Chapter 10: Half of the Full Power Arises

"Boy, are you going to finish your move so I can win this already?" Andron asked as Kiro stood motionless staring at the card he drew.

"Fine. Don't you worry Andron I will win this duel and you will be out of my way." Kiro snapped back as he twirled the cards in his hand around. "First I summon Gravekeeper Kiro in face up defense mode (1800/1100)." Kiro announced as the buffed up gravekeeper version of himself appeared crouching over it's card in front of him. "He let me pull Necrovalley from anywhere and place it on the field!" Kiro announced as the large stone walls of the valley flew passed him and covered the field in it's magic once again (2300/1600).

"Good move. I see you have uncovered at least a fourth of you hidden power." Andron smirked as a large gust of wind flew down the valley walls.

"A fourth of my power?" Kiro asked.

"Yes, a fourth. You will discover the other parts eventually if you are the one." Andron answered back to Kiro.

"Fine, whatever." Kiro growled as he slid a card behind his card version of himself. "I set one card face down and end."

"Draw!" Andron yelled snapping a card off his deck. "I summon Ultimate Baseball Kid (500/1000) in attack mode." Andron bellowed as a red suited kid waving a spiky bat appeared on the field. It looked like a baseball player in his uniform. "He gain 1000 attack for every fire monster on the field (1500/1000). I can now finish this. Go Infernal Flame Emperor using Eternal Flame wipe out his last defense!" The large flaming monster roared as it formed it's fire ball in its massive hands again.

"Andron is set into the finishing position." Salacia announced to the rest of the council.

"So he has won?" A male voice asked from one of the robed figures.

"Not yet. He is attacking for the final though." Salacia answered.

"Let's hope this is not the end." The raspy voice replied.

The fire ball screamed across the field and incinerated Gravekeeper Kiro on contact. Smoke flew up off the spot where the monster once kneeled.

"KIRO!" Kaira yelled from the ground as Andron pointed to Kiro.

"Attack Ultimate Baseball Kid!" Andron bellowed. The baseball warrior monster threw a small base ball sized fireball into the air then hit it with its bat.

"Reveal trap Rite of Spirit!" Kiro bellowed as his trap flipped up. "I summon back Gravekeeper Kiro in attack mode!" In a flash of light the monster version of Kiro appeared on the field. The fiery baseball broke apart in mid air.

"Fine, I will end my turn. Do your worst to me if you can." Andron said smirking as Kiro looked down at his hand.

Sighing deeply, "Draw!"

Suddenly, Kaira's burning house caved in due to the fire burning it to the ground. Now instead of being a burning house it was a bonfire.

"NO!" Kaira screamed as her house collapsed. She tried to run forward but Chao grabbed her holding her back. "LET ME GO!" She demanded of him.

"And let you get burned to death?" Chao asked her as he struggled to hold her back. "Is that really the smartest thing to do?"

"YES NOW LET ME GO!" She yelled swinging her foot back and catching Chao right in his crotch. A muffled moan and Chao fell to the ground grabbing his package.

"NO STOP KAIRA!" Kiro yelled from atop his platform. "Chao stop her!" Kiro yelled.

"Right." Chao grunted out as he staggered to his feet and charged after Kaira. One lunge and he tackled her to the ground. "Kaira, you are not going anywhere." He said as he held her to the ground even though he was still in much pain.

"No, let me go." She screamed struggling against him.

"Don't worry Kaira, I will finish this quickly for you." Kiro yelled from his platform as he held a card out with its back facing Andron. "I sacrifice Gravekeeper Kiro to summon Secret Spirit Guard-Hebanu (2400/1800)!"

A huge glow of light as Kiro's monster started glowing and taking a new shape. It grew bigger and more built out. It looked exactly like Gravekeeper Kiro but his hair was sky blue and his eyes were a soft yellow color now. He was taller and more muscled out. Wearing a strange white robe that had three colored beads sewed into the back. One sky blue, one pure black, and one was dark gray.

"Another part of the power!" Andron's eyes widened in fright at the new monster that took residence on Kiro's field. "This cannot be. He had half of the true power completely in his deck already!"

"Watch this Andron for I will win in this turn. I must send a card to the grave to send a card on the field to its owners hand and it will only work when I first sacrifice Gravekeeper Kiro to summon it." Kiro slid three cards in his hand into the graveyard as the monster Hebanu held out his palm towards Andron's monsters. Bursts of white lightning shot out shocking everything in its pathway as it finally reached the two monster and the trap card Backfire. In violent shocking fits the monsters disappeared in a burst of light and so did the trap card.

"Shit." Andron growled as he watched the three cards appear in his hand. "This is it."

"And to make sure this is over I will reveal the second power of Hebanu. If Necrovalley is on the field I get to add the bonus it gives to gravekeepers to Hebanu once. Now I power up Hebanu by the power of Necrovalley!" Kiro screamed into the sky as his monster started glowing with a pure red aura. The muscles on him began to burst out as red lightning shot off his skin. It Yelled in Kiro's voice but a bit lighter as his power increased (2900/2300).

"No! This can't be!" Andron walked back to the end of the floating disk he was standing on. "He has complete power over it if he has just materialized it in this duel!"

All the cloaked people jerked there heads back as they sensed the arrival of the monster spirit. Looking around they were gasping at the force he unlocked without trying.

"H...h...how?" Salacia was shuddering at what she was sensing. "This can't be. Andron was right."

"Secret Spirit Guard-Hebanu attack directly with the power of the ancient force!" Kiro yelled as his monster started glowing a bright sky blue light. Snapping its eyes open it wielded back its hand and forced it forward shooting a stream of sky blue energy pulsating with red lightning.

Andron screamed as he was enveloped in the light. The night seemed to turn to day as the light from the attack lit up everything around like the sun lights the earth. When the light finally faded Andron's duel disk was gone and the disk he was standing on was cracking.

Kiro-1500 LP
Andron-0 LP

"Good job Kiro Rinku. You pass the first test needed." Andron choked out. "I have tested you in a courageous battle of power that you have passed. You pass the trial of the frozen blue moon." Kiro had forgotten about the moon. Looking at it he saw the ice blue coloring of it slowly fade off it in streams of the color. "The next test will come when the moon glows sun yellow." Andron said before his floating disk broke and he fell into the flaming torrent beneath him. As soon as his body hit it a bright light shot out. All the fire Andron started seemed to freeze in there spot. Slowly they just disappeared into the night air.

Kiro's disk lowered him to the ground where he jumped off to look at his new duel disk. Pulling out his deck he looked at the card Secret Spirit Guard-Hebanu. He also noticed that an orb on his duel disk was glowing now. A frozen blue color.

"Salacia, test two will come when the moon is glowing sun yellow. Will you be ready?" The raspy voice from the middle figure asked.

"I cannot believe Andron fell. Now he is burned in hell with his own fire." Salacia said clenching her fist. The pillar with the lime green fire above where Andron once stood went out.

One down. Nine more flames to extinguish.

Kiro, Chao, and Kaira stood in the middle of the street watching the smoke roll off the rubble that was Kaira's house. Streams of tears were flooding down Kaira's face. Chao put his hand on her back and rubbed it a few times to try and comfort her.

All three of them turned off towards the east down the street. They watched as over the horizon the sun began it's ascent into the sky. Its rays sent the three shadows from them down the street.

"Morning has come." Chao simply stated. Kiro and Kaira remained silent.

"Good morning girls." Ann Katana said to Michi and Izumi Ume as they all sat on a bench in the park. Their lab had been on fire but luckily it only damaged to upper floor of the two story lab.

"The night of hell on earth has ended." Izumi said picking herself up off the bench.

"Katana," Michi stood up and looked at her boss. "If this is the start of the trials for those things and if they are what we think they are do you think we should try and stop them?"

"We can't. Fate works its path in a various of ways. Like a path with forked roads. Kiro is the one traveling the road of fate. He apparently took the fork that lead to glory in this battle of hell. The other path would lead him to defeat in a burning torrent of flames. If we are correct girls then he has nine more forks that fate will guide him too. Let's hope that one way or the other, man kind doesn't fall into the burning hell.

"Agreed." The girls nodded.

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