Ryan vs Amnael

Ryan made his way down to the basement of the abandoned dorm. When he got to the bottom he noticed Amnael was standing in the center of the room waiting for his arrival.

"I was beginning to fear that you weren't going to come, but I was pleased that you did." Ryan simply activated his duel disk.

Amnael continued to talk.

"Now it has come to this, the last key keeper and the last Shadow Rider battling to see who-"

"Are you done? I don't have time to hear you chatter away." Ryan stated.

Amnael was taken back by this. He wasn't expecting him to be so impatient.

Amnael activated his duel disk and the room was consumed by darkness as the shadow game began.

"I will make the first move." Amnael said.

"I summon a monster in defense mode and place a card face down, that's it." He added.

Ryan's turn started.

"I summon Cyber Dragon in attack mode. Now attack his monster." He said. It was obvious Ryan wanted to get this duel over with as fast as possible.

Cyber Dragon ATK 2100 DEF 1600 LV5 LIGHT Machine.

"I hoped that you would do that. I activate my face down card, Macro Cosmos. As long as this trap card is on the field all of our cards that would be sent to the graveyard are banished instead." Amnael said as he activated his card.

Cyber Dragon's attack continued and it destroyed Amnael's face down monster which was revealed to be Necroface.

Necroface ATK 1200 DEF 1800 LV4 DARK Zombie.

"Excellent. When Necroface is banished both players must banish the top five cards of their decks." Amnael explained. Ryan and Amnael banished the top five cards of their decks.

Ryan said nothing.

"I set a card face down and end my turn." He said.

Amnael's turn started.

"I summon this in attack mode. Gren Maju Da Eiza." He said.

"This monster will gain 400 attack points for each of my banished cards and I currently have six." He explained.

Gren Maju Da Eiza ATK ? DEF ? LV3 FIRE Fiend.

Gren Maju Da Eiza ATK 0 + 2400 = 2400 DEF 0 + 2400 = 2400

"Now Gren Maju attack his monster." Amnael ordered.

"Hold on. I activate the counter trap Negate Attack. This stops your monster's attack and ends the battle phase." Ryan explained. Gren Maju's attack ended.

Amnael had nothing else to do right now so he ended his turn.

Ryan's turn started.

"I activate the spell Dark Core. By discarding a card I can banish one monster and I choose Gren Maju." Gren Maju was banished.

"Now attack." Cyber Dragon attacked directly.

Amnael LP 4000 - 2100 = 1900

Cyber Dragon's attack broke part of Amnael's mask. He could see Amnael's face and it was one he immediately recognized.

"Professor Banner. What is this?" Ryan asked as he stared at Banner's face. However there were a few differences. His hair was now white, his skin was unnaturally pale and his veins were clearly visible.

"Yes Ryan, it's me. Professor Lyman Banner." Banner said as he recovered from the attack.

"You may be wondering why I did this. Well you see when I discovered the Sacred Beasts I also discovered that the one who finds them would be cursed, and this curse is slowly-" Banner explained.

"I don't care what your reasons are for doing this. I'm going to pay you back for what happened to Alexis." He declared.

"Big words, but tell me do you have what it takes to stop me." Banner said.

"One way to find out." Ryan replied back.

"Anyway, it's your move." He said.

Banner started his turn.

"To begin I'll activate the continuous spell Soul Absorption. From now on whenever a card is banished I'll gain 500 life points." He explained.

"Next I'll activate Pot of Desires. This card requires me to banish ten cards from the top of my deck, then I draw two cards." Banner explained. He banished ten cards then drew two, then thanks to Soul Absorption he gained a large amount of life points.

Banner LP 1900 + 5500 = 7400

"Now I'll place a monster in defense mode and two cards face down." Banner said as he finished his turn.

Ryan started his turn and smiled at what he drew.

"I use Heavy Storm to get rid of all spell and trap cards on the field." All of Banner's spell and trap cards were destroyed.

"Cyber Dragon attack his face down monster." He said. Cyber Dragon attacked and destroyed Banner's monster which was revealed to be Morphing Jar.

Morphing Jar ATK 700 DEF 600 LV2 EARTH Rock.

"Since my Morphing Jar was just flipped face up we must both discard our hands and then draw five new cards." Banner explained. Both Ryan and Banner discarded their hands and drew five cards.

"Well it's still my turn and I place two cards face down and end there." Ryan said.

Banner's turn started.

"I activate the spell card Pot of Extravagance. This card will banish six random cards from my extra deck, then I get to draw two cards." Banner said.

As Banner looked at the cards in his hand he noticed something disturbing on his arm. Banner moved his sleeve back a little and saw that there were some large cracks forming on his arm.

'No. The curse has already claimed my real body and this artificial one won't last much longer. To make matters worse this shadow game is draining my strength. I must defeat Ryan and free the Sacred Beasts. They're the only ones who can save my life.' Banner thought.

"I play a monster in defense mode and one card face down. Now I end my turn." Banner said.

Ryan's turn started.

"I summon X-Head Cannon in attack mode." He said.

X-Head Cannon ATK 1800 DEF 1500 LV4 LIGHT Machine.

"Now I'll use Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your face down card." Banner's face down Dimensional Prison was destroyed.

"X-Head Cannon attack his face down monster." X-Head Cannon attacked and destroyed Banner's face down card which was revealed to be Needle Worm.

Needle Worm ATK 750 DEF 600 LV2 EARTH Insect.

Banner smiled.

"When Needle Worm is flipped face up it sends the top five cards of your deck to the graveyard." He explained. The top five cards of Ryan's deck were sent to the graveyard.

Banner started his turn.

"I activate Cosmic Cyclone. At the cost of 1000 life points this card will banish one of your spell or trap cards." Banner explained. One of his face down cards which was revealed to be Book of Moon was banished.

"Next I activate Cost Down. By discarding a card I can reduce the levels of all monsters in my hand by 2." Banner said. "And now I can summon this, Golden Homunculus in attack mode."

Golden Homunculus ATK 1500 DEF 1500 LV6 LIGHT Warrior.

"And this monster will gain 300 attack and defense points for each of my banished cards and according to my calculations I have thirty-two." Banner explained.

Golden Homunculus 1500 + 9600 = 11100 DEF 1500 + 9600 = 11100

"Now Golden Homunculus attack Cyber Dragon and end this duel." Banner said.

"I activate the Draining Shield trap. This negates your attack and then I gain life points equal to your monster's attack." Ryan replied.

Ryan LP 4000 + 11000 = 15100

Banner then ended his turn.

'Getting rid of that Golden Homunculus will not be easy. He banished so many cards it's attack is ridiculously high.' Ryan thought. 'Wait, banished so many cards. That's it.'

"I switch Cyber Dragon and X-Head Cannon to defense mode, then set a monster face down and end my turn." Ryan said.

"Not much you can do at this point." Banner said as he started his turn. "I activate the equip spell D.D.R Different Dimension Reincarnation. This equip spell will allow me to special summon one of my banished monsters by simply discarding one card." He explained. Gren Maju Da Eiza returned to the field.

Golden Homunculus ATK 11100 - 300 = 10800 DEF 11000 - 300 = 10800

Gren Maju Da Eiza ATK ? DEF ? LV3 FIRE Fiend.

Gren Maju Da Eiza ATK 0 + 12400 = 12400 DEF 0 + 12400 = 12400

"Now Gren Maju attack his Cyber Dragon." Banner said. Cyber Dragon was destroyed.

"Next Golden Homunculus attack his face down monster." Banner said. Ryan's face down which was revealed to be Marshmallon was filled face up.

"When Marshmallon is flipped face up as a result of battle, you lose 1000 life points." Ryan explained.

Banner LP 7400 - 1000 = 6400

Marshmallon ATK 300 DEF 500 LV3 LIGHT Fairy.

After this Banner ended his turn.

Ryan drew his card.

"I activate Lightning Vortex. I discard a card to destroy all face up monsters on your side of the field."

Gren Maju and Golden Homunculus were destroyed.

"I'll switch X-Head Cannon to attack mode and then send a card in my hand to the graveyard to special summon The Tricky."

The Tricky ATK 2000 DEF 1200 LV5 WIND Spellcaster.

"I also normal summon Vorse Raider in attack mode."

Vorse Raider ATK 1900 DEF 1200 LV4 DARK Beast-Warrior.

"Attack." He ordered.

Banner LP 6400 - 1900 = 4500

Banner LP 4500 - 2000 = 2500

Banner LP 2500 - 1800 = 700

"I end my turn there." He said.

Banner's turn started but he didn't draw anything of use so he ended his turn.

"This duel is over. X-Head Cannon wipe out the last of his life points."

Banner LP 700 - 1800 = 0

Banner fell to his knees as the shadows began to draw closer to him. Not only had he lost the duel, his body was quickly failing him. More and more cracks were forming on his body. Despite this, Banner was smiling.

"It would seem I underestimated your skills as a duelist." He said as Ryan walked towards him.

Before Banner could react Ryan suddenly snatched the emerald tablet from his hands causing one of his cracked hands to painfully break off and turn into dust.

Now with the emerald tablet in hand Ryan walked off leaving Banner to crumble away.

He got closer to the stairs.

"Wait Ryan, there's something I need to give you." He turned and looked at Banner.

"Which is?" He angrily asked. He then turned and headed up the stairs.

"Wait, you need this for your next duel." Banner said desperately. It was too late though as Ryan was out of view.

Banner's body crumbled away and his soul was consumed by the shadows, leaving nothing but the robes and the single duel monster card that he had intended to give to Ryan.

Ryan walked out of the abandoned dorm and took a deep breath.

'It's come to a end.' He thought. Ryan opened the emerald tablet and three balls of light flew out of it.

He stared at the sky as he watched the three souls returned to their bodies.