Happy New Year, everybody! But hold on, Hold on! Yes, I didn't update this for a month and a half, and I'm sorry about that! I just got an External HDD this past holiday, along with exams, and doing this was the last thing on my mind! So, I'm back, and I'll do my best to update this every... 2 weeks or so? Seem fair? Alright, no promises.
LET'S BEGIN THE SECOND ARC!
Arc-V, Zexal belong to Konami and Kazuki Takahashi. If it wasn't, I'd make Zarc have actual motivations other than "The Dragons made me do it."
"I'm off!" Yuzu called out, bolting for the cabin door.
"Yuzu, hold on!" The pinkette turned around, to see her older brother, Shun standing behind her. Her older brother had a smile on his face, unusual for him.
"It impresses me how you've advanced in this tournament. I honstly couldn't think that you could get a gold medal this early in the game." Shun put his hand on the pinkette's shoulder. "Keep up the hard work, 'kay?" Shun gave the most uncharacteristically wide grin he had ever given to anyone.
Yuzu, puzzled by her brother's behavior, but at the same time, shocked that he would praise her as highly as he did. As far as she knew, Shun never gave ANY compliments this high, even to Yuto.
Yuzu then smiled, replying, "You got it! I'll be sure to really wow the competition this time around!" She ran out the door, with a fierce sence of determination on her face.
"So, did you do it?" a voice asked, Shun dropping his smile, returning to his usual frown. Turning around, he saw his first sister, Serena, standing in the doorway of the hostel.
"Yes." Shun replied. "I placed a tracking device on her, and hopefully, we can keep tabs on her, and see if she's safe." Shun put his hand on Serena's shoulders now. "Now, are you absolutely sure that you saw someone in Yuzu's room last night?"
"Yes," Serena nodded. "and he said something like:"
Flashback
"The original will soon come with me, and her copies will follow."
End Flashback
"What did he mean by that?" Shun asked, shocked.
"I don't know, to be honest." Serena looked at her bracelet, for a lengthy period of time. The indigo-haired girl looked back up at Shun, with a determined face. "But even so, if our family's in danger, we have to do anything and everything we can do protect them, right?!"
Shun smiled, genuinely this time, saying, "Of course."
An Hour and a Half later...
The two were trailing Yuzu, but besides quickly finishing some duels, there was absolutely nothing significant happening to this girl! And what's worse, the two trailing her, were starting to get tired of this.
"Maybe we should stop..." Shun stated, slightly frustrated.
"No! We can't stop!" Serena protested. "What if the guy shows up now? She could be kidnapped, or worse, killed, and we wouldn't be able to prevent any of it!"
"Well, what do you want us to do?" Shun asked, trying to talk down Serena. "She's not going to do anything of note, so we-"
"HEY, YUZU!" a high-pitched, upbeat voice called out. Shun and Serena turned toward the source of the voice, and saw a boy in a red tank top, jeans, and blond hair that seemed to stand impossibly high. And while he was running toward Yuzu, he tripped, getting an (accidental) peek up her skirt.
"Who the hell is that slow-witted child?" Shun said, a combination of confusion and bewilderment.
Serena, however, recognized the hair, and body shape. However, the tone of voice that he wielded was different, it was still very much the same person.
"Let's just leave her; she's obviously meeting with a boy she likes, or something. She's obviously not going to do anything of note today, anyways." Shun said, ready to give up.
Serena, not ready to stop tailing her, told Shun that, "You realize that if they ARE boyfriend and girlfriend, you might be an uncle by the age of 18."
Shun widened his eyes, and told her, "He won't get the chance, not if I have anything to say about it!" Serena sighed, mentally facepalming at her brother's over-protectiveness.
"My turn! Draw!" Yuri said, looking at his hand, before smiling widely. He looked at his opponent, Shark, before saying: "I've enjoyed playing with you, but unfortunately, this is the beginning of the end."
Yuri LP: 1600
Hand: 1
Shark LP: 1000
Hand: 0
Yuri's field: 2 Monsters
Predaplant Flytrap
ATK: 400
LEVEL: 2
Predaplant Darling Cobra
ATK: 1000
LEVEL: 3
Shark's field: 2 Monsters, one facedown
Spear Shark
ATK: 1600
LEVEL: 4
Big Jaws
ATK: 1800
LEVEL: 3
"What do you mean, this is the end?" Shark asked, a bit nervous.
"This." Yuri turned his card around, revealing:
"Polymerization!" Yuma, Yuya, Kotori, and Kaito breathed simultaneously.
"With this, I can Fusion Summon 1 monster from my Extra Deck!" Darling Cobra and Flytrap swirled into one, and went into a portal.
"Two beautiful flowers with an insect-alluring fragrance! Now unite, and from the hell beneath your petals, give birth to a new beast!" The monster began to take form, having an almost entirely pink body, and blades around its jaw, tail, and orbs all over its body. "Fusion Summon! Come forth, Poisonous dragon with hungry fangs! Starve Venom Fusion Dragon!" The fearsome dragon let out a mighty roar of rage.
Starve Venom Fusion Dragon
ATK: 2800
LEVEL: 8
Shark was amazed, and afraid at the sight of the giant fusion dragon. "Amazing..." the Barian king breathed, with a hint of fear in his voice.
"How's that?" Yuri asked, tauntingly. "Are you afraid? Because he won't bite." Yuri's face then twisted into a crazy expression. "He'll only swallow you WHOLE!" the cabbage then bursted into a fit of maniacal laughter.
"That's the power of Fusion...?" Yuma said, also being amazed by the monster.
"Yuri... please don't go overboard... Please..." Yuya thought, pleading with his older brother.
"Don't worry, little bro. This " Yuri mentally replied, surprising Yuya. "It's like you say, this is for entertainment, right?" The cabbage mentally giggled. Yuya, still confused, let out a breath of relief.
"The fun has only just begun!" Yuri evilly laughed, in order to play up his 'stage persona'.
"Damn... That monster's too powerful... How do I stop it?" Shark thought, still slightly afraid.
Meanwhile...
The brother/sister duo eventually followed Yuzu and Rei to a dark alley, and they got closer, before the tracked ones stopped.
"Tch... These idiots think that they can tail me without me noticing?" 'Rei' thought to himself, his bright, cheerful face changing to a dark, disgruntled expression.
"Rei?" Yuzu asked, then Rei's face changed back to it's bright expression. "What's wrong?"
Rei smiled at Yuzu, before he said, "Hey, let's duel, right now!"
"Eh?!" Yuzu said, surprised at his sudden request. "B-But here? Why not someplace where people can see us?"
"I've got a lot of new cards! So, this time, I know I can beat you!" Rei said, readying his D-Gazer and Duel Disk.
Yuzu was still surprised that Rei wanted to duel in a place where nobody could see them, but she wasn't one to back down from a challenge, and wanted to prove that she wasn't just a flash in the pan.
Plus, she wanted a chance at getting possibly Gold Medal.
Yuzu smirked, before readying her duel disk, and inserted her deck into the deck slot. "Alright! Here we-"
Out of nowhere, a energy ball smacked into the ground. The two looked at the direction that it came from, seeing a young man with long blonde hair, and well dressed, as well as flying on a giant dragon. The young man jumped down from the dragon, landing on the ground.
"Who is this guy?" Shun asked, amazed at the person that just arrived.
"Whoever he is, he must not like that "Rei" guy that much, either." Serena replied, not taking his eyes off the young man.
"Tch!" Vector went, his face twisting into anger. "Damn it!" He cursed, mentally. "Just when I was initiating my plan, he had to show up here?!" Vector would then growl, but would do so lowly, so that Yuzu wouldn't notice. He then returned to his kind demeanor, pushing Yuzu away.
"C-Come on, Yuzu, let's get out of here." Rei pleaded, trying to drag Yuzu away. Realizing what was happening, Mizael shot a red energy whip from his wrist, while saying, "You won't get away!"
The red energy wrapped around Rei's wrist, and disappeared. The Barian pulled his wrist, and Rei's followed. "Success." Mizael remarked, smirking. "I won't let you have your way, Vector!"
"Vector...?" Yuzu questioned.
"Damn it all! There's no way I can get away now!" Vector cursed again. He then smiled stating, "Alright. You wanna play?" Rei readied his Duel Disk, the duel zones extending, and putting his D-Gazer on. "Let's play!"
"DUEL!"
Rei LP: 4000
Hand: 5
VS.
Mizael LP: 4000
Hand: 5
"It's my turn!" Rei looked at his hand, before looking back at Yuzu. "Tch. I shouldn't give myself away so early in the game. But, in order for my plan to come to fruition..." Rei pulled two card from his hand.
"With the Scale 1 Satellarknight Zefrathuban and the Scale 7 Satellarknight Zefraxcition, I set the Pendulum Scale!" Rei put his cards onto the opposite ends of his duel disk, and the word 'PENDULUM' lit up on his D-Pad's screen in rainbow letters. His two monsters rose up in two blue columns of light, the numbers '1' and '7' appearing under them.
"Wat the hell?" Shun cried.
"He... Can also use Pendulum?" Serena breathed. "But... does this mean he's on our side after all?"
Mizael let out a slight growl.
Rei smiled, saying, "Now, because of this, I can summon any monster I please, as long as they're levels 2-6, of course!" Rei raised his hand to the sky. "Pendulum Summon!" A portal opened up, 3 flashes of yellow coming out of it. "Come help me out, Satellarknights Betelgeuse, Altair, and Alsahm!" The three monsters formed from bodies of light, each wearing shiny armor, and wielding a weapon.
Satellarknight Alsahm
ATK: 1400
LEVEL: 4
Satellarknight Altair
ATK: 1700
LEVEL: 4
Satellarknight Betelgeuse
ATK: 700
LEVEL: 4
"Alsahm's effect activates! " Alsahm drew his bow. "When summoned, I can disperse your Life Points by 1000!" The armored knight fired his bow, and struck through Mizael.
Mizael LP: 3000
Hand: 5
"And now, I'll overlay my 3 Satellarknight monsters, to Xyz summon my new monster!" The 3 Satellarknight monsters spiraled into the air, and entered a galaxy portal. A light exploded from the portal, before the number '104' flashed in purple. The monster's hand reached out of its sealed form, which had been wrapped in its wings, which emitted sparkles of light.
"Now you heathen, kneel before this light that blinds all!" The monster revealed its linking rings, forming its dark blue wings, and it's eyes glowed a deep purple. "Xyz Summon! Come forth! Number 104: Masquerade!" The monster fully extended its wings, glaring a hole at Mizael.
Number 104: Masquerade
ATK: 2700
RANK: 4
ORU: 3
"My turn's over with!" Rei said, his face slightly smiling.
Yuzu looked at Rei's monster. "Is this really Rei's...?" She then got a sense that, somehow, this monster was more malicious that it appeared to be.
"My turn! Draw!" Mizael drew his card. "Because you control a monster with 2000 or more ATK, I summon my monster, Schwarzschild Limit Dragon!" The dragon appeared out of a bright light, letting out a gigantic roar.
Schwarzschild Limit Dragon
ATK: 2000
LEVEL: 8
"He summoned a Level 8 right off of the bat?!" Yuzu cried.
"Next, because you control an Xyz monster, I get to Special Summon Radius, the Half-Moon Dragon!" The dragon formed the shape of a moon with its blades before letting out a large roar.
Radius, the Half-Moon Dragon
ATK: 1400
LEVEL: 4
"And because I Special Summoned him, he gets a Level boost of 4, which brings his Level to 8!" Mizael declared.
Radius, the Half-Moon Dragon
LEVEL: 8
"Now he's got 2 Monsters of the same Level!" Shun realized.
Mizael threw his hand up into the sky. "Level 8 Schwarzchild and Radius, Overlay!" Mizael declared, and his monsters turned yellow and purple, respectively, and spiraled into the air. A large galaxy portal opened, a large light exploding from it as the monsters sailed inside.
The Number '107' flashed in purple, before Mizael outstreched his arms, as an image of the big bang was shown behind him. "Let your ferocious roar be heard though the entire universe. Rise up, and show the power of the galaxies that stretch back to the beginning of time! Now manifest yourself, so that my victory shall be attained!" His Xyz monster's sealed form, in the form of an Onyx-colored pendulum, showed itself. "Xyz Summon! Decend before us, Number 107! Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon!" The monster began to extend its tail, along with its wings, both of which were mechanical. Its eyes glowed red with anger, before letting out a mighty roar of rage.
Number 107: Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon
ATK: 3000
RANK: 8
ORU: 2
"Whoa! They both summoned their most strongest monsters on their first turn..." Yuzu breathed, in complete amazement.
"Yuzu!" a voice called out. The pink-haired girl turned to see who it was, only to see it was Rio running toward her and Rei.
"Rio? What's going on? Who is he?" Yuzu said, pointing at Mizael. Rio took Yuzu's hand, running away from the duel. "What.. What's going on? Tell me! Why did that Mizael guy call Rei 'Vector'?"
Rio turned toward her friend, saying, "I wish I could tell you, but I can't. It's for the best, trust me." As they left the alley, Rio met eyes with Serena and Shun, in a scene that took 1 second, but felt like it took an hour to watch as the girl took their sister away.
Rei looked at the spot where Yuzu once stood, not moving for what seemed like years. "Well then... time to drop the 'Think of the Best' bullshit..." Rei, no, Vector turned toward Mizael with his usual arrogant look in his eye. "What the hell do you want, Miza?"
Shun and Serena gasped in unison. "I knew it! That damned boy was the untrustworthy one!" Shun growled.
Mizael growled, staring a hole into Vector. "I know your plan, got it? I've busted your secret vault wide open!"
Vector chuckled, which turned into a slight laugh. "You had an entire day to stop me, so what the hell could you possibly know about my so-called 'secret vault', honestly?"
Mizael smirked. "The New World plan, wasn't it?"
Vector's smile dropped, letting out a low growl, and staring a hole at Mizael. "You bastard! How the hell could you have possibly have known about that?!"
"New World?" Shun said, in thought.
"What is this 'plan'? And why exactly does he need Yuzu for it?" Serena looked her bracelet again. "And, where do the rest of us fit into this puzzle?"
Vector stopped his growling, but he then smiled, evilly. "No matter, even if you know what my plan is, there's no chance in hell that you'll ever stop me."
"Wanna bet?!" Mizael smirked. "Battle Phase! Now, Galaxy Eyes' effect activates! During the Battle Phase, I can negate the effects of all monsters on the field! Tachyon Transmigration!"
Number 107: Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon
ORU: 1
The monster's jewel glowed, and the glow was about to hit Masquerade, but...
"Naive as ever, Miza. Masquerade's effect activates! During the Battle Phase, by detaching one Overlay Unit, I negate the activation of the effect, and you take 800 points of damage!" Vector declared, as the blonde Barian widened his eyes in shock.
Number 104: Masquerade
ORU: 2
Mizael LP: 2200
Hand: 3
"Arrgh!" Mizael cried, feeling his Life Points slip away. "But... My Tachyon Dragon still has more ATK than your monster! Tachyon Dragon, attacks Masquerade! Ahnailation Tachyon Stream!" Mizael cried out, the monster being vaporized.
Vector LP: 3700
Hand: 0
As Vector watched as his monster was destroyed, he wasn't phased. "Turn End!" Mizael breathed heavily, feeling the effects of the Duel Anchor weighing down on him.
"Miza, you're looking pale! Looks like you won't be able to stop my 'big, evil, secret plan' after all, will you? How about you just give up?" Vector taunted.
Mizael put on a defiant face. "Never! I might fall here, or anywhere else, but there are other heroes, and those heroes will be able to strike you down!
Meanwhile...
(A/N: It's a few turns later, can I not do that? Whatever.)
"My turn! Draw!" Shark drew his card, smiling. He pulled a card from his hand, and "I activate the Spell Card, Rank Up Magic - The Seventh One!" Shark declared, Number 101 rising from the ground. "I can Special Summon one Over-Hundred Number from my Extra Deck, as long as I Xyz Summon a Chaos Over-Hundred Number of the same number!" The monster sunk back into the Overlay Network, and exploded.
"Guardian of souls that have yet to mature, become the dark knight and crush the light! Xyz Summon! Come forth, Chaos Number 101! Silent Honor DARK!" The monster's armor turned black, and the ARK turned into a large, Humanlike figure, before it brandished it's trident.
Number C101: Slient Honor DARK
ATK: 2800
RANK: 5
ORU: 1
Yuri looked at Shark's monster, chuckling lowly. "Nice strategy, but all for naught, I'm afraid. Stave Venom's effect activates! I can target a Level 5 monster, and take its effect for my own!" Starve Venom's wings extended, but when they reached Number C101, the monster was largely unfazed.
"W-What?" Yuri said, surprised. "What trick is this?!"
"It's no trick. You seem to have forget that Xyz monsters DON'T have levels, but ranks instead. Therefore, Stave Venom's effect is negated."
Yuri's eyes widened, both in shock, and confusion. "B-But, if it doesn't have Levels, doesn't that mean that its Level is 0?"
Shark stared at Yuri with half-lidded eyes. "Silent Honor DARK's effect activates! When you have a Special Summoned monster, and I control Number C101, I can take that monster to use as an Overlay Unit! Dark Soul Robber!" As he was saying this, Starve Venom was encased in a Chaos Overlay Unit, and reappeared beside Number C101.
Number C101: Silent Honor DARK
ORU: 2
"No way!" Yuto cried.
"Awesome! Excellent strategy, Shark!" Yuma cheered.
"Attack directly, Chaos Number 101! Return from Limbo!" DARK swung its trident, and appeared to imaple the cabbage, but merely his cape was damaged. Trying to play up the injury, Yuri stumbled around, before fainting.
Shark LP: 200
Yuri LP: 0
"Yuri!" Yuya cried out, running over to his older brother's side. The tomato cradled his brother's head in his elbow, him not moving. "Speak to me!"
Yuri slowly opened his eyes, saying, "Yuya, thank you... from saving me from the darkness... *bleh*" Yuri stuck his toungue out, to symbolize that he was 'dead'.
"YURI!" Yuya shouted to the heavens, in an over-the-top manner.
Yuri then felt a hard stomp on his face, from Yugo's boot. "You idiot! Who the hell do you think you are?! Leave the acting to Yuya!" Yuri held his now-aching face, as his elder brother chewed him out.
Yuya walked toward his opponent, Kaito, looking into his eyes. "The score is 2-1, Yuya. Do you really think that you can aavenge your brothers' losses?" The blond asked.
Yuya smiled, readying his duel disk. "You bet!" The orange blade unsheathed from the disk.
"DUEL!"
Back to the plot...
Mizael went down to the ground on one knee, clutching his chest, breathing heavily, and sweating incessantly.
"Miza... You can join me, you know. The three of us, we can be something of legends. You, the loyal knight, Yuzu, the prophet, and me... The God of the New World." Vector walked over to his fellow Barian, offering his hand. "Come. You don't have to die here."
"No way!" a voice called out, and Vector looked to see two cloaked figures in the alley, a boy and a girl. They took off their cloaks, reaveling them to be Shun and Serena.
"You!" Mizael breathed.
"Yuzu?! No... The hair and eyes are different... In that case, it must be her sister? Either way..." Vector thought.
Mizael struggled to get up, and walked over the indigo-haired girl. "You shouldn't have come here! Leave, now!"
"No way!" Serena protested. "This creep wants my sister for something, and he won't succeed!"
Shun readied his duel disk, as did Serena. "You bastard... How the hell do you expect Yuzu to go along with your 'plan'?"
Vector sneered. "She obviously trusted me enough to follow me here, didn't she?"
"Grr..."
"You two, stop! This isn't your battle! Just leave!" Mizael protested.
"Shut up! It involves our family, so it involves us!" Serena spat back.
"Intrusion Penalty: 2000 Life Points." The Duel System said, and sent a shock through both Shun and Serena's bodies.
Serena LP: 2000
Hand: 5
Shun LP: 2000
Hand: 5
"Hm. Even if there's 3 or 3,000 of you, you still won't defeat me! And if I recall, it's still my turn!" Vector drew his card. "Because there are 3 monsters with the same level and attribute, I Special Summon Dark Tuner Umbral Horror Martyr!" The monster came out of a dark portal, surrounded by darkness, taking the form of a young woman, her long grey hair obscuring her face, and her pure white clothes tattered and bloody.
Dark Tuner Umbral Horror Martyr
ATK: 0
Level: 11
"What the?! That thing has a Level of 11, but no ATK?" Shun said, in disbelief.
"Not only that, it's a Dark Tuner as well!" Serena added.
"Martyr's effect activates! When this card is summoned, I can revive one monster from my graveyard! Come back, Satellarknight Betelgeuse!" The armored knight returned to the field.
Satellarknight Betelgeuse
ATK: 700
LEVEL: 4
"Again with that thing?" Serena wondered.
"Now, I can make the fun truly begin." Vector told himself, lowly. The Barian thrust his hand to the sky. "I tune my Level 11 Martyr with my Level 4 Betelgeuse!" Martyr then turned into 11 Dark Stars.
"With monsters like those, is he actually going to Synchro?" Serena asked, no one in particular.
"No..." Mizael replied. "It's something much worse..."
Vector's body was covered in a dark aura. He clenched his fist toward his chest. "Where all hope remains, the beast will show up to destroy all that is left!" The monster's stars pierced Betelgeuse, making the monster cry out in pain. "And from the ashes, we rebuild anew!" The 11 stars turned into 7, which then started to spin faster and faster.
"This... This can't be!" Shun cried, stepping back slightly.
"DARK SYNCHRO! Come forth, my faithful beast! Umbral Terror Chupacabra!" The monster came from the 7 stars. Jumping out of the sky, the 8-foot monster stood on its two hind legs, tongue hanging out of its mouth, blood dripping from its gaping maw, and eyes glowing a fearful red. The monster let out a giant screech, their opponents cover their ears in pain.
Umbral Terror Chupacabra
ATK: 2500
Level: -7
Author made Cards:
Umbral Horror Martyr
Level: 11
ATK: 0/DEF: 0
Fiend/Dark Tuner/Effect
Effect: If you have 3 monsters of the same Attribute and Level in your Graveyard, Special Summon this card. When this effect resolves, Special Summon one Level 4 or lower monster from your Graveyard
Umbral Terror Chupacabra
Level: -7
ATK: 2500/DEF: 1000
Fiend/Dark Synchro/Effect
Effect: To be revealed in the next chapter.
And there you go! I didn't want to focus too much on the Yuri/Shark duel too much, because I wanted to get to the plot even quicker. I've left you waiting long enough. Alright, see you in approx. 2 Weeks!
Oh yeah, we got a new president. Yay... (sarcasm)