YuGiOh 5D's: Kazuki Takahashi/Konami
Margaret: "I never thought I would be caught up in a war like this one this quick. I was once a test subject used by a devious sociopath. Now I found out I can communicate with Duel Spirits. It turned out that the world they reside in is being controlled by Zeman the Ape King, who had been sending out soldiers to capture Duel Spirits and send him back to his fortress. Now the only way to overthrow the king and save the spirits lies in the hands of Luna, who must free the Ancient Fairy Dragon from Zeman's Minus Curse. But first we have to find her servant Regulus. But something doesn't feel right about him. But with me and my Arcanite, everything will turn out okay, right? Let's find out!"
YuGiOh: 5D's
Reverse of Arcadia
Ride 29: Mark of the Monkey
Part 2: Breaking the Ice
Already-dead trees sprung from the ground around the dueling field, coiling up from the ground from small to large within seconds, reaching toward the sky. From the top of a semi-collapsed building, Trudge and Yusei watch anxiously.
Yusei: "Devack activated a field spell; he's done everything he needs to to summon an Earthbound Immortal!"
Trudge: "Not that!"
"By channeling the dark power of the Closed Forest field-spell, Zeman the Ape King will gain 100 ATK points for every monster in my graveyard." Devack explained, "And since I have five monsters already there, Zeman the Ape King gains 500 ATK points!"
Zeman the Ape King: (ATK: 3000)
"I don't suppose a banana would solve this!" Leo groaned.
Meanwhile...
Back at the Spirit World, Margaret and Luna, Torunka and the Silent Magician stood against the lion king known as Regulus.
"That thing's supposed to be Regulus?" Margaret whimpered.
'This is the Ancient Fairy Dragon's servant. There could be no other person.' Silent Magician wrote.
"Everything's okay," Luna calmly said to the lion, "We're not here to hurt you, don't be scared." but Regulus roared causing the little girl to cringe behind Torunka, "Now I'm scared!"
"Knock it off, lion; this is the human Child of Legend." the young mage protested, "She comes to our world to aid you in your quest to rescue Ancient Fairy Dragon."
"What did you say?" the lion growled.
"It's true, I came here to help you!" Luna said. Regulus roared and pounced at the group, but they dodged behind a tree. "I'm not with the bad guys. Ancient Fairy Dragon told me to find you. I'm here to protect the Spirit World!"
"Just as I thought!" Regulus roared, "Well then, little spawn of evil, if it's a fight you want, it's a fight you'll get! Come at me!"
"Huh?"
"Get the hair out of your ears!" Torunka barked, "She said 'find' you, not 'fight' you!"
"Wait a minute! What's that on his back ankle?" Margaret pointed and saw a small golden clamp attached to the lion's back leg.
'That thing looks similar to the staffs that have been littered all over the place.' Silent Magician wrote.
"Is it possible that it makes him hear the exact opposite of everything we say?" Luna wondered.
"Oh, of course! I shoulda known!" Torunka whined, "This stupid curse has made me stupid!"
"So no matter what we say; whatever he hears, it'll just be the exact opposite!" Margaret said.
Then Regulus roard and caught their attention, "The Spirit World will never be yours! I'm going to stop all of you!" he then roared again and pounced at the group, chasing after then as they ran for their lives.
"Don't either of you have magic powers?" Luna pleaded, "Can't you wave a wand or something and fix this?"
"I forgot all my spells when I turned into a kid!" Torunka admitted.
"Oh, great!"
'It's not like my power could stand a chance in the state I'm in either.' Silent Magician wrote, then flipped her note-pad to another page, 'But you did say he only hears the opposite of what he hears. Maybe we could use that to our advantage.'
"That's it!" Torunka exclaimed, "If he hears the opposite of what we say, then we should say the opposite of what we mean! Like this!" the boy stopped running and turned toward Regulus. "You are the worst lion of all time! You smell like a wet rat, and my house cat can take you on!"
Not only was Regulus not impressed, he growled and pounced at him; it was then Torunka's turn to cower behind Luna. "Did you seriously think that flattery will stop me from destroying you!"
"Hey, it worked!"
"Maybe so, but he's still attacking us." Luna said, giving him a nervous grin.
"Rrrrr... Huh? Something is coming." while the four humans ran and ducked behind a bundle of bushes, Regulus turns to face the threat. Soon he was surrounded by a group of monkey soldiers. "More monkey business?"
"You won't get away this time!"
"That's right! We're taking you to King Zeman!"
"Not without a fight!" Regulus roared.
Everyone peeked out of their hiding place as a monkey turned the hands on his staff. "Feel the power of my minus staff!"
"What're you doing, you fool! He's already got a minus staff attached to his leg! Look!"
"Oh yeah! It would be a bad idea if two staffs touch each other, won't it?"
Regulus roared and charged at them; they ducked to the side and he ran through the forest, with the monkeys in hot pursuit. The group of four were then left alone in the clearing.
"Those monkeys had a chance to capture Regulus," Torunka wondered, "But why didn't they?"
But while they were in bewilderment, Silent Magician wrote something on her drawing-pad. She caught everone's attention. To show them what she wrote. It was not words, but and equation: (-)*(-)=(+).
"Um, I don't think this is the time to play charades." Luna said.
The small white magician pouted and ripped out the top page, and scribbled something something else: 'TWO ALIKES REPEL EACH OTHER!' Margaret soon got the message.
"Reverse in polarity!"
"Huh?" Luna and Torunka said.
"Don't you get it? If you think about it, those staffs those apes have been using are like a magnet! Each one has a north and south pole! If north poles, atract south poles..."
"Then two similar poles repel each other!" Luna added, "And if we have a minus staff and touch Regulus' minus staff..."
"Then the negative energy the two have will create positive energy; which in turn should break him from his curse!" Margaret finished, then turned to Silent Magician, "I'm so glade you thought of it!"
'Thanks!' the magician wrote.
"Uh, there's just one problem," Torunka said, "How do we get one close to Regulus?"
Margaret looked around the forest planted with many staffs, "Don't worry, I have an idea; but first we gatta get one of those staffs!"
The monkey soldiers soon lost Regulus and split up trying to find him. As one was wandering through the forest, a paper airplane poked him in the head. He spun around just to see the Silent Magician running behind a tree. The soldier chased after her only to be pulled up an overhead tree, knocking himself unconscious with a branch. As the magician reset the hands on the staff stuck to the tree back to normal, Margaret picked up the staff the soldier dropped.
"You did it!" Luna praised as she and Torunka came out from behind a bush.
"Now to find Regulus..."
A while later, the party made to a stony crevice with a large log connecting one side to the other. They found giant paw-prints on the grass leading to the makeshift bridge. Margaret gestured the others to take cover while she herself climbed onto the log and walked toward the other side. When she was almost made it to the other side she heard a rustle coming from the bushes. A large white blur leap from one of the bushes and landed on the other side of the log, causing Margaret to lose her balance. She squatted down against the log to ensure that she stays on. Regulus began to lurk closer and closer to the girl...
'Here goes...' Margaret let out an exasperated sigh, "Wait! You can't spare me just now!"
Regulus stopped, "Why not!"
Margaret remembered what Torunka said and kept saying the opposite, at the same time activating her duel-disk, "Because it never pays to beat a fellow player in a duel before serving justice, or else everyone would think you're fair!"
Regulus said nothing, and tensed up against the tree. It does not look like he would listen, so she prepared herself for the worst. But then the lio regained his posture. "Well, I would'nt want people to think I'm unfair, now would I?" with a mighty roar, the gems on Regulus' armor began to glow. Five orbs of light appeared and suddenly took shape into five large Duel Monster cards. "I accept your challenge!"
Magic: 8000
Regulus: 8000
"I will make the first move!" Regulus growled as another card appeared in front of him, "And I'll start by playing the continuous-spell Spiritual Forest! So long as this card is in play, all monsters on my field that are either Beast, Plant, or Beast-Warrior-Type are indestructible in battle once per turn. Next, I activate One for One! By sending one card from my playing hand to the graveyard, I can use the power of this spell to summon (1) Moja(1/ATK: 100/DEF: 100) to the field in DEF mode!" the monster he summoned appeared as a small marshmallon-like creature with black fur, a bright yellow face and big black beady eyes. "That ends my turn!"
(CFGX: Due to technical difficulties thanks to the Minus Curse, Magic will just have to say the opposite of what she means all-duel. Anything opposite of what she speaks will be identified in parenthesis.)
'I just hope this plan works...' ("It's my move!") Magic drew, ("I play a permanent-spell of my own, a card known as Water Hazard! And with this card's effect, if I don't have any monsters on my field, I can summon a Water-Attribute monster straight from my hand; and I think I'll use it to summon Raging Eria in DEF mode!") the blue-haired charmer appeared (DEF: 1500). ("Next, I'll summon (8) Spellbreaker of the Ice Barrier(4/ATK: 1200/DEF: 2000) to keep her company!") a silver-haired woman with a red kimono over a blue jumpsuit appeared. In her hand she held a scepter with a golden snowflake ornament on it (DEF: 2000), ("Excuse me, ladies, could you do me a little favor? This log I'm standing on doesn't seem so safe to stand on.") the two spellcasters nodded and crossed each other's staffs, Spellbreaker's metal scepter against Eria's wooden staff. Suddenly massive abundances of water began to rise from the crevice and levitate towards the duel. But the water did not pass their feet, but instead spread smoothly across the two sues of land, solidifying into a large bridge made of ice. With a wider platform, Margaret had not need to stand on some unstable log. ("Now that the playing field is more secure, I activate the spell card Reasoning. Now you have to call out a monsters level and remove cards from the top of my deck until I get a monster. And if it has the same level as what you declared, it's sent to the graveyard. Otherwise, it's summoned to the field.")
"Very well," Regulus growled, "Level-4."
Magic picked up the top card from her deck and looked at it, then presented it to Regulus, ("The card I drew is (9) Defender of the Ice Barrier(3/ATK: 200/DEF: 1600) which is a level-3 monster. So I'll summon him to my field in DEF mode!") a sandy-brown fox with armor of crystal-ice appeared. It also had a brace of crystal spines reaching across its tail (DEF: 1600). ("And with his effect, any monster whose ATK points are greater than his DEF points can't attack. Finally I place one card face-down, and end my turn.") a reverse-card appeared.
"Not even a wall of sorcerers will protect you from your destruction!" Regulus growled as another card appeared in front of him, "I summon (4) Rescue Cat(4/ATK: 300/DEF: 100) in ATK mode!" a small calico cat wearing a hardhat appeared, "And now I activate her special-ability: by releasing this monster, I can summon two level-3-or-lower monster from my deck. So I'll summon (5) Sea Koala(2/ATK: 100/DEF: 1600) and (6) Tree Otter(2/ATK: 1200/DEF: 100)!" the Rescue Cat disappeared and in its place was a tan-skinned koala/otter hybrid (ATK: 100) and a metalic-blue-furred otter/koala hybrid (ATK: 1200), "And now I sacrifice all three of my beasts to summon an even more powerful monster!" the three monsters disappeared and melted into a portal of light.
("Three tributes?")
"That's right! And now I release these three monster to summon the most powerful beast of all! I summon (7) Chimaera, the Master of Beast(9/ATK: 3000/DEF: 3000)!" light burst out of the portal and released a large animal, being a fusion of a few others. It had the body of a lion, covered in white fur, Its wrists and ankles were dressed in bands made of golden feathers, with a wing flapping out of each one. its tail was replaced with a pair of live, hissing snakes. Instead of a single head, the beast had two ferocious white lions, each with a flowing gold mane. The right head wore a pair of radiant horns while the left had menacing black ones. A pair of giant wings spread out from its back, stretching about the same length as its host (ATK: 3000).
("3000 ATK points? That's a pretty nice monster, but it can't attack with my Defender on the field.")
"We'll see about that. I'll pass this turn over to you!"
("Thank you,") Magic drew her next card, ("I summon (10) Blizzed, Defender of the Ice Barrier(1/ATK: 300/DEF: 500)!") a small bird with ice-armor appeared, its wings folded together in front of it (DEF: 500), ("Next I activate Eria's special-ability: by releasing a Water-Attribite monster on my field, I can call out a monster of the same attribute from my hand. So say goodbye to Blizzed...") the bird vanished inside a vortex of water, ("And say hello to (11) Dai-Sojo of the Ice Barrier(6/ATK: 1600/DEF: 2200)!") in its place came a masked man in blue monk's attire, his face covered over a large hexagonal hat (DEF: 2200). ("That's it for me!")
("My turn!") Regulus summoned another card, ("I place two cards face-down! That will be all for now.")
("Then I guest it's my turn,") Magic drew her next card, ("I switch all my monsters to ATK mode!") all of her monsters have changed positions.
Luna: "But I don't get it! Why did she switch her monsters to ATK mode?"
"Next, I activate my face-down: the trap card Inverse Universe! With this, the ATK and DEF of all the monsters on my field are reversed!"
Raging Eria: (1500/DEF: 800)
Spellbreaker of the Ice Barrier: (ATK: 2000/DEF: 1200)
Defender of the Ice Barrier: (ATK: 1600/DEF: 200)
Dai-Sojo of the Ice Barrier: (ATK: 2200/DEF: 1600)
Luna: "That makes sense now..."
Torunka: "But they still don't have enough power against Chimaera even with Inverse Universe!"
Luna: "It doesn't matter with Defender on the field."
Torunka: "Huh?"
Luna: "While Defender is in play, Regulus can only attack with monsters with ATK points that are weaker than Defender's DEF points. So with Defender's DEF points now 200, Regulus practically can't attack at all."
Silent Magician: 'And it would make her other Ice Barriers almost invincible due to Dai-Sojo's ability which protects all Ice Barrier monsters from being destroyed by spells and traps.'
Torunka: "Oh... Oh, I knew that!"
"That will do you no good!" Regulus started his turn, "I activate Card of Demise, drawing five cards from my deck, as long as is discard my hand on the 5th standby-phase. Next I summon (2) Beast Striker(4/ATK: 1850/DEF: 400)!" a large, black-furred, boar-like humanoid wearing torn pants and wielding a large hammer appeared (ATK: 1850), "Now comes his special-ability: by discarding one card from the hand, I can special-summon Moja from my deck!" a second black-blobbed beast appeared (ATK: 100), "And now I release Moja in order to special-summon the (3) King of the Beasts(7/ATK: 2500/DEF: 800)!" a golden aura enveloped Moja as it went through a sort of metamorphosis. It grew bigger and bigger until it became a large furry beast, with golden skeleton bones for its legs and a gold skull for a face (ATK: 2500).
("I don't care how powerful your monsters are, they can't attack with my Defender on the field.") Magic said.
"That is why I plan to get rid of your creature, by activating Call of the Haunted to revive Sea Koala!" Regulus revealed his reverse-card and the tan-furred auquatic koala returned (ATK: 100), "And now I activate his special-ability. While I control another beast-type monster, one of the monsters on your field loses all of their ATK points. And I choose your Defender of the Ice Barrier!"
Defender of the Ice Barrier: (ATK: 0)
"King of the Beasts, attack Raging Eria!" several black tendrils rose from the horrid animal and pierced the water sorcerer; and without her magic to support Dai-Sojo, the monk disappeared as well.
Magic: 7000
Regulus: 8000
"And now I activate my other face-down, Beast Rising! This allows me to release one of my beasts and transfer its power to another! So by sacrificing King of the Beast, his ATK power is inherited to Chimaera, the Master of Beasts!" the black animal disappeared and transferred its power to the larger beast, "Also, it's a continuous-trap, so I can power up Chimaera turn after turn!"
Chimaera, the Master of Beasts: (ATK: 5500)
"Chimaera, obliterate that Defender of the Ice Barrier, with Twilight Primal Blast!" The two heads opened their maws and each charged a ball of energy; one of light and one of dark. They snapped their heads forward and threw the orbs. The two projectiles spiraled around each other before colliding with the fox and erasing it from existence. The shockwaves hammered Magic flat onto her back.
Magic: 1500
Regulus: 8000
"Magic, be careful!" Luna cried.
"It's your turn, sorceress." Regulus growled.
Margaret groaned and got back up on her feet. ("I draw...") she then drew her next card and sighed, 'I thought I could hold off his monsters for a while longer. But now that Chimaera is so powerful, even my Ice Wall can't hold it off. I'll just get more and more powerful until it'll be too much for me to handle. I have to get rid of it! But first...' ("I summon (12) Caravan of the Ice Barrier(1/ATK: 500/DEF: 200)!") a cloaked man appeared riding on top of a green dragon-like lizard (DEF: 200), ("Next, I activate Caravan's special-ability! By returning 2 Ice Barrier monsters from my graveyard to my deck, both of us can draw 1 new card!") Magic returned Defender and Dai-Sojo back to her deck. The disk automatically shuffled before Magic drew another card, ("Next I special-summon Yuuki, the Ice Maiden from my hand since I have a spellcaster on my field!") the young yuki-onna appeared between the spellcaster and the caravan (ATK: 800), ("And now I tune her with my Spellbreaker to synchro-summon my most trusted monster!") the two monsters combined as Magic chanted:
("The cold whispering winds fills the land with their song, gaze upon the form of purity it creates. Synchro Summon! Chant, White Glacier Dragon!")
After the light vanished, the white-furred ice dragon hovered over her master (ATK: 2750), ("And since Yuuki was used for White Glacier's synchro-summon, I can add a WATER monster to my hand thanks to her special-ability!") Ice Princess was shown before it was placed in Magic's hand, ("But I won't be holding on to her for long! I activate Gift of the Yuki-Onna! With this, I can trade in a level-7-or-higher water-attribute monster to draw 2 more cards!") she discarded Ice Princess and drew two more times, ("And now my White Glacier will attack Sea Koala!") the White Glacier Dragon roared.
"I activate Beast Rising's effect!" Regulus roared, "Now I'll release Sea Koala to cancel your attack!" but before the command can be executed, his trap card was coated in ice, "What?"
("I forgot to mention White Glacier Dragon's ability. So none of your spells and traps can be activated during the battle-phase! And there's more; I can remove a WATER monster in my graveyard from play to increase my dragon's power 100 points per level 'till the end-phase!") Magic removed Ice Queen from her graveyard to give 800 ATK points to her dragon.
White Glacier Dragon: (ATK: 3550)
("White Glacier Dragon, attack with Sub-Zero Blaze!") the small koala creature was wiped out by the dragon's icy breath.
Magic: 1500
Regulus: 4450
("Now I place one card face-down!") a reverse-card appeared, ("That's my turn!")
"Then I draw!" Regulus started his turn, "I activate Beast Rising's effect! Now I release Beast Striker to add his ATK points onto Chimaera!" the boar-like animal disappeared to increase the chimera's power (ATK: 7350), "Chimaera, attack! Obliterate that dragon with Primal Twilight Blast!" the tow-headed beast fired off another double attack. However, the Dragon spread her winds and folded them in front of her. The assault of light and darkness was soon being held back by a live embodiment completely of crystal ice.
Now was her chance; in amiss to the chaos, Margaret reached from behind her back and pulled out the Minus Staff she took and started to dash toward Regulus. The lion was too preoccupied on the duel at hand that he almost did not notice the human girl charging toward her. Right before the staff actually touched him, he sprung into the frigid air and landed behind her; the beast's claws dug into the ice to prevent from slipping. The staff was knocked out of Margaret's hand when the lion passed over her.
Luna was prepared to assist her with Silent Magician until... "No! Stay back!" Margaret shouted back, as she ran over and grabbed the staff.
And in one swift motion, Regulus leap up once again and over above Margaret. However, before the lion can catch his prey, the Ice Duelist dared and jabbed her staff against Regulus' Minus Anklet, causing ether set of hands turn to align. The two opposing energies repelled each other and caused an explusion which shattered the ice they were standing, and Luna was unfortunate enough to be standing on the ice as all three of them fell into the river.
They were soon caught in its rapid currents. Margaret and Luna hastily swam toward each other and clung to each other. "Regulus!" Margaret called out, walving her hand, "If you can hear me, please help!"
Regulus turned, his strength enabling him to fight the current; he caught a glimpse of the little girl as her sleeve fell away to reveal her Sign. 'She bears the Mark of a Signer...' he soon realized. Regulus looked ahead of the river and saw that they were heading straight for a waterfall. The lion swam to Luna and Margaret, and grabbed the back of the latter's collar in his teeth and tried to swim back against the current, but he wasn't strong enough to keep from falling off the stream and along the waterfall, getting closer and closer to the misty abyss below. As Margaret gripped tightly around Luna, she turned the hands on the Minus Staff to reverse the gravity, letting them fall upward and back upstream.
Moments later at the placid edge of the creek that connecting roaring river, Regulus stepped out onto the bank, spilling Luna and Tarunka off of his back. He lied down on the ground, and the two others lean against his side; all three are exhausted. Torunka and the Silent Magician appeared from the woods to comfort them.
"Regulus, are you okay?" Luna panted.
"I am now, thanks to your friend..." Regulus stood and walked around to face the girls before sitting down again. "That anklet had me all confused. But deep down, I knew you and the woman would come."
"So you knew we were coming here?" Margaret asked, "Was that you I hear calling to me?"
The Lion nodded, "Ancient Fairy Dragon had told me that you would come here and find me. And though I have been struggling to battle the Ape King's minions, I've also been using what magic I have left to try and guide the two of you to me. Please, forgive me. I was confused by the Ape King's minus curse. When you found me, I thought you meant harm."
"Regulus, I tell you, you gave us quite a fright!" Torunka laughed, "I though we were cat food for sure!"
'However, everything you heard was the opposite of what we meant.' Silent Magician wrote, 'It was no wonder you were upset.'
"I am so ashamed. But you do raise a good point..." Regulus rose to his feet and shot a glare at Torunka, "What did you actually say to me before?"
"Okay!" the small magician nervously laughed, "Now that Regulus is back to normal, all we have to do is rescue Ancient Fairy Dragon! Um, right?"
"Hmm..." Regulus then turned to Margaret, "By the way, our recent clash was a draw, wasn't it? How did that happen?"
"Oh? I guess it was thanks to the (5D's) Rebound Glacier I played. See, the last time you attacked, I played that trap as an equip-card for White Glacier Dragon to keep from being destroyed in battle. And any damage I would've taken goes to the opponent as well. But it's a one-time-only thing and takes a fair toll from the one who uses it, so I'm glad I used it as a last resort. You can check on the author's profile if you want a better detail."
"Well, that makes sense..."
"But anyway, how do we find Ancient Fairy Dragon?" Margaret asked.
"Ancient Fairy Dragon was sealed in the rock mountain as part of Zeman the Ape King's curse. All we have to do is invade his castle, defeat him in an epic battle, and break the power of his minus spell, and then the Spirit World should return to normal." Regulus knelled gown, offering a ride on his back, "Simple enough, right?"
"Sure," Luna said, then turned to the two magicians, "You up for this?"
"Of course!"
'For sure.'
Soon they all climbed onto Regulus' back (CFGX: Wow, he's pretty strong for a lion!) and sped off to Zeman's domain.
Meanwhile, darkened menacing clouds swirled above a sinister-looking castle stone castle standing on a rocky peak, as blue lightning tears the sky.
Inside the fearsome Ape King himself was perched on his mighty throne. "Loyal minions of madness, bow before me! Our time is almost here! Soon, all the Duel Spirits will be ours to control!" many monkey soldiers obeyed as the knelled around a glimmering pool in the center of the room. "Sky and land, wind and rain; even you, spirits of time, you now belong to me, Zeman the Ape King! The great conqueror! Everything that once went forward, will now go in reverse! Your world will cease to be!" The glimmering substance in the pool bubbled upward and burst into a huge column of glistening light. The stone walls full of Duel Spirit cards seemed to frost over. The column of light ascended into the menacing clouds above, turning them whitish-purple, blue lightning pouring from all directions around it.
Regulus stopped at a vantage point over a green meadow, dotted with trees. Mountains and hills in the distance complete the idyllic landscape. Then, blue lightning crashed in the distance. The lion looked around suspiciously.
"Is there something wrong, Regulus?" Margaret asked.
"Up there! Look at that!" They all looked at the sky. Unnaturally black clouds drifted near the sun. As they watched, the silhouette of a minus staff has appeared across the surface of the sun. They all dismounted the lion as the hand on the giant minus staff slowly moved. Around them, entire trees withered instantly. The meadow became a barren wasteland, the river dried up. Within moments, the lush plain they were standing on was rocky and bare.
"What's happening?" Luna cried, "All the trees have vanished!"
"This whole situation, is most disturbing," Regulus growled, "It would seem as though the Ape King is reversing the flow of nature."
"Then we have to hurry!" Margaret said, "If we wait too long there won't be anything left!" a cry caught her attention to see Torunka and the Silent Magician, only with larger clothes.
"That's weird," Luna wondered, "The curse has made your clothes get bigger."
"No, no! Zeman's curse is making us get younger and smaller!" Torunka cried.
'The curse is reversing the flow of time!' Silent Magician wrote, 'Soon we will not exist to stop Zeman at all!'
"Then we have to hurry!" Regulus roared.
Meanwhile...
"Let's battle!" Devack commanded, "Zeman the Ape King, dismantle that Power Tool Dragon! Go, Cursed Flare!" Zeman fired a fiery like beam at the dragon.
"I got a little surprise for you!" Leo countered, "By sending Break Draw to my graveyard, my Dragon can avoid your attack!"
"Maybe so, but your life-point* are another story."
Leo was only hit with some of Zeman's attack as his life points were going down. He saw why because Power Tool Dragon in front of him and took the attack for him. It went on for a while until the attack stopped "Power Tool Dragon is shielding me from Devac'ks dark energy! He's totally protecting me!"
Leo: 2500
Devack: 2500
Leo started to get weak in the knees, breathing heavily, "Hey big guy, you okay?" Power Tool nodded, letting the green-haired boy sigh in relief.
"Your monsters can't protect you forever, boy! And these two face-downs are going to prove it to you!" Devack sets a couple of reverse-cards.
"Well good luck with that! It's my turn!" Leo drew his next card, 'I've gotta find a way to take Zeman the Ape King down!' "I activate my Dragon's special ability! Now I move a random equip spell from my deck to my hand!"The disk shuffled his deck again and a card stuck out and Leo took it, 'Come on... Pleeease...?' Leo hoped and looked at it. He looked happy at what he got, "All right! I'm equipping Power Tool Dragon with this spell card Megamorph! This bad boy's about to double your trouble! As long as this card's in play the equipped monster's original ATK points are now twice the amount!" the card went into effect and Power Tool Dragon starts to glow; unfortunately, nothing happened. "Huh? That's weird! Its attack points stayed the same! What gives?"
"Little fool! You're trying to win with cards you can't comprehend!" Leo chuckled, "Your feeble attempt to out-duel me is over! With our life-points even, the effect of your Megamorph won't work!"
"You gotta be *kidding* me!" Leo panicked, "That card usually turns the tables when it works! That's like my best card! Now what do I do?"
"You lose. Like I told you, a normal person like you could never defeat a Dark Signer like me!"
"Leo!" Yusei called, "Just stay cool! You've got all kinds of great cards in your deck; but if you panic and stop believing in your cards, they won't be able to help you! You gotta stay strong, Leo, you have to believe... That's what dueling's about! Believing in your cards is the same thing as believing in yourself!"
"I know, but..." Leo groaned and looked at his hand, nothing to help him at the moment... 'Wait! Yusei's right! The only way I can win this duel, is if I trust myself, and my deck!' "I switch Power Tool Dragon to DEF mode and end my turn!" Leo finished as the Tool Dragon knelt on one knee and crossed its arms (DEF: 2500).
"Fool! One cannot win a shadow duel, if one cannot attack! You've played right into my hands!" Devack drew his next card, "It's my turn! And I think I'll start this round by attacking Power Tool Dragon with my Ape King! Go, Cursed Flare!"
"Bring it on! Since Power Tool Dragon is in DEF mode, my equip spell is gonna save me!"
"I'm afraid not! Not after I've activated the Roaring Earth trap!" Devack revealed a continuous-trap, "When a beast-type monster attacks a monster in DEF mode, this card deals you piercing damage!" As the Megamorph spell card was destroying protecting Power Tool Dragon for a while until it was shattered into pixels and Power Tool Dragon was hit along with Leo. The Morphtronic Duelist yelled in pain as some of the cursed flames got to him.
Leo: 2000
Devack: 2500
"But wait! By sending Power Tool Dragon's equip-spell to the graveyard, I can negate its destruction!" Power Tool Dragon was once again shielding Leo from the brunt of the attack. As Leo watched, the dragon-mecha began to fall apart; part of an arm hinge snapped off and something exploded inside a knee-hinge, leaving a thin trail of smoke. "Huh? What's going on?"
"When the Roaring Earth trap card is in play, it weakens one of the monsters on your field, robbing it of 300 ATK and DEF points!" Devack explained. Power Tool Dragon continued to sustain damage; the most visible is that one of its shoulder plates had fractured. The left side is whole and round, but a third of the right one has fallen away, and the rest was cracked. Power Tool was steaming around the edges.
Power Tool Dragon: (ATK: 2000/DEF: 2200)
"Next, I'll place one card face-down and end my turn." Devack set a reverse-card and laughed, "How pathetic. Just like your ridiculous monster you linger before me, looking defeated and miserable."
Leo looked up at Power Tool Dragon smiling sadly at him. 'Power Tool Dragon. Despite everything that's happening to you, you've still got my back!' the boy was deeply moved; even when he was alone the only thing standing between him and death's door was his trusty mechanical dragon. He turned back to Devack, all the fight returning to him. "Listen up! No matter what you throw at me, I'm going to protect Luna!"
The small team of rebels finally stopped on a small cliff overlooking the castle.
"So that's the Ape King's castle?" Luna asked.
"I like what he's done with the place" Torunka joked, "He really nailed the 'gloomy-and-doomy' motif."
"Seems like it's really well-guarded," Margaret said, "So should we try sneaking in?"
"No. We can't risk being captured." Regulus said.
'Regulus is right.' Silent magician wrote, 'We only have one chance to put an end to this. Otherwise, everything we worked for will be in vain.'
"Anything you have in mind?" the Ice Duelist asked.
The magical girl flipped her pad to another page. '...We let his royal monkeyness know who's coming to dinner.'
DUEL-MON DATABASE
(1) Moja
Stats: [Beast/Effect] Level 1 ATK/100 DEF/100
Attribute: EARTH
Description: When this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, you can add 1 Level 4 Beast-Type monster from your Graveyard to your hand.
(2) Beast Striker
Stats: [Beast/Effect] Level 4 ATK/1850 DEF/400
Attribute: EARTH
Description: Once per turn, you can discard 1 card to Special Summon 1 "Moja" from your Deck.
(3) King of the Beasts
Stats: [Beast/Effect] Level 7 ATK/2500 DEF/800
Attribute: EARTH
Description: You can Tribute 1 face-up "Moja" you control to Special Summon this card from your hand or Graveyard. There can only be 1 face-up "King of the Beasts" on the field.
(4) Rescue Cat
Stats: [Beast/Effect] Level 4 ATK/400 DEF/100
Attribute: EARTH
Description: You can send this face-up card to the Graveyard to Special Summon 2 Level 3 or lower Beast-Type monsters from your Deck. Those monsters are destroyed during the End Phase.
(5) Sea Koala
Stats: [Beast/Effect] Level 2 ATK/100 DEF/1600
Attribute: EARTH
Description: Once per turn, if you control another Beast-Type monster, you can reduce the ATK of 1 monster your opponent controls to 0 until the End Phase.
(6) Tree Otter
Stats: [Beast/Effect] Level 2 ATK/1200 DEF/100
Attribute: WATER
Description: Once per turn, if you control another face-up Beast-Type monster, you can have 1 face-up monster you control gain 1000 ATK until the End Phase.
(7) Chimaera, the Master of Beasts
Stats: [Beast/Effect] Level 9 ATK/3000 DEF/3000
Attribute: LIGHT
Description: This card cannot be Special Summoned. To Tribute Summon this card, you must Tribute 3 Beast-Type monsters. If this card attacks your opponent directly and reduces their Life Points to 0, you win the Match.
(8) Spellbreaker of the Ice Barrier
Stats: [Spellcaster/Effect] Level 4 ATK/1200 DEF/2000
Attribute: WATER
Description: Once per turn, you can send 1 "Ice Barrier" monster from your hand to the Graveyard. If you do, Spell Cards cannot be activated until the End Phase of your next turn, as long as this card remains face-up on the field.
(9) Defender of the Ice Barrier
Stats: [Aqua/Effect] Level 3 ATK/200 DEF/1600
Attribute: WATER
Description: While you control another face-up "Ice Barrier" monster, monsters your opponent controls cannot declare an attack if their ATK is greater than or equal to this card's DEF.
(10) Blizzed, Defender of the Ice Barrier
Stats: [Aqua/Effect] Level 1 ATK/300 DEF/500
Attribute: LIGHT
Description: When this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, draw 1 card.
(11) Dai-Sojo of the Ice Barrier
Stats: [Spellcaster/Effect] Level 6 ATK/1600 DEF/2200
Attribute: WATER
Description: When this card is Normal or Flip Summoned, it is changed to Defense Position. Face-up "Ice Barrier" monsters you control cannot be destroyed by Spell or Trap Card effects.
(12) Caravan of the Ice Barrier
Stats: [Reptile/Effect] Level 2 ATK/500 DEF/200
Attribute: WATER
Description: Once per turn, you can select 2 "Ice Barrier" monsters in your Graveyard. Return the selected monsters to the Deck and each player draws 1 card.
Margaret: "Our bi-worldly battle against the Dark Signer Devack is about to come to a close, as Leo and Luna face off against the biggest ape of them all! Can the beat Devack and save Ancient Fairy Dragon at the same time? Next time on Reverse of Arcadia: Mark of the Monkey: Part 3! Time to make some magic!"
DUEL-MON TRIVIA-
Hey duelists! Did you know:
The name and appearance of Chimaera the Master of the Beasts is based on the Chimaera, a monstrous fire-breathing female creature with the body of a lioness, the head of a goat, and a snake for a tail. It's more accurate to the Greek mythos instead of "Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast" which is male.
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