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mancalledtrue) wrote2011-11-14 09:35 am
Legacy of the Duelist: Chapter Ten, Part Two
Luna growled. "Fine, I'll play a card facedown myself, and play Kanan the
Swordmistress in Attack Mode."
She lay a card down, and a young woman in armor with a sword – and pale white hair – appeared (1,400/1,400)
So it's Clare.
"She may be no Spellcaster, but she sure is…"
"SHUT UP!" said Seline.
"Hear that?" whispered Yugi to Jade. "I'm willing to bet that their decks are
packed mostly with Spellcaster Monsters."
"Female ones, from the look of it," said Jade.
...and the point is?
"Uh, your move," said Luna.
Hmm, thought Yugi. That facedown might be a trap… but the risk is worth taking
at this point.
"Gazelle, maul that Swordmistress!" he commanded.
The Beast leapt forward, but as he did, Kanan, threw forth a Kunai with Chain and
caught him by the neck!
Did she catch it on the chain or on the excess comma?
"Sloppy of you," said Luna. Kanan's Attack power rose to 1,900. She brought
her sword down and beheaded the Beast. Yugi's Life Points fell to
1,900.
This entire sequence is like reading the phone book.
"Well, I only lost a hundred points, and you used up that trap," said Yugi. "And now I'll play Gaia the Fierce Knight, in Attack Mode!" He placed the card down, and Gaia appeared, mounted on his steed. (2,300/2,100)
Like a Tijuana floor show!
"I'll also play a card facedown," he said. "Now do your worst."
I'm getting really tired of seeing that line...
Seline drew, and smiled an evil smile. "Oh, I will," she said. "I'll
wipe out both your Monsters with Warrior Elimination!"
She lay the Spell Card down, and Gaia and the Beautiful Beast Tamer collapsed,
staggered, and died. Yugi's Life Points fell to 1,325, and Jade's
fell to 1,443.
Gaia gets no respect, does he? Didn't even get to make an attack
here.
"Now," said Seline, "I'll devastate you both with a Direct Attack from
my Harpie Lady!" She lay a Monster Card down, and the Harpie
appeared. (1,300/1,400)
"Harpie Lady," she cackled, "dive bomb them into oblivion!"
The Harpie pounced, but then she bounced off an invisible shield!
Everyone, even Seline, laughed.
"Negate Attack," said Yugi. "Useful against any attack, even Direct
ones."
Seline made a fist. "Make your move, you," she said to Jade.
She stopped talking at that point, but mouthed some damn filthy
words.
"Jade," whispered Yugi to his partner. "Did you notice that the Harpie
has black hair?"
"They must give all their female Monsters cosmetic changes somehow," said
Jade, "probably due to selfish vanity."
And just how would they do that? The appearances are wired into the
dueling platforms. If anyone, Anastasia would have altered them.
"Well, it's your move," said Yugi.
"I'm going to use Red Medicine to heal my partner's Life Points," said
Jade. She put the Spell Card down, and the red vial appeared over
Yugi. His Life Points went up to 1,825.
The magic of morphine.
"Now I'll play a facedown card," said Jade. "And here's a card you'll
remember, Yugi – Yamoto the Noble Samurai!" She placed the
card down, and the samurai in golden armor appeared. (2,200/2,000)
"Attack Kanan!" said Jade. "Katana blade slash!"
The Samurai charged and cut Kanan in half. Luna's Life Points fell to 1,075.
The playing with her entrails was a bit much.
"That will be all for my move," said Jade.
"You aren't the only ones who can help each other," said Luna. "I
summon Harpie's Pet Dragon!" She lay the card down, and the
bejeweled brown dragon on a golden leash appeared. (2,000/2,500)
"And as you may know," said Luna, "being so close to her mistress
raises her Attack by three hundred!" The dragon's stats rose to
2,300 over 2,500.
"Ironic," said Jade. "My mother used that combo often…"
That raises a good question... What does Mai think of her daughter becoming a stereotypical Hollywood samurai?
"Now, Dragon," said Luna, incinerate that Samurai!
The Dragon breathed flame at Yamoto, but the fire halted a foot from him!
"I can do the Negate Attack thing too," said Jade, lifting up her facedown.
Everyone can in this story. I'm not impressed. And does Brian just not know about
opening quotation marks?
"Yeah?" said Luna. "Well, your Traps won't last forever, and we'll get
him next time…"
"Maybe not," said Yugi. "I'll play THIS Equip!" He held up a card
showing a picture of a beautiful palace. He laid it down, and the
palace appeared, covered the grid with blinding light, and then
vanished.
"The Bright Castle raises the power of my partner's Light Warrior by 500 points!"
said Yugi. And as he said that, Yamato's stats went up to 2,700 over
2,500.
First of all, it's called Shine Palace. Second of all, there was
much argument in America over what the hell this thing does, but
officially, it's the Light version of Salamandra – which means
Yamoto should have gotten +700/0. So Brian got half the effect
right, but botched the important half, and he got the name wrong.
"And now, to end my move, I'll play the Celtic Guardian, in Defense Mode," he
said, putting the card down." His favorite Warrior appeared, and
sheathed his sword. (1,400/1,200)
Thus avoiding a public indecency charge.
"They may just pull this off," said Clive to Peter. "Jade and Yugi
are working well as a team – it's almost as if their minds have
been merged somehow…"
The other half of Umbra and Lumis Syndrome: Regardless of how they related before the
duel, the good side will always cooperate perfectly within it.
"Maybe they have," said Peter. "I don't know how that weird Puzzle of
his works…"
Nobody does. Maybe three people in Japan can understand Millennium
Secrets.
"So you can power each other up," said Seline. "Well we can do the same
thing. I play the Elegant Egotist card!" She slapped the card
down, and the one Harpie became the Harpie Lady Sisters! (Naturally,
their hair colors were changed – one black, one white, and one
strawberry blonde). (1,950/2,100)
Neapolitan ice cream! I love Neapolitan!
"And now that there are three Harpies," said Seline. "Their Dragon's
stats go up further!" And it did, to 2,900 over 2,500.
"Make your move," she sneered to Jade.
They started reasonable, and now they're just bitches. Corvello's
curse strikes again.
Strange, thought Yugi. Why didn't she send them to attack the Guardian?
"I will," said Jade, making a draw. "And I will strengthen my Samurai even
further, with the Ancestral Daisho!" She laid down the Equip,
the shining katana appeared above Yamato and he grabbed it. His stats
went up to 3,200 over 3,000! The two sisters gasped.
They're gasping because Ancestral Daisho isn't supposed to raise
Defense. Brian just fucked up his own card.
"Now Yamato," ordered Jade, "attack that Dragon with katana
blade attack!" The Samurai leapt forward, and with a downward
slash, beheaded the dragon! Luna's Life Points fell to 775.
"And now, to aid my partner's Celtic Guardian," said Jade. "I'll finish
my move by using this Equip – Invigoration!" She slapped down
the card, and a golden light enveloped the Celtic Guardian. His stats
went up to 1,700 over 1,500.
Is it because he got it right once that Brian has to get Invigoration
wrong all the other times he plays it in this story?
"Curses," muttered Luna, looking at her cards. "For my move, I'll put one
card facedown, and summon the Spirit of the Wind, in Defense."
She put down the cards, and a windblown elf appeared on the grid
(naturally with pale hair). (1,700/1,400)
ALMOST perfect – but it's “Spirit of the WindS”. Nitpicky, but
that's what I do here.
Well, it's too late now, thought Yugi, as he drew.
"This will ground those Harpies," said Yugi. "I switch my Celtic
Guardian to Attack Mode, and Equip with Sword of Deep-Seated!"
The Guardian stood up, and the glowing sword appeared. He took it,
and his stats rose to 2,300 over 2,000.
I'll let you do the math on this one. If you've followed the story
up to this point, you'll know what to look for.
"Celtic Guardian, attack the Harpie Lady Sisters!" yelled Yugi. "Silver
blade slash!"
Why is it still “Silver Blade Slash”? The Sword of Deep-Seated is black.
The Guardian made three swipes with his sword, and the three Harpies toppled. Seline's
Life Points fell to 900.
The Guardian then scratched his head as he looked at the defeated
cardboard cutouts.
"Clive," said Peter. "I think they're going to actually win!"
Mary groaned. "Hang in there, Mary," said Clive. "This shouldn't
take much longer."
“We just need to go through some false suspense first!”
"Very pretty," said Seline. "But now the kid gloves are off. I'm
laying a card facedown, and now I'm going to play the Witch of the
Black Forest in Defense."
She put down the card, and a young, black-haired sorceress in a dark robe appeared.
(1,100/1,200)
"And her mere presence unnerves all Light Monsters, like that Samurai!"
Jade looked over, and Yamato's stats went down to 3,100 over 2,900.
No mention of her third eye? And also, she already HAS an effect –
an effect so useful that she remains on the Ban List to this day.
Why the hell did Brian give her ANOTHER one?
"A one-hundred point loss – big deal," said Jade.
For once we agree.
"Well, I'm going to finish my move by using this card," said Seline.
"Fissure!"
"Fissure?" said Yugi.
“A very common Magic Card I've somehow never heard of?!?”
Seline put the card down. "It automatically destroys the enemy card with the
lowest Attack Score – i.e. your Celtic Guardian!"
All of a sudden, an earthquake shook the grid, and the Celtic Guardian screamed and
fell. Yugi's Life Points fell to 1,275.
So that's why… thought Yugi.
Jade drew, and then took a good look at the stat boxes and then at her cards. "Fine," she said. "I'm first going to use Stop Defense!" she put the Spell Card down, and both the Spirit of the Wind and the Witch of the Black Forest shifted into Attack Mode!
"Ack!" said Luna. "Our Monsters are wide open to an attack!"
Thank you, Lady Captain Obvious!
"More than you think," said Jade. "Because now I'm going to use Last
Day of the Witch to destroy them both!" She laid down the Spell
Card that she used in her duel with Mary; a cartoonish witch
appeared, and crumbled to dust. Both the Spirit of the Wind and the
Witch of the Black Forest let out bone chilling screams and melted.
Why the fuck did you use Stop Defense beforehand? The only
requirement for Last Day of Witch is that the monsters be face-up,
not in Attack Mode.
Luna's Life Points fell to 350, and Seline's fell to 625.
"And now," said Jade. "A Direct Attack from my Samurai will bring this
battle to a triumphant end! Yamato, destroy them!"
Yamato leapt up with a great shout… but then he was halted, and ensnared by a band
of light! His stats went down to 2,500 over 2,300.
The band of light had wrapped over his groin, which crumbled under
the force of the snare.
"Huh?" said Jade.
Seline cackled. "I still had a facedown card!" she said. And it was my
Spellbinding Circle! Is that all for your move?"
If he keeps doing that in the next chapter, I'll start counting his
missing open-quotes.
Jade looked at her cards. If only I had another Monster, she thought. This guy is
too valuable to risk with Luna's facedown card there, so I'd best
save him for later.
"Yes, that is all for me," said Jade.
"In that case," said Seline, "Since you destroyed my Witch of the
Black Forest, I can now search my deck for any Monster I choose with
a Defense of 1,500 or less…"
No. You do the search when the Witch dies.
She went through her deck and chose a card.
"…I'll just let you sweat awhile wondering as to who it is," she
continued.
And you show it to your opponent.
"Now, I reshuffle…" she did so. "…and it is my sister's turn."
"First," said Luna, "I'm going to play my facedown card… the Blood
Moon!" She put down a Spell Card, and a full moon as red as
blood rose over the grid.
I see/A bad moon risin'
"What does that do?" said Yugi.
"The Blood Moon strengthens all witches – that is, female Spellcasters – by
500 points, and curses all Warriors by lowering their stats by just
as much!"
Remember this description.
She cackled, as Yamato's stats fell further, to 2,000 over 1,800.
"Now I'll raise Seline's Life Points with my Red Medicine card!" she said.
She put down the card, and Seline's Life Points went up to 1,125.
Are you supposed to drink it straight out of the bottle like that?
"And now, I'm playing the Dark Magician Girl, in Attack Mode!" laughed
Luna. She put down the card, and the Dark Magician Girl – with pale
hair – appeared. (2,000/1,700)
Then she threw up her arms, and light from the Blood Moon bathed her, and they went up
to 2,500 over 2,300.
"Now Dark Magician Girl," said Luna, "dark magic attack!"
The Dark Magician Girl twirled her baton, and a bolt of magic blasted Yamato into
ashes. The Dark Magician Girl giggled as Jade's Life Points went down
to 940.
I have nothing really to say here, except that he managed to spell
“Yamoto” as “Yamato”. Frankly, it should always be “Yamato”.
And apparently the attack rounded Jade's Life Points down.
"Only a pair like you could take one of my favorite monsters and turn her evil,"
said Yugi. He looked at his cards, and then looked at Jade's.
Look at your cards, then look at me, now look at your cards – now
BACK at me.
"And I'll finish my move by using Red Medicine," said Luna. She used the
Spell Card, and her Life Points went up to 850.
“The Red Medicine has been doubled!”
"Jade, look," he whispered. "After I play these, you play that."
"Are you sure?" said Jade. "We'd be taking a risk – twice."
"Have faith," said Yugi. "The Heart of the Cards will guide us to
victory."
“And if that doesn't work, I'll cheat like a fucker. It's worked
before!”
"First," said Yugi, "I'll use my own Red Medicine to boast my own
health." He played the card, and his Life Points went up to
1,775.
"Curses!" said Luna.
“Why do we ALL have that card?!?”
"And now as a gift to my partner, the Gift of the Mystical Elf!" He put the
card down; the Mystical Elf appeared, and Jade's Life Points went up
to 1,940.
Do I even have to say it now?
"Now," said Yugi, "I'll play my Dark Magician!"
He placed the card down, and his favorite Monster appeared. (2,500/2,100)
"What's more," said Yugi, "I'll protect him by playing THIS card,
Magical Hats! Protect and conceal the Dark Magician!"
He slapped the card down, and a huge top hat with a question mark on it appeared. It
covered the Dark Magician, and then, in a blur, created three copies
of itself.
But then the Dark Magician ruined it all by sticking his tongue out
of the front of one hat.
"That will end my move," he said.
"You think you're so smart," said Seline. "Well, I'll get rid of that
Magician. I play the card I just searched for… the Black Hag!"
She placed a card down, and an ugly old witch with tangled black hair and a face
covered with warts, carrying a gnarled staff appeared. (2,100/1,000)
Once again, the Blood Moon bathed her with its light, and they rose to 2,600 over
1,500.
Then she flashed them, and all involved went temporarily blind.
"Hold my hand, Jade," said Yugi. They clasped hands.
Great. He's a cheater, a bastard, and a two-timer.
"Now, Black Hag," said Seline, "black magic attack! Attack… um…
attack the Hat on the far right!"
The Hag cackled, and shot a beam of black energy at the far right Hat. It burst…
"Aww," said Yugi. "Looks like you missed!"
Just whip it out, why don't you, Yugi?
"Oh, toadstools!" yelled Seline.
When did she become a stereotype? She had character ten pages ago?
"But I can still hurt you… I play the Hinotama"
She put down the Spell Card, and flame erupted on Jade and Yugi's side. Yugi's Life
Points fell to 1,275, and Jade's fell to 1,440.
"And since my sister did this for me, I'll return the favor, and heal her with
my own Red Medicine," she said.
She put the card down, and Luna's Life Points went up to 850.
Thank you for watching this double feature of “Why the Hell Does
Everyone Use These Cards Theater”.
"That's my move… but we'll get him on the next shot!"
"Not if I have anything to say about it," said Jade. "Are you sure
about this Yugi?" she whispered.
"Positive."
"Okay," said Jade.
She then started removing her armor.
"Here's a Spellcaster you won't like. I play the Time Wizard!"
She put the card down, and the comical walking clock appeared.
"Whoa!" said Clive. "I'd almost forgot that she had bought that card!"
"Now, Time Wizard, time roulette, now!"
Jade's hand closed tighter around Yugi's. The Time Wizard thrust his staff
forward and its arrow began to spin… around and around, and around.
Everyone soon vomited onto their shoes.
"Cross your fingers," said Clive.
They crossed them.
Then they tightened their ballsacs.
"Man, will it stop already?" said Peter.
"It's slowing…" said Clive.
And it stopped on a crown!
"Yes!" said Jade. She and Yugi slapped hands.
Then they brofisted.
"And the time warp opens!"
Let's do the time warp again!
"Time Magic!" shouted the Time Wizard. The maelstrom of time
erupted on the field. The Dark Magician Girl and the Black Hag
collapsed, and they decayed into bones. Luna's Life Points fell to
220 and Seline's fell to 470.
So they just fell over and rotted? Lame. The animations are pretty
poor for advanced holograms.
"That will be my move," said Jade.
Luna drew. "Well, this will level the field a little," she laughed. "I'm
going to wipe out your Life Points with Tremendous Fire!" She
placed down the Spell Card, and an inferno erupted on Jade and Yugi's
side! Yugi's Life Point's fell all the way to 275, and Jade's to 440.
"You got it all wrong!" shouted Peter. "You guys are the witches…
we're the ones who should be burning you!
Oh, goody. A blatant death threat from one of the good guys.
Luna ignored the wisecrack.
Because she has poise and dignity, unlike our heroes.
"And now I'll play the Dark Chimera in Defense Mode," said Luna, "and
place a card facedown. That will end my move." The fiendish
Chimera appeared, and the numbers (1,610/1,460)
The numbers what?
Yugi made a draw. "I use my own Stop Defense," he said. He put the card down,
and the Chimera switched to Attack Mode.
"However, I think I will keep my… Dark Magician hidden for now," he said.
"That will end my move."
Say, why didn't the Hats decay away in the time warp? It affects
everything else...
Luna growled a little.
Seline laughed however. "It's your funeral," she said. "I'll lay a
card facedown."
She put the card down.
Show or tell, don't do both.
"Now, I will play Monster Reborn, to bring back the Black Hag!" she put the
card down, and the Hag reappeared. She bathed in the Blood Moon
again, and her stats again read as 2,600 over 1,500.
Her bathing robbed everyone of their sight again.
"Okay, Black Hag," said Seline, "attack the middle hat!" The Hag
cast her spell again, and blew up the middle hat…
And then out of the smoke, the energy blasted back, and incinerated the Hag!
Pinkie Pie sat there with a tennis racket in her mouth.
"Wha? What?" said Seline.
Take a good look!" said Yugi.
The Dark Magician was standing there, but now he was wearing a long robe, and had a full beard.
Santa Mage.
"The Time Wizard's spell did more than destroy your Monsters," said Yugi.
It aged my Dark Magician, transforming him into the Dark Sage, and
giving his stats a boost!"
They looked down. The stats now stood at 2,800 over 3,200.
"Your Black Hag attacked a foe that was too strong for her, and destroyed
herself!"
Seline's Life Points fell to 270.
The Dark Sage cheered, and then grabbed his ailing back.
"Well, I suppose you're going to have that Dark Sage attack now?" said
Seline.
"No," said Yugi. "Jade?"
"First," said Jade, "I'm going to use this Spell Card – the Ninja Thief!"
Characterization Moves On: Jade hates ninjas in later stories.
"Huh?" said both the hags at once.
Over the field, a dark ninja warrior appeared. He threw a pair of shuriken, and the
lights around Seline and Luna's facedown cards went out.
As their hands were over the cards at the time, this wasn't a pretty
sight.
"My Spellbinding Circle!" yelled Luna.
"My Invisible Wire!" yelled Seline.
“Our ability to speak without using exclamation points!”
"My Ninja Thief has effectively stolen your traps," said Jade. "We
weren't going to fall for them again."
"Now, I will use my own Monster Reborn card… I can bring back any Monster from
ANY Graveyard, and as a tribute to Yugi, I will bring back your own
Dark Magician Girl!"
You don't use endquotes when the next paragraph continues the speech.
And your dad wouldn't want to be given any tributes the horrid way
you play.
She put the card down, and the Dark Magician Girl appeared. The numbers 2,000 over
1,700 appeared again; and strangely, she now had green hair.
She's turned into Female Seto Kaiba!
Then she threw up her arms, and the light of the Blood Moon struck her. Her stats went
up to 2,500 over 2,300.
Dear Brian Corvello: 7 + 5 = 12.
"Just as I thought," said Jade. "The Blood Moon plays no favorites.
Now you will be undone by your own Monster AND your own Field Spell
Card! Dark Magician Girl, attack the Dark Chimera with dark magic
attack!"
The Dark Magician Girl twirled her baton, and fired! A moment later, the Dark Chimera
was no more. Luna's Life Points fell to zero; the word "WINNERS"
appeared on Yugi and Jade's side.
Followed by “DON'T USE DRUGS”.
Jade leapt off the station and approached Phoebe, who was in shock.
"Your sisters have lost," she said. "Now hand over the antidote"
"Uh," said Phoebe.
Jade drew her sword and leveled it at her. "Hand it over NOW," she said,
"or I will behead you."
Our heroine: a murderous bitch who threatens people completely
uninvolved in what happened to her friend.
"Uh, yes, yes, of course," said Phoebe. Her hand shook as she gave the
vial to Jade.
Jade walked over to Clive and Mary, and removed her helmet. "Hold her head back,"
said Jade. She turned to the hags. "And may heaven help you if
this fails to work."
Now you're just looking for an excuse to kill them!
Clive did, and Jade held Mary's nose shut and poured the liquid down her throat.
She launched five feet into the air and ran four laps around the forest.
Jade and Mary's three friends waited tensely…
Mary gave a few coughs, and slowly the rashes vanished. Her eyes opened.
"Her fever is going away!" said Clive.
“It just broke! ...Eew! Someone got a napkin?”
"Yugi? Clive? Peter?" said Mary. She sat up and looked around. "Jade?
I had the worst nightmare…"
“You were threatening to kill people for no good reason...”
"So you beat us," said Luna. "But don't feel so proud about your
teamwork! Remember this, youngsters – there can be only one winner
of this tournament. If any of you wish to win it, you very may well
sit at the dueling station as foes in the future!"
The hags laughed, and they disappeared in a plume of smoke.
The smoke cleared, and they were seen running into the distance.
SCENE CHANGE:
In fifteen minutes, Mary had recovered completely. A lengthy explanation later,
and they had left the Weird Sisters' ghastly house behind.
Strangely, finding their way out of the Haunted Woods became easier. Within an
hour, they were back in a lighted area, out on an open road in a
friendlier looking brush.
At which point they were robbed.
"I almost forgot to ask Jade," said Yugi. "Why were you following
us?"
“Five chapters since my last appearance. I needed the rub.”
"I wanted to give you a little gift," said Jade. "I discovered a cache
with a few cards, and seeing as I already had this one, I thought you
could use it."
She took a card out of her pocket. It was a Monster Card showing the image of a
pretty looking pink sphere with a face and petite wings.
"'Tenderness'?" said Yugi. "What does that do?"
“It does jack. Just like you.”
"So long as this creature remains face-up in Defense Mode," said Jade, all
Life Point losses you suffer are halved."
Nope. How many bullshit effects does that make?
"Well thanks," said Yugi. "But after what Mary went through, I
think she deserves it more."
"I guess that makes sense," said Jade. She handed it to Mary.
"Thanks Jade," said Mary. "I owe you another one."
“...you patronizing bitch.”
"But you may have other chances to obtain cards," said Jade. "I have
learned a secret about the way stations. All of them sell cards, but
you need to say a code phrase to the merchant before he can sell you
any."
“The code phrase is 'I swallow.'”
"Oh?" said Yugi.
"Yes," said Jade. "For example, I learned that one mile in that
direction, you will come to a large tree stump with a heart carved on
it – a secret trapdoor on it leads to an underground shop which
claims to only sell coffee, donuts, muffins, and minor supplies. But
if you ask the clerk if he has fresh pumpkin-spice muffins, he will
show you the cards he has for sale. I would go myself, but my supply
of Star Coins is dwindling."
And yet this isn't the dumbest idea he ever has.
"Thanks Jade," said Yugi. "We'll check it out."
"I still shudder to think how some plant nearly killed Mary…" said Clive.
"It was no accident," said Jade.
“It was a plot device!”
"What?" said Yugi.
"My senses are very acute," said Jade. "Mary was targeted by an attack
which was magical in nature – and intentional."
Your “senses” are authordar.
The four friends stopped short.
"I must go now," said Jade. "We will meet again – that I am sure of.
And should we ever meet again as adversaries… may the best duelist
win."
And with that, she leapt up into the trees and bounded out of sight.
Having made a show of how superior she is. I hope she crashes into a
tree.
"Who could have…?" said Clive.
Yugi waved his hand over his Puzzle, and the transformation overtook him again.
"I know you are watching," he said to the trees above him. A magical nimbus
started to surround him. "I can't prove you did it, but mark my
words – I am going to face you eventually, and you are going to be
sorry you ever brought me here. I can promise you that!"
Yay. More dick-waving. Yugi mostly just stands around being a
jackass in this story.
SCENE CHANGE:
In her lair, Anastasia watched, and as Yugi said his last word, the monitor she
was watching started to spark.
"Huh?" she said.
“Time to send the technician to Hell.”
All of sudden, the sparks leapt out of the monitor and struck her! She yelped.
Mr. Baal rushed in. "Miss Pegasus!" he said. "Are you okay."
Not very concerned for his boss, is he?
"Come here," she said.
"Yes, what do… Ack!"
Anastasia grabbed him by the throat.
"Lovely idea, put a curse on one of them," she said. "Now that brat
with the armor has helped them put two-and-two together!"
Hey, you signed off on it!
She dropped him, and picked up her cane, which she had dropped. "I'm going to put
you away for a very long time, Baal," she said. The golden flames started to flare from the knob…
That must hurt.
"Wait!" begged Baal. "Please! I won't mess up again! I'll do better!
Please!"
Anastasia calmed down and lowered the cane. "Good grief, man, where's your
pride?" she said. "Fine, consider this your probation. But
one more screw-up and you've had it. Now get out of my sight before I
change my mind."
He didn't make it to the door before her PMS kicked in.
Baal ran out of the room, knocking over two chairs on the way.
"Well," said Anastasia. "I dare not try anything like that again. I'll
just have to wait for the tournament to play itself out on its own.
If Yugi fails to win the right to face me, I can still do away with him…"
She looked down at her cane. "It just won't be as fun…"
So she knows she can just off him and get it over it, but it's a matter of “fun”? Paging Dr. Evil...
Finally, we have the Created Card section, in which we learn Black
Hag doesn't have an effect (amazing!) and that Brian has managed to
again bobble a card of his own making. The “female Spellcaster”
thing about Blood Moon? In the Created Card section, it's listed as
affecting all Spellcasters.
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