Please understand, there will never be an actual deadline with any of the next chapters, because every time I write something, it's only when "I feel like it"

Meaning sometimes I'll be sitting in class, and suddenly: "Oh shit, I just had a really great idea for what happens next" and I'll write again, but then afterward I'll just stop, like "Alright, that's enough of that"

Soul is kind of like my spirit animal in this sense because sometimes I just lose all energy and just fall asleep, other times though, I'll suddenly just HAVE to do something.

The perks of just being a fanfic writer, I don't have deadlines, I'll work on this thing whenever the heck I want (Though I do want to make sure there isn't TOO long of a time gap between chapters (I don't like it when stories stay inactive for a long time without any reason, mind you, I understand those authors probably think about their story for a longer period of time than what I do, but if I don't like it, I'm not about to do it)

Also, somebody asked me who was my first ship in Yugioh, that'd be Skyshipping with Yuma and Kotori. See, I always heard and knew about Yugioh, but I never actually got into the game or bothered to watch or learn the rules.

That changed though one day when I randomly thought "okay, I'll give Yugioh a try"

At this point in time, Yugioh Zexal was the most recent series and had just gotten to its second season, I went ahead and watched the first episode, and well, I got hooked.

So yeah, I watched Zexal, then went back and watched everything else (the exception being GX, simply because I was too lazy to watch more than DM and 5Ds, and only got through like five episodes before saying "okay, I know enough".

Anyways, enough of that, here's the chapter.

Chapter 7: Grand Power of Souls

"Soul? How much longer until another level up?" Asked Syrup.

"...about a minute, hold on…" he muttered, closing his eyes.

"I DON'T HAVE A MINUTE!" She yelled as a blast of fire crashed against the magic barrier she had put up using the power of her form as Apprentice Illusion Magician, a crack appeared where the flames struck.

Soul snored, Syrup felt an incredible urge to smack him across the back of his head, but couldn't because she had to focus on keeping the barrier up for a full minute, something that seemed to be harder than what it sounds like when the thing is about to break.

Soul didn't show concern though since he apparently went back to sleep.

"Soul, how much sleep do you get at night!?" Syrup yelled, "ten hours… why?" He said, "though if we add the time I sleep during the day…" He said before promptly closing his eyes and snoring again.

"Where the heck is all of your energy!?" Syrup yelled as more cracks formed, she groaned as she felt her barrier straining.

Soul suddenly opened his eyes, "alright done, Evolve, Armed Dragon Level 7," He said, his body glowing as he grew in size, as he grew he placed his large arms around Syrup, she let the barrier fall and the flames struck Soul's growing arms as he protected her.

The light dissipated revealing a dragon that was even bigger than the Red-Eyes they were fighting, his scales a dark red and he was somehow covered in even MORE spikes and drills.

"If you're really holding back, then I won't even have to go Level 10 for this…" Muttered Soul, "Damn… I really can't fight harder than how I'm fighting now?" Muttered Jounouchi, "I guess it'd be unfair if I did though…" He muttered.

Syrup returned to her form as a human as Soul lifted her onto his shoulder, she had been running around trying to stall for time while Soul stored up the energy to evolve, and she was exhausted.

"Soul… why did you… have to get a Level-Up monster?" She asked while panting, "It's so inconvenient…" she gasped, Soul shrugged (though that caused Syrup to have to suddenly grab a spike from the armor she was sitting on to stay on top of him), "It suits me… I don't even have to try too hard and I can easily get to a powerful form…" He said sleepily.

"Now… give us the orb, I have other things to do right now so I'd like to pass us as soon as possible…" He said as they faced each other.

"Heh, sorry kid, but I never give up…" Said Jounouchi, spreading his wings and roaring, Soul sighed and roared back.

"You actually gonna put effort in?" Asked Syrup, "Just until we can get the orb and pass… I wanna go back to bed, or write, or draw…" He muttered, "So you just relax…"

"You need to put your energy into more than just things you can do while laying down…" Said Syrup.

"Lunalight Cat Dancer!" Yelled Serena as she was covered in purple light, one of the dragons, specifically somebody transformed into an Alexandrite Dragon, looked down to see a purple-skinned, large breasted female monster flying towards him, it wore colorful clothing, and incredibly large blue ribbons stretching down from other areas in her clothing, and she wore a mask that gave her the look of a cat.

I said "flying", but more accurately, she had jumped high into the air and was currently being propelled at the dragons by powerful winds, courtesy of Rin, who had transformed into a monster called Windwitch Winter Bell, a monster that looked a little human, except a little mechanical as well, as lines of energy ran through its body, it had something similar to fins as arms, and another large fin at the top of her head.

She also had something that looked like it could be ridden on instead of legs, it was a little weird, but somehow, still looked beautiful.

"Take this!" Yelled Serena, raising a hand that had nails like claws, the blue ribbons adorning her also glowed a bright blue. She slashed the dragon right in the chest and he roared out in pain, Serena gritted her teeth, "damn… didn't get a good enough hit in…" She muttered as she began to plummet back to the ground, her mobility lessened considerably if she activated flight so she just let herself fall.

Instead, she just allowed herself to fall until she was about to hit the ground, where she only THEN activated flight and stopped herself from crashing against the ground, she gently touched down and dashed back to the tree her sisters were in.

"Can't say I didn't warn her…" Said Rin, "Alright you two, we can actually fly normally, so let's go!" Said Ruri as she grasped a light blue card. "Lyrilusc - Assembled Nightingale!" She yelled, transforming into a Harpy-like monster with wings instead of arms and large claws for legs, though her body and head remained mostly human, even they gained some bird features, her skin changed into a mint-green and she wore colors of light blue, dark blue, and pink.

Yuzu was already transformed, into the Standard Monster, Mozarta the Melodious Maestra, she flew up alongside Rin and Ruri towards the team above them that consisted of two Alexandrite Dragons, one Luster Dragon, and one Assault Wyvern, who was holding the orb.

"Graceful Wave!" Yelled Yuzu, sending a wave of energy towards them and hitting all of them at once, the Assault Wyvern had the orb knocked out of its hands.

"Crap!"
"Damn it, Joe! This is why I should have carried the thing!"

Ruri quickly swooped underneath them and caught the orb in her claw, she began to flap her arms/wings to fly higher into the air, the Luster Dragon flew after her, Ruri grinned, "all according to plan…" She thought as she flapped her wings and flew up further, the Luster Dragon can't actually fly on its own, so it uses the flight power to fly, however, Ruri's form could fly naturally, and was much faster, she taunted the dragon by staying in far from him, but close enough to make him think he'll catch up.

"Rin!" Yelled Yuzu, she let out a harmonic cry as she let out another wave of energy, blasting back the other dragons. Rin came up from behind her and glowed as she let out a cry as well, causing powerful winds to circle around them, Yuzu quickly reverted back to her human form (to make her smaller) and grabbed onto Rin.

"Crap…! The wind's too strong…!" Yelled one of the Alexandrites, the Assault dragon looked down in his struggle to keep steady in the winds, only to see something else.

"Wait… is that…?" He said as it came closer.

"Full Moon Mayhem!"

Suddenly, the form of Lunalight Cat Dancer, Serena, had appeared and in an instant and slashed down every single one of the dragons, glowing a bright blue, Serena activated flight this time to remain in the air while the transformations on the three dragons dissipated, Rin's eyes glowed and a strong upward gust of wind caught the unconscious boys and had them hover in the air, Serena floated over and grabbed them.

"How did you… get this high up…?" Asked one of the boys, who was fading in and out of consciousness.

Serena grinned, "I jumped really high!" She said bluntly, "...what…?" Said the boy before he promptly lost consciousness. In truth, it had a little more to it, Serena ran to a certain area, gathered energy up in her legs, and waited for just the right moment to jump into the fray.

"Three people at once is the most I can do with that attack, so Ruri did well in drawing one of them away," She said, speaking of which, Ruri had just regrouped with the girls, carrying an orb in one talon and another unconscious boy in her other talon.

"Let's set these guys down somewhere and get back to the pedestal," Said Yuzu, her sisters nodded in agreement, they descended back to the ground and dropped off the duelists underneath a tree, Serena then reverted back to human form and climbed onto Ruri's back, Ruri handed Yuzu the orb.

"You two are our fastest fliers, we'll ride on you guys so that way we don't end up losing each other," Said Yuzu as she held onto Rin with a tighter grip.

"Alright! Let's go!" Said Yuzu, "Yeah!" Said her sisters together, and they flew off as fast as they could.

In a way, they had both a bad start and a good start.

"I got it! I GOT IT!" Yelled Yugo, before being knocked out of the sky by a large golem monster, who had thrown somebody else at the flying dragon, despite what the duelist who had become a projectile thought about being thrown. (It's probably obvious, but his thoughts on the process can be explained by what he yelled as he flew through the air: "OH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-")

The orb was knocked out of his hands, luckily Yuri was there to catch it, "Nice job butterfingers!" He yelled, "I have a foolproof plan to make sure nobody gets this thing!" Yelled Yuri, lifting up the orb and placing it in his mouth.

"He wouldn't…" Said Yuya.

"Oh my god…" Said Yuto.

Yuri closed his mouth (to be clear, he was transformed into Starving Venom), and swallowed the thing.

Everything went silent, except for one guy who yelled: "Oh come on!"

"YURI ARE YOU AN IDIOT!?" Yelled Yugo, "Oh relax, I can regurgitate this thing at will in this form, trust me, I've done it before," Said Yuri, completely aware that this was grossing Yugo out, and relishing the fact.

"...Reira, it's your turn…" Said Reiji as they watched from the top of a building, "Yes… brother…" Said the child, he jumped off the building.

"Come, C/C Critical Eye!" He yelled as he fell, grasping an orange card in his hand, he changed into a strange creature that really was just a glaring, red eye.

Time suddenly slowed down for him, his eye flickered around until it had looked at every monster below it.

His eye stopped suddenly as it locked onto the purple dragon that was Yuri.

"Monster in sight… type… Fusion…" He muttered, "Changing now… come forth!" He yelled.

Suddenly he started to glow a bright purple, "C/C/C Rock Sword of Battle!" He yelled.

The light disappeared, he had changed into a sword that looked like it was made out of rocks, earth, and other pieces of nature as well, the red eye had shrunk and now sat near the hilt of the sword.

"Huh?" Said Yuri, looking up.

Suddenly the sword slashed at Yuri, Yuri quickly jumped back, just narrowly avoiding the blade, "T-That was close…" He muttered.

He wasn't given much more time.

Suddenly, Reira turned around to have his hilt facing Yuri instead of his blade, he flew towards Yuri at a speed that the brothers could barely perceive with their eyes.

Reira crashed directly into Yuri's stomach, sinking the hilt deep into the dragon.

Yuri's yellow eyes visibly widened in pain, his mouth hung open and a long, loud groan/squeak came out.

The eye that was near the hilt showed no emotion.

Suddenly, Yuri let out a hacking noise and spat out the orb, saliva covered and everything.

"...I think I'm gonna hurl…" muttered Yugo.

"Ooh…" Said Yuya and Yuto simultaneously.

"That… was a cheap shot…" Muttered Yuri as he slowly got up, Reira suddenly took the flat end of his blade and smacked the orb into the air, he then zoomed up to it and hit it further up until it landed on the top of the building that he had jumped off of.

"Good job…" Said Reiji, patting his head, Reira smiled a bit.

"Urgh… oh god, it's all covered in… oh… oh god…" Said Sawatari, nearly losing his lunch as he looked at the particularly slimy substance covering the shining object.

"Suck it up and go," Said Reiji, grabbing a glowing light-blue card, "Come forth, D/D/D Wave King Caesar!" He yelled, his red scarf flailing wildly behind him.

He reappeared as a large creature… something humanoid but at the same time, not, he was clad in purple and silver armor and held a large greatsword in one hand, he was covered in an aquatic aura and gave off a kingly appearance.

Reiji raised one of his hands and shot out a large stream of water at the orb, washing off most of the saliva, "Take this to the podium, I'll make sure nobody follows…" Reiji said. Sawatari grinned.

"Birdy over here can take the kid and go, I'm gonna stick with you," Said Sawatari, "there's no way you can stop all of them, and besides… I wanna show that Yuya kid something as well…" He said, grinning.

"...very well then, let's go!" Reiji said, jumping from the building and into the crowd of monsters below him, Sawatari grinned, "Alright then! Woohoo!" He yelled as he jumped from the building, grasping an orange card, "Come on out! Mobius the Mega Monarch!" He yelled, changing into a large, white behemoth and descending on the crowd.

"They're gonna get away with the orb!" Yelled Yuya, his brothers quickly attempted to fly after the large, mechanical bird that flew away with the orb but was stopped when Reiji swung his sword and sent a large wave of water at them, knocking all of them, including the other duelists, to the ground. If that wasn't already enough, Sawatari had crashed into all of them with his hulking body as Mobius.

The other duelists were knocked out by the wave and the impact Mobius had made, luckily, Yuya and his brothers managed to take minimal damage from it.

"Damn it… they're gonna get away!" Yelled Yugo, Yuri groaned, "oh god, my stomach still hurts…" he groaned.

Yuya gritted his teeth, this wasn't good at all.

"You guys! Go after Kurosaki, I'll handle things over here!" He yelled, "Are you crazy!? You can't handle these guys alone!" Yelled Yuto, but he knew that Yuya had a point, "Yugo, Yuri, you go after them, Yuya and I will handle these guys!" He yelled, two people would fight the two left behind, while the other two would go after the two who ran, that and Yugo was the fastest flier out of all of them.

"Got it, good luck you two!" Yelled Yugo, Yuri sucked in his pain through sheer willpower, "I'm gonna destroy whoever that sword was…" Muttered Yuri as he and Yugo took off, Yuya and Yuto charged at the two who were attacking them.

Yuya rammed into Reiji, and Yuto rammed his head into Sawatari, sparks seemed to fly as they clashed together.

"Get back here!" Yelled Yugo as he flew after them, Kurosaki gritted his teeth, "hold on, kid!" He yelled. Reira held onto his neck with a tighter grip as he said so.

"Whirlwind Helldive Slasher!" Yelled Yugo, green wind swirling around him as he charged at the other duelist, Shun turned around to face him, "Brave Claw Revolution!" He yelled, covered in flames as they collided together.

Reira stared at the white dragon that Shun was fighting before his attention was grabbed by another voice. "Oi, kid!" Yelled Yuri from below them, roots and vines stretched out from behind him, green balls of energy were crackling among them.

"Take this!" He yelled, firing at the figures above him, Yugo and Shun stopped their clash in order to dodge. "Whoa! Yuri, watch your aim!" Yelled Yugo, Shun growled when he looked at the purple dragon below them.

"...go after the Fusion Dragon…" muttered Reira, "Huh?" Said Kurosaki, "...I'll handle the Synchro dragon… go…" he muttered, without giving him a chance to answer, he jumped off of him as he transformed into C/C Critical Eye.

He stared at the dragon with his single, red eye, "Monster sighted… type is… Synchro Monster…" He muttered, he began to glow and transform again with white light. "C/C/C Rock Blaster of Battle!" He yelled, changing shape into what looked like a gun made of earth, and something like a sideways crossbow.

"What the…!" Yugo exclaimed, "Locked on… FIRE!" Yelled Reira, shooting a large, orange laser at the dragon, Yugo gathered energy in his mouth, green light sparkling in his mouth like lightning. "Take this! Dichroic BEAM!" Yelled Yugo, firing a large stream of green energy in response to Reira's attack.

The beams clashed together with a bright flash of green and orange.

Meanwhile, Shun began to glow, "I always did wanna kick your ass!" He yelled as he flew into the sky, surrounded with a red glow, "Rank Up! Descend, Raidraptors - Blaze Falcon!" He yelled, suddenly flashing and emerging as a red bird this time.

"Out of the way! I have a child to discipline!" Yelled Yuri, firing lasers at the bird, Kurosaki tightened his grip on the orb in his claw, "Bring it!" He yelled, firing lasers back at the purple dragon to meet him.

Yuya and Yuto were panting, their backs literally and figuratively against the wall. "Damn… We don't have enough power to topple the Monarch guy, and the other guy can use Fusion, Synchro, AND Xyz monsters…" He groaned, "Isn't that like… really rare?" Yuya asked, his breathing just as labored.

"I think I've gotta break out the thing…" Yuto muttered, "You sure it'll work though?" Yuya asked.

Yuto shrugged, "No clue, but it's now or never…" He said, purple electricity sparking at his wings, "Can you keep on fighting the D/D/D-whatever that means-guy?" He asked. Yuya grinned, "Of course…!" Yuya responded.

"It stands for Different Dimension Demon…" Said Reiji, who was currently transformed into a Synchro monster dubbed, D/D/D Gust King Alexander, "Doesn't matter!" Yelled Yuto, spreading his wings, "I hope this works…!" He yelled, suddenly the electricity on his wings flew towards Sawatari, wrapping around him like a rope.

"Come on… Treason Discharge!" He yelled, the electricity, acting like ropes, tightened around Sawatari, "W-What the…!" He yelled, nearly falling over.

The purple orbs on Yuto's body began to glow, "this move will bind you and halve your power…" Yuto said, hiding the excitement in his mind as he realized that it actually worked. "That power is transferred to me! And I can use it twice in a row!" He yelled.

"Wait… you can use it twice in a row?" Asked Yuya, Yuto suddenly realized he was bluffing, "Welp… guess we'll find out…! Treason Discharge!" He yelled, shooting the lighting towards Reiji, he attempted to dodge but was at the end caught and bound.

"Tch…!" He grunted, struggling in his binds.

"HolyshitIactuallymanagedtodoittwiceinarow!" Yuto thought rapidly, he kept his poker face on, "Do it now, Yuya!" He yelled, electricity sparkling around the fang on his chin.

"Spiral Flame Strike!"

"Lightning of Rebellion, DISOBEY!"

Yuya sent a large stream of fire at the Different Dimension Demon, and Yuto charged and ran through the giant monarch with an electricity filled fang, Reiji struggled to stand his ground against the flames, and Sawatari was sent flying through a building.

The smoke finally cleared, Reiji was on his knees, his transformation had come undone, Yuto slowly set back down on the ground next to Yuya.

"Alright… we did it!" Yelled Yuya, Yuto couldn't help but grin.

Suddenly, Reiji began to laugh.

"Huh…?" Said Yuya, turning to face him, "What's so funny?" He asked. Reiji continued to laugh. "Impressive! Very impressive, Yuya Sakaki!" He yelled, standing straight up, "Pendulum Monsters… they truly are powerful!" He yelled.

"Umm… thanks?" Yuya said, tilting his head in confusion, Reiji began to calm down, his laugh dying out, he adjusted his glasses as he began to glow with alternating green and red light.

"Huh?" Yuya said, stepping backward as he began to glow, "Please understand, just like how I admire your father, Yusho Sakaki… you are the first user of this monster type that you have dubbed… Pendulum…" He said, "As such, I truly admire both you and your father…" He said, adjusting his glasses again.

His glow began to brighten, he was grinning as more power accumulated inside him, "That's exactly why… I found a way to have that power as well!" He yelled, a pillar of blue light suddenly burst from underneath him, the sky seemed to glow with the same color, a red and green card appeared in front of him.

Their eyes widened, the audience that watched from afar watched in awe as well, Yuto shook his head to snap out of it, "Crap-Yuya, attack him, quickly!" He yelled, gathering purple lightning up in his mouth, Yuya snapped out of it as well, "R-Right! Spiral Flame Strike!" He yelled, shooting flames at him, Yuto did the same by firing lightning from his mouth.

The attacks seemed to stop right in front of him, as though it had collided with an invisible wall instead.

"Crap… what's happening…!" Yuto yelled, suddenly another burst of light came from the building he had knocked Sawatari into, he glowed with similar light, though admittedly less brilliant, and a red and green card floated in front of him as well.

"Oh no…" Yuto muttered.

"Grand power that shakes my very soul… Arise within me, and become a new light that rends the darkness!" He yelled, two transparent pillars rising beside him, two other red and green cards appearing in each, the same happened to Sawatari.

"Come before me! Three transcendental Deities that rule over all kings. D/D/D Great Death Lord -Hell Armageddon!"

He crushed the card in his hand, his scarf flailing wildly behind him as the light surrounded him, Sawatari did the same with his own card, and the cards in the pillars next to them shattered, "Oh wind-clad chief of phantoms! With your raging cloak, gouge those lands! Come forth, Mayosenju Daibakaze!" He yelled, surrounded in a mix of light and blue smoke.

The light finally dissipated, and in its place were three large… creatures? Demons? They had no arms or legs, but they had a face and a transparent bottom, almost making them look like a special kind of gem, inside them shone a deep purple core, and their eyes shone a sinister red.

Above them was now a large beast that looked like it was made of a sinister blue cloud, surrounded by strong winds, next to him were what looked like parts of a gate, "As well as Yosenju Shinchu R and L!" He said, revealing their names.

"They… have pendulum monsters…" Yuya muttered, "Servant Spirits as well… and Reiji has three of those… things…!" He said, his knees shook a bit.

"Calm down, Yuya!" Yelled Yuto, "bring out Timegazer and Stargazer! We can still do this!" He yelled, Yuya gulped and did as he said, "Timegazer Magician! Stargazer Magician!" He yelled as the two magicians appeared next to him.

Meanwhile…

Something shot through all of the contestants as Timegazer and Stargazer appeared, they felt something, something sinister, and something pure, the clouds in the sky darkened.

Soul and Jonouchi suddenly jumped away from each other, "What the… what is this power?" Muttered Jonouchi, "What kinda fight is happening right now?" He said out loud.

"Soul… what's happening…" Syrup muttered. Soul grunted, "hell if I know… I'm just glad it's nowhere near us…" He said.

Somewhere else, Gongenzaka and Sora, who were still looking for an orb, stopped in their tracks.

"Ooh… looks like somebody's having fun out there…" Said Sora nonchalantly, Gongenzaka gritted his teeth, "I have a bad feeling about this…" He muttered.

The girls, who were still flying towards the podium that would bring them their victory stopped and turned, "What the heck is that!?" Yelled Serena, Yuzu began to recall their first day of school.

"Get away… I WILL PROTECT YUZU!"

"Yuya…" She said, a feeling of worry forming in her mind.

Meanwhile...

Atem stood up suddenly as he felt it, heck even Yugi (who was sleeping somewhere now) nearly woke up from his mini-coma.

He couldn't help but grin, "interesting…" he muttered before sitting back down.

"How interesting…" Said the man who stood next to where Headmaster Leo should be, apparently his name "The Doctor", "I'd love to dissect them and find out what that power is…" He said, giggling creepily.

Roger scooted an inch further away from him, Atem's hand twitched for the button that activated the Duel Disk on his arm.

The Doctor turned to them and grinned, "Kid-ding!" He said cheerfully, his instincts told him nothing good about the men beside him, but he could have sworn he heard the sound of the seat Roger was in move another inch away from him.

Elsewhere…

Yugo and Yuri turned around suddenly, "What the heck is that?" They both said.

Kurosaki took this chance and reverted to a faster flier, Rise Falcon, he quickly grabbed Reira from the sky (gun form and all) and fired up his boosters.

"Come on… full speed!" He yelled, bursting forward at an incredible speed. "H-Hey! Get back here!" Yelled Yugo, "come on Yuri!" He yelled, Yuri reverted back to his human form and grabbed onto Yugo's back, "Hold on! I'm going full speed ahead!" He yelled as they flew off in pursuit of the Raidraptor.

"Relax, Yuya!" Yuto yelled. Yuya nodded at him, except Yuto could tell he was panicking. "We can do this Yuya!" He yelled, electricity sparking in his wings again, he couldn't feel enough energy in order to use Treason Discharge again, but he could still fight.

He looked up at the bluish-green monster in the sky above him, "I'm a better flier than Yuya…" He thought, "Yuya, I'll take Cloudy up there, can you handle Mr. Big and Creepy?" He asked, referring to Sawatari as "Cloudy" and Reiji's new form as "Mr. Big and Creepy".

Yuya gulped, "Y-Yeah…" He said, he shook his head and steeled his resolve, "Calm down… who cares if he can use Pendulums too… apparently…" He thought, "I can still take him…" He thought.

"Let's do this, Yuto!" He yelled, Yuto flew into the sky, crackling with electricity, Yuya charged at Reiji with his magicians beside him.

"The middle one is Reiji… I'll just take him out first…!" Yuya said, "Spiral Flame Strike!" He yelled, shooting flames at the menacing monsters, "Weak!" Yelled Reiji, the core at his center began to glow, before firing multiple lasers at the coming flames.

The attacks clashed, "This is nothing! Reaction Force!" He yelled, the flames grew bigger and began to push back the beams.

"An impressive ability… however!" Reiji said, suddenly, the other two Hell Armageddons fired their own beams of energy, joining with the original, the flames began to be pushed back ever so slightly.

"Damn it… Not yet…!" He yelled, his eyes shone, as did the orbs adorning his body, "I'm not done!" He yelled as the flames grew even stronger, pushing back the beams and striking Reiji, causing a large explosion.

"Reiji!" Yelled Sawatari, before he was suddenly struck by an electricity filled fang, courtesy of Yuto. "You have bigger problems! Take this!" He yelled, Sawatari quickly turned and clashed with the black dragon.

Yuya panted hard, his chest rising and falling, the extra power had come from his willpower and efforts, as well as a boost of power from Stargazer and Timegazer.

"Did we… get him?" He asked he turned his eyes towards the clearing smoke.

"Unfortunately for you… no…" Said the voice of Reiji.

Yuya's eyes widened in fear.

The area where the Hell Armageddon he just defeated was now filled with a black silhouette of it, from that shadow, dark and sinister energy poured into the cores of the other two, their eyes shone an even brighter red.

"W-What?" Yuya stammered, "But that's…" He muttered, unable to comprehend what was happening. He was quickly cut off by Reiji, "The servant spirits that come with being a user of Pendulum…" He said, "to call them Servant Spirits is only slightly accurate, you see, Servant Spirits are monsters that we CANNOT transform into…" He said, explaining.

"However, it seems that these spirits… are different…" He said, turning to face the Armageddon next to him, and also revealing him to now be the Armageddon on the right. "Taking into consideration the name you've given these monsters… I'd call them… Pendulum Spirits…" He said.

"Pendulum Spirits… what's that mean!?" Yuya yelled, Reiji laughed, "It means that these spirits can be transformed into!" He said, "I switched with one of my spirits at the last moment, and when one of the Spirit Armageddons is destroyed, their power is taken by the rest!" He yelled, laughing out loud.

"Try it! Try to transform into one of your magicians, your dragon will take their place as a Spirit and you will become that monster!" He yelled.

"Is that… true?" He said, looking towards Stargazer Magician, the magician stared back down at him, as if telling him to find out for himself.

Yuya closed his eyes and reached into the depths of himself, at least, that's one way to describe it.

He searched for the feeling he felt whenever he called forth Timegazer and Stargazer and found it.

He reached out to it, but instead of using it to bring them next to him, he did what he did with Odd-Eyes instead.

He felt something change.

He opened his eyes, he looked around.

He now stood (floated?) where Stargazer was, he WAS Stargazer.

He looked to his left and saw Timegazer, he opened and closed his hands, he looked below him and saw Odd-Eyes standing there.

The dragon let out a loud roar and glared at the two Armageddons, if Reiji's face in that form could move (God knows where ever his voice was coming from…), he'd be grinning.

When a pendulum monster is in the form of a spirit, their power is noticeably less than when their user is transformed into them," He explained, "Meaning that in that form, Stargazer is stronger now, but Odd-Eyes is weakened, and vice versa, and with everything else…" He said.

Yuya shifted back into Odd-Eyes, more confident in that form when it came to a competition of power, "why are you telling me this…" He said, again, if Reiji could grin, that's what he'd be doing. "Call it good sportsmanship… now… It's time I end this…" He said. Both he and his spirit glowed with dark energy.

"Crap… if his power has been increased, my attack won't do anything…!" He muttered, he looked around, there was no place to take cover either.

"Guess I've just gotta do it…!" He said, gathering the last of his energy into a final attack, Timegazer and Stargazer glowed as they transferred more energy to the dragon below them.

"This is the end! Hellish Rain!" He yelled, firing a rain of energy towards him, Yuya fired his own flames, "Spiral Flame Strike!" He yelled as his attack went to meet the attack.

His flames were blasted through easily.

Yuya could only gasp as he saw the attack close in on him.

"Yuya!"

A loud explosion echoed through the battlefield.

Yuzu turned to where the explosion came from, she couldn't keep it in anymore, her bad feeling just got worse.

"You guys go on without me! I need to go check something out!" She yelled, jumping from Rin and transforming into Mozarta. "Wha-Yuzu!" Yelled Rin, "I'm sorry! It's just a feeling, okay?" She yelled back as she flew in the direction of the explosion, "Get that orb to the goal!" She yelled as she flew off.

"Yuya…" She muttered, flying forward at the fastest speed she could muster.

T he smoke cleared, Reiji remained vigilant as he searched the area.

"Damn it… where'd that guy run off to!?" Yelled Sawatari as he flew up next to him, "What do you mean?" Reiji asked, "The guy suddenly bailed as soon as you made that attack…" He said.

"...Sawatari, could you use your wind and get rid of the smoke already?" He asked, "Oh! That's right I can do that…" He said, his eyes shined yellow for a moment, and a strong gust of wind blew the smoke away from them.

"W-Wha!?" Sawatari exclaimed.

Three figures laid on the ground, Timegazer, Stargazer, and Dark Rebellion.

Yuya struggled to stand up.

"Yuto… are you… okay?" He asked, the dragon coughed and grinned, "oh yeah, fine and dandy, gimme a moment and I'll just walk off my probably-broken ribs-OW!" He yelped in pain, "Yuto!" Yuya yelled, quickly running to his side, Timegazer and Stargazer slowly faded into light, out of strength and unable to stick around for a while.

"I'm fine… I'm fine…" He groaned, "you mind if I pass out? I think I'm about to pass out…" He said, his body glowing a dark blue.

At the moment when Yuya's attack failed to fight against the attack coming towards him, Yuto had abandoned his own fight and dashed in front of him, placing his wings up in front of him as a position of defense. Stargazer and Timegazer had also jumped in, putting up a barrier in front of them.

The result was the three of them out of commission, and Yuya barely standing.

"Damn it Yuto… I told you to stop worrying about me…" He said. Yuto chuckled, "kinda hard NOT to worry when you're in a situation like that!" He said cheerfully before coughing again.

"Yuya…" Yuto said, suddenly getting deadly serious, "We'll probably need to run… but let's be honest… we're probably not gonna get far…" He said, raising an arm and grabbing his.

At that moment, unbeknownst to them, something moved from Yuto and into Yuya.

"So… I guess all I can say it…" He said, gripping his arm, "You… got this… and good luck…" He said, before passing out, reverting to his human form.

"Yuto…" Yuya muttered, he slowly picked up Yuto in his arms and propped him up against a wall.

He turned to face the monsters that floated up in the sky, he took a deep breath.

And slowly breathed out.

"COME ON!" He yelled, his gems glowing again, "THE FUN IS JUST GETTING STARTED!" He yelled, at this point just yelling whatever in order to hype himself up.

Suddenly, he felt power rise from within him, electricity sparked at his horns.

"Bring it on!" He yelled, suddenly bursting with power, purple electricity suddenly sparkled from all around him.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHI!" He yelled, his eyes shining with a blinding light, he charged at the giant beast that was Sawatari, he crashed into him, electricity flowed from him and into Sawatari, causing him to let out loud yells as the electricity coursed through him.

"WHOOOOOOOOOOAAAA!" He yelled, suddenly breathing a large burst of fire mixed with the purple electricity at Sawatari, blasting him back into a building, knocking him out cold.

"What… is this!?" Yelled Reiji, instinctively backing away, Yuya's form hadn't changed, he was just suddenly filled with different power, no… his brother's power!

Meanwhile, inside Yuya's mind…

There was a bright light, illuminating seemingly endless darkness, it glowed both blue and green, Yuya could feel immense power emanating from it.

He reached out his arm and grasped it.

Suddenly, it burst violently with electricity, Yuya nearly let go again, it seemed to fight against him.

No… it wasn't fighting him, he just couldn't handle it.

"Damn it… no! I need this power! Come on…!" He yelled, trying to tighten his grip.

Suddenly, a large explosion of electricity came from the energy in his hand, blasting him back.

"What the heck…" Muttered Yugo, staring at the city, "Is that… Yuto?" He asked, "I don't know…" Muttered Yuri, "I've never seen him pull off that kind of power before…" He said.

They stared at the city, it seemed to be exploding with purple electricity.

"What is this power…" Reiji thought as he struggled to keep up a barrier against the explosion of energy in front of him, "He didn't have this kind of power before…" He said.

The dragon had suddenly roared in what sounded a little like pain, and suddenly the energy had exploded out of control, he was yelling, roaring, it was as if he couldn't control the power he was handling.

"What kind of energy is this…" Reiji grunted, he allowed his last spirit to be destroyed so it's power could be added to his, and he focused on identifying the energy Yuya was exploding with.

He could feel it, it felt like the same energy from Pendulum monsters, but there was something else.

He recognized it almost immediately.

"Xyz Energy!?" He yelled, "Did his brother transfer him this power before he passed out!?" He grunted.

"No… he didn't have this much energy left…" He thought, "But there's no other way for him to have this power… Yuto must have unconsciously given him some power… but somehow it's been magnified… is it the Pendulum Energy…?" He thought.

As if somebody had just flicked on a lightbulb, he had a breakthrough.

"...I get it!" He thought, "Pendulum isn't complete yet! He's on the verge of unlocking its true potential!" He yelled. He couldn't help but grin.

Unfortunately, it seemed he wasn't ready, although it seemed he was completely missing the body of his unconscious brother, likely due to his instincts to not attack him.

"This is too dangerous… forgive me Sakaki, but I must end this now!" He yelled, gathering up energy in his core, "Armageddon Cannon!" He yelled, firing a concentrated beam of energy at the dragon.

It struck the dragon square in the chest, the electricity faded immediately.

Yuya began to fall back to the ground, colliding with a great crash, he began to glow again as he reverted back to his human form, completely unconscious.

Reiji gasped for air, it had taken a considerable amount of energy defending against that storm of energy.

"Well… at least that's over…" He muttered, Suddenly, he felt a series of lasers strike him from above.

"Guess who's back!" Yelled Yugo, Yuri behind him with more lasers ready to fire.

Reiji couldn't help but let out a really long sigh.

"That energy came from Yuya… dunno what happened, but seems like it's up to us to kick your ass!" Yelled Yugo, Yuri cracked his knuckles, "For hurting Yuya, I hope you're ready to take the punishment of the Death Sentence…" Yuri said menacingly.

Reiji gathered up energy in his core again, ready to fight some more.

"Team Lancers, PASSED"

Suddenly, Reiji glowed, as did Sawatari, who was just coming back into consciousness.

"Well… it seems that we will have to save our next fight for another day…" Said Reiji, grinning at them. "Oi! Don't you dare run from us!" Yelled Yugo, Yuri glared at him, "I'm going to kill you in your sleep…" he said menacingly.

Suddenly, they glowed and were teleported away from them.

"Tch… Kurosaki must've finally gotten the orb back to the goal…" Said Yuri, "Damn guy was too fast! How the heck does he fly that fast!" Yelled Yugo, "You guys were saved by the bell! That's all!" He yelled angrily.

"We have bigger problems, Yugo…" Said Yuri, smacking him with his tail. "Oh, right!" Yugo exclaimed, flying towards the ground, Yuri sighed and followed him.

"You guys said you'd handle it…" Yugo muttered as he reverted back to his human form and picked up Yuya, Yuri shook Yuto awake, he groaned as he opened his eyes, "Go away, I'm tired…" He muttered, "Good to know that you're alive…" Yuri muttered.

"What are you guys… doing back here…? Muttered Yuya as Yugo helped him up, Yugo sighed, "Kurosaki suddenly got really fast all of a sudden, and I had just been fighting and couldn't keep up…" He said, "But enough of that, what the heck happened here?" He asked.

Yuya racked his brain for an answer but came up empty. "I dunno… I suddenly felt really powerful… but then…" He said as he rubbed his aching head, "I… I don't remember what happened next…" He said, unable to recall what happened afterward.

"Damn though…" Yugo said, looking at their injuries, "You guys got beaten up…" He said. Yuto's face flushed, "W-Well you should have seen the other guy!" He said, "He got knocked into a building!" He said.

"Enough about that…" Yuri said, "What are we gonna do about an orb now?" He asked.

"Stop…" Said the voice of a short, orange-haired girl.

"Hmm?" Said a small-eyed boy with orange hair with red highlights, "What is it, Mieru?" He asked, "You getting a prediction?" He asked.

"Yes, Michio..." She said, her eyes closed as she focused on a blue crystal apple in her hand, another male walked up beside Michio, he wore a fisherman's outfit and even carried around a fishing rod. "You don't actually believe this chick's hocus pocus, do you Michio?" He asked.

Michio nodded, "Surprisingly enough, her predictions tend to come true…" He said, "trust her, Teppei…" He said. The man-Teppei sighed, "Okay, I'll bite…" He said, "What do you see in that crystal apple of yours…" He said.

"I can see it… I can see it…!" She said, opening her eyes wide.

"Well?" Michio said, "What do you see?" He asked.

"…Be on your guard…" She said, "Powerful opponents will reveal themselves before us soon…" She said, Michio stared at Teppei, Teppei looked down at the white orb in his hands.

"…I mean, she might not be wrong…" Teppei said, clutching the orb tighter.

"Any other details?" Michio asked. Mieru nodded at him, "Yes… a team of four, each of them with ferocious power…" She said, staring further into the apple, "One of them has incredible potential, and will be the greatest threat to us…" She said, "He is also my fated o-" She began to say, before stopping suddenly, her face turning red.

"Hm? What's wrong?" Michio asked, Mieru shook her head rapidly, her face red. "No… I must need to work on my divination a bit more…" She said, "Nothing! That's all!" She said, walking past him.

"…Hm… powerful opponents, huh?" Michio said, staring into the sky, he suddenly gave a wide smile, an almost malicious smile, "Interesting…" He said, Teppei stared at him, "Oh boy…" He groaned.

And with that, this chapter comes to an end!

I swear, I thought this chapter was NOWHERE close to being done, until I pressed ctrl+shift+c, and found out I had written 7000+ words, and I thought, "I've already written this much…?"

Also, an important announcement! *Queue the drumroll…*

Welcome… my assistant-that-I-happen-to-know-in-real-life-and-found-out-who-I-was-on-this-website!

Otherwise known as my new editor.

Say hello!

MelodiousYuzu588: Hello!

We met in real life, and she happened to see me typing and found out who I was, turns out she enjoyed my fics! Small world, huh!

MelodiousYuzu588: I asked him if he wanted an editor to review his work before he published, he said yes, and now my job is to just catch things like plot-holes and tell him when something is either "good" or "could use some work"

When we considered the fact that my name was OddEyes588, and that we're both obsessed with Fruitshipping, she decided to name her account after who we both ship Yuya with.

MelodiousYuzu588: I don't even main Melodious lol, it's a secondary main, but I main Clear Wing Speedroids

MelodiousYuzu588: Btw, if you are reading from Archive of Our Own, I'm still waiting on my account, so bear with us!

Anyways, we hope that you continue to enjoy reading this story!

MelodiousYuzu588: Peace!