Chapter 24
Standing at the end of the bed inside the infirmary, Claudia looked down at the blue haired boy, his shirt was off and heart monitor wires was connected to it, his eye's was closed and his face looked peaceful. Reaching up to her right shoulder, she ripped the sling off allowing the pain from the bullet wound to rip through her arm, but at this current moment in time she couldn't feel anything, there was only one emotion that stood out, and that was Rage.
"I promise you Zane… that I will have my revenge… " she her reddish brown eye's looked over to the two beds next to him, to see Jaden and Joshua laying there, still unresponsive, "I promise all three of you" turning her feet, she was quickly met with Pete he had been stood behind her waiting before taking the girl back to class.
"Claudia… i…" she just walked past him, not even listening to a word he was saying but that quickly changed when he took hold of the girls left wrist, "Sweetie wait.." she spun round quickly grabbing Pete by the shirt "Don't sweetie me…Don't touch me…. Don't even speak to me Lattimer… I want that bitches blood and I will get it!" she roughly shoved him away and walked right out of the infirmary just as Myka was walking in.
She noticed Pete rubbing his throat slightly and looked like he had been chocked, "Pete? You ok?" he took in a small bit of air, and coughed before placing his hands on his hips. "There is something wrong with Claudia, ever since Zane lost his duel she's been nothing but mean"
Myka nodded and looked to the bed where Zane was laid she placed her hands on the railing, "How would you keep Claudia calm right now Zane?"
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Down at the Slifer dorms, Claudia was packing her rucksack she opened the top draw of her desk pulling out her tesla, "I've never followed Arties orders so why should I now?" she placed the Tesla in the back pocket of her dark blue boot cut jeans, she took off the slifer jacket throwing it to the ground.
She had taken the sling off her arm just after leaving the infirmary, so she was just wearing a black vest, but that changed when she grabbed a purple and black sleeved hoodie placing t on her upper body then her black vest.
She felt the cards from her deck glow slightly 'we will fight beside you mistress…' an evil smirk appeared on Claudia's lips "Good, cause I'm going to need you in this fight… we are going to take that vamp bitch down" pulling her hood up, throwing the bag on her back she turned around opening the door, only to step back slightly, "Jinksy what are you doing here?"
Steve walked into the dorm room and shut the door, "Where do you think you're going Claudia? Do you know how worried sick everyone is about you?" she pressed her lips together, but the anger never left her eye's "I'm doing something that every other dipshit around here is afraid of, I'm going after that woman"
Steve grabbed Claudia's shoulders, "No…no you're not Claudia, you need to calm your mind, look! Your shoulders not even healed!" she had winced when Steve grabbed her but she then sighed looking down, "You know what, you're right I do need to calm my mind…." She reached into her back pocket and aimed her tesla at him, "When I take down that bitch, now out of my way Steve"
He held up his hands standing back slighty, he knew the tesla wasn't a real gun, but the stun on that thing hurt like hell. "Claud….put the Tesla away…. Let's just…" she stepped slightly forward, "I will not Steve….DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND! I keep losing people and this time I'm going to do something about it! Sure were best friends, but Zane … he was someone different… he didn't care if I came with bagged … he doesn't care if I have therapy or scars! And I've lost him!"
Steve's eye's widened as he saw his best friends eye's grow slightly red, but what he also noticed was the key around her neck, it had glowed slightly "Claudia…. I do understand … please… lets just put the tesla away… talk about this… then go after this woman together ok?"
He saw her eye's soften, and tears threatened to fall, she began to lower the gun "Stevie… I'm sorry…"
"It's ok wonder girl…. I for-" his eye's widened as she pulled the trigger and a shock of light blue lightning entered his body sending him unconscious, hitting the floor.
She threw the Tesla back into her pocket and grabbed her keys, "no one's going to stop me Steve… I'm sorry" with that she left the Dorm, with Agent Jinks unconscious near the bed.
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"So you've not seen Claudia since this morning?" Myka asked the little blue haired boy, they was currently in the infirmary, Alexis was stood next to the little guy and both of them had shook their heads. "Where would she go?" the blonde spoke, but Syrus was the one to answer, "Well with the look of murder on her face, I'm guessing searching for that vampire woman." Alexis looked down to her wrist seeing the second tally mark on her wrist.
"Chazz went out looking for her a while ago, and he's not found anything yet, I'm getting worried Claudia was a rebel yes but I've never seen her so angry before." Myka let out a sigh, Pete had also gone out looking for the young teenager. So far no one could find her. Myka began to fear that the rage inside the red head was getting worse, especially after Pete had been threatened.
Myka knew what revenge could do to a person, she had felt the same way when her partner Sam had died, she spent three years trying to catch the guy who killed him and it almost cost her partner his life.
"Don't worry we will find Claudia and if we have to restrain her we will do-" she was cut off by her Farnsworth buzzing, she quickly answered it to see Steve rubbing his neck, "Have you seen Claudia?"
Myka shook her head, "When did you get to Duel Academy Steve?" she heard a bang in the background indicating Steve had hit something "no time, I found Claudia in the Slifer dorms packing a bag, she Tesla'd me Myka! And now she's gone!" the brunette ran a hand through her curly locks before slapping it on her head, "Great, this is just like the time she ran away from the B&B With the Metronome…" Steve raised an eye brow, he didn't know what trouble his best friend had gone through with the Metronome but now wasn't the time to ask questions. "I'll head out now to look for her, she can't have gotten far."
Alexis looked over Myka's shoulder, "If her bike was there then she could be at the other side of the island by now… wait… that's it! Zane always either goes to the docks or beach Steve you check the docks, we will go to the beach"
"Super…. Loud smelly boats… that girl is in big trouble when I find her…" but before he could get an answer, Myka closed her Farnsworth she looked to the two academy students they both held determination on their faces "Alright lets go show me the way." Both Alexis and Syrus nodded before they sprinted out of the infirmary.
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Down at the beach, the waves crashed into the rocks Claudia's reddish brown eye's glistened in the moonlight she knew this was Zane's favourite spot. It was where he came to be alone she crouched down slightly allowing the waves to gently run over her finger tips "I promise you babes…. I'll bring you back"
Suddenly she stood up turning around holding the Tesla in front of her, but a smirk appeared on her face, "So…you finally show your face?" Standing there in a long slender red dress, long green hair and pointy ears, was the woman that stole her boyfriend's soul, "May I should feel honoured that someone was looking for me. I was actually after that cross dresser" Claudia stepped forward, moving the Tesla to the left and pulled the trigger, "Oh you will be going after no one else, because if you don't duel me right now then I'll have to kill you."
The woman let out a laugh placing a hand on her hip, in a mocking motion she narrowed her eye's to the girl, "oh you think you can beat me? Someone a little upset that I have her boyfriend's soul?" she took out what looked like a voodoo plush doll, identical to Zane. Claudia's eye's widened and aimed the Tesla but the woman shook her index finger, "his soul is right in here darling, you shoot me with that thing, He's going to feel it"
Claudia just lowered the Tesla and reached into her bag, slapping the duel disk on her left wrist, "Alright then DUEL ME! Or are you scared to lose?"
The woman stood baffled, until a Duel disk appeared out of thin air onto her wrist, "Fine I'll duel you little worm, and then you're soul and key will be mine also! No one likes a woman too clingy"
Footsteps could be heard running up the sands, but the red heads eye's never left the woman, "Alright bitch! I'll go first!"
The woman drew her first card and smirked "I place two cards face down, one in the monster zone and one in the spell/trap zone, happy now you little tramp?"
Claudia's anger grew large as she drew and not even paying any attention to the cards in her hand, she picked on slapping it down onto the duel disk, "I summon Cyber Dragon Zwei in attack mode and use it's effect, I reveal one spell card in my hand so when it's on the field it's treated as a Cyber dragon until the next turn then I play poloymerization to fuse Zwei and a Cyber dragon from my hand to summon Cyber Twin Dragon!"
"CLAUDIA! STOP! You're not thinking straight at the moment," She turned her head to see Myka there, her two friends and then up in the distance Steve "SHUT UP MYKA I KNOW WHAT IM DOING!" Claudia faced her opponent "Cyber twin attack her face down" with that a beam of white lightning went from the twin dragons mouth destroying the face down on the field, which Triggered the vampire's effect "Thank you for getting rid of my pyramid turtle, I can now bring to the field Vampires curse in attack mode!"
"OH it wont be staying there for long slut, Cyber twin gets one more attack thanks to his effect! Take out that curse!" and not a moment later Vampires Curse was destroyed dealing the woman 800 points of damage. The grin on the woman's face never left, "Well since you actually managed to do damage to me, I'll tell you my name, it's Camula, the last of the Vampire race… " she winced slightly as the effect of Vampires curse hit Camula for another 500 points of damage.
Camula draws "I now activate Vampire's Curse's effect since I'm in the standby phase ressurecting it to the field with 500 extra attack points making it (2500), I then activate the field spell vampire's kingdom which gives all zombie type monsters 500 extra attack during damage step,"
"I then uses cost down to summon Vampire Lord to the field (Lv 5 2000 attack), Vampire Curse destroy cyber twin," This sent Claudia's Cyber Twin Dragon to the grave and dealing 200 damage to the teenager then before Claudia could get a break, it followed by 2500 from Vampire Lord leaving her on 1300. Claudia Gripped her chest feeling the ripping pains from the shadow duel, it almost made her keel over, Panting slightly her eye's landed onto her duel disk. "Alright lady i draw" Closing her brown eye's Claudia began to clear her mind, all the anger and rage she felt up till now had only gone and made her moves sloppy. It wasn't her style it wasn't how she played. Snapping her eyes open, there wasn't any red sparks in her eye's, they'd gone back to their normal brown colour.
"I activate the spell card Pot of greed allowing me to draw two cards, then summon Cyber core to the field, which allows me to get Cyber Repair Plant to my hand from my deck." The card appeared in her hand and then the duel disk shuffled the deck automatically, "I then activate Machine duplication, to bring my remaining cyber dragons from my deck to the field! Now over lay Cyber Dragons and come forth Cyber Dragon Nova!"
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From the side of the field, Pete had finally reached the beach panting slightly, "who's winning?" Myka ran a hand over her face, "At this moment in time, Claudia's down to 1300 life points, and is feeling a lot of pain, but I can tell… she's not as angry as she was,
Pete nodded and looked to the pale teenager, Myka was right Claudia looked calmer than what she had been "Claudia… go for it girl… you can do it."
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"Alright, I remove one of Nova's XYZ Materials to special summon Cyber dragon form the grave, then I use his second effect by Removing Core from play to increase Nova's attack to 4200, now destroy Vampires curse!" Cyber Nova Dragon didn't waste any time in crushing Vampire's curse, dealing a large 1700 life point Damage to Camula, the woman was unfazed and watched as Claudia placed two cards face down ending her turn
"Hahaha! Is that the best you've got little tramp? I wonder what that boy ever saw in you his soul is better off with me, after all you're only going to lose yours now, I Remove Vampire lord from play to summon Vampire Genesis to the field! Now crush that pathetic Dragon of hers!" Claudia stood up straight throwing her right arm to the side, "I activate Dust Tornado! To destroy your field spell, now I only take 900 points of damage" she covered her face as Cyber Nova Dragon was destroyed, she gritted her teeth feeling the pain strike her heart, it was like a vice was slowly crushing it.
"I activate another Vampires Kingdom and end my turn, go on tramp do your worse…because you are finished"
Claudia draws feeling an electrical current running threw her boy as she suddenly feels Zane stood beside her, the smile on his face was so gentle, and his eye's was soft, 'Claudia… you can do this…. Send that witch to the nether world!' 'Zane..' she whispered, and then looked up "I activate Nova's effect by removing it's last material to summon Cyber Dragon from the graveyard! I also activate Cyber Repair Plant! Since Cyber dragon is in my grave, I can add 1 light attribute monster from my desk to my hand, and I choose Drei!"
The smile on her face was calm, it was the calmest she'd been in days, "I then activate Call of the haunted to bring back another Cyber Dragon, now I activate the one card that will destroy you! POWER BOND!"
She raised the card high into the sky as Lightning struck around her, Syrus watched as his heart reached out to the teenager, he knew what Power bond meant and he immediately jumped up, "GO FOR IT CLAUDIA! DO IT FOR ZANE!"
"I fuse together my two Cyber Dragons and Drei since he is classed as a Cyber dragon on field or graveyard, to summon CYBER END DRAGON!"
Camula stood there, and began laughing, "Haha this is rich! This is what that pretty boy did, he summoned his cyber end dragon and that wasn't enough to beat my darling Genesis honey, you may as well throw in the towel and give me that damn key!" 'she will not win, especially since I have my facedown card….she will lose the instant she attacks me.'
"That is where you are wrong you witch! I fused my Cybers together with Power bond not polymerization! So that means my Cyber End Dragon attack points is doubled!" the vampire's eye's widened as she stood back "No this isn't possible!"
"Oh yes it is! Now!" suddenly Claudia raised her hand to Camula, and everyone could see a shimmer of someone else standing there, "Cyber End Dragon! Ultimate Strident Blaze!"
Destruction played out on the field, everyone watched as Vampire Genesis was tore into pieces of data before Camula's body began to deteriorate, "NOOOO my Clan! The souls I needed for the clan!" Claudia just watched as the woman's body disappeared into nothing, but leaving behind two dolls and two keys.
Claudia took a step forward, but swayed on her feet and began falling sideways, when suddenly someone's arms wrapped around her gently settling her to the ground, her eye's blurred up looking to the boy, "Zane… thank you…" and with that her eye's closed.
The person who caught Claudia looked up, "Chazz…. You got here just in time…" Steve spoke running forward to check his friends pulse, "I saw the fireworks from the Ra's Dorms, I had a feeling a shadow duel was happening. Glad Claudia won her duel." Everyone looked down at the girl sleeping, pain was obvious on her face.
Myka clicked her fingers, "Didn't Vanessa say the last duel Claudia had placed strain on her heart? We need to get her to the infirmary to check her heart over, she lost a lot more life points this time.." Chazz stood up with the girl in his arms, Steve picked up the dolls, keys and bag and they all headed back to duel academy.
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So Claudia won her duel and got the two key's back, but unfortunately that's only two out of 7 duels to be won, who's up next and will she get Zane's soul back?
Where's the professors been in all of this?
Curedream90 and ArticDragonSlayer! Over and out!