Team Zero: Crystals

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Chapter 26: The Truth of Many Pasts

"Gurabe Degujiu," Order smiled wide at the confused boy. "It has been a long time."

"Well, well, well." Gurabe looked around and gave an impressed whistle. He suddenly snapped to attention. "Did I get their souls? Order did you stop the shadow magic and spare their souls?" He demanded.

"I did, I brought you here to stop you." She said with a confident tone, the tone of knowing she did the right thing.

Reku sat staring out the window. He could hear the entire conversation but he really didn't care to much about it. He had his mind still fixed on that final duel he had with Ronin. Another tear slid down his face as he thought about how violent he acted

"And he is here too?" Gurabe snapped a finger towards Reku who looked over at him finally.

"Yes, Reku I would like you to meet Gurabe. He is just like you!" Order motioned towards Gurabe.

"We've met." Reku, in a very sad monotone voice, said towards the lady.

"Oh." Order sighed. Then she turned back to Gurabe who had finally noticed his duel disk was gone. "Don't worry Gurabe. Your's and his duel disks are locked over there." She pointed to a table. On it sat the two duel disks in standby mode. Around the table was a clear bubble like barrier. "So neither of you cause trouble while you are here."

"Damn you." Gurabe spit at her and walked over to the bubble. He knew what would happen but he tried to touch it. The surface was just like a bubble, smooth and soapy. But unlike a bubble, this didn't pop with any sort of pressure.

"Well, despite your warm greeting towards me." Order walked over to him. "How is your second life coming?"


Akina and Sachiko breached the top of the hill that leveled out to the city that they lived in. They started to walk down the street. Neither had said a word since Reku and Ronin were taken by Order. Sachiko was the first to break the silence.

"That is just my luck." Akina looked over kind of startled. She noticed a tear slipping down Sachiko's cheek.

"Don't be so hard on yourself. This whole mess isn't anyones fault."

"Oh! I think that it is Reku's fault." Sachiko stomped her foot into the ground. "He is to blame for this!"

"Now, now. It isn't Reku's fault." Akina said as calm as possible.

"How do you figure! You are just sticking up for him because you are in love with him!" Sachiko was crying now. She had stopped in the street and was almost yelling at Akina.

"And you are just saying that because you love Ronin." Akina calmly replied. "To be honest I remember Reku not wanting to duel Ronin. It was all that guy's fault." Akina calmly turned her back on her friend who seemed to be enlightened.

/Flashback/

/"Reku Yamashita." Ronin slowly said. "I am sorry but..." His duel disk snapped into place.

"Ronin, I wanted to duel you but not like this." Reku said holding up his hand. "We are...friends."

"Friends!" Ronin moved quickly passed Reku hitting their shoulders together. "You didn't seem so friendly when you and Akina spent all the time together. But now my love is riding on this game." He pointed to the slot opposite of him. "Get your ass over there and duel me."

"Ronin..." Reku was at a loss for words. Looking at Akina fear filled eyes he made a quick decision. He jogged over to the slot and started to shuffle his deck. "Bring it on!"/

/End Flashback/

"Ronin did love you, as Reku loves me." Akina said walking away down the street and stopping. Without turning around she continued to talk. "They..., we just don't have complete control over the crystal cards as we think we do. I hadn't even realized that he had taken my deck." She held up her deck that Reku had given back to her. She pulled the top card of to reveal the Amethyst Crystal. "With out this, Ronin had that duel won. One more attack and Reku would have lost his soul."

"That is true." Sachiko finally realizing the situation nodded and whipped the tears away. She walked up next to Akina and they continued to walk down the street.


Verion sat at the edge of a roof top. He stared out at the city. Sighing he looked down at his duel disk. Yukio's deck was still sitting in it. He slowly shut his eyes as he tough about a time, so long ago.

/Flashback/

/A creaky car door slammed shut as a young and eager Verion ran up to a house. His Aunt and Uncle welcomed him in and told him that Yukio was in the back room.

Smiling, Verion took off running back towards the back room. Opening the door, there on the floor sat a young Yukio. In front of him, laid out card for card, was his precious Zergo collection. Walking up next to Yukio, Verion flopped down on the carpet next to him.

"Hey cousin Yukio! What cha doing?"

"What does it look like Verion? I am redoing my deck. Unlike you who is happy with his loser deck I need to make my tournament wining deck better. The city tournament is in two weeks and many people want a piece of me."

"Well, no one can beat you! Your the best!" Clenching his fists together, Verion stared wide eyed at Yukio. "You never lose at this game!"

"That much I will agree with you on." Yukio smiled at his cousin. "And I will admit that you aren't that bad for an armature. Your cousin's power mush have rubbed off on you." Yukio reached out and ruffed up the boys purple hair.

"Will you teach me more about your Zergo cards! I want a Zergo deck just like you when I become a pro duelist!"

"All right, The most devastating beast here is this one. Zergo (3500/3500) is the key point in this deck. He summons Zergo's True Form (4000/4000) when it is destroyed. Normally Zergo costs three monster tribute but if the two monsters on your field are Zergo monsters it only is a two tribute monster. Next up is Zergo's Rage Behemoth (2000/800)..."

The lesson delved deep into the day before Verion had to say goodbye. His family was only visiting his cousins and they had to get home. Verion bid him farewell and left Yukio to finish his deck./

/End Flashback/

"I knew every aspect of your deck Yukio," He slammed his right hand on the wall he sat on, "and I still couldn't win!"

/Flashback/

/"I draw." Pulling the card off his deck Joe saw just what he wanted. "I summon Goblin Attack Force (2300/0) in attack mode!" A team of green goblins appeared on Joe's field. "Next my face down card, Gallant Charge! I get to sacrifice one monster into your monster to deduct the attack from your attack. Go Gallant Blader of Gold, attack it. The damage I would take is cut in half instead."

Joe-100 LP
Verion-1600 LP

Swinging its sword at the large monster, it made a large glowing scratch on it. Breaking into small golden pieces of dust it flew into the monster's cut. It roared in pain at this act and it's attack totals dropped (400/4000).

"Next comes Goblin Attack Force, Go attack Zergo's True Form!" The group of goblins charged across the field. Bringing their clubs down on Zergo's True Form it broke into data bits as the duel disk indicated a loss.

Joe-100 LP
Verion-0 LP/

/End Flashback/

"I was sure that there was nobody that could beat the Zergo monsters." Verion sighed again. "I just wanted to get pay back for you Yukio." Remembering Yukio, Verion stood up. "And I will get revenge!"


"Did you say second life?" Reku asked walking over to Order and Gurabe. Reku had some curiosity in his eyes as well as some light. They were no longer emotionless shells.

"Yes she did." Gurabe sighed and looked at Reku. "But don't dwell too much on it human."

"I just want to know what she means." Reku said, still somewhat sad sounding but a little better.

Gurabe rolled his eyes and started rolling up his sleeve on his suit. Underneath was a normal arm. It had color and hair. A few markings from the suit, nothing seemed to be odd about it. Squeezing down on some of the skin on his forearm, Gurabe proceeded to peel the skin off a ways. No blood came out what so ever. Underneath was rotted muscles and Gurabe's bones.

"This is why I play with a Zombie deck." Gurabe said as he pushed his skin back down. "They are just like me. A zombie brought back from the grave." His skin made a disgusting, squishing sound as he pushed it into place.

"You are a zombie?" Reku said, losing his sadness and gaining back his couriosity.

"What did you think I was?" Gurabe asked as he rolled his sleeve back down. "This woman over her brought me back to life." Gurabe motioned with his head to Order as he straighten out his sleeve.

"Yes, I knew that he was a chosen one just like you Reku. That is why I had to bring him back.."

"I still cannot believe that he is a zombie." Reku said, still stunned at the fact a living dead was standing right next to him.

"Reku Yamashita!" Order almost yelled. "I am surprised at you. I figured that once you got the crystals power you would see the truth. Nothing in the world, as you know it, is as normal as you think it is. Many supernatural events take place every day that just isn't recorded by your media. The world has many mysteries. There is magic beyond your wildest dreams out there. Angels and demons, both invisible to the eye and ones as plain as day. Great seals of powerful magic and mysterious forces that never are explained. Forces lying in the roots of ancient civilizations and some that reach far beyond the boundary of earth. To outer space or to a whole different dimention. Ancient spirits that walk among us or in the body of others. Nothing is as it seems. The greatest mystery of all is why I married Chaos!"

"You were married to Chaos?" Reku felt like falling over and dying. Not only was a zombie there, that was standing next to him, but the all powerful bad guy was married to the ultimate good guy, or in this case, gal. Plus a whole arsenal of other things Reku will probably never see in his life or even could have dreem happened in his own back yard.

"Were." Order calmly said. "Before I tried to stop his evil plans and he...well I was empowered with supernatural powers that brought me here and made me the guardians of the crystal. I had been researching it but I never knew it existed until I was made guardian of it. Then I started to seek out the chosen ones. Believe me that wasn't easy. I had some people that could travel to your world to search for you people. They had a hunch about your team mates but I knew about you form the start. And Gurabe which was born out of time and ended in the wrong era."

"Oh," Reku finially thought he got it.

"When the ultimate force came here, over ten million years ago, it crashed down into the dominion of the beast. It broke up into the chunks that you carry around in card form. As of right now there are a total of seven known crystal cards. Reku you posses the power of the Ruby Crystal. Gurabe, you own the power of the Amber Crystal. Ronin over there has the power of the Sapphire Crystal. Akina has the Amethyst Crystal. Joe has the Hematite Crystal, while Kevin has the Jade Crystal. Then there is Chaos, who owns the powerful Onyx Crystal. No one is for sure about how many crystals there are."

"Wow, seven known crystals." Gurabe did his impressed whistle again.

"Chaos has the Onyx Crystal?" Reku cocked his head to the side, "Why hasn't he challenged us then if he has a crystal card? None of his lackeys had a crystal card, nothing can match up to them."

"Chaos will do as little as possible. That way no one is sure what he will do next. He doesn't talk much, even to his servants. He will order them to go here and there and steal people's souls but he doesn't tell his master plans. Sadly, I don't even have a clue as to what he is really planning."Order explained. "But don't mistake him, he is a deadly duelist."


Akina and Sachiko came back to Reku's truck which hadn't moved since they all ran off and left it. Hopping in, Reku had conveniently left his keys right in the ignition. Akina started it up and drove off.

She pulled up in front of Reku's house to see a group of kids chatting on Reku's front porch. Kevin, Joe, Usami, Ryokurio, and Kai all sat there talking. They looked up when they heard Akina and Sachiko close the truck doors. All five of them jumped up and ran over to the two approaching girls.

"What happened to you?" Joe asked finally making it to Akina and Sachiko.

"Where is Reku? and Ronin?" Kevin looked around but didn't see them anywhere.

"Long story." Sachiko said as she walked past them and sat down on the porch. "Well come over here. I need to sit down and it will take a while to fill you guys in."

All the kids moved back to the porch and sat down. Akina and Sachiko started to recite the events of the past few hours.

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Did you learn a history lesson? If you just skimmed through this chapter then you may have missed some key info about some ones past. Any questions just asked me or something you want me to explain again. Hey and that little speel of Order, kind of sets the place of my story in the center of the universe. Not only do I have characters from all over the place but I did nod to other writers. Take it as you want, I didn't point out any stories in particular and I may not have been refearing to some stories as you think I might have been.

To Erestor Telemnar:Thank you for taking the time to read my stories. I have tried to get them at least presentible. You should have read my first trial version I put up on this site (err, really bad).

To John: That is great that you found your wallet, but what the hell did you say before that? And why did you give it to me twice?
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