"You know I never thought it would all end like this, my best friend beating me down, almost losing everything I ever knew and adored. Losing the one person who I loved….

"Now is the time to tell this story before you know, i draw my finally draw and possibly lose. It all started 9 months ago..

9 Months Earlier

There I was 15 years old with the leather jacket he had worn since 9th grade and somehow still fit.

"Hey Yuko try and keep up buddy"

Now thats my Best friend Kei we've been friends for a while. He had White natural hair and often wore his signature suit and vest with a thick black tie. He wore baggy jeans and had worn the same blue sneakers since the beginning of the year. I missed him like that.

We have had these races to school ever since we started Freshman year.

At this point it was the end of our 2nd year of high school it was our final day. Little did we know what would happen that day would change us all forever.

"Kei thats not fair you got a hoverboard come on !"

"Would you like me to get off ?" "YES !"

"To bad buddy I'm winning this thing"

He just kept going and won that day Kei was always one step ahead of me. As school passed there was one was on my mind, Dueling. At the end of the year the school always had an end of the year duel of the top 2 of each class for each different grade level. This year it was me and Kei. We had to duel it out to decide who would make it to the finals. And now it was time to duel him.

"Yuko I hope you know i'm not going to go easy on you."

He then slaps on the X2MRK-9 Duel Disk. A duel disk that used laser technology to extend out the disk out so that the duelists didn't have to carry the extra weight of the actual extending disk.

"Im not going easy on you either as i have the hope that I will win."

The ironic part is this was our first duet together we had never dueled before we had mainly spectated each other.

"Are you 2 ready for the graduation duel !"

"Yes and let the hope burn bright !" Never knew that would become my catchphrase

"Yes now lets duel Yuko."

DUEL !

"I'll start of this duel Yuko, I Draw !" "I'll play Constellar Star Chart . Now I'll summon Constellar Pollux(1700/600), then I'm allowed to summon Constellar Sombre(1550/1600). Now I create the overlay network to XYZs summon Constellar Praesepe (2400/800). I'll then activate the effect of my Constellar Sky Chart which allows me to draw one card. I then set 2 cards face down and end my turn."

I was nervous the first time we had dueled but i snapped out of this and drew my card.

"I DRAW ! I'll play One for One which now I'm now allowed to send Level eater to my grave and summon TuningWare (100/300) Now I summon Junk Warrior (1300/500) and use its special ability to summon back Level Eater (600/0) from my grave. Now i'll tune them together and to synchro summon forth Junk Warrior(2300/1300)."

"Hate to break it up to you but your monsters still weaker than mine."

"That may be true but i still have some cards left to activate."

"Wait, what ?"

"TuningWare effect is now activated when I synchro summon with TuningWare I can draw one card, now I activate Level Eater's effect and summon him from the grave by reducing Junk Warrior's level. Now since a monster was summoned from my graveyard I can summon from my hand DoppelWarrior (800/800). Now Junk Warrior's effect activates in which it gains the attack of all monster with less than 1000 attack, meaning he gains 1400 making him at 3700 attack ! Now Attack Junk Warrior !"

"I activate my monsters special ability to give it 1000 more attack ! Now while this doesn't change the fate of my monster i only take 300 damage."

"Not so fast I play Scrap Fist which means this turn while Junk Warrior is attacking you can't activate card effects."

(Yuko/4000 - Kei/2700) "NOOO! MY PRAESEPE ! You'll pay for that Stunt."

" I'll just set one card face down and end my turn."

"I'll admit pretty decent but you're going to have to be better to beat me. Now I DRAW ! I play Constellar Sombrero's Ability which means he can banish himself and allow me to add Pollux to my hand I'll then Summon him. Then I can Normal Summon Constellar Kaus form my hand. Then i'm allowed to change both his and Pollux's level to one due to Causes effect. Now I XYZs summon Constellar Pleiades.

I stood in both awe and horror as I saw the almighty trump card Kei had always won games with. This was the moment I knew I was in for a real fight.

"Now this will be the end I activate my Pleiades effect in which he can detach 1 Xyz material and send a card back to your hand. Now disappear Junk Warrior.

I saw my mighty card disappear before my eyes back to my extra deck and i became Frightened and realized I had to do something and fast.

"Now I play my face down Solar Ray ! Now for every light monster I control you take 600 life points of damage."

(Yuko(3400)/Kei(2700)

"Ahhh !"

"Next I activate Constellar Sky Chart and I get to draw one card. Now attack Pleiades Destroy that Level Eater, Several Star Crush !"

(Yuko(1500)/Kei(2700)

"How did u come back so hard and is this what your true power is ?"

"Yuko the situation was hopeless and you know what's at stake for me here i gotta win no matter the cost."

"Look u know why i gotta win this too you know."

Little did I know thats where my troubles would begin.

"I'll set this card face down and end my turn."

"My destiny draw, the one that will win me the game. Deck give me what I need ! DRAW! I play Dark Eruption Which allows me to add Junk Synchron back to my hand."

"Well if u were hoping to go for ur Doppelwarrior Ability you were mistaken. I play Pleiades ability again ! Sending Your Warrior back to your hand. "

"Now you no longer can bring back Junk Warrior."

That was then my life changed forever at this point I blacked out, but according to Kei this is what happened.

My pupils turned into a aquamarine color and I started to make my move.

"Now Kei you will see my true power I special summon Unknown Synchron and now I'll summon Junk Synchron and activate its ability to bring back TuningWare. Next up DoppelWarrior ability activates which allows me to summon him back from my hand. Now I'll tune my Junk Synchron with my DoppelWarrior to summon forth Nexus Synchron now i activate the effect of doppelwarrior which allows me to summon forth 2 doppel tokens. Now I activate my Nexus Synchro effect which allows me to summon back Junk Synchron and Tune them together !"

"Nexus Synchro isn't a tuner monster ?!"

"You bet your ass he isn't and now i summon forth STARDUST DRAGON (2500/2000) !"

"I've never seen that card before ,and it's not in the Nova City Database, how did you obtain that card !"

"Now I tune my 2 tokens, Tuningware, and Unknown Synchron to Synchro summon Armory Arm (1800/1200) ! Now I'll equip it to Stardust Dragon this now gives him a 1000 attack point boost (3500/2000). Now attack Stardust Dragon , Starlight Stream Blast !"

(Yuko(1500)/Kei(1700))

"Nice try my friend but i've survived by 1700 life points. I'll give you props though it was pretty decent."

"It's not over yet."

"What do you mean not over you've already attacked."

"Have you forgotten my Armory Arms special ability, it inflicts damage equal to the destroyed monster's special attack."

I then turned around and walked away as Kei took the blow from Armory Arm and how he had screamed in horror and pain….