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Chapter 6: Game Start

The day of the tournament came surprisingly quickly, and it was BIG.

Seriously, it was like the school had turned into a giant festival.

Not to mention the strange ships that had arrived at the island.

Above them was what looked like an airship flying around the island, it had multiple blue and white flags, as well as large words that read "Sector Academy" in big white words on the side.

Yeah, turns out OTHER schools were participating, it was a big event, that's for sure.

Meanwhile to the side of the academy was a large battleship-looking fortress floating in the water next to the island, reading "Academia" on its side. "Yuri, didn't you want to go to Academia at first?" Yugo asked.

Yuri shrugged, "yeah, at first," He said, "then I got accepted here and well, Academia IS only the Second-Best, so I came here." He said nonchalantly, the girls were staring at the ship intently.

"Hey, what's up?" Yuya asked, Yuzu suddenly snapped out of her trance and turned to look at him, her sisters also shook their heads out of the trance. "O-Oh! Nothing…" She said, twirling a lock of her hair in her finger nervously, Yuya looked out at the ship they were staring at.

"Man… even Academia's here… I'm getting a little excited!" He said, smiling widely, Yuzu gave him a small smile back before walking off quickly with her sisters, leaving Yuya looking confused.

Kurosaki came up to the girls, "Don't worry," he said to the girls, "if he's the same man I know, he won't bother trying to find you." He said grimly, the girls nodded.

Suddenly, a loud voice boomed in their ears, they looked over at the loudspeaker it was coming from. "All contestants, you will now be warped to the stadium in 10 minutes, please prepare yourselves…" It boomed.

"Ah, so that's how we're getting into the stadium, warping," Yuri said nonchalantly, "Yugo! Get over here you heard it!" He yelled, Yugo suddenly appeared carrying a series of carnival snacks that he'd gotten from booths set up in the area, Corn Dogs, Soft Drinks, and a large plastic bag filled with candy apparently.

"Yugo, you do know we're going to be competing, right?" Yuto asked as he looked at the bag, Yugo snatched the bag from him, "They were really cheap okay!" He yelled defensively.

"I wonder how many people are competing… if there are other schools involved it may be too much…" Yuto muttered, "Apparently that's what the first round is about!" Said Serena, walking over to them, her sisters behind her.

"What do you mean?" Yuya asked curiously, Serena grinned, "It's just something I heard, apparently after this, we won't have to worry about having too many contestants," She said.

"I wonder what that means…" Yuya said before they all suddenly started glowing, "Oh? Is it happening?" Yuri said as they were enveloped in light.

When the light dissipated, they were no longer on the island anymore, instead, they were now in what looked like a giant football stadium, they looked around, the girls were nowhere near them anymore, but a large number of groups were near them.

"Oh, hey it's you guys…" Said a sleepy voice from behind them, they turned around and saw Syrup and Soul, the latter being currently carried under the arm of the other.

"Hi, guys!" Syrup said cheerily, however it was only her and Soul.

"Aren't we supposed to have teams of four?" Yuya asked. Syrup's smile remained on her face, though her eye actually twitched, "Well Soul said that he would find us two more members…" She said, still looking bright and peppy, "But turns out he promptly fell asleep in the Janitors Closet the second I left him unattended!" She said, her happiness now looking a little forced.

"So now it's just me and Soul! But that's fine!" She said cheerfully, Soul snored loudly, earning him what looked like a painful noogie from the girl carrying him. "Sorry…" He said lazily, wrestling free from her grip and now standing up.

They looked around and saw multiple different types of groups, though Academia teams, Sector teams, and UDA teams were easy to pick out, UDA Uniforms were optional to wear, so anybody from UDA was either wearing their uniform or just regular clothing, Sector teams, however, were all wearing a uniform of White and Blue, some even wore helmets that made them look like a police force.

Academia had mostly students with groups wearing either Red or Yellow uniforms and occasionally, there were also groups wearing Blue uniforms, which looked cleaner and frankly, more elite. They also wore silver masks with red eyes on them.

Also to their sides were large football stadium-like stands where a large audience sat, as they appeared a large cheering was heard, there was also a few VIP boxes floating in the sky nearby, as well as one incredibly large box.

Inside that box, were the three headmasters of the schools present.

Or rather, two of the headmasters, one of the chairs was empty, and standing next to it was an old, gray-haired man.

"Forgive me, but where is the headmaster of Academia?" Said Atem, looking at the old man, Yugi was sleeping in the corner, bags under his eyes, looking like he hadn't slept in a few days, even his usually spiky hair was drooping slightly.

The old man chuckled, or giggled? Nobody in the audience who were listening to them could tell (their voices were coming out of the loudspeakers nearby). "Unfortunately he has urgent matters to attend to and sent me here instead…" He said, "please, just call me Doctor…" He said, his eyes staring directly into Atem's eyes.

"...hm…" Atem said, turning away and avoiding his gaze, there was something about that man that didn't sit well in his stomach, suddenly he heard someone let out a sigh of relief, he turned to his other side where the headmaster of Sector Academy sat.

"Is there something wrong, Headmaster Roger?" Atem asked, staring at him intently, the man coughed. "No… nothing is wrong, Headmaster Atem…" He said, a grin on his face.

Yet another man that didn't sit well with him, "A shame what happened to the previous headmaster…" Atem said, sharpening his gaze, the man's smile remained for exactly one second before dropping to a frown, "yes, a shame…" He said, "He left large shoes to fill when he passed… but I shall work hard every day to fill them…" He said softly.

The previous headmaster had apparently died in a plane crash, Atem didn't like him, but if he had to choose based on the first impression he is getting from the man sitting in his place, he'd choose the previous headmaster, he didn't know why, but he didn't feel like he could trust the man.

"Well, enough of that…" Atem said as he stood up, "Let us now announce what the Preliminary Round shall be…" He said with a mysterious smile, Yugi slowly opened his eyes and rubbed them, he grabbed a cup that laid next to him and yawned, walking over to a coffee machine that was on the wall behind him.

"Hello everyone," He said into the loudspeaker, "We thank you all for coming to the first Arc-Evolution Tournament!" He boomed, "Now, we shall explain the rules for the preliminary round, but first…" He said, snapping his fingers.

Suddenly, the stands began to separate from the ground, flying up into the sky, loud rumbling reverberated through the area. "WHAT THE HECK!?" Yugo yelled as the stands rose, they saw no scenery around them from behind the stands, they only saw the sky.

Yugo and many others ran to the edge.

"WHAT THE HEEEEEECK!?" He yelled, staring down.

They were in the SKY.

They were on what looked like a floating island in the sky, Atem snapped his fingers again, suddenly, two glowing cards appeared on either of his sides. "Come! Dark Magician! Dark Magician Girl!" He yelled, the cards burst into light and in their places were two floating spellcasters, one was a purple-haired wizard holding a green staff, the other was a blonde girl wearing similar clothing, except:

Blue, Yellow, and Pink

A short blue staff with a yellow tip

...Revealing clothing

They phased through the glass on the floating box and flew further into the air, they stopped in the air and faced each other and closed their eyes, clutching their staffs.

Suddenly, a purple pentagram appeared beneath them, surrounded by letters in an unknown language, suddenly a beam of light shot from the center and hit the ground.

Purple energy pulsed through the ground, suddenly everyone began to float into the air, the island began to change, trees sprouted from the ground and the island expanded to a size that made its original size look like the size of an ant.

Atem began to speak into the loudspeaker again as multiple drones and floating cameras flew past the contestants to different areas of the island. "This will be an all-out battle royale!" He said, his voice booming, Yugi came up next to him to take over.

"The rules are simple…" He said, sounding surprisingly awake for the bags that hung under his eyes, "You and your teams will all be warped to different areas of the island together," He explained, "Scattered across this island is a large amount of glowing, white orbs…" He said. As he said that, a large number of glowing white orbs flew around the floating contestants, allowing them to know what to look for.

"These are essentially your true ticket into the tournament!" He said, "Your goal is to find one of these orbs, and bring it back here!" He said as a large pedestal as big as a football stadium rose from the ground, "Each team only needs one, once your team has passed, you will become unable to touch the orbs, and you will be notified." He said.

Atem took over, "However, there are not enough orbs for all of you…" He said, "Once all of the orbs have been claimed, the round will end, and if you don't have an orb…" He said, "You will no longer be participating in the tournament!" He said.

"So that's what's happening…" Yuto muttered.

"Heh, it definitely makes sense…" Serena said, grinning.

"They're weeding out the weaklings from the competition…" said Kurosaki, he felt a hand place itself on his shoulder, he turned around to see Reiji behind him.

Shun growled and shrugged him off, "You know, for apparent stepbrothers… you guys don't like each other much…" Sawatari said. Kurosaki glared at them both, "I still don't know if I can trust you… you're related to my father after all…" He said, Reiji adjusted his glasses, "and so are you, how do I know if I can trust you?" He said, grinning.

Kurosaki growled in response.

Flashback (One day after the tournament was announced)

"You."

Kurosaki turned around to face the person who spoke to him, there he saw a boy who was similar to him in height, his hair was gray and he wore a dark blue, long-sleeved shirt, as well as a red scarf that frankly baffled Shun, but he decided not to bring it up.

"Yeah?" He said as he turned to face him, he really didn't need this right now, he needed to somehow find a potential teammate for the tournament, Yuto had his brothers, and his sisters had each other, of course, joining alone was also an option, but he figured that'd make things much harder, and he should at least have one person, he had noticed a blonde and blue haired boy in one of his classes who looked strong, his name was Kaito.

"My name is Reiji, Reiji Akaba." He said, Kurosaki froze and glared at him, "...What?" He said, his face contorting into a face of rage.

"Your father is also my father…" He said, adjusting his glasses, "You and your sisters are my stepsiblings." He said calmly, Kurosaki continued to get angrier as he continued to speak.

"Before your father met your mother, he was married to MY mother," He said, "His relationship with your mother was an affair, something that inevitably caused my parents to divorce…" He said, Kurosaki began to slowly walk up to him, his fist clenched.

He grabbed the boy by the collar of his shirt, Kurosaki glared at him, his face never changed from its current poker face.

"I like my father about as much as you do, Shun Kurosaki," He said calmly, Kurosaki growled, "So? You wanna be buddies so we can talk about how much our dad sucks?" He said angrily, Reiji ignored the rhetorical question, "I need your help, and once you hear what I have to say, you'll need mine as well." He said.

"You're going to need more than help soon…" he muttered under his breath.

"Our father is planning something," He said, "something that involves your-no OUR sisters, and not in a good way." He said, "I don't know what it is, but unless you want something bad to happen to them, you will need to join me…" He said calmly.

"Or, you can tell me right now, and I'll deal with it myself…" Kurosaki said menacingly, Reiji slowly raised his hand and grabbed the arm that nearly suspended him off the ground, "I doubt you would be able to do that," He said, "Oh really?" Kurosaki responded as he clenched his fist harder.

"...It seems words aren't enough to convince you…" Reiji said, "then how about a deal?" He asked. Kurosaki continued to glare at him.

Reiji sighed, before raising his other hand and snapping his fingers, in an instant, someone dressed as what Kurosaki could only describe as a Ninja, lept between them, slapped Kurosaki's hand away, and immediately disappeared.

"W-What the!?" Kurosaki exclaimed as he stumbled backward, he quickly balanced himself as the gray-haired boy brushed some dust off of the front of his shirt and adjusted his glasses.

"Duel me." Said Reiji, "If you win, I'll tell you everything I know, and you won't have to talk to me again." He said, "However, should I win, you will join my team and we work together, with me." He said.

Kurosaki grinned, "Alright, sure, I'll gladly beat you down…" He said as he cracked his knuckles, "Then we have a deal," Reiji said before walking off, "follow me, I have an arena reserved." He said.

"Reserved?" Kurosaki said before realizing what that meant, "You expected you'd need to do this, didn't you?" Kurosaki said.

Reiji simply grinned.

End of Flashback

Considering the fact that Kurosaki was on Reiji's team, you can probably figure out on your own how well the duel went.

"Some of the orbs will be hidden…" Atem said, "They could be one hidden in a series of rooms, or you could find one sitting under a rock…" He said as the orbs suddenly disappeared, "But others will be in the open, but considerably harder to get…" He said as all of the teachers appeared on the ground under them.

"You may find that some of them will be… well guarded." Atem said with a grin on his face, the teachers suddenly glowed before disappearing as well.

"What's the plan?" Yuya asked, "I say we stay low and search for an orb and get back as quickly as possible," Said Yuto.

"You can't guarantee that we'll find one, I say we stalk other teams and when THEY get an orb, we swoop in and steal their orb!" Said Yuri, giving malicious looks at the other teams.

"Why don't we just find one of the ones that are guarded and fight whoever's guarding them for it?" Asked Yugo, "Right, because fighting a teacher for an orb is DEFINITELY a good idea…" Said Yuri angrily.

"They wouldn't put it out there if it wasn't possible," Said Yuya, "They're probably going to be holding back to a level that's possible for us…" He said.

"We shouldn't assume that," Said Yuto, "We need a plan that will definitely get us passed…" He said as he pondered.

They didn't get to debate much more, they weren't given that luxury.

"This round will last until every orb has been recovered," Said Atem, "And with that…" He said as the bubbles holding everyone began to glow.

"Game… Start!"

"...Huh!?" Yuya exclaimed as the light faded.

He looked around and saw his brothers flailing around.

They also happened to not be touching the ground.

Yuya looked down, neither was he, they were falling.

Yuya let out a scream of terror as he realized that the ground was approaching, and quickly.

"Crap…!" He said as he quickly adjusted himself, "Odd-Eyes!" He yelled as he grasped the red and green card and transformed, the added weight, however, caused him to fall faster, he hit the ground with a loud crash, though he got up (mostly) unfazed.

"Clear Wing! CLEAR WING!" Yugo practically shrieked as he grasped a white card and transformed into the white dragon, safely stopping his quick descent and replacing it with a slower and more controlled one.

Yuri placed his hands behind his head and seemingly laid down as he fell, he yawned as a purple card appeared in front of his face, "this is fine…" he muttered as he grabbed the card and transformed into Starving Venom, Yuto quickly grabbed his own, light-blue card and transformed into his own dragon.

Meanwhile… everyone else dealt with the situation in their own ways.

"Soul!" Screamed Syrup as they fell through the sky, "THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO BE SLEEPING!" She screamed. Though all she got was a loud snore. "Soul!" She screamed, "transform already!" She yelled.

Soul rubbed his eyes sleepily, "oh… falling… kay gimme a second…" He said lazily as he grabbed an orange card and transformed, "Armed Dragon… Level 3…" He said lazily as he reappeared as a small, yellow dragon and promptly fell back asleep.

"Don't go back to sleep you idiot!" She yelled as she transformed as well, "Apprentice Illusion Magician!" She yelled as she was covered in orange light, reappearing as a dark-skinned, female magician that resembled the Dark Magician Girl that had appeared next to Atem.

She quickly flew to him and grabbed him, "Falling to your death and sleep is still the highest thing on your list of priorities…" She groaned as they descended slowly towards the ground.

Meanwhile, Reiji's team was also plummeting to the ground, though Reiji seemed completely calm.

"Kurosaki, could you please?" He asked, "Tch…!" Kurosaki grunted as a glowing light-blue card appeared in front of him, an Xyz monster.

"Obscured Falcon, raise your sharpened talons in the face of adversity! Spread your wings of rebellion!" He yelled as he grabbed the card and crushed it in his hands, the light began to envelop him, almost looking like wings.

"Appear! Raidraptors - Rise Falcon!" He yelled as he transformed.

The light disappeared, and in its place was a large, mechanical bird that was practically armed to the teeth, it let out a loud cry that sounded much like a whistle, but like a bird as well, in a way.

He quickly flew down below his "teammates", Reiji, Sawatari, and some kid who frankly shocked Kurosaki when he found out were in the team, considering his age, his name was Reira, and he was apparently Reiji's adopted brother.

Shun couldn't help but think about the pure insanity that was his family.

Shun: Older Brother

Ruri: Second Oldest (Oldest Sister)

Serena: Third Oldest (Second Oldest Sister)

Rin: Fourth Oldest (Third Oldest Sister)

Yuzu: Fifth Oldest (Fourth Oldest Sister)

And now…

Reiji: Step-Brother

Reira: Adoptive Step-Brother

So all in all, Seven Siblings, and don't even get him started on the PARENTS.

Shun resolved to punch the next person he hears say "My family is too big!" Or anything even remotely similar, he also resolved to shoot missiles at the next person who says that they're his "long lost family member" again.

Kurosaki had already been given enough proof that he and Reiji were related, in fact, the second he brought up the topic, Reiji gave him a picture of his birth certificate, a rather boring looking photo of him as a child standing next to his father, and even copies of the divorce papers between him and Reiji's mother.

Kurosaki couldn't help but think he was overly prepared to prove their relation.

Anyways, none of that mattered now, all he knew was that whether he liked it or not, he was working with these guys.

Although he wasn't pleased about literally carrying them on his back.

Meanwhile, the battle cry of a large man echoed for a few miles.

"IF I CAN'T TAKE THIS FALL, I WON'T BE ABLE TO TAKE ANYTHING AT ALL!" Yelled Gongenzaka as he fell, incredibly quickly however considering his large size and weight.

Meanwhile, Sora (the only other person teamed with Gongenzaka) laughed out loud, "You know, it'd be great if you didn't die straight from the get-go!" He yelled after him.

"Come forth! Superheavy Samurai, Big Benkei!" He yelled, grabbing an orange card that floated in front of him, he glowed as he increased in size and changed into the form of a large, mechanical Samurai.

Yeah, this just made him fall faster.

He hit the ground with a crash so loud you could hear it for miles, and a large cloud of dust flew into the air, covering a great deal of the area, as for Gongenzaka, he laid in his monster from inside a giant crater, made by his own impact.

Meanwhile, Sora had transformed into a monster called "Fluffal Sheep", a monster that looked more like a stuffed animal than a duel monster, and just gently floated down to the ground.

"You okay, big guy?" Sora asked, reverting to his human form.

"...I'm fine…" He said, slowly getting up, "A real man would be able to take a fall like that and walk away fine, AND I AM A REAL MAN!" He yelled.

"Actually I think a fall like that would kill any normal human…" Sora thought to himself as the large monster lifted itself up, Sora quickly climbed him and sat on his shoulder, "forward march!" He yelled, Gongenzaka yelled something about how he wasn't a steed, but he ended up giving Sora a ride anyways.

Meanwhile...

"So…" Said Yuya, "Any idea where we could find an orb?" He asked.

"I mean, we COULD just turn over every single stone in the area…" Said Yuri, "Or we can do the smart thing and wait for somebody else to get one, then steal it from them," he said.

"Can't we just go for that one?" Yugo asked as he pointed at a floating white orb hanging above what looked like a large city.

"...You know what? It's probably gonna be guarded, but okay, let's go." Said Yuto, transforming back into a dragon (they'd all reverted back).

Everyone else transformed and flew (ran in Yuya's case) towards the area.

"Soul? Maybe now would be a good time for you to start storing up energy," Said Syrup as she stared at a large tower, a single figure standing on top.

He was carrying one of the orbs.

He was also a teacher.

"Which teacher is it?" Soul asked, rubbing his eyes, still in the form of Armed Dragon LV3, "Mr. Jonouchi" She said bluntly.

Sure enough, the blonde teacher stood on top of the tower, "Oh? Somebody's here already?" He said out loud, loud enough for them to hear him despite how high up he was. "You want this thing? Then come and get it!" He yelled.

"That's what we'll do!" Yelled Syrup, grinning, suddenly she grabbed the small yellow dragon under her and chucked him at the teacher, Soul opened his eyes a little bit as he began to descend and crashed into a lower platform of the tower, before lazily getting up.

"Come! Naturia Beast!" Yelled Syrup, grasping a white card and transforming into a green tiger-like beast, who looked like something between an animal and a tree, she jumped up and began to run up the side of the tower.

"Impressive, I know I gotta hold back a bit, but let's do this!" Yelled Jonouchi, suddenly an orange card with a glowing red center appeared in front of him, "Come forth! Red Eyes Black Dragon!" He yelled, grabbing it, instantly he was surrounded in light and flames as he transformed, the sky even seemed to turn red.

The sheer force of the transformation knocked Syrup off the tower, suddenly there was a large orange light, "Evolve… Armed Dragon, Level 5!" Yelled Soul, suddenly glowing and increasing in size, he was now red and covered in more spikes, and even some drills.

Plant life suddenly sprang from the bottom of the tower, catching Syrup, they stared up at the top of the tower.

Standing there, with the orb in its claw, was a large black dragon with gleaming red eyes.

"...Can we run and find some other orb?" Asked Soul, "Relax! He's holding back so we can take him!" She said cheerfully.

"Actually no, you're a bad matchup for him in that form, your Illusion Apprentice form doesn't have enough magic power to even faze him, and it's gonna take me a while to get to a state where I can evolve to a level that can take him on…" He said, pointing out a lot of facts.

"Stop being such a downer! We can do this!" She said optimistically.

Soul sighed, "we're gonna die…" he muttered under his breath.

"Rend and tear all of our enemies! BRAVE CLAW REVOLUTION!"

Kurosaki in his form as Rise Falcon had suddenly become some giant freaking flame bird and just tore through two entire teams, although to be fair, they were all weaklings compared to him.

They had seen a large city-like area in the giant landscape they were given to fight on, it was clearly uninhabited, but it was really just made for a place for duelists to duke it out.

And when an orb was just sitting there in plain sight completely unguarded, you could imagine the amount of chaos that had flocked to it.

"Come on! Grab the damn thing!" Yelled Sawatari, transformed into a monster called Ultimate Dart Striker. He jumped onto Kurosaki, using him as an essential extra-platform (to Kurosaki's annoyance) to get to the orb that had been thrown in the air by the fighting.

Unfortunately, it was stolen from him right as he reached it.

"HAAAAAAH!" Yelled the voice of Yuya, jumping into the air as Odd-Eyes and crashing into both Sawatari and the orb, Yuya ended up falling on top of him while the orb was sent flying some other way, the skirmish between all of the other duelists followed it.

"You IDIOT! I almost had it!" Yelled Sawatari.

"Huh!? I wanted it though!" Yelled Yuya in response.

"Less talking, more dueling!" Yelled Kurosaki, charging straight at the both of them, they quickly jumped away to avoid him.

"Hey, asshole! I'm on your team!" Yelled Sawatari while Yuya yelped.

"Shut up! I never asked to be on your team," yelled Shun, "And you! You have your eyes on my sister, don't you!" Yelled Kurosaki, charging directly at Yuya. "Huh!? What!? Which one!? And WHAT!?" Yelled Yuya in protest.

"Shut up! I thought about trusting you but not anymore!" He yelled, "WHAT!?" Yelled Yuya as he dodged another attack from the giant bird, "that makes no sense! Which sister!? And why do you even think that!?" He yelled as he ran, baffled by the unfairness that was this entire situation.

"You're always hanging around Yuzu!" Yelled Kurosaki.

"Yeah! We're best friends!" Yelled Yuya.

"YOU DONT HAVE PERMISSION TO BE A BEST FRIEND!" Yelled Kurosaki.

"HUH!?" Yelled Yuya as Kurosaki nearly crashed into the ground in an attempt to crush the dragon.

"Should we go and help him?" Asked Yugo, who was flying above them in the sky watching the whole thing unfold.

"Just let Shun get it out of his system, he's just mad and wants to find a reason to vent," Said Yuto calmly, "but he's gonna kill Yuya, and if he kills Yuya, Yuri's gonna kill Kurosaki, and I'm gonna wanna help him, and so are you, probably," Said Yugo as another crash was heard.

"Yuya will be fine, he's tough, and Shun never kills, he just beats you to near death," Said Yuto with a frighteningly calm poker face.

"RANK UP! Ferocious Falcon, break through this fierce battle and spread your wings! Destroy my gathering foes! Descend now! Raidraptors - Blaze Falcon!" He yelled as he began to glow a dark red light, a light-blue card appeared in front of him before shattering as he changed forms into a similar mechanical bird, except with a different design and colored a bright red.

"...On second thought, we should probably help him…" Yuto said nervously as they witnessed the duelist change forms.

At once, all of them swooped down to Yuya's side as flying red projectiles shot off of the red bird and began to fire lasers at the dragons. "Yugo!" Yelled Yuto, "Right! DICHROIC SHOWER!" Yelled Yugo, his wings suddenly glowed and fired multiple powerful beams of green light from his wings.

The beams collided with the lasers and tore through them, destroying the drone-like weapons, "that's not all, DICHROIC MIRROR!" Yelled Yugo as his wings glowed brighter, firing a single large stream of light at the bird.

"D/D/D, Flame King Genghis!" Yelled the voice of Reiji, who had transformed into a Fusion Monster cloaked in flames, he held up his shield and blocked the beam of light before it hit Kurosaki.

"It's time for a tactical retreat…" He said calmly, though Kurosaki looked as visibly annoyed a metal bird could be.

Reiji waved a large, burning sword, and suddenly they were surrounded in flames, and before any of the brothers could react, they'd disappeared.

"Huh… that was something…" Said Yuri.

"Crap! The orb!" Yelled Yuya, all of them snapped their heads towards where the sounds of battle came from, "get it damn it!" Yelled Yugo as they charged into the skirmish.

A gust of wind blew past as the four girls laid limply in different trees.

Yeah, they didn't land properly, mostly because of Rin, who had tried to do SOMETHING with her ability as a Windwitch monster to control the wind. but had instead blown every single one of them into a fairly large tree.

"...What exactly were you trying to do here, Rin?" Asked Ruri with a kind tone, despite the fact she was hanging upside down.

"I spotted another team and I wanted to send a tornado in their direction!" She exclaimed, she was hanging sideways with her limbs caught on many different branches.

"Can you even make tornadoes yet?" Asked Serena, who had actually fallen in a fairly comfortable position, almost as though she was laying down.

"...No…" Said Rin sheepishly.

Yuzu, who had ended up NOT caught in branches and was instead hanging onto a long branch that extended far away from the tree, for dear life, yelled back at them. "Guys? Little help?" She asked.

"You can fly as a monster Yuzu! I think we're the ones in need of help right now! Yelled Serena.

A few seconds passed, there was a flash of orange light.

Then, Yuzu pushed away some branches as she entered the tree as a monster called "Mozarta the Melodious Maestra".

"Hold on you guys, I'll get you guys out…" Yuzu sighed.

"Forgot you can fly, huh?" Serena asked. Yuzu's face flushed, "I forgot in the heat of the moment! Shut up!" She said, embarassment filling her face.

"So… any idea where to go from here?" Asked Rin as Yuzu untangled her, "What about going after those guys?" Asked Ruri, pointing at a group of dragons that were flying in the sky above them.

They were also holding an orb.

They all blinked.

"Right, time to kick some ass…" Said Serena, cracking her knuckles as a glowing purple card appeared in front of her.

Atem sipped a cup of coffee as he observed the area, grinning mysteriously.

"Hey… Atem… can I have the rest of that?" Asked Yugi, pointing at the coffee cup in Atem's hand. "Partner… maybe you should get some rest…" He said kindly, "No… can't do that… too much to do… too much to manage…" He muttered sleepily.

"I'll handle it, relax Yugi," Said Atem kindly, "relax… yeah I guess that sounds nice…" muttered Yugi as his eyes slowly closed, he let out a loud snore as he lost conciousness, but managed to remain standing up.

Atem slowly got up and gave him a light push with his finger, he began to fall backward, and in an instant, five hairy ball-creatures, each a different color, appeared under him, catching his fall and allowing him to lay down. One of them was bigger than the others by about an inch, and was colored brown.

Atem saluted, "thank you Kuriboh Brothers, please take Yugi back to his room and put him on the bed, and make sure he actually gets some rest and doesnt wake up in an hour to do more work," He said, they all peered their heads out from underneath the boy they were supporting and let out kind little coos as if to say "got it!"

Servant Spirits, though Atem didn't believe them to be servants, were quite useful.

Speaking of Servant Spirits, he looked up to check on Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl, who were the one's managing to keep the island from falling, they were both standing in a large purple magic circle with their eyes closed, surprisingly enough, keeping something this big in the air was easy for them.

Although he couldn't shake a powerful feeling of Deja Vu that he was feeling as he looked at the battles taking place, but it he quickly dismissed it as nothing, despite the feeling.

Finally, he glanced at the headmaster of Sector Academy, Roger. Something felt off about him, and his hunches were usually correct.

He silently called forth another Kuriboh spirit, the last of his Servant Spirits available to him, he whispered into its ear, "I need you to keep an eye on that man…" he said, gesturing to the man sitting in the seat, "do not be caught, and report everything you find to me…" he said, the floating puffball nodded and suddenly, vanished into thin air.

Now that that was handled, all he had to do was watch what happens next.

He still felt as though something was going to happen soon, but he decided that no matter what it was, he and the other teachers could handle it.

He and Yugi weren't known as the strongest duelists in history for nothing, after all.

Alrighty, that chapter is done, and I hope you all enjoyed it!

One thing to mention, when you think about it, if Kurosaki is related to all of the Bracelet Girls, and Leo is their father, wouldn't that also make them siblings with Reiji and Reira?

Yeah, that family is… large.

In the meantime though, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, and I'll see you all next time!