Yu-gi-oh

No Limits

By Kevin Jones

Turn 9-Marked Faces and Knives Made From Tooth Brushes

Chase

Facility duel arena: "I summon Masked Dragon (ATK: 1400/DEF: 1100) in attack mode."

My first day in the facility has started off with a duel. I have a deck built with random cards, this guy has already beaten Damon and he has a powerful a Synchro monster; this is not going to be easy, especially because the only monster in my hand is red dragon wearing a crappy mask, but then again none of this adventure has been easy.

Kai

"Déjà vu, I summon Blazewing Butterfly (ATK: 1500/DEF: 1500) in attack mode, now blaze buzz!"

The giant, brown butterfly with flaming wings races towards my Dragon. The Dragon tries to use his body armor for protection but it he is unable to stand up to blazing bug. (4000-3900)

"I activate Masked Dragon's effect allowing me to special summon 1 dragon-Type monster with 1500 or less ATK points from my deck."

"You don't know if there's another dragon in the deck," says Damon.

"Is there?" I ask.

"I think so," Kai Answers.

"Wait a minute," starts Damon, "why didn't you tell me that there was another dragon in the deck!"

"You didn't ask."

"Found it", and it's a little ironic.

"I summon Debris Dragon (ATK: 1000/DEF: 2000) in defense mode."

This Debris Dragon doesn't appear to talk.

"I set one card face down and end my turn."

Chase

"I summon Regenerating Mummy (ATK: 1800/DEF: 1500) in attack mode-"

"This allows me to activate Torrential Tribute, which destroys every monster on the field."

Suddenly a large wave sweeps the field taking the Dragon, the Mummy, and the Butterfly into oblivion.

"Fine then, I set one card facedown and end my turn."

Kai

"I summon Blazing Inpachi (ATK: 1850/DEF: 0) in attack mode. Now attack Chase directly!" (4000-2150)

He's got his giant burning tree heading straight for me, (4000-2150) sucker.
"Now it's my turn to activate a trap. I play Wolf in Sheep's Clothing which allows me to special summon to 2 level 1 monsters, one from my hand and the other from my deck so long as they both have the same name. I special summon 2 Attack Gainer's (ATK: 0/DEF: 0) in defense mode."

Now I've got a pair of red haired Umpires as defense.

"You had that entire move planned from the start didn't you?"

"Of course."

"Don't listen to this Kai, he just got lucky." Someone screams from the audience.

"Shut up! That wasn't luck that was skill, skill I haven't seen since before I got thrown into this hell hole. Now go on show me what else you can do!"

Chase

"With pleasure, I draw." Alright, I knew it was here.

"I tribute both of my Attack Gainers in order to advance summon Elemental Hero Bladedge (ATK: 2600/DEF: 1800) in attack mode! Now Bladedge attack Blazing Inpachi!"

I haven't used Bladedge in a long time so it feels good to see his golden blade cut his overgrown piece of lit firewood in half. (4000-3250)

"Next I set 2 cards face down and end my turn."

Kai

"Now this is a duel. I play unattended flame, now whenever I control 0 monsters I can special summon 1 fire monster from my hand."

I think I know what's coming up next.

"I special summon Full Armor Ogre (Level: 5/ATK: 1600/DEF: 1600) in attack mode."

Oh boy, a big grey monster with guns for hands.

"Next I normal summon Nitro Synchron in attack mode. Now I tune my Nitro Synchron and my ogre," the nozzle on Nitro Synchron's head is now whistling and steaming as it dematerializes into 2 large green Rings, Blazing Hiita jumps through those rings and turns into 5 shining stars,0 (2+5=7) "in order to Synchro summon Nitro Warrior!" (ATK: 2800/DEF: 1800)

I had a feeling he'd try and get that out.

"Next thanks to the effect of Nitro Synchron I draw one card."

From the look of Kai's smile I think he may have drawn something good.

"I play the spell card shuffle in; now I pay 900 life points (3250-2350) in order to shuffle Bladedge back into your deck!"

I activate the trap return gain, now because Bladedge was returned to my deck I gain life points equal to half its attack points." (2150-3150)

You're better than your friend Chase but this duels still over, now Nitro Warrior attack him directly and brings his life points down to 0."

"How's that?" Asks, an apparently forgetful Damon.

"Nitro Warrior gains 1000 ATK points during the turn I've activated a spell card." (2800-3800) (3150-001)

"You forget, I had another set card and with the power of endure I was able to get away with 1 life point."

"Clever let's see what you can do with only 1 life point."

Chase

"Well then watch this, I play The Final Card! You see I can only activate this card when my life points are 50 or less and I control no other cards, in addition I must send all cards in my hand and in my deck to the graveyard."

"You're betting it all on one card?" Damon says from the audience.

"That's right because now I can special summon Elemental Hero Bladedge back to the field with double his ATK and DEF points also he can't be effected by card effects, now come back Bladedge!" (ATK: 2600-5200/DEF: 3600)

"Well being the best was good while it lasted."

"I'm sure it was, now Bladedge Slice and Dice his Nitro Warrior!"

The 2 behemoths went at each other but my hero's faster and has actual weapons instead of 2 giant fists. (2350-0)

Winner: Chase Loser: Kai

With that Damon quickly comes to my side.

"Well now who's a clown!" Starts Damon.

"It's still you." I say.

"What the, Bro how could you side with this guy after the way he treated me!"

"First of all I don't like you, and second Kai was doing all that for survival weren't you Kai?"

"Was I that obvious?"

He's says this in a casual tone as opposed to his serious tone from before.

"What do you mean by survival?"

"Listen." Starts Kai. "Around here you got to prove you're tough from the moment you get in here. I can tell that the 2 probably don't belong here but there are people here who belong in hell but got sent here instead."

"What's that suppose to mean?" Asks Damon.

"Think of it like this, my first day here my cell mate was named Jason, my second day here my cell mate was named William."

"What happened to Jason?" Damon asks stupidly.

"He was stabbed by a guy who had carved a knife out of a truth brush. In here everyone has to be on their guard and no one in charge is going to help you, rather you're here for shop lifting or murder."

…

Chase and Damon's room: It's night now. The rest of the day went without incidence, probably because we spent the rest of the day with Kai. Also Damon hasn't said a word since the duel which had made the day that much better.

"Hey Bro." And now it's over.

"Yes Damon."

"Have you been able to get the idea of a guy actually carving a knife out of a tooth brush just so he could kill some guy out of your head?"

"Yes."

"How?"

"Damon people will do anything to survive, even Vanessa would kill somebody under the right circumstances, and once you choose to accept this fact about life you'll be able hear stuff like that without even blinking."

"I miss Vanessa, she smelled liked flowers."

"Damon, for the remainder of the time you are in the facility do not talk about flowers."

"Alright… hey Bro."

"What?" He doesn't seem to realize that me having my face in the thin brown pillow means I want to sleep, not chit-chat.

"How come your parents didn't want to help you not get sent here?"

"My uncles in charge of me, not my parents."

"Why didn't your uncle want to help you?"

"Let's just say I'm not his favorite person and let's leave it at that."

"Hey Bro-"

"Damon go to sleep!"

"One last question, I swear."

"Make it quick."

"When we get out of here do you think Vanessa will want to talk to us?"
"Damon I can assure you that right now Vanessa has probably put the thought of you and me at that back of her mind and that's where we're going to stay for the rest of her natural life."

Vanessa's room: Vanessa has stopped crying, mostly because she had cried so much, she's now exhausted.

The ride home was in silence. At no point did she want to look at either parent, for fear that they might look back. It didn't matter because when they got home they both yelled at her so much they more than made up for the ride home. Telling the truth didn't do her any good because now she had a bad feeling her parents now thought she was crazy. After a while she ran into her room, shut the door and had spent the past 11 hours essentially crying into a pillow.

"It's all my fault." She said to the pillow.

"If I had just let Chase be on his way than he wouldn't have been at central park at the same time as that Millay girl and security wouldn't have found him. And even if they did if he hadn't of given that bogus story about how he stole the runner, then he wouldn't be in the facility for the next year in a half, but no, I just had to have an adventure, it never once crossed my mind that Chase had gotten himself involved in something more bizarre than something out of a damn J.K. Rowling novel, all I could think about was how bored I was up here and I ended up putting him in prison."

She felt like she was going to cry again but her sadness was interrupted by a knock at the door.

"Sweet heart, would you mind opening the door."

The old voice didn't sound angry, it sounded calm and nurturing, and Vanessa knew only one person who had a voice that sounded like that.

"It's open Gramps."

The old Santa Claus like man walks in calm and quietly as the young Irish girl starts to sit up.

The old man tries not to show a sign of shock. His granddaughter looks like a mess, her big green eyes are bloodshot from crying, her hair is a mess and he can tell she is still shook up from having her daughter in law and her husband scream at the top of their lungs at her.

"What's wrong Vanessa?"

"Oh Gramps I've caused something horrible to happen."

"Would you like to talk about it?"

"What's it matter you're just going to think I'm crazy like mom and Frank do."

"Nonsense, now listen, Frank and your mom love you, they just have a hell of a fine way of showing it, now tell me what happened."

"It's a long story."

"Don't worry I've got all the time in the world."

Next time: Gold plates and Blackwings

"So let me get this straight you couldn't keep your nose out of some guys business and now he and another guy are in the facility."

"Basically, but what's done is done and now I've got to get them out, can you help me?"

"Well that all depends."

"Depends on what?"

"Depends on how you want to get them out."