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Hey guys! Darky back with a bang! This chapter was kinda late to the time I thought I would've had it done by but this time it wasn't my fault! My internet had been down for about 3 weeks or so and let's just say it's hard to write when you don't have the internet to back you up. But while I was waiting, I been thinking about my opening notes and I found them to be kinda a mess. So I decided to start writting like this for now on! I hope this will make this easier to read for the people who actually do read my crazy side notes XD.
Anyway, back on topic, this chapter introduces the last but not least OC for season 1 made by a buddy of mine, Above the Winter Moonlight or Blaze as she likes to call herself. As for a note to her, sorry for taking so long to add your OC in! I hope I got her character right since I think I kinda messed it up! We also got two duels in this chapters so I hope you guys will enjoy those as well!
Now for some random crap I want to talk about...this story has gotten 100 favorites and follows guys! *goes to corner to cry* Thank you all for the support for this FF guys! You're all the real stars of this story. Heck, if it wasn't for four of you guys who sent me OCs, this story wouldn't be as good as it is now! I mean, look how much love Titaniumshipping is getting! I never seen so much love for a fanmade ship for Jaden as for this one. Everyone else who just reads this and likes it is amazing in my eyes too!
Now for my final note (if you're still reading this, I'm surprised since you're listing to me and my craziness XD), if you don't know already, on October 6, GX has turned 10-years-old! Holy crap?! Where did that time go by?! Well it doesn't really mater! It's funny to think that after ten long years, GX itself still has so many fans! I, for one, have loved this show since when I was little, and still to this day will always be one of my favorite animes. So to show my love of the series, I have made a top ten list of my favorite GX moments that will be at the end of the chapter! If you want to see my list, go right ahead and if it's not to much trouble, please post in the reviews or PM me your top ten (or five) moments to GX too! I love to see what you guys loved about this show!
Well that's enough for now. Let's just get to the main reason why you guys are here! Chapter 13 to Two sides of the Gentle Darkness!
Gym Class: the only time during school where you could push your worries about homework and other problems to the side to instead play and enjoy friendly sports with your fellow classmates. At the moment, the Slifers and Ras were in the middle of playing one of America's favorite pastime sports, Baseball!
The Slifers were up to bat while the Ras were in the outfield. All the students were dressed in their white and blue gym clothes but to tell who was in whose dorm, the Slifers had red bandanas around their arms while the Ras were wearing yellow ones. It was the top of the ninth. The Slifers were leading with 3-0 with them having two outs so far. The second and third bases were loaded and up to bat for them was their pride and joy, Jaden Yuki.
"Jaden, keep your eyes on the ball!" Syrus coached from their team's sideline.
"That'll be hard to do." Jaden smirked, tightening his grip on the bat. "Since the ball is gonna go over the fence. Then he'll score, he'll score, and I'll score. After that, we'll have a six run lead!"
"Just don't go overboard, Jaden." Yubel told him in the back of his mind, causing Jaden to roll his eyes. "And no cheating by using your powers or mine!"
'Okay mom;' Jaden replied mentally. 'Besides, I wasn't even planning on it. I don't need your eyes to see a ball coming my way.'
"I'm just saying, Jaden. I know how competitive you are with anything so I never know with you at times."
'Thanks for the vote of confidence, Yubel.' Jaden said sarcastically.
"Hold on, time out!" Someone called out who turned out to be Bastion Misawa, running over to join his team with the Ras. "Sorry, I was deep into some Attack Point quantum mechanics and lost track of time." He explained.
"Can you throw?" One of the Ras asked Bastion.
"Sure."
"Well, we need a fresh arm. Alright, pitcher change!"
"This isn't a written exam, Bastion." Jaden said, pointing his bat at the Ra who ran up to the mound to switch with the current pitcher. "I hope you know what you're doing."
"Oh trust me, Jaden." Bastion smirked as he got ready to throw. "It's over for you, my friend. Now get ready; this is coming in red hot!" Then without even a signal, he launched a fast ball straight down the middle. Jaden smirked as he swung but to his own surprise and Yubel's, he completely missed.
"Strike one!" As for the next throw….
"Strike two!" And for the final one….
"Strike three, you're out!"
"Are you kidding me right now?!" Jaden exclaimed in frustration to what just happened. Even without using his or Yubel's powers, he should have clearly been able to hit at least one of those throws!
"And there's the competitive rage kicking in." Yubel noted watching as the Slifers switched position with the Ras; Syrus took over as the catcher while Jaden took the pitcher's mound for one clear reason that Yubel knew right away. Jaden wanted to get even with Bastion for striking him out.
And Yubel was right since at the bottom of the ninth, Jaden struck out the first two batters with ease but after that, for some reason, he got sloppy which lead to the next three batters walking.
"Ball four, take your base." The third batter walked to his base.
"Time!" Syrus called having the Slifer team met at the mound. "Jaden, what happened? You got two outs and walked the last three batters!"
Jaden chuckled. "Pretty slick, right?"
"Slick?" Syrus and the rest of the team questioned.
"Yeah how else was I supposed to pitch, Bastion?"
"Why am I not surprised by any of this?" Yubel wondered out loud with a sigh, knowing all too well how Jaden hated being outdone by someone and always tried his best to get even with them or try to do better.
"What?! You walked all those guys just to get even with Bastion?!" Syrus asked.
"What? Are you kidding? I don't want to get even. I want to get ahead." Jaden answered with a smirk as Bastion took his place at bat. "You hear that, buddy?! You're going down!"
Bastion put on the batting helmet before he turned to face Jaden, ready to hit as the Slifers returned to their previous positions. "Down the base line, perhaps;" He spoke. "Now give me you best, Jaden. That is, if you can even get the ball over the plate."
Jaden's eyes flashed to Yubel's for a second from that and Yubel noticed it. "Uh Jaden…."
"You want it? You got it!" Jaden pitched a fast curve ball, expecting Bastion to miss it and he almost did, keyword almost, but he was still able to manage to hit the ball, sending it flying.
Meanwhile, Dr. Crowler was walking by the field, trying to think of his next move to get Jaden and Haou kicked off the island.
"The Paradox Brothers couldn't beat the twins! Chazz couldn't even beat Jaden, let alone if he was dueling both of them! I need someone who can beat…AAH!" His ranting was interrupted by a ball straight to his left eye, sending the Obelisk Blue headmaster flying back into the baseball equipment.
"Uh heads up!" Someone shouted a bit too late. Crowler's head popped up from the pile of equipment and the first thing he saw was Jaden and Syrus, who both freaked when they saw who got nailed by the baseball.
"IT'S YOU! WELL UH COURSE! WHO ELSE COULD CASE SUCH INTENSE PAIN!?" Crowler cried.
"Now that's keeping your eye on the ball…." Syrus mumbled since Crowler currently had the baseball, somehow, lodged in his left eye.
"Okay even if he had this so coming to him; what did I tell you, Jaden?" Yubel spoke in his head once more.
'Point taken,' Jaden replied before he said to Crowler. "Sorry; it was…."
"My fault," Bastion called as he jogged over to join the two Slifers. "I was the one who hit the ball." He informed the injured doctor.
"Bastion? Of course!" Crowler said, his mood changing in a blink of an eye at hearing the Ra speak. "Here I was looking for a new accomplice and here it smacks me right in the face! Well the eye actually but that's beside the point!"
"Wow this guy can suck up fast." Yubel noted in disgust and Jaden nodded in agreement.
"Dr. Crowler, accept my apologies." Bastion apologized, bowing in respect.
"No, no, no; I've been meaning to have my contacts refitted for ages and now I have the perfect excuse to do so!" Crowler reassured him. And the perfect new protégé! He thought as well.
"Huh?"
Crowler jumped since he had forgotten that Jaden and Syrus were still there who were trying to listen in on everything. "Do you two mind?!" The Blue headmaster snapped.
"Sorry;" Jaden said as he and Syrus took off back toward to the field. "But that was a foul ball, Bastion! Bye!"
Crowler looked back at Bastion after making sure the Slifers were gone. "Never mind those two, Slifer Slackers; it's time you start associating yourself with those more of your class, don't you think? It's time you start associating with me."
…..
Later that day, during one of Crowler's classes that was about to start, a female Obelisk Blue, carrying three different colored books, entered the lecture hall, taking her seat at the very top of the classroom. The girl was tall and slender with wavy red-gold hair that fell just below her shoulders and lavender-purple eyes dressed in a standard female Obelisk Blue outfit. The girl placed the books she was carrying on her desk before she took the first one she saw and opened it on up to where she left off. She was in the middle of reading one of her favorite series of books, Star Wars.
"You're sitting in my seat again, Akane." Someone mumbled to the girl.
Akane Hara paused in her reading and looked up, or over in this case, when she heard someone speaking to her. Her purple eyes ended up meeting a pair of grey eyes which belonged to the 'teacher's pet' as some of the students decided to call her. "Oh sorry, Elanor;" Akane apologized to Dr. Crowler's niece with a kind smile. "I keep forgetting that your uncle had me change seats."
"Yes, I can tell." Elanor replied as she placed her own set of books on her desk while Akane picked hers up and started to head down to her new seat that was a few rolls down.
Well she sure does get to the point. Akane thought glancing back over her shoulder at the smaller Obelisk girl who, in two second flat, had already opened up her textbooks and began studying from them. I guess I'm not the only one that likes to study. But then again, she does have Dr. Crowler as an uncle so he must be forcing her to be the best that she can be just to make himself look better. Speaking of him… Akane set her stuff down on her new desk while looking to the front of the class to notice the doctor still hasn't showed up yet which was weird since Crowler was usually the first one to be here so he could yell at the people who were late to class.
Though Akane wasn't complaining about that; no one really did like Crowler all that much, besides some of his snobbish Obelisks, because he was mean to any student he thought were slackers, pretty much all of the reds, and because he was just a jerk and selfish overall. Akane didn't like him for the first reason.
Still, Akane found it weird to think that Elanor was related to this guy. Akane only made small talk with Elanor every once in a while when she had to and from all that she picked up so far from the tiny girl, she didn't seem too bad. She was a really good duelist from what Akane heard around school since during the first week when Elanor transferred here, she pretty much took down almost everyone she saw fitting. Akane was kinda curious to duel her herself when she got the chance.
Suddenly the doors to the lecture hall opened up and Chazz Princeton entered the room. Oh great, not him. Akane thought turning her gaze to the raven Obelisk who was walking over to his seat with a proud and cocky look on his face.
Chazz Princeton: one of the top freshman Obelisks at the school who needs an attitude check. Akane sighed thinking about how Chazz was just as bad as Crowler was just with less power. Sure Chazz was rich from what she heard but even having so much money had it limits and Akane should know.
"It's good to be at top." Chazz said to himself, leaning back in his seat. "Yo, foot rub and an ice tea, pronto." He commanded the students that were present in the room, snapping his fingers.
What a lazy snob. Akane thought trying her best not to glare at the Obelisk who thought he was some kind of king or something. Akane never really got angry with people, unless they were picking on her friends that is or just flat out annoying her, but Chazz really had some issues that needs fixing and truth be told, Akane might have made a smart mouth comment to him but someone beat her to it.
"Get it yourself;" One of the Obelisks retorted.
"Huh? What was that?!" Chazz countered.
"Doesn't he know?" Another Obelisk wondered out loud.
"I guess not." A third one replied.
"Know what?!" Chazz questioned, knowing he was missing something.
Akane looked down at them, wondering the same thing. What's going on here? Did Chazz just get dethrone of something? She wondered.
"Chazz, where do you think you're sitting?" A fourth Obelisk asked, walking up to the raven.
"Uh my seat;" Chazz answered like it wasn't obvious enough.
"But that's not you're seat anymore. Now move!"
After hearing that, Elanor slowly took her eyes off her textbook to listen in and pay attention to what was going on here.
"What are you talking about?! Uh course this is my seat! It even says so right here!" But when Chazz went to check, the name tag he put there himself was gone, causing his eyes bug out from shock and surprise.
"Sorry Chazz but you were moved all the way over there!" The Obelisk said, pointing towards the bottom where the Ras were seated.
"What?! This is all wrong! I don't belong over there with those losers!" Chazz complained.
Spoiled brat much? Akane thought just as Dr. Crowler, who was now sporting a nice shiner from where he was hit with the baseball, walked into the classroom.
Elanor, who was the only one to notice or care since it was Crowler after all, the bruise on her uncle's eye and she just sighed from the sight of it. She was about to ask her uncle what he did this time but she stopped herself when she heard someone talking to her in her head by making rawr sounds. "Yeah I know, Atlas, my uncle does like to make a fool out of himself." She shrugged. "But I still love him. I guess someone has to anyway."
"Dr. Crowler! Tell everyone here that this is a mistake! Tell them I belong up here!" Chazz burst out.
"But you don't ever since you lost that one duel to…oh who was it now...oh yes, I remember, Jaden Yuki….a Slifer!" Crowler exclaimed. "That's why tomorrow you're going to duel Bastion Misawa and if you lose to him as well, you two will switch dorms."
Chazz flinched back at that. "You mean….I become a Ra Yellow duelist?!"
"Yes very good; now if you can duel as well as you'll listen then you should do perfectly fine." Crowler said, applauding mockingly.
Chazz growled, embarrassment written all over his face as his classmates laughed at him. "I won't be a Ra!" Chazz vowed as he fled from the lecture hall.
However the only two people not to laugh at Chazz as he fled were Akane, since deep down she kinda felt a little sorry for him, and Elanor, since she found Chazz a little too pathetic to laugh at. Elanor wasn't a mean person but she sure didn't sign up for drama club and so far, that was all she was getting from this.
Crowler cleared his throat to get everyone attention. "Now that we got that out of the way;" He referred to Chazz's little breakdown like it was nothing. "We're going to be having a review today and as we all know, a review means a duel!"
Really?! A student just ran out of the classroom, looking totally broken and you're just going to push that off to the side like it was nothing and move on! What the actual hell, Crowler?! Akane thought in disbelieve to what she was hearing at the moment.
"Now I'll be choosing the duelists for this match today and I've already decided on whom! Akane Hara and she'll be facing my very own niece, Elanor!" Crowler revealed.
Akane pause on her silent rage train when she heard her name being called along with Elanor's. Okay maybe this isn't so bad…. She knew how selfish that thought was just but after thinking about it, the person that did leave the classroom five seconds ago was Chazz and knowing how prideful he was, he wasn't going to live this down and become even more stuck up then he already was. Akane didn't know whether to take that as a good or bad thing but she decided to worry about that later.
As for Elanor, she just glanced down at Akane for a second before she sighed and closed her book. "Well there goes my afternoon plans for today." She mumbled with another sigh.
…..
While Akane and Elanor were getting ready to duel, Bastion, Jaden, and Syrus were heading towards the Ra dorm since they all had a free period and Bastion had asked the two Slifers for some help with something. Along the way, they had started talking about the baseball game they had just finished a little while ago.
"Okay, so I guess that last one wasn't a foul ball." Jaden admitted.
"Jaden, over the center field fence normally isn't." Syrus pointed out. "Still that was some hit, Bastion."
"I'll say." Jaden agreed but in the back of his mind, he was still wondering how in the world was Bastion able to hit that ball even when Jaden threw it at pretty much super speed.
"Maybe you're just bad at throwing, Jaden." Yubel joked making Jaden laugh sarcastically in the back of his head at her.
"Look I play like I duel." Bastion stated before he held out the baseball bat and Jaden and Syrus both noticed there were many different formulas written on it. "You see, I find that statistics, geometry, and mathematics are things that we use all the time in our daily life. Whether it's dueling or playing baseball, it's all the same in one form or another."
"Wow…I never looked at it that way." Jaden mused.
"So do you have a formula for everything, Bastion?" Syrus asked.
Bastion just chucked at that as he continued to lead the Slifers through the Yellow dorm. The inside of the Ra dorm looked like some kind of hotel that the rich would stay at but just not as luxurious as the Obelisk dorm was. Still it was way better than the Slifer dorm at least. Bastion soon stopped when he got to his room and unlocked the door. "And here we are." He said opening the door.
Jaden and Syrus both gasped as they walked into the room. "And where's that?!" They both asked. The room looked like a normal dorm room but the walls and ceiling were covered in formulas and equations.
"My lab, my workshop, my dorm room;" Bastion answered as he pointed at different areas where the formulas were written. "Over there is for traps, that's for spell card, and that's…well you get the idea. Most of these I already memoirist and as you can see, I'm running out of room. So…" He held up a mop and paint bucket. "Mind helping?"
It didn't take long to find the two Slifers painting the walls white while Bastion was working on clearing the floor.
"Hey check it out, I'm Michelangelo!" Jaden laughed. He was standing on a step ladder, working on the ceiling. Syrus and Bastion joined in on the laugher soon after. "Get it? Because I'm painting on the ceilinnnnnngggg!" Jaden lost his footing on the ladder for a second but when he did; he accidently dropped his paint brush which ended up flying right into Syrus's face.
"You do realize…that this means war, Jay." Syrus stated; he's face covered in paint.
"Now look, Syrus. It was an accident!" Jaden told him but it was already too late since Syrus had already picked up a bucket of paint and was getting ready to throw it.
"That's enough you two. Give me that…" Bastion scolded the two boys just as Syrus threw the paint at Jaden. Jaden jumped out of the way at the last second and it ended up hitting Bastion instead. Jaden glanced at Bastion for a second before he burst out laughing. "Funny is it?" Bastion asked as he smacked Jaden's face with a paint rag. Jaden got mock anger from that as he grabbed the paint brush he dropped and smirked.
And that's how World War Paint began…until it ended because of lunch.
…..
Back in Crowler's class, everyone had quickly moved to the duel arena to watch Akane and Elanor's duel unfold. Crowler sat by himself with a scoring guide in hand. He had already pretty much given Elanor a perfect score on everything even before the duel started. Was Crowler playing favorites? Yep. Did he care? Nope.
As for the two Obelisk Blues, Akane had just finished shuffling her deck and returned it into her duel disk before she glanced over at Elanor. "Well Elanor, let's have a fun duel that we can both enjoy." She said with a smile.
"Yeah sure;" Elanor replied but she sure didn't sound as enthused as Akane was as they both activated their duel disks.
(Akane: 4000 Elanor: 4000)
"Well I guess I'll start things off. Here goes something." Akane drew her sixth card before looking at her hand. "I summon my Samurai of the Ice Barrier in attack mode!" Appearing on Akane's field was a samurai you would see in Japanese culture. His armor was an icy blue color with golden outline and he was carrying a sword made out of ice (Atk: 1800 Def: 1500). "And I'll end things there with a face down." She finished as a face down appeared behind her samurai.
Elanor said nothing to that as she drew while Akane was glancing from her field to Elanor's, thinking of her plan of attacking. Okay Elanor, let's see what you're made of. If the rumors about your dueling skills are true, then you should be able to summon out a high power monster in no time and when you do, I'll be ready for you. Akane thought waiting to see what Elanor would do.
"I'll play my Continuous Spell card, Machine Assembly Line." Elanor started and right after she said that, an assembly line machine appeared behind her in working order. "With this, all machine type monsters on the field gain 200 ATK points and when one is destroyed, I can place 2 Junk Counters on this card."
Junk Counters? I don't know what those are but I don't like that sound of them. Akane thought with her guard up.
"Now I play Polymerization to fuse the three Gadget Brothers that are in my hand to summon out Gadget Machine King in attack mode!" Elanor exclaimed as her three ace monsters all appeared on her field before they fused together to create their fusion form (Atk: 2700 Def: 2000).
"A fusion monster just on her first turn?!" Akane had to admit that even she didn't see that coming. Still, that didn't change the fact that she was hoping Elanor would summon a strong monster like this.
"G.M.K. gains 100 ATK points for each machine type monster that's in my graveyard and thanks to Machine Assembly Line, he gains another 200. So with three machine type monsters, he gains a total of 500 more points." Elanor explained as her monster powered up (Atk: 2700-3200 Def: 2000).
"Okay I admit that is one powerful monster but to unleash him just on the first turn was a mistake on you part, Elanor." Akane commented.
"I make very few mistakes, Akane, and this here isn't one of them." Elanor countered, looking dead serious.
"Wanna bet?" Akane grinned as she revealed her face down. "I play Void Trap Hole! Since you special summoned a monster with over 2000 ATK points, I can negate its effects and destroy it all in one package!"
Elanor just remind silence as she watched her Gadget Machine King get turned into a giant ice block before he was destroyed but when he did, Elanor gained two Junk Counters (2). The younger Crowler sighed. "How predictable;" She mumbled.
"Excuse me? I don't think you understand that I just took down one of your strongest monsters in one shot." Akane pointed out.
"And has it occurred to you that maybe I wanted you to destroy my Gadget Machine King?" Elanor questioned, surprising Akane. "Because now, since you did, I'm allowed to use his second effect to be able to summon back my three Gadget monsters to the field."
"But you can't! My trap canceled out your monster's effect!" Akane remarked.
"Your trap only works for my monsters that are on the field and as you can tell, G.M.K. is gone so now I can summon to my field Red, Yellow, and Green Gadget in ATK mode!"
Akane mumbled a curse under her breath as she figured out Elanor's plan. She wanted me to destroy her Gadget Machine King just so she could summon out all her Gadgets at once! How could I have fallen for her trap?! She wondered, watching as Red, Yellow, and Green all appear on the field and thanks to Machine Assembly Line, they each appeared with 200 more ATK points each (Atk: 1300-1500 Def: 1500) (Atk: 1200-1400 Def: 1200) (Atk: 1400-1600 Def: 600).
"Well…at least none of them are strong enough to beat my Samurai." Akane muttered to herself. "So she won't even try to attack…."
"I'll attack you're Samurai of the Ice Barrier with each of my Gadget monsters." Elanor stated causing Akane to look at her like she was crazy as the Gadget Brothers all charged at Akane's Samurai, only to fail and be destroyed.
(Akane: 4000 Elanor: 3100)
"Do you have a few screws loose? Why would you do something like that? Are you trying to lose or something?" Akane questioned staring in shock and confusion at Elanor and her now empty field besides her spell that was now glowing.
Elanor didn't answer her question. Instead, she said; "Since three machine type monsters were destroyed, my Machine Assembly Line gains six more Junk Counters." She noted as her spell added the counters (8) while Elanor took the last card that was in her hand and placed it face down. "I'll end with this." She finished.
Akane bit her lip. What is she trying to do? She could have made a strong defense but instead, she attacked and all she did was hurt herself. Is she trying to make me think she's stupid or something to make me lower my guard? Akane shook her head as she drew. Well whatever she's trying to do, I better stop her and quick.
Akane drew her card before she looked at Elanor's field. Elanor's main focus so far looks to be getting Junk Counters with that Machine Assembly Line card of hers so the best thing I can do at the moment is destroy it. But…. Akane turned her glance to Elanor's other card. She now has a face down that I guess will be used to protect her M.A.L. card but then again, she doesn't have anything to protect her life points with so it has to be something that will protect her instead.
Akane mumbled another curse under her breath since she didn't know what she should do. However, she got an idea as soon as she noticed what she drew. "Hey…" She looked at the rest of her hand, hatching a plan. "This just might work."
"Would you hurry up and make you're move already? I don't have all day you know." Elanor said in an annoyed tone.
"Well excuse me, princess." Akane grumbled sarcastically before she held up the card she just drew. "Okay, I play Medallion of the Ice Barrier! This spell card allows me to add an Ice Barrier monster from my deck to my hand." Akane took out her deck and looked through it until she saw the card she wanted before placing her deck back in. Akane then looked at her hand again and smirked. Perfect, there's no way she can survive from what I'm about to play.
"Now behold the power of Magic Triangle of the Ice Barrier! Thanks to this handy little spell card, all I have to do is reveal 3 Ice Barrier monsters that are in my hand and I get to destroy a card on your field!" Akane glanced from Elanor's two cards. But the question is: which one is more of a threat?
"Well what are you waiting for?" Elanor questioned, narrowing her eyes.
Too be honest, a clue. Akane thought looking straight at Elanor. But her face isn't giving anything away so I have to make this chose. Akane took a deep breath before she held up her three Ice Barrier cards, all under the name of General. "Okay, I choose to destroy your face down card!"
Once again, Elanor didn't say anything as her face down froze over before being destroyed.
"Now thanks to the second effect of my Magic Triangle, I get to special summon an Ice Barrier monster straight from my hand and I choose…" Akane placed the monster on her monster card zone. "…General Gantala of the Ice Barrier!" Appearing on her field from the magic triangle was a dark-skinned man. He was shirtless with green pants. On his left hand was a gantlet made out of ice along with a weapon made out of ice on his back that was shaped in the form of the Ice Barrier's crest. He also had the same crest on his forehead (Atk: 2700 Def: 2000).
"Next I'll play Cost Down! Now for the rest of the turn, all the monsters in my hand levels are decree by two. So since this monster is level six now, I can now summon it with only one sacrifice! In other words, I sacrifice my Samurai of the Ice Barrier to play General Grunard of the Ice Barrier in attack mode!" Akane's samurai disappeared from the field to only be replaced by another general. This one whole body looked to be covered in ice armor with a matching theme helmet on the top of his head (Atk: 2800 Def: 1000).
"Finally, I play Grunard's effect! Once per turn, I can normal summon one Ice Barrier monster in addition to my normal summon or set and since this monster is a level four now, I'll summon him out! Come forth, General Raiho of the Ice Barrier!" Akane called as her final General to her Ice Barriers appeared on the field next to the other two. The final was dressed in icy blue robes and had long dark blue hair (Atk: 2100 Def: 2300).
"Huh, you were able to summon out all three of the Ice Barrier generals just in one turn. I must say I'm impressed." Elanor admitted. "Together, they have a grand total of 7600 Atk points but even just one of them can deal a whole lot of damage on its own."
"And you happened to be dumb enough to destroy all your monsters at once. I will admit that you surprised me at first, Elanor, but there's no way you're going to survive this." Akane stated.
"I wouldn't bet money on that." Elanor replied with a shake of her head.
That one little comment made Akane pause just before she was going to order her generals to attack. She must be trying to scare me out of attacking her. The only card left on her field can't protect her life points so why am I worrying so much?! Is it because she's acting so calm or is it the fact that she already fooled me once? Akane bit her lip before she pointed at Elanor. "I know what you're trying to do and it isn't going to work! Go my generals! Attack Elanor directly!"
"Oh my!" Crowler cried as he watched as Elanor get owned by three beams of ice. "I can't watch!" He covered his eyes with his clipboard.
Akane let out a sigh of relief. "I knew she was faking. This duel is over…..huh?" Akane looked at her field in confusion when she noticed none of her monsters had disappeared. "Hey! What's going on?!"
"This duel isn't over. That's what's going on."
"Oh no…" Akane murmured as she watched as the dust from her attack blew to reveal that Elanor was still standing and that's not all.
(Akane: 4000 Elanor: 388)
"How….how do you still have life points left?" To say that Akane was shock would be an understatement at this point.
Elanor just held up a card that Akane never seen before. "This is Scarp-Iron Safely. When this card is in my graveyard, I can remove it from play and for the rest of the turn, as long as I cut my life points in half, I can negate one of your attacks. So by cutting my life points in half three times, I was able to negate all of your attacks."
Akane could feel her jaw slowly dropping to the ground but she forced herself to keep it in place. "You tricked me again. You wanted me to destroy your face down."
Elanor just shrugged. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
Akane's eye twitched at the comment. Okay Akane, just calm down. You still outnumber and out power her in monsters. During you're next turn, you can finish her off. She told herself, taking a deep breath. "I end my turn but thanks to General Gantala's effect, I'm allowed to special summon one Ice Barrier monster from my graveyard during my end phase and with only one to choose from, I'll go with my Samurai of the Ice Barrier." Akane ended her turn with that as her samurai reappeared on her field next to her generals in attack mode.
Elanor just sighed at that. "You know something, Akane." She began drawing her next card. "I thought you would be a little bit more of a challenge and this is coming from a girl who got beat by a Slifer Red. But I guess I'll have to end this right now."
"Okay now I know you're taking crazy." Akane replied. "I mean, I still got full life points along with four monsters on my field and you just have one card in your hand and one card on your field. Unless whatever you draw can somehow change the course of this duel then I'm pretty sure I've won."
"I guess we'll see then since I play my Pot of Greed." Elanor revealed drawing two more cards before looking at them. "Checkmate,"
What?! There's no way she could have drew something that can insure her victory just like that?! Akane thought in shock but she refused to let it show on her face.
Elanor started things off by pointing to the only card she had on the field for this whole duel so far. "Since my Machine Assembly Line has eight Junk Counters on it, I can send it to the graveyard and special summon a machine type monster from my graveyard whose level is equal to or less than the number of counters. I choose my level eight Gadget Machine King." She decided and just like that, her assembly line started to create something from space junk parts and when it was done, the whole machine broke down and destroyed itself but appearing from the inside was Elanor's monster (Atk: 2700-3000 Def: 2000).
"I'll be lying if I said I was glad to see that thing again." Akane said hating the fact that thing was just a little bit stronger then all of her monsters now.
"He's not the thing that you should be worrying about." Elanor started as she looked at the cards she held in her hand. I guess I should thank you for this one, Syrus Truesdale. She thought before she held up her next card. "Now, feast you're eyes on this, Power Bond!"
"Power Bond?!" Akane gasped as soon as she heard the name of the powerful machine type fusion card. "No way! You're going to fuse something with your Gadget Machine King?!"
"Not exactly," Elanor admitted. "I have no other monsters in my hand to fuse with G.M.K."
"Then you shouldn't even be able to play Power Bond then!"
"Oh yes I can since I'm playing the quick play spell, Cybernetic Fusion Support!" Elanor held up the final card in her hand. "This handy little card works like this. First, I pay half my life points…"
(Akane: 4000 Elanor: 194)
"Now I can summon a machine type fusion monster by banishing monsters from my field, hand, deck, and/or graveyard!" Elanor continued as she took two cards out of her deck and one from her graveyard. "I remove from play my Ancient Gear Golem, Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Chimera, and Edd the Green Gadget to summon out my all powerful beast, Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Goliath!"
This is not happening. Akane thought watching, from the magic of Power Bond and Cybernetic Fusion Support, Elanor's three monster fuse together to create a beast that could only be describe as a titan in size.
Her monster looked like Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem, but it only had two legs and was way bigger. The thing's head hit the celling of the room as soon as it was summoned. It had a crown-shaped decoration on its helmet, two symmetrical arms, dwarfs Ancient Gear Golem at three times that card's size and had steam hissing from the cracks and exposed holes in its armor and had a green core in its chest as well as its only eye. The thing also had four turrets sprouting out of his chest similar in design to the Ancient Gear Cannon's turret (Atk: 4000 Def: 4000).
And thanks to Power Bond's effect, its attack points were double as well. All in all, it looked like it could give Zane's Cyber End Dragon a run for its money (Atk: 4000-8000 Def: 4000)
"Holy Ra," Akane mumbled before she covered her ears as the new fusion monster let out a terrifying roar, shaking the whole area.
"Atlas, calm down." Elanor ordered her beast. Goliath, or Atlas as Elanor named, lowered his head to look down at his master before he staring making rawr noises. "Yeah I know, I could have won this without summoning you but the last time I got to cocky, I ended up getting beat by a Slifer Red." Atlas let out a few more rawr sounds. "No, you can't have him for dinner." Elanor told her monster with a sigh. Sometimes she hated it when Atlas got over protective like this. She also hated it when he tried to eat people who he saw as a threat to her.
"This girl's nuts." Akane mused to herself when Elanor pretty much started talking to herself. Sure, Akane wasn't a mean person by choice but after all the tricks that Elanor pulled on her during this duel, Akane was starting to get ticked off, big time. Uh course, that annoyance quickly disappeared when Elanor turned her full attention back onto her.
"Gadget Machine King, attack her Samurai of the Ice Barrier!" Elanor commanded her least powerful monster. G.M.K nodded as he charged at Akane's weakest monster and destroyed it with his scepter.
(Akane: 2900 Elanor: 194)
"Crap, this is bad." Akane grumbled before she looked up at Elanor's titan who was staring down at her, hungry. "Really bad,"
Elanor sighed at that as she lowered her duel disk. "I have no reason to continue this pointless match." She started as she turned off her duel disk, shutting off the duel.
"Wait what?!" Akane questioned, watching as all the monsters disappeared; Atlas looking disappointed as he left. "Hey! What do you think you're doing?! You can't just leave a duel unfinished!"
"I can and I just did." Elanor replied before she turned her gaze onto Akane, looking her straight in the eye. "Atlas would have destroyed you if I had ordered him to attack. Be lucky I'm in a good mood today."
"What's that supposed to mean?!" Akane couldn't believe what she was hearing at the moment. Heck, she knew she was going to lose as soon as she saw Goliath appear on the field with 8000 Atk points but not even ordering him to attack and just quitting the duel like that made Akane outraged. Doing something like this showed no respect to your opponent during a duel. Though, the thing that made Akane the angriest about all of this was that Crowler wasn't doing anything about it. He just cheered for his niece like she truly claimed victory. Same went for the other students that were in his class.
Now Akane knew how Chazz felt when he ran out of class early.
…
"I don't think I have ever had such a good time painting." Jaden commented as he was chowing down on some food from the Ra Yellow's cafeteria. "Hey, you're alright Bastion." He told the Ra who was fixing himself a small plate of food unlike Jaden and Syrus who were both eating anything they could get their hands on.
"Yeah and so is Ra Yellow's food." Syrus agreed.
"Oh, you flatter us." Bastion replied as he came over to sit across from the two reds at the lunch table. He had gotta himself a lobster dinner. "But I'm sure it's not all that much better than Slifer."
Jaden and Syrus's eyes bugged out when they saw the lobster. "Trust me; the closest we have ever gotten to lobster is our dorm cat's breath." Jaden reassured.
"Speaking of cat breath…" Syrus looked up from the lobster and over to Bastion. "What were you talking with Crowler about back at the game?"
"Actually, he wants me to test to be an Obelisk." Bastion answered.
"Are you serious?" Jaden asked surprised. "Is that why you were clearing your room? Because you were switching dorms?" Jaden smiled as he added. "You deserve it; congratulations Bastion."
"Again, you flatter me." Bastion said trying his best to endure the praise he was getting from this.
"Hey, I saw you duel at the entrance exam and you kicked that Duel Proctor's butt! Sure, I don't like how you gave up your own monster to do so but still! You're totally going to pass Crowler's test and become an Obelisk Blue for sure, pal." Jaden added. "And we can say we knew you when."
"Well thank you;"
"You're welcome…now if you excuse me…" Jaden and Syrus started digging into their meals again while Bastion watched them with a sad smile.
….
Sometime later at night, in the Obelisk Blue dorm, Chazz was in his room, sitting in his chair, talking to two people he would rather not be speaking to let alone be related to. He was speaking to his older brothers, Slade and Jagger, on a video screen communicator that was on his flat screen TV. The two older brothers looked just like Chazz. They both had black hair and grey eyes but Slade had a goatee while Jagger didn't. Both males were dressed in black business suits.
"Got it, Chazz?" Slade asked.
"Yeah," Chazz mumbled.
"I can't hear you." Jagger pried.
"I said yes, I understand." Chazz mentally rolled his eyes. What he would give at times to be the oldest so he didn't have to deal with this. He would also give up half of his money at the moment just to find the person that called his brothers to tell them that his position among the elite was in jeopardy and kick their butt into next year.
"Well you have better." Slade threatened him. "The Princeton Brothers have a plan. Your brother and I are already following through with our ends of it."
"And you had better be following through with your end, Chazz." Jagger added. "Come on, just think of it, little bro. The world of politics, finance, and Duel Monsters! If we can control them all, then we will control the world! So be the best!"
"The future of the Princeton family relies on you, Chazz, don't mess this up." Slade said before he ended the conversation.
Chazz just sat there for a few seconds as he took this all in. Be the best? How can I be the best? He sigh a little as he got up and walked over to the window. When there are lucky punks like those guys out there? He thought when he saw Jaden and Syrus in the distance. Chazz might have his pride and ego but even he could tell when someone was a good duelist even when he didn't want to believe it.
Wait…what is this? He wondered when he noticed Bastion walking up to the boys before they all took down the path that led to the Slifer Red dorm. So Bastion is heading on over to the Slifer dorm for the night? Then his dorm room will be all empty. Chazz gasped when he thought of something that maybe could save him from the wrath of his brothers but it wasn't a good one for Bastion.
….
"Syrus?"
"Yeah Chumley?"
"Would you please tell me what a Ra Yellow is doing here?!"
Syrus looked down below his bunk to where Jaden and Bastion were sleeping or should I say snoring like crazy. "He just had his room painted so we're letting him crash here for the night." Syrus explained.
"But what if he wakes up and starts to make fun of us…or worse….duel us…" Chumley asked cautioned. "Ra Yellows can't be trusted…"
"Relax Chumley, he's cool. I mean, he let us eat at the Ra Meal Hall." Syrus told him.
"Oh…he can have my bed then."
….
Meanwhile in the Obelisk Blue Girls' dorm, Akane was lying on her bed, reading her Star Wars book or was trying to anyway. Her mind kept on traveling back to her match with Elanor and how she left before the duel was finished. Akane got a bitter look on her face as she tried to push that memory to the side so she could enjoy her book to the fullest but it just continue to come right back like a bad cold.
"Okay, keep continuing to annoy me, mind." Akane mumbled sarcastically to herself, throwing her legs over the side of her bed, and placing her book on her nightstand. Akane sighed as she rubbed her forehead temples.
What happened today? She wondered. Elanor was able to counter all my moves like she knew what I was planning before I did. Did Crowler give his niece a 411 on my dueling style of something here? Akane bet a lot of money on that one.
Akane then glanced over at her dressed in the counter. She slowly got up from her bed and walked over to it. "Well I guess I have to try something new then if we're ever going to have a rematch."
Standing right in front of her dresser, Akane opened up one of the doors and inside it were four cards in glass cases. One of them looked to be a white tiger while the other three were dragons made out of ice.
….
"Not to be rude, Elanor, but I don't think you should count your match early as a victory."
Elanor glanced over from her computer screen to where Red Gadget was standing on her desk. "And why not, Edward? I still would have beaten her if I let Atlas attack." She pointed out, turning her attention back to her screen where she was currently adding Akane to her 'People she has defeat' folder. Elanor took out a calculator. "Now let's see; this would make my 24 win this week…and divide that by pie…"
"Pie?!" Edd, the Greed Gadget exclaimed, appearing on top of Elanor's computer. "I want pie!"
"Sorry buddy, I was talking about the other type of pie." Elanor told her other gadget.
"Can I have that pie too?!" Edd asked, causing Elanor to laugh a little.
"Look Elanor, I'm serious. It just doesn't feel right to say you won something even if you didn't." Edward tried to convince her even though it was having little to no effect.
"Oh lightn up, Double D;" Yellow Gadget, Eddie, said appearing next to his red colored brother. "Stop being such a buzz killer and let Elanor enjoy her victory."
"Thank you, Eddie."
"Oh and you still owe me a ton of quarters too."
Elanor rolled her eyes at that as Atlas started rawring to her in her head. "Yeah, our family is weird." She admitted with a sigh but with a smile too.
…..
"Hey thanks again for helping me with my science project, Haou." Masika said with a smile as she and the Gentle Darkness lord were walking down a path together. In Masika hands, she was carrying a display model of fusion summoning.
Haou just shrugged in response. "Well helping you gave me an excuse to skip gym class." He said before he glanced at her model.
Just by looking at it, you could tell that Masika put a lot of hard work into it. She had the Polymerization artwork for the background with three Blue-Eyes White Dragons toy figures close to it. Thought the thing that took the cake for it was the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon figure in the front that looked to be roaring as it appeared to have been fusion summoned.
"So why did you chose to do Fusion Summoning anyway?" Haou questioned raising an eyebrow. "You could have made a model to show how Spell Cards or Trap Cards work too you know?"
Masika felt her face heat up from the question. "Well….I…..I guess seeing you and Jaden use fusion summoning all the time kinda inspired me to do this…" She admitted.
Haou made no comment to that as he looked up at the moon. "Well I'm sure you're going to get an A for this." He said. "You worked very hard on it."
"We worked very hard on this." Masika corrected him, causing Haou to look back at her. "You helped me set this whole thing up. If anything, you should be the one to get the grade for this." She smiled.
"I'll just count it for extra credit." Haou replied making Masika giggle.
"Sure thing, Moody;" Masika said as they made it to the cross roads. "Well thanks again for all the help, Haou. See you tomorrow!" She smiled before she took off to the Obelisk dorm.
"Yeah bye;" Haou replied watching her leave before he turned around to head back to the Slifer dorm. But as soon as he turned, he was met with smirks from his fiendcasters.
"Oh this is too good." Shadow Sorcerer smirked making Haou narrow his eyes.
"What do you two want?" Haou growled walking right past them in annoyance. Seriously, he so far has went the whole day without having to deal with his two idiotic servants and just when he thought he was going to end this day off on a good note, they had to show up to make fun of his so called 'love life' with Masika….again.
"Oh nothing," Magician replied innocently before her smirk widen. "Haou and Masika sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"
"I just had to have the ability to see duel spirits. Couldn't just have the powers of darkness and that's all?!" Haou grumbled.
"Speaking of duel spirits, what would Lilith think if she saw you with another girl? A human in fact?" Shadow questioned and right there, Magician froze and freaked as Haou stopped suddenly in his tracks.
"Oh you're dead." Magician said plainly to her brother before she disappeared in a matter of seconds.
"What did you just say, Shadow?" Haou questioned as he turned around to face S.S. "You want to repeat that name to me again? Go ahead; I'm in the mood for murder."
"I see you haven't gotten over her." Shadow plainly stated, crossing his arms. "Is that why, my lord, you don't want to like this girl? Because if Lilith came back, she'll think you cheated on her?"
"Say her name one more time. I dare you." Haou challenged him. Oh boy, he was pissed. He was so angry that you could see his eyes glowing like crazy gold from behind his glasses now.
"I don't have to. I already made my point clear. Well have a good night, Supreme King." Shadow did a bow before he disappeared.
Haou growled as soon as Shadow was gone. "Now I remember why I threw him in pit in the first place." He growled with pure venom in his tone. "I should have added more fire to it. I could have burned that son of a bitch to death." An evil smirk formed on his face from the thought. "Oh that would have been enjoyable to watch."
Haou left after that, unaware that something had appeared when he got angry. Something that shared the same evil smirk that Haou had on his face.
…..
During the next morning, Chumley, Syrus, Bastion and Jaden were all woken by the slamming of their front door. "Jaden! Jaden! Wake up!"
"Why does this always happen to me in the morning?" Jaden groaned as he got up and opened the door but he was surprised to see it was Ms. Dorothy, the owner of the card shop. "What is it, Ms. Dorothy?" He asked.
"I was unloading some supplies from the docks when I saw them in the water…cards everywhere!" The four boys gasped at this before they immediately headed towards the docks.
Ms. Dorothy's claims were true since when the group of four got to the docks, they saw a bunch of cards were scattered among the water.
"That's Ring of Destruction." Jaden gasped.
"And Vorse Raider;" Syrus added in just as much shock.
"Bastion, these are all of your cards." Jaden identified barely able to get those words out of his mouth. Truth be told, he couldn't believe what he was seeing right now. As everyone knew already, to Jaden, cards were like family and seeing someone just take Bastion's cards and throw them into the water like that made him sick. If anyone did that to his E-HEROES then he would lose it. Heck, if anyone did that to Yubel, he would probably kill someone.
"Nice to know you would kill for me, Jaden." Yubel said in the far back of his mind.
"It's my own fault. This deck was in the desk I moved out to the hallway while we were painting yesterday." Bastion explained.
"Who would want to do something like this?" Syrus wondered out loud.
"Someone who doesn't want Bastion to be promoted to Obelisk Blue, that's who." Jaden answered as he looked over at Bastion. "I mean, this was your deck and now it's totally ruined! Oh man, what are you going to do now, Bastion? Your promotion exam is in less than an hour!"
Bastion just glanced at the river as he picked up one of his now ruined cards. "Leave it to me;" He answered.
…..
Bastion, who was accompanied by Jaden and Syrus, came into the dueling arena where they find Crowler and Chazz waiting.
"Oh Bastion, you made it." Crowler greeted the Ra but he soon frowned when he noticed the Slifers were with him. "And I see you brought some friends."
"I hope you duel better than the company you keep." Chazz said with a smirk.
"Wait a second; Chazz is your test opponent?" Jaden looked over at Bastion. "I'm not one for the blame game but he must have been the person that threw your cards into the ocean!"
"I knew I smelled a rat." Yubel agreed. "I just didn't think it was going to be a giant rat."
"Pardon?" Crowler asked confused.
"I don't know what he's talking about, Dr. Crowler. I didn't do a thing." Chazz objected making Jaden narrow his eyes at him.
"Oh is that so?" Everyone turned at that to find Alexis and Zane standing there. "I saw you, Chazz, by the water. You dumped them in and ran off. Normally, I don't snitch but you don't mess with someone's deck." Alexis crossed her arms over her chest after that. "Just when I thought you couldn't get any lower."
"Yeah, cards are family, Chazz. You can't just go around and drown family like that. Like Alexis said, that's low even for you." Jaden agreed glaring at the Obelisk.
"Oh come on, who was it to say that I wasn't throwing away my own cards? I guess Bastion and I just have similar decks that's all." Chazz defended himself.
"Yes because any sane person would give rid of their own cards by throwing them into the freaking ocean!" Jaden blinked after he said that. Wow, I make actual sense when I'm angry. He thought before he continued. "You're just lying through your teeth now, Chazz."
"No one calls me a liar and nobody calls me a thief!" Chazz exclaimed.
"Fine then, you're not. Let's just have our duel then, shall we?" Bastion asked.
"But how? Bastion, your deck is ruined!" Jaden pointed out.
"A good duelist always has a space deck on hand…or a few." Bastion unzipped his yellow jacket. "You guys saw all my different formulas. Well…" He spread his jacket to reveal a vest with six card pouches on it. "They were all for my different dueling decks! And each one of them is as powerful as the last!"
Chazz flinched at that since his plan was just ruined. "Yeah well, you can keep your six worthless decks. Because all I need…" He took out his own deck and held it out to show them. "…is this one right here! Now let's start this!"
"I thought you would never ask." Bastion took out a deck that was in a pocket with the mark of water on it and inserted it into his Duel Disk before he activated it. "You're just a problem needed to be solved, Chazz, a theorem needed to be cracked!"
"Just bring it, you worthless loser."
(Chazz: 4000 Bastion: 4000)
"I hope you're ready, Bastion, because here comes the hurt!" Chazz drew as he started things off. "I'll summon Chthonian Soldier in attack mode!" The dark armored hell warrior appeared on the field (Atk: 1200 Def: 1400). "And a card facedown, that'll do it for now."
"Oh will it now?" Bastion questioned.
"Sounds like Bastion got something up his sleeve." Jaden commented.
"He works quickly." Alexis added a bit impressed.
"I summon Hydrogeddon in attack mode! Rise Hydrogeddon!" Bastion exclaimed as a geyser of muddy water appeared before it took the form of a dinosaur (Atk: 1600 Def: 1000). "Now attack Chthonian Soldier with Hydro Gust attack! Destroy it!" Bastion commented. His monster let out a blast of muddy water that shot forward and slammed into the soldier of the underworld, shattering him to pieces.
"Thanks, you just activated my Chthonian Soldier's special ability! It causes you to take the same amount of damage to your life points as I did." Chazz explained.
(Chazz: 3600 Bastion: 3600)
"Not bad," Zane commented.
"Bastion sure walked right into that one." Jaden added.
"No, he just cleared his path." Yubel corrected him, confusing Jaden until he saw Bastion continue his move.
"I activate a special ability also. You see, Chazz, when Hydrogeddon successfully destroys a monster in battle, I'm allowed to summon another Hydrogeddon from my deck." Bastion explained as he took out his deck to grab another Hydrogeddon card. "So rise, Hydrogeddon!" A twin of his first monster appeared on the field.
"And my battle phase continues which means that now I can wage a direct attack on you, Chazz! Go Hydrogeddon! Hydro Gust Attack!" Bastion ordered.
Chazz freaked as he was knocked to the ground by the blast of water from the second monster.
(Chazz: 2000 Bastion: 3600)
"Oh this is Karma at its finest." Yubel said with a smirk.
'Oh big time;' Jaden agreed trying his best not to grin. 'This is why you don't drown duel spirits. They come back to bite you in the butt.'
"You'll pay for that." Chazz growled angrily as he got back on his feet. "I activate my trap, Call of the Haunted!" His facedown rose up. "This lets me summon a monster back from my graveyard and the monster I choose is, that's right, Chthonian Soldier!" In a burst of purple electricity, Chthonian Soldier reappeared.
"Next I'll play Infernal Reckless Summon! Now we must summon in attack mode all monsters from our hand, deck, or graveyard that matches the monsters we currently have on the field." Two more Chthonian Soldiers appeared on Chazz's field while Bastion summoned another Hydrogeddon.
"It doesn't matter how many of those things Chazz summons. They still won't have enough attack points to beat those Hydrogeddons." Alexis stated.
"Not by themselves, they won't." Zane said.
Chazz took another card from his hand. "I activate the equip spell, Chthonian Alliance. The monster this card is equipped to gains 800 ATK points for every monster on the field with the same name as it."
One of the Chthonian Soldiers was surrounded by a dark aura and grew until it was tripled in its normal size (Atk: 1200-3600 Def: 1400).
"That brings its attack points up too….well you're the math nerd, you figure it out." Chazz said as his now powered up Chthonian Soldier slashed through one of the Hydrogeddons, taking away half of Bastion's life points.
(Chazz: 2000 Bastion: 1600)
"Bastion's life points have gone down by more than half!" Syrus gasped. "He's losing the duel!"
"Bravo, good show." Bastion said drawing his next card. "But it will be short-lived. Rise Oxygeddon!" A pteranodon made out of green air appeared from a geyser of oxygen (Atk: 1800 Def: 800). "Now attack one of the 1200 point Chthonian Soldier with Vapor Stream!" Oxygeddon unleashed a blast of clear air that slammed into the Chthonian Soldier, shattering it while powering down the stronger one (Atk: 3600-2800 Def: 1400).
"Forgot? When my Soldier's destroyed, you take the same amount of damage as I do." Chazz pointed out with a scoff.
(Chazz: 1400 Bastion: 1000)
"My turn's not done yet. Next, my Hydrogeddon will attack your other Chthonian Soldier." Bastion continued as one of his Hydrogeddons destroyed Chazz's other under power warrior, causing both plays to take the same amount of damage but also lowering the final ones attack points once more (Atk: 2800-2000 Def: 1400).
(Chazz: 1000 Bastion: 600)
"Oh man, why does Bastion keep attacking when he's hurting himself more then he's hurting Chazz?" Syrus protested when he compared their life points.
"Don't worry, Sy, he's fine." Jaden assured him.
"He's playing it smart." Zane added. "The Chthonian Soldier with the equip spell had 3600 ATK points. Bastion would've had to summon an incredibly powerful monster to beat him. Unless, however…" He stopped there, waiting for his little brother to figure out the rest for himself.
"Wait, I see, unless he takes out the other Chthonian Soldiers and lowers the big one's ATK points." Syrus realized.
"Right Sy," Jaden agreed. "So if Bastion going to take that thing down, he's going to have to give up some Life Points."
"At least he's not giving up monsters this time, huh?" Yubel said.
"Last, I'll play this card facedown and that'll do for now." Bastion finished as a face down appeared on his field.
"Will it? I wouldn't be so sure, Wiz Kid." Chazz taunted as he drew. "I sacrifice my Chthonian Soldier in order to summon out this bad boy, Chthonian Emperor Dragon! Bet you didn't see that coming." He laughed.
"Chthonian Emperor Dragon?!"
Chthonian Soldier disappeared from the field for it to be replaced by a green serpent like dragon wearing the same type of armor it did (Atk: 2400 Def: 1500).
"Better break out your calculator because if you can't figure out a way to beat this guy, you're toast." Chazz said before he laughed. "Face it, Bastion; you have no chance against my Chthonian Emperor Dragon! Especially since I'm going to equip him with Axe of Despise to raise his ATK points by 1000!" An axe appeared in front of the dragon. C.E.D wrapped his tail around it, as if to be holding it (Atk: 2400-3400 Def: 1500).
"That thing has 3400 ATK points?!" Jaden spoke. "No matter which monster gets attacked, Bastion finished!"
"Chthonian Emperor Dragon, attack with Infernal Chthonian Blast!" Chazz ordered his dragon who opened his month to let loose a powerful flamethrower attack that was aiming for Oxygeddon.
"I activate my trap, Amorphic Barrier!" Bastion countered as a wall of ice rose around his monsters to protect them. "When I have three or more monsters, this trap card stops my opponent's attack and ends the battle phase. But nice try Chazz."
"That was to close." Syrus breathed.
"Who cares? One turn, that's all it buys you and then you'll be all mine." Chazz replied.
"I'm afraid there won't be a next turn." Bastion declared as he drew his card from his deck.
"What?"
"You heard me. I activate the spell card, Bonding H20. I sacrifice two Hydrogeddons and one Oxygeddon and summon Water Dragon!" The three monsters on Bastion's field combined together and they formed into a serpentine dragon made up of water (Atk: 2800 Def: 2600).
"Oh a giant science project; I'm shaking." Chazz laughed. "All of that work just to summon a monster that's weaker than mine!"
"You better double check you work, Chazz." Bastion warned him. "Because I've already done all the math!"
"Done all the math?" Crowler questioned. "Does that mean…?"
"Bastion had this planned from the very start?!" Jaden asked shocked.
"Wow he's good." Yubel admitted.
Water Dragon created a large tidal wave that washed over Chthonian Emperor Dragon and took away all of its power (Atk: 3400-0 Def: 1500).
"No, it's ATK points!" Chazz cried.
"Indeed. That's Water Dragon's special ability. You see, when he's out on the field, the ATK points of fire attribute and pyro type monsters automatically become zero." Bastion explained. "Now Water Dragon attack! Tidal Blast!"
Water Dragon roared before unleashing a high powered hydro blast of water that slammed into Chthonian Emperor Dragon, destroying it, knocking Chazz off the duel field, and filling the whole arena with water.
(Chazz: 0 Bastion: 600)
'Karma' Jaden thought.
"Irony," Yubel said at the same time.
"A well-played duel, Chazz." Bastion said as Chazz surfaced and the water receded. "But not well enough."
"Pure luck," Chazz snared. "You drew a lucky card and stumbled into the win!"
"Perhaps but luck tends to favor the prepared; and I was prepared to defeat you with a half of a dozen other cards as well." Chazz was about to say something to that but Bastion cut him off. "Sorry, but you would have lost the duel one way or another; but deny it if you want just like how you denied throwing my deck into the ocean."
"Yeah prove it." Chazz challenged.
Bastion took out a card and showed it to him. "This was a card that I fished out of the water this morning that has a formula I wrote on it. I suppose you could've written it but then the math would've been wrong and it's not." He sighed. "Chazz, you stole, cheated, lied, and you lost. You deserved to be demoted."
Chazz looked at the ground before he screamed in fury. "This can't be!"
"Bastion Misawa," Dr. Crowler walked up to him. "Congratulations and welcome to Obelisk Blue."
"No, I can't accept that invitation."
"What?! But why?"
"When I first entered the school, I made a promise to myself that I would only enter Obelisk Blue when I became the number one student in the freshman class." Bastion then turned to look at Jaden. "Jaden, out of all the freshman students, I think the number one student is you or your brother. Though it's a shame that I couldn't tell Haou that in person."
"Really?" Jaden smirked at that. "Does that mean you want to settle this right here right now because watching you duel like that has really fired me up! Oh and don't worry, I'll pass the message to him."
"Sorry, but not now."
Jaden blinked at that. "Uh why not?"
"Because I have a lot of work to do before I can duel either one of you two, many formulas to write, theorems to solve, equations to bounce. You're a good duelist, Jaden, and so is Haou, and I plan to be ready." Bastion explained.
"Smart move," Jaden grinned.
"He didn't have to prepare for me." Chazz growled at that. "What the heck?!"
"Don't worry, Jaden, soon my dorm room walls will be filled with new problems and formulas and we will have our duel. Just be prepared for it to turn out like that baseball game, you know, the one where I struck you out."
Jaden smirked. "You keep on dreaming, Bastion. Baseball's a past time but dueling's my life. Until then, pal."
"Until then."
Scarp-Iron Safely-Trap Card-When this card is in you're graveyard and you would take battle damage from an attack, you can remove this card from play and for the rest of the turn, pay half of your life points to negate your opponents attacks. Picture: A shield made out of scraps, protecting a person from an explosion.
sUbSoNiCSoundwave's cards (Another one for Elanor's deck):
Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Goliath
ATK: 4000 Def: 4000
Attribute: Earth
Type: Machine/Fusion/Effect
Level: 12
Fusion Material Monsters: "Ancient Gear Golem" + "1 Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Monster" + "1 level 4 Gadget Monster".
Effect: This card cannot be special summoned except by fusion summon. If this card attacks, your opponent cannot activate Spell or Trap Cards until the end of the Damage Step. This card cannot attack your opponent directly. This card gains these corresponding effects if you fusion summon this card with these monsters as fusion materials.
Green Gadget: If this card destroys a monster as a result of battle and sends it to the graveyard; inflict damage to your opponent equal to its original attack or defense points. Which ever is higher.
Red Gadget: If this card attacks an opponents monster in defense position whose defense points are lower than this card's attack points, inflict the difference as battle damage.
Yellow Gadget: Your opponent cannot select any other monster except this card as an attack target.
Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Dragon: Once per turn you can banish one Ancient Gear monster from your graveyard. Destroy one card on the field. Your opponent cannot activate any effects in response to this card's activation.
Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Chimera: Increase the attack points of all other machine-type monsters on the field by 100 points for every machine-type monster in each player's graveyard.
Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Paladin: This card cannot be targeted and is unaffected by the effects of spell cards.
Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Comanndo: THis card cannot be targeted and is unaffected by the effects of trap cards.
Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Centuar: This card cannot be targeted and is unaffected by the effects of monster cards.
Picture: Looks like Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem, but only has two legs and is bigger - as tall as an Earthbound Immortal! It has a crown-shaped decoration on its helmet, has two symmetrical arms, dwarfs Ancient Gear Golem at three times that card's size and has steam hissing from the cracks and exposed holes in its armor and has a core in its chest that changes color between green, red and yellow as well as its only eye - depending on what Gadget Monster used to summon him. And has four turrets sprouting out of his chest similar in design to the Ancient Gear Cannon's turret.
Well guys, as I said, I've made a list of my top ten moments of GX and here it is!
(Also keep in mind that these might change in the future but at the moment, these are my favorite)
10. Episode 155: Jaden and Yubel soul fuse-Kinda surprise on how this moment just made it to number ten but I guess it couldn't top my other 9 picks. Anyway, if you know me, my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh GX shipping is Soulshipping. I just love this pair so much because of their history together and all that happens to them. I mean, I can understand why Yubel kinda when insane during season 3 and not just because of the whole L.O.D thing. Heck, if Jaden sent me into space or anyone of my close friends, I would be pretty pissed too. But during the end of this duel, when Yubel showed him their past and then Jaden playing Super Polymerization to fuse their very souls together so they would never be apart again, I freaked out and fangirled. I guess the only reason why this is so low on my list is because this is how they ended the series for the dub. It looked like Jaden freaking died! *sighs*
9. Episode 161-162: Jaden/Alexis Tag Dueling-Season 4 did freaking wonders for Jaden and we all know that. He become a total badass on some many levels. And he actually grew a brain too! Now I'll say it, I'm not really that into Fianceshipping (gets shot down by all the Fianceshippers) but even I wanted to smack Jaden from time to time just because of how selfish he was kinda being and not really trusting Alexis even after all they been through. I guess this episode was mainly to show how much Jaden has changed. Still I just loved there duels together but mostly the end of there last one. Even I will admit that was cute and the only time I cheered for Fianceshipping (get shot again).
8. Episode 172: Jaden escapes a burning building-Now this episode was freaking awesome so it was really hard just to pick one moment from it but I think this one was the best. Jaden escaped a freaking burning building while he was high as heck! Tell me that isn't awesome! And don't even get me started on the spirirtshipping in this episode. Jaden, you wouldn't even have saved the world if it wasn't for Jesse at that moment.
7. Episode 175-176: Battle Royal! Jaden VS Jesse VS Fujiwara-Yeah this has to be my favorite moment from season 4 just because of all the freaking spirirtshipping in it! I mean, Jaden and Jesse had remember all there great times together which made Fujiwara sick so he decided to turn them against each other (you son of a bitch for doing that, Fujiwara) and they even did fight against each other only to own Fujiwara from there tag dueling. And don't even get me started on how Jesse lost the duel just so Jaden could summon Rainbow Neos! *crys in corner* And he does this twice in the whole series! Not once but twice!
6. Episode 111: Chazz losing it-I don't know how this moment made it up so high but god, I found it funny as heck. Chazz having his little jealous fit over Adrian led to a really funny moment in the english dub and a really great duel too. Chazz, I love you so much and I will always will.
5. Episode 106: Jaden and Jesse Meet-Do I even need to explain this one? This moment has created the second best GX shipping in the world (still love Soulshipping a bit more but a really super close second) and this couldn't have been done better.
4. Episode 130: Jesse gives himself up to return everyone home-Jesse why?! *crys to death* why writters?! Why did you have to do that to us?! Yes he come back and it was totally worth the pain that you caused all of us spiritshippers but still why?! And if it wasn't bad enough for us fangirls, look at what you did to Jaden! You break his heart and made him think it was all his fault. (Sorry had to say it) Still, I loved this moment even if it makes me cry and hate the writers every time I watch it.
3. Episode 147-148: Jehu Appears and Zane final duel-Okay this is what we need more of in Yu-Gi-Oh. A freaking hot badass insane characters and duels like these. Just when we think Zane is going to die from a heart attack, guess who decided to show up and be like "hey guys, I'm back!" and just when we thought Jesse couldn't be anymore awesome, they decided to have him dress in leather, have an awesome duel disk, and orange eyes. And the duel, Zane no! Jehu, I love you to death and I always will but you asshole! Well at least Zane got what he wanted. To go out dueling...Zane why?!
2. Episode 149-150: Adrian and Jehu Duel-I love this duel so freaking much! Just when we thought Jehu couldn't be even more of a dick even if he tried, he goes full out and continues to remind Adrian on how he pretty much murder Echo for power. Plus the duel was just awesome in itself, it was going back and forth and Jehu only won if it wasn't for Yubel (good thing it doesn't have the TCG effect or he would have been screwed) but yeah, this is why Jehu is awesome and I would have loved to sit next to him on that throne so much.
1. Episode 136: Haou Awaken-This here was no question what so ever. This moment right here had to be the biggest plot twist ever! When we first heard of the Supreme King, we were all like, "oh great, it's another power hungry bad guy king". No, it freaking turns out to be Jaden F-ing Yuki! As soon as Jaden's eyes turned gold from rage when his friends were killed, S*** got real. Seriously, who would have guess, Jaden Yuki, the sweetest guy ever in GX, turns out to be the freaking king of darkness! And this is why this moment will always be my favorite from GX just because no one saw it coming. Heck if anyone saw this coming, please let me know and tell me what made you guess it.
Well everyone, that's my list and like I said, send me a PM or post a review about your favorite moments in GX! This is Darky signing off!