Episode 37: Heart of Ice and Blood of Water

"Believe it how you want." The younger Ronin walked forward, bounding off of the navy blue crown of the constricted Daedalus, floating softly down to Ronin's level as the abyss caught him with its invisible hands. "And I believe that we'll let your own cards judge you. The monsters that you worked together with so long that you just up and abandoned."

Yanking his arm forward, the younger Ronin extended his hand, palm facing outwards, towards Ronin.

"What are you do…" Ronin was stopped mid-sentence as his duel disk strapped on his right arm began to move, pulling upwards until it was high over his head, leaving his body to dangle below it.

His deck began to glow in a radiant light, blasting out streams of energy that wove their way around the abyss. Swirling into a twister, the beams of light seemed to surround the two Ronin's and the large dragon, trapping them in this swirling light.

"I believe it is time for the judgment." The younger Ronin said, letting his hand come down which released whatever hold he had on Ronin's duel disk. Dropping down with a massive pull of gravity, Ronin noticed very quickly that his deck was gone from the deck tray, leaving it completely bare.

"My deck?!" Ronin cried out, looking up at the swirling lights. "What the hell is going on?"

"Judgment." The younger Ronin spoke, snapping his left arm forward. As he did, a huge chunk of the spiraling lights shot towards him, wrapping themselves around his arm. When the light dimmed, a emerald green duel disk, matching Ronin's exactly, had materialized, a large brown stack of cards resting in the deck slot.

The remaining lights began to converge in one spot before blasting down into the elder Ronin's duel disk, causing the device to glow for a second before cutting off the illumination. Resting in the duel disk again was a stack of brown backed Duel Monsters cards.

"We shall see just how much you treasure your cards." The younger Ronin declared, whipping his right arm before him, moving it over his active duel disk as he did. Once past, he revealed he had plucked five cards from their resting spot on the deck. "Let the judgment begin!"

"We are going to duel?" Ronin cocked an eyebrow at the boy, getting a nod from him in return. Taking his shock and putting it back into his anger, Ronin agreed, pulling his opening hand off of his deck. "Fine! Duel!"

Kiro cracked each of the joints in his hand, flexing it in an attempt to show off some power. A red aura drifting off of each finger, twirling up into the air like smoke off of a fire. Freyr just smirked a bit, while Thoth grew a bit annoyed at the younger demon trying to show off.

"Just tell me where the hell Dementia is." He demanded again, throwing knife like orders through each word.

"You are just going to keep rambling on and on about that aren't you?" Freyr shook his head, looking at Kiro with a bit of disdain in his three eyes. "Fine, maybe you and I can reach a deal."

Ronin-4000 LP
Young Ronin-4000 LP

"I start!" Ronin yelled out, pulling the top card off of his deck, and for the first time, looking at his starting hand. Instantly his eyes grew big and he looked up at his opponent. "Wait, I didn't have some of these cards in my deck, what the hell are you pulling?"

"Nothing." Young Ronin shrugged, calmly explaining himself. "There had to be something put into your deck to replace what I took out to create mine. Don't worry; this isn't like your deck either." The child Ronin held up his duel disk, emphasizing his deck. "It's modified as well. It shall make for fair and sound judgment."

"Fine." Ronin glared at the young boy, moving his attention back down to his deck. "Not like I care anyways." Yanking out a card from his hand he slapped it down on the duel disk before him horizontally. "I summon Freezing Beast (1500/1000) in defense mode to start with."

From the abyss before him, a large chunk of ice began to grow in the air, taking form into a four legged monster made of solid ice. Landing on the 'floor' the monster formed a card beneath it. The ridged spikes of frozen water that shot up from its body made a porcupine like defense for it.

"And I'll set one card, finishing my move." Ronin called out, sliding a card from his hand into his duel disk.

"Draw!" The younger Ronin slid the top card off of his deck with vigor, instantly slapping it onto his duel disk. "I summon Hydrogeddon (1600/1000) in attack mode to start with."

What appeared before the younger Ronin was a large, brown beast made of some kind of un-solid material, taking the form of some strange, four legged beast. Opening its form of a mouth, the beast let out a massive bellow to show its power, making its own body jiggle with the power.

"Quick-play magic card go!" The younger Ronin slid another card into his duel disk, watching the card form in a display of lights before him. "Quick Summon allows me to also summon on my turn; Oxygeddon (1800/800)!"

Coming into existence next to the brown beast, a large, pterodactyl like monster appeared made of solid, visible, teal colored wind. Screeching, the monster also made its un-solidified body ripple a bit with its might.

"No way." Ronin's eyes grew wide as he saw the deadly duo of monsters that stood before him on his opponent's field.

"Hydrogeddon attack! Destroy his Freezing Beast now!" Bellowing out his command, the younger Ronin thrust his arm forward, pointing to the frozen monster resting on its own card image.

After inhaling a deep breath, the monster erupted outwards with a spray of hydrogen, consuming the ice sculpture beast whole before causing its data to shatter like glass.

"And due to his special effect, I get to pull another Hydrogeddon from my deck and special summon it on the field." The younger Ronin declared, pulling out his own deck and fanning it open. Grabbing a copy of the card from his deck, he slapped it down on his duel disk, forming the image of another four legged, brown gas bodied beast. "And since you have no monster, Oxygeddon, Hydrogeddon, attack him directly!"

Both monsters sent their attacks racing from their maws, hurdling across the field with a mighty battle cry being roared out by the two monsters. Spiraling together, the attacks formed a drill ready to slice through Ronin and his life points.

"No!" Ronin cried out, jerking his hand towards his set card. "I don't think so. Trap card open! Reflection Pool - Ice Barrier." The abyss around Ronin changed for a second, showing him standing on a pool of solid ice. From in front of him, a large pillar of ice shot out of the lake, creating a wall in which the attacks slammed into, bouncing off without even leaving a scratch. "When a monster is destroyed, this card negates all battle damage to me and my monsters, if I had any, for the rest of this turn. Also," Ronin held up his duel disk, watching as the Freezing Beast was ejected from his graveyard slot before he picked it up. "By removing the destroyed monster, the owner, me, is allowed to summon another monster of equal or less attack strength from my deck."

The lake began to shimmer, shattering into tiny data bits that floated around Ronin for a second before they collided together to form a large, ice carved behemoth, crouching down on its own card image. Human shaped, the gargoyle of ice crossed its bulky arms over its huge torso, creating a defensive wall for itself. (0/3000)

"And I chose my Ice-Rock Golem." He spoke, shuffling the deck where he had just pulled the card from, sliding it back into his duel disk. "Defense mode."

"Alright." The child-like Ronin nodded, pulling another card from his diminishing hand before sliding it into his duel disk. "Magic card; Bonding – H2O activate!" Vanishing in a swirl of lights, young Ronin's three monsters became a massive swirling vortex of teal and brown, slowly mixing together to form a aqua blue color. "By sacrificing two Hydrogeddon's and an Oxygeddon I can summon from my deck…"

The vortex erupted with a massive force, revealing a large, serpent like dragon on the young Ronin's field, roaring with its might as it appeared. Towering high over the field, the monster, made completely out of water, swirled around its master, glaring with blood red eyes at its opponents. (2800/2600)

"Water Dragon!" Sticking his reshuffled deck back into his deck slot, the young Ronin smirked a bit. "And I end my turn with that move."

Dementia smiled to herself, thinking of her own accomplishments. She knew she struck a very sensitive cord with the green haired demon boy that hurt her. Chuckling, she looked down at the world below, giving herself ample time so that Kiro didn't end up getting his claws on, or in, her.

"And what do we have here?" She spoke, watching a small dot off in the distance moving through the hills that cluttered the landscape.

Taking off at a high speed, Dementia flew down through the air, racing towards the approaching target.

Yukio looked up just in time to pull his head down as Dementia went buzzing overhead. Flipping around, Yukio stared up at the purple skinned vampire that was now hovering in the air before him.

"So the little traitor comes out." Dementia gazed over her prey with a hungry look gleaming in her eye.

"Traitor? Can I really have betrayed you if I was never really on your side?" Yukio shot back, watching the vampire laugh a bit at the comeback. "What's so funny?"

"Darling, you are. You'd have been smart to stay on Freyr's side rather than try to go against him. Don't you see who the true victor in this war is going to be?"

"Does it look like I care?" Yukio, refusing to take his eyes off of the monster before him, began to back up. "I am just looking for a way out of here so I can go home. I no longer care what the hell you guys do."

"Then I draw." Ronin cried out, snapping the top card off of his deck and adding it to his hand. Narrowing his eyes, he glared at the younger him and the huge snake of water coiled around him. "Having the ability to summon Water Dragon in one turn. That was a god-like opening hand he must have had. But no matter, I'll shut this kid up regardless of what he plays." Cranking his head upwards, he smiled at the back of his large, behemoth monster crouching before him. "Ice-Rock Golem can't be destroyed in battle, which isn't much of a problem anyways, seeing as its 3000 defense points strong!"

Moving his eyes to his cards, he looked back up, the gears cranking in his head as to what his next plan was going to be.

"I end my turn without doing anything."

"You are having trouble with Water Dragon?" The younger Ronin began to laugh, pointing accusingly at the older version of himself. "Honestly, Water Dragon is nothing more than a mere test. If you can't get past it, how can you face what else this deck has?"

"I'm just getting warmed up." Ronin growled, watching his younger self pull his hand back to his deck, placing it on the top card. "You just worry about your own plays."

"I shall then." The young Ronin smirked, yanking the top card off of his deck with a powerful jerk. "Draw!"

Flicking the cards between his fingers gracefully for a second, the younger Ronin slid the card into his duel disk, watching the image appeared before him. "I activate Overflowing Hydration. I can only use this card when I have a level five or higher water monster on my field. From my deck I special summon one level three or lower water monster." Fanning open his deck, the young Ronin pulled out a card he found near the bottom, instantly slapping it down onto his duel tray. "I chose my Furious Sea King!"

A slimy skinned fish monster appeared before the younger Ronin. Swinging it through the air, the monster boasted his strength with a silver tipped trident, grasped firmly with both of its powerful hands at the end of its muscle filled arms. (800/700)

"Overflowing Hydration will give the monster I summon an additional 800 attack points though." The younger Ronin spoke, noticing the instant dumbfounded look on his opponents face. The Furious Sea King was nothing more than a weak, normal monster card that rarely saw play. (1600/700) "And I combo with Bursting Dam!"

"Bursting Dam…" Ronin's shock turned into contemplation as he watched the magic card appear behind the blue skinned fish man, causing him to glow with a radiant light. "That will allow him to decrease the attack of a level three or lower water monster by 500 points, just to attack my life points directly."

Bounding forward, the incredibly strong looking monster wielded back its weapon, thrusting it forward when it reached Ronin, not even stopping to take a second glance at the large golem that typically would have blocked his way. The spear stopped inches from Ronin's chest, but the powerful energy wave that blasted off the three spikes caused Ronin to scream out in pain none the less and fly backwards. (1100/700)

Ronin-2900 LP
Young Ronin-4000 LP

"And that is all I will do this turn." The younger Ronin let his arms fall to his side as his Furious Sea King landed back on his side of the field, slamming the blunt end of the trident into the invisible floor beneath them.

"Whatever." Ronin snarled, his right hand grasping his chest where he was about pierced by the three sharp knives. Walking back to his spot on the dueling field, Ronin finally removed his hand from his chest, drawing the top card off of his deck. Flipping it up, he stared at it before he added it to his hand to make a full hand of six cards. Taking another card, he pulled it out. "I summon Blizzard Dragon in attack mode!"

A loud roar echoed up from behind Ronin, followed shortly after by a blue skinned monster that came blasting out of a geyser of sparks, gliding through the air on wings attached to the bottom sides of its long, bony arms. Landing on its powerful hind legs, the dragonic beast snapped its head back, roaring again, this time creating a fog of ice particles that fell down over its body. (1800/1000)

"Blizzard Dragon's special effect!" Ronin snapped his hand out, pointing directly at the large dragon of water that was sitting upon his opponent's field. "Once per turn, he can freeze a monster on your side of the field, making it incapable of attacking or moving battle modes until the end phase of your turn."

Gale force winds came blasting out of the Blizzard Dragon's wide open mouth, circling around the body of the gigantic best, causing its body to freeze into a large ice-cycle. Rocking back and forth for a second, the monster found balance as it stood there, a frozen statue, incapable of doing anything.

"And I also play this." Ronin continued, sliding a card into his duel disk behind the dragon monster he had just summoned. With a ripple in the space before him, and a blast of light, the magic card appeared, glowing in a cool, light blue aura. "I activate White Blizzard! Now my Blizzard Dragon, attack Furious Sea King with your Blizzard of Flames!"

What erupted from the dragon's mouth wasn't fire, but instead sheets of ice and snow, curving around to look like crystallized blue flames. Within seconds of being launched, the attack swallowed the buff fish-man whole, causing him to roar out in pain as his body was frozen solid before shattering into a million data bits.

Ronin-2900 LP
Young Ronin-3800 LP

"But I'm not done," Ronin pulled his hand up, pointing at the younger version of himself. "White Blizzard deals you 600 points of damage when I destroy a monster on your side of the field. So pay up!"

Blasting out of the card image, another massive storm of snow and ice went bursting forth, engulfing the younger Ronin in its blinding curtain of bad weather. Through the veil, a loud beeping could be heard, indicating that indeed his opponent's life points were falling.

Ronin-2900 LP
Young Ronin-3200 LP

"Is that all you've got?" The young Ronin spoke, becoming visible from the massive storm. He was protecting his head under his arms, but past that, there wasn't a scratch on him.

"Oh no, there is more." Ronin smirked, knowing he took that round for himself. "I end my turn there."

"Thoth!" Freyr bellowed, making the Egyptian demon stand at attention, stiff as a board.

"Yes sire?" He responded, like an obedient service man.

"Take Kiro and find Dementia." Turning back to the young demon, Freyr smirked. "I'm aware you are knowledgeable in the ancient game. At least give her a chance to defend herself by playing you. If you win, feel free to in act any punishment you feel fit upon her. If you lose, stop your little vendetta. But either way, come back here and I'll give you answers you seek."

"What if I don't have any questions?" Kiro snarled a bit, making the red skinned behemoth laugh a bit.

"Oh, you do."

"Fine." Kiro turned walking of the cave slowly, making sure not to step on the unconscious body lying on the floor. Thoth followed slowly behind, a bit reluctant to have to guide the annoying half demon around. Once outside the cave, the two of them took off at inhuman speeds, Thoth guiding Kiro to the place he could feel Dementia's aura.

Releasing the top card of his deck, the young Ronin added the new card to his duel disk, causing the card to materialize before his feet. "I set one card face-down," as he spoke, he was already taking the last card he held, sliding it into his duel disk next to the recently set card. "And I play Card of Sanctity, drawing a full six cards for myself. You though, only get two cards, since you already have four in your hand."

Grumbling at how his opponent spoke to Ronin, as if he was a complete retard, he slid two cards from his deck, adding them to his hand. His opponent cheerfully plucked six cards off of his own deck, fanning them open for him to see everything he had drawn.

"Come out!" The child-like Ronin bellowed, slapping a card he had drawn down onto his duel tray. "Gagagigo (1850/1000)!"

A snarling, green skinned, human like monster appeared standing right next the ice sculpture of the Water Dragon. Crashing its fists at the end of large, muscle filled arms together, the monster let out a roar of power as it appeared. Not a word was spoken, but a silent agreement was made that caused the reptilian monster to bound forward, smashing its fist right into the chest of the blue dragon monster waiting on Ronin's field, causing the beast to explode into a million data bits.

Ronin-2850 LP
Young Ronin-3200 LP

Landing on his own field again, the reptilian wrestler pounded its chest like a monkey, emphasizing its overwhelming power.

"Looks like that is all I will do on this turn." The young Ronin pointed to the large dragon as he spoke, watching as ice that had been encasing him shattered, leaving the beast of water to move freely again. Snapping its head-like formation back, the monster let out a powerful roar, very pleased to be free.

"Draw!" Ronin bellowed out, snapping the top card off of his deck. Before he even had a chance to look at it, his attention was drawn to the field before him by a huge cyclone, blasting across the field.

"Trap card open." Young Ronin cried out, snapping his arm towards the already up righted trap card that was the source of massive storm. "Dust Tornado destroys one magic or trap card on the field, and I'm going to go ahead and chose your White Blizzard!"

"Dammit." Ronin cursed as the twister fell over the card hologram, shredding it to pieces instantly. The pieces though didn't vanish, instead they formed a twister of their own, flying upwards to the large golem monster crouching on Ronin's field, stabbing through the beast and causing it to explode. "When White Blizzard is destroyed, I must destroy one card on my side of the field."

Thrusting his hand forward though, Ronin aimed his finger directly at the younger version of himself.

"But when Ice-Rock Golem is destroyed you must discard one card from your hand!"

"Very well." The young Ronin placed a card from his hand into his graveyard slot, watching it vanished, being eaten up by the darkness. Pulling another card form his hand, the young Ronin slid it into his duel disk gracefully, watching the card appear before him. "And when Dust Tornado activates, I place one card from my hand onto the field."

"It doesn't matter because in this turn I'm wiping your field clean." Ronin smirked, very confident in his move. Yanking three cards from his hand of seven, he flicked one over, sliding it into his duel disk. "I activate Trap Booster! This card allows me to discard one card to activate a trap card from my hand instantly!"

Without hesitation, he whipped one of the two cards he had out, sliding it into the darkness of his own graveyard slot before adding the last card to his duel disk. Forming before him and next to the magic card, the purple bordered card began to glow brightly, sending a beam of light bursting out towards the younger Ronin.

"Frozen for Eternity will remove your Water Dragon from play instantly! Because its not being destroyed, you don't get to return your Hydrogeddon's or Oxygeddon's to the field, like you would typically when it is destroyed."

The beam of light encased the large hydro beast, once again revealing it to be encased in a block of ice. This time though, the hologram rippled, fading out of existence as the monster was removed from the game.

"Impressive, he finally got past Water Dragon." Looking down at his hand, the young Ronin stared at the top card he was holding, smiling a bit. "But it doesn't matter; this game will be won using the real power of Daedalus. Isn't that right?"

Though no answer really came, the young Ronin felt the Daedalus card he was staring at respond emotionally, filling the young boy with a pleasant feeling.

"Then I activate Sacrifice Icicle! This card will completely destroy one of my monster card zones in order to summon a Icicle Token to my field!" Ronin bellowed as he slid the card into his duel disk, causing a rectangular spot before the card to become a solid block of ice. Ridged spikes of frozen water stuck out, preventing anything from coming close to that spot. Next to it though, a large ice carved statue of an ancient face appeared. (0/0)

It didn't take long for the ice sculpture to vanish in a up rush of light, swirling about above Ronin's head as he pulled another card from his duel disk out, slapping it down onto the duel tray.

"This token counts as two tributes when tributing it! This lets me summon the winning monster of this duel! Come out: Blue-Ice White Nights Dragon!"

Roaring as it flew out of its spiral of sparks; the large ice carved dragon flew over the heads of the two duelists, leaving a trail of snow in its wake that drifted slowly to the duel field below. It would have been tranquil if the beast hadn't come ripping through the skies, finding its home in the air above Ronin's head. (3000/2500)

"Here is your answer." Ronin threw his body to the right, extending his right arm out towards his younger self as far as it would go. "If I was weak now, would I have such a strong beast on my side!? Here, let me show you. Blue-Ice White Nights Dragon attack! Destroy his Gggagigo!"

Ripping its mouth open, the beast created a deep blue, swirling aura in its pointed mouth, blasting out a blizzard of snow, ice and this aurora-like light. Consuming the reptilian best, the sheer coldness of the attack froze it instantly, causing cracks to race across its smooth surface. Shattering, the monster was instantly destroyed, its data bits floating away from the shattered ice as that slowly faded off the field.

Ronin-2850 LP
Young Ronin-2050 LP

"I was waiting," the younger Ronin began to speak, sliding the defeated card into his graveyard, "for you to pull out Blue-Ice White Nights Dragon. I wanted you to watch it being ripped to shreds. And by the true power of Daedalus."

"Show me then." Ronin taunted, moving his extended arm back, motioning to his chest with it and his fingers. "Show me your deadly power of Daedalus that I apparently don't know about. How I have misused it." Smirking a bit, Ronin felt the cold presence of the dragon behind him. "Even if he pulls Daedalus, I have 2850 life points. He can't finish me in one turn with that."

"Draw." As he drew his card, he instantly pressed a button on his duel disk before adding the card to his hand. The set card he had placed with his Dust Tornado flipped up, shimmering in a bright purple light. "I activate Call of the Haunted. Calling back the card you yourself made me discard due to your Ice-Rock Golem. Unshaven Angler (1500/1600)!"

A plumb of purple smoke twisted its way out of the abyss before the younger Ronin, forming into the shape of a large mouthed fish. Swimming through the air, the image of the fish instantly faded away, throwing its particles into a maelstrom that instantly gathered together behind the child.

"I sacrifice Unshaven Angler to use its effect. It counts as two tributes if it's the tribute for a water attribute monster." Holding up his Daedalus card, it was made clear what he was sacrificing for. Slapping it down onto his duel disk, the monstrous amount of particles went spiraling into the large, bound dragon that still lay behind the younger Ronin watching the duel with is pain filled eyes. "I summon Levia-Dragon – Daedalus!"

The blue serpent couldn't move much, but did manage to lift its head up, growling deeply as it was summoned to the field. The chains straining, the monster pulled and tugged as hard as it could again, but it was futile for the big beast.

"Now I need my field card for my monster." The younger Ronin smirked, bringing his attention down to his hand. From it, he plucked one card out and flipped it over. "I discard from my hand Warrior of Atlantis (1900/1200). By doing this, I can add one A Legendary Ocean from my deck to my hand."

Ripping his deck out of his duel disk, he fanned it open, gazing the cards with his grasping eyes. Finding the card, he yanked it out of his deck, sliding the stack back into his duel disk.

"This ends here." The younger Ronin slid the card he had obtained into the appropriate slot, causing the duel disk on his arm to began to beep and flow with lights. "I activate A Legendary Ocean!"

A huge wave crashed in around the dueling field, creating finally a solid platform where the floor would be under the duelists, filling it up to their knees with the water. Behind the young Ronin and his sea dragon, a large, stone tower-like building went shooting up, glowing in a bright purple light as it did. (Levia-Dragon – Daedalus 2800/1700)

Howling with the power, the large behemoth tried again to bust its way out of its ice chains that locked it down. Struggled and squirming the beast tried with all of its might, causing the chains to creak in protest. Though the monster was mighty, the chains held strong, keeping the beast in place.

Laughing a bit, Ronin pointed to his younger versions Daedalus. "It would appear your monster is a bit tied up at the moment." Letting his arm fall, Ronin's smirk turned into a frown as he saw his younger self pull a card from his hand. "Well, hurry up and activate its effect so we can move on in this duel."

"I don't believe I'll do that." The young Ronin spoke, holding the card up to his face, the back still facing Ronin. "I said I was going to unleash Daedalus's full might, and I will do it. Watch!"

Daedalus began to roar again, glowing brightly in its bonds. Its body began to change suddenly, the shape of the now white being began to grow, shattering the chains of ice as if they were as fragile as glass. Stretching out, the form of light continued its mutation before ripping its obvious head back, roaring loudly.

Ronin had to shield himself from the light as it shed off of the new beast, leaving a completely new monster in the wake of the previous one. Its aqua blue head was rounded, kind of blunt on the end of a large, purple scaled neck that ran down to a bigger mass of blue scales the jutted out from behind it. Two long, bony arms ran down the side of the beast with razor sharp, yellow talons at the end of each hand.

What startled Ronin the most though was that from that clump of dark, navy blue scales on the back of the monsters torso, shot up another head, this one scaled also in the dark blue all the way over the crown of its head. Roaring in unison, the large beast began to slither past the younger Ronin, revealing more of its incredibly long, navy blue scaled body and the crimson red fin that raced all the way down to its pointed tail.

"Feast your eyes upon the true master of the ocean. Ocean Dragon Lord – Neo-Daedalus!" The child Ronin bellowed, thrusting his arm upward to the large, double headed monster. (2900/1600)

"What the hell?!" Ronin was wide eyed, staring up at the beast who was now towering over the field, larger than many buildings Ronin has ever seen. Both of its eyes were glowing bright red, casting their deadly gaze down upon him.

"The true form of Daedalus!" The young Ronin jerked his duel disk around, hitting the side of it so the field card zone popped open. "By sacrificing Umi on the field, this card destroys all cards on the field, and in both players' hands except for itself. Making it the most deadly card you'll ever meet!"

Yanking out the field card, the dragon began to bellow out with both of its mouths, causing the abyss they were in to shake. Ronin looked up just in time to watch his Blue-Ice White Nights Dragon shatter into a million data bits, crushed by the overwhelming pressure that flooded into the air.

A beam of aquamarine blue blasted out of the dragon's two heads, doubling the size of each beam when they collided together a short distance in front of the monster. Racing forward, the beam engulfed Ronin's world, making it a shade of light, painful blue.

Ronin-0 LP
Young Ronin-2050 LP

Dementia drew her eyes away from Yukio for a moment as the two demons appeared behind Yukio. Thoth instantly growling, staring hateful eyes upon the back of Yukio's head.

"There you are you bitch!" Kiro hissed, ignoring Yukio and Thoth and lunging at Dementia. Inches from grabbing her, he felt a hand close down around his face, whipping his body downward until it collided with the ground.

"I won't let you disobey Freyr." Thoth, who stood over Kiro triumphantly, glared down at the demon. "He said you play the ancient game, and that is…" Thoth's eyes caught something that had flown out of Kiro's shirt upon impact. A golden medallion with a tiny fragment of the crystal was draped around his neck. "If I could get that off of him…"

"Right, right, I know." Kiro bounded to his feet, turning towards the vampire. "Get ready you, we are going to duel." Kiro's left arm was jerked up, the white wrist gadget humming to life as the beams of light shot out of the sensors, twisting together and tying themselves up into a platform for Kiro to play on.

"Now hold on you." Thoth growled, turning towards the green haired demon and the blue haired human that just happened to be standing there. "The ancient game will be played, but I'm also intruding in on this." Snapping up his own arm, the Egyptian behemoth showed his wrist band opening up, shooting out the slab of metal that was kept inside. Shimmering; the metal flowed outwards, forming a beam where a typical duel tray would sit. Mutating itself, the wrist band also formed itself into the proper duel disk shape.

"Two on one?" Kiro growled, watching as a confused Dementia let her own duel disk activate, folding out into a bad wing-like shaped duel tray. "Fine, I can handle that. I've definitely dealt with worst."

"Oh come on darling, if I must duel, let's at least make it interesting." Dementia spoke up for the first time, pointing to the blue haired human standing in the group. "At least take this one as your partner so I can punish him for betrayal to Lord Freyr."

"Yes, that would be ample by me." Thoth sneered, causing Yukio to slink back, suddenly being included in all of this mess.

"But I don't…" He began, but was sharply cut off as Kiro's loud voice jutted through the air.

"Fine, it doesn't matter to me." Turning his head swiftly to the human, he growled as he spoke, causing the human to turn towards him, for the first time breaking his eye hold on the two monsters before him. "You better know how to duel."

"I'm one of the best." Yukio retorted, a bit insulted by Kiro's remark. "But I still don't want…"

"You'd better be." Kiro turned back to the demons before them. "Alright, let's get this over with."

"Feisty, aren't we darling?" Dementia smirked, placing her hand on Thoth's shoulder. "But what chance do you really stand?"

"Especially when we are doing this in a much different light." Thoth interrupted everyone, causing everyone, even Dementia to stare at him a bit confused.

From under his purple breastplate, Thoth pulled out a strange cube carved from light brown colored stone. Hieroglyphs seemed to be numerous, and twist their way all over the face of the cube. With one jerk of his arm, the cube was launched high into the air, twirling like a die cast into the nigh sky.

"We shall play by an ancient Egyptian punishment system." Thoth bellowed out as the cube came racing back to earth, hitting the soft grass with a mighty force. Shattering, the stone cube's shards scattered across the ground. For a moment, it seemed nothing had happened, but then a black smoke came blasting out of the shards, engulfing the four of them whole.

When the smoke cleared, the first thing that Kiro, Yukio and Dementia noticed was a drastic change in gravity's pressure. Wobbling a bit, their eyes adjusted to see that they were standing on long, floating stone carved platforms, surrounded by nothing but the vast space of the night sky.

"What the hell!" Yukio screamed, having been stupid enough to take a look downward. They were indeed floating miles above the earth's surface. The rolling hills below seemed so small, almost flattening themselves out into the scenery painted below them.

"Don't be scared little boy." Thoth spoke, drawing everyone's attention to his platform. "Nothing will happen to you as long as you don't fall." Holding up his left arm, he slid his deck of cards into his duel disk, smirking a bit. "But I don't think I have to paint it out for you what would happen if you did fall."

"It's a lovely image." Kiro growled, sliding his own deck into his duel disk, followed by Dementia doing the same. Yukio, reluctantly, let his own duel disk activate before sliding his deck into it.

"Alright, so were all set." Dementia smirked, holding her duel disk level with her breast, placing her hand on the top of her deck. "Shall we get going?" She asked, looking across the gap to Kiro who stood across from her, also drawing his opening hand. "Since this seems to be your entire personal vendetta, go ahead and show us what you've got darling."

"Fine." Kiro hissed, fanning open his hand of cards.

"Duel!" All of them cried out at the same time.

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CARD OF THE EPISODE

Ocean Dragon Lord – Neo-Daedalus
2900/1600/8/Water/Sea Serpent
This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card cannot be Special Summoned except by Tributing 1 "Levia-Dragon - Daedalus" on your side of the field. Send "Umi" on your side of the field to the Graveyard to send all cards in both players' hands and on the field to the Graveyard, except this card.

Young Ronin: "The strongest form of Daedalus. This behemoth of a monster rules the ocean with two sets of powerful, razor sharp jaws. Let him be the mile stone on the lesson that would follow anyone daring to tread on his turf. He is king, he is the master. He is the ocean lord. A mere sacrificing of Daedalus to summon, upping the power its previous form had. This card wipes all of the slate clean, sans itself of course."

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