Hello, folks. Happy weekend! I don't know why I need to say that, but I just want to say it to make everyone feel good. So, I have a new chapter. This one is the main protagonist, Muiko in her duel! Let's see how she will play!
UPDATE(7/11/15): Few lines at the beginning had have character's name wrong. Corrected the error.
UPDATE(7/14/15): Edit the New Cards Cheat Sheet with new effect for one monster and added few other things.
Chapter 26-Sweet and Spicy-
Meanwhile, during the time Mike was dueling against Jeff, Muiko and Cody Hackin were searching for duelists in other part of the city.
"No sign of duelists here, either." Cody said, looking around. "It seems finding one is more difficult than I thought."
"Hmmm." Muiko hummed.
Suddenly, they heard a sound of explosion like you hear in a duel. "That sounds like a duel! Hurry, Muiko. We must locate the source of the sound!" Cody said decisively.
They skedaddled to where the sound was coming from, which led them to a park. Muiko soon noticed who the victor was.
"There you goes, gentlemen! That is how you bake a sweet victory!" Sherry winked to the cameras held by bunch of Otaku fan. They clapped and cheered for her.
"She's Sherry Shortcakes! Oh, I must get her autograph!" Cody said excitedly.
Muiko glared at him, which he noticed. "Umm, I mean, let's ask if she's available for duel with you!" He squeaked.
"...No." Muiko said.
"Pardon?" He asked.
"I don't like to duel against someone stuck up like her. Let's go find someone else." Muiko said, turning away as she was about to leave.
"Excuse me, Miss, but do you want to duel me?" Sherry asked, stopping Muiko and catching her attention.
She turned her head to the shoulder. "No thanks." She replied.
"Oh, I see. That's unfortunate. It is a shame, really. I guess some Duelists can't face a cute person like me, or I'm just that good." Sherry said confidently, yet snootily.
Muiko gave a stern glare at her, making her turn around to face her. "Fine. I will Duel you." Muiko said in a serious tone. She soon activated her Duel Disk.
"Oh! I see you changed your mind. Wonderful! When I win, it will be my third victory!" Sherry cheered as she activated her Duel Disk
"Duel Mode Standby. Action Field Selection on!" Both duel disks stated as the roulette program spun the wheel until it landed on an image of a card, which looked like candyland. "Action Field Spell Selected! Field Spell, Sweet Kingdom, on!"
The surrounding area of the park turned into a very delicious land. In between the duelists, there was a chocolate river flowing down, all the way from a waterfall. Clouds in the blue sky were made of cotton candy in different color, such as cherry red, lemon yellow, green, blueberry blue, and pink. There were trees that spill out caramel for sap, and grew jawbreaker balls on each branch. The most attractive part was the castle, surrounded by the chocolate river that cut in two paths, acting as its mold. It was made up of different cookies.
"My! This field suits me well, and it looks very delicious!" Sherry awed excitedly.
She pull out a mushroom where the shroom top was made of lollipop. She took a bite of it, and made a crunch sound in her mouth as she ate it.
"If you don't mind, I am waiting for you to go first." Muiko said in impatient tone.
"Oh yes! I almost forgot!" Sherry said. "But, first the oath!"
Muiko growled a little. "Duelists locked in battle!" Sherry began.
"Kicking the earth and dancing in the air alongside their monsters!" Cody followed, saying it for Muiko.
"They storm through the air!" Her fans cheered out.
"Behold! This is the newest and greatest evolution of Dueling!" Everyone except Muiko said out loud.
"Action...DUEL!" Both Muiko and Sherry said at the same time.
The Action cards above them burst like bubble and scattered into the field.
"I got first." Sherry said as she did a little dance. "I normal summon my Level 2 Cupcake Coco!"
A young girl in a brown dress with rainbow sprinkles dance around until she stopped. She have chocolate brown hair and eyes, and hat shaped of a small cupcake on her head. She winked at Muiko and then to her fan, which they were swung by her cuteness, revealing her 1000 ATK points.
"Next, I play the Continuous Spell, Hot Oven on my side of the field!" She added. A giant oven with angelic wing appeared above her, flying in midair.
"Ho ho! This is Sherry's famous starting move! I hope Muiko is prepared for her surprises!" Cody thought as he worked on his laptop with the camera plugged in, facing to the Duel to record it.
"I set a card. Turn end!" Sherry ended. She skipped away to ook for Action card, heading to the cookie castle.
"Very well. M turn. I draw!" Muiko drew her card as she walked little faster than Sherry. "I normal summon my E.B. Titanium Kangaroo!"
A metal armored kangaroo with boxing gloves hopped out of the white portal, showing off its punch before doing its boxer pose. "Battle Phase! At this point, I activate my monster's effect! During the Battle Phase, it can increase my monster's ATK by 500. I choose itself, so it gains 500 boost in its ATK!" Muiko explained.
T.K.'s ATK points increased to 1600 as its bicep got bigger.
Her monster hopped, and gave a knucke sandwich on Sherry's monster, but before it lay a punch on her, it stopped and froze. Sherry's monster was making a cute face that prevented T.K. to even touch her.
"What's the matter, T.K.?" Muiko asked.
"There's nothing wrong with your monster. It is just that I activated a Trap card, Cutey Face." Sherry admitted. Muiko soon noticed it. It depicted a kitten with cute face being pet by a giant purple ogre. "When this card is activated, your monster's attack is negated and you can no longer target any Level 4 or lower monster by battle on my side of the field."
"Oh oh! This is not looking good for Muiko. According to my calculation, her percentage of winning dropped by 15%." Cody thought out loud.
"...Fine. I activate the Continuous Spell, Termite Tower on my side of the field. Then, I set one card and end my turn." Muiko finished as a termite mound risen out of the ground near her.
"My turn! I draw!" Sherry drew her card passionately. "I normal summon Cupcake Vanilla!"
Another girl appeared. This one looked like a twin to Coco, except she wore white dress with rainbow sprinkles, white vanilla hair and eyes, and a hat shaped of cupcake, like Coco's hat except in white color. She also had 1000 ATK points.
Her fans cheered again, being adored by the cuteness of her two monsters. "Thank you, my wonderful fan." Sherry said, winking at them. "Now, I activate Vanilla's effect. When I control more than one Cupcake monster on my side of the field, her ATK is increased for each Cupcake monster I control. I have two, so she gains 600 ATK points!"
Her monster's ATK is increased to 1600. "I declare her to attack your kangaroo! Battle! Attack with your Vanilla Beam!" Sherry declared.
Her cute monster strike with a blasting beam of vanilla cream. "Not so fast! I activate Titanium Kangaroo's effect!" Muiko called out loud. "During the Battle Phase, I select a monster to increase its ATK by 500 until the end of the turn. I select T.K. itself!"
Her monster's biceps got big again, increasing its ATK to 1600. "With that, both of their monsters are at the same ATK points. They will both be destroyed, but Muiko won't lose her Life Points. Neither Sherry, although." Cody stated.
"Sorry, but I. Won't. Let. You. Do. That!" Sherry said in cute fashion. "I use Coco's effect to increase Vanilla's ATK and DEF by 300 points!"
Vanilla's body glow in white aura as her ATK points increased to 1900. Her beam of vanilla cream got larger, finally making contact on Kangaroo as it got blasted away. It hit into the caramel tree, destroying it. Muiko lost 300 Life Points.
"Don't forget my Coco's Attack! I declare her to direct attack your Life Points!" Sherry declared as her chocolate girl unleashed a chocolate ball from her bare hands and threw it at Muiko. It blasted right in her face, with chocolate all over her face. She lost 1000 more Life Points, with 2700 left.
"Now that the Battle Phase is over, I'll present you a little sweet treat!" Sherry informed Muiko as she whipped the chocolate off her face. "I remove from play my two monsters through the effect of Hot Oven. It's time to bake!"
Both girls turned into a brown and white energy respectfully as they entered the mouth of the oven. It heated up as it shook until a bell rings.
"Presenting both mix of sweetness of chocolate and vanilla, I give you...Fusion Summon! Come out! Cupcake Choco-Vani Magician!" Sherry said excitedly as a ray of light shined out when the oven opened its mouth.
A brown white haired lady with one brown eye and another white appeared out of the oven. She wore mix of chocolate brown and vanilla white dress, high heels, and wand that has a swirling design for the body and the head was a cupcake with chocolate coating and vanilla cream swirling on the top. She also had a top hat with rainbow sprinkles.
"So, you can Fusion Summon. And that Continuous Spell, Hot Oven, is a way to do it." Muiko said.
"That's right! Hot Oven allows me Fusion Summon a Cupcake monster when I control two or more Cupcake monsters on my side of the field and remove them from play, but when I do Fusion Summon a Fusion Cupcake monster from my Extra Deck through this effect, I cannot declare to attack." Sherry explained.
"I see. So, that is why she attacked me first." Muiko thought.
Her Fusion monster was in Defense mode with 1800 DEF points. "I activate my magician's effect! When it is Fusion Summoned, I can draw one card!" She stated as she drew her card. "I set a card. Turn end."
She skipped away again as her monster followed her behind.
"My turn. I draw!" Muiko drew her card as she moved, so she won't lose sight of her opponent. "During my Standby Phase, I can Special Summon one Termite Token to my field." A red termite with African symbol for unity came out of the mound. With her hawk eye vision, she noticed an Action card floating down the chocolate river She hopped into the chocolate river and retrieved it.
"Ooo, look at that. You got yourself all wet again with chocolate." Sherry teased.
Muiko ignored her comment and went on continuing her turn. "I normal summon E.B. Fluorine Cheetah." She said as familiar yellow metallic cheetah dashed out of the portal.
"Next, I activate Action Spell, Sweet Treat!"
The spell depicted a rain of candy onto the overjoyed monsters. "I can Special Summon one Level 4 or lower monster from my Deck! I summon my E.B Copper Bull!"
Her copper skinned bull appeared to her side as it stood alongside Fluorine Cheetah. "I use my Level 4 Fluorine Cheetah and Level 4 Copper Bull to construct the overlay network!"
Muiko's two monsters turned into yellow and brown energy. It swallowed into the spiral galaxy portal, and it burst into an explosion of energy. "Xyz Summon! Rank 4! The protector of nature, Mystical Grove Overgrow Knight!"
"What's this!? Xyz!? Mystical Grove!?" Cody gasped, hard pressing the keyboard on his laptop.
"Battle! Overgrow Knight will attack your Choco-Vani Magician! Since it is Level 6 monster, I can target it for an attack!" Muiko exclaimed.
Overgrow Knight pull out its sword, and was about to swing it on Sherry's magician. "At least I won't gain damage since my monster is in Defense mode." Sherry pointed out.
"I activate Overgrow Knight's effect!" Sherry's face turned to a little sour facial expression. "By using one overlay unit, when it destroys a monster, I gain Life Points equal to half of the destroyed monster's original ATK points!"
One of the orbiting yellow comets absorbed into its leaf-shaped sword before making contact for its attack. It sliced Sherry's magician into several pieces before it exploded. Muiko's Life Points increased by 1100, getting it up to 3800. "How do you like that?" She asked.
Sherry's face became very irritated than her usual cherry self. "It seems that I have to get little bit more serious. Trap open! Cupcake Boom!"
This Trap had bunch of normal monsters having a cupcake food fight, throwing cupcakes at each other. "When my Cupcake monster is destroyed by battle, you gains damage equals to its ATK!"
Suddenly, Muiko got splat by cupcake on her forehead. She made an annoyed face as the cupcake fell off, losing 2200 Life Points.
"Well, well! It looks like your LP boost was a waste of time. Better luck next time!" Sherry smirked.
"Hmph! Then, I activate my Trap card. Trap open! Shock Burst!" This one showed a man getting electrified in a very cartoony way while he's touching the electrical wire.
"When my monster destroys my opponent's monster, you gain 200x damage equals to your destroyed monster's Level." Muiko explained. "Sine Choco-Vani's Level was 6, you gains 1200 points of damage!"
Sherry was shocked by the effect of Shock Burst, losing her Left Points down to 2800.
"I end my turn." Muiko ended.
Sherry got up, dusting off the dirt from her dress, which now ruined and looked little crispy. "How dare you!" She angered. "You'll pay for this! I draw!"
After she drew her card, instead of skip, she ran into the castle through the drawbridge. Muiko chased after her as her Xyz monster and Termite Token followed behind her. When they entered the castle, it was bigger than she thought. There were stairways on either side, so she decided to take the left one, going to the second floor. She calmly walked through the hallway. There were knight armors made of dark chocolate standing on both side adjacently.
Suddenly, the wall on her right collapsed, revealing a monster crashing in. Muiko dodged back. It was a girl with pink frosting for hair, driving in a car shaped of sponge cake with cupcakes for the wheels. Sherry entered the hallway from the other side as she tip toed over the blocks of destroyed wall.
"I normal summoned Cupcake Frosty Driver and I activate her effect." Sherry said. "When she's normal summoned, I can Special Summon one or two of the same one from my hand. I summon all two of them from my hand!"
Two same monsters appeared, honking their horns. "With that, I remove from play all of them to Special Summon a Fusion Cupcake monster!" She exclaimed as her three monsters drove out through the window and swallowed into the Hot Oven conveniently.
"Three drivers of sweetness! Come together and open up the road, so I can drive over my sweet hater! Fusion Summon!" Sherry exclaimed as she hold her hands in front of the swirling colorful energy.
"I don't hate sweets." Muiko stated with her eyes lidded.
"Go! Cupcake Moosepatrol!" Out of the oven, a new monster popped out. This one was a gingerbread man designed to look like a police officer. He was driving a moose cupcake with red cherry for the siren, and mini-donuts for the wheels.
"Cupcake Moosepatrol's effect activates! Once per turn, I can Special Summon one removed from play Cupcake monster with its effect negated! I bring back my Cupcake Coco!"
The young girl smiled when she came back to the field. "With these two delicious deer friends of mine, I remove them from play to use Hot Oven's effect again!" Sherry stated.
"She's going to Fusion Summon with her Fusion!?" Cody gasped, who was now using an air drone with installed camera to watch their Duel.
"Patrol officer of justice for all sweets, kind fairy with chocolate flavor, join hands to bring out the dragon that has scales sweeter than all cupcakes in the world! Fusion Summon! Level 8! Cupcake Sweet Dragon!"
Her two monsters swirled into a mix of dark brown and blue energy inside Hot Oven. It opened up as sweet aroma covered the entire field. A huge stomp shook the floor when something big appeared. It had long neck, made up of stack of cookies. It had a body of giant cupcake with pink frosting. Its eyes were red jellybeans while the head was a pop tart with the tips for its mouth, covered with white frosting for the lips. It drew caramel for saliva, tail made of cones stacked up, and feet with sharp cones for claws as well as for its fingers.
The dragon roared horrifically. "So, I'm guessing this is your ace." Muiko said.
Sherry laughed almost like a maniac. "That's right! With it, you'll lose! I activate its effect. It destroys one monster on your side of the field, and it gains half of its ATK. I choose your Overgrow Knight!"
Her dragon gobbled up Overgrow Knight, and swallowed it whole. An aura glowed as its ATK increased to 2150. It roared loudly.
"Battle Phase! I declare my dragon to destroy your icky Termite Token! Hot Caramel Stream!"
"Wait, hold on a second! She can't do that!" Cody exclaimed.
"Cupcake Sweet Dragon's second effect is activated! When this card is Fusion Summoned by card effect other than Polymerization, it can declare to attack!" Sherry exclaimed.
It breathed out a stream of steamy, hot caramel. "Argh!" Muiko grunted as a spill of caramel touched her arm, burning her. She whipped it off quickly before it burned her skin off. Her Life Points were now 250.
She noticed the hot caramels were melting the floor ground since it was made of marzipan. The floor where she was standing crumbled as she fall down.
Sherry jumped onto her monster back in nick of time. They flied out, crashing through the roof.
"That teaches her lesson." Sherry chuckled.
Cody and Sherry's fans worried, waiting for what to happen next. The air drone watched and hovered above the rubles when Muiko stood out. She hold up an Action card up in the air.
"It can't be!?" Sherry gasped.
The boys cheered for Muiko. "Hurry!"
"What's wrong?" Muiko questioned with a smirk. "You thought I was dead or something."
Sherry gritted her teeth in frustration. "I activate the Action Spell, Sweet Hand!"
This one depicted a duelist jumping high into the air with cookie on one hand, and a card on his other hand.
"With this, I can draw cards equal to the number of monster you controls on the field. If it is a Monster Card, I can either Special Summon it or add it to my hand." Muiko placed her two fingers on the top of her Deck. "I DRAW!"
She conducted the Destiny Draw. She looked at the card and her eyes sparkled for a bit. "The card I drew is..." Everyone stared at her, waiting anxiously. "A monster card!" The boys cheered again. "And, I will add it to my hand."
"Well...who cares!" Sherry puffed her cheek. "I end my turn."
"My turn, I draw!" Muiko drew her card. She took the other stairway, which led to the top of the tower. She looked up to Sherry and her dragon. The dragon glared at her.
"It seems my victory is very near." She stated.
"What did you say!?" Sherry cried.
"During my Standby Phase, I can Special Summon a Termite Token! I shall just do that!" A yellow termite crawled out of the mound, and crawled up to the top of the tower to reach Muiko. It stood next to her and roared proudly.
"The, I, using Scale 1 Mystical Grove Spring Vines and Scale 8 Mystical Grove Cacti Guardian, set the Pendulum Scale." The word "Pendulum" appeared on her Duel Disk's blade as two of her monsters rose up.
"Pendulum Summon!? I never expected this to happen! Astonishing!" Cody surprised, but also amazed.
"I can now summon Level 2 to Level 7 monsters simultaneously." Muiko stated. "Sway, the pendulum of my soul! Open the path for hope and strength! Come forth, my monster allies! Pendulum Summon!" Three bursts of light leapt out of the portal.
"From my Extra Deck, striking back with its mighty punch! E.B. Titanium Kangaroo!" It hoped in excitement as it show off its biceps.
"Mystical Grove Kelp Creature!" It looked like a large mass of living seaweed, has two large arms with four fingers, and two purple eyes. It roared cheerfully for being summoned first time.
"And, lastly, Mystical Grove Burning Sunflower!" This one was a green skinned girl with pointed ears, red eyes, a yellow dress with flame design along the bottom of her skirt which ends on her knees, yellow hair with red tips, sunflower on her hair as hair accessory, and instead of hands, there are large sunflowers, and yellow flames with a hint of orange, where the petals supposed to be at.
"Uuuuuuuhh! Aaawwwweee! Shiiivvverrs!" Sherry's fan awed.
"What a waste! None of them are stronger than my dragon!" Sherry remarked. Her dragon roared in agreement.
"That's true, but I don't need to attack it to destroy it." Muiko admitted.
"What!?" Sherry gasped.
"I activate Kelp Creature's effect." Muiko said. "When it is Special Summoned, I can remove from play one card on the field, and that card returns at the end of my turn. I select your Cupcake Sweet Dragon!"
Her dragon gasped before it disappeared. Sherry looked down for a moment until she fell down from the sky. She landed safely on a bush made of marshmallow.
"Now, I declare my Burning Sunflower to direct attack! Battle Phase! Burning Seed Bullet!"
The green skinned girl shot out bunch of flaming seeds like bullet from her sunflowers. "Hah! I activate Action card, Sweet Jelly Shield!" Sherry said out loud. A big jelly shield appeared in front of her, blocking the seeds. "With this, I negate an attack and it is inflicted back to you as effect damage!"
The firing seed bullets reflected back, aiming to Muiko. "Now, you'll take the damage for me instead!" Sherry laughed.
"Sorry, but not at all! I activate Spring Vines' pendulum effect! Once per turn, when I'm going to take effect damage, it is inflicted to your Life Points instead!"
A net made of vines protected Muiko, just in time. It then reflected back the bullets to Sherry.
She screamed as she took the hits. "To finish this Duel off, Kelp Creature will do the honor." Muiko said with a smile.
Kelp Creature swam up to Sherry, scaring her when it was close to her face. It just poked her on the nose as her Life Points drained down to zero.
"I...lost." She said, staring in space. The field faded away. Muiko walked up to her.
"Hey, are you OK?" She asked.
"Huh? Oh, I am fine." She snapped out of her staring. She took out the medallion, and she then took out one of its pieces and handed it to Muiko. "Here. This is yours."
"Thanks." Muiko replied, accepting her award.
"Congratulations, Muiko! You won your first piece." Cody cheered as everyone, including Sherry clapped their hands.
As Muiko and Cody say goodbye to Sherry and her fans, a mysterious man with puffy light blond hair watched them from a roof of the building. "She has gotten a lot stronger since I saw her last duel. She must have improved, since she has those Mystical Grove monsters." He tapped his finger on his chin. "I think it is time to meet her up close in person." He said, grinning.
So, what do you guys and gals think? What do you think of the Cupcake archtype. It was thought up by pokemonking0924, and Cupcake Coco is one of his creations. The rest were created by me, but I want to give a credit to him. He is the one who's been making awesome cards lately to me, and I always appreciate that. Thank you again to him. I also want to give shoutout to OPFan37 and his fanfic story, Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-VOC. It is going so great that you got to read his story. He deserves a lot of praise, more than me to be honest. It is a retelling of the current Yu-Gi-Oh anime series, but with a mix of his own. Go and read it to find out more. I will see you all in the next chapter in next week. Peace.
New Cards Cheat Sheet
Cupcake Coco-Level: 2 Attribute: LIGHT Type: Fairy/Effect ATK/DEF: 1000/1200 Effect: Once per turn, you can increase the ATK and DEF of one Cupcake monster on your field.
Cupcake Vanilla-Level: 3 Attribute: LIGHT Type: Fairy/Effect ATK/DEF: 1000/800 Effect: For each Cupcake monster you controls, this card gains 300x for ATK.
Cupcake Choco-Vani Magician-Level: 6 Attribute: LIGHT Type: Spellcaster/Fusion/Effect ATK/DEF: 2200/1800 Effect: Cupcake Coco + Cupcake Vanilla. When this card is Fusion Summoned, draw one card.
Hot Oven-Type: Continuous Spell Effect: As long as this card remains face-up on the field, while you controls two or more Cupcake monsters on your field, Special Summon one Fusion Cupcake monster by removing from play the materials on your side of the field (This Special Summon is treated as Fusion Summon). The Fusion Summoned monster cannot declare to attack during the first turn it was summoned.
Cutey Face-Type: Continuous Trap Effect: As long as this card remains face-up on the field, your opponent cannot target Level 4 or lower monster for an attack.
Cupcake Driver-Level: 2 Attribute: LIGHT Type: Fairy/Effect ATK/DEF: 200/300 Effect: When you Normal Summon this card, Special Summon one or two of the same monster from your hand.
Cupcake Moosepatrol-Level: 6 Attribute: LIGHT Type: Fairy/Fusion/Effect ATK/DEF: 2300/1500 Effect: Three Cupcake monsters. Once per turn, you can Special Summon one removed from play Cupcake monster with its effects negated.
Cupcake Sweet Dragon-Level: 8 Attribute: LIGHT Type: Dragon/Fusion/Effect ATK/DEF: 1000/0 Effect: One Cupcake Fusion monster + Cupcake monster. Once per turn, destroy one monster your opponent controls. This card then gains ATK equal to half of the destroyed monster's ATK. When this card is Fusion Summoned by card effect other than "Polymerization," then this card can declare to attack.
Mystical Grove Kelp Creature-Level: 3 Scale: 5 Attribute: WATER Type: Plant/Pendulum/Effect ATK/DEF: 1200/1200 Effect: When this card is Special Summoned, remove from play 1 card on the field (either player's side) and that card returns to the field during the End Phase. Pendulum Effect: Unknown.
Mystical Grove Burning Sunflower-Level: 5 Attribute: FIRE Type: Plant/Effect ATK/DEF: 2000/1000 Effect: Unknown
Cupcake Boom-Type: Normal Trap Effect: When a Cupcake monster that you controls is destroyed by battle, your opponent gains damage equals to its ATK.
Shock Burst-Type: Normal Trap Effect: When your monster destroys an opponent's monster (card effect or battle), your opponent gains 200x damage by the destroyed monster's Level.
Sweet Treat-Type: Action Spell Effect: Special Summon one Level 4 or lower monster from your Deck.
Jelly Shield-Type: Action Spell Effect: Negate an attack and the damage that you should have taken is inflicted as effect damage to your opponent instead.
Sweet Hand-Type: Action Spell Effect: Draw one card and if it is a Monster card, you can either Special Summon it or add it to your hand.