YU-GI-OH: The third legacy

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NOTE: If you have just started reading this then I recommend you read one part a day, it's getting kinda long...

 

Part ones kinda rubbish, but its introducing main characters so I guess that's an excuse

 

Episode 1: The Legacy begins

 

[spoiler=episode]Jamin woke up feeling dizzy and rubbed his head, he was about 16, nearly 17 and was just below average height, his hair was long especially at the back and he had bluey-green eyes. He stood up and looked around; he was in some kind of wood with grey trees. He looked down and saw a person standing opposite him; he could barely see him though through the darkness.

“Tell me Jamin, have you ever heard of a shadow duel?” he asked.

“No, I can’t say that I have,” Jamin replied “and how do you know who I am, who are you?”

The stranger laughed softly “I am Diablo, duellist of the dark world.”

“Never heard of it,” Jamin said.

“You soon will,” Diablo continued “when you will spend the rest of your pathetic mortal life in the shadow realm.”

“Dude, I seriously have no idea what you’re going on about,” Jamin said backing off “but if it’s okay with you I want to go now.”

“You can’t,” Diablo laughed “the only way out of here is a duel.”

“A duel? Oh you mean these right?” Jamin reached into the small case on the back of his belt and pulled out a deck of cards.

“Very good,” Diablo said “depends on weather or not you can use them though.”

A grey fog suddenly appeared floating just above the floor but not reaching any higher and everything became dark.

“Where are we?” Jamin demanded.

“This is what’s called the shadow realm,” Diablo explained “if you happen to lose this game then your soul is trapped here forever.”

“You’re having a joke right?” Jamin said “this is all just mirrors and smoke screens; come on none of this is real. I’m going.”

“You can’t leave,” Diablo said “unless you win our duel.”

“Fine,” Jamin sighed “but duelling in a dream is gonna be kinda tricky, after all no one knows what could happen.”

“It’s no dream,” Diablo said. He raised his arm and some kind of metal wing appeared on it, when he lowered it again Jamin could see that a dome in the shape of a skull had strapped itself onto his arm and what he’d thought was a wing was coming out of the side and had 5 slots on the side facing Diablo and 5 on top.

“Is that a custom duel disk?” Jamin asked “man you must be stinking rich to afford one of those.”

“Silence mortal,” Diablo ordered. He shuffled his own deck and slotted them into a large slot under the skull’s teeth, the eyes glowed and the wing extended out.

“All fine and dandy but I don’t have a duel disk,” Jamin said “sorry.” He scratched the back of his head and suddenly realised that an identical model had appeared on his own arm.

“Wow, that proves it this is a dream,” he said.

“Idiot,” Diablo barked “anything is possible in the shadow realm now prepare to lose your soul.”

“Why me though?” Jamin asked.

“Fool,” Diablo retorted “don’t you know your own fate? Every person has a destiny; it’s my job to see you never fulfil your destiny so let’s duel!”

Jamin shuffled his own deck and put it into the duel disk, the eyes lit up and the field extended out. Each of them drew 5 cards from their decks.

“Seeing as this is my realm,” Diablo said “I’ll start.” He pulled a card from his deck and placed it with the others in his hand. “Let’s see, first I’ll summon Cyber Soldier of Dark World in attack mode!” He placed one of his cards on the field and the creature in the picture appeared in front of him, it was a giant robot with a blue, spherical body with two large shoulders coming out of the sides, 3 rows of yellow tubing were on top of them, it also had a large square hood from which a robotic pink head poked out, at the end of its arms were giant blasters. “And if you think he’s scary, wait till you see what else I have in store for you. Welcome to the shadow realm!” Diablo laughed.

Jamin stared up at the robot as it leered down on him. “No biggie,” he said “it’s only a hologram after all. It’s probably not even that because this is all a dream, in a second he’ll probably turn into a big blue bunny.”

“This is no dream,” Diablo yelled “now make your move before I pound you into dust!”

“You need to take it easy,” Jamin said drawing a card from his deck “after all when you see what I’ve got for you, I don’t think you’ll know what hit you. Now then…” he took one of the cards from his hand and placed it on the field. “I summon Element Doom in attack mode!”

A gargoyle type creature appeared on his side, it was a light brown colour with a large pair of ears that looked more like hair covered with green and white highlights, a pair of wings sprouted from its back with the same coloured highlights and a long tail wound its way around its leg, it’s shins also had some kind of green armour that looked like scales as did the edge of its tail.

“Okay then,” Jamin looked up at his beast “Element Doom attack Cyber Soldier of Dark World. Serrated elemental claw!”

Element Doom leapt into the air and raised its arm soaring in front of the Cyber Soldier, it brought its arm down and struck the Cyber Soldier and it shattered into tiny triangles and vanished.

“This is the most realistic, consistent dream I’ve ever had,” Jamin said “and it’s about duelling, man I’m loving this. I guess I’ll play this face down and that’ll do” Jamin placed a card into the bottom slot underneath Element Doom, a hologram of a face down card appeared in front of him.

Diablo glared at him as his life points dropped to 3900. “I’ve told you this is no dream,” he said “now that I’ve seen the kind of cards you use; it’s time for you to see mine.” Diablo drew a card from his deck “perfect, now I activate dark world lightning! All I have to do is discard one card from my hand, and I can instantly destroy your face down, so go Dark World lightning.” He raised the card into the air and it glowed and began crackling, thunder suddenly shot from it into the sky and then back down hitting Jamin’s face down card and destroying it.

“Hey,” he complained “I needed that.”

“Not any more,” Diablo said putting a card from his hand into a slot on the back of the skull “but since I discarded this card by a card effect, I can special summon it to the field.” The slot glowed and the card came back out, Diablo picked it up and placed it one the field. “Behold, Beiige, Vanguard of Dark World.”

A monster appeared in front of Diablo, it looked like its skin was made from blue muscle tissue, it had white bone-like armour covering his thigh, chest, shoulders and head and carried a sword with a handle as long as the blade.

“Wait, you just ditched that guy right?” Jamin said.

“Exactly,” Diablo explained “if Beiige is sent to the graveyard by a card effect then I can instantly summon him to the field. So, say your payers! Beiige, Vanguard of Dark World, attack Element Doom!”

Beiige leaped into the air raising his sword over his head and bringing it down slicing Element Doom in two before leaping back to Diablo’s side of the field as Element Doom shattered into triangles and vanished. Jamin’s life points dropped to 3900.

“Hey, I felt that,” he said aghast.

“Exactly, this is the shadow realm,” Diablo explained “in here the pain is real, the monsters are real, the magic is real and the game is real.”

“Oh boy,” Jamin said “duelling just got a whole lot scarier.”

“Make your move if you still can,” Diablo laughed “but first I play one card face down, then I end my turn.”

Jamin glared at his and drew a card from his deck placing it in his hand.

“Okay, time for a fun filled turn,” he said “this time the hurt it on you, to start things off I summon Darkfire Soldier number two in attack mode…” He placed a card on his field and the monster appeared, it looked like a man in a karate suit with black skin, red hair and two flaming samurai swords. “But just to make this all the more painful, I also play this magic card Salamandra!” A large red sword appeared in the Darkfire Soldier’s hands replacing the two samurai swords. “This increases his attack power by a whopping 700, giving him 2400 attack points. So attack his monster!”

The Darkfire soldier ran forwards raising the sword to attack Diablo’s monster.

“I don’t think so little boy,” Diablo said “I play Bark of Dark Ruler.”

“Say what?”

“In case you didn’t know, Bark of Dark Ruler let’s me give up any number of life points, and give them to my monster for one turn, and I give up 900, enough to take out your monster.”

A black aura suddenly surrounded Beiige and he struck at the Darkfire Soldier destroying him and putting Jamin’s life points down to 3800.

“What was the point of that?” He said “now I’m 800 points up. I’ll play this face down and end my turn though but answer anyway.”

“Because now kid, I can attack you directly,” Diablo explained “Beiige, Vanguard of Dark World, attack him directly!”

Beiige leapt into the air raising his sword, Jamin took a step back and when Beiige struck he felt as though the blade had just sliced through his insides as his life points dropped down to 2200.

“What’s wrong?” Diablo asked “the shadow realm too much for you or something?”

Jamin drew a card from his deck and put it I his hand. “I’ve had enough,” he barked “I play incandescent ordeal! So I toss out Maiden of the Aqua and Giant Soldier of stone and summon Legendary Flame Lord in attack mode!” A burst of fire appeared in front of Jamin and a figure appeared with dark brown clothes, a torn red cloak, a pointed purple hat and a long violet staff with a glowing red orb at the end. “And if I were you I wouldn’t play any more spell cards,” Jamin explained “you see, after you activate 4, then I can destroy all cards on the field.”

“So I’ll destroy him before then,” Diablo said.

“Not gonna happen,” Jamin said “I still have one card left in my hand, so I sacrifice Legendry Flame Lord to summon something even more powerful.”

“What?”

“Say hello to infernal incinerator!” Jamin said. The Legendary Flame Lord was consumed in a fireball with grew and exploded: A large, red beetle-like creature appeared with armour down its back and spikes lining each side, it didn’t seem to have a face except for a large mouth lined with sharp teeth, also what looked like a knight was fused by the torso to its head.

“And as a little bonus, he get 200 attack points for all your monsters,” Jamin said “so, Infernal Incinerator, attack his, whatever it’s called!”

The Infernal Incinerator opened its mouth and hit Beiige with a blast of fire destroying him and dropping Diablo’s life points to 1600.

“I’m still standing!” He declared.

“Not for long,” Jamin said “because I play my trap card, call of the haunted. It let’s me bring a monster back from my graveyard, I didn’t do this before because it would have lowered Infernal Incinerator’s attack power by 500, but seeing as he’s used his attack I think I’ll bring back an old friend, Legendary Flame Lord!” The Legendary Flame Lord appeared in front of Jamin and floated to the ground “now then,” Jamin continued “attack his directly! Flame arrow attack!”

The Legendary Flame Lord raised his staff, the orb at the and glowed and a burst of fire flew out striking Diablo directly dropping his life points down to zero, he yelled and fell to his knees.

“Well this has been a swell dream,” Jamin said “see you around.”

The image in front of him seemed to fade and vanished; a second later he opened his eyes again and discovered his was back in his bed room on the floor, apparently having collapsed in front of his T.V. “Wow, weird dream,” he said rubbing his eyes “those were the exact card in my deck, and exactly how I would use them.” He sat up rubbing his head and looked around. “How long have I been out for anyway, I can’t seem to remember. Oh well.” He got up and crossed over to the window, standing on tip toes so that he could see out, it was daylight and the sun was high in the sky. “Not too long,” he concluded. He looked about the rest of his room and looked up at the clock then suddenly jerked back into reality. “Whoa… I said I’d meet Josh at the park, man how dumb can I get.” He immediately opened the door and rushed downstairs past the living room where his dad sat on a chair hidden in the newspaper.

“Going somewhere?” He asked.

Jamin doubled back looking into the room. “Er, yeah see ya later!” He waved and dashed off again.

“It’ll all end in tears I know it,” Jamin’s dad sighed.

Jamin opened up the garage door and walked inside grabbing his bike and jumping on it. “Let’s see, me check, bike check, deck check hey that rhymes. And I’m off.” He started off peddling out of the garage, pausing to close the door, and then rode out of the drive and down the street tilting his head back as the wind blew softly on his face.

“Wow, I’m glad it’s the weekend,” he said “otherwise Mrs. Callie would probably scold me again.”

He rode up to the park and turned to go through the gate and onto the path passing an old man walking his equally old looking dog. “Pardon me coming through,” he warned as he passed.

Josh leant against a large oak tree looking at his watch, he was about six feet tall, almost seven despite being 3 months younger than Jamin, he had black hair with went in on long strip down his back and spilled over the top of his head forcibly reminding any person of a volcano erupting. He heard a small ‘ding’ and looked up to see Jamin riding towards him. He pushed himself off the tree and folded his arms. “Took your time didn’t you?” He stated.

“Sorry dozed off,” Jamin said getting off his bike “but hey I’m here now right?”

“Yeah, luckily before him,” Josh said “man, he’s even later than you and that’s saying something.”

“Yeah why doesn’t Mrs. Callie ever pick on him?” Jamin wondered.

“Probably because he’s a blooming swot,” Josh said “but I have heard he’s pretty good, you have got your duel disk right?”

“Well…” Jamin said remembering an image of his mum and dad in pyjamas glaring at him looking half asleep “my mum’s confiscated it until I stop practising duelling at night.”

“Typical,” Josh sighed. He looked up at the sound of whistling coming from nearby, followed by footsteps. Soon enough a boy in his early teens appeared with a white polo shirt and black shots, his hair was brown and short as well as well groomed, multiple freckles covered his nose and he carried a blue backpack, he tilted his head up slightly at the sight of Josh and Jamin.

“You two are supposed to be the best in the class are you?” He said in an annoying voice that made Josh want to hit him “well you just haven’t faced me yet so let’s throw down.”

“Guess you can’t wait,” Josh said sarcastically “seeing as bone brain here forgot his duel disk I’ll take this one. So you’re name’s Sammy right?”

“That’s me,” Sammy said. He put his backpack down and opened it pulling out a duel disk; it looked like the one in Jamin’s dream only it wasn’t customised so it was just a regular silver dome with a blue orb set into it. Sammy shuffled his deck and placed it in the slot. “Hope you like losing,” Sammy said “I’ve studied your duelling and thought up countless strategies to beat you.”

“Well if you base your deck on beating one single person then you have a lot to learn about duelling pal,” Josh said. He produced his own duel disk and strapped it onto his arm and activated it, the blue orb glowed ad the field extended out, Sammy mimicked him. “I’ll go first if you don’t mind,” Josh said drawing 6 cards from his deck.

“Fine by me,” Sammy shrugged drawing 5 “you’ll lose either way.”

“Okay then,” Josh said “to start with I summon Mythical Beast Cerberus in defence mode!” He placed a card on his field sideways and a hologram appeared in front of him, the creature had a blue body with two heads, one was a purple lions head, the other looked like a blue dolphin with a long mane. “Next I’ll place this face down and end my turn.” Josh put a card in the slot beneath his Mythical beast Cerberus and a hologram of it appeared behind the Cerberus’ hologram.

“My turn then,” Sammy said and drew a card placing it in his hand “and I summon Batteryman AA in defence mode!” A battery appeared in front of Sammy, complete with arms, legs and a head.

“Wait, your move is a battery?” Josh said.

“Yep, a battery that get’s 1000 points for each Batteryman AA on the field for whichever mode he’s in.” Sammy boasted.

“1000? That’s really going to help,” Josh said sarcastically.

“Yeah, yeah,” Sammy said “but I’ll also play this face down and that’ll do for me.”

“I thought I was going to have a challenge,” Josh sighed “but now I’m just disappointed, my draw!” He pulled a card from his deck “perfect, I summon Gemini elf in attack mode!” Two female elves appeared beside each other, one had shoulder length blonde hair, and the other had longer orange hair. “Now, attack with double Elvin strike!”

The elves leapt forwards both striking the Batteryman and destroying him.

“Your 1000 points didn’t help you here I’m afraid little boy, I’ll place this face down as well as my other one,” Josh said “why don’t you go back to school?”

“Don’t bore me,” Sammy retorted “I needed him in my graveyard, and now it’s my turn” He drew a card from his deck and placed it in his hand “I play cheerful coffin, this let’s me put up to three cards into my graveyard but I’m only ditching one.” He took a card from his hand and put it into his graveyard slot.

“Well that was pointless,” Josh sighed.

“Not exactly,” Sammy said “because now I pay 500 life points and activate Battery charger, this let’s me bring back a monster that has battery in its name from my graveyard so let’s all welcome back Batteryman AA in attack mode.”

Batteryman AA appeared back on the field in front of Sammy.

“Big deal,” Josh sighed “he only has 1000 points.”

“You’d think so,” Sammy said “but now I play call of the haunted…” The face down in front of Sammy flipped face up and glowed turning into another batteryman AA “I’ve got two of these guys, and now I’ll bring on the third!” He placed a card into the monster card slot and a third Batteryman AA appeared.

“Now, seeing as they’re all in attack mode, they all get 3000 attack points each, not bad huh? Now simultaneous attack!”

The Batterymens’ fist’s crackled with lightning and they charged forwards.

“I don’t think so rookie,” Josh said “in case you hadn’t noticed, I kinda have some face downs here, so I activate the first one, magical cylinders!” The trap card flipped up and a pair of hollow tubes with several carvings on them appeared, one of the Batteryman’s attack went down one tube and came out the other in Sammy’s direction and hit him.

“Hey! What happened?” He said.

“Magical cylinders cancels one attack and deals the damage to you,” Josh explained “and I make that 3000.”

“Well I still have my other two!” Sammy yelled.

“Wrong again,” Josh said “I play my second trap mirror force!”

The two Batterymen fired a simultaneous lightning attack but it seemed to hit an invisible wall and bounced back destroying all of Sammy’s monsters.”

“No, what happened?” He said aghast.

“Mirror force destroys all your monsters in attack mode.” Josh explained “and that’s all of them, so if you’re all out of monsters then I’ll take my turn so, Gemini elves finish him off!”

Josh’s two elves leapt forwards and hit Sammy directly dropping his life points down to zero.

“Pathetic,” Josh sighed “I don’t know why I wasted my time with you.”

“But…but…but I…My batterymen…What went wrong?” Sammy stammered.

“You’re too cocky,” Josh explained “You had 3 monsters with over 3000 attack points and wasted them, you’re no duellist.”

He turned his back on Sammy and walked off putting his duel disk away and taking out his cards. Jamin turned and followed him wheeling his bike along.

“Well that does seem like a useful strategy,” he said “I mean having 3 monsters with 3000 attack points is really useful.”

“Yeah but take down one and they get weaker,” Josh said “no strategy is fool proof and that one was just pathetic.”

“Well I think he got what was coming to him,” Jamin said “I can’t stand people like him.”

“Well you’d probably have been stunned silly by that technique if you’d duelled, you fall apart whenever someone plays a powerful monster and forget your trap cards.”

“Oh yeah,” Jamin said “that is a problem.”

“Well maybe I should teach you not to completely lose it when you’re up against a powerful monster,” Josh said “whenever your opponent plays their best card try using magic cards or something like that.”

“Well I panic and forget I have them,” Jamin murmured embarrassed.

“Jesus Christ,” Josh sighed “you wouldn’t last 5 minutes against me.”

“I probably wouldn’t even if I did remember,” Jamin said “which reminds me, I had a crazy dream last night, I was duelling a guy called Diablo in some kind of dark smoky place, shadow realm that’s it.”

Josh started at the words. “Shadow what?”

“Shadow realm,” Jamin replied “what’s the big deal?”

“What? Oh, nothing,” Josh stuttered “just an itch?”

“Oh okay,”

Shadow realm? Josh though could what my grandfather told me be true?

 

****

 

Later that day Josh walked down the street alone, the sky was getting dark and there was nobody else for miles around. Suddenly Josh stopped, looking up he saw a silhouette of a person run along a roof top and jump down behind it. Josh narrowed his eyes and ran in the person’s direction. As he rounded the corner he stopped and looked up, the figure was standing across the road from him, it was hard to tell in the small amount of light but she looked female.

“Curiosity killed the cat hun’,” she said slyly.

“Good thing I’m not a cat then,” Josh said “who are you? And what are you doing here?”

“So much for manner,” she sighed “my name is Katherine, but just call me Kat okay?”

“Fine by me,” Josh said.

“And as for what I want…” Kat raised her arm, a broken street lamp suddenly lit up revealing Kat’s appearance; she was dressed mostly in black save for a few bracelets on her wrists and the short brown hair. On her arm was a duel disk.

“Let me guess,” Josh said “you want to duel me right?”

“I like it when people are smart,” Kat smiled. She activated the duel disk and the field extended.

Josh glared at her and pulled his own from his bag strapping it to his wrist. “I suppose you know how good I am?” He asked.

“That’s exactly the reason I’m duelling you,” Kat said “but talk is cheap so let’s duel!”

A grey fog suddenly engulfed them obscuring the surroundings.

“Hey what’s going on?” Josh demanded.

“Don’t want to be interrupted,” Kat chuckled “now let’s begin…” She picked up 5 cards from the top of her deck and fanned them out looking at them “hm, let’s see. I think I’ll let you go first shall I?”

“Fine by me,” Josh said picking up another card he examined his hand closely then looked back up at Kat “I summon Apprentice magician in defence mode!” Josh placed a card sideways on his field and the image of a young blonde man in violet robes wielding an emerald staff appeared in front of him crouched down “as soon as I see what her strategy is I can counter it,” Josh though.

“I honestly thought you’d do better than that,” Kat sighed drawing a card “oh well, I summon Allure queen level 3 in attack mode!” She placed her own card on the field and a woman in red and black robes holding a gold staff appeared, she was short but had a serious look on her face “now I activate her effect, I can equip one of your creatures onto my Allure queen, so come here apprentice magician.”

The apprentice magician was reluctantly pulled away from Josh and stood behind Kat’s Allure Queen.

“Hey,” Josh protested “well at least now I know her strategy, so I can counter it.”

“Allure Queen attack!” Kat ordered.

The Allure Queen raised her staff and fired an emerald beam which hit Josh directly dropping his life points down to 3500.

“Well looks like I’ll have to destroy that little queen of yours then,” he said “it can only control level 3 or lower creatures, so I summon skilled dark magician in attack mode!” Josh placed a card on his field and a magician in long black robes hiding his eyes appeared wielding a black staff as though it were the lightest thing on earth. “Also I’ll place this card face down,” A hologram of a face down card appeared beside Josh “okay then. Skilled dark magician, attack Allure Queen level 3, dark magic attack!”

The skilled dark magician span its staff and fired a purple blast of energy at the Allure Queen, but the apprentice magician jumped in the way and was destroyed.

“What?”

“Sorry but while Allure Queen is equipped with one of your creatures then I can destroy that instead of her.” Kat explained “now it’s my turn, and I play this spell card level limit area B, so your magician switches to defence mode.”

A hologram of the card Kat played appeared in front of her and the Skilled Dark Magician switched to defence mode.

“I’m not done yet,” Kat said “I also activate level up! So now I sacrifice Allure Queen level 3 to summon Allure Queen level 5!”

The Allure Queen vanished and was replaced by a taller version of herself with two ribbons spanning from behind her and a larger, more trident-like staff.

“Next I’ll play level modulation.” Kat said “you draw two cards and I get back my Allure queen!”

Josh picked up two cards from his deck and Allure Queen level 3 appeared beside Allure Queen level 5.

“And now I sacrifice them…” Kat said as both Allure Queens vanished “to summon Vanity’s ruler in attack mode!”

A man with green hair and a white cloak replaced the two queens and stood up towering over the skilled dark magician. Josh narrowed his eyes.

“Vanity’s ruler attack skilled dark magician!” Kat ordered “whirlwind strike.”

A small hurricane surrounded Vanity’s ruler and he flew into the air and dived at the Skilled Dark Magician.

“Dark magic attack!” Josh ordered.

“What?”

A beam of black energy flew from Josh’s side of the field hitting Vanity’s ruler, he stayed in mid air barely holding off the attack.

“What did you do?!” Kat demanded.

“You activated 3 spell cards,” Josh explained “so that allowed me to sacrifice my Skilled dark magician, and summon Dark Magician!”

The smoke around Josh’s field cleared and a tall man in heavy purple armour and robes stood in the place of the skilled dark magician, his helmet was pointed and made him looked even taller and several layers of armour covered his shoulders.

“But they have equal attack points,” Kat laughed “they’ll both be destroyed.”

“Well then, it’s a good thing I had my deal of phantom face down!” Josh said.

His trap card flipped up revealing a picture of a white ghost behind a black pendant.

“This allows me to increase dark magician’s attack power by 100 for all the monsters in my graveyard, sorry but you lose this round.”

The black beam engulfed Vanity’s ruler destroying him and dropping Kat’s life points down to 3800.

“I place this face down and end my turn,” Kat growled.

“My turn,” Josh declared and drew a card “and now, for my next trick I play the spell dark magic attack! And destroy your level limit area B!”

The dark magician raised his staff and fired at the card destroying it.

“No!”

“Now, I can summon rapid fire magician in attack mode!” Josh said.

A younger looking version of the dark magician appeared with black robes in the same style and short purple hair.

“Finish this!” Josh ordered “attack!”

Both magicians raised their staff firing at Kat and dropping her life points down to zero.

“You lose,” Josh stated.

A smile crossed Kat’s lips “sorry, but soon you’ll be the one who will lose!” She threw her head back laughing before disappearing along with the fog.

“What was that all about?” Josh pondered.

 

****

 

The next day Jamin walked out of class and down the stairs at the side of the building, his uniform was a black blazer on top of a white polo shirt and pretty much black everything else, he even had a black bag strapped over his shoulder. As he approached the bottom he heard several rapid footsteps behind him and then was nearly knocked over as a pair of arms closed round him, he sighed and resigned himself to the worst.

“Hi Kim,” he muttered in a dull voice.

“Hi!” Kim replied brightly “had a good day? Maths alright? Did you like your lunch.”

“Kim would you mind letting me go before I choke myself.” Jamin sighed.

“Oh, sorry.” Kim immediately let go and Jamin breathed s sigh of relief.

He began walked out of the double doors at the bottom of the stairs and Kim followed him, she was slightly taller than him with hazel eyes and long, very red hair down to her thighs, her face was bright and all smiles.

“Well…” She said impatiently but still keeping her bright tone.

“Well what?” Jamin asked.

“Aren’t you gonna say happy birthday?” Kim replied “its September 18th remember?”

“Oh right,” Jamin said “happy birthday.”

No matter what his tone was like Kim looked over the moon and was virtually dancing.

“You never get bored do you?” Jamin sighed.

“Nope,” Kim said “no use living life if you don’t enjoy it right?”

“Suppose so,” Jamin muttered.

They walked out of the gates and up the road just as the last few cars left the parking area.

“Don’t you go a different way home?” Jamin asked.

“I’m going to my gran’s,” Kim explained “so I get to talk to you!”

“Oh, joy.” Jamin moaned.

They turned a corner onto the high street and Jamin stopped, Kim looked up slightly astonished: A group of 3 people were blocking their way.

“What do you want?” Kim asked.

“Hello birthday girl,” the first one said in an obviously female voice.

“Sandra,” Kim sighed.

Sandra smiled, she was far taller than either of Jamin or Kim with a pretty thin body that she made every effort to show off, her cronies weren’t so lean they were as fat as they were tall with messy hair with unimaginable stains among them; Sandra’s hair was short and dyed red till it didn’t suit her.

“Well what now?” Kim asked “I already spent my lunch money so you can’t have it.”

Sandra giggled and her two cronies attempted to copy her, she raised her arm showing off a chrome duel disk on her arm. “I just got this from the money I collected from dweebs like you,” she explained “I’m longing to try it out. And who better than a weakling like you.”

“I’m not a weakling!” Kim protested.

“Then prove it,” Sandra sneered.

She slid a cheap duel disk with a cracked dome in Kim’s direction, she picked it up forcefully.

“Er, Kim you sure you…” Jamin began.

“Don’t worry I got this one,” Kim said “I mean Josh built this thing for me, right? How bad can it be?”

An unnerving smile crossed Sandra’s lips “this unnerving,” she said drawing a card from her deck “let me see now, I’ll summon my soul-absorbing bone tower in defence mode!”

She placed the card sideways on her duel disk and a gigantic tower made of black tar and a bone-work frame emerged as though from the ground.

“Next,” Sandra continued “I’ll place this card face down and that’ll do me.”

“Okay my turn then,” Kim picked up 6 cards and looked at them “ah, so cute!” She exclaimed.

“Oh brother,” Jamin sighed.

“Okay then,” Kim continued “to start my turn I’ll dismantle that ugly pile of muck you call a monster, by summoning bird face in attack mode!”

A humanoid eagle with gold feathers, blue chest armour and green trousers appeared in a flash in front of Kim flying slightly into the air.

“Okay now birdie, attack!” Kim ordered.

Bird Face leapt forwards gliding towards the Bone tower.

“Sorry girly but I have a trap card,” Sandra said “it’s my crush card virus.”

“Your what?”

“So by sacrificing my soul absorbing Bone castle all monsters on the field, in your hand and drawn in the next 3 turns with more than 1500 attack points are destroyed!” Sandra explained “and that includes your little birdie there!”

Bird Face shattered and vanished and the soul absorbing castle glowed and vanished.

“I’ll presume that’s the end of your turn,” Sandra said “oh yeah, and don’t forget the cards in your hand.”

Kim reluctantly placed 3 of her cards in the graveyard slot.

“Good girl,” Sandra smiled “I can beat you in 3 turns, so to start it off I summon warrior of Zera in attack mode!”

A warrior with green armour, a spike helmet, blue trousers and a long red scarf appeared in front of Sandra.

 

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Episode two: Now things start to happen properly

 

[spoiler=episode]“Now attack her directly!” Sandra ordered.

The warrior raised his sword and ran forwards taking a slash out of Kim’s life points.

“You okay?” Jamin asked.

“Fine,” Kim said “it was only 1600.” She drew a card from her deck and placed it sideways on her duel disk “I summon Flying Kamikira one in defence mode.”

A large, red, parasitic insect appeared with a green head that looked like an Aztec mask.

“Not much else you can do,” Sandra laughed “so, my creature will attack!”

The Warrior of Zera ran forwards and cut the flying Kamikira one in half before it shattered.

“Well he had an effect,” Kim said “I can summon a wind attribute monster with less than 1500 attack points to the field, and I choose Harpie’s pet baby dragon!”

A small red dragon chick with a golden, jewelled crest on its head replaced the flying Kamikira, it looked up and yawned.

“He’s so cute,” Kim said seeming to forget that she was losing.

“Whatever,” Sandra sighed “just get on with your turn already.”

“Okay if you insist,” Kim smiled “I summon Harpie lady one in attack mode!”

A woman with long purple hair, bird talons and a pair of wings coming from her forearms took place beside the pet baby dragon.

“And you’re summoning her because?” Sandra asked.

“Duh, because all my wind monsters get 300 extra points,” Kim explained

“Like that’s gonna do you any good,” Sandra scoffed.

“It will when I play elegant egotist,” Kim said “now I can summon Harpie Lady Sisters!”

3 more Harpie creature appeared beside the first one.

“Hey you can’t draw cards with more than 1500 points,” Sandra complained.

“I didn’t draw her,” Kim said “she was special summoned from my deck, oh yeah and when I have two cards with Harpie in there name my pet dragon’s attack power doubles, so now he has 2400 attack points, plus 300 extra giving him 2700!”

“No way!”

The dragon suddenly expanded in size and glared down at Sandra.

“So, my Harpie lady one has 1600, my Harpie Lady Sisters have 2250, and my pet dragon has 2700.” Kim counter off on her fingers “okay guys, you know the drill, attack!”

The harpie lady sister flew at the warrior of Zera slashing at him with their talons, he shattered instantly dropping Sandra’s life points down to 3350, then the pet baby dragon hit her with a blast of fire and finally Hapie Lady one slashed at her dropping her life points down to zero.

“Yay I won,” Kim yelled dancing around and hugging Jamin, much to his embarrassment.

Sandra glared angrily at Kim “come on,” she spat “let’s go.”

She and her cronies brushed past Jamin and Kim and walked away silently.

“Er, Kim you can let go now,” Jamin said.

“I won, I won, I won, I won, I won!” Kim kept on shouting “what? Oh sorry,” she let go of Jamin quickly and stood aside.

 

****

 

Josh opened the door to his basement and descended the dark staircase, at the bottom was a small room with wooden floor, wall and ceiling, two doors stood at the back at either end and between them was a indent in the wall, like a square cut out about 2 feet from the floor, on the shelf was a set of golden scales with an orb balancing between them, an Egyptian eye was calved onto the orb. In the middle of the room an old man sat in front of the scales in a meditation trance, his hair was grey and reached down to the floor as did his beard, he wore old grey rags that didn’t seem to have been washed for years.

“I see you’re home, Joshinyu,” he said.

“Yes, grandfather,” Josh responded.

“Eiro,” he said.

“Pardon?”

“I told you to call me Eiro, grandfather makes me sound old,”

“Well you are old,” Josh said.

“I know,” Eiro said “but there’s no need to rub it in, now come here.”

Josh walked forwards and sat down next to Eiro watching the scales.

“What’s wrong?” He asked.

“The millennium scales,” Eiro began “they have been trying to warn me of a great evil about to invade the world yet again; I fear we may need a new saviour.”

“You know I don’t believe all that mumbo jumbo grandfather,” Josh said “it doesn’t make any sense at all.”

“Really,” Eiro replied “but then why do I sense great doubt it you young man.”

Josh glared at Eiro briefly.

“You are beginning to wonder if what I told you was really true,” Eiro continued “you have been in a shadow game.”

“What!”

“The signs are always there,” Eiro said “your soul is tired from the effort; you react to the smallest possible things in case the shadows come at you again, and I sense the embers of the shadows within your mind.”

“Stop playing with my mind!” Josh retorted standing up.

“You’ll have to believe it eventually,” Eiro said as Josh began to ascend the stairs “everyone does.”

“Shut up,” Josh said “I’m not in the mood for fairy stories right now.” He walked back up the stairs and into the main house that looked perfectly modern, he turned a corner and went up another set of stairs and into his room. He took his deck from his pocket and looked at it. “They can’t be real,” he sighed.

 

****

Jamin and Kim were at Kim’s house watching the television, the image on it was of two people duelling in a large stadium, one of them had a large black dragon on the field and the other didn’t have anything. The room they were in was small with yellow walls and ceiling and one wall was housing a large set of sliding glass doors into the garden.

“Hey do you ever think we could be in one of these tournaments some day?” Kim asked.

“I doubt it,” Jamin replied “it’s hard to get in especially since new comers have to enter qualifying rounds, and those can be hard enough.”

“Yeah but we’ve never tried have we,” Kim pointed out.

“Trust me,” Jamin said “we wouldn’t last 5 turns in there.”

“Well just looks at these people,” Kim said “they’re lasting more than five turns right.”

“They’re experts,” Jamin explained “we’re not.”

“That’s cruel,” Kim sighed “they should let us in the tournaments.”

“Dude you’d get beat on live T.V,” Jamin said.

“At least I’ll have bee on the Tele,” Kim pointed out.

“Man don’t you ever get depressed?” Jamin sighed.

“Nope,” Kim replied.

“That’s what worries me,” Jamin sighed.

Kim leaned forwards eagerly watching the screen as the two people on it carried on what they were doing.

“Maybe if I had four harpies and my pet dragon I’d clobber either of these two,” she pondered out loud.

“You’d have to get them onto the field first,” Jamin said.

“Do you have to spoil the moment?” Kim retorted.

“Not really,” Jamin shrugged.

 

****

 

Josh was still in his room staring out of the window with a slight scowl on his face, he said he didn’t believe his grandpa, but he was beginning to go against that after what had happened.

“It was probably just all an illusion,” he convinced himself “but who would go to such lengths to play a trick like that? And why me?”

He turned away from the window and sat down on a metal framed bed still struggling for an answer, he heard the click of the door opening and Eiro came in.

“Yeah?” Josh asked “what’s up?”

“Good news and bad news,” Eiro explained “the bad news is something terrible is about to happen, the good news is it might change your mind.”

“What?”

“Follow me,” Eiro turned round again in a hurry and Josh followed him.

They ran into the basement and Josh almost had a heart attack, the golden scales were glowing.

“What’s that?” He stammered.

“Although this is not the genuine millennium scales it is still connected to it, and the other items, I think they’re trying to warn us of something.” Eiro replied.

“Like what?” Josh said.

“Like the shadow games,” Eiro said.

 

****

 

The T.V screen suddenly went blank and a grey fuzz filled it.

“Oh darn,” Kim groaned “the TVs on the blink.”

Jamin glanced outside and did a double take. “When did it get dark this early?” He said in a slightly freaked out voice.

“I know time flies when you’re having fun but this is ridicules,” Kim said. She got to her feet and opened the door and stepped out onto the patio, she immediately clutched her shoulders and shivered, Jamin followed her out reluctantly. “It’s…Cold?” She said.

“What gave you the clue?” Jamin said “the fact that I feel like I’ve just stepped into an ice cube factory?”

“Where are we?” Kim muttered. She walked forwards stepping off the patio and nearly fell into a dark void beneath her; she threw herself backwards in a slight panic. “What’s happening?” She said.

“Wait,” Jamin said “I’ve seen this before, somewhere.”

“Well what is it?” Kim asked.

“Something about a shadow realm,” Jamin replied “but that’s about all I know.”

“So what happens?” Kim asked.

“I think the only way out is a duel,” Jamin muttered.

“Well who are we supposed to duel?” Kim demanded “we’re the only people here!”

“Correction.”

“Huh?”

 

****

 

The light got so intense that Josh had to shield his eyes as it engulfed him, when he opened them again he found himself floating in the same black void that Kim had fallen into.

“What the?” He looked about for any sign that this was all a dream or a hallucination. “Hello? Anybody there?”

He floated around for a while then a shadowy form appeared in front of him.

“Who are you?” He demanded.

“I am the spirit of the shadow games,” it answered “years ago the Pharaoh sealed me away never to return, but I know the perfect way to be released again, if I absorb the souls of enough duellists I can break free, and this time there’s no Pharaoh to stop me.”

“Wait, did you say Pharaoh?” Josh said “that’s what my grandpa told me, something about a reborn Pharaoh.”

“You’re grandfather sounds like a very wise man,” the spirit chuckled “so I’ll take his soul first.”

“What!”

“I need a strong soul that knows the shadows to gather more.” The spirit explained.

“You’ll have to get through me first,” Josh said.

A duel disk suddenly materialised on his arm.

“Huh?”

“In the shadow realm, anything in possible,” the spirit explained “like for example this.”

Josh suddenly began falling through the void, it felt like he was in a dream, there was no wind but there was still the rush in his stomach as gravity took hold. Suddenly Josh collided hard with a stone patio with a loud bump and swore.

“Josh? How did you get here?” Jamin asked.

“Long story,” Josh explained “so you here too?”

“Well duh,” Kim said “so now what?”

“Now we fight for the fate of the world,” the spirit said descending in front of them.

“Enough with the smoke and mirrors okay,” Josh said “I’ve got my own problems.”

“The only way out is to duel me mortal,” the spirit laughed “so are you ready?”

“Sure, but where’s you’re duel disk?” Josh asked.

“Who needs a duel disk?” The spirit laughed. 5 cards suddenly materialised in front of him.

“Okay, I’ll go first then,” Josh said “I summon my skilled dark magician in attack mode!”

The black robed, skilled dark magician appeared in front of Josh before he placed his card on the field.

“Next I’ll play these face down,” two images of face down cards appeared behind the skilled dark magician “your move,” Josh concluded.

“I was wondering when you’d finish,” the spirit jeered.

Another card appeared in front of him.

“Let’s see, ah yes. I’ll play my brain control magic card!”

A pulsating brain appeared in front of the spirit, a pair of ghostly arms extended from it and reached for the skilled dark magician.

“Sorry but I have a trap card,” Josh said “my magic jammer, I discard one card from my hand and your magic card is cancelled out.”

“Well, it’s a good thing I have a few tricks of my own,” the spirit said “so, you fell for my decoy then.”

“Decoy?”

“Yes, now I’m free to activate my hammer shot spell card, it destroys the strongest monster on the field.” The spirit explained.

A giant hammer appeared above the skilled dark magician and rose up preparing to swing down.

“Sorry, I have another trap,” Josh said “my spell shield type 8, if your magic card only targets one monster then I can negate it, how’s that for decoys?”

“You seem pretty skilled,” the spirit admitted “but are you really prepared to take me on still?”

“Judging by your current performance I’m not feeling too scared,” Josh retorted.

“Well, seeing as you’ve disabled my magic cards I’ll just summon a face down defence creature.”

A sideways face down card appeared in front of the spirit.

“Oh, and I’ll also place this face down, go ahead.” He finished.

“Fine,” Josh said drawing a card “I’ll play this face down,” the image of the face down card appeared in front of him “and summon Breaker the magical warrior.”

A warrior in crimson armour, in a similar style to the dark magician appeared in front of Josh complete with shield and sword.

“Breaker, attack his face down monster now!” Josh ordered.

Breaker leapt forwards raising his sword.

“Slow down mortal,” the sprit interrupted “I activate ordeal of a traveller.”

The trap card in front of him flipped face up.

“Now what?” Josh said.

“You choose one card in my hand and guess what type it is, magic, trap or monster.” The spirit explained.

“Okay,” Josh said “the right hand one, it’s a monster.”

The card flipped round to reveal a monster card.

“Good work, now you can destroy my monster.”

Breaker’s sword struck home destroying the face down creatures, it looked like a fat purple lizard.

“Oh boy.”

Breaker was suddenly surrounded by an electrical current and froze.

“Clearly you know the effects of my electric lizard,” the spirit boasted “now Breaker can’t attack.”

“I know,” Josh said “I’d better not risk my skilled dark magician though, I’ll end my turn.”

“Suit yourself,” the spirit laughed “I’ll summon another creatures in defence mode and that will do.”

“Some supreme spirit,” Josh muttered “all he’s playing is defence; I’d better use that to my advantage.”

He drew a card from his deck and placed it in his hand.

“Okay, now I play my face down card,” he said “pitch-black power stone, this has 3 spell counters I can transfer to any card I want, and I choose my skilled dark magician.”

“Your point is?”

“My point is he now has 3 spell counters on him,” Josh said “so now I can sacrifice him and summon my Dark magician in attack mode!”

The skilled dark magician vanished in a wave of blue light and was replaced by the taller, and more impressive dark magician.

“Go, dark magic attack!” Josh ordered.

The dark magician raised his staff.

“Hold on,” the spirit interrupted “my ordeal of a traveller is still out, so you have to guess what type of card this is.”

“It’s a magic card right?” Josh said.

“Wrong,” the spirit laughed “now your dark magician returns to your hand.”

The Dark magician was surrounded by a red aura and vanished; the card re-appeared in Josh’s hand.

“Tough break,” the spirit laughed “now seeing as your magical breaker can’t hurt me I’ll assume you’re ending you turn so it’s mine.” A new card appeared in front of him “perfect, I sacrifice my face down card and summon my guardian sphinx in defence mode!”

A giant stone sphinx stature suddenly replaced the face down creature.

“But I’m not done,” the spirit laughed, now I’ll sacrifice him too, and summon Exxod, Master of The Guard!”

The sphinx vanished and a giant golden armoured warrior took its place towering above everybody by a good 10 feet. His head was large and spanned to his shoulders but was flat on the top.

“Exxod is brother to Exodia,” the spirit laughed “and with a defence of 4000 you can never get passed him.”

“Well it’s my turn now,” Josh said drawing a card “and I move one spell counter to my magical breaker and increase his attack power by 300.”

“You’re wasting your time, mortal.” The spirit said “no matter how high his points are you can’t win.”

“I’m not placing a counter on him purely so I can raise his attack strength,” Josh said slyly “I’m removing it, to destroy your trap card!”

“What!”

Breaker raised his shield and a small blue spark flew off it and struck the trap card shattering it.

“So my attacks are safe,” Josh said.

“Even though they’ll never get past Exxod,” the spirit laughed “what a waste of time!”

“I’m not done,” Josh said “I place this face down and end my turn.”

“Pathetic,” the spirit sighed “never mind, I’ll play this is face down defence mode, but also I remove guardian sphinx from the game and summon Gigantes!”

A large red demon in black leather emerged beside Exxod glaring down at Josh.

“Attack!” The spirit ordered.

Gigantes raised it claw and struck at Breaker.

“Sorry to reign on your parade,” Josh said “but I activate my face down, magical dimension! So I sacrifice breaker and summon the dark magician!”

Breaker vanished and was replaced by the dark magician, he raised his staff and fired a green beam at Gigantes and destroyed him.

“Are you done?” Josh asked “because I’m getting bored.”

“I’ll activate my swords of revealing light,” the spirit said “this paralyses your creatures for 3 turns.”

“Damn it,” Josh swore.

“Don’t worry, it’s your turn,” the spirit said mockingly.

“Fine by me,” Josh said picking up a card.

“Well?”

Josh sighed and gritted his teeth “I pass.”

“How disappointing,” the spirit said “at this rate I’ll have all the world’s souls in a day if you’re the best this world can offer.”

Josh glared at the spirit annoyed.

“Now for my turn I’ll flip my great spirit into face up attack mode!” The spirit declared.

The face down card flipped up showing a ghostlike figure in Aztec armour and a mad face.

“Now, his effect and Exxod’s effects activate,” the spirit continued “to start with you take 1000 points of damage.”

A green aura glowed around Exxod and Josh and his life points dropped.

“There’s more,” the spirit said “now Exxod’s defence and attack swap over.”

“What!”

“So now he has 4000 attack points!” The spirit boasted gleefully “Exxod, attack the dark magician!”

Exxod raised a fist and fired a beam of light at the Dark magician destroying him and dropping Josh’s life points down to1500.

“Now my spirit will attack!” The spirit said.

The spirit flew at Josh going straight through him and dropping his life points to 1000.

“Now as an additional effect,” the spirit continued “I get to put him face down again, so I can do that all again!”

“No…Way, that hurt,” Josh said barely standing on one knee.

“Well what do you know,” the spirit laughed “the shadow games are real.”

 

[TotalObelisk]

Episode 3: Josh is in a duel with the spirit of the shadow games (suggestive Zorc camio) and things don't look good.

 

[spoiler=episode]“So what now, mortal?” The spirit said tauntingly “are you going to give up yet?”

“Do I look like it?” Josh said.

He drew a card from his deck and placed it in the magic card slot.

“I’m playing my mystical space typhoon,” he explained “so say goodbye to your swords.”

A whirlwind suddenly started up and blew away the swords leaving Josh’s field clear.

“Now I’ll summon Gemini elf in attack mode!”

Two female elves appeared beside one another in front of Josh.

“Now then, attack Exxod!” Josh ordered.

The elves lunged forwards and struck the giant gold warrior, and destroyed him.

“What!”

“After your turn ends then Exxod’s points switch back over,” Josh explained “so his attack power was zero.”

“Are you finished?” The spirit asked.

“Pretty much,” Josh said “let’s see what you’ve got left.”

“I’ve got plenty left,” the spirit laughed “plenty enough to destroy you!”

A new card appeared in front of him and his laughing increased.

“Now you shall face the power of the shadow game,” he laughed “as I summon Hieracosphinx!”

The face down spirit card shattered and was replaced by a creature with a lion’s body but a blue eagle’s head and wings.

“Attack!” The spirit ordered “wipe out his elves!”

The sphinx opened its mouth and a thin blue beam of energy shot out destroying the elves and dropping Josh’s life points down to 1000.

“You do know you’re playing with fire right,” Josh warned “because now it’s my turn.”

He drew a card from his deck and instantly placed it in the magic card slot.

“I play my card of sanctity, so I remove from play all cards in my hand and on the field,” His pitch black power stone shattered “and then I draw two cards.” He did so taking the previous ones and putting them in his pocket. “Next I’ll lay this face down,” a face down card appeared in front of him “and summon rapid fire magician in defence mode.”

“Are you done?” The spirit asked “never mind, Hieracosphinx, attack!”

The beast opened its mouth and fired.

“I activate my trap card,” Josh said “so say hello to return from a different dimension, now all monsters that are out of play come back so I pay half my points and summon Dark magician!”

The dark magician appeared in front of the rapid fire magician and caught the attack on his staff firing it back at the sphinx and destroying it.

“How dare you!” The spirit yelled.

“Sorry, but I play to win,” Josh said “and win is exactly what I do.”

The spirit began laughing again. “Well then, it’s time to break your record.”

The Dark magician vanished as a new card appeared in front of the spirit.

“Ah, I play stop defense,” the spirit said “so now you magician is switched to attack mode.”

The rapid fire magician got up off his knees and stood up straight.

“Now, I remove from play all the Earth monster in my graveyard,” he said “and summon Megarock Dragon!”

A giant dragon made entirely of chipped stone appeared towering above the rapid fire magician.

“And since I removed four Earth monsters, his attack power is 2800!”

“What!”

“Enough to wipe you out, Megarock dragon, finish this!” The spirit ordered.

The dragon raised a claw and struck at the rapid fire magician dropping Josh’s life points to zero.

“No, I lost,” Josh muttered.

The image around him faded and he was back in his basement, Eiro was on the floor next to him apparently asleep, Josh looked down at him and saw his eyes were blank.

“What! No, it’s not possible.” He stammered “this isn’t happening!”

 

****

 

The dark around Kim’s house faded and everything returned to normal, Kim looked about.

“Hey, where’d Josh go?” She asked.

“I think he lost,” Jamin muttered “I’d never have though it, he never loses.”

“Yeah but, where’d he go?” Kim said.

“Hm,” Jamin looked about but he wasn’t anywhere in sight. “I guess we can hope that was just all a dream.” He said.

“Hey the TVs back on!” Kim said running back into the living room seeming to forget that Josh had just been beaten by an evil spirit.

“Sometimes I wonder about her,” he sighed.

As the sun rose the next morning Josh was still sitting on his bed having not moved the entire night, his face was extremely pale and his eyes were wide open and bloodshot. He couldn’t believe what had just happened; an ancient spirit had just beaten him and taken his grandfather’s soul away, which was something he’d never believed in.

“Maybe a few duels with sort me out,” he mused getting up at last and leaving a heavy imprint on the mattress.

 

****

 

Later that day Jamin and Kim were running down the stairs in a bit of a hurry.

“Man, where does it say in the rules that looking at the clock ever 3 seconds was against the rules,” Jamin panted

He skidded slightly as he got to the bottom and U turned racing towards the door with Kim in hot pursuit.

“Why are we even panicking?” She asked “it’s not like he hasn’t done this sort of thing before.”

They burst outside into the yard and halted, Kim banged into Jamin but he ignored it. Josh was facing Sammy at either end of a small crowd both with their duel disks activated. Josh has a single face down card and apprentice magician in attack mode, while Sammy had all 3 of his batteryman AAs out, a DNA transplant trap card and a smaller blue battery.

“Batteryman AA attack!” Sammy ordered.

The creature raised its fist and thunder crackled round it, it drew it back and punched the air sending the lightning straight for Josh and striking his apprentice magician and destroying it.

“Yeah,” Sammy said jumping in the air “I win.” He then made a very rude gesture at Josh as the holograms faded.

Jamin immediately ran over to him. “Hey, what happened, Sammy’s a pushover.”

Josh kept his head bowed; he turned about and walked away silently.

“Hey!” Jamin ran in front of him blocking his path. “Dude answer,” he said “what the hell is wrong!”

Josh still didn’t answer and walked around Jamin and pushed his way through the crowd, Sammy was still making annoying gestures at him. Kim glared at him angrily and stormed over to him. Jamin quickly followed Josh through the crowd and pursued him.

“Josh, if you don’t tell us we won’t be able to help you,” he said “now what’s wrong.”

“Nothing,” Josh replied “I’ve just been a bit off lately.”

“A bit off!” Jamin yelled “you fell for the most obvious traps and practically let him summon all his monsters.”

“I told you,” Josh said “nothing is wrong with me.”

“Well then if there’s nothing wrong then you’re fine with dueling me,” Jamin said producing a duel disk.

Josh stopped and turned round “what?”

“You heard me,” Jamin said “me and you, dueling here and now. And don’t hold back, because I’ll know if you do.”

“Okay fine,” Josh said “but I don’t see what good it’ll do.”

“Game on,”

 

****

 

“Yeah that’s right,” Kim said tauntingly as the hologram of the harpie’s baby dragon and three harpie ladies faded “nobody messes with my friends and gets away with it.”

She turned about smiling to see that Josh and Jamin weren’t there.

“What! They didn’t see me, oh man,” she immediately pushed her way through the crowd and broke into a run trying to find them. “They could be lost, they could be in trouble, they could be…” She screeched to a halt as she saw them standing in the basketball court with their duel disks out “right there.”

Jamin looked determined to get Josh back into his right mind, but Josh however was still looking as doubtful as he had this morning. Kim glanced between them.

“Great, who do I root for?” she moaned.

“I’ll let you go first,” Jamin said.

“Okay, fine,” Josh said picking up till he had six cards, he examined them briefly “I summon mythical beast Cerberus in attack mode!”

Mythical beast Cerberus materialized in front of Josh glaring at Jamin.

“I also play this spell card,” he continued “my spell absorption, now whenever a spell is activated I gain 500 life points, and as an added bonus I can play a magic counter of mythical beast Cerberus to increase his attack power by 500 points, giving him 1900 attack points.” He declared.

“Well nothing wrong so far,” Jamin said drawing a card of his own “but this might hurt a little, I play my lightning vortex spell card, so I discard one card from my hand and destroy mythical beast Cerberus!”

A bolt of lightning flew from the sky and struck mythical beast Cerberus and destroyed him.

“Yeah, now I gain 500 life points,” Josh said.

“Keep em coming,” Jamin said “because now I summon element Valkyrie in attack mode!”

Jamin placed the card on his field and element Valkyrie appeared in front of him spinning her staff briefly.

“Now then, Valkyrie attack him directly!” Jamin ordered “freeze flame blast!”

Element Valkyrie leapt into the air and used one end of her staff to produce a fireball and then span it round using the other end to freeze it and send it flying at Josh knocking his life points down to 3000.

“Your move,” Jamin said “make it a good one.

Josh drew a card from his deck half heartedly and looked at it. “Okay,” he said “I summon apprentice magician in defense mode!” He declared “and place these two cards face down.”

Apprentice magician appeared in front of Josh as well as two face down cards.

“Getting better,” Jamin said “now then, element Valkyrie, attack!”

Element Valkyrie launched into the air once more and raised he staff.

“I do have a face down you know,” Josh said “magical dimension, to start I sacrifice apprentice magician, and summon dark magician!”

Apprentice magician vanished and was then replaced by the dark magician.

“Now I can destroy one monster on the field,” Josh said “and I choose Valkyrie!”

The dark magician raised his staff and fired at Valkyrie and destroyed her.

“Okay,” Jamin said “I’ll summon this card face down in defense mode and place another face down.”

Two face down cards appeared in front of Jamin, the front one was sideways.

“Okay,” Josh said “Dark magician, attack!”

The dark magician raised his staff and fired again, the face down card flipped over revealing a turtle with a UFO on its back before it was destroyed.

“Thanks,” Jamin said “that was my UFO turtle, so now I can summon a fire monster with less than 1500 attack points.”

“Go ahead.”

“Okay,” Jamin continued “I choose, Blazing Hiita!”

A tall red haired girl wearing an old worn cloak appeared in front of Jamin carrying a gold staff, a small fox stood behind her.

“What difference will she make?” Josh asked.

“Well that’s where my face down card comes in,” Jamin explained “call of the haunted; this’ll resurrect my UFO turtle.”

The card flipped face up and the UFO turtle emerged from it.

“I’m not getting any of this,” Josh muttered.

“You will,” Jamin reassured him “after all it’s my turn, so I’ll use Hiita’s effect and sacrifice UFO turtle and summon Burning beast!”

Hiita raised her staff and the UFO turtle was surrounded by fire, it suddenly grew and the fire dispersed revealing a bear sized creature made from glowing rocks and giving off a red glow.

“Now, seeing as that was a special summon,” Jamin continued “I can normal summon Freezing beast!”

Another creature of the same size appeared beside the burning beast only this one was made of ice and had a more triangular head.

“Now I can combine them together,” Jamin went on “So when he attacks I can take out that face down of yours.”

The freezing beat leapt onto the burning beast and fused itself to his back.

“Little problem,” Josh said “there’s a dark magician on the field.”

“Taken care of,” Jamin said “because now I’ll activate this spell card too.”

Josh’s life points rose to 3500 as Jamin placed the card in the magic card slot.

“It’s called back to square one,” he explained “so I discard this, and dark magician returns to the top of your deck.”

Jamin put a card in his graveyard slot and the dark magician vanished and returned to Josh’s deck.

“Okay, frozen burning beast, attack!”

The burning beast opened its mouth and fired a tongue of flame at Josh, it hit him directly and at the same time destroyed the face down card he had, his life points dropped to 2000.

“I’m not done yet,” Jamin said “I’ll play this, combination attack.”

The freezing beast leapt off the burning beast and fired an ice beam at Josh knocking his life points to 1000.

“And that’s it,” Jamin said.

“What?” Josh started.

“I said that’s it,” Jamin repeated.

“But combo attack let’s you attack with both your union monsters,” Josh said “and I would have lost.”

“Exactly,” Jamin said “if you don’t start playing for real you’re gonna lose to me. And that’s something you swore would never happen remember?”

“But I…”

“Josh I’m giving you a chance to get a grip on yourself,” Jamin said “so make your move.”

“Yeah but,” Josh looked at his hand “I don’t have anything that I can use right now, and I know that coming up next is the dark magician.”

“Your point is?” Jamin asked.

“Hm?”

“Just weight up all your options,” Jamin said “and think carefully.”

“Okay,” Josh said drawing his dark magician “I’ll try.”

Kim looked between them slightly confused. “Er Jamin,” she began “are you saying you want to lose?”

“Yep,” Jamin replied “if Josh had lost to me, then he’s having some serious problems right now.”

“Okay,” Josh said “I’ll place these three cards face down, and end my turn.”

“Okay,” Jamin said “now, I’ll play pot of greed, so I draw two new cards. And now I’ll summon one, Darkfire soldier!”

The Darkfire soldier appeared beside the freezing beast looking directly at Josh.

“And now, I’m playing Blazing Hiita’s effect again,” Jamin declared “so I’ll sacrifice my Darkfire soldier and…”

“Hold it,” Josh said “I’m playing my trap card, divine wrath trap card.”

The face down on the left flipped up.

“So now,” Josh continued “your effect is cancelled, and Blazing Hita is destroyed, along with all the cards you summoned with her effect.”

Blazing Hiita shattered along with the burning beast.

“I still have two monsters to attack you,” Jamin said.

“Good thing I have another trap card,” Josh said “blind destruction.”

“And that does…?” Jamin asked.

Josh produced a dice from his pocket. “I roll this,” he explained “and all creatures of that level are destroyed.”

He rolled it along the ground, it skipped and halted with four dots facing up, Jamin’s remaining two monsters shattered.

“My turn?” Josh asked “Don’t answer that.”

He drew a new card from his deck and looked at it, he placed it in the magic card slot.

“I play my magical card of sanctity,” he declared “so I remove from play all these cards and draw two.”

He placed the cards in his hand into his pocket and drew two new cards.

“Now I play my last face down,” he said “return from a different dimension, so now Dark magician can come back.”

The dark magician emerged from the card in front of Josh.

“I’m not done,” Josh continued “because now I’ll sacrifice him, and summon my dark eradicator warlock!”

The dark magician vanished and was replaced by a different version of himself, this one much larger and bulkier, with blood red armour and a flowing purple cloak.

“Now then,” Josh continued “I play my own pot of greed, but now not only do I get two new cards, but you take 1000 points of damage.”

Josh drew two new cards and Jamin’s life points dropped.

“Next,” Josh continued “I play diffusion wave-motion!”

He placed the card in the magic card slot, his life points raised by 500 and Jamin’s dropped by another 1000.

“Now I can attack all monsters on the field,” Josh said “so, let him have it! Ultimate dark magical blast!”

The dark eradicator warlock raised his staff, it glowed and a powerful series of blasts exploded from it and obliterated Jamin’s monsters dropping his life points to zero.

“I win,” Josh smiled “thanks, I needed that.”

The holograms faded and Jamin walked over to him. “So, what was wrong?” He asked.

Josh’s face dropped “it’s my grandfather, he hasn’t moved since I lost to that spirit, I thin he’s lost his soul,” Josh explained.

“What!” Kim ran over to them having just heard what Josh had said “he lost his what?”

Josh sighed “guys, there’s something I need to tell you.” He said.

 

****

 

Josh opened the door to the basement and led them down the stairs stopping at the bottom. He looked up at the replica of the millennium scales, it was still glowing slightly.

“Is that a…” Jamin started.

“No,” Josh answered before he finished “it’s a replica, but it’s connected to the other millennium items, it’s telling us that they’re active again.”

“I thought you didn’t believe in all that stuff?” Jamin said slyly.

“I didn’t,” Josh admitted “until…”

“Okay fine,” Jamin sighed “guilt me why don’t you, anyway how are you going to get your grandfather’s soul back?”

“I have a hunch.” Josh said.

He reached forwards and grabbed the scales, the light grew and enveloped around the whole room, once it cleared they were standing in the clearing of a dark wood at night time, a shrill wind was whistling through the trees. Kim shivered.

“No fair,” she complained “I’m not dressed for this weather.”

“Where are we?” Jamin asked.

Josh looked at the scales in his hand, the two platforms were moving up and down.

“What does that mean?” Jamin asked.

“I don’t know,” Josh said “but it’s pulling at something.”

Josh walked forwards into the trees.

“Hey!” Kim yelled after him “don’t leave us here.”

She ran after him and Jamin followed suit. Once they caught up they slowed to a stop.

“We don’t know what’s in here.” Kim whispered “we don’t even know where we are.”

“You got a better idea,” Josh said.

“I think I preferred it when he was depressed,” Kim sighed.

They kept on walking in silence, after a while the scales stopped moving and the glow faded.

“Oh great,” Kim moaned “now what?”

Josh looked about and spied a light shining through the trees.

“That way,” he said.

He turned about and ran in the direction of the light followed closely by Jamin and Kim who was still complaining.

“Girls,” Josh muttered.

Eventually they came into another clearing, the light appeared to be coming from a hut near the end, Josh immediately ran over to it and knocked on the door, but there was no answer. Josh leaned his ear against the door and listened, inside was a voice chanting something.

“Puzzleeyenecklaceringrodscalekey, Puzzleeyenecklaceringrodscalekey, Puzzleeyenecklaceringrodscalekey,”

Puzzled Josh backed up and opened the door, an old hermit, wearing similar robes to Josh’s grandfather, sat in completely empty room, save for a small indent in the wall where a gold necklace with a similar eye to the scales in Josh’s hand sat.

“That looks like…”

The hermit looked round and saw Josh, then he spotted the scales in his hand.

“So, you are Eiro’s grandson then.” He said.

“Er yeah,” Josh said “who are you?”

“I am Tolus,” the hermit replied “I am the keeper of the connection to the millennium necklace, it is a perfect replica, but lacks the ability to see into the future.”

“Wait, so there are others?” Josh asked.

Tolus nodded “one for each millennium item, since they were locked away these were created to make sure their powers were never used again, but as you can see they are.”

“Does having your grandfather’s soul removed count?” Josh asked.

“Yes,” Tolus said “which means you must now guard the connection to the millennium scales.”

“Hey, I didn’t ask for this,” Josh said “why can’t you.”

“Because I already guard the connection to the millennium necklace,” Tolus explained “I cannot guard two.”

“Great,” Josh sighed “so now what?”

“Now we must find the other guardians,” Tolus explained “and make sure that the spirit of the shadow games does not get all of our souls.”

“What does he want your souls for?” Josh asked “you’re just old men.”

“Old men with the knowledge of the shadow realm,” Tolus corrected him “those are the souls he needs.”

“And the exact souls he’ll get.”

“Huh?”

Josh turned about and saw Diablo standing outside with his customized duel disk on one arm and a smug smile on his face.

“It wasn’t a dream,” Jamin gasped.

“Took you long enough to figure that out,” Diablo sneered “how about a rematch, if you win then dear old Eiro gets his soul back, you lose and Tolus joins him.”

“Shut it!” Josh yelled “I’ll duel you!”

Diablo scowled at him “sorry,” he said “but Jamin is the only one I’m fighting, you already lost, so Jamin how about we make things even.”

“Just remember I beat you last time,” Jamin smirked fitting a duel disk onto his arm “let’s go.”

The duel disks activated and both life point counters set to 4000.

“I’ll go first,” Jamin said “and I summon Element dragon in attack mode!”

He placed the card on his field and a red dragon with a gold mane emerged in front of him and let out a roar.

“And I’ll equip him with this,” Jamin said “the scroll of bewitchment, now I can change his attribute to any other that I want, and I choose fire. So that activates his first effect and raises his attack power by 500.”

The element dragon was surrounded by an aura of fire and suddenly grew letting out an even louder roar.

“Had enough already?” Jamin said.

“Please,” Diablo sighed “that thing’s barely going to last one turn.”

He drew a card from his own deck and placed it in his hand and drew out another.

“I play my magic card cheerful coffin!” He declared “so I ditch three cards.”

“Well that was pointless,” Kim laughed.

“Not really,” Josh said.

“But here’s the fun part,” Diablo continued in a sly voice “because each of my monsters had an effect that activates when I send them to the graveyard. And now I can special summon them to my field, Beiige, Vanguard of dark world, along with Sillva, warlord of dark world and Goldd, Wu-lord of dark world!”

Beiige appeared alongside two others, one was similar to Beiige only its armour covered its whole body and looked like ice, the other had dark blue armour with gold shoulder plates and wings coming off them, on its head sat a pair of horns. Jamin looked up at them taking a step backwards.

“No way,” he muttered “how did you manage to get three monsters on the field at once?”

“I’m not done,” Diablo said “because now I summon Brron, mad king of dark world!”

Another knight in blue armour appeared, this one skinnier and with a mask that seemed like it snakes were coming off it.

“4 monsters!” Kim gasped “in one turn?”

“Goldd, attack element dragon!” Diablo ordered “you’re through in one turn armature!”

“I don’t think so,” Jamin said “I keep a few surprises up my sleeve; and here’s one.” He took a card from his hand and placed it in the magic card slot. “I play my trap booster, this let’s me play a trap card from my hand, and I have just the one in mind, my elemental absorber!”

“What!”

“Oh yeah,” Jamin said “so all I have to do is discard element doom and guess what, none of your dark monsters can attack!”

“No!” Diablo yelled.

A dark wall sprung up and absorbed Goldd’s attack, leaving Jamin’s side of the field intact.

“How dare you!” Diablo yelled.

“Heh, sorry but I win this round, and I’m still in the game.” Jamin laughed.

Kim finally let go of a breath having not had one for several minutes. “Man, that was close,” she sighed.

“Lucky he has that elemental absorber,” Josh smirked “all the dark world cards are dark aligned, so Diablo can’t attack him with anything.”

“Okay, you’ve made me mad now!” Diablo yelled.

“Yeah? Well it’s still my turn,” Jamin replied and drew a card “cool, okay Diablo here’s a lesson in the elements; I play convulsion of nature, so our decks turn upside down.”

“What?”

“You heard me,” Jamin said “flip ‘em over.”

Diablo glared at Jamin and took out his deck and put it back upside down, Jamin mimicked him.

“Now luckily for me one of my best cards is at the bottom,” he said “and I play pot of greed and bring it out.”

He drew two cards from his deck and placed them in his hand.

“And now,” he continued “I sacrifice every card in my hand, along with my element dragon and summon infernal incinerator!”

The element dragon vanished and was replaced by the giant form of the infernal incinerator glaring down at Diablo.

“Remember this guy?” Jamin asked “well you won’t forget him again, because now his attack power increases by 200 for all your monsters, and seeing as you have four, he gains 800 extra points, giving him 3600.”

“Yay!” Kim yelled “way to go Jamin.”

Jamin glanced over at her and smiled. “Infernal incinerator, attack his mad king!”

The infernal incinerator opened its mouth and blasted the mad king with a wave of fire and obliterated him, Diablo’s life points dropped to 2200.

“Giving up yet?” Jamin asked triumphantly.

“Not by a long shot,” Diablo replied drawing from his deck “I’m guessing you’ve already seen, but I’ve drawn the dark core, so I discard this card and remove infernal incinerator from play.”

He deposited a card into the graveyard and the infernal incinerator shattered.

“And seeing as I just discarded broww, huntsman of dark world, I can draw another card,” Diablo continued “and I’ll activate it; it’s my own pot of greed, and with it I draw another two cards.”

“This is gonna be a long duel,” Josh remarked.

“Are you done?” Jamin asked.

“Not by a long shot,” Diablo said “I play this card face down, and summon dark blade!”

A face down appeared behind Beiige and a knight in pitch black armour covered in spikes and wielding a black sword appeared beside him.

“Big deal,” Jamin laughed “you can’t attack with him remember?”

“I won’t have to,” Diablo said “my face down is a trap, and one that can destroy your trap.”

“What!”

“That’s right,” Diablo smirked “so on my next turn all my creatures will attack at once and destroy you!”

 

[TotalObelisk]

Episode four: Jamin continues his duel with Diablo.

 

[spoiler=episode]“He’s bluffing!” Kim yelled at Jamin “he can’t do a thing!”

Jamin looked back over at her. “I can’t take that chance,” he said.

He placed a card on his deck and drew it out.

“Got anything good?” Diablo said tauntingly “because whatever you do I’ll activate my trap and destroy your absorber.”

Jamin glared at him and placed the card in the magic card slot. “Not if I play nobleman of extermination!” He yelled.

An armoured juggernaut appeared wielding a huge square sword and slammed it into Diablo’s face down card and destroyed it.

“What!”

“Nobleman of extermination can destroy one face down card,” Jamin explained “and all others in your deck are now removed from play.”

Diablo glared at Jamin and took two cards out of his deck and placed them in his pocket. “You still won’t win,” he snarled.

“Well, I can’t do anything else this turn,” Jamin said.

“Then it’s my turn!” Diablo said drawing a card “and now I summon Zombyra the dark!”

A black cloaked warrior with skull-like armour and red bladed wings coming from his back appeared on Diablo’s side of the field.

“5 monsters,” Diablo sneered “and you don’t even have one.”

“Yeah,” Jamin admitted “but you can’t use them.”

“It’s only a matter of time,” Diablo scowled.

Jamin drew a new card from his deck and placed it on the field.

“Well?” Diablo said scowling “what is it?”

Jamin looked up at him with an expressionless face. “I’ve placed one card face down,” he explained “and that ends my turn.”

“Heh, you’ll have to do better than that,” Diablo laughed “but seeing as I can’t do anything either then I’ll just have to skip my turn too.”

Jamin drew a new card from his deck.

“This is getting pretty boring,” Kim sighed.

“Don’t worry,” Josh said “if its stalemate then either one will eventually run out of cards.”

Jamin placed his new card in the magic card slot and activated it. “I play graceful charity,” he said “so I draw three and discard two.”

“Well that was pointless,” Diablo sneered.

“Not when my other card is disgraceful charity,” Jamin said “now I get back the cards I just lost, cool huh.”

“Just get on with your move,” Diablo growled.

“If you insist,” Jamin said “now, I summon Hand of Nephthys!”

A women in an orange dress with a golden headdress, chest armour, cuffs and boots appeared in front of Jamin.

“Hey, that thing only has 600 points,” Diablo sneered “what were you thinking?”

“Well none of your monsters can attack,” Jamin said smugly.

“Oh yeah,” Diablo muttered “well I can still do this; I play this card face down, and end my turn.”

Jamin drew a card from his deck and placed it from his hand, then he picked another one and placed it on his field.

“I summon my element soldier,” he explained.

A soldier in bronze armour appeared next to the hand of Nephthys.

“Next, I sacrifice Nephthys and element soldier,” he continued “and summon the sacred phoenix of Nephthys!”

“No way!” Diablo stammered “that thing’s stronger than my monsters.”

“Got it in one,” Jamin smirked “so, sacred phoenix of Nephthys, attack!”

Diablo sneered.

“Huh?”

“In case you haven’t noticed I have a trap card you imbecile!” He said.

“No way,”

“Yes way and it’s my bark of the dark ruler! This allows me to take my life points, and subtract them from your monsters attack points so I subtract 2100! So long sucker!”

Goldd raised his fist and struck the sacred phoenix with it, causing it to shatter and putting Jamin’s life points down to 2000.

“Tough break kid!” Diablo laughed “but it’s my turn now, and I play my mystical space typhoon to destroy your elemental absorber! Meaning my beasts are free to attack!”

“Oh no,”

“Now, my army of dark world! End this!” Diablo ordered.

All of Diablo’s monsters charged at Jamin firing similar blasts of dark energy which all struck him at the same time and obliterated his life points.

“Jamin!” Kim yelled.

The smoked cleared and Jamin collapsed onto one knee.

“Now do you see the true power of my deck?” Diablo laughed “the dark world cards are the most powerful in the world, so don’t try and defeat them.”

“So what happens now?” Josh demanded.

Diablo looked up at him and sneered “I’m entitled to Tolus’ soul!” He explained “so come to daddy!”

He raised his hand and a black smoke suddenly billowed from Tolus’ mouth and flew into Diablo’s open palm, he closed it into a fist.

“Another soul for the shadow spirit,” he laughed “soon, there will be enough to destroy the world!”

“That does it!” Josh ran at Diablo and raised his fist, he brought it down but Diablo just vanished into a puff of smoke before he hit him “what the?”

“What the hell is that guy?” Jamin muttered standing up “and what happened to Tolus?”

“He’s not moving,” Kim muttered “hey, what’s with the necklace?”

“Hm?”

The millennium necklace copy was glowing, Kim walked over to it and the glowing seemed to increase, she picked it up and the light grew and filled the whole room enveloping all three of them.

“Oh great so now where are we?” Josh muttered looking around.

They appeared to be in a dark stone corridor lined with flaming torches hanging from the walls.

“Wow, talk about retro,” Kim said looking at the necklace in her hands “I think I’ll hold onto this.”

“Terrific,” Josh sighed “we have a pair of scales and a necklace that have somehow transported us halfway across the planet several times.”

“Maybe they need us for something,” Jamin suggested.

“Forget it,” Josh said “I’m not getting involved in this anymore, so let’s just go home.” He glared at the scales in his had “you hear that! Take us home!”

“Hey guys,” Kim said as the necklace, placed around her neck, began to glow “I think this thing has some idea of what to do.”

She walked over to an old wooden door at the far end and pushed it open; it led into a long stone corridor that seemed to go on forever.

“Oh just great,” Josh sighed “now we’re completely lost.” He glared at the scales in his hand “this is all, your fault!” He yelled.

“You do know you’re yelling at a set of inanimate brass scales right?” Jamin said walking past him.

“Oh shut up,” Josh snapped.

“Well looks like the only way out is through here,” Jamin said looking down the corridor “it had better not go on for too long.”

He began to walk forwards when Kim stopped him.

“Wait,” she said “this necklace thing is trying to tell me something.”

Jamin looked round and saw that it was still glowing.

“I thought that they didn’t have the powers of the real millennium items,” he said.

“There are no real millennium items,” Josh said “it’s just a story that my granddad told me when I was 5.”

“The same granddad that’s now a living vegetable without a soul,” Jamin pointed out.

“Come on you can’t seriously believe this?” Josh said “it’s a load of junk.”

Kim looked about and then gazed down and took a step backwards. “Does that looked like junk to you?” She asked.

Jamin looked down and noticed that the corridor floor was slightly transparent and a black abyss was visible beneath it.

“Whoa, I nearly walked into that?” He gasped

“Oh get real,” Josh said “it’s probably just another trick.”

“You’re not getting any of this are you,” Jamin said “you think this is all an illusion don’t you? Who do you think you are Seto Kaiba or something?”

Josh glared at him hard. “If you ask me he’s the only sensible one in that whole fairy tale!” He yelled “do you honestly believe that there’s a realm of monsters existing parallel to our own where some kind of evil spirit is trying to break loose?”

“It certainly looks that way to me!” Jamin yelled back “he flipping kicked your butt!”

“Guys stop it!” Kim yelled “yelling’s not going to get us anywhere.”

Josh and Jamin both exchanged angered glares and turned around to face away from each other. Kim sighed.

“Why are you suddenly yelling at each other anyway?” She asked.

Jamin looked round at her and opened his mouth to answer, but then he hesitated. “Err, actually I don’t know.”

Josh looked round with the same expression on his face. “Wait are you saying that something here’s forcing us to yell at each other? Come on that’s…”

“Don’t start that again!” Kim interrupted “right now we need to figure out how to get out of here.”

Suddenly the walls began to melt away and vanish, leaving them standing in the middle of a meadow with a lake visible in the distance.

“Okay, none of this is making any sense,” Josh said.

“I think it does to me,” Jamin said “the millennium scales brought us to the millennium key, or at least the replica brought us to the necklace’s replica, so it’s guiding us to the other replicas, get my point?”

“And why would there be a millennium item replica in the middle of nowhere?” Josh said “and why can’t be just go home?”

“Maybe it wants us to do something,” Jamin suggested.

“Oh yeah,” Josh scoffed “allot that we can do in the middle of nowhere isn’t there.”

“Guys,” Kim said walking forwards “I think this knows where to go.”

She began walking in the direction of the lake, Jamin followed but Josh stayed firmly where he was.

“If it’s okay with you I’m going home!” He called after them. He glared at the scales in his hand. “You heard me! Send me home! Now!”

The scales didn’t react. Josh grew even angrier now and tossed them against a rock sticking out of the ground; they bounced off it with a loud clang. Josh turned around and began walking away when the rock began moving, and began raising out of the ground, but it no longer looked like a rock but more like a giant stone behemoth with a single blue eye glowing within its head. A shadow fell across Josh and he stopped and looked around.

“What the! Stone Ogre Grotto?” He yelled.

Jamin and Kim stopped and looked around.

“What the hell is that?” Jamin yelled.

“Its looks like a duel monster,” Kim said.

“Here,” Jamin muttered “impossible, although…” He reached into for his deck and drew the card on top “here goes nothing,” he said “I summon Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV4!”

Suddenly the card seemed to glow brightly and a shape emerged from it, it looked like a black liquid but as it flew through the air it began changing colour and shape, and eventually formed into a small steel dragon. Jamin stumbled backwards slightly shocked.

“Wait, that worked.” He gasped.

“Don’t knock it,” Kim said “hey Josh! Try summoning a monster.”

Josh looked back at Kim and suddenly saw Jamin’s black flame dragon and got the idea.

“Got it,” he said drawing his own card “who knows this might actually be enjoyable. I summon the rapid fire magician! Arise!”

The same effect happened with Josh’s card only this one formed into the rapid fire magician, Jamin’s black flame dragon flew through the air and landed next to it.

“Great,” Kim said “my turn.”

She reached into her pocket and took out her deck looking through it.

“Let’s see, petit dragon? No he’s too cute to fight, so is baby dragon, ooh that ones sooo cute…”

“Just get on with it,” Jamin sighed.

“What, okay.” Kim replied picking one and putting the rest away “I summon Harpie lady one!”

The Harpie lady flew out of Kim’s card and landed next to Jamin’s and Josh’s monsters.

“Well this is a whole new experience,” Jamin said “real monsters.”

“Oh please they’re probably just holograms,” Josh said “but I’d kill to get this technology.”

“Never mind,” Jamin sighed “Horus attack!”

Horus the black flame dragon flew into the air and fired a stream of black fire at the Stone ogre grotto; the flames licked over it but didn’t have any effect.

“Hey, what’s going on?” Jamin said taken aback “it’s not having any effect.”

“Let me try then,” Josh said “rapid fire magician attack!”

The rapid fire magician leapt into the air and threw several spheres of magical energy at the Stone ogre grotto but they had just as little effect.

“Harpie lady?” Kim suggested.

The Harpie lady flew into the air and struck the Stone ogre grotto but again in had no effect.

“Hey what gives?” Kim yelled.

“I think it may be because the Stone Ogre grotto has 1600 attack points,” Josh explained “and so do all our monsters.”

“So they’re even,” Jamin muttered “and we need a power boost.”

He reached into he deck and drew another card,

“Perfect,” he said “I’ll activate scroll of bewitchment, and change Horus the black flame dragon into a wind monster!”

“Why?” Josh asked.

“Because of Harpie lady one’s effect,” Jamin explained “all wind monsters gain 300 attack points.”

“Hey neat idea,” Josh remarked.

“Okay Horus let’s try again,” Jamin said “attack!”

Horus rose into the air and let out another stream of black fire, this time it hit straight on and the stone ogre grotto began to fall apart until it shattered onto triangles and vanished.

“Well that was easy,” Jamin said “huh?”

The black flames dragon however was glowing, and several beams of light began escaping from its core.

“Hey what gives?” Jamin continued.

“Calm down,” Josh sighed “whenever Horus destroys a monster in battle it levels up, I can’t believe you didn’t know that.”

“Oh,” Jamin muttered “I knew that, yeah.”

The light eventually covered the whole of Horus and it exploded revealing a newer dragon, this one was allot larger, with longer legs and stronger muscles but also larger wings and a longer neck, not to mention the tail that had suddenly appeared. It flew down and landed next to Jamin protectively.

“Nice,” Jamin said folding his arms “guess we’ll be pals then.”

The dragon gave a soft rumbling noise from its throat.

“I’ll take that to mean yes,” Jamin laughed.

“Hey,” Kim said clicking her fingers “I’ve got an idea.”

 

****

 

A few moments later, Kim, Jamin and Josh were each riding a dragon rather than walking; Kim’s dragon was red with a jeweled gold crest on its head, Jamin was riding Horus the black flame dragon and Josh was riding a long, thin black dragon with bright red domes over its body.

“Wow, never thought I’d be doing this,” he said half laughing.

“You’ve changed your tack,” Jamin said “hey I think we’re nearly there.”

The dragon’s touched down and Jamin leapt off his and walked over to the bank of the lake. He stopped and looked around.

“What does that necklace say now?” He asked.

“Nothing,” Kim said “it’s stopped.”

Jamin looked back up at her and noticed that the necklace was no longer glowing; he turned around and stared out at the lake.

“What do you suppose we do now?” Josh said jumping down from his own dragon.

Jamin took a step forward and his foot touched the lake surface, a few ripples spread from his foot but it didn’t sink.

“Walk across it,” he suggested and took a few more steps until he was near the middle of the lake.

He looked down and saw a light glowing at the bottom, it was getting steadily closer. Jamin took a step backwards as a figure emerged from the water, it was hard to tell what it looked like through the light but what they could see was that it was female and was covered in a white cloak, it also wore a golden helmet shaped like a phoenix head. Jamin covered his eyes at the light.

“Who are you?” He asked.

“I have many names,” the figure spoke, its voice echoed “but most call me the goddess of life.”

“Okay, so you’re a goddess,” Jamin said “and why are we here.”

The goddess looked directly at him and then around at the meadow. “This is what once used to be the shadow realm, but the Pharaoh Atem locked the darkness away, so now this realm has become one of peace where the creatures of the shadow realm can live in peace.

“And we are here because?” Jamin asked.

“You are here because I summoned you using the power of the gods,” the goddess explained “the darkness is trying to break free, and to do that it is taking the souls of those who are descended from the pharaoh’s sacred court, the keepers of the millennium items.”

“But they were locked away weren’t they?” Jamin interrupted “so why would they need guarding?”

“That is not the point,” the goddess continued “the point is that the darkness must be stopped, it has two souls already and only needs 5 more.”

“So how do we beat it?” Jamin asked hastily.

“First I must see if you are the ones destined to save mankind again,” the goddess said “so now all three of you must face me in a duel.”

“What!” Josh leaped down from his dragon and ran across the lake “are you insane? You’re saying the universe is in danger and you want to play games?”

“It’s no game,” the goddess replied “now prepare yourselves.”

Kim leaped down from her dragon and ran across the lake to join the other two. “Don’t worry,” she said “it’s three on one remember.”

“Yeah but we don’t have any duel disks,” Josh pointed out.

“Then what’s that on your arm?” Kim asked.

“Huh?” Josh looked down and saw a duel disk had appeared on his arm “what!”

“Hey I got one too,” Jamin said raising his arm “oh well, I could use a refresher course.”

He took out his deck and placed it into the slot; Horus turned back into black liquid and flew in. Kim’s and Josh’s dragons did the same as soon as they inserted their decks.

“Let’s duel.”

“I’ll go first,” Josh said “and I summon Breaker the magical warrior!”

He placed the card onto his field and Breaker emerged from the lake in front of him, instantly a ball of pulsating appeared and began to orbit round him.

“And in case you didn’t know,” Josh explained “when he’s summoned I can add one spell counter onto him, and that increases his attack power by 300.”

“My turn,” Jamin said and drew a card “and I summon element dragon in attack mode!”

The element dragon appeared out of the lake behind Jamin, flew into the air and landed in front of him causing the water to ripple slightly.

“And next I’ll play two spell cards,” Jamin continued “scroll of bewitchment and Salamandra, so first I change my dragon to a fire monster, and that increases his attack by 500, and then Salamandra increases it by another 700.”

The element dragon was surrounded by a firey aura and increased in size.

“Now me,” Kim said “and I summon Harpie lady one in attack mode.”

The harpie lady emerged from the lake and hovered in front of Kim.

“Now all wind monsters gain 300 extra attack points,” Kim explained “but I’m not done because I activate elegant egotist, so now I can summon the Harpie lady sisters!”

She placed the card into the spell card slot and Harpie Lady one glowed and 3 more Harpies emerged from it and descended next to it.

“Their attack points are usually 1950, but thanks to Harpie lady one, they now have 2250.”

“So do you think we’re the ones yet?” Josh asked.

The goddess made no motion of worry, but raised her hand and 6 cards appeared hovering in front of her.

“I play soul exchange,” she said.

One of the cards flipped round and began glowing, instantly 3 arms of light shot out grabbing Josh’s, Jamin’s and Kim’s monsters.

“Hey!” Jamin objected.

“I sacrifice Breaker the magical warrior, Element dragon and Harpie lady sisters to summon my own beast.” The goddess explained.

“This is gonna hurt,” Jamin muttered.

“And now,” the goddess continued “I summon the Egyptian god Slifer the Sky Dragon!”

“What!”

Element dragon, Breaker and the harpie lady sister vanished in a whirling vortex, and out of the vortex emerged a long snake-like dragon. It was large enough to curl around a skyscraper from the bottom to the top, it had a pair of gigantic wings on its shoulder but rather small arms, but also it had two mouths, both showing sharp, triangular teeth.

“That’s a god card,” Jamin said aghast.

“But I thought they were destroyed?” Josh said.

“Apparently not,” Kim said.

The goddess ignored the comments and raised her arm. “Slifer, attack!” She ordered.

Slifer opened his bottom mouth and lighting began encircling within it before it fired a stream of lightning and struck Kim’s Harpie lady one completely destroying it and reducing her life points to 2400. She collapsed clutching her chest.

“I…Felt that,” she panted.

“Hey what do you think you’re doing?” Jamin yelled “there’s no need to do that.”

“If you cannot stand the effects of a shadow game then there’s no chance that you can save mankind.” The goddess explained “believe me, you’re not the first to take this test.”

Josh glared at her determinedly. “Well it’s my turn now,” he said “and now I activate the spell card swords of revealing light!”

A pinprick of light flashed in the sky briefly and a set of swords flew down around Slifer trapping him.

“Now you can’t attack for three turns,” Josh said “and to finish I’ll play this face down and summon the skilled dark magician in defense mode.”

Jamin looked over at him and drew a card from his deck and placed it in his hand.

“Okay then,” he thought “I’ve got four cards in my hand, so I’d better use them as much as I can.”

He looked up at the form of Slifer in front of him.

“That thing gains 1000 points for each card in her hand, so he can have a maximum of 6000, but if I can get rid of the cards in her hand I might be able to defeat him.”

He took a card out of his hand and placed it on the field.

“I summon hand of Nephthys in defense mode,” he declared as the monster appeared in front of him crouched down “and I’ll lay this face down, that’s it.”

Kim however didn’t look up; she was still on the ground. Jamin looked over at her and realized that she hadn’t moved since being hit.

“Kim, get up,” he said “you’ve got to make a move.”

“I can’t,” she said “I’ll get hit again.”

“Josh played swords of revealing light,” Jamin explained “she won’t be attacking for three turns.”

Kim looked up at him but didn’t move. Jamin gritted his teeth. “Fine, we’ll skip her turn okay.”

“Very well,” the goddess said.

A new card appeared in front of her and Slifer’s attack power raised to 5000.

“And now I play pot of greed, so I get two new cards.” The goddess said.

One card flipped round and glowed bright green, then it split into two and flipped back round.

“Next I play mirage of nightmare,” the goddess explained “so on your next draw I draw four cards, but on my turn I have to discard four.”

“Well that sucks,” Josh muttered drawing a card.

“Now I gain 4 new cards, so Slifer’s attack power increases again.” The goddess explained.

“Damn it,” Josh cursed “well I play this spell card known as continuous destruction punch, from now on if a monster has higher defense points in a battle, the loser is destroyed.”

“Er, problem,” Jamin said “Slifer attack points are off the charts, I think they’re 8000 right now.”

“Well it’s your turn so make it count,” Josh replied.

“I’d better,” Jamin muttered.

He placed his hand on his deck and drew; four more cards appeared in front of the goddess once he did raising Slifer’s attack points to 12000.

“Man that’s allot of points,” Jamin muttered “well I’ll put this face down and end my turn.”

“Well that was short,” Josh sighed.

“Kim make a move already,” Jamin said “get up for crying out loud!”

Kim looked up at him and slowly got to her feet,

“Come on,” Jamin said “make a move.

Kim remained silent and drew a card from her deck; she looked at it and placed it in face down defense mode.

“That’s it,” she muttered.

Josh scoffed. “Slifer’s attack points are 16000,” he pointed out “is that the best you can do?”

“Yeah but now she has to get rid of all those cards.” Jamin said.

“Really?” The goddess said “not yet, I play mystical space typhoon to destroy my mirage, now it’s my turn.”

A new card appeared in front of her and flipped round.

“I play infinite cards,” she explained “now there’s no limit to the cards I have.”

Josh’s face darkened.

“But luckily for you I’ll end my turn,” the goddess said.

Josh drew a card from his deck and placed it in the magic card slot. “I play magical dimension! So now I sacrifice Skilled dark magician and summon from my hand chaos command magician!”

The skilled dark magician vanished and a gold casket appeared in his place, it opened up and a new dark magician emerged, this one with green robes and a staff with a single triangular symbol resting on the top at a slight angle.

“And now the second effect of my box activates,” Josh said smugly “so Slifer is now destroyed!”

“All right,” Jamin yelled.

The goddesse’s expression didn’t change. The chaos command magician however raised his staff and fired striking Slifer directly, the blast caused a cloud of dust and smoke to rise and also made the water ripple violently. Josh’s expression was smug, but when the smoke cleared and the water went still again Slifer was still there.

“What!”

“I’m afraid that Egyptian gods cannot be destroyed by spell cards alone,” the goddess explained “so your move was useless, and now I activate Slifer’s other ability, the power of his second mouth!”

Slifer’s top mouth opened and blue lighting began encircling within it.

“So now you magician loses 2000 attack points,” the goddess explained “Slifer, attack!”

Slifer fired the blast from his mouth, but the chaos command magician raised his staff striking the blast and splitting it, it diverted away from him.

“Well that’s my chaos command magician’s effect,” Josh said “I can negate any monster effect that targets him and only him.”

“Well now it’s my turn,” Jamin said “so I’ll summon this, element doom in attack mode!”

Slifers mouth opened again and fired.

“What!” Jamin stepped back as his element doom was hit as soon as he appeared and shattered.

“If your monster is too weak to survive Slifer’s attack it is destroyed,” the goddess explained.

“No way,” Jamin muttered.

Kim looked up at him, gritted her teeth and shook herself. “Okay fine,” she said “I will duel if that’s what you want.”

“Two turns too late pal,” Josh said.

“Shut it okay,” Kim replied “I play Harpie’s hunting ground! So now I can destroy your spell card!”

The scenery suddenly transformed into a landscape of sand coloured dirt and rocks and the goddess’s spell card was destroyed.

“Not only that, but now my Harpies gain 200 extra points,” Kim explained “and I summon Cyber Harpie in attack mode!”

A tall Harpie with long iron blue hair emerged from the ground in front of Kim.

“How’s that for a move,” Kim said determinedly.

“Wow, now that’s a move,” Josh remarked.

“Yeah,” Jamin said “now she loses all those extra cards she picked up.”

The goddess still didn’t make and movement at all, she merely raised her arm and a new card appeared.

“Not until the end of the turn I don’t,” she said “I play de-spell and destroy your swords!”

“Damn it,” Josh cursed.

“So now I’m free to attack,” The goddess said “so I’ll also play fairy meteor crush, so now when I attack a defense monster the difference comes out of your life points.”

“Not good,”

“Slifer, attack hand of Nephthys!” The goddess ordered.

Slifer’s mouth opened once more and it fired at Jamin monster.

“Not that fast,” Jamin said “because I play this spell card, Unity!”

“What?”

“It’s not over,” Jamin said “because now Nephthy’s defense increases by the defense points of every monster out.

“So…”

“So now she gains 1500 from Cyber Harpie, giving her 2100, then 1900 from chaos command magician, giving her 4000 and last but certainly not least Slifer’s own defense points!”

“But wait,” Josh said “that mean…”

“Oh yeah,” Jamin said “We win!”

The blast struck Nephthys directly and swept around her blasting dust everywhere.

“Nephthys, counter attack!” Jamin ordered “sacred Phoenix strike!”

Nephthys got to her feet and leapt into the air cutting through Slifer’s attack, all the time a gold aura slowly began to surround her body. As she reached slifer the aura turned into a flame and she raised her fist and struck Slifer directly. The result caused a massive explosion that caused Josh, Jamin and Kim to cover their faces and the smoke blew over them.

“How do you like them apples,” Jamin said.

“Congratulations,” the goddess said “but I still have 8000 life points left.”

“Wha..? How come?” Jamin asked.

“There are three of you, so I have three times your life points,” the goddess explained “and now, it is still my turn, so I activate fiend sanctuary 3 times to summon three metal fiend tokens, but then I’ll sacrifice them to bring out the next Egyptian god.”

“Oh dear.”

3 metal creatures made up of spheres and consisting of a head, a body, two arms and a tail appeared but then vanished into a blue vortex.

“Here we go,” Jamin braced himself.

Out of the vortex a blue shape emerged then leapt to the ground and spread it’s wings wide out. It was literally a giant blue behemoth with large blue wings and blood red eyes.

“Behold,” the goddess said “Obelisk the tormentor!”

 

[Shaco]

Really good, I enjoyed it alot.

 

one little thing though. A few paragraphs would be nice, its just that it seems to meld together and it's a little difficult, if I look away for a second, (which was hard) to find my place in the story again. I really like it over all though.

[Danilus]

I agree, its a good story but try to set it so its easy to read by putting it into nice little bitesized paragraphs. 8)

[TotalObelisk]

Okay, I'll try.

 

Episode 5: Jamin, Josh and Kim have destroyed Slifer, but now they face a new beast, Obelisk:

 

[spoiler=episode]“You have defeated Slifer,” the goddess continued “and you did well to do that, but now I have a new Egyptian god, an even more powerful one.”

“Well it’s my draw,” Josh said “so I’ll switch my magician to defense mode and play this face down, go ahead Jamin.”

“Gladly,” Jamin replied and drew his own card “so I’ll play this card in face down defense mode, but I’ll also activate this card known as convulsion of nature, so now all our decks turn upside down.”

“What’s the point?” Josh asked “I don’t think she even has a deck.”

“Bear with me okay,” Jamin said.

“Well I think it’s a good thing,” Kim said looking at her deck.

“Why?”

Kim took the card from the top of her deck and immediately played it. “I activate reversal quiz!” She declared.

“Wow, now that’s lucky.” Jamin said.

“Now I guess what type of card my next draw will be,” Kim said “and I guess it’s a monster, and what do you know, it is. So our life points swap round!”

Kim’s life points rose to 8000 and the goddess’ lowered to 1600.

“You still need to defeat Obelisk before it is too late,” the goddess said.

“I was getting to that part,” Kim said “now seeing as I discarded Roc from my hand he goes back to my deck and I shuffle, but I also had to ditch my field and all my other cards.”

 

Kim’s monster vanished and the scenery returned to normal.

“Yeah but now Kim’s defenseless,” Josh said.

“My move,” the goddess said “and now, Obelisk attack chaos command magician!”

Obelisk raised his fist and threw it forwards with an almighty strength striking the chaos command magician directly and destroying him.

“My turn,” Josh said “and I play this, dark magic ritual, so I sacrifice my dark magician and apprentice magician and summon the dark magician of chaos in defense mode!”

Jamin then drew a card from his deck and placed it face down on the field. “I’ll play this face down,” he explained “and also summon my element soldier in defense mode.”

“And as for me,” Kim said “I play Pot of greed, so I draw two cards.” Kim picked up two new cards from her deck “and next I’ll summon my petit dragon in defense mode.”

 

A small green dragon with tiny wings and no arms or legs appeared in front of Kim.

“I suppose, if that is the best you can do…” The goddess raised her hand “Now Obelisk, attack Element soldier! Fist of Fate!”

Obelisk raised his fist, a blue glow surrounded it and he punched the air, the glow fired out like a cannonball heading for Jamin’s Element soldier.

“Not so fast,” Jamin said “I have a trap, spiritual wind art Miyabi!”

The face down card flipped up and glowed briefly to show it had activated.

“Trap cards cannot destroy Obelisk,” the goddess explained “you should know that.”

 

“Dude, who said I was destroying it?” Jamin said “my trap card allows me to sacrifice a wind monster, so Kim do you mind?”

“Take him,” Kim said putting one thumb up and winking.

Jamin just nodded and turned back to the goddess “now I sacrifice petit dragon!” He declared “and activate the ability of my trap card, go Wynn!”

A girl with green hair in pigtails emerged from the trap card and raised her staff. Petit dragon transformed into a green light which surrounded Wynn and she raised her staff causing a hurricane to envelope her and begin spinning towards Obelisk, throwing violent waves everywhere.

“It’s a wonder we’re still standing here,” Jamin muttered.

“I told you before,” the goddess said “trap cards cannot destroy Obelisk.”

“Um hello, I’m not destroying him,” Jamin interrupted “just take a look.”

The hurricane subsided and Obelisk was gone.

“What?”

“Miyabi doesn’t destroy your monster,” Jamin explained “let’s just say he’s resting in the back somewhere.”

“But what…” The Goddess looked at her hand and saw that Obelisk had re-appeared.

 

“Now, where was I,” Jamin muttered “oh yeah, it’s Josh’s turn.”

“Gotcha,” Josh replied “now I switch my magician into attack mode.”

The dark magician of Chaos stood up and raised his staff.

“Finish this duel,” Josh said “chaos scepter blast!”

The magician raised his staff and fired an electrical ball of energy straight at the goddess, striking her directly and depleting her life points down to zero.

“Yeah!” Jamin clenched his fist in triumph “now that’s what I call teamwork.”

The holograms faded and the goddess bowed her head.

“Congratulations,” she said “you are the second to pass my test.”

“What? Second? But, I thought you said…”

“There is one other who had defeated the gods,” the goddess explained “but he was corrupted by the dark spirit of the Shadow Realm.”

“Oh boy,” Jamin muttered “just what we need, another psycho.”

“He possesses the same power as you, Jamin” the goddess explained “the power of the elements, so beware and be carefully, you must protect the millennium items.”

“This is way too confusing,” Jamin complained “what are we supposed to do?”

“For now,” the goddess raised her arm “you must go home!”

A powerful light enveloped them and the next thing Jamin knew he was lying in bed. He looked about, it was dark and the lights were off, he must have been asleep for some time.

“Was that a dream,” he muttered.

He got up and upon putting his feet on the floor he noticed he was fully dressed and that the bottoms of his shoes were wet.

“Or was it?” He looked out of his window at the night sky “well, if there’s somebody else who has an element deck, then bring them on.” A smile crossed his face “I always wondered.”

 

****

 

“Jamin! Come on, you’re going to be late!” Jamin’s dad called up the stairs.

He immediately backed away because the next second Jamin was literally skidding down the stairs with only one sock on; he landed in a heap at the bottom having forgotten to break. He got to his feet pulling his sock on.

“Hey, what time is it?” He asked hopping about.

“Time you got going,” his dad replied opening the paper “so vamoose!”

“Oh great!” Jamin snatched up his shoes and bag and ran out of the door.

He nearly wrenched the garage door off its hinges and leapt onto his bike and peddled off as fast as he could. He had no idea what time he’d come home last night and had overslept as a result, to be honest he could barely understand what happened last night. He shook himself awake and peddled harder in the direction of the school hoping he didn’t have any homework he’d forgotten. He locked his bike up on the rack and when he looked up her saw a crowd of people standing around a noticed just outside the main doors.

 

“Hey, what’s the deal?” He asked walked up behind the crowd and trying to see over.

Josh walked over and examined the heads blocking the way before shoving straight through them without a care in the world. He stopped at the noticed board despite the hail of protests being thrown at him.

“Hm, cool,” he muttered.

“What’s cool?” Jamin asked trying to same tactics as Josh but having no luck at all.

“Come and see,” Josh said shoving a shorter kid out of the way “oh, sorry Sammy.”

Jamin moved passed and peered at the sign.

“You’re joking right?” He said “there is no way this is real.”

Josh pinched him hard.

“Ow! Hey!”

“It’s real,” Josh reassured him “take a look.”

 

KC presents:

The duel monsters rally way tournament.

Feb. 24th is the start of an all new tournament to find the newest talent among duelists. All participants who wish to enter must sign up at the Kaiba dome to enter the qualifying rounds, application must be filled out by October the 10th, the tournament will end on June 14th. Any further information will be given after the qualifying rounds, any no shows will be immediately disqualified.

 

“Oh great,” Jamin said reading the noticed again “what’s his reason this time?”

“Probably a random publicity stunt,” Josh shrugged “he hasn’t had any good releases lately, so this is probably another bid for popularity.”

“His ego needs to burst,” Jamin muttered.

“Try telling that to him,” Josh chuckled “so, you wanna go? I could use a good event to stop me from getting bored.”

“Well yeah but it starts in February,” Jamin pointed out “that’s nearly 5 months away.”

Josh shrugged “well it’s better than nothing,” he said “and the qualifying round are only next week or something, so I guess we’d better sign up tonight.”

“Well, yeah I guess so,” Jamin muttered.

“Hey guys!”

“Huh?” Jamin looked up and noticed Kim just across the road from the gate; she looked left as a car passed by and then crossed the road quickly.

Once she reached Jamin he felt himself embraced in a very tight hug.

“Whoa! Hey, you really need to stop this hugging habit of yours, Kim.” He said.

“Well, somebody’s in a bright mood,” Josh chuckled “what is it this time? New bunny?”

Kim shook her head and finally let go of Jamin.

“This,” she said indicating her neck.

Jamin rubbed his ribs and looked at what she was pointing, it was the copy of the millennium necklace that was used to keep contact with the real thing buried deep under Egypt.

 

“Hey, isn’t that?”

Kim nodded before he finished.

“Yep, pretty too, I think I’ll keep it,” she said.

“From what I remember we were supposed to gather all of the item’s copies and bring them to that goddess person; however we get to that crazy world of hers.”

“Oh come on,” Kim said “it’s barely any use but it is really pretty, come on.”

“Well I guess,” Jamin said slowly “but I don’t think it goes with you at all.”

Kim fixed him with a sulking glare. “Don’t care,” she said.

“Okay, fine, suit yourself,” Jamin muttered.

The bell rang and they all ran inside to get to their appropriate rooms to be registered.

 

****

 

Three hours later, Jamin sat at the back of a very hot and boring maths class, he tapped his pen against the paper of his book trying to worm his mind around the mess of numbers, all he could make out was =3N+15-Y, and that was barely even maths, it sounded more like spelling. He let a yawn escape and decided to hang it all, he didn’t even like maths in the first place, and it was one of the most boring subjects in the school apart from Geography which nobody took anyway. He gazed out of the window and noticed it had begun to rain, as he gazed out he thought he saw a figure sitting on the edge of a building across the road, Jamin’s eyes widened and he did a double take but whoever it was had vanished. He looked down and glanced at the clock, it barely seemed to have moved an inch since he’d last looked at it, although he swore it was at least 20 minutes since.

 

 

Diablo stood outside looking up at Jamin through the window; although it was raining it barely seemed to effect him. He sneered and walked off, stepping in a puddle and making a very noisy splash.

****

 

Jamin wandered out of the classroom rubbing his eyes to try and keep them open; around him other children were rushing out laughing or yelling. Mr. Bore really lived up to his name and everybody was glad to be out of his class. Jamin stopped and looked out of the window, it was still raining and the playground was covered with puddles, but then Jamin saw him again, standing in the middle of the yard staring up at him. Jamin’s eyes widened as he realized who it was, Diablo. Without thinking, and forgetting about his next lesson Jamin ran towards the stairs and half threw himself down them. At the bottom he bolted for the door, which was a fire escape and opened as soon as he pushed the bar. He bolted out into the rain and saw Diablo standing opposite him.

“What do you want?” He asked coldly.

“Just to check up on an old friend,” Diablo replied casually.

“Don’t play games with me,” Jamin said.

“Oh come on, don’t be like that,” Diablo said “I just want to see if you’re all okay, that’s all.”

“Huh?”

“Have fun, Jamin,” Diablo said before turning and walking away.

“Hey!” Jamin yelled after him “get back here!”

He began to run after him but Diablo just vanished into thin air again.

“What the hell did he mean?” Jamin muttered.

He stopped and suddenly remembered he was supposed to be in class, he turned round and sprinted back into the school swearing loudly. Diablo leaned out from behind the school gates chuckling slightly, spinning Kim’s necklace around on one finger.

“See you after school,” he chuckled.

 

****

 

As soon as the last class of the day was over Jamin was running out into the yard, the rain had subsided halfway through English and there was now a damp set of puddles littered across the floor, Jamin ran through them without any other concern until Josh grabbed him from behind and somehow managed to hold him in place with just one hand.

“Hey kiddo, what’s the rush,” he said teasingly.

“Diablo,” Jamin replied “he’s here.”

“What?”

“Diablo!” Jamin repeated “you know, evil guy, dark world deck, kicked my butt! Actually don’t remember that part.”

“Okay, calm down,” Josh said letting go “I’m sure there’s no need to get that panic stricken okay.”

“Hey, he took what’s his face’s soul!” Jamin retorted “I’m not going to let him go that easily.”

“You may not have to,” Josh said.

“Huh?” Jamin turned round and saw Diablo smirking at the gates.

Jamin’s eyes narrowed and Diablo walked away.

“Oh no you don’t!” Jamin gritted his teeth and ran after him before Diablo could stop him.

“Hey! Get back here!” Josh yelled after him.

He sprinted after Jamin just as he turned round the gate. Josh reached it and grabbed one of the pillars, using it to swing himself round and charge on.

“Why do I have to stick my neck out for him all the time?” He muttered.

 

Jamin sprinted after Diablo for a good ten minutes, it seemed amazing that he could just catch Diablo walking round a corner and never catch up with him. Finally he saw him go through an old, rusted door into an abandoned building just down the street.

“Gotha!” Jamin muttered.

Josh came skidding round the corner behind him and saw Jamin bolt through the door.

“Jamin, for heaven’s sake stop!” He yelled after him.

He ran to the door and put his full weight upon it, smashing it down. Inside it was fairly dark; the room was empty but large enough to fit a small house in. There was a balcony at the far end and an old abandoned piece of machinery just below the stairs. Jamin stood in the middle, just across from Diablo who was smirking.

“You seem in a hurry to lose,” he said smirking, he had taken out his skull duel disk.

“I just want you out of my life!” Jamin retorted.

“Fair enough,” Diablo sighed.

He inserted his deck into the skull’s mouth and the eyes lit up red. Suddenly the entire room became blocked out by an enormous hazy bubble of red and purple colours mixing together.

“Welcome to the shadow game,” Diablo laughed.

“This time, I’m not going to lose.” Jamin said putting his deck into his own duel disk.

“No way, Jamin!” Josh said “I’ll duel, you, lost last time.”

He made to move forwards but stayed where he was.

“What the? Hey! I can’t move!”

Diablo chuckled softly. “Sorry, but Jamin’s dueling right now, and I know the exact prize for the winner.”

“What price,” Jamin looked behind Diablo and saw Kim sprawled on the ground behind him “hey! What did you do to her?” He demanded.

“I haven’t hurt her, yet,” Diablo reassured him “but here’s the deal, when you lose life points, a piece of Josh vanishes into the shadow realm, when I lose them a piece of Kimmy-girl here goes. So if I win I get the scales, if you win I get the necklace.”

“That’s not fair!” Jamin complained.

“Life’s not fair,” Diablo laughed throwing the necklace into the centre; the scales suddenly materialized next to it “get used to it and let’s duel!”

Jamin glared at him and put his deck into his duel disk and activated it.

 

“Evil goes first,” Diablo declared drawing six cards.

“Don’t wait a lot do you?” Jamin retorted.

“Oh keep quiet,” Diablo glared at him “I play graceful charity, so I draw three but have to ditch two.”

“Oh boy,” Jamin’s eyes widened.

“That’s right,” Diablo laughed “I summon Goldd and Sillva!”

The two giant monsters appeared before Jamin, glaring down at him, one with gold armour, and the other with silver.

“Luckily for you though they can’t attack right now,” Diablo shrugged “oh well, I’ll put this face down and end my turn.”

“Fine then.” Jamin said “and I play my lightning vortex! So I discard one card from my hand and destroyed all the face up monsters on your field!”

Jamin took Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys and placed it in his graveyard, then a thunder bolt crashed down from nowhere and obliterated both of Diablo’s cards.

“Curse you!” He yelled.

“I’m not done,” Jamin said “I play my Element Valkyrie!”

A woman in red and blue armour appeared carrying a staff with fire at one end and water at the other.

“Now, attack him directly!” Jamin ordered.

Valkyrie leapt into the air and span her staff round firing a wave of fire and water at Diablo dropping his life points to 2500.

“Sorry, but I’m afraid Kimmy takes the pain.” Diablo reminded him.

“Huh?”

Kim’s elbow and most of her arm around it suddenly faded away, covered by the shadowy wall around them.

“What, hey!” Jamin yelled at Diablo “leave her out of this!”

“Oh but it’s so fun watching you and your dilemma,” Diablo laughed “after all, when you take damage then I’m afraid Joshy-boy goes.”

“Grr, stop that!” Jamin demanded.

 

Diablo laughed and drew a card into his hand.

“Fat chance, Jamin!” He laughed and outstretched his arm to his face down which flipped up “I play the spell card Gateway to DarkWorld, this allows me to resurrect Goldd from the graveyard.”

The card turned into a black vortex and Goldd suddenly crawled out of it.

“Now then, attack his monster!” Diablo ordered.

Goldd raised a fist surrounded by dark energy and threw an almighty punch at Valkyrie destroying her and dropping Jamin’s life point’s to 3200.

“Ah!” Josh yelled as his own arm vanished.

“I felt that,” Jamin gasped falling to one knee.

“Yes,” Diablo replied “and your friend is vanishing into the shadow realm.”

“This is crazy,” Jamin muttered “if I don’t fight then Josh vanished, but if I do then Kim will, this isn’t even fair.”

“It’s not supposed to be,” Diablo replied “now make your move and face your fate!”

 

Jamin drew a card from his deck.

“Well now you’re in for it,” he said “I play the special ability of my sacred phoenix. So after it’s been sent to the graveyard by an effect then I can instantly special summon it to my side of the field.”

A golden glow illuminated from Jamin’s duel disk and engulfed the entire arena for a single second, then as it cleared Jamin’s sacred phoenix of Nepthys decended from above him glowing slightly.

“Now who has a stronger monster,” Jamin said, satisfied “Sacred Phoenix attack!”

The Sacred Phoenix flew towards Goldd letting out a bird-like scream and swept past him in as a fiery torpedo and destroyed it dropping Diablo’s points to 2400.

“Just one more attack,” Jamin muttered “and I’ve won.”

“Well yes,” Diablo admitted “but then so will Kim.”

Kim’s entire arm faded away and her shoulder’s were beginning to follow.

“And the best part is it’s my turn,” Diablo laughed “so I play this, my dark world dealing’s card.”

“What’s that do?” Jamin asked.

 

“Funny you should ask,” Diablo said “it let’s us both draw a card, but then we have to discard a card from our hand.”

“Well, okay.” Jamin said drawing and then putting a card in his graveyard.

“Don’t be so keen,” Diablo replied doing the same “cause I’m discarding Kahkki, Guerilla of Dark World.”

“Who, the what of dark world?” Jamin replied.

“Kahkii, the Guerilla,” Diablo repeated “when he’s sent from my hand to the grave by a card effect, then I’m afraid your phoenix goes boom!”

The Sacred Phoenix screamed again before bursting into data and vanishing.

“So now, I play Brron, the made king of dark world!” Diablo declared.

Brron appeared in front of Diablo laughing stupidly.

“Brron, attack!” Diablo ordered.

Brron rushed forward and did an spinning kick whilst standing on his head, hitting Jamin on the shoulder. He staggered backwards and fell to his knee again, clutching it. Josh’s entire arm and shoulder vanished and the shadow began creeping up his neck.

“Jamin, anytime soon would be nice,” he said.

“Oh an in case you were thinking you were off the hook,” Diablo continued “I’m afraid my king has an ability.”

“Oh boy,”

“You see, when he inflicts battle damage to my opponent, I can put one card from my hand into the graveyard,” Diablo explained “so I discard Scarr, scout of darkworld, which let’s me put Zure, knight of dark world from my deck and into my hand.”

 

Diablo laughed again, Jamin got to his feet, glaring at him.

“You haven’t won yet!” He yelled drawing.

“He’s toying with you,” Josh said “he knows he can beat you so he isn’t bothering to play at his best.”

“Well then that’ll be his mistake,” Jamin said “I re-summon my sacred phoenix of Nephthys!”

Jamin’s phoenix resurrected once again. Jamin took a brief look up at it before taking another card from his hand.

“And next I summon Hiita, the fire charmer!” He declared.

A short, red haired girl that looked like she was in her mid teens emerged on Jamin’s side of the field carrying a gold staff with a small fox on her shoudler

“And she has a special ability also,” Jamin said “by sacrificing herself and another fire monster she grows stronger.”

The sacred Phoenix burst into flame which were then absorbed into Hiita’s body, she then grew larger, surrounded by fire, and the small fox grew bigger, shaggier, and angrier.

“Now Hiita, attack his mad king!” Jamin ordered.

Hiita raised her staff and fired a burst of flame at Brron destroying him and dropping Diablo’s life points to 2350. Kim’s leg began to vanish,

“Nice try,” he sniggered “but I’m afraid it’ll take more than that to beat me.”

 

Diablo drew a new card from his deck and his eyes narrowed.

“I play my trap booster, so now I discard Broww, huntsman of dark world and play this, the forces of darkness. So now I return my mad king and my wu-lord to my hand. Next thanks to my huntsman’s special ability I can draw a new card from my deck.”

“Are you done yet?” Jamin asked.

“You’d like that wouldn’t you,” Diablo laughed “well I’m afraid you’re not off the hook yet, I play dark world lightning, so I discard my cyber soldier of dark world and destroy your Phoenix!”

A thunder bolt shot from Diablo’s card and hit the Phoenix directly and destroyed it.

“Oh come on,” Jamin said “you know it’ll just come back later.”

Diablo sneered at him. “I’ll play these two face down and summon Zure, knight of dark world in defense mode.”

“That’s weird,” Jamin muttered “he could have attacked me, but he didn’t.”

“He’s probably planning something big,” Josh’s eyes narrowed slightly.

“Well I won’t give him that chance,” Jamin said drawing “so now my Phoenix will come back.”

The same light engulfed them briefly once again and the Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys re-appeared.

“So now you’re trap cards are destroyed!” Jamin said.

The Phoenix flapped its wings and the two face downs on Diablo’s side of the field shattered.

“Thanks,” he laughed “because now I can summon two wicked tokens to the field.”

Two golden, worm-like creatures appeared in front of Diablo, they were honestly extremely ugly.

 

“Oh great,” Jamin tried backing off but his legs wouldn’t listen.

“So now what, smarty pants?” Josh asked.

“I summon My Mother grizzly in defense mode,” Jamin said “and end my turn.”

A shaggy black bear appeared beside Jamin’s phoenix, crouched down.

“Now, luckily for me I don’t think you have any monsters stronger than my phoenix,” Jamin said “and if you destroy it by an effect then she just comes right on back, you’re through this time.”

Diablo laughed. “Don’t underestimate me,” he said “I play cheerful coffin, and discard Goldd and Brron to the grave, and now they resurrect.

Bronn and Golld appeared back on Diablo’s field.

“So how do you feel now?” Diablo laughed.

“Strangely unimpressed,” Jamin replied “Sacred Phoenix attack his mad king!”

The Sacred Phoenix became a fiery missile once again and flew towards Brron and destroyed him, Diablo’s life points dropped to 1750 and a few more parts of Kim vanished.

“Is that it?” Diablo said smirking.

“Not yet,” Jamin said “I play one card face down and end my turn.”

“Smartest move you’ve made yet.” Diablo replied drawing “now I lay this face down and…”

“Not so fast!” Jamin said “I play spiritual water art-Aoi! So now I sacrifice mother grizzly…”

The grizzly bear vanished in a torrent of water.

“Then I get to look at your hand and discard it, instantly.” Jamin continued.

“Well, I only have one card,” Diablo smirked and turned it over “prepare to meet your doom.”

“Huh?”

The torrent of water flew over to Diablo and struck his card, sending it to the graveyard. Diablo laughed and a black aura grew out of his duel disk and began to grow into a monster.

“What, the?”

“You thought I had no creatures more powerful that that Phoenix?” He laughed “think again, for whenever Reign-Beaux, Overlord of Dark World is sent to my graveyard from my hand by my opponent, he comes back to my field.

“I should’ve seen that coming,” Jamin’s eyes widened.

“And he had 2500 points,” Diablo said “so you’re history!”

The aura exploded in a wave of dark energy, Jamin and Josh covered their eyes as it swept past them, the darkness vanished and revealed a towering, black demon with a gold staff and almost claw-like wings as well as small but evil glowing eyes. Jamin could do nothing but gawp in fear.

“Welcome to dark world,” Diablo muttered “and welcome, to your destruction!”

 

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[spoiler=episode]“Don’t be so sure of yourself,” Jamin replied.

“Why not?” Diablo shrugged “let’s see, I have more monsters than you, the strongest monster on the field is mine, your life points are lower and I have enough to completely destroy you, again!”

“Oh no you won’t,” Jamin said.

“Oh yes I will,” Diablo laughed “you see, whenever I summon Reign-Beaux by the effect I just did, then I’m afraid all your monsters go packing!”

Reign raised his staff and a stream of black energy flew out of it, wrapping around Jamin’s monster and destroying it.

“Hey!”

“And there’s more,” Diablo continued “sorry to be the bearer of bad new though, but I’m afraid your defenseless, and about to feel the wrath pf my monsters! Everybody attack!”

Diablo’s monsters looked up and charged at Jamin raising fists, fireballs, dark energy and other assorted attacks.

“I’m afraid feeding time will have to wait!” Jamin said “I play negate attack, this stops your attack and ends your battle phase automatically!”

Diablo’s eyes narrowed but his smirk remained. “Very well,” he replied “I guess I’ll end my turn.” He shrugged.

Jamin glared at him and drew a card. “Fine then, let’s see how you feel when my Phoenix comes back!”

The Sacred Phoenix returned again in a blaze of brilliant, golden light and settled nest to Jamin.

“Oh please,” Diablo sighed “that thing is no match for my powerful army of monsters; you may as well admit defeat.”

“I’m not done,” Jamin said “I play, a feather of the phoenix, so I discard one card, but then I get another card from my grave and get to put it on top of my deck.”

“What’s your point?” Diablo said.

“The point is this,” Jamin said “I play pot of greed, so now I can draw two new cards.”

“Wait, but that means?” Diablo’s eyes widened.

“That’s right,” Jamin’s smile re-appeared “I play lightning vortex! So by discarding one card, I’m afraid all your monsters go packing.”

Diablo’s smirk finally disappeared and was replaced by a look of anger; a stream of thunder fell from above and began circling Diablo’s cards in a vortex and destroyed them.

“You’ll pay for that!” Diablo retorted.

“Maybe,” Jamin shrugged “or maybe I could just finished you off.”

Diablo’s smirk suddenly returned.

“You could,” he admitted “but then, I’m afraid you won’t be seeing your girlfriend anymore.”

Jamin’s eyes widened again and he stopped, about to order his phoenix to attack.

“He’s right,” he muttered “if I attack I’ll win, but Kim will be sent to the shadow realm.”

“Bingo,” Diablo’s eyes narrowed “looks like you can’t risk attacking me then.”

 

“Jamin!” Josh yelled “what the hell are you doing?”

“I end my turn,” Jamin said, defeated.

“It’s about time,” Diablo said, drawing a card from his deck “I play my card of demise, so I draw five cards, but when five turns is up and I haven’t used them then they all go away.”

Diablo looked at Jamin, enjoying his look of despair.

“I guess I could end this now,” he started slowly “or I could drag out your suffering, like a true shadow duelist. Then I will be the dark spirit’s favorite.”

“Dark spirit?” Jamin looked up “what do you mean?”

Diablo’s chuckled again. “Do you honestly think I’m the only one, he has hundreds of servants snatching the souls of millions around the world as we speak, and I am only one of them.”

“No way,” Jamin replied.

“Now if you don’t mind,” Diablo continued “I play this, premature burial, so I pay 800 life points and resurrect my overlord.”

Another piece of Kim vanished slowly as Diablo’s life points dropped to 950.

“She’s almost gone,” Diablo smirked “looks like I’ll have to end this game now.”

“No!” Jamin retorted “I won’t let you!”

Diablo looked up at him and laughed.

“Do you honestly think I care?” He said “it’s time I put you in your place once and for all, Reign-Beaux attack his Sacred Phoenix!”

Diablo’s monster flexed its powerful muscles and threw an almightily punch at Jamin’s Phoenix, destroying it. Diablo laughed again.

“One more turn,” he said relishing the words “one more, and you’re history, and then poor little Josh over there will be gone from this world forever.”

He glanced back at Kim with the same satisfied smirk on his face.

“Or maybe you might pull off an amazing win,” he admitted “and then it’ll be Kimmy’s fate to be banished to the shadows.

“Stop that!” Jamin yelled “I won’t let you!”

“Too late!” Diablo laughed again “the duel has already begun, soon it will finish, and the only way to end this suffering is for you to end this duel, and once you do, one of these two will vanish into the shadows.”

 

“You, evil creep!” Jamin yelled.

“Why thank you,” Diablo replied “I always thought of myself as the one to defeat the duelist from the legend who controlled the Elements.”

“Legend? What legend?” Jamin asked.

For the first time Diablo looked worried. “Oops, didn’t mean to let that slip.”

“What’s the legend?” Jamin repeated.

“It’s nothing!” Diablo replied “you just misheard me, that’s all.”

“I asked you what the legend was,” Jamin said “now tell me.”

Diablo’s eyes narrowed with rage, but then a smile crossed his face. “Tell you what, if you manage to end this without either of your friends being sent to the shadow realm then I’ll tell you, does that sound reasonable?”

“Fine,” Jamin said drawing a card.

“It’s a pity you’ve lost your phoenix,” Diablo shrugged “after all, it’s the best card you have.”

“What makes you think that?” Jamin asked.

Diablo looked up, confused.

“What do you mean?” He asked.

“Oh come off it,” Jamin replied “if you know so much about me, then you’ll know that I have other monsters as powerful as my Phoenix.”

“Oh stop that!” Diablo yelled “the best monster you have is your Sacred Phoenix, and it doesn’t even live up to its name. I’d have thought a monster named after a god would be the ideal card to defeat anybody.”

“Well isn’t that irony for you,” Jamin smirked “I have another card named after a god.”

 

“You have?” Diablo’s eyes widened.

Jamin nodded. “Yep, say hello to Horus the black flame dragon LV4!”

Jamin placed the card on his filed and the silver dragon that was Horus appeared in front of Jamin.

“And there’s more,” Jamin said “I play the spell card level up, so now I summon Horus the black flame dragon LV6!”

Horus glowed and became a brilliant white light before growing even large than before. The light faded to reveal LV6.

“And that’s it,” Jamin said.

“Oh it is, is it?” Diablo said “I’m afraid you’ve made a very grave miscalculation, you see I’m afraid even after you’ve leveled up, your dragon still doesn’t have enough points to stand up to my monster, now let me show you the error of your ways, attack!”

Diablo’s overlord raised its fist again and struck Horus head on and destroyed him. Diablo laughed insanely.

“That was fun!” He said calming down “throw out another monster so I can destroy it once more.”

“Well okay, if you really insist,” Jamin shrugged “I summon Horus the black flame dragon!”

“What!”

A dark shape began to emerge behind Jamin; it twisted round and finally formed into a giant silver dragon towering above Jamin.

 

“No, I just destroyed Horus,” Diablo stammered taking a step backwards.

“Well yeah, but that activated his ability,” Jamin explained “you see, whenever LV6 is destroyed in battle, then I can summon LV 8 at the end phase.”

“What?” Diablo glared at Jamin “this isn’t over!”

“Sorry, but I disagree,” Jamin said “Horus attack! Black fire blaze!”

Horus opened his mouth and shot a long stream of black fire that hit Diablo’s monster head on and destroyed it; Diablo’s life points dropped to 450.

“Well, well,” he said still smiling “looks like your friend isn’t in one piece any more.”

“Huh?” Jamin looked over at Kim and noticed that most of her had vanished, and that there was barely anything left but her head and shoulders.

“Looks like you lose either way,” Diablo laughed “sorry, looks like we’ll just have to do this the hard way.”

 

“Oh stop that!” Jamin yelled “I’ll play this face down and end my turn.”

“Nice of you to do that,” Diablo admitted “but I’ll place two cards face down, then I’ll end my turn.”

“Well if you really insist,” Jamin muttered.

“Jamin, just attack him,” Josh said “you’ll win.”

“I can’t,” Jamin said through gritted teeth “I’ll send Kim to the shadow realm.”

“Jamin, snap out of it!” Josh retorted “you need to attack him; otherwise we’ll never get out of here at all.”

“I can’t!” Jamin repeated.

“Oh for heaven’s sake look at it my way for once!” Josh yelled at him “there are some things in life you just have to do, you never like homework but you still do it.”

“That’s different!” Jamin replied.

“But still,” Josh continued “it’s something you have to do, we’ll find a way to bring Kim back, I promise.”

“You promise, huh?” Jamin said slowly “well, I’m afraid I can’t take that risk, I place this face down, and end my turn.”

A face down card appeared in front of Jamin and Diablo’s eyes narrowed once more.

 

“Do what you like,” he said “I’m afraid it won’t help you.”

Diablo drew a new card from his deck and examined it closely.

“I play my face down, call of the haunted,” he said “and resurrect you know who.”

Jamin’s face darkened.

“Rise again, Reign-Beaux overlord of dark world!” Diablo declared.

“What’s the point?” Josh asked “you know he can’t stand up against Horus, one attack and you’re finished.”

Diablo looked over at Josh and a look of pure evil entered into his smirk.

“Exactly,” he said “then little Kimmy won’t be around much longer, or would you rather go to the shadow realm?”

Josh looked down at the areas that used to have his body and then back up at Diablo.

“Didn’t think so,” Diablo smirked again “now if you don’t mind I wasn’t done just yet, I play the spell card axe of despair! So now my monster gains 1000 extra attack points, making him more of a match for Horus.”

“Sorry to reign on your parade!” Jamin said suddenly looking serious “Horus!”

Horus breathed out another stream of fire and struck the card that Diablo was about to play.

“What! What is going on?”

“Whenever Horus the black flame dragon LV8 is on the field, I’m afraid magic cards can’t be used.”

Diablo glared at Jamin angrily.

“Fine, I guess you were spared this time.” He said defeated.

Jamin drew a new card from his deck and looked up at Diablo.

“I could just attack him now, then I’d win the duel,” he thought “but if I win, then Kim gets sent to the shadow realm, and if I lose Josh goes. What on Earth do I do?”

He looked at the cards he just drew, and thought carefully about it.

“I summon the creator incarnate!” Jamin said.

A male version of Hand of Nephthys emerged next to Hours in defense mode.

“So you’ve got another useless card,” Diablo sneered “so what?”

“This is,” Jamin replied “I can sacrifice him to summon the creator from my hand!”

The creator incarnate vanished in a whirling vortex and was replaced by a giant, orange monolith with a ring on its back.

“So what?” Diablo said “he’s no match for my monster.”

“Well no,” Jamin admitted “but he does have a special ability.”

“Like what?”

 

“Easy, I ditch one monster from my hand, and I get to summon another from my graveyard, so guess who I choose.”

“Oh brother.”

“I summon Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys!” Jamin said.

The creator brought his hands together and a great orb of light formed between them, then the sacred phoenix appeared and flew into the air before descending next to Horus.

“Three monsters huh?” Diablo said taking a step backwards “big deal.”

“Err, you’re not worried are you?” Jamin asked.

“No!” Diablo replied quickly “you’ll be dead and beaten before you know it, my monster is still superior here.”

“Not by the look of things,” Jamin said.

“Stop that!” Diablo yelled.

“You know,” Jamin said slowly “you still haven’t told me about that legend.”

“What legend?”

“The one you let slip,” Jamin’s eyes narrowed “now what is it?”

“Like I’d tell you,” Diablo glared back.

“Fine then,” Jamin said “Horus, attack!”

Diablo laughed. “Then your friend, goes to the shadows realm.”

“Oh, oops,”

“Too late to stop!”

Horus drew his head back and then fired a stream of black flame at Diablo’s monster, completely obliterating him, Diablo laughed despite the flame blowing past him.

“Now, the necklace is mine.” He laughed.

“No!”

Jamin ran forward but had barely taken three steps when the three cards set on his duel disk lit up, one gold, one silver and one bronze, it also seemed to create a strong wind, surrounding everything.

“This is new!” Jamin stared at the cards.

The light suddenly grew brighter and Jamin was forced to cover his eyes, three glowing orbs rose from the light, these two were gold, silver and bronze.

 

“No, not this,” Diablo muttered “grr, too late, the match is over, Jamin, Kim goes to the shadow realm.”

“No, Diablo,” a voice spoke from one of the orbs “you must be sent.”

Diablo’s expression darkened.

“The deal of the game was that Kim will be sent to the shadows if I lose,” he argued.

“There are no shadow games,” the voice answered.

“You have broken the law of the universe,” a female voice spoke.

“And therefore, you will be sent to the shadow realm,” the third orb spoke.

“You can’t do this!” Diablo yelled desperately “we had a deal! Huh?”

Diablo looked down and saw Jamin look up with an expression that showed pure hatred and anger.

“The deal is off,” he said “and I never agreed in the first place.”

“You can’t do this!” Diablo yelled.

“We can,” the voices spoke at once.

Then the three orbs grew and merged into one, creating a brilliant white light, Jamin and Josh covered their faces again, barely able to see anymore. What they did see however, was Kim’s body returning and Diablo’s vanishing amongst his yells of rage.

“I’m not going without this!” He yelled and reached for the necklace, something caught him on the hand and he yelled again and pulled it away just before it vanished.

“Let’s see how you like it then,” Jamin said.

Diablo began to laugh, despite having lost most of his body by now.

“Fool,” he began “don’t think this is the end of me, my master created the shadow realm and everything in it, and even if he will not set me free then he had thousands of other servants all over the world waiting to unleash their wrath upon this earth. This isn’t over!”

And with that he was consumed completely, the light faded and Jamin lowered his arms and blinked, they were back in the warehouse again and Kim was lying on the floor. Jamin immediately ran over to her and knelt beside her, Kim stirred and her eyes opened slowly.

 

“Jamin?” She muttered “I think I fell asleep in geography again.”

Jamin smiled softly. “Yeah,” he said “that’s it.”

Kim sat up and rubbed her eyes, looking around her. “Hey, where are we?” She asked.

“Long story,” Jamin said helping Kim to her feet “and you’ll probably never believe me.”

“Try me.”

Josh folded his arms and looked down. The necklace was still on the floor but the scales had vanished, presumably back to his basement.

“Guess that’s the last of him,” he muttered.

“I hope so,” Jamin said turning round “do you suppose he was bluffing.”

“From what my grandfather told me about the shadow realm,” Josh muttered “the only way for a soul to be released is by a millennium item, and all those are sealed underground, all we have are copies that can’t do a thing.”

“Well, that’s a relief,” Jamin said.

“Wait, can we recap a second,” Kim said “whose soul got sent to the shadow realm?”

“Diablo,” Jamin said.

“Oh,” Kim replied.

 

****

 

Jamin sat on his bed in his room, looking through his deck. He was still wondering what the orbs of light had been that had risen and stopped Diablo sending Kim to the shadow realm. He stopped and looked at the three cards he’d got up to, they had been the last three cards he’s played in the duel, Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys, Horus the black flame dragon and the creator. He suddenly realized that the Sacred Phoenix was gold, Horus was silver and the creator was bronze, just like the orbs of light.

“Wow,” he muttered and stood up “I wonder.”

He picked up his duel disk and activated it; he then placed the three cards on the field. The three holograms appeared before him just as normal but nothing else happened.

“Hello.” Jamin looked up at the creator “hey, creator dude.”

None of them answered, they just hung there like regular holograms.

“Damn it,” Jamin muttered and turned his duel disk off.

He sat back down on his bed and then rolled onto his back.

“It must have been them,” he muttered “it couldn’t be anybody else, but why did they appear then.”

He pondered this for a few more minutes and then the answer hit him hard.

“A shadow game,”

Jamin leapt to his feet and ran down the stairs, sounding like a herd of elephants in the process, he almost charged into the garage and leapt on his bike before peddling off. His dad, having heard the noise poked his head out of the front door.

“Hey!” He yelled “where do you think you’re going?”

“Long story,” Jamin answered hurriedly “wouldn’t believe me.”

And with that he peddled off in the direction of the sun, which was setting and casting an orange glow over the clouds. Jamin’s dad watched him go confused.

“I swear, kids these days.”

 

****

 

Josh had been thinking more or less the same thing as Jamin had, the three orbs of light that had somehow appeared from the three cards he had on the field, had somehow blocked Diablo’s powers and sent him to the shadows instead. He looked up at a knock on the door and he hurried down the stairs to the front door and opened it.

“Yes?” He asked “Jamin? What are you doing here?”

Jamin panted and walked in, muttering a quick hi.

“Need to ask you something,” he said through heavy breaths whilst taking his helmet off.

“What?” Josh asked.

“You’re grandfather taught you about shadow games right?” Jamin answered “well, how do you start one?”

“What?” Josh’s eyes widened.

“How do you start one?” Jamin repeated “I need to know.”

Josh wandered over to him and walked into the living room, Jamin followed him. Josh sat down on the nearest chair and laid his head in his hands.

“Well?” Jamin asked.

“I don’t know for sure,” Josh replied “but to start one you need some kind of ancient Egyptian amulet.”

“Well what about the scales in the basement?” Jamin asked.

Josh shook his head. “They’re a copy,” he explained “they’re not old enough, you need something made for the shadow games, during the shadow games, got it?”

“And we’re going to find one of those where?” Jamin asked “we can’t exactly make one can we.”

 

“Well there is another rule,” Josh said “it has to use the dark energy of someone’s soul.”

“Oh come on,” Jamin said “where are we going to find a soul?”

Josh fixed him with a stern look. “Why do you want to start a Shadow game anyway?” He asked “do you have any idea what would happen if it went wrong.”

“I need to speak to those cards again,” Jamin explained “and I think it’ll only work in the shadow realm.”

“You what?”

“You know, those orbs of light that appeared when I was fighting Diablo,” Jamin continued “the ones that stopped him sending Kim to the shadow realm.”

“I don’t think those were cards,” Josh said “spirit of cards maybe, but not cards.”

“Just listen to me, okay,” Jamin said “I have to find out if there is a legend, and as far as I know they’re the only ones that can tell me.”

“So, you talking to a bunch of children’s playing cards to find out the secrets to your destiny,” Josh said raising an eyebrow “you haven’t been drinking any alcohol have you?”

“Josh!” Jamin retorted “I’m serious; I need to talk to them.”

Josh folded his arms and sighed. “If you want to talk to them, then you don’t actually need to be in a shadow game,” he explained “you need to call on them in the proper way.”

“And that is?” Jamin asked.

Josh stood up and moved towards the door. “Follow me.” He said and walked out the room.

 

****

 

All this time, Jamin actions were being watched through a black, misty orb set on a round table. Several people sat around it watching, hidden in shadow. In a large orb set on a plinth near the wall at the far end of the room, the shadowy figure of the spirit of the shadow real could be seen. And he was laughing.

“So, the boy wishes to know of his destiny does he,” the spirit chuckled “the poor fool.”

“Which of us would you like to defeat him master?” The figure nearest the rob asked.

“Oh, I’m not worried about him just yet,” the spirit said “wait till he’s improved, then his defeat shall be even more relishing. But his friend is another matter, he has already mastered this game and therefore it is he who must be defeated.”

“So, who shall you send master?” The figure asked “shall I volunteer?”

“Not yet, Shinoi,” the spirit answered “I think we’ll send someone he’ll recognize.”

 

****

 

Jamin sat cross legged in the basement opposite Josh, with absolutely no idea what was going on. Josh was setting up a kind of blue board with the entire alphabet and numbers on it, along with a box that looked like a star trek badge with a hole down the middle.

“Erm, what are you doing?” Jamin asked.

Josh didn’t glance up at him but carried on what he was doing. “It’s a Ouija board,” he explained “it’s used to contact spirits, my granddad taught me to use it to contact dueling spirits.”

“I thought you didn’t believe in all that stuff back then,” Jamin pointed out.

“I thought I may as well humor him,” Josh shrugged.

He finished what he was doing and laid the three cards out in front of the board, and then he placed his middle and index finger on the end of the box just beneath the hole whilst keeping it pointing at the top of the board.

“Put your fingers on the board,” he said.

“What?”

“Just do it,”

Jamin copied Josh’s fingers and placed his own at the end of the box; Josh closed his eyes and began chanting something.

“Ancient spirits whose souls dwell within thine bindings, I invoke your mystic properties in order to contact your lost souls.” He chanted “from ages past and tomb of hallows, come, creator from the realm of shadows.”

Jamin expected a shining light to appear, and for the creator to appear in the same dazzling display as in the duel with Diablo, but nothing like that happened.

“Err, maybe you haven’t done it right,” he suggested.

“Oh just look down,” Josh said.

Jamin looked down at the board and jumped slightly as the board began to move, however he made no motion to do it.

“Are you doing that?” He said.

“Just watch,” Josh said.

The hole seemed to hover over the different letters and numbers and stopped briefly at ones, when it did Josh scribbled it down on a notepad next to him. Eventually it stopped and lay still.

“What was that?” Jamin asked, aghast.

“That was the creator’s message to us,” Josh said checking the notepad.

“What’s it say?” Jamin said trying to read over Josh’s shoulder.

Josh’s grip tightened on the paper and it creased slightly, his eyes narrowed.

“Well?”

“Beware, Zorc,” he muttered.

“Zorc?” Jamin looked at the paper “whose Zorc?”

“The one who created the shadow realm,” Josh explained “he was supposed to be sealed away, but he’s managing to leak out again.”

“How do you know?” Jamin asked.

“That spirit who beat me,” Josh explained “I think that may have been him.”

“Well, no decks unbeatable,” Jamin said “so maybe you can…”

“He doesn’t need to duel,” Josh snapped “all he needs is enough souls to make him strong enough to break out, and my grandfather was his first.”

Josh’s hand clenched into a fist.

“And there’s this business about you,” he continued turning around “you seem to have a connection with these three cards.”

“What about them?” Jamin asked.

“I don’t know,” Josh sighed “but I think it may be the same as the connection between the Pharaoh and the Egyptian gods.”

“Oh come on,” Jamin replied “like these are anything like the Egyptian gods.”

“Nephthys, Horus and Atum, the creator of the gods.” Josh said sternly “Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys, Horus the black flame dragon and the Creator. Try telling me those have no connection with the Egyptian gods.”

“Are you trying to tell me that I control the gods as well?” Jamin asked.

“More like sub-god cards,” Josh shrugged “they’re nowhere near as powerful as the three Egyptian gods, but they have similar spirits.”

 

“This is making no sense,” Jamin scratched his head.

“Well let’s try contacting another one,” Josh suggested “and see what they have to say.”

He sat back down and placed his fingers on the board and began muttering the same chant.

“Ancient spirits whose souls dwell within thine bindings, I invoke your mystic properties in order to contact your lost souls. From ages past and tomb of hallows, come, Horus from the realm of shadows.”

The box moved again and Josh hurriedly noted down what it spelt, eventually this one stopped as well and Josh picked up the note book once again.

“Well?” Jamin said “does it say I’m the chosen one or something?”

“Knock of the cliché okay,” Josh replied without looking up “hm, it says that victory lies within those who control the elements of the world.”

“Well that’s easy,” Jamin said reaching inside his deck “these four.”

Josh looked up at the cards he was holding: Hiita the fire charmer, Eria the water charmer, Wynn the wind charmer and Aussa the Earth charmer.

“Oh and this,” Jamin pulled out another one, a ritual monster called Elemental Mistress Doriado.

“Well that settles it,” Josh said “you’re the one destined to protect the Earth.”

“What!” Jamin started “oh come on, I’m sure lots of people use these cards.”

Josh sighed and stood up. “Well, that goddess did say there was another one that went evil, so I guess you’re the replacement.”

“Oh, that really does me justice,” Jamin sighed.

 

“Well, we could always say what Nephthy’s good old Phoenix has to say on the subject.”

“You know, Phoenix’s are from greek mythology, not Egyptian.” Jamin pointed out.

“Quiet okay,” Josh said repeating the chant again, only this time adding Phoenix of Nephthys instead.

The board moved again and Josh wrote down what it said, however this time it took even less time than before.

“Well?” Jamin asked.

Josh looked up from the notebook and his eyes narrowed.

“Danger.” He replied.

 

Outside in the street, on the roof of a house opposite of Josh’s a female figure sat carelessly, watching the house with a smug smile on her face. She was riffling through a deck of cards for mild amusement.

“Come and get me, pretty-boy,” Kat mutter, flicking a lock of brow hair out of her eye.

She finished looking through her deck and placed it in the box on the back of her belt before jumping down and landing without a scratch.

 

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Episode 7:

 

Yes I am still doing this, what's the matter? Dissapointed. It's one of the longest and oldest fanfics on the site (as far as I know) and there's no sense in stopping now.

 

[spoiler=episode]Jamin just stared blankly at Josh, as though expecting him to say something else.

“Erm, is that it?” He said “I mean, doesn’t it say anything specific at all?”

Josh placed the notebook down and sighed. “Look, whatever they were trying to tell us, I’m sure it’s clear enough, okay?”

“Not really,” Jamin replied.

“Look, Ouija boards never tell you what you want to see,” Josh explained “they tell you what you need to see, and right now we need to be alert.”

“I thought you didn’t believe in all this stuff,” Jamin argued.

“Are you trying to get on my nerves on purpose?” Josh said.

“You know ever since you were beaten by that spirit guy…”

“Shut it!” Josh yelled.

Jamin recoiled slightly from Josh’s sudden outburst. “Hey I was just saying.”

“I don’t need reminding of that,” Josh said, trying to calm down.

He walked up the stairs and into the hall; Jamin followed him with a slightly confused look on his face. Josh walked up to a window on one side of the door and peeked out, he saw the silhouette of a female figure standing just outside the door, his eyes narrowed.

 

“What’s up?” Jamin asked.

“It’s her,” Josh muttered.

He grabbed his deck and duel disk off a cabinet beside the door and put it on before opening the door. “What do you want?” He demanded.

Kat giggled annoyingly. “What do I want,” she stopped giggling and threw her hair back “I’m here to take you out of the picture, hansom, and this time I’m not holding back.”

Josh’s eyes narrowed and he activated his duel disk at the same time as Kat activated hers.

“One duel after another,” Jamin sighed “this just keeps getting better and better.”

“Ladies first if you don’t mind,” Kat said drawing a card “and I summon Blast Asmodian in defense mode.”

Kat placed a card on her skull duel disk and a small, fat red creature with a very big head and hardly any clothes appeared kneeling down on a hologram of its card.

“You call that a monster?” Josh said.

“Something wrong with that?” Kat said “I’ll also place this face down, your move.”

“Fine,” Josh said drawing a card “I play this, my Witch doctor of chaos!”

Josh’s monster turned out to be a very creepy figure dressed in bones with a head that looked like an orb of purple light.

“I’m not done yet,” Josh said “next I play the spell card, quick summon! This allows me to normal summon another monster, and I choo se my rapid fire magician.”

Josh’s rapid fire magician appeared next to the Witch Doctor of Chaos.

“Two monsters, how cute,” Kat laughed softly “so what will you do now?”

“Play this,” Josh said “my mystic box, this allows me to destroy one of your monsters, as long as I give up another one, but also my magician’s effect takes out 400 of your life points.”

A small aura glowed in one of the rapid fire magician’s staffs and he raised it into the air before firing four rapid shots at Kat and reduced her life points to 3600.

“Now, I destroy your little red thing and send my Witch Doctor over to you.”

A magician’s box appeared around Josh’s Witch Doctor and a second around Kat’s monster, and then the Witch Doctor’s box was hit by a shower of swords.

“What gives?” Kat demanded “that’s your monster in there.”

“You think so?” Josh said “mystic box, open.”

The box opened and revealed that the hologram inside was the Blast Asmodian.

“But then,”

The other box opened and the Witch Doctor of Chaos stepped out.

“Now to do some damage,” Josh smiled “Rapid fire magician, attack the Witch Doctor of Chaos! Rapid dark magic attack!”

Josh’s rapid fire magician raised his staffs and fired them like a magical machine gun and obliterated the Witch Doctor, reducing Kat’s life points to 2500.

“Not bad, I’ll give you that,” she said smiling “but I’m afraid my plan is just starting.”

“Don’t try to bore me,” Josh said “it won’t work.”

“Won’t it?” Kat put on a sulky little face “oh com on, be nice.”

“Cut that out,” Josh snapped.

 

“Sheesh, and I thought you were cute,” Kat drew a card from her deck “I play my face down, call of the haunted, so my little red thing comes back.”

“You’re kidding right?” Josh said “you’re wasting that card on a little red tamato?”

“Get used to it,” Kat said “now I play my double spell, this allows me to ditch one spell from my hand, and take a spell from your graveyard.”

“Oh, now I see,” Josh commented.

“That’s right, hun,” Kat smirked “I play mystic box.”

The boxes materialized once again around Blast Asmodian and Rapid fire magician, then Kat’s box was skewered by swords and opened to reveal the blast magician, then the Blast Asmodian jumped out of the second box and onto Josh’s side of the field.

“Don’t get comfortable there,” he glowered.

“Don’t worry, he won’t be there long,” Kat assured him “no I summon, Allure queen Level 3!”

Josh looked up as Kat’s, cheeky face Allure queen appeared in front of her.

“Let me guess,” you’re taking back your little red thing?”

“Catch on quick don’t you,” Kat smiled “he’s ugly but at least he’s useful, so come on back little guy.”

The Blast Asmodian hopped out of his space on Josh’s field and settled on the Allure queen’s shoulder.

“Cute couple,” Josh commented “I wonder what the babies will look like.”

“How about you just get blasted instead,” Kat said “Allure queen, attack him directly.”

The Allure queen raised her staff and fired at Josh, reducing his life points down to 3500.

“That the best you got,” he retorted.

 

Kat giggled. “I’ll just lay this face down and end my turn for now.”

Josh’s eyes narrowed. “Fine then,” he drew a card from his deck “I play cost down, so I get rid of one card and all my monsters lower by two levels. This allows me to summon, Invitation to a dark sleep in defense mode.”

A figure wrapped in a dark cloak with golden bracelets on his wrists materialized in front of Josh.

“So what?” Kat said.

“So, now I can prevent your monster from attacking.”

Josh’s monster raised one of his hands and a purple light flew from its palm and hit the Allure Queen, paralyzing her.

“I’ll lay this face down and end my turn,” Josh said.

“Fine by me,” Kat said “because now I can sacrifice my Queen, and summon Allure Queen LV5!”

 

Kat’s Allure Queen glowed and grew into her level five form.

“And, her effect allows me to take control of your monster, come to mamma.” Kat said.

Josh’s monster stood up and glided over to Kat’s side of the field and stood behind her Queen.

“Let me guess,” Josh said “now she can’t be destroyed.”

Kat nodded. “That’s right, so now since you’re wide open again I think I’ll attack again!”

Kat’s Allure Queen raised her staff and fired a ball of flame in Josh’s direction.

“Don’t think so,” he said “I play my face down, magical cylinders, so you lose the point instead.”

Kat’s smile widened. “Sorry, hun, but I have a trap too. My trap Jammer!”

“No!”

“Yes,” Kat smirked “I ditch one card from my hand and your trap is negated, sorry.”

Josh was hit by the Allure Queen’s fireball attack and his life points dropped to 2500.

“Now, we’re even,” Kat laughed.

Josh glared at her and drew a card. “Don’t get too cocky now,” he warned “I still haven’t summoned my strongest monster yet.”

Josh looked at the cards he’d drawn and placed one in the magic card slot.

“I play Card of sanctity!” He declared “so I ditch all my cards out of play, and draw two new cards.”

“Well, that was pointless,” Kat scoffed.

“Not when one of my cards is dimension fusion!” Josh said showing her the card “but I did only have one monster in my hand. Say hello to my Dark Magician!”

A vortex opened behind Josh, his life points were cut in half and the Dark Magician emerged from the portal and landed in front of Josh.

“Now, Dark magician, attack her queen now!” Josh ordered “Dark Magic attack!”

The Dark Magician raised his staff and fired at Kat’s Allure queen, however Josh’s other monster stepped in the way and was destroyed.

“Bad luck,” Kat shrugged “I guess now you’re for it.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Josh asked.

“It means you’re through,” Kat laughed “you’re finished, and I have just the card to do it!”

Kat drew a new card from her deck.

“I sacrifice my queen to summon Vanity’s fiend in attack mode!” Kat declared.

Allure Queen vanished in a swirling vortex and was then replaced by a man in a black robe with equally black, long hair.

“And now, I’m afraid neither of us can special summon any monsters,” Kat laughed “what a pity.”

“Yeah,” Josh admitted “but your fiend doesn’t have enough attack points to contend against my Dark Magician.”

“Whoops,” Kat said sarcastically “silly me, oh well…”

Josh’s eyes narrowed.

“I’ll just have to play this,” Kat said “the Sword of Dark Destruction! This raises my monster’s attack power by 400, making him more than a match for your magician. Vanity’s Fiend, attack the Dark Magician!”

Josh’s dark magician was destroyed, and his life points dropped to 2200.

“Lucky break,” Josh replied “do you have anymore cute tricks?”

“Don’t try and trash talk me,” Kat replied “I’ve got a job to do and I’m going to make sure I do it.”

“Really?” Josh replied “well, it’s my turn now! And I play my pot of greed, allowing me to draw two new cards from my deck!”

“Draw all the cards you like,” Kat said yawning “it won’t help.”

“Save it, okay,” Josh said “I’m also playing Graceful Charity, this allows me to draw 3 cards so long as I ditch these two.”

“Are you done yet?” Kat asked.

“No,” Josh said “the cards I’m sending to the grave, are Double Coston and Magician of Faith.”

“And you are telling me this why?” Kat asked.

 

“Because now I’m removing them from play,” Josh explained “and summoning my Chaos Sorcorer!”

“Huh?”

Josh’s monsters appeared in front of him and then vanished in a black vortex which soon formed into a new monster, one with black robes that were open exposing a bare chest, black trousers and boots and a horned hat, his clothes too were in the style of the dark magician. Once Chaos Sorcerer looked up it crossed its arms over each other and held the palms out, in one was a ball of light and in the other was a ball of dark.

“Impressed?” Josh asked.

“Please,” Kat sighed “he has fewer points than my Vanity’s Fiend, what are you trying to do?”

“This,” Josh replied “Chaos Sorcerer activate your effect!”

“What?”

 

Chaos sorcerer brought its two spheres together and fired a beam of light and dark at Vanity’s Fiend and hitting it directly.

“I told you,” Kat said “my monster has more attack points, you’re attack won’t work.”

“Hm,” Josh smirked “whoever said I was attacking it?” He said “the special effect of my Chaos Sorcerer allows him to remove one monster from play once per turn!”

“What?”

Vanity’s fiend was completely consumed by the beam and vanished within it before the beam itself faded from existence.

“Impressed yet?” Josh asked.

“I’ll be impressed when you defeat me,” Kat said “and that’s not going to happen. It’s my turn now!”

Kat drew a new card from her deck and put it in her hand.

“I see, whatever monster I play will be removed by your monsters effect,” she muttered “so I’ll play one monster in defense mode.”

“Well that was desperate,” Josh said flatly.

“Don’t provoke me, hun.” Kat warned.

“Don’t need to,” Josh replied “my turn!”

Josh put a new card in his hand and examined them carefully.

“I’ll lay one card face down,” he said “and now Chaos Sorcerer, attack her monster!”

Chaos Sorcerer raised it arm and fired another blast, this one went straight for Kat’s face down monster.

“You’re as gullible as you are cute,” Kat said giggling “reveal Yomi ship!”

“Yomi ship?”

 

“Any monster that destroys my Yomi ship is instantly destroyed,” Kat explained “say bye, bye to Chaos sorcerer.”

Chaos Sorcerer’s attack hit Kat’s monster and the resulting shockwave caused Chaos Sorcerer himself to be destroyed. Kat laughed.

“Bad luck,” she cooed softly “my draw! Now I summon Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer!”

“Huh?”

 

“And just in case you’re thinking of using another Chaos Sorcerer then forget it,” Kat said “because my monster negates the removal of cards from either player’s graveyard by your effects.”

“Damn it,” Josh gritted his teeth.

“Now Kycoo attack him directly!” Kat ordered.

Kat’s new monster leapt forward and struck Josh directly, lowering his life points to 400. Chaos Sorcerer then flew out of Josh’s graveyard.

“What the?”

“My Ghost destroyed has another effect,” Kat explained “when it deals battle damage, a card is removed from your graveyard automatically.”

“Hm,”

“Hahahaha,” Kat laughed “you’re finished, there’s no hope left in that little deck of yours.”

“Really?” Josh said “because I activate Magician’s circle!”

“Huh?” Kat looked bemused “and that does what?”

“Easy, we both get to summon a monster with less than 2000 points,” Josh explained “go ahead and choose.”

“Fine,” Kat said “I choose Gemini Elves!”

“And I choose, Skilled Dark Magician!” Josh stated.

Two Elves appeared on Kat’s field and the Skilled Dark Magician appeared on Josh’s field.

 

“Well, it looks like our monsters both have equal points,” Kat said “seems that attempt at a comeback was pathetic, ha!”

“It’s my turn,” Josh said “so now I activate Magical Blast, this hits you with 200 points thanks to my Skilled Dark Magician!”

“Ah!”

A beam of magical energy fired from above Josh and hit Kat head on, and dropping her life points.

“That the best you got?” She snapped.

“No, not yet,” Josh said “I also Play Spell absorption, so now I gain 500 points whenever a spell is player, and to finish off I’ll play Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy it.”

“What?” Kat looked honestly confused “what was the point of all that, you’ve just got rid of just about all the cards in your hand.”

“Easy,” Josh said “so I can now sacrifice my Skilled Dark Magician, and summon the Dark Magician himself!”

“No, not another one!”

“Bingo,” Josh said “come on out Dark Magician!”

Josh’s second Dark Magician replaced his Skilled dark Magician, he spun his staff briefly and twirled round before settling into the exact pose on the card, with his staff pointing towards Kat and her monsters.

 

“Attack Kycoo the ghost destroyed,” Josh ordered “Dark Magic attack!”

The Dark Magician nodded and raised its staff, firing a beam of negative energy in Kat’s direction and destroyed Kycoo, lowering her life points to 1500.

“This isn’t over,” she said.

“Looks over to me,” Josh said “I have much more monsters than you do, so give it up already.”

“Never!” Kat replied “because it’s my turn and I always fight till the end.”

“So be it,” Josh sighed.

 

“I activate Nightmare Steel Cage!” Kat said.

“Huh?”

A steel cage suddenly burst from the ground around Josh and closed above him, trapping him inside.

“Now we’re both prevented from attacking for two turns,” Kat explained “so it’ll give me plenty of time to think up way to defeat you, so for now I’ll switch my elves into defense mode and summon another monster in defense mode, your move.”

“Fine,” Josh replied drawing a new card from his deck “I’ll end my turn.”

Kat laughed slightly. “You’ll have to come up with a better move than that,” she said “after all, once I show you what I have in store for you, you won’t be so keen.”

She drew a new card from her deck and smiled.

“Perfect, I’ve drawn the magic card tribute to the doomed!” She declared.

“What?”

“You heard me,” Kat said “tribute to the doomed, say goodbye to your friend.”

Kat discarded one card from her hand and Josh’s dark magician was suddenly embalmed in a tangle of bandages before being dragged down to nothing.

 

“Well so much for that,” Kat said waving her hand casually “guess you’re back to square one.”

“Don’t try and taunt me,” Josh warned.

“Sorry, but it’s no fun that way,” Kat replied, her voice getting a sudden darker edge to it.

“Just make your move,” Josh said through gritted teeth.

“If you say so,” Kat smiled “I sacrifice my two monsters, to summon Invader of Darkness!”

“Woa!”

A colossal monster rose behind Kat, it was hard to make out in the darkness but it looked humanoid and had a long cloak billowing out behind it.

“And he prevents you from activating all quick play spell cards,” Kat boasted “tough break.”

“No! Those are most of the spell cards I have!” Josh’s eyes widened “now what?”

“Now, you die,” Kat laughed “but luckily for you, the cage is there to protect you, at least until my next turn. Good luck coming up with a strategy before then.”

“Damn it,” Josh gritted his teeth “that thing has 2900 points, hardly any of my monsters have an attack power that strong, and even if I did have them I wouldn’t be able to get them out in time.”

He drew a new card from his deck.

“This is the only card in my hand,” he thought “so, if this doesn’t work then this duel may as well be over.”

He looked over at Kat carefully.

“She doesn’t seem to have any face downs; she’s left her monster wide open.”

“Are you going to make a move or am I going to sit here getting bored?” Kat yelled in Josh’s direction “go already, the sooner I can destroy you the better.”

“Time to shut her up,” Josh’s face set “I lay one card face down, and end my turn.”

 

“That the best you can come up with?” Kat’s smile returned “well then, this duel may as well be over.”

“Come and get me,” Josh retorted.

“If you really insist,” Kat laughed.

Jamin looked between them; he’d remained silent throughout the whole duel and was still speechless on what to say, apart from shiver slightly in the night air.

“Time to end this little game once and for all,” Kat said “since my cage is now dissolving; you can consider yourself beaten, now my monster, attack his life points directly and end this duel!”

“You’ve activated my trap,” Josh said “I activate, Shadow Spell!”

“What?”

A long chain shot from Josh’s card and wrapped itself around Kat’s monster, binding it tight.

“No! How dare you!” Kat yelled.

“Sorry,” Josh’s own smirk returned, “but I’m afraid your monster is trapped, and 700 points weaker I’m afraid, so now his ATK is 2200.

“This doesn’t mean you’ve won!” Kat yelled at him “I’ve still got some cards left in my deck, there’s nothing you can do to stop me!”

“Save it, okay?” Josh replied “it’s my turn now.”

He drew a new card from his deck and his smiled widened.

“What?” Kat demanded.

“I activate card of demise!” Josh said “this allows me to draw 5 cards, but in 5 turns the ones I haven’t used are destroyed. So I’ll start with cure master, giving me 1000 extra life points.”

“Sound a little desperate to me,” Kat said calmly.

“Not really,” Josh said “Because I’m giving 800 of them up, so I can summon my dark magician from the graveyard!”

Josh activated his magic card and his life points dropped to 600, then the ground burst open and his dark magician returned to the field.

“Not him again,” Kat gritted her teeth “don’t you ever get tired of him?”

“Not really,” Josh said “at least, not when I have a combo like this, because now I summon the time wizard!”

A block like creature suddenly appeared in a puff of pink cloud and began a very annoying ticking noise.

“That’s you monster?” Kat looked at it blankly “but it’s pathetic.”

“Well, now I activate its special effect,” Josh said “I toss a coin, and when I call it right, all your monsters are destroyed, plus another little surprise.”

“What happens if you call it wrong?” Kat asked.

 

“My monsters are both destroyed and I lose life points,” Josh replied.

Kat smiled and then burst into laughter. “So, in other words you’re risking the entire duel on a single coin toss?”

“Pretty much,” Josh replied pulling a coin out of his pocket “head or tails?”

Kat smiled. “Tails,” she replied.

“Fair enough,” Josh balanced the coin on his thumb “ready?”

“Just toss,” Kat sighed.

“Josh, do you really think this is a good idea?” Jamin asked “if that thing lands on tails, you’re done for.”

“Yeah, I could’ve worked that out for myself thanks,” Josh replied.

“You can’t just risk a duel like that,” Jamin said “you always used to say…”

“I always used to say that in the end a duel is just a game of chance,” Josh interrupted him “no matter how good your deck is, if you don’t draw the right card you’re done for, so since I always seem to draw the cards I need, it’s time to test my luck right here, right now.”

He glared over at Kat with a determined expression in his eyes, poised to flip the coin, Kat smiled back with an evil glow in her eyes,

“Game on,” Josh said and flicked the coin high into the air.

 

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Episode 8:

 

Now, we're getting to the good bits, just read it and find out ^_6.

 

[spoiler=episode]Kat gritted her teeth as the coin flew into the air; Jamin followed its progress, looking almost stupid as he stared up at it.

“It’s not like Josh to risk a duel like this,” he muttered.

The coin slowed down and finally began its descent; Josh raised his hand and caught it, flipping it over onto his wrist.

“Well?” Kat demanded “what is it?”

Josh lifted his hand to reveal the coin, it had landed on heads.

“What!? That’s now possible!” Kat stammered.

“There’s no luck in tossing coins,” Josh explained “if you toss it right, it’ll always land on the same side, sorry but you lose!”

The time Wizard raised its wand and a vortex suddenly spread out of it, sucking in Kat’s monster and turning the clocks forwards rapidly.

“This isn’t over!” Kat yelled back.

“Looks over to me,” Josh said.

“How dare you!”

 

The vortex vanished and everything calmed down, Kat however was still glaring at Josh. She looked ready to slaughter him then and there, but then she looked up and saw that the Dark Magician looked old and weary.

“Ha!” She exclaimed “you fool; you’ve aged your magician until he’s too old to fight for you! That wasn’t very smart now, was it?”

“Look again,” Josh said “when I use the effect of my time wizard correctly, then my Dark Magician grows stronger, allowing me to summon this…”

Josh pulled a new card from his deck and showed it to Kat.

“Dark Sage?”

“That’s right,” Josh said placing the card on the field “and he’s more than enough to win this duel for me!”

Josh’s Dark Magician vanished in an orb of light and was replaced by an ancient magician, carrying a club like staff and with a long white beard curling down towards his lap.

“Now, I can add any spell card I like, from my deck to my hand,” Josh explained.

“Any spell?” Kat’s eyes widened.

“Correct,” Josh replied “this spell to be precise, but this is only incase of an emergency. Now Dark Sage, attack her life points directly! Ancient Black Magic Attack!”

Josh’s Dark Sage raised his staff, firing a beam of black energy in Kat’s direction, it hit her head on and sent her flying backwards, reducing her life points to zero. The Holograms faded and Josh de-activated his duel disk.

“Next time, challenge me with a deck that’s a match for me,” he advised.

Kat stared up at him, wide eyed but then looked up again. Josh raised an eyebrow and looked behind him.

“What the?”

A pair of glowing red eyes was visible behind them, floating in the air.

“What the heck is that?” Jamin asked.

“Oh, and I’m supposed to know?” Josh replied.

“Point taken,” Jamin shrugged.

 

“So, you two think you have the skills to defy me do you?” A voice spoke from the eyes.

“Um, hello! You’re the one going after us!” Jamin pointed out.

“Silence, do not speak in my presence.”

“Didn’t you just ask a question?” Jamin replied, scratching his head.

“That is unimportant,” the voice replied “but I see, even using they’re full strength, my minions aren’t much of a match for you. But then again, they’re not exactly my favorites.”

“M-master, please,” Kat stammered.

“Be silent!”

Kat’s body was suddenly surrounded by a black aura; she collapsed to the ground, writhing in pain.

“Hey!” Josh yelled “there’s no need for that!”

“What the hell do you want with us anyway?” Jamin asked.

“Hm, a good question,” the voice answered “and a long story. You see, since the Pharaoh sealed me away, I have been forever searching for a way to escape, and reap my revenge upon this world. But as always there has been a single duelist chosen to appose me, however I cannot tell who, since both of you possess enough skills to be him.”

“Stop your babbling,” Josh demanded “who are you?”

“Hahaha,” the voice laughed “who else could I be, Joshinyu? I am Zorc! Creator and ruler of the Shadow realm, and soon to be the destroyer of this realm.”

“No way!” Josh’s eyes widened “this can’t be…”

“It is,” Zorc replied “and, I’m afraid, you’ll both be at my mercy when the time comes.”

“We won’t let you!” Jamin yelled back “why don’t you face us yourself you coward!”

“Ah, but you see I’m afraid I can’t,” Zorc replied “I am bound to by imprisonment, and cannot cross into your world, but I can still send my servants, to gather enough ancient souls to secure my release!”

 

“You’re mad,” Josh said.

“Mad? I think you’re the ones who are mad,” Zorc replied “if you think you stand a chance against me.”

Josh narrowed his eyes.

“Farewell, duelists,” Zorc said “and beware, my minions possess enough power to destroy you both!”

The eyes faded, along with the voice and Kat’s body.

“Where’d he go?” Jamin muttered.

“Somewhere else,” Josh replied “looks like we have bigger problems on our hands, apart from what Kat and Diablo have been doing.”

Jamin nodded. “Guess we’d better get back home then,” he muttered.

 

Josh sighed and walked back to his front door, Jamin picked up his bike as he watched Josh enter.

“Wonder what’s eating him up?” He muttered, strapping on his helmet and riding off. “But still,” he wondered while he was riding “whoever this, Zorc person is, there’s no way I’m going to let him get in my way.”

 

The next day dawned bright and clear, and showed no signs of the previous nights events. The light shone through the curtains of Jamin’s room and into his eyes, he murmured in his sleep and rolled over.

“Jamin!” His dad called “wake up!”

“Hm, just 5 more minutes,” Jamin muttered.

“Jamin!” His dad called again “You’re going to be late!”

“Wah!?”

Jamin jumped up and out of bed and immediately rushed downstairs, already being fully dressed. He grabbed an apple from the fruit bowl and his rucksack and immediately sped outside and into the garage to pick up his bike.

“Geez!” He muttered frantically “what time is it?”

He checked his watch and noticed he had only 15 minutes left to get to the qualifying event.

“Gah! I’d better step on it!”

He leaped onto his bike and sped off as fast as he could down the street, nearly knocking an old lady flying.

“Sorry,” he said hurriedly as he sped on “Damn, all that business last night,” he muttered “and now I’m late, I swear when I get hold of this Zorc guy…”

He trailed off as he began riding downhill; he could see the area of the qualifying event just at the other end of town and accelerated dangerously.

 

“Damn, why do I have to be so late,” he moaned as he sped on passed a group of small children crossing the road “there has to be something that I haven’t slept in for!”

 

After a furious 10 minutes of peddling the life out of himself, Jamin reached the entrance and skidded to a halt, causing a long black line smelling of burnt rubber behind him. He locked his bike up on a rack and went over to the sign in tent.

“You a bit late,” Josh said, appearing by his side.

“Overslept,” Jamin replied.

“Well luckily for you I’ve already registered you;” Josh explained “otherwise you’ll be waiting in line for the next half an hour.”

“Excuse me?”

Jamin looked over at the queue in the tent and noticed that it extended from side to side and back again. Jamin felt his face drop.

“Unlike you I was here bright and early,” Josh explained “so I signed us all in.”

“All?” Jamin dreaded the answer and found confirmation when he felt somebody jump on him from behind “hi, Kim.”

“You’re late!” Kim replied “were you having a late night or just being lazy?”

“Is that a trick question?” Jamin replied “and would you mind actually getting off me.”

“Oh, sorry.”

Kim moved, allowing Jamin to stand back up again, rather shakily. Josh handed him a small slip with a time on it.

“Here,” he said “this is the time for your first duel, they’ll call your name out anyway but that’s so you’re not taken by surprise.”

“Okay,” Jamin muttered “do we just wait out here or something?”

“Heh, I wish,” Josh muttered turning about “follow me.”

 

Josh led them into the main building and then into a side room that reminded Jamin of a very cramped changing room, there were several benches laid out across the room and a few tables as well. Josh sat on the one nearest to the entrance. Jamin looked about and saw a set of double doors leading into a wide corridor that presumably led them into the main arena. He sat down next to Josh and waited.

“So this is where the duelists wait before their matches huh?” He muttered “feels weird.”

“Well, get used to it,” Josh muttered “we may be here more than once.”

“I see,”

 

After time went by, more and more people came in. Jamin took a close look at each of them, he noticed a very small kid, with blond spiky hair enter looking through his cards with enthusiasm. When Jamin looked up he saw a large screen in one corner, showing the events taking place in the arena, for the moment it was empty since the duels hadn’t started yet. When more duelists filed in, Jamin checked the screen to see if any duels had started yet, but none had.

“When are they going to start,” he muttered.

“Soon,” Josh muttered “I don’t really know who’s first but…”

A loud tone sounded from an invisible speaker somewhere in the room.

“Kizentai Kio, Kizentai Kio please report to duel field 1!”

The small kid stood up, looking exited, and ran out through he double doors, Jamin watched the screen and saw Kizentai Kio enter the arena, looking around in awe.

“I wonder who his opponent it?” He muttered.

 

Kio looked about him, taking it all in. He couldn’t believe he was finally here.

“I’m going to do my best in this tournament,” he muttered “better than that, I’m gonna win!”

He looked up as his opponent entered through the corridor, he was a tall man with long black hair, a red and gold jacket and a rusty-looking duel vest strapped across his front that looked like it was made from gears.

“Okay,” Kio said, putting his own duel disk one.

“First match, Kio Kizentai vs. Drem Armou!” The announcer said.

 

Josh smiled back in the waiting room.

“Drem’s an expert,” he muttered “I’ve seen him on the T.V before.”

“Tenshi Joshinyu, Tenshi Joshinyu, please report to Duel field 2!”

“Hm, guess that’s my cue,” Josh said getting up.

“What? You’re not going to watch?” Jamin muttered.

“No need,” Josh replied “I could beat either of those two blindfolded.”

“Somebody needs to chill,” Jamin muttered as Josh walked off.

“Hey there,”

“Huh?”

Jamin looked around and noticed a tall kid, about his age standing behind him, he had teal hair with two bands falling down past his ears and a large blue jacket.

“You new to the tournament thing then?” He asked.

“Yep,” Jamin nodded “I’m Jamin.”

He extended a hand and the stranger took it.

“Mashi-ushi,” he replied.

“That’s a funny name,” Kim replied.

“Heh, not as funny as my duel skills,” Mashi-ushi gave her a wink “Speaking of which, this one’s starting.”

 

“I’ll go first!” Kio said drawing a card from his duel disk “and then you’ll be history! I summon Elemental Hero Clayman in defense mode!”

A large Golem with a small, red, domed head rose in front of Kio, punched the air twice and then settled into a kneeling position.

“Next I’ll place these two cards face down, and end my turn.” Kio said.

“Hm, not bad,” Drem replied “but here’s my move.”

The gear on his duel vest span and a card flew out into his hand, he examined it carefully before selecting another card from his deck.

“I play Graceful charity!” He explained “so I draw three, but ditch two.”

3 cards flew out of his duel disk and into his hand and he placed three in the slot on top where his graveyard went.

“Next,” he said “I’ll activate premature burial, so I pay 800 life points and summon my Ancient Gear from the graveyard!”

Drem’s life points meter dropped and then a small droid with a large gear on its head rose from out of the ground, it was just as rusty as Drem’s duel disk.

“Now I’ll play his special ability!” Drem said “allowing me to special summon another Ancient Gear from my deck!”

An identical copy of the Ancient Gear appeared beside it; both had only 100 attack points each.

“Now for the fun part,” Drem said “I sacrifice my two ancient gears, to summon Ancient Gear Golem!”

 

Drem’s two monsters vanished and were replaced by the towering form of an ancient behemoth of a monster, towering above Kio’s Clayman.

“And if you think I’m done yet just wait till you see this!” Drem said “I activate the spell card Limiter Removal! Doubling my Golem’s attack points.”

“What? No, wait!”

“Too late!” Drem said “Ancient Gear Golem, attack Elemental Hero Clayman!”

Drem’s Ancient Gear Golem drew its fist back and then threw it forwards, striking Kio’s monster and destroying it.

“And remember,” Drem said “my golem’s effect means you lose all extra damage, sorry kid but you lose.”

“No way!” Kio’s life points dropped to zero and he fell to his knees.

Drem laughed and walked off back to his waiting room.

 

“No way!” Jamin muttered aghast “he beat him in one turn!”

“Drem’s a good duelist,” Mashi-ushi shrugged “I doubt Kio was that good in the first place though.”

“Hm,” Jamin looked at the screen and saw Josh’s duel, his opponent’s was already flat on the ground with smoke rising from him.

“Looks like Josh made it through too,” Jamin muttered.

“Yeah, well…” Mashi-ushi shrugged “there are a lot of good duelists and bad duelists.”

“Tsubasa Jamin, Tsubasa Jamin, please report to Duel field one!”

“Wha..? Already?” Jamin checked his time on the slip “well, what’d ya know.”

He got up, grabbed his duel disk from out of his back and inserted his deck into it.

“Wish me luck,” he said and walked out into the duel field.

“So what kind of deck does he use anyway?” Mashi-ushi asked Kim.

“Oh, I suppose you’d call it an Elemental deck,” Kim replied casually.

“Elemental eh?” Mashi-ushi muttered darkly.

 

Jamin emerged into the duel arena and gazed about him.

“Whoa, too cool,” he muttered “So, who am I facing?”

“Next match, Jamin Tsubasa vs. Casido Hera!”

Jamin looked towards him and saw his opponent entering the arena, he was slightly taller than his with short black hair and dark eyes, he also had a faint scar running down his cheek.

 

“You ready to duel,” Casido asked in a gruff voice.

“Always ready,” Jamin replied “let’s go.”

They both activated their duel disks and their life points rose to 4000 each.

“I’ll go first,” Jamin said drawing a card from his deck “so I summon Fox Fire in defense mode!”

A small fox cub with a candle flame on his tail popped into existence in front of Jamin with a small squeak noise.

“That’s the best you can do?” Casido laughed “watch this, my turn!”

Casido drew from his deck and placed the card in his hand.

“I’ll start with this, Goblin attack force!” He declared “and I’ll equip it with fairy meteor crush!”

3 Goblin’s appeared on Casido’s side of the field, grunting stupidly.

“Now, attack his little pet!” Casido ordered.

The Golbin’s charged forwards and started clubbing Jamin’s monster before it shattered and Jamin’s life points dropped to 1900.

 

“Ha!” Casido laughed “I took off more than half you points in one turn, what are you going to do now?”

“Easy,” Jamin replied “I summon Fox Fire!”

A small flame flew from Jamin’s graveyard then twisted round and formed into the same Fox that was just sent there.

“What? I just destroyed that thing!” Casido said.

“Yeah, but Fox Fire’s special ability let’s me resurrect him from the graveyard whenever he’s destroyed in battle, now since it’s my turn I’ll draw.”

Jamin placed his hand on his deck and pulled out a new card to add to his hand.

“Heh, perfect,” he said “Since your Goblin’s are now in defense mode, it doesn’t matter which monster I use.”

“Don’t you think I’ve though of that?” Casido laughed “they may be in defense mode, but that doesn’t mean I’m finished with you.”

“Whatever,” Jamin said “now then, I summon Hiita the fire Charmer!”

Jamin placed his new card on his duel disk and a red haired Sorceress rose from the ground in a spectacular show of flames, and glared at Casido.

“You think that little runt’s going to help?” Casido laughed.

Jamin nodded “as soon as I do this,” he said “by sending Hiita and Fox Fire to my grave, I can special summon this monster from my deck!”

“What monster?”

“This one,” Jamin replied “Familiar possessed Hiita!”

The same sorceress appeared, only this time she was taller and Fox Fire was perched on her shoulder.

“And since I used her effect to summon her, she gains the same power that fairy meteor crush granted your monster.”

“What! No way!” Casido stammered.

“Yes way,” Jamin replied “and I’m not done, because I activate double attack! Now, but discarding the Creator from my hand, my fire charmer can attack you twice! Go Hiita, attack Goblin attack force with Blazing fire strike!”

Hiita leapt into the air and fired a long stream of fire from her staff, striking Casido’s monster and destroying it, dropping his life points.

“Now hit him again!” Jamin ordered.

Hiita fired, striking Casido directly and reducing his life points to 300.

“I’m not finished yet,” he stammered.

“I can see that,” Jamin replied “but for now I’ll lay this card face down and end my turn.”

 

“Then it’s time to finish you off!” Casido said “I summon Gearfried the Iron Knight in attack mode!”

A black armoured soldier appeared in front of Casido with a long sword on the end of one arm.

“Um, hello!” Jamin said “he doesn’t have enough points to get passed my monster.”

“Maybe not now,” Casido admitted “but, when I play this everything will change.”

Jamin narrowed his eyes.

“I activate Release Restraint, so now I sacrifice my monster, and summon Gearfried the Swordmaster!” Casido declared.

The black armour on Casido’s monster shattered and revealed a man with long black hair, rippling muscles and a very big sword.

“And I’m not done yet either,” Casido said “because I equip him with Mega morph, doubling his attack power!”

“Hm,”

“Now, my monster’s effect activates!” Casido explained “say good-bye to your girlfriend.”

Hiita suddenly exploded and left Jamin’s field empty.

“Ha! This duel is mine!” Casido laughed “Gearfried attack him directly!”

“Not so fast!” Jamin said “I play my trap card, Reverse Trap! Now, since you monster’s doubled its attack points, it’s technically raised them by 2600, so instead of that, my trap card drops its points by 2600.”

“But, that would mean he had…”

“Zero attack points,” Jamin said smugly.

Gearfried’s sword swung through Jamin’s body but his life points remained intact.

 

“Don’t think that you’re off the hook just yet!” Casido yelled at Jamin “I still have a bunch of powerful monsters in my deck just waiting to get at you!”

“I’m sure you do,” Jamin said “anyway, it’s my move.”

Jamin drew a new card from his deck and placed it in his hand.

“Of course, I play pot of greed,” he said “so I draw two new cards. And they’re not bad either, now I activate Doriado’s Blessings, this allows me to give up one monster from my hand, to summon Elemental Mistriss Doriado!”

“Wha? That’s thing has way to low points to touch my monster,” Casido said.

“Well, yeah,” Jamin shrugged “but then of course I’m playing this, Trap Booster, so by ditching one card from my hand, I’m allowed to play one trap card from my hand this turn, such as Fu-Rin-Ka-Zan!”

“Fu Ri what?”

“I can only use this when I have all 4 elements on my side of the field,” Jamin explained “and since Doriado’s effect means she counts as all four, then she fits in just fine! So now I can destroy every monster on your side of the field!”

“You what!?”

Four beams of brightly coloured lights shot from Jamin’s trap card, hitting Casido’s monster and destroying it.

“N-no, my best monster!”

“And the fun’s just starting,” Jamin said “Doriado, attack him directly!”

“Ah!”

Doridao raised her hands and brought them together, chanting. An aura of the different colours of the elements glowed around her, and then around Casido, dropping his life points to zero.

“No! How did I lose?” He said falling to his knees.

“Simple,” Jamin replied “I’m better than you, see ya.”

He turned about and walked back to the waiting room, full of energy.

 

“Congrats, Jamin,” Kim said, immediately hugging him when he walked in.

“Oh, err thanks.” Jamin said.

“Nice match,” Mashi-ushi said.

“Thanks,” Jamin said “by the way when’s your duel?”

“Wha? Oh, I had mine during yours;” Mashi-ushi said “I got back in time to see you win.”

“What? You won even quicker than me?” Jamin replied.

“I guess,” Mashi-ushi shrugged “well, I’d best get going, I’ve got some stuff to do, see you later.”

“Wow,” Jamin muttered “he must be good.”

Jamin looked up and saw Josh wander over to them.

“Hey there!” He said “your duel go okay?”

Josh shrugged “it was actually a little disappointing,” he replied sitting down “but never mind, at least we’re both through right?”

“Ooh!” Kim said “that means only I have to get in!”

“Heh, good luck,” Josh laughed.

“Harris Kim, Harris Kim, please report to Duel Field 3!”

“Well, speak of the devil,” Kim said brightly “later.”

She practically ran out of the double doors and off the duel field three.

“What is she on?” Jamin muttered “because I want some.”

“Heh, well, at least we’re both in,” Josh said “now all we have to do is win the tournament.”

“Yeah, well there are better duelists than us out there,” Jamin pointed out “and knowing Kaiba, this tournament must have some sort of catch to it.”

“Whatever it is, I’m still going to make it to the end,” Josh said “there’s not a single style of dueling that I haven’t mastered.”

He smirked, confidentially.

“Well, guess we’d better expect the worst then,” Jamin replied.

“Hm,” Josh muttered.

Jamin looked up at the screen to watch Kim’s duel, her opponent reminded Jamin of some sort of Goth/emo type person, and as far as he knew was called Ken.

 

“I sacrifice my Spirit Reaper!” Ken declared “and summon Dark Dust spirit!”

Ken’s current monster vanished and was replaced by the repulsive form of a blood red zombie.

“Now his special effect allows me to destroy all other monster!”

Kim gasped as her Flying Kamikari and Whirlwind Weasel exploded.

“Ha! You’re wide open, Dark Dust spirit attack her directly!”

“Ah!”

Kim was hit head on by a cloud of dust, knocking her life points to 700.

“Ha! Do you really think you’ll win?” Ken laughed.

“Give over,” Kim replied “I’m just getting started, it’s my turn, so I’m going to play my Reload spell, this allows me to put all the cards in my current hand back in my deck and shuffle it.”

“So now we’re going around in circles,” Ken sniggered.

“Oh be quiet,” Kim said “now I summon Harpie Lady one!”

Kim’s Harpie Lady emerged onto the field with a bird like screech.

“And since you’re monster was a spirit monster, it’s returned to your hand.” Kim said “so you’re wide open.”

“Pft, I still have enough points to survive that pathetic things attack,” Ken laughed.

“Maybe, but my monster has a special ability,” Kim said “she increase the attack of all wind monsters by 300, including herself.”

“She what?”

“And now, I play Elegant Egosist!” Kim declared “so now, I can special summon Harpie Lady Sisters to my side of the field!”

3 Harpie ladies appeared from behind Kim’s first monster.

“And just to finish off, I play Triangle Ecstasy spark, raising Harpie Lady Sister’s attack power to 2700!”

“Wait! Time out!” Ken said.

“Harpie Lady sisters, attack his life points directly!” Kim ordered.

The three harpies flew into the air, forming into a triangle formation and firing a blast of lighting at Ken, striking him directly and reducing his life points to zero.

“Yay!” Kim yelled “I win, I win, I win!”

“It’s bad enough she beat me,” Ken muttered “but does she have to celebrate so much?”

 

“Well, looks like she won her match as well,” Josh said with an amused grin “we’re all in, this’ll be a pushover.”

“Yeah,” Jamin muttered “but this means as soon as she gets back she’s going to start hugging me again.”

“Relax,” Josh said “she does it all the time, besides it’s not like it’s going to kill you.”

“You’ve never had anyone hug you have they?” Jamin muttered.

Josh shrugged. “Nope,”

“Thought so.”

Later, they all went into town to cool off from the day’s events.

“That was so cool!” Kim said “I can’t believe it.”

“You’ve been saying that for the past hour,” Jamin said “shouldn’t it have sunken in by now?”

“Yes but it’s so cool!” Kim replied “I mean I won!”

“We all won,” Jamin sighed “can you stop it now?”

“Aw, spoilsport!” Kim replied, but she was still smiling.

Jamin sighed heavily while Josh just smirked.

“You need to take a break,” he said “I don’t think you should try so hard to put up with her like that.”

“Do you have a problem with me?” Kim asked, annoyed.

“No, I’m just worried about him,” Josh nodded in Jamin’s direction.

“Oh,” Kim replied “oh well, there’s always somebody.”

“So, what are we doing now?” Jamin said “it’s still ages till the tournament, so we haven’t really got a whole lot to do in the meantime.”

“We may as well go find some sucker to practice on,” Josh said “maybe I could have a go with you right now.”

“No way,” Jamin said “I’d get creamed.”

“Heh, you see,” Josh said “I don’t need practice.”

 

“Yeah, then I bet you’re gonna lose in something like the first round,” Jamin chuckled “you’re good but I’m not sure you’re pro level.”

“Hey, I’m the best in our school,” Josh replied “you gonna argue with that?”

“No,” Jamin replied.

“Case closed,” Josh said.

A rumble came from above them and a large black cloud crept slowly over the sky, Josh looked up as its shadow fell across them and rain began to fall down rapidly, dampening everything in sight.

“It would rain wouldn’t it,” Jamin sighed.

“Bout time it did,” Josh shrugged “it’s been clear skies all month.”

“Suppose this has something to do with what’s-his-name?” Jamin asked.

Josh looked round and fixed Jamin with a hard stare.

“I’m just saying,” Jamin shrugged.

“Who’s what’s-his-name?” Kim asked.

“Long story,” Josh replied “and I’m not sure you’d understand it anyway.”

“Oh,” Kim looked a little disappointed “well, I’d better be getting home; I promised my mum I’d help take the washing in if it rained, see ya!”

 

She turned and ran off home, waving as she went.

“Well, at least she’s not here to pester you now,” Josh said with a smirk.

“Shutup,” Jamin muttered.

 

Neither of them was aware that the cloud was mainly concentrated over the tall building across the street, towering over them. At the top a figure was visible, although it was hard to distinguish any features since he looked to be completely in shadow, however his image was rippling like fire and seemed to have no solid mass and his eyes were a pair of yellow lights in the mass of black.

“This time, it’ll be me who has the last laugh, Jamin,” he said in a familiar voice “this time, you won’t escape me.”

He looked down into the adjoining street and noticed Kim running along it, his eyes narrowed and he seemed to sink into the shadow cast by the building.

 

Kim stopped to catch her breath, she didn’t know why she was running but she supposed it had something to do with the fact that it was raining. She looked ahead of her, working out her route home.

“Let’s see,” she muttered “first right then carry on till the junction…”

She kept rambling to herself and didn’t notice the shadow rise up behind her, the same pair of yellow eyes fixed on her.

 

“Well, I guess I’d better be getting home too,” Jamin said checking his watch “my dad’ll kill me if I’m not back by seven, see ya.”

He ran off down the street, Josh watched him go with his arms folded.

“Least you have a dad,” he muttered.

Jamin wandered along the street where Kim had been running, although there was no sign of her or the shadow. He wandered past the spot where she’d been but didn’t notice the gold necklace lying on the ground just in the shadows before a hand reached out and dragged it out of sight.

 

[Sander]

Woah that was long

[KoLoBoS]

Man, that was awesome.

 

Hope you can keep this going, maybe I should give this fanfic thing a go.

[jrdudedj]

Are you good at art?

 

If "yes" make a comic book type thing with all your storys.

[TotalObelisk]

Are you good at art?

 

If "yes" make a comic book type thing with all your storys.

 

Wow, dejavou (or however you spell it).

 

My brother suggested the same thing this morning for it, I am good at art so I might have a shot, although I'm terrible at fan art so the monsters will all look rubbish.

[TotalObelisk]

Lol, no comic but here's episode 9 for all you peeps...

 

Episode 9:

 

[spoiler=episode]Jamin woke up, bleary eyed, the next morning. It was too early by his standards to get up, especially at the weekend, so he merely rolled over and attempted to go back to sleep again.

“Jamin!”

“Hm, leave me alone,” he murmured.

“Jamin! There’s a letter for you!”

His dad walked in and tossed the note onto Jamin’s bed.

“Get up;” he said “I’m sure it’s important.”

Jamin sat up and rubbed the bags under his eyes before unfolding the paper.

 

Hey Jamin!

I’ve just found out this really cool thing about these millennium item copies for you, but I’m not going to tell you them in a letter for obvious reasons. Tell you what, meet me at the old warehouse just down the road from school, you know, the abandoned one? I’ll tell you there.

XXX-Kim-XD

 

“The warehouse?” Jamin muttered “why’d she want to meet me there?”

He crawled out of bed and began to get dressed, pulling on his gloves, necklace and sunglasses. He rushed out of his room, sliding down the banister and grabbing his rucksack that held his deck and duel disk on the way down.

“Later dad!” He said skidding into the garage, grabbing his bike and riding off.

His dad leaned over to watch him out of the window.

“Well, at least he getting out more,” he muttered before turning back to his newspaper.

 

Jamin pulled over outside school and locked his bike to the rack just outside the gates before setting off down the road to where Kim has said to meet.

“Wonder what she’s doing at such an old dump,” he muttered “wouldn’t it make more sense just to meet me at the park?”

He wandered up to the old rusty set of doors that led in; he took a single look at the building and noticed that most of the glass was broken. He opened the door; it creaked loudly, and walked in. The room was just a vast empty space, with merely a few pillars holding up the roof.

“Kim!” He yelled “you here?”

He wandered further in looking about.

“Kim!” He called again.

He heard a slam and turned about to see a door at the far end of the room shut, leading to a staircase. He ran over to it and threw it open before running through and climbing up the stairs.

“Damn, this had better be good,” he said gritting his teeth.

He emerged from the stairs and onto a concrete platform connected to another vast space opposite him by a steel bridge, below the bridge was a straight drop to the bottom of the warehouse.

“Who built this place?” Jamin muttered, walking out onto the bridge.

He looked up and saw Kim standing opposite him.

“Oh, there you are,” he said “about time you stopped playing tricks.”

“It’s no trick, Jamin,” Kim said, but her voice seemed to have another one speaking behind it.

“Wha…?” Jamin raised an eyebrow.

Kim looked up at him and smiled, a smile that looked devilishly familiar, not to mention the yellow tint in her eyes didn’t help much.

“No way!” Jamin gasped.

 

“Remember me,” the voice spoke through Kim “your old friend?”

“Diablo?” Jamin’s face darkened.

“Bingo,” Kim smile darkened “since you and your spirits sent me to the shadow realm, I was able to embrace it, rather than fear it. You see, my master taught me Shadow magic beyond that of all who have used it, and because of that I became one with the Shadow realm, I am the shadows now.”

“And you waste time possessing Kim to do your dirty work?” Jamin pointed out “you really need to stop picking on her you know.”

“You try dueling when you have no solid mass,” Diablo replied.

“Okay, points taken,” Jamin replied “but you don’t have to use her, let her go she has nothing to do with this!”

Diablo, or Kim or whoever he/she/it was, chuckled.

“And spoil a perfectly good way to torment you? I don’t think so,” she replied.

“Okay, spit it out, what do you want?” Jamin asked.

“Well, I think the answer’s obvious,” Diablo said.

Kim raised her left arm and showed an active duel disk on it and drew five cards.

“Oh, I should’ve guessed,” Jamin sighed pulling his own out of his backpack “very well, you’re on!”

 

“Ha! Let’s see if you’re any good against your friend!” Diablo laughed drawing a card from the deck “I’ll go first, and summon Flying Kamakiri one in attack mode!”

“Hm,” Jamin glared at Kim’s yellow eyes “Kim’s not that good a duelists, sure she’s okay but she’s never been at mine or Josh’s level, this duel shouldn’t be too hard then.”

“I’ll go then,” Jamin said drawing “and I play Element Doom!”

Jamin’s Gargoyle like monster leapt up from behind him and landed cat-like in front of him.

“Since your monster’s a Wind attribute, then after he destroys it he’ll be able to attack again,” Jamin said “and since you’ll have to summon a Wind monster when your first one’s destroyed he can take care of that as well. Element Doom, take down her bug with your Elemental Claw!”

Element Doom leapt into the air and brought it slash down upon Kim’s monster, destroying it.

“You’ve activated Flying Kamakiri’s special effect!” Kim said “allowing me to special summon a Wind monster with 1500 or less attack points.”

“Go ahead,” Jamin said “my Element Doom will just have to destroy it as well.”

“Not when my monster is Whirlwind Prodigy!” Kim said.

“Whirlwind who?” Jamin asked “since when did you have one of those?”

A small pixie like boy appeared in place of Kim’s previous monster, looking like a reject from a Peter Pan Pantomime, it had exactly the same attack as Element Doom.

“Well, since little Kimmie’s deck wasn’t exactly up to scratch,” Diablo explained “I’ve put in a few of my own little improvements, just to make sure you go down!”

“Fine,” Jamin said “I’ll lay this face down and end my turn. I can’t risk losing my Element doom.”

“You won’t have to,” Kim smiled again “because it’s my turn now.”

She looked at the card she just drew and her smile grew darker.

“Now what?” Jamin sighed.

“I play my Whirlwind Prodigy’s special ability,” Kim explained “when tribute summoning a Wind attribute monster, he counts as two tributes instead of one.”

“Let me guess,” Jamin sighed “another rare card?”

“Correct,” Kim said “now, behold as I sacrifice Whirlwind Prodigy and summon Simorgh, Bird of Divinity!”

Whirlwind Prodigy vanished in a whirlwind which expanded and then parted to reveal a giant, green bird towering above Jamin’s monster.

“And don’t think I’m done yet,” Kim said “I play this, heavy storm; this allows me to destroy your face down!”

A whirlwind picked up and went straight for Jamin’s face down card and destroyed it.

“No! My absorber!”

“And with nothing to block my wrath you can only sit back and watch!” Kim said “now my bird of divinity, attack Element Doom!”

Kim’s monster flapped its wings and created a massive hurricane that struck Jamin’s monster, destroying it and dropping his life points to 2800.

“I’ll lay these two face down and end my turn,” Kim said.

Kim’s monster let out a screech and flapped its wings again, creating another hurricane.

“What the?”

Kim’s two face downs rose up and blocked the twister from getting close to her, but Jamin was hit by it directly and his life points dropped to 1800.

“What was that?” He gasped.

“Simorgh’s special ability,” Kim explained “both player’s take 1000 points of damage but this is reduced by 500 for each face down either player has on the field.”

“I see,” Jamin panted “so, I’ll just have to get rid of it.”

“Heh, just try,” Kim smirked.

“Oh, I’ll try all right,” Jamin said “because it’s my draw!”

He looked at his hand closely; he had Negate attack, Trap Jammer, Hiita the Fire Charmer, DNA Transplant and Spiritual Fire art-Kurenai in his hand.

“Looks like this is all I’ve got,” he muttered “okay, I set one monster in defense mode, and lay four cards face down!” He declared “your move.”

“Hm, a foolish move to empty your whole hand,” Kim said casually “your lucky I’ve already used my Heavy Storm.”

 

“Just make your move,” Jamin sighed.

“Suit yourself,” Kim said “I summon Haripie Lady one in attack mode!”

“Oh boy,”

Kim’s Harpie Lady appeared in a whirlwind next to the Divine Bird.

“And now, she grants my pet here an extra 300 attack points,” Kim explained.

Simorgh screeched as a green aura spread around it, raising its attack power to 3000.

“This is gonna hurt,” Jamin muttered.

“Correct,” Kim said “now bird of Divinity, attack his face down monster!”

“Don’t count your Harpies till they hatch,” Jamin cut in “because I have a trap card down, Negate attack!”

Jamin’s face down card flipped up and a spiral extended from it blocking Kim’s attack.

“Very well,” she sighed “looks like you survive for now.”

“Oh, I’ll do more than that,” Jamin said “it’s my turn now, so I’ll draw. Hm. I’ll activate my other face down, DNA transplant! This changes all monsters on the field to whatever attribute I like, so I choose fire.”

“What?”

An aura of flames spread around Kim’s two monsters, and their attack points lowered back to their original.

“And I’m not done yet,” Jamin said “I flip summon my face down monster, Hiita the Fire Charmer!”

Jamin’s card revolved and then flipped up, then Hiita emerged from it, glaring at Kim.

“I play Hiita’s special effect,” Jamin said “since she was flip summoned, I can now take control of one fire monster, and since all monster now count as fire I’m afraid your bird of divinity now belongs to me!”

Hiita began chanting in some form of ancient language, and at the same time a scarlet aura glowed from her and then spread around Kim’s bird of Divinity, it struggled for a moment before gliding over to Jamin’s side of the field.

“It’s good to have the big boys on my turf,” Jamin smirked.

“You haven’t won,” Kim said “all I need to do it take out that little fire charmer and you’re history.”

Hiita looked back over at Jamin and nodded. Jamin nodded back.

“Not for long,” he said “I still have to summon this turn. But before that I think I’ll play my face down card, Spiritual fire art-Kurenai!”

“What?”

Hiita began chanting again, and the same scarlet aura surrounded her and Simorgh.

“What’s going on?” Kim demanded.

Simorgh burst into flames that were absorbed into Hiita’s staff, she then span it round and fired the flame at Kim, hitting her directly and reducing her life points to 1200.

“Now, I summon Element Dragon!” Jamin said “and thanks to his effect, he gains 500 extra points.”

Jamin’s dragon roared as its points rose.

“Now, attack her Harpie Lady!” Jamin ordered.

Element Dragon took a deep breath and then fired a long flame at Kim’s monster.

 

“You don’t win that easily,” Kim said “I play Icarus attack, so I sacrifice my Harpie Lady, and blow your two mis-fits out of the sky!”

Kim’s monster suddenly exploded and sent a beam of yellow energy that struck Element Dragon and Hiita, destroying them.

“Fine then,” Jamin said “I end my turn.”

“Good call,” Kim said drawing from her deck “now it’s mine. So I play gracefully charity, allowing me to draw three cards, so long as I ditch two.”

Kim took three cards from the top of her deck and deposited Harpie Lady two and three into her graveyard.

“Next, I’ll lay this face down and end my turn,” she declared.

“What? That’s it?”

“You can do better?”

“Fine,” Jamin said “then I’ll go. So I’ll play my pot of greed, letting me draw two cards.”

Jamin looked at the two new cards in his hand.

“I’d better save this one till later,” he muttered “I summon Horus’ servant in defense mode!”

A man clad in ancient Egyptian robes appeared in a flash of fire, crouching down in front of Jamin.

“Your move,” Jamin said.

“Very well,” Kim said “because for my turn I’m activating my Hysteric party! This allows me to discard one card from my hand, to summon back the three harpie sisters!”

“What?”

Kim’s three harpies emerged from the graveyard and then landed on the field in defense position.

“And I’m not done,” Kim said “I play my Mystical space typhoon, and destroy DNA transplant!”

“Ah, no!”

A twister suddenly shot from Kim’s card, striking his and destroying it.

“Now my monsters are Wind again,” Kim laughed “meaning they gain 300 points each thanks to Harpie Lady one!”

“Yeah, but they’re in defense mode,” Jamin pointed out.

“Maybe, but I still have one more monster to summon,” Kim said “behold, the rarest edition to little Kimmy’s deck, the mighty Hunter Owl!”

Kim placed the card on her duel disk and a feather creature carrying a spear popped into existence in front of her wielding a spear.

“The who?”

“Hunter Owl!” Kim repeated.

 

“Oh,” Jamin looked down at it “and that’s supposed to impress me is it?”

“Don’t mock me!” Kim said “hunter Owl gains 500 extra attack points for each Wind monster on my side of the field!”

“He what?”

“So that’s an extra 1500 off the block,” Kim said “not to mention 300 from my Harpie Lady one, making his attack power 2800!”

“This might hurt,” Jamin muttered.

“Accurate summary,” Kim said “now Hunter Owl! Attack Horus’ servant with whirlwind spear!”

Kim’s hunter Owl leapt into the air, spinning its staff above its head and then throwing it at Jamin’s monster, destroying it completely.

“Damn it,” he gritted his teeth.

“And that’s just the start,” Kim said “for as long as my Hunter Owl remains on the field with another Wind monster, then it can’t be attacked!”

“Damn it,” Jamin gritted his teeth.

“And I have one more new card to play,” Kim said “ring of magnetism! I equip it to my Owl, and decrease his attack by 500!”

“What? Why are you doing that?” Jamin said.

“Because my ring of magnetism also means that you can only attack my Hunter Owl, face it Jamin, you’re through!”

“Well it’s my turn now!” Jamin said “so I’ll play this, my card of demise spell, this allows me to draw five times, but in five turns I lose all of the cards that I drew.

“Go ahead,” Kim smirked “it won’t help.”

Jamin narrowed his eyes and looked at his cards.

“This had better work,” he muttered “I summon Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV 4 in defense mode! Then lay these two face down, make your move!”

“A desperate move if you ask me,” Kim said “I’ll make my draw, then activate rising air current!”

The scenery suddenly vanished and was replaced by a vast layer of clouds and wind, blowing Jamin’s hair and clothes about.

“Now my Wind monster’s all gain 500 extra points,” Kim said “meaning my Owl now has 2800.”

“Well, I’m not beaten yet,” Jamin pointed out.

“Maybe, but I’ll have to take out Horus for now,” Kim said “Hunter Owl, destroy him!”

“Not so fast,” Jamin said “I have a trap card to play, Curse of Anubis!”

“What?”

Hunter Owl suddenly stopped and then crouched down in a defensive position.

“What’s this?” Kim stammered.

“Curse of Anubis,” Jamin explained “puts all effect monsters into defense mode and lowers their defense points, you follow?”

 

Kim glared up at him.

“That doesn’t mean you’ve won,” she snapped “my monsters are still untouchable, and my Hunter Owl is about to get even stronger.”

“Oh boy,” Jamin muttered.

“I summon another Harpie Lady one to the field!” Kim said “meaning my Hunter Owl now has 3600 attack points!”

“Damn it,” Jamin gritted his teeth.

“I end my turn,” Kim smiled.

“Fine then,” Jamin said “I’ll draw. Oh yeah! I play level up, this allows me to sacrifice Horus, and summon Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV 6 in defense mode!”

Jamin’s monster glowed and then grew, leveling up to his level six form.

“Ha, still think you have a chance?” Jamin smirked.

“Oh please,” Kim said “I’m perfectly familiar with his effect, as soon as he’s destroyed in battle, he’ll resurrect as his level eight form. Sorry, but I’m not that gullible.”

“Worth a shot I guess,” Jamin shrugged.

“Yes, but it’s about to cost you the duel!” Kim said “I switch Harpie Lady 2 and Hunter Owl into attack mode!”

“Huh?”

“You see,” Kim explained “when Harpie Lady 2 destroys a monster with an effect, then that effect is negated.

“Oh,” Jamin said “okay then.”

“Now, Harpie Lady 2, attack Horus the black Flame Dragon!” Kim ordered.

“You fell for it,” Jamin smirked.

“Fell for what?” Kim demanded.

“My trap,” Jamin said “I play my trap card staunch defender; this calls off your monster’s attack but forces all of your other monsters to battle. But since only one’s in attack mode, then he’ll have to do!”

“But wait!” Kim said “that’s my Hunter Owl, and when he destroys Horus he’ll…”

“Bingo,” Jamin’s face rivaled Diablo’s usual dark expression.

 

Hunter Owl leapt into the air throwing its spear at Horus, and destroying him.

“That’s what you get for picking on girls,” Jamin laughed and Hours the Black Flame Dragon Level 8 appeared behind him.

Kim’s face showed a look of fear for a moment but relaxed quickly.

“Ha!” She said “you fool!” She laughed “your monster is 600 points weaker that mine, do you really think that this’ll work.”

“Huh? Oh, must’ve miscalculated,” Jamin said “nah, because for my turn I play scroll of bewitchment!”

“Scroll of what?”

“Bewitchment,” Jamin said “now, since Horus is in level 8 mode, I can choose weather spell cards work or not, rather than having spell cards not work altogether.”

“What’s your point?” Kim demanded.

“My point is, scroll of bewitchment allows me to change the attribute of my monster,” Jamin explained “and since I’m choosing Wind…”

“Then his attack points rise to 3500!” Kim finished for him.

“Bingo,” Jamin said “go, scroll of bewitchment!”

Jamin inserted the card into his magic zone and a scroll suddenly leapt up form the ground, wrapping around Horus, once it was completely around him it exploded into a green aura that surrounded Horus, raising his attack power to 3500.

“How d’ya like them apples,” Jamin smirked.

“He still has fewer points than my hunter Owl,” Kim snarled.

“Yeah, I noticed that thanks,” Jamin replied “I’ll just have to lay one card face down and end my turn.”

“Ha! That’s the best move you can come up with?” Kim laughed “pathetic!”

“Make your move then,” Jamin said.

“Fine then!” Kim said “after all, one attack and your monster is finished, and so are you!”

“Well attack me then!” Jamin glowered.

“If you insist!” Kim said “Hunter Owl, destroy Horus the Black Flame Dragon and end this duel!”

Hunter Owl leapt into the air once again and aimed its staff for Horus.

“Didn’t think I’d have to do this,” Jamin said “but very well, I play my trap card, reverse trap!”

“What?”

“Oh yeah, need a refresher?” Jamin said “my reverse trap allows me to reverse all increases and decreases on all monsters on the field.”

“Wait! But that means!”

“Your Hunter Owl points are going to go down faster than your life points!” Jamin said “sorry!”

Hunter Owl threw his spear at Horus; however Horus opened his mouth and fired a stream of black fire, obliterating the spear and the Hunter Owl!”

“No!” Kim yelled as the flame engulfed her too, reducing her life points to zero.

The holograms faded as Kim collapsed to the ground.

“Phew,” Jamin said wiping his brow “that was close, lucky she’s not the best of duelists.”

He wandered over to her and picked her up into a sitting position. Slowly Kim opened her eyes, which had returned to normal.

“Jamin,” she muttered “hey, what happened.”

“Just promise me you’ll never get caught by Diablo again, okay?” Jamin said.

“Wha..?” Kim blinked up at him sleepily “did he just…?”

Jamin nodded.

“Oh, not again,”

“Hey, he’s gone now,” Jamin said “no need to…”

“Hahahaha!”

Jamin looked up at the sound. “Who’s there?” He yelled.

He stood up, helping Kim to her feet.

“I told you, didn’t I?” Diablo’s voice rang out “I am the shadows now, I am more powerful than ever, and you, Jamin, don’t stand a chance against me.”

“Come out and face me you coward!” Jamin yelled.

“Very well.”

A shape began forming at the end of the room, a shape that seemed to be made from the shadows being cast by the pillars holding up the ceiling. Jamin stepped off the bridge as it took a remotely human shape.

“So, you think that’s going to scare me do you?” He said.

“Why would I want to scare you?” Diablo asked, his yellow eyes fixed on Jamin “I merely want to destroy you, is that too much to ask?”

 

“It is if you use my friends as no better than puppets!” Jamin retorted “what did she do to you anyway?”

“Nothing,” Diablo replied “she merely went to the wrong place at the wrong time, that’s all.”

“You do not want to get on my nerves,” Jamin said drawing closer.

“What? I’m not trying to,” Diablo replied “if you’d simply be a good little duelist and die when you’re told!”

“Why don’t you just leave us alone?” Jamin yelled and threw a punch right at Diablo’s face.

Diablo laughed but did nothing, the fist wet straight through him and emerged on the other side.

“What the..?”

“You can’t strike a shadow,” Diablo explained “luckily, neither can I strike you. It’s been fun Jamin, but I’m afraid you’ll just have to accept the fact that I will never go away, ever again!”

“You!” Jamin attempted to strike him again but the result was the same.

“Don’t learn very quickly do you?” Diablo laughed “I’ll leave you to your brattle, farewell, Jamin.”

Diablo’s image sunk out of sight as though it were nothing more than smoke.

“What the?”

Jamin took a step backwards, staring at his hands.

“There’s got to be a trick to this,” he muttered.

“Jamin,” Kim said “can we get out of here now?”

“Wha..? Oh, sure,” Jamin said turning round and walking back to the bridge with Kin “who built this place anyway?” He muttered as they crossed over.

 

As he crossed over, a wisp of black smoke glided across the bolts connecting the bridge to the rest of the room, the bolts rusted and then dropped off, the bridge rocked and Jamin had to grab onto the side to stop himself falling over, Kim instinctively grabbed Jamin.

“What’s going on?” She said.

“Oh, and I’m supposed to know?” Jamin replied.

Diablo’s laugh sounded faintly as the same smoke began to work on the other side, the bolts repeated the same action as the last ones and the bridge fell away and hung from the ledge, luckily Jamin was still clutching to the side of it and didn’t fall off.

“If I can’t defeat you,” came Diablo’s voice “I’ll just have to kill you.”

“Don’t you think you’re taking this just a little too seriously?” Jamin replied.

The Shadows above them twisted about and formed the shape of Diablo, his yellow eyes glared down at Jamin.

“Do you have any idea what it’s like to be condemned to the Shadow Realm?” He asked “have you ever considered it? Had I been a lesser person I would be driven mad by it, it’s not a place like you think; it is where souls wander through an empty void, driven by the madness of an illusion of freedom, that’s the Shadow Realm, an empty void.”

Diablo knelt down and bent over till his face was right up against Jamin’s.

“This is fitting vengeance for that,”

Diablo’s hand hovered over the bolts holding the bridge to the ledge, they too buckled and fell causing the bridge to drop slightly, only being held by one corner.

“Diablo, listen to me!” Jamin said “there’s more to life than vengeance and hatred, you were serving a dark power, but he used you, he didn’t care about you! He’s trying to destroy the world and he doesn’t care who gets in the way of it.”

“You’re lying!” Diablo replied “he promised me dominancy over all of mankind, he taught me how to embrace the shadows and look at me now, I am far beyond any person on this planet, my powers surpass those of the ancient Millennium items buried under Egypt, that is why I serve him, he can take the simplest of humans and turn them into gods. Farewell, Jamin!”

“No!”

Diablo laughed and his image faded, the same smoke hovered over the last connection of the bridge and the ledge.

“Damn it,” Jamin gritted his teeth and tried to climb up.

“Jamin,” Kim said, gazing below her wide eyed.

“Not now, Kim.” Jamin replied.

“Jamin!” Kim repeated.

The bolts snapped and the bridge plunged downwards.

 

Jamin felt a rushing sensation in his stomach, the sort that people got when they were going down very fast. In a few seconds he would hit the ground, probably break a few bones, and just lie there. He didn’t like to think about it but it was all he could concentrate on for the short fall. He clenched his eyes shut, waiting for the impact. A few seconds before he thought they’d have landed he felt something snag the back of his shirt and he felt himself being yanked up slightly before coming to a halt. He opened his eyes and noticed that he was dangling a few meters above the floor.

“Must’ve snagged on something,” he muttered.

He looked over at Kim who was still clutching hard to him and noticed that she seemed to have fallen asleep even though her arms were wrapped tightly around him.

“Oh of all the times to have a kip,” Jamin sighed.

He looked up to see what he’d snagged on and saw a large yellow talon gripping the back of his shirt, he yelled out in shock.

“Geez, Jamin, you’re heavy,”

“Huh?” Jamin looked down at Kim, it had been her voice speaking but she still seemed to be asleep.

“Up here!”

Jamin looked up again and noticed that the large talon was a foot on the end of a Harpie Girl, rapidly flapping her wings to try and stay in the air.

“Wha..?”

“I’ll explain later,” the Harpie said in Kim’s voice again.

 

They descended slowly and the Harpie Girl set Kim and Jamin down on the floor. Jamin looked up at her, but as soon as he did she vanished in a pillar of light. Kim stirred and opened her eyes.

“What the heck was that,” Jamin muttered scratching his head.

“Hard to explain,” Kim said.

“Wha..!? You know?”

Kim looked over at him and nodded.

“Well, I’ve sort of been able to do that for a while,” she explained “when I become really agitated I sort of leave my body, I only recently found out it was Harpie Girl.”

“So, you’re a….”

“I’m the reincarnation of Harpie girl,” Kim smiled “cool huh?”

“You mean……I’m friends with a Harpie?” Jamin said.

“Pretty much,” Kim said “I wonder what you are?”

“Well, I do have a phoenix, a dragon and the Creator living in my soul,” Jamin replied remembering his last duel with Diablo.

“Ooh!” Kim said “you could have been a Pharaoh!”

“Wha..?! Pharaoh? me? No way!” Jamin replied “have you been listening to Josh’s grandfather too much or something?”

“Hey, everybody knows duel monsters comes from ancient Egypt,” Kim said “so why shouldn’t it be true?”

“I guess,” Jamin said standing up “but now we have one more thing to worry about, Diablo.”

“Hm,” Kim followed suit and headed for the door behind Jamin “why would he want to do that to himself?”

“I don’t know,” Jamin replied “maybe, serving Zorc has corrupted him beyond repair, I don’t know.”

“He can’t be all bad,” Kim said.

“He’s embraced the shadow realm and become pure shadow,” Jamin pointed out “that seems pretty evil to me.”

“I see,” Kim said quietly “I guess now we have to get the other millennium items.”

She touched the necklace she was wearing; it glowed slightly as her fingers touched it.

“Well, I think I know where to start,” Jamin said.

“Where?” Kim asked.

“Where would you go if you were looking for an ancient Egyptian artifact?” Jamin asked.

“A museum?” Kim suggested.

Jamin smiled and shook his head.

“Egypt,” he replied.

 

[darkguy00000]

Heh, I'd love to see this as a manga / anime. Now, I dunno what you think, but I can really see this as an anime.

 

JUST MAKE SURE 4KIDS DO NOT GET THE DUBBING! They'll call Jamin... Jamie and Kim... Carissa. Josh will become Jim and Diablo will be Del Ablo or something. Plus he'll have a cheesy Mexican accent.

 

I actually tried drawing a manga on mine, but I am the worst artist I know. Seriously. I draw stick people out of proportion. No joke.

 

As for this delightful little quote:

 

Episode 7:

 

Yes I am still doing this, what's the matter? Dissapointed. It's one of the longest and oldest fanfics on the site (as far as I know) and there's no sense in stopping now.

 

 

I know that feeling. Your fanfic would be the oldest CONSISTANT fanfic (ie. more than five paragraphs) and, due to the fact that your chapters are (depending) 2-6 times the length of mine, I think you're right about the length.

 

I dunno why people seem to comment on mine more than on yours. It's just as good, (and probably a good deal better) than mine.

[TotalObelisk]

Probably because mines real long :lol:

 

I don't blame them, a standard episode for this is about 10 pages on word (the average script number for a whole episode is 20, so these are about half the leangh)

 

And yes, 4Kids will tear it apart, but there are a few others I'm writing where they'll probably make a worse job of it, one has a death count so high even I can't remeber who dies, but it includes two of the main characters.

 

Ah, I just love writing anime that 4kids hate.

[darkguy00000]

In the five and a half minutes before your response, I was racking my brain for reasons and that was the big one. You've got roughly (give or take a few thousand words) the same wordcount as me, but I have it spread over like 25-30 posts, while you have it compressed into 7-8 (I'm not 100% on the actual number).

 

The overall effect is that you can "digest" the short chapter faster.

 

*goes off to check number of views of topics*

[Silent Member]

can I put it all together so you see the actual length

[TotalObelisk]

The whole thing is 90 pages so far if you must know.

 

Be grateful, when I finish (If I finish) it'll be 520 pages long.

 

(my brother)

'OMG! This isn't a fan-fic, this is a novel!!!

 

Yes, he said that...

[TotalObelisk]

Episode 10:

 

[spoiler=episode]“Next flight for Cairo, Egypt will be leaving in 20 minutes, all passengers please board!”

“Kim, we’d get there faster if you didn’t pack so much luggage,” Jamin said.

“At least it makes up for the amount you didn’t bring,” she replied.

“Fair enough,” Josh said “but do we have to carry it?”

Kim giggled at the sight of the two, both hefting two very heavy bags while their own luggage was a large rucksack on their backs.

“It’s not funny!” Jamin retorted “you could at least do some work!”

“I’m carrying something,” Kim replied, waving a small handbag in front of Jamin “now come on we’re going to miss it.”

“You just had to say we’re going to Egypt,” Josh glared at Jamin “and she just had to pack so much stuff.”

“At least we’re not going camping,” Jamin replied.

It was several weeks later and the school was off for the Christmas holidays, so they had found the perfect opportunity to go to Egypt in search of the rest of the items. They boarded the plane, and Josh and Jamin practically collapsed in into their seats, free from Kim’s ten ton suitcases.

“Finally, we get a breather,” Jamin sighed.

“Hell yeah,” Josh replied “if I ever see another bag again…”

Jamin sat up and looked over at Kim in the seat next to him.

“Why did you have to pack so much?” He asked her.

“You never know,” she shrugged “at least I was prepared anyway; you probably don’t know how dangerous Egypt is!”

“And you do?” Jamin asked.

Kim opened her handbag and took out a small booklet with the pyramids on the front and began rifling through it.

“Even during this time, it’s still pretty hot,” Kim said “so I packed cool clothes, sunscreen, insect repellant, some extra food for emergencies….”

She tailed off and Jamin sat back in his seat as the plane began to move.

“When I said ‘let’s go to Egypt’ this isn’t what I had in mind,” he sighed.

“Still, we’re away from school,” Josh pointed out “and doing something useful.”

“There’s a point,” Jamin said “what do we do with the items once we get them?”

“Well, the items seemed to take us where to go,” Josh said “maybe once we get all of the items, they’ll take us back.”

“Maybe,” Jamin muttered.

He looked across the row and out of the small window and watched as the buildings fell away and they rose into the air.

“This had better be good,” he muttered and closed his eyes.

 

He was woken a while later by a sudden shudder and was instantly jerked awake.

“What the…!”

“We’ve landed,” Josh explained.

“Bit rough wasn’t it?” Jamin wiped his forehead.

Josh shrugged. The light above Jamin’s head came on, signaling for the passengers to disembark. Jamin followed Josh down the isle with Kim close behind him and exited the plane into the main airport.

“Oh great,” Jamin suddenly realized “we have to carry that entire luggage again.”

Kim was flicking through her guidebook again, skim reading.

“By the way,” Josh said “we do have somewhere to sleep right?”

“Oh I sorted that out fine,” Kim said brightly.

“Oh great,” Jamin said “where’re we staying then.”

“Well,” Kim put on a guilty expression as one of the heavy bags came round on the conveyor belt, Josh picked it off and then dropped it to the floor, it made a loud metal clang. He glanced at it suspiciously and opened this zip to reveal several poles and a green, waterproof sheet buried underneath them. Jamin felt his face drop.

“We’re camping?”

Kim nodded. “I figured that since we’d be on the move a lot of the time, we could sleep in two of my parent’s old tents, they used to use those loads but stopped.

“Why’d they stop?” Jamin asked, almost afraid of the answer.

“Well,” Kim took a while to answer “there was a hole in the corner of one of them, and stray animals kept crawling in.”

“Oh,” Jamin breathed a sigh of relief “good, there can’t be any wild animals in the desert.

“Well,” Kim looked through her guidebook again “except for the odd scorpion…”

“Scorpions!” Jamin looked over at her.

“Oh don’t worry,” Kim said “they only come out at night mostly.”

“That’s when we’ll be sleeping,” Jamin pointed out.

“Did they ever consider to just sewing up the hole?” Josh asked.

“Oh,” Kim replied “didn’t think of that.”

“Let’s just go, okay?” Jamin said.

Josh zipped up the bag and slung it over his shoulder before grabbing the next one.

 

Outside the sun blazed brightly down onto the sand, which in turn reflected the light back upwards, the air seemed to wobble in front of them and the sand was hot. Jamin had, for once, put his sunglasses over his eyes but was still shielding them with one arm, the other dragging one of Kim’s heavy bags.

“I’m beginning to think that this wasn’t such a good idea,” he said.

“Relax,” Kim said “I brought a map too.”

“A map of the desert,” Jamin replied “oh, that’ll be a bundle of help; it’s just sand for miles.”

“We’re only just outside Cairo, Kim said “besides, when’s the next time we’ll be here?”

“I don’t know and personally I don’t care,” Jamin said.

“Here we are!” Kim said stopping suddenly.

Jamin dropped the bag and flopped down onto the sand. “Great, can I die now?”

The sight of the Pyramids was just visible on the horizon, and Cairo was also visible in the distance.

“So, tell me something,” Josh said “have you thought about this as though rally as you think you have?”

“Of course,” Kim said “my dad always told me to check every detail.”

“Good,” Josh said “and did you check the detail of bringing any money?”

Kim suddenly froze on the spot, making several ‘err’ and ‘umm’ noises.

“You didn’t bring any money, did you?” Josh said, seriously.

“Can I get back to you on that one?” Kim said before diving into one of the large bags and throwing out the stuff inside.

Josh looked about as a spade, several bottles of sun cream, an archeologist’s hat, a camp stove and an old radio landed in the sand about him. He opened his mouth to talk when a pair of underpants smacked him in the face and hung off his stiff, spiky haircut. Kim had just about finished devouring their luggage before she flopped back.

“Oh man, we’re skint,” she moaned “we may as well die already, how could I have forgotten to bring some money?”

Josh lifted the underwear off his head and tossed it back in the laundry bag.

“Relax,” he said “my granddad’s wife lives in Cairo, I can go lend some off her.”

Kim straightened up. “I didn’t know your Grandma lived here,” she said.

“She’s an archeologist,” Josh explained “and she’s doing work on the pyramids here.”

“Oh!” Kim suddenly brightened “does she know we’re here?”

“I sort of told her the whole story over the phone,” Josh shrugged “she said she’d be there if we needed a hand.”

“Fantastic,” Kim’s face returned to its usual bright expression “now we only have one problem!”

Josh raised an eyebrow. “What’s that?”

Kim looked down at the sand. “Figure out a way to get Jamin to move,” she said.

Jamin was still in the same position as he was when he’d flopped over, and he looked dazed. Kim poked him experimentally.

“Is he dead or just catching a tan?” Josh asked.

 

It took them a while to actually set up the tents, there were three in all, each one was small, green and square and looked only useful for sleeping in. Kim had turned the stove on and was happily waving a frying pan over it with a dozen or so sausages. Jamin was leaning against his tent, looking through his deck while Josh merely stood to the side with his arms folded. Night was beginning to settle already and the temperature was dropping.

“Well, once you get used to it, it’s not all that bad.” Jamin said, stowing his deck away.

“I suppose,” Josh replied.

“Ouch!” Kim had attempted to pick up one of the sausages with her bare hands “maybe I should have packed the tongs as well.”

“So much for checking every detail,” Josh sighed.

“Hey! It was a lot to remember, okay?” Kim replied.

While they were talking, they were unaware of a pair of shadowy figures, watching them from a sand dune. One of them had thick, spiky hair while the other had longer, more casual hair. Both were dressed in black cat suits with belts containing several pieces of equipment, including a deck box each. The spiky haired one was male, and the other was female.

“Those are the ones?” The male said, almost disbelieving.

“Calm down, Kain,” said the other one “if the master wants these one, then we take them out, no matter what.”

Kain looked over at his companion.

“I would like at least a challenge when I’m carrying out orders, Kara,” he replied.

“Heh, no wonder you’ve never been satisfied with your job,” Kara replied “so, do we strike now or later?”

“Later,” Kain said, glaring down at them “let them have their fun.”

 

Jamin lay awake in his tent, mulling over in his head again and again what to do, seek out the rest of the items, and prevent others from getting their hands on them. He closed his eyes and felt a sudden rushing sensation; he snapped them open again quickly and found that he was standing up, still in his pajamas.

“Huh?”

He looked about him, the tent had vanished, and so had the rest of the surroundings, he was standing alone in a black desert, with a harsh wind blowing the sand about around him. He bent down and picked up some of the sand in his fingers, rubbing it. It crumbled and flew away in the breeze. Jamin stood up again and sensed somebody behind him. He whipped around and saw a female figure standing there, robes in scarlet and orange with gold bangles, ankle bracelets and a head-dress with a phoenix head on. Jamin took this all in.

“Hand of Nephthys?” He muttered.

“Yes,” the woman spoke “there is not much time, I have to be quick.”

“What is it?” Jamin asked.

“Your enemies are closer than you think,” she warned “they can see you; you must evade them for they possess a power beyond those that you have faced so far.”

“What power?” Jamin asked “who are they?”

“I cannot say,” Hand of Nephthys shook her head “but I can tell it is a great one, you may be able to surpass it but the chances are slim, you must collect the remaining five items and release their power if you are to stand any hope of defeating your ultimate foe.”

The image began to fade.

“Wait!” Jamin said running forwards.

He ran straight through Hand of Nephthys and stopped, surprised.

“Good luck,” she said before she vanished.

Jamin looked round to see that she’d gone and cursed.

“Damnit, now what?”

He sensed something else behind him now, he looked about and saw a man in bronze armoured robes, with an arc extending behind him.

“Don’t tell me,” Jamin sighed “Creator Incarnate?”

The figure nodded.

“Okay, first off, what have you guys got to do with me?” Jamin asked “why am I even having this conversation?”

“You will find the answers in time,” Creator Incarnate explained “now, listen closely. Your task is simple but there are many obstacles in your way, you must be prepared for anything to happen.”

“I see,” Jamin replied “that’s pretty much what the last spirit said.”

“Nevertheless, you must heed her warning, there is great peril afoot.”

This vision soon began to vanish as well.

“Wait!” Jamin said “what about my questions?”

“They will be answered in due time….”

“Oh terrific,” Jamin sighed “and now of course….”

He turned round and saw a black robed figure, with an eagle headdress and a long black cape.

“Right on cue,” Jamin said “Horus’ servant, what are you warning me of?”

“Nothing,” Horus’ servant replied “I am advising you.”

“Advising?” Jamin raised an eyebrow “what about.”

“Remember these words carefully,” Horus’ servant said “they may become your last hope.”

“What?” Jamin said.

“If the dark one seizes all of the items, he will use the souls he’s stolen to reforge them into new millennium items, with twice the power as the last,” Horus’ servant explained “upon doing this he will use this power to free himself but, he will discard them, that is when you must seize them back and use their power to defeat him.”

“But wait,” Jamin said “how do I use their power?”

“When the time comes, you will know.”

Horus’ servant suddenly burst into black flames, Jamin stepped backwards in surprise.

“What the…?”

Horus’ servant seemed to collapse and then suddenly grow into a massive silver dragon that flew high into the air, a gold phoenix emerged from the sky next to it, uncurling from a ball in a flash of fire. The ground cracked and the giant bronze behemoth of the Creator emerged behind the other two, the three stood together facing Jamin. Jamin swallowed.

“Heed our words Jamin,” the phoenix said.

“When the time comes, you will know what to do,” the dragon said.

“And take create care,” the Creator said “good luck, Jamin Tsubasa.”

The dream faded and Jamin was sitting in the tent again, sweat dropped off his neck.

“Wow,” he muttered “they don’t half know how to get a message across.”

Jamin looked up and saw a shadow moving outside, he crawled out of his sleeping bag and opened the door, stepping out. He looked up and saw Josh, fully dressed and with a duel disk on his arm.

“Josh? What’s going on?” Jamin asked stepping out.

“Them,” Josh said, glaring at something in the distance.

Jamin followed his gaze and saw two figures standing a short distance away, hidden by the night but unmistakably threatening.

“Oh,” Jamin rushed back inside his tent and came back out fully dressed and with his own deck and duel disk.

“Ready?” Josh asked.

Jamin nodded and they moved towards the two, keeping their eyes fixed on them. Jamin looked to his left and saw the image of Hand of Nephthys beside him.

“Be careful, Jamin,” she warned “they are more powerful than Diablo.”

Jamin nodded and the image vanished. They stopped just in sight of the two; now that they could see their faces there would be no need to yell across half the desert. Both of them had a black duel disk on their arm and a smug expression.

“Welcome,” Kain said “we were beginning to think you wouldn’t come.”

“Let’s get one thing out of the way first,” Josh said “who are you?”

“Oh, how rude of us,” Kara said “I am Kara, this is Kain. We are the Dark Lord’s best tag duelists.”

“Tag duelists?” Jamin replied.

“We duel as a team,” Kain explained “meaning that you two will have to do the same.”

Jamin glanced over at Josh, he nodded back. “Very well,” he said.

“I’m sure you know the rules,” Kara said “each team may use cards on their partner’s field as sacrifices, but not use them for themselves. Also, both partners’ share life points, so we each start out with 8000.”

“We know the rules,” Josh said, activating his duel disk “now, can we duel already?”

“You’re in a hurry, to lose,” Kain said, mimicking him.

Jamin turned on his duel disk, closely followed by Kara.

 

“Ladies first, gentlemen,” she said “so I’ll draw, and summoned Sangan in defense mode!”

Kara’s monster looked like a hairy pumpkin with three eyes and a wicked smile.

“And, that thing’s supposed to scare us?” Josh raised an eyebrow.

“Don’t underestimate him,” Kara said.

“Well get to that later,” Jamin said “it’s my turn now!”

Jamin took a card from his deck, he’d just drawn Element Doom, and he looked in his hand and saw Scroll of Bewitchment.

“All right,” he thought “I can use these to cancel out Sangan’s effect, that’ll put them in their place.”

He looked up at Kara’s smug smile and narrowed his eyes.

“Got something planned?” She asked teasingly.

“We’ll see,” Jamin said “I play Element Doom in attack mode!”

Jamin’s gargoyle of a monster appeared, eager for battle

“Then, I’ll lay this face down,” he said “that’ll do me.”

“Really?” Kain said, mockingly “I was hoping for something more.”

Kain drew a card from his deck and gave a gleeful smile.

“I play the Witch of the Black Forest in defense mode!” He said.

A Black haired witch appeared in front of Kain, a third eye gleamed from her forehead.

Josh glanced closely at their monsters.

“Interesting strategy,” he admitted.

“What’s that?” Jamin looked over at him.

“Most tag team duelists have decks that support each other,” Josh explained “and Sangan and Witch of the black forest have very similar effects, they may have something planned.”

“We’ll guess we’ll just have to take them out before then,” Jamin said.

Josh nodded. “It’s my turn,” he said swiping a card from his deck “and I’ll play my skilled Dark Magician!”

Josh’s monster emerged in front of him, raising his staff in one hand.

“Next,” Josh continued “I’ll lay two cards face down, let’s see what you have.”

“Let’s make a duel,” Kara said “I’ll draw.”

She took a card from her deck, and upon seeing it an evil smirk crossed her face.

“Drawn something good?” Kain asked.

“When have I never?” Kara said “I play Polymerization!”

“A fusion?”

“That’s right,” Kara said “and it allows us to fuse Sangan, and Witch of the Black forest…”

“…To create the SanWitch!” Kain finished.

A chibi creature appeared where the last tow had been, most of its body hidden by a white robe except for two gleaming yellow eyes.

“And since my dear Sangan was sent to the graveyard,” Kara said “I can add one monster to my hand.”

“And the same with me,” Kain said.

“Hm,” Jamin’s expression hardened.

“Now SanWitch,” Kara said “attack Element Doom!”

The chibi spellcaster raised his staff and fired a green pulse of energy towards Jamin’s monster, destroying it and reducing their life points to 7400.

“That was fun,” Kara laughed “I’ll lay these two face down and end my turn.”

 

“Fine, you asked for it!” Jamin said.

He looked down at his hand and the card he’d just drawn.

“I still have Scroll of Bewitchment,” he thought “hm, maybe I can use that later, right now I need to think of a way to get rid of their SanWitch.”

He looked over at the monster, which appeared to be taking a nap.

“You have got to be kidding me…”

“Jamin, are you gonna move or stand around there looking at their monster all day?”

“Wha..? Oh, right,” Jamin snapped back into reality “I summon Storming Wynn in Defense mode!”

A green haired sorceress appeared in front of Jamin, her staff was green and with a Dragon design on the head, a Petit dragon floated behind her shoulder.

“That’s the best you can do?” Kain laughed “my draw.”

He stared with glee at his new card.

“Are they going to do that every time they draw?” Josh sighed.

“Probably,” Jamin replied.

 

“If you knew what I’d drawn, you wouldn’t be so confident,” Kain said.

“Just play the damned card,” Jamin said.

“Very well,” Kain said “I play, De-Fusion!”

SanWitch suddenly split and was replaced again by Sangan and Witch of the Black forest.”

“Why’d they do that,” Jamin muttered.

“So I can summon this!” Kain replied “Despair from the dark, rise!”

A shadowy creature with black and red skin, horns and mad eyes emerged from the ground in front of Kain after Sangan and Witch of the Black Forest has vanished.

“And since Sangan and Witch of the Black Forest were sent to the grave,” Kara said “we both get to take a monster from our deck again.”

“This is getting a little annoying,” Josh sighed.

“Well let’s end your pain!” Kain said “Despair from the Dark, attack his Skilled Dark Magician!”

Kain’s monster put his hands together and fired a blast of dark energy towards Josh; he merely stood his ground, calm and confident.

“Sorry, but you’ll have to wait a while,” Jamin said “actually, a big while, because I’m playing my Spiritual Wind art card.”

“Spiritual what?” Kain’s eyes widened.

“Spiritual Wind art,” Jamin said “it allows me to sacrifice Wynn over here, and in exchange I get to get rid of one of your monster, hit ‘em Wynn!”

Wynn vanished in a hurricane and shot at despair from the dark, striking it and catching it in the twister as well; it flew towards Kain’s deck and struck it.

“What’s happening?” Kain gasped.

“My trap card allows me to send one of your card back to your deck,” Jamin said “to be precise, the bottom!”

“No way!”

Josh grinned. “Thought so,” he smirked “and now it’s my turn!”

Jamin looked over at Josh.

“There’s nothing to this tag dueling,” he thought “these two are pushovers, we’ll beat them in no time.”

 

“Now for my move,” Josh said “I play my magic card, Pot of Greed, this allows me to draw two new cards.”

“So what?” Kain demanded.

Josh smirked.

“In case you haven’t been paying attention. Three spell cards have been activated,” he said.

“So?”

“So my monster has three spell counters,” Josh concluded.

Three orbs of dark energy appeared, floating around Josh’s Skilled Dark Magician.

“And when he has three spell counters on him, I can sacrifice him,” Josh explained “and summoned a new monster!”

The orbs began orbiting around Josh’s Skilled Dark Magician, forming into a solid ring and then extending over the Skilled Dark Magician in a tornado of Dark Magic.

“Behold,” Josh said “the Dark Magician!”

The tornado exploded, revealing Josh’s signature monster standing in the place of the Skilled Dark Magician.

“And I’m not done!” Josh said “I play the spell, Dark Magic Attack!”

“What the…?” Kara’s eyes widened “but that’ll….”

“Spit it out,” Josh said “all your spell and traps are destroyed.”

Josh’s Dark Magician raised his staff and fired at Kara’s face down card, destroying it.

“Heh, nice try!” She laughed “but I knew you’d try and make that move! Which is why my face down card is Statue of the Wicked!”

“The what?”

A Golden Worm idol emerged from where Kara’s face down had been, leering at Josh.

“You walked right into that one,” Kara smirked.

“Now I’m at a dilemma,” Josh thought “I could attack Kain, and drop their points, but then Kara will be able to sacrifice her token next turn.”

He glanced over at Jamin.

“I sure hope he has something planned,” he thought.

He looked back up at Kara.

“If you think I’d fall for that so easy then think again!” Josh said “Dark Magician, destroy her Wicked Token, Dark Magic attack!”

Dark Magician fired a sphere of green energy, striking Kara’s token and destroying it. Kara laughed as the pieces if her monster flew past her.

“I’ll end my turn,” Josh said.

“About time,” Kara said “because my turn’s going to be a little complex.”

She drew from her deck and placed the card in her hand, keeping her eyes on Josh and Jamin.

“Is she trying to freak us out or something?” Jamin muttered.

“Weather she is or not, keep your cool,” Josh said “I can tell these two aren’t the sort to be messed with.”

“I’ll start by playing my Abaki in defense mode!” She said “then laying two cards face down.”

“Smart move,” Jamin thought “if we destroy that thing we all lose points.”

He drew a new card from his deck.

“But maybe, we won’t have to,” he looked up at Abaki again.

“I summon Creator Incarnate in attack mode!” He declared.

“Ooh, a big scary monster,” Kara said mockingly “what’s he going to do?”

“Easy,” Jamin said “I sacrifice him, and special summon the Creator!”

Creator Incarnate vanished in a beam of light, then the Creator emerged from the ground where he’d been.

“Now I’ll play my monster’s effect,” Jamin said “I discard one card from my hand, and resurrect Element Doom!”

The Creator put his hand together and an orb of light formed between them, and soon Element Doom leapt down to the ground.

“Finally,” Jamin said “I’ll play my face down, DNA transplant.”

 

“DN what?” Kain replied.

“DNA transplant,” Jamin said “It allows me to change the attribute of every monster on the field to whatever I choose, and I choose Earth.”

A Brown Aura glowed around Dark Magician, The Creator, Element Doom and Abaki.

“Now Element Doom, attack Abaki,” Jamin ordered “Elemental Claw Attack!”

Element Doom leapt forwards, slashing Abaki and destroying him.

“Nice try,” Kara said “now we all lose 500 points.”

“Sorry to reign on your parade,” Jamin said “but there was a reason why I changed all the monsters out to Earth monsters, you see when there’s an Earth monster out, and Element Doom destroys a monster in battle, any effects that monster has are negated.

“No!”

“Yes,” Jamin said “now, Creator attack her directly! Seismic shockwave!”

The Creator raised his fist, it glowed brightly and he slammed it into the ground, sending a wave of energy towards Kara.

“Not so fast,” she said “I play my trap, Magical Cylinders!”

“Oh no!” Jamin’s eyes widened.

Two cylinders appeared from thin air, The Creator’s attack flew down one and then came straight out of the other firing at Jamin, it hit him directly and dropped their life points to 5100.

“Damnit,” Jamin gritted his teeth.

“Now for my turn,” Kain said, drawing “let’s see how you handle this, I’ll set one monster in defense mode, then lay one face down. And that’ll do me.”

“A little boring if you ask me,” Josh said drawing.

“Funny,” Kain said “nobody did.”

Josh glared at him. “Time to shut you up!” He said “Dark Magician, attack Kara directly!”

Dark Magician raised his staff and fired at Kara.

“Oh, soo close,” she said “but so far, I have another card out, Draining Shield!”

“No way!”

“Yes way!”

Kara was surrounded by a glowing blue dome the second Dark Magician’s attack hit, she laughed as it skimmed off and her life points rose to 10500.

“Still think you can beat us?” She said mockingly.

“Oh please,” Josh said “I’ve had better challenges than this from a toaster, I’ll lay one card face down and end my turn.”

“Well let’s bring on the hurt,” Kara said “it’s my draw now.”

He looked at his new card.

“You’re about to enter a world of hurt,” he laughed “I play the magic card lightning vortex!”

“Oh boy!”

“The awesome power of this card, allows me to destroy all of your cards!” She said “and all it costs, is one card from my hand.”

“Yeah? Well think again,” Josh said “I’ve got a card out too, Spell Vanishing!”

“Huh?”

“I discard two cards,” Josh said “and your spell is negated.”

“Gr,”

“And that’s not all it does,” Josh smirked.

A beam of light shot from Josh’s card, striking Kara’s and Kain’s decks, and a single card flew out of Kain’s deck.

“Thought so,” Josh smirked “my card destroys all copies of the spell in the player’s deck, and since you two are a team, it counts for both of you!”

Kara and Kain began laughing, softly at first but then getting madder.

“What’s so funny?” Josh demanded.

“You,” Kain said “do you think this is all we have?”

“We’ve just been playing with you,” Kara said “making you waste all your good cards, so now let’s bring on the real duel!”

 

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*craves more*

 

Dude, this is the best fanfic on the site (although, to be honest I don't think there's really much competition. You're basically the only writer here who thinks a chapter is more than five paragraphs long.)

 

I needs more! *goes into zombie-like state*

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Episode 11: Enjoy Jamin's toughest duel yet...

 

[spoiler=episode]“You’re bluffing,” Jamin said “you two couldn’t duel your way out of a wet paper bag.”

“Don’t mock me, little boy,” Kain said.

“Oh get over it,” Jamin replied.

“Jamin, shut-it,” Josh said.

“If you don’t mind,” Kara said “I’d like to get on with my turn, since I’m not finished I’ll also play my Giant Germ in defense mode!”

“If that’s it then I’ll go!” Jamin said “so for my turn, say hello to Element Doom’s attack!”

Element Doom leapt forwards, striking Kara’s Giant Germ.

“And in case you’ve forgotten,” Jamin went on “all monsters still count as Earth, so Giant Germ’s effect is negated, nice try though.”

Kara looked over at Kain and nodded, Kain smirked back.

“Now what?”

“You fell for our decoy,” Kara said.

“We tricked you into striking our germ, so you couldn’t attack this,” Kain said, he pressed a button on his duel disk and his face down monster flipped up “I summon Brain Jacker!”

“Oh no!”

“Brain Jacker, attach to the Dark Magician!” Kain ordered.

Kain’s monster leapt forward, and grabbed Josh’s dark magician, pulling it to Kain’s field.

“Now we have control over your monster,” Kain laughed “now, you’ll feel his wrath, Dark Magician, attack The Creator!”

Brain Jacker began sucking at the Dark Magician Brain, forcing him to raise his staff and fire at the Creator, destroying it and dropping their life points to 4900.

 

“Ha, do you really think you’re a match for us!” Kain laughed “you’ll be finished before you know it!”

“We’ll see,” Josh said drawing “well I still have a few tricks up my sleeve, like my rapid fire magician!”

Josh’s new monster appeared in a whirlwind of magical energy raising both staffs defensively.

“Now whenever a normal spell card is player, you lose 400 life points,” Josh explained “like Pot of Greed for example.”

Josh card glowed, he picked two cards from his deck and Rapid fire Magician shot a beam of magical energy at Kara and Kain, dropping their life points to 10100.

“You’re only delaying the inevitable!” Kain said.

“Yeah well, I’ve never been one for inevitabilities,” Josh said “for now I’ll lay one card face down and end my turn.”

“Then allow me to end you!” Kara said, drawing “So, Kain, mind if I use your monster?”

Kain nodded.

“Then allow me to bring out, Great Maju Garzett!” Kara said “by sacrificing the Dark Magician!”

Josh’s Dark magician vanished in a dark swirl, and was replaced by a monstrosity, it towered above both Jamin’s and Josh’s monsters, it was extremely hair, but with armour like plates on its shoulders and a horned helmet upon its head, its arms looked twice the size of its body.

“What the hell is that!?” Jamin gasped, looking up at it.

 

“Say hello to the ultimate fiend monster,” Kara said “Great Maju Garzett, and his ATK is double the ATK of the monster used to summon him, and since that was the dark magician, Great Maju Garzett has 5000 attack points!”

“No way!” Jamin’s eyes widened.

Kara laughed softly.

“I said we were only toying with you before,” she said “now you face a power that you’ll never see again, Great Maju Garzett, attack!”

Maju Garzett’s attack hit Jamin’s Element Doom, dropping their life points to 400.

Kara and Kain laughed.

“If this is the best moves you can do,” Kara said “then you’ll be begging for mercy long before we’re finished with you.”

Jamin glared up at her. “Well it’s my turn now!” He said “so I’ll play Pot of Greed, letting me draw two new cards.”

“Stallings not going to help, little boy,” Kara said.

“Who said anything about stalling?” Jamin said “I summon one monster face down in defense mode, and place one card face down.”

“Pathetic,” Kain sighed “my draw!”

Kain looked over at Kara’s monster and gave a sigh.

“It’s such a pity I can’t use Kara’s monster to attack you,” he said “otherwise, you’d be defeated in this turn.”

“Oh why do we need to do it so quickly?” Kara responded “when we can prolong their suffering.”

“Good point,” Kain said.

“Just make your move,” Josh replied.

“Very well,” Kain said “I summon the Witty Phantom in attack mode!”

Josh raised an eyebrow. “Witty Phantom?”

“Correct,” Kain said “now my phantom, attack Rapid Fire Magician!”

Kain monster laughed and opened its hands, firing a stream of black doves and obliterating Josh’s rapid fire magician.

“One attack won’t win a duel,” he said.

“Who cares?” Kain laughed “make your move,”

“Fine!” Josh said “I play the Dark Magic Curtain!”

“The what?”

“It allows me to pay half our points,” Josh said as their score dropped to 200 “and summon, the Dark Magician!”

A black curtain draped over Josh’s field then opened to reveal another of Josh’s dark magicians.

 

“You have another one of those?” Kain glared up at it.

“Surprised?” Josh asked “Dark Magician, destroy Witty Phantom with your Dark Magic attack!”

Dark Magician Raised his staff and fired a sphere of magic energy at Kain’s monster, destroying it and reducing Kain’s life points down to 9000.

“That won’t work!” Kain retorted.

“Seemed to work fine to me,” Josh said.

“Enough!” Kara said “It’s my draw!”

“We may as well end this now,” Kain said “these two don’t stand a chance against us.”

“I agree,” Kara sighed “they’re just a waste of time.”

Jamin and Josh’s expressions darkened at this comment.

“All I need do is attack your Magician,” Kara said “and you’re finished, there’s no way your life points will withstand such a devastating blow.”

“Well attack then,” Josh said “or are you afraid?”

Kara’s eyes narrowed.

“Don’t test me,” she warned “go my beast; destroy his Dark Magician and the rest of their life points now!”

Great Maju Grazett turned on the Dark Magician and prepared his attack.

“Hold your horses,” Jamin said “you’re forgetting one thing!”

“Huh?”

“My face down!” Jamin finished “because I play my Negate Attack trap card!”

“No!”

A wall of rippled spread in front of Great Maju Garzett, blocking his attack.

“So much for ending the duel here and now,” Jamin said “you may as well just admit defeat.”

“One trap card won’t turn this duel around,” Kara said “our beast far surpasses the power of any of yours, face it, you’re finished.”

 

“Enough with the monologue,” Jamin sighed “my move!”

“Jamin!”

Jamin looked over at Josh.

“This had better be good,” Josh warned.

“Heh, don’t worry,” Jamin smirked back “I’ve been planning this move from the start.”

“What move?”

“Wait and see,” Jamin said “because I’m playing a spell card, Scroll of Bewitchment!”

“Huh?” Kara looked down at Jamin’s field “you’ve got no monsters to equip to,” she laughed.

“That’s because I’m equipping it to your monster,” Jamin said “Scroll of Bewitchment, attach to great Maju Garzett!”

“What!?”

A scroll burst from the ground around Great Maju Garzett’s feet and began wrapping around him, working its way all over his body.

“What’s the meaning of this?” Kain gasped, looking up as their monster was mummified.

 

“Simple,” Jamin said “my Scroll of Bewitchment is a very special equip card, it allows me to change the attribute of the monster it’s equipped to, so I’m changing Maju Garzett to a fire monster!”

“Fire?”

The scroll burst into flames and vanished, Great Maju Garzett burst out of it, still surrounded by the inferno.

“But why?” Kara said.

“Oh stop it,” Jamin said “I’m getting to that part.”

He looked down at his face down card.

“Reveal Hiita the Fire Charmer!” He declared as his monster flipped up, revealing his red haired sorceress “and when she’s flipped, her special effect will activate,” Jamin continued “allowing me to take control of Great Maju Garzett!”

“No!”

Hiita raised her staff and a Scarlet aura surrounded her, the same aura spread around Great Maju Garzett and he turn around slowly to face Kara. Kara’s eyes widened in shock.

“No way!”

 

“Yes way,” Jamin smirked “Great Maju Garzett, attack!”

Kara took a step backwards as Maju Garzett’s attack hit her head on, knocking their life points down to 4000.

“Now that’s what I call damage,” Jamin said “and I’m not done yet!”

“Now what?”

“I sacrifice Hiita and Great Maju Garzett to special summon Familiar Possessed Hiita!”

Great Maju Garzett was absorbed into Hiita’s staff and the aura around her grew along with Hiita herself, transforming into her more powerful form.

“Take that!” Jamin laughed.

 

“Now that was a move,” Josh smirked, impressed.

“Ha, let’s see you top that!” Jamin said.

Kain glared at him.

“Fine then, you asked for it!” He said “my draw! I play my magic card Fusion Sage; this allows me to add Polymerization from my deck to my hand!”

“Polymerization? Uh – oh,” Jamin muttered.

“I fuse, Spirit Reaper and Nightmare Horse, to summon Reaper of the Nightmare!”

“The what?”

“A fusion monster,” Kain said “one that has the ability to attack life points directly.”

“Maybe,” said Josh “but thanks to my monster, you lose 800 life points because of the cards you played.”

Two orbs appeared around Josh’s rapid fire magician, floating round his staffs, he threw them forwards, catapulting the orbs at Kain, striking him and dropping his life points to 3200.

“No matter,” he chuckled “soon, you’ll be finished. Reaper of Nightmare, attack their life points directly! Hellfire attack!”

Kain’s monster was a purple robed skeleton, riding the back of a steed seemingly made of mist and wrapped in old bandages, it charged at them, the rider raising his scythe menacingly.

“You’re finished!” Kain laughed, his eyes widening with malice.

 

“Don’t be so sure,” Josh said “I play a trap, Enchanted Javelin!”

“The what?” Kain’s expression suddenly lost its malicious edge.

“Just watch,” Josh smirked.

The trap card transformed into a bright winged javelin which shot at Kain’s monster, striking right through it causing the horse to rear up.

“What’s going on?” Kain asked, gazing in horror as the javelin struck the ground.

“Simple,” Josh said “as soon as you attack, our life points go up by your reaper’s attack points.”

Kain switched his gaze to Josh and gave him a painful glare. Josh smirked back as their life points rose to 1000. The nightmare Horse settled down and continued its charge at Josh, he barely flinched at the weapon cut through him, knocking their life points back down to 200.

“Fine, so you survived this time,” Kain glared “but next time, you’ll be done for.”

“Done for?” Josh raised an eyebrow “you should be more careful, it’s my move!”

Josh drew a new card from his deck, kicking up a bit of sand from the swipe it cause.

“And I play magical Dimension, allowing me to sacrifice my Rapid Fire Magician, to play an even more powerful one,” Josh said “I play Chaos Command Magician!”

Rapid Fire Magician Vanished and was replaced by a green magician, wielding a blade-like staff.

“And my spell has another effect,” Josh said “when my new monster is summoned, I can destroy one monster on your side of the field, so say goodbye to your reaper!”

A beam of energy shot from Josh’s spell card, heading for Kain’s monster.

“I don’t think so!” Kain retorted “I play De-fusion, this allows me to get rid of my monster, and special summon Spirit Reaper and Nightmare Horse!”

The monster suddenly split in two, and the energy beam missed completely.

“Fine then,” Josh glared at Kain “Chaos Command Magician, attack Nightmare Horse!”

A green sphere of energy flew at Kain’s monster, obliterating it completely.

“Looks like I got the better of you after all,” he chuckled.

“Hardly,” Josh muttered “I’ll lay one card down, and end my turn.”

“Then I’ll make mine,” Kara said “I summon one monster in face down defense position, and then end my turn.”

 

“Ha! Tough break,” Jamin laughed “when Familiar Possessed Hiita destroys a monster in defense mode, you still take damage.”

Jamin drew a new card from his deck and put it in his hand.

“Now Hiita, attack!” Jamin ordered “destroy her monster!”

Hiita raised her staff and fired, the monster flipped up, it was a jar with a series of red spots dotted around it, a wicked face poked out of the rim.

“Wait, that’s….”

“Morphing Jar #2!” Kara laughed “now all our monster return to our decks!”

A sudden wind picked up, blowing Hiita back into Jamin’s deck, Chaos Command Magician back into Josh’s and Spirit Reaper back into Kain’s.

“Now we each draw 3 cards,” Kara explained “and all level four or lower monsters are special summoned, all the rest go to the grave.”

“We know the rules,” Josh said “I’ll place Mythical Beast Cerberus and Apprentice Magician in defense mode, and then discard my remaining card.”

“And I’ll play Eria the water charmer, Fox Fire and Horus’ Servant in defense mode,” Jamin declared.

Five monsters appeared on Jamin and Josh’s side of the field each taking up defensive positions to protect them.

“So, what have you got?” Jamin asked.

Kara looked at her cards and casually dropped them in the graveyard.

“Nothing,” she said simply.

“Me neither,” Kain said, ditching his too.

“You’re kidding me,” Jamin’s eyes widened.

Kain shrugged. “You’re complaining?” He said.

“Fair points,” Jamin said “I’ll finish up with three cards face down and playing Hours the Black Flame Dragon Level four in defense mode.”

“Good,” Kain said “then we can get this over with, I play card of demise, and this allows me to draw five new cards.”

“We know what it does,” Josh sighed “get on with it already.”

“As you wish,” Kain said “I play the ritual spell card, End of the World!”

“Huh?” Jamin’s eyes widened.

The clouds above their heads swirled, forming a vortex and a beam of light crashed down from the center, striking the middle of the field, Jamin covered his face as sand was blown everywhere.

“This allows me to sacrifice two monsters from my hand,” Kain said “to summon Demise, King of Armageddon!”

The light dispersed, revealing a tall figure, wearing heavy black armour and carrying a deadly looking battle axe.

“And you’re despair isn’t over yet,” Kara said “I play my serial spell, allowing me to activate the same effect as end of the world.”

The light crashed down again, this time on Kara’s side.

“Ah ha!” Jamin said “too bad, I play my face down, Mind Crush! All I have to do is declare a card name, and if you have that card in your hand it’s immediately destroyed. And since you’re playing End of the World,” Jamin raised his finger to point at Kara “then the card is Demise, King of Armageddon!”

 

Kara gave a chuckle.

“What’s so funny?” Jamin demanded.

Kara flipped her card round, it was a ritual monster, but it was a different one to Kain’s.

“What? That’s not possible,” Jamin’s arm dropped.

“Oh, it’s possible,” Kara laughed “you see, End of the World can also summon, Ruin, Queen of Oblivion!”

The Light dispersed, revealing a tall woman, with long white hair and blood red robes, cackling at them.

“Guess we got the better of you, little boy,” Kara laughed.

“And now it’s time for us to finish you off,” Kain said “I play Dimension Hole, allowing me to remove Ruin from the game.”

Ruin vanished in a black ripple in the ground, sinking out of sight.

“So now she’s out of the way, meaning I can play my King’s effect!” Kain declared.

“What effect?” Jamin took a step back, fearing the worst.

“Simple,” Kain said “I pay 2000 life points,” Kain’s life points dropped to 1200 “and destroy all other cards on the field!”

“What?” Josh’s eyes widened.

“No way?” Jamin’s followed suit!”

 

Kain laughed as a powerful wind picked up.

“Now my king, bring forth the Armageddon!” He ordered.

Demise’s axe was surrounded by a black aura, he raised it into the air and brought it smashing down, creating a shockwave, it struck Josh’s monsters, destroying them instantly and creating a blinding light.

“Now Demise,” Kain ordered before it had faded “attack them and end this duel!”

“Horus, block him!” Jamin ordered.

“What?”

Demise’s axe flew towards Jamin, but Horus the Black Flame Dragon stepped in the way and was struck by it and destroyed.

“What’s going on?” Kain demanded “Horus was supposed to be destroyed!”

“You miscalculated,” Jamin said “When Horus’ servant is out on the field, my Black Flame Dragon is unaffected by and card effects.”

“But you should still have been destroyed!” Kain said “I ordered him to attack directly, Horus cannot defend both fields.”

“That’s where my next card comes in,” Jamin said, showing Kain the card “my staunch defender card means that you could only attack Horus, touch break.”

 

Kain’s face maddened as he glared at Jamin.

“This isn’t over,” He snarled “one lucky move won’t save you!”

“Seemed to work to me,” Jamin shrugged.

“Now for my move,” Josh said “and you’re going to be in a world of hurt now, because you’ve ticked me off, and I don’t like it when people tick me off!”

Josh violently drew a new card from his deck.

“And now,” he said “I remove from play one Light and one Dark attribute monster from my deck,” he removed the two cards “and summoned Chaos Sorcerer!”

One of Josh’s favorite monsters emerged in a tornado of black magic, laughing softly to himself.

“Now I play his effect,” Josh declared “allowing me to remove Demise from the game!”

Chaos Sorcerer fired a ball of Light at Kain’s monster; it vanished in a show of lights and sparks.

“Luckily for you,” Josh went on “Chaos Sorcerer can’t attack this turn, but that doesn’t matter, I’ll lay one face down and end my turn.”

“Then allow me to end this duel!” Kara said “because now my monster returns!”

The same rippled formed in front of Kara, and Ruin emerged from them, still cackling.

“Now I play the spell Kashido Spirit! Now my monsters that battle monster with equal points aren’t destroyed, but I can’t say the same for your monsters, Ruin attack!”

Ruin cackled and fired a beam of dark energy at Chaos Sorcerer, destroying him. Josh glared at Kara.

“And it’s not over yet,” Kara said “you see, when Ruin destroys a monster as a result of battle, she can attack again. Ruin, destroy them!”

“No,” Jamin’s eyes widened “our life points can’t take another hit!”

“It’s over!” Kara laughed.

 

Josh braced himself as the attack came.

“I don’t think so,” he said “I never let a duel end so easily; I play Offering to the Doomed, meaning that your monster is destroyed!”

“What?”

A shockwave exploded from Josh’s card, striking Ruin and destroying her.

“Impossible,” Kara gazed at where her monster used to be “that was supposed to be my winning move, it was infallible.”

“Guess you were wrong,” Josh commented he looked over at Jamin “now it’s up to you to finished this duel off, draw the right card and we’ve won.”

“No way,” Kara’s eyes widened.

Jamin nodded and looked down at his duel disk.

“Deck down fail me now,” he muttered “my draw!”

Jamin drew the new card from his deck, and with barely even a look at it, placed it on the field.

“I summon Element Valkyrie in attack mode!” He declared “with an attack strength of 1500!”

“No,” Kara dropped to her knees “that means we…”

Jamin’s eyes narrowed. “You lose,” he finished for her “Element Valkyrie, attack with Tidal Flame!”

Valkyrie raised her staff firing a stream of blue fireballs down at Kara and Kain, they both yelled as their life points dropped to zero.

Jamin punched the air in front of him as the holograms faded.

“Now that’s how you tag duel,” he said triumphantly.

 

“No!” Kain yelled, clutching his head and falling to his knees “we tried, we tried!”

Jamin’s expression dropped, black fire had started burning around Kara and Kain, swallowing them.

“Woah,” Jamin muttered “too weird.”

“Now what?” Josh sighed.

Kara glared up at Jamin, mad eyes as the flames consumed her body.

“Listen to me, boy,” she snarled through gritted teeth “don’t think that one victory will deter our master from recovering his sacred items.”

“Sooner or later you’ll have to face the fact,” added Kain “that the world will inevitably be consumed by darkness.”

Josh walked over to them, and glared down at them like a pair of slugs that had crawled all over his doormat.

“Well then you listen to me,” he said “and you’d better listen well.”

He bent down till his face was almost touching Kain’s.

“No matter how hard your master tries, or struggles,” he said “it is inevitable that he will suffer defeat, remember that and tell your master next time you see him…”

He stood up straight and turned to walk away.

“…In hell.”

Jamin watched Josh walk back over to the tents, then back at Kara and Kain as their bodies were consumed by fire. Eventually any trace of them was gone aside from three cards lying in the sand, which seemed untouched by the fire. Jamin walked over to them and picked them up, they were End of the World, Demise King of Armageddon and Ruin Queen of Oblivion.

 

“I see,” he muttered “these are your card spirits; now wonder you made such a show of them.”

He chuckled and pocketed the cards before turning about and wandering off back to the tents. As he walked he saw the spirit of Hand of Nephthy’s walking along side him.

“Come to warn me again?” He asked.

Nephthys shook her head.

“No,” she said “but I do need to tell you that you should not consider all your challenges to be like them, there are far more powerful spirits out there, some capable of destroying entire cities.”

“Yeah,” Jamin replied “but good guys always win in the end, right?”

Nephthys gave a sympathetic smile.

“Maybe, but unless people are willing to fight for that cause, then it is a lie,” she said “you cannot sit around and think it will al turn out right.”

“I see,” Jamin muttered “guess I’d better get those items before Zorc does then.”

Nephthys nodded.

“Good luck,” she said “Jamin Tsubasa.”

 

[Yogg-Saron]

Great job TO I have never seen such a long fan fic but its one of the best no doubt