Chapter 97: Armor Rampage

Chapter 97 “Armor Rampage!”

Victor – 3350 Raven – 4000

Turn 3 – Victor

Victor was fully dressed in his Armor monsters, having Psychic Armor Head attached to his head, Jet Claw to his right arm, Black Hole Shield to his left arm, Over Boost to his legs and Advanced Shield to his body. He had three face down cards on his back row.

Raven only had Rampage Raptor-1 and Rampage Powerplant on the field. That was on sight already worse enough, if you knew how to counter or play them. He also had one face down card. Plus he had a Rampage-Counter placed on Rampage Powerplant.

“I play Armor Enhancement,” Victor placed a card in his dueldisk. “Now until the end of this turn, all my Armor monsters gain 500 attack points.” Black Hole Shield (500/0), Advanced Shield (1500/0), Jet Claw (1000/0), Over Boost (500/1000) and Psychic Armor Head (500/500) all gained an extra layer of chrome as the card appeared on the field.

“Now, go ahead,” Raven challenged him. “Destroy my Rampage Raptor-1.”

“I was planning on doing so,” Victor thrusted forth his right arm, equipped with the deadly Jet Claw. “I strike your mechanized raptor with my Jet Claw. Grapple Blast!” He flung forward, striking Raptor-1 at his head, lowering Raven `s lifepoints to 3650. “Now because my Jet Claw must be destroyed, when it strikes a non-Armor-type monster, I can search my deck for a new piece of armor and add it to my hand.” He searches through his deck, picks a card out and adds it to his hand.

“You do realize your puny defense will not last long?” Raven questioned Victor who nods.

“We’ll see about that, there is a lot more about Armor decks then you can think of,” Victor looked at his hand and sighed. “I end my turn.”

Victor – 3350 Raven – 3650

Turn 4 – Raven

“Let`s see whether you can withstand the terror of my Rampage deck!” Raven sweeped off a new card from his deck and smiled. “First I gain 1 Rampage-Counter thanks to Rampage Powerplant [3] and now I pay all three of them to summon Rampage Raptor-1 (650/500) back to my field.”

“What are you going to do? Attack me directly again?” Victor laughed.

“Actually no,” Raven slid a card into his graveyard. “I tribute my Rampage Raptor-1 and send my Rampage Cannon-1 (0/500) to the graveyard in order to Special Summon Rampage Raptor-2 (1450/1200). Next I activate Rampage Generator, allowing me to place 1 Rampage-Counter each turn on any card on the field.”

“Now you have brought me a bigger artillery,” Victor taunted and he looked onto Raven`s field. ‘ ''His monsters harbor to many abilities to completely ignore them. I have to finish him off and soon. Otherwise he is gonna play with my balls and I don’t want him to do that.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Now I summon Rampage Cannon-2 (500/1000) in defense mode,” Raven announced as a cannon appeared on his side of the field. It was white and blue and was standing on a single platform. The two barrels of the cannon were pointed directly at Victor`s field. “Now I can deal 500 lifepoints of damage to your per turn (3350 -> 2850).”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Great,” Victor sighed and he looked upon his face down cards. “Now what are you gonna do?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Use Rampage Raptor-2 to attack your Black Hole Shield!” Raven ordered as the Raptor struck the left arm of Victor, destroying the card. “And since I destroyed the card before you could activate its effect, I deal the full damage to you (2850 -> 1400).”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“And I reveal Magnet Armor,” Victor intervened as his face down card flipped up. “Since my Black Hole Shield was destroyed, I can summon 1 Armor monster from my graveyard. Return to me, Jet Claw!” The grappling clawlike gauntlet returned on his right arm.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“For now I am done,” Raven tells Victor and he lowered his dueldisk. “I end my turn.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Victor – 1400 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Raven – 3650

Turn 5 – Victor

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Draw,” Victor picked the card up with his Jet Claw and smiled. “Now I playBuster Knuckle. The card I previously put in my hand thanks to Jet Claw.” Buster Knuckle was attached to his right arm. “Buster Knuckle gains 200 attack points per Armor-monster on the field (0/0 -> 1000/0).

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Interesting choise of cards,” Raven nodded and was not impressed. ‘ ''If this kid thinks he can stop me by playing with those Armor monsters, he is sadly mistaken. My master has ordered me to pick the girl up and my master has promised me no-one but me he trusts me the most.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I next activate Mage Power and equip it with my Buster Knuckle, raising its attack and defense power by 500 for every Spell and Trap Card I control,” Victor told Raven as new energy was infused into the gauntlet on his right arm, increasing its attack and defense power to 1500 (1000/0 -> 1500/500). Now I attack you with my Buster Knuckle and knock out your Cannon-2!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“That is just a minor dent in my plan.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“We’ll see,” Victor explained as he smiled. “My Buster Knuckle can even deal damage to you when your monster is in defense mode. Since Cannon-2 had 1000 defense points, you lose 500 lifepoints (3650 -> 3150). Now I end my turn.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Victor – 1400 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Raven – 3150

Turn 6 – Raven

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I draw,” Raven said as he brushed of some of the dust, the attack placed on him. “Now I gain 1 Rampage-Counter [2] and I remove them from my Rampage Powerplant in order to bring back Cannon-2. Next I send Raptor-2 and Cannon-2 to the graveyard in order to Special Summon Rampage Raptor-3 (1850/1500) and Rampage Cannon-3 (1000/1500), which is switched to defense mode directly when it is summoned.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“And he powered up his cards again,” Victor sighed and he looked at his hand and then at his field. ‘ ''I could use that card, but not yet. I have heard rumors about his deck. If they are true, we are in for so much more, and I might need that card later.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Now due to the fact that I Special Summoned twice in this turn, I can Special Summon Rampage Core (0/1000) to the field in defense mode,” Raven ordered as a core appeared on his side of the field, hovering near Raptor-3 and Cannon-3. “At which time allows me to activate the following card, 123 – Bot Code.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“The bot is coming,” Victor spoke on a little singing manner.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Bydiscarding 1 card I can Special Summon Rampage Bot-1 (700/500) to the field,” Raven tells Victor and he looks at the field as a small humanoid robot appeared next to the raptor and the cannon. “Now since no other Rampage monster has attacked, I can attack you directly with my Cannon-3. Feel the wrath on your resistance!” The cannon rolled forward and shot a blast at Victor, dealing massive damage.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ Damn, that damage feels real,<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ Victor grunted as he grabbed his chest. ‘ Very real.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ He trusted his arm forward and another one of his face down cards flipped up. “Armor Wall. As long as I have 5 Armor monsters on the field, Battle Damage in any kind is halved.” The impact was even as big as his lifepoints dropped to 900.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“For now that is all,” Raven spoke and looked at his field. With four monsters, surely Victor would make no mistake of attacking him. “I end my turn.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Victor – 900 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Raven – 3150

Turn 7 – Victor

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I draw,” Victor looked at his newly drawn card. ‘ ''Blast, Double Cloth Armor is not the card I need right now. But this card can help me better, but helps Raven as well, which might not be the brightest idea. I knew I should have used Black Hole Shield`s ability to negate the damage that was dealt, but Armor Wall works fine for now.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“My Mage Power has increased my Buster Knuckle by 1500 attack points, because I have three Spell or Trap Cards in play. But I am not done yet,” Victor slapped a new card on his dueldisk, taking Psychic Armor Head from his dueldisk. “I tribute Psychic Armor Head to Special Summon Psychic Command Visor (500/500). Next I play Double Summon and tribute Black Hole Shield to summon Black Hole Booster (0/0).”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">The new helmet on Victor`s head had a similar design as Psychic Armor Head but was more enforced and had two lights on top. The visor had mouth protection. The arm gauntlet that Victor had on his right arm was replaced by a new gauntlet, this time having 1 single rocket on it on the mechanical gauntlet. It was blue and white colored.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“A new generation of Armor monsters, very interesting,” Raven acknowledged.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yes, it is,” Victor looks at his hand. “I would have more of that coming your way, if I did not have had any other resources to do so. Now I select your Raptor-3 by ability of my Psychic Command Visor, and deal 100 lifepoints of damage per levelstar. That is 600 points coming your way (3150 -> 2550). Now since Over Boost is on the field, my Armor monsters can attack you directly. So Buster Knuckle, attack him directly!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“It is just a slight set-back,” Raven said, who did feel the pain of the 2500 attack power arm coming his way, lowering his lifepoints to 50.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Now I end my turn. I am satisfied for now,” Victor lowered his dueldisk and looked through the visor of the Psychic Command Visor. ‘ ''If I can hold this up, this duel is over in no time. Just 50 lifepoints to go.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Victor – 900 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Raven – 50

Turn 8 – Raven

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I draw,” Raven looked at his drawn card. “I tribute my Raptor-3 to Special Summon Rampage Raptor-4 (2450/2200), my Rampage Cannon-3 to Special Summon Rampage Cannon-4 (1500/2000) and my Rampage Bot-1 to Special Summon Rampage Bot-2 (1400/1000). However since I summoned them this way, I cannot activate their effects during this turn. You are lucky for now.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ His forces are increasing by the turn,<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">” Victor sighs and he looks at Raven`s hand. ‘ ''Although he only holds one card, I think he can even make use of that card in any situation. Even worse, he can Special Summon the next stage of his monster just next turn.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Now, Raptor-4, attack his Black Hole Booster!” Raven ordered as the raptor launched his attack against the right arm of Victor, destroying the gauntlet. “You are lucky that my Rampage Powerplant does not allow me to deal Battle Damage to you during the turn my monsters are Special Summoned. But so I get rid of your Armor Wall and your advanced Armor monsters. Now, Bot-2 attack him Psychic Command Visor!” The somewhat larger robot struck Victor`s head, destroying the helmet.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Damn, now I lose my protective cards,” Victor definitely was not happy about this turn-out, but he knew he could have expected that coming from a duellist as Raven.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I set this card face down and end my turn,” Raven placed a card in his dueldisk and it materialized in front of him. “Show me what you have.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Victor – 900 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Raven – 50

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">--

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Kamon woke up, only to find himself in front of a very familiar wall. He was not in the Golden City or in the Golden Palace, that for sure. He was never there, since he had no idea how even the Golden Palace looked like. No, he was where his journey had begun. The Great Wall, protecting the most sacred of dimensions, the Sacred Dimension. If he now would go for the Gate, he would find himself face to face with the Gatekeeper again. The one that did not let him in during the first time.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Great, why am I here? Do they really hate me in there?” Kamon desperately asked no-one in particular. He looked around again and noticed further along the wall a blinking light. Kamon held his hand above his eyes and tried to figure out what ever was blinking, when he realized he had done such thing before. He had met someone there, someone called the Wanderer, a man walking around the Wall for years now.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Kamon walked down to the glinstering thing and realized it was the very same portal as he had found a while ago, before he turned to Etherna and this nightmare around the temple started. Kamon saw how the portal was still frozen. The pyramid-like shape of the portal was completely frozen and hidden from sight by ice. Kamon walked around it, when he suddenly heard clapping. He turned around in one swoop and activated his dueldisk, only finding himself face to face with the Wanderer again. The Wanderer still had a bandaged face, but some of the yellow hair he had could be seen coming out of the bandages.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Congratulations,” the Wanderer started against Kamon. “It seems you have passed the trial and fullfilled you task here. Only, you know, your real journey is about to begin. The journey back into the Sacred Dimension.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I don’t need to go to the Sacred Dimension, I am pretty sure Dragen can handle things there,” Kamon answered the Wanderer as he looked at the portal. “I need to get back to the Human Realm. I need to be there to protect the humans from Oracion and his darkness, now Marek is gone.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Is he?” the Wanderer spread his one revealed eye and Kamon nodded. “Is he?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">That was a little awkward for the Wanderer to ask, Kamon thought. Kamon nodded and thought back to the duel he had with Marek and the others. The duel Marek had lost because Raven ended up being the winner.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yes, I believe Marek is gone,” Kamon confidently spoke and he became a little suspicious about the identity of the Wanderer. “I have seen Marek going down into the Abyss of Darkness myself. He is defeaten. Oracion is all that stands now between me and protecting the world, even without forcing open all 8 the Gates of Chaos, of which now 2 are open.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You may be right,” the Wanderer looked at the portal as well. “But this portal will not open. This portal will only open to a task brought up by two people. You know what I mean.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“A duel,” Kamon thought out loud and was not surprised when the Wanderer nodded on his comment. “A duel is the only way to open this portal?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yes, a duel,” the Wanderer spoke and he looked around. “A duel in which ultimate power is unleashed to its fullest extent. A duel in which the most powerfull beasts clash. But where can you find such an opponent? An opponent willing to face you for this task?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You can face me,” Kamon suggested and the Wanderer smiled.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“My boy, if I wasn’t broken as I am now, I would have loved to face you. But I am afraid I would not be able to complete the task even if I would have wanted too. My deck does not contain the power to break open this portal, our decks combined cannot do it,” the Wanderer tells Kamon and Kamon sighed, sitting down on the sand. “Come now, let us eat and drink a bit.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Kamon followed the Wanderer into the shadows of the Wall, while the Wanderer picked out two bottles of water from a ragged backpack he carried around and they sat down against the wall.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">--

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">(Kaito – 500) (Temple Guardian – 200)

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Kaito was standing in front of a hallway leading away from the block he was walking around in. He had no idea where he was or how long he already was here. He had Syclo Falconair on the field with him, the Falconair having defeaten many monsters already and ready to finish of his last opponent, a Rage Golem.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Syclo Falconair,” Kaito commanded as he was getting quiet good at beating down the opponents. He just hoped Haou was being held up as much as he was. Syclo Falconair was striking with the Rage Golem, delivering a straight upper cut to the Golem.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You do realize,” the Temple Guardian tells Kaito. “Per monster your monster can only deliver 1 hit per levelstar right? You have two more hits left. If it does not work, your Syclo Falconair is being destroyed.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I know,” Kaito thrusted his duel-sword system forward and Syclo Falconair disappeared and appeared behind Rage Golem, delivering the last two hits, destroying the Rage Golem and dealing 200 lifepoints of damage to the Temple Guardian.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">(Kaito – 500) (Temple Guardian – 0)

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">The Temple Guardian disappeared into thin air and Kaito`s lifepoints were raised by 2000. Kaito just realized that when his monsters would all be used from his deck, he had nothing left to defend himself with. The Synchro Summoning rule did apply in these fights and since his deck applies that rule a lot, he might have a problem in a future duel. He expected the Temple Guardians to get stronger and stronger by the opponent he faced.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Now when will I finally arrive at that temple?” Kaito grunted as he moved on towards the next hallway and looked around a corner, seeing as there were many pillars and one straight hallway in front of him. As he proceeded he saw a light in the distance. “Hello!”

Come closer.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">The voice was like a snerping sound in the wind and Kaito moved forward to see where the voice came from. He walked past 10 pillars, before noticing the light moved onward too. The light moved away from him and that menas someone is playing a game with him.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I hate games.”

You are nearly there.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Kaito suddenly realized the hallway was getting broader and Kaito looked around as he noticed the pillars had stopped appearing and the ceiling was unsupported except by the walls around him. Kaito finally arrived at an open spot. Some kind of hall, towering far above him. Thing was Kaito was quiet surprisde by the sight as he looked up. He did not think he was that far below the surface.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Where am I?” Kaito wondered. At that moment two hatches in the hall opened and two grey robed men wandered into the room. They both carried a blade with Monster Card Zones on it. “Let me guess? You are my next opponents.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yes,” the left man tells Kaito. “But be advised. The other contestant is further then you are. He is nearing his target.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Damn it,” Kaito grunted and he activated his dueldisk, realizing he had to get to the Temple before Haou did, in order to fullfill his mission and save his sister. “Let`s do this then.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">(Kaito : 2500) (Temple Guardian: 2000) (Temple Guardian – 2000)

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Come out, Rage Golem!” both the Temple Guardians ordered and the two blood-covered golems appeared on their side of the field, both able to deal 4 hits to Kaito. If something went wrong, Kaito could lose 800 of his lifepoints.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Come out, Black Feather – Quick Strike Hummingbird (1900/1500),” Kaito commanded as a feathery warrior appeared on his side of the field. The Quick Strike Hummingbird draw his weapon and flies over the Rage Golem. The Rage Golem turns around, firing two shots of bloodlike substance at the Quick Strike Hummingbird, landing 1 hit (2500 -> 2400) and the other landed two hits (2400 -> 2200). Quick Strike Hummingbird flashed with his blade and landed 1 hit on both.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">(Kaito – 2200) (Temple Guardian – 1900) (Temple Guardian – 1900)

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">--

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">In a ruined place, Lucian was sitting on a thronelike chair. The throne where he sat on, was ruined as well, heavily damaged. Around him were six pillars, each with an own kanji for the elements. He looked on a virtual screen in front of him, at the scene of the Divacult Corp Building, in which Lainna had entered and met with Clayou and Aruya.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Very good,” Lucian spoke as he looked at his deck. “Yes, I know. The second deck will arrive soon. We need to intercept that deck before anyone else does. Definitely he may not reach it first before we do. It would make the balance between the Remnant and the Divine Cult go bad.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Grand Master Lucian,” a Knight stepped forward from the shadows and he bowed. He waited for a minute for a reply, before continueing. “Graem has moved himself into position. He will encounter the visitor of the Temple as soon as he arrives.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Good,” Lucian stepped up from the throne. “Has there been any sign on the Second Deck?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“No, Grand Master Lucian,” the knight bowed again and he stepped back into the shadows. “The Second Deck has not been located yet.” Lucian nodded and looked at the six pillars one by one as he pondered about his next move.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“They are in position, the Second Deck has not been found yet,” Lucian thought out loud. “What do we miss here?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">--

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Victor – 900 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Raven – 50

Turn 9 – Victor

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I draw,” Victor pulled out a card from his deck. “Now I bring back my Psychic Armor Head (0/500) from my graveyard.” The helmet returned to his field and attached himself back to the head. “Now I play Armor Exchange and remove my Black Hole Shield from the graveyard from play in order to Special Summon 1 Armor monster from my deck, which is Jet Gauntlet (0/1500).” A new piece of armor attached itself to Victor`s right arm.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“And you have 4 pieces of armor again,” Raven smiled and he looked at the field. ‘ Judging from his play until now, he has not much more then Armor ATK increase cards and defending armor monsters.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Now I tribute my Over Boost to Special Summon my Sonic Winged,” Victor ordered as his armor around his legs disappeared, making place for a new piece of armor, over his legs and two wings appeared behind him. “Now this card gains 200 attack and defense points per Armor monster on the field (1000/0 -> 2000/1000).”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Interesting, but it is not good enough,” Raven commented on Victor`s move and then flipped up a card he had face down. “Rampage Regeneration! When my lifepoints are lower then yours I can select 1 monster on your field and gain lifepoints equal to that monster`s attack power.” He selected Sonic Winger. “I choose Sonic Winged which means I gain 2000 lifepoints (50 -> 2050).”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yeah, well. You won’t have fun of that card for long,” Victor sweeped a card from his hand. “I discard 1 card and activate Lightning Vortex allowing me to destroy all face-up monsters on your field.” Raptor-4, Cannon-4, Bot-2 and Core disappeared. “Now I end my turn.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Victor – 900 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Raven – 2050

Turn 10 – Raven

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I draw,” Raven sweeped of his next card from his deck. “I activate my face down card, 123 – Dragon Code.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Another code card,” Victor sighed. “Let me guess, it has the same effect as that 123 – Bot Code card you played earlier.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“In fact it does,” Raven discards 1 card to the graveyard and a small one-headed dragon appeared on his side of the field. “Appear my Rampage Dragon-1 (400/600). Now this card can attack directly. Dragon-1 attack him directly!” The dragon bit Victor in his armored arm, lowering his lifepoints to 500.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“So what do you think you can do with that small dragon?” Victor asked Raven and Raven smiled.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“A lot more then you think,” Raven inserted a card of his own and a vortex appeared above him. “I activate Lightning Vortex like you did, by discarding 1 card to the graveyard and rid your field from your monsters. Next I remove my 4 Rampage-Counters on my Rampage Powerplant to Special Summon Rampage Bot-2 (1400/1000) to the field.” The smaller but armed robot returned to the field.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“So? Are you going to power it up again?” Victor asked Raven.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Depends on what you do next,” Raven smiled and pocketed 1 card from his hand and pulled off Bot-2 of his dueldisk. “Now I tribute my Rampage Bot-2 and remove my Rampage Raptor-5 from my hand in order to Special Summon Rampage Bot-3 (2000/1600) to the field.” A larger version of Bot-2 appeared, holding a blaster cannon and his right blobs were looking straight at Victor. “This card cannot attack directly, when summoned this way, so for now this is the end of my turn.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Victor – 500 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Raven – 2050

Turn 11 – Victor

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Now it is my turn again,” Victor draws his next card and smiles. “I resummon Psychic Armor Head from my graveyard, since it is my Standby Phase.” The armored helmet returned to his field and attaches itself to him. “Now I play Call of the Haunted and bring back my Black Hole Booster (0/0).”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You should have summoned something else,” Raven comments on Victor`s move as he looked at the two pieces of armor on Victor`s side of the field.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I am in fact,” Victor pulled off the Black Hole Booster and placed a new card on his dueldisk. “I summon Double Cloth Armor (0/0) to the field.” A new suit of armor appeared on his side of the field, attaching itself to Victor, melding together with the Psychic Armor Head.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Interesting move,” Raven appreciated good moves, even if they came from his enemy. He wanted a worthwhile duellist to fight, he had one or so it seems. But for him the main objective was the most important, get the girl and transport it to his master.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Now I equip my Double Cloth Armor with Ring of Magnetism to draw all the attacks to him,” Victor smiled as he looked how the ring appeared around his waist, sparking out green energy. ‘ As long as he does not know about Double Cloth Armor`s special ability, I am safe and maybe even able to defeat him.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I set this card and end my turn.” Victor looked at Raven, who stood unfaced against him. ‘[i]Damn, I wish he would show so much of an emotion or whatever

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Victor – 900 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Raven – 2050

Turn 12 – Raven

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Hmmm,” Raven pondered over his hand as he draws his new card. “I tribute my Rampage Dragon-1 to Special Summon Rampage Dragon-2 (800/1200). Also I tribute Rampage Bot-3 to Special Summon Rampage Bot-4 (2700/1800). Unfortunately I cannot use their effects this turn, due to the fact I summoned them this way. Now I set one card. Rampage Bot-4, attack his Double Cloth Armor!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“And that is exactly what I wanted you to do!” Victor shouted as Double Cloth Armor detached from his body and Psychic Armor Head was still attached to Victor. “Now you get dealt damage equal to half the monster`s attack power (2050 -> 700).”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“And that is what I expected,” Raven countered as he pushes a button on his dueldisk as his face down card flips up. “Rampage Shield! Now my Rampage Bot-4 is not destroyed, though Battle Damage is dealt. Now Rampage Dragon-2 attack Psychic Armor Head!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“No!” Victor shouts as his helmet was destroyed again. “Luckily it was in defense mode.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“And my Dragon-2 can attack you twice,” Raven said as he looks at his dragon and Victor backed down. “Which would be the case if I summoned it by removing a Dark-attribute monster from my hand from play. So you are lucky for now. But how long will you survive against my monsters?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“We’ll see about that,” Victor confidently speaks.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“We’ll see how far that confidence of yours will bring you, yes, but whether it is enough to beat me,” Raven smirked as he pointed clearly to his Bot-4 and Dragon-2. “We shall see. I end my turn. If you think you can beat me, take your best shot!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Victor – 500 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Raven – 700

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">--

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“So you have met Kamon during the final of that local tournament here in Hisehade City?” Sara asked Dustin, while they comfortably sat down in one of the major offices in the McFlinn Main Tower. “And he defeated you, even though you used the rare AniGuardian deck you have gained through your training at the AniGuardian Academy.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yes,” Dustin happily tells Sara and Melody who were listening with interest to his story. “At this current moment, Kamon and the others, including Dragen, have been involved in the battle at Hisehade City. First to find the Forbidden Artifacts, then to beat Marek at his games.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Who is Marek?” Melody asked Dustin.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Marek is probably the worst enemy you can face,” Dustin explains and he looks around, seeing a television. “I haven’t faced or met him, but I heard about his actions through the radio while I was travelling back here. I should not have left Kamon and the others.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You did what you had too,” Sara tells him and she smiles, while putting the TV on. “I know for a fact a little about the AniGuardian Academies in Europe. Grand Master Derresh has told me about what happened with the AniGuardian Academy in Miami. Yes, Dustin, Grand Master Derresh is still alive.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Good to hear,” Dustin smiles and looks at the TV and saw how Dan the reporter was now in the park, showing a bleeded man and boy sitting on a bench, being attended to by medical personel. “Shh, we should listen to this. Apparantly something is happening in the park.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yes, Ronald,” Dan spoke in front of the camera against the man in the studio. “These two people were involved in a heated Duel-Monsters duel in the park when they were attacked. Apparently in the middle of the duel, a female duellist had shown up, firing some kind of whip, stealing both the man`s Summoned Skull and the boy`s Breaker the Magical Warrior, both turning them into black cards.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Has there been any reporting on who has been the cause of these robbings?” Ronald, the man in the studio, asked Dan on the scene. “Is there any lead to the identity of the woman that robbed these duellists from their cards?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“No, it seems there is no evidence at all, none at all,” Dan turned around with the camera turning with him, looking over to the man and the boy. “All we have here are a man and a boy distraught of losing two monster cards. I’ll get back to you when there is more. This is Dan Beneland from Hisehade City.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Sara turned off the TV and looked at Dustin. While Melody started to fall asleep since it was late and the previous couple of days have been long ones. Dustin was looking outside and looked over the dark city already, with the many people turning on the lights.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“What do you think?” Sara asked Dustin.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Well, they all are evolving around one thing. It seems my Ancient War, the trip of Kamon and friends to the other dimensions, cause that is what happened I am pretty sure, the arrival of at least one Sacred Guardian, yes I have felt him, and these stealings of cards are all involved with the same thing,” Dustin turned around to Sara and sat down on the couch. “All seems to revolve around the Human Realm and the dimensions around us. And we seem to be in the middle of it. We seem to be the only ones able to stop this whatever this situation is from happening.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Well, let’s first get a good night sleep,” Sara began and pushed a button, when two men came walking down to them. “Quarters have been prepared here in the Tower. Kamon surely does not mind you using his for this time only. It seems it is to dangerous to go outside now. We will go tomorrow morning and find out what the hell is going on.” She and Melody stood up. “I have my own chambers in this tower, so Melody and I will stay there. You are near us in case of emergency.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Thanks,” Dustin smiled and along with Sara and Melody, he followed the two men up.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Two doors opened as Aruya, accompanied by Lainna (in her guise as Pamadala) and Clayou walked in. A big round table was in the center of the chamber. A big glass window was overlooking Hisehade City. In front of it was Colosseius, dressed in his usual white robes with the symbol of the Divine Cult. He was wearing light weight white armor.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Grand Master Colosseius, Grand Master of the Divine Element,” Aruya greeted the Grand Master standing in front of the window as Lainna and Clayou bowed. “We are here as you have requested.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“How far are we in the Temple of the Light, Grand Master Aruya?” Colosseius asked Aruya directly, without the usual ceremonial greeting. He was known as a man who cut to the chase instead of dwindling around subjects to much.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Master Kaito is nearing his target, but the fellow contestant, Supreme King Haou, is further advanced then Master Kaito,” Aruya began and Colosseius raised his hand. “My fellow Grand Master, I know you are more interested in the Second Deck, but finding the Light is essential. Master Marek has promised us his support and he would send his own apprentice, his best, to help us. So far he has not.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Mr. Gecko has just arrived,” Colosseius spoke against Clayou and Aruya. “Ten minutes after you and Divine Master Clayou had left the lobby. As soon as he is ready, bring him up here to me.” Aruya bowed and turned around, walking out of the chamber with Clayou following her. Lainna was about to follow them, when Colosseius raised his hand. “I wish to speak to you, Dark Lady Pamadala.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yes, my Grand Master,” Lainna answered and she bowed.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Rumors have crossed my ear, about card robberies,” Colosseius spoke and he sat down at the table. “These card robberies are part of the Remnant Cult`s plan to bring us down. I want you to find out who is behind those robberies and eliminate the robber.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yes, my Grand Master,” Lainna bowed and she turns around, walking out of the chamber as well, with Colosseius eyeing her. “I’ll take a squad of Divine Cult Knights and scout the city at night, now we can go under the cover of the night.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Good, be sure you are back at your post, before the morning arrives,” Colosseius tells Lainna and Colosseius turns back to the gigantic window, looking over Hisehade City again. He smiled. “The night has fallen, the wolves are out, the hunt has begun.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">--

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">(Kaito – 200) (Temple Guardian – 400) (Temple Guardian – 500)

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Black Feather – Dai Tengu Sojobo!” Kaito ordered as the gigantic, two swords wielding bird-warrior came down. The Temple Guardians both had 2 Warrior Dai Grepher on the field and definitely they were a level higher then the previous Temple Guardians he had faced. “Attack! Divine Wind Slasher!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">The two swords landed on the Warrior Dai Grepher`s and landed two hits on one, defeating 1 Temple Guardian, lowering his lifepoints to 0. Dai Tengu Sojobo rose back into the air again stretching his both swords to the left and right, spinning around fast.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">(Kaito – 200) (Temple Guardian – 0) (Temple Guardian – 500)

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I have two more hits to land for Sojobo,” Kaito tells the left Temple Guardian who did not seemed scared, he even brought out a Grinder Golem. “This is over. Dai Tengu Sojobo, attack him! Divine Wind Slasher Typhoon!” The Black Feather winged warrior started spinning around again and landed 2 hits on the Dai Grepher, lowering the Temple Guardian`s lifepoints to 300. “Now for an additional effect, this game gives me, my Sojobo can attack you again for a total of 3 hits.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“That is impossible. How did you find out about these abilities so quick?” the Temple Guardian demanded to know.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“The rules have changed and I am a quick learner,” Kaito smiles as Dai Tengu Sojobo merged with him, becoming one and struck the Warrior Dai Grepher three times, lowering the Temple Guardian`s lifepoints to 0, ending that game as well.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">(Kaito – 200 -> 2200) (Temple Guardian – 0) (Temple Guardian – 0)

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I am growing a little tired of this,” Kaito sighed and he looked around, seeing how a hatch opens in the middle of where the Temple Guardians came from. A new hallway appeared. “Let us hope this hallways leads to somewhere, to an exit maybe. Which is really convenient.”

You are getting close.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“And who are you?” Kaito asked the mysterious voice as he was getting annoyed by that too. Since he had heard that voice before, the one leading him here. “What do you want from me? I am here to find this Light, the Temple of the Light so to speak. I want to get out of here.”

''You will soon. But before you can reach the Temple of the Light, you have to find me first. I am the key to your destiny. You are a Sage, your destiny is bounded by me and by the other 7 Sages and you will join the Great Sage in his battle against the Darkness.''

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Well, I am sorry, but not interested,” Kaito said and he looked around, walking into the hallway. “I am rather interested in finding the Light and saving my sister, who will be subjected to the Judgment Chamber of the Divine Cult if I do not succeed.”

''By finding me, you will be able to save your sister. Not only that, with me you can make sure the Divine Cult will never have fear them anymore.''

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“So where are you then? If you can help me, then come out and help me. If you can help me, I will help you. I will not run away from the goal, even if it means I have to cancel my destiny,” Kaito tells the voice and he enters the hallway.

I am afraid I cannot let you go to the Temple yet

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">The hallway started to rumble and a blastdoor sealed the hallway off from Kaito moving further. Kaito slammed headfirst in the wall. Kaito grabbed his head, turned around and walked back to the hall he was previously in. The Temple Guardians had disappeared. Instead of the Temple Guardians, a single column of grey smoke was going up to the roof. Kaito looked at it and smiled.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You honestly do not expect me to be scared, now do you?”

''No, but this prevents you from getting further. The third seal will break soon and the Gate of Chaos will be opened soon and I will appear from the Gate. The only way now to get to the destination you want to get too, is by helping me.''

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“It seems that I have no other choise,” Kaito nodded and a hatch opened in the ground, revealing a staircase. ‘ ''Man, I knew mysterious voices are usually bad news, but this one gives me no other option. I have to do it.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

''Go in there. You’ll find soon what you are looking for''

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Kaito took the first step on the staircase and walked down, gradually disappearing further into the depth of the earth. As Kaito, disappeared from sight, a hand pushed down the hatched, closing it. It was Rontaro who closed the hatch.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“It is done then,” Rontaro said to someone behind him. “The third phase is set, there is no turning back for him or us anymore. We have to fight now.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yes,” a second voice answered and from the shadows, Seraph appeared. “There is no turning back anymore. The war has begun. The Shadow Apocalypse is at hand.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">--

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Lean – 700 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Unknown opponent – 200

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“With my Wolf Soul on the field, Zen-Aku carrying his Sword of the Wolf Lord with him and his stats at 5400/5400, you cannot stop me,” Lean tells the boy he was duelling. The boy had a Marauding Captain and a Command Knight on the field. Their attack powers were both at 0 and Lean had except for the Lord of the Dark Warriors, two Wolf Tokens on the field and the two cards he had already announced.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Please spare me from this defeat,” the boy begged from Lean. “My parents won’t like to hear that I lost. They want me to be as good as Jaden Yuki and Yugi Mutoh, as Kamon McFlinn even.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You should have thought twice before challenging me to a duel with the ante rule,” Kamon suggested to him and the boy shook with fear. “Now, I am sorry, but I have a duel to finish. Zen-Aku the Wolf Lord, Wolf Slasher!” The dark warrior leaped up and destroyed Command Knight, lowering the boy`s lifepoints to 0.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Lean – 700 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Unknown opponent – 0

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You are one great duellist,” the boy acknowledged to Lean and Lean smiled, appreciating such a comment even though the boy was his enemy. Lean was about to help him up. “Here take my Command Knight. You earned it through the ante rule.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“No, you can keep it. I don’t want to strip a duellist from his favorite card,” Lean smiled and helped up the boy. The boy was about to pocket the cards, when Lean heard a weird kind of noise. He looked up and noticed a female person standing on a roof. She held a whip in her hand. She swung it around and thrusted it down to Lean and the boy. Lean could see something was wrong as he pushed the boy out of the way and countered the whip with his dueldisk.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“What the…..” Lean said as the whip disappeared and appeared above him, existing of cards, the back of cards. The whip struck again, this time sucking in the Command Knight of the boy. Lean tried to grab the whip, but he grabbed miss. The spirit of the Command Knight appeared in front of them and started transforming. Some parts of his armor became black and gained silver accents. The eyes turned red and the face gained a rather grey color.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“What is happening with my Command Knight?” the boy asked.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I don’t know,” Lean honestly said and he watched helplessly as the Knight disappeared. The female person eyed Zen-Aku and fired the whip again, however the Wolf Lord was to quick, disappearing instantly and appearing behind the female person, grabbing the whip.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You cannot take me that easily, mortal,” Zen-Aku growled and his horn on his head glowed. “Disappear from this body, immortal.” His hand was pressed against the belly of the female person and then retracted, taking with him dark energy and a whispering soul. “I knew it.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">The soul started rising as the whip disappeared and the female person transformed back into a young girl. Zen-Aku looked at her and then at the soul, before disappearing.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I am Avatar. Don’t forget that.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">---

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Victor – 500 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Raven – 700

Turn 13 – Victor

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I draw,” Victor picked up his next card from his deck as he smiled. “Nice! Now my Psychic Armor Head returns to my field and I play Full Armored Gravitation. Now by picking the first 10 cards from my deck, I can summon all Armor monsters I draw to the field.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“A replenishing spell,” Raven acknowledged the move. “Not bad at all. Not bad at all.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Now I summon Burning Knuckle (0/1000), Active Guard (0/2500), Trap Buster (0/0) and another copy of Over Boost (0/1000) to the field in attack mode. Also I must discard all other cards to my graveyard,” Victor said as he was equipped with all new blue and white armor. “Now I activate Blast Layer. Now every Armor monster must be attacked twice before being destroyed. Plus every Armor monster gains 300 attack and defense points.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“And you have your Over Boost on the field,” Raven realized. “Which means you can attack directly with all Armor monsters.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You are correct,” Victor smiled. “Psychic Armor Head cannot attack, so I use my Active Guard to attack you directly and 300 of your lifepoints are gone.” Raven`s lifepoints dropped to 400. “Unfortunately due to Blast Layer, attack and defense increases by own effect cannot be activated. Now I end my turn with a face down card.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Victor – 500 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Raven – 400

Turn 14 – Raven

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Draw,” Raven pulls a new card from his deck and smiles. “Now I tribute my Rampage Bot-4 and remove a Rampage Stepper (1000/1000) from my hand from play in order to Special Summon Rampage Bot-5 (3500/2300)!” As the old robot disappeared, a new even larger robot appeared. The robot had three faces, six light bulbs indicating the existence of eyes. It carried a rocket launcher and a machine lasergun. “Now thanks to me summoning it in the right way, it comes into play with 5 Rampage-Counters.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Great, more Rampage-Counters,” Victor sighed. “But I am afraid your Rampage Bot-5 will not stay around for long as I activate Sakuretsu Armor, destroying the monster.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“And I am afraid that is impossible,” Raven tells Victor as the card was destroyed. “Bot-5 cannot be destroyed by Trap Cards that would either destroy it or remove it from play.” He snickered as he looks to Victor, who was struggling to keep up the pace. “Now I remove 2 Rampage-Counters from my Bot-5 and I can attack your monsters, destroying them instantly.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“No,” Victor shouted as the Bot-5 pointed his machine gun at Victor along with his rocket launcher. They fired and destroyed Psychic Armor Head.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Now, the main part of your Armor deck is destroyed,” Raven smiled and he looked at his hand. “Further I can deal 500 lifepoints of damage then when your monster is destroyed by Bot-5.” The rocket launcher was pointed at Victor and the missile flew out. Victor smiled and a card flipped out of his deck.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I am afraid I am cutting this attack short,” Victor said and the card appeared in front of him. “My Armor Hero says different. Armor Hero can only be activated when my lifepoints are threatened and about to reach 0, I gain half of the lifepoints and then halve of the Battle or Effect Damage is dealt to me.” His lifepoints first increased to 750 and then were lowered to 500.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Fine,” Raven was not taken back by the move. “I place 1 Rampage-Counter on Bot-5 thanks to Rampage Generator and I end my turn. Your next turn is your last turn. Mark my words.” He smiled as he saw how the front door opened and Jasmond struggled outside. “Ah, we seem to have gotten some spectators.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Victor – 500 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Raven – 400

Turn 15 – Victor

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Jasmond, get back inside!” Victor told Jasmond, who was now walking slowly towards a tree, leaning against it. “You are not completely healthy yet.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I know,” Jasmond brought out and she smiled. “But I want to see my savior duelling. You have taken care of me, so I want to support you through the rest of this duel.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Draw,” Victor picked his next card from his deck and seemed disappointed. ‘ ''I really can’t make any use of this card now. Should I have drawn it last turn, I might have been able to finish it off this turn. But this Raven guy is better then any duellist I faced before. Maybe……., maybe my deck is not good enough yet. Maybe I should be looking for a new deck.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“What is your move? Make your move, so that I can finish you off.” Raven was a little annoyed and impatient as he had spilled enough time here.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I bring back Psychic Armor Head from my graveyard. Now I equip it with Hell Alliance (0/500 -> 800/500). I do not have any other copies of it on the field, but now at least Psychic Armor Head is at the same level as you Dragon-2,” Victor saw this as a desperate move, rather then a confident one. He knew what was coming, but he was not planning at all on giving up or going down in front of Jasmond.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“It is okay, Victor,” Jasmond tells him and she shed a tear. “You have tried the best you can. You cannot win every duel each time.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I am not planning on losing this one at all,” Victor spoke confidently.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Spoken as a desperate but confident man,” Raven commented and he moved forward, stepping onto Bot-5 and smiling. “Now face your destiny.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“We’ll see,” Victor lowered his dueldisk and looked at Jasmond, winking to her. “I end my turn.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Victor – 500 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Raven – 400

Turn 16 – Raven

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“It has been enough now,” Raven sighed and he looked onto his hand, before drawing a card. “I remove 2 Rampage-Counters again from Bot-5.” Two light bulbs went offline at the robot and Raven smiled as the rocket launcher and the machine gun were pointed to Victor.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You will pay for this,” Victor tells Raven and Raven shakes his head. “We will duel again, you know. And I will improve my deck and defeat you then. My deck will be invincible next time we meet.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“We’ll see about that,” Raven thrusted his arm forward and the robot, who previously crouched down, allowing Raven to stand upon his shoulder. “Bot-5, this duel has lasted long enough. Five Pronged Devastation!” Both the rocket launcher and the machine gun fired, destroying Psychic Armor Head, by the effect of Bot-5 and dealing 500 lifepoints of damage to Victor, lowering his lifepoints to 0. The duel was over.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Victor – 0 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Raven – 400

DUEL ENDS

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You are weak,” Raven stood over Victor, who had fallen on the ground due to the impact of the attack of Bot-5. “You were at a point that you could have beaten me, but you did not press through. And because of that your deck did not answer to your call.” He walked around Victor.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Stop,” Victor managed to bring out and Raven turned around. “Please ……….. don’t do it. Don’t take her. Take me instead.” Raven shakes his head and laughs.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“What makes you think, my master has any use for you?” Raven pulled out a taser from his pocket and fired it at Jasmond, paralyzing her at the spot. “No, I have come for what I wanted and I am planning on bringing her to my master.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">He opened a portal with his gauntlet at his right arm. He carried Jasmond to it and was about to step through when he looked around once more.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You will pay for this,” Victor whispered hard enough for Raven to hear it.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Hmmm,” Raven smiled and shakes his head. “We will duel again someday. I suggest you prepare yourself better next time. You do not know when I come, but I will come soon. I hope you realize a new deck may be the best option here.” He stepped through, closing the portal, leaving Victor alone, stunned to do anything.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">--

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“ ''Dark-Magician! Dark Magic attack!''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">A man opened his eyes and looked around himself. He was in an area filled with lava. Shadows were surrounding him. Shadows that belonged to nothing were standing guard around him. The man looked old and battered, like he came from a war.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“ ''Mega-Eternal-Seadragon, counter attack! Blaze Lightning!''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">The man looked around again, seeing nothing that could point towards such a battle. The ultimate magician in both attack and defense strength against the favorite dragon of the Great Sage. The man stood up, wiping some dust from his cloak away.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“The duel is coming soon,” the man spoke as he looked around and saw the outlines of two duellists in the fires around him. One had spiky hair and a cape like jacket, the other one had normal clothes and normal short hair. The man smiled. “The duel is coming soon and then I have my chance of returning to the surface of the Human Realm and my chance of revenge.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">TO BE CONTINUED……..

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">RANDOM DARK DUELLIST TRIVIA:

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">If you read really carefully, the last scene has important hints towards a future duel in this season. A duel that will occur pretty soon. Also I could have revealed the identity of the man who saw those visions, but I choose not too. Who could it be? I let that up to discussion for you guys.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Now I will officially announce that I am going through with TDDS all the way, until the very end. No more unsuspected sudden cancellations. No, I am going all the way. <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">In this chapter I reach page 200 in Microsoft Word and CAC listed number 150 has been created, which is in fact Blast Layer. Also I think this duel contains the highest concentration of CACs in Season 3. Nothing can beat the old version of Season 1and the final of Season 2, which both had a high concentration of CACs.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Anyway, a happy new year to you all and I’ll return in 2010, probably this Sunday already, with chapter 98! Three more to go till 100!