AN: Hey everyone, I have part two of the Ruby verses Cinder duel. I didn't want to keep people waiting long for the conclusion. This duel has been my favorite to write in the series so far. It has a lot of cool plays and combos. Hope you enjoy this chapter, leave a review with your comments and questions, and have a nice day.
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Chapter 6 – The New Shadow Riders Pt.2
In the dark cave, Weiss wondered around, "How did I go from running into a burning dorm to stuck in some cave?" She asked herself as she scanned the area, "And where's Ruby?"
"Ice Queen Lady!" Weiss heard the shrill voice of Ojama Yellow call to her. She turned to the duel spirit, who was profusely crying, "You gotta help us?"
"Not you again," Weiss said with a sigh, "Look, I'm trying to find Ruby." She said before putting her hands on her hips, "And my name is not Ice Queen Lady!"
"Sorry, but please!" Ojama Yellow pleaded, "It's Boss, he's about to fall!"
"Fall?" Weiss said before she remembered who Ruby's roommate was.
In the distance, Chazz was still asleep. However, rather than laying on a bed, his body rested at the edge of a cliff. At the bottom of a deep fall was a shallow river of water. Ojama Green and Ojama Black tried to wake him, but to no avail, "Come on, wake up!" Ojama Blake yelled.
"This is not the place to sleep!" Ojama Green added, "One bad roll and you'll-" he was saying as Chazz grimaced in his sleep, his body twisting to the left, "AAAAAA!" the two Ojama brothers screamed as their boss started to roll off.
At the last second, Weiss ran over and grabbed his right arm. With her teeth grit, she pulled him away from the edge of the cliff. The white heiress Obelisk Blue sat down as she gasped for air, "That was close," She commented before looking over to Chazz, who was still asleep.
"Brothers!" Ojama Yellow floated over to his siblings, "I found someone."
"Great job," Ojama Black said with a thumbs up.
"Yeah," Ojama Green added on, "We knew we could count on you."
"Hey," Weiss responded in anger, "I'm the one who saved this dunce!"
"Huh?" Ojama Green and Ojama Black spoke at the same time, then turned to their brother, "She can see us!?"
At that moment, Chazz slowly opened his eyes, "Eh, where am I?" He said before feeling the hard rock ground, "This isn't my bed."
"No, it isn't." Weiss said as she stood up, "This must be the work of those Shadow Riders," She then started to walk away, "Come on, Ruby could be in a lot of danger." She said before stopping to face him, "Oh, and you're welcome for saving your life." She said before scoffing, then continued to walk away.
"Saving my life?" Chazz said before turning around, seeing the cliff for the first time. He was left speechless for a second before standing, "Hey, wait up!" the student in a black trench coat called as he followed Weiss.
Meanwhile, back at the duel.
Her vision blurry, Ruby pushed herself back up. She shut her eyes before clenching her chest with her left hand. In opening her eyes, she saw Cinder, who grinned at her opponents' pain.
Ruby: 2150 Life Points
Cinder: 2150 Life Points
"This is what it means to play a shadow game." Cinder said with a single card in her hand, a single card facedown, and her Relinquished equipped with one of Ruby's Familiar Possessed monsters, "I end my turn."
Ruby gritted her teeth as she drew her card. However, a look of hope returned her eyes, "Eatos!" She thought as she saw her ace monster, "If I can summon you, maybe I can…" Ruby then looked at her hand, seeing she had four cards in total. After a few seconds of thought, she had a plan. "I activate Monster Reincarnation." The hooded Slifer Red said as she played the spell card, "Now, I send this trap card from my hand to the graveyard to add Dharc the Dark Charmer back to my hand." she said as she took her monster out of the graveyard, then placing another one on her duel disk, "Now, since I have no monsters cards in my graveyard, I can special summon Guardian Eatos from my hand!"
Cinder looked up, noticing a beacon of light descending towards Ruby's side of the field. Inside the light was the angelic huntress, who gazed down at Cinder with a scowl, (2500 ATK / 2000 DEF). The Fall Shadow Rider responded in kind but had a slight smirk. Eatos then hooved on Ruby's side of the field, now turning its attention to Relinquished.
Ruby pointed at the abomination, "Eatos, attack Relinquished!" she ordered as the angelic woman reeled her wings back. With one flap, she rocketed her feathers at her opponent at high speed. Relinquished watched as the feathers impacted its body, causing the abomination to explode.
Cinder: 2150 – 650 = 1500 Life Points
Ruby let out a sigh of relief, a smile returning to her face. However, this moment was short-lived. Her body suddenly pulsated, causing her to fall back on her knees, "What?" She said as sweat formed on her forehead, "What happened?"
Eatos looked at the smoke, seeing Cinder's glowing eye through the cloud, "My, I gave you too much credit before." The Fall Shadow Rider said, "Another one of Relinquished abilities." She said as the smoke cleared over her body, "While equipped with one of your monsters, we both take the damage if Relinquished is still weaker."
Ruby: 2150 – 650 = 1500 Life Points
Ruby looked over to Cinder's side of the field, still seeing the dust cloud. However, her eyes widened in terror as she saw the abomination's eye. Cinder smiled as she looked over to Relinquished, "And the equip monster is destroyed instead." (1850 - 1850 = 0 ATK / 1500 - 1500 = 0 DEF). The Fall Shadow Rider said before glaring at Eatos, "Freeing me to steal another one that is more powerful than the last." She said with Eatos gritting her teeth.
"I'm sorry Eatos, I really messed up," Ruby said as she pushed herself to her feet. Eatos looked back at the hooded Slifer Red, slight tears in her eyes from the pain. The angelic huntress had a look of sadness for a moment before Ruby looked at her hand, "I still have my main phase two, so I can summon a monster." She said as she set a card in face-down defense mode, "Then, I set one card face down." Ruby then placing the last card in her hand in the spell and trap zone, "I end my turn." She said as she struggled to keep her eyes open.
"My move," Cinder said as she drew her card, her body flashing with a dark aura. She then pointed at Eatos, "Relinquished, absorb Eatos!" She ordered her abomination, causing its circular void to expand and inhale. The angelic huntress tried to fight back but was pulled in. in her last moments, she looked back to see Ruby with a look of sadness in her eyes unlike ever before. Relinquished closed its flesh wings, causing Eatos to form on the left side, (0 + 2500 = 2500 ATK / 0 + 2000 = 2000 DEF). Its attack grew as Eatos wept, the only action it could do now.
Ruby's sadness quickly turned to anger as she looked at Cinder, "You'll pay for this!" she said as Cinder smirked.
"I think not," Cinder responded as she looked at Ruby's set monster, "I know that's your Dark Charm. It has the power to steal my Relinquished if I let her survive until you turn." She said before pointing at Ruby's face-down monster, "But my Relinquished has enough attack points now to destroy it!" The Fall Shadow Rider said as her monster's eye glowed purple, "Attack!" Cinder declared as Relinquished fired its beam.
Ruby watched as her monster flip summoned, showing itself as the Dharc The Dark Charmer, (500 ATK / 1500 DEF). "No, not this time!" Ruby said with determination as she activated her face down card, "I activate Twister!" She said before her body staggered, "By paying 500 life points, I can destroy a face-up spell or trap." Ruby said as she pointed to the card equipped to Relinquished, "But this includes my Eatos!"
Ruby: 1500 – 500 = 1000 Life Points
"What!?" Cinder responded as a gust of wind came over her side of the field. The gale-force was so powerful, it ripped Eatos out of Relinquished's flesh. The angelic huntress had a look of peace before her body faded into particles of light. Cinder's eyes widened as her monster's attack returned to zero, (2500 - 2500 = 0 ATK / 2000 - 2000 = 0 DEF).
"Now, only you'll take the damage!" Ruby said as Dharc eyeball bat fired its own eye laser. The two beams struggled against each other, but the bat was gaining ground fast, "And with 1500 Defense points, this will end the duel!" Ruby declared as the beam overtook Relinquished's. Cinder could not avoid it as the eye laser passed through her body as it did for Ruby. The Fall Shadow Rider then fell to one knee. "…I did it." Ruby said as she started to smile.
But like before, it was short-lived. Ruby had a look of confusion as the monsters were still on her field. She then looked over to Cinder, who slowly started to stand. Her body glowed with a dark aura, but her eyes still had that orange flame.
"How!?" Ruby said as she had a look of panic, "Your like points should have hit zero!"
"Do you remember the monster I sent to the graveyard to summon Relinquished?" Cinder responded. Ruby flashed back to the moment, only remembering that it was a five-star monster. Suddenly, Ruby noticed the outline of a dark angle behind Cinder. The monster had blond hair, a white and pink dress, and black wings matching her skin, "It was Marie, The Fallen One." She said as she fully stood up, "Since she is in the graveyard, I can gain 200 life points at my standby phases." The Fall Shadow Rider said before flashing back to her last draw. How after gaining a card, her body glowed in this same aura.
Cinder: 1500 + 200 – 1500 = 200 Life Points
Ruby had a line of sweat run down her forehead, but she turned to her monster, "I can still activate my charmer's effect. Since your monster is a dark attribute, I can-" in the middle of her sentence, green chains erupted from the ground. Dharc had a look of shock as the chains bound her body, making her unable to move, "What!?" Ruby said before looking at Cinder's field.
"I activated my other face down card," the Fall Shadow Rider responded, "Fiendish Chain. It prevents a monster from attacking and negates their effects." She said as Ruby took a step back, causing Cinder to smirk, "What's the matter, you're winning right now?" She said while placing a card face down, "Aren't you having fun?"
"This isn't fun!" Ruby shouted back before her stance faltered, causing her to clench her chest, "My heart feels like it's about to explode. It's hard to breathe." She then looked over to Dharc, "I don't like seeing this type of pain inflicted on others." She said as Cinder smirked. However, Ruby turned to face the Fall Shadow Rider, "And I don't like inflicting this pain either."
"Then, give up." Cinder offered, "I'll take your key and you get to walk away without remorse." She said before activating the last card in her hand, "I equip my Relinquished with Mist Body." She played the equip spell, a small fog formed around the abomination, "Now, Relinquished can't be destroyed by battle." Cinder then crossed her arms, "Now, make your decision."
Ruby clenched her right hand, "I can't give up either." She said before glaring at Cinder, "If I give up, you're just going to go after my friends." she the reposed her stance, "I won't let that happen, I'm going to beat you. Right here, right now!" Ruby said before looking at her deck, "Her Relinquished can't be destroyed, but she doesn't have it equipped with a monster anymore." Ruby planned as readied to draw, "Only she will take the damage if I attack. I just need to draw a monster card." The hooded Slifer Red hoped before she drew, "…Heh." Ruby said with a smile, "I summon Lyna The Light Charmer in attack mode!" Suddenly, the white-haired girl with the Happy Lover appeared on Ruby's said of the field, (500 ATK / 1500 DEF). Ruby then pointed at the abomination, "Now, attack Relinquished!" She said as Lyna fired a white ball of light at Cinder's monster. While it passed through Relinquished's mist body, the balled headed straight for the Fall Shadow Rider.
However, Cinder smirked, "I activate Spirit Barrier." She said as a yellow aura forcefield appeared around her side of the field, "So long as I have a monster on the field, I take no battle damage." She said before the ball of light shattered against the barrier. Ruby remained speechless as her eyes widened in fear, "I assume that was all you had, so I will take my turn." Cinder said as she drew, "Now, Maire gives me life points."
Cinder: 200 + 200 = 400 Life Points
"No…" Ruby said as tears formed in her eyes.
"Relinquished, absorb Dharc the Dark Charmer." Cinder ordered as the abomination opened its circular void. Dharc looked in horror, now having to relive this nightmare again. (0 + 500 = 500 ATK / 0 + 1500 = 1500 DEF). Cinder then turned her attention to Lyna, "Now, attack Lyna the Light Charmer." She ordered as Relinquished fired its eye beam. Ruby watched as her monster heart was pierced by the laser, falling to the ground with lifeless eyes before fading away, "Since I absorbed Dharc, not destroyed her, Fiendish chain was not destroyed. Because of Mist Body, Dharc is now permanently a victim of Relinquished." She said as Ruby fell to her knees, "Your turn."
Ruby looked at her deck as she drew. In looking at the card, she saw it was Soul Release. She stared at the card for a seconded before closing her eyes, "…I end my turn."
Cinder smirked as she drew, "Pathetic." She commented as Maire's effect activated.
Cinder: 400 + 200 = 600 Life Points
"Relinquished attacks you directly." Cinder ordered as the abomination fired its eye laser.
Again, the beam pierced thought Ruby's heart. This time, the time her heart stopped was twice as long. After the beam subsidized, Ruby screamed, "AAAAAAAAHHH!" She whaled in pain before falling on her right shoulder. In the far-off distance, Weiss and Chazz heard the echoed scream. They nodded to each other before running towards the noise.
Ruby: 1000 - 500 = 500 Life Points
Cinder smiled as she ended her turn. Ruby struggled to push herself up, only managing to go as far as one knee. She drew her card, but was barely able to make it out, "I…end my …turn."
The Fall Shadow Rider sighed as her smile faded, "I hope for more of a challenge from the others." She said before drawing and her life points increased.
Cinder: 600 + 200 = 800 Life Points
"Relinquished," Cinder ordered as the abomination charged its eye laser, "Finish her off." She said before the beam fired.
Ruby gritted her teeth as she touched her graveyard. Suddenly, a set of swords of yellow light blocked the laser. However, the shockwave passed over the hooded Slifer Red's body, knocking her onto her back. Cinder scowled as she knew what happened, "I see, the trap card you discarded before was Spiritual Swords of Revealing Light." She said as Ruby coughed, "While in the graveyard, you can banish it to prevent direct attacks that turn." Cinder smiled as Ruby stood up, "Well, you've bought yourself one more move." The Fall Shadow Rider ended her turn.
Ruby drew her card, noticing the card as a monster, "I summon-" Suddenly, her body pulsated. Her eyes widened in pain as she fell to one knee, her breathing heavy. However, she gritted her teeth, "I summon Familiar Possessed Lyna in defense mode!" She said as Lyna returned to the field in her stronger form, now kneeling with her staff, (1850 ATK / 1500 DEF). Ruby forced herself to stand as she looked at her opponent, "Because you don't take any damage, I don't take any damage from Relinquished. What's more, Relinquished can't absorb another one of my monsters." Ruby then looked at one of the two cards in her hand, then placed it on the field. "I set one card an end my turn."
"I just need to draw a monster strong enough to destroy your Lyna," Cinder said as she drew, Maire's effect activating.
Cinder: 800 + 200 = 1000 Life Points
Ruby waited as Cinder looked at the card. The Fall Shadow Rider smiled, "Well, not what I expected." She said before setting the card in her spell/trap zone, "But still, all according to plan." She said before ending her turn.
Ruby had a look of confusion before drawing her card. After the hooded Slifer Red looked at the card, Cinder had a sinister smile. However, in the distance, Weiss and Chazz saw the duel, "Ruby!" the white heiress Obelisk Blue called as she ran over, the student in a black trench coat following close behind.
Ruby turned around with terror in her eyes, "Oh no," She said before shouting, "Run away!"
"You're too late," Cinder said as her eye glowed with the orange flame, "I active Just Desserts!" She said as Ruby looked back to the duel, seeing the card with the angry ape, "Now, you take 500 points of damage for every monster you control!" the Fall Shadow Rider said as she looked at the one monster on Ruby's side of the field. The trap card unleashed a massive red beam of energy, causing Cinder to have a smile of insanity, "It's over!"
Ruby watched as the beam was about to connect, she closed her eyes as she revealed her last card, "I activate Fairy Wind," She said as she revealed the trap showing mystic eyes, "For every other face-up spell or trap card on the field, we each take 300 points of damage."
"WHAT!?" Cinder responded, realizing her whole side of the field had face-up spell and trap cards, "5 times 300 equals 1500." She quickly did the math as the eyes charged, "If we each take the damage, then this duel is a-" Suddenly, the Fairy Wind unleashed a massive gale. An almost silver wind explosion overfilled the area. The Fall Shadow Rider was flung back, her body launched a few meters before she recovered. Her heels grinded against the stone floor as she fell to one knee. After she stopped, she finished her sentence, "Tie."
Ruby: 500 – 1500 = 0 Life Points
Cinder: 1000 – 1500 = 0 Life Points
As the smoke cleared, Cinder discovered she was not the only one in the cave, "Tsk," scoffed said as she stood up, dusted herself off, and walked away, "She may give kept the key, but I wasn't defeated." The Fall Shadow Rider said before smirking, "I'll just challenge her again." She then looked at her duel disk, picking up her Relinquished, "Next time, I'll bring out your true potential to destroy Ruby Rose." She said before placing the card back in her deck.
Meanwhile, at the cave entrance.
"There's the exit!" Weiss announced as she led the way out. Chazz followed as he carried Ruby on his back. Upon exiting, they discovered the cave was located next to the beach. The morning sun was about to rise as the light started to reflect on the sand. The white heiress Obelisk Blue then walked over to see Ruby. The hooded Slifer Red's eyes were closed as her breathing was weak, "We need to get her to the infirmary." Weiss said with Chazz nodding. The group then ran towards Duel Academy in the distance. However, Weiss gritted her teeth as she realized the danger they were all in now.
A couple hours later.
Cinder walked down a dark cave tunnel, sighing before creating a small guiding flame. However, she did notice a faint light of a man lighting a cigar, "Well, you took quite the beating." He said while where a bowler hat and white coat. An aura of thievery radiated with his voice.
"Nothing I can't walk off," Cinder responded before looking around, "Though, I believe I fared better than Nightshroud did against Jaden Yuki."
Suddenly, a third person joined the conversation, "Atticus was weak, even after gaining that power." The two looked over to see a young man in a black outfit, holding a sheathed sword. As he unsheathed his blade, the light reacted on the red metal, "I'm confident I can do what he could not." He said as the light showed his white mask and red hair, "Win."
"Whatever you say," The Criminal Shadow Rider said with a shrug, he then looked back to see two other members. One was a young lady with a red ponytail and bronze headdress. The other was a young lady with a tattered black and purple cape and glasses. Her blond hair was almost luminescent in the dark cave, "At least those two are quiet."
Cinder then addressed the group, "While our first battle was not as planned, we will still win this war." She said before a sinister smile formed on her face, "Let us prepare for the second phase."
The Bladed Shadow Rider grinned before looking back. Sitting on a rock was a young woman with long black hair, matching the bow on her head. Despite the darkness, she appeared to be reading a book, "My Darling," The Bladed Shadow Rider spoke to her, "Are you with us?"
The Black Shadow Rider turned to him, her yellow eyes matching the focused gaze of a feline. Without saying a word, she closed her book.
AN: There you go, that was an intense duel to write. You all see the rest of the Shadow Riders at the end. As you can tell, they are not the same as the original cannon. Here, you should be able to tell which RWBY series characters they are. We have some fun duels ahead, but it may take a while before I post them. Note that duel chapters take roughly five times more effort to write than any of my other stories. (As a behind the scenes, I make the decks in YuGiPRO for the characters to use and playtest them a bit. Then, I script the duels, plan for certain moments in the duel, and decided the outcome. Finally, I write the chapter with all the correct card counts, life points, and mechanics. It takes a lot of effort to make duels in fanfiction, as I have learned the hard way). With that, it will be a while until the next chapter. I want to finish up Trained by Saiyans before continuing this story. However, I may come back sooner then I think, because I really do love writing these duels. That is all for now, thanks for reading, and hope to see you in the next chapter.
