"It's my turn." Akane said drawing her card. This feeling, ok next turn this duel will end, she thought.

"Something wrong, did you not get the card you wanted?" Shoshan asked with a smirk.

"You'll find out soon enough, I'll start things off by activating my trap card, Inferno Realm." Akane said. "This trap activates when I have a fire monster in play. I can send that monster to the graveyard to deal damage equal to its level times 200."

"In other words I lose 800 life points, but you lose your only monster." Shoshan said. "Big mistake."

"Wrong, my Inferno realm also let's me summon a new fire monster to replace the one that was destroyed, so I summon a second Charcoal Impachi in defense mode. That ends my turn." Akane said calmly.

Shoshan 1350 Akane 3500: "You should have just skipped your turn, because now the field is set. Since there are more cards on my side of the field than there are on yours I can play my Rainbow Ritual. This requires me to sacrifice Flame Beast Entei, Thunder Beast Raikou, and Water Beast Suicune, though in exchange I can summon Ho-Oh, the Rainbow Phoenix in attack mode." Shoshan said. "Now thanks to his effect, all cards on your side of the field are destroyed and for each card sent to the graveyard he gains 1000 attack points."

"So your new monster has 3000 points, that isn't enough to beat me." Akane said.

"Wrong, at the start of my turn Ho-Oh summons one of my three beasts to the field, which means when Entei revives you lose the duel." Shoshan said coldly. "Ho-Oh, attack Akane's life points directly. That ends my turn."

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"It's my turn, nice since I have a Blackwing in play I can summon Blackwing – Elphin the Raven in attack mode without a sacrifice, and thanks to his ability I can…"

"I play the effect of the Prophetic Guardian in my hand, I send it to the graveyard and guess the top card of your deck, if I happen to guess correctly your monster's ability will be negated." Chaos Immortal Skull Prophet said calmly. "Now then, the card on top of your deck is the Shadow Impulse trap."

"Looks like lucks on my side, it was Blackwing – Blizzard the Far North. Now Elphin the Raven switches your Chaos Immortal into defense mode." Crow said before every card on his field turned grey. "Now what's going on?"

"When my card counterpart is switched from attack mode to defense mode I lose 800 life points, though in exchange all cards on your field are frozen until the end of this turn." Chaos Immortal Skull Prophet said. "Next I send Prophecy Reader from my hand to the graveyard to activate his effect, now I can guess the card on top of my deck and if I'm right you lose life points equal to the total attack points of all the monsters on your field."

Oh man, can't anything go my way, Crow thought nervously.

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Shoshan 1350 Akane 500: "It's my move, and it's about time I put an end to this duel." Akane said. "I start by summoning a second Blazing Impachi, and next since I have a fire monster out I can summon the tuner monster Burning Knight in defense mode."

"Impressive, but even if you synchro summon you still won't be able to beat me, Ho-Oh is immune to destruction in battle." Shoshan said.

"That won't matter, because now that I control a tuner I can summon this to the field. My dark tuner Time Watcher." Akane said as her monster appeared.

"What the, why do you have a dark tuner?" Crystal asked in shock. "You know how dangerous those cards are."

"Crystal's right, they're nothing but trouble." Jack said. "You must be out of your mind to play one."

"No, take a look at her eyes." Yuna said calmly. "She's planning something, something different."

"I agree the only question is what." Sky asked.

"I tune level four Blazing Impachi with level three Burning Knight and level negative seven Time Watcher." Akane said. "Protector of the ages, emerge from the endless flames! Shield humanity from all that seek its end and ensure the future's existence! Synchro Summon! Reset the world, Chaos Immortal Temporal Guardian!"

The moment Akane said that, a pillar of flames shot out from behind her as Eden emerged on the field.

"What's going on, isn't that Eden?" Crystal asked.

"It's been quite a while Crystal, well I suppose it's been longer for me than you. Though you're right, it is me." Eden said calmly. "We can discuss things later, right now we have to finish this duel."

"How do you plan on doing that, you only have 1000 attack points." Shoshan said. "Even if you somehow were able to attack me directly you won't be able to deal enough damage to win."

"Wrong, Eden has a special ability. When he's summoned I can banish one monster and send it into the future, and in exchange he gains all of its attack points." Akane said. "Plus if I banish a synchro monster your monster loses 500 attack points, so I'll banish Blazing Solar Dragon."

"No way, I can't lose this duel." Shoshan said nervously.

"You just did, Eden if you don't mind." Akane said calmly.

"Of course not." Eden said calmly as a clock appeared around Ho-Oh before both hands struck twelve and the chime wiped out the last of Shoshan's life points.

"Shoshan, are you alright?" Luna asked running up to him.

"Luna, what happened? Where are we?" Shoshan asked as a card fell out of his duel disc and disintegrated.

"You were being controlled by one of the Chaos Immortals, though it seems when you lost you snapped out of it." Eden said. "Still we should be on our guard, especially with the Immortal Dragon still waiting for us."

"I agree." Goodwin said. Crow, you'd better be careful my old friend, he thought before the group ran farther into the castle.

(Akane's Chaos Immortal defeated Shoshan but Crow is in a bad spot in his duel. Next chapter Crow's battle with the Chaos Immortal Skull Prophet will end. As always any reviews or critique is appreciated.)