Chapter 2-Nor'ac's Return

In the morning, Tronay, Sundar, and Dartz find their crystal hanging around their neck.


(Tronay)

What is this? Tronay asks, looking at the crystal.

It appears to be a crystal of some kind and it's white, Uria says. Whoever gave it to us must have not wanted this crystal in the wrong hands.


(Sundar)

Aurora is the first one up. She looks at the crystal; her shiny, glittering blue eyes peering into its blue surface.

This Waves crystal is powerful, I can tell by the way that it reflects the sunlight. Is it possible that the prophecy is coming true and if it is then that means that both Tronay and Dartz have received their crystals as well, Aurora thinks.

Aurora pauses for a moment and looks up at the sky.

If I am correct then that means that Nor'ac shall return soon, Aurora continues.

Sundar wakes up and sees that Aurora is looking at the crystal.

So do you think that this crystal is powerful Aurora? Sundar asks her Guardian.

I cannot say Sundar but I do know that a great battle will be waged soon. A battle between the forces of light and darkness and I believe that the crystal that we have is somehow responsible for this battle, Aurora answers.


(Dartz)

This crystal is very strong but I think that it has something to do with a mysterious and powerful force that I've been sensing lately, the Great Leviathan thinks.

My Great Beast what is this crystal for exactly? Dartz asks.

I don't totally know myself Dartz but I think that this crystal is in a set of three, the Great Leviathan replies.


(Santerous)

It appears that they have received the crystals as I had predicted. This is very good. Now Stage Two can begin! Santerous thinks.

Santerous finds a friend of his and duel her. She loses and joins him. A few hours later they are together in a cave.

"Master Santerous do you wish for me to go after the Waves crystal first, then go after the Magma crystal, then after the Light crystal?" She asks.

"Yes, as a matter of fact that is what I had foreseen before I even got you to join me Kera. Now make sure that you get the Light crystal, the Waves crystal, and the Magma crystal for me or else! Understand?" Santerous asks.

"Yes Master your wish is my command," Kera says backing away.

Once Kera gets outside she reveals her true form: a light blue dragon. Her hazelnut-brown eyes glisten as she flies off to find Sundar and get the Waves crystal. She finally finds Sundar and Aurora in a deserted valley. As Kera lands, Sundar shields her blue eyes from the dust and Aurora starts to growl.

"Well, well, well, my Master has told me a lot about you Sundar but I never expected that he would send me to duel you," Kera says as she transforms back into her human form.

"Who are you and who is your master?" Sundar asks.

"My name is Kera and my master is Santerous," Kera answers.

"What?" Sundar asks in shock.

"I happen to be Santerous' most trusted servant if you must know. Now get ready to duel!" Kera replies as she activates her duel disk.

"I never back down from a challenge," Sundar says activating her duel disk.

"Duel!" Both of them shout.


Kera: 4000

Sundar: 4000


"I'll start this duel off if you don't mind," Kera says. "I think I'll play the spell card Chaos Distill!"

Aurora what card is that? Sundar asks her Guardian through their mental bond.

That card . . . Normally cards that the opponent uses go to the graveyard right? I believe that all cards that she uses will instead be removed from play for the remainder of this duel, Aurora answers.

But why would she want her cards to be removed from play, Sundar thinks.

"Now I activate my second spell card, Steel Lamp!" Kera continues. "And when Chaos Distill is on the field, I can use my Steel Lamp to summon Alchemy Beast Salamandra the Steel (500/?)! Then I think I'll play the spell card Tin Spell Circle to summon my Alchemy Beast Aretos the Tin (500/?)! I end my turn, your move."

"Finally," Sundar growls. "I summon my Luster Dragon (1900/1600) to the field in attack mode! Now let's do some damage to those Alchemy Beast of your's. Go, Luster Dragon, destroy her Alchemy Beast Salamandra the Steel!"


Kera: 2600

Sundar: 4000


"I play my Dragon Sacrifice spell card so I summon my Blue-Eyes White Dragon by sacrificing my Luster Dragon along with one monster from your side of the field," Sundar says. "And I choose your Alchemy Beast Aretos the Tin! Now I end my turn!"

"Good I was beginning to wonder if I would even get another turn," Kera says. "I summon my Karies Dragon (1400/?) in attack mode and guess what my monster has a special ability so your Blue-Eyes White Dragon is returned to your hand."

"Now if you'll allow me to continue I play my Exchange spell card," Kera continues. "So I get to choose one card from your hand and you get to choose one from mine."

"Fine," Sundar says as she holds up her hand for Kera to look at it.

"I choose that Utera Dragon of your's," Kera says as she shows Sundar her hand.

"And I choose your Negate Attack trap card," Sundar says.

The two of them exchange cards.

"I place one card face down and I'm done," Kera says.

"Good. Now it's my move," Sundar says. "It's time you met my Guardian, Kera."

"What do you mean by that?" Kera asks.

"Because I've just drawn my Guardian Dragon," Sundar says. "Now I summon my Guardian Dragon Aurora (4000/?) in attack mode."

Aurora appears, her yellow eyes staring at Kera. For the first time in the duel Kera looks scared.

"When my Guardian is summoned to the field I can activate her ability," Sundar continues. "So I can summon one more dragon to join her and I choose my Heris Dragon (1600/?) in attack mode. Now Heris Dragon attack Kera's Karies Dragon with Dark Pulse!"


Kera: 2400

Sundar: 4000


"Is that all you can hit me with?" Kera asks.

"No it isn't! Remember it's still my turn, so Aurora attack Kera's Alchemy Beast Salamandra the Steel with your Aqua Blast," Sundar says.

"I don't think so! I reveal my face-down Soul Shield spell card so your attack is stopped," Kera says.

"Fine! I place one card face down and I end my turn," Sundar says.

"My move," Kera says. "I sacrifice my Alchemy Beast Salamandra the Steel in order to summon my Dark Flame Dragon (2200/?) in attack mode. Now you might be thinking that my dragon is weak but his ability makes up for that. I activate my Dark Flame Dragon's effect, so for every card that has been removed from play from my side of the field my dragon gains 1000 extra attack points and I count 6. So my Dark Flame Dragon gains an additional 6000 attack points (8200/?). Now let's put that attack power to good use! Now my Dark Flame Dragon destroy Sundar' Guardian Dragon Aurora with Dark Fire Cannon."

"I reveal my face-down card Negate Attack! So your attack is canceled," Sundar says.

"I don't think so! I play a spell card know as Double Attack, so my dragon can attack again and thanks to it's ability it's attack power rise to 9200," Kera says.

She's right. Every time she uses another spell or trap card her dragon get's stronger by 1000 points, I don't have anything in my deck that could save me from this attack, Sundar thinks.

"Luckily for you my dragon returns to my hand now and can't make it's attack," Kera says.

"My move," Sundar says.

Sundar stares at the card.

This card . . . this Guardian Eatos card is Santerous', Sundar thinks. But why is it in my deck? Unless . . .

Suddenly a bright white light covers the area that they are dueling in. When the light vanishes Sundar and Kera look around to find themselves floating in space.

"Where are we?" Kera asks.

"I don't know," Sundar replies.

A person suddenly shows up, his face is covered by a hood.

"Who are you? Are you the person that brought us here?" Kera asks.

"Yes I am the person who brought you two here and I have news to tell both of you. Kera and Sundar, a great battle will be raged very soon. A battle between light and darkness and the Guardians will be involved in this battle as well. So I would be careful and to who I am I believe that you know Sundar," the person says.

"Wait! . . . Hold on you think that I know you?" Sundar asks.

"Yes I do," the person replies.

"Are you sure?" Sundar asks.

"Yes Sundar! Focus and you will know, just trust me," the person replies.

"Very well," Sundar says.

Sundar closes her eyes and starts to focus.

His energy. I can tell that I've felt it before but I don't know who he is, Sundar thinks to herself.

Sundar opens her eyes.

"I know now. You are . . ." Sundar begins.

"You are Santerous but I thought that . . ." Sundar says.

"That what?" Santerous asks.

"That you had two different personalties, one dark and one good," Sundar says.

"Correct and I need your help to defeat Nor'ac," Santerous replies.

"Wait! I've heard that name before." Kera says.

"I suppose you have Kera, but listen the three crystals are the keys to restoring Nor'ac. I have used my power to give one to you, Sundar, one to Dartz, and one to Tronay. When those three crystals are together a gateway will open and Nor'ac shall return to this world," Santerous says.

Santerous disappears. Kera and Sundar are returned to their dueling area.

"Should we finish our duel Sundar?" Kera asks.

"I don't know Kera but I suppose that it wouldn't hurt." Sundar says.

"All right." Kera says.

So Kera and Sundar continue their duel.

"I play my Celestial Sword spell card and to use this sword I play Guardian Eatos (2500/?)," Sundar says.

Eatos is summoned and she picks up the sword.

"I believe that you know her ability," Sundar says.

"I do but it won't work," Kera comments.

"I wouldn't say that because I play my Sword Slash spell card. So that Chaos Distill of your's is now destroyed," Sundar shouts.

"No! This is impossible!" Kera shrieks.

"And with it gone Eatos can activate her ability. Eatos! Use Spirit of Celestial Sword," Sundar says.


Eatos: 4900/?


"Now Eatos! Attack Kera's life points directly," Sundar says.

"I remove my Alchemy Beast Salamandra the Steel from play to negate your attack." Kera says.


Eatos: 4400/?


"Fine I end my turn," Sundar growls.

"Good I thought you'd say that," Kera says. "I can now summon my Dark Fire Dragon (2200/?) back to the field. Next I play my Double Fusion spell card along with my Change of Heart spell card. So first I gain control over your Guardian Dragon Aurora then I fuse it with my Dark Fire Dragon to form the Dark Elemental Dragon (3500/?). Now I fuse my Dark Elemental Dragon with my Utera Dragon in my hand to form the Searing Dark Elemental Dragon (8000/?). Go Searing Dark Elemental Dragon destroy Sundar's Guardian Eatos."


Kera: 2400

Sundar: 0


The blast is so powerful that Sundar gets blown backwards. Kera walks over to Sundar and takes the Waves crystal from around her neck. Kera walks away, Waves crystal in her hand. Aurora summons herself next to Sundar.

You tried Sundar and that's what counts, Aurora hums.

Thanks Aurora but I think that Dartz and Tronay are still in danger, Sundar says.

Deep somewhere close by, Santerous stands in front of some kind of altar. Kera walks in with the Waves crystal.

"Very good Kera." Santerous says.

Santerous turns to face Kera and takes the Waves crystal out of her hands. He turns to face the altar again. Santerous places the Waves crystal on the far left of the formation and kneels down. He begins chanting a spell. Kera backs up a little to give Santerous some room.

Suddenly from the top of the cave, in which they are in, a white sphere crashes into the room. Santerous resumes his standing position and turns to face the sphere.

"Why are you here?" Santerous asks.

I believe that you all ready know, Light of Destruction, the sphere glows.

"How do you know that?" Santerous asks.

Santerous extends his right hand which begins to glow white and charges toward the sphere. Once the attack reaches the sphere it crackles with a rainbow-like light. The sphere hesitates for a moment then soars out of the same opening that it came in.

That should take care of it for a while, at least until Nor'ac returns, Santerous thinks to himself.


{Tronay -narrator}

The sphere floats along until it reaches a clearing in a nearby forest. Then, once exhausted, it crashes to the ground just a few feet from where I am. I walk over there to see what fell. Suddenly the sphere bust open to reveal a dragon, a Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon.

Tronay . . . the dragon begins.

The dragon reaches out to me with its telepathy. It weakly opens its eyes, its purple eyes and looks up at me. I gasp. It's Santerous! But how? After a few moments, Santerous weakly gets to his feet and unfolds his wings to their full-length.

Tronay listen I don't know a lot about what happened to me, Santerous says.

Again he reaches out to me with his telepathy.

"Listen! We can fix this, okay!" I say.

Very well Tronay. I trust you and I know that you will help me, Santerous replies.

Suddenly I feel a lot of wind behind me. I turn around and to my surprise there stands Dartz and the Great Leviathan along with Sundar and Aurora. Santerous moves in front of me not realizing that it's them. He roars, challenging the Great Leviathan and Aurora to a battle. Both Dartz and Sundar have to control their Guardians from answering his challenge. After a few moments, Santerous seems to realize that these people, and dragons, are friends.

He moves behind me and lowers his enormous head.

Sorry, Santerous says.

Once again he uses his telepathy to communicate with us, since he can't talk by mouth now.

"It's all right Santerous. But what I want to know is how you became this huge beast," Sundar says.

"I was beginning to wonder that myself Sundar," Dartz says.

Santerous raises his head and looks at us.

You wish to know how I became this beast? I don't know much but I can try to help everyone figure it out. Well let's see . . . I do know that I had protected my spirit in a white sphere of light, as Tronay knows, and that I had bust into where the Light of Destruction was, along with that dragon Kera. I believe that the Light of Destruction was chanting some kind of spell when I bust in and I also think that the spell was from somekind of ancient Atlantean chant. The words . . . I think that I can translate them, but I'm not sure. I'll try anyway. Okay. ' . . . Let light overpower the darkness, the earth shall be covered in light from the mighty beast, let the power of this one crystal give Nor'ac enough strength to attack the Guardians, one by one the Guardians shall fall and Nor'ac will gain more power, more power than even the Great Leviathan itself, and Earth shall be reborn with the power of light . . .' I believe that's how it goes but I'm not sure, Santerous says.

"It sounds good enough for me. So all we have to do is make sure that the Light of Destruction doesn't obtain the other two crystal. Right?" Dartz asks.

I wish that it was that simple Dartz but it isn't. You see, the Light of Destruction already has one crystal and it didn't even duel for that crystal. Someone else did it for him. So we don't even know what his deck has in store for us, Santerous says.

"Well you don't but I think I might know," Sundar says as she walks over and places her hand on Santerous' massive shoulder.

"You know?" Dartz asks.

"Yes, I think that it might be an Arcana deck," Sundar says softly.

Santerous growls slightly when Sundar says Arcana. I turn to look at him.

I'm fine Tronay. It's just that the Light of Destruction and I use the same deck. That deck is filled with Arcana Force cards, of course, but there are three cards that I put in there: Celestial Sword, Guardian Eatos, and Guardian Dragon Mirage. Let's just hope that the Light of Destruction doesn't . . .Santerous begins.

Santerous stops suddenly. I see that he's looking up at the sky. I raise my head and look up. Right above us is the shadowy outline of a dragon that's as large as the Great Leviathan.

That's the beast, the mighty dragon, Nor'ac, Santerous snarls.