Chapter 1

Chapter 1

“Duel!” they both said, and they each dew five cards.

Man in the leather coat: 8000
The Thief: 8000

“The challenged get the first move,” the man in the leather coat stated, almost as if the thief should have known that.

The thief grinned, “You’re gonna let me go first?”

The man in the leather coat nodded once, then added, “Remember the rules. If you win, you get to go free tonight. However, if I win then you are going to the Penitentiary.”

A flicker of anguish went across the thief’s face when he said ‘Penitentiary.’

The thief drew his opening card. A smile spread across his face. The smile sent shivers down the man in the leather coat’s spine.

“I place a monster face-down in defense mode, and I place one card face down. Your turn.” the thief said. He was getting cocky.

The man in the leather coat wanted to know more about this guy.

“What is your name, thief?” he asked.

“Tom, Tom Huro. Now it’d be only fair if you tell me yours,” the thief said with a hint of arrogance.

The man in the leather coat thought for a moment, and then decided to reply. “My name is Kal Iszarc. My turn.”

Kal drew his card, but kept a poker face. He didn’t want to let Tom know how good his hand was.

Tom interjected, “I activate my face down Trap! Macro Cosmos!”

The trap flipped up in front of Tom on his side of the field, and a vortex appeared in the sky. A vortex to the removed from play zone.

“Now all cards sent to the grave, are removed from play.”

Kal got a bit nervous. He had only faced a remove deck once in his life, and he almost lost. This duel was going to be interesting.

“Alright, I summon Legion’s Samurai in attack mode!” Kal said.

The card flipped up, and a warrior with a long, sharp weapon was summoned to the duel field. ATK: 1500.

“Next, since I have one Ally Monster on my field, I can activate the effect of my Legion’s Magician of Tricks! Now I can Special Summon it to my side of the field from my hand!”

“Hey wait a second. Your cards, they are all black. What kind of cards are those?” Tom asked.

Kal grinned, “I am glad you asked. This type of card is called ‘Ally.’ They have all sorts of effects, like regular monsters, but they stack on top of each other, and they can usually gain effects from being in a Stack.”

“So you can have, like, 20 monsters in one monster card zone?”

“Yes, but only the top one can attack if that’s what you’re worried about,” Kale said, “Now, onto my turn. Alright, I Special Summoned my magician. But he doesn’t summon onto an empty space, he gets summoned in a Stack, right along with my Samurai! But he gets sent to the bottom, so Samurai is the power hitter.”

When the Magician’s card flipped, it was behind the Samurai. Then the Magician came to the field, directly behind the warrior. ATK: 1000.

“Now for my Magician of Tricks’ effect. I can discard one card from my hand and inflict 1000 points of damage!”

The Magician suddenly had two handfuls of playing cards. He then propelled himself off the shoulders of the Samurai, into the air, and through those many cards at the opponent. Tom was then hit with a force of 1000 damage.

“Aaahh…” Tom said, cringing from the blow of the 1000 playing cards.

Kal: 8000
Tom: 7000

“Next, for my Samurai’s effect. I can tribute the monster under it in the Stack to destroy one monster! And I select your face down!”

Slowly the magician disappeared into the vortex above them. The Samurai raised the weapon and threw it at the face down monster.

“Noooo!” Tom said, the card revealed to be D.D. Warrior Lady.

“That was what I expected. And with no face downs left to worry about, I can attack you directly with the Samurai!”

The Samurai retrieved his weapon and leaped into the air. He struck with the force of him being drug back down to the ground, dealing 1500 points of damage.

Kal: 8000
Tom: 5500

Tom stood back up after the crippling blow. “My turn,” he said, a bit petulant.

Tom drew and yet again smiled. “Since I control no monsters, I can activate the special ability of my Evil Hero Infernal Prodigy! Now I can Special Summon it in attack mode.”

The card flipped up and a little fiend with wings appeared. ATK: 300.

“Now I can tribute him to Summon my Caius the Shadow Monarch!”
The Prodigy disappeared into the vortex, and in its place came a tall, dark monster, complete with the ragged cape and black body armor.

‘Great, he’s playing Macro Monarchs,’ Thought Kal.

“Now for Cauis’s Special Ability! I can now remove from play a card, and I choose your Samurai!”

Caius generated a purple orb of light and launched it toward the Samurai. The Samurai squirmed as he was twisted together, and sent straight toward the vortex.

“And the effect isn’t done! Since the removed card was a DARK monster, you take 1000 points of damage!”

“What?” Kal exclaimed.

A beam of purple light shot out of the vortex and straight though Kal, crippling him.

Kal: 7000
Tom: 5500

“And now I am free to attack you directly! Let’s see how you like it!!” Tom said.

Caius stood poised for the attack. He started generating another purple orb.

“Not so fast,” Kal said with a weak voice, still on one knee. “I can discard my Legion’s Defender from my hand, and the top card of my deck to instantly end the battle phase.”

The two cards got removed from play, but before that happened a scrawny girl with a knife appeared in front of the Samurai, in a protection stance.

Caius backed down.

“I end my turn.” Tom said.

Kal Stood back up and steadied himself. “My draw!” he said.

‘I am going to need a miracle to pull this one off…’ he thought.

“I release my Samurai to summon my Legion’s War Caller!”

The Samurai was sent to the vortex, and in its place was something that resembled a muscular skeleton with wings.

“Now for its Special effect! We both show each other a monster in our hands and the weakest one is sent to the graveyard!”

“And with Macro on the field, it’s removed from play.” Tom interjected.

“Yes. Alright, show!”

Tom held out Raiza the Storm Monarch (ATK 2400) and Kal held out Legion’s Overlord Lokeyrr (ATK 2700)

“No way!” Tom said, as he placed his Raiza in his pocket, his removed from play pile.

Kal Grinned. “That isn’t all. The loser of the war takes 1000 damage!”

“Nooo!” Tom exclaimed as 1000 more life points were taken.

Kal: 7000
Tom: 4500

“I end my turn,” Kal said.

‘I am off to a good start, but he can easily get the upper hand.’ He thought.

To be continued….