"Let loose the devastation! Destroy all those before you! Unleash your mighty fists upon the world and unleash thy fury!"
"Come forth! OBELISK THE TORMENTOR!"
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*Akiza POV*
"H-He's kidding right?" I stammered watching the pillar of light become ripped apart, revealing a hulking blue giant with blood red eyes. Yusei, who was doing his best to remain calm, shook his head "I guess not." Unfortunately, Crow wasn't nearly as calm "W-WHAT THE HELL? THAT CARD WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN LOST WHEN THE KING OF GAMES RETIRED!" I turned to ask Lumina for her input, seeing as how she was friends with Ryder appearently, but only found her shaking her fist at Ryder. "YOU IDIOT! AFTER I TOLD YOU NOT TO USE HIM!" She suddenly whipped her head towards me and glared at my…..shoulder? "SHUT UP! THIS IS BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO BEAT UP 'SOME WEAK MORTALS'!"
"Is…..she yelling at your shoulder Akiza?" Carly asked shooting Lumina a worried look. Jack placed a hand on Lumina's shoulder and frowned "Uh, Lumina? Are you feeling ok?" Lumina suddenly squeaked and looked around, we were all staring at her with worried looks. She began blushing in embarrassment and quickly fled the seating area. Now everyone was ether looking at me weird, or my shoulder. "Uh…." Crow began when I quickly threw my head into my hands "Don't ask me! I don't know! I don't WANT to know!"
Obelisk The Tormentor
Atk: 4000
Def: 4000
Ryder sweatdropped and chuckled nervously. "Am I screwed when we meet up with her?" "Yes, yes you are." I confirmed, hastily scribbling things down in my black book. Ryder seemed to be debating something before finally shrugging "Ah well, could be worse. Shall we finish?" As I nodded, he suddenly pointed at me and smirked "Obelisk the tormentor! Attack Gyzarus with your fists of fury!" Obelisk suddenly threw a punch with his overly large hands, which were suddenly wrapped in a sinister red and black aura. The punch connected, which was really no surprise considering how freaking HUGE THE FIST WAS, and flattened Gyzarus before it shattered and became dust. Strangely, I noticed that the ground cracked beneath Obelisk's fist. I braced myself as the sudden shockwave hit me.
Kira Thantos: 400
Storm Ryder: 3600
" It's over Kira. I end my turn." I instantly snapped a card up from my disk "Draw!" Looks like its over. "I set one card face down and end my turn!" Ryder grinned as he drew "Time to end this duel! It's been fun Kira!" He threw his arm towards me and grinned "Obelisk the tormentor! ATTACK KIRA DIRECTLY WITH FISTS OF FURY!"
Obelisk nodded and reared back to throw his final punch when I suddenly thrust my arm out. "I reveal my trap card! Ring of destruction! I can destroy one monster on the field and inflict damage to both of us equal to its attack points! I destroy the only monster on the field…..OBELISK THE TORMENTOR!" "But that means-" I heard Ryder exclaim as Obelisks fist suddenly rammed into a giant ring that had suddenly appeared, and detonated at the moment of contact.
Kira Thantos: 0
Storm Ryder: 0
"ARRRRRRRRRRGH!"
"WAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Both Ryder and I were thrown backwards and slammed into the walls behind us by the shockwave that resulted from ring of destruction. The pain felt so real! My entire body was screaming as darkness suddenly clouded my vision and my eyes slowly closed.
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I suddenly awoke to find myself in a large dark room. Cards littered the floor and blood ran down parts of the walls around me. "Um, where am I?" I muttered looking around the room. Suddenly, a feeling ran through me. A feeling that I couldn't recall, yet felt all too familiar.
"You are in a coma right now. I brought your subconscience here."
I quickly spun around and saw a woman smiling at me. She had silver hair VERY similar to mine, but it flowed all the way down her back and ended at her thighs. Her blue eyes seemed to display an aura of affection and kindness. She even wore a similar black coat like mine, but hers had blue lines going down the edges of her sleeves. That familiar feeling suddenly got a lot stronger as I gazed into her eyes. I blinked.
"You're hot."
The woman suddenly blushed and broke into a fit of giggles. "You never change. Even with most of your memories erased, you're still the man I know." Double-take. Memories erased? She knew me? "Do I know you? There's this feeling of familiarity inside me when I look at you." She slowly stopped her fit and smiled again "My name is Yukino. And yes, you do…DID know me. The mind may not remember but the spirit and the body does. We knew something like this would happen when they sent you back. Look's like an unexpected anomaly has occurred however…."
I suddenly felt control over my body leave me as I gave her a warm smile "I'm afraid of my Evil Heroes." I watched myself say. She nodded, frowned, and struck a thinking pose "You were supposed to have fought one of the members of Yiliaster already and defeated him with your Evil Heroes, but it looks like things have changed. Looks like that girl Lumina and the god cards have created a branched timeline."
Control suddenly reverted back to me and looked at my hands "What the hell was that? It's like I wasn't in control of myself!" Yukino nodded "That's just your spirit from the future melding with your present spirit. That's normal, don't worry about it. Right now we have to do something about your fear of the Evil Heroes. You will not be able to defeat Yiliaster without them." "But I was able to use them against that stalker who was after Akiza a while ago! Granted, my hands were shaking, but I still used them!"
She smiled "That was your will overpowering the memory of you killing me with them." I sweatdropped.
"She says with a smile. So it was you. I have this memory of me killing a friend with them a long time ago, yet I don't have any other memories of before I came to New Domino City." Wait….Oh please no! I facepalmmed and groaned "This is similar to Lumina isn't it? I went back in time didn't I?"
Yukino laughed "That's my husband. Always figuring things out quickly with barely any help at all."
Triple-take and look of shock.
"HUSBAND?" I almost yelled in shock. Yukino suddenly pulled me into a hug. "My full name is Yukino Maria Thantos. You are my husband, and I am your wife. We got married at the same time Yusei and Akiza Fudo did." BACK UP! "Yusei marries Akiza? When did that dog work up the nerve to propose, I wonder…."
Yukino suddenly looked up and frowned again "Oops, you're almost at the hospital. We better make this quick. Ryder's already awake." The memory of our duel suddenly hit me like a ton of bricks. "Which begs the next question, what the hell was up with that shockwave? The pain was so real and I was actually thrown into a freaking metal wall!"
She sighed and slowly rubbed her forehead "It seems that a second anomaly occurred during your duel. Ryder has just awoken as a psychic duelist. He never had psychic powers in our timeline, which I assume is stemming from the anomaly of your fear of the Evil Heroes." Wow. All this because I'm afraid of some cards? I'm strangely alright with that…
"Soooo, what now? Is this like one of those things where you give me some words of wisdom and poof away, which I then suddenly awaken and am instantly NOT afraid of my cards anymore?"
"Dummy." She said with a smile as she punched my head lightly. I noticed a duel disk appear on her wrist.
"We duel. You must cast away your fears and duel me with your Evil Heroes." At her words, my hands suddenly began shaking. "I don't really have a choice do I?" She smiled and shook her head. "This is totally going to sound dumb when I explain this to the others…" I muttered activating my disk.
"LET'S BURN IT UP!" We suddenly shouted in unison.
Kira Thantos: 8000
Yukino Thantos: 8000
"I'll start us off! I draw!" Karista yelled a little TOO excitedly. Not that I'm one to talk. The excited feeling of dueling her flooded my body. We must have dueled quite a bit in the future/past. My heart was racing!
"I'll summon Elemental Hero Lady Heat!" A tower of fire erupted and a woman in flaming armor stepped out and winked.
Elemental Hero Lady Heat
Atk: 1300
Def: 1000
"Now I activate the spell Hero's Bond! Since I have an Elemental Hero on the field, I can special summon two level 4 or lower Elemental Heroes! Come on out! Elemental Heroes Burstinatrix and Bubbleman!"
Elemental Hero Burstinatrix
Atk: 1200
Def: 800
Elemental Hero Bubbleman
Atk: 800
Def: 1200
Two more Heroes joined Lady Heat in a flash of light. One was a pale-skinned woman dressed in a skin-tight suit. That other was…a flying squirt-gun. Yep, that's how I'm describing him! END OF STORY! "Now I'll set one card face-down. During my end phase you will take 200 damage for each Elemental Hero I control." Since she has three heroes, I'll be taking 600 points of damage! Lady Heat suddenly winked at me before blasting me with a flaming orb.
Kira Thantos: 7400
Yukino Thantos: 8000
"I now end my turn!" My hand began shaking as it drew closer to the deck. "I know you can overcome this!" She cheered. My hand touched the top card and I bit my lip. "I draw!"
My shaking hand gripped one of the cards in the hand holder "I special summon Evil Hero Infernal Prodigy! I can special summon him when I have no monsters on my side of the field!" The tiny demon appeared from a dark vortex and flexed his muscles. Moot really considering that he's really weak…
Evil Hero Infernal Prodigy
Atk: 300
Def: 600
To both me and Karista's surprise, Infernal Prodigy suddenly turned to me and smirked "Well, Well. Look who it is! If it isn't the punk who killed his own wife! Same person, different time!" I winced at his words. They stabbed hard. "Back off! I tribute Infernal Prodigy to tribute summon Evil Hero Malicious Edge!" Infernal Prodigy grunted as a clawed hand suddenly tore through his body and ripped him to shreds. In his place stood the familiar blue armored demon with dagger-like claws.
Evil Hero Malicious Edge
Atk: 2600
Def: 1800
I noticed Edge smirk evilly at me but he didn't say anything….yet. "I attack with Malicious Edge! Attack Lady Heat with diamond nail shower!" Edge frowned at me but launched a large group of shards at the flaming woman anyway. Every shard impaled her and destroyed Lady Heat in an instant.
Kira Thantos: 7400
Karista Thantos: 6700
"In response! Reverse trap on! Heroes Counterattack!" The card behind Burstinatrix suddenly lifted and began glowing.
"When an Elemental Hero is destroyed by battle, you must select one random card from my hand. If it's an Elemental Hero, I get to destroy one of your monsters and special summon the Elemental Hero from my hand!" Damn! There's only one card in her hand! "I pick your only card!" She smiled and revealed her card. She then slapped it down onto her disk "By the effect of Counterattack, I special summon Elemental Hero Bladedge!"
This time a warrior plated in golden armor jumped out of the vortex of light.
Elemental Hero Bladedge
Atk: 2600
Def: 1800
"Now for Counterattacks second part! I choose to destroy Evil Hero Malicious Edge!" Edge was suddenly hit by millions of ice shards and exploded into tiny particles. "Ugh, I throw down 2 cards and during my end phase,
Since I tributed Infernal Prodigy to summon a 'Hero', I can draw a card." I drew and sighed "End of turn."
"I draw!" Yukino shouted grabbing a card. "At this time! Direct attack with three heroes!" The instant she pointed at me, all three of her heroes leaped forward. Burstinatrix blasted my with her flames, Bubbleman came from above with a sudden water jet attack, and Bladedge finished with a punch to my gut.
Kira Thantos: 2800
Yukino Thantos: 6700
Is…..this it for me? I cannot afford to lose here! "I draw!"
Ryder PoV
"But why can't I see him?" Let's recap. Last thing I remember was dueling Kira in the stadium. I had summoned my god, Obelisk the Tormentor and was about to win, when Kira had suddenly activated Ring of Destruction making our duel a draw. The shockwave from the blast had SOMEHOW thrown both of us off our feet and into metal walls behind us. Next thing I know, I wake up inside a hospital room. After numerous, and admittedly dull, explanations for what had happened, I find out that Kira was in a coma in the room across from mine.
"There he is!"
I turned away from the doctor and found hell screaming towards me. "YOU. IDIOT!" Lumina screamed tackling me to the ground. She then began shaking/strangling me "Do you realize what you've done? We're going to be hounded by the media! EVERYONE who was there saw you summon Obelisk!"
"*Yawn* Whuzzat? Oh, it's Lumina. Wassup?" Chibi Obelisk looked up from my coat pocket and gave a lazy wave in Lumina's direction. "Chill girly. This might actually work in our favor." Slifer suddenly appeared next to Obelisk with a poof. "And how is that?" Lumina growled, glaring daggers at Slifer. "Yiliaster will have to sit up and take notice after seeing what happened. Unless they're REALLY lazy that is…." He replied glancing in Obelisk's direction. Obelisk yawned and shrugged "With luck, they will come to try and defeat us, while simultaneously trying to get us to complete the circuit. This may be our chance to defeat them here and now. *yawns*" With those words of wisdom, Obelisk curled into a ball, rolled back into my coat pocket…and fell asleep. What a trooper.
"But Yusei and his friends saw Obelisk too! You KNOW they're going to have questions and expect answers!" Lumina exclaimed glaring at the sleeping Obelisk and the chuckling Slifer.
"Lumina!" Wow! What timing!
Akiza, Yusei, Jack, and Crow walked towards us, grim looks on their faces. "Yo! What's up guys?" I said with a smile and a wave. Lumina glared at Slifer again before attempting to head the four off. "Hey Akiza. Yusei."
"Don't 'Hey' me, Lumina! What the hell happened? Storm Ryder, what was that monster?" Using- Yusei gently placed a hand on Akiza's shoulder and shook his head "Relax Akiza. I'm sure he'll answer as many questions as possible when Kira wakes up." Akiza suddenly gasped, as if a light bulb went on in her head, and turned to the doctor "How's Kira? Is he ok?"
The doc shrugged and dismissed the nurse behind him. "We….don't know exactly. He appears to be in a coma…as far as we can tell." Akiza growled at the Doc "And just WHAT is that supposed to mean?" The doc flinched a bit at her tone, but continued "Well…."
"DOCTOR!"
The door to Kira's room was suddenly thrown open and a nurse bolted out. She quickly stopped in front of the doctor, fear and surprise all over her face. "Something's wrong!" Akiza didn't seem to need much more than that, as she shoved both doctor and nurse out of the way and ran into Kira's room.
All kinds of things were wrong. The monitors were going haywire, his heart seemed to be slowing down, and the life point counter on his duel disk was going down! Wait….WHAT? I quickly moved to his disk and watched as the LP counter sudden went from 8000 to 7400 to 2800 in a few seconds! "Is his duel disk malfunctioning?" I wondered aloud, attracting Yusei's attention "Whoa, that can't mean anything good."
NO DUH!
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Kira PoV
Was this the luck of the draw? Or something else entirely?
"Come on Kira! I know you can get out of this! You always have in the past!" Yukino cheered. Which really felt awkward considering she was my opponent. "I intend to! From my hand I activate the spell Dark Hole!" A black hole suddenly erupted between us and the heroes were quickly sucked in. "That's my husband." Yukino said with a smile, completely unfazed by the destruction of her monsters. "I'm not done yet! I activate Monster Reborn in order to bring back Evil Hero Malicious edge back from the grave!"
A small orb suddenly appeared in front of me. It then cracked open revealing Malicious Edge, who gave a mighty cry.
"Come on kid. Play IT. You know you want to…" "Shut up! I also normal summon Evil Hero Infernal Gainer!" The black and red armored demon sprung up from a small black vortex and sneered at me. "Oh, it's you."
Evil Hero Infernal Gainer
Atk: 1600
Def: 0
"I activate Infernal gainers effect! By removing his from play for two turns I can allow Malicious Edge to attack twice!" Infernal Gainer suddenly stabbed Malicious Edge and began transferring some kind of dark energy before fading into darkness. "You're pathetic! Quit stalling and show her our TRUE power!" Dark sinister voices began speaking in my head. I couldn't make any of them out as they continued to grow louder and louder. "SHUT UP! DIRECT ATTACK NOW!" I snarled pointing at my wife. Malicious Edge 'hmphed' and sprung into action. He stabbed her with one claw while firing multiple shards with the other at point blank range.
Kira Thantos: 2800
Yukino Thantos: 1500
"…I end. Your move." The voices began receding but a sickening feeling remained.
"Overcome your fears and don't hold back! Unleash your potential or you will never come back." Yukino sighed as she drew. She took one look at her card and smiled "Well, I got nothing. Your turn." She then flung her arms out and said "Please Kira! You know what you have to do!"
Malicious Edge smirked and motioned to me "Sorry lady, but this kid couldn't stop us from killing you the first time. What makes you think he can stop us now? Dark Gaia will posses him again and you will die…AGAIN!" As if on cue, a black shade shot out of my disk and enveloped me. Pain shot through me as I felt control of my body leave again, and my hand suddenly began reaching for a card. "I draw." My voice was totally different from the norm! "Dark Gaia." I acknowledged mentally. A dark laugh echoed in my mind. "Hey kid. We meet again. Still think you can control us?" I shrugged and grinned "Sorry, that's the FUTURE Kira's thinking, not mine. But honestlty…" I then smirked "I had a feeling this would happen eventually, did you really think I wouldn't be prepared?" Dark Gaia made my body sneer and laugh evilly "Hear that Yukino? The kid think's he planned ahead!" My hand slapped the card I just drew down "I activate Dark Fusion! I'll send Evil Hero Malicious Edge from the field and Granmarg The Rock Monarch from my hand to the graveyard, in order to fusion summon…." Both monsters were suddenly sucked into a giant vortex behind me. "ME! EVIL HERO DARK GAIA!"
From the vortex he came, white armor and everything.
Evil Hero Dark Gaia
Atk: ?
Def: 0
"My attack power becomes the total combined attack points of the monsters used to summon me!"
Malicious Edge had 2600 attack points while Granmarg had 2400….5000? "Come on….." I suddenly began struggling against the darkness controlling me and managed to break free for a split second, which was all I needed! "Not gonna happen Dark Gaia! With your summoning, I activate one of my facedowns! De-Fusion! I know that a monster summoned by Dark fusion cannot be targeted by my opponent's effects, but what about my own?" "WHAT? NO!" Dark Gaia began twisting and contorting until he shattered into a million pieces. Granmarg and Malicious Edge suddenly appeared on my side in his place. "And if both monsters used as materials are in the graveyard, I can special summon them to my side of the field."
"….Very well then, I'll ALLOW you to keep your mind this time. Just remember, ether of us can become the horse and the king at any moment. If you falter even slightly, I'll throw you off and take over." "That won't ever happen. I promise." I finished as the darkness retreated into my deck. Yukino smiled at my display "Well done Kira."
I returned her smile and remembered something I said to her in our timeline. "Dueling without regrets. There's no such thing as absolute victory or absolute defeat, as long as you enjoy everything in between. Not relying on someone else's power to protect you, yet working together to win over all. THIS is Kira Thantos. This…is who I am! DIRECT ATTACK ON YUKINO THANTOS! GO MALCIOUS EDGE! DIAMOND NAIL SHOWER!"
Malicious Edge instantly snapped to it, realizing he had little choice now that his master wasn't in control. He sprang into the air and showered shards upon her, wiping out her remaining life points.
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Ryder PoV
Today was definitely a strange day. First our duel, then the haywire machines and duel disk. And now everything just randomly shut down. The lights on the machines and the room went off all except for Kira's duel disk, which kept flashing the word WIN.
"Okay….this is getting a little TOO weird." Crow randomly said, breaking the sudden silence. "I'll say…" I muttered watching the disk flash before shutting down. "What's next? Everything turning back on?" There was a sudden 'whirr' and everything immediately turned back on. Everyone instantly turned to me with surprised looks. "…Visiting hours are over…" The doctor mumbled before suddenly gaining a ton of confidence and shooed everyone out of the room.
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"So what was with that line you pulled at the end of our duel?"
We were now on a grassy hill overlooking New Domino City. Considering that there weren't any such hills that I knew of, I assumed this was our future. "I said it to you. In our time." I groaned and sat down underneath a tree. My back felt like it was about to snap in half. Yukino chuckled and sat down next to me "I see. I don't suppose you remember WHEN you said that in our time?" I had to laugh a bit "'Our time'… feels so strange saying that, yet at the same time I feel like I could say it a million times and never get tired of it."
Yukino nodded and laughed "You never change." She then adopted a serious frown "So I guess you might have a few questions now…." I nodded and mimicked her frown. "When am I waking up from this…dream?" Almost on cue, she socked me in the jaw with her fist.
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Middle of the night. 12:29pm
I bolted up-right in the bed of what appeared to be the hospital. "THE HECK WAS THAT FOR?" I looked left and right and found no Yukino. I DID ask… I guess she answered. I looked around for my duel disk and found it next to my bed. The word WIN, flashed repeatedly until I turned it off "Heh, looks like it wasn't a dream ether." I chuckled. I was about to set my alternate deck in when I remembered our duel, and pulled out my Evil Heroes.
"King and horse, huh?" I pulled Dark Gaia out and stared at it for a couple seconds before setting it back into the deck and placing the deck next to my disk. That's when I saw…another deck? It sat behind the card zone of my disk, hidden away from any doctors that might have randomly looked at it. It couldn't be….
"Hey kid. Finally awake?" Oh yeah, I forgot about Slifer.
The small Holo-Chibi dragon sat next to my disk with a smirk. "Bout damn time." "So what have I missed?" I asked grabbing the deck and my Evil Hero deck. Slifer shrugged "Not much. Lumina went a bit crazy for a bit and strangled Ryder. The chick with the wide shoulders….Akiza, and her group came to visit. Oh and the machines in here went haywire for a bit." "All in all, a one hundred percent normal day for me." I replied swapping cards. Slifer stared at me for a few seconds before settling back down "Idiot."
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Ryder PoV
"Thanks Lumina. See you tomorrow." It was getting a bit late, so I decided to say good bye and left the ramen stand. Of course, today was NOT a normal day for me. This was evident when I got to my apartment and found a kid in white robes grinning like a madman at me.
*Yawns* So many nights spent on this.
Free DP for whoever wants's it, yada yada yada.
Sorry Wild Fang, I planned on doing the Lester duel in this chapter but the mindscape duel took up most of the chapter. I'll make it up to you for making you wait by making this and the next chapter longer than usual. Again, DP up for grabs in my not-real store. I'm slowing down a bit on the uploads. Better speed up a bit.
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