AN: Sorry about taking so long with my stories, I recently got a bunch of new games and I got distracted. Also I am going be adding a few of my own cards into the story, but they will fit into the deck, I also am coming up with my own Signer dragon, because the Blue eyes synchro don't have the effects I want for a signer dragon. Anyways enjoy.

My alarm went off, causing me to bolt straight up and rub my head. I looked around and remembered my encounter from last night. I grabbed my deck and found Karisa, I looked over the card and shook my head.

"I must have been really tired, I hallucinated my cards coming to life or something."

Suddenly Karisa's voice called out, "That wasn't a hallucination Justin, and you must hurry, you've got a duel to get to.".

I looked at the card and sighed, "This is gonna be a normal thing for you isn't it?".

"Yes it is, now hurry up."

I got up and took a shower, courtesy of the full sized bathroom in the garage and pulled on some clothes. After which I came out of the garage and looked around, seeing Greiger come out of his garage. I raise an eyebrow and decides to go find some breakfast. From what I saw, there were even more people trying to get into the stadium today than there was yesterday. Though it was understandable, Jack Atlas was going to be dueling whoever won this tournament. I soon find a breakfast buffet for the duelists and fills up my plate.

"Making sure you have energy for today?"

I turn to see Greiger behind me, "Yea, plus I haven't a big meal in about a month, my job doesn't give me enough to live extravagantly.".

"What is your job anyways?"

I chuckle, "I work as a mechanic, it seemed to be the best thing I could do."

Greiger nods and grabs a plate for himself, I head off to a table and starts digging in. I look around and saw Akiza walking around, almost as if she was nervous. I was about to get up when I saw that amn come up to her and leads her away.

I heard Karisa in my head say, "He seems to be keeping a close guard on her.".

"Yea, but the way he talked to me, almost sounded like he's just using her."

"Maybe you can talk to her during the duel."

I shrug and finishes up my breakfast, heading off to get my duel disk and double checking my rider. Soon I could hear the stands getting louder with more and more fans, I shake my head as I am called for the first duel of the day. I get my duel disk on and deck put in before heading to the stage. I pass by Yusei who gives me a thumbs up and heads off to watch the duel. Once I'm in the elevator, I look at Karisa who forms outside of the card.

"Ok Karisa, give it to me straight, how dangerous is Akiza's psychic powers?"

She thought for a moment, "All I can say is, try not to get hit by her Signer Dragon. If it comes to that, then use yours.".

"Mine? You mean the blue eyes?"

She shook her head, "No, however you will know when the time comes.".

She faded away as the platform reached the top and the fans started to cheer.

The announcer called out to the audience, "Welcome everyone! Our first duel for today, features the controller of the Blue Eyes, Justin! Facing off against the Black Rose Akiza!".

The audience booed as Akiza came up to the stage, I looked out at them with disgust. I turned back to my opponent and saw that their jeering was getting to her.

"Akiza!"

She looks up at me confused, "W-h-what?".

"Ignore what the audience is saying, right now the only thing that matters, is this duel."

Her sad look, slowly changed into one of part determination and part anger as she nodded and readied her duel disk. I got mine ready and drew my starting hand.

[Duel Start]

The announcer called out, "Let the duel begin, Justin shall get the first turn!".

I draw my card, and looks my hand, "First I'll summon 'White Dragon Statue' in defense mode, then set two cards face down. That's it for me."

(All of my own cards will be given their card effects after using them. White dragon statue; Lvl: 1, Tuner/Effect Monster, Atk: 0, Def: 2000, Effect: This card counts as two tribute if used to Tribute Summon 'Blue-Eyes White Dragon'.)

Akiza drew her card, "I summon Evil Thorn in Attack Mode, and now activate it's effect. I can Tribute my thorn to hit you with 300 points of damage.".

The thorns exploded and hit me with a shock wave, that caused me to brace myself. I then watched as two more thorns were summoned to the field.

"Crap now she has two monsters to use for something."

Akiza then placed a card face down, "That's all for me...".

I look at her, she seemed to be losing that drive she had a moment ago. I drew my card and looked at my hand, I already had a blue eyes in my hand, but I couldn't risk losing one this early in the duel.

"I sacrifice my statue and summon Des Volstgalph in Attack mode, now destroy one of her thorns"

My dragon let loose a stream of flames, directing at one of the thorns until a blizzard of rose petals stopped the attack.

"What? What happened to my attack?"

Akiza revealed her facedown, "I activated Rose Blizzard, now your attack is negated and your monster is forced into defense mode.".

I end my turn and waits for her move, I watch as she draws her card.

"Akiza I want to ask you something?"

She looks up at me confused as to why anyone would actually talk to her, "Yes, what do you want?".

"I just wanted to ask, why do you want to be feared like this? Someone like you could make friends and have a normal life."

She glared at me, "Normal?! How could I be normal if my powers make me a monster that no one could find beautiful. Sayer always said that the one I could count on was him.".

"Sayer? That guy with the trench coat? Akiza, he's just an asshole who wants to use you."

"Shut up! He's the only person who actually cared about me, and once I'm through with you, I'll be one step closer to ridding myself of this damn mark."

She then played Copy Plant, "Now my plant gets to copy the level of one monster on your field, so I choose your dragon.".

I watched as the plant shifted into the form of my dragon. I had the feeling something big was about to be summoned.

"i'll show why people call me a monster, I summon Black Rose Dragon!"

Her giant dragon was summoned and produced an ear shattering shriek causing me to cover my ears. I looked up at the dragon as it glared at me, I could actually fell the anger of Akiza coming from it. I then realized my arm started to sting and I looked down at it. The mark of a flame slowly started to form on my arm, however I ignored the pain and waited for Akiza to continue.

"Black Rose Dragon, attack his dragon!"

Black Rose charged up energy and blasted my monster away, leaving me to get hit by the pressure. I regained my footing and took a few breaths, now I understand what Karisa meant. I looked at Akiza and stood up straight.

"If you were planning on scaring me, then you have to do better than that."

She looked at me surprised, this must have been the first time someone was able to stand up to her. Akiza ended her turn and I drew my card, it seemed as if fate was on my side.

I looked back at Akiza, "Well I guess the only thing I can do is summon 'Maiden with Eyes of Blue' in Attack Mode.".

Karisa appeared onto the field and gave a small smile and wave to Akiza.

"Why would you summon a monster like that, it won't save you from my dragon?"

"You won't know until your turn."

Akiza took a step back and drew her card before declaring an attack on the maiden. Black Rose shot a beam of energy right at Karisa.

"Maiden activate Neutron Barrier.", Karisa activated her special ability and negated the attack.

"What? What did you do?"

"I activated my monster's ability, if she is attacked, then I can negate it and switch her to Defense Mode. Also if this effect is resolved, I can then summon a specific monster from my hand or Deck. If you know my Deck, then you should know which monster it is, my Blue-Eyes White Dragon."

I brought out my dragon, causing it to roar loudly, making Black rose tense up a bit.

"And don't think I'm done yet, I activate my facedown trap 'Call of the Haunted' and I bring back my statue."

Akiza growled a bit and ended her turn, I drew my card and started my turn.

"Now it's my turn to Synchro Summon, I tune my Maiden with my Blue-Eyes and my Statue."

A giant piller of light fell from the sky with the shape of a dragon inside of it.

"I Synchro Summon Blue-Eyes Supreme Dragon!"

(Blue-Eyes Supreme Dragon: Synchro/Effect, 2 LIGHT Tuners + 1 'Blue-Eyes White Dragon', ATK: 3800, DEF: 3000, If this monster is targeted by a card effect, then you decrease the Attack of this monster by 1000 and negate the effect. If this card is sent to the graveyard, you can then Special Summon 1 'Blue-Eyes White Dragon' from your Graveyard.)

The audience looked amazed at the dragon, it looked like a regular blue eyes, but sharper around the wings and head crest. However the biggest difference was the halo of light floating behind it. The mark on my arm suddenly started to burn until it felt as if my arm was in a fire.

"Damn it, what the hell is going on?!", I try scratching at the mark, but it didn't help at all.

Akiza wasn't much better than me, she covered her arm and glared at me.

"You have this mark too? Why? Why do you torment me like this?"

I look at her, concerned at what she said, did she think this mark was something bad. Though I was only recently told that I was part of some special destiny, I figured I should've just rolled with it. I shake my head and looks at Akiza.

"Don't think I know what this thing means, I'm here to duel and that's what I'm going to do."

I drew my card and declared my attack, the halo glowed brightly and moved energy to the mouth of my dragon. The air around the dueling field seemed to crackle as well as the pressure around us seemed to increase. My dragon let out the beam, that almost seemed to warp the field itself. Akiza quickly activated her trap card, 'Ground Capture', but that didn't save her dragon from being obliterated by the beam. Instead she only lost half the life points she would have lost. I end my turn and looks at her, if she wanted to win, then she will need to find a way to stop my dragon.

She draws her card and sets two cards face down then summons her Blue Rose Dragon in Defense Mode, ending her turn. I looked at her, she seemed to be closing herself away from the world.

I then saw her take out a mask and start to put it on, "Akiza don't!".

She stopped, but didn't look at me, "Why shouldn't I, the world would be better if they saw me as a monster."

"You're not a monster, you're a beautiful young woman, you have the soul of the duelist."

"Shut up! I'm not any of those, I'm just a monster and nothing else."

I watched as she put the mask on and then looked at me, "Well are you going to continue or not?".

I sighed and drew my card, in any event I had a back up planned. Akiza was dead set on believing she was a monster, I just needed to show her the light.

"Go Blue-Eyes, Divine Burst Stream!"

My dragon let loose another blast, I knew if one of her cards was to stop me, then I could negate it. However she let the blast consume her dragon, only for it to be replaced by her Black Rose Dragon.

"What? How is your monster back?"

"It was my Blue Rose's effect, when it's destroyed I can bring back my Black Rose."

I ended my turn and waited to see what she would do.

"I activate my trap 'Synchro Stream' and since there are two Synchro monsters, I can make mine gain attack equal to your dragon's. Now go Black Rose and destroy his monster."

Black Rose charged up it's attack and shot it at Blue-Eyes, piercing it's chest and causing my dragon to be destroyed, leaving behind a normal Blue-Eyes. Akiza sneered and ended her turn.

I look at my life points, it was below half, however her dragon was back to it's normal attack since my dragon was destroyed. I looked over my hand and found my winning strategy.

"Akiza, I'm going to pull you from the darkness and show you the light, and it starts with this, my 'Polymerization'! Now I fuse the two Blue-Eyes from my hand with the one on my field and form my Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"

Everyone's jaw dropped as my three-headed dragon descended onto the field.

"I'm not done yet, I activate Megamorph which doubles my dragon's attack. Now Akiza I will ask you this, do you want to be feared or respect."

She stayed quiet for some time, before saying, "I just want to belong….".

I nodded, "Then take this attack and see the truth before you. Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon attack with Ultimate Burst Stream, show her the light.".

My dragon formed three energy orbs in each mouth before bringing them together to form a giant one. The dragon blasted away Black Rose and the resulting pressure destroyed Akiza's mask, allowing her to see me standing in front of my dragon. Her life points reached zero as she collapsed on her knees, I started to walk up to her. Once I was in front of her, I extended my hand to her.

"The future is bright and it starts with making the right friends."

She looked at me and took my hand as I helped her up, "So even after trying to hurt you as much as I did, you would still want me as a friend?".

"Of course, you were scared and unsure what to do. That's not who you are, one day I hope to see the real you."

I caught a faint blush appear on her cheeks as Sayer came up and placed his jacket on her, "Come on Akiza, let's go."

Sayer glared daggers at me, apparently putting a stop to whatever plan he had going. The announcer declared me the winner and the audience applause.

[Goodwin's Viewing Tower]

Jack Atlas watched as I walked off the stage, "So this is what you've been planning, I thought only Yusei might give me trouble."

Goodwin looked concerned and thought to himself, "The amount of D-Energy his dragon let off was astounding, almost as if it was the power of the Crimson Dragon itself. I struck gold without even looking for it."

AN: JEEZ, this is the longest chapter out of any of my stories that I've ever written. I tried to make the duel longer, but this is also meant as the start of Justin's and Akiza's relationship. Anyway, Favorite, Follow, and Review if you enjoyed the story, I'll try to write at a better pace, but holidays are fast approaching.