//------------------------------// // Chapter 46: Chaos Incarnate // Story: Yu-Gi-Oh! Friendship is Magic: The Numeric War // by moviemaster8510 //------------------------------// A set of doors similar to the ones that sucked Alex and his friends in opened in a smaller room that was ornamented similarly to the royal chambers. Out of it slid Eli, Sammy, and Orion. Once they were all through, the doors slammed shut behind them. Sammy got up and saw only two of her friends. “Alex? Scott? Maddie?” “Forget it,” said Eli. “I think they separated us. Besides there’s the door.” Eli, Sammy, and Orion ran towards the door, but there was a violent shaking underneath them. They had stopped to see what had happened, but then, three green circles enveloped around Eli, Sammy, and Orion. Eli tried passing over, but found himself blocked by a forcefield. “What is this?” he asked. “Let us go!” “Oh, you want me to let you go?” cooed a threatening voice. Suddenly, a bright orb of light started to spark at the end of the room. It grew larger until it burst, revealing a strange creature. It had a horse-like head with an antler on the right side of his head, a blue misshapen horn on the left side, a long white beard, white bushy eyebrows, and an elongated right fang. He also had what looked like the body and left arm of an eagle, the left arm of a lion, the right leg of a dragon, the left leg of an antelope, the right wing of a bat, the left wing of a pegasus, and a dragon-like tail. He emerged laughing again after being freed once more from his stone prison. The spirit of chaos, Discord, had awakened again. Sammy, Eli, and Orion looked less than amused, staring daggers at Discord. “Huh? What’s wrong?” asked Discord. “Does my appearance not amuse you?” “Shut up,” said Orion. “We know full well who you are! You’re Discord, the spirit of chaos. Let us pass!” “You know me well for an outsider.” “How did you even get here? Last I heard, Twilight and your friends turned you into stone.” “And oh, how the tables have turned.” Discord snapped his fingers. In front of the exit door appeared a stone tablet, and inside of it was Applejack, frozen and colorless. Eli, Sammy, and Orion were shocked. “I’ll let you pass. But first, you have to play a little game with me. If you three can defeat me in a duel, you will not only open the door, but you can free her along with this.” He held out what looked like the Element of Honesty necklace, but its orange apple center was now replaced with an obsidian-like stone, having been corrupted by Inverz’ powers. Discord put the necklace around his neck causing it to glow slightly. “But, if you lose, your ‘journey’ will end right here. The challenge is set. Now just try and defeat me.” Eli activated his gauntlet duel disk, Sammy unsheathed hers, and Orion turned his wand into his duel disk. The three duelists drew five cards from their decks. Discord snapped his fingers. Five large stone tablets resembling cards appeared seemingly out of nowhere from his right side of the room. They were ready to go. “DUEL!” they all yelled. Eli, Sammy, and Orion vs. Discord Eli’s Turn: Eli special summons Koa’ki Meiru Maximus by removing an Iron Core of Koa’ki Meiru in his hand from play (ATK: 3000 DEF: 2500). Eli places 1 card face down and ends his turn. Once per turn, Eli must discard an Iron Core of Koa’ki Meiru, discard a Koa’ki Meiru monster, or destroy Koa’ki Meiru Maximus. Eli discards Koa’ki Meiru Valafar. Status: Hand-2 Life-12000 Monsters-1 Face Down Cards-1 ____________________________________ “Oooh,” mocked Discord in a fake, scared voice. “Big, scary dragon.” “That’s what she said,” retorted Eli. If this thing was going to mock him at every turn, Eli might as well mock him back. ____________________________________ Discord’s Turn: Discord activates the field spell Clear World. Discord then activates Temple of the Kings, allowing him to activate trap cards from his hand. Next, he activates the continuous trap card Royal Decree, negating the activation of all other trap cards on the field. Discord overlays Clear World, Temple of the Kings, and Royal Decree to xyz summon Discord, Spirit of Chaos (ATK: 3000 DEF: 3000). Discord gains the effects of all xyz materials attached to it. Discord equips Discord, Spirit of Chaos with Malevolent Nuzzler, raising Discord, Spirit of Chaos’ ATK by 700 (ATK: 3000 -> 3700). Discord attacks Koa’ki Meiru Maximus with Discord, Spirit of Chaos. Eli, Sammy, and Orion’s Life Points: 12000 -> 11300 Discord ends his turn. During each of his end phases due to his effect given to him by Clear World, he must pay 500 life points or destroy Discord, Spirit of Chaos. Discord pays 500 life points. Discord’s Life Points: 12000 -> 11500 Status: Hand-2 Life-11500 Monsters-1 Face Down Cards-0 “Wait a minute,” said Eli. “Did you just use a bunch of spell and trap cards in one turn?” “Yeah?” queried Discord. “So?” “That’s against the rules, isn’t it?” “No. My deck is fully comprised of spell and trap cards. I guess I could say that I am the only monster in my deck.” Leave it to the spirit of chaos to mix things up a bit, thought Eli. ____________________________________ Sammy’s Turn: Sammy activates Painful Choice, choosing 5 cards in her deck, and her opponent chooses 1 of them to be added to her hand (he chooses Flamvell Magician). The other cards are sent to the graveyard. Sammy activates Graceful Charity, drawing 3 cards and discarding 2. Sammy activates Rekindling, special summoning as many FIRE attribute monsters with 200 DEF from her graveyard as possible, choosing Flamvell Grunika (ATK: 1700 DEF: 200), Neo Flamvell Shaman, (ATK: 1700 DEF: 200), Flamvell Magician (ATK: 1400 DEF: 200), Neo Flamvell Hedgehog (ATK: 800 DEF: 200), and Laval Lancelord (ATK: 2200 DEF: 200). Sammy tunes Flamvell Grunika with Neo Flamvell Hedgehog to synchro summon Laval Stannon (ATK: 2700 DEF: 1800). When Laval Stannon is synchro summoned, Sammy must discard 1 card. Sammy tunes Neo Flamvell Shaman with Flamvell Magician to synchro summon Ancient Flamvell Diety (ATK: 2500 DEF: 200). Sammy overlays Laval Stannon and Ancient Flamvell Diety to xyz summon Lavell Hydra (ATK: 3000 DEF: 3000). Sammy activates Lavell Hydra’s effect. By detaching 1 xyz material it, Sammy can halve the ATK of one monster on the field and negate its ATK, choosing Discord, Spirit of Chaos (ATK: 3700 -> 1850). Sammy attacks Discord, Spirit of Chaos with Lavell Hydra. Discord’s Life Points: 11500 -> 10350 Sammy then attacks Discord directly with Laval Lancelord, but Discord activates The High Priestess’ Staff from his hand, negating the attack, ending the battle phase, and inflicting 500 points of damage towards his opponent. Eli, Sammy, and Orion’s Life Points: 11300 -> 10800 Sammy places 2 cards face down and ends her turn. During the end phase that Discord, Spirit of Chaos was removed from the field, Discord can special summon it from the graveyard with all of the xyz materials it had attached to it previous to its removal attached to it. During the end phase that Rekindling was activated, all monsters special summoned by its effect are removed from play. With Discord, Spirit of Chaos’ Clear World effect, if Sammy controls a FIRE attribute monster during her end phase, she takes 1000 points of damage. Eli, Sammy, and Orion’s Life Points: 10800 -> 9800 Status: Hand-2 Life-9800 Monsters-1 Face Down Cards-2 ____________________________________ “What the hell is going on?” asked Sammy, confused by Discord’s effect. “Do you like it?” asked Discord. “My lord, Inverz, made it just for me. It’s the perfect and most powerful weapon to deal with a couple of snot nosed brats like you.” “I’m 41, you stupid Hills Have Eyes looking motherfucker,” said Eli angrily. “Quite the mouth,” said Discord. “Perhaps a little soap should do the trick.” Discord shot a soapy blast of bubbles at Eli’s face. The soap stung like hell. He’d pay for that one dearly. ____________________________________ Discord’s Turn: Discord activates Discord, Spirit of Chaos’ effect. By detaching 1 xyz material from it, he can attach 1 field spell, continuous spell, or continuous trap from his hand to it as xyz material, detaching Royal Decree to attach Spirit Barrier to it. With Spirit Barrier’s effect, Discord takes no battle damage if he controls a monster. Discord activates Pot of Greed, drawing 2 cards. Discord places 2 cards face down and ends his turn. Status: Hand-0 Life-10350 Monsters-1 Face Down Cards-2 Orion’s Turn: Orion summons The Six Samurai – Irou (ATK: 1700 DEF: 1200). When Orion controls a Six Samurai monster, he can special summon Legendary Six Samurai – Kizan from his hand (ATK: 1800 DEF: 500). Orion overlays The Six Samurai – Irou and Legendary Six Samurai – Kizan to xyz summon Number 39: Utopia (ATK: 2500 DEF: 2000). Because of Discord, Spirit of Chaos’ Clear World effect, Orion must reveal his hand at all times when he controls a LIGHT monster. Orion activates Riryoku, halving Discord, Spirit of Chaos’ ATK to increase Number 39: Utopia’s by that amount (ATK: 3000 -> 1500) (ATK: 2500 -> 4000). Orion then activates Space Cyclone, detaching an xyz material from Discord, Spirit of Chaos, choosing Spirit Barrier. Orion attacks Discord, Spirit of Chaos, but Discord activates Damage Diet, halving the damage he takes. Discord’s Life Points: 10350 -> 9100 Discord activates Card of Last Will, drawing 5 cards when a monster of his was destroyed. Orion places 1 card face down and ends his turn. During the end phase that Discord, Spirit of Chaos was removed from the field, Discord can special summon it from the graveyard with all of the xyz materials it had attached to it previous to its removal attached to it. Status: Hand-1 Life-9800 Monsters-1 Face Down Cards-1 Maybe a little mind-games would do me some good, thought Discord. Discord’s Turn: Discord activates Discord, Spirit of Chaos’ effect. By detaching 1 xyz material from it, he can attach 1 field spell, continuous spell, or continuous trap from his hand to it as xyz material, detaching Temple of the Kings and attaching Domino Effect. Discord activates Heavy Storm, destroying all spell and trap cards on the field. Discord activates Forbidden Chalice, increasing Number 39: Utopia’s ATK by 400 and negating its effect (ATK: 2500 -> 2900). Next, he equips Discord, Spirit of Chaos with Xyz Unit, increasing its ATK by 200 times its rank (11 x 200 = 2200, ATK: 3000 -> 5200). Discord attacks Lavell Hydra. Eli, Sammy, and Orion’s Life Points: 9800 -> 7600 With Discord’s Domino Effect effect, when a monster Discord’s opponent controls is destroyed by battle, Discord can send one monster he controls to the graveyard to destroy 1 monster his opponent controls, choosing Number 39: Utopia. Discord places 1 card face down and ends his turn. During the end phase that Discord, Spirit of Chaos was removed from the field, Discord can special summon it from the graveyard with all of the xyz materials it had attached to it previous to its removal attached to it. Status: Hand-0 Life-9100 Monsters-1 Face Down Cards-1 ____________________________________ “Look at that,” cooed Discord, trying to entrance Sammy with his trickery. “Your big strong boyfriend wouldn’t protect you from-” “Couldn’t,” corrected Sammy. “What now?” “Eli couldn’t protect me. I know he tries his best for me and his friends. He’s not the person to intentionally put people in harm’s way.” Discord encountered a similar problem with Fluttershy once, so he opted to resolve the situation the same way: by force. Unfortunately, Orion set up a barrier preventing Discord’s magic from reaching through to any of them. “Your cheap tricks won’t do you any good,” said Eli. “Neither will our strength. ____________________________________ Eli’s Turn: Eli activates his Pot of Greed, drawing 2 cards. Eli activates Forced Release, choosing 1 xyz monster on the field and detaching all of its xyz materials, choosing Discord, Spirit of Chaos. Eli summons Koa’ki Meiru Urnight (ATK: 2000 DEF: 1500). Eli activates Koa’ki Meiru Urnight’s effect. By revealing an Iron Core of Koa’ki Meiru in his hand, he can special summon a level 4 or lower Koa’ki Meiru monster from his deck, choosing Koa’ki Meiru Ice (ATK: 1900 DEF: 1200). Eli activates Koa’ki Meiru Ice’s effect, discarding 1 card to destroy a special summoned monster on the field, choosing Discord, Spirit of Chaos. Eli overlays Koa’ki Meiru Ice and Koa’ki Meiru Urnight to xyz summon Number 164: Crystalline Chimera (ATK: 2700 DEF: 1200). Eli activates Number 164: Crystalline Chimera’s effect. By detaching 1 xyz material from it, Eli can destroy all spell and trap cards on the field. Eli attacks Discord directly with Number 164: Crystalline Chimera. Discord’s Life Points: 9100 -> 6400 Eli places 1 card face down and ends his turn. During the end phase that Discord, Spirit of Chaos was removed from the field, Discord can special summon it from the graveyard. Status: Hand-0 Life-7600 Monsters-1 Face Down Cards-1 ____________________________________ Discord’s normally cocky demeanor was slowly being replaced by an angry one. He had even lost the right words to mock Eli with. ____________________________________ Discord’s Turn: Discord attacks Number 164: Crystalline Chimera with Discord, Spirit of Chaos. Since Numbers can only be destroyed by battle with other Numbers, Number 164: Crystalline Chimera isn’t destroyed. Battle damage is applied normally. Eli, Sammy, and Orion’s Life Points: 7600 -> 7300 Discord places 1 card face down and ends his turn. Status: Hand-0 Life-6400 Monsters-1 Face Down Cards-1 Sammy’s Turn: Sammy activates her Pot of Greed, drawing 2 cards. Sammy activates Double Spell, discarding a spell card to use a spell card in her opponent’s graveyard as if it were her own, choosing Temple of the Kings, allowing her to activate trap cards from her hand. Sammy activates Xyz Reborn from her hand, special summoning an xyz monster from her graveyard and attaching Xyz Reborn as xyz material, choosing Lavell Hydra. Sammy activates Lavell Hydra’s effect, detaching an xyz material to halve the ATK of one monster on the field and negate its effect, choosing Discord, Spirit of Chaos (ATK: 3000 -> 1500). Sammy then activates Xyz Soul from her hand, sending an xyz monster in either player’s graveyard to the extra deck to increase the ATK of all monsters she controls by the rank of the xyz monster times 200, choosing Number 39: Utopia (4 x 200 = 800, ATK: 3000 -> 3800). Sammy attacks Discord, Spirit of Chaos with Lavell Hydra. Discord’s Life Points: 6400 -> 4100 Sammy ends her turn. During the end phase that Discord, Spirit of Chaos was removed from the field, Discord can special summon it from the graveyard. Status: Hand-0 Life-7300 Monsters-1 Face Down Cards-0 “Let’s see how protective of her you are now!” shouted Discord. Discord’s Turn: Discord activates his trap Sixth Sense. A die is rolled and Discord must declare 2 numbers between 1 and 6 (he chooses 5 and 6). If the result is any of the declared numbers Discord draws cards equal to the result. The die lands in a 6. Discord draws 6 cards. Discord equips Discord, Spirit of Chaos with another Xyz Unit (ATK: 3000 -> 5200). Discord attacks Lavell Hydra with Discord, Spirit of Chaos, but Eli activates Shift, switching the attack target to Number 164: Crystalline Chimera. Numbers can only be destroyed by battle with other Numbers, but battle damage is still applied. Eli, Sammy, and Orion’s Life Points: 7300 -> 4800 Discord activates Discord, Spirit of Chaos’ effect, detaching 1 xyz material (Xyz Unit can be used as a substitute) (ATK: 5200 -> 3000) to attach 1 field spell, continuous spell, or continuous trap card from his hand as xyz material, attaching Final Attack Orders. With Final Attack Orders’ effect, all monsters must be in attack position. Discord places 2 cards face down ends his turn. Status: Hand-3 Life-4100 Monsters-1 Face Down Cards-2 ____________________________________ “Told you so,” Sammy said simply. Discord was about to lose it. ____________________________________ Orion’s Turn: Orion activates his Pot of Greed, drawing 2 cards. Orion activates the continuous spell Six Samurai United. Orion activates The Warrior Returning Alive, adding a Warrior-type monster from his graveyard to his hand, choosing Legendary Six Samurai – Kizan. Orion summons The Six Samurai – Nisashi (ATK: 1400 DEF: 700). With Six Samurai United, Orion places a Bushido counter on Six Samurai United when a Six Samurai monster is summoned (BuC.: 0 -> 1). Orion special summons Legendary Six Samurai – Kizan from his hand (BuC.: 1 -> 2). Orion can send Six Samurai United to the graveyard and draw cards equal to the number of Bushido counters on it (2). Orion overlays The Six Samurai – Nisashi and Legendary Six Samurai – Kizan to xyz summon Number 39: Utopia. Orion attacks Discord, Spirit of Chaos with Number 39: Utopia. Orion then activates Number 39: Utopia’s effect. By detaching 1 xyz material from it, he can negate the attack of one monster on the field, choosing Number 39: Utopia. Discord activates Chivalry, negating the effect of a monster during the battle phase and destroying it. Orion places 1 card face down and ends his turn. Status: Hand-1 Life-4800 Monsters-0 Face Down Cards-1 ____________________________________ “That’s it!” yelled Discord, his rage causing lighting and thunder to inhabit the room. “My patience has run dry, and so will you and your friends’ bodies when I’m through with you.” For once, Eli was intimidated by Discord. ____________________________________ Discord’s Turn: Discord equips Discord, Spirit of Chaos with another Xyz Unit (ATK: 3000 -> 5200). Discord activates Meteor of Destruction, inflicting 1000 points of damage to Eli, Sammy, and Orion. Eli, Sammy, and Orion’s Life Points: 4800 -> 3800 Discord equips Discord, Spirit of Chaos with Axe of Despair, increasing its ATK by 1000 (ATK: 5200 -> 6200). Discord attacks Number 164: Crystalline Chimera with Discord, Spirit of Chaos. Numbers can only be destroyed by battle with other Numbers, but battle damage is still applied. Eli, Sammy, and Orion’s Life Points: 3800 -> 300 Discord activates Discord, Spirit of Chaos’ effect, detaching 1 xyz material (Xyz Unit) (ATK: 6200 -> 4000) to attach 1 field spell, continuous spell, or continuous trap card from his hand as xyz material, attaching Royal Oppression, allowing all players to be able to pay 800 life points to negate the special summoning of a monster and destroy it. Discord ends his turn. Status: Hand-0 Life-4100 Monsters-1 Face Down Cards-1 ____________________________________ “Then it’s over,” said Sammy, feeling the inevitability sinking in. Discord felt satisfied on seeing her disheartened face. “What’s this?” asked Eli. “I stick up for you the whole time and then you call it quits when it’s my turn?” “So, you think you can still win this?” “No,” said Orion. “I think so too.” Sammy couldn’t help but feel the fire reignite upon seeing Eli’s face. “Then yes,” she said with a smile. “I believe in you too.” “You fools!” yelled Discord. “You have no monsters that can stand up to me, and you can’t summon anything stronger than me. For you who are going to die, what hope do you possibly have?” “The only one dying is you!” said Eli. ____________________________________ Eli’s Turn: Eli activates Graceful Charity, drawing 3 cards and discarding 2. Eli special summons Elemental Guardian Celutera from his hand, as he has 1 FIRE, WATER, WIND, and EARTH monster in his graveyard (ATK: 3500 DEF: 3500). Discord pays 800 life points with Discord, Spirit of Chaos’ Royal Oppression effect to negate Elemental Guardian Celutera’s summoning. Discord’s Life Points: 4100 -> 3300 But, Orion activates Divine Wrath, discarding 1 card to negate Discord, Spirit of Chaos’ effect and destroy it. Eli activates Number 164: Crystalline Chimera’s effect, detaching 1 xyz material to destroy all spell and trap cards on the field. Eli overlays Elemental Guardian Celutera to xyz summon Number 200: Adligo – Dragon of Harmony (ATK: 4500 DEF: 4500). Eli attacks Discord directly with Number 200: Adligo – Dragon of Harmony. Discord’s Life Points: 3300 -> 0 Eli, Sammy, and Orion win. The attack enveloped Discord as he screamed his last breaths. The blackened element of honesty turned a bright orange, its normal color. Discord soon began to turn to stone, with the greying rock converting him starting from his neck where the necklace was. Once he was fully turned to stone, the necklace unfastened itself and fell to the ground with a clang. “No,” grunted Orion. “Never again!” He threw his left arm up causing his duel disk to fly up to the ceiling as it unfastened from his arm. The duel disk turned into his wand and Orion caught it on its way down. He then revved his arm back and launched a spell like a baseball pitcher would throw a ball. The spell speeded down the room and straight into Discord’s statue form, shattering it into thousands of pieces. Discord was and would forever be gone. Eli stood over the head of their enemy that broke off of him. “Discord was a really crazy person,” he said. “It was only a matter of time before he…” He mimed putting on a pair of sunglasses. “…lost his head.” Silence. “What? No Roger Daltry scream?” “No,” said Sammy, unamused. “Here’s something even better.” Sammy had fully fallen in love with Eli now, the grabbed him by his shirt collar and kissed him with intense passion. Eli returned the kiss with kisses of his own. They were then distracted by an orange beam coming from the restored Element of Honesty and connecting with Applejack. The outline and shape of Applejack lit brightly. After it was done glowing, Applejack fell out of her stone prison, Orion catching her. “Huh?” she said. “Where am I?” Where are my friends?” Applejack was then hugged by Sammy, Eli, and Orion. “Did all y’all… save me?” “Yes,” said Sammy. “I assume our friends are too.” Then a door opened leading them to the outside. Sammy, Eli, Orion, and Applejack with her element put around her neck walked outside to see where it leaded next.