"I should have guessed you would be next Aporia." Zone said. "I'm not going to lose though."
"We'll see, the last time we dueled I didn't use this deck." Aporia said. "The gates have opened."
"Let's duel." said Aporia and Zone simultaneously.
Zone 4000 Aporia 4000: "I'll start, and I play the field spell, The Gates of Dark World." Aporia said. "Next I play Dark World Dealings, so we both discard one card, and then draw one card."
"Great, with Dark World monsters, being able to discard them is a huge benefit." Zone said nervously.
"Exactly, so now I summon Goldd, Wu-Lord of Dark World in attack mode." Aporia said calmly. "Now I end my move with two facedown cards."
"In that case it's my move, so first I play Naturia's Cycle. This card allows me to once per round send a Naturia monster from my deck to my hand, my hand to the field, the field to my graveyard, or the graveyard back to my deck." Zone said.
"So you can infinitely recycle cards, that should be interesting." Aporia said calmly.
"There's more, I use Naturia's Cycle to summon Naturia Pineapple, and next I sacrifice him to summon Naturia Bamboo Shoot." Zone said. "You know what this card does."
"Yes I do, your grandmother used those cards." Aporia said. (1) "Now I can't play any magic or trap cards, at least until I destroy Bamboo Shoot."
"I end my move by setting two cards facedown, that ends my move." Zone said calmly.
"In that case it's my turn, so first I'll take advantage of the one loophole of your card, I can still use the effect of my field spell, so now I'll remove Zure, Knight of Dark World from play in order to discard my favorite monster, and draw one card,." Aporia said. "Now, I'll return Goldd to my hand in order to call Grapha, Dragon Lord of Dark World."
"That's not good." Zone said nervously as his Naturia Bamboo Shoot was destroyed.
"Now, I think I'll attack you directly." Aporia said calmly.
"Not so fast, I play the trap card Natural Tuning." Zone said. "This card is similar to Urgent Tuning, but I can tune from the graveyard instead, the price is the monsters I use are removed from play, so now I synchro summon Naturia Leodrake."
"Not bad, normally that would assure both our monsters get destroyed leaving me open on your next turn, however in this case I have a facedown card, Dark World Aura, this decreases Leodrake's attack points by the attack points of a Dark World Monster on my field, so now Leodrake loses 3000 attack points." Aporia said.
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"This is bad, Zone's about to take a huge amount of damage, and that thing is too powerful to beat." Jack said.
"Not necessarily, it's entirely possible that Zone can win in the next turn." Paradox said. "If he's holding the two cards I think he is this duel is as good as done."
"Wait, what are you talking about, Grapha has 3000 attack points." Crow said. "Even if Zone brings back Leodrake somehow there's no way he can win this turn, and Aporia can bring out Goldd on his next turn."
"You forgot, that's the same deck his grandmother used, and it has one secret weapon." Antinomy said calmly. "Zone can win."
"Well I hope so, otherwise the whole world will be destroyed." Leo said nervously.
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"Grapha, destroy Naturia Leodrake." Aporia said. "That ends my move."
Zone 1000 Aporia 4000: "It's my move, so now I can end this duel." Zone said calmly.
"What are you talking about, there isn't a card in your deck that can defeat me at this point." Aporia said calmly.
"Your right, there isn't a single card that can beat you, but I'm holding the two that can." Zone said. "I start by activating Wrath of Nature, this card automatically destroys every other card on the field."
"Wait, you can't be serious." Aporia said nervously. "You aren't holding that card are you?"
"I am, and you know what that means for this duel." Zone said. "I summon Naturia Roses, now I can take the attack points of every monster that's been removed from play and that becomes the attack points of Naturia Roses."
"I know, and because of the monsters you used to summon Leodrake, Naturia Roses has enough attack points to end this duel." Aporia said. "You beat me, fair and square."
"Aporia, one more duel and you'll all be safe." Zone said as the KotN enveloped Aporia in an orb of darkness.
"How fitting, the final battle is about to begin." the KotN said calmly.
"Not yet, first I want to talk with Star." Zone said. "Until our duel is over neither side wins."
"It's been way too long Zone, I know what you were trying to do and I have to say thanks for trying." Star said.
"I know, I promised our parents that I'd help you, and this is the last thing I need to do." Zone said. "Star, make me a promise alright?"
"I was about to ask you the same thing little brother, we don't need to say anything do we?" Star said with a smile.
"No, I guess we don't." Zone said putting the Rose Star cards back into his duel disc.
"Well, considering that either way this is the final duel, why don't we let the others watch as well." the KotN said just before the nine floating orbs burst apart freeing the people inside them.
"Yusei, it's good to see you're alright pal." Crow said.
"Yeah, the same for you Crow." Yusei said.
"This isn't the time for the reunion, save that for when Zone wins this duel." Jack said.
"If he wins, when Star and Zone duel, the winner could literally be either of them." Paradox said. "In fact, the last time they dueled it ended in a draw."
"That's true, Sephiron, all because of one card that Star has in her deck." Aporia said. "One card that Zone has never beaten."
(Aporia has lost to Zone, and now the final duel is about to begin. Next chapter the duel between Star Fudo, and Zone Fudo will start. As always any reviews or critique is appreciated.)
(1) (The idea for Yusei's mother, or Zone's grandmother to use Naturia cards comes from Shimmering-Sky.)