Chapter 38: Clash of the Dragons & Dragon-Phoenix - Part 2

                                    

                                          
   Clarice: 3700 
   Akiza: 4000 

"You're gonna regret interfering in my life, Clarice, because once I remove my Evil Thorn from play, my dragon's special ability reduces the power of your Artemis and forces it into attack mode! Go Black Rose Gale!"
Clarice's eyes glare at Black Rose's thorny vines ensnaring her monster. Flame-Wing Artemis's attack and defense points dropped to zero.
"And now that Flame-Wing Artemis is helpless, Black Rose Dragon attack!"
"You just active my facedown trap card; Flame Wall This trap makes all my battle damage this turn go to zero as long as I send one card on my field to the graveyard. So I think I'll get rid my second facedown card." Clarice countered.
"So what?! I'm still attacking!"
"You're Thorn of Malice doesn't allow you to destroy a monster in battle, and my monster has no attack points." Clarice reminded
"I don't care!" Akiza spat. " Don't let that stop you Black Rose! You may have spared your monster, but now Thorn of Malice really kicks in!"
Flame-Wing Artemis's defense points dropped down to one thousand two hundred.
"Uh oh," Leo whimpered.
"This doesn't look good," Luna observed. She took a step back.
"I end my turn," Akiza said. She broke into a grimace-like smile. "Don't think I'm gonna make this quick, Clarice. I'm going to enjoy watching you squirm."
"Please, like you could do any better." Clarice spat back. "Women and men are nothing compare to demons who will strike back. You maybe scared and hurt, but the mark on your arm shows that your not truly alone."
"Don't bother, Clarice," Akiza scowled, looking away from Clarice. She turned back slicing her hand in the air as if she wanted to do the same to all her connections in the room. "Stop trying to reach me. I get it; you're a princess. You want to save people from their demons."
"But you can't save me, no one can, not now. Only one person really got me, really tried to help me. Only one person understood what it was like to be me. Dad doesn't, you don't, just Sayer, and he's..."
Akiza closed her eyes at the unwelcome memory. "With him missing, there's no place left that I can call home. It's just me," Akiz's eyes flew back open. "And I don't feel like talking about it!"
"Well, good for him! He deserves his reward falling in his own Abyss!" Clarice fired back.
Everyone jaws drop on her.
Akiza went grit her teeth. "WHAT DID YOU SAY?!"
"Don't give me that! He was never meant to live anyway! I said what need to be spoken!" Clarice wave her hand aggressively.
"Uh...Clarice?" Yusei tapped her shoulder, voice low. "I thought we were trying to connect with her? Ya know, de-escalate?"
"This women is blind!" Clarice jabs her thumb at Akiza. "She doesn't need  that ridiculous Bad-Hair- Bastard, she need to talk things out with her family and try not to run away like a misunderstanding fool!"
"Run away?!" Akiza glared at her. "My family?! So you're saying I should go home and play house with those people over there? The ones who sent me away cuz they thought I was a monster?! I don't think so!"
Akiza ripped the metal coil out of her hair and tossed it to the ground. "My real family is gone! There is nowhere left for me!"
An even bigger wind current picked up. Broken glass and shattered equipment flew in all directions. Clarice and her audience skidding back a few yards.