Vs Daredevil Grandpa + What?!

SOLOMON MUTO 2000 LP

KIRIHARA ASUTO 2000 LP

"Very well gramps, senior privileges" I said with a saccharine smile while already draw the first five cards from my new, rushed, deck

With a cough of indignation gramps too draw his first hand from the deck, "I already know that I am all Sonny, no need to rub it in my face, very well I draw, hohohohoh" he said while laughing at whatever he has drawn, at that time my guts were screaming at me for giving away the first turn, should have listened that time.

"Prepare yourself Sonny, you have never seen this cards before!" he said while showing a spell card that depicted some sort of royal sarcophagus made entirely of gold and some mysterious alloy while it was illuminated by green light that seemed to arise from some circle like signs that were carved on the floor.

"I will play my spell card King's Sarcophagus" while we lacked a virtual stadium to bring out what many Yu-Gi-Oh! Would fanboy for, meaning dueling with live breathing super advanced holograms that make everything just even more exciting, one should never forget that this card game was too a RPG in its infancy, though, that now was optional, still with simple wood game board still helped to set the mood for the duel, or I would have keep going if brain wasn't going all….

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?!

WHERE?

HOW?

WHO?

DEFUCK?!

 Yep, my mind wasn't In the right place anymore, and I am pretty sure my face resembled that of Gru, Despicable Me MC, while he saw a flying ship, though the latter is like, dude it's a flying ship, weirder shit had already happened, I think I had the time to literally throw everything I knew to the sewer or some place that pretty much smelled and looked like bullshit!

It was part of a new archetype heavily centered around a new version of the old Lv Up card Horus Dragon of the Black Flame, this new type came out around 2023 in the Age of Overlord TCG pack, while in Master Duel came around the first days of May in the Revived Legion pack in 2024, I can only say that for DM, this type was not only new, it wasn't supposed to exist period; it wasn't even created until two decades later and Horus first appearances was during the GX era, a couple of years after the end of the anime and the epilogue movie that was DSOD, not now! I could feel my sweat starting to trickle down my back, this card and whatever is inside gramps new deck spelled troubles for me and worse much much worse.

"Ohohohoho, seems like I gave you a very good scare don't you think so Sonny?" gramps said while smiling like a cheshire cat to me, maybe thinking that he caught off guard, but the truth was the complete opposite to it, scared? Yes, I was, because there was no way for me to know how thing would develop from this point forward, yeah my cards weren't normal either that's why I bought some cards of the DM era and put it in my deck, just to say, I am trying to blend here you know; but this put me in a corner, I didn't know nothing about his strategy and with I couldn't trust anymore on any previous events or actions of the cast, and that means, that the future was and uncertain and pale white, shit.

"Y-yeah, you can say so gramps, but you know like, what that card that I have never seen before actually does?" bullshiting through my teeth's to the bitter end ladies and gents, my best way of surviving this shit.

"Oh that's simple Sonny, you see any "Horus" monsters I control cannot be destroyed by card effects that do not target them. I can send 1 card from my hand to the GY; send 1 "Horus" monster from my Deck to the GY. Though I can only use this effect of "King's Sarcophagus" up to four times per turn. Once per turn, at the start of the Damage Step, if one of my "Horus" monster battles an opponent's monster: I can send that opponent's monster to the GY. See nothing great at all" nothing great MY---------

"And now I will exactly do that!" he said bringing me out of my rant and making me pay attention to his next action, "I will use my King's Sarcophagus effect twice in this turn of mine two send this two cards Hapi, Guidance of Horus and Qebehsenuef, Protection of Horus from my hand to the graveyard and now, I will send two Horus monster from my deck to the Graveyard, those being Imsety, Glory of Horus and Duamutef, Blessing of Horus" he showed the four cards and consequently throwed them to the GY just like their effect said living him with only three cards in his hand now.

"I haven't ended yet, I will activate my second spell card in my hand Millennium Cross" the image of a golden cross with the top part being the millennium eye appeared in the form of a card that only helped me to almost have a seizure in the process. "This card is really special, because, it let me take 5 "Forbidden One" Monster Cards from my hand, Deck, and/or face-up field and reveal them, then Special Summon 1 "The Phantom Exodia Incarnate" from my Extra Deck, then shuffle all face-up Monster Cards I control into the Deck, except "Exodia" Monster Cards whose original Level is 10 or higher and "Sennen" or "Millennium" Monster Cards, also I cannot Summon monsters for the rest of this turn except set summoning that's it; the best parts is that I don't send this car to my graveyard after its use but immediately after activation, I can shuffle this card into the Deck instead of sending it to the GY." He explained while placing the spell card near to his King's Sarcophagus to activate it which he later did by looking through his deck and revealing a complete set of Exodia the Forbidden One which he later put back into the deck an shuffle it.

"After this I special summon Level 10 The Phantom Exodia Incarnate in attack position" a purple colored card was then placed on the center monster zone of the board this one depicting one of the many versions of Exodia, part of the new Exodia archetype, which I didn't know much of.

[THE PHANTOM EXODIA INCARNATE]

[ATTRIBUTE DARK]

[TYPES Spellcaster / Fusion / Effect]

[LEVEL 10]

[ATK ?/ DEF 0]

[5 "Forbidden One" monsters

This card on the field cannot be destroyed by your opponent's card effects. Once per turn, if this card battles, during damage calculation: It gains ATK equal to your current LP. Once per turn, when a Spell/Trap Card or effect is activated (Quick Effect): You can negate the activation. Once per turn, during the End Phase: You can Set 1 "Exod" Spell/Trap or "Obliterate!!!" directly from your Deck. Once per turn, during your Standby Phase: You lose 1000 LP.]

"Sadly, this being the first turn of the duel I can't declare an attack, nor summon any more monsters thanks to my Millenium Cross´s effect, so I end my turn" he said while looking at his field where now remained King´s Sarcophagus and The Phantom Exodia Incarnate, "Nonetheless this being my end phase I will activate The Phantom Exodia Incarnate effect and that is that once per turn, during the end phase, I can set one Exod spell/trap card or Obliterate!!! Directly from my deck, and I choose my Raging Hellfire - Exod Flame, believe me Sonny this card will give me my win in this duel" he said while showing me the card per the game rules and later setting it, I didn't know none of those cards effect at that time so I was going to receive quite the nasty surprise in a couple of minutes.

Still, the game continues, and I wasn't going to chat with him during the duels, I liked to go straight forward during the duel and enjoy the thrill of it, sadly I was rusted, really rusted and that caused that I made some really nasty mistakes.

"My turn, I draw!"

-Pot of Greed

-Fallen of Albaz

- Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring

-Parlor Dragonmaid

-Kitchen Dragonmaid

-Dragonmaid Changeover

(Nice) in my mind, I thought I had won already, the strategy wasn't complex, I had already played this song over and over again, I should have stayed calm at that time though, really, sometimes I could be completely ignorant or simply rushed at everything without thinking much of the consequences, like what you are going to read next.

"First comes first, I will activate my spell card Pot of Greed which will let me draw two cards from my deck" I said while reaching towards my deck "Hold on young man, you haven't forgotten about my monster effect yet, have you?" gramps exclaimed while pointing and his card, "You see, Sonny my The Phantom Exodia Incarnate has a particular nice effect among the many he already had with him and that's it that, once per turn, when a Spell/Trap Card or effect is activated I can negate their activation" he said while pointing at Pot of Greed which a reluctantly had to throw in my graveyard, of course I knew that I didn't ask about Phantom Exodia effect, but were would be thrill about it, it was a deck I have never seen in my life, against a good opponent that respected his cards and took care of them in the right way, I wasn't going to demand an explanation from him, much less he wasn't obligated to tell me, at least not from the get go, in my world yes you have to explain it, but in here well, there were too many liberties to begin with.

"Well, I will summon my Fallen of Albaz" I said while slamming, not ashamed of it, one of the most famous monster cards in existence, one of the ring leaders of the Branded deck, Albaz, the picture described a young man of tanned complexion, silver eyes and hair, wearing robes of red, black and gold that leaved exposed the chest part of his entire attire, "And here comes something new for you gramps, if Albaz is normal or special summoned, I can discard one card and; fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster from my Extra Deck, using monsters on either field as Fusion Material, including this card, but I cannot use other monsters as materials."

[FALLEN OF ALBAZ]

[ATTRIBUTE DARK]

[TYPES Dragon / Effect]

[LEVEL 4]

[ATK 1800/ DEF 0]

[If this card is Normal or Special Summoned (except during the Damage Step): You can discard 1 card; Fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, using monsters on either field as Fusion Material, including this card, but you cannot use other monsters you control as Fusion Material. You can only use this effect of "Fallen of Albaz" once per turn.]

"I choose, The Phantom Exodia Incarnate on your field, and since it's a fusion monster I can actually summon this dragon from my extra deck" I said while pointing at his monster which with a serene expression put first in his growing GY, never stopping smiling waiting for what I was going to summon "I fusion summon my Level 8 Mirrorjade The Iceblade Dragon in attack position"

The pictue of the card was of a mighty roaring dragon that seemed to be made of pure ice which actually acted more like and armor of sorts hiding the powerful hi ashen black colored body that seemed to pulse with foreign red lines encompassed in a twisted black and purple light that seemed to throb with power.

[MIRRORJADE THE ICEBLADE DRAGON]

[ATTRIBUTE DARK]

[TYPES Wyrm / Fusion / Effect]

[LEVEL 8]

[ATK 3000/ DEF 2500]

["Fallen of Albaz" + 1 Fusion Monster

You can only control 1 "Mirrorjade the Iceblade Dragon". Once per turn (Quick Effect): You can send 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck to the GY that mentions "Fallen of Albaz" as material; banish 1 monster on the field, also this card cannot use this effect next turn. If this Fusion Summoned card in its owner's control leaves the field because of an opponent's card: You can destroy all monsters your opponent controls during the End Phase of this turn.]

"I haven't finished yet, I will use my Dragonmaid Changeover spell card from my hand, using my Parlor Dragonmaid and Kitchen Dragonmaid as fusion material to fusion summon my Level 9 House Dragonmaid in attack position" I said while sending my three cards to my GY and summoning another fusion monster, this too a dragon, but this time honoring her name was a kind, intellectual woman wearing glasses that gave a sophisticate appearance wearing a Victorian maid dress, illuminated by the sun light that seemed to envelope her on a warmth light, but the most eye catching thing on her would the really long and thick tail adorned with scaled of red, black and white, the tip of her tail being a porcelain white in the shape of a flame, black horns that sprouted form the sides of her head with red tips and arm guards that replicated dragon claws with tiny red and black wings sprouting from her wrists.

[PARLOR DRAGONMAID]

[ATTRIBUTE WIND]

[TYPES Dragon / Effect]

[LEVEL 3]

[ATK 500/ DEF 1700]

[If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can send 1 "Dragonmaid" card from your Deck to the GY, except "Parlor Dragonmaid". At the start of the Battle Phase: You can return this card to the hand, and if you do, Special Summon 1 Level 8 "Dragonmaid" monster from your hand or GY. You can only use each effect of "Parlor Dragonmaid" once per turn]

[KITCHEN DRAGONMAID]

[ATTRIBUTE FIRE]

[TYPES Dragon / Effect]

[LEVEL 3]

[ATK 500/ DEF 1700]

[If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 "Dragonmaid" monster from your Deck to your hand, except "Kitchen Dragonmaid", then send 1 "Dragonmaid" monster from your hand to the GY. At the start of the Battle Phase: You can return this card to the hand, and if you do, Special Summon 1 Level 8 "Dragonmaid" monster from your hand or GY. You can only use each effect of "Kitchen Dragonmaid" once per turn.]

[HOUSE DRAGONMAID]

[ATTRIBUTE LIGHT]

[TYPES Dragon / Fusion / Effect]

[LEVEL 9]

[ATK 3000/ DEF 2000]

[1 "Dragonmaid" monster + 1 Dragon monster

Once per turn, during the Standby Phase: You can target 1 other "Dragonmaid" monster you control; Special Summon 1 "Dragonmaid" monster from your hand or GY in Defense Position, whose Level is 1 higher or 1 lower than it. When another face-up Dragon monster(s) you control returns to your hand (except during the Damage Step): You can target 1 monster your opponent controls; destroy it.]

[DRAGONMAID CHANGEOVER]

 [TYPES SPELL]

[PROPERTY NORMAL]

 [Fusion Summon 1 Dragon Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, using monsters from your hand or field as Fusion Material. While this card is in your GY: You can target 1 "Dragonmaid" monster you control; add this card to your hand, and if you do, return that monster to the hand. You can only use this effect of "Dragonmaid Changeover" once per turn.]

"And now, Mirrorjade, direct attack!" I declared, one of the rules of this time or at least before battle city was that only one monster could attack per turn, it helped to raise the field, and at the same time it was quite annoying considering that sometimes you only needed to end everything with a single group of monsters instead of only one, with the starting life points being 2k then, it made sort of sense.

"Not bad at all Sonny, but you sacrificed ability for power here and that will grant me my victory here, now I will activate the effects of the monsters in my graveyard" he said while taking out four cards from his GY and then began summoning the servants of Horus to the field, something which was completely possible thanks to the presence of King's Sarcophagus in the fiel and to their own inherent effects.

[QEBEHSENUEF, PROTECTION OF HORUS]

[ATTRIBUTE EARTH]

[TYPES Winged Beast / Effect]

[LEVEL 8]

[ATK 2500/ DEF 2000]

[If you control "King's Sarcophagus", you can Special Summon this card (from your GY). You can only Special Summon "Qebensenuef, Protection of Horus" once per turn this way. If another card(s) you control leaves the field by an opponent's card effect while this card is in your Monster Zone (except during the Damage Step): You can activate this effect; this turn, your opponent's monsters cannot target "Horus" monsters on the field for attacks, also your opponent cannot target "Horus" monsters on the field with card effects. You can only use this effect of "Qebensenuef, Aegis of Horus" once per turn.]

[IMSETY, GLORY OF HORUS]

[ATTRIBUTE DARK]

[TYPES Spellcaster / Effect]

[LEVEL 8]

[ATK 3000/ DEF 1800]

[If you control "King's Sarcophagus", you can Special Summon this card (from your GY). You can only Special Summon "Imsety, Glory of Horus" with once per turn this way. You can only use each of the following effects of "Imsety, Glory of Horus" once per turn. You can send 2 cards from your hand to the GY, including this card; add 1 "King's Sarcophagus" from your Deck to your hand, then draw 1 card. If another card(s) you control leaves the field by an opponent's card effect while this card is in your Monster Zone (except during the Damage Step): You can send 1 card on the field to the GY.]

[DUAMUTEF, BLESSING OF HORUS]

[ATTRIBUTE WATER]

[TYPES Beast / Effect]

[LEVEL 8]

[ATK 0/ DEF 0]

[If you control "King's Sarcophagus", you can Special Summon this card (from your GY). You can only Special Summon "Duamutef, Blessing of Horus" once per turn this way. Gains 1200 ATK/DEF for each "Horus" monster you control. If another card(s) you control leaves the field by an opponent's card effect, while this card is in your Monster Zone (except during the Damage Step): You can draw cards equal to the number of monsters with different names in your Main Monster Zone. You can only use this effect of "Duamutef, Blessing of Horus" once per turn.]

[HAPI, GUIDANCE OF HORUS]

[ATTRIBUTE WIND]

[TYPES Beast-Warrior / Effect]

[LEVEL 8]

[ATK 2400/ DEF 1600]

[If you control "King's Sarcophagus", you can Special Summon this card (from your GY). You can only Special Summon "Hapi, Guidance of Horus" once per turn this way. If another card(s) you control leaves the field by an opponent's card effect, while this card is in your Monster Zone (except during the Damage Step): You can target 2 cards that are banished and/or in the GYs; either add both to the hand or shuffle both into the Deck. You can only use this effect of "Hapi, Vanguard of Horus" once per turn.]

Taking the adjacent monster zones and leaving the center empty, in the field he summoned, the entire Horus group sans Horus itself to the field, each one of them dressed in ancient ceremonial attire, depicting in presentation order, a bird, a magician, a dog and an ape, each one with effect related with the destruction of the cards in the field, their effect could only be activated that way, and still I couldn't even go as far as to activate Mirrorjade effect for fear of one of their effect but because they were protected by King's Sarcophagus.

[KING'S SARCOPHAGUS]

 [TYPE SPELL]

[PROPERTY CONTINUOUS]

 ["Horus" monsters you control cannot be destroyed by card effects that do not target them. You can send 1 card from your hand to the GY; send 1 "Horus" monster from your Deck to the GY. You can only use this effect of "King's Sarcophagus" up to four times per turn. Once per turn, at the start of the Damage Step, if your "Horus" monster battles an opponent's monster: You can send that opponent's monster to the GY.]

While it wouldn't be a problem for Mirrorjade's effect, wish worked on banishing a fusion monster that needed as material a Fallen of Albaz, since it specifically targeted a single monster in the monster zone of my enemy to banish, but it wouldn't let him use the same effect on my next turn, instead by example, mirror force, black hole or raigeki would indiscriminately or at least in the case of black hole, would clean the field, and that means.

I am in trouble, each one of their effect it's difficult to dealt with, not only that but King's Sarcophagus last effect literally make it impossible for me to attack them, since it send them to the GY once they engage in battle, if I had more negate or if I could destroy the sarcophagus then I could attack without problem, even that if I were to destroy the sarcophagus that will only activate their effect, effectively making them unaffected by cards effect, letting them being able to draw cards and even using the same effect as the sarcophagus, the ability to destroy one monster after damage calculation, the only requirement, leave the field, not by effect or battle, and that means, it doesn't matter if you banish, destroy or send back to hand, as long as it leave the field then, I am done, and I only have one Ash Blossom in my hand, I can't negate all of their effects, this is my faults for not using her when gramps activated Exodia Phantom effect to negate spell/trap cars once per turn, I was overconfident, ignorant, impatient, and just like he said, I exchanged ability for pure power, I lost.

I gritted my teeth's and left a sigh to escape from my mouth, well then, time to take my loss like a man.

"Now Sonny, what are you going to do now?" his gaze was firm, looking me straight in the eyes, I wasn't going to look any other way, a loss is a loss, and a win is a win "I end my turn" but from losing, one gets better.

"Very well, I draw, I wil lend this duel in this turn Sonny, prepare yourself" he said after drawing the card that he need at that time, by his own words, the heart of the cards answered to him granting victory, "I will activate my King's Sarcophagus effect to send one card from hand to the graveyard and then I will send my Horus the Black Flame Deity to the graveyard from my deck" he said showing me a pot of greed and said dragon first, to later put them in the GY, "Now Sonny, let me show a good friend of mine, I special summon Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord in attack position!"

The card was the image of a giant muscled tanned man, with an uncanny resemblance to Exodia, with the difference being his attire, which consisted of a pair of blue trousers, as black golden sash, black bands on his wrists and Achilles tendons, and a black headpiece that resembled the original Exodia by a lot that too covered his shoulder and chest.

[EXODIUS THE ULTIMATE FORBIDDEN LORD]

[ATTRIBUTE DARK]

[TYPES Spellcaster / Effect]

[LEVEL 10]

[ATK ?/ DEF 0]

[Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by shuffling all monsters in your Graveyard into the Deck, and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. When this card declares an attack: Send 1 monster from your hand or Deck to the Graveyard. This card gains 1000 ATK for each Normal Monster in your Graveyard. If this face-up card would leave the field, banish it instead. If there are 5 different "Forbidden One" cards in your Graveyard that were sent there by this card's effect, you win the Duel.]

"I can only summon him thanks to his own effect which let me to shuffle back all the monsters in my GY to my deck; And now the end has come Sonny it was a short duel I admit it, but it was fun and I could see something really interesting" he said with a smile, there was no malice, or disappointment in it, only understanding, or I guess it was that he understood something about me, never asked though.

"I activate my trap card, Raging Hellfire - Exod Flame" the same trap card that he set thanks to Exodia Phantom made it grand debut at that time, there was no hologram, grand show of power, only the peace and quiet of the plaza around and still, I couldn't help but smile, I knew that my deck wasn't any close to being complete, I knew that I was rushing things after finding myself in this world that I used to love, but still, I was glad, that my first loss was against the kindest person that I have ever meet in both of my lives.

[RAGING HELLFIRE-EXOD FLAME]

 [TYPE TRAP]

[PROPERTY NORMAL]

 [If you control a Level 10 or higher "Exodia" monster: Destroy all cards your opponent controls. If this card is in your GY, except during the turn it was sent there: You can banish it and activate 1 of these effects;

Add 1 "Forbidden One" monster from your Deck or GY to your hand. Shuffle up to 5 "Forbidden One" monsters from your GY and/or banishment into the Deck.

You can only use each effect of "Raging Hellfire - Exod Flame" once per turn]

"Bring it on, gramps" he smiled, and that was what signaled the end of this duel, I took my House and Mirrorjade and deposited them in my GY, knowing that Mirrorjade effect was already negated, "Now, I direct attack with Imsety, Glory of Horus!"

SOLOMON MUTO 2000 LP

KIRIHARA ASUTO 2000 LP –) 0000