Chapter 2: Luciana's Dark Secret Revealed
The final bell rang for the end of the day. Luciana gathered her things and left her 8th period classroom to go to her locker and finally leave school grounds. Again, barely anyone noticed her in the hallway as she walked by her fellow classmates and, other students from other grade levels.
Luciana got to her locker at the end of the hallway and opened it. She gathered her things that she needed for homework and her list of books she still needs to buy for her classes. She stuffed everything into her backpack and closed up her backpack. She slumped her bag over her shoulders and closed her locker.
She walked quietly by before she heard a familiar voice behind her.
"Luciana!" shouted the voice.
Luciana sighed as she turned around to see Gao, Kuguru, and Baku running up towards her. The three of them came up to her as Gao said friendlily, "Nice seeing ya again, Luciana."
She replied to him coldly, "What do you want?"
Gao looked at her in shock and said, "I was just being friendly and saying hi to you was all. Heesh you don't need to so cold about it."
She just humphed in reply and said, "If you don't mind, I will be making my leave. I have to be somewhere."
"Hey just wait a minute, I just want to know something," Gao said to her.
Luciana turned around and said, "Make it quick. I have to be somewhere in a few minutes."
"I just wanted to ask…." he said before he was interrupted by Luciana.
"If you're going to ask me why I don't want to make friends…," she said before Gao intervened.
"That's not what I was about to ask," he said before saying, "I wanted to ask you which one of those six dragons was your buddy."
"Oh," she said before replying, "Nether of them are my true buddy monster."
The three of them stared at Luciana in shock and surprise as Baku asked, "Then who is?"
Luciana shook her head and said, " I don't have a buddy."
"So if you don't have a buddy, then how did you get that core deck case?" Kuguru asked curiously.
Luciana didn't respond for a few seconds before she replied simply, "Family heirloom."
"Oh," the three said simultaneously.
"Now if that's all you wanted to ask, I'll…." she said before she stopped abruptly and stood there as if she were frozen in place.
"You okay?" Kuguru asked with a hint of concern in her voice.
"Noo...," Luciana whispered to herself in fear before she started to sprint down the hallway.
"Hey what's the matter? Why are you in a hurry all of a sudden?" Gao asked before he and the others followed after her.
Luciana ran all the way outside of the building and towards an alleyway.
A scream was heard as a little girl's voice shouted, "Lulu!"
Luciana ran even faster while Gao and the others tried to catch up to her. She made a sharp right turn into the alley. Gao, Baku, and Kuguru finally caught up to her and saw Luciana protectively stand in front of a little girl that was about eight years old. Three ninth graders blocked the entrance of the alley.
"What the?" one of the ninth graders said out loud in surprise.
"Who the heck are you?" said another guy in the group.
Luciana just stood her ground and said, "Back off punks, or you're going to regret ever messing with my little sister."
"Sister?" Gao and the gang said together as they awaited what would happen next.
"Tich, whatcha going to do about it, Dweeb?" said the guy in the middle as he advanced towards her.
Luciana raised her fists in a martial arts fighting position and said to the three guys, "This is your final warning. Back off!"
The guys laughed before one of them said jokingly, "Or what? You gonna karate chop us or something?
Luciana just stood there without uttering a single the guy said to the other two, "Teach this guy a lesson, boys."
"Hey, two against one isn't fair!" Gao shouted as he ran towards Luciana to help her out.
But before he got the chance to help her out, Luciana all of a sudden threw a smoke ball at the ground and disappeared.
"Huh? Where did he go?" one of the guys said out loud while looking to where the two girls disappeared to.
"I'm right here," she said as everyone looked up and saw her up in the air.
"Whoa," Baku said in astonishment at how she was just on the ground a few seconds ago before suddenly being up in the air.
She quickly and skillfully jumped from wall to wall in her descent towards the ground. Once she was on the ground in a kneeling position, she slowly got up and said to the boys, "Do you still want to pick a fight with one who was trained in the art of ninjutsu and in the martial arts?"
The two boys hesitated for a moment before their leader behind them said, "Tich that's all talk. Now get him!"
The two nodded before they charged at her. They were about to punch her when she blocked one of the guy's punch by using an ikkyo defensive maneuver and threw him onto the other guy behind him.
Gao, Kuguru, and Baku stared in awe at her defensive martial art style.
"What are you idiots doing? Get up and teach that guy a thing or two about why we are at the top of the food chain here," the leader said to his lackies.
"Easy for you to say, boss. You're not the one fighting this guy," said one of the boys.
"No excuses!" the leader shouted at them. The two guys got up from the ground and started to attack Luciana for the second time.
She easily dodged their attack at such super fast speed that she looked like a black blur to everyone.
"Huh?" said the boys before Luciana reappeared behind them and kicked them in the back.
They slumped forward and tried to punch her at the same time. She grabbed one of the guy's punches with her hand and tossed him over like he was nothing. She did the same move to the other guy as well.
"Amazing," Gao said as he watched her fighting the two bullies by herself.
The leader growled angrily as he shouted, "Must I do everything myself!?" Then the leader charged at her while she was distracted by one of the punks lunging at her.
"Look out behind you!" Kuguru shouted out loud.
Luciana turned to see him coming at her and was about to defend when Gao grabbed him and flipped the guy to the ground.
"Haven't you heard?" Gao said to the fallen leader before saying, "Ganging up on someone when they are not looking is so lame."
The two lackies ran to their leader's side and helped him up. Gao stood by Luciana as they stood their ground.
"I can do this by myself. I don't need your help," she whispered to him while keeping an eye on the bullies' next move.
"Not a chance. I'm not going to sit idly by while you fight these three jerks by yourself. That would go against everything that The Mighty Sun Fighter stands for," Gao said to truthfully.
"The Mighty Sun Fighter?" she said to herself in thought. Then she said to him, "Very well then. If you want to fight them with me, then it's fine by me. Just don't get in my way."
Gao grinned, gave her a thumbs up, and said, "You got it."
The two got into fighting position and waited for the bullies to make their move.
The leader growled and said, "No more mercy. Let's attack them at the same time boys!"
"Yeah!" the two said together as the three of them charged at Gao and Luciana.
Gao and Luciana nodded at each other as they both dodged the bullies' attack and made them crash into each other.
They groaned as they slowly got up. Gao's arms were folded across his chest as he said, "Had enough?"
The three looked at each other before the leader said, "Let's get out of here."
The two nodded and followed their leader as they ran out of the alley like scared little dogs that lost their bite.
Gao smiled and said, "That should teach them not to mess with people smaller than them when The Mighty Sun Fighter is around."
Baku and Kuguru turned to look at each other as they smiled awkwardly.
"Luciana!" cried out a child's voice.
Luciana turned around and saw a little girl in the third grade running up to her with tears in her parakeet green colored eyes. Luciana opened her arms out as the girl ran into her sister's warm embrace.
Luciana embarrassed the girl tightly as she said worriedly, "I told you to wait for me at the school's little playground area."
The girl sobbed and said to her, "I did big sis, but those three bullies took my deck away from me when I wasn't looking and I tried to get it back from them. That's when I kicked the tall guy in the shin and ticked him off as he tried to hurt me." The girl stopped crying as she shouted worriedly, "My core deck case!"
"Shh," Luciana said to soothe her before saying softly, "Don't worry, I grabbed it back from them when they were distracted."
Then Luciana took out a spring green colored core deck case from under her cloak and handed it to the girl.
The girl's eyes shone happily as she received her deck back from her sister and said gratefully, "Thank you big sis! You're the best sister I could ever have in the whole world!"
Luciana only smiled lovingly at her little sister.
The girl's short pine green colored hair had two thick black colored bobby pins. Her skin color was slightly darker than Luciana. Her face had small freckles scattered across her cheeks. She was wearing a purple colored shirt with a sky blue color butterfly in the middle of her shirt. She was wearing long dark blue jeans. Her gym shoes were a solid black color with light green colored laces and sole of the the shoe.
Gao and the others walked closer to them. The little girl noticed them approaching as she turned to her sister and asked hopefully, "Are these your new friends, Lulu?"
"No, they're just classmates of mine," Luciana replied to her.
"Oh," her sister said before she escaped from Luciana's embrace and said, "Hi my name is Fay Tsuki."
"Hi Fay, my name is Gao Mikado and these are my friends Kuguru Uki and Baku Omori," Gao said as he introduced himself and his friends to Luciana's little sister.
"Fay," Luciana said as she got her sister's attention.
"Yea?" she said to her sister.
"We should head home now. Mom is probably worrying about us not being home on time," she said to her.
"Yea, Mom would probably send out her buddy monster to investigate what happen to us," Fay said.
As Luciana and Fay were making their leave, Fay turned around to face Gao and said, "Thank you for helping out my sister with those bullies. And I know my sister would never admit to this, but she thanks you for the help back there."
Gao smiled and said, "Ah it was no big deal. Just make sure that you two get home safely."
Fay nodded and said, "I hope we will see each other again. And I hope that you and your friends can become my big sis's friends someday."
"Yea me too. Heck tomorrow after school your sister and I are going to have a buddyfight," Gao said to her.
Fay's parakeet eyes sparkled as she exclaimed, "You are!"
"Yup," Gao said to her.
Fay squealed in joy as she said, "Can I watch you guys tomorrow? I haven't seen my sister buddyfight someone outside our family in years."
Kuguru smiled and said to her, "Of course you can come and watch."
Fay giggled joyously and exclaimed, "Yeah! I'm super excited. I can't wait till tomorrow!"
Luciana just humphed and said to her, "Don't get your hopes up, Fay."
Fay turned around and said, "Huh? What do you mean big sis?"
"I said that I might accept his buddyfight challenge tomorrow," she said to her.
"Oh," Fay said slightly disappointed before saying hopefully, "But you will think about it, right?"
Luciana looked from her sister before looking at Gao and said, "I'll think about it."
Fay growled and said angrily, "You always say that but you never mean it!"
"You know that's not always true, Fay. Now let's go, Mom and Dad are waiting for us at home," Luciana said to her.
Fay humphed out out, crossed her arms over her chest, and said, "Fine." Then she whispered sadly, "It's been years since I last seen my big sister buddyfight against someone else and making friends with them. Ever since that accident."
Luciana looked at her sister for a long time before they started to walk home.
Gao, Kuguru, and Baku stood there and wondered what Fay was talking about. Then they too started to leave the school grounds to head home and do their homework.
Later that night, Luciana was laying on her bed in her silver blue colored pajamas and thought about Gao's challenge to a buddyfight.
"Thinking about whether or not you should go tomorrow?" said a feminine voice.
Suddenly a small orb of light appeared from Luciana's core deck case on her nightstand as Flamma appeared by her bedside. Flamma looked at her and said, "What's the matter?"
Luciana humphed in reply and turned on her side away from her buddy.
"Luciana, you know you can tell me anything. We are a family, remember," Flamma said to her as she sat at the edge of Luciana's bed.
She didn't respond to her as she laid there in silence.
Flamma sighed as she said, "Is it because of Da…."
Luciana sat up, faced Flamma, and said angrily, "Don't say his name!"
Flamma was shocked by her outburst that she slightly flinched a bit.
Luciana looked down sadly with tears in her eyes as she whispered, "Sorry, I...I…."
Flamma placed her hand on Luciana's shoulders and said, "It's alright, Lulu. I miss him too."
Luciana suddenly broke down in tears and whispered, "It's all my fault."
"It was never your fault, Lu. You two were just in a wrong place at the wrong time," she said soothingly.
Luciana shook her head and said, "It is my fault, Flamma. I knew it would happen, but I just let it happen to him." She wept even more as she said in between sobs, "Why do I even exist? Was I cursed to live the rest of my life with these….these 'gifts'? They're more like curses if you'd ask me."
Flamma drew Luciana in an embrace as she said to her while rubbing her back, "Shh, Lulu. That accident was never your fault. And your gifts are not curses. They are a blessing to have."
Luciana stopped sobbing and pulled away from Flamma as she said snarkily, "Easy for you to say. You don't have to live every day with this curse."
Flamma sighed as she suggested, "I know. How about I go make us some hot chocolate so that you can relax a bit for the rest of the night before bed time."
"Sure," Luciana said half heartedly as she turned to faced her window to look at the nearly full moon.
Flamma looked at her sadly as she got up from the bed quietly and exited the room to go get some hot chocolate for them.
Luciana looked up at the moon as she said, "I'm sorry, Danny. My only true friend."
She went into her drawer of her nightstand and got out a photograph of her four years ago with a boy a year older than her standing right next to her. The boy had pale white skin with messy light gray hair and pale yellow green eyes. The two of them were smiling in the picture without a care in the world.
Then she closed her eyes as warm tears streamed down her cheeks again. Then she started to remember the day that everything fell apart for her.
*Flashback three years ago*
It was a beautiful morning on August 14. The sun was out, the birds were chirping, and a cool breeze wisped by gently.
Luciana was sitting on her bed reading a book. As she turned the next page in her book, her cell phone rang and buzzed on her nightstand. She put her book down on her bed and reached out for her cell phone.
"Hello?" she asked on the phone.
"Hi Lulu, how's it going?" a boy's voice replied on the other end.
Luciana smiled as she recognized the callers voice as Danny Kasegin. "Hi Danny. I'm good. Just reading my book on my bed," she replied to him.
" You're not outside on this beautiful cool day in August?" he asked teasingly.
"The news said that there's going to be a bad storm coming later today," she replied to him.
"Oh well, hate to leave you indoors on a beautiful day while it still lasts," he said on the phone.
Luciana sighed as she replied on the phone, "Fine, I'll come outside."
Then she heard him whisper a "yes" to himself before he said, "Meet me at the park in fifteen minutes."
"Okay, see you later," she replied to him.
"See ya!" he said before hanging up.
Luciana sighed as she put her phone down on her nightstand and got up from the bed. She stretched a bit before she ran out of the room to go find her mother.
"Mom?" she said out loud.
"In the living room," her mother replied to her.
Luciana dashed towards the living room before nearly bumping into her mother's buddy monster, Kitsune Vulpix Renanin .
Her mother's buddy looked like a bipedal fox humanoid with a golden yellow fur coat and a white scruffy neck, underbelly, paws, arms, legs, and the tips on her ears and tail. She wore a pair of purple fingerless gloves that went up past her elbows. A single purple color stripe marking was underneath her eyes. Her eyes were slinted as her blue eyes shone through her black scleras.
"Woops, sorry there, Ren," Luciana said to her before started running off again.
Renanin just shook her head and walked down the hallway.
Luciana finally made it to the living room where her mother was sitting on the couch reading her newspaper.
"Hey Mom, may I go hang out with Danny at the park today?" she asked her.
"Sure, just be back before the storm hits today, okay," her mother answered her without looking away from her paper.
"Okay Mom," she replied to her as she raced again to her room.
Then she heard her mother shout, "Bring an umbrella just in case it starts to rain! I don't want you to come home all soaked and wet from the downpour."
"Okay Mom," Luciana shouted back to her mother as she grabbed her cell phone, umbrella, core deck case, and her purse incase if they were going to get a snack while at the park.
Luciana left her room and walked by the living room and said, "Bye Mom, be back in a few hours."
"Okay, no shenanigans young lady and be safe out there," her mother said before saying, "Before you leave, please go and let Yin back into the house. Thank you."
"Okay," Luciana replied as she went to the backyard to bring in her black labrador retriever, Yin, into the house. Then she left to go to the park that was near her house.
As she was walking, she heard a familiar voice shouting, "Over here!"
Luciana turned to her right and saw her friend Danny on the swings. She smiled and walked towards him.
He smiled back at her as he said, "Grab a swing Lulu."
Luciana nodded and took the swing next to him and started to swing with him.
The two were on the swings for a long while talking about how their summer break was or what they're going to do tomorrow and so on. Then, they got off the swings and went to the field area of the park to buddyfight. Danny won two out of three games with Luciana. That's when it started to rain.
A drop of water fell on Luciana as she said, "Huh? Rain?"
"You felt that too, right?" Danny asked her.
She nodded in reply and said, "We should probably get home now before the small drizzle becomes a downpour.
Danny shook his head and said, "Nah, we still have some time before it really hits," he said before his face lightened up with an idea as he said, "Hey I know." Then he grinned even more as he said, "Let's go to that arcade that's a few blocks away from here."
"I don't know, Dan," she said unsurely.
"Please. I brought my own money this time and it would be a ton of fun if you were there with me," he said to her.
Luciana hummed in thought as Danny continued, "It'll be nice and dry if the storm hits."
Then she sighed in defeat and said, "Okay, you win. But we're only going to be there for about an hour."
"An hour and a half," Danny persisted.
"An hour and fifteen minutes and no more," Luciana said to him.
"Deal," he said as he put his hand out in front of Luciana.
"Deal," she said as she shook his hand to their agreement.
Then the two made their way to the arcade. They had a lot of fun playing games like Pac-Man, Dance Dance Revolution X, Donkey Kong, and more. Luciana enjoyed dancing with Danny when they teamed up on the Dance Dance Revolution X game. The two smiled happily before Luciana checked the time on her phone.
A text message was on her phone from her mother. She checked the message as it read, "Luciana I want you to come home before three o'clock because your gramma and grampa are visiting us today at the last minute before they go to Washington DC... as usual."
She checked the time that the message was sent and breathed a sigh of relief that it was only sent ten minutes ago. Then she checked the time and saw that she only had about forty minutes before three.
"Danny," she said as she tapped his shoulder.
"Yeah, what's up?" he asked her while trying to get a stuffed animal from the claw machine.
"I need to go home now. My grandparents are coming over before they leave to Washington at the last minute," she said to him.
"Okay, we'll leave as soon as I get this dang stuffed animal from this machine," he said as he dropped the claw into the pile of stuffed animals.
"You don't have to leave if you don't want to, Danny," she said to him sincerely.
"Dang it!" he shouted as he lost the stuffed animal, again.
"I'll see you around okay," she said shyly as she was about to leave when he grabbed her arm.
She turned to face him as he said, "Just give me one more minute, okay."
"I said you can stay here longer if you want to. You don't have to escort me home," she said to him.
"And leave you all alone out in the pouring rain? That doesn't sound like what a true friend would do," he said to her.
She looked at him in surprise as he said, "Just give me one more try on this machine and then we can go, okay?"
"Okay," she said to him.
He smiled at her, turned back to the game, inserted another 75 cents in, and played it again. He moved the claw to the pile of stuffed animals again and dropped the claw.
"Come on," he pleaded as he stared in anticipation at the machine.
Then the metal claw was raised up as it held a small white colored kawaii sleepy fox yarn plush doll by the head.
"Come on, make it to the drop," he continued to whisper as the claw came to the drop zone and released the toy.
The toy fell down the pit as a loud thud was heard.
"Yes!" Danny said excitedly as he went to the slot to receive his prize. He smiled happily as he held his prize in his hand. Then he turned to Luciana and said, "Here, this is for you."
Luciana's eyes widened in surprise as she said, "For me? But why? You won it so it's yours."
He smiled as his cheeks reddened a bit as he replied, "I won this plushy for you, Lulu. When I saw it in the machine, I thought about you and how much you love cute plushies like this one. Besides, I won this cool Japanese fox mask the other day already." He held up the mask he won a few days ago in his left hand before he put it on his face.
Luciana giggled a little from seeing the mask as she said, "That mask looks good on you, Danny."
He laughed for a few seconds before he moved the mask to the side of his head and said, "Yeah, that's what I thought too." Then he gently put the doll in her hands.
Luciana brought the plushy to her face and looked at the toy with a small smile on her face. Then she looked at Danny and said with a light blush on her cheeks, "Thank you. I will cherish this forever."
Danny rubbed the back of his neck nervously and said, "No problem. Now, let's get you home before the bad weather comes in."
She nodded as the two of them made their leave. When they got outside of the arcade, they noticed that it was raining really hard.
"You brought your umbrella, right?" he asked her.
She nodded and brought out her umbrella and opened it up. Then she said, "There's enough room for us to share it."
Danny looked at her and asked, "Are you sure?"
She nodded her head as she extended the umbrella towards him. He smiled at her as he went under the umbrella with her. Then the two started to walk down the sidewalk towards Luciana's house.
A few minutes went by as they walked down the sidewalk. They were waiting to cross the intersection for a few seconds before the light changed for them to cross. Suddenly, a huge gust of wind blew by and caught the umbrella as it blew right out of Luciana's hand.
"Ah, my umbrella!" she said as she ran after it.
"Luciana, wait!" Danny cried out to her.
Then, bright headlights shone directly on Luciana as a loud truck horn beeped loudly before the screeching of tire wheels were heard.
Luciana's eyes widened in fear and in horror as she looked up helplessly at the bright headlights of a large truck.
"Luciana!" Danny shouted in horror.
Luciana was forcibly pushed away from the truck by a very strong shove from someone. She landed roughly a few feet away from the truck.
The truck came to a screeching halt as a loud thud was heard. Everyone gasped in horror at what they witnessed.
Luciana sat up and looked to see what happened. She breathed in a sharp breath of air as her navy blue eyes widened in terror before tears started to form in them.
She saw a Japanese fox mask that was cracked and chipped next to a motionless body of a young boy.
Luciana looked at the body and immediately recognized it as her friend Danny. Her tears rolled down her face along with the pouring rain coming down all over her body.
"DANNY!" she screamed at the top of her lungs as she got up and ran to his body.
"Quick, someone call 911!" shouted a man.
Luciana stood there for a second before collapsing on her knees. She then grabbed his body and placed it on her lap and cried even more before screaming in rage as she looked up at the sky with her eyes closed.
*End of Flashback*
Luciana sat on her bed holding the white sleepy fox yarn plushy that her friend gave to her three years ago. She held the doll tightly as she cried again.
Then she mumbled, "I vowed on that day that I will never make any friends ever again so that no one else would get hurt because of me." She paused for a moment before looking at the plushy and said, "I have to win tomorrow. No matter what."
Little did Luciana know was that her buddy, Flamma, heard everything that she said to dragoness sighed as she looked at her buddy with empathy for her.
The next day, Gao, Drum, Hanako, Kuguru, Baku, Kiri, Tetsuya, and Asmodai were waiting in the Buddyfight stadium seven minutes after school had ended already. Gao was waiting on the platform patiently.
Tetsuya sighed as he said, "I don't think she's coming guys."
"Yea, I don't think she's going to show up," Baku said to everyone in the group.
"You think she forgot?" Hana asked the guys.
"I don't think she forgot about the match, Hana," Kuguru replied to her.
"Then how come she's not here already?" Hana asked her curiously.
Kuguru thought for a moment before replying, "I believe she must have forfeited the match or she has something unexpected to do right after school."
"Or maybe she got lost trying to find the stadium," Kiri added in.
"Whatever the reason, I doubt she'll come to something like this," Asmodai said out loud.
"What makes you say that, A-Dawg?" Tetsuya asked him curiously.
"From what I've heard from you guys, she's more of a lone wolf type than a pack type if you know what I'm saying," he replied to his buddy.
"I guess I understand," Tetsuya replied to him.
Baku sighed as he said out loud, "Glad today is a Friday than a Monday guys."
"Yea, but I'm just itching to get out of school ground so that I can chill lax in my digs at home," Tetsuya said out loud.
Then they heard running footsteps as they turned to see who it was. Baku, Gao, and Kuguru's eyes widened in surprise when they saw Luciana's little sister, Fay, running up to them, out of breath.
"Fay?" Kuguru and Baku asked simultaneously.
Tetsuya turned to the two and asked, "You guys know this girl?"
Kuguru turned to Tetsuya and replied, "Yea, this is Luciana's little sister, Fay."
"Wait, she has a little sis, yo?" he said in shock and surprise.
Kuguru nodded her head at Tetsuya before turning to Fay and asked, "What brings you here, Fay? Did your sister accept Gao's challenge?
Fay breathed in and out heavily before she replied in gasps of air, "Yea. Sorry that we're late. We got lost and didn't know where to go."
"Okay, so then where is Luciana then?" Baku asked curiously.
Before Fay could reply, a familiar voice from the opposite side of the area replied, "I'm right here."
Everyone turned to the opposite side of the stadium and saw Luciana on the platform as it was raised up from the floor.
Gao smiled as he said, "I knew you would come."
Luciana replied, "I only came here so that you can leave me alone after I win."
"Talk about some confidence she has there," Baku said out loud.
"Yup, that's my big sis for yea. When she's fired up on a buddyfight challenge, there's no way she's going to lose," Fay said to the group.
"You ready, Luciana?" Gao asked her if she was ready for their buddyfight.
"Ready to beat you and to finally be left alone," she replied coldly.
"I'll take that as a yes," Gao said out loud.
Then suddenly, an orb of light came into the room as a very familiar commenter said, "Wherever there's a buddyfight, Paruko Nanana will be there!"
The orb of light faded as a small UFO hovered in the room before the hatch opened to reveal a pink haired girl that looked like a news reporter. "Now let's see who we have here today," she said before she spotted Gao. "And of course it's the king of dumb luck, Gao Mikado who is battling today. But who is his opponent?" she said before she saw Luciana on the other side of the stadium.
Paruko hovered towards Luciana and asked, "Um, what might your name be? I've never seen you here at school before?"
Luciana turned to Paruko and replied, "I'm nobody. Now if you don't mind, I would appreciate it if you turn off that camera of yours."
"Huh? Why might I ask?" Paruko asked her curiously.
"Because it's distracting and I want this fight to be a private one," she said to her.
Paruko looked at her strangely before she said, "Are you kidding me?! That's like asking a teacher to stop teaching. No way am I going to put this camera down in the world."
Luciana growled as she clenched her hand into a tight fist.
Suddenly, Paruko's camera started to smoke and sparked a bit as she said, "What the?" Then the camera exploded in her face as a thin layer of ash covered her face. Paruko wiped the ash from her face with a clean cloth as she hovered away from Luciana to see what happen to her camera to make it nonfunction and blow up on her.
"Ugh, I am experiencing technical difficulties here folks so bear with me," she said while trying to fix it.
Then Luciana turned to Gao and said, "Are you ready to be defeated?"
"We'll see about that," Gao said to Luciana before saying while luminizing his deck, "Release Baku's super explosive dragon deck! Dragon Blast Furry. Luminize."
Luciana looked at her opponent before she took off her cloak and threw it up in the air. She wore a cool blue shirt, which had awesome abstract designs on it. Her long purple hair was down than into a high ponytail like yesterday. She wore two silver wristbands that had a navy blue color gem in the center of the band. Around her neck, she wore a thick silver chained necklace with the yin and yang symbol in the middle of it.
"Let's get this over with," she said to herself before saying, "Fire, water, earth, air, darkness, light. Come forth and show them all your might! Mystic Force. Luminize." Her light blue core deck case transformed into a floating light blue heart that had the yin and yang symbol in the middle of it with a demon's wing on the yin's side and an angel's wing on the yang side.
"Okay, say it with me. Buddy…" shouted Paruko.
"Fight!" shouted the small audience.
"Time to raise the flag!" Luciana and Gao shouted simultaneously.
"I fight for Dragon World," Gao shouted while folding his arms across his chest as his buddy Drum swung the Dragon World flag back and forth.
"And I fight for Mystic World," Luciana said as she stood there with her arms across her chest next to her chosen buddy that looks like a wolf dragon hybrid.
Everyone stared in shock as they saw the flag she has chosen for this match. The flag had a long silver colored pole with a beautiful three shaded blue color rectangular flag. On the flag has a big black circle with a white crescent moon with a light blue tint in it. Eight spheres surrounded the moon with the colors of red, blue, yellow, green, teal, black, white, and pink. Also, the flag has four yin and yang symbols in each corner of the flag.
"Whoa, what kind of world is that Drum?" Gao asked his buddy.
"I...I have no idea, kid. I've never even heard of this world before," Drum replied honestly.
"NO WAY!" Paruko shouted loudly as she said, "Is that world even legit? I mean I've never even heard or seen anyone using or talking about this world."
"Hey yo, have you peeps heard about this Mystic World Luciana's talk'n about?" Tetsuya asked out loud.
"I sure haven't," Kuguru replied.
"Me neither," Baku said as he looked at the flag in full of awe and curiosity at what kind of strengths or weaknesses this world has.
"I….it can't be…." Asmodi said to himself in bewilderment.
"Huh? What is it A-Dawg?" Tetsuya asked while looking at his buddy in curiosity.
"That world…" he said as he stared at it in disbelief before saying, "is one of the four Lost Worlds"
Everyone in the room stared at him in shock before turning back to and stare at Luciana's flag. Luciana just stood there calmly as if it didn't bother her at all.
Gao stared at the flag as he mumbled, "A lost world?"
~To Be Continued~
On the next buddyfight, we get a first hand experience on how tough this new world really is and how rare and priceless it is. Baku is going off the walls at the deck's uniqueness and how it has some major similarities to other worlds. Asmodi and Kiri nearly had a heart attack when….what the!? The Light of Friendship. Next time on Buddyfight.