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Yuki's POV
I was right about Akiza, she was easily tricked and made to look bad before the crowd, and then when she fought against Yusei she was easily swung to his point of view, she needs to be more independent.
I was watching the finals in the infirmary with Luna but it only took all of a few turns for things to get out of hand. We were in the swings of the final match between Yusei and Jack Atlas. Both their Runners sped around the track at blinding speed in their major clash that was rattling the sky and making a dragon of red light appear. At this point most of the crowd was terrified and Luna's mark was burning.
"It…hurts." She hissed.
"It's okay." I hugged her "You're strong, don't worry."
"Those two need to hurry it up." Cleopatra hissed "Yuki!"
"Right!" we held our hands out to block a bolt of red lightning from the dragon, but even with us blocking it things still seemed to get weirded and we were suddenly outside.
"You two have to finish the duel!" I yelled as various images of the past and future flashed in the sky "If you don't it's gonna get worse. You're messing with God like power here!"
"Yuki!" Luna yelled "Do something!"
"I can't." I warned them as time warped around them.
"Finish the Duel already you two!" Akiza yelled "Please!"
Yusei play a spell and was able to use it to attack with Stardust Dragon and end the duel, winning back his pride and ending the bizarre time warp.
"I've never seen anything like that." Cleopatra said "And I've seen a lot of stuff."
"Yep, I lost my soul once and I've never seen something like that." I added.
"Things like this, are normal for you?" Luna asked "Wow, it's terrifying and interesting."
"You're a curious girl." I smiled
"You're…interesting." She smiled back "I like learning that I'm not the only weird one."
"You're not weird." I told her "You're just special, chosen for something great."
"I'm not like you." Luna looked at her arm "I don't know anything about this, or even if I'm really all that special."
"Don't worry, we'll figure it out." I held her hand "Come on let's go meet up with the others."
"Right."
The two of us headed down and met up with Yusei, Leo and their friends in a tunnel under the stadium.
"Not bad Yusei." I laughed "But be more careful next time okay. I wouldn't get too relaxed, you'll still need to figure out if those friends of yours are okay."
"Still…what was all that stuff in the light?" Luna asked "That scene was of the Satellite and…the spider mark destroyed it."
"I'm not sure." Yusei said "But if it was the future I intend to stop it at all costs."
"Don't worry." I smiled at Luna "I'm here to help you figure all this stuff out."
Later
When we got back to the hideout Yusei had been using we had the old man give us the long story about the Singers and even drew a picture of a Crimson Dragon based on memory.
"My memories a little fuzzy but I think it looks something like this." He held up a somewhat crudely drawn image of a dragon in a circle shape.
"That tail…" Yusei gasped.
"That claw on the arm is definitely like Luna's mark." Cleopatra told me.
"The Dragon is traditionally broken into five pieces." Yanagi explained "The Head, The Tail, The wings and two claws. The People of the Stars sealed the five parts into five people called Singers."
"So Yusei, Luna, Jack and Akiza had a mark too." I noted "That tournament was a set up to get you all in one place, it has to be while they invited Luna originally and she was picked for the exhibition duel."
"Then who's the fifth?" Blister, the spiky head guy, asked.
"If the dragon showed up the fifth must have been there somewhere in the crowd." Cleopatra jumped into control.
"Come on it's gotta be here somewhere." Leo looked under his shirt "It's definitely me!"
"Hmm." Luna suddenly fell back into me.
"Luna what's wrong?" I asked.
"I'm fine…" she sighed "Just…tired."
"It's been a long day." I smiled "Why don't we call it a night."
Later
"It's strange we've faced a lot of weird things but for the first time in a while…" I sighed.
"What?" Cleopatra asked.
"I'm…afraid." I told her.
"You honestly think we can lose?" she floated.
"I'm not worried about you and me, we can handle ourselves." I said.
"You're worried about Luna." She said "It's normal, she a young girl, she looks at you like you're her mother figure, it's natural for you to be scared that she's being wrapped up in something dangerous against her will."
Everyone else had gone to bed, the two of us were just sitting up late and talking.
"I guess, I just can't help it." I smiled "she's not like the others, she doesn't love dueling, she likes it but she just prefers different things."
"I know, a sweet girl like her wrapped up in something bigger than herself." Cleopatra smiled "Sound familiar."
"Haha." I fake laughed "Still…Luna's more like me than I'd want to admit I suppose."
"Hmm…" Cleopatra nodded before snapping to look out the window "I sense great darkness approaching."
I looked out the window and saw a man standing in the alleyway, his arm glowing with strange purple light.
"Come on." I grabbed my duel disk and headed outside.
We went outside and ran after the man who was quick to flee from us. We tracked him all the way to a parking garage around the block.
"Who are you." I turned around when he walked out of the darkness "If you're after Luna leave her alone!"
"Ask the Duel of Darkness, the darkness knows all." He said with blank eyes.
"Something is wrong here." Cleopatra forced herself into control "I'll handle it."
"Alright this one's on you." I nodded.
"If it's a Shadow Duel you want, it's a Shadow Duel you'll get!" Cleopatra roared.
A ring of purple flames surrounded us.
"This is new." Cleopatra hummed.
"There is no escape from this altar of darkness." The man told us "It's my turn, I summon Blizzard Lizard in defense mode."
Blizzard Lizard: LVL 3 ATK 600 DEF 1800
"I place a card facedown and end my turn." He said.
I looked at the furry blue lizard and shivered.
"I draw!" Cleopatra yelled "I summon Dragunity Aklys!"
Dragunity Aklys: LVL 2 ATK 1000 DEF 800
A tiny red dragon with a metal horn appeared.
"Aklys effect activates and I can summon a Dragunity from my hand and equip him to it." Cleopatra explained "I summon Dragunity Militum!"
Dragunity Militum: LVL 4 ATK 1700 DEF 1200
A thinned winged warrior with a scimitar appeared.
"Next I play the spell Dragunity Divine Lance!" Cleo said "I equip it to Militum, it allows me to, once a turn, equip a dragon type Dragunity Tuner from my deck to this monster, I choose Dragunity Pilum! It also gains attack equal to it's level times 100 and is unaffected by traps!"
A tiny green dragon with armor appeared.
"Then I activate Militum's effect to special summon on Dragunity equipped to it!" I said "I choose Pilum."
Dragunity Pilum: LVL 3 ATK 1400 DEF 1000
"I tune Pilum and Militum to summon Dragunity Knight Trident!"
Dragunity Knight Trident: LVL 7 ATK 2400 DEF 1700
A blue long necked dragon and rider appeared.
"Now Trident Attack Blizzard Lizard!" I commanded "Sky Piercings Lance!"
I easily destroyed his monster.
"Blizzard Lizard's effect activates." The man said "You take 300 Damage when it's destroyed."
"GAH!" Cleopatra hissed "So…cold."
Cleopatra 4000 to 3700 LP
"It really is a Shadow Duel." I hummed "Be Careful."
"I'm fine." She laid a face down "I end my turn."
"I activate the trap Call of the Haunted and resurrect Blizzard Lizard." He said "Then the Magic Card Ice Mirror to special summon another Blizzard Lizard from my hand, then another Ice Mirror to summon a third Blizzard Lizard."
"Three monsters!" I gasped.
"But none of them are even close to destroying Trident." Cleopatra smirked.
"I sacrifice two Blizzard Lizard to summon Dark Tuner Catastrogue!"
Dark Tuner Catastrogue: LVL 8 ATK 0 DEF 0
"No attack or defense?" I was confused.
"I now Dark Tune Dark Tuner Catastrogue with the remaining Blizzard Lizard!" he yelled "Level Eight minus Level Three."
"Minus?!" we both gasped.
"The Light in the Synchro Summon turned black." I added.
"What is this?" Cleopatra squinted.
"A Dark Synchro Summon summons a monster with a level equal to the level of the tuner minus the materials." The attacker explained.
"So he's summoning a level five monster." Cleopatra nodded.
"Level Negative Five!" he slapped a card down "Frozen Fitzgerald!"
Frozen Fitzgerald: LVL -5 ATK 2500 DEF 2500
A frozen angel of ice appeared on the field, chilling the very air itself.
"I activate the effect of Dark Tuner Catastrogue!" he yelled "When used for a Synchro I can destroy one card you control, I destroy Dragunity Knight Trident!"
"Crap!" Cleopatra hissed when our monster was blown away.
"Now Frozen Fitzgerald attack her directly!" he yelled.
"I activate my trap." Cleo said only to have the duel disk buzz "What do you mean no?!"
"When Frozen Fitzgerald attacks you can't activate any spells or traps!" he laughed.
"GAH!" Cleopatra yelled as ice slashed her.
Cleopatra 3700 to 1200 LP
"It's my turn, first Cards of Consonance and then play another Cards of Consonance!" She hissed drawing a card "I activate the trap Graceful Revival to return Dragunity Phalanx to the field.
Dragunity Phalanx: LVL 2 ATK 500 DEF 1100
"Then I remove Dragunity Knight Trident from play to special summon Garuda the Wind Spirit!" She said.
A bird man with red feathers appeared.
Garuda the Wind Spirit: LVL 4 ATK 1600 DEF 1200
"And lastly I summon Blackwing Fane the Steel Chain!"
A black bird like ninja appeared.
Blackwing Fane the Steel Chain: LVL 2 ATK 500 DEF 800
"Now I tune Phalanx, Garuda and Fane to summon!" Cleopatra yelled "Dragunity Knight Barcha!"
Dragunity Knight Barcha: LVL 8 ATK 2000 DEF 1200
"When Barcha is Synchro summoned I can equip any number of Dragon type Dragunity monsters in my graveyard to it and it gains 300 ATK for each!" she smiled "So I equip Aklys, Pilum, Brandistock and Phalanx!"
Barcha 2000 to 3200 ATK
"Destroy Frozen Fitzgerald!" Cleo yelled.
"GAH!" the man hissed as we blasted him.
Dark Singer 4000 to 3300 LP
"Now Brandistock's effect activates, since it's equipped to A Dragunity monster that monster attacks twice!" she smiled "Attack him Directly!"
Dark Singer 3300 to 100 LP
"Then the spell card De-Synchro!" she smiled "It breaks up my Synchro and brings back all the materials!"
Garuda, Fane and Phalanx took back to the field.
"Now finish it! Phalanx attack him directly!" Cleo yelled.
"GAH!" The man flew back through the wall of fire as we won the duel.
"Who was this guy?" I took back over and looked at him.
"I don't know." Cleopatra asked.
"EEK!" I stomped my foot.
"What?"
"Spider, I hate those." I huffed.
"Seriously." She rolled her eyes "Come on let's get back to the hideout."
AN
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