SailorStar9: With Chapter 9 uploaded, this is Chapter 10 of this fic. For everyone who put this fic on your favorited and followed lists and/or story alerts, thank you, but remember everyone, a lot of authors (myself included) sustain on readers' reviews.

Pairing: Kai/Ami

Disclaimers: Sailor Moon and Cardfight! Vanguard belong to Takeuchi-sensei and Akira Itō-sensei respectively. Me, on the other hand, own absolutely nothing, except the pairing and the fic idea.

Chapter 10: VF Circuit: The Wind's Judgment

"I call Demonic Dragon Berserker, Garuda and Ginkaku." Kai summoned two more units. "Ginkaku's Counterblast. I put one card from my deck into the Damage Zone. Here I go, Souryu Leon. Dragonic Kaiser Vermillion, Limit Break! +2000 power. I battle all your front row units."

"No guard." Leon declared.

"First check." Kai drew cards. "Second check. This is the fury of the three clans that you betrayed. Vermillion Thunderbolt! Garuda attacks."

"No guard." Leon did not fend.

"With Garuda's skill, I flip one damage card over." Kai turned the top card face-up. "With Ginkaku's skill, I return one card to the deck. Turn end."

"It isn't enough." Leon remarked. "The fury of your three clans doesn't hold a candle to the anguish of my kin. When Aqua Force was sealed away, when the Souryu people were stripped of their freedom and fell into despair, no one reached out with a helping hand. The Cray Queen abandoned us to die! That was so many years ago, it's become a legend. Yet once I'm granted the power of nothingness, I'm chosen as a leader and asked to save Cray? Don't make me laugh. You should know the anger of Aqua Force. Wind, give power to the Souryu child. Stand and draw. Behold. Wash away all vice in the flow of a furious flood. It's name is righteousness. I ride Blue Storm Dragon, Maelstrom. Light Signals Penguin Soldier's Soulblast. Diamantes, Cyprus, Maelstrom. Go, Storm Rider, Diamantes. Diamantes' skill, if it's the first battle of the turn, he gets +2000 power."

"No guard." Kai declared.

"Diamantes moves back." Leon shifted Diamantes. "Maelstrom goes forward. Go, Maelstrom! Go Penguin Soldier!"

"The third attack..." Kai counted.

"The next attack represents the pain of the Souryu people." Leon stated. "Here I go. Blue Storm Dragon, Maelstrom's Limit Break! This is the fourth attack. +5000 power. With a boost from Cyprus, I attack Kaiser Vermillion."

"Guard." Kai pulled out two shields. "Demonic Dragon Nymph, Seiobo, and Spark Egg Dracokid."

"Twin drive." Leon drew two cards. "First check. Second check. One more card. I'm going to make you pay for the crime of letting sacrifices raise up in revolt. You'll get a taste of eternal torment. You'll feel the despair and isolation of oblivion my people went through."

"Were you that sacred?" Kai asked. "The isolation of oblivion and despair. Is that what you lost to?"

"What do you know?" Leon demanded.

"I know..." Kai hissed. "I've seen a fighter who's battled the same fate as you. All on his own, Aichi's been trying to save a clan that's been forgotten."

"Royal Paladin..." Leon mused. "I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't put Sendou Aichi and me, that is, my people in the same boat."

"Yeah, you're not the same." Kai agreed. "He used his power to battle the despair of oblivion and forge a path. He didn't sell his soul to the power of nothingness or stray from the path of fighters. He's nothing like you, who's been reduced to a pawn. Stand and draw. Crossride the Vanguard! A silver sword on white wings. Heavenly dragon, Dragonic Kaiser Vermillion, 'The Blood'!"

"Dragonic Kaiser Vermillion, 'The Blood'?" Leon echoed. "How is it you have that?"

"When Kaiser Vermillion is in the Soul, 'The Blood' will be at +13000 power." Kai powered up the upgraded dragon. "Call, Dusty Plasma Dragon. You have no right to insult Aichi. 'The Blood' Ultimate Break! Counterblast. +5000 power. Plus an extra critical. Soh Koh boosts. You won't be able to get up anymore. Heaven's judgment: Vermillion Catastrophe."

"Guard." Leon fended.

"First check." Kai drew two cards. "I give the power of Garuda and draw." he drew a draw trigger. "Second check." drawing a critical trigger, he gave all the effects to Garuda as well.

"Kai Toshiki, chosen by Kaiser Vermillion 'The Blood', can you stop my wind?" Leon questioned.

"Garuda attacks with a boost from Ginkaku." Kai went on the offensive.

"No guard." Leon declared. "Damage check. Second check." his first card drew no triggers.

"What?" Kai was taken back when Leon drew a heal trigger.

"This is the wind's answer." Leon smirked.

"Garuda's skill, I flip over Red River in my Damage Zone." Kai moved the card face-up. "Turn end."

"Stand and draw." Leon took his turn. "Dragon spun into existence from the wrap of the wind and the weft of the sea, live up the legend of your ideal form. I crossride Blue Storm Supreme Dragon, Glory Maelstrom. Observe, this is the ultimate Aqua Force, resurrected by my power. If there's a Maelstrom in the Soul, this card has 13000 power. Call. Cyprus' Counterblast. You've got a fine dragon, but I'm going to end it right here. You should be honored. Diamantes, attack Dusty Plasma."

"I guard with Desert Gunner, Raien." Kai fended.

"Maelstrom, attack Dusty Plasma." Leon continued his attack. "I attack 'The Blood'. Receive judgment of the wind. Glory Maelstrom's Ultimate Break!"

"Spark Edge, Old Dragon Mage!" Kai pulled out two shields. "And Garuda intercepts."

"Still intend to resist?" Leon smirked. "You should face your fated destruction like a man, Kai Toshiki. Just take a good look at your precious little Goddess. She knows exactly what would happen if she burns her Cosmo, but she continues to do so anyway, just to maintain this space. It's only a matter of time before her entire body is consumed by the darkness. Such a stupid girl can never be the ruler of Cray!"

"Enough of that nonsense!" Kai spat. "I'm going to win this. I'm going to win for the proud Vanguard fighters who try to find their own way."

"Check." Leon drew two cards. "Second. It's over." he smirked, drawing a critical trigger. "Harmonia, watch carefully as I turn your hope into despair! Divine Blowing!"

"That's..." Ren gasped, the wind blowing the fog away, just as Kaiser Vermillion, 'The Blood' vanished. "Kai..."

"Leon-sama!" Jillian and Charlene chorused.

"No!" Aichi's group arrived at the scene and Aichi hurried over to Kai.

"Sendou Aichi." Leon looked on.

"Leon, have you forgotten?" Harmonia's voice echoed through the Cosmo dust she emitted. "As long as the Guardians remain true, I'll never forsake any of them."

"She's right about that." Kai winced, sitting up with Aichi's help. "Back then, the decision of accepting Aqua Force as the Void Seal Guardian had been her eternal regret: she regarded it as her greatest failure."

"Ren-sama?" Asaka blinked when she started flowing green.

"Return back to Earth, Asaka." Ren nodded. "Kai and I have to remain here. Aichi," he turned to his fellow Gold Paladin user. "We'll be leaving this to Team Q4."

"Right." Aichi nodded.

"Ren, you..." Kai let himself be pulled off by his red-haired friend.

"That girl is already putting her life on the line for this, Kai." Ren explained. "The tragedy from back then and the reason all of us were reborn in this life... isn't it our job as her Guardians to prevent that from happening?"

"Sendou Aichi." Leon greeted, Kai and Ren having conceded the fight to Aichi. "It seems like this was fated to take place between us."

"Let's settle this, Souryu Leon." Aichi declared.

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