Yu-Gi-Oh! Friendship is Magic

by moviemaster8510


Chapter 16: Orion's Tale

This chapter's featured card: Magi Magi Magician Girl

Xyz Monster Rank: 6 ATK: 2400 DEF: 2000 Attribute: DARK Type: Spellcaster

2 Level 6 Spellcaster-Type monsters

Once per turn, you can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card and banish 1 card in your hand to activate 1 of these effects.
● Target 1 monster your opponent controls; gain control of it.
● Target 1 monster in your opponent's Graveyard; Special Summon it to your side of the field.


Alex, Orion and Twilight entered the library as Twilight drew some water into a kettle and gave it to Spike, who was at home the who afternoon re-organizing the bookshelves. He heated the kettle with his dragon breath. Orion then took out a tin and took the top off. “What’s in there?” asked Twilight. “It’s tea,” said Orion. “Oh, that’s okay,” said Twilight. “I have tea.” “Not like this you don’t” said Orion. “Here, smell it.” Twilight took a whiff. “Oh, Orion,” she said, “that smells wonderful. What is it?” Orion gave her a long winded response. “It’s a blend of an exotic chai mate and white ayurvedic chai flavored with cinnamon, coconut, pineapple, ginger, cardamom, cloves, anise, coriander, almonds, candied papaya, candied pineapple, orange peels, lemongrass and cornflower blossoms.” “Wow, I sure hope it tastes as good as it sounds,” said Orion. “It’s ready,” said Spike with the steaming kettle. They put the tea in individual strainers which sat in every cup. Each cup was filled with piping hot water, and Twilight and the others gave it some time to steep and sat down at a table.

“So Orion,” said Twilight. “That was really nice of you to share some of your tea with us. You seem to be a very generous individual, what with your giving one of your decks to Princess Luna, or giving one of your decks to me…” “Wait,” Orion interrupted, “how did you find out?” “Pinkie Pie told me,” replied Twilight. “Whatever,” Orion said, “I was more than happy to give you that deck. I firmly believe that the best source of happiness is giving it to other people. In fact, it was my partnership with Alex that taught me that.” “Really?” asked Twilight interested. “What’s a partnership… at least in your terms?” Orion then told a story. “You see, most pokémon start off as wild creatures, which I was. Unfortunately, as a little ralts, I was the runt in my litter, of you could believe that. I never seemed to be able to get a trainer to look upon me as a worthy partner pokémon, and I remained alone for many years of my life. I decided to become stronger. I trained by myself, I honed my psychic powers, and I became stronger. One day, a young trainer was walking in the patch of grass that I happened to be in, and it also happened to be the day I wanted to fight my very first trainer.” Alex continued, “It was literally my first day as a trainer, and I didn’t know what a full grown ralts was supposed to be, so I just accepted him as he was. I brought out my pokémon, and we engaged in what was honestly, the most intense pokémon battle I’ve ever experienced. This little ralts was much quicker than my treecko, and a lot more powerful too. We fought as valiantly as we could. Then after a whole 20 minutes of fighting the pokémon looked too tired to fight, so I seized the opportune moment to throw a pokéball and claim my first pokémon capture. I was so happy and I brought him home to show my mom and dad. Now, all I needed was a name. Even though I was a kid, I wouldn’t be happy giving such a strong pokémon a childish name like Pokey, or goodness knows what was popular back then.” Orion continued the story. “Alex then, like me now, loved books. One day, he was reading one on Greek mythology. I skimmed through the pages and found a story of a huntsman who was made into a constellation of stars by Zeus himself. I knew then that I was worthy of such a name. I was read to by Alex when was a kid, and I learned to read by making out the words of the books Alex read to me and connecting them with the consonants and vowels Alex spoke when he read. I looked at the page and very slowly and broken, I muttered, ‘O- ri- on. Orion.’ Alex was overjoyed upon learning that I could speak, but upon hearing my first word, he knew that was the name I should have. And it was the choosing of that name and the happiness it brought that gave me my joys of reading and my love of giving, but all in all, it was Alex’s unconditional love and charity that gave me a wonderful trainer and friend to be with for the rest of my life. I wanted to make it up to him by reading and speaking even more. I learned to speak through the books I read and the words that were in them. I was into fantasy and folklore, and I soon went from reading Harry Potter to J.R.R. Tolkien and Homer. Soon after two years of reading, I was speaking and reading at the level of an average college student. As a kirlia, I was also one of Alex’s top pokémon to battle with, and through many battles, I grew physically, over exceeding the average size of a kirlia. Then, Alex got a dawn stone for his birthday, and with that, I evolved into the gallade that you see right here.”

“Wow,” said Twilight, “that’s some story, but how did you come by so many decks that you just give out anyway?” Orion responded, “When Alex started becoming interested in duel monsters, I was enamored with the game. I even collected many different decks to play with, and I was able to get even more when Alex became rich enough to afford them all. So all of the decks that everyone that’s registered for the tournament have, minus the other humans, are all mine.” “Wow,” responded Twilight, “that must have taken forever to build a collection like that. How about your wand? Where did that come from?” “Alex and I were exploring some ruins of a medieval castle while on vacation. And there, there was a tourist attraction where a jade wand was stuck upright on an alter in a large courtyard. There was this legend that a powerful man with great psychic abilities wielded the wand and protected the castle it lived in with its magic. Before the man died, he placed a spell on the wand, saying that only the one whose psychic prowess matches or exceeds his can wield it. Just for giggles, I decided to take a video with me pretending to take the wand off of the alter. Alex was taking a video, and I put my hand around the wand, but something felt odd. The wand slightly shifted in different angles as I moved my hand around. At first I thought I broke it, so I let go scared, but the wand, still whole, dropped to the floor. All of the tourists who were around me saw this and tried to take it for themselves. Strangely, nobody could lift it. The people were then told to disperse by the security guards, who asked me to try and pick up the wand, as I was the last one to be by it when it fell. I picked it up as easily as I would pick up a twig. People looked at me with awe. I then concentrated my thoughts into all of the different pokémon I battled in my life. The first two that came to mind were a manetric that made a thunder bolt attack and a blaziken that made a fire blast attack. I then felt energy coursing through my body and I shot my arm out and aimed the wand out towards the sky. A fiery pillar with a spiral of lightning shot out into the sky. People were amazed at my newfound power. I remained the owner ever since.” “That’s incredible,” said Twilight. “Oh,” said Alex. “I think our tea is done.” They each grabbed their cups, clinked them against each other, and drank.

Although it was getting late and there was still a little more registering that needed to be done, Alex, Orion, and Twilight weren’t sleepy. Orion then suggested that Twilight duels him, so that they can both exercise their strength for the competition. Twilight agreed, they then went outside so they could have more room. Twilight unsheathed her duel disk and drew 5 cards. Orion took out his wand and gripped it tightly. The wand then glowed in a bright green. Orion then threw the wand away from him at Twilight, and it spun rapidly. However, the wand arced upwards just whizzing by Twilights horn. It then began to arc towards Orion again, but not before leaving a small flash of light and instantaneously growing into a larger, flat crescent. The crescent then flew towards Orion, who outstretched his left arm at it. The crescent stopped suddenly on the left side of his wrist, with the crescent curving up and out towards the sky. There was also a long, diamond shaped object that appeared on Orion’s arm when the crescent stopped on Orion’s wrist, both forming a singular object. The object then stopped glowing and revealed itself to be a jade colored duel disk. The duel disk had a similar model to the D-Pad in that the zones were 90° perpendicular from the top of the arm, the deck slot was on the left side of the left wrist with the deck laying parallel to the zoneboard, the graveyard was where decks would be on older duel disks, and it seemed spell and trap cards were set and played in the slot located on the bottom side of the duel disk’s body in the middle. The zones were dark blue in color with small ruby colored arrows pointing up in the center of them. The three zones on the right were right next to each other and were level with each other. The two zones on the left were spaced out a little bit more and escalated up the crescent as it curved up. On the backside, the duel disk was mostly the same jade color as Orion’s wand, except for the dark blue triangle pointed down to where the crescent was connected to the diamond shaped body of the duel disk on Orion’s arm. In the middle of that triangle was a diamond shaped light blue colored gem. A larger version of the light blue gem made for the point of the left side of the crescent, which glowed slightly. Orion then inserted his deck into the slot which was auto-shuffled, and he drew 5 cards. Twilight was stunned at what she just saw, but she knew she had to get serious, so she stood in position and was ready to fight. “DUEL!” they yelled.

Twilight Sparkle vs. Orion

Twilight’s Turn: Twilight summons Witch of the Black Rose (ATK: 1700 DEF: 1200). When it’s summoned when she controls no monsters, she draws a card. If the card drawn isn’t a monster, both cards are sent to the graveyard. She draws Ceremonial Bell. Then, she plays the field spell Magical Citadel of Endymion. Next, she activates Graceful Charity, drawing 3 cards and discarding 2. Then, she plays Double Summon, letting her normal summon a second time, and she chooses Ceremonial Bell (ATK: 0 DEF: 1850). Since 2 spells were played, Magical Citadel of Endymion's spell counters rise by 2 (Spl.C.: 0 -> 2) When Ceremonial Bell is on the field, all players show their hands. Twilight tunes Ceremonial Bell with Witch of the Black Rose to synchro summon Arcanite Magician (ATK: 400 DEF: 1800). When it’s synchro summoned, two spell cards are placed on it and its ATK is increased by 1000 for each one (ATK: 400 -> 2400).

Twilight places 2 cards face down and ends her turn.

Status: Hand-1 Life-4000 Monsters-1 Face Down Cards-2

Orion’s Turn: Orion summons Legendary Six Samurai – Kageki (ATK: 200 DEF: 2000). When its normal summoned, he can special summon a Six Samurai monster from his hand, choosing Kagemusha of the Six Samurai (ATK: 400: DEF: 1800). When there are 2 Six Samurai monsters on the field Orion can special summon Great Shogun Shien from his hand (ATK: 2500 DEF: 2400). Orion tunes Legendary Six Samurai – Kageki with Kagemusha of the Six Samurai to synchro summon Legendary Six Samurai – Shi En (ATK: 2500 DEF: 1400). Orion attacks Arcanite Magician with Legendary Six Samurai – Shi En. Twilight attempts to activate Negate Attack, but with Legendary Six Samurai – Shi En’s effect, it can negate the activation of and destroy a spell or trap card once per turn. The attack goes through.

Twilight’s Life Points: 4000 -> 3900

Arcanite Magician’s spell counters are given to Magical Citadel of Endymion (Spl.C.: 2 -> 4). Before Orion can attack with Great Shogun Shien, Twilight activates Mirror Force, destroying all monsters on Orion’s side of the field.

Orion places 3 cards face down and ends his turn.

Status Hand-0 Life-4000 Monsters-0 Face Down Cards-3

Twilight’s Turn: Twilight activates Pot of Greed, drawing 2 cards. Next, she plays Monster Reborn, special summoning Dark Magician Girl from her graveyard (ATK: 2000 DEF: 1700) (Spl.C.: 4 -> 6). Next, she normal summons Gagaga Magician (ATK: 1500 DEF: 1000). Twilight activates its effect to change its level to anything between 1 and 8, and she chooses 6. Twilight overlays Gagaga Magician with Dark Magician Girl to xyz summon Magi Magi Magician Girl (ATK: 2400 DEF: 2000). She activates its effect, detaching one xyz monster and banishing one card from her hand to special summon a monster from her opponents graveyard, choosing Legendary Six Samurai – Shi En. She attacks Orion directly with Legendary Six Samurai – Shi En. Orion attempts to activate Magic Cylinder, but Twilight activates Legendary Six Samurai – Shi En’s effect, negating and destroying the trap. The attack goes through.

Orion’s Life Points: 4000 -> 1500

Twilight then attacks him with Magi Magi Magician Girl, but Orion activates Call of the Haunted, special summoning Great Shogun Shien from his graveyard. Since Magi Magi Magician Girl’s ATK is lower than Great Shogun Shien’s, Twilight halts her attack.

Twilight ends her turn.

Status: Hand-0 Life-3900 Monsters-2 Face Down Cards-0

Orion’s Turn: Orion attacks Legendary Six Samurai – Shi En with Great Shogun Shien. Since they have equal ATK, they are both destroyed. Next, he activates his trap Sixth Sense. A die is rolled, and Orion declares 2 numbers (5 and 6). If the die result is any of those numbers, Orion draws cards equal to that amount. It’s a 6. Orion draws 6 cards. Next, he activates Six Samurai United, which allows him to place a Bushido counter on it every time a Six Samurai monster is summoned (Spl.C.: 6 -> 7). Next, he summons The Six Samurai – Zanji (ATK: 1800 DEF: 1300). When a Six Samurai monster exists on Orion’s side of the field, he can special summon Grandmaster of the Six Samurai from his hand (ATK: 2100 DEF: 800) (BuC.: 0 -> 2).

Orion places 2 cards face down and ends his turn.

Status: Hand-2 Life-1500 Monsters-2 Face Down Cards-2

Twilight’s Turn: Orion activates Six Strike - Thunder Blast, removing a Bushido counter from Six Samurai United to send Magi Magi Magician Girl back to the extra deck (BuC.: 2 -> 1). By removing 6 spell counters (Spl.C.: 7 -> 1) from Magical Citadel of Endymion, Twilight can special summon Endymion, the Master Magician from her hand (ATK: 2700 DEF: 1700). When summoned, she can add a spell card to her hand from the graveyard. She then activates Monster Reborn again, special summoning Legendary Six Samurai – Shi En from the graveyard. Legendary Six Samurai – Shi En attacks The Six Samurai – Zanji

Orion’s Life Points: 1500 -> 800

Endymion, the Master Magician attacks Grandmaster of the Six Samurai.

Orion’s Life Points: 800 -> 200

Twilight ends her turn.

Status: Hand-0 Life-3900 Monsters-2 Face Down Cards-0

Orion’s Turn: Orion summons The Six Samurai - Kamon (ATK: 1500 DEF: 1000) (BuC.: 1 -> 2). Orion activates the effect of Six Samurai United, sending it to the graveyard to draw cards equal to the number of Bushido counters on it (2). He then activates his Monster Reborn. Twilight then uses the effect of Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En, negating the activation of a spell or trap and destroying it. Orion then activates Lightning Vortex, destroying all monsters on Twilight’s side of the field by discarding a card. Next, he activates the trap Backs to the Wall, sending his life points down to 100 to special summon as many Six Samurai monsters as possible from his graveyard, choosing Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En, The Six Samurai – Zanji, Grandmaster of the Six Samurai, and Legendary Six Samurai – Kageki.

Orion’s Life Points: 200 -> 100

Orion attacks Twilight directly with Grandmaster of the Six Samurai.

Twilight’s Life Points: 3900 -> 1800

Orion then attacks Twilight directly with Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En.

Twilight’s Life Points: 1800 -> 0

Orion wins.



“Wow, great comeback,” complimented Twilight. “Thanks,” said Orion helping Twilight up. She then jokingly asked, “You didn’t stick me with a weaker deck just so you could beat me did you?” Orion then opened his right hand. His duel disk glowed brightly again and it morphed back into his wand into his right hand. He answered, “No. That was my personal best deck, and a deck is only as good as its owner, but seeing the way you played it, you are indeed a duelist worthy of playing with my deck.” Thanks,” yawned Twilight. “Anyways, it’s late. Time for bed. I’ll see you tomorrow, guys.” “Goodnight!” Alex and Orion called as they made their way to the theater to sleep.