Ok, so I couldn't get it done before Monday, but couple of days after it isn't so bad, right? Ri-right?
Meh, better than my usual pace at any rate.
So, yeah, couldn't really work on this Monday because I was busy setting up my brand spanking new laptop. I've only just got Word on it yesterday afternoon, so yeah. I already had about 3k words done by then anyway…not sure why that's relevant but whatever.
I want to say thanks to everyone who told me about sites to watch Gx on, whether they were any good or not. Oh, and for those who don't know, FF doesn't let you send links in PMs, so I didn't actually see many people's suggestions. But, it's the thought that counts and for what it's worth it means a lot to me that so many wanted to help me continue writing this fic.
On with the chapter.
Chapter 33- Mysterious Hooded Man Watches From A Distance. Take A Second To Look Awesome, Time To Go!
He was preparing for a very delicate operation. What he was going to do had an average success rate, so the chance of failure was high. As was the risk of physical injury. What he was about to attempt was dangerous to his health. But he had to do it. It was his obligation- no, his duty!- to ensure that he completed this task. Which was why he had brought back up, an extra man to aid him achieve this deadly, insurmountable, unthinkabl-
"Hey, Misawa-san, how long are we going to stand outside of Uzumaki's door?" Alexander's voice jarred Misawa out of his internal musings; which was probably a good thing. Lately his inner monologues had gone from being about calculations and numbers, to inane nonsense like he had just been thinking.
He'd spent too much time around Naruto, and it was rotting his brain. It was the only explanation.
"Oi! Misawa-san!" Alexander snapped, growing more and more impatient with each passing second. "I asked you how long we're going to be standing here?! And now that I think about it, why are we standing outside of Uzumaki's door anyway?" Pulling himself his mind out of its musings before it could get lost in the fog of Naruto's transferred idiocy, Misawa finally answered him.
"We're going to wake Naruto up. It's already five minutes past 8, and we need to be in the classroom for half past."
"…Ok, first of all," Alexander deadpanned, holding up a finger- his index- or his forefinger, pointer finger, trigger finger, digitus secundus, or digitus II if you wanted to be a little unique in your descriptions of appendages, "why are you doing this? Doesn't Uzumaki have an alarm clock? Second," he held up his middle finger, accidentally giving Misawa the bird, "why should I care if Uzumaki is late to class. Hell, he probably won't even be late because class starts half an hour after you want to be there. And finally, third," he raised his ring finger- absent of any kind of ring so really, shouldn't it be called something else?- "why the hell are you wearing a baking tray cuirass?"
It was true. Misawa had fashioned a cuirass- a type of armour if you're unaware, like Vegeta's second armour-out of the aforementioned baking trays. It could also be worthy to note that he was holding a dust bin lid as a make shift shield, but Alexander neglected to comment on that, in the fear that if he mentioned too much of the absurdity that he might somehow catch it. A reasonable fear, since Misawa had been relatively normal before being over exposed to Naruto.
"I shall answer your questions in order, my friend." Misawa readjusted his 'armour', "Naruto broke his alarm clock yesterday, and thus it is incapable of waking him. Second, you should care because it is your obligation- nay, your duty- as a fellow learner to make sure your associates attend class so that they too may sip from the wellspring of knowledge. And finally, this armour is necessary to avoid a rather powerful punch if Naruto is in a bad mood from being woken up." His expression went grave. "It has happened before." Alexander regarded him blankly for a moment, before slowly raising his little finger.
"Fourth. Why am I here?" "To assist me in my most perilous of tasks, of course!"
"…Right, goodbye." He turned around and walked away, shaking his head as he went. "Poor bastard's gone mad."
"Am I mad?! Am I?!" Misawa yelled at the European's retreating back. "I'll show you who's mad! I'll show you all!"
"Geez, Misawa evil genius much?" Misawa blinked and turned. Standing in his doorway with a raised eye brow was Naruto himself. "What's with the trays?"
"…Nothing. Don't worry about it." Somehow, the presence of one so much dumber than himself brought Misawa into perspective, and with an embarrassed flush he realised that he was in fact acting quite absurd.
"You do realise the cosplay duel was the other day, right?"
"Just…stop talking."
"What's up?"
"I've just realised that I've made quite a fool of myself."
"Yeah, cus you haven't already done that, Mr. Furry."
"I AM NOT A FURRY!"
"Huh, funny, I was expecting a 'Nyeah' somewhere in there."
"…Let's just…let's just go to class." Throwing his cuirass over the side of the rail, he lamented over the fourty-five minutes he wasted gathering the trays and putting them together. When the dust bin lid followed, it somehow miraculously landed on top of the bin he had taken it from, hiding the cuirass that had landed in it seconds before. As they walked to class, Naruto had to voice something on his mind.
"So, what was up with the tiger costume anyway?"
"…There weren't any 'D.D. Survivor' or 'Mobius' costumes left."
"Unlucky."
"Perhaps, but then again I could have been wearing your costume."
"THAT WAS A GIFT!"
"Sure it was." And so, the two continued their bickering all the way to class.
"I don't even know why we bothered to turn up." Naruto complained as he rested his head on his hand, staring down at the empty podium at the front of the classroom. "I mean, Daitokuji isn't even here so- ow!" He was cut off by Asuka's elbow jabbing him in the side. "What was that for?" She gave him a stern look, before nodding towards Judai, who was looking pretty miserable with his hands on his head. Naruto was about to respond, but before he could the door behind the podium opened, revealing Chronos. "Crap, a substitute." Chronos stepped into the room and regarded the seated students.
"So, you are all seated, na no ne?" He walked over to the podium and stood behind it, and only now did Naruto notice a couple of books under the man's arm. "I will be substituting today for Signor Daitokuji, and I will be giving his lecture on Alchemy- no ne!"
"Ah, excellent, so today's class will proceed then." Still rubbing his side, Naruto gave his friend a dry look.
"Only you could be genuinely happy about that." Chronos slammed the books onto the podium, giving them a dirty look. Naruto could even swear he saw steam coming from the man's massive nostrils. Soon, a strange circular mark was projected onto the screen, and Chronos began his lecture by reading from one of the books. "This is called the Mark of Amnael, and according to literature, it seems like a representative mark of alchemy, doesn't it?" Ignoring the lecture, Naruto began scribbling in a notebook.
"…That should be six stars…yeah cus that effect is pretty OP for 4 or 5…or maybe it should be 7 because it is so powerful?" He hummed, and jotted something down. "I'll think about that later." Asuka's eyes flickered from their attentive stare to her boyfriend's hunched over form, and despite herself she found herself inquiring;
"What are you writing?" She asked quietly, her voice barely a whisper. Naruto looked up from his notes, and pulled his arm over to hide them from her view.
"None of your business." Asuka raised an unimpressed brow, and turned back to the lecture.
"Fine." Naruto stared at her suspiciously, before looking back down. Annoyed, but still curious, she kept trying to take a peak, which only caused Naruto to hide them more. Even if he apparently didn't want to let her, his girlfriend, know about something that was obviously oh so important, it was still probably more interesting than this disaster of a lecture.
"To sum it up," Chronos yelled, clearly having had enough of the subject material, "alchemy having occurred in Ancient Egypt, changing metal into gold and silver, and creating perpetual youth and longevity medicine. It's all a very fake and suspicious matter, na no ne?! Is that not right, na no ne?!" He was gripping the podium in a rage by this point. Judai chuckled awkwardly.
"Looks like he doesn't really like it…"
"Professor Chronos doesn't believe in the occult or magic…" Next in what was quickly becoming Naruto's favourite lecture ever- amazing considering it was both an alchemy lecture and a lecture given by Chronos- was an experiment. Chronos was holding some pliers and some metal.
"With that, our experiment, na no ne? Like so, like so." He used the pliers to shape the metal into some strange spiral thing. "Put this in here…" he dipped it into some lavender coloured liquid in a beaker, causing the spiral to start glowing red. The liquid bubbled and the red glow began shining brighter and brighter, much to the amazement of the class.
Then it exploded.
As did Naruto's laughter.
"Smoking, smoking, smoking, smoking, smoking…" Chronos chanted as the cloud of smoke dispersed, revealing his face, and the metal thing stuck to it. He quickly threw it off. "Holy smokes, that hurt, na no ne!" He was left with an imprint in the shape of the spiral in his forehead, which just made Naruto laugh harder. In his fit he fell against Asuka's shoulder, who was laughing into her hand herself.
"Forget what I said about alchemy being bullshit! This is gold!" He laughed into her shoulder, and his comment made her laugh harder. They weren't the only ones laughing- several others in the class had joined in.
"THIS IS WHY I CAN'T BELIEVE IN SOMEHTING LIKE ALCHEMY- NA NO NE!" Naruto lifted his face from Asuka's shoulder, wiping a loose tear of mirth from his eye. Calming down from her giggles, Asuka took a gasp of air.
"I-I know I shouldn't laugh, but-" She was cut off by another giggle, which she tried to supress by clearing her throat. Naruto snickered.
"Hey, Chronos!" he called down, drawing the man's attention, and the classes, to him. "You've got something on your face!"
"What!?" He pulled out a little hand mirror, and screeched when he saw the mark. "My beautiful face, it is ruined-na no ne!" This caused the class to laugh again. Asuka snorted, then blushed and covered her face, causing Naruto to snicker again. She whapped him on the arm, which just amused him more. After a while, Chronos calmed down, seeming to remember something. "Signore Judai!" The Slifer looked down in surprise, not expecting to be called out. "After this, you are to report to the Principal's office- no ne!"
"R-Right."
"And, you all, as well- na no ne." He pointed at the key bearers, both with and without keys. They straightened, the previously jovial mood vanishing.
"Great." Naruto sighed, crossing his arms and frowning. "It's starting up again."
"Wha?!What do you mean?! You really don't know where Daitokuji-sensei is?"
"Yes." Samejima answered Judai's question. The man sat at his desk with his arms crossed and his eyes closed. Next to him stood Chronos also with his arms crossed. "Though we investigated, wherever he vanished off to…" Chronos continued the explanation.
"There is nothing indicating that he has left the island, either-no ne."
"So, Daitokuji-sensei did become the victim of a Duel of Darkness…" Manjoume mused. Naruto snorted.
"Either that or…" he trailed off when he say the look Asuka was giving him and Manjoume.
"Manjoume-kun, Naruto!"
"Shutting up now."
"No, only four of the keys to the eight Spirit Gates have been taken." Samejima told them. "Daitokuji-sensei should be fine."
"Then, right now, he's waiting for us to rescue him from somewhere, isn't he?" Judai asked, making everyone look at each other uncertainly. Naruto frowned and crossed his arms.
'Yeah right. More like he's actually one of the Eight Stars himself.' He thought, finishing off what he was going to say earlier.
'You think he could be one?' Haku asked, and Naruto gave a small nod.
'Well, yeah-remember he was the one who hired Detective Dumbass to come here. It would be a bit too much of a coincidence if the detective he called in just so happened to be an Assassin.'
'There is no such thing as coincidence.' Itachi agreed.
"I know that's it! We have to hurry and look for him!"
"Look for him he says." Naruto griped as he, Asuka, Misawa, and Ryou walked down a corridor in the main building. "And where are we supposed to look? If the Principal hasn't found anything after all this time, what chance do we have?"
"What were you going to say earlier?" Ryou asked, and the group stopped to look at him. "You were going to say something after Manjoume." Naruto hummed and walked over to a wall, leaning against it with a frown.
"…isn't it possible, that maybe Daitokuji is the last of the Stars?"
"Naruto!" Asuka gasped, "How did you even come to that conclusion." Naruto regarded her briefly, before turning to the other two.
"You guys weren't there at the time, but back when Daitokuji introduced that detective to us, he told us it was him who called him here." Their eyes widened slightly, and Asuka looked down.
"Now that you mention it, he did say that."
"Let's also not forget that it was Daitokuji who called Fubuki and the others to the abandoned dorm on the night that they disappeared." Asuka's gaze snapped back up.
"Nii-san…"
"Hmm, the clues do add up." Misawa mused, rubbing his chin absently. "But it's not enough to actually accuse Daitokuji-sensei of anything definite."
"Perhaps not, but it's still enough for the idea to have some validity." Ryou added, his eyes closed in thought.
"Even though it's just an educated hunch at best, Judai would never even consider it to be true." Naruto looked out of the window and down at the Slifer quartet walking towards their dorm from the main entrance. "He's too trusting. Even worse that it's his favourite teacher too." 'I know that if Iruka-sensei was ever accused of being a traitor back in the day, I wouldn't believe it either.' He closed his eyes at the small pang the memory brought. He shook his head. "Anyway, there isn't really much we can do now." He looked back at his friends, who all seemed to be deep in thought. "We should just wait until something happens." They nodded their agreement.
"Indeed, there is little else we can do." Misawa nodded. A growl then tore through the serious atmosphere, and Naruto groaned as he held his stomach.
"Oh man, I'm starving! I haven't eaten yet!" He bent over slightly, still clutching his stomach, and he raised his head to glare at Misawa. "This is your fault!"
"Mine? How is it my fault that you forgot to eat?" Misawa asked, an expression of angered exasperation plastered on his face.
"Because you decided that we had to skip breakfast because I was 5 minutes late to waking up half an hour before I needed to get to class half an hour early! And hell, come to think about it, how the hell did you know I'd wake up late! I mean, you had that tray cuirass ready! How freaking long did that take to make?!"
"Tray what?" Asuka asked Ryou, who merely gave her a look as if to say 'Why the hell would you think I'd know?'
"It's like a sixth sense with you."
"There are better sixth senses than that!"
"Oh yes, because I absolutely want to have the sixth sense to tell when you're going to wake up late!"
"Can we go back to the whole being ridiculously early thing?!"
"Um, we'll just go…" Asuka sweatdropped when the two casually waved her off, and the two Obelisks walked away, leaving them to their bickering. "Honestly, you'd think those two were an old married couple sometimes." Ryou stopped, and gave Asuka a dirty look.
"Thank you for that image." He stalked forward, leaving an exasperated Asuka behind.
"Men." She shook her head and carried on her way.
Asuka's destination was in fact the Obelisk Blue boy's dorm. Her intention: to check up on her older brother. Her reason? I don't know. Plot?
With her reasons her own and completely irrelevant, Asuka was almost at the front door of the dorm, when she heard a loud crashing noise. Somehow knowing that the sound was coming from her brother's room, she ran there as fast as she could.
"Nii-san!" She cried as she ran into his room, coming to a stop in front of some broken glass on the floor. She regarded it with surprise and lifted her gaze to examine the rest of the room. Both full sized windows had been broken, and the furniture had been knocked over; all in all it looked pretty ransacked. "Nii-san! Nii-san, where are you? Uh!" She noticed a glowing green symbol hovering near the floor by the bed- the Mark of Amnael. It quickly faded away.
"What was that just now?" Asuka frowned in confusion, before gasping as she heard movements outside. Running out on to the balcony, she saw the tail end of a cloaked figure running into the forest. Jumping down from the balcony, she gave chase.
"Wait!" Asuka called after the figure as she chased it through the woods, panting heavily as she ran. She finally came to a stop, and she faced down the figure in a clearing. He raised his head and glared at her with glowing, yellow eyes. "You're with the Eight Stars, aren't you?" She glared back and raised her duel disk. "What did you do with my brother?" Instead of responding, the man merely switched his disk on. Narrowing her eyes, Asuka did the same. "If I win, you'll return my brother!" The wind blew through the clearing, rustling the grass and moving the man's cloak.
"Duel!"
Shortly later
"It's my turn!" She pulled a card from her deck and activated it immediately. "I activate the spell card, 'Fusion'! I'll fuse the 'Etoile Cyber' and 'Blade Skater' in my hand to summon 'Cyber Blader'!"
#CB Atk-2100#
"You'll regret angering me!" 'Cyber Blader' rushed towards the figure, but he activated his face-down. "A trap card? 'Cyber Blader's' attack didn't reach him!" Asuka swallowed as she stared into the man's unnerving yellow eyes. With a slow, calculating motion he drew a card from his deck. Asuka tensed when he looked up at her, but her expression fell into one of surpruise and fear as many burning rocks fell out of the sky. She flinched and raised her arm over her head as they fell around her. She then watched in shock as 'Cyber Blader' bubbled away with a scream.
"No way… In an instant, 'Cyber Blader' was…" She gasped when she noticed a fierce looking monster looming over the man's shoulders, releasing dark growls. She took a step back. "Damn it!" It's two heads blasted her with a green energy beam, tearing away the last of her measly 1000 life points. She screamed as the blast buffered her, before falling to the side, her cards falling from her disk, with her lying next to them. From around her neck, her key shined briefly, before vanishing.
"…" The cloaked man stood over her unmoving form, a book held in both hands. The back of the book glowed green, and Asuka's body glowed blue as it vanished, leaving only her cards scattered behind. The Mark of Amnael shined, before he closed the book, revealing a wedjat eye on the front, with golden veins spreading out from the centre. Without another word, the man walked away.
"I can't believe you spent all afternoon eating." Misawa looked at his best friend with a tired glance. "How you haven't thrown up yet I don't know."
"Well gee, it's almost as if I hadn't eaten in almost 20 hours." Naruto drawled, walking at a snail's pace with his hands behind his head. It had gone dark by now, and the two were walking back to their rooms. Well, more like shuffling in Naruto's case. "I wonder whose fault that was."
"I don't think that explains how you were able to eat for almost 6 hours solid." Misawa covered his mouth, his face tinging green. "Thinking about it too much is making me queasy."
"Oh man up." Naruto rolled his eyes, "My metabolism is faster than most peoples, so I can eat that much easy."
"I'm still not sure that explains what just happened." Naruto made to respond, but he stopped, verbally and physically. Misawa frowned. "What is it?" Naruto's eyes had narrowed seriously, his gaze unmoving. Misawa followed it, and he immediately understood.
Before them stood a man in a beige cloak, with huge shoulders and long ribbons connected to two green jewels on the lapels. The cloak was opened, revealing the grey v neck with a white undershirt as well as two red vambraces and metal gauntlets. Around his lower face and neck was a cloth wrap, and a grey hood cast the rest of his face into shadow. All that could be seen underneath was a pair of unnerving yellow eyes. On his left arm was an academy issue duel disk.
"Who are you? Are you one of the Stars?" Misawa asked, and the man turned to him and nodded almost in-discernibly. "You've come for my key then?" Instead of responding, the man powered on his duel disk and raised it up slightly. Misawa smirked and turned his own on. "Very well, allow me to school you!"
"Pretty lame Misawa." Naruto shook his head as he moved out of the way, standing on the side-lines to watch. 'I am NOT going to be like Shou and Hayato and comment on everything they do.' He promised himself, crossing his arms with a huff. 'Shit gets annoying. Also, this really doesn't have the right atmosphere for the final battle.' A snort came from his mind.
'Good job jinxing it for your friend.'
'Shut up Yami."
Misawa and the cloaked man stared each other down for a full five minutes, before Misawa decided to kick it off.
"DUEL! My turn, draw. I summon 'Samsara Tengu' in attack mode." A man with a long nose and black wings appeared in front of Misawa.
#Samsara Tengu- Beast-Warrior/Wind Lvl: 4#
#Atk/Def- 1700/600#
"I set one card face-down and end my turn." Misawa crossed his arms and waited for his opponent to make a move.
The man drew a card before placing a card silently in his spell/trap zone. Before him appeared a large pink machine, that released steam with a loud whistle. Then, he took out four cards from his hand and placed them in his spell and trap zone. One by one, strange looking monsters appeared on the field, all of them coming from his deck.
One looked like a silver eagle, the other looked like bronze rattle snake with six eyes, the third looked like a silver dragon with red wings, and the last looked a lion.
"What? He summoned four monsters in one turn?" Misawa gasped, but then he noticed their attack and defence points.
#? Atk/Def- 500/500#
#? Atk/Def- 500/500#
#? Atk/Def- 500/500#
#? Atk/Def- 500/500#
"While it is impressive that you summoned that many monsters in one turn, unless you have some sort of follow up it's not that impressive. Or perhaps you have a face-down that you want to bait me into activating. Don't think I'll fall for something as obvious as that." Instead of responding, the man simply took the last card in his hand and placed it in the spell/trap zone. One by one, the monsters disappeared, and the man drew eight cards from his deck.
"Did he just tribute all of his monsters to draw two cards for each one?" Naruto wondered out loud. "That's pretty risky." And, as it happens, it looked like the risk paid off. From his hand he played another spell card, and then proceeded to draw two more cards, leaving him with a grand total of ten cards in his hand.
He then played another spell card, and yet another monster was summoned from his deck. It had the appearance of a large golem made of pure gold.
# Atk/Def- 1500/1500#
And then, it got stronger.
# Atk/Def- 4500/4500#
"HOLY SHIT!" Naruto exclaimed once more, staring at the now powerful monster in shock. "How did it get so powerful?"
"I-I can only assume it is from all of the cards he has played recently." Misawa swallowed, "He has sent ten cards to his graveyard, and that monster has gained three thousand attack points. I believe that it isn't too outrageous to assume that it gains 300 attack and defence points for every card sent to the graveyard."
"But that's just bullshit!" Naruto pointed at the golem with wide eyes, "There's no way in hell something that powerful would get past the balance tests. There's gotta be something else to it." The man finally acted again, once again playing two spell cards and summoning two monsters from his deck. One of the monsters looked like a semi-armoured fish, while the other looked like a craggy moon with limbs.
#? Atk/Def- 500/500#
#? Atk/Def- 500/500#
Also, with two more spell cards gone, the golem's attack rose again.
#? Atk/Def- 5100/5100#
Still not finished playing spell cards, the man played a spell that the two finally recognised, Misawa especially- 'Chaos Greed'. 'Chaos Greed' is a card where, if you have four or more cards removed from play and no cards in your graveyard, you could draw two cards. He drew two more cards, and the golem's attack went up once again.
#? Atk/Def- 5400/5400#
"I get it, he's not sending the cards to the graveyard, he's removing them form play!" Naruto muttered, finally understanding. "Is it that weird steam machine thing that's letting him do that?" He then blinked and looked at the field again. "Shit, he's already got enough attack points to finish Misawa off! He must be going for a one turn kill!" Naruto bit his lip; his whole body tensed when the man raised his hand, pointing at 'Samsara Tengu'. The large, hulking golem raised its arms and fired a barrage of golden shards at the tengu. A massive dust covered the area. "Misawa!" Naruto yelled, worried for his friend. He was surprised, however, when the dust cleared to reveal that not only was 'Samsara Tengu' still there, but that Misawa's life points had not decreased, but had in fact increased instead.
#Misawa- 5700#
#?- 4000#
The cloaked man actually gave a reaction at this, his stance straightening in obvious surprise. His eerie yellow eyes then locked onto Misawa's face-down, which had revealed itself to be a trap. Catching his stare, Misawa smirked.
"You activated my trap card, 'Holy Javelin'. When your monster attacks, I gain its attack points as life points. Allow me to do the maths for you. I gained 5400 lifepoints, giving me 9400, and then I took the battle damage from our battle, which was 3700. Leaving me with 5700 lifepoints."
"…Anyone else have a migraine?" Naruto asked out loud. (A/N I know I do!)
"And to explain 'Samsara Tengu's' presence," Misawa was on a roll in his explainy mode, and he wasn't going to stop until he was finished, "as soon as it is removed from the field, I can special summon another from my deck." The cloaked man stared at him for a moment, before pointing at him again. His remaining two monsters charged at Misawa, completely bypassing 'Samsara Tengu'. Misawa yelped in surprise as the two strange monsters hit him.
#Misawa- 4700#
#?- 4000#
"Di-Direct attack, huh? Explains why those monsters are so weak." Misawa's words gave Naruto an idea, and he immediately pulled out his notebook.
"…Direct…attack…level 3…" Nodding in satisfaction, he looked back up just in time to catch the man setting a card and nodding towards Misawa, signalling the start of his next turn.
"My turn, draw! I tribute 'Samsara Tengu' to summon 'Raiza the Wind Monarch' in attack mode!" 'Samsara Tengu' was engulfed in a huge tornado that moved the leaves around them, pulling them into the whirlwind. The cloaked man looked more annoyed than surprised when the winds picked up his golem and returned it to the top of his deck. Then, the wind stopped, revealing a tall figure in green armour with a winged helm.
#Raiza the Wind Monarch-Winged-Beast/Wind Lvl: 6#
#Atk/Def- 2400/1000#
"When 'Raiza' is summoned one of your cards is returned to the top of the deck." Misawa said, alluding to what just happened. "And let's not forget 'Samsara Tengu's' effect either!" In a burst of black wind, a third 'Samsara Tengu' appeared on the field.
#ST Atk-1700#
"It's time to put an end to you Eight Stars once and for all!" Misawa boldly declared, pointing at the last of the Stars. "'Raiza the Wind Monarch' and 'Samsara Tengu' destroy his monsters!" The two winged-beasts charged.
However, he wasn't going to allow it.
The card the man set last turn flipped face-up, and before him appeared a strange looking device. Misawa gasped as the man discarded a card from his hand.
"That's 'Elemental Absorber'! By discarding a monster from his hand my monsters with the same attribute can't attack!" The device kept spinning until a small green triangle appeared in front of it. The device stopped spinning, and one of the four spikes that were on the top shined green. A barrier of wind appeared over the device, and Misawa's monsters stopped their attack. Misawa grit his teeth. "I end my turn." The cloaked man drew a card and immediately tribute the fish thing to summon his golem once again.
#? Atk-6300#
The man pointed at 'Samsara Tengu', and the golem once again fired a barrage of golden shards. The tengu was destroyed, and Misawa's lifepoints took a massive hit.
#?- 4000##
#Misawa- 100#
"Tch." Misawa took a step back as he stared at the strange moon like monster with a wary gaze. "To think, I would be defeated by such a simplistic strategy. And without landing a single hit too."
"Shit!" Naruto clenched his fists, powerless to do anything. He watched as the man silently ordered his last monster to attack Misawa directly.
"Gah!"
#?- 4000#
#Misawa- 0#
Misawa collapsed, falling to his side with his cards scattered around him.
"Misawa!" Naruto ran over to his friend's unconscious form and knelt down next to him. "Hey, Misawa, you alright?" He went to grab him by the shoulder, but before he could Misawa glowed blue and vanished. "The fuck?" He turned his torso to see the man looming over him, a book held in his hands. "You fucker!" Naruto growled. He raised a fist to punch the man, but before it could connect his vision went dark.
All he saw before falling unconscious was a blue light.
The last thing he heard was; 'Shouldn't have jinxed it."
Chapter End
Not my best work but hey, there we go.
So, Asuka and Misawa have fallen before Amnael (Yeah if you didn't know who it was, there you are) and Fubuki and Naruto have been pulled along for the ride. Will Judai save them? Of course he will; the real question is can I be bothered to write it out?
Probably not, no.
Anyway, I might get the next chapter out soon but I can't say for sure. I have three weeks left on my assignments and my room is being redone, so I'm not sure when I'll get the chance. It'll be a minimum of a few days though, if I can be bothered to do it by then.
Until next time, NinGo out!