-Chapter 16-
Noble Cause
"Starting offensively I see…" KoH Duelist stated. "I will warn. If you play it like that, you will fall very easily."
"What did you say?" He asked in angry tone. "Just make your move!"
"Very well," she nodded. "I, Sir Lady, will show you and the world the glorious promise that we, Knights of Hanoi, will accomplish!"
Hello, guys, and huge thing is happening right now! Yu is facing against this Hanoi Chick, named "Sir Lady". Whoever she is, she must be strong as Gemma, the other Knight of Hanoi's pro duelist!
"Unlike my comrade, I don't let my emotion fight for me," Sir Lady spoke up.
"Hmm?" Yu hummed, wondering she is saying.
"I fight through swiftness and tranquility," she said. "I draw!"
She drew her card so quietly as if her top card in the Deck was cut off from the top of her deck.
Sir Lady: 4000 LP (5h)
"First, I summon one of my most loyal knights! I bring forth, Noble Knight Medraut!" A handsome, blond-haired man in white armor and tattered red cape appeared.
"Noble Knight?" Yu wondered.
"According to my data bank, Master Yu, Noble Knight is a classic Archetype of Warrior-Type monster that focuses on using an Equip Spell card that supports the Archetype monsters and allows them to activate their monster effect as well as allowing the player to perform one of two Special Summoning methods," Rossy explained.
"Two Special Summoning methods? What are they?" Yu asked.
"If you stay patient, then you will see," Sir Lady stated.
"Then, just do it already!" He yelled.
Sir Lady continued with her move. "I play the Equip Spell Card, Noble Arms – Caliburn to equip it to my Noble Knight Medraut. This Spell increases its ATK by 500 points."
Her monster glowed in red aura, causing its ATK to increase to 2200.
"So what! That isn't enough to destroy my C# Download Knight!" Yu exclaimed madly.
"Pay attention. I am not done yet," she stated as Yu just grunted for respond. "Once per turn, I gain 500 LP since it is equipped to my Noble Knight Merdraut, and then Merdraut's true effect activates!"
"It's true effect?" Yu said.
"Merdraut is treated as Normal Monster while face-up on the field, but when it is equipped with a Noble Arm Equip Spell Card, he becomes an effect monster, and this is his effect! It becomes DARK monster and its Level is increased by one!"
Dark purple aura succumbed through her monster's body, changing its Attribute as its Level also increased to Level 5.
"Then, I play the Spell Card, Graceful Charity to draw 3 cards and discard two to my grave." She did just that.
Sir Lady: 4500 (5h – 2 + 3 – 2 = 4h)
"Merdraut's other effect activates! Once per turn, if I control no other monsters, I can Special Summon 1 Noble Knight monster from my Deck in defense position, except this card itself! I Special Summon Noble Knight Borz!"
A black-haired, more heavily armored knight appeared besides Merdraut.
"In exchange, I have to destroy one Equip Spell Card I control, which I choose my Noble Arm – Caliburn. However, I activate Noble Arm- Caliburn's other effect! If this card is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, then I can target one Warrior-Type monster on my side of the field and equip to it. I equip it to my Noble Knight Borz!"
The weapon was now wielded by Borz shortly right after it disappeared from her first knight.
"Following that, I activate the effect of Lady of the Lake in my Graveyard!" She continued on.
"She's activating from her graveyard!?" Yu gasped.
"Effect activation from Graveyard!?" Rossy was surprised as her human master.
"By targeting one Level 5 Noble Knight monster, I reduce that target's Level by one and then I can Special Summon Lady of the Lake from my Graveyard! I call upon you, the beacon guide of heroes, Lady of the Lake!" A long-haired beautiful lady in blue and white clothes appeared out of the Graveyard Zone.
"According to calculation, Master Yu, her third monster is a Level 1 Tuner monster!" Rossy pointed out.
"Tuner Monster...that means!" Yu realized.
"So, now you know what I am doing, but it is too late for you to counter it," Sir Lady pointed out before she raised her arm out, preparing for the certain Special Summon, which seems a bit fitting in this kind of duel, Speed Duel.
"I tune my Level 1 Lady of the Lake to my Level 4 Noble Knight Medraut!" The lady of the lake sang an enchanting song before it transformed into one single green ring.
Her knight raised his sword up to the air as the green ring circled around it, transforming it into four spheres of light until a tower of energy pierced through those spheres.
"In the brightest day and quietest night, this Knight will give no nice to his foes. Fear his blade for it shall end you in the dead of night! Synchro Summon! Appear, Level 5! Ignoble Knight of High Laundsallyn!"
Dark-armored knight with glowing red eyes, which makes him look demonic and long, black hair appeared as it holds not one, but two dark swords, with 2100 ATK.
"You can Synchro Summon!" Yu noticed.
"That's right," Sir Lady nodded. "Synchro Summon is a type of Special Summoning method where the duelist must use a Tuner monster and non-Tuner monsters as Synchro Materials to special summon a powerful Synchro monster from the Extra Deck."
"I will admit, although…" Yu listened to what she says. "Due to the limited number of Main Monster Zones and that player can only Special Summon 1 Extra Deck monster one at a time, Synchro Summon, and that other Special Summon method has the highest disadvantages, unlike Fusion, Ritual, or Link Summon. However, I won't let such disadvantage get in my way! I am Sir Lady, warrior of true justice!"
"True justice?" Yu repeated before he showed with much angrier face. "You LIER!"
"Lier?" She repeated.
"You're no justice! Hurting other people, people that I care or someone else who cares about them, you're no justice, you Hanoi bitch! I am going to rip you into pieces!" Yu bashed out. "Besides, summoning that monster was completely pointless! It's not even stronger than my monster!"
"You really think I just summon this monster for show, did you?" She questioned.
Aaaah…That's kind of one of the good points of this story or Yu-Gi-Oh in general.
"Perhaps so, but I didn't summon it without reasons," she admitted. "I will show you what I mean!"
She surfed forward. "When this monster is Synchro Summoned, I can equip 1 Equip Spell Card from my deck to it. I equip my monster with the Equip Spell, Noble Arms – Dark Excaliburn!"
Just above her head, a dark portal with sparking red lightning appeared as thunder roared when a black sword with red outline rained down out of the portal. It had a single demonic blue eye in the center of the handle, which reminded me of Dark Seeker keyblade used by Riku from Kingdom Hearts.
Speaking of KH, is anyone excited for Kingdom Hearts 3? I do!
"Silence!" Sir Lady shouted at me. "Now, the matter at hand, this Noble Arms Equip Spell can only be equipped to Noble Knight Monster summoned from my Extra Deck. When it is equipped to it, it shall destroy any foes standing in my way, including you! But, before I attack, I should mention my Noble Knight Borz's effect."
"Your monster's new sword doesn't care me, Hanoi!" Yu shouted.
"Oh, you will feel fear," she whispered before she speaks up. "When he is equipped with Noble Arms Equip Spell, his effect activates, which turns himself into DARK monster and his level is increased by one."
Dark aura flowed through her noble knight's body, turning itself into DARK monster as his level became Level 5.
"Now, its following effect allows me to reveal 3 Noble Arms cards from my Deck, and you, my enemy, must randomly choose which one I add to my hand!" This surprised Yu and Rossy.
"Master Yu, I highly suggest you be careful of which card you choo…"
"I don't care which card you get! Just choose the one on the right!" Yu said bluntly.
"No, wait! Master Yu!" Rossy warned, but her words were deaf to her master's ears.
"Very well." She added the one he picked. "The rest goes to my Graveyard. I set a card, and then I declare to battle! Go, High Laundsallyn! Attack his weak C# Download Knight!"
Her Synchro ace monster jumped in with its sword out, ready for both knights to crash with their sword. C# Download Knight countered and blocked the attack with its own sword, making the blade make the sound when it hit each other.
"Ha! That was a stupid mistake!" Yu mocked.
"You think so?" Her word made him look confused. "Now, the effect of Noble Arms – Dark Excaliburn activates! During either player's turn, when the equipped Noble Knight attacks a monster, it gains the half of that monster's ATK until the end of this turn!"
"Say what!?" Yu gasped while Rossy showed an expression of surprise on her LED face.
Her Synchro monster pushed C# Download Knight, making him almost trip and then quickly sliced him in half. Yu's Knight cried in pain before it shattered into sparks.
"Grrgh! No, Download Knight!" Yu moaned frustratingly.
Yu's LP: 3100
"My attack shall continue! Now, Borz will get a chance to attack!" She followed up.
"Can't compute! How is that possible!?" Rossy stated.
"Thanks to Dark Excaliburn equipped to my Noble Knight, it can allow my other Noble Knights on the field to attack, no matter what position they are in!" This surprised Yu and Rossy even more. "Noble Knight Borz, attack directly at our enemy! For justice!"
Borz jumped into action immediately as he listened to his duelist, like if he was commanded to do so. Borz strike down at him, cutting his Life Points down even more.
"Aaaaaaah!" Yu screamed as he waddled off from his D-Board, but grabbed on the side quickly before he even falls.
"Master Yu!" Rossy exclaimed.
He got back up safely.
Phew, that was close!
Yu's LP: 1400
"My attack wades and I end my turn. At this point, High Laundsallyn's attack is returned to its original point," she finished.
Sir Lady: 4500 LP (3h)
"Are you OK, Master Yu?" Rossy asked.
"Do I look OK?" I hissed.
"I was making sure your physical state is normal after the damage, including your…mental and emotional states," she said.
"I'm just fine, but really mad now!" He stated before he turned his eyes on his "enemy".
"You will pay for this, you Hanoi! I will give you double…no, triple the damage you gave me!" He shouted.
"You bark, but you don't bite," she said calmly.
"I will show you a bite! I draw!" He drew his card aggressively.
Yu: 1400 LP (3h)
"I summon C# Webkumo!" The cybernetic spider appeared. "I activate its effect! I treat as two materials for Link Summon! Open up, my circuit!"
The magical circuit seal appeared just in front of him as it rode along with it.
"I set my C# Webkumo to the link markers!" C# Webkumo split itself into two clones before both clones spun into two blue cyclones of energy.
"Appear, Link 2! C# Stream Dragon!" His mighty dragon monster appeared, even though it is a Cyverse-Type.
"So, you Link Summoned a Link Monster. Not bad, but I see that it has lower ATK than High Laundsallyn. What would you be doing?" Sir Lady wondered.
"Then, I play the Quick-Play Spell, C# Giga-Download!" The said Spell Card showed C# Download Knight using its ability to summon a monster while a download screen appears right above him.
"If I have summoned a C# monster during this turn, I can Special Summon another one from my hand or Deck! I Special Summon C# Spearware Man from my Deck!"
The cyber-looking warrior man with a long spear appeared besides the dragon.
"C# Stream Dragon's effect activates which once per turn, it inflicts 400 points of damage to you for each C# monster it points to! So, you take 400 damages!" He pointed out as his dragon fired a blue energy canon.
Sir Lady stood still as she didn't flinch at all.
Sir Lady: 4100 LP
"Now, I re-open my circuit!" The circuit portal appeared again, but this time it was just above him.
"You will Link Summon again?" She wondered aloud.
"The summoning condition is at least 2 C# monsters. I set the link markers with C# Stream Dragon and C# Spearware Man!" His two monsters turned into cyclones of blue and green before hitting on the link arrows, which were the up, left, and right.
"When the sign of network speed is decreasing, only cause is the presence of this mighty beast! Link Summon! Link 3, C# Lagging Net Dragon!"
The new monster was a dragon with long, serpentine-like body. It was all in bright yellow color, like gold, but it also had a mechanical feel to it. Its eyes were total of four, like a spider's eyes that glowed in green LED light color. It also had two skinny arms with three white claws attached to it, acting as its fingers. Two horns were sticking out of its head, pointing upward and more or less, both looked like an antenna used by a router. It doesn't reveal any teeth, fang, or mouth at all since it was covered with a metal plate over it.
C# Lagging Net Dragon-Link 3, DARK, Cyverse/Link/Effect, 2300 ATK. Link Arrows: Up, Left, and Right.
"Impressive," she commented.
"Hold your praise, Hanoi. This is not a show," he hissed.
"I activate C# Spearware Man's effect! If he is used as material for Link Summon, then I target your monster and reduce its ATK by half while my monster gains its original ATK for its own!"
C# Spearware Man appeared briefly and he threw the spears at High Laundsallyn, her Synchro ace. One of the spears pierced through the target, draining its strength and transferred into the dragon as it ATK rose to 4400.
"I also activate C# Lagging Net Dragon's effect!" He followed up. "When this card points to a non-Cyverse Type monster, that monster's ATK is reduced to half! Lag Drain!"
His dragon's eyes turned red, the antenna-like horns emitted some kind of wireless waves, and its mouth opened, revealing razor, jagged rows of teeth. The wireless waves hit her monster, making it even weaker.
"Even more my monster becomes stronger, gaining the same amount of ATK your monster's ATK reduced by!" His dragon roared much stronger as its ATK went up again, totaling to 4925.
"According to my calculation, if C# Lagging Net Dragon attacks Ignoble Knight of High Laundsallyn, the damage would be 4400, and her current LP is 4100, which is more than enough to win this duel," Rossy analyzed.
"This is for my friends you hurt, Hanoi! Lagging Net Dragon, attack with Network Lag Beam!" His dragon roared as it opened its mouth so wide that it was a perfect 180 degree. A yellow energy charged up inside the mouth before it shot so powerfully at its target.
The blast consumed Sir Lady and her monsters.
"And that is the end…" Yu concluded, but something was not….right.
The smoke of destruction cleared away, and she was still standing or rather surfing.
"Say what!?" Yu gasped.
"How is she still standing!? Her Life Points have not been affected! How?" Rossy couldn't comprehend.
"Right before I received the attack, I activated the Trap Card, Loyalty of the Noble Knights," she revealed the card, which showed Noble Knight – Joan protecting Lady of the Lake from an fiery flamethrower's attack unleashed by some dragons.
"If a Noble Knight monster I control is about to be destroyed, I negate that attack as long as I control another Noble Knight monster on my side of the field," she explained.
"No! Damn it! You're supposed to lose in this turn! OTK!" Yu moaned.
"I won't go down that easily, when our cause and my goal are on the line, whenever I fight. That is why," she said in almost poetic tone.
"Their cause? Her goal?" Rossy said.
"What goal or cause!? Hurting more people? Manipulating others? Whatever you guys are up to, I won't let you get away with such heinous, selfless, terrible acts!" Yu yelled in anger.
"…." She looked straight at him. "Some sacrifices may be required, but it is for the better goods of the world, our real world."
"Real world? What do you mean?" Rossy questioned her.
"Shut up, Rossy! She's only just trying to confuse us, with senseless lies!" Yu stated.
"I will say this much. This place, what we call "Link VRAINS", is just a figment of our imagination. A virtual world that imitates our world; the physical world, and it corrupts anyone who uses it or even comes into it. That is our cause, the Knights of Hanoi's cause. We show the error of this way of living, and restore our world and our heart to its natural state!"
"I…I don't get you!" Yu argued.
"Pitiful, but of course, understandable. You are too young to understand it, but if you take your time and think about it, you will come to your true sense to what I mean," she said.
"Now, I draw!" She drew the card, and began her turn.
"Tch…At this point, Lagging Net Dragon's ATK is returned to normal," Yu said.
Suddenly, their surrounding transformed into some hell-like place.
"What the heck!?" Yu looked around, surprised.
"My analysis tells me that the surrounding areas of Link VRAINS has changed by some kind of strange effect by unknown cause as of what I know," Rossy said.
"It looks my lord, Revolver-sama, has begun," Sir Lady mentioned aloud.
"Your Lord, Revolver? Is he your leader? Where is he!? So, I can have some talk with him!" Yu demanded.
"You have no right to meet our fair and great leader. He is the one who will save our world," she said.
"Back to the duel at hand, I activate Noble Arms – Dark Excaliburn's final effect!" She declared. "When it is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, I can return the destroyed monster that it was equipped to my Graveyard!"
Her Synchro ace monster rose up from the Graveyard Zone. "Then, the resurrected Noble Knight gains double of its ATK!"
High Laundsallyn's ATK increased to 4200, which makes Yu and Rossy very worried.
"Not only that, but Noble Arms – Dark Excalburn can be re-equipped to my monster by sending 1 Equip Spell Card from my hand or field to the Graveyard! I send my Noble Arms – Caliburn to the Graveyard, and re-equip Dark Excaliburn to my Synchro monster!"
"With that, her monster can gain additional 1000 ATK during the battle!" Rossy stated.
"This is the end for you, once and for all! Battle! Attack!" Her Synchro Ace jumped into the air.
"Your emotion have clouded your mind, and because of that, you will lose…horribly," she said as she turned away and surfed forward, already feeling that it is not necessary to see Yu lose physically.
"No…Noooo! I won't lose here! I won't allow it!" Yu screamed. "I play this card!"
"Wait, Master Yu!" Rossy tried to warn him, but again, it was too late.
"I activate C# Bomb Virus's effect from my hand!" He revealed a spider-like monster, but with no eyes or mouth. It had a black body shaped of bomb with a purple skull on it, with tiny black legs. "If I were to take damage while I control a C# monster on my side of the field, both players take damage equal to that monster ATK by double!"
"What!?" Sir Lady gasped, showing an expression of fear or in my word, the "oh shit!" expression.
The C# Bomb Virus appeared and blew up in a huge explosion, consuming them all.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgh!" They both screamed loudly.
They fell down to her deminse or they thought so when a random data storm sucked them into it, and they never were seen again….
-New Cards Cheat Sheet-
Noble Arms – Dark Excaliburn-Type: Equip Spell, Effect: Can only be equipped to "Noble Knight" monster summoned from Extra Deck. During either player's Battle Phase, the equipped monster gains ATK equals to half of its target or attacking monster's ATK in the battle it involves in. After the equipped monster destroyed a monster by battle successfully, other Noble Knight monster(s) you control can attack this turn, no matter what battle position it is in currently. When this card is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard: Special Summon the destroyed monster that this card was equipped to. You can send 1 "Noble Arms" Equip Spell Card from your hand or field to re-equip this card to a Noble Knight monster on your side of the field. You can only activate these effects of "Noble Arms- Dark Excaliburn" once per turn.
C# Giga-Download-Type: Quick-Play, Effect: If you summoned a C# monster during this turn, you can Special Summon 1 C# monster from your hand or Deck.
C# Lagging Net Dragon-Link 3, DARK, Cyverse/Link/Effect, 2300 ATK. Link Arrows: Up, Left, and Right. Effect: +2 C# monsters. Once per turn: If this card points to a non-Cyverse Type monster, that monster's ATK is reduced by half and this card gains the same amount of that half ATK until the end of this turn. If this card is pointing to multiple monsters, you get to choose one.
Loyalty of the Noble Knights-Type: Normal Trap, Effect: When your opponent attacks a Noble Knight monster you control, if you control another Noble Knight monster, negate the destruction of your monster and gain no damage from it.
C# Bomb Virus-Level 1, DARK, Cyverse/Effect, 0 ATK, 0 DEF. Effect: If your C# monster is targeted for an attack, you can activate this card's effect from your hand: Both players take damage equals to that monster's ATK by double this turn.
Hello, folks! I am back with a new update, and like I promised, this chapter is longer than the last one.
Holy cow! To be honest, this is got to one of my favorite duels in this story so far. What do you guys think of it? Also, what do you think would happen to Yu and Sir Lady at the end? Did they survive in the data storm? Only the next chapter will answer that...
With that cryptic message out of the way, I hope you enjoy in reading this chapter as much as I did while writing it. Thank you again, and I will see you all next time.
Preview for Chapter 17
Duelists fight in their own battles. Ideals clash one another. Who would win and who would lose?
Sir Lady: Do not worry, Revolver-sama! I will defeat this foolish boy, and aid you to your side as soon as possible!
Codebreaker: I won't let you or any of you Hanoi hurt my friend ever again!
AI: Wooh! What is up with Codebreaker!?
Playmaker: Ignore now. We have our own matter at hand with Revolver.
Revolver: I will let Sir Lady handle with Codebreaker. Now, shall we continue?
Ghost Girl: Well, well. Things got really interesting...
Next to in Yu-Gi-Oh VRAINS Codes of Legends, The Battle to End.
Codebreaker & Playmaker: INTO THE VRAINS!