Hey there folks! =D No comission this tiem just something for fun and to do a slight variation on the story!

This round our mysterious cubchoo orphan Anne finds herself facing a stranger who claims to know about the event that burned her home and left her an orphan... he also wants to kill her. Will she be able to find off this phantom returning to finish the job with a deck of weak monsters and the card carrying Petie's feelings for her? Read to find out! =D

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PCA Duelist:
Burning Down the House



“H-hello? Helloooo? A-anyone here? … p-please?”

Anne was about to cry as her knees knocked together while she walked. The cubchoo didn’t know where she was or how she got there wearing just her nightie and training pants. The sky was dark and this thick smoke covered everything making seeing more than a few feet in front of her impossible. Smells of burning, oil, and fire were everywhere in the smoke making her dizzy and sick to her stomach. She HATED smoke just as much as she hated fire. Ever since whatever happened to leave her an orphan in a burned house… if only she could remember…

“Keeekekekekeke!!!”

Anne squeaked as the sound of raspy laughter broke out through the smoke making her nearly hyperventilate with fear. In the distance huge flames burst into life creating ethereal lights through the smoke as it started to clear. Anne trembled softly in fear as the thick smoke darted as if pushed away by invisible hands to form a large circle with her standing on the edges of it. This couldn’t be real… this had to be some kind of twisted nightmare Anne thought as she heard the tread of boots echo through the fog and a dark silhouette started to emerge across from her.

The figure stepped into the clearing and she could see it was a lanky keckleon guy. Unlike the usual keckleon light green and yellow his main body was a fiery red and his markings were a dull brown. His ear fins were also longer than normal and swept back giving his head a more angular look. He was dressed like some kind of biker punk with a fur trimmed black leather jacket over a fishnet shirt with black flame printed pants and steel toed boots. It was unusual enough she’d wondered if he was cosplaying someone as he gave her a leering grin and laughed again in that raspy voice.

“Kekekekekeke! My do I spy Anne there? Sister ya won’t believe how long I’ve been wanting to meet ya again!

“Y-you know me?”

“Yep yep! Not often in my line of work somebody gets away like ya did sister! But dis boss guy… he’s made me a little deal see? I get another chance to make it so ya DIDN’T get away!”

“G-got a-away? I d-don’t understand! D-do you… do y-you know s-something about w-what happened to my f-family?”

“Maybe I do, maybe I don’t! Ain’t gonna tell ya and ruin the surprise sister!”

Anne squeaked as suddenly a baby blue duel disk appeared on her arm and a flame print disk appeared on the keckleon’s arm as she suddenly remembered dreams Petie & Jules had mentioned having “W-we’re going to d-duel?” the keckleon gave a bigger laugh at that “Ya got it sister! Ya win and you get to go home. Lose… well I ain’t cruel enough to tell ya what’s gonna happen till it happens!” he said giving her a sickening smile that made Anne’s stomach turn “And for the sake of manners… call me Roadie!”

“O-okay…”

“Now lets duel!!”

“D-duel…”

Anne LP: 8000 Roadie LP: 8000

“Ladies first sister, so ya get first go!” Roadie said giving a mocking bow as Anne nervously drew her card. “I… I s-summon Mystic Piper.” She squeaked, barely loud enough to be heard, as a man in white tights, a pink shirt, and a long purple coat with a hood appeared happily skipping in place and playing his flute (0/0) before vanishing into sparkling motes of light “And I u-use his e-effect… I tribute him t-to draw a card a-and if it’s a l-level one monster I d-draw again.” She drew her card and revealed a “Freya, Spirit of Victory” a level one monster before pulling another card.

“T-then I play P-Photon Veil.” She took three cards from her hand “I s-shuffle t-three light monsters b-back into my deck…” she does so “And g-get to add u-up to three level f-four or lower light m-monsters from my d-deck to my hand… b-but they h-have to have the s-same name…” she added three cards… and suddenly three cotton fluffs with big blue eyes, smiling mouths, and fluff tipped antenna appeared (200/300) “A-and Watapon’s p-power special s-summons himself when h-he’s added to my h-hand by an e-effect!”

“N-now… I c-create an o-overlay n-network!” she said as all three Watanpons turned into balls of light and circled a swirling galaxy of energy that appeared between them before converging in a explosion of energy that shook the arena before dying down to reveal… an incredibly adorable monster. It’s head was twice as big as its body and its ears were almost as big as its head. It’s catlike ears had white tufts coming from them and it was tiger colored with orange fur, blackish markings, and a tan tummy. A tiny pair of wings on its back fluttered as it looked around with big sad, sad eyes (900/900) “To s-sumon my B-Baby Tiragon!”

Anne smiled softly as the tiny monster ran over and clung to her, obviously just as scared of the surroundings as she was. She gently patted the small creatures head as she remembered how Petie had given her the card since he said it’d reminded him of her… having sad but pretty eyes and deserving a lot more love… of course he’d followed that up by hugging her. Oddly enough she felt a lot more confident with the small monster beside her now “I s-set one card and end my t-turn.” She said as a face down card appeared.

Roadie meanwhile looked like he was gonna hurl at all the cuteness going on as he drew his card “My turn now sister!” he shouted as Anne’s face down lifted “A-and I play Safe Zone!” the continuous trap glowed for a moment before the glow moved to Baby Tiragon “A-as long as this card is e-equipped to Baby Tiragon he can’t be targeted or d-destroyed by your card e-effects OR b-by battle! H-he just can’t a-attack you directly e-either.” She explained as Tiragon worked its way up into her arms for a cuddle which she was happy to give.

Roadie growled softly and looked at his hand. It was obvious Anne’s deck wasn’t an attack deck that could destroy monsters… which made the Goblin Zombie and Pyramid Turtle he was currently holding worthless… time to get creative “I play Call of the Mummy sister!” he said as the spell card appeared and suddenly his long tongue snaked out and snapped up the cards in his hand pulling them into his mouth for a moment as he flexed his fingers and cracked his knuckles before his tongue shout back out and returned his cards to him. Anne just stared in shock and disgust.

“D-doesn’t that d-damage your cards?”

“Naaaaaa, I do it when I need to flex my fingers. See? They got plastic sleeves on em to keep dem safe.”

He chuckled as Anne nodding at his explanation. The part about the plastic sleeves was true… but WHY he did it was a big fat lie. In truth he’d tapped a few useful cards to the top of his mouth and with a bit of tongue gymnastics he could easily trade a card in his hand out for one of them. Was it cheating? Heck yes. But as they said what the bear didn’t know he could burn her to death with!

“I play Card Destruction! Ditch ya cards and draw new ones sister!” he said as he discarded four and Anne discarded two before they drew “Den… I use Call of the Mummy’s power to summon my Skull Flame!!” in a huge burst of fire that made Anne scream this horrible monster rose up. I looked like a wizard of some kind clad in a purple robe decked out in bones, huge bone themed shoulder and chest armor, a long red cape… but it’s skeletal face gave the impression the wizard left the land of the living a while back and flames erupted from its skull headdress and shoulder armor forming a mane of fire behind it (2600/2000)

“Keeeeeekekekekeke!! Like him? Well take a closer look then! Skull Flame attack with Hell Burning Strike!” he shouted as Skull Flame clapped it’s withered hands together and unleashed a cyclone on flames at Anne and Tiragon. She screamed as Baby Tiragon intercepted the blow, lessening the damage to her lifepoints. Still she could see and hear screaming faces in the flames. After a moment the fires died down leaving her on her knees hugging herself and trembling as Roadie laughed “Keekekekeke! And with that I end my turn! Your go sister!”

Anne LP: 6300 Roadie LP: 8000

Baby Tiragon did the best it could to help Anne back up with its tiny arms and after a moment of breathing hard she seemed to have recovered “I-I draw… a-and set t-two cards… I t-then move Baby T-Tiragon to defense mode and e-end my turn.” She said weakly as two facedown cards appeared and Tiragon got in best defensive spot it could… snuggled in Anne’s arms.

Roadie fought back down that feeling of nausea again “Ya think I can’t hurt ya now since that wimps in defense mode and can’t be destroyed in battle? Wrong! I use Skull Flame’s power! Instead of drawing this round I can add a Burning Skull Head in my grave to my hand!” he said as he pulled the card from his grave “Then I discard Skull Conductor! Dis monster lets me discard him to special summon two zombies from my hand who’s attack equals 2000… and my two Burning Skull Heads have JUST the right amount of points to qualify!” he slapped two cards down as a pair of identical monster appeared… who were burning human skulls with pinpoints of lights in their eyes as they floated and cackled evilly (1000/800)

“…… t-they’re a-appropriately named…”

“Huh… they are aren’t they? Anyway when they’re special summoned from my hand they deal you a 1000 points of damage for each one!” he cackled as the two skulls spat flames at Anne making her scream and fall to her knees again “And with that I end my turn! Your go sister!” he said mockingly as Anne knelt there crying while Baby Tiragon nuzzled her to try and calm her down. Roadie laughed sadistically as she sobbed till she sniffled and manage to get back up to her feet “I d-d-draw…” she whimpered lightly.

Anne LP: 4300 Roadie LP: 8000

“I p-p-play Graceful R-Revival…” Anne squeaked as one of her facedowns lifted “Letting me s-special summon a level t-two o-or lower m-monster f-from my grave… like F-Freya, S-Spirit of Victory.” She said as the monster she’d shown earlier slipped out of her grave. A pretty blue haired young lady appeared wearing a sleeveless dress so short it barely kept anything hidden. She had a pair of pom-poms in her hand and glowing rings floating around her wrists and ankles as she began to jump up and down in a spirited cheering routine (100/100).

“T-then I a-activate I-Inferno R-Reckless Summon.” She slipped one of the two cards in her hand into her disk “W-which I can o-only play when I special s-summon a monster w-with 1500 attack or less. I get to s-special summon all my c-copies of h-her from my hand, d-deck, and g-grave… and y-you get to choose one of y-your monsters and d-do the same.” She finished as she pulled two more copies of Freya from her deck as two more cheerleaders joined the first. Roadie thought for a moment before two more Skull Flames appeared on his side of the field.

“N-now my F-Freya’s ability a-activates.” Anne said as her cheerleaders started to glow “E-each of them give a-all Fairy type m-monsters 400 extra points… a-and they a-are Fairy types t-themselves!” suddenly all three of the Freya’s formed a human pyramid as their points shot up (1300/1300) x 3 “A-and so l-long as I h-have another F-Fairy monster on the field y-you can’t a-attack them… s-since they’re a-all fairy…” she said softly as Roadie went bug eyed as he realized what she was getting at.

“I can’t attack any of them!!!”

“U-uh huh… next I p-play my second Mystic Piper.” another flute player appeared filling up Anne’s field “And a-activate The Spell Absorbing Life. I gain 400 lifepoints for each effect monster on the field… I c-count ten” she said as her trap card lifted and she glowed brightly as her lifepoints shot up to more than she had begun the duel with as Roadie ground his teeth in fury “N-now it’s time…” she said, smiling and sounding much more confident “For m-my Baby Tiragon to use his power. By r-removing one of his Xyz m-materials he can give one of m-my level one monsters the power to a-attack you directly!”

Baby Tiragon opened wide and swallowed one of the three orbs of light circling him as he glowed with power before it arched and flew to Freya at the top of the human pyramid surrounding her in the power. “N-now attack him directly! Pep Kick!” Anne called as loud as she could, which was still a squeak, as the other two Freyas tossed the glowing one into the air and she came down to deliver a painful looking drop kick to the top of Roadie’s skull dropping him to his knees as he groaned.

Anne LP: 8300 Roadie LP: 6700

“L-lastly I use Mystic Piper’s effect.” The flute player vanished again as she drew her card, revealing it to be a Pot of Avarice “Y-your turn.” She said as Roadie kneeled there, head lowered and non-responsive “Um… I s-said your turn…?” she squeaked as she looked at him timidly. He suddenly snapped his head back up, pupils narrowed to slits an a bloodthirsty look in his eyes. Images flashed through Anne’s head quickly… her old home, flames, her parents trying to defend her, several figures, blood thirsty hate filled eyes… she screamed and crumpled to the ground curled up in the fetal position and sobbing heavily.

“My. Draw.” Roadie snarled as he yanked his card off his disk and snapped his hand up with his tongue again, clenching his fists in anger before spitting his cards back out “And play Thunder Crash! All monsters on my field are destroyed and you take 300 damage for each!” with a deafening boom all his monsters shattered and lightning struck Anne who was too far gone at this point to notice.

“Then… I remove one of my Skull Flames from play… to special summon Supersonic Skull Flame!” with a burst of fire a new monster appeared. From the waist up he was identical to Skull Flame down to the cape… but from the waist down he was a heavily armored centaur covered in bone like armor. The monster reared up and gave an unearthly roar (2600/2000) “Then I use his effect… once per turn he can deal 400 points of damage to ya for every Burning Skull Head in my grave and I have two!” he snarled as more flames burst up around the still oblivious bear.

Anne LP: 6000 Roadie LP: 6700

Anne sniffled and sobbed still curled up in the fetal position as her cheerleaders looked on in worry and Baby Tiragon did it’s best to wake her… finally resorting to pulling her card for the turn himself and putting it in her hand. Roadie just laughed “Guess it’s my turn then!” he called as he yanked a card off the top of his deck “And I play Foolish Burial! I send my last Burning Skull Head from my deck to the graveyard… and use Supersonic Skull Flames ability again! Now ya take 1200 points of damage!” he jeered as the flames assaulted the curled up bear again and Tiragon glared at him for that cheap shot.

Anne LP: 4800 Roadie LP: 6500

“Your turn, if ya can take it! Keeekekekekeke!!!” he laughed. Anne finally slowly sat up, tears having stained her cheeks at this point as she sniffled and slowly drew her card “W-w-wh-who a-are you?” she whispered weakly as Roadie just laughed “Wouldn’t ya like to know… but it doesn’t matter too much since you’re about to lose!” he taunted as Anne looked at the three cards in her hand. “…” she sniffled for a moment more before playing one of them “I s-s-summon Copycat.”

In a puff of smoke and confetti the strangest monster yet appeared. It was thin and lanky and dressed in a green and blue striped jumpsuit, yellow boots and gloves, a blue cape, and a blue witches hat… oddest of all was the it was holding a hand mirror in front of its face hiding what it looked like (0/0) “When C-Copycat is s-summoned I c-choose one monster on the f-field and his p-points become t-the same as its o-original point.” She said as the monster moved so Supersonic Skull Flame was in its mirror as its points rose (2600/2000)

Suddenly Tiragon swallowed another Xyz material and glowed before passing that glow onto Copycat “A-attack him d-directly! R-reflection Punch!” Anne squeaked as Copycat just stood there for a moment.. before the reflection of Supersonic Skull Flame in its mirror suddenly came charging out life sized and crashed into Roadie before shattering, knocking him over “T-then I end my turn…”

Anne LP: 4800 Roadie LP: 4100

Roadie growled and pulled his card, not even bothering to look at it before pointing and making Anne wince as his monster used its effect to inflict damage again. After that he took a deep breath and shouted at the top of his lungs “ATTACK THAT STUPID CLOWN!!” as Supersonic Skull Flame charged right into Copycat causing them both to shatter due to having equal attack “Then his power activates! I can special summon one of my Skull Flames from my grave!” as the original monster rose back up Roadie took a deep breath and laughed, switching back to a calm, laid back, mocking tone “Ya know ya can’t win this sister… I’ll start using my Skull Heads on ya again… and your little baby pet there can only do his little trick one more time!” he pointed at Baby Tiragon’s last Xyz material “While my decks FULL on nasty tricks! Surrender now!”

“… no t-thank you…”

“… that’s it? That’s all that speech gets? A “No thank you”? Come oooooooon sister at least put some flair into your last works! Your turn then!”

“I d-draw…” she pulled her card off her deck and looked at it, Baby Tiragon in her arms as she did “I p-play Pot of A-Avarice…” the spell appeared as she shuffled two Watapons, two Mystic Pipers, and Copycat back into her deck and drew “… I s-set one card and u-use Tiragon’s power.” Swallowing his last Xyz material the little monster glowed for a moment followed by Freya glowing as well “N-now attack d-directly! Pep Kick!” Roadie cussed as the cheerleader came down on his head with a drop kick again “A-and that’s a-all for my turn…”

Anne LP: 3600 Roadie LP: 2800

“My go then sister! Don’t say I didn’t warn ya! I use Skull Flames’s power to skip my draw and add Burning Skull Head to my hand!” he said as Anne’s card lifted “I a-activate Solar Ray! T-this deals you 600 d-damage for e-every l-light monster on my field!” all three of the Freyas thrust their pom-poms in the air as a ray of light shot from the searing off 1800 of Roadie’s lifepoints, the keckleon coughed and rubbed his eyes as the light died down before laughing “So what!? I’m still standing and you’re out of tricks sister! Ya should have surrendered! Keeeeeeeekekekekeke!!!”

“… j-just take your t-turn please…”

“… again with the lame last words… fine then! I use Skull Flame’s OTHER power! I get to special summon a Burning Skull Head from my hand!” the cackling skull appeared and spat flames at Anne again “Then I summon Flame Spirit Ignis!” This bizarre jin like creature with a four eyed jackle head and flaming hair that trailed down to form a wisp like lower body for it appeared (1500/1200) “And his power lets me tribute a fire monster to deal ya 100 points of damage for every fire type in my graveyard! And I count five!” he said as Burning Skull Flame shattered making the fifth fire monster in his grave as Ignis threw a fireball at Anne.

Anne LP: 2100 Roadie LP: 1000

“Don’t ya get it sister? Next turn I can do that again and the turn after that I can kill ya with it!” Roadie laughed confidently “I doubt your deck has any way left to hurt me unless you can draw another Solar Flare… heck ya could have taken me out if you’d had two more light monsters... but ya had that worthless Tiragon instead!” he pointed at Baby Tiragon making its ears droop sadly “Blame that card for you’re death here sister! I end my turn! Now lemme hear your REAL last words!”

“My m-monsters not w-worthless…”

“… seriously? That’s the best ya can do?”

“I draw…” she pulls her card “And p-play O-Overlay Regenerate!” a spell card appeared… and then turned into an orb of light that started to circle Tiragon “T-this card becomes a-an Xyz material for o-one Xyz monster on m-my field… I h-had it since last turn.” She said as Roadie stared in slack jawed horror. “I t-thought Tiragon d-deserved to be r-responsible f-for you losing.” She said with the faintest hint of a smile as the little monster swallowed the orb and once again empowered Freya.

“N-n-now lets w-wait a minute sister! I’m sure we can talk about this!!!”

“… and you c-called my l-last words lame? Attack h-him directly!!”

“Nooooooooooooo!!!!”

Anne LP: 2100 Roadie LP: 0

Anne LP: Win Roadie LP: Lose

“… s-shouldn’t I h-have woken up n-now?”

“NORMALLY YOUNG LADY THAT WOULD BE THE CASE.”

“…!!”

Anne nearly jumped out of her skin as a voice boomed around her. It seemed to come from everywhere at once and it was impossible to tell if it was male or female… all she could be sure of was that it was LOUD. Roadie scrambled back up from where the kick knocked him as their duel disks and monsters, except for Baby Tiragon, vanished “B-b-boss! I can explain!!” he pleaded but before he could go any further the voice cut him off “SILENCE!!!” the world seemed to shake with the force of the command making Anne scream and hug Tiragon for protection.

“I RECRUITED YOU TO FIGHT AND IF NECESSARY TO DESTROY THIS GIRL IN A FAIR CONTEST TO SERVE A HIGHER PURPOSE. I CHOSE YOU BECAUSE YOU WOULD CAUSE THE MOST ANGUISH FOR HER TO FACE…… I DID NOT CHOOSE YOU FOR YOU TO CHEAT!!!”

There was a smacking sound as if something had been struck hard as Roadies head lurch forward as he spat out the cards he had hidden in his mouth. Anne went wide eyed as she realized what had been happening during the duel but before she could call him out for cheating the voice spoke again “MY PUNISHMENT FOR YOU IF YOU LOST WAS TO SIMPLY VANISH… BUT I CAN SEE NOW THAT WAS TOO MERCIFUL.” Roadie screamed as his body burst into flames.

Anne screamed as she watched the flames get brighter until the keckleon was just a dark shape in their middle “SO INSTEAD I SHALL LEAVE YOU IN AN UNDIEING BODY. TRAPPED AND UNABLE TO FEEL OR DO ANYTHING FOREVER. AND SINCE THIS INFANT DEFEATED I HAVE THE PERFECT FORM FOR YOU TO TAKE.” Anne felt faint as she could see Roadie’s dark shape in the fire growing smaller and smaller before she finally just black out and fell over.


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Anne sat bolt upright in bed, looking around in a panic before realizing she was in Petie’s room with the teddiursa in question lying next to her peacefully sucking his thumb. She breathed a sigh of relief as she tried to remember what had panicked her so badly. It must have been a nightmare of some kind… but what the nightmare had been about she was having trouble recalling. Shaking her head softly she decided it didn’t matter as she laid back down and snuggled into Petie.

Unnoticed by Anne a small plushie lay on the floor that hadn’t been there before. The little red and brown colored keckleon plush toy lay there, moth sewn open as if it’d been in the act of screaming as a long cloth tongue dangled out of it.


The End.