The Irish Tree — Roleplayer Guild

Hayate listened to the announcement, bothered by the fact that she was wearing her pink PJ's and kinda forgot her Duel Disk. He decided to look for the other contestants for his tag duel while taking out one one of her mom's supposedly portable mini Duel Disk, no matter how long she looked at it. It didnt really look like one, but Hayate decided to activate it to see if it was real or not. To her surprise, on the press of the button, the strange device attached to his arm and became a Duel Disk perfectly mimicking the one he had on the academy.

"Well, thats my Duel Disk, but now my voice changer... I can't get on without my voice changer," Hayate thought to himself but he realised that Haas was one of the opponents he had and stupidly tried to call out to him, "Haas!" quickly realising what his voice sounds like now. However, he decided to continue anyways, noticing Haas and just decided to go with it. He didnt have a chance in a long time to actually be a girl.

Scratching the back of his head as he read the rules, Haas couldn't help but realize how great this'd be if he got someone who also had an Xyz based deck. They'd be able to pull off so many good summons in just one turn! Quickly jogging around the perimeter, Haas called out: "Vincent! Vincent Gulfus? You there?" It was at this point that he was regretting not paying attention to the other placement matches...but sleep was more important anyways. 

"...Huh?" he said out loud as he turned his head to where the somewhat familiar voice had come from. Walking over, he looked around before finding...Hayato. He...thought. Looking over to the...girl? He heard call out to him. Looking them up and down, he said: "Hey...Hayato."

"Hello~ Haas-sama," Hayato greeted Haas not realizing he isn't acting like Hayato, quickly looking at her strange Duel Disk then looking back at Haas.

Blinking a few times, he lifted an eyebrow. Had Hayato always sounded like that? "So...didn't get a chance to change before the announcement?" he asked, wondering if he was still asleep himself. 

"Old habit... parents always told me to go downstairs as fast as possible, so I didn't get changed. I also forgot my Duel Disk," Hayate said, having slightly tried to make herself sound more like Hayato.

"Ah." Is all Haas says. "There's no way that was his normal voice... he's faking it..." he thought to himself. Suddenly realizing it, he adds, "Well, looks like we're going to be up against each other in the first round. Here's to a good game." as he extends his hand for a hand-shake, a smile now present on his face. 

"Same here," Hayato said accepting the handshake "I went to look for you because you ARE my opponent, you are a more familiar face after all." Hayato took out a red crane. "You have it?" she asked pointing at the crane

Nodding, he removed the red-crane from his pants-pocket, which had amazingly barely been crinkled. "Yeah. I gotta find a place to put it later though... it'll get squished like this. What about it?" he asked. 

"Just checking. It's a shame if it'd get thrown away; tons of paper gets wasted like that. IN ANY CASE! We should look for our partners," Hayato struggled with keeping her voice as male as possible accidently saying it to Haas. "I wish I had my voice changer right now," Hayato said, then quickly put her hands over her mouth.

"...Ohhhh..." Haas says, suddenly leaning closer, looking his face over. "...I get it now. You're..." he snapped his fingers. "Insecure about your voice!" he said, before going back to where he was before, nodding and crossing his arms. "I get it...it's alright if a guy sounds manly and wears pink pajamas, but they'd pick on you if you had a higher voice. Don't worry, secret's safe with me." he says. "...Even I'm not that stupid." he thought, figuring it'd be for the best to lie and let Hayato save face either way.

"WHY SO CLOSE!?" Hayato quickly yelled, ignoring most of Haas's obvious lies. Quickly shaking her head to clear her thoughts, Hayato asked, "Shouldn't we go looking for our tag partners now?" Hayato also asked if she could go grab her stuff back in her dorm. "You know I need to wear my uniform before anything right?"

Hayato ran away as fast as she could to grab her stuff and come back.

After Michelle finished reading the pamphlet, she began wandering around in search of her partner and opponents. It was a bit of an issue, as she had next to no idea who they were, or even what they looked like. However, she did hear some people calling out "Haas" and "Vincent", so she assumed they were close by. It took a bit of time, but Michelle eventually found two people, one of which began running away. Staring at the running girl for a moment before moving her gaze to the boy, Michelle asked, "So, what's your name? Haas? Or Vincent?"

A quick nod was the first response Haas had, followed up with: "Haas. I take it you're Michelle then?" which was fairly easy for him to deduce, given that nobody really would care to know who he was, save for his opponents. That, and she obviously wasn't Hayato.

Michelle nodded, saying, "That would be me." Turning around, Michelle asked, "I take it the one who just left was my partner? She certainly didn't look like someone who would be named Vincent." 

A slight nod was also Haas' answer, before he suddenly realized that he KINDA had to cover for Hayato, for reasons he didn't fully understand. "Well...uh...You see....Hayato's just err...effeminate. Yeah. That's the word for it." he tried to lie, honestly kind of stumped by how stupid it would be to keep this secret when the guy was wearing the girliest pajamas imaginable, and had such a high voice.

"I see," Michelle said, clearly not convinced by the answer. "Well, in any case, she better come back."

Honestly Vincent was only ticked off by the stunt the teacher had pulled in order to be mysterious; seemed like a small waste of his time, but the event probably would be fun. Opening his pamphlet with curiosity, Vincents eyes gazed at the text, so it was basically a tag team Duel against another tag team. Although it had a few special rules that made it different from a regular tag team match, essentially combining 2 players into 1. Vincent liked the idea, but he didn't know if his pairing with a person he had never met would result in a win. Since his deck revolved so heavily around filling the Graveyard for his stronger monsters, and it said in the rules that you couldn't use the other player's Grave unless it spefically states. There goes his idea of awesome. Oh well. 

Nevertheless, Vincent thought he heard his name. Honestly, it was probably just someone checking over the matchings, so Vincent didn't look up. He reread the rules a few more times in order to get them stuck in his head before standing up. Looking around he wondered who the hell this "Haas" person was. A sneaking suspicion in his mind that he may have ignored them. "Hey, who's Haas?" Vincent shouted across the room, perhaps a little loudly. He began walking along the seats looking for the guy. 

Hayato arrived at his dorm room, noticing there were 2 uniforms rather than one, probably due to the fact that the headmaster probably know the truth behind her, but nontheless, she had already screwed up twice, revealing her gender even though Haas said it was being insecure about his voice. Honestly, though, that lie was as easy to spot as a rainbow in the sky. She put on the male uniform to prevent more people getting suspicious though, putting on the lame mask her parents gave her that replicated a male duelist, equipping her neck accessory, and, for the hell of it, also taking the fake sword she liked to clip onto "Hayato's" belt. "This is probably the only cute thing I have... a plastic samurai sword complete with sheath," she said as she turned on the voice changer. "Hayate, what are you saying... it's awesome," she roleplayed a little in her dorm room pretending to be "Hayato." She ran back to the arena as fast as she could, somehow hearing a guy yell, "Hey, whos Haas?" on the way down. Taking one of the other entrances, Hayato ran into the guy who called out, knocking him over. Despite being a girl, she was just as tall as a average boy of her age

Vincent had literally only been walking for a few moments before he had been knocked over. with a yell he fell on his back, a little painfully he might add. looking up at the person who knocked him over Vincent got to his feet a person from the Earth dorms. It seemed like some of his cards had fallen out of his duel disk onto the floor. He made it his priority to collect them up first before turning to confront the person whom had taken one of his cards. "whats the big idea knocking someone over like that?" Vincent questioned the person opposite him. 

Hayato picked up one of the cards recognizing it from the placement duels. "Hmm, a Blue-Eyes White Dragon... you must be Vincent then. You get knocked over if you cross paths with people in a rush to find his partner," Hayato said, handing the card back to the man in front of him 

Vincent took back the card that was handed to him, It was his Blue-Eyes, carefully he put it back into the deck, mouthing a apology to his card.

"Your Partner Haas is looking for you," Hayato said to the person he presumed was Vincent, not even tempted to apologize because Hayate believes it doesn't fit Hayato's character. "Oh yeah, the name is Hayato." Hayato looked around the place where she ran off and noticed Haas wasnt there. "I presume you haven't seen Haas or Michelle?"

"Haven't seen either of them Hayato" Vincent said something naggin' him about Hayato's hands, but he brushed it off. What was the point of thinking about someone's hands when you have to defeat said person in a duel? Honestly though, he felt that something was off. "So, I am gonna be fighting you Hayato. What deck do you play?" Vincent asked. 

"Six Samurai," Hayato answered bluntly. "You didn't see the disappointing match I was in," Hayato said with regret, realizing too late he could have won if he played his cards instead of waiting for a better card.

"Did you see my match?" Vincent asked, still wondering about why Hayatos hands seemed off to him. "If you did, then you probably know that my deck is a Chaos deck, ruler of Light and Dark, you know the drill." Vincent continued. "Although I still feel guilty about the fact that I overkilled my opponent."

"Yeah I did... in any case, we should look for out partners... oh yeah take this..." Hayato pulled out a small red paper crane decorated with a few gems. "It's to mark our meeting, or in Haas's case, a mark of friendship," Hayato couldnt resist just handing them out. He had made a huge number of them... nobody would find out that the small gems in the cranes are worth at least $100 a piece. Certainly a work of art as they would say, not that Hayato thinks they are.

"It's just a paper crane. No thanks, I prefer my friendships to not be based on material worth, at all." Vincent said, though perhaps it might have been a good idea to accept the crane, but personally, he prefered to not take gifts from strangers unless he could give them something in return. Even so, the hand thing was wearing away at his mind nagging for him to figure it out.

"Maybe next time then, what about this. if i win you take the crane. if i lose i'll crush my entire collection of them" Hayato set putting up a huge gamble but he wouldnt crush all of them because that would hurt

"Nah, don't do that. Instead, if you lose, I don't have to take the crane, since crushing your collection would be a large waste of time," Vincent said, although he only really wanted to know why he was so dang intrigued by the guy's hands.

"I was mostly joking, but yeah, maybe we'll be friends one day," Hayato said to Vincent. After a short while, Hayato noticed Vincent was fixated on his hands and decided to just reveal his secret "All i can say, is that I hope this damn voice changer would last at least untill I'm ready to confront my parents with what I want to do... I mean I don't hate my parents but they need to accept the fact that girls can duel as well... and some of the other duelists have shown that..." Hayato started to explain how her father was a duelist who always thought strong duelists should be men and a girl can't represent his family name and followed her explaination by switched off her voice changer to say 6 words in her own voice, "i want to duel as myself" then switched it back on "i remember seeing Haas standing over there" he pointed at the exit he originally left at

Vincent was kinda shocked at the reveal but it also explained why he found 'hayato's' hands weird, Hayato was a girl trying to prove to their parents that females could duel but until then had to pose as a man, weird but it made sense if given thought. "Yea I won't tell anyone, keep doing what your doing until you think your ready." Vincent said as he walked over to the exit He had pointed him to.  

Hayato followed the young man who had already moved ahead "just because i saw him there doesnt mean he is there"

 "But its more likely that hes close to there" Vincent said in response to Hayato. "Hey Haas!" Vincent said when he was standing at a the exit. "Are you there?" 

Hearing his name be called, Haas wanted to get away from the lady who knew Hayato's secret identity ASAP, and quickly started jogging in place. "Anywho, gottagocyalaterhaveagoodgamebye!" he said as he speeded away to whoever had called his name, presumably Vincent. Or a desperate groupie. Nope, probably Vincent.

Noticing a guy coming towards him. Vincent called out to him.  "Hey are you Haas by any chance?" Vincent quizzed his mind wondering how the selection process worked. Never the less he wondered what type of Deck Haas would have. 

Spinning around promptly to see whoever had asked that, he nods. "Yup. That'd be me. I take it you're Vincent then? Nice to meet you." he states, before extending his hand for a handshake. "Had a heck of a time trying to find you."

Vincent accepted the handshake from Haas.  "Likewise I had a heck of a time finding you as well." Vincent said with a grin before continuing  "Alright so we are teamed up for this event so. What deck do you use?" Vincent said with a interest as he hadn't really watched any entry duels.

Haas figured that it'd be a bad idea to just outright call it out and decided to play a bit of charades, in the sense of making a "Shush" motion by placing his index finger over his own lips, before drawing a card from his deck, showing it to Vincent. It was Wind-Up Honeybee. Withdrawing the card and putting it back in his deck, he says: "I don't know if we're going to have much synergy, but I'll do my best partner."

 "That's all I will ask from you, is do your best. Plus I think pretty much everyone knows What deck I have" Vincent said with a frown on his face as he showed Haas his Lightpulsar Dragon before returning it ontop of his deck.  "now then lets win this event and get that reward" Vincent said with almost childlike glee.

"Roger." Haas said in response to figuring out what deck Vincent had, giving him a thumbs up. Shuffling his deck took only a moment, before he put it back in, not that it mattered. Duel disks had autoshuffling anyways, but hey, it was reflexive at this point. Taking a deep breath, Haas hopped up and down a few times before relaxing, a smile tearing at his lips. "I won't slow you down, Partner." is all he says as he readies his duel disk, visibly excited to have a tag duel so soon.

"I hope you realize that I'm still here," Michelle said suddenly, who was behind Haas the entire time.

Haas started sweating bullets, slowly turning his head at an almost 180 degree angle. "O-Oh...hi there...D-Didn't see you there..."

Vincent only just noticed the female behind Haas when she spoke up.  "I am gonna take a guess here and say, are you Michelle?" Vincent asked.. 

"Yes. Yes I am," Michelle replied. "And you must be Vincent. All we need now is for my parber to return and we can get started."

Hayato stood there, just casually waving at her supposed partner. "Err... hope you didnt err... see my uh... sister run away there" in a way Hayato wasnt lying she had a twin sister but she wasnt into duelling as much as she was. Hayato approached the group still attempting to hide her secret whenever possible

 "Alright so since we are all present now, when do we start?" Vincent said clutching his Duel Disk in anticipation of a duel

Haas stared blankly at Hayato as he arrived. "There's more bullshit there than in the fields Uncle Hanz runs. he thought.

Hayato noticing Haas's behaviour instinctively countered by taking out a photo of his sister, asking "Will you believe me when you see this?" Both kids on the photo were holding decks. "I really have a twin sister." 

Haas was sweating bullets again. "BUT SHE CALLED ME BY NAME!" he mentally screamed, wanting to bang his head against a wall, fortunately for the walls, they were well beyond his reach. "A-Anyways...let's get this started. How do you want to decide who goes first?" he asked.

Michelle didn't really care about what was going on. It was plain as could be that Hayato was hiding something, and that Haas was in on it, but as long as Hayato could Duel well, that was all that mattered. "I don't really care. Do what you want," Michelle said.

 "Hm, so Hayato has a twin sister, huh," Vincent thought. He knew she was lying about it being her twin sister who ran off though, but he kept his mouth shut."I say we do a coin flip," Vincent suggested to whom would go first 

Hayato chuckled. "I got something better," Hayato said, taking out a small digital device. "Its a simple thing my mom made. Maybe it's just a bit too simplistic... all it does is randomly select from P1 and P2... we could use that if you want," Hayato scratched his head and looked at his Duel Disk.

 "I say we dibs Player One, Haas" Vincent said eager to start the Tag Duel and let his dragons take flight again, his eyes glancing at the contraption with such glee. He almost looked as if he might burst from the lust for battle he had begun to have. 

Haas decided to go along with Vincent's idea of taking P1, saying: "Sure." But as he looked at Vincent, more cold sweat started pouring from his pores. Why was everyone so HYPED UP FOR THIS? 

"I'll be Player 2 then. Also... Haas, snap of it," Hayato said to Haas, lightly bonking him on the head with his plastic sword. "It's Duel time, buddy."

Barely reacting to the plastic sword, Haas simply said: "I got it, I got it..."

"Here goes..." Hayato grabbed the device and placed it on the ground in between Haas and himself. Not surprising Hayato, a 2 field appeared under both Haas and Hayato with a card going back and forth with the card stopping on Haas's side topping it off with some digital confetti. "Yeah you two go first. Whatever, this thing is boring. Its just some random lightshow," Hayato said, picking it up and once again activating his Duel Disk, walking to the arena in question ahead of the group. Hayato was tempted to take off his mask so he can just duel as Hayate since 2/3 people already know his secret anyways, which Hayato ended up wanting to do, since nobody would really be watching the duel to the point of trying to recognise her gender.

Haas readied his Duel Disk once they all arrived at their designated Dueling spot, and regained his composure after the horrifying confetti event just happened. "You ready, Vincent?"

Vincent activated his Duel Disk after it was decided that he and Haas would be going first. As such, he began following Hayato to the arena where they would Duel. His mind was eager to get back in the saddle of being the commander of an army. 

Michelle followed the others and activated her Duel Disk once everyone was in their designated location. After the blade formed on her Duel Disk, Michelle said, "Let's get to it."

Upon arriving to the arena, Hayato took off the weird mask and switched off her voice changer.

" DUEL!"

Turn 1: Vincent & Haas
Vincent & Haas: 8000 LP, 5 cards / 5 cards, 0 Mon, 0 S/T
Michelle and Hayate: 8000 LP, 5 cards / 5 cards, 0 Mon, 0 S/T

 "Alright, let's start this off strong." Vincent said as he drew his first 5 cards from his deck and glanced over each one individual to try and come up with what to start with. 

Haas did the same, drawing his starting five. Not the best, but he could make do for now if he got the chance. "Vincent, you go ahead. I need to think this over," he said, trying to piece together what he could accomplish with his hand.

 "Fine, I shall," Vincent began before placing one of his cards on the monster zone.  "I Set one monster face down," Vincent said as a card was formed on the field, its back facing upwards but what was underneath was hidden from prying eyes. 

Haas took that as his cue to use his own Normal Summon, doing the same. "Set." he says, setting another face-down card beside the one Vincent placed. Looking over the rest of his hand, he said: "I guess we'll end it there."

Turn 2: Michelle and Hayate
Vincent & Haas: 8000 LP, 4 cards / 4 cards, 2 Mon, 0 S/T
Michelle and Hayate: 8000 LP, 6 cards / 6 cards, 0 Mon, 0 S/T

"Draw," Michelle said as she drew her next card. A good card, too.

"Draw!" Hayato exclaimed when she drew her card. Not too useful, but a card nonetheless. 

Instantly placing down one card by habit, "I activate Shien's Do- wait do you want to go first?"  Hayate asked Michelle.

"I don't mind, but leave some time for me before we enter the Battle Phase," Michelle replied.

 "Roger!" Hayate responded placing down Shien's Dojo "And then I place 2 cards facedown. My side is done, Michy!" calling out a nickname for her partner.

"Don't call me Michy," Michelle said, glaring at Hayate before returning her attention to the Duel. "By discarding Hecatrice from my hand, I can add the Spell card: Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen from my deck to my hand!" Michelle explained, taking the card from her deck and playing it onto the field. Soon after, a giant hall with red curtains rose out of the ground behind Michelle and Hayate. "If I control no monsters, I can Special Summon one Fairy-type monster from my hand, and I choose Airknight Parshath!" The centaur warrior quickly appeared on the field, ready for battle.

Airknight Parshath - Level 5, ATK 1900

"Next I Summon Bountiful Artemis in Attack mode!" Michelle continued, a white angel with a purple cape appearing on the field.

Bountiful Artemis - Level 4, ATK 1600

"Battle Phase! Airknight Parshath, attack the monster Haas Set!" Michelle commanded, the centaur warrior charging towards the face-down card.

Haas' card flipped up to reveal a cartoonish hyena, scrambling to get back under the card before it was destroyed.

Hyena - Level 3, DEF 300

Airknight Parshath pierced the Hyena with his sword before it could escape, shattering it to pieces. "When Airknight Parshath attacks a Defense mode monster, he deals piercing battle damage!" Michelle explained.

Vincent & Haas - 8000 LP --> 6400 LP

Grunting as the damage was dealt, Haas says: "When Hyena is destroyed by battle, I can Special Summon another one straight from my deck." as a card literally pushed itself out of the deck. Taking it, he Special Summoned the Hyena in defense mode, the cowardly animal visibly shaking in the presence of Parshath.

Hyena - Level 3, DEF 300

"When Airknight Parshath deals Battle Damage, I can also draw 1 card," Michelle said, drawing a new card. 

Vincent watched his lifepoints go down by 1600; it was a little brutal the way Parshath killed the hyena. 

"Only applies to you right? I don't really understand these rules that well," Hayate asked, scratching her head.

"I would assume so. I've never actually used this in a Tag Duel before," Michelle replied. "Moving on. Bountiful Artemis, destroy the second Hyena!" 

Hyena number 2 scrambled to get out of the way, sweating bullets as it was easily outpaced.

After the next monster was destroyed, Michelle gave her next move a second's thought. There was only one slot left in the Spell/Trap zone, which Michelle preferred to keep open in case of having Normal Spell cards to activate. She looked at her hand, then decided to trust that her partner's 2 face-downs would offer support. "You have anything else to do? Otherwise, I'll end the turn," Michelle said.

"Turn end!" Hayate responded right away.

Turn 3: Vincent & Haas
Vincent & Haas: 6400 LP, 5 cards / 5 cards, 1 Mon, 0 S/T
Michelle and Hayate: 8000 LP, 4 cards / 3 cards, 2 Mon, 0 S/T

 "After that calamity, I draw." Vincent said as he drew his card from the deck.

Haas did the same, drawing his card. "...Well dang, that's both Hyena's gone." 

"I kinda feel bad for them," Hayate said for no reason, directed at Haas.

 "Alright, I think I just drew a godsend," Vincent said his eyes lighting up with a firey light.  "First I shall Flip Summon, Mystic Tomato!" Vincent yelled as a rotten looking tomato with a evil grin appeared on his side of the field. 

Mystic Tomato - Level 4, ATK 1400

 "I shall next Summon The Paladin with a divine call to arms, I Summon Jain, the Lightsworn Paladin!" Vincent yelled as the white haired paladin appeared on his side of the field.  

Jain, the Lightsworn Paladin - Level 4, ATK 1800

 "Haas, do you have anything you need to do before I attack?" Vincent asked 

Nodding, Haas calls out: "I Normal Summon Dogu in Attack mode!" as a large, human-sized clay doll emerged, a light whistling emenating from its head, its head spinning independantly from its body.

Dogu - Level 4, ATK 1900

"I don't know what you've got planned Vincent, but I got a feeling you have a good idea. Battle Phase is yours," he says, giving him a thumbs up.

 "Okay, first, Mystic Tomato, attack Bountiful Artemis!" Vincent shouted as the Tomato charged head first only to be destroyed by Artemis. Their Life Points went down. 

Vincent & Haas - 6400 LP --> 6200 LP

 "Using Mystic Tomato's effect, I can Special Summon one monster from my deck with 1500 or less ATK," Vincent said as a purplish portal appeared on his side of the field as something crawled out. It was a wizened old man.  "I Summon Summoner Monk in Defense Position!"  Vincent yelled.  "And now Jain, attack Parshath, and due to his effect his attack raises to 2100!"

The two monsters exchanged swords, but Jain ultimately triumphed and slashed through Airknight Parshath's body, destroying him.

Michelle and Hayate - 8000 LP --> 7800 LP

 "Now then Haas, if you may please destroy Artemis" Vincent asked politely 

Haas nods enthusiastically, before calling out: "Dogu, take down that Artemis!" At his command, the clay doll rose in the air and started spinning HYPER MENACINGLY towards Artemis, destroying it as well.

Michelle and Hayate - 7800 LP --> 7500 LP

 "Haas, if you would do the honors of using Monk's effect," Vincent said with almost dramatic emphasis. 

Haas smiled and said: "With pleasure!" as he gave a slight bow. This was getting fun. "I'll discard my Card-Shuffle from my hand in order to use Summoner Monk's effect!" he calls out, as a portal opens up, another monster shooting out. Which was...another Summoner Monk in Defense position.

Summoner Monk - Level 4, DEF 1600

 "Alright, I now discard Book of Moon to activate the 2nd Monk's effect,"Vincent said as he sent Book of Moon to the Grave. Another Portal opened up on their side of the field as another monster shot out. Landing on their side of the field was a imp creature  "I Special Summon Snipe Hunter in Attack position" Vincent said with almost childlike glee "And now I activate its effect by discarding ECLIPSE WYVERN!" Vincent said as Eclipse Wyvern flew out of his hand and into a dark portal dragging with it Lightpulsar dragon  "Using its effect I banish Lightpulsar Dragon," Vincent said with a roar.  "And now Snipe Hunter shall roll the dice of fate," Vincent said as a giant holographic dice appeared above his head. It rolled slowly crashing down bumping once bumping dice and with a thud it landed. Face up on the dice was a 4, meaning that Snipe hunter's effect was active.  "Because the Dice landed on a 4, I can destroy 1 card, and the card I choose is VALHALLA!" Vincent said as Snipe hunter took aim and destroyed the card.

Snipe Hunter - Level 4, ATK 1500

Michelle grimaced as Valhalla was destroyed. Now she didn't have a means to Special Summon monsters. Mentally, she blamed Hayate for not having anything to aid her. It was a Tag Duel, for goodness' sake. 

 "Next I shall set one card and end my turn" Vincent said with a grin. And Jains effect activated sending the top 2 cards from his deck to the grave 

Turn 4: Michelle and Hayate
Vincent & Haas: 6200 LP, 1 cards / 3 cards, 4 Mon, 1 S/T
Michelle and Hayate: 7500 LP, 5 cards / 4 cards, 0 Mon, 3 S/T

Hayate called out, "It's our turn, and I Draw" Hayate drew with a passion pulling out a card from her deck "Gotcha! So did you get anything good?" Hayate asked her partner.

"Not particularly," Michelle replied. "Right now, though, we have bigger things to worry about. They have 2 Summoner Monks, and a Snipe Hunter, all of which are dangerous. Our main objective should be getting rid of those monsters first." 

"I activate Dark Hole!" Hayate called out placing the card on the disk "Michelle you have anything to follow up?"

"I'll admit, that wasn't bad," Michelle said as a black hole appeared above the field, sucking in all the monsters on the field into it. "Unless you have some monsters, I'll move on with my turn."

"Next I have nothing because I still have my dumb hand, but I think I will at least activate The A.Forces" Flipping the card face-up, Hayato said, "All yours."

"Very well then, I discard Zeradias, Herald of Heaven to add the Field Spell: Sanctuary in the Sky from my deck to my hand," Michelle said, taking the card from her deck and placing it in the Field Spell slot. Immediately, the area around them transformed, the ground becoming a seemingly endless sight of cloud, and a giant white temple appearing behind Michelle and Hayate. "Next, because I have 4 Fairy-type monsters in my Grave, I can Special Summon Archlord Kristya to the field!" Michelle explained, a white-haired angel with red wings descending down onto the field. 

Archlord Kristya - Level 8, ATK 2800

"When Archlord Kristya is Special Summoned using this effect, I add one Fairy-type monster from my Graveyard to my hand, and I choose Bountiful Artemis," Michelle said, adding the card to her hand. "As long as Archlord Kristya is on the field, none of us can Special Summon monsters," Michelle explained. "Battle Phase! Archlord Kristya, attack them directly!" Michelle commanded, the fairy rushing forward to attack.

Vincent & Haas - 6200 LP --> 3400 LP

Tensing up, Haas covered his eyes as Kristya almost halved their life points, worst of all was that they couldn't Special Summon. "Damn... this is bad..."

"I place 1 card face-down and end my turn," Michelle said.

"Because Dogu was destroyed by a card effect, I can add one monster that is a different level from any we control, or that we have in the Grave," he says, removng his deck from the Disk, and looking through his options. Quickly picking one, he says: "I'll add Wind-Up Honeybee from my deck to my hand." before slotting his deck back in, the autoshuffler activating.

Turn 5: Vincent & Haas
Vincent & Haas: 3400 LP, 3 cards / 5 cards, 0 Mon, 1 S/T
Michelle and Hayate: 7500 LP, 3 cards / 3 cards, 1 Mon, 4 S/T

"This...might be it. Draw!" Haas says, somewhat worried by the archangel of big and fucking denying Special Summoning.

 "Draw" Vincent says his eyes staring at the Dark Armed Dragon he had drawn. It currently was a dead weight in his bloody hand because of Archlord middlefinger. 

Cursing himself, he says: "Vincent...sorry, this is all I can manage. I Normal Summon Wind-Up Kitten!" he says, placing the tiny robotic cat in attack mode.

Wind-Up Kitten - Level 2, ATK 800

 "Next I'll..." then it hit him. "I...use Wind-Up kitten's effect to bounce Kristya back to your hand." he says, realizing that this was all he could do. He'd probably just screwed them over, putting out such a weak monster.

Kristya was back in Michelle's hand now, and that meant Special Summoning was open again. Perhaps they would get lucky and none of them had anything to Special Summon, but Michelle could tell that that wouldn't be the case at all.

Vincent watched the Kitten get rid of the largest threat on the board.  "That was a life saver Haas, now allow me to return the favor," Vincent said with a devilish smile. Black lightning crashed down around him almost as it had the intent to destroy him but not a single stroke of that lightning touched him. Vincent thought he might as well say something for this occasion.  "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust. Let Light be consumed by Dark as darkness rips open a void to a new equnoix. From the void he rises a lord of the abyss. I Special Summon Dark Armed Dragon in Attack position." Vincent cried as he finished the chant. In response a massive gateway opened up on the floor in front of him as a giant dragon crawled its way out 

Haas stared in awe of big papa coming into play. Shit was hype. And also, he was a tinge scared of the giant dragon literally made of weapons. 

In response of the giant dragon Hayate threw her plastic sword at it in panic hitting whoever was standing behind it.

Dark Armed Dragon - Level 7, ATK 2800

Vincent got smacked in the arm by the plastic sword that was thrown at him his face a little shocked as he clutched his arm that was now stinging for a few moments before settling back to how it was although a little bit more wide eyed .  "Now then I activate Dark Armed Dragon's effect," Vincent said calmly.  "I destroy both your set cards by Banishing 2 Dark monsters from my Grave." as 2 purplish balls of light came out of his grave and entered Dark Armed Dragon's maw and was fired at the face down cards. 

Michelle's Dark Bribe and Hayate's Kusakani Magatama were destroyed without a trace left behind

 "And now I shall attack you directly with Dark Armed Dragon, Abyss Flare!" Vincent yelled his grin returning to his face. As the Dark Armed Dragon launched a volly of purple fireballs.  

Michelle and Hayate - 7500 LP --> 5700 LP

 "Now Haas do you want to attack?" Vincent asked 

"HECK YEAH! GO GET 'IM KITTY!" he says, as the cat struts over and baps both of their opponents on the legs.

Michelle and Hayate - 5700 LP --> 4900 LP

 "Now to finish off I set one monster face down and end my turn," Vincent said his hand now empty. 

Turn 6: Michelle and Hayate
Vincent & Haas: 3400 LP, 0 cards / 3 cards, 3 Mon, 1 S/T
Michelle and Hayate: 4900 LP, 4 cards / 4 cards, 0 Mon, 1 S/T, 1 Field Spell

"Draw," Michelle said, drawing her next card. "Hayato, do you have any monsters to Summon this time?"

Drawing her next card she had nothing to say except, "I suppose I do, but it's not great." she said after realizing what just happened

"I summon the Legendary Six Samurai Kizan and to follow this up I Special Summon Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" Quickly placing 3 cards in quick succesion with a proud look on her face

Legendary Six Samurai Kizan - Level 4, ATK 1800

Grandmaster of the Six Samurai - Level 5, ATK 2100

 "I activate Burst Breath," Vincent said. "By Tributing my D.A.D., I can destroy all of your Six Samurai cards," Vincent said as DAD exploded.  

"Aw..." Hayate responded disappointed instantly dropping all her enthusiasm "I thought I had something going there, but Shien's dojo does gain 2 counters."

Hayate stopped right in her tracks untill she came up with an idea "I use my shien's dojo's effect to special summon shien's foot soldier" taking out her deck and looking for the card placing on the duel as the doors shined with old samurai music coming out of the dojo and the door opens revealing a small spear wielding monkey which then walked out of the dojo "... well I didnt expect the effect to be that amazing" Hayate said surprised of the result

Shien's footsoldier - Level 2, ATK 700 + 200

"You got anything better than this little monkey dude?" asked her partner

"I Summon Shining Angel in Attack mode," Michelle said, and an angel with 4 yellow wings appeared on the field.

Shining Angel - Level 4, ATK 1400

Hayate poked Michelle "say you think you can destroy my card? i had a plan but its kinda ruining it" Hayate asked shortly after she realised that The A. Forces was ruining her plan

Ignoring Hayate, Michelle continued, "I also play a Spell card: Photon Lead. This allows me to Special Summon a Level 4 or lower LIGHT monster from my hand in Attack position, and I Summon my Bountiful Artemis."

Bountiful Artemis - Level 4, ATK 1600

"Battle Phase! Shining Angel, destroy Wind-Up Kitten!" Michelle commanded, the angel rushing over to destroy the little toy.

"WAIT! maybe the- nevermind" Hayate was a little too late to attack with the foot soldier first

Kitten mewled and tried to scatter away Tom & Jerry style, but only wound up falling flat on its face. 

Vincent & Haas - 3400 LP --> 2800 LP

"According to the rules, if a Tag Partner does not control any monsters, I can attack that person directly!" Michelle explained. "So, Bountiful Artemis, attack Haas directly!"

Vincent & Haas - 2800 LP --> 1200 LP

Haas clutched his stomach as Artemis attacked. One more and that was it. And worst of all, there was nothing he could do.

 "Damn you," Vincent said annoyed as he had literally shot himself in the foot half a dozen times  

"Hayato, your monster doesn't have enough ATK to end this, but it might as well attack anyway.

"I suppose I will. Um, go little monkey dude." Hayate commanded, looking confused at the little monkey hopping on Haas's head and hitting him on the head with the wrong end of the spear

"...Of all the ways to lose, I never expected to get a face-full of monkey to be the way to go." Haas says, mildly annoyed by the chimp poking him.

"So, if you have anything else to do, do it now, or the turn ends," Michelle said to Hayato.

Hayate silently set a card and nodded still speechless of the monkey's attack. 

"Ok, turn end," Michelle ended.

Turn 7: Vincent & Haas
Vincent & Haas: 300 LP, 1 cards / 4 cards, 1 Mon, 0 S/T
Michelle and Hayate: 4900 LP, 1 cards / 0 cards, 3 Mon, 1 S/T, 1 Field Spell

Haas looked over to Vincent somewhat nervously. This was already almost beyond hope, and if Vincent didn't have some masterplan, they were boned. "If you need space, use it now. All I have is stuff for walling."

 "I Draw" Vincent said as he drew his next card staring at it he had the widest grin he had ever had.  "I Banish Eclipse from my Graveyard and Dark Armed Dragon, to Special Summon Darkflare Dragon In ATK!" Vincent said with a cry that was sounded awfully desperate considering the circumstances.  "And now, since I banished Eclipse I can add Lightpulsar Dragon to my hand, who I can also Special Summon into Attack position by banishing Jain and Summoner monk." Vincent said before beginning another summoning chant albeit a short one.  "Light and darkness form into chaos, and from chaos births a new power, Come Forth!" Vincent said as his dragons appeared through a black and white rift above him, both roaring magnificently. Vincent turned to Haas  "Got anything you wanna do before I go on a killing spree" Vincent asked?

Lightpulsar Dragon - Level 6, ATK 2500

Darkflare Dragon - Level 5, ATK 2400

Haas sighs deeply, simply setting one monster face down in defense position and saying: "I activate the spell card: Zenmailfunction. With it, I can Special Summon Wind-Up Kitten back to my field in face-up Defense position, but its effect is negated, and I can't Tribute it or Synchro with it." After his explanation, Kitten returned, simply sitting by him, idly cleaning itself.

 "Alright I attack both of your Fairy-types with my Dark Flare and Lightpulsar dragon, but due to the field spell, sadly, you take no damage," Vincent said as Darkflare and lightpulsar obliterated the 2 fairys. 

After both monsters were destroyed, Michelle said, "I activate the effect of my Shining Angel. When it's destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, I can Special Summon 1 LIGHT-type monster with 1500 or less ATK from my deck in Attack position, and I choose my Squire Parshath." 

Squire Parshath - Level 1, ATK 100

 "Sadly I end my turn, and I think I know what comes next," Vincent said with a frown. 

Turn 8: Michelle and Hayate
Vincent & Haas: 300 LP, 0 cards / 3 cards, 3 Mon, 0 S/T
Michelle and Hayate: 4900 LP, 2 cards / 1 cards, 2 Mon, 1 S/T, 1 Field Spell

"Draw," Michelle said, drawing her next card.
"Draw" Hayate said, Drawing her card
 
"I summon Legendary Six Samurai kizan and activate my facedown cunning of the six samurai and Special Summon Grandmaster of the six samurai" Hayate has a satisfying smile on her face "Anything else?"

Grandmaster of the Six Samurai - Level 5, ATK 2100

"I Summon Gellenduo in Attack position," Michelle said, the two little creatures appearing from the ground.

Gellenduo - Level 4, ATK 1700

"Using my Squire Parshath's effect, I change the Level of my Gellenduo from 4 to 7," Michelle explained.

Gellenduo - Level 4 --> Level 7

"Now, I Tune my Level 7 Gellenduo with my Level 1 Squipre Parshath!" Michelle said, the two monsters transforming into 7 stars and 1 green ring, respectively. Doing so, Michelle felt the urge to say something. "With your light of justice, all will submit! Strike them down, Avenging Knight Parshath!" Michelle chanted, the brilliantly shining angel descending onto the field.

Avenging Knight Parshath - Level 8, ATK 2600

 "I see the light and it burns the eyes to see, it shall take me to my death." Vincent murmured almost poetically. 

"Makes me wish the monkey could do the final blow" Hayate joked at Vincent.

"I activate the effect of Avenging Knight Parshath! Once per turn, I can force a face-up monster my opponent controls to change Battle positions, and I choose the Wind-Up Kitten!" Michelle said. "Hey Hayato, go ahead and end this."

Hayate looked at the field and her monkey and decided, "I will attack Haas's monster with The Grandmaster" Declaring combat preffering to finish it on a serious note rather than a strange one

 Vincent watched as the Grandmaster decapitated the Ktty. His Dragons letting out a scream of frustration as they tried to charge at the Grandmaster but disappeared into particles before they even got halfway 

Haas groaned and held his head in his hands."Dammit...we lost because of me..." he says, knowing full well that was all because he used Zenmailfunction.

Vincent & Haas - 300 LP --> 0 LP

WINNERS: Hyate and Michelle

"That was a great game" Vincent said a little annoyed at the fact he had lost but nothing major because the fight was literally amazing. 

Haas nods and regains his composure. "Yeah. You guys did amazingly well. I really thought we had you when we had the two monks high-fiving." he says, extending his left hand for a hand-shake.

Hayate picked up her mask "yeah it was also sorry I tried to lie about running away..."  Hayato said taking out a set of Red cranes decorated with a few gems "Vincent you sure you don't want it?" denying Haas's offered handshake saying "i prefer hugs over hand shakes, you want one?" not waiting for any answer Hayate decided to hug both Vincent and Haas without warning after hearing the answer of Vincent

Michelle sighed, then said, "Well, that's that. I don't care who you are, Hayato, but as long as you can Duel well, that's all that matters." She then took the handshake of friendship.

"So What now?" Vincent asked before shaking Haas hand.  After a match like that, could you really go your seperate ways and pretend like you never meet these people? Jeez, Haas's deck actually worked well with his to a point. His two opponents were both remarkable in their own right. "Sure I'll take the red crane for now." Vincent said with a respecting tone, after all she had beat him. Then the sudden hug caused him to be at a lose for words. 

Haas shrugs. "Dunno. Well, since we lost, we still get three random cards. I guess...we could do something. I dunno. We could get something to eat-" he offered, just after the handshake, but was interrupted by the sudden hug. Blinking a few times, he simply chuckled and patted Hayate's back. "I'll take it."

Hayate looked at the groups response "Food? I'll pay if thats the case" Hayate looked at her Duel Disk and took it off instantly turning into a small stick-like device. "Mom made this. She's weird... it was even modeled after the academy's Duel Disk, is that against the rules?"

"I don't know if its against the rules or not" Vincent said a little puzzled by the technology and why she would need to bring such things, neither the less his mind was still on the duel, but food sounded real good right now. "If you could get us some food, that would be amazing." Vincent said. 

"I don't mind," Michelle said.

Haas shrugs. "I got cash. Anybody know if there's any good shops or cafeterias around here for food?"

Hayato thinks for a moment. "We could look around," Hayate decided to pick up the objects she threw in panic "The big dragon was a little scary"

"How could you be scared of simple Solid Vision?" Michelle asked.

"I apologize for that," Vincent said."I didn't know what came over me when I used it." Vincent mumbled a little. He thought back to when he used Dark armed dragon and the lightning did that usually happen? Probably.  

Haas chuckled a bit at the banter over the holograms and solid vision. "Well, I didn't really take getting a monkey to the face well. Besides, not like anybody got hurt anyhow." he says. "Except that direct blow from Michelle hurt my pride..." he thought, looking at his deck.  "So...I wonder why they decided to hold this so early in the morning. I mean...its not like it was anything special. Just an organized dueling event."

"Hurt my pride as well Haas, hurt my pride as well, and you bring up a good point what the hell was the point in this entire event. Even so the upside of it was that I met 3 new people with such potential," Vincent said happily.

"Could be to make us interact with each other" Hayate gave them her own thoughts about it as well "hey Michy you want a red crane as well?" accidently throwing out the nickname asking if she wanted one

Once the nickname "Michy" was thrown out, an evil aura seemed to radiate from Michelle. "I thought I told you not to call me that," Michelle said with a menacing tone in her voice, while also taking a crane.

"Eep! I GOT A WEAPON STAY AWAY!" Hayate slowly stepped back swinging her plastic sword back in forth in panic hiding behind one of the 2 guys

Vincent pulled his arms up in a surrendering stance "I surrender" he said. Even if he was good at card games he heavily doubted his skills in fisticuffs to the highest degree, and yet Hayate was hiding behind him. 

Haas stared blankly at the scene unfolding, just kind of...staring. With the most blank possible look in his eyes. "W-Well, on the bright side of all this, even though we lost, we'll still get those three cards. Maybe they'll even be rare ones."

Stepping back to avoid the sword, Michelle sighed, then said, "Ok, let's go about our business and meet again later." On that note, Michelle walked away to watch the remaining Duels from the stands.

Hayate nodded resheathing the plastic sword and decided to follow the guys on their routine after putting on her mask again.

"Alright Haas you going too? or do you wanna sit together and jest at the other people and their matches?" Vincent asked Haas questioningly 

Haas hums. "I guess I'll kill some time. So, think events like these are the usual thing?"

"Probably I don't really know" Vincent responded to Haas's questioning of if the events here were commonplace. 

Taking a seat, Haas opted to leave the conversation there, since it wasn't like they'd have much to discuss until someone else started their King Rex tag duel.

Vincent sat next to Haas, his mind running brisk with possibility on how to the else the duel could of gone. turning back to the arenas he watched the remaining duels from the stand. 

Hayato silently sat next to Vincent without any sound other than the barely audible sound of the voice changer turning on.

Dark Hole is god tier, and Kitten held out for as long as he could. Both sides had great summoning plays, and it was pretty close up until we learned that we could attack players who had no monsters on board instantly. Haas lost the game for Vincent like a total scrub.
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