I think my existance is directed by M.
Night Shamalan. Made it to the concert. It was pretty good. They had
tons of Vocaloids perdorming. Miku, Luka, Rin, Len, a bunch of others
I didn't recognize. It was my first time seeing a hologram up close.
I ended up meeting David Kallaway
there. Third place winner of the Game Master's last tournament.
Anyway, after the last song, the
hologram of Mku started speaking to the audience. Reika translated
for me in the back of my head.
“Thank you all for coming. Our next
show will be in a couple months, but for now, you can all go home.”
Then she said something in English.
“I would like Daniel Ferris and David
Kallaway to stay for a while.”
Me and David glanced at eac other.
Something was about to happen. That much was obvious.
“You are all free to go,” Miku said
to the people operating the instruments. “I wish to speak to them
alone.”
They all left.
“So what, a hologram wants to talk to
us?” I asked.
“That's no hologram,” David said.
“It's alive.”
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“Why don't we let her tell us
herself?” he said, glaring at Miku. “Tell us what you really
are!”
Miku transformed into a new body, one I
have never seen before. She was wearing a black leather jacket, had
long purple hair tied into three braids, had a spiked collar around
her neck, and was wearing purple eye liner with her violet eyes.
“I am Vocallas,” she said. “The
being born of thought.”
“Just as I suspected,” David said.
“A Thoughtborn.”
“One of the Manufactured Newborn's
servants?” I asked.
“Yeah,” he replied.
We heard movement around us. I turned
ad saw a bunch of people coming out of the shadows and surrounding
us. They each had chunks of metal and ology embedded in their skin,
and they looked almost like zombies.
“Shit,” David said. “Towerborn.”
They attacked us. We managed to bring
most of them down, but a few of them escaped.
“Go after them!” I said to David.
“I'll handle Vocallas!”
“Alright,” he said, leaving.
“Do you really think you have a
chance against us?” said a new voice.
Someone else had shown up. Was a tall
man with a cloth wrapped around most of his face, concealing his
features. Only his eyes were visible.
“Who're you?” I asked.
“I am Vocallas's servant,” he said.
“My name is Haisuke, and it is my duty to eliminate my master's
adversaries.”
I started running to him, to fight, but
one of the Towerborn that I though were unconscious stood up and
tackled me. I was pinned to the ground. Haisuke started approaching
me, drawing a knife from his belt. I tried using the Godsway, but I
couldn't. Something was wrong.
Without the Godsway, I only had one
other option. I wrestled my left arm free and reached into my vest
pocket for the box Jack gave me. I didn't want to use it, but I was
out of options. I the box open.
The entire place was filled with
lightning. Haisuke was tthrown backwards and the Towerborn on top of
me got thrown off. The lightning was absorbed into my left arm, and a
device appeared on my wrist. Not just any device, either. It was a
duel disk. From the Yu-Gi-Oh tv series.
“What the fuck?” I said out loud.
“Interesting,” Vocallas said.
“Haisuke, you know what to do. Put on a show for me.”
“Yes, Master,” he said, retrieving
his own duel disk from beneath the stage. “Let us duel.”
Something you should know about me; I
almost always carry around a deck of Yu-Gi-Oh cards with me. No real
reason, I just like having them. And I guess it's a good thing I do,
because you never know when you're gonna magically acquire a duel
disk and get challenged my a weird guy working for an evil data being
who controls the Vocaloids.
The deck I had with me was my favorite
deck. It is admittedly very flawed, but it was my first deck and will
always be my favorite. It's gone through a lot of changes over the
years. New cards have been added, some old ones have been removed,
blah blah blah.
“I'll take the first move,” I said.
“I set a monster in face down defense position and end my turn.”
“My move,” Haisuke said. Summon
Gagaga Girl from my hand.
Gagaga Girl is a level 3 dark
spellcaster type monster with 1000 attack.
“I'll have my Gagaga Girl attack your
face down monster,” he said.
“My face down card is Dharc, The Dark
CharmerI said. “Her defense is 1500.
When a monster attacks a defense
position monster who's defense is higher than the attacking monster's
attack power, neither monster is destroyed, and the attacking player
takes damage equal to the difference in power, which in this case was
500. His life points were reduced to 7500.
He suddenly collapsed in pain,
clutching his arm where his duel disk was.
“What's going on?” I asked.
“That duel disk is a part of the
Newborn,” Vocallas said. “Whenever he looses life points, it
bonds with him. Should he lose, the device will transform him into a
Towerborn.”
“What!?” I shouted.
“Becoming on with the Newborn woulbe
a fitting punishment for my failure,” he said. “Now, let us
continue.”
“I activate Dharc's flip effect,” I
said. “Now, I gain control of any dark monster my opponent controls
for as long as she remains in play.”
Gagaga Girl switched over to my side of
the field.
“I set a card face down and end my
turn,” he said.
“I draw,” I said. “I activate the
effect of Familiar-Possessed Dharc from my deck! By tributing Dharc
The Dark Charmer and Gagaga Girl, can special summon
Familiar-Possessed Dharc from my deck, then add a level 3 or 4 light
spellcaster from my deck to my hand!”
Familiar-ossessed Dharc appeared on my
side of the field. She's a dark spellcaster with 1850 attack and 1500
defense.
“Using her effect, I add Neo The
Magic Swordsman to my hand!”I said. “Then I summon him to the
field!”
Neo is a level 4 light spellcaster with
1700 attack and 1000 defense.
“I attack directly with both of my
monsters!” I said. He took a total of 3550 points of damage,
bringing him down to 3950 life points.
Once again, he collapsed in pain. I
could see something moving beneath his skin.
“I build the overlay network with my
two level for monsters to xyz suumon Number 39: Utopia!” I said.
To xyz summon a monster, you need
multiple monsters with the same level. The monsters used in the xyz
summon become attached to the xyz monster as overlay units, and ca be
used to activate their effects.
Utopia is a rank 4 xyz monster
(requiring 2 level 4 monsters to summon), with 2500 attack and 2000
defense.
“I set a card face down and end my
turn,” I said.
“My turn,” he said. “I activate
the spell card Gagagarevenge! Now, I can bring back Gagaga Girl from
my graveyard and equip her with this card. Then, I normal summon
Gagaga Magician!”
Gagaga Magician is a level 4 dark
spellcaster with 1500 attack and 1000 defense.
“I use Gagaga Magician's effect,”
he said. “I select a number between 1 and 8, and that number
becomes his level until the end of the turn. I choose 7.”
Now his Gagaga Magician was a level 7.
“Next, I use Gagaga Girl's effect,”
he said. “I choose a Gagaga Magiician I control, and her level
becomes the same as his. Now both my monsters are level 7, so I can
build the overlay network with them! I xyz summon Chaos Droid Double
Chainsaw!”
The new monster he summoned was a giant
robot with chainsaws for arms. It was a rank 7 monster with 2700
attack and 2300 defense.
“I activate the effect of
Gagagarevenge!” he said. “When the monster summoned with it is
used in an xyz summon, I can have every xyz monster I control gain
300 attack. Also, since Gagaga Girl was used in an xyz summon with
another Gagaga monsters, I can reduce Utopia's attack power to zero!”
Great. His monster was brought up to
3000 attack, while mine was at 0.
“I also activate the trap card Xyz
Chaos Armor!” he said. “After activation, this card becomes
equipped to an xyz monster I control, and as long as it's in play, I
can negate the effects of every other xyz monster in play!”
Not good. Normally, could use Utopia's
effect to negate effects. However, with his effect negated, I could
no longer do that.
“I use Double Chainsaw's effect,”
he said. “By using one of its overlay units, it gains 500 attack
for every card in my hand until the end phase. I have 3 cards in my
hand, so it gains 1500 attack. Now, attack his Utopia!”
Utopia was destroyed and I took 4500
points of damage.
“I set a card face down and end my
turn,” he said.
“Hold on,” I said. “Before you
end it, I activate the trap card Birthright! Now, I can vring back
Neo The Magic Swordsman in attack mode!”
“Okay,” he said. “Now
I end my turn.”
“I
draw,” I said. “I activate Dark Magic Curtain! Now, by paying
half of my life points, I can special summon Dark Magician from my
deck!”
Dark
Magician is my ace card. Always has been, ever since I started
playing this game. He's a level 7 dark spellcaster with 2500 attack
and 2100 defense.
“I
equip Dark Magician with the equip spell card Malevolent Nuzzler,
which increases his attack power by 700!”
Dark
Magician rose to 3200. Just strong enough.
“I
have Dark Magician attack Double Chainsaw!” I said.
His
monster was destroyed, and he took 200 damage.
“Now,
I attack directly with Neo!” I said.
He was
reduced to 2050. He collapsed again, and barely managed to stand back
up.
“I
set a monster in face down defense position, then I set another card
face down and end my turn.”
“I
draw,” he said. “I activate the spell card monster reborn to
bring back Chaos Droid Double Chainsaw!”
Double
Chainsaw returned. If an xyz monster is summoned through means other
than xyz summoning, it won't have any overlay units.
“I
activate my face down card Overlay Regen,” he said. “After
activation, I can attach this card to an xyz monster I control as an
overlay unit, so I'll attach it to Double Chainsaw. Then, by using
that overlay unit, he gains 500 attack for each card in my hand. I
currantly have 2 cards, so he gains 1000 attack! Now, attack Neo The
Magic Swordsman and end this!”
“I
use the trap card Staunch Defender!” I said. “Now, Dark Magician
will take the attack instead!”
Dark
Magician was destroyed and I lost 500 life points.
“I
activate the spell card Card Destruction,” he said. “Both players
discard their hands and draw the same number of cards as they
discarded.”
We
both discarded and re-drew.
“I
set a card face down and end my turn,” he said.
“My
move,” I said, drawing. I paused when I saw the card I had drawn.
It hadn't been in my deck before. As a matter of fact, I don't think
it's ever been in any deck.
It was
the Archangel. I had drawn the fucking Archangel.
I read
it's effect. I could turn things around with him.
“I
flip summon Double Coston!” I said.
Double
Coston is a level 4 dark zombie type monster with 1700 attack and
1650 defense.
“I
tribute Double Coston to tribute summon Archangel, Lord Of The
Fallen!” I said.
Monsters
that are level 5 or 6 require you to tribute a monster before
summoning them, and level 7 and above require 2 tributes. Archangel
is level 8, so normally it would require 2 tributes. However, Double
Coston counts as 2 tributes when I tribute a dark monster, so it was
all I needed.
The
Archangel is a dark fairy type monster with 2500 attack and 2000
defense.
“I
use his effect!” I said. “Now I can equip him with a monster in
my graveyard, and I choose the Power Supplier that was send to the
graveyard when you used Card Destruction. Now the Archangel gains the
equipped monster's effect. I'll use it to increase the Archangel's
attack power by 400. Now, attack!”
The
Archangel destroyed his Chaos Droid, and he lost 200 life points.
“I
activate the trap card Death Machine's Last Resort,” he said. “When
a Chaos Droid monster I control is destroyed, I can reduce the attack
of any monster in play by half, and I choose your swordsman.”
“Now,
I attack directly with Neo!” I said.
He
dropped down to 1000 life points.
“I
set a card face down and end my turn,” I said.
“My
turn,” he said. “I activate the spell card Hell Wavelength. If my
opponent controls monsters and I don't both players draw two cards.
Then, I play the spell card Deth achine's revival. Now I can bring
back a Chaos Droid from my graveyard until the end phase. Return,
Chaos Droid Double Chainsaw!”
“How
many times are you gonna bring that thing back?” I asked.
“This
is th last time,” he said. “When my life points are 1000 or less,
I can use a Chaos Droid monster I control as an overlay unit to xyz
summon my ultimate monster! Come forth, Chaos Droid Fear Hunter!”
This
one was a rank 10 xyz monster with 3000 attack and 2500 defense.
“By
using its overlay unit, I can destroy a Fear card in play and have it
gain that monster's attack power. Archangel is a Fear card, so I'll
destroy it!”
The
Archangel was destroyed, and his monster went up to 5900 attack.
“Now,
attack his swordsman!” he ordered.
“I
activate Negate Attack!” I said. His attack was successfully
stopped.
“I
set a card face down and end my turn,” he said. “During the end
phase, Fear Hunter's attack power returns to normal.”
“I
draw,” I said. “I activate Double Summon. This turn, I can normal
summon twice. I'll start by tributing Neo to normal summon Trance The
Magic Swordsman!”
Trance
is a level 6 earth spellcaster with 2600 attack and 200 defense.
“Next,
I summon my own Gagaga Magician,” I said. “And using his effect,
I change his level to 6.”
“An
xyz summon?” he asked.
“No,”
I said. “Even better. By tributing 2 level 6 or higher spellcaster
type monsters, I can special summon my ultimate monster, Sorceror Of
Dark Magic!”
Sorceror
Of Dark Magic is a level 9 dark spellcaster with 3200 attack and 2800
defense. Just enough.
“I
attack your Fear Hunter with Sorceror Of Dark Magic!” I said.
“I
activate the trap card Mirror Force!” he said. “Now, your monster
is destroyed.”
“Sorceror
Of Dark Magic can negate the effects of trap cards an destroy them,”
I said. “So his attack continues.”
His
monster was destroyed, and he was brought down to 800 life points.
“I
end my turn,” I said.
“I
draw,” he said. “I activate the spell card Death Machine's
Revenge. By banishing the Chaos Droid Double Chainsaw from my
graveyard, I can destroy a monster you control and deal you damage
equal to its level times 100.”
My
Sorceror was destroyed and I was destroyed and I lost 900 life
points, bringing me down to 350.
“I
end my turn,” he said.
If I
could draw a low level monster with 800 or more attack, I would win.
“I
draw!” I said. “I summon Shining Friendship in attack mode!”
Shining
Friendship is a level 4 light fairy type monster with 1300 attack
points. I know it's a weak monster, but it's important to me. I was
about to attack, but I stoppped when I saw one of the Towerborn I had
beaten twitching a few feet from me.
“If
I attack, you'll become on of them, right?” I asked.
“Yes,”
he said.
“I
can't do it,” I said. “I can't let that happen to someone.”
“What
are you talking about!?” he demanded. “You have the power to end
this game right now! Why do you refuse to!?”
“I
end my turn,” I said.
He
reached for his duel disk, but instead of drawing, he clicked a
button and his life points dropped to 0.
“What
are you doing!?” I asked.
“I
forfeit the duel,” he said.
He
suddenly began writhing in pain, and cords began tearing out of his
body from the inside. The cords extended, and began tearing apart the
speakers, security cams, and any technology in reach, and pulled the
internal pieces into his body, where they became embedded in his
flesh. A hand fell down on my shoulder. I turned to see the Blood
Vessel version of me standing there.
“We
have to go,” he said.
“But-”
I started to say.
“It's
too late for him,” he said. “We have to get out of here. NOW!”
We
ran. He parted ways with me after a while. I met up with David later
on, and we went back to his place. We've decided that we need to find
out more about Vocallas, and what she's up to. I don't like her. Not
one bit. She has to be stopped.
Malkator
loved Vocaloids. He would feel so betrayed right now.
I never understand this game, how does it work? And more importantly, why is it the key factor in battling with the fears? I don't think that would ever happen in my universe.
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