TRD: Hi guys, we're back!
AI: Yeah it didn't take you even half as long this time.
TRD: You be quiet, it's hard having inspiration at times.
AI: Knowing you, this is going to be a Bastion/Hayley chapter. (Rolls eyes)
Diva: Yes it is and Bastion is the hero of this chapter, you wait it's going to be action packed.
AI: (dryly) I can hardly wait. (Gets hit on the head with a Master Chef saucepan by Diva) I have a headache!
Diva: (smiling) we don't own anything except our OC's and cards, enjoy. (Hands AI an aspirin and water)
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Chapter 14: Blackwing Master! Karādorein strikes back!
Karādorein sat on his throne, staring at a portrait of Hayley, Larke and Jaden looked at him and shook their heads, he'd been sitting there for several days now, just staring at the portrait.
"Think we should snap him out of it?" muttered Jaden to Larke.
"Are you crazy?" whispered back Larke, wondering how she'd fallen for Jaden in her past life. Jaden thought about what would happen, turned pale and decided to keep quiet.
"Jaden!" Karādorein's voice cut through the silence.
"Yes Master," said Jaden.
"Bring me the mirror, I want to see what my princess is doing," ordered Karādorein.
"Yes Master," said Jaden and went to fetch the mirror. He came back with a large ornate mirror on wheels and set it in front of Karādorein and returned to Larke's side.
"Show me Princess Hayley," said Karādorein to the mirror, the surface shimmered and Hayley appeared in it.
She and Bastion were sitting on the grass staring up at the colorless sky, her head on Bastion's chest. He was running his fingers through her hair and she was smiling in contentment.
"I love you Starsong," whispered Bastion to his love.
"I love you too, my Blackwing Knight," she whispered back with an adoring gaze at him.
Karādorein snarled and pushed the mirror away, causing it to go back to normal.
"GET BLAZE AND TELL HIM TO DESTROY BASTION!" he screamed at Larke and Jaden who jumped and ran to do as their master bid.
"I will have her for my own, today Bastion will become one of my Colour Crystals!" vowed Karādorein, clenching his fist, he would have her, make no mistake.
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Unaware of Karādorein's wrath or that Bastion was in danger the two teens watched the clouds scurry by. There was hardly anyone around today; most students were studying for the upcoming exams, including Flo. Bastion, being the genius he was had already studied and so had Hayley and they were taking some well-earned time off. Craig had come down with cold and was in the infirmary and so was Hasselberry, due to a leg injury thanks to a rough soccer practice and Taniya was busy creating exam questions. It was peaceful, until a burst of flames appeared to their left disturbing the peace.
"What the heck!" cried Bastion, Hayley getting off his chest and they scrambled up off the ground. The flames didn't spread, instead a boy walked out of them, he had red hair and glasses and the dark Yellow Key around his neck.
"You're Bastion Misawa?" he asked and Bastion nodded.
"I'm Blaze and I'm your opponent. Mater Karādorein isn't happy with you touching his princess," said Blaze, activating his duel disk.
"I'm not his princess!" objected Hayley loudly.
"How dare Karādorein say that, he has no right!" exclaimed Bastion and his key glowed, dressing him in the same attire and gaining the sword and the same duel disk when he's dueled against Jaden. He slotted his deck into his disk and activated it.
"You know the stakes," said Blaze and Bastion nodded.
"Let's Duel!"
"Let the wind blow!"
BM: 4000
Bl: 4000
"I'll go first and I summon Blackwing – Fane the Steel Chain in attack mode, then if I control a Blackwing other than Blackwing Bora the Spear I can Special Summon Blackwing - Bora the Spear from my hand and I summon him in attack mode, next I'll play a facedown and end my turn," said Bastion. (B-FSC 500/800) (B-BS 1700/800)
"I draw and I summon Barrier Statue of the Inferno in defense mode and he has an effect, no monsters but Fire monsters can be special summoned," said Blaze with a grin and then played the trap Backfire. It was a continuous trap that inflicted five hundred points of damage to the opponent's life points when a fire monster on his field was destroyed. Blaze then ended his turn. (BSI 1000/1000)
"Alright then, I summon Blackwing - Jinn the Dry Wind in attack mode and now I'll activate Fane's special ability, he can attack your life points directly," said Bastion, deliberately not using Bora to destroy Blaze's Barrier Statue, he wanted him to see Fane's effect and show that he could get around his defenses. (B-JDW 600/500)
BM: 4000
Bl: 3500
"Way to go Bastion!" cheered Hayley. Bastion smiled at his girl before commanding Bora to destroy Blaze's monster.
BM: 3500
Bl: 2800
"Why'd I lose Life Points?" grunted Blaze in pain.
"It's Bora's ability, if he destroys and monster in defense mode the deference between his attack points and your monsters defense points are dealt as damage to you," said Bastion, not really minding that he lost a few life points due to Backfire's effect, Blaze was taking more damage than him then he commanded Jinn to attack Blaze directly.
BM: 3500
Bl: 2200
"I end my turn," said Bastion.
"I begin mine, you're going down, I play Polymerization to fuse my UFO Turtle with my Little Chimera to Fusion Summon Blaze Fenix, the Burning Bombardment Bird in attack mode," said Blaze. (BFBB 2800/2300)
"Uh oh," said Bastion, he knew he wouldn't like this.
"Uh oh is right, Blaze Fenix destroy his Bora the Spear," said Blaze.
"Not so fast Blaze. I play my facedown, Negate Attack, now your attack is stopped and your turn ends," said Bastion.
"You got lucky," Blaze muttered and ended his turn.
"I draw and play graceful Charity which allows me to draw three cards and discard two. Next I'll play Down Burst, this card sets all face-up Spells and traps you control and now I'll play this card, Delta Crow – Anti Reverse, this trap can only be activated when I control a Blackwing and if I control three Blackwings exactly, this card can be activated from my hand and guess what it does, it destroys all facedown traps and Spells on your field. Your Backfire is no longer an issue for me anymore. Now, I'll use Monster Reborn to bring back a monster in my grave, Blackwing – Sirocco the Dawn, in attack mode," said Bastion (B-SD 2000/900)
"Next up, if I control a monster other than Blackwing Gale the Whirlwind I can Special Summon him to the field, in attack mode," said Bastion and now he had five monsters on the field and Blaze sweatdropped. Jaden had warned him that Bastion's new deck focused on swarming the field but he was sure that he could handle it, now…he was not so sure…
"That's not all; I'm now going to give my monsters a tune up! Jinn is tuner monster, so it's him with Bora and Fane, to Synchro Summon Blackwing Armor Master in attack mode," said Bastion and grinned at his favourite Synchro monster. (BAM 2500/1500)
"Now it's Gale's and Sirocco's turn, for a tune up and this monster isn't a Blackwing," said Bastion.
"It's not?" asked Blaze.
"That's right, come forth great beast of darkness, rise and vanquish my enemy to allow goodness to reign, Dark End Dragon!" chanted Bastion, Hayley shivered, that chant gave her Goosebumps. A massive black dragon appeared on the field and roared at Blaze who gulped. (BED 2600/2100)
"Armor Master, attack," said Bastion but was stopped by Blaze, who having heard from Jaden about Blackwing Armor Master and his effect, used Negate Attack to stop him.
"I end my turn with a face down," said Bastion.
"I draw and I play Pot of Greed, now I can draw two cards," said Blaze, "I summon Flame the Crimson King in attack mode and when he's summoned his effect activates, he inflicts four hundred points of damage to your life points for each fire type I have on my field, which is two so say goodbye to eight hundred life points," said Blaze and Bastion gasped in pain as he was burned.
BM: 2700
Bl: 2200
"Bastion, are you ok?" asked Hayley in concern.
"Yeah I'm fine angel, don't worry, I'll take him down," said Bastion, waving to her.
"You shouldn't concern yourself with him Princess, the only man you should care about his Karādorein," said Blaze and Hayley and Bastion stared at him in disbelief and he made his next move.
"I now tribute my Flame the Crimson King to tribute Summon Thestalos the Fire Monarch in attack mode, and when he's tribute summoned I can discard one random card from your hand and if it's a monster you take damage equal to its level times one hundred, so I'll pick the middle card," said Blaze. (TFM 2400/1000)
Bastion groaned in despair, Blaze had picked a monster, his highest leveled monster, Blackwing – Aurora of the Northern Lights, she was a level ten, this was going to hurt. He discarded her and took one thousand life points of damage.
BM: 1700
Bl: 2200
"Bastion!" shouted Hayley in horror.
"Now for my next move, I use Polymerization to fuse Thestalos the Fire Monarch and Blaze Fenix, the Bombardment Bird in order to Fusion Summon my Dark Colour Monster , Dark Yellow Phoenix Monarch!" said Blaze with glee and a huge dark yellow phoenix with yellow fire on its wings appeared on the field. (DYPM 3000/2100)
"This card gains one hundred attack points time the number of fire monsters on my field and he can only battle my opponent's strongest monster on their field." (DYPM 3100/2100)
"I'm in trouble," said Bastion, "Wait a minute, doesn't he have the same effect as the other colour monsters? Where he's not affected by traps, spells or monster effects?" asked Bastion, a glimmer of hope in his eyes.
"No he doesn't have that effect, he's a fusion monster, not like the other Dark Colour Monsters, but it doesn't matter this duel is finished, destroy his Dragon," said Blaze.
"Not so fast, your monsters inability does matter, for now I play my facedown, Swords of Reveling Light, now you can't attack for three turns," said Bastion happily.
"Shoot!" exclaimed Blaze but ended his turn.
'I need to draw a monster that will get rid of his Dark Colour monster, I need to protect Hayley, what I wouldn't give for a Colour monster of my own to help do that,' thought Bastion and then he was standing outside the temple that Taniya had described to him, Hayley and the others. Needing no persuasion he followed his glowing key into the temple and saw that the pink, green, purple, red and yellow tablets were still glowing. Black and Blue had faded completely and were just regular stone coloured, while the orange tiger glowed brightly. He walked over to his tablet which depicted a great bird in flight and there was hole in one of its foot talons, he inserted his key and a loud screech echoed throughout the temple.
Bastion blinked and found himself back in the duel, he drew his card and grinned, "You're out of luck Blaze, because I meet the requirements to Special Summon my Own Colour monster," said Bastion, smirking at Blaze's expression.
"NO!"
"YES!"
"Yes. Now pay attention, I can only Special Summon this monster if I've Synchro Summoned one Blackwing, have Dark End Dragon is on the field and I have two Blackwings in my hand, so come on out Yellow Blackwing – Jaswinder the Storm, in attack mode!" summoned Bastion and a huge yellow humanoid bird with yellow armor and a lightning bolt in his clawed hand appeared on the field. (YB-JS 3000/2700)
"He isn't affected by Spells, traps and monster effects and here's his other effects, by discarding three cards from my hand to my grave I can defuse a fusion monster on my opponents field, say goodbye to your Dark Yellow Phoenix Monarch," said Bastion, watching in satisfaction as Jaswinder used his lightning bolt to split the evil monster back into Thestalos the Fire Monarch and Blaze Fenix, the Bombardment Bird. (TFM 2400/1000) (2800/2300)
"OH NOOO!" screamed Blaze; he didn't have another Polymerization in his deck to summon his Colour Monster again. 'At least his monster can only attack once,' he thought.
Almost as if Bastion had read his mind he spoke, "Now for his next ability, he can attack three times in the same turn thanks to the three cards I discarded."
"Say what?" asked Blaze is shock, he was doomed.
"That's right, Jaswinder, destroy Bombardment Bird!" ordered Bastion and Bombardment Bird had his wings clipped.
BM: 1700
Bl: 2000
"Attack number two, Jaswinder attack his Thestalos the Fire Monarch," said Bastion and Blaze yelled in pain.
BM: 1700
Bl: 1400
"Now Jaswinder, attack Blaze's life points directly!" said Bastion, knowing he had won.
Blaze screamed in pain as his life points fell to zero and a colour crystal appeared sucking blaze into it.
BM: 1700
Bl: 0
"YES!" said Bastion and Hayley and their keys glowed to protect them from being drained of colour. Dark Yellow was being taken away from the world and into the Colour Crystal, which then flew up into the sky and soon latched onto the giant Crystal in the colour room in Karādorein's palace.
"That fool!" yelled Karādorein in anger and the remaining Anarchists cowered in the corner.
"It's time to take matters into my own hands. Bastion Misawa is going down today!" said Karādorein and disappeared in a flash of colours.
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"Apart from losing dark yellow, that was great Bastion, now we only have Ryan, Larke, Jaden and Flo's opponent left," cheered Hayley and gave her boyfriend a kiss.
The kiss was broken due to a flurry of colours and Karādorein appearing from them. Bastion pushed Hayley behind him, drawing his sword and facing Karādorein in a battle stance.
"What do want Karādorein? I defeated Blaze and if you don't remember, I defeated you the last time we met," said Bastion fiercely.
"Correct, you did defeat me last time but this time will be different, I am at my full strength and I have grown in power thanks to the colours I have absorbed so far. As for what I want, I want Princess Hayley to be my bride ad rule with me. I have come to destroy you Bastion to make sure that happens," said Karādorein and a sword appeared in his hand.
Hayley rushed out from behind Bastion in fury, "You monster, I will never marry you and you will never defeat Bastion. He fights for me with love in his heart and you fight just to prove that you are superior and to have me as your prize, a trophy! I'm not either and I will do everything in my power, as a princess, as a duelist, as an Amazon and as the woman whom Bastion loves to help defeat you, not just for me, but for mankind as well," Hayley stated and then her key began to glow…
Her body glowed a bright pink and pink ribbons began twisting around her body, enveloping her until a flash of pink light had the boys covering their eyes. When it subsided they both saw Hayley in a beautiful dress. It was strapless, pale pink in colour, with a white collar that was decorated with roses and wisterias and the edge of the dress had white pearls sown on. Around her waist was a white sash with two roses and around her neck was a pink choker with pearls lining it and on her delicate feet were rose-pink, glass slippers. Her hair was done up in an elegant bun, with the rest of it trailing down her back, entwined with a pink and white ribbon. Pearl earrings adorned her ears and there was corsage of roses and wisterias on her left wrist. A crystal pink tiara with a white heart in the middle added the finishing touch and Hayley looked every inch the princess she was.
"Wow…Hayley, you look ravishing," breathed Bastion, thinking how lucky he was that this angel on earth was his girlfriend.
She blushed and smiled at him.
Karādorein was sweating in fear, 'Great, just great, now both of them have accessed their keys power, the princess and her prince… but the prophecy won't come true! I'll make sure of it! She will be mine! '
"Enough! Bastion we fight now. For the right to Hayley's hand!" he said and started forward with his sword. Bastion grabbed Hayley and put her behind him, not wanting her to get hurt.
"How dare talk about her as though she's nothing but an accessory! Her hand! We're only in our teens! Even though we have no doubt that we'll be together for the rest of our lives, we don't have any need or desire to rush things and I'm telling you now Karādorein, I fought for Hayley before, in this life and in my past life, I'll do it again…" said Bastion, the two had been circling each other as Bastion had been speaking then Karādorein made the first move and lunged towards him.
Bastion ducked and parried before blocking a strike that would have taken off his neck. He twisted his upper body and thrust his sword at Karādorein' who barely managed to block it! They fought for what seemed like hours but it had only been twenty minutes. Then Karādorein made an unexpected move, he dodged out of the way and peddled backwards before sending out a visible beam of psychic energy towards Bastion, which lifted him off the ground and made him smash into the side of the school.
"BASTION!" screamed Hayley in horror.
Bastion lay there, unconscious… His world was dark and it felt like he was floating, he opened his eyes and it was still dark but he could see and feel that he was indeed floating.
"Where am I?" he wondered and then it got lighter and Yellow Blackwing - Jaswinder the Storm appeared as well as every other monster in his deck.
"What in world…?" asked Bastion, dumbstruck at this spectacle.
"Bastion you must wake up and save the Princess," said Bora the Spear.
"Don't be so forward Bora, at least explain what's going on," said Zephyr the Gentle Breeze.
"Yes, an explanation would be nice," said Bastion, having managed to find his voice.
"Bastion, you are aware of your past life with Hayley, what you don't know is that you both possess great powers, when you took the Colour Keys they were unlocked. Your transformations are proof, theses clothes that you wear are actually the clothes you wore as Prince Daichi and the transformation Hayley went through, she is wearing what she wore as Princess Wisteria. Your powers back in your past include powerful psychic abilities, greater than Karādorein's. You still possess them, you have woken some of them up now," explained Blackwing Armor Master.
"Me? Psychic powers? Are you sure?" asked Bastion, it just seemed too impossible to believe.
"Yes, you must now wake up and use them to defeat Karādorein one on one for the last time before you face him in the final battle. Close your eyes and concentrate, you will know what you need to do," said Fane and he and the others started to fade away.
"Wait, don't go! I don't understand, how am I supposed to use my powers?" cried Bastion but his world was going black and he heard screaming, a girls voice, calling his name, save me…it was Hayley!
"Bastion's eyes snapped open and saw that Hayley was struggling to get out of Karādorein's strong grip.
"No Princess, not even your beloved Bastion can help you now, say goodbye to him," said Karādorein and sent his sword Bastion's way with his powers, oblivious to Hayley's screams. A second before it reached him, Bastions eyes shot open, glowing yellow and purple, stopped the sword, turned it around and embedded it deep into the ground. He jumped up and held up a card.
"ARISE, BLACK-WINGED DRAGON!" Instinct told him what to do; instinct told him how to use his powers. A magnificent black winged dragon appeared in the sky. He swooped down, Bastion jumped and landed on his back and used his powers to detach Hayley from Karādorein and send him flying. Karādorein got up and scowled, summoning his own Monster, Dragunity Knight – Trident and got on his back. The two psychics on their dragons stared at each other before Karādorein shouted,
"TRIDENT, USE DRAGON BLAZE!" and a blaze of fire came forth from the dragon.
"BLACK-WINGED DRAGON, COUNTER WITH BLACK FEATHER STRIKE!" cried Bastion and Black-Winged Dragon, being the stronger monster on the field, so to speak, his attack cut through Tridents and sent him and Karādorein to the ground, disappearing as Karādorein could no longer keep him on the earth. Bastion landed Black-Winged Dragon and jumped off him, walking over to Karādorein he pulled his sword to his throat, "Get out of here Karādorein and don't come back. We'll meet again in the final battle and be prepared to lose again," he said coldly and after he'd lifted his sword from him, Karādorein scrambled away from Bastion, teleporting himself back to his castle in a flurry of colours.
Bastion put away his sword, patted Black-Winged Dragon, thanking him for his help before sending him back to the spirit world.
"Bastion, are you ok?" asked his very concerned girlfriend, running towards him. He turned and saw Taniya running towards them with Crowler and Sheppard and smiled at Hayley, relieved that she was safe and said, "I'm fine…" and then he collapsed on the ground, utterly exhausted from his strenuous day.
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TRD: I hope you liked it.
AI: Woah, talk about an action packed chapter, great job Diva! (Stopped rubbing his head)
TRD: Thank you little buddy, well in the words of Porky Pig, T-th th-that's all folks!
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