Ch. 3: The Immortal vs. the Samurai's Sister
Keitaro and Tsuruko shuffled their decks, placed them into their Duel Disks, and unfolded them…
"LET'S DUEL!"
Keitaro: 8000 LP
Tsuruko: 8000 LP
Keitaro thinks to himself, ("I have to be careful of whatever monsters she's got in her deck. If I know Tsuruko, she'd probably has a deck chockfull of powerful samurai warriors, etc.") His Duel Disk is black as his hair in some places and designed to look like how regular Duel Disks are supposed to.
Tsuruko thinks to herself as she draws her first card and adds it to her hand, ("He's probably going to use monsters to try to outlast me. I've heard he became a better Duelist when he tried to protect Shinobu when he forgot a demonic fire attack was actually holographic, let's see who's better.") Her Duel Disk is golden colored and has a card platform like phoenix wings that's attached to her side like a sheathed sword that unfolds to be like a keyboard before her (kind of like a laptop).
Keitaro sheepishly grins, "Ladies first." Tsuruko bows to him, "Why thank you. I'll take this opportunity to summon my Familiar Knight (type: warrior-effect-Dark/LS: 3/ATK: 1200/DEF: 1400) in attack mode." She places a humanoid warrior on the field. His silvery plated armor and his red cape conceals most of his body, and he's bravely wielding a sword and shield. "According to the rules," said Tsuruko, "monsters summoned to the field on the first turn can't attack."
Keitaro looks at his hand of six cards and said to Tsuruko, "I think I'll play Creature Swap (spell card/continuous)." Creature Swap's green-colored card depicts a warrior surrounded by colored circling arrows. "As long as this card is face-up on the field, we must each select one monster we control and switch it with the other, in other words, whatever monster I control falls under yours and vice versa."
Tsuruko asks, "And what monster are you going to use to replace my Familiar Knight?" Keitaro displayed his card; it's an orange-colored effect monster card, which depicts a small round seed-like monster with wild green hair, a curved horn on its forehead, blue boots on its two feet, and an almost hidden face under that hair (Griggle; type: plant-effect-Earth/LS: 1/ATK: 350/DEF: 300). He summoned it in a poof of smoke.
Tsuruko almost laughed at the cute little thing, "That puny little thing?"
Keitaro smirked with confidence, "Sometimes the small and meek can have surprising effects, that's why I activate this monster's effect with Creature Swap; the monster is well-known as Griggle; a.k.a. the healing seed baby."
A big hand appeared and quickly grasped onto both the Familiar Knight and Griggle, it placed the dizzy monsters on opposite sides of the field. Griggle knew what it has to do, but the control switch caused it to get gas, so in Keitaro's face it belched loudly at him, delivering a huge blast of yellow-green mist at him!
Tsuruko said, "It should've said excuse me."
Keitaro: 11000 LP
Keitaro explains before Motoko's sister could even ask, "Griggle's effect activates only when it's face-up on the field, when the control over him is switched, he gives me 3000. Now I play three cards facedown," a facedown appeared next to his Creature Swap spell, "and end my turn."
Tsuruko draws a card, "Why didn't you switch my Familiar Knight, which is now yours to defense mode?" Keitaro explained that too, "Creature Swap's effect causes monsters under its side-switching ability to never switch positions at all." Tsuruko shouts, "I now––"
Keitaro shouts to her, "Hold it! Two of my cards activate–– Bad Reaction to Simoochi (trap card/continuous) and Mask of Restrict (trap card/continuous). With these traps, neither of us can make a Tribute regardless of the situation and all Life Point gaining effects for you turns into Life Point losing effects."
Tsuruko gasps, "And since I can't summon any of the monsters in my hand without sacrificing any, I'm left with Griggle!" Keitaro asks, "Would you like to switch?" Tsuruko groans, "I end my turn."
Keitaro said, "I draw… and play Ameba (type: aqua-effect-Water/LS: 1/ATK: 300/DEF: 350) in attack mode!" A blue blob appears on Keitaro's side of the field. "By the effect of Creature Swap, I switch the control of our monsters!"
Tsuruko was really worried; the only monster on her side is his Griggle! "I choose Griggle." Griggle happily ran back into the arms of its original owner and farted in Tsuruko's face!
Tsuruko: 5000 LP
Then Ameba crept up to her squeezing her tightly!
Tsuruko: 3000 LP
Tsuruko said as Ameba lets go, "You're a much better Duelist than I gave you credit for." Keitaro smiled a little, "Gee, thanks. I end my turn."
To be continued…
(A/N: What kind of cards for these two should I give them? Which of them do you want to win?)