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Kings Stand

Two years ago a small rural city had a dimensional rift opened in it's outskirts and now the tribes that came threw live in peace with those of the rebuilt city. This is the story of one of them.

(catchy intro)

episode 1 – beginners luck

Jake arrived at his hobby shop from school to find the automated systems still running. Both kids out of school and their partner creatures in full battle swing. By seeing the battles it was hard to believe two short years ago they were killing each other across the street. Of course all of these monsters are in a holographic form as the real creatures are rarely had by children. Jake was not surprised to see a bunch of kids a few years younger than him happy to see him. “ Jake it is Friday."

Jake smirked knowing that fact. Friday was the day the new series packs came. “ All right. I know settle down. Just let me put my bag away." Jake could hear the awws from each of them even if they kept them quiet. Jake knew they each wanted to win the prize of one random pack having a creature contract prize in it. The unique card that once put into a King's Stand Battle Simulator will call the main union headquarters to have them send over all their press and the volunteer creature. It was a promotion gimmick he knew but the children loved the game. As he entered upstairs he hear typing coming from a room in the back. “ You eat today Silvia?"

He got a response of an empty pizza box being thrown out of the room. Jake sighed as he went into his room and set down the bag before going into the storage area and picking up a box. He loaded the new packs into the automated system before bringing one with him. “ Alright everyone. You know the rules. I will not unlock the boosters until the tournament is over." The children brighten up wide." Jake moves to the screen and brings out a bracket for tournaments. “ For those who are new to this everyone will be given a random card from this pack. Whatever card you get you are allowed to keep but you must use it in the tournament."

The kids brighten up as they each sync their KSBS to the tournament bracket. After battle order had been chosen at random Jake opens the pack and shuffles the cards. He then starts to pass them out one at a time. He then came to one he had not seen in some time. This was not one from the local elementary school. This was a high schooler like himself. “ Well Jake, you going to give me a card?" Jake squeezed the empty wrapper without the last card in his hand. “ Hammer, I thought you were with your dad." Hammer laughed lightly. “ Sure sure, thing is." Suddenly he raised his hand and an actual creature came into the store. It was a beastman type. “ This is Leon."

The beast crossed his arms and growled annoyed to himself. Jake loosened his grip slightly on the wrapper. He put the card face up on the table. “ A thunder blade. More like a double edge sword." Jake smirked. “ Well Hammer you wanted a free card. You got to have to play with it if you want the prize." Hammer made a discomforting growl with his throat as Leon spoke. “ A powerful weapon the thunder blade is but you must understand it to be able to control it." Jake smiled. “ Familiar with it?" Leon uncrossed his arms and took off his Kings Stand Rules shirt. On his chest was the mark of an old blow. “ Long ago I fought a true master of the thunder blades. His grave is right behind me."

The children move to the front to look behind Leon and out the shops front windows to see the memorial of those who died in the fighting. On top of it was an encased sheathed sword. Jake looked at the beast lion not very impressed but curious. “ Were you here in the battle?" Leon shook his head. “ No, I was not part of the battle but I was part of the great treaty after."

Jake smiled. “ That is good. Most of the beast kingdom look down on us. If you can show us respect then you are welcome in my home and have my respect." Leon chuckled as he crossed his arms again after putting his shirt back on. “ You are well versed in my kingdoms tradition young one of the Terran kingdom. I shall honor you by not taking part of this contest."

Jake smiled before frowning as he looked back at Hammer. “ Form your decks and insert your new cards." Hammer grumbled as he started building his deck and Jake went to behind the counter as the tournament bracket suddenly changed. “ Come forth the one who found me and make your contract whole." Jake stood up again and looked around the room. It was already drawing attention as one of the children had a hologram image of a dragon on it. “ Okay come on. Back away. Give her some room." Jake rushed to the child as the hologram turned to Jake. “ Are you the one in charge young one?"

Jake smirked. “ I am. I run the Battleground Hobby Shop on memorial drive. I was hosting a booster tournament. She was given your contract in a random draw." The dragon hologram hummed. “ I see. Carry on with your contest young one. This will give time for your worlds press to get there." Jake looked out the window and already news vans were being parked along the street. Jake sighs. “ The way they are worked up I am canceling it and they are keeping the cards they got. Truth be told I am interested in meeting you as well. So the sooner you are here the better." The dragon nods and his image vanished from the KSBS.

Jake left Leon in charge of control of the inside as he got his support drones to work to get the press under control. They were barely under control when the dragon in the hologram lands in the road and the cameras aimed at him. He stood there tall and proud posing for the cameras. Jake and Leon had their arms crossed unimpressed. Jake moved forward and looked up to the dragon. “ Could you have came in here smaller?"

The dragon knelt and looked at Jake annoyed. “ Who are you to tell me what to do Terran young one?" Jake looked up to him defiantly and then raised his shoulder. “ Fine you banned from enter my shop but I am not baring the others from leaving. Hammer Leon let them out." The beastman and the other highs schooler let the rest in the shop out. They all looked at him surprised and thrilled and he mingled with them before noticing the other foreigner to the world gone as well. He looked around for them before noticing them behind him at the memorial picking up the scattered flowers and placing them back on the memorial. He paused in thought before turning back to the children. “ So which one of you has the contract?"

The children paused and looked at each other before separating to a little girl. She had the contract card in her hand. “ I am Tornado Twist of the air tribe of the dragon peoples. My partner has agreed to this contest and I am happy to meet more of your tribe. Especially those so young." Suddenly a cyclone of air blocked the view of the dragon and he became a two legged form. He was wearing a light suit of armor and a steel sword at his side. The children became wide eyed to the sight of him. However there was another who was not amused. “ What is the big idea? You trying to disturb the dead?" The transformed dragon turns to an annoyed Jake. The flower in his hand had all the peddles off of it. “ That was not my intent young one of."

Jake interrupts. “ Get off your high horse or would you like me call you blind one of the dragon people." The dragon growled annoyed. “ You are getting on my nerves. If you wanted me to call you something else then you should tell me your name." Jake crossed his arms. “ That is the first sensible thing you have said. I am Jake and I run the shop. Now do me the kindness of introducing yourself." The dragon growled then chuckled amused. “ You are the host. I am Tornado Twist. Twist for short. Now can I get back to my contract?" Jake smiles. “ Very well, I have took enough of your time." Jake waved at the children before going back into the store.

It was some time later before the parents of the children got wind of what was going on and were all supportive. After all the creatures have been common in the city for over a year now. Twist showed off for the children and the cameras the entire time. Suddenly a pizza delivery biker showed up. He had half a dozen pizzas with him. The delivery man looked at the memo then at Twister. “ I got an order for three large peperoni, two super meaty and a super cheesy." The children suddenly lost interest in Twist and he became curious of this as the bell to the shop rang. He suspected the owner Jake arranged this food for the children but what surprised him was another from his race and a woman at that. She handed a printed receipt to the pizzas. The delivery man looked at her curious as he unpacked the pizzas. “ Thank you for choosing Pizza King Restaurant." She blinked and took the pizzas. “ You must be the new guy. Go tell thunder thighs when you get back you were three minute late."

The delivery man gulped as the dragon turned and spotted all the eager faces looking at her. She then noticed their parents then all the cameras and the humanoid dragon. “ Jake said there was this impolite oath called Twist out here. For disturbing the memory tribute not once but twice you are not allowed to come inside." She then went inside and the children followed her. Twist blinked a few times not sure exactly what just happened. Leon moved to his side. “ So that is a dragon female. Not as I pictured them. She has spunk." Twist turns to Leon. “ Hold your tongue beast warrior. We both work for the union but that does not mean we are equals."

Leon chuckled. “ Your right. You are a show puppet and I am not. The owner Jake saw these things in me and you the moment he saw us. Now I will leave you here with the mob called the press. I am going to see if I can get me a piece of one of those pizzas." Twist grunted. “ Do whatever you want. I am going for a flight till my contractor is ready for me." As he was lifting off the ground he noticed the gusts from his wings were reaching to the monument. He did not figure they were that strong and he was nearly over the shop when a challenge arena trapped him. “ What?"

He found himself falling to his surprise back to the ground and he stumbled slightly before becoming aware of his challenger. It was the woman again. This time instead of a tank top and tight shorts she was in battle armor. “ You have disturbed the memorial for the last time. It is too crowded for us to battle here however." The female dragon raised her wrist and turned the dial and the challenge field dissolved. Twist blinked at her surprised not sure how she came across such a device or able to control it. “ In the field." He nods and they walk over. The female dragon resets the flowers yet again before twisting the device on her wrist again. “ You oath. Build your deck. You have access to your partners KSBS."

Twist returned to his humanoid form and went to his wrist and found out it was true. He quickly built his twenty card deck of spells and nine additional warriors to himself and equips for a full field of them all. Totaling thirty five in his deck. An average to a challenge. He looked up after setting his deck to be shuffled and noticed she only had two. One was obviously her but he wondered what the other was. The sphere over them then spoke.“ Kings Stand Simulator Duel is active. Twist is the challenged and may go first." Twist activates his combat analyzer. It was an item that was not part of a deck and could be used by anyone at any time. “ Twenty all across the board. Not bad for a level two. With an armor pierce ability." The female crossed her arms annoyed. “ Lets get this over with you oath. My food is getting cold."

Twist closed his mouth and growled angry. “ I cast my army as four level one dragon soldiers." Suddenly four dragon soldiers dressed in similar armor to Twist appeared. “ Next I equip cyclone lance." A lance appeared to twists side. Ready to be used. The female looked at him not very impressed. A common rush strategy to summon a bunch of weaker warriors and a powerful weapon. Best used if the other player does not have a counter to it. “ I cast dragon's breath blast." Suddenly Twist inhaled deeply and his soldiers do the same and exhale in great force. The blasts of air collide against a magic shield. “ What? A mana guard?"

The female scratches her chin. “ A mana block. I can not personally use magic spells but I am completely unaffected by them as well. My turn." She puts her extra card in the ready to use slot and rushes to the front right soldier and gives him a swift kick to the side of the head. Twist paused noticing she did know how to fight. He drew a card knowing she had nothing left. “ King's stand ability. If I lost a level one warrior by being attacked last turn I can summon a level three by sacrificing only one more level one." The other soldier on his right vanishes and a large green dragon appeared and roared making itself known. “ This card is modeled after the mighty Tornado Gust. A great champion of the wind tribe. Go attack her now."

The female opened her eyes to the coming threat. “ Eighty attack and both fifty defense and health but only twenty agility." The female extends her hand toward the memorial. The sword in the glass case busts threw and lands in her hand and she cut the charging dragon in half. Twist could hardly believe what happened. “ You should be defeated with the thirty damage backlash. Unless you are." The female charged the middle left soldier and backed away again after that one too was dispatched. Twist draws yet again. By now he had noticed his opponents agility increases with the mana count. This is turn five so counting the twenty at the start minus that for summoning her equip she has seventy agility. He will have to have an overwhelming force of either speed or health to beat her now “ I cast dragon rebirth. By sacrificing one lower level warrior on my side of the field I can summon a level two or higher destroyed last turn."

His last level one soldier disappeared and the green level three took it's place back. The female actually yawned as if bored. “ Next I cast magical sacrifice. By sacrificing one magic card I increase my mana to a total of thirty." Twist was growing tired of her attitude. “ Finally I cast dragon strength. Which one of my creatures will gain ten points to each of their stats per ten points of mana spent on the spell till the end of turn." The female looked at the 110/80/80/50 not very impressed. “ Attack her." The female says three words. “ King's Stand Ability." Suddenly his monstrous creature was yet again cut in half. He was in disbelief as he took a look at her again. Her stats have all gone up by fifty points but her agility which went back down to forty. “ What just happened?"

The female grunted. “ You just lost. Sense you have no mana you can not set a card and even thou you would strike me first with defender bonus your damage would not even be able to pierce my armor." Twist fell to his knees as he knew it was true. After his attack it automatically diverted to her turn and her stats were the same. “ Tell me how did you get so strong?" The female squinted her eyes and went back to the memorial and laid her hand on it. “ You oath, you lost and you expect me to answer your questions."