85. --VOL2 - TOSSING A COIN (1/2)

yu-gi-oh! owned by kazuki takahashi and konami

fan-fiction and characters with * by emerald sonata

yu-gi-oh! (duel monsters):dark magician girl, alice

vol.2=07=

'tossing coin'

{dark magician girl's diary

i believe in master. whenever he faces a bad ending, orget himself into a pinch, he always has this ability to turn it around. most of the time, he loses, but his last minute turn arounds would always make his opponents swallow their saliva in anxiety. it's also the only time where master would be super serious. he looks really cool whenever he believes he can win his enemy in a single move. i would always forgive master whenever the opponent's stronger monster destroys me. is his effort to use every card and tactic at his disposal to protect me is what matters.

"...hold up... is that a needle sunfish in the river...ah...you, spider! get that fish!"

"this isn't the time to having a potluck barbecue right now!"

jirai gumo clicked her tongue before she quickly darted forward. using the logs behind her as her shield, she would jump down the hill and towards the river that jack o'donnell was pointing to. she reached out her hand and she spat out a thread of web from her mouth. biting onto the wiring, she would twirl her fingers around and tug on it.

in a blink of an eye, there was this large creature that was yanked out from the heart of the flowing river.

a duel monster, called needle sunfish. it was supposed to be a seawater fish, but maybe it befriended the local salmon and trout and accidentally followed it while it was returning from the ocean and into freshwater for a spawning run. it jumped like the salmon it was following, before a series of webs grabbed its body.

"sadako! is the barrel dragon still down!?"

"n-no. i-it's starting to get up! it-it snapped all of the wire and is charging at us!"

"spider, get ready to fire."

"...with what?"

by the time the spider woman asked the question, her answer came with a point of the boy's index finger. at first she thought it was to her groin, which was rude considering she was a spider with a completely different anatomy. then she remembered the needle sunfish that was jumping across dry land like a stranded flounder at her eight feet.

"...haaaaaaaaaah!?"

"h-here it comes! fire!"

"you got to be kidding meeeeee!"

jirai gumo grabbed her threads and prepared to throw. that was when she saw the huge barrel dragon leaping over the lumber pile and onto them. with how it jumped, it was like a show dog clearing an obstacle. it lacked any finesse or grace, but it made up for its size. it would make even a walrus look good.

"now! now! now!"

"g-gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

throwing the fish out of fear than in self-defense, the spider woman swung her wire and launched the needle sunfish into the air at the enemy... only for it to fall short and tumble on the ground. it gave a couple of flops across the dirt, its opercle cover flapping rigorously for water to draw oxygen into its covered gills.

and barrel dragon's foot stomped on it like a boot to an ant.

"...h...hurrk...uuurg...aau...huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurlll!"

unable to stomach this sudden act of violence, jirai gumo turned away and ended up throwing up. regardless of the... gore, jack o'donnell didn't flinch. there was a light in his eyes that no one else could see, other than himself. his gaze never left the barrel dragon, as it gave a mighty roar and stamped that one foot (to erase this icky feeling under its sole).

"huuurk! uuuuurk!"

"pipe down, spider woman. i can't think if you keep wretching your guts out."

"th-that was too much! th-that poor creature! i-it only wanted to be free, and-and swim with the fishes! wh-what did it ever do wrong?"

"no. it's doing something right. by deducting 500 atk points from the barrel dragon."

needle sunfish, a fish class monster with 1500 atk and 1200 def. not a very strong creature, might not even be suitable to use on the frontlines unless the player has a water, mermail, aquaactress, or umi style deck play. however, it did have an ability to make up for its lack of power and support. if this card is destroyed by battle and is sent to the graveyard, it reduces the atk of one face up monster on the opponent side of the field by 500 points.

500 points. out of 2600, that would be—

"it's at 2100 atk now. jirai gumo, hit it!"

"...hah?"