Yugioh GX: Battle of North

Episode 9: Sho's Desperation: Vehicle of Miracles

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"Shut up! It's true that when I was younger, I was just chasing. I just chased after my Dear Bother and my Big Brother…just chased after. However, I have already decided. I will no longer chase after. I will get stronger, and then keep on walking together with them."

Sho, Episode 56

4th Day of Grand Battle...

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A man with a duel disk on his arm looked at the area around him, in front of him was the large Ra Yellow dorm where North Schoolers and Duel Academia students were facing off all around the man. The man had a dark smile as Duelist Academiers were thrown away by blasts from North Schoolers. He went up to Ra Yellow building and loaded his duel disk on his right arm. He looked at some Ra Yellowers standing by. "Soon." He said, "Very soon..." Shortly, the Ra Yellow building started to envelop in smoke from battles...

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Sho Marufuji was dueling a North Schooler; Sho had a cartoonish blue submarine with a large yellow underbelly. The submarine had a cartoonish missile in its hands. His opponent had an open field. The score was 2000 to 700, in Sho's favor.

"Submarineroid, direct attack!" Sho declared, pointing his hand toward his opponent.

The cartoonish submarine flew into the ground and hit straight at the North Schooler in the stomach.

- Duel End

The North Schooler just took out a GC from his pocket and threw it to Sho. He walked off, muttering threats under his voice to Duelist Academiers.

Sho looked at all the GCs he had. He had five already. All of them glittered under the sun, making them look absolutely beautiful to the eyes.

These North Schoolers are tough he thought. Suddenly he heard a large sound. It was coming from the Ra Yellow dorm. People were yelling and screaming. Loud blasts from the Solid Vision holograms could be vaguely seen from Sho's position. Many people dueling heard it too and looked where Ra Yellow was, wondering what was happening.

What's that!? Sho thought, running toward the Ra Yellow dorm.

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As Sho got to the Ra Yellow dorm, he saw lots of duelists of Duelist Academia there; they were all on the ground, smoke coming off their clothes from defeat. Judai, Kenzan and Ray were running toward the Ra Yellow dorm as Sho got to the dorm.

"Aniki, do you know what's going on?" Sho asked, looking at the duelists on the ground.

"No. But I can tell something bad just happened." Judai replied.

"I hope it isn't the birth of a Super Tyrannosaurus!" Kenzan replied rhetorically.

Sho nodded his head as a man with a duel disk on his hand walked out of the dorm. He was the same man who had come to the dorm earlier.

"Who are you?" Judai asked, moving forward. "I've never seen you here before."

The man looked at him in surprise. "I'm Lloyd, and you are?"

"Yuki Judai."

"Yuki Judai?" he said, and then he looked like he remembered something. "Ahhh! Now I remember you, you defeated the Light of Destruction, the Three Sangenma and even us. You are a powerful duelist to be sure, but this has nothing to do with you."

"What business is that?" Sho asked.

"I'm taking control of Ra Yellow. Since I have defeated nearly every Ra Yellow's duelists, there's no one that can stop me, and there is a code in Duelist Academia: 'Whosoever defeats all duelists in a dorm, is considered king of the dorm'. And as king, I'll use this dorm for North School."

Sho and Kenzan looked confused, "You haven't defeated us!" they both yelled at Lloyd, startling him.

"Who are you two?" Lloyd asked, confused.

"I'm Tyranno Kenzan, the Super Tyranno of Ra Yellow!" Kenzan said furiously as Lloyd sweatdropped as his remark. Super Tyranno? He thought

"I'm Marufuji Sho!" Sho said, clutching his hand.

"Marufuji?" Lloyd said with interest, "Like Marufuji Ryo?"

"Yeah! I'm the brother of Kaiser Ryo! You guys should know him since he beat you all those times before!"

Lloyd's eyes gleamed. He had a wide smile. "To show how powerful North School is, yes, to show we beat the brother of the Kaiser. That will show the true might of North School," he said quietly, muttering under his breath. He then lifted his duel disk up to his face. "How about a duel to determine things?" he said with a grin, "If you win, I will stop trying to take control of Ra Yellow. If you lose, you must join North School. Also, there is an ante rule attached. Whoever loses, loses their rarest card."

Sho took a step back, "If I lose I have to join North School? I have to lose my rarest card?" he thought for a second and thought of his rarest card. "No, I can't lose that card..."

"C'mon Sho!" Judai said, "It doesn't matter if you have to risk your prized card! Do it with respect and do it to help Ra Yellow! Even if you lose, you can know you lost to help others."

"Let's go Sho! Help Ra Yellow and evolve with the rest of the world!" Kenzan said.

Sho turned and nodded to Judai and Kenzan, "Thanks aniki, Kenzan." He turned to Lloyd. "Okay Lloyd, I'll duel you to help Ra Yellow!" he yelled out.

Lloyd looked at Judai for a second, such charisma he thought; it would be beneficial to have him in North School. Why hasn't Headmaster Kong...? Lloyd noticed a monster-like thing hovering near Judai. It had brown fur, and had two big black and yellow eyes. It had two small angel wings. Judai has a card spirit!? Lloyd thought, I know I noticed something unusual during the duel between Manjyome and Judai in the School Duel, but I didn't know it was a card spirit!

"I said let's duel!" Sho said assertively.

Lloyd snapped out of his thought and looked back at Sho. He smiled slightly, "Okay then, Marufuji Sho, let's duel!"

Sho and Lloyd moved to a spot on the grass in front of the dorm. Ray, Judai and Kenzan sat on a rock as both Sho and Lloyd faced each other, about twenty yards away. They both activated their duel disks, snapping them into positions with a loud 'thud'. The machine beeped, signaling it was on.

"DUEL!" they both shouted, drawing their first five cards.

- Duel Start

Sho: 4000
Lloyd: 4000

"I'll go first." Lloyd said, "I set one card and summon Stone Guardian in defense (0/2000)!"

A large, stone monster appeared on the field. It had a large club in its hand as it crossed its hand and knelt down. The thing looked old, it was gray and the thing shook as it moved. Its head was nothing but stone expect two small slits, making it seem like two eyes. "Turn end" Lloyd said.

"My turn!" Sho said, looking at his hand, "I summon Steamroid in attack! (1800/1800)"

A cartoonish train came to the field. For its hands, it had two wheels and a small conductor seat behind its train head. A small, yellow light was on the top of its forehead. It immediately went into a fighting stance.

"When Steamroid attacks, Steamroid gains 500 attack! (2300/1800), Steamroid, attack Stone Guardian! Chu Chu Attack!"

The cartoonish train raced toward the stone monster, at what seemed like fifty miles an hour. The train hit the monster dead on, making the monster fly up into the air before exploding. The explosion left a bunch of smoke. The train lifted its wheel-arms in a victory stance and its face looked liked what seemed a smile.

Lloyd eyes gleamed as he raised his card open. "Trap card open!" he declared, "Awakening of the Church"

A card showing a large church standing over a nice garden appeared on the field. The church gleamed in the sun, while two Gargoyles stood at the edge of the church, eyes gleaming. "When a monster on my field is destroyed by battle." Lloyd explained, "I can special summon one rock-type monster from my deck. I special summon Gargoyle! (2300/1000)"

A scary, behemoth-like monster came to the field. It had two giant bat-like wings and its mouth was huge. Its body was incredibly strong. Its head was the shape of some demonic monster, and its eyes red as fire. But despite this, there seemed to be some certain tranquility in the monster's expression.

"Also, when Stone Guardian is destroyed, I may draw one card." he said, drawing a card from his deck.

Sho looked at the Gargoyle and trembled, but he stood his ground. "I end!" he declared.

"My turn, draw!" Lloyd looked at his hand and smiled, "I equip Gargoyle with the equipment magic card, Stone Eyes!"

A card showing a Gargoyle's eyes turning into stone appeared on the field. No sooner had the card been activated did the gargoyle monster eyes turned gray, and Steamroid turned into nothing but stone. "Steamroid..." Sho said, shocked.

Lloyd laughed, folding his arms "Stone Eyes is an equipment magic card to Gargoyle. In exchange for a mere 700 lifepoints per turn, I can designate one monster on the field and that monster is no longer counted on the field when I attack. And because of Stone Eyes, Gargoyle's effect activates! When I lose lifepoints because of a card effect, I can draw one card!" Lloyd said, drawing a card from his deck, laughing.

Lloyd: 3300
Sho: 4000

"Sho!" Judai said, shocked and concerned.

"Sho-sempai is going to be eaten by a dinosaur!" Kenzan said, shocked as well. Judai, Kenzan and Ray looked in anticipation to Lloyd's next move.

"Gargoyle! Direct attack! Clash Against Evil!!" Lloyd yelled up, his right-hand pointing toward Sho.

The gargoyle monster flew high up, going a hundred feet in the air, before heading down like a meteorite, its body on fire, as it came crashing onto Sho. The shockwave sent Sho going flying up in the air before he came crashing down. Sho quickly got up, but his body was in pain from the effects of the Solid Vision.

Lloyd: 3300
Sho: 1700

"Turn end," Lloyd said, his face showing no compassion to Sho's pain.

"I'll win this duel!" Sho said, becoming more active as he ignored the pain. "And I'll do it with respect like my dear brother and big brother!"

"Hmm" Lloyd said. He folded his arms and waited for Sho's turn.

"My turn. I summon Submarineroid! (800/1800)"

A cartoonish blue submarine came onto the field. His arms were in a fighting stance. "With Submarineroid, I can attack directly! Submarineroid, direct attack!"

The submarine drove into the ground, its flyers stinking out from the ground. Its arms underground were in a fist as it raced toward Lloyd, hitting him in the stomach.

Lloyd: 2500
Sho: 1700

"You b--d..." Lloyd said, getting angry, clutching his heart in pain from the after-effects of the Solid Vision.

"After attacking, I can switch Submarineroid to defense mode. I set a card, turn end."

"My turn!" Lloyd studied his hand, "I activate the magic card, Faith!"

A card showing a group of people in a circle, praying appeared on the field

"With this card, no monsters on my field may be destroyed until the end phase of my next turn. Now I activate the second effect of Faith, when it's in the graveyard, I may remove it from play and its effect becomes the effect of Stone Eyes, without the cost! Now then, I turn Submarineroid into stone!"

Gargoyle's eyes turned gray as Submarineroid body started to become stone. "Trap card open." Sho shouted in response, "Cyber Stopper!"

A card showing a car having a flat tire appeared on the field. "When this card is activated, none of my monsters may be affected by card effects until the end of the turn. Also, you may draw one card".

"Fine then." Lloyd said, drawing a card. "I attack with Gargoyle! Clash Against Evil!"

The Gargoyle jumped into the air and landed on Submarineroid, exploding it.

"Set card, turn end."

"My turn, draw!" Sho looked at his hand and smiled, "I summon Babyroid in defense (100/1000)!"

A small, rather cute cartoonish toy car came onto the field. It had red lights on and drove around happily.

"Set card, turn end."

"My turn, draw!" Lloyd's eyes widened as he drew his card. This is the card Headmaster Kong entrusted me with! The card to defeat a Marufuji... Lloyd thought of when he received the card from Kong...

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Lloyd was in the office of Kong. Lloyd was at North School. Kong was overlooking the entire school over a glass wall. North Schoolers were outside, goose-stepping down the walk paths of North Schools, showing their great strength. All of them were in rank and file order. Ten people were each lined up for each row; duel disks on their arms, making them look fierce, strong. Other duelists cheered for them, some threw gifts to them, many of them shouted, "Yes, this is the strength we looked for! North School! North School! Many of the duelists marching were chanting, "We will overcome all for North School! North School! North School!"

Edogawa was at the front line, holding his duel disk with pride. He goose-stepped with everyone, yelling at them to keep moving. "Come! We march for the pride of North School! Show our fatherland our great strength; let us move forward for the victory!! We soon fight Duelist Academia, let us show our pride!" he yelled, North Schoolers yelled out with joy in response. Many people in the streets looked impressed by Edogawa. Lloyd looked in utter amazement at the spectacle. His eyes were in childish wonder; he felt an immense pride in his school.

Kong also watched this with a grin. Lloyd looked around the office, Kong's office was messy, papers showing the number of duelists in the schools as well as letters about the money it cost to keep North School going and the cost of expensive cards along with a lot of other things.

"Did you call for me, Headmaster?" Lloyd said, when he was finally able to get his eyes off the parade.

Kong turned around and looked at him. His eyes seemed to pierce his soul. Kong smiled at him. "Good Lloyd, I have heard about you merely by reputation. You were the one who dueled in the legendary Four School Duel were you not?"

"Yes Headmaster, it was a pleasure to serve North School there."

Kong smiled, holding a number of cards in his hand. "I believe, no, I know that you will help North School become stronger. For your exceptional dueling skills, I think I can entrust you with this..." Kong gave Lloyd a card, Lloyd looked at it and his eyes nearly burst with tears of happiness. "Headmaster, this is one of the Seven Wonders!"

Kong again turned to the window. "Yes, I expect you know of the Seven Wonders, do you not? Many have heard of them, very few know what the actual cards are. I know you are an exceptional duelist Lloyd. I have no doubts that you are deserving of one of the seven wonders."

Lloyd's eyes filled with tears, Kong turned toward him again and reached out his hand. "I know, in order to strengthen North School, we need duelists like you leading us, and from leaders like you, we will build an empire. An empire so strong, that the world will have to listen to our great North School. Do you wish to help me build that empire for North School, Lloyd?" Kong asked. Lloyd took Kong's hand and shook it, tears of happiness flowing down his eyes.

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Kong entrusted me with this card; I know I can win with it! Lloyd checked the field, planning his strike. "I use Stone Eyes effect and turn Babyroid to stone! And because of Gargoyle, I can draw one card!"

Lloyd: 1800
Sho: 1700

"No way! Trap card open! Roid Movement!"

A card showing a roid monster driving madly down a street appeared on the field. "If a roid monster is targeted by a card effect, I can remove it from the field, draw one card and negate the effect." Sho said, drawing a card from his deck.

"Tch that will just leave you with an empty field."

"I activate Babyroid's effect! When it's removed from the field, I can special summon one "Roid" monster from my deck! I special summon Drillroid in defense (1600/1600)!"

Lloyd looked shocked as the toy car warped into a car-thing. It had a giant drill for a nose, and two smaller drills for an arm. It looked a little like Sonic the Hedgehog, small spike-things going down its neck, and a ramp for legs. It had a cartoonish grin and small eyes.

"Tch, that monster won't live for long! Gargoyle! Attack Drillroid! Clash Against Evil!"

The gargoyle went into the air and came straight down on the little car-thing. The aftermath left a virtual hole in the middle of the Earth but that disappeared soon afterwards.

"Set card, turn end." Lloyd said, looking at his Gargoyle. Gargoyle, he thought, this duel is for North School. I want to use your power to make North School stronger!

Sho looked at Gargoyle's face. In the midst of his fiery red eyes, a small tear came down his face. "Gargoyle" Sho said, "Is Gargoyle...crying?"

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Judai suddenly noticed something strange with Lloyd; a large transparent Gargoyle was behind him. The Gargoyle had tears in his eyes, as Lloyd had a dark aura around him. Is Gargoyle, Judai thought, his card spirit?

"Lloyd!" Judai shouted, "Gargoyle, your friend, is sad to what you're doing to it." Judai said sadly.

Lloyd sneered at him, obviously unpleased. "'Friend'? Gargoyle is nothing more then a tool, an instrument to me. If he is my 'friend' as you say, then he will stand back and let North School win! Yuki Judai, do not talk when you know nothing!"

Judai looked mad at him but Sho suddenly outburst, "Lloyd! You need to treat your monsters, your friends, with the respect they deserve!"

Lloyd jeered at him, "These worthless cards. They're nothing now! They will be transformed to something stronger, with us! North School! If I have to sacrifice these pathetic cards in order to strengthen North School, so be it! They deserve to die for being so weak!"

Sho looked angrily at him. "Lloyd! I'll show you the respect you should give your monsters!"

"Bring it on, Marufuji!" Lloyd said, a flaming aura surrounding his body.

"My turn! I use Roid Recharge!"

A card showing a small cartoonish car getting new batteries appeared on the field. "I can special summon one "Roid" monster from my graveyard to the field. I bring back Submarineroid! Now I activate the magic card, Sub Delta!"

A card showing a Submarineroid attacking enemy ships underwater appeared on the field.

"With this card, any damage I inflect in battle is doubled!"

"Yes!" Kenzan, Judai and Ray said.

"Because Submarineroid causes double damage, it'll make the damage become 1600! Lloyd will be hurt badly by that attack!" Judai said.

"Marufuji-sempai is dueling like a tyranno!" Kenzan said.

"Great Sho! You're doing awesome!" Ray yelled.

"Submarineroid! Direct attack!"

Lloyd's face twisted, "Activate Facedown Magic card! Transformation!"

A card showing a Power Ranger-looking fighter making a pose appeared on the field. Suddenly, a Blue Eyes White Dragon-looking armor appeared on Lloyd. The armor had a large stone on its forehead, and blue white dragon face and armor. Horns stuck out of it in spots, enough that it made Lloyd look vicious. As Submarineroid hit Lloyd, the armor glowed and the attack stopped. Suddenly, Submarineroid burst into pieces.

"Huh?" Sho said, shocked. Everyone else also looked confused.

Lloyd chuckled, "When Transformation is activated, any battle damage to me from direct attacks becomes 0 and the monster is destroyed. If you somehow manage to destroy Transformation however, the combined total attack of the monster destroyed by Transformation is reduced to my lifepoints."

"That's a powerful card!" Sho exclaimed. "Wait a minute, Transformation? I remember my dear brother telling of a card like that when I was younger..."

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A young Kaiser and Sho were playing duel monsters outside under the shade of a massive tree. Sho had out Steamroid while Kaiser had out Cyber Twin Dragon.

"Now I use Defusion to defuse Cyber Twin Dragon to bring back my two Cyber Dragons from my graveyard. Now I use Polymerization, fusing my two Cyber Dragons and my Cyber Dragon in my hand to summon Cyber End Dragon! (4000/4000)"

The card Cyber End Dragon came onto the field.

"Now I attack directly with Cyber End!"

Sho: 0
Kaiser: 4000

"Gah, you win again Big Bro!" Sho said, lying on the grass. "How do I ever beat you with all those rare cards?"

Kaiser merely shrugged, "Excluding Cyber End, my deck isn't all that rare. Actually, if there was one card I would love to have it's a legendary card called Transformation."

Sho looked over at Kaiser. "Transformation?" he repeated.

"Yeah, it's a legendary card. They say it's only given to the best of the best of the machine-type deck players."

"I'm sure Big Bro will get it" Sho said excitedly, "I'm sure there's no one who can defeat my big bro!"

"I can't beat everyone Sho!" Kaiser said, as they both laughed under the shade of the tree...

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Back at the present, Sho thought of Transformation. "Lloyd!" he yelled, "Transformation is only given to those who are the best of the machine-type players! How did you get it?"

Lloyd laughed, "Headmaster Kong gave it to me! It's one of the Seven Wonders of North School. After we unlocked the vaults of North School, every rare card came out! To us, we are willing to take anything we need to become stronger!"

"Lloyd." Sho said, almost like a growl

Lloyd merely chuckled, "Well then Marufuji, enough talk. Let's get back to the duel shall we?"

"Alright!" Sho said, with new resolve, "I set one card, turn end."

"My turn! I attack with Gargoyle!"

The large Gargoyle flew into the air, heading toward Sho.

"I activate my trap card, Prototype Roid!"

A card showing a small roid coming off the factory appeared on the field.

"I can create one 'Prototype Roid' in defense (Earth/Machine/1500/1500/4 stars)"

A small little cartoonish car came to the field. It had a large engine, but it kept falling down when it got up.

"Well then Marufuji, I replay my attack. Now Gargoyle, attack Prototype!" Lloyd yelled out.

The gargoyle went into the air, and came burning like a meteorite straight down onto the car, making it burst into pieces.

"Now I enter my Main Phase 2. I activate my field card, Cathedral!"

The field turned into a church-area. There was a large church near them as they stood on a large field of grass. A small stream was in the distance and gargoyle statues sat on both ends of a large gate that was the entrance to the church.

"What?"

Lloyd chuckled, "With Cathedral on my side of the field, I may special summon one monster from my deck when a monster is destroyed as a result of battle." Lloyd made a wicked smile. "Now then, I summon Guardian of Heaven - Holy (100/2000) in defense!"

A large stone mini-gargoyle thing appeared on the field. It was made of complete stone, and it had two stone swords on stone sheaths next to it. The stone gargoyle folded its arms and knelt down.

"Now then, let me explain to you Holy's effect," Lloyd said calmly, folding his hands. "When Gargoyle is about to be destroyed as a result of battle, I may redirect the attack of Gargoyle to Holy. Also, when it's destroyed, I can destroy one monster on the field to my choosing." He wore a wicked smiled, "C'mon Marufuji! You can't attack directly due to my armor and you can't attack due to Holy! You can't win!"

"I'll win Lloyd! I'll win and I'll show you the respect of a duelist!"

"Show me Marufuji, show me. Set card, turn end."

"My turn! I play Pot of Greed."

A card showing a green pot with a smiling face appeared on the field. The face had ugly big red lips. Its teeth were sickly yellow. The handles and outlines of it were a dark blue, and at the top of it was a pattern of light green and yellow.

Sho looked at his hand and smiled, "Now then, I use Test Roid!"

A card showing a roid monster being tested in a factory appeared on the field.

"This lets me special summon two roid monsters from my graveyard, but I lose lifepoints equal to how much damage I inflected you at my End Phase. I summon Submarineroid, Drillroid! Now, I'll use the card to represent my respect! The respect you don't have! I activate magic card, Power Bond!"

A card showing a man with a glove off using a heater to fix a man appeared on the field. The heater was golden colored, the machine light blue. There was a mask near the blue machine.

"Power Bond?" Ray asked.

"Yeah, it's the card Kaiser gave to Sho when he was a kid," Judai explained, "It's a pretty rare card."

"Power Bond?" Lloyd questioned, "If I win I can have the card that means so much to this Marufuji." He smirked, "the perfect show of power."

"With Power Bond, I can fuse two or more monsters in my hand or field to summon the appropriate monster and the fusion summoned monster's attack is doubled. At the end of the turn, I lose equal to its original attack." Sho grinned, "Since Stone Eyes doesn't count my monsters on the field when you attack or I attack, that doesn't mean I can't use it to fuse! Now then! I fuse Submarineroid, Drillroid and Steamroid to special summon Super Vechroid Jumbo Drill! (6000/3000)"

A huge cartoonish vehicle came to the field. Its nose was a giant drill, spinning around insanely. Its body was mostly pink expect for its top which was purple. It had two 'flyers' that were pink and two razor-sharp steel claws. Its 'mouth' looked like a vacuum, making it seem like some kind of cartoonish monster.

"Super Vechroid Jumbo Drill?" Lloyd said, threatened, stepping back.

"Super Vechroid Jumbo Drill, attack Holy!"

"Fool! You'll never win this duel, Marufuji! Trap card open! Revengeful Spirit!"

A card showing a ghost attacking a human in a graveyard appeared on the field.

"With this card, if a monster attacks, I can destroy the monster by paying 1000 lifepoints!"

Lloyd: 800
Sho: 1700

A ghost suddenly appeared out of the ground, it had a purple dress on and looked disturbing. It had nine snake-like hair-things. Its mouth was pure black, and its eyes the same too. It went towards Super Vechroid, and went inside it, leaving a breath of ghostly air in Vechroid. Suddenly, Super Vechroid exploded, leaving a trail of holograms in its wake.

"Haha," Lloyd started to laugh, his laughter became louder, sounding evil, insane.

"What's so funny?" Sho said angrily.

"I laugh at you, Marufuji. I find it so ironic that a short while ago, we, North School, would have never thought to fight you. We were weak then! But now, now we can achieve our goals! Now we can be top once again! It is all thanks to Headmaster Kong!"

"Lloyd, what is it with you talking so much about North School?" Sho asked.

"Yeah, it's not like we did anything to you!" Ray yelled, as Kenzan and Judai nodded.

"Worthless fools! Do you know nothing!? A short while ago, North School had gone into a depression like none other, because of Duelist Academia! We were weak, questioning our own school. I myself even found the place that I could escape the pain of my memories questionable. Then, Kong came. He showed us how strong we are. He showed us we are the greatest of duelists! With Headmaster Kong leading us, and our own duelists so powerful, we will be invincible. We have been raised from the ashes of the dead! And from that, we have become gods!" Lloyd yelled.

"Lloyd," Sho yelled, "What do you mean 'the pain of your memories'?"

Lloyd put his hand on his face, covering his face. "That thing which caused me to lose myself..."

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A little Lloyd was in church. He was in a long bench, singing with the rest of the people in a song.

"By the will of God o Our Lord" Lloyd sang out, with the rest of the church-goers. Lloyd smiled as he sang, looking up at his mother and father sitting next to him. Soon the singing stopped, and a priest went over to the altar and started to give a sermon. Lloyd smiled, taking everything from the sermon. Suddenly, Lloyd heard a loud explosion.

He saw the ceiling fall down and a fire near the altar. He looked around. Everybody was running, screaming. The priest was on the floor, dead. He tried to get up but he felt himself drop to the floor, a piece of ceiling tile on top of him. He saw his mother and father looking around for him, he tried to get to them but his back was in tremendous pain. He cried out, but it fell on deaf ears by the tremendous noise. The church was in total chaos. He felt dizzy; blackness overtook his vision. He could still hear the chaos as he fell unconsciousness…

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"That nearly destroyed me." Lloyd said, covering his face with his hand. "I was stuck under a ceiling. People later told me that the church I was in was struck by lightning. I was the only one to survive, my friends, family, everyone I knew in that church died there. And if that wasn't enough, I was stuck in there for three days..."

"How did you get out Lloyd? How could you survive?"

Lloyd took his hand off his face and looked angrily at Sho, "Be quiet! You know nothing of what I've been through! I will destroy you! All of you! End your damn turn!"

"Lloyd…"

"I said end your turn Marufuji!" Lloyd yelled in absolute anger.

Sho nodded sadly, "I activate Roid Mobile"

A card showing a roid monster getting repairs appeared on the field. "This makes any damage I receive go down to 0 until the end of the turn. So I lose nothing from the aftereffect of Power Bond. I set one card, turn end."

"My turn! Draw!" Lloyd looked at his hand, "Gargoyle! Attack that worthless Marufuji directly, Clash Against Evil!!" Lloyd said, pointing his right hand toward Sho.

The gargoyle rose into the air, going hundred feet above in the air, before heading straight down toward Sho, his body burning up as he fell down like a meteorite.

"Trap card open! Merchant's Price!"

A card showing a man holding a spell while his opponent held a trap card appeared on the field. The man was very cartoonish, with a cliché evil moustache and an evil grin.

"By removing from play one spell card, I can special summon one monster from my graveyard! Also, I can pay 1000 lifepoints to make you attack one monster on my field, and if you do, I can destroy a card on your side of the field! I remove from play Power Bond and special summon Super Vechroid Jumbo Drill!"

As the gargoyle came down, the cartoonish pink vehicle came rising out of the earth, its drills moving. "Now I pay 1000 lifepoints to make you attack!"

Sho: 700
Lloyd: 1500

Lloyd looked in shock as Gargoyle headed down to Jumbo Drill. The giant cartoonish monster moved upwards, and for a second, the drill monster and Gargoyle met head-to-head. Lloyd looked shocked as he looked at Gargoyle; a small tear came down the monster's face as the monster looked at Lloyd. The fire in its eyes was out.

"Gargoyle..." Lloyd said, standing there in shock as Gargoyle continued to fight Jumbo Drill. The drill moved upwards, spinning more rapidly, as Gargoyle exploded, leaving a wake of smoke where it was.

"Now I can destroy one card on the field. I destroy Transformation! And you lose lifepoints equal to all you destroyed!" Sho declared, "I win, Lloyd!"

The armor on Lloyd exploded off of him. Holograms of the armor came flying off Lloyd, coming off like pieces of paper but Lloyd merely looked at the place Gargoyle was destroyed. He saw the spot where Gargoyle's tear fell, and saw a faint image of Gargoyle lingering there, looking at Lloyd with a sad face.

"Gargoyle..." Lloyd said. The last of the armor came flying off Lloyd, enveloping everything in a bright light. Lloyd was thrown back by the aftershock of the Solid Vision and landed on his back. The brightness slowly went away, as Lloyd looked in shock as his lifepoints counter started to go down. "I...lost?"

Sho: 700
Lloyd: 0

- Duel End

The holograms went away with a loud hum, Lloyd and Sho's duel disks deactivating. Lloyd still looked at his lifepoint counter, and then he looked up at Sho.

"All right Sho!" Kenzan, Judai and Ray yelled. Sho smiled happily and waved his hands in victory toward them. "I won! I won!" he shouted gleefully.

"All right Lloyd, because of the ante rule, I get your rarest card!" Sho said, excited and smiling. "So hand it over!"

"What!? I-I lost one of the Seven Wonders!?" Lloyd yelled in despair. He looked angrily at Sho. He took Transformation from his duel disk and a GC from his pocket and threw both of them to him. "One day Marufuji! All of you! One day North School will reign supreme! Kong has seen to it, with our new god, and with us as gods, North School will never lose to you! Damn you! Damn all of you! I will get my revenge!"

"Lloyd..." Sho said, almost sadly, looking at his darkened face and his rage. I know what it's like to be in despair and pain, like when dear brother was Hell Kaiser. I thought I could never reawaken his kindness back. But aniki helped me; he helped with the pain in my heart. Maybe you too have something or someone to help the pain from your heart. Sho noticed a transparent Gargoyle next to Lloyd, as Lloyd's body was shaking from anger. Sho smiled, so that's who helps you...

Lloyd got up and ran off, running through the forest, leaving Sho, Ray, Kenzan and Judai. Sho shook his head, but smiled, I know that spirit will protect you. He thought. Like how big brother helped me.

"All right Sho!" Kenzan yelled, "You won-don!"

"Awesome Sho!" Ray said, "You got a legendary card!"

"You did great Sho!" Judai yelled.

"Thanks Kenzan, Aniki." Sho said, ignoring Ray.

Sho looked at his Transformation card. This card is going to help me win this tournament. As long as I duel with respect, I know I can win. He thought, smiling to himself. "Let's get through the tournament!" he yelled, holding up all the GCs he had. Kenzan and Judai waved their hands in the air, as Ray did too, with a weak smile.

"Hey!" Judai said, "Lets go get some food, I think we might be able to make it to lunch before Tome-san cleans everything!"

Kenzan and Sho nodded, as they ran toward the cafeteria. Ray stood there as they ran off; they never noticed he didn't go with them. He looked at North School students, and Duelist Academiers battling. He thought of how Sho ignored him, am I nobody? He thought to himself. He looked sad, before he ran off to Judai and the others.

--

Lloyd ran through the forest of Duelist Academia. He was still in a rage, how could I lose!? He thought. I am from North School! I am supreme! He kept thinking on what Sho asked…

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"That nearly destroyed me." Lloyd said, covering his face with his hand. "I was stuck under a ceiling. People later told me that the church I was in was struck by lightning. I was the only one to survive, my friends, family, everyone I knew in that church died there. And if that wasn't enough, I was stuck in there for three days..."

"How did you get out Lloyd? How could you survive?"

Lloyd took his hand off his face and looked angrily at Sho, "Be quiet! You know nothing of what I've been through! I will destroy you! All of you! End your damn turn!"

--

Lloyd thought of Sho's words. He asked me how I survived, I know how survived. Like Sho had Judai, I had someone too, to help me… He stopped running, and was at a long cliff. He looked out at the sea. The sun was setting, making the sea sparkle. He took out Gargoyle from his duel disk and held it in his hands. He kept thinking of how Gargoyle exploded by Super Vechroid Jumbo Drill at the end of the duel. The memory played over and over in his head, how he saw Gargoyle's tear, how it met head-to-head with Jumbo Drill and how it lingered, looking sadly at Lloyd. He remembered again and again, "Gargoyle... I remember when Sho asked me 'How did you survive?' I remember that day..."

Lloyd was trapped under the ceiling. He felt he was going to die. "Why!?" he cried out. Tears came down his face. He thought of his mother and father. He wondered if they made it through, but the thought of them not gave him too much anguish. He cried heavily under the rubble until he noticed something among the rubbles where he was. In some of the broken tile, was a duel monster card. It was named Gargoyle. "Gargoyle" he said, looking at the card's name, before the pain in his back came, and he clenched the card in pain.

"Gargoyle," he said, after the pain slowly went away. "Will you protect me?" Lloyd saw a transparent Gargoyle appear next to him, and he started to feel better, physical and mentally. Lloyd smiled, his eyes sparkling, wiping away the tears in his face. Gargoyle smiled too, but solemnly, and disappeared.

--

"Gargoyle..." Lloyd said, "You protected me...For those three days I was stuck under the rubble of the ruins of my church, you protected me and kept me alive..."

Lloyd saw a transparent Gargoyle standing by him. He saw a single tear run down Gargoyle's face, the fire in his eyes burnt out. "Is that what I've done to you?" Lloyd asked, looking at Gargoyle. Gargoyle disappeared, leaving Lloyd looking down at the card.

"I've been disgraced to North School, I can never go back," he said shaking his head, before looking at the Gargoyle card again. "And I've disrespected you in my anger. I hope one day, I can get that respect back." Lloyd closed his eyes, as the spirit of Gargoyle appeared and moved his gigantic wings to shield Lloyd. "Thank you, my friend." Lloyd said quietly, a small tear running down his face...

- Chapter End

Notes:

-Music Selection

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- Profound Meaning
Starts: The beginning where Lloyd looks at Ra Yellow
Ends: When the focus is shifted towards Sho

-Game of Darkness
Starts: When Lloyd summons Gargoyle + Direct Attacks
Ends: After Sho gets up from being direct attacked

- Amnael's "How have you've changed" music
Starts: Lloyd's Childhood Flashback
Ends: End of Flashback

- Exciting Duel
Starts: When Lloyd Has A Fiery Aura
Ends: When Lloyd uses Transformation

- Wicked Grudge
Starts: Lloyd's Flashbacks of Kong
Ends: End of flashback

- Dramatic Music
When Sho uses Power Bond + Attacks
Ends - After Lloyd uses Revengeful Spirit and destroys Jumbo Drill

- Wrath of Justice
Starts: When Sho destroys Gargoyle + Transformation
Ends: –Duel End

- Case Completed!
Starts: At the end of the duel, when Sho, Judai, Kenzan and Ray cheer
Ends: When Sho starts to think about Lloyd and his despair

- Sho's Lullaby
Starts: When Lloyd talks to Gargoyle at the end
Ends: End of chapter

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-The Four School Duel was a unique situation where all schools tied to each other, so it was a 4-free-for-all, which Lloyd participated in (Think for yourselves if he won or not, its not important at all, Kong just found it impressive that he participated in the tournament that showed the strength of North School so well)

-Lloyd is Christian (obviously)

Fanfic Cards:

Lloyd's:

Gargoyle
2300
1000
Rock
Earth
Effect: When you lose lifepoints by a card effect, you may draw 1 card. If this card is destroyed and sent to the graveyard, your opponent draws 1 card.

Art: A scary, behemoth-like monster is near the entrance of a church, standing there. It has two giant bat-like wings and its mouth is huge. Its head is the shape of some demonic monster, and it's eyes red as fire. But despite this, there seems to be a certain tranquil in the monster's expression, as a golden aura surrounds it.

Guardian of Heaven - Holy
100
2000
Rock
Earth
If your opponent attacks, you may redirect the attack to this card. If this card is destroyed, destroy one card on the field.

Art: A large stone mini-gargoyle. Its made completely of stone, and it has two stone swords on stone sheath on it.

Stone Guardian
0
2000
Rock
Earth
When this card is destroyed and sent to the graveyard, draw 1 card.

Art: A large, stone monster. It has a large club in its hand. It's very old looking, and gray. Its head is stone, with two small slits that look like eyes.

Faith
Normal Spell
When this card is activated, no monsters on your side of the field may be destroyed as a result of battle until the end of your next turn. Also, if you have a "Gargoyle" monster on your side of the field and "Stone Eyes" card", if this card is in the graveyard, you can remove this card from play and this card's effect becomes the effect of "Stone Eyes".

Art: A group of people are in a circle in the outside. They're all praying to God.

Transformation
Quick-Play Spell
When this card is activated, it becomes an equipment spell and equips to the player. As long as this card remains faceup on the field, if your opponent attacks directly, the opponent's monster is destroyed and you lose 0 battle damage. If this card is removed from the field, you lose lifepoints equal to the total attack of the monsters destroyed by this card's effect.

Art: A man in a blue costume is making a Power Rangers pose.

Stone Eyes
Equipment Magic
This can only be equipped to Gargoyle monster. Once per turn, you can select one monster on the field and pay 700 lifepoints. The selected monster cannot attack and is not counted on the field when you attack. Also, the selected monster cannot change its battle position.

Art: A close-up shot of Gargoyle's eyes. They are pure stone and gray.

Awakening of the Church
Normal Trap
When a monster on your side of the field is destroyed as a result of battle, special summon one rock-type monster from your deck.

Art: A large church stands over a nice garden. The garden has roses and lilies and seems to have hundred of flowers. The church gleams in the sun, while two Gargoyles stand at the edge of the church, eyes glowing.

Revengeful Spirit
Normal Trap
This can only be activated if a monster attacks. Pay 1000 lifepoints; destroy the attacking monster.

Art: A human is in a cemetery, and an angry spirit is near him, tormenting the human. The spirit is in a deep rage for the human being in the cemetery.

Sho's:

Babyroid
100
1000
If this card is removed from the field, you can special summon a "Roid" monster from your deck.

Art: A small, cute red roid is driving around. It has training wheels and small little bell on it.

Sub Delta
Normal Spell
All battle damage this turn from "Roid" monster are doubled.

Art: A Submarineroid is attacking enemy ships underwater, using a cartoonish missile.

Test Roid
Normal Spell
Special summon up to 2 'Roid' monsters in your graveyard and destroy them in the endphase. During the endphase, you lose lifepoints equal to the battle damage inflected by the monsters summoned by this card's effect.

Art: A Drillroid is being tested by a bunch of scientists in a room; the scientists are scribbling notes as Steamroid and Submarineroid are in a factory line in another room behind a window.

Roid Mobile
Quick-Play Spell
This can only be activated if a 'roid' monster is faceup on your side of the field. You receive 0 battle damage or effect damage until the end of the turn.

Art: A Steamroid is broken down, with parts all around the room and rust on it. A bunch of scientists are making repairs to it, looking over a chart of its blueprints.

Roid Recharge
Quick-Play Spell
You may special summon one "Roid" monster in your graveyard.
Art: A small cartoonish car is getting new batteries by a human

Merchant's Price
Normal Trap
This can only be activated if your opponent attacks. If you have a total of 5 monsters in your graveyard, special summon one monster in your graveyard. One time only, you may pay 1000 lifepoints to make your opponent attack one monster on your field, if a monster destroys a opponent

Art: A merchantman is holding a Raigeki, looking smirking sinisterly as his opponent is holding a Magic Cylinder (Note: Think the guy in Dark Bribe)

Prototype Roid
Normal Trap
Special summon one "Prototype Roid" counter on your side of the field (Earth/Machine/1500/1500/).

Art: A new roid is just getting off the assembly line.

Roid Movement
Normal Trap
This can only be activated if a "Roid" monster is affected by a card effect. Remove the effected card from play, and then draw one card from your deck.

Art: A roid is driving madly down a street, destroying everything in its path.

Cyber Stopper
Normal Trap
When this card is activated, no monster on your side of the field is affected by card effects until the end of the turn. Your opponent then draws 1 card.

Art: A car is at a garage; some kids are trying to fix it because it has a flat tire.

Card of the Chapter is Gargoyle!

Gargoyle
2300
1000
Rock
Earth
Effect: When you lose lifepoints by a card effect, you may draw 1 card. If this card is destroyed and sent to the graveyard, your opponent draws 1 card.

Trivia: Lloyd, in the ruins of his church, found this card. Considered by many worthless, Lloyd sent Pegasus a letter to get it support. Intrigued of the way Lloyd got the card, Pegasus made Gargoyle support, including Stone Eyes, Faith among many others which were church-related.