//------------------------------// // Prologue: New Girl // Story: Yu-Gi-Oh! EQG 4: Nightmare's Awakening // by Bahamut0 //------------------------------// Saturday. The day Burst loved most of all out of the week. Especially after last night. 'My first kiss was from the woman I love. Speaking of her. I wonder if Celestia wants to head to the movies? Maybe we'll get a quick duel in too!', Burst thought to himself as he got dressed and texted Celestia. Burst got a reply saying she was free at about noon. "Well, I guess I could go to the duel park." After breakfast, Burst got his deck and duel disk and headed off to the duel park. On his way, he accidentally bumped into a girl. "Oh man. Sorry about that! You alright?", Burst asked. The girl had black skin and dark blue hair. But the thing that stood out most was the brilliant shade of turquoise her eyes were. Nightmare Moon couldn't believe she had run into Burst! Only yesterday she had entered his dreams. She knew that they would meet again, but didn't expect to see him again this soon. "I'm fine. Nothing broken. Hey,you're a duelist aren't you?", Nightmare asked noticing Burst's duel disk. "Yeah! I am! You looking for the duel park? I know where it is so I can take you there. I'm headed there myself.", Burst said with a smile. 'This is an excellent chance to see just how strong he really is!', Nightmare thought to herself. "Thank you! I'd like that." "No problem! My name's Burst Stream by the way. What's yours?" "Beat me in a duel and I'll tell you.", Nightmare said with a smirk. "Challenge accepted.", Burst said with a smirk of his own. Soon the two of them arrived at the duel park and began their duel. "Ladies first." Burst: 8000 Nightmare: 8000 "You're quite the charmer. I summon Darkness Knight in attack mode! Then I'll equip him with Lunar Saber to boost his attack by 300 points! Your move!" "Alright! I draw! I reveal one Blue Eyes White Dragon in my hand to special summon Blue Eyes Alternative White Dragon! Next I play Dragon Shrine to send a normal dragon type monster to the graveyard! And since it was a normal dragon, I can send another dragon to the graveyard! Then I'll play Return of the Dragon Lords to revive the Dragon Spirit of White in my graveyard! Now that he's been summoned I can banish one spell or trap card you control! So I'll banish your equip spell! Dragon Spirit will attack your monster and Blue Eyes Alternative attacks you directly! White Lightning! I end my turn." Nightmare was soon struck with a blast of light from Blue Eyes Alternative! Burst: 8000 Nightmare: 5000 "Not a bad start! But the duel's not over until the last card is drawn! I can special summon this monster when I have a dark monster on my field or in my graveyard! Rise! Night Queen Nyx!" Soon, a humanoid monster wearing what looked like armor fused with a dress came onto the field. "Now for her effect! When she's summoned she gains 300 attack for each dark monster in my graveyard! Now I play Lightning Vortex! By discarding one card I destroy all monsters on your field!" "Not so fast! I banish Return of the Dragon Lords from my graveyard to protect my monsters!" "Good. But not good enough! I attack your Dragon Spirit of White! Night Spear Slash!" Nightmare's monster charged forth and destroyed Dragon Spirit of white in one slash! "That's it for my turn." Burst: 7200 Nightmare: 5000 "Time for me to strike back! I activate Alternative's effect! I can target and destroy one monster you control!" Blue Eyes Alternative summoned a lightning bolt that struck Night Queen Nyx, but when the dust cleared she was still standing! "Whoa. Guess there's more to your monster than I thought." "Thanks for noticing. Nyx can't be destroyed by card effects! The only way to best her is in battle!" "Thanks for the advice. I'll switch my dragon into defense mode and end my turn." "My move. I equip Nyx with Moon Lance! This boosts her attack by 800 points and lets her inflict piercing damage when she destroys a defense mode monster! Take down his Blue Eyes Alternative White Dragon!" Burst winced as he took piercing damage from the attack! "That's all for my turn." Burst: 5600 Nightmare: 5000 "Well, it looks like I've got no choice. You've shown me your ace, so I'll show you mine! I play Cards of Consonance to discard White Stone of Legend to draw two new cards! And by Stone's effect, I can add a Blue Eyes White Dragon from my deck to my hand! Then I'll play one of the cards I drew from Cards of Consonance! Harmony Absolute! I'll send the Blue Eyes White Dragon in my hand to the graveyard to summon Blue Eyes Absolute Dragon from my deck! And since he's on the field, he gains 300 attack for each monster in my graveyard! There's five monsters in my graveyard, so he gains 1500 attack points! Go! Absolute Neutron Blast!" "Time to light up this duel!", Blue Eyes roared as he fired his signature attack! When the blast hit, Nyx was gone from the field! "I end my turn." Burst: 5600 Nightmare: 2800 "So this is your best monster? Impressive! But let's see how good he is against card effects! I play Dark Hole to wipe-out the field!" Soon dark hole appeared and tried to suck in Blue Eyes Absolute! But it failed and faded out from the field! "Just how strong is that thing?", Nightmare asked in disbelief. "He's called Absolute for a reason. He's immune to card effects. And since you've got no monsters, you're wide open! Let's finish this Blue Eyes!" "Absolute Neutron Blast!", Burst and Blue Eyes shouted together! And with a flash of rainbow colored light, the duel was over. Burst: 5600, win Nightmare: lose "That was a good duel. You got in quite the hit on me.", Burst said with a smile. Nightmare smiled in kind. "Thanks. This was my first loss. I guess I should tell you my name now. It's Nightshade." "Nice to meet you Nightshade. Hope to see you again!", Burst said as he waved goodbye. 'Sooner than you think Burst Stream.', Nightmare thought to herself with a smile. 'You're even stronger than I thought. No wonder the elements gave you some of their power. Considering how strong your connection is to them, he must be quite good friends with them from the magic I sensed. And that's not including the power he has from his bond with his dragons. Maybe I should enroll in his school. It could give me the edge in my plans. Maybe even find out how to get Burst to like me.' Later on... "Hi Celestia!", Burst greeted his girlfriend. "So which movie looks good?" "The one that really catches my eye is this new superhero movie. They made it based on the Elemental Hero cards." "Sounds fun! I'm a big fan of the E-Hero comics that Industrial Illusions makes! I knew they'd get a movie soon!" And with that, they went in to enjoy the movie. Once they were in the theater, Burst noticed Flash wearing an Elemental Heroes T-shirt. After catching up, Burst went back to Celestia and they found their seats. As the movie started, Burst and Celestia smiled at each other and shared a kiss while the trailers rolled. One epic viewing later... "That was even better than The Avengers!", Celestia said. "Yeah! And I loved how they teased a movies for Neos after the credits!", Burst said. "Want me to fly you home?" "I'd love that. So are you going to summon Blue Eyes?" "Who said anything about him?", Burst said as he summoned his dragon wings. "Hold on tight." "That shouldn't be hard.", Celestia said with a smile as she held onto Burst as he flew her home. "Thanks for the ride." "No problem. See you on Monday." Celestia gave him a goodbye kiss, and Burst headed back home. 'Ah. A perfect day. Things are only going to get better from now!