Chapter 6: Mage Power Part 2.
"Man, she's really good," Eric thought as he drew, "Definitely deserving of being an Obelisk, unlike that jerk Matt, and she's really hot too. Focus Eric." "I'll start by activating my Pot of Greed," Eric announced as the chuckling pot appeared. He drew twice.
"Let's see, Emerald Turtle and, hmmm here's something that could be effective, maybe even turn the match around." "Ok first I place a monster in defense mode and then I'll end with one card facedown." Eric said.
"Hmmm, he thought about that for awhile," Jessica thought as she drew, "But the Gem Beasts are one deck type I don't really know that much about, he could have anything out there. On the other hand he's definitely a good duelist, he took down, Matt and Harkins let's see if he can beat me. "Go Spear Soldier Crush his defense," Jessica ordered.
The soldier lowered its spear and lunged towards the monster.
"Sorry Jess, but that's not going to work," Eric grinned.
"Why?"
"Because I activate the trap card Last Resort!" Eric replied as the card rose to reveal a scene of the Earth from the moon, and there was also a lone lawn chair on the moon as well.
"Last Resort? That doesn't sound good," Jessica said.
"For you it's not," Eric said, grinning, "Here's how it works, when you declare an attack, I get to activate a field spell from my deck."
"What?" Ashley exclaimed.
"I've never heard of an effect like that before," Jessica said, "But what field spell would give you an advantage?"
"The Gem Beast field spell," Eric replied taking a card from his deck and holding it up.
"Go Ancient City Rainbow Ruins!" Eric called slipping the card into the field spell slot. The Necrovalley field disappeared to be replaced by a roman coliseum with tall marble pillars. Mountains and trees loomed in the distance, and a seven-colored rainbow arced overhead against a blue sky.
"Now that's a cool field spell," Ashley commented.
"But what does it do?" Jessica asked.
"I'll tell you but first things first, since Last Resort cancelled out a field spell with its effect, you get to draw a card," Eric said. (Jessica drew).
"And since Necrovalley is gone, all Gravekeepers lose 500 attack, and since your soldier attacked my Emerald Turtle, which has 2000 defense points, you lose 500 life points," he continued.
"Rats," Jessica moaned.
"Now you can finish your turn," Eric said.
"Ok," Jessica said, "First I sacrifice my two monsters to summon one of my strongest monsters, the mighty Dark Magician of Chaos!" The two monsters disappeared to be replaced by a tall, skinny mage, with wild black hair and a magician's outfit made of black leather and he also carried a long magician's staff, (Atk-2800).
"Ho boy!" Eric exclaimed.
"Now for his ability, which lets me add a spell card back to my hand, look familiar?" Jessica asked, holding up Necrovalley. Eric sighed.
"Welcome back to Necrovalley!" Jessica exclaimed playing the field spell, causing the city to be transformed back to the desert canyon.
"To finish up, I'll set one card facedown," Jessica concluded.
"Time to play the monster that will turn this around for me," Eric declared as he drew, "To summon him I need to sacrifice my Emerald Turtle. Meet my Gravi-Crush Dragon!" A large muscular hunter-green dragon appeared on the field with a roar, (Atk-2400).
"Nice dragon, but a little short on the attack," Ashley noted.
"Which he makes up for with his special ability," Eric said, "allow me to demonstrate, by sacrificing a continuous spell card from my field he can destroy a monster on your side of the field."
"But you don't have any continuous spells," Jessica protested.
"Actually I have four of them," Eric grinned.
"Wait I forgot the Gem Beasts become continuous spells when they are crystallized," Jessica said.
"Right, so without further ado, I'll sacrifice a sapphire to destroy your chaos mage," Eric shouted. The dragon scooped up a sapphire and hurled it Frisbee-style at the mage, destroying both.
"Now Gravi-crush Dragon, even up the score, attack with Gravity Fist," Eric called.
A purple aura surrounded the dragon's fist as it charged towards Jessica.
"Sorry to disappoint you but I activate the trap card Magic Cylinder!" Jessica cried. Two large, decorated purple cylinders appeared on her side of the field. The first one began to glow, sucking up the dragon inside. Then the other one glowed and the dragon reappeared and charged towards Eric. The dragon swung its fist at him, but he raised up his duel disk to block just in time, as the dragon struck.
"Urrrrggggg!" Eric groaned as his life points plummeted to 200.
"Eric, you all right bro?" David asked.
"Yeah, just a little shook up is all," Eric replied, "This doesn't look good for me, but I end my turn, with a face-down." (E-200. J-5300).
"Time for a victory," Jessica exclaimed drawing, Perfect, just the monster I need to end this duel, and with me having more life points than when I started, looks like Eric is not as good as I thought he was. But wait, that facedown of his could be bad, I better play it safe, either way, I'll still win. "Now I summon, Injection Fairy Lily, in attack mode!"
A small girl, dressed as a nurse carrying a large syringe appeared on the field, (Atk-400). "I could have her attack," Jessica began, "But I'm sure you set a trap, so I'll just play this instead, the spell card Mystic Box!" As she spoke, two large black boxes, adorned with question marks appeared on the field, and Gravi-crush Dragon and Injection Fairy Lily were each swept inside a separate one.
Then several swords pierced the one that Gravi-Crush Dragon was in.
"No!" Eric exclaimed.
"Relax," Jessica said, "You get my monster in exchange." "The second box re-opened and Injection Fairy Lily flew over to Eric's side of the field.
"Erm, no thanks," Eric said.
"That sucks, Jessica gave Eric a monster he can't attack with," David said.
"And just in case you do try something, I'll place one card facedown and end," Jessica said.
"Man am I in a tough bind, she has over 5000 more life points than I do, but I know I can do something," Eric thought as he drew, "This will definitely help." "I activate the spell card Rare Value!" Eric called out. "So now choose a Gem Beast to be sent to my Graveyard."
"Ok, I choose a Sapphire Pegasus," Jessica replied.
"Fine," Eric said as a sapphire shattered, "Now I get to draw two cards. Just what I need, remember my Gravi-Crush Dragon? Let me introduce you to his counter-part, Magna-Slash Dragon!" The lily disappeared to be replaced by a slender pale-green dragon with very large wings, Atk-2400.
"And just like his brother, he can destroy things using continuous spells, namely spells and traps, like your face down over there," Eric grinned. Magna-Slash Dragon used one of its wings to swat the topaz gem, which soared over to the face-down card and shattered it.
"And now for Necrovalley," Eric said. This time, Magna-Slash Dragon scooped up the sapphire flung it into the air and sliced it apart with its other wing causing blue shards to rain down on the valley destroying it.
"Go Magna-Slash Dragon attack Jessica with Magna-Wing Blades!" Eric shouted. The dragon roared and slashed the air with its great wings leaving two crescent-shaped blade marks which streaked towards Jessica and struck her.
"Arrrrrrgggggg!" Jessica groaned on impact."Oh yeah, way to make a comeback," David said.
"I'll finish up by activating Swords of Revealing Light," Eric said as a cascade of golden light swords surrounded Jessica's field. "Your turn."
"Either he's better than I thought or he's just lucky, I'll find out soon," Jessica thought, "I draw and activate the spell card Fissure, which automatically destroys the monster with the lowest attack on the field."
"But since there's only one, my dragon is destroyed," Eric finished with a sigh as a hole appeared in the ground underneath his dragon, then a monstrous hand snaked up and dragged the dragon into the hole which then sealed up again.
"I'll finish up with a monster in defense mode," Jessica said. Some of the swords disappeared.
"My draw," Eric said. "I'll toss out a defense and end."
"I'll summon the Gravekeeper's Commandant in attack mode, and end my turn," Jessica announced as a tall dark-robed man, carrying a staff appeared on the field, (Atk-1600).
"Ok," Eric began, "First I'll flip up my Magician of Faith to retrieve a spell from my graveyard like Pot of Greed," A young lady dressed in a purple robe and carrying a crescent moon staff appeared on the field. Her staff glowed with a green light and Eric added Pot of Greed to his hand and immediately activated it, and drew two cards.
"I'll place a monster in defense mode and end," Eric said. "Now I reveal my face down monster, Gravekeeper's Spy, and her special ability allows me to special summon another Gravekeeper from my deck, like another Gravekeeper's Spear Soldier!" Jessica called as another Spear-wielding soldier appeared on her side of the field.
"Next I play Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your swords," Jessica said.
The remaining swords were swept away in the tornado-like winds. "Now Spear Soldier, crush his Magician of Faith and end this duel," Jessica commanded.
As the soldier rushed forward, Eric said, "Remember how you were so worried about this trap? Well your attack has triggered it, go Needle Ceiling!"
"What?" Jessica exclaimed shocked as the field was covered by a vast stone ceiling riddled with holes. Suddenly steel spikes appeared in each of the holes and the ceiling began to lower.
"Now allow me to explain how this card works," Eric said, "Simply put this card destroys all face-up monsters on the field, which includes all three of your monsters and my magician."
"No!" Jessica cried out as her monsters were destroyed.
"I honestly don't know why more people don't use that card since it's like another Mirror Force," Eric said.
"I underestimated him; he's turned this entire duel around. I have no cards in my hand and my field is bare. I've lost," Jessica thought. "I end my turn," she said.
"Time to wrap this up," Eric said drawing, "I summon Gem Beast Topaz Tiger to the field in attack mode! Then I flip-summon my Gem Beast Cobalt Eagle!" Next to the tiger appeared a proud, brown eagle with two light-blue gems set into its wings, (Atk- 1400).
"Go Cobalt attack her directly with Cobalt Wing Slice, and Topaz finish her off with Topaz Strike!" Eric shouted.
"Uuurrrrrggggg!" Jessica groaned as both monsters struck her. She slid to the ground as her life points plunged to 0.
"Way to duel, bro!" David shouted.
"Yeah, great duel," Ashley added.
"Thanks guys," Eric replied, walking over to Jessica, "That was an awesome duel, girl," Eric said extending his hand, "Need a hand?" "Thanks," she said, as he helped her up. "So who's up for more dueling?" Eric asked.
Her huge boobs wobbled and danced inside her top, causing Eric to grin. Jessica saw that and thought to herself, "I was right he does like my huge boobs. Maybe this is the start to a beautiful friendship." "What do you say we go take a walk?" Jessica asked me. "I'd love too," Eric replied, proud of himself for not stuttering.
To be continued…