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Chapter 28: The boy of Dragons

Higentaka Osmos growled in anger at the new development in his plans.'Damn, Kamishiro got rid of the brat, but he killed Chiro with him!"' he thought. Being crafty and precise were the things Osmos was best at. He made sure to tell Ryuko he'd return the "stolen" Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards to him after the tournament was done. He also made sure to invite the girl, Namia, he believed her name was, so as to keep Mr. Nandao occupied while he stealthily stole the soul of Chiro from him. Then he'd kill all three of the mortals and whip up a storm, send Yugi and the others back home and cancel the tournament. He'd have the spirit of the Seal Holder and he'd be able to finish… other things.

But, despite his carefully laid plans, things were far from good. Kamishiro, his faithful, yet sometimes too blunt servant, had killed the one he needed for his most important plan.

'Damn, don't know any spell that could bring them back!"' he growled at his misfortune, just as one of the many vidscreens across the room popped on.

"Sir, this is Ryuko, codename Omega Dragon, ready and waiting to receive orders on taking out the duelists you requested!" The face of a young, no older than 12 year-old boy appeared on the screen furthest to Osmos's left. Osmos turned to see Ryuko, looking disheveled with bits of wood and leaves in his messy brown hair, staring at him.

"Ah, Ryuko!" Osmos smiled. He now felt a certain determination to make at least one thing go right today. "I've just managed to secure the items that your grandfather wished for in his…erm… final moments!" he made himself look saddened at the thought of seeing Ryuko's grandfather, whom he had never met nor cared about meeting, die.

Ryuko's eyes went wide. "I'll finish them off soon sir, and return for the item then!" Ryuko said with determination. The vidscreen went blank again, and Osmos sipped his wine, now with a smile on his face.

Namia and Shisei struggled up the final bit of mountain, Shisei almost falling for the umpteenth time. Namia looked at the long, winding road in front of them. She sighed in exhaustion and sat down on a rock. Shisei took deep shuddering breaths, and removed a water bottle from his backpack.

"Having fun?" Namia asked. Shisei took several hundred swallows and then removed the bottle from his lips.

"Yep." he replied. He opened his pack and put the bottle in, still open.

Namia raised an eyebrow. "Won't that make your stuff wet?" she asked.

"Nope, I finished the water about four hours ago, but you can still taste it if you swallow hard enough." Shisei stated. Namia looked at him as though he were some odd space alien. "What!" he asked.

"You guys are freaks, aren't you?" a shadowed voice asked from the shadows. Namia and Shisei turned sharply, afraid that they had come across more "eliminators". They had, but this one, was a young brown haired boy. He stepped fully out of the shadows. "I'm just going to give it to you straight," he began, raising a duel disk. "I'm going to duel one of you, and then you'll give me all the fingers you've won!" he smirked, apparently thinking he had scared Shisei and Namia stiff. This was a plausible thought, as neither of them was moving.

Namia suddenly rushed forward and pressed her cheek against the young Ryuko's. "AWW! YOUR SO CUTE!" She rubbed her cheek against his, yelling this over and over. Shisei burst out laughing and Ryuko struggled to escape. After finally separating himself from Namia, he took an impossible leap away from her and landed in a Fir tree.

"WHAT THE HELL IS WITH YOU GUYS!" he yelled down to Shisei and Namia. They both looked at each other, and shrugged. Ryuko began to wipe blush from his face, muttering about women wearing to much make up. "I came here to duel, now who's goin-" he began, but he cut off as he heard a familiar creak. He looked down at the cracked branch with tears in his eyes. "Um, could you guys call for an ambulance?" he asked Namia and Shisei.

"What do you mean?" Shisei finally said, able to talk now after his previous laughing fit. He got his answer as the tree branch Ryuko had taken refuge in fell, and, of course, so did the boy on it.

Namia rushed over to him, only to see him spring up suddenly. "HA! Your over here, now lets duel!" Ryuko yelled. Namia blinked in surprise.

"What is with you and wanting to duel?" she asked him.

"I have to…" he looked away with a hurt look in his eyes. "HEY! I CAME HERE TO DUEL!" he suddenly shouted.

"I gathered that." Shisei muttered under his breath.

Namia sighed and looked at Shisei, who was suddenly huffing and puffing with tiredness. 'Great, looks like I have to duel the kid."' she thought, readying her disk. "Okay, I'll duel you if you can bet your own fingers!" she stated in a motherly voice.

Ryuko smirked and removed from his pocket… Four fingers that were the exact same as the four Namia and Shisei already had. "I'll give you almost enough for your second hand!" he stated. Namia's eyes widened an she scrambled to get ready.

"Alright, Duel!" she exclaimed, ignoring Shisei's "I'm feeling a lot better now" speech.

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Ryuko-8000

"Ladies first!" Ryuko stated, drawing six cards. "I'll start by-" he was cut off as Namia interjected.

"Didn't you just say "ladies first?" she asked, utterly confused.

Ryuko blinked and then blushed furiously. "I thought that was just an expression." he mumbled. Namia and Shisei sweat dropped. Ryuko covered his cheeks with his cards and slid one into the disk. "I'll summon Luster Dragon #2 (1900/1600) in attack mode!" he declared, removing his cards from his face and getting back into his duel mode. "End turn!" he declared as Namia drew.

"I'll summon Blazing Inpachi (1850/0) in attack mode." Her familiar burning tree appeared in a fighters position. The purple and white dragon across from it roared. "Then I'll set two cards, go." she finished her turn by sliding two card into her disk.

Ryuko nodded and drew his next card. "By the way, to answer your question before, I'm supposed to carry out Osmos's wishes!" he stated.

Namia's eyes went wide. As did Shisei's. "You mean a kid like you is working for Osmos!" Shisei beat Namia to the punch of asking this question.

Ryuko chuckled. "That's right, and when I get all four of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon's back, I'll be in business!" he declared.

"You want the Blue-Eyes White Dragons!" Namia suddenly felt lightheaded. Osmos had apparently told her opponent he could have the most powerful of normal summon, no effect monsters in the game if he did whatever he told the boy. "You know he doesn't have them, right? Seto Kaiba ow-" she began, but Ryuko cut her off.

"Don't you dare say he owns them!" he roared. "He doesn't have what it takes to be the master of dragons!" Ryuko felt tears stinging his eyes. "My Grandfather is the master of dragons, real and in Duel Monsters!" he slammed his next card onto the disk. "HE IS THE TRUE CREATOR OF THE BLUE EYES WHITE DRAGON!" Ryuko yelled.

Shisei stumbled off of his rock. Namia gasped. "That's impossible!" she yelled to the young boy.

"I'll summon Divine Dragon-Ragnarok (1500/1000) in attack mode!" he declared. Namia didn't even notice as a golden dragon roared and swooped down from the heavens. "Attack, Luster Dragon, get rid of her Burnt wood (1850/0)!" he commanded. His first dragon rushed at Namia's Blazing Inpachi (1850/0)and she barely activated her trap in time.

"I activate Widespread Ruin!" suddenly Ryuko's Luster Dragon burst into a shocking array of orangish flames, falling to the ground as digital dust. "It destroys your highest attack monster." Namia informed Ryuko.

"Fine, I'll set this card facedown and end my move!" Ryuko growled. Something seemed different about the previously happy-go-lucky boy. His entire body seemed to be emanating with a dangerous force. Namia gulped and drew.

"I'll activate Backfire!" No immediate effect happened, but as Namia slid another card onto her slot by sending her Inpachi to the graveyard, flames showered Ryuko with heat, but he didn't even flinch. "Now whenever a fire monster is destroyed, no matter how it is, you lose 500 LP!" she smirked as her new monster appeared. "I sacrificed my monster to bring Thestalos, the Firestorm Monarch (2400/1000) to the field in attack mode!" A samurai like warrior holding a red flame emerged from its card. The flame it carried suddenly shot over and burned one of the cards Ryuko held.

"What the?" Ryuko looked at his hand in surprise a hologram of the burning card appeared. "What's going on?" he asked Namia.

"Simple, when Thestalos (2400/1000)is summoned, he gets to select a card in your hand and destroy it, this time its your Red Eyes Black Dragon," she stated, eyeing the hologram that appeared with satisfaction. "Now if it's a monster, which it was, then you lose LP equal to the level star times 100!" she smirked and Ryuko growled as his LP dropped more. "Now for my Thestalos (2400/1000) to destroy your Divine Dragon-Ragnarok (1500/1000)!" The samurai nodded and rushed at the Divine Dragon, unsheathing a flaming katana.

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"Reveal facedown card, Reversal of Dragonic: Fusion!" Ryuko yelled. Namia's eyes went wide, never having heard of this card. "Never heardit, eh?" Ryuko asked.

"No, what does it do?" she asked suspiciously.

"Fist off, I lose my monster and take double damage for its destruction," Ryuko started, watching as his LP dropped.

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Ryuko-5000

"But now I get to bring out a dragon fusion that's the same level star as a dragon monster that was destroyed this turn." he finished. Suddenly, a very odd looking dragon rose from the ground with a ferocious roar. It had a golden underbelly with a black front and a long slender body. "Meet King Dragun (2400/1200) in attack mode, he's a friend of mine!" Ryuko smirked as Namia gulped.

"Hey, you didn't lose a level seve-." Namia started, but then she remembered she had sent his Red Eyes to the graveyard. "Fine, then I end my turn." she glared at the boy as he drew.

"Now I'm really going to heat things up, I'll use my monsters special ability to special summon a Dragon monster from my hand!" he declared. Suddenly a glowing white Dragon appeared, its entire body looked like a diamond. "Behold, Hyozanryu (2100/2800) in defense mode!" the dragon growled and wrapped its tail around itself. "I'll then normal summon my Spear Dragon, in defense mode.!" he declared, now with a defensive army of dragons. "And I'll set these last two cards facedown." he successfully emptied his hand into his disk.

'He's blocked me off from his LP, but I can still destroy his weaker dragon… Unless that's what he wants."' Namia eyed his facedown cards and decided to contemplate her move at the same time as squeeze some information out of the boy. "Hey, why do you call your grandfather the true master of dragons anyway?" she asked as softly as possible. "And what do you mean he created the Blue eyes?" she finished.

Ryuko made a feeble smile. "My grandfather… he was a great man." he stated. At first Namia and Shisei thought that was all they'd get from him, but he slowly continued. "Pegasus and my grandfather were friends, the best of friends." he continued. Namia found this shocking, but tried not to gasp. "My grandfather, Ryudoshi Katanawa, had known Pegasus from his American art school." he continued.

"They worked on many projects and murals together, they were inseparable… until that woman, Ceceilia, I think her name was, won Pegasus's heart." he gulped, he didn't seem to harbor hate towards "that woman" so much as to Pegasus. "This was of course so long ago, but anyway, when this woman, Ceceilia died, Pegasus lost a lot of inspiration. A lot of his will to live too. My grandfather couldn't help him through his pain, he tried, but couldn't." he bit his lower lip.

"What then?" Shisei asked. Namia glared at him for making Ryuko retell such painfulthings.

"Pegasus eventually went to Egypt, where he got that weird eye and the inspiration to create Duel Monsters. Well he went to my grandad with the idea and together they worked on the way the game would be played, the monster effects were my grandfather's specialty. Pegasus was better, of course, but his card effects were to powerful to be used, like the god cards. Anyway, my Grandfather, being a dragon-" he paused and shook his head. "lover, dragon lover." he replaced, obviously about to say something else.

"As I was saying, he made the first ever dragon cards, the Blue Eyes White Dragon." he stated. "At first, everything seemed great again, but then, one day, when their business was to be opened, Pegasus showed my Grandfather the patent, or whatever, saying he officially owned Duel Monsters. He opened Industrial Illusions and left my grandfather high and dry." Ryuko said bitterly. "A while after this, since Pegasus had kept my grandfather's Blue-Eyes White Dragon Cards, though he had made at least a thousand of them, my grandpa snuck into the only factory they had back then and snuck the first Blue Eyes White Dragon card ever made, this one quite a deal different, from the warehouse. He deleted the image from all of the computers, and burned down the warehouse!" Ryuko said proudly.

"But there were still four cards left?" Namia asked, ignoring Shisei's gasp of shock.

"Yeah, Pegasus somehow trapped my grandfather in the burning wearhouse and escaped with four of his creations." he finished sadly. "Didn't you ever wonder why there are only four Blue-Eyes white Dragons?" he asked them.

"Yeah, but you said he deleted the images of the card, how did Industrial Illusions remake it then?" she asked, referring to the Blue-Eyes that was supposedly in the new booster series and the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon, of which rumor had it, Kaiba owned as well.

Ryuko shrugged. "I don't know, now just make your move." He smirked, happy he hadn't given out the tinier details of the story, about how his father had helped in the warehouse burning and escaped with the first created Blue-Eyes, which went by a slightly different name…

"Fine, I'll summon the Phoenix of Blue Fire (1500/1500)!" a blue Phoenix with swirling blue flames flew from the air. "And I'll use its special ability, to bring the Phoenix of Gold Fire (3500/3500) to the field, by paying 3500 LP!" Namia's strongest monster shot from the sky to land next to her Phoenix of Blue Fire (1500/1500). "And I'll attack your King Dragun (2400/1200)!" she declared.

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"I'll activate, Shift!" Ryuko declared. A strong gust suddenly swept up and blue the golden flames spreading out towards King Dragun, towards Spear Dragon. "This will make you target Spear Dragon (1900/0) instead!" the blue and white dragon roared as it burst into flames.

"I guess I'm done then." Namia stated. 'Darn, I don't really want to suicide my monster, so I'll just wait until next turn."' she thought.

Ryuko drew his next card. His lip curled into a smile. "I'm about to show you the power of the end of the world, girly!" he declared, sliding another monster onto the disk. "I'll use the effect of King Dragun (2400/1200) to bring forth, the ultimate, the mighty, the Blue-Eyes Omega Dragon (3500/3000)!" a rush of power came forward from the sky as a shining white dragon with symbols of destruction upon its scales appeared. "Let's see whose monsteris stronger!" Ryuko declared. The Phoenix of Gold Fire (3500/3500) and the Blue-Eyes Omega Dragon (3500/3000) glaring at one another from their owners field.

Next time: The beasts of Ryuko and Namia show off their stuff, with Ryuko's dragons showing a distinct lead. But don't count Namia out yet, she's got plenty of tricks up her sleeve, as she summons another Phoenix. Can her flaming Phoenixes best the Roaring Dragons of Ryuko? Find out next time on Duel Monsters: Maximum!

To Rex: You stole one of my phrases…(looks down sadly) I think I need hug! Just kidding, I don't care… OR DO I! BUM Bum bummmmmmmm!