Chapter 2: Dragonic Blast

Gaia arrived at his hotel and took a quick shower before falling fast asleep.

The next morning Gaia set out, this time wearing his hair plain, and wearing sand colored Cloak over a Dark brown full body suit.

He had been walking for three blocks when he noticed someone following him, great, just what I need, a trailer, he thought to himself. Suddenly he spotted an alley; maybe I can lose or confront him there. He sped towards the alley and turned down it, after traveling about 5 meters he knew that the kid was still following him. He turned around to face the follower.

"What do you want?" he called to the person, who was short, but hard to see in the darkness surrounding them.

"A mere duel" came the reply, "and you have no choice but to accept, because you are cornered."

Gaia looked behind him and saw that this was indeed true. "Fine, I accept, at least this will show me how good the duelists here are!" he whipped out his duel disc from behind his back and smoothly slid his deck into place.

"You will lose, I go first."

The other duelist drew a card and chuckled. "Now I make my first move!" he called to Gaia. "I place two cards face down. Then I summon Gilasaurus in attack mode!" the monster appeared and in its glow Gaia finally saw his opponent. He was short, with brown hair and a red hat, actually most of his clothes were red. "And since my monsters summon is treated like a special summon, I get to summon Another, go Kabauzuls!" another monster appeared next to the first, this one staring menacingly at Gaia. "And that ends my turn."

Gaia smirked and drew a card. "Good move, however everything you do will be worth nothing!"

"You see while I can not summon two monsters like you, I have a monster that can attack twice! I summon Hayabusa Knight in Attack Mode!" Gaia challenged. The feathered bird that stood upright appeared hovering above the field, its wings beating steadily to keep it aloft.

Rex Laughed, "But it only has 1000 attack points, not nearly enough to destroy anything that I attack it with!"

Gaia continued to smile, "maybe not, but it will defend me nonetheless, I also place 2 cards face down. That ends my turn." two cards flared to life behind the Knight.

Rex drew a card and a smile blossomed on his face. " I have just drawn a monster powerful enough to eliminate your monster and a quarter of your life points. I sacrifice both of my monsters to summon Serpent Night Dragon. Attack." the two monsters in front of Rex were sucked into another card and a skinny and long dragon descended on the field. It prepared to launch its attack at the Knight Gaia had summoned. The monster opened its large mouth and launched a sonic scream at Gaia. The wave from the attack reached his Knight and the resulting explosion pushed plumes of smoke up into the air so that the field quickly became obscured. The smoke cleared and sure enough the Knight was gone from the field, and Gaia's lifepoints, previously untouched, were now at 2650. "See how powerful your knight is now? I laid it to waste with my monster and next turn I will destroy you as well. hahaha." Rex chortled.

"you know it is only the second turn of this duel and already you think you have it won. but it's my turn now. and with a new turn comes a new card, and a whole new reality to the game. So now I draw." Gaia replied smoothly and added a card to his hand. "I summon the Retrained Elven Swordsman* to the field in defense mode. then I end my turn." The swordsman appeared on the field, down on one knee and with its sword sheathed, as though knowing certain death was coming.

"About the only thing you can do with that pathetic deck of yours. Serpent Night Dragon. Attack!!" Rex laughed, the monster once again launched an attack. once again the sonic wave hit Gaia's monster, and once again smoke encircled the field. but when the smoke began to clear it became obvious that both monsters where still on the field. Rex looked stunned, "It's not possible, my monster should have wiped the floor with him. how can it be."

Gaia merely laughed and drew a card.