YuGiOh 5D's: Konami/Kazuki Takahashi
This next chapter brings us back to the Arcadia Movement, where Divine just experienced a sudden and terrifying revelation from his latest target, Gabriella Cheshire.
"Ah, it feels so good to stretch my wings after sooo long," the recent Dark Signer purred, "And this new outfit, it really fits my image." Gabriella twirled around, letting her cape flow along with her. She then stopped and gave a small wink to Divine, "What do you think?"
Divine could say nothing. All he could do is stand over the reception desk's debris, his legs still as stone due to the darkness bearing down on him. And Gabriella loved the fear he must be feeling.
"I'll take that silence as a compliment. Anyway, all nonsense aside…" Gabriella looked towards her mark, "Don't ask me why, but I have a strange feeling that someone had just crashed through some warehouse roof and is now knocking on death's door…I'll just go on ahead and let her in." the dark angel raised her arm and a massive earthquake took place inside and out the building.
And outside the building, giant purple flames erupted and carved through the city, until they took form of a small bird, and a large star. And Sayer saw it all from his top-floor office.
"Well, this can't be good!" the Head of the Arcadia looked towards the warehouse where Carly crashed through, and found a supposed corpse rising from its crater. Suddenly, it disappeared. As brief panic overtook him, he quickly turned to his desk and snatched up the phone, "I need a report on the damage, right now! And get everyone evacuated, but leave our 'guests' where they—" but before he could finish his sentence, a pitch-black shadow covered him. Sayer instantly turned his heels to be met with a figure in shadowed veil right outside his window. The scariest thing was that it was supported by a pair of large wings rapidly flapping in the air.
"What the f—"
But Sayer could not finish that sentence before he was driven by a massive gust of wind, causing him to tumble over his desk and fall to the floor. He looked to the door and saw a shadow of a figure facing him, retracting its massive, paper-flat wings into it…
Meanwhile, in the dark abyss in the Satellite, the marks of the three Dark Signers were glowing actively.
"Our earthly guardians are growing restless," Roman looked at his spider mark; a smile curled on his face, "It appears that our herald has finally arisen from her slumber," he turned to the man in the black-and-yellow cape, "You know what to do."
The man nodded and exited to the door.
The dark energy emanated all across the city far and wide, even the Daimon Area. Jason ran out of the warehouse he was in and onto the streets. The power form the Dark Signs triggered his own Mark of the Dragon.
"Jason!" Sarah rushed out of the building as well after him, "You're not fully healed. You can't get up yet!"
But Jason was deaf to reason. He rushed back into the building and, seconds later, launched out with his duel-runner. He stopped next to Sarah.
"Thank you for the hospitality. I appreciate it," that was all Jason said before he drove off.
But Sarah was not going to take it lying down. She reached into her pocket for a small object and pressed a button that sent a green capsule-like vehicle driving next to her. The roof of the vehicle opened up like a snake's mouth, revealing an armored duel-runner styled as a green viper. Sarah perched herself onto the bike and put her helmet over her head.
"Victor, let's tail him."
"Sarah, are you sure about this?" the computer's voice said from the runner, "Jason did appreciate you taking care of him."
"Victor, he could fall under fatigue!" Sarah replied, "I can't be held responsible if he's stupid enough to collapse on his runner. Now let's go!"
"Alright…" the computer sighed as Sarah drove him down the street.
Meanwhile…
"I want a rematch…Sayer!" Lightning flashed outside the broken window to reveal his new invader: staring down Sayer with dead, blank eyes was none other than the wanna-be journalists, Carly Carmine! Sayer was stiff on the floor as he stared at her in shock and horror.
"Okay, you're having a nervous breakdown," he tried to convince himself, "it's the stress of your job, it's gotten to you…I hope."
"Stop talking," Carly replied apathetically, "I'm not some stress-induced hallucination, I'm real."
" But you fell... !" as the Head of the Arcadia stared at her right arm, a mark began to glow violet on it, one that matched one of the earth-scorching symbols outside.
Carly looks at it dispassionately, "And the Dark Signers gave me a soft landing. It seems that their Herald is actively recruiting duelists to join their cause. She chose yours truly, and that's bad news for you."
" Uh, let's just talk about this."
Carly gasped as her mark burned, as though she just got an electric shock. As she was about to scream, a column of ominous light that appeared around her cut her off, obscuring her from view.
"Carly…?"
"This is the beginning of the end for you!" She reappeared with stiletto boots, bare legs, black short shorts or miniskirt covered by a skirt, long in the back and short in the front that separates into leaves of cloth, extremely daring bare midriff, and black gloves that button well above her elbows. Her top was a garment like a short poncho, longer in the front and back than at the shoulders, black highlighted with orange designs, with a hood beneath her hair as it settled back onto her shoulders. Her duel-disk became evil-looking teeth and a large orange jewel. A mark similar to tracking dye, in her case a left-side eye triangle, appeared on her face. She opened her eyes, and the space around her irises had turned black and her face is alight with sinister glee, "Prepare yourself for the Shadows!"
"So the little mouse has become a Dark Signer, right?" Sayer chuckled, "Well, I've already beaten you once today, and I'll be more than happy to do it again!"
"I must warn you that I'm not the same person," Carly the Dark Signer smirked as she activated her duel-disk, "Since I've joined the Dark Signers, I've grown up. You wanna really see how exciting a duel can be, Sayer? Then why don't you agree to battle me in a shadow duel!"
"Carly, you've got yourself a deal. I guess you forgot that I'm the leader of the Arcadia Movement! And you're no match for my psychic powers!"
Sayer slotted his deck and so did Carly. Both duel disks auto-shuffle, and then they both draw five.
"LET'S DUEL!"
YuGiOh: 5D's
Reverse of Arcadia
Ride 18: Digging Deeper
Part 3: Mind Crush, Three Geoglyphs, and The Herald of the Dark Signers.
Meanwhile in the testing area, Magic and Seria recovered from the recent earthquake.
"What just happened just now?" Magic wondered, "…It doesn't matter! I'm not getting distracted from my chance at freedom!" she then played a card from her hand, "I activate the spell, Gift of the Yuki-Onna! So by discarding a high-leveled WATER monster from my hand, I draw 2 cards from my deck!" Magic discarded Ice Master and drew twice.
Magic: 8000 (27)
Seria: 8000
"You should know that it's a bad idea to draw so many cards," Seria stated in a calm state, "Though helpful, there is such thing as drawing too many."
"Tell that to my face-down!" Magic set a reverse-card onto her field, "I end my turn!"
"And during the end-phase, I activate the continuous-trap known as Greed," Seria activated one of her face-downs, "So now we take 500 points of damage for each card we drew due to a card-effect." A red aura then surrounded both players, burning them from the inside.
Magic: 4500 (27)
Seria: 5500
"And now it is my turn," Seria drew, "And I summon Blackwing-Bora the Sphere," to shock of her opponent, Seria conjured a red-headed bird-man, wielding his giant black jousting spear (ATK: 1700), "And since a I have a monster with 'Blackwing' in its card name, I can summon Gale the Whirlwind, which is also a Blackwing," beside the armed avian came a smaller one, its arms stretched like wings and its head-feathers a shade of green (ATK: 1300), "I now activate Gale the Whirlwind's special-ability. In case you don't know, I can select one monster you control, and cut its offensive power and defensive power in half," the small bird-man flapped its wing-like arms once, its beat creating a powerful namesake which ripped across Magic's dragon. In the conclusion, the White Glacier Dragon griped in pain as it was covered by many deep cuts.
White Glacier Dragon: (ATK: 1375/DEF: 1000)
"Glacier…" Magic whispered to her dragon, seeing it in anguish mane a small pang in her heart.
"Now I tune Bora the Spear with Gale the Whirlwind to synchro-summoned Blackwing-Armor Master," the two monsters combined into the synchro-jet and fused into a humanoid, armored avian, one of which Magic was familiar of.
'That's Crow's favorite monster!' her mind gasped, 'How did she get a card that rare?'
"Finally, I place 2 cards face-down and end my turn," two reverses appeared.
'I don't get it. Blackwing-Armor Master has more ATK points thanks to Gale the Whirlwind. So why hasn't she attacked?' Magic wondered, 'What's she up to?'
"It's my move!" Magic drew her next card.
"And I activate my face-down, the trap card The Gift of Greed!" Seria flipped another one of her reverse-cards, "That allows you to draw 2 new cards," she watched her opponent draw two cards from her deck, "And now…it begins…"
"Begins what? What are you talking about?" but Magic's demands were unheard as everything went dark around her. Then, a spotlight was lit, revealing the last person Magic would see here…
"Crow?"
But the small reunion was cut short by a look of horror in her eyes. The red-headed Blackwing duelist collapsed, his body replaced with a pile of Duel Monster cards. Magic clutched her head as her mind felt like it was going through a blender. As soon as it stopped, all traces of her friend were gone.
"What just happened?" the ice duelist demanded, "What did you do to me?"
"I erased a piece of your memory," Seria explained, "You see, my powers are…'unique' among the other members here. While most of them use their monsters to inflict actual damage, I use my cards to cover up my opponent's memories and rearrange their thoughts. So, for every six cards removed from your deck, you lose a piece of your memory. And when you run out of cards to play, your mind will be 'reset'."
"So that's what happened to my memories…" Magic realized, "You took them from me, didn't you?"
Seria nodded, "It was so you would follow our movement without question, you see, there's a special power inside of you when we found you. But when you somehow got your memory back, our plans were compromised. That's why we must keep you here until we can gain hold of your secrets."
Meanwhile…
Meanwhile, all the members of the Arcadia Movement received Sayer's message and rand down the hall to evacuate the building. They were close to the elevator until their path was being blocked by a lone man. His ebony hair was held up by a ponytail while his eyes were being hidden behind the reflecting walls of his glasses.
"Normally I down pride myself on picking on 'lower life-forms…'" he then took his glasses off and slid then in his pocket, "But ridding the world of the Arcadia, is all part of my vengeance." The members were then knocked back by a veil of bright-purple light, as that person's form was replaced: he now wore a pitch-black cape over his body. His hair was down and his eyes were now a black as night with silver irises. He then raised his right arm, revealing a glowing mark of some sort…
"Let the game begin…"
Akiza was walking down the hallway with Rico in tow, the boy clutching her corset skirt in one hand, and dragging along his stuffed wolf in the other. The place was more quiet than usual this early in the evening; almost like deathly silent. Pretty soon they walked out onto a landing bordering the central shaft of empty space in the Arcadia building.
"Sayer? Anyone?" Akiza called out, "Hello? Come on, stop kidding around."
"Looking for someone?" a voice asked, "I'm afraid Sayer is a little, how should I say, 'occupied'." The two duelists turned their gaze to the adjacent balcony hallway to see a stunningly beautiful woman who was dressed in a pale green dress under a white jacket, with an emerald green sash tied around her waist.
"Wait. I know you," Akiza muttered, "You're that model."
"I do happen to have a name, you know. It's Misty," the woman said straightforward, "You're famous yourself, aren't you, miss Akiza? Or do you prefer 'Black Rose'? Tell me, are you really a witch?" Akiza was slightly taken aback at Misty's bluntness, "I've waited a long time for this, Miss Whatever-You-Call-Yourself; I want my brother back!"
"Your brother? But I don't know him," Akiza replied, "Why do you think I do?"
"Enough lies!" Misty snapped, "I want answers, and I want them now, Miss Akiza! Your group of psychics, the Arcadia Movement, stole him! So now, I'll give you one more chance to tell me the truth… Where is my brother, Black Rose!"
"I already told you that I don't know!"
"Then we duel."
"Fine! Let's go!"
"To tell you the truth, I had hoped it might come to this," Misty said as she walked to the corner of the landing to square off against Akiza, "A duel should be the perfect chance to try out some of the new abilities that I've recently been offered. You see, you're not the only one here who's keeping a big secret: do not let my perfect face fool you, for I am a Dark Signer, who has come to send you to the netherworld!"
"You're a Dark Signer?" Akiza gasped.
The model held up her right arm. It glowed a bright purple as it took the form of a lizard. A bright purple-white light shines beneath her feet, and her dress billowed up, paralleled by her long, knee-length hair that sweeps up like a pair of black wings. She was completely obscured, consumed in the bright purple aura.
As Akiza watches, her Mark of the Dragon glowed, too, "Ah! My Sign! What is it that you want?"
When Misty was visible again, she, like Carly and Gabriella, had undergone a transformation: beneath her eyes appear two dye-like marks in the form of thick, forked lines that are symmetrical to each other. Her eyes have gone pitch-black. Over that same full gown, she wore a long, leaved skirt and a top like Carly's, but with a longer, cape-like back, with her hair billowing like a second cape. Her robe's color scheme was black-highlighted with the same shade of green as the sash she was wearing, "The truth! And I'll get it, even if I have to shake it out of you!"
Meanwhile, Jason was still riding across the empty streets of New Domino.
"Hey, Jason!" the Signer turned to see a bright-orange-and-red duel-runner. He knew that runner anywhere.
"Ken?"
The dueling go-getter, Kenichi Matsuda, drove up to Jason, "What's up, Jase?"
"I haven't seen you since Chapter 9! Where've you been?"
"Oh, you know, here and there," Ken answered, "But we've been having some crazy light-shows lately! This can't be normal!"
Soon, another duel-runner came into view in front of them. The two D-Wheelers drove up and saw a white frame with a large rotating wheel.
"Jack Atlas!" Jason revealed, "What are you doing out here?"
"Well, this was a nice night for a ride…" the former king answered.
Suddenly, more blue lightning crackled across the skies. The ground shook again before the three D-Wheeler found themselves outrunning a massive crack opening up down the center of the street and filling with purple fire.
"This is crazy!" Kenichi cried.
"We'd best get a better look at this! Follow me!" Jack led the other two into a side-alleyway, letting the fire pass them by They rode right into a building, across the floor of the lobby, up every flight of stairs, and then busted through the rooftop door. They looked down from the rooftop and were all flabbergasted at what they saw. Over lapping the bird and star geoglyphs, there were now two varieties of lizard. One looked like a skink while the other was shaped like an iguana.
"A shadow duel is about to start; it's Signer versus Dark Signer, but where?" Jack looked at his burning mark and then to the battlefield, as in the center of all those geoglyphs, which is the Arcadia Movement building, "Time to kick it into overdrive!" He rode back toward the rooftop door; working up momentum, he then turned back to the edge of the roof and sped right at it. With a yell of triumph, he jumped off the rooftop, across the street, to the next, and lands, spinning like a top. The other two D-wheelers then followed suit.
"What's this, some purple fire blockade?"
Within the fires, a Sector Security paddy wagon was brought to a halt by the flames encircling them.
"Looks like your trip to the Facility just got delayed. I'm sure you're really disappointed," his colleague muttered, glaring at the open wagon. Sitting against the van's wall, bounded by handcuffs, was the towering airstrike duelist Greiger. Hunched in a dark corner in a fetal position, was none other than Xiki Nomura…
"I don't believe this!" Magic fussed to Seria, "I don't want to be kept here! I want to go home! My real home! And you cannot keep me away from my real home!" Magic looked over her cards, 'I have to keep her from making me draw out anymore extra cards! But how?' but then she felt a small tug on her robes behind her. She looked back and found someone she met not too long ago, 'Silent Magician? Can you help me?' the duel-spirit looked over her partner's cards. She has to stand on her toes to see her hand. She then pointed to two specific cards, 'That's what you want me to do? I'm not so sure…' the Silent Magician couldn't be surer of anything, 'Alright, if you say so…'
"I summon the Silent Magician LV4 in ATK mode!" the duel-spirit vanished and reappeared in the material world as a monster card (ATK: 1000), "Next, I activate the spell card, Mystic Box!" suddenly, two boxes appeared; one had Blackwing-Armor Master inside, the other held Silent Magician. Then the boxes closed, "Do you like magic? I know I do! Especially when the Mystic Box on my side is skewered!" several swords appeared and pierced through Silent Magician's box, "But did I activate Mystic Box just to destroy Silent Magician…?" the box opened, only to reveal Blackwing-Armor Master, pierced by the many blades before vanishing into pixels, "Or maybe I replaced her box with Armor Master's! And Silent Magician appears from the remaining box unharmed!" the box on Seria's side opened up and released the small spellcaster on her side, "But that's not all! I activate Swords of Revealing Light, so you can't attack for the next 3 turns!" several swords appeared, creating a barrier around Seria and Silent Magician, "That's it for my turn!"
"Don't forget. You take 1000 points of damage from Greed, since you drew two extra cards this turn," Seria stated as a red aura briefly surrounded Magic.
Magic: 4500 (24)
Seria: 5500
"It's my turn, now," Seria drew her next card, "But before I play from my hand, I activate my face-down quick-play, Mind Wipe. I can only activate this spell when you have three or less cards in your hand. It forces you to return your entire hand to your deck, shuffle and then redraw." Magic did as instructed, shuffling her three cards into her deck, and then drawing three more cards.
"That activate the special-ability of Silent Magician," Magic boasted, "Anytime her player's opponent draws from her deck, she gets a Spell Counter!" one of the Silent Magician's earrings glowed (SC: 1).
"I summon Destiny Hero Defender(ATK: 100/DEF: 2700) to the field in DEF position," the monster Seria summoned was a deathly-grey golem. Its red eyes peered through a fenced face-guard, "And during each of your standby-phases, you have to draw an extra card. And by setting a card face-down, I end my turn. But not before you take damage from Greed's effect." The same red aura burned through Magic.
Magic: 3000 (24)
Seria: 5500
Swords of Revealing Light: 2
"It's my turn," Magic drew her next card, "And since I drew a card this turn, Silent Magician gets a counter. Same thing happens with Defender's effect," after drawing an extra card, the opposing monster received two Spell Counters (SC: 3), "Next, I summon Raging Eria in DEF mode," the mystical bearer of water appeared on the field (DEF: 1500), "And by releasing White Glacier Dragon, I use Eria's special-ability to special-summon the Ice Queen!" in place of the dragon, came a majestic sorceress made of ice (ATK: 2900), "Now attack! Give that Defender the royal treatment!" the queen twirled her staff in front of her, summoning a column of swirling snow and hail…
But the attack never connected, instead colliding with a barrier of sparkling light.
"I'm sorry, Margaret, but by paying 3000 life-points, my Wall of Revealing Light protects my monsters from all attacks from monsters with 3000 ATK points."
"Then I end my turn," the effect of Green then activated.
Magic: 2500 (22)
Seria: 2500
"It's my turn, then," Seria drew, "And I summon the tuner-monster Junk Synchron," the psychic called out Yusei's favored motorized tuner (ATK: 1300).
'Junk Synchron…but that means…'
"And with his special-ability, I summon Morphing Jar back from the graveyard (ATK: 700), "And now I tune them both to synchro-summon the Junk Warrior," after the synchro-process, the metal cobalt fighter appeared out of the jet of light (ATK: 2300), "Next, I activate Card Destruction. Now we both have to discard our hand and draw a new one," Magic drew three cards. And because of that, Silent Magician gained another counter (SC: 4).
Magic: 2500 (19)
Seria: 2500
"And then I end my turn, letting the effect of Greed activate."
Magic: 2000 (19)
Seria: 2500
Swords of Revealing Light: 1
"It's my move then," Magic started her turn, with an extra draw from Defender's effect. That gave the small magician her final counter (SC: 5).
Magic: 2000 (17)
Seria: 2500
"And now, another piece of memory of yours will be erased…" Seria stated.
Magic knew this was coming; but she was still scared, as Yusei's form collapsed into a pile of cards. The young ice duelist practically fell to the floor as her mind was being shattered bit by bit.
"Margaret, please understand…" Seria said to Magic, trying to comfort her, "I'm doing this to protect you. It's the only mercy I could give you…so I activate my face-down, Gift Card. This trap gives you 3000 life-points."
Magic: 5000 (17)
Seria: 2500
Magic continued with her turn, "Since there's a Water-Attribute monster on my field, I can special-summon Yuuki, The Ice Maiden!" a small vortex of snow appeared, releasing the beautiful Yuki-Onna (ATK: 800), "Next, I activate the spell card Mind Control, and take back my Silent Magician!" the young spellcaster reappeared on her owner's side of the field, "And now, since Silent Magician has a total of 5 Spell Counters, she evolves into a whole-nother level!" the Silent Magician surrounded herself in a veil of bright light as she changed form. The light dimmed as she now was a full-grown woman (ATK: 3500), "Meet the Silent Magician LV8!"
"That's quite the monster, Margaret," Seria agreed.
"If you think that's interesting, wait until you see my next spellcaster: by using Eria's special-ability, I release Yuuki to special-summon the Ice Master!" using the Yuki-Onna as tribute, the Water Charmer summoned the second ice-bending sorceress (ATK: 2500), "Now I activate Ice Master's special-ability, and place one Ice Counter on your monster," the Ice Master fired her scepter and froze a part of Defender's stone armor, specifically its right shoulder, "And that ends my turn." Greed's effect once again took effect.
Magic: 4500 (16)
Seria: 2500
"Very well," Seria drew her next card, "I activate the spell, Cup of Ace," once activated, the card itself rotated, until it stopped upside-down, "And once activated, you have to draw two cards from your deck," her opponent reluctantly drew twice, "Now my turn ends, and my trap then activates…"
Magic: 3500 (14)
Seria: 2500
Swords of Revealing Light: 0
"My turn," Magic drew her next card, along with another from Defender's effect. Another illusion took place, causing her to lose memories of Kalin. Magic doesn't know how to handle this any longer. With every card taken away, her mind was being emptied little by little. That was more reason to hurry up and win this thing. But with nothing to do, Magic had no choice but to skip her turn.
Magic: 3000 (12)
Seria: 2500
Then it went back to Seria, "I activate Pot of Greed to draw two cards from my deck. Then I place those two cards face-down," two reverses appeared, "It's your turn."
Magic: 3000 (12)
Seria: 1500
Magic then drew her next two cards, "I'll pass for this turn."
Magic: 2000 (10)
Seria: 1500
"And now it's my turn. Then I activate my two face-downs." Both of Seria's cards were flipped over, "First, my Gift Card gives you 3000 life-points."
Magic: 4000 (10)
Seria: 1500
"Then, the (5D's) Mind Breaker trap activates this effect: whenever you have 4000 or less life-points, you have to discard your hand, then draw the same number of cards you threw away." Magic slotted her hand to the discard pile and drew four new cards, when afterwards all memories of her friend Jack disappeared.
Magic: 4000 (6)
Seria: 1500
"And at last, four of whom you cared deeply for are rid from your life. But there is memory of one more person I must erase from existence," she then pointed towards her opponent, "Memories of you."
Magic gasped, "No…"
"You must lose everything you hold about yourself in order to prevent any memories of your friends and family from ever returning."
"No…" Magic began to fall to her knees, her arms clutched to her head.
"But it doesn't have to be all bad, Miss Spires," the psychic assured, "It gives you an opportunity to start over. I know it was hard for you in the Satellite. That's why I want to help you. With my help, you can become a new person… Magic…?"
"Shut up…" Magic whimpered, "Just shut up! Just what did you know what I been through?" she stood back to her feet, "I've had it rough, yes I did, but I had friends; friends who cared about me, friends who by my side whenever I needed them—"
"Friends who you separated from when one of your own was sent away to the Facility…"
"The point is, those people were about the only reason I wanted to live! There were time I wanted to end it all, but I was loved too much to leave them! And now you're trying to take what I have left of me? And all because that boss of yours snatched me away because he wanted me in his stupid order!"
"But Margaret—"
"No! No, don't even say it! Just finish your turn already!"
Defeated, Seria sighed, "Very well…I let the effect of my Greed trap activate," and she watched helplessly as Magic suffered for the umpteenth time from Seria's own trap, 'It will be over soon, Margaret. I promise…"
Magic: 2000 (6)
Seria: 1500
Magic was growing very weary by now. Constantly her breath became hoarser and her vision was cloudier. This next move may decide if she escapes, or remain the Arcadia's puppet forever. It's now or never.
"It's my turn," Magic drew her next two cards; and when she looked at the second card she drew, she felt a great weight fall off her shoulders. If she could ever find the guardian angel that helped her for this moment, she'd thank her, "Since there are three spellcaster-type monsters on my field, I can activate this special trap card straight from my hand. I activate, (5D's) Arcana Revelation!" a trap card appeared right out of the blue, showing an elegant female sorceress in white, her wand raised to the sky, its magic piercing the heavens. She was joined by all other magicians around her, "And with this, I'm about to undo all the damage you did to me! Because by selecting one of my spellcasters, like my Silent Magician, all cards in my graveyard and my hand get returned to my deck. Then, with each card I regain, I get 200 life-points!" as the magician/ice duelist shuffled her used cards back into her deck, the spellcasters on her field combined their magic and created a veal of golden light to heal Magic.
Magic: 7800 (35)
Seria: 1500
"And that's not all; I also get to draw a card for each spellcaster on my field, except for the monster I selected, of course," Magic drew three cards from her deck, "Next, I activate the quick-play, Mystical Space Typhoon. Say goodbye to your Gravity Bind trap!" a massive storm broke down the energy-barrier, "Now I activate Ice Master's second special-ability: by releasing Ice Master, I can destroy every monster that has an Ice Counter!" the ice on Defender's hide began to spread around it. As soon as it was encased in fresh glacier, it suddenly shattered. The Ice Master then disappeared, "Next, activate the spell Gift of the Martyr and release Ice Queen, and inherit her power to Silent Magician, giving her the queen's ATK points!" the Silent Magician's scepter then changed form, encasing itself in a shell of ice. It shattered to reveal a beautiful crystal staff. The tip became a spearhead, a sapphire gem encased in the center. A pair of diamond-shaped crystal blades was placed on either side of the spearhead, giving it a form of a trident.
Silent Magician LV8: (ATK: 6400)
"Finally, I activate my last card, the trap (5D's) Arcanite Spear, giving her 600 more ATK points!" her trap flipped over, depicting the same white spellcaster, wielding a glowing spear-like wand in her hand.
Silent Magician LV8: (ATK: 7000)
"And now, Silent Magician attacks you directly!" the adult magician pointed her spear at her opponent. As a cold aura covered the spearhead, the wielder channeled the Ice Queen's power into the spear. The Silent Magician then tossed the spear, and let it pierce through Seria, taking away her life-points and winning the duel for her master Magic.
Magic: 7800 (32)
Seria: 0
The holograms all disappeared as magic walked into the field. Seria took a hint and tried to step away, but somehow she couldn't. Besides, she couldn't just turn and walk away. Margaret wanted the truth, so that was what she would give her.
But when Magic stopped in front of her, the young ice duelist suddenly collapsed against her. Seria gently settled her down gently onto the floor, with her purple head of hair resting upon her lap. The damage Magic took and the mental strain inflicted upon by Seria must really have taken a toll on her. And now she was at the mercy of her psychic opponent…
"Please forgive me…Magic…"
CFGX: On my next chapter we'll have three exciting duels instead of one! That's right: It's Sayer vs. Carly, Akiza vs. Misty, and Divine vs. Gabriella, in a 3-on-3 match-up! Brace yourself for loads of action and drama in the exciting conclusion of Reverse of Arcadia: Digging Deeper! Until next time, Duelists!
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