Team Zero: Crystals

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Chapter 7: Blood of Brothers

"So what is this place?" Ronin asked the robed woman as she walked towards them.

"Why chosen ones, we are in the dominion of the beast. It exists along side your world." She walked over to the three of them and motioned to the crystals. "Those are your power."

"Power of what?" Akina asked stepping forward. "Why do we have these things and why did we have to duel for them?"

"Good questions, all with logical answers." When she walked this time, it almost seemed like she floated. She moved past them to a gold table and picked up something. "This is the power that is divided." Holding it out, a clear stone was in her hand. Inside this stone appeared the image of flowing lava moving around.

Looking down at the medallions around their necks, they realized that they had the same stone embedded into their medallion. They were just smaller chunks of rock.

"The power of the crystals are immense. They have been here since long ago." She began looking down at the three crystals that they were holding. "There power is immense but...divided."

"So you have said." Reku stated while setting his crystal on the floor. "Several times, but what power and why us?"

"Not just you. Anyone who is destined to own one will come into possession of one." She slowly turned around and set the rock back on the table. "You three know Mr. Hiroshi and Mr. Yoshiharu?"

All three of them were kind of shocked at hearing this. They could think back to the old man and the owner of the World Tournament. They were both faces that Team Zero wouldn't soon forget.

"Yea," All three answered at the same time. Looking at one another for a second they then looked back at Order who was turning around.

"Those are servants I sent to your world to try and track down true duelists who are destined to own a crystal. They informed me of the three of you. Of course," looking over at Reku, "I knew you were from the moment you first dueled with you destined deck. What do you call it? Fire Factory?"

"Yea, that's right. Wait though, I am still confused about all this." Reku said picking back up the Ruby Crystal and holding it out so Order could see. "What is this thing." He pronounced each word slowly so she would get the point.

"Well..." Her eyes suddenly widened and she moved quickly around the three kids. "We have intruders in the castle!"

In a flurry, many servants to Order started running through doors and running to each window to look out. They seemed to be preparing to battle the intruders because some of them ran past holding swords and lances. Some were getting dress up in armor.

A loud noise echoed through the chamber and another as the doors to the room were blown off their hinges. On the other side, three robed men walked in. All three of them had shadow medallions around their necks with black aura rushing off them.

"Looky, looky. What do we have here? Not only did we find the kids that Chaos wants, and not only did we find three of the crystals that he wants, but we found the women he wants too." The one known as Black Lizard smiled coldly at Order. "Come on sweetheart. Time for you to revisit Chaos."

"NO!" She screamed from across the chamber at the three men. "Chaos will not get what he want from me or anyone else ever again!"

"Sorry sweaty, but he commands it." Puppetmaster chimed in and Eagle nodded.

"No!" Reku stepped forward and snapped his duel disk into place. "She isn't going anywhere while I am around. You three duel me." He removed his deck, gave it a quick shuffle and slid it back in.

"Reku no!" Order ran to his side. "You are weakened by your guardian battle. You don't have enough energy to finish them off." He looked at her and shook his head 'no'.

"Sorry Order, but I must stop these three."

"What about one of us instead." Black Lizard snapped his duel disk into place. "You know, to even up the odds."

A loud smacking sound echoed through the chamber as Black Lizard grabbed the back of his head.

"Dammit you fool. We didn't want even odds." Puppetmaster began to turn on his duel disk but Black Lizard stopped him. "What do you think you are doing?"

"I am dueling, end of story." He pushed Puppetmaster back a ways. Looking over at Reku he held up his duel disk. "Ready boy? For now it is time to duel!"

"Fine with me, let's duel and you may start us off."

Reku-4000 LP
Black Lizard-4000 LP

Both duelists drew their opening five cards, and Black Lizard slid his sixth off his deck. Looking over his hand he picked up one card and flipped it around.

"Does this card look familiar?" He asked as he held out a monster that Reku had seen before, recently.

"Yea, that is Blood Hunter, one other minion played it on me just before I got here."

"True, so now I summon Blood Hunter (1500/1000)!" A man who was dressed in dark leather appeared on the field. In his hand he held a duel barrel machine that was strapped to a large tank on his back. Holding it up the monster smiled at how evil it was. "My turn is done."

"Good." Reku looked down to see that his arms were shaking violently. His duel disk rattled as his arm jerked violently one way then the other. "Damn, I have had two duels right in a row and now a third. My body is weak and exhausted." Sliding a card off his deck he tried to steady his hand to see what it was. He smiled as he saw the card. "I summon Warrior of the White Flame (2000/0) in attack mode!"

The large clad armored monster appeared on Reku's field. It raised its sword up and pointed it towards the Blood Hunter. Slowly it stepped forward to charge at the monster. Reku gave the nod and the monster burst across the field. One slice, and the leather clad monster fell into two pieces.

Reku-4000 LP
Black Lizard-3500 LP

"My turn?" Black Lizard cocked his eye as he slid his monster into the graveyard.

"Yes." Reku said as he wiped sweat from his forehead.

"Tell me," Black Lizard drew his next card. "Have you not notice something similar to another duelist you faced?"

"Besides Blood Boiler?" Reku asked. Black Lizard grinned an evil grin.

"No, Blood Boiler is right. Did you know that we are brothers?" He asked getting the surprised look from Reku. "It's true. We are brothers and you sealed away my brother. If you didn't realize it by now, we both use the Blood Hunter family line."

"So what?" Reku was struggling to keep his concentration and not fall over at the same time. He seemed even too weak to stand. He knew that two duel couldn't have exhausted him that badly.

"Well, I have one card that he doesn't have. The one thing that made the Blood Hunters so deadly. But first I play Monster Reborn to revive my Blood Hunter to the field." The leathered monster reappeared on the field. It held it's gun up pointing it at Reku's monster. "Next come the deadly monster himself. I summon Blood Black Lizard (1400/1000) in attack mode!"

A large scaly black lizard monster appeared on the field. It hissed baring its sharp white fangs, blood dripping off the end of them. A long pink spit tongue shot out of the monsters mouth and back in. A large metal suit covered its middle body region.

"As long as Blood Hunter is on the field, my Blood Black Lizard will gain an additional 400 attack points (1800/1000). And next I play the magic card Connection Blood Tube!" A long clear tube went from the machine on the Blood Hunters back to the machine wrapped around the Blood Lizard. "While this magic card is in play my Blood Black Lizard will gain the same number of points my Blood Hunter gains through it's special ability. Oh, and one more magic card. I play Blood Hunter's Upgrade to upgrade my monster (2000/1000)."

The small black box appeared on the bottom of the barrel gun the monster was holding. Smiling he pointed the gun towards the Warrior of White Flames.

"Now I end my turn." Smiling, Black Lizard motioned to his opponent to go.

Reku, wiping more sweat off his head looked down at his deck. "Why am I so worn out. I couldn't be this exhausted from two duels!" Looking up at the Blood Hunter and the Blood Black Lizard he narrowed his eyes glaring at him. "And what do I do about those two?"

Order grimaced at Reku as he stared at the two monsters. "His duels didn't drain him too much. He is tiered from them but he is dueling. That is why the other two haven't felt it yet. The Crystals are trying to take there usable form." She looked at the Ruby Crystal sitting at Reku's feet. "It is draining power form him to get enough energy to transform to its most powerful state. Reku, you must hold on. If you don't win, two worlds will be destroyed and the ultimate power will fall into Chaos!"

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The crystals are transforming, let's see into what shall we?

To darksoulki: You make the judgement.

To Nanashi: Yes you do. It feels good to know that one of the cards I made up is so timeless

To John: It was priceless
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