Total Eclipse/Chapter 6: Apprentices
Shido grinned as his Cyber Saurus Ver. 2.0 readied its cannon "Attack his Berserk Gorilla (Earth/Beast/Effect/2000/1000) FOSSIL CANNON!"
"No my Berserk Gorilla!" yelled a ra yellow student as his Gorilla was turned into solid rock which then crumbled into dust (Ra yellow student: 500-0)
The crowd which had gathered around the two cheered as Cyber Saurus Ver. 2.0 faded away. They were chanting Shido's name repeatedly while Tsuyoshi nodded at his protégé. Sora cheered along with the crowd while Daichi looked deep in thought.
"So this is your little project Kagoshima" Yui stated walking through the crowd.
"What's it to you." Tsuyoshi replied coolly
"Oh, and here I just wanted to be friends" Yui said shrugging.
"Whatever"
Yui stood still for a moment before saying "Why are teaching someone how to duel, you can barely do it yourself?"
"I happen to think I make a good teacher" Tsuyoshi replied "At least a better teacher than you would be"
"Any person I would teach would be a better duellist than a person you teach"
"Well why not prove and get your own...'project'" Tsuyoshi replied walking away.
"Not a bad idea Kagoshima!"
As she walked away from the beach where Tsuyoshi stood, he turned around "Crap"
Mizuki frowned. She sat on her bed in the obelisk blue girl's dorm. She had been here nearly a month and a half and she still hadn't unpacked. Her wardrobe and drawers remained empty except for a few cards left here by the previous owner.
"This place just doesn't feel like home" she thought "Maybe I should go see Sora...or big brother"
She lay on her bed for a few seconds before walking over to the window. She stared outside to see Yui beat an opponent in one turn.
"Maybe...I could get her to teach me some skills" Mizuki thought "Then maybe I could beat Sora...and big brother of course"
"Please help me become a great duellist!" Mizuki blurted out as Yui was entering the girl's dorm.
The Obelisk blue Girls dorm was built like a giant castle, it was surrounded by a small lake. Like all the dorms it was colour coded, the colours being blue and white. It had large extravagant steps leading up to the front door where Mizuki, Yui and Nanami stood.
"Mizu-zu?" Nanami asked confused.
"You want me to teach you how to duel?" Yui responded "If she's anything like Yuki than that Tsuyoshi's in for it"
"Y-yes" answered Mizuki.
"Well...if your sure...then ok-" Yui began.
"Wait!" called out a girl from behind Yui.
Yui turned to see a black haired girl, with blue eyes wearing a Ra yellow uniform, her name was Watanabe Emiko, beside this Emiko was Nagasaki Reika a girl with black hair which had the tips dyed auburn, which she had in a ponytail, odd yellow eyes and was wearing black framed glasses, she was dressed in an obelisk blue uniform.
"Eh, yes?" Yui asked tentatively.
"My names is Watanabe Emiko" Emiko replied. "I want you to teach me how to duel"
"HIYA Rei-rei!" roared Nanami.
"Eh...Hi Nanami" replied Reika.
Yui stared confusedly at Nanami "Could she be Akemi's sister?"
"Pardon me" Emiko said cutting off Yui who was about to say something to Nanami "But can we get back on track?"
"Well it seems the two of you" Yui nodded towards Mizuki and Emiko in turn "Are interested in an apprenticeship with...me"
"Well I was here first" blurted out Mizuki.
"I could just teach-"began Yui.
"How about we settle this in a duel?" Emiko retorted.
"Both"
"You're on!" Mizuki roared.
"-of you" sighed Yui.
"Let's do it!" Emiko replied "Right here right now"
The two girls stared ferociously at each other. Yui sighed as they activated their dueldisks.
"G-good luck Emiko" Reika stammered.
"Thanks Reika" replied Emiko
"Kick her ass Mizu-zu!" shouted Nanami.
"Eh...thanks Nanami"
"Ready?" Emiko asked, Mizuki nodded.
"DUEL!" they shouted in unison.
(E: 4000)(M: 4000)
"I'll go first" Emiko said drawing a card (E:6) "I summoned Enhancing Magician (3/Light/Spellcaster/Effect/1300/1400)(A blue skinned man in purple robes holding a large purple staff) and now it's effect activates, as long as my Magician is on the field all monsters on my field gain 100 attack points for every level they have!(Enhancing Magician-1300-1600)"
"Enhancing Magician? Where have I heard of that before?" Mizuki mused "Sora might know"
"Who's Sora?" Emiko asked.
"A friend..."
"A boyf-" Emiko began
"Don't...even...go...there"
"I end my turn with two face-downs" Emiko sighed. "Make your move" (E:3)
(E: 4000)(M: 4000)
"Draw!" Mizuki yelled ripping a card from her deck (H:6) "I summon a face-down defence position monster"
"I activate my trap card BACKUP!" Emiko shouted as her face-down flipped face-up.
"What does BACKUP do?" Mizuki asked staring oddly at the card.
"This card activates when you summon or set a monster, I can special summon one monster from my hand, however I can't draw a card during my next draw phase" answered Emiko selecting a card "I summon Jamming Magician (3/Dark/Spellcaster/Effect/ 1400/1300)(A red skinned female in grey robes), she has an effect like her predecessor"
"What does she do?" Mizuki asked.
"You're monsters lose attack equal to their levels multiplied by 100" replied Emiko smiling.
"Seems pointless to me" sighed Mizuki. "I end my turn with a face-down"(H: 4)
Sora frowned as he wandered through the school building. Every hallway was painted the same colour and each door was only distinguished by a number.
"To challenge the Kaiser I have to fill in a formal challenge document and hand it into the main office...so I need to get the form from the library" Sora thought scanning each door.
Takeru followed Sora, hiding behind the corner Sora had just turned.
"It's not stalking if you duel him...I think"
Suddenly Takeru's phone began buzzing, he took it out and checked the number. He sighed and answered it.
"T-takeru help, I've nearly been found out" Kenchiro whispered over the phone.
"What are you-" Takeru began.
"Perv!" screamed a girl on the other end of the phone.
"Sh-"began Kenchiro before Takeru ended the call.
"What an Idiot" Takeru said turning to look for Sora "He-he's gone!"
"Thank you for your help" Kenchiro said slipping his phone back into his pocket.
"No problem" replied an obelisk blue girl who proceeded to turn and walk away.
"Now I can watch this duel in peace" Kenchiro sighed happily clambering up a tree "Let's see who will win this thing"
With that he produced binoculars and began to watch the duel intensely.
(E: 4000)(M: 4000)
"My turn, since I activated BACKUP I am unable to draw a card" Emiko smirked as she picked a card from her hand "I sacrifice my Magicians to summon Attacking Soldier (7/Light/Warrior/Effect/2100/2100)(A pink-haired stern looking woman, with pale blue eyes, she wore a white coat, brown miniskirt, black knee-high boots, blue gloves, and a red cape, she held a transforming sword gun in her right hand)"
"That's pretty weak for a level 7" Mizuki said in confusion.
"Just let me worry about that" Emiko replied, she then pointed towards Mizuki's face-down monster "Destroy it"
The pink-haired soldier nodded and ran forward, she ran forward ready to swing her blade, but then stopped and walked back to her position.
"What just happened?" Emiko asked.
"I activated my trap card negate attack" replied Mizuki.
"Of Course you did" Emiko sighed "I end my turn" (E: 2)
(E: 4000)(M: 4000)
"Draw" Mizuki said drawing a card (M: 5) "I flip summon Wind-up Magician (4/Fire/Spellcaster/Effect/600/1800)"
"Wind-up? That's that new archetype isn't it?" Reika asked from behind Emiko "It has something to do with the new exceed summon...I think"
"Right you are!" exclaimed Mizuki winking "It's a relatively new archetype, it has one of first exceed monsters in its fold"
"Exceed...summon? Wind-up?" Emiko said thinking hard "What the hell is an 'exceed summon'?"
"I'll give you demonstration" Mizuki said slapping a card into her duel disk "I summon Wind-up Knight (4/Light/Warrior/Effect/1800/1200) and since I have two level four monsters on the field I can exceed summon a rank four monster, namely my Rank 4 Wind-up Zenmaister!"
Emiko stared as the two monsters turned into card form and flew up into the sky, seconds later a large four legged robot, colored in varying shades of blue, white, yellow and green appeared.
"This is my Wind-up Zenmaister (E/4/Earth/Machine/Exceed/Effect/1900/1500), since he was exceed summoned; the two material monsters are now used as overlay units. To activate my monsters effect I must send one to the graveyard" explained Mizuki.
"I think I get it" Emiko replied.
"Well alright then" Mizuki smiled as her monster began glowing "My monster has another effect, for each overlay unit my monster gains 300 attack points (Wind-up Zenmaister-1900-2500), now Zenmaister destroy her soldier"
Zenmaister flew forward and punched attacking soldier in the stomach who proceeded to explode into pixels (E: 4000-3600) "Can't be helped" sighed Emiko.
Unfazed Mizuki slammed a card into her duel disk "I end my turn with this face-down" (M: 3)
(E: 3600)(M: 4000)(WUD-2)
"Draw" Emiko said lazily taking a card from her deck "I activate monster reborn to bring back my Attacking Soldier (7/Light/Warrior/Effect/2100/2100)" (E: 3)
"Why her?" Mizuki asked.
"Well the only other option was Jamming Magician...and your monster doesn't have a level" answered Emiko "Anyway, I summon Eidolith-Odin (3/Light/Rock/Tuner/0/0)" Emiko said as pink, rose shaped crystal appeared on the field.
"You're going to synchro summon a level 10 monster" Mizuki gasped.
"Correct you are, I tune my level 3 Eidolith-Odin to my level 7 attacking Solider!" Emiko shouted as the rose crystal turned into three rings which surrounded Attacking Soldier "Oh hear me! Last hope of those who defy fate, appear now, synchro summon, cut through with your heavenly blade! Eidolon-Odin! (10/Light/Machine/Effect/Tuner/3000/3000)(A green and white armoured humanoid holding a large S shaped sword)"
"Mizu-zu watch out, I've heard of this card" Nanami said staring at the new arrival "His effect packs a punch"
"Thanks Nanami" replied Mizuki gulping.
"My monster will attack!" Emiko shouted as Odin leaped forward "Go Odin! Zantetsuken"
"Trap card activate!" roared Mizuki "Astral Barrier!"
As Odin brought down it's blade, a hologram of Mizuki appeared before her Zenmaister, the hologram was promptly sliced in half "Giving up life points to protect your monster? That's odd"
"It certainly is" grunted Mizuki (M: 4000-1000).
"I end my turn" Emiko replied. (E: 1)
(E: 3600)(M: 4000)(WUD-2)
"Draw" Mizuki said ripping the card from her deck "I need to get stronger than him, as it is...if that happens again...I won't be able to..." (M: 4)
"Come on Mizu-zu you can do it!" Nanami yelled.
"Heh" Mizuki grunted beginning to smile "I activate Pot of Risk!" A red pot with an angry face appeared next to Mizuki "This allows me to draw to cards..." she explained as she did so "At the cost of sending the top to cards of my deck to my grave" she scanned the cards intently and a brief smile showed up on her face.
"Whatever you've got you won't be able to destroy my monster" Emiko said smiling.
"I end my turn" Mizuki replied. (M: 5)
(E: 3600)(M: 4000)(WUD-2)
"My turn" Emiko said drawing a card (E: 2) "My monster will attack your monster! Go Odin! Attack Zantetsuken!"
"I remove from play the Necro Gardna that was sent to the graveyard by Pot of Risks effect to negate your monsters attack!" Mizuki roared.
A translucent Necro Gardna appeared blocking Odin's sword "Oh well" Emiko sighed "That was really lucky, you know being able to send Necro Gardna to the graveyard"
"Yeah it was re-ally lucky" Mizuki replied scratching the back of her head.
"Well done Mizuki! Keep it up!" screamed Nanami jumping up and down.
"T-thanks Nanami" sighed Mizuki.
"If you're both done, I end my turn" Emiko said gesturing for Mizuki to take her turn. (E: 3)
(E: 3600)(M: 4000)(WUD-2)
"My turn!" yelled Mizuki slash drawing "I set two spell or trap cards face-down, your turn" (M: 6)(M: 4)
(E: 3600)(M: 4000)(WUD-2)
"How uneventful" Emiko laughed as she drew a card "We've both been backed into a corner haven't we?"
"Yeah I guess so" Mizuki replied laughing as well.
"It ends this turn!" Emiko said after the laughing died down "My monster attacks with Zantetsuken!"
Odin for the third time flew towards Zenmaister, once again bringing down his sword "I activate my trap card Meteor Flame!"
"What does that do?" Emiko asked.
"By discarding two cards from my hand while you have more than 3000 LP, you lose 2000 LP!" roared Mizuki as a large flame shot out of her duel disk and straight into Emiko "But that's not all I activate the trap card Overwind!"
"Let...me...guess" grunted Emiko as she stood up (E: 1600) "It doubles your monsters attack?"
"How right you are!" yelled Mizuki as Zenmaister began glowing.
As Odin attacked Zenmaister blocked the attack with one hand and picked Odin up with the other. With one swift movement Odin was flying comedically into Emiko.
"Grah!" Emiko screamed as her monster exploded into pixels (E:0)
(E: 0)(M: 1000)(WUD-2)
"That was fun Emiko" Mizuki said smilingly "We should duel again sometime"
"You were great Mizuki" replied Emiko "You definitely deserve to be taught by Miss Yui"
"No, you do" Mizuki said as the two grinned at each other.
"I could always teach both of you" Yui grunted.
"Really!" they yelled in unison.
"Y-yes" Yui sighed "Fukushima Mizuki, Yuki's younger sister...and Watanabe Emiko heiress to the Watanabe group..."
Kenchiro smirked as he leaped down from the tree "I wonder...could Shido beat Mizuki?" scratching his head he stared at Emiko "She would cause Daichi a lot of trouble in a duel...
Sora whistled as he walked back to his dorm. It was around seven and the dirt trail through the woods was completely empty.
"I'm going to be late" sighed Sora "No dinner for me..."
"Sora"
Sora whirled around in response to his name "Anyone there..."
After a few seconds he turned around to be met by a woman in a purple shroud covering her whole body.
"Eh...Hi" Sora said backing away.
"Hello Sora" the woman said smiling at least Sora thinks she was smiling "I am here to read your future"
"I don't believe in that stuff" dismissed Sora as he began to walk away.
"Maybe you'll find something out about your father..."
Sora stopped "What do you mean?"
"The eclipse comes three years hence" replied the woman "Secrets will be revealed and powers gained"
"What do you mean?" Sora asked again.
"Look into my eye Sora" the woman said as she showed Sora he left eye.
Sora gazed at the glowing blue eye, which had no pupil. Sora was overcome with a wave of tiredness; suddenly he lost his balance and fell to the floor unconscious.
Sora stared up at a large eight headed serpent shrouded in black.
"Sora are you okay?" asked Daichi who stood to the right of Sora.
"Eh…yeah, I remember this from back then" Sora replied.
"Focus Soubou" a girl who stood to the left of Sora said.
"Yeah"
Sora stared as the masked man across from him began to laugh.
"I remember now!" the masked man laughed "You are the reason I'm here, I have no memories because of our duel"
The crowd gasped as the man removed his mask.
Yuki began laughing as the cloud began to clear "Looks like you've actually managed it! You've actually managed to deal damage to me"
"There's more where that came from!"Sora retorted
"Prepare Soubou Sora! To feel the true wrath of my deck!"
Sora awoke in his bed the next day. He wiped his eyes groggily, only to be surprised when his right eye began to hurt with a searing pain.
"What a strange dream" Sora said before going back to sleep.
This is the fourth time I've written this chapter…I had a lot of problems with it.
Of course I won't bore you with that, I'm just really sorry it took so long to write.
Anyway, hope you all enjoyed.
Card of the Day
Light
Eidolon-Odin
10
A green and white armored humanoid holding a large S shaped sword.
Machine/Effect/Synchro
Eidolith Odin + Attacking Soldier
When this card destroys an opponent's monster, destroy all monsters on your opponent's side of the field. When this card is destroyed special summon one Eidolith-Odin and one attacking Soldier from your graveyard.
Atk: 3000 Def: 3000
Next time,
Sora's duel with Yuki commences but will our hero be able to stand up to Yuki's immense power, and what of Takeru, will he get the rematch he wants so bad.
Next time,
Intro Arc Finale,
Duel 7: Kaiser's Pride!
Sora: I will become Kaiser!
Yuki: It seems you've improved since the last time we dueled…but of course I've improved too.
?: Call Ishiko. Tell her we shall be arriving shortly.