This isn't happening…
This can't be happening…
I just lost five of my cards…ones that were held dear to me. They were my first five I ever held in my hands.
Not only that, but it appears that one of my friends back at the Ninja Academy followed me here…I wonder what in the world she is doing here.
Now, I'm onto bigger things…I didn't need this crap. Especially when there is this huge exam that seems to be going on.
It seems like the world is against me, more than card wise.
Maybe I should just quit…after all, what is a duelist without a full deck.
In addition, there is still the matter of my deck…I still have less than the normal amount needed.
There has to be something I can do…but I don't know what…
Zeff? Rox? What in the world is up with you two?
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Chapter 7: Trial of Fang
The Beast Master's Resolve
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"Yae…is that really you?"
Taking a step back, Yae gulped at the sight of Garu walking from the bushes. His face totally being full of surprise. "This is bad…really, really bad!"
Narrowing his eyes, Garu took another step towards Yae. "I'll ask you a different question Yae…What are you doing here?"
Yae just laughed sheepishly while reaching into her back pocket. "Um, well…the reason for that is…"
The with a quick reflex, Yae threw an orb onto the ground that quickly exploded into a large cloud of smoke.
"Dang it!" Garu coughed as the smoke covered the entire clearing, blocking even the moonlight.
When the smoke dissipated, Yae was nowhere to be found. Garu quickly stomped his foot into the ground. "Damn it…what the hell is going on here?"
All of a sudden from the bushes emerged Zeff with Rox on his shoulder. "Hey! Garu! I found you! I thought Yae would be with you…cause Rox was with her."
Gaur just walked past Zeff with a confused look on his face. Zeff just sweat dropped with Garu walking past him. "Do I offend?"
Rox sniffed the air and then turned his head away with disgust. Zeff's jaw dropped at his faithful companion's answer. "Don't need to be that truthful."
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KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!
Takashi groaned as he sat up in his bed, while rubbing his eyes a loud yawn escaped from his mouth. "Not again…"
Jumping from his bed, Takashi showed off his white pajamas while walking towards the door. "For the last time T-Team, I don't want to play Parcheesi!"
As soon as Takashi opened the door a crack, the door slammed open sending Takashi to the ground. "Takashi!"
Sighing loudly, Takashi just lowered his eyes at Yae entering his room and quickly slamming the door behind her. "Sure…don't worry about me. And help yourself to my room."
"Garu knows about me!" Yae whispered as Takashi's eyes widened.
Holding his forehead, Takashi's neck vessels began to bulge. "Great…this is the worst thing that could happen…does he know about me?"
"Thankfully not," Yae sighed in relief.
Walking back to his bed, Takashi clapped and the lights turned out. "Good…now get out, I need to get some sleep from the T-Team's continuous need to play mediocre card games."
"I can't go back to my dorm room, Garu's there! Remember?" Yae questioned as Takashi sighed loudly.
"Fine…you can sleep here for a while, you just need to be quiet and make sure that no one finds out," Takashi replied before turning his back to Yae and closed his eyes. "There's an extra blanket and pillow in the closet."
Yae looked around Takashi's room. Noting the bookshelf that had multiple books that Takashi would find interesting, needless to say, the room was generally nicer than the Slifer red dorms and was a lot roomier too. "I can see why the Slifer Red dorm stinks…"
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The morning sun began to rise over Pacific Duel Academy; Garu watched the sun gleam through the window. He had stayed awake all night hoping to catch Yae back…as you can plainly guess, she didn't come back.
Stretching his arms and legs, Zeff yawned loudly along with Rox getting Garu's attention. "Morning Garu!"
With a loud yawn, Garu rubbed his eyes. "Yeah…morning Zeff…"
"…Did you stay up all night?"
"What makes you say that?"
Jumping from his bed, Zeff quickly walked over to the closet and opened the doors. "Those huge bags under your eyes are a definite sign."
After the bathroom door slammed shut, Garu just sighed loudly looking at his messed up deck. "Not good at all…first I lose to that arrogant jerk Vergil, then cards from my deck get stolen, and now for some reason, Yae followed me to the academy."
"Bathroom's yours," Zeff announced walking from the bathroom fully clothed in his usual attire.
Garu just blinked at how fast Zeff was able to get in and out of the bathroom at a good time. "Thanks…"
Garu quickly walked into the bathroom with his clothes in his arms. As soon as the door slammed shut, Zeff took five cards from his pocket and mixed them into Garu's deck. "Think of them as a gift my friend. From me…and Vergil."
A few minutes later, Garu emerged from the bathroom wearing the ninja version of the school uniform. "Let's get to class…before we get a detention."
Zeff and Rox followed Garu out of the dorm room, a wicked smile appearing on Zeff's face. "He's not his normal self…there's something up, and I'll find out what it is!
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As soon as the school bell sound finished through the entire school, the classes began and the students filled all of the seats…Well, almost all of the seats.
"Should've thought so…" sighed Garu looking at the empty seat next to him. He had a feeling that Yae wouldn't face him today.
"I wonder what Yae would be doing here anyway?" Garu's train of thought was interrupted as Professor Satoshi coughed loudly into the air.
"Class I have an announcement to make…" Satoshi announced, his face looking more serious than usual. "In the next three days, classes will not be held."
At the sound of that, everyone cheered loudly making Professor Satoshi cover his ears. The cheering lasted for quite a while before Satoshi slammed his fist onto the desk catching everyone's attention. "That's better…now then, the three days are to allow you, the students, to study for the upcoming dorm switch examinations. Yet after the three days, the exams won't start…
"The main reason for this is because you all are going to be treated to watching the first real tournament match of our academy's previous top duelist, Goliath Munchausen…at least I think that's what his name was.
"Now then as for the exams, there are two parts to the exam. The written exam and the field exam, and as you can probably tell already, the tests are quite different. Consisting of an exam like the entrance exam you all had to take to enter the exam…I know I remember it, my deck lost to a certain duelist."
Garu just raised an eyebrow at the comment while Satoshi lifted a paper to his head. "I wonder who he's referring to?"
Lifting the paper back to his desk, Satoshi sighed loudly. "This is such a pain…anyway, during the next three days you'll be able to study and ready your decks. Depending on what you get on the total score, you might be able to improve to the next dorm. And now, I get the rest of the day off, so enjoy the rest of the day."
Almost immediately, all of the students ran out of the room. All except Garu, he just was wrapped up in his thoughts. Satoshi apparently noticed this and turned his gaze towards Garu.
"Who is that? Wait…its that back watered duelist!" Satoshi stated gathering his papers. "Wonder what's up with him? Oh well, not my concern…"
Satoshi began to walk towards the ground exit; he stopped and turned his eyes towards the still downed Garu. "Damn it…it's the power of curiosity…"
"This is all confusing, I don't understand anything!"
"Hey back watered Duelist…"
Garu just looked up and saw the daunting Satoshi standing above him. "Uh, sir my name's Garu Honzou…"
Satoshi lifted his hand up, and sighed loudly. "Okay, I'll try to remember it…anyway; you didn't run with the rest of the class when I said class was out for the next three days. I haven't been teaching all that long, but I can tell when something is bugging a person."
"You probably wouldn't understand…" Garu sighed turning his head to the side.
"…If that's how you feel, just remember, you'll usually feel better when you talk to someone about it," Satoshi stated before he walked towards the stairs. "Good luck with your studies back watered duelist."
A large droplet of sweat appeared on the back of Garu's head. "How could he forget my name so fast?"
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"Damn it Seika!"
Vic stood in front of a kneeling Seika, in her hands were the five cards that she stole last night. "I asked for you to steal all of the target's deck…And all you get wasn't even twenty five percent of the deck."
"At least I've took some of the best cards that you mentioned," Seika answered as Vic raised an eyebrow. "And you stated that I could keep the cards that I stole."
Scoffing to the side, Vic smirked. "Alright, I can see what you're saying. So yeah, I guess you did a good job, so I'll add to your reputation, and you should forward to other jobs by me."
"You got it!" Seika announced before she disappeared into smoke.
"I'm so glad I managed to get some connections with the ninja community," Vic sighed walking over to his couch to sit down to enjoy the tranquility. "And now then, I'll be able sit back and watch as my plan go into effect. Nothing can stop me now."
"Quite a different matter you see…"
Vic turned his head and immediately bulged his eyes at the person who managed to get into his room. The person was a teenaged man around Vic's age, even with a slicked back black hair with a little bit of it dyed red. His average sized body was covered with white uniform with a blue trim to it. Around his neck was a blue scarf that covered his entire neck and flowed backwards in an invisible wind.
Vic's teeth clenched as he quickly jumped from his couch. "Mustang…don't you know that it's illegal to sneak into someone's room?"
"Yeah, you would think so, but its not really sneaking into if you leave the door wide open," Mustang stated as he gestured towards the open door that led to the hallway. "You need to either get a better lock, or learn how to use one."
"What the heck are you doing here anyway?" Vic asked raising his fist towards the smirking Mustang.
"Did you actually think that I wouldn't know what you're up to?" Mustang asked as his smirk grew even wider.
Lowering his head, Vic sighed loudly. "How do you get your connections to this academy?"
"With a lot of hard work and no schemes, you could have become numero uno instead of me," Mustang laughed as he headed towards the door. Then before he exited the room, he spun on his heel and turned towards Vic. "Before I go, you might want to stop this before you get in this a little too deep for your tastes. And don't forget, this is the last year you're here…either you beat me fair and square…or you'll never be able to see what the throne is like."
As soon as Mustang was gone, Vic kicked the nearest chair, and surprisingly sent it almost halfway across the room. "DAMN YOU MUSTANG!
"…Wait…this isn't a problem…all this requires is a little change in plans…"
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"Ah! Nothing cheers me up like Ramen Noodles with miso!" Garu sighed putting down his empty bowl. "But still…"
From across the room Zeff and Rox watched Garu look into his empty bowl.
"ARF! ARF!"
With a quick nod, Zeff scratched Rox behind the ears. "I couldn't agree with you more Rox…we should get Garu out of this slump."
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A few minutes later, Garu was enjoying a second bowl of ramen when all of a sudden a duel disk was thrown into his face sending his bowl into the air. "What the hell?"
Garu looked up to see Zeff with his duel disk on his left arm already activated. "Garu! Stand up! We're going to finish our duel we started on the day we arrived here!"
"You kind of forgot something…I don't have a full deck!" Garu confronted as Zeff smiled.
Pulling a second deck of cards from his pocket, Zeff slapped the cards on the table in front of Garu. "I took the liberty to add a few other cards that I found that would work with your deck. Now then, you've got no reason to not accept!"
Taking the cards in front of him, Garu immediately shuffled through them, his eyes bulging a couple times. "What the…? Why would you give me these cards?"
Zeff and Rox just laughed loudly. "I already told you once, the cards you use don't really have a feel for me, and so I decided to give you a couple of the cards I don't have any use for."
With a quick spin on his heel, Zeff headed towards the door stopping midway. "Now then…I expect you to come on out and duel me!"
Closing his eyes, Garu considered everything that happened thus far…not that bad. At least not compared to the training schedule that Master Yoh had implemented.
Garu looked at the deck and duel disk…
A few moments later, he ran out of the cafeteria with both in his hands.
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Garu and Zeff were standing across from each other; Rox was sitting on top of Zeff's shoulder. A small crowd of Slifer Red students was surrounding the two duelists and awaiting for the first move to be made.
Both duelists drew their opening hands, however, Zeff drew his sixth card implying that he was going first. "Garu…this duel is more than a rematch…" (ZLP: 4000)
Garu looked confused as Zeff held his hand up to Rox who immediately yelped at a couple of the cards. "And what exactly does that mean?" (GLP: 4000)
"You'll just have to find out…" Zeff replied as he slid his first card into his duel disk. "Now watch this! I activate the continuous spell card, Frontline Base!"
The spell card emerged in front of Zeff revealing a black knight riding a dragon crashing through a wall. "This card allows me to special summon one Union monster every turn. But first I'll normal summon Feint Wolf (1500/1200) in attack mode!"
From the sky above dived a sleek, dark blue bushy hair wolf with two white horns skidding across the ground, howling loudly. "And I'm not done I'll use Frontline Base to special summon Wolf Tamer Dante (1700/1000)!"
A powerful dark orb exploded from the continuous spell, and almost immediately, a muscular young man with wild blonde hair appeared. Unlike the other Wolf Tamer that Garu saw, his clothes were more modern, consisting of black jean pants, a dark gray shirt, and a huge blue overcoat with two guns in his holsters. "And now then, I'll equip Dante to Feint Wolf! Which increases his attack and defense by 500 points (2000/1700)!"
Dante just walked next to the Feint Wolf and scratched the back of the ears of the wolf, and the wolf just licked Dante's face. "And then…one face down card ought to wrap up my turn."
Garu quickly snapped the top card from his deck and immediately nodded. "Alright then, you wanted a duel, and then I'll give you a duel! I summon Strike Ninja (1700/1200)!"
From the sky above dropped the black clothed ninja landing softly in front of Garu. "And I'm not done yet! I'll now outfit him with Ninja Firecracker!" (1700/1200 + 400/0)
The multiple Japanese fireworks appeared on the ninja's chest and in his hands. Garu quickly pointed towards the Wolf duo. "Now then! I hate to break up a lovely team, but I'll send Strike Ninja on the attack!"
With a powerful leap, the Strike ninja jumped into the air lighting multiple fireworks. Then before the explosives self-destructed, the ninja threw the fireworks towards the Feint Wolf and Dante. However, Dante jumped forward and took the attack for the wolf. Zeff just smiled as he raised his arm over his face down card. "Nice try! But when my wolf is destroyed as a result of battle, Dante takes the hit for his loyal companion!" (1500/1200) (ZLP: 3900)
"Too bad your wolf lost his power boost," Garu stated as Zeff's face down card went active.
"You think that would be enough? You should know from the relationship with Rox and I share," Zeff stated as his trap card appeared.
The trap displayed a rugged red haired man (who looks suspiciously a lot like Zeff) hanging onto a cliff with a ravaged red wolf trying to pull him back from his master's death. "And this card displays it perfectly! It's called Wolf Tamers Friendship!
"And as long as this card is active, every time a monster with 'Wolf Tamer' is destroyed in the place of a 'Wolf' monster, I can immediately re-equip the 'Wolf Tamer' union monster back to the 'Wolf' it was equipped to!
"So now, Dante its time you to make your triumphant return!" All of a sudden from the ground emerged a familiar hand and the Feint Wolf helped pulled the hand from the ground. As soon as the owner of the hand appeared from the ground to reveal a dirt covered Dante. He immediately rubbed the top of the Feint Wolf's head (2000/1700).
"Great, I'll just place a card face down and call it a turn," Garu sighed as his face down card appeared before him.
With a quick draw, Zeff just drew and showed Rox the new card. At the sight of the new card, Rox yelped loudly and wagged his tail wildly. "Yeah, this is a good card to use, so I'll play it right now I activate the field spell card known as Moonlit Forest!"
The ground started to shake while multiple trees began to erupt from the ground. The trees surrounded the crowds as well. Then the holograms began to cover the entire holographic forest producing a fake night and blue full moon. "This looks like that Skyscraper card that I saw in class last week."
"And quite a good one as well, it empowers all Beast and Beast warriors by 300 attack points!" Zeff announced as Rox howled into the air. "But that's not all it can do…"
Garu stepped back as the Feint Wolf howled into the air loudly (2300/1800). "Oh boy…"
Then with a quick bark from Rox, Zeff slapped his next card onto his duel disk. "And I'm not done yet! I'll normal summon Battle Scarred Wolf (1600/1200 + 300/0)!"
From the holographic forest leapt a large brown haired wolf with multiple patches of fur missing. In their place were multiple battle scars oozing with blood. From the closed off right eye and blood drenched claws, a person could easily tell that this monster had been in multiple battles.
"Next I'll use Frontline Base to bring out Wolf Tamer Forte (1400/1000)!"
Zeff played the last card in his hand, and a loud cheery tune swept through the forest. Then from one of the trees a young man slid onto the field. His shaggy black hair covered his tanned face; his face was the only part of him was uncovered. His black cloak flowed passed his feet. A base clef was on the front of his cloak. "And I'll union him with Battle Scarred Wolf (2300/1600)!"
Forte ran to the Battle Scarred Wolf, and rubbed the wolf's head. The wolf seemed to create tears from his eyes; apparently, he wasn't shown any kindness for a long time.
"And now…Feint Wolf! Attack his ninja with Feint Strike!" Zeff announced as the blue wolf jumped from Dante and towards the Strike Ninja.
Garu grimaced looking at his face down card. "I need to save it…just at the right moment."
The Feint Wolf dived into the Strike Ninja sending them both to the ground. Then with a loud howl, the Feint Wolf torn into the Ninja's neck, a few seconds later the ninja shattered into pixels sending two fireworks into the air. "Why do they always go for the neck meat?" (GLP: 3800)
Rox yelped as the Feint Wolf returned to Zeff's side of the field. "Rox says that it's the sweetest meat you can find on a person…at least in his opinion. I think it's the liver in my opinion."
A large drop of sweat slid down Garu's face, before the fireworks began to stream towards the ground. "I don't even want to know how you know that…anyway, back to the duel, since you destroyed a ninja equipped with the Ninja Firecrackers, I can destroy one monster on the field! And I'll destroy your Battle Scarred Wolf!"
As the fireworks surged towards the battle damaged wolf, Forte jumped into the air and took the fireworks. Then on contact the fireworks exploded in a brilliant red light sending Forte to the ground scorched. "Nice try Garu…but when you destroy wolf with Forte as a partner with a spell or trap card, he takes the blow instead!
The Battle Scarred Wolf nudged Forte's arm, then with a great moan, Forte stood up and began petting the wolf. "And don't forget that my Wolf Tamers Friendship is still face up! Now then, I think I'll have Battle Scarred Wolf attack you directly!"
Scowling at Garu, the Battle Scarred Wolf ran directly towards Garu. However, before the wolf was halfway towards Garu, the ninja's face down card started to lift up. "Sorry! But your wolf will have to wait to sink his fangs into me!"
As the face down card raised up, Garu performed multiple hand signs causing the trap card to reveal itself. The picture had the White Ninja with a complex hand sign with multiple dogs appearing around him. "Especially when I've got a few canines on my side, I activate my trap card Ninjitsu Art – Fanged Vengeance!"
The ground erupted multiple dogs that pounced onto the Battle Scarred Wolf clamping their teeth into the wolf's fur covered skin. Zeff and Rox just jaw dropped as the Slifer Red students cheered loudly. "What did you do?"
Garu smiled gesturing towards his trap card. "My Ninjitsu art summoned multiple dogs to stop your wolf from attacking, not only do they prevent your wolf from attacking, but now you can't sacrifice your monster and your wolf loses 600 extra attack points! (1700/1600)"
"He's starting to get back to himself…but not yet," Zeff thought as he smiled. "Since I don't have any cards in my hand, I've got to end my turn."
Garu drew his next card and his eyes widened slightly. "Alright then, let's see what I can do this turn…I'll summon Ryu – Kitsune Ninja (1400/900)!"
From the trees jumped a familiar blue haired ninja, wearing the same red ninja suit with yellow trim on it, gray fishnet sleeves, and on his shoulder a long staff in the shape of a golden pipe. It was a younger version of Ryu the Mythical Ninja, and a lot happier looking too. "I guess I have to thank you for this guy…I thought I wouldn't see this guy again."
"I knew I had seen a monster like that before, but if you think that his effect will help you win, its not going to last long," Zeff stated as Garu took another card from his hand.
"I had a feeling like that, so I'll activate a spell card that I never really got a chance to use before…Here comes Conch Shell Horn!" Garu announced as a large Conch Shell appeared in Ryu's free hand. "And here's how it works…to use this card I need to remove one ninja from the game."
After blowing the horn into the air, a powerful green light appeared from above Ryu and covered him sending him into the air. "Then, after that resolve, I can now bring out the big guns!"
The ground began to shake as everyone looked around wondering where it was coming, no one noticed that a card spat out of Garu's duel disk and he immediately slapped it onto his duel disk. From the holographic night's sky dropped an extremely large figure that eventually crashed its large metallic feet into the ground around Garu.
Everyone had to crane his or her neck up to see the new monster that Garu had summoned. A skyscraper size metallic version of Ryu stood over Garu, complete with a white face-mask, super tall blue steel hair, red metallic armor and super large metal staff in the shape of a pipe. "Now then, meet the strongest my deck can offer! Impact Ryu – The Giant Tech Ninja (2500/2200)!"
"I'll admit…that is an impressive monster, but it seems more for style than for dueling," Zeff stated as Impact Ryu raised his powerful metallic staff. A powerful red aura surrounded the huge machine. "What's it doing?"
"You see, for each Ninja that is removed from play, Impact gains 500 extra attack points (3000/2200)!" Garu explained as he took another card from his hand. "Next why don't we blow away that Wolf Tamers Friendship with Mystical Space Typhoon!"
An extremely powerful gust of air shattered the trap card on Zeff's field into pixels. Zeff just smiled at the sight of his trap falling apart. "Almost there…"
"And now, I'll have Impact Ryu attack your Feint Wolf!" Garu announced as a cannon appeared from Impact Ryu's chest. After charging a powerful blue blast, Impact fired the attack, however, Dante jumped up and took the attack before shattering into pixels.
Zeff just smiled as he sighed in relief. "You'd have to better than that, remember Dante takes the hit, not my Feint Wolf (1800/1200)." (ZLP: 3200)
"Okay, then I'll just place a card face down and end my turn," Garu announced as a face down card appeared in front of him.
"Well then, it's my turn," Zeff announced drawing his card and showing it to Rox. Rox just yelped loudly and wagged his tail. "Yes I know! This is a good idea, I play pot of greed, so two more cards for me!"
As the grinning pot appeared before him, Zeff drew the top two cards from his deck and a wide smile appeared on his face. "Now this is what I'm talking about! I play the spell card Primal Savage!"
The spell card appeared before Zeff, showing multiple silver furred wolves charging a Jinzo sending the machine's parts flying into the air. "This card cuts the attack of all non beast monsters in half, which makes your giant tin man less than a match for my Feint Wolf!"
Garu watched as a powerful green aura engulfed Impact sending him to his knees. (1500/2200) "Not good at all…"
"Now then, Feint Wolf! Attack his over grown tin can!" Zeff ordered as his blue wolf slammed into the robot sending it to crash directly behind Garu. A few seconds later, the robot shattered into pixels, however, a familiar person shot out of the remains of the robot. (GLP: 3500)
"Nice try, but now that Impact is destroyed, I get to special summon one ninja that was removed from play, so give it up for Ryu – Kitsune Ninja (1400/900)!" Garu announced as the blue haired ninja reappeared in a defending stance. "And I'll keep him in defense mode."
"Seems you finally got your spark back," Zeff stated watching Garu drawing his next card.
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From outside the holographic forest, Mustang was watching the duel-taking place. "Pretty interesting…these two duelists seem to be in a league better in Slifer Red, maybe I should try to find out more of these duelists."
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"I guess Zeff was somewhat right, I did lose my spark, but I've recovered it…and I'll prove it!" Garu thought looking at his hand. "Okay, I'll switch Ryu to attack mode, and outfit him with a new spell card Windmill of Shadows!"
Ryu leapt into the air as a spinning shadow emerged from the forest. As the shadow approached him, Ryu immediately caught it and fell to the ground holding onto the new weapon. The weapon folded out to form a dark steel windmill shuriken. "This equip card increases a Ninja's attack points by 500 points! (1900/900) In addition, I'll have Ryu attack your Feint Wolf!"
With a second jump into the air, Ryu quickly threw the weapon towards the blue wolf. Zeff just covered Rox's eyes before the weapon sliced right through the beast, instead of shattering into pixels, the monster was sliced to ribbons. (ZLP: 3100)
"Man, that is something that a young wolf shouldn't see," Zeff sighed as he lowered his hand in front of Rox's face. "Nor should that be appropriate for students to see that either…"
Ryu lifted his hand and caught the shuriken once more with ease. "I'll agree to that, but let's see what you're going to do about it."
"You'll see," Zeff stated drawing his next card. "And this will do it…first I'll move Forte into a monster, of course that brings down Battle Scarred Wolf's attack (1000/1300). Then, I'll sweep the field with Giant Trunade! This returns all spells and trap cards back to our hands!"
A huge hurricane blew everything away, including the forest, the frontline base, and all three of Garu's cards. "Next I'll play Magical Mallet! I'll have to shuffle my two card hand and then draw two new cards."
At the sight of his two other cards, Zeff and Rox smiled. "So first I'll place a card face down, and activate the spell card, Card of Sanctity! Now we both draw till we hold six cards! Which for me is a good thing, cause I get the full effect of getting six new cards!"
A bright light glowed over the dueling field, and the cards flew into both players' hands till they had six cards. "And with a new hand, I'll be able to fix this entire duel, first of all I'll play a familiar spell card, go Lunar Cry!"
As a full moon appeared over the dueling field and Rox howled into the air as did the Battle Scarred Wolf. "I think you recall what this capable of! This allows me to special summon any beast type monsters that are added to my hand other than drawing! Like this one! Go Call of the Wild!"
The spell card went active showing a young girl sitting in a forest scarred. All around her are multiple wolves hiding in the bushes. "This spell allows me to add level four or lower beast monsters from my deck to my hand equal to the number of monsters on your side of field. So I'll add Timber Wolf (1700/400) to my hand, and since I played Lunar Cry I can instantly summon it to the field!"
With a loud howl, the silver battle scarred wolf covered with blood appeared before Zeff snarling at Garu. "Next I'll sacrifice my wolf tamer and Battle Scarred Wolf to summon King of Animals Behemoth (2700/2000)!"
As the two monsters shattered into pixels and mixed into a powerful purple haired beast that roared loudly into the air. "And when he's summoned to the field, I can take two beast monsters from my graveyard and add them to my hand! Nevertheless, since I played Lunar Cry, then they are automatically summoned. So say hello back to Wind Born Wolf (1500/1200) and Feint Wolf (1500/1200)!"
The previous wolves dug themselves free from the ground and howled into the air. However, a new wolf appeared, it was a pristine colored wolf with ancient tribal jewelry with ancient black marks all over its fur. Garu just scowled at the opposition in front of him. "Aw man, this doesn't bode well…"
"And now, I'll start by having my Feint Wolf clear the field of your younger Ryu!" Zeff commanded as Zeff tried to yelp into Zeff's ear.
The Feint Wolf jumped towards Ryu, however, Ryu had lifted his kitsune staff to block the attack. Even though the force sent him backwards, Ryu managed to throw the horned blue wolf back to Zeff's side of the field. "I guess you didn't read the card you gave me!" (GLP: 3400)
"Hello! I've only got one eye that I can actually see out of," Zeff stated pointing towards his eye patch. "I really can't see good, and my depth perception isn't as good as well."
"Okay…then allow me to tell you what my new Ryu is capable of," Garu stated as Ryu lifted his kitsune staff. "His ability allows him to not be able to be destroyed as a result of battle!"
"But battle damage still comes in! So now, I'll have Behemoth, Timber Wolf, and Wind Born Wolf attack your Ryu!" Zeff shouted as his multiple beasts roared loudly before all three of them rammed into Ryu.
Ryu flew into Garu sending them both to the ground, however a few seconds later, both of them jumped back to their feet. "We're still here!" (GLP: 1700)
"Not for long, I'll now place a card face down and end my turn," Zeff announced as Garu drew his next card.
"I'm going to show you that I still have my spark!" Garu announced taking another card from his hand. "And thanks to the cards you gave me, I'll be able to do that! I summon Uzamaki – Tech Ninja (1300/600)!"
From the sky above dropped a familiar metal ninja only with a long blue ponytail for his hair, drawing his two kunai, Uzamaki glared at the wolves. "An you're not the only one who can special summon a monster! By simply discarding the top card from my deck I can bring out one of my own ninjas!"
As soon as Garu slid the card into his graveyard, a windstorm blew in front of Garu. From the windstorm emerged a beautiful young woman with flowing sea green hair kept out of her face with a white headband. Wearing baggy purple ninja clothing, and holding a katana in her right hand she seemed a beast in a beauty. "So meet Yui – Ninja Mercenary (1600/1300)!"
Zeff and Rox's eyes bulged at the sight of the duel monster card. "Wow…what a pretty monster…"
"Guys…you mind keeping your tongues in your head?" Garu asked as Uzamaki turned towards Yae, took a camera from his body and snapped a picture of Yui. "Not you Uzamaki too."
Snapping their heads back and forth, Zeff and Rox straightened up. "Yeah…anyway, I'd like to see you try to beat us!"
"That's why I'm going to outfit my monster with a few weapons!" Garu announced lifting three other cards from his hand. "I'll equip Ryu with Windmill of Shadows (1900/900), Uzamaki with Fuhma Shuriken (2000/600), and Yui with a second Ninja Firecracker (2000/1300)!"
As the three ninjas lifted their arms, the three weapons appeared into their hands. In Ryu's hand was the huge windmill shuriken, in Uzamaki's hands appeared multiple shuriken with kanji written on them, and in Yui's hand grasped onto a firework. "And now…Ryu! Attack Timber Wolf!"
Ryu quickly threw the Windmill of Shadows towards the wolf, which immediately slashed directly through the wolf cutting it into ribbons.
"Uzamaki! Attack Feint Wolf!"
Throwing a storm of shuriken at the pristine wolf, Uzamaki kept throwing till the wolf shattered to the ground.
All of a sudden, a familiar pitch-black wolf with beautiful yellow crescent moons over its entire fur appeared where the Feint Wolf stood. "I guess I should have mentioned that my Feint Wolf allows me to special summon another wolf from my hand, so say hello to Lunar Wolf (1600/1000)!"
Garu just smirked as Uzamaki readied more Shuriken. "I'm glad! Cause now, I can have Uzamaki attack once more! Its his ability! So attack his Lunar Wolf!"
Zeff covered Rox's eyes once more as the fury of shuriken sent the Lunar Wolf to the ground.
"And now, I'll have Yui attack Wind Born Wolf!"
Yui quickly ran towards the wolf and slashed him in two, which quickly shattered into pixels.
Taking another card from his hand, Garu slid a face down card into his duel disk. "And that's my turn."
Zeff lowered his hand in front of Rox's eyes. "Wow…what a move." (ZLP: 1300)
Rubbing the back of his head, Garu just laughed loudly. "Believe it!"
"You made one mistake my friend, I still my Behemoth out, and so I'll send him into an attack! Take out Yui!" Zeff commanded his beast roared loudly into the air before charging towards the young ninja woman.
All of a sudden, Ryu began to perform multiple hand signs and the ground erupted the same dogs that pinned down the wolf earlier. The dogs quickly jumped up and sank their teeth into Behemoth pinning it down (2100/2000). "Nice try Zeff, but I've still got my Ninjitsu Art – Fanged Vengeance thanks to your Giant Trunade."
"He's back!" Zeff just smiled looking at his hand. "I can't do anything else this turn. So I'll end my turn."
"Alright, then I'll end this duel!" Garu announced drawing his next card. "Okay, I'll play my own Pot of Greed!"
The pot appeared…
Garu drew his next two cards…
Moreover, he immediately took another card from his hand and played it. "And I'll play Spell Reproduction! So I'll discard these two spells and get back an old one!"
After exchanging the cards, Garu quickly fitted the card into his duel disk sending a conch shell appear in Ryu's hands. "And now then, I'll play Conch Shell Horn! So now I can now remove Ryu once more, to bring back an old friend!"
Ryu sounded the horn once more, disappeared into the green light, and Impact Ryu appeared over Garu once more. "Impact Ryu – The Tech Ninja Giant (3000/2200)!"
Smiling to Rox, Zeff whispered to Rox. "I guess Vergil was right…this guy does have a great chance."
"And now, I'll equip him with Windmill of Shadows!" Garu announced as a huge windmill shuriken appeared on Impact's back (3500/2200). "And if you're wondering where that came from, when its sent from the field to the graveyard, its brought back to my hand instead!
"Now then, Impact attack his Behemoth with Impact Rapid Fire!" Garu announced as Impact stomped towards the Behemoth.
Then raising his free robotic hand, Impact slammed his fist once, then punched multiple times sending the huge monster into the air. Then as the Behemoth fell back to the ground, Impact delivered a final powerful uppercut right into the beast's jawbone shattering the monster.
Zeff seemed to smile as he watched his life point counter drop. Rox yelped for joy as the watching Slifer Red Students cheered loudly. "Yep…he's ready for anything now…"
"That was what I needed Zeff! Thanks!" Garu shouted as the holograms disappeared.
From a yard away, Mustang smiled as he watched the Slifer Reds congratulating Garu. "What quite a good skill…I can see why Vic feels fear from this guy.
"Maybe I should look into this."
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Ryu - Kitsune Ninja / Fire / LV. 4 / ATK: 1400 / DEF: 900 / Warrior/Effect: This card cannot be destroyed as a result of battle.
Description: A young man with tall spiky blue hair. Wearing a red ninja suit with yellow trim on it. Gray fishnet sleeves, and placing on his shoulder a long staff in the shape of a golden pipe (a kitsune).
Uzamaki – Tech Ninja / Wind / LV. 3 / ATK: 1300 / DEF: 600 / Warrior/Effect: This card may attack twice during the battle phase.
Description: A small robotic ninja with skinny body, blue hair tied up to resemble a long ponytail. A metallic green ninja suit with multiple kunai on it was covering his tiny body.
Yui – The Ninja Mercenary / Wind / LV: 4 / ATK: 1600 / DEF: 1300 / Warrior/Effect: Discard the top card of your deck to special summon this card to your side of the field from your hand.
Description: A beautiful young woman with flowing sea green hair kept out of her face with a white headband. Wears baggy purple ninja clothing, and holds a katana in her right hand.
Impact Ryu – The Tech Ninja Giant / Light / LV: 7 / ATK: 2500 / DEF: 2200 / Machine/Effect: This card can only be special summoned by the effect of 'Conch Shell Horn'. For each monster removed from play with 'Ninja' in their name, increase the attack of this card by 500. When this card is removed from the field you may special summon up to one monster removed from play with 'Ninja' in its name to your side of the field.
Description: A skyscraper size metallic version of Ryu, complete with a white facemask and super large metal staff in the shape of a pipe.
Windmill of Shadows / Equip Spell / Effect: This card can only be used to equip a monster that includes "Ninja" in its card name. A monster equipped with this card increases its ATK by 500 points. When this card is sent from the field to the graveyard, you may return this card to your hand instead.
Image: The Ninja Grandmaster Sasuke throwing a powerful demon wind shuriken
Conch Shell Horn / Instant Spell / Effect: This card can only be activated when you select a face up monster with 'Ninja' in its name. Remove the selected monster from play. After doing so, you may special summon 1 'Impact Ryu – Tech Ninja Giant' from your hand, deck or graveyard.
Image: Ryu lifting a conch shell to his mouth with a darkened shell behind him with glowing white eyes.
Ninjitsu Art – Fanged Vengeance / Trap Continuous / Effect: Select 1 face up monster on your opponent's side of the field. As long as this card remains face up on the field, the select monster cannot attack or be used as a tribute. Lower the selected monster's attack points by 600.
Image: A White Ninja summoning multiple savaged dogs around him.
Feint Wolf / Earth / LV 3 / ATK: 1500 / DEF: 1200 / Beast/Effect: When this card is sent to the graveyard as a result of battle, you may special summon one level four or lower monster with 'Wolf' in its name from your hand.
Description: A sleek, dark blue wolf with bushy fur and scars from its eyes. On the top of its head are two horns.
Wolf Tamer Dante / Dark / LV 4 / ATK: 1700 / DEF: 1000 / Warrior/Union: Once per turn, during your Main Phase, if you control this card on the field, you can equip it to a monster on your side of the field with 'Wolf' in its name as an equip card, OR unequip the union monster and special summon this card in face up attack position. While equipped to a monster increase the attack and defense of the equipped monster by 500. If you surrender the equipped monster's attack once per turn, you may take one spell card from your deck (This effect can only be used once per turn) and add it to your hand. (1 monster can only be equipped with 1 union monster at a time. IF the equipped monster is destroyed, destroy this card instead.)
Description: A muscular young man with wild blonde hair. Unlike the other Wolf Tamers, his clothes are more modern, consisting of black jean pants, a dark gray shirt, and a huge blue overcoat with two guns in his holsters.
Wind Born Wolf / Wind / LV 4 / ATK: 1500 / DEF: 1500 / Beast/Effect: Once per turn you may send one card from your hand to the bottom of your deck. After that resolve, draw the top card from your deck.
Description: A pristine colored wolf with ancient tribal jewelry and ancient black marks all over its fur.
Battle Scarred Wolf / Earth / LV 4 / ATK: 1600 / DEF: 1200 / Beast/Effect: This monster cannot be destroyed by a monster with 1800 or higher attack points. When this monster battles a monster that doesn't have 'Wolf' in its name, destroy the monster that battled this monster (Battle Damage applies).
Description: A brown haired wolf with multiple patches of fur missing replaced with battle scars oozing with blood. Its right eye is closed off and its claws have blood drenched all over them.
Wolf Tamer Forte / Wind / LV 4 / ATK: 1400 / DEF: 1000 / Warrior/Union: Once per turn, during your Main Phase, if you control this card on the field, you can equip it to a monster on your side of the field with 'Wolf' in its name as an equip card, OR unequip the union monster and special summon this card in face up attack position. While equipped to a monster increase the attack and defense of the equipped monster by 400. If the equipped monster is targeted by a spell card, you may sacrifice this card to negate the effect and destroy the spell card. (1 monster can only be equipped with 1 union monster at a time. IF the equipped monster is destroyed as a result of spell or trap card, destroy this card instead.)
Description: A young shaggy black haired man with a deep tan on his skin. Over his entire body other than his head rests a cloak that has a Base Clef on the front and back.
Lunar Cry / Instant Spell / Effect: During the turn this card was activated, any beast type monsters that were added to your hand other than drawing you may special summon them to your side of the field.
Image: Multiple feral wolves howling towards a full moon, each of the wolves' eyes glowing red.
Moonlit Forest / Field Spell / Effect: As long as this card is active, the time of day is considered to be night. Increase the attack of all Beast and Beast-Warrior monsters by 300. Negate and destroy any trap cards that specifically target and destroy monsters with 'Wolf' in their name.
Image: A full moon gleaming through the multiple trees.
Call of the Wild / Instant Spell / Effect: When this card is activated, you may add Beast type monsters to your hand equal to the number of monsters on your opponent's side of the field.
Image: A small girl scared in a forest as multiple wolves are hiding in the nearby bushes.
Wolf Tamers Friendship / Continuous Trap / Effect: As long as this card is activated, if an equipped union monster with 'Wolf Tamer' in its name is destroyed in place of its equipped monster, you may reequip the same monster with the same union monster that was sent to the graveyard. If this card would be destroyed, you may discard one card from your hand to keep this card on the field.
Image: A red haired tamer hanging onto a cliff with a ravaged red wolf trying to pull him up.