The day went by quick, and lunch period soon arrived. Shadow and Starlight met each other in the hallway. "Ready to do this Starlight?"
"I can't wait to see the looks on their faces!", Starlight said with a smile. The two headed to the tables the guys and girls usually sat at. They noticed Shadow and Starlight, and Shadow introduced Starlight to the group.
"Hey everyone! This is Starlight! She's the girl I met yesterday.", Shadow announced proudly.
"Nice to meet you all!", Starlight said pleasantly. "We met when Shadow was helping me pick up the cards. After he bumped into me though."
"You're not gonna let me live that down. Are you?"
"What? It's memorable!"
"So's this..." Shadow pulled Starlight into a kiss, and all of his friends' jaws dropped. "How about you get to know all the girls?" As Shadow was talking to Starlight, Pinkie was writing in her relationship notebook.
"Shadow....X....Starlight!", Pinkie chirped silently. Starlight then sat down with the girls.
"So.....any of you duel?", Starlight asked.
"You bet!", Rainbow Dash said with a grin! "I've got a Crystal Beast deck! And my partner's Rainbow Dragon!"
"Oh! You're into legendary dragons too!" Starlight pulled out her deck and showed Rainbow Dash her own copy of Rainbow Dragon. "I've got at least three copies of Rainbow Dragon!"
"So does that mean you've got a Crystal Beast deck too?!", Rainbow Dash asked hopefully.
"Nope. But I do have other legendary dragons I use." Starlight then pulled out Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Red-Eyes Black Dragon.
"Huh.", Sunset said as she looked at the cards. "You've got Blue-Eyes and Red-Eyes too. You ever take on Burst or Inferno? Those two have decks solely dedicated to those dragons. Burst uses Blue-Eyes and Inferno uses Red-Eyes. They're the best duelists out of all of us."
"You don't say...." Starlight then subtly sensed the power Burst and Inferno's dragons, and was shocked! They had power that exceeded any current legendary dragon! "I'm sure their monsters are quite powerful."
"You don't know the half of it.", Nightmare said with a smile. "Burst's won Duelist Kingdom AND Battle City."
"Impressive. Well, it's been lovely meeting you all. But I'd better get going.", Starlight said with a smile. "Hope to see you all later!" As Starlight left, her thoughts shifted to the presences Burst and Inferno gave off. 'If I could beat either of them and harness their legendary dragon's power, I'd have a nearly unstoppable deck! I just need the perfect chance....' The day soon ended, and Starlight searched around for Burst and Inferno. She didn't have to search for long. "Excuse me! You're Burst and Inferno right?"
"Oh. Hi Starlight. Is there something you needed?"
"Actually, yes! I've got a new deck I've been building and I'd like to see how it'll stack up against the deck of a champion. So are you interested?"
"I'm always down for a duel! Let's hit the duel park!" The three headed to the duel park, and activated their duel disks once they arrived!
"LET'S DUEL!"
Starlight: 8000
Burst: 8000
"Hope you don't mind Starlight, but I'm taking the first move!"
"Go ahead.", Starlight said with a smile. 'Time to see what kind of power my new deck has! I have all the legendary dragons in my deck! And with their new forms, I can easily summon them! I can easily take down any monster he summons onto his field!
"Alright! I reveal Blue-Eyes White Dragon to special summon Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon! Next I'll summon White Stone of Ancients! I'll tune Blue-Eyes Alternative with White Stone! I synchro summon Azure-Eyes Silver Dragon in defense mode! Then I'll play Trade-In to discard Blue-Eyes from my hand to draw two new cards! Then I'll end my turn with a face-down! Now White Stone's effect activates! I can special summon a 'Blue-Eyes' monster from my deck to the field! I'll bring out Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" 'Shadow said her deck was made entirely of legendary dragons. But they don't have any synergy. So how can she say she's got a working deck?'
"I draw!" Starlight took a look at the cards in her hand. "I play the field spell Malefic World!" Suddenly, the whole area around them was altered!
"Whoa! Far-out field!", Burst said as he took in Malefic World's appearance. 'This is weird. I've never seen this field spell before! And there's no data for it on my duel disk. And...there's something else. I'm picking up on a powerful energy. A powerful EVIL energy. Starlight...what did you do to your deck?!'
"Glad you like it! Because this is what I need for my monsters to survive! I activate Malefic World's effect! This lets me choose three 'Malefic' monsters from my deck! Then you select one and I can add it too my hand! The rest are shuffled back into the deck."
"I guess I'll pick the one on the left." 'I can sense her dragons are in pain in this weird field. Just what is this place doing to them?
"Excellent choice." 'Now I can unleash the might of my new Malefic deck!' Starlight added the card Burst picked to her hand, and shuffled the rest into her deck. "Now! I summon Thunder King Rai-Oh! Then I'll special summon a monster! I banish Rainbow Dragon!" Rainbow Dragon drifted out of Starlight's deck, and soon turned the same color scheme as Malefic World! "Now I can special summon his counterpart!" Rainbow Dragon began to re-form, but it looked like he was in great pain! Burst and Inferno were shocked at the whole process! When it finished, Rainbow Dragon stood with strange black and white armor on his wings and a black and white mask on its face! "Behold! Malefic Rainbow Dragon! Attack Blue-Eyes White Dragon! Malefic Spectrum Surge!" Malefic Rainbow Dragon fired a pale verison of his signature attack! Wiping out Blue-Eyes White Dragon! "I end my turn."
Starlight: 8000
Burst: 7000
'That dragon was in pain when it turned into that weird form! That mask on its face and that weird armor on its wings seemed to harm it! Did she do this with EVERY dragon in her deck?! Can't she hear their cries? Unless....she has no bonds with them!' "My turn! As long as Rai-Oh is on your field, my draw power is pretty limited. But since it's my standby phase, Azure-Eyes revives a normal monster in my graveyard!"
"I don't think so! I'll send Rai-Oh to the graveyard since you're about to special summon exactly one monster! By doing this, I negate the summon and destroy that card!" Rai-Oh self-destructed to send itself and Blue-Eyes back to the graveyard!
"The turn's only just begun! I'll switch Azure-Eyes into attack mode and use Alternative's effect to destroy Malefic Rainbow Dragon!" Malefic Rainbow Dragon was destroyed by a bolt of lightning Alternative summoned from the sky! "Attack her directly Azure-Eyes! Silver Burst!" Azure-Eyes fired a stream of silver energy from her mouth! Striking Starlight directly! "I end my turn with another face-down!" 'I guess her Malefic monsters aren't all that durable! They're sitting ducks when it comes to effects! All they serve as are beat sticks! I guess that's the price she paid for making them so easy to summon. And they've also lost the effects they had in their original forms! Another side-effect of that corruption. It's like they're shells of their former selves!'
Starlight: 5500
Burst: 7000
"I activate Malefic World's effect again!" Starlight pulled out three Malefic cards and Burst selected one at random. "Time for a little reunion. I banish Blue-Eyes White Dragon! Now I special summon Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" A Blue-Eyes with black bits of armor on him let out a pained roar as he took the field! "Then I'll summon Malefic Parallel Gear! I'll tune Malefic Blue-Eyes with Parallel Gear! I synchro summon Malefic Paradox Dragon! Then I'll attack Azure-Eyes Silver Dragon! Malefic Paradox Stream!" Paradox Dragon fired a crackling green stream of energy! Destroying Azure-Eyes Silver Dragon! "I end my turn with a face-down." 'It looks like my Malefics aren't as powerful as I thought. Blast! I thought for sure this field would protect them from effects! I guess I overestimated their limitations. No matter. All I gotta do is keep Malefic Paradox Dragon on my field!'
Starlight: 5500
Burst: 5500
"My turn! I draw! I'll use Alternative's effect to destroy Malefic Paradox Dragon!"
"Not so fast! I activate my trap! Malefic Claw Stream! I can target one 'Malefic' monster I control and destroy one monster you control!" Both dragons were destroyed by blasts of energy and lightning! "Now I can bring out my strongest monster! Since a 'Malefic' monster was destroyed, I can special summon Malefic Truth Dragon from my hand or graveyard by paying half my life points!" A large golden dragon boasting 5000 attack points appeared on Starlight's field.
"I end my turn." 'Oh man! That thing's stronger than any monster in my deck! But it looks like there's also a pretty big cost to summon it. But if its anything like her other Malefics, it's not safe from card effects!
Starlight: 2750
Burst: 5500
"I draw!" Starlight smiled as she looked at Burst's field. "Those face-downs could prove to be troublesome. Only one way to find out! Malefic Truth Dragon! Attack him directly!"
"I activate my face-down! Silver's Cry! This revives a normal dragon-type monster in my graveyard! I'll bring back Blue-Eyes in defense mode!" Blue-Eyes took the full force of Malefic Truth's attack, but Burst's life points remained the same!
"I guess your monster took the hit for you. But now Truth's effect activates! I can destroy all face-up monsters you control since I destroyed a monster you control!" Malefic Truth Dragon unleashed a wave of crackling black energy! Wiping out all of Burst's monsters! "I end my turn."
"Blue-Eyes' sacrifice won't be in vain! I activate my trap! Curse of Anubis! This switches all effect monsters on the field into face-up defense mode and makes their defense zero! Now it's time to show-off MY best card! I play the spell card Harmony Absolute! I'll banish Blue-Eyes White Dragon from my graveyard! I summon Blue-Eyes Absolute Dragon from my hand!" Blue-Eyes Absolute descended from a column of light! "Now! Attack her monster! Absolute White Lightning!" Blue-Eyes Absolute fired a stream of white lightning from his mouth! Destroying Malefic Truth Dragon! "And when Absolute destroys a defense mode monster by battle, he inflicts piercing damage!" Starlight cringed as her life points dropped to zero! Starlight tried to capture Blue-Eyes Absolute with her power, but it just bounced off of him! And it didn't go unnoticed by Blue-Eyes Absolute. Starlight quickly hid her hand to avoid suspicion. Burst then walked up to Starlight. "You did pretty well Starlight. Your monsters are easy to summon, but they've got no protection from card effects." 'AND they've been stripped of all their abilities. Plus, there can only be one of them on the field at a time. What's the point of having so many high-levels that can be easily summoned if there can only be one at a time?'
"Yeah. That's true. Shadow mentioned a card shop that could help me fine-tune my deck."
"Huh. Maybe that can be your two's next date!", Inferno said with a smile. "Well, gotta go! Burst and I are gonna break-in the new Duel Monsters fighting game! Dibs on Red-Eyes!" Burst and Inferno hurried to Burst's house while Sunset looked on.
"It seems like Burst's dragons are immune to the malefic power." Starlight then smiled. "But maybe the same can't be said for Inferno...."