During the duel academy prep school, I was always taught to do my best and respect my opponent…
…However, when I first dueled against a certain Obelisk blue, I lost respect for that rule.
Then after facing a younger student, I gained it back…
…Even though he had lost the duel, the fact of the fire in his eyes inspired me…and that was a good enough reason for me.
The darkness is still forming around, its faint, but it is surely growing. And the mass of it…
Is coming my next opponent…
The very same Obelisk blue that I faced earlier in the year is whom I'm facing next.
He's changed his strategy…
His attitude is different…
And he seems to have gotten darker…
By the way, this duel isn't just a regular duel, nor is it for the life of another…
It's about the future…
After the academy…
And during it too, from what I can sense…
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Chapter 13: A Blue's Will
Justice and Greed
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"I-I'm your tutor," Kara answered as Garu raised an eyebrow.
"Wow that was fast…" Garu commented to the side. "Didn't really expect you…"
Kara walked into the dorm room and sat down on one of the seats before explaining. "Well…I-I did well on my exam, getting a near perfect score…"
Garu's jaw dropped after he shut the door. "Near perfect!"
Nodding to Garu, Kara turned to one of the books she brought with her and opened it. "Y-yes…now then Satoshi informed me that you are having trouble knowing about duel monster facts and math…"
"Yeah well…he can't remember my name," Garu laughed as he sat in the chair next to Kara.
"That's actually quite funny sometimes," Kara replied with a small smile appearing on her face. "Um, a-alright then. Let's get started…"
"Wait a minute, since you got a near perfect score on the written exam," Garu concluded while rubbing his chin. "Then you must be one heck of a duelist!"
"Well…I'm not really all that great," Kara replied as Garu raised an eyebrow.
"Come on, you're in Ra yellow, you must be good in dueling," Garu commented as Kara turned away with a blush.
"L-let's just get started…" Kara stuttered handing Garu the book.
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Meanwhile, near the Obelisk Blue dorm…
"DAMN IT!"
Vic's fist collided with the wall he stood in front of. Trying to release the anger that was swelling up inside of him.
With his other fist, Vic punched the wall again, this time leaving a crack and some blood on the wall. "Damn it all to hell! This wasn't supposed to happen!"
- Flashback During the Duel with Mustang and Zaku -
Vic sat at the Obelisk Blue table with his feet resting on top of it. "Alright, someone get me an iced tea and give me a foot rub…"
"Do it yourself loser…"
Vic fell out of his seat before he quickly stood up glaring at the rest of the Obelisk Blues. "What was that?"
"We're not doing your dirty work any more," Kiro answered as he sat down where Vic was and placed his feet onto the table.
"Insolent little…" Vic cursed as a laptop was placed onto the table. "What the hell?"
"Its your rank…since you lost to a Slifer Red, you are only one loss away from losing your rank at being second…" A random Obelisk blue said as Vic stepped backwards a little surprised why this showed up all of a sudden.
"T-This can't be happening!" Vic yelled as three Obelisk blues appeared before him with their duel disks ready. "What the heck are you three planning on doing?"
"We're planning on taking your rank!" All three shouted at the same time.
- End of Flashback -
"This shouldn't happen to me!" Vic shouted slamming his bloody fist back into the wall. "I'm supposed to be the best! The best!"
Unknown to Vic, Zaku was listening in onto Vic beating himself up and the wall at the same time.
A small smile appeared on his face as a single thought filled his head. 'I think I found the key to this duel academy…'
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"…So that's what an Ojama is…" Garu chuckled looking at the card Kara handed him. "Kind of funny looking…"
"…You'd be surprised at what these guys are capable of," Kara replied as she held her hands. "Um…Garu…"
Garu looked up from the Ojama card to see Kara blushing. "Yeah?"
"Um…do you know anything about Takashi?" Kara asked as Garu lowered his head.
"Well, of course," Garu stated lifting his head up. "Like what?"
"W-well, what he's into, what foods does he like," Kara answered turning her eyes from Garu. "And…and what kind of girls he likes…"
Rubbing his chin in deep thought, Garu pondered over each question. "Well…he's really into reading those graphic books…he used to really like the original Italian style pizza. However…wait…what was that last part? I didn't really catch that."
"N-never mind," Kara replied lifting another book. "Um, one last thing for tonight…the math…"
"Aw man…" Garu sighed lowering his head.
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"Ah Zaku, what can I do for you at such a fine night?" Principal Daigo asked as Zaku entered into Daigo's office.
"I'll be quick to the point…" Zaku replied as he leaned up against the wall. "You know the reason why I'm here right?"
"Of course, you're here to see about duelists to join the pro league," Daigo answered as Zaku chuckled to himself.
Just then, Zaku took a single picture from his pocket and showed it to Daigo. "I've heard that this duelist is the second best here…can you vouch for that?"
"Of course, Vic Vanhemer has been a great duelist here," Daigo replied before he sighed loudly. "Even though he has a tendency to get into trouble with other duelists."
"Well, before I leave at the end of the week, I'd like to have another duelist to recommend," Zaku sighed crossing his arms. "I've already faced your Kaiser duelist…and he passed my test, so I'd like to see other duelists."
"Very well, but who should be his opponent?" Daigo questioned as Zaku rubbed his chin.
"How about the top number one rookie duelist?" Zaku asked as Daigo smiled.
"Ah…Vic Vanhemer…"
"And Vergil Redgrave…truly sounds like a great duel!" Daigo laughed as he reached for his computer. "I'll arrange the duel during the afternoon tomorrow, so then we'll be enjoying a duel…"
"Excellent, thank you very much…" Zaku stated as he began to head out of the room.
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The next day arrived too quickly…
…At least for Garu during Satoshi's class…
'Time to see if these glasses I got work…' Garu thought as he pulled a pair of glasses from his pocket that had fake eyes drawn into the lenses. 'Sleep…here I come…'
"Garu! Wake up!"
Garu's glasses flew off his face as he turned to his right to see Takashi sitting next to him. "What?"
"…Hello there," Takashi replied as Garu slammed his head into his desk. "What, didn't get enough sleep?"
"No, I just want more," Garu wished as he sat back into his chair. It was then something that hit Garu…something was missing. "Hey…Where's Kara, Iruka and Vector?"
"Well, they're getting some tickets for the special event that's occurring today," Takashi replied as a question mark appeared over Garu's head.
"Why? What's happening?" Garu asked as Takashi fell to the ground with a loud crash almost disrupting class.
"Back Watered Duelist, Mr. Kuromori, please don't interrupt my lecture," Satoshi shouted as everyone turned their heads back…
Well, at least the little number of duelists that did show up for class today turned their heads. Satoshi sighed as he turned back to the board. "Damn it…first half of the student body is gone getting tickets for today's duel…and then I have to deal with rude punks who don't even have a shred of respect for their elders."
A few minutes passed before Takashi leaned down on his desk. "Like Satoshi said, a duel's going on. But not just any duel, its Vic Vanhemer and Vergil Redgrave…"
"Boring," Garu sighed as Takashi turned his head.
"That's a weird comment to hear from you," Takashi commented as he turned towards Garu. "Especially since you're a duel-maniac…"
"Well, I've faced off against both of them," Garu replied as he leaned back on his chair. "And even though I wouldn't mind facing Vergil again, I'd skip out on watching this duel…
"I think I've got an idea for who may win."
Takashi just sat back after listening to Garu's reasoning. 'He must have an understanding as to what these duelists are capable of…'
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Vergil sat in the Obelisk Blue waiting room, his deck of cards spread out in front of him as he looked at each of the card's specific artwork on them. Then, while his eyes were shut, Vergil immediately scooped the cards up into a deck formation and began to shuffle.
'Once again, I face the Dark Prince on a battle field,' Vergil thought, keeping his eyes closed on his concentration.
- Earlier this morning -
"Vic…"
"Vergil…"
"Thank you both for coming this morning," Daigo greeted as Vic and Vergil stood in front of his desk.
"Daigo, this better be good…" Vic scoffed rubbing his newly bandaged fist.
"Oh it is, for one of you," Daigo replied as he moved his right hand to his computer. "Mister Zaku asked me to request a duel between you two…"
Vergil just moved his glasses up while carefully listening to Daigo.
"And what does that exactly have to do with this?" Vic growled crossing his arms.
"Well, the winner of this duel will be selected for the positions in the pro leagues," Daigo explained before Vic slammed his good hand into Daigo's desk.
"Then count me in!" Vic roared as Daigo laughed loudly.
"That's the spirit!" Daigo chuckled before he calmed himself down. "However you should probably listen to the other set of the conditions…"
This time, Vergil stepped forward. "And what would those be?"
Daigo turned his computer screen to show two windows with both Vic and Vergil's picture on them, as well as five stars underneath each of them. "In a technicality, both of you are in for a rank change…And depending on if you win or lose, your ranks will rise or fall…"
Vic and Vergil both took a step back at the new that Daigo had presented to them both. But Vic firmly stomped his foot into the ground. "I don't care! I'm in it anyway!"
"Very well, and you Vergil?" Daigo asked as Vergil sighed…
- End of Flashback -
'I sensed a darkness approaching,' Vergil thought as he slapped his deck onto the table.
Immediately lifting the top five cards from the deck, Vergil immediately set them in front of him.
His eyes remained shut as he reached for the card in the middle.
'So, in order to preserve the balance…I must win!'
As soon as the card was flipped, Vergil opened his eyes and glanced at the only face up card in front of him.
…It was…
"Mystic Art Kaiser…Guide me to victory…"
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Vic sat at the table in front of him as he looked at the three decks that he laid out in front of him.
One was his Dark World Madness deck…
The second was his Occult / Dark World Hybrid…
…And the third…well, he managed to find that deck last year during a small mix up involving a no longer hired teacher…
'My last two decks failed…'
Vic reached for the third deck and slowly lifted it up to his face.
'But this deck…a deck made from the heart of a truly dark soul…I cannot lose to Vergil…'
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Vergil kept his eyes closed as he walked through the dark hallway.
The sound of cheering grew stronger with every step he took forward and his sense of darkness looming stronger and stronger…
As soon as Vergil opened his eyes he could see almost the entire student body sitting in the large Obelisk Blue duel arena.
As Vergil moved his eyes along the arena, his gaze fell upon the platform in front of him with his opponent standing on top of it.
"Scared little Vergil?" Vic asked as he snapped his deck into his black duel disk.
Vergil didn't respond. He just slowly walked towards the platform before he calmly walked onto the centered area in the arena.
"…Speechless eh? Fine then I'll do the talking and winning!" Vic shouted as Vergil snapped his duel disk into action.
"…Have you not learned from the past?" asked Vergil as he slid his deck into the tray. "Against me, you cannot win. Unless you change yourself, you cannot win…" (VeLP: 4000)
Vic just laughed loudly as his duel disk hummed to life. "Well then you're in for a surprise! I've gone through a change, and it's a much bigger one than you can imagine!" (ViLP: 4000)
"Talk is cheap!" Vergil shouted as both players drew their opening hands.
"DUEL!"
"You talk of how things will never change," Vic scoffed snapping the sixth card from his deck. "But you know nothing…nothing of the suffering that bind back changes!"
'Knowing his deck, more than likely he'll start off with Scarr on the defensive and then a back card to protect his life points…' Vergil thought as he closed his eyes.
"I summon Archfiend Soldier (1900/1500)!"
Vergil's eyes snapped open just in time to see the purple armored fiend appear before him. In the fiend's had was a demonic sword and the legs of the monster were covered by the dark brown cape that blew within the wind. "Archfiends? That's dark, even for you…"
"Talk all ya like…" Vic growled as two cards appeared behind the demon he had summoned. "But it won't make a shred of difference…make your move…"
"Very well…" Vergil replied as he pulled the top card from his deck and immediately placed the card horizontal on his duel disk. "I summon Clay Defending Soldier (0/2200) in defense mode…"
A blob of clay appeared before Vergil and before Vic could ask anything, the blob began to take shape and harden. The clay formed into an averaged sized samurai warrior only made out of clay knelling down as more clay began to form in front of it. The rest of the clay had formed into an extremely large shield that resembled the shield that the Big Shield Gardna had.
"Next I'll activate the spell card Clay Collection Pot!" Vergil shouted as the ground behind him flew up to allow a large pot emerging behind him. It was plain to see that multiple clay samurais were holding up the heavy pot.
"And what does that eye sore do?" Vic snickered as Vergil slid another card into his duel disk.
"Very well, my pot collects the souls of the fallen," Vergil replied as he closed his eyes. "I'll leave that and my turn at that…"
"Yeah, set up eyesores, so I can knock them down!" Vic shouted as he drew. 'I drew it! I drew it!'
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Cain clenched his fists as he watched the match from the Obelisk Blue seats. 'Just when I thought he couldn't get any lower, Vic uses 'his' deck!'
Standing up, Cain just walked from his seat. He wasn't blocking anyone's view because he was so small.
As soon as Cain was on the stairs he looked back to see that Vic was sliding a card into his duel disk. 'Vic, if you choose to play with 'his' style, then you're doomed from the start…'
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"I activate the ritual spell, Contract with the Dark Master!" Vic shouted as a large cloaked person appeared in front of Vic. "Now, I'll simply send away my Shadowknight Archfiend (2000/1600) and my Archfiend Soldier…In order to bring out a being of pure darkness…"
As the Archfiend soldier shattered into dust, Vergil stepped back at the sight of the cloaked man forming into a large demonic beast. "That monster! That monster…"
The demonic beast flew back his wing like cloak revealing the dark brown skin and black pants of the new demon. The ugly beast of the monster looked like it was laughing at the sight of Vergil stepping back.
"I take it you've the Dark Master – Zorc (2700/1500)," Vic laughed as a large black die appeared next to Zorc. "So you must know all about Zorc's special ability…which I'm activating right now!"
"Go! Dice of Destiny!"
The black dice flew into the air and spun in mid air for a few minutes…
Then the Dice began to fall to the ground…
The entire arena was quiet, waiting for the dice to fall to the ground…
And then…
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'So, this is the school store…' Garu thought as he entered the store.
As he turned his head left and right, a certain sight made him run straight over to the shelf.
"Wow! Look at all of these packs!" Garu exclaimed as he eyed all of the packs of cards that were in front of him. "I had no idea that these kind even existed!"
"Hey! You going to drool on the packs or buy a few?"
Garu turned his head away from the packs towards the counter to see a Slifer Red girl wearing the store hat over her long light blonde hair. She had her red uniform vest open to show off a black T-shirt with a picture of an outlined hawk on it.
"…Nice fashion sense," Garu commented as the girl narrowed her eyes at Garu.
"Look whose talking ninja boy," the girl replied as Garu clenched his fist.
Garu was starting to get annoyed by this girl.
"What's wrong with the ninja look?" Garu asked as the girl smiled.
"Oh nothing, it's your hair that makes it clash," the girl snickered.
Okay then, Garu was officially mad!
…But, this was a girl and Master Yoh did say it is never right to strike a girl.
'Then again, Master Yoh did have those magazines under his bed.' Garu sweatdropped before he shook his head. "Okay…I'm going to walk away before I do something I'm going to regret."
Just as Garu turned around back to the packs. "Smart move blue hair!"
"Okay, what's up with insulting me!" Garu roared as he stomped towards the girl.
"Cause its fun!" the girl replied making Garu drop to the ground. "And for the fact that it's boring today!"
"Then why didn't you go to the match?" Garu asked standing back on his feet.
"Cause I work part time here in order to get all items half off," the girl answered as the store's doors opened up again. "And I can't really leave the place to watch the match like other people."
"Well, if it isn't the blue haired dolt…"
Garu turned around and wasn't he in for a surprise…
"Great, we get presence from the great white haired dwarf," Garu sighed as a blood vessel appeared on the back of Cain's head.
All of a sudden, Garu felt the sting of a powerful high-speed punch sending him flying across the store and onto the ground next to the rack of packs. A single pack flew from the rack and landed right on top of Garu's nose.
"Still have that left hook I see, eh Cain?" The store girl asked as Cain calmed himself down.
"Ah, its been a while Ayame," Cain responded as he pocketed his hands. "Still trying to change the menus on the school?"
"Actually, I managed to change the Slifer Red Dorm to change a key menu item after today," Ayame replied not noticing that Garu lifted the pack from his face. "So how come you're not at the duel? I thought you always liked getting the chance to see Vic struggle."
"Yes, well, there's something about Vic's new deck," Cain replied as Garu stood up on his feet. "It just brings back some memories…"
"Hey!"
Cain and Ayame turned to see Garu standing right next to them holding up the pack that had landed on him. "How much for this pack? And man, for a little guy you can sure dish out some pain…"
The blood vessel reappeared full force as Cain clenched his fist tightly. "You should see how good I am when I'm really angry…"
Ayame just laughed at the two causing them both to look at her. "What? You two seem funny when you talk to each other."
"…How much for the pack?" Garu asked.
"It's about…" Ayame started…
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"…Four!" Vic shouted as a large explosion rocked the entire arena in front of Vergil.
As the remains of Vergil's Clay Defending Soldier began to be absorbed into the large pot that was place behind Vergil, a card shot out of his deck and he immediately slapped it onto his duel disk. "You're not the only one with a special ability! My Defend Soldier, when destroyed, allows me to special summon any monster with 'Clay' in its title! So I'll bring out Clay General of Flames (2300/2300)!"
All of a sudden a huge pillar of flames emerged in front of Vergil and from the flames erupted the large clay soldier. His helmet was spiked backwards and in each of his hands were two Japanese styled fans that shined as if they were metal. Its face had a mask found normally in a theatre and had the look of sadness to it.
"Oh yeah, well, my Zorc still has his attack! Slay that clump of dirt!" Vic ordered as Zorc leapt in front of the Clay General.
It was even for a mere second, Zorc's attack had gone straight across the Clay General sending the monster to crumble into dirt. Then just with the Clay Defending Soldier, the clay began to form in two different places.
Half of the clay flew into the huge Collection pot…
The other half began to form mini versions of the Clay General only with gleaming swords in their hands. "Thanks to my General's effect, I don't take damage, and I'm able to special summon two Clay Soldier Grunt tokens (1500/1500) to my side of the field."
"Yeah, yeah, but I happen to know those tokens don't have any effect at all," Vic replied as he raised his hand. "So I'll end my turn…"
"And I'll start mine," Vergil replied as he drew his next card. "Here's a card that shows an act of kindness that you've probably never known. I activate Graceful Charity!"
As the light showered over Vergil, he quickly snapped the top three cards from his deck and added them to his hand. Then taking two cards, Vergil immediately lifted them up to Vic.
One of the cards was had a picture of Clay soldier, only larger with a black paint job. It also looked to have six thin arms and each one of them held onto a chained theme weapon. The mask on its face looked angry…
While the other one had a bulky version of the Clay Soldier with large dark brown armor. On the back of the monster appeared to by multiple weapons, each with a black flag attached to them. Its mask looked like it was laughing…
"So now I'll discard Clay General of Thunder (2200/2200) and Clay General of Mountain (2100/2100)," Vergil announced as he slid his two cards into his graveyard.
"And what was the point of telling me the cards?" Vic asked before it hit him. "Oh wait, I see, you're losing the match on purpose, cause I chain your discard with this! Go Coffin Seller! Now whenever your monsters go to the graveyard, you lose three hundred life points for each monster!"
Vergil's eyes widened as a ghostly hand shot out of his graveyard and began to choke him. As soon as the hand disappeared, Vergil lifted another card from his hand. (VeLP: 3400)
"That's still not enough, I'll summon Clay Tiger (500/500) in defense mode!" Vergil announced as another large amount of clay appeared before him. "And I'll call that my turn…"
This time instead of the clay forming into a human shaped monster, it took the form of a small tiger cub (only it was brown). As soon as the clay dried, multiple tiger stripes appeared over the clay monster.
"A pathetic monster like that isn't going to work…" Vic chuckled as he drew the top card from his deck then he immediately slid the card into his duel disk. "And here's a reason, I activate the spell card Underworld Curse!"
As Vic played the card, a large demonic gate appeared behind him. As the gate slowly creaked open multiple spirits flew into Vic and Vergil's duel disk. "Now then allow me to tell you how this works you freaking freshman, this continuous spell card works as long as I have no monsters removed from the game.
"Then, as soon as it's played, it takes us both down by 1000 life points." Vergil stepped back as he watched his duel disk glow black and his life point counter drop. (ViLP: 3000) (VeLP: 2400)
"Next, every time we draw during our draw phase, we both lose 100 life points for each monster in our graveyards," Vic explained as multiple ghostly spirits appeared over both duelists' heads. "But that's for another time, I activate my Zorc's special ability once more! Go! Dice of Destiny!"
The dice flew back into the air once more, and everyone in the crowd held onto their breaths again.
The dice hit the ground, and bounced towards the center of the duel platform…
And landed on…
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"You're kidding me!" Garu exclaimed as he pocketed his new cards. "You've never beaten Vic once?"
Cain just cursed to himself as he crossed his arms. Ayame just laughed from behind the counter.
And Cain just shot her a death glare. "What? If this guy managed to beat Vic, then maybe you just had a fluke in your duels."
"Hey, I've managed to beat some pretty tough opponents," Cain replied as he lowered his head.
"Well, I've faced off against the current Kaiser!" Garu stated triumphantly.
"And did you beat him?" Ayame asked as Garu sweat dropped.
"Actually…" Garu started…
That's when Cain threw his arm towards Garu. "Ha! You couldn't beat him either!"
"…Yeah…" Garu sighed as he lowered his head.
"So, what strategy did he use on ya, blue hair?" Cain asked as Garu rubbed his chin.
"…I can't really remember, it happened a while ago," Garu answered as a large sweat droplet appeared on the back of Cain's head.
'And this guy defeated Vic?' Cain thought as he rubbed his forehead.
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"HA! It's a one! Read it and weep!" Vic laughed loudly as a huge explosion blew every monster away on Vergil's side of the field. Then the ghostly hand reappeared from Vergil's graveyard and choked him (even if it was lesser than the last attack). (VeLP: 2100)
The three clay monsters immediately flew into the Clay Collection Pot and Vergil lifted another card from his hand. "Thanks, since you destroyed my Tiger, we both get to special summon one level six monster from our hands, and I choose, Clay General of Ice (1900/1900)!"
A large icicle shot from the ground and on top of the ice appeared a smaller version of the Clay Soldier. Its arm guards and knee bracers had multiple spikes jutting from it. In its hands were two wavy daggers that looked to made of pure ice as well. On its mask, gave the face of happiness.
"Oh and by the way, the effect of my Clay Generals of Thunder and Mountain kick in thanks to your Zorc's effect!" Vergil shouted as multiple storm clouds filled the air.
All of sudden, two cards shot out of Vergil's deck and into his hand and a large bolt of lightning stuck Vic's back sending him to his knee. "Wh-what the hell was that?" (ViLP: 2000)
"You see, when a token monster is destroyed while my Clay Generals of Thunder and Mountain are in the graveyard," Vergil explained as he looked at his cards. "You lose five hundred life points, and I get to draw a card. And since you destroyed two of them…"
"I know!" Vic yelled as he slapped the second to last card in his hand onto his duel disk. "But I'm not down for the count yet! I summon Warrior of Zera (1600/1600) in attack mode!"
From the gate behind Vic, leapt a young, extremely tanned warrior wearing a green armor plate and blue pants. In his hand held a powerful sword that had a blue demonic beast head on it. "Now then, I'll rid the field of your Clay General of Ice! Zorc! Eliminate him!"
Just with the Clay General of Flames, Zorc sliced the General of Ice into multiple pieces that flew into the now over filled Clay Collection Pot. "I hate to tell ya, but my General negates damage."
"That doesn't matter! You still lost another monster, so you lose more life points thanks to Coffin Seller!" Vic shouted as the ghostly hand reappeared around Vergil's neck. (VeLP: 1800)
"And my Warrior of Zera still has his attack left!" Vic shouted as his warrior jumped towards Vergil.
"Nice try, but I activate, the quick play spell, Clay Life Spark!" Vergil announced as the Clay Guarding Soldier appeared standing before the warrior and took the attack for Vergil. Then the ghostly hand appeared once more, choking Vergil once more. "It allows me to special summon one Clay monster from my graveyard, and since my defending soldier negates damage, I only had to worry about your Coffin Seller." (VeLP: 1500)
"You sure can take a beating," Vic snickered as he looked at the last card in his hand.
Darkness Incineration…
"I'll change that by my next turn," Vic commented.
"There is no next turn for you," Vergil announced drawing, before multiple spirits of Darkness flew out of the gate behind Vic and crashed directly into Vergil. "And that's not going to stop me…" (VeLP: 700)
"Then go ahead and prove me wrong," Vic chuckled as Vergil raised his hand into the air.
"I will! I activate the effect of my Clay Collection Pot!" Vergil announced as his pot shattered and five beams of light crashed in front of him blinding everyone in the arena.
"What's happening!" Vic questioned as he lowered his arms and gasped at the sight before him. "What? No! How are those monsters back?"
Indeed, in front of Vic stood…
The Clay General of Flames (2300/2300)…
The Clay General of Mountain (2100/2100)…
The Clay General of Thunder (2200/2200)…
The Clay General of Ice (1900/1900)…
And the Clay Tiger (500/500)…
Each of the monsters had no emotions, except for their masks. But something told Vic that they weren't happy to see him.
"My Clay collection pot happened," Vergil explained as the large pot behind him shattered into pixels. "You see, after five or more clay monster have been destroyed, including tokens, I can send this card away to bring back five from my graveyard."
"Big deal, you may destroy my Warrior of Zera, but Zorc just needs one good roll and I can eliminate you with Coffin Seller!" Vic shouted as Vergil lifted one card from his hand into the air. "Uh, what's that?"
"A card you wish you never seen!" Vergil announced as he slid the card into his duel disk. "I only use this card on the truly wicked! Never on a friend or on my allies! You've messed with the wrong guy and now you're going to pay for it!"
As the Spell Card appeared on to the field, an exceeding large amount of electric energy surged over the field. When Vic opened his eyes, all five of Vergil's monsters were glowing and the spell card's picture was as clear as day.
It had five black shadows looming over the four generals that stood before Vergil. "I play, Power Behind the Army! This spell card can only be activated when I have five monsters on the field. Which I do!"
"Then, at least three of those monsters have to be level six or higher! And each of my Generals is a level six! So I don't have to worry about that!"
"Next, I have to remove all cards on my side of the field, then I can summon five monsters with 'Kaiser' in their card names, as long as they aren't 'Mystic Art Kaiser' or 'Devil Kaiser – Master of the Eclipse'! And what do you know, I have five in my deck!"
In a large explosion, everything in front of Vergil disappeared into pixels. Then suddenly, a large stomping sound filled the air.
"Now then, I'll start off by summoning Kaiser of Defense (2200/3000)!"
From behind Vergil jumped an extremely armored tanned man. His dark blue armor gleamed in the light, as did the white bandana covering his black hair. On the armored shoulder pads were what looked to be multiple cannons and weapons. Tied to his white pants appeared to be a large bolted mace.
"Next up, Kaiser of Agility (1800/1100)!"
A loud sonic boom filled the entire arena, and on top of the shoulder pad of the Kaiser of Defense, landed a teenaged man wearing a khaki shirt with the kanji symbol for wind on it. His face and eyes were covered with a large bandana, though his shaggy black hair seemed to go everywhere. On his back appeared to be two cybernetic wings that flapped every few seconds.
"Meet the Femme Fatale of the Kaisers, Kaiser of Offense (2000/500)!"
From the ground, rolled what looked to be a girl not older than Vergil himself. As soon as she jumped to her feet, two swords appeared in her hands. Her long, fiery red hair gleamed in the light and matched her red baggy shirt and long white skirt.
"The trickster of the leaders, Kaiser of Wisdom (1600/1400)!"
A large gust of wind appeared next the Kaiser of Offense, and from the wind emerged a beautiful woman with extremely long black hair. A chain whip was tied to her brown belt, and blue long shirt covered most of her baggy green pants.
"And last, but not least…Kaiser of Wisdom (2400/2100)!"
From a blinding light in front of the other four Kaisers, emerged what looked like a woman (or man, can really tell). His/her hair was completely covered up by an armored hat and his/her body was covered with elegant white robes with silver armor on the shoulders and chest areas.
"So what!" Vic laughed at the sight of all five of the Kaisers Vergil had gotten out. "All you did was bring out some no named losers! They can't defeat Zorc!"
Vergil immediately slid another card into his duel disk. "You're absolutely right…they can't defeat Zorc, but their target is you…and you're not as strong as he is…"
"What?" Vic questioned as another spell card appeared on Vergil's side, this time showing three hands clasping over each other.
"I activate the spell card, Forced Unity! Now for a cost of half of my life points, I can have one monster effect on my side of the field, go for all face up monsters!" Vergil announced as the Kaiser of Agility began to float into the air. "And I choose Kaiser of Agility!"
"And what exactly can he do?" Vic asked as a light green aura appeared over all of the Kaisers.
"By cutting my monsters' attack scores in half…they each can go for you directly!" Vergil roared as all of his Kaisers got into fighting poses.
"No!" Vic screamed as the Kaiser of Agility (900/1100) began to fly at him.
In a quick instant, Vic was slammed directly into by the Kaiser of Agility sending him to the ground.
Then just as Vic was getting up, multiple bullets were fired directly into his arms. Courtesy of the Kaiser of Defense (1100/3000).
Vic tried to speak, but then two swords that belonged to the Kaiser of Offense (1000/500) stabbed right through his legs. And the pain didn't stop there, the powerful chain whip from the Kaiser of Illusion (800/1400) was wrapped around his neck and pulled him directly to the ground.
And just as Vic was about to sit up, the Kaiser of Wisdom (1200/2100) appeared before him. Vic closed his eyes waiting for what this monster was going to do to him.
Nothing happened.
Just as Vic opened his eyes, the Kaiser of Wisdom bonked him on the head with what appeared to be…
"…A fluke?" Vic questioned as the holograms disappeared (ViLP: 0)
The crowd roared as Vergil lifted his duel disk off his arm and began to head for the exit.
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"Well Mister Zaku, what do you think?" Daigo asked as Zaku watched Vic punch the ground hard.
'I think I found what Mr. Legendz was looking for…' Zaku thought as he patted his pocket.
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Clay Defending Soldier / Earth / LV: 4 / ATK: 0 / DEF: 2200 / Rock/Effect: Negate all battle damage involving this card. When this card is sent to the graveyard, special summon one monster from your deck with "Clay" in its name to your side of the field.
Description: A clay samurai with a huge shield.
Clay Tiger / Earth / LV: 3 / ATK: 500 / DEF: 500 / Rock/Effect: Negate all battle damage involving this card. When this card is sent to the graveyard, each player may special summon one level six or higher monster from his or her hands.
Description: A clay tiger with a black paint stripes.
Clay General of Ice / Earth / LV: 6 / ATK: 1900 / DEF: 1900 / Rock/Effect: Negate all battle damage involving this card that is done to you. Each time a token monster is destroyed while this card is in your graveyard, you may destroy one spell or trap card on the field.Description: A small clay soldier with multiple spikes emerging from his shoulders, shins and in his hands are two crystal daggers.
Clay General of Thunder / Earth / LV. 6 / ATK: 2200 / DEF: 2200 / Rock/Effect: Negate all battle damage involving this card that is done to you. Each time a token monster is destroyed while this card is in your graveyard, inflict 500 points of damage to your opponent's life points.
Description: A large clay soldier colored with a black paint. Unlike other clay soldiers, this one had six thin arms that each hold onto a chained theme weapon. Its yellow mask on its clay face is a look of anger.
Clay General of Mountain / Earth / LV. 6 / ATK: 2100 / DEF: 2100 / Rock/Effect: Negate all battle damage involving this card that is done to you. Each time a token monster is destroyed while this card is in your graveyard, draw one card per token.
Description: A large bulky clay soldier with large dark brown clay armor, on its back multiple lances and pikes each with a black flag tied to them. Its yellow mask on its clay face is a look of laughter.
Kaiser of Defense / Water / LV: 7 / ATK: 2200 / DEF: 3000 / Warrior/Effect: ?
Description: A muscular tanned man with dark gunmetal gray armor with multiple missile launchers and gattling guns.
Kaiser of Agility / Wind / LV: 4 / ATK: 1800 / DEF: 1100 / Warrior/Effect: This card may attack your opponent directly, if that's the case, then cut the attack of this monster in half. Whenever this monster inflicts damage to your opponent, return one card on your opponent's side of the field back to its owner's hand.
Description: A masked teenaged male with baggy clothes and a backpack with two cybernetic wings attached to it.
Kaiser of Offense / Fire / LV: 4 / ATK: 2000 / DEF: 500 / Warrior/Effect: ?
Description: A beautiful young woman in red clothing with two katanas in her each hand. Her fiery red hair is long.
Kaiser of Illusion / Earth / LV: 4 / ATK: 1600 / DEF: 1400 / Warrior/Effect: ?
Description: A beautiful woman with long flowing dark hair with a chain whip in her hand. Her blue and green clothes matched her light skin.
Kaiser of Wisdom / Light / LV: 7 / ATK: 2400 / DEF: 2100 / Warrior/Effect?Description: A woman with an armored hat and long mystic robes with a long staff.
Clay Collection Pot / Continuous Spell / Effect: Every time a monster with 'Clay' in its name is destroyed, add one counter on his card. When this card is either destroyed, or has 5 counters on it, you may remove this card from the game to special summon 'Clay' monsters from your graveyard equal to the number of counters this card had during your turn.
Image: A huge fancy pot with a massive amount of clay with multiple clay statues holding it up.
Power Behind the Army / Spell / Effect: This card can only be activated when you have five monsters on your side of the field. Three of those monster must be level six or higher. Remove all cards on your side of the field. Special summon five monster with 'Kaiser' in the card name to your side of the field. You cannot special summon 'Mystic Art Kaiser' or 'Devil Kaiser – Master of the Eclipse'.
Image: Multiple shadows appearing behind all four Clay Generals
Clay Life Spark / Instant Spell / Effect: Special summon one monster with 'Clay' in its name from your graveyard. Discard one card from your hand.
Image: A Clay Soldier with its hands up holding onto an orb of white light.
Forced Unity / Spell / Effect: Pay half your life points and select one monster on your side of the field. Each face up monster on your side of the field gains the selected monster's effect. Negate the original effects.
Image: Multiple armored hand grasping at each other.
Clay Tiger / Earth / LV: 3 / ATK: 500 / DEF: 500 / Rock/Effect: Negate all battle damage involving this card. When this card is sent to the graveyard, each player may special summon one level six or higher monster from his or her hands.
Description: A clay tiger with a black paint stripes
Underworld Curse / Continuous Spell / Effect: Lower all players' life points by 1000. Each time a player draws during their draw phase, inflict 100 points of damage equal to the number of monster cards in their graveyard.
Image: A large black gate with multiple ghosts flying around it.