Here's chapter twelve of my Yu-Gi-Oh GX fanfic. So we're in the middle of a double duel for those of you just joining us. To recap: under the pretense that Tao has not left the island Destiny and Jason go to a place marked on a map on Tao's wall only for it to be a warning to Destiny that they should not go there, unbeknownst to them. After arriving they are attacked and instigate a duel between two girls, Rose and Fate, who are targeting Destiny for reasons unknown until Rose reminds Destiny of a name from her middle school life.
To make sure everyone is one the right page Destiny has four cards in hand and Jason has two cards on the field the team has currently 5000 life points with the monster cards Zodiac Scorpio (1700/1000), Stargazer Cygnus (1500/1500), and the spell card Stargazers View.
Rose has four cards in her hand and Fate has two cards and as a team they have 5000 life points with the monster cards Alchemist of Black Spells (1200/1800), Kuriboh Aka (400/100), and Kuriboh Daidaiiro (100/900).
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 XII: Double Trouble; Zodiacs and Knights of the Round Table v. Spell Counters and Kuriboh, Part 2
A bell chimed as a multitude of middle school students ran into the main building not noticing a group of kids on the back wall. The three boys began punching a kicking a young girl with silver hair and green eyes. The girl began to cry out for help with the three boys laughing at her.
"Get real, freak. Who'd help you?" the apparent leader of the boys asked mockingly.
The girl continued to cry out for help but then stopped and then cried out of pain as she felt her ankle snap. The boys chuckled and charged and threw several punches as the girl cringed and opened her eyes to see a young boy with black hair tied up in a pony-tail with a patch covering his left eye being continually punched by the three boys in complete silence. The leader threw a punch at the boy's face only for him to stop it with his bare hand. The leader recoiled back holding onto his wrist.
"Who do you think you are!" the leader asked angrily. "Boys, get him!"
The other two boys picked up long thin sticks and charged the silent boy who grabbed one of them and twisted it out of one of the boy's hand. He then entered into what seemed like a swordfight with the other boy and hit him in the gut knocking him out. The girl looked in amazement as the boy turned to the leader who picked up a stick and charged holding it high above his head. The boy made a stabbing motion and quickly turned to the left and slashed at his left. Falling to the ground the boy staggered getting up when he saw the stick in front of his face.
"Leave her alone," the boy said in a dark and angered voice.
The three boys ran away from the wall and back into the building falling over each other as the boy dropped the stick and turned to the girl who was still on the ground. He held out his hand as the girl cringed backwards shivering.
"I won't hurt you," the boy said.
"Are you true to your word?" the girl asked still cringing in fear.
"My name is Ronald Aoi, and you have my word," he said bowing to her like knight.
The girl took his hand and cringed closing her eyes and then slowly opening them to find the boy looking at her smiling.
"May I ask your name?" Ronald asked.
"Rose, Rose Satellizer," the girl said smiling and following Ronald back into the building holding onto his hand all the while and giggling like any girl.
The same girl's face appeared again on the battlefield of the duel between Destiny, Jason, Fate, and Rose (hint-hint), but this time was scowling while facing Destiny and pointing at her accusingly.
"Do you remember me now?" Rose asked.
"…Ah!" Destiny exclaimed after hesitating. "Yeah, Ronald used to talk about you a lot."
Growling at the comment Rose looked back at Destiny who tried to remember more but found she was unable to.
"Question!" Jason said raising his hand. "Who's Ronald?"
"He's an old friend of mine," Destiny explained. "And when we were in middle school he saved Rose from bullies."
Rose shivered at the thought of the three boys attacking.
"From what I understand, she comes off as either shy or anti-social and because of that people thought she was the meanest person alive so they targeted her in bullying," Destiny explained more thoroughly. "So much so that she developed a fear of being touched by other people. Although, she never had a problem when Ronald held her hand or patted her on the head."
"My guess, Ronald is her safe place," Jason deduced causing Rose to blush beet red. Jason peered over to look at her, "Yep, that's it," he concluded.
"For some reason when I first met her she was much friendlier to me," she said recalling when she first met her. "But in ninth grade she distanced herself from me and got really mad when I dueled against Ronald."
Fate smacked her forehead and shook her head negatively looking up at Jason who was thinking, Rose who was shivering, and Destiny who was still clueless.
"Ah!" she screamed. "Can we get on with it!" she asked angrily getting everyone's attention.
Jason turned to face her and snapped his fingers, "So what's your angle on this? Why help her?" she said pointing his finger at Rose.
"I'm part of the Discipline Committee along with Rose and we patrol this area during the time frame," Fate explained. "She told me about what Destiny did to her and I just knew that I had to help her."
"I'm not sure Destiny knows what she did," Jason said pointing at Destiny who was still clueless to anything she had done.
"She took up to much of Ronald's time to keep him away from Rose because she was jealous of the bond they shared!" Fate declared as Rose blushed, Jason retched sticking his finger near his mouth, and Destiny snapping her fingers and then making a face as though still trying to figure it out. "Anyway, my draw!" she declared. "I summon Kuriboh Ai* (300/100) in defense mode!" she called out as a third small creature with indigo colored fur jumped out of the card and landed on an enlarged version of the card. "And by this monster's effect I can summon from my hand Kuriboh Ao** (100/300) in defense mode!" she declared as a fourth creature with blue fur copied its former. "Next, I'll play a face-down card and switch Kuriboh Aka into defense mode end my turn!"
"Draw!" Jason declared. "Perfect; I summon Percival, Knight of the Round Table (1900/1000) in attack mode!" he called out as a knight in armor covered by a colorful tunic took the field with his sword unsheathed. "Next, I'll attack the blue fluff-ball, Tactical Slash!" he ordered as the knight slashed through the blue furred creature.
The blue creature exploded and then from the small pieces fragmented a green creature matching its design took its place.
"Whenever the blue Kuriboh is destroyed I can summon another Kuriboh, like Kuriboh Midori*** (100/850), in its place and place it in defense mode automatically," Fate explained.
"I concede the turn to you Rose," Jason said. "Good luck," he said giving her a thumbs-up.
"Fine, draw!" Rose shouted. "I summon Silent Magician Lv. 4 (1000/1000) in attack mode!" she declared summoning a young white female magician with hair and eyes similar to Rose's with a large hat hiding most of her face from view. "Next I use Stop Defense to switch my monster into attack mode," she explained as the Alchemist sitting in defense returned to attack mode. "Now I activate his effect again to place a Spell Counter on Silent Magician!" she declared as the Alchemist switched back into defense and the scepter held by the young magician lit up in a small section one fifth the size of the sphere on top if the scepter. "And whenever my Silent Magician gains a Spell Counter it gains 500 attack points," she explained as the magician's attack rose from 1000-1500. "Now I activate Spell Power Grasp to add another Spell Counter onto Silent Magician!" she explained as the magician's scepter shined in another one fifth section as its attack rose again from 1500-2000. "Now attack Zodiac Scorpio, Magic Destroyer!"
The magician pointed her staff at Scorpio and shot a large blast at it reducing it to dust dropping Destiny's and Jason's life points from 5000-4700. Two lights on Fate's and Rose's duel disk lit up as Scorpio disintegrated. At the end if the turn a card flew out of Rose's deck and into her hand.
"Whenever I use Spell Power Grasp I get another one into my hand, remember?" Rose said revealing the card in her hand. "I'll set two cards face-down and end my turn. Your move, Destiny," she said disdainfully.
"Alright, my draw!" she declared as a third fifth of the magician's scepter raising its attack points from 2000-2500. "Just as I thought," Destiny said. "Every time an opponent draws a card you gain another of those Spell Counters, right?"
"That's correct," Rose said boastfully. "And what're you going to do about it?"
"Let's see," Destiny said looking down at her five cards to find the trap card she drew. "What the; where did this thing come from?" she thought to herself. "Better yet, what is this thing?"
The card's picture showed a picture of the four fusion monsters that Destiny used all in a formation and each blasting a center area with their elemental powers.
"You getting scared?" Fate asked mockingly as Destiny continued to read the card and then gasp out of amazement.
"I'll set one card face-down and summon Zodiac Cancer (1600/400) in attack mode!" she called out summoning the large dark blue, transparent crab with the star pattern. "And by his effect is I can copy the effect of another on the field that shares his attribute. So I copy Stargazer Cygnus to bring to my hand Zodiac Pisces (1200/1200) to my hand! Next I activate the spell card Hand Destruction forcing us to discard two cards from our hands and then draw the same amount of cards from our deck!"
Destiny, Jason, and Rose all discarded their cards and then joined Fate in drawing in two new cards. All four people looked at their hands when Destiny looked up from them and then looked over at Fate's field.
"Cancer attack Kuriboh Daidaiiro, Cosmic Pinch!" she ordered as the cancer charged and pinched the orange creature slicing it in half and much to the surprise of everyone else dropped from 5000-4300.
"Hey, what gives?" Fate asked with a pouting face.
"Should my Cancer attack a defense position monster with more than half of the attack of any monster I can inflict the difference as battle damage to you," Destiny explained. "I'll end my turn, do ahead Fate."
"Draw!" she called out. "I summon Kuriboh Murasaki**** (1000/0) in attack mode!" she declared summoning a six creature with violet fur. "Now I activate the spell card Rush Recklessly, giving my Kuriboh 700 extra points," she explained as the purple colored Kuriboh rose to 1700 attack points. "Attack Cancer and get revenge for Daidaiiro!"
The Kuriboh charged with incredible speed and slashed downwards on the crab slicing it in half destroying it and dropping Destiny's and Jason's life points from 4700-4600. Destiny chuckled and looked up at the Kuriboh who met with her eyes and retreated back to Fate's field out of fear.
"I activate my face-down card, Flute of Summoning Kuriboh to bring Kuriboh Kiiro***** (600/0) to the field in defense mode. And with that, I end my turn," Fate declared handing the proverbial baton to Jason.
"Draw," Jason called out and looked at the card and chuckled as a fourth fifth on the Silent Magician's scepter lit up raising its attack to 3000 from 2500. "I activate the spell card Dark Hole!" he said with his voice going down in register. "With this all monsters on the field are destroyed!"
A giant black hole appeared on the bottom of the battlefield fitting the clearing perfectly. Jason's knight was then sucked into the vortex as was Destiny's Cygnus, Rose's Alchemist, and all five of Fate's Kuribohs but for some reason the Silent Magician remained still. Jason looked over and saw that it resisting and succeeding in staying out of the black hole.
"How did you?" Jason was about to ask before he was cut-off.
"It's called Counter Shield," she said revealing a hidden trap with a large upside down triangle with a protective barrier around it. "It prevents my monsters that have Spell Counters to be destroyed by the effects of spell cards for the turn."
Jason looked at the field with the only monster being one at 3000 and both he and Destiny were defenseless.
"I summon a monster in a defense mode," he declared summoning a face-down monster in a horizontal position. "Then I play a face-down card and end my turn."
"Then it's my turn!" Rose said drawing her card. "I activate Spell Power Grasp and place the final Spell Counter on the Silent Magician!" she declared lighting a final section on the magician's scepter. "And with that I can sacrifice it and summon from my deck Silent Magician (3500/1000) in attack mode!" she called out summoning an older and much more mature looking magician with the same design scheme that looked almost identical to Rose. "Now I'll activate the spell card Nobleman of Crossout! This destroys you monster face-down!" she explained as the monster was sliced in half and removed from the game. "Now I'll attack you directly, Destiny!" she said singling her out. "Magic Supremacy!"
The magician pointed her staff at Destiny and fired a fired a giant mass of pure magic that seemingly tore the ground beneath it. Destiny stared right into it and cast her hand over the field.
"I activate my face-down card, Galactic Blessing!" she called out revealing the face-down card as the trap card she had recently read.
Chapter twelve complete. Well, that answers one question; why does Rose hate Destiny, but now an even bigger question has come up; what the heck is Galactic Blessing? Want to know, tune into the next chapter.
Next time: As the duel draws to a close new rivals appear for others in all aspects of life and the search for Tao continues or more figuring out his entire life. Next time: Double Trouble; Zodiacs and Knights of the Round Table v. Spell Counter and Kuriboh, Part 3, and Terror and Technology; Halloween v. Machine Mavericks.
*Ai: Japanese word for Indigo
**Ao: Japanese word for blue
***Midori: Japanese word for green
****Murasaki: Japanese word for purple
*****Kiiro: Japanese word for yellow.