//------------------------------// // Turn 47, Blaze of the Phoenix // Story: Yugioh EQG // by Banshee531 //------------------------------// Two days remained until the Celestic Cup's first round was to come to a close and we find Ms Sunset Shimmer In the middle of town, currently in a Duel against a Duellist named Indigo Zap. Sunset: 2000 Indigo: 1100 Indigo's field contained a monster named Thunder Smasher who carried a large war hammer in its hand, along with a single face down. (A2400/D1400/L6) Sunset's field was currently completely empty. "Face it," Indigo said, "you know you can't win." "We'll see," Sunset said. What Sunset didn't know was that Indigo's face down was the Trap card Unstable Power, which would activate if Sunset Summoned a monster and deal her damage equal to that monsters ATK points. "It's my turn," Sunset said, "I draw and with scale eight Magician of Glorious Sunrise and scale one Magician of Glorious Sundown to set the Pendulum Scale." Her two magicians rose up in the pillars of light. "Now I can burn through space time and blaze the arc of victory, to summon monsters levelled two through seven all at the same time." Above her a portal formed, "I PENDULUM SUMMON!" The portal opened and a single beam of light shot out and smashed into the ground. "Ignite your flame of victory, Solar Flare Phoenix." (A2500/D2100/L7/P4) "Big mistake," Indigo said, "because my Unstable Power Trap card will deal you damage equal to that monsters ATK points." Her trap flipped up and fired a beam of light that struck Sunset. "Got ya," Indigo said before seeing the smoke clear and her opponent still standing. Sunset: 1500 Indigo: 1100 "But how?" "My Phoenix's ability doubles my life points whenever she's Special Summoned," Sunset said, "so my points increased before your trap took effect. Now I activate the Spell card Solar Flare, which will increase Phoenix's ATK points until the end phase." (A3500/D2100/L7/P4) "Now attack," she ordered as her large bird took to the skies as its body ignited and attacked Thunder Smasher, destroying it. Sunset: 1500 (Winner) Indigo: 0 After her Duel Sunset was walking down the street admiring her points. Sunset Shimmer: 6600Ps She smiled looking at them, since almost seven thousand points had to be one of the highest amounts in the tournament. Suddenly her phone buzzed, signalling a call. She took it and rolled her eyes at the Caller ID. "I'm here," she said answering. "How goes the Duelling?" Cold's voice replied from the other end. "I just hit sixty six hundred," Sunset replied. "That should be enough," he said. "So I'm in the finals," Sunset smiled, "and I'm in the mission?" "That remains to be seen," Cold said. "But what else is there for me to do?" Sunset asked infuriated. "There is one more person I need you to defeat," Cold replied, "do this and I will agree that you are the one worthy of this mission." "Who?" Sunset asked. "You know who." "Twilight Sparkle?" Sunset said, "but I already defeated her?" "Then you shouldn't have a problem doing so again," he replied, "do this and you will take her place besides him. I've sent you the coordinates of her location...don't fail me." With that he hung up leaving Sunset listening to nothing. She closed her phone and sighed, "I won't fail you. Not after everything you've done for me." We find Twilight, Spike and Applejack in the park looking over the two girl's points. After their run in with Longhorn Applejack had decided to stick with Twilight for extra support. "Man," Spike said, "you two are doing great." He was referring to their points, which were amazingly high. Twilight Sparkle: 6550Ps Applejack: 6470Ps "We do have a considerable amount," Twilight said, "but is it enough to get to the finals?" "No clue," Applejack replied, "all we gotta do is keep winning and winning to get enough points." "But how do you do that?" Spike said, "it's been two days since we've seen a Duellist with more then a thousand points." "True," Twilight said, "I wouldn't be surprised if the number of Duellist in this tournament are down to at least a hundred." "Then we'd better be on the look out for any Duellist we see," Applejack said. "But if we find them there's no grantee they Duel you," Spike said. "If their points are so low they might be intimidated by your point totals." "Oh please," the three of them froze hearing a familiar voice. They spun around and there was Sunset Shimmer, leaning against a tree with a cheeky smirk on her face. "You guys are as intimidating as a fluffy little bunny, with the word boo written on its nose." "Sunset Shimmer!" Twilight almost growled, "what are you doing here?" "Public park isn't it?" Sunset said. "Don't go playing the fool," Twilight said, "you wouldn't be here unless it was for a reason." "Maybe," Sunset said, "but what are you gonna do about it?" "That's enough," Applejack shook angrily, "Duel me right now. I'll knock that smile off your face." "Depending on whether you'd make it to your turn this time," Sunset joked. "Why you little-" Twilight held up a hand to stop her. "I'm Duelling her," Twilight said, "I have a score to settle." "You sure Twilight?" Spike said, "you remember what happened last time." "That won't happen this time," Twilight said before turning to the red headed girl. "So how many point you got?" Sunset asked her, to which Twilight showed her her DPM. "Almost as many as me," Sunset said. "Let's make this interesting and put up two thousand points each. That should guarantee the winner makes it to the finals. "Two thousand point?" Spike asked in shock. "You don't have to do this Twilight," Applejack said. Twilight shuck her head. Sunset had humiliated her in there last bout, using her Pendulum, Fusion and Xyz Summons the way she did. She needed to do this, not for the points but for herself. "Your on," she said, "two thousand points each." "To easy," Sunset said. They pulled out their Duel Disks, threw them on their arms, activated them, drew their cards and were ready. "DUEL!" Twilight: 4000 Sunset: 4000 "I'll take the first move," Twilight said, "I draw and first I play the Spell card Spellbook Organisation. with this I can look at the top three cards of my deck, then place them back in any order." She did so and nodded at her future cards, before placing them back. "Next I summon Flame Burst Magician in ATK mode." Her flame clothed wizard appeared on the field, spinning its flaming staff around. (A1300/D600/L3) "With Flame Burst's ability," Twilight continued, "I can inflict eight hundred points of damage to your life points. The magician shot a fireball which struck Sunset in the chest. Twilight: 4000 Sunset: 3200 "Now since I have a Fire Monster on my field," Twilight said, "I can Special Summon this card to my field." A young wizard in flame patterned clothing appeared, "meet Pyro Charmer. (A1300/D1200/L3) "Finally I tune level three Pyro Charmer and Flame Burst Magician," her monsters flew up as Pyro Charmer transformed into three lights which carved circles for the magician to jump into. "The spirit of nature burns unstoppable, as new power is unsealed." Her monsters disappeared in a flash of light, "I SYNCHRO SUMMON!" The light faded revealing, "Tempest Conjurer." (A2200/D1400/L6) "Still Synchro Summoning I see," Sunset said, "I would have thought you'd get another gimmick after the last time we squared off." "No way," Twilight said, "you may have beaten me once but my deck and I don't give up that easily. I'm gonna settle the score with this deck." "Yeah right," Sunset said. "I'll show you," Twilight said, "I place on card face down and end my turn." "Then it's my go," Sunset said, "I draw and Summon Firewall Defender in ATK mode." The man with the flaming gauntlet appeared, fist raised ready to strike. (A1800/D0/L4) "Next I play Solar Flare, to raise my Defenders ATK power by one thousand until the end phase. (A2800/D0/L4) "Now attack," she ordered as he monster charged forwards gauntlet raised to destroy Tempest Conjurer. "I activate my Trap," Twilight said, "Guardian Seal. When you declare an attack on one of my Spellcasters, I can pay five hundred life points and negate the attack ending the battle phase." A magic circle appeared infront of Tempest Magician, blocking Firewall Defender's attack. Twilight: 3500 Sunset: 3200 "I place one card face down and end my turn," Sunset said. "Solar Flare wares off now." (A1800/D0/L4) "My draw," Twilight said, "and since it's my standby phase I can use Tempest Magician's ability to look at the top three cards of my deck. If any of them are Spell cards, I can discard them and increase my monster's ATK points by three hundred for each one. I already know the first two will be Spell cards," she drew from her deck and placed them in her graveyard without looking, "now let's see what the third is." She drew and smiled, before revealing the card to be another Spell. "That's three Spell cards, meaning nine hundred points go to my Magician. (A3100/D1400/L6) "That's way more then Sunset's Firewall Defender," Spike said cheerfully. "She should have kept that varmint in DEF mode," Applejack agreed. "Tempest Conjurer," Twilight ordered, "attack Firewall Defender." Her monster held up its staff and fired a lightning bolt at the man. "I activate my Trap card," Sunset said, "Brittle Shield. Since your attacking a monster whose ATK is higher then its DEF, I can switch him into DEF mode." Defender kneeled down, his gauntlet igniting to form a shield which the lightning struck but couldn't break through. Twilight growled seeing her attack be neutralised. "I end my turn and Tempest Conjurer's ATK points return to normal. (A2200/D1400/L6) Sunset smiled at the girl's annoyance. Did she honestly believe she could defeat her? Sunset had to much on the line to let a weakling take her place, to be the one Cold chose to stand by Flash when the time came. "I won't let him down...not after everything he did for me." I never had a family that I can remember. I never had to do chores or go to sleep early, which might be every kids dream but it wasn't mine. I wanted to be loved and cared for, but I knew that would never happen. Besides having a family I had another dream, to be a master Duellist. I wanted nothing more then to make that dream come true, so I started searching. The dump, trash cans and even the bin bags I saw people throw away. I kept searching in a hopes of finding a couple of cards I could use to build my deck, to begin my career as a Duellist. A younger Sunset was rummaging through a trash can until she found what she was looking for. "There's one," she said as she grabbed a Duel card laying on the bottom. Holding it up to the light she cheered seeing her first card. Eventually I managed to get a deck together and hit the streets, ready to work my way up to the pro leagues. But I soon learned that getting to the top was gonna be much harder then I'd thought. Sunset was walking through the park looking for her first opponent, when suddenly she found herself surrounded by older bigger kids. "Hey pipsqueak," one of them said, "what ya got there?" "My deck," Sunset said with a smile, "you wanna play?" "Sure," another said with the innocent Sunset not registering the sinister hint in his voice. "I lost," Sunset said when her life points hit zero. "You sure did loser," her opponent said, "so I'll be taking these." Before she could say or do anything the boy swiped up her cards. "Wait," she said reaching for them, "those are mine." "Not any more," he said holding them out of reach, "weaklings like you don't deserve these cards." "But-" "Get lost wimp," one of them said before throwing the little girl into the mud. As the gang ran off laughing with her cards, Sunset tried to pull herself up while trying not to cry. That day I realised that becoming a Pro-Duellist wasn't going to be as easy as I thought. I realised that in order to be the best I'd need to become stronger, much stronger. I wouldn't just give up, so I picked myself up and started again. And eventually. The bullies she had lost to were cowering after all being defeated by the new Sunset. This wasn't the weak little girl they had beat before. "I believe you have something of mine," Sunset asked. The bullies shook and held out the cards they had taken back then, which she quickly snatched back. Seeing her cards back with her, she smiled. From then on I never let anyone push me around. Eventually I found myself at the top of the street circuit. I was queen of the street rats. Until the day he appeared. In an abandoned warehouse an explosion occurred. Once the smoke cleared everyone saw Sunset standing over a man with grey skin and hair, wearing black leather clothing with a yellow scarf around his neck. "That was the best you could do?" Sunset asked the man, "lame. Maybe you should try actually getting stronger before you take my turf. Why not try those Black Griffon losers, I hear there really weak. The man scrambled to his feet and ran for the door. "You haven't seen the last of me." "Anyone else?" she asked looking around at the Duellist around her, who all backed away at the prospect of Duellist the Queen of the Streets. "Anyone at all?" "I'll Duel you!" Everyone looked back at the doors where a man with with pale blue skin and white hair was standing. "And who are you?" Sunset asked, never seeing him around before. "Just a Duellist looking for talented opponents," he replied coldly. "Well then you've come to the right place," Sunset said activating her Duel Disk while the man did the same. "So do I get a name." "Cold," he replied. "Well Cold," she said, "prepare to lose." "DUEL!" Sunset was sent flying back as her monster was destroyed and her life points reduced to zero. "Not to bad," Cold told her though he still sounded emotionless. "We're not done," Sunset said pulling herself back up, "again." Sunset fell back again as she was defeated again. "Again," she said pulling herself up again. "Again," she almost screamed after her third lose. "AGAIN!" "No," Cold said, "I've seen enough." Sunset sighed and fell to her knees. Losing four times in a row was humiliating and her reputation was destroyed. "Your strong," she heard him say, making her look up to see him standing above her. "But I lost," she said. "But you never gave up," he said, "and you learned from you mistakes. You must have noticed how much better you did with each Duel." "I guess," she said. Cold kneeled down to her eye level. "You remind me a great deal of the phoenix, who when it falls, flies even higher then before." He stood up and offered a hand to her. "I need your help," he explained, "something big is coming and I need powerful Duellists who never give up to help me." Sunset hesitated. "Be like the phoenix and rise higher then you ever believed you could be," Cold said, "will you do that?" Sunset stared at him before finally smiling and taking his hand, "I will." After that day Cold had taken her in, helped train her to be an even better Duellist and become the person she was today. And now she was one Duel away from becoming his champion against what was coming. "It's my turn," she said, "I draw and now I set scale one Magician of Glorious Sundown and scale eight Magician of Glorious Sunrise to set the Pendulum Scale." The pillars of light appeared on either side of her as the two magicians flew up. "Next I activate the Spell card Wildfire Draw, which will let me draw until I have six cards and then I pay three hundred points for each one." She drew five cards. Twilight: 3500 Sunset: 1700 "that's a lot of points to give up," Spike said "Not if she has that card," Applejack said The magicians both raised their staffs and fired the beams of light towards the sky. "Burn through space time and blaze the arc of victory," she chanted as the portal began to form above her head. "I PENDULUM SUMMON!" The portal opened up and two lights shot out and hit the ground. "Slice and dice, Radiant Sun Knight Scarmick." (A1000/D1000/L3/P2) "Ignite your flame of victory, Solar Flare Phoenix. (A2500/D2100/L7/P4) Everyone stared at the monster that had beaten Twilight in her last Duel. "You remember my little friend right?" Sunset asked. "How could I forget?" Twilight said, her mind flashing back to that time. "Solar Flare Phoenix," Sunset ordered, "attack Twilight Sorcerer and end this." As the giant firebird began its descent towards the magician, Twilight looked at her hand, field, deck, anything looking for a way to stop Sunset...but there was nothing she could do. The flaming winged beast struck Twilight Sorcerer, incinerating it and sending Twilight flying off her feet and into the air. Twilight: 0 Sunset: 1800 (Winner) That monster had completely wiped her out in their last Duel. "That won't happen again," Twilight assured herself. "We'll see about that," Sunset said. "I activate Solar Flare Phoenix's ability, to double my life points if I have two thousand or less life points." The bird released its flames that surrounded Sunset, causing her to glow. Twilight: 3500 Sunset: 3400 "This is where the Duel gets interesting," Sunset told Twilight, "but no matter what you will fall to me." "Don't think just because you beat me once It'll happen again," Twilight said. The two stared at each other, both determined to defeat the other no matter what.