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Chapter 13: Nightmare of a Duel
"Damn that Ki," Crowler is currently on the computer, reading Ki's profile which only includes his name, age and deck. His background, birthday and family were unknown, "Why would he be called by only Ki and without a family name? His backgrounds were unknown too. Yet, how does he possess such powerful cards, like Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl, then Endymion, the Master of Magicians and that Silent Magician Lv 8." Crowler talked to himself and he closed Ki's profile. He sighed and scanned through every student's profile, "Not even Isaac could defeat him, nor Lapis; Lucas is too much… wait," he paused as he stopped at a student's profile. The student had spiky scarlet hair which stood to his back. Crowler began reading his profile, "…… I see… YES! HE IS PERFECT FOR THE JOB!" Crowler roared complementing himself as if he solved a great mystery. "Be prepared Ki, I'm gonna make sure you leave this school by force!" he snapped.
The next day, Ki was late as usual and to everyone's surprise, including Silent Magician, Crowler did not punish him. He is grinning broadly throughout the class like a moron.
Did something happen? Everyone thought.
Then, Crowler made an announcement to the class, "KI!" he called, "You will be the representative for this year's School Duel Event!" he announced.
"School Duel Event?" Ki bewildered.
"Yes, this event occurs yearly," Crowler began, "Our academy will be dueling an old rivaling academy in the north called North Academy. We've won the duel during the previous year thanks to a student whose name is-" but the students were no longer paying attention to him as they were now admiring how Ki is able to enter the event. Then Crowler cleared his throat to grab the student's attention, "Yes of course, but-" everyone is now paying full attention, "-you must win in a duel with another representative."
"Sure, bring em on!" Ki replied aggressively.
"Oh, you'll see," Crowler murmured, "Right, now the duel will begin by tomorrow noon sharp, you understand?" Crowler asked strictly, "And be there ON TIME!" Ki answered him with an annoyed nod.
By evening, Ki paid a visit to Liner and Vaan. They were delightful with his arrival. Ki sat back and talked about his plans. Then, he convinced Silent Magician to talk at least once. But she did not budge. Vaan began to doubt how weird Ki could be as he is talking to himself and the truth is, Vaan could not see duel spirits, but Liner could.
The next day, Ki got up at eleven and dressed up as he prepares for his duel later this noon. Ki arrived at the Official Duel Arena an hour later and was late by a minute.
"You're late again, slacker!" spat Crowler.
"You're early again, ugly-git!" Ki spat back.
Crowler finds it awkward and so he began announcing, "Now that Ki had arrived, let's introduce Ki's opponent!" he announced through the mike, "Byler!"
A Slifer student came walking out and stood at the opposite side of the field. He had spiky scarlet hair pointed to his back, with crimson red eyes like rubies. He wore his uniform tidily, all buttoned up; unlike Ki who never buttons his uniform and leave it hanging like a jacket. Ki could recognize him as the student back in the Written Exam who is one of the few who did not buy any cards for his Field Exams. Byler…
"Contestants ready?" Crowler asked.
"I'm ready to burn!" Byler said coldly.
Ki slot in his deck and announced together with Byler, "DUEL!" Their Life Points were shown 4000.
"You go," declared Ki generously.
Byler, Ki's opponent glees and eyed him, "You'll regret this, DRAW!" he pulls his next card.
Meanwhile, Lapis and her friend-Vivian, were by the lake, studying. They were reading and discussing, until Tyrule, Ki's Ra mate interrupted them.
"Oh good you're here!" he bellowed, panting and panicking.
"What is it? What's wrong?" Lapis asked bewilderedly.
"It's Ki," he panted, "He's dueling with Byler!"
"WHAT!" Lapis gasped to her horror. Vivian on the other hand, does not understand what Tyrule meant. "This is the worst…" Lapis said bitterly.
"What's with Byler?" Vivian asked. Lapis bitterly explains to Vivian.
Back in the duel, Byler who drew his card began as he summons a monster, "Solar Flare Dragon (1500/1000) in attack mode," a dragon covered in flames appeared. Then Ki got a feeling, an odd feeling about the temperature, it was like boiling. How does it become hot all of a sudden?
On Lapis side, Vivian gasped when she heard about Byler. "True, Byler is no ordinary duelist," Lapis said, "Byler has the ability to turn duel monsters into realistic creatures and the pain he made, is unbearable!" Lapis said even bitterly for every word she talked about Byler, "He has been called Byler of the Nightmare!"
Back in the duel, Byler ends his turn. But as he does so, the dragon shot a breath of flames at Ki. Ki, fearing the worst, dodge the flames by inches but his right sleeve was caught up in the flames. To his horror, his jacket was on fire. Ki slammed himself to the ground and rolled, struggling to put out the fire. As he did, he recovered.
"A psychic!" Ki gasped, at the same time lost 500 Life Points.
Silent Magician gasped as well when she witnessed such ability. She looked at the remains of the flames travelling straight to Crowler. Crowler crouched, heads low and hands covered. As the flame travelled by, his but was on fire (HOT, HOT, HOT, HOT!). Ki striped his Ra uniform off and he swung it at Crowler, putting out the flames.
"Close call, thanks Ki," he said in relieves. Ki threw his jacket to Crowler. He resumes his duel.
"Watch my uniform for me, draw!" he pulled his next card. "Not much for a defense for Life Shaving deck but… Breaker the Magical Warrior (1600+300/1000) in attack position!" a red armored magician with blue bladed sword and a red shield appeared along with an aura, increasing his strength. "Breaker, Fight!" the magical warrior charged at the dragon, slash and destroyed it. Byler took 400 points of damage and he did not budge as if it was just the wind which is beating him. "Next, I set a face down and end."
When the dragon was gone, the condition is cooler and the audience noticed this already. Liner, Vaan and Isaac were amazed that Byler had such ability. Tyrule, Lapis and Vivian arrived together with Lucas and Katie.
"If you want to carry on then, so be it; DRAW!" Byler said. "Now I play the equip spell-Snatch Steal!" Byler played, to Ki, Tyrule, Lapis and Lucas' horror. "This spell card enables me to take control of a face up monster on your side of the field!" Ki feared for the worst, watched as his Magical Warrior switches field as he is being controlled, "Next, I play three face downs and play the spell card called Hinotama!" Ki gasped to his horror. When the spell card appeared, Ki dodged again. But the jet of fire ball flew straight to his chest, knocking him off as if he was being hit by a train. He falls to his back, trembling as the pain caused by the impact was unbearable. "Will you still fight?" Byler pitied as he eyed pathetically at Ki.
Ki sat up unstably and stood up trembling and weakly. He lost another 500 Life Points.
"I'll take that as a yes, well then, here goes; Breaker, direct attack!" The magician hesitated but orders were orders and he charged straight at his original controller as he strikes Ki with the sheath of his sword. Ki again fell to his back, with his hands pressing his stomach. He lost 1900 Life Points during the impact; 1100 Life Points remaining.
"NO! HE'S HIT!" Liner bellowed.
"Terrible, but there's an advantage," Lucas said, "You see Snatch Steal gave the opponent an advantage-they regain 1000 Life Points each Standby Phase."
"Then-" Liner and Vaan turned back to the field.
Ki recovered with a somersault saying, "I'm OK!" as he waits for Byler to end his turn.
"…I play Byler's effect to destroy Snatch Steal!" he said, to everyone's surprise. As the spell was destroyed, Breaker returned to Ki's field, guiltily, "I end my turn."
"So basically, Byler doesn't want Ki to recover any Life Points at all!" explained Tyrule.
"I'd say, he's torturing him and force him to surrender," said Lucas.
Surrender can be played by keeping one's hand on their deck for a while. Through this way, they will forfeit the duel and will be counted as defeat.
"How can you tell Luke?" Liner asked.
"I've been in this academy for three years and I saw all of his duels, all of his opponents surrendered before they were defeated, some were too afraid to duel him either." He said.
Liner, Vaan and Vivian gasped. Katie's merry side was replaced with a serious cold personality like Silent Magician. Isaac was enjoying the duel.
Ki wiped his nose with his finger, "No sweat!" he pulled his next card. Darn, he thought, to think that he has a Life Shaving and Card Steal deck… I can't put up a fight like this but… he checked his cards. Then he focused on another magician holding a bigger shield but a smaller sword, "Mage Knight Defender (1200/2000) in defense mode!" A blue reinforced armored knight appeared with a large shield. He knelt behind his shield, defending. "With this, I would be guarded for the time being…"
"Don't' think so! Trap Card, reveal! Final Attack Order, continuous trap!" which struck Ki ominously. "This card effect is that all monsters face up on the field must be in attack position and stay that way!" Then, the knight with a large shield stood up, ready to strike. "I'm not done, trap card activate, Dust Tornado!" Ki gasped yet again. Then to his horror, the face down he set was destroyed by a tornado storm, revealing Spirit Barrier which is his defense. "What will you do now?" Byler asked.
"D'you had to ask? Mage Knight Defender, Breaker the Magical Warrior direct attack!" the two warrior magicians charged to Byler. He was at ease as he plays his next face down.
"Wall of Revealing Light, Continuous Trap!" Ki, Lucas, Tyrule and Isaac were struck so ominously that it feels as if they were struck by lightning. "Wall of Revealing Light stops my opponent's monsters from attacking if the attaking monster had or lesser attack points than the amount that I had paid for this service; I pay 3000 Life Points so monsters with 3000 points or below cannot attack!" Byler's Life Points fell straight to 600. Then as the warrior magicians strike, they were blocked by a wall and were forced to forfeit.
"No way, Byler got Ki nailed!" Liner roared.
"Exactly; not much he could here so he had to end," Lucas said.
Isaac watched the concerned Ki evilly as he began to enjoy seeing him surrenders. Katie on the other hand, watched coldly and silently like Silent Magician. While Silent Magician prayed for his victory.
Ki hesitated but continued, "3 face downs," he said, covering all his cards but one onto the field and, "END."
"Giving up? How about this," Byler drew his next card and to Ki's horror, Byler eyed him darkly, "Now, I shall melt you with molten lava!" Ki knew what he meant by that phase and he blurts, "LAVA GOLEM!" which Lucas, Tyrule, Lapis, Crowler and Silent Magician were stunned to hear. "True and here it is, Lava Golem (3000/2500) in attack mode!" he summoned and suddenly, Ki felt the ground shaking and he toppled to his back. A similar pain and burn invoked from his back. He then noticed where he is-in a cage. There were steel bars around him and he was feeling very hot. As a drop of thick lava touched his skin, he realized where he is; in a cage strapped below a giant molten golem, like a necklaces. Byler laughed aloud evily and in a cold tune, he echoed, "Allow me to say this to you formally, WELCOME TO YOUR NIGHTMARES!"
End Chapter 13
I wonder is this ruthless enough? Anyways, just to remind you people, this story consist of 50 Chapters and I've done till Chapter 24. Ehehehe...