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Jaden's POV

It had been four very long days. The weekend had dragged on a considerable amount.

There wasn't really much to do.

Dad took us to the beach on the Saturday and Sunday we spent the day as a family, we don't often get many weekends together, so it was nice to spend a little bit of time just the five of us.

Monday I was here on my own, dad had work and Josh had school, it was actually his last week before he finished for summer.

Mum had taken Tessa out to a toddler class for most of the day which meant I just spent the day on my own watching movies.

Well at least trying to watch them.

You see since Friday; I was now in possession of not only one, but two duel spirits.

Yes, I now had two duel spirits.

This was not only an extra voice inside my head, but it was also another opinion to go alongside my own and Yubel's.

Ahh Yubel.

She hadn't taken kindly to Dark Magician's arrival.

Dark Magician, or DK as he had wished to be known, was actually quite cool to have around. The issue was that he and Yubel never stopped arguing.

I didn't mind the odd quarrel every now and again, heck I was famous for them, it was the fact that they didn't stop.

Sometimes I couldn't even sleep because they were arguing.

It was Tuesday, duel day.

The day I got to watch Syrus and Zane duel professionally, live.

I was very excited, though I was pretty sure I was outmatched by my brother who had been telling his entire school he was best friends with professional duellists.

It was the middle of the afternoon, it was hot, the sun was shining, and life was good.

I was laying on with of the loungers in the garden next to my mum as we both watched Josh and my dad, who had taken the whole day off work so he wouldn't make us late for any reason, duel.

When these two duelled it was always incredibly close, however, dad had the upper hand in this one and I wasn't sure whether Joshie was going to be able to make a comeback.

"Now that I've summoned supreme taco, I can activate it's special ability," shouted my dad.

That's right, my dad had a deck made up of food monsters and boy did he know how to use it.

I mean everyone always wondered why I loved food so much, imagine watching your own dad duel with huge food like monsters as a kid, I was doomed from the start.

"I knew that move was coming," said one of the two floating figures above my head.

"No you didn't DK, honestly, I bet you've never even seen these cards before," Yubel said, still incredibly agitated by the wizard.

"Well, I mean, I knew he was going to do something like that," DK said, trying to hide his embarrassed face, "it's not like you had any idea."

Yubel looked at DK, "I mean, I did, I've seen him duel plenty of times before, that move is one of his usual's," she said, smirking at my new friend.

They continued for another five minutes until I'd had enough.

"Right you two, I'm tired of you arguing, DK I will chop your card in half and Yubel, I will continually eat cereal until you can't take it anymore," I said glaring at the two of them.

They both went silent.

"You can't even eat that much cereal," Yubel said, sounding like a little child.

She really hated it when I ate cereal, so much in fact that she tries to float away every time I'm eating it but I remind her that we are connect and even if she does float away, she'll still be able to hear me.

I could see my mother's smirk next to me.

I'd told my family about Dark Magician after they'd asked why I'd gone pale after looking at my new cards.

I couldn't really lie to them; they'd eventually find me talking to him at some point.

"Now you know how it feels to be a parent Jaden," my mother said continuing on with her smirking.

I gave her a glare before turning back to watch the rest of the duel.

If you thought that my family had been shocked to have seen Josh's deck, they were ten times more surprised when I showed them the cards that Solomon had given me.

Dad did eventually win the duel even though my brother had attempted to make a good match of it.

I knew he was still getting used to using his new deck, but I could see the disappointment in his face.

"Chin up kiddo," my dad said as they approached the other loungers close by, "you know for someone who hasn't even been to Duel Academy yet, I had to put everything into the duel just to beat you."

I could see my brother mood change slightly at my father's words.

"Wise words," said DK who had clearly seen the same facial expression on my brother as I had.

We sat chatted for a while before mum got up to make some dinner.

"Susy, you don't need to make anything," my dad said.

Mum looked at my dad with a puzzled expression, waiting for him to continue, "there will be food before the start of the duel, I spoke to Zane and Syrus about it yesterday."

I forgot that my dad had my friends on speed dial.

Ever since I'd found out that my dad was basically a business partner with the Truesdale's, I'd realised he knew more about their daily plans than I did.

We chilled out in the garden for the rest of the afternoon before my dad and mum decided that they were going to get ready for the evening's festivities.

I picked up Tessa who had pretty much been asleep all afternoon and brought her inside to get ready.

I was followed closely by my brother, "Jaden," he said with a hint of hesitation, "why can't I use my cards."

I put Tessa down, who had woken up and scrambled off to find my parents, and then turned to face my brother.

"Josh, you'll get there, it takes time to master a deck, you knew how long it took me to work mine out," I said squatting down to talk to him.

He looked up at me with a small smile.

I knew that my words wouldn't really mean much but there was definitely someone who's words would have an impact. It had taken me quite a while to work out a strategy for my deck when I first got it, so with Josh having cards that no one had even heard of probably made it even more difficult for him to get used to them.

I took my brother upstairs and told him to get ready, before heading to my own room.

I put on a simple white tee, some black jeans and a pair on black converse before heading back downstairs.

I didn't want to go overboard and dress up like I was heading to a meeting. I just felt as though I needed to do me and dress casual.

I grabbed all the bits I'd usually take out, my phone, my wallet, my key, etc and made my way to meet my parents.

I turned around to look at my family who were also all coming out of their rooms, they had all dressed quite smart.

My dad wore a white shirt with a waistcoat with a blazer over the top.

My mum had gone with a simple dress and heels whilst my brother and sister were both in rather smart looking attire.

I suddenly felt under dressed for the evenings proceedings.

"You know Jaden, maybe you should change into something a little smarter," I heard DK say from behind me.

I spun around to see that he had actually changed into a smart outfit.

"DK, why have you changed, no one can see us but Jaden," Yubel said laughing at my other duel spirit.

"You know Yubel, it doesn't harm to make yourself look the part every once in a while," DK said in response.

I smirked.

"Jaden, aren't you going to wear something more formal than that," my mum said clearly not pleased with my choice of clothing, "this is our first night out as a family in a while and we're going somewhere rather posh."

I didn't really see going to a duel as 'posh' but I understood her point.

"Mum, if I turn up to the duel in a suit or something, Syrus and Zane will think I've lost my mind," I said in response.

They hadn't really seen me wear anything else other than my Duel Academy gear, but I knew they wouldn't be able to picture me wearing any else than this.

My mum eventually agreed to allow me to wear the outfit I had on and we made our way out of the house.

Dad had ordered a taxi to get us there because he didn't really fancy driving and he knew that the traffic would be horrendous.

It took just over 30 minutes for us to get to the duel arena, traffic was even worse than expected.

Mum had made sure that we had left early enough so that, if a situation like this did arise, we would be at the stadium in plenty of time.

Once we had arrived, we made our way towards the VIP entrance, Zane had sent my dad (see dad knows everything) a text with all the details we needed once we'd arrived.

I looked at the short line heading into the VIP entrance and guided my family towards.

Syrus and Zane had told us to get to the stadium early enough so that we could go in with them once they'd also arrived.

The slight issue was that there was a fair few of their fans also waiting just outside the entrance to catch a glimpse of them.

We waited a couple of minutes before a black car pulled up just outside the arena.

I thought it would be my friends at first but out stepped a rather large man.

"That's Victor Stoichiev," my brother said, "he's the number one ranked Russian duellist."

I'd heard my brother talk about him before. Apparently Stoichiev used dirty tactics in his duels to beat his opponents. My brother had always told me he was a good duellist, he just had a rotten attitude apparently.

You could clearly see from his facial expression that he was less than impressed with the commotion outside the arena.

"Nice of you to come see me wipe the floor with your star duellist," Stoichiev said pushing his way past a few reporters, "you all may as well go home, he's not going to win."

As Stoichiev passed me I knew I didn't like him straight away, he was one of those guys that didn't sit right with me.

"You know Stoichiev, you should probably wait until after the duel to do your bragging," said the familiar voice of Zane.

Stoichiev turned to face my friend who had just gotten out of the car that he and Syrus had travelled in.

He walked back towards him, "oh really Truesdale," he said getting a little too close for a few peoples liking.

The press was all over this, getting their cameras nice and close in the face of the two duellists.

Zane smirked before putting out a hand, "may the best duellist win."

Stoichiev looked at the gesture for a minutes before swatting it away and stomping off inside.

"Jeez, what a nice guy," Syrus said coming up behind his brother.

A roar went out at the sight of the two brothers and they waved to their adoring fans, once Stoichiev had gone inside.

My mother and father clapped at the two duellists whilst, without their knowledge, my sister had recognised Zane and made a b-line past the barricade, straight for tonight's star attraction

My mother looked horrified as my sister ran up to Zane, who had clearly not registered her, as he was smiling out into the crowd, waving as the camera did a double duty, taking pictures of him being ambushed by my sister.

"Ahh," he said noticing the small human wrapped around his legs, "there's my favourite four-year-old duellist in the making," he said picking her up as she attached herself to his neck.

He looked around at where she had come from.

He spotted us in the crowd, spoke to one of his bodyguards, before motioning for the rest of us to come forward and join them.

We made our way to the front, the large security guard giving us access to the entrance walkway and went over to see Zane and Syrus.

"I'm sorry about that Zane, I didn't mean for her to run to you," mum said incredibly embarrassed.

"Oh, it's not a problem, it's nice to have someone running over to you at these for anything other than an autograph," he said, handing my resisting sister back over to my mother.

We said a quick hello whilst Zane did his customary interview.

As my family were listening to my brother talk to Syrus about his improvement with his deck, I tuned in to listen to questions that Zane was being asked.

"Finally, Zane," one reporter said, "who are the people that joined you on the walkway just a minute ago."

"Oh, well, it's actually a friend from Duel Academy and his family who have come to watch tonight," he said.

"A friend from Duel Academy, has he ever duelled professionally before," the reporter said clearly trying to see if there was a story out there to be had.

"No, but I can tell you that he is probably the best duellist I have ever faced," Zane said turning to face me.

Suddenly all the cameras turned to face me and people in the crowd started to whisper. They had clearly wanted that as a story.

I gave a quick little wave before turning back to the conversation Syrus and my brother were having.

"We're going to make front page news," DK said, smiling and posing for the camera, "quick Yubel, pose for the camera."

Yubel sighed in frustration.

I laughed, "DK, they can't see you pal."

I could see the deflation in the body language of DK.

I got some strange looks from people as they thought I was talking to myself.

Syrus turned to look at me, "who's DK," he said sounding rather confused.

"Let's go inside and I'll explain," I said to my friend, trying to avoid the strange stares.

Announcing that I had a second duel spirit in front of all these people wasn't top of my list of things to accomplish this evening.

Once Zane had wrapped up his interviews, we headed inside and made our way over to their VIP suite in the skyline of the arena.

"Wow," my brother said, running to the window to look down at the duelling field once we'd made it inside, "this is even better than I imagined."

We got ourselves settled and I quickly told Syrus and Zane about the cards, Dark Magician and the fact that he was a duel spirit like Yubel.

"Wait," Zane said looking rather flustered, "you're telling me you now also have a Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl card."

"And Dark Magician is a duel spirit," Syrus said looking even more confused.

"Yeah," I said nodding at my friends, "but don't tell anyone, I don't want to make it a big deal."

Both Syrus and Zane agreed to keep the card a secret until I felt like telling other people about it.

"You're definitely duelling me with it though," Zane said smiling at me.

I nodded in response. I hadn't told them about the fusion monster. It might be a good surprise to give them should I ever actually duel them with it.

Everybody stood and talked for a few more minutes, my brother was trying to find out everything he could about other professional duellists from Zane, Syrus was talking to my mum and dad about duelling and my sister was rather engaged with one spoon she had found on the dining table.

Not long after the food was served and man, there was such an array of food there that I thought I might actually pass out.

I started to gather my portion of food together as someone else entered the room.

"Sorry I'm late," said a familiar voice, "I got caught up at work and then got stuck in the traffic."

I turned with a huge smile as looked at my old friend.

He caught my eyes immediately, "Jaden Yuki, well I never, it must be Christmas," Bastion Misawa said coming over towards me.

Like many of the others, Bastion was another of my old friends that I'd not really spoken to much, I'd actually bumped into him a few times because he lived relatively close to me but really, I hadn't seen him much at all in the last few years.

"Bastion," I said meeting my friend halfway, "I didn't know you were coming."

"That's my fault Jay," Syrus said standing up from between my father and brother at the table, "I invited you guys without telling you so it would be a nice surprise."

Syrus was right, it was a nice surprise.

We all gathered the rest of our food and sat and ate together at the table. I introduced Bastion to the rest of my family who, like Syrus and Zane, was surprised to have even met them.

Zane and Syrus departed in order to go and get ready for their duels but the rest of us stayed and finished our food.

Bastion and my father spoke about work and their businesses for a while, turns out their businesses were scheduled to be working together on a project in the not so distant future.

Dad really does like to get involved with my friends careers whilst he works I thought to myself.

Once my family and Bastion had finished the food, we made our way outside to watch the duels take place.

There had been some early duels, but we'd missed most of those for the food, we were really just here to see Zane and Syrus.

Syrus was up first, both him and Zane were the headliners but Syrus was up first because the skill level of his opponent was as good as Zane's.

He didn't really take very long to claim victory.

He'd pretty much backed his opponent in a corner from his third turn and it was plain sailing from then on.

"I must admit, Syrus hasn't half improved since Duel Academy," I said turning to face Bastion.

"I know, the way in which he put his opponent in a corner right away was very impressive, it's no wonder he's ranked so highly on the tour circuit," Bastion said, studying the strategy that Syrus had used.

I could tell that Bastion was good at his job just by the way he studied the duel even if he wasn't at work.

Syrus had put away his opponent easily before exiting to loud cheers from the crowd.

"Finally," Bastion said as Syrus disappeared into the tunnel, "it's main event time."

I looked at my friend rather puzzled.

"I knew that Zane was duelling in it obviously, but I'm interested to see his opponent, Victor Stoichiev."

I shuddered, Stoichiev gave me the creeps.

"His strategy of duelling is fascinating," Bastion said, clearly, he admired the Russian, "It's just so 'brute force', it's like he doesn't think about anything just goes for it, it works for him though."

Just as Bastion finished, Stoichiev made his entrance to a chorus of boos and whistle's.

He definitely didn't look happy.

"I hope Zane gets his game on," Bastion said smiling at me.

I hadn't told him about me not duelling. In fact, I hadn't used my catchphrase in a long time.

Zane came out looking confident.

Clearly, he had a strategy and he knew what he was doing.

Once the duel had started, I could clearly see what Bastion was talking about earlier, Stoichiev was going at Zane straight away.

As the duel continued on, Stoichiev gained more ground and I could see the worry in Zane's face.

I must admit the Russian was good, really good.

Zane managed to recover; I mean you wouldn't be ranked as high as Zane was if you didn't have contingencies. He'd put Stoichiev in a corner and looked comfortable.

Stoichiev: 500 LP

Zane: 1200 LP

"Well Victor, this has been fun but I think I'm going to have to call it a night so I have three options for you, one surrender, two stop whilst you're ahead or three forget his duel happened and I'll see you at the world championships," Zane said confidently.

"Hmm, all tempting offers," said the Russian, "but I think I'll go with four, I win."

Everyone in the stadium looked confused but then started laughing.

This angered Stoichiev who clearly didn't like being laughed at, but he smirked as he drew his card.

That was never a good sign I thought to myself.

Bastion smiled and my family were entranced by the entire thing.

"Oh Zane," Bastion said shaking his head.

I didn't understand until I looked back at the duel.

Stoichiev held up a card in the air and Zane's face had turned to worry.

"Oh, so you know this card," Stoichiev said smiling at Zane, "I play, wheel of chalice."

Bastion stood up in shock.

"What," I said to my friend.

"Jaden," he said his face turning pale, "Zane's lost."

For a second I had to laugh, "you're joking, there's no way, he's so comfortable, Stoichiev doesn't have any monsters."

Bastion turned to look at me, "exactly that's why he's won, he lured Zane into a trap Jaden."

I turned to look back at the duel.

I couldn't believe it, Zane was about to lose.

But how?

"Impossible," Zane said, "that's….."

"At a loss for words Zane," Stoichiev said, "here let me help, once this card is activated, you take 500 points of damage for the number of chalice monster cards I have in my grave and I take damage equal to the amount of chalice monsters I have on my side of the field."

"No way," shouted my brother next to me.

"So," Stoichiev said, clearly gloating now, "since I don't have any monsters left on my field, I take 0 damage and you take, wait yes that's right, I have three in my grave, which means you take 1500 points of damage."

I was in complete shock.

No way I said to myself, Zane can't have lost.

With a flash of smoke, a wheel with several hands appeared in front of Zane and smacked him well off the duel arena field.

I looked up at the big board.

Stoichiev: 500 LP

Zane: 0 LP

Everyone in the arena started to applaud, clearly they admired a great duellist.

"That was some risk he took," said Bastion who had already turned to head back into our VIP room.

I watched as Stoichiev marched off the stage, not even acknowledging the crowd and went straight over to Zane bending down over him.

Everyone in the crowd looked shocked as Stoichiev stood over a prone Zane and bent down to him.

"Not so tough now are you Truesdale," said Stoichiev, kicking Zane hard in the ribs as he walked off.

The crowd lost it with Stoichiev at that point, booing and throwing things at him as he marched off laughing.

That just about did it for me in terms of my opinion of Stoichiev, as far as I was concerned, I hated him.

Zane stood slowly, brushing the dirt off his clothes.

The crowd gave a huge roar and Zane responded smiling and waving as he left, gingerly.

"You know, I wasn't expecting that kind of reaction after him losing," DK said, he was sat a couple of seats to my left, well sort of.

"Yeah, I was expecting him to be rather cross," Yubel said, actually agreeing with DK.

"I don't know what is more surprising the fact that Zane lost or you two agreed on something," I said getting up slowly out of my seat, laughing and joining the others inside.

After about 30 minutes Zane and Syrus joined us in the VIP suite. I could tell that Syrus was livid just by the look on his face whilst Zane seemed far calmer than his younger brother.

Honestly, I was just completely confused.

"Are you okay," I said to Zane who made his way over to the seated area.

Zane looked up at me and smiled, "oh Jaden please, Stoichiev is a good duellist, I wasn't expecting the kick at the end I must say but I can get my revenge at the World Championships."

I was baffled, "wait so you're not mad," I said, trying to hide my surprised.

Zane laughed, "no, I've lost to far worse the Stoichiev anyway, plus, tonight wasn't about winning, I already know my seeding, I just wanted to check out some of the competition."

Behind Zane, I could see Syrus getting more and more frustrated, "Zane come on, he can't just kick you whilst you're down, I don't care who he is, I'll show him how a true man duels."

Zane smiled at his brother before ruffling his hair.

Everyone laughed as Syrus tried to get Zane to stop but his older brother was having none of it.

"Well," my mother said, "I must say you were both brilliant, even despite the result, but we must make a move as it is getting late and SOME of us have to be up early tomorrow," she said looking directly at me.

I laughed slightly at her slightly before we all said our goodbyes, departed and me and the family headed home for bed.

Neutral POV

Victor Stoichiev got out his car, heading in towards his hotel.

"Honestly, I don't even care who I duel next, I'm winning everything," he said down the phone.

He made his way to his room and shut the door, "yeah, exactly no-one can beat me," he said laughing down the phone to whoever was on the other end.

Suddenly, a noise came from within the bathroom of his hotel room.

Stoichiev shot around to see who it was, "oi, Truesdale, is that you," he said putting the phone on the bed.

He made his way over to the bathroom, "I'll give you five seconds to come out, five, four, three, tw…"

Suddenly, the room went black, "right what's goin…"and all the was left was Stoichiev's screams as a ghostly figure stood over him.

There you go ladies and gents, there's your duel chapter.

What did you make of it all, Bastion's back, DK seems like a character and what did you make of Stoichiev?

What do you think happened to him?

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