So Beru wanted to see the production so she'll be included in the talks from now on. She got really ticked when I wrote her profile.

Beru: You made me die... TWICE!

When you were little. Besides, it made Yuma more protective of you and explains your fear of lightning.

Astral: *Just sitting in a corner not wanting to fight*

Beru: Why don't I say "-desu" for this chapter?

Because you don't say "-desu" during serious duels like this. You're actually ticked in this scene.

Beru: I am so going to duel you one of these days.

O_O ...Start reading...

Beru's View:

I knew that he uses a Molten Burn deck. This was going to be tricky.

Duel Starts:

Beru: 4000

Brian: 400

"Lady's first," he said.

"Fine! Atai no turn! Draw!"

I had Chouxvalier, Baaple, Messengelato, Madolche Chateau, Safe Zone and now Madolche Lesson.

If I play these right, I can summon an XYZ monster on my next turn. I have to get Chouxvalier and Messengelato out to get my monster.

"I summon a monster face-down and I set one card face-down. That's it for me."

"Now that's sad. You're defending yourself just like your brother did before I beat him. Watashi no turn! Draw! I play Ultimate Baseball Kid. Now I'll use him to attack your monster."

A kid in a typical red baseball uniform, yellow bandanna around the neck, eyes made of fire and a spiked bat appeared and shot several fireballs at my face down. My card flipped up to reveal Madolche Chouxvalier.

Why would he attack a defense monster with only 500 attack points? Is he trying to use the same strategy on me? I won't fall for it.

"Too bad I didn't destroy that monster. I set three cards and end my turn."

This guy was obviously crazy. Even Yuma wouldn't attack a face down with under 1000 attack points. That was before we met Astral, of course.

"Atai no turn! Draw! I summon Madolche Messengelato! Now, I combine level 4 Chouxvalier and level 4 Messengelato to create to overlay network."

My monsters turned into green balls of light and flew into a green hole. I went to my Extra Deck to grab Atsukai, but I froze when I saw another card. It was Numbers 96: Black Mist. If Yuma snuck this in my deck again, he was going to pay. He knows I feel weird about that card. He still wouldn't tell me about it. I put the card back and got my card.

"XYZ Summon! I summon Numbers 93: Madolche Empress: Atsukai (4/2500/2000)!"

My monster came out of the hole and took her position. She almost looked like Empress Teimei and Madolche Tiaramisu fused somehow with a cute belt that had her number (I'm not always good at describing things. You'll have to do with your imagination for now. Sorry).

"That's pretty cute, kid."

"If you liked that, then you'll love this. I'm using Atsukai to attack your Baseball Kid. Ike, Sugar's Delight!"

"I activate my face down, Kickfire! Once per turn, when a face-up FIRE monster I control is destroyed by an XYZ monster, I can place 1 counter on this card for each destroyed FIRE monster. And when I send this card during a Standby Phase to the Graveyard; you take 1000 points of damage for each counter. Since destroyed Ultimate Baseball Kid, I place one counter on Kickback."

Beru: 4000

Brian: 2000

"Grr... I'll end my turn with two cards face down."

"Watashi no turn! Draw! I activate one of my face downs: Ookazi! It allows me to inflict 800 points of damage to you!"

I can't let that effect happen.

"I activate my trap: Madolche Tea Break! When a trap or spell card is activated, and I have no monsters in my graveyard, I can negate the activation and return it to the owner's hand!" I shouted as Ookazi flew back into Brian's hand.

"That's alright, because I'm playing Soul of Fire. You draw a card and then I remove a Fire-monster from play. Then I can hurt you with half of the removed monster's attack points. The monster I choose is Lava Golem so you lose 1500 points."

I can't believe I had a "Yuma Moment"!

Beru: 2500

Brian: 2000

"Next I summon Solar Flare Dragon! I might not have to points to attack, but it can still cause effect damage. I set one card and end my turn."

Solar Flare Dragon's effect activated and knocked me on the ground.

Beru: 2000

Brian: 2000

His playing style changed. Is it because I'm a girl?

"Atai no turn! Draw! I summon out Madolche Butlerusk! Butlerusk, attack Solar Flare Dragon with Butler Throw!"

Butlerusk took the tea cup plate, which was very sharp, and threw it at the dragon. At the same time, the dragon shoot a fire ball at Butlerusk. Both monsters were destroyed

"And next, I activate my trap card: Sweet Revenge! If a Madolche monster is sent to the graveyard via battle, I get to draw one card. If it's a monster I can summon it and you take it's attack as damage. If it's not a monster, it goes to the graveyard and I take Butlerusk's attack points as damage," I said as I drew. "And I drew Madolche Cruffssant. You take 1500 points of damage."

I summoned Cruffssant and it barked before running to attack Brian. I couldn't help but say, "I hope you got your shots," when it bit him. I knew it wasn't really there, but AR had a way of tricking you like that.

Beru: 2000

Brian: 500

"With that, I end my turn."

"Watashi no turn! Draw! I now activate Kickfire's effect," Snap! I forgot about that card! "I'm sending this card to the graveyard in order to inflict 1000 points of damage to you."

As he finished his sentence, I looked up and the huge fireball coming for me. I covered myself with my arms, but I was still hit.

Beru: 1000

Brian: 500

"Next, I activate the spell Tremendous Fire. So you lose another 1000 Life Points."

"But don't you take 500 points of damage as well?"

A fire tornado came down and had me in the center before moving onto Brian.

Beru: 0

Brian: 0

DRAW!

Duel End

I might not have won, but at least I didn't lose. I took off my D-Gazer and looked over to the gang. They were pretty excited that I took this guy down. I was too. Now that we dueled, I had an idea of his past. I went over to him and offered a hand to help him up. He looked at it, but slapped it away and stood up.

"You don't have to be so rude, you know. I can tell that people deceived you and hurt you, but that doesn't you have to isolate yourself," I ranted.

"What do you know? None of your friends tricked you."

"Actually, one of them did," his head popped up and looked at me. "Tokunosuke tricked the whole into turning their backs on my brother. Then they dueled because Yuma was upset and he almost lost his special card. Now, Toke-kun is a really great friend. He messes thing up sometimes, but we won't abandon him because, at the end of the day, he's a true friend. And I think everyone should have a chance to let their true light shine."

"Cute speech, kid."

He turned and walked away. I could tell he was better. He might even make some real friends now.

"Nee-san! That was a great speech," he said as he walked over.

"Thanks, Nii-san. A-a-achoo!"

"You're not getting sick are you, Beru?"

"I'm fine, Kotori. I think someone was just talking about me."

We all laughed at my superstition joke.

Beru: You messed up this whole chapter!

Astral: That's not what Kickfire does!

So I changed it a little to fit the story a little better. So what? It's not like it's going to come back to haunt me in any case other than the reviews I'll get.

Beru: You also changed Ookazi into a trap card. It's a fricking spell card! And do I need to mention Soul of Fire

Okay, those might haunt me later on, but if I didn't then I would have been stuck and the duel would never be posted and thus and end to the story before it started.

Beru: ...You win this round.

That's it for this part. Arc 2 takes place after the WDC and Shingetsu is there too. I'll admit that I liked Shingetsu until episode 96. He's going to be one of the few guys that doesn't have a crush on her.

Beru: Why not? He's cute.

Because then it seems like you play with hearts which is not what you do. For Beru's speech, I was listening to Last Stage by Kagamine Rin. I don't think it could have been any more perfect. Review and I'll see everyone later.