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Chapter 12: The Destroyer and the Divinity
"I'll let you start things off." David told Jaden as they drew their opening hands. "It wouldn't be near as fun if I didn't at least try and give you a fighting shot."
"Fine!" Jaden agreed as he drew his first card. "First I activate Pot of Greed and draw two more cards. Then I activate Polymerization! I fuse Elemental Hero Clayman with Elemental Hero Burstinatrix in my hand to summon Elemental Hero Rampart Blaster in Defense Mode!"
Burstinatirx and Clayman appeared on the battlefield before leaping into a small vortex that had appeared in the air. Dropping down onto the field a with a thud moments later was Burstinatrix wearing a more advanced version of Clayman's armor that included a red visor over the upper half of her face. On the end of her left arm was a red shield white her right arm ended with an advanced laser cannon. Rampart Blaster kneeled down and raised her shield.
"A monster with 2500 DEF. That's a pretty good wall to use for an opening turn." Sheila commented from the sidelines.
"That wall isn't strong enough to stop David though." Reggie gravely remarked. "A monster like Rampart Blaster will be easy for him to get rid of."
"Maybe so, but Jaden will still find a way to win." Atticus assured her.
"I'll lay down a face-down and end my turn!" Jaden announced.
"Not a bad opening move." David remarked. "But that fused barrier monster won't stand a chance against my ultimate power. Behold!"
As David drew his next card, his body gave off a feint white aura. Right away a mad grin appeared on David's face. Jaden could tell that something was off.
"First I think a little chance of scenery is in order." David decided. "I activate the Spell, Terraforming and add Domain of Rituals to my hand. Then I play the Field Spell, Domain of Rituals!"
In an instant, the sunny school grounds transformed into an all too familiar grey wasteland. Jaden and the others quickly noticed some differences in the wasteland when it appeared around them though. The dark overcast sky seemed to be rumbling with thunder and there were occasional flashes of lightning. The emblem of Zott that adorned the mysterious structure in the distance was glowing with a strange white light.
"Is it just me, or has this Field Spell suddenly gotten creepier?" Sheila asked as she looked around.
"No, it's different alright." Atticus agreed. "But what does it mean?"
"I don't know how I know… but I think this means that something bad is coming." Tabitha spoke.
"Tabitha's right." Reggie agreed. "I think we may be running out of time."
"Hey Rabb! What's going on with this Field Spell?" Jaden demanded to know.
"Oh, you mean the weather in this place? It just means that the time of his revival is getting real close." David explained.
"You mean Zott?" Jaden deduced.
"That's right. It won't be much longer." David confirmed. "Very soon Lord Zott will rise and begin the new age of chaos!"
"I'm not gonna let that happen!" Jaden declared. "Even if Zott does manage to revive, I'll stop him and put an end to all this!"
"You won't get that chance, because I'm gonna slaughter you right here!" David declared. "I activate the Spell, Foolish Burial! With this card I send a monster straight from my deck to the Graveyard. Then I activate Monster Reborn and bring that monster to the field! I call forth The Big Saturn!"
A pillar of white light burst onto the field behind David. The light quickly faded to reveal his giant robot.
"Now the Big Saturn's on the field, I activate the Spell I drew at the beginning of this turn, Titan Rising!" David announced. "With Titan Rising's effect, I add a very special pair of cards to my hand. And now I activate one of those cards, the Ritual Spell known as Forbidden Upgrade!"
Four gold metallic cylinders suddenly burst up from the ground around Big Saturn. The tops of each cylinder opened up and ray gun-like devises rose from the top. A circle of red light appeared on the ground around the robot.
"Forbidden Upgrade lets me use Big Saturn as the entire offering for the Ritual." David continued. "So I sacrifice Big Saturn in order to upgrade him into… The Destroyer Saturn!"
The four devices that had appeared around Saturn fired bolts of red electrical energy at the large robot. In seconds the entire battlefield was washed out in an explosion of golden light. The light faded after a moment to reveal that Saturn had transformed. The silver parts of his body had turned gold and the ring of white energy around his body had turned red. The machine's yellow eyes had become red as well, and the faceplate of his mask had transformed to look like a large set of fangs. The robot's original hands had been replaced by two sets of four long prongs placed on all sides of the machine's cylindrical forearms. Mounted where the robot's shoulders might be were two large gold laser cannons with long barrels and thick cables connected to the jetpack on its back.
"That's a… Machine-type Ritual Monster?" a stunned Sheila spoke.
"Whatever it is, it has 3800 ATK." An equally stunned Tabitha observed. "There's no way Rampart Blaster can survive an attack like that."
"Before I attack, I activate Destroyer Saturn's effect!" David announced. "I discard my entire hand, and Destroyer Saturn does 300 points of damage for each card in my Graveyard! And in case you haven't been paying attention, I have eight cards in my Graveyard right now. Which means you're about to lose a whopping 2400 life points!"
The red energy ring around Saturn's torso vanished, allowing the sides of his torso to extend open and the cannon in his chest to extend forward. Inside the machine's large chest were several small missile launchers. At the same time, Saturn raised his forearms forward and his long claws rotated backward and large laser cannon barrels extended from his palms.
"Saturn, open fire on Jaden Yuki!" David commanded. "Annihilator Blitz!"
Saturn launched ever one of the missiles in his chest and fired massive red beams from all five of his cannons. Jaden was hit by the intense blast, and the force of the resulting explosion had knocked the four spectators watching the duel onto their backs. The smoke cleared after a moment and Jaden was standing and catching his breath. His eyes had already turned orange and teal, and his life points had sharply dropped to 1600.
After a moment, Tabitha got up and began helping Sheila to her feet. "Are you okay?"
"I think so." Sheila replied. "What kind of attack was that?"
"You alright?" Atticus asked Reggie as he helped her up.
"I'm fine." Reggie assured him.
"Hey Rabb! That psycho move of yours almost killed us!" Atticus protested.
"Then you shouldn't have been standing so close." David responded.
"Jaden, are you okay?" a concerned Reggie asked.
"I'm… I'm fine." Jaden replied.
"Not for long!" David told him. "I still haven't actually attacked yet. And when Destroyer Saturn takes out a Defense Mode monster in battle, my opponent takes damage equal to the difference between their ATK and DEF!"
"Seriously?" Sheila exclaimed. "That thing is way too overpowered!"
"At least Rampart Blaster's DEF will allow Jaden to keep some life points when the attack ends." Tabitha pointed out. "But I'm not sure if Jaden has the stamina to survive another attack like that explosion."
"Saturn, destroy that sorry excuse for a wall monster!" David commanded. "Planetary Destroyer!"
Destroyer Saturn's torso retracted back to its original form, but the cannons in his forearms were still extended. The machine aimed both barrels at Rampart Blaster and opened fire. The armored hero was destroyed in a huge explosion that knocked Jaden onto his back. His life points dropped again to 300. Saturn's forearms converted back to their original forms. After a moment, Jaden managed to get back up.
"Boy, you sure are a tough little son of a bitch." David remarked with an arrogant smirk. "I was hoping to kill you in one blow. But now that I think about it, it'll be a lot more fun to blow you away a second time."
"I… I activate my Trap, Neo Signal!" Jaden announced. "When one of my monsters is destroyed in battle, Neo Signal lets me summon a Neo-Spacian from my deck. So I summon Neo-Spacian Air Hummingbird!"
Materializing on the battlefield was a humanoid hummingbird-like creature with a slender yet muscular build. His body was covered in red and black feathers and he had a pair of small white wings on his back.
"Not much of a comeback." David scoffed.
"We'll see about that!" Jaden declared. "You can fire every weapon you've got at me, Rabb! But before this duel's over, I'm taking you down!"
Alexis and Principle Mackenzie both drew their opening hands. As the two of them prepared to face off, Alexis was trying to figure out what was going on. There were only two things that she could be sure of. The first was that the duel she was about to have was not going to be a normal one. The second was that Jaden was involved somehow. Though just how, she wasn't sure.
"I believe I'll start this duel off." Principle Mackenzie decided as he drew his first card. "I summon Thousand-Eyed Ghost in Defense Mode and end my turn!"
Appearing on Principle Mackenzie's side of the field was a floating monster with a round body that had two tentacle-like arms on the sides. The creature was covered in mummy wrappings that had turned brown with age, and peeking out from between them were several large eyes.
Alexis drew her first card. "I activate the Spell card, Machine Angel Ritual!"
Appearing to tower behind Alexis was a massive caldron of flames. Its base was made of several grey metal pipes.
"Ah yes. I had forgotten that you were a Ritual user as well." Principle Mackenzie recalled. "That makes this duel all the more amusing."
"I sacrifice Cyber Prima from my hand to summon Cyber Angel-Benten!" Alexis continued.
Appearing above the flaming caldron was a woman with long silver hair wearing a red mask and a grey and blue bodysuit with a tutu. The flames incinerated the woman, and a ball of fired shot out and landed on the field in front of Alexis. In moments the fireball took the form of a woman with long black hair wearing a sleeveless white and red tight-fitting bodysuit and an ornate gold mask over the top half of her face. In her hands she carried a large red fan connected by a chain to a long wooden handle.
"Benten, attack Thousand-Eyed Ghost!" Alexis commanded. "Angelic Turn!"
Benten jumped into the air and turned around before flinging her fan at Mackenzie's undead monster. The fan split the creature down the middle, and both halves quickly dissolved into dust.
"I'm not done yet!" Alexis continued. "Whenever Benten destroys a monster, she inflicts damage to my opponent equal to that monster's DEF!"
Benten pulled her fan back and flung it back at Principle Mackenzie. Mackenzie quickly covered his face with his arms to try and shield himself from the attack. The fan struck and his life points dropped to 3000.
"Only 1800 ATK, and still quite deadly." Principle Mackenzie remarked. "When Thousand-Eyed Ghost is sent to the Graveyard, I can summon a monster of level four or below from my deck! Appear now, Double Coston!"
Appearing where the Thousand-Eyed Ghost once floated was a small black blob with short stubby arms on its sides. Its face consisted of a smirking mouth and beady olive-green eyes with slit-like pupils.
"I end my turn!" Alexis announced. "But before this duel goes any further, I'd like an explanation to what's going on here!"
"Very well. I suppose you deserve that much." Principle Mackenzie agreed. "You have been chosen to become the ultimate sacrifice for the revival of Lord Zott."
"Zott? Who's that supposed to be?" Alexis asked with a raised eyebrow.
"A being of ultimate power who once ruled over an era of chaos and delight." Principle Mackenzie answered. "He would still be in power today were it not for the one who calls himself the Supreme King."
"You mean Jaden." Alexis observed.
"Ages ago he used his power to defeat Zott and bring his reign to an end." Principle Mackenzie confirmed. "But soon he will rise again, and you shall be the one to help him do it!"
"So I'm supposed to be the sacrifice to bring this Zott or whatever it is back?" Alexis deduced.
"Originally David was to be the one to…'prepare you' for the ritual." Principle Mackenzie revealed. "But you proved to be very unreceptive to his advances. Plus it seems that you're far too strong-willed to be prepared like the other sacrifices, so it seems that I'm going to have to defeat you in a duel in order to get the job done."
"I still don't really know what you're talking about, but you're not going to beat me!" Alexis declared.
"Don't be so sure, my dear." Principle Mackenzie responded with an ominous grin as he drew his next card. "Your defeat is already at hand. Double Coston can be used as two sacrifices to summon a Dark attribute monster, so I sacrifice Double Coston to summon… The Supremacy Sun!"
The black blob that was Double Coston divided like a single celled organism and became two creatures. A massive column of golden light that shot up from the ground then instantly destroyed both blobs. The light faded, and hovering above the battlefield was a being that had a muscular humanoid upper body with tan skin and clawed fingers. Much of his body was covered with ornate black and gold armor. On his chin was a black bead like the ones worn by the pharaohs of Egypt, and on his back were ten diamond-shaped wings made of golden light.
"That's… one of the Legendary Planet monsters!" a stunned Alexis observed.
"The same series that David's Big Saturn and Reggie's Splendid Venus are both from." Principle Mackenzie confirmed. "The card designer who created the cards was a friend of mine. He had given me three of the cards as a gift. As far as stats go, The Sun is strongest card in the series. But with the power that I possess, he is about to become even stronger. I activate a Spell card known as Solar Advent! With Supremacy Sun on the field, I can add a certain pair of cards to my hand. Next I activate one of the cards just added to my hand, a Ritual Spell known as Divine Prominence!"
Appearing beyond the wall of white flames around the battlefield in a spot behind where Principle Mackenzie stood was a massive golden pyramid. The capstone of the pyramid suddenly rose up off the top and began rotating around as it glowed with a golden light.
"Under normal circumstances, I would have to offer monsters whose levels totaled twelve or more for the Ritual." Principle Mackenzie continued. "But I can also use The Supremacy Sun as the entire offering instead! So I now offer up The Sun in order to transform him into a much more powerful being!"
A beam of golden light shot down from the floating capstone and stuck The Sun in the back, washing out the entire battlefield in a massive explosion of light. The light faded after a moment to reveal that The Sun had transformed. The black and gold color scheme of his armor had switched. A gold and black cobra hood headdress like the one worn by the pharaohs had replaced his original helmet.
"Behold! The Divinity Sun!" Principle Mackenzie called. "With the power of this celestial being, victory in this duel shall be mine!"
Author's Note: This was my first attempt at doing a chapter that had two separate duels going on at the same time, so it was kind of a challenge. Hopefully I've made both duels easy to follow, especially since I've left both of them on a cliffhanger. The next chapter will continue with Alexis' duel and finish up with Jaden's.
Please review and let me know what you think.