Chapter 9

A new Witch

"Hm?" muttered Janus as he looked up, he thought he had noticed something but saw nothing so he altered his vision into the state that he could see aura, in this state he could also see a spirit known as duel spirits, this was a kind of spirit that manifested in card form, some people could see them automatically at birth however if someone trains hard enough with the knowledge of aura, anyone with this training could see spirits, and it was this training that Janus implied to see if what he noticed was a spirit. And it was; he saw a small puff of creamy white fur and two big eyes looking at him with a face that said help me. "Excuse me please." Said Janus

"Hm, What is it?" asked Mrs. Nekonome noticing Janus going down an ally and so the rest of the gang followed him, but what he followed they couldn't see. They came upon a sight where two older boys, most likely Jr. high were holding a card away from an elementary school kid and seeming to enjoy it.

"Gimmie back my Watapon, you big Dick weeds!" cried the kid

"We're tormenting You!" said the older kids in a mocking voice

"That's enough." Said Janus stepping in.

"Who do you think you are?" asked one of them

"yeah, If you got time to pick a fight with us, You should go and get a new wardrobe!" said the other

"Look why don't we just settle this in a duel, I win, You creeps back off and give him his card back."

"But if we win?" asked one of the guys.

"I'll leave here and care less about what happened here." Said the dragon duelist.

"Sounds like a good idea." Said the thugs "Now who is going to duel first?" he asked

"Look, why don't I take you both on to save time, my friends and I are on a schedule, so I'll just finish you two off quickly." Said Janus, activating his duel disk "This'll be a handicap match, that means I have double life points while you each have 4000." Said Janus

"Fine by us, Monk-man!" said the one on the left "Besides we do best at multi player duels." He added

Janus just looked at them "You say that like I give a fuck." Said Janus as the three of them activated their duel disks

Janus's LP: 8000

Dick weed1 LP: 4000

Dick weed2 LP: 4000

"I'll make my move," said the first dick weed, "I'll play the spell card double summon, allowing me to normal summon twice this turn, but more on that later, I'll play the spell card Frontline Base, allowing me to special summon one union monster to the field per turn so I'll summon Z-Metal Tank (4/1500/1300,), Now for my double summon, I'll normal summon X-Head Cannon in attack mode (4/1800/1500), and finally I'll normal summon my Y-Dragon-Head (4/1500/1600)!" declared the dick weed.

"Wait a sec, those monsters have similar names, so if that's the case they can combine or something?" asked Gin

"Is it that obvious?" asked Janus as he kept his eyes on the battlefield.

"I will Now combine them by removing them from the game in order to summon XYZ-Dragon Cannon (8/2800/2600)!" he called out as the amped up monster "I'll end my turn." He said

"My move." Said Janus "I'll set two cards face down and set a monster in defense mode, That'll do for now." Said Janus

"Pfft, Weak." Said the second Dick weed, I'll use the effect of my opponent's Frontline Base in order to summon W-Wing Catapult (4/1300/1500), then I'll normal summon V- Tiger Jet (4/1600/1800), Now I'll combine my two monsters on the field to special summon VW- Tiger Catapult (6/2000/2100), But the fun doesn't end there, I'll combine the two monsters on the field in order to special summon VWXYZ- Dragon Catapult Cannon (8/3000/2800)."

"Oh my god!" yelled Gin and he hid in a trashcan

"Pussy." Muttered Janus just loud enough for only Gin to hear

Gin's head popped out of the trashcan with an eager look on his face "Pussy? Where's the Pussy?" but all he got was a cat scratch form the club advisor.

"Now I activate our monster's special ability, Once per turn I can remove one card that our opponent controls from the game, so We're removing your face down card on the left." Declared dick weed 2 as missiles shot out of the robot's arms and blasted the facedown to smithereens. "I will now activate the other effect of our monster switching your facedown monster into attack position." He declared as Janus's facedown was revealed to be a masked Dragon (3/1400/1100). "We'll Now attack!" he called out and the two main cannons on the monster blasted masked Dragon off the field

Janus's LP: 6400

Dick weeds 1 LP: 4000

Dick weeds 2 LP: 4000

"Thanks to you, I can activate his effect which when he's destroyed, I can special summon a dragon with 1500 attack or less to the field, and I choose Armed Dragon LV3 (3/1200/900) in attack mode!" declared Janus

"that monster won't do you a bit of good!" laughed the dick weeds

"You'll see how good he is now that it's my move." Said Janus drawing a card "Now on my standby phase when Armed Dragon LV3 is on the field I can send him to the grave in order to special summon Armed Dragon LV5 (5/2400/1700)."

"Still not enough power." Said Dick weed 1

"Okay maybe this will help." Said Janus "I summon the tuner monster Dark Resonator (3/1300/300)." He said as a small fiendish creature appeared holding a tuning fork."

"On second thought, if he has the right monster, that might help you." Said Dick weed 2.

"Are they telepathic?" asked Kurumu

"No." said Janus "I would've been able to detect it, any way, I'm tuning My armed Dragon LV5 with my Dark Resonator in order to syncro summon Red Dragon Archfiend (8/3000/2000)!"

"That would be enough for a Kamikaze attack but you still won't win." Said Dick weed 2

"Who said anything about me attacking just now, I'm now activating My trap card Assault Mode Activate!" he called out "By sacrificing Red Dragon's Archfiend, I can special summon Red Dragon's Archfiend/ Assault Mode (10/3500/2500)!"

"That will help him." Said Dick weed 1.

"Okay, Red Dragon's archfiend/assault mode, strike down that big ass robot!" declared Janus as the Dragon sent a blast of fire to obliterate the robot.

Janus's LP: 6400

Dick weed 1 LP: 3500

Dick weed 2 LP: 3500

"My move." Said Dick weed 1, a little panicky I'll set a monster in defense mode and call it a turn." Said the dick weed

"And Mind begins." Said Janus "I'll play Nobleman of Crossout on your face down to destroy it and remove it from play, Now to end this duel!" said Janus as his dragon sent a blast of fire obliterating the two of their life points. The tow instantly ran off screaming as their cards flew all over the place, Janus set his sights on one card in particular and swiped it out of the air. It was that Watapon. Janus walked up to the kid and handed him the card. You'd best take care of this card, Kid, It's special." He said with a smile

"Who are you?" he asked as Janus turned to go.

Janus stopped "Just a duelist trying to make his own way in the world." He said and walked off.

'Wait a sec, where's the younger of your friends, the one dressed like a witch?" asked the boy.

Janus froze at those words And looked around, Yukari was missing."

WITH YUKARI…

Yukari awoke to find herself atop a building with crows circling over her. She saw a woman dressed in handmade clothes of her race. "Where am I?" she asked the young woman

The woman turned around, "This city doesn't have anything, no wind, No flowers, No water, Not even the smell of grass, all is here is human egos and selfishness." She said with a look of mysticism on her face.

"Who are you?" asked Yukari not trusting the woman that she realized was a witch.

"My name is Ruby, I hope we can be friends." Said Ruby.

"I-I hope so to, but I need to find my fellows so you could meet them." She said heading to the door but the Crows flew at her driving away from the door.

"I'm sorry but I can't let you leave." Said Ruby but she didn't seem sorry.

"Why?" asked Yukari

"My master is in need of your help, you see humans are attempting to destroy witch hill and our beloved ranch to make way for an industrial project, we cannot let that happen, will you, Yukari Sendou fight at our side?" she asked handing the young Witch a sunflower.

Yukari didn't know what to say. But then she heard the door open and Janus, Moka and the gang fell out of the door. "Don't do it, Yukari, You belong with us, we know we've been mean to you, but we've seen you duel, and you have phenomenal potential for Magick, return to us." Said Janus as he scrambled out from under Kurumu's bust.

"Don't listen to those humans, All of them should die."

"Forget her, let's go back to the academy, where we belong, the academy would be happy to have their top student back." Said Janus holding out his hand Yukari looked from Ruby to Janus then was about to reach for Janus's hand but a swipe of a black curved blade changed everything. As Janus lay upon the ground bleeding.

"NOOOOOO!!!!!" screamed everyone together"All Humans should Die without hesitation." She started throwing bladed feathers at Moka and the others

"Stop!" cried Yukari and she shot out into the way of one of the blades and got her cheek sliced.

"NO!" cried Ruby and went down to check on Yukari

"They are my friends, even if it is another witch attacking them, I cannot let them get hurt." Said Yukari.

"I'm glad you think so." Said Janus's voice and with a gust of wind, Janus was seen rising above the edge of the building on one of his Masked Dragons. Ruby looked in shock from the Janus atop the dragon to the Janus on the ground that melted before her eyes into a metallic slime. She looked back to Janus who held up a trap card Metal reflect Slime.

'So you were able to Outd—" she wasn't able to finish the word outdo because she got a good look at the pentacle around Janus's neck. it was the symbol of the Dragon wing family, this gave Janus enough time to activate the pentacle and unleash his Vampire powers while she was still stunned that she had attacked one of her counterparts from a vary noble family he was able to render Ruby unconscious.

"let's get her out of here before people start inquiring." Said Janus and the others nodded.

AT THE HOTEL…

Janus sat with Moka leaning against his shoulder while Moka examined some cards that Janus had given her that could work in her deck while Yukari was examining Janus's spellcaster binder, for cards she thought she could use with guidance from Janus while Kurumu was looking after the unconscious Ruby on the bed. "Janus, she's regaining consciousness." Said Kurumu

Ruby then started to writhe on the bed trying go get away, but thanks to a little magic on Janus's part she was restrained. "Calm down, Ruby that punch I dealt to you still has affected you, I suggest you rest, even with some of my spells, it'll take some time for you to heal." Said Janus.

"Who are you people." She snapped angrily

"As you seemed to have noticed from my pentacle." Said Janus gesturing to the pentacle around his neck "I am of the Dragonwing family, My name is Janus Von Dragonwing, as for my species, I am now pretty much a hybrid of vampire and human, but I'm a well-trained Mage." Explained Janus.

Ruby grabbed the collar of Janus's tunic "Don't be freaking stupid, humans can never be friends with Youkai and witches, It's impossible." She said angrily

"My master said anything is possible if you play your cards right." Said Janus simply. Ruby let go of Janus's tunic at those words

THE NEXT DAY…

"Here's something to eat." Said Janus holding up a tray of food, Have those herbs I placed on your injury helped?" asked Janus

"They've merely increased the rate of healing." Said Ruby simply.

"Say, where's Yukari?" asked Gin who had been curled up on a mat half the time.

"Oh, she said she was going to the supermarket to pick up some stuff for us." Said Kurumu

Janus nodded At those words Yukari came through the door with a shopping bag "I hope everyone likes the things I bought." Said the little witch, handing each person a drink that each person requested, handing Janus a PowerAde. "Man, it has been a while since I've had one of these." Said Janus, opening the lid and gulping down the drink. At this, Ruby lost her temper

"I WILL NOT BE FOOLED BY YOU SELFISH HUMANS, I"LL RIP YOUR KIDNEYS OUT THROUGH YOUR ARMPITS!" screamed the older witch launching herself at Janus, but Janus held his ground. And Ruby put her arm through some metallic slime, which flooded out the door.

"I heard about that construction project that's going to destroy the witches ranch, I've notified some of my contacts in the wiccan/pagan community, My master, Oberon Zel Ravenheart has put up an online petition to halt the plans, and The Fellowship of Isis and coven of the Goddess moon are preparing to do marches in protest. It my take a little time, but We might be able to save your master's home." Said Janus poking in from the window

Ruby's face darkened "There is nothing you can do, even if you can save the hill and ranch, the humans have already angered my master, she is breeding an army to burn the human world to the ground." Said ruby

THAT NIGHT…

Ruby couldn't get some sleep, she couldn't get what Janus had said off her mind, and so she went out to get some air. She stood looking out the window at the city lights. "Ruby?" asked Yukari's voice. Ruby turned to see Yukari standing in the doorway. "Yukari, I wish I could've met you and your friends sooner but…" at those words she jumped out of the window and ran down the street. One of her crows flew down with Ruby's wand in beak. "Thank you, my friend, Let's go home." She said and spread her wings and flew off.

Yukari tried to go after her but too late she had disappeared from sight. Yukari walked slowly back to the hotel. There she saw Janus, Moka, and Kurumu each with their duel disks on, and Janus had his staff strapped to his back. Gin was standing in the background. "She's gone." Said Yukari.

Janus nodded, "That army of demonic sunflowers should've been regenerated by now, with that kind of concentration of dark aura." Said Janus

"But even if we have the power to summon our monsters we cannot fight it on our own." Said Kurumu.

Janus smirked "That's why I've called in backup." Said Janus pointing to the shadows. From the shadows came four cloaked figures, one in an earth-green cloak, one in a yellow cloak, another in a red cloak and a fourth in a blue cloak. "May I present to you My fellow members of the Cruor Modus." Said Janus

'The blood bound?" asked Moka as the four stepped foreword.

"It's been a long time since we last gathered outside of Panthea-con." Said the one in the red cloak that had patterns of fire.

"What's the situation?" asked the one in the blue cloak that upon further examinations had patterns of water.

"It seems we have a witch who is bent on the destruction of the human race because of not only that there is a construction project going on that threatens to destroy the witches ranch. She seems to be delving into the dark arts by mutating plants into these crazy soldiers." The one in the green cloak shuddered. "according to our info, this army is nearing completion and may be mobilized in a few hours, our first priority is negotiation, We must try to reason with them in order to hopefully make them understand that I have some of our contacts trying to stop construction to let them live in peace, however if that fails, we're going to have to go Medieval on their asses." Explained Janus , which made Yukari gulp. "Hopefully we won't come to that, but if we do, here's the plan, in my mental examination of Ruby,

COMMENCE FLASHBACK

Janus placed a hand on Ruby's forehead and closed his eyes, inserting his own consciousness into Ruby's allowing him to shed some light on her, he saw a lot of black feathers, massive volumes of magick books lining shelves, a wand of fine craftsmanship sitting on a table, and what was beside the wand was a duelist deck, and next to the deck was a picture of Yukari.

END FLASHBACK

"So in order to save Ruby, I think it's best that Yukari duels her." Explained Janus

"Why me?" asked Yukari nervously

"Because of the picture of you I saw inside her soul, she considers you the little sister she never had, if anyone can break this mastermind's control over her, it's you." Said Janus. "As for this mastermind, I did get a sketch of who she is, and that she duels too, she uses a deck that I haven't heard of before, but Seeing as I'll need you guys and the rest of you." Said Janus turning to the rest of his friends "to take on that annoying mob of demonic sunflowers, "I will take on the mastermind behind this, maybe I'll find something out about her and save her if Not, there is always this." He said holding up a card.

"Okay, Let's go." Said Moka, sliding her deck into place and they boarded the bus.

WITH RUBY…

"I've returned Master." Said Ruby as she landed in the pasture

"yess." Said the elderly woman who was waiting for her. "and it seems you've taken kindly to those humans." Said the witch in an angry voice, vines shot out from beneath her robes and bound ruby "I thought I taught you better." She said with a growl. At that moment the Youkai academy bus skidded out into the fields not far from them, and out came Janus his friends and four others that Ruby didn't recognize.

"Ah so more have come…" said the older witch, letting loose a massive aura.

"So this is the master that ruby mentioned." Said Moka her boyfriend Janus nodded.

"Then Arise, My soldier.' Said the old witch and a sunflower trembled and a man-eating plant erupted out of the ground.

"Wait," said Janus "We're here to negotiate a settlement." He said and at that his cell phone rang. "Sorry I gotta take this, hold on." He said and answered his call "Hello?" "O Hi, Rev. Don Lewis, oh? You got it to pass? Great I'll tell them." Said Janus and he hung up his cell phone and turned back to the witches "I have good news, it seems that the petition that the correlian tradition of Wicca, a form of witchcraft has been able to get a petition with enough signatures to stop the construction in this area, your land is safe." Said Janus

"But that still doesn't stop how humans are egocentric, selfish creatures, we shall punish all of them. Go, my soldier attack." The man in the red cloak whipped away his hood and revealed a duel disk on his arm. "Go, Blaze accelerator, Open fire with Volcanic Shell!" declared The young man as a piece of fiery artillery shot from the cannon and blew up the man eating plant.

"What?" asked the elder witch in shock and anger

"If you want war, we'll bring you war." Said another one of Janus's companions, this time a woman lowering her earth green hood and summoned A rose tentacles monster onto the field

The master of Water sent in his firepower too, "I call to power the mighty depths of the ocean with Levia-dragon Deadalus he proclaimed as a ginat sea serpent arose.

"Forgive me, but I must listen to my masters commands." Said Ruby and she rose up above the army

"Hey, Ruby, this is between me and you!" she said "Let's duel!" she declared drawing out her deck and placing it in place.

'Ruby had a sad expression on her face and sighed "Very well." She said and extended part of her wings to be like a duel disk "I didn't want to duel you as an enemy, but if I must, I will." She said as she inserted her deck into a part of her wing

"LET"S DUEL they said in Unison as the man eating plants moved around them to get at the others.

Yukari's LP: 4000

Ruby's LP: 4000

"You people take on these creeps, I'll take on the master." Said Janus and he ran across the fields.

"I'll start." Said Ruby, Drawing a card "And I summon Blackwing-Bora the Spear in attack mode (4/1700/800), I'll set a card face down and leave it at that." Said Ruby

"My move." Said Yukari drawing a card "I'll summon up Breaker the Magical Warrior in attack mode (4/1600/1000), when this monster is summoned, I place one spell counter on this card, it can only have one counter at a time, and I can remove the counter to destroy one spell/trap on the field, also he cains 300 ATK when there is a spell counter on him, (16001900) I will Now attack your Blackwing- Bora the Spear!" declared Yukari

"Hold It, I activate the Trap card Negate Attack, this Trap negates your attack and ends your battle phase." Said Ruby.

"I'll set two cards face down and leave it at that." Said Yukari

"Hm, I expected more out of a first turn from you." Said Ruby as she drew her card.

"The duel has just started." Said Yukari

"That maybe so." Said Ruby, "I play Graceful Charity, Allowing me to draw three cards as long as I ditch two, and Now I'll summon the tuner monster Blizzard of the Far North." Declared Ruby (2/1300/0), and when this monster is normal summoned I can special summon a Level 4 Blackwing monster from my grave, so I'll choose Shura of the Blue Flame (4/1800/1200), Next I'll tune up my Bora the Spear with my Blizzard of the Far North in order to syncro summon Blackwing- Armed Wing (6/2300/1000)," said ruby as a giant bird holding a harpoon emerged from the syncro process "I'll now attack your monster with Armed Wing!" declared Ruby

"Not so fast, I activate the quick-play spell card Book of Moon, this card will flip your Armed Wing into face down defense mode," called out Yukari as the Black wing faded to be replaced by a facedown defense mode monster.

"Grr… End turn." Said Ruby.

MEANWHILE WITH MOKA AND THE OTHERS…

"Vampire lord, keep it up!" called out Moka as her Vampire monster dept destroying those plant creatures. "Grr, Even with all this firepower, they still keep on coming." Said Moka because her Vampire lord was beginning to tire.

"She's right we need a new plan." Said the wielder of the plant deck who's name was Erika

"I'm open to any suggestions." Said Mike the user of a dragunity deck (the one in the yellow cloak).

"Wait a sec, I have an Idea." Said the fire user, Phil.

"Always gotta be the hero." Said Ian the water deck user.

"That's usually Janus's Job." Said Phil but he took it as a compliment, "I have my ace card in my hand, and I need Tri-blaze accelerator to pull this off." He said drawing a card "And bingo." He said, I sacrifice my Blaze accelerator in order to play Tri-Blaze accelerator, then I'll send it to the grave in order to summon Volcanic Doomfire!" called out Phil as a gigantic fiery demon arose from the ground. This should cause some wide-spread destruction, because all our opponents must attack this guy, and plants are flammable, so it's Ideal for this situation." Explained Phil as the man eating plants leaped at Volcanic Doomfire only to be incinerated by the monster's blaze.

BACK WITH YUKARI…

"My move." Said Yukari drawing her card and grinned "I play the spell card Terraforming, allowing me to take a field spell from my deck and add it to my hand, And I choose Magical Citadel of Endymion, Now every time one of us triggers a spell, this card gets a spell counter and when one of my cards with a spell counter is destroyed I can lump that card's counters onto this card, or when I remove a counter to activate an effect, I can remove it from this card instead." Explained Yukari, and Now I play the spell card Spell Power Grasp, I can add a spell counter to a card that can take spell counters and add one Spell Power Grasp from my deck to my hand, However I can only activate one of these cards per turn." Explained Yukari "And I'll add one to my citadel which automatically gains a counter for ma activating this card in the first place So I get two for the price of one (Citadel Counters: 2).

"I saw your duel and as far as I remember you only had one of those in your deck." Said Ruby

"Oh, let's just say that while you were unconscious Janus let me look through his spellcaster binder of his spare cards and let me select the ones under his guidance that would make by deck better, and so he just gave me a number of cards to power up my deck and two extra Spell Power Grasps were some of the cards he gave me." Said Yukari "And since your syncro monster is in defense mode I think I'll attack it with my Breaker The Magical warrior, But I'm not through yet, I'm activating my Trap card: Magician's circle, I can only trigger this card when one of my spellcaster monsters attack, I can now special summon a spellcaster monster with 2000 attack or less, and I choose Magical Marionette (5/2000/1000), and my attack still goes through to your face down monster so say goodbye to Armed Wing!" said Yukari with a confident smile. "And don't forget about the newcomer to the party, Magical Marionette, he will attack your other monster Shura of the Blue Flame." She declared as the Marionette charged foreword and struck down the bird.

Yukari's LP: 4000

Ruby's LP: 3800

WITH JANUS…

Janus had finally reached the ranch, which had a dilapidated feel to it. He cautiously activated his duel disk and entered there was a vast room inside, when he entered there was a rocking chair that was empty, he went throughout the house seeking out what he could to find the mastermind behind all this. Then he found a room that seemed to be like a small church room. At the other end of the room stood who he was looking for. "So, you found me, Dragonwing." Said the old woman. "Let's duel." She said

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Ooh, cliffie! I hope you like this chapter, I plan to end the fight between Yukari and Ruby Next chapter but the fight between her master and Janus may take a little while longer I hope I satisfied everyone with my Now longest chapter at 18 pages (I keep going for a big record don't I?)

Still if you have Magickal question that you want Janus to answer please send them via Private message Janus is suer getting bored around his office here, he's currently playing Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword for the DS here!