Austin's Reason

By Sailor Phoeinx1997

Austin pulled on his duel disk. But unlike Seto's it was curved over his entire forearm, blackish-blue and more curved around the deck and graveyard. The Summomer got hotter as Austin drew his hand.

"What's going on with this thing? It's acting like it did when Akunadin was here." Mokuba and Noah clutched her dress as Seto drew his hand. She smiled at the two. "What're you worried about? Your brother reclaimed his number one duelist title earlier. He could beat this guy with his eyes closed." Seto smiled at his girlfirend's confidence.

"Sara. I'm not going to let you or anyone else down."

"Are we dueling or cheerleading?" Austin asked irritably.

"It's your move," Seto said just as irritated.

"Alright then." AUstin placaed a magic card face down and one Witch of the Black Forest in attack mode before ending his turn. Seto glared at the card.

"Let's see. 1100 ATk points. Easily taken out by Mystical Horseman. And with one magic card face down I'll end my turn." Austin sneered.

"I summon Cure Mermaid. And she's got enough power to take out 200 life points and your Mystical Horseman." Mokuba clutched tighter Sara's dress. "And that's not all. I've got a special card. This is called the Seal of Oricalcos. It gives my monsters 500 more ATK points and when you lose it'll take your soul right out of your filthy body."

"What?" Sara nearly screamed. Mokuba's eyes filled with fear.

"Hold on. There's a fiarly even chance you'll lose your own soul as well!" Seto shouted as Austin placed down the card.

"So? What would you care?"

"What are you blabbing on about?"

"Your company used to sell military supplies to countries like mine and that's why I carry this." Austin pulled from his pocket an old china doll with a golden dress and bonnet. The pettiskirts were slightly charred and her skin was white. Her blue eyes were made of glass and her auburn curls hung on her forehead.

"I hope you realize that's a doll. You know that right?"

"Of course I'm aware of that. The truth is that this doll once belonged to my betrothed, Annabelle. And because of your tanks she was taken away from me. This and a locket she gave me are all I have left of her." Sara's eyes narrowed.

"SHUT UP WITH THAT STUPID JIBBERISH! I WARNED YOUR LITTLE FRIEND, RYAN, THAT IF ANYONE CAME NEAR ME AGAIN SPEAKING JIBBERISH AGAIN I'D DO FAR WORSE THAN WHAT I DID TO RYAN HIMSELF!" Sara ran towards the duel but once she came near the seal it blasted her away. "What now?" She was a little more aggrivated than scared or hurt.

"I guess that I forgot to mention, the seal doesn't allow anyone to enter or exit. Not until the duel is done."

"Fine then. If you're done I'll take my turn now." Seto drew his next card. "Hold on a sec. I don't have this card," The card was a magic card called Attack Life Points. In the tiny box it said that the monsters on the field on his side would give their ATK points to his life points. He checked over his hand. "These are Sara's cards! I grabbed her duel disk by mistake?" Sara bit down on her lip. "Keep it together Seto. You can do this. Let's see. You've got Twin-Headed Fire Dragon, Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Ancient One of the Deep Forest and Blue-Eyes White Guardian."

"Hurry up Kaiba. I'm waiting."

"Well. We can't have anyone getting bored. I summon Twin-Headed Fire Dragon and Ancient One of the Forest. And I sacrifice them to summon Blue-eyes White Dragon in attack mode and Blue-Eyes White Guardian in attack mode."

"What?"

"And I'll play the magic card Attack Life Points. This takes the ATK points of my dragon and Guardian and converts them to my life points. I'll also play one more card face down and end my turn." Austin snarled.

"Fine then. I play the Magic Card, Fissure. It allows me to destroys a face-up monster on your side of the field with the lowest attack points. That means your dragon's history."

"Good. I was hoping you'd do that. Now I reveal the magic card Monster Reborn. It allows me to bring back my Blue-Eyes. And I summon two more and fuse them together to make Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon. With a Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon on the field Blue-Eyes White Guardian allows me to draw three cards to my hand for every oppenent against me." Seto drew three more cards. "I also activate Crush Virus and Deck Virus. These cards take out 25% of your deck and won't allow you to play a monster higher than 1500 ATK points."

"FUnny. That's the card I was thinking of playing next."

"Oh Seto," Sara whispered, "This looks almost hopeless."

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