Vyser D: And here he is! Enter the Akutare Hero!
Also three guesses as to where this is from! Anyone who does…well, you get a special surprise!
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Chapter 56
Musician King
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A day had passed since Cain's duel with Abel, and it was early morning with Mustang and Goliath standing at the docks with a single boat with three familiar people standing in front of it.
"…Raitai, Chitei and Hyoutei…" Goliath sighed lowering his head at the three Majestic Four. "…Are you sure about this, you three?"
Shaking his head, Raitai stepped forward with a large sigh. "We have no choice in this matter Goliath…if we stayed we'd be forced to stay in that prison. That and the fact that Entei is still in that daze thanks to my former pupil here…"
"Hey, it isn't my fault that I rock and duel too hard," Mustang laughed rubbing the back of his head.
"Oh Mustang!" Hyoutei moaned wrapping her arms around Mustang's body. "I don't want to go!"
In response, Mustang lifted Hyoutei's chin so that her eyes would meet his. "…But you must…Raitai is right. And if that happened, we would be so close, and yet we would never be close once more…"
A few large sweat drops appeared on the back of Goliath, Chitei and Raitai's heads. Goliath shook his off and returned to being serious. "Any ideas as to where you guys are going to?"
"They'll be going with me…"
Goliath turned his head slightly to see Tai standing on the boat near the wheel, ready to head out at any moment. "…Once we're ready, they'll be coming with me to Japan, where we'll be heading by plane to America."
"Why there?" Goliath asked with a raised eyebrow at Tai.
"…My father and younger brother live there, and while I'm a fortuneteller, my father is a higher power that can help these four to get rid of the dark shadows that reside in their bodies," Tai explained as Raitai tried pulling Hyoutei off of Mustang. "They won't be able to be free from the shadows forever, but we'll at least try to restore them to what they once were…"
A warm smile appeared on Goliath's face as he watched Chitei slowly walk onto the boat. A calm, serene feeling pulsed in his heart making him glad that one day he'll be able to meet with his friends that he once truly knew. "I wish you luck my friends…and hope to see you one day…"
"You know we will," Raitai grunted actually prying Hyoutei off the Die Hard Duelist. "But we can't…until Hyoutei gets on the boat!"
"MUSTANG!" Hyoutei shouted with hearts in her eyes before Raitai threw her onto the boat.
"Write me Hyoutei!" Mustang shouted back with a smile before turning towards Raitai. "By the by Raitai, you were the one who dueled against Vic, right?"
Raitai moved his eyes to the corner remembering the last few moments of the duel.
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A powerful golden aura surrounded Gyoku, making him roar in victory as his muscles began to grow at an alarming rate (2000/2000 + 4000/4000). "Their power can be a formidable force! Especially when played with a second Heavenly Battle Cry!"
The aura around the Chaotix Tai Gyoku Gars flared up making the warrior grow six beautiful glowing gold wings from his back (6000/6000 + 1000/1000). The light seemed to make Excelion roar out in pain and step back in fear. "May the light free you from this sadness and pain that constricts you…"
"No! Wait!" Vic shouted covering his eyes from the blinding light. "I-I can't lose!"
"Chaotix Tai Gyoku Gars! Strike down that demon who feeds on the sadness of Vic! Free him of this sadness and rid this world of this demon!" Raitai shouted into the air, getting a nod from his holy monster.
Gyoku slowly floated into the air, his wings piercing through the darkness with their light. All of a sudden, a powerful maelstrom flew behind the warrior sending a large amount of golden feathers flying into the demon. When the feathers made contact, many explosions covered the demon's entire body, destroying the evil creature in a matter of seconds. Vic winced waiting for the dark electricity to surge through his body, but instead of pain… (VLP: 0)
"…Huh? It's warm…" Vic stated before he fell to the ground, completely exhausted and his demon disappearing into the light.
"Vic…as punishment for this shadow game," Raitai started as his angelic warrior floated to the ground before him. "For the rest of the school year you will treat people with respect and become a great duelist…my friend."
As Gyoku disappeared, Raitai turned towards the other three domes of darkness, each of them acting violent. "I pray that the others come out alright…"
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"…That is correct," Raitai replied lifting his arm up to keep Hyoutei from running off the boat towards Mustang. "Why do you ask?"
"Well, we managed to drop him off at his room yesterday without anyone seeing us," Mustang answered rubbing his chin in anticipation. "And the weirdest thing happened when he woke up…"
"And what was that?" Raitai questioned hoping that his penalty didn't go out of control with Vic.
"He offered us tea!" Mustang announced with Goliath nodding his head furiously.
A cold drop of sweat dripped down the side of Raitai's head after he heard those words. "A-and how is that weird?"
"First of all, Vic hates us…" Goliath explained lifting his first finger up followed by his second. "Next, he hates tea. And third, this is Vic we're talking about…he'd rather throw the boiling water on us than do something nice."
"So what was his punishment?" Mustang asked sending an accusing look at Raitai.
"Um…TAI! Start the boat!" Raitai ordered before jumping onto the boat, knocking the connecting platform into the water.
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"…Hey Cain…"
Cain groaned slightly as he turned his head to see Rioko standing in front of his bunk bed. Ever since Cain got back from the ruins, he just slipped into bed so he could relax and get used to his new arm. Rioko didn't even know Cain had a new arm, the only ones who knew were Mustang, Goliath, Tai and that weird guy who called himself 'Big Boss'. "What is it Rioko?"
"Was what you did yesterday a trick or something?" Rioko asked with a raised eyebrow. "Cause, I could've sworn that it looked like your arm was sliced off…"
Cain just starred blankly at Rioko, blinking a few times before sighing. "Look, Mustang thought it was a funny idea to trick you guys into thinking it was a prank…"
"But there are so many unanswered questions!" Rioko shouted making Cain narrow his eyes. "Like what happened with the Majestic Four? Why were you bleeding so much? Why you were wearing Mustang's uniform? And what was that fortune teller guy doing here?"
"Rioko…I'm giving you fair warning this time…" Cain growled closing his eyes and pulling the sheet to his neck. "Shut up…quit bugging me, let me get some sleep and I might not kick your ass…"
"…W'ever," Rioko sighed heading towards the door. "I'm heading to get some breakfast…see ya later Cain…"
As soon as Cain was sure that Rioko had exited the room, he slowly got up from his bed to show that he was only in his black boxers and had his chest and metallic arm was exposed. Cain sighed as he fingered the metallic limb with his regular hand, feeling the cold hard steel that was now attached to his body from the right shoulder.
'…I can't let anyone find out…not even Ami…if I do…I'll be barraged with hand jokes…' Shaking his head of that thought, Cain slowly walked over to his closet and opened it to see his original Ra Yellow uniform. Hesitantly, Cain pulled the uniform jacket from the hanger and held it up in front of him. '…I still hate this color…and it looks like I'll have to get the sewing kit out…again…'
After a half-hour of sewing, Cain was now dressed in his new, customized uniform. He still was wearing his black baggy shorts and muscle shirt, but his jacket was a lot longer at the sleeves, nearly covering his hands. He was also wearing black gloves over his hands, just in case anyone got a look at his hands. "…May not be the most fashionable, but it'll work…"
With that, Cain slowly grabbed his deck and duel disk, and headed towards the door. Just as he turned the knob…
"Director! The cameras need to go there, lights over here, and we need to be ready for action!" A loud manly and soothing voice shouted with a tune in his voice.
"Oh dear god, if that's Sorro setting up a concert…" Cain moaned opening the door hoping not to see a singing Sorro.
As the door flew open, Cain's eyes widened at the sight that was being set up before him. On the ground in front of him, a large decorated stage with many lights being set up around the area with many Ra Yellow students watching the many workers setting up cameras and seats.
There was one person who really stood out on the stage, and the guy looked strangely familiar. Although his back was to Cain, the short duelist was able to see the large white overcoat with a large collar that covered the back of his spiky gray hair. As the wind blew the long tails of the overcoat, Cain managed to see that the guy was wearing baggy, black pants with a pair of white tennis shoes. The man lifted his hand up into the air, raising his pointer finger into the air. "…The sooner we get this over with…the better it'll become in the end!"
A few minutes later, Cain was among the students this time watching the same guy (who apparently had a handsome face and had black highlights in the front) practicing a few tunes on his guitar. He was actually quite good as a few students had a few lighter waving in the air in rhythm. "Yeah…you guys like that? Then we'll keep this up…"
"Who in the world is this?" Cain asked to no one in particular.
Unfortunately for Cain, a lot of the girl members of the audience seemed to have heard him and gathered around him starring daggers at him. A large sweatdrop appeared on the back of Cain's head. "How could you not know Edward Wright!?!"
"…That guy is…" Cain started reaching into his pants pocket.
Each girl stepped back in fear of what the little duelist might do in the next few minutes, but in a matter of moments that fear turned into embarrassment. Cain had a pulled an autographed picture of a younger version of the guy playing the guitar on the stage, apparently named Edward Wright. "…ED WRIGHT!!"
At the sight of the picture, all of the girls' eyes turned starry eyed and gasped at once. "HE'S GOT A LIMITED EDITION AUTOGRAPHED PICTURE OF YOUNGER EDWARD!"
"You give me that picture and I'll give you a kiss…"
"Forget it! I'll give you twenty dollars!"
"I'll give you fifty dollars for it!"
"Two hundred!"
"I'm not selling it…" Cain replied with a small blush appearing on his face.
"…GET HIM!"
At that moment, Cain's eyes shot wide open as all of the girls began coming closer to claw the picture out of his hand. After being tackled to the ground by the girls, the photo floated up towards Ed who just gently grabbed the picture and studied it for a minute. "…My, what a handsome young devil…"
With a quick reach into his overcoat pocket, Ed pulled out a small pen and immediately wrote his name underneath the original name with a smile. When he was finished, Ed slowly handed it to the first girl that was near the stage, making her cry in joy and all the girls around her jealous…
…Cain on the other hand, well, he was currently crushed on the ground by the girls. But he was able to raise his head up to see that Ed had just given away the autographed photo. "…D-damn it…"
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After dusting himself, Cain had tried to find Ed for giving that photo away just like that, but he seemed to just disappear along with his entourage of female fans (and he could've sworn he saw Sorro among the girls.)
Classes, however, we still going on this day, and not wanting to get a demerit, Cain went to his first class. Duelist history with Fortanu, unfortunately, Cain had his mind on other things…
'…Damn it…why'd that fancy boy give that autograph away?' Cain crossed his arms behind his head, while closing his eyes. '…I remember when I got that autograph…and I can remember why I got it in the first place.'
'I can't believe I stood in that damn line for six full hours…'
"Mr. Sonryu! Answer the question!" Fortanu shouted from the front of the classroom, making Cain snap out of his daze.
"Huh?" Cain replied with a blank look on his face. "Uh…Red Eyes Black Dragon?"
"…Damn it…right," Fortanu scoffed to the side narrowing his eyes. "That is the name of the monster that Joey Wheeler won from Rex Raptor in Duelist Kingdom…That was an easy one…"
"Then hit me with your best shot…" Cain challenged, not really caring what question Fortanu asked.
"Okay smarty pants…" Fortanu countered with a wicked smile on his face. Everyone in the class seemed to be paying attention to the challenge that the two were giving each other. "…Since we're having something special happening today, I'll ask you a question based on that…"
'What's happening today? Besides the usual weirdness…' Cain just raised an eyebrow at the comment.
"You ready? What is the card series that were used by the famous Pop Hero Duelist?" Fortanu questioned with his eyes closed and his head lifted high. "Try to get that one!"
"…The 'what' duelist?" Cain retorted with a large question mark appearing over his head.
"You've got five seconds to answer," Fortanu chuckled with his smug look getting larger by the second. "Five…"
"…Four…"
"…Three…"
"…Two…"
"…On…"
"Attention all students and facility staff members, please drop what you all are doing, don't answer any questions, and please report to the main hall."
"Wow…I guess we'll all be heading to the main hall…" Cain replied standing up with all of the other students heading towards the doors leading out of the classroom.
After each of the students had exited the room, Fortanu just knelt to the ground and pulled his hair tightly. "Why? Why? …WWWWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?!?"
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Sitting next to Rioko, Kazica and Ami, Cain was slumped backwards in his seat, not really caring what this assembly is about. Yet he still listened to his friends' conversation.
"Did you hear the rumors?"
"What rumors Rioko?" Ami asked with a raised eyebrow.
"This year for the assembly, Daigo got money out of his own wallet to get a huge pop star here," Rioko answered wagging his fingers. "I think you'll just love him…"
"Who is it?" Kazica inquired making Cain open his eyes.
"Actually, it was a guy who showed up at the Ra Yellow dorms after you two and myself arrived in the classrooms," Rioko answered crossing his arms. "…They say that it's…"
"Welcome students!" Daigo announced as he, Mustang, Goliath, Vic as well as all of the teachers stood on the stage in front of all the students. "I hope you all enjoyed that special show we had…of the Majestic Four! Our school academy band…and yes, they still need some work."
'…That's the best he could come up with?' Cain thought with a dulled look over his eyes.
"…Anyway, they were just the start of what's going to come in our final semester with you all!" Daigo laughed into the microphone, causing a large amount of static to echo through the area. "Sorry about that! Back to what I'm saying, we're having a huge month till summer! But you still need to study for your exams!"
Everyone moaned at Daigo saying that, making a large sweatdrop appear on the side of his head. "Yes I know it is a bummer…but, that's what this month is supposed to be for! This month we'll be having our annual Spirit Day, as well as our Parent's Night! But before we get to that…we've got our special guest who'll be with us through out this month!"
The same group of girls that were at the Ra Yellow dorm earlier all cried out, holding up a large banner with the name 'Edward Wright' written on it having a lot of hearts on it. Cain even could've sworn that he heard a few of them say to marry them.
That's when the entire stage was covered with a large cloud of white smoke with many laser lights shooting out of the stage. As soon as the smoke died down, Edward Wright was standing next to Daigo, jamming on his guitar playing a rock'n tune while singing… "Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Ed Wright here! Star of various movies and the host of his own TV show, Dueling Countries with Ed! Let's hear it for him!"
"EDWARD WRIGHT!?!" Ami and Kazica screamed at the same time with hearts in their eyes. "HE'S HERE!?!?"
Cain noticed that almost all of the guys were growling or cheering along with the girls at Ed. The little duelist on the other hand, just stood up and slowly made his way to the isle heading towards the stage.
No one seemed to notice that Cain was slowly picking up speed as Ed stopped playing his guitar to take the microphone from Daigo. "Thanks chief! That's right guys and gals! The great Ed Wright has appeared on the field with you all at this fine duel academy!"
"And your principal is right! I'm here for the month with my righteous camera crew, so if you want to see if you can get on TV, bring your duel disk and deck…"
"HEY YOU!"
Ed slowly turned his head to the side to see an angry Cain jumping on the stage before him. A smile just appeared on Ed's face before tuning towards the crowd. "…Did anyone lose a small kid?"
"I'm a student!" Cain roared making Ed turn back to him with a shocked look on his face.
"WHAT!?!? Well, in that case…we'll make this guy our first televised duel!" Ed announced into the microphone making everyone in the audience gasp in surprise. "That's right! Anyone dueling me will be one my famous show! Win and I'll pull a few strings so you can come on my musical tour! Lose, and well, you get the pleasure of dueling against me!"
"Cain gets to face Edward Wright?" Rioko questioned, his voice somewhat envious looking at all of the girls around him somewhat mad that they aren't the first one dueling against Ed. "…Although…looking at the big picture, I guess I'll enjoy the show…"
"Oh, brother…" Ami sighed in disappointment and narrowing her eyes. "Why'd you have to do something so stupid?"
"…It's tearing you two up that Cain's dueling Ed isn't it?" Rioko chuckled turning to meet up with two pairs of demonic, glowing red eyes. "…Uh, I'll take that as a yes…"
Back on the stage, Vic stood up next to Goliath and Mustang with…a smile on his face? "My, this is going to be grand…I'm going to get some coffee, can I get you two a cup?"
"Oh for goodness sake, stop being nice!" Mustang shouted slamming his foot into stage. However, Goliath managed to slap his hand over the Die Hard Duelist's mouth.
"That would be great Vic, I'll take a decaf and Mustang will take his with sugar," Goliath chuckled before Vic nodded his head before walking off the stage towards the concessions.
Mustang managed to break free from Goliath's hold and glared daggers at the Kaiser. "What was that!?! I couldn't breathe!"
"I apologize, but we should take advantage of Vic's kind nature…" Goliath replied sitting back in his seat. "…At least until it lasts…"
"…I never knew you like to take advantage of people…" Mustang sighed lifting an eyebrow at the Colossal Kaiser. "…I mean it's just plain weird when someone named the Dark World Prince , a name that was supposed to strike fear into people…is offering to get coffee to his two rivals!"
"…What's your point?" Goliath asked watching Ed slip on a duel disk on his left arm.
"Ah, touché," Mustang chuckled viewing Cain raising a fist towards Ed. "Wonder what happened to make Cain get pissed off at Ed…"
Speaking of…
"Ya know, is it just me, or do I seem to know you?" Ed asked slowly locking the duel disk around his left arm.
"…Yeah I look familiar," Cain growled shaking his right fist towards Ed. "Three years ago, I waited in line at one of your autograph lines in seven hours to get your photo and autograph…"
"Man, I didn't know that you were such a fan-boy," Ed laughed scratching the back of his head with a goofy smile on his face. That's when Ed snapped his fingers together and then slammed his fists together. "Oh, I get it…someone tipped you off about my little promotional giveaway and you wanted first shot at it!"
Unfortunately, that comment echoed through out the entire auditorium making everyone laugh loudly. A large red blush appeared on Cain's face before he thrust his right hand upwards. "L-l-look! First of all, I could care less of the prize you've set up for the student body! The only reason why I came up here was to get you to replace the damn autograph you gave away!"
"…That was yours?" Ed asked with a scared look on his face. "Man…what kind of guy keeps an autograph of me in his pocket for three years? Especially since that picture had a love at the end of it…"
"I-it wasn't for me!" Cain shouted snapping his deck into his duel disk. "It was for my younger sister Ami…"
"Sure…that's what they all say," Ed laughed shuffling his deck before calmly placing it into his deck slot. "I bet you don't even have a sister…Now then, shall we get this duel underway?"
"Whatever!" Cain shouted activating his duel disk as his life point counter began to flash to life. "I don't care about the tour…but if I win, then you replace the autograph…" (CLP: 4000)
"No worries fan-boy," Ed snickered activating his duel disk and pulling his five card hand. "That's if you win…" (ELP: 4000)
Cain immediately drew his sixth card and glared daggers at Ed. "Then let's du…"
"Hold it!" Ed shouted making Cain step back in confusion.
"What?" Cain asked with a confused look on his face.
"Everyone! Say it with me!" Ed shouted lifting his right hand into the air.
"READY!"
"STEADY!"
"DUEL!"
Cain could've sworn he heard the voices of all of his friends in that last word. But he shook it off and looked at his hand. "…That's just weird…I'll start off by summoning Scholar Alchemist!"
In a light transmutation circle, a young brown haired alchemist appeared with his green cloak/vest floating in the wind while he held up his red book (1200/1200) to his eyes and began to read it. That's when Ed's cards began to glow. "Whoa man, I dig the fancy lights…but what's it all about?"
Cain slowly walked over to Ed and lifted his hand slightly. "Simple, when my alchemist is summoned to the field, I select one card at random in your hand."
With a quick motion, Cain lifted the card up in the middle of Ed's hand to see a trap card he never seen before (called Akutare Hero Lives Forever!). Returning the card, Cain slowly walked back to his original place on the stage and lifted a card from his hand up. "Since I got a trap card, I return one card from my hand to the bottom of my deck…"
After doing so, Cain immediately drew his next card and nodded. "Then I'm allowed to draw a new card…which I'll place as a set card."
"Not a bad move fan-boy," Ed mocked swiftly drawing his next card. At the sight of his hand, a smile appeared on his face. "Too bad though…I have no monster cards in my hand!"
Quickly flashing the hand to Cain, it was true that all he had were spell and trap cards, although, why would he be smiling? "Let me ask you a question fan-boy…"
"My name is not fan-boy, its Cain," Cain just growled through his clenched teeth.
"Whatever Can," Ed scoffed shrugging his shoulders. "Anyway, if you ever noticed, in the movies, comics, or even video games, that the real hero appears at the last minute? And in the most fashionable way possible?"
"Oh god, don't tell me you run E-Heroes…" Cain sighed slapping his left hand to his forehead.
"Nope!" Ed replied as a card shot out of his deck and into his free hand. "Rather…I play with a Pop Hero Deck! And who better than this guy!"
Ed immediately slapped his card onto his duel disk, and immediately a large bolt of lightning struck the stage, causing a large cloud of white smoke to fly up. The large cloud quickly blew away, revealing a young tanned skin man with his fist pumped into the air. His long, flowing white overcoat floated slightly off his bare chest, golden pendant and purple satin pants. The young man then spun around and sung his battle cry (0/0). "So give it up…for the Akutare Hero!"
Cain just starred at the monster with a blank look on his face. Mainly because the monster looked like Ed, but also for the fact that the monster had no attack or defense points. "Okay…what's up with that monster?"
"He never let's his fans down!" Ed announced waving to the crowd to get the girls cheering for him again. "Just like me, and he never gives up when times are tough. And he'll prove it! By attacking your alchemist!"
"What?" Cain questioned as the Akutare Hero cracked his knuckles.
Running towards the alchemist, the Akutare Hero ran at top speed, clenching his right fist tightly. Shrugging his opponent off, the Scholar Alchemist threw a punch of his own towards the Hero as he was only as step away…
…Only to miss slightly and receive a punch to his chin sending the Alchemist flying into the air. Cain's eyes widened at the sight of his Alchemist shattering into pixels, and that the fact that the Akutare Hero was giving a peace signs to the crowd. "What the hell just happened?" (CLP: 3600)
"Ya know, normally I use eight thousand life points," Ed stated looking at his duel disk life point counter as his Akutare Hero stepped in front of him. "But I guess I'll start that next time…especially seeing as how this is the first duel and you obviously need a handicap against me…"
That comment made a large blood vessel appear on the back of Cain's head. "What was that!?!"
"I'll set two cards face down," Ed continued, ignoring Cain's complaint, while the two set cards appeared behind the Akutare Hero. "So go ahead Can…"
"It's Cain!"
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Back in the audience near Rioko, he noticed that Ami and Kazica were cheering for Ed to win…along with the rest of the female population of the academy. "…And here I thought Mustang was a ladies man…"
"Goes to show ya that there can even be higher show-boaters in our world…"
Rioko turned his head slightly to the side to see that the seat that was empty next to him was now filled with a mysterious youth with long dark blue hair, combed back with white highlights that complimented the feminine face. The clothes that the youth was wearing was a royal blue vest, along with a tight white long-sleeved shirt that showed the youth's petite figure. The baggy jeans covered that part up. The youth had the eyes open to show the dark blue orbs, clearly angry for some reason. "…I hate people like that…"
"Okay…be far from me to question a girl's taste," Rioko chuckled feeling a cold stare being shot at him.
He turned back to the youth to meet the same cold gaze that was looking up at the stage a few seconds ago. "…I'm a man…"
"…Holy crap…" Rioko chuckled in embarrassment.
The young man shook his head and turned back to the stage. "Dumbass…"
'Byakko, I don't see why the boss wanted us to do it this way…if I had my own way I'd just be slamming down these pathetic duelists left and right…but I can't go against his orders…'
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"I don't know how you did that," Cain growled pulling his next card, and then with a nod, he immediately slapped it onto his duel disk. Another transmutation circle appeared before him before shattering into an angry looking Armor Piercing Alchemist (1800/1300), puffing out a few rings of smoke. "But I'm going to figure out how you did it!"
That's when the Akutare Hero surged with powerful electricity making him sing in a great powerful tone (0/0 + 1600/1600); Cain then realized why his first alchemist fell. "I get it…"
"I see…" Ed chuckled with a semi stern look on his face. "…I'm not surprised that you figured out that my Hero's attack and defense are the multiplied by the level of your monster by four hundred points…"
"Sounds somewhat like a card series that I once heard of…" Cain admitted scratching the top of his head in confusion. "Not that it matters! Since my monster now has more attack points! Armor Piercing Alchemist, do what you do best!"
With a wicked smile, the Armor Piercing Alchemist raised his hands up and then shot his large bladed claws right through the chest of the Akutare Hero, making the hero shatter into pixels. (ELP: 3800)
"Nice try! But as you probably don't know it…" Ed laughed out loud raising his arm to the crowd getting everyone to in the crowd to cheer for him. "But the hero never disappoints his or her fans! Go! Akutare Hero Lives Forever!"
Ed's trap card flipped up to show the Akutare Hero singing on stage with many pretty female monsters cheering for him. The card shattered into the Akutare Hero, who was grinning and lifted up his right hand for a peace sign (1600/1600). "And this trap card signifies it! By reviving the Akutare Hero back in his entire splendor!"
"Yeah…" Cain sighed in disappointment. "Too bad he's just like your career, a guy who's going to be washed up…"
That's when a flying duel disk flew directly into Cain's head making him fall to the ground with a large bruise starting to form on his head.
"DON'T TALK CRAP ABOUT ED!"
"THIS IS YOUR ONLY WARNING SHORTY!"
"See how my fans are devoted to me?" Ed asked watching Cain stand back on his feet. "Hell, I'd even bet that one of your friends threw that duel disk.
"HE'S LYING CAIN! I DIDN'T THROW THAT DISK!"
A large sweatdrop appeared on the back of Cain's bruise hearing that, but he just shook it off and immediately slipped a card into his duel disk. "Why did I bother getting up this morning?"
"Eh, you probably have an annoying roommate," Ed guessed not knowing how right he was while drawing his next card. "My condolences, but now then, I equip my Akutare Hero with Shocking Soul!"
Raising his hand up into the air, the Akutare created a large amount of electricity surging above him, creating a fancy black and purple guitar (1600/1600 + 800/800) to fall in his hands and then immediately strumming quite a few notes. "And now…Play him a tune Akutare!"
With a quick nod, the Akutare Hero began to furiously play his guitar with his eyes closed and sent what looked to be many musical notes flying directly into the Armor Piercing Alchemist, shattering the alchemist into many pixels. At the sight of Cain's monster dying, the crowd went wild. (CLP: 3000)
"And now, with no monster," Ed laughed slightly as his hero wiped his forehead of sweat (0/0). "My monster takes a break…"
'I'm guessing that his equip spell also powers his monster thanks to the level of my monsters…' Cain figured taking a small moment to think. '…I think I know how to take this guy down…'
Quickly snapping his next card, Cain's eyes widened slightly. '…and this card will do the trick!'
"It's time for your Hero to exit, stage left!" Cain shouted lifting his next card up. Everyone in the audience was quiet embarrassed about Cain's comment. "…Oh yeah, when the pop star makes a bad line they all cheer…but when I do, I get glares…"
"Show business is a rough mistress…" Ed commented shrugging his shoulders slightly.
"And so is this next monster! I summon Sapphire Alchemist!" Cain announced slapping his card onto his duel disk creating a large sea blue transmutation circle in front of him. The transmutation circle shattered into a large torrent of water before forming into a young pretty girl with blue hair wearing a large blue coat over black top and gray pants. On her white gloves was a pair of transmutation circles with water droplet on them. Over her eyes was a pair of blue tinted glasses. The girl pulled her glasses down slight and gave Ed a slight wink (1600/1100).
"Looks like even your own monsters seem to be fans of mine!" Ed laughed loudly getting everyone else to laugh along with him.
"I really hate this," Cain sighed slapping his forehead, that's when he lifted one card from his hand showing that it was the Garnet Alchemist (200/2200). "Anyway, I activate Sapphire Alchemist's special ability! All I need to do is remove one warrior monster from my hand, and I can remove up to two warrior monsters on your side of the field! And that's what I'm guessing your hero is!"
As soon as Cain pocketed his card, the Sapphire Alchemist blew a kiss towards the Akutare Hero. Akutare slowly walked towards the Sapphire alchemist with hearts in his eyes before he was engulfed in a powerful geyser of water making him disappear. Ed just stepped back in shock. "Uh oh…"
"Now then…Sapphire Alchemist! Attack him directly!" Cain shouted throwing his hand towards Ed. A few moments passed and Cain blinked in confusion as nothing seemed to happen to Ed.
Cain slowly turned his head towards his alchemist, and immediately lowered his own head in shame. His monster was staring at Ed with heart filled eyes. "HEY! GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE CLOUDS! AND ATTACK HIM DIRECTLY!"
With a sigh, the Sapphire Alchemist snapped her fingers and unleashed a torrent of water underneath Ed, soaking him completely. "Aw man…I already had my daily shower an hour ago…" (ELP: 2200)
"Well, now that I got rid of your monster," Cain sighed in relief looking over the rest of his hand. "This duel is as good as done…"
"What makes you say that?" Ed asked with a weakened smile appearing on his face.
"Simple, I happen to know that Akutare's effect," Cain smiled with accomplishment. "If you have no monsters in your hand or field, you get to add that monster to your hand from your deck. And that's where his weakness is! And not long ago, I once faced a guy who played with a single monster deck, and I think that's the same kind of deck you run!"
Ed blinked a few times in shock, but then he began to clap excitingly. "Bravo! Bravo! You figured it out good! However…"
That's when Ed's other face down card flipped up to show a trap card with a picture of the Akutare Hero walking from a hospital with many bandages and crutches. "Meet my trap card, Payment for Pain! When I take damage equal to or more than fifteen hundred points, I can take one spell card from my deck with Akutare in its effect."
A card shot from Ed's deck and into his hand, immediately showing the spell card had the Akutare Hero with a large afro singing a tune into a microphone. "I think I'll choose Lighting up the Stage…"
"Okay…I'll end my turn," Cain sighed as a bright a large garnet colored transmutation circle appeared before him before shattering into a large bulky man crouching down with a large garnet shield. The alchemist was covered in the same colored armor covering the monster's face and body. "This activates my Garnet Alchemist's effect! When he's removed from play, I can special summon him in defense mode!"
"No matter how many defenses…" Ed chuckled looking at his next card. "This won't end well for you! I activate Pot of Greed!"
In a building light, the green smiling pot appeared before Ed allowing him to pull two more cards from the top of his deck. "…I really don't like this giggling guy…"
That's when Ed lifted up his next spell card, the one he took with Payment for Pain. "Activate Lighting up the Stage! Now I can special summon the Akutare Hero from my removed from play pile!"
The stage was immediately sparked a large storm of electricity forming into the smiling Akutare Hero (1600/1600). Cain just slapped his forehead once more. "Damn it…why does this guy keep showing up? He's just like Mustang!"
"I'm sitting right here!"
"I know that! That's why I said it!" Cain roared back to Mustang who was enjoying a sip of coffee.
"Man…I really don't like how you're killing the buzz…" Ed sighed fitting his next card into his duel disk. "You're like the Hater Hecklers spell card!"
Cain raised an eyebrow as three lights appeared on his open field slots quickly forming into three blue penguins wearing book packs around their stomachs and bat wings on their backs (500/500 x3). At the sight of the Akutare Hero, the three monsters turned around and slapped their butts with their wings, making Akutare mad. Cain just sweat dropped at the sight. "What…the…hell are these things?"
"Um…to be precise, they're Heckling Fan tokens," Ed answered rubbing his chin before lifting his next spell card. "But they're not really fans of Akutare as you can see…And now I'll equip Akutare with this spell card, My Heart Shakes!"
Narrowing his eyes at the Heckling Fan tokens, Akutare clenched his two fists, engulfing them into a powerful electrical energy. The Heckling Fan penguins stepped back on their peg legs in fear of the angry celebrity duel monster. "And now, this equip spell gives my Hero the ability to attack all monster with levels lower than the equipped monster! And guess what all of those tokens are level three!"
Cain lowered his head in disappointment for the fact that he just lost the duel. "I never should've gotten out of bed today…"
"Akutare! Attack his Heckling Fans! Gung Ho!" Ed shouted as his Akutare Hero ran towards the first panicking Heckling Fan and punched the bird token right in the face sending it flying. (CLP: 1900)
That's when Akutare pounced on the next Heckling Fan and slammed his foot directly into the penguin's head, beating it senselessly for a minute. (CLP: 800)
Unknown to the Akutare Hero, the last Heckling penguin slowly came up behind Akutare pulling two daggers from his pouch. Just as the Token jumped behind Akutare, the dark hero slammed the back of his fist right into the face of the penguin, breaking its beak. (CLP: 0)
The crowd went wild as Cain lowered his head, mainly because the Akutare Hero raised his fist in triumph as well as Ed. "Yeah! Let me hear you roar! And let's give it up for my first opponent…Mister…"
Ed slowly inched over to Cain and knelt over the duelist. "Hey kid…what's your name again?"
Cain sighed loudly lowering his head even more. "…Cain Sonryu…"
At the name, Ed's eyes slightly widened before he quickly turned back to the crowds. "…For Cain Sonryu! And for being the first duelist…"
Cain slowly turned back to Ed to see him writing something back onto a piece of paper. Ed then handed Cain the paper to see that it was an autographed picture of Ed. "…You get an autograph copy of my face!"
A cold sweat droplet appeared on the back of Cain's head as he watched Ed return to his guitar.
Unknown to the students, the blue haired teen stood in the hallway outside the auditorium talking into his blue cell phone. A dark look was written all over his face as he talked. "Yeah, it's me Kuchin."
"Agent Seiryu…I take it that you and Byakko have arrived at the Duel Academy.'
Seiryu closed his eyes as he crossed his other arm over his abdomen. He then growled slightly into the phone. "Yeah Kuchin, although I don't really get why you had to go with Byakko's plan…mine was just as good!"
"…I see what you're talking about Seiryu, however, your way is…um, how to put this? Ah yes…not popular with people and not very common."
"Whatever…" Seiryu sighed once more into the phone. That's when he opened his eyes and a smile appeared on his face. "…Oh yeah…Byakko began his duelist campaign during the assembly…"
"Excellent…in that case, I'll be sending Genbu and Suzaku to the island later this week…and by the way, who was the person who dueled against Byakko?"
"…Yeah…" Seiryu chuckled this time in the phone, showing off his fanged teeth. "…The kid that Big Boss told us about…Cain Sonryu…"
"…Then I guess he must've failed against Byakko, correct? From the way Big Boss described him I thought that maybe this Cain couldn't even hurt one of us…"
"Well actually, Byakko almost lost half of his life points," Seiryu fished a deck of cards from his pocket and looked at the bottom card. "Although, this is Byakko we are talking about here…that runt can't even compare to my skills…"
"…Still to inflict a good deal of damage, we may want to keep an eye on this Cain. If we play our cards right, we may be able to get our Nanju duelist agent here…and maybe a few others."
"Sir…are you suggesting what I think you're suggesting?" The wicked smile grew more and more demonic as he began to walk through the hallways slipping a duel disk on his left arm.
"Yes, test the ones close to the duelist that Byakko faced off against…but try not to draw attention to yourself…but why do I bother trying to tell you about that?"
"Old habits die hard remember," Seiryu laughed slightly closing his eyes. "Anyway, I'll be seeing you later Kuchin, say hi to Big Boss for me…"
"Oh yeah, speaking of Big Boss…he told me to inform you that you are not to use that one spell card…there's already been to much use of it on the mainland and we can't afford for anyone to make a connection here."
"Yeah, yeah whatever," Seiryu scoffed turning the phone off. Then he quickly pocketed his phone and began searching through the deck he held in his hands…until he came to a green boarded field card. "I never liked using this card, didn't really go with my deck style anyway…and besides…"
Pocketing the card with his cell phone, Seiryu immediately snapped his deck into his duel disk. "That card is only for the weak…and I'm nothing like that anymore!"
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Rioko: I can't believe that Edward Wright is starting a duelist campaign…
Kazica: I can't believe how many duelists are actually taking part of this…
Cain: …
Kazica: Aw cheer up Cain! Who cares if you lost.
?: Heh, looks like the little shrimp does.
Rioko: Hey! You're that girlish guy in the audience!
Enter the Azure Dragon…next time on ATD: Chapter 57: Trap Master
?: I'm a dude!
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Vyser D: And don't forget to take a guess about the special surprise that was hidden this chapter! Winner gets a special surprise!
