Disclaimer: see chapter one
Chapter 30: Duel! Yusuke vs. Catherine
Outside in the front of the mansion, Yusuke and Catherine are looking at each other, while five inches away from each other. Kagome and Mokuba were watching the duel from the sides, "You know, it's been a while since, I've seen a duel." Mokuba said, "I wonder how things will turn up."
Kagome had her arms crossed onto her chest, with a stern looking on her face, thinking that she hopes that Yusuke knows what he's doing.
"Duel!" both duelists drew five cards from their respective decks (CLP: 8000/YLP: 8000)
"Ore no time, draw!" Catherine draws her card, "I'll summon Dark Harpie Lady 1 in attack mode!" a female monster with black hair with red highlights, with purple wings and black hands and feet with long talons wearing a black jumpsuit with purple lines going down. (ATK: 1300).
"Dark Harpie Lady?" Yusuke repeated, in confusion, "I've heard about Harpie Lady 1, but Dark Harpie Lady 1!"
"That's right," Catherine said while smirking, "See there are many types of Harpie Lady Monsters except that this Harpie Lady is more powerful than any Harpie Lady. And thanks to her special ability, she gains 500 attack points." True to Catherine's words, Dark Harpie Lady 1 shrieks as she glowed bright red for several seconds and her attack power increase. (ATK: 1300) - (ATK: 1800)
"Next, I'll play the Spell Card, Dark Elegant Egotist, now I can special summon Dark Harpie Lady!" three more Dark Harpie Ladies appears onto the field. (ATK: 1950), "And thanks to my Dark Harpie Lady 1's special ability, my Harpie sisters gain 500 attack points. (ATK: 1950) - (ATK: 2450)
"I'll place a face-down card and end my turn!," Catherine said, as a face-down card was set behind her Dark Harpie
"Ore no time, draw!" Yusuke draws his first card, "I'll summon Gearfried the Iron Knight on the field, in attack mode!" the black iron clad knight appears on the field (ATK: 1800), "I'll activate Fusion Sword Murasame Blade! Now Gearfried's attack points increase by 800!"
"But, Gearfried can't be equip by any equip cards," Catherine argued
"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), "Gearfried attack her Dark Harpie Lady Sisters!" Yusuke said, pointing at the Dark Harpie Sisters
Gearfried lunged at the Harpie Sisters and the sisters gave a shriek as they were sliced and destroyed.
Catherine blocks the impact as her life points were hit. (CLP: 8000)- (CLP: 7850)
"I'll place two face-downs and end my turn!" Yusuke said, as he placed two cards into the spell/trap slot.
"Yusuke's taken an early lead in the duel!" Mokuba commented
"But he shouldn't lower his guard," Kagome added, carefully looking at Catherine.
"Ore no time, draw!" Catherine draws her next card and looks at it, with a grin on her face, "I'll summon Dark Birdface in defense mode!" a huge black scary bird appears with a shriek, before wrapping its wings around itself. (DEF: 1600), "Next, I'll switch my Dark Harpie to defense as well!" the black clad harpy crotches down to her knee and folded her arms (DEF: 1400), "I'll place a face-down!" Catherine slids a card into the slot and it materialized behind Dark Birdface, "Then, I'll activate my face-down, Mystical Space Typhoon!"
Catherine's face-down Spell Card opens up, "Now I'll it to destroy my face-down!" she said, pointing at her face-down card as a typhoon appears and destroys it, after it revealed a sarcophagus.
"Why would you destroy your own face-down card?" Yusuke asked, in confusion
"To activate it," Catherine said, with a grin, "Whenever, my Dark Coffin is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, you get the privilege to either discard one random card you're your hand or destroy your own monster."
"I know which effect to use," Yusuke turned over his cards that he had in his hand and sends it to the Graveyard slot. "Ore no time, draw!" Yusuke draws his card from his Deck, "I'll summon Cyber Tutu in attack mode!"
The futuristic ballerina spins at her appearance by Gearfried and stops spinning. (ATK: 1000)
"It's a ballerina," Mokuba commented, "A really weak ballerina."
"Why would you bring that weak monster to the field?" Catherine asked
"Because of her special ability to attack you directly as long as there are monsters that are stronger than her." Yusuke replied
"Huh!?!" Catherine took a step back
"Cyber Tutu, direct attack! Pounding Piroutette!" Yusuke commanded, pointing at Catherine and Cyber Tutu charged forward, spinning over Armed Dragon and kicking Catherine in the face. (CLP: 7850) - (CLP: 6850)
"I'm not done, yet," Yusuke said, pointing at Dark Harpie Lady 1, "Gearfried attack Dark Harpie Lady 1!"
Gearfried charges towards Dark Harpie Lady and in one slash the black harpy was destroyed and both Cyber Tutu and Gearfried to their owner's side of the field, "That ends my turn!"
"Ore no time, draw!" Catherine draws her card and observes Yusuke's field, 'As long as that Cyber Tutu is on the field, Urameshi will keep attacking my Life Points' she thought and narrowed her eyes, 'I have to destroy her.' the braided duelist turned her Dark Birdface card vertically, "I'll switch my Dark Birdface to attack mode!"
The black bird spread its wings and screeches sharply, "Dark Birdface, send that ballerina twirlin' to the Graveyard!"
Dark Birdface flips its wings and hover above Cyber Tutu and sends a screech blast at her, "Go Trap Card, Negate Attack!"
One of Yusuke's face-downs opens up, "Now your attack is canceled for this turn!"
Catherine grits her teeth, "Go!"
"Wow, Yusuke's doing a lot better than before," Mokuba said.
"Yeah," Kagome said, 'Maybe, but I won't bet on it.'
"Ore no time, draw!" Yusuke draws his next card and places it in his hand and pulls out a card from his hand, "I'll summon Cyber Gymnast in attack mode!"
The muscular gymnast flips onto the field (ATK: 800), "Next, I'm gonna activate her special ability, by discarding one card from my hand to the Graveyard, I can destroy one of your monsters in attack mode!" Yusuke sends a card from his card and Cyber Gymnast jumps up towards Dark Birdface and kicks its head, destroying it and returning back to Yusuke's side, "Cyber Gymnast, Cyber Tutu, Gearfried, Direct Attack!!!"
All of Yusuke's monsters charged towards Catherine and the ponytailed duelist braced herself for the stampede, which knocked her down and take out a chuck of her Life Points. (CLP: 6850) – (CLP: 2450)
"That ends my turn!"
"I don't believe it," Mokuba said, "Yusuke lowered Catherine's Life Points by more than half."
"Yeah," Kagome said, 'And I'm sure that she only toying with him.' She thought, as Catherine got on her feet
"Ore no time, draw!" Catherine draws her card and smirked at the sight of it, "Okay Urameshi, I'll summon Dark Sonic Duck in defense mode!" a black duck appears onto the field (DEF: 700), "I'll place this face-down and end!" a card materialized behind the black duck
"Ore no time, draw!" Yusuke draws a card and points at Dark Sonic Duck, "Cyber Gymnast, attack that duck now!!"
Cyber Gymnast jumps up and was going to stomp onto Dark Sonic Duck's head, "I'll activate this, Darkness Wave!"
"Oh no!" Kagome exclaimed, 'That's the same card that she used on me!' she thought and looked at Yusuke, "Yusuke heads up that's a very nasty Trap Card!"
"That's right," Catherine said, "Now all ya monsters will be destroyed and you take damage equal to the total attack points of the destroyed monsters."
Yusuke was stunned as a wave of darkness was rushing towards him and destroying all of his monsters and he braced himself for the 4200 damage to his Life Points (YLP: 8000) – (YLP: 3600)
The wave disappeared and leaving nothing on Yusuke's field, except for his face-down card and Yusuke, lowering his Duel Disk, "I end my turn!"
"Whoa, no way!" Mokuba said, "There are no monsters for Yusuke to defend with."
"Ore no time, draw!" Catherine draws her card, from her Deck, "Now I'll summon Dark Flying Kamakiri to the field in attack mode!" as Catherine slaps the card onto her Disk as huge black fly appears onto the field, buzzing (ATK: 1400)
"Dark Flying Kamakiri, Dark Sonic Duck, Direct Attack!" Catherine commanded, pointing at Yusuke as her monster sends sonic waves towards the Yusuke, "Go Trap Card!" Yusuke said, pointing at his face-down card, which opened up, "Draining Shield!" a transparent barrier appears around Yusuke, "Now I get to negate the attack of one of your monsters and I gain Life Points equal to its attack points and I choose Dark Sonic Duck!"
The sonic attack belonging to Dark Sonic Duck hits Yusuke's barrier and rejuvenated 1700 of his Life Points. (YLP: 3600) – (YLP: 5300). "You'll need it, because I still have my Dark Flying Kamakiri!" Then, the sonic waves belonging to Dark Flying Kamakiri went past the barrier and hits Yusuke head on. (YLP: 5300) – (YLP: 3900)
Yusuke puts his right arm, which he used to block Dark Flying Kamakiri's attack, down "Ore no time, draw!" Yusuke draws his card from his Deck, "I'll summon Ninja Grandmaster Sasuke in attack mode!"
The green robed ninja appears onto the field, "Ninja Grandmaster Sasuke, attack!" Yusuke commanded, pointing at the black duck.
Sasuke lunged at the black duck and slashes it with his daggers, before returning to Yusuke's side.
Catherine frowned as her life points were cut down (CLP: 2450) – (CLP: 2340)
"I'm done!" Yusuke said
"Ore no time, draw!" Catherine draws her first card and places it in her hand, "I'll sacrifice my Dark Flying Kamakiri to summon forth Dark Roc from the Valley of Haze!"
The black insect disappears in a blaze of bright violet light and in its place a huge black mutated bird (ATK: 2400)
"Do you have any monsters that don't have the word 'Dark' in them?" Yusuke asked.
"No, I don't," Catherine replied, "Dark Roc, attack with Dark Sonic Blast!!"
Dark Roc shrieks and a wave of sonic shoots from its mouth and destroys Sasuke and Yusuke blocks the impact with his Duel Disk. (YLP: 3900) – (YLP: 3300), "I'll set a face-down and end my turn!" a card materialized behind Dark Roc.
"Ore no time, draw!" Yusuke draws a card from the top of his Deck and look at it, "I'll place a monster face-down in defense mode and end my turn!" a card appears horizontally onto the field.
"Ore no time, draw!" Catherine said, drawing her card, "I'll activate the Spell Card, Reload! Now, all I have to do is add my hand to my Deck and shuffle it. Then draw the same number of cards that I added to my deck with this effect!" Catherine said as she took out her deck, placed her hand on top of the deck, shuffles the deck and drew the same number of cards, "Then, I'll activate face down Trap, Call of the Haunted!"
Catherine's face-down card opens up, "Now I can summon one monster from my Graveyard and I choose Dark Harpie Lady 1!"
Dark Harpie Lady 1 rose from the ground and spreads her dark wings then gave a loud screech. (ATK: 1300)
"Next, I'll summon Dark Harpie Lady 2 in attack mode!" another black harpy appears onto the field (ATK: 1300), "And thanks to my Dark Harpie Lady 1's special ability, all three of my monsters gain 500 extra attack points."
All of Catherine's monsters glowed bright red and their attack points increase. Dark Roc (ATK: 2400) – (ATK: 2900), Dark Harpie Lady 1 (ATK: 1300) – (ATK: 1800) and Dark Harpie Lady 2 (ATK: 1300) – (ATK: 1800)
Kagome and Mokuba gaped their mouths open, "Oh Man!" Mokuba gaped, "That would be enough to finish off Yusuke!"
Kagome felt that it was déjà vu all over again, considering that it happened to her, 'If I'm right, then after Yusuke's Life Points go down to zero, Yusuke would lose conscious again.' She thought and didn't want the same thing to happen to Yusuke, "Stop the Duel, now!"
Yusuke and Catherine gave the black haired duelist a puzzled look, "Why's that?" Mokuba asked
"Yeah, why do you want us to stop?" Yusuke asked
"Because the same happened to me," Kagome said, "After I was defeated by this girl over here," she said, pointing at Catherine, "Anytime that I dueled and lost, I would lose consciousness. Plus, you were hit unconscious, after your cards were shot out of your Duel Disk. Please stop the match!"
Catherine's eyes were shot wide, 'His cards were shot out of his Duel Disk……'
"But, I'll be fine!" Yusuke said, in defense
"No, you won't," Kagome pleaded, "Please Yusuke, stop the match, I don't want to see you get hurt!"
Yusuke growled, "Okay fine……"
The images disappeared off the field, "It looks like we have to Duel sometime next time." Yusuke said.
"Yeah," Catherine stared at Yusuke hard, 'There must be some reason to why that happen.' She thought
Later at the night, Kaiba showed Yusuke and Kagome to their rooms and needless to say that they were impressed.
Yusuke's door was opened by Roland, "Excuse me, Mr. Urameshi," he said, looking at the ex-spirit detective, who lying on his bed.
Yusuke sat up and looked at the man, "Yeah."
Roland handed Yusuke the phone, "There's a Ms. Yukimura on line for you."
Yusuke got up on his feet and placed the receiver to his ear as Roland made his way out, "Hey!"
"Hey Yusuke, how's your first day?" Keiko asked
"I'm fine, Keiko, how are you?" Yusuke asked
"I'm fine, just the usual. Syrus and Ryoko can't seem to get along with each other."
"Watch it, Half Pint!"
"No why don't you watch, Blonde!"
Yusuke rolled his eyes as he could hear arguments are shot, "If I didn't know any better, they act like a married couple."
"Yeah, they might the same as us, one day."
"Yeah, that is if they don't kill each til then." Yusuke said, "Oh just to let you know that there's someone else that's staying with us."
"Oh really."
"Yeah, her name is Catherine Maxwell and I know what you're thinking right now."
"Oh and what do you think I'm thinking?" Keiko asked, in a cold tone of voice
"You're thinking that I have some feelings for this girl, when in reality I don't," Yusuke replied, "There's no need to get jealous."
"I'm not jealous!" Keiko snapped
That yell almost got Yusuke's eardrum busted, "Besides, the only one that would be jealous if his/her relationship partner is staying with someone of the opponent gender is you."
"Oh please," Yusuke snapped, "I completely trust you."
"You do," Keiko said, "Then, you wouldn't mind if I go out with one of my guy friends from school would you?"
Yusuke's stomach were at knots, but he had to trust that Keiko wouldn't cheat on him, "No, not at all!"
"Okay who the hell are you and what have you done to my Yusuke?" Keiko asked, in an almost pissed off tone
"Oh Ha! Ha! Very funny!"
Keiko giggled at Yusuke's sarcasm, "Okay, I better go before the married couple kill each other. You're coming to the park on Independence Day, right?"
"Of course, I'm coming," Yusuke said, "You think that I'm just going to miss it."
"Right."
Yusuke could tell that Keiko was blushing, "I love you."
Keiko was stunned at this and came back to earth, "I love you, too."
-Yusuke's Card List-
New Cards List
-Catherine's Card List-
New Cards List
Call of the Haunted (T), Dark Coffin (T), Mystical Space Typhoon (S), Reload (S)
Dark Birdface: Dark/Level 4/Winged Beast/Effect: When this card is sent to the Graveyard as a result of battle, you can add 1 "Harpie Lady" from your Deck to your hand. Then shuffle your Deck. (ATK: 1600/DEF: 1600)
Dark Elegant Egotist: Normal Spell: You can only activate this card when there are 1 or more face-up monsters that have the name "Dark Harpie Lady" in its card name on the field. Special Summon 1 monster that have the name "Dark Harpie Lady" in its card or "Dark Harpie Lady Sisters" from your hand or your Deck.
Dark Flying Kamakiri: Dark/Level 4/Insect/Effect: When this is sent to the Graveyard as a result of battle, you can Special Summon 1 DARK monster with an ATK of 1500 or less in face-up Attack Position from your Deck. Then shuffle your Deck. (ATK: 1400/DEF: 900)
Dark Harpie Lady 1: Dark/Level 4/Winged Beast/Effect: As long as this card remains on the field, increase the ATK of all DARK monsters by 500. (ATK: 1300/DEF: 1400)
Dark Harpie Lady 2: Dark/Level 4/Winged Beast/Effect: Negate the effects of any Flip Effect Monsters that are destroyed by this monster as a result of battle. (ATK: 1300/DEF: 1400)
Dark Harpie Lady Sisters: Dark/Level 6/Winged Beast/Effect: This card cannot be Normal Summoned by the effect of "Dark Elegant Egotist". (ATK: 1950/DEF: 2100)
Dark Roc from the Valley of Haze: When this card is sent directly from your hand to the Graveyard, add this card to the Deck and shuffle it. (ATK: 2400/DEF: 1400)
Dark Sonic Duck: Dark/Level 3/Winged Beast: (ATK: 1700/DEF: 700)
Darkness Wave: Normal Trap: Negate the attack of 1 of your opponent's monsters and destroy all of your opponent's face-up monsters. Then, inflict damage equal to the total of ATK points of the monsters destroyed by this card effect.
Japanese Index
Ore no time-My turn!