Chapter 24: Hexside's Duel Tournament

Hey everyone I'm back with a new chapter. My friend kival737101 suggested this one for me after the sad passing of Yugioh Creator Kazuki Takahashi who made the card game for this story. I hope you like what I have planned. Please Review and Enjoy.

We find ourselves at Hexside, Bump was in his office reviewing Blanca's file as she stood in front of him wearing Hexside robes with Luz, Minato and Tiger Lily standing behind her.

"I can't believe Blanca actually suggested this." Lily whispers.

"Well with Grandpa getting crazier with the whole get rid of me it certainly doesn't hurt to have her around more." Minato whispers.

"Besides I think she's been cooped up in the house for too long." Luz said.

"Hey how did Eda even get her hands on Blanca's old school records?" Lily asks.

Flashback:

We find ourselves in Blanca's old boarding school as multiple security guards were beaten up and tied up alongside the door.

Casually scrolling through a filing cabinet, Eda had a ball of light next to her to help her read the names.

Pulling out Blanca's files she only got the general information.

"Hmm." Walking to the security guards Eda picks one up so he's eye level. "Hey where do you boneheads keep all the records and stuff?" Eda asks.

"I'll never tell." A guard said when Eda grabs him by the head and hangs his body out the window making him yelp in fear.

"Better hurry my arm is getting tired." Eda said.

"Okay it's in the storage room in the back!" He yells as Eda yanks him in.

"See? Now was that so hard?" Eda smirks patting him on the head.

Making her way to the back room, Eda blasts the door down.

Entering the room papers flew everywhere before Eda walked out a few minutes later with Blanca's file.

"Thanks boy hopefully someone comes to untie you all." Eda said walking out the door.

Flashback End:

"Eda has her ways." Luz said as they all nodded in agreement.

"Oh Titan I'm so nervous. This was a mistake. You guys shouldn't have wasted all this for me. I should go." Blanca said turning around but the three of them held their arms out.

"Okay this whole I'm not worth it thing needs to stop. I know that's what your family thought but not us." Lily reminds.

"You are gonna love it here Blanca." Luz said as they forced Blanca back into her seat.

"So it says you dropped out 3 years ago. Care to explain why?" Bump asks putting the file down.

"I uh had an unfortunate family situation." Blanca said nervously.

"Well your grades are very good. Lucky for you, you just barely got in before the semester was too far in. I'll have to put you in a few remedial classes so you can catch up. Now before I can enroll you, I need to see what you are capable of." Bump said.

Using her magic, Blanca made multiple swords and spikes appear out of the wall and his desk aiming right at Bump startling him.

"Blanca take it down a notch." Minato cringed.

"You don't want to kill him." Luz said.

"Sorry uh force of habit." Blanca said making most of them disappear.

"No need, it's been a while since a student got the jump on me. Welcome to Hexside." Bump smiles.

"Oh thank you sir. I am so thrilled to be here." Blanca said as Minato, Luz and Lily high fived.

"So now all that's left is to pick your track." Bump said gesturing to the banners.

"Hmm…I'll take the Construction Track and the Elemental Track." Blanca points.

"Interesting choices." Bump casts his spell and Blanca's sleeves and leggings turned sky blue and brown.

"Thanks for this Bump." Luz smiles.

"Don't act like I did you any favors." Bump said.

"Well you kinda did one with our big announcement today." Minato admits.

"I'm merely doing that to boost school morale. Everyone seems to love it." Bump said.

"Well thank you from all of us." Minato said as Luz put an apple on his desk before leaving.

"Oh hey by the way Minato." Bump calls out getting his attention. "I saw your and Katara's little game. Never saw you as a Powerball player." Bump smirks.

"Uh it just kinda happened." Minato blushes embarrassed. "Uh thanks again sir." Minato said closing the door.

Seeing this Bump couldn't help but chuckle. "He is something else."

As they walked out Blanca had a big smile.

"I can't believe I'm a student again." Blanca said.

"Well believe it. You're a fellow Hexside student like us." Lily said.

"How's it feel to be part of something?" Minato asks.

"It's feels so good. Thank you." Blanca smiles giving Minato a hug making him blush while Luz and Lily glare.

"Y-Yeah you're welcome." Minato said as she let go. "So uh why those two tracks?" He asks trying to change the subject.

"It's because of my family magic I've only ever created blades and daggers for my previous work. But it takes a bit of Construction to create these things." Blanca explains.

"I always thought Metal was an Elemental magic." Luz said.

"Ehh it borders on Elemental and Construction." Blanca said tilting her hand back and forth. "So I haven't gone to school in a while. What do you guys do besides go to class?"

"Well we always meet up with our friends at lunch." Lily said.

"And have Minato's tasty bento boxes." Luz smiles.

"Bento Boxes? You mean those things I see on the counter every morning?" Blanca asks.

"And now since you're going to school with us that means you get one too." Minato said.

"So these things are good?" Blanca asks.

"It's Minato and cooking. He can make anything taste good." Lily said making Minato blush.

"Lily." Minato said nervously.

"Come on let's go tell everyone the good news." Luz said as they led Blanca to her locker.


Meanwhile outside the school, Eda was carrying a big sack with King right behind.

"Oh man I owe those kids big time for this idea." Eda said.

"We're gonna be so rich." King said rubbing his hands manically when they open the door to see Bump.

"What do you think you're doing Edalyn?" Bump asks startling them.

"Oh just setting up a booth for the big event. Those kids will be chomping at the bits for these last second deals." Eda said.

"May I remind you that you are doing this on school property during school hours." Bump said.

"Oh just tell me what you want." Eda deadpans.

"I want 30 percent of the profits you make to go to the school." Bump said.

"What no way? This was our idea to begin with." King said.

"And it's because of my kids you have this event at all." Eda adds.

"30 percent or I kick you out." Bump threatens.

"30 it is." Eda said as they shook on it.

"By the way who's this new face that I let into my school?" Bump asks.

"Let's just she's the newest member of our little group of weirdoes and leave it at that." King said.

"Couldn't have said it better myself." Eda snickers while Bump just rolls his eyes.

"I'll just leave it at that for the sake my stress and the school." Bump sighs.

"Wise move." Eda said patting him on the shoulder.


As the school day was coming to an end quite a few students were walking to the cafeteria with eager looks on their faces.

"And this is a brief announcement. To all students who are staying after school prepare yourself for the first ever Hexside Card tournament. Registration is free and in the cafeteria to anyone who wants to join." Bump said over the PA Speakers.

"Come on people get your last minute cards! Wanna be a winner then drop some snails and stock up!" Eda said having a card booth set up and students were dropping coins eager for anything to improve their decks.

On a big board was a tournament bracket with the players who were in it and scattered at all the lunch tables were the students and their friends competing.

At one table, Tiger Lily had Skara looking over her shoulder as she made her next move.

On Lily's side of the field was Amazoness Chainmaster, Amazoness Tiger, and two Facedown cards. While her opponent had A-Assault Core, Fiend Megacyber and Frontline Base.

Lily: 5300

Construction Student: 3800

Amazonees Chainmaster: 1500/ 1000

Amazoness Tiger: 1900/ 1500

A-Assault Core: 1900/ 200

Fiend Megacyber: 2200/ 1200

"My move." He drew. "I summon B-Buster Drake and thanks to Frontline Base I can summon C-Crush Wyvern!"

Appearing on the field was a green mechanical dragon and a purple mechanical bird.

B-Buster Drake: 1500/ 1800

C-Crush Wyvern: 1200/ 2000

"And now I combine my three monsters in order to summon the ABC-Dragon Buster!" He said as a large mechanical monster appeared.

ABC-Dragon Buster: 3000/ 2800

"That's not good is it?" Skara asks.

"Nope." Lily cringed.

"And thanks to it's special ability by discarding one card from my hand I can remove one card from your side of the field. Like your facedown." He said pointing to the right one.

Firing a blast the Dragon Buster removed Draining Shield from the game.

"I really could have used that card." Lily said.

"Too bad. But now my Dragon Buster can take out that Tiger of yours." He said as his monster blew her tiger away.

Lily: 4200

Construction Student: 3800

"And now here comes my Fiend Megacyber on your Chain Master." He said as his monster attacks.

"I activate my facedown card Rush Recklessly. Which gives my Chainmaster 700 points. Just enough to take your monster down with her." Lily said as her monster increased in strength before both monsters were destroyed. "And now since she's gone I can use her ability. By paying 1500 lifepoints I can take a monster from your hand."

Lily: 2700

Construction Student: 3800

"Show her what you got." Skara said as he turned his hand to reveal Green Gadget, Stronghold and Cyber Dragon.

"Ooh I'll take that one." Lily said taking Cyber Dragon.

"Big deal. Even with him you won't get past my machines." He said setting a facedown obviously Stronhold.

"My turn." Lily said drawing her card.

"Ooh you're in trouble now." Skara smirks looking over her shoulder.

"No outside help." The Construction student said.

"It's not help if I'm about to win." Lily smirks. "First since I don't have any monsters and you do I can special summon your Cyber Dragon in attack mode."

Cyber Dragon: 2100/ 1600

"Next I summon my Amazoness Princess to the field." Lily said as a young girl in tribal clothes appeared.

Amazoness Princess: 1200/ 900

"That little runt doesn't scare me. Especially when I reveal my Stronghold the Moving Fortress." He said revealing the giant machine trap monster.

Stronghold: 0000/ 2000

"Well she will because when she's summoned I can add an Amazoness spell or trap to my hand. Like my Amazoness Spellcaster." Lily said taking the card to her hand. "Now here comes my Polymerization to fuse my Amazoness Princess with my Amazoness Archer in my hand in order to summon Amazoness Empress."

Appearing on the field was a scary woman in skull armor and dangerous weapons.

Amazoness Empress: 2800/ 2400

"She's good but my Dragon Buster still has the lead." He said.

"Not for long. I play Monster Reborn to bring back my Amazoness Chainmaster in attack mode. And with the help of Amazoness Spellcaster her attack points and your Dragon Buster are swapped." Lily declares.

"Wait what?" He gasps as energy between the two monsters was swapped.

Amazoness Chainmaster: 3000

ABC-Dragon Buster: 1500

"Now attack his Dragon Buster!" Lily said as her Chainmaster spun her chain destroying his machine.

Tiger Lily: 2700

Construction Student: 2300

"And now my Amazoness Empress is coming for you Stronghold." Lily said as her Empress attacks.

"Wait even if you destroy my Fortress and attack me with Cyber Dragon I'll still have some points left." He panics.

"No you won't." Skara teases confusing him.

"My Empress can deal damage even if your monster is in defense mode." Lily grins.

Eyes widening Amazoness Empress destroys his Stronghold and Cyber Draogn fires a beam destroying his lifepoints.

Tiger Lily: 2700

Construction Student: 0000

"Oh yeah up high!" Skara said as the two high five.

Nearby Willow was playing against Ezra.

Ezra: 3600

Willow: 4000

On Willow's side of the field was Naturia Beast while Ezra had Zoodiac Kataroost and Zoodiac Thoroughblade and one facedown.

Zoodiac Kataroost: 800/ 1200

Zoodiac Thoroughblade: 1600/0

Naturia Beast: 2200/ 1700

"Now I use my Zoodiac Kataroost and Thoroughblade to XYZ summon Zoodiac Broadbull." Appearing on the field was a bull humanoid with a giant hammer.

Broadbull: ?/?

"What's up with those stats?" Willow asks never seeing that before.

"You see his points depend on the stats of the monsters used to make him." Ezra explains.

Broadbull: 2400/ 1200

"But he's about to get stronger because I activate Zoodiac Combo allowing me to take another Zoodiac card from my deck and put it in. Like Zoodiac Ratpier." Ezra said putting it into the overlay units. "Now I send one unit to the grave to add a beast warrior to my hand. And I choose Winged Rhynos." Ezra said putting Ratpier in the grave and adding the card.

"Now Broadbull attack Naturia Beast." Swinging his mallet, Broadbull smashes Willow's monster.

Ezra: 3600

Willow: 3800

"And I'll end my turn with that." Ezra smiles.

Nearby Blanca was watching them with interest.

"Man who knew card games could get so intense." Blanca said.

"Yeah Luz and Minato got us hooked." Willow smiles drawing her card. "Oh yeah here comes Naturia Pumpkin." Willow said summoning a green pumpkin monster.

Naturia Pumpkin: 1400/ 800

"And thanks to his ability I can summon another Naturia monster from my hand. Say hello to Naturia Tulip." Appearing on the field was a small pink tulip monster.

Naturia Tulip: 600/ 1500

"Uh oh." Ezra gulps seeing another tuner monster.

"Now I tune my Naturia Tulip with my Naturia Pumpkin to summon Naturia Brakion." Willow said summoning a plant based Dragon monster.

Naturia Brakion: 2500/ 1800

"Now I activate Leodrake's Mane. One Naturia monster on my field attack becomes 3000 until the end of my turn but he can't use his effects. Not that I don't mind. Brakion attack his Broadbull."

"Sorry Willow, I remove my Necro Gardna from grave and negate your attack." Ezra said removing a card from his grave and a heavily armored man blocked the attack. "Phew that was close."

"I place 2 cards face down and end my turn." Willow said as Brakion's attack returned to normal.

"My turn." Ezra drew. 'Hmm Willow's monsters are great at shutting people down. So I need to be careful.'

Looking at his hand he tried to think of a plan.

"I play Fire Formation Tenki. Thanks to this I can add a level 4 or lower beast warrior from my deck to my hand like my Zoodiac Whiptail." Ezra said adding the card. "Plus all Beast Warriors gain 100 attack points. Including my Broadbull." Ezra said as his monster's attack grew to match Willow's. "Now I summon Winged Rhynos in attack mode." Appearing on the field was an armored rhino with wings.

Winged Rhynos: 1800/ 500

"Thanks Ezra. Since you summoned a monster this turn I can special summon this little guy. Naturia Cosmobeet in defense mode." Willow said summoning a small beet with flowers on its head.

Cosmobeet: 1000/ 700

"Not enough to stop us.

"One down, one to go. Winged Rhynos crush that beet." Ezra said.

"I activate Wall of Thorns." Willow said revealing a trap. "When a plant monster on my field is targeted for an attack I can destroy all attack monsters on your field."

Suddenly giant thorns shot out at Ezra's rhino.

"I activate Winged Rhyno's ability. When a trap is activated he comes back to my hand." Ezra said saving his monster.

"Good job, but unfortunately. You can't summon him back out just yet." Willow points out.

"Aw what? I thought I had this turn figured out." Ezra said.

"Not this time." Willow giggles.

"Clever trick." Blanca said.

"I place one card facedown and end my turn." Ezra said.

"My turn." Willow drew. "Now I sacrifice my Cosmobeet in order to summon Gigaplant."

Appearing on the field was a large and ferocious plant monster.

Gigaplant: 2400/ 1200

"No hard feelings Ezra but I attack you directly." Willow said as her giant plant swung its vine hitting Ezra.

Ezra: 1200

Willow: 3800

"And with that I'll end my turn." Willow said.

"Before I start mine I'll activate my Zoodiac Combo from the grave. By removing it from the grave I can add 5 Zoodiac cards to my deck and draw a card." Ezra said taking his cards back and drawing.

'If I want to win I need some more cards.' Ezra thought beginning his turn. Drawing his card he studied his hand. "I play Hand Destruction. Foricing both of us to send 2 cards from our hands to the grave and draw 2 new ones." Ezra said as both picked their cards. "Now I play Premaure Burial. By paying 800 points I can get back one of the monsters I just got rid of. Zoodiac Thoroughblade."

Appearing on the field was Ezra's lion based warrior.

Thoroughblade: 1600/ 0000

"And when he's summoned to the field I can draw one more card." Ezra drew. "Next I activate my facedown Call of the Haunted in order to bring back my other card. Zoodiac Whiptail." Appearing on the field was snake based monster.

Whiptail: 1200/ 400

"Finally I play the spell Double Summon allowing me to summon Zoodiac RamRam and Zoodiac Ratpier."

Zoodiac RamRam: 400/ 2000

Zoodiac Ratpier: 0/0

"Why is summoning so much in one turn?" Blanca asks.

"Because he's got something big planned." Willow realized.

"Oh yeah its big. Time to go big time. By using my Zoodiac Whiptail, RamRam, Ratpier and Throughblade I can XYZ summon Zoodiac Drident." Ezra said summoning a warrior with a long scaley tail holding a giant trident. "And just like my last one he gains attack and defense equal to all Zoodiac cards as materials."

Zoodiac Drident: 3200/ 2400

"Now by removing one Overlay unit my Drident can destroy one monster on the field." Ezra said as his monster used an overlay unit to charge up its spear.

Hurling it across the field it destroyed Willow's plant.

"And the best part is I can still attack with him." Ezra grins as Drident attacks Willow directly.

Ezra: 1200

Willow: 600

"And I'll end my turn with one facedown." Ezra thought setting a Widespread Ruin trap.

"Sorry Willow looks like this match is Ezra's." Blanca said.

"It's still my turn." Willow drew and smiles happily. "I summon the Twilight Rose Knight."

Appearing on the field was a small knight in dark armor.

Twilight Rose Knight: 1000/ 1000

"And thanks to his ability I can summon another plant monster from my deck. Like my Naturia Guardian." Standing alongside her knight an elderly tree monster appeared.

'Okay here comes something big.' Ezra thought ready to shut it down.

"Now I tune my Twilight Rose Knight with Naturia Guardian in order to summon Black Rose Dragon." Willow said summoning her dragon.

Black Rose Dragon: 2400/ 1800

"With Black Rose Dragon's ability I can send it to the grave immediately and destroy all cards on the field." Willow declares.

"All of the cards?" Ezra gasps as her monster destroyed everything on his side of the field and hers leaving them wide open.

"Now I play Monster Reborn in order to summon her right back to the field." Willow said calling her dragon back to her.

"Now that was a clever move. You weakened his defenses allowing you to get a clear shot." Blanca said impressed.

"And now I win." Willow smiles as her dragon attacks Ezra.

Ezra: 0000

Willow: 600

"Aw man. I lost." Ezra groans.

"Hey you did pretty good." Willow said patting him on the shoulder.

"That was awesome. I want to get some cards of my own now." Blanca said.

"Well help you out." Willow said nudging Ezra. "Right Ezra?"

"Uh yeah sure." Ezra nods.

Across from them Katara was playing against Boscha.

Boscha had Laval Magma Cannoneer and Flamvell Archer, and one facedown card while Katara had Medium of the Ice Barrier.

Magma Cannoneer: 1700/ 200

Flamvell Archer: 1000/ 200

Medium of the Ice Barrier: 2200/ 1600

Katara: 4900

Boscha: 3200

"First I activate my Cannoneer's ability to send one fire to the grave you take 500 points of damage." Boscha said sending Volcanin Scattershot to the grave. "And since my card was Volcanic Scattershot that's another 500."

Firing two flaming cannonballs, Katara was hit by them.

Katara: 3900

Boscha: 3200

"And now I tune my Cannonneer with my Archer in order to synchro summon Ancient Flamvell Deity." Erupting in a geyser of flames was a red armored monster with flames coming out of it.

Ancient Flamvell Deity: 2500/ 200

"And thanks to his special ability I can remove as many cards in your grave equal to your hand and he gains 200 points for each one." Boscha said revealing Katara had 4 cards in her hand.

Looking to her grave she lost General Wayne, Aqua Spirit, Salvage and Geomancer of the Ice Barrier allowin Flamvell Deity to gain their power.

Ancient Flamvell Deity: 3300

"In the battle of ice vs fire, fire always wins." Boscha grins.

"We'll see about that." Katara glares.

"Deity melt that Medium!" Boscha said as her monster punched Katara's destroying it.

Katara: 2800

Boscha: 3200

"And to really bring the heat. I activate my facedown card Call of the Haunted to bring back my Cannoneer." Boscha said as her cannon monster returned. "Fire 2." Boscha said as her monster fired at Katara.

Katara: 1100

Boscha: 3200

"I activate Damage Condensor. By discarding one card I can summon a monster equal or less than the damage I took. Here comes Defender of the Ice Barrier in defense mode." Katara said summoning a yellow fox with ice crystals on it.

Defender: 200/ 1600

"You survived this round." Boscha said ending her turn.

"But you won't survive next round." Katara drew. 'Geez this girl reminds of Azula.'

"Come on Katara you got this." Minato said walking over.

Looking over at him, Katara smiles nodding in thanks.

"Alright I play the spell Surface. This lets me summon a level 3 or below water monster from my grave to the field. Come on back Warlock of the Ice Barrier." Katara said summoning a white haired mage with an orange coat.

Warlock of the ice barrier: 400/ 1000

"And now I tune my Defender with my Warlock in order to summon Brionac Dragon of the Ice Barrier." Katara said summoning a dragon made entirely of ice.

Brionac: 2300/ 1400

"Big whoop. My fire guys can melt that thing easy." Boscha said.

"Not if they don't stick around. I use Brionac's ability by discarding 2 cards I can send 2 cards on your field back to your hand." Katara said as Brionac sent both of Boscha's monsters back to her hand.

"And now you're wide open." Minato said.

"Next I summon Abyss Solider in attack mode." Katara said summoing a sea creature based warrior with a spear.

Abyss Soldier: 1800/ 1300

"Now attack!" Katara said as both her creatures attacked Boscha hitting her with ice and water.

Katara: 1100

Boscha: 0000

"Guess no matter how you look at it. Water always beats fire." Katara smirks.

"Ugh it's a dumb game anyway." Boscha growls getting up and leaving.

Making their way through the brackets with each duel coming and going we soon found ourselves in the top 4: Minato, Amity, Luz and Willow.

"Man I really thought I had Luz." Tiger Lily groans.

"Consider yourself lucky. Minato and his cards shut me down so easily." Gus said.

"At least you got to compete. I don't even have cards." Blanca said.

"Yeah well you kinda need those if you want to be a part of this." Katara said.

"Don't worry, we'll help you make one." Lily said.

On one side Luz faced Willow and on the other Amity faced Minato.

"We may be best friends Luz but I am not going easy on you." Willow said.

"Right back at ya." Luz smirks.

Across from them, the duel between Minato and Amity was intense.

Minato: 4800

Amity: 4500

On Amity's field was Gem Knight Ruby, Gem Knight Aquamarine and two facedowns. On Minato's field was Blackwing Raikiri the Rain Shower, Black Whirlwind and two facedowns.

Gem-Knight Ruby: 2500/ 1300

Gem-Knight Aquamarine: 1400/ 2600

Blackwing Raikri: 2600/ 2000

"I activate my facedown card Raigeki Bottle so if I can declare 4 attacks all your monsters are destroyed." Amity said.

"That might work but too bad none of your attacks are enough to get through." Minato said.

"Wrong again Hy—" Pausing Amity stopped herself. Looking at Minato's confident face, Amity couldn't help but remember Grom.

"Whoo! Go Mittens!"

"Take him down!" Blushing Amity turns to see Edric and Emira cheering for her.

"Not now." Amity glares making Minato chuckle.

"Hey come on at least they showed up. Just be happy they're here for you." Minato said.

"Oh alright." Amity said turning to him. "Anyway where was I?"

"Wrong again." Minato reminds.

"Oh yeah. I activate Gem Knight Ruby's ability by sacrificing my Gem Knight Amethyst it gains Amethyst's attack points until the end of the turn." Amity said as Gem Knight Amethyst disappeared and a purple aura surrounded Gem Knight Ruby.

Gem Knight Ruby: 4450

"Now clip that Blackwing's wings!" Amity said.

"I activate my facedown Defense Draw. Now I don't take any damage from your attack and I get to draw a card." Minato said drawing a card as his Blackwing was destroyed.

"I still get a counter on my trap." Amity growls ending her turn.

"My turn." Minato drew. "I summon Blackwing Sirocco the Dawn."

Appearing on his field was his brown feathered monster.

Sirocco: 2000/ 500

"And thanks to my Black Whirlwind I can add a Blackwing with less attack from my deck to my hand. Like my buddy Kalut the Moon Shadow." Minato said adding the card. "But since I have a Blackwing I can summon Blackwing Oroshi the Squall." Appearing on the field was a small bird.

Oroshi: 400/ 600

"And now I tune Oroshi with Sirocco in order to Synchro Summon, Blackwing Armed Wing." Minato said summoning his winged warrior.

Blackwing Armed Wing: 2300/ 1800

"And thanks to Oroshi's ability I can change the battle position of one of your monsters. So take a knee Ruby." Minato said as Amity's monster switched to defense.

"Okay that's not so bad." Amity pauses before realizing something. "Wait does your monster—"

"Oh yeah. My Armed Wing gains 500 attack points when attacking a monster in defense mode and the difference in their attack points come out of your lifepoints." Minato grins. "And if you think you're getting off easy. You're not. I use Kalut the Moon Shadow's ability to increase Armed Wing's attack by 1400."

Armed Wing: 4200

"Attack her Ruby." Minato said.

"I activate my facedown card. Half or Nothing. So you can either give me half damage or no damage." Amity said.

"I choose half." Minato said as his monster sliced hers in half.

Minato: 4500

Amity: 2950

"And with that I end my turn." Minato said.

"Come on Amity crush him." Emira said.

"You can do it." Edric said.

"Okay that's enough cheering." Amity drew. "I play Graceful Charity to draw 3 cards and discard 2." Amity said sending 2 cards away. "And one of the cards I just sent to the Grave was Gem Knight Lazuli and her special ability lets me add Gem Knight Lapis from my grave to my hand." Amity said taking her card back.

"Man how is Amity so good at this game so quickly?" Lily asks a little jealous.

"Amity's always been a fast learner." Skara said.

"Now I play Gem-Knight Fusion to fuse Gem Knight Lapis and Gem Knight Sapphire to summon Gem-Knight Lady Lapis Azuli." Appearing on Amity's field was a beautiful blue gem monster.

Gem-Knight Lady Lapis Azuli: 2400/ 1000

"And now I activate her special ability. By sending Gem Knight Topaz from my extra deck to the graveyard you take 500 points of damage for each special summoned monster on the field. Including yours." Amity points out.

"Wait that means." Minato realizes.

"1000 points of damage." Amity said as Lady Lapis blasts Minato.

Minato: 3500

Amity: 2950

"Next I summon Gem-Armadillo." Amity said summoning a shininy armadillo.

Gem-Armadillo: 1700/ 500

"Thanks to his ability. I can a Gem Knight from my grave back to my hand." Amity said taking Gem-Knight Lazuli back.

"And now it's time to clip that bird's wings. Lady Lapis attack." Amity said as her monster blasts Armed Wing.

Minato: 3400

"And now for my Armadillo." Rolling into a ball it rams into Minato.

Minato: 1700

Amity: 2950

With both attacks gone through, Amity's Raigeki Bottle went up to 3 counters.

"Finally I end my turn with 2 cards facedown. Alright, Minato. You better make a good comeback or this duel is mine." Amity smirks.

"I'm not going down without a fight Amity." Minato drew and grinned. "I summon Blackwing Blizzard the Far North and he lets me summon a Blackwing from my grave. Just like Blackwing Kalut the Moon Shadow." Minato said summoning his little bird.

Blizzard the Far North: 1300/ 300

Kalut the Moon Shadow: 1400/ 1000

"And now thanks to Black Whirlwind I can add another Blackwing from my deck to my hand. Like Gladius the Midnight Sun." Minato drew. "But thanks to his ability he can join my other blackwings on the field." Minato said summoning a warrior bird.

Gladius the Midnight Sun: 800/ 1200

"And now I tune Blizzard the Far North with Kalut the Moon Shadow and Gladius in order to summon my favorite monster. Stardust Dragon." Minato declares summoning his powerful dragon monster.

Stardust Dragon: 2500/ 2000

Across from them Luz and Willow's duel was coming to a close.

"Odd Eyes Pendulum destroys your Black Rose Dragon." Luz said as her dragon took out Willow's dragon. "And now you're wide open." Luz grins bringing her lifepoints to zero.

"Aw man." Willow groans.

"You were close Willow. You almost had me." Luz smiles when they heard chatter from the other table.

Looking over they saw Stardust appear on Minato's field.

"I never get tired of that card." Luz smiles.

"It's like a shooting star." Katara said in awe.

"And that's not all." Minato said rummaging through his graveyard. "I remove Blackwing Vayu the Emblem of Honor and Raikiri the Rain Shower from the game in order to summon one more monster." Minato grins.

"Wait you sent that card away at the beginning of this." Amity recalls.

"Always save the best move for last. Now come on out Black-Winged Dragon." Minato said as a dangerous dragon with black wings appeared next to Stardust.

Black-Winged Dragon: 2800/ 1800

"Two dragons?" Gus gasps blown away.

"Oh she's in trouble now." Luz said.

"Stardust attack her Lady Lapis!" Minato said as Stardust destroys her Gem Knight. "And now Black-Winged Dragon attack her Gem-Armadillo!" Firing a powerful dark beam Minato destroys her monster.

Minato: 1700

Amity: 1750

"Oh man so close." Willow said.

"Only 50 lifepoints separating them from the win." Luz said.

"Come on Amity you got this." Edric said.

Drawing her card Amity smiles. "I'll admit Minato that graveyard trick was clever."

"Thank you." Minato said.

"Too bad I had a similar idea. I activate my trap Fragment Fusion. By removing 3 Gem Knights from my grave, I can fusion summon Gem Knight Lady Brilliant Diamond." Amity said summoning a female version of her best card.

Lady Brilliant Diamond: 3400/ 2000

"But she won't be doing this alone. I summon Gem Knight Lazuli to the field. But she won't be around for long. Using Lady Diamond's ability I can send her to the grave and summon Gem Knight Master Diamond." Amity said summoning her favorite card.

Gem Knight Master Diamond: 2900/ 2500

"Oh wow both have 2 super powerful cards." Ezra said.

"But Amity's are stronger." Blanca said.

"That's true because Master Diamond's go up by 100 for every Gem Knight in my grave." Amity said as her monster's attack went up.

Gem Knight Master Diamond: 3900

"And now Brilliant Diamond attack! And since I declared a 4th attack my Raigeki Bottle activates allowing me to destroy all your monsters." Amity said.

"Oh no you don't. I activate Stardust Dragons special ability. By sending him to the grave he takes one for the team and negates your trap." Minato said as Stardust and Amity's trap were destroyed.

"But now you have my monsters. Lady Brilliant Diamond attack his Black-Winged Dragon." Amity declares.

"Sorry Amity but I activate my facedown card Mirror Force! Which will send your attack right back at you!" Minato said revealing his ace trap card.

"He blocked her attack!" Blanca gasps.

"No way Amity can recover from that." Gus said.

As the attack bounced off the barrier it flew back.

"Sorry Minato but that's not gonna work! I activate Seven Tools of the Bandit! For a small price of 1000 lifepoints your Mirror Force has been shut down!" Amity declared.

Eyes widening Minato saw Lady Diamond attack slashes his Dragon in half.

Minato: 1100

Amity: 750

"Well guess you can't win them all." Minato sighs as she slew his dragon.

Minato: 0000

Amity: 750

"I don't believe it." Tiger Lily said.

"Minato lost?" Gus said surprised.

"Well Amity you finally beat me." Minato smiles.

"I did? Y-Yeah I guess I did." Amity pauses.

When Minato had first shown up all Amity wanted to do was take him down, but now that she finally did it just didn't feel as amazing as she thought it would. But why?

"Good job Amity maybe we can play again sometime. Wouldn't mind a rematch." Minato said.

"Wait you're not mad you lost?" Amity asks.

"I'm a little bummed out that I did, but it was still fun dueling with you. You're fun to hang out." Minato said making her blush softly.

"Yeah you too." Amity blushes.

Slowly getting up Minato stepped back.

"Really thought it would come down to you and me again." Luz smirks.

"Well hopefully you can do better than me." Minato smirks back.

"Alright, everyone time for the final match." Gus said as Amity and Luz faced off.

"I always wondered what it would be like to face off against you. Although I originally thought we'd face off with magic not with cards." Amity admits.

"I'm not complaining." Luz shrugs.

"Yeah I guess I'm not either." Amity grins as both shuffled their decks.

Luz: 8000

Amity: 8000

"I'll go first." Amity drew. "I'll place a monster in defense mode and I'll activate the spell Supply Squad. So whenever you destroy my monsters in battle I can draw a card. Your move." Amity said.

"Time for a real show stopper." Luz drew. "I summon Performapal Friendonkey in attack mode." Luz said summoning a donkey with a small top hat and a big saddlebag.

Friendonkey: 1600/ 600

"And just like his name says he likes to bring along a friend. Like Performapal Silver Claw." Luz said summoning a wolf with sharp claws, chains and a bowtie.

Silver Claw: 1800/ 800

"And here he comes." Luz said as Silver Claw rushed in. "Oh, and when he attacks all Performapals get 300 attack points.

Silver Claw: 2100

Friendonkey: 1900

Flipping Amity's card up we see it was Gem Turtle.

Gem Turtle: 0/ 2000

"I activate my Gem Turtle's ability. When he's flipped up I can add a Gem Knight Fusion to my hand." Amity said just as her turtle was destroyed. "And thanks to Supply Run I can get another card." Amity drew.

"Well too bad you can't use them right now. Friendonkey you're up." Luz said as Friendonkey charges.

Luz: 8000

Amity: 6100

"Looks like Luz has drawn first blood." King said.

"Take it easy King. This duel is far from over." Minato said.

"And I'll end my turn with one face down." Luz said.

"Whoa Luz is good." Blanca said impressed.

"She should be. She plays against Minato all the time." Lily said.

"Man bet you wish it was you dueling her right now." Ezra said.

"Maybe next time." Minato shrugs.

"My turn." Amity drew. "I play Gem Knight Fusion and fuse Gem Knight Garnet with Gem Knight Obsidian to create Gem Knight Citrine." Amity said summoning a bronze gem knight with flaming weapons.

Gem Knight Citrine: 2200/ 1950

"And thanks to Obsidian's effect, when he goes from my hand to the grave I can add a Gem Knight back to my hand." Amity said taking back Garnet. "Now I summon Gem Knight Garnet to the field."

Appearing next to Citirine the flaming Gem Knight appeared.

Garnet: 1900/ 0

"Now Citrine take out that donkey. And thanks to its ability when it battles you can't activate any cards or effects." Amity smirks making Luz gasp before her donkey was destroyed.

Luz: 7400

Amity: 6100

"And now Gem Knight Garnet is gonna take out your mutt." Amity points.

"I don't think so. Go Negate Attack." Luz said stopping her attack.

"Oh man that was close." Willow said.

"Amity was about to clear her field." Gus said.

"I'll place two cards facedown. For later." Amity said ending her turn.

"My turn." Luz drew. "I set the Pendulum Scale. With my Timegazer Magician and Stargazer magician. Here comes Performapal Skeeter Skimmer and Performapal Silver Claw."

Skeeter Skimmer: 500/ 1600

"Now by using my Silver Claw and Skeeter Skimmer I can XYZ summon Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon." Luz said as she summoned a dark version of Odd Eyes.

Dark Rebellion: 2500/ 2000

"Using its ability I can remove both overlay units and cut your Citrine's attack and add it to him." Luz said as her dragon glowed.

Gem Knight Citrine: 1100

Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon: 3600

"Attack!" Luz said as her dragon destroyed her monster.

Luz: 7400

Amity: 3900

"I activate Brilliant Spark. When a Gem monster on my field is destroyed I can pick one of your monsters and you take damage equal to half its attack points. And I choose your Dragon." Amity said as Luz got hit by her own monster.

Luz: 6150

Amity: 3900

"And don't forget Supply Run. I get another card." Amity reminds.

"I'll end my turn with one card facedown." Luz said.

Drawing Amity grins. "I activate Lightning Vortex. By discarding one card I can destroy all face monsters on your field." From above lighting zaps Luz's field destroying her dragon.

"Uh oh that's not good." Luz gulps.

"Now I summon Gem Knight Sapphire. You're not the only one who can XYZ summon. By using Gem Knight Garnet and Sapphire I can XYZ Gem Knight Pearl." Appearing on the field was a glowing white monster.

Gem Knight Pearl: 2600/ 1900

"This is gonna hurt." Luz cringed.

"Count on it. Go Pearl." Amity said as Pearl zaps Luz with a glowing bright beam.

Luz: 3550

Amity: 3950

"Amazing with one turn she took the lead back." Tiger Lily gasps.

"Don't think for a second Luz is down. She's always full of surprises." Minato said.

Hearing this Luz couldn't help but smile softly.

"Now it's my turn." Luz drew. "Ooh just what I need. I activate Performapal recasting. Time to change up the show order."

Taking 3 cards Luz showed Amity each of them were monsters: Performapal Drumerilla, Performapal Dag Daggerman and Performapal Hip Hippo. "By showing you my cards I can send them back to my deck and the same number of cards plus 1. Giving me 4 new cards."

Peeking over Luz's shoulder Katara saw there was one card she didn't show Amity. Meaning that card wasn't a monster. But something else.

Drawing the 4 new cards, Luz smiles.

"I activate my Pendulum monsters once more and summon Performapal Whip Snake, Performapal Silver Claw and Performapal Elephammer." Luz said summoning a purple snake with a top hat, her wolf monster and a giant blue elephant with a hammer for a nose.

Whip Snake: 1700/ 900

Silver Claw: 1800/ 800

Elephammer: 2600/ 1800

"And when my Elephammer is summoned all your spells and traps go back to your hand." Luz declares.

"Not if I activate one first. Go Bottomless Trap Hole. Sorry but that elephant isn't coming anywhere near me." Amity said as a giant hole appeared under Elephammer removing it from the game.

"There goes Luz's comeback monster." King said.

"She may not have the strongest monster but she can fight back." Willow said.

"I use Whip Snake's ability and now your Pearl's attack and defense points are swapped."

Gem Knight Pearl: 1900/ 2600

"But to make sure my attack gets through I activate Shrink to cut your mosnter's attack points in half." Luz said as Gem Knight Pearl shrunk in size.

Gem Knight Pearl: 950

And now comes Silver Claw and thanks to his ability both my Performapal's get 300 points.

Silver Claw: 2100

Whip Snake: 2000

Leaping at Gem Knight Pearl, Silver Claw slashes it in half destroying it.

Luz: 3550

Amity: 2800

"And here comes Whip Snake with a direct attack." Luz said as her snake lunges across the field.

Luz: 3550

Amity: 800

"Okay Luz I gotta admit you're pretty good." Amity said.

"I'm not that same human who sat around letting Minato do all the heavy lifting. I got some moves of my own." Luz said proudly.

Drawing Amity looks at her hand. "I activate Gem Knight Fusion and fuse Gem Knight Alexandrite, Lazuli and Sapphire in order to summon Gem Knight Master Diamond." Amity said summoning her best monster.

Master Diamond: 2900/ 2500

"And just like with Minato, that card is gonna give Mittens the win against Luz." Emira said.

"You're almost there." Edric said.

"And thanks to its ability it gets 100 points for every Gem card in my grave and I have 8." Amity reveals.

Gem Knight Master Diamond: 3800

"Now take out that Snake." With a gleaming blade, Diamond slams it down on Whip Snake.

Luz: 1450

Amity: 800

"I activate my facedown card Damage Condenser. I send one card to the grave and I can summon a monster from my deck with attack less than or equal to the damage I took." Searching through her deck, Luz spotted the card she needed. "I summon Tuning Magician."

Appearing on the field was a small magician in a white outfit and pink hair.

Tuning Magician: 0/0

"And with its effect, when its summoned to the field I lose 400 lifepoints and you gain 400 lifepoints." Luz said confusing everyone.

Luz: 1050

Amity: 1200

"What the heck?" Amity said not expecting that.

"That monster looks like it helps Amity more than it helps Luz." Gus said equally confused.

"I reactivate Supply Run and end my turn." Amity said activating her spell.

'Come on Luz you know what kind of card you need to play to win this.' Minato thought.

Drawing her card, everyone was eager to see what Luz would do in this situation.

"I summon Timebreaker magician." Luz said summoning the young swordsman.

Timebreaker Magician: 1400/ 0

"Now I tune my Tuning Magician with my Timebreaker Magician and Silver Claw in order to Synchro summon of the coolest cards to ever be played. Enlightenment Paladin." Luz said summoning a warrior in a white cloack, with two swords.

Enlightenment Paladin: 2500/ 2000

"Whoa he's cool." Ezra said.

"Yeah Luz wasn't kidding about that." Lily said.

"But it's nowhere near strong enough to beat Amity's monster." Katara said.

"Bet you wish you drew your dragon." Amity said.

"I would but this guy is a close second. You see thanks to Tuning Magician I can add one spell from my grave to my hand. Like a handle little card called Shrink." Luz said taking the card back.

Activating it, Master Diamond's points were cut in half.

Master Diamond: 2350

"Why do I have the feeling you're leaving something out?" Amity asks.

"Because I am. When my Paladin destroys a monster in battle you take damage equal to its attack points." Luz declares making everyone gasp.

"That means…" Ezra starts.

"Luz wins." Minato nods.

"Enlightenment Paladin attack Master Diamond." Luz points.

Swinging his sword the two monsters clash but Master Diamond's sword shatters into pieces destroying it.

Luz: 1050

Amity: 0000

"And the winner is Luz the human!" King declares.

"That's my girl!" Eda said as the Owl House residents applauded her.

"Oh man Mittens." Edric and Emira frowned worried she wouldn't take losing well.

Sighing Amity leans back a little frustrated.

"Hey." Minato calls out getting her attention. "Second place is nothing to be sad about. Just means now you have to play us again if you want to win."

Hearing this Amity smiles softly feeling better.

"Alright kids, tournament is over which means it's time to go home so I can close up school for today." Bump said interrupting this.


As the sun was setting the Owl House group and their friends were heading home and Luz was feeling on top of the world.

"Oh yeah, the first Boiling Isles Yugioh tournament and I won it! Whoo!" Luz cheers.

"Geez Luz take it down a notch." Lily said.

"Yeah it's not that big of a deal." Gus said.

"Not for me. I win and Minato couldn't even make it to the finals." Luz said.

"Okay I'm kinda liking smug Luz." Eda laughs.

"Is this normal?" Katara asks looking at him.

"Nothing about this group is normal." Minato smirks before shaking his head. "But it's fine. I got the cure. Hey Luz if you calm down I'll make your favorite tonight?"

Gasping loudly Luz cheered. "Yes! Yes! Yes!" Jumping up and down with joy Luz gave Minato a big hug in thanks. "That was it. Just needed to get that out of my system." Luz said letting go realizing what she did.

"Wow guess food really can solve all your problems." Ezra said.

"See you guys tomorrow." Willow said as she, Gus and Ezra split off.

"Later guys." Gus waves.

"Today was fun." Ezra said.

"We better get home too." Dez said.

"Yeah I guess so." Katara said turning to them. "Bye guys."

As the Owl House group made their way home, Blanca felt a tug on her arm.

Looking down she saw King holding a few packs.

"Uh here. I uh saw you didn't have any cards so I uh managed to save you a couple." King said.

"Aw thank you King." Blanca smiles pinching his cheek. "You are such a sweet little guy."

"I am not sweet!" King said swatting her hand away.

Opening one of the packs, Blanca looked at the cards and one seemed to catch her eye.

"Lunalight Cat Dancer." Blanca pauses. It was a card that had a monster with sharp gleaming weapons under the night sky. 'Hmm kinda looks like an assassin.' Blanca thought liking this.

RIP Kazuki Takahashi, the True King of Games

And for a special treat. I have created the Wild Wind Warlock Ending song.

(Play Comedy Spy x Family Ending by Megami33 English Cover)

(Fighting over nothing almost feeling broken We're just strangers born into this world Never once did I feel right at home Always alone)

We see Luz and Minato walking down the streets in the human world with sad looks on their faces. In the background we see images of Luz and Minato struggling to fit in and their mothers having them go to Think Inside the Box camp.

(But my tears have withered and dried up, cause I could realize this dream as my reality) Suddenly a bright light engulfed them and their frowns turned to smiles as started walking through the Boiling Isles.

(Thoughts so gathered quickly til you bumped into me Nothing from now on would be the same As I start to play a secret game…only with you) Making their way past the Conformatorium and threw the market the two of them are joined by King and Eda.

(I gave up searching for answers knowing a place to call my own won't be made all my own) Entering Hexside the group sees Willow, Gus, Ezra and Amity waving at them before joining the group.

(This pact is thicker than blood Knowing the world is so tough The promise made between us in my heart I'll trust) As they walked past the Palisman forest, we see Bat Queen, her kids and Hachi smiling. Next they past by the Soulwing Manor and as a nervous look appeared on their faces Naomi and Edwin gestured for them to keep moving.

(C'mon let's hold hands as we head home What are we eating? I gotta know I wanna hear all about your day Knowing you'll always be here to stay)

Suddenly the group was joined by Tiger Lily, Despairo, Katara and Blanca. Seeing all their smiles the big group of friends ran as fast as they could to the Owl House.

(I can say with honesty that our life is like a comedy Laughing and dancing's the remedy In our own world where we can feel so free) Inside all of them were laughing and smiling. In a corner, Ezra was playing his guitar as music filled the room. At a table, Dez and King were playing Yugioh while Eda was laughing at their reactions. As Minato puts dinner down Gus and Willow smile happily to chow down. Coming up behind him, Blanca and Katara pulled him over with Tiger Lily, Amity and Luz as they all danced to music all of them having a blast.

(This life where we can always have fun we'll carry on) Suddenly Hooty came in wanting to join in on the fun but the big tube landed down on top of everyone making them pinned under him making their happy looks change to annoyed ones before laughing.