Ep 1 Session 1: The Next Queen of Games
Author's Note
I must warn you, a lot of the cards used will be created by me for two reasons. I find it fun to make cards, and for plot convenience. I'll try and keep them as balanced as possible. Thanks for the understanding.
NOW TO THE STORY!
Ep 1 Session 1: The Next Queen of Games
Starlight and Sunburst sit in the stands, looking down at the multiple dueling arenas. Students duel their best against other teachers to see if they get into the Duel Academy.
Starlight is dressed in a purple crop top with a dark purple coat and blue jeans. Her purple and blue striped hair is tied back in a ponytail. Sunburst is in his normal attire of a plain black shirt with blue jeans and his star cape.
"Look's like there are a couple more duels, then we are done here," Sunburst says, pushing up his glasses as he reads the clipboard in his hands.
"We have a very good selection of duelists here today," Starlight replied.
"Good thing no one showed up late," Sunburst jokes. The two chuckle at the witty remark, but unknown to the two a certain mare was running through Ponyvill towards the Academy.
Scootaloo runs through Ponyvill, her athletic body she kept well-toned helped. She was not the prettiest mare to look at, but she had her charm. Her short purple hair is spiked forwards. Her long purple tail trails behind her as she dodges pedestrians. She wears a black crop top with a blue coat, black shorts, and black fingerless gloves. Her old duel disk from high school was strapped to her left arm.
"I hope I'm not going to be too late," Scootaloo thinks as she weaves past ponies in the shopping district. She had slept in on the most important day of her life. Scootaloo jumps over a crate as the duel academy arena comes into view. "I hope to Celestia I get there in time,"
Sitting at the entrance by a table are two mares dressed in pink long-sleeved shirts with the Academy logo on them, and a stallion dressed in all black with shades. The mares look through the papers of applied ponies.
"Mark them no show if they aren't here," The stallion says. The two mares node, but before they can start a voice over the hedge yells out.
"I'm no no show!" Scootaloo yells as she climbs the fence. The ponies look at her in surprise as she jumps down from the top of the fence. She runs over to the table, keeling over from running.
"What's your name miss?" One of the mares asks.
"Scootaloo," She says between breaths. The stallion pulls out a golden gauntlet from a box behind the table and hands it to Scootalo. She looks at it in confusion as she grabs it. The gauntlet looked like it was made out of gold as it reflected the summer sunlight. In the center was a display screen with buttons underneath it.
"This is the new duel disk, just put your deck in this and you'll be set," The stallion says, sliding a black box over. Scootaloo quickly unstraps her old duel disk and puts on the new one. She then places her deck into the black box. She gathers her stuff and runs into the building.
Sitting at the top of the arena is Apple Bloom in her long-sleeved red shirt with a pink skirt. Her thick long red hair was put into a ponytail with her big red bow on top of her head. She watches intently as the last duelist, Sweetie Belle, duels it out with a stallion.
Sweetie Belle is one of the most beautiful mares in Ponyvill. That wasn't that hard when your sister was a designer. She wears a perfectly fitting shirt that slightly emphasizes her chest more than may be needed. The jeans fit a little looser than the shirt. Her main is combed and curled to perfection. She was winning the duel with 4,000 life points to 1,350 life points and two monsters on her side and none on the other.
"Hi Bloom," Scootaloo's raspy voice cuts through the air of chatter from the other students. She leans against the railing behind Apple Bloom's chair. Apple Bloom flinches at the surprise voice before turning around to look up at Scootaloo fidgeting with her new duel disk.
"Scoots!" Apple Bloom's southern and slightly raspy voice yells out in excitement. "You made it,"
"Ya ya," Scootaloo waves off Apple Bloom quickly as she pushes buttons on her gauntlet. "How do you use this thing, it doesn't even have a place for your cards,"
"There holographic," Apple Bloom replies. It then dawns on her to ask. "Don't you have a dual to go to?" Scootaloo looks in surprise as she turns to run.
"Crap!" She yells as she runs down the hallway. Apple Bloom shakes her head and laughs at her friend.
"Sr, we have another duelist," The stallion from the front desk says to Sunburst.
"Tell him he's late and.."
"Let him duel," Starlight interrupts Sunburst, surprising everyone. She stands up as she puts on her duel disk. "If this slacker wants to duel, then he'll get a duel," She then walks away, leaving everyone in surprise. Starlight with a big grin makes her way to a duel arena as she pulls out her ponytail and lets her hair down.
Scootaloo stands at one of the duel arenas as she waits for her opponent. She tries to finger out how to turn the duel disk on as the door on the opposite side opens up to reveal Starlight. She steps out onto her side of the field. Scootaloo looks up to see her opponent and is immediately surprised.
"You're my opponent!" Scootaloo yells in confusion as Starlight turns on her duel disk by pressing a button on the underside of the gauntlet. The gauntlet lights up, the screen coming to life as five card-shaped holographic projections appear floating in front of the gauntlet.
"You were late, we had to deal with what we had left," Starlight says, drawing five holographic cards as Scootaloo finally turns her's on.
"So that's how it works," She says as she draws five cards of her own and looks at them.
"Since you are the student, I'll let you go first," Starlight generously says as she gestures to Scootaloo.
Scootaloo nods, she looks down at her disk to see a holographic deck sitting on top with a life point counter next to it reading 8000. Scootaloo smiles and draws her first card. She looks at it and grins.
"I activate the card Pot of Greed!" Scootaloo says as she slides it under the holographic duel field. She draws two cards as a big green pot with a wicked grin on its face appears on the field, then promptly explodes. She looks down at her cards as her smile grows on her face.
"Have you ever seen Blue eyes before Profesor?" Scootaloo enquires.
"Please, call me Starlight. And yes I've seen and beaten many," Starlight says with a confident grin.
"Cool," Scootaloo replies with a smile as she pulls a card from her hand. "But have you seen this one before?" Scootaloo raises the card to the sky to reveal it was polymerization. "By combining the three Blue eyes white dragons from my hand I can summon them to the field and bring forth Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"
The area above the field starts to swarm with dark clouds spinning into a vortex as three bright white dragons with light blue eyes appear on the ground and fly up into the clouds. Lightning strikes the ground around the two duelists as the polymerization card changes to the three-headed dragon, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon.
Scootaloo looks at the card and smiles before saying to herself, "That's cool."
Falling from the vortex and hitting the ground with a loud thump is the giant beast. Shaking the very ground it walked on was the mighty three-headed Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon with 4,500 Attack points and 3,800 Defense points.
"I play one card face down and end my turn," Scootaloo says with a prowed smile on her face. Starlight looks up in awe at the mighty beast being brought to life in one turn.
"I can't believe it," Sweetie Belle's soothing and very feminine voice says in shock as she sits down next to Apple Bloom.
"Ya, her most powerful monster on the first turn," Apple Bloom responded, watching intently as Starlight draws her first card.
"I'm more surprised she made it in time," Sweetie Belle says with a chuckle.
"That two," Apple Bloom quickly replies as Starlight smiles.
"We both got lucky this turn," Starlight boosts as she places down a spell card. "First I play Pot of Greed!" Starlight draws two new cards and smiles. "First I'll play the spell card De-Fusion to separate your Ultimate dragon back into three,"
The mighty dragon glows a bright white light before separating into the three Blue-Eyes. Scootaloo looks at Starlight in confusion.
"I still have three monsters with 3,000 attack points on the field," Scootaloo asks more then says as Starlight lays down another spell card.
"I'm not done!" She says, surprising and scarring Scootaloo. "I play the spell card! Spellbook of De-Fusion!" An old-looking spellbook appears on the field with a duel monster car as a bookmark. The de-fusion card on the cover of the book. The crowd gasps as Scootaloo looks at the card on the field in confusion.
"I've never seen that one before!" Scootaloo yells out in confusion.
"This card allows me to do two things when a de-fusion card is played. I get to pay 1000 life points to send half of the monsters used as the material to the graveyard!" Scootaloo looks in horror as the book opens up and shoots a been of light towards one of her dragons, blowing it up. Starlight's life points dropped to 7,000.
"I will then activate the card's second effect. Wich allows me to spend 500 life points to cut one of the monsters used in the fusion in half," Starlight says, pointing at the middle dragon. Scootaloo gasps as she watches her mighty dragon's attack and Defence cuts in half to 1,500 Attack and 1,250 Defence as Starlight's life points drop to 6500.
"You finished?" Scootaloo asks, fearing the worst.
"Not yet," Starlight replies, causing Scootaloo to flinch in worry. "I play the spell card! Magician's Assistant!" The ground in front of Starlight glows and turns into a summoning circle. "This card allows me to summon one level 3 or lower spell caster type monster to the field from my hand or deck," Starlight explains as the circle glows a bright red.
Scootaloo covers her eyes as a magician flies into the air from the circle. "I chose Apple Magician Girl from my deck!" The glow subsides as a mare with a red magician's outfit and a red staff with a red gem at the end of it as it lands on the ground with a smile. "But she will not be staying around for long, as I tribute her to bring out her stronger older sister, Dark Magician Girl!" Apple Magician shows the peace sign towards Scootaloo as she disappears and is replaced by Dark Magician Girl.
The Magician wears a pink hat with blue outlines. Her shirt is the same colors as her hat with a pentagram on the gem that keeps her breasts up. She also has a pink skirt with a long blue magic staff held in her right hand. The mare has a pretty hefty attack stat of 2,000 and a good defence of 1,700.
Scootaloo smiles as Starlight declares an attack on her weekend dragon. Dark Magician Girl points the end of her staff at the dragon as it accumulates energy. It finally fires out, heading towards the dragon.
"You've activated my trap card," Scootaloo says with a smug grin as she motions to the face-down card. The card lifts up to reveal Mirror Force as a rainbow shield covers her monsters. The attack reflects and destroys Dark Magician Girl.
Starlight grunted in disapproval before yelling out in anger, "I end my turn with a face down!" A face-down card appears in front of her. The ponies in the stands are in shock at what just happened.
"Starlight must be using her own deck," Apple Bloom says aloud to herself as she scratches her chin in thought.
"I can't believe these two, there are almost equal!" Sweetie Belle says, her voice seeking a bit as she leans on the edge of her seat.
"Looks like I mist a lot," a familiar deep squeaky voice says. Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle look to see Button Mash standing on the stairs, watching the duel. He is tall and thin with toned muscles. His crazy light brown hair slightly covered his left eye. He wears a white shirt with a black leather coat and blue jeans.
"You missed the best opening ever!" Sweetie Belle yells in excitement.
"How did your duel go?" Apple Bloom asks as Scootaloo draws her next card.
"I lost," Button says with a bit of sadness in his voice as he watches as Scootaloo shuffles the cards in her hand around.
"Sorry about that, Mabey next year?" Apple Bloom asks, but the two are interrupted when Scootaloo finally calls out her play.
"I first play Fusion Recovery! to bring back my polymerization and one material for fusion from my grave to my hand!" The card Scootaloo was holding out in front of her is Fusion Recovery. A polymerization card and a monster are depicted on it. The card changes into a polymerization as Scootaloo's graveyard glows.
"I bring back my Blue-Eyes and use polymerization to fuse them back together," Starlight grits her teeth and shoots Scootaloo an angry glare. The mighty Blue-Eye's Ultimate dragon returns to the field with a loud roar that shakes the field. Scootaloo looks in surprise at the monster only having 3,750 attacks. Starlight smiles at Scootaloo's confusion.
"What! how!" Scootaloo says before Starlight interrupts.
"One of your monster's attack and defense points were cut in half, meaning your dragon is weaker than before," Starlight says with a smug look on her face.
"But with no monsters on the field, I can attack you directly!" Scootaloo says, extending her arm out and pointing at Starlight. Starlight's smile grows as Blue-Eyes Ultimate dragon charges its three-pronged white lightning attack. The light beams go straight for Starlight. The beam hits her, causing the stands to gasp.
"No way!" Apple Bloom says in shock, but not of the attack. Scootaloo gasps as she sees Starlight still standing with 6,500 life points. Siting on the field now revealed is her face-down trap card, Negate Attack. The card turns into dust as Scootaloo grunts.
"I place one card face down and end my turn," Scootaloo says as Starlight, now with a big grin on her face, draws her next card. Starlight looks at her cards and thinks. Her smile grows on her face before she places a card face down.
"I place a card face down and a monster in face-down defense and end my turn," She says as a sideways face-down card appears in front of the face-down spell or trap card.
"That's it?" The CMC all think at the same time. Scootaloo draws a new card before declaring another attack. The Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon charges another beam and fires on the face-down card. The card is destroyed and sent to the grave. Starlight smiles as her face down reveals itself.
"Thanks! now you activated Zero Force!" Starlight says, motioning to the trap card. Scootaloo's eyes widen in fear. "All monsters on the field now gain 0 attack points, so say goodby to the mighty Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon's attack points!" Scootaloo watches as three red rings go shooting from the card and heading to her dragon. They latch on to the three-headed beast. The monster's attack points drop to zero as the dragon struggles against the rings, screaming in pain.
"I end my turn," Scootaloo says with anger in her voice.
"One card, that's all it took!" Button Mash says in surprise as Starlight draws a new card. She looks at it and smiles as she goes to place the card down on the field.
"I play Lemon Magician Girl in attack mode!" Starlight yells out. Scootaloo, preparing for impact, as a dark magician girl lands on the field with 800 attack points and 600 defense points. Her outfit is black with a yellow lining. "Leamon! strick her Blue Eyes!" The Magician Girl lunges forward toward the dragon.
She slashes her wand across the dragon's chest, causing a yellow mark to appear, and quickly envelops the dragon before exploding. The wind from the explosion blew back Scootaloos hair as her life points drop to 7,200.
"I end my turn," Starlight says, crossing her arms over her chest. Scootaloo draws a new card and looks at her hand.
"Looks like Scootaloo has been backed into a corner," Sweetie Belle says. "Unless she gets lucky, she's done,"
"Don't underestimate her Sweetie Belle," Button replies with a big grin on his face. The two look at him in confusion. "Just look at her smile," Button says, pointing at Scootaloo. The two fallower his finger to the big smile on Scootaloo's face.
"I play Card Lottery!" Scootaloo yells out as a giant lottery machine appears in front of her. "Now if I get a seven, I get to draw two cards for each one!" Scootaloo explains as the handle on the machine pulls down. The three slots spin to life as everyone watches intently.
The first slot stops and lands on 5. Scootaloo starts to sweat as the fate of the duel now rests upon luck. The second one stops on a 7. Scootaloo sighs as a small smile forms on her face before she draws her two new cards. She looks down at the new cards as everyone watches intently at the third slot. The third one lands on a 6. Starlight sighs, knowing Scootaloo only got two extra cards.
Scootaloo smiles at the hand she got before looking up at Starlight. "I play polymerization to fuse Crystal Dragon and Dark Dragon from my hand!" She yells out as the sky once again is covered in turning dark clouds. Two dragons fly up into the dark swirling void. One dark as night, and the other with shiny crystals, refracting light across the arena.
"Come to the field! Dark Crystal Dragon!" Scootaloo yells, placing the card on the field as the giant dragon land with a thud. Shaking the ground it stands on. The giant crystal dragon was now black as night with bright blue eyes. Starlight looks up at the dragon with fear in her eyes. The mighty dragon has an attack of 2,500 and a defense of only 1,500
"Next I play the card, Dragon field!" Scootaloo says as the surrounding arena is surrounded by mountains. "This weakens your monsters by 800 and increases mine by 700!" Scootaloo explains as her dragon gains a boost from 2,500 attacks to 3,200 attack points. Starlight's eyes widen as Scootaloo raises an arm and points to the only monster Starlight has on the field.
"Now! attack! with dark light beam!" Dark Crystal charges up the attack in its mouth, light leaking out of its jaw. It opens its mouth and releases it towards the magician. It hits, the magician screaming in pain as it's destroyed, sending all the attack points to hit Starlight. She covers her face from the bright beam of light as her life points drop to 3,300.
"Told ya," Button says as the group watches the smoke clear.
"I'll end my turn," Scootaloo says as the lottery machine starts glowing red.
"You forgot about the side effect," Starlight says, glaring down at Scootaloo.
"It's just 100 life points per card, no big deal," She replies as the wind from the exploding machine barely disturbs her smile. Her life points dropped down to 7,000.
Starlight draws her next card and looks at it. She smiles before sliding it under the duel field as a black curtain with arms appears on the field. "I play Dark Magic Curtain," Scootaloo's eyes widen as the curtain reveals the Dark Magician. A tall thin stallion with purple fur and dark purple main. His eyes glared daggers at Scootaloo with an intense attack points of 2,500. "All I have to pay is half of my life points, but that's nothing at this point," Starlight explains as her life points drop down to 1,650.
Scootaloo scoffs at the magician. "You forgot the field spell, it lowers your monster's attack to 1,800," Scootaloo mocks as she crosses her arms over her chest.
"Not if I play these two spells," Starlight says, taking Scootaloo by surprise. Starlight empty's her hand onto the field. "The first spell is Mystical Space Typhoon!"
"No," Scootaloo says to herself in fear. A big gust of wind swirls around the field. Scooatloo covers her face as the mountains, once standing tall, now crumbles to the ground.
"Next comes Magic Formula," Starlight says as a magical spell book equips itself to Dark Magician. The Dark Magician grabs the book and pretends to read it as his attack points start to rise up to 3,200. "This raises my Dark Magician's attack up 700 points, plenty to attack your dragon." Scootaloo's eyes widen as the Dark Magician point's his staff at her dragon. "Now! Dark Magic Attack!" Starlight yells, pointing at the dragon.
The dragon is shot with a dark ball of energy and explodes. The wind pushed against Scootaloo, moving her clothes and hair. Her life point's dropped to 6,300. "I'm done," Starlight says before Scootaloo draws her next card.
Scootaloo looks at her card as her eyes widen. Her normal confident smile followed shortly after. "I play Burden of the Mighty!" Scootaloo says, sliding the card onto the spell card field as a nest of 7 eggs appears on the field. Starlight flinches as the eggs hatch into little birds and fly over to her side. "For every level, your Magician has, he losses 100 attack points!"
The birds peck and slash at the Dark Magician. He tries to fight them off as his attack lowers back down to 2,500 attacks. "Now I play Death Dragon!" Scootaloo places the card down, causing the entire field to fall under dark smoke. Two red eyes form over Scootaloo, with a low growl rolling over the battlefield coming from the fog. Death Dragon has a measly attack of 1,500 but a good defense of 2,000.
"And for every dragon in the graveyard, she gains 200 Attack points each," Scootaloo says as Starlight's eyes widen in horror. Scootaloo raises her arm with the duel disk into the air as light beams jump out from the disk and towards the dragon in the dark. "With three blue eyes, two Ultimates, Dark and Crystal dragon, and finally one Dark Crystal Dragon! She gains 1,600 attack points!"
Everyone in the audience watches and waits as the mighty beast in the dark starts charging a fireball in its mouth. Her attack points rise slowly to 3,100 "Death dragon, attack! with Multan fireball!" The fireball shoots out and hits the Dark Magician, destroying it and dealing to Starlight 600 points of damage. Taking her down to 1,050 life points. Starlight covered her face to avoid blindness from the bright light.
"I end my turn," Scootaloo says as Starlight lowers her arms slowly back to resting position. She stares at the ground in shock as she draws her final card. She looks at it and sighs before announcing to the audience.
"I end my turn!" Everyone gasp at once. The world holds its breath as Scootaloo draws her next card. The only sound coming from the card being pulled out of the gauntlet.
"Thanks for the great fight Profesor," Scootaloo says, getting Starlight's attention. "I think I'm going to like it here," This gains a genuine smile from Starlight. She nods for Scootaloo to call the last attack. Scootaloo nods back before yelling out, "Death dragon! Attack with Multan fireball!"
Death dragons mouth charges another fireball pointed right at Starlight. The fireball shoots out of its mouth and hurtles right towards Starlight. She closes her eyes and looks down as the fireball hits her. Her clothes and hair blow back as her life points drop to 0. The world is in shock at one of the best duelists in Ponyvill was defeated by a newcomer.
"She did it?!" Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom both yell. Apple Bloom in excitement, Sweetie Belle in confusion.
"That's my Scoots!" Button says, fist-bumping the air.
Ep 2 Session 1: Duel of Dragon and Crystal
Sweetie Belle leans against the wall outside of Duel Academy in her new blue uniform. Apple Bloom stands next to her with her yellow uniform while Button passes back and forth in front of the two. "I can't believe she won," Sweetie Belle says with a slight edge to her voice. "It was probably luck,"
"Some pony sounds jealousy that they didn't get to duel Starlight," Button says, stopping in front of Sweetie Belle with a slight grin on his face. Sweetie Belle looks away with a light blush on her face.
"Just a little surprised is all," Sweetie Belle replies as Button goes back to passing.
"I don't think the battle ever tilted into Starlight's favor during the enter thing," Applebloom says aloud to herself.
"Mabey once at the beginning, but that might be it," Button replies to Applebloom's out loud thinking. Button's ears twitch as he hears hoof steps coming from inside the building. The other two get off the wall as Scootaloo bursts out of the Academy with a big grin on her face.
Now dressed in a red jacket and red fingerless gloves. She shouts to the skies with her arms wide open. "I'm in!" Scootaloo looks around a little disappointed. "Thought there would be more ponies considering I just took down one of the best duelists in ponyvill,"
"It's been an hour Scoots," Button says bluntly. This shocks Scootaloo into visible flinching.
"It was an hour!" Scootaloo replies. Button and Applebloom both nodes to confirm. "Wow, it took that long to put me in Sliver red,"
"Duel! now!" Sweetie Belle yells pointing at Scootaloo in anger. Everyone flinches from the display of anger coming from the normally calm Sweetie Belle.
"Huh?" is all Scootaloo says before Sweetie Belle buts in, a bit calmer than last time.
"You heard me! duel me to prove you won with skill and not luck," Sweetie Belle says as she turns on her duel disk.
"I'd never back down from a challenge," Scootaloo says, rubbing her nose with her thumb before flicking her nose. "You got it, Let Duel!" Scootaloo says, turning on her own new duel disk. Button and Applebloom step away as the two draw their five cards.
"I'll let you go first since you did during the entrance duel," Sweetie Belle says as she looks over her hand.
"Thanks," Scootaloo replies as she draws her first card. She frowns at the hand. "First I'll play Death Dragon in attack mode," She says as the dark smoke forms around her again with the beady red eyes forming in the smoke. Death Dragons modest 1,500 attack and 2,000 defense points. "Then I'll use the spell card, Hand Destruction,"
She places the spell card on the field. A little red colt with a sword in its hand appears on the field. Scootaloo picks two cards as Sweetie Belle does the same. They both hold them out as the little colt cuts them in half.
"Hu, neet," Scootaloo thinks with a smile as she draws two more cards. Sweetie Belle doing the same.
"Thanks to that, I sent two dragons to the grave, meaning my dragon gets a boost from 1,500 attack to 1,900 attack because of his effect," Scootaloo explains as her dragon's attack raises. "Then I'll activate the spell, Quick Attack," She places a spell car down as her dragon is revealed from the darkness. It's completely black, its huge wings spread out as it starts to glow bright white.
"This allows me to attack even when I can't normally or stopped by one of your card's effects," Scootaloo says with a smirk. Sweetie Belle grimaces as the Dragon charges a fireball in its mouth. "Now attack her directly with a molten fireball blast!" Scootaloo yells as the fireball hurtles toward Sweetie Belle. Hitting her directly, her life points dropped down to 6,100.
The light fades away from the dragon, slipping back into the dark smoke. "I place one card face down and end my turn,"
"Let's see here," Sweetie Belle says as she draws her card. "First I'll play Crystal Beast Amethyst Cat in attack mode!" She places the card down as a giant cat with pink fur and an amethyst necklace appear on the field. Scootaloo chuckles to herself at the pitiful attack points of 1,200.
"You laugh now, but thanks to her effect I can attack you directly with half the attack points," Sweetie Belle says as Amethyst Cat jumps towards Scootaloo.
"Sorry, but I activate my trap card, Negate Attack!" Scootaloo says with a big smile on her face. The Amethyst Cat goes back to her side of the field. Sweetie Belle is unfaced by the trap card as she places one card face down.
"I end my turn with a face-down card," Sweetie Belle says as a card face-down appears in front of her.
"I wonder what the face-down card is?" Applebloom asks herself.
"It's probably her Crystal Signal trap card," Button responds. Applebloom looks over at him in slight confusion.
"How would you know?" Applebloom asks.
"Before I meet Scoots, I use to duel Sweetie Belle all the time." Button starts explaining as Scootaloo draws her next card. "She would use that trap card on me all the time." Button finishes as Scootaloo begins her turn.
"First I'll play Card Lottery!" She says as a lottery machine appears in front of her. "I don't think I need to explain what the card does. So let's spin the slots," Scootaloo says as she gestures to the machine. The lottery machine's arm pulls down at the three slots start to spin. The group watches as the first slot lands on 1. Sweetie Belle visibly sighs as the second one lands on a 7.
Scootaloo draws two new cards as the last slot lands on a 7. She then draws two more cards. Sweetie Belle watches in slight fear as Scootaloo looks over her cards.
"Next I'll play another Death Dragon," Scootaloo says, placing down another dragon. The smoke thickens as another giant black dragon with red eyes glares at Sweetie Belle. The two dragon's attack and defense points sit at 1,900 and 2,000. "First I'll attack your Amethyst Cat," Scootaloo says, pointing at the cat. The Death Dragon charges its fireball in its mouth before releasing it towards the Amethyst Cat. The cat is melted away as the fireball hits the cat, dropping Sweetie's life points down to 5,400.
"You have triggered my trap card!" Sweetie Belle yells out as her trap card flips up. The trap card depicted a circle of seven crystals in a circle around the letter C. "This is Crystal Signal! It allows me to special summon one crystal monster from my hand to the field as long as it's under 4 stars,"
"Nice call," Applebloom congratulates Button.
"Called it," Button responded, bumping his fist against his chest as a smile crossed his face.
"I summon Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle to the field," Sweetie says as a little purple cat with a long tail and a ruby at the end of it appears in front of her. The little cat's attack points pittifly low at only 300. "Because she was special summoned, I can now summon any crystal beast monster from my hand to the field," Sweetie Belle explains as she places down two cards.
"I think I'll play Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus and Crystal Beast Amber Mammoth!" Appearing on the field is a tall and bulky pegasus horse with a sapphire horn. The unicorn's deadly attack sat at 1,800. A giant gray mammoth with an Amber crystal on its forehead follows shortly behind. Its attack sitting at 1,700. "Your move Scoots,"
Scootaloo looks in surprise at the sudden appearance of three monsters. "No matter, I'll attack with my other Death Dragon at your Crystal Ruby," Scootaloo says as her other dragon charges and attack. The dragon releases the fireball and sends it towards the little Crystal Cat.
"Sorry, but because of Crystal Mammoth, I can redirect that attack to him," Sweetie Belle says as the Mammoth jumps in front of Carbuncle, causing the attack to hit it and destroy it. Dropping Sweetie's life points down to 5,200.
Scootaloo grits her teeth as Sweetie Belle now has a wicked smile. "I'll play polymerization, to fuse my two death dragons into The Reaper of Soals, Grantier," Scootaloo says as the two death dragons merge together to form a bigger dragon. The giant monster is completely black, almost like it's a living shadow. Deep red eyes glare angrily at Sweetie Belle. Red lines run down his back and up its wings, highlighting the bones protruding down to make up the wing. The deadly dragon's attack only at 1,500, but is made up by its high defense of 3,500.
"And because of its effect, it gains 400 attack points for every dragon in the grave. Meaning with two blue eyes and two death dragons, it gains 1,600 points," Scootaloo explains as her dragon goes from 1,500 attack to 3,100. "I then throw down a face down,"
Sweetie Belle draws a card as the lottery machine explodes and takes 400 life points from Scootaloo. Dropping her down to 7,600. Slowly a small smile crosses Sweetie Belle's lips as she looks at the cards in her hand. "First I play Pot of Greed," Sweetie Belle says as she draws two new cards.
"Next I'll play the spell card! Crystal Help," Sweetie Belle says, placing down a spell card that causes her crystal monsters to glow. "For every crystal monster on the field I gain a card," She explains as she draws two new cards. She looks over her cards as a smile starts to creep onto her face slowly. Scootaloo gets more nervous as she waits for Sweetie to continue her turn. "I play Card Destruction! You now must.."
"Yes, I know how this card goes, just get on with it," Scootaloo replies, interrupting Sweetie Belle. This makes her angry at her friend's rude interruption. The two watches in slight surprise as a hand comes out of their graveyards and grabs the cards in their hand. The two then draw their new cards equal to the amount they already had before. Sweetie Belle's smile widens as she sees what's in her hand.
"She got Rainbow Dragon," Button says with slight fear in his voice. Applebloom looks up at Button with the same confusion from earlier. "Trust me, I know that look. She has Scootaloo right where she wants her." Applebloom turns back to the field as Sweetie Belle starts her next move.
"I then summon my favorite card! Rainbow Dragon!" Sweetie Belle says as she places the card on the field. Her graveyard glows as the monsters on her field also start to glow. Balls of light correlating to the 7 different colored crystal monsters from both the field and grave fly up into the air and merge into one.
Gusts of wind shot down against the group as a giant white dragon, with golden spicks and big wings formed above them. Light beams shoot out in the different colors of the rainbow as the dragon takes shape. Its red eyes lock onto Scootaloo as she looks up in awe at the dragon. Rainbow Dragon flies down and wraps itself around Sweetie Bell before stopping and glaring at Scootaloo. The mighty beast holds a staggering 4,000 attack points.
"Knew it," Button whispers to himself.
"4,000 attack points!" Scootaloo whispers to herself in shock.
"Yes, it's quite the beast," Sweetie remarks. "Now! Rainbow Dragon, Attack Grantier with Rainbow Blast!" The dragon follows her orders and sends a beam of pure white light toward Scootaloo's monster. The beam hits the monster as Sweetie watches with a smile on her face, but then looks confused at how Scootaloo's life points were not dropping.
The light beam dissipates to reveal the trap card, negate attack. "How do you like them cards?" Scootaloo asks, getting a chuckle out of Applebloom. Sweetie Belle fuming in anger at the trap card.
"I'll end my turn!" She yells out in anger.
"Dang, Sweetie Belle needs to calm down," Applebloom comments.
"When it comes to Duel Monsters, She gets way too into it," Button responds.
"Good, now let's see what the deck has for me this time," Scootaloo says, drawing her card and looking at it. She visibly grunts in anger at the card. "I end my turn by placing Grantier in defense." Her mighty beast lands on the ground and shields Scootaloo.
"That 3,500 defense can't safe you now Scootaloo!" Sweetie Belle smugly says as she draws a new card. "Now I play Crystal Beast Amber Mammoth in attack mode." Her Amber Mammoth stamped onto the field next to the other two crystal beasts. "Now I'll attack your Grantier with Rainbow Blast!" Rainbow Dragon starts to charge up another attack.
"Unless Scootaloo has something to back this up, I think she's done," Applebloom says as the light beam stricks Grantier. The dragon screams in pain before being disintegrated.
"Now my other crystal beasts can attack!" Sweetie Belle says as her Pegasus, Mammoth, and Cat go straight for Scootaloo.
"This is going to hurt," Scootaloo whispers before being slashed in the face by Carbuncle, step on by Mammoth, and Magic blasted by Pegasus. All the attacks dropped Scootaloo down to 3,800 life points.
"That ends my turn," Sweetie Belle says confidently as Scootaloo prepares to draw a card.
"This next card need's to be one I can use. Please be a good one," Scootaloo begged to herself as she closed her eyes. She draws the card, extending her arm all the way out beside her. Her eyes snap open as a strange force shots up her body. Without looking at the card, She placed it in her spell card zone with a smile.
"That ends my turn," Scootaloo says. Applebloom and Button look on in shock at the display as Sweetie Belle just smiles.
"Giving up already?" Sweetie says as she draws her next card.
"Nope, just believing in the heart of the cards," Scootaloo replies quickly back.
"At this point, it doesn't really matter what you have." Sweetie Belle replies. "Now Rainbow Dragon attack her for game!" Rainbow Dragon flies up into the air as its mouth starts to glow. It looks down at Scootaloo and lets out the biggest burst of power it has ever shot.
Scootaloo looks on at her impending doom with a straight face. Button catches a slight smile across Scootaloo's face before being engulfed in the light.
"What's that face down?" Button thought. He didn't need to wait long to see four smaller light streams break out and head towards the crystal beasts. Sweetie and the others look on as the crystal beasts are destroyed. The last light beam hits the dragon, causing it to fracture and crack as light spilled out of its body before blowing up in a shower of particles.
"What!" Sweetie says in disbelief. She looks at Scootaloo, who had her arms crossed over her chest, and who was unharmed. Her face-down card now revealed to be Mirror Force.
"Got ya," Scootaloo says with a smirk.
"She's still in this," Applebloom shouts in excitement.
"I play a face-down defense monster and end my turn," Sweetie says as a face-down card appears on the field.
"She's gonna have to make quick work," Button says as Scootaloo draws a new card.
"What do you mean?" Applebloom says as Scootaloo plays another Card Lottery.
"I mean, Sweetie Belle has three Rainbow Dragons. And because of its effect, it can be played so long as all seven different crystal beasts are in the grave or field," Button explains as the first slot lands on a 7.
"That means she can play it right when she draws it," Applebloom whispers to herself as the second slot lands on 7.
"You got it," Button replies as the last slot lands on a 9. Scootaloo looks over her cards as a smile snakes across her face.
"First I play fusion recovery to bring back Death Dragon!" Scootaloo says as the card appears in her hand along with the Fusion recovery card turning into polymerization. "I will then fuse Blue-eyes, Crystal Dragon, and Death Dragon to create The Ultimate Dragon of Light and Dark!"
The sky fills with clouds as three dragons fly up into them. Lightning stricks the ground as a rainbow forms over the top of the dueling field. Flying down from the heavens is a giant three-headed dragon. Dark black crystal skin with blue eyes and white spines. The dragon lands on the field with a loud thud as its roar shakes the ground. The mighty dragon only has 1,500 attack but has a high defense of 5,000.
"Thanks to its first effect, I can summon anyone dragon type to the field," Scootaloo explains as she readies a card in her hand. "So say hello to the last of the Crystal Dragons!" She yells out as the mighty Crystal Dragon flies up next to The Ultimate Dragon. "He also gains 500 attack points for every dragon in the grave. Now with 8 dragons in the grave, my Ultimate dragon gains a total of 4,000 extra attacks! For a grand total of 5,500 Attack!" Sweetie Belle looks on in fear at the two dragons in front of her.
"Now Crystal Dragon, attack her face-down monster with Crystal Slash!" Scootaloo orders. The Crystal Dragon spreads its wings back before flapping them forward, shooting out crystal towards the face-down monster. The card is destroyed, and without missing a beat Scootaloo yells out with a giant smile on her face, "Now The Ultimate Dragon of Light and Dark! Attack her directly with Chaos Energy Blast!"
The Ultimate Dragon charges its attack on all three of its heads. Each one shoots out a different beam, one dark, one light, and the last rainbow. The three beams merge together to form one beam of light before hitting Sweetie Belle directly. She covers her eyes from the bright light as her life points drop down to 0.
The monsters fade away as Applebloom and Button cheer from the sidelines. "And that's game," Scootaloo says, pointing at Sweetie Belle. Sweetie Belle sighs with a defeated look before looking up at Scootaloo with a proud smile.
"I guess you did earn that win," Sweetie Belle says as everyone walks over to her. "But might I ask, when did you build such a good Dragon deck? Didn't you use to have a Winged Beast Deck?" Scootaloo nodes yes.
"I rebuilt my deck over the past week, getting ready for the duel Academy entrance exam," Scootaloo explains. She flinches in surprise when Sweetie Belle hugs her.
"I'm glad you made it in and sorry for earlier," Sweetie Belle says as Scootaloo hugs back.
"No problem Sweetie Belle," Scootaloo says as Applebloom joins the hug. The three sit there for a bit before realizing they are missing someone.
"Hey Button, come and join in," Sweetie Says, looking over at Button.
"Na, I'll let you girls have this one alone," Button says, waving them off.
"Come on you big lug," Scootaloo says, grabbing Button's arm and dragging him into the hug. The group all laughed at the situation as Button finally joins the group hug.
Author's Note
Spot any bad grammar or misspellings? Just tell me.
