Okay, so, originally, I posted this in April of 2017, but I had deleted it due to writer's block. But, now I have inspiration, and the itch, to finish this, as well as my other unfinished stories! And I will repost the story not only here, but also on AO3 as well!
NOTE: I have also made tiny little corrections in the text.
The demon, Zarc could not believe what he was seeing. Staring down the young Akaba child, Reira, who, while they had a completely different appearance, the Demon Duelist knew exactly who he was dealing with. After all, they were the only person to have ever defeated him in a duel.
Ray Akaba.
"Ray…" Zarc said, completely taken aback by her appearance.
"Even if you come back, I'll come back as well. If you try to destroy the world, I'll always protect it!" Reira said, Ray's spirit appearing next to the child. 'Ray' put her fingers on her deck, saying, "It's my… turn!" 'Ray' drew her card. "I activate the Spell Card, Transmigration Life Force! With this, I'll send my entire hand to the graveyard, and from the Graveyard, I set En Flowers, Moon, Winds, and Birds!" The 4 'En' Cards appeared one after another, setting themselves on the field.
Leo, both happy to see his daughter, and seeing the 4 'En' cards set, said, "This is it! The activation conditions have been met!"
"You rotten wench!" Zarc yelled out, in a combination of anger and frustration.
"I activate the continuous Spell Card, En Flowers!" 'Ray' declared, her Spell Card flipping up, making the planted field sprout flowers.
"If there are at least 3 Xyz monsters on my field when activating En Flowers, I can activate the Continuous Spell Card, En Birds!" the Spell Card flipped up and many glowing birds came out of the card, wrapping themselves around Dragon Zarc and Dark Rebellion. "All Xyz monsters on the field are banished, and turned into Normal Monsters with their effects negated." 'Ray' explained, Dark Rebellion and Zarc turning into Normal Monsters, Zarc losing his 'Xyz' shade.
"Xyz Monsters are…" Kaito began.
"…Turned into Normal Monsters?" Shun finished.
"If there at least 5 Synchro Monsters in the Graveyard when I activate En Birds, I can activate the Continuous Spell Card, En Winds!" the facedown card flipped up, emitting a large burst of green light, which turned into wind, surrounding Dragon Zarc and his servants. "All Synchro monsters are turned into Normal Monsters with their effects negated!" Dragon Zarc let out a huge roar at this, as he lost his Synchro side, as did Clear Wing.
"Looks like the Supreme King is slowly losing his power!" Jack remarked, as Crow and Sawatari looked on, smiling.
"If there are at least 3 Fusion Monsters in the Graveyard when I activate both En Birds and Winds, I can activate the Continuous Spell Card, En Moon!" 'Ray' declared, as the red clouds moved out of the sky, as the full moon was revealed. "All Fusion Monsters become Normal Monsters, and all their effects are negated!" Zarc let out one more roar, as his effect disappeared.
Zarc, bewildered by how Ray could power down his Dragon so easily, could only bring himself to say, "DAMN YOU!"
"This is the end, Zarc!" 'Ray' declared, before raising her hand to the sky, and beams of light surrounded the 'En' cards, all of which corresponded with its respective card color. "With En Flowers, all monsters on the field with their effects negated are destroyed. And for every card destroyed, that duelist takes 600 points of damage!" Dragon Zarc let out a wail of agony, as he felt himself slowly slipping away.
"With this…" Reiji said, realizing what this meant.
'Ray', her right arm in the air, struck a pose, and the 4 Bracelets appeared on her arm. Each one started to glow their respective color, and one by one, the Servant Dragons were destroyed, and eventually, the Supreme Dragon King, himself, was destroyed, but not before Zarc could say, "DAMN IT ALL!"
When the dust finally settled, Zarc was kneeling on the ground, weakened.
Zarc LP: 2800 → 1000
Hand: 1
"Why…" Zarc muttered, clutching his face. "I kept getting stronger and stronger all the time… and still…" Zarc clenched his fist, before yelling, "WHY CAN'T I DEFEAT YOU?!"
'Ray' walked up to Zarc, saying, "Please, surrender, Zarc. I don't want to hurt you anymore. Please…"
Zarc looked at the Akaba girl with nothing but disdain and disgust. "How dare you… You should feel HONORED! You are in the presence of one of, if not, the greatest duelist of all time, and YOU are showing PITY? To ME?!" Zarc bellowed, standing to his feet. "I'm not naive. You think I would be confined in that prison you put me in for 14 years, and not expect me fall by the same old tricks?" the Demon Duelist began to chuckle, which turned into an evil laugh. "You're so predictable." Everyone watched intently, as Zarc drew his final card.
Zarc smiled at the card that he drew. "I activate the Spell Card, Revenge of the Supreme King." Everyone in the area gasped, with Reiji saying, "Revenge…?"
"When this card is activated, I can banish all Spell and Trap cards on my opponent's side of the field, and I get to Special Summon 1 face-up monster from my Extra Deck!" Zarc explained, as the 'En' cards all got destroyed.
"The Natural Energy Cards!" Leo exclaimed, in shock.
Zarc picked up one card from his extra deck, and smirked. "Return to the field, Supreme Dragon King, Zarc!" The Supreme Dragon towered over the Akaba child, letting out a huge roar as he was summoned.
Supreme Dragon King Zarc
ATK: 4000
LEVEL: 12
"Impossible! Ray went through all that trouble just to get rid of it, but Zarc still found a way?!" Reiji exclaimed.
"No… I thought… That this would be it…" 'Ray' said, bewildered at this revelation.
Zarc chuckled, closing his eyes, reminiscing to his days in the Original Dimension. "With this victory… I can finally claim it." The Demon Duelist opened his eyes, glowing an intense yellow, and in narrow slits. "Go, Supreme Dragon King! Attack Ray directly!" The Dragon charged a large beam of energy in its mouth, before launching it at 'Ray'.
"No… How could this be?" Ray thought. "Zarc… I thought I could save you… but in the end… NO! There's still one more shot that I have to take… I just hope it works."
The blast hit 'Ray' head on, as the Akaba child let out a painful wail of agony. As if the entire world went silent, as the child's head bounced off the concrete, as Reira's body went limp.
Ray/Reira LP: 2000 → 0 - WIN
Zarc LP: 1000
"RAY!"/"REIRA!" Everyone shouted, as they rushed over to the Akaba child, who lay lifeless on the ground. "Reira! Say something! Wake up, Reira!" Reiji pleaded, as the light from the Akaba child's eyes slowly began to darken. "Reira! Answer me!" Reiji shook the child, slightly, to get Reira to wake.
Aster, Leo, Himika, and the rest of the Lancers ran over to the two Akaba brothers, as Leo knelt down to put two fingers to Reira's neck. After about 10 seconds, Leo removed his fingers, saying, "There's no pulse. Reira's gone."
The news made everyone around the vicinity gasp, as Reiji held his, now deceased, brother in his arms tightly. "No… It can't be…"
"But if that's the case, then what about Yuto, Ruri, and everyone else?!" Shun asked, grabbing Leo by the shoulder.
Leo looked at the ground, in complete sorrow, as he told the Raidraptor user, "Since Ray's spirit was within Reira, it's a foregone conclusion to say that Ray has died with Reira." Shun gasped, realizing there was no way to get his best friend and sister back.
"No way…" Kaito breathed.
"So, Yuya, Yuzu, and everyone else are…" Sora said, balling his fists, and tears falling down his face.
Leo nodded. "There is no hope anymore. Not for this dimension," Leo looked up at Zarc, who was laughing in absolute rapture. "Or any others."
Reiji hugged his brothers' corpse, and, surprisingly, he shed a single tear, which had landed on Yuya's Pendant.
"Reiji!"
All of a sudden, Reiji heard a voice. It was like Reira's, but slightly deeper, and more feminine-sounding. The D/D/D Duelist looked around, after hearing the voice, but the Lancers looked at him like there was something wrong with him.
"Down here, Reiji!" The Akaba teen looked down, before seeing Yuya's Pendulum at his feet. Picking up the pendant, he looked at it intently, before a girl with purple eyes, maroon/dark red hair, and strikingly looked like Serena, from his point of view.
"Ray?" Reiji said, making everyone react.
"Wait, Ray's spirit is still alive?!" Leo exclaimed.
"So that means, that there's still one last chance to save Yuya, after all!" Gongenzaka said, pumping his fist.
"Throw me to Zarc, Reiji! It's the only chance we have left!" Ray told her younger brother, as he gripped the pendant. The gray-haired teen then turned to Zarc, who still was laughing wildly. Reiji gripped the pendant with all his might.
Meanwhile, Zarc was in absolute ecstasy. He laughed in pleasure, as he processed his victory in his mind. Finally, he said, "Finally! It's taken all these years, but I've finally done it! I've beaten Ray Akaba! Now… I truly am… The Strongest Duelist Who Ever Lived!"
"Zarc!" Reiji called out. The Demon Duelist looked at the Akaba teen, who had the pendant in his hand. "Please, Ray. Finish this. I beg of you." With all his might, he threw Yuya's pendant at Zarc.
"That accursed trinket?!" Zarc thought, before the edge of the pendant hit him dead center in the forehead, and as the Pendulum began to glow, Zarc yelled, in absolute pain. The landscape around them was enveloped in a bright light, blinding everyone.
Yuya's eyes opened, only to see that he was in a dark purple space. The tomato looked around, seeing nothing but a huge purple void.
"Hello? Is anybody there?" Yuya called out, only hearing the echo of his voice. "Anybody? Please, answer me!"
"It's useless, Yuya." A voice told him, as Yuya turned around, to see a familiar face. One quite like his own, in fact.
"Yuto!" Yuya called out to his Xyz counterpart.
"Unfortunately, this place nothing but an absolute void. There's no one else but us here." Yuto told him.
"Rin!" a voice called out, and the two counterparts turned around, and saw a boy with blue-and-yellow hair, wearing a riding suit. "You here? Rin?"
"You!" Yuto called out, remembering the banana from their last encounter. Yugo's head then turned in the direction of the two counterparts.
"Oh! It's you!" Yugo ran in Yuto's direction, who readied his Duel Disk. "Waitwaitwait! Before you try and duel me, I just wanted to say… Sorry." Yugo's sudden apology took Yuto aback. "I had mistaken you for someone else I was looking for at the time.
"Someone else?" Yuto wondered, before he came to a realization. "Wait, why are you here?"
"Hmm?" Yugo lightly scratched his cheek, trying to think. "Well, all I can remember was that there was this guy who looked like me…" Yugo looked at Yugo and Yuya. "…and you guys, too, come to think of it... We dueled, and then things went blank, before I snapped out of whatever was wrong with me, and then I lost. But after that, I was simply within this endless void, looking for anybody."
"Yugo," Yuya said, putting his hands on the Synchro user's shoulders. "What did this guy look like?"
"Well, he had weird hair, like purple in the front, and pink in the back, and he wore a hell of a lot of purple, and his eyes did this weird slit thing, also, his eyebrows were like as huge as caterpillars!"
With this information, Yuya instantly knew who he was talking about. "Yugo! If he beat you in a duel, then that means you were inside of him!"
Yugo blushed profusely, before saying, "Hey, man! You better watch what the hell you're saying, and who you're saying it to! I'm not that kind of a guy!"
"No! I mean, like, he absorbed you!" Yuya said, waving his hands hurriedly. "When you defeated Yuto, I absorbed him, and took his Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon." Yuya explained, but then, came to a realization. "Wait… If I defeated Yuri, and he absorbed Yugo, and Clear Wing, then that must mean that-!"
"You catch on quickly, Yuya." A fourth voice said, as the 3 counterparts looked at the boy. He was slightly shorter than the rest of his counterparts, but he had the most chilling exterior to him.
"You!" Both Yuto and Yugo said, readying their Duel Disks.
"I've been waiting a long time for this. You're going to tell me Ruri is, right now, Pawn of Fusion!" Yuto said, getting visibly angry.
"Yeah! Rin too!" Yugo interjected.
"Hmpf. You two honestly think that you can defeat me as you are now? I already defeated Fusion over there." Yuri snarked.
Yugo gained a visible tic mark on his forehead, saying, "Why the hell do you keep calling me Fusion?! I keep telling you, it's Yugo, Yugo, YUGO!"
"It doesn't matter what your name is." Yuri said, readying his Duel Disk. "I can keep myself entertained with you two, over and over and over again." Yuri's eyes began to turn to slits.
Yuya stepped in-between his 3 counterparts. "Stop it!" The tomato outstretched his arms. "We must've been brought together for a reason! If we're all fighting, then who knows what could happen to us?"
Yuri merely grinned. "You could be my partner, Yuya. Seeing as how you are the only one so far to ever defeat me, and I'm terribly outnumbered here."
"I don't want to fight them, or you!" Yuya fired back.
"Move it, Yuya!" Yuto barked.
"This effeminate bastard needs to be defeated, once and for all!" Yugo said.
"All of you, stop it!" yet another voice called out, before the 4 same-faced boys looked in the voice's direction, looking at a glowing spirit, who had the shape of a girl, descending on to the invisible ground. As she took a step, the spirit took the physical form of a young adolescent girl.
"Yuzu!/Ruri!/Rin!" three of the counterparts called out, while Yuri merely raised a furry eyebrow.
"Who's she?" Yuri wondered.
"Yuzu!" Yuya ran over the girl, tears in his eyes. He hugged her as tight as he could, while sobbing and sniffling. "Yuri told me that you were absorbed into ARC-V! I thought you were gone forever!"
Yugo then wiped his eyes, and Yuto warmly smiled at the scene.
"I'm not Yuzu." The girl told him, and the way she said that hit Yuya like a brick. She then turned her head towards Yuto and Yugo. "And I'm not Ruri, or Rin, either."
Yuri walked up to the girl, asking, "So if you're not Yuzu, Ruri, or Rin, then are you exactly?"
"I am the original form of Yuzu, Ruri, Rin, and Serena. I am also the daughter of Leo Akaba, Ray." She told them, making them all gasp.
"What? The Professor never mentioned that he had a daughter before." Yuri said, cupping his chin with his palm. "Is that why we had to collect those girls?"
"Wait, so you're Rin and Yuzu and the other girls, then what are we supposed to be?" Yugo asked.
Ray's face turned into a sorrowful one. "The 4 of you… You're the Demon Duelist… Zarc."
Yugo and Yuri gasped at this, as they were unaware of this information. "Z-Zarc? Demon? So does that mean WE'RE the bad guys here?"
"It makes sense. The 4 girls altogether make Ray, since they have her Bracelets, and given we have similar-looking Dragons, and faces, us 'becoming one' results in Zarc." Yuto explained.
"But Leo was trying to fuse the dimensions together, and revive Ray as well!" Yuya interjects, as Ray's eyes widened.
"Father was trying to… revive me?" Ray realized. The maroon-haired girl turned her back to the 4 boys. "He really shouldn't have done that…"
"But why? If the world was whole, we wouldn't have to go the trouble of going through dimensions to see a certain person, wouldn't we?" Yuri wondered, earning stares of contempt from his counterparts.
"But I wanted the worlds to stay apart…" Ray muttered.
"Why? You were the reason Zarc was defeated the first time!" Yuya told her, before she turned back to them, tears streaming down her face.
"Because… I made Zarc what he is." Ray told them.
Fan-Made Cards:
Revenge of The Supreme King
Normal Spell Card
When this card is activated, all Spell/Trap cards on the opponent's side of the field are banished, in exchange, you can summon one face-up monster in your extra deck.