Alexander was suddenly confronted by another duelist who so brazenly challenged him out of nowhere. He raised an eyebrow, then replied, "Alright then, I suppose you'll be my first opponent." Turning on his Duel Disk, he raised it up and stepped back to allow room for the Duel. [h2][b][center]Moros VS Alexander[/center][/b][/h2] Turn 1: Moros / 8000 : [b]Alexander / 8000[/b] "I'll go first. Draw!" Alexander said as he drew his first card. Examining the cards in his hands, he thought for a second, then said, "I Summon 'Superheavy Samurai Blue Brawler'." A large blue golem appeared in front of Alexander, appearing as if it was ready to attack before switching to a defensive position. "When 'Blue Brawler' is Summoned, I can change its battle position," Alexander explained. "Now, turn end." Turn 2: [b]Moros / 8000[/b] : Alexander / 8000 Moros quietly drew a card, he saw no point in announcing his movement, it was obvious what he was doing. He grinned when he saw his trusty go-to defense monster. "I'll Set one monster face-down and end my turn." he stated simply. He was unimpressed by his opponent's first move, a defense game was one that he liked just fine. Turn 3: Moros / 8000 : [b]Alexander / 8000[/b] Alexander silently drew his next card, then grinned as well. Now he could play his favorite monster. "I Summon 'Superheavy Samurai Flutist'," Alexander said, and a smaller blue robot appeared, playing a single long tone on an instrument in its hands. "Now, by Tributing my 'Flutist', I can Special Summon a 'Superheavy Samurai' monster." As 'Flutist' vanished, a giant robot wearing orange and dark-blue armor appeared, sitting down on the ground, but still looking very menacing. "I Summon 'Superheavy Samurai Big Benkei'!" Alexander announced, the monster spinning its weapon in the air before slamming it onto the ground, its DEF registering as 3500. "My monsters may be in Defense Position," Alexander began. "But that doesn't mean they can't attack. Thanks to the effect of 'Big Benkei', my 'Superheavy Samurai' monsters are allowed to attack while in Defense Position, and use their DEF as their ATK." He pointed at Moros' face-down monster, then commanded, "Battle Phase! 'Big Benkei', attack his face-down monster!" 'Big Benkei's' eyes glowed red, then raised its fist to slam it down into the ground, sending a wave of yellow energy straight towards Moros' monster. Moros's face kept its grin as his face-down monster was smashed into dust. The brief image of a regal skeleton sitting on a throne briefly flickered before it was sent to the graveyard. The abilities of his monster was surprising, but in the end, no more impressive than any other deck he fought. [i]Don't worry, the king will soon avenge you[/i], he thought to himself silently. He had been hoping Alexander would attack with the blue samurai first and waste its attack, but in the end, he doubted it would matter. Alexander was wondering why Moros kept grinning even as his monster was destroyed, but seeing as there was no response from him, Alexander decided to maintain the offensive. "'Blue Brawler', attack him directly!" Alexander commanded, and Blue Brawler smashed the ground as well, sending a smaller wave of energy towards Moros. Turn 4: [b]Moros / 6000[/b] : Alexander / 8000 Moros remained impassive as the glancing blow of 2000 was removed from his LP total. Now it was his turn to take the offensive. He drew his next card; it gave him a tempting option, but he decided to keep it in reserve in case this plan failed. "I'll activate a magic card: 'One For One'," A small skeletal prince was sent to the graveyard, cackling as he went, and a card ejected from the deck that Moros quickly grabbed and played to the field. An impressive robed skeleton appeared standing on the two monsters already in the grave, his ATK registering as 2000. Not bad for now, "Now 'Wightprince's' effect activates, when he is sent to the graveyard, I can send 1 'Skull Servant' and 1 'Lady in Wight' from my deck to the graveyard. Two cards were quickly moved from the deck to the graveyard and the robed figure standing on the field had its ATK boosted up to 4000 as the other two monsters in the graveyard were added to the pile beneath its feet. "Now Battle Phase, "King of Skull Servants' destroy his 'Superheavy Samurai Big Benkei!" The royal skeleton obliged, raising his hand and wisps of power rose from the pile of bodies beneath his feet gathering in a sphere of darkness that was sent hurtling at the armoured monster. Alexander braced himself for the explosion that occurred when his 'Big Benkei' got destroyed. His face showed not an expression frustration or anything, however, but instead an expression of excitement. "Well, not bad. Not bad at all," Alexander remarked. "But don't think you've won just yet." Moros grinned, "Glad you're having as much fun as I am. With that I end my turn," he said setting his cards down and eagerly awaiting Alexander's next move. Turn 5: Moros / 6000 : [b]Alexander / 8000[/b] Alexander drew his next card, and found that it wasn't anything special. Still, with the hand he had now, perhaps it might come in handy later. "I'll Set one monster, and end my turn," Alexander said. Turn 6: [b]Moros / 6000[/b] : Alexander / 8000 Moros drew his next card, perfect, an ideal card to set while he continued his initial plan. He hadn't expected much more from Alexander than a Set monster. Of course, Alexander had no idea what Moros held in his hand, but he planned on saving that for a trump card. "I Set one Monster and enter the Battle Phase. 'King', destroy his facedown card for me." Of course, his monster obliged and sent another orb of darkness to destory the facedown card. As the dark orb struck his face-down monster, a rodent's screech was heard, and the image of an oversized grey rat appeared briefly before getting destroyed. Alexander grinned. "You just destroyed my 'Giant Rat', which allows me to Special Summon an EARTH monster with 1500 or less ATK from my deck." As the card ejected from his deck, Alexander grabbed it and placed it onto his Duel Disk. "I Summon the Tuner monster, 'Superheavy Samurai Trumpeter'," Alexander declared as a small red robot appeared, holding a giant conch-shaped instrument in its hands, blowing fiercely into it and making a long low-pitched noise. Moros grinned, irony had it that his face-down had a very much the same effect and that little robot with the trumpet was adorable besides. "With that I end my turn," he stated simply interested to see what Alexander would do with the little robot. Supposedly, Tuner monsters could be used for Synchro Summons, but because of Moros's very limited dueling experience, he had never seen one before. Turn 7: Moros / 6000 : [b]Alexander / 8000[/b] Alexander drew his next card, and found that it would come in handy for his next move. "Now, by discarding one EARTH monster and 'Redox, Dragon Ruler of Boulders', I am allowed to Summon any monster from my graveyard." He placed the two cards onto his graveyard slot, and they were quickly sucked in, then replaced by another card. "Now then, let's give a warm welcome back to 'Superheavy Samurai Big Benkei'," Alexander said, the monster making its appearance on the field. "Now that everything is in place, I can now perform a Synchro Summon using my 'Trumpeter' and my 'Big Benkei'," Alexander said. The two monsters then flew up into the air, 'Trumpeter' turning into a pair of green rings that quickly surrounded 'Big Benkai'. "Synchro Summon! Level 10! 'Superheavy Samurai Warlord Susanowo!" Alexander declared as an even larger blue-and-black robot appeared on the field, also sitting down yet also looking even more menacing than 'Big Benkai' ever did. Its DEF registered as 3800. "It's DEF is very high, but it seems like the warlord is still no match for the mighty king," Alexander began. "At least, not yet. Now I'll equip him with 'Superheavy Samurai Soulshield Wall'." A giant green shield fell from the sky, attaching itself neatly onto 'Susanowo'. "This gives my 'Susanowo' 1200 DEF, a large-enough boost to defeat the king now," Alexander said. He then pointed at 'King of the Skull Servants', commanding, "Battle Phase! 'Superheavy Samurai Warlord Susanowo', attack the 'King'!" 'Susanowo' spun its poleaxe around for a second before launching a wave of energy from it, sending it flying towards the 'King'. Moros kept his unwavering grin, impressive that Alexander had managed to bring out a monster with enough power to destroy his king. Yet not too impressive, his king was only at a mere third of its power. The robed skeleton was destroyed by the wave of energy and his form flickered and was promptly sent spiraling to the graveyard. "Impressive," was his only response. "Unfortunately, 'Susanowo' doesn't share 'Big Benkei's' effect to allow all my 'Superheavy Samurai' monsters to attack while in Defense Position, so that's not an option I can use," Alexander said, not sounding disappointed at the fact at all. "Turn end, I guess." Turn 8: [b]Moros / 5000[/b] : Alexander / 8000 Moros drew his next card excitedly, with the right card this duel was already over. Alas merely more security. He decided it was best to remain on the defensive for now, since if Alexander did want to break through, he would need to grant his King substantially more power, enough to end the duel in fact. "I'll Set one monster and end my turn." he said quickly ending his turn. Turn 9: Moros / 5000 : [b]Alexander / 8000[/b] Alexander drew his next card, then gave it a moment of thought. "Hmm, question. Your 'King of the Skull Servants' draws power from his dead companions in the graveyard, right?" "Quite true." Moros replied somewhat puzzled by this line of inquiry. "I see. That's all I need to know then," Alexander answered back. "Huh, and I thought this card was best against only the Lightsworn," he said to himself. "I activate the Spell Card: 'Pot of Benevolence'," Alexander said. "This card allows me to pick two card from either player's graveyard, and send them straight back into the deck. I think I'll pick your 'Skull Servant' and 'Lady in Wight'." Moros came quite close to frowning, quite an unfortunate turn of events, but in the end it merely delayed the inevitable. Dutifully he returned the two card into the deck and activated the shuffler function on his duel disk. "Now then, I'll just Summon another monster, 'Superheavy Samurai Swordsman'," Alexander declared as a large red monster wielding a katana appeared, also changing from attacking to defending like 'Blue Brawler' did, its DEF registering as 1800. "Like 'Blue Brawler', my 'Swordsman' can change to Defense Position as well," Alexander explained. "Now, time for my Battle Phase. 'Susanowo', destroy that face-down monster," Alexander commanded, and 'Susanowo' launched another wave of energy from its blade, flying towards the Set monster. "I'm sure this effect will seem familiar," Moros called out as a turtle wearing a massive pyramid on its back briefly shimmered and then was destroyed. "Its effect lets me Special Summon a Zombie-monster with 2000 or less DEF from my deck, and I choose 'Wightprince'." Another card ejected itself from the deck and Moros quickly Summoned it to the field in Defense Position. [i]Soon his king would be restored to his rightful glory[/i]. "Alrighty then," Alexander said. He wasn't too worried about it. After all, he currently had field advantage with three monsters, while his opponent only had two, and one with low stats at that. "With that, I don't have much left to do but end my turn here." Turn 10: [b]Moros / 5000[/b] : Alexander / 8000 Moros drew his next card, disappointed at the outcome. Not what he needed right now, but the longer he could keep Alexander's monsters at bay, the better. "I'll Set one Monster and end my turn," he said once again, finshing rather quickly. Turn 11: Moros / 5000 : [b]Alexander / 8000[/b] Alexander drew his next card, and was dismayed that it wouldn't be very useful right now. Plus, none of his monsters were capable of attacking except 'Susanowo', and he'd get nowhere if he only kept destroying face-down monsters. In fact, if any of them were those 'Skull Servants', it'd probably only make things worse. Probably best to not attack for a while. "I'll end my turn at that," Alexander said. Turn 12: [b]Moros / 5000[/b] : Alexander / 8000 Moros drew his next card with indifference; well at least it would speed the game up a little. "I'll play the Spell card 'Dark World Dealings', each player draws 1 card then discards one card," he explained as he drew another card. Nothing he could use again so he reluctantly discarded the spell card 'Where Arf Thou?', "I'll Set one more Monster and leave it to you again." Moros finished completing yet another uneventful turn. Alexander drew his card, and was now forced to pick which of his cards to give up. In the end, he got rid of his 'Superheavy Samurai Scales' and moved on. Turn 13: Moros / 5000 : [b]Alexander / 8000[/b] Alexander drew his next card, and found that it also didn't seem to be very helpful at the moment. Still, it may prove useful later on. Now he had to again deal with the issue of whether or not to attack. If he attacked, he would have less monsters on the field to worry about. However, the one he most had to worry about was his 'King', which thrived on those monsters being in the grave. He gave it a moment, then said, "I'll end my turn." All he needed was one card to end it. Turn 14: [b]Moros / 5000[/b] : Alexander / 8000 Moros drew another card surprised by his foes tactics. Normally his opponent would just blindly smash through his monsters sending all of his 'Skull Servants" to the grave. Then it was a simple matter of summoning a monster with 14000 ATK and crushing them. It seemed that tournament level players were something different altogether. Luckily, his next card allowed him to give his 'King' enough of a boost to accomplish something. It was risky doing this because it would allow his opponent a chance to respond, but he needed to do something or else Alexander would surely draw something that would change the tides of this battle. Somewhat reluctantly Moros called out, "I play the Spell card:: 'Foolish Burial'. Its effect allows me to send one monster from the deck to the graveyard." If Alexander wouldn't send his monsters to the graveyard Moros would be forced to do it himself. Another cackling prince was sent to the graveyard, "As you already know when he is sent to the graveyard, I can send 1 'Skull Servant' and 1 'Lady in Wight' from my deck to the graveyard. The two monsters were quickly ejected to the graveyard. "Now I normal Summon 'The King of Skull Servants!" The robed skeleton once again appeared upon the field this time the bodies beneath it raising its ATK to an impressive 6000. "Now I'll play the spell card 'Opti-Camouflage Armour' which can only be equipped to a Level 1 monster, but it allows the monster to attack my opponent directly. Now 'King of Skull Servants', attack his Life Points directly," Moros called out and his signature ball of darkness was hurled past Alexander's monsters directly at him. He hated to use his trump card without having it be a royal flush but he couldn't just let Alexander keep drawing card. If he had let the duel contiune at the pace it was going his foe would simply draw a card that would allow him victory sooner than Moros did. Alexander had not been expecting that, and he knew he had to act quickly. "I activate the effect of 'Construction Train Signal Red'!" Alexander quickly said as a red train suddenly appeared on the field, the dark orb then changing its trajectory to the train and striking it, but the train stayed on the field. "When an opponent's monster declares an attack, I can Special Summon this card from my hand, and change the attack target to it. In addition, 'Construction Train Signal Red' won't get destroyed by that battle." He was glad that the attack was stopped, but unless he could prevail, he'd lose in the next few turns. "With that i have no choice but to end my turn." Moros stated and waited to see Alexander's response. Exactly the type of response he had feared. If he could've waited for just a few more key cards, even that train wouldn't have been able to stop him. Turn 15: [b]Moros / 5000[/b] : Alexander / 8000 Alexander drew his next card, now wishing he hadn't gotten rid of 'Scales', but what's done was done. Now that he thought about it, however, he did see a way to get out of his terrible situation and perhaps even win. However, what he was about to do was very risky, and had no guarantee for success. Still, if he did nothing, he was going to lose anyway. All he needed to do way play his cards correctly. "I'll switch my 'Superheavy Samurai Swordsman' to Attack Position," Alexander said, the robot changing from defense to offense. "Now, I'll enter the Battle Phase and attack your 'King of the Skull Servants' with my 'Superheavy Samurai Swordsman'," Alexander stated, the robot jumping into the air for a downward strike. However, the 'King' merely raised his hand and blasted 'Samurai' to pieces. Alexander grimaced as he took a huge chunk of damage from the attack. Moros tilted his head curiously in response to Alexander's strange attack. Surely Alexander had to have had an ulterior motive for making such an attack, as before this he had displayed an impressive battle sense before now. In that attack, though, the path to victory was wide open now. "Thanks to 'Superheavy Samurai Swordsman's' effect, when a 'Superheavy Samurai' monster battles another monster, after damage calculation, the ATK and DEF of the monster it battled..." pausing for effect. "Becomes 0," holding up his thumb and forefinger together to make an "O." Moros's smile remained, but it was one of those disappointed smiles, the ones that didn't quite reach the eyes. With his 'King' at 0 ATK and 'Susanawo' at 5000 DEF, the duel was finished now. Of course, Alexander could refrain from attacking, but Moros had no reason to expect such foolish mercy in such an important event, and it was doubtful another turn would have helped him anyway. "Now for the finishing blow. 'Susanowo', destroy that 'King of the Skull Servants'!" Alexander commanded, and Susanowo obliged, the robot firing yet another wave of energy from his blade to strike down the undead king. Moros sighed as his Life Points dropped to 0. A disappointing outcome to his first duel, but not unexpected. After all, this was his first major event and his opponent had just displayed use of an extra deck than Moros did not even understand. He reluctantly closed his duel disk and watched as half of the life force the King had was drained out of him. The robed skeleton's robes lost some of thier color turning more of a dull gray and his bones took on a wearied damaged look. "Thanks for the Duel," Moros said brightly. He may have lost, but now he had a better idea of what to expect. His stomach was rumbling at him to get some more food than the little he had gotten before the duel. He eagerly turned back to the table and grabbed some food before what remained of breakfast was cleared off. It was amazing that a duel that seemed like it must have taken an hour had actually taken more like 15 minutes. "Anytime," Alexander replied. It was certainly an exciting Duel, and Alexander hoped to have one like that again. For now, though, it was time to take a break from Dueling. Perhaps he could have some more food from the table. Turning off his Duel Disk, he headed over to the tables to grab some more breakfast before it was too late.