ALRIGHT! I got this next chapter up! Boy I am busy lately. I need to find time for me. :(
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*Somewhere of the Sahara Desert, Morocco, 3:10 P.M.*
The helicopter was flying over the vast empty desert carrying the group across it.
"And to our left you'll see more sand." Shigeru spoke while flying the chopper. "And to our right...MORE Sand! It's a sand ocean!"
Jeremy felt uncomfortable sitting across the chopper from Clyde Edwards. He kept glaring at Edwards while he coddled his special double sided duel disk.
"Did you miss me, Bianca?" Edwards whispered to his disk. "Well I missed you. You must been so lonely without me."
Trinity sat in the seat across from Edwards and was disturbed that he was cuddling a Duel Disk.
"Why is the creepy criminal talking to his Duel Disk?" Trinity whispered to Makoto.
"Yeah, he's not right in the head." Makoto whispered back.
"What's scary is he looks familiar." Trinity continued to whisper. "Has he been on TV before?"
"I don't think so." Makoto answered with a whisper.
"Why are you girls whispering about me?" Edwards asked with a mean glare.
"EEP!" Both girls jumped up startled. "NO REASON!"
"Then stop it!" Edwards demanded.
"Hey leave them Alone." Jeremy said. "They're girls. They gossip. You should be thankful that Trinity convinced me to let you come along."
"Yeah, cause you need a woman's permission." Edwards replied. "Don't talk tough kid. It doesn't suit you."
Jeremy slumped back down into his seat. Yuki, who had been sleeping for most of the time, finally opened her eyes.
"We're almost there." she said.
"She's right." Shigeru overheard. "Take a look."
Looking out the windows, they could see in the distance a single building rising out of the sand. Elegant Egyptian architecture with yellow stones, and black marble statutes depicting ancient gods stood at the entrance.
"Alright I'll set her down at the entrance and-" Shigeru started but suddenly the chopper lost all of it power. "-Oh shit."
The copter began spinning out of the sky as the propellers died. Everyone braced themselves as it struck the top of a sand and violently rolled down in the ocean of sand...
…
Jeremy awoke several hours later in a daze. Sand in his face, under his clothes, and stuck in his socks. "PuH!" He spat sand out of his mouth. "Puh Puh PUH! Ack!" He looked around and found that the chopper had crashed into the sand and he had been thrown from the vehicle. "Where is everyone?" He looked around as he stood up.
"JEREMY!" Makoto called out.
Makoto was a couple of meters away, crawling on her knees and holding onto her arm. Jeremy rushes over and helps her up.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, where's Yuki? Yuki! YUKI!"
"I'm fine." Yuki was laid in a sand dune with the same stoic expression. "I sprained my wrist."
"Oh, what the hell? What the hell? !" Shigeru stood in front of the chopper with his hands on his head. "Oh man, my dad's so gonna kill me!"
"You got that thing insured, right?" Jeremy asked.
"Insurance is... a waste of time and money." Shigeru nervously answered. "That's what dad told me.
"Bianca? Bianca, speak to me dear!" Edwards cried for his Duel disk. "Come on Baby, Don't die on me now!"
"Wow, Edwards What the hell are you crying about?" Jeremy asked.
"It's Bianca! She won't power up!" Edwards explained frantically.
Jeremy then looked at his Duel Disk and saw that it wouldn't power up either. "Mine either."
Makoto then went to check her cell phone. "My phone's dead, too."
"An electromagnetic pulse barrier exists within this area surrounding the temple." Yuki explained. "Any electronic device caught in radius will be rendered obsolete."
"Yuki... how do you possibly know that?" Makoto asked.
"Hey, what happened to the other girl?" Shigeru brought up.
Everyone looked around and saw that Trinity was already quite a distance away, limping toward the temple.
"Trinity, what are you doing? !" Jeremy called out to her.
Trinity didn't seem to hear or pay attention to her.
"I think she has the right idea." Edwards calmed down. "The Rift set up a camp there. There will be shade and cool water."
"And Rift goons." Jeremy added.
"Once they see you are with me, they won't attack you. I guarantee it." Edwards assured.
"What have we got to lose?" Jeremy went along with it.
"Our lives." Yuki stoically pointed out.
Trinity continued to walk toward the temple, but there was something not right about her. She didn't seem to realize what she was doing, acting more on instinct than anything. But the one conscious thing about her was the voice speaking into her head.
"You've finally returned. I have been waiting 5000 years for this. You will pay for what you did."
Trinity finally regained her consciousness and stopped walking.
"What was I..."
She suddenly fell to her knees and cradled her body as pain started to shoot from all over it.
"AAAHHH!"
"Trinity!" Jeremy called as he and the others caught up.
When they got to her, Jeremy and Shigeru helped her to her feet.
"You all right, kid?" Shigeru asked.
"It hurts. It hurts all over." Trinity's voice somewhat trembled.
"Let's hurry and get her to the camp." Jeremy suggested.
After about an hour of walking through the sand, the group finally reached the base of the temple. Near the entrance was a camp setup for an excavation crew. The crew was nowhere to be found but the supplies were still there.
"All right." Shigeru spoke up. "There's got to be some kind of first aid kit somewhere around here. I'll go look around and check."
They laid Trinity inside one of the tents and Shigeru ran off to find medical supplies.
"This is odd." Edwards spoke. "Where the hell is everyone? I don't like this."
"'I don't like this'? That's right up there with 'what could possibly go wrong'." Jeremy said.
Looking out of the tent, Makoto noticed some movement and without warning, a dozen or so Rift goons came out, all with dazed expressions on their faces.
"Uh, guys? We got company." Makoto warned them.
"The blood of the pure, the blood of the risen, steal the blood and break the prison." The Rift goons repeated over and over again.
"Stand Down!" Edwards ordered. They didn't listen. "...Well it was worth a Bloody try."
"What are we gonna do?" Makoto asked. "We can't duel them without our duel disks!"
"Please, they're mindless Zombies now." Jeremy said. "We can take them in a fight."
One of the Rift goons held up a Duel Monster Card. The Card Began to Glow white and disappeared. Then the Card Overdrive (Lv.4 1600/1500) appeared and pointed its Mini-gun at the group.
"...Oh well shit..." Jeremy stated. The group scattered as the Mini-gun opened fired and ripped the Tent to shreds. Jeremy and Edwards ran in one direction while Makoto and Yuki headed in another direction.
"WHAT THE SHIT? !" Edwards shouted at Jeremy. "WHAT THE **** DID THEY JUST DO? !"
"It looks like they summoned a Monster Card." Jeremy responded.
"HOW DID THEY DO THAT? !" Edwards kept shouting questions at him.
A Panther Warrior (Lv.4 2000/1600) appeared in front of Jeremy and Edwards and growled at them.
"You gonna growl at me? !" Edwards growled back at the Panther Warrior.
Edwards punched the armor only to hurt himself.
"Ow." Edwards groaned a bit.
Panther Warrior slashed its sword down at Edwards, only for him to roll away from the strike and Jeremy strafed to the Panther's right.
Makoto and Yuki helped carry Trinity away while Overdrive went through the tents after them. They hid behind some ruined stones and waited as the Overdrive past by them.
"What was that?" Trinity asked.
"A Tank." Yuki answered.
"Yeah no shit!" Trinity stated. "It was a card a second Ago. What did they do?"
"Proably used Magic." Makoto stated calmly.
"How Can you be So Calm About this?" Trinity asked.
"Not the First time this happened." Makoto answered.
"..."
"Something wrong?" Makoto asked.
"What the hell do you people do?" Trinity asked.
"Trinity?"
A Voice came from behind the Ruined stones. Makoto and Trinity slowly poked their heads over the stone and saw a Cage and inside the cage was a girl. The girl seemed to recognize Trinity and Trinity seemed to recognize the girl as well.
"Renee?" Trinity asked as she crawled toward the cage. "Renee Lancaster? What are you doing here?"
"'What am I doing here?'" Renee had asked. "What are you doing here? These guys just kidnapped me from home and I ended up in this cage!"
"These guys are trying to kill me and I got some friends to help stop them." Trinity answered.
"That's great, but you think you can let me out?" Renee requested.
Makoto looked at the lock on the door... and saw it was unlocked.
"It's not locked." Makoto stated.
"Are you kidding me? !" Renee shouted as she pushed the cage door and it opens. "MOTHERF***ER!"
VRRROOOOM!
Overdrive appeared behind the cage and started up its gatling gun. The girls quickly scattered and it fired off.
The hypnotized Rift goons stalked with their monster cards, reciting the same chant over and over again. The Panther Warrior lost sight of Jeremy and Edwards and was searching for them.
"The blood of the pure, the blood of the risen, steal the blood and break the prison."
After they passed, Edwards and Jeremy poked their heads from in the tent.
"Really? More blood?" Jeremy said. "Why can't these guys ever go for spit or a lock of hair?"
"You really want to be a sacrifice for a spit ritual?" Edwards questioned.
"For variety, sure."
RREERRRH!
Ranther Warrior pounced right on top of Jeremy, through the tent, pinned Jeremy down and was trying to cut Jeremy in two, but Jeremy was holding the sword back with his strength trying to keep it from cutting his head.
"Oh, this sucks!" Jeremy commented.
The Panther Warrior kept snarling in his face, ready to kill him when suddenly, Jeremy's Violet Rose Mark started glowing as did the cards in his Deck in his Duel Disk. Jeremy struggled to draw the card while trying to keep the sword off of him. Eventually, he pulled out a card from his Deck and the card started to glow. Panther Warrior then looks up and gets blasted out of the tent by a colorful beam. Jeremy tilted his head back and saw his Tempest Magician (Lv.6 2200/1700) standing above him.
"Thanks, that was really helpful."
"BLOODY HELL!" Edwards shouted. "HOW DID YOU DO THAT? !"
"Magic." Jeremy calmly said.
Makoto was carrying a limping Trinity in a hurry as Overdrive was following them and firing at them, barely missing the girls. They got separated from Yuki and Renee. The minigun on Overdrive aimed lower and when it fired, it shredded up Makoto's left leg. She and Trinity fell forward and Makoto felt the sheer pain of her bloodied leg. Overdrive came closer, stopped right in front of them and aimed its minigun at both of them. Trinity quickly put her hands over her head in a futile attempt to protect herself. Makoto then realized her Yellow Rose Mark was glowing and Watthydra (Lv.7 1500/1500) came out of the card and one of the heads bites onto the turret and pushes it away as it fired. Overdrive then speeds into full reverse as the entire Watthydra completely emerged from the card and pursues it. Trinity then lift her head up and sees what Makoto just did.
"What did you just do?" Trinity asked.
"I just summoned a monster. I'll tell you how later."
Overdrive and Watthydra battled and Overdrive's continuous miniguns bursts showed that it was overpowering Watthydra.
"Uh oh, I need to make Watthydra stronger! I activate Wattcube and then send it to the Graveyard to increase Watthydra's power by 1000!"
Watthydra bit on Overdrive in several different parts of its form and then electrocuted it, blowing up the tank.
"Awesome!" Makoto said. "Let's regroup with-Ow!"
Makoto forgot that her leg was torn up.
"Your leg is still in bad shape." Trinity said as she held onto her stomach.
"You're not in good shape either. Let me try something." Makoto pulled a card from her Deck. "Wattcine!"
A bluish aura surrounded the two of them and Makoto's leg slowly but gradually had its wounds closed.
"That's amazing!" Trinity felt her stomach. "I feel much better now."
"EEEK!"
Renee was cornered agaisnt the temple by Jirai Gumo (Lv.4 2200/100).
"You stay away from me!"
A magic circle appeared under Jirai Gumo and then stopped it from moving. Yuki walked past the Jirai Gumo and up to Renee.
"I set the Spellbinding Circle in its intended path and it triggered it without fault." Yuki stated.
"And how the hell were you able to activate a Trap? !" Renee yelled.
"I'm a psychic duelist." Yuki answered. "Under normal circumstances, I can use my abilities to bring monsters to life. However, there is a strange power surrounding this temple allowing anyone to summon monsters."
"Really?"
"Really."
As soon as Yuki said that, Jirai Gumo inflated and exploded. From behind, Renee could see Yuki's Overmind Archfiend (Lv.9 3300/3000), which cast the attack on the spider.
"... Yikes." Renee shuddered a bit.
At the main entrance of the temple, the Rift goons had begun summoning an army of monsters. Jeremy, with Tempest Magician, and Edwards saw them and approached.
"Let me try something kid." Edwards stepped forward. "Let's go, Bianca. Show me your stuff."
Edwards then drew a card and summons it. Behind him, Armed Dragon LV10 (Lv.10 3000/2000) appeared and roared.
"Now let's see if this works." Edwards said as he discarded a card to his Duel Disk's Graveyard.
Armed Dragon roared even louder and the roar destroyed all of the monsters and knocked out most of the Rift goons after the shockwave sent them flying into walls.
"HAHAHAHA! THIS IS FANTASTIC!" Edwards laughed at the top of his lungs. "A MAN WITH THIS KIND OF POWER CAN RULE THE WORLD!"
"Uh oh, we're not gonna have to beat you senseless, are we?" Jeremy asked.
"Don't be silly, I don't want the world; I just want money." Edwards pointed out.
"There you are." Yuki mentioned as she walked forward, followed by Overmind Archfiend. "The trouble seems to have passed."
Renee appeared behind Yuki and seemed surprised to see Jeremy.
"Jeremy?" Renee was surprised. "You're here, too?"
"Renee?" Jeremy said. "Holy crap, it's a Niagara Falls Academy Reunion. We're just missing Ace, Cleotra and Prof. Springfield to yell at us."
"See, I told you! Follow the big, giant dragon and sure enough, here they are!" Makoto said as she and Trinity came by, riding on Watthydra.
When the group got together, the monsters turned white and returned to their cards. One of the Rift goons who was knocked out on the ground was still conscious. Edwards went up to him and pressed his knee on his throat, waking the guy up as he struggled as his airway got constricted.
"Who's responsible for this?" Edwards interrogated. "Who's in charge?"
"Servinius." The Rift goon choked an answer. "Master Servinius will see Anubis brought back to life with the blood of the wizard- Hurk!"
The goon's mouth foamed as he started shaking violently. Edwards removed his knee and watched as the goons died on the ground.
"Servinius, huh?" Jeremy said. "With a name like that, he's bound to go 'Mwahahaha' at some point. I just know it."
"What did he mean 'the blood of the wizard'?" Trinity asked.
"You still use a Spell Counter Deck?" Renee asked. "He could refer to that. But why are you so important? Why do they want your blood?"
"Are you still a virgin?" Edwards asked.
"I... You... WHAT? !" Trinity was embarrassed. "I will not dignify with a response!"
"Well, virgin blood is supposedly more pure." Edwards stated.
"Trust me, she ain't no virgin." Renee joked.
"RENEE, SHUT IT!" Trinity shouted.
*Was that a joke or not?* Jeremy thought. *I should ask Colin when I get back.*
"Well, if you want these attacks on you stopped..." Edwards started talking. "We need to stop this Servinius person. And I want to know what he did to my organization."
Edwards then stood up to the entrance to the temples and looked at the doors that magically opened for them.
"Well, only one way to go." Jeremy said. "You ladies coming?"
"HOLY SHIT, GUYS! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED? !"
They looked behind them and saw Shigeru running toward them.
"THERE WERE MONSTERS AND SCREAMING AND MONSTERS!" Shigeru shouted in a panic.
"Shigeru, did you remember the first aid kit?" Makoto asked.
Shigeru calmed down. "No, I couldn't find it, but I did find this Duel Monsters Deck lying unguarded." He holds up the Deck to them. "It's mine now."
"Those are my cards!" Renee said as she snatched them from him.
"All right, you ladies ready?" Jeremy asked. "Let's go."
Jeremy and the others then entered the temple.