Heads up, this is a short chapter. There's a small afterward as to why!
Thor10: Game Nights are based on board games! So if you can suggest one I will consider it.
Hdzulfikar: I have not played it yet. But god does it look pretty.
Saito: UGHHH. I want to do a Saint Seiya chapter but I haven't looked at it for a long time.
DexterJN: Fighting the Beast would be fun but that was A LONG fight. So I doubt I'd have the energy to finish it haha.
Toraihekisa: I just watched it. Honestly, the chess battle seems more fun.
DarkMaster: I have! I already have a team in mind. I just don't know when I'll get the motivation to write out the battle. All these chapters are more...on a whim sort of thing.
OverLord Wang-Yu: That does sound fun….Ugh. I need to get play a round of that. I'm hella rusty.
UnlawfulGentleman: Hey! Welcome back. And that's fine. I get life gets us busy, especially in these trying times. Also a lot of good ideas!
Valentinon73: Never saw it sadly. ANd Tsukihime I haven't seen in so long.
And as for everyone else who suggested decks! I thank you for it. Some have been taken and will be used! But for now, onto the chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY or Yu-Gi-Oh!
Everyone stared at the world around them. At the various students going to and from portals, each of them having fun battling each other with monsters, and generally getting along well with one another.
"Oh! The Curator said some of you guys may be up to no good," this Jaune said as he caught their attention once more. "So while you guys will be given a duel disk, you won't get its extra-dimension feature."
"I don't care about that, where's Ruby?" Tai demanded. The rest of her associates nodded.
"Renny too!" Nora agreed.
"Them? Well, they're in the shop right now trying to make their deck. Same with Emerald and Mercury if you care," this Jaune replied. He then snapped his fingers. "Ah, right you guys know a Jaune of your own. So call me...uh...AH! Call me by my deck archetype."
"Archetype?" Neptune asked, just happy to be away from the scary, scary world.
"I'll explain it all once we get to the shop. So just please call me ignister or Ai for short," Ai said with a smile. "But let's go. I'm sure you're worried."
As he led them through, Ai waved his hand to numerous people who waved back. He also made sure to keep an eye on the four "trouble" people. The one known as Cinder was too quiet and deep in thought. Salem was just intrigued by this whole thing. Roman and Neo were just happily relaxing.
"Tell me," Ozpin said, getting his attention. "You said this was a Duel School, yes? What sort of dueling do they do here?"
"Oh, right, you guys come from a world that doesn't have this," Ai hummed. The blond grinned before reaching into his pocket. He pulled out a card from his pocket with an image of a fluffy ball of fur with green arms and legs and purple eyes.
"What's that?" Glynda asked. James stared at the card as well.
"General, Professor, this is a Duel Monsters card. Specifically, it's a little Kuriboh," Ai informed her. The Jaune pointed to the various people dueling one another. "This school teaches kids the ins and outs of how to play the game."
"You need a school to teach you a card game?" Ghira asked, his face twisted in confusion. He was elbowed in the stomach by his wife who was listening intently.
"Shh…" Kali said. "Maybe I can get a new idea for game night."
"Yes actually. While it originally was a children's card game, it has expanded to become something more. It's a professional sport now and has led to many scientific marvels that numerous worlds have made together. While a lot of good has come from it, a lot of bad has happened as well." This Jaune shook his head.
"What do you mean?" James asked. "If as you said it originally started as a card game."
"Some of our technology has come from it, like those holograms you see." Ai pointed at a giant white dragon off in the distance dueling a mage in purple. "But once we got far enough with it, our predecessors had created Solid Vision. Holograms advanced enough to be solid. So we were summoning incarnations of our monsters."
"Like our Family Semblance?" Winter asked, surprised.
"What's a Semblance?" Ai replied as they finally stepped into the school proper. It looked far more high tech than Beacon, but those from Atlas felt slightly at home.
"A superpower you could say," Weiss informed the rather normal version of the dork. "Our family could summon beasts to fight for us."
"Huh, that's neat!" Ai grinned. "All of you are superheroes? Man, my version of Ruby is going to flip when she hears that." The smile slowly left his face. "But yes we could do that. But centuries ago, one of the dimensions used the solid vision to wage war against a few others. It took the self-sacrifice of a few noble souls before it ended. Since then, our worlds have maintained peace as best it can."
He then smiled at them once more. "After all, the founder of our school had fought to ensure the smiles of everyone."
Once they got to the shop, the Rose/Xiao-long/Branwen family heard a very familiar voice.
"What!? What do you mean I can't mix those two up! It would be so cool though!" Ruby's voice shouted.
"Because that's weird! I love weapons as much as you do but a deck has to make sense!" a second Ruby voice replied. They entered the large shop and saw a plethora of people shopping for cards behind glass cases. While intriguing, what truly got their attention were the two Rubys sitting next to each other with numerous packs before them.
"But one has magical guns and the other has dragons that are guns!" Ruby shouted in desperation. "Why can't I have both!?"
"Because it doesn't make sense," the other Ruby sighed. This one was dressed very much like Ai in his school uniform, but while his blazer is yellow hers was red. She looked up to see Ai return and saw everyone else. "Oh! Welcome!"
"Dad! Uncle Qrow! Tell this heretic that I can have both magic guns and gun dragons!" Ruby said hugging both her father and her uncle.
The two were rather surprised by this before they hugged her back. "I'm glad you're alright Ruby," Taiyang said to his daughter. "You seemed to have recovered rather quickly?"
"Quickly?" Ruby asked before blinking. "Ah! Oh no. Time moves differently. It's been like...a week since the viewing for me."
"And about five days for myself," Ren said as he walked through with a different Ren, who was dressed also in red.
"Renny!" Nora shouted as she hugged him. Pyrrha saw the other Ren give her Ren a look but didn't question it.
"Wait…" Ai said, looking at Ruby getting hugged. "You've been here a week and you still haven't figured out at least what deck you want?"
"I want both dang it!" Ruby demanded.
"See! That's her problem still!" The other Ruby shouted and the two shared a small glare.
"Then why not make two decks?" The two blinked and then facepalmed. This caused a round of chuckles.
"They are the same person," Yang giggled. She was just happy to see her sister was doing better.
"Well, given the timeframe the Curator gave me, it seems like you'll be stuck with me for about two weeks. But by then, we should have shown you the greatness of Duel Monsters!"
"I doubt that," Salem replied.
They all lived in the guest dorms and were told to just enjoy their time there. What followed was a week of explanations, some casual duels, and showing the intricacies of Duel Monsters and most of them were hooked. Adrian especially since he saw the cool monsters! However, Ai had them build their decks in secret from one another.
Just so they can have some fun duels at the end.
During this time, Cinder, Emerald, Mercury, Ren, and Ruby had fully healed. Their focus on the card game, as well as their time relaxing, had made the horrifying world all but a distant memory to them. Most of them even met various versions of themselves who came from worlds that dueling was a main source of entertainment and economy.
And on the final three days, Ai had set it up with his headmaster to use the big stadium to show multiple universes their duels!
Ai smiled as several guests had come in from various worlds to watch, as well as the students. The people from the theater were given their box to be both spectators and duelists.
Some opted not to duel here. Ghira opted to just cheer for his daughter and wife. Terra lost a duel to Saphron and had to begrudgingly watch their son. Roman was too busy making bets to honestly care since that was allowed in this world.
Now…
People got their snacks and drinks and sat in their seats. Heck, the adults were even given some alcohol, with Salem grabbing some wine and Qrow grabbing a light beer after having been weaned off the heavy stuff through the sheer use of healing smoothies back in the theater.
"So how do you think they're going to do it?" Yang asked as she was given a nifty blue pin to show her as an honorary member of the Obelisk Blue dorm, much to the annoyance of the Yang in this world who was only in Slifer Red.
For you see there was a hierarchical system in place here. The better the duelist you were, the higher up in the ladder you were. Those at the top were Obelisk Blue, followed by the Ra Yellows, and at the bottom were Slifer Red.
Now, this was just the initial standings. Every semester they had a ranking duel. Depending on how well you do, you go up or down the school ranks.
So when the Yang of this world had a string of bad luck and had gone from Yellow to Red, she was annoyed that the Yang from the theater had become Blue her first week! All the people who visited got a pin to show where they currently stood amongst the usual people of the school.
"From what I guess, it was going to be a random lottery," Summer replied as she ate some popcorn. On her sleeve was a small purple pin. That one was different from others. Those with purple were in the "honor roll." Special cases who were so good that they were just at the school as a formality. Next to her Raven had one similar just hummed.
"I want to go first!" Nora happily said bouncing in her seat. She had a red pin on her collar. Ren just smiled, having fully recovered from the nightmare due to being surrounded by friends and just good vibes. He had a blue pin.
"I'm sure they'll choose who goes randomly, Nora," Pyrrha laughed as she had on a blue pin.
Ai popped up and smiled. The difference between the two weeks was that Ai now had a blue jacket instead of yellow, having had his promotion duel the previous week. "Actually headmaster Moto had arranged it to have some fun ideas. So don't worry about it. And I shall be the proctor," Ai replied.
"You're not dueling?" Ruby asked with a yellow pin on her cloak.
"Haha no. But we do have another Jaune willing to duel you guys," Ai said. "He's got a deck ready and everything. It would be unfair since I've helped make the decks."
"Very true," Winter nodded her head. "That would have been unfair for us."
"So yeah, let me give you a few more moments to rest up before we start." Ai left for a bit and everyone prepared themselves.
"Ladies and Gentlemen!" Ai announced as he got to the center of the stage. He grinned at everyone and waved. "Today we are going to have some fun times. We have some special guests going to duel before you all! And I, Jaune Arc, shall be the proctor to ensure no cheating is involved!"
The crowd cheered, enjoying the sight of Ai doing this.
"Yes, yes. We're having a bunch of live duels for your enjoyment!" Ai nodded. "Headmaster Moto has chosen who would be dueling and we'll get to see them now! So our first fight will be…"
On a large screen overlooking the arena showed the faces of one Saphron Arc and Winter Schnee.
"The battle of big sisters! We could have also gone with two others but that would have been another title altogether!"
"Who would be the other two?" Ruby asked.
"Yang and Raven," Ai said immediately. The two women looked at each other and frowned. They were indeed elder sisters but mother and daughter would have been a more appropriate title.
"So, from what I've heard around it seems like you are the elder sister of the Arc boy," Winter said as she stepped onto the stage. Her duel disk was in the shape of a white snowflake and on her collar was a yellow pin.
"Yup, and I heard you were the elder sister of my brother's first crush," Saphron grinned as she also stepped onto the arena. Her Duel Disk was the standard scroll looking one but was colored in saffron. "Shall we compare styles?" Saphron's pin was along the hem of her shirt and was yellow as well.
The two slotted in their decks and a blade of energy came out of both disks. For Winter it was in the shape of a sword and for Saphron it was in the shape of a crescent.
On their touchscreens three small cards symbolizing rock, paper, scissors appeared. Both players chose their option. In front of them, large holographic cards appeared before them. The cards turned and showed that Saphron had chosen scissors and Winter had chosen paper.
"I take it you want to go first then?" Winter asked as her deck was being shuffled by the Duel Disk. However, the other older sister shook her head.
"No, ladies first," the Arc woman said. "You'll need all the advantage you'll get."
"I see sass doesn't run in the family," Yang snickered.
"Jaune has his moments," Pyrrha replied, but she still had a smile on her face.
"Shh...the game is starting!" Ruby whispered bouncing in her seat.
"DUEL!"
WLP: 8000
SLP: 8000
The two drew five cards but then Winter drew a sixth since she was going first. She looked at her hand and nodded. "Since I shall be going first, I shall start simple," Winter replied.
"Oh that's not going to end well," James said as he shook his head.
"Why do you say that General?" Weiss asked.
"Since she's just treating this as a card game, Winter is rather...cocky, to say the least."
"I activate the spell card White Dragon Ritual!" Winter said as she slotted in a card. On the field, a card with a being in white armor was holding up a sword to the sky. "By sending enough monster cards to equal the total level I need, I get to summon a different monster."
Kali and Summer frowned. Penny noticed this and asked. "Why are you making that face? Did Specialist Schnee do something wrong?" Penny asked.
"Well, not wrong per se," Summer said.
"She just used an outdated way to do her deck" Kali finished for the other mother.
"There are faster cards that can be used to do what she is doing," Raven also said, catching everyone's attention. "What? Our Summer dragged us into game nights too, and I am very competitive."
Winter sent a card from her hand into a slot in the middle of the Duel Disk, also known as the Graveyard. Around the Specialist, a grey and blue ring appeared as blue particles began to move around her. On the ring, four dark blue flames came to life as she summoned her monster.
"Come forth! Paladin of White Dragon!" Winter shouted. The flames burst as the figure flew through the ring and landed in the middle of the arena. Standing there was the same white knight from the picture but was riding a small white dragon with yellow eyes and a long neck.
Paladin of White Dragon Lvl4/Attribute: Light/Type: Dragon/Ritual/Effect/Atk: 1900/Def: 1200
"So that's what a ritual summoning looks like," Ren hummed. "That's interesting.."
"You never saw a ritual summoning before?" Ilia asked. When the usually stoic boy shook his head, the Faunus grinned. "That eliminates some archetypes, thanks for telling us what you don't have."
Ren blinked before groaning, getting laughs from his friends.
"But it will not stay on the field for long! I use its effect by tributing the card, I can Special Summon a different monster from my hand or Deck." Pressing a button on her screen, Winter's Duel Disk ejected the card she needed. "By tributing Paladin of White Dragon, I special summon Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"
The monster on the field burst into particles as the stadium's roof opened up. Descending from the skies, a ferocious beast landed in the center of the arena. Towering over Winter by at least three times her height was an adult version of the dragon the paladin was riding on. It had a long scaly neck, and its body was pure white, save for the eyes which were a piercing blue.
"Hey! That's the one we saw earlier," Ruby shouted as she pointed at the monster. She had a red pin.
"It is so much bigger seeing it up close and personal," Blake stated. On her bow was a tiny yellow pin.
"That's what she said," Neo snickered, getting groans from everyone except Yang and Tai. They gave small laughs. She had a yellow pin as well.
Letting out a roar, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon announced its arrival.
Blue-Eyes White Dragon: Lvl8/Attribute: Light/Type: Dragon/Atk: 3000/Def: 2500
The crowd cheered seeing the display. While most knew how to get around that, they still enjoyed a Duel in front of them.
"I end my turn," Winter said.
"Wait...really?" Ai said in confusion.
"I do. Is there something wrong?" Ai shook his head. Everyone had their own devices he guessed.
"Foolish," Cinder said with a grin. It took a while for her to get into the whole dueling thing, but she understood the ins and out of it rather well. That was why she had a blue pin. "She didn't put anything up for defense, nothing that looks like she has to counter. A shame."
"You can say that again," Mercury said. On his shirt, he had a red pin.
Emerald stayed quiet but she nodded as she was sitting next to, surprisingly, Neo and Roman.
"Was it that bad?" the General asked, who also had a red pin on his lapel. Although he was on the verge of going onto yellow from what other professors stated. Games were harder than he thought.
"She just kept herself open is all," Ozpin replied.
Ai turned to the alternate version of his sister and nodded.
"I guess it is my turn then. I draw!" Saphron grinned. "Well, I'm not going to lie and say I expected more. But I guess this is where I get to show off the deck I made with my wife in mind."
Terra blushed as she heard Saphron say that. They made decks based on one another, with Terra making one based on Saphron's family, and Saphron's being based on her career.
"First off I use Pot of Desires! It lets me draw two cards at the expense of banishing ten of my cards face down," Saphron said. On the card was a pot with two faces, a grinning green face, and an ecstatic purple face. Ten cards were ejected from her deck, which she put into the holder on the left side of her Duel Disk before drawing two cards.
"That was a big sacrifice," Tai mumbled, having a blue pin.
"But if she knows what she's doing, she'll be good," Qrow replied. His pin was yellow.
"Next I activate the effect of…" Saphron paused before turning to Ai. "Do I have to use the common name for it or can I use the original name? Because it sounds cooler."
"Wait, we can do that!?" Nora shouted.
Ai blinked before the blond whispered something into an earpiece before nodding. "The Headmaster said it's A-Okay!"
"I need to look for a new deck with a cooler name!" the bomber shouted as she went to stand up only to be held down by her boyfriend.
"Nora, no," Ren sighed.
"Good!" Saphron grinned. "From my hand, I activate the ability of my Math Mech aka Processlayer Subtra. By subtracting 1000 Atk points from a monster on the field, I get to special summon it." She placed her card onto the glowing crescent moon.
Across from Saphron, a horizontal cut appeared on the Blue-Eyes White Dragon as a tall red robot with a tattered cape flew past it and landed on her side of the field.
Processlayer Subtra: Lvl 4/Attribute: Fire/Type: Cyberse/Effect/Atk: 1000/ Def: 1000
"That was quite the entrance," Roman praised Saphron and clapped his hands.
"Next, I Normal Summon Processlayer Nabla!"
Placing the card next to her other one, a large black and gold robot with the Nabla symbol, used for math equations, on its forehead landed. In its right hand was a large ebony greatsword. It had numerous pointed edges along its humanoid body and looked quite intimidating.
Processlayer Nabla: Lvl 4/Attribute: Dark/Type: Cyberse/Tuner/Effect/Atk: 1000/ Def: 1000
"Wait are you telling me…" Penny asked happily. "Is her deck based on math?"
"Yes, it is," Terra smiled. "Based on my job as a computer engineer."
"With this card, I can tribute one Cyberse Monster on my side of the field, to Special Summon another Processlayer from my deck!," Saphron grinned.
"Wait, you can do that?" Winter asked.
"I guess the Ice Queen didn't read the rule book," Qrow chuckled, earning a small glare from James.
"Of course you can. This game is fun and intricate. That's why I was a little surprised you went for such a standard move. Terra and I can show you better ways to do it later if you want," Saphron offered.
Winter blushed, at having her move called standard. She was a Schnee after all, and they were the best! But she didn't take this too seriously and thought it was easy. It was just a kids game after all! A nice way to relax. But it seemed some people take it seriously and well, maybe she should have looked a bit more into it.
"Very well, but this is still the first turn. I doubt you can beat me like this," Winter said with confidence.
"That's where you're wrong!" Saphron put Processlayer Subtra into the Graveyard and a new card popped out. "I Special Summon Processlayer Multiplier!"
From the skies, another large mecha flew down. This one had a mostly gold body with a rather normal looking torso. However, the entire lower half of it just consisted of numerous thrusters that showed off pink flames. It crossed the two blades in its hands into an X shape.
Processlayer Multiplier: Lvl 4/Attribute: Earth/Type: Cyberse/Effect/Atk: 500/Def: 2000
"Oh, I get it," Sun said slamming a fist into his palm. "Their weapons aren't based on math!" He had a red pin.
"Dude...that's slow even for you," Neptune sighed. On his goggles was a yellow pin.
"Next it's effect activates, in which I target one level 4 Cyberse monster and change its level to eight until the end of the turn. And I think I'll do that to Nabla!"
On the large holograms, the level of the dark mecha raised by four stars.
"Now I have the necessary levels needed!" Saphron held out her hand and both monsters dissolved into particles before floating above her.
"OOOH! SHE'S GOING TO SYNCHRO SUMMON!" Nora yelled.
"Numbers combine and coalesce…" Saphron stated as the particles began to form above her. Golden particles made eight rings stacked on top of each other with the level 8 appearing next to it. "A new mech goes beyond its limits..." Just below that four blue rings formed. "Blaze forth with the sum of our parts!" The eight golden rings expanded and surrounded the four blue ones, adding up to twelve.
"SYNCHRO SUMMON!" the elder Arc Sibling shouted happily. "Level 12! Processlayer Final Sigma!"
Like a comet, an even larger mech flew down from the skies and landed in the extra monster zone in between the two sides of the field. This one was white and red, all around. On its back was another tattered cape that looked like a set of wings and in its hands was a saber with the Sigma symbol as its guard. Swinging it down, the blade came to life as fire encased it.
Processlayer Final Sigma: Lvl 12/Attribute: Fire/Type: Cyberse/Synchro/Effect/ Atk: 3000/ Def: 0
"So cool!" Nora, Ruby, Yang, Sun, and Neptune shouted.
"Boo!" Terra said.
"Why are you booing her?" Ilia asked.
"Her entire summon chant was a math pun!" the engineer pouted. To the side, both Taiyang and Yang hissed.
"Math jokes…" they both said in blasphemous disgust.
"You think you're going to win with just that? Even with Subtra's ability it only has 1000 more attack points than my Blue-Eyes," Winter said looking at the fearsome monster before her.
"But our math lesson isn't done yet, Miss Schnee," Saphron tutted. "Both Multiplier and Nabla have effects that activate from the Graveyard. Nabla lets my monster in the Extra Monster Zone attack twice. And Multiplier doubles the attack of my monster in the Extra Monster Zone."
Processlayer Final Sigma Atk: 3000 - 6000
"That is one beefy monster," Summer grinned.
"This is what I was waiting for!" Kali nodded along. "After all, this is what games are all about!"
"Lastly, I equip my monster with Processlayer Blade Nayuta!" Saphron played her magic card and a large white and red serrated sword replaced the original blade in her monster's hand.
"That didn't raise its stats," Coco pointed out. On her beret was a blue pin.
"Sometimes, you don't need an immediate buff," Velvet countered. Her pin was next to her regular one, and it was also blue.
"I see, I lost this one didn't I?" Winter frowned. She wished she took this a little more seriously. It was a bit embarrassing to lose on the first turn in front of her sister and General.
"Battle!"
Saphron pointed at the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, and grinned. "Final Sigma attacks Blue-Eyes! Go Equation Execution!"
"Nooo…." Terra groaned. "Another pun!"
"Final Sigma and Nayuta's effects activate as damage calculation begins," Saphron smirked. "With Nayuta, I send one Processlayer from my Deck to the Graveyard. During the damage calculation step, I can add the attack points of that monster to Final Sigma."
Processlayer Final Sigma: Atk 6000-7500
"Those are rather big numbers," Glynda said with her eyes widening.
"So I choose, Processlayer Divider. And when that goes to the Graveyard, it's effect activates. I choose a monster you control and it's attack points get cut in half! Which means Blue-Eyes loses half its attack points."
"What!" Winter shouted in surprise.
"She knew exactly what she was doing," Salem hummed and then smirked. "And it seems the Arc family has rather good smarts." That made Ozpin go on edge, why would she say that? Unless she had plans for them.
Blue-Eyes White Dragon: ATK 2000- 1000
"Lastly when Final Sigma does battle damage it's attack points get doubled."
Processlayer Final Sigma: Atk 7500-15,000
Almost all the audience dropped at their jaws at how big the difference in attack points were.
As the red and white mech attacked, the blade in its hand began to glow. Numbers ran along the blade as it made contact with the dragon, cutting it in half and destroying it. Winter screamed in shock as the force of the attack slammed into her. The fake flames touching her skin, and her life points going down with the two swings.
WLP: 8000- -6000
"And that ends our math lesson," Saphron grinned, causing the crowd to cheer.
Ai clapped his hands. "And in that! We get our first win of the day! By Saphron Arc via OTK!"
The crowd cheered happily as she waved at them. Saphron walks over to her opponent and helps her up. "That was fun, but let me help you get better and we can try again."
"That sounds lovely," Winter replied, eager to make some friends.
(Time Skip)
Everyone had made their way back to the Theater, having rested well enough in the Duel Dimension. Some went to go do something other than a duel to relax and a few went into the various rooms to do just that. Some into the training room to feel a modicum of their Semblances once more. Others went to the library to read something not based on Duel Monsters.
And those that walked back into the theater. Memories of that dark world was gone from their minds. Team RWBY and JNPR were the ones to enter.
The screen flickered to life as Jaune looked down at Vale with a frown on his face. It was falling to ruins due to the massive Grimm attack orchestrated by his boss's boss. And as much as he disliked the city, he did live there.
He felt a tap on his shoulder and turned to see his girlfriend Neo giving him a worried look. She signs something at him with her hands and he nods. "Yeah. I may dislike those guys but…"
A roar echoed in the distance as a Grimm Wyvern attacked Beacon.
"Vale doesn't deserve this. Go get Roman out of here. I'll catch up when I'm done." Turning to leave, Neo grabbed his face and kissed him for a moment. The two share a look before nodding.
She left to go help their friend and boss who was recovering from his time in Atlas custody. Jaune meanwhile turns to the dragon and scoffs. "Well then Miss Fall," a grin slowly made its way to his face, "the strings of fate you believe in stronger than mine?"
Several strings shot out of his body and attached to clouds as he made his way onto the battlefield.
Yes, as you can see this was short and barely and Jaune in it. Why? Because halfway through the chapter I was like, this is rather fun. So I decided that I'll write down the other duels as a small spinoff maybe just ten or so chapters to flesh out all the battles. Instead of leaving it vague here.