A/N: Here it is, the next chapter of the Isle Of Torguna series, and unlike last time, we actually get to see some proper action and plot lines. Hope you all enjoy this chapter, because I sure did writing it.
The date of an amazing new tournament, known as the Pegasus Memorial Cup, a prestigious duel after duel event that allows anyone to enter through eliminations. The date of today’s latest tournament is none other than 19th April 2012, just over eight months had passed since that faithful event that had risen from the ocean once more. In the stands at this present time, was the host of this event, the one and only Maximillion Pegasus, and aside of him at the time, was none other than ever arrogant, Seto Kaiba. Pegasus was rather pleased of this tournaments progress, as the day started with a grand total of one hundred and twenty-eight duellists, and now, they were all down to the last 16, easily having proven their skills against one another.
As the final sixteen duellists started to line up for their next duels, a common pair was seen at the side-lines of the duelling fields, as one secured their duel disk onto their arm, with a rather cheesy grin upon their lips. It was none other, than the rather actively strange, Joey Wheeler, with one of his best friends, Tristan Taylor. Joey had been trouncing everyone in the tournament so far, and was now overcoming with such confidence that he could win the whole thing, despite his other best friend; Yugi Muto also being in the fixtures of duels. Joey only had to win this next round, to enter the top eight duellists, and this made him rather eager at such a position from the original number they started at.
“Alright, only another four duels and I’ll be champion!” Joey exclaimed, letting out a rather happy chuckle of sorts. “I’m on a hot streak, no one can stop the invincible Joey Wheeler” he added as he continued to chuckle happily.
“Good grief Joey, save the celebrations until after you win Pal” Tristan sighed out, knowing for a fact how overconfident Joey can be without realizing.
“Just admit it Tristan, you are looking at the next King of Games!” Joey continued his rather premature celebrations, as he soon secured his deck into his secured duel disk. “And now, onto my next victory!” he exclaimed, raising his hand in victory already.
Tristan couldn’t help but smack his hand upon his forehead, especially with Joey as he is right now, beaming with such overconfidence in his duelling skills. “I hope Joey isn’t like this for the rest of the tournament” he mumbled to himself, before moving over towards the stands at the side of the duelling field Joey was taking part on.
Meanwhile, at the VIP part of the stands where both Pegasus and Kaiba sat at, Pegasus started to speak out to his long time business partner. “Well Kaiba boy, it seems that this tournament has gone off without such a hitch, and your new Duel Disks are rather impressive as well” Pegasus mentioned.
“Spare me with the compliments Pegasus, this is to only profit my own company, not to make you look any better” Kaiba decided to say, not changing the emotion of his face.
“Either way Kaiba boy, you’ll be getting compliments nonetheless, only a talent at duelling technology such as yourself has exceeded such lengths” Pegasus started to add to his previous statement.
“Whatever Pegasus, just remember, it was only thanks to me that you are able to use the new Duel Disk systems” Kaiba declared, as he couldn’t stand to look at Pegasus in more ways than one.
Pegasus continued to simply smile, as he soon notices an old competitor in his latest tournament, none other than Joey Wheeler himself. “Well what do you know, its dear Joseph, and he appears to be brimming with confidence”.
“Ha, that third rate duellist won’t have a chance in this tournament. He’ll most likely lose to the next person” Kaiba stated with such ease. He never seemed to like Joey in the first place, believing him to be nothing more than a non-ranked amateur.
Pegasus knew that Kaiba was wrong at times, especially since Joey came in second place in the last tournament that he hosted years ago. And that he also came in fourth place in the Domino City tournament that Kaiba had once hosted. Pegasus then nearly forgot about the briefcase that stood beside his left foot, knowing that its contents wouldn’t be safe inside of Industrial Illusions while he was out on other occasions. Once Pegasus made sure that the case had no left his side, he turned his attention back to the duelling field, as Joey Wheeler was about to start his next duel.
“Alright, now where is my next opponent?” Joey shouted out slightly, gaining the attention of quite a few people’s glances. “Hope they aren’t scared of me, the legendary Joey Wheeler” he added as he laughed out rather happily.
Tristan had smacked his forehead once again, especially as Joey was making such a fool of himself right now. “Geez man, give it a rest already” he mumbled slightly to himself.
As Joey continued to make a fool out of himself rather easily, a young girl soon started to approach the same duelling field, as she knew who their next opponent was. As soon as she stepped onto the other side of the duelling field, Joey started to take notice of his next opponent, seeming rather pleased with himself at the time. “Oh? You’re my next opponent are you? Hope you are ready to take on this legendary duellist!” Joey easily announced, as he continued to reveal his rather cheesy grin.
Despite this rather weird announcement from Joey, his opponent seemed rather confident in her own abilities without acting like such a fool. “So you’re Joey Wheeler? It’s a pleasure to meet someone like you, as well as be my opponent” she spoke out politely, bowing a little.
Joey blushed slightly as he continued to show his goofy grin. “Well thank you very much, I am a famous duellist after all” Joey laughed out slightly. “So, who might you be then?” he asked out of curiosity.
The younger girl simply smiled happily at this remark, as her body soon comes better into view. Her eyes shine a lovely sky blue along with her silky light hazel coloured brunette hair which flowed down towards the top of her shoulders, along with a small fringe just covering her thin eyebrows. She appeared to be five foot and four inches in height and her body revealed to be that of a slim, healthy figure. When it came to her current clothing, it consisted of a slim fit, pale yellow tank top with a lovely thin material low cut, wool like vest cardigan, along with a lovely and slightly frilly denim like short skirt that reaches down to just above her knees, and a pair of white ankle height boots with a flat, beige sole underneath. The young girl then looked softly into Joey’s eyes from across the field, before slowly opening up her own lips.
“My name?” she spoke up rather softly, before smiling a little more, brimming with confidence. “My name is Maria…Maria Sugihara” she added to her previous sentence.
“Well then Maria, name’s Joey…Joey Wheeler, and you are looking at the best duellist here” he announced, as his right thumb pointed over to his own face. “So let’s get this show on the road Maria!” he added, as he thrust his left arm forward, allowing the duel disk to activate.
Maria continues to smile confidently, before moving her left arm to the side. “Alright then Joey” she expressed, as her own duel disk activated, switching to Duel Mode. She closed her eyes softly, as she continued to remain confident. “I think it’s time…” she started to say, before springing her eyes open once more. “…to spread my wings” she had announced.
Chapter One/A New Future: The Wings of Heaven Descend
Joey Wheeler > 4000LP
4000LP < Maria Sugihara
“As a close friend of mine would say, it’s time to duel” Joey shouted out, before both himself, and his opponent drew their first five cards from their respective decks. “Now the first move is all mine” he confidently mentioned, before drawing his next card from the top of his own respective deck.
“If I remember correctly, Joey is a very skilled duelist who bases their skills upon cards with luck related effects. So I’ll have to keep my eye out for them” Maria thought rather seriously to herself.
“Alright, for my first move, I play Gearfried, The Iron Knight!” Joey announces, placing the card onto his duel disk. At this point, the hologram starts to generate from the Duel Disk, creating a three dimensional hologram of Joey’s summoned monster, before its stats are then revealed to the audience.
Gearfried The Iron Knight
EARTH
Warrior/Effect
Level 4
ATK/1800 DEF/1600
“And next, I play a card face down on the field” Joey announced, as he pulled a card from his current hand and placed it into the slot underneath his monster’s card, before a Set card generates onto the field, appearing behind his current monster. “And with that, it’s over to you Maria!” he mentions over to his opponent.
Maria stares slightly at her own deck, before smiling once more, return her sight to that of Joey. “Okay then, it’s my move next Joey! I draw!” she announces, pulling the next card of her deck and holding it her right hand. “I summon out, Archangel Vanessa!” she declared, before placing the card onto her Duel Disk, allowing the hologram system to take form of her monster.
As the body started to form, it revealed a female figured body with long flowing strawberry blonde hair reaching down to her waist, along with her silver like eyes. Soon enough, her dressing attire started to form completely, revealing a short length, grey with white floral patterns kimono as if it was a short based dress, with a white soft leather belt around the waist, as well as a pair of white knee high, flat sole boots. In her right hand, held a long thin blade known as a rapier, as well as growing out of her back, was a pair of majestic snow white, feathery wings. After it starts to stare at its adversary, its stats are revealed to the audience, along with Joey.
Archangel Vanessa
LIGHT
Fairy/Effect
Level 4
ATK/1800 DEF/600
“Arch…what?” Joey asked, seeming rather confused at the sight of a new monster staring his own field down. “I’ve…I’ve never even heard of these cards” he added onto his previous outburst.
Maria simply smiled as she let out a soft giggle of sorts. “This is an Archangel, a series of cards I use only, and they are simply amazing to behold too” she simply stated, as she continued to happily smile.
“Okay then, I don’t get it, but never mind” Joey simply stated, as he rubbed the back of his head, seeming a little confused at the current situation, but didn't let it go to his head too much.
Maria soon picked out of her hand a couple of cards, before holding them up slightly. “I’ll place these face down” she announced, before placing both of the cards into the slots underneath the surface of the duel disk. Once into their respective slots, two cards appeared set face down behind that of Archangel Vanessa, ready to spring into action once needed. “And with that, I’ll end my turn there” she added in, before handing the turn back over to Joey.
Joey placed his middle and index finger above the next card of his own dueling deck, before placing his thumb underneath it. “Alright, it’s Joey’s move now” he quickly announced as he drew his next card, before revealing such a goofy grin upon his face. “Aw yeah, now that’s what I’m talking about” speaking out his own thoughts.
Maria raised her right eyebrow up slightly, already aware of how Joey acts, especially since it was now late in the competition. Joey then removed his monster card from the surface of his own duel disk. “I release Gearfried The Iron Knight, to summon Jinzo!” he announces with such supremacy, placing his next monster card onto his duel disk.
At this point of time, Gearfried The Iron Knight is surrounded by a large beam of light from the ground upwards, before disappearing completely from sight. In a few mere seconds, the monster replacing it emerges within the barrier of light, revealing to be that of Jinzo itself. Once revealed, it folds its arms in front of its own body, before its stats are revealed upon the large screen in the background.
Jinzo
DARK
Machine/Effect
Level 6
ATK/2400 DEF/1500
“Ha ha, as long as this monster remains out, not a single one of your traps can be activated or used” Joey mentioned, before laughing out in such a proud state, causing a comedy like sweat drop to appear on both the right hand side of Tristan’s and Maria’s foreheads.
“Joey, you idiot” Tristan thought inside of his own head, before slapping the palm of his own hand onto his forehead. Only Maria refrained from doing such an action due to how Joey acted, as she had to concentrate with the duel in hand.
“Now it’s time for the great Joey Wheeler to commence his attack, oh yeah!” Joey announced with such tenacity, as he thrust his hand forward. “Psychic Shockwave” he added in, as Jinzo placed his hands in front of its own body, forming a sphere of multiple forms of energy bonded together.
At the other side of the dueling field, Archangel Vanessa held up its own sword, ready to take on the attack that was to be propelled from its current opponent. As the attack thrown towards the angelic monster got closer, she slices her sword right through the attack, as one half of the ball of energy slams against its body, along with the original attacker’s body, causing both of their destruction. This however, confused Joey at the time, wondering what had just happened to his beloved Jinzo.
“What!? What on earth happened to my Jinzo!?” Joey said as he was gobsmacked with the current situation at hand. Maria, on the other hand, was fully aware of why both monsters were destroyed and not just her own Archangel. “If you like Joey, I can fill you in at what just happened” she decided to speak up softly, continuing her lovely smile. Joey perked up at this, immediately waiting to hear what she says.
“You see Joey, Archangel Vanessa has a special effect, so when she is attacked by an opposing monster that happens to not be a Light attribute, that monster loses 600 of its attack points” Maria willingly explained to the slightly dense Joey. Once this explanation was given out, Joey started to count with his fingers, trying to calculate what his monster’s attack would have become during battle. “Let’s see, if it loses 600 and Jinzo was at 2400, that would make him…1800” he mumbled softly, before his eyes widened with realization, placing both his hands on top of his head. “That means Jinzo had the attack was the same as you’re Archangel!” he exclaimed.
In the crowd, Tristan gave himself a rather loud face palm, unable to believe how dim Joey could be at the time. “Joey, you are making an idiot out of yourself” Tristan mumbled to himself, somehow having a feeling that he would not win this bout. Meanwhile, Maria looks through her current hand, checking at what cards she could use once Joey had ended his own turn. While Joey on the other hand, was slightly down in the dumps. So much so, that he decided to make his decision then and there. “I’ll have to end my turn for now” he mumbled softly, still not very pleased with the situation.
Maria nods her head softly, still showing off her own gentle smile as she places her middle and index fingers on top of her deck. “Okay then, my turn” she announces as she draws her next card, rather pleased with what she drew. “Alright, I think I’ll summon this one” she speaks out softly as she places her newly drawn card onto her duel disk. “I summon out Archangel Wingbeat” she announces for Joey to hear, along with the crowd. As the card was placed upon the duel disk, the holographic system picks up speed, generating the image of a 3D monster in front of them.
As the monster slowly began to take form, the first thing to notice was its six beautiful, pink feathery wings wrapping around its body. Slowly, the form of its clothing came together, generating as lovely snow-like white, one piece dress with a light pink sash around the waist. The boots soon generated on her feet, revealing them to be as white as the dress, slowly forming all the way under the feminine body’s knees. As it slowly guided its hand up into the air, a rather long, rose-like red sword appears into her hand, before she pulls it down and points it towards her opponent. Its stats now appear on the large screen, for all to see its current power ratio.
Archangel Wingbeat
LIGHT
Fairy/Effect
Level 4
ATK/1600 DEF/300
At that very moment, Maria pressed a switch on her duel disk before thrusting her hand forward. “Now I activate a face down of mine, Angel’s Guardian” she announced, as the set card then revealed itself to everyone, showing three lovely angel’s on the picture of the card. “This trap allows me to resurrect an Archangel monster from my graveyard, in face-up attack position” she added. As the revealed card started to glow on the spot, a sizable gold halo appears just above the field, as Archangel Vanessa slowly floats down from within its inner layer. Once more, the stats of Maria’s monster appeared on the huge viewing screen for all to see.
Archangel Vanessa
LIGHT
Fairy/Effect
Level 4
ATK/1800 DEF/600
Joey’s eyes widened right on the spot, as now he was confronted by not just one, but two monsters at the same time, and with rather decent attack strength. “Aw snap” Joey mumbled softly, but just enough to be heard. Maria then smiles softly as she points over at Joey’s field, ready to announce her first strike. “Okay, Archangel Wingbeat, attack directly with Heavenly Slash!” Maria announced with such confidence. At this moment, the same monster that Maria had just announced began its assault towards that of Joey’s side of the field, holding her sword steady for the attack.
Joey blinked a few times, as he soon started to remember what his face down card was. “That’s right, I still have my set card” he simply thought to himself, before pressing a button on his duel disk. “I activate my set card, Magical Arm Shield” he announced, as the set card revealed itself to everyone. “With this card, if you control two monsters, I can take one and force you to attack it” he grinned in such a pleasing manner. “So Archangel Vanessa comes to join me for a while” he mentioned as he pointed his finger towards Maria’s monster, feeling rather pleased with his own move.
However, Maria did not seem to be deterred from this move, as she looked into Joey’s eyes from across the field. “I don’t think that will be helping you this time” she simply stated. Joey seemed to be rather confused at the time, wondering what she had meant by that, but soon enough, he would have his answer. Maria soon presses a button on her own duel disk, activating her set card as she thrust her hand forward just afterwards. “I activate my set card, Angel’s Tear!” she announced, as the set card revealed itself for all to see, revealing it to be pictured a female’s eyes, with a small tear shedding from below her left eye. “With this card, if I control an Archangel monster on my side of the field, I can negate the activation of a card that targets one on my field, and destroy it” she decided to explain the effect in question.
Soon enough, such a bright light fired from the picture of the card, smashing the hologram of Joey’s trap card with such ease. “Not my trap card!” Joey simply stated, as he lowered his head, feeling distraught at the fact of his card becoming useless now. But soon enough, he lifted his head, only to be shocked as he was hit directly by Archangel Wingbeat, as the slash passed right through his torso, despite that it didn't hurt. Once the strike had ended, the monster in question returns over to its owner’s field, as the calculations of damage start to change Joey’s life points.
Joey Wheeler > 2400LP (-1600LP)
4000LP < Maria Sugihara
Joey relaxes a little after the assault. “Well, at least that’s all the damage you’ll be getting” he spoke with such a proud moment, only to soon realize that wasn't the case. “Um, you do know that Archangel Vanessa hasn't taken her strike yet, right?” Maria simply responded to the slightly oblivious moment. This of course caused Joey’s expression to wither and die, leaving him with only one course of action; to panic. “Wait, please, time out!” Joey panicked, waving his hands about frantically in front of himself. Maria on the other hand, chose to take another assault upon Joey’s life points; “Archangel Vanessa, attack Joey’s life points directly with Angelic Blade” she had announced, as her monster took flight at that very end of command.
Archangel Vanessa took flight with such ease, spreading her beautiful wings apart, as she lifted her sword up into the sky itself. At this point, the monster in question started to dive towards Joey himself, as she held her sword aside of her body, ready for the strike itself. As she edged closer, Joey continued to panic quite a bit, as the blade soon swung forward, slicing through Joey’s body, obviously not leaving any infliction of injury, seeing as it was merely a hologram. His life points on the other hand, took yet another drastic hit, reducing his chances of victory even more so.
Joey Wheeler > 600LP (-1800LP)
4000LP < Maria Sugihara
“My life points, my precious life points!” Joey blubbered, as he had not even managed to scratch Maria’s life points even once. Maria was simply pleased, as she picked a card from her hand, sliding it into the slot underneath her Archangel Wingbeat’s card. “I’ll place this card face down, and finish up my turn there” she spoke out softly, continuing to reveal her own gentle smile. As the card easily slid into the slot in question, a hologram of the Set card materialized onto the field behind the holographic form of Archangel Wingbeat. From afar at the time, Maximillion Pegasus was rather impressed by young girl’s talent and duelling skill, somehow believing her to be on par with that of Jaden Yuki, but not yet close to be that of Yugi Muto, the original King Of Games’ skill.
“Impressive, this little girl has some talent, but I wonder if she has the skill to go all the way” Pegasus simply thought to himself at the time, holding his chin with his fingers. Just then, something seemed to have caught the eye of him, as a slight bright glow came through the cracks of a briefcase in which he kept close to him. “What’s this?” Pegasus immediately mumbled to himself, pulling his briefcase slowly onto his lap. “Could it be? Could that card be reacting to someone here?” he added to his previous discovery. As he looked around, the only duel that seemed to be progressing rather one sided at the time, was that of Joey Wheeler’s and Maria Sugihara’s duel. “This card, don’t tell me its saying what I believe it to be?” he ponders to himself, somehow knowing that the card in which he holds inside of the case’s metallic casing, was telling him to give itself to the younger duelist. But as he continues to figure this out in his head, the duel in question continues on, awaiting a full result of whom wins, and who lost.
Joey had prepared to draw his next card, placing his fingers upon the top of his deck. “Ok heart of the cards, show me some luck” he mumbled to himself, before drawing the card from his deck. After drawing the card itself, he turns it around in order to see the result, only to find out, it was the card he wanted to help him out for a while. “Aw yeah, now that’s going to save my bacon for now” he spoke to himself once more, before placing his card into one of the slots underneath the surface of the duel disk. “I set one card down” Joey spoke up, as a holographic image of the set card appears onto his side of the field. “Then I’ll play this” he added, holding up another card in which he picked from his current hand. “I summon Panther Warrior in attack mode!” he had announced, placing the card onto the surface of the duel disk itself. At this time, a Black Panther clad in armour emerged onto the field, as its stats were revealed upon the large screen.
Panther Warrior
EARTH
Beast-Warrior/Effect
Level 4
ATK/2000 DEF/1600
“And with that, I end my turn” Joey simply stated, seeming rather pleased with the current draw he just pulled. Maria on the other hand, was ready to take her next turn, by placing both her index and middle fingers upon the top of her deck. “Okay Joey, my draw” Maria spoke out gently, drawing her next card with such a simple movement of her hand and arm. She soon took notice of what card she drew, knowing that this card would prove useful for her, as she smiled softly to herself. “You know Joey” Maria started to speak up; “Archangel’s are more than just single monsters with their own strength”. When Joey heard this, his right eyebrow raised up, wondering what on earth she was talking about now.
“These angels band together, aiming to bring about a better world, a place where peace continues along with time” she continued to speak about her monsters. “And these angels represent all of peace to me, they aren’t mere cards to me, they are more like my family” she decided to say, knowing that it was slightly embarrassing, but didn’t mind at all, as she spoke from her heart. “And what does this have to do with the duel?” Joey asked, obviously not understanding the meaning of Maria’s words at the time. “What it means, is that my angels will overcome any kind of trial, and continue to spread their wings” Maria added in once more, as she soon pointed over at one of her own monsters. “So now, I activate Archangel Wingbeat’s special ability” she announced, as her monster’s wings started to glow a bright white.
“Thanks to Wingbeat’s effect, I can release her to special summon an Archangel from my hand to the field in her place” Maria decided to explain. Joey was stunned at such an effect, now slightly unsure of his own winning personality. “Wait? Do you mean to tell me that it’s any Archangel?” he decided to ask the younger female. And with a simple nod, Joey got his worst fears put against him, as Maria soon removed the card in question from her duel disk, placing it into her graveyard’s slot. “Thanks to Archangel Wingbeat, I special summon forth Archangel Alexia!” she announced, placing the card she drew beforehand onto the duel disk itself. The holographic system started to increase in pace from this newly placed card.
A circular light soon moved around Archangel Wingbeat’s feet, as it slowly closed its own eyes, tilting her head back as the light below her feet had risen up, enveloping her whole body. As the light soon engulfed the young female form, a silhouette of another appeared within the pillar of light, revealing it to be slightly taller than that of the previous form. The light soon disintegrated, revealing a lovely, yet older female in its place, shown in such white tribal like clothing, as it covered the torso and the waist with ease, along with a pair a silky looking white boots. Beside the waist, was a silver rapier held inside of its scabbard, held up by a silver belt slanting around the waist. The hair from the new female form appeared to be that of a majestic hazel coloured brunette, but slightly lighter. The monster’s eyes opened up, to reveal such gentle sea blue eyes to its opponent, before revealing a soft smile. The monster’s stats were soon revealed upon the large screen for all to see.
Archangel Alexia
LIGHT
Fairy/Effect
Level 8
ATK/2800 DEF/1500
As soon as the monster’s stats appeared for all to see, Joey was left speechless. “That…what…how…” Joey stuttered several times, as he couldn't believe that a monster of that caliber was summoned onto the field with such ease. “Alright, next I activate a card from my hand” Maria announces, as she picks up on sole card from her two card hand, sliding it inside of the duel disk slot underneath her Archangel Alexia. “The spell card, Mystical Space Typhoon” she exclaimed, as a hologram of the card now materialized in front of her angelic monster. “Due to this spell’s effect, I can select and destroy one Spell or Trap card on the field and destroy it” she explained to Joey, which caused his face to go as pale as a ghost’s.
Soon, the Spell card started to glow bright white as a massive tornado of immense proportion flew from within its holographic card, moving over towards that of Joey’s field, giving him little time to react. “I activate my face down card then, Scapegoat!” Joey shouted out, as the card soon flipped face-up, revealing its form before glowing white, and then producing that of four different coloured, orb like goats onto the field aside of his current monster, Panther Warrior. The tornado strikes the Spell card, before shattering it into pieces, despite the fact it didn’t stop its own activation. “Now my Scapegoat’s will protect me from four of your attacks” he laughed out in such confidence, placing his hands onto his waist.
Once Joey had summoned his token monsters, Tristan simply face palmed himself, quickly taking notice of Joey’s idiocy, and even Maria knew that summoning those token monsters would make no difference whatsoever. “I’m sorry Joey, but even those monsters won’t be able to protect” she giggled softly, as Joey still didn't click. “Huh? What is that supposed to mean?” Joey asked the giggling young lady, as he remained confused by such an action. “You’re Panther Warrior is still in attack position, while I have Archangel Alexia out on the field with a total of 2800 attack points” she decided to mention, hoping that he would soon realize his own idiocy. Despite the little hint from Maria, Joey didn’t still understand what was going on, until he peered down at his duel disk, only to notice his Panther Warrior was in attack position, and not defence position.
Joey was now in such a panic “Ahh, my Panther Warrior, I forgot all about that!” he shouted out, while he messed up his hair with both his hands. Maria decided to end this duel, by making one final assault upon Joey “Archangel Alexia, attack Panther Warrior with Sword of Heaven” she announced, as her monster lunged up into the air. As he continued to panic, Maria’s monster soon raised her weapon into the air, as it soon radiated in such a pale gold glow. Once the weapon was fully glowing, the monster in question flew down towards Joey’s defenceless monster, slicing it easily in two, causing a golden explosion, knocking out the remains of Joey’s life points, bringing upon Maria; Victory.
Joey Wheeler > 0LP (- 800LP)
4000LP < Maria Sugihara
“How…how did I lose? How did THE invincible Joey Wheeler lose!?” he sulked as he fell to his knees, not pleased with the outcome of the duel at all, as his ego got the best of him. Maria on the other hand was calm and collective, taking a deep breath and letting it out, as she was surprised at herself for winning a duel against one of the top duelists out there. She soon left the dueling field in question, as her duel disk went into standby mode, revealing such a gentle smile upon her lips as she started to speak to herself “One more round done” she murmured softly. At the same time, Joey left the field, revealing such limp arms as he drags his feet away from the tournament, knowing there was no other point in staying now.
At the same time, the bright glow that came out of the cracks of Pegasus’ briefcase soon dissipated, as the duel had come to a close. “It seems that the card has stopped reacting, but there is no way to be certain if it reacted to her” Pegasus thought to himself, as he held his chin in hand. “If it starts to react once more in the next round, then I’ll be certain of her” he continued to think to himself, as he soon held the briefcase in his lap, not opening it to reveal its contents. “Still playing with your little toys, Pegasus?” Kaiba quickly remarked, as he knew how Pegasus thought day and night of. “Oh no my dear Kaiba-Boy, the contents of this briefcase out-stands such vivid creatures off the screen” Pegasus decided to reply, as Kaiba gave a glare of disgust. “Whatever you say Pegasus” Kaiba spoke, before turning his attention back to the tournament.
“Let’s see if you truly are the one, little girl” Pegasus murmured to himself, as he held the case firmly on his lap. Time had passed as the current round of duels now came to its end, signalling the next round to start shortly, despite the fact Joey Wheeler was curled into a ball, still sulking slightly over his loss. This of course, makes Tristan believe that Joey is kind of a spoilt child because of his own ego building up too much. Meanwhile, Maria takes her position for the next duel, as Pegasus watches from afar, keeping an eye on her and that of the briefcase on his lap, fortunate that Kaiba hasn't noticed the glow, but in many ways, he could be unable to see it at all, as Duel Monsters was always a mysterious game of legend.
As the next round of duels had begun, Pegasus simply eyed out one individual in particular, the same young female from the duel against Joey Wheeler, whom he believed caused the card in his briefcase to shine a brilliant golden glow. As the duels had begun, Maria brought yet another one of her brilliant angels to the field, one that never emerged upon the field during the last duel she was in. As the duel progressed, Pegasus took note that the card had begun its shining glow once more, confirming Pegasus’ beliefs that this girl was being chosen for the being inside of the silver case. Despite the fact Maria had lost her duel in the next round she was in, she was still happy to have gotten so far for her first time in a major tournament, despite the fact only so many could enter from the get go. As she returned her deck back into the casing it was in beforehand, so switched her duel disk back into standby, leaving the field in question.
As Maria started to head towards the stands, in order to watch the rest of the tournament take place for all to see, an older male in a black suit came up to her. Before Maria could quickly respond to the older male, to wonder why she was approached by him, he simply retorted “Maria Sugihara?”. Maria simply replied with such a nervous tone “Yes, that’s me” to the older gentleman, before he had turned around. “Mr Pegasus would like to see you” he spoke up once more with such a formal tone, as he gestured to her to follow him to Pegasus’ private room by the tournament grounds. As the black suited male walked off slowly, Maria followed, making sure that she knew where she was going, rather surprised in more ways than one since Pegasus, the creator of Duel Monsters asked to see her personally.
As Maria continued to follow the man in question, she was slightly unsure why would Pegasus wish to speak with her in the first place, especially seeing as she didn't win the Memorial Cup. This continued to confuse her in more ways than one, but before she could think out a possible scenario, she bumped a little into the older, black suited male, as he soon knocked upon a large wooden door. “Mr Pegasus, I’ve brought Miss Sugihara upon your instructions” he simply spoke towards the door. “Come on in then, Kroquet” the voice spoke from the other side of the door, in which the older male in front of Maria soon responded by opening up the doors, revealing the rather posh room inside. The room was ravished in light cream walls with such white leather seats surrounding that of a lovely cream coloured coffee table, and in the centre of that, was a glass vase with white lilies to complete the decor. Maria was slightly stunned at the sight of the room, but that was until she saw the back of Pegasus, in his red suit and long silver hair reaching past his neck.
“Kroquet, you may leave us now” he spoke gently, as the older male in a suit soon bowed slightly “Yes Mr Pegasus, sir” he responded, before shutting the door behind Maria, leaving them alone inside of the room together. “Miss Sugihara, would you care to take a seat?” Pegasus started to say, without turning around to look at the young lady, as she soon nodded her head slightly, despite the fact that he wasn’t able to see this. Maria soon chose one of the seats in the middle of the room, but as she sat herself down, she took quick notice of a silver briefcase in the left hand of Pegasus, wondering straight away what it may contain. “So, why did you ask me to come here?” she spoke with a slightly nervous tone, as Pegasus’ head soon perked up a little, turning around to view the young lady, who had sat down in the middle white leather seat aside of the coffee table. “Now, I’m sure you have no idea why I would call you here, do you Miss Sugihara?” Pegasus spoke without a change of tone in his voice, in which was responded by Maria with a simple shake of her head “I’m afraid I don’t know why, Mr Pegasus” she decided to say.
Pegasus simply gave a small smirk, before sitting down in the white leather seat opposite of Maria, before placing the briefcase onto the table in between that of them. “I watched your duel from the spectator’s booth, and I must say, I was quite impressed how you set yourself up against dear Joseph” he commented, as he continued to smirk softly. “Thanks, I suppose…” she responded a little, still unsure if that was the main reason to why Pegasus would ask for a private talk with herself, that was until Pegasus soon leaned a little forward, leaning his arms against the top of his legs. “You do not have to be stiff in your speech, my dear Maria, I've called you up here for a reason that shall be vital to everyone” Pegasus spoke softly to that of the young female, causing a little hint of confusion to appear upon her facial expression. “What do you mean by this, Mr Pegasus?” she simply asks of him, still unsure what on earth he was on about, as Pegasus soon pulled the briefcase closer to him, unhooking the locks from their hinges; “Maria Sugihara, I believe you have been chosen by such an ancient entity” he simply added in, causing her to become even more confused than before.
“Chosen? What do you mean by chosen?” Maria asked of Pegasus, which she got only a slight smirk in response to her own question, as he soon lifted half of the briefcase up, pulling out a black small, square container out. “This I believe has chosen you to wield its power” Pegasus mentioned as he placed the container onto the table between them, making sure it was closer to Maria than to him. “What exactly is this supposed to be, Mr Pegasus?” Maria inquired of him, wondering what may be inside of it, as he soon stood himself back, walking over to the window inside of the room. “Inside of that small container is one of six powerful entities, ones who have enough to change the world as we know it” Pegasus started to explain “As I’m sure you are fully aware, an island had resurfaced from the ocean miles outside of our country, only to remain for three days before sinking back to the depths from whence it came” he added. Maria nods her head softly “Yeah, it was all over the news back then, it was some kind of miracle discovery” she decided to say, this of course, bringing a smile to that of Pegasus’ face.
“It was more than some kind of miracle, I would say it resurfaced to finish up a prophecy” Pegasus started to say, before continuing on “The prophecy I speak of is that of the Mayan’s so called end of the world”. Maria was rather confused at this, before opening up the container a little out of curiosity “The Mayan’s predicted that our world will be at its finale in the year of 2012 A.D. and that we would not survive” Pegasus continued to speak out “And I believe that is coming into fruition, and there is but only one way of seizing it in its tracks” he added in. “But, isn’t that prophecy stuff supped to be just a superstition? You can’t believe in everything we hear while looking back at legends” Maria decided to say up to Pegasus, before he turned around “I wish it was just a legend, but the island brought many mysterious alight, especially as the plant growth on its shores was only still around sixty-five million years ago, Miss Sugihara” he responded with a slight frown, yet serious look upon his face.
At that statement, the room went a little quiet for a moment, but that was until Maria spoke up once more. “Sixty-five million years ago!?” she simply stated “Are you sure there wasn't a mistake in that?” she asked of him. “I wish it was only of false accusations Miss Sugihara, as in that container you hold, is something created from something seen upon the island in question” Pegasus specified , as Maria soon opened up the container, to pull out something that she never expected to be inside. “A Duel Monsters card?” she murmured softly “What does this card have to do with anything about th-…” she started to ask, before she was put off by the card shining a pale, golden glow, which made her speechless. “The card you hold there, my dear Maria, is one based upon the tablets found in a temple of gigantic proportions on the same island” he started to explain himself “And I’m afraid, that I have brought about the start of our extinction” he further clarified. “And yet, that card has chosen you to wield its power, as a sign that you and you alone are able to correct the mistake of my actions” Pegasus added with a soft tone, before Maria stood up rather fast “But, I can’t be someone who can stop the end of the world, it sounds impossible” she said with ill confidence of her own skill.
“Nothing is impossible Maria my dear, if all would think that way, then the end would have been brought to us already” Pegasus comments upon the statement given by her “The countless times Yugi-boy has saved the world is immeasurable, and now, it is your turn young Maria, to save us from the most evil being out there” he continues to say. Maria seemed rather unsure of this, before saying something else “Then what is this card all about?” she asked, showing the card in her hand to him. “That card is one of six dragons that has been around since the dawn of time, as the tablets in which they were sealed, were that of a material not known to us” he explained “And only the chosen few are able to hold their overwhelming power, just like Yugi-boy and his Egyptian God cards” he explained further. “So this card…are you saying it chose me and not Yugi?” she decided to ask of the creator of Duel Monsters; “I’m afraid so, even Yugi-boy wouldn't be able to wield this almighty being, especially as it was one of the beings that created all life, even the Egyptian God cards are nothing to their power” he decides to mention. This is of course even amazes Maria slightly “So, what do you wish me to do with the card?” she asked, even though she had no idea on what the answer she would receive; “I want you to keep it safe from anyone who may wish to have it, no matter what…” he spoke before moving up closer to her, kneeling down slightly so that his face was directly in line with her own “…Do not allow anyone else to hold this card, or I’m afraid the world will meet its end” he added.
These words brought Maria such thoughts; as she simply looked down to stare at the card, as the glow soon subsided. But as the confrontation between Maria Sugihara and Maximillion Pegasus continued, elsewhere, something lurking in the shadows awaited such news. As our scenario changed from an elegant white and cream room; to that of a dark, empty building, and laying in the shadows, sat on a devilish looking throne, was a human figure, with a slight grin on his own face. “So, that loser Pegasus has given one of those cards to someone else has he?” the figure spoke out softly, in a slight evil tone “Yes my lord, the dragon of light has been passed onto a young female, as Pegasus believes it will be kept safe” another person spoke, kneeling down in the middle of the room. “That foolish Pegasus, does he really think that a weak soul is able to stop my plans to bring about the resurrection of this world?” the shadowy figure chuckled evilly “He is even more desperate than I thought” he murmured. “Shall I send one of your loyal assassins to confront this girl, in order to retrieve your prize of destiny?” the other man asked of the one on the dark throne “But of course, make sure to send a most reliable one my servant, I do not expect to see failure” the dark figure soon mentioned, in which, he received a nod as the other person soon left the room, leaving the dark figure to himself.
Soon, an evil laugh echoed through the room “It seems that my plans will come into fruition, my young apprentice” it chuckled softly; “Yes, soon the world will be born anew, and within your image my God” the shadowy figure chuckled softly. “Once you have brought the remaining four of my kin to me, then I shall steal their strength, and bring about the end of all life, only to recreate it in my own image” the mysterious, evil force soon chuckled “And it is all thanks to you, my new world’s King, Darren Lewis” it continued to chuckle. “Yes, once the world is reborn, I shall rule over the people, as you rule over the world, my God” Darren chuckles once more, before standing up from the throne “And to think, this had all started once I released you from your tormented seal, due to your own kin” he adds into his previous comment. “Yes, my kin may have not seen my own vision of a perfect world, but soon, they shall have no choice but to help me assemble it” the evil being laughs softly, in such an evil tone. “Yes, the world is now yours to control, and no one, shall be able to stop your almighty power” Darren laughs evilly, as the being continues to laugh manically; the scenario in question soon faded out, revealing such a blood curdling stare of crimson red eyes behind that of Darren, as the diabolic laughs continued.
End of Chapter One
Subject: Yu-Gi-Oh! Isle Of Torguna - Chapter One 
Fri Aug 23, 2013 8:02 pm
