Nemo turned around and stepped further into the white nothingness. She understood that now she was somewhere else. The nothing was different somehow. And she heard a voice call to her. She turned around to see another human, armor-clad, with an aura of justice that seemed to surround him.
"Good day, Planeswalker. I am Gideon, Champion of Justice. How do you call yourself?" Nemo stepped closer to him bashing sword on shield.
"I am Nemo Shadowstrider, He-Who-Is-As-Many, the Traveler, and I am the Planeswalker that defeated Garruk Wildspeaker. Will you battle?" The spectators, with the exception of the beast, were now gathered away from the two mighty sorcerers. The angel nodded to her master.
"Surely you are not THE Nemo? The one who conquered the Dragon's Maze? The being that slew the Kami on the Plane of Kamigawa?"
"I am she. And in my form is the truth. Behold." She quickly reassumed her male Human form, and then he grew two feet taller. Horns, black and twisted, sprung from his head and curled down over his cheeks.. His teeth sharpened, his skin greyed, and his clothes were replaced by chainmail armor and a spiked mace as large as a wolf. "I am Nemo, Champion of Urgals, and I challenge you to defeat me in a game of Summoning."
"I see that you are who you say, though I warn you I will not fall so easily as Garruk. Since we both won our last battles, I will allow you to go first." Nemo roared, clasping his gargantuan fists to his forehead at the base of the horns.
"Then we fight! I tap into my connection with the Swamp!" the ground near Nemo became boggy. Dead trees lined a murky pond. Nemo roared again as Gideon laughed at his move.
"The death mana will not help you here, Shadowstrider. I am connected with the plains, and summon Gideon's Lawkeeper!" As Gideon's ground became a stretch of grassland with a sunset overlooking it, a human in blue armor, armed with several glowing whips in one hand, walked out of the Plains and stood before Gideon. Nemo grinned.
"Then I will use my connection with the Forest!" groves of trees sprouted behind him, surrounding his Swamp. "Now, come to me, Child of Night!" A vampire woman walked out of the swamp, clad in black. She kissed Nemo's hand.
"How can I serve you, my lord?" she asked.
"How can you serve me? By dying in honorable combat. Now take your place!" she smiled as she stepped in front of him. Her fangs glinted in the light of the setting sun.
"A vampire? I can match that. I hereby bequeath a Kite Shield to my Lawkeeper." He summoned the shield, and the Lawkeeper grinned as he gripped it. "Now, attack!"
"Block it, Vampire!" The whips destroyed the young vampire, but she did manage to bite the Lawkeeper. He returned triumphantly to Gideon as the vampire was absorbed into the ground. "Now, I tap into another swamp." The ground turned blacker and the land the swamp covered increased. "And I cast a Putrefy spell on Gideon's Lawkeeper!" He thrust his hand at the man, who then clutched his chest and turned to bones. The bones returned to the ground as the vampire had. "An eye for an eye, Gideon."
"Aye. I pass."
"Aye... eye... I... anyway, I strengthen my Forest. Pass."
"Pass." Nemo only tapped into a swamp, but Gideon could see he was clearly strong enough to cast a spell. "Alright. I tap into a plains and summon an Armored Warhorse!" The horse was armored in steel and took it's place in front of Gideon as if it were a warrior.
"I tap into a forest and summon Balustrade Spy!" A cloaked vampire emerged, and it snarled at the horse. Gideon flinched, clutching his head.
"What's happening?"
"My vampire rogue is eliminating some of your spells."
"Okay. If you want to play rough. I cast Stave Off on my warhorse, and attack!"
"Damn. My spy can't block it!" he barely managed to observe as he received a kick to the stomach from a heavily armored horse. "I cast Giant Growth on Balustrade Spy!" The vampire grew to epic proportions and laughed. "Hunter's Insight, attack!" Gideon would not sacrifice the warhorse, and when the vampire sunk his giant fangs into Garruk's chest, he stumbled, clutching the holes until the creature returned to Nemo a normal size, and the Tongue was not yet finished. "Now, I tap into a forest and summon Child of Night!" A new vampire replaced the fallen lady. "And Ezuri's Archers!" green elves jumped down from a tall forest tree.
"I tap into a Plains!" Nemo noticed that for each Plains Gideon remembered, the sun rose higher and the grasses seemed vast, as the trees in his forest grew stronger and his swamp grew wider and darker. "Now, Griffin Rider!"
"Forest, and summon Maze Behemoth!" While no creature directly appeared, both men knew it lay underground, waiting. "Vampires, Archers, attack!" Griffin Rider blocked the volley of arrows, and the spy and the warhorse seemed evenly matched. The great griffin fell from the sky and crushed it's human rider, and both were buried.
"Leonin Skyhunter! Come forward!" from the sky, a great bird landed next to the armored horse. It's rider was a cat person wielding a sword.
"I tap into a swamp, and cast Trollhide and Titanic Growth on Maze Behemoth, attack all creatures!"
"Skyhunter, block Balustrade Spy! Horse, block Maze Behemoth!" The cat dive-bombed the flying vampire, and like the griffin, tumbled to the ground. The horse was swallowed whole by the immense Behemoth. An arrow and the Child of Night still bit Gideon. All returned to Nemo, ready for more. "You leave me little options, Shadowstrider." He pointed dramatically at the sky. "I summon Griffin Sentinel!"
"Plummet!" The griffin hit the ground and was buried before the Behemoth could eat it.
"Well I Pacify Maze Behemoth!"
"First, I summon Llanowar Elf. Second, I cast Bramblecrush upon your Pacify Enchantment! And then, I order all creatures to attack!" The horrified expression of Gideon was laughable as he realized Nemo had beaten him. He reluctantly congratulated his opponent, who shrank and resumed the bespectacled form of his birth. Nemo turned and walked further into the nothingness without another word.