A few miles away from Rezo's castle you could see three boys running in the cold winter night . They were none other than Kokujo , Subaru and Edo . They had crossed the mountains , they had crossed the river of tears . Now they had to find Rezo . They were going to fight without fear . The boys were now entering a small forest and were reaching the cursed castle .
For his love Subaru was running in the dark . With his powerful deck he was going to fight against the Red Priest . But he felt a strange pain inside his heart almost as an icy blade and he wondered why . In his eyes there was a fire that would burn Rezo's empty soul . Running in the night , he , Kokujo and Edo had the power to destroy the dirty worm
At last , after hours of running , they had reached Rezo's castle . Kokujo walked towards the entrance of the castle which was locked and shouted :
" SO , WE ARE HERE , ARE YOU READY FOR WAR ?! "
Suddenly Rezo appeared at the balcony with an evil smile of satisfaction on his face . He made an evil laugh and spoke to them :
" HAHAHA ! IT'S PAYBACK TIME !!! "
The Red Priest then brought a body and threw it from the balcony . The dead body landed on the ground and Subaru was shocked . He recognised it immediately . The blonde hair , the white clothes , the red skirt , the blue eyes... it was Tsugumi ! Unholy visions , images of death so cruel were rowing in his mind , in a way that he couldn't rule . Blood on Rezo's hands and regret in his black heart . He was going to cry , because he had seen his princess die into the abyss of the hell – lost in his rage , far from her life .
Kokujo and Edo were as shocked as Subaru . Edo had never seen such a bloody massacre in his entire life and Kokujo was shocked because of the death of the girl , but not as shocked as Subaru .
Frozen tears were falling from Subaru's eyes while his soul was desiring to burn Rezo's castle to ashes . His creatures were going to help him fulfill his revenge . The black haired boy took out his glowing deck and spoke :
" The bastard's glory time will end ! "
" S-Subaru , are you sure ? " Kokujo asked .
" Listen , I know it's hard for you , but we can't just challenge Rezo and his minions to some duels ! " Edo said . " We need a plan and... "
" SHUT UP ! HE KILLED THE GIRL I LOVE ! " Subaru yelled . " Now all I want is to see him suffer the way I am ! "
The castle's entrance door opened and three dark figures appeared . The figures got out of the castle and they saw that they were Xanagazu , Ichiro and Hanna . They walked towards the three heroes and Xanagazu spoke to them :
" You wanted to face us ! Here we are ! "
Evreyone took out their glowing decks and six dueling tables appeared out of the ground . They all raised their shields and the duels have started . It was Edo VS Hanna , Kokujo VS Xanagazu and Subaru VS Ichiro . Lots of turns have passed and now we go to Subaru's duel against Ichiro .
" Hehehe , I summon Dark Zekia , Reaper of Death ! I will show you the evolution creatures from my hand and for each of them one of your creatures will lose 2000 power ! " Ichiro said and showed two cards from his hand which were Death March , Reaper of Death and Ballom Emperor , Lord of Demons . " Your Gajirabute will lose 4000 power and die ! Also Grave Evolution , I summon Death March , Reaper of Death ! I attack with Bell Hell De Jackson , Monstrous Reaper and destroy Dark Zekia ! Now I'll take XENOM , the Reaper King from my deck to my hand ! Ike , Bell Hell De Jackson , double break his shields ! Also , Death March , break his shield ! "
Subaru didn't move when the creatures broke three of his shields and stood still even when the shield shards sorrounded him . The shield shards slowly united into cards and one of them shined . Subaru took it to his hand and said :
" Shield trigger activate , I cast Inferno Sign and bring Gajirabute , Vile Centurion from my graveyard to the battlezone ! "
A blue demon with angel wings appeared behind Subaru and destroyed one of Ichiro's shield with its lightning sword .
" When summoned , Gajirabute will throw one of your shields to the graveyard ! "
The shield was a Supernova Death Dragerion , but Ichiro didn't care that much this time . He had his own new strategy ready . Subaru's eyes shined with the powerful fire as the black haired boy showed the next cards he was going to use .
" I summon Hard Demon of Inferno Biragias and make your Death March lose 3000 power and die ! Afterwards I summon Demonic Holy Spirit Auzesu for only three mana due to its Demon Command sympathy and Deep Lump's effect ! "
" What the ... " Ichiro spoke scarred and made a few steps back as a robotic mixture between a demon and an angel with a lazor eye in its chest and weilding a sword in its right hand appeared behind Subaru from the heavens .
Ichiro was now going to suffer Subaru's rage . A rage which would bring the total destruction of him and his master , Rezo and would avenge the cruel and unjust death of Tsugumi . Subaru tapped his Gajirabute , Vile Centurion card and said :
" I attack with Gajirabute ! Now Auzesu's effect will destroy Bell Hell De Jackson ! "
Auzesu's eyes glew red as he slashed Bell Hell De Jackson with its powerful sword . Ichiro stared scarred at Subaru which was now turning into a killing machine .
" Gajirabute , break his shield ! Also , Deep Lump Machiner Ganistar , break his final shield ! "
Ichiro took cover as his shields got broken . The boy then took the cards created from the shield shards to his hand and smiled . He showed them both and said :
" Shield trigger activate ! I cast two Terror Pits and destroy Auzesu and Gajirabute ! "
Lots of demonic hands appeared behind Ichiro and grabbed Subaru's Auzesu and Gajirabute smashing the mighty demons . Ichiro made an evil laugh and started his turn :
" HAHAHAHAHAHA ! Time to finish you off , cry baby ! Grave Evolution , I summon not one , but two Death March , Reaper of Death ! I also summon Deathraios , Cursed Blade Reaper and destroy one of my Death Marchs ! "
" I'll destroy Ganistar ! "
" Heh , you have no chance of winning , Subaru ! "
" Why so , Ichiro ? I will bring you and your bastard master down , even if it's the last thing I do ! " Subaru said with anger in his voice .
" Oh really ? Look arround you , foolish loser ! " Ichiro replied .
Subaru turned arround and to his shock he saw that Kokujo and Edo were both losing badly against their opponents . Edo had Aqua Hulcus , Sealed Devil Erigol , Sealed Devil Balzoo and Sealed Devil Garmagias into the battlezone and one shield left , while Hanna had Alcadeias Lord of Spirits , White Knight Ulphas Lord of Spirits and Leonidas White Knight Spirit and three shields left . It was Hanna's turn . She drew a card and spoke to Edo :
" You're finished ! "
" W-what ? " Edo asked sweating .
" I evolve Leonidas into White Knight HEAVEN , Lord of Spirits ! "
A giant blue robot angel appeared behind Hanna as the girl made an evil laugh . Edo's creatures disappeared and the boy got four more shields .
" What happened ? " Edo asked .
" When HEAVEN is summoned , all non-light creatures go to their owner's shields ! " Hanna replied with an evil smile on her face . " White Knight HEAVEN , triple break his shields ! White Knight Ulphas , break his final shields ! "
Edo took cover as the two robot angels fired powerful lazors breack all of his shields . To his unluck , none of the shields were shield triggers .
" And now Alcadeias , Lord of Spirits , totomeda ! " Hanna ordered .
A golden robotic angel fired two powerful beams towards Edo and the boy flew in the air defeated and had a hard landing . Kokujo's duel against Xanagazu wasn't better at all . Kokujo had no more shields left and Maxval Electro-Fuuma , Bloody Squito , Belbel De Dios Death Castle Beast Lord and Gal Volf Dark Wolfblade . Xanagazu on the other hand had Bronze-Arm Tribe , Skysword the Savage Vizier , Chief De Baula Machine King of Mystic Light and Aku Ultimate God into the battlezone and she also had three shields left . It was Kokujo's turn . The long haired boy drew his next card and laughed :
" HAHA ! I evolve Belbel De Dios into Ballom Emperor , Lord of Demons ! "
A giant gray goat demon with two heads and lots of hands appeared behind Kokujo and roared . Ballom Emperor destroyed all of Xanagazu's non-darkness creatures AKA Bronze-Arm Tribe , Skysword and Chief De Baula .
" Gal Volf , double break her shields ! " Kokujo ordered and a wolf demon weilding four swords jumped towards Xanagazu and slashed two of her shields . " BREAK HER FINAL SHIELD , BALLOM EMPEROOOOOOOOOR !!! " Kokujo yelled and Ballom Emperor fired a powerful lazor breacking Xanagazu's last shield to pieces . " And I also have two blockers AKA Bloody Squito and Maxval , while you have only Aku , Ultimate God ! You're as finished , Xanagazu ! "
" Heh , think again , Kokujo Kyoshiro ! " Xanagazu replied and showed a shining card . " Shield trigger activate , I cast Terror Pit and destroy Bloody Squito ! "
" What the ... " Kokujo said shocked as his Bloody Squito blew up .
" And now I summon Zen , Transcendent God ! Godlink ! Aku Zen , Ultimate Transcendent God ! " Xanagazu said grinning as the two statue Gods united themselves into one . " Aku Zen attack and his effect will destroy Maxval ! SHOCK , you have no more blockers , Black Death ! "
" Tsh... " Kokujo murmed and stared angry towards the X lady .
" Aku Zen totomeda ! "
The two Gods hit Kokujo with their hands powerfully and the long haired boy flew in the air and landed near Edo hurt . All this was witnessed by a shocked Subaru . Ichiro laughed evily and then spoke to the black haired boy :
" Hahahaha ! Give up , Subaru , you guys don't stand a chance against us ! "
" Never ! I will never give up to the likes of you and especially not after what you have done ! " Subaru replied and put a shining card on his Biragias card yelling ." I EVOLVE BIRAGIAS INTO BALLOM , MASTER OF DEATH !!! "
A blue goat demon with big bird wings and wearing a bone armor spread its feathers in the air and made its appearence behind Subaru roaring . The boy was full of hate and anger and almost lost the control of himself .
" BALLOM , KILL THAT BASTARD ! RIP HIS INSIGHTS AND MAKE EVREY BIT OF HIS BODY FEEL PAIN ! TOTOMEDAAAAAAAA !!! " Subaru yelled and Ballom reached his hand to catch Ichiro .
" Death March , block the attack ! " Ichiro said scarred and his Death March stopped Ballom's attack and got destroyed .
Subaru then breathed hard and stared at Ichiro with the same fire burning in his eyes . Ichiro got bored of the boy's behavious and spoke to him :
" Tsh , I've had enough of you ! I evolve Deathraios , Cursed Blade Reaper into XENOM , the Reaper King ! "
A giant dark blue demon similar to Ballom appeared . The only differences between Ballom and XENOM was that XENOM didn't have a face and had giant bat wings and was also weilding a staff which reasembled Ballom's head .
" W-what's that ? " Subaru asked scarred .
" Meet XENOM , the Reaper King ! " Ichiro replied . " He's a 13000 powered triple breacker ! Ike , XENOM , destroy his Ballom now ! "
Ballom had 12000 power while XENOM had 13000 power , so obviously XENOM won the battle . XENOM created two orbs of darkness in both his hands and then he casted them towards Ballom which got sorrounded by darkness and slowly got destroyed . Subaru watched horrified the whole scene . He got awakened from his thoughts by Ichiro's voice which said :
" It's your turn ! "
" My turn... right ! " Subaru replied and drew his next card . " I summon Bega , Decaying Vizier and gain one more shield while you'll discard a card from your hand ! "
Ichiro discarded Hand of the Reaper , but didn't really seem to care . The boy spoke to Subaru with a voice which made his whole body tremble :
" You lost ! "
" What ? " the black haired boy asked scarred .
" Mana Galaxy Vortex ! I summon Supernova Death Dragerion ! And now XENOM , the Reaper King , break his final shields ! "
XENOM roared and made a hole in his body with the Ballom staff . Out of that hole a powerful lazor came out and broke Subaru's last three shields . Subaru took the cards to his hand fast , but then the cards flew from his hand to the graveyard .
" W-what ? But why ? " he asked .
" XENOM has Break Bonus ! " Ichiro said . " Break Bonus is an effect which happens after I breack your shields and XENOM's Break Bonus makes you discard a card for each shield he broke this turn ! And since you had no cards in your hand , you had to discard your shields , hahahaha ! "
Subaru layed his head down with a dark shadow covering his eyes . He had lost the duel against Ichiro and wasn't able to avenge the girl he loved .
" Say your prayers , lover boy ! Death Dragerion totomeda !!!!! " Ichiro yelled .
Death Dragerion fired a powerful lazor and Subaru flew in the air and landed hurt and filled with burns near Edo and Kokujo . Ichiro made an evil laugh and then he entered the castle victoriously along with Xanagazu and Hanna . The caste's doors closed and the only things left outside were Tsugumi's dead body and the three duelists .
Beaten , defeated , the battle was lost . Their lives would never be free . They were there alone , in that useless world , they had nothing to see . While the Red Priest was laughing , rain was falling on them .
Subaru was staring into Tsugumi's wide open eyes and he thought that a flash of a blade would end evreything . The boy took a knife out of his pockets and pointed it towards his heart . Death wishes and hatred were running inside his veins . But he couldn't kill himself , he didn't have the power to do it . Subaru dropped the knife , fell on his knees and started praying to God , not to lose the faith . But he knew the evil would never end , so he had to keep his pride . The boy swore he would fight again against Rezo's reign . In his heart that fire survived .
Subaru slowly crawled to Edo and whispered to his ear :
" Edo-kun , wake up ! "
" What happened ? " Edo asked while opening his eyes .
" We lost ! Hurry , wake Kokujo-kun up and lets get going ! " Subaru said and walked to Tsugumi's body .
Edo crawled to Kokujo and did what Subaru did to him . Kokujo got up and spoke with a serious voice :
" I knew that Subaru's blind rage wouldn't do us any good ! "
" That's it , we lost ! " Edo replied and got up as well . " We can't turn back time , sadly , now we have to endure this defeat ! "
Subaru came to the two with Tsugumi's body in his hands . The three then ran away from Rezo's castle and went back on the same way they came to it . The storm clouds from the sky were vanishing and they could see the silver moon shining above them .
After a few hours , they had all reached the UFO . Kokujo and Edo entered it while Subaru stood at the edge of the cliff with Tsugumi's body in his arms . Skies were falling on him . Life was too cruel to live , but death was so far from him .
" I'll live again , but never will I forget the scene where I've seen my princess dying ! " Subaru said and looked towards Rezo's castle . " I'LL KILL THE BEAST !!! "
Subaru then entered the UFO with Tsugumi's body . Sora and Rad got healed fast and when they got out of their room , they saw the horrible image of Tsugumi's dead body . It was a big shock for evreyone . Subaru , depressed , was still not able to believe that Tsugumi was really dead . Reality is hard to be believed .
Later that night , they were all gathered in doctor Root's laboratory . On a table was Tsugumi's body and she was mourned by Rad , Sora , Edo and even the good ol'doctor . Kokujo as always stood in a corner , looking dark and motionless . Subaru on the other hand didn't even get a tear to fall from his eyes . He just stood on a chair and watched the others cry instead of him .
Suddenly , Rad got up and walked to Subaru . He grabbed the lack haired boy by his uniform and spoke to him with both anger and sorrow in his voice :
" AND YOU , WHY AREN'T YOU CRYING AS WELL ?! SHE WAS YOUR GIRLFRIEND ! IF YOU WEREN'T ABLE TO SAVE HER , YOU COULD AT LEAST SHOW HER YOUR FINAL FEELINGS , WHILE YOU STILL CAN !!! "
Subaru didn't answer him . He just looked somwhere else with his eyes . This made Rad even more angry . He shook Subaru and yelled :
" WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU ? IS IT THAT HARD FOR YOU TO EVEN CRY ?! "
" I've cried once for her in my life . " Subaru's calm voice spoke . " Now if I have to cry again , I'll do it when the right moment comes . "
Subaru freed himself from Rad's grip in a gentle way and got out of the room . The black haired boy got out of the UFO and walked towards the edge of the cliff in the cold night . He then felt that his sorrow was finally getting the best of him , so the only way he could unleash himself was by singing . The boy's voice filled with sadness broke the silence of the night .
" I will fight my sorrow , closed inside a melody . Memories of your smile live in my heeeaaaaart ! " Subaru sang . " Waiting for tomorrow , there's no light inside my dreams . I can change my life , but not the paaaaaaaaaaaast ! "
He then looked in the sky and saw the stars shaping Tsugumi's face . The boy's heart was burning with need for the girl . Subaru reached his right hand towards the sky and kept singing :
" In the starry sky I see your loooooovely face ! Rage still grows inside day after daaaaaaaaaaaaay ! "
Subaru then couldn't stand it anymore . Without anymore hesitations , he let the tears fall from his eyes . He felt them wet his burning cheeks and so , the crying began .
" Why ? Why my life has been so unfaaaaaair ? I would have loved to die , rather than stay here without yooooooooooou ! Whyyyyy , death has found you along the way ? Waiting for the end of time , I will never stop loving yoooooooooooooooooooou !!! "
Subaru sobbed a bit and then he whiped off the tears from his eyes . He looked back to the UFO and heared his friend's crying as well . He then continued singing :
" In this land of duelists , we're all crying for your death . He will pay with life , this is an oaaaaaaaaaaaath ! I'll defeat the Red Priest and his dynasty will end ! This will bring some peace back to your sooooooooooouls ! "
Subaru then reached his hand towards the sky once again and sang with even more sorrow in his voice :
" In the starry sky I see your loooooovely face ! Rage still grows inside day after daaaaaaaaaaaaay ! "
Subaru's sorrow was now combined with rage . He couldn't stand it anymore . The boy fell on his knees and started hitting the ground with his fists while singing louder and louder :
" WHY ?! WHY MY LIFE HAS BEEN SO UNFAAAAAAAAIR ?! I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO DIE , RATHER THAN STAY HERE WITHOUT YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU ! WHYYYYYY , DEATH HAS FOUND YOU ALONG THE WAY ?! WAITING FOR THE END OF TIME , I WILL NEVER STOP LOVING YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU !!!! "
Subaru got up filled with dirt and turned his sights back to the UFO . His eyes met the eyes filled of tears of Edo's . The brown haired boy was watching Subaru from the UFO's entrance and inside him he was crying for both his friend's suffering and for Tsugumi's death . Subaru then turned his sights to Rezo's castle where he saw Rezo and Ichiro at the balcony watching him suffer . Arrogant and pleased expressions were on their faces , while Subaru had a both sad and angry expression on his face .
" Why don't we kill them now when they're harmless and weak ? " Ichiro asked .
" Patience , Ichiro ! Let them suffer emotional pain first ! " Rezo said . " After their souls are tortured and weakened by sorrow , we can crush their bones ! "
" Hehehe , keep weeping , Subaru , while you still can ! " Ichiro said to Subaru and entered the castle along with Rezo .
Subaru knew that that night was his last chance to express his feelings , for the next day they had to fight once again against the Red Priest .
" WHY ?! WHY MY LIFE HAS BEEN SO UNFAAAAAAAAIR ?! " Subaru sang loud and for a moment calmed down and said . " I would have loved... TO DIE !! " he yelled and kept singing louder and louder . " RATHER THAN STAY HERE WITHOUT YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU ! WHYYYY , DEATH HAS FOUND YOU ALONG THE WAY ?! WAITING FOR THE END OF TIME , I WILL NEVER STOP LOVING YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU !!!! "
Subaru then felt that all this singing while crying was actually making him feel good , in a strange way . It was like the only way he could stop feeling bad . The boy continued singing adding more and more feeling to the song :
" WHY ?! WHY MY LIFE HAS BEEN SO UNFAAAAAAAAIR ?! I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO DIE , RATHER THAN STAY HERE WITHOUT YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU ! WHYYYYYY , DEATH HAS FOUND YOU ALONG THE WAY ?! WAITING FOR THE END OF TIME , I WILL NEVER STOP LOVING YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU !!!! "
And so , Subaru sang while crying the whole night having Edo watch him . Evreyone else in the UFO was resting , yet , the brown haired boy just didn't feel like sleeping . He had to be by his friend's side in those tough moments . Sometimes it is better to have a shoulder on which you can cry...