A New Duelist Legend

by AngelOfBlades

The Assault on Duel Academy: As East Duel Academy is under siege from the forces of the dark, unexpected heroes my rise... and fall. The games are over. The war has begun.

15. Unknown Warrior of Fiend

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh GX.

A/N: Just a quick note: due to the fact that there's no pre-duel or post-duel time during these next couple of chapters, they'll probably be quite a bit shorter then my norm. Ah well, them's the breaks. Also, some card in this chapter use their Japanese names. Well, on with the fic!

Yu-Gi-Oh GX - A New Duelist Legend

Chapter 15 - Unknown Warrior of Fiend

"For our next duel," Crowler announced, "Jamil Harris of South Academy versus Vincent..." Crowler looked closer at the paper. "Hmmm, the last name seems to be smudged. Ah well, Vincent of West Academy!"

Byron clapped Jamil on the shoulder. "Do your best, boy."

"You know it, mon." Jamil replied, walking up to Vincent, who was already in place. He clicked on his disc. "Let's dance, Vinnie!"

The black-haired teenager frowned. "My name is Vincent. And you are of no consequence." He raised his own disc. "I'm going to break you."

Jamil rolled his eyes. "Whatever, mon."

"Jamil!" Byron called from the sidelines. "I almost forgot, I got your Duel Belt fixed." Byron tossed Jamil an unusual, bulky belt, which Jamil easily caught.

"Danks, old man." Jamil said, grinning. He fastened the belt around his waist, then took his deck out of his disc and placed it in a slot on his right side. He tossed his disc back to Byron. "Hold dat for me, would'ya?"

Byron frowned as he caught the disc. "Don't call me 'old man'."

Vincent dispassionately eyed Jamil unusual belt. In addition to the slot for his deck, it had five pairs of slots for monsters and magic/trap cards on the front, and slots for the graveyard and removed from play pile on the left. "A Duel Belt. Don't see to many of those."

Jamil shrugged. "It's easier to move wit den a regular disc, mon."

Vincent responded by drawing his starting hand. "I'll take the first move."

Jamil drew his cards with a grin. "Fine by me, Vinnie."

JLP: 8000

VLP: 8000

Vincent slid a card off of his deck, bringing his hand up to six cards. "I told you before, my name is Vincent. Although, I can tell you're not going to stop no matter how many times I say that, so I'll stop wasting my time."

Jamil sweatdropped. "Ookkkaaay..."

"As for my move," Vincent continued, "I'll place one monster and one other card facedown."

"Dat's pretty average as moves go." Jamil replied as he drew. "And 'average' won't cut it against me!"

High up in the stands, Headmistress Thatcher watched the duel intently. "You'd better not fail, Vincent. The monsters I saw you putting into your new deck are completely different then the ones you usually use." One of her aides walked up behind her. "Report." She said to him in her usual clipped tone.

"Well, Headmistress." The aide replied, "We still haven't found any traces of Garret since he entered that Shadow Game last night."

The Headmistress of West Academy thought for a moment. "Continue searching." she said, "If he doesn't appear by the time we leave tomorrow, he's most likely dead."

The aide nodded. "Of course, Headmistress." He walked off, and Thatcher turned back to the duel... however, her attention wandered. "Hmmm... I wonder if he knows anything about this."

"Alright mon," Jamil yelled, "I'll show you a real move! I summon Blade Driver Arm in attack mode!" Jamil slid the card into a slot on his belt, and gunmetal grey metal armor surrounded his right arm. A foot-long blade extended from the back of the hand. (1000/0)

"What the heck is that thing?" Jaden called from his seat.

Up in his seat, Zane smirked. "An Armor duelist. This should be interesting."

Vincent just looked at Jamil's 'monster' impassively. "So? If you're confident, then attack."

"Dat's da plan, Vinnie!" He charged forward, stabbing Vincent's set monster with Blade Driver. Vincent shrugged. "Do whatever you wish." Jamil's strike connected, and Vincent's set card shattered, briefly revealing a small, eye-like creature.

"The monster you destroyed was called Vortex Eye." Vincent said. "When it's destroyed, it allows me to add a monster that's a fusion component for one of the monsters in my fusion deck from my deck to my hand." Vincent ejected his deck, searched through it for a moment, and then selected a card, which he placed in his hand.

"Dat's... a little unusual." Jamil said, arching an eyebrow. "I'll play dis one little card facedown, den end my turn."

Vincent drew a card from his deck, then selected another one and placed it on his disc. "I'll summon the monster I searched for... E-Hero Burst Lady in attack mode." In a burst of flame, a monster that looked almost identical to Jaden's Burstinatrix appeared on his field. The only difference was, instead of a solid jumpsuit, hers was cut in a flame-like pattern. (1200/800)

On the sidelines, Jaden's jaw dropped. "Huh? What? That's Burstinatrix... kinda. And why'd he call it an E-Hero?"

Next to him, Crowler rubbed his temples. "Don't you know anything? When Duel Monsters was translated into English from Japanese, some of the names were changed. Sometimes the appearance of the cards, as well."

"Oh..." Jaden said. "I never expected to run into anyone else who used the Elemental Heroes... I wonder how this guy will handle them."

"E-Heroes?" Jamil asked, "I certainly wouldn't have expected someone like you to use heroes, Vinnie."

"The fact that they are heroes is of no concern to me." Vincent replied. "I'm using them because they're effective in competent hands." He slid a card from his hand into his graveyard. "Allow me to demonstrate. By discarding King of the Swamp from my hand, I can take one Polymerization card from my deck and add it to my hand." His disc beeped, and a card shot out of his deck.

Vincent slid the Polymerization onto his disc. "Now, I'll activate it, fusing E-Hero Burst Lady with the E-Hero Wildman in my hand to form E-Hero Blaze Amazon." A vortex whipped up on his field, and it sucked in the two named heroes. After a moment, a monster that appeared to be a female version of Wildheart appeared on his field. She had bright red hair and wielded a pair of flaming swords. (2000/2200)

"I'll have Blaze Amazon attack your Blade Driver." Vincent called, and the female hero exploded in flame and charged Vincent.

"Sorry, Vinnie." Jamil said, smirking, "But whenever Blade Driver battles with an attack mode monster that's more powerful then it is, that monster's power is decreased to match it's!"

"Not in this case." Vincent replied. Blaze Amazon closed the distance between the two of them and slashed Jamil's armor. Much to his surprise, the armor shattered and his life points dropped.

JLP: 7000

VLP: 8000

"Huh?" Jamil asked, "What just happened, mon?"

"E-Hero Wildman is immune to traps." Vincent replied, "And Blaze Amazon has a similar ability. Instead of being immune to traps, it's immune to all effects that target. Thus your armor's ability was useless."

Jamil frowned. "Are you done yet, mon?"

"Yes." Vincent replied. "Take your turn so we can get this over with. I have more important things to do."

Jamil smirked as he drew. "Oh, I tink I'll make dis worth your time, mon." He slid a card into his duel belt. "I'll start off my turn by summoning Virtue Plate!" A shining silver breastplate with spiked shoulders appeared over his chest. It crackled with power. (0/1000)

"Is that supposed to impress me?" Vincent asked, "It's ability is useless unless you have multiple Armor monsters on your field."

"At de moment," Jamil replied, "I'm not interested in impressing you, Vinnie." He placed another card into his belt. "I'll activate Armor Deployment, which lets me summon an armor monster from my deck!" Light flashed around his left arm, and it was surrounded with heavy grey armor that had a medium-sized shield attached to it. "I'll summon Shield Plate, mon." (1000/0)

"So, setting up a defense?" Vincent asked. "It is of no consequence. There isn't a defense in existence that I can't tear down."

"We'll see, won't we?" Jamil asked, "I'm done wit my turn, mon."

"Very well." Vincent said as he drew. He placed the card on his disc. "I'll activate the continuous spell card Infinite Fusion."

Jamil blinked. "Never heard of dat one, mon."

"I'll explain." Vincent said, "During each of my standby phases, it lets me return one Polymerization and one monster that was used as a component for a fusion summon from my graveyard to my hand."

Jamil's eyes bugged out. "Dat can't be legal!"

"Of course it's legal." Vincent explained, "While it's on the field, I cannot normal summon or set any monsters, and I cannot special summon except by fusion."

"Oh..." Jamil replied, "Well, it's still a pretty powerful card, mon."

"If it weren't, I wouldn't be using it." Vincent said. "Now, I'll activate the spell Miracle Fusion, which allows me to fusion summon an E-Hero by removing components on my field and in my graveyard from play."

"Therefore," Vincent continued, "I'll remove Wildman and my King of the Swamp, which can be used as a substitute for any fusion component." A shining E-Hero symbol appeared on Vincent's field, and Wildman jumped into it, followed by the King of the Swamp, which had shifted into a form resembling Edgeman's. After a moment, a large, dark-skinned warrior, armored partially in gold, stepped out. "As should be obvious," Vincent finished, "I summoned E-Hero Wild Jaggyman." (2600/2300)

Vincent smirked. "Wild Jaggyman can attack all the monsters on your side of the field once each." He pointed at Jamil. "Go!"

Jamil grinned. "Sorry Vinnie, but I'm not gonna go down so easy!" His set card flipped. "I activate Armor Battle Technique - Reversal Fist! When you attack an Armor monster on my field, I can discard another one from my hand do destroy the monster you attacked with and deal half it's attack to you as damage!" Jamil slid a card from his hand into his graveyard, and then spun, hitting the charging Wild Jaggyman with a wicked backhand, shattering him and sending the pieces raining onto Vincent.

JLP: 7000

VLP: 6700

Vincent remained as impassive as ever. "A predictable move."

Jamil rubbed the back of his head. "Dere's no limit to your cockiness, is dere?"

"It's not cockiness when you can back it up." Vincent replied. "Blaze Amazon, attack Virtue Plate." Blaze Amazon was once again surrounded with a flaming nimbus, and she charged Jamil. This time, Jamil blocked the strike with his armored arm.

JLP: 6000

VLP: 6700

"As I expected." Vincent said, "You redirected the strike to Shield Plate, which can't be destroyed in battle while in attack mode."

Jamil grinned. "Like I said before, I'm not goin down easy, Vinnie."

"Now," Vincent continued, "I'll show you why I will win." He slid the last card in his hand onto his disc. "I'll activate Fusion Compensation. By returning a fusion monster in my graveyard to the fusion deck, I can draw cards equal to half that monster's level." He slid Wild Jaggyman out of his graveyard and drew four cards. "Now do you understand?"

Jamil thought for a moment, and his eyes widened. "He predicted that I'd destroy his monster! He summoned it so it would go to his graveyard, where he could use Fusion Compensation to refresh his hand!" Jamil stared for a moment. "What is this guy?"

Vincent smirked slightly. "I'm done with my turn."

Jamil frowned slightly and pulled a card off of his deck. He grinned. "Pot of Greed!" He slid the card onto his duel belt, and the grinning jar appeared. He drew twice, and the pot shattered. He smirked triumphantly. "You're done now, mon."

Vincent just stared. "Make your move."

"Alright, you asked for it!" Jamil yelled. A slot opened on his duel belt, and he placed a card into it. "I activate my field spell, Armory!" All of a sudden, the arena turned stark and futuristic, and the wall were lined with different pieces of armor. "Dis card," Jamil continued, "Has two effects. First, it raises all Armor monsters' attack and defense by 200." Several mechanical arms folded out of the floor, and descended on Jamil's armor in a flurry of futuristic tools. When they left, the armor looked better then new. (0/1000)–(200/1200), (1000/0)–(1200/200)

"De second effect," Jamil continued, "Is de really useful one. By sending Armory from the field to my graveyard, I can special summon as many Armor monsters as possible from my deck to the field! So Vinnie, say hello to Meteor Knuckle, Shadow Boots and Combat Helmet!" Mechanical arms picked three pieces of armor off of the Armory walls, and a gunmetal grey helmet with a black visor, a grey and red gauntlet, and a pair of black metal pants joined Jamil's other two armor pieces, completely encasing him in metal. (0/1000), (0/1000), (0/0)

"Of course, you can't get widout giving," Jamil finished, "So, for each monster I summoned dis way, I have to send de top two cards of my deck to de graveyard." Jamil slid the top six cards off of his deck and placed them into his graveyard, and the Armory shattered. (200/1200)–(0/1000), (1200/200)–(1000/0)

"I'm still not impressed." Vincent said. "You'll have to do much better then that."

"Well how's dis, mon?" Jamil replied, his voice echoing slightly from withing the helmet, as he slid another card onto his belt. "I'll play de Continuous Spell Full Metal!" His armor shimmered and appeared to bond together. "I can only activate dis spell when I have five Armor monsters on my field, and in increases each of deir attack points by 1500!" (0/1000)–(1500/1000), (0/1000)–(1500/1000), (0/1000)–(1500/1000), (0/0)–(1500/0), (1000/0)–(2500/0)

"And not only dat," Jamil continued, "But Meteor Knuckle gets 300 attack points for each Armor on my field anyway!" The red sections of his armor's right arm glowed, and it began emitting steam. (1500/1000)–(3000/1000)

Jamil smirked. "You impressed now, mon?"

Vincent idly cracked his neck. "Not particularly."

Jamil frowned. "Well den, let's see if dis impresses you! I'll attack Blaze Amazon with Meteor Knuckle!" Jamil charged forward and slammed his fist into the fiery heroine's gut, shattering her in a instant.

JLP: 6000

VLP: 5200

"And now," Vincent said, "You'll use Virtue Plate's effect, paying 400 life points to allow you Shield Plate to attack despite the limitation of one armor monster attacking per turn."

Jamil grinned. "Exactly, mon!" The Virtue Plate glowed and Jamil spun, cracking Vincent in the jaw with his armored left forearm, knocking him back a few steps.

JLP: 5600

VLP: 2700

Jamil smirked and folded his arms triumphantly. "I'm done wit my turn, mon."

As he drew, Vincent said, "You are slightly more skilled then I had anticipated." His graveyard glowed, and two cards shot out of it. "I will have to put some effort into this after all." He slid a card onto his disc. "Polymerization activates. I'll send E-Heroes Featherman, Sparkman and Bubbleman to the graveyard to summon E-Hero Tempester in attack mode." Another vortex appeared, and the three heroes entered it. After a moment, the imposing form of Tempester emerged... and promptly exploded.

JLP: 5600

VLP: 1700

As the smoke cleared, an armorless Jamil was revealed, coughing. "What da heck just happened, mon?" He asked between coughs.

"My trap." Vincent, who looked as uninterested as ever, replied, "Catastrophic Mispolymerization. If I pay 1000 life points when a level eight or higher fusion monster is fusion summoned, it destroys all monsters on the field."

Jamil frowned. "Crud. Dat means I'm defenseless..."

On the sidelines, Jaden stared at Vincent. "I don't think I like this guy... he's willing to sacrifice his monsters for almost no reason at all! Take him down, Jamil."

Vincent slid another card from his hand onto his disc. "Next, the spell Fusion Recovery will return Featherman and a Polymerization to my hand." The two cards slid out of his graveyard, and he immediately re-played one of them. "This time, Polymerization will fuse Featherman and Burst Lady into E-Hero Flame Wingman!" Yet another vortex appeared on his field, absorbing the two heroes and producing a carbon copy of Jaden's favorite monster. (2100/1200)

Jaden's frown deepened. "I really don't like the idea of this guy using my favorite monster."

Vincent smirked slightly. "Flame Wingman will attack you directly." The dragon-armed hero charged forward and blasted Jamil in the chest with a large fireball, knocking him over.

JLP: 3500

VLP: 1700

Jamil wheezed and got back up. "It'll take a lot more den dat, Vinnie."

Vincent simply responded by placing the last card in his hand onto his disc. "I'll set one facedown, then end my turn."

Jamil drew and considered his hand. "Okay... wit my armors gone, Full Metal was destroyed as well. Dat leaves me wit nothing on my field." He looked at the card he had just drawn. "Well, wit dis little trick, dink I can finish dis now." He grinned. "Alright, for my first move of de turn, I'll summon Entropic Dampener in attack mode!" A futuristic white piece of armor with a number of strange oblongs on it closed over Jamil's left arm. (0/0)

"So what?" Vincent asked, "All that does is prevent battle damage from armor monster battles."

"So this!" Jamil yelled, "I'll have it attack!" Jamil charged forward and slammed his armored fist into Flame Wingman's gut... accomplishing nothing.

"And now," Jamil continued, "I can activate my Quick-Play spell, Armor Battle Technique: Big Bang Blow!" Jamil's armored arm glowed and exploded, blanketing half the field with smoke. Jamil jumped back and smirked. "Dis card destroys every monster on de field and subtracts deir total attack from our life points! How do you like dat, mon?"

The smoke cleared, and Vincent was revealed, still standing, his life points actually higher then they were a moment ago.

JLP: 3500

VLP: 3800

Jamil's eyes bulged. "Wa-what?"

"My facedown was a trap called Polymer Absorption." Vincent said, "It destroys one fusion monster on the field, then gives me life points equal to that monster's attack. I chained it to your Big Bang Blow, so not only did I gain 2100 life points, but there were no monsters on the field for you to damage me with."

Jamil licked his lips. "CrudcrudcrudcrudcrudcrudcrudcrudcrudcrudcrudCRUD! I don't have anythin else to defend myself wit!" He forced himself to calm down. "Well, even wit his record so far, I don't tink he can summon a monster strong enough to take me down... not wit only one card, at least."

"I'm done, mon." Jamil said, sighing.

Vincent drew a card, and his graveyard glowed. "Infinite Fusion will once again return Burst Lady and Polymerization to my hand." The two cards slid out of his graveyard, and he placed the card he had drawn onto his disc. "I'm sure you'll also recognize Fusion Compensation. I'll return Tempester to my fusion deck from my graveyard to draw four cards." The fusion monster slid out of his graveyard, and he pulled four cards off of his deck.

"I don't believe it!" Jamil thought, "Dat's de third time in a row dat he completely burned his hand, den refreshed de entire ting de next turn!"

"I'll begin with Polymerization." Vincent said, "And I'll fuse Burst Lady with E-Hero Necro Darkman to form E-Hero Shadowfire!" The two monsters were sucked into the eternally renewing vortex, and after a few moments emerged a monster that seemed to be a female version of Necroshade, only without the mask and wearing a cape. She snapped her fingers, and a ball of black flame formed in her hand. (2300/1700)

Vincent smirked slightly. "Meet my favorite monster... well, sort of."

"Dat's not enough to bring me down, mon!" Jamil replied.

Vincent shrugged and pointed. "Shadowfire, attack with Fires of Vengeance!" A ball of black fire formed in each of the dark heroine's hands, and she hurled them at Jamil. They slammed into his chest and knocked him off of his feet.

JLP: 1200

VLP: 3800

Vincent held up two of his other cards and slid them onto his disc. "Two cards facedown, then I end my turn."

Jamil ripped a card off of his deck and looked at it. "If I don't get some kind of a defense up NOW I'm done for!" He smirked at the card he had drawn. "Dat works."

He slid a card onto his belt. "I'll activate Payoff, mon. Dis card lets me draw three cards, but den you get to draw two." The card flashed, and Jamil pulled three cards off of his deck. Afterwards, Vincent drew two.

"Now dat's more like it!" Jamil yelled. "I'll summon Jet Blades in attack mode!" He placed the card on his duel belt, and his legs were covered in black metal. Each foot had a jet booster on the heel and a blade on it's toe. (0/0)

"When I attack with Jet Blades," Jamil said, "Dey get 400 attack points for each of your monster's levels! And, unless I miss my guess, dat thing's level six! So I'll attack wit double blade kick!" (0/0)–(2400/0)

"That's not going to work." Vincent replied, "I'll activate my trap, Fusion Barrier. This card can be activated whenever a fusion monster is targeted with anything, including an attack. The targeting effect is negated, and the targeting card is destroyed."

"Actually mon, it is going to work!" Jamil called, "I'll activate the quick-play spell Armor Battle Technique: Smash Block! Dis basically does de same ting as you card, except for Armor monsters! So your negation is negated!" Vincent's eyes widened as his trap shattered and Jamil's attack continued unabated. Jamil's rocket-powered kicks slashed through Shadowfire and shattered her.

JLP: 1200

VLP: 3700

Jamil smirked. "I'll just lay dese three facedown, den you're up, Vinnie." He blinked. "Vinnie?"

Vincent was partially hunched over, his eyes closed. He was shaking silently.

Jamil scratched his head. "Uhhhh... you ok, Vinnie?"

Vincent's eyes snapped open, a crazed look in them. "You..." He said to Jamil, his voice dripping with hate. "I'M GOING TO CRUSH YOU!" He ripped a card off of his deck, and Jamil could have sworn he saw a black streak following in it's wake.

Vincent's jaw clenched. "I'll return Burst Lady and Polymerization to my hand with Infinite Fusion." He slammed a card into his disc. "However, those aren't important this turn. I'll activate Miracle Fusion, removing Flame Wingman and Sparkman to summon..." He grinned madly, "E-Hero SHINING FLARE WINGMAN!" The two monsters entered the shining hero symbol, and a green-skinned monster covered in shining silver armor emerged. It spread it wings and shouted. (2500/2100)

"Shining Flare Wingman gains 300 attack for each Elemental Hero in my graveyard, giving him an extra 1500!" Vincent yelled, his monster glowing as it's power shot up. (2500/2100)–(4000/2100)

Jamil licked his lips. "Dat thing's powerful, but my facedowns can easily take care of it."

Vincent slammed another card onto his disc. "Heavy Storm destroys all spell and trap cards on the field!" A heavy wind whipped up, and Vincent's facedown and Infinite Fusion were carried away, as well as Jamil's facedowns.

"Well, you won't beat me this turn!" Jamil called, "I activated Armor Protection, which switches all armor monsters on the field to defense mode!"

Vincent responded by slamming a third card onto his disc. "Smashing Ground destroys the monster on your field with the highest defense!" A fist exploded out of the ground and slammed into Vincent's armor, shattering it.

Vincent gulped. "Uh oh."

"Shining Flare Wingman, attack directly with Shining Flare Strike!" The shining hero charged forward and slammed a glowing fist into Jamil's gut, catapulting him out of the arena and into a wall.

After a few moments of heavy breathing, Vincent calmed down, and he returned to his former state of general disinterest. "I told you that I would win."

JLP: 0

VLP: 3700

Byron clapped the woozy Jamil on the back, almost knocking him over. "You did good, boy."

Jamil rubbed his head. "Ja, I guess so..."

Crowler coughed and stood up, holding his microphone. "Now everyone, without further ado, on to the next round!"

New Cards: Okay this section is starting to annoy me. I liked it at first, but now that I've got 10+ original cards per chapter, it's becoming unwieldy and time-consuming. So, from now on, you just get lists here. However, if you ask, I'll still email a list of the full effects to you.

Made by Me: Elemental Hero Blaze Amazon, Infinite Fusion, Fusion Compensation, Armory, Combat Helmet, Full Metal, Catastrophic Mispolymerization, Entropic Dampener, Armor Battle Technique: Big Bang Blow, Polymer Absorption, Elemental Hero Shadowfire, Payoff, Jet Blades, Fusion Barrier, Armor Battle Technique: Smash Block, Armor Protection

Made by Black Death X: Blade Driver Arm, Vortex Eye, Virtue Plate, Armor Deployment, Shield Plate, Armor Battle Technique: Reversal Fist, Meteor Knuckle, Shadow Boots (note: Reversal Fist originally had a different name)

Changes: None

Next Time: The match I'm sure you're all waiting for... isn't quite here yet. After all, we gotta know who's in third place, don't we? Don't miss "Hard Armor"!