Yu-Gi-Oh! R: Duel between Yugi and Yakou
Chapter Two! Yugi actually fights against Yakou in this one! Hopefully I'm doing alright, it's the first time I've done something like this.
Yami Yugi looked Yakou Tenma in the eyes. While Yugi was fighting to rescue Tea from Yakou's mad scheme, Yakou planned to use her as a shell for Cynthia Pegasus' soul, Pegasus' deceased wife.
They drew their starting hands of five cards each.
Yugi moved first. "Yakou! I'll start things off!" he called, and he drew his next card. Yakou grinned as a challenge.
"My first card is Alpha the Magnet Warrior in defence mode!" called Yugi. (1700 DEF)
A gray metallic warrior with a magnet on its head materialized on the field, holding a sword and shield, each with a magnet symbol on them. "And I'll also play a facedown card!" added Yugi, and the image of a card appeared. "That ends my turn."
"My turn then!" cried Yakou, drawing a card. He studied his hand and smiled.
"I'll set up a facedown card as well!" he called. "Then I'll summon this monster card in my hand!" he added.
He placed the card into the arm plate of his disk, and a massive form appeared on his field. The creature was a humanoid lion garbed in Roman-esque armour, carrying a mighty lance and a shield. "Meet Beast King Barbaros!" laughed Yakou. (3000 ATK)
"But how did you summon that monster?" asked Yugi in shock. "That's an eight star monster – a level eight monster, you should have been required to sacrifice two monsters to summon it!"
Yakou smirked, and showed Yugi the card. "My Beast King has the power to be summoned without sacrifices! However, in exchange, I must make its attack points become 1900."
The beast's strength shrank considerably, but 1900 attack points was easily enough to shatter Yugi's Alpha.
"Go, Barbaros!" cried Yakou. "Strike down his Magnet Warrior!"
The massive beast raised its glance and rammed it though Alpha, throwing it backwards and shattering it. Yugi raised his arms to block the backlash from the Solid vision. His monster had been in defence mode, so his life points were safe. Yakou grinned fiendishly, but then Yugi raised his head and smiled. Yakou was shocked. "What are you smiling about!" he cried.
"Simple," said Yugi. He touched a button on his duel disk. "This."
Yugi's facedown card rose up – Soul Rope.
"No!" cried Yakou.
"Yes," Yugi replied. "I can use Soul Rope to summon one level four monster from my deck at a cost of 1000 life points." He selected the card he wanted and placed onto his duel disk. "I choose my Queen's Knight!" (1600 DEF) A red armoured woman appeared on his side of the field. Yakou frowned at the sight of the knight but said nothing. He spread his arms, indicating the end of his turn.
Yugi quickly drew his next card, and held up another card. "I summon King's Knight," he stated clearly. A knight in orange armour with a creased face and a blonde beard appeared on the field (1600 ATK). "And you know what that means Yakou! With the King and Queen in play, I can summon their loyal servant, the Jack's Knight!"
The third knight appeared, blond and garbed in blue armour. (1900 ATK)
"Now Yakou, prepare to meet the agent of your defeat!" roared Yugi. "I play Polymerization! This will fuse my three knights into the all powerful Arcana Knight Joker!" The three knights spiralled together, and from the vortex appeared a stronger knight in purple armour, with 3800 attack points.
Yakou smiled. "I see . . . You used this strategy in our last battle. Using a fusion monster instead of a god monster. Very clever."
"Go, Joker Knight!" called Yugi. "Attack his Beast King Barbaros! Cut it down!"
The monster sliced Yakou's Beast King in two, the backlash sending Yakou skidding backwards as his life points dropped down to 2100. But he recovered instantly with a demented smile.
"You've just triggered my facedown trap card!" he laughed as the card flipped up. "Level Resistance! This handy little trap is activated when one monster I control is destroyed, and allows me to summon two or more monsters from my deck in defence mode! However, their total levels must equal that of the destroyed monsters!"
Yugi gritted his teeth in frustration as Yakou searched through his deck. Yakou held up his three cards and placed them on his duel disk.
"First I'll summon Angel01!" (300 DEF) he declared, and a little hooded, winged figure appeared on the field, followed by a bat winged hound. "The second is Cassimolar! (1200 DEF)" added Yakou. "And last is Leraje the Lord of Archery! (1600 DEF)," and the last monster, a robed figure armed with a bow joined its comrades.
Yugi was amazed that Yakou had suddenly gathered three monsters, and ended his turn, while Gekkou looked on in worry. Yugi's Arcana Knight Joker is a powerful monster, but its Yakou who's dominating the field!
"That's not all that's happened either," added Kaiba. "Yugi is a strategic player, but Yakou's deck is specifically designed to quickly summon the Wicked God monsters. I wonder how long Yugi can hold out."
Yakou drew his card smiling. "Yugi, you told me not to be frightened of the god monsters. Instead, you should fear their approach!" He slid a card onto his duel disk. "I summon Votis to the field in defence mode!" A reptilian snake demon appeared, horned and armed with a sword. Sparks were crackling around it (1900 DEF). "I'll end my turn with a facedown card!" added Yakou.
Kaiba cast a critical eye over the field. "Yakou's four monsters are all weaker normal monsters – in this situation, there's only one use for such a strategy. If he has a Wicked God card in his hand, we could be seeing it very soon."
Yugi drew, and slid the card into his duel disk. "I'll also play a facedown card," he said evenly. "And now my Joker Knight will destroy your Votis!" he added, and Yugi's knight raised its sword, and cleaved through the snake creature.
Yakou just smiled.
"Yugi, my life points are untouched, and I still have three monsters."
Yugi just gave him a serious look, and raised his hand. "My turn is over."
Yakou burst out in laughter as he drew his card. Gekkou groaned. "Now Yakou has three monsters and it's his turn again! It's a good condition for the advent of his Wicked Gods . . ."
"Taste the powers of the Wicked Gods, Yugi!" declared Yakou. He held up a card. "I offer three sacrifices to the depths!" he cried. The three monsters disappeared in a black whirlwind, as blue fog wafted around their feet. "Now be born my great beast!" cried Yakou slamming the card into his disk. "I summon the Wicked Eraser!"
In the fog, a shape began to form, sinuous and deadly. Two dark wings spread behind the platform. Kaiba, Gekkou and Willa backed away in shock as the monsters serpentine form wrapped around the platform. A head with a massive beak-like protrusion and two fiendish horns rose up, attached to a triangular torso from which the longer lower body of the beast grew. Its two rather short arms pawed the air as its attack points flashed before them (? – 2000).
Yugi looked at it in shock. "What is that thing?"
Yakou burst into crazed laugher as his eye bulged. "This is the antithesis to the almighty Slifer the Sky Dragon, the Wicked Eraser! Until recently, it was in the hands of Bandit Keith."
Yugi gasped. He'd left Joey to face a Wicked God monster! His last brushes with such legendary powers hadn't ended well for him, and this one seemed to possess even deadlier power.
"Let me explain the abilities of my monster," said Yakou. "Eraser gains 1000 attack and defence points for every card you control, putting it at 2000 currently."
"But it's still weaker than my Knight," protested Yugi in surprise.
"That will change, I promise you," smiled Yakou. He activated a facedown card. "I play the De-Fusion spell card!" he cried.
"No!" cried Yugi, as his knight twisted into the three monsters that had made it up.
"Of course they're in defence mode, but with four cards on your field . . ." added Yakou. Eraser shrieked as its power grew, ". . . Eraser now has 4000 attack points!"
He pointed at Yugi crazily. "I'll blow away your hope!" he screamed. "Wicked Eraser, destroy his Jacks Knight with Digestive Breath!"
Yep. Eraser. Okay, this chapter stuck pretty close to the manga (with the exception of Yugi's Polymerization gag; I mean c'mon!) but from here on out, it gets VERY different. One very nice manga sequence will be practically erased, but I'll insert it partially later on. The two ultimate twists (including the end, however, will be the same.)
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