Here's chapter 4 of my Yu-Gi-Oh GX fanfic. This time a duel straight from the times of chivalry, Knights of the Round Table v. Zodiac.
DISCLAIMER: ALL THE CREDIT FOR YU-GI-OH GOES TO KAZUKI TAKAHASHI AND SHONEN JUMP. I OWN ONLY SOME OF THE OCs AND THE DECKS USED BY THEM.
Duel IV: By Oath of the Sword; Knights of the Round Table v. Zodiac
As the figure walked in silence towards the building he smiled slightly while the wind blew his black bangs in front of his red eyes. His long Obelisk blazer revealed his solid black shirt underneath, and covered the top part of his blue jeans. He continued to the dorm while holding onto a small parcel. He knocked on the door and placed the parcel on the doormat and quickly walked away and hid behind a tree. A few seconds later the dorm head for the Obelisk dorm saw the package and picked it up. After a few moments after opening it the contents flung themselves towards him in a flurry of whipped cream.
Off in the distance the figure's subtle laughter could be heard by the dorm head who began heading for the tree. After turning full circle around the trunk the dorm head became oblivious to the figure holding himself on the branches hanging lower than the others and just inches from the dorm head. A bead of sweat almost dropped from his head when he subtlety flung it behind him still making him invisible to the dorm head.
Off in the distance Destiny, Amun, and Tao were walking towards the scene when Destiny, humming a repetitive song, noticed the figure holding himself on the branch.
"Hey, Jason! What're you doing up there?" she said waving to the figure as the dorm head looked up and gained an evil grin on his face.
Jason jumped off the tree and ran towards the three Slifers and grabbed Destiny and Amun by their arms and ran off leaving Tao at the "mercy" of the Obelisk dorm head. The dorm head grabbed him by the collar and began to threaten.
"Alright, where're they headed to?" he said keeping a grip on Tao's Slifer blazer.
Tao's eyes dilated and he grabbed the dorm head's hand and flipped him over his head. Tao looked down at the dorm head and kneeled down next to him as he was halfway crippled.
"How good is Jason?" he asked.
"What?" the dorm head asked.
"I said, how good of a duelist is Jason compared to the other Obelisk?" Tao asked again this time pushing on his head.
"Top of any class in field dueling, why?" the dorm head said struggling.
"I have my reasons…" Tao said letting him go and leaving for the dorm.
Back at the dorm Jason and the two Slifers were feasting on the lunch Ninomiya prepared for them when Tao entered and took one of the bentos prepared. Sitting next to Jason he began eating and between bites glared at Jason unbeknownst to him. After eating Jason left and thanked Ninomiya for his hospitality.
Jason reached the dorm and found a note stuck in his dorm telling him to go inside and to expect a call at midnight. Jason looked around and saw no one so he went into his dorm and sat on his bed going over a deck hidden in locked box. At midnight the phone rang and Jason picked it up to a voice he didn't know.
"Is this the 2nd year Obelisk blue student, Jason Knight?" The voice said in a warbled voice as into a voice changer.
"It is." Jason said.
"I want you to duel against one of your classmates. Specifically the one named Destiny." The voice said.
"Why should I listen to you? Why should I listen to the authority that has plagued me so much?" Jason asked the voice in defense.
"Because I know all about you, and your family. If you do not duel I know several people who would be willing to pay anything for this information. Chief of them being that gem." The voice said in a threatening manner.
"If you tell anyone about that gem I swear I will find you and use it on you!" Jason said.
"Then I suggest you duel Destiny, and don't throw the match I need to see your power when you're dueling at your full strength. Oh, and have the gem on you at the time." The voice finished and hung up.
Jason sat on his bed and put a hand on his head and sighed. Jason looked over at a bejeweled box that stayed locked. Jason placed his hand on the box and it opened in an instant. The box showed a blood red jewel which he put into his pocket. Jason closed his eyes and opened them again with blank eyes.
"In the morning, Destiny, we duel!" he said raising his fist.
The next morning, Destiny was walking up to the school building humming to herself with the other two Slifers right behind…by a good ten feet.
"If she hums that stupid song one more time, I'm gonna make sure she can't hum ever again." Tao said clenching his fist.
"Calm down, Jason's right over there and you know how he can get." Amun said.
Jason had his duel disk at the ready when Destiny ran into him. Destiny looked up when Jason offered his hand. Destiny took it and Jason bowed to her as though she were royalty.
"Okay, I'm officially freaked out." Destiny said.
"Something ain't right." Amun observed.
"Really, Sherlock, like we couldn't have gotten that ourselves." Tao said sarcastically.
"Milady, I request to duel against thee." Jason said raising his duel disk up.
"Say what?" Destiny asked still slightly confused.
"I asked thee for a bout of wit and skill in the popular fashion of this academy. Please honor my request milady." Jason said taking Destiny's hand.
"Just don't do that anymore." Destiny said taking back her hand.
"Whatever is thou speaking of milady?" Jason asked unaware of his speech pattern.
"Tao! Amun!" Destiny called.
"How's it going with Sir Lancelot, milady?" Tao said sarcastically.
"What's wrong with him?" Destiny asked.
Amun cleared his throat and lifted his voice, "Young squire, what thou mean by speaking in this manner of which is not spoken in?"
Tao and Destiny dropped their jaws in disbelief as Jason continued the conversation, "'Tis how I was born to speak, and milady must duel against me."
"Why?"
"For the sake of preserving the honor of my crest."
"Okay, what the heck?" Destiny asked.
"He wants to duel for the sake of his family's honor. See in a lot of European nations families all have a crest or a coat of arms that represents them so he wants to duel for the sake of his family."
"Okay, how do I say I accept this challenge in medieval England?" Destiny asked.
Amun cleared his throat again, "It shall be so. Her highness accepts your challenge."
The two other Slifers dropped their jaws again at Amun's speech pattern and walked towards the duel arena. As the duelists took their marks the other students began to swarm around the duel even with the teachers trying to stop the crowd. Ninomiya appeared behind the two Slifers and began the duel his normal way.
"Thou hast the beginning move." Jason said.
"Fine! For my turn I summon Zodiac Sagittarius (1900/1000) in attack mode! Next I play three cards face-down and end my turn. Go ahead, Sir Knight!" Destiny said.
"The turn be mine now! And for my turn I call forth Lancelot, Knight of the Round Table (2000/1000) in attack mode. Also, I invoke the ability of my knight of the round table, when summoned I am allowed to call forth another of my knights. So by this monster's ability I special summon Gawain, Knight of the Round Table (1800/1000) in attack mode." After summoning both monsters appeared as knights of the medieval time each with sword unsheathed. "And while this card remains face-up on the field all of my servants gain 500 attack points. Next I invoke the magic of the card Giant Trunade, with this magic I gain the power to return all Spell or Trap cards on the field to their owner's hand." A giant wind blew through the area and blew back all the face-down cards back towards Destiny. "Next I attack with my knight Lancelot, Legendary Sword!" the larger knight jumped up and slashed through the transparent centaur dropping Destiny's life point gauge from 4000-3400. "Next, my Sir Gawain attacks thee directly with Sword Justice." The shorter knight jumped up and slashed up against Destiny dropping her life points from 3400-1100.
Destiny gasped for air as she found herself on the ground with the pain from both swords still stinging. Her eyes widened when she came to a realization about those monsters.
"The pain…is real, isn't it?" Destiny asked Jason.
"My power shows thee many different things. So long as I have my power you will always feel the sting of my swords and you shall be able to burn it out of your mind." Jason said solemnly. "I play two cards face-down and end my own turn. Now 'tis your turn."
"Fine, my good knight. I summon Zodiac Libra (1700/1700) in attack mode!" Out of the card came a transparent set of scales. "And when this card is summoned and you control more monster I can destroy monsters until we both control the same amount of monsters. So I'm going to destroy your sir Gawain! Libra, balance those scales!" Libra launched itself at Gawain and destroyed in an instant. "Next I play the Spell card Celestial Rebirth! This brings back one of my zodiacs from the graveyard." She said bringing the Sagittarius card back from the graveyard. Now I play Celestial Fusion! Now I fuse Sagittarius, Aries, and Leo to summon Celestial Emissary Ignis (3000/2500)!" As the three zodiacs fused and became the lava monster used against Amun earlier. "Now I activate my monster's effect, I have you discard 1 card from your hand like the far left!" The card on the far left was revealed to be a Spell card. "Now, I gain 1000 life points" she said as her life point gauge rose from 1100-2100. "Now my Ignis will attack your Lancelot for quite a bit of hurt, Celestial Eruption!" The large monster erupted its flames and destroyed the Lancelot dropping Jason's life point gauge from 4000-3000. "Now Libra attacks you directly with Balance Bash!" the scale rammed into Jason dropping his life points from 3000-1300.
"What's with this guy?" Amun asked. "It's as though he actually thinks that this is tenth century England."
"It has something to do with that gem around his neck." Ninomiya explained. "It's said to be a gem from the actual sword Excalibur, and cursed that whoever is the possessor will be filled with the realization that they are still in the Dark Ages."
"Probably a better way of putting it is that the gem itself possesses the holder into believing it. Most likely that gem is filled with the spirit of one who lived in the time period and is now using the holder as a host like a parasite." Tao explained with his arms folded.
"I'll play a final card face-down and end my turn!" Destiny declared.
"Then the move be mine. Now from my hand I call forth yet again my Knight of Camelot Lancelot and by his ability I summon from my hand Percival, Knight of the Round Table (1900/1000) in attack mode. Also, by the effect of one of the monsters in my hand I can invoke him should I control a face-up Knight of the Round Table. Merlin, Wizard of Camelot (1000/1000) in attack mode." Two more monsters took the same side of the field as the burly knight, one another knight of a different size, and an aging wizard in a large robe. "Next I Synchro summon with all three of my monsters!"
"What?" Destiny exclaimed.
"A level ten Synchro?" Amun exclaimed.
"Interesting…" Tao said stroking the sides of his chin.
"I Synchro summon the king of Camelot; Arthur, King of Camelot (3000/2500)!" A large monster rivaling the size of the Celestial Emissary before it took the field and crowned itself with a golden crown. "Next I activate one of its abilities; when this card is summoned I can bring from my deck, hand, or graveyard the sword of the king, Excalibur!" Jason's graveyard began glowing as the spell card flew out of it and equipped itself to Arthur. "Now since this mighty sword is equipped specifically to Arthur he gains an extra thousand attack points." The attack point meter on Arthur rose from 3000-4000. "Next, I will end this with my Sword of Hero attack, Arthur strike down the Libra!"
The king began to move down to the quivering scales when Destiny intervened.
"I activate, Celestial Protection! When my opponent attacks a Zodiac, I con block it with one of my Celestial Emissaries! Go Ignis!" she said as the giant fire golem got in the way of the monster and was slashed right down the middle.
Destiny's life points dropped from 2100 back down to 1100. Destiny began panting again as she smiled and winked at Jason.
"Now I activate the second effect of Celestial Protection. Should my Celestial Emissary be destroyed by battle the turn I activated this card I gain Celestial Fusion back to my hand." She said as the card returned from her graveyard back to her hand.
"I end my turn and give the move to thee." Jason said.
"Fine, but now it's over. I summon Stargazer Pegasus (1500/1500) in attack mode! And whenever a Stargazer is summoned I can automatically gain to my hand a Zodiac with the same attribute as the Stargazer summoned. So from my deck I choose Zodiac Aquarius."
"Do what you want; I still hold the power of this mighty king!" Jason said holding up the gem from his pocket.
"Now, Amun!" Ninomiya yelled.
Amun lined up a sling shot and fired it at the gem forcing it to the ground near Tao who wrapped it up into a bag. Jason's eyes dimmed and reopened with full expression. Jason seemed oblivious to the duel when he noticed what was going on.
"Destiny are we dueling?" Jason asked.
"Huh? What do you mean; you've been basically schooling me until now." Destiny explained.
"I have? But I don't remember."
"So what?" Destiny declared.
"Huh?"
"So long as you're dueling who cares if you remember every little move you made. You're having fun right?"
"I always have fun when I duel. So you said something about 'until now' by the way this looks you're about to feel the wrath of my strongest monster."
"Not until now. I activate Celestial Fusion and fuse my Libra, and Aquarius and Gemini in my hand to fuse together Celestial Emissary Vente (2900/2700) in attack mode." A giant monster made almost entirely out of tornados appeared on the field. "Now I have to destroy a card on my side of the field and depending on what it is I gain a very special effect. I choose my second face-down card played at the beginning of the duel; another Celestial Fusion! And since I destroyed a spell card I gain control of your monster."
"What?" Jason exclaimed as Arthur walked silently towards the opposite field. "Truly, Destiny, even one of the best in the school doesn't hold a candle to you. I concede finish me."
"I guess it wouldn't be nice to leave you in suspense, Vente finish him! Vortex Nova!" the tornado beast began swirling towards Jason dropping his remaining life points to zero.
The students applauded for Destiny while some of the teachers began to whisper amongst themselves. Amun walked back up to Tao for a bit of feedback.
"Out of curiosity why did Destiny bother to bring back Celestial Fusion when she had another one face-down the whole time?"
"Two reasons; first she needed Libra on the field to summon Vente, second she needed the tribute of the spell card to gain control of Jason's monster to get him wide open for a direct assault." Tao explained.
"Yet she can't pass a test to save her life."
"Her prowess is used on the field not on paper like some of the people here. We all have a reason for being here. Destiny to become the best, you for the chance to come back home, Jason probably for the protection of this gem" Tao said holding up the bag.
"And then there's you" Amun said. "We still don't know why you're here. So when you gonna fold?"
"The next time the Sahara freezes over." Tao said walking away bouncing the bag up and down in his hand.
As he walked away Destiny and Jason began acting as though they had known each other for as long as any childhood friend.
"Well done, I truly believe that its duelists like you that keep this game fresh and new and in time we will find who the greatest in our school will be." Ninomiya said.
"We shall indeed…" a sinister voice said behind the crowd unbeknownst to the rest as the figure walked away in complete invisibility.
Chapter four complete. For the record Jason is an OC developed by another party, along with his deck for one main reason…this person is good! Arigato to the creator of Jason.
Halloween means a lot to some people, more so than others. When a new student gives even Tao the creeps can one of the other Slifers stand up because they know, "…that dark holds no fear to me." Next time: Who's Afraid of the new Spook?; The Scarab v. the Pumpkin