Hyper Arc; White Story - Part 1; Becoming Hunters
As agreed with the four protectors they destroyed their gauntlets, now Alex wears his duel disk out in the open now that he can no longer store it away unless needed for battle. All he has left on him is that and his three card decks.
On his walk he was able to find Blanc, and the two have made their way towards the city of Lowee. However they were unable to find the twins and Seth at all.
"We finally made it to the city. I hope Rom and Ram are doing alright…" Blanc says with Alex next to her as he looks at his three god cards. Then a woman approached them.
"Oh, hello, young lady and young lad. Where have you come from?" She asks them
"Y-Young lady…? I'm not a young lady, I'm Lowee's CPU, and-" Blanc starts saying
"Haha! A CPU? Oh, these youngsters say such funny things these days." the woman says and Alex sighed from what she said.
"Figures… No one in the last city believed us either." Alex says annoyed and concerned. "It's odd how not one person seems to remember us or any of the other CPUs or Protectors for that matter. What the hell is going on?"
"If you're lost, I can show you around. I'm a receptionist at the Guild, so you can rest assured in my knowledge of this city." The woman tells them.
"The Guild, huh? Well, great timing, at least. We did want to stop over by the Guild." Blanc tells her.
"Oh, really? Do you have a request?" The woman asks and Alex hands a paper to her. "I'm searching for my younger sisters. Their names are Rom and Ram, they look like- Oh, Rom and Ram! Sure, I know them."
"You know about them…?! Where are they right now?" Blanc asks her
"Were they with a boy with my same hair and eye color?!" Alex asks
"Those two girls said they would head to Lowee's capital city to meet their big sister. I couldn't even stop them. And yes there was a young boy with them as you described having that same device on your arm." The woman explains. "Now that I remember, they kept insisting they were CPU Candidates, as well."
"When did this happen?" Blanc asks the woman, hoping they haven't missed their chance to find them.
"Just a few hours ago." She says.
"Thanks for the info. We'll be going now, we really need to find them." Alex says.
"Okay. Just use the main road, alright? Avoid the woods if you can help it. You'll hear there's a shortcut if you go through there, but lately I've heard there are strange monsters roaming about." She explains to them
"Okay, I'll remember that." Blanc says and the two continue onward to the main city. "We should get to the next city past this main road. I hope I can meet up with Rom and Ram there, but…" before she could finish a small group of strange monsters appeared.
"That is a weird kind of monster, I don't think we've seen these before. Is this one of those weird monsters that lady was talking about?" Alex asks as he starts up his device. "Well either way, if it's gonna get in our way like this, we have no choice but to fight!" Blanc summons her hammer as Alex draws one card. "Come forth Gamma!" he summons his first Magnet warrior as it has a Health bar with three squares under it, then Alex notices a life counter appear on his duel disk. (LP 10000) "What is this now? I have a life counter?"
"Worry about that later!" Blanc tells him as she takes her stance and swings her hammer smacking one of them and making it fly into the trees. Alex has his magnet warrior attack the strange monster knocking it around until it finally disappears.
"Alright now for the last one. Time to grab it Gamma." Alex commands his warrior by grabbing the last one "Sets up for the pitch! And throws it!" his warrior throws it towards Blanc for her to do the same thing by swinging her hammer and sends the enemy flying. "And it is out of the park!" Alex jokes seeing the monster land in a forest. "Those things were pretty durable against our attacks. We should look into this and figure out what they are." Alex says about to deactivate his disk.
"Wait! It's not over!" A familiar voice yelled out to the duo. They turn to notice a larger monster striking the duo and Alex's magnet warrior instantly dropping its HP to 0 and shatters. This also caused Alex's life counter to drop a bit. From a single attack the two are knocked unconscious while the woman in Blue destroys the monster.
Some time passed as the woman brought the two into a hotel room and bandaged up their wounds from the large monster that attacked. After a bit the two start to regain consciousness.
"You're both finally awake. Man, you two were really knocked out there." The woman that saved them tells them and the two look around in the place they are in. "We're in a hotel, not too far from where you both passed out. My name's C-Sha."
"... I'm Blanc." She tells her slightly dizzy still.
"Alex…" He says who is also dizzy.
"Nice to meet you both. I carried you here so you can go ahead and thank me now." C-Sha says with a proud smile.
"... Yes, thank… hmm…?" Blanc starts seeing straight now and suddenly realizes who C-Sha is. "Wha, You're-?!"
"Hmm? Is there something on my face?" C-Sha asks while Alex has also noticed who she is.
"Why are YOU here?!" Blanc asks now getting pissed off and Alex was wondering why this girl from Gold Third helped them out when they beat the CPUs in the exhibition match.
"W-Woah, what's with that change in attitude? I'm not sure how to respond to that…" C-Sha asked shocked from Blanc's sudden anger. While Alex was confused if she is either she is pretending she didn't know them, or if the world suddenly strangely changing affected her as well. "Do you know me or something? I'm bad at remembering people's faces, sorry. Who are you?"
"What? There's no way in hell you forgot! We just fought each other!" Blanc curses angry still while Alex stays silent until Blanc calms down which could take a while.
"I fought with you? No way, I don't believe it. I would've remembered something like that." C-Sha tells her, and Alex would take that answer since he isn't sure that she saw Blanc in her normal form.
"What?! Do you remember these freaking fists digging into your cheeks?! Just stay right the- Ow!" Blanc tried to move, but her injury stopped her.
"Hey, now, don't push yourself. What'll you do if your wounds reopen?" C-Sha asks her and Blanc was still pissed off.
"What's your angle here? Attacking me then saving me? I don't get you at all!" Blanc says
"Blanc, just give it a rest…" Alex tells her and lays down again.
"But, Alex, she is the one who…" Blanc tries to argue with him.
"She says she doesn't remember seeing us, so just leave it at that." He tells her and notices his magnet warrior card on his duel disk having red cybernetic lines on it. "Hmm? What the?" He sits back up and takes it and is given a warning sign like he is in a virtual world.
-Warning; Monster has been destroyed. Any monsters, spells, or traps that are used/destroyed will be sent to the Grave unable to be recovered back to the deck. Monsters that get destroyed will decrease Life count by 100 x level of monster, any monster in Def that gets destroyed will not decrease Life Count. Any unused cards from hand or field will automatically be returned to the deck and shuffled for next visit to any dungeon area. Sacrifice rules are still in play, however those kind of summons won't count as monsters destroyed.-
"Are you kidding me?! What kind of rule is this?!" Alex asks in disbelief. "So my destroyed companions are stuck in the Graveyard, dammit…" Blanc was concerned about him, while C-Sha was wondering what he's talking about. While Blanc and C-Sha talked about the licence system Alex was in worry for his most treasured companions in his deck. "I have to be really careful on how I use them, and I still have to do the same rule to summon powerful monsters. But luckily tributes are different from them being destroyed and won't be stuck in the grave." He removes his disk placing it on the ground and his deck on the nightstand. Since there were two beds they could each sleep soundly, however Blanc didn't want to sleep next to C-Sha slightly not trusting her, but both Alex and Blanc did blush having to share a bed. Alex was nervous about it, but he wanted to let Blanc know he will always be there for her so he has an arm wrap around her which she let's happen and places her arm on his.
"I know how much you care, thank you Alex." Blanc says in her thoughts falling asleep.
The next morning C-Sha brought the two to the place where they can get a licence for selected job preference, in order to fight they needed to be hunters to actually do so.
"You can take the aptitude test here. I hope you'll do your best." C-Sha tells them.
"That's the plan. Didn't need you to tell me that." Blanc says to her.
"We'll begin the aptitude test momentarily. Please, be aware that it will take some time." A guild representative explains
"That's fine. Let's get started already." Blanc says to the woman.
"Okay, then let's begin. Please, come over to this room." She tells the two.
"I'll come pick you both up when it's almost over. I'll be crossing my fingers for you to get a Hunter's license, Blanny!" C-Sha tells them, a bit excited to have a partner.
"Crossing your fingers is pointless. And stop calling me that already." Blanc tells her.
"She only allows me to call her that." Alex says bluntly.
"Are you both a couple?" C-Sha asks him, a bit surprised.
"Not officially yet, but we do care about one another." Alex tells her. "Now, let's go and become Hunters Blanc." The two enter the room taking the test while C-Sha went out for a bit waiting for the two to finish up. Blanc was doing pretty well, though Alex was having trouble because he doesn't use a weapon. He knew summons are a way of battling, and rarely anyone has a special power like his other than his own little brother. After a small amount of time the two were able to get a license of being Hunters, it was tricky for Alex but he had a sigh of relief to do something better than just sitting around the city. The two also searched for any info about where their younger siblings are, and luckily they were told that they accepted a quest to a dungeon area and make their path to the place.
"Looks like this is the place." Alex says as his duel disk automatically activates.
"Rom, Ram…! Where are you? If you are here, respond!" Blanc calls out to them.
"Why are you yelling?! You're gonna lead monsters here!" C-Sha warns her.
"I don't care. I can defeat whoever shows up. I need to find Rom and Ram." Blanc tells her, determined to find her sisters.
"And I have to find Seth, no matter what happens I have to." Alex says with the same determination. C-Sha only sighed giving up on trying to stop them.
"I guess it's no use. I'll come along with you, so shout as much as you want." C-Sha tells them.
"... You're coming too?" Blanc asks slightly surprised.
"It's good to have company in travelling and in life. I can't leave a fellow Hunter alone." C-Sha tells them
"... I'm not thanking you for anything." Blanc tells her as Alex is already moving forward and he summons his Queen's Knight. They move forward with Alex's knight fighting the monsters and Blanc smashing the enemies with her hammer.
"This dungeon kinda reminds me of a platforming game… I can't get distracted though. We need to find our siblings quick." Alex says as he played the Black Luster Ritual using two warriors to ritual summon Black Luster Soldier. They get to an open area and Blanc takes a deep breath.
"Rom! Ram!" She shouted at the top of her lungs, but sadly nothing which makes her sigh. "Where are they?"
"You're pretty desperate. They're that important, huh?" C-Sha asks and Alex turns to her with an expression like 'Seriously?'
"Of course they are. They're my younger sisters." Blanc tells her slightly pissed off at her comment.
"If they're so important, why didn't you stay by their side? How did you lose them?" C-Sha asks.
"Whose fault do you think this is…?" Blanc asked while glaring at her.
"What, me? Why would I know? What are you saying?" C-Sha asked Blanc, completely confused at what she is talking about.
"That's right… you don't remember. Forget what I said." Blanc tells her turning her back to her while Alex is looking around hoping to get a good viewpoint if he could see their younger siblings.
"Nothing, this is not easy with how this place looks. We should go to another spot and see if we can actually find them." Alex says drawing a few cards and one happened to be one of the three. However with the new rules he will wait until something big happens suddenly, so he summoned Breaker the Magical Warrior having him with three companions to fight. They continue moving forward through the dungeon until Blanc stops her movement and looks around.
"If they haven't come this far, we may have passed by them somewhere." Blanc says which Alex slightly groaned.
"That could be a possible reason. We did hurry over here to find them, they might even be in town still getting set up. Blanc, let's head back… we might see them on the road." Alex tells her, but before they could some large enemies approached them.
"We'll have to clean up these guys." C-Sha tells them and readies herself and Alex notices a black and light blue aura from the strange monsters. "Divide and conquer you two!" C-Sha gets one of the monster's attention and leads it away, while Alex left two of his warriors with Blanc and have his Black Luster Soldier follow him.
"Alright let's see if this still works, Black Luster Soldier! Merge with me!" Alex commands, his warrior glowed bright and formed into a small ball of light, which absorbed into his body and armor forms on his body. His Duel Disk reshapes into a shield his warrior had and he is also given a sword in his right hand and a notification appeared in front of him.
-When merging with a duel monster you are unable to do any summoning, you are allowed to call out any spells or traps that have been set before the merge. You can demerge once you are no longer in battle. Note; while merged you will have an HP bar, each square gone is -100 on the life counter.-
"Lovely, but I won't be easily beaten!" He shouts out as the large turtle monster moves to him and Alex blocks the swipe of the claws. He attacks with his sword and barely gets hit making the HP drop a bit on him. "lucky shot! You won't survive against me!" Alex steps back and thrusts his sword knocking the monster back and falls onto it's back which suddenly it goes in its shell spinning around and hits Alex knocking him down. He gets distracted looking at his HP and gets hit by the spinning shell again causing his first bar to deplete and only 7 left. "I can't get distracted by my Life counter, I need to focus on the battle. I never expected a monster to have tricks like this." He readies himself and blocks another attack as he swipes a diagonal slash on the monster. Then takes a stance and heavily strikes the monster causing it to finally disappear ending the battle. "Finally it's done…" he has his warrior defuse with him and his Life counter goes down. "looks like it won't reset… so I have a limit on my life counter so I have to be really careful." They decide to head back to the city.
-Meanwhile in another place of the dungeon-
"Hmmmm, we made it all the way here, but there's nothing." Ram says looking around for specific monsters.
"Did they get defeated…?" Rom asked confused.
"No way! Even though we became Hunters, we can't defeat monsters, and we can't find Blanc, it's all awful!" Ram exclaims upset.
"Hmm… Let's just keep searching around here for now." Seth tells them.
"I have a feeling that a certain duo came here before us." a voice in Seth's mind spoke.
"I hope so…" Seth says hoping to find Alex, while the three were looking around they encountered monsters which were immune to element attacks which seemed impossible so they had to retreat to the next city and Ram shouted loudly.
"...Hm? I think I heard something." Blanc said suddenly which Alex was curious about what she heard.
"Huh, really? I didn't hear anything… You're probably so worried about your sisters you're hallucinating." C-Sha says
"Hey, watch it. I'm not hallucinating. Maybe it was the cries of some monsters or something." Blanc says which Alex wondered if what it was exactly, but they still head back to the city and Alex is given another screen.
-Any non destroyed Ritual Monsters will be returned to the deck along with the ritual spell unlike normal spells. If the monster is destroyed, then both the monster and ritual spell will be unusable.-
"Good to know, though it looks like getting these pop-ups is gonna be annoying." Alex says to himself returning to the city hoping they can find the trio and gather together again.
End of part 1 - White Story