Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Yu-Gi-Oh! A Tapestry Incomplete ❯ Fear! Domineer of the Cards Unleashed ( Chapter 2 )

A Tapestry Incomplete

Episode Two: Fear! The Domineer Maestro of the Cards unleashed!

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"Before we duel, how about you choose your own fate." Umei smiled evilly at Jounouchi.

"Whad'dya mean?" Jounouchi asked dumbfounded. Yuugi stood next to him as Honda held the unconscious silver-haired boy on his shoulders. Anzu was still kneeling on the ground next to Honda.

"If you like, being the brave but stupid opponent, you can duel me somewhere else. A little surprise if you like to call it that. But, being a coward and smart opponent, you can duel me right here, right now." Umei fanned herself.

`What does she mean being a brave and stupid opponent?! Duel somewhere else? Sounds pretty fishy to me. This place she's talking about, it may give her an advantage, but dueling her here might give me an even bigger advantage!' Jounouchi smiled.

"…" Umei narrowed her eyes.

"Okay! I've decided. I'll duel you… Here!" Jounouchi began to laugh hysterically. Yuugi stared at him.

"Fine then." Umei chuckled.

`What gives, she's lost her advantage!' Jounouchi winced.

The arena spread from the ground as Umei and Jounouchi took their places. Umei was quick to notice something:

"Oh and Yuugi, you might want to get him to the boat so he'll be shipped to a hospital, you know, I don't want to be charged for murder." Umei smiled as she pointed to the guy leaning over Honda's shoulders.

"Honda, Anzu, could you two get him to that boat that's just about to leave the island down at the beach?" Yuugi ordered. The two nodded and ran back over the hill.

"So cheerleader, ready to lose." Umei mocked.

"We'll see who is a cheerleader after this match!" Jounouchi shouted at her. He held up his duelist glove. "How many are we wagering for?!"

"How about three," Umei smiled, "You barely have that many, so, if I win, you are eliminated! If I lose, I'll still be on this island. Gomen, but I doubt I'll lose…"

"Jounouchi, don't agree with this match! If you're eliminated no one will be there for your sister!" Yuugi warned.

`Yuugi is right, if I lose, no one will be there for Shizuka…' Jounouchi thought.

"Second thoughts? If you want to back out, I'd understand, it just proves that-"

"No! I won't back out, if I do then it'll prove what you've said on the boat. I'll show you I'm worthy, I won't let what you've said be taken into affect. Let's duel!" Jounouchi slapped all his star chips on the counsel. `It's amazing how much I'm sticking up for myself! It's amazing how much she reminds me of Mai!'

"Very good choice, Katsuya." Umei placed three on the counsel as well. "Hai, let us duel. But Jounouchi, since you really aren't that worthy of an opponent, I have no use of transforming before you."

"Nani?!" Jounouchi and Yuugi gasped in unison.

`Transform?' Yuugi's attention finally surfaced to Umei's neck. On a black lace choker was a glowing Egyptian eye! `Is that a Millennium item!'

Umei beamed, "Did I stutter."

"Enough talk, let's go, ladies first." Jounouchi grinned thinking how easy this match would be. Two thousand life points flashed on the screens.

Umei drew her five cards but smirked when she did. "I'd like to start by placing this field change card down first!" her card she chose went on the counsel. On the field of the arena, it began to snow!

"Nani!" Jounouchi was amused.

The snowing stopped as the once green meadow of the arena was covered in hail. Suddenly, mountains upon mountains of ice sprouted from the ground and ice shards were floating in the air.

"A winter wonderland?!" Jounouchi laughed, "What kind of card is that!"

"Like I said, it's a field change card, Arctic, and you'll soon see how wonderful this wonderland is." Umei looked at Yuugi.

He shifted his eyes back to Jounouchi.

"But anyway, it's your turn Katsuya." Umei fanned herself with her cards.

"Hai!" He looked at his hand. "Fine, I play, Masaki the legendary Swordsman." He threw his card down on the counsel. The holographic swordsman appeared on the field with the attack power of 1100. "What ya' think about that."

"I think you've just made your first mistake." Umei grimaced. "Look at your monster."

"Huh?!" Masaki the legendary swordsman lost two-hundred points to his attack power, "Nine-hundred, nani!"

"Is it really? Any monster besides a Wind, Fire, and Water type on the Arctic field will loose 200 points to their defense or attack." Umei explained.

"You tricked me!"

"How did I trick you!" Umei shouted losing her personage.

"You didn't explain this at the start."

Umei practically fell off the stand. "Baka!" Jounouchi began to laugh. "Fine, you want to accuse me, accuse this. It's my turn. I set this card face down and I place in attack mode… Windy Unicorn!" A Unicorn with a flowing gray mane like a lion's stood before Jounouchi's Masaki. It had the tail of a lion and it's horn spiraled. Attack power of nine hundred and defense of nine hundred.

"Oh wow, a miscreated mess of a unicorn!" Jounouchi taunted Umei.

"Have you forgot the two-hundred points it gets for being a wind type." Umei explained. From 900 attack and defense points to 1100 attack and defense points, the Windy Unicorn began to neigh.

"Kuso, I forgot about that."

"Now attack, Windy Unicorn!" the unicorn galloped over to Masaki. "Wind Cry!" From it's mane a rush of shards flashed towards Masaki. They went through his body and he disintegrated.

"Lucky," Jounouchi drew one card from his deck. "Hai! I'm getting the hang of this! Go Flame Swordsman." His swordsman gained two hundred points for both attack and defense: 2000, 1800. "Now attack!" The Flame Swordsman sliced the Windy Unicorn in half, disintegrating it as well.

Umei: 1900 , Jounouchi: 1800

"So good to see you're using your head" Umei looked at Yuugi. "Yuugi, any plans you have after this duel…"

Yuugi jumped when the attention turned towards him.

"Leave Yuugi out of this, hurry up and move!" Jounouchi yelled at her.

Umei scowled, "How persistent of you. Blue Gypsy!" A Gypsy dressed in a flaunting blue outfit appeared on the field. Plus 200 points. Attack: 2000 Defense: 1800!

"Ha! Both our monsters have the same attack and defense!" Jounouchi pointed out.

"Did you forget about the card that I played a turn ago?! I flip it over now! Red Gypsy!" An identical Gypsy dressed in red stood beside the blue one. "Gypsy performers band together! Since I have two Gypsies on the field they get 200 more points each. I set a card face down."

Red Gypsy- Attack: 2200 Defense: 2000 , Blue Gypsy- Attack: 2200 Defense: 2000

"Iie!" Jounouchi gasped.

"Attack, Blue Gypsy!" Umei ordered as the Gypsy danced over to the Flame Swordsman. It twirled around him and kicked him straight in the gut, he disintegrated.

"Kuso." Jounouchi murmured.

"Come on cheerleader..."

"Shut your damn mouth woman!" Jounouchi glanced through his cards and drew another. `She definitely reminds me of Mai. Ah Ha! Perfect.'

"Hmm?" Umei arched an eyebrow.

"Go, Baby Dragon." Attack: 1200, Defense: 700.-Attack: 1400, Defense: 900.

`What's he trying to pull.' Umei thought in confusion.

"You must be thinking, just because I drew a weak little baby dragon, you can beat me!" Jounouchi smiled. `Just how I beat Mai, when my Magician Clock is drawn, I'll win for sure.'

`Jounouchi is gon'na play his Magician Clock!' Yuugi glanced.

"I won't let him attack just yet, but I will place this card face down." Jounouchi smiled.

"Jounouchi, you're taking a big gamble!" Yuugi shouted. `Placing his Magician Clock face down? Umei can just attack him now, what is he planning?'

"Hmm, Katsuya, I won't attack either." Umei sighed.

"N-Nani?!" Yuugi and Jounouchi said in unison.

"Instead, I place this Magic Card! Block Attack. Switches your Baby Dragon from Attack mode to Defense mode."

"What was the point of that." Jounouchi laughed. Jounouchi pulled a card. "Hai! I play, Magician Clock!" The Magician Clock floated in the air.

`If it wasn't the Magician Clock he played face down… then what?' Yuugi pondered.

"Spinner go!" Jounouchi shouted as the spinner on the roulette began to spin.

`Jounouchi… Baka.' Umei frowned.

It stopped on a time machine!

"Hai Hai! Now watch as time goes by a thousand years! And watch as your two Gypsies age as well!" Jounouchi bellowed.

Umei was unaffected.

"Nani?!" Jounouchi was surprised. `So damn calm?'

Time stopped, but Umei's gypsies didn't age!

"Oi! What happened?!" Jounouchi and Yuugi were both bedazzled.

"I had a magic card still on the filled remember. Before the Snowstorm." Umei chuckled. "Before the Snowstorm is a magic card that protects ALL monsters on the field from time attacks by activating those floating ice shards. Like a little shield. Too bad your Baby Dragon was protected too, I guess he can't become the Thousand Dragon you were hoping for. Now that your turn is over, attack, Blue Gypsy!" The Blue Gypsy danced around Baby Dragon and destroyed him.

`Ah man, what do I do now? Fire Soul, if only I had the Flame Swordsman to play it with. Hmm.' Jounouchi itched his head. "I play Garuziis and a card face down." Jounouchi gasped with no enthusiasm in his voice.

"Already giving up? Blue Gypsy, attack the Magician Clock." The Blue Gypsy sprinted over to the Magician Clock. She jumped at him but…. CLING.

"Ha!" Yuugi smiled.

"The Boomerang Chain?!" Umei fumed. `How idiotic could I've been, I've should've seen that coming.'

"That's right, your arrogance blinded you to attacking my Magician Clock, not even thinking of my trap!" Jounouchi jumped up and down. "Your Gypsy's attack points go down by 500 points, and my Garuziis' attack goes up by 500!" Jounouchi smiled viciously.

Blue Gypsy: Attack-1700, Defense-2000 / Garuziis: Attack-2300

"And since you've just ended your turn, Garuziis attack!" Jounouchi ordered, Garuziis' Boomerang Chain squeezed the Blue Gypsy to her death.

Umei: 1000, Jounouchi: 1600

`Good, I'm ahead, and I'm gon'na keep it that way.' Jounouchi grimaced with pride.

Umei became frustrated.

"Come on Jounouchi, think hard, you can't loose." Yuugi cheered his friend on.

"You're the first person I've fought that was able to defeat one of my Gypsies, don't think you've won yet." Umei spied. "Raise Dead! I'll bring back one of my monsters from the graveyard! And you know which one…"

"Kuso!" Jounouchi gasped.

Blue Gypsy: Attack-2200, Defense-2000

"And since your chain only works once, you can't trap me again."

"Yeah, but it does make a great weapon! And my Garuziis attack power is still greater then yours." Jounouchi sniggered.

"Why should I aim for your Garuziis? Blue Gypsy, attack the clock!" And so the Magician Clock was destroyed.

Umei: 1000, Jounouchi: 1100

"A little set back, but I'm still ahead." Jounouchi looks at his cards. `Hmm, Salamandra… Copy Cat…Giltia.' Jounouchi pulls a card from the deck. `Armored Lizard…'

"Hurry up and make a move!"

"I play Copy Cat, and copy your Raise Dead card. And I use it to bring back my Flame Swordsman!" Jounouchi's Flame swordsman was back on the field.

Umei huffed. "Finished?"

"Matte! Not only does it get 200 points for being a fire type, but also, I do add Salamandra to its attack, giving him 700 more points!

Flame Swordsman: Attack-2700, Defense-1800

"Now you're using your head Jounouchi!" Yuugi glanced at Umei. "Guess he isn't that much of an amateur!"

Umei winced.

"Now, attack the Blue Gypsy!" Jounouchi laughed. The Blue Gypsy was gone once again.

Umei: 500 , Jounouchi: 1100

"One more hit like that and it's over! I think I'll aim for your Red one next!" Jounouchi mocked Umei.

"I place Red Gypsy in Defense Mode, and I place this card in attack mode. Hypnotic Water Dancer!" A feminine, almost human monster appeared on the field. It was as if she were sculpted from water as her liquid body glistened, wild untamed hair ran around the whole field from the creature. Unfortunately, the attack of the Water Dancer was 0 and the Defense, 0!

Jounouchi drooled, "HA! That thing doesn't even have an attack or defense strength. Too bad she isn't as good as she looks! Baka." Jounouchi couldn't stop making wisecracks. Umei was unaffected, as usual.

The Water Dancer stood, something was happening! Her whole body was freezing over, encased in ice, she still stood. Suddenly, her ice barrier broke, The Water Dancer was much more different than before! She resembled a sort of ice maiden.

"Allow me to introduce the Rare Elven Ice Dancer. When the Hypnotic Water Dancer is on the field, an ice field, she will freeze. When frozen, she will break away from her icicle prism and is very much different." Umei howled.

Rare Elven Ice Dancer: Attack-3200, Defense-3000

"Kuso!" Yuugi and Jounouchi gasped in unison

"Don't ever doubt me, now… attack the Flame Swordsman! Trinity Shard Storm!" And then, it was over. The Flame Swordsman was gone.

Umei: 500, Jounouchi: 0

"I lost…" Jounouchi stumbled backward, he was in some sort of trance. He couldn't stay focused. His star chips shook on the counsel. His cards in his hand fell to the counsel, his fists fell to the counsel.

"Jounou…" Yuugi sighed. Anzu and Honda were heading back towards the arena.

"Did Jounouchi win?" Anzu shouted.

"Iie..." Honda gasped. Both stopped besides Yuugi.

Umei threw Jounouchi's star chips in the air and caught them. She was standing at the bottom of the arena now. Jounouchi was still on the arena, head held down. "Your cheerleader was the real arrogant one. He actually thought he could beat me. Baka…" Umei kept droning on. "He thought he could help his sister, he couldn't even help himself. His sister is as good as dead."

"Enough!" Yuugi spat out. His Millennium Puzzle flashed. A luminous white light spread around him. Mou Hitori no Boku appeared.

"Millennium Puzzle…" Umei smiled.

"You've done enough boasting about being the best. You've ruined Jounouchi, you've ruined everything he worked for." Yami Yuugi pointed towards her.

"If you want to duel me, go ahead and say so, don't try and back it up." Umei snarled.

"Yuugi will wipe that smirk right off your lips when he's done with you." Anzu admonished.

"No one talks that way to Jounouchi except me!" Honda finished.

Jounouchi finally stepped from the arena, he walked in the opposite direction.

"Jounouchi! Where are you going!" Anzu asked.

"Probably going to jump off one of the cliffs, a broken man he is now, not deserving a life." Umei began to walk off as well.

"I challenge you to a duel!" Yami Yuugi shouted behind her. She stopped.

Umei peered over to them. Yuugi… Honda… Anzu… Even Jounouchi… Umei felt something strike her really hard. In the pit of her heart she felt it speed up and slow down. Her blood boiled as she gazed at Yuugi. It was Yuugi's fault Seto had left, it was Yuugi's fault Mokuba was in Pegasus' grip, it was Yuugi's fault Seto didn't believe in her anymore, and it was Yuugi's fault Umei was depressed. It was time for her to avenge both Seto and Mokuba. Friendship wasn't what got Yuugi or Jounouchi far, it was luck, and his luck was about to run out.

"Yuugi… I accept."

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To be Continued.