Thabo looked at the skeleton in fear. Hearing that it would no longer hold back made him scared.
“I play Cost Down.” The Skeleton said. “For 3 Aura, this Casting allows me to summon one of my Unit’s in my hand for one less its value. I summon Grim Cleric!”
There was a bright flash of light and when it vanished, Grim Cleric had appeared. Grim Cleric was also a skeleton, like the other Grim Units. It wore circular glasses, a bright Hawaiian shirt, shorts and slung over his shoulder was a bag, overflowing with graffiti pictures and a camera.
“Now, I can activate Grim Cleric’s ability for 3 Cost, I can summon a 3 Value Grim Unit if I send Grim Cleric and Grim Kid to the graveyard.”
“Wh-What? Value 3 but that means…”
“Yes,” the skeleton said. “That means I am going to summon the only Value 3 Unit.”
Grim Cleric and Grim Kid were each surrounded by silver vortexes of energy. The silver vortexes became stronger and stronger as they grew taller. The spinning energy became fiercer. Then they began spinning around each other before merging into a typhoon made of silver energy.
The surface of the black sea began to indent around the hurricane. Thabo screamed as a whirlpool formed around the silver hurricane. Water sprayed on his face as he hung on the boat for dear life. The hurricane grew bigger and bigger and the whirlpool became deeper.
“This-This is insane!” Thabo shouted over the sound of the rain and rushing water.
The silver typhoon exploded and in its place was the Grim King, sitting in his throne is all his glory. The whirlpool crashed shut. Thabo was amazed that the boat had not keeled over yet. The swells were now larger and the rain had gotten even worse.
Thabo looked back at the fading light. It was now dimmer and more far away than it was before.
“My boss Unit has returned.” The Ferryman said. “With that, I attack!”
Grim King rose from his seat. The air became thick with dread and fear as Grim King wielded his scythe.
“Robo Girl…” Thabo said in fear.
“Grim King, attack!” The Ferryman said.
Grim King flew forward and swung his scythe, it cleaved though Robo Girl, who looked back at Thabo with sad eyes before she vanished.
“Robo Girl, no!” Thabo cried.
“Since you have 4 Token Treasures, you take 4 damage!”
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Thabo’s life points drop to 6.
“With that my turn ends,” the Ferryman said, a sinister smile adorned on his skeletal face. “Now, it’s your turn. Show me what you can do.”
“O-Okay,” Thabo said. He wipes his face of the water, however, it was futile. “I draw,” he said, reaching for his deck and drawing a card.
The waves buffeted the boat, crashing into it and the two passengers. The downpour was worse. It was a curtain of water. Everything around him was a blur of colour in the heavy downpour. However, in the blur, there were 2 things he could see clearer than the hand before his face, and that was the Ferryman and the Grim King. The green orbs of fire in his sockets burned fiery bright, more fierce than they had ever burned. The Grim King sat on his throne, looking bored but more magnificent and bigger than any other being.
The boatman gestured toward Thabo. “Now, Grim King, finish him off!”
The Grim King rose to his feet, he lifted his scythe. Leaping forward, Grim King raised his scythe and swung it toward Thabo.
Before the scythe could connect, Thabo was back. The rain was still falling but not as bad as it was in his vision, the swells were large but they were not pouring into the boat yet.
“Another vision?” The Ferryman said.
“Y-Yes.”
“What was it?”
He frowned at the Ferryman, narrowing his eyes suspiciously. “Why do you want to know?”
The ferryman shrugged. “Call it curiosity.”
“It was nothing.” Thabo said. He looked at his hand. “I summon my Value 3 Unit Creature.”
“A Value 3? Are you summoning something that can challenge my king?”
Thabo did not answer, instead he screamed in pain as more Token Treasures came to his side to burden him. He was struggling to breath as he said his next words, “I summon, the Melodic Maid.”
The Unit Creature came into view. The lower part of her was fused to a harp.
“Well, that is disappointing.” The Ferryman said. “She only has Power 7. Speaking of 7, you have 7 Treasure Tokens? That is the most any mortal soul can handle before being torn apart.”
“That explains the pain,” Thabo said, resisting the urge to keel over. “Now I play this Casting, Unequal Exchange!” Thabo played the card. “It allows me to send my Maiden to the graveyard and add one Unit Creature with Value 2 or less to my hand.”
“That is a strange move. Are you going to bring back Unknown Scholar?”
“No, Robo Girl!” The card was added to Thabo’s hand.
“Why would you do that? It is the weakest Unit Creature you’ve summoned.”
He looked at Robo Girl, back in his hand. It made the pain he felt more bearable. “That may be true but it doesn’t change the fact that she beat your Grim King once. She can do it again. I end my turn.”
The skeleton looked surprised. “Ah I see what you’ve done. You have emptied the Treasure Pile. Now when my Grim King Attacks, you’ll lose nothing.”
“Yeah,” Thabo smiled. “It should buy me some time.
“We’ll see.” The Ferryman said. “My turn, I draw…!”
Ferryman: 10
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Grim King
Val: 3
Pwr: 9 Empty Unit
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TT: 7
Thabo: 6