Aki approached the arena, dressed with mask and all, slightly reluctantly; yet she was eager to prove herself to Divine. She had to redeem herself for that fuck up earlier, she couldn't allow herself to react with something like that again. The witch clouded her thoughts, thinking of what it'd do to her poor opponent... She had, for some reason, expected the usual: an overweight male trying to look "badass."
So she was shocked to see a young girl in the arena, and felt the witch inside of her shudder with glee and excitement. She muttered to herself, "Damn you... Witch, let this girl go..." She could almost feel the Witch mocking her and, yet, this Witch seemed to acknowledge her request. So she discarded her mask, and with a smile, looked the young girl deep in the eyes.
"Good luck today, but don't expect me to go easy on you."
"You too, miss. You too!" The little girl broke out into a grin, as if greeted by a celebrity. To be fair, Aki did see herself as a "duelling legend" but not the kind that would make you smile... the kind that would make you shit yourself and run, and so she was again surprised by this girl.
Yet, the girl's actions seemed to ignite a spark of decency inside of her, and she silently addressed the Witch inside of herself. "Witch... I would like it if we didn't use Black Rose today..." This drew no reaction from inside of her, until a sharp stabbing pain in her head brought Aki to her knees screaming, yet none of the security were courageous enough to approach her, leaving her alone on her half of the stadium, causing all of the spectators to go silent and just stare. All but one. Aki looked up in pain, and met eyes with the man grinning at her madly. Divine.
"Izayoi... put the fucking Black Rose Dragon back in your deck... I want you to use it to annihilate this girl's deck, and not only her deck but her spirit and her herself!" No one else reacted to this, and it seemed Divine was transmitting this silently to her, as if he was there inside her... With the Witch. Why wasn't the Witch helping her?
"Foolish girl... The Witch is a manifestation of your true powers, and yet... You're so weak you cant even harvest her or use her in the time of need... Now would be one of those situations, IF you didn't put that beautiful dragon back into your deck." He was like a larvae, worming his way through her conscience, as if she could hide NOTHING from this... this... monster. "Hey, I heard that too. Now, listen to Mister Divine, or..." Divine broke out into a laugh, causing everyone's attention to be diverted to him.
Aki gritted her teeth, and resentfully placed the Black Rose Dragon back into her deck. "Fine... its not like I'll use it..."
"Oh, you will, Izayoi. Or else these brainless c*nts staring at me will have their minds torn to shit, right here... Right now."
She had no choice, she had to use it... Aki half walked, half crawled, her way to her side of the field, then stood up slowly, grabbing her mask as she did so.
Tears ran down her face, and she whimpered before putting the mask on and embracing the Witch half of her. She addressed Reika: "I'm... I'm so, so sorry about this... I'd do anything... anything to have another option, but... it's you, or all of them... Shit, im so-"
"Get on with it, bitch." Divine cut her off as she writhed on the floor and screamed again, then managed to help herself up and get prepared...
"Game... start!"