Welcome to Chapter 18 folks! Let's get this tournament train a rolling and start the show!
Ch.18: Burning Hellfire
Zero sighed, carefully placing his duel disk down onto the coffee table before leaning back against the black leather couch. As soon as Zero had realized they had been warped once again back at the harbor, he had no choice but to call Ruri to come pick them up. The masked man struggled in moving Yuto due to his injuries from the duel with Yugo. Thankfully, the masked man had his own experience and knowledge when dealing with wounds. It came with having to carry a blind, crippled, and frail sister through a decaying sea of blood and dead bodies. That, and the fact that he made sure to know about such knowledge before starting his rebellion against Britannia.
You could never be over prepared when facing a nation that controls over one third of the world.
Hopefully, the masked revolutionary had managed to get through to Yugo in his attempts to explain the huge misunderstanding. He certainly didn't want to have the Synchro user as an enemy, because he was incredibly strong and talented. Having Academia breathing down their necks was enough of a hassle anyway.
When Ruri had finally arrived at the harbor, she was in a frantic frenzy. The Lyrical Luscinia duelist fawning over Yuto and his injuries, worried about his condition. Together with the help of Ruri, Zero managed to get them all back to the hotel room right as the sun began to rise. As soon as Yuto was carefully sat down onto the couch, Zero went straight to work on giving him a check up of sorts.
It was a good thing he did, because it wasn't looking too good. However, it wasn't dangerously bad either. Yuto's left ankle had been badly sprained, the skin around the area bruising heavily. It almost looked black instead of blue or a sick purple. His chest had a lot of bruising as well when Break Sword's armor crashed into it. Thankfully, his ribs were only bruised, not cracked or broken. Those were the only two injuries that were worth noting and watching over. With some help from Ruri once again, they had helped wrapped up Yuto's ankle and chest tightly in gauze and bandages before pinning it in place. The Phantom Knights duelist would struggle a bit in breathing, and have problems with walking for a while, but he would heal with time.
With that, Zero had basically ordered for Yuto to stay inside the hotel room until they had to move on to another location or Dimension. Ruri would be staying beside him the entire way, which she wasn't too against. Yuto wasn't too fond with being forced to stay in a hotel room and not be able to wander around, but after the severe tongue lashing he got from Zero about his recklessness on facing Yugo alone. He decided to give up and let Zero have his way instead of stressing him out even more.
"I have half a mind to beat the absolute shit and stupidity out of you, but seeing as you're already hurt. I'll have to refrain myself from doing so… Don't do anything like that again, ever."
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"God, you're self sacrifice is almost, if not just as bad as Suzaku's was."
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Yuto didn't think Zero had meant for him to hear that.
That was around two days ago, today Zero had just finished talking with Shun over his duel disk. He learned that Reiji knew about Revival Zero now, and that the CEO was watching him and his deck carefully. He wasn't too surprised by that, apparently everyone figured that his cards and duel disk were unique, so it would gain a lot of attention. The masked rebel had made sure to carefully ease the Raidraptor duelist about his worries over Ruri and Yuto with business taken care of. Both were fine, and Yuto was taken care of.
He had a small argument with Shun over the fact that he asked if Zero himself was hurt as well. The masked teen just didn't understand why he was so… worried over his health. Sure he had a couple bruises and sore, if slightly torn, muscles, but he was fine! Zero just couldn't figure out why Shun would worry over a masked stranger so much.
Shun didn't even really know him, so why act as if he did?
Zero sighed, before he sat up straight once again and looked through his deck. All of the machines and spells... All of the people.
Everyone and everything he had to forcibly leave behind.
Did they really miss him that much? Or did they think he was a traitor, and by the time he did get back would they hate him? Would the world think he had abandoned them willingly?
Would Nunnally think the same way?
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He certainly, desperately hoped not. He had worked too hard to get to where he was before he was warped all the way into the Xyz Dimension.
"What's wrong?" Zero tilted his head to the right to look over at Yuto. The Xyz user laying across the rest of the couch casually watching TV. At least, that's what Zero thought until grey eyes decided to look over at him.
"Nothing, just thinking." Zero lied with a sigh, before he reorganized his deck and placed it back within his duel disk.
Yuto gave him a sceptical look, one eyebrow raised. "Really? Because something seems to have you stressed out."
"Ha." Zero huffed a short, fake laugh. "I'm always stressed."
Yuto frowned. "I suppose…" He looked back at the TV, which was currently broadcasting some of the Miami Championship duels. "Though, that's not exactly a good thing. Constantly stressing isn't good for your health."
At that moment Ruri walked in, she handed Yuto some coffee after she helped him sit up. The female rebel then sat down beside Yuto and began to drink her own drink, which was green tea. The two seemed rather close, much closer than normal. Zero's mind flashed back to when he caught Ruri practically sitting in Yuto's lap that one time.
A devious smirk came to his face as he realized what must have happened while he and Shun were busy with the tournament. Violet eyes zeroed in on a new addition to Ruri's regular attire.
"Where did you get that necklace if I may be so bold as to ask Ruri." Pink eyes blinked, before she carefully took off her new necklace and lifted it up so that everyone could see it. It had a thin silver chain that still managed to shine brightly in the light. Two polished silver doves were wrapped around each other to form a heart. Within the little heart, a beautiful yellow gem that sparkled just as brightly as the one on her bracelet was embedded.
Ruri smiled brightly at just looking at the marvelous design and beauty of the necklace. "Yuto gave it to me."
Both Zero and Ruri looked over at Yuto for an explanation. The Phantom Knight user rubbed the back of his head sheepishly at the silent question. Where and when did he have the time to get it? "I got it near the end of Shun and Sora's duel in the tournament." Grey eyes looked over into pink with a blush rising on his cheeks. "I wanted to get you something nice."
"Alright." Zero crossed his arms. "Now my question is, how did you manage to get enough money to buy the thing?" Ruri and Yuto could feel the masked man raise an eyebrow. "Care to explain? Or did you just steal it."
"What- No!" Yuto instantly denied the accusation, though it may have been just a little too fast of a reaction. The eggplant haired teen looked down at his hands, he rubbed his wrists nervously. "I may have… Borrowed some of the money out of your wallet though."
"Right." Zero drawled out in a deadpan. "You do realize that borrowing means you have to eventually give it back, right?" Why did this remind him so much of C.C? Probably because the witch would always steal his credit cards to buy some damn pizza.
It was shocking to see that he didn't have to postpone his rebellion because of it.
What was even more surprising though was that he never NOTICED that he was missing money. Though it's not like he cared too much in this world. Zero crossed his arms and hummed. "I did say that you two should get something nice for each other, didn't I?" He shrugged. "I suppose I forgot you actually needed money to get it. I don't mind you guys asking for some help on that." He smirked mischievously. "I'm glad to see you two finally get together. How long have you two been a couple exactly?"
Both Ruri and Yuto blushed at the blunt question. The two looked at each other, somewhat sheepish when it came to answering.
Thankfully, they were saved from the embarrassment when Zero's duel disk gave a loud bing. The Lyrical Luscinia duelist quickly put the necklace back around her neck again before moving to finish her tea. Yuto decided to continue watching TV as well while drinking his coffee while Zero looked at the news on his duel disk.
"Oh?" Zero spoke curiously. "It looks like Yuya has finally woken up after the chaos between us and Sora, and that squabble between you and Yugo." Both Xyz users sighed in relief at the news. They didn't get to really know the Pendulum user yet, but from what they have seen he was rather kind and caring.
"I'm glad he's alright." Ruri spoke cheerfully. "He seems so sweet and kind, especially to his friends and towards Yuzu."
"He's a strong duelist as well." Yuto agreed alongside his friend turned girlfriend. "If he's being hunted down alongside us he'll need to be strong. Perhaps he'll join us in our efforts to take down Academia." Just saying the name brought a frown and a bad taste in Yuto's mouth. He really hated that place, and he's never even been there before. "We need people like him."
"We can talk about that at another time." Zero waved that conversation off. "Besides, the decision for him to join us would be up to him alone. I don't necessarily like the idea of him coming along with us anyway. Seeing the cruelty of 'war'... It changes people. Good or bad." Yuya has certainly been through his own troubles and grieves, but he hasn't seen everything. The Pendulum user still has this kindness to him that the masked man wouldn't want to be responsible for losing. In a way it reminded him of Nunnally, and how he never told her that he was Zero. It would hurt her.
Zero stood up and stretched, before heading to his room. "Everyone is going to meet up at the center court, so I'll be heading over there as well. If anything happens that's an emergency let me know."
"Right." Ruri and Yuto nodded, the two standing at attention at the orders being given to them.
Zero quickly changed into his casual clothes consisting of a dark orange jacket along with a black shirt, pants, and shoes. With that done, the still masked man grabbed ahold of his wallet before unlocking and walking back out of his room. The two Xyz resistance fighters had made themselves rather comfortable on the couch, cuddling together.
He would call it cute or romantic, but those feelings had withered and died long ago.
"Here." Zero quickly took out a couple of twenty and fifty bills and threw them onto the coffee table. "Make yourselves comfortable and get take out I guess. I don't know when I'll be back, and I still have to figure out my next match in the tournament. So take care." The masked man quickly took off his mask, hung it up on the coat rack, and nearly closed the door. The two rebel fighters didn't even bother to try and get a glimpse at his real face anymore. They had always failed when they tried. "Oh, and at least try not to get too frisky. I'd rather not get a noise complaint from the other people living in this hotel, thanks." With that, he closed the door all the way.
God, he really was becoming like Milly.
It was actually kind of scary now that he thought about it. Lelouch shivered.
Even the great genius feared her devilish schemes and mischief.
. . .
"Yuya!"
Lelouch arrived in the center court just in time to see Gongenzaka give Yuya the bear hug of a lifetime. The skinny teen cringed back at the sheer strength put into the hug. Did he hear some bones crack? Or was that just him?
Yuya laughed sheepishly as Gongenzaka spoke, tears trailing down his face. "I, the man Gongenzaka, have never been this happy! Do you know how worried I've been these past two days!?"
"It wasn't that big of a deal…" Yuya spoke up meekly.
"Really?" Lelouch spoke up, and everyone opened their eyes and looked towards him. "Because I'm pretty sure being unconscious for two days isn't a good thing, and should be something to worry about."
"Hey Lelouch." Yuya smiled, crimson eyes lighting up just a bit more at seeing his new friend arriving. "I'm glad you could make it."
Lelouch waved his hand casually and continued walking until he was beside the tomato haired teen and Yuzu. "It was nothing. I'm just glad to see that you're alright, we've all been rather worried."
"Yuya!"
Now everyone looked at the entrance of the center court, and saw Allie, Tate, and Fredrick running towards them laughing happily. Gongenzaka finally released Yuya from that death grip hug, allowing the smaller teen to finally breathe properly and greet the smaller children.
"Good, you're okay!" Tate breathed a sigh of relief as he began to catch his breath.
"I'm so happy I got shivers!" Frederick thankfully didn't do the dance, and spared Lelouch. "Now if Sora comes back, the Yusho Duel School will be back to normal!"
Lelouch, Yuzu, Gongenzaka, and Yuya all slumped slightly at those words. The happy and cheerful atmosphere dimming a little at the reminder. Yuya and Yuzu both blinked, and looked off in different directions while Gongenzaka decided to speak up for them. "That's right! We can't celebrate yet!"
"Sorry Yuya." Shuzo apologized to the tomato haired teen. "We kept on searching after that, but…"
"We still don't know where he is." Lelouch finished. He wasn't supposed to know that Sora came from Academia, so he had to at least play the part.
"U-Umm…" Yuya looked up at the principal of the Yusho Duel School.
"I'm sorry!" Frederick spoke up suddenly, and did a small bow. This caused everyone to turn their attention back towards the smaller kids.
"Sorry? What for?" Lelouch asked.
"I shouldn't be celebrating right now either." Frederick spoke solemnly. "Actually, I lost yesterday." Lelouch tilted his head to the side slightly. When and who did Frederick lose to? He'd have to look it up.
Yuya gave a small smile. "I heard." Frederick looked up to meet Yuya's scarlet red eyes, and Yuya put his hands on his hips. "That Riley kid used Synchro Summoning this time, right?"
Frederick looked back down as Lelouch was surprised by the news. "I never thought he'd use Synchro too… I was so shocked I got shivers."
Yuya put his hands on both of Frederick's shoulders and smiled warmly at him. "Then next time, you give him the shivers!" The smaller kid's eyes widened. "There's one year until the next tournament! Polish your Entertainment dueling at the Yusho Duel Sch-" Yuya's red eyes widened slightly, and glazed over. It looked like he was remembering something bad, because the smile on his face went away.
"Yuya?" Fredrick asked carefully, waiting for the older teen to finish speaking.
"What's wrong, Yuya?" Gongenzaka asked worriedly as Yuya stood up to his full height. His hands sliding off of Frederick's shoulders to rest at his sides.
"N-nothing." Yuya stuttered.
Lelouch raised one elegant eyebrow. "Nothing? That didn't exactly look like-"
"Darling!"
Everyone looked over at the girl who yelled those words. Aura stood there with her hands clenched together by her chest, Masumi, Dipper, and Kit standing off to the side behind her. "You've finally awoken, Darling!"
Yuya blinked. "Aura?" Yuzu called out in numb surprise.
Everyone watched as the girl grew stars in her eyes. "My prayer… The prayer I risked my life for… It really worked!" Suddenly, the fortune telling duelist lunged forward. Though what was more surprising was that Yuya actually moved out of the way of the tackle, catching everyone off guard.
Unfortunately, this left Lelouch wide open, and he wasn't as prepared as Yuya was. The secret rebel being tackled to the ground in a heap by the shorter orange haired girl. The Pendulum user paid no heed to the mess happening behind him as he stepped forward to meet the three L.D.S students.
"Yuya Sakaki?" Dipper questioned, surprised at Yuya's suddenly serious behavior. Lelouch carefully pushed off a stunned Aura, and opened one pained violet eye to watch the interaction. Dipper shrugged. "You came to watch my match?" Small eyes opened to look down at the Entertainment duelist. "What were your thoughts after witnessing my full power? I'm on a different level from when we fought at-"
"I want to see Shun Kurosaki." Yuya interrupted Dipper's slightly egotistical monologue and spoke bluntly. Dipper sweat dropped slightly at the action. "I need to talk to him."
"Talk to him?" Masmui asked.
"It's something we need to ask him directly." Yuzu added in, and walked forward to stand beside Yuya.
"Yuzu…" Ruby eyes blinked at their serious demeanor.
"I want to meet Shun Kurosaki." Yuya stated once again, and narrowed his red eyes slightly. "There are a lot of things I need to ask him."
At the moment, Yuya only has three ways to get the questions he has answered. He only has three people. One of them was Yuto, his Xyz counterpart. The second was Zero, and the third was Shun Kurosaki. All three of them were tied together, and were comrades with each other. They knew each other.
However, it wasn't that easy. Yuto kept disappearing, and Yuya only managed to find him that one time on pure luck. Zero kept coming and going as he pleased. The masked man seemingly only appearing when there wasn't the time to ask questions or have a normal, peaceful conversation. The only other option was Shun, and since he was apart of the tournament and now with L.D.S. It was easier to get into contact with him than the other two.
"Not happening." Kit answered, and the refusal surprised the two Yusho students. "Kurosaki won't even give you guys the time of day." The Synchro user tilted his head to the side and closed his eyes briefly. "He hardly even talks to us."
"Besides." Masumi added herself. A burning fire entering her ruby red eyes when Zero was mentioned. "I'd like to ask how Shun even knows Zero. That's certainly a mystery that intrigues me."
Oh if only they knew. Lelouch thought to himself. He was pretty sure if it was Yuya who wanted to talk to him, Shun would give the Pendulum user a few minutes. Though, if it was anyone else he doubted Shun would give them a millisecond.
This was all while he was in a good mood.
"Well, since you're here, why not watch the next match?" Kit changed the subject, and all three L.D.S students began to walk away towards the stadium. "It's my match against Isao Kachidoki! I won't disappoint!"
Lelouch furrowed his eyebrows and frowned slightly. "This isn't going to be pretty."
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He was right.
It wasn't pretty.
At all.
Of course the final Round for the first matches in the Miami Championship had to be extremely violent. "Wha- What is this!" Yuya cried out in his angered shock. The Ryouzanpaku student literally beat Kit until he fell unconscious. Bruises and scratches covering his entire face as he fell onto the dueling floor face first.
The display of violence obviously scared the kids, because they had flinched away from the fight. Eyes avoiding most of the battle with moistened tears. Even Masumi and Dipper were speechless at the cruel display, their eyes wavered as they felt bad for their friend. Kit's anguished cries echoed across the silent stadium.
ISAO LP- 4000 WINNER
KIT LP- 4000 = 0 LOSER
Isao stood up on one leg, positioned to fight back even when the battle was over. A screen with his face appeared beside him, the words 'winner' stretching across the bottom. The duel might as well have been a One Turn K.O. The Action Field began to dissipate, and medics quickly rushed out towards the obviously injured L.D.S duelist.
Lelouch frowned with his arms crossed. "So this is Ryouzanpaku's dueling… Perhaps I got lucky with my match up for the first round." He did. Taka didn't try to beat him into a bloody pulp like Isao did with Kit. Though, he seemed to be the most vicious when the Synchro user went for Action Cards.
For some reason, Lelouch wasn't as sickened when watching the violent duel as he should be. The raven haired teen was used to such dirty tricks and foul play by now. He's had such things be thrown at him his entire life. From his time as a prince with a mother, all the way up until now.
Violet eyes looked over at Yuya's form, the Entertainment duelist certainly not taking this fight well. The tomato haired teen had stood up, both Gongenzaka and Yuzu looked up at their friend with concern. The boy's hands were clenched tightly into shaking fists.
"Wi-with this, all of the Round One Junior Youth matches are finished!" Nico stuttered into the mic. He didn't feel comfortable about this vicious duel as well. Isao turned his back on Kit, and watched away. Medics having to lift the boy on a stretcher and take him away to the medical bay just like with Sora. "We will be announcing the matchups for Round Two momentarily!" Lelouch scowled, thinking back to when Yuto was seemingly possessed, and Yuya had just barely managed to snap him out of it. "All duelists who have advanced, please put your registration cards into your duel disks."
Lelouch decided to wait until he was back at the hotel to find out who he was facing. At the moment, checking up on Yuya and the others was more of a priority. The raven haired teen stood up, and quickly and quietly made his way over to the three teens alongside the rest of the Yusho group.
"So, who are you guys dueling now?" Lelouch asked.
"I'm in the first match tomorrow." Gongenzaka decided to speak up first, Shuzo looking over the sturdy teen's shoulder to see who his opponent was. "My opponent is Tanegashima Yuzou from the Surprise School."
Yuzu spoke up after the Steadfast duelist was finished. "I'll be playing against Micky Scarlet of the Duel Girls Club in the second match two days from now."
"Yuya, what about you?" Frederick spoke up, all three children leaning out of their seats to see Yuya's face.
Lelouch casually leaned over to see Yuya's screen, but seeing the opponent he was about to face made his violet eyes widen. "No way."
Yuya's continued silence made the three children get up and look at the screen as well. "Isao Kachidoki!?" Scarlet red eyes were narrowed at the screen, the Pendulum duelists hands tightened around his duel disk.
"No way!" Allie shook her head. She didn't want Yuya to face someone as mean and cruel as him.
Yuzu and Gongenzaka both stood up to see Yuya's screen for themselves since Yuya wouldn't respond. "Yuya…"
Yuya closed his eyes and took a deep breath, before opening them once again. "I told Yuto that I would make people smile with my duels." Thankfully, nobody noticed Lelouch's very subtle flinch. He didn't expect Yuya to talk about his Xyz comrade right here and now, and so out into the open as well. Yuya looked down at the screen with sadness. "I didn't exactly have the time to talk about it with him further, but…" The tomato haired teen perked up instantly, red eyes sparkling at the idea of a challenge. "I'll do the dueling that I believe in! Because I believe that will answer to Yuto's expectations of me!"
Yuzu smiled slightly at Yuya's speech. "Yeah!"
Lelouch looked over at the shrinking form of Isao Kachidoki. The Ryouzanpaku student must have felt his eyes on him, because he immediately turned around to glare up at the raven haired teen and Yuya. The scarlet eyed boy also looking down at his very soon to be opponent.
Lelouch sighed, slouching back slightly as he could feel the tension coming from these two even from the distance separating them. "Oh boy…"
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Once the First Round matches were out of the way, everyone quickly went their seperate ways. Lelouch instantly made a beeline for the hotel. There was at least some good news in the form of Shun being able to make out towards the hotel tonight. The raven haired teen went straight for his room, before changing into his Zero attire, and left once again to meet at the location Shun was waiting to be debugged.
There were a few audio bugs being snuck onto his trenchcoat, but there was a much less amount then there was the very first time the Raidraptor user left the L.D.S tower. It seems that Reiji was quickly realizing that he wouldn't get any further eavesdropping on them that way, and was slowly stopping his attempts at trying. Though the CEO was rather persistent.
With the bugs quickly and swiftly destroyed and dealt with, the two resistance fighters made their way back to the hotel. The two being careful to avoid cameras it was basically natural at this rate. No one noticed the masked man or Miami Champion participant slip into the building and go up towards their room.
As soon as the door was opened, the older Kurosaki sibling rushed into the room. The dark blue haired teen pushing past Zero and making a straight line towards his sister.
"Shun!" Ruri called out happily, glad to reunite with her older brother once again.
"Hey Ruri." Shun gave a smile that was solely reserved for her, and in extremely rare cases, Yuto. Greetings out of the way, the two quickly wrapped themselves up in a big hug. From the way the older brother tightened his grip on Ruri, it was obvious that he missed her and worried about her wellbeing deeply while he was gone. "I'm glad to finally see you guys again." Yellow eyes looked around, before they finally settled on Yuto, who was still lying on the couch with his left leg raised up on the coffee table. A pillow was placed underneath his foot to help with the discomfort.
"Hey, it's nice to see you again, Shun." Yuto smiled warmly towards his childhood friend. It reminded Zero of the days he and Suzaku would spend happily beside Nunnally in Japan, before the invasion. While Shun was himself, Yuto would be Suzaku and Ruri would be Nunnally.
Those days were easily some of the best days in his entire life.
Shun released Ruri, and walked towards Yuto. His yellow eyes glared down at the Phantom Knights duelist, who was beginning to squirm slightly under his friend's scrutinizing gaze. "Idiot." The taller teen spat, before giving Yuto a quick and rough noogie of sorts.
"Hey!" Yuto pushed Shun's hand out of his hair, trying to save his slightly ruined hairstyle. "You have no idea how long it takes to comb all of this into the style I want!"
"It serves you right for acting so stupid a couple of days ago." Shun snapped. Yuto's grey eyes looked back up into angry yellow. "You acted so stupid! How come you didn't allow Zero to help until he forced himself into the duel! You could have died!"
Yuto looked down, feeling a bit guilty now over how worried Shun was over his duel with Yugo. "I'm sorry, but I didn't want him to get hurt."
"And I don't want you to get killed!" Shun unintentionally yelled, but when he saw Yuto shrink down under his friend's rage the Raidraptor immediately began to tone it down. Shun sighed, before putting a comforting hand on his friend's shoulder. Grey eyes looked up once again into yellow. "I know you don't like the idea of people getting hurt anymore, but please don't do something as stupid as that again… I'm glad you're okay."
Yuto smiled brightly and warmly up at his childhood friend. "About as okay as I can be with a busted ankle and bruised ribs… But I'll be okay."
"Hmph." Shun huffed, before sitting down beside his friend and looking up at Zero and Ruri. "Now with that needed conversation-"
"More like scolding." Yuto mumbled slightly.
Shun elbowed his friend, who cringed slightly because of his bruised ribs. Though it got his friend to shut up for a moment. "It was a conversation." Shun insisted slightly, and Yuto just nodded along with it this time. "Now that it's out of the way, what's for dinner? Since I apparently am still banned from the kitchen."
Zero couldn't help but laugh.
God these two acted EXACTLY like him and Suzaku before the invasion of Japan.
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With some help, Yuto was carefully sat down on one of the dining room chairs. The group deciding to have some stir fry for dinner. As always with Ruri and Zero behind the stove, the food was delicious. Yuto pouted slightly at not being able to help, but at least he got to have Shun as company this time.
Zero kept his serving in the kitchen to keep it warm until he stalked away into his room, or den/secret lair as Shun put it sarcastically, to finish it. The other three having gotten used to Zero doing this over the days they lived together as a team.
Currently, Yuto, Shun, and Ruri were digging into their dinner rather quickly.
"Damn." Shun pushed his empty bowl aside, before taking a nice long drink of iced water. "This food is on a completely different level to L.D.S'. I don't think anything can actually compare to this."
Zero put his head into his hands, a smirk on his hidden face. "It's nice to see that you enjoy our cooking Shun."
Said teen raised an eyebrow. "Yeah yeah, go ahead and gloat about it while you still can." Yellow eyes flickered down slightly before looking back up at Zero's mask with a devious smirk of his own. "You still need to gain some more muscle to lose that feminie figure."
Zero's mood soured slightly, but otherwise he quickly brushed off Shun's barb. It wasn't going to get him this time. The masked leader took a deep breath. "I'd hate to ruin this marvelous dinner. But now that everyone is here in person. There's something I want to talk to you all about."
Everyone tensed at the masked man's modulated tone. It sounded serious. "What's up Zero?" Yuto asked, grey eyes narrowed slightly.
Zero tilted his mask to face Yuto. "It's about what happened during your duel with Yugo." Shun and Ruri's shoulders tensed, and they both straightened at this turn of conversation. Zero's faceless mask never leaving Yuto's stare. "Something happened to you and Yugo during the middle of your match, but I don't know what."
Yuto bit his cheek slightly, grey eyes looking out of the window slightly. "It's hard to remember anything. Once I summoned Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon to face off against his Clear Wing Synchro Dragon… Everything just went dark. The memories are all fuzzy." Yuto rubbed his forehead with one hand, grey eyes just now revealing how exhausted he really was. "But they're coming back slowly."
"You're eyes started glowing." Zero decided to help fill in some of the blanks for Yuto. Hopefully, it would help the Xyz user remember his encounter faster. "Honestly, it looked like you had suddenly been possessed in my mind, both you AND Yugo. Though, while his eyes glowed a cyan like color, yours were a bright violet blue." Zero leaned forward slightly, arms crossing across the table slightly at the action. "However, I believe I've seen this happen once before as well… Back in the Xyz Dimension."
"You have?!" Yuto blinked over at Zero. Since when?
"When was that?" Ruri asked, apparently having read Yuto's mind.
"It was when you fought with the Commander-In-Chief, Edo Phoenix." Zero answered calmly, but everyone scowled at the Fusion user being mentioned.
At least it wasn't Yuri he was talking about.
THAT would have gotten an even worse reaction.
"You could have been hallucinating it though." Shun spoke up once again, his entire demeanor changed into something more serious for this business. "You did get electrocuted with who knows how many volts."
"At first, I did think that it was all an imagination." Zero agreed with Shun's words. "That it was all made up in my head, that I was delirious. However, when I saw the same thing happen again during your duel with Yugo I realized that it was real. Your eyes didn't glow as brightly as they did a couple days ago, but I could at least see it in your pupils during that battle with Edo."
"About that duel…" Yuto trailed off, rubbing his left arm in a slightly skittish manner. "I… When I saw you get electrocuted, and Edo just didn't seem to CARE how he had nearly killed you… I felt so angry." Yuto grit his teeth in frustration and pain at remembering the deep, encaged rage that was trying to break out then. "I felt so furious at him! Yet, it didn't feel natural." Grey eyes carefully looked into everyone's eyes one at a time. "It felt dark, like if I let that anger out during that duel it would only make matters ten times worse."
"So you resisted, you forced it back and held it within you." Zero summed up the rest, and Yuto nodded. "... Is that why you held back during your duel with Sora? You were afraid that the darkness would come back and try to free itself again." When Yuto nodded once again, Zero felt some pang that could have passed off as pity. He knew what that was like, and he could explain it all with one word.
Geass.
It was STILL trying to push forward and take complete control of his eye even as they spoke. It was certainly getting more persistent and seemingly impatient with it's lack of victims lately. At the rate it was going, his geass was going to become a constant pinch like pain in his eye soon. His left eye would certainly be twitching quite a lot as time progressed.
"When I summoned Dark Rebellion…" Yuto's skin paled slightly as he remembered the feeling. It was WRONG. "I just felt all of that rage, that darkness… It… It consumed me!" The last part of his words were spoken in a hoarse whisper. Ruri leaned over from where she sat on one end of the table and rubbed Yuto's arm in a form of comfort.
"So it happened after you summoned Dark Rebellion… You may have not noticed it, being so focused on the battle and your survival, but I believe that your dragon is alive." Yuto blinked out of his stupor to look at Zero with surprise.
"What do you mean? Duel monsters are just real life solid visions, like holograms." Ruri spoke up in confusion.
"No." Shun disagreed, hand on his chin in thought. "I think Zero is onto something with that. One of Reiji's bodyguards, Nakajima, said something similar when Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon and Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon started roaring to each other. That's when you and Yuya flinched, and looked as if you were in pain." Yellow eyes looked into Zero's faceless mask. "Then Clear Wing Synchro Dragon and Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon started roaring to each other when you summoned it, and you guys suddenly get overwhelmed with this 'darkness' and rage." Shun hummed.
"Yuya was in deep pain as well when that happened." Zero added thoughtfully. "He said that his chest was burning."
Yuto blinked, straightening in his seat once Zero said that. "He said that?!" The Phantom Knights user grabbed ahold of his own chest, if carefully because of his bruised ribs. "Because my chest was burning both times as well!"
"Your dragons must communicate with one another..." Shun trailed off. "So they really are alive, and perhaps they're responsible for that pain you get in your chest when you summon more than one in the same vicinity."
"This has to be what the Professor is talking about in Revival Zero." Zero cracked his knuckles slightly without really noticing it. "These dragons are the equivalent to the girl's bracelets, except maybe even more dangerous and polished in their powers. The question is how he knew about this power if you didn't even know about it, and why he wants it." Zero groaned slightly, before attempting to rub his aching head and failing to his frustration. "Revival Zero is just one pile of confusing, stressing bullshit."
Ruri frowned at Zero's language, but let it slide. "That makes me wonder, how did he even know about my bracelets power?" She looked down at the innocent, yet powerful object. "I didn't even know my bracelet could do what it does until it actually happened and we were brought to the Standard Dimension."
The four resistance fighters looked at each other. "That's a good question." Shun broke through the silence after a moment. "How did the bastard know?"
"I'm not sure." Yuto finally spoke up. "Though, I think we need more clues before we can gain more answers to Revival Zero." Grey eyes flickered around at Ruri, Shun, and Zero. "For now, lets just focus on the tournament as Zero suggested. I'll be sure to keep my distance from Yuya and Yuzu since I seem to keep warping when I get too close to them. That, and I'll also be sure to try and not summon Dark Rebellion when I'm dueling around him… I don't want to feel that burning pain again…"
"And I'm sure Yuya wouldn't want to feel that pain again either if we can avoid it." Zero agreed, before leaning back in his chair and sighing. "Though, there's still one more thing we need to settle." Everyone's eyes locked onto Zero's faceless mask, and Zero casually raised his duel disk and registration card. "I still need to figure out who the hell I'm facing for Round Two in the tournament."
The other three rebels slumped slightly, eyes narrowed slightly in a deadpan. "Really?" Yuto spoke incredulously.
"How the hell did you forget?" Shun had to ask.
"Hey. I wanted to wait for everyone to get here so I wouldn't be pestered about it with constant questions." Zero held his duel disk away from them slightly, a tad bit insulted at their reactions. Just a tad bit, so it wasn't too bad. He was used to Milly's antics, and even C.C's from time to time after all.
"Well then, let's find out who you're fighting already." Shun crossed his arms behind his head casually. "I'm fighting some knight guy apparently. You know, one of the guys wearing that loud clinking medieval armor from the… Medieval Knights of the Round I think?" Yellow eyes looked up at the ceiling in thought, but it didn't last for long and Shun huffed. "Whatever, I'll probably just beat the guy in one turn, so he's not that important to really worry about."
"Shun." Ruri chastised her older brother.
"What?!" Shun looked at his younger sister with confusion. "It's true and you know it!"
Yuto sighed, rubbing his forehead in exasperation. "Just show us who you're going to duel Zero."
No more words needed to be said, and Zero casually slid his registration card into his duel disk. It took a moment, but soon the screen came to life with two pictures and two names.
"So, it's you VS Dipper." Shun leaned over the table slightly to get a good look at who Zero was facing. "He's one of the L.D.S students that I defeated before I met Reiji face to face for the first time. Though he uses Xyz rather well for a Standard citizen, he shouldn't be too much of a hassle."
"How did you know that?" Yuto asked.
"Please, I looked into all of L.D.S' student backgrounds to see if I could find any with true potential." Shun answered casually. "Unfortunately, the results weren't what I was hoping for. They're all rather bland." The Raidraptor sounded slightly bitter about the news.
"It doesn't matter." Zero spoke up once again after pulling up his opponent's profile even though he was already familiar with Dipper. Violet eyes meticulously scanning each line of information. "He won't be participating in the tournament anymore once I beat him… Well would you look at that." Zero voice was filled with some curious intrigue. "It seems my match is right after Yuya's. I wonder how he'll feel with me watching his match after everything that has happened a couple days ago." The masked man already knew how he was going to react if he saw him. The Pendulum user would try and hunt him down for questions and answers, but he wouldn't be able to get them before Zero's own match started. Then by the time it was over, Zero would be long gone in the shadows and Lelouch may make an appearance to congratulate Yuya on his win.
Though, that win was debatable due to the opponent he was going to face rather soon.
"How do you think Yuya will hold up in his match against Isao?" Shun seemed to actually get a read off of his masked leader, and asked the question everyone was wondering at the time.
"Terribly." Zero answered stiffly. The two ideals that both duelists have would certainly clash and cause chaos on the duel field. Yuya was certainly going to struggle trying to entertain the crowd, and that wasn't even mentioning maintaining his own smile.
"Isao?" Yuto furrowed his eyebrows. "You mean the one kid from Ryouzanpaku that violently assaulted his opponent? He's facing HIM next!?"
"Oh my." Ruri looked down at the table nervously. "I hope he'll be okay."
"He certainly has a challenge ahead of him." Zero remarked. "With the way Isao duels, and how Yuya likes to grab Action Cards a lot of the time, he'll certainly struggle."
The four resistance fighters split off to do their own things after that. While Zero had a duel he needed to prepare for tomorrow, Ruri helped Yuto back down onto the couch. Shun was assigned to wash the dishes this time, but would soon join his sister and friend on the couch to watch TV. Something all of them may have missed just slightly from after the invasion, and needed to catch up on.
. . .
So far, the matches for the Round Two Miami Championship tournament have been going off without a hitch. Gongenzaka had a bit of trouble due to the Surprise Duel School's tricks, but by simply covering his eyes with his red bandana, he won the duel soon after. It lightened up most of the Yusho Duel students slightly, but everyone was still nervous about Yuya's upcoming battle.
"It's a shame that Lelouch couldn't make it today." Allie pouted slightly. "Yuya sure would have appreciated it."
"Don't worry." Frederick cheered slightly. "I'm sure he's watching our duels over the TV while he's away."
Tate crossed his arms. "I swear though. I feel like he's getting overworked."
Meanwhile, while they were talking about him, Zero was hiding within the shadows of the hallway leading out towards the duel field. The masked man's arms were crossed casually as he waited for a certain tomato haired teen to come walking through to enter the stadium for his second match.
"Coming up next is our second match! Let's get those introductions started!" Nico Smiley cheered loudly into his golden mic. The excitement causing the crowd to sheer, but seeing how Yuya's first duel went Zero wasn't surprised about the energy buzzing around the stadium.
Yuya began to confidently walk through the hallway with calm yet powerful strides. The Pendulum user had a small smile on his face, but his eyes reflected a well hidden worry.
However, it wasn't well hidden enough for the master of masks to miss.
"You'll do fine in this match as long as you stay calm." Zero remarked, scarlet eyes widening as they instantly locked onto his form and voice.
"Zero?! How did you get here?" Yuya's eyes bugged out slightly at seeing the masked man now of all times. It was rather unfortunate as well, because he didn't have time to grill the masked rebel into answering any of his questions.
"I have my ways." Zero responded with his usual round of mystery and unreal answers. "Don't worry too much about this duel, and good luck in your match."
"Yusho Duel School's Yuya Sakaki!" Nico suddenly called out, and Yuya began to quickly walk away at his cue.
"Thanks." Yuya replied quickly before his voice was swallowed by the sheer volume of the excited crowd.
"Go for it, Yuya!"
"I've been waiting for this!"
"Thank you!" Yuya waved, deciding to answer to the crowd cheers and calls with a nice big smile. "Thank you!"
"And his opponent is Ryouzanpaku School's Isao Kachidoki!" Nico spoke up over the crowd once again. Zero watched as the violent duelist began to stalk onto the field, body tense as if he was going to punch Yuya at any second even before the duel has begun. One of the other Ryouzanpaku students began to furiously hit a gong. The crowd making sure to stay a couple seats away from the thuggish duelists for their own personal health. No one cheered as the gong rang out and Isao finally walked into the middle of the field.
"This isn't going to be easy." Zero whispered as he watched the two duelists.
Icy blue eyes glared into warming scarlet red as the Action Field was beginning to be chosen. "Now that our competitors are facing each other, let us select the Action Field!" Nico spoke up over the hushed silence of the crowd. "Action Field On!" The ground beneath Yuya and Isao began to glow as the field was being generated. "Action Field: Bamboo Forest of the Immortals, activate!"
It was rather beautiful and majestic in Zero's mind. A bamboo forest made within the sky itself. Fluffy white clouds brushing over the top of the giant bamboo sticks as multiple stepping stones and paths were introduced to the duelists.
Yuya smiled up at Isao, who was standing on a lone floating stone. "I saw your duel yesterday." In response to Yuya's attempt to make conversation, Isao just threw some punches and kicks directed at Yuya. The Entertainment duelist's smile turning into a small frown. "I'll never accept your dueling! That wasn't dueling!"
Isao lowered his raised foot that was directed at Yuya, and instead of responding to Yuya's words, he simply began the chant. "Duelists locked in battle!"
Yuya's eyes widened at Isao's attitude, before he grit his teeth and went along with it. "Kicking against the Earth and dancing in the air alongside their monsters! They storm through this field!"
"Behold!" Isao threw a fist forward. "This is the newest and greatest evolution of dueling!"
"Action!" Nico raised one hand up, and snapped his fingers. The Action Cards dispersing and fluttering around the field wildly and rather noisily.
YUYA LP- 4000
ISAO LP- 4000
"DUEL!"
Isao raised a hand forward, and did a mocking 'come at me' gesture. Yuya ignored his opponent's obvious taunts, and instead focused on his turn with a smile. "Well then, it's my turn!" He showed everyone a Pendulum monster. "I summon Performapal Silver Claw from my hand!" The blue and grey furred wolf with long claws and chains attached to its collar howled proudly into the sky.
PERFORMAPAL SILVER CLAW LV.4 ATK:1800 DEF:700
The wolf began to sprint forward quickly, and Yuya jumped on top of his monster's back to hitch a ride.
"That's it, Yuya!"
"So cool!"
Yuya waved up into the crowd enthusiastically, a laugh escaping his lips. Though the Pendulum duelist wasn't watching where he was going, and could only panic as he and his wolf ran through a rather thick patch of bamboo. When the tomato haired teen came out of the thick foliage, he had bamboo leaves stuffed into his mouth. The teen's eyes swirling around dizzily, and it almost looked like he was going to fall off of Performapal Silver Claw, but he thankfully managed to hold on.
The crowd broke out into laughter, and even Zero had to put a hand on his mask at the sight. He sighed heavily. "Oh Yuya… Even with an opponent like Isao, you still manage to be your usual, funny and caring self."
"I end my turn here!" Yuya finished, finally removing all of the bamboo leaves and sticks stuck in his hair, mouth, and goggles.
"I draw!" Isao began his turn, not bothering to even smile at Yuya's antics. "If my opponent controls a monster and I don't, I can summon Soaring Earth Star Hayate from my hand without a Release." A humanoid monster with a grey wolf skin, blue armor with orange trimmings, and a golden staff appeared on Isao's side of the field.
SOARING EARTH STAR HAYATE LV.5 ATK:2100 DEF:0
"There it is!" Nico announced. "Isao has already summoned a high-level monster!"
"I wouldn't exactly call a Level 5 a high level." Zero muttered to himself. Masked violet eyes watching as Yuya passed by Isao on a lower stone pathway.
"Battle!" Isao declared, icy blue eyes narrowed. "I attack Silver Claw with Hayate!" The warrior began to rush forward to destroy the wolf and turn it into the one he currently wore, a fur coat.
Yuya and his wolf rushed into another section of the bamboo forest, and Yuya's crimson eyes finally took note of an Action Card lodged in the bamboo. "All right, there's one!"
Suddenly, a sharp piece of bamboo was launched right towards Yuya. Silver Claw just barely managing to evade and prevent his master from being harmed. Red eyes widened in shock at the unexpected weapon being thrown at him. Though, he soon leaned down closer to his monster when another sharp piece of bamboo was launched and dug down into the dirt just on the other side of the first piece. Silver Claw jumped out of the direct line of fire, and both he and Yuya slumped down and sighed heavily in relief.
"That was close!" However, red eyes blinked as he realized Isao had made it to the Action Card he was heading for while the Pendulum user was distracted.
The Ryouzanpaku student laughed, icy blue eyes looking over at Yuya mockingly. "You're too slow." The violent duelist plucked the Action Card from where it was lodged into the bamboo and continued his attack. "The battle is still underway!"
With that, Hayate threw it's golden staff right into Silver Claw even as Yuya was still on top of it.
Yuya cried out as he was harshly thrown off of Silver Claw, and took a rather bad tumble across the ground. The tomato haired teen skidding to a stop against the dirt on his stomach.
YUYA LP- 4000 = 3700
"Isao is already dishing out damage!" Nico yelled fervently into his mic.
Yuya got up and looked over at Isao and his monster. "Destroyed Pendulum monsters are sent to the Extra Deck!"
Isao didn't bother to respond to the news, and instead did a quick pose. "I end my turn!" The Ryouzanpaku student did another 'come at me' gesture, but this one had a more mocking smirk along with it.
Yuya's scarlet eyes darkened. "Are you going to keep dueling like that no matter what? If so, then I'll also..." Yuya stood up to his full height once more. "Duel the way I believe in! My turn!" Yuya drew a card, and smirked at what he got. "Here it is!"
Yuya showed two cards from between his fingers. "I, using the Scale 4 Performapal Trump Witch and Scale 8 Timegazer Magician, set the Pendulum Scale!" The two magic wielding monsters rose up in two seperate pillars of light. Their Scale numbers appearing underneath them as a portal began to appear in the middle, right above Yuya. "With this, I am able to simultaneously summon monsters from Levels 5 to 7! Swing, Pendulum of the soul! Draw an arc of light across the ether!" Yuya threw one hand up towards the portal as his monster appeared from its shining depths. "I Pendulum Summon! Come forth. With your heroic and dichromatic eyes. Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" Yuya's ace monster stood tall and gave an Earth shaking roar.
ODD-EYES PENDULUM DRAGON LV.7 ATK:2500 DEF:2000
"Here's Yuya Sakaki's Pendulum Summon!" Nico yelled frantically into his golden mic as the crowd began to cheer wildly.
"The fun has just begun!" Yuya said one of his main catchphrases, and that only made the audience cheer even louder.
Isao exchanged his smirk for a small frown. "Fun?"
"Yeah!" Yuya answered jollily. "Duels should be fun!"
"I'm only here to win." Isao said resolutely.
"I also want to win!" Yuya raised a fist. "But that isn't all there is to dueling!" When Isao didn't respond anymore, Yuya just continued his turn. "And now, I Normal Summon Performapal Camelump from my hand!" A camel with two humps, scarf, top hat, and some circus makeup appeared on the field.
PERFORMAPAL CAMELUMP LV.4 ATK:800 DEF:1800
"Battle!" Yuya declared, and threw his hand out towards Hayate. "I attack Soaring Earth Star Hayate with Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" Yuya's ace roared, and began to charge forward towards Isao and his monster. The dragon's loud stomping echoing throughout the whole stadium and shaking the field.
"I activate Hayate's effect." Iso responded. "If it is the only monster I control, it can negate one attack." Isao's monster unleashed a blue flame from it's golden staff, causing Odd-Eyes to back off. The dragon roared at its lost opponent in dejection.
"Isao responds to that attack splendidly!" Nico leans forward from his desk to watch the battle.
"I didn't think that it would be that easy to beat you." Yuya spoke expectantly, and looked up at his Performapal Trump Witch. "I activate Performapal Trump Witch's Pendulum Effect!" Yuya pointed up at his Pendulum monster, and the witch did a twirl. "Once per turn, I can use monsters on my field to perform a Fusion Summon!" Red eyes looked at his only two monsters. "I'll use Performapal Camelump and Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon as the Fusion Materials!"
Yuya's two monsters began to fuse together in a whirlpool of light behind the tomato haired teen. "Beast of burning sands. Become one with the dragon of mystery and give birth to a new power!" Yuya held his arms out to the side as his newly added dragon began to appear. "Come forth. Ferocious dragon of luminous feral eyes! Level 8! Beast-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" Yuya's bony armoured, red scaled, and blue furred dragon snapped its jaws. Saliva flying everywhere before it spun around and did a ferocious roar.
BEAST-EYES PENDULUM DRAGON LV.8 ATK:3000 DEF:2000
The crowd went crazy. "There it is! A Pendulum Fusion!" Nico screamed excitedly."Yuya Sakaki's new ace monster! The two Pendulum monsters used as Fusion Materials are sent to the Extra Deck!"
Yuya tilted his head to the side, his goggles reflecting the light shining down from the sun. For some reason, this seemed to get a rise out of Isao, because his icy blue eyes had widened and glazed over as if he was reliving a flashback or memory.
"It must have been fated since then…" Isao spoke, his eyes now returning to their normal glare. "For me to duel you now."
Yuya blinked. "What are you talking about?"
"Face me!" The Ryouzanpaku student demanded.
Yuya gave a small smirk, and pointed towards Isao and his monster. "Battle! I attack Soaring Earth Star Hayate with Beast-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" Beast-Eyes roared loudly, before charging forward towards Isao.
"I activate the Action Card Evasion." Isao lifted the card that Yuya was once going after and played it. "It negates an opponent's attack." Hayate simply moved to the side of Beast-Eyes rampage, before returning to its usual position.
"Once again, Isao avoids an attack!" Nico announces.
"What's wrong?" Isao asked after Yuya's silence. "Are you done with your fun, care-free dueling?"
"What?" Yuya leaned forward slightly, his voice deepening in his anger.
"If you're done, hurry up and end your turn!" The vicious Ryouzanpaku student spoke bluntly. "Next, it's my turn!"
Yuya took a deep breath before smiling over at his opponent. "Next time, I'll make sure you have fun!" His smile dropped slightly though after those words. "I end my turn."
"Draw." Isao spoke seriously, beginning his turn. "If I control an Earth monster, I can summon Rising Sky Star Tenma without a Release!" This warrior carried a long, fancy double edged sword. The monster wore blue armor and green pants, along with what seemed to be a horse skin on top of his head.
RISING SKY STAR TENMA LV.5 ATK:2100 DEF:1000
"With Tenma and Hayate as materials, I activate the Spell card Polymerization!" The purple haired duelist revealed his spell card to the audience. Seeing the card not only made Zero tense, but Shun, Yuto, and Ruri as well. All three of them watching the duel through a screen somewhere. They all thought the same thing.
Could he also be an Academia spy?
Isao raised one hand, before putting a fist in it. "Star racing across the heavens. Pass over the Earth! Become one and shine as an eternal ruling star!" Isao did a crane like maneuver as his two monsters began to fuse together. A gong sounded out across the stadium as the Fusion Summon began. "I Fusion Summon! To me! Supreme Victory Star Idaten!"
The monster wore multiple robes and clothes of various dark colors ranging from around the color spectrum. The warrior wore shining black chest armor, along with some golden metal hanging off of its back. Isao's monster also held a trident spear of sorts that had an emerald embedded in the middle along with a long tattered red bandana waving in the wind.
SUPREME VICTORY STAR IDATEN LV.10 ATK:3000 DEF:2200
"What?!" Nico drawled out. "Isao has also performed a Fusion Summon! After falling short of the Championship last year, he's evolved even further!"
Yuya clicked his tongue, scarlet eyes flickering across the field in search of something. "An Action Card…" The Pendulum user bolted to the side, his monster's dutifully following him.
Icy blue eyes followed its prey. "Let me tell you what Idaten's monster effect is." Isao spoke callously. "Whenever this card battles a monster with a lower level, the opposing monster's Attack becomes zero!"
"What!?" Yuya's eyes widened, but he had to focus on finding an Action Card, and kept running.
"Shit." Zero swore. "So he's going to take 3000 damage. That's almost a One Turn K.O." Zero's faceless mask watched as Yuya made it out of a rough patch in the bamboo forest, before they turned to see Isao roughly cut out a sharp strip of bamboo. The Ryouzanpaku student aimed carefully, and soon threw it as hard as he could towards Yuya.
The bamboo strip just barely missing impaling itself into Yuya's foot, and sent the Entertainment duelist falling onto the ground. Isao was quickly sprinting forward to catch up to Yuya. "I equip the Equip Spell card Magical Star Sword to Idaten! By sending one Spell Card that I've added to my hand this turn to the Graveyard, the equipped monster's Attack goes up by 100!" Isao's Level 10 monster's trident was soon replaced by a golden sword with a red handle. The athletic Ryouzanpaku student jumped over Yuya and into the patch of bamboo forest the Pendulum duelist was heading.
Yuya gripped his shoulder, eyes closed from the pain. The tomato haired teen having fallen on it at an awkward angle that had all of his friends worried. "Ow…"
Isao grabbed ahold of an Action Card that was hiding in a cut in half bamboo stalk. "I send one Action Card to my Graveyard. Idaten's Attack goes up by 100!"
SUPREME VICTORY STAR IDATEN ATK:3000 = 31000
"Dammit, he really IS going for a One Turn K.O." Zero growled, nails digging into his palms as he watched Yuya suffer on the battlefield.
Yuya looked around frantically, before spotting another Action Card up a ways on another stalk of bamboo. The Pendulum user instantly gunned for it to try and grab it, but Isao got in the way. The Ryouzanpaku harshly tackled Yuya aside so that he could grab the Action Card first. Yuya landed on his back, and winced at the pain he was feeling with grit teeth.
One scarlet eye opened to look up at Isao, who was standing right above him with an Action Card being held right in front of Yuya's face mockingly. "I send a second Action Card to my Graveyard."
SUPREME VICTORY STAR IDATEN ATK:3100 = 3200
Yuya got up again and went to find another Action Card still, but Isao kicked him aside roughly. "I send my third Action Card to the Graveyard!"
SUPREME VICTORY STAR IDATEN ATK:3200 = 3300
Yuya still persisted however, and got up once again. However, Isao was soon beside him once the Pendulum user had found another Action Card, and roughly elbowed him in the gut. "I send my fourth Action Card to the Graveyard!"
SUPREME VICTORY STAR IDATEN ATK:3300 = 3400
"That bastard." Zero griped, barely holding the urge back to interfere. This was a tournament match, and he couldn't do anything about it. "He's using Yuya to find more Action Cards before beating the shit out of him. Sadistic fucker."
The call of his geass seemed all the more tempting now.
Another kick, but this time it actually hit Yuya in the side of the head. Most of the crowd had shrunk back and took a breath between their teeth at the horrible sight. Everyone felt bad for Yuya. "I send my fifth Action Card to my Graveyard!"
SUPREME VICTORY STAR IDATEN ATK:3400 = 3500
Another elbow, this time into the ribs. "I send my sixth Action Card to the Graveyard!"
SUPREME VICTORY STAR IDATEN ATK:3500 = 3600
"Dammit!" Zero spat, Isao only needed one more Action Card to completely win the duel. "Come on Yuya! Don't let this bastard beat you with his flimsy tactics! Bastard obviously can't win unless he beats his opponent's half to death!"
Yuya stumbled, feeling the pain in his chest and head. The Pendulum user's vision blurred slightly, but with a quick shake of his head, it was restored. The Entertainment duelist refused to give up, and quickly sprinted ahead down the bamboo forest's pathway. "If he gets the next Action Card, it's over for me!" Red eyes looked back and to the side, searching for his volatile opponent.
Isao just seemed to be everywhere, before he finally started to run beside Yuya on his right. "I will never let you get ahold of an Action Card!"
"What!?" Yuya yelled out, he was beginning to get pissed. No, he was starting to feel livid.
"Up until now, you've lived your life strolling along a bright path without a single shadow falling over it." Isao spat, icy blue eyes narrowed in a vicious glare.
"What are you talking about!?" Yuya spat right back, his anger and frustration beginning to get the better of him. "I've had my own struggles as well! My life isn't a perfectly happy one!"
"I walked only a pitch-black path of darkness." Isao seethed. "I will NOT lose to someone like you! I will attain victory!"
"You don't know that for sure!" Yuya yelled, before looking ahead to see the Action Card that would decide this match. The skinny Entertainment duelist picked up his speed, inching his way forward and ahead of Isao. "I'll definitely get that Action Card!"
"I won't let you! Battle!" Isao hollered, and his Fusion monster sprang into action. "I attack Beast-Eyes with Idaten!" The warrior monster began to zero in on Yuya's dragon, who had slowed down a bit so that Yuya wouldn't be harmed by the attack. "Idaten's effect activates! Beast-Eye's Attack becomes zero!"
A green energy wrapped around and trapped Beast-Eyes. The feral dragon squirmed and tried to break free, but it was no use. The bony armored dragon turned its head to face his opponent and roared loudly, before giving a menacing hiss. Drool pooled out of the rabid dragon's mouth in warning.
BEAST-EYES PENDULUM DRAGON ATK:3000 = 0
"The wind of victory only blows for those who have seen true darkness!" Isao recited.
Yuya lunged forward, skidding across the dirt to get the Action Card that would allow him to live for another turn. "I'm not going to give up!"
Smoke exploded and filled the field, the crowd waited with bated breath to see who had gotten the Action Card that would determine the match. The stadium was silent with suspension.
Zero heard Yuya's friend's begin to worry. "Come on, Yuya."
When the smoke cleared, Beast-Eyes was no longer seen. The dragon having been destroyed by Idaten. Isao's steely ice blue eyes were glaring down at the ground.
Underneath the heel of his foot, Yuya's hand held onto the Action Card for dear life. The tomato haired teen's head was laying flat against the ground, facing away from his opponent, but he still held onto the card. Even as Isao put more pressure on the Entertainment duelists wrist to get him to let go of it, he still held on.
YUYA LP- 3700 = 100
Zero breathed a small sigh of relief, but this match was hardly over. "What's this?! Yuya has managed to get an Action Card, but his remaining Life Points is only 100!" Nico exclaimed.
After seeing that Yuya wouldn't let go of the Action Card, Isao released Yuya's wrist and walked away from the downed duelist. The Ryouzanpaku student's back was turned. "I end my turn."
SUPREME VICTORY STAR IDATEN ATK:3600 = 3000
Yuya shakily got up, his body aching from all of the bruises he had received from this short duel. It was only Yuya's second turn, but it felt like it had been hours. Scarlet eyes had widened and shrunk back slightly as he grit his teeth.
Icy blue eyes widened as Isao spoke, his voice filled with harsh mockery and taunting. "Looks like you lived by the skin of your teeth…" Yuya got up slowly, his arms still at his side. All traces of his amusement or desire to entertain gone as his red eyes looked over at his cruel opponent. "But your own darkness will be upon you soon."
The clouds up above in the real sky began to darken into a nasty dark greyish color. It looked as if it was about to thunder storm. Thunder echoed off in the distance.
"Fall into the pitch black darkness."
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.
.
Yuya snapped.
Red eyes widened even further, scarlet eyes shrinking into the size of pupils as they shook harshly. Yuya bent over and gave a choked gasp. The Pendulum user straightened, shaking his head side to side viciously, eyes screwed tightly shut. His eyes opened once again, pupils dilating rapidly before he closed his eyes once again, body extremely tense.
Actual lightning struck down right in front of Yuya, and almost the entire crowd flinched back in their seats and screamed at the sight before them.
Yuya's eyes were red. Not any normal red however, they weren't scarlet, crimson, or any jolly color one would associate with Christmas.
They were a deep, vicious, freshly drawn blood red.
Even Zero shook slightly underneath all of his masked personas. "Fuck."
Yuya's eyes and pupils glowed in the darkness as it began to steadily rain, the Pendulum user's hair had lifted slightly as if a breeze was blowing it upwards. A savage, almost in-human glare was on Yuya's face.
Even Isao's cold hearted icy blue eyes had wavered at the sight of Yuya's change. The Ryouzanpaku's eyes had widened, and mouth dropping open slightly. From his side of the field, Yuya was covered in shadows, in darkness. Only those brutal, heartless eyes glowed out from the darkness' depths.
"My turn." Yuya spoke calmly, way too calm for this situation. The teen's voice having gone dead. He casually drew a card. Zero instantly knew something was up, because Yuya was almost always over the top when it came to his presentation.
Something was deeply, unnaturally WRONG.
"I activate the Action Magic Mad Hurricane." A powerful gust of wind blew away Yuya's Pendulum Zone Monsters. "This card returns all cards on my field to my deck, but allows me to keep one in exchange for another in my hand."
"Yuya has no more cards on his field!" Nico spoke, but his voice had become much more softer at this rippling change that was turning into a tidal wave.
Yuya lifted up two new Pendulum Monsters. One was still Timegazer Magician, and the other was Performapal Turn Toad. "I, using Scale 3 Performapal Turn Toad and Scale 8 Timegazer Magician, set the Pendulum Scale." The angered teen carefully placed his cards, as if he had all day to do it.
Red eyes didn't even bother to look at Isao anymore, and instead focused on his duel disk. "With this, I am able to simultaneously summon monsters from Levels 4 to 7." Yuya's chant didn't even have the life he once put into it. It had become dull, monochrome. "Swing, Pendulum of the soul. Draw an arc of light across the ether! I Pendulum Summon!" Yuya raised one hand up towards the sky, towards the portal. "Come forth, my monster servants! Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon, Performapal Silver Claw!"
Two monsters appeared from the portal. One was Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon, while the other was Performapal Silver Claw. However, the monsters didn't act like they usually would. Instead of being upbeat and cheery, they were growling and swatting their tails in extreme aggression.
ODD-EYES PENDULUM DRAGON LV.7 ATK:2500 DEF:2000
PERFORMAPAL SILVER CLAW LV.4 ATK:1800 DEF:700
"What is going on…" Zero drew in a quick breath, masked violet eyes widening as he remembered a scenario that was rather similar to this one.
One that had happened just a few days ago in fact.
"Shit." Zero swore. "But Yuto and Yugo aren't even here! Why is he acting possessed when there is only one dragon out!?"
"What is he going to do!?" The masked man could vaguely hear Gongenzaka speak up from the silence of the crowd. Everyone was terrified.
It was even worse than when Shun had dueled Sora, and the fake Heartland city was set on fire before being bombed.
"I play the Spell Card Monster Mirage." Yuya droned on, but that maddened, enraged looked on Yuya's face never went away. "This allows me to change the level and attributes of one of my monsters to match another on the field." Yuya lifted one hand to point at his Odd-Eyes, it was held so lifelessly it almost looked like he was a puppet on strings. "I choose to change Silver Claw's Level from 4 to 7, along with changing his attribute into a Dragon type."
PERFORMAPAL SILVER CLAW LV.4 = 7
"With the now Level 7 Performapal Silver Claw and Level 7 Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon, I construct the Overlay Network!" The two animals howled into the darkened sky, before turning into lights that went into the golden vortex in the ground in front of Yuya.
"WHAT!"
"Awaken from the depths of your apocalyptic Underworld which you reside in and rule with a steel grip." Yuya's monotone voice finally gave way to pure, unadulterated wrath. "Burn all who oppose me into ashes in your hellfire!"
A new dragon, one that no one has ever seen before, began to slowly crawl out of the vortex. Dark iron tipped claws made deep grooves in the dirt, and four giant wings cut through rows upon rows of bamboo stalks as if they were nothing but flimsy paper. Those wings glowed a fierce red that matched Yuya's possessed gaze. This dragon's scales dripping in the color of the deep dark blood of it's prey with hints of polished black steel on the tips of its wings. Blackened iron armor surrounding it's darkened blue orbed chest and coating this dragon's twisted horns that stretched back. The green and red orbs around this beast glowed darkly, almost as if they were about to be extinguished with a simple breath. A vicious stinger was on the demonic dragon's tail that looked like it could cut through even diamond.
"I Xyz Summon!" Yuya hollered into the darkened sky, and his new dragon took flight once more. The crowd screamed, and had to cover their faces from the sheer heat radiating off of this new monster. Even from their distance in the stands they could still feel it. Isao himself was beginning to break out into a fierce sweat that glided down his face and soaked his clothes. "Come forth! Rank 7! Odd-Eyes Hellfire Dragon!" Hellfire's dichromatic eyes finally revealed themselves buried deeply within it's skull slightly covered by black steel, and a deep toned roared echoed out for miles away from the stadium.
ODD-EYES HELLFIRE DRAGON RNK.7 ORB.2 ATK:3000 DEF:2800
"Th-this is-!" Nico couldn't even announce properly because he was so shocked and frightened by Yuya's cruel, cold hearted display. He didn't even know the boy had such a side to him. "A Pendulum Summon into an Xyz Summon!?"
"What?!" Isao breathed, and took one small hesitant step back.
"This is bad." Zero tensed tremendously, he could feel the darkness oozing off of Yuya and his dragon. This battle was going to go on a whole new level of violent.
. . .
"AHHHH!"
Ruri jumped. Having been so frightened by the sudden scream she accidently dropped a dish she was drying. The fragile ceramic plate shattered across the floor as she turned around to run into the living room. One hand tightly gripping the towel still as she finally saw what had caused such a pained scream.
"Yuto!" Ruri screamed, her pink eyes widening in fright as she watched her crush thrashing across the black leather couch violently. Sweat poured down his face in waves as he suffered. The Phantom Knights user was shakingly tremendously, his pupils once again glowing a bright violet blue as they rolled into the back of his head.
Ruri flung her towel to the side, forgetting about the mess she had made in the kitchen as she quickly ran up to Yuto's side. The Lyrical Lusinca duelist having to force Yuto to at least try and stay still lest he hurt himself from his uncontrollable tremors. "Yuto!" Terrified tears made their way down Ruri's cheeks as she could only watch Yuto tear his own throat raw from how loud his shrieking was. "Yuto please! Tell me what's wrong! Yuto stop!"
It sounded like Yuto was losing both his legs and arms from how pained he hollered. The Xyz duelist couldn't even hear Ruri as he continued to shake around crazily, his head shaking side to side like a hurricane. "S-Stop it! Don't get any closer! Stay away!" Yuto finally managed to get some words out of his sore throat, spit flying at his attempts. "GET AWAY FROM ME!"
He panicked even more, and his voice somehow managed to reach an even higher pitch as he screamed his lungs out. His efforts to thrash around tripling. It became so difficult that Ruri was forced back against the coffee table, her head hitting the edge and causing his vision to shift for just a moment. The wielder of Dark Rebellion threw himself off of the couch and clawed his fingers against the grey carpeted floor.
Ruri sat up and rubbed her head. She felt a warm liquid run down the side of her ear, but she ignored it and lunged for her duel disk. The younger Kurosaki sibling calling for some much needed back up from her older, stronger brother.
"Yuto please! Please stop! You're going to hurt yourself!" Ruri cried. She could barely even hear herself over Yuto's painful screams.
"Ruri?!" Shun's voice answered, the Raidraptor having apparently heard what she had just said.
. . .
"Ruri?! Ruri what's going on? Are you alright!?" Shun leaned over and clutched his duel disk with both hands. He could hear Yuto's screams blare through his duel disk and almost mask his sister's voice. However, he could still hear her near hysterical crying and words as she sobbed. "What's going on!"
"S-S-Shun!" Ruri had to scream over her own duel disk just to let Shun hear her voice over Yuto's anguished cries. "Somethings wrong with Yuto! Please! I- I need help! He's going to hurt himself!" Shun's younger sister hiccuped. "I don't know what to do!"
"Alright, don't worry I'll be over in a second. Just keep your eyes on him and DON'T let him out of your sight!" Shun rushed out from where he was standing beside Reiji, the CEO listening in on their conversation intently as he watched Yuya's duel. "It's okay." The Raidraptor duelist comforted, before he sprinted across the hallway and threw open a window. The Xyz resistance fighter not even wasting a second in hesitating or fearing the height he was jumping from as he summoned his Raidraptor Rise Falcon. "It's okay Ruri just stay calm. I'll be over in a second, so just breath for me alright."
Shun continued to comfort his frightened younger sister as he flew one of his Raidraptors over by the hotel. When he almost busted the door down to get in he was shocked to see the state Yuto was in. Somehow, he was still screaming, though it seemed to have lowered a little bit. However, his convulsing hadn't stopped or slowed down in the slightest. If anything, it seemed to have worsened because he was shaking even worse than a leaf in a storm.
The resistance fighter carefully pulled his sister aside, before forcing himself on to his childhood friend. Yellow eyes carefully watching as Yuto tried to bite Shun's arms before he pinned the Phantom Knights arms above his head and used the rest of his weight to pin Yuto's legs.
However, neither Xyz rebel knew what to do to help Yuto, or how to bring him back to normal.
All they could do was be forced to wait, and ride this hellish nightmare out.
. . .
"I activate one of Odd-Eyes Hellfire Dragon's effects!" Possessed, almost crazed, red eyes narrowed towards Isao. "By using one Orbital… Odd-Eyes Hellfire can destroy one monster on my opponent's side of the field, and gain it's Attack Points! Acidic Punishment!"
ODD-EYES HELLFIRE DRAGON ORB:2 = 1
The demonic dragon threw it's tail forward from above it's head like a scorpion would. A distinctly blood red, acidic smelling like substance flew from its tail before landing all over Isao's monster. Quickly, the acid reacted and began to melt the monster, or its first victim. The Fusion monster struggled, terrified as it watched itself slowly melting into nothing but a puddle. But he couldn't get the substance off, and was inevitably destroyed.
A fierce orange glow wrapped around Odd-Eyes Hellfire Dragon, and the satanic monster once again gave a deep roar as it grew even more powerful.
ODD-EYES HELLFIRE DRAGON ATK:3000 = 6000
"An Attack of 6000!" Isao choked, unable to believe that his Level 10 Fusion monster was thrown to the side like a pesky fly.
"Battle." Yuya spoke, once again monotone while he spoke. "I attack you directly with Odd-Eyes Hellfire Dragon!"
Odd-Eyes Hellfire Dragon flexed its claws, before they grew taller and sharper. The black metal glinting viciously off of the hellish glow the dragon gave. With one flap of its four wings, the dragon flew straight towards the seemingly defenseless violent duelist Isao. Drool slipping out of Hellfire's awaiting maw and evaporated from the heat, making it look as if he was about to breath fire.
Isao's ice blue eyes shook as he threw a hand out. "I activate Kaiki's second effect from my hand! By sending it from my hand to the Graveyard, when my opponent declares a direct attack. If the monster they are using has a lower level then one of my monsters that was destroyed or is on the field, the opposing monster is destroyed instead!"
"Xyz monsters do not possess Levels." Yuya's voice sharpened, glowing blood red eyes narrowed just a bit at Isao's futile attempt at surviving. "Therefore, the effect is negated."
"What?!" Isao panicked, flinching back as he watched the nightmarish abomination advance towards him. "If they don't possess Levels then isn't their Level 0!?"
"Savage Fatality!" Yuya yelled, and Odd-Eyes Hellfire Dragon was soon on top of it's terrified prey. The enormous beast's shadow casting Isao into an even greater darkness as it struck. The dragon slashed Isao across the chest with its extended claws, causing the belt wrapped around the Ryozanpaku student's chest to be ripped off, some of the robes also gaining claw marks as well. Isao was thrown back, but Hellfire wasn't done. The dragon quickly spun around, and slammed it's ironed tail into the purple haired teen's side, throwing Isao back even farther. Isao gave a pained scream as he was almost flung out of the arena.
ISAO LP- 4000 = 0 LOSER
YUYA LP- 100 WINNER
Odd-Eyes Hellfire Dragon gave one last haunting roar before it was destroyed alongside the field. The field vanishing into a sea of yellow particles that was soon drowned out by the pouring rain. The entire crowd was dead silent, no one believing that Yuya could actually be as cruel as he was just now. The possessed duelist's picture was thrown onto the screen with the words 'winner' stretching across the bottom.
Nico didn't even notice until a few seconds later. "Th-the winner is Yuya Sakaki…" The crowd didn't cheer, all eyes widened and staring down at the seemingly harmless boy with shock and slight fear.
Zero could faintly hear someone clapping over the down pouring rain, it turned out to be Shuzo. "G-good job Yuya…" Even he sounded frightened, but he pushed it aside for his student. The faceless mask of the revolutionary staring right into Yuya's eyes. Would he continue to be possessed and go on a rampage? Would he have to stop him?
Thankfully, these questions were answered by watching Yuya's glowing blood red eyes slowly returning to their normal shade of scarlet red. Zero could only breathe a sigh of relief at that.
"Huh?" Yuya blinked a couple times dazedly, before he looked around in slight confusion. His normal scarlet eyes looked down at Isao, who was just now starting to get up. "Isao!" The Entertainment duelist ran over to help his opponent up. Apparently he must have won the duel somehow, but he brushed it aside because it was just like when he first Pendulum Summoned. He couldn't really remember how that duel went, nor could he really remember this one. Though he could certainly feel the bruises and aches he had gotten from it.
The tomato haired teen stopped beside the Ryozanpaku student, and held a helping hand out towards him. "A-are you okay?"
Icy blue eyes shrunk back as he harshly slapped Yuya's hand away. The Pendulum user taking a couple steps back from the fierce pain in his hand from the loud slap that echoed across the arena.
Isao stood up, and began to quickly walk to face his teacher and the other Ryozanpaku students. The rest of the school having gotten up, and beginning to walk away in overwhelming disappointed and angered silence. The purple haired teen quickly bent himself into a silent short bow, his icy blue eyes tightly closed.
Yuya blinked again, before looking around at the audience in their seats. Red eyes dimmed a little bit at their frightened expressions. Yuya furrowed his eyebrows before looking down at the ground. "What is this… This feeling..."
Having had enough of the silence, Yuya turned on his heel and began to speed walk back towards the way he had come. When scarlet red eyes looked up to see Zero, he noticed that the masked man was very tense and staring at the message he had received through his duel disk.
"What happened…?" Yuya asked hesitantly, almost afraid of the answer he would get if Zero actually answered him. "What happened in my duel with Isao that made everyone become so afraid?"
Zero's faceless mask looked up at Yuya's frightened, dejected gaze. The masked revolutionary shuffled a bit, making his cape ripple as he spoke softly. "It, may be best to wait on that answer until things have cooled off… However, if you still want me to answer that question if you haven't found out. I'll tell you once Round Three of the Championship begins… That, and more." With that implied promise, Zero took a breath and brushed past Yuya silently. The masked man ready for his second duel in the Miami Championship.
There we go! Oh man that was slightly difficult honestly. The problem with Yuto being alive is that Yuya doesn't have Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon anymore in this fic… Unless he dies later- ANYWAY, I had a tough time deciding what to do. I looked up Yuya's other Odd-Eyes Xyz monsters, but they just didn't suit the current duel's needs. I was going to use Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon, but I figured he had to wait until Yuya got stronger. Therefore, I decided to create a new Xyz Dragon! Odd-Eyes Hellfire Dragon.
Odd-Eyes Hellfire Dragon RNK.7 ORB.2 ATK:3000 DEF:2800
Attribute: Dragon/Dark
Effect: By discarding one Orbital. Hellfire can destroy one monster on the opponent's field and take its Attack Points and add them to his own.
Description: Imagine Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon's body, but with four wings instead of two that are the same color as Yuya's glowing blood red eyes. These wings also look more bat like than Raging Dragon's almost insect like ones. Hellfire Dragon's horns are curled backwards like how the Devil's horns would look. With one red orb on the left, and two green ones on the right. All of Hellfire Dragon's red and green orbs are dimmed to a sickly looking color, but will glow ominously when it begins to attack. The giant blue orb is still in Hellfire Dragon's chest, but it is severely dimmed down to look like a navy blue. Odd-Eyes Hellfire Dragon's dichromatic eyes are sunken into its skull slightly, peeking out from the black steel covering around its eyes like a mask. Black steel like armor covers Hellfire Dragon's horns, tips of its wings, claws, blue orb, around his eyes, and underbelly all the way down to it's tail. At the end of Odd-Eyes Hellfire Dragon's tail is a scorpion like barb with a vicious stinger at the end. Hellfire's acid is a bright blood red that is extremely volatile and fatal.
Yes the card is OC. But I'm not sure you'll ever see it again after this chapter, so don't worry if you don't like it. I just made some of the cards up to suit the chapter's current needs.
Also! Here's a little bit of what I was going to originally put down before I created Odd-Eyes Hellfire Dragon.
A red beam of light flew up from the dangerous depths. "Dragon with dichromatic eyes! Resurrect from the deep darkness and burn EVERYTHING in the world with flames of anger!" One green eye glowed venomously within the dark, blackened out world. A lava orangey color glowed like veins around this new, fatal monster's body as the blue orb in its chest burned brightly like a star. The red and green orbs on its wings glowed, and soon pure fire erupted to spread out into wings.
"I Xyz Summon!" Yuya's monotone voice finally gave way to pure, unadulterated wrath and fury. Fire poured out from the vortex in a huge pillar, the crowd screaming and having to cover their faces in fear of getting burned even from their distance. A new dragon flew up from within the pillar of fire, to help give birth to a new meaning of fear. "Come forth! Rank 7! The blazing dragon called by calamity! The Supreme King Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon!"
This is what I was originally going for, but I didn't like how Raging Dragon would be introduced so early into the story. Odd-Eyes Rebellion Dragon must come first! :D
If you have any questions, comments or concerns just put them in a review or PM me. If you actually like me creating OC cards let me know! Maybe I'll do more. Otherwise I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, I did. On that note, I'll be seeing you all in Chapter 19! -MoonlightWright
