Author's note: Any cards highlighted in bold are not actual Yugioh cards
Chapter 13: Gate of Lust
Everyone lined up at their corners, with Carnivore and I now being in the Blue Corner and Rebecca and Sky Fairy in the Red Corner. The latter of those two seemed to become angry with me, and after a few minutes, she started shouting at me, demanding to know what happened to the Beast. Carnivore just brushed her off, saying that it was inevitable that an animal like him would lose. This just caused her to become even angrier, demanding that the Duel begin and taking her place opposite me.
As the winning team with the most Life Points last Duel, we got to go first. With me, I placed three cards face-down and ended my turn. Rebecca took over, placing a monster face-down in Defense mode and also placing a card face-down. Carnivore just summoned a Miracle Jurassic Egg (0/2000) in Defense mode and Special Summoned a Gilasaurus (1400/400) from her hand, placed a card face-down and ended her turn. When Sky Fairy drew, she summoned Victoria (1800/1500), played Double Summon to summon another Victoria, placed a card face-down and ended her turn.
When my turn came, I placed another card face-down. With my current hand, there was nothing more I could do other than stall for time. When Rebecca took her turn, she flipped her face-down monster face-up: Jowls of Dark Demise (200/100), stealing Carnivore's Gilasaurus as a result and allowing it to attack directly. With that, Rebecca used the stolen monster to attack, but I revealed my Nightmare Mirror, negating that attack, dealing her team 1000 damage to come to 7000 and discarding the Rescuer from the Grave in my hand. At the end of the turn, the Gilasaurus returned to Carnivore's field.
Speaking of Carnivore, when she took her turn, she played Graceful Charity, drawing three cards, discarding two and giving Miracle Jurassic Egg four counters. Four more counters were placed on it when she used Polymerization to fuse Gilasaurus with Kaitoptera in her hand to form Horned Saurus (2000/1000). That was when the Egg was sacrificed to bring out Ultimate Tyranno (3000/2200)
"Now, since my Dinosaur is in Attack mode, it has to attack first," she began
"Reveal Trap! DNA Surgery!" Sky Fairy shouted. "This makes all monsters on the field one specific type, and I choose Fairy. Now the abilities of my two Victoria monsters mean you cannot attack a single thing!"
"Keep dreaming, stupid! My beast has to attack everything once each. Whether I cannot select other fairies as an attack target is irrelevant!"
"Reveal face-down card: Magical Arm Shield!" Rebecca shouted this time. "Now, I can make your Dinosaur instead attack a monster of yours that I choose. Now your attacking Dinosaur attacks your other Dinosaur, the Horned Saurus!"
"Not quite, Succubus. Reveal Jurassic Heart. This destroys any Spell or Trap targeting my Dinosaurs!"
The Ultimate Tyranno proceeded to destroy both Victorias, dealing 1200 damage both times, and finished with the Jowls of Dark Demise, albeit with it being in Defense mode, no damage was dealt on that count. Rebecca and Sky Fairy were on 4600 Life Points. From there, my partner attacked directly with Horned Saurus due to its Special Ability, bringing them down to 2600 Life Points. With that, she placed a card face-down to end her turn.
Sky Fairy drew, and summoned Bountiful Artemis, sacrificing it to summon Tethys, Goddess of Light (2400/1800). From there, she played Pot of Greed, using her new monster's ability to reveal the Gellenduo she drew and draw again, this time drawing Watapon (200/300) and Special Summoning it since it was added to her hand by a card effect. From there, it was a Double Summon and summoning of Gellenduo (1700/0). After that, she played Card of Demise, drawing five cards in exchange for discarding her hand in five turns. Then her Watapon was Tributed for Airknight Parshath (1900/1400) and since she had her two Victorias, a Watapon and a Bountiful Artemis in her Graveyard, 4 fairies, she could Special Summon Archlord Kristya (2800/2300) and return one monster from her Graveyard to her Hand. Sky Fairy played Forbidden Chalice, targeting her Archlord Kristya, negating its effects but giving it 400 extra ATK. Then, finally, she Tributed her Gellenduo, which could count for two Tributes, to summon Angel 07 (2500/1500) and give it the ability to stop all Effect Monsters from activating their effects.
The first card she attacked with was her Archlord, targeting Ultimate Tyranno and destroying it, dealing us 200 damage to come to 7800. From there, Angel 07 destroyed Horned Saurus, bringing us down to 7300, followed by Airknight Parshath attacking us to get us down to 5400 and grant her a card, then her Tethys, Goddess of Light brought us down to 3000 points.
When I drew, I started to see a possible victory plan. I played Graceful Charity to draw three cards and discard two, followed by a Pot of Greed for two cards, after which I used Spell Reproduction, discarding two Spells to get one back. There was nothing I could do to win this Duel right now, so I just used Emergency Provisions to destroy a set card and bring Carnivore and me to 4000 Life Points, after which I placed one of the cards I picked up via Pot of Greed face-down and played Burning Land, and although there was no Field Spell to destroy, everyone took 500 damage during their Standby Phases. I couldn't believe it, maybe my attempt at my first tactic gave way to a second, better tactic.
Rebecca took her turn, taking 500 damage for her team to come to 2100 Life Points, summoning Maiden in Love (400/300) and using Polymerization to fuse it with the Succubus Knight in her hand and form Succubus Temptress (2000/1500). Rebecca immediately equipped it with the Spell Card Excalibur, doubling its ATK to 4000, the exact value as our Life Points.
"Toby, I'm sorry, but in a war, this has to be done. My monster attacks directly!" she shouted.
"It's okay. I activate my face-down Back Attack Ambush, negating the attack, Special Summoning an amount of Ambush Tokens equal to monsters on the Field, which totals five, and gives me an option to Tribute any number to deal 500 points of damage to you per token," I stated. "Now, I Tribute all five tokens and deal you 2500 points of damage!"
The Life Points of Rebecca and Sky Fairy decreased to 0, after which the covering on the right-hand side locks were released. Despite Sky Fairy's objections, Rebecca handed over the Level 1 Key and Level 2 Key she had attained. Taking those keys, we inserted them into the exposed locks labeled B1 and B2, which made sense since we were in the Blue corner this time.
"Please… triumph in this war," Rebecca whispered to us before leaving, sounding somewhat hurt, but hopeful at the same time.
Walking into the exposed corridor, we found a Key labeled '3' and took it. The results screen was also showing updates, with this time showing the second row of squares, with four squares in that row, coloring in. Our square had a line bisecting it from the top left to the bottom right, with the top-right hand side colored green and the other red.
Waiting for the doors to open and let us through to match number 3, Carnivore and I discussed the last Duel. She was a little worried that I was slipping up, as I had failed to counter the attacks, but was ultimately satisfied with my performance. One particular thing she praised me on is 'making them think that we were defenseless, then bouncing back and snatching their victory right out from under them', her voice seemingly quite proud.
"By the way," I had to ask "…Rebecca seemed a bit upset about something."
"I'm not surprised," came Carnivore's response. "Three years ago, she declared war, hoping to escape. She got the first three keys, but during round three, she was defeated by the Tag Team of the Bombardier and Queen of Cellblock 3."
"It almost sounded like she wants us to experience what she couldn't, doesn't it?"
"I'd assume so. That defeat crushed her, from what I can tell. Although she went about her usual business, even when the next year came along with the next chance to do so, she didn't declare another war. At least this time wouldn't be so bad, I don't think."
"Why?"
"She knows us. She also knows that you are declaring war for the same reasons she was, and it would probably be better for her if we actually advanced, especially past where she failed."
"So, we need to defeat the Queen and the Bombardier that she fell to?"
"Speaking of which, it looks like we will indeed be facing them."
Looking at the Screen, I could see a square to the left of us. As a black line bisected it from the top left to bottom right corners, the top-right hand side had turned green and the other red. Tracing it back to the first row of squares, the victor from there appeared to be Cellblock 3.
"A slight word of warning, Toby:" Carnivore began "…the Bombardier and Queen are firm favorites to go to the finals of the ladder from what I was told."
It was somewhat scary, but we walked forward anyway as the doors opened to the next Duel Arena. As we waited, I spotted movement from the other door. A man came in; he featured a large moustache, but was bald otherwise, and also had a muscular appearance. Behind him was a woman who was also bald, but she featured green eye-shadow on her eyes. She also had a few tattoos, one of the most prominent being a large butterfly on her right upper arm. She was also quite muscular, and of all the people I met in the Void, I actually liked her the least so far. It was as if something about her, or both of them for that matter, was just plain revolting.
"So…" she began in a smug voice. "…you guys are the upstarts that started another war, eh?"
"What do you mean 'upstarts'?" I asked.
"If you are going to address me, pathetic little fruit fly, then you will address me as 'My Queen'!"
"Why?"
"Insubordination…" the man spoke. "We clearly have to straighten you out!"
"I don't understand."
"That's 'I don't understand, Bombardier' to you! I can clearly see that you're green, but that doesn't mean I'm going to go easy on you."
"Leave the kid alone, oh hairless blockheads!" Carnivore shouted. From there, tempers flared, and everyone was ready to Duel.
End note: The 'Lust' part of the Chapter Title comes from Rebecca's Title 'Succubus' and, in some way, her monster, due to a succubus being (from what I understand) a creature of lust.