Here's chapter fourteen of my Yu-Gi-Oh GX fanfic. Last time a fraction of the power of Galactic Blessing was revealed and according to Amun its power is almost never the same twice dependant on the Celestial Emissary its used in conjunction with. Right now a duel between Locket and an Obelisk Trish who wants to duel Amun for his supposed stuck-up attitude which remains to be seen. And for those of you who recognize the Machine Mavericks from another author know that the author (RoyalshowstopperXII) has sent me this OC with that in mind…I assume.
I know this is basically useless but Locket has four cards in her hand with 4000 life points with a face-down card, a monster Skeletal Being (600/800) which is equipped with Reaper's Cloak which increases its defense by 700 points.
Trish has four cards in her hand, 4000 life points with one monster Machine Maverick Stag (1500/1000) and a face-down card now revealed to be Crush Card Virus. Enjoy.
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 XIV: Terror and Technology; Halloween v. Machine Mavericks, Part 2
"I activate the trap card Crush Card Virus!" Trish declared activating a card covered with enlarged germs that shot towards Locket. "With this card I can instantly send monsters to the graveyard from your deck that have more than fifteen hundred attack points, so there!"
The germs entered the deck with no reaction from Locket and returned having taken out a total of two cards. Amun, Jason, Destiny, Rose, and Fate all looked with surprise at the minimal amount of powerful cards in her main deck while Kazuya and Gaia chuckled at the scene as Trish was found dumbstruck as she watched the two cards being sent to the graveyard.
"You can't be serious!" Trish shouted angrily. "You only have two cards in that entire deck that are fifteen hundred attack points and above?"
"That appears to be the case," Locket said with a confident smile. "If that's all you have I will continue with my turn with Polymerization!" she declared as a large vortex flew overhead. "And with this card I can fuse together my Horseman's Horse with my Black Cat to make the monster, The Headless Horseman (2000/1800) in attack mode!"
The two monsters appeared for a brief second and were sucked up by the vortex fusing their particles and then reappearing as a character right out of a horror tale; The Headless Horseman pumpkin head and all. The horse hit the ground with its feet with the horseman pulling on the reigns.
"Attack her Stag with Decapitation!" Locket ordered as the Horseman charged the Stag.
The horseman placed its broadsword horizontally and continued to charge the monster that remained motionless. The sword then connected with the neck of the monster slicing it clean off reducing the entire mass to particles dropping Trish's life points from 4000-3500.
"And what's more? Whenever my horseman destroys a monster by battle he gains an extra 200 hundred attack points," Locket explained as the horseman's attack rose from 2000-2200. "Your move," Locket said with her eyes narrowing.
"Oh, I'll move, draw!" Trish shouted pulling the card from her deck. "And I summon Machine Maverick Wolfgang (1900/1200) in attack mode!" she declared summoning a mechanical wolf with blue chrome coating and ice coming out of its mouth spreading and then freezing the Headless Horseman.
"What's happening?" Locket asked as Trish just laughed.
"Whenever my wolf is on the field once per turn I can automatically 'freeze' one of your monsters. Freezing is an effect known only to a few of the Machine Mavericks that prevents the target monster from attacking for a set number of turns, and in the case of my wolf it freezes one of your monsters for three turns," Trish explained while Amun studied the field and put his fist to his head in thought.
"You think of anything, Amun?" Kazuya asked from behind him.
"…No, not a thing," Amun said after hesitating.
"I figured you would've thought about something in terms of what Locket could do with a monster effect like that to deal with," Kazuya said walking over to Gaia who held a laptop in his hands. "Let's start," he said to Gaia who nodded and began typing away at the computer.
"What've you got?" Kazuya asked still watching the duel.
"Take a look for yourself," Gaia said handing him the laptop with the screen completely hidden from the view of the other spectators.
"Now since your monster is frozen I activate the spell card Frigid Impact!" Trish declared back on the battlefield. "With this I can destroy one card that is currently frozen by the effect of my monster!"
The wolf on the field jumped into the air with the help of twin jets attached to its back and then stopped ignition. The penguin began to fall from the sky at increasing speed and then began to spin in mid-air. Increasing the speed even more the wolf rammed into the frozen form of the Headless Horseman and then destroyed it tiny fragments of ice.
"And now you take 100 points of damage for every star it has, granted I can't attack this turn!" Trish explained further.
The ice shards pelted Locket who went into a fetal position as her life points dropped from 4000-3400. Locket stood back up weakly and then looked over at Kazuya who was still reading the laptop curious as he seemed almost surprised by the content of what he looked at. Locket looked back at Amun who bit his thumb in anxiousness and let go of it to look back at Kazuya. Trish ended her turn by placing a card face-down and then conceded the turn to Locket who was still preoccupied by the two boys with their current activities.
"What are guys doing?" Locket asked surprising the two boys from both their trains of thought.
Kazuya looked at Amun who looked at him back and nodded and turned to face Locket and Trish on the battlefield.
"He's looking at my past," Amun said surprising all the girls and Jason in the dome to the point that all looked at Kazuya expecting him to spill. "Go ahead, Kazuya. They'll find out sooner or later. I'm diagnosed as clinically depressed and am certifiably suicidal."
Locket's and Trish's jaw dropped as they saw before them a thirteen old suicidal that they had been with for almost two months at the large academy where secrets are not kept well.
"Kazuya can tell you the rest," Amun said sitting down in his chair throwing his head back.
Kazuya lifted the lid of the laptop and began reading.
"April 14th 2009, eleven-year old, Amun Ra, son of famed archeologist Joseph Robertson, attempted to end his own life based on an increased of secret depression and abuse at the University of Cairo from the other students in the same dorm room. The boy is in stable condition at the Cairo General Hospital and due to his age no further details have been released to the press," Kazuya read from the laptop closing it again and looking over at Amun.
Amun sat up in his chair and sighed heavily with a fake smile, "It all started when my father changed my last name. To get publicity for his family he changed my name to Amun Ra, which is another way of addressing the Egyptian god of the sun. I had been trapped in a pyramid for a long period of time and apparently my father was too busy with his name than to realize that I had done the impossible. By that time I thought that to my father I was nothing but a dollar sign, but when I enrolled at the University of Cairo's accelerated learning program I was shunned, cast away from the other students and in other words…isolated. Two years ago when I was eleven I was told by the students in my form that no one ever cared about and that that was why my mother committed suicide when I was four…in front of my eyes. I can still see it; the gun's barrel up against her forehead, the sound of the bullet firing, and most of all the sound of my mother saying one final thing…'You'll never be fully loved until…'
"After hearing those words from all the students I stole my father's knife and drew a bathtub full of water. All it took was one slice and my wrist was already bleeding. When I reached to the tub with my hand I was stopped by the large hand of my grandfather who bandaged me and took me to the hospital. Everyone who ever bullied me was there and said they were sorry…everyone but my father who just stood in the lobby and talked to the press when my grandfather stopped him from saying anything about me. My grandfather came in and talked to me about clinical depression and being the psychiatrist he is he diagnosed me as depressed, but gave me something he hoped would cheer me up…Egyptian Spirit Scarab. He said that after I came out of the pyramid alive I had passed the test to become the next pharaoh of the scarab. I don't duel because losing depresses me and I don't duel because winning depresses other people which depresses me."
Trish looked back down at Locket who did the same and narrowed her eyes onto Amun with almost rage.
"Idiot," she said under her breath. "The condition still stands! I will duel you if I win this! You think that your problems are too big from keeping you from dueling. You must be stuck-up."
"But right now it's my turn!" Locket declared drawing her card. "I activate the spell card Ghost Fog!" she called out as her field was covered by an eerie feeling fog that hid her Skeletal begin from view. "With this card you only have a 50/50 chance of attacking my monster. Should luck be in my favor your monster attacks you instead. Now I summon Pumpkin Cannon (1200/200) in attack mode," Locket declared summoning a large orange colored cannon with a small goblin at the firing station taking aim. "And that'll end my turn."
"Fine, then it's my turn," Trish said pulling the card from the top of her deck. "First, I activate the spell card Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy Ghost Fog!" she declared as a giant swirling vortex of a storm swallowed up the fog. "And now, I summon Machine Maverick Hornet (1600/1000)!" she declared summoning a large mechanical hornet that vibrated its wings and called forth three smaller versions of itself. "See, whenever my hornet is summoned I get Hornet tokens (0/0) for every card in my hand in defense mode. Now I play my spell card Rebellion!"
"Say what?" Locket asked.
"Rebellion is a card very much like Creature Swap, but instead I have full choice of what monster goes to either side. So you can have my token while I'll take your Skeleton," Trish explained as the small hornet buzzed over to Locket's side of the field and the Skeletal Being reluctantly walked to Trish's side of the field. "Now, I'll have Wolfgang attack your silly cannon, with Subzero Strike!"
Turning its claws to ice the wolf howled and jumped up and slashed down on the cannon only for it to blast the hornet and destroy them both. As the dust settled Wolfgang dissolved and the cannon was left intact.
"What just happened?" Fate asked from the sidelines.
"It's the special ability of the Pumpkin Cannon," Rose answered. "Whenever it's attacked you can sacrifice one of your monster to have it gain 800 attack points for the turn. It used the hornet as a sacrifice and therefore overpowered the wolf easily."
Trish's life points dropped from 3500-3400 which didn't seem to faze her, but made her chuckle. Locket looked confused when she suddenly felt a sting in her side as her life points dropped from 3400-2900. A metal stinger pierced into her side disappeared when Locket widened her eyes and pointed to the remaining tokens.
"They're bombs, aren't they?" she asked nervously.
"Exactly, they inflict 500 points of damage, but they're interesting little boogers; first, the player who controls them only get's damaged if they are destroyed or sacrificed by a monster, spell, or trap card effect they control, second, the player can inflict that damage to a player if they are sacrificed for a machine monster or are destroyed by battle or by an effect belonging to the opposing player," Trish explained. "Well since I can't do much anymore I'll play a face-down card and end my turn."
Amun still looked at the two dueling and closed his eyes and reopened them at the sound of mad typing at a laptop. Walking over to Gaia and Kazuya with Jason in tow Amun tapped one of them on the shoulder as both he and Jason looked at them expectantly.
"What are you trying to snoop in on now?" Amun asked while the girls all watched the duel with anticipation. "Haven't you revealed a bit too much already?"
"It's not about you," Kazuya reassured as Gaia continued to click at the keyboard. "It's about Tao; we've been trying for almost thirty minutes in this sitting and haven't found anything."
"Let me try," Amun said cracking his knuckles.
"By all means," Gaia said handing him the laptop. "What kind of keywords are you thinking of using?"
"Cryptid," Amun said. "Cryptozoology, cryptozoologist, anything that has to do with who Tao knows. I may even try cryptobotany if I have to, but searching for him directly isn't going to work. You have to follow links through his life."
"How do you know that's going to work?" Jason asked looking over his shoulder.
"Everything in Tao's life has revolved his experiences with the unexplained creatures people call cryptids," Amun explained. "People go crazy for this stuff and anytime one of them makes an appearance the media feeds on it like a frenzy. I've looked at Tao's scars and I'm pretty sure they're two years apart and made at most four years if not six. So we just look at news on the unexplained from six years ago at the earliest and here we go."
Gaia, Kazuya, and Jason leaned forward to find a report on the first recorded attack on a human by the creature Mothman. Not mentioning the child's name Amun began going through links about the unnamed child and found another report about him two years later in Mawman in a similar manner and continued to go through links until the website showed a large face shot of Tao.
Gaia huddled in the corner and said under his breath, "I have been defeated."
"Oh, get off your high horse," Amun said sarcastically and began looking through the article about him not giving a last name for him until he reached a point in the reading that made him fall back along with the other three boys after reading it with him.
Back on the battlefield Locket pulled her card from her deck leaving her with one card in hand.
"I play the trap card Vampire's Bite! It destroys one of my opponent's monster and then I gain its attack points as life points," Locket explained as a vampiric spirit slowly appeared out of the card and flew forward and bit into the hornet's supposed neck while Locket smirked as her life points rose from 2900-4500. "Now I summon the monster Bat Swarm (800/1000) in attack mode!" she called out as a large swarm of bats screeched onto the field and flapped their wings randomly making it sound applause. "Now I Synch my Bat Swarm (LV3) with my Pumpkin Cannon (LV3) to Synchro Summon The Grim Reaper (1900/2100) (LV6)!"
The bats all lined up and then turned into three separate rings that surrounded the cannon. The rings spun faster turning the cannon into energy that changed it into a ghastly figure with nothing but a cloak that covered his entire body, but did not hide the fact he was floating, a hood that cast a large shadow over his face and showed its eyes as small red lights, and a large scythe.
"Grim Reaper attack Skeletal Being, with Reaper's Slice!" Locket commanded as the figure flew at the skeleton and slashed right though it destroying it and then returning to Locket's graveyard. "And whenever my reaper destroys a monster by battle I can draw cards equal to that monster's level. So since my skeleton was a level three monster I draw three cards," Locket explained drawing three cards from her deck. "Now I'll play a face-down card and then I'll end my turn."
"Then it's my turn, and your final chance," Trish said confidently. "I sacrifice both my Hornet Tokens giving you 1000 points of damage," she reminded as Locket's life points dropped from 4500-3500. "And now I summon Machine Maverick Flame Dragoon (3000/2500) in attack mode!" she declared as a mechanical dragon with flames spouting out of its mouth and a black chrome coating. "Attack, Vengeful Incineration!"
Chapter fourteen complete. Cliffhanger, for the win! So now we have a story coming up; we have Amun, a suicidal duelist, didn't see that coming…and I wrote it. We have something being discovered about Tao, and now we have Locket facing down a giant mecha dragon that if she doesn't end it soon that thing will. Also, I hope nobody is mad for a creative liberty with some of monsters and spell cards. I hope you understand where I'm coming from when I do this; it makes things more interesting to me and probably to the readers. I made up the abilities that the Headless Horseman and the Grim Reaper and I hope the owner of Locket doesn't mind because if this is going to work out the way I want it to then I have to take initiative about this duel in particular. Until next time, Ja nee.
Next time: The final part of the duel between Locket and Trish is upon us and it's time to introduce a new OC who'll duel against Tao's friend Kazuya and believes that Tao is nothing more than a villain. Next time: Terror and Technology; Halloween v. Machine Mavericks, Part 3, and The Warrior's Path; Windragon Shiron v. Paladins.