A/N: So here's the third chapter! I followed the 1st option so the card effect's aren't described, if you don't know what a card does google it. Now I hope you enjoy this new chapter!


Chapter 3

Yusei was rushing towards the Daedalus bridge on his trusted duel runner. "Akiza, don't worry I'll save you!" He thought. The bridge wasn't too far away from his home, but far enough to let him cool down. "Why did that guy kidnap Akiza?" He had asked himself that question countless times before, but now he seemed to have the answer. "He's using her as bate! But why would he be interested in me?" There were countless answers to that question, but he managed to keep his thoughts at bay. "I'll probably find out soon anyway." As he stopped in front of the bridge he heard another duel runner approach, it was the duel runner that Phantom had described in that blackmail. Yusei's anger started growing as he touched Black Rose dragon. "He'll pay for everything." These were our hero's thoughts as the other duel runner closed in. It stopped not too far away from Yusei's runner.

"Where's Akiza!?" Yusei shouted.

Phantom smiled before replying: "Up there."

And he pointed towards a building in the street he had just left. Yusei looked and saw a cage hanging from it, he was about to ask what was in it when he saw something moving in it, it was Akiza. "Akiza!" He yelled and the figure in the cage sat up and looked at him, then it saw Phantom and shouted something that was covered by the other runner's engine.

"Are we going to sit here all night or are we going to duel?" Phantom asked, with sarcasm written all other his face. Yusei faced him and answered with all the anger he was capable of:

"You've chosen the wrong duellist to mess with Phantom."

The other laughed and then rode off shouting: "Keep up if you can Yusei!"

Yusei rushed forward as they both activated speed world 2.

"Let's duel." They both said.

XXX

Akiza was horrified when she saw that the duel was starting. "No no no, please tell me this isn't happening..." She had woken up in that cage and had heard Yusei's voice calling her, she had tried to warn him of the shadow cards but that idiot Phantom had covered her words with his runner's engine. "If Yusei doesn't find it out before it's too late he'll just walk into his doom" She started sobbing thinking of how these days should have been perfect... and of how they had turned out being instead. "I can't help Yusei in here." Akiza bit her lip as she couldn't stop worrying for him.

XXX

The first turn was Yusei's. "I don't know what kind of deck he has so I'll play safe for now." He thought. Phantom must have arrived to a similar conclusion because he didn't try to bust out any powerful monsters but summoned Maiden with the eyes of blue in attack mode. "Why on earth has he done that..." Yusei meditated on it. "Oh well, I'll take the bate." He synchro summoned junk warrior and attacked.

"HA" Phantom shouted "You're a fool, look at what you've done!"

Due to maiden's effect the attack was negated and Phantom summoned Blue eyes white dragon.

"This is not good." Yusei thought.

"So Yusei, any second thoughts?" Phantom asked while laughing his head off.

"Why did you use Akiza as bait to get to me!?" Yusei replied

"Because I wanted to isolate you from everything else, here we're just you, me, Akiza and my shadow cards."

"You're what!?" Yusei felt an uneasy feeling starting to rise in him. "I thought that Hook the hidden knight and that other trap were the only ones!"

Phantom laughed again: "Where do you think Primo got them? From me of course!"

Yusei darkened as all the pieces combined, Primo, one of the three emperors of Yliaster and part of Aporia, had never said of having fabricated those cards himself. "But if those really are shadow cards" Yusei thought "I'll have to be extremely careful to the surroundings... everything could take me down, even my shadow." In the meantime Yusei was in a bad situation, he had 3300 life points and sonic chick in defence mode while his opponent had synchro summoned Azure eyes silver dragon and had another blue eyes white dragon.

"Yusei just look at you!" Phantom said "you're cowering behind a chicken! You know that you're no match for me so just give up!"

"Never!"

"Well you asked for it! And since you're going to die soon I guess that I can tell you everything."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that you and me are just pawns in a bigger game."

"You're not actually saying anything! Explain yourself!"

Phantom grinned. "I'm part of an organization that used to be Yliaster's number one opponent."

Yusei didn't like where this was going. "Let me guess" he shouted "now that they're gone you think it's your turn to change the world!"

"Actually no. Our goal is to take you down."

"And why would you want to do that?"

"Oh why indeed" Phantom looked thoughtful "look I didn't want to kidnap Akiza and I don't want to kill you, but orders are orders."

"What re you trying to do? One moment you seem a psycho-maniac that laughed at the thought of killing me and now you're saying that you didn't want to do it? And you still haven't answered my questions clearly."

"All right here's the hole story, or at least all that I know. We were Yliaster's opponent but they were a lot more powerful then us, so all we could do was survive and oppose them in every way we could. But things started to change after the fall of the Arcadia movement, as you know Goodwin was seen as the major responsible of what had happened to the city after the battle with the Dark signers."

"So?"

"So many former Arcadia members signed up with us to take Yliaster down."

"What was their interest in Yliaster?"

"Goodwin was part of it so many thought that since he was dead they could get revenge on the group. But then Yliaster started concentrating it's activities in New Domino City, abandoning even the most important money raising business. We were all perplexed, even the psychic duellists didn't know what to think. Right then a member of Yliaster asked our help to bring a certain common enemy down. In HQ chaos spread our nemesis was asking for our help, and the situation only worsened when we found out who that person was. It was one of the three emperors of Yliaster, Primo."

"And what kind of help did he want?"

"You probably already know the answer, don't you?

"He wanted shadow cards."

"Exactly, no one knew how he had found out, it was a top secret project still in testing, Primo offered to be the one who tested them in a real duel and assured that all negative feedback from the public would have fallen on Yliaster. We accepted the offer since we were pretty sure things would have turned out badly."

"But they didn't."

"No actually they did, Primo tricked us, he just gave them to a random hothead so that he could take you down."

"We were planning our revenge when your battle with Z-one happened. And with your victory came Yliaster's fall. Nobody had expected it, but even more shocking was the fact that the remnants of Yliaster wanted to be recruited by us. Our leaders were worried of how the psychic duellists would have reacted, but strangely they agreed, saying that you were a more worrying problem now."

"And so all of my past enemies have regrouped under one banner and now want me dead."

"Yeah you've got the picture. So sorry for this but you're going down!"

"All right then let's continue this duel!"

XXX

Akiza couldn't believe what she had just heard, she sat down and thought: "The Arcadia movement, my old home, I thought that everyone under Sayer's control had found normal lives, instead... Not to mention everything else." Studying the situation they were in she couldn't stop thinking of how bad it was. "This is probably the most powerful opponent we have ever faced." She bit her lip as she saw Yusei's runner jolt under another of Phantom's assault, and then she screamed when a trap card literally nearly made him crash:

"Yusei!"

XXX

"Why am I still fighting against this guy... he's just toying with me, inflicting real damage and then watching me struggle. He's even schizophrenic! One moment it looks as if he likes dealing pain and the other he's just the opposite. Why don't I just give up..."

Just then he heard someone shouting his name, he looked up and saw Akiza, she was on her knees grabbing the cage's bars and had tears in her eyes, those beautiful eyes of hers.

"Akiza" Yusei thought. He felt bad for only having thought of betraying her.

"Phantom!" He yelled. "You're going down no matter what it takes!"

"Quit the small talk and get to it already!"

"Let's rev it up then! I draw!" He looked at the card. "Perfect!" he said.

"What's perfect? You've just got 300 life points, one face-down and no monsters, while I have my azure eyes silver dragon and two blue eyes."

"Well let's see how they protect you from this!"

Yusei activated Angel baton and thus drew two cards, then special summoned unknown synchron, which was followed by quickdraw synchron and quillbult hedgehog. Then he finally normal summoned stardust xiaolong

"Phantom this is it!" Yusei yelled as Phantom's expression darkened. "I synchro summon, Stardust dragon!"

"That may be, but it's no match for my monsters." Phantom answered with a smile.

"That's why he'll not be sticking around for long!"

"What!?"

Yusei activated his face down, graceful revival, and so summoned stardust xiaolong to the field from the graveyard, then he tuned it with unkown synchron to synchro summon formula synchron.

"Wait, but that means..." Phantom started to pale

"I see you know about my hidden ace. So let's get to the main event! Axel synchro!"

Yusei vanished only to reappear behind his opponent, with no stardust and formula, but with his Shooting star dragon.

"This is bad." Phantom growled.

"Oh and it only gets worse! I activate Shooting star dragon's ability!"

Yusei drew the top 5 cards of his deck and got five tuner monsters.

"No way!" Phantom gasped.

"Yes way!" Yusei replied. "Now my dragon can attack five times! Go Shooting star dragon! Annihilate him!"

"NOOOOO!"

Phantom's life points hit 0 at the fifth attack.


A/N: Before you ask me, Yusei use'd quickdraw synchron, quillbult hedgehog and stardust xiaolong to summon stardust. And so still had unkown synchron in play. If you have any questions and/or suggestions I'll gladly hear them. Also please point out my errors to me so I don't do them again :) I really hoped you enjoyed the chapter and let me know if I managed to make it a good duel... It was hard as hell to write it!