" The cartoony book appeared on the field. Dark energy was sucked into the Masked Doll so that Pegasus's LP wasn't halved, "Next, I set a card face-down and a monster face-down in defense. Now tell me, have you ever dueled your boss?"
"My boss?" Patrick responded confused.
"Why, Seto Kaiba of course! I picked up an old trick from him a while back and thought I'd try it. But I'm giving you one turn to beat it before it beats you. All you have to do is guess how to beat Kaiba boy and you'll succeed! Can you do it?"
Patrick smirked, "Watch me Pegasus!" He drew a card, "I activate the spell, Poison of the Old Man and flip another Poison of the Old Man face-up! I gain 1200 you lose 800!"
"'Afraid not little one! I activate Harpie's Feather Duster! It destroys all Spell and Trap cards you have on the field!" A great wind rushed toward Patrick.
"Then I'll activate Fake Trap!" Patrick flipped it over revealing a very perturbed demon, "It protects all Trap cards from being destroyed by taking all force. But, my spells are still gone." The wind blew over and all that remained was Patrick's face-down card, now known to be a trap.
"Oh well, one card won't hurt. But you still didn't take the measures to beat Kaiba nor did you take those measures to beat me. Now I'll take my turn and it's over!"
Pegasus drew his card, "I warned you! Now I flip the Lord of Dragon!" A being cloaked in a garment decorated with bones and a cape emerged, "And I'll play Flute of Summoning Dragon!" A golden flute appeared in Lord of Dragon's hands. He began to trumpet it, "In this version of Duel Monsters, This combo summons one dragon to the field for you by sacrificing Lord of Dragons and I choose," Lord of Dragons exploded and as the smoke cleared a white winged dragon roared where he stood, "The Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"
"That's what you meant! Kaiba's Blue-Eyes!" Patrick realized.
"Yes, little Patrick, but this beast is not good enough for me. I summoned it to put it in Toon World and play a new, more powerful version of this dragon from my hand!" The Blue-Eyes was sucked into Toon World. Pegasus played a monster and the dragon reemerged as a zany chibi-style version of its former self, "I summon the Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon! He can't do anything the turn he's summoned so I'll set a card and end my turn."
Patrick was in awe of the Toon Dragon. He drew his card, "I summon Sonic Bird in attack!" The jet pack wearing eagle was summoned and got ready to blast off, "He brings-"Patrick was cut off watching Sonic Bird fall, "What?!"
"Didn't notice me activate my Trap Hole? Too bad. It's truly a great trap which destroys a monster when it's summoned. That means you won't get your Ritual Spell card like last time!" Pegasus explained.
"Then I'll direct attack with Jinzo #7 and end my turn." Patrick said sighing.
"Hah!" Pegasus laughed drawing his card, "Now normally, I'd need to pay LP to do this, but Masked Doll takes that for me. I use Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon to attack you directly!" The dragon zoomed toward Patrick.
"Wrong!" Patrick said making the sound of a buzzer, "I activate Gravity Bind! Even though it's trying to attack directly, it's level eight! Way too powerful to by-pass Gravity Bind! You fail!"
Pegasus grimaced, "Then I'll end it, for now."
Patrick drew a card, "Good. Then I'll set a monster face-down in defense and drain you of another 500 LP with Jinzo #7!"
Pegasus drew, "I'll set a card and summon another great toon. Meet Toon Dark Magician Girl! She can't attack, but she'll do. Next, I activate Fissure!" A chasm opened under Jinzo #7 and he fell being crushed as it closed, "It destroys the face-up monster on your field with the lowest attack."
"Not bad," Patrick spoke solemnly drawing a card, "I'll set one card and end my turn,"
::I knew it!:: Pegasus thought::It was a fluke last time! He's too weak to beat me!:: "I'll draw, and activate another Tremendous Fire! Now you're down by 500 to me!"
"Crap," Patrick muttered drawing a card.
(Hang in there my friend) Anubis cheered
"I'll set a monster in face-down defense and end my turn."
Pegasus drew and began to applaud, "Congrats! You put up a good fight, but this is it! I use Remove Trap to destroy Gravity Bind!" Gravity Bind was shattered, "Now my toon beasts can attack!"
"Nope, I'll activate another Gravity Bind I've been saving," Patrick informed, "Now it's my turn. I'll draw and end my turn."
"I will set one card and do the same," Pegasus said frustrated.
Patrick drew, "I'll summon-"
"Wrong!" Pegasus cut off, "How do you like it? I activate another Trap Hole destroying your monster!" another hole appeared like the one destroying Sonic Bird.
"You're too confident," Patrick informed, "Trap Hole doesn't work against Special Summons and that's what ritual summons are, I'm summoning Relinquished by playing Black Illusion Ritual and sacrificing my face-down Aqua Matador," Patrick's great beast arose floating over the hole without regard.
"You know you can't equip my Toon Monsters when they're hidden in Toon World, "Pegasus said drawing, "So I'll use Mystical Space Typhoon on Gravity bind and attack your face-down monster with Toon Dark Magician Girl and the spell card Cursed Camouflage to destroy any face-down monster that Toon Dark Magician Girl attacks without having to flip it for damage calculation."
Gravity Bind shattered again and Toon Dark Magician Girl emerged from Toon World and struck the face-down monster destroying it.
"You're smarter than before. Nothing would've happened to my Giant Soldier of Stone had you not played that spell." Patrick said.
"It gets better little Patrick, My Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon can attack as well! Destroy Relinquished!"
"I don't think so! You left Toon World open leaving Toon Dark Magician Girl vulnerable to monster effects like Relinquished's "Toon Dark Magician Girl was sucked into Relinquished's body. Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon attacked Relinquished and it threw the magician in front of him to take the damage/
"And if anyone knows Relinquished, it's you. So you must know that when a monster attacks Relinquished with an attack higher than the monster equipped to Relinquished, only the equipped monster is destroyed and you lose the life point damage. Thanks for sacrificing 1000 of your own life points for me."
"You insolent brat," Pegasus grumbled.
"Now," Patrick drew his card, "I play another Black Illusion Ritual and sacrifice Muka-Muka from my hand to summon another Relinquished!" The two Relinquished stood tall on the field.
Pegasus drew, "I set a card and end my turn."
Patrick drew another card, "I'll set this card. Oh by the way, you lose." Patrick mocked.
Pegasus began laughing, "I'm crushing you, you fool!"
Patrick waged his finger, "No. Once before you wanted to see if I could beat Kaiba by beating your strategy. Now I want to see if you can even beat me."
Pegasus drew and looked at his card menacingly, "Very well, though you suck at bluffing. I activate the spell card Raigeki!" A great bolt of lightning struck Patrick's side of the field destroying his two Relinquished, "Now, I could normally attack you directly by sacrificing 500 LP to use Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon's effect. But I've only got 500 left and even though Masked Doll takes all LP damage of my cards, I still have to have enough LP to be able to use it legally. So I'm done."
Patrick drew a card not even looking at it, "Time's up. Y'know I could've destroyed that Raigeki card, I could even destroy your Toon World. But there's something bugging me."
"Oh really?" Pegasus mocked, "Do tell!"
"It's Masked Doll. If you play another Tremendous fire I'd lose my last 1000 Life Points and you wouldn't. If you played it now without Masked Doll it'd be a tie, but you're just too good for that aren't you?"
"Make your point!"
"Well, Masked Doll is keeping 2000 points of Direst Damage in her. When it's gone you're at -1500. So now I play my own Mystical Space Typhoon doing just that." Patrick flipped over a card. A great typhoon crushed Masked Doll and an explosion rocked toward Pegasus, reducing his Life Points to zero.
The crowd went wild and Pegasus hunkered over in exhaustion.
"I'll take my Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon and whatever else you said now," Patrick said extending his hand
