Annex 060: Stitched Up Purple Heart

Team June's LP: 6000 Team Phoebe's LP: 4000

"Infernoid Nehemoth! Destroy!" Eric made his big attack. Ritual Beast Ulti-Cannahawk(6/1400/1600), Frightfur Sheep(6/2000/2000) and Infernoid Decatron(1/500/200) were all wiped away from the halls by the power of the infernal Onuncu dragon(10/3000/3000). Some deaths were permanent. Some were not. "Rise, Frightfur Sheep! That's not going to kill you!" Frightfur Sheep had an effect that got around death. Every time it was destroyed, it would come back with 800 more attackpoints. The sheep of death(8/2800/2800) was pulled up by the chains on its back. "See. We are perfectly in sync. You'd call that manipulation? Heh, you're just running out of lies." The girl did her usual cackle.

"Yeah! And there's more where that came from! I activate Void Imagination!" The cleansed field made room for the tree of purgatory, with the ten spheres of sin. "Now that I control this continuous spell, I can lower the level of my Infernoids to 1! In return, the damage they inflict will be cut in half." As Infernoids could normally not be special summoned when their master already controlled monsters whose combined levels exceeded 8, Void Imagination provided a way around it. "I summon Infernoid Asmodai from my hand!" Now there was just a very lowlevel Infernoid Onuncu(1/3000/3000) on Erics field. Thus, by banishing an Infernoid from his hand, along with Infernoid Decatron in his graveyard; Infernoid Piaty the golden demon king(5/2200/0) could be special summoned. "When you take damage from Asmodai, you have to throw away one of your cards, June!" Eric had her in his sights. Asmodai slammed his staff down on the blonde womans hand and forced her to discard a Ritual Beast Pettlephin monster from her hand. "And I havent forgotten you either!" Infernoid Onuncu loomed over Neter. "Whoa.. looong!" The kid exclaimed, seconds before he was overwhelmed by spheres of hellish light. "Hah! Can a fool do that?"

Team June's LP: 3250

"That was not bad. Though you could have done more damage had you not used that Void spell. I guess you really had it out for my hand." Despite the immense power that the Infernoids had released upon the two duelists, June and Neter seemed to be completely unaffected. "I thought demons would pack a little more punch than fluffals and edge imps. Grrr." Eric reluctantly ended his turn. He would find a way to throw these people off their game yet. "Yay, my turn!" Neter already had a new plan. "Let's go go go!" He normal summoned his last Satellarknight Altair(4/1700/1300), whose effect special summoned Satellarknight Deneb(4/1500/1000) from the graveyard. "Hmm, Capella!" Deneb of course made sure Neter could add a new Tellarknight from his deck to his hand. "I will get him with this trap! Stellarnova Wave!" The continuous trap that he flipped face-up could special summon Tellarknights from the hand once a turn. Capella the white/gold chariot-rider(4/1100/2000) rode in on a path carved out of starlight.

"Oh no. You are not getting away with that again." Last time Phoebe had told him not to interfere. This time she did not recommend any alternate strategies, so Eric followed his own initiative. "I activate Misschief of the Yokai from my graveyard to reduce your monsters level by 1! Good luck XYZ-summoning now!" Eric could banish this trap to activate it against Satellarknight Deneb(3/1500/1000). "Oh. Oh no, whatever shall I do?" Neter halfheartedly pretended to be upset by this stunt. "Oh well, if I cannot go for rank 4.. Satellarknight Capella can treat all my Tellarknights as level 5 monsters!" Neter overlayed all three of his star warriors, their level stars increased to five as they threw themselves into the XYZ-portal. "Capella can do what?" Erics plan backfired. He could not prevent a rank-5 XYZ-summon. "Satellarknight Constellar Diamond!" The celestial dragon warrior(5/2700/2000) was born, it carried the cosmos in its own wings.

"Now, I will power him up with Hexatellarknight!" Neter placed his field spell on his dueldisk. Eric saw this as his last chance to redeem himself. "I got this.. Infernoid Onuncu can negate spells or traps by sacrificing other monsters I control!" The great devil dragon devoured its own body from tail to head and bled hellfire all over the field. Hexatellarknight turned into a smoldering wasteland. "Awwww.. whoops. Did I say Hexatellarknight? I meant.. Hexatellarknight!" So Neter simply activated a second copy of the field spell from his hand. "What? Come on!" Now Constellarknight Diamond would gain 200 attackpoints for each of its XYZ-materials. Currently it(3300/2000) was only interested in Phoebe's demons. "Time to go, Frightfur Sheep!" The stellar dragon fired a dozen photon rays from its wings, and filled the fused chainsaw sheep with holes. "..." Frightfur Sheep tried to crawl back up and repair itself again. "Uh-uh-uh!" So the Diamond knight(3100/2000) put it down for good, by detaching one XYZ-material and slamming it to pieces with its tail. "My XYZ-monster can negate the effects of dark monsters, like all of your deadly toys! Also as long as Diamond has XYZ-materials, cards cannot be sent from the deck to the graveyard or from the graveyard to a players hand!"

Team Phoebe's LP: 3700

"Damn it. We can get them, Phoebe. We have to!" Eric tried his best to not look weak in front of his partner. It was too late for that. "Don't tell me what we need, Stonewell. I take my own advise. They'll bleed." Before Neter ended his turn, Phoebe activated her trap card. "Overlay Drain. Your XYZ-monster will suffer first. All of its materials are taken and I gain a new card for each card that went to the grave!" The drain trap, one whose construction Phoebe had requested herself , was another perfect tool against the onslaught of XYZ-monsters. She did not think she would use it like this though. "That's mean!" Neter whined as Diamond(2700/2000) lost all of its powers, while Phoebe drew two cards. "You yourself said there are no rules in dueling. This is the consequence!" "Fusion Recovery." Phoebe then activated her spell to recover Polymerization and one monster that had been used as a fusion material, Edge Imp Chain. "Polymerization!" Phoebe fused Edge Imp Chain again with the Fluffal Bear in her hand, to fusion summon a second Frightfur Sheep(6/2000/2000).

Overlay Drain, Normal Trap
Target 1 Xyz Monster on the field; detach all of its Xyz Materials.
If you have no monster cards on your field or cards in your hand: you can draw 1 card for each detached Xyz Material.

"Now look closely, Stonewell. This is what a real monster should be like." As Edge Imp Chain had been sent to the graveyard again, it could take another Frightfur card from her deck. She used the effect to get her hands on a second Frightfur Fusion. "By fusing three Frightfur fusion monsters, the ultimate Frightfur can be created." With Frightfur Fusion, Phoebe fused the Sheeps on the field with the Sheep and Frightfur Bear in her graveyard. "FUSION SUMMON! FRIGHTFUR CHIMERA!" The girl slammed her hands together, as a horrific amalgam arose from the maelstrom. It(8/2800/2000) was a machine with the torn -off upper bodies of the two Sheep and Bear stuffed on top of mechanical claws. "When Frightfur Chimera strikes, no effects can be activated." The bear head opened its jaws wide and fired a missile. The missile detonated upon impact with the Constellar Stellarknight. Bits and pieces of gold and diamond flew everywhere.

Team June's LP: 3150

"And whatever it kills, becomes mine!" The destroyed body of the XYZ-monster was re-assembled. Stellarknight Constellar(1350/2000) returned to life, but weaker than it was before. Chimera's targets could only be special summoned to its side with half their attackpoints taken away. However, Frightfur Chimera(3100/2000) gained 300 attackpoints for each monster that Phoebe had stolen away with card effects. "Direct attack." Her new monster would attack its former master. The dragon slammed into the kid. "Uwah, rude!" Neter looked pain for once, which pleased the twofaced girl. She placed a trap down and ended her turn. "Maybe now you will feel a little less tongue-tied? The two of you are clearly not part of any Guild. So why you join our little massacre scene?"

Team June's LP: 1800

"You will have to excuse us, since we usually just take the answers." June brazenly admitted. "You're an unusual case, this whole world is. Not many people are immune to my ability. But the one we are looking for, Tempus, he would be.." She said the name again. Phoebe cracked another smile. "Tempus? Doesn't ring a bell. You should try asking the XYZ-guild." The fusion guild leader suggested. "We did, you were next in line. Now Eric knows nothing, but you do.. You can't hide that. Let's stop being coy with each other." June started her turn properly. "I activate Ritual Beast Ambush. This trap will summon a Spiritual Beast and a Ritual Beast Tamer from the graveyard." The Beast Cannahawk(4/1600/200) and the Tamer Lara(1/100/2000) returned to the field. "I fuse them.." The pair was banished to fusion summon a second Ritual Beast Ulti-Cannahawk(6/1400/1600). "Now with her, I can get another Ritual Beast card." Ulti-Cannahawks effect returned the banished Cannahawk and Lara to the graveyard and added Ritual Beast Tamer Wen to June's hand at the same time. Ritual Beast Tamer Wen(4/1500/1000) was normal summoned and her effect special summoned the banished Spiritual Beast Apelio(4/1800/200).

"Ooh! You're gonna do it, June?" Neters excitment levels reached a peak. "Yes I am. I get a feeling that August and December are waiting for us, so we're gonna wrap this up now. There is one Ulti-beast that can only be fusion summoned by banishing a Beast Tamer, a Spiritual Beast and another Ritual Ulti-Beast." Apelio and Tamer Wen both jumped on the back of Ulti-Cannahawk and covered themselves in a green glow. "This monster is Ritual Beast Ulti-Gaiapelio!" The energy scattered like raining bullets and revealed the creature underneath. The tamer now rode a giant lion(10/3200/2100) with fur of grass and great tree on its back. "Here is my chimera, Phoebe. What do you think?" The Gaia-lion made a giant leap towards Stellarknight Diamond. In its current state the Knight could not even put up a fight, Gaia-Pelio flattened it. Frightfur Chimera(2800/2000) had no more puppet slaves to draw power from. "Oh yeah, now it is getting fun, June. You are a freak of nature like me!"

Team Phoebe's LP: 1850

"Is that what you are looking for in a duelist, freaks?" June did not sound insulted, just confused. "I know that's not why you joined the guild. Do you remember why Eric?" She placed a trap card down and passed the turn to Eric. "Why are you asking me that? If this is another trick.." This question did make his brain go into overtime. "I..did it because.." He could find the reasons; two of them. Except one conflicted with the other. "Stop trying to confuse me! I'm going to beat you no matter what!" He activated his face-down continuous trap after his draw phase. "Void Launch! I can send two Infernoids to my graveyard during my standby phase!" Eric discarded Infernoid Antra and Infernoid Harmadik, two Infernoids which would serve well as cannonfodder. "Now that you have an extra deck monster, I can use Void Imaginations other effect!" The purgatorial tree spell destroyed itself. "Void Imagination fuses five Infernoids in my deck, including Infernoid Devyaty, to fusion summon my ultimate monster; Infernoid Tierra! And then he will send even more cards from the extra deck to the grave!"

"I am afraid not, Eric. You see.." June discarded a Ritual Beast monster from her hand. "Ulti-Gaiapelio can negate any effect by discarding a card from my hand." The great lion burned the hell dragon(11/3400/3600) just as it broke out of its sin sphere prison to attack the extra deck. "Argh! Then I will resummon Infernoid Nehemoth! Eric banished the Infernoids Antra, Harmadik and Devyaty from the graveyard, all to resummon Infernoid Onuncu. "I don't care if you can negate this, I am not giving up until the end!" And as it turned out, the tenth dragon of hell was allowed to purge all life once more. It just did not mean June would be defenseless. "Ritual Beast Steeds!" Before Gaiapelio died, she activated a trap that required the presence of a Ritual Beast. "For each Ritual Beast, one card will be destroyed. Your fusion monster will go down with the others, Eric."

"No, it wont!" Eric played a quickplay spell from his hand. "Void Seer! My Infernoid unaffected by your card effects this turn!" Golden clouds surrounded Infernoid Onuncu. Gaiapelio, who tried to ram the demon with its body, could not get close enough. "Die! Die!" So June's monster perished. "Stonewell.." However, so did Phoebe's Frightfur Chimera and Erics Infernoid Piaty. "Sorry, Dame Phoebe. This is all I could come up with. I can finish them off now at least!" There were no traps left, no monsters; he had a clean shot and nothing could go wrong. "Eric Stonewell, you really have grown. I am sorry too.." June found a way to make it go south still. She discarded Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit from her hand. "What.." The psychic monster destroyed any card after said card used its power. "No! I'm still not.. strong enough?" He stammered. Despite Onuncu's succesful field-wipe, it fell victim to destruction itself. No monsters were on the field, and no summoning methods were available. "I would have loved to play fairly against you, but we are far beyond that."

"This is on your head." Phoebe snapped at Eric. "They let you use Infernoid Onuncu, they made you destroy my monster too! Now they.." They were an easy target, 1850 lifepoints was not a lot to rely on. "Hey now. It's not his fault. He might have done better if you hadn't bossed him around so much. Besides, we're just tooooo good." Neter was in another happy mood, as the draw phase was very generous in his turn. "June has a power, but I do too. I feel bad for you guys, so I will tell you what it is! I have the power of Hope! I can draw whatever I need, when I need it!" Neter activated a spell, Monster Reborn. "!" That card needed no explanation. It was known to every duelist in the world. With Monster Reborn, any monster in the graveyard could come back to life. "I am gonna use my monster to end it, okay June?" Neter special summoned The Stellar Constellarknight(5/2700/2000) from his graveyard. "It's your turn." She shrugged. "Yay! Here we go, scary Phoebe and poor Eric!" The knight of diamond raised his sword. "Diiiiirect attack!" One swing of the blade, and both fusion duelists were knocked down.

Team Phoebe's LP: 0

"It always comes down to this, no matter where or when we are." June sighed. She dismissed the monsters with the wave of her hand. "Now. What can you tell me?" She stared down at Dame Phoebe, who was kneeling on the ground and too winded to resist. "That's.." Eric saw where that odd brightness came from, he had noticed it before whenever June went into one of her long stares. There were green jewel earrings hidden in her hair. The gemstones looked exactly like Uno's pendant. That was the last thing he saw before he passed out. His body was not used to such power. "That is strange.." June concluded once she was done with her 'scan'. "What is 'strange'?" Neter asked. "She is still hiding. I can't get to her other persona. I got a few things, she knows that there is another force.. the same that scared Roma so much. Maybe those are his forces." June looked behind her. "You had another friend here..."

"Heheh. You mean Martel. He did not tell me where he went, Dame knows.. Phoebe doesn't." The girl had at least one last laugh. "You smile now, but I did figure out the secret behind your multiple personality. You're the same person, you just use some extreme form of hypnosis on yourself to switch identities and memories. That's also what Eric was affected by. It is almost as if someone knew you had to be afraid of mindreaders. Was it your friend Martel who told you?" June inquired, but this time Phoebe held her mouth shut. "Well, wherever he is. She is not our concern right now. Neter, let's.." June paused when her eyes fell on Eric. "June? Did you do something?" Neter saw his partner scanning Eric. "I merely stirred his memories. It should help him sort mind once he wakes up. I have a good feeling about this world, Neter. It may last a while.. But let's leave that for now." She placed her hand on Neters shoulder. "June..you know what December's gonna say.." Neter tapped his own blue pendulum jewel on his belt and the two teleported away. In the end Phoebe had not gotten any wiser. "...Are they even from the other side?"

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"Ah, great to hear from you Zach! Are you there yet?" At long last, Dom received a message from the outside world and from his own trusted disciple no less. "Almost, sir." A disgruntled Zach answered to the tired old question. "We are within sight of the building and I have notified the authorities of the crisis. They are sending people towards the park as we speak. I also managed to contact our main network hosts and informed them of the damage the XYZ-guild caused. Your place should be fully up and running in a matter of minutes." Not to mention, he had to make a lot of phonecalls while flying. "Excellent! Where would we be without you? How is the family, how is Uno?" Dom was eager to hear more. "And what of the cards, Creffield?" Iria's curiosity matched her master, albeit in a different more difficult to answer direction. "Well. There's a story. I.." Zach did plan on telling them. "What was that?" Yet a mild distortion interrupted communication briefly.

"Gah! The mystery men..and girl!" Dom jumped from his seat, the four travelers had warped into his room. "Hello hello! I told ya I'd bring my friends!" Neter greeted them. "I see you had a party in here." Jane spotted Ichirou in the corner of the room, still knocked out and strapped to a chair. "Ehr, what can I do for you gentlemen?" Dom approached them carefully, verbally. Physically he maintained a fair distance. "Wasn't I clear enough the last time?" August grunted. "We want everything you know!" He advanced on the master. "Well there is a long line of people who want the same.." Dom stepped backwards while Iria moved forward to activate her dueldisk. "So you can take it up with me." Now that full power had been restored, Iria had access to all defensive measures. She tapped into the controls and shrunk the barrier around the room. "Ah!" Her dueldisk and Dom were now covered, his body had its own personal shield. "Ah, tricky fricky." Neters teleporting ability wouldn't help if there was not enough space for anyone else inside the forcefield. "The security fields are linked to my profile. Just like anyone else, if you want the master, you will have to go through me."

(To be Continued in Annex 061: Every Law is Breakable)

New Cards used by Eric Stonewell
Infernoid Asmodai

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Misschief of the Yokai
Void Launch

New Cards used by Dame Phoebe
Frightfur Chimera

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Overlay Drain

New Cards used by June
Ritual Beast Ulti-Gaiapelio

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Ritual Beast Ambush

New Cards used by Neter
Satellarknight Capella

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Stellarknight Constellar Diamond

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Monster Reborn

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Stellarnova Wave