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Arc League Championship — Chapter 46: Clear Note Hearing; Yasuko Yukihana vs. Yugo
Yasuko is lost.
She has nowhere to go in the twenty-four-hour battle royal. She only wants to find a spot to wait out for the battle royal to end and leave behind the crazy duels she is putting herself into. She had no idea where to find the jungle or the ruins area because they seem to provide decent shelter to cover her tracks. Yasuko has never felt more irritated with dueling than ever. She checks the time on her duel disk to monitor the time length session. It's been almost three hours since the battle royal started, which means that's another seventeen more hours to go. All Yasuko has to do is find a spot to sit and watch the sky for the rest of the match.
Of course, that would have been easier if she weren't freezing herself in the ice region of the Action Field. Despite being a Solid Image of the real field, Yasuko' can't help but zip up her black jacket vest because it feels just as cold as the winter season.
"Damn it," Yasuko growled under her breath. "I can't believe this. This is friggin' stupid. Twenty-four hours, my ass." She looks around for any sign of life in the frozen wasteland. "What am I supposed to eat and drink in this stupid match?" She had second thoughts about her comment. "Speaking of, when do we get to eat?" She shakes her head; frustration building up inside her burns hotter than the heating magma from the lava region. "At least they could've dropped off some food for us."
She felt a cold wind breezing to her spine, making her shiver. "Damn, this is cold," she retorted. "Do they expect us to even survive this long? We're just kids, for Pete's sake." She was so angry that Yasuko did not notice a rare phenomenon occurring around her crystal keychain. It was flashing like a flickering lightbulb. The glow was small, not bright enough to catch her attention.
"Do these assholes think we cannot go home all day and night? Geez, what a mess up tournament I got myself into. This is even worse than the Frontier Games," Yasuko muttered, her breath becoming visible under the cold air.
Throughout her journey, she spends most of her time surveying the landscape for anything that resembles a cave. The only ideal shelter that Yasuko can use is a cave until the entire tournament ends. She comes across the steep hill to scan the horizon. Most of the buildings around the harbor are covered in a thick layer of sheeted ice. It looked like the whole world ended into an ice age.
"Well crap, how am I supposed to sleep in this environment?" Yasuko wondered herself. She begins her journey across the iceberg, sliding down on the icy steep hills.
The young girl continues her journey to find somewhere to get to the jungle ruins or shelter before it gets dark. Her boots crunch under the thick ice. It felt like real snow, except it is created by a machine. She can see her breath every time she walks further into the iceberg region. The winds blow ice on her face so hard that Yasuko had to pull the hood of her vest over her head. She keeps her eyes clear to see the direction that she is going if she knows where to go.
The problem with seeing through the winds is not knowing where she will step, and that was her mistake. Yasuko felt her right foot suddenly fell forward, sending her body to roll down on the icy hills.
"Oh, shi—" Yasuko could not even speak a word as she was rolling fast and very hard downhill. Her body freezes to the ice as she felt the ice frost splash into her face. She grunts and shouts curse words until her body lands herself to the ice ground with a painful thud. She groans, hearing bells in her eardrums.
"Damn it," Yasuko grunted. The girl pulls herself together and sits up. "That's it. I am officially done with this stupid tournament." Yasuko stands up and dusts some of the icy snow from her jeans. That's when she spots her crystal keychain pendant glowing brightly.
"What the…" Yasuko pulls the lock off her jean loop to take a closer look at the crystal pendant keychain. "My keychain's glowing this time?" She makes an annoying sound out of her mouth, realizing what is happening. If her crystal keychain is glowing, then it could mean that something's happening right now with Yuto. "Oh, great. Not this again, now what?" Yasuko wonders herself.
The next thing that happened came out of nowhere. A bright green light emerges from the area where Yasuko stands. She turns to the light in shock, watching the thing grew bigger. "What the hell?" she inquired, covering her eyes. Only five more seconds and the light disappears under the cloudy storm. The sound of motorcycle wheels screech in her ears, making Yasuko straighten upright to take a better look. From the light comes a white motorcycle that pops out of the green light with a white jacket driver.
"Huh, a person?" Yasuko inquired.
She takes a step closer to see the motorcycle. The white vehicle appears to have a horn motif adorned with sharp gold and white colors with black stripes. It resembles to be the body of a monster that she was not familiar with.
"Whoa, where am I?" the driver of the motorcycle, who happens to be a male, inquired, looking at the other direction. "Am I in the Ice Age?" He seems to be talking to himself, not noticing Yasuko yet. "Every time when this glows, I end up in an unknown location," he said, "but this time, it looks like I traveled to the future."
The voice seems familiar to Yasuko, but she cannot put in where she heard of it before. "Uh, hey!" she called. "Over here!"
The driver heard her voice, turning to face her in her direction. "Wait, there is a human!" The driver takes off his helmet to reveal his face. "Hey, you there!" From the moment Yasuko saw his face, she gasped. Now she recognized who that driver was. It all became clear to her.
It was Yugo. The last time she saw him was at the central park where Yugo was dueling Yuto, which was ages ago. There was no way she cannot deny Yugo's face. He looked exactly like Yuya. Her eyes turned hostile, glaring right at Yugo as if he was a despicable outcast.
"It's you!" Yasuko called. "Pawn of Fusion!"
Yugo heard Yasuko mispronounce his name and gets really ticked. "What the—?! I am not Fusion! It's Yugo!" He jabs his thumb to himself.
"Whatever!" Yasuko retorted. She starts to run over to confront Yugo. Yasuko remembers everything that happened on the night when she was suffering a headache attack. The thought of seeing him and thinking about Yuto's words regarding the Fusion invaders makes her blood boil. "What the hell are you doing here?!" she yelled. "Tell me, what are you doing back here!"
Yugo is also pissed, scowling at Yasuko. "What am I doing here?" he inquired. "I just got here! I was teleported somewhere, and the next thing I knew, I ended up here!"
Yasuko was skeptical about Yugo's claim. "What and how doesn't matter!" She points at him as if she was accusing Yugo of being the suspect. "What happened to Yuto?" she questioned.
Yugo raised an eyebrow. "Yuto?"
"That boy you were dueling. The one who had Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon!" Yasuko exclaimed. "What happened to him?"
Yugo had a "click" in the back of his head. Now, it all made sense to him. He saw the girl, and then, he finally recognized her. "Hey, you were there, weren't you?" he asked. "The night I found that lowborn scum who took Rin from me."
"Scum?" Yasuko appalled. "He was trying to find his friend's sister, you dumbass! And then you just showed up and dueled him! Tell me, what happened to Yuto!?" The angrier she gets, the louder her voice becomes.
"I don't know what happened to him!" Yugo yelled back. "I don't remember anything after that!"
Yasuko's frustration was getting the best of her. There was no point in negotiating answers from Yugo. The only way to find the answers herself is by speaking in the language that she knows Yugo will understand. "If you won't tell me…" Yasuko takes out her duel disk from her drop-leg holster and attaches it to her left arm. "Then I'm going have to beat that out of you."
Yugo is no stranger to being goaded, so there is one thing that she can try to get him to duel her. "You think you don't have the strength to save this "Rin" bitch you're talking about, then you're mistaken," she taunted. "You will never win against me, Yugo."
Yugo heard her right, fuming anger from his head. "What did you say?" he bellowed.
"You're pathetic and weak, Yugo," Yasuko jeered. "You can never have the strength to beat someone like me with that hot attitude." She activates her duel disk to pop out a glowing blue blade.
"That's it," Yugo growled. "You want a duel? I'll show you how to duel." Yugo puts back on his helmet and activates the duel disk that was attached to the motorcycle. A double angular green blade emerges from his device. "Duel Mode. Engage," the male computer voice on his duel disk activates. "Auto-Pilot, Standing By." The motorcycle becomes active, and Yugo takes control of the acceleration handle.
"Get ready! Here I come!" Yugo declared before hitting the acceleration on his motorcycle. He makes a 360-degree turn before riding the motorcycle toward Yasuko.
DUEL
Yasuko Yukihana (LP 4000)
vs
Yugo (LP 4000)
"Duel!" Yasuko and Yugo bellowed altogether, signifying the start of their duel.
Yugo slides his motorcycle to drift across the ice, avoiding Yasuko, and turning to the right. "I'll go first!" he declared.
Turn 1: Yugo (5x cards)
Yugo takes out a card held on the hand slot and Special Summons Speedroid Terrortop (ATK 1200/DEF 600) in Attack Position. "Since I control no monsters, I can Special Summon this monster from my hand! Speedroid Terrortop!" The monster Yugo summoned is a snake type creature made up of seven to eight beigoma pieces with orange spikes on top, and the bottom except for the bigger piece with two razor blades attached to the sides.
"Next, I Terrortop's special effect!" Yugo declared. "When this monster is summoned, I can add one Speedroid monster from my deck to my hand!" Yugo selects the card that he chooses to add, and it was Speedroid Taketomborg. "I add Speedroid Taketomborg to my hand and activates its special effect! If I control a WIND monster on the field, I can Special Summon Taketomborg from my hand!" Since the terrortop beigoma was the exact WIND monster, Yugo Special Summons Speedroid Taketomborg (ATK 600/DEF 1200) in Defense Position. The second monster on Yugo's field is an action-figure robot that appears to be constructed in parts from a bamboo-copter.
Yugo was driving the motorcycle so fast that he zips past Yasuko, who had to jump to the left to avoid him running over her. "Will you stop riding that stupid motorcycle!" Yasuko yelled.
"This is not a motorcycle! It's called a Duel Runner!" Yugo called.
"It has two handlebars, wheels, and rides like a motorcycle! So, it is a motorcycle!" Yasuko argued.
"Duel Runner!" Yugo corrected.
Yugo turns to the right and drifts along the frozen hillside. "I activate Taketomborg's special effect! I can tribute this monster to Special Summon one Speedroid Tuner monster from my Deck!" He gestures to his taketomborg figure. "I tribute my Taketomborg to Special Summon the level three Tuner monster, Speedroid Tri-Eyed Dice!" Because Yugo activates the effect of his taketomborg, he tributes it to Special Summon Speedroid Tri-Eyed Dice (ATK 300/DEF 1500) in Defense Position. The taketomborg figure jumps up and spins itself until it transforms into a purple four-sided dice with red eyes on each side and three silver marbles floating around it.
Yasuko notices that the four-sided dice monster is a Tuner, which led her to suspect Yugo's next move. "A Synchro Summon?" she inquired and guessed correctly.
"I tune my level three Terrortop with my level three Tri-Eyed Dice!" Yugo declared. The beigoma snake and the four-sided eye dice floats up to begin the process. The four-sided dice monster transforms into three glowing green rings that scan the beigoma terrortop, leaving nothing but a hollow image and three glowing white orbs. The outline body disappears as the three orbs align themselves.
(3 + 3 = 6)
"Cross-shaped magical sword! Slice and dice all of your enemies with your power! I Synchro Summon! Appear! Level 6! Hi-Speedroid Kendama!" Yugo Synchro Summons Hi-Speedroid Kendama (ATK 2200/DEF 1600). Yasuko remembers the exact monster that she first saw Yugo: a blue kendama that has a little body in the middle of the two shields with a pointy top.
"I activate Kendama's special effect!" Yugo announced. "Once per turn, I can banish one Machine monster from my graveyard, and you take 500 points of damage!" Yugo banishes his Speedroid Taketomborg to let the blue kendama monsters shoot out a blue beam from the point at Yasuko. "I banish my Taketomborg to inflict 500 points of damage!" The girl raises her blue blade to intercept the blast, slicing it in half; however, she still received effect damage on her life points.
(Yasuko: LP 4000 → 3500)
Yasuko knows this strategy before. It was like during the first turn that Yugo used on Yuto. "First strike, huh? I thought you would hit harder," she said.
"Oh, I'll hit harder on my next turn, princess," Yugo retorted, taking out two cards from his hand and Sets them on his field. "I Set two cards face-down, and I end my turn!" he concluded.
Turn 2: Yasuko (5x cards)
Yasuko isn't too concern about the state that she is in. There was no one to back her up, so it was only her and Yugo. The only that mattered to her was beating Yugo and knowing why he came back to the city. "My turn!" Yasuko draws a card from her deck. "I draw!" She takes out a card from her hand to activate the Spell Card: Pendulum Call. "I activate the Spell, Pendulum Call!" she stated. "By discarding one card, I can add two Magician pendulum monsters from my deck and add them to my hand!" Yasuko discards one card from her hand to let her choose and take the two cards that popped out of her deck: Dragonpulse Magician and Dragonpit Magician.
"I add Dragonpulse and Dragonpit Magician to my hand," she said. "And next, I summon this monster! Paladin of Felgrand!" Yasuko Normal Summons Paladin of Felgrand (ATK 1700/DEF 300). She summons a blonde knight that has shiny blue armor and a purple cape wielding a long sword. "Paladin's special effect activate! When this monster is summoned, I can equip one level seven or eight Dragon monster from my deck to this card!" Yasuko selects the one dragon that she will need to take on Yugo and equips her paladin with Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon. "I equip my Paladin with Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon!" The icy floor underneath the felgrand paladin breaks open, allowing a dragon with blue scales covered in bone armor with two massive horns on the head, and red-and-green orbs glowing from the backbone to emerge as its red and green eyes flares up.
Odd-Eyes Phantom roars after being called to the field with the felgrand paladin hopping on its back. The moment Odd-Eyes Phantom appears, the crystal pendant keychain hooked to Yasuko's jean beltloop started to glow in response.
"Now, I activate the Spell, Pendulum Rising!" Yasuko activates the Spell Card: Pendulum Rising. "This card lets me send one monster that I control to the graveyard and then Special Summon one Pendulum monster from my deck whose level is equal to the monster that I just send," she explained. "I send my Paladin of Felgrand to the graveyard to Special Summon the level 4 Mythical Beast Medusa!" The felgrand paladin and Odd-Eyes Phantom disappear into specks of dust to let Yasuko Special Summon Mythical Beast Medusa (ATK 1500/DEF 1500) in Attack Position. The mythical monster with a large round olive shape head with two blue spirit fox heads on its limbs appears on the field.
"Why would you do that?" Yugo asked.
"Because Medusa was all that I need to make preparations," Yasuko replied. Taking out the two cards that she pulled earlier, she starts her move. "I Set the Pendulum Scale with my Scale 1 Dragonpulse Magician and Scale 8 Dragonpit Magician!" she declared. "I'm gonna show you got I control the duel right now!" She places both her Dragonpulse Magicain (Scale 1) and Dragonpit Magician (Scale 8) at both edges of her duel disk, creating the rainbow "Pendulum" word on her blue blade.
Inside of the two bright pillars of light is a boy with very long braided peach hair holding a two-sided sword wearing a jumpsuit and white coat on top, and an older man with blond spikey hair and a white coat over his own wielding a staff that has a big circle at the end. They appear with their respective pendulum scale numbers beneath them.
"And thanks to Medusa's special effect, each time we activate a spell card, it gains a spell counter," Yasuko informed. "And since the two pendulum monsters that I activated were treated as spells, Medusa gains two spell counters!" The mythical medusa glows in yellow aura to gain spell counters.
(Mythical Beast Medusa: Spell Counter 0 → 2)
"And with these two monsters in the Pendulum Zone, I can Pendulum Summon monsters between level 2 to 7 simultaneously!" Yasuko stated. "Hear my soul roaring upon thy! I call forth the energy of my heard to unleash the flames of solemnity from within! I Pendulum Summon! Bring forth, my monsters!" Yasuko Pendulum Summons Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon (ATK 2500/DEF 2000) from her Extra Deck in Attack Position.
A single light falls from the portal on top of Yasuko. Odd-Eyes Phantom remerges back to the field, giving its animalistic roar. At the same time, the crystal pendant keychain was radiating brighter.
Yugo was disbelief. He thought that the monster was in the graveyard, but he had no idea that Odd-Eyes Phantom would come back to the field. "What? Why isn't Odd-Eyes in your graveyard?" he asked. It looked like the sight of Pendulum monsters on Yasuko's field seem to strike a nerve in him. It's probably the first time that he's seen a Pendulum Summon up close before.
"Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon is a special kind of monster," Yasuko pointed out. "This is not like any other monsters that you've come across before."
Yugo turns his duel runner to the left, swaying over the ice wall area and the frozen ocean behind Yasuko. "And what kind of monster is that?"
"The kind that will beat you," said Yasuko. "Battle! I attack Kendama with Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon!" Odd-Eyes Phantom stomps its feet forward, crunching the ice underneath its heel as the dragon jumps up and prepares to charge a beam attack. "Medusa's special effect activates! Once per turn, I can remove two spell counters from my field to target one monster on the field, and then it loses half of its ATK and DEF points!" She points at the kendama monsters. "And the monster that I choose to target is your Kendama!" The medusa unleashes a fog that spreads over to the kendama monster, weakening the monster.
(Mythical Beast Medusa: Spell Counters 2 → 0)
(Hi-Speedroid Kendama: ATK 2200/DEF 1200 → ATK 1100/DEF 600)
"Attack with Phantom Burst Strike!" Odd-Eyes Phantom fires a spiraling blue laser beam at the kendama monster and destroys it with a big explosion, which nearly sends Yugo flying with his duel runner.
(Yugo: LP 4000 → 2600)
Yugo grips his duel runner tightly as he felt a jolt that rattles his duel runner. He would have hit the ice wall behind him if Yugo hadn't stepped up his acceleration handle and drifts across the ice wall and to the floor. "Whoa, that was close," he said. "Better watch where I was going."
"You better watch what happened when you lose your life points!" Yasuko called. "Medusa, attack Yugo directly!" The mythical medusa flies over to land a devastating blow to Yugo; however, the boy isn't going down just easily.
"I activate Speedroid Menko from my hand!" Yugo declared. "When a monster you control attacks me directly, I can Special Summon this monster from my hand in Attack Position, and then all of the monsters on your side of the field switches to Defense Position!" Yugo takes out a card from his hand to Special Summon Speedroid Menko (ATK 100/DEF 2000) in Attack Position. The monster that Yugo had summoned is shaped as a card, but it has gears and two thrusters at each of the corners, making the monster spin rapidly around until it stabilizes itself to keep in place with Yugo.
Once the monster appeared, the mythical medusa's attack ceased, forcing both Odd-Eyes Phantom and the medusa into Defense Position.
"Damn," Yasuko cursed. Since there is nothing more that she can do, she has to end her turn and wait for another opening. "I end my turn."
Turn 3: Yugo (1x card)
The boy turns his duel runner around to face Yasuko once again as the wheels scratch the ice floor. "My turn!" Yugo draws a card from his deck. He revs the accelerator to the max, speeding out and around Yasuko's position, watching the girl. "I summon the Tuner monster, Speedroid Red-Eyed Dice!" Yugo Normal Summons Speedroid Red-Eyed Dice (ATK 100/DEF 100). A yellow dice monster with single red-eye on the number one with red droplets all over the sides and six glowing red spheres appears on the field, floating alongside Yugo.
If Yasuko sees that Yugo will do a Synchro Summon, she can bet that Yugo would try and bring out the strongest monster that she knows. "You're two levels short, Yugo," Yasuko pointed out. "You don't have enough to summon Clear Wing Synchro Dragon."
Yugo thinks otherwise amid drifting to the left. "You think so?" he questioned. "I activate Red-Eyed Dice's special effect!" He raises his hand to the air, demonstrating the abilities of his red-eyed dice. "When this card is Normal or Special Summoned, I can target one Speedroid monster that I control and change its level from 1 to 6! I change my Menko to become level 6!" The red-eyed dice sends six of its spheres over to rotate around the menko board, effectively increasing its level by two.
(Speedroid Menko: Level 4 → 6)
Yasuko could not believe what she is seeing. Yugo managed to increase his monster's level. He has got the necessary components or brings out the one monster that will be a hindrance for her. "Oh, you've got to be kidding me," she said.
"I tune my level 1 Red-Eyed Dice with my level 6 Menko!" Yugo declared.
The red-eyed dice transforms into a single green ring that flies over to the menko board and scans the monster. The menko board turns into outlines and six glowing white orbs in zig-zag formation before realigning themselves to a straight line.
(1 + 6 = 7)
The orbs inside the single green ring burst a powerful white light that shines Yasuko and Yugo's area. "Spread those wondrous and beautiful heroic wings and strike down your enemies at the speed of light! I Synchro Summon! Appear now! Level 7! Clear Wing Synchro Dragon!" Yugo Synchro Summons Clear Wing Synchro Dragon (ATK 2500/DEF 2000) in Attack Position.
Clear Wing flies out of the white light and into the air where the cloudy ice sky swirls around the dragon's embellished white and black scales from the tail and the body as the shiny crystal panels from the shoulders and the head to the waist reflects the snow falling as the yellow eyes glows under the blue armor while it's five claw fingers spreads outwards.
Yasuko can hear Clear Wing roaring into her ears with a familiar recognition after its last encounter in the park with Yuto. The moment Clear Wing shows up, the red and green eyes of Odd-Eyes Phantom flares like fire. It turns to Clear Wing with malicious animosity displayed, like with Odd-Eyes Pendulum and Dark Rebellion. Clear Wing stops flying with Yugo and turns back to face Odd-Eyes Phantom. Both dragons' eyes blaze like candles that sparks the fire inside of them. Both beasts create a synchronized roar that echoes throughout the city. It causes the ice pieces and the windows around Yasuko and Yugo to vibrate like a small quake.
Yasuko and Yugo felt the roar to be unbearably painful to their eardrums. The roar was so loud that Yasuko covers her ears, and Yugo stops driving his duel runner to cover his own, attempting to drown out the roar from both dragons.
"No, not again!" Yasuko yelled.
"What the hell's going on?!" Yugo exclaimed.
The two dragons' appearance causes the crystal pendant keychain around Yasuko's jean loop to illuminate in response to the sound of the roar.
"I-I activate both my Traps!" Yugo flips up his two face-down Continuous Trap Cards: Dragon's Bind and Follow Wing. "Follow Wing and Dragon's Bind!" he shouted. "Dragon's Bind lets me target one Dragon monster that I control, and neither of us cannot Special Summon monsters that are equal or less than the targeted monster, and Follow Wing's effect lets me target one Synchro monster that I control, and it cannot be destroyed by battle or card effects, and if you try to attack me with a level 5 or higher monster, this card can automatically destroy it, and my targeted monster gains its original ATK points until the end of the turn!"
The crystal panels on Clear Wing glows like a circuit, energizing the dragon with a powerful ability thanks to both trap cards.
"Battle! Clear Wing! Attack Odd-Eyes!" Yugo declared. "Follow Wing's effect activates, which destroys your dragon, and give my monster its original ATK points!" Clear Wing zips into the air like a bullet, with a whirlwind forming around the dragon.
The girl realizes that Clear Wing is coming close. She saw the dragon flying upwards before making a loop and shines its crystalized panel wings on its shoulder to flare off circuits down at Odd-Eyes Phantom. She acted quickly and runs to the ice wall where an Action Card is stuck in the cracks. She makes a wall-run over and swipes the Action Card between her two fingertips. "I activate the Action Spell, Spell Power Absorbing Mirror!" She activates the Action Spell Card: Spell Power Absorbing Mirror. "It prevents my monster from being destroyed by card effects!" A mirror appears on the field in front of Odd-Eyes Phantom. It reflects the circuit waves from Clear Wing, absorbing everything like a vacuum.
Yugo is still feeling the ringing in his ears after the loudest dragon roar session that ever occurred between him and Yasuko. "You can use Spell cards in the middle of the duel?" he inquired.
Even Yasuko is having difficulty adjusting her hearing after listening to the dragons' roar blaring into her eardrums. "This is an Action Duel; I can use Action Spells to stop you from destroying my dragon," she said. "And in case you forgot, Medusa's special effect activates, gaining one spell counter." The mythical medusa glows in bright yellow aura to gain a counter due to its special abilities.
(Mythical Beast Medusa: Spell Counter 0 → 1)
Yugo's jaws tightened. "Even so…" He starts his duel runner again and rides ahead toward Yasuko. "I can still make my attack! Clear Wing, attack Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon!"
Clear Wing rose back in the air before bomb-diving down with a strong hurricane forming around its body. "Whirlwind Hell Dive Slasher!" Odd-Eyes Phantom retaliates by firing a blue laser beam at Clear Wing, but the dragon breaks through the blast like water, ripping through the air until both dragons collides with each other to create a big explosion that sends Yasuko flying off her feet.
She can feel the air being sucked out of her lung as she skidded across the ice floor and slides until her body slams at the ice wall behind her painfully.
Yugo twists his duel runner over and stares at Yasuko as Clear Wing returns back to the owner's side. "I end my turn," he concluded.
Turn 4: Yasuko (2x cards)
Yasuko's finger digs the ice floor, her jaw tightening together with annoyance leaking out of her veins. The board was perfect for Yugo. He has locked out her chances of beating Clear Wing and any attempts to inflict any damage against him.
"Man, that's annoying," Yasuko fumed.
She gets back up and dusts off the snow that is stuck to her black vest. Yasuko wonders what she can do against Clear Wing. The dragon may prove to be a difficult one. It can negate anything that involves being a level five or higher. "Thanks to Dragon's Bind, I can't Special Summon any monsters that are equal or less than Clear Wing Synchro Dragon's ATK points," she thought to herself. "And not only that, but it cannot be destroyed by battle or card effects because of Follow Wing." She looks down at the two cards in her hand: Wavering Eyes and Spell Power Mastery.
"And even if I draw a Pendulum monster and use my Dragonpit Magician's Pendulum effect to destroy Dragon's Bind, I am still at a huge disadvantage because Follow Wing can destroy any level 5 or higher monster that battles the one it targeted." She had to admit that Yugo played out well. It was like an ice fortress in the frozen iceberg that needs its walls to be taken down.
"My turn!" Yasuko exclaimed. "I draw!" She draws a card from her deck. Peeking over to the card that she has drawn, it was the Pot of Desires Spell Card. "I activate the Pot of Desires Spell!" she declared. "This card lets me banish the top ten cards from my deck and then draw two cards."
Yugo lifts his head to understand what Yasuko meant. "What? You're going to banish ten cards to draw two? What on earth are you thinking?" he asked.
"Something to pull," Yasuko answered. "I banish ten cards to draw two from my deck!" She banishes the top ten cards from her deck and draws two more. One of them is the pendulum monster: Mythical Beast Jackal and the second is the Quick-Play Spell Card: Cosmic Cyclone. "And Medusa's special effect activates." In addition to getting what she needed, the mythical medusa also gains a spell counter.
(Mythical Beast Medusa: Spell Counter 1 → 2)
"I activate Dragonpit Magician's pendulum effect! By discarding one Pendulum monster from my hand, I can target and destroy one spell or trap card that is on the field!" She discards her pendulum monster to point at the trap card that is on the left. "And the one that I destroy is your Dragon's Bind!"
The dragonpit sorcerer lifts his scepter staff to call the clouds and let loose a lightning bolt that zaps the trap card out of Yugo's side, making him cover his face. "Damn," he cursed.
"Now that your trap card is destroyed, I can Pendulum Summon monsters that are not equal or less than Clear Wing's ATK points," she said. "I Pendulum Summon! Come forth, my monsters!" A single light emerges from the portal above Yasuko as she Pendulum Summons Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon one again. "Rise again, Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon!" Once again, Odd-Eyes Phantom is back on the field with its red and green eyes flaring off more hostilities after being destroyed by Clear Wing.
Yugo was shocked. He thought that he destroyed Odd-Eyes Phantom, but instead, it reappears back on the field. "What was that? I destroyed that thing," he claimed.
"This monster is a Pendulum monster; so long as it is destroyed on the field, it can come back from my Extra Deck," said Yasuko. "Bet you weren't expecting something like that, Yugo. Or should I say, Pawn of Fusion."
Once again, Yugo was ticked off by Yasuko mispronouncing his name again. "I told you! It's not Fusion! It's Yugo! Yugo!" he yelled. He was practically raising one fist in the air to prove his point. It looked like steam was about to burst out at any given moment.
"I know, I just wanted to see you react," Yasuko replied. She takes out one card from her hand and then activates the Quick-Play Spell Card: Wavering Eyes. "I activate this! The Quick-Play Spell, Wavering Eyes!" she declared. "This card lets me destroy as many cards in the Pendulum Zones as possible and then activate these effects based on the sequences! First, you take 500 points of damage, and then second, I add one Pendulum monster from my deck to my hand!" The spell card brought out a large hurricane that destroys both her dragonpit and dragonpulse sorcerers in the Pendulum Zone to activate the first effect. "That was one, so you take 500 points of damage!" The winds were blowing over to Yugo, holding on to his duel runner as he took the effect damage.
(Yugo: LP 2600 → 2100)
"And since there were two cards in my Pendulum Zone, I add one Pendulum monster from my deck to my hand!" A card pops out for Yasuko to add Servant of Endymion. "I add Servant of Endymion to my hand, and let's not forget Medusa's special effect." The medusa glows in bright yellow again.
(Mythical Beast Medusa: Spell Counter 2 → 3)
"Then, I set my Scale 2 Servant of Endymion!" Yasuko sets her Servant of Endymion (Scale 2) to the left side of her duel disk.
The blonde servant with dark green wizard garbs holding two scepter sickles that have spell counters floats up to the Pendulum Zone that used to be where the dragonpulse sorcerer was placed. The moment the endymion servant appears, the mythical medusa glows in bright yellow to gain another spell counter
(Mythical Beast Medusa: Spell Counter 3 → 4)
"Now, I activate Spell Power Mastery," said Yasuko, activating the Spell Card: Spell Power Mastery. "This spell lets me add one Endymion from my deck to my hand and then place as many cards on my field equal to the number of Spell Power Mastery or Grasps that I control or in the graveyard." She chooses to add Magister of Endymion to her hand. "I add Magister of Endymion to my hand, and then place one spell counter on each card that I control."
"So, why would you want to place that many counters on all your cards?" Yugo inquired.
"Because that way, my Servant's Pendulum effect and Medusa's effect can activate, both gaining a spell counter," Yasuko replied.
The endymion servant, mythical medusa, and Odd-Eyes Phantom glow in a bright yellow aura, gaining a spell counter.
(Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon: Spell Counter 0 → 1)
(Mythical Beast Medusa: Spell Counter 4 → 6)
(Servant of Endymion: Spell Counter 0 → 2)
"The preparations are complete," said Yasuko. "Now, I set my Pendulum Scale with my Scale 8 Magister of Endymion." She places her Magister of Endymion (Scale 8) at the right edge of her blue blade, reforming the rainbow "Pendulum" word on it.
The silver-haired magister with olive sorcerer garbs holding a giant scepter sickle with a spell counter in the hook hovers in the pillar of light with the endymion servant by his side. Their respective pendulum scale numbers appear below them.
(Servant of Endymion: Spell Counter 2 → 3)
(Mythical Beast Medusa: Spell Counter 6 → 7)
"You've managed to reset this Pendulum Scale of yours, but you can use that Pendulum Summon once per turn," Yugo informed. "What good can you do against my Clear Wing?"
Yasuko watches Clear Wing. There was no doubt that the dragon is the ultimate defense for anything that monsters throw at it. "What can I do?" she asked herself. The girl has second thoughts about what to do to fight against the monster.
As if her answers were called, the crystal keychain pendant hooked to her jean loop started to glow in resonance. Yasuko turns down to see that her keychain illuminates as bright as the star, like what happened back in her duel against Melania Herman. The glow was causing her Odd-Eyes Phantom to start acting weird again. The dragon roars in the sky as if it were calling out to something.
A loud roar responds back, catching Yasuko by surprise. It sounds like there was another monster calling back to Odd-Eyes. She starts to notice that her Extra Deck slot was also glowing in response to her Odd-Eyes Phantom. The roar was calling out to her like how Dark Anthelion did. She listens to the roar and makes certain that she will do everything to bring something that will even her odds against Clear Wing.
"The best I can do is activate Servant's Pendulum effect!" Yasuko declared. "By removing three spell counters from herself, I can Special Summon it from the Pendulum Zone and one monster from my deck that has 1000 or more ATK points for me to place one spell counter on each one!" She throws her hand in the air to show Yugo the strategy.
(Servant of Endymion: Spell Counter 3 → 0)
"I Special Summon Servant of Endymion from my Pendulum Zone and my Tuner monster, Magicalibra!" As Yasuko Special Summons Servant of Endymion (ATK 900/DEF 1500) from her Pendulum Zone and Magicalibra (ATK 1000/DEF 1000) from her Deck in Defense Position, the glow from the crystal keychain was getting brighter. The endymion servant disappears from Yasuko's Pendulum Zone before reappearing back on the field. The magical gold weight scale has two lavender eyes by her side.
(Servant of Endymion: Spell Counter 0 → 1)
(Magicalibra: Spell Counter 0 → 1)
Yugo couldn't believe that Yasuko has a tuner monster on her field. "A Tuner monster?"
The roar from out of nowhere was getting louder, and Yasuko responds to its call. "Now, I take my level 4 Tuner monster, Magicalibra, and my level 3 Servant of Endymion!" The scale monster turns into four green rings that scan the endymion servant into nothing but three glowing white orbs that align themselves at the center.
"Wonderous white dragon, spread those beautiful circuit wings to soar into the sky as fast as the winds can take you! I Synchro Summon! Appear! Level 7! Clear Wing Fast Dragon!" Yasuko Synchro Summons Clear Wing Fast Dragon (ATK 2500/DEF 2000) in Attack Position. The green rings shoot a big white light that shines the two duelists' area, forcing them to cover their eyes.
The monster that Yasuko summoned is another monster distinguishable from Clear Wing Synchro, but with different properties. Clear Wing Fast is a dragon that is nearly identical to Clear Wing Synchro, but the dragon has green armor plates instead of the blue ones like Clear Wing Synchro. The crystal plates around Clear Wing Synchro are replaced with green armor plates outlined by white scales for Clear Wing Fast. It has four large panel wings on both shoulders instead of two large ones and two smaller wings like Clear Wing Synchro. Clear Wing Fast has bone armor attached to the shoulder as spikes and chest along with the end of the tail.
Yugo was so perplexed by the sudden appearance of Clear Wing Fast that his jaw was dropped, watching the light die away to show him the view of Yasuko with Clear Wing Fast and Odd-Eyes Phantom besides her.
"N-no way…" he croaked. "How…how come you have another…" Yugo was practically speechless. "There is no way…"
The yellow eyes of Clear Wing Fast flare under the armor once it is awake and turns to its counterpart.
Both dragons were showing the same hostility that occurred with Odd-Eyes. They both roar to the loudest, and this time, it is even more destructive than the last one. Odd-Eyes joins in with Clear Wing Fast to show dominance over Clear Wing Synchro. They were roaring so loud that it could be heard from miles away if anyone heard them. However, that is not the case. The roars from all three dragons were causing the ice to crack around Yasuko and Yugo. It was making them cover their ears again, trying to block the sound of three dragons having a roaring contest.
"Damn it," Yasuko gritted. "Not this again!"
Yugo also had a hard time to minimize the volume. "What the hell?"
Yasuko cannot leave two of her dragons out in the open any longer and needs to beat Yugo her and now. Taking out one card from her hand, she activates the Quick-Play Spell Card: Cosmic Cyclone. "I activate the Quick-Play Spell, Cosmic Cyclone!" she declared. "By paying 1000 life points, I can target one Spell or Trap on the field and banish it! And the card that I banish… is Follow Wing!"
(Yasuko: LP 3500 → 2500)
The spell card pops up on the field and sends a bolt of lightning inside a vortex that removes the trap card that Yugo has.
"Damn it," Yugo cursed.
"And now to deal with your Clear Wing Synchro Dragon!" She points at Clear Wing Synchro. "Battle! Odd-Eyes, attack Clear Wing Synchro Dragon!" All three dragons stopped roaring at each other and begin the battle. Odd-Eyes Phantom obeys her command and charges directly at the monster. "I activate Medusa's special effect! Once per Battle Phase, I can remove two spell counters on my field to target your Clear Wing Synchro Dragon and halve its ATK and DEF points!" The medusa floats over to get a clear shot at Clear Wing Synchro.
(Mythical Beast Medusa: Spell Counter 7 → 5)
The mythical medusa shot a purple beam from its head to hit Clear Wing Synchro, which snapped Yugo out of his trance, refocusing back to the duel. "I activate Clear Wing Synchro Dragon's special effect! When a monster targets a level 5 or higher on the field, I can negate and destroy it, and Clear Wing Synchro Dragon gains the destroyed monsters' ATK points!" Clear Wing Synchro rose in the air and shines its crystal circuit wings to reflect off the purple laser shot. "Dichroic Mirror!" The circuit waves were coming back to destroy the mythical medusa; however, Yasuko is well prepared for Clear Wing Synchro's ability to negate and destroy the effect.
"I've seen this trick before, and this time, I'm going to try and block it!" she announced. "I activate Clear Wing Fast Dragon's special effect! I can target one monster that you control and change its ATK points to 0 and negate its effect!"
Clear Wing Fast rose into the air to level itself at its counterpart and then shines its own crystal circuit wings over to luster a wave of circuit beams at Clear Wing Synchro. "Cryptographic Reflection!"
Yugo saw Clear Wing Fast attempting to block his effect, so he implemented his own to counterattack. "I activate Clear Wing Synchro Dragon's other special effect! If a level 5 or higher monster activates its effects on the field, I can negate and destroy it and Clear Wing Synchro Dragon gains its original ATK points!"
Clear Wing Synchro powers up its other circuits around the body to start countering against Clear Wing Fast's abilities. Yasuko had to make it quick. "Damn, so stubborn!" she exclaimed. "I activate Clear Wing Fast Dragon's second effect! If a level 7 or higher monster that was Special Summoned from the Extra Deck activates its effect on the field, Clear Wing Fast Dragon can negate it until the end of the turn!" The circuit inside of Clear Wing Fast's crystal wings started to light up like a computer and shines even brighter to send a wave of circuits to blast Clear Wing Synchro, nullifying its effect completely.
(Clear Wing Synchro Dragon: ATK 2500 → 0)
Yugo gasped, shocked to see his best monster being locked out of its special ability. He growls, glaring at Yasuko. Recalling how Yasuko used an Action Card on the field, he turns his duel runner to start riding fast along the ice. He spots the Action Card that was on the floor and slides his duel runner to catch it. "I activate the Action Spell, Evasion!" Yugo activates the Action Spell Card: Evasion. "This card negates your attack!"
Odd-Eyes Phantom jumps up in the air and then blasts a blue laser beam over to destroy Clear Wing Synchro, but the dragon zips up to evade fast and ends up blasting one of the buildings.
"Damn it," Yasuko cursed. Despite avoiding to land a hit at Clear Wing Synchro, the endymion magister, and the mythical medusa gain spell counters.
(Magister of Endymion: Spell Counter 0 → 1)
(Mythical Beast Medusa: Spell Counter 5 → 6)
"In that case…Clear Wing Fast Dragon, attack Clear Wing Synchro Dragon!" Clear Wing Fast loops back before flying fast to crash its own counterpart to the ice walls. However, Yugo swipes another Action Card from one of the iceberg boulders after sliding his duel runner across the field and plays the Action Spell Card: Blizzard Binding. "Action Spell, Blizzard Binding activates!" he declared. "This card ends your Battle Phase!" Yugo turns up and sees a strong blizzard blowing to prevent Clear Wing Fast from reaching its target, forcing it to retreat from its attack.
"You are so damn stubborn," Yasuko accused hotly.
"I'm not going to be beaten by some duelist who holds a copycat of my dragon," Yugo retorted. "I will beat you!"
Yasuko has no moves left for her to do. All she can do is end her turn. "I end my turn," she said. "And that means Clear Wing Synchro Dragon's ATK points return to normal." Since the effect of her Clear Wing Fast wears off, Clear Wing Synchro regains its attack power,
(Clear Wing Synchro Dragon: ATK 0 → 2500)
Turn 5: Yugo (1x card)
"My turn!" Yugo shouted. "I draw!" He draws a card from his deck. "You don't understand! That bastard took my friend! She was precious to me!"
"Who?" Yasuko inquired. "Yuto said that you took his friend's sister! Why would you attack Yuto!"
"Because I've seen his face!" Yugo claimed. "He was there! He was there, and he took Rin from me!"
Yasuko felt one of her eyebrows raised in suspicion. She calms herself to listen to what Yugo is trying to explain. "Yuto…took Rin?" she asked.
Yugo was still angry, but he gives a piece of brief information about his friend. "Rin is my childhood friend. We grew up in the same orphanage together, and then this guy who looked like me took her."
Even if it was true, there was no way that Yasuko can prove how Yugo is telling her the truth. It may be a ruse to distract her from focusing on the duel. She remains firm to know everything that happened to him. "Yuto said that he came to this Standard Dimension to find Ruri." She needs to know how Yuto's story compares to Yugo's. "How'd you know that you're not lying."
"I'm not!" Yugo exclaimed. "I know he took Rin from me!"
"Dumbass! Yuto was fighting the Fusion invaders in Heartland City!" Yasuko yelled.
Yugo has a recognition coming from Yasuko's enlightenment. He seems to be familiar with the city that Yasuko spoke of. "Heartland City?" he inquired. "I was there."
Yasuko felt that the anger wavering against Yugo was starting to subside as they continue to talk. "You were there? What do you mean?" she asked, confused.
"I mean, I was at Heartland City," Yugo maintained. "I was there when it happened. The whole city was destroyed and everything. And then I met this guy who looked like me."
Yugo was confused, but the information was piecing together for Yasuko to know something about Yuto and Yugo. "A guy who looked like you?" She realized who Yugo was referring to. "That was Yuto. And now, he's gone missing. Where is he?"
"I have no idea!" Yugo shouted. "Why are you asking me these questions!"
"Because I am just as confused as you are!"
Yasuko was having trouble processing what is going on between Yuto and Yugo. First, Yugo claimed that Yuto took this "Rin" person he was talking about, and then Yuto said that someone took Ruri and alleged Yugo to be a pawn of fusion. "I want answers, even if I have to get them in this duel," she said.
"You are not going to get in my way," Yugo declared. "I will beat you and make you eat your words!" He takes one card from his hand and then activates the Spell Card: Synchro Cracker. "I activate the Spell, Synchro Cracker! This card targets one Synchro monster that I control and return it back to me Extra Deck and then destroy all monsters that you control whose ATK points are equal or lower than the monster that I targeted!"
Clear Wing Synchro disappears from the field to activate the effect of the spell, which sends three lightning bolts down to destroy Clear Wing Fast, Odd-Eyes Phantom, and the mythical medusa in front of Yasuko.
"Great, so much for that," said Yasuko. "But at least my Magister gains a spell counter."
(Magister of Endymion: Spell Counter 4 → 5)
"Not great for you maybe," Yugo replied. "I activate the Spell, Speeddraw!" He activates the Spell Card: Speeddraw. "This lets me draw two cards and then discards one Speedroid monster from my hand." Yugo draws two cards to his hand and then discards Speedroid Den-Den Daiko Duke. Since Yugo played a spell card again, the endymion magister gains a spell counter.
(Magister of Endymion: Spell Counter 5 → 6)
"I summon Speedroid Horse Stilts!" Yugo Normal Summons Speedroid Horse Stilts (ATK 1100/DEF 1100). A monster shaped as a hobby horse toy with two blue stilts attached to the front as blue flames sprout out as thrusters emerge on the field. "And then I activate Den-Den Daiko Duke's effect from my graveyard. By banishing it, I can Special Summon one Speedroid tuner monster from my graveyard." Yugo demonstrates by banishing his daiko duke monster from the graveyard to Special Summon Speedroid Red-Eyed Dice in Defense Position. "I Special Summon Red-Eyed Dice!" The yellow red-eyed dice is resurrected back on the field. "Now, I activate Red-Eyed Dice's special effect. If this card is summoned, I can target one Speedroid monster and change its level to 6." The spheres around the red-eyed dice fly over to rotate around the horse stilts to increase its level.
(Speedroid Horse Stilts: Level 4 → 6)
"Oh crap," said Yasuko, realizing what Yugo will do. She starts running around to find herself an Action Card.
"You're not getting away with another Action Card this time," said Yugo, turning his duel runner to start riding after her.
"I tune my level 1 Red-Eyed Dice with my level 6 Horse Stilts!" The red-eyed dice transforms into a single green ring and scans the horse stilts until it becomes six glowing white orbs. "I Synchro Summon! Clear Wing Synchro Dragon!" Once again, Clear Wing Synchro reappears on the field, all shining and new.
"Battle! Clear Wing Synchro Dragon, attack Yasuko directly!" Clear Wing Synchro skyrockets itself in the air before diving down to land a devasting blow to Yasuko and her life points.
Yasuko twists to see the incoming Clear Wing Synchro as the dragon creates a whirlwind tornado. She turns back and saw the Action Card lying on the ground. Yugo was gaining on her, and because he's riding a duel runner, there is a chance that Yugo will intercept her before she can get to the Action Card.
Yasuko jumps before sliding her body across the icy floor. Yugo catches up and leans his hand forward to grab the Action Card first. However, it was not his luck. Yasuko's boot snags the Action Card right before Yugo swept past her.
"Damn," Yugo growled.
Yasuko brought up her boot and take the Action Spell Card: Attack and Defense Exchange into her duel disk. "I activate the Action Spell, Attack and Defense Exchange! This card targets one monster on the field and switches its ATK points to become its DEF points until the end of the turn!" She stands back up and points at Clear Wing Synchro. "And I target Clear Wing Synchro Dragon!" The whirlwinds caused by Clear Wing Synchro dims down to be smaller than before.
(Clear Wing Synchro Dragon: ATK 2500 → 2000)
In addition to weakening Clear Wing Synchro, the endymion magister gains a spell counter.
(Magister of Endymion: Spell Counter 6 → 7)
"But you will still take damage!" Yugo reminded.
Yasuko watches as Clear Wing Synchro collides itself to the icy floor which explodes right in front of her. Her body sends herself flying in the air with a painful landing on her stomach after taking damage to her life points.
(Yasuko: LP 2500 → 500)
Yasuko grunts and gags, forcing herself on her elbows. She watches Yugo stop his duel runner with Clear Wing Synchro hovering above him. "Man, this dragon's a friggin pain," she said, slowly getting herself back up.
"I end my turn," Yugo concluded.
Turn 6: Yasuko (0x card)
Yasuko can feel her muscles in her legs, starting to show fatigue. She's been walking and running all day while Yugo gets to ride on his duel runner. It was totally unfair. Even the breath from the cold temperatures shows the exhaustion she is starting to feel since the beginning of the duel.
"Damn it," Yasuko cursed, moving some bangs from her eyes. She gets herself back on her feet slowly. Steadily, the girl refocuses on dealing with Yugo and Clear Wing Synchro. Clearly, the dragon proves to be a difficult boss for her. "You are friggin good, Yugo. I'll admit it. You and that dragon of yours are something."
Yugo narrows his eyes. "I promised Rin that I will win for her," he vowed. "And I tend to keep that promise."
Sucking in a breath, Yasuko places two fingers on top of her deck. "Well, I vow to beat you for what you did to Yuto, and there is no friggin way, in hell, that I will let you get by," she said. "My turn! I…" With one swipe, Yasuko draws a card so fast that some light trails behind her motion. "DRAW!" Yasuko takes a peek over to the card that will be her salvation against Yugo. It was the Spell Card: Pot of Extravagance. Her eyes narrowed, analyzing the situation that lays out in front of her. Since Clear Wing Synchro only negates any monster effect that targets a level 5 or higher monster, the best that she can do is bait Yugo to make him activate Clear Wing Synchro's special ability.
"I activate the Pot of Extravagance Spell!" Yasuko declared. "With this card, I can banish three or six random cards from my Extra Deck and then draw one card for each three." Six of Yasuko's cards from her Extra Deck are removed from play. "I banish six cards from my Extra Deck to draw two cards!" Yasuko draws two cards.
Due to the endymion magister's pendulum effect, the monster gains another spell counter.
(Magister of Endymion: Spell Counter 7 → 8)
The two cards that Yasuko had drawn are the Spell Card: Odd-Eyes Fusion and the Quick-Play Spell Card: Forbidden Droplet. "I activate Magister's Pendulum effect to remove three spell counters from my monster to Special Summon it from the Pendulum Zone and one monster from my Extra Deck," said Yasuko.
"You can try and bring out your Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon, but it won't change a thing," Yugo rebuked.
Yugo is right. Odd-Eyes Phantom isn't strong enough to go head-to-head with Clear Wing Synchro. The monster is the ultimate dragon in Synchro Summon. There is only one monster that can lead her to victory. The girl is having second thoughts about what her new monster is capable of. She should have seen it coming. She never realized that Clear Wing Fast is the only monster that can stand up to Clear Wing Synchro, but she has to know if it will work. "Clear Wing Synchro Dragon is the strongest Synchro monster that I have ever faced," she admitted. "And I respect that…but I won't let you beat me so easily because after what you did to Yuto. I am going to beat you with the one that I have that can stand against it!"
Yasuko raises her arm to the sky like she was calling out to something. "I activate Magister's pendulum effect to Special Summon itself from the Pendulum Zone and Clear Wing Fast Dragon from my Extra Deck!"
(Magister of Endymion: Spell Counter 8 → 5)
As Yasuko Special Summons Magister of Endymion (ATK 1500/DEF 900) from the Pendulum Zone and Clear Wing Fast Dragon from her Extra Deck in Defense Position
The endymion magister vanishes from the Pendulum Zone and appears on the field with a portal opening to let the Clear Wing Fast return to the field. After being resurrected from the Extra Deck, the dragon roars, ready to settle the score with Clear Wing Synchro.
(Magister of Endymion: Spell Counter 0 → 1)
(Clear Wing Fast Dragon: Spell Counter 0 → 1)
"What?!" Yugo gasped. "I destroyed that thing! How's that possible! It's not a Pendulum monster!"
"You're wrong about Clear Wing Fast Dragon. It's not just a Synchro monster. It's the bridge between both Synchro and Pendulum," Yasuko argued. "My Extra Deck monsters support each other and my Deck. They bring me a new evolution of Pendulum." She points at Clear Wing Synchro to begin the attack. "Let's battle! Clear Wing, attack Clear Wing Synchro Dragon!"
Clear Wing Fast soars into the sky like a rocket before descending down to attack Clear Wing Synchro. "I activate Clear Wing Fast Dragon's special effect! It targets one monster Special Summoned from the Extra Deck and change its ATK to 0, and negates its effect until the end of the turn!" Clear Wing Fast flares its circuit panels on all four wings directly at Clear Wing Synchro.
"Clear Wing Synchro Dragon's special effect activates!" Yugo declared. "If you target a level 5 or higher monster with a monster effect, it is negated and destroyed! And my Clear Wing gains its original ATK points!" Clear Wing Synchro responds back with a flare of its own, activating its circuit board wings to flare up a wave of light to counter against Clear Wing Fast's attack.
"Clear Wing Fast Dragon's secondary effect activates! Your monster is a level 7 that was Special Summoned from the Extra Deck, and it activated its effect on the field, which means it's effects are negated!" The dragon fires a green laser beam to try and hit Clear Wing Synchro. However, Yugo had already planned for that.
"You still never learned? I can activate Clear Wing Synchro Dragon's special effect to negate the activation of any monster that is a level 5 or higher on the field!" Yugo exclaimed. "That means it's checkmate! You've got nothing left on your field that can stop my Clear Wing Synchro Dragon!" Clear Wing Synchro retaliates by firing off its own green laser beam to collide with Clear Wing Fast.
Both dragons are trying to break the stalemate between the two of them. The clash between these two dragons was causing the ice to evaporate in the air, creating heavy debris of clouds to cover the entire area. The winds were picking up, blowing Yasuko's face with her hair catching some ice.
"That's true! But there is one thing that Clear Wing Fast Dragon has! Me!" Yasuko takes out the spell card that she drew earlier and activates it. "I activate the Quick-Play Spell! Forbidden Droplet! This card lets me sent cards from my hand or field to the graveyard, cuts the monsters ATK points in halve, and negates monsters that you control equal to the same amount!" Yasuko discards the last card from her hand. "Your Clear Wing Synchro Dragon's ATK is cut in half, and its effects are negated!"
"What?!" Yugo gasped.
The spell card flips up to send a strong gust of wind to send ice toward Clear Wing Synchro. The crystal panels on the dragon's wings are freezing from the tip of the horn on the head to the end of the tail, partially trapping the dragon in several sheets of ice.
(Clear Wing Synchro Dragon: ATK 2500 → 1250)
"And now that your dragon's special effect is negated, that means my Clear Wing Fast's effect still goes on!" Yasuko pointed out. "Cryptographic Reflection!" Clear Wing Fast flares its crystal wings once again, effectively nullifying all of Clear Wing Synchro's power to nothing.
(Clear Wing Synchro Dragon: ATK 1250 → 0)
"No!" Yugo exclaimed, realizing what is happening. Right now, the boy never knew that Yasuko was capable of outsmarting Clear Wing Synchro with a monster that is similar to his own.
"Clear Wing Fast Dragon, attack!" Yasuko commanded. "Whirlwind Raiser Dash Slice!" The winds were matching pace with Clear Wing Fast, accelerating to the point where it forms a powerful tornado to bash Clear Wing Synchro into oblivion. The attack didn't stop there. The tornado was coming fast to Yugo. The dragon explodes into the ice ground with such force strong enough to knock Yugo off his duel runner. He screamed as his life points were reduced to nothing.
(Yugo: LP 2100 → 0)
WINNER: Yasuko Yukihana
Yugo was sent flying off into the air and then lands hard on the ice floor with his body skidding to the ice wall. The duel runner was screeching across the ground like two irons scratching each other. The boy was in a heap of pain after the crash. He felt that the bones in his back were bruised. He looks up and saw Clear Wing Fast roaring in victory before disappearing into the nothingness.
Yasuko comes over and stands in front of him. Yugo uses the strength he has to glare up at the girl. Both of them seem tense. The duel did not seem to resolve any of their hatred and anger.
She was looking at him with a stone gaze, but nowhere near abhorrence. Something was bothering her, but she cannot put a finger over it. "Yugo," she addressed his name correctly. "There is something that I need to know."
Yugo grunts and adjusts him to be sitting back up against the ice wall behind him. "I already told you; I don't know where Yuto is. Alright," he confessed.
"That's not what I mean," Yasuko dismissed. "What I mean to ask is tell me about Heartland City?" She can see it in Yugo's eyes that he blinked once with surprise.
Yasuko and Yugo sat on top of the ice cliff, watching the frozen horizon. Yugo told Yasuko everything that started from the day Rin was kidnapped by someone who was supposed to look like him. Yasuko notes that there is another one who looked precisely like Yuya, Yuto, and Yugo. This time, he's from the Fusion Dimension. Yasuko was getting the pieces together and made a clearer picture. They were talking about some misunderstandings. Yasuko told Yugo that Yuto was a resistance fighter from the Xyz Dimension, and he came to the Standard Dimension to find a girl named Ruri, and she was Shun's sister. Based on how the boy was looking at her, she can guess that Yugo was starting to understand more, but he was redundant
"I see. So you came to Heartland City, and you thought that Yuto was the same guy who took Rin?" Yasuko asked.
"Of course," Yugo claimed angrily. "I know it was him!"
The girl did not flinch from his outburst. "But how? You just met Yuto in Heartland City," Yasuko replied. "What purpose did you have by going into Heartland City? Do you know about dimensions?"
"Dimensions?"
Yasuko turns to the cloudy sky. "Yuto said that there are four dimensions that are separated based on the Extra Deck," she explained. "And that someone took Ruri, Shun's sister." She looks at Yugo. "Do you know anything about that?"
Yugo scratched the back of his head, confused than before. "Uh…no, I don't know," he said. "I have no idea that there are four dimensions. I've been searching all over for her, but I found nothing, or where she is."
Yasuko now understands something from Yugo. He's from the Synchro Dimension, and he was trying to look for Rin. She speculates that there is a misunderstanding between Yuto and Yugo. Both boys looked exactly like Yuya, but with different hairstyles and colors. If Yugo is supposed to be Yuya's doppelganger from the Synchro Dimension, then she can guess that Rin is expected to be Zuzu's alternate universe version. She makes a note in her head based on what she now knows.
"Maybe this guy who looked like you could be from the Fusion Dimension," Yasuko speculated.
"Another me? From the Fusion Dimension?" Yugo inquired.
Yasuko shrugged. "What else is there? I mean, I've met Yuya, and he looked like you. And then Yuto looked like you, so I assume there's another Yuya from the Fusion Dimension. What do you think?"
"Are you saying that he's the guy who took Rin?" Yugo accused.
"I don't know," Yasuko responded. "But I do know that he is from the Fusion Dimension, so there could be a possibility."
Yasuko was able to piece together what she knows about the identity crisis. Yuya and Zuzu are Standard, Yuto and Ruri are Xyz, and Yugo and Rin are Synchro. It's compelling that they have their own counterparts in the four dimensions. So, the real question is: if Yuya and Zuzu have counterparts from each dimension, then it could be possible that they may have Fusion counterparts in the Fusion Dimension? Does this mean that she has counterparts of her own? Another Yasuko from an alternate universe? A Synchro, Fusion, or Xyz version of herself? There are so many possibilities that Yasuko must think about.
"So, what are you going to do?" Yasuko asked. "Obviously, you're probably stuck here in this world for a while."
"Funny, you should say that," said Yugo. "I'm gonna find Rin, and I'm going to bring her back."
Yasuko felt that Yugo is probably short-sighted. She doubts he will find Rin in Maiami City, considering that half of the city is an Action Field. "You do know that this city is half Action Field. So, you've not gonna find anything in this city."
Yugo was offended. "Hey, I know the guy who took Rin looked like me," he said. "And believe me—" he jabs a thumb to himself, "—I know."
The girl shakes her head. She looks back up and sees that the sky was starting to show signs of sun setting. Yasuko has to find some shelter and call it for the day. "Alright then, I guess this is where we part ways." Yasuko gets up and starts walking away from Yugo.
"Uh…hey, where are you going?" Yugo asked.
"I'm going to find a cave and call it," Yasuko answered. "I have what I need to know."
"Uh, wait!" Yugo called. He gets up and turns to her. "I didn't know your name."
Yasuko faces back to Yuya's Synchro doppelganger. She was skeptical about giving her name to Yugo. She can't be sure to trust him for now. Since it was clear that he is not associated with the Fusion people, the least she can do is give her something for him to remember. "Yasuko."
Yugo takes her name in his head as a reminder of who she is. "Yasuko…?"
"Yeah…I've come to see what I need to know…and uh..good luck in finding your Rin," Yasuko concluded. She adjusted her black vest and ventures out into the frozen city.
As she leaves Yugo at the ice cliff with his duel runner, Yasuko is thinking about the talk with Yugo. If Yugo said about someone kidnapping Rin is true, it could mean that Zuzu is in danger. Whatever the case if, Yasuko has to find Zuzu fast before something terrible will happen.
OC cards:
Clear Wing Fast Dragon (Level 7) (Pendulum) (Scale 4)
Pendulum Effect: You can send 1 face-up Tuner and 1 face-up non-Tuner monster you control to the Graveyard, whose total Levels equal 7; Special Summon this card from your Pendulum Zone. You can only use this effect of "Clear Wing Fast Dragon" once per turn and Special Summon it once per turn this way.
Effect:
1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner WIND monsters
(Quick Effect): You can target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls that was Special Summoned from the Extra Deck; until the end of this turn, change its ATK to 0, also that face-up monster has its effects negated. (Quick-Effect) If a level 7 or higher monster that was Special Summoned from the Extra Deck activates its effect on the field, you can negate the activation until the end of the turn. You can only use each effect of "Clear Wing Fast Dragon" once per turn. If this card in the Monster Zone is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can place this card in your Pendulum Zone.
What'd you think about this errata? I know it may be a bit OP, but I have to be careful with making these effects not too powerful because it always has to have a drawback. Now, what's my reason for making this custom errata? Well, in retrospect, I like its original effect, but for the sake of this story, I need to have Clear Wing Synchro Dragon meet its match, and there is a plausible reason why. It will be all revealed once the story continues. Normally, I don't do this kind of thing because it would make the character too mary sue, but I can assure you, there are and will be handicaps to sustain the integrity of the story and to this character. I don't want to make things that are too gary or mary. So, if there is anything that may seem too mary sue, pitch me and I will work something out.
I hoped you enjoy this chapter. The duel wasn't much, but I hoped that it was enjoyable to read. I would've used more than what this chapter would've provided, but I think it was appropriate to say that this would be fine since it will come further to the story. I will see how much I can squeeze more out of each character in the series. If you like what you are reading so far, then don't forget to leave down a comment on what are your thoughts are, what you think of the story, something. Until then, stay safe and have an awesome day!
