Episode 21: Girl Fight Part 2

Hygin and Archip emerged from the shadows below leading down in to the make-shift lair of Freyr and his minions. Shielding their eyes from the sun shining through some sparce gray clouds, the two began to walk down the street before they saw a blue haired boy leaning against a light post glaring at them.

"So where do you two think you are going?" Yukio asked, or more growled at his rather forced-to-be partners.

"We have some important business to attend to." Hygin snapped back, annoyed with the younger man's intrusion into their plans. "And they are none of your business, so just butt out."

"So that is how you treat your partners huh?" Yukio pushed himself forward, closing his eyes and smirking. "Well then, your being so secretive has pretty much proven beyond a doubt that you are hiding something." Opening his eyes, Yukio glared daggers at the two men from behind the deep, dark green eyes resting in his sockets. "Spill it."

"No." Hygin turned, storming off down the street. Sweat dropping slightly, Archip rubbed his head and grinned rather dumbly.

"It's really nothing. You can just stay here and wait for Tal to return."

"Or, since everyone has left and Freyr is wounded, I can follow you two and find out what you major secret is." Yukio pointed down the street to where Hygin continued to walk. "Now go."

Seki happily drew the top card from her deck, flinging it through the air and adding it to her hand of three cards to increase it to four.

"Now you two will see how hopeless this all is! And to prove it, I think I'll just dampen any plans you had." Seki pointed to Sachiko as she spoke, he large blue and silver dragon opening its large jaw. Inside of the razor sharp teeth formed a black and silver ball of flames, rushing out at the sides as it patiently waited for the attack order. "Attack her Chimera Egg Fang, and destroy her strongest monster just like that!"

Ripping from the mouth of the beast, the flame ball tore through the air and smashed head first into the defending monster, causing it to explode within seconds of contact. Dust, dirt and smoke filtered backwards towards Sachiko who shielded herself with her arms and duel disk.

Akina-1200 LP
Sachiko-1250 LP
Seki-1500 LP

"Wait!" Sachiko cried out, looking at her duel disk after it had beeped to indicate the loss. "How did I suddenly lose life points? MY monster was in defense mode."

"Simple." Seki smirked, pointing to her dragon with her thumb sticking out of a set of curled up fingers. "My Silver-Back Death Dragon, when destroying a monster in defense mode, deals half the attack of the monster it destroys to the owner's life points. Since your Chimera Egg Fang was 1900 points strong, I dealt you 950 points of direct damage." Laughing, Seki wrapped her arms around her stomach as she bent over slightly to accommodate herself. "The look on your face was priceless! Especially once you realized that even playing on the defensive won't save you!"

"This could be bad." Both Akina and Sachiko had the same thought at the exact moment while the two of them watched as Seki's laughing fit subsided.

"Alright, to end my turn, I set this down." Seki announced, sliding the card in her hand into her duel disk, the card appearing before her with a blast of light. "My turn is done now."

"Hold on a second." Akina cried out, whipping her arm down. "I activate my set trap; Insurance. You see, in my last turn I used this card to gain life points, but during your end phase, I'm using its second power to return whatever set trap you have to your hand."

"I hate you!" Seki cried out as her brown backed card was ejected once again from her duel disk. Grabbing it roughly, she once again placed it into her hand.

"We really don't care if you like us or not." Sachiko mocked, sticking out her tongue towards Seki. "You're just a spoiled brat who is annoyed that we are stopping whatever strategy you might be trying to set up." Looking to her partner, she nodded with a big smile. "No matter what she has out, we'll overcome it together, right Akina? It's your move, so take it away!"

"Right." Akina nodded back, thankful for the vote of confidence. "Alright, draw!" Placing the new card in her hand, she looked up to survey the field. So far, she had her Fairy in the Crystal (2000/1300) in face-up defense mode, and a set trap on her side of the field.

Her partner only had Griffore, also in face-up defense mode (1200/1500).

And Seki had her Silver-Backed Death Dragon (2600/2400), but luckily nothing else set on the field. Her dragon had the power to deal damage both against offense and defense, so it was only a matter of time till they were burned to zero life points.

"I summon Formation Guard (200/1100) in defense mode." Akina slapped down a card next to her Fairy monster. The hologram the was rendered because of this, summoning a small, machine like monster standing on two legs. Before it a spike shield clasped together made up the for arms of the monster.

A large, golden coin came flipping out from behind the monster, landing on the soft grass before Akina's monsters. Smiling slightly at the result, Akina looked up from the coin on the grass to explain the result to Seki.

"The coin flipped up a tails, as you can see right?" Akina smirked as Seki, as well as Sachiko nodded rather lost as to what was going on. "You see, when my Formation Guard is summoned, I get to flip a coin. If I flip tails, like I did, then you cannot attack a monster in defense position on my side of the field that is three or less stars."

"But both of Akina's monsters are stronger than three stars. Formation Guard has four, and Fairy in the Crystal has six…" Sachiko contemplated as she watched her partner's play silently.

"Next I shall activate this magic card." Akina announced, sliding the card in her hand into her duel disk. "Star Placement Chart. With this on the field, I pay life points equal to 100 times the number of stars over three my monsters are. Once I do, my monsters will be considered level three for as long as they are face-up on my field."

Akina-800 LP
Sachiko-1250 LP
Seki-1500 LP

The green bordered card began to glow, seeming to suck in a strange, light white aura from around the monsters. When it was done, the Formation Guard began to spark up a light purple aura that jumped off of it and covered the crystal covered monster as well.

"I have to end my turn." Akina breathed a sigh of relief. It was lucky that she had finally drawn Star Placement Chart, as well as Formation Guard working out in her favor. Though she had to worry about Sachiko now, who was left defenseless with a mere Griffore as the only card she had on the field.

"Draw!" Sachiko yelled, pulling her next card from her deck and sliding it into her hand. "Damn…" She cursed under her breath, annoyed that she didn't have much to use. Pulling out one of her cards she slapped it down onto her duel disk. "I summon Firebird (1000/800) in face-up defense mode, ending my turn."

The flaming phoenix appeared before its master, squawking loudly with its arrival. Wrapping itself in its wings like a blanket, the monster curled up over its horizontally turned card. The bright red and yellow feathers of the beast glowed, illuminating the grass and ground beneath its card.

"So then that means you both are defenseless." Seki smirked, adding a fresh card from her deck to her hand. A quick wisp to the left and she grabbed one of the cards she was holding, whipping it out of her hand and onto the disk before her. "I summon Goblin Elite Attack Force (2200/1500) in attack mode!"

White armored, green, wart covered goblins appeared in a straight line behind the blue scaled dragon. The team was very strictly disciplined, not a one of them was out of line even an inch. They had sabers in their hands, all held at arms as the monsters prepared to fight.

"Goblin Elite Attack Force go, wipe out her Firebird. Silver-Backed Death Dragon attacks your Griffore after that!" Seki announced, her team of monsters racing across the field. With perfect accuracy, timing, and follow-through, they slashed the bird to bits, causing an instant explosion.

Retreating to their own field, the goblin's all kneeled down, crossing the sabers over their body indicating that they had moved themselves into defense mode.

Next, the black and silver fire ball raced from between the razor sharp teeth of the dragon. Scorching even the air itself as it raced through it with such power, the ball of intense flames engulfed the cowering red shelled monster, also causing a fiery explosion to ensue.

Holding up her arms as protection from the flames and smoke, Sachiko watched disgusted as her wall of monsters was ripped to shreds before her. Noticing her duel disk beeping then, her eyes moved slowly to the life point counter on it, watching as the numbers on it dropped by 600 points.

Akina-800 LP
Sachiko-650 LP
Seki-1500 LP

"My goblins go into defense mode once they attack, so you are lucky that they don't stick in attack mode for a while. Could be painful. As a cost to their power, they must stay in defense mode for a whole turn, meaning next turn they are useless to me. But oh well I guess." Seki explained, pulling on of her cards from her hand cards, and again sliding it into her duel disk behind her dragon card. "For the last time, I set one card face-down and end my turn."

"Draw!" Akina cried out, snapping her card off her deck. Seconds later, a strange, yellow and white ring formed around the behemoth of a dragon monster on Seki's field. Looking rather shocked, Akina scanned the field to see that the set card Seki had set was finally activated.

"My trap card is known as Halo-Bindings, and if you don't remember, let me refresh your memories of how my devastating card works. I have to pay half my life points,

Akina-800 LP
Sachiko-650 LP
Seki-750 LP

"But in doing so, I permanently ensnare a monster on the field. I choose my Silver-Backed Death Dragon. Now, this monster cannot attack, change its mode, or be sacrificed. But…" Seki pointed to her opponents, smirking darkly as she did. "During your end phase, my Halo-Binding's will deal you half of the monsters attack as damage to your life. So that'll be 1300 points of direct damage to the both of you. You're finished!"

"Oh no!" Akina looked at the card she was holding. It wouldn't be enough to win the duel on its own, it was just her Jerry Bean Man card (1750/0). "Alright, face-down trap card open!" She cried out as her set card flipped up and began to glow brightly. "Jar of Greed allows me to draw a new card from my deck."

"So our future is riding on a random draw!" Sachiko screamed in her head, watching as Akina placed her delicate fingers onto the smooth backed surface of the card on her deck.

"It's all riding on this card." Akina thought, sliding it off slightly, and then yanking it off with incredible force. "Please let it be…"

Seki and Sachiko's eyes widened as they watched Akina do this. Partly because of the intense crossroad she was in, and the other part was the fact that behind the card, a dim, feint light purple aura seemed to trace its way through the air. Without even looking at the card, Akina knew what she had, sliding it into the duel disk.

"Magic card go! Oracles Rage Incarnate Seal of Power-Amethyst Crystal!" She cried, as purple sparks went flying off of the duel disk, racing up Akina's arm and flying sporadically all over the air before her. Bursting from her feet, a light purple aura the same color as the sparks racing off of the duel disk began to swallow up Akina's body.

On her forhead, a strange circular symbol appeared. The design in the middle of the circle was a group of lines, all shoved to the left hand side but connected at evenly spaced points around the circle. It almost resembled a crescent moon. Glowing brightly, the seal caused Akina to narrow her brow, a rather criminal smirk dawning her face.

"I equip my card to my Fairy in the Crystal (2000/1300). When I do, I must sacrifice all monster cards on my field and in my hand, adding their points to the card. So Formation Guard (200/1100) and this Jerry Bean Man (1750/0) that I drew go to the graveyard."

The fairy locked inside the gem-like prison began to scream, the same mark that appeared on Akina's head also appearing on her forehead. From the smooth outer surface of the crystal, the typical large spiked crystal pillars began to jut outwards. The same, light purple aura raced across the body of the crystal, more sporadic and violent that what was around its master.

Next to the monster, the Formation Guard burst into data bits, being absorbed by the aura. Same thing happened to small yellow bean-like monster that appeared for just a split second.

(Fairy in the Crystal 3950/1300)

"Fairy in the Crystal, now on the offensive, attack Silver-Backed Death Dragon!" Akina cried out, a darker undertone to her voice had become apparent.

"Wait, what the heck!" Seki watched in horror as the crystallized fairy came racing towards her monster. "What is that card? I've never seen or heard of anything like that before!"

The fairy monster dug the large crystal spikes deep into the skin of the ensnared dragon, rotating the outer crystal to create a buzz saw, ripping and tearing at the flesh of the beast. Roaring in intense pain the beast found itself falling backwards from the mere force of the attack. Crashing to its silver lined back, the dragon shattered into tiny data bits.

Akina-800 LP
Sachiko-650 LP
Seki-0 LP

"What…just…happened…?" Seki watched dumbfounded as she just lost the duel under some strange circumstances. Akiaki was in as much awe as his partner, looking on as the fairy monster vanished from the field, and the aura that had encased Akina vanished as well.

Reku's feet kicked up some dust and dirt as he jumped off the last steep of the bus and landed on the soft ground below. Looking before him, he saw his destination clearly in the distance. The large, wooden shrine facing off by the sparklingly crystal-like water of the lake next to it.

"Ronin" Reku spoke under his breath, slowly walking forward towards the shrine, "I have come finally."

Lifting up his left arm, he saw the emerald green duel disk latched on tightly. Grabbing his deck he pulled it out and fanned it open before his eyes.

"These cards have come a long way with me. But if Ronin really feels so pressed down under our…no…my thumb, he will most likely wish to challenge me with my card set. He won't stop or let up at all, not until he sees which one of us is truly the best." Reku closed the deck up in his hands, sliding it into his duel disk once again and brining his brown eyes back to the shrine before him.

Ronin's black car was parked awkwardly against a curb that was in a parking lot not to far from the shrine resting across a long stretch of neatly cut grass, so Reku knew for a fact now that he'd be encountering his best friend inside.

Walking with even stride to his paces, Reku soon reached the wooden stair case that led to the raised level and to the front door of the shrine. Within moments he was up on it, sliding the large wooden door to the side to enter the dark room, only lit by the sun gleaming off the lake on the open side wall of the temple.

"So you finally accepted my challenge." Ronin stood at the far end of the temple opposite the door. His head bowed, his eyes squeezed shut. On his left arm was his emerald green duel disk, already activated and into duel ready mode. "You finally have come to settle the score and find out who among us is really the best." His head snapping up, his eyes flapping open as he glared down his next opponent. "Reku Yamashita."

"Ronin, why must we do this?" Reku asked. His hand glided behind him, closing the wooden door before taking a step forward to face his friend. "We don't have to. We can stop here and life can get back to normal. We need your help, your strength to fight Freyr. We are a team, remember? Team Zero."

"Yes I remember Reku." Ronin nodded, his eyes never leaving Reku for a moment. "I remember your team. The team that was led along by you, and by Akina. I was always a secondary player wasn't I? Lost in the darkness of your shadow!"

"That isn't true Ronin and you know it!" Reku swung his arm through the air, his voice rising higher as he spoke. "The strongest of the three of us was the leader, the captain, remember Ronin. That person was you. You led us with your power."

"In the beginning that was true." Ronin finally broke his gaze from Reku, looking out the side of the small shrine to the gleaming water outside. "I was the strongest, but by the time of Kaiba's little tournament, steadily I was no longer the best. Instead I was putting along far behind you and Akina. The last time we both dueled before that, you won remember?

"So I have gone on my own searching, putting myself through my every thought until I finally surpassed my pain." Looking back, Ronin moved his left arm before him so that his duel disk was level. "You are extraordinarily strong Reku. You have ever since you worked really hard to make the deck you used in the City Wide Tournament five years ago. That was just the beginning. From there, with the seeds planted, you sprouted into an strong, healthy duelist who was learning and growing each match."

"Thanks for the compliments." Reku bowed slightly, his eyebrows narrowed as he listened to Ronin's speech. "But you haven't grown weaker Ronin. Just like me, you've grown with every match. Without you, our team wouldn't have gone as far as we have. We may not be the best duelists this world has ever seen, but we try our best to be all that we can be."

"And I can be better than you." Ronin snapped back, moving his right hand slowly up until he placed it on his deck. Tightening his fingers, he pulled out the stack of brown back cards and flipped it open. With his empty left hand he pulled one of the cards he had there out and chucked it to Reku.

The cardboard spiraled a bit, and fell harmlessly down about half way between the two duelists. The face of the card was visible, causing Reku to glare from it to Ronin who had squared up his deck again.

"The Sapphire Crystal huh?" Reku asked, reaching for his own deck.

"That is right. I have grown more recently. I have the utmost confidence in my ability now. So much so that I know for a dead fact I don't need the power of the Sapphire Crystal to beat you. So I bet it, I bet my pride as a duelist. I want to beat you Reku. I WANT TO BEAT YOU!"

"I've wanted to face you too Ronin, but not like this." Taking a few slow strides forward, Reku started to move towards the card lying between the two of them. His eyes never leaving Ronin as he walked towards him, sliding his deck out of his duel disk and beginning to shuffle it. "We can stop this now you know; it will save us a lot of pain and suffering."

"I've been chasing you for too long now." Ronin began to move forward as well, also shuffling his own deck as he walked. "There is no turning back now. Here and now I want to test your power, and prove to both of us one and for all…who really is the best."

"Alright Ronin." Reku stopped his shuffling, pulling the top card off his deck and letting it fall from his fingers. It landed face-up on the Sapphire already on the ground, Reku's own crystal card; the Ruby Crystal. "I too will fight with no handicaps or power bonuses. This will be an even match, and when it is done, I hope that you can find your answer honestly."

"I have no doubts in my mind that I will." Ronin finally reached Reku, extending out his hand with his deck in it. Reku grabbed it, replacing it with his own deck. The two shuffled for a bit, never breaking their glares into the others battle masked eyes.

Taking back their respective decks, the two made their way back to opposite ends of the shrine. Turning to face each other, they placed their shuffled decks into their duel disk. Reku held up his, the plates snapping out and down into place as the device took on battle mode. A beeping noise raced through the wooden walls as the life point counters shot up to 4000.

Outside the open wall, a slight breeze had picked up, blowing into the shrine. Turning their heads, both Reku and Ronin noticed the sporadic, scattered dark clouds that had been forming outside.

"Looks like rain." Reku commented, turning back. "How foreshadowing and ominous."

"Yes." Ronin nodded, an odd smile creasing his lips made Reku shudder slightly. "Destiny is preparing the world to shed tears at your upcoming downfall. How befitting. The king of my dueling world is about to be dethroned and the earth shall cry for it."

Pulling against the curb, the large truck came to a complete stop as Ryokurio and Usami hopped out and ran over to the lawn. Akiaki and Seki were still in shock at the strange card that had been used for the duel. Akina was sitting on the lawn, taking a deep breath while Sachiko stood next to her smiling slightly.

Joe, who was half way across the lawn between Akina and Sachiko and Akiaki and Seki, stopped to look at the new arrivals to the scene. Things seemed to be getting slightly crowded in the area.

Kevin was still rubbing his head, his roaring headache not having passed by him yet, also watched with interest as Ryokurio and Usami walked towards Akina and Sachiko.

"What happened here?" Usami asked, kneeling down to see if Akina was alright. Smiling at her to show she was fine, Akina began to answer her question in her typical sweet voice.

"Nothing much. Some old friends, and new loyal servants of Freyr, stopped by and forced us into duels. We came out fine." Akina gave a thumbs up to Usami who smiled wide at the news. "We won."

"Where is Ronin?" Ryokurio questioned, taking a sweep across the yard. His eyes came back and fixated on Sachiko who looked back at him. "Did you find him here or were you wrangled into this before you found him?"

"No, I found him." Sachiko's eyes darted to the ground below. "And dueled him here on this spot. Once he crushed me I felt a wee bit dizzy and disoriented while he was barking orders at me. He told me to send Reku to him whenever I saw him." Her eyes locked again with Ryokurio's, transferring all the pain and sadness she had felt from Ronin and finally understanding his situation. "So Reku is on his way to meet Ronin now."

"Yes, Ronin's new deck seems to be so powerful it will knock the wind out of you." Ryokurio nodded his head in agreement. "So where is he? What did he have in mind for Reku?"

"The shrine up by the northern lake." Sachiko answered, her eyes still looking deep within Ryokurio's for comfort. "And I believe he plans to show up Reku in a duel. To beat him down…but after that I don't know what. Nor do I know what he plans to do if he were to fail to beat Reku."

"That would probably be a worse blow to his pride then anything." Usami chimed in, standing up straight from her bent over position. "But he probably would get the same blow if Reku let Ronin win."

"But these two said they know a cure for Ronin's illness." Akina said, also standing up with the aid of Usami. She, of course, was directing her comment at Akiaki and Seki who sweet dropped slightly at hearing this out of Akina. Joe, who was almost to them, continued his pace and backed them both together in fear of him.

"So, what is the cure?" Joe demanded the answer, causing them to look dumbfounded at each other.

"There…um…" Akiaki looked at Seki who slowly shoved herself to the background, trying to defuse the blame more on him. "…really…was no cure that we know of. We just said that to get you to duel us."

"Oh really?" Joe cocked and eyebrow at the two of them. Holding his hands together he slowly, but loudly began to crack his knuckles in an attempt to strike fear into the two of them. "Wrong answer."

The groaning echoed off the walls of the chamber the three demonic creatures were staying in. Freyr, who was kneeling on the ground, arched his back and growled deep within his throat. Dementia withdrew her hands from the back of her master, bowing her head in shame of hurting him with her back massage.

"I am so sorry master Freyr." She quickly spit out, hopping that she could make it up to him before he lost his temper. To her clear surprise, he just relaxed once the pain left and looked down at the floor before him.

"Don't worry about it Dementia."

"Now THAT isn't like the master at all." Thoth watched in surprised from his place leaning against the far wall. He watched as Dementia took in a big breath of air before returning to gently rub his back. "He'd normally bite the head of anyone who were to hurt him. Is he disappointed that he actually failed in his mission due to a bunch of kids and three demons?"

"How is this master?" Dementia asked, rubbing her hand over a rough spot on his back, causing him to flinch slightly, but not shriek out in pain.

"It's good Dementia." He spoke with little interest on his own pain. He seemed to be distracted by other affairs at the moment. His three eyes closed tightly, still receiving the back rub from his vampire servant. "Kooru, you shall pay for your ignorance soon enough, but before that, I have an affair with someone else that I must see too. These young humans have become more of a threat than I imagined they could be. There powers are incredibly stronger than I first read them to be. Seems I must deal with them myself."

"Well, on the plus side, those humans that we recruited are finally coming in handy. The one called Tal, despite being quite rebellious, is actually serving a good purpose on his own." Thoth closed his eyes, bowing his elongated head. His arms crossed in front of his tilted body still against the wall, he continued to speak. "If nothing else, he will continue to hound those kids and wear them down with exhaustion. It will keep them from gaining any ground against us at least."

"You're right." Dementia smiled sinisterly at her partner. "He and those others he had following him may be bumbling idiots for the most part, but as far as humans go, they are pretty resourceful. Who would have ever guessed we'd ever use humans to do our dirty work."

"Tal is very thoughtful and thorough. He knows how this game works." Thoth, with his body still in the same position and his eyes closed, continued to talk. "And here I thought he was just pulling our legs when he said he had worked for a great person seeking this crystal before. His methods are a bit round-about, but he does get the job done."

"It wasn't mere coincidence that we stumbled onto him, Hygin and Archip." Freyr growled, causing Dementia to stop and Thoth to instantly open his eyes to look at his master. "People who have faced off against these kids before. Know about the ultimate crystal. And do know their way around war tactics. There is some kind of unexplainable power and force at work here. I don't know what, but something has guided us to them. And them to other past enemies of those blasted humans."

"So you don't believe it to be sere luck that we stumbled onto them, Master?" Dementia asked, bending down next to the red skinned demon.

"No. I believe it was meant to happen. We were fated to meet."

"You do have a point Master." Thoth pushed himself forward, walking towards the red skinned demon and the crouching vampire. "Only a sick and twisted, professional story weaver could come up with something this devious and coincidental in an epic fairy tale."

With his index and middle fingers on the top card of his deck resting in his emerald green duel disk, Ronin smirked darkly at his opponent. With one foolproof swing of his arm he slid a group of cards off of his deck. Adding them to his left hand, he folded out exactly five cards.

"Well Reku, it is about time we end this once and for all."

Reku, a little more casual then Ronin, slid five cards off of his deck one at a time, placing them in his left hand and observing them as they went. Looking up after his fifth, he stared at his opponent who was glaring back.

"I believe you are out of your mind Ronin." Reku responded, watching his friend snicker at his comment. "But if this is the only way for you to find out what you need to know, then by all means, let's get this over with."

"Then I hope you stay true to your word Reku." Ronin suddenly took on a very serious attitude once again. "You best be fighting full out against me. I refuse to pull any punches against you, and if you let me win, it will just go to show that you are a sniveling coward."

"Ronin." Reku bowed his head, shaking it from side to side slowly. "I would never just let you win. That would be a disgrace and dishonor to both of our prides' as duelists. I will fight you full out in an even match. Then, when a winner is decided, you will finally have the answer you seek from this meaningless battle."

"You're wrong." Ronin shot back, interrupting his friend. "It isn't the outcome that I am interested in. I am interested in the fight it takes to get there. This battle means more to me than you will ever know, Reku. Give me a full, strong fight and I will have my answer. It's going to be whichever one of us is capable of putting up the better war, and commanding our troops the best, that the real trophy will go to." Waving his arm through the air, Ronin indicated he was wiping away the slate. Cutting the threads of conversation right there. "No more talk, time to play. Why don't you take first turn honors?"

"Very well."

"DUEL!" They both cried out as a gust of wind, at that very instant, came rushing through the open side wall and across both duelists.

Reku-4000 LP
Ronin-4000 LP

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CARD OF THE EPISODE

Halo-Bindings
Cont. Trap
Pay half your life points to activate this card. Select one face-up monster on the field. The selected monster cannot attack, change its battle position, or be sacrificed. During the end phase of your opponent's turns, deal half attack strength of the selected card to your opponent's life points.

Akina: "Wow, ok then. This card is known only as Halo-Bindings. Though it is rather costly at half your total life points, if you are strategic enough, it can bind and hinder one card on the field completely. Dealing a little burn damage on the side as well. What a deal! Seki used this card to about beat me and Sachiko, and it would have worked too! Just hope you don't run into this thing in a dark ally duel."

A/N: And next…the duel you've all been waiting for. Next week, guess who faces off finally…

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