Hi everyone and Wow Shark and Rio are back! I'm so happy, they've been my two favorite characters from Zexal and I'm so glad they brought them back for the farewell scene. So in honor of their return here's another dose of "Riding the Wave" for you so here we go.
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal
Chapter 7: A Double Duel
Ryan's POV
After another day at school it was time to meet up with Yuma and head to his house. But for some reason, he didn't show up to our meeting spot and I was wondering what was taking him so long. I saw a friend of mine Spenser so I decided to ask him where Yuma was.
"Hey Spenser, do you know where Yuma is?" I asked him.
"Last time I checked Yuma was with Tori in the computer lab." Spenser said.
"Okay, thanks Spenser." I said as I ran over to the computer lab. For the past few days Yuma has not been himself lately. Ever since his loss to Shark he's been trying to find a way to win without his Number Cards and ends up losing. He's also been having a falling out with Bronk who says Yuma is now just losing on purpose and rarely hangs out with him. I arrived at the computer lab to find Yuma and Tori at a computer looking at something that shocked me as I quickly ran over to them. "What do you think you two are doing?" I asked as I quickly turned off the monitor.
"Hey we were looking at that!" Yuma said as I kept on a stern face.
"I will tell you again." I said before asking the same question. "What are you two doing?"
"We're just looking up information about your brother Shark." Tori said as she then put her hand on her hips and gave me a stern look. "Or should we say Reginald Kastle."
"Look he just wants to be called by Shark now okay." I responded back "Besides he hates being called Reginald." I should know since he yelled at me once for calling him by his real name.
"Ryan, is it true that Shark got disqualified from the National Duel Championship?" she continue to ask me as I simply nodded. "But why and how?" she once again asked.
"I rather not tell you, I promised my brother not to tell anyone what happened." I said as they all gave me a look of concern. "Look its best that you guys just drop the subject," I said looking into the window "if Shark wants to live the rest of his life with a gang, that's fine with me." I said. After our little tense moment we all were finally outside of school when a man ran up to us with a panic look on his face and out of breath.
"Hey, you three are Shark's friends right." As we all nodded when I suddenly remember who this guy was.
"Hey your that guy from the gang!" I said pointing at him as Yuma and Tori gasped.
"That's right, but I need your help." He said as we all didn't believe him.
"Yeah right, why should we help you?" I asked him.
"Because, it's about our gang leaders." He said as he went on explain "Ever since they got a hold of these strange cards they've been acting weird." He said as we all had confused looks on what he ment.
"Strange Cards?" I asked him.
"They must be Number Cards." I heard Astral say as the man continued explaining
"They plan on steeling a deck tonight at the museum and are planning to frame your friend for the crime." We all gasped as I look to the others.
"We have to get to that museum first before Shark and those others do." I said as they all nodded as I quickly went to get my bike. "I'll meet you guys there, there's someplace I need to go first." I said before looking at the man. "You Mister…" I said as the man gave me his name.
"Weasel." He said. Matching name. I thought than shook my head knowing this wasn't the time for that kind of talk.
"Thank you for telling this to us." I said as I rode off to the city. I soon arrived at a Duel Game card shop. Since I didn't have a deck with me I had to construct a new one. Luckily for me the owner of the shop was a personal friend of me, Shark and Rio.
"Ryan so good to see you again." The man said in a Russian accent.
"Hello Ivan." I said as I walked in.
"Looking for cards to boost that deck of yours?" He asked as I shook my head.
"Not this time," I said "I'm looking to build o new deck." "There's nothing wrong with my old deck I just wanted to try something more challenging." I quickly added as Ivan nodded.
"Well follow me to the back; I have some open cards for you to look at." He said as he escorted me to the back to the cards he had in storage. I quickly had a look over the cards since there wasn't enough time as I constructed my new temporary deck. I soon walked up to the desk where Ivan was.
"How much do I owe you?" I asked as I reached in for my money.
"Oh there's no need for that, after all it was thanks to you and your brother and sister that my card shop is still open." He said as I could help but smile at this. When we were all younger Ivan's card shop was our favorite place to get new cards to boost our deck but then we heard that he was closing it down because he didn't have enough money to pay off the shop so the three of us got together and called ourselves the "The Three Waves" since we all used water attribute cards. We were the youngest duelist to win all three places and used the prize money from the tournament we entered to help Ivan and thanks to us his card shop became popular. After putting my cards in a duel deck I headed out. "Send my best to your brother and sister for me will ya?" He said as I nodded as I rode off to the museum. I arrived just in time to see Yuma and Astral there I assumed Tori went after Bronk to help back us up. We then heard an engine roar as we looked up to see Shark and the two leaders of the gang he was in approaching the museum. I look to Yuma and gave him a nod as we jumped from our hiding spots in front of them.
"That's far enough!" I said as Yuma stood next to me.
"That's right!" he said "We won't let you pass this point." As we saw both the two leaders glowing, just like Shark was when he first dueled Yuma.
"Well looky here." The first guy called Chills said "It's the two pests from before."
"That's right." I said "And these two pests are challenging you to a duel, and if we win you guys leave and Shark comes with us."
"Oh yeah? And what happens if we win?" the second thug called Scorch asked.
"Then you get to keep my Number Card." Yuma said holding out his Utopia. Is he crazy? I thought to myself knowing Yuma was going risky yet again.
"Well, well." Scorch said looking at Yuma's number card "He's got a number card too Chills."
"Just like us." Chills said holding out their own number cards. So Astral was right. I thought. "And besides only one of you will duel all three of us since you gave Shark your deck kid." Chills said pointing at me.
"Really?" I said giving him a smirk as I pulled out my deck. "I constructed this deck earlier today and I'm looking to give it a test run in this duel."
Shark's POV
Is Ryan crazy!? I thought to myself. I know Ryan is good with the deck I gave him. But put him with any other deck and he would end up in a panic. There was no way I was going to let him get squashed by Chills and Scorch epically since they have Number Cards like Yuma. So I decided to the next thing that I hopefully I was going to regret I walked over to Yuma and my brother's side much to the shock of the brothers. "Shark what are you doing?" they asked as I turned around giving them my signature smirk. "Sorry boys but this will be a tag team duel." I said as I then turned to Ryan. "Ryan leave this to me and Yuma." I told him. "Okay Shark." He said as he even gave me a smile and a thumbs up. What a kid. I thought to myself, ever since my family took him in he was always cheerful but also had a sense of seriousness in him, and that's what I like about him.
Ryan's POV
I walked over to a spot where I could watch the duel from as it got underway. There was a bit of a rough start for Yuma and Shark since Yuma wasn't in a tag duel before and Shark telling him he could only attack when all four duelist turns end. As the duel went on Chills and Scorch's decks were reviled to be Dinosaur themed decks as Scorch summoned his number, Number61: Volcasaurus and Chills with his, Number 19:Frezzerdon. Luckily for Yuma and my brother they had their best xyz cards on the field Utopia and Black Ray Lancer. There was something else I realized as the duel continued, on every turn of either Chills or Scorch they always managed to get the card they always needed. Then it hit me as I then called out Yuma and Shark telling them what was going on.
"Yuma, Shark! Scorch and Chills are cheating!" I told them as they both looked in shock at this.
"Yeah, so what if we're cheating?" Chills asked "It's not like the same thing that happened to Shark at the Nationals last year." My eyes widen at this remembering the event that happened last year.
[Flashback Normal POV]
Ryan had just got back to his seat after giving a prep talk to Shark telling him to do his best.
"Alright here we go." Ryan said as Shark made his way into the arena along with the other opponent. Intensity was filling up the stadium as Shark made his first draw but at that same time alarms went off as they showed video footage of Shark looking at what appeared to be the other opponent's deck. "What?" Ryan muttered to himself as they quickly crowned Shark's opponent the new champion. There's no way Shark could've cheated. Ryan thought as he quickly made his way to his brother. "Shark what happened?" Ryan asked as he approached his brother only to get pinned next to a wall.
"Just stay away from me Ryan!" Shark said as he let go of his brother and walked away."
"Shark…" Ryan muttered as he picked himself up.
[End Flashback]
Ryan's POV
That was the worst day for both of us. It changed us as Shark rarely now recognized me as his brother.
"And that's why Shark can't duel on the big stage." Scorch said continuing to taunt my brother. "Face it Shark, you are a big time loser!" Scorch said as he and Chills continued mocking him.
"Shut Up!" I yelled tired of them verbally harassing my brother.
"Excuse me?" Scorch said looking at me "But this doesn't concern you kid."
"Yes it does!" I responded "Yes Shark may have cheated but I think it was all a set up. Shark always played by the rules and always gave respect to his opponents. But that all changed after people saw like you two saw him as a looser, a cheater, a quitter. Well let me tell you something, my brother is still a pretty cool duelist and it's because of him I'm now a good duelist." I then looked at Shark and Yuma with determination in my eyes "Shark, Yuma win this duel and ride the wave!" I said shouting out my catchphrase, and they did. In in an amazing comeback Shark and Yuma worked together and defeated Scorch and Chills and Astral collected their Number Cards. I ran over to them along with Tori and Bronk who showed up in the middle of the duel.
"Ryan." I heard Shark say my name as I looked at him. There was a moment of silence between us as we than gave each other a smile. "Sorry if I was acting like a jerk before." He said.
"That's okay bro." I said "I wasn't acting like myself as well." He then reached for something behind him as he then gave me back my Mermail Deck. We then did our signature high five with my balling my hand into a fist him grabbing it.
"What say we go out for pizza before we head home?" he asked me as I nodded.
"Hey Yuma I'll come by your house tomorrow to grab my things okay?" I said as Yuma nodded until he called out to us.
"Hey don't you want 'Armored Xyz' back?" he asked my brother as he just gave him a smile.
"Nah keep it." Shark said as we both said our goodbyes to Yuma and his friends as we both hoped on our bikes and rode off to resume our normal lives and getting pizza.
Next Time on Riding the Wave: Ryan and Shark work together to protect Yuma's pendent from a thieving robot. But when they learn that the bot belongs to the mysterious Kite Tenjo, they soon find out they are in more than they can handle.
Next Time on Riding the Wave: Shark vs. Kite! Protect Yuma's Pendent!
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