Here's chapter thirteen of my Yu-Gi-Oh GX fanfic. As the duel between Destiny, Rose, Jason, and Fate comes to a close a new power is realized and another rival appears and it has something to do with our favorite girl who stays in the pumpkin patch waiting for the Great Pumpkin (all rights go to Peanuts). Enjoy!
Currently Destiny has a total of two cards in hand and on her side of the field she has a face-down card revealed now to be a mysterious card called Galactic Blessing and Jason has no cards in hand and one face-down card. The life points remaining between the two of them are 4600.
Currently Rose has three cards in hand and Silent Magician Lv. 8 (3500/1000) on her field while Fate has no cards in hand and no cards on the field. The life points between the two of them are 4300.
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 XIII: Double Trouble; Zodiacs and Knights of the Round Table v. Spell Counters and Kuriboh, Part 3. Terror and Technology; Halloween v. Machine Mavericks, Part 1
"I activate my face-down card, Galactic Blessing!" she called out revealing the face-down card as the trap card she had recently read.
Rose, Jason, and Fate all looked at the card in surprise and waited for Destiny to explain the finite details of it.
"What this card does is it allows me to remove three Zodiacs with the same attribute from my graveyard and summon a Celestial Emissary from my deck with the same attribute whenever my opponent special summons a level seven or higher monster from their deck," Destiny explained as Scorpio, Pisces, and Cancer resurrected as spirits and spiraled together making a monster made completely out of vortexes of water. "Meet my final Celestial Emissary, Celestial Emissary Undo (2900/2700)," Destiny declared as the monster placed its feet on the ground in a ground shaking motioning.
"Whatever," Rose said. "All he is to me is space-dust, finish him!"
"Jason, is that card there important?" Destiny asked not looking away from his eyes.
"If you need to use it, then by all means go ahead!" Jason said willing.
"I activate Undo's effect!" Destiny declared as the face-down card on Jason's field disappeared. "I can sacrifice one face-down monster, spell, or trap on the field and negate an attack made by my opponent's monster and end the battle phase automatically!"
The water monster held up its hands and pushed a giant wave that neutralized the attack leaving Destiny and Jason safe. Rose and Fate began chuckling as Rose conceded the turn to Destiny placing down a face-down card.
"Draw!" Destiny declared. "They're plotting something to destroy Undo and then us. Ever since the rule rewrite if your life points drop below 4000 than one of your teammates is disqualified based on the team's choice. If that were to happen to us which one of us would be the one to go?" she thought to herself and then looking at her card. "I play two cards face-down and end my turn!" she declared.
"My draw!" Fate said looking at the card and chuckled. "I summon Rainbow Kuriboh (1400/2000) from my hand in attack mode!" she declared as a creature resembling the previous seven appeared but with fur that appeared to shift in color and with elongated wings made of metal. "This card can only be summoned by having seven Kuriboh with different names in the graveyard, and check this out once per turn I can remove from play a Kuriboh in my graveyard I can deal 500 points of damage to you," she explained as her orange Kuriboh disappeared into a different dimension with the wings shining on the current Kuriboh dropping Destiny's and Jason's life points from 4600-4100. "With that my turn is over," she said.
"This is getting dangerous, without my other Celestial Emissary cards ready for action I have no shot of helping Jason in this, but maybe…just maybe. That's it!" Destiny thought looking back at Jason who drew his card.
"Draw!" he declared. "I play Lancelot, Knight of the Round Table (2000/1000) in attack mode!" he called out summoning his signature knight with the large lance still in his hands. Jason panted knowing that he was the most vulnerable player currently.
"Too bad you can't activate his effect," Rose said tauntingly. "Better luck next time," she said laughing while making a pose similar to Silent Magician.
"Shut up!" Destiny shouted casting her hand over the field. "I activate the final effect of Galactic Blessing! By paying 1000 life points I can not only reduce my opponent's life points to the same amount, but I can allow my partner to draw as many cards that we have removed from play in total equaling to four."
"What, you can't be serious about sacrificing yourself for this guy," Rose said.
"We'll talk after Jason wins this duel for the both of us," Destiny said as both Jason's and her life points dropped to 3100 and Rose's and Fate's dropped to the same amount of 3100. "I disqualify myself by the rules of tag team dueling," she said with a smile backing off.
Jason bowed to her and took the center of the edge of the circle and faced the two girls who looked at each other when Fate backed off leaving just Rose to face Jason.
"You have the best chance to win this now, good luck," Fate said patting her shoulder not receiving so much a shiver from Rose.
Jason drew four cards and then looked back up from them to look at Rose.
"By Lancelot's effect I summon Gaheris, Knight of the Round Table (2500/1000) in attack mode!" he shouted summoning another knight with a simple tunic covering his heavy armor. "And by this card's effect I can summon him straight from my hand, Gareth, Knight of the Round Table (2400/1000) in attack mode!" Jason called out as a knight clad in dark colored armor unsheathed its sword and placed it up against Gaheris'. "And when both of these knights are on the field I can destroy two cards on the field automatically!"
The two knights jumped up and slashed through both Silent Magician and the face-down card behind it as Rose stood there in a daze and the chuckled.
"Since you sent my face-down Magic Designation card to the graveyard I can activate its effect. I declared one level that is currently on the field and no monster that has that level or fewer cannot attack this turn, and next turn I'll just resurrect my monster. So you wasted that effect because I choose level eight and lower monsters," Rose explained. "What now, Sir Knight?"
"This, because I control a Knight of the Round Table I can summon Merlin, Wizard of Camelot (1000/1000) to the field," Jason explained as Rose began to panic. "Now I Synch my Wizard with Gaheris to Synchro Summon Arthur, the King of Camelot (3000/2500) in attack mode!"
The wizard made a motion with his fingers and turned into two rings that surrounded Gaheris and morphed it into an imposing figure of the king that Destiny once faced a while back as it crowned himself and cast out his hand for a large sword to appear in it.
"For every Knight I control my monster gains 500 attack points," Jason explained as the king's attack points rose from 3000-4000. "Finish this, Excalibur Destroyer!" he ordered as the large sword slashed downwards and created a fault line that shot straight towards Rose and hit her directly dropping her life points from 3100-0.
Rose fell to the ground on her knees and began shivering when she saw Jason offering her his hand to get up. Recoiling back Rose stood up by herself and pushed her back to the tree.
"Why?" she asked as everyone stopped to look at her. "Why did you disqualify yourself so he could duel, Destiny?"
"Because I knew that there was someone who could get the job done better," Destiny said. "Even with that new card."
"And why do you act as though nothing happened between you and Ronald?" Rose asked. "We're in the same rank and he hasn't even noticed me, and yet he's tried to find you, why?"
"I don't know how the male mind works," Destiny said. "Maybe it's because I just like to duel him. You look at him and see someone who can save lives, and I see him as just a friend."
"J-just a friend?" Rose said under her breath.
"Yeah," Destiny answered. "I don't think of him as anyone more than someone I can duel with for fun, and let's face it with all that's gone on I'm lucky if I can get any fun duels in. But I know what you see in him," Destiny said reassuringly. "He gave you that Silent Magician card because to him, that's you."
"What?" Rose asked.
"The Silent Magician by itself isn't very powerful, but give it time and it matures into a beautiful woman," Destiny said showing the difference between the two variations of the card. "But when it really tries hard it barely has any work to do in that journey and it just becomes second nature."
Rose broke down in tears and took Jason's hand and lifted herself up on it to her feet where she faced Destiny and smiled. Jason blushed and averted his eyes and breathed deeply looking at his watch and then shouted out of frustration.
"We're late for class by about an hour!" he shouted as the three girls fell over.
"Why do you think we were dueling you?" Fate asked puffing her cheeks.
"Ah!" Jason hitting his palm with his fist and then looking down at Fate who screamed and began chasing him back to the school with Rose and Destiny following the two of them and smiling at each other.
"Don't think I'm going to let up on you, though?" Rose said as Destiny turned her head to face her.
"Huh?" Destiny asked.
"About Ronald," Rose elaborated. "As far as I'm concerned you're my eternal rival for Ronald, so get ready."
"Uh-huh," Destiny said with a bead of sweat dropping from her brow. "This is the last thing I needed and what the heck is that over there? Locket and Amun with an Obelisk?"
Destiny caught up with Jason and pointed over at the scene with the three people in the main courtyard with Jason coming to a screeching halt as Fate ran into him not stopping from running receiving no reaction from Jason. Jason looked at the scene and immediately recognized Amun and Locket and looked at the female Obelisk student with a tank-top underneath her blazer, white pants, silver and black shoes, blue and black fingerless gloves, a hibiscus in her long black hair, and olive tanned skin.
"Why is Locket arguing with Trish?" Jason asked himself.
"Trish?" Destiny asked.
"Trish Stevens is a second year Obelisk Blue and known as the Maverick Mistress among the male duelist and is said to be ruthless against guys in duels," Rose explained. "But what she would want with Amun is beyond me. His first duel here he lost if I remember correctly."
"Yeah," Fate said getting up holding her nose from the fall. "But in his second duel he defeated Locket over there in a single attack from his Egyptian Spirit Scarab monster."
"You heard me right! I'm dueling Amun right now, c'mon kid," Trish said gripping his right arm pulling him towards the Obelisk dueling arena when Locket gripped onto his other arm and began pulling him the other way.
"Let go of him, now!" Locket shouted pulling harder and harder on Amun.
"Not until he agrees to duel me!" Trish shouted back pulling on his other arm even more when Amun made a pained face.
"If you don't stop, you'll both get half of me!" he shouted as both girls let go of his arms when Destiny and Jason came out of the forest with Fate and Rose following after. "Destiny, good, here switch places with me," he said desperately.
"How did this happen?" Jason asked.
"Oh, where to begin?" Amun said going into a flashback.
In the main school building Locket and Amun entered the class to find both Jason and Destiny not in their seats.
"Wonder where they went," Locket said looking down at Amun.
"Well, Jason came by earlier and went into Destiny's room," Amun answered looking up at Locket. "Either they got lost on the way or they went to another location for their own reasons…that first option seems the most likely."
"Hey! You, Amun?" a female voice asked out of the crowd.
"And if I am?" Amun asked as though in challenge.
"Then we duel!" the girl declared coming out of the crowd.
"In that case, I'm not," Amun said walking away only for the girl to grip onto his shoulders. "What do you want, and better yet who are you?"
The class gasped with surprise and recoiled back as the girl began to anger and then grip onto his shoulder all the harder with no reaction from Amun. Relaxing her grip the girl let Amun go as he turned to face her.
"Name's Trish Stevens, but people call me the Maverick Mistress," she answered as though in a formal presentation.
"Yeah, good for you," Amun said walking away again. "And why do I care about some nickname."
The class gasped again out of fear as Trish began to growl when a random student whispered something in Amun's ear.
"Why would I want to run fast and run far just because she's mad at me?" Amun asked looking back at Trish whose eyes almost seemed to read, "I'm going to kill you!"
"Oh, that's why?" Amun said nodding and then bolting through the door as other students came in and saw Trish running after him and Locket following quickly after.
Running through the halls past teachers and students made one of the teachers empty a drink in a tall glass into a nearby sink.
"That does it," the teacher said. "I'm switching to decaf."
Trish began to catch up to Amun when he made a sharp turn to her surprise creating a larger gap between the two of them.
"You know the last time I did this was being chased by a rabid camel!" Amun said mocking Trish.
"Coming from you, that sounds believable!" Trish yelled back taking a surprise turn.
Making it out the main building Amun sighed out of relief and turned to find Trish staring into his eyes.
"Stupid shortcuts," Amun said to himself. "So why do want to duel me in the first place?"
"Because I can't stand guys like you who think you're better than everyone else," Trish answered.
"When did I say that?" Amun asked.
"It's written all over your face," Trish answered as Locket finally caught up with them while gasping for air.
"Could you leave Amun alone?" Locket asked bent over and gasping for air. "He doesn't duel unless a situation demands it."
"And the rest is left up to your imagination," Amun said seated down between Locket and Trish coming out of the flashback.
"So why don't you two duel?" Destiny suggested as Locket and Trish looked at each other with disgust. "The winner decides if Amun duels Trish or not."
"So what am I?" Amun asked. "First Prize?"
"It appears so," Jason answered as both he and Amun followed the five girls to the Obelisk duel arena. "Where's Kazuya and Gaia when you need 'em?"
"What do you mean?" Amun asked.
"In our current group we have more girls than guys, and that us look more pathetic, and then there's you who's almost afraid to duel," Jason explained.
"I'm not afraid to duel," Amun said pointing at Jason. "I just don't participate in duels that mean nothing."
"Of course," Jason said unconvinced as the seven reached the duel arena with Kazuya and Gaia in front of the arena doors. "Thank you," Jason thought looking upwards.
"I thought you were planning something Trish so I had Gaia authorize any duel within the next three hours," Kazuya explained showing the group inside and following after Gaia after he went and then locked the door. "This way no unwanted visitors come in."
Trish and Locket both took their places on the duel arena and faced each other and both turned their attention onto Amun who cringed as both of them stared at him. Diving behind Destiny's seat Amun noticed the card Galactic Blessing clutched in her hand.
"That card, where did she get it?" he thought to himself. "Not only is it one of a kind but its use ranges from regular to tag-team dueling dependant of which Celestial Emissary is used in the duel, but what's more is the card almost changes from duel to duel. It also has an unwritten effect only known to its creator."
"Duel!" Trish and Locket said in unison with their life points gauges reading 4000.
"I go first!" Locket declared. "I summon Skeletal Being (600/800) in defense mode!" she called out as a large skeleton jumped out of the card with its movements clattering. "I now activate the spell card Reaper's Cloak! With this my Skeletal Being gains an extra 700 defense points," Locket explained as a black tattered cloak wrapped around the skeleton raising its defense points from 800-1500. "Next I'll set a card face-down and end my turn."
"Then it's my move!" Trish said pulling the card from her deck. "I'll also set a card face-down and then summon Machine Maverick Stag (1500/1000) in attack mode!" she declared summoning a mechanical stag whose horns spouted flames when it lowered its head. "And that will end my turn."
"She's not doing much even though she claims to be this super-powered duelist who could beat anyone with her eyes closed, but why play a monster whose attack is the same as her opponent's monster's defense points when she obviously has more cards in her deck that can combat a mediocre monster like Skeletal Being," Amun thought. "She's plotting something, and it obviously has to do with summoning a monster with such mediocre attack points. Unless of course…oh bad!"
"Draw!" Locket shouted as Trish snapped her fingers.
"And now the fun begins. Heads-up Amun, this is what you have to forward to," Trish declared. "I activate the trap card Crush Card Virus!"
The card flipped upwards as a card filled with enlarged germs that shout out at Locket.
"This can't be good for anyone's health, especially a deck's," Amun thought. "She has the Stag in there to make sure that even when her opponent's use stronger monster's based on principle she counteracts them by destroying everything with a higher attack than the Stag making it the bottom of the top."
Chapter thirteen complete. Well that's says a lot now don't it, Now we now a fraction of what Galactic Blessing can do, but if Destiny were to duel more frequently would the effect of it really change? Another thing can Locket survive such a powerful epidemic afflicting her deck? Stay tuned.
Next time: As the duel between Locket and Trish kicks into high gear Kazuya and Gaia do a bit of investigation with Jason on both Tao and Amun. Next time: Terror and Technology; Halloween v. Machine Mavericks, Part 2.