Yu-Gi-Oh!
Duels of the Actillian
Episode Nine
Duel between Life and Death
Previous from Last Episode
"And next I play Card Destruction, causing us to discard our hands and draw the amount we had," Joseph said, and each of them discarded their hands, and drawn the same amount of cards they had before.
"Thank you Joseph," Dan said with a grin.
"For what?" asked Joseph, now feeling a little confused.
"For playing that card, because with it, I get to special summon two cards from my graveyard," Dan said with a grin. He raises his right hand in a dramatic way, "Now my creatures; rise up to battle!"
Two cracked surfaces appeared on either side warriors, than both sides burst as two attack position monster cards appeared on Dan's duelling disks. The two monsters are identical, about twenty feet tall, with their waists in the ground, but from waist to chest is glowing blood red, the chest, head, and shoulders shrouded in darkness, and two long purple claws. Then in the darkness, two glowing yellow eyes and a glowing yellow mouth appeared. They're called Despair from the Dark, with the attack power of 2800 each.
Joseph gawked in shock, clearly didn't expect that to happen. Dan watched his expression and laughed a bit. "Surprised, Joseph? And now not only you have to deal with my warriors, but my zombies as well!"
'I did not really expect that,' Joseph thought to himself as he looks at the two big zombie monsters that stood with the warriors on Dan's size of the field.
Episode Nine
Duel between Life and Death
Mr. Moto yawned tiredly as he sat behind his game-store counter; he sat there, losing his patience of waiting. His grandson, Yugi, had arrived a while ago, told him that Joseph is having a private talk with Kyle in the park. Yugi had told him that he told Joseph that by midnight, Mr. Moto will lock the door, so if he's late, he's going to be sleeping outside.
He turned and looked at the clock on the wall, and sees the time. He groaned in annoyance and spoke to himself, "If he's not back in ten minutes, lesson learned."
Joseph VS Dan
Joseph: 4000 – Dan: 4000
'What a big surprise, who knew he had zombies?' thought Joseph, it was an honest but big mistake. He didn't see Dan's whole deck, so he shouldn't had assumed his deck is mainly of warriors.
Dan could probably tell what Joseph was thinking, for he smirked and said, "Thought so, my plan worked. You and probably everyone else assumed my deck is only filled with warriors. Truth is, that first duel we had was merely a warm-up, as well as to see what cards you have."
Joseph frowned, looked a bit annoyed, "Seriously?"
Dan looked thoughtful, looking upwards with his right hand on his chin. "Well, in truth my deck was made to handle Seto Kaiba's deck. But from our first duel made me realized that I should've stayed with my real deck as well as upgrade it a bit."
"So in reality, you're actually a zombie duellist while to everyone else, they think you use warriors," Joseph said after he heard Dan's answer. Dan nodded, and Joseph grin a little, "Clever, but now I know. And soon my dragons will rise and burn down your forces, turn them into ashes so they'll never rise up again!"
"Bring it man, my creatures will consume you, make you one of us!" Dan replied; grins a bit. "Now make your move!"
"With pleasure," Joseph replied, he took hold of one card in his hand and puts it into a spell/trap card slot zone. "I activate Pot of Greed, allowing me to draw two cards."
In front of him, the Pot of Greed appears, than it shatters as he draws two cards his deck.
As he looks at his hand, he took hold of one and as he puts it into the field slot, he said, "You may have destroyed my first Dragon's Ravine, but I have another one."
"Oh come on," Dan groans, annoyed as the scenery changed around them, returning them to cliff edges and deep canyon between them. Twilight sky shines above them while in truth it supposed to be night.
"And with it, I activate its effect, sending one monster from my deck to the graveyard," Joseph said, he took hold of his deck, looks through it till he found the right one and puts it into the graveyard. He returns his deck to the deck slot and it auto-shuffled.
Dan was feeling confused, and so he asked, "Um, why are you sending your own dragons to the graveyard? Aren't I the kind of duellists who does that?" Considering he's a zombie duellist type, bringing monsters from the graveyard like zombies is pretty much like it.
"I have several reasons, and right now I have several dragons in my graveyard, thanks to Card Destruction before," Joseph said as he took hold of one card in his hand.
"Yeah, your card did helped me bring out two of my strongest monsters," Dan smirked, as his two Despair from the Darks stand proud in battle with Gearfried the Swordmaster and Swift Gaia the Fierce Knight between them.
"Don't remind me," Joseph groaned, than he inserts another card in the spell/trap card slot. "I play Dragon's Mirror!" And in front of him, a holographic Dragon's Mirror rises up.
Dan knows what that card is, he gawked and he yelled, "Don't tell me you have five dragons in your graveyard?"
Joseph grins, "Oh I have more than five in there, but I only need three dragons. I remove my three Red-Eyes B. Dragons from play." He took hold of the three monster cards from his graveyard and put them in his pocket to signify their out of play. "I bring forth their fusion form, my Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"
And right in front of him, a big three headed black dragon rises out of the canyon and was flying in front of Joseph. And each head with burning fiery red eyes glaring down at all of Dan's monsters; including Dan too. And simultaneously, all three roars their dragon roars out, with the attack power of 4000.
Dan flinched in shock, even though he knew that Joseph has the Five-Headed Dragon. Joseph has revealed he has the ultimate version of Red-Eyes, which almost made him felt like he's facing Seto Kaiba, who holds Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, but a dark version.
"And I'm not done there," Joseph said as he took hold of another card in his hand. "Since now I have three dragons removed from play, I can special summon one of my strongest dragons of my deck!" He placed the monster card down beside Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, in attack mode. And out on the field, a huge holographic dragon with two tails appeared. "I special summon, De Ragan!"
The dragon gave a vast roar that was so loud made everyone cover their ears. And as Dan covers his ears, he was still shocked of seeing such a dragon, a dragon he never seen before.
Mr. Moto had gone to the front door, opened and looked outwards to see if Joseph was coming. Seeing no one in sight, he groans in annoyance.
"Late as a fool he seems to be, well time to lock up," he spoke and was just about too.
ROAR!
He instantly covered his ears as he heard a dragon-like roar, it was far away but how loud it was, it was like a foghorn. He was glad his windows didn't shatter, as well as that sound came far.
He looks in the direction of where that roar came from, it came from the park, and he saw a cloud hovering at the entrance. It wasn't dark cloud, but a bright cloud, meaning only one thing that he has seen several times before, someone played a field spell. And recalling what his grandson said of one card Joseph has that could roar that loud, he could tell Joseph was duelling.
He looked very annoyed, "Looks like he chose duelling instead of a nice warm bed." He then heads inside and locks the door.
Joseph grins while Dan was gawking at the two big dragons, "You may have more monsters than I, but my dragons have much more power."
Dan noticed one thing about the newest dragon, he spoke out, "Hold on, your dragon has zero attack points."
"Indeed," Joseph calmly said with a grin, while his De Ragan does only have 0 attack points. "That's the cost for being special summoned like that. But know this Dan; she's the one who helped me beat Kaiba."
"Seriously?" asked Dan; doesn't believe that. "How the heck does a weak dragon like that could beat Kaiba?"
"Like this," Joseph said with a grin, "I sacrifice 3000 of my life points and give them to De Ragan." His life points goes down to a 1000 while De Ragan's attack power rises to 3000.
"No way!" yelled Dan, shocked as he didn't expect that.
"Yes way; and now it's time for battle!" Joseph yelled. "Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, obliterate his Swordsman!"
The three-headed black dragon roars and fires a dark fiery ball from each of their mouths. And as they soared towards Gearfried, they combine into one huge fire ball. It hit and consumed the Swordsman, and he yells in agony before shattering to bits. Dan's life points went down to 2600.
"And De Ragan, destroy his Gaia with Torrent of Flames!" Joseph commanded, and De Ragan roars, sending a torrent of blazing fire straight at the warrior on his horse. And just like Swordsman, he cried in agony before shattering to bits, and Dan's life points went down to 1900.
Watching his two only living monsters be sent to the graveyard by flames scared Dan a bit of the immense firepower that Joseph's dragons contain.
"With that, I end my turn," Joseph said with grin, while he holds three cards in his hand.
Joseph: 1000 – Dan: 1900
Feeling scared, he slowly draws one card. He smiled as he saw what it was, slowly he grins as the fear he had before was now gone. First things first, he said, "I switch both of my Despair from the Darks to defense mode." His two big zombies crossed their arms in front of them, putting themselves into defense position, with the defense power of 3000.
"Your undead creatures may have strong defenses, but my Ultimate Dragon still have more power to burn them next turn," Joseph said with crossed arms, waiting for Dan to finish his move.
"I know; that's why I'm going to play this card, my Swords of Revealing Light!" Dan said as he played the spell card, and moments after, several light swords appeared around Joseph and his two dragons.
"Interesting, a zombie duellist using light swords," Joseph chuckles a little.
"What? Even duellists like me need time, so this card helps," Dan said.
"Helps you, but not for long, the moment these swords are gone, you shall be consumed in flames of dragon fire," Joseph said, promising that once the swords are gone, his dragons would obliterate Dan's monsters.
"We'll see," Dan said as he narrowed his eyes. "I end my turn," he holds four cards in his hand.
Joseph: 1000 – Dan: 1900
"My turn," Joseph said as he draws a card, he now has four cards in his hand. This also signifies the first turn with the swords in effect. He looks at his hand, than he turns to Dan. "First things first, with Dragon Ravine's effect, I send one of my dragons in my deck to the graveyard." He took hold of his deck, selected a dragon, and sends it to the graveyard, than he puts his deck into the deck slot and it auto-shuffled.
"Then next I place one card face down," he said, putting a card into the spell/trap card slot zone. "Then I summon Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV4 in defense mode." He puts the monster onto his duelling disk monster slot zone on the right side of his ultimate. And out on the field, a holographic silver bird-like dragon appeared and stood defensively, with the defense power of 1000.
"And with that, I end my turn," Joseph said, ending his turn as he holds two cards in hand.
Joseph: 1000 – Dan: 1900
"Okay, my turn," Dan said as he draws a card from his deck. He looks at his hand, he holds six cards, and the new card he drew made him grin a little. He took hold of it and sets it into a spell/trap card slot zone. "I place one card face down." He then takes hold of Despair from the Dark on the slot. "And I sacrifice one of my two Despairs, to summon Vampire Lord!"
His left Despair from the Dark shattered to bits, than as Dan puts it in the graveyard; he puts another monster on the slot zone where the previous Despair was. And on the field, a coffin rises up, than the five-star dark zombie human stepped out of it, he stood in attack position, with the attack power of 2000.
Joseph groans, and Dan smirked a bit, "Let me guess, you know of Vampire Lord's effect."
"Yes I know of it," Joseph said, considering Vampire Lord can revive itself from the graveyard as long as it was destroyed by a card effect. As well as the fact of its much better ability…
"Nice of you to know, but time for battle," Dan said with a grin. "Vampire Lord, destroy his Horus." And the Vampire Lord leaps forth and struck Horus, Horus roared in agony before shattering to bit, being sent to the graveyard.
"And now for the ability of Vampire Lord, I get to pick a card type and you're to send one from your deck to the graveyard. And I pick monster."
Joseph takes hold of his deck, took hold of one dragon and shows it to Dan before sending it to the graveyard. It was Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV6 card. He puts his deck back into the deck slot and it auto-shuffled.
"And before I end my turn, I play a spell card," Dan said as he puts the card in the spell/trap card slot zone. "I play Book of Life."
Joseph groans, "No wonder you sacrificed one of your Despairs."
"That's right, and I choose it, and select your LV6 Horus to be removed from play," Dan said with a grin. He knows full well of Horus, if Joseph found a way to bring that dragon out to the field, he could bring out LV8, best not risk that.
Dan's Despair from the Dark burst from the ground, and rises into defense position. Now Dan has three zombie monsters, his Vampire Lord in between of his two Despair from the Darks. While Joseph only has Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon and De Ragan being trapped in Swords of Revealing Light. As well as Joseph taking hold of LV6 Horus from his graveyard and puts it into his pocket to join his three Red-Eyes.
"And now I end my turn," Dan said with a grin, he holds three cards in his hand.
Joseph: 1000 – Dan: 1900
"My draw," Joseph exclaims; drawing a card from his deck, he now holds three cards while this is his second turn with the sword. He studies his hand and carefully thinks of what he already has on the field.
At the moment, his two dragons are in attack position, but couldn't attack thanks to those swords. Then of course he has Dragon Ravine, he could use its effect, and of course he has one face down card. After some planning, he decided to do one thing.
"I place one card face down, and end my turn," Joseph said, took hold of one card in his hand and sets it face down in the spell/trap card slot zone. He now only holds two cards.
"That's it?" Dan asked, was confused, he had thought Joseph would do something else besides that.
"That's it; it's your turn now."
Joseph: 1000 – Dan: 1900
"Alright, my draw," Dan said as he draws a card, and he looks at his hand after, seeing that he holds four cards. He smiled and took hold of one card, and plays it, "I play Pot of Greed, allowing me to draw two cards from my deck." The moment the pot appeared on the field, it shatters and sent to the graveyard while Dan draws two cards. He now holds five cards in hand.
He smiled as he saw what he holds it, than he spoke, "Now then, I remove Vampire Lord to special summon one of my strongest monsters in my deck." His Vampire Lord shattered to bits, the card being removed from play and being put into one of Dan's pockets and Dan places a card on where Vampire Lord once was. "Vampire Genesis!"
"Strong card alright," Joseph said, wasn't impress though, "but then again, still not strong enough for my dragons. As well as that you don't have any other zombies in your graveyard. Right now, your Genesis is just a powerhouse monster that can only handle De Ragan, and even so, they both would be destroyed considering their strengths are equal."
"Oh don't worry, I wasn't planning to attack pal. I just have another card to play," Dan said with a grin, he puts another card into the spell/trap card slot zone. "I play, Graceful Charity. With it I can draw three cards, as long as I discard two cards." He draws three cards, and looks at his six cards. He groans on what he gotten, probably was wishing he drawn the right one. He picks two cards in his hand and puts them into his graveyard.
"And now, I'll use Vampire Genesis ability, I discard a level seven zombie monster from my hand to special summon a level six zombie monster from my graveyard," Dan spoke out, he puts the card into his graveyard, which leaves Joseph thinking of what zombie that was and what Dan is bringing out.
"And the zombie I pick is Vampire's Curse!" Dan said, and as he puts the monster card on the slot zone to the left one his left Despair, a black coffin rises up. Then it opens and a pale skin bone white hair man step forth, growling in anger with his fangs showing, glowing red eyes and is wearing dark blue demonic armor. He also has a black cape hanging on his left side, and a big blood red demonic wing on his right side. His attack power was 2000.
Joseph groans, "Okay, now you got a real Vampire on the field." Considering Vampire's Curse ability, if its destroyed, Dan could special summon it next standby phase by sacrificing 500 life points, as well as the fact it would gain 500 attack points.
"Looks like you know his ability as well," Dan said.
"I know all cards abilities, every single one," Joseph calmly said, not bragging it but it almost sounds like it.
"Seriously?" asked Dan.
"Seriously," Joseph said.
Dan has to admit though, it sounds like it. So far, Joseph knew each of his monster's abilities before he could activate them. This means that Joseph either has those cards, or probably has a similar mind to Seto Kaiba.
"Well, I end my turn with that," Dan said, now holding three cards in hand. And he has four zombie monsters on his side of the field, from left to right are Vampire's Curse, Despair from the Dark, Vampire Genesis, and lastly Despair from the Dark.
Joseph: 1000 – Dan: 1900
"My turn," Joseph said as he draws a card, he now holds four cards in hand, as well as this is the last turn for those cursed swords remain in effect.
He saw the card he drawn, and grins a bit, but first things first, he said, "I use my ravine's effect, sending another dragon to the graveyard, a dark dragon." He grins as he took hold of his deck, looks through it, and selects a dark dragon and sends it into the graveyard, and then puts the deck into deck slot and it auto-shuffled.
Dan was confused, why mention the dragon to be dark? Heck for that matter, why would he still use Dragon Ravine? He understands that the purpose for it was Joe's Dragon's Mirror, but why still uses it?
"And now, I remove two dragons from play, one light and one dark," Joseph said, still grinning as he took two dragons from the graveyard, and showed them to Dan first so he knows what they were, Hyozanryu and Red-Eyes B. Chick. Once they're pocketed with the four others, he took hold of one card in his hand and plays it on the right side of his ultimate dragon. "And I special summon, Chaos Emperor Dragon – Envoy of the End!"
A dragon rises on the field, standing proud beside Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon. It covered in dark demonic dragon armor with long fiery dark hair on the back of its head and glowing red eyes. It roars out after being summoned, with the attack power of 3000.
Dan stares at it with wide eyes; he knew Joseph's deck is filled with dragons, but not that dragon. He sighed in relief though, even though it's powerful, the swords are still in effect.
"Do you know Chaos Emperor Dragon's effect, Dan?" Joseph asked him.
"Yeah, seen Seto used it on TV, but you need to sacrifice a 1000 life points for it. And that's all you have left," Dan said with a smirk.
"True, and thus so, I end my turn," Joseph said, and once his turn ended, the light swords vanished, and with it Joseph grins as he holds three cards.
Joseph: 1000 – Dan: 1900
"My turn," Dan said as he draws a card from his deck. He studies his four cards in his hand, planning a strategy. And so far, he has four monsters on the field and one face down card. He looks at his hand, and sees the latest drawn card, and grins widely. He took hold of it as he said, "I use Vampire Genesis's ability, by sending this card to the graveyard," he shows it, and Joseph could see that its Dan's third Despair from the Dark, a level eight monster. Then he selected a level seven zombie monster in his graveyard, "And I special summon my deck's ace monster, Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon!"
Dan's last free monster zone, a zombie-version dragon rises. It rises with blue ghostly aura with a single glowing red left eye. It is a zombie version of Red-Eyes. It stood in a defense position with 2000 defense points.
Joseph looks shocked upon sight; it's obvious he never expected to see that monster. Dan grins, seeing his expression, he spoke out, "This may not be my strongest, but it is my favourite card." He was clearly happy of his zombie monster.
"I can tell why," Joseph said, still surprised. In some logic of this world, that card that Dan had summoned would be considered extremely rare. As well as the fact of its ability, which Joseph was glad a bit, "I'm just glad I don't use zombies."
Dan chuckles, "My dragon helped me a lot against other zombie duellists and thanks to him; I'm the number one Necro Duellist."
Joseph was surprised to hear that, but then became confused, "Wait a second; I thought you said everyone only knows you hold warriors?"
"I usually wear a mask," Dan said with a quiet chuckle. "So I'm sure you have heard of, Necro Masquerade." He grins and made a small pose.
Joseph looked confused, "Necro who?"
Dan looked surprised, "You never heard?" Then he shook his head, "Forget that, talk later, duel now!" Joseph nodded and Dan continued, "I turned Vampire's Curse to defense mode." The vampire guy goes into defense position. So far only Genesis is in attack mode. "And now I end my turn, make your move!"
Joseph: 1000 – Dan: 1900
"With pleasure," Joseph said with a grin, drawing one card and now he holds four cards. "And like I had said before, Dan, once your swords were gone, my dragon flames will turn your creatures to ashes. Starting with your Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon; Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, attack with Dark Blazing Inferno!"
Each head roars out, sending a dark fiery ball out of each mouth. Those three soon become one huge fireball and headed straight at Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon.
Dan glared, and quickly activates his face down, "I been waiting for that, I activate Mirror Force!"
"No!" yelled Joseph, wasn't expecting that while he should've.
A glass reflective mirror appeared in front of his zombie, the ultimate's fireball bouncing off it and headed towards Joe's three dragons, obliterating all three. Each one roared in pain before shattering to bits. Each one, those dragons were sent to the graveyard after being destroyed.
"That's what you get for attacking my Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon," Dan said. "And now you're wide open for an all-out attack for my zombies."
Joseph glares, "This is not over; I play Premature Burial." He plays the spell card, and it shows on the field. "And with it, I sacrifice 800 of my life points to special summon De Ragan!" His dragon returns from the graveyard and back onto the field, she stood in a defense pose with the defense points of 2500. While his life points went down to 200.
Dan became confused, "Why pick that? Why not Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon?"
Joseph ignored him and plays another spell card, "And I play Soul Release. With it, I shall remove four dragons from my graveyard along with a spell card."
He does so, and before he pockets those five cards, he showed them to Dan. They were Chaos Emperor Dragon, Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, his first Dragon Ravine card, Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV4 and LV8.
"Why are you removing your own dragons?" asked Dan, feeling very confused. "Heck for that matter, how many dragons do you even have in your graveyard right now?"
Joseph was going to ignore those questions till he thought of Dan's latter question. How many dragons does he have in his graveyard? So he checks his graveyard again, and counted. After counting, he replied, "I have three dragons in my graveyard. And with that, I end my turn.
Joseph: 200 – Dan: 1900
"Well thanks for telling me," Dan said, he draws one card and now holds four cards in his hand. Seeing what it is, he smiled, and he said, "I sacrifice Vampire's Curse and Despair from the Dark to summon one of my living monsters." His two zombies shattered on the field and sent to the graveyard, while he placed the monster on the left side of Genesis. "I summon Buster Blader."
An armored warrior appeared on his side of field, holding a big broadsword in his hands. With the attack power of 2600, he stood proud.
Joseph flinched upon sight, seeing the perfect warrior monster that has the purpose to battle dragons.
Dan grins, "Now you see the ace monster I had planned to use against Kaiba, and thanks for telling me again of how many dragons you have in your graveyard. For each dragon you control and in your graveyard, Buster's attack power gains 500 attack points for each one. You have four in total, so Buster's attack power is now 4600, making him my strongest monster in play."
Joseph groans, knowing that already. Buster Blader is much stronger than before, stronger than his Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon.
"And before I go into battle, I turn Genesis and my dragon into attack position," Dan said with a grin, positioning them into attack position.
"Why not your Despair from the Dark?" asked Joseph, seeing that monster still in defense.
"Dude, you have two cards face down, it's best to be safe than sorry," Dan said with a bit of annoyance. "But even so, if this succeeds, I win. So Buster Blader, attack his De Ragan!"
Buster Blader leaps at Joseph's defense position dragon with the sword held high.
"Well I guess you're correct about my two face downs, just not in the way you had thought, Dan," Joseph said with a grin. "I activate my first trap, Return from Different Dimension." He reveals the card, and his life points was cut in half, making it 100. "And with that, I special summon Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, and my three Red-Eyes Black Dragons!"
He brought out the four dragons and places all of them on his duelling disk in attack position, and all four of them appeared on either side of De Ragan. Two Red-Eyes Black Dragons on De Ragan's left side, one Red-Eyes Black Dragon with Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon to her right. Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon standing proud with the attack power of 4000, while the three Red-Eyes Black Dragons growled in a fury with the attack power of 2400 each.
"Why the heck did you do that? You just made my Buster Blader attack strength stronger?" Dan yelled, confused of this while his warrior's attack power went up by 2000, making him 6600 attack points strong. The warrior struck at De Ragan, but was blocked by a see-through barrier that circled all around De Ragan. "What?"
"This is why," Joseph said, and his second card revealed to be Draining Shield.
"No!" yelled Dan.
"Thanks for giving me life, Danny boy," Joseph grins as his life points went up by 6600, making it 6700 life points.
Dan growled in annoyed, "Don't call me Danny boy." He was really annoyed, didn't like being called that. He was also annoyed that instead of destroying Joe's dragon, he helped replenish his opponent's life points.
Now the next option for him to do is to attack his dragons, the thoughts of another Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon coming out was something he doesn't want, and as well that he was a bit annoyed of not having Despair in attack mode.
He sighed sadly and looks to his favourite card, "Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon, attack his Red-Eyes Black Dragon, with Necro Inferno."
His zombie dragon unleashed a ghostly fireball right at its living counterpart. And in response, that Red-Eyes Black Dragon fired a dark fireball back. Each fireball bypasses each other and struck their desire targets. Both of them with equal strengths, they're both roared in agony before shattering to bits and being sent to the graveyard.
After seeing his favourite monster be destroyed, he glares, "Genesis, destroy his second Red-Eyes!" Vampire Genesis goes and punches Red-Eyes Black Dragon, destroying it as well as Joseph losing 600 life points; he's now down 6100 life points.
Now each of them is equal amount of monsters. Joseph has De Ragan, Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, and his last Red-Eyes Black Dragon. And Dan only has Buster Blader, Vampire Genesis, and Despair from the Dark.
He wished he could attack again with Buster Blader, but couldn't. So he said, "I end my turn," he is down to three cards in hand.
Joseph: 6100 – Dan: 1900
Joseph draws a card from his deck, signifying the start of his turn. He looks at his hand, and after some thought while he looks at his three cards. "Time to wrap this up," Joseph calmly said.
"What?" asked Dan, was surprised, considering he still has Buster Blader out.
Joseph takes hold of one card in his hand, and plays it, "I activate my second Dragon's Mirror." The mirror appears on his side of the field, and Dan was surprised on seeing that card. "And with it, I send my Red-Eyes Black Dragon, with the other two in my graveyard, along with two more dragons." His Red-Eyes Black Dragon was removed from the field, along with four dragons in his graveyard. "And I bring fourth, Five-Headed Dragon!"
Once those five cards were pocketed, he brought out the fusion monster, and the huge five-headed dragon appeared on Joe's side of the field. It rises and stood in attack position with the attack power of 5000.
Dan groans, not just that the Five-Headed Dragon was brought out, which Buster Blader would've gain 500 attack points. If it weren't for the fact that Joseph removed five dragons from play in order to bring it out, thus in power, Buster Blader lost 2000 attack points, making its attack strength being 4600.
"As you can see, your Buster Blader lost power," Joseph said with a smirk. He changes De Ragan from defense mode to attack mode, now being 0 attack points because for the fact she was brought back by premature burial several turns ago. "And I might as well give my De Ragan some power, 5000 points shall do." His life points went down to 1100 while De Ragan's power went up to 5000.
"Oh no," Dan groans as he saw how powerful it was. He was then glad he has Despair from the Dark in defense mode.
"And now it's time for battle, De Ragan, show Buster Blader that no one gets out of it from attack you, with Torrent of Flames!" Joseph said, and De Ragan roared in her fury, as well as sending a stream of flames upon Buster Blader.
He yells as he was consumed in the flames, than shattered to bits and sent to the graveyard. While Dan life points went down to 1500.
"Five-Headed Dragon, destroy his Despair with Ultimate Oblivion!" Joseph ordered, and his Five-Headed Dragon roared, sending five streams of flames upon the defending zombie. It shrieked in pain before shattering to bits, than it followed Buster Blader to the graveyard.
Dan was confused, Joseph would've won, and if he had Five-Headed attack Genesis, so why didn't he?
"Now Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, destroy Genesis!" Joseph called out, and his three-head dragon roared, sending three dark fireballs that were then joined into one before impacting Genesis. The zombie roared out in pain before shattering to bits, and then went to the graveyard while Dan lost 1000 life points.
"And with that, I end my turn," Joseph said, now holding two cards in hand.
Joseph: 1100 – Dan: 500
"Why?" asked Dan as he drawn a card and didn't look at it.
"Why what?" asked Joseph.
Dan points at him, "Why didn't you attack Genesis with Five-Headed Dragon or De Ragan? You would've won!"
Joseph grins, "I prefer to see what you would do in this kind of situation?"
"What?"
"Think about it Dan," Joseph said. "Right now, you're facing three monsters with the attack strength of 4000 and up. So what would you do with your last move? Would you go on the defense till you draw the right card? Or would you give up, surrender?"
"I never surrender," Dan said. "Surrendering is the coward's way out."
Joseph grins, "That's the spirit; now make your final move!"
Dan looks to hand, seeing his four cards. After seeing the new card he had drawn, he was very shocked upon seeing it. He slowly smiled, now seeing a chance. He took hold of it and plays the card. "I play a spell card, Dark Magic Curtain!"
Seeing a skeleton creature rise up with a red cloak around it and waist below it is shrouded in dark purple energy.
"By paying half of my life points, I special summon Dark Magician from my deck!" Dan yelled, his life points going down to 250.
The curtains closed, than when opened, a Dark Magician came out. The being floated in front of Dan, covered in dark magician clothing, holding a sceptre in his right hand. He has pale skin, and blonde hair sticking out under the headgear.
"You have a Dark Magician in your deck?" asked Joseph, was surprised.
"Yep, as a backup really," Dan said with a smile. He took hold of another card, "And I play another spell card, Monster Reborn. With it, I bring fourth Buster Blader from my graveyard." Cracks appeared on the field, than with a burst, Buster Blader jumped out and stood beside Dark Magician.
"And guess what I have," Dan said as he holds a card in his hand, grinning.
Joseph stared at him with wide eyes, realizing what he's planning. "You're going to fuse them together, aren't you?"
"Yep," Dan said with a smile. He plays the Polymerization card, with it, both Dark Magician and Buster Blader leaped at each other, and both turned into a glowing white light. Then a new figure appeared after the two became one. Slowly the light dimmed, and there floating in front of Dan was Dark Paladin, standing tall, proud, and ready to battle with the attack power of 2900.
"You have successfully brought out Dark Paladin, while only the King of Games had done that," Joseph said, still surprised. He slowly smiled, "Bravo man, bravo."
Dan chuckles a bit, he hardly played this card, but now he has. He grins as he said, "And thanks to Dark Paladin, he has the same ability as Buster Blader." Dark Paladin's attack power rises by 2000, making him 4900 attack points strong. "Looks like I win this duel."
"Dan, your Paladin can't beat my Five-Headed Dragon and De Ragan, and if you do attack Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, I'll only lose 900 life points."
"True, but I still have this one last card to play," Dan said with a smile, holding the last card in his hand up. Then he slowly revealed what it was, it was the Shield and Sword spell card.
The moment he saw that, Joseph gawked, "N-N-No way!"
Dan grins as he played the card, "Too late, now with this spell card, all of our monsters swap their attack points with their defense points. And thanks to Dark Paladin's effect, he still gains power for his attack because of your dragons." Dark Paladin's attack power was swapped with his defense, making 2400, than his attack power rises to 4400.
While Joseph's monsters attack strength was swapped with their defense. Five-Headed Dragon's attack power pretty much remains the same while the other two became weaker. De Ragan's attack power is now 2500, while Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon's attack power is 3200.
Dan grins, "Now I got two choices, either Red-Eyes Ultimate or De Ragan, and I'll win." He then points at the Ultimate Dragon, "And I pick him, Dark Paladin, attack!"
The Dark Paladin raises his halberd-like weapon, and a dark orb forms above it, then it was hurled at Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon. It went and struck, and Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon shrieked and was destroyed, and Joseph's life points went from 1100 down to 0.
"You beat me," Joseph said, sounded surprised while all the holograms deactivate, the creatures fading, and the field faded, returning to late night. "You manage to beat me."
Dan walks over to Joseph till they stood about three feet apart of each other. Dan smiled, "Yeah, but you would've won if you had attacked Genesis. Man, you would've been the first to have been defeated me, the Necro Masquerade."
"True, but if I did, I wouldn't had seen Dark Paladin," Joseph chuckles while he returns all of his cards back into the deck. Then looks to Dan, "By the way, why tell me you're the secretive guy called Necro Masquerade?"
Dan quietly chuckled, "Well, it kinda slipped out the moment I played my zombie cards. I had thought you would've figured it out. But man, truly, you haven't heard of my title?"
"Nope, no one said your title after I got to Domino High," Joseph said as he crossed his arms. "And never saw you on TV."
"Ah, make sense, being new here," Dan said, nodded a little. Then he frowns, "May I ask you to keep it a secret?"
Joseph holds up his right hand, "Promise."
Dan looked a bit annoyed, "Seriously, I don't want anyone to know that I'm Necro Masquerade."
"And I'm serious as well," Joseph said, holding out his hand for a handshake. "If I told anyone, I wouldn't be able to duel ya, correct?"
"Right you are," Dan said, than they shook on. "Anyways, good game man."
"Good game pal," Joseph replied. "Duel you again some other time?"
"You know it," Dan smirked. "I want to beat you without getting any second chances."
"Yeah, I still want to face your zombies," Joseph said with a grin. "So as of right now, we're rivals."
"Wait, I thought you're rivals with Seto?" asked Dan.
"We're not, he doesn't duel for fun anyways, unless he gets something out of it," Joseph said.
"Okay, we're rivals," Dan said.
Then a sudden thought cross his mind, "Wait a second, what time is it?"
Dan merely looked up at the sky, "Probably forty minutes after midnight."
"Aw crud, I'm late!" he yelled, and instantly runs off. "See ya tomorrow." He runs off, heading to the Kame Shop.
Dan laughs as he watches him, before turning to walk away, vanishing into the shadows of the night.
Wow, what an awesome duel? But who will win next time? Will there be a next time? Will Joseph even get a goodnight sleep? Find out tomorrow on YuGiOh! Duels of the Actillian!
Cards that have been mention in Episode 9
Dan's Deck
Gearfried the Swordmaster: wiki/Gearfr...he_Swordmaster
Swift Gaia the Fierce Knight: wiki/Swift_..._Fierce_Knight
Despair from the Dark: wiki/Despair_from_the_Dark
Swords of Revealing Light: wiki/Swords_of_Revealing_Light
Vampire Lord: wiki/Vampire_Lord
Book of Life: wiki/Book_of_Life
Pot of Greed: wiki/Pot_of_Greed
Vampire Genesis: wiki/Vampire_Genesis
Graceful Charity: wiki/Graceful_Charity
Vampire's Curse: wiki/Vampire's_Curse
Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon: wiki/Red-Eyes_Zombie_Dragon
Mirror Force: wiki/Mirror_Force
Buster Blader: wiki/Buster_Blader
Dark Magic Curtain: wiki/Dark_Magic_Curtain
Dark Magician: wiki/Dark_Magician
Monster Reborn: wiki/Monster_Reborn
Polymerization: wiki/Polymerization
Dark Paladin: wiki/Dark_Paladin
Shield and Sword: wiki/Shield_%26_Sword
Joseph's Deck
Pot of Greed: wiki/Pot_of_Greed
Dragon Ravine: wiki/Dragon_Ravine
Dragon's Mirror: wiki/Dragon%27s_Mirror
Red-Eyes B. Dragon: wiki/Red-Eyes_B._Dragon
Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV4: wiki/Horus_...ame_Dragon_LV4
Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV6: wiki/Horus_...ame_Dragon_LV6
Chaos Emperor Dragon – Envoy of the End: wiki/Chaos_Emperor_Dragon_-_Envoy_of_the_End
Premature Burial: wiki/Premature_Burial
Soul Release: wiki/Soul_Release
Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV8: wiki/Horus_...ame_Dragon_LV8
Return from Different Dimension: wiki/Return...rent_Dimension
Draining Shield: wiki/Draining_Shield
Five-Headed Dragon: wiki/Five-Headed_Dragon
Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon
10 Stars
Dark Attribute
Dragon Type
ATK: 4000
DEF: 3200
Fusion: Red-Eyes B. Dragon + Red-Eyes B. Dragon + Red-Eyes B. Dragon
Name: De-Ragan
Stars: 8
Attribute: Fire
Type: Dragon
ATK: 3000
DEF: 2500
Effect: If you have three or more Dragon-Type monsters removed from play, you can special summon this card from hand or graveyard. If special summoned, this card's ATK points are 0. You can sacrifice life points to have this card gain ATK points.