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Chapter 10: Shadows, Mists and Secrets
Ryan's POV
We managed to get the last of the seven legendary numbers, but that still didn't make us feel better. After our return from the last number ruins, Shark and I quickly took Rio straight to the hospital and made up a story to the doctors saying that Rio fell and hit her head hard and won't wake up. We would be back on the road to get the legendary number back from Vector but for now we all had to take a break. As for my brother and I, were at the hospital a day after the incident at the last ruins. I just stood near the door way as Shark was near Rio's hospital bed.
"Ryan are you okay?" Dine asked as I looked at her.
"I should've been there in the first place with them Dine. Wondering if it would all make a difference." I said.
"I know Ryan." Dine said. "I wonder too if we were sent to the number ruins instead of ours." She said. "You know I'm worried about her too right?" She asked as I nodded. There was one more thing that was on my mind, seeing Shark and Rio in the past. I tried to get it out of my mind but I had a feeling my family and I were connected to this whole legends stuff. The worst was the thought of Shark and Rio being the last two barians.
I hope I was wrong that. If they were I would be split down the middle whether to side with my brother and sister and the rest of Barian World, or stay on the side of Yuma, Astral and the friends that I have made, and have to fight along against them.
"Reginald…Ryan…" I then heard Rio muttered as I snapped back to reality and ran to my brother's side to look down at our sister. "Darkness." She muttered as we both looked at each other confused. "Yuma, the darkness, it's all around!" She yelled.
"Rio, what do you mean by darkness?" I asked her.
"The darkness is here." She said before falling back to sleep. Shark and I looked at each other and nodded. Shark then ran out the door as I was about to follow but I stopped and looked back at our sleeping sister. I approached the bed and peaked her on her cheek.
"Rio, I hope you wake up soon." I whispered.
"Ryan come on!" I heard Shark call out as I exited out of the room. When we got out of the hospital we looked up to see the sky completely cloudy as we got onto his bike and searched from Yuma. As we rode we finally spotted him along with Tori and Astral.
"Yuma!" Shark said as he got off as I followed. "Yuma are you alright?" He asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine but why?" Yuma asked, but before Shark could answer strange dark particles began raining from the sky. Tori as well as I reached out to see what they were only to have them touch us and shock us.
"Ow!" I said as the black particles stung me.
"Ryan, you okay?" Shark asked as I nodded. Then the sky above us began to roar as we both looked up. "Hey guys, look up." Shark said as we looked up at the sky and heard an evil laugh.
"It is him." Astral said as I had a feeling who him was. We then felt a strange force pull us. "The power Number 96 possess a power that we haven't faced before." We then began to glow as we were then sucked up and transported away.
"Hey Ryan, you okay?" I heard Shark's voice as opened my eyes.
"Yeah, I'm okay." I said as he helps me up on my feet as I looked to see everyone was here including Kite and Orbital.
"So where is here?" Yuma asked as we observed our surroundings. Several red crystals surrounded us as we saw that we were on a huge one. We then heard an evil laugh as we all looked up to see Number 96 in his barian form descending.
"Well look who it is, Yuma and Astral." He said as he landed right in front of us. "I see you brought some friends along, though I didn't invite you you're welcome to stay." He said. "I will take your numbers and dispose of you, but you'll have to wait your turn." He said as I wanted to give him a piece of my mind but Shark held me back and shook his head as I understood.
"So you're the one causing havoc in both our worlds." Astral said.
"Yes I am." Dark Mist said as his eyes glowed and a projection of another world appeared from right under us as it was being bombarded. "But I am not just destroying your worlds, but my power is destroying barian's as well." He said as we all gasped.
"You're trying to destroy all our worlds?" Astral asked as Dark Mist simply nodded.
"Why would you do that?" Yuma asked.
"Because I can, and it's to bad you won't be around to see any of it." Dark Mist responded.
"We all better be careful." Shark said. "This guy means business."
"Now we can have that rematch, so say goodbye to your friends." Dark Mist said as a an all too familiar sphere surrounded him, Astral and Yuma.
"A barian sphere field." I said. "Now Yuma and Astral will have to be extra careful." Just then energy bursts began to strike at both Yuma and Astral.
"Oh no!" Tori cried out. Soon Yuma had both his d-pad and d-gazer on as we put on ours and the duel began. Out of the gate Dark Mist managed to summon his card self to the field and immediately played the Barian's Force spell card turning his number into a chaos number, Dark Storm. But Yuma on his first turn wasn't far behind as he summoned out Utopia and used Numeron's Force turning it into a chaos number, Chaos Number 39: Utopia Ray Victory. However Yuma's plan back fired as Dark Mist was one step ahead taking away all of Utopia Ray Victory's chaos overlay units and adding a field spell to his hand from his deck. Then on Dark Mist's second turn he activated the field spell as a huge spears of crystals surrounded them as the sphere field disappeared. But to make matters worse thanks to his field spell's special ability, by using a chaos overlay unit from his Dark Storm, he summoned a Number from Yuma's deck and it was one of Vectrix's former number, Heraldry Crest. Then activating the field spell Chaos Field's effect his turned it into a chaos number forming Heraldry Crest of Horror.
"Hello ugly." I muttered to myself as the duel went on. Thanks to Hearldry Crest of Horror's special ability to steal all of Yuma's number's attack, defense points and special abilities. "Aw man, if Crest of Horror's attack hits both Yuma and Astral are done for." I said. But Yuma as always had a few tricks up his sleeves. First by activating his face down trap Number Spell Caster, he tribute his number activating a spell card from his deck and he made a very smart choice by choosing Swords of Burning Light spell card because with it Dark Mist couldn't attack with his monsters.
"Great move by Yuma." Kite said.
"I agree but how long can he keep this up." Shark said as I then looked over to Tori who had the same worried look she always had when he dueled.
"Hey Tori." I said as she looked at me. "Don't worry, Yuma is going to be alright." She then smiled at me and nodded as we turned our attention back to the duel. On Yuma's next turn he placed a card face down. "Yuma must be planning something big." I said. Then it went back to Dark Mist as he used his field spell's ability to use up another of his chaos number's overlay unit to summon this time one of Kite's father's former number, Heart-eartH Dragon. Then he used his Chaos Field to turn Heart-eartH Dragon into a chaos monster, Heart-eartH Chaos Dragon. And to make things worse, thanks to his dragon's ability all of Yuma's cards were rendered useless. Just to add on Yuma seemed to be zoned out for a moment and the next moment not knowing where he was.
"It must be the power of the sphere field and all of those energy shocks." Kite pointed out as we all then felt worried. The turn of Dark Mist continued as he commanded Crest of Horror to attack for a one hit since it had four thousand attack points. But Yuma wouldn't give up as he summoned out Gagaga Gardna and used its special ability, sending his Bacon Saver monster to the graveyard to protect it. But he still took damage as he now had only fifteen hundred life points left.
"Yuma, Astral no!" Tori cried out.
"Come on you two, hang in there." I said as Dark Mist continued to attack with his Dark Storm monster attacking, and by using its chaos overlay unit, he zapped all of its attack points and send them into his monster. But Yuma was one step ahead again removing Bacon Saver to not take any damage. Then Dark Mist's dragon attacked and destroyed his Gardna as Yuma was now down to five hundred life points. Then thanks to his Chaos Dragon's effect, he gained life points equal to the damage Yuma took. With all the damage Yuma took he fell down as Astral took over.
"Yuma, please get up." Tori said again but Yuma didn't so Astral took over. But it was still Dark Mist's turn as he played the spell card Number Karma so that at the end of Astral's turn he takes five hundred points of damage.
"You mean it's all over, just like that." I said.
"Not yet Ryan," Kite said as I looked at him. "Not unless Astral has something up his sleeves." Soon it was Astral's turn as he activated the trap Yuma set, Number Retrun.
"So will he go with Heart-eartH?" Kite asked.
"Or Heraldry Crest?" Shark asked.
"I think Astral may pick Utopia." I said as Astral chose the number I called was right. Also thanks to his trap cards special ability he used both Heraldry Crest and Heart-eartH as Utopia's overlay units.
"Great job Astral." We heard Yuma's voice. "We have always believed Utopia as he believes in us just like right now."
"Well I believe that putting your faith and in friendship, leads to suspicion, jealousy and betrayal." He said. "Just forget about all that nonsense, look at me" He said as he extended himself out to show Astral. "I never needed anyone else, I have all the power that I need."
"Having friends isn't nonsense!" Yuma yelled out. "Having friends is part of a team, parting of something bigger and that makes everyone better. Its makes them be stronger." He said as Astral looked at him and smiled just then both of them began to glow as all of us smiled to see ZEXAL II. He then overlaid his Utopia to chaos xyz summon Utopia Ray. But then Dark Mist activated his trap card Number Lockdown, negating Utopia Ray's effects, not letting it attack and being destroyed on the end of the turn.
"And with that Dark Mist's other card's effect can knock Yuma out." I said.
"Meaning Yuma has to think of something fast." Kite said. Yuma then activated xyz treasure to draw for each xyz monster and performed a shining draw to draw the cards he needed. He then played Utopian Hope to stop any of Dark Mist's cards that targeted Utopia Ray and destroyed his Number Lockdown since it targeted it. Then by activating Utopia Ray's effect three times to make its power to be increased to four thousand and targeted Crest of Horror to make it loose one thousand for each overlay unit used as it now was reduced to one thousand. He then summoned Sleipnir Mail, attaching it to Utopia Ray to increase its attack power equal to his monster it was equipped with.
Then Yuma used his spell card Overtake to use one of Dark Mist's xyz monster's overlay unit to summon another monster as he summoned Asura Strke giving it more attack power as it was now up to six thousand and attack all three of his monsters.
"Now this is the end of Dark Mist." I said. Yuma attacked destroying Heart-eartH Chaos Dragon, and then Heraldry Crest of Horror. "Hold on I forgot one thing." I said remembering the last time Dark Storm was attacked. "When its attacked, both will take the same amount of damage." I said. But thanks to Zexal Weapon-Seleipnir Mail, he changed his monster to match Dark Storm.
"But that will destroy both monsters." Shark said as Yuma attacked and both Dark Storm and Utopia Ray was gone.
"Now to see if Yuma can do something." Kite said. "Because if not Number Karma will knock them both out." Yuma then activated the other effect of his Seleipnir Mail to summon out his Utopia from the graveyard.
"Now it's all over." Shark said as Utopia attacked Dark Mist as his life points dropped to zero.
"They did it, they won!" Tori cheered.
"Astral!" Dark Mist roared as we looked at him. "You may have won the duel but I still have enough to destroy you." He said as he turned into a crimson light of energy and aimed it for Yuma and Astral still in Zexal mode. Just then they glowed as they separated as Astral took the hit as we all gasped. "Yuma now your friend can't help you anymore." He said as we could see the dark spot from before return as Dark Mist looked to destroy him by any means.
"Yuma…" Astral said. "It will be okay." He said as he began to glow brightly as the light that came from him was blinding but it all faded as we could see a hole where Astral was and he was fading in and out. "Yuma I am glad you are safe." He said. "I am glad you have showed me what it means to be a true friend but now I must go, so take care of the numbers." He said as we then saw Astral disappear.
"No, he can't be disappearing." I said with tears streaming down my face. We then saw Yuma's pendent fly off as it disappeared into the whole. We were all then transported back home as we were all still in shock.
"He's gone!" Yuma shouted as he began to sob as I couldn't help but sob myself. We had all lost a great friend.
Next time on Barian Wars Legends and Myths: Ryan is staying with Rio when both he and Rio are attacked and are now poisoned! However the mermails rescue Ryan as they sent him on a quest to find a cure for both him and Rio. But it won't be easy as he will face his worst fears. Can Ryan save himself and Rio in time? Next time on Legends and Myths: Poisonous Fears.
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