This is unreal…no matter how much me and the shorty try, Kurochin keeps getting back up!
I may be a newbie at this game, but still, this somehow doesn't seem all that fair. Now, I've been against the odds several times…
Against Mustang…(where is he anyway?)
…Vergil…
…The shorty…
Sure, I may have lost those matches, but I've grown with each of those duels…both in deck and in mind.
I've come to treat this game as another part of my life, sure it's just a game, but games can represent life…
Apparently, Kurochin has a hatred to this card game…but I just know that he's going to bore us to death.
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Chapter 28
Past A Void
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"Just shut up and watch shorty!" Garu chuckled snapping his fingers over his face down card, showing a familiar spell card. "I activate the spell card, Ninjutsu Art – Black Dragon! This spell card allows me to increase the attack points of any monster on the field by one thousand points!"
"Heh, even more attack points will do you more harm than good," Kuchin pointed out as many tattoos that resembled that of back dragons appeared…
…only on the Void Phoenix (0/0 1000/0), making the large void monster to squawk in pain. Then, in a powerful flame, the Void Phoenix shattered into shards that scattered into the arena. Kuchin's eyes nearly popped out from behind his mask as his monster's remains disappeared into the recesses of the arena. "But…how did you know…" (KLP: 13900)
"Wait…how'd that happen?" Cain asked with a few question marks appearing over his head.
"Well," Garu started crossing his arms while his eyes looked towards the corner. "During one of our tutoring sessions, Kara told me about a monster known as Spirit Reaper, it couldn't be destroyed in battle…but if its targeted at all by a card effect, it self-destructs…I just thought that the same applied to all monsters like that, except Ryu of course…"
Everyone in the arena sweatdropped at Garu's explanation…
…the guy was just lucky!
"Uh…I guess if dumb luck works…" Cain muttered shaking his head.
"…well…anything's possible I suppose…" Kuchin sighed adjusting his mask.
"Damn it! Stop insulting me!" Garu shouted with a large blood vessel appearing on his head. "I summon Shinobi Kan!"
In a black cloud of smoke, the dark ninja appeared before Garu with his red leering eyes (1600/1200). "And since you've got nothing out…Shinobi Kan! Ninja – Ken Shinobi! Attack Kurochin!"
"I keep telling you, it's Kuc…" Kuchin started until both blades sliced through his body. "HHHHIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!" (KLP: 10100)
"Ha! Take that Kurochin!" Garu laughed as his two shinobi leapt back to his side of the field. "How do you like that?"
"I thought I told you…" Kuchin growled drawing his next cards as his Solemn Wishes activated once more. "My name is Kuchin!" (KLP: 10600)
"I activate the spell card, Card of Sanctity!"
In a great flash of light, many coins began to rain down from the sky above the three duelists. "Now, all three of us draw, till we all hold six cards…but since I'm drawing again and my spell gets removed, I get a little bonus!" (KLP: 11600)
As soon as all three duelists drew their cards, the large flash of light had disappeared into the void. Cain couldn't help but scowl at his hand. "You know that helps us more than you…"
While Garu on the other hand, he couldn't help but having his eyes sparkle.
"Of course, but that'll soon be beside the point," Kuchin chuckled lifting a card up, this one a familiar spell card. "Now then…I'll activate the spell card Dark Core Infusion!" (KLP: 10600)
"Wait a second!" Garu protested throwing his fist into the air. "You can't play that card this turn…"
"True…but, I drew my second Dark Core Infusion," Kuchin chuckled lifting three cards from his deck. "Prepare yourselves you little runts…"
"I'm going to teach you two a lesson in pain…old school style!"
The field was almost one sided, Cain and Garu both had six card hands, while Kurro had five. Cain had Steel Flame Alchemist in defense mode with only one set card behind him. (CLP: 4800)
Garu on the other hand, had Ninja – Ken Shinobi (2200/1800) and Shinobi Kan (1600/1200) on his side of the field, standing strong. (GLP: 4400)
And with his life points well over ten thousand thanks to his Complete Nothingness field spell, Solemn Wishes continuous trap, his set card, and Soul Absorption continuous spell card, Kuchin was set in the life point area. And with his Dark Core Infusion being played…Kuchin's life points would only increase even further. "I hope you two punks are ready…" (KLP: 12600)
'Damn it…the monkey managed to take him down quite a few points, but no matter how many we knock off,' Cain thought as the dark vortex above Kuchin's head began to pulsate greatly. 'He just keeps getting stronger…damn, and now I draw my own Soul Absorption…great…'
'…I wonder if there's any ramen left at the cafeteria,' Garu thought crossing his arms in deep thought.
"Due to the effect of my Dark Core Infusion, I need only to remove my three Void Poison Dragons from my deck," Kuchin explained as three small black, tangible dragons each with a pair of glowing white eyes were immediately sucked into the dark vortex. "And well… I don't really need to say what'll happen next…"
The vortex immediately shattered, this time revealing an extremely large three headed, black, tangible dragon with three pairs of glowing white eyes. As the dragon heads circled around Kuchin's body, all three heads hissed loudly (0/0) at Cain and Garu. "…well, I suppose I should introduce Void Venom Dragon…"
"Great…you know, you're just a one trick pony," Cain stated closing his eyes. 'Wait a sec…let's see, in the last moves, he's used up at least fifteen cards…damn, I should've paid more attention to his deck.'
"Hey, if it isn't broken," Kuchin chuckled wagging a card in his hand up.
"Well…most of your cards seem broken," Garu admitted making Kuchin sweatdrop.
"I wasn't asking a question," Kuchin snarled slipping the card into his pocket. "I activate the effect of my Void Venom Dragon! By removing my Dark Core Infusion from play, I can switch his battle mode…" (KLP: 13100)
The large dragon immediately knelt down, all three of its heads resting on the ground with a dark purple aura appearing over its head. "And unfortunately for the two of you, whenever my Void Venom Dragon changes battle positions, you both lose five hundred attack points for each Void Poison Dragon that I have removed from play…"
From all three mouths of the large tangible dragon, a large poisonous mist shot out from the mouths, engulfing both Cain and Garu, draining their life points slightly. (CLP: 3300) (GLP: 2900)
"Kurochin! That's a real cheap move!" Garu protested wagging some of the smoke away from his face.
"Damn it!" Kuchin snarled crossing his arms over his chest. "How many times do I have to say that my name is Kuchin!"
"Its better you stop wasting your breath," Cain sighed slowly drawing his next card. 'Alright…this duel's back in our favor now!'
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"Oh…it's useless…" Mustang sighed falling down to his knees in the hallways, and then falling face first into the floor. "I'm a pathetic Kaiser…I couldn't even find my way back to the arena…"
"Heh…it doesn't matter what level you're at…you're still human, kiddo."
Lifting his head up, Mustang turned around to see a familiar green and black haired man smiling down at him. The man's hand extended towards him. "Been a while kiddo…about what? Four months?"
"…you'll have to forgive me, but I don't remember you," Mustang admitted making a large sweat droplet roll down the side of his head.
"WHAT!?!" Big Boss roared with a few tears streaming from his eyes. "How could you forget me?!?"
"Well, for one thing, you've got that kind of face that's forgettable," Mustang stated standing up, forcing an imaginary dagger stab in Big Boss's back.
"Second, since you've said four months, a lot's happened during that…many people, events, and, well…you get the idea…"
The imaginary dagger began to twist in Big Boss's back, making him wince in pain. "F-Fine…anyway, I was on my way to arena, and you can come with me."
"Well, cool," Mustang laughed crossing his arms over his chest.
'…maybe its better that he doesn't remember me…' Big Boss thought walking in front of Mustang to lead the Die Hard Kaiser to the arena. 'That way there'll be less of a chance that he'll become a deep thorn in my side…'
SNAP!
"Now I remember!" Mustang announced after snapping his fingers, making Big Boss stop in his tracks.
'…crap!' Big Boss cursed in his head as he reached into his pocket. He didn't like using it, but Big Boss usually carried a tazer with him to use in case he couldn't fend off a debt collector…
…or if he just didn't like someone.
"You were here to see Ed Wright, right?" Mustang asked making Big Boss stop his reach for his tazer.
"Uh…yeah! T-That's right!" Big Boss laughed scratching the back of his head with a goofy, yet sharp smile. "I-I'm a fan of Edward Wright…"
'…I think I'm going to be sick…'
"I didn't think fans of his would still be around though," Mustang stated walking past Big Boss (who currently had a large sickened look on his face.) "I guess miracles can happen…"
"W-well…I was actually just getting an autograph for my daughter," Big Boss replied catching up to Mustang in a short distance.
"That's what every grown man who's into those kinds of things say," Mustang chuckled throwing his hands behind his head.
"But my daughter is a fan of the Wright guy," Big Boss retorted with a blood vessel appearing on his head…
…he was now wishing that he had used his tazer…and was currently fingering the tazer in his pocket.
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"You have to admit, this duel is interesting to say the least," Vergil stated adjusting his glasses. "But at the rate this duel is going…"
"…So, you don't have that much confidence in either of them?" Taylor asked rubbing Rox on the back of his head.
"Quite contrary, I've dueled against both of them," Vergil replied crossing his arms. "Both of them are exceptional duelists…when dueling alone."
"Huh? What exactly are you getting at?" Takashi asked turning from the duel, along with Yae, Ami and Kazica.
"In duel monsters, each duelist has to find his or her style of dueling…" Vergil stated. "Each strategy has their one key points and weaknesses. But in a tag duel, the team of two duelists should be able to cover for each other's weaknesses."
"As you can plainly see however, Kurro…er, Kuchin plays on their weaknesses. Cain can't perform his alchemic fusions without improving Kuchin's life points. And Garu, well, his rushes are pretty impressive, but Kurochin was able to stop most of them."
"Throw in the fact that Cain and Garu don't like each other that much…"
Ami slapped her forehead, and immediately shook her head. "So? There's always the factor that because Cain is somewhat calculating and Garu's hardheadedness compliment each other. They fill each other's weaknesses decently."
"…you're really trying to look on the bright side of things, aren't you?" Yae asked lowering her eyebrows.
"When you're the sister of an older brother who's smaller than you with an anger management problem…" Ami sighed lowering her head. "You can either beat him or try to defend him…"
"Makes me glad I'm an only child," Takashi chuckled lifting his book up from his pocket to read the book.
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"You're not the only one with a Soul Absorption card!" Cain announced as the spell card appeared before him.
"Hmm…about time you played that card," Kuchin chuckled shaking his head. "Too bad it's too late to really make a difference…fu fu fu…"
"What the heck was that about?" Garu asked with a question mark appearing over his head.
"…your guess is as good as mine," Cain sighed lifting another card from his hand. "But now then, I summon Armor Piercing Alchemist!"
Leaping from the dark ceiling, a semi muscular military looking guy with a huge Mohawk and braided hair tail landed on the ground, a cigar poking out of his mouth. Instead of flesh arms, the alchemist had sharp claw like arms that he raised up towards Kuchin (1800/1300). "And I'll switch Steel Flame Alchemist to attack mode…and have Armor Piercing Alchemist attack your Void Venom Dragon!"
Spitting out his cigar, the Armor Piercing Alchemist charged forward, his claws extended to gleam in the light. Then with a fast slash, the Alchemist sliced all three of the Void Venom Dragon's heads clean off, making the rest of the body shatter into a dark mist. (KLP: 11300)
"Whoa, whoa, what happened here?" Garu asked rubbing his chin as the Armor Piercing Alchemist slowly walked back to Cain's field.
"My Alchemist has a trampling ability," Cain answered wagging his finger. "But enough about that…Steel Flame Alchemist! Attack him directly!"
Clapping both of his hands, the Steel Flame Alchemist created a powerful flame in his hands, immediately throwing it towards Kuchin…
…only to have it blocked by a small scapegoat, incinerating the small goat. When the flames died down, Kuchin just stood there, his arms crossed and three more Scapegoat Tokens in front of him (0/0 x3). (KLP: 11800)
"Hmm…does everyone here use that card?" Garu asked blinking a few times.
"Do you mind shutting up about the questions?" Cain growled fitting two cards into his duel disk. "I end my turn." (CLP: 3800)
"You're right, no more questions!" Garu announced snapping his next card off his deck. "I'll blow right through your defenses! I activate the spell card, Monster Reincarnation! So I'll toss this card out and take back Ryu – Kitsune Ninja to summon him!"
In a red cloud of smoke, the blue haired ninja appeared on the field spinning the large pipe like staff in his hands (1400/900). "And now…I activate the spell card, Ninja Art – Summoning of Death!"
Ryu immediately slammed his pipe staff into the platform, creating cracks from where it was stabbed into the platform. Then clasping his hands together, a deathly aura appeared over Ryu's body, making many cracks on the platform spread like spider web. "My spell makes me tribute one ninja from my side of the field…"
With a piercing scream, Ryu disappeared in the dark aura, allowing the platform to shatter upwards, releasing two large coffins from the ground slowly opening. "But…in return, I can special summon two monsters from either duelists' graveyards! But I'll stick with my own thank you very much Kurochin!"
"Get my name right you little blue haired punk," Kuchin snarled throwing his arms to his side as the two coffins slowly opened up, revealing the Demon Wind Ninja (1400/900) raising his sword into the air…
…while the other coffin opened up to allow a young reckless looking shinobi wearing a fiery red ninja suit with a dragon emblem etched on the shoulders to walk out. His spiky red hair had small blonde highlights in it. And on his shoulder, was a sling with attached with a cannon that was promptly aimed towards Kuchin (1650/1200). "…why bother Kurochin? Especially since I special summoned my Demon Wind Ninja and my Ozutsu Shinobi to the field! Of course, they both lose their effects…"
"But that's a small price to pay, when I can make you pay even more!"
"Demon Wind Ninja! Ozutsu Shinobi! Shinobi Kan! Attack all three of those Scapegoats!"
After taking aim, the Ozutsu Shinobi immediately fired the powerful cannon over its shoulder, blasting one of the Scapegoats into smithereens. Then, in the smoke created by the blast, the Demon Wind Ninja sliced another one of the Scapegoats, and the final Scapegoat was bombarded with many shuriken that destroyed the token immediately.
"And now…Ninja – Ken Shinobi! Get in another shot on Kurochin!"
Then, drawing his katana, the Ninja – Ken Shinobi ran towards Kuchin at a powerful speed. And just as the ninja was about to slice right through Kuchin's body…
"I activate the effect of my Void Vortex!" Kuchin announced placing a card into his pocket, creating a dark vortex that propelled the ninja backwards. "All I need to do is remove this card from play from my hand, and I can negate one attack and increase my life points by half of the attacking monster's attack points…and since it was removed from play…" (KLP: 13400)
"Damn Kurochin," Garu sighed fitting another card into his duel disk. "How many life points do you need?"
"He'll need more and more until he's satisfied," Cain stated as his own Soul Absorption began to glow brightly, increasing his life points. (CLP: 4300)
"Hnn…close," Kuchin scoffed pulling his next card. "But, not my reasoning to have this many life points…"
"Uh oh…" Cain sighed slapping his forehead.
"Hmm?" Garu questioned tilting his head at Cain's actions.
"…but now, we'll continue this duel!" Kuchin shouted selecting a card from his hand. "With the spell card, Mystery of the Void…"
The platform began to ripple like water, splashing until a small, tattered, black book began floated up in front of Kuchin. The book's pages flew open, creating a dark aura around Kuchin. "My spell forces me to pay one thousand life points and can only be activated when I have Complete Nothingness on the field." (KLP: 12400)
The book then shattered into millions of pages that floated around the arena, slowly burning into small dark purple flames. "…but its well worth it, cause now I can special summon three monsters that have been removed from play. But there are a few conditions that must be met…first they all must have less than a thousand attack points, they can't attack this turn, and cannot be used for tribute summon…"
The burning pages seemed to swirl around Kuchin's body, before combining into three large dark flames that each roared loudly. "And I choose…Void Phoenix, Void Venom Dragon, and Void Kitsune! My three beasts! Return to your master!"
The flames subsided, revealing the three powerful void beasts that had already stalked the field before hand, each of them glaring at Cain and Garu for defeating them. All the while Kuchin's life points increased thanks to his Soul Absorption card (as well as Cain's). (KLP: 12900) (CLP: 4800)
"Great…just when we got rid of these things…" Garu groaned falling down to sit on the ground. "What's it going to take to get them to stay down?"
"…I don't we have to wait long for that to happen," Cain stated glaring daggers at Kuchin. "More than likely…he's got bigger plans for them…"
"What? But Kurochin can't attack or sacrifice any of them," Garu countered. "They're basically statues."
"True…but, even statues serve a purpose," Kuchin interrupted lifting another card from his hand. "And don't call me Kurochin! I'm playing another spell card! This one known as Soul of the Void!"
A dark aura engulfed Kuchin, forming into a cloak made of pure darkness. He almost resembled the Grim Reaper…and the large scythe in his hands seemed to help a lot in that department. With a great slash of the scythe, a large portal appeared behind all three of the Void beasts, and began to absorb them all into the dark unknown. As soon as the vortex closed, the dark aura and scythe disappeared into the air. "And now…with the destructions of my beasts, I can bring out the real star of the show…" (KLP: 14900) (CLP: 6800)
Nothing seemed to happen for a few seconds, and suddenly, a powerful eruption of energy exploded from the center of the platform. When the energy died down, a mysterious, serious black figure stood in front of Kuchin. With a tangible cloak with nine white dragon spirits floating around the warrior's body, the dark warrior slowly turned around to reveal the front part of its body. The man's black hair was hard to distinguish with his skin, and the only real things that the monster had that were different were the white eyes, and white glowing swords that were each pointed towards Cain and Garu.
A small laugh filled the air as the dragon spirits began to float around the entire arena, scaring some of the students in the crowds. (0/0 8400/8400)
"Whoa! Now you've got to be cheating!" Garu complained leaping to his feet.
"I assure you, Kuryuu, Kuchin Emperor is very legal," Kuchin snickered wagging his finger at Garu. "You see, for every one of my cards removed from play, he gains two hundred attack and defense points. There are more monsters that gain more from the removed from play pile and are a lot easier to summon…but this guy just fits the theme…"
"But enough about that…Kuryuu! Attack Garu's pathetic Demon Wind Ninja! Eliminate him from the duel!"
Slowly raising both of his swords up into the air, a powerful dark jolt of electricity began to surge between Kuryuu's two blades. The air slowly cackled loudly as the void master began to take aim towards the ninja duelist's field. Then, with a mighty slash of his swords, Kuryuu's charged attacks flew towards Garu's field at an alarming rate.
"Heh! You fell for it! Finally!" Garu announced as his face down card flipped up. "Finally someone fell for this trap card! Two-K Shuriken!" All four of Garu's ninja leapt into the air, dodging the electrical attack. Then while all four shinobi were in the air, they all held up many shuriken, throwing them all towards Kuryuu.
"My trap destroys all monsters on your side of the field when you attack a ninja! Finally! Someone fell for it!"
Just then, all of the current shuriken immediately multiplied as they flew towards Kuryuu, who just stood as the many weapons flew towards him. Then just as the weapons were about to hit their target, Kuryuu just disappeared, making the entire weapons clash with each other.
That of course just made Garu's eyes narrow with a blood vessel appearing on his forehead. "What the hell?!? Why doesn't that trap ever work!?!"
Kuchin sweatdropped at Garu's little tantrum and coughed to get the attention back to him. "Allow me to explain kid. When targeted by one of your spell, trap, or monster effects, Kuryuu automatically removes himself from play until the end of the turn…then he'll be back." (KLP: 15400) (CLP: 7300)
"So cool your jets you stupid monkey boy," Cain sighed slapping his forehead with his left hand.
"Fine…" Garu huffed crossing his arms. 'At least I've still got one trick left up my sleeve to take down that Kuryuu…why's it even named that anyway?'
"I'll end my turn with one card face down," Kuchin announced as the back card appeared with his other cards. And as predicted, Kuryuu appeared on the field, his swords ready to be drawn out once more.
"Great…" Cain growled looking at his cards. "You know…I'm really getting tired of this empty void of yours. So let's have a change of scenery shall we?"
"What?" Kuchin questioned with his eyes nearly bugging out from behind his mask. "NO!"
As soon as Cain fitted his card into his field card zone, the entire endless void began to crack many times and then shatter like glass. In its place, the three duelists were standing in the middle of a large dark room with many different tubes and beakers with many scientists working in around them all.
Garu's eyes widened at the sight of the new area around them all. "…wow…what is this place?"
"…were you born in the wilderness, you monkey?" Cain asked raising an eyebrow, not knowing how close his comment was. "This happens to be known as Alchemic Advancement Lab, a potent card that acts a lot like Fusion Gate."
"Oh, that's cool," Garu stated bluntly until tilting his head slightly. "Uh…what's Fusion Gate?"
"…I should've known," Cain sighed looking at the remainder of his hand. "Anyway, I can Alchemic Fuse monsters from my hand…unfortunately, I don't have anything so I switch my two monsters to defense mode and end my turn."
"Well, at least he won't gain as much in life points," Garu stated, trying to look on the better side of things. "But…I'll be the one to take down his huge monster!"
"H-Ha! You're just bluffing! None of your monster's come even close to my card's strength!" Kuchin blurted out glaring daggers at Garu.
"Oh yeah? Well watch this! I summon Nunchaku Kunoichi!" Garu announced as the nunchaku wielding kunoichi appeared on the field, spinning the weapon in her hand in a fancy manner (1300/500). "And now…I activate the spell card Brave Attack!"
"What?! No!" Kuchin shouted taking a step back as all five of Garu's ninjas leapt into the air, preparing to attack all at once.
"This spell card allows me to combine the attack of all my attack mode monsters," Garu explained throwing his hand up into the air (2200 1600 1400 1650 1300 8150)
"Oh…nice try you've still need at least two hundred and fifty points to defeat Kuryuu," Kuchin stated wiping some sweat from his brow.
"This is why I've got this, the quick play spell, Shinobi Sneak Attack!" Garu announced as the face down card flipped up showing several shinobi leaping past a blockade of samurai. "You see, when any of my ninjas battle a monster with higher attack points, my ninjas each gain five hundred attack points…so I get an additional fifteen hundred attack points! (8150 1500)"
"Uh oh…" Kuchin muttered as all five of Garu's shinobi leapt towards Kuryuu, each of them readying to strike down the void monster.
All of a sudden, a powerful smoke cloud erupted from Kuryuu's tangible skin, making the void warrior cry out I pain until he exploded into the smoke. "And what I meant to say was…Uh, oh, I guess its time to reveal my trump card! Trap card go! Enter the Lord of the Void! Now, by tributing half of my life points and remove a certain face up monster…three guesses as to whom that is…" (KLP: 7700 500) (CLP: 7800)
"What?!? Why would you remove your strongest monster from play?" Garu asked as his ninjas leapt back to his side of the field.
"Because dimwit…that wasn't his strongest monster!" Cain snarled getting Garu to sweatdrop.
"Oh…well, how do you expect me to know this?" Garu asked shrugging his shoulders.
"Um…"
"You're a duelist! If Kurochin gets rid of one strong monster so easily that means he's going to get a better one out!" Cain shouted pointing towards Kuchin who just sweatdropped at his name's mispronunciation.
"It's Kuchin…"
"Well excuse me! I guess we all can't be masters right off the bat now can we?"
"Shut the hell up you two!" Kuchin shouted getting both Garu and Cain to look at him with blinking eyes. "This is why I hate teenagers…for the second part of my trap activates. Since I paid life points I can now special summon the greatest beast of the void!"
The large smoke cloud grew larger and larger with each passing second, slowly becoming an extremely large, black nine headed dragon with multiple white eyes and horns that roared loudly causing the entire arena to shake loudly appeared. The monster had multiple wings made up of pure light that allowed the very large beast to roar loudly into the air (0/0).
"Kuryuu – Nine Dragon of the Void!"
"Now the name fits," Garu stated before a powerful shockwave began to rock the entire area.
"Thanks, but now, my monster removes all spell and trap cards from the field as soon as its summoned," Kuchin explained as the Alchemic Advancement Lab shattered along with Kuchin, Cain and Garu's spell and trap cards. "And not only that, but he negates your spell and trap cards current effects, so Brave Attack and Shinobi Sneak Attack are no more!"
"What?!?" Garu shouted as his two trap cards dissipated into smoke.
"Might as well…look at his monster," Cain stated as the nine headed dragon began to surge with a powerful dark energy, coursing through visible veins.
"Good eye shorty," Kuchin snickered as Cain threw his fists up into the air. "You see…unfortunately, I have cards in my graveyard so my monster's effect can't be used to its fullest potential. But, my monster is still strong! For each of my cards removed from play, he gains three hundred attack and defense points!"
The large dragon roared, forcing a powerful surge of dark energy to fly into the air, showing off its strength (13200/13200). Garu fell to his legs and lowered his head. "Great…well…at least I'll still have my five ninjas…"
"Not exactly, haven't you noticed that your Ozutsu Shinobi and Demon Wind Ninja are gone?" Cain pointed out, making Garu jump to his feet.
"Oh…right, since my Summoning of Death was destroyed," Garu chuckled rubbing the back of his head with closed eyes. "My two monsters are destroyed automatically…"
"You actually forgot what your own card could do?" Cain asked raising an eyebrow.
"We're in the heat of a duel," Garu retorted rubbing the back of his head. "I got excited and forgot about the negative…"
"I swear, I'm going to kick your ass after this duel…" Cain growled lowering his head.
"Hey! Are you two done yet?" Kuchin asked bluntly getting the two's attention back. "Still don't like teenagers…"
"Uh," Garu stuttered looking at his diminished hand. "Yeah…I'm done."
"Good, now then," Kuchin chuckled looking at the field. "Hmm…"
"Oh come on, if you're going to do it, then finish us off," Garu sighed shaking his head. "Just don't bore us with your life story…"
"I wasn't," Kuchin growled with a large blood vessel appearing on his head. "I was going to say that my trap card forces me to skip my next battle phase…so, all I can do is set two cards face down. And begin the torture next turn."
Kuryuu seemed to growl loudly in annoyance, after all, the beast was summoned immediately to destroy both Garu and Cain. Since it couldn't even attack, well, it was just raring to rip someone's head off.
"You wouldn't believe how many times I've heard that line," Cain sighed slowly drawing his next card.
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Meanwhile…on the top of the school…
As the bright sun began to gleam down onto the roof, a mysterious figure watched over the entire island… his baggy blue and yellow clothes billowing in the wind…
"You, who search for the land of dreams…
…his weird clothes flowing in the wind as his wild dark gray hair flowed in front of his eyes. "…Until everyone has carved your name into their hearts…"
"The smile which has overcome sadness…Can I put my trust in you?"
Then in a strange move, the weird teen jumped off the building and disappeared into a blur.
'Soon…soon, the second and final one will finish his first test…'
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'Oh, now I draw this!' Cain thought in his head with an annoyed look on his face. Looking at his crouching Steel Flame Alchemist and Armor Piercing Alchemist, a small plan appeared in his head. 'Maybe…I can use this to my advantage…'
"I'll set one card face down," Cain started as the set card appeared behind his two monsters. "And I'll keep my two alchemists in defense mode…"
"Don't think so! Trap card go!" Kuchin announced as his trap card flipped up showing two armies running towards each other. "Final Attack Orders forces all of us to have our monsters in attack mode."
Both of Cain's alchemists immediately stood up, ready to face the large dark dragon, even if they were going to blown away. "Damn it!"
"Swear all you like, I'll just take my time picking your monsters off," Kuchin chuckled rubbing his chest slightly. "And watch as I blow your life points out of the water!"
"…are you sure your big, nasty dragon will be around that long?" Garu asked snapping his next card into his hand.
"What are you blathering on about?" Kuchin retorted now seemingly clutching his chest. "You see, by removing a card from the top of my deck, my monster becomes indestructible!"
"Once again, I'm forced to ask are you sure about that?" Garu questioned lifting his hand up, to show one of the cards he had in his hand. "Cause I'm about to win this duel for us!"
'Heh…even if he does somehow manage to power his ninjas to beat my monster,' Kuchin slowly looked down at his other face down card. 'My trap card will see to that…'
"Now then, I sacrifice all three of my shinobi," Garu stated slowly taking all three of the monster cards off of his duel disk. As soon as Garu slipped all three of them into his graveyard, a powerful burst of electricity surged from the ceiling, striking all three of his ninjas. "In order to summon…Rai Tengu Shinobi!"
As the electricity surged through all three of Garu's ninjas, all three of them exploded into many black feathers that flew into the air. All of the feathers flew together into a large human shaped clump that floated into the air. Just then, a powerful surge of electricity jolted through the feathers sending them through out the air…leaving a dark figure to slowly float down in front of Garu.
The floated in mid-air, allowing everyone to see the being in its dark grace, with a muscular black clothed body with pale skin, wild white hair streaming from behind the shinobi's horned red mask. On the right side of his back was a large white wing and on his left arm were many black feathers that make his arm resemble that of a wing. On the back of his black belt was a sheath to a small katana was promptly drawn, cackling with electricity (2800/2000).
"Flashy entrance," Cain whistled raising an eyebrow at the crow like ninja. "But…how's it going to take down that dragon?"
"With his special ability, of course!" Garu announced as the Rai Tengu Shinobi flew high into the air.
"Weren't you paying attention, you dropout?" Kuchin sighed wagging his finger. "My monster can't be destroyed…"
"Who said anything about destroying the big lug?" Garu asked as his Rai Tengu Shinobi began to spin in the air. Slowly, the wind began to warp around the crow ninja's body, forming into an electrified tornado. "Watch and learn Kurochin!"
"Go right ahead; try to take down my beast!" Kuchin laughed as his dragon roared in response. "And it's Kuchin!"
That's when the electrified tornado spun towards the large dragon, growing larger and larger with each passing second that it came closer and closer to Kuryuu. Eventually, the tornado was even bigger than Kuryuu. That's when the tornado crashed into the large dragon, making it roar loudly in pain!
"Heh…I guess you really are deaf," Kuchin chuckled hovering his hand over his deck, ready to remove the top card. "I'll just remove my next card from play and my monster's destruction will be negated…"
A large goofy smile appeared on Garu's face as he threw his hand up towards Kuryuu, being spun along with the tornado. "Actually, my new shinobi, returns a card back to its owner's hand! So, the only destruction here, is in your strategy!"
Shot out like a cannon, the tornado sent the nine headed dragon soaring out into the air, disappearing in a cloud of smoke. Kuchin fell on his back as his card bounced back into his hand. "N-No…"
Da-Thump!
Kuchin clutched his chest, even more so when Rai Tengu Shinobi (1400/2000) landed in front of him. "And now for some well deserve payback!" Garu shouted. "Rai Tengu Shinobi! Attack Kurochin directly!"
Before Kuchin could correct Garu, the crow shinobi slashed the old void duelist across the chest, forcing him to fall onto his back. "URK!!" (KLP: 6800)
"Heh, as you can see, my monster has to cut his attack in half when he uses his effect," Garu explained not noticing that Kuchin was starting to clutch at the air and twitch slightly. "Now then…I'll end my turn with one card face down."
"Hey, monkey boy," Cain started pointing towards Kuchin who's mask fell off to turn him back to Kurro.
"Oh come on, all there's left is for Kurochin to finish his turn…" Garu started until Cain slid behind him raising his haisen. "…huh?"
SMACK!
"OWW!"
"You idiot! Haven't you noticed yet?" Cain growled making Garu look up from his pained, crouching position.
"Huh?" Garu questioned seeing Kurro twitching madly on the ground, clutching at his heart. "Oh, is he doing some kind of dance?"
Then with a powerful kick, Cain sent Garu flying directly into the air, a large blood vessel appearing on the back of the Alchemic duelist's head. Everyone else in the arena had a sweatdrop rolling down their heads. "You dumbass! He's having a heart attack!"
"Daigo! Call the match! We need to get him medical attention!"
Meanwhile in the back of the stands…
"Aw man! We finally make it and Kurro has a heart attack!" Mustang moaned falling to the ground in disappointment. "I didn't even get a chance to duel…"
"…yeah, it's the pits," Big Boss stated throwing his arms behind his head. 'Even if the old coot didn't have a heart attack, I highly doubt that he'd be able to pull out a win. I guess I'll have to send Lucian to finish him off…'
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Later, in the infirmary, Kurro was in a bed being looked over by Garu, Cain and Daigo. Everyone else had been dismissed by Daigo…
"So I guess old people can't duel…at least not for very long," Garu stated not noticing the glare he was getting from Daigo.
SMACK!
"ACK!" Garu shouted holding his head in pain.
Daigo placed the borrowed haisen on his shoulder as he shook his head. "It seems you forgot that I'm almost the same age…but I was able to hold my own in the duel."
"Yeesh, I was just having some fun," Garu sighed as Cain snatched back his haisen from Daigo.
"I'll be taking this if you don't mind," Cain scoffed making the haisen disappear mysteriously. Then with a stern look, Cain looked up towards Daigo. "Now then…as much as I hate to say this, I think you owe us a little explanation as to why the hell Kurro did this…"
"…I suppose I have no choice," Daigo sighed shaking his head. "Years, and years ago, Kurro and myself were a part of the original Team Legendz. Along with the third member, we were an unstoppable team…"
'The original Team Legendz?' Cain thought rubbing his chin with his right hand.
'…I wonder what's being served in the Red Dorm?' That thought rang through Garu's head.
"…until our manager decided to try something that was more dangerous," Daigo explained lowering his head. "You two probably wouldn't know this, but a while back, before I became the Headmaster here, there was a tournament known as the Dread Tower Tournament."
"The Dread Tower was influenced by the Underground League and had many dangerous twists and turns. Even worse so, Team Legendz was forced to compete. After all, we were the best of the best at the time."
"…unfortunately, neither of us were able to predict what would await us. I'll spare you two what happened during the tournament, but, I was left with a scar that would never leave me…"
"…Kurro was left dependant on his cane and heart medicine…and our third member…well, she…she paid the ultimate price. It was actually then, that the first Team Legendz was disbanded and our manager was forced onto the streets.
"I think I know what happened next," Cain interrupted raising his hand up. "Kurro here probably had an ambition and got too power hungry…"
"Well, yeah…" Daigo replied rubbing the back of his head. "Anyway, since the duel wasn't finished, you two will have to duel him again when he gets better…"
"Aw come on!" Garu pouted lowering his head. "After all that hard work…"
SMACK!
"OW! WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP SMACKING ME IN THE HEAD!" Garu shouted crouching down holding his head with a bandage appearing on his head.
"Cause you don't know when to shut up," Cain sighed tapping the haisen on his shoulder.
"Heh, alright you two, we should let Kurro rest for now," Daigo chuckled crossing his arms towards Cain and Garu. "Besides…think of this as a chance to prepare to for the rematch…"
"Fine…" Garu huffed slowly standing up and walking towards the exit with Daigo and Cain following him. "Besides…I'm getting kinda hungry…"
As soon as the three were out of the room, a dark shadow slowly enveloped the room, slowly rising up over Kurro. The shadows receded, revealing Big Boss standing over Kurro, a dark smirk appearing on his face. "…well, well, well, look how the mighty have fallen…"
"But you don't care, yeah, you're unconscious…or asleep, I can't tell. But, enough of the small talk…"
Raising his hand up into the air, Big Boss's right hand was immediately engulfed in a dark shadow that he hovered over Kurro's body. "They say that sleep walks hand in hand with death…I truly believe that is the case in point here…"
"So may you enjoy your final sleep old man…and allow the darkness to engulf you…"
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Card Stats
Void Venom Dragon / Dark / LV. 8 / ATK: 0 / DEF: 0 / Dragon/Fusion/Effect: [Void Poison Dragon Void Poison Dragon Void Poison Dragon When this card is sent to the graveyard, you may remove this card from play. Once per turn, by discarding one card from your hand, you may switch the battle mode of one face up monster card. By switching this card's battle position, you may inflict 500 points of damage to your opponent's life points for each 'Void Poison Dragon' removed from play.
Description: An extremely large three headed, black, tangible dragon with three pairs of glowing white eyes.
Kuryuu, Kuchin Emperor/ Dark / LV. 10 / ATK: 0 / DEF: 0 / Warrior/Effect: This card cannot be normal summoned or set. For each card removed from play, increase this monsters attack and defense by 200 points. When this card is targeted by a magic, trap, or monster effect controlled by your opponent, you can remove this card from play until the end of the turn.
Description: A serious black figure with a tangible cloak with nine white dragon spirits floating around the warrior's body. The man's black hair is hard to distinguish with his skin. The only real things that the monster has that are different are the white eyes, and white glowing swords
Kuryuu – Nine Dragon of the Void / Dark / LV. 12 / ATK: 0 / DEF: 0 / Dragon/Effect: This card cannot be normal summoned or set. This card can only be special summoned by the effect of 'Enter the Lord of the Void'. When this card is special summoned to the field, remove all spell and trap cards on the field from play (Negate all effects of all face up spell and trap cards). For each of your cards removed from play, increase this monsters attack and defense by 300 points, however, if you have no cards in your graveyard increase this cards attack by 500 points instead. When this card would be destroyed by monster effect, spell or trap, you may remove the top card of your deck to keep this card on the field.
Description: An extremely large, black nine headed dragon with multiple white eyes and horns. The monster has multiple wings made up of pure light.
Soul of the Void / Instant Spell / Effect: This card can only be activated when you have three Level 8 or higher Fusion monsters with 'Void' in their name on your side of the field. Remove all three cards from play to special summon one 'Kuryuu, Kuchin Emperor' from your hand, deck or removed from play pile.
Image: The Grim Reaper standing in front of a void with many dragons floating around him.
Enter Lord of the Void / Counter Trap / Effect: This card can only be activated when you have a face up 'Kuryuu, Kuchin Emperor' on your side of the field and have over 10000 life points. Remove one face up 'Kuryuu, Kuchin Emperor' and pay half of your life points. Special summon one 'Kuryuu – Nine Dragon of the Void' from your hand, deck, graveyard, or removed from play pile. You must skip your next battle phase.
Image: Kuryuu, Kuchin Emperor, grasping his chest with the dragon souls around him starting to surge out of control.
Armor Piercing Alchemist / Dark / Level 4 / ATK: 1800 / DEF: 1300 / Warrior / Effect: When this card attacks a Monster in Defense Position, inflict damage to your opponent's Life Points by the difference between this card's ATK and your opponent's monster's DEF.
Description: A military looking guy with a huge Mohawk and braided hair tail. Instead of flesh arms, has sharp claw like arms.
Alchemic Advancement Lab / Field Spell / Effect: As long as this card remains face up on the field, all players may fuse monsters without 'Polymerization' by removing them from play from their respective hands and fields. If a player fusion summons a monster with 'Alchemist', 'Alchemy', or 'Alchemic' in it's name, increase the fusion monster's attack by 500 points.
Image: A large dark room with many different tubes and beakers with many scientists working in it.
Ozutsu Shinobi / Fire / LV. 4 / ATK: 1650 / DEF: 1200 / Warrior/Effect: This monster is considered to have 'Ninja' in the card name. Once per turn, you may sacrifice one monster on your side of the field with 'Ninja' in the card's name and inflict 900 points of damage to a player.
Description: A young reckless looking shinobi wearing a fiery red ninja suit with a dragon emblem etched on the shoulders. His spiky red hair has small blonde highlights in it. On his shoulder is a sling with a cannon attached to it.
Rai Tengu Shinobi / Dark / LV. 9 / ATK: 2800 / DEF: 2000 / Winged-Beast /Effect: This card is considered to have 'Ninja' in its name. This card cannot be special summoned. This card can only be tribute summoned by sacrificing three monsters. Once per turn, by cutting this monster's original attack in half, you may return one card on the field back to its owner's hand.
Description: A muscular black clothed ninja with pale skin, his wild white hair streaming from behind his horned red mask. On the right side of his back is a large white wing and on his left arm are many black feathers that make his arm resemble that of a wing. On the back of his black belt is a sheathe to a small katana.
Ninjitsu Art – Summoning of Death / Continuous Spell / Effect: This card can only be played by sacrificing one monster on your side of the field with 'Ninja' or 'Shinobi' in the card's name. Special summon two level four or lower monsters from either players' graveyard to your side of the field (You cannot special summon the monster that was used for this card's activation). Negate the effects of the special summoned monsters. When this card is destroyed, removed the special summoned monsters.
Image: Two coffins opening up to reveal a pair of red eyes in both of them.
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Garu: Alright! I'm ready for my rematch…
Daigo: Actually, there's a little problem…so I'm back in charge!
Garu: Wait, what happened?
Daigo: No time for that! I'm assigning you with another student to welcome some new students to the academy!
Garu: Wait a second! Wait a second! What happened to Kurochin?
New faces appear, and old disappear, and an old face appears as well! Next time – Chapter 29: Blank Slate
Garu: Will someone please tell me what the hell is going on?!?