"Looks like we're up." Joshua said as he her Gero call him and Amelia's alias.

Amelia nodded as she looked nervous. Joshua gave her a small smile and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder
"Relax. You're going against me." he said gently" we'll just go out there and have fun like we always do."

Amelia managed to smile and nodded.
"Alright... shall we head up then?" She asked

It took a few minutes but they both managed to make it to their dueling platform. Both of them raised their duel disk, which Joshua had used some of his winnings from smaller tournaments to customize them. Joshua's was black, bit a few silver highlights while Amelia's was a combination of green and silver.
"Alright then..." Joshua started

".... let's get the show started!" Amelia finished as their decks were shuffled and they drew their hands. Amelia was going first, something she knew could grant her a bit of an advantage. Looking at her hand she quickly saw her move for this turn." I set one monster face down and end my turn."

"As expected." Joshua said, drawing a card and quickly glancing at his hand. He had Gem-Knight fusion, which was good but the problem was Amelia's face down. If it was Egul, Winda, or Kamui he couldn't destroy it by battle but if it was Falco then destroying it by a card effect was just as bad. The worse case scenario was if it was Gulldo, in which case was screwed no matter what he did. So there was only one thing to do.
"I summon Gem Armadillo!" he said. On the field a tan armadillo made out of stone with a few red gems and dark brown missiles appeared on the field. "Due to Armadillo's effect I can add one normal Gem-Knight monster from my deck to my hand. I add Gem-Knight Tourmaline to my hand. Then I end my turn."

"You're holding back Joshua... or are you scared?" Amelia asked as she drew a card." I set another monster face-down and end my turn."

"Well... that's troublesome." Joshua said, drawing his card" I'll activate Particle Fusion. With this I'll fuse Gem-Knights Garnet and Obsidian to special summon Gem-Knight Ruby!". On the field a giant ruby appeared, only to shatter and reveal a knight in red armor and a blue cape wielding a staff-like weapon that ended in a curved blade." On top of that, thanks to Obsidian's effect, I can special summon Garnet from my graveyard." This time a garnet appeared a shattered, revealing a knight in a lighter red armor with a few flame motifs and some oversized gauntlets.

"Uh oh." Amelia said, knowing full well what was coming up. She just had to hope Joshua didn't have that one spell card.

"Next, I'll equip Ruby with the Fusion Weapon. His attack and defense go up by 1500 points, putting his attack up to 4000. Then I'll activate Ruby's effect. By sacrificing Garnet, his attack increases by another 1900 points, putting it 5900." Joshua said as Garnet left the field" Then I use Particle Fusions effect. By removing Garnet from the graveyard I increase Ruby's attack points by another 1900." With this Ruby's attack Was a staggering 7800." Now Ruby, attack the card on the right!"

Responding to his master's request, Ruby let out a battle cry as he carded toward the face down monster and sliced the card with his pole arm. From the card a small, green bird emerged before vanishing in a shower of sparkles

"Since Ruby destroyed a monster in defense position..." Joshua started

"... the difference between my monster's Defense and Ruby's Attack get's inflicted to me." Amelia said before the shockwave from Ruby's attack hit her and reduced her life points to a mere 600 points.