Jaden: What's up, Jodi?
Jodi: Not much. Anyway, what do you think about Pandora's duel right now?
Jaden: Pretty sweet, actually. Except that one card..uhh...?
Jodi: Deathadora?
Jaden: Yeah, that one. It creeps me out, I mean 15500 attack points is insane!
Jodi: True. I was wondering, what would you do if you were dueling her?
Jaden: Hmm. That's hard.
Jodi: Well, I'll get back to you on that. Disclamer and go!
"Well, since it's still my main phase, I think that I should activate her special ability." Marieev said. More thunder came in, then one jolt came blasting onto the middle of the arena. Chazz covered his eyes, blocking the light.
When it was gone, Chazz looked. There was a skeleton doll floating above the ground, where the thunder had striken. "What the-? A doll?"
Jaden and the gang watched.
"Ooookay..." Jaden trailed off.
"All that for a worn-out doll!?" Chumley complained, the thunder nearly giving him a heart attack.
"I thought Pandora didn't like dolls!" Syrus gasped.
"What's the big deal? It's just a bunch of chicken bones put together!" Chris complained.
"Well, we're a bit surprised," Bastien answered.
"That's because you're guys," Liana answered, the 5 boys looked at her. "Turns out, that Ma-Pandora likes to bring out surprises in her duel. She knows boys seem to freak out when something happens more than once, but the girls understand everything after maybe twice. Which is very weird."
"No wonder Hi understands what's going on!" Chris answered, only receiving multiple punches from Steven. (Before, he used to always joke Steven was gay.) "Ahh! Don't hurt me! NOOO!"
"Oh, I see, Pandora uses surprises to trick her opponent into doing crazy things. She's intimidating them, so that they'll be too frightened by the monsters and the dark to carry on the duel!" Bastien explained.
"No, she uses it to see if the boy is a boy." Liana answered. The boys fell anime style.
"Surprised? Well, I'll show you what it does, Ojama boy!" The doll floated to the monster's arms. Deathadora raised it up in the air.
"Come, Ryu Kishen Powered, rise from you grave!" Marieev called out. Once again, a giant black lightning bolt shot the ground. After it was gone, in the doll's place...was 'Ryu-Kishen Powered'.
"Great, how many effects does that...thing have?!?" Chazz shouted slapping his face. "It can revive monsters with some doll?"
"You know, if you looked carefully, it looks like 'Dark Necrofear's marionette." Liana said. She seems to point out nearly unnoticable things. "Deathadora's plethora of effects are pretty hard to beat all at once. Hah, a pun."
"How the heck is that a pun?" Chris asked.
"Well, let's get on with it. Since I used her effect this turn, I can't attack. But I place a card face down and that's it."
Chazz was shaking. He could barely draw his card, but no one seemed to notice or care much.
"I play...'Swords of Revealing Light'! You can't attack for three turns!"
Marieev scowled. "You found her weakness."
"I...did? I mean, of course I did! How does it work?"
"Well, since she's dark, and that card is light, now she can't attack for five turns. But it dosen't matter. It's just the time I need to beat you!"
"Hmm, he's saved himself. For now," Zane spoke up. He had been watching very attentively.
"Well, I place a monster in defense and I end my turn."
"So I draw! And now I activate the ultimate trap! 'Destiny Board!' "
The ouiji board appeared, with the odd marionette holding the cursor.
"After taking the kinks out, KaibaCorp fixed this combo so it can actually work! The first letter comes with the board!"
The cursor went around and paused on D.
"Huh? I thought it was F!" Chumley said.
"Maybe it's a typo," Jaden replied.
"In five turns, the ouiji board with spell your fate! So you better find a way to beat me by then! Mwahahaha!"
"Uh...uhhh...I put 'Gear Golem The Moving Fortress' in defense mode. That's it, I guess..."
"Hmm, you know what else? None of them have lost life points left. That's usually odd after so many turns," Liana said.
Marieev drew her card. "Hah! And now the second letter on the board!"
The doll stopped at E.
"You'll never stop me! I put 'Dunames Dark Witch' on the field! Go, you lousy excuse for a duelist!"
"I don't see you winning!..This turn is a dud. I end my turn."
"Oh, you wanna lose faster? Fine by me!" The third letter showed up on the ouiji board. It was A.
Chazz widened his eyes. "I know what it says!"
"Good! Now it won't be a surprise to you when it happens! Now I tribute my 'Ryu-Kishin Powered' and my 'Dunames Dark Witch' to summon 'Cosmo Queen'!"
The two monsters seemed almost akin standing next to each other.
"Ah, how nice to bring together two sisters of darkness! But I'm sad to say I must end my turn."
"...Is that last part sarcasm?" Chazz asked.
Marieev rolled her eyes.
"Well, I put another monster face-down and that's it."
"Hey, if you don't put any traps, you're gonna lose! Badly! Why can't you lose like a man? Oh, I know!" Marieev laughed.
The cursor marked the letter T.
"Ah, I love the smell of DEATH in the mornin'! I end my turn."
The 'Swords of Revealing Light' disappeared, and the black lightning started to crackle again.
"It's his last chance. Do or die, I guess," Bastien said.
"Hey, I didn't know you used puns!" Liana said.
When Chazz looked at his card, it was hard to tell if the look on his face was of victory or defeat.
'I hope this works...' Chazz said to himself. "I play a card face-down, and end...my turn."
Marieev draws, but doesn't look at the card. "You're done for! And now, the final letter!"
Chazz had his hand on his dueldisk, watching carefully when the cursor met with H. As soon as it did, he shouted, "Hah! I activate my trap! 'Ring of Destruction!' I use it on your Deathadora!"
"He must have drawn that card!" Chumley gasped.
When the ring exploded, the blow created massive amounts of light and black thunder, destroying all of the monsters and trap cards, including the ouiji board. The duelists flew backwards.
"It's a draw!" a kid in the audience screamed.
"Now what? The deal was that if Pandora lost, we had to leave, but if she won, she goes to Obelisk blue. I'm confuzzled," Chris said.
"Well, then," Crowler spoke up. "Why don't we flip a coin?" He was very sure Chazz was going to send her packing.
"Heads!" Chazz called.
The coin landed on heads.
"Well?" Crowler said with an odd grin on his face.
"Well, since I didn't lose and she didn't win... let 'em stay."
Crowler gaped. (And with that big ol' mouth, it probably touched the ground.)
"And she can go to Obelisk Blue. At least she's not a stupid Slifer. Plus, I could've beat her if I wanted to."
Marieev gave him an 'Oh, really?' look as she crossed her arms.
"Well, that's settled," Chumley said, rubbing his hands. "Can we go eat now, away from all the thunder and stuff?"
"You read my mind!" Chris grinned.
There was a lot of talk about the duel afterwards. Crowler was especially suspicious.
Later that day, the four kids were on their chat room.
DARKFETALMIND: is evryone on?
SHORTMAN: IM NOT SO SHORT THAT U CANT SEE ME!! dummy
DARKFETALMIND: shut up baka
FIREQUEEN: here i am, outside
SHORTMAN: outside where
FIREQUEEN: slifer dorm, idiot
DARKFETALMIND: you just got called idiot in two languages haha
FIREQUEEN: es un idiota there now in 3 langs
-GREENROX has entered the chatroom-
GREENROX: HOLA SENORITAS
DARKFETALMIND: what took you so long
GREENROX: my DS blew up with all that junk you tried to put in it
FIREQUEEN: then how are you here?
GREENROX: im using my iPod
SHORTMAN: how did you get the iPod to use a chatroom?
GREENROX: skillz
DARKFETALMIND: alright, well, anything new?
GREENROX: yeah, why the frick did u put that stupid virus in my DS!?!? now its too weak to function
FIREQUEEN: LOL she did that to Platte too
DARKFETALMIND: i didn't mean to
GREENROX: untrustworthy :-P
SHORTMAN: well my ds is fine
DARKFETALMIND: thank u
GREENROX: your not welcome
DARKFETALMIND: grr
GREENROX: RAWR
SHORTMAN: hey wheres monkeybutt?
GREENROX: IDC
DARKFETALMIND: no one asked you
FIREQUEEN: who are you
SHORTMAN: uh is this a test?
FIREQUEEN: sure y not
SHORTMAN: k, im Hi
DARKFETALMIND: im pandora
GREENROX: im hungry
FIREQUEEN: well your little friend here really wants this contraption back, so ill see you all
FIREQUEEN: very very soon
-FIREQUEEN has left the chatroom-
DARKFETALMIND: oh no somethings happened to her, we need to find her
SHORTMAN: i get to duel the bad guy
GREENROX: i get to go find somethin 2 eat
-GREENROX has left the chatroom-
DARKFETALMIND: this is hopeless
SHORTMAN: everything is
-chatroom empty-
"Haha! They believed it!" Liana said joyously.
Syrus replied, "I can't believe you thought of that, Jaden."
"Well, you know how I am. I'm gonna catch some Z's. Later!"
He left to the dorm.
"Maybe we should should go..." Sy trailed off. "...Did you hear that?"
"Feh, it was probably just Hi and Pandora coming to get me already."
"Isn't Obelisk dorm a little far...There it is again!"
They listened quietly.
"Should we go find 'em?" Liana asked.
"Um...okay?" Syrus shuddered.
Liana pulled him by the sleeve as they went into the nearby forest.
--Later--
"Well, she was outside, you know," Jaden said.
"We know! But something's wrong!" Marieev shouted.
"If it was a joke, wouldn't she still be there?" Steven asked.
"Hey, have any of you seen Sy?" Chumley said as he walked in.
"He was with Brynn last I saw him." Jaden replied.
"Oh, no, they're both gone! This is serious!" Marieev exclaimed. 'It might be the murderer...' she thought.
And that's it for chapter 10! Where did Liana and Syrus end up? Is the murderer gonna find them before Marieev and Steven do? Find out next time! R&R, people!