I been in the middle of studying for my exam happening on Tuesday, but I managed to find time to put together the second chapter of the duel which I've now decided would be three chapters long. Before we get into it, I'll reveal the references that I created in the last chapter.
One of the reviews said the scene where Anna called Yuma handsome was a reference to season zero of Yugioh. That is kind of correct, but if you include that statement along with Bronk calling Yuma his hero and Rei asking Yuma what his secret was, it kind of resembles a scene from the episode where Rebecca faces Vivian in the KC Championship Arc and Vivian tries to get Yugi's attention.
Also, the part where Yuma says 'Whhhaaaatttt?' is a reference to a Family Guy episode where Meg dates a prison escapee.
But enough talk. Let's continue the story. Disclaimer's on the first page. Any bolded cards are mine. Enjoy!
Cathy- 2200 LP Hand: 4
Tori- 2400 LP Hand: 2
Anna- 2200 LP Hand: 4
Cathy's field- Cat Girl Magician ATK: 2000 1 Overlay Unit, Stray Cat x2 ATK: 100.
Tori's field- Fairy Cheer Girl equipped with Magical Amulet ATK: 2600 1 Overlay Unit, one facedown.
Anna's field- Two facedowns.
"It's my turn! I draw!" declared Cathy (Hand: 5), "I activate the spell card, Blustering Winds. This gives a monster on my field 1000 attack and defence points until my next standby phase," as she spoke, winds blew in and swirled around Cat Girl Magician, giving her power.
Cat Girl Magician- ATK: 3000/DEF: 2800
"3000 attack points?" Anna gasped.
"Wait a minute," said Tori, "that's a card that's in Yuma's deck."
"I know," said Cathy, "since I admire his dueling skills so much and seen him in action several times, I simply had a feeling that some of the cards he uses would be compatible with my deck, so I bought a copy or two of the cards he uses and gave them a go," Cathy then turned to Yuma, kissed her hand and blew it towards where Yuma was standing in the form of a heart. Yuma gasped and ducked under the heart before it got to him, but Cathy ignored it and carried on with the duel, "and with the help of a card that he inspired me to use, I will defeat Anna without the need of her ability! Cat Girl Magician, attack her directly!" with that the magician pounced up into the air and prepared to strike Anna.
"Oh no you don't!" shouted Anna, "I destroy both of my facedowns!" and just like that, they disappeared.
"Say what?" said Bronk, Caswell, Flip and Rei all shocked because Anna seemed to leave herself defenseless. Yuma however had no reaction.
"And in doing so, I can special summon from my hand, Snow Plow Hustle Rustle, and I'll place him in defence mode," continued Anna as her new monster appeared, which was a red snow plow with a giant yellow plow on its front and an orange light on its roof.
Snow Plow Hustle Rustle- Level 10 EARTH Machine ATK: 2500/DEF: 3000 (Defence Mode)
The snow plow moved in front of Anna just as Cat Girl Magician began to strike with her wand. With her attack being the same as Snow Plow's defence, her attack barely made a scratch, so she returned to Cathy's side (or in this case, corner) of the field.
"A stalemate?" asked Cathy surprised.
"Not exactly," answered Anna, "because thanks to Snow Plow Hustle Rustle's effect, my opponent, or rather opponent's take 200 damage for every card that was destroyed to its effect," the two cards that were destroyed by said effect reappeared, but not for long. The snow plow rushed up and slammed into both of the cards which transformed into snow and got sucked into the machines plow. Then the snow was shot out of the machines pipe and sent towards Tori and Cathy who braced themselves for the cold snow.
Cathy- 1800 LP
Tori-2000 LP
"Yahoo! I'm in the lead now!" shouted Anna jumping up and down while the spectators sweatdropped at her excitement, "Care to try anything else?" she asked to Cathy.
Cathy checked her hand before answering, "I'll place one card facedown and end my turn (Hand: 3)."
"It's my turn now," said Tori as she drew her card (Hand: 3), "I'll activate Fairy Cheer Girl's ability which lets me use her last overlay unit to draw a card," the last overlay unit went into the cheerleader's pom poms and she began to cheer while Tori drew her card (Hand: 4).
Fairy Cheer Girl- 0 Overlay Units
"Then I'll activate the spell card, Pot of Greed which lets me draw two more cards," and Tori did just that (Hand: 5), "And now Fairy Cheer Girl, attack Cathy's Stray Cat and end this duel for her!" Fairy Cheer Girl began to run towards one of Cathy's Stray Cat's.
"Well Yuma," said Caswell, "with only 100 attack points, it looks like Cathy's out of the running for your heart."
"No she isn't actually," said a knowing Yuma. The other guys looked a Yuma surprised but then immediately turned their attention back to the duel to see if Cathy would respond to the attack. To their surprise, just as Tori's monster was about to destroy Stray Cat, the Cat began to wag its tail which made the fairy stop dead in her tracks. Then she headed towards the other Stray Cat but it wagged its tail too. As she continued to bounce back and forth between the two monsters, everyone but Yuma and Cathy were confused.
"What's going on?" asked Tori.
"I may have forgot to mention my Stray Cat's ability," answered Cathy, "as long as it remains in face-up attack position, you can't select another monster on my field as an attack target," by the time finished explaining, Fairy Cheer Girl gave up and returned to Tori's corner.
"But that means with two Stray Cats both in attack position," started Bronk, "the first one prevents the second from being targeted and vice versa."
"And with both of those cat's abilities protecting Cat Girl Magician," continued Flip, "all three of Cathy's monsters are safe."
'And on top of that,' Tori thought to herself, 'Snow Plow Hustle Rustle has too much defence for Fairy Cheer Girl to take down, so I'm all out of options,', "I place two cards facedown and end my turn (Hand: 3)."
"My turn," declared Anna (Hand: 5), "I activate the spell card, Saved from Scrap. Now by discarding a card from my hand, I can special summon a machine-type monster from my graveyard ignoring the summoning conditions, but that monsters attack gets reduced to zero. Attack power or not, I'm bringing back Rocket Arrow Express!" from a portal behind Anna, Rocket Arrow Expressed reappeared, though most of its paint was peeling off and rusted and the train itself was moving a lot slower than it was before.
Rocket Arrow Express- Level 10 EARTH Machine ATK: 0/DEF: 0 (Attack Mode)
"I don't get it," said a confused Rei, "What good is that monster without any attack or defence?" but after just a few seconds he along with the other spectators saw what Anna had set up.
Rocket Arrow Express, Snow Plow Hustle Rustle- Level 10
"I overlay my level 10 Rocket Arrow Express and Snow Plow Hustle Rustle!" her two monsters turned fully orange and flew up into the air. A red spiral portal opened up and both of her monsters sailed inside, "With these two monsters I build the overlay network and xyz summon Superdreadnought Rail Cannon!" from the portal emerged three train tracks, two of which had black trains on them. What appeared next however was mind blowing. The two trains were connected by their hoods to a giant red base, followed by a blue square shaped base on top of the red one and on top of the blue base was a giant cube made of green square tiles. Two orange overlay units orbited it.
Superdreadnought Rail Cannon- Rank 10 EARTH Machine ATK: 3000/DEF: 3000 2 Overlay Units (Attack Mode)
"Dang-a-wahtzoo! A rank 10 xyz monster!" exclaimed Bronk.
"I've never seen an xyz monster with such a high rank before," said Flip.
"Me neither," said Caswell, "and with such high level monsters required to summon it, I've got a feeling its effect packs some serious punch."
"Indeed it does," Anna announced, "by removing an overlay unit, I can deal out 2000 points of damage!"
"Say what?!" said everyone else shocked except for Yuma who saw the monster in action. One overlay unit went into the top of the green tiled cube, causing the green tiles to open up and spread out in every direction. With the inside of the cube opened up, an odd looking orange face with a metal neck appeared from the top of the cube. Also, a long barrel of a cannon extended from the front of the cube and began to charge up energy.
"With your current life point count, the two of you are finished and Yuma is now mine!" declared Anna.
"Looks like you have a date tonight, Yuma," said Rei giving him a nudge and making Yuma paralyzed at the fact that he was unwillingly about to get a girlfriend.
"Oh no he doesn't!" shouted Tori and Cathy making Anna confused.
"I activate my trap, Nine Lives!" Cathy announced, "all I have to do is remove from play a level 4 or lower 'Cat' monster from my graveyard and I gain life points equal to either its attack or defence," she took Cat Girl (detached by Cat Girl Magician's ability) out of her graveyard and a hologram of the monster appeared which turned into a green glow and covered Cathy.
Cathy- 3000 LP
"Now I'll activate my trap! Gift of the Mystical Elf!" declared Tori, "this gives me 300 life points for every monster on the field. I count five, so that's 1500," a small golden orb flew out of every monster on the field and they all made their way towards Tori.
Tori- 3500 LP
"Wow! Both Tori and Cathy managed to save themselves from defeat," said Flip. As finished his sentence, Superdreadnought Rail Cannon finished charging up and fired a huge blast of purple energy covering Tori and Cathy's corners.
Cathy- 1000 LP
Tori- 1500 LP
Superdreadnought Rail Cannon- 1 Overlay Unit
"You two just don't know when to give up, do you?" asked Anna, "No matter, I still have an attack to use, and since all of Cathy's monsters are protected, Superdreadnought, attack Tori's Fairy Cheer Girl!" The giant machine advanced towards the fairy and brought out a giant hammer and raised it up, preparing to strike its target.
"I activate the trap card, Impenetrable attack," said Tori, "This card lets me choose between one of two effects. I choose the one that prevents Fairy Cheer Girl from being destroyed by battle or card effects," the hammer came down on Fairy Cheer Girl just as a pair of yellow rings appeared above her, protecting her from being destroyed. Some shockwave from the attack still got to Tori.
Tori- 1100 LP
Cathy was shocked, "How dare you use a card that Yuma possesses!"
"Hey! You've been doing it too, you know!" Tori shot back.
"Still though-"
"I place two cards facedown and end my turn," Anna interrupted as Superdreadnought returned to her corner of the field (Hand: 2).
"My turn," said Cathy (Hand: 4).
Cat Girl Magician- ATK: 2000/DEF: 1800
"I activate the spell card, Riryoku. This lets me half the attack power of one monster currently on the field and give that power to one of my monsters until the end phase. I'll half Superdreadnought's attack and give it to Cat Girl Magician," a red glow surrounded the machine, draining it of its power while a green glow surrounded the magician.
Cat Girl Magician- ATK: 3500
Superdreadnought Rail Cannon- ATK: 1500
"Uh oh!" said Anna.
"And now I'll activate my magi-"
"I don't think so," cut in Anna, "I activate the trap, Xyz Jam Up. It lets me target one xyz monster and automatically destroy all of its overlay units," this caused Cat Girl Magician's last overlay unit to flash a couple of times before blowing up.
Cat Girl Magician- 0 Overlay Units
"Curse you!" growled Cathy, "but I can still derail your train. Cat Girl Magician, attack Superdreadnought," the magician began to fly towards the weakened machine.
"I activate the trap card, Half Unbreak," said Anna, "this prevents one of my monsters from being destroyed by battle and all battle damage I take from battles involving it gets cut in half," bubbles began to billow out of the card and one of them encased Superdreadnought. This cause Cat Girl Magician's swipe to hit the bubble leaving no visible damage, but it caused a shock that got to Anna.
Anna- 1200 LP
"What? You also have a card that belongs to Yuma?"
"I simply got it in a booster pack recently. It reminded me of Yuma though so I thought it would come in handy."
"Whoa. The three of them all have at least one card that's found in Yuma's deck," Bronk pointed out. He then proceeded to pat Yuma on the back, "I never thought you'd rub off on other people so easily, Yuma."
This made Yuma confused, "Whadaya mean? I've never rubbed anyone before," he said, causing Bronk, Flip and Caswell to facepalm.
"I place one card facedown and end my turn," said Cathy (Hand: 2).
"My turn," said Tori (Hand: 4), "I place two cards facedown and end my turn,"
"That's odd," said Caswell, "that's exactly the same move Anna made before bringing out Snow Plow Hustle Rustle. Do you think she's up to something, Yuma?"
"I don't know," said Yuma who was speechless at how much effort the three duelists were putting into this one duel.
End of chapter 4. The conclusion of the duel will be next. Oh! Before I go, I think its only fair to mention that I'm bumping the rating of my story up to T due to Yuma's line about rubbing as I believe it may sound a little too mature. Anyway, if you're liking the story so far, leave a review for me. See ya later!