Pride…
Comes from the Latin word - Superbia…
Oddly enough, most people see it as one of the seven deadly sins that taint our very world's existence. However, Pride is normally viewed as excessive or as a vice, and is considered that as proper or as a virtue…
And when viewed as a virtue, pride in one's physical appearance and abilities are known as virtuous pride, the greatness of the soul…and as opposed as a vice it is called vanity or vainglory.
I am neither virtuous nor am I a man of sinful nature (even though I am a Saint of Sin)…rather my Pride is a crown of mine…
It makes me greater!
Pride acknowledges the good and noble…rejecting the weak and the insipid!
Everyone needs Pride!
Without it…Without it…We would remain subservient!
The world needs me! Life thrives with pride!
Fomalhaut? That is merely my mundane name…and by the end of the day everyone will recite this new fact…
I…AM…PRIDE!
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Chapter 40
Impossible Odds
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Time was an illusion…
…Whether it was when he was drawing and lost track of it…or when Lucian or anyone tried to waste his time…
Fomalhaut hated the clock on the wall…hell, what does the Saint of Pride actually like?
Whatever the likes of the Saint of Pride were, they could be nothing more than passing dreams as he stood in front of the crashing waves that pulled back and then flung the salty water at his boots. Starring at the forever horizon before him, Fomalhaut crossed his arms, allowing the salty air to whip about his white hair, "…How long are you going to stay hidden?"
"Aw…
A large amount of sand erupted into the air, revealing a rather annoyed Hito now standing behind his fellow Saint of Sin. "What gave me away? I thought I did a good job at hiding…"
"…for someone trying to become shinobi," Fomalhaut replied not bothering to take his eyes away from the water. "You need to control your breathing…"
"I never could hold my breath for long," Hito chuckled walking up next to Fomalhaut.
"…what do you want anyway?" Fomalhaut asked narrowing his brow moving his eyes slightly to glare at the Saint of Wrath that stood next to him.
"Just thought you might want to know that Kazuki managed to get one of his targets down for the count," Hito stated.
Spinning around from the sea, Fomalhaut had his overcoat's tail flap behind him as he began to walk away, "…that has no bearing on what I have planned…why do you even bother me by giving me this crap?"
"I'm just a messenger from Lucian," Hito growled pulling a small piece of paper from his pocket and tossing it towards Fomalhaut. "Speaking of, he's got a small request of you…"
The Saint of Pride didn't even listen to Hito, rather he just continued to walk away. Not liking to be ignored, Hito snatched up the note and began to chase after Fomalhaut, "You hear me? I said that…"
The next thing that Hito realized was the fact that he was being held up by his neck, lifting him a good two feet off the ground. His eyes widened when he noticed that Fomalhaut was only holding him up with one hand, and his grip was tightening, "I said this once, but it perhaps you're the one who's hard of hearing. Lucian has no bearing on what I have planned…so why don't you become a good lapdog and go lick Lucian's feet like the weakling you are?"
However, in a large puff of red smoke, Fomalhaut's widened as he saw that he was no longer grasping Hito's neck…but a log that was dressed up in a similar manner to the Saint of Wrath. "…it appears I've been logged…"
Slamming the log into the sand, Fomalhaut mere turned around shaking his head disapprovingly. "…Hito…when you're done being a lapdog, come to me…I've got a little something that you might be interested in."
From his hiding place in the trees, Hito couldn't help but rub his neck…still showing the marks that were left behind from Fomalhaut's hands. '…w-what the hell was that?! I didn't even see him move!'
There was something with Fomalhaut…something that Hito had never seen before as his life as 'Garu Honzou'.
One had to admit…messing with Fomalhaut would more than likely get someone to have their neck broken and not even realize it…
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The Obelisk Blue Male Dorm, the highest point that a male student on the island could achieve in their school career. Although it was a long and arduous path to take if you were originally in the red dorms, it was well worth it to enjoy the many bonuses that came with the prestigious blue uniform overcoat…
The A-Class food…
The higher probability to become sponsored by a duel company in the pro leagues…
The social events that seemed to take place between the Obelisk Blue Male and Female dorms…
…these reasons and so much more were the reasons why the students of the yellow and red dorms looked at the blue coated students with envy.
Even the building itself was a reason why people would scamper to it, although the overall design was that of a blue medieval castle, the inside of the building was rather technologically up-to-date, and not just the security systems that were usually updated every other week.
The recreation room was large enough to have a decent game of football in (not that anyone actually tried that), filled to the brim with video games, several televisions that were placed on the walls above, and several billiard tables. It was a rarity to not see at least a small group of students gathered in the room on the weekend at any time…
In fact, there was a large group of the Blue Duelists in the room, making a bet on a duel that was currently going on…
"I release my two Batterymen!'
A powerful spark of electricity erupted over the field, changing and molding into a large dragon and tyrannosaurus rex hybrid creature, its body fully mechanical and sparking with electricity (2400/1000 + 1000/0). "For the Super Electromagnetic Voltech Dragon!"
The opposing blue stepped back, looking at his three cybernetic serpentine dragons (2100/1500 x3), all three now looking a lot like lightning rods in front of the electrical dragon. "Urk!" (OB2LP: 1000)
"Time to end this!" The first blue student announce throwing his hand forward. "Super Electromagnetic Voltech Dragon! Attack the Cyber Dragon in the middle!" (OB1LP: 1700)
A powerful explosion rocked the recreation room…but it wasn't from the attack, rather, it came from the two large doors that led into the room, garnering all the attention of all the students in the room to see the open doors…
…and the white haired student who stood in the open doorway…
As he took a step forward, the Saint of Pride remained silent as he walked into the room, his eyes darting left and right, as if he was a predator looking for his next meal. There was something off about him…something that the other blue students took note of, but couldn't put their fingers on…
…until one large, muscular Obelisk Blue Student stepped forward, narrowing his eyes down at the white haired duelist. "…well, well, well…didn't think you'd show your face around here, Fomalhaut."
Fomalhaut didn't even seem to acknowledge that he was being addressed by his fellow blue student…he was just looking at the others. "Hey!" The larger blue student grabbed Fomalhaut by the collar of his overcoat. "Are you even listening to me when…"
That's when he stopped…Fomalhaut had somehow disappeared from his hands, and the large blue student wasn't the only one surprised by this, several other students were freaked out by this.
"Ah!!" the duelist who had the Cyber Dragons earlier screamed loudly, getting everyone else to see that Fomalhaut was standing directly in front of him. How he managed to get over there was beyond everyone else.
Fomalhaut sighed and shook his head almost sadly, "…I guess that idiot Kaiser's not the fun loving type of guy now is he? I'd figure he'd hanging at least with a small group of you…"
"You think we acknowledge that idiot Mustang as a Kaiser?" The large Obelisk blue chuckled as several of the other students did as well.
"…I had heard he was rather unpopular in the blue dorm," Fomalhaut replied running his hand through his white hair. "But, I at least thought the blue dorm would support him…"
"HA!" The whole room of blue students laughed loudly into the air at the same time.
The large Obelisk Blue, who seemed to become the spokesman for the large group of blues, stepped forward, "Are you kidding? That Die Hard Jackass doesn't deserve to be Kaiser! Associating himself with the Red Dorm's scum!"
"Dating our girlfriends!"
"Claiming to be a gift among women!"
"Taking a bite from my meatball sub without asking!"
Fomalhaut couldn't help but sweatdrop as all the blues gave rather childish reasons for their dislikes of the Die Hard Kaiser…although the meatball sub and dating their girlfriends did sound plausible…
"But, what makes it worse, is that he thinks that he can be a good enough Kaiser!" The Large blue student roared into the air. "The Colossal Kaiser…Goliath Munchausen, he was a man we could respect! He earned everything he had…and what did Mustang do? All he did was defeat the so called Dark World Prince!"
"You sound as though neither would've been suited for the position," Fomalhaut commented crossing his arms.
"Indeed…Vic was only interested in being at the top and commanding respect," One of the other blues walked out, this one being the duelist who ran the thunder monsters. "And Mustang…well, it's not that hard to imagine why he'd want to become Kaiser."
The Saint of Pride had to admit that.
"We wouldn't let him hang with us, even if he wanted to," The Obelisk Blue who had the Cyber Dragons stated standing up behind Fomalhaut, an angry look appearing on his eyes. "He doesn't respect the blue like we do…"
"Going again with the fact he hangs with red students?" Fomalhaut asked, getting a wave of nods from the blues. "…okay…then would you have preferred Vic Vanhemer to be the Dark World Kaiser?"
"It was a pit between a rock and a hard place," The Cyber Dragon Blue Duelist replied under his breath. "Its not like we had a choice…this academy's rank isn't a democracy."
"Well…what if it was?" Fomalhaut proposed lifting a finger up towards the trio, and then raising his arms up to the other blue students.
"What are you talking about?" The larger duelist growled raising an eyebrow.
"I give you all a choice," Fomalhaut chuckled lifting up his left arm, snapping his duel disk into place with the life point counter lighting up. "You can either continue to bow to the idiot at the top…or you can acknowledge me as your newest Kaiser!"
Once again, Fomalhaut was assaulted with a wave from the blue students, only this was a wave of laughter, mostly generated by the three students that had majorly talked. The large one was able to gather his head and stomp forward, "Oh please! What makes you think you're qualified to lead the blue dorm?!?"
"Oh, you don't believe me, now do you?" Fomalhaut chuckled holding up his deck of cards towards the three. "Then I'll prove it…to all of you! I'll take on all of you, three at a time!"
A majority of the Blue Students began to mutter to each other until the three students who spoke up before hand stepped forward, their own duel disks humming to life. The larger duelist scowled down at Fomalhaut as he slammed his cards into his duel disk, "A little cocky now aren't ya? I am Hanzaki! Obelisk Blue Student ranked at number thirty-seventh here at the academy!" (HLP: 8000)
"Number sixty-second student," The Super Electromagnetic Voltech Dragon duelist spoke up taking several feet away from Hanzaki. "Francisco!" (FLP: 8000)
"And me!" The Cyber Dragon user shouted pumping his fists into the air. "Ranking in at number fifty even, I am the great Jack!" (JLP: 8000)
Fomalhaut chuckled as he slowly pulled his six cards in front of him, "And me? Oh…I'm going to the very top…soon to be rank number one…my name…"
"My…name…My name is…!"
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Meanwhile, in another part of the Obelisk Blue dorm, the rooms where the students resided, two certain students were having a small meeting. "…So, no Cain this time?"
Mustang shook his head as he turned towards the window, seeing the docks in front of him, "Unfortunately, he won't be joining us today, the short guy went to see off a friend of his off the island…"
"What happened?" Vergil asked raising an eyebrow.
"He wouldn't tell me," Mustang answered back quickly. "And I doubt he will…Cain's got a little bit of pride to him, one could say that's one of his better traits, but I doubt that he would acknowledge it…"
Vergil didn't respond, all he did was cross his arms over his chest…if his guess was correct, than he and Cain now had something in common than when he first met the blue duelist.
"Anyway, about a few nights ago," Mustang started turning his head back to Vergil. "We still have no idea what happened…but we do know what the results were…That Hito Kiri duelist."
"I swear, people must like red hair on this island or something," Vergil chuckled at his small joke, although, Mustang seemed to remain silent, just waiting for him to finish. 'Well…I thought it was funny…'
"Anyway, according to a few people and resources," Mustang stated looking down at his desk, lifting up the papers he had gathered. "That Hito character is actually Garu, going all red…but frankly, that can't be right. There's no way someone can change like that over night."
"Indeed," Vergil replied rubbing his chin. "The hair is a possibility for change, as well as the personality maybe…but his body…the height, the muscles…there's no way he could've gone through a growth spurt at one time!"
"Of course, we have no evidence that would support or disregard this theory," Mustang replied shaking his head. "All we have are our memories…and that's not even enough to get people take notice…heck, there wasn't a lot of information on Garu in the first place, so he's just basically a John Doe."
"…so essentially, you're saying that even if he disappeared, no one would notice?" Vergil pieced together raising an eyebrow.
"Well, I would think that would just be a side bonus," Mustang stated before falling on his behind on his bed. "Even if that would be case, there are several people who don't have past… why bother coming here for someone like that? And more for the matter, what happened that night? Weren't we facing quite a few other students?"
"…I remember you getting your ass handed to you by a girl," Vergil pointed out.
A large blush crept onto Mustang's face when that was mentioned, making him turn away from Vergil, "Ahem…w-well, now's not the time to actually reminisce about these things…we need to decide what we have to do for the future…"
"Well, what exactly are the problems?" Vergil asked.
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"My name…my name is Pride!" Fomalhaut shouted pulling off his sixth card, creating a small force that skidded across the blue plated floor. "The next Kaiser of the academy…Kaiser Superbia!" (PLP: 8000)
"Heh, Kaiser Superbia?" Hanzaki chuckled, getting both Francisco and Jack to laugh along with him including the rest of the blue students. "Please…you've still got a long way to go before you call you by silly nicknames…"
"Indeed, we know you're Fomalhaut, number one troublemaker here at the academy," Francisco added shaking his head.
"And you're crazy if we'd let a disgrace like you reach the top!" Jack finished throwing his hand to the side.
"Well…then let's see what the cards themselves think shall we?" Fomalhaut replied scanning over his cards, before plucking one from his hand. "And I'll start by summoning Star Fang in attack mode!"
A large amount of stars fell from the tall ceiling, crashing in front of Fomalhaut, building up in to a large black furred wolf with many white and yellow stars appearing on its body (1800/0). "And for the next move, I'll set two cards face down…"
Jack blinked a few times, taking note that both Hanzaki and Francisco were nodding to him, then with a large smirk on his face, Jack held up his sixth card. "You're going to regret messing with a student of the Cyber Style!"
"Oh…I thought that was just a myth?" Fomalhaut questioned twirling some of his hair in his fingers.
"You wish it was!" Jack laughed holding up a spell card between his fingers, showing a small metallic serpentine dragon going through a large repair shop. "I activate the quick-play spell, Cyber Chop Shop! By paying a thousand points, I can special summon one level three or lower machine type monster from my hand!" (JLP: 7000)
Pulling another card, Jack slapped the card into his duel disk, creating a large orb of light in front of him. "The downside is any monster I summon with can't be sacrificed and is destroyed at the end of the turn…but with what I've got planned, I won't have to worry about that! I special summon Proto-Cyber Dragon!"
The light shattered into the same serpentine mechanical dragon that was on Jack's spell card, its gears grinding loudly as Jack pulled up another card (1100/600). "And since my monster was special summoned, I can activate the spell card, Inferno Reckless Summon! So for the mere cost of letting you summon as many of those nasty little Star Wolves…"
"Star Fangs," Fomalhaut replied slapping the cards onto his duel disk, creating two more of the star covered black furred wolves (1800/0 x3), making all three of the wolves howl loudly.
"Whatever!" Jack replied holding up three of the cards from his deck. "You see, thanks to my Proto-Cyber Dragon's effect, it's treated as a Cyber Dragon! So I can summon all three of the Cyber Dragons to the field!"
Indeed, the moment that Jack slapped all three cards on his field, the three cybernetic dragons roared to the field (2100/1600 x3), spiraling around Jack's body as a large smirk appeared over his face. "Now…I'll set a card face down…and end my turn, destroying the Proto-Cyber Dragon!"
The moment that the Cyber – Proto Dragon exploded into millions of triangles, Hanzaki snapped off his deck of cards. "And in turn, starts my onslaught! And what better way than to activate the spell card, Star Blast!"
'That dumb Saint of Wrath used that card if I'm correct…' Fomalhaut thought to himself, thinking about adding that card to his deck since it probably could work well for his deck.
A large explosion of stars rocked the field as Hanzaki slapped one of his cards onto his duel disk, drawing the stars in front of him, "For a simple five hundred points of life, I can lower the level of one monster in my hand by one…turning my level five monster in my hand into a level four…so give it up for Summon Reactor AI!" (HLP: 7500)
'Summon Reactor?' Fomalhaut questioned as the stars scattered into the air, forming into a large man shaped machine that looked to be part military plane and helicopter, crashing its large feet into the ground (2000/1400). "…looks like a reject Metal Gear…"
"Keep making jokes, funny man," Hanzaki snarled fitting three more cards into his duel disk, making them appear behind his Summon Reactor AI, "We'll see who has the last laugh!"
"Which will be me!" Francisco announced spinning his sixth card from his deck into his hand, immediately holding up a spell card, allowing a large amount of light to flow over his body. "I activate the spell card, Graceful Charity! Being in blue, I'm sure even you know what this card is capable of!"
Fomalhaut shrugged his shoulders as Francisco pulled off the three cards from his deck and immediately slid two of them into his duel disk's graveyard. If there was one thing that Fomalhaut learned was that when a duelist did that, it was pretty well certain that the duelist had a dead set plan. "The monsters I discarded were my Batteryman AA, two of them, which makes it perfect for me to activate two of the copies of Battery Charger! And for the mere cost of five hundred points for each…" (FLP: 7000)
Two bolts of lighting struck the ground in front of Francisco, transforming into two slim orange robotic like monsters that resembled that of batteries, surging with electricity at their joints (0/0 + 2000/0 x2). "And since both of my Batterymen are in attack mode, they gain one thousand attack points for each other on the field! And since I've got the third in my hand, why wait to summon it?"
Slapping the final trio of the Batterymen AA on the duel disk, the third and final appeared in between the other two, more electricity surging between them all (3000/0 x3). "Next…I'll set one card face down…and end my turn."
Before he even drew, Fomalhaut shook his head at the three duelists, "…you three…just made this much easier…"
"Huh?" Hanzaki, Jack and Francisco questioned at the same time until Hanzaki stomped forward. "What the hell are you talking about? In case you haven't noticed, we've got seven powerful monsters out on the field in our first turns!"
"And it shows your true colors!" Fomalhaut shouted back placing his fingers on top of his deck. "If you were really willing to defeat me…why didn't you three attack me?"
"We couldn't it! The rules state that in team duels that no one can attack on their first turn!" Jack replied.
With a second shake of his head, Fomalhaut snapped off the top card from his deck, "You fools! Whoever said this was a team duel? I said I'd take on all three of you at once!"
All three of the opposing blues stepped back, realizing that Fomalhaut was right…
…but it was too late.
"We're ending this!' Fomalhaut shouted before all three of the Star Fangs roared loudly into the air, creating a powerful golden aura around his body, flaring up into the air as he clamped his fists. "Prepare yourselves you fools! I activate the effect of all three of my Star Fangs!"
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In another Obelisk Blue's room, a familiar white haired young man sat on the ground at the foot of his large bed, his head resting on top of his knees, trying to hide his face. His right arm fell limp to the ground, yet was clenching onto something tight, as if for dear life…
As he pulled his hand back, the young man closed his head back, showing that he had a few tears rolling down the sides of his face a few minutes ago, '…why? Why Kazica?'
This wasn't like Cain…the only tears he had ever shed were ones when had the worse pain of all last year…one that gave him his strangest rumor of all…
But rumors were the last thing on his mind, and that was more apparent as Cain opened his right hand and looked at the small broken half of a coin he held tightly before. Memories appeared in his head, memories of when Cain had first met Kazica…memories of the duel they had…
…the duel, which she worked hard to acquire a certain card to give Cain back his hope…
…and the duel that had brought them closer together…
And on that Christmas Eve that Cain had given her this half of the coin…the other half was around his neck. This half was supposed to be around hers…but, when she was about to leave, Kazica relinquished it to Cain. And the words she spoke left a deeper scar in his body than all his previous battles that he went through the previous year…
"…I'm sorry Cain…but I just want to forget everything about this place…and that means you as well…I'm sorry…"
"ARGH!" Cain roared slamming his right fist into the floor next to him, making a loud crashing sound to echo through the room, canceling the growls and whimpers that were coming from the short duelist. 'Why…why did it have to be her?!?'
Just as he was about to slam his fist into the floor once more, a large explosion rocked the entire building's foundations, making Cain look up immediately with a few question marks popping over his head…
For a few seconds, Cain looked at his fist, thinking that this was probably more a powerful punch than he gave credit for…but when a second explosion rocked the building, Cain immediately stood up reaching for his overcoat… 'I'll have to weep another time…its time to kick someone's ass…'
Back in the recreational room…
Hanzaki stumbled backwards to the ground his duel disk starting to spark up with the sudden boost of energy that surged through it. Jack and Francisco were already on the ground, knocked out from a few minutes earlier when their opponent pulled these crazy moves from almost out of no where. (JLP: 0) (FLP: 0) (HLP: 100)
"…now do you see the level of difference…" Fomalhaut asked as the powerful dark aura surged behind him, changing and warping back into a large man-shaped like creature. "…the level of difference that's between us?" (FLP: 8000)
The other blue students were practically statues, unable to turn away from the sheer power and strength that was just shown in front of them. When he didn't get a response from Hanzaki, Fomalhaut slowly began to walk towards the larger duelist, his mysterious creature behind him lifting its hand up. "I guess you wouldn't…after all, once a moron, always a moron…you're completely blinded by your desires to be the best that you couldn't see the real king before you…"
"Who…n-no, what are you?!?" Hanzaki questioned, slowly trying to crawl backwards, anyway to get away from the other blue student who was gaining another step closer and closer towards him.
"…I thought we already went over this," Fomalhaut chuckled pulling his hand back as his monster did the same. "I told you…"
"I…"
Both Fomalhaut and his monster slammed their fists into Hanzaki's chest, looking as though both had entered into the large blue's chest. "…am…"
As both Fomalhaut and his mystery monster pulled their hands back, a small white orb appeared in the Saint of Pride's hands, sparking up as a Pride closed his hand on it, his body glowing slightly in a white aura. "…Pride!"
The other obelisk blue students began to inch their way over to the large open doors, after what had happened with their fellow students.
Fomalhaut lifted his hand up, motioning over to him, "…next…"
That was all the other students needed to leap into action, turning around to rush the door, pushing each other to the ground in order to escape from Fomalhaut and his weird power…
"Going somewhere?" Fomalhaut asked standing directly in front of the now closed doors, holding out his arms with a sinister look on his face. "That's rather rude of you all…I still want to have some fun…" As he said this, Fomalhaut casually shuffled through his cards, before snapping the deck into his duel disk. "…so…who wants to duel a champion?" (PLP: 8000)
At first all of the Obelisk Blues took a step back...until a small Blue Student stepped forward, a look of worry on his face. "I…We're not afraid of you!" (OBLP: 8000)
That's when a large amount of the Obelisk Blues nodded to each other, lifting their duel disks up towards Fomalhaut, all of them backing up the smaller blue student, "…we won't let you disregard the name of Obelisk Blue Dorm!" (OBLP: 8000 x 26)
"…hmm…" Fomalhaut muttered to himself, rubbing his chin as he looked at his six cards. "Twenty-seven Obelisk Blue Elites against the one and only Saint of Pride…"
Fitting two of the cards in his duel disk, the face down cards appeared directly in front of the Saint of Pride, and when the star duelist slapped a single monster on his duel disk, the horizontal card appeared before him. "…now that doesn't seem fair…"
"Tough luck!" The small Obelisk Blue Duelist shouted as he, along with the other twenty-six duelists drew at the same, all of them holding up their cards into the air before they slapped their cards onto their duel disks. "You wanted to duel, and we're all going all!"
"I summon!"
In an almost constant barrage of lights, Fomalhaut didn't even blink at the almost daunting amount of monsters, all of them ranging from the expected machine type monster to the rare yet powerful plant type monster. And taking a step forward, the smaller Obelisk Blue student stepped forward, brimming with confidence and lifted his hand to his large white furred creature that had a long face and a pair of tusks sticking from its large mouth (1800/0). "Fossil Tusker!"
"…serious question, do all the Obelisk Blues believe in a rush strategy?" Fomalhaut questioned with a large sweatdrop rolling down the side of his head. "Seriously, those three idiots ran rush decks, and you all are trying for a full on rush…albeit, with all of the attack points you've got there, you can easily take me down…"
"Then watch and learn as we do so!" The smaller blue shouted as his monster charged forward first. "Fossil Tusker! Attack the face down monster, Fossil Tackle!"
With a loud roar, the wooly monster slammed into the face down monster, sending the card flying back into the air, making it transform into a small man dressed in a white toga with six yellow wings popping out of his back (1400/900).
"Now, since my Fossil Tusker managed to destroy a monster," The smaller blue explained as the Fossil Tusker breathed in a large amount of air into its opened maw. "You get blasted with four hundred points automatically!"
Just as the Fossil Tusker unleashed a powerful burst of toxic gas, Fomalhaut merely pushed a single button on his duel disk, creating a large glowing ring appear around his body, pushing the gas to the side of him. "In response, I activate my trap card, Pikeru's Circle of Enchantment…so, with a cost of a card, I can negate all effect damage for the turn done to me."
"Yeah…well, you've still got twenty-six more attacks to deal with!" The small obelisk blue shouted as all the other blue students shouted out at the same time as well. "And all of them are direct attacks!"
"…not especially," Fomalhaut chuckled holding his hand in front of his deck, catching a single card that popped from the deck holster and into his hand. "Now…as you can see, that face down monster destroyed as known as Shining Angel…allowing me to special summon any light monster I so choose from my deck, as long as it has less than fifteen hundred points for attack. So, I think I'll special summon my Celestial Slayer!"
Slapping his newest card onto his duel disk, a large star appeared in front of Fomalhaut, exploding into a young, chibi blonde haired man dressed in a fancy golden overcoat and black pants. However, as the young man lifted his hands up, it was revealed that they both were covered with golden claws that seemed to be adorned with stars and moons on it (900/1500).
Needless to say, none of the blues were impressed with the small monster on the field, especially with the small army that they had in front of them. "That won't stop us! Destroy that monster!"
"…Apparently you all are as dimwitted as you look," Fomalhaut sighed with a shake of his head.
"Oh! You think so? Well, in case you haven't noticed," The smaller Obelisk Blue shouted as all of the monsters began to get closer and closer to the Celestial Slayer. "We've got more than enough…"
"Unfortunately, that's your downfall," Fomalhaut sighed as the chibi Celestial Slayer began to convulse and have his muscles growing. "Do you know of a monster known as Gyaku-Gire Panda?"
All of the Obelisk Blue students' eyes widened as the Celestial Slayer's muscles exploded outwards, becoming larger, stronger, and more angry looking (900/1500 + 13500/0). "I'll take your eyes as the answer…even with one attack, I can destroy any one of you and inflict a decent amount of your life points…"
But by pushing a small button on his duel disk, a large necklace of bombs appeared around the now burly Celestial Slayer's neck. "Or…I can take you all out with my trap card, Ring of Destruction! Now…by taking out my Celestial Slayer, I can destroy all of you at the same time!"
"B-But…won't you lose that much life points as well?" A random Blue Student asked raising an eyebrow as the bombs began to hiss loudly, showing that they were ready to explode.
"No…his trap, Pikeru's Circle of enchantment will block the damage for the rest of the turn," The small Obelisk Blue student explained with a bead of sweat rolling down the side of his head. "That includes damage done by him…so we're basically…"
"You're all…" Fomalhaut chuckled holding out his hand. "Screwed!"
A powerful surge of fire erupted around the buffed up Celestial Slayer, making it explode into a powerful flurry of stars that sliced through not only the monsters on the field, but also through all of the students, making them all fall to the ground in pain. (OBLP: 0 x 27)
"Hmm…and the weak shall inherit the earth…" Fomalhaut yawned slowly stepping over to the fallen students kneeling down to look at all of the cards that had crashed onto the ground, spilling all over. The blues may have been a bunch of fools, but, even amongst the dirt might be a piece of gold. "…what a bunch of nonsense…the weak are only here to be stepping stones on the path of greatness."
That's when the card caught his eye, and holding it up, Fomalhaut chuckled fingering the card, "Ah…that Star Blast card…just what I need…and now…"
Holding his right hand above his head, a powerful white aura slowly began to wash over the knocked out Obelisk Blue students…seeping into their bodies to pull out twenty-seven fiery orbs of light. And with an insidious smirk appearing on his face, Fomalhaut snapped his fingers, pulling the several white orbs into his hand…
…immediately crushing them into his palm, allowing the white aura to wash over his body. And as the aura began to recede into his body, Fomalhaut's face began curl up into an evil smile as he looked at his hands, "…I…I didn't think I would feel…that I would feel…"
"THIS GREAT!"
Kicking one of the Obelisk Blue Student's knocked out bodies, Fomalhaut sent it flying into one of the walls, with a lout smack, "I feel like I can take on an American League Football Player now! Heck! I bet I can toss a couple of those guys over my head!"
With his natural high creating his large smile, Fomalhaut slowly began to salvage through all of the cards that were scattered around the ground, hoping to find another gem…
"…what the heck are you doing?"
His ears twitching, Fomalhaut turned around to see Cain standing in front of the closed doors. However, as he turned around, his evil smile grew larger and larger as he slowly began to head towards the fellow white haired Obelisk Blue Student, "…oh, I'm just enjoying the afternoon…though it looks like I just missed one hell of a party…"
"…Are you going to keep lying through your teeth?" Cain asked raising an eyebrow at Fomalhaut, who just couldn't help but smile back. "Or am I going to have to beat the truth from that stupid grin on your face?"
Shaking his head, Fomalhaut combed his hand through his hair, "…you know…these guys didn't even make me break a sweat…"
That's when Cain blinked a few times, Fomalhaut just disappeared…until Cain felt a pair of hands clamp onto his shoulders, putting pressure on his body. "I know that fool Kazuki called dibs on you…but when compared to my power, he's nothing!"
'W-When did he get behind me?!' Cain's eyes widened shaking himself free from Fomalhaut's grip. "Wait…did you just say Kazuki? The same guy who seems…uh, questionable?"
"That fancy freak?" Fomalhaut questioned flicking some hair to the side. "Sometimes I wonder if it's worth knowing such an idiot…"
That's when Cain's eyes narrowed his eyes, "You know something about him…"
"Much to my displeasure…" Fomalhaut replied twirling his hair in his pinky. "…Just looking at the guy and his sparkles…ugh, its enough to mentally scar a person for life…"
"You…" Cain growled lifting up his duel disk towards Fomalhaut. "You're going to tell me what the hell is going on here!"
"…is that a challenge I hear?" Fomalhaut chuckled lifting his hand up to his ear before he snapped his arm to the side. "Fine by me…according to the stats, you're one of the top dogs here, and you'd make an actual warm up for that damn Kaiser…"
"Kaiser…you mean…" Cain narrowed his eyes, as much as he wanted to see Mustang get his ass handed to him, letting this freak get what he wanted wasn't the best of plans.
"I take it you know what I'm after," Fomalhaut chuckled, closing his eyes as his duel disk clicked alive. "I aim to usurp the very respect…the very power…the same strength…As the Kaiser!"
"So…enough talking!" Fomalhaut shouted, his eyes snapping open, revealing that they were glowing a bright white. "I hope you're ready shorty!"
"DUEL!"
Too be continued…