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Authors note first again. Full chapter written including by Romadrox8975, I just edited it in places. Thanks dude seriously, check out his story as well. Yugioh Arc v:Pendulum Reborn.
ThePLOThand – Rom says thanks for the help and to use "Berserk OST Hai Yo Oh Ashes when Reiji summons Laplace." And yeah about Action Cards, it's on Academia's field so the rules don't exist. It's a free-for-all. Thanks for the review.
"When Kali Yuga is summoned to the field, he can negate the effects of all the cards on the field and their effects cannot be activated either! The monster sent waves that caused all the Monsters of Marina and Reiji to be affected by a red aura. In addition to that the Spell Cards on the field became stone.
Wrath ATK: 2000
Bauza ATK: 2600
Thelsa ATK: 2300
The Frozen King ATK: 2400
"Then I detach an Overlay Unit from my monster to destroy all the Spell Cards on the field!" One of the orbs disappeared and two thunders strikes fell on Marina's field, destroying Genesis World and Equinox in the Pendulum Zones along with Reiji's Pendulum Cards. Marina covered herself from the impact as the dust disappeared.
"King Beowulf attacks Wrath." The wolf-like creature jumped between buildings and leaped over Wrath. It split it in half with its teeth and Marina was forced to cover herself with her arms to avoid the impact.
"When Wrath is destroyed I can add an Attribute Knight from the grave to my hand, I add Crow Thief!"
Marina LP: 4000 - 1000 = 3000
"Siegfried destroys Bauza." The knight charged directly to the other knight. Both struggled with their weapons but Siegfried's sword was more powerful than Bauza's trident. It split it half and made it explode. The explosion caused Marina to back away but still she kept herself shielded.
Marina LP: 3000-200 = 2800
"Prime Churchill destroys Telsa!" Churchill used his mace to hit Thelsa directly. The Monster was destroyed and exploded where Marina was. It sent her straight into one of the Action Field buildings, destroying it completely. When Thelsa disappeared Marina was able to get up but her suit was damaged.
Marina LP: 2800-100 = 2700
"King Kali Yuga destroys her last Monster!" He pointed with his finger and sent a spray of energy to the last knight; the impact was so great that the wave of the attack threw her back. The attack left her unconscious on the ground. Yuri and Serena were in shock.
Marina LP: 2700-1100 = 1600
"She summoned that last Fusion Monster to defend herself against what it was to come; apparently she studied my cards long before facing me, although in the end it was not worth anything..." Reiji thought while watching the commander. "In the end, was it worth that sacrifices she made for Academia?"
Serena looked at the body of her unconscious friend on the floor; she began to clench her fists with force while an aura surrounded her body. The same thing happened with Yuri and Grace was surprised to see her in that state.
Grace put her arms on her chest, showing herself as worried about the others about the state of the commander. All the soldiers began to boo Marina all over the stadium, Himika and Leo showed disgust.
"What a disappointment!" said the Academia leader. The other four commanders looked at the scene, only Sora was preparing to leave the special room they were all watching from. The others kept watching.
"Well, this was a disappointment. Shall we go?" The others did not answer Sora's question.
"Even now how can you keep fighting for Academia?" Reiji exclaimed and began to withdraw his duel disk but stopped when he saw movement in the commander.
"Yuri ... Sere..na ... Gr". Weak sounds were heard from Marina who was trying to stand up. Grace... ..Reira ... .. Gloria ... but If I don't try to protect them, why should I call myself the Paladin of Academy!?" Marina got up; all her clothes were battered while her lip showed blood, in addition to her hair was down. "Even though every Academia student hates me, I will fight for those that I care about and this is my burden that I decided to take with me until I swallow the same hell"
"This is the point where I can no longer argue with you, if you want to serve your school of psychopaths, you know the consequences; I leave a card facedown and finish my turn." Reiji said. Meanwhile the commanders were still watching the duel, only Ryo laughed.
"My former soldier apparently has value even with that pathetic deck."
Turn 4
Marina LP: 1600 Hand: 4
Reiji LP: 11600 Hand: 1
"DRAW!" Marina exclaimed, no one expected the next move of the commander, Yuri and Serena were the only ones who knew what Marina would do, Grace tried to ask Serena.
"How can she beat all those Monsters on his field?" Serena just looked at Grace and then smiled
"She has everything she needs to defeat Reiji's monsters; she just needs the right card." Grace just looked at Serena with wide eyes surprised by the words of the duelist. Marina tried to keep standing while her vision was clouded but she knew she could not give up. There was too much at stake to not lose this duel. She hit herself several times to stay on her feet, Reiji just watched her with annoyance.
"She makes all this sacrifice for me ..." Reira said with her mouth open she did not know how to react.
"Even when Academia took away the person she loved, even she is willing to fight for them ... she is still fighting." Grace said surprised when Marina stopped hitting herself, her play began.
"From my hand I will activate the effect of Crow Thief to negate the effect of Siegfried on your field and I can also summon Crow in attack." A new knight in dark armour that had the shape of a crow materialized on the field, when entering the field, he shot two feathers on Reiji's Siegfried that caused an aura to grow on it.
Attribute Knight: The Crow Thief 900 ATK / 200 DEF / Dark / Level 3 / Warrior / Effect
"I'll activate Hameline's effect in my graveyard. I'll banish it so I can add an Attribute Knight Card to my hand, I'll choose Chaos Fusion. Chaos Fusion can be treated as any other Fusion Spell!" Marina indicated, Yuri, Serena and Ryo smiled knowing what was coming. "I activate Chaos Fusion which allows me to merge Monsters from my graveyard, field and Monsters that I have in my extra deck! I will merge eleven Attribute Knights and I will summon Kenos but for the rest of the duel, I cannot summon extra deck monsters!"
"SHE'S USING EVELEN MONSTERS AS FUSION MATERIAL! INCREDIBLE !" Grace yelled in surprise.
"When my soul and my ideals are tune in perfect harmony, the dragon of genesis will emerge again in its quest to create the perfect world, come forth level eight Kenos the Dragon of Genesis!" Marina joined her hands while her eleven knights joined to form a silver dragon on the field; this roared with intensity and it raised all the dust that was on the field, Reiji was not impressed with the creature.
Kénos: the Dragon of Genesis 3000 ATK / 2500 DEF / Light / Level 8 / Dragon / Fusion
"The second effect of Chaos Fusion is activated! For each material used, my Monster gains 400 attack points for this turn." Marina exclaimed while her dragon was surrounded by a brilliant aura.
Kénos: the Dragon of Genesis ATK: 7400
"Afterwards Kenos' effect allows me to destroy Monsters of the same Attribute X the materials used to summon my dragon and cause 800 points of damage for each one! Eraser Blast!" The dragon flew over the field and from its mouth began to form an energy discharge that took the form of a bird to go directly into the Monsters of Reiji.
When it arrived, it hit the ground forming an incredible wave of energy vaporizing all the Monsters. Reiji could only cover himself from the impact while being thrown across the field.
Reiji LP: 11600 - 3200 = 8400
Reiji was trying to recover from the attack but it was late, Kenos was already preparing his attack.
"KENOS ALPHA ERASER!" Marina ordered her dragon to fire a huge energy beamwhich Reiji could not do anything to stop it. The attack came and Reiji was thrown even more strongly due to the explosion that occurred.
Reiji LP: 8400-7400 = 1000
"She did it!" She could make the balance flow in her favour now!" Grace said.
"The fight is not over; Marina still needs to be careful of Reiji's next move." Serena exclaimed.
"Marina can no longer summon Monsters from the extra deck, now she only has her dragon and the Ritual Monsters." Edo said, Ryo only laughed at the words of his comrade commander.
"This is a duel to death; the only possible way in which this ends is that either up dead."
"The commander would not so stupid to kill Akaba's son." Edo exclaimed with wide eyes, surprised by Ryo's remark, Shark did not say anything about this; he just stared at the duel. Meanwhile in the duel, Reiji tried to stand up, his pain was equal or maybe worse than Marinas. His scarf was no longer with him and his glasses were broken. He spit some blood on the floor and tried to stand firm, Marina just looked at him.
"I'll leave two cards face down and finish my turn, plus my dragon returns to normal attack."
Kénos ATK 3000
Turn 5
Marina LP: 1600 Hand: 2
Reiji LP: 1000 Hand: 1
"Draw! I will activate my facedown card D/D/D Human Resources. This allows me to return three D / D / Monsters from my graveyard to my deck, and then I can take two D / D Monsters from my deck. I add D/D Savant Kepler and D/D Savant Galilei and then I'll put both of them in my Pendulum Zone!" Reiji exclaimed, two new pillars formed on his field.
Kepler 10-Galilei 1
"I will Pendulum Summoning my Revenge King Odysseus and King Abyss Ragnarok!" Two rays came out and revealed a Monster with armour sitting on one throne and another was a sliver skull with a long beard and tentacles.
D/D/D Oblivion King Abyss Ragnarok 2200 ATK / 3000 DEF / Dark / Level 8 / Fiend / Pendulum / Scale 5
D/D/D Revenge King Odysseus 2300 ATK / 1800 DEF / Dark / Level 8 / Fiend / Pendulum / Scale 1
"The effect of Oblivion allows me to summon a D/D/D monster in my graveyard, my D/D/D King Armageddon comes to the field again!" The old rock-shaped monster returned to the field once more.
D/D/D King Armageddon 3000 ATK / 2500 DEF / Dark / Level 8 / Fiend / Pendulum / Scale 4
"Then I'll use the second Oblivion effect to sacrifice Odysseus on my field so I can banish your dragon." Odysseus disappeared, Oblivion was preparing to cast his energy beam on the dragon but a a barrier appeared over the dragon.
"I activate a Trap! Holy Deity of Kings! Now Kenos cannot be affected by cards effects from my opponent and it gains 500 attack points for this turn!"
Kénos ATK: 3500
"The effect of Armageddon is activated! When a Monster that I control is destroyed by card effects, it can gain its original attack points just for this turn." A blue aura surrounded as King further increased its power; Marina saw this and prepared to look for an Action Card within the rubble.
D/D/D King Armageddon ATK: 5300
"Armageddon destroys his dragon." Armageddon fired his energy beam directly at the dragon and by luck she had also got an Action Card.
"First I will activate my other Trap Card, Deal with the Knights and I also activate my Tenacity Action Card! My Trap allows me to reduce the damage I will receive from a Monster attack by halve and Tenacity prevents Kenos from being destroyed!" The attack hit the monster and the impact threw Kénos towards one of the buildings on the Action Field. The commander covered herself from the attack but had to regain her composure.
Marina LP: 900-1600 = 700
"I finish my turn." The dragon stood again in front of Marina, she was trying not to fall on the floor because of fatigue. Reiji just watched the commander.
"Is it worth it?"
"It's the only option I have. I know it's hard for you to understand it because of the position you're in, but sometimes you have to give up your morals to protect those you care about." An exhausted Marina said."
"That's why you protect that girl?"
"She's just a girl who has been through a lot, I do not want her to be alon ..." Marina said dejectedly. "I lost the woman I love and I do not want to see others suffer for my mistakes"
"You know there are a lot of people that depend on me?" Reiji said, Marina just sighed.
"I'm also ... sorry."
Kénos ATK: 3000
Turn 6
Marina LP: 700 Hand: 2
Reiji LP: 1000 Hand: 0
"Draw." Marina exclaimed, she looked at the card and her expression could not be worse. "This will not do me any good, I can still destroy his Abyss Ragnarok but I will need an Action Card." Marina thought as she scanned the field. She started running around the field in search of an Action Card and Kenos followed her, Reiji did the same.
"Both are exhausted, if they continues like this, they will faint." A worried Grace said, Serena equally shared the worry of the Amazon duelist.
"What do you plan Marina?" Serena wondered.
Both were looking for Action cards throughout the field, the commander already had three for having searched among all of the buildings and trees in the Action Field. Reiji equally had the same number of cards but the view of both was at the last card that was located in the largest tower of the Action Field, both prepared to get to it.
"Kenos give me a push!" The commander ordered her creature to carry her on his back as he made his way to the top of the tower.
"King Armageddon I need your help!" Armageddon took Reiji equally to the tower. Both Monsters flew over the tower taking their owners directly to the top of it. When they arrived they both saw the Action Card and ran towards it, when they arrived at the card they both collided their heads so that no one could pick up the card.
They pressed their foreheads at the same time each pressed their teeth hard, small drops of blood ran down forehead of both. Reiji pushed the commander, wiped his face and saw the opportunity to take the Action Card. Marina noticed this.
"KENO, SPLIT THE TOWER IN TWO!" The dragon obeyed and with its tail, it destroyed half of the tower, causing Reiji not to obtain the Action Card and also both to fall. Their monsters fell along with the pieces of the building.
They were both now on the ground, exhaling and inhaling with fury at how tired they were. Marina bit her fingers to keep her from fainting.
"I will activate my High Dive Action Card which increases Kenos' attack by 1000." Kenos roared loudly as an aura surrounded him.
Kénos ATK: 4000
"Kenos destroys your King Abyss, Alpha Eraser!" The dragon charged his energy shot, but Reiji was preparing to counter Marina's move.
"Activate Zero Penalty! This allows me to change the attack of my opponent's monster to 0!" A red aura formed around the dragon, diminishing its strength.
Kénos ATK: 0
"I will activate my Action card Revival! When the attack of my Monster has been changed this turn, I can make it return to the original amount!" The new card allowed the power of Kenos to return to normal, allowing him to perform his energy shot against Reiji's second monster.
Kénos ATK: 3000
"I will activate my Action Card, No Action. This allows me to deny Revival and destroy it!" Reiji exclaimed while playing his second Action Card, Marina wasn't going to let him get away so she used her Action Card.."
"I activate Heat Up Sound! This allows me to activate one of these two options: Once per turn, when an effect that would negate the activation of a Spell Card resolves, I can negate that effect or two… Once per turn, when an effect that would destroy a Spell Card (s) resolves, I can negate that effect I choose the first one!"
"I activate my Action Card Miracle, my monster cannot be destroyed in battle and all damage suffered by that is halved." A multicolored aura surrounded King Abyss and the attack reached him, Reiji protected himself with his arms to cushion the attack.
Reiji LP = 1000 - 600
"I set two cards face down and finish my turn." Marina said, meanwhile in the commanders' room, everyone was discussing the duel except Shark.
"Ryo is right; neither of these two will survive if it continues like this." Sora said surprised.
"These are real duels. Those who are willing to lose their lives should be recognized as true duelists! HAHAHAHA!" Ryo shouted while all of the commanders looked disturbed with the statement.
Turn 7
Marina LP: 700 Hand: 1
Reiji LP: 600 Hand: 0
"Draw!" Reiji took a card from his deck. "The effect of my monsters will be activated in my Pendulum Zone, Kepler's Pendulum scale is decreased by two and Galilei's scale increases by two". The creatures in their area of Pendulum were affected by a red aura.
Kepler 8 - Galilei 3
"When you mentioned the punch in the stomach…" Reiji said, this drew the attention of the commander.
"Yes, what's wrong with that?"
"It was not only that that made me rethink some things about my attitude. Seto Kaiba once told me that I must forge my own future and leave my father aside." Reiji said. "After Yuzu hit me, I realized that I was doing something wrong. I did not have a reason or someone to fight like them, I just wanted to end this war and I did not care who I sacrificed in order to complete my goal."
"You never formed a friendship with someone or loved someone who was not your mother, right?" Marina said. Reiji nodded to confirm the commander's question.
"I was always worried about honoring my father's memory and keeping his company alive so that I never worry about anything else. From now on I will change that and live for myself from now on as they do."
"Something noble, but you know you'll have to defeat us first!" Marina said, Reiji only smiled at the words of the commander.
"That's what I'll do!"
"I will activate my trap card Disaster in Genesis World! I can destroy a monster that is a different Attribute than mine on your field, I will destroy Abyss King!" A flash of blue energy destroyed Abyss King; Reiji only covered himself with his arms.
"Because of that Armageddon gains the attack points of Abyss King!"
D/D/D King Armageddon ATK: 5200
"But I will not use Armageddon to attack you because I'm sacrificing him to summon another creature." Reiji said, Marina was surprised. "I will sacrifice Armageddon to summon D/D/D King Destiny Zero Laplace! A paradigm lurks in the darkness of time! And an inexorable power awakens the demon of causality! Special Summon! D/D/D Destiny King Zero Laplace!"
D/D/D Destiny King Zero Laplace 0 ATK / 0 DEF / Dark / Level 10 / Fiend / Pendulum / Scale 1
Armageddon disappeared to make way for a new huge creature with a dark appearance which emerged on the field of Reiji, this left Marina and everyone in the stadium perplexed. Grace and Serena watched the new creature of Reiji.
"He only has 0 attack points...It's impossible for him to beat the dragon of Marina ... but it does have an effect...?" Grace said scared.
"Unless it has a devastating effect.." Serena was equally open-mouthed.
"Laplace destroys your dragon." Laplace launched a volley of energy aimed directly at Marina's dragon. "When Laplace attacks a monster, I can double its attack points by the Monster I'm attacking!"
Laplace ATK: 6000
"IMPOSSIBLE!" Both Grace and Serena shouted at the same time. Yuri and Reira alike were equally caught out.
"I activate my Trap, Sorcery for Beginners! When this card is activated I can use the effect of a Spell Card in the graveyard but I must pay 200 life points, I will choose Miracle which allows my Monster not to be destroyed and the damage is halved! And remember that I still have my Continuous Trap Deal with the Knights which reduces the damage by half!" Marina shouted. Reiji shouted back.
"It's still enough to take away your last lifepoints!"
Marina LP: 600-200 = 400
"Except that I'll discard the Knight Attribute: Knight of the Dark Scar which allows me to cut in half the damage I'll get in battle!" Marina discarded the card and the energy discharge of Reiji's creature sent the dragon and the commander flying to the other side of the field.
Marina LP: 400 - 375 = 25
Marina fell face down to the ground with speed. When she was able to stand she noticed had a broken nose and her vest had huge holes. The first thing she did was take off her vest to reveal a sports bra. She readjusted her nose with her hands which caused some discomfort.
Yuri, Serena and Grace looked at their friend, scared for her welfare but the worst was Reira who asked with tears in her eyes to Yuri to stop them.
"Please tell her to stop, I can fight for her." Yuri just looked at the girl and did not know what to answer. The commanders were in shock equally except Ryo who still had a smile on his face. Edo was the first to break the silence.
"If the commander continues like this... she will die ..."
"And that's why she has more guts than half of you useless." Ryo Shark left the room, everyone else wondered about why he left.
Turn 8
Marina LP: 25 Hand: 0
Reiji LP: 700 Hand: 0
"Draw ... .. I will activate my Spell Card Final Battle of the Knights of New Genesis. This card forces us to destroy all the cards on our field and discard all the cards in our hand and we select a monster our fields, I choose Kenos." Marina tried to continue with her turn but was completely in pain, Reiji only nodded.
"I will choose my D/D/D Destiny King Zero Laplace"
"Because of this our monsters must fight and the Monster of the player that is destroyed, the user of this would receive damage equal to the points of attack of the monster!" All the cards that were on the field were destroyed, including the Action Cards. The only thing left on the fields were both monsters and the flames caused by the past destruction.
"It's impossible for her to beat that monster ..." Grace exclaimed in anguish, Serena who watched was worried for her friend.
"Marina…"
Everyone around the field looked anxious about what would happen. In the room of the commanders Ryo looked enthusiastic for the next move while his other commander did not share the same enthusiasm. Reira looked worried as Yuri wondered what the next move of his childhood friend was. Even Leo and Himika were just as anxious.
"Kenos ALPHA ERASER!" The dragon was exhausted and weak but made a last attempt to stand, his whole body had wounds, it even had glass in his chest which was broken. He was preparing his energy attack.
"Laplace let's finish with this!" The monster in demonic form prepared his attack equally by charging him. Shark had already left the commanders room.
Laplace ATK: 6000
When both fired their energy discharges they made contact generating an explosion. It left all spectators except Ryo, covering their eyes.
When the explosion ended all that was left was a ash and a large smoke screen, it was not seen who was the winner.
"Marina was defeated, it's impo ..." As Grace spoke, a roar could be heard in the whole place, Serena and Yuri watched with happiness because she knew who that roar was from.
Kenos roared with pride as his mistress threw her fist in the air, Reiji was passed out in the field.
"Banish ...Holy ... Divinity from my graveyard ... I can make the attack of my dragon…. increase by 500 points each time this attack or is attacked. and the effect of my knight in my graveyard which allows me to reduce the points of an opponent's Monster by halve...!" An exhausted Marina exclaimed as it fell to the exhausted floor.
Reiji LP: 0 Marina Wins
Shark approached to check the pulse of Marina and when he made sure she was okay, he held her with his arms and took this exit from stadium. Yuri and the others noticed and left as well.