Hey everyone! Well, last week was interesting. Home life was about normal as always, but work just got a bit busy. I've had a coding project in the works for the last couple of weeks, which was something that I wasn't familiar with to start with, but worked with it till I felt comfortable. I finally finished early this week and turned it in to be evaluated, with little things coming up for changes. Otherwise, it looked good to my boss. Then the guy who is in charge of updating our code and built the original system I was replacing talked with me, telling me that he wanted to move my code around a little so it would catch all the errors. Well, I had no problems with that, so I began moving it, only to find out I couldn't move it to where he wanted. You see, we have three layers for our website. There is Core, Tiers, and Web. Core keeps things we store data in, with Tiers doing the talking to our database, and Web is just the User Interface. My project code was in Web, but he wanted it moved to Core. Problem is, my code in Web uses Tiers to do some of it's work. Core can't talk directly with Tiers. Thus my code fails to work in Core. Upon realizing this, the guy told me to move what was in Core (the file where my code was) to Tiers since we were going to do this anyways. So, I did that, only to cause a bigger mess due that other files in Core needed the one I moved, but couldn't talk to it now that it's in Tiers. In the end, I had to move several files from Core to Tiers before I got a reasonable work around. Now I have tons of rehashing to do, since there are two layers to Tiers also. They're called Business Logic Layer (BLL) and Data Access Layer (DAL). I moved all those files to the BLL, but there is stuff that needs hashed out and moved to DAL. Ack, it's going to be a long week next week. Plus I have to write tests up for each. (/Sighs\)
Writing wise, this story is nearing it's end slowly. Once this duel is over, there isn't but a chapter or two left after that, so I'd say we're down to the last 5-10 chapters. As for my other stories, the one my wife and I are working on, Reunion, is going well. I'm thinking it'll be posted sometime this month.
Moving along, time for reviews!
Metal Overlord 2.0: It has been a while. LOL! Just keep trying with the whifflebat. Yep, the person who took Arya and is holding her hostage is Gozaburo. Heh, seems like things just circle around for those two. True, in the show, he was a lesser evil, but I made him out to be a bit worse, hehe. The Corona deck is mainly ardee's creation. I've tweaked it a little, but not much, more or less. So true, the Tuner and Synchro cards finally made it in here at the end, but they didn't come out till we were near the end, and who better to wield them then Gozaburo himself. Yes, the new dark versions of our heroes' monsters seems interesting. Those I kind of came up with on my own and thought they would be fitting for this duel. Heh, yeah, this is but the tip of the iceberg, so hang on. Good luck with the bat, lol. Thanks for your wonderful review!
The Duelist of Dawn: Yeah, the dark counterparts in the form of Synchro monsters are seemingly powerful. Yep, things are getting hectic, and it's just beginning. Thanks for the review!
Supreme-Chaos-Angel: Yep, this entire story series, Tournament of Power, began with Gozaburo as the main villain, due that he had a connection with the others in the past. It was my twist on the series I suppose. And he wasn't weak by any means at that time, for he had the most powerful of the Millennium Items (well, an 8th item I created, called the Millennium Crown). Feel free though to mention the rule breaking. I know I do break some, but I try hard to keep close to the actual rules. Sometimes the situation just requires that I bend or break it. Plus I haven't kept up on rules too much since I mostly quit playing long ago. I didn't think I broke any rules on Horus… Hmm, do you mean about Dark Hole and him? That one I wasn't sure on, but went with it would be ok, since I wasn't sure if he was affected by spell cards that didn't specifically target him alone. True, the recycling part makes Gozaburo harder to beat and seems to take all of the monsters the others have treasured forever become dark creatures. Eh, he didn't create the Legendary Demons, that's for sure. That was the last story in the series, hehe. Thanks for the review!
Thank you, all three of you, for your kind reviews. I really appreciated all of them. And to any who read but didn't review, feel free to review and tell me what you think about the story. I won't bite your head off. Possibly… Lol, anyways, do feel free. I love hearing what people think.
At any rate, I'm done for today. I hope you all like the chapter. Enjoy!
Stats from previous chapter
Life Points:
Jaden: 7800
Seto: 7800
Marie: 6300
Yugi: 8800
Illidan: 4800
Gozaburo: 18100
Monsters on the field:
Jaden: Elemental Hero Mariner (1400/1000), Neo-Spacian Twinkle Moss (500/1100)
Seto: Peten the Dark Clown (500/1200) (d)
Marie: Dancing Fairy (1700/1000) (d)
Yugi: Red Gadget (1300/1500) (d)
Illidan: Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV8 (3000/1800)
Gozaburo: Blue-Eyes Black Dragon (3000/2500), Demoness Joan (2800/2000)
Spell/Trap on the field:
Jaden: FD (x 2)
Seto: FD (x 2)
Marie: None
Yugi: None
Illidan: FD
Gozaburo: Tuner Calling (s), Azure Corona – The First Rift (s) (1 sc), Power Zone (fs), FD (x 3)
Number of cards in hand:
Jaden: 1
Seto: 0
Marie: 2
Yugi: 3
Illidan: 1
Gozaburo: 1
Number of monsters on the field:
Jaden: 2
Seto: 1
Marie: 1
Yugi: 1
Illidan: 1
Gozaburo: 2
Number of face down spell/trap:
Jaden: 2
Seto: 2
Marie: 0
Yugi: 0
Illidan: 1
Gozaburo: 3
Chapter 50
"I think I will!" Jaden declared while drawing a card, only to be struck by a surge of black energy.
Darkly chuckling, Gozaburo pointed at one of his face down cards, causing it to rise, saying "I activate my trap, Blitz Renewal. This trap can only be activated so long as I have a field spell in play, and if there is none, I receive 1000 life points of damage. Now whenever any of you take direct damage to your life points, my life points increase by that number."
Glaring at the robed duelist, young duelist grit out "Whatever, it's still my turn. I activate my face down spell, Convert Contact! With this, I send one Neo-Spacian from my hand and deck to the Graveyard, allowing me to draw two new cards."
Selecting a card from his hand and then pulling his deck out and picking another card, the young duelist showed them, saying "I send Neo-Spacians Dark Panther and Aqua Dolphin to my Graveyard."
Placing the cards into his Graveyard Slot, Jaden then drew two new cards and quickly said "I next activate the spell Cocoon Party, which allows me to special summon a monster with 'Chrysalis' in it's name from my deck for each Neo-Spacian in my Graveyard. Since I have three at the moment, I special summon three Cocoon monsters."
Pulling his deck out, the young duelist selected three cards and placed them horizontally onto his Duel Disk. The first creature to appear was a small red bird within a pink bubble that had sky blue colored eyes. Next to it, a pale colored caterpillar with ten small legs, green emerald eyes, and a single green horn on it's head formed within a pink bubble. The last creature to materialize was a brown colored mole like creature with green eyes within a pink bubble.
"Welcome to the field Chrysalis Chicky (600/400), Chrysalis Larva (300/300), and Chrysalis Mole (700/100). But don't get too overly attached to them, for I'm playing the spell Contact, which allows me to sacrifice them in order to special summon their Neo-Spacian forms from my deck or hand, so rise up Neo-Spacians Air Hummingbird (800/600) in defense, Flare Scarab (500/500), and Grand Mole (900/300)!"
One by one, the small creatures vanished, giving way for their adult forms. Replacing the small red bird was a red bird warrior with white wings on his back and clawed hands. Sticking his chest out, he planted his hands onto his hips, seemingly posing before dropping to a kneeling position.
Next to the bird warrior appeared a bug like warrior with wings on his back, covered by a thick hide, a chiseled body, a helmet that appeared to be like a horned beetle, and a human like face that extended to his neck.
The final creature to appear next to the bug warrior was a light orange mole like creature with drill like shoulder pads and sharp clawed hands and feet.
Folding his arms over his chest, Gozaburo smartly remarked "Summoning all of those creatures won't stop you from losing to me."
"We'll see." Jaden fiercely replied. "Now that Flare Scarab is on the field, his special ability activates. He gains 400 extra attack points for each spell or trap card on your field. Since you have all your slots full, that means he gains 2400 extra attack points (500 + 400 * 6 = 2900/500)!"
Flames immediately rose up around the weaker bug creature while it's strength increased. The flames soon fell, leaving the creature glowing with a light orange aura.
"Next, I activate Air Hummingbird's effect, allowing me to gain 500 life points per a card in your hand. Since you only have the one, that means I get a small power boost."
Launching itself into the air with it's white wings flapping, the red bird warrior moved before the robed figure, who glared at it. Without warning, a pink flower bloomed before the bird warrior, allowing it to suck out nectar from it. The young duelist's body immediately began glowing with a light green aura as his life points increased. Finishing up, the bird warrior returned to it's horizontal card image and took up it's kneeling stance once more.
"Time for me to go on the attack with Mariner, and since I still have a face down card, that means this is a direct attack. Go, Anchors Away!"
Leaping into the air, the light green skinned warrior drew back his right arm before thrusting it forward, sending the anchor that covered his right hand towards the robed figure. The anchor struck him on the shoulder this time, causing him to grit his teeth to keep from crying out in pain.
"Now Twinkle Moss's special ability kicks in. I draw!"
Picking up a card, Jaden smirked and turned it towards the robed figure, saying "Looks like I drew the spell Space Gift, meaning Twinkle Moss can direct attack!"
Quickly raising it's arm, the light green creature turned it's palm towards the robed duelist and released a strike of green energy, causing it's target to cringe lightly.
"I could attack his Demoness Joan with Flare Scarab or Grand Mole, but his face downs have me worried. No need to push my luck I suppose."
Displaying the card he had just added to his hand, Jaden calmly said "I activate Space Gift, which allows me to draw one card per a Neo-Spacian on my field. Since I have four, I get four new cards."
Picking up four cards, the young duelist examined them momentarily before selecting one and placing it into an empty Spell/Trap Slot, saying "I'll throw down a face down and end my turn." (Jaden = 8200, Seto = 7800, Marie = 6300, Yugi = 8800, Illidan = 4800; Gozaburo = 16300)
Silently drawing a card, Seto let out a slight hiss as he was struck by a blast of black energy from the dark blue star. Eyeing his new card, he slapped it onto his Duel Disk, saying "I play X-Head Cannon (1800/1500) in defense mode."
Materializing onto the field instantly was a blue and yellow machine robot with twin cannon barrels sticking out of it's chest. The robot appeared to be hovering above the ground on a small spiked ball structure, and clenched it's fists and crossed it's arms over it's chest while settling onto a horizontal card image.
"I'm done." (Jaden = 8200, Seto = 7700, Marie = 6300, Yugi = 8800, Illidan = 4800; Gozaburo = 16400)
Nodding, Marie drew her new card, only to be struck by a blast of black energy. Shrugging it off, she examined her new card. Contemplating it for a moment, she finally said "First off, during my Standby Phase, since Dancing Fairy was in defense mode, I gain a 1000 life points. Next, I'll summon White Magician Pikeru (1200/0) in defense."
Appearing onto the field in a small flash of light was a pink haired child that had twin ponytails sticking out from a golden goat like helmet with two horns on the side, green eyes, and wearing a white set of robes with intricate pink embroidered into it with a golden cape on her shoulders. In her small hands was a short cane like staff that had a glowing sphere on the end of it.
"To end, I'll place a face down card." (Jaden = 8200, Seto = 7700, Marie = 7200, Yugi = 8800, Illidan = 4800; Gozaburo = 16500)
"Then it's back to me." Yugi declared while picking up his new card, only to get struck by a blast of black energy once more. Ignoring the small bit of pain, the spike haired duelist glanced at his card and placed it into his left hand with his other cards. Selecting a different card, he slapped it onto his Duel Disk horizontally, saying "I summon Yellow Gadget (1200/1200) in defense mode."
Immediately forming onto the field was a yellow machine creature with a split silver gear on it's back, a gear going from it's mid-body to below his hips, spring like arms and legs, solid yellow hands and feet, and a single glowing green eye.
"I set a face down and am forced to end my turn." (Jaden = 8200, Seto = 7700, Marie = 7200, Yugi = 8700, Illidan = 4800; Gozaburo = 16600)
Deliberately drawing his card slowly, Illidan was prepared for the incoming blast of black energy, which he quickly shook off. Eyeing his new card, he glanced at his opponent's field and frowned.
"Jaden could have attacked Gozaburo's monsters with Grand Mole and Flare Scarab, but he chose not to. I'd be willing to bet he's thinking the same thing I am, that those face downs of Gozaburo's are some kind of traps to take out our monsters. I could let well enough be as is, but doing so would be foolish since Gozaburo's field will only grow in size next turn. And at the least, I can force him to use up a few cards to stop me."
"Are you going to make a move today, Illidan!?" Gozaburo questioned in a mocking tone.
Smirking, Illidan replied "I'd be careful what you ask for. Horus, take to the sky and take out Demoness Joan with Darkness Flame!"
Spreading it's wings wide and flapping them twice, the large silver dragon took to the air and let out a mighty screech as it reared back it's head. Dark flames immediately began licking the edges of it's mouth. Throwing it's head forward, the dragon released a stream of searing hot black flames at the female demon, who only stared at the attack with a wicked smile.
"You've become impatient since I last saw you, Illidan." the robed duelist admonished. "If you had looked my field over, you'd have seen I had two face down cards, in which I activate one of them, the trap Mask of Weakness! Thanks to this card, your dragon loses 700 attack points (3000 – 700 = 2300/1800)!"
Forming onto the chest of the silver dragon instantly was a mask with five ivory bones sticking out in a star formation, that had blue, red, and purple in it's coloring. It had a pair of eyes, along with a disconnected jaw. The dragon's body immediately glowed with a red aura, causing it's black flame stream to shrink in size.
Smirking slightly, Illidan coolly replied "Nice try Gozaburo, but I was ready for that! From my hand, I activate the quick play spell Rush Recklessly! Thanks to this card, my dragon gains 700 extra attack points for this turn alone, meaning his strength is right back to where it was (2300 + 700 = 3000/1800)!"
"Oh no you don't, Illidan! I reveal my counter trap, Magic Drain. With this trap, you are forced to either discard a spell card from your hand to negate my trap, or my trap will negate your spell card. So, which will it be?" Gozaburo questioned.
Gritting his teeth while looking at his hand, Illidan ground out "I have no spell card to discard, so my card is negated (3000 – 700 = 2300/1800)."
Sighing lightly, the robed duelist coolly said "I was hoping to keep you in this duel till the end and force you to suffer through the loss of all of your friends, but it looks like I won't be able to do that. For you see, when Demoness Joan destroys a monster in battle, her effect deals you damage equal to your monster's attack points. And then there is my Power Zone, which will deal the same amount of damage to you. Those two combined will deliver 4600 life points of damage. Coupled with the Battle Damage you'll receive, which is 500 points, you'll lose this duel and be sent into the Shadows. It's a shame that I won't get to see your torment last longer, but that is the price you shall pay for your impatience."
Gritting his teeth, Illidan stared wide eyed as his dragon's black flames were dispersed and the demoness charged towards the silver dragon. She cackled evilly and drew back her right hand before smashing it into the dragon's chest, causing it to howl out in pain. The dragon lightly growled out in pain before exploding, sending debris flying towards it's master. Just as the debris was about to hit the brown haired duelist, a blue barrier suddenly appeared before his body, saving him from the debris.
Furious, the robed duelist scanned the field and found the source of the barrier immediately in the form of a smirking female duelist. "What did you do!?" Gozaburo demanded.
Giggling innocently, Marie smartly replied "I simply protected my husband with the trap Hallowed Life Barrier. By simply discarding the card I held, all damage that he would have had dealt to him this turn was reduced to zero."
"Why you…" Gozaburo ground out with anger flashing in his eyes.
Casting a small glance at his wife, the brown haired duelist warmly said "Thanks for your help, Marie."
Returning his vision to the field, Illidan placed the remaining card he held onto his Duel Disk horizontally, saying "To end my turn, I'll set a monster." (Jaden = 8200, Seto = 7700, Marie = 7200, Yugi = 8700, Illidan = 4700; Gozaburo = 16700)
Glaring at his opponents, the robed figure drew his card and watched as five blasts of black energy was fired from the dark blue star. Each of his opponents cringed lightly from the strike while his life points increased. Without a word, he slapped a card to his Duel Disk. Forming onto the field immediately was the bronze colored sphere of ooze.
"With Changeling (0/0) back, I can activate Tuner Calling, allowing me to special summon Krebons (1200/400)."
Yellow, transparent cubes flickered about the area all at once, while green holographic one's and zero's appeared also. Some began forming pieces of a blue and yellow armored body, and cylinder-shaped head. Sinister, green computer eyes flashed across the black visor that covered the creature's face, while golden and blue patterns ran up the rest of the creature's helmet. Yellow teeth shot an equally dastardly smirk. The feet of the creature were covered in thin, sock like hoppers, and white and blue gloves with golden fingers were on the creature's arms.
"Next, I activate Changeling's effect, allowing me to transform it into a new monster. I choose your Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV6, Illidan!"
Instantly, the bronze colored sphere of ooze began morphing. Glowing with a lightly orange glow, the ooze took the shape of the eagle like silver dragon and let out a low screech.
"And now that I have both monsters, I perform another Synchro Summon, merging both Krebons and Changeling to create Stardust Dragon (2500/2000)!"
Transforming into a pair of glowing orbs, the two orbs swirled together, creating a blinding white light. The light soon died down, revealing a white dragon with a pair of mighty white skin wings, muscular arms and legs, sharp clawed hands and feet, a blade like axe on it's tail, purple pecks and shoulder pads, an elongated head, and three slicked back horns on it's head that were somewhat thin and a single horn on it's nose. The dragon released a mighty roar, seemingly attempting to frighten all on the field.
Darkly chuckling, Gozaburo smugly said "And now, it's time I make you pay for your interference between Illidan and myself, my dearest Marie. Crush her pathetic Pikeru now Stardust Dragon with Star Stream!"
Roaring loudly, the white dragon drew back it's head and opened it's jaws. Glowing dust began filling it's maw as it launched a stream of flaming sparkling energy.
Before the blast could hit, Seto called out "Think again, step father! I play the trap Attack Guidance Armor, which allows me to redirect your attack to any monster on our fields that I choose. I choose my own Peten the Dark Clown!"
Forming on the body of the clown was a set of dull gray armor, which he immediately pat due to the snug fit. Instantly, the beam of dust switched directions radically and moved towards the clown. The beam struck it hard, shattering the clown creature, who let out a small yelp of pain.
"And now that Peten has been destroyed, I can activate my other trap, Crush Card Virus! This card is activated when I lose a Dark Attribute monster that had less than 1000 attack points. Now a devastating virus is let loose onto your field, hand, and deck, which will destroy all monsters with 1500 or more attack points! Whatever advantage you had before is now gone!"
Darkly chuckling, Gozaburo smugly replied "You are so predictable, Seto. Don't think I was unprepared for your little trap card. I activate the effect of Stardust Dragon, allowing me to sacrifice it in order to negate the effect of your trap card!"
Watching the white dragon vanish from the field, Seto couldn't help but growl in frustration, muttering "He countered my trap…"
"That's right, step son." the robed duelist smartly stated. "And next, the effect of Power Zone activates for the destruction of your little clown card. So you now lose the attack points of your card from your life points!"
Streaking out of the sky and striking the duelist in the white trench coat, the duelist released a might cry of pain and staggered backwards a step before regaining his composure.
"And next, the effect of Blitz Renewal kicks in, granting me the life points you lost. Finally, the effect of Azure Corona activates, allowing it to gain another Spell Counter, giving it two."
Glaring at his step father, Seto grit out "That may be, but you forget, Peten has effect of his own to be played. By removing him from play, I can special summon another Peten the Dark Clown (500/1200) from my deck, which I'll place in defense."
Upon slapping the new card onto his Duel Disk horizontally, the duelist in the white trench coat watched a new clown monster appear onto his field and stick it's tongue out at it's opponent.
"You may have brought out a new creature, but it won't matter." Gozaburo smartly remarked. "I shall prove that to you now, for you have gained my focus, so I'll crush you. Go Joan, destroy his X-Head Cannon with Purity Claw Swipe!"
Quickly crossing the field at an insane speed, the female demon drew back her right hand and opened it up so her claw was ready. Reaching the blue and yellow machine creature, she threw her right hand forward, allowing it to puncture the robot creature. The robot wailed for a moment before exploding, sending debris flying back and smacking it's master in the chest.
"When Joan destroys a monster in battle, you lose life points equal to that monster's attack points. And the worst is yet to come, my dear step son, for you lose more life points thanks to Power Zone. Not to mention, I gain life points thanks to Blitz Renewal."
Without warning, a bolt of lightning flew down from the sky once more and struck the duelist in his white trench coat, making him scream out in agony. Wisps of smoke poured off of his body as he barely remained standing.
"Not falling, eh? I think Blue-Eyes Black Dragon can fix that. Annihilate his Peten with Black Lightning!"
Releasing a might roar, the black dragon raised it's head and opened up it's maw. Black energy immediately began licking it's lips as it shot a beam of black energy at the weaker clown creature. The blast blew away the clown, leaving behind only a plume of smoke from it's destruction.
"And lest you forget, Power Zone now takes away more of your life points for the loss of your monster!"
Falling from the sky immediately was a bolt of lightning that struck the barely standing duelist, making him scream out in pain once more. The lightning soon faded, revealing the duelist was seemingly in a daze. A moment passed and he suddenly fell forward onto the ground with a loud thud.
"SETO!" Yugi called out with concern on his face.
Darkly chuckling, Gozaburo smugly remarked "Looks like he couldn't take the full effect of this duel. Too bad, I had hoped to be the one to crush him and send him into the Shadows."
"I… wouldn't… count… on it." a winded voice spoke up.
Looking, the robed duelist saw his step son slowly standing once more, with great difficulty. On his feet at last, the duelist weakly said "I activate Peten's effect, allowing me to remove it from play and special summon another one from my deck, which goes in defense."
Appearing onto the field in a flash was a similar looking clown monster, who once more stuck his tongue out at his opponent.
Sneering, the robed duelist coolly said "No matter, I'll crush you in the end. Now then, Azure Corona's effect kicks in, giving it another Spell Counter, leaving it with a total of four. Next, I activate the spell Synchro Draw. For each Synchro Summon I have completed, I draw one card. As of now, I have had three summons, so I draw three cards."
Picking up three new cards, the robed duelist selected one card and placed it into his Duel Disk, saying "I activate the spell Twilight Corona – The Second Rift."
Forming on the field next to the dark stars was a gash of darkness. The entire area around it suddenly turned gray for a moment, but it soon was restricted to the space on the field of the robed figure. The gash seemed to have a patch of gray cloth covering it, allowing fluttering wind to blow out from it. It gave off a sinister atmosphere, seemingly making the five duelists a bit uneasy about it.
"Twilight Corona can only be on the field so long as Azure Corona is out. Next, it deals one of my opponents 600 points of damage, while Blitz Renewal grants me 600 life points. The one to suffer is you, Jaden!"
Before the young duelist could say a thing, a blast of gray energy struck him, making him grimace in pain as his life points dropped.
"I lay a face down card and move to my End Phase, which activates the effect of Changeling. It now returns to my hand."
Holding his hand over his Graveyard Slot, the robed duelist took the card that was ejected and added it to his left hand. Before the group could do or say anything, without warning, the form of the large white dragon that had three slicked back horns reappeared with a mighty roar.
"Wait, how did that get back onto the field!?" Illidan asked in confusion.
Smirking, Gozaburo smartly replied "The effect of Stardust Dragon is far more than just allowing itself to be destroyed to negate a spell, trap, or monster card that destroys a card. Yes, for when I use that effect, I can resurrect it to the field during the same End Phase."
"Just great…" the brown haired duelist ground out.
"I end my turn. Now come and fight me, fools!" (Jaden = 7500, Seto = 3000, Marie = 7100, Yugi = 8600, Illidan = 4600; Gozaburo = 23300)
Picking up a new card, Jaden's eyes widened as a blast of black energy raced towards him and struck him square in the chest, causing him to cringe from the fresh pain. Growling lightly, he examined his new card before saying "It's time I took down those monsters of yours! I'll start my turn by activating Air Hummingbird's effect, allowing me to gain life points in intervals of 500 per a card in your hand. Since you hold two, I gain 1000 life points!"
Flapping it's wings twice, the red bird warrior quickly cross the field and came to a stop with four feet between himself and the robed duelist. Pink flowers immediately sprouted before the duelist, causing the red bird warrior to move forward and suck out nectar from each flower. A green glow immediately enveloped the young duelist, causing his life points to rise. Finishing up with sucking the nectar, the bird returned to it's horizontal card image and took up a kneeling stance once more.
"Next, I sacrifice Neo-Spacian Air Hummingbird and Elemental Hero Mariner to summon Elemental Hero Neos (2500/2000)!"
Both the light green skinned warrior and the red bird warrior vanished from the field immediately. A moment passed before a flash of light filled the air above the young duelist's field. From the flash, a powerful white warrior with a slicked back horn on his head and spikes coming out from his elbow joints touched down onto the ground. He had a bit of red lining on his body, along with a bit of blue as well. On his chest was a blue circle.
"I'm not done yet, for I activate the spell O – Oversoul! This allows me to special summon one Normal Type Elemental Hero from my Graveyard to the field, and I'm reviving Elemental Hero Sparkman (1600/1400)!"
A small electrical storm without warning flared up, from which the blue and gold warrior with wing like structures on his back reappeared.
"And now, I'm hooking Sparkman up with an equip spell called Spark Blaster!"
Forming in front of the blue and gold warrior instantly was a black gun with several wires hanging off of it. Reaching out, the warrior took hold of the blaster with his right hand, causing the wires to come to life and connect to his right arm.
"With Spark Blaster, I can switch the mode of a monster on the field. It has a maximum of changing the mode of a monster up to three turns, after which it goes to the Graveyard. Now I'll use Spark Blaster to switch the mode of your Blue-Eyes Black Dragon, Demoness Joan, and Stardust Dragon to defense!"
Watching in shock, the robed duelist saw his black dragon, the female demon, and the white dragon struggling to remain standing. The three continued to struggle till finally the demon took up a kneeling stance, while the two dragons pulled in their wings and crossed their arms.
"Since I used up all of Spark Blaster's effect, it goes to the Graveyard, but I'm not done yet, for I play the spell H – Heated Heart! Thanks to this spell, Sparkman's attack points grow by 500 for this turn alone, plus he can now deal Trample Damage (1600 + 500 = 2100/1400)!"
Forming before the spell card image in a flash was a blue capital letter 'h'. The letter slowly touched the back of the blue and gold warrior, whose strength immediately shot up.
"Time to mow down your field! The first strike is yours Neos, so go take down his Stardust Dragon with Cosmic Crush!"
Releasing a small battle cry, the white warrior quickly raced across the field and leapt into the air. Coming downwards, he drew back his right hand into a tightly clenched fist. Rainbow colored energy encircled it as he launched it forward and plunged it into the head of the white dragon. The dragon immediately released a mighty roar of pain before shattering, leaving nothing but a cloud of smoke in it's wake.
"And thanks to your own Power Zone card, you now lose life points equal to your dragon's attack points!"
Thunder instantly boomed over head as a streak of lightning poured out of the sky and struck the robed duelist, who released a light growl of pain while his life points sank.
"Flare Scarab, take out Blue-Eyes Black Dragon with Flaming Arrow!"
Leaping straight up into the air, the bug warrior held out his two hands before his body. Flames came to life between his hands in the shape of a sphere. Opening his hands and launching the sphere forward, the bug warrior released a flaming arrow head towards the defending black dragon. The flames engulfed the dragon fully, causing it to howl out in pain before shattering.
"Now you take more damage due to your own Power Zone!"
Lightning instantly poured from the sky and struck the robed figure, making him howl in pain as his life points dropped dramatically. He took a small step backwards as wisps of smoke poured off of his body.
"I'm far from done, for now, Sparkman is about to attack your Joan! Hit her with Static Shockwave!"
Drawing back his left hand, the blue and gold warrior launched it back forward with his left hand open. Bolts of light blue energy went racing forward and struck the kneeling demoness, causing her to scream out in pain before exploding, leaving a cloud of smoke in her wake. Cutting through the smoke in a flash was a bolt of lightning, causing the robed duelist to scream out in pain before falling to one knee.
Pointing at the robed duelist, who was lightly panting while sitting on a single knee, Jaden declared "It's time I got in another hit, so Grand Mole, direct attack!"
"Not quite, you impudent little brat! I have had enough of your foolishness, so I activate the trap Mirage Ruler! It's effect is activated when all of my monsters were destroyed in one turn. They are automatically revived to my field as they were during the Standby Phase, plus my life points also are restored to their original value!" the robed duelist snarled while standing.
Forming onto the field instantly was the black dragon, along with the white dragon, and the demoness. At the same time, the life points of the robed duelist grew back to their original score.
"No way…" Jaden murmured while staring at the three returned monsters. Clenching his right fist, he grit out "I can still attack with Twinkle Moss, so I draw a card!"
Picking up a card, the young duelist eyed it before saying "The card I just drew is the monster Necro Guardna. Since it's a monster, my Battle Phase ends due to Twinkle Moss's effect. Also, since you used up a trap card, Flare Scarab loses 400 attack points (2500/500). To end my turn, I switch Grand Mole to defense and end my turn." (Jaden = 8100, Seto = 3000, Marie = 7100, Yugi = 8600, Illidan = 4600; Gozaburo = 23700)