Chapter 21: Facing A Friend

"Well here we go folks our last duel is about to start." Drayden announced. "They we'll be dueling here in the stadium and here they come now." Davis and Ross came up through the floor.

"Welcome Davis to the last duel you will ever have." Ross said.

"I don't think so. This is personal." Davis said. Ken, Kari, and T.K. were still in the infirmary and the others were in the stands.

"What does Davis mean it's personal?" Mina said since she was in the infirmary with the others.

"You see these two dueled before and Davis lost and after their last duel he kidnapped Veemon." Ken said.

"Davis is going to give it everything they got." Kari said.

"While we're at it lets raise the roof." Drayden announced and the field rose up to 50ft. "Now let's see the fireworks."

"Ross it's not too late for you to walk away from him." Davis said.

"Save it Davis and let's just duel." Ross said. They had their duel disk set and ready to go.

"Let's Duel." They said with 4000 LP.

"I'll star this and I summon Veemon." Davis said and Veemon came up with 900atk points. "Next I activate the Crest Of Reliability and summon Rock Star Guitar." His guitar player came up with 1800atk points. "And now I tune my level 3 Veemon with my level 4 Rock Star Guitar and syncro summon Aeroveedramon." They combined and Aeroveedramon came up with 2700atk points. "I end my turn.

"Amazing a syncro summon on the first turn." Drayden announced.

"It's my move and I summon Dive Rider Level 3." Ross said and a scuba diver with a high tech water jet came up with 1100atk points. "Next I use the spell card Chain Magic. This allows me to summon Chain Magician." Chain Magician came up with 1500atk points. "I'm also using his special ability since I have 4 cards in my hand I can change his level and attribute and I choose the water attribute and level 3." The magician's clothes changed to blue. "Get ready Davis because I unite my two monsters and summon the Atlantis Dragon." The two monsters turned into blue energy and came together on the ground and a purple dragon was up with 1700atk points.

"Is that allowed?"

"I never saw that card." People were saying it all.

"It's all right everyone they are new cards and Ross has been asked to test them." Drayden announced.

"I use Atlantis Dragon's ability by using one unite unit he gains 500atk points." Ross said. One unite unit entered its mouth and has 2200atk points. "Next I'm activating the Lightning Wind spell card to give him 1500 more attack points." The dragon now was at 3700atk points. "Atlantis Dragon attack with Shock Tidal Stream." The dragon shot a stream blast and Aeroveedramon was destroyed and Davis was brought to 3000 LP. "That ends my turn."

"Then I'm up and I figure you destroy Aeroveedramon so I can use this." Davis said. "The spell Syncro Power, when a syncro is destroyed then the monster that destroyed him is also destroyed." The dragon was destroyed.

"No way you found a way around my monster's ability." Ross said.

"I remember you're unite cards can only be destroyed by another unite so I found a way around it." Davis said.

"Well you can't do that again because like I said I have a bunch of unite cards." Ross said.

"Well right now you got nothing to protect you." Davis said. "I summon Raidramon." Raidramon came up with 1100atk points. "Raidramon attack him directly with Thunder Blast." Raidramon shot his blast and Ross was down to 2900 LP. "It's your move."

"I hope you aren't going easy on me because we're enemies now." Ross said.

"Ross you are my friend why can't you see that?" Davis said.

"We are not friends and we'll never be." Ross said.

"Yes we are when we duel I can see myself in you we're a lot alike." Davis said.

"We are nothing alike." Ross said. "Look around Davis if people know who I am now they would turn me down and I be alone meanwhile you have friends."

"You think I don't know what it's like to be alone." Davis said. "Before I became a digidestine I was all by myself. My sister always went after some guy, my parents always worked, I was always being picked on as a little kid so believe me when I tell you we are alike."

"You think just because we could be alone we're alike?" Ross said. "That's ridiculous now let's move on. I summon Defense Bird in defense mode." A bird with feathered pattern metal wings came up with 1000def points. "I'm also using the field spell Forest Of Protection." A forest came around them. "This card gives my monsters 500 attack and defense points and the have to be attacked 3 times to be destroyed not that it matters with Defense Bird because he can survive an attack once a turn so you're going to have to attack him at least 5 times." His bird now has 1000 and 1500 points. "I end my turn."

"Then it's my move and I activate Raidramon's ability to take your forest down." Davis said and Raidramon unleashed lightning and the forest was destroyed and Defense Bird's points went to normal. "Next I'm using the Crest Of Knowledge spell card. Now when I attack a monster in defense mode you lose the difference in your life points. Raidramon attack." Raidramon shot another thunder blast, but the bird survived. Ross however now has 2800 LP. "I place a face down and end my turn."

"I am through playing around." Ross said. "I sacrifice Defense Bird to summon Dive Rider Level 5." A bigger scuba diver with a more tech out jet was up with 2000atk points. "Dive Rider Level 5 attack with Tidal Wave Torpedoes." He launched torpedoes and Raidramon was destroyed and Davis has 2100 LP and Ross was smiling.

"I see it." Davis said.

"See what?" Ross said.

"What Drayden has done to you. You're starting to enjoy pain you see in your opponents." Davis said.

"You're right and for the rest of this duel I'm going to enjoy see you suffer." Ross said.

To Be Continued.