Chapter 22: Oblivion pt 2

"How do you like what Oblivion has given your father?" Dagger asked.

Hope stared at the Element of Vice, a scowl on her face.

"Fine," Oblivion continued, "I activate Essence of Oblivion." A dark aura surrounded Wrath. "This card doubles my monster's attack points (ATK 2500-5000). Now I use the effect of Wrath; I use an overlay unit and deal you damage equal to half of your monster's points."

Wrath materialized its sword and slashed at Hope, who blocked with her duel disk. As Hope's life points dropped, she felt her strength waning.

Hope: 8000-6500

"Now I'm going to attack with Wrath and not use his effect."

The force of the attack knocked Hope back a few feet.

Hope: 6500-4500

Hope got onto her knees, "I activate the effect of Apophis. When Apophis is destroyed I can banish all cards on the field; your field spell negates destruction."

The field spell and Wrath both exploded into black energy.

"I summon Vice Summoner (ATK 0)," Dagger said, seemingly unfazed by the effect, "I can tribute it during my end phase to bring out another Element of Vice. Come to the field, Proud Locomotive (ATK 3600)."

Hope slowly stood.

"I need to draw the right card."

"I can help," a voice said to Hope. "Call on the Chaos I've left you."

The top of Hope's deck glowed with a yin-yang. Discord's eyes widened, "Hit the deck!"

Discord materialized an energy shield around the crowd as Hope drew. A wave of energy spread from the deck and hit the shield.

"Uncontrolled Chaos energy," Discord explained as he dropped the shield, "Explosive."

Hope looked at the card, "I activate Graceful Charity. Go, a whole lot of Chaos Draws! I banish Shadow of Yin and Photon Slasher to summon Neo-Chaos Envoy Ma'at the Middle (DEF 4000)."

"My card!" Turvy called out.

"That's right! Now I pay a thousand points to destroy your attack mode monster and deal you a thousand points of damage!"

Hope: 4500-3500

"I activate the second effect of Vice Summoner; when the card that's special summoned is destroyed, I gain the points of the monster."

Dagger: 4000-7600

"I banish Photon Caesar a Harpy to summon Chaos Emperor Dragon (ATK 3000). Now I activate Mysterious Monument and Frozen Overlay.

The rest of the girls (minus Lightwing) were excited about their cards

"I overlay these two cards and xyz summon Utopia (ATK 2500). Now I evolve Utopia into Dusk's card. Shining Xyz Evolution! I summon Shining Number 39: Utopia Prime (ATK 2510). Now I activate the Doppelganger spell card."

"But I thought that was a trap," Dagger pointed out.

"This is a special spell issued only to Changelings. I get to copy any card that you have played in this duel, anywhere*. I copy Element of Vice – Wrathful Butcher."

The cat morphed into Wrath, and a red aura washed over Hope. She fell back to her knees and called out in pain.

"What are you doing?" Zach's voice sounded through Hope's mind.

"I am going to use you, not Wrath," Hope gasped, "Please Dad, help me."

Wrathful Butcher turned towards Hope and reached out an arm. The aura flowed from Hope and the cringed in pain.

"Thank you," Hope panted, "Chaos Emperor Dragon, attack Dagger directly!"

Dagger braced himself for the attack and slid back.

Dagger: 7600-4600

"Utopia Prime, attack!"

Dagger: 4600-2090

"Dad, end this duel now!"

A red scythe appeared in Zach's hand, "Wrath's Vengence!"

The scythe cut through Dagger's chest and sent him to the ground.

Dagger: 2090-0

"We did it!" Hope cried, thrusting a hoof into the air.

Dagger lied on the ground, his duel disk still active, "When my life points reach zero, I can pay with my life to have my master continue for me." Dagger weakly put a card onto his duel disk, "Oblivion, Harbinger of Destruction!"

A beam of black energy erupted from the ground around Dagger. Within Dusk's deck, The Fiend glowed.

-Meanwhile thousands of miles away-

Trixen was sitting on his mother's trailer, shuffling his deck. One of his cards began to glow and he pulled another copy of The Fiend from his deck.

"Mom!" Trixen called out, "Get the paper bags ready; the world's about to end!"

-The duel-

The black energy began to condense into a fog. Within the fog there was a humanoid shape with glowing, red eyes.

"I live again!" Oblivion called out.

"Oblivion," Celestia, Luna, Lux, and Discord whispered in unison.

Oblivion turned towards the others, "Hello sisters, brother, strange beast."

"Hey!" Discord objected.

"I was talking about Lux, but that is beside the point."

"How are you here?" Hope asked.

"Your father was the last spirit I needed to free myself from Tartarus," Oblivion explained, "But I needed to be summoned in a duel where Dagger sacrificed himself for me. Then I can be special summoned by my effect. Also, I cannot be sent to the graveyard or to the hand, I can't change control, I can't be flipped, and my attack points are equal to the combined strength of all the monsters in my graveyard (ATK 7900). Now please, get on with your turn.

"I-I'll set this face-down."

"Thank you. Now, I can't draw or summon any more monsters. Now I attack that traitor, Wrath!" Oblivion raised an arm and a beam of shadowy energy flew towards Zach.

"I activate Damage Diet! All the damage I take is halved!"

Hope: 3500-1200

Hope was blown back by the attack and landed on her back.

"I'll end my turn."

Hope got to her knees and drew, "I switch Utopia to defense mode (DEF 2000) and set a card.

"Perfect. I use the effect of the Essence of Oblivion in my graveyard; I can equip it to myself and instead of doubling my attack points, I can do piercing damage at half strength. I attack Ma'at!"

Ma'at was destroyed and at the same time Turvy collapsed. Discord picked her up in her arms and cried, "Turvy!"

Oblivion began to laugh, "Her monster was connected to her soul. When the card was destroyed, I absorbed a chunk of her soul. It was a delicious bit." It turned to Hope, "You two sure have had some fun. Now I'll have to take your soul as well!" Oblivion shot a stream of its energy towards Hope.

"I activate Hope 1! If my life points were to be zero, I can tribute Utopia and reduce them to one."

Hope was shot back and knocked against the wall by the attack.

Hope: 1200-1

Hope felt something warm running down her head and she wiped some blood off of her forehead. She looked at Oblivion and slowly passed out.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Hope awoke in her bed, but it seemed too big. She looked at her forelegs and saw that they were so much smaller than she remembered.

Zach walked into the room and sat down beside the bed.

"Dad!" Hope yelled as she hugged Zach.

"It's alright Hope," Zach said softly, "I'm right here."

"But you weren't. You were killed by Oblivion!"

Zach pulled away, "I remember the whole thing. When you played your card I was able to slip inside your head a little bit. When you passed out brought you back to a happy memory. Can you guess which one?"

Hope looked around the room, "This was the night I got my Galaxy-Eyes."

"Yep, you had a nightmare and I gave you Galaxy-Eyes to help you out."

"It seems like my whole life is a bit of a nightmare at the moment. Most of you was absorbed by Oblivion. Turvy's soul got pulled from her. Now I've only got one life point."

"But you haven't lost. You still have the Element of Harmony."

"But I used Wrath, so shouldn't the Element not work on me?"

Zach shook his head, "You never let Wrath into your soul. The Element should still work, but it might not be enough."

"How can the Elements of Harmony not work on it?"

The world around them turned into the Canterlot Archives. Hope was her normal age again.

"Oblivion is a being meant to destroy," Zach began to explain, "The Elements can't destroy, but not even a god can destroy Oblivion. But you may need the help of one."

Hope's duel disk appeared on her arm and the world began to blur, "How?"

"Harmony is half of the coin. Chaos is the other. What happens if you fuse Harmony and Chaos?"

Hope suddenly woke up, staring at Oblivion.

"Dad, why is it that every time you've taught me anything it was in a riddle? You shouldn't have read Daring Do."

Hope looked at her duel disk. There was a green gem for Love, but she saw a scratch. The looked closer and saw a colorless yin-yang within.

"What if I try a Chaos draw and a Harmony Draw at once? Could we try it, Apophis?"

"It could work," Apophis' sagely voice sounded in Hope's head.

Hope stood and faced Oblivion.

"Are you ready to submit?" Oblivion asked.

"I'll never give up," Hope said, her Element and cutie marks glowing. The glow began to spread over her body.

"What's going on?" Oblivion sent a beam of energy at Hope, but she projected a rainbow-colored shield.

"I am using the Elements of Harmony with Chaos!"

Hope began to float in the air, the Elements appearing around her. They flew to her and began to form the Harmony Armor. Then, two wings appeared on Hope's back; one was black and the other was white. Her mane was now solid white while her tail was split into seven parts with each strand being the color of an Element.

Hope placed a hood on her deck, "I DRAW!" She looked at the card and grinned, "I activate Hyper Rank-Up-Magic Chaos Harmonizer. This allows me to rank-up a Chaos or C monster in my grave into a rank twelve monster. I'm going to rank-up Apophis."

Apophis appeared from a graveyard portal and roared.

"Go, Harmonious Fusion!"

Hope shot a beam of Harmony energy at Apophis, covering it in a rainbow aura. The monster turned into a sphere before reforming itself. It became a rainbow colored Alicorn.

Oblivion moved back in fear, "No, it can't be."

"Shine with the light of creation, Faust – Queen of All (ATK 0)!"

The rainbow disappeared and revealed a white and red Alicorn with a scroll and quill cutie mark.

"Mother," Oblivion hissed.

"Hello Oblivion," Faust said in soothing voice, "It's nice to see you again after all this time."

"You swore to never directly interfere in the lives of mortals! Not after seeing what I caused."

"I think we both know that 'never' is impossible for us. But I have amended my statement. Now I will only lend my power to those who will give it up before it corrupts them. Now, we have a duel to complete."

Hope nodded, "I use an overlay unit so that I may special summon a monster from anywhere."

"That's useless," Oblivion said, "No card you have can destroy me."

"Who said anything about destroying you? I summon the one monster capable of bringing me victory, my Galaxy-Eyes. Go, Creation Spark!"

The form of Galaxy-Eyes began to fade into view. It roared and glowed with power. Hope landed on Galaxy-Eyes' back and her power faded and she returned to normal.

"Galaxy-Eyes," Hope called out, grabbing ahold of her dragon, "Let's end this. Attack Oblivion!"

Galaxy-Eyes flew at Oblivion and grabbed hold.

"I can't destroy you, but my friend here can banish you. Do it now!"

Galaxy-Eyes, Hope, and Oblivion disappeared from the entire universe.