Author's note: Any cards highlighted in bold are not actual Yugioh cards.
Chapter 27: Fight against Arcadia part 1
Sayer accepted my Duel, and opted to go first, summoning Krebons (1200/400 Level 2) and placing a card face-down. "By going first, I can't attack in the opening turn," he stated. I had the strangest feeling then; it felt like I was finally waking up after a long sleep.
As a result of this, after I drew my card, I yawned and rubbed my eyes. After shaking off this feeling of sleep, I felt a beautiful feeling of the need for vengeance coursing through my veins. My Duel Disk had also changed to resemble that one blade-like form extending from the dark blue crescent I used so long ago. I placed three cards face-down, summoned my Bowganian (1300/1000) and used my Advanced Machine Duplication, targeting a monster with 1500 or less ATK and Special Summoning two more from my Deck, in this case my Bowganian. However, I couldn't activate Trap Cards the turn they were Set, so I ended my turn.
On Sayer's turn, he played Emergency Teleport, allowing him to Special Summon a Level 3 or lower monster from his hand. This way, he summoned the Level 3 Mind Protector (0/2200), which he then proceeded to tune with the Krebons Tuner monster to Synchro Summon Magical Android (2400/1700). His following move involved a Normal Summon of Psychic Snail (1900/1200) and activation of its ability; He paid 800 Life Points to select one Psychic-type monster he controlled: that monster could attack twice during each Battle Phase. This also activated my face-down Aura of Life Transfer, moving the Trap to the Field Spell Card Zone, surrounding us in a purple/pink mist and causing me to take his payment of Life Points as an addition to my own, putting him on 3200 and me on 4800 Life Points. In addition, it caused a green mist to evaporate from his body and fly towards me in a stream, turning cyan, then blue along the way. After that, however, came his face-down Battle Teleportation, allowing him to select one monster and give it the right to attack directly, choosing Magical Android.
From there, he targeted me for a direct attack with his Magical Android, but I revealed my Nightmare Mirror, discarding my last card to negate the attack and deal him 1000 damage. As he was reduced to 2200 Life Points, mine rose to 5800 and again, green mist evaporated from him, turned blue, and streamed towards me. Magical Android, however, had a spare attack in reserve, so I activated my Nightmare Wheel when it attacked directly again to keep it where I could see it, after which he placed a card face-down to end his turn. During his End Phase, Magical Android gave Sayer 600 Life Points for every Psychic-type monster he controlled, but he also took 300 damage from each of my Bowganian monsters. All in all, he gained 1200, but lost 900, with his Life Points only ascending to 2500, mine descending to 5500, blue mist evaporating from me and streaming towards him, turning cyan, then green in the process.
I drew, and activated the card I got: Card of Sanctity, allowing both of us to draw until holding six cards. Oh, and Nightmare Wheel damaged Sayer by 500 to come to 2000, also bringing me up to 6000 Life Points and sending more green mist in my direction that turned blue as it reached me. I set one card face-down to end my turn.
Sayer drew, and summoned Telekinetic Shocker (1700/700), after which he played Double Summon to summon another Krebons (1400/800). After that, he Tributed Telekinetic Shocker to summon Storm Caller (2300/2000). The level 2 Krebons was tuned to the Level 6 Storm Caller to Synchro Summon Thought Ruler Archfiend (2700/2300). From there, he donated some of his Life Points… and Psychic powers… to me, by which I mean he played the Spell Card Psychokinesis, allowing him to pay 1000 Life Points to destroy one card on the field, choosing my Aura of Life Transfer. Ultimately, my Trap in the Field Spell Zone wasn't destroyed, and all that really happened was that Sayer was gasping for air with only 1000 Life Points left, while I was on 7000 and surrounded by blue mist.
"Your Trap should be gone!" Sayer panted.
"Sorry," I apologized, though not really, "My Trap, once it has been activated, cannot be destroyed by Spell or Trap Cards, so too bad for you!"
He still wasn't finished, though. He played a Psychic Sword card on his Thought Ruler Archfiend, giving it an extra amount of attack based on how much higher my Life Points were, up to 2000, making its ATK 4700. Another 500 Life Points were paid (he was now on 500 and me on 7500) to allow Thought Ruler Archfiend to attack twice during each Battle Phase, and another Battle Teleportation revealed, targeting it to allow it to attack me directly.
That was when I revealed my Cemetery Bomb, damaging Sayer by 100 points for each monster in his Graveyard. He had two Krebons, one Telekinetic Shocker, one Storm Caller and one Mind Protector, thus damaging him by 500 points, bringing him down to 0 and me to 8000, and causing more green mist to evaporate, turn blue and stream towards me. As it arrived at me, however, all of the blue mist streamed into my mouth, and I felt myself becoming that much stronger.
Sayer, on the other hand, was struggling to remain on his feet, and actually collapsed onto all fours a minute later. I couldn't believe that I had gone for so long without this blissful feeling. Yuina approached the downed Sayer, and I saw him manage to place a Psychic Sword card into his Duel Disk. The sword appeared, he grabbed for the hilt… and clenched a fist where the hilt's hologram was..
"What the hell have you done to me?" he asked.
"Well, it looks like Toby has drained your Psychic powers," Yuina informed him as she began tearing off his clothes. "Now sit still, I've got a future carcass to loot."
"What do you mean 'future carcass'?"
"Found it!" Yuina peeled a fake layer of skin off Sayer's stomach to reveal a Master Key Card, similar to the Warden's, but with the Arcadia leader's face on it. She then held up another card, which was a blank white, but had a black sphere, which usually indicates an EARTH-Attribute monster, in the center, down to the kanji and romanji for EARTH being written in the sphere. "The Warden was hiding this other card in the one arm of the Void's Captain's chair. I'm willing to bet that Sayer has hidden a similar card in the Arcadia Movement!" she continued.
"So we need to siege the Arcadia Movement? I look forward to it!" I stated. I needed to drain the powers of every one of the 'worthy' Duelists, so that they too would know the horror they inflicted upon those who just wanted people who could sympathise.
"Hold it, kid! What did she mean by you draining his Psychic Powers?" Jack Atlas shouted.
"You saw the mists in that Duel, Mr. Atlas. You saw how they became attuned to me when he took damage. All of his Psychic Powers are now mine to do with as I please!"
"Did I just hear you right? You drained all of his Psychic Powers?" another voice sounded… a young boy's voice. Turning to face it, I saw two teal-haired children, a twin boy and girl, with a woman who featured long-ish burgundy hair. I immediately recognized her as one of Sayer's right-hand Psychic Duelists, and raw anger started rising in me. The boy continued to ask how I did what I did. The other child mumbled something incomprehensible.
"What's the point in me telling you when I can just show you? Arcadia woman, I challenge you to a Duel!"
"I won't allow that!" Jack shouted, activating his Duel Disk.
"I don't care what you will or won't allow! If you insist on dueling my friend, you will have to go through me first!" Yuina stepped in, activating her own Disk.
"That still leaves me!" the boy shouted, readying his Duel Disk as well.
"Actually, I will be your opponent, bishonen-chan," Rebecca came forward, activating her Disk as well, "…and I'll also take on your cute bishojo of a companion!"
"Toby, don't you recognize me?" the Arcadia woman shouted.
"You are a majordomo of the Arcadia Movement, and I can sense that you have extremely strong Psychic Powers," I replied, activating my Duel Disk, drawing five cards after the Deck shuffle was complete. "That alone makes you my enemy!"
"Why are you doing this?"
"Someone like you, who wasn't deemed a failure, wouldn't understand! Now, I summon my Bowganian, use my Advanced Machine Duplication to summon two more from my Deck, place two cards face-down and end my turn."
"Toby, stop this, please!"
"Shall I consider you as having skipped your turn then, Arcadia woman?"
"Fine," she sighed, activating her own Disk. She summoned Evil Thorn (100/300) and Tributed it to inflict 300 damage to me and Special Summon two more from her Deck. My two cards activated then. The first was Aura of Life Transfer, moving to the Field Spell Zone and giving her the 300 Life Points she had taken from me. As this happened, I felt my strength draining slightly, as blue mist evaporated from me and streamed towards her, turning purple, then red in the process. My second card was Nightmare Tri-Mirror; since she Special Summoned monsters, I could select one monster I controlled and Special Summon an equal number of Copy tokens of that monster. After that, I was on 3700 Life Points, but with five copies of Bowganian (1300/1000), while she had 4300 Life Points and only two 100 ATK Evil Thorns. However, she played Closed Plant Gate to stop me from attacking since she controlled two monsters of the same name. Despite the fact I couldn't attack, that didn't stop me from inflicting 1500 damage to her due to the effect of my monsters, bringing her to 2800 Life Points and me to 5200. Red mist also evaporated from her and streamed towards me, turning purple, then blue along the way.
"Careful, Toby, I think she might summon out a Yubel in her next turn!" Yuina shouted from her own Duel.
There was something intriguing about the way that this woman fought, and the Duel was getting very interesting…
End note: I know technically, Toby's opponent's Duel Disk wasn't active when he began the Duel with her, but as far as I remember, from the original Yugioh season 4, something similar happened with Mai vs Joey where she began her turn and Joey hadn't activated his Disk, only doing so after a little persuasion.