Leo: 3200 LP
Devack: 4000 LP
"It's my move boy," Devack said as he began his turn. "And I shall activate Magician Ape's special ability. By sending a card from my hand to the graveyard, your monster becomes my property," Devack explained as he took Leo's monster. "At this rate, Devack's gonna take Leo's entire deck," Trudge commented. "Not quite," Yusei said. "You walked right into my trap!" Leo shouted. "What are you talking about?" Devack asked. "Due to Morphtronic Magnen Bar's special ability, since he's in defense mode, none of your monsters can attack, and since the monsters taken by Magician Ape's effect can't change battle modes, he's stuck in defense," Leo explained.
"Alright, good move Leo," Trudge complimented. "It hardly makes a difference," Devack said. Leo looked on in confusion. "I sacrifice Magnen Bar to summon Fighter Ape in attack mode," Devack declared.
Level 5/DARK/Beast
ATK 1900/DEF 1200
"Well he sure threw a monkey wrench into things," Trudge commented from the sidelines. "And since your defenseless, Fighter Ape can attack you directly!" Devack said. "I play the Remake Puzzle trap card! By destroying a Morphtronic monster on the field, even if it's on yours, the battle phase is cancelled, and I get to bring back a Morphtronic with a lower level than the destroyed monster, so Magnen is destroyed and Magnen Bar is revived," Leo explained.
"All you've done is prolong your misery boy. You don't really think you'll win do you? You can't defeat me. And when I'm done with you, I'm coming after your sister next," Devack threatened. Meanwhile, Mina had stopped her car. "Looks like the shadow duel is still going," Mina said. "Yeah, but something feels different about this one. My dragon sign's not glowing," Akiza said. Jack had also stopped and noticed his mark wasn't glowing. Luna is supposed to be dueling, but I can't feel our Signer connection, it's like she fell off the face of the Earth, he thought to himself. Back in the spirit world, the monkey soldiers had finished their search of the alley and didn't find Luna.
"Come on, she's gotta be around here somewhere," one of them said as they walked off. The stone Luna disappeared under lifted up and Luna and two spirits came out from under it. "Looks like we're safe now," one of them said. "Thanks for saving me Jinzo," Luna said. "Any day my lady," he said as he bowed to the child. "How did you know I was in trouble?" Luna asked. "Alex contacted me from your world and notified me you had entered the spirit world, and he requested I watch over you to ensure your safety," Jinzo informed. Alex really does care about me, Luna thought with a slight blush on her face.
"Luna, I would like for you to meet an old friend of mine, Torunka, also known as Dark Sage," Jinzo said as he introduced the shorter spirit. "He's a lot younger than on his card," Luna pointed out. "That is because of the Minus Curse," Jinzo explained. "So is she the one from the legend?" Torunka asked. "I believe so," Jinzo answered. "Wait, what legend? And what's this Minus Curse you're talking about?" Luna asked. "All in due time my lady, but for now we must find a safe place to hide. Once we have accomplished that, I shall answer any question you ask," Jinzo said before leading them away.
They found an abandoned house and ducked inside, closing the curtains on the window. "Okay, now what's going on? And what was the legend you were talking about?" Luna asked. "There's an old legend where a little girl, a Signer, appears and saves us all from a terrible evil," Torunka explained. "So what is this terrible evil? And what's the Minus Curse you talked about?" Luna asked. "I'm sure you've noticed things happening around town in reverse?" Jinzo asked. "Yeah, balls bouncing up stairs and leaves rising up off the ground and back onto trees," Luna informed. "The Minus Curse rewinds time and causes things to happen in reverse. Torunka has also been affected by the curse, which is why he appears to be no more than a child, when in fact, he is far older than I," Jinzo explained.
"It's not contagious is it?" Luna asked as she scooted away from Torunka. "You are safe my lady. This curse only affects duel spirits," Jinzo explained. "Jinzo, why do you keep calling her 'my lady'?" Torunka asked. "For she is the significant other of my lord Alex, the heir of the Supreme King," Jinzo explained. "Wait, you're friends with the son of the Supreme King?!" Torunka asked Luna. "Um yeah, why?" she asked hesitantly. "I assume this boy is the heir of the king's reincarnation?" Torunka asked. "Yeah. Is there a point to this?" Luna asked. "Luna, if the boy you know happens to be the reincarnation of the original Supreme King's son, you could be in great danger," Torunka explained.
"What?! There's no way Alex is dangerous!" Luna exclaimed, defending her boyfriend. "Torunka what do you speak of?" Jinzo asked. "You don't know Jinzo? Well, you weren't around then, and only a select few know the story," Torunka said. "What story?" Luna asked. "The story of the Prince of the Netherworld," Torunka said. "Prince of the Netherworld?" Luna asked. Torunka began to tell the story.
Back at the duel, Leo was just starting his turn. "I draw. Sweet, I play Morphtronic Cellfon in attack mode!" Leo shouted. "And now I play his special ability. Once a turn, a number is chosen at random from between one and six, and then I get to flip over that many cards from the top of my deck and summon a Morphtronic I find," Leo explained.
It stopped on three. Leo picked up his cards and looked at them. "Alright! I summon the tuner monster Morphtronic Remoten in attack mode!" Leo declared. "That's quite entertaining," Devack mocked. "Yeah well, let's see if you find this amusing, I play the spell Level Mirroring. With it, I can change the level of one monster on my field to be the same as one monster on yours until the end of this turn, so Magnen Bar's level is changed to be level 3, just like your Magician Ape," Leo explained.
Magnen Bar: Level 1-3
"And with that done, I tune Magnen Bar and Cellfon with Remoten, in order to summon Power Tool Dragon!" Leo shouted as his ace monster appeared. "Alright, with a monster like that, Leo's got the edge in this duel!" Trudge exclaimed from the sidelines. It's a good start, and I know it's only gonna get better, Yusei thought to himself with a smile on his face. "Is that the best you can do? Because if so, yours is a future bathed in shadow," Devack mocked. "We'll see about that. I activate Power Tool Dragon's special ability. Once each turn, I'm allowed to add a random equip spell from my deck to my hand," Leo said as he grabbed a card from his deck.
"And lucky me, I got the Break Draw equip spell. By equipping it to my Power Tool Dragon, every time he destroys one of your monsters in battle, I get to draw a card, but this card is destroyed at the end of my 3rd turn after playing it," Leo explained. "Now Power Tool Dragon, attack Magician Ape!" Leo shouted. Power Tool Dragon rushed forward and brought his shovel claw down on Devack's monster, destroying it and dealing a lot of damage.
Devack: 2500 LP
"Talk about a vanishing act. Anything else you'd like to say about my dragon?" Leo asked as he drew a card from Break Draw's effect. Devack just stayed silent. "What, dragon got your tongue?" Leo asked. "Joke all you want, but it's my turn now, and your dragon's about to meet his match," Devack taunted. "I draw. And I summon Dark Tuner Dark Ape," Devack said as he summoned his monster.
Level 2/DARK/BEAST
ATK&DEF 0
"And now I play the Dark Wave spell card. This will allow me to treat my Fighter Ape's level as a negative number during this turn, which means I can tune him with my Dark Ape," Devack explained. "Oh no!" Yusei exclaimed "The one born from the darkness, become the supreme ruler who shall lead all of creation into the negative world! Dark Synchro! Appear now, Zeman the Ape King!" Devack shouted.
Level -7/EARTH/Beast
ATK 2500/DEF 1800
"Due to Zeman's special ability, you can't activate any spells or traps when he attacks," Devack informed. "So what, I can beat you without them," Leo responded. "We shall see. Due to the effect of my Dark Ape, since I used him to summon Zeman, I can draw one card from my deck," Devack explained. "I know play the Closed Forest field spell," he declared. "Not good," Leo said. "Now Devack has everything he needs to summon an Earthbound Immortal against Leo," Yusei said. Numerous dead trees appeared on the edge of the duel field.
Back in the spirit world, Torunka had just finished telling them the story of the original Supreme King's son. "Did all that really happen?" Luna asked. "Yes. I may have been young at the time, but I was there, and I remember it very clearly," Torunka explained. "The time for stories is over. Now we must focus on rescuing the Ancient Fairy Dragon from her prison," Jinzo said. "So what do we do?" Luna asked. "We must find Regulus. From what I've heard, we should find him in the forest, but we must approach with caution," Jinzo warned.
"Why is that?" Luna asked. "Ever since the soldiers have arrived, he's been acting strangely, and violent, attacking anyone who draws near. But fear not my lady, for I swear I shall defend you," Jinzo said. "Thank you Jinzo," Luna said. "Think nothing of it. I swore an oath to Alex that I would protect you at all costs, and I intend to keep it," Jinzo said.
The three of them then left the house and began to run towards the edge of town. Unfortunately they were spotted by one of the soldiers, and soon were being chased by many more. "They found us!" Luna shouted. "Really, I hadn't noticed!" Torunka said sarcastically. "Remind me to reprimand you for speaking to my lady is such a brash tone later," Jinzo said. "Keep running!" Luna shouted. They then heard the sound of a duel runner approaching. "You have duel runners in this world?" Luna asked. "What's a duel runner?" Torunka asked. "So I'm guessing that's a no," Luna said.
"I play Hinotama!" a voice called out. A fireball came out of nowhere and struck the ground in front of the soldiers, causing them to run away in a panic. Suddenly, the duel runner they had heard jumped down a nearby stairwell and landed next to the three of them. "My lord!" Jinzo cried out. "Alex!" Luna shouted as she ran forward and hugged him. "Looks like I got here just in time. Sorry I didn't get here sooner, but I wound up in the wrong dimension at first, and then I had a hard time tracking you down," Alex said. "Well I'm glad you showed up when you did," Luna said. So this is the son of the Supreme King? Torunka thought to himself.
"I hate to break up this little reunion, but they'll be back any minute!" Torunka shouted. "Right. Luna, put this on and get behind me," Alex said as he handed Luna a spare helmet. "Hey what about me?" Torunka asked. "Don't worry, I've got you and Jinzo covered. I play the Legendary Ebon Steed," Alex said as he put a card in the duel disk on his runner.
Suddenly a black armored horse appeared out of the shadows and stood in front of Jinzo and Torunka. "Thank you my lord," Jinzo said as he mounted the horse. "A little help please?" Torunka asked as he stretched his hand out. Jinzo grabbed his wrist and pulled him up onto the back of the horse. Once he was on, Torunka wrapped his arms around Jinzo's waist. "Where to?" Alex asked. "Towards the forest," Luna told him. "Okay, hang on tight," Alex said. Luna wrapped her arms around his waist before he drove off, Jinzo and Torunka following close behind. They made it out of town safely and stopped on a large hill. "You okay Luna?" Alex asked once they stopped.
"I'm okay. That's the first time I've ridden on a duel runner before," Luna said. "Well once this whole thing is over, maybe you and I can take a ride together sometime?" Alex asked. "Are you asking me on a date?" Luna asked. "Maybe," Alex answered playfully. "Well, let's just make sure we save the world first," Luna said, although internally she was freaking out that Alex asked her out on a date. She then remembered about Leo. "Alex, is Leo okay?" Luna asked. "Why do you ask?" Alex asked, nervous she knew about him dueling Devack. "I thought I heard Leo dueling, he didn't take my place against Devack did he?" Luna asked. As much as Alex wanted to tell her Leo wasn't in danger, he couldn't bring himself to lie to her.
"He did take your place. Yusei and I drove to check on you, but when we got there, he was already dueling against Devack," Alex answered honestly. "Oh no, we've gotta get back and help him!" Luna shouted. "Luna, you need to have faith him. He's a great duelist, I know he can win," Alex told her. "You're right, I believe in him," Luna said. "So where do we go from here?" Alex asked. "To the forest to meet with Regulus," Torunka answered. "Alright, you ready Luna?" Alex asked. "Ready when you are," she answered as she wrapped her arms around his waist again. "Then let's go," Alex said as he took off.
After driving for a few minutes they arrived at the forest. The trees were too close together, so they proceeded on foot. "Regulus lives here?" Luna asked. "This forest used to be so beautiful," Torunka informed her. "I guess that was before Zeman got here and ruined everything," Alex said, having been caught up on the situation on the way there. "It's worse than that. With the forest withering and spirits being kidnapped, King Regulus went mad," Torunka replied. Luna brought her hands to her mouth. "Hey Regulus! We need you!" she shouted. Torunka ran in front of her in a panic. "Quiet! He's mad, not hard of hearing," he warned. "I know what I'm doing, after all, I have a kitten at home. Here kitty, kitty, kitty. I've got a nice treat for you," Luna shouted.
"Luna, somehow I don't think that's going to work how you think," Alex said. "I'm afraid I must concur with Alex on this matter my lady," Jinzo added. Suddenly a white blur rushed by and landed on a nearby rock. "Um, hi," Luna said, turning to face the newcomer. What she saw was a beaten up lion with slightly broken armor growling at them. "He came for a treat alright," Torunka said in fear. "And I think it's gonna be us," Luna added.
Hey everyone. So I've finally been able to get back to normalcy and try to get some more chapters written. And before I get bombed with questions about this Netherworld Prince I mentioned, I won't be giving any information about it out outside of the story, so don't bother asking. In any case, I hope you all have a great day and are staying safe.