Thetrueazure: We're coming down to the wire on this father, son duel. Ritsu seems to be struggling as his father brings out the strongest of the Agents Asteroid and using it's effect to annihilated every one of Ritsu's cards and hit him for 400 points for each card.
Kazuma: Enough of us prattling. Disclaimer, same as always.
"It's my turn now." Shin drew his next card "I summon the tuner monster The Agent of Mystery - Earth (2/1000/800) in attack mode!" A beautiful pale white woman with green and blue wings, wearing a green dress appeared on the field "When she's summoned, I'm allowed to add one Agent monster from my deck to my hand, so I add another The Agent of Force - Mars (3/0/0) to my hand."
"No don't tell me!" Kazuma stepped back
"What? What's going to happen Kazuma?" Iris asked in confusion.
"He's going to synchro summon his strongest card." Lester said
"Prepare yourself my son, for the ultimate judgment!" Shin emitted a powerful aura "I tune my level 8 Master Hyperion with my level 2 Agent of Mystery - Earth!" The Agent of Mystery - Earth turned into two synchro gates and encircled Master Hyperion, turning him into eight stars.
The time for judgement has arrived, the Agents shall bring forth the ultimate destruction, as you descend, pass judgement on your foes!
The sky started to grow dark as lightning started to crash down on the island and violent wind threatened to blow away everyone "Synchro Summon!" A giant tornado surrounded the island causing more winds to blow Ritsu back a few feet
"What the hell is going on!" Ritsu wondered
"The greatest of the Agents, (Azure) The Agent of Destruction - Asteroid (10/3500/2600)!" The tornado suddenly vanished, making Ritsu look up, making him and everyone else shiver in fright.
"W-What the hell is that!" What Ritsu saw was a pure white dragon floating in the sky. This wasn't the part that made Ritsu afraid, no what made him afraid was how big the dragon was. It took up the entire sky!
"The Agent of Destruction - Asteroid, the strongest of all the Agents, and the most deadly. He's the only Agent that's not a fairy type, but he is treated as one while he's on the field meaning he gets the 800 points from Solidarity!" The monstrous dragon let out a deafening roar, causing the entire sanctuary to shake (3500-4300)
"4300 attack points!" Ritsu yelled "It's OK, my face downs will keep me safe."
"That's what you think. I activate Asteroid's special ability! If The Sanctuary in the Sky is face up on the field, all of your cards are annihilated, and you take 400 points of damage for every card!"
"What!" Asteroid sent out a shock wave destroying all of Ritsu's cards
"Since he destroyed five cards, you take 2000 points of damage!" Ritsu looked up and saw a meteorite coming straight at him, exploding on contact and causing him to scream in pain.
Shin, H: 4000
Ritsu: 300
When the smoke cleared, Ritsu was face down on the floor unconscious
"Ritsu!" Yuzuki yelled
"This is bad, Ritsu is behind over 3000 points, he has no cards on the field and nothing in his hand." Kurogasa thought "Ritsu you better think of something."
Ch.42 A New Power
"Ritsu! Wake up!" Satoshi yelled
"Damn it, our Master isn't holding anything back." Kazuma bit his lip "Ritsu, you have to win."
Ritsu slowly opened his eyes and groaned as he slowly stood up.
"You were able handle Asteroids assault. I'm impressed." Shin said
"Save it, I will defeat you." Ritsu said while he looked at the monstrous dragon floating in the sky.
"I like to see you try. Lucky for you I can't conduct my battle phase when I use Asteroid's effect. So I'll end my turn right there." Shin said
Ritsu placed his hand on his deck "Come on guys, we have to win!" Ritsu drew his next card "I play the spell card Card of Sanctity!" Shin drew three more cards while Ritsu drew a full six. "Great, I have 300 life points and no cards on the field while my dad is untouched with a humongous dragon with the ability to destroy everything on my field and hit me with 400 points for every card, and he has two face downs."
"Ritsu, bring me out." Raikou said "We'll take out Asteroid."
Ritsu nodded in response "I activate the spell card Double Summon so that I can summon twice! I summon Red Eyes Wyvern (4/1800/1600) and Angel Dragon (2/1000/1000) to the field!" A mini version of Red Eyes and a small white dragon appeared on the field. Angel Dragon saw Asteroid and hid behind Ritsu in fright. "Next I activate Angel Dragon's ability, discarding two cards so that he can gain 2 levels!" Ritsu discarded two cards (2-4) "Now I tune my level 4 Red Eyes Wyvern with my level 4 Angel Dragon!" Angel Dragon turned into four synchro gates and encircled Red Eyes Wyvern, turning him into four stars.
When the stars of heaven converge, they unlock the door to a true salvation, become the light that descends from the heavens! Synchro Summon! The Divine Light, Raikou-The Dragon of the Heavens (8/3000/2400)
"Prepare yourself Asteroid!"
"I set one card face down and end my turn." Two reverse cards appeared "Be ready Raikou."
Raikou nodded
"I draw." Shin drew his next card "Asteroid, destroy Raikou with Celestial Judgement!" The monstrous dragon opened it's giant and fired a huge light blast at Raikou
"I activate the trap card Draining Shield!" a barrier blocked the celestial attack "This negates your attack and increases my life points by the attack strength of your monsters!"
Shin, H: 4000
Ritsu: 4600
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief
"Idiot! Don't scare us like that!" Yuzuki yelled at Ritsu who flinched
"Hehe sorry about that." Ritsu chuckled "You must be slipping dad. You should've used Asteroid's effect to end the duel right there, now my life points are back to normal."
Shin smirked "No son, your slipping. I activate my trap card (Azure) Celestial Lightning! I select a Light Fairy type monster on my field and you take damage equal to it's level by 200. Since Asteroid is treated as a fairy type he's a perfect choice. So you take 2000 points of damage!" White lightning rained down from the heavens.
A card popped out of Ritsu's graveyard "I activate the effect of Life Dragon (2/300/200) from my graveyard!" The small blue dragon appeared in front of the lightning, but was struck down by a light ray. "What!"
"I activated my second Divine Punishment, so the judgement still continues!" The lightning struck Ritsu, he tried his best not to scream in pain, but the pain was too much.
Shin, H: 4000
Ritsu: 2600
"Ritsu, can't you see that in your current state you don't even pose a threat to Apollyon." Shin explained "You need to rise past the heavens and unlock your true power!"
"My true power?" Ritsu wondered.
"I'll end my turn by activating my Card of Sanctity, think of it as a gift." Both players drew until they were holding six cards.
Ritsu placed his hand on his deck and was deep in thought "What if what dad said was true, what if I can't defeat Apollyon, what if I am setting up to get knocked down? I can't take that risk!"
"Ritsu!" Ritsu looked behind him
"Red Eyes Black Dragon?" Ritsu said "What are you doing here?"
"I'm here to ask you a question? Do you know that I represent you?" Red Eyes asked.
"You do?" Ritsu asked in confusion "Why?"
"It's because we both have limitless potential." Red Eyes stated
"Your right, I guess we both have unlimited potential. Thanks, that's just the kind of pep talk I needed." Ritsu drew his next card. "Dad has no face downs, this is my chance!" Ritsu slapped a card down on his duel disk "I summon my Mirage Dragon (4/1600/600) in attack mode!" A ghostly dragon appeared on the field "Next I activate the quick play spell card Forbidden Chalice, giving your dragon 400 extra points, but negating his effect!" Water rained down on the dragon causing him to lose his abilities (4300-3900)
"What!" Shin yelled
"It's effect is negated, meaning his field spell won't protect him and he loses the boost from Solidarity!" Akira said "Go Ritsu!"
"I activate Raikou's special ability, discarding Gravi Crush Dragon (6/2400/1200) in order for him to gain it's attack points!" Ritsu discarded Gravi Crush Dragon, giving Raikou a huge power boost (3000-5400) "Raikou! Show him that dragon the bigger he is, the harder he'll fall! Heavens Wrath!" Raikou flew towards the dragon, who fired a barrage of light rays at Raikou who dodged all of them. He then fired a giant fireball at the dragon, causing a huge explosion.
Shin, H: 2500
Ritsu: 2600
"Asteroid!" Shin yelled
"My attack isn't thought yet! Mirage Dragon, attack his life points directly, Mirage Spear!" Mirage Dragon fired a multi colored blast a Shin.
Shin, H: 900
Ritsu: 2600
"I set two cards face down and end my turn." Two reverse card appeared on the field.
"My turn!" Shin practically ripped the top card from his deck "I activate the spell card Monster Reborn in order to bring back Asteroid!" The colossal dragon reappeared in the sky virtually unscathed (3500-4300). "I activate Asteroid's ability! Destroy all of his cards now!" Asteroid sent out four meteors at Ritsu's field.
"I play the trap card Half Shield, cutting the damage I take in half. So instead of taking 1600 points of damage, I'll only take 800!" A barrier protected Ritsu from two of the meteorites, but the other two found their mark.
Shin, H: 900
Ritsu: 1800
"I'm not done yet! I'm going to activate my Forbidden Chalice!" Shin said
"What!"
"Like yours, it'll give my dragon 400 points, but negate his effect!" More water rained down on the dragon (4300-3900) "Now I can attack! End this! Celestial Judgment!" The dragon fired a huge light ray at Ritsu
"I may be down but I'm not out! I special summon (Azure) Spirit Dragon (1/100/100) from my hand!" A transparent dragon appeared in front of the blast and took the hit "Spirit Dragon can only be special summoned if you declare a direct attack against me, he takes the hit for me."
"You saved yourself from that attack." Shin said "But can you win?"
"I can and I will, Spirit Dragon's other effect activates whenever it's destroyed by a monster, if the card was a synchro monster, I'm allowed to special summon one synchro monster from my graveyard who has the same type as the synchro monster on the field, so come to the field, Raikou!" Raikou appeared in front of Asteroid "The downside is that his effect is negated."
"What a waste, I end my turn." Shin declared "You have no hope of winning now. Raikou's effect is negated and my Asteroid's effect is still going strong!" Shin explained as Asteroid gained Solidarity's boost once more (3900-4300) "Unless your next card is a miracle draw, you have no hope of winning!"
"There is always hope dad, or have you forgotten about this card!" Ritsu held up Red Eyes Black Dragon "Thanks to Red Eyes I was able to understand something."
"Oh yeah, and what was that?"
"I understand that all the power in the world doesn't make you better. What me and Red Eyes have in common is that we both have limitless potential." Ritsu explained
"So that's why he was looking at Red Eyes that day." Nami thought "He was wondering what his dad was trying to say."
"Really? Well let's see this 'limitless potential'." Shin said
"Be careful what you wish for, because with my friends by my side there's no way I can lose!" Ritsu yelled
"That's right!" Satoshi said
"We're behind you 100 percent!" Nami added
"You can do it!" Terra said
Ritsu felt something within him "W-What's this power welling up inside of me?" A bright flash of light filled the field. Ritsu looked around him and saw that everyone was frozen in place "What the hell happened?"
"I have no idea." Raikou said
"Raikou, light dragon and leader of the Elemental Dragons." A voice said in the light.
"Who are you?" Ritsu asked as he readied himself
"Do not be alarmed, I am not your enemy." The voice assured him "I am the power that dwells within you. The same power that dwells within the other five. You may call me Inazuma."
"Inazuma? The Japanese word for lightning." Ritsu said under his breath "Why are you here?"
"I have seen your resolve to protect your friends and fight fro whats right. And with that I present you with this new synchro." A card appeared in Ritsu's hand "Use it well." The light vanished and time was flowing normally
"Show me your resolve son!" Shin yelled
Ritsu looked more determined then ever "Gladly! I draw!" Ritsu drew his next card and looked confused "I don't remember having this card." Ritsu looked at Raikou who nodded "Well, let's see you in action!" Ritsu slapped the new card on his duel disk "I summon the tuner monster Hope Dragon (3/1500/1000) in attack mode!" A dragon who looked like a miniature version of Raikou appeared "Let's go Raikou! I tune my level 8 Raikou with my level 3 Hope Dragon!" Hope dragon turned into three white synchro gates and encircled Raikou, turning him into eight stars and causing Ritsu's element to react.
When the stars of heaven converge, they open the door to a new power. Become that power that light the way to our future! Synchro Summon! Divinity's Resolve, (Azure) Inazuma - Dragon of the Divine light (11/3200/2700)!
Out of a bright flash of light came Raikou in a completely different form, he had four wings on his back and his scales were more golden.
"OK, since when did he have that synchro?" Akira wondered at Raikou's new form
"How do you feel Raikou?" Ritsu asked.
"Heh, not bad, the power is incredible." Raikou said "I hope your ready to lose!"
"Even if you obtain a new form your still weaker than Asteroid!" Shin said
Ritsu smiled "Are you sure about that?"
"Huh?"
"I activate Inazuma's ability! once per turn I can remove from play a card in my graveyard and if I do that, I can destroy one card you control!" Raikou popped out of Ritsu's graveyard "I remove Raikou from play in order to destroy your field spell!" Inazuma fired a lightning blast at the cathedral, destroying it
"Yeah now that the Sanctuary is gone, Asteroid is now treated as a dragon type and loses Solidarity's boost!" Kuraki said as Asteroid began to grow weaker (4300-3500)
"There's more! If the card I removed was a dragon type, Inazuma gains half of the cards attack points! Raikou's attack strength was 3000 so Inazuma gains 1500 attack points! Lightning Charge!" Inazuma absorbed more light energy (3200-4700).
"4700 attack points!" Shin exclaimed
"All of them directed towards you! Inazuma! Attack Asteroid with Lightning Spear!" Inazuma created a lightning spear and threw it at the colossal dragon, causing a huge explosion and sending Ritsu and Shin back a couple of feet.
Shin, H: 0
Ritsu: 1800: Winner
"Ritsu!" Everyone ran over to him. Yuzuki helped him up
"Are you OK?" Yuzuki asked
"Hehe, yeah I'm fine." Ritsu said as he pulled out his new synchro
"That's Inazuma?" Nami said
"Yes." They all turned to see Shin "That is Ritsu's new power he has obtained. This power, all of you possess it but it's sealed."
"So what your saying is that we need to unlock it?" Terra asked as Shin nodded.
"But you won't get a chance to!" Everyone turned to see Shinken standing in the doorway "Because the hunt isn't over yet."
Ch.42 End
Thetrueazure: So Ritsu has obtained a new form for Raikou, but Shinken intervenes before they could leave.
Kazuma: Stay tuned for next chapter.
Ritsu: Krad's darkness has possessed him, and forces me into a duel. I still haven't recovered from the duel with my dad. Will I be able to free Krad, or will I be killed like the other dragon users in the past?
Next Time: Yugioh 5D's Power of the Six Elements; The True Nightmare.
"I will save him!"