Here's chapter eleven of my Yu-Gi-Oh GX fanfic. Don't expect me to update so much anymore, school has just started and I'd rather focus on my school work; what do you expect I'm a high school senior. This time around a double duel between two new OCs whose decks are slightly misleading? Enjoy! And a shout-out to Wind Spirit Kazuya, Happy Birthday!
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 XI: Double Trouble; Zodiacs and Knights of the Round Table v. Spell Counters and Kuriboh, Part 1
Tossing and turning in her sleep Destiny moaned and called out saying "no" within every few seconds going into her dream.
"Who's there?" Destiny asked hearing a loud noise.
"…Your worst nightmare…" a voice called out in a creepy tone.
Turning around in a jerk she came face-to-face with Tao whose eyes were beginning to frenzy. Snickering in her face Tao than cringed and bending over as two wings came out of his back, one insect wing and one feathered wing. Destiny screamed as Tao flew towards her with claws on his hands and making a slashing motion.
"Aah!" Destiny exclaimed waking up in a sweat.
Panting out of lack of breath Destiny ran into Tao's room to find it empty. Destiny looked in the dining room and then in the lounge room still finding no sign of him as she walked back into her own room out of depression. Destiny fell next to her bed and then broke down to her feet crying looking up at her door. The door handle turned causing her to look up hopeful. The door flung open as Jason appeared on the other side as though out of breath. Destiny lowered her head again when Jason walked inside and offered her a handkerchief.
"I can't believe it either," Jason said looking at Destiny's trembling hands.
"Why would he leave?" Destiny asked.
"That's right," Jason thought. "She was incapacitated when Tao ran away with that flash bomb. I honestly couldn't tell you for sure," Jason said breaking his train of thought. "But I don't think he's left the island yet."
"What?" Destiny asked hopeful.
"That's right," Jason said folding his arms. "I believe Tao's on this island hiding out and waiting to hop on some uncharted freighter and make his escape."
Destiny's face went into a sarcastic smile, "Jason, you do realize he's just dropping out of a school, right? Not running from the government."
"Nevertheless," Jason said walking over to Tao's room with Destiny following. "I have a map of all the places he could be where he would be close enough to a freighter boat and make it on there with time to spare," he explained unfurling the map on Tao's desk.
Looking down at the map of the island Destiny's eyes widened and ran back into Tao's room. Looking at a map of Academy Island at the farthest wall Destiny tilted her head and found a spot marked with an "X" on the map that matched one of the locations on Jason's map.
"He's probably here," Destiny said hailing Jason over who looked at the same picture.
Jason turned the map in the same direction as the one on Tao's wall to find it the same map but in an upside down position. Jason and Destiny exclaimed excitedly and ran out of the room not noticing a small note falling off the map. The note fluttered in the air and fell onto Tao's bed and read in Chinese characters, "命运〜留离开这里." Which loosely translates to, "Destiny~ Stay Away From This Place."
Running through the forested areas of the academy Destiny and Jason followed the map for about an hour until both of them began to tire and then collapse back to back.
"This seemed a whole lot easier in theory," Jason said gasping for breath.
"This may just be me, but I think you've been holding the map the wrong way," Destiny said looking up from the large piece of old paper. "See, this map shows the island is the same on two different sides," she said as Jason noticed how the island's south and east sides were almost identical. "So in other words, we need to be going to the east side of the island."
Jason stared at Destiny for several seconds and then fainted from exhaustion, "I'm going to kill myself."
Destiny let out a sarcastic laugh and stood up kicking Jason to get him up. Jason drudgingly stood up and walked with Destiny to the east quarter of the island. Arriving at the east part of the island with Destiny leading she suddenly stopped in a large clearing shaped like a large circle.
"Great, we come to find a duelist who uses Chinese Mythology and what do we find? Crop circles," she said with her eyes half opened.
Walking to the middle of the circle Destiny's eyes widened as she recoiled back as something flew past her. Jason, finally catching up with her, walked into the circle when Destiny ducked and Jason was struck on the forehead by a small nut falling backwards.
"Ouch," Destiny thought to herself.
Jason stood back up and was struck again by another nut that Destiny dodged at the last second. This time falling Jason instead charged through the barrage of walnuts and rammed a tree out of rage with frenzied eyes as two people with duel disks one their left arms fell out. One, a girl about Destiny's age in a Obelisk Blue uniform, silver hair reaching down her back, green eyes, and a cold face that had a light appearance; the other a much younger girl, younger than Amun, in a Ra Yellow uniform with brown hair tied in pigtails decorated with small creatures, blue eyes, and an almost serious look on her face.
Jason still panting began to calm down and relax his eyes and looked down at the two and offered his hand t the two girls. The younger girl slapped his hand away and jumped back to the edge of the clearing while the older girl shivered at the sight of his hand and shuffled back to the other girl's side.
"Who are you two?" Destiny asked.
"Call me Fate," the younger girl said boastfully with her fist rested against her hips.
"R-rose," the other girl said with her arms folded as though in cold shock.
"Why were you two attacking us?" Jason asked as Fate threw another walnut at him striking him on the head.
"We weren't attacking you," Fate said pointing at Jason and then pointing at Destiny. "We were attacking the girl."
"Why me?" Destiny asked pointing at herself.
"You know very well why," Rose said almost spitefully throwing another walnut at Destiny with no power behind the throw.
Barely hitting Destiny on the head the nut fell down to her feet. Destiny stood up and out of a pack behind her she pulled out a duel disk with Jason doing the same.
"At this academy, all things are decided by dueling," Destiny said readying the duel disk putting it in Duel Mode.
"Fine!" Fate said doing the same with a duel disk on her arm. "Let's make this a tag-team duel just for the fun of it. Ready, Rose?"
"Ready!" Rose said putting her duel disk at the ready.
The life point gauge on the four duel disks all read 8000 instead of 4000. Destiny looked at the field around them and saw it was the perfect size and dimension for a dueling field.
"They had this planned from the start, didn't they?" she thought with a sarcastic smile.
"I have the first move!" Jason said pulling the card from his deck. "I summon Gawain, Knight of the Round Table (1800/1000) in attack mode!" he called out as a young knight with a tall helmet, medieval armor, and a sword and shield with the shield having a design similar to a griffin on it. "And so as he remains on the field, all my Knights of the Round Table gain 500 attack points!" he explained as his monster's attack points rose from 1800-2300. "I'll set one card face-down and end my turn! The turn goes to you, Rose."
"Right," Rose said drawing her card. "And on my turn I summon the Maiden of Macabre (1700/0) in attack mode!" she called out summoning a heavily clothed woman with a painted face and a large scythe in hand. "Next I play the spell card Spell Power Grasp! This card allows me to place a Spell Counter on any compatible monster and then search my deck for another Spell Power Grasp. Additionally, since my Maiden has a Spell Counter on her, she now gains an additional 200 hundred points," she explained as the maiden's attack rose from 1700-1900. "And that will end my turn."
Rose then turned her gaze to Destiny who couldn't help but feel slightly nervous as Rose's gaze turned into an angered glare.
"Draw!" Destiny said. "I summon Zodiac Scorpio (1700/1000) in attack mode!" she called out summoning a large blackish blue, transparent scorpion with a starred pattern on the main body. "And with this monster I can instantly freeze two of your Spell/Trap card zones making it so you can't use them as long as he is on the field," she explained as a light on both Rose's and Fate's duel disk faded and then went black. "Next, I'll set one card face-down and end my turn."
"My move!" Fate said pulling her card from the deck. "I summon Kuriboh Aka* (400/100) in attack mode!" she called out as a small creature covered entirely with red fur with two small arms and feet with claws jumped out of the card and floated in mid-air.
Destiny and Jason both dropped their jaws and began bursting out in laughter as Fate began growling and then screamed out about to run at them when Rose held her hand out in front of her.
"Wait until they see what you can do with those Kuribohs of yours," she said with her glare still on Destiny.
"Fine, I activate Aka's effect; with it I can summon another Kuriboh from my hand, and I have one right here, Kuriboh Daidaiiro** (100/900) in defense mode!" she called out as another creature similar to the first one but with orange fur took the field. "And when he's summoned I can switch a monster's battle position and this effect lasts until the end of my next turn," she explained as the small creature flew towards Gawain and scratched his face forcing him into a defensive position. "Next I'll set two cards face-down and end my turn."
Jason looked at his current monster and then at the small creature that so easily subdued it sitting peacefully on an enlarged version of its card. Jason smacked both sides of his face and then reopened his eyes.
"Draw!" he shouted. "I activate my face-down card, Mystical Space Typhoon!" he called out as a card with a picture of a swirling storm revealed itself and began blowing a large forceful wind. "With this spell card I can destroy one spell or trap already out on the field, like one of those two cards," Jason said pointing at the left most face-down card on Fate's field.
"But before you do," Rose said. "I activate the trap card Tower of Babel!" she called out as a large spiral tower took the field and glowed on one of its sides. "Anytime one of us activates a spell card this card gains a Spell Counter, although the maximum amount is four."
The storm continued to pass towards and then destroy one of Fate's face-down cards.
"Next," Jason said. "I summon Lancelot, Knight of the Round Table (2000/1000) in attack mode!" he called out summoning a more burly knight with a large jousting lance instead of a sword. "And by Gawain's effect Lancelot gains 500 more attack points," Jason reminded as Lancelot's attack rose from 2000-2500. "Also, by Lancelot's effect I am now allowed to summon another one of my knights from my hand," he explained pulling out a card from his hand. "I special summon Elyan, Knight of the Round Table (1600/1000) in attack mode!" he shouted summoning another knight, this one all in white armor. "And don't forget the effect of Gawain!" Jason reminded again as Elyan's attack rose from 1600-2100.
Destiny smiled at Jason as he continued his turn by pulling another card from his hand leaving him with two cards.
"I activate the spell card Holy Grail!" he said as a large goblet appeared in the air. "By equipping this to Elyan I gain 1000 attack points for every monster you girls control bumping him up by 3000 points, and he gains an additional 500 for being equipped with another card."
All three girls watched as the white knight gained more and more attack points taking it from 2100-5600 attack points as another light on the large tower lit up in response to the spell card. Destiny clapped out of respect when Jason smirked and cast his hand over the battlefield.
"Lancelot, attack that orange feather duster, Round Table Stab!" Jason called out as the knight holding the jousting lance charged the orange colored creature.
"Heh," Fate said. "Did you think you could win so easily? I activate the trap card, Overworked!"
"What the heck?" Destiny exclaimed.
"With this card, I destroy all monsters on the field whose attack points are higher than their original attack points," Fate explained. "So even though you were able to get your monster over 4000 attack points you still have to say goodbye!"
The card showing an explosion in a person face began charging power and then shot out a large powered beam that destroyed all three of Jason's knights and, in addition, Rose's Maiden of Macabre. Jason was left standing in a daze as he saw his entire field empty.
"Hurts don't it?" Fate asked. "Being the target of cruelty because of something you can't control. Knowing that all the while that this could very well kill you."
Jason began chuckling and then lifted his head in full force laughter.
"What're ya talking about?" he asked still in a laughing fit. "Whatever doesn't kill you can only make you stronger, right? So what if I lose a few monsters, it just means I have another opportunity to make things better, right?"
Fate recoiled back at his seeming joy at the current situation. Rose looked at Jason only for a few seconds and then turned back to meet Destiny's eyes as she drew her card.
"Draw!" Rose shouted. "On my turn I summon Alchemist of Black Spells (1200/1800) in attack mode!" she declared summoning a figure completely clad in dark colored robes and holding a large book and a large triangular symbol on his right hand. "And by switching him to defense mode I can place another Spell Counter one any one of my cards, like my Tower of Babel!"
A third place on the tower lit up. Destiny looked up at it and closed her eyes only for her to look up at it again and then smile.
"So that's how it is," she said under her breath. "So, I was right."
"What do you mean?" Jason asked.
"I'm going to activate that thing against us," Destiny answered cheerfully.
"What!" Jason asked.
"It's my turn!" Destiny declared drawing her card. "I activate the spell card Stargazer's View!" she said as a large starlit path reached up to the top of the Tower of Babel as the final light on the tower.
"I activate the effect of the Tower of Babel!" Rose declared. "When I have four Spell Counters on it I can destroy it and deal 3000 points of damage to you!"
The tower destroyed itself and the rubble from it fell onto Destiny and Jason dropping their life points from 8000-5000. Jason cringed while looking at Destiny who stood up and took a confident stance.
"I activate my face-down card, Gazer Call! This card instantly calls forth one of my Stargazer monsters from my deck, like Stargazer Cygnus (1500/1500) in attack mode!" Destiny declared as a swan similar in design as all of her other monsters took the field. "And now that I have a Stargazer monster out, I can negate its effect and activate Stargazer's View! This means I can inflict damage to my opponent equal to the amount of damage I took this turn. An eye for an eye!"
The pathway then shot out several stars striking both girls dropping their life points from 8000-5000 just like Destiny and Jason had earlier gone through. Rose and Fate stood up and faced Destiny as though they were facing their worst enemy.
"By the effect of Stargazer's View I'm not allowed to attack this turn, so it's your move, but first answer me this; why are you targeting me?" Destiny asked pointing at Rose.
"Because of what you did to me in middle school," Rose shouted. "Because of the wedge you drove in between me and Ronald three years ago."
Destiny's jaw dropped with Jason looking at her with an estranged look on his face.
"Something you wanna tell us, Destiny?" Jason asked.
"I'll tell you everything!" Rose said looking straight into Destiny's eyes as though she were trying to set her on fire.
Chapter eleven complete, Cliffhanger FTW! Well, this certainly seems pathetic at a glance now doesn't it? We got two people here one with a deck of dust busters, and one who can't let go of a grudge. Well, let's hope the explanation for this madness is all in the next chapter. Until next time, ja nee! By the way, thanks for the characters of Rose and Fate, this is gonna be fun.
Next time: As the double duel between Destiny, Jason, Fate, and Rose continues the seriousness of things rises when Destiny finds herself using a card she's never seen before. I've got two words for y'all…PLOT TWIST! Next time: Double Trouble; Zodiacs and Knights of the Round Table v. Spell Counters and Kuribohs.
*Aka: Japanese word for red
**Daidaiiro: Old Japanese word for orange