Well now, whom do we have here?
Who am I you ask? Well, I don't see the need for an introduction…at least not yet.
Let me say this, a pretty face or a fast talker cannot fool my eyes and ears. I've seen many duelists in my time, and they've shown me many faces of their personalities. Each one different, and each for their own reasons, whether they be selfish or selfless…
Greed…
Lust…
Envy…
Wrath…
Sloth…
Gluttony…
Pride…
I've seen that in a lot of that in the Obelisk blue students I've met…and it's only the second week I've been to this academy…and yet…
Justice…
Ceremony…
Wisdom…
Loyalty…
Faithfulness…
Prudence…
And sometimes…Love…
Pure hearts are in the Slifer Reds and Ra Yellows, each of them with their minds set on being the best. Their hearts filled with the words above, how I long for them not to change, so that they will not become corrupt…
…but that is just a pipe dream…
Even though I have a deck based on oppression, my cards and I are nothing like that. We fight and duel for what we see is right, even if in the eyes of another that reason might be evil…
…It goes for the guys I just caught right now, trying to go against a code of honor and disrespecting a young lady to get what they want…it is simply an outrage. Yet, I can see reason behind their actions…fear is what instills them.
And the guy I'm dueling …his heart is pure as gold, his mind…not even close to a dull bronze, and from looking at his friends…I can see many versions of him…
A dunce…
An ally…
And the strangest of all…a ninja?
…I hope to face you full strength my new rival…Garu Honzou…
Darkness will appear some day, we will need all the help we can get…how do I know you wonder…
…It's inevitable.
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Chapter 5: Rising from the Earth
Enter the Rival
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Thunder crashed outside the window of the Obelisk Blue dorm, rain storms on the weekends at the Pacific Duel academy were the worse thing when there was nothing to do…especially in the Pacific Ocean.
Vic just watched the rain slam up against the window of his dorm room, silently stirring his glass of tropical juice. "A beautiful storm…the dark clouds swelling above our island…truly this is a perfect day for a challenge."
A few knocks on the door caught Vic's attention, even though his eyes remained looking at the wet glass. "Come in…"
Kiro stepped into the fancy dorm room; a paper folded up in his hands and a few rain ponchos in his other arm. "I've made the necessary plans, you ready?"
With a quick sip from his glass, Vic simply turned towards his partner in crime and smiled deviously. "Excellent…we will begin in one hour…
"I will be threatened by a first year!" Vic shattered the glass of juice in his hands sending the remains to the ground. "Prepare yourself…"
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"Garu!" Yae yelled trying to get the attention of her eating friend. She and Garu were trying to pass time in the cafeteria after all, that storm just appeared out of no where. "Will you at least show some manners?"
Setting down his bowl of ramen noodles (this happened to be his third helping) Garu just smiled at his friend. "What's your problem today?"
"It's the boredom," Yae sighed as a familiar barking sound caused the two duelist to look over the side of the table.
All of a sudden an extremely wet Rox leapt onto the table and shook himself dry, getting Garu and Yae wet in the process!
"Where'd he come from?"
"Rox! No!"
"Arf! Arf!"
"Rox! There you are!" Zeff announced running into the Slifer Red cafeteria and running towards the now dry Rox. At the sight of his master, Rox just jumped into Zeff's arms to be scratched behind the ears. "I thought you had gotten outside for a minute there, wouldn't want you to get wet and catch a cold now."
"Zeff…"
Zeff just looked up from Rox to see a wet Yae and Garu. Yae looked pretty mad while Garu just looked at his now ruined ramen noodles. "My poor noodles…I never got to finish you."
Wiping some of the water from her eyes, Yae just stood up making Zeff take a step back with Rox whimpering in his arms. "Zeff…we just got extremely wet thanks to Rox right there. You ever think about getting a leash for your 'brother'?"
"Yeah, but we voted and majority rules," Zeff answered causing Yae to slap her forehead.
"How did majority rule?" Yae sighed as Garu sniffed his noodles.
"Simple…we both voted against it," Zeff and Rox laughed making a huge blood vessel appear on Yae's forehead.
Yae just stomped out of the cafeteria, causing quite a few people to watch her slam the door open. Zeff just turned towards his other roommate who was taking off his wet jacket. "What's wrong with her?"
"…I dunno…" said Garu as Rox jumped from Zeff's arms and ate the rest of Garu's noodles. "Go ahead, I can't eat them."
The door opened once more, Zeff and Garu turned their heads to see a weird Obelisk Blue student entering the cafeteria. His wet gray hair covered a part of his blue glasses; the blue overcoat was soaked exposing his thin body. All of the Slifer Reds just stared as the Obelisk sat down at one of the tables. The air was filling up with whispers.
"What's an Obelisk doing here?"
"Maybe he's here to intimidate us…"
"Nah, that couldn't be it."
"Maybe he just wanted to get out of the storm?"
"I can hear you all, ya know," the Obelisk Blue stated using his hand to push back his wet hair to flow backwards. "And yes, I did come here to get out of the rain. I hope you don't mind."
All of the Slifers just shrugged off the Obelisk returning to what they were doing to kill the boredom. Garu and the weird Obelisk's eyes met; there was something about this Obelisk…something that couldn't really be described in words. That something sent a chill down Garu's spine. "What the…? What is up with this guy?"
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"Stupid Zeff…"
Yae walked from the dorm room bathroom, pulling the dry uniform top on her body. A few minutes ago, she was searching for the clothes to replace the wet ones. "Good thing they give spares."
Jumping up to the top bunk, Yae just relaxed to pass the time. A bolt of lightning crashed through the silence and lit up the sky outside the window. "Can't even sleep."
A loud slam at the door caught Yae's attention, and in an instant she jumped back to the floor sighing loudly in the process. "Garu, I keep telling you to remember your key!"
Just as Yae opened the door, a huge hand slammed the door open and pushed her to the ground. A red and brown haired muscular Obelisk blue guy entered the room, his entire body soaking wet from the rainwater. "Pardon me…I'm looking for a guy name Garu Honzou and…"
"He's not here," Yae hissed as the Obelisk blue shrugged his shoulders. "So get lost you muscle bound pea brained idiot before I get really angry."
"Muscle bound…pea brained…idiot!" the Obelisk roared as he threw his arm towards Yae.
The next thing that happened surprised the Obelisk Blue; his arm was easily stopped by Yae's hand. Then Yae took hold of the Obelisk blue and flip him out of the room crashing outside from the second floor. Breathing a sigh of relief, Yae began to close the door. "Guess Master Yoh was right about me being a master of Taijutsu."
Just as the door was about to close, a black boot blocked the door and pushed it open. Yae knew who this Obelisk blue was as he entered the room. "What the? You're that…"
"Vic Vanhemer at your service…"
Getting into another fighting stance, Yae raised her fist scowling at Vic. "Is there a sign outside saying for all Obelisk Blues to come in?"
Vic just stepped forward, raising a hand in defense. "I'm not here to cause trouble, though, my friend Kiro should have said that before you threw him out."
As the air's tension seemed to release, Yae lowered her arms and Vic smiled. "Your friend said something about Garu Honzou…"
"Ah yes…allow me to clarify," Vic stated as he walked towards the nearby desk and placed his hand on it. "Image if you would a simple deck of regular playing cards. Each card in it is essential to be whole.
"However…occasionally, you find a joker or two in the deck. So what do you do with the cards? Remove them from the deck, jokers only get into the way of the game. You get my drift?"
Yae narrowed her eyes at Vic, watching him walk deeper into the room. "So you aim to remove Garu?"
Laughing loudly, Vic covered up the semi loud stomps that sounded from outside the dorm room. "Give the lady a prize…Your intellect rivals your beauty. Yes…I do intend on forcing your dorm mate Garu into a little wager, that will force him out of this school."
Kiro quietly stepped into the room, his breaths silenced as he lifted a damped cloth in his right hand. Yae didn't even notice him. "And what makes you think he'd even accept a duel like that?"
Chuckling to himself, Vic just combed his wet hair back. "You'd be surprised how people are often willing to make deals to improve their lives. You see, if Garu were to defeat me in a duel that would increase his rank.
"And if he were to pass his next dueling exam, he'd be able to get out of this dump. And if that wasn't reason enough, we'll be able to have a bargaining chip…you my little lass."
Knowing what Vic was implying, Yae swiftly raised her arms in a defensive manner. "I'd like to see you try that."
Vic just snapped his fingers and a clothed hand slapped it self over Yae's mouth and nose. Yae tried to fight back but her eyelids began to get heavy and her body began to grow limp. The young lady fell to the ground she could still barely hear Vic and the apparent Kiro chuckling.
"Good old chloroform."
"Shut up Kiro…now then, I'll get the note and you lift her up."
"Alright then."
Yae could barely feel herself being lifted off the ground before she completely blacked out.
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"Damn it…the rain's still coming down."
The weird Obelisk Blue stood outside the Slifer Red dorm, in his right had was a red umbrella that actually was given to him by Professor Fortanu. Just as the Obelisk blue opened the umbrella, a loud grunt caught his attention to the stairs.
"Hey Vic you mind giving me a hand?"
Ducking behind the stairs, the Obelisk Blue watched two more Obelisk Blue students walk down the steps. He knew them instantly…Vic, the Prince of the Dark World, and Kiro, Master of the Elements…at least that's what the upper classman called them. In Kiro's arms was a girl…
…A familiar girl…
…The same girl he had bumped into in the hall on the first week of school along with that blue haired guy.
"Very well," Vic stated before clapped loudly.
"I'm serious! This girl is heavier than she looks!"
"This coming from a former football player."
The weird Obelisk blue watched the two devious peers walk off into the forest. "Those scoundrels!"
The red umbrella splashed into the nearby puddle as the weird Obelisk blue ran through the rain to follow his peers.
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"I can't believe you ate those noodles!"
Garu just rubbed his stomach and licked his lips as Zeff unlocked the door to their dorm room. "Why let them go to waste?"
"Rox ate from that bowl!" Zeff answered as Rox barked from his master's shoulder.
"Still…" Garu sighed as the door opened and the sight inside made his eyebrows rise. "Whoa…"
"What the?"
The room was a complete mess, the beds were messed up, papers riddled the floor, a desk was upturned, and there was a mystery stain on the carpet. "Someone threw a party and we weren't invited?"
"Man, this is not cool," Zeff sighed as he noticed that there was a blue piece of paper on the way across from the door. How did he notice it?
There was a dagger piercing the note.
Ripping the paper from the dagger, Zeff scanned the note and turned towards Garu who was busy turning the desk back on its legs. "Yo Garu…I think it's for you."
Zeff tossed the note to Garu, who immediately caught the not and held it up to his eyes. "What in the world…?"
"Garu Honzou…
"You may have seen me before, if not then I won't bore you with an introduction. Rather, I'm issuing a challenge to you. I wish to see the power that defeated Professor Satoshi.
"However, do not expect a friendly duel. Should you lose, you will be forced to leave this duel academy."
"Who does this guy think I am? An idiot? I'm not going to risk my standing here on a duel."
"Probably right now, you're thinking that why should you have to duel me? Well then, I'll be keeping your roommate with me. That's right, Miss Yae will be enjoying my company for quite a while…unless you duel me.
"If you're brave enough then you can find me at the middle of the woods near the ruined castle.
"From, V.
"P.S. If you involve the teachers or facility in this, you can consider your girlfriend gone and never to be seen again."
With a tight grasp, Garu crumpled the note into a ball and dropped it on the ground. "Damn it…"
Zeff placed a hand on Garu's shoulder and looked at his friend with a serious look, something rare for Zeff to do. "What next Garu? Rox and I will do anything we can to help…"
Lowering his head, Garu realized that he had to do this on his own and removed Zeff's hand. "This is something…that I have to do."
Zeff just blinked as he watched Garu walking over to his intact backpack, placing his deck and duel disk into the travel bag. "You're kidding…right?"
Garu just shook his head before he walked out the door and into down pour of rain. A few seconds passed before Rox whimpered at Zeff's pant leg. Lifting his wolf companion into his arms, Zeff smiled widely, somewhat showing off a couple of fanged teeth. "I know that you're not kidding."
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"This wasn't supposed to happen!" Vic just grimaced as his last defense shattered into pixels. (VLP: 750)
Kiro could only watch from the small patio cover that he set up over (the still knocked out) Yae and himself near the gate of the mysterious ruins. A weird Obelisk blue duelist had appeared the two, claiming that he couldn't stand for such an injustice for respectable Obelisk Blues.
Even when the duel began, the weird Obelisk Blue seemed to be in charge of the entire match. Something about the cards seemed familiar…but Kiro hadn't even seen most of these cards.
The large dark cloaked figure in front the weird duelist lifted a strange yet familiar weapon, the rain bouncing off of the weapon. "This…ends…now!" (WOBLP: 3500)
Raising the weapon in the air, the cloaked figure slammed the weapon into Vic's side. The force sent him falling into a nearby mud puddle, getting the combination of dirt and water on his hair, face, and uniform. (VLP: 0)
Kiro just ran to Vic's side while the holograms dissipated. The weird Obelisk Blue took a step forward splashing the rainwater on his boots. "I've won…now get lost before I tell an official."
Kiro was about to charge the Obelisk blue, when Vic's arm shot in front of Kiro's chest. "No…I accepted his challenge and lost…we must respect his wishes."
As the two Obelisk Blues walked away, the weird Obelisk Blue smiled. "At least they have some honor."
From his glasses, the weird Obelisk Blue looked at the sleeping Yae and approached her. "And now, for this sleeping beauty."
The rainwater splashed on the ground, yet footsteps caused the water to splash up and catch the attention of the weird Obelisk Blue. As soon as he turned his body, he spotted a wet and tired Garu. His left arm had the duel disk on it, raring to go.
Raising an arm towards the weird Obelisk Blue student, Garu narrowed his eyes. "Okay, V! I don't know what kind of twisted game you're playing is, but you return my friend this instant!"
The accused Obelisk Blue just stepped across Garu, his eyes narrowing towards Garu now. "I have not the slightest idea of what you're talking about. If you're referring to that girl over there go ahead and help her back to your dorm."
"That's it?" Garu asked as a question mark appeared over his head. Wasn't this the guy who wanted to duel him?
"Now if you excuse me…I've got better things to do," the Obelisk Blue stated as he walked away.
"Hold it!"
Sighing loudly, the Obelisk Blue turned around to see Garu still there. "Isn't there something you should do? Like study for an exam?"
"You just expect me to let you leave? No way!" Garu announced. "Believe it! I'm turning you to Professor Fortanu!"
With a second sigh, the Obelisk blue took his deck from the duel disk and began to shuffle it while still keeping his gaze at Garu. "Listen…whether you think I did this or not, I don't care.
"But if you try to get me expelled for something I didn't do, then you have just made a terrible mistake. So since you expected a duel, then we'll settle this with a duel."
"Fine, and when I win you have to turn yourself in!" Garu announced shuffling his cards.
"Very well, but if I win then we forget this incident," the weird Obelisk Blue stated drawing his five card hand.
Garu realized something as he drew his hand. "You got a name? Or should I just call you specs?" (GLP: 4000)
A large bolt of lightning cut through the air as the weird Obelisk blue just smiled at Garu. "My name is…Vergil Redgrave. And yours?" (VLP: 4000)
"Garu Honzou, believe it!"
Lightning crashed, thunder boomed, and Vergil was the first to draw his card. "I'm going to go easy on you this turn."
"You're too kind," Garu growled as Vergil slid a card into his duel disk.
A fountain of light shot from behind Vergil, his eyes staying directly on his opponent. "You best drop the anger, an enraged mind often leads to rash and more predictable moves…"
"Just make your move," Garu stated. Already this Vergil guy was getting on his nerves, talk, talk, talk!
A wondrous pot appeared behind the serious Vergil, it was obviously made out of clay cause it had the clay color on it. Two clay dragons wrapped around the mouth of the bot and formed the two handles at its side. "Very well, I activate the continuous spell card, Clay Melting Pot!"
The melting pot began to shake violently catching Garu's eye. "So what exactly does your pot do?"
"You'll have to wait till my next turn to find out," Vergil stated taking another card from his hand and gently placing it on his duel disk. "Till then, I'll summon Clay Spear Soldier (1500/0) in attack mode."
The ground in front of Vergil began to form itself into a person…or at least the figure of a person. The monster was dressed in an ancient Japanese suit of armor that was completely made of clay. Even the monster's skin was made of clay; its face was lifeless with two eyes for holes and one for its mouth. The only thing that wasn't made of clay, was the spear that gleamed light from its metal tip. "My turn is over, and it's your move…"
Garu just snapped to top card into his hand, and a strategy already formed. "Excellent, I already drew Ryu, and with the Graceful Charity in my hand, I'll be able to discard the other two ninjas in my hand that will power up Ryu. And with no face down cards, I'll damage him real good.'
"Alright, I'll start this duel with Graceful Charity!" Garu announced as a bright light showered over his deck. "Being an Obelisk blue, you probably know what it does!"
Vergil just puffed his hair from his eyes to see Garu draw his three cards then discard two. Then not hesitating, Garu took another card from his hand and slapped the card onto his duel disk. "And I'll summon Ryu – The Mythical Ninja (1700/1200)!"
Along with the rain, Ryu appeared and splashed on the ground, his hair weighed down by the rainwater. His kitsune staff held high above his head. "And guess what, I discarded two Ninjas in my graveyard, so Ryu gets his first two effects! (2100/1600)"
Vergil just shook his head disapproval. "Using a trump card already? You mustn't be hasty."
"Tell me what you think after I take out your Clay Spear Soldier!" Garu shouted, and almost immediately Ryu ran towards the Clay Soldier.
The Clay Spear Soldier just raised its spear to block the kitsune staff, but unfortunately, Ryu was too fast for the clay monster and slammed his signature weapon into the head of the Clay warrior.
The Clay Spear Soldier's head just flew clear off, while the rest of its body began to crumble. Vergil just smirked as the clay flowed with the rainwater towards Garu. "Was that it?" (VLP: 4000)
At the sight of his opponent's life point counter, Garu just stepped back as did Ryu. "What the? Is your duel disk messed up? You should have lost six hundred life points?"
Lifting the Clay Spear Soldier card from his duel disk, Vergil just glared at his opponent. "I would have…if it wasn't for my Clay Spear Soldier. You see, my clay cards are quite interesting. They can't inflict damage, nor do I take damage from your attacks involving most of them."
"Then why include monsters like that?" Garu asked, not noticing that the clay at his feet was beginning to take form.
"Simple, they are soldiers, willing to fight for their masters, more specifically, the higher cards in my deck," Vergil replied as he raised his hand towards Garu. "But now then, since my Clay Spear Soldier was destroyed by a result of battle, you get two Clay Tokens (250/250 x2)!"
The two mounds of clay shot up in front of Garu, forming into identical Clay Soldiers that were almost a dead give away of the Clay Spear Soldier, especially with the spear. Garu just shook his head and glared at his opponent. "Yeah, well, it seems you gave me two more attacks! So my two Clay Tokens attack him directly!"
Vergil just watched as the clay spears flew directly towards Vergil, however, he saw the attack coming and just dodged both attack in a cool calm manner. Although his life points did decrease. "You done yet?" (VLP: 3500)
A little confused with how his opponent was so calm, Garu just slid two cards into his duel disk and the cards appeared before him. "I'll just set two cards face down and call it a turn."
As soon as Vergil drew his next card, the Clay Melting Pot began to shake violently. "Now then, I enter my standby phase, which activates my Melting Pot's effect!"
Three lights shot out from pot and slammed into the ground in front of Vergil, the lights then formed into three separate Clay Soldiers each wielding a sword. "You see, my Melting Pot is the source for my Clay Soldiers, so naturally, it produces the army for my deck.
"In dueling terms however, it creates Clay Soldier Tokens (1000/1000 x3) equal to the amount of monsters you have on the field. And in case you didn't notice, that also includes my two tokens on your side of the field!"
"Like it matters! None of your three tokens are a match for my ninja!" Garu pointed out as one of the three Clay Soldier tokens shattered into clay.
"Yes, but it hardly matters, as I said, these are only the soldiers, so I'll sacrifice one of them for a general!" Vergil announced as the clay began to reform itself.
The clay seemed to continue in mass as it formed the new man shaped monster. It definitely looked like the previous clay soldier monsters, only it was larger. The top of its clay helmet was a large horn, its mouth hole actually was carved to look sad, and its weapon of choice…were a pair of steel Japanese styled fans. "So meet Clay General of Flames (2300/2300)!"
"Come on, you going to attack me or what?" Garu challenged his glance looking down towards his face down card.
"No, at least not yet, I'll play my spell card Mystical Space Typhoon! It'll wipe out your card on the left!" As soon as Vergil played the card, the wind surged bringing the rain with it and shattered the face down Ninja Technique Smoke Bomb. "And now, I'll have my Clay General of Flames take out one of those tokens! Oh and I may want to add that he can actually cause damage!"
Garu just watched as the Clay General fanned its powerful steel fans and fired a powerful burst of flames towards the small clay token shattering it into pieces. The heat from the flames caused Garu to walk backwards. (GLP: 1950)
"But I'm not done, my tokens can also inflict damage, so I'll have one of the Clay Soldier Tokens wipe out the other Clay Token!" Vergil just continued his onslaught forcing one of the sword wielding Clay Soldiers just immediately slashed the remaining clay token on Garu's side of the field. (GLP: 1200)
"Dang it, this guy really knows his stuff, but I'm not going to give up that easily!' Anything else you'd like to throw at me?"
Waving his hand Vergil just snickered a little. "Nah, I'm done throwing you up and down on the ground this turn, nothing you do can really hurt me."
Snapping the next card off his deck, a blood vessel appeared over his head. "I'll show you, I won't lose!"
Looking over his next card, Garu instantly got an idea in his head. "Alright then, I summon The Mechanical Ninja – Uzamaki (1400/600)!"
From the sky above, Uzamaki appeared with his serious look on his face and his kunai in his hands ready to fight. "Next I'll outfit my mechanical ninja with his signature weapon, the Ninja's Weapon of choice! It raises his attack by 600!" (2000/600)
Vergil just blinked as the golden kunai appeared on Uzamaki's chest and hands, the weapons did look natural with the machine. "But I'm not done! I'll equip Ryu with this! Ninja Firecracker! Giving him 400 additional attack points!" (2500/1600)
Ryu raised his kitsune staff into the air and multiple fireworks attached to it. "And now, since I've got a ninja in the graveyard, Uzamaki can attack twice this turn and I'll have him attack both of those tokens!"
Vergil didn't even blink as Uzamaki slashed right through his two Clay Soldiers. "…" (VLP: 2000)
"And next, I'll have Ryu take out that eyesore of a monster!" Garu announced as Ryu jumped into the air, spinning his kitsune staff and slammed it directly into the Clay General, smashing the monster into pieces. However the pieces seemed to form themselves into two separate smaller versions of the General. "What the? Where'd those come from?" (VLP: 2000)
Vergil simply sighed as his new monsters raised their weapons into the air. "I thought you would've figured it out by now. My general allows me to summon two Clay Soldier Grunts (1500/1500 x2) when he's destroyed."
"Great…I'll end my turn," Garu sighed as Vergil his next card and like before the Clay Melting pot spat out two more Clay Soldier Tokens (1000/1000 x2).
At the sight of his new card, Vergil just looked at Garu. "I'll admit this, you were semi good. But now, I'm going to end this duel… I'll sacrifice my two new Clay Soldier Tokens…"
The two clay monsters just shattered into pixels that immediately formed together into a huge daunting figure. "To summon the one…the only…"
A bolt of lightning flash exposing the features of the new monster. It was clearly male due to the figure of the monster, though if you looked to the face you would be stumped. Its face was covered in a shiny white mask, save for the monster's right eye. On the top of the monster's head sat a tower like hat that released his long dark blue hair from behind. The man's gunmetal gray emperor like armor spiked upwards, and his armor hands were clawed around a familiar weapon. Multiple red and black cloaks covered the man's back, chest, and belt, each of the cloaks donning a dark symbol of a dragon's head.
Ryu seemed growl in anger at the sight of the new monster. There seemed to be some tension between the two, and Garu noticed the weapon in the new monster's hands. It was a Kitsune staff, almost the exact same as Ryu's only darker. "…the Mystic Art Kaiser (3000/2500)!"
"What in the world is that?" Garu asked as he and Uzamaki both took a step back, the Kaiser seemed to emit a powerful aura that forced them back.
"This happens to be my first card I ever received, and he'll be your bane! And allow me to explain, when my Kaiser attacks a monster, I can negate every effect that monster has!" Vergil explained receiving a glare from Ryu. "Looks like your Ryu doesn't like my monster."
"He's using Ryu's weapon," Garu growled as Vergil took another card from his hand.
"Then why don't we replace that? I equip my Mystic Art Kaiser with this…Iron Fist!" Vergil immediately activated the card that surged into the Mystic Art Kaiser, seemingly to fuse with the monster. The Kaiser focused his new energy into his right fist, which immediately glowed a powerful silver.
"This new equip automatically increases my Kaiser by 600 attack points, and has another effect…though I doubt you'll find out what it can do. Now then, Mystic Art Kaiser! Attack Ryu! Negate his effects and send him to the graveyard!"
Just as the Kaiser was about to slam his Kitsune staff into Ryu, Ryu raised his staff to block the attack. Vergil's eyes widened as Garu's face down card went active revealing a tree wearing a green vest taking an attack for a fleeing ninja. "Why activate that? You'll still lose."
"I won't let Ryu die!"
Vergil just blinked at the answer he received. Most of the opponents he faced so far didn't treat their monsters with the same respect that Garu did to his. Vergil smiled as he snapped his fingers and the Mystic Art Kaiser lifted his kitsune staff. Garu just blinked as did Uzamaki and Ryu at their opponent's behavior. "I thought you were going to finish this!" (GLP: 0)
"No need to destroy a noble monster," Vergil replied as his monsters disappeared. Vergil just walked over to Garu and looked at the still standing Ryu and Uzamaki, then he shifted his gaze to Garu. "I have to admit…though your dueling skills need fine tuning, your heart is in the right place. Continue to train and maybe you can take out my Kaiser…someday."
Garu just stood up as his holograms disappeared. "But since I lost, I guess I have to agree that you didn't do this."
"I didn't…the two who did are two other Obelisk blues," Vergil replied as Garu's eyes widened.
"You mean…"
Vergil nodded his head and Garu just lowered his, tears streaming down his face. "Relax Garu, now then, I think you should probably get your friend back to the dorm."
Garu just turned towards Yae and nodded. Vergil just watched as Garu managed to lift Yae into his arms and he began to walk away into the forest. The storm had stopped, and the clouds parted, sending the sunlight gleaming over the forest. Vergil just turned his head over to one side of the clearing. "You can come out now…Zeff."
Zeff and Rox just walked from the woods, Zeff just scratched the back of his head connected to the eye patch headband. "What gave it away?"
"I could see Rox a couple of times Zeff," Vergil replied as he raised his Mystic Art Kaiser card to his eyes. "Anyway, you were right…I truly have found the rival to this card."
"Yep, you are welcome my friend," Zeff laughed loudly scratching Rox's ears. "And I take it that you found your rival as well?"
"Yeah…but I found something interesting inside Garu as well…" Vergil replied as he started walking to the woods.
"And that would be what now?"
"He and I have more in common than we first thought."
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Card Listings
Clay Melting Pot / Continuous Spell / Effect: During each of your standby phases, you may special summon Clay Soldier Tokens (LV: 2 / Earth / ATK: 1000 / DEF: 1000 / Rock) in defense mode equal to the amount of monsters your opponent has on the field.
Image: A large cauldron with clay dragons wrapping around the base and mouth of the pot.
Clay Spear Soldier / Earth / LV: 3 / ATK: 1500 / DEF: 0 / Rock/Effect: Negate all battle damage involving this card. When this card is destroyed and sent to the graveyard special summon two Clay Tokens (Earth / LV: 1 / ATK: 250 / DEF: 250 / Rock) on your opponent's side of the field in defense mode.
Description: A Japanese samurai with a spear, only entirely made out of clay.
Clay General of Flames / Earth / LV: 6 / ATK: 2300 / DEF: 2300 / Rock/Effect: Negate all battle damage involving this card that is done to you. When this card is destroyed and sent to the graveyard, you may special summon two 'Clay Soldier Grunts (Earth / LV: 4 / ATK: 1500 / DEF: 1500 / Rock)' on your side of the field.
Description: A larger clay soldier with a spiked helmet, and instead of a sword, wields two Japanese styled fans.
Mystic Art Kaiser / Dark / LV: 9 / ATK: 3000 / DEF: 2500 / Warrior/Effect: Negate all effects of a monster that battles this card. If this card is sent to the graveyard or removed from play, you may special summon one 'Devil Kaiser – Master of the Eclipse' from your hand, deck, graveyard, or side deck.
Description: A muscular armored and robed masked man with a large powerful kitsune staff. face was covered in a shiny white mask, save for the monster's right eye. On the top of the monster's head sits a tower like hat that released his long dark blue hair from behind. The man's gunmetal gray emperor like armor spiked upwards, and his armor hands were clawed around a familiar weapon. Multiple red and black cloaks covered the man's back, chest, and belt, each of the cloaks donning a dark symbol of a dragon's head.
Iron Fist / Equip Spell Card / Effect: This card can only be equipped to a monster with 'Kaiser' in its name. Increase the attack of the equipped monster by 600. If the equipped monster is destroyed, you may special summon another monster from your graveyard with 'Kaiser' in its name, other than the equipped monster.
Image: A shadow with a powerful armored fist with multiple bolts and screws in it.