10th chapter!
Let's get goiiiiing!
The ground shook around the Astral world as the thunder stormed the ground. Droite didn't hesitate to run up to them, but before, she put a round 'metallic' silver band over the white cloak behind her head, so the hat will cover her head and face even if there was a torrent of wind.
As she approached the enemy, she glances around to find their leader.
'Please! Don't listen to him! He's the one who dared to fight our glorious warriors!' Droite remembered the words Ena have said to her.
'The guy that I have duelled can't have been possibly enough tough to create such damage and threat to Kaito and others... no, they have to be someone else, someone more powerful...'
As these thoughts raced her mind, Droite couldn't help but feel frustration was taking over her as she couldn't find the leader.
'Wait, the guy that I duelled said to be their leader... and the guy that Ena said to be so dangerous... What type of connection they might have?... Both of them seemed to be very confident to beat Astral...'
After a while of thinking, a shocked face appeared in her face as a sign of realisation. 'The guy I duelled, gave orders to bring thunder made of Chaos and sacrifice Melody! A leader usually gives tasks to a minor position and watch throughout and don't get involved unless someone comes, being able to ruin their plans... It has to be a lie! That guy couldn't have been a leader! If he is, the one claimed by Ena have fought Kaito and others... must be the supreme leader!'
After a while, she stopped running for air. 'So if the leader was assigned to bring destruction, there must be more of them... only one will not be enough for a huge world like this. It's strange for a minor position has such a major role, destroying some part of the Astral world to create a conviction of Chaos being the reason of it, even though Ena, Eliphas and the Astral kind seems to be aware of who are the ones responsible for it... What's the point to convince such a lie creating destruction in front of them? Why are they forced to get rid of Chaos? But if they get rid of Chaos, they will suffer consequences, so why?'
Droite than look around, again trying to spot someone different. But her eyes glanced the sky that shows the enemy's doing from the spot she's standing, in front of her appeared a terrible vision, parts of the Astral world wiped by smoke and thunder. She couldn't resist seeing this any longer.
Then her eyes glared at the enemy's minions, that were thundering and destroying the lands with a simple command. They indeed look-alike the Astral kind, except their skin, which was a much darker colour than the usual bright azure colour most Astral kind has; as if they lost their brightness. They wore silver shining armour, with weapons behind their back, and a shining helmet covering their head, looking almost like a guard, but to Droite, for now, they seemed no more than peasants that didn't know how much they would regret their actions after they would be given a right lesson.
Her right hand goes to her extra deck, from where she took "Night Pallpilloperative". She put the card in the air, from where a torment of wind of light blue colour raged out with each second becoming more aggressive, she eventually evoked her monster and with a slash of the sword and stream, it swept away half of the clan. She then shouts with a clear eager for a fight, "Who is the leader of your clan?!"
Her voice took everyone's attention, their expression seemed to be surprised and shocked. Then an Astralian walked behind her, Droite turned around to see who it was; she didn't recognize the Astralian but knew who he was or what was his role.
'As I thought... there are more of those pathetic leaders...' Droite thought, with an expected look on her face.
"This is surprising... nothing but a pipsqueak of an Astralian like you dared to fight us?" said the Astralian with evil grin stamped on his face.
"What you call me, a 'pipsqueak' will destroy all of you here," said Droite with a confident and fearless tone.
"You sure? You seem to don't know what you're putting yourself into... if an Astralian like you come nearer us, you'll instantly vanish," warned the Astralian enemy. But Droite's face didn't change at all, and the enemy leader could see her unconcerned face, which took some curiosity from the leader.
"That's not my concern, as long as I defeated you and your clan!" declared Droite.
"You have some guts, more than Eliphas... I admit, but I warned you. How about this? If you defeat me and my clan, I'll stop this temporarily, you see, there are some people we need to take care first..." the Astralian said with a malicious tone.
"But... if you lose and I win, your light along with your existence will be on the stake," the Astralian concluded.
"I don't mind," Droite said indifferently. She disguised as an Astralian was successful.
"Then let's begin!" the Astralian announced.
From both of them, a Duel Disk appeared on their wrists. In Droite's left eye a Duel Gazer tattoo appeared, even after she covered her whole face with the sand, while her eye's pupil lighted of a dark turquoise colour. Whilst in the Astralian's whole left eye (they don't have pupils) became light red, like the previous opponent Droite duelled.
"Duel!"
"Because you challenged me, I start the turn! Draw!" the Astralian draw a card, and a grin appeared on his face. "Lucky me, I activate the Field Spell Card "Purgatory passageway"!" Then the Duel Field changed into a field made of somewhat looking like concrete, surrounded by ancient-looking greek columns, and behind both of them, there was a very long passageway.
In Droite's field, a red electric shook rounded where she was standing, which eventually electrocuted her whole body, "Ahhhhhhh-rgh! Ugh..."
"This is the passage of the Barian and Astral world, or it used to be... and for every turn, if the opponent doesn't make any type of damage to my LP in your turn, a Barian electric shook will wipe you 200 LP, and you know what that means..." his eyes closed and his grin stretched further.
"Not only your body will be put into a great pressure but also if you don't cause any damage to me within the end of your turn, your body will be severely damaged and so as the light of your existence, and because I am a fine Astralian, I give you the chance now to-"
"Cut it already! I said this is none of my concern! I will not stop to fight until I defeated you!" Droite interrupted.
'I will maintain the promise! No matter what. I am tired of doing nothing! I will give them a lesson!' Droite thought as she forced herself to stand up.
"Fine, this was your last chance. When I activate this card I can evocate two monsters of the same level with the name "Ethereal" on it!" from the deck those cards got out. "Shining draw- Arghhh!" the Astralian screamed at the mention.
"Shining Draw?..." Droite muttered.
"How do you not know what is a Shining Draw?! Every Astral kind can draw any card you wish," said the Astralian, and then he laughed off saying, "Of course only a real Duelist can do that, not some peasants like you."
"The ability to draw any card you... wish..." Droite mumbled those words.
"I summon "Atum Ethereal"!"
Atum Ethereal-
2000 ATK
Rank 5
Level 6
"And also come to my field "Khephri Ethereal!"
Khepri Ethereal-
1800 ATK
Rank 5
Level 6
"With these two monsters, I construct the Overlay Network! Xyz Summon! Come forth, New Order Rank 5 "Ethereal Khephri-Atum"!" declared the Astralian.
"Huh!" Droite gasped, 'That guy's monster has the same name as the monsters he used as Xyz materials... Does that mean...?
"Khepri Ethereal has all the effects of the Xyz monsters used as Xyz materials to evoke this monster, in fact, one of the Atum Ethereal effects is I can draw a card from my deck, this effect can be used only for one turn," announced the Astralian. Then he draws a card.
He glances at the card and an evil grin appears on his face, again. "I have drawn "Rank-up Magic Chaos force Astral"!"
'He also has this card...' Droite tensed.
"I overlay "Ethereal Khephri-Atum"! Rise like the sun and mark the enemy's end like a sunrise! Show your light and dark form! "Dark Khephri-Atum EthereAstral" the opponent announced.
Dark Khephri-Atum EthereAstral-
4500 ATK
Rank 5
"I put one card face-down and end my turn. And because I can't attack in the first turn, the Field's Spell doesn't activate," he concluded.
'Okay, it's my turn now,' Droite thought.
"Here I go! Draw!"
"Huh..." Gauche sighed. "Is the tenth time I called her now..."
'I can't believe she didn't even call me even one time from yesterday...' Gauche thought angrily.
"I guess she missed Heartland City... but she forgot about me already!" Gauche groaned.
Then Gauche sighed again and thought carefully, it's not like her to not pick up the calls... 'Wait... if something happened?... If Droite is not answering...' Gauche said thoughtfully. But then what he should do then?
"The only place I am sure Droite went to is the Tower!"
At the Tower
Everyone sat onto the sofa, looking down, waiting for the portal to be fixed.
It has past almost two hours now, and to be honest, it needed another couple of hours to fix but everyone seemed to have accepted to wait, despite not knowing quite well how long they need to wait for it, as they could do nothing else for now... except... Alit.
He was losing his temper by now. He looks around again, anyone was protesting against the time or anything like that, some were looking doleful, most of them were downcast. He couldn't resist any longer, "Arrgh!" Alit growled.
"How long we have to wait!?" Alit snapped, standing up, raising his fists. Everyone was looking at him, and to be honest, they were getting frustrated and bored as him.
Right after, Chris enters, who have heard Alit.
Alito doesn't hesitate to go near the door where Chris was standing. "Oi!" Alit calls, pointing at Chris.
"How much time do you need to repair it?!" Alit outcries again. This time his fist grabbed tightly Chris' collar. Everyone stood up to stop him.
"Oi, Alit!" Gilag intervenes to stop Alit getting into a fight. After a couple of seconds, Chris only gently pushed his hands aside with a slightly irritated face.
Then everyone came up to Chris for questions.
"V, is the portal ready... yet?" asked Yuma with a preoccupying expression.
Chris didn't respond for a couple of minutes... he only closed his eyes and, "Not yet..."
"What?!" everyone said in unison. Then why he is here for?...
Even Astral was shocked, it could be seen from his shocked expression, which is now turning into anger.
"What do you mean it's not ready yet!?" Astral snapped in anger, which jumps scared Yuma badly.
Chris was about to argue but Astral interrupted him again, "There is no point anymore! Half of the Astral world is probably destroyed by now! And they depended on us! Everyone is gone!" as Astral was saying this, others could his narrow eyes, etched with fear and anger.
"Cut it already!" a voice could be heard from a person next to Chris. Astral then look up to the door to see who it was... it was Kaito!
"Are you giving up on saving your people already?!" Kaito asked firmly, pointing at Astral, who didn't respond, which made Kaito angrier.
Then Mizael decided to argue back as well, "Oi Tenjo! Astral is right! Astral world is probably half destroyed by now! You need to do things quickly-!" Kaito interrupted.
"We know that! We are doing our best to get things done! Don't forget that also Droite is in the Astral word! We are considering also the chance of Astral world's survival and go against the pre-stabilized time!" Kaito argued back. He also lost his temper arguing with them. So Chris tried to settle this calming them down.
"Everyone! Listen, you don't need to worry about the Astral world for now! We also checked its status and very surprisingly things didn't change as much from what we saw it last time!" Chris showed the data graph collected so they calm down.
"But how is it possible?... The Astral world is almost the same as we saw..." muttered Dumon.
Meanwhile, they were having the conversation, his D-Gazer lighted up. As soon as it started to ring, he got out of the room.
'Who might be calling me in a time like this?' Kaito thought as he was checking his D-Gazer. Kaito's eyes narrowed when he saw the contact's name. It was... Gauche.
Kaito should have at least expected this, but with all this going on... How will he tell him about his sister? Kaito didn't seem to have a choice, he has the right to know after all.
"Gau-" Gauche interrupted him before he could say anything.
"Kaito! I need to ask you something urgently!" Kaito simply nodded.
"Do you know Droite arrived in Heartland, right?" Gauche asked as quickly as he could.
"She-"
"Did something happened to her?" it was clear that Gauch was concerned.
Kaito dropped his jaw. The way he asked... is almost as if he knew what happened.
"Gauche..." as Kaito started speaking, Gauche firmly stared at the screen, waiting for an answer, which Kaito knew it.
"Droite now works in the laboratory with us... Today we opened the portal to the Astral world to help Astral and Yuma, in between, something strange happened as your sister was going toward the portal... and eventually went to the Astral world," Kaito said as calmly as he could, trying to keep his cool. He now expected his brother to be angry and ask about her sister, but actually...
As Kaito concluded, he hasn't shown any excessive reaction from the news, which was a surprise. Instead of asking about her sister... "Helping Astral... and Yuma...?" Gauche muttered.
"It's a long story," Kaito hurried.
"Wait! Is she even okay? You are going to Astral world, aren't you?" he asked calmly.
"When your sister got to the Astral world, the portal got damaged... We are not sure what happened to her but I promise she'll be alright, we are doing our best to repair it. Once it will be repaired, I promise to bring her back-"
"There's nothing to worry about then..." Gauche said calmly. His low temper surprised Kaito a lot.
"I am sure she's fine even if there are those, what you call strange Astralians around..." said Gauche.
"How do you know-"
"Droite talked about it yesterday. Anyway, I hope you go to the Astral world as quickly as possible, not sure for how much time she can handle alone your enemies," Gauche concluded and the D-Gazer hang up the call.
Kaito was only shocked, he has no words to express how he was feeling after that phrase. The Astral world's status was suspicious; so far they theorized Ena and Eliphas did something about it. Or it was handled by Droite! He was confused as hell. If this was the case, he better hurry.
Gauche let out a sigh as he hanged up the call.
"That Yuma... He didn't tell me again how the things were and what was happening," he chuckled as he said this.
"And Droite... Seems she's having fun already... I better pack everything then, those folks doesn't know what's happening either... and my sister needs me," Gauche said, looking at the ceiling.
"Well, better start now, it will at least take one day to get everything ready. I need to cancel my last shows and applications... It's time to give Droite a little visit," Gauche said with a smirk on his face.
Astral world
"Here I go! Draw!" she draws a card, which she puts in her hand.
"I activate the Spell card 'Dance of the Butterspy"! Which can be used when there is Field magic in play. This can allow me to Special Summon two Level 4 or lower "Butterspy" monsters from my hand!"
In the field appears:
Morpho Butterspy
1200 ATK
Level 4
Swallowtail Butterspy
1800 ATK
Level 4
"Then I use the Spell Card "Insect Imitation", I tribute a monster to Special Summon one Insect-type monster from my deck! Because my tributed monster was a Level 3 monster, I can Special Summon one higher Level than the tributed monster, means a Level 4 monster! I Special Summon "Blue Mountain"!"
Blue Mountain
0 ATK
Level 4
"With these three monsters, I construct the Overlay Network! Xyz Summon! Dance in the darkness, beautiful Incarnation of Death! "Night Papilloperative"!"
Night Papilloperative-
2600 ATK
Rank 4
"What are you going to do with those ATK points?" asked mockingly the Astralian.
"I am not finished yet! I activate a Spell card "Overlay Pollen"!" Droite announced, which made the Astralian tense.
"This Spell allows me to multiply the ATK points of my monster for every Overlay Unit on the field! And this itself becomes an Overlay Unit of my "Night Papilloperative"! In the field there a total 5 Overlay Units!"
"Mu-multiply?!" the Astralian whimpered.
Night Papilloperative-
13000 ATK
Rank 4
Then Droite put on a smirk "You thought I finished? When I use this card, your monster's effects are negated."
"No, it can't be! That would be 8500 LP damage" the Astralian backed up.
"Exactly, go "Night Papilloperative"! Attack "Dark Khephri-Atum EthereAstral"!" Droite declared.
"I activate the Trap card "The void of the light"! This saves me from losing except for my monster!" the Astralian announces. His life points are not touched, but his monster gets destroyed from the attack.
"Now end your turn!-" he hurried.
Droite growls in irritation because she didn't manage to make any damages, that means the Field's spell will activate, but she doesn't have a choice. "I put a face-down card and end my turn."
As she ended her turn, the red and white electric shock surrounded her and electrocuted her whole body, and wiped out 200 LP from her.
Droite: 3800 LP
Unknown: 4000 LP
Although it wasn't as hurtful as the first time, it made her scream from the pain as it electrocuted her, but fortunately, it was short-lived. However, the Astralian was very surprised that his opponent was still standing, the Field's energy has a very negative effect against the Astralians without the power they have; he expected at least expected his opponent to scream from the pain as it shook their soul.
"How... how you're still standing?!" asked the Astralian with a shocked expression.
"I guess your power doesn't affect me. As I said, it's not one of my concerns," said Droite with an indifferent expression, which took some nerve from her opponent.
'I guess I underestimated her...' the Astralian thought.
As he sees her indifference, he clenches his fist. "Alright, let's see if you'll resist any longer! Shining draw-" the Astralian stuck again at the mention of those words and almost collapsed. "Wha-what's happening?... Why I can't do a Shining Draw?..." the Astralian muttered.
Droite clenched her fist by hearing him lamenting. "Can't you see it by yourself?!" Droite yelled, which brought the opponent's attention.
"You said every Astral kind can do a Shining Draw, an ability to draw any cards you wish, only a true duelist can do that! You gained new Barian powers and used it against your world! You made suffer thousands of Astralians, you still expect to be even considered one of your kind and do Shining Draws?!" Droite yelled again, which made the Astralian fall into his knees.
"Why? For what purpose you are doing all this? You can go back to be yourself-" Droite said with a calm and understanding tone, but right after the opponent chuckled.
" "Go back to be me" You fool," said the Astralian as he stood up. The Astralian suddenly was surrounded by a dark aura, which preoccupied Droite.
"I will crush everything in my way and get rid of Chaos for our supreme God! And make my world a better place, where Eliphas cannot play with our lives! He's the one who ruined thousands of lives! We are helping our people to reach to us, we think the same way, but they are just threatened by Astral and Eliphas, they are the victims and we are their saviours," the Astralian stared at the sky with his hands wide open and didn't even seem to know what he was talking about.
A shocked face appeared on Droite's face. She understood everything now. Why they are doing this, for what purpose.
"But I thought any other Barian power of Don Thousand has vanished... after it passed to Nasch. Yuma and Astral beat him." Kaito's words ringed in her mind. 'The power of Don Thousand didn't vanish yet... I need to bring down this course as soon as possible. I need to beat this guy!' Droite thought.
"Well, it's still my turn then. I activate one of the "Dark Khephri-Atum EthereAstral" effects! When my opponent has a monster that has more than 3000 ATK points than my monster, I can attack for two times my opponent directly and make her lose same attack points as my monster's!" announced the Astralian.
Droite growls hearing the news
Then in a flash, the monster was about to attack Droite directly.
"I activate the Spell Card "Butterspy Protection", this Trap halves the amount of damage I'm going to receive-" Droite announces her survival until a torment make her fall on the ground.
Droite: 1550 LP
Unknown: 4000 LP
"Not finished yet! If the opponent survived the first attack, the opponent is allowed to draw a card..." the Astralian says, closing his eyes. Which at first sounded great to Droite, however, he continued.
"which you need to get rid of," he concluded.
The last sentence hit Droite quite hard, she had only one card on her hand... but she didn't give up.
Droite in the draw gives all her concentration, she thinks about the people that considered her as a hero. She never felt like this, she felt... strong and confident. She believed in herself and her cards. For all her life people doubted her, even she doubted herself. But people in the Astral world helped her to boost her confidence, both in herself and her deck.
"Shining... DRAW!" Droite drew the card that she needed, that will turn the tables of this duel.
Droite smirked seeing the card she drew, and then she got rid of it.
"What a fool, why you would do a Shining Draw and get rid of the card you need?" muttered the Astralian.
"Ready or not, you will vanish! I admit you were rather unique to have stood up and duelled throughout the entire duel without falling on your knees, but a game is nice when it lasts a little," said mockingly the Astralian as his monster attacked again his opponent.
"Well, I am more than happy to say that you're wrong. It's finished for you." Droite smirked.
"What?!" the opponent yelled shocked.
"I activate the Spell Card "Reverse Butterflies" from my graveyard!" Droite announced.
"From-from the graveyard?!" said the Astralian speechless.
"This card reverses everything on my opponent's field, such as effects! If I am going to lose 4500 LP because of your monster's effect, therefore I will gain 4500 LP, because the effect is reversed!"
Droite: 6050 LP
Unknown:4000 LP
"No way!"
"Now! "Night Papilloperative"! Attack "Dark Khephri-Atum EthereAstral"!" with all your might!" Droite declared.
The Astralian's shocked face became full of hopelessness, this attack will mark the end of this Duel, there are no such cards in his hand that can stop this.
And with a slash of the sword, Droite finally destroys the monster. And of course, the 8500 LP damage wipes all the LP of the Astralian and make him crush heavily onto the ground.
Droite: Winner
Unknown: 0
And then everyone disappeared one by one.
Then the Astralian stood up and said, "I will crush you... next-time," he struggled to speak.
"Droite!" a childish voice was heard. Droite turned around to see who it was. So did the guy that lost.
"Wait, that's the girl my comrade tried to sacrifice..." the Astralian enemy muttered as was fading. And then he vanished.
"Melody! I am happy that you're fine," Droite exclaimed with a cheerful tone.
"Me too," said Melody with a smiley face.
Then Droite turned to where the enemy was standing a while ago. "I guess your supreme leader needs to check you more," Droite chuckled.
'At least they can't use their power for a long time...' Droite thought.
Yay! Droite can do Shining Draws! XD
Hope you enjoyed this chapter! Don't worry, everyone will be here soon XD I hope anyone was OC
The chapter continues and who knows what happens next...
See you next XD