Chapter 12-Monarchs of Mayhem
(5 days till Maiami Championship)
"Hey you!" shouted a voice behind Ryuga and Ayame, both turned around and saw 4 boys before them. "You got lucky last time with us Goldilocks!" shouted the boy with green hair (Yamabe), "But this time you'll be getting what your deeds deserve!" yelled the taller boy with brown hair (Ootomo). Despite the threats Ayame merely yawned, "Not you 3 again," she sighed, "You stooges really are gluttons for punishment aren't you."
"You know them?" asked Ryuga curiously. "Unfortunately yes, in a way.." she said,
Flashback earlier in the morning
I was merely minding my own business looking for a suitable place to rest after a good morning search for duels. (She was planning to relax on a park bench and have a bento box for lunch, when suddenly…) 3 boys then walked up to me and well..
"Hey there little miss." said Kakimoto as she peered up from her meal, to see 3 boys around her with unnerving looks on their faces (The kind when boys look lustfully at girls in anime). "You don't look like you're from around here are you?" asked Yamabe who leaned in a little 2 close to her face. Unsettled Ayame replied, "Yeah? What's it to you?"
"It would be rude if you didn't get a proper tour around this here fair city of ours, so why not come hang out with us?" asked Ootomo. It was then I packed up my lunch and tried to leave, being as polite as I could, "No thanks, I can handle my own." but they wouldn't have any of it. "Oh come on don't be like that! We're just being nice.." spoke Kakimoto as he grabbed her by the hand, only to be backflipped on the ground in a single swing! "Ahck!"
"Hey what was that for!?" yelled Yamabe as he and Ootomo tried to go in for a punch, only to be met by a swift reversal by the blonde haired girl, sending flying on their backs across the ground. "Arggg!"
Looking at them she then turned her head away in disgust, "It'll be a hundred years before you lightweights would ever be able to touch me in a fight." I said as I walked away, "The nerve some boys would do just cause you're a girl.." I thought as I was about to leave but they sure were persistent.
"You think you'll get away with this!?" one yelled as he readied his duel disk. "We try to be nice and this is how you repay us?! We'll show you no mercy even if you are a girl!" the second activated a disk. "Hehe it'll be a shame to mess up that pretty face of yours, but you've made this personal!" yelled the last boy with his disk. Ayame merely looked at them as if they were pitiful, but her honor wouldn't let her turn away from a challenge, 'If a duel is the only way to get you guys off my back then so be it." She readied her disk
DUEL!
Minutes later
"Gargh!" all 3 boys were scattered about the field. "Amateurs…Not worth my time as expected, not even my weakest fusion monster." she spoke disappointed. "This isn't over! When Sawatari-san gets word of this he'll pound you so hard into the ground, you'll never be able to pick up a deck again!" they yelled as they ran off.
"Oh goodie me.."
Present
"Tch! You were lucky last time because we went easy on you!" yelled Yamabe. (Seriously? That's the best excuse they've got?) both Ryuga and Ayame sweat dropped together. "But now your days of duelling are going to be over! For we've brought a special someone who'll teach you the meaning of pain!" they yelled as Sawatari walked from them into the open.
"Hehehe You guys really are pathetic, calling me, Neo New Sawatari out for a task as simple as this?" he spoke while shaking his head, "Maybe it's time I got myself new friends…"
"N..No please don't!" they cried, "She's like really strong and you're the only one who can do it!"
"We'll do anything for you! Please we beg!"
"Hmph! Fine then, looks like this situation is a job for none other then…" he snapped his fingers, "Sawatari-san!" they cheered in unison. "Oh yeah!"
"It's only natural you'd call for a duelist of upmost perfection! Top notch cards! Not to mention unparalleled skill! Who do you think is one such duelist?" Snap fingers, 'Sawatari-san!"
"Yes! Yes!" he gloated while continuing to praise himself.
The other 2 duelist watching the punks grovel over the arrogant boy sweat dropped at what they were witnessing, "This is getting really embarrassing.." Ryuga whispered to Ayame, "I couldn't agree more…"
When he finally finished, "Sorry to keep you both waiting, but you shall now be granted the greatest honour of a duel with the one and only…Ack!" he face faulted when he saw both of them already walking off. "Seriously? Those guys are from LDS?" asked Ryuga, "No kidding, to think the top duel school in the country would be housing stuck up jerks like them. Makes me just…Urgh!" said Ayame in response. "Just thinking of me as cute and defenceless just because I'm a girl really ticks me off!"
(Whoah…Now I know why she hates being treated like some delicate flower, she's got fire!) thought Ryuga in amazement. "To think I was actually planning on enrolling myself there…."
They suddenly found themselves surrounded, "You dare walk away from me! Don't you know who I am!?" yelled Sawatari in anger and frustration. "I see a snotty rich kid who is yelling his face off because he's full of hot air?" answered Ayame in a jokish tone. Ryuga couldn't help but snicker a bit.
"SAY WHAAAAT?!" he yelled with his face all red and steamy. "How dare you disrespect Shingo Sawatari, son of the future mayor of Maiami City!"
"Mayor?" asked Ryuga suspiciously. "That's right! My father happens to be a person of high authority here in this city! WIth one word I can have him expel you out this moment!" he spoke while gloating and head held high. "You tell him Sawatari-san!" cheered the goons.
"So if you were smart, you'd be grovelling before me and beg for forgiveness this moment." he spoke proudly.
"So you're the mayor's son?" Ayame asked, "Indeed! Finally some well deserved respect!" he replied.
"Guess that's why you're a spoiled brat with a childish tantrum." she replied unfazed. "People who are given power without proving themselves worthy of it first, truly are ptiful, it's those who earn their positions that deserve to call the shots, not unworthy kids like you."
(She's got spunk and guts I'll give her that, she's really something) thought Ryuga.
"GRRRR!" he growled steaming even worse than before. "That tears it! You won't be getting out of this unscathed! I'll show you the power of your superior and maybe then you'll learn proper manners!" he yelled as he readied a duel disk. "Bring it o..!" she was suddenly stopped by Ryuga's hand. "I'll take you on."
"Oooh! What's the master little missy?! You finally admit you're scared and you need your 'boyfriend' to save you?" taunted the other goons as they snickered. "Say what!?" she yelled flustered, Ryuga even blushed slightly but rubbed it away as soon as he could. "You know I can take him perfectly fine myself! You do..!"
"I'm not doing this for you, it's for myself." Ryuga answered sternly. "Huh?"
He took pout his own duel disk and readied his deck, 'This is a good opportunity for me to test out the strength of those at LDS, and see if it's really all it's cracked to be." he answered with an excited look. Ayame pondered for a little while before submitting, "Ok fine, but you better not lose, got it!" she spoke menacingly. "Loud and clear."
"Phh Hhahahaaha" laughed Sawatari, "You either have a lot of guts or not a lot of brains! You think you can take me! A higher up of LDS as simple as that?! That's laughable!"
Glaring angrily Ryuga then yelled, "Why don't you put your cards where mouth is!"
"With pleasure then you spiky haired freak!" Sawatari retorted. (Ryuga has tall spiky hair similar to that of Yugi and Yusei)
DUEL!
Ryuga: 4000
Sawatari: 4000
LDS Headquarters
At the monitor room, the operators acquired the signal of Sawatari's disk being activated in a duel. "Reiji-san, Shingo is engaged in a duel!" spoke one of the operating ladies. Reiji walked towards the area with his assistant casually, "Bring the duel on live screen." he instructed. "Yes sir!" she answered which revealed both duelists locked in combat. Reiji smiled, pleased at how effective his plan was, "See Nakajima, I told you Sawatari would be perfect for the job."
"Let's see how well our friend fares against the new cards we gave him." replied Nakajima
Street
"As your superior I shall decide the first move, and to prove it, I shall allow you the first move," he spoke in a gentlemanly manner. (Hehe, this idiot has no idea the powerful cards I amped my deck with! True the pendulum cards would be even better, but these will do just fine.) he thought.
Ryuga drew, "Fine then." Looking at his hand he then grabbed a monster, "I summon my dark valkyria in attack mode!" Out came a dark angel clad in armour, "Then I place a facedown and end my turn."
"That's all you're doing? How sad! Watch how a perfect duelist does things! One chosen by the cards! My draw!" He looked at his hand and snickered, "I now activate a spell called Fiend's sanctuary, which lets me special summon a metal fiend token to my field in attack mode!" a small metallic ghost appeared from the spell before it exploded. "But like many other cards, this is merely a sacrifice for something greater!" he sacrificed the token and soon a blazing monster materialised, "I tribute my token to advance summon Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch!" A humanoid monster cloaked in armour and flames appeared with 2400 atk.
"Not bad.." thought Ryuga, even Ayame was slightly impressed. "Here's where we get to play a little guessing game!" Sawatari suddenly spoke, "When Thelastos is successfully tribute summoned, I'm allowed to pick one card at random and you have to discard it! The best part? If it's a monster, you take damage equal to it's levelx100!" he laughed. "!" thought Ryuga looking at his hand, he had a good set of cards and couldn't bear to lose one of them!.
"Eeenie menie mini…" Went the arrogant duelist as he went picking between the 4 cards, both Ayame and Ryuga were beginning to sweat. "Mo!" he went as he made his choice on the right. "Ok show me then!" he demanded. Ryuga reluctantly revealed it, "Darkstorm Dragon, level 8 it said"
"Gahaha! This is my lucky day! A level 8!? Talk about lousy luck for you my friend Ahaahaha!" he laughed as the card went up in flames and Ryuga felt the hot cinders burning against his face.
"Rrrg!"
Ryuga: 4000-3200
"That was awesome Sawatari-san" cheered Yamabe. "Hey you! If you quit now you can spare yourself the humiliation," taunted kakimoto. "Not a chance!" he retorted. "Fine then, don't say I didn't warn you! Thestalos! Attack that fallen fairy with fire ball blast!" the monarch created a fireball in its arm and launched it at dark valkyria, who braced herself… Ryuga however wasn't concerned.
"I activate my trap Gemini booster!" revealing his facedown. "Huh?!" Sawatari gasped. I can target one gemini monster on the field and with it I can have it gain 700 attack!" "G…Gemini?! Don't tell me you're…!" The trap granted strength to valkyria whose strength surpassed the monarch by 100! She countered with a dark sphere which overpowered the flame and destroyed the monarch!
"Gah!"
Sawatari:4000-3900
"Tch! Looks like you were lucky yourself, but I wouldn't let it get to your head just yet! This duel's only begun! I lay 2 facedowns and end my turn!" (This guy's the one Headmaster Reiji told me to find! This is perfect! After I wipe the floor with him and bring him back to LDS! Reiji will reward me most generously!) he thought greedily.
"Alright then, it's my turn and I draw!" Ryuga looked and saw he picked up another strong card. "I summon my evocator chevalier in attack mode!" the blazing knight emerged with 1900 attack. "Get ready for the beatdown Sawatari, because both my monsters are attacking you directly!" Both got ready to charge but Sawatari only snickered, "Hah! This time you've walked into my own trap! Zoma the Spirit! This allows me to summon it as a monster with 1800 attack!" The trap transformed into the monster on it's picture, a skeleton ghost, making Ayame feel disgusted. "It's still not strong enough against my monsters!"
"I'm not done yet! I also trigger the continuous trap Escalations of the Monarchs!" the trap showcasing 2 monarch monsters charging at an attack revealed itself. "What's that do?" asked Ryuga surprised. Sawatari grinned deviously, "What it does is allow me to automatically tribute summon during either my opponent's main or battle phases once per turn!" he chuckled.
"No way!" yelled Ryuga in shock.
"Tribute summon? That means if he's got another monarch that could be trouble," Ayame thought slightly worried.
"I now sacrifice my Zoma the Spirit to summon Kuraz the Light Monarch!" as the dark spirit faded away, a golden warrior bearing a cape took its place with 2400 atk again. "Oh and did I forget to mention his special ability activates the moment he is summoned? You see he can't attack on the turn he comes around but in exchange he allows me to destroy up to 2 cards on the field!"
"2 cards!?" Ryuga exclaimed in shock as he saw his 2 monsters as potential targets, "Here it comes…" he thought. "The cards that will leave the centre stage shall be your valkyria and my trap escalations of the monarchs!" he declared as Kuraz targeted both cards with beams of light which destroyed them both!.
"Huh!? Why would you destroy your own card like that!?" gasped Ayame, "Good question." answered Ryuga. "Heehee the answer is simple! It merely served its purpose! Also by doing so, the controller of the destroyed cards gets to draw one for each!" he placed his fingers on his deck, "Since a card left both slides of the field, we each get to draw." They both took their cards. (I won't lose to the likes of him…) thought Ryuga angrily as he laid 2 facedowns and concluded his turn.
"Looks like it's my turn then!" Sawatari drew and looked at his card, a maniacal grin soon shot across his face, which deeply concerned Ayame who could only spectate. Ryuga on the other hand didn't flinch. "Hehehe Ahahahaahah!" he laughed maniacally, "I'm afraid this duel's pretty much over! In my hand lies the very card that will seal your very fate! I now tribute Kuraz in order to summon the king of all Monarchs!" Kuraz vanished and soon a dark portal opened in the ground, something gigantic was climbing out of it! "What is that?!" cried Ayame as she couldn't believe the sight. "What you see is the bringer of your defeat! Behold my mighty Erebus! The underworld monarch!" The giant demonic monster with a tattered cloak and unholy armour towered above Ryuga and his chevalier, he however didn't faze even in the slightest, but maintained a hard gaze at his opponent.
"I bet you're wondering "How was I able to summon a level 8 monster with only 1 sacrifice?" The answer is simple due to Erebus' special ability! By simply offering a tribute summoned monster as a sacrifice it can count as 2!" "A skilful play as expected from Sawatari-san!" cheered Ootomo, "Hehe almost reminds me of that time he summoned Mobius the Mega Monarch against that guy who looked like Yuya at the warehouses, only this time he won't lose!" they all thought together. "Since Erebus was successfully summoned, by simply discarding 2 different monarch spells/traps from my hand or deck to the graveyard, (he chose strike and tenacity of the monarchs from his deck and slid them into the grave) I'm allowed to target one card on either your field, graveyard or hand and shuffle it into your deck!"
"Here it comes.." Ryuga thought as he readied himself. "I'm afraid your little chevalier is going to have to step off the stage now! Make way for the emperor you peasant!" Erebus then created a dark sphere portal in his hand which created a sting vacuum wind which pulled in Chevalier and closed! (Sending him into the deck). "Oh no! Now Ryuga's completely defenceless!" thought Ayame.
"You're finished you punk! Go Erebus, wipe him out with your unstoppable Fist of the Underworld!" the monarch gathered dark energy within his fist, along with the souls of his fallen monarch minions Kuraz and Thestalos. "Ryuga!" cried Ayame as he practically did nothing of the sort, "Hahaha nothing can save you from this direct attack! So beg for forgiveness!"
Ryuga simply smirked, with little effort he raised his hand, "Not a chance! I reveal my defence draw trap card! Which not only negates the battle damage but allows me another draw!" the trap activated which absorbed the fist of shadows! Though the vibrations could still be felt as everyone outside the duel shielded themselves. "Drat! That's just so unfair! It was supposed to be my grand move!" Sawatari then began throwing a wild tantrum which made everyone sweat drop at the sight. "No matter, you can't possibly come back from this, so I'll end my turn like that!" (Heehee, go ahead and try, because my hand is perfect! In my hand I possess spell striker and Caius the shadow monarch! By simply banishing a spell in my grave, I'll choose fiend's sanctuary, I'll be able to special summon the necessary sacrifice I need for my shadow monarch and then banish whatever card you place on the field! SO basically my victory is sealed haha!)
LDS Headquarters
Reiji and Nakajima were eyeing the match carefully and were soon joined by another, Shun. After looking at the current situation, "You called me up here just to see a meaningless duel and victory from one of your lower students Reiji Akaba." he spoke disappointed as he was expecting much more important news or info. "Not quite, I simply wish you to observe carefully," he stated while pointing to Sawatari's opponent.
Shun became shocked at the sight, "That…It's impossible! He's the duelist from the other day! The one who went against a duelist from Academia! He actually survived?!" he exclaimed, shocked that someone from standard could actually manage to win against a powerful fusion user, let alone hold his own. "You seem to have a natural eye for talent Shun, so let's see what you think, If he has the potential to be a lancer." spoke Reiji, to which Shun nodded and observed.
Street
"I don't know how you managed to survive this turn but I assure you it was mere luck! I promise you on my next turn, you won't last beyond the battle phase! SO go ahead and make your last turn!" he gloated while laughing. "Ryuga…" thought Ayame as she clenched her fist to her chest, she knew he was skilled and powerful but even she was beginning to have doubts on how he would come back from this. What Ryuga said next shocked them all, "No. It's you who won't get a next turn. THAT I promise you!"
"What was that?!" he yelled.
"Relax he's just trying to make you lose your focus that's all!"
"He's bluffing! No worries!"
"Crush him good Sawatari-san! Then we can finish things with her!" the boys encouraged their leader.
"As if I would allow myself to lose, to someone who has little to no respect for his cards, seeing them as mere tools for others and therefore misplays them in so many ways…"Ryuga spoke angrily, a weak dark aura could be seen emitting around himself, fuelled with the anger of seeing the misuse of cards and lack of appreciation for them. "Haha what are you saying?! Cards are just paper and ink! It's not as if they have any actual feelings in them! So it doesn't matter what you do to them! Buy new ones, trade, throw them away or even tear them up! All that really matters is rarity and power! Everyone knows that! Hhahaha" he boasted arrogantly. The sight of it made Ayame feel very disgusted too.
"Like I said," Ryuga spoke, "I plan on keeping my promise! I'm ending this duel now, starting with this draw!" he saw it and played it instantly, "I play card of sanctity! Which allows us each to both draw till we hold 6 cards in our hand!"
"My how generous you are," Sawatari teased as he drew. Ryuga placed his fingers and closed his eyes, "Resolve within my cards, guide me to victory." Draw!
Seeing his hand, "Sorry Bahamut, but he would be a complete waste for you to use on." Ryuga spoke mentally, Bahamut's spirit appeared before him and nodded in agreement. He then took 2 cards from his hand, "Get ready Sawatari, because I use scale 2 dragoons of draconia and scale 7 sky dragoons of draconia, I now set the pendulum scale!" The were 2 lizard men carrying weapons, one riding on top of a dinosaur and a pterosaur respectively, which rose into the pillars of light, with numbers 2 and 7 below them.
"WHAAAAAAATTTTT!" screamed Sawatari with intense shock, "NO WAY!" yelled his comrades in equal horror. Ayame on the other and wasn't so surprised, "Time to show this arrogant jerk what true duelling is all about Ryuga!" she thought.
"H..HOW!?" yelled Sawatari with his voice filled with betrayal and shock, "I was promised the very first pendulum cards by the LEO Corporation! How do you have pendulum cards!?" he asked furiously and with tears.
"You don't need to know," replied Ryuga sternly. "With the set scale I can summon monsters from levels 3-6. Mighty power filled with infinite potential, carve me the path of hope that shall lead to victory! Pendulum Summon! Now come forth my loyal monster comrades!" he commanded as 2 lights shone from the portal, "Rise Gemini scorpion and Gemini lancer!" the sea serpent and armoured warrior appeared.
"Hmph! Even if you can pendulum summon, all you did was bring out a couple of weaklings, hardly worthy adversaries for Erebus!" he grunted still angry. Ryuga then began to smirk, "Heh, I haven't even begun to make my turn just yet!"
"Say what?!" exclaimed the goons, Ayame, already experienced with the potential of pendulum summoning, knew what would be happening soon.
"From my hand I activate swing of memories! Which lets me summon a normal monster from my graveyard but it's destroyed during the end phase."
"Normal monster? As in a monster with no abilities? Hahaha as if anyone in their right mind would use those!" (Blue eyes and red eyes were deeply offended hearing that, "If only I could just reach out and roast him alive!" growled red eyes. "That would be far too merciful! He deserves to face divine judgement!" stated Blue eyes). "Besides you don't have any normal monsters at all."
"Don't I?" smiled Ryuga. As he picked out the very first monster he discarded, "Look familiar?"
Sawatari's eyes widened with shock, "D..Darkstorm dragon!? It's an effect monster isn't it, a gemini! So it can't….!" he then realised the grave error of his misjudgement. "No way! No way! No way!" he panicked as dark storm was resurrected with a furious roar. (Combining the support of normal monsters with gemini, you sure are full of surprises Ryuga..) thought Ayame as she smiled.
"We're only halfway there, now I sacrifice both lancer and scorpion in order to tribute summon my phoenix gearfried!" the 2 monsters vanished before replaced by a flaming fire knight. "Tell me what do you all see on my field?" asked Ryuga. Everyone was puzzled by the sudden question, "All I see are 2 monsters with really high attack power." suggested one of the thugs. "Yeah what else is there?"
Ryuga frowned at their answers before turning to Ayame, "I'm sure you can see the bigger picture can't you?" Looking hard, she did have the same idea as the boys did before remembering, bigger picture. After thinking hard to find out their connection for the situation, her eyes then widened in amazement, "I….don't…..believe it…." she gasped in amazement.
LDS Headquarters
Everyone at LDS watching the duel too, were puzzled at the question, however Reiji, Shun and Nakajima alread knew and were deeply impressed at such a move.
"Out with it already!" growled Sawatari impatiently onscreen.
Street
Ryuga then smiled once again, pleased with his surefire victory strategy which was about to be set in motion, "Very well then! Using my 2 level 8 'normal' monsters, I now build the overlay network!" The 2 level 8 monsters became purple and red shards of light before spiralling into the overlay portal.
"What!?" screamed Sawatari
"Xyz!? Again!?" cried the 3 boys
"Incredible… I never imagine you used xyz monsters too!" gasped Ayame with awe at the sight.
"Furious lightning, ravaging thunder! Come together and form the embodiment of your divine will and strike down all who oppose you! I xyz summon! Rank 8 Thunder End dragon!" From the xyz portal emerged a white and blue dragon, coated in streams of crackling energy and blue electricity. With 2 yellow orbs of light orbiting it.
Shingo was shaking in his knees, "3000 attack…That still won't bring you victory!" he was so scared he couldn't think up any other retorts. "As usual you fail to look beyond the monster's physical stats." Ryuga frowned disappointed. Ayame on the other hand, somehow seemed fairly experienced with xyz monsters and knew very well at how many of them can be dangerous if overlooked, "I activate thunder end dragon's ability! By using one overlay unit, it instantly wipes out every other monster on the field besides itself!" "Nooooo!" screamed Sawatari in despair, horrible memories flooding back to him of a previous similar incident, now he was relieving a terrible nightmare… "This is even worse than the last time," cried all 3 boys in shock.
Thunder end then consumed one of its xyz materials before charging up with power "Thunder end dragon! Raigeki Rage, strike down all who oppose you!" the dragon then shot a lightning bolt into the air before it magnified amongst the storm clouds and it struck down even larger on Erebus, disintegrating him! Shaking in fear, (like how he did when Yuya attacked with block spider), "No…No…You can't do this!"
"I just did, now go thunder end dragon, strike his life points directly with Gigavolt breath!" the dragon charged a powerful lightning stream in its mouth before unloading it at the helpless Sawatari! "AAAAAAHHHHH!"
Sawatari: 3900-900
He struggled to get up, still feeling the powerful paralysis flowing through him, but he still stood. "I still have points left, this was only a lucky shot!" he yelled in vain when Ryuga thought, (It seems so sad that I have to do this..) he revealed his final trap. "That trap…it's…."
"Desparate battle, when a monster on my field has attacked this turn, by reducing its attack by 1000, it can wage another attack, so like I said, it's over for you." Ryuga said with a little regret over having to overwhelm his opponent as such. "Gah! Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait! Can't we talk about this?!" Sawatari pleaded, but his efforts were in vain as the trap weakened thunder end dragon slightly before he launched another thunder stream, wiping out the last few points.
"AAAAAARGHHHH!" Sawatari was sent flying backwards.
Sawatari:900-0
Ryuga: WIN
"Sawatari-san!" cried his 3 friends as they rushed to his aid. "At least he has loyal friends…" thought Ryuga seeing that as he only redeeming quality. He then looked at thunder end dragon, which turned its head to him and growled in acknowledgement, before disappearing. Picking up the card and looking at it, "Guess Red Eyes was right, entering that village tournament in order to win you, the grand prize, was definitely worth it." he thought.
"Ryuga!" he then turned to see Ayame came running to congratulate him, "I never knew you could use xyz as well! Also pendulum straight into xyz, when earlier you did pendulum into synchro! I..I don't know what to say!" she said in an excited tone. Ryuga blushed and screeched his head, "Haha it's no big deal, I've known how to use all the other summoning methods for sometime now, I'm actually still struggling on how to work pendulum summoning though," he admitted. "You can use all the other methods?!" she gasped, "Heh, you really do know how to keep the surprises coming." she said.
"Urg!" they both turned and saw Sawatari struggling to his knees, "You…! I don't know who you are or how you managed to acquire pendulum cards before I did, but I'm not leaving empty handed!" he then pointed towards Ryuga, "Ok boys! Fetch!" he yelled, "Yes Sawatari-san!" they cried as they charged towards Ryuga, attempting to take his cards by force!. "Tch!" Ryuga snarled, he was about to fight himself, a swift blur flew right passed him!
Whack! Whip! Smash! "AAAAAHHH!"
The 3 goons were sent flying and they all fell onto Shingo! "Oooof!" they were knocked out.
"Huh?" Ryuga thought as it happened so suddenly, he then noticed Ayame standing in front of him, with her wooden sword on her shoulder (like in samurai movies). "How disgraceful.." Ayame thought as he looked upon the 4 with disgust. Ryuga himself was stunned to see how Ayame herself was just as skilled fighting as she was in duelling. Before he could ask more he suddenly heard voices.
"I saw it coming from here!" yelled a female voice.
"If we hurry now we may be able to see who's duelling! It looked so awesome!" said a childish voice.
"Hey wait up! Slow down!" answered back the female voice.
"RATS!" thought Ryuga, "If people see us like this, we're gonna have to explain a whole lot!" he spoke. Ayame apparently had the same idea, "Agreed, well don't just stand there! Let's run!" she yelled as she quickly took off down the street, "H..Hey wait for me!" cried Ryuga as he tried to keep up with her.
Seconds later
Sora and Yuzu arrived on the scene, and were shocked to find Sawatari and his friends lying there..
"Is that Sawatari?" asked Sora surprised, "He looks really beaten up! Not surprised though…" he said while sucking on a pocky stick. "H..Hey Sawatari! Are you ok!" asked Yuzu, she was hesitant, regarding what he and his buddies tried to do to Yuya the last time.
"Urggg…" he groaned before letting out a few weak words, "He…Pendulum…No…Fair…." before passing out. "Huh?" thought Yuzu as she couldn't quite understand. Sora on the other hand repeated the words he said to himself before his eyes widened, "No way…" he spoke, dropping his pocky pack, "What is it Sora?" Yuzu asked, deeply concerned. "Yuzu…They were all taken out by someone with pendulum monsters!" Yuzu then gained a smilier expression of shock, "No Way!"
LDS Headqurters
The operators were trying their best to track Ryuga and Ayame running throughout the streets, "Don't lose sight of them!" yelled Nakajima, "Affirmative sir!" they answered, before unfortunately losing them in a maze like alley! "Find them now!" he yelled.
Reiji's attention was focused on Shun however, "So…What do you think?" he asked while referring to the energy levels on the chart, the xyz energy was very high, not quite as high as that of Shun's but stronger than any other standard xyz duelist ever recorded! The pendulum energy also rivalled that of Yuya Sakaki's, though not as strong either.
Shun pondered for a moment with a serious expression, "That boy definitely has fierce determination and steeled will in him, " Shun answered, "But with energy levels that high, he can't possibly be from standard!" he said (Could he be from xyz? No…He's not quite that strong, but still, he does seem familiar…)thought Shun, initially thinking he was from the same place as he was. "Still, I believe he can be a powerful asset to our cause, wouldn't you agree?" asked Reiji. Shun didn't answer and simply leaved. Nakajima then walked up to his boss, "Sir, forgive us but he got away…"he said sadly. Reiji simply acknowledged it, for it was hardly a loss to him, "No matter, Sawatari still played his role perfectly, and thanks to him we were able to get proper footage of his abilities," the monitor recorded his actions in the duel, as well as his face, which they zoomed on. He then spoke to his assistant, "Prepare the reward for Sawatari, also make sure he and his friends have their injuries attended to."
"As you wish." he bowed before dismissing himself.
Reiji then looked to the rest of his staff, "The rest of you! Look through all data files and find any leads you can on him!" he issued a direct order, "Home, family, name etc. anything will do."
"Yes Mr President!" they answered as they quickly searched throughout the databanks.
Well there goes Ryuga's duel with Sawatari, hoped you all liked it. Next chapter, Ryuga will find himself acquainted with some of the main Arc V cast, as well as using his another deck instead, so till then!
