Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to Yu-Gi-Oh! or Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V. Hmm, let's see; if I did: The Quality of Yu-Gi-Oh! Anime, in general, would be better, especially for the female duelists having them be more than eye candy. (Here are some examples: Tea Gardner, Mai Valentine, Alexis Rhodes, Akiza Izinski, Kotori Meadows, Rio Kastle, Yuzu Hiiragi, especially Aoi Zaizen (she's my waifu), etc). All Rights go to Kazuki Takahashi.

Last time on Yu-Gi-Oh! Dimensions: Yuji and Shinon duel each other. Yuji brings out his Alchemist Magician and Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon. As he summons his ace monster, Yuji remembers what happens after he pulled Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon when he hung out with Shinon and Akane. Shinon isn't such a slouch also, as she summons her Ulti-Cannahawk and Ulti-Apelio, and now she's got the advantage. In this chapter: We conclude the duel involving Yuji and Shinon. What new strategies will Yuji and Shinon come up with to defeat one another? Will Yuji defeat Shinon for the first time ever in his dueling life? These questions will be answered, Right Now!

Chapter Thirteen: Conflict or Jealousy? Shinon Vs. Yuji (Part Two)

Reminder: Yuji only has around 2900 life points remaining, after getting hit with Shinon's Ritual Beast Ulti-Apelio since it destroyed Yuji's Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon. Yuji currently got Alchemist Magician and Fission Magician on his field, with a rarity: no pendulum scales on his field. He also got Timebreaker Magician and Nobledragon Magician in his hand. Shinon, on the other hand, hasn't taken any damage so far. She currently has her Ulti-Cannahawk and Ulti-Apelio on her field, plus two face-down cards in her Spell/Trap Zones.

-Turn Four-

Life Points:

Shinon: 4000

Yuji: 2900

"It's my turn, I Draw!" Yuji yells out as he draws into 'Pendulum Reset', he needs something to turn this duel around against Shinon. "I'll activate the Spell Card, 'Pendulum Reset!'" Yuji activates his lone Spell Card in his hand. "This card allows me to place Two Pendulum Monsters from my deck to my Pendulum Zones, granted I cannot Special Summon Monsters, except by Pendulum Summoning them this turn!" Yuji explains the card to Shinon, as she uses a paper fan to fan herself out of boredom. "I'll add, Oafdragon Magician and Wisdom-Eye Magician to my hand" Yuji adds as he reveals the two cards he added from his deck.

"I will place Oafdragon Magician and Wisdom-Eye Magician in my Pendulum Scales, and usually this would be the time I would Pendulum Summon right now" Yuji starts to ponder the thought of what he should do next. "Not this time! I activate the Pendulum Effect of Wisdom-Eye Magician!" "It allows me to destroy itself, in order for me to place a Magician from my deck directly to my Pendulum Scale!" Yuji starts to explain Wisdom-Eye Magician's effect. "Will, you get on your turn already?!" Shinon yells out at Yuji while growing visibly frustrated at him for taking too long explaining things. "Sorry, Shinon it's a force of habit" Yuji quickly comes up with an excuse.

"I'll place my Necro Magician in my Pendulum Scale, and now with my Scale 2 Oafdragon Magician and my Scale 8 Necro Magician in my pendulum scales, I can Pendulum Summon once again!" Yuji prepares to Pendulum Summon once again. "I Pendulum summon! Return to me my monsters!" Yuji chants into his duel disk as a grey light starts to light up Yuji's duel disk and his pendulum scales. "Welcome back, Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon! (Level: 7 / Scale: 4 / ATK: 2500 / DEF: 2000), Purple Poison Magician in Defence Position! (Level: 4 / Scale: 1 / ATK: 1200 / DEF: 2100), and finally my Dragonpit Magician in Defence Position! (Level: 7 / Scale: 8 / ATK: 900 / DEF: 2700)" Yuji si summons his monsters from his Extra Deck, one by one.

"Oh, well now is the best time for this, I'll attack your Ritual Beast Ulti-Cannahawk with my Alchemist Magician, attack with 'Runic Pulse!'" Yuji's Alchemist Magician summons a beam of light, suddenly evaporating Shinon's Ulti-Cannahawk (Shinon: 4000 - 3100), "After that is complete Alchemist Magician allows me to add a Spell/Trap Card from my Deck to my hand, 'Alchemic Researching'" Yuji rushes to add a card from his Deck to his hand. "I'll add, 'Polymerization' to my hand!" Yuji says as he adds the Spell Card to his hand. "I'll end my tur-"

"-Before you end your turn, Yuji I'll activate my reverse card, which is 'Ritual Beast Ambush'!" Shinon interrupts Yuji as he's about to end his turn by activating her Trap Card. "With this card, I can Special Summon one 'Ritual Beast Tamer' Monster and one "Spiritual Beast' Monster that is either banished or in my Graveyard in Defence Position!" "Return to me, Ritual Beast Tamer Wen and Spiritual Beast Cannahawk!" Shinon revives her monsters to her side of the field.

-Turn Five-

"It's back to me Yuji! I'll draw!" Shinon draws into 'Fusion Maiden', after looking at the card, Shinon flashes back to all of her memories she's had with Yuji when they were kids.

"I win again, Yuji" Shinon joyously brags to Yuji after beating him four times in a row. "Gee, Shinon w-why are you so good at this game?" Yuji with small tears coming out asks Shinon a question. "Aww, it's nothing Yuji. It's just how our decks are made" Shinon says to Yuji while holding his hands together with her hands. "W-What do you mean by that, S-Shinon-Chan" Yuji slowly starts to look down at his feet.

"My mommy told me, that dueling mostly comes from your heart towards the cards" "If you don't have the heart to duel, then you will always lose in the end, Yuji" Shinon talks to Yuji in a coddling manner, even though, Yuji is older than Shinon by about 8 months. "T-The h-heart to d-duel?" Yuji asks himself that question while Shinon hears it also. "It's basically something you have to figure out on your own" Shinon reassures to Yuji regarding his questions involving the heart of a duelist.

"I mean you've only started dueling for two months now, it's usually tough for new duelists to play the game, especially after what happened to your daddy" Shinon after mentioning Yuji's dad, Yuji starts to cry out for his dad. During this time, his father passed away three months before this event. Shinon concerned for her friend, hugs him in comfort to try and cheer him up.

"Yuji, I bet your daddy, is watching over you and cheering you on to do your best in life" Shinon after saying this calms down Yuji, to the point Yuji pulls a card out of his pocket. "S-Shinon-Chan, h-here's a present for you," Yuji slowly hands Shinon a card, it is a card called, 'Fusion Maiden'. "My mommy gave me this card after she got it from her friends at Duel Academy, but I decided, I'd give this card to you, S-Shinon-Chan." Yuji explains his reasoning why he gave Shinon his cherished card.

"Y-Yuji, I will cherish this card for as long as I live!" "This card is basically our symbol of friendship" Shinon hugs Yuji once again after realizing what the card meant to Yuji. "I-I mean why not? Your my only friend, a-and if we get o-older, m-maybe we could be m-more than j-just friends?" Yuji struggles to pull out the sentence, but finally, he says it. "O-Ok, Y-Yuji" Shinon visibly blushing after realizing what Yuji meant by being more than just friends.

"Yuji, you want to know the reason why I wanted to duel you?" Shinon asks Yuji with a serious tone in her voice. "W-What is that, Shinon?" Yuji replies to Shinon after slowly starting to put the pieces together. "Because the thing you said to me on the playground in Elementary School, 'If maybe we could be more than just friends'. maybe before we even started going to Spring Star, I'd thought about how we would be dating each other, two childhood friends, who care deeply about each other" "But then, that plan got scrapped after you started dating Akane. You guys were so happy together. spending every waking minute at school together, while you just abandoned me in the background!" Shinon starts to rant towards Yuji about his relationship with Akane and his broken promise.

"Maybe I'm to blame since I inadvertently put you two together in the first place!" "You may just put it off as petty jealousy, but, Yuji Ishino, you broke a promise, and in the meantime, you broke my heart" Shinon after saying this starts to cry. Yuji who doesn't want to see anyone cry takes off his duel disk and starts to hug Shinon. "Shinon, I'm sorry I didn't know about all of this" Yuji starts to apologize to his best friend. "Back then, when I was mourning, you were the first one who actually helped me get over my dad's death" Yuji continues on with his apology

"I never realized the feelings you had for me, I just thought you didn't like the idea of us dating each other since we've been friends for so long." "But Akane, for me is like my angel who descended down when I was hopeless to find romance" "Shinon, in the long run, I wanted to say thank you, for introducing me to an angel of a girl" Yuji finishes his apology, while in the meantime Shinon's anger and rage is starting to subside. "In a serious note, Shinon, If we dated each other, we'd probably wouldn't even be friends right now, since our... umm personalities don't mix" Yuji also explains his reasoning about not dating Shinon.

"I-I understand, Yuji" "I was wrong to try to make you and Akane break up" Shinon apologizes for her jealousy with Yuji and Akane, well more Yuji than Akane. "But anyway, we have a duel to finish up, who knows when Ms. Hibiki and ms. Izinski starts to get suspicious that their best students are not in class right now" Shinon tells Yuji this as he runs back to put on his duel disk. "Alright, I'm ready, Shinon. Let's continue our duel" Yuji enthusiastically says to his best friend. "Ok, I'll Fuse my Ritual Beast Tamer Wen, Spiritual Beast Cannahawk, and Ritual Beast Ulti-Apelio together" Shinon commands as she starts to contact fusion her monsters.

"Yuji, I hope you're ready for this, I'm about to summon a monster I've never used against you in any of our duels. I learned this from Mrs. Hibiki!" Shinon starts to prepare for her summoning chant.

'Spiritual Beast merge together with The
Ritual Beast Tamer named Wen and the Ultimate Ritual Beast
To Create the ultimate Ritual Beast!'
"I Fusion Summon!"
"Appear by my side, My ultimate Ritual Beast: Level 10, Ritual Beast Ulti-Gaiapelio! (Level: 10 / ATK: 3200 / DEF: 2100)" Shinon chants as she Fusion Summons her Ace Monster, a Ritual Beast Tamer riding on an amalgamation of the 'Ulti' Ritual Beasts Shinon uses in her Extra Deck. "Yuji now I'm going all out! As Ulti-Gaiapelio is Fusion Summoned by banishing a 'Ritual Beast Tamer', 'Spiritual Beast', and 'Ritual Beast Ulti' on my field, my monster can gain the effect to negate a Spell/Trap or Monster effect during either of our turns, by sending a Ritual Beast or Spiritual Beast monster from my deck to the Graveyard!" Shinon explains her monsters effect to Yuji while he's trying to think of a strategy

"Crap that means she can negate my Pendulum Summons, and Monster effects" Yuji is frantically saying to himself while in his thoughts. "But I have an idea because I cannot afford to lose" Yuji continues on his muttering. "Next, I Normal Summon, Fusion Maiden! (Level: 2 / ATK: 0 / DEF: 0)" Shinon summons the card Yuji gave to her when they were kids. "As long as Fusion Maiden is on the field, my Fusion Monsters can make up to two extra attacks on monsters during the Battle Phase!" "Plus As long as I control a Fusion Monster, this card cannot be destroyed by Battle or target Fusion Monsters with Card Effects!" After Shinon says this to Yuji, he is panicking regarding his life point count.

"Now, Ritual Beats Ulti-Gaiapelio attack Yuji's Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon, with 'Disaster Gale - First Attack'!" Shinon starts to command her monster to attack Yuji's monster. "Wait for a second, I activate the effect of Odd-Eyes Savior Dragon in my Graveyard to increase the ATK Points of Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon!" "idiot, didn't you pay attention to what I was saying about my monster, I send Ritual Beast Tamer Elder to my Graveyard to negate Odd-Eyes Savior Dragons effect,'Thundering Winds'!" Shinon responds to Yuji as she sends her monster to the graveyard from her deck to negate Yuji's monster effect.

"Now attack Ulti-Gaiapelio!" Yuji's Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon is destroyed. (Yuji: 2900 - 2200). "Next up attack Yuji's Alchemist Magician, 'Disaster Gale - Second Attack'!" Yuji's Alchemist Magician is destroyed by Ulti-Gaiapelio's wind gusts (Yuji - 2200 - 1500). "Before I end my turn, since my Fusion monster, attacked twice, Fusion Maiden deals you 500 points of damage for each attack, so 1000!" (Yuji: 1500 - 500). "I end my turn, Yuji this duel might be over" Shinon waves her hand signifying Yuji to start his turn.

-Turn Six-

"Damn it, she's right; if I don't draw into something I will lose this duel" "Come on Deck, please let me draw the card I need to draw! I Draw!" Yuji frantic he draws into his card which ends up being 'Dragonpulse Magician'. "I'll Pendulum Summo-" "Since a Pendulum Summon, counts as an activated Spell effect, I destroy your Necro Magician with Ulti-Gaiapelio,'Thundering Winds'!" Shinon interrupts Yuji as he's about to Pendulum Summon. "Great now what should I do?" Yuji asks himself, while not realizing what he can actually do and the limits, of Shinon's monster effect. "Wait a second, I forgot about this new strategy I learned when I was learning how to Ritual Summon, involving my Timebreaker Magician and Fission Magician!" Yuji snaps back into reality as he's about to try and do his new strategy.

"I activate, Fission Magician's effect, at the cost of half my life points: I can Fusion Summon using monsters Face-Up in my Extra Deck as well as my monsters from my Hand or Field by banishing them, 'Fusionist Conversion'!" "Next, I activate the Spell Card, Polymerization!" Yuji says as he's about to Fusion Summon a monster from his Extra Deck. "Crap Ulti-Gaiapelio's negation effect is only once per turn. Damnit Yuji!" Shinon yells out at Yuji after making this realization. "I'll Fuse my Fission Magician on my field, Timebreaker Magician in my Hand, and Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon in my Extra Deck!" Yuji's monsters appear in front of him as an Orange and Blue vortex appears in front of the monsters.

"Phantasmic Dragon with Dichromatic Eyes,
Fuse with the Magician who breaks through Time Itself
and the Magician who's ready to fuse anything through Fission
To Create a new Dragon that isn't bound by Reality or by Time Itself!'
"I Fusion Summon!, Level 10: "The Dichromatic Dragon unbound by Reality and Time: Odd-Eyes Phantom Time Dragon! (Level: 10 / Scale: 1 / ATK: 3500 / DEF: 2800)" Yuji Fusion Summons his new dragon, a dragon who is phantasmic in form, but a dragon with the equivalent of Four Wings, for each Paradox in Space/Time and large Horns resembling an Hour and Minute Hand on a clock. "When Odd-Eyes Phantom Time Dragon, is Fusion Summoned, I can Special Summon one 'Odd-Eyes' Monster from my Graveyard or Extra Deck but its effects are negated" "I Special Summon, Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon!"

"Shinon this duel is finished! Odd-Eyes Phantom Time Dragon attack Ritual Beast Ulti-Gaiapelio, with 'Paradoxical Flames'!" Yuji starts to attack Shinon's monster, however, something happens to Shinon's monster. "Oh when Odd-Eyes Phantom Time Dragon attacks, I can banish the monster until the End Phase, then you take damage equal to half of its attack!, 'Paradox Hypothesis'!" Shinon's monster disappears from existence, then she gets hit with damage (Shinon: 3100 - 1500) "T-That's impossible, there is no way you could be able to defeat me!" Shinon yells out in shock and fear for her life.

"Odd-Eyes Phantom Time Dragon can get an additional attack on a monster, so attack Fusion Maiden with, 'Paradoxical Flames'!" Yuji's dragon shoots flames from its mouth that phase in and out from time to time, and it hits Fusion Maiden. "AAAAAHHHH!" (Shinon 1500 - 0) Shinon yells out in pain as she gets hit with the flames Yuji with concern on his face runs to Shinon's aid.

-Duel Over-

"Shinon, I'm so sorry, I didn't know the true power of my dragon" Yuji says to Shinon while dealing with the after-effects of the duel. "I-I'm alright Yuji, I swear. W-We should get back to our classes before our teachers kick us out" Shinon gets up signifying that she's alright. "That sounds like a great idea, let's get going" Yuji and Shinon walk on back to their classes.

That's another chapter done and in the books. This chapter was probably one of the toughest one for me to write since I kinda sympathized with Yuji especially when his dad died. My father died when I was a kid. But enough about me. On the next chapter, We take a break from dueling, as Yuji prepares to take on Daisuke and Den Corporation. What will happen to Yuji and his friends? Why Is Odd-Eyes Phantom Time Dragon so dangerous to use? Will see you guys next time and don't forget: "It's Your Time to Shine!"