Re: Yu-Gi-Oh! Sorcerer Kings
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She glared at her opponent.
“Yumi…” said Marlon. “Remember when I said that triceratops didn’t charge? Well this isn’t a triceratops. Same family, maybe, but different species entirely.
“Sabersaurus, attack her directly!”
Clearly it wasn’t a triceratops, because it charged at Yumi like a rhino. Yumi hollered as it jammed its horns into her torso and she was thrown back ten feet.
(Y: 1,500) -------------------- (M: 6,500)
“Eh…” muttered Marlon. “I must have counted wrong… I should have left you with only 1,200 left.”
“No, you didn’t count wrong…” muttered Yumi, getting up.
She staggered to her feet.
“The instant it destroyed Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl gained 300 more Attack Points, so I have more to work with…
“So, anything else?”
Marlon looked at the last card in his hand.
“No…” he said.
* * * * * * * * * *
“HA, HA, HA, HA!” laughed the man standing behind Nicholas and Olga. “I have got to look this up on the internet tonight… I have GOT to see that again…”
“What?” asked Nicholas. “Yumi getting clobbered? I didn’t think it was very funny…”
“Not that…” he replied. “I just love seeing that bimbo of hers die…”
There was a pause.
“Dark Magician Girl?” asked Olga.
The man clenched his fist.
“I loathe that harlot…” he muttered. “With her low-cut dress and come-hither smile… I can’t get enough of thinking of ways to kill that Monster in a duel…”
“What did she ever do to you?” asked Nicholas.
“Well, it’s… complicated,” he replied. “But keep this in mind… She’s the key to beating Yumi. She has some sort of connection to that card.”
“Why?” asked Olga. “Is it worth something?”
The man sighed. He took a card out of the folds of his clothing.
“See this?” he asked. “This is a Meteo the Matchless that was given to the semi-finalists in the 2040 Duel Monsters European Invitational. It is ‘worth something’, at least as far as money is concerned.
“But to Yumi, that card is something you cannot put a price on…”
* * * * * * * * * *
Yumi drew a card.
This might help… she thought.
“I play my Graceful Charity!” she exclaimed.
Her deck glowed, and she drew three cards.
All right, she thought, looking at them. Now I might have a chance…
She discarded two cards.
“I place a Monster in Defense Mode, and toss three cards facedown,” she said.
A facedown Monster appeared, and three facedown cards followed.
“Your move…” she said.
Marlon drew a card.
Hmm, Black Tyranno… he thought. That would need two sacrifices, and sacrificing Ultimate Tyranno would be folly…
“Ultimate Tyranno, attack!” he ordered.
The huge Dinosaur charged.
“Go!” shouted Yumi, as her Trap Card lifted. “Mirror Force!”
A blast of light covered the arena, and Marlon’s two Monsters were blasted to atoms.
“Heh, heh, heh…” chuckled Marlon. “Jolly good, Yumi… But I also have a Trap Card…”
His facedown card lifted, showing the image of four workers digging up a dinosaur skeleton.
“Fossil Excavation,” he said. “I simply need to discard one card, and one of my Dinosaurs comes back.”
He discarded his Black Tyranno.
The ground burst open, and a swarm of bones burst out. They all pieced together, forming into a T-Rex skeleton…
Then, in a flash of energy, the skeleton transformed into Ultimate Tyranno.
“Of course…” said Marlon, “a Monster revived by this Trap loses its effect, but given that it can be as much a hindrance as a help in this case, that may be a good thing.
“Now, Ultimate Tyranno, continue your attack!”
The Dinosaur charged. Magician of Faith appeared on the card, and was swallowed whole.
“Thanks,” said Yumi. “Now I get to retrieve one Spell Card from my Graveyard…”
A card slipped out of her discard slot. She added it to her hand.
“Now… It’s my move…”
She drew a card.
She grinned.
“Well, Marlon…” she said. “I honestly don’t know if Rex Raptor ever had a problem with this next guy, but he sure did a job on his pal Weevil Underwood.”
Marlon paused.
“Wait…” he said. “I remember hearing something about that… A Spellcaster Monster whose name made Underwood tremble with fear after he had taken a beating from it in a duel with Yugi. What was it again?
“Wait, don’t tell me… Oh, it’s on the tip of my tongue!”
“I’ll show you…” said Yumi. “I summon Breaker the Magical Warrior.”
In a shadow aura, a mysterious figure appeared. It was a man in red and gold armor, with a cape and pointed helmet that covered all of his face except for glowing blue eyes. He held a longsword in his right hand, and a diamond-shaped shield with a blue gem in the center in his left. (1,600/1,000) –> (1,900/1,000)
“Ah, yes,” said Marlon. “That’s the rascal…”
“Yeah, well…” said Yumi, “Breaker is a guy with an identity crisis. He’s a Spellcaster, and that can never change, but people call him a Warrior, and he tries to act like one, wearing armor and carrying a sword and shield. Frankly, there are times when he doesn’t know what he is…
“But he does know what he’s good at doing. See, when he’s summoned, he gets a counter that boosts his Attack Score by 300. And by expending that counter, he can destroy one Spell or Trap Card.
“So, he’s gonna do that to destroy your Fossil Excavation.”
Breaker held up his shield, and the gem glowed. His Attack fell down to 1,600, and the Trap shattered.
Ultimate Tyranno roared, and then turned back into bones. They fell to the ground in a clatter and turned to dust.
“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,” said Yumi. “Breaker, attack directly with breaking blade!”
Breaker the Magical Warrior leapt at Marlon with his sword held high. Marlon cringed as the Spellcaster slashed at him with the weapon.
(Y: 1,500) -------------------- (M: 4,900)
“Ergh…” muttered Marlon. “Jolly good, old girl… This is turning into quite an unusual challenge…”
He drew a card.
“I’ll place this in Defense Mode, and that will be all for my turn…”
A facedown Monster appeared.
“Your move…”
Is that another Miracle Jurassic Egg? thought Yumi, as she drew a card. I don’t want to go though that whole process again…
She looked at the card she had gotten back with Magician of Faith. It was sure to be a surprise, because she hadn’t used it yet. She had discarded it with Graceful Charity.
She looked at the card she had just drawn.
She opened her Field Slot and placed a card in it.
“I play Mausoleum of the Emperor!” she shouted.
Darkness shrouded the field…
Two ominous temples rose behind each of them, their doors flanked by flaming braziers. The two duelists were on platforms at each end, separated by a bridge over a dark pit that held mysterious shapes.
“What in the name of…” asked Marlon.
“Creepy, isn’t it?” asked Yumi. “And just to make it even scarier, down below us lurks the Terracotta Army, a collection of hundreds of ancient statues. Both duelists can use these artifacts as sacrifices to summon Monsters, if he or she merely pays 1,000 Life Points for each of them.
“So I’ll pay 1,000 Life Points…”
A stone statue of a warrior in shogun armor holding a sword floated up to her side of the field. It vanished into pixels.
“And I’ll summon Chaos Command Magician.”
A new Spellcaster appeared. This one was dressed in a glossy black robe, with a wide-brimmed hat, and carried a fancy staff. (2,400/1,900)
“Attack his facedown Monster!” she shouted. “Chaos Magic!”
Chaos Command Magician shot a blast of multicolored, burning lights. A dinosaur appeared on the facedown card with a flat, rounded snout. It was blasted to pieces.
“Heh, heh…” chuckled Marlon. “Sorry old girl, that was my Hyper Hammerhead. So it looks like that 1,000 Life Points you spent was a big waste…”
“Oh?” asked Yumi. “How so?”
Marlon paused. He looked at the field.
“Wait a bloody minute…” he said. “It was supposed to return your Monster to your hand! Why didn’t it?”
“Because, Chaos Command Magician is immune to Monster effects that target,” interrupted Ren. “Didn’t you know that?”
Marlon paused.
“Oh…” he said. “Yeah, it… kind of slipped my mind…”
“Breaker, attack directly!” shouted Yumi.
“Not again…” muttered Marlon.
He shielded himself as Breaker slashed with his sword.
* * * * * * * * * *
“Eh, lucky…” muttered Nicholas.
“Don’t give me that,” said Olga. “You were pretty lucky in your first duel from what I heard.”
“Well, that jerk needed to be taken down a peg,” said Nicholas. “Idiot was so certain his brilliant Warrior/RFG strategy could never be defeated, thought he was better than everybody… Guys like that drive me barmy.”
“Well make sure you don’t turn into one yourself,” said the man behind them. “And speaking of which, those first duels were sufficient test runs for your actual decks, but until I say otherwise, use your more… believable ones from now on. We don’t want to scare the Dickens out of everyone on this island, nor do we want to attract undue attention.”
They nodded, and turned back to watch.
* * * * * * * * * *
(Y: 500) -------------------- (M: 3,300)
Marlon considered the situation and the one card left in his hand.
I still have a few heavy hitters in my deck, he thought, and summoning them would be all the easier thanks to this Field Spell. And she has only 500 Life Points left…
But two facedown cards…
He drew.
“I play… Pot of Greed…” he said.
He made two draws.
He grinned.
“Okay, Yumi…” he said. “I’ll use the effect of this Field myself, and pay 1,000 Life Points…”
A statue floated up to his side. It disintegrated.
“And I summon… Dark Driceratops!”
A creature that appeared to be part triceratops and part bird appeared, covered with colorful feathers. (2,400/1,500)
“Next I play… Dinostomp! Now I can destroy one of your Spell or Trap Cards.”
He played the Spell Card, and Dark Driceratops stomped its foot down, and a shockwave tore forth, heading towards the facedown card on the right…
“Chain!” shouted Yumi, as it lifted up. “Rush Recklessly! Now Breaker’s Attack Score goes up by 700 points!”
The Spell Card shattered, and Breaker rose to an Attack of 2,300.
Marlon frowned…
“Dark Driceratops…” he said, “attack Breaker! Sonic screech!”
Dark Driceratops let out a wave of earsplitting sound from its beak, and Breaker shattered.
“Before you end your turn,” said Yumi, “I’ll activate my other Trap…”
Her other facedown card lifted.
“Life-Absorbing Machine. We’ll get to that in a minute.”
“Jolly good…” said Marlon. “My turn is over now.”
(Y: 400) -------------------- (M: 2,300)
“Then I draw one card,” said Yumi, drawing. “And thanks to Life-Absorbing Machine, I gain back half of what I paid last turn…”
The card glowed, and her Life Points went up slightly.
(Y: 900) -------------------- (M: 2,300)
“And that gives me just enough,” she said, fitting a card into her Disk. “I play Premature Burial.”
She glowed as her Life Points dipped, and Dark Magician crawled out of the ground. (2,500/2,100)
“Attack his Dark Driceratops! Dark magic attack!”
Dark Magician cast his dark spell, and Dark Driceratops exploded into a burst of pixels.
“By Jove…” said Marlon.
“Chaos Command Magician…” said Yumi, “attack directly!”
Marlon shielded himself as the chaos mage shot his blast, and he staggered back under it.
Marlon gasped for breath…
(Y: 100) -------------------- (M: 0)
“Wow…” said Ren. “I haven’t seen a duel that close since… I haven’t seen a duel that close!”
As the holograms faded away, the Pharaoh appeared behind Yumi. She looked at her badge, which was now Green.
“Good work,” he said. “The first day, and already you’re two duels ahead.”
“Just promise me you’ll always be there… partner!” she said.
“Well…” said Marlon. “That was invigorating, I must say… I dare say I’d best try harder.”
“You didn’t do too bad,” said Chelsea. “That was closer to beating Yumi than I ever came.
“Say, we didn’t see much of the museum before you showed up. Why don’t you show us around? We’ve got some time to kill…”
“I’d be delighted…” said Marlon with a chuckle.
* * * * * * * * * *
Nicholas and Olga had gone their separate ways, and their strange benefactor was back in the penthouse suite of the hotel, sending text messages on a cell phone.
“There,” he said, as the last one was sent. “Soon they’ll all be out looking.”
He looked at a special projector on the other side of the room and smirked.
“Guess I can kill time for an hour…” he said.
He activated a Duel Disk on his arm, and then hit a remote. The projector activated, and Dark Magician Girl appeared from out of it.
He played a card on his Disk, and Mobius the Frost Monarch appeared.
“Attack!” he shouted.
Mobius shot a blast of ice, and Dark Magician Girl screamed before she was frozen and then shattered into shards.
This was his hobby – having that projector summon Dark Magician Girl, and then using Monsters, Spells, or Traps to kill her.
After all, she had cost him a great treasure.
He fit a card into his Disk and a facedown card appeared.
He hit the remote again, and she appeared again.
He triggered the Trap, and she screamed again as she was bound to a Nightmare Wheel.
He watched as the Wheel turned, and tears appeared in her eyes.
Finally, he placed a card on his Disk, and a Luster Dragon appeared. He gave the command, and she was blown away again.
He never got tired of this.
* * * * * * * * * *
Yumi felt a strange chill… Something unpleasant was happening…
“And this fellah,” said Marlon, “was the herbivore known as the Pachycephalosaurus. Not many fossils exist. You might be interested in knowing that his name means ‘thick-headed lizard’.”
As Chelsea went to take a picture of the large skeleton, they all looked at it, especially the skull, which was abnormally large and rounded.
“Bet folks called him a bonehead a lot,” said Ren.
“An interesting analogy,” said Marlon. “His very thick skull could be used for both defensive and offensive purposes.”
“Uhm, yeah…” muttered Yumi, nervously.
“Say, Marlon, some people say these days that dinosaurs were smarter than we think they were. Do you think there’s any truth to that?”
“Well, from what we know,” said Marlon, “they had very small brains… But even if they were smarter than what we originally assumed, I doubt we could have expected the type of smarts we have seen in popular media…”
* * * * * * * * * *
Meanwhile, Mick and two others were watching the outside of the museum.
“Aw, are they ever going to come out of there?” whined Mick.
“Why?” asked the older boy, who was rather mad at him. “What do you care?”
“Please?” asked Mick. “Just let me duel her again…”
“No,” said the older boy. “For three reasons. One, you’re an idiot. Two, she has a side deck, and she likely has plenty of ways to counter or destroy your Monsters in it. Think of what would have happened if that Trap Card had been Magic Cylinder instead of Dust Tornado.
“Third, you’re an idiot.”
“Hey, stop calling my brother an idiot!” shouted the third member of the group.
The speaker was a young girl wearing similar punk ensemble.
“Oh?” asked the punk. “I was planning on using that coupon, thank you very much!”
“Deal with it,” said the girl. “When Chelsea comes out, I’m gonna duel her, and this time it will be personal… She messes with my family, she messes with me!”
Winning her second victory, Yumi advances to Green status. But a potential enemy might loom ahead, and it seems he isn’t one to lurk hidden like most of her family’s enemies. Danger may lie ahead… What will happen next?
DINOSTOMP (Spell Card)
Quickplay Spell
Image: A dinosaur’s foot crashing down on the underbrush.
Card Description: You can activate this card when you have at least one Dinosaur Type Monster face-up on your side of the field. Destroy one Spell or Trap Card on the field.
Note: “Dinostomp” was first used by Hasselberry in the “Yu-Gi-Oh GX” episode “Camaraderie Contest”. All creative credit goes to the writers of that episode.
Chelsea: Hey, guys… I hate to bring this up, but there’s a stale smell in the air again…
Ren: Think Mick is back for revenge?
Chelsea: No… It’s a similar smell, but different. And it’s just as nasty…
Yumi: It figures… The three of us formed a team, so Mick likely had the same idea with another group…
Coming next, “Chelsea’s Round Two! Electric Boogaloo!”
Ren: Think we’ll see that “special” card you’ve been hinting at?
Chelsea: You never know…
Re: Yu-Gi-Oh! Sorcerer Kings
