Sorry this is late. My family was driving back home to Virginia from New York after the holidays. That's like a 6-hour drive. That's why this is so rushed. I'm gonna try to post two chapters today to make up for it.

Turn 8: The Light of Synchro

Chip and Shade got into the bleachers as Yujo and Ray got to the field.

"I don't get it," said Chip. "What do you guys mean when you say that I need a deck that fits my soul?"

"I gotta ask myself," said Kent.

"Yeah, what does that mean?" Mia added.

"It's not something that can be answered that easily," said Shade. "Let's just say for now that Yujo's practically a Unimon himself." That didn't answer their question, but they left it at that and turned back to the prince and his knight.

"It's bine a while since we last dueled," said Yujo.

"You won last time," said Ray, "but don't think it'll be that easy this time."

"I'd be disappointed if it was. Game time, Ray."

"LET'S DUEL!"

Yujo: 4000

Ray: 4000

"I'll go first," said Yujo as he drew a card. "Nice. I'll start by placing Unimon Chikyu, the Earth in the Pendulum zone."

Chikyu appeared in a pillar light to Yujo's right with a 1 under him.

"He's only putting in one in the Pendulum zone instead of two?" asked Mia.

"It must be for his ability," said Kent. "Remember? In the Pendulum zone, he can negate one attack per turn."

"Now I'll summon Unimon Raitoningu, the Lightning (L4/A,1600)! I'm not done. Ready, Raitoningu?"

"Fire away."

"I activate Raitoningu's special ability! I can sacrifice him to summon a Level 5 or higher Unimon from my hand. Also, this counts as a Tribute Summon. So I Tribute Summon Unimon Arashi, the Storm (L6/A,2400)!"

Arashi was a large blue wasp that was as big as a truck with what appeared to be dragon fly wings.

"Finally, my turn," he said.

"I'll end my turn with two facedowns. Your move, Ray."

"Alright. Let's see. I'll summon Vylon Stigma in DEF (L4/D,1000)."

Everyone stared at the metallic yellow and black creature that appeared.

"So, is this some kind of machine deck?" asked Chip.

"Not quite," said Shade. "Ray's deck consists of machines and fairy's in general. But it's more focused on Equips Spells."

"Now I'll equip him with Vylon Filament." A pair of gold futuristic lances appeared on Filament's arms. "I'll end my turn with that. Sorry, Stigma."

"It's all good, Ray."

"My move then. Now, Arashi! Attack Filament with Storm Stinger!"

"Open wide!" Arashi shot a blue laser out of his stinger that destroyed Stigma.

"I activate Vylon Filament's ability. Now, I can add a Vylon Spell from my deck to my hand."

"Well, that's all for now."

"Here goes. I summon Vylon Prism in DEF (L4/D,1500). Now I'll equip him with Vylon Material." A single futuristic lance appeared on Prism's arm. "Then I'll place one facedown and end my turn."

"Will this work?" asked Prism quietly.

"Well, it's all we can do for now."

"My draw. Now Arashi! Let loose your Storm Stinger!"

"My favorite," said Arashi as he destroyed Prism.

"I activate Material's ability. And just like before, I can now put a Vylon Spell from my deck in my hand.

"That's all."

"Ray doesn't seem to be putting up much of a fight," said Kent.

"This tends to happen when you're stuck with a bad hand I'm guessing," said Shade.

"My draw. Now then, time for a counter attack. I activate my facedown! The Continuous Trap, Call of the Haunted! Now I can bring back Vylon Prism(L4/A,1500). Now I'll summon Vylon Hept from my hand (L4/A,1800)."

"Well, what do you know? It did work," said Hept.

"You sound surprised. Now, I'll equip Hept with Vylon Component." A ring appeared around Hept's arm with two spikes pointing out towards his hand. "Better watch out, Yujo. Because Prism's a Tuner monster!"

"Tuner monster?" asked Chip.

"And we all know what that means," said Shade.

"I tune my Level 4 Prism with my Level 4 Hept!"

Prism's body glowed and turned into 4 little orbs of light. The orbs burst into 4 green rings that surrounded Hept in a straight line. As they descended upon him, Hept's body became translucent with an orange glowing outline, with four orbs glowing in his body.

"Now, these two beings of light will come together to create a being that shines even brighter!"

The four orbs realigned themselves in a perfect straight line as a pillar of flowing light passed through the rings and covered the entire area with its shine. As the light faded, everyone looked up at the giant white and gold monster.

"I Synchro Summon Vylon Epsilon (L8/A,2800)!"

"And just like before," said Epsilon, "since Vylon Component was sent from the field to the graveyard, Ray can put another Vylon Spell in his hand."

"Now I can play Prism's ability. Since he was sent from my field to the graveyard as a monster, I can pay 500 Life Points to equip him to Epsilon."

Yujo: 4000

Ray: 3500

Prism appeared hovering over Epsilon.

"Now that that's done, I can play the Spell, Vylon Matter! Now I can take the three Equip Spells that are already in my graveyard and shuffle them back into my deck. Now I can choose one of two abilities to activate. I choose ability number two, to destroy a card on your field. And I choose Chikyu!"

"Uh oh," was all Chikyu said as he was destroyed by a ray of light from the Spell.

"Now I'll equip Epsilon with Vylon Component!" The wring with spikes appeared on Epsilon's arm. "By the way, I forgot to menschen Epsilon's ability. Cards equipped to him can't be targeted by cards or effects. Now I'll play his other ability. I send Component to the graveyard to destroy one card on your field. So let loose on Arashi, Epsilon!"

"With pleasure!" Epsilon took Component and turned it into a sphere of light that he shot at Arashi.

"Ah, crud," was all Arashi said before he was destroyed.

"And once again, since Vylon Component was sent from the field to the graveyard, I can add a Vylon Spell from my deck to me hand. And I'll activate it now. Vylon Element!"

Three gold aligned rings appeared hovering in midair.

"Now when any Vylon Equip cards of mine are destroyed when it's not the Damage Step, I can summon an equal or lower number of Vylon Tuner monsters from my deck. Now, Epsilon! Attack Yujo directly!" The large gold ring behind Epsilon began to glow with power. "Oh, and by the way Yujo. During the damage step, Prism's gonna give Epsilon an extra 1000 points!"

Prism began to shine a light down onto Epsilon (L8/A,2800-3800).

"Oh, this one's gonna hurt."

"Go! Shining Star Blast!"

Yujo crossed his arms in front of him as he was hit dead on.

Yujo: 200

Ray: 3500

"Yujo!" cried Kent, Mia, and Chip.

"The Vylon deck can be hard to use," said Shade, "but if anyone can use it like a true master, it's Ray."

Everyone soon saw that Yujo was laughing.

"Man! I've bine hit that hard since my last duel with Hawk. Nice one, guys."

"Why, thank you, your highness," said Epsilon. "I believe it's your move now."

"Right. Here goes. Awesome. I play the Spell, Card of Sanctity. You know the drill, we both draw till we're holding six cards." Yujo drew three while Ray drew four. Yujo smiled at the cards he drew.

"It's over, Ray. But first, I'm gonna play my Trap cards. First up, Standing United."

The Trap revealed Kasai, Raitoningu, Daku, Chikyu, Mizu, and Kaze all standing together, each with a determined look on their face.

"Now, I regain 1000 Life Points for every Unimon in my graveyard."

A ghost version of Arashi appeared behind Yujo before disappearing as its energy flowed into him.

Yujo: 1200

Ray: 3500

"Now for my other facedown. The Continuous Trap, Stand Against Cruelty!"

The Trap showed Kasai, Raitoningu, Daku, Chikyu, Mizu, and Kaze in fighting stances against the dark silhouette of a cruel king.

"Now, ounce per turn, if I control a Unimon, I can negate the activation of one of your Traps. And now, I'm using Unimon Kaze, the Wind and Unimon Ten'no, the Emperor to set the Pendulum scale!"

"He's using Ten'no in the Pendulum scale?!" gasped Kent.

Ten'no appeared in Yujo's right pillar with a 3 under him while Kaze appeared in the left.

"It's bine a while since I was up here," said Ten'no.

"I'll say. Hope you're ready, Ray!"

"We've both proven to be one with our decks in both heart and soul, Yujo," Ray said with a smile. "I'm more than ready."

"One in heart and soul?" asked Chip.

"Then swing forth, pendulum! Carve the arc of victory! Come forth, my comrade! Chikyu (L4/A,1300)! Now, with Kaze's ability, I move Ten'no from the Pendulum zone to a monster zone (L7/A,2500). And now for his special ability! An ability that'll turn Chikyu into Level 7!"

A light appeared around Chikyu that caused his Level to increase (L4-7/A,1300).

"Uh oh."

"Uh oh is right! And I'm just getting started! I overlay my Level 7 Ten'no and Chikyu!"

Ten'no turned into yellow energy in the shape of a dragon while Chikyu turned into orange energy that spiraled around Ten'no. The yellow dragon shaped energy with the orange energy spiraling around it flew into the air.

"With these two monsters, I build the overlay network!"

A black hole like portal appeared and the two energies flew in. Out of the portal came Ten'no's Earth form.

"I Xyz summon Unimon Ten'no, the Earth Emperor (R7/A,2500/O2)! Now I'll activate his special ability!"

"By using one overlay unit, you now lose 300 ATK times your own Level. And all those points will go straight to me!"

After one of the orange lights flew into Ten'no's chest, he let loose a shower of sharp rocks that weakened Epsilon (L8/2800-400) and strengthened Ten'no (R7/A,2500-4900/O1).

"Now, I know that Prism's ability will allow Epsilon to regain an extra 1000 ATK ounce Ten'no attacks," said Yujo, "but with Ten'no's ATK of 4900…"

"It won't be enough," said Ray as he smiled and looked on with determination.

"Well played, Ten'no," said Epsilon.

"You have done well also, Epsilon. And to you as well, Ray. Once again, I salute your skills, dueling, and comrades."

"Well Ray, I'd say it's about time we wrap this duel up with a clash of the titans!"

"I couldn't agree more!"

"Give it all you've got, Epsilon," said Prism as he increased Epsilon's power (L8/A,400-1400).

"Get him, Ten'no!" cheered Kaze.

"You heard the lady, Ten'no! Attack Vylon Epsilon with Fist of the Earth King!"

"Here I come, Epsilon!" cried Ten'no as he brought his orange glowing right fist back.

"Bring it, Ten'no!" Epsilon cried in return as he brought his own fist back.

The two giant monster launched their fists at the other as they collided in a fist bump that caused a massive shock wave across the area. The two smiled at each other before Epsilon's body exploded, knocking Ray down.

Yujo: 1200

Ray: 0

The crowd cheered as the monsters vanished.

"That was awesome!" cried Kent.

"I've never seen a duel like that before," said Mia in amazement.

"Their decks…helped them when they needed it most," said Chip. "Their decks…responded to them."

"Exactly," said Shade. "Yujo, Ray, and I all have grown a special connection with our decks that has caused them to become reflections of our hearts and souls. You used that deck of yours pretty well, but I can tell that those cards don't seem to be responding to you. But don't worry. You'll get the deck that fits you before the tag match is over." If what Yujo has instore for you works, then you'll get stronger then what you thought possible.