Author's Note: There have been hints, albeit subtle ones, regarding Kakumeika's identity throughout the story following his introduction, not that it matters now since it's finally going to be revealed. Anyway, on with the fic!
Chance is the only given thing in life. It can both lead to ever lasting happiness or desecrate dreams.
Chapter Twenty-Five: Kakumeika's True Identity
Long black hair billowed out from it's confines as the two symmetrical halves of Kakumeika's helmet fell to the floor with a series of clangs, immediately obscuring the face that was, until a few moments ago, covered.
But that brief lapse in time was enough for Hiro to get a good look at the face behind the mask, and he couldn't believe what his eyes had saw.
Kakumeika brushed away the long black hair that obscured violet eyes, "I really wish you hadn't done that." Came Kakumeika's soft reply.
And with that, Hiro knew that it was true, the long black hair, the violet eyes, the demure voice. Kakumeika, the masked self-proclaimed revolutionary was indeed the shy, soft-spoken, Rei Taizo, otherwise known as the Divine Duelist of Duel Academy.
Pressing a button on her duel disk Rei's set card flipped over, revealing the picture of a determined Dark Magician holding the lifeless form of a Dark Magician Girl. "I activate a trap card. A Sacrifice Not In Vain activates when a monster on my field is destroyed in any way, my life points increase by that monster's attack or defense points. I choose the former."
Purple energy began to surround the girl as her life points began to climb. (R: 7100) Forcing the words to come to his mouth, Hiro tentatively questioned, "Are you...are you really Kakumeika?"
Rei nodded, "Yes...I am Kakumeika." Before Hiro could open his mouth to say anything more Rei continued. Motioning to the broken helmet that laid at her feet she said, "I used a voice modulator implanted in my helmet in order to mask my true voice."
With one swift motion she pulled the long black cloak from her body, tossing it aside, "And the cloak was used to hide most of my body from view." She explained.
"Why?" Hiro questioned.
"It wouldn't have worked in my favor if someone were to figure out my true gender." She answered matter-of-factly.
Hiro shook his head, "Why did you do all this? What is it that you want?"
Rei remained silent for several moments before speaking, "The first time we met on the boat, I sensed it. You possess unimaginable power within yourself, a power that only two other people I know have, and because you have that power, I know that he will be looking for you."
Rei continued, "But I had to make sure that I wasn't mistaken, so I rigged the matches so that I would be your opponent in the Duel Review. That duel confirmed it for me, and so I knew what I had to do."
"As Kakumeika I would be able to not only monitor you, but locate others on the island with special abilities as well, but first I had to draw you in. When you declined my first offer I sent Kosuke as a warning, I had hoped that you would change your mind."
Rei frowned, "But when you didn't drastic measures had to be taken, this is where your friend John came in. But then another problem emerged, your friends managed to figure out where my hideout was, so I had to distract them long enough to take their attention off of this place. As you can tell...it worked." Rei finished.
"So...your saying I have some sort of power hidden within me?" Hiro questioned, going over all the information Rei had just given him. The dark-haired girl nodded in response to his inquiry.
"And that because of it...someone will be looking to exploit me? Someone dangerous?" The dark-haired girl nodded once more. Hiro looked up at the dark ceiling above him, sighing audibly.
After several minutes, he reverted his gaze to the girl standing a few feet away from him. "I understand...but...I can't let you get away with what you've done here."
A brief flicker of disappointment flashed through Rei's eyes upon hearing Hiro's final answer. "Fine, I'll just have to defeat you then." She replied, resigning herself.
Hiro grabbed one of the three remaining cards in his hand, placing it on his duel disk, "Experimentation on Mythical Beasts allows me to create three tokens of my Nemean Lion with zero attack and defense points in defense mode." He explains as three miniature versions of the large lion appear on the field.
"Since I don't have a Mythical Beast in my hand to discard to the graveyard my Mythical Beast Nemean Lion is destroyed due to it's effect." As if on cue the massive lion roared, shattering into billions of pixels, leaving the white-haired boy with it's far weaker miniature versions.
"I end my turn." Hiro finished.
The darkness swirled around Rei as she drew, glancing at the card, she immediately played it. "I activate a magic card, Sacrifice of the Psiconics. If I have six or more monsters in my graveyard with Psiconic in their names and discard one card from my hand, I can draw six cards from my deck."
Hiro frowned, his opponent had managed to restore her hand. 'I have a bad feeling about this.'
"Emergency Teleport lets me special summon one level three or lower psychic-type monster from my deck to the field. I choose Life Coordinator(800/400)." A blue gelatinous creature appears before the girl.
The small creature shimmered out of existence as Rei placed another card on her duel disk. A purple haired man wearing a green visor and a cybernetic trenchcoat appeared in the monster's place. "I sacrifice my Life Coordinator in order to summon Overdrive Teleporter(2100/1200)."
(R: 5100) "By paying 2000 life points, once during this duel my monster can special summon two level three psychic-type monsters from my deck." The man smirked as electricity crackled from his fingertips, causing two more monsters to appear on Rei's field.
One of the monsters was a four-eyed monster in a mid-sized space pod with a cannon extending from the front of it and the other was a large gold robot with two sapphires embedded in it's hands and glowing red eyes. "These two monsters are Psychic Commander(1400/800) and Mind Protector(0/2200)."
Rei proceeded to discard a card from her hand, "By discarding my Noisy Gnat(700/200) from my hand to the graveyard I can increase the level of one monster on my field by one until the end phase, I choose Psychic Commander."
Hiro took on a look of complete surprise upon hearing that, 'She's going to Synchro summon a monster?!'
"Psychic Commander will synchronize with my Mind Protector in order to Synchro summon Psychic Lifetrancer(2400/2000)." A female cyborg-like monster with long flowing black hair and a mechanical left arm appeared, replacing the two monsters.
Rei motioned to her two monsters, "Now both of my monsters will destroy two of your tokens." Both monsters unleashed bolts of lightning from their hands, obliterating two of the miniature Nemean Lions on Hiro's field.
"Once per turn, by removing a psychic-type monster, namely one of my Psiconic Knights in my graveyard from play, my Psychic Lifetrancer can increase my life points by 1200 points." Rei explained as much of the life points she lost from using her Overdrive Teleporter's effect were replenished. (R: 6300)
"I'll place one card face-down and end my turn." Rei finished.
Hiro drew, 'She's definitely got the advantage in terms of life points.' He thought to himself, glancing at the card he had just drawn. 'But this can definitely give my life points I much needed boost.'
"I summon Mythical God Asclepius(300/300)." A fairly tall blonde-haired man with sparkling blue eyes and wearing a white robe appeared before the white-haired boy. "When this card is summoned I draw three cards from my deck."
(H: 2100) "For each card I draw I gain 500 life points." Hiro explained as his life points increased, undoing the damage he had taken from Rei's Psiconic Overlord a few turns back. "The drawback is that I have to send the top three cards on my deck to the graveyard."
Hiro counted three cards off his deck and placed them into his graveyard. "By removing my Mythical Beast Nemean Lion in my graveyard from play my Mythical Beast Phoenix(2900/2100) can once again rise from it's ashes!" The brilliant bird consisting purely of fire emerged as it appeared before Hiro.
Hiro pointed at the cyborg-like monster on Rei's field. "That monster is too dangerous to keep around on your field, so my Phoenix will get rid of it!" In a blaze of flames the weaker monster was incinerated, decreasing Rei's life points somewhat. (R: 5800)
"I was expecting that." Rei replied as her set card flipped upwards, "I activate my trap card, Telepathic Power, when a psychic-type monster on my field is attacked and destroyed as a result of battle the opposing monster that battled it is destroyed as well."
Hiro grimaced as his newly revived monster shattered into ember particles. "I also gain the destroyed monster's attack points as life points." Rei said as her life points began to increase once more. (R: 8700)
"I'll set a card and end my turn."
Rei drew from her deck slowly, "I summon Krebons(1200/400) in attack mode." A cube juggling jester with non-connected limbs appeared before the girl, which Hiro immediately recognized as one of the few psychic-type tuner monsters.
"I synchronize my Krebons with my Overdrive Teleporter." The newly summoned monster transformed into a glowing purple orb, which expanded, encasing Overdrive Telporter. "I Synchro summon Thought Ruler Archfiend(2700/2300) in attack mode."
A silver and gold skeletal monster that vaguely resembled Summoned Skull appeared on the field as a result of the summoning. It stretched out it's large green wings as it's long tail swung menancingly underneath it, it glared at Hiro's field.
"My Archfiend will destroy your Asclepius." Rei said as she motioned to her monster. The monster in questioned raised it's arm over it's head. With a guttural roar it brought it's hand down, causing several lightning bolts to rain down on the much weaker monster, frying it to a crisp.
(H: 4000) Upon viewing Hiro's life point counter Rei had a look of utter confusion on her face until she saw that his set card was no longer there. "You remember right? Shield of Perseus turns any battle damage I receive this turn to life point gain." Hiro explained as the shield shattered, having done it's job.
"Your not the only one that has cards in their decks that increase life points." Hiro commented.
"When my Archfiend destroys a monster in battle I gain life points equal to the destroyed monster's original attack points." Rei responded. (R: 9000)
Hiro grimaced, 'At this rate I'll never be able to inflict any real damage to her life points.'
Rei inserted one of the cards in her hand into her duel disk. "My turn is over. Hiro...despite your best efforts I still hold the lead in this duel, it is inadvisable for you to continue to fight against me."
Hiro shook his head as he drew a card from his deck, "No, you've got it wrong. It's inadvisable for me not to continue." He replied as he slaps the drawn card onto his duel disk, "Mystical Space Typhoon destroys your set card!"
Rei's unknown set card is whipped off of the field, "The card you destroyed was Life Saver. Which increases my life points by 500 points when destroyed." (R: 9500)
Hiro frowns slightly as he grabs one of the cards in his hand, placing it onto his duel disk, "I sacrifice my Nemean Lion token to summon Mythical Beast Chimaera(2000/2000)."
Hiro's remaining token vanished, replaced by a bizarre creature possessing the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a snake. "When this monster battles it gains half the attack points of the monster it's battling." Hiro explained as his monster charged, it's attack points increasing to 3350.
The conglomeration of a monster slammed into Thought Ruler Archfiend, attacking it savagely. It didn't take long for Rei's monster to be ripped limb from limb. (R: 8850)
"Turn end." Hiro finished quickly, looking confident in himself.
As Rei snagged a card from her deck she noticed that Hiro still had five cards in his hand. 'He still has a fairly large hand size, that must mean that his hand is full of monsters. If not that, then he has cards in his hand that he is unable to activate at the moment. In either case...'
"I summon Grapple Blocker(1200/2000) in defense mode." A purple and pale green humanoid with several octopus-like tentacles wriggling from it's back emerged from the card. "When this monster is normal summoned I have to select a monster on your field, that monster can't attack or be used as a sacrifice as long as this card remains face-up on the field." She explained.
The tentacles that were wriggling from the monster's back suddenly stood up straight. Without a moment's notice they quickly shot forward, binding Hiro's Mythical Beast Chimaera to the ground, which roared in protest.
Glancing at the two remaining cards in her hand, Rei did the only thing she could at the moment. "I end my turn." As soon as she did so her life points took a slight hit. (R: 8350)
"At the end phase of my turn I must pay 500 life points to keep my monster on the field." She explained upon seeing the confused look on her opponent's face.
Hiro drew, starting his turn, 'Finally. Something that isn't a monster card.' Hiro thought to himself as he stared at the green bordered card. "I activate a magic card, Mythical Exchange." Hiro grabbed one of the cards in his hand and slid it into his duel disk.
"By discarding a card with Mythical Beast in it's name I can special summon a Mythical Beast from my graveyard, I choose my Mythical Beast Phoenix!" The glowing bird of fire rose to the field once more.
"Go my Phoenix, attack with Majestic Blaze!" The bird opened it's mouth, unleashing a torrent of flames upon it's opponent. Rei's monster screamed in pain as the attack consumed it, it's tentacles leaving the Chimaera's body.
In a matter of seconds the monster was reduced to nothing more than a pile of ash. "Without your Grapple Blocker on the field my Chimaera can attack, and without any set cards to back you up my monster can make the direct strike!"
As Hiro declared this the hulking creature charged, but to Hiro's surprise the purple fog that covered Rei's feet shot upwards, solidifying into a wall of dark energy, protecting her from the attack of the savage monster, though her life points still took a hit. (R: 6350)
'The darkness...it's protecting her.' Hiro figured as the wall of energy dissolved, once again becoming purple fog and bringing the dark-haired girl into view once more. "How did you do that?" Hiro questioned.
"That's another thing I'll have to tell you once you join me." She replied, causing Hiro to sigh, for some reason, even before he asked the question, he knew that she wasn't going to give him an answer to his inquiry.
Despite this, he couldn't help but smile. Despite all that had happened to him so far because of the girl that was standing before him, despite what was on the line in this duel, he was honestly having fun.
Rei arched a brow, "What are you smiling about?"
Hiro shook his head, "I was just thinking, despite everything that's happened...I'm actually enjoying myself a little."
Rei stared at the white-haired boy before her, she didn't quite know how to respond to that, and so she simply asked a question, "Why?"
"Well..." Hiro began, "That's just something I'll tell you if you actually do beat me." He replied.
Despite herself, Rei smiled, though it was barely noticeable. "Are you finished with your turn?" She asked, ready to get back to the task at hand.
Hiro looked at the remaining four cards in his hand before answering, "Yes. My turn is done."
Rei drew, deciding to immediately play it. "I activate the continuous spell card called Teleport." She declared as she slapped it onto her duel disk, causing it to materialize on her field.
"Once per turn, if my opponent controls monsters while I do not, I can pay 800 life points to special summon a psychic-type monster from my hand." She explained as her life points decreased slightly. (R: 5550)
In a flash of violet light a pale skinned anorexic man wearing a brown trenchcoat and a strange silver helmet appeared. "This is Psychic Jumper(100/1500)." Rei introduced as she grabbed the last card in her hand.
Placing it on her duel disk another monster appeared next to the anorexic monster. This monster was a skinny humanoid wearing red and black tights and a circular helmet. "I normal summon Telekinetic Shocker(1700/700)."
(R: 4550) Rei motioned to the weaker of her two monsters as her life points took a dive. "Once per turn I can pay 1000 life points and choose a monster on your field and a psychic-type monster on my field. Those two monsters switch places."
Hiro's eyes widened in shock as the helmet on the man's hands began to generate electricity. An electrical current built up around Hiro's Mythical Beast Phoenix and Rei's Telekinetic Shocker, causing their bodies to slowly vanish into tiny particles of light.
The particles of light moved opposite of one another as they began to reform into the monsters they once were. As the electrical energy subsided from the man's helmet the two monsters returned to their state of being, though they were now on opposite sides of the field.
"Mythical Beast Phoenix, destroy Mythical Beast Chimaera!" Rei ordered. The fire bird began to flap it's wings, orbs of fire shooting out from them and slamming into Hiro's field setting it ablaze for a moment. (H: 3100)
Hiro drew, sighing in relief as he glanced at the card he had just drawn. "By discarding a card in my hand I activate Monster Reincarnation." Sliding one of the remaining four cards into his graveyard slot Hiro caught the card that shot out.
"I sacrifice Telekinetic Shocker to summon my Mythical Beast Chimaera(2000/2000) back to the field!" He declared as the monster returned, a look of pure rage in it's eyes.
"Sorry Phoenix, but I'm going to have to take you down." Hiro said as his newly revived monster's attack points increased to 3450. The monster quickly descended on the majestic monster, ripping it apart similar to how it did Rei's Thought Ruler Archfiend a few turns earlier. (R: 4000)
"That's all I can do for my turn, so I end."
Rei slipped a card from her deck, "I activate Pot of Greed." Drawing twice more Rei frowned, 'He's most likely going to revive his Mythical Beast Phoenix on his next turn, but there's nothing I can do about it for the moment.'
"I'll switch my monster to defense mode and set a card face-down. End turn." Rei finished.
Hiro immediately drew a card from his deck, "First I'll set a monster in face-down defense." Hiro started as the card materialized next to his Chimaera.
"Next I'll remove my Mythical Beast Arion(1700/0), which was sent to the graveyard for Monster Reincarnation, and summon my Mythical Beast Phoenix once again!" The large majestic bird reappeared once more, embers falling from it's shimmering body.
"My Chimaera will destroy your Psychic Jumper." Hiro declared. Like the monsters before it, the anorexic man was quickly ripped to shreds, leaving Rei with just a face-down card to protect herself with.
"I'll have my Phoenix attack next." A torrent of flames erupted from the bird's mouth but failed to harm Rei as the purple fog at her feet once again solidified into a wall of dark energy, despite this, her life points began to decrease. (R: 1100)
'If I keep this up, there's no way I'll lose.' Hiro thought to himself as he snapped up the remaining four cards in his hand. "Turn end."
Rei drew, feeling a pulse of energy run through her entire body. 'Twilight Renewal...' Rei glanced at her Teleport continuous spell card on her field and then at the other card in her hand. "By paying 800 life points I can special summon a psychic-type monster from my hand." (R: 300)
A large purple and yellow humanoid snail emerged onto the field. "This is Psychic Snail(1900/1200)." Rei introduced as the monster generated a field of electricity around it's body.
Rei flipped over the last card in her hand, "Twilight Renewal now activates since it's the last card in my hand, I draw five cards." Swiftly doing so, Rei briefly looked over her new hand before deciding her next move.
"Emergency Teleport allows me to special summon a level three or lower psychic-type monster from my deck to the field." Placing the card onto her duel disk a woman with a large head and having puffy hair appeared, wearing a lab coat. On her head was a large helmet with light bulbs covering most of it.
"The monster I choose is Doctor Cranium(100/100)." Grabbing another card, Rei placed it on her duel disk. "Since I haven't normal summoned this turn, I'll do so now, Mind Master(100/200) in attack mode."
A mechanical monster with it's brain encased in alien technology emerged, wires connected it's arms to it's center. Rei pressed a button on her duel disk, causing her set card to flip over, "I activate my trap card, Psychic Rejuvenation. For every psychic-type monster on my field I gain 1000 life points."
Purple energy surrounded Rei as her life points received a much needed boost. (R: 3300) "Now by paying 800 life points I can activate Mind Master's special ability." (R: 2500) "By sacrificing a psychic-type monster other than Mind Master I can special summon a level four or lower psychic-type monster to the field."
Doctor Cranium transformed into motes of light as a new monster took it's place. "I choose to summon Power Injector(1300/1400)." A large man with bolts sticking out of it's head and large tanks filled with red liquid attached to it's arms appeared, glaring at Hiro's field.
"Now that all the preparations have been complete, my Mind Master will synchronize with my Psychic Snail and Power Injector." Rei declared as the three monsters on her field began to glow an intense violet.
Hiro's eyes widened in shock, 'All together her monsters have a total of nine stars! I didn't know that there were Synchro monsters whose levels went that high!'
"I Synchro summon Hyper Psycho Gunner(3000/2500) in attack mode." A large mechanical monster appeared as a result of the summoning. A large dome covered the upper half of it, concealing the machine's inner workings. Two long wires extended from it's back, connecting to two guns that the monster wielded.
"Monster Reborn revives Psychic Snail." Rei says as the monster returns. "By paying 800 life points and giving up it's attack this turn Psychic Snail gives my monster the ability to attack twice during the battle phase." (R: 1700)
"Hyper Psycho Gunner, destroy Mythical Beast Chimaera!" Without hesitation the monster pulled the two guns' triggers, unleashing a hail of searing hot bullets upon Hiro's monster, destroying it in a matter of seconds.
"By discarding my Mythical Beast Daimon(500/500) in my hand to the graveyard I can reduce battle damage to zero." Hiro said as he slid one of the four cards in his hand to the graveyard.
'With that card in his graveyard he'll be able to protect himself from another attack.' Rei frowned, "Hyper Psycho Gunner will destroy your set monster!"
Hiro motioned to his unused set card, "Symplegades ends your battle phase!" Two giant rocks rose from the darkness, clashing together, stopping Rei's monster from carrying out it's second attack.
'I forgot about that card.' Rei inserted the last two cards in her hand into her duel disk, "I'll end my turn by placing two cards face-down."
The moment Hiro drew one of Rei's set cards activated, "I activate a trap card, it's called Buster Mode, I have to tribute one Synchro monster on my field to activate it." She explained as her level nine Synchro monster transformed into motes of light.
"I can then special summon a monster from my deck with the same name followed by '/Buster' in face-up attack position." A card slid out of Rei's deck, which she took and placed onto her duel disk. "I special summon Hyper Psycho Gunner/Buster(3500/3000) in attack mode."
The motes of light came together, forming a machine similar to Hyper Psycho Gunner, though it's armor was bulkier and large mechanical wings were attached to it's back. In it's right arm was a larger gun while it's left arm had become a cannon, both weapons were connected to it's back via power cables.
Hiro glanced at his drawn card after being interrupted. "Sorry Rei, but it looks like you summoned that monster for nothing." He said as he placed the newly drawn card onto his duel disk. "I activate Sum of All Fears!"
Almost immediately Rei's new monster aimed it's gun at the holographic image of the spell card that had appeared on the field, unleashing gunfire upon it. Hiro watched in shock as his spell card was ripped to shreds.
Rei motioned to her set card, which was now face-up. "Buster Counter can only activate while I have /Buster monster on my field, I can negate the effects of a trap, monster, or spell card."
'Well there goes that plan.' Hiro grimaced. Looking at the remaining cards in his hand, 'I have a high level monster that I can't summon, a Repayment of Losses, and a Forked Magic. Not much I can do...'
Hiro looked up from his hand, "Mythical Beast Phoenix attack Psychic Snail!" The majestic bird glowed an intense red-orange before slamming into the weaker monster, reducing it to nothing. (R: 700)
"I end my turn."
Rei drew the only card in her hand, immediately playing it, "Mind Break costs 500 life points to activate, it's destroys a defense position monster on the field." (R: 200) Hiro's set monster promptly exploded, leaving him with just his Phoenix.
'Well...I'll only take 600 points of damage from her monster's attack.' Hiro thought to himself, 'That's not so bad...' His thought trailed off.
"Hyper Psycho Gunner/Buster, attack Mythical Beast Phoenix." Rei's monster once again unleashed wave after wave of heated metal, this time ripping apart Hiro's Mythical Beast Phoenix. (H: 2500)
Rei's monster aimed it's cannon at Hiro, electrical energy flowed through the power cable connected to it, charging it up, much to Hiro's surprise."When Hyper Psycho Gunner/Buster destroys a monster as a result of battle you lose life points equal to the destroyed monster's defense points." She explained.
Hiro barely had any time to defend himself as a large orb of concentrated electrical energy erupted from the cannon, slamming into him and sending him into the ground. (H: 400) "I also gain the destroyed monster's attack points as life points." Rei added in as her life points increased. (R: 3100)
Hiro stared up at the dark ceiling above him, lying on the floor beneath him. 'Things aren't looking good for me right now.' After a few seconds of lying on his back he shakily sat up, shaking his head.
It nearly took all of Hiro's energy to push himself to his feet. "Since a Mythical Beast was destroyed on my field I can special summon Wandering Spirit, the monster destroyed by your Mind Break, to the field in defense position."
"I end my turn." Rei stated, not bothered at all by the weak monster's appearance.
'It all comes down to this draw...otherwise...I've lost.' Closing his eyes, Hiro took a deep, ragged breath. In one swift motion Hiro slash-drew the card, bringing it up to his face before immediately slamming it onto his duel disk.
"I sacrifice Wandering Spirit in order to activate Girdle of Hippolyte. This card lets me select a Mythical Beast from my deck, graveyard, or one that has been removed from play and add it to my hand." He explained.
"Now I'm going to special summon my chosen card by removing my Mythical Beasts Chimaera and Phoenix in my graveyard from play! Nemean Lion(4900/4100) in attack mode!" The monstrous giant lion emerged from the darkness, looking down on Rei's lone monster with hunger.
"Sorry Rei, it's been fun...but this duel is over. By discarding my Mythical Beast Briareos(2600/2300) from my hand to the graveyard Nemean Lion gains it's attack points as it's own!"
The giant of a lion merely doubled in size as it's attack points skyrocketed, shooting up to a massive 7500. Rei held her head low as the behemoth roared in fury. 'So this is it. I've...lost.'
"Nemean Lion, attack Hyper Psycho Gunner/Buster!" Hiro's monster dipped it's head, opening it's mouth wide, swallowing the mechanical monster whole and depleting the last of Rei's life points. (R: 0)
As soon as the Darkness Game ended Hiro fell to his knees, breathing heavily, "I've never been so exhausted in my life." He groaned.
Hiro looked up as Rei began to speak to him, "You have won this duel Hiro, therefore I have to give myself up to the authorities as punishment for the loss. But this is not over, and so, I'll leave you with a warning."
Once the dark-haired girl spoke her warning, Hiro looked at her with a confused expression on his face. Before he could ask her what it meant the last of his energy left his body, rendering him unconscious.
The sun shined it's rays upon Duel Academy Island as it's inhabitants went about their business for the day, not that there was much to do, for today was Saturday, a day normally used for relaxing.
One particular boy was doing just that, that is, until the sun shone into his room, causing him to groan in response to the sudden intrusion. His left hand came over his face, trying in vain to shield his eyes from the sun's intense rays. "Will someone close those curtains." He mumbled.
"Your not planning on sleeping the whole day away, are you?" Hiro's eyes shot open as he heard the voice he recognized to be Hitaki. The girl in question was smiling down at him, looking passed her Hiro saw the others.
Sitting up, Hiro looked at the group, confused. "Ummm...why are you all here and how did I end up in my room?"
"The last time I checked this was my room too." Hayato pointed out from his desk, looking up from his laptop.
"What he means to say," Kai began, "Is that we brought you here after finding you unconscious. We figured you would prefer to wake up in your own bed, as opposed to the floor."
"What happened to John and Re...I mean Kakumeika. What about the Supernatural Suppression Squad?" He questioned.
"You don't have to cover up for her, we all know that Rei is Kakumeika." Sakura said from her spot on the wall.
Kazuki nodded, "She confessed to everything. The Supernatural Suppression Squad have her in custody at the moment, all charges on you have been dropped."
Hiro looked down at his hands which were currently folded in his lap, a look of worry on his face, "What's going to happen to her? And what about John?"
Hayato spoke, "Although John isn't a minor, I can't imagine that he would get full charges, since Rei admitted to forcing him into a Darkness Game and using it's power to make him serve her. So you shouldn't worry too much about him, as for Rei..."
"Rei has an older brother who is a very influential man, chances are she'll get off with minimal charges for what she's done." Kazuki finished for him.
Shindo sat down on John's empty bed, "Instead of worrying about all that extra stuff we should just be glad that it's all over, after it, it definitely wasn't easy."
Ed turned towards his roommate, his eyes narrowed at him. Extending his arm out he pointed his index finger at him shakily, "You say that like you actually helped!" Jerking a thumb towards himself he exclaimed, "I'm the one that did all the hard work!"
Kai arched a brow, "Excuse me? Your not the only one that helped. We all had a hand in it." He said, gesturing to the others sans Shindo.
Ed waved his hand at him as if he was shooing away a fly, "Yeah yeah, but I took out Kakumeika's strongest follower, you gotta give credit where it's due."
Sakura shook her head in disappointment as Ed, Shindo, and Kai started to shout at one another, arguing about who contributed more to taking down Kakumeika. "How immature."
Author's Note: Happy Thanksgiving!
Card of this chapter:
Hyper Psycho Gunner/Buster: Earth/Psychic 11/3500/3000
This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card can only be Special Summoned by the effect of "Buster Mode." When this card attacks, inflict damage to your opponent equal to the target monster's defense at the end of the damage step, and gain life points equal to that monster's attack. When this card is destroyed, Special Summon one "Hyper Psycho Gunner" from your graveyard.
The school year, as surprising as it has been, is finally coming to a close. With Kazuki Takahashi's impending graduation, a new Kaiser must be decided, and so the school's two strongest students will battle one another to claim it.
Next time, Battle For The Title of Kaiser!