Chapter 7; shed light on the scars, versus Wave

Jet's mind was trying to weight the situation. He was in the middle of the duel cup, at the beginning of his duel and had to win his duel plus find out if Wave the swallow was a singed one. But it wasn't possible to just ask her if he wasn't sure. Let alone that they were dueling in the middle of a stadium which was full of people. He approached Wave.

"May we?" he asked.

"Of course" she replied.

They exchanged decks and Wave started shuffling Jet's deck. But when Jet touched Wave's deck he felt something like a spark going through his body and suddenly the deck seemed too heavy to hold it. He had noticed it when Knuckles and Amy asked him to shuffle their decks so they could practice draw. When he was shuffling he felt their deck being heavier than a pile of cards would be. Wave's deck was no different. Maybe that meant that Wave was indeed a singed one. But there was no way to contact Sonic in order to confirm this. He shuffled Wave's deck and gave it back to her. Then they both stood at their places on the field and activated their duel disks.

"Let's see the unity between your samurais." Said Wave

That left Jet in shock. Wave didn't look at his deck when she was shuffling. And it was his first duel here. He couldn't realise why she knew his deck's archetype wen suddenly a thought came in his mind, something he never knew. It was not actually a thought but a knowledge. The knowledge of Wave's deck archetype. He couldn't explain how he knew it but he knew it.

"Oh they sure have unity as a team. Their unity is strong enough to defeat even Blue-eyes white dragon."

He saw Wave's eyes widening when he spoke the words "Blue-eyes white dragon".

"Are you…?" she started asking

"Am I what?"

"Never mind let's just begin."

"As you wish."

"LET'S DUEL"

"I'll start. I draw. I activate the spell six samurai united and the continuous spell gateway of the six . Now I summon the legendary six samurai enishi in attack mode. This gives my united 1 counter and 2 counters to gateway. Next I special summon grandmaster of the six samurai due to me controlling already a samurai. This puts united's counter to 2 so I destroy it to draw 2 cards. Then I remove 4 counters from the gateway to add legendary six samurai kageki in my hand from my deck. I place 1 card face down before ending my turn."

"Then my turn. I draw. Very good. I summon maiden with eyes of blue. Next I activate wonder wand and equip it with maiden. So she gains 500 atk points. Plus because she was targeted by my effect I can special summon the powerful engine of destruction from my deck in attack position."

"Uh oh. So early?"

"Take flight my friend. BLUE-EYES WHITE DRAGON!"

"Friend? Did she just call the card her friend? Sure cards are our 'friends' but you don't refer to them like they are alive." Jet wondered.

" Next I activate cards of consonance. I discard the white stone of legend to draw 2 cards. But because I discarded it a blue-eyes springs in my hand. Afterwards I send maiden to the graveyard with her wand to draw 2 cards. And the cards I've drawn where my 3rd blue-eyes and trade in. Trade in allows me to discard an 8 level monster like blue-eyes to draw 2 cards."

At the seats

"That's too much drawing power. She will one shot Jet if this keeps up." Knuckles said

"No she won't" said Sonic.

"What do you mean?" Amy asked

"I think that somehow they knew each others' deck type. Jet is surely prepared." He said smiling although inside of him he was not so sure "You must last Jet. Long enough to find out if she is a singed one. If she is maybe she knows about the past. Maybe even something we don't know. Or even the one who rebelled. So for this sake… you must win!"

Back at the arena

Let's bring out the power. I activate the magic cards silver's cry and ancient rules! Now I can summon one blue-eyes from my graveyard and one from my hand. Come on out my pals!"

"Again" Jet thought while watching in horror as the 2 blue-eyes joined the third on the field " why does she refer to them as her friends?"

"Are you three ready?" Wave asked

The three dragons looked at her and roared.

"Let's begin. Blue- eyes number 1. Destroy enishi."

"AAAH" (JET LP 6700)

"Blue-eyes number 2 deal with the grandmaster!"

"By discarding shien's squire my grandmaster is not destroyed. AAAH" (JET LP 5800)

"Ok then. You'll take a direct attack even with a monster. 3rd blue-eyes attack grandmaster. And I chain with honest so my dragon gains your monster's attack points so the attack is like a direct one. GO. Burst stream of destruction!"

"AAAAAAAH" (JET LP 2800)

" I set two cards and end my turn."

"Wow" he thought " so much power and harmonical strategy and flow of cards all in one deck with blue-eyes dragons. This will be a tough fight."

"My turn then. I draw. Time to fight back. I summon legendary six samurai kageki. His effect brings forth my kagemusha of the six samurai. Now I activate the magic card six style triple impact. Because I control 3 samurais I can destroy all face up monsters on your field."

"NOOOOO".

The 3 blue-eyes we annihilated.

"Mark my words, I will get you guys back."

Jet was too shocked to worry about Wave talking to her monsters.

Now I tune my level 2 tuner kagemusha with my level 3 non tuner kageki to synchro summon my ace legendary six samurai Shi en!"

At the seats

"All right. Jet's got this in the bag." Amy said.

"I guess she is not a singed one after all." Sonic thought disappointed.

"Cheer up Sonic. The whole thing with our marks has obsessed you. I'm telling you. We'll get to the bottom of this." Amy tried to cheer him up.

" I know but all this is unexplainable. They know each other's decks before the duel. the fight so fiercely, Wave seems to have some kind of bond with her monsters. Don't you see?"

"Yeah definitely weird." Amy agreed.

Back at the arena

Now I activate the my gateway's effect to remove 4 out of its 6 counters to add a legendary six samurai kizan from my deck. And I special summon him because he has the same effect as grandmaster. But his summoning gives 2 more counters to my gateway making them 4 so I repeat this process and summon yet another kizan. It's over Wave. I have 4 samurais each with more than 2000 attack. Shi en you go first!

"I play the trap mirror force."

"Shi en's effect negates a spell or trap effect during each turn."

"Noo! AAAAAHH" (Wave LP 5500)

"Kizans, strike!

"AAAAAH" (Wave LP 1300)

"Grandmaster. End this."

"I activate the trap defense draw. I take no damage and draw a card."

"Fine I end my turn with a face down."

"So she survived" Sonic thought "good."

"My turn. Draw. I activate another silver's cry."

"Shi en negates it."

"Exactly what I wanted. I play dark factory of mass production. This card allows me to add 2 normal monsters in my graveyard to my hand. 2 of my blue-eyes come back to me. Next I set a monster and end my turn."

"Only that? It is really over. My turn I draw. Kizan destroy the set monster."

"Right into my trap. My set monster was apprentice piper."

"NOOOOO" Jet said scared.

At the seats

"Sonic what is apprentice piper?" Amy asked him

"A card that I never thought I would see in a deck. It is normal rare but with low stats. But she used it effectively. Because it was flipped face up and the destroyed, Wave can summon 1 monster for the flip and 1 for the destruction of the piper."

"But… that would mean…."

At the arena

"I summon my 2 blue-eyes white dragons to the field!"

"Darn. Ok then. I activate one day of piece. No one of us has taken damage so I can play it. We both draw a card and we don't take damage for my turn and your turn. Go on."

"Time to avenge my dragons. Draw. I activate dragon's mirror. With this my dragons are removed from play along with the third one in my graveyard."

"Th.. this is…."

"The summoning of MY ace. Come on out partner! BLUE-EYES ULTIMATE DRAGON!"

"The most powerful blue-eyes monster." Jet said in awe

"Correct. Next I activate my spell card stamping ground to destroy your set card."

"Shi en negate it!"

"Predictable. I activate my real-plan spell card. Neutron blast! Now my dragon attack you 3 times and you can't play any effects to counter it. Maybe you won't take any damage but all your monsters will go down. Attack! Ultimate burst!"

The kizans fell. Then…

"Take out shi en!

"Shi en saves himself by destroing the grandmaster instead. And this effect isn't negated by neutron blast."

Shi en used his sword to stop the dragon's attack but suddenly he attacked it.

"What?" Wave said shocked looking at Shi en trying to eliminate the Ultimate.

"So you are.." Jet said.

"I am what?" She asked

Jet revealed his right arm and showed her the mark of the lunar dragon. Wave's eyes widened. Jet's mark started shining suddenly. So did Wave's right arm. She revealed it. A sign like a tail could be seen. But before they could notice, the sky darkened. The collision of the ultimate dragon and Shi en created bolts of electricity around them. The bolts came together and formed a giant long blue dragon that opened its wings and roared and terrified the whole stadium. At the seats Sonic Amy and Knuckles saw their marks shining as well.

"Could this be…?" Knuckles said scared

"The lunar dragon." Sonic said while comparing the dragon's head with his mark only to see the exact same thing. "Jet and Wave summoned it."

"What now?" Amy said

Suddenly the dragon turned his eyes to Sonic.

"What the?"

And it started flying down on him.

"SONIC WATCH OUT!"

Sonic was frozen in place. he closed his eyes and waited for the dragon to slam him. At the same time he felt Amy grabbing his arm and embracing it hard. But the slamming never came. Sonic opened his eyes only to see Shi en and the ultimate standing there. The lunar dragon was gone. He heard the announcer saying that this was just a malfunction in the system that took the shape of a dragon. Jet and Wave were shocked.

"Yes" she said " I am a singed one."

"When did you become one? 3 days ago?"

"What? No. I was a singed one ever since I was born."

"What? Then you may know more."

"More..?"

"Let's end this. Me and my friends know about this whole 'signed' thing. We can discuss this then."

"Ok then let's continue. I play the trap card unfinished business. If a monster summoned from the extra deck couldn't eliminate a monster from your extra deck it attacks again. Then it is destroyed. And in my end phase I can summon one of the monsters used for its summon. Ultimate. Kill Shi en."

Ultimate killed Shi en but Shi en threw his sword before he was destroyed and it landed on Ultimate's heart destroying it.

"Now I end my turn with a final face down card =. Come forth Blue-eyes! Make your move Jet"

"Ok" he thought "If I draw a summonable samurai monster I win. Anything else I lose. Come on deck."

"My turn. I draw. Yes! I summon kagemusha of the six samurai. Then I play the quick play spell cunning of the six samurai. Now kagemusha dies and Shi en emerges from the graveyard in his place. Think of it as human alchemy. Now I play my final card. The trap six style duel wield. It can only be played if I control only one six samurai monster. 2 of the cards you control go back to your hand!"

"Say what?"

"Shi en attack Wave directily and end this duel!"

"AAAAH" (Wave LP 0)

"Good game Jet."

"Indeed. Now come. We need to talk."

She followed Jet and met his friends.

"Jet told me you guys know of… this" she said showing her right hand

"Yeah we know."

"Could you please enlighten me a bit?"

"Of course" Amy said

"Wait. Shadow, rouge can you please leave the 5 of us alone?"

"Why?" they both asked.

"We have to discuss about the dragon that appeared."

"But it was a malfunction."

"No it was not. But once we make clear what happened we'll tell you everything. But not now. Please."

"Ok whatever. Rouge you want anything from the cafeteria?"

"I'll come with you I need to stretch myself a bit I rusted sitting."

They left. Amy looked at Rouge leaving.

"Finally she is out of here. I just can't stand her skimpy character.

"Amy we'll discuss this later." Sonic said closing this conversation "Now. Wave before we tell you what we know, when did you get this mark?"

"I was born with it. My parents hid it from everyone. But when I first came in contact with duel monsters I could hear the cards whispering to me. When I received my blue-eyes cards this mark shined. And at the same night after 4 AM I my room darkened. I woke up due to the loss of the moonlight that was entering from the window. I went outside and saw my 3 blue-eyes in front of me sitting there just looking. Then they all leaned their heads and got me to pet them."

"What? Pet them?" knuckles said surprised.

"Yes pet them. I felt so happy that moment. But the years that followed were hell. No one in school believed this. Soon they started bullying me. I changed school but I hardly had any friends. My only friends were these cards. One night about 5 months ago I was looking at the sky and the shooting stars wishing for friends. Suddenly my mark started shining and I heard a voice behind me. I turned and saw a man dressed in a weird priest suit."

" Can you describe him? And tell me exactly everything he told you."

"He was tall with a gray beard. His suit had a dragon like symbol on it."

"That's him. I saw him the day before yesterday." Sonic said shocked

"Really? And what did he tell you?"

"That we 5 were chosen as the warriors of the lunar dragon. But originally we were 6. One though rebelled. Our spirits then entered an eternal fight through the ages and times but his hatred for me could never be destroyed. We also had visions of the past. We saw the battle with that guy where someone like me died while supposedly you 4 destroyed him. Afterwards I end Jet saw ourselves summoning that dragon with all of us and the one who rebelled for the first time and finally we saw ourselves having a discussion with the priest."

"The vision with summoning the dragon. I had it too. And I was at the 'back line' and I'm pretty sure I was right next to the one who rebelled."

"You saw him?" Sonic said in anxiety " how was he? Can you describe him to me?"

"No his face was not visible in the dark room that we were in. But I clearly saw him staring at you with hatred on his face."

"Darn still no clue." Sonic said disappointed.

"All this scares me" Wave said " I never liked supernatural things. And we're living in one."

"As Amy said, we'll get to the bottom of this. Right now we should let it go. After all Shadow and Rouge are back."

"Hmph thank god it's my battle now I won't be around her" she said angry.

The announcer started announcing

"AAAAND NOOOOWW! THE FINAL MATCH OF THE FIRST ROUND!" DUELISTS STEP IN THE ARENAAAAA!"

Amy's opponent walked in the arena. Amy's eyes widened when she saw him.

"Oh no. Not him!"

"What's wrong Ames?" Sonic asked.

"It's an old classmate of mine. I mean Storm the guy standing there right now. He had a crush on me. He asked me on a date and I refused. But he kept trying and kept making me feel uncomfortable. He is a good guy but I just can't see him another way other than a friend. What should I do?"

"Amy relax. Just be yourself and stand your ground. Show him that he should let go of something if it is hopeless like his crush on you."

Amy thought of it for a second and smiled while looking at him.

"What would I do without you?"

Sonic smiled back

"Go. And win!"

"Of course I will." She said.

But before leaving she jumped and jugged him. Sonic blushed momentarily but hugged her back. Amy then headed for the arena to face Storm.