Two days ago I was tricked by those two jerks and was used for bait to lure Garu into a duel that would determine if he stayed here or not.
I may not know what had happened yesterday but it appears that is staying here. Not only that…it looks like Garu is more determined than ever to succeed here.
I also realized something during that incident…
…I'm weak…
But that's all going to change!
I'm not some damsel in distress that needs to be rescued by a knight in shinning armor!
The next time I see those two Obelisk Blue jerks, I'll crush both of them and teach them not to underestimate people!
With my friends as my witnesses, I'll show them that I can hold my own…
…But against this old peer that I'm dueling…that might be easier said than done.
Some of the cards she has in her deck that don't even belong to her, yet she's dueling with similar cards like them like she's known about them all her life.
But…Garu's counting on me, I can't lose!
I may not be the best duelist around, but I'll try anything…
…Don't treat me like I'm helpless!
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Chapter 6: Yae's Ambition
Enter the power of the Fist!
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"So…that punk was the number one rookie?"
Kiro just gulped, Vic didn't lose that often to people, but when he did he usually went berserk on the nearest person or item. And to top it off…a freshman duelist completely crushed him. "Y…yeah, it was Vergil Redgrave."
Sipping on his favorite fruit juice, Vic just sat on the blue couch that was placed into his living quarters. His eyes were closed as he savored the taste before he swallowed. "You do realize that only two other people in this school are capable of a feat like that correct?"
Relaxed at how well Vic was taking his defeat, Kiro stepped from the corner with a relaxed sigh escaping his mouth. "Of course…so what are we to do?"
"Our plans," Vic stated standing from his seat and walking over to the window once more to peer outside into the night's sky. "I still intend of eliminating those five rookies, even if it takes everything out of me."
"And how exactly do you expect to do that?" Kiro asked leaning up against the nearby wall. "Its not like we'll be able to challenge them once more, especially once word gets out about what's been happening. And you know who'll come to ask us questions…"
Vic just responded by finishing his drink and setting the glass on the window's frame. "Do not underestimate me my friend, I've managed to hire someone behind the scenes just in case our efforts failed. Do you know what to do when you fail at taking out an army head on?"
A few seconds passed while Kiro rubbed his chin in confusion. "Uh…no…?"
Sighing loudly, Vic snapped his head towards his fellow Obelisk Blue. "You attack the main source of their power! Their weapons!"
With a quick snap of his fingers, a cloaked form appeared in front of Vic. Kiro just stepped back surprised as to where this character came from. As the person stood up, a battle city duel disk flashed from the cloak strapped on the person's left arm. "Is it time for me to work?"
Vic just chuckled raising his hand up. "No, not yet Seika. Tomorrow night is when I want you to strike."
The cloaked Seika growled glaring at Vic. "Fine…but are you sure you just want me to steal the cards? For a little extra, I can exterminate the pest for you."
"You're being paid enough for your services," Vic replied turning his back to Seika. "You know what I require, no more…no less."
"Fine!" Seika huffed before disappearing into a cloud of smoke.
Kiro was just stared dumbfounded at the disappearing smoke. "Who the heck was that?"
"Someone you're better off not knowing," Vic replied not even looking at his friend. "Now then…Kiro please leave, I need to be alone with my thoughts."
Nodding to his friend, Kiro immediately left the room slamming the door. Vic didn't even blink at the sound and just continued to look outside the window, his mind racing with a single thought. "After I deal with that Slifer Slacker, I'll deal with Redgrave and send both of them packing from this academy…I will not be denied!"
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Garu woke up early this morning and watched as the sun began to rise on the dorm roof. His mind relaying his first defeat…at the hands of…that guy, Vergil. "I don't get it…"
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A bolt of lightning flashed 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. The Ninjitsu Art of Decoy. "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."
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"Thought I had him…but those clay cards, and then that Kaiser," Garu just sat on the roof looking through his deck looking at Ryu's card. "He even looked like he knew what move I was going to play."
"Hey Garu!"
Garu turned his head to see Yae and Zeff on the ground wearing their backpacks, Rox had his head poked out of Zeff's backpack. "Come on! We got to hurry before class starts!"
Shaking his head, Garu quickly pocketed his deck, snatched his backpack and jumped from the roof to the second floor to catch up with his friends. Unknown to Garu, a familiar cloaked person watched the three walk from the dorm from the nearby tree branch.
"Hey Zeff," Garu started as Zeff walked backwards looking at Yae and Garu.
"What up Garu?" Zeff asked.
"You got any cards you might be willing to trade?"
"Why ya ask?" Zeff asked as Yae walked faster, knowing that this conversation didn't include her.
"…I just need a few new cards…" Garu simply replied before walking to catch up with Yae. "You know what, forget about it."
Zeff stopped dead in his tracks, and turned to watch Yae and Garu walk off. Rox whimpered in Zeff's ear, Zeff responded by scratching the wolf cub's nose. "I know, I know, but we have to follow Vergil's lead on this."
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"Morning students!" Professor Satoshi exclaimed walking into the classroom. In his arms were multiple books. "Today we've got a quite a few new topics today in our class. We are going to watch videotapes leading up to the new age of dueling, or what some people might say is the cyber revolution.
"Anyway, we're going to be learning about different styles of dueling and where the duelists have gotten the idea of using the cards. Most duelists choose cards based on their favorite cards. Others like to express themselves and their cultures with the cards. And of course there are those who just like to beat down on other duelists."
Looking through some of the few spare cards Garu had in his backpack, he just sighed quietly to himself not really listening to Professor Satoshi's lecture. "Maybe a few new cards would help my deck…then again, I really do like my ninja cards…"
"Now then, I just need to put in the videotapes, and we can watch the profiles," Satoshi stated trying to put the videotape into the electronic board. However every time he did, the tape just popped back out. Unwilling to admit defeat to the machine, Satoshi pushed the tape in again and again and again. "Dang it! Stay in there!"
This time the videotape stayed in the machine, but the electrical tape shot out and covered Satoshi wrapping him up in the black tape. "Help!"
Everyone who was witnessing Satoshi getting wrapped up like a mummy just laughed loudly and their laughter just increased when Satoshi fell to the ground still struggling to get free.
After about ten minutes filled with laughter, Satoshi was finally freed from the tape (though there was still pieces of tape in his hair and uniform). "Okay then, class time for a change of plans. Today we're going to be taking notes on theories that originated in ancient Egypt for duel monsters."
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"Now that is priceless!" Takashi laughed quietly trying to not attract attention to him. "Garu coming to your rescue!"
Yae just sighed lowering her head almost to her plate. "Don't remind me…I could have handled those two jerks if they hadn't gotten me from behind."
"Sure you could," Takashi mocked before he noticed the angry Yae in front of him. "Okay! Okay! You could take them on!"
Calming down, Yae finally noticed something in the lunchroom. "So where exactly is your fan club?"
Takashi just sighed in relief closing his eyes with glee. "I actually trick them with that duplication jitsu that Master Yoh taught us."
"Wasn't that only temporary?" Yae asked as Takashi's eyes shot wide open.
"Oh crud," Takashi moaned slapping his forehead. "Well then, I must be going before they figure out I'm over here."
Takashi quickly ran from the seat leaving behind his tray, and as soon as he ran out of the cafeteria doors…
"There he is!"
He didn't even have to turn his head to look, Takashi just ran in the opposite direction trying to outrun the T-Team. Then with a quick turn to the right, Takashi continued to run while looking back until…
WHAM!
The collision sent Takashi to the ground rubbing his forehead. "Watch where you're going!"
"You were the one ran looking back!"
Takashi got a good look at who had collided into, from what he could see, it was a girl roughly around his age…at least by looking at her face. The rest of her body was covered with a black cloak. Her light gray hair reached past her shoulders and rested on her cloak. "That's a weird fashion sense…wait a minute…could that be?"
"What a rude person," the girl scoffed while standing back to her feet.
"…Whatever," Takashi replied jumping to his feet.
"I found him!"
Turning his head slightly, Takashi's eyes bulged slightly before he ran off past the weird girl. The T Team immediately followed after him, the girl just sweatdropped watching the trio following Takashi. "The students here sure are weird…"
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School was over and the students were enjoying the rest of the beautiful day, Garu was enjoying it by sitting in the branch of a tree looking at his cards and the spare cards he managed to scrounge up in his backpack. "Maybe this guy would be better suited instead of Ryu…but then again…"
"Hey! You're in my tree!"
Garu looked down to see Zeff and Rox looking up into the tree, both showing off their strangely similar teeth. Pocketing the cards, Garu quickly jumped from the tree branch and landed softly on the ground. "Sorry…didn't know!"
"Ah I'm just yanking your chain!" Zeff laughed out loud making Rox sweatdrop at his master's behavior.
"So why'd you come get me?" Garu asked as Zeff smirked.
Pulling a pamphlet from his pocket, Zeff's face started to water. "Cause, their serving diner in the cafeteria and I wanna get my hands on the best bowl of curry!"
Garu just cocked his head to the right, and a sweatdrop as big as Rox's appeared on the back of his head. "You and curry…what's up with that?"
"You're no different with ramen noodles," Zeff pointed out before he turned on his heel and ran off towards the nearby dorm. "Here I come curry!"
Garu just sighed and rubbed his stomach. "I'm sorry little guy…but its either curry or that left over meatloaf…"
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Later, night had fallen over the Slifer Red dorm and all of the students were asleep…well almost all of them.
"Stupid curry!" Garu growled at himself as he ran into the bathroom.
After the door slammed shut, the window opened up silently and a familiar cloaked person slowly stepped through the window. Without a sound, the person walked across the carpet and towards the desk that had multiple cards scattered across it. Flipping the top card and lifting it into the moonlight, the person read the card in her mind. "Ryu – The Mythical Ninja…interesting. Maybe this kid as other cards my Ninjitsu deck could use."
The bathroom door immediately opened up causing the thief to jump in shock. Garu walked out of the bathroom holding onto his stomach. "That curry is too spicy…"
As soon as Garu looked up, his and the thief's eyes connected. "What the hell?"
"Uh…thanks for the cards!" Thief quickly scooped up a few cards and threw a black orb on the ground sending a large amount of smoke to pour out of it and into the room.
"Damn it!" Garu coughed as he tried to fan away the smoke. When the smoke was gone for the most part, the thief was gone while the smoke had caused Yae, Zeff and Rox to wake up.
"Garu, you better not have started a fire," Yae yawned rubbing her eyes.
Garu just stomped his foot in protest. "No! Some thief just came in here and stole some of my cards!"
Receiving just odd looks, Garu just ran to the closet and pulled his jacket over his pajama pants. "Not only that, but that thief was using ninja tools."
Rox jumped from Zeff's bunk and sniffed the ground, then barked back towards Zeff whose eyes opened widely. Tripping out of his bed, Zeff jumped to the closet and grabbed his jacket. "Yae! Garu's right! There was an intruder, I'm going to follow Garu, please take Rox he'll help you!"
Yae just looked at Rox as Zeff slammed the door shut. Sighing loudly, she quickly walked towards the closet and pulled out her uniform. "I'm going to become an insomniac if nights like these keep coming."
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"Darn that kid," The thief grumbled lifting the cloak's hood to let her light gray hair flow out. In her hands were the five cards that she managed to get her hands on. "Well, at least I managed to take five of his cards. All of them I can use in my deck."
Shuffling through the cards, the thief read the names of the cards out loud. "Never really heard of these cards, Ryu – The Mythical Ninja, The Mechanical Ninja – Uzamaki, Ninja Art – Metal Hurricane, Ninja's Weapon of Choice, and Ninja Art – Duplication…pretty powerful."
The moon's light gleamed over the clearing in the woods where the thief was hiding out. Lifting her left arm, the battle city duel disk popped out her deck. Then with a quick motion the thief slid the cards into her deck and then shuffled the deck. "And now, I'll be able to take on the toughest opponent's in this year's league."
All of a sudden, from the bushes emerged Rox as he jumped towards the thief girl, almost knocking her down. Then a bright concentrated light flashed from the bushes and centered on the thief. "I take it you're the thief."
The thief just stood up in the light to see Yae standing there holding onto a flashlight. Even in the dark, the bright red of the Slifer Red uniform stood out, as did the red backpack on Yae's shoulders. "I guess you could say so. Name's Seika."
Raising an eyebrow at the name, Yae's memory quickly remembered that name. "Seika Shizuka?"
Stepping back, Seika actually took a good hard look at Yae. "How in the world do you…wait a minute, you're Yae Nanako! Man, you've changed, both with your hair and body."
"I see you're still up to your old tricks," Yae scoffed as Seika rubbed the back of her head. "You never could help yourself to other people's things."
"True, I was an envious little girl now wasn't I?" Seika laughed a little before looking directly at Yae. "Anyway, quite a surprise to see an old colleague here. How's that cute little Garu doing? You managed to sneak a kiss from him yet?"
Moving her head to the right a little, Yae's face turned as red as a tomato while Rox ran into the nearby bush. "What would make you say that?"
Walking closer to Yae, Seika smiled at her fellow ninja student. "Come on now, you've always had a crush on him. So how is he anyway?"
"You just stole some of his cards," Yae replied coming back to reality.
Looking at her deck, Seika just smiled. "Oh so those were Garu's cards? I thought it was too much of a coincidence I had to get a Garu's cards."
"Listen, return them immediately," Yae warned as Seika laughed.
"Would if I wanted, but I'm being paid to get rid of these cards," Seika snickered while lifting her duel disk. "Even if it means that I get to keep them for myself."
"You always stole from everyone," Yae scowled at the walking back Seika.
"What can I say? Stealing was in my blood."
"And that's why you got kicked out! You had to take Master Yoh's scrolls!"
The smirk of Seika's face grew lifting her duel disk. "Yes, but now I'm after a different form of art and text…these cards, and I'll be keeping Garu's cards."
"Okay…then how about a why?" Yae asked as Seika looked confused.
"Why?" asked Seika rubbing her chin.
After a few seconds of silence, Seika just shrugged.
"Why not?"
"That's your reason? Has that been your reason every time you stole something?" Yae asked as Seika threw back her hair.
"Of course, now then, unless you intend to stop me," Seika stated walking away. "I've got some money to collect."
Glaring at the walking away thief, Yae quickly pulled her duel disk from her backpack and started it. "Okay, I'll defeat you in a duel then."
"Defeat me? Please, seeing that uniform on you, you can't possibly be a threat," Seika laughed spinning on her heal while she activated her duel disk. "But I'll just humor you, and if I win, you have to go get the rest of Garu's cards for me."
"And if I win then you have to give your word that you'll return whatever cards you stole from Garu," Yae stated shuffling her deck then snapped it into her duel disk. (YLP: 4000)
Seika just nodded and drew her first five cards. "Good thing for me, my word means dirt." (SLP: 4000)
When no one drew, Seika took the top card from her deck and smiled. "Let the fun begin. And here's a guy who can really get this party started. I summon Ninja Commander Ikusa (700/700)!"
Slapping the sixth card onto her duel disk, a shadow appeared on her side of the field…A Ninja Warrior dressed in a green jumpsuit with a sword slung across his back and a crescent moon on his cowl appeared.
"I've seen better ninjas in Garu's deck," Yae mocked as a card shot out of Seika's deck.
As soon as she placed the card on her disk a sound like a gong sounded, and Ninja Commander Ikusa faded into blur. Another shape formed out of him… another Ninja, this one similar to him, but dressed in blue.
Seika just grinned at the sight of her new monster. "You see Yae when I summon my Ninja Commander in attack mode I'm allowed to summon Ninja Soldier Katana (400/400) as well."
"That's even more pathetic," Yae pointed out as Seika just swooned over her cards.
"Well then it shouldn't be hard for you to take them out then," Seika stated. "I'll end my turn on that note."
Snapping her sixth card, Yae looked at her cards and nodded. "Right, I'll show you a real monster! I summon Tiger Taijitsu Master (1600/1200)!"
The earth slightly shook before a fist shattered it, then more rocks and dirt flew into the air as a figure jumped from the ground as well. In the moonlight landed Yae's monster, revealing a young woman fighter in white robes with dark tiger stripe designs all over them. Her long flowing black hair with a few white stripes was blowing in the wind and showed off what appeared to be two tiger ears poking out from the top of her head.
As soon as the fighter smiled at Yae, a single card shot out of her deck and into her hand. "And here's my monster's effect, when she's successfully normal summoned, I can take a spell card with Taijitsu art in its name and add it to my hand."
"Aggressive as usual," Seika thought as Yae raised her hand towards the Ninja Soldier.
"Now then! I'll have Tiger attack your Ninja Soldier with Yin Yang Kick!" Yae announced as the Tiger Taijitsu Master jumped into the air and delivered a powerful drop kick to the Ninja Soldier's head.
Surprisingly enough, Seika looked glad as her ninja shattered into pixels. "Why thank you Yae." (SLP: 2800)
"Maybe dueling isn't as hard as people make it look like?" Yae questioned as the Tiger Taijitsu Master returned to her side of the field.
"You keep thinking that and I'll win this immediately," Seika thought slowly taking her next card from her duel disk. "Let's try this again…I'll summon a second Ninja Commander Ikusa (700/700)!"
This time with a cloud of smoke the same Ninja Warrior dressed in a green jumpsuit with a sword slung across his back and a crescent moon on his cowl appeared. The almost as a given, the same gong sounded, and Ninja Commander Ikusa faded into blur. Another shape formed out of him… another Ninja Soldier Katana (400/400) appeared.
"Again? Don't you have any other moves?" Yae asked as Seika lifted another card in her hand into the air.
A face down card appeared behind the three ninjas. "Is that better?"
"Somewhat…" Yae muttered.
She drew her next card…
…And just grimaced at her card.
"Damn it, I still didn't draw another card," Yae just took one card from her hand and slid it into her duel disk. "I'll place one card face down, and then I'll have Tiger go on the attack once more! Take down another Ninja Soldier!"
Quickly running over to the Ninja Soldier, the Tiger Taijitsu Master prepared a powerful punch. And just as she was about to jab the ninja soldier in the gut, one of the Ninja Commanders jumped in front of the attack and took the attack for his underling. Yae just looked confused as did the Tiger Taijitsu Master. "What happened? I declared an attack against your soldier, not commander."
Seika simply gestured to her now activated trap card that had a knight switching places with a poorly designed monster. "Its called Shift, and with it I rerouted your attack to my Commander so I would take less damage." (SLP: 1900)
"It doesn't matter, a few more well aimed attacks like that and I'll win easily!" Yae announced with a smile. "I'm starting to see why Garu really likes this game."
"We'll see," Seika sighed.
Snapping the top card, Seika's smile grew. "Well now, I'll play a spell card, known as Pot of Greed!"
The green grinning pot materialized in front of Seika as she drew her next two cards. At the sight of one of them, her eyes just lighted. "You wanna know something? I actually wanted you to destroy my two ninjas."
Yae raised an eyebrow. "Why would you?"
"You'll see, but first I'll destroy that face down with Mystical Space Typhoon!" Seika announced as a powerful stream of air slammed directly into Yae's face down card shattering it. "Now that I've gotten rid of that eyesore, its time to bring out a real ninja. I'll just need to send my other Ninja Soldier to the graveyard…"
The blue ninja soldiers just vanished into thin air. A pair of scrolls with kanji script written on them formed out of the ground and a frightening Monster emerged. He was a Warrior dressed in a red, decorative gi, with long white hair, and a scary red Japanese mask. A sword was slung across his back. "So say hello to Ninja Master Shogun (1600/1600)!"
"Okay…that's certainly an interesting ninja," Yae stated, though she had to admit that it did remind her of some pictures she saw of Master Yoh when he was younger looking like that.
"Wait till you see his interesting ability," Seika replied as two cards shot out of her duel disk. "By summoning him, I'm able to special summon two other Ninja Warriors of three stars or less from my deck. So I summon Ninja Commando Kabuki (700/700) and another Ninja Soldier Katana (400/400)!"
Two forms appeared behind Seika and leapt next to the other two ninjas on Seika's field; one of them was a third Ninja Soldier. The other was a Ninja in a white mask, blue pants, and a purple vest. Like the others, a sword was slung across his back.
"And as a little twist, my Kabuki can also bring out a level two or lower ninja from my deck!"
Yet another card flew out of Seika's duel disk, and she immediately slapped the card onto her duel disk.
Yae just stared in awe as a shower of lotus flowers fell upon the field, and a young teenage girl in a maroon gi with a veil and her black hair in a ponytail appeared.
"So meet Kunoichi Ayame the Ninja Girl (300/300)!""Okay, so you managed to assemble multiple ninjas, none of them can beat my Taijitsu Master," Yae gulped as Seika lifted another card.
"That's why we have other than monster cards in this game, like the continuous spell card Banner of Courage!"
From behind the small Ninja army, appeared a large colorful banner with multiple kanji symbols written on it. "This little spell card grants all of my monsters an additional 200 attack points during my battle phase."
Yae could only watch as a blue aura began to empower all five of Seika's ninjas.
NMS (1600/1600 1800/1600) NSK (400/400 600/400) NCI (700/700 900/700) NCK (700/700 900/700) KAtNG (300/300 500/300)
"Now then, Ninja Master Shogun! Attack her Taijitsu Master! Kasai raishuu!"
The Shogun breathed in deeply before exhaling a powerful flame that engulfed the Taijitsu master. Unable to bear the heat, she shattered into pixels. Yae just lowered her arm just in time to see the other four ninjas jumping into the air. "And now I'll have all four my other ninjas attack you with a shower of shuriken!"
Jumping from tree to tree, Ikusa, Katana, Kabuki and Ayame threw a hailstorm of shuriken that cut right through Yae sending her to the ground. (YLP: 900)
"I'd like to see how you're going to get out of this," Seika snickered as she placed a card face down. "And I'll end my turn with a face down card."
Standing up weakly, Yae just snapped the top card from her deck and added it to her hand. "I'm not going to lose…"
"Big talk for a little girl," Seika snickered. "Can you really back that up?"
"You better believe I can!" Yae shouted.
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"Zeff, we've been going around in circles!" Garu shouted leaning up next to a tree.
"Well excuse me for not having tracking abilities like Rox," Zeff replied getting of the ground. "Maybe I should've brought Rox with us?"
Before Garu could say a thing, Rox jumped from the bushes barking loudly to catch the two duelists' attention. "Speak of the wolf…"
"Rox! You find the thief?" Zeff asked before Rox yelped loudly. "Excellent…Garu, follow Rox. He'll take you to where the thief is hiding."
"And where are you going to be?" Garu asked while Rox ran into the nearby bush.
"I need to make a quick stop at the dorm," Zeff replied before Garu ran off into the woods.
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"Okay, I'm going to place a card face down," Yae announced as the card back appeared. "Then I'll activate the spell card, Emergency Provisions! So by sending that face down card away I can gain back a 1000 life points!" (YLP: 1900)
As soon as Yae played the spell card, her other card shattered and a small light engulfed her. "Next up comes the spell card Monster Reincarnation! So by simply discarding this card, I can take back an old friend, who I'm summoning right now! Tiger Taijitsu Master (1600/1200)!"
The martial art expert reappeared, raising her fists into the air.
"But I'm not done, you remember that summoning her allows me to take one Taijitsu Art spell card from my deck correct?"
Seika just sighed loudly as another card flew out of Yae's deck. "Whatever, not like the first one helped you."
Yae smirked. "That's cause I didn't play it yet."
"Huh?"
Taking another card from her hand, Yae quickly slid it into her duel disk. As the spell card appeared behind the Tiger Taijitsu Master, depicting the Tiger Taijitsu Master slamming her fist into a card back, the Tiger's right hand began to glow light blue. "But now I am! Here comes Taijitsu Art – Force Fist! This card allows me to destroy spell and trap cards equal to the amount of 'Taijitsu' monsters on my side of the field! So say good bye to your face down!"
With a powerful leap, Tiger ran past all of the ninjas and slammed her fist into the face down card. The force shattered the card into pixels.
"And now, I've still have her attack! Take out Kunoichi Ayame! Tiger Fang Fist!" Yae commanded as Tiger turned around and pounced on Ayame slamming multiple fists into her at a high speed.
Seika just gulped as her Kunoichi disappeared into the ground. "Not good!" (SLP: 600)"I'll end my turn with a face down card," Yae announced with the card back appearing behind Tiger. "I've got her this time, if she attacks my Taijitsu Master I'll activate my face down card, Taijitsu Art – Lotus Technique and that'll really get her."
With a quick draw, Seika looked at her new card…
…And a huge smile replaced her look of fear. "Well now, it looks like victory is assured."
"Must've just drawn something strong," Yae thought lifting her duel disk up.
"I'll activate a signature equip card of the Ninja Master Shogun! I activate Great Kite of Ninja!" Seika announced as a large rectangular kite began floating above the clearing, on it were multiple kanji words. With a great jump, the Ninja Master Shogun grabbed onto the sides of the kite and floated over the field as if it was weightless. "I bet it somewhat reminds you of the ninja academy?"
Yae just glared daggers at Seika, neither of them noticed the bushes near them were moving.
"This card is so good that I have to explain how this works," Seika snickered with her eyes closed. "First, it renders the equipped card immune to attacks, Magic Cards, and Monster effects.
"Second, I can use him to bypass your Monsters and attack directly, so long as I sacrifice another Monster first!"
"So," she said in triumph, "I'll sacrifice my Ninja Soldier…"
Katana shattered into pixels…
"…And Shogun, DIRECT ATTACK! And let's not forget that my banner of courage is still out! NinjaLightning Blade!"
Thunder flashed in the sky, and Ninja Master Shogun blasted forth a bolt of lightning forcing Yae to the ground. Thankfully for her, she managed to get to her feet in an instant. "Dirty trick." (YLP: 100)
Shifting her other two ninjas into a defensive position, Seika just sighed in relief. "Yes well, it truly is effective. I'll end my turn by shifting my last two ninjas into defense mode."
"One more hit like that and I'll be down, I can't fail Garu," Yae just snapped the next card from her deck and nodded. "Alright, I think I've got an idea on how to take down your little strategy, so I'll start this turn by summoning Fox Taijitsu Master (1500/1300)!"
From the nearby trees leap a red blur that landed directly next to Tiger, causing quite a bit of dirt to rise up into the air. From the smoke stepped out a young man dress in a red fighter robe with black boots and gloves attached. His short red hair had two red fox ears sprouted from where his regular ears are and had a fox like tail from his tailbone. He just nodded towards Tiger and smiled brightly at her.
A card quickly spat out of Yae's duel disk and she immediately slid it into her duel disk. "He also gives me a spell card with 'Taijitsu Art' in its name and I choose this card!"
She played the spell card, and the spell revealed a picture of the Fox Taijitsu Master slamming his palms into the chest of a Karate Man multiple times, pouring a powerful red aura around Fox. "Its called Taijitsu Art – Gentle Palm! It cuts my Fox Taijitsu Master's attack in half (750/1300) and it allows him to attack twice during this battle phase! And I think I've got a theory about your kite. Now then, Fox attack both of Seika's defending ninjas with Gentle Palm Strike!"
Running at top speed, Fox ran towards Kabuki slamming his powerful fists the ninja till Kabuki fell to the ground then shattered into pixels.
Then Fox jumped towards Ikusa and slammed his palm directly into the forehead of the ninja shattering the monster into pixels. Seika gulped as Tiger smiled at her. "You wouldn't…would you Yae?"
"You better believe it!" Yae shouted pointing her hand towards Seika. "Tiger Taijitsu Master! Attack with Tiger Fang Fist!"
The Tiger Taijitsu Master leapt towards Seika and immediately slammed her fist right into Seika's chest sending the thief to the ground. (SLP: 0)
The holograms just disappeared as Seika jumped to her feet. "How could I lose to Yae! Yae Nanako!"
"Now then, I think you have some cards to return," Yae stated as she started to walk towards Seika.
Scowling at her former peer, Seika quickly pulled out a small smoke from her pocket without Yae noticing. "I'll admit this Yae…you've definitely changed since I last saw you at the ninja academy. But you were usually a bad judge of character."
Immediately throwing the smoke bomb on the ground, smoke covered the entire clearing. Yae coughed before the smoke fell to the ground. "Dang it Seika! You're still using those low brow ninja techniques you used in the ninja academy!"
"So it really is you Yae…"
Yae turned around to see Garu standing in the bushes with Rox sitting next to his leg. The look on Garu's face was the definition of confusion.
Looking back at her fellow ninja, Yae only said three words that could accurately described this situation.
"Oh, damn it."
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Card Specs
NINJA COMANDER IKUSA / LV. 3 / Dark / ATK: 700 / DEF: 700 / Warrior/Effect: If this Monster is Normal Summoned in Attack Mode, you can special summon one "Ninja Soldier Katana" from your hand or deck in face up Attack Mode.
NINJA SOLDIER KATANA / LV. 2 / Dark / ATK: 400 / DEF: 400 / Warrior: This assassin is a longtime partner of Ninja Commander Ikusa, and is seldom far behind him.
NINJA MASTER SHOGUN / LV. 5 / Dark / ATK: 1,600 / DEF: 1,600 / Warrior/Effect: This Monster cannot be Special Summoned. This Monster can only be Tribute Summoned by first removing one "Ninja Commander Ikusa" and one "Ninja Soldier Katana" in your Graveyard from play. When this Monster is successfully Tribute Summoned, you can Special Summon up to two Monsters with the word "Ninja" in their name who have three stars or less from you hand or deck.
NINJA COMMANDO KABUKI / LV. 3 / Dark / ATK: 700 / DEF: 700 / Warrior/Effect: When this Monster is Normal Summoned, Flip Summoned, or Special Summoned, you can Special Summon one Monster with the word "Ninja" in its name with two stars or less from your hand or deck.
KUNOICHI AYAME THE NINJA GIRL / LV. 1 / Dark / ATK: 300 / DEF: 300 / Warrior: The youngest of the Ninja clan, this teenage assassin's skill is limited, but she is believed to have potential.
GREAT KITE OF NINJA / Magic/Equip / Effect: This card can be Equipped to any Monster with the word "Ninja" in its name. A Monster Equipped with this card cannot be attacked by an opposing Monster, is immune to all Magic Cards (except this one), and is immune to Monster effects. Also, you may attack your opponent's Life Points directly with the Equipped Monster if you offer another Monster on your side of the field as a Tribute. If the Monster Equipped with this card is the only Monster on your side of the field, your opponent may attack your Life Points directly.
Note: Jean-Claude Magnum used the above six cards in the anime episode "Lights, Camera, Duel!"
Tiger Taijitsu Master / Light / LV: 4 / ATK: 1600 / DEF: 1200 / Beast Warrior/Effect: When this card is normal, flip, or special summoned successfully, you may take one spell card with 'Taijitsu Art' in the card's name and add it to your hand.
Description: A young woman fighter in white robes with dark tiger stripes. Her long flowing black hair with a few white stripes on her hair, with two tiger ears poking out from the top of her head.
Fox Taijitsu Master / Earth / LV: 4 / ATK: 1500 / DEF: 1300 / Beast Warrior/Effect: When this card is normal, flip, or special summoned successfully, you may take one spell card with 'Taijitsu Art' in the card's name and add it to your hand.
Description: A young man fighter in red fighter robes with black boots and gloves. His short red hair has two red fox ears sprouting from where his regular ears are and has a fox like tail from his tailbone.
Taijitsu Art – Gentle Palm / Normal Spell / Effect: This card can only be activated by selecting one monster with 'Taijitsu' or 'Monk' in its name on your side of the field. Cut the selected monster's attack in half. The selected monster may attack twice in the battle phase this turn card is activated.
Image: The Fox Taijitsu Master slamming his palms into the chest of a Karate Man multiple times.
Taijitsu Art – Force Fist / Instant Spell / Effect: This card can only be activated when you have a monster with 'Taijitsu', 'Monk', or 'Karate' in its name on your side of the field. Destroy spell or trap cards equal to the number of face up cards on your side of the field that include 'Taijitsu', 'Monk', or 'Karate' in their card names.
Image: the Tiger Taijitsu Master slamming her fist into a card back.
Taijitsu Art – Lotus Technique / Instant Spell / Effect?
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