I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh GX!
Hey everyone! I got chapter 18 done just before January ends! (or at least for where I live anyway)
Haou: *roll eyes* Good for you. Like anyone cares.
Jaden: Haou, I don't think you have noticed by Darky has almost 130 favs and follows for this story. So I think people do care.
Haou: *pulls out laptop and raises an eyebrow* I'm not even going to ask how that happened.
Well since you have the laptop, Haou, you're reading the responses from the last question this time.
Haou: *looks at me like I'm crazy* No.
To bad, you wanted some more scene time so I'm letting you have some more in this chapter so the least you can do is read the replies this time around.
Haou: *sighs* Fine whatever *pulls up the reviews* So the last question was asking "What are you're top three GX shippings?" and you people answered with Soulshipping: 2, Spiritshipping: 5, Fianceshipping: 3, Rivalshipping: 1, and...*groans* Darkspiritshipping: 4, and Selfshipping: 2. Seriously people?! It's bad enough being paired with that...thing...but Jaden? Really?
Jaden: Well for the record, Haou, you did seem kinda possessive over me in the anime.
Haou: *points a finger at him* Jaden, you're not helping.
*laughs* Oh brotherly love.
Haou: *glares at me* Don't you start now!
*Rolls eyes* Fine you're highness.
So guys, here' the big Yugi's deck duel and I hope I did it justice. As for who's dueling against Dimitri, I think the title gives it away. Sorry for the people that wanted Jaden and Haou to both duel Dimtri but I just don't see how it could have happened. Some of you suggested that Dimitri should had a twin and they would use Yugi's and Yami's decks but I don't see how that would work and then some other people suggested that Kaiba should have his deck on tour as well but do you seriously believe that Kaiba would give up his deck? So yeah, sorry to you guys who wanted them to both duel but I hope this duel will make up for it.
"So if I happened to summon Flame Wingman, what would you do?" Jaden asked glancing at his twin, who was walking down the highways of Duel Academy with him.
"Easy, I would summon Inferno Wing and equip her with Mist Body so she wouldn't be destroyed when she attacks." Haou answered quickly.
"Okay how about Thunder Giant?"
"Same thing with Lightning Golem."
"Rampart Blaster?"
"Infernal Sniper."
Jaden pointed a finger at him. "You know, I'm starting to think you have everything that can counter the Elemental HEROES."
Haou tried his hardest not to facepalm at that as he reply with, "Jaden, my deck is called Evil HEROES for a reason. They were created to counter yours."
"Oh yeah…" Jaden smiled sheepishly at that.
"To this day I wonder how you two are twins." Magician mused from behind them.
"I'm still wondering why Haou hasn't just killed him yet." Shadow mumbled under his breath.
"Hey! I'm standing right here!" Jaden retorted over his shoulder, glaring at the fiendcaster.
Said monster just smirked back. "And this is how much I care, Jaden."
Jaden just sighed. "Yubel, can you please smack him for me?"
"Gladly," The guardian replied as she appeared and did just that, smacking Shadow right across the forehead.
"Ow," Shadow rubbed his forehead before he smirked wolfishly at Yubel. "You know; if you wanted to hit on me, you could have just flirted, not actually hit me."
"Shadow, if you weren't a spirit, I would have slammed your face against a wall a million times by now." Yubel told him, ever word being brutally honest.
"I like to slam…" Shadow's sentence was cut off when Magician smacked him upside the head. "Ow, what the heck was that for?" He glared at his sister.
Magician smiled innocently. "Haou told me to start acting like a good older sister so I'm doing just that by stopping you from saying anything that comes from that messed up mind of yours."
"You're just using it as an excuse to hit me, aren't you?"
"That too."
Haou chuckled under his breath softly from hearing all of this. Just like the good old days. He thought glancing over his shoulder to his two fiendcaster fighting and Yubel, who looked to be deciding whether or not to stop them or watch them go at it. Haou then glanced over at his brother, who also looked to be deciding whether or not to stop these two from fighting. Just me, Jaden, Yubel, the two idiots, and….. Lilith, who isn't here. Haou sighed.
"Hey, what's going on?"
Jaden's question snapped Haou out of his thoughts as they rounded a corner to see a crowd of students were standing there in front of the card shack.
Jaden looked around, trying to see over people's heads to what they were waiting for or just watching. While doing so, the Slifer happened to noticed that Bastion was a part of the large crowd too so naturally, he walked over to his Ra Yellow friend, pulling Haou along with him, against his will may I add, and asked; "Hey Bastion! What's going on here? Is it eggwich day again so soon?"
Bastion looked over at him and Haou, who didn't look to please to be standing next to so many people, before shaking his head with a smile. "No Jaden, just some lunch-time tussle."
"A duel huh? Well who's throwing down?" Jaden looked to the left side of the field to see that one of them was a Ra Yellow student. He had spiky brown with a bit of red at the top and had two face downs in play.
"Well on the left is Dimitri." Bastion answered Jaden's question to who that Ra was.
"I never heard of him. And who's the other…" Jaden looked at who he was facing off against and was very surprised to see that it was- "Syrus?!"
The bluenette Slifer turned at the sound of his name and smiled a little when he saw Jaden. "Hey there, Jay,"
Currently, Syrus had a reddish-pink jet monster on his field that went under the name of Jetroid (Atk: 1200 Def: 1800).
"What's going on here, Syrus?" Jaden asked making his way to the front of the crowd, pulling his twin once again with him against his will, though, honestly, Haou wasn't doing much to fight back.
"A high-stakes duel," Syrus answered as he pointed at an assortment of posters on the wall above the card shop. "Check it out!"
Jaden did just that and was mind blown at all of the pictures of the greatest duelist of all time, Yugi Moto, the King of Games: the person Jaden hoped to become one day. Yeah kinda greedy of him since he was already one half of the Supreme King but one can't have enough titles.
Haou also gazed up at the posters and just narrowed his eyes. Oh great, not this joker. He thought in disgust.
"Yugi's deck is going on tour and its first stop is Duel Academy!" Syrus told him with a grin. "Isn't that just the coolest?!"
Jaden was still staring at the posters in pure awe as he replied, "Yeah it is! The original King of Games deck…to see with my very own eyes?!"
"Yeah, and if I win this, I'll get…." Syrus stopped when he noticed that Jaden had pretty much stopped listening and was just lost in the posters. Syrus walked over to him and waved his hands in front of his face. "Hello? Uh Jaden? Crap, I was afraid this was going to happen when I told him."
"Why? I don't see what's so special about this guy." Shadow scoffed, making Haou realize that his duel spirits were still here.
"Oh screw him. I don't see why everyone loves her so much." Magician said in disgust as she pointed at a poster of Yugi with the Dark Magician Girl. "Like what's so amazing about her?"
"Why do you ask? Are you jealous that everyone likes her more than you, sister dear?" Shadow asked her with a smirk.
Magician laughed at that. "Me? Jealous over that thing? Please, I know I'm better than her and way more fabulous."
Shadow rolled his eyes. "Yeah, you keep thinking that."
Haou rubbed his temples. "I'm surrounded by idiots."
Jaden slowly pushed Syrus's hands out of the way so he could still get a full view of the posters. "Yugi's deck, here! I can't believe it! It's a piece of history! All that it's been through! It's the deck he took to Duelist Kingdom where he beat Pegasus, the creator of Duel Monsters! This is also the same deck he used for Battle City where he used it to beat Seto Kaiba and Marik!"
Syrus raised an eyebrow at him.
"What? I might fall asleep in class but when it has to do with the King of Games, I'm always wide awake." Jaden stated.
"You say that like you're proud of it." Haou mumbled really softly so even Jaden, who had super hearing thanks to his powers and Yubel's, couldn't even hear it.
"True but you forgotten about the way he used those Egyptian God card!" Syrus reminded him. "Oh man, that was so amazing! Of course, the deck won't be going on tour with the Egyptian Gods, since that would end up with nothing besides chaos, but it will have all the other classics! I can't wait!" Syrus squealed in excitement like a crazy fan boy. "This is going to be the biggest thing ever! We gotta go…we have to go!"
"I'm with you, Syrus, but what are you doing standing around here dueling for? Let's go get tickets!"
"Jaden, that's why Syrus is dueling," Dorothy called from behind the counter. "Because there's only one ticket left and whoever wins gets it!" She took out the said ticket to show him. "Can you imagine a duel with a better prize then that?"
"Uh yeah," Jaden eyed Syrus. "One with two tickets…"
Haou glanced at his twin, wondering who he was referring to when he said two tickets.
"Two tickets? You wanna bring a third person, Jay?" Syrus reached into his pocket and pulled out a ticket. "I already have my ticket, see?"
Haou sighed softly. If it was because of disappointment or relief it was hard to tell.
Jaden's eyes widen at that as he grabbed his friend's shoulders. "You're dueling for me?"
Haou left at that with Magician and Shadow following close behind, both of them sharing confused looks while doing so.
"Uh course, Jaden; you're my best friend so when I heard you didn't get a ticket then I ran my butt down here to get you one." Syrus replied with a smile as he walked back to his original place on the field. "And I'm gonna win! Let's finish this!"
"You're a pal, Sy, good luck!" Jaden said smiling as he thought back to the times when he never thought he could have friends again after his and Haou's powers awoken.
"Isn't Syrus just the best, Haou? Uh Haou?" Jaden looked around for his twin but he looked to have disappeared. Jaden scratched the back of his head. "Where the heck did he go?"
"He left a few seconds ago, Jaden." Yubel answered with a sigh. "For what reason I don't know."
Jaden just raised an eyebrow at that but he chose not to questions it since this was Haou they were talking about here.
"My turn!" Dimitri drew his card and smirked as he played it. "I'll play Heavy Storm! This, young scholar, will destroy all the Magic and Trap cards on the field!"
Jaden blinked at his move and at his voice. It sounded too much like a teacher that wanted nothing more for him and Haou to get kicked off the island. "That sounds familiar," he commented.
"It should," Jaden jumped a little at Bastion's sudden appearance next to him. "That's the same move Dr. Crowler used on you."
"Oh yeah," Jaden turned back towards the duel. "What a weird coincidence."
Dimitri's two face downs were destroyed by the large gust of wind but what happened next was that two Wicked Tokens appeared on the field.
"Now, I'll sacrifice my two Wicked Tokens and summon forth, the legendary Ancient Gear Golem!"
Jaden just stared as the giant mechanical monster rose from the fog and appeared on the field (Atk: 3000 Def: 3000).
Talk about total déjà vu… He thought thinking back to his duel against Crowler.
"Attack with Mechanized Melee!" Dimitri ordered which then the giant machine monster pulled back its fist before it shot it forward towards Syrus's monster and his life points.
"Not so fast!" Syrus called out. "When my Jetroid is attack, his ability is activated: an ability that lets me play a trap from my hand like…" He held up the last card that was in his hand. "Magic Cylinder!"
A pair of red cylinders appeared between his monster and the giant of a golem. "This lets me take Mechanized Melee and throws it in reverse!"
Dimitri took a step back. "Time out!"
The Golem's attack entered one cylinder and seconds later, it shot through the other one at Dimitri, knocking down the last of his life points.
"Yeah, that's how you duel!" Syrus cheered raising his arm in victory.
"Sweet moves!" Jaden said running over to his friend. "You sent that Golem to the junkyard! Way to go!"
Syrus rubbed the back of his head. "It was easy, really. I've already seen you and Haou beat Dr. Crowler and since Dimitri copied his deck, I already knew exactly how to beat him." He laughed at that before he ran to the counter where Dorothy handed him the ticket. "I almost forgot." He held up the ticket as he walked back over to Jaden and handed it to him. "Here's your ticket, Jay."
"Sy, you're the best." Jaden replied smiling as he accepted it from him.
Dorothy rose from her stool. "Alright everyone, show's over. Time to get back to class!"
As the crowd of students was heading off, Dimitri had dropped down to his knees and was listening in to what some of the students thought about his match.
"Another stunning performance by Dimitri!"
"As a Ra Yellow, he should have destroyed that Slifer loser!"
"I guess copying a great duelist and being one are two totally different things."
"What a joke!"
"Really, it's a wonder why he's still here."
Soon, Bastion, Dimitri, Dorothy, and the counter girl, Sadie, were the only ones left in the room.
Bastion looked from side to side as the crowd got thinner and thinner before he looked at Dimitri, smiling as he said, "Well, I think that's about the worst of it."
"Sure, until the next time I lose!" Dimitri snapped his voice having turned back to his normal as he stood up from the ground. "Well I've had it!"
Bastion and the two woman watched as Dimitri took off running with an angry look on his face.
…
The rest of the day flew by pretty fast and soon it was night time.
In the Ra Yellow dorm, Dimitri was sitting alone at his desk that had countless books and notebooks on it. He was thinking out loud about all the duels he has had and how many time he lost them. He banged his fists on the desk.
"I don't get it! It doesn't make sense!" He growled as he started throwing his notes and texts off the desk in anger. "I watch, I study, and I still lose! Crowler's deck…it was as useless as all the rest of them! Kaiba's or Zane's…..it doesn't matter who I copy, I always lose! What is there left to do? After all, if copying the greatest duelists in the world won't help me win…what can?!"
Like some fairy god mother had just came down and granted his wish, a poster of the King of Games flew down from where it was hanging on the wall and landed right in front of him on his desk.
"Of course, it's so obvious! Becoming the greatest duelist…."
…
During the same time at the Slifer Red dorm, Jaden was sitting at his desk, staring at his cards that were laid out in front of him.
He was in such deep thought that he wasn't paying one bit of attention to what Syrus was telling Chumley about his win against Dimitri.
"And then I said, "No you don't, Dimitri, cause I'm putting your Mechanized Melee in reverse", like that but only cooler; right Jay?"
"I'm sorry what?" Jaden questioned.
"Jaden, you'll been staring at your cards all night." Syrus pointed out to him. "What's up?"
"Yugi's deck, I just can't get it out of my head." Jaden admitted lifting his head up slightly.
Chumley turned his head slightly to look at him. "Why?"
"Why?" Jaden turned around in his chair to look at him with a grin. "Why do you like grilled cheese?" He stood up from his seat. "Look, I can't wait another second to check out those legendary cards. So who's up for going to the exhibit with me right now?"
"You mean they're setting up?" Chumley sat up in his bunk. "That's a good idea and then we can avoid the rush."
Syrus frowned at this. "I went thought all that trouble to get you that ticket and you aren't even going to use it?"
"Syrus, we're be the first ones in the line tomorrow also!" Jaden said with a grin while Syrus just had an annoyed look on his face.
…
"Jealousy doesn't look good on you at all, Haou."
Haou, who been staring at the ceiling of his dorm room, glanced out of the corner of his eyes at Magician. "What are you mumbling over there?"
"Oh she's just going on about how Jaden doesn't need you anymore in his life and you're getting jealous about it." Shadow answered for her with a smirk and chuckle.
Haou narrowed his eyes at that, sitting up on his bed to fully glare at them. "I don't know what the hell you two idiots are talking about."
"Uh huh; sure you don't, Haou." Magician giggled.
Haou pointed a finger at her. "You have no right to call me jealous since you had a freaking panic jealousy attack moment when you saw the Dark Magician Girl on some of those posters." Haou turned his glare onto Shadow. "And do I even need to point out all of your problems, Shadow?"
"Probably not…" Shadow mumbled trailing off.
"Yeah, that's what I thought." Haou growled before he rubbed his forehead temples to calm himself down. "I need some fresh air."
Haou got up from his bed and opened the door to his dorm before stepping out. He leaned his forearms against the railing, staring up at the moon in the sky.
"I swear I was a dumbass kid for ever creating you two in the first place." Haou mused glancing over shoulder at the two fiendcasters.
"Love you too, you're highness." Magician rolled her eyes.
"Hey, you should be happy to have such loyal duel spirits, Haou." Shadow pointed out him, crossing his arms over his chest.
Haou raised an eyebrow at him while Magician looked at him like he crazy.
"You? Loyal?" Magician looked to be trying not to laugh now.
"I was just following our older sister's ideas, and you're one to talk." Shadow glared at her. "You sold me out."
"It's called loyalty. Ever heard of it?" Magician grinned when Shadow gave her the evil eye.
"Oh? You call yourself loyal?" Shadow smirked crookedly at her. "Where was you're loyalty when Haou almost got taken over by our younger brother?"
Magician froze at that. "How do you…?"
"How do I know about that?" Shadow laughed darkly. "Dear sister, I was still in that curse some pit when he found his opening. I was going to stop him but I was enjoying seeing you as a brainwashed reptile too much to do anything."
Magician growled at him, drawing her staff and pointing it at him. "I have half the nerve to blast you to…"
"He's gone." Shadow cut her off, waving her threats away. "Haou left while you were bitching at me."
"What?!" Magician spun around and true to his word, Haou was gone. Magician facepalmed herself for not paying attention to him before she glared at her younger brother.
"Shadow Sorcerer…"
"That's me." Shadow grinned with a bow. "Don't wear it out now."
…
Meanwhile, inside the exhibit hallway, two security guards had just finished setting things up and were checking in with Dr. Crowler, who was accompanied by his niece, Elanor.
"Alright, Mr. Crowler…."
"Dr. Crowler!"
Elanor shook her head with a silence sigh at her uncle.
"Dr. Crowler…" The guard corrected himself as he handed the doctor a key. "We finished setting up. Here's the key to the display case in the exhibit hall."
"Thanks again for letting us off early." The second one added. "We'll catch you here bright and early tomorrow for the big opening."
"Have a good one, Mister…uh Doctor…uh night sir…" The two guards just started to walk off.
Crowler waved bye to them. "Yes good night!" He called before he looked at the key with a giddy laugh. "Quite a good night, indeed."
Elanor looked up, way up, at her uncle. "Please tell me you didn't call me down here for something as trivial as this?"
"Oh my dear, Elanor," Crowler started as he went down the exhibit hallway, looking at the numerous posters of Yugi on the walls as he did so. "How many people do you know that can say they were in the presence of greatness of the world's most famous dueling deck?"
"Uh, everyone that's coming to see it tomorrow," Elanor sighed once more as she followed her uncle down the hallway, hating every second that Crowler was playing favorites again with her.
Crowler opened the door to the display case room and he and Elanor walked inside. In the middle of the room was the display case with a mini-pedestal inside of it. As he closed the doors behind them, Crowler got a better look at the case and he could see that something was wrong. The glass case had a giant jagged hole on one side with broken pieces of glass on the floor. As he walked closer to it, his eyes widen. The King of Games's deck was gone!
"It's….not there?!" Crowler screamed.
Elanor facepalmed and shook her head in disbelieve.
"Ha! I told you someone was going to steal it! You owe me five bucks, Double D." Yellow Gadget, Eddie, exclaimed appearing next to Elanor along with Edward, the Red Gadget.
"How can you be asking for money at a time like this?!" Edward questioned him in disbelieve. "Someone just stole the King of Games's deck!"
"Who cares about him? I want my money!"
Elanor facepalmed once more.
…
The two guards were making their way down the hallway, talking about Crowler.
"You know, I didn't know he was a doctor."
"Yeah well, I didn't even know he was a dude…"
While they were talking, the three Slifer boys sneaked around the corner and quietly ran through the hallway to get to the exhibit hall. As they were nearing it, the Slifers noticed someone else making their way towards them.
"Bastion?" Jaden asked raising an eyebrow when they saw their Yellow friend was here as well.
"Jaden?" Bastion questioned also before he just smiled and laughed a little. "Taking a glance at the deck I see?"
Jaden shrugged with a grin. "I guess great minds think alike."
A shrill shriek echoed down the hallway making all of them look towards the door at the end of the hall.
"Did you guys hear that?" Jaden asked.
"Sure did," Syrus spoke.
"Someone's in trouble," Chumley added.
"Let's go help her." Bastion urged since the voice sounded like a female. He took off down the hallway with the Slifers following closely behind him.
The group of four burst into the room to see Crowler jump at their entrance. The doctor was standing next to the display case where the deck was supposed to be. The problem was that the deck wasn't there and the glass case had a giant hole through it.
"Crowler?" Bastion questioned before he noticed the case.
"The display case!" Jaden gasped not believing his eyes.
"He stole Yugi's deck!" Chumley exclaimed.
"Why did you do it, Dr. Crowler?" Syrus asked with a frown.
"No wait…" Crowler started.
Jaden turned to Bastion. "Let's go get Chancellor Shepherd."
Everyone nodded in agreement but as they all turned to leave, everyone fell face first to the floor when Crowler tackled them to stop them from leaving.
"Hey, what the heck gives?!" Jaden stormed as he sat up.
"I know this looks bad but believe me, I didn't steal the deck!" Crowler stated which started to sound like he was begging them to believe him.
"Then who did?" Bastion questioned not really believing him.
"You were the only one here, Dr. Crowler." Chumley pointed out.
"Standing right next to the case which I may add is broken." Syrus added.
"Then search me if you don't believe me!" Crowler cried.
"You know, it could be because I don't wanna search him…" Jaden paused to look at Crowler straight in the eyes. "….But I think Dr. Crowler is telling the truth guys."
"Uh course he's telling the truth." Everyone looked over, surprised, to see that Crowler wasn't the only one here. Stepping out of the shadows of the room was Elanor, who had a pissed off look on her face for not being noticed. If it was because of her height again or being a wallflower she didn't know but it still made her mad.
"You idiots; if he wanted to steal the deck, he would have used the key he was given, not smash the darn thing." Elanor pointed out.
Bastion blinked at that, mentally smacking himself in the face for not have coming up with that. "She does have a point."
Jaden and the rest of the group stood back up. "So that means the real thief is still out there! Let's split up!" Everyone nodded.
Crowler nodded rapidly. "Yes, we must find this wrong-doer, this pillager! Of course, when I mean 'we' I mean 'you'."
Elanor shook her head at her uncle before she took off after the others, wanting to help get Yugi's deck back as well.
…
Out on the coast by the docks, Dimitri stood on a large outcropping of a rock in the moonlight. He was still in his Ra Yellow blazer but he was also wearing a green scarf now. He was currently just staring at the artwork of the cards he just stolen. "Finally, it's done! Now that I have the greatest deck in the world, I'll be the greatest duelist!"
"Hey!" Syrus came running over to him to stand a few feet away on top of a large rock. "Someone just stole Yugi's deck! Know anything?"
Dimitri turned around at that. "Stole? What do you mean?" He asked his voice much deeper than it was a few second ago. "This is my deck. If you don't believe me then why don't I just show you, right here right now?"
Syrus just stood there in shock as Dimitri tossed him a spare duel disk. Dimitri placed the stolen cards into his while Syrus placed the duel disk on and inserted his deck in. "Aw man,"
…
Meanwhile, Jaden, Bastion, Chumley, and Elanor had met up at the bridge that connected the island with the docks.
"The dorms are clear." Bastion reported.
"So are the classrooms." Chumley added while panting.
"Stuff rooms are a no go." Elanor stated.
Jaden just shook his head with a sigh. "Why would someone just steal Yugi's deck like that? I mean yeah, I get its world famous and all but you would think people these days wouldn't be as selfish as to do something this low. I just wished we could get a sign to tell us where to look."
Right after he said that, a yell from nearby made them turn towards the bridge.
Jaden laughed slightly at the dry humor of that. "Okay, I know that was Syrus but wow, great timing." He said before he and others took off.
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Watching from the shadows, Haou sighed as he witness Syrus getting owned by Dimitri, using Yugi's deck to do so. It only took Dimitri a few turns until he beat the Slifer, who was now lying on the rocks, defeated.
Now, I'm starting to be grateful that I ditch Magician and Shadow when they were fighting. Haou thought before he looked over at Dimitri when he let out a chuckle.
"Ah yes…it's good to be the King of Games." The Ra laughed loudly in his new deep voice.
Haou shook his head at this before he let out his own chuckle. Yeah, we're see about that .He thought before he made his presence known as he stepped out of the shadows.
Dimitri paused in his laugher when he heard someone start clapping. He looked over and there, leaning against one of the rocks, was Haou.
Haou stopped clapping when he got Dimitri's attention and looked him right in the eye, behind his sunglasses. "My, I'm impressed, or that's what I would say if I was anyway."
Dimitri narrowed his eyes at that. "Who are you to be talking to the King of Games like that?"
"The King of Darkness," Haou answered rather sharply as he made his way over to where Syrus was once standing. "And to put it in correct terms, who are you to be talking that way to me? I was the king around here long before your days as pharaoh." He added bitterly as he activated his duel disk.
Before Dimitri could say anything to that, Jaden and the others had appeared, running over to Syrus.
Jaden blinked in surprised when he saw his brother standing there but he would have to worry about his reasons for being here later as he knelt down beside his friend. "Syrus, what happened?"
"He…has it…" Syrus slowly sat up. He was acting to be out cold when Haou showed up, afraid that the older Yuki twin would turn his wrath on him. Though, he was wondering what the heck Haou was talking about when he called himself the 'King of Darkness' and all the others things he just said. "Yugi's dueling deck…and he beat me with it."
Jaden glared at Dimitri, standing straight back up. "Alright, you thief! You had your fun but now it's over! Hand over the deck right now, Dimitri!"
"Dimitri?" The Ra Yellow scoffed at that. "I'm afraid that you are mistaken. I'm Yugi, Dimitri's just some child who would study then copy some other person's deck. You'll see, with these cards, I'm not copying the King of Games. I truly am the King of Games! If you want this deck back, you'll have to prove that I'm not!"
"You really have gone off the deep in, huh?" Jaden asked with an eyebrow raised. "Still, I never back down from a challenge!"
Thought when he tried to move to stand up on the rocks, Haou pushed him straight back down onto the ground, hard.
"Ow, Haou, what the heck?!" Jaden questioned his twin.
"Stay out of this, Judai." Haou growled at him, causing Jaden to flinch back at his brother's tone. "This is between me and him."
Jaden's eyebrow shot up. "Wait, are you saying that you want to get Yugi's deck back yourself?"
"Get it back?" Haou chuckled darkly at that. "Screw getting the deck back. I just want to destroy it."
"Dimitri not the only one that's gone off the deep end," Elanor mumbled.
Jaden could only nod in agreement as he took a step back to stand with the others. He knew Haou well enough to know that when he gets like this, there was no stopping him unless they really had to.
"Don't worry, Jaden; at the first sight of Haou losing it then I'll pull the plug on this match." Yubel promised him.
Jaden just hoped they didn't have to do that. Losing Yugi's deck and having Haou go insane wasn't something that Jaden wanted to happen in a single day.
Dimitri just glanced over at Haou before smirking. "Very well then, let the Heart of the Cards be in your favor then."
Haou said nothing to that as Dimitri activated his own duel disk.
(Haou: 4000 Dimitri: 4000)
Haou started the duel off, drawing his sixth card before playing it. "I summon Evil HERO Infernal Gainer in attack mode and end my turn."
The demon fiend appeared on Haou's field (ATK: 1600 DEF: 0).
"That's all huh?" Dimitri questioned as he drew before he held up three cards. "I'll fuse Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts and Berfomet to create Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast!"
Two monsters appeared on his side of the field. The first was a lion like beast with a horn on its forehead and other one was a beast with four arms and two horns on either side of its head. They fuse together and what came out of it was a four legged creature with two heads, white wing on its back and a snake tail (Atk: 2100 Def: 1800).
"Uh oh, this isn't going to be pretty." Jaden commented while everyone else gasped.
Haou just stood there, looking deadly calm.
"Go attack with Pulverizing Pounce!" The fusion monster leapt forward and pounded on Infernal Gainer, shattering the fiend.
(Haou: 3500 Dimitri: 4000)
"I end my turn with that." Dimitri said.
"Syrus, you just dueled this guy. Got any advice on how to beat him?" Chumley asked Syrus from the sidelines.
"None, I tried everything that I could think of but nothing worked." Syrus answered.
Chumley gasped at that. "So what are you saying, Sy? That Haou doesn't stand a chance?"
"I'm saying against Yugi's deck, that's a possibly."
"It's more than that." Bastion put in. "Dimitri's a copycat duelist so in order to defeat him; you must exploit the weaknesses of the person he's copying; as you did when you defeated him, Syrus. You knew he was copying Crowler's deck and you knew what its weaknesses were. That's how you won. But the problem now is that he's copying Yugi: a duelist whose weaknesses are not so well known, that is if he has any at all. There's no set formula on how to beat the King of Games so there for there's no set formula on how to beat Dimitri now."
"Haou's screwed to put it in a nutshell." Elanor added in.
"Oh come on, guys." Jaden spoke up. "This is Haou who's dueling Dimitri. As much as I hate to admit it, he never loses when it comes to something like this. I should know."
"Yeah, how many times have you lost to him now?" Yubel asked getting a groan of a reply from Jaden.
Surprisingly, Haou ignored those comments as he looked at the card he just drew. "So you want to fusion summon huh? Fine, I'll bite." He held up his Dark Fusion. "I'll fuse Elemental HEROES Sparkman and Clayman in my hand to bring forth Evil HERO Lightning Golem in attack mode."
The two E-HEROES appeared on the field before they fuse together. A bolt of lightning struck the field and appearing from it was the darker version of Jaden's Thunder Giant (ATK: 2400 DEF: 1500).
"Next, I'll play Lightning Golem's effect. Once per turn, he can destroy a monster on your field." Haou continued as his fiend let lose a lightning bolt that struck Chimera and caused it to shatter.
"Nice ability," Dimitri commented. "Now let me show you mine. When Chimera is destroyed, I'm allowed to summon back Berfomet from the graveyard." The four armed monster reappeared in defense mode (ATK: 1400 DEF: 1800).
Haou narrowed his eyes at that from annoyance. He snapped his fingers and Lightning Golem let out another bolt of lightning that destroyed Berfomet. "Be happy that you're monster saved you there or else you would be getting it right now." He growled.
"Good to know," Dimitri said looking at his hand. "I set two cards face down before activating Monster Reincarnation. So by discarding one card, I get a monster back from my graveyard. Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts return!" The said monster appeared on the field with a roar (ATK: 1500 DEF: 1200).
"You think your monster can protect you?" Haou questioned as he drew. "Have you forgotten that my Lightning Golem can destroy a monster once per turn?"
"No, I haven't which is way I played this faced down." One of Dimitri's face downs rose up and when it did, a chain shot out of it and wrapped itself around the Evil HERO.
Haou grunted his teeth. "Fiendish Chain,"
"You are correct. With this trap card in play, you're Lightning Golem can no longer use its ability and it can't attack." Dimitri explained.
"I know how the freaking card works." Haou replied sharply as he looked at his hand. Of all the times to be holding a bad hand. He cursed in his head before he played a monster in attack mode. "I summon Evil HERO Phantom Mist."
Appearing on Haou's field was a reaper type monster. Its whole body was covered by a dark red robe, leaving only its lifeless grey eyes visible. It had a sickle and chain for a weapon (ATK: 1800 DEF: 1600).
"Impressive looking monster, too bad you won't be able to use it since I have another trap card, Dark Renewal!" Dimitri said, revealing his second face down and a coffin appeared. "It actives when you make a summoning. Now I can sacrifice one of your monsters and one of mine to bring back a Spellcaster from my graveyard."
"Well it's too bad you don't have any then. By my count, the only monsters in your graveyard are Chimera and Berfomet." Jaden commented.
Dimitri glanced over at him. "Well you may want to double check your work. Remember when I played Monster Reincarnation?"
"Oh yeah…" Jaden trailed off.
Haou facepalmed and shook his head.
The coffin opened up and absorbed the two monsters before it closed up once more.
"Now Gazelle, Phantom, make some room for the one, the only…" The coffin reopened and a figure appeared from it. "My friend, Dark Magician!"
The legendary Spellcaster and the ace monster of Yugi's deck took his position on Dimitri's field. He looked just like how he was pictured on the posters; he was dressed in purple robes and wielded a long green staff (ATK: 2500 DEF: 2100).
"I am star struck." Jaden said with an awed smile. "The Dark Magician is like the headliner of Yugi's entire deck!"
"You think he'll give an autograph?" Syrus wondered.
"I wish I brought my camera," Chumley spoke. "This is so lishous."
Even Elanor was staring at the Spellcaster in awe.
Well played, Bastion thought. I doubt Yugi could have done it better himself. Dimitri copying him perfectly and that's not good for Haou.
Haou, however, appeared to be the only one not starstruck by the Dark Magician appearance. Instead, he just pointed at the Spellcaster and said; "I play Phantom Mist's effect. Since he was sent to the graveyard, a monster on your field loses 500 ATK points."
A black aura appeared around Dark Magician and when it disappeared, he looked a bit weaker (ATK: 2500-2000 DEF: 2100).
"Lightning Golem can't attack you because of Fiendish Chain so you're ace is safe for now." Haou said ending his turn. "Now take your turn, worm."
"That's Yugi," Dimitri replied as he drew and actived the card he just got. "And I choose to play the magic card, Thousand Knives." A multitude of white glowing blade knives appeared in the air on Dimitri's side of the field. "And when Dark Magician on the field, they can be used to destroy any one of your monsters." Dark Magician pointed his staff forward, commanding the blades to hit Haou's monster. Lightning Golem was destroyed in seconds.
"Haou's Lightning Golem was just cut down to size." Syrus gasped.
"Size zero maybe because he's gone." Chumley added.
"And with nothing to protect him, Dark Magician can attack Haou directly." Jaden mumbled.
"Not star stuck huh? Well, let's see how you like getting struck by Dark Magician! Dark Magic Attack!"
The magician hurled a ball of green magic energy from the tip of his staff that crushed right into Haou, taking out almost all of his life points.
(Haou: 1000 Dimitri: 4000)
"Give up?" Dimitri asked.
Haou just glared at him, giving Dimitri his answer.
"That's the spirit. Never give up. Always believe in the Heart of the Cards. That's what I say," Dimitri continued.
"Say that again and I'll take those cards and put them where you're heart is." Haou said drawing his card before looking at it. Huh? Finally something I can work with. He glanced at his hand and a smirk started to form. During my next turn, I'll have all the pieces in place to destroy Dark Magician. "I summon Evil HERO Lumi Dia in defense mode and end my turn."
The second new Evil HERO that Haou has revealed during this duel looked to be a darker version of Snow Fairy but it's whole being was made up of black diamonds (ATK: 1000 DEF: 1700).
"Well, well, there may be no known blueprint on how to beat Yugi, but it looks like Haou is trying to design one," Bastion mused. "And if my hunch is correct, whatever he's planning might work."
"Uh course it will. This is my brother we're talking about here and if anyone can beat Yugi's deck it would be him." Jaden stated. "And me too if I was dueling him."
"But you're not and you are hating every second of the fact that Haou beat you too it, huh?" Elanor guessed causing Jaden to fall to the ground, anime style.
"You had to rub that fact in." Jaden groaned.
"Nice monster, but it's a shame she won't last long. Dark Magician, attack with Dark Magic Attack." Dimitri ordered.
Another blast of magic crashed into Lumi Dia and destroyed the Evil HERO.
"Lumi Dia's effect activates. When she's destroyed in battle, for every three levels that the monster that destroyed her has, one Diamond Token is special summoned to my field." Haou said pointing at Dark Magician. "Dark Magician is a level seven monster so two Diamond tokens are summoned onto my field."
Two diamonds with pairs of arms, legs, and eyes appeared in defense mode (ATK: 100 DEF: 100 X2).
"Way to play. You really show promise." Dimitri said with a nod as he signaled the end of his turn with two face downs.
Haou really looked ready to pop a blood vessel by now. "You are really starting to annoy me even more so then normal. So you have no idea how happy I'm going to be once that Dark Magician is destroyed." A smirked formed on his face as the two Diamond Tokens shatter. "I sacrifice the two tokens on my field to summon forth, Evil HERO Magician in attack mode."
Appearing from the dust of the two shatter gems, the Evil HERO witch spun onto the field but instead of facing Dimitri and Dark Magician, her back was turn towards them as she was standing right in front of Haou, glaring daggers at him (ATK: 2500 DEF: 1800).
"What the actual hell, Haou?!" Magician snapped at him, much to the dark ruler's annoyance. "What's the big idea leaving me at the dorm with Shadow?!"
"Bonding time with your brother," Was all Haou answered with as he turned his attention back towards Dimitri. "With Magician on the field, all Evil HEROES on my field gain 500 more ATK points including herself," (ATK: 2500-3000 DEF: 1800).
"Alright, now Haou has a monster out that can beat the Dark Magician!" Syrus cheered.
"What a move," Bastion commented impressed. "And with no Egyptian God cards, that Dark Magician is the strongest card Dimitri has."
Dimitri laughed. "Sorry, I couldn't help but overhear your friends."
"There not my friends." Haou corrected him.
"Well they're quite wrong anyway. You see, while it is true the Dark Magician is the strongest monster card in my deck, but as a duelist, you must know that's it's rarely about the card, it's what you do with it. And what I'm going to do is play this, Dedication through Light and Darkness." Dimitri's first face down rose up to show a picture of a monster that looked a lot like the Magician of Black Chaos. Black energy started to surrounded the card before it headed over and engulfed Dark Magician. "It takes Dark Magician and turns him into something even more powerful. The legendary Dark Magician of Chaos!"
"Chaos?" Syrus questioned.
"Boy, that doesn't sound good." Chumley added.
"Yes, it's not." Bastion agreed. "It's one of the strongest cards you'll ever see."
"That's right and I'm about to unleash him on you, Haou. Chaos Magician rise!" A shadow of a monster come out of the Dedication through Light and Darkness before it took the form of a Spellcaster monster with tight black suit with red rings around his arms and legs. On his head he had a wide black headdress, long black hair and a pale blue face. The new monster also had a black staff as a weapon (ATK: 2800 DEF: 2600)
"Now since I successfully summoned him, I can take a magic card from my graveyard and add it to my hand." Dimitri took back his Monster Reincarnation card.
"It still doesn't matter. Magician still has more attack points and I'm going to make sure she'll use every last one of them to destroy that Chaos Magician of yours." Haou stated.
"What? I don't get a say in this?" Magician questioned, bitterly, which got her a death glare from Haou. Magician rolled her eyes. "Fine, you're highness."
Magician turned around to face the new Spellcaster monster but before she could attack, another set of chains wrapped around her.
Haou groaned. "Seriously?"
"And I'm officially offered!" Magician yelled red faced from the fact that she was chained up. "What the heck do you think I am?"
"Oh you really don't want me to answer that one, sis." Shadow laughed appearing behind Haou.
Dimitri, who only heard Haou, spoke after he played his other face down. "As you can tell, my trap, Shadow Spell, has put your monster in a bit of a bind. Now you're Magician can't attack or change her battle position plus she loses 700 ATK points as well," (ATK: 3000-2300 DEF: 1800).
"Now you're just being a freaking troll," Haou grumbled in annoyance, ending his turn.
"This isn't good. Now Dark Magician of Chaos is the strongest monster on the field," Jaden mused with a worried expression on his face.
"This isn't going to end while for either Haou or Magician." Yubel added.
Dimitri drew his card then placed it face down. He then said, "Dark Magician of Chaos, attack Evil HERO Magician. Scepter Strike!"
"Well isn't this just the best day ever." Magician said sarcastically before she got destroyed when the other magician attacked her.
(Haou: 500 Dimitri: 4000)
"Also, because of Chaos Magician's effect, when it destroys a monster in battle, that monster is removed from play." Dimitri added.
"Couldn't have just send her to the graveyard?" Shadow asked rolling his eyes.
"I heard that!" Magician yelled from Haou's pocket.
Dimitri held up his duel disk. "Just face it, this deck and I fit perfectly. Always have, always will."
"Oh gag me," Haou replied drawing his next card. "Okay, I admit that you been lucky so far but you're luck has worn at. I play Card of Sanctity, allowing us to draw until we have six cards in our hands."
Both Dimitri and Haou drew their cards and as soon as Haou picked up his last one, a dark chuckle escaped him.
"Uh oh, I don't like that look on Haou's face." Syrus spoke.
"Either he's gone nuts from losing so badly or he got something good." Elanor mused. "I place my money on the first one."
"Elanor, you have no idea how wrong you are." Jaden told her. He knew for a fact that Haou must have drawn some really great if he was laughing.
Shadow looked over Haou's shoulder at his hand and a wide psycho grin formed on his face at what he saw. "Finally, I was starting to get bored from doing nothing for so long."
"Well now you can stop complaining, Shadow." Haou said holding up a magic card. "I'll active the magic of D.D.R. - Different Dimension Reincarnation. By discarding a card in my hand, I can special summon a monster that is removed from play."
Haou discarded one of his cards and like magic, which it was; Evil HERO Magician rose back onto the field.
"Well it took you long enough!" Magician hissed.
Haou ignored her and Shadow just rolled his eyes.
"And if you thought Magician was the worst thing I had up my sleeve, then wait until you'll see this. I play Forbidden Spell. Since Magician is on my field, I can summon out Evil HERO Shadow Sorcerer to my field in attack mode."
Shadow's psycho grin returned as he disappeared from Haou's side to appear next to his sister on the field, daggers drawn and ready to fight (ATK: 2800-3300 DEF: 2000).
"About time, I was starting to go crazy from the blood lust." Shadow chuckled pointing one of his daggers at Chaos Magician, "On your command, your majesty."
"Have at it, Shadow." Haou replied and Shadow grin widen as he threw one of his daggers at Chaos Magician.
"I don't think so." Dimitri countered. "Trap card open! Dark Illusion!"
A purple shield appeared in front of Dark Magician of Chaos just as Shadow's dagger was about to hit him but all it did was bounce off of it.
"What?! What kind of bullcrap is that?!" Shadow complained with a growl as his dagger flew right back into his hand.
"Dark Illusion: this trap card prevents a Dark type Spellcaster monster from being destroyed by battle or from card effects this turn." Dimitri explained.
(Haou: 500 Dimitri: 3500)
"But not your life points, it seems." Haou mused before glancing at Magician out of the corner of his eye. "Attack,"
"Yeah, yeah," Magician grumbled, still clearly annoyed at both Haou and Shadow, as she fired off a blast form her stuff. It had little to no effect on the shield but Dimitri still took damage.
(Haou: 500 Dimitri: 3300)
Haou signaled the end of his turn at that.
"Wow, talk about a comeback." Syrus gasped in awe.
"Yeah, he might have fewer life points but both of Haou's monsters are stronger than Chaos Magician." Chumley added.
"Well color me impressed." Bastion spoke.
Elanor just said nothing, not wanting to admit that she thought Haou's comeback was well played.
Jaden, on the other hand, went kinda nuts. "Yeah! Good job, Haou!" He cheered only for him to get a glare from his older twin.
Dimitri just drew his card before saying; "The Heart of the Cards have guided you well during that last turn but now it looks like they have guided me. I switch Chaos Magician into defense mode and I also summon Kuriboh in defense mode and play a face down to end my turn."
Chaos Magician went down of one knee as the original Kuriboh that started it all appeared with its card under it (ATK: 300 DEF: 200).
"Hey Haou, I think I found you and Jaden's long last brother." Shadow joked getting him a death glare from his master.
"Oh just shut up and destroy that Chaos Magician." Haou growled at him.
Shadow rolled his eyes. "Uh course, my young lord." S.S. threw another one of his dagger and this time was able to destroy the other Magician.
"Magician, take out the furball." Haou ordered her.
"Why does Shadow get to destroy all the strong people?" Magician retorted.
"Because he's not complaining every five seconds," Haou remarked. "Now get to it!"
"Fine, you're highness." Magician mumbled bitterly, firing off another magical blast at the brown furball.
"Yeah go, Magician, clean that Kurbioh's clock." Syrus said.
"But which one?" Dimitri asked. "I play the magic card, Multiply!"
The furball split into five, which were exact replicas of the original in looks and strength and were in defense mode.
"Now there are five of them!" Syrus exclaimed.
"Thank you captain obvious," Elanor mumbled.
"Correct, by sacrificing one Kuriboh, I can summon Kuriboh Tokens on all open spaces in my Monster Card Zone. Of course, your blast is still in play,"-one of the tokens shattered from Magician's blast-"but its significance has been deflated."
"I'm really starting to get annoyed of this guy." Shadow stated with an annoyed look on his face.
"Now you know how I been feeling for the past ten minutes, Shadow." Haou sighed placing a card face down. "I end my turn."
"And I begin mine, by playing Spellbook Inside the Pot. It forces both of us to draw three cards from our decks."
Both players picked up three more cards from their decks.
"Excellent, I drew the monster, Watapon. When it's drawn with the effect of a spell, trap, or monster effect, I can summon it to the field."
A little white puffball with antennas on its head and large blue eyes appeared amongst the four Kuribohs (ATK: 200 DEF: 300).
"Oh it's so cute. I just want to eat it up." Shadow licked his lips.
"And this is why we threw you into a pit in the first place." Magician sighed.
"But he won't be here for long. I sacrifice Watapon to summon Dark Magician Girl!"
Magician's eyes widen at that before a look of pure hated crossed her face. "Oh hell no!"
"Haou, you're right about irony. It the best thing ever," Shadow chuckled.
Watapon vanished to be replaced by the beautiful light-skinned magician in a blue-and-pink outfit with a pointed hat on her head and long blonde hair who winked at the audience and giggled (ATK: 2000 DEF: 1700).
"She's cuter in person," Jaden commented.
"Be thankful that Kia isn't here to hear that, Jaden." Yubel told him much to Jaden confusion on how that would be a problem.
Elanor just sighed at this when she noticed the boys were all looking at Dark Magician Girl like she was a supermodel while Syrus was just starting with a dreamy look on his face.
The only two males that weren't going head over heels for D.M.G. was Haou and Shadow. Haou, for obvious reasons, and Shadow….
"I really don't see why males find her so hot." Shadow stated plainly, unfazed.
Magician pointed a finger at him. "You're attracted to hermaphrodites so you really shouldn't be talking, mister."
"You say that like it's a bad thing." Shadow replied before looking over his shoulder and winked at Yubel.
Yubel cringed slightly. "Can someone destroy him already?" She mumbled under her breath.
"She had both beauty and brawn." Dimitri said replying to Jaden's comment. "And for every Dark Magician in the graveyard, she gains 300 ATK points." He added as Dark Magician Girl powered up (ATK: 2000-2600 DEF: 1700).
"Well on the subject of Spellcasters, mine are still more powerful." Haou pointed out.
"Yeah bitch! You can't touch this!" Magician yelled causing Haou and Shadow to look at her like she was crazy or even more so then normal.
"That may be true but not for long anyway. I equip Dark Magician Girl with Magic Formula!" A equip spell showing a picture of a spell book appeared behind D.M.G. "This equip spell give Dark Magician Girl 700 more ATK points."
"Uh…say what now?" Magician questioned watching as the other female spellcaster's ATK points rise (ATK: 2600-3300 DEF: 1700).
"You just had to say something, huh?" Shadow glared at his sister.
"Dark Magician Girl attack Evil HERO Magician with Dark Burning Attack!"
Dark Magician Girl smiled innocently as she twirled her staff before firing off a sphere of pink magic at the female Evil HERO.
"This is not my day." Magician grumbled as she was destroyed.
(Haou: 200 Dimitri: 3300)
"Well there goes my power boost." Shadow mumbled since with Magician being destroyed, his ATK points went back to normal (ATK: 3300-2800 DEF: 2000).
"Stop you're complaining, Shadow, I got this." Haou told him, his face down opening. "I play my trap, V-Vicious Vengeance. Since one of my monsters was destroyed, I get to destroy one of yours."
Dark Magician Girl let out a scream as she was destroyed right before everyone's eyes.
"Oh poor Dark Magician Girl," Syrus sighed.
"Along with that, I get to add an Evil HERO from my deck to my hand and you get to draw a card." Haou continued taking out his deck to add his HERO while Dimitri drew one card.
Dimitri looked at the card he just drew and added it to his hand before saying. "Since Magic Formula was sent from the field to the graveyard, I regain 1000 life points."
(Haou: 200 Dimitri: 4300)
"He now had more life points then what he started with." Chumley said.
"And Haou just barely hanging on with just 200," Bastion added. "This is not looking good for him."
"Hey, come on, guys! Haou has been in worse spots than this. I'm 100% sure that he's going to make another comeback play next turn." Jaden defended him.
"Let's just hope that's true, Jaden." Yubel said as Dimitri ended his turn.
"Haou, I really hope you have a way to get past all of those wingless furball tokens because I really want to stab this guy so badly right now." Shadow said looking over his shoulder at him.
"Shadow, you known me long enough to know I always have a plan waiting." Haou replied as a smirk crossed his face from what he drew. "Go Raigeki!"
"Wait?!" Dimitri gasped as he watched as all four of his Kuriboh tokens getting taken out by lightning bolts. "My monsters!"
"You should be more worried about the ones in front of you instead of the ones in the graveyard." Shadow grinned and with a nod of approval from Haou, Shadow disappeared and then quickly reappeared behind Dimitri and stabbed him with his dagger.
(Haou: 200 Dimitri: 1500)
Dimitri groaned in pain, looking to be having a hard time standing after that attack. "It's a good thing Magic Formula raised my life points last turn."
"Yeah lucky you or else you be down to just 500 left." Haou played two face downs and ended his turn.
Dimitri made no comment to that as he drew. "Ah perfect. The Heart of the Cards has served me again. I remove one Dark monster and one Light monster from my graveyard…."
Jaden blinked at that. "Wait, pause and rewind; you're removing them way, Dimitri?"
"I've never seen this before. Is it a summoning?" Syrus asked.
"Nah, no way," Chumley said.
Elanor just narrowed her eyes. No, he can't be. She thought.
"You're wrong," Bastion said as he realized what Dimitri was going to do. "There are two monsters that can be summoned like this; two rare cards of such power that duelists have scoured that world to obtain them. The first is Chaos Emperor Dragon-Envoy of the End: a card so powerful that it has been banned from official Duel Monsters tournaments. The second has comparable powers but it has never been forbidden. In fact, some say not a single copy still exists."
"Is that so? Well they're wrong because I have one right here, Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of the Beginning!" Kuriboh and Watapon, who both had appeared for the removal, disappeared once more when a vortex appeared behind them and once they were gone, a monster with dark blue armor outlined in gold with ruby on the helm and chest plate, a triangular shield with the same make as his armor and wicked curved sword appeared (ATK: 3000 DEF: 2500).
"So Yugi really did have that card?" Haou mused looking at Black Luster Soldier. "I always thought it was just a rumor." He smirked. "I'm looking forward to taking it down."
"I'm afraid not. This card's been a part of my deck for a long time now. But I only take him out for….special occasions. Like now, Luster Blade attack!" Dimitri ordered which then the dark soldier charged at S.S.
"Oh son of a bitch," Shadow cursed looking over his shoulder at Haou.
Haou wouldn't meet his servant's gaze as he actived his face down. "I play Damage Diet. Now all damage I take this turn is halved."
"Oh thanks a lot." Shadow grumbled sarcastically as he was slashed by the Black Solider and stuttered into pieces.
(Haou: 100 Dimitri: 1500)
"That looked like it hurt." Jaden mused.
"And that was just the beginning. Now I'll show you, Haou, the true power of this card. You see, if he destroys one of your monsters in battle, he can attack again."
"Excuse me?" Haou questioned.
"No way!" Jaden gasped.
"Aw man. Now I'm beginning to see why monsters like this are outlawed." Syrus murmured, quaking in fear.
"It's over!" Dimitri exclaimed as Black Luster Solider dashed towards Haou with his sword, ready to strike.
"He's through. Haou can't survive if this attack hits him." Bastion stated.
"I would say it was nice knowing him but that would be a lie." Elanor mumbled.
"I don't think so. I play my trap, Call of the Haunted, allowing me to summon back Evil HERO Phantom Mist in defense mode." Haou countered as his reaper monster reappeared on the field, protecting him from the blow of the attack.
"Huh, what's this?" Dimitri demanded.
"It's called a trap card. Look it up." Haou said sending his Evil HERO back to the graveyard. "And since Phantom Mist was destroyed, Black Luster Solider loses 500 ATK points." (ATK: 3000-2500 DEF: 2500)
Dimitri grunted before he just shrugged. "Fine then, I'll just finish you off next turn. The Heart of the Cards will see to that."
Haou just shook his head at that. "You're truly pathetic."
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me. The Heart of the Cards is just a stupid way of saying to believe in your deck." Haou lifted his duel disk. "And believing is just a stupid way of wishing. I don't wish. I make things happen instead of wishing on a star and hoping for something to come true. So if my Evil HEROES should fall one by one, I won't wish for a mirage to happen. I will make it happen."
Haou drew from his deck and flipped the card over to see what it was. He smirked devilishly. "You're screwed now."
The field spell zone on Haou's duel disk opened up he placed his card inside. "I play Evil City!"
Dark tall building in ruins began to rise around the duelists.
"What the….? What's the meaning of these buildings?!" Dimitri exclaimed in confusion.
"Meaning? To kick your butt, Dimitri!" Syrus said.
"Ignoring him," Haou held up his signature card. "I play Dark Fusion. I fuse Elemental HERO Avian and Elemental HERO Burstinatrix in order to summon Evil HERO Inferno Wing."
The two heroes merged together and the twisted version of Elemental HERO Flame Wingman appeared on top of the tallest, ruined down building (ATK: 2100 DEF: 1200).
"And since I have Evil City in play, all Evil HEROES gain 1000 more ATK points and 100 more for each Elemental HERO that's in my graveyard. I count four of them so she gains 1400 more ATK points." Haou smirked as his dark female HERO powered up (ATK: 2100-3500 DEF: 1200).
"3500?!" Dimitri gasped. "But that's…."
"More than enough to take out that Black Luster Solider of yours," Haou finished pointing at both Dimitri and his monster. "Infernal Wing, how about you take some revenge for Magician and Shadow for me?"
"Gladly, my king," Infernal Wing chuckled darkly as she flew downward before firing a blast of blue flames that crushed into the solider, causing him to shatter.
(Haou: 100 Dimitri: 500)
"He's gone! My Black Luster Soldier is gone!" Dimitri cried.
Haou rolled his eyes. "Oh please, he was never yours to begin with. Besides, if you want to worry, worry more about Infernal Wing's special ability. You lose life points equal to Luster Soldier's ATK points." Haou pointed a Dimitri and ordered, "Burn."
Infernal Wing flew up in front of Dimitri before blasting him.
(Haou: 100 Dimitri: 0)
Dimitri fell to his knees. "I been beaten….even with my…" He shook his head as a few cards fell to the ground. "With Yugi's cards…" He whimpered as his voice returned to normal. "What's wrong with me? What can't I ever win!?"
"The answer to that is obvious…"
Everyone turned at that to see Zane and Alexis walking into view from around a large boulder.
Dimitri rose a little bit. "Hey….your Zane…"
"Big bro?" Syrus asked confused on what his big brother was doing here.
"What are you guys doing here?" Jaden questioned.
Haou just remained silent, waiting for a chance to leave. He got what he came for, a victory against the King of Games's deck, and now all he wanted was a nap.
Zane glanced over at Jaden. "Why else? To see the deck but it was gone…"
"And you're supposed to be a model student?" Elanor questioned.
"We snuck into the exhibit hall but all we found was the broken glass of the display case. We figured the thief couldn't have gotten far so we decided to take a look around." Alexis continued.
"Which led us here, we found you a while ago but we didn't want to interrupt the duel." Zane finished.
"How kind of you," Bastion said with a smile.
"Are you serious right now?" Haou groaned face palming. "You saw the whole thing?"
"Not just us. Your match attracted quite a lot of attention." Everyone turned to where Zane was pointing at and Haou groaned loudly when he saw all the people higher up on the cliff who were watching this along too.
"Hey, everyone! Glad you all could make it to see my brother duel!" Jaden waved at them with a smile as the students started to clap, impressed by the duel that had just taken place.
"Jaden, you're not helping." Haou growled at him, hating the fact that he was being watched without him knowing about it and the fact that so many people saw that he almost lost back there.
"Wow that Haou can duel." A Ra said.
"Do you think he tutors? I'm failing fusion." Another Ra added.
Haou continued to facepalm.
"Well what now?" Dimitri asked.
"Well kid, the punishment for stealing has always been crystal clear, straight up expulsion. But since I think pretty much everyone enjoyed seeing Yugi's deck in a duel rather than a display case, I doubt anyone will turn you in." Zane answered.
"It's no sweat, Dimitri, but you have to tell us. How are you so good with those Spellcasters?"
"I'm failing that too."
"What difference does it make? I lost." Dimitri mumbled.
"You didn't lose." Jaden told him, hopping up the rocks to stand next to Haou. "That person you were pretending to be did, Dimitri."
"Yugi?"
"I wish," Haou mumbled.
"No bro, you could never be Yugi."
"Then, who was I?"
"Well, you were you, but you weren't. See, when you copy someone it's not like you're that person. You're you copying that person. You know? Yeah, that makes sense, right?"
"No, it doesn't, Jay." Yubel said with a shake of her head.
"Let me attempt to explain for him. You never win until you put yourself out there. That means creating your own deck and your own strategies, not piggybacking off of someone else. After all, no amount of studying will make you able to use someone else deck as well as them." Zane explained.
"Yeah, what Zane said, that's what I meant. No offense but just because Haou beat you doesn't mean he would have beaten Yugi." Jaden said with a small chuckle when Haou shot a death glare at him. "Now how about we put that deck back where it belongs?"
"Yeah ok;" Dimitri agreed.
…
The next morning, the exhibit hall was filled with students looking at the posters of Yugi and his deck in the now repaired display case.
Jaden was smiling with his arms folded with Syrus and Chumley standing next to him.
"Would you look at that? Everything's back to normal." Jaden spoke.
Chumley nodded. "Well as normal as things get around this crazy place." Jaden nodded to that. "So what you've got there, Jay?" He asked, noticing the rolled up poster he was holding.
"This? Just an autographed poster of the King of Games. Pretty sweet huh?"
"Sure is," Chumley agreed before he added. "But just so you know, I heard Dimitri talking in the Yugi voice when he put that deck back. And then he got into the merchandise and he had a pen."
"Speaking of Dimitri…." Syrus sweat dropped. "I think he's taken quite a liking to you and Haou, Jaden."
Jaden raised an eyebrow at that. "What do you mean?"
He leaned down so Syrus could whisper in his ear. Jaden's eyes bugged out at what he heard. "HE'S DOING WHAT NOW?!"
"Yeah…pretending to be…you and Haou…both…" Syrus mumbled and that's all it took to make Jaden take off out of the room to go murder the said Ra.
…
"Are you two seriously still mad at me for throwing you both under the bus?" Haou questioned, glancing out of the corner of his eye at the two fiendcasters who were both staring at him with angry expressions on their faces.
"Well I don't see why Magician is still mad. You throw her under the bus all the time but letting me get destroy to save your own skin, now that's low, Haou." Shadow replied bitterly, his arms crossed over his chest.
"You're saying that like it surprises you." Haou replied, turning on his side away from the Evil HEROES.
"I, for one, found that pretty funny." Magician giggled getting her a death glare from her brother. "And yes, I'm still pretty annoyed at you, Haou, but I'm mostly just pissed off that I couldn't beat that stupid Dark Magician Girl."
"Why the heck do you even hate the Dark Magician Girl anyway?" Shadow asked.
"Why do you like Yubel so much huh?"
"…" Shadow glanced away, mumbling, "Touché…"
"Yeah, that's what I thought."
Haou rolled his eyes from these two childish behaviors.
I had to create these two when I was a kid. Haou groaned.
Well there goes another chapter.
Haou: What the hell, Darky?!
What?
Haou: Why did you make me have such bad luck during that duel?!
Because you pretty much owned Jinzo during your last duel so I wanted to make sure you weren't OP.
Jaden: She's got a point there.
Haou: *curses under his breath* Yeah, totally worth the screen time.
I know right *laughs* Well it's time for this chapter's question! Continuing the theme of the last question, this one will be: What are you're least favorite three GX shippings? Now before anyone of you yells at me, it's not like I hate these shipping with a burning passion. I just don't ship them for reasons I will explain when I say them. Also, these aren't in any real order. So my least favorite shipping for GX have to be Angelshipping, Anikishipping, and I know I'm going to get so much hate for saying this but Fianceshipping. For Angelshipping, I don't even see how that happened. I just don't see Chazz and Syrus being a thing. Anikishipping...no just no...god that just weird in my books. Plus, I'm pretty sure everyone forgot about this shipping as soon as Jesse showed up XD. And as for Fianceshipping, I just don't see Jaden and Alexis being a couple either. I just never liked them together for some reason but I do like WhiteIceshipping (White Alexis X Jaden) for some odd reason. Plus, I always ship Alexis with Chazz so maybe that has something to do with it *shrugs*
Haou: Couldn't have added Darkspiritshipping to that list?!
Sorry Haou but that's never going to happen *evil grin*
Well everyone, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. The next one should be up pretty soon since...*starts laughing* well you all know what the next episode is and I can tell you guys that I'm going to enjoy every second of writing it. As always, review, and I hope you're all looking forward to the next chapter!
Evil HERO Phantom Mist
Atk: 1800 Def: 1600
Attribute: Dark
Type: Fiend/Effect
Level: 4
Effect-When this card is destroyed by battle or by a card effect, target one of you're opponent's monsters: that monster loses 500 ATK points.
Picture: A reaper looking monster. It's whole body is covered by a dark red robe. The only part of it that is visible is it's lifeless grey eyes. It has a sickle and a chain for a weapon.
Evil HERO Lumi Dia
Atk: 1000 Def: 1700
Attribute: Water
Type: Rock/Effect
Level: 4
Effect-When this card is destroyed by battle, special summon "Diamond Tokens" for each 3 levels that the monster that destroyed this card has.
Picture: A darker verison of Snow Fairy but it's whole body was made up of black diamonds. She also has icy blue eyes.