86 Yugi-Lite 3
"Is this karma?"
Despite the situation, Jasmine couldn't wipe the massive grin off of her face as she peered down the cliffside.
Where Yarden Odhar was currently duelling the thief who had stolen the King of Games' deck.
"Maybe." Alexis on the other hand, was while not as jubilant as her friend, peering down with interest at her boyfriend. He after all, just earlier today had boasted that he could beat Yugi, albeit a younger version of the King of Games, but still Yugi Moto.
And now he was facing an absolutely monstrously powerful line up, from the very first turn. Something he usually liked to pull against his opponents. The shoe was on the other foot now, "Three powerful monsters and a full backrow," she mused, "What a crazy starting turn, but considering how he usually operates, the thing he needs to be most weary of is that face down card, it's most likely a counter trap."
"Not quite Alexis," Zane, whom she and the girls had met up with on the way to go scope out Yugi's deck early with replied, arms crossed, "Sleight Of Hand is the real problem here. As long as it's on the field, Dimitri doesn't even need to set his traps to play them, he can play them immediately from his hand. So Yarden has to be weary of that face down, and near all of the cards in Dimitri's hand, any single one of them could be a counter trap designed to stop Yarden in his tracks."
"…Well that's just not fair at all," Mindy pouted, "That card is broken. And I mean yeah, Yugi Moto and all, but where did a card like that even come from, I've never heard of it."
"Pegasus most likely, as we saw not long ago with the Paradox Brothers, it seems he made some custom cards for people he took a liking to," Zane shrugged, "Or if you want to go by Yarden's words, he magicked them into existence and pulled it out of his ass."
"Ew." Mindy wrinkled her nose.
"Not liscious." Chumley added.
They'd run into him, Bastion, Syrus and Jaden along the way as well, and were the first ones to find out Yugi's deck had been stolen.
They'd all split up to find the thief, and rushed over when Syrus' piercing shriek echoed across the island.
"Ah c'mon guys, it's just the first turn," Jaden laughed, "I mean sure, a crazy first turn and I don't think I've ever had a first turn that good, but the duel has just started and it's Yarden we're talkin' about here, he won't go down easy."
"So you'd think," Bastioned mused, eyeing down below with a critical eye, "But do remember, Yarden himself has made it a habit of crushing other duellists, multiple at a time even in a single turn. If he doesn't have a counter, he may very well be done come the next turn."
Alexis bit her lip. Sure, she'd said he could do with a bit of ego deflating earlier, but she didn't want to see her boyfriend get absolutely crushed.
But…
Yarden was strong. The best duellist she knew personally, and he had power in spades. She was sure he wouldn't go down easily, Yugi's deck or not.
"Alright, draw!" Yarden began his turn, "I'll get right down to business and copy the copycat, I play of Pot of Greed."
"Pot of Greed!?" Dimitri gasped dramatically, in his overly exaggerated deep voice.
Yarden drew two cards, bringing his hand up to seven, "And now I play the spell card Dark Hole." he played one of the cards he drew immediately.
"Sweet, that's the way!" Jaden grinned, pumping his fist as a massive sphere of darkness formed in the air above both duellists and began exerting a powerful inverse of gravity, drawing Dimitri's monsters towards it.
"A good opener when he hasn't played cards yet." Bastion nodded in agreement.
"I'm afraid not, from my hand, using the effect of Sleight of Hand, I activate the trap card Magic Jammer," Dimitri countered, "By discarding one card from my hand, I can negate the activation of a spell card and destroy it. As such, I send my Black Luster Soldier to the graveyard and rid the world of your insidious spell!"
With the card played and monster discarded, the massive sphere of darkness above, shattered into pieces.
"You didn't need to tell me what card you sent to the graveyard moron," Yarden rolled his eyes, uncaring that his powerful board wiping spell card was just dealt with easily, "Only three, four I guess to worry about now. Alright, how about this. I play Raigeki!"
"I'm afraid I'll have to stop you right there once more!" Dimitri thrust his hand out dramatically as a massive beam of lightning descended from the sky towards his monsters, "Face down, reveal yourself!"
The face down card he had on the field, flipped over to reveal the image of a long blue haired woman holding an orb of light with a robed mans face depicted and setting sun.
"Mystical Refpanel is a trap that I can activate in response to a card that targets me and reverses the effect back towards you!" Dimitri laughed.
The blue haired woman shimmered into existence and spread her arms wide, conjuring a wide barrier that blocked the blast of lightning, and bounced it towards him.
The lightning washed over Yarden a moment later and did nothing.
"Luckily for Yarden, he didn't summon anything before he played that card, or he'd have wiped out his own monsters." Bastion commented, face tense.
"This is crazy, he countered both Dark Hole and Raigeki right after each other, who the hell does that?" Jasmine bit her lip.
"Hm." Zane smirked, contrary to the worry most of the others were show casing. 'He lost two incredibly powerful cards, but in return he's taken away Dimitri's protection.'
He only had the one card in his hand now, and they already knew what it was.
And Yarden still had five cards to play himself.
Not to mention, he didn't need to worry about guessing whether or not the cards he couldn't see, would counter his plays.
He was free to do as he pleased.
"Alright, with that mess taken care of, let's fucking go!" Yarden laughed, "And I'm gonna start off hot mate. I play the special effect of the monster in my hand. If you have two or more monsters on the field I can special summon it, so come on out, Burning Dragon!"
There was a shimmer of light, and then in front of Yarden a huge burning serpentine dragon with a body of sizzling magma burst into existence.
Burning Dragon - Dragon/Fire/Level 7/Effect: 2500/2100
"Oh…my!" Dimitri gasped upon seeing the burning dragon, before shaking his head, "A remarkable monster for sure, but merely a match for my Summoned Skull, it cannot hope to defeat my Dark Magician or Dark Magician Of Chaos."
"So you'd think," Yarden merely laughed, "See, he has one more effect beyond his special summoning effect. One per turn, by discarding one spell card from my hand, I can destroy I can destroy all spell and trap cards on the field, and I'll be sending my Ruins Of The Divine Dragon Lords to the graveyard to activate the effect and destroy all your spells and traps!"
"No!" Dimitri gasped and cried out, eyes widening in shock as Burning Dragon howled and unleashing a searing red scorching wind from its mouth that swept over his side of the field.
And destroyed the four remaining cards in his backrow. Sleight Of Hand, the biggest problem Yarden was dealing with, going along with them.
Not only that, but with the destruction of mage power. His Dark Magician that had fallen to 4500 attack points with the use of his set trap card, dwindled all the way back to its original attack points.
Dark Magician - Spellcaster/Dark/Level 7/Normal: 2500/2100
"Not looking so hot now, huh thief boy?" Yarden taunted with a grin, as was expected of him.
"…Oh god, he's going to be even more full of himself." Jasmine face palmed, "God damnit." despite her words though, there was an excited grin tugging at her lips at seeing him turn the situation around in an instance.
Dimitri was silent for a moment, just staring in shock at the empty backrow staring back at him, before clenching his jaw, "No matter, just a minor set back, besides don't forget I have two monsters of the same attack points as yours and my Dark Magician Of Chaos which is stronger still!"
"Yeah, about that," Yarden grinned at him, "I'm gonna go ahead and play the spell card foolish choice. It allows me to pick five cards from my deck, add one of them to my hand and send the rest to the graveyard."
He milled out five cards from his deck, "I'll be sending my Rare Metal Dragon, Serpent Night Dragon, Hundred Dragon and Carboneddon to the graveyard and adding my Revived Serpent Night Dragon spell to my hand." he declared, "Oh, and while I'm at it, I'll go ahead and activate the effects of two of those monsters. When Hundred Dragon gets sent to the graveyard in anyway, I can special summon Baby Dragon from anywhere in my deck, and I can banish Carboneddon while he's in my graveyard to special summon one level seven or lower normal dragon monster from my hand or deck, and I'm gonna choose my Seiyaru!"
In twin bursts of light, two monsters, one a small muscular orange dragon, the other a large shimmering armoured pink dragon appeared on the field, bringing his total monsters up to three.
Seiyaryu - Dragon/Light/Level 7/Normal: 2500/2300
Baby Dragon - Dragon/Wind/Level 3/Normal: 1200/700
"But oh buddy, I ain't done there," Yarden punched his fists together, before holding up one of the two cards remaining in his hand, "I'm gonna go ahead and actually use my normal summon for this turn, to summon my Cyber Dark Horn!"
In another burst of light, a huge brown metallic worm-like monstrosity with a body filled with jagged spikes and gleaming green eyes appeared on the field.
Cyber Dark Horn - Machine/Dark/Level 4/Effect: 800/800
"And this guy has a nifty little effect," Yarden continued as his newly summoned monster gave a shrieking metallic howl, "See, he and his two brothers, can reach into my graveyard and equip any dragon monster that is level four or below to themselves and they gain that equipped monsters attack points added to their own, and I'm gonna go ahead and have him team up with my Rare Metal Dragon!"
Cyber Dark Horn lowered itself to the ground, its spiky legs piercing into it and lighting it up with an ominous glow, before pulling up to reveal the shiny, spiky metal form of his Rare Metal Dragon clasped between its legs.
Cyber Dark Horn - Machine/Dark/Level 4/Effect: 3200/800
Zane's eyes widened, 'Cyber Dark Dragon!?' he gasped inwardly. From…the underworld deck? That his teacher refused to allow him even the chance to see up close, never mind play?
How did Yarden get his hands on them?
He doubted the boy stole them. Despite his rough attitude, the boy wasn't a thief. So then, did Shephard believe Yarden was worthy of them, capable of handling them?
…They'd need to talk later for sure.
"Woah, what kinda monster is that?" Jaden whooped excitedly, "Is this a kinda Cyber Dragon like Zane's?" the kuriboh haired youth looked at the older teen in askance.
"Something like that." Zane replied evasively.
To be honest, even he didn't know much about the Cyber Dark Dragons. This was the first time he'd even heard of their effect. Quite a potent one too and had great synergy with Yarden.
…To use them he'd have to change his deck up massively.
Dimitri visibly swallowed, "…Truly a fearsome line up," he admitted, "But, come next turn, I will turn things around, I believe in my deck and the heart of the cards surely will never let me down."
He was right, Zane noted inwardly. Even if Yarden could destroy Dark Magician of Chaos with his Cyber Dark Horn, it would only deal four hundred points of damage to his life points. He would need to have Seiyaryu and Burning Dragon kamikaze attack to take down Dark Magician and Summoned Skull to clear Dimitri's field, leaving him with only Baby Dragon to attack with an deal another twelve hundred points of damage.
…But Dimitri was forgetting one thing.
That Painful Choice card, was not for simply getting Rare Metal Dragon, Hundred Dragon and Carboneddon in the graveyard.
"Is that right?" Yarden smirked, "Let's test that, eh? and I'll start that, by playing my favourite spell card. Revived Serpent Night Dragon. With it, I can target any monster on the field and offer it up as sacrifice to special summon Serpent Night Dragon from anywhere in my deck, be it my actual deck, hand or even graveyard. And I'm gonna choose to offer up that shiny new Dark Magician Of Chaos."
Dimitri gasped as his Dark Magician Of Chaos gave a pained shout, before bursting apart into flakes of light, lowering his field count by one.
While in a haze of dark light, Serpent Night Dragon rose opposite on Yarden's field, bringing his number of monsters, up to five.
Yarden LP: 4000
Burning Dragon - Dragon/Fire/Level 7/Effect: 2500/2100
Seiyaryu - Dragon/Light/Level 7/Normal: 2500/2300
Baby Dragon - Dragon/Wind/Level 3/Normal: 1200/700
Cyber Dark Horn - Machine/Dark/Level 4/Effect: 3200/800
Serpent Night Dragon - Dragon/Dark/Level 7/Normal: 2350/2400
"Cyber Dark Horn, take out Summoned Skull!" Yarden laughed.
His monster howled and unleashed a beam of darkness from its maw, that swept over the arch fiend monster and blew it to pieces.
Dimitri LP: 4800
"Seyiaryu, show that pansy magician what a real twenty five hundred beast stick looks like!" he continued.
With a keening roar, Seiyaru obeyed and opened its mouth wide open, unleashing a beam of energy that was countered by one fired from the Dark Magician's staff.
Both beams met in the middle and swelled up into a giant sphere, before exploding outwards and consuming both monsters.
And leaving Dimitri's.
"No, no!" Dimitri cried out, almost pleadingly so.
Yarden, had no mercy though, "You want to play with the big boys? Don't forget who the real king of the One Turn Kill is around here," the red clad Obelisk Blue taunted mercilessly, "Serpent Night Dragon, Burning Dragon, Baby Dragon, arse blaster attack!"
As one, each of the three dragons unleashed their respective flame breaths towards Dimitri.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" Dimitri screamed as the attacks swept over him, midway through the deep voice he'd put on, puttering out into his usual high pitched one.
And his life points dwindled to nothing.
Dimitri LP: 0
There was a series of face palms atop the cliff, Zane was not ashamed to admit, he was included, alongside Jasmine and Alexis.
Where as, Jaden thought it was hilarious.
But, he noticed something odd.
As Dimitri fell to his knees, banging his fists against the ground and lamenting his inability as a duelist, even with the King of Games deck to use, he swore…that Serpent Night Dragon turned and gave Yarden an almost insulted look, while the Baby Dragon was….giggling? Before the trio dragons fizzled away with the end of the duel.
