Out of the fire
Summary: Now a one shot series from the moments of Playmaker and Blue angel in Vrains, and Yusaku and Aoi when we finally get one of those. Spoilers ahead. Bluecherryblossomshipping (I believe that is their ship name).
AN: OH MY GOD! EPISODE 7 WAS SO CRAZY! BUT NOW I AM EVEN MORE HYPED FOR EPISODE 8. I feel so bad for Aoi, I mean it's only 8 episodes in and we have barely seen anything of her and now she is in a coma, that sucks. But at least now we know that Akira is a much more caring brother then most people initially thought including myself. And I think that based on Aoi's younger appearance it's confirmed that she is one of the 6 children, especially since the girl that was blue had pigtails. And did anyone else notice that her pigtails look exactly like her ones for Blue Angel, I wonder if that's why she cut her hair so no one would figure it out. Just a little theory of mine. And from what I saw from the episode 8 preview, I am almost 90% sure he visits Aoi in the background since one shot of him had a beige background that looked like the one Akira was in when he was in the hospital, makes me wonder if they will meet. Oh I am so excited but sad we have to wait 2 weeks, it sucks. In the meantime I am gonna do as much writing as possible and hopefully more people will post things for me to read! This one-shot is the ending scene and a few things happening leading up to it so like the last 10 minutes of the episode or so, but I will be staying in VRAINS the entire time since it's just about Playmaker and Blue Angel. I would like to thank all of you who have reviewed, followed, favorited, and kudos my story and my others as well, means a lot. I have a friend on and Ao3 who goes by poetrymagic12, who has been helping me out recently and if you wanna read another VRAINS fic about Yusaku and Aoi, she has one called 'Against the wind', check it out and review it, it's great. Trust me. So now on with the show and all that jazz.
Berserk
"She's acting weird." Playmaker observed, but anyone who was watching the duel could tell something was up. He couldn't see her face since she was riding ahead of him, but he could see that her board was wobbling which means she is having trouble steering and keeping her focus.
"Hanoi did something to her card." Ai pointed out, Yusaku's eyes hardening, trying to figure out the best way to end this duel as soon as possible so she couldn't play the card and potentially hurt herself.
"I summon deflect compiler from my hand!" Playmaker summoned, the card coming to life right next to him. "Then I activate Salvagent Driver's effect! I discard 1 spell card to Special Summon a Cyberse monster from my graveyard! I bring back Link Bumper!" He added, his monster back on the playing field.
Blue Angel gasped at this, quite shocked, but shook her head to get her thoughts back in order. "I'm Blue Angel. Pull yourself together!"
"Hey… I'm asking you just incase… It's fine that you revived a Link Monster from your graveyard. But you have less than 1000 LP. You know that right?" Ai asked, just making sure Playmaker is aware of what he can do.
"I need less than 1000 LP to do what I want." Playmaker assured, turning his gaze from the bot to back ahead.
"So you do know." Ai confirmed, but did not receive a response.
A data storm was swirling far ahead of them soon to pass the data stream. Playmaker gave a small quick smile, then launched his board over his monsters, Blue Angel, and her monster's, the female gasped as he went ahead and straight into the data storm. He entered with grace and was able to keep his balance having done this twice before. He surfed for a moment they extended his arm, light and wind swirled around his hand until a square object formed.
"Now! Seize the wind, Playmaker!" Ai instructed with great urgency.
"Storm Access!" The young man called, taking the card in his grip and shined brightly. Playmaker than escaped the data storm. Blue Angel gasped in shock as she saw him exit.
"Playmaker has used his skill." Her duel disk spoke.
"That's what he was planning! Playmaker can't use his Skill unless he has 1000 or fewer LP. He was shaving away his own LP?" She asked herself, quite surprised.
Playmaker landed on the wind ahead of her, but Blue wasn't going to stand for that. Easily she caught up and they were neck in neck, she quickly gaining speed, he once more tried to pass her but she just knocked him back with a smirk.
"Appear! The circuit that leads to the future!" Playmaker called and flew into the circuit.
(For my sake I am gonna skip the link summoning process because as cool as it is, it kinda confuses me and is really complicated and I don't wanna butcher it so I am just skipping it.)
Playmaker came out of the circuit, accompanied by defect compiler and his newest monster Encode talker.
"This is all Playmaker's design? I wasn't putting the pressure on him?" Blue Angel asked herself sadly, trying to figure out what to do to pull ahead.
"Let's battle." Playmaker declared, bringing her out of her thoughts.
"Defect compiler attacks Lilybell!" A yellow light came from said monster heading towards the one the attack was declared on. "I activate the Quick-Play Spell, Frontline Disturbance!" He set the spell card and it's ability appeared on her duel disk for her to read.
"I see. You're going to lower Holly Angel's ATK by Lycoris's 1200 DEF down to 1000. But I won't let you! I won't lose! I activate my Skill! Trickstar Fraud!" She declared with determination, everything pink on her outfit glowing much like when the yellow on Playmaker's suit glows.
"What!" Her opponent asked in surprise and shock but kept his poker face.
"A Skill now?" His duel disk added, confused as well.
"I discard one Trickstar during your turn." Both cards in her hand appeared in front of her and she got rid of Trickstar Candina. "You're forced to draw until you have three cards in your hand! Playmaker! You have zero cards in your hand so you have to draw three!" He took the top three cards from the deck and now held them in his hand. "You have 800 LP. First, Lycoris's effect deals you 600 damage! Then Light Stages effect deals you 200 damage!" Lycoris used her rapier to shoot an attack at him and the magic card shot energy at him.
"I win! I defeated Playmaker!" Blue declared in glee.
"Are you sure?" Playmaker asked ominously, Blue Angel gasped in surprise and shock.
"Defect Compiler's effect! Effect damage has become 0. And I put 1 Defect Counter on this card." The small monster made a forcefield protecting them from the attack, a zero appearing on it and turning into a 1.
"Damage becomes 0?" Blue Angel repeated, surprised and angry by this and glared at her opponent for a moment, then turned back to face forwards. "It's not over! I still have one final card!" She waved her hand infront of her, the card appearing and she gasped upon seeing it, not recognizing it. The card pulsated, sending out some energy making Blue Angel stand up straight and gasp.
"The remain card is Hanoi's." Playmaker stated, wishing there was something he could do to stop her from playing that card.
"This is bad." The program in his duel disk added with panic in his voice.
"I… I'm…" Blue choked out, unable to finish her own sentence.
"A Knight of Hanoi!" A voice said in her head that gave her the chills.
"Stop it!" Playmaker called out, hoping that she would listen to him so she wouldn't put herself in danger.
"I send Dark Angel in my hand to the graveyard to activate her effect." Angel said quietly and without emotion, her eyes devoid of all life and just two lifeless lavender orbs with no shine and she tapped the card, it disappearing in a maroon light and the same color energy came from it.
"AHHH!" She screamed, the energy causing her pain and having her stand bolt upright, looking like a doll or puppet of sorts, and a really creepy one at that.
She was staring up at the sky, her eyes twitching, choked gasps escaping her throat. Many people watching the duel are freaking out over what could be wrong with the idol. Yusaku knew exactly and kept his cool, determined to end this duel to get the both of them out of the VRAINS since she wouldn't last long in the state she is in.
"She played it." Ai stated monotone.
"What did Hanoi do?" The hacker asked in an angry tone and his eyes hardening.
"By tributing Lilybell, your monster's attack switches to another monster's. Now attack Holly Angel instead! The monster that is now being attacked gains the tributed monster's ATK! " Blue Angel played, the end having Holly Angel with 3000 ATK points.
"Due to Front-Line Disturbances affect...one monster on my field gains a Disturbance Counter." Playmaker countered, Encode Talker gaining the counter.
"That's pointless. Pointless! Holly Angel has higher ATK! You lose, Playmaker!" The Idol shouted in rage, her voice sounding a little deeper as well, a reddish pink glow surrounded her.
"Encode Talker's effect activates! The linked monster isn't destroyed in battle! And I take no damage!" The hacker activated, Defect counter shooting a green beam at Holly Angel but a shield protected her.
"And until the end of this turn… Encode Talker gain ATK equal to Holly Angel's ATK!" As that was announced, a red light cover Encode Talker for a moment, increasing its ATK then the light disappeared.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Blue Angel screamed, her face is expressionless but that scream was one of agony.
"This is bad! Any more berserk and she'll take mental damage!" Ai panicked as he and Yusaku exchanged a look.
"I know!" The boy replied with slight panic in his voice but was hard to tell.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! AAAHHH!" She screamed once more, louder, longer, and sounding even more in pain.
"I activate Defect Compiler's effect! I remove one Defect Counter to increase my Cyberse monster's ATK by 800!" Playmaker stated, the number on Defect Counter going from 1 to 0, a light once more coating Encode Talker raising the ATK to 6100.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH" She continued to scream, the rest coming out as choked up gasps, tears starting to fall down her face slowly. "AAAAAAHHHHHHH! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Came once more, and she closed her eyes.
In her mind, she could see herself curled up in her wings, they then flared out and expanded disappearing once they did, feathers falling all around and her hair down.
Back in VRAINS, Blue Angel's knees buckled, she crumpled onto her duel board sitting on her legs with her head bowed down.
"This is bad! Hurry!" The Ai yelped in worry, his eye raising higher in the duel disk.
"I know!" Playmaker replied, ready to end this duel and hopefully end Aoi's suffering.
"Then due to Frontline Disturbance's effect… I remove all Disturbance Counters from Encode Talker… to lower Holly Angel's ATK equal to Lycoris's DEF."
She felt herself falling in her mind, tears flowing down her cheeks, she weightless.
"I'll end this! Encode Talker attacks Holly Angel!"
Encode Talker's sword extended from his shield, the monster charging towards Holly Angel for the attack. Playmaker could feel something wet hitting him, he knee it wasn't rain even though the virtual sky looked ready to do so. That's when he realized it wasn't rain hitting him, it was Blue Angel's tears.
"Final Encode!" Playmaker declared, Encode Talker slashing his sword through Holly Angel, and landed on the ground before the Trickstar monster exploded into a big ball of light.
Aoi continued to cry as Blue Angel, she didn't know what was happening , but she could feel the tears leaving her eyes and that she was falling, where to and how far she didn't know and she found that she didn't care, at the moment, she was in bliss.
The light of the duel monster engulfed Blue Angel for a moment, knocking out her life points, and her wings and pigtails so she looked as she did in her mind, but no one knew that but her.
AN: People wanna know how I hyped I was for this episode, stayed up until midnight then kept on waking up every 2 hours til 6 in the morning then stayed up waiting for it and I didn't watch it til 10. Not sure what's sadder, seeing it or writing it. I am honestly not sure if I even made this shippy or not, but I still like it. I will be posting and interpretation for episode 8, at least what I want to happen but I won't post it til next Wednesday. Now, I just wanna point out a thing or two during the episode I did find shippy. When Ignis asked if he was okay after the first round, he was kinda more worried that Knight's of Hanoi's presence was stronger which would affect Blue Angel so you can look at it as him either directly or indirectly worried about her. . I encourage you to check out the story on by poetrymagic12 for VRAINS, it is really great. This story is also on , wattpad, and Ao3 under phantomwolfblue and 3 youtube videos for bluecherryblossomshipping under Mason Atkinson. Until next time, check out my other stories, check out poetrymagic12's stories, R&R, I love you all, good night, day, or morning. (Mic drop, moon walk)
