My appearance and words catch the attention of the three other Duellists.
"Who are you to interfere with our mission, you don't know the ire you create with your actions."
At his words I just smirk before walking around the pair of rare hunters, While I walk, I talk,
"Oh, I very much know what I'm doing, I'm stopping a pair of creeps working for a narcist from taking advantage of a young individual who shouldn't be involved in his crusade. I don't know what you call what you were going to do but it was kidnapping and molestation of a minor."
at the end of my words, I reach Rebecca who seems annoyed at my appearance, "I didn't need your help I could have beaten them both easily."
I tilt my head before whispering to her. "Oh no doubt about that little miss Intercontinental champion, but these guys don't play by the book, if you won there was a very high chance of them grabbing you and then taking a jump to try and hurt Yugi in some way," I say this by leering at the edge of the Parking complex.
This causes her face to become pale.
I turn to the pair of rare hunters, "Well anyway, now that this has become the situation, I never got your names so I would be grateful if you introduced yourselves."
The pair Lower their Rare hunter cloak hoods to reveal a pair of Bronze skinned men, their faces are very similar to each other indicating that they might be brothers, the main differences between the pair are that the right one has his dark brown hair tied up in a mass of weaves bound by tons of Beads while wearing a pair of sunglasses.
The other brother is sporting a Dark Black Buzzcut, the only other key difference is that He has a very prominent Glasgow Scar from his left lip to his left ear that takes up a quarter of his face.
"We won't share our names since once we beat you two, you won't remember it anyway when you become a puppet for Marik." the Scar-faced brother says.
Well, how rude.
Since they won't say I'll just have to give them names. . .
I give the pair a look and make a funny comparison, I point to the Scarred brother and say, "I'll call you Scar, and your brother" I point to the other brother with a mane of weaves and beads "I'll call Mufasa."
I watch as the brothers are shocked, it confuses me for a second but the one I defined as Mufasa says in mild shock "How did you know my name?"
this makes both me and Rebecca pause. 'Wait really?' I play it cool and just shrug.
"Well, anyway are we starting the duel or not?" I hear Rebecca say.
"Oh yeah, sure, let's duel." I ready my duel disk for the duel and everyone else starts the duel.
[Rebecca's LP: 4000]
[Scar's Lp: 4000]
[Drogan's LP: 4000]
[Mufasa's Lp: 4000]
Rebecca starts off the duel by drawing, she looks at her cards before playing a monster face down and another card in her back line before ending her turn.
I see Scar leer at her T set up before drawing his card and looking at his hand in contemplation.
"I'll Summon a Marauding Captain to allow me to add a level 4 or below Warrior to my hand. After that, I'll play a pot of greed to draw two cards "The warrior appears and wields his sword in opposition.
[Marauding Captain ★★★ Earth][Warrior/Effect][ATK:1200/DEF:400]
[Pot of Greed][Spell]
we watch him draw then he places two cards on the field before nodding to me, to indicate the end of his turn.
I draw my card and look at my hand. "Let's start this off with a change of Scenery, I play The Scadutree's Veil" My words cause the Scadutree to appear behind me and Rebecca casting a shadow behind us and blocking the sun's light using its many shadowy veils.
[The Scadutree's Veil][Spell/Field]
"This allows me to add a Plot card to my hand from my deck, I'll add and play Miquella's Ascension Plot, which allows me to search my deck and Special Summon Miquella the Kind."
my words cause the amber of the Scadutree behind me to glow golden as a Miquella's cross appears, from the flash of the cross's appearance Miquella appears with a 'holier than thou' expression.
[Miquella's Ascension Plot][Spell/Continuous]
[Miquella, the Kind ★★★ Light][Spellcaster/Effect][ATK:100/DEF:0]
"With that next activate The Scadutree's veil again to Special Summon an Adherent from my deck to the field, I'll Special summon Adherent Needle Knight Leda in Atk mode."
She appears as if having just climbed the outside of the parking complex and jumps over the concrete barrier, she walks with the grace of Miquella's Knight and knees at his feet to show her Loyalty, 'I have returned My Lord, may my blade never falter in your service.'
[Adherent Needle Knight Leda ★★★★ Light][Warrior/Effect][ATK:1800/DEF:1800]
"I'll place two cards face down before activating Leda's first effect, which allows me to add an Adherent monster from my deck to my hand, and since I haven't Normal summoned, I'll do that now and Summon Adherent Redmane Freyja in Atk mode."
[Adherent Redmane Freyja ★★★★ Fire][Warrior/Effect][ATK:1800/DEF:1500]
Leda raises her Swords to the air and then points to an empty space on my field, there a warrior clad in golden armour sporting a white plume head-masked helm appears in a Flash of Flame beside Miquella opposite Leda, her head turns to Miquella, but it doesn't last long before she focuses on the brothers ready for war.
"With that, I'll end my turn." I indicate to Mufasa to go, and he does his draw.
"I draw and from my hand, I'll copy my brother by playing a Marauding captain in Atk mode before adding a Level 4 or below warrior to my hand from the deck." A second Marauding captain appears and both of them smirk before standing next to each other.
Mufasa draws and smirks before playing 2 face-down cards in his backline.
I don't like the feeling I get from those cards. but it's now Rebecca's turn and she can now attack. I watch her draw and look at her hand.
"I'll place one card down on the field then I'll play Card destruction, everyone Discards their hand before drawing equal to the drawn amount."
[Card destruction][Spell]
This annoys me a bit since I had both ST.Trina is in my hand as well as Messmer's Plot card so their now in the graveyard meaning Thiollier is useless and Messmer isn't making an appearance.
we all draw more cards and low and behold Messmer is in the next 3 cards I have. meh, I shrug at the cards; I shouldn't have because I watch as Rebecca starts popping off.
"Next I'll play 2 Pot of Greed from my hand which I just drew setting my hand to 5, from those Five I'll Summon another Face Down Monster before playing another Card Destruction, discarding our hands again."
My face has soured since I had Messmer, ST. Trina's Plot card and Imbibing in the deep slumber. and with that, Thiollier my perfect defender is now useless without Truth vs Ideals. it doesn't help that Thiollier is in the next 3 cards I draw.
Rebecca just continues her turn. "I'll Place all 3 of my cards face down on the field before activating the card I played at the start of my turn, Card of demise, this allows me to draw up to 5 cards for no."
She draws back up to 5 then the next flurry of moves can only be described as Discard and draw on repeat as she activates 3 hand Destruction's intermittently, so everyone has to discard 2 then draw 2, then discard 2, then draw 2, then discard 2, then draw 2. the move takes two of the cards she placed before the card of demise.
[Hand Destruction][Spell/Quick effect] X3
though her cards unintentionally she just made me do a ton of prep work even with only three cards in hand
Even after going through probably more than half her deck, she looks dejected, maybe she didn't get the cards she wanted. the odds were unlikely, but it can happen.
She Looks at her hand before placing one card down before ending her turn.
We all watch Scar draw, He quickly starts. "I'll play 2 Dark Eruptions from my hand to add 2 Dark Monsters with less than 1500 ATK to my hand, Next I'll activate one card on my field being double Summon. to Summon both of the Monsters I just retrieved. I summon Meanae the thorn and Don Zaloog in Atk mode."
[Dark Eruption][Spell]
[Double Summon][Spell]
[Dark Scorpion - Meanae the Thorn ★★★★ Dark][Warrior/Effect][Atk:1000/Def:1800]
[Don Zaloog ★★★★ Dark][Warrior/Effect][ATK:1400/DEF:1500]
He fills his field with cards I recognise, but I'm not worried since both me and Rebecca have blockers on the field to stop them from doing their effects.
I watch as Scar smiles before deciding on his assault path. "Firstly, I'll activate my face down, Raigeki."
Storm clouds appear above us illuminated by the Scadutree's veils in an instant Lightning strikes our field and destroys all monsters on the field, The only one remaining Is Miquella who seems startled at the board wipe.
Him still on the field makes the 3 other players confused so I explain, "Miquella the kind cannot be destroyed by Spells, He also cannot be targeted for attack, so my board is still open for direct attacks." this causes Scar to nod before speaking his assault
"Don Zaloog will attack the face down while Meanae will attack the stranger directly." when he says this his monsters go to attack, Zaloog jumps into the air and comes down on the face-down monster, it flips to reveal a semi-transparent fairy-like creature with the only visible parts of it being a halo, a pair of wings, a bow and some feet.
[Skelengel ★★ Light][Fairy/Flip/Effect][ATK:900/DEF:400]
[Drogan's Lp: 4000 > 3000]
Rebecca smiled before placing her hand on her deck, "My little angel was flipped allowing me to draw a card." she draws a card.
Scar then speaks "Since Meanae dealt damage She allows me to add a Black scorpion to my hand from the graveyard." he does so increasing his hand size., before he places a pair of cards face down before indicating the end of his turn making it my turn now.
I draw and look at the card I drew, I look at Scars card and notice something. "I'll activate The Scadutree's veil to Special Summon an adherent monster. I'll Summon Adherent Robust Moore in Defence position."
The ground cracks and Moore climbs out of the fissure in his bulky armour wielding his shield proudly but nervously.
[Adherent Robust Moore ★★★★ Earth][Warrior/Effect][ATK:600/DEF:2300]
"When Moore is summoned he allows me to draw a card." I draw and shrug at the card, slightly annoyed that one card on the field is made redundant.
"It seems they both want to appear so I'll Reveal from my hand Blood cocoon Plot to allow me to add a Certain Ritual monster to my hand, then I'll play the same card, for the cost of removing 3 cards from my graveyard from play I'll Summon Mohg, Lord of Blood."
The fissure created by Moore's appearance starts to bleed blood like a wound and creates a wound upon the floor which pools in blood, from the pool the Demi-god of Blood appears with a flourish of his sacred spear he appears ready for war.
"Welcome Honoured Guest to your doom."
[Blood Cocoon Plot][Spell/Ritual]
[Mohg, Lord of Blood ★★★★★★★★★★ Dark][Fiend/Ritual/Effect][ATK:2000/DEF:3000]
The sheer presence of Mohg makes the whole duel arena to be tinted in a crimson red.
"Next I'll activate from my hand Sibling Bond, this allows me to Special Summon to the field Miquella's Sister Malenia, Blade of Miquella."
The pools of Blood surrounding Mohg start to boil as they take on a darker colour and seem to thicken into a sludge-like mass akin to the Lake of Rot. A geyser appears and from it, the figure of Malenia appears and in a single moment She and Mohg are weapon locked as she says one word.
"Kidnapper."
[Malenia, Blade of Miquella ★★★★★★★ Fire][Warrior/Empyrean/Effect][ATK:2500/DEF:1000]
Mohg is silent but he does protect himself, with a push he gets Malenia off his spear, and she lands next to Miquella and guards him from all perils.
Mohg sighs before looking forward.
"Now my battle phase" My words cause some confusion since everyone can tell that the pair of Marauding captains are making a perfect block scenario.
"I know you're thinking, I can't attack due to the pair of captains but you're wrong, first I'll attack directly with Miquella against Mufasa."
Miquella steps from his sister's embrace before pointing at Mufasa to shoot him with a ray of light.
[Mufasa's LP: 4000 > 3900]
"When Miquella attacks the plot card on the field allows me to search my deck for a Plot card, I only have 1 left so I'll just add that to my hand, Next Malenia who isn't affected by monster effects will attack Scar's Captain."
As I draw a card Malenia becomes a blur as the captain is bisected in half Horizontally, both the Black scorpions react in shock at the quick kill as Malenia reappears next to Miquella. "Now her effect activates increasing both her ATK and My LP by 200."
[Scar's LP:4000 > 2700]
[Malenia, Blade of Miquella][ATK:2500 >2700]
[Drogan's Lp: 3000 > 3200]
"And Now without the Captains doing a perfect Block Mohg can have a swing in, Mohg will take out Mufasa's captain." Due to the size of Mohg, his attack is very easy to do as he Strikes down with his spear upon the last marauding captain.
[Mufasa's LP: 3900 >3100]
"With that, I'll end my turn."
Mufasa Draws his card and looks at the field before sighing, "I'll Summon in ATK position Goblin Attack Force." Coming from the ramp to our level appears a mob of Goblins wearing construction worker clothes and hard hats wielding Clubs.
[Goblin Attack Force ★★★★ Earth][Warrior/Effect][ATK:2300/DEF:0]
"Next I'll play from my hand 2 Forbidden Chalices to Increase their Attack by 400 each, at the cost of ignoring their effect."
[Forbidden Chalice][Spell/Quick-play]
[Goblin Attack Force][ATK: 2300 >3100]
A pair of the goblins take out what seems to be whisky flasks before chugging them and gaining Arms like Popeye from those old cartoons.
"I'll play a card from my hand being Card of Sanctity, allowing everyone to draw to 6 cards."
[Card of Sanctity][Spell]
This allows everyone to refill their hands, but Mufasa must have gained the most since he went from one to 6, but in the corner of my eye I can see Rebecca smiling.
"Now Goblin attack force will attack Malenia."
I don't have a response to that, and everyone is dumbfounded as the Blade of Miquella gets ganged on by a crew of Goblins, she sliced a ton of the mob apart in the process, but the two swollen members of the mob were able to restrict her arms to let the others beat her up.
[Drogan's LP: 3200 >2800]
"I'll play 2 cards face down before ending my turn."
the smile on Rebecca's face increases before she Draws her card. She simply places one card on the field, and it makes me remember realising her strategy. "First during my standby phase, I use the effect of both Marie the Fallen in my graveyard to Increase my Life points by 400."
[Rebecca's Lp: 4000 > 4400]
She looks at her hand and then comes to a realization, with a light smile she looks towards me "Erm mister, if possible, can I borrow one of your monsters?" I look at her and then look at my field, I shrug, "Sure You can use Miquella just know He can't be affected by spells."
"oh, goodie I can Summon both of my fav monsters then, I'll activate a double summon first so I can Normal summon twice, First I'll Summon from my hand the card Yugi gave me. Ties of Friendship."
Appearing on the field is a creature that can only be described as an angel come to earth, with golden hair and pure white and pink robes with her hands clasped in prayer, her form rests on the ground on her knees while in prayer in Defence mode.
[Ties of Friendship ★ light][Fairy/Tuner/Effect][ATK:0/Def:?]
"While She is summoned her defence is equal to the total defence of all monsters on my side of the field divided by half, and since we are in a Tag team that also includes misters monsters as well."
[Ties of Friendship][DEF:? > 2650]
She looks at her field and her hand before giving me a look of determination, realising her intent I wave and point towards Miquella who doesn't catch the exchange since he's leering at the goblins.
"Next I'll use the double summon but, I'll borrow a Monster from Mister and tribute Miquwella to Tribute summon my favourite monster Shadow Ghoul."
Miquella looks at Rebecca with a look of outrage, but he catches my expression that is impassive to his blight, no one says anything in response so beneath Miquella his shadow becomes thick as a clawed hand spawns from the pool and drags him in by the ankles, once he's gone The creature appears on Rebecca's field, when it appears the Fairy's wings grow bigger.
[Shadow Ghoul ★★★★★ Dark][Zombie/Effect][ATK:1600/DEF:1300]
[Ties of Friendship][DEF:2650 > 3300]
"Now my favourite part about Shadow Ghoul is that it gains 100 ATK per monster in my graveyard, this also applies to mister's Graveyard as well since we're tag team duelling."
I simply whistle in amusement at the shadow Ghoul becomes as big as Radahn in size alone.
[Shadow Ghoul][ATK:1600 < 3100]
"Now with my big mean Shadow Ghoul on the field, I'll have him attack the mean-looking Don Zaloog man."
The shadow Ghoul becomes a shadow on the ground before zipping over towards Don Zaloog, but Scar has a response, "I'll flip my face down, Negate Attack, Blocking the attack and ending the battle phase."
[Negate Attack][Trap/Counter]
his card activates just in time as the tip of the shadow ghoul's claw was inches from Don Zaloog's Eye.
"Aww, well I'll place 1 card face down on the spell and trap zone before ending my turn then." at her words Scar takes his turn and some sweat is on his brow from the appearance of the shadow ghoul.
"I'll draw, from my hand I'll play a pot of greed to bolster my hand." He draws more "ok that's enough, I'll play from my hand the spell Dark Scorpion - Tragedy of Love, for the cost of Meanae, she destroys all of your monsters on the field."
[Dark Scorpion - Tragedy of Love][Spell]
Don Zaloog essentially takes out a piece of treasure and inspects it while turning away from Meanae, this causes Meanae to become crestfallen and try and catch his attention, but when she touches him, he puts too much force in the rebuff of the contact and sends Meanae flying to the centre of the field.
There she curls up and her thorn whip starts to explode in growth and explode towards me and Rebecca's field, the growth explosion is very large to cover both fields but as it would hit us the wings in the background flap once and shrink in form before rushing the growth.
Ties of friendship appears at the thorn cocoon and wrap themselves around the cocoon like a gentle hug, they both pixilated, and both go to the graveyard.
Rebecca explains once she collects herself. "Ties of friendship make it so all of our monsters besides itself cannot be destroyed by spell or trap effects."
Scar recovers and plays another card from his hand, it's another Raigeki, the effect again is instant, and it makes it so the only thing left on our fields is Mohg who is immune to spell and trap effects, I just respond by saying "he's immune to spells."
This makes Scar scowl greatly, "I'll summon to the field Armor Breaker in Atk position, then I'll use its effect to equip it to Don Zaloog."
[Armor Breaker ★★★ Earth][Warrior/Union/Effect][ATK:800/DEF:800]
[Don Zaloog][ATK:1400 > 2200]
"Don Zaloog take out Mohg." Now wielding his very large-looking hammer, he jumps into the air before doing s a Lion's Claw manuvour by doing a forward somersault before slamming it into the head of Mohg which makes him degrade into a shower of blood as he's defeated.
[Drogan's LP: 2800 >2600]
"With Don Zaloog's effect you have to discard a random card and Armor Breaker's effect allows me to destroy a card on the field, I'll take out her Face-down card."
I place my hand onto a recess on my duel disk for it to pick a card randomly while Rebecca's face down is flipped to reveal it was a Monster reborn.
[Monster reborn][Spell]
The card picked randomly is revealed to me and I just start Laughing maniacally. this catches everyone's attention since it just comes out of nowhere.
"What's So funny, both of your fields are empty, we still have strong monsters so how could you turn it around."
I reveal the Discarded card at random, 'Plot against the Starscourge' "it's simple really, with this the final piece is in place" I place the 4th Plot card into the graveyard. I recollect my hand from the recess.
Scar is very unnerved, but he has little he can do so he Has to end his turn letting it be my turn.
"I Draw. nice but not needed. just so you all know I wanted to use this during the finals just to mess with them, but it seems it's time I bring them out. I activate the Scadutree's veil's second effect, when there are 4 or more Plot cards within the graveyard, I am allowed to search my Deck or graveyard to add a special Ritual card to my hand."
The Scadutree seems to glow brightly as its form seems to shift like in a mirage before I take a card from the graveyard.
"I Activate from my hand, THE GATE OF DIVINITY!"
[The Gate of Divinity][Spell/Ritual/Equip]