【07 - Rematch on Campus! The Whereabouts of the Other Chosens?】


Heidi awoke to a knock on her door. She jolted and winced, her body indeed sore from being thrown around so much yesterday. Her hair a mess, she blinked blearily at an antique wall clock ticking away. It was barely past seven in the morning, surely this was a joke? Another few knocks. Throwing her covers back with a growl she winced some more, wearing nothing but her shirt over her underwear. The comfy full pajamas she loved had not gone in her rucksack before leaving. A moment of fiddling with the door before she yanked it open.

Timothy, Soroban and Iwate were dressed in casual clothes. It looked weird on them, like school kids out-of-uniform. Timothy was wearing a tidy blue turtleneck and brown trousers; he turned his head away immediately as if she were naked.

"What?" Heidi snapped to them, face still droopy and a drool-stain on her cheek.

"We were wondering if you wanted to get breakfast with us." Soroban was giving her awkwardly forced smile, Iwate's wide eyes on the floor.

"That's why you guys woke me?"

"The sun's been up for almost two hours Heidi…"

She clenched the door-handle, considered slamming it shut and crawling back into bed. But then Soroban continued "All the students are up and eating in the dining hall."

Heidi considered. She was curious about the other students. She'd always been able to beat everyone easy back home, with the exception of her family. The idea of new competition intrigued her.

"I have to shower."

"We'll escort you to the lavatory." Soroban was still trying to smile, Timothy and Iwate still silent and pointedly not looking at her.

"Fine. Gimme a minute." Heidi closed the door and went looking for pants, her jacket, her other shirt. Then she opened the door when a tad more decent, hair flattened somewhat, spit and the crust beneath her eyes wiped off. "Let's go."

The four of them walked together in silence. Heidi yawned, still not awake enough to be talkative. She wondered if the others were quiet because they were still upset about their friend Wembley. The three must be here under Narciel's orders, he didn't want her running off again.

They turned a few corners, chandeliers hanging at regular intervals between the wooden arched ceiling. They made their way up broad, angular staircases with a red fabric surface. A few teens her age passed in the full white uniform Tsukumo wore, going about their business. They reached the girls lavatory and Heidi went in, promising the others she'd be quick. The tiles were up the walls as well, everything aquamarine and green. The gold-coloured taps at the row of sinks were dolphin-shaped. Heidi found a cubicle and tried being quick, the steamy water relaxed her muscles somewhat but scrubbing with the body-soap gel dispensers caused a few aches and pains.

She got out, redressed, exited into the hallway scrubbing her hair dry. Heidi's dutiful guides had been leaning against the wall waiting, they straightened up without complaint.

Iwate glanced at a leather wristwatch similar to his boss's "We better get moving or we'll miss out on food."

On the east corner of the school, first level was the big dining room cafeteria. Instead of your typical school the tables were also lacquered wood and so were the bench seats, gold-colored cutlery and crystal glasses. The room was loud with chatter and scraping plates, students leaving the marble counter with trays of food to find a seat, others leaving tables with friends and emptying their trays into bin-drawers. Heidi stood and took in the sight for a moment while the three accompanying her waited. There could've been two-hundred students in this wide room alone, she saw at a raucous far table the blonde Tsukumo was chattering with friends.

Those kids with him were also attractive, also clean-cut. The populars. Her anger from yesterday reared inside, she stormed toward the cafeteria to get her food. There was no line, most everyone was finishing up.

"What'll it be, dear?" An old woman with a hairnet asked her.

"Ahh…" she examined the remaining options behind the hot glass counter. "I'll have a ham and cheese croissant, and an orange juice please."

"Coming right up."

After the four had their trays they walked to a vacant table and sat down.

"Am I supposed to be a student here now?" Heidi looked around at all the white-uniformed kids while cutting into her meal. She didn't fit in with this air of privilege at all.

"I doubt it." Timothy answered her, cutting into his omelet with the same perfect etiquette of his peers. "It's safer here but Narciel and Engyo have special missions for you, and they want you to have private training and not in a classroom. This is just where we're staying." He popped a forkful into his mouth and chewed, then raising his hand to keep talking without her seeing his mouthful "Narciel wants to see you after, by the way."

Heidi gave up, dropped her cutlery and picked up the croissant. She bit into it like it was a slab of meat, pastry flecking the table when she asked "How long have you guys been out of your temple or whatever and staying here?"

None of them were wearing the plain white uniforms like everyone else.

"Two or three weeks." Timothy answered, taking a sip of blackberry juice.

Heidi stared out through the far window-wall at the garden fields outside, daydreaming as she finished her breakfast. If Tsukumo noticed her he didn't act like it. When he stood up with his posse to go she glared after him. A rematch was due, she could feel it. The soreness of her body protested but as soon as she was done with Narciel's business she was going to restructure her deck around her new cards and challenge him to a duel. She was the phoenix duelist after all. Payback would be had…

On the upstairs level Narciel was waiting for her in a very technical-looking room. Unlike his disciples he was still piously wearing religious white robes that had a black phoenix insignia on the back. Heidi wondered if all his clothes were custom-made.

"Thank you for bringing her Timothy, Iwate, Soroban…" the bearded man nodded formally, straight-backed. "You can go now and pick her up again at twelve for lunch."

"Yes, Sir." They departed with smiles of farewell to Heidi, closing the door behind them.

"You really don't want me to be by myself, do you?"

"It's for your own best interests." Narciel responded, turning back to the screen. "Now Heidi, thank you again for agreeing to help us. It should go without saying that the DMA is willing to offer you a full scholarship and other funding for the rest of your life seeing as you are the chosen fire duelist, but first we must deal with the issue of our inter-dimensional enemies." He turned to watch her with a single eye "my organization is also willing to open its doors to you, we are happy to accept devoted new members into our monastery."

Heidi blinked at him. Narciel picked up a small remote "but that is neither here nor there. The important details we need to discuss today are these individuals."

Pressing a button he showed her a slideshow full of photos and names "Most of these are blurry and some of these images show very little detail at all, mostly they came from security camera footage. These nine individuals are the lieutenants we know of thus far…"

Heidi narrowed her eyes at them. Plenty of the photos were hard to see. She noticed that plenty of these figures dressed in odd or outdated clothing. Eccentric – she could see robes, goth attire, even someone in a cape. One man in a red-black checkered suit. One picture was taken from high-up, Kaido Felgrass walking into a government building flanked by his agent-looking underlings. Her fists clenched. Of all the suspects whose eyes were visible they were unusual, bright and monochromatic. Standing out as if they were contact lenses. Some only had one name known.

Narciel continued "they seem to be working under a 'general' who we know nothing about…"

"General Urobach." Heidi blinked suddenly, the older man turned to look at her. "Urusai told me."

"They're not very tight-lipped about a lot of information. Seems like they don't believe we pose a threat to their organization in any way."

"Is Urobach their leader?"

"We've received some information to suggest he's also an underling. But to who or what we have no idea. He seems to be the one these lieutenants answer to, in any case."

Heidi looked back to the screen and saw Urusai dangling from a flagpole in the far right picture.

"What happened to Urusai Torcan? Is she alive?"

"She's unconscious at the moment. She broke four bones and had internal bleeding."

Metalwing Skyterror did all that? "Did you hand her over to the police?"

And again Narciel examined her with just a single eye "We're keeping her condition stable with our private medical personnel for the moment… We do owe you a big thanks, Heidi. Now that we have one of their lieutenants we can finally get answers to all our questions and more. This wouldn't have been possible if it weren't for you, before now we haven't been able to defeat one of them in a duel."

"…you're keeping Urusai prisoner?"

"She has no records. No information apart from what she forged. She really has come from another dimension. As such she has no citizenship here, or anywhere."

They're going to torture her to get out everything they can. Heidi realized. They're going to keep her locked away forever and do whatever they want. She's injured and in their care. She didn't know how she felt about this information. The Dawn of the Phoenix keeping her hidden from authorities for their own agenda was strange. Considering Urusai was one of the bad guys and threatening their planet she supposed she had no right to feel bad for her.

Narciel pressed a button to the next slide. Four clear new photos of teenagers her age and a map of Aurellia "And these are the other chosen duelists."

Heidi's eyes widened as she looked at each one in turn. These were the people destined to help her save the world. Immediately she felt a bite of strong kinship. The other chosens… each photo was bordered in a different colour, an arrow pointing to a different location on the planet.

"Supernova Mercury Gigablizzard, Supernova Venus Ia Saint Mother, Supernova Jupiter King Empire and Supernova Pluto Deathbringer are all phoenixes that awakened prior to yours." Narciel began "It's funny, after all our extensive study we predicted the fire phoenix to awaken first and for the nature civilization to be last but the very opposite happened. Indeed it seems the phoenixes are working together, they chose their heroes very carefully and although each chosen is highly reminiscent of what their element stands for it's not always in the ways we expect. Not at all…" he stared at the screen and gave a slightly bitter smirk "…typically the ages past heroes of fire were great leaders, they had the daring and optimism to assemble the others and aim for victory."

He turned back to regard her "You don't strike me as a leader, Heidi. You do strike me as someone fiercely independent. You are absolutely brimming with passion and energy, anyone who meets you can see that. If you ask me the phoenixes probably planned for the water duelist to lead you five, with you simply being one of the group's heavy-hitters that need… directing towards the enemy's forces."

"Okay…" Heidi answered "but you said we were all split up at the moment. So what's going on?"

"The nature duelist…" Narciel stepped up to the screen and pointed to a photo "here." Following the arrow Heidi could see they lived amidst the scattered tiny islands northward. "Has refused to leave their home village for the time being, but we still know where they are and that they're safe."

"The water duelist…" the arrow led to the northern tip of the main continent "is keeping in touch and accepting our help, but is taking initiative in tracking down three known lieutenants in the area."

"Wow…" Heidi then looked at the bottom two photos. The 'lost' chosens "So what happened to them?"

"Hm. So you heard. Instead of taking on the light civilization's qualities of being peaceful and harmonious… the light duelist is quite frankly egotistical and self-focused. They flat-out refused to help us. They took the phoenix and went off on their merry way." The arrow led to the centre of the main continent, it was a desert that housed the wealthiest self-governed city on Aurellia, due to the fact they owned almost all oil and petrol deposits.

"Really?"

"Yes. That's why I was hesitant to give you Supernova Mars Disaster right away. I was worried you'd also just leave with it. At the very least we are thankful the light duelist hasn't joined forces with the enemy. That one needs a lot of convincing, if they even can be convinced to help us. They don't want our help."

Heidi blinked at the centre of the continent, unable to fathom how anyone could be so selfish with so much at stake.

"That duelist was chosen for a reason… so we must trust the light phoenix's judgment. And lastly…" he pointed to the last face "in old legends whenever a hero rebelled against their duty it was almost always the darkness civilization. Thankfully the chosen darkness duelist doesn't resemble the more common personality traits associated with it. They're not evil, destructive or selfish. They are… somewhat of a coward though. And in doing what darkness does best, they've managed to be hidden. The darkness duelist has gone into hiding."

"You don't know where the darkness duelist is?"

"They were last spotted here." The arrow pointed to the south-west part of the main continent. "The light duelist has their own protection. We have men and starships guarding the water and nature duelists, as the enemy also knows where they are. But even though we found the darkness duelist, they escaped us and disappeared. The enemy doesn't know where they are either. Vanished without a trace, they successfully went dark."

Heidi stepped toward the screen with a growing sense of unease "…I'm the only chosen who agreed to come here, to stay with you."

"I fear you're the only one who can unite them all as well." Narciel said from beside her. "Our enemies have been making relatively small waves, but the fact the phoenixes awoke means they will inevitably become a great threat. I only hope the other four chosens will realize this before it is too late… the longer we remain divided the more time they have to consolidate power. Even though all of Aurellia is at risk we can't simply abduct the chosens, they must willingly accept their roles as our planet's saviors or I fear they may be tempted to join the enemy at the promise of greater power."

"…you want me to gather them all?" Heidi finally removed her eyes from the screen.

"First Principal Engyo and I are going to teach you everything we know about Duel Masters and the Kaijudo world. We will train you to become strong enough to be a worthy savior of Aurellia. And then yes, we will need you to leave the safe enclosure of this school and unite with the chosens. When all five phoenix cards are together again with their chosen duelists there will be a resultant power surge and you will finally be ready."

Resolving herself Heidi stared back at the four faces of her chosen allies with determination.

As lunchtime came around Heidi had just finished reassembling her new deck of forty cards, having shown Narciel the DM-13 ones Mars had given her. She was feeling hungry and left with Timothy, Soroban and Iwate back to the canteen. Plenty of the students could be seen enjoying their between-class break eating outside in the gardens. Heidi opted for a glad-wrapped chicken salad roll so she could also be outdoors and soak up some sunshine. She wasn't sure how much of what she learned was already known by the three accompanying her, and she wasn't sure if it was okay to tell them.

They found a nice spot outdoors in the grass beside a willow tree. Purple bell flowers were abundant, the nearby bushes were perfectly cube-cut that morning. As Heidi chewed her roll she looked out at the fountain, sitting in the centre of a long pool of ankle-deep water, a cherub statue spitting water and rippling the glassy surface. There was Tsukumo, strolling with his group of pretty popular 'friends'. Heidi tensed, then she jumped up and stormed over, leaving the last bite of her roll forgotten.

"What is she doing…?"

"Heidi!"

A few of the students stopped laughing when they saw her trudging quickly over. She yanked Tsukumo around by the arm.

"Oh… hello."

"I want a rematch!"

"A rematch huh?" his blue eyes became wicked and he addressed his followers "Allow me to introduce you all to Miss Heidi Hirazumi, the chosen fire duelist."

The surrounding people blinked at her, looked her up-and-down. Others overheard and were stepping closer, whispering amongst themselves.

"Really? The chosen fire duelist?"

"She's shorter than I expected…"

"Kettou da you blonde prick!" Heidi snapped, the fires of competition burning "You knew I was upset about Wembley when you challenged me, you knew you'd have the advantage! Well now I'm going to wipe that smug grin off your face once and for all!"

"I don't know, Heidi" he scratched his shoulder with that smarmy grin "You look pretty upset now too."

"Accept you coward!"

"Hey everyone!" Tsukumo leaned back to shout "Who wants to see me, Tsukumo Kenji, the highest-scoring student in the Duel Masters Academy take on the chosen fire duelist!?"

Even more white-uniformed teenagers were making their way over now. Heidi was confident, she kept her fierce focus on her opponent.

"You dick…" Timothy murmured at him from behind her.

Tsukumo lowered his head again to face her "Yoshi. If you need me to remind you that I'm superior that's fine with me. When the whole school is talking about how I publicly beat the chosen fire duelist my reputation will improve even more."

"Bring it!" her vision was burning red. Turning, the short girl shoved one of his dumb groupies away and stormed off in the grass to make room. Her hand was already glowing with red, she hadn't even needed to consciously channel the energy. When she whipped around Tsukumo also had his deck out, snickering amongst a couple of friends. Heidi was ready for this fight, she knew she had what it took to beat him. When Tsukumo stepped forward and the tables materialized she shuffled her deck and set it down "Ikuzo!"

"Koi."

Ten cyan shields appeared in the grassy field beneath the midday sun. Light reflected off the nearby running fountain and its long crystal pool. The surrounding acacia shrubs with their multi-coloured flowers swayed in the breeze. The fortress wall of the school in sight, more and more students gathering closer to watch. Heidi could see her three watchdogs grimacing on the sidelines. Both opponents drew five cards; this time is going to be different!

"I charge fire mana!"

Tsukumo drew "I also charge fire mana!"

Both tabletops glowed red while the rivals glared at each other.

"I got better cards now, Tsukumo!"

"Unless you finally learnt a strategy other than charging in, I don't think it's going to matter Heidi."

"I charge and summon Joe's Toolkit!" the mechanical xenopart sprang forth, various tools spinning around its thin body. Heidi felt smug at the sight of Tsukumo's confusion, gasps emitted from the audience as well. "It's from the DM-13, whenever it's attacked I can choose and destroy one of your creatures with power 2000 or less!"

"Hmph," his cool composure quickly returned, the blonde drawing "I charge light mana and summon Kalute, Vizier of Eternity!" A beautiful green-winged ornament flourished into play, lowering down and coming to a halt. "Your move."

Both creatures had 1000 power. Heidi whipped a card from her deck, hand blazing red all the while "I charge then summon Kooc Pollon!" The armored firebird chirped and landed, its helmet falling to cover its face before it shook it back on properly. "Joe's Toolkit ike! Break his shield!" the tool bounced in place before soaring over and crashing loudly through a panel. Heidi fist-pumped "Yes! I'm in the lead!"

Tsukumo drew without reaction as his cards untapped "I charge and summon Pala Olesis, Morning Guardian!" A gold ship with curving honeycomb-pattern wings blasted onto the field, hovering beside his other creature. A blocker with 2500-power! Clever… it won't get destroyed when he attacks me. "Kalute, Vizier of Eternity ike. Suicide with Joe's Toolkit." The gold initiate flew forward, its mechanical target bounced forward to meet it. They collided and exploded, two cards flying off either table and into the grass.

Heidi drew and surveyed her options, she looked up with a grin "I charge and tap three to cast Energy Charger! Kooc Pollon has 3000 power for the turn and I get some extra mana!" Red energy enveloped her fire bird and it chirped amidst roaring fire. The audience eagerly whispered amongst themselves. "Ike! Break a shield!"

"Pala Olesis block!" angrily Tsukumo turned his card, yellow light rippled out before it was blasted off the table. His flyer crashed down and exploded. Kooc Pollon landed and Tsukumo drew from his deck, arranged the cards he was holding before adding mana again "I cast the spell Glory Snow! Since you have more cards in your mana-zone I can add two cards to mine from my deck. Your spell helped us both." As sparkling flakes of light flurried across the field Tsukumo added the extra cards.

Heidi scoffed and drew. My new armored dragon! But I can't play it yet. "I charge. Kooc Pollon ike, break a shield!" The happy bird raced forth on its little legs, jumping and shattering glass that fell amongst the greenery before vanishing. "That's two shields down!"

"I charge more mana and summon Bulgluf, the Spydroid." It was another light creature, many long legs connected to its shiny head. 4000-power, it had a silent skill but Heidi didn't remember what it was. She didn't stop to ask, already whipping out a card for mana to summon her new creature.

"You ready for this Tsukumo!?" Red fire rushing up her arm now too "I tap seven and summon Spiritual Star Dragon!" her new orange monster shook the ground with its landing, holding high a glowing gold staff that illuminated the battleground "He's an 8000 double-breaker and he allows me to add an evolution card to my hand from my deck that evolves from a dragon." She went through her cards while the excited murmuring of the witnesses got louder. "Here! I choose to bring Eternal Phoenix, Phoenix of the Dragon Flame to my hand!"

"You really do have new creatures…" Tsukumo spoke up. "Impressive, powerful indeed. But you're forgetting what I told you! There's more to strategy than just power!"

"Tell that to my creatures! Kooc Pollon ike!"

The little bird jumped up and ran, twirling through the air before breaking a third shield. The pieces stopped in mid-air, pointing dangerously at their player before retracting into a glowing card that he plucked "Shield trigger, Bonds of Justice!"

"You tap all creatures in the battle-zone that aren't blockers… but why? Spiritual Star Dragon has summoning sickness anyway."

Tsukumo dropped the card in his discard pile and drew from his deck.

"…I use Bulgluf's silent skill ability to keep him tapped. Now I can add a card from my deck to my shields." Another blue panel assembled and he had three shields again. "Then I summon Nariel, the Oracle!" The familiar gold orb appeared with its halo of blue light, popping open.

"Tch, damn!" Heidi could feel her eyebrow twitching, her nervous tick again. "Nothing 3000 points or more can attack, so I need to use an effect to get rid of his 4000-point Bulgluf so he doesn't keep gaining shields every turn!" Heidi untapped and drew, but regretfully discovered she had nothing to stop his creatures with. He'd locked her down again, but soon enough she'd break out of it and then her new signature creature would be free to attack "Okay vortex evolution! I evolve Kooc Pollon and Spiritual Star Dragon into Eternal Phoenix, Phoenix of the Dragon's Flame!" The card burned bright red in her hand. Heidi's two creatures were dragged together by the red energy, glowing and transforming until out popped a dragon-sized creature with six orange wings and twin swords, adorned with gold detailing. Power, heat and light radiated out to the onlookers.

"What the hell is that?!" someone yelled.

"That is a phoenix creature. A new race in Duel Masters." Heidi answered and there was loud talking amongst the student number which had grown to about fifty. As soon as someone stepped out the main entry and saw the crowd they'd run down the white steps while waving for their friends to join them. Tsukumo was scowling, unhappy that the attention was on her and not him.

"While 11,000 power sure is impressive the point still stands that I've locked you down. Your creature can't attack."

"Then make your move!"

"With pleasure." The blonde guy drew and charged mana "I use Bulgluf's silent skill to gain another shield! Then I tap eight and summon Mihail, Celestial Elemental!" Now he had four shields and a bluish elemental rising amidst a yellow glow. It also had 4000 power "Now that Mihail is in play no other creature leaves the battlefield when they're destroyed!" A wicked smirk crept up the side of his handsome face.

"W-wait!" Heidi blinked at the field. "In order to destroy Bulgluf I have to destroy Nariel, but to destroy Nariel now I have to destroy Mihail, but I can't destroy Mihail because of Nariel's effect and Mihail has 4000 power." She clutched her head.

"It's Tsukumo Kenji's famous lockdown!" someone from the crowd said to their friend.

"He used it to beat one of the teachers during the mid-semester exams!"

Heidi clenched her fists "This is bad… I don't have a card in my deck that can destroy both Mihail and Nariel in one hit… the only thing would be Supernova Mars Disaster's meteorburn. But I don't have it in my hand. I don't have a single humanoid in my hand either!"

"Nariel, the Oracle ike!" A blur and shatter. "Your turn, chosen fire duelist." Tsukumo said with scorn.

Her anger returned, giving her the drive to continue. Heidi whipped out a card with a blazing red hand and looked at it. This could've destroyed Nariel if it weren't for his elemental. At least it'll still be able to attack his shields with no blockers! "I summon Mini Titan Gett!" The roller-skated kid wheeled into play and skidded to a stop. She still couldn't attack with her impressive phoenix "Turn end."

Tsukumo drew "I have five shields again! And now I summon Rikabu, the Dismantler! He beat you last time, remember?" the orange machine eater with four robotic arms squatted at the ready. "Ike! Break a shield! Nariel, the Oracle ike! Break another shield!" The speed attacker charged and whacked a shield clear with its spanner. A few members of the audience squealed from the debris, stepping back to a safer distance. The oracle sawed through glass with its halo. This one splintered then reformed into a card Heidi could use.

"Go Burst Shot!" The big red robot lurched up and let loose with fingertip gunfire that mostly focused on her Mini Titan Gett and Nariel the Oracle. But when the bullets stopped firing all of the creatures remained, her humanoid lowering its arms and the oracle floating high again.

"It's useless. My celestial elemental prevents anything from dying."

"Dammit!" Enraged, Heidi whipped out another card "I tap three and summon Explosive Dude Joe!" Her red-armored humanoid with the burning yoyo landed with a battle-cry. "Only it can't attack because of Nariel… Mini Titan Gett ike!" Her humanoid rocketed forth, jumping up and double-kicking through a centre shield.

Her opponent lowered his arm, when he started his turn another shield reformed.

Heidi was exasperated "he still has five shields… all I did was give him another card to use…"

"Not that I need it. Rikabu the Dismantler ike! Nariel the Oracle ike! That's the last of your shields gone!"

No shield triggers. When Heidi raised back up after the assault of glass pieces was over she was standing with no shields and her opponent had five. There were whispers and snickering. I'm going to lose again… like this… in front of everyone. She drew with a shaky hand.

Tsukumo closed his eyes peacefully "Just play so I can finish this already…"

"Fine! I cast Tornado Flame and destroy Mihail, Celestial Elemental!" Heidi revealed the card she drew, Tsukumo's eyes snapping open as a vortex of fire seared his angel command from play. "That's one lockdown gone! Mini Titan Gett ike! Destroy Nariel the Oracle!" Her creature zipped over, leaping up and somersaulting, the overhead kick breaking the orb into pieces. "That's the second lockdown gone! Explosive Dude Joe ike! Destroy Rikabu the Dismantler! Eternal Phoenix ike! Destroy Bulgluf the Spydroid!" The spinning bladed yoyo carved through the tricky machine eater. The six-winged phoenix soared with an eagle-roar, using its twin swords to slice Tsukumo's final creature into four parts. It fizzled out and her opponent blinked at a field that was suddenly empty of all his creatures, no lockdowns and staring down three angry fighters and the girl that controlled them, her whole body blazing with red might.

The audience cheered. Tsukumo looked at his hand, then slowly drew from his deck.

"What do you say to that?" Heidi taunted.

"I tap six and summon Shock Trooper Mykee." He twisted the card on the tabletop "Ike todomeda."

The sword-wielding speed attacker charged, making its way straight through Heidi's creatures. She was incredulous before getting barged by its elbow and the hilt of its weapon. Her vision going out, she saw stars. Only feeling her body fly back and hit the ground. There were gasps and shouts, a multitude of feet rushing over.


AN: Like how I didn't tell you about the other chosens specifically? Like how I had the characters refer to each one as they/them so you don't even know their gender or appearance? Am I a troll writer or what? Huehuehue. Nah but sorry though, that information is to come later. There's got to be build up, ya know. In the meantime I'm sure there'll be interesting characters amidst the student body of DMA. We can get to know more of them before we get introduced to ANOTHER legendary CHOSEN DUELLIST. Acumashindorballomu again leaves amazing lengthy reviews, but what's wrong with aggro attack-for-the-win? Maybe after her second loss to a player who uses strategy she'll finally take the hint and learn something.