Disclaimer: see chapter one
Chapter 16: Wind vs. Warriors
"Please!" Kuwabara begged Yusuke for the fortieth time to trade some of his Duel Monster cards for Yusuke's Armed Dragons, while walking from the schoolyard after school. However Yusuke refused to give any of them to Kuwabara, "For the damn forty first time, Kuwabara, HELL NO!" Yusuke yelled, in annoyance of the spirit sword wielder, "There is no way in Hell Am I trading my Armed Dragons for your dumb Magic Drain trap cards!"
"It's not like I'm askin' for them all!" Kuwabara retorted, "I'm just askin' for the one Armed Dragons in each level, besides you got only three of them in each level!"
"No!" Yusuke said for the forty second time
"You can't blame Kuwabara wanting those Armed Dragons from you, Yusuke," Keiko said, "Those monsters are one of the most powerful monsters in Duel Monsters!"
"I know!" Yusuke said, "That's why I'm NOT trading any of my Armed Dragons, besides my deck is mostly run by those dragons and if one card is missing than the deck will be unbalanced."
"By the way, Yusuke," Syrus started, "Where did you get those cards?"
"My grandfather's game shop," Yusuke said, "Now the question is who to duel next?"
Kuwabara's face beamed, "How about me?"
"No way!" Keiko answered, before Yusuke got to reply, "Yusuke has to duel someone new to build up his skills as a duelist and Yusuke knows your strategies left to right."
"And I think I know just the person," Yusuke said, "It's time to pay a visit to Grandma."
Syrus looked at Yusuke weirdly, "Yusuke, aren't both of your grandmothers died."
"Grandma, is what I call a friend of mine, Genkai."
Later, the four teens went to the train station and took a train ride to Genkai's temple. They walked up the stairs, with Syrus huffing and puffing "Oh man! This is so tiring! Does she ever think to place a esculator here!" Syrus huffed
"That's the same thing I said when I first came here." Yusuke said, knowing how Syrus feels and walked back to pick Syrus up and placed him onto his back.
They finally made it to the top, with Yusuke putting Syrus down
"Yusuke-kun, Keiko-chan, Kazuma-kun, what brings you here?"
The teens looked at Yukina, who was walking towards them.
"Whoa, who's she?" Syrus asked, with delight of the sight of the blunette, which was ticking Kuwabara off. Kuwabara glared at Syrus, "She's off limits to you!" he snapped.
"Who's he?" Yukina asked, pointing at Syrus.
"My name is Syrus Truesdale!" Syrus replied
"He's a friend of ours, back when Yusuke and I were kids." Keiko said. "Is Genkai around?"
Yukina nodded, "Yes.."
-Later-
"You (laughs) want to duel me!" Genkai said, while laughing after hearing Yusuke challenge her to a duel.
Yusuke, Syrus, Keiko, Yukina and Kuwabara sweat dropped at this. Genkai's laughter was annoying Yusuke, "Can the laughing, Grandma!" he snapped angrily
"Why would I duel you?" Genkai asked, after ceasing her laughter, "I've won over 50 dueling matches in the past!"
"Whoa, you've won that much!" Syrus exclaimed
"That's right!"
"Keiko got this wild idea that I need to build up my dueling skills to make it past the Duel Academy exam." Yusuke said
"You……" Genkai closed her mouth to hold her laughter, "……are (inhale) trying out for Duel Academy!" Genkai resumed laughing
"Believe me, Genkai," Keiko said, "Yusuke is actually serious about this. He even asked his own sister for help, which is a rarity."
The statement actually got Genkai to stop laughing, "Oh damn, it looks like you aren't joking around, Yusuke," she said, "You're actually telling me the truth!"
"Yeah that's right, Genkai," Yusuke said, "So, your skills better be as evenly matched as an expert!"
Genkai smirked, "You weren't listening before, dimwit," she said, "I said that I've won over 50 dueling matches in the past!"
Everyone went outside to see both Yusuke and Genkai face each other, "Let's just hope your skills haven't rusted up over the years," Yusuke said
Genkai chuckled, "Just worry about your life points than with my skills." She said
"What are both Yusuke and Master Genkai doing?" Yukina asked
"There going to duel," Syrus replied
"Duel?" Yukina tilted her head
"Yeah, it's a card game that I'm a master of!" Kuwabara lied
Unfortunately Yusuke heard what Kuwabara said, "If that's the case, Kuwabara, then considering how many times I've beaten you, I'd say that I've got a chance of being the King of Games, even though I may not get into Duel Academy!" he gloated
Kuwabara glared at Yusuke, "Shut up, Urameshi!"
"Let's the duel begin!" Genkai said, activating her duel disk
"Yeah!" Yusuke activated his duel disk
"Let's duel!" (GLP: 8000/YLP: 8000)
"Watashi no turn, draw!" Genkai whips out a card from her deck, "I'll summon Harpie Lady 1 in attack mode!" a lady wearing a purple jumpsuit, with huge green bird like wings and sharp claws and talons appears on the field (ATK: 1300)
"Oh wow, it's Harpie Lady!" Kuwabara exclaims with happiness and with a love struck expression on his face, 'She's even prettier in person.' He thought
"Oh wow, Harpie Lady is cute!" Syrus said, with the same expression as Kuwabara's
"Watch out, Sy," Keiko said, with a sly tone, "The Dark Magician Girl could be watching!"
Syrus got out of his love struck stage, "Where is she!" he said, looking around the place
"You know that Mai Wheeler has the same monster in her deck," Yusuke said
"Yes, I do know that," Genkai said, "Now it's time to activate my monster's effect to increase the attack points of every wind type monsters by 300 points!" Harpie Lady Glow green (ATK: 1300)-(ATK: 1600), "Now I'll activate the spell card Elegant Egotist! Now since I've got a Harpie Lady on the field, I get to summon forth her sisters, Harpie Lady Sisters to be exact!" just then three more Harpie Ladies appeared on the field (ATK: 1950)
"Oh wow, more of them!" Kuwabara exclaimed
Keiko and Yukina sweat dropped at this, "Uh! Kuwabara, try to realize that it's only a monster you're looking at." Keiko told him
"And there's more too!" Genkai said, "My Harpie Sisters gains 300 attack points courtesy of their sister!" (ATK: 1950)-(ATK: 2250), "And that should end my turn!"
"Ore no turn, draw!" Yusuke said, pulling out a card from his deck, "Perfect, I'll summon Ninja Grandmaster Sasuke in attack mode!" a white faced ninja, wearing white and a green vest with daggers in each hand appears on the field (ATK: 1800), "Now I'll equip my ninja master with Lightning Blade to give him a power boost of 800!" a sword with electricity surrounding it appears in Sasuke's hands (ATK: 1800)-(ATK: 2600)
"Sasuke, attack Harpie Lady Sisters with Lightning Blade Strike!" the ninja charges towards the Harpie Sister and destroys them with three swipes. Genkai (GLP: 8000)-(GLP: 7650) winces at the sight of her monster being destroyed.
"Urameshi, what are you doing?" Kuwabara screamed out in outrage, "They didn't do anything to you, you big bully!"
Yusuke glared at Kuwabara, "Shut it, Kuwabara and get a real girlfriend!" he shouted and turned back to Genkai, "That ends my turn!"
"Watashi no turn, draw!" Genkai pulls out a card, "Not bad, Yusuke, let's see how you fair against my Sonic Duck in attack mode!" a dog sized green duck wearing a red scarf and white hat appears on the field and quacked (ATK: 1700)
Yusuke snickered, "I really hate to tell you this, Grandma, but that duck is weaker than my ninja!" he said
"Oh!" Genkai said, "But thanks to my Harpie Lady 1, my duck gains 300 more attack points!" (ATK: 1700)-(ATK: 2000)
"It's still weak!"
"Yes, but now I'll activate the spell card, Lightning Vortex!"
Yusuke freaked, "This is bad!"
"What's going on?" Yukina asked
"Lightning Vortex will destroy Yusuke's ninja and leaving him wide open for a direct attack!" Keiko answered
Just then a lightning bolt zapped Ninja Grandmaster Sasuke away to oblivion leaving Yusuke wide open, "Now my monsters, attack Yusuke directly!" Genkai commanded as both of her monsters charged towards the freaked ex-spirit detective and knocked him off his feet (YLP: 8000)-(YLP: 4400).
"That's gotta hurt!" Syrus said
Yusuke slowly got on his feet, "Ore no turn draw!" Yusuke drew his card, "I'll play one monster facedown in defense mode!" the holographic card was placed on the field horizontally, "That's it!"
"I guess that's all that you can do, watashi no turn, draw!" Genkai whips out a card from her deck, "I'll sacrifice my Sonic Duck to summon forth Roc from the Valley of Haze in attack mode!" The green duck quacked as it disappear and in it's place was a bird-like monster with horns on it's head flying in the air behind Genkai (ATK: 2400), "And thanks to my Harpie Lady's power my bird gains 300 more attack points! (ATK: 2400)-(ATK: 2700) Now Harpie Lady attack that facedown card with Cyber Slash!" Harpie Lady grunts and lunged at the card image, which appeared to be a swordsman dressed in white and purple with blocking the Harpie Lady's attack (DEF: 1600)
"Sorry Grandma, but my Mystic Swordsman LV4's defense points are equal to your Harpie Lady's attack!" Yusuke said, with a smirk
Genkai grunts, "Well then, Roc, finish what Harpie Lady started with Talon Slash!" Genkai's bird flapped its wings and rushed towards the defending monster and took it out in five slashes
"This isn't looking to well for Yusuke, isn't it!" Syrus said
"That's for sure," Kuwabara said, "He's left undefended!"
Yusuke grunts, "Ore no turn draw!" Yusuke whips a card from his deck, "I'll play Cyber Gymnast in defense mode!" a muscular woman wearing a gymnast uniform appears on the field (DEF: 1800), "Now to play Cyber Gymnast's effect!" Yusuke declared, "By discarding one card from my hand and to the graveyard……" Yusuke slid his card into the graveyard slot of his duel disk, "I can destroy one of your monsters that's in attack mode."
"What……" Genkai said, with disbelief
"Now Cyber Gymnast destroy that overgrown turkey with Jump Karate Kick!" Cyber Gymnast jumps up towards Roc and kicks its head, destroying it and returning back to Yusuke's side, "Let's see what you got, old lady!"
"Watashi no turn, draw!" Genkai draws her next card from her deck, 'This should come in handy in the future,' she thought with a grin on her face, "I'll play one card facedown and end my turn!"
"Ore no turn, draw!" Yusuke draws his card, "First I'll activate the spell card, Mystical Space Typhoon on your facedown card!" a blue typhoon appears, hurling at Genkai's facedown and shredding it into pieces. Genkai shields herself from her facedown pieces "I'll summon Obnoxious Celtic Guardian in attack mode!" the elf warrior in Viking clothing with a purple cape appears on the field (ATK: 1400), "Then, I'll switch my Cyber Gymnast to attack mode!" Cyber Gymnast stands up on her feet, "Now by discarding one card to the grave, I can destroy your Harpie Lady!" Cyber Gymnast grunts and lunges towards the cringing Harpie Lady and kicks the winged beast and took her out, leaving Genkai wide open.
"All right, now Genkai is wide open for a direct attack!" Syrus cheered
"Now my monsters attack Genkai directly!" Cyber Gymnast and Obnoxious Celtic Guardian charges towards Genkai and knocks the spirit wave master down (GLP: 7650)-(GLP: 5450), "That ends my turn!"
Genkai got up on her feet steadily, "Watashi no turn, draw!" she declared as she drew a card, "I'll summon Lady Ninja Yae in attack mode!" a female ninja with green hair appears on the field (ATK: 1100), "Now Yae, attack Cyber Gymnast now, with Whirl Storm Slash!" Yae charges towards Cyber Gymnast and slashes the gymnast five times to destroy her. Yusuke (YLP: 4400)-(YLP: 4100) winced at this, "That would end my turn!"
Yusuke grunts, 'Okay, she took out my special weapon,' he thought, "Ore no turn, draw!" Yusuke draws his next card, "Now Obnoxious Celtic Guardian, attack Lady Ninja Yae with Celtic Blade Slash!" the elf warrior lunges at the unexpected ninja and in one slash Yae was destroyed and took a scratch of Genkai's life points (GLP: 5450)-(GLP: 5150), "That ends my turn!"
Genkai smiled, 'I'm impressed, I thought I was going to get a boring fight,' she thought, "Watashi no turn, draw!" she whips out her card, "I'll place one card facedown in defense mode and end my turn!"
"Ore no turn, draw!" Yusuke declared, drawing out his card, "I'll activate the spell card, The Warrior Returning Alive, to bring back a warrior from my graveyard to my hand." Yusuke picks up the monster card from his graveyard slot, "The monster that I chose was Ninja Grandmaster Sasuke in attack mode!" the white masked ninja appears on the field once more (ATK: 1800), "Now Sasuke, attack that facedown card with Dagger Throwing Boomerang Bliss!" Sasuke throws his daggers at the facedown card, which appeared to be a weasel wearing a red scarf and underneath him was a small cyclone before he disappeared (DEF: 1500)
"That monster that you destroyed was Whirlwind Weasel, which means that you can't activate your spell or trap cards this turn!" Genkai declared
"It doesn't matter anyways because your wide open for a direct attack," Yusuke said, "Now Obnoxious Celtic Guardian, attack with Celtic Blade Slash!" the elf warrior lunges at Genkai and strikes her torso. The old hermit (GLP: 5150)-(GLP: 3750) clutched her stomach as Obnoxious Celtic Guardian returned to Yusuke's side, "That ends my turn!"
"Wow, Yusuke's doing a lot better than I thought!" Keiko said, impressed with her boyfriend's style of play
"Watashi no turn, draw!" Genkai draws her card from her deck, "I'll set one card facedown and end my turn!"
"No monsters, again," Yusuke said, "Ore no turn draw!" Yusuke draws his card
"Yes, that's right and I'll activate my facedown card, Call of the Haunted!" Genkai declared as her trap card opened up, "This trap allows me to summon any monster that resides in the graveyard to attack mode! Now rise, Roc of the Valley of Haze!" just then the bird looking monster appears once again (ATK: 2400), "I'm sorry, Yusuke, but if you want to get to my life points, I'll have to get through my Roc!"
Yusuke smirked, "That's exactly what I'm planning on doing this turn!" he announced
"Huh?" Genkai said, with her eyes widened
"Does Yusuke have something planned?" Syrus asked
"I don't know!" Kuwabara added, "Genkai's bird looking monster is stronger than Urameshi's monsters."
"Your monster is stronger than my monsters now, I'll give you that one, old lady, but there comes someone even stronger!" Yusuke told her, "Now I'll sacrifice my Ninja Grandmaster Sasuke and Obnoxious Celtic Guardian to summon forth my favorite monster, Gilford the Legend!" Just then, the skies turned cloudy and thunder and lightning occurred, as both Ninja Grandmaster Sasuke and Obnoxious Celtic Guardian disappeared, "What's going on?" Yukina asked, in concern
"Urameshi is going to summon his favorite monster." Kuwabara answered
"Gilford the Legend!" Keiko added
Then, a lightning bolt struck Yusuke's side of the field and a muscular warrior dressed in armor carrying a big sword appears on the field and battle cried (ATK: 2600)
"What's that?" Syrus asked, with a panicking tone
"My Gilford the Legend is the most powerful monsters in my entire deck and he comes with a handy special ability," Yusuke said "See, whenever he's summoned he gets equipped with every equip spell card in the graveyard."
"What……" Genkai said, while flabbergasted
"I'm equipping Lightning Blade that's in my graveyard to my Gilford to enhance its power by 800 points!" Gilford's sword got electrocuted which was building up his strength (ATK: 2600)-(ATK: 3400)
"3400 attack points!" Genkai exclaimed in surprise
"Now Gilford, turn that oversized turkey into a Thanksgiving Dinner, Overload Slash!" The warrior carried out Yusuke's wish and sliced through Genkai's monster (GLP: 3750)-(GLP: 2750), "I'll place a facedown and end my turn!"
"Oh man, Urameshi's winning this duel!" Kuwabara exclaimed, in happiness
"It's still pretty early," Keiko added
"Watashi no turn, draw!" Genkai draws her card, "I'll play Card of Sanctity, now we both draw until we hold six cards in our hands!" Genkai announced as both she and Yusuke drew six cards, "I'll place one monster facedown in defense mode and end my turn, with two facedown cards!"
"Ore no turn, draw!" Yusuke draws a card, "I'll summon onto the field Gearfried the Iron Knight!" an iron clad knight appears on the field (ATK: 1800), "Next I'll activate the equip spell card, Fusion Sword Murasame Blade to my Gearfried to increase his attack by 800!"
"You idiot, Gearfried can't be equip by any equip cards," Genkai snapped
"Yeah I know that, but my Fusion Sword can't be destroyed by any effects that would destroy spell cards!"
"What!"
A lengthy katana was attached to Gearfried's hand, forcibly (ATK: 1800)-(ATK: 2600), "Now Gearfried, attack that facedown card with Murasame Blade Strike!" Gearfried lunged at the facedown card, which appeared to be another Harpie Lady with blue hair (ATK: 1300) before it disappeared.
"You've activated my Harpie Lady 3's special effect, Yusuke," Genkai said, "Meaning Gearfried can't attack for the next 2 of your turns!"
"That wouldn't mean squat when my Gilford attacks you directly with Overload Slash, end this duel!"
"I don't think so!" Genkai announced, "I reveal my facedown trap Mirror Force, so say goodbye to your monsters that are in attack mode!" a reflective shield appeared in front of Genkai and caught the blast then blasted away Gearfried and Gilford, "I'll end with a facedown!" Yusuke muttered, in annoyance
"Yusuke's best monster is destroyed!" Syrus exclaimed
"This is gonna hurt!" Kuwabara added
"Watashi no turn, draw!" Genkai drew her card, "Now, I'll activate two copies of Fiend Sanctuary!" two metal monsters appears on the field (ATK: 0000)x2, "But they won't be here for long because now I'll sacrifice them to summon my favorite monster Simorgh, Bird of Divinity!"
"Simorgh, Bird of Divinity!" Keiko exclaimed, "Yusuke's in for it now!"
"What do you mean?" Kuwabara asked
"Simorgh, Bird of Divinity is one of the most powerful monster cards in the world."
"Most powerful!" Syrus exclaimed
Just then a huge green eagle god, with yellow and orange tail feathers appeared on the field with a screech (ATK: 2700), "I'm not done yet, next I'll activate my facedown card Dust Tornado to destroy that facedown card of yours!" Genkai said, pointing at Yusuke's facedown and a huge sandy tornado appears from out of no where and blows Yusuke's facedown away into oblivion, "Now I'll play Monster Reborn to bring back Roc!" the bird like monster appears on the field (ATK: 2400), "Now my monster attack Yusuke directly and end this duel!" Genkai's two monsters lunged at the frightened Yusuke and knocked the ex-spirit detective down and the rest of his life points.
"Oh man," Kuwabara said
"Yusuke lost," Syrus said
Yusuke slowly got up on his feet and smiled at Genkai, "Where did you learn how to duel, Grandma?" he asked
"Oh let's just say an old friend taught me the game," Genkai said, 'Which happened to be your great grandfather, Yusuke?'
Genkai's Cards Used
Call of the Haunted (T), Card of Sanctity (S), Dust Tornado (T), Harpie Lady 1 (M), Harpie Lady 3 (M), Harpie Lady Sisters (M), Elegant Egotist (S), Fiend Sanctuary (S), Lightning Vortex (S), Monster Reborn (S), Roc from the Valley of Haze (M), Simorgh, Bird of Divinity (M), Sonic Duck (M)
Yusuke's Cards Used
Cyber Gymnast (M), Gearfried the Iron Knight (M), Gilford the Legend (M), Lady Ninja Yae (M), Lightning Blade (S), Mirror Force (T), Mystic Space Typhoon (S), Mystic Swordsman LV4 (M), Ninja Grandmaster Sasuke (M), Obnoxious Celtic Guardian (M)