Disclaimer: see chapter one
Chapter 17: Rematch: Yusuke vs. Ryoko
As evening approaches, Yusuke and the others got out of the train station.
"I still can't believe that you lost to Genkai, Urameshi," Kuwabara said, for the tenth time, which was annoying Yusuke to a brink of hitting him, "Shut up, she's a duel monsters champion for fifty times in row." He snapped
"I never knew that Genkai played duel monsters, though," Keiko said
"Yeah, neither did I," Kuwabara said
"It figures that she has all those games at her temple, she'll be into duel monsters." Yusuke said
"I still can't believe that she has all those games there," Syrus added
The four made their way to Yusuke's apartment complex; "Hey Urameshi!" came a voice which made the four turned to see Ryoko and Mia behind them
"Ryoko, what are you doing here?" Keiko asked
"I came to have a rematch with Urameshi," Ryoko replied, holding her left arm which appeared to be a Duel Gauntlet, activated.
"A rematch?" Kuwabara said
"You must be a glutton for punishment," Syrus sneered, with his arms crossed, "Yusuke has beaten you once and I bet he can do it again."
"That was luck," Mia spat
"Fine!" Yusuke activates his Duel Disk and the same went for Ryoko, "Let's Duel!" (YLP: 8000/RLP: 8000)
"Ore no turn, draw!" Yusuke whips out a card from his deck, "First 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), "I'll end my turn, with two facedowns!" the two cards behind Sasuke, without the Grandmaster noticing
"Boku no turn, draw!" Ryoko declared, drawing a card from her deck, "Activating trap card, Solemn Wishes!" Yusuke declared, as he pressed the button on his duel disk, "Whenever I draw a card from my deck, I gain 500 life points!"
"500 points!" Mia said
"Way to play, Yusuke!" Syrus cheered, "Now finish her off!"
"Planning to," Yusuke said, "Now go!"
"Planning to," Ryoko said, "Where were we? Oh yeah! I was going to summon Mother Grizzly in defense mode!" a big blue bear appears, sitting on her hide (DEF: 1000), "Finally, I'll play one facedown!"
"Ore no turn, draw!" Yusuke said, pulling a card from his deck, "And thanks to Solemn Wishes, I gain 500 points because I drew a card!" Yusuke's body glowing green as his life points went up (YLP: 8000)-(YLP: 8500), "And they'll continue to skyrocket because I'll play spell card, Pot of Greed!" a huge green pot, with an ugly face appears, "That allows me to draw two cards from my deck!" Yusuke draws two cards, "…and gives my 500 life points." (YLP: 8500)-(YLP: 9000)
"9000 life points!" Keiko exclaimed
"How's Ryoko going to take Urameshi down, if he's life points keep raising for every draw!" Mia exclaimed
"Next, I'll activate the spell card, Lightning Vortex! All I need to do is discard one card from my hand and this spell card destroys all monsters on your side of the field!" Yusuke declared, as he discards a card and a lightning blot was heading towards Mother Grizzly, "Not so fast, go trap card, Spell Shield Type-8! Now by discarding one spell card, I can stop your lightning blot at its tracks!" Yusuke's lightning was negated, "Okay then, I'll summon Dark Blade in attack mode!" the tall and imposing warlord with jet black armor and twin jagged swords. His face was completely hidden, and behind him was a flowing crimson cape appears by Ninja Grandmaster Sasuke (ATK: 1800), "Next, I'll activate my facedown trap out, Blast with Chain on my Ninja Grandmaster Sasuke!" Just then, a rocket was attached to Yusuke's ninja and a chain with a spike in his hands, "This trap card increases my ninja's attack strength by 500 points!" (ATK: 2300), "Now Dark Blade, make a bear rug out of that bear, Dragon Slaying Slash!" At Yusuke's command, Dark Blade charges towards Ryoko's bear and slaying it.
"Awesome, Urameshi's taking the lead!" Kuwabara cheered
"Nuh! Uh! He's taking the bait!" Ryoko said, with a grin
"Now what?" Yusuke asked
"When you destroyed my Mother Grizzly, you've activated her special ability, allowing to special summon one water monster from my deck and directly to the field in attack mode and I've got the perfect one, Mother Grizzly rise!" Ryoko declared as another blue bear appears (ATK: 1400)
"Good I'll make another bear-skinned rug!" Yusuke sneered, "Go Sasuke, attack Mother Grizzly with Dagger Boomerang Strike!" Sasuke throws his daggers at Mother Grizzly and stabbing the bear. Ryoko (RLP: 8000)-(RLP: 7100) shields herself from the slaughter, "Now the special ability of my bear activates I get to summon another water monster in attack mode so, rise, Unshaven Angler!" a man eating fish with a wide mouth and huge sharp teeth appears on the field (ATK: 1500)
Syrus and Kuwabara looked at bit freaked, "Wow that's one big fish!" Kuwabara said
"Yeah, no kidding," Syrus added
"I'll end my turn!" Yusuke said
"Boku no turn, draw!" Ryoko pulls a card from her deck, "Now I'll sacrifice my Unshaven Angler and to summon Gogiga Gagagigo!" the deformed fish disappeared and took its place was a huge dinosaur like monster with futuristic armor with spikes (ATK: 2950)
"Hey! Hold on!" Yusuke exclaims in outrage, "That monster is way too strong to be sacrificed by one monster!"
"I'm surprised that you actually follow the rules of this game," Ryoko said, "However, my Unshaven Angler had a special ability, see I can substitute it as two monsters when I'm planning to summon a water monster like Gogiga Gagagigo." Ryoko's monster growled at Yusuke's warriors, "Now Gogiga Gagagigo, attack that Ninja Grandmaster Sasuke with Dinosaur Claw Slash!" At Ryoko's command, her monster charges towards Sasuke and slashes him with his claws. Yusuke (YLP: 9000)-(YLP: 8350) shields himself from the slaughter and grins, "Hey Ryoko, you might want to take a good look at your monster!" he advised
Ryoko looked at her monster and her eyes widened, "What!" she exclaims in outrage, "There's some kind of rocket on my monster's back!"
"Exactly, see you're not the only one, who knows tricks," Yusuke explained, with his finger pointing up with amusement, "My Blast with Chain trap card has other ability, whenever it is destroyed while being an equip card, it can destroy one card on field, meaning your monster will be destroyed and you'll be wide open for a direct attack!"
"No way," Ryoko said, with disbelief as Yusuke's rocket has detonated taking Ryoko's monster along with it.
"With no cards to defend herself, Ryoko's life points will be in big trouble!" Mia said
"Awesome move, Yusuke!" Syrus cheered
"Ore no turn, draw!" Yusuke draws his card, "And thanks to Solemn Wishes my life points increase!" Yusuke said as his life points went up (YLP: 8350)-(YLP: 8850), "Next, I'll summon my Pitch-Dark Dragon!" a big dragon appears by Dark Blade and roared (ATK: 900), "Then, I'll combine my dragon with my Dark Blade, which increases Dark Blade's attack and defense strength by 400 points!" Dark Blade jumps onto the dragon and was getting stronger (ATK: 1800/DEF: 1500)-(ATK: 2200/DEF: 1900), "Now Dark Blade attack Ryoko directly with Dragon Slaying Shockwave!" Dark Blade slashed the air, which was creating a green arc slash, which had hit Ryoko's torso. Ryoko winced as her life points took a drop (RLP: 7100)-(RLP: 4900).
Just then, a pair of pink eyes was watching the duel. Botan was on her oar and was amazed that Yusuke was winning the duel, "I wonder when Yusuke got so good in duel monsters,"she said to herself, "In the past, the only person that he has managed to win against was Kuwabara."
"Boku no turn, draw!" Ryoko picks a card from her deck, "I'll activate a spell card that you might recognize, Umi!" Ryoko slaps the card into the field card recognizer and the playing field was flooded, "I'll play one monster card facedown and end my turn!"
"Ore no turn, draw!" Yusuke draws his card, "And thanks to Solemn Wishes, I gain 500 life points!" Yusuke's body begun to glow again (YLP: 8850)-(YLP: 9350), "Next, I'll activate the spell card, Graceful Charity, now I can draw three cards and discard two!" Yusuke draws three cards and discards two to the graveyard slot, "And another thanks to my Solemn Wishes, my life points increase by 1500 points, since I drew three cards from my deck." (YLP: 9350)-(YLP: 9850) "Next, I'll summon Marauding Captain in attack mode!" the 15th century captain appears on the field, next to Dark Blade (ATK: 1200/DEF: 400), "Next I'll activate my monster's special ability to special summon one more warrior monster and now rise D.D. Assailant!" a blonde warrior with white armor appears on the field (ATK: 1700/DEF: 1600), "Now Dark Blade, annihilate Ryoko's facedown monster with Dragon Slaying Shockwave!" Dark Blade slashes the air and his arc waves hit Ryoko's facedown monster, which showed an image of a penguin dressed in a tuxedo (DEF: 1800)
Yusuke's eyes widened, "Wait a sec……Nightmare Penguin."
Ryoko grinned, "That's right," she started, "You've activated it's special ability, whenever it's flipped face up, I can return one card to your hand and I've been wanting to do this, ever since you've activate it, Solemn Wishes is returned to your hand!"
Yusuke pulls his card out of the spell and trap slot and place it in his hand, "No worries, it will come back, but if I were you I'd prepare for a big surprise."
Just then, one of Dark Blades arcs came and hit Ryoko's stomach pushing her back. (RLP: 4900)-(RLP: 4500)
"Ryoko!" Mia exclaimed
Ryoko winced and gazed at Yusuke, "What happened? Why did I lose life points? Your Dark Blade doesn't have a special ability!"
Yusuke smirked, "You're right, it doesn't," he started, "But however, my Pitch-Dark Dragon does, see, whenever Dark Blade, equips with it, attacks the difference between his attack points and your defense points of your monster, is considered damage to your life points! But, I'm not done, yet! Go Marauding Captain and D.D. Assailant attack her directly!"
"This is gonna hurt," Ryoko said, as Yusuke's monsters came slashes her with their swords. (RLP: 1600)
Yusuke's warrior had returned to their original places, "Next, I'll place this facedown and end my turn!"
Ryoko grunts, 'That has to be Solemn Wishes,' she thought, 'it'll be a bitch of Urameshi activates it!' "Boku no turn, draw!" she draws her card, "Then, this trap activates!" Yusuke said, "Go Solemn Wishes!"
"Not again!" Mia groaned, "Now Urameshi's life points will increase for every draw he gets!"
"Awesome move, Yusuke!" Syrus cheered
"I'll activate Pot of Greed, which allows me to draw two cards!" Ryoko draws two cards and eyes them and grins, 'Perfect, I've got a way to counter that damnable trap card.' She thought, "I'll play two facedowns and end my turn!"
"Ore no turn, draw!" Yusuke draws his card, "And thanks to Solemn Wishes, my life points increase!"
"Oh no!" Ryoko said, "Not this time, go trap card, Bad Reaction to Simochi!" Ryoko's trap card opens up.
Yusuke groans, "Damn it, not that card!" he yelled
"What's the deal?" Kuwabara asked
"With Bad Reaction to Simochi, any effect increasing your opponent's life points is automatically turned into damage of the same amount to your opponent's life points," Keiko replied, "In other words, every time that Yusuke's Solemn Wishes goes into effect, he'll lose 500 points from his life points, for every time he draws."
"What!" Syrus exclaims, "Oh no!"
Yusuke's duel disk had electrocute him and taking 500 life points down (YLP: 9850)-(YLP: 9350). Yusuke winced, "Gees that hurt," he said, "Now I'll activate the spell card, Reinforcement of the Army! Now I get to pick, one four-star or lower warrior from my deck and to me hand." Yusuke pulls his deck from his duel disk and searched through it. He then found the card what card he was looking for, "Now I'll summon another Marauding Captain to the field!" another captain appears on the field (ATK: 1200), "Now then, wipe out the rest of her life points!" Yusuke's entire monsters charges towards Ryoko, "I don't think so, go trap card, Tornado Wall!" a water cyclone wall appears between Ryoko and Yusuke's attacking monsters, blocking them, "What!" Yusuke yelled
"As long as this wall is here, your attacks directly to my life points are blocked!" Ryoko said, as the cyclone wall dissipated.
Yusuke grimaced, "So what?" he said, "Even if you summon a strong enough monster to defeat these, you can't attack any of them because of my Marauding Captain's special ability!"
"That's right," Mia said, "Marauding Captain's ability prevents any other warrior from being destroyed as a result of a battle and since Urameshi has two captains out Ryoko can't attack!"
"That's right, so it's a stalemate," Yusuke finished
"For now," Ryoko said, "Boku no turn draw!" she draws a card from her deck and looks it, then grins, "I'll activate the spell card, Cut Half!"
Yusuke gasped, "No way!" he exclaimed, "You have that card!"
"I don't get it," Kuwabara said
"Yeah I agree with Kuwabara, what does it do?" Syrus said
"Whenever your opponent has 3000 or higher life points than you do, then your opponent's life points are cut in half and the amount that was cut of gets added to your life points." Keiko said
"That's right," Ryoko said, as a huge green arc hits Yusuke and his half points are cut (YLP: 9350/RLP: 1600)-(YLP: 4675/RLP: 6275), "Next I'll activate Monster Reborn to revive my Gogiga Gagagigo!" in a flash of blue light the dinosaur monster appears on the field (ATK: 2950), "And thanks to Umi, my monster gains 200 points to its attack and defense power!" (ATK: 2950/DEF: 2800)-(ATK: 3150/DEF: 3000)
"I don't see the point of summoning a monster that you can't attack with," Yusuke said
"I'll end my turn!" Ryoko declared
"Ore no turn, draw!" Yusuke said, as he drew and was electrocuted by his duel disk (YLP: 4675)-(YLP: 4175), then winced afterwards, figuring that it was that damn trap of Ryoko's, "Okay, I'm going to activate a spell card called, Harpie's Feather Duster, which destroys all of your spell and trap cards you got on the field!"
"No, my ocean!" Ryoko exclaims, as a tempest of feather appears and blows away her ocean and trap cards.
"Awesome!" Kuwabara cheered, "Without that Bad Reaction to Simochi, Urameshi's life points won't decrease anymore!"
"Plus, without Tornado Wall, Yusuke can do damage to Ryoko's life points with his monsters!" Syrus added
"Next, I'll activate the spell card, Card of Sanctity, which allows us to draw until we hold six cards in our hands!" Yusuke draws five cards, Ryoko draws only two, "And thanks to Solemn Wishes I gain 500 life points (YLP: 4675)-(YLP: 5175) since I've drawn cards. You're finished here, Ryoko!" Yusuke said, "I'll summon Disciple of the Forbidden Spell in attack mode!" a young man with a barrel on his shoulders and a sword in his hands appears ready for attack (ATK: 1700)
"I hate to say this, but your monster is weaker than monster," Ryoko said, as her monster roared with agreement
"True, but when I activate my spell card, A. Forces, which the word 'teamwork' comes in, because this card increases the attack force of all my warriors by 200 for each warrior on the field!"
"No way……"
Disciple of the Forbidden Spell (ATK: 1700)-(ATK: 2700), Marauding Captain (ATK: 1200)-(ATK: 2200)x2, Dark Blade (ATK: 2200)-(ATK: 3200), and D.D. Assailant (ATK: 1700)-(ATK: 2700), "Dark Blade, attack Gogiga Gagagigo with Dragon Slaying Shockwave!" Dark Blade slashes the air and his arc waves hit Gogiga Gagagigo, destroying it. Ryoko grunts as she shields herself and her life points drop (RLP: 6275)-(RLP: 5775), "Alright guys, wipe out the rest of her life points!" At Yusuke's command, all of his monsters charges towards the freaked Ryoko and hit her hard, which was followed by her being knocked down on the ground and her life points hitting zero (RLP: 5775)-(RLP: 0000).
"No way, again!" Mia said, "Urameshi won, again!"
"Yusuke won!" Syrus cheered, "I guess it wasn't luck huh!"
Botan was in disbelief as well, "Yusuke won?" she said
"That's quite a surprise, isn't it?"
Botan almost lost her balance on her oar and turned to Koenma, in toddler version, "Koenma sir!" Botan said, trying to get on her oar, "How long were you here?"
"I got here just as Yusuke activated his Pitch-Dark Dragon's special ability to equip it to Dark Blade." Koenma replied, "It's practically unbelievable that Yusuke could duel, much less win against someone either than Kuwabara."
"I guess the tips that Yugi gave Yusuke really worked."
Ryoko slowly got on her feet, thinking that she lost to Yusuke again, "Yusuke!"
The younger teens turned to see Kari walking towards them, "Hey sis!" Yusuke said, "What's with the overalls?"
Kari was indeed wearing blue shirt and jean overalls, "We promised that we'll help the Truesdales with painting, remember." she said, and then noticed Ryoko and Mia, "Oh hi!"
"Hey Keiko, mind explaining who's the Urameshi look-a-like?" Ryoko asked, referring to Kari
"Oh yeah, that's Yusuke's twin sister, Hikari Urameshi." Keiko replied, "Kari, for short."
"Twin!" the two girls exclaimed, "Is she like Urameshi?" Mia asked
"No, not exactly, Kari is exactly older than Yusuke by two minutes."
"Yeah," Kari said, putting her twin to a headlock, "And makes sure that Yusuke never forgets it." She said, drilling her fist onto Yusuke's head
Yusuke wasn't exactly enjoying it, "Ouch! Kari, knock it off!" he snapped, managing to get away from his sister's grip and rubbed his head, "Alright, I'll get ready!" he gritted
Yusuke's Cards Used
A. Forces (S), Blast with Chain (T), Card of Sanctity (S), Disciple of the Forbidden Spell (M), Harpie's Feather Duster (S), Lightning Vortex (S), Solemn Wishes (T)
Ryoko's Cards Used
Bad Reaction to Simochi (T), Mother Grizzly (M), Gogiga Gagagigo (M), Monster Reborn (S), Nightmare Penguin (M), Pot of Greed (S), Tornado Wall (T)
Cut Half: Normal Spell: Whenever your opponent has 3000 or higher life points than you do, then your opponent's life points are cut in half and the amount that was cut of gets added to your life points.