Aki: Okay... You're in your happy place... Everything is quiet. A calm wind is breezing, you are at peace. Now just gently breathe in... and out...
Coral: *slowly breathing, mind in her happy place*
Aki: Good. Now you just keep breathing and stay in your happy place. I'll be taking over most of your job for you. *leaves authoress to her happy place* Finally I can be in my own peace. So, you all know the disclaimer. Coral doesn't own Yugioh GX. She does own Kohaku and her Circus Freak deck. Bella and Alex belongs to their respective creators. Speaking of, there's a little surprise for the creator of Alex.
Coral: DIE YOU STUPID OLD MAN! *something crashed and broke*
Aki: What the-?! *opens door and saw authoress choking a dummy* What happened to being in your happy place?!
Coral: This is my happy place!
Aki: HUUUUUUUUH?!
Coral: Water Dragon's Geyser! *destroyed dummy and the room*
Aki: And she and her dad made up too... Why did it come to this?
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Attacks/Effects
'thoughts'
Language other than Japanese (this is English sub after all)
It was the weekends. Students were sleeping in, hanging out with friends, or dueling each other. For a certain small group, it was training time for them.
"Come on! Find your balance!" Kohaku shouted.
"K-Kind of... hard..." Bella complained.
After that tag duel, Bella went and asked Kohaku to teach her how to be an Entertainment Duelist. The reason for this was so she can prevent any more serious damage when dueling against normal duelists. The observation was proven true when she made the flashy finish and no one got hurt. Right now, with Kohaku's Circus Show activated, she's trying to help Bella find and keep her balance, along with some of their monsters out. Alex was there as well, watching the 'show'. Even the 'Relic User' monsters were doing the balance with them.
"Why are we doing this too?" Chris complained.
"This is training!" Tsubasa exclaimed.
"Even though it has nothing to do with us..." Hibiki muttered.
"You found your balance last time. What happened?" the female Ra asked.
"That was a one time thing!" the female Obelisk replied. "I didn't think that I would want to be an Entertainment duelist-" Bella lost her balance and fell off her pole. She would've died, if it wasn't for Time Space Magician catching her. "Thank you..."
"Your welcome," the monster replied. He placed her on the ground. Instantly, the ninja duelist kissed and hug the solid surface.
"Oh sweet land! How I miss you so!" she said in English.
"She really doesn't like heights anymore," Naruto stated.
"No kidding," Ino agreed.
"I guess that's all the training for today huh?" Alex asked.
"More like for now," Kohaku corrected, landing safely on the ground.
Bella shot up to her feet. "No! I am not doing that balancing thing again!"
Kohaku puts her hand in the air and a peaceful manner. "Okay. We won't."
"Thank you."
"For now, we'll have lunch and some relaxation. After that, we'll be doing some more Entertainment Training."
"As long as it has nothing to do with heights, I am fine with it."
"You do know that you may have to do something that involves heights though, right?" Alex brought up.
Bella was silent in realization. He wasn't wrong; she saw Kohaku's first duel with Manjoume's former friends and she did some aerial stunts with her monsters.
"If I die doing aerial stunts, I will haunt both of you!" she declared.
"Why me?" her friends both asked in unison.
"You for inspiring me to be an Entertainment Duelist! And you for bringing up that I have to do aerial stunts!"
"Not my fault!" The two Ras faced each other. "Stop copying me! Me?! Yes, you! Stop that!" They then bashed their heads together.
"Are you trying to get on my nerve right now?" Kohaku asked.
"How ironic that you have a nerve," Alex stated. "In fact that was my question. I'm a bit tired enough hearing weird voices in my head, especially when I'm around you two. An even bigger question is are you, Ms. Former-Performer, trying to get on my nerve by playing weird voices in my head using ventriloquism?"
"Huh? Like that's possible!"
"What was that?!"
Bella looked away and muttered under her breath, "Every time you two act like this, it's hard to believe you aren't a couple."
"I heard that!" both shouted at her face in unison. Bella tumbled back in surprise. They turned to each other once more. "Quit copying me!"
"Hey!" The group of three all turned to the source of the voice and saw a big group of guys instantly charging towards them. From so far, one wouldn't notice the-
"What the hell are you doing to Kohaku-sama?!" they all demanded, getting in Alex's face. Yeah, the group happened to be Kohaku's fan club, one that was formed after her true gender was revealed. Surprisingly enough, the group consisted of all three ranks and male students of different ages. Unfortunately for Kohaku, they are all guys who saw her as a damsel in distress always.
"Not this again..." Kohaku face-palmed. And yes, this wasn't the first time it happened either.
"What's with you guys?!" Alex asked.
"That's our question to you! Who do you think you are?!" the leader of the fan club, an Obelisk Blue, surprisingly or not-so, demanded. His demand confused the Light and Darkness duelist. "First you hog Kohaku-san to yourself, and now you're violating her?!"
"Vio- What?! Who said I'm hogging her?! We're just friends!" Alex defended.
"Like you can fool us!" they all said in unison. They suddenly got out their duel disks. "Duel us for Kohaku!"
"I'm/She's not a thing that can be won over!" the group of three shouted in unison, obviously denying the duel.
"You're scared aren't you?" the leader taunted. "You're scared you'll lose to us in numbers. Then again, it's obvious! Especially since half of us are Obelisk Blues!"
"Did they forget that I defeated an Obelisk Blue?" Alex asked his female friends.
"Probably thinks I don't count considering I'm either a monster or your friend," Bella guessed.
"Hey! Don't ignore us!" the leader shouted again.
The Light and Darkness duelist sighed at the predicament he somehow got himself into. "Fine. I'll take you all on!"
"You're not taking them on alone!" Kohaku added, as the group of three activated their duel disks.
"DUEL!" they all shouted.
*MANY HOURS LATER (AROUND SUNSET)*
The duel went on for so long. At least, that was what it felt like to Kohaku, Alex and Bella. The reason? Putting it in simpler terms, the fan club was more like a big group of cockroaches. A few went down defeated, more took their place. To make things even worse, they didn't let the three put their cards back in their decks from the graveyard or field. Dueling for so long, they used up all their cards. The good news, though, the leader was the only one remaining.
"I'm... out of cards..." Bella panted.
"Same..." Kohaku followed.
"Me... too..." Alex followed.
While they were dueling, they also brought up a huge crowd. They were all amazed at how the three duelists can take on so many other at once, and without switching out some cards or restarting their Life Points or deck.
"You were all worth every penny, really you were," the leader said. "Looks like I have to take matters into my own hands." He pointed towards Alex. "You and I will have a one-on-one duel! Luckily for you, I'm not like these bastards who just jump in during a duel. We'll do this as a duel between men!"
"I'll duel, but not because Kohaku's a prize," the male Ra accepted, collecting his cards and shuffling it. His Life Points went back to normal as Kohaku and Bella joined the crowd.
"Good luck, Alex!" the 'Circus Freak' duelist had to shout. Had to because it made the leader even more furious.
"You will bow down to Kozu-san!" a defeated duelist shouted.
"No one has ever defeated him before!" another defeated duelist shouted.
"Not until now!" Bella argued. "Alex will beat him!"
"That's right! He's my rival after all!" Kohaku added. Apparently, the fan club, instead of hearing rival, somehow heard lover. Of course, they didn't say it out loud, but it still got to them hard.
"You will pay for meeting Kohaku-san!" Kozu shouted, accusingly pointing at Alex.
"We're friends though!" Alex defended. Once again, the fan club somehow heard something else that involves being in love.
The two duelists activated their duel disks. "DUEL!"
Kozu: 4000 LP
Alex: 4000 LP
"I'll take the first turn! Draw!" Kozu drew his sixth card. "I summon Flame Ruler in Attack Mode!" A fire vortex suddenly shot up and a tan man emerged from the flames.
Flame Ruler: Level 4/FIRE/Pyro/1500 ATK/1600 DEF
"Next I activate my Continuous Magic, Treasure Cards from the Underworld! You'll know its effect soon enough. I activate my other Magic Card, Card Advance! I can look up to five cards from the top of my deck and rearrange them!" He drew five cards from his deck and placed them back in a random order. "Doing this allows me to Tribute Summon one monster in addition to my Normal Summon this turn!"
"What?!" Alex gasped.
"I never heard of such a card before!" Bella stated.
"With the effect of Card Advance, I release Flame Ruler to Advance Summon Thestalos the Explosive Flame Monarch!" Kozu's monster was surrounded by a fire tornado. Emerging from the tornado was a red armored warrior with gold sparkles and spikes.
Thestalos the Explosive Flame Monarch: Level 8/FIRE/Pyro/2800 ATK/1000 DEF
"Normally, he would need two monsters to summon, but with Flame Ruler's effect allows him to count as two monsters for a FIRE monster. And it is here that Treasure Cards from the Underworld's effect activates! If I Advance Summoned a monster that requires two monsters to summon it, I draw two cards." Kozu drew two more cards, bringing his hand up to four. "Now Thestalos the Explosive Flame Monarch's monster effect! When Advance Summoned, my opponent has to show me their hand and I can discard one card from their hand to the Graveyard!" Alex reluctantly showed him his hand. In his hand were Poison of the Old Man, Shimmering-White Dragon Wyburster, Death Gremlin, Damage Diet and-
"Light and Darkness Dragon!" Kohaku gasped in shock.
"That's not good!" Hibiki exclaimed.
"Too bad for you," Kozu mocked. "I send Light and Darkness Dragon to the Graveyard. And with this, not only do you take 200 damage for each of its level, but because a FIRE monster was used to Advance Summon this card, you take an extra 1000 damage! Explosive Flames!" The monster sent a huge wave of fire at Alex, taking away more than half of his Life Points.
Kozu: 4000 LP
Alex: 1400 LP
Alex got on one knee, grunting at the damage inflicted onto him.
"ALEX!" his friends shouted in worry.
"Don't worry! I'm fine!" he assured.
"Not when my next turn comes you won't," Kozu said.
"That makes things even worse. He already knew what those two cards were because of Card Advance," came Asuka's voice. Kohaku and Bella turned to see her next to them.
"Asuka! When did you get here?" Bella asked.
"Since you three had your Battle Royal Duel. And I'm shocked you held out that long."
"It wasn't that easy..." Kohaku stated, scratching the back of her head.
"Still quite a feat." The blonde Obelisk brought her attention back to the duel. "Back to the duel, if Kozu drew out another Card Advance and has another Thestalos the Explosive Flame Monarch in his hand, it'll be over for Alex."
"Can't argue with that," Bella agreed. "Even without Flame Ruler, Thestalos can be Advance Summoned by releasing one Advance Summoned monster."
Kohaku wouldn't accept such an early defeat from her friend, not when he's her rival. "Do your best, Alex!"
However, that cheer got on Kozu's nerve. "I set two cards face-down and end my turn!"
"My turn! Draw!" Alex drew his new fifth card. "I activate the Instant Magic, Poison of the Old Man! With it, I gain 1200 Life Points!"
Kozu: 4000 LP
Alex: 2600 LP
"I summon a monster in Defense Mode! I set two cards face-down and end my turn!" Alex ended.
"My turn! Draw!" Kozu drew his next card. "I activate my Continuous Trap, The First Monarchs! This Trap Card can be summoned onto the field as an Effect Monster!" A shadow of some kind appeared on his field next to the FIRE monarch.
The First Monarchs: Level 6/DARK/Fiend/1000 ATK/2400 DEF
"I activate its summon effect! I discard one card from my hand and declare an attribute. This card becomes that attribute and is considered as two monsters for the Advance Summon of a monster with the same attribute as this card!" He discarded a card. "The attribute The First Monarchs will change to is EARTH!"
The First Monarchs: DARK -} EARTH
"And since it's now considered as two monsters for a Level 7 or higher EARTH monsters, I release it to Advance Summon Granmarg the Sturdy Earth Monarch!" The shadow suddenly formed a colossal warrior.
Granmarg the Sturdy Earth Monarch: Level 8/EARTH/Rock/2800 ATK/1000 DEF
"With Treasure Cards from the Underworld's effect, I draw two cards!" Kozu drew two more cards. "I activate Granmarg the Sturdy Earth Monarch's monster effect! When Advance Summoned, I can destroy up to two set cards!" Alex's female friends' eyes widened at that info. "I'll destroy those cards behind your monster! Landslide Burial!"
"Before they get destroyed, I'll activate them!" Alex countered. "First, Damage Diet! This halves all damage I'll take this turn! Next, Underground Machine Gun! This inflicts 200 points of damage to my opponent for each card they control and in their hand! You have four cards on your field and three cards in your hand! That's seven cards in total! Therefore you take 1400 damage!" Seven toy machine guns appeared and fired their 'bullets' at Kozu.
Kozu: 2600 LP
Alex: 2600 LP
"They're practically tied!" Bella excitedly said.
"Think again!" Kozu denied. "After the cards are destroyed, if an EARTH monster was used to Advance Summon Granmarg the Sturdy Earth Monarch, I draw one card!" He drew his next card. "Battle! I attack your face-down with Thestalos the Explosive Flame Monarch! Flame Charge!" The red armored warrior got fired up, literally, as it charged at the face-down card. It flipped, revealing a goblin of some kind. As quickly as it made its appearance, the monster got destroyed.
Death Gremlin: Level 4/DARK/Reptile/1600 ATK/1800 DEF
"Death Gremlin's monster effect! When he gets flipped face-up, I can return one card from my Graveyard to my deck! Of course, that card is Light and Darkness Dragon!" Alex declared, as he took the said card from his Graveyard and placed it back in his deck.
"But it won't save you from the next attack! Granmarg the Sturdy Earth Monarch! Attack the player directly! Stone Fist!" The EARTH monster charged at the opposing duelist.
"Due to Damage Diet, the damage I take is halved!" the dueling Ra said, as the fist seemed to have shrunk as it got closer to him, landing a punch in his stomach.
Kozu: 2600 LP
Alex: 1200 LP
"I end my turn," Kozu ended.
"My turn! Draw!" Alex drew his next card. "I activate Shimmering-White Dragon Wyburster's monster effect! By banishing a DARK monster from my Graveyard, I can Special Summon this card!" As he took Death Gremlin out of the Graveyard and into his pocket, a white-armored, blue-scaled dragon appeared on his field.
Shimmering-White Dragon Wyburster: Level 4/LIGHT/Dragon/1700 ATK/1800 DEF
"Next I release Wyburster to summon a monster in Defense Mode!" The monster then left as a face-down card took its place. "And Wyburster's effect activates! When it leaves the field, I can add Somber-Black Dragon Collapsarpent to my hand!" Alex added the said monster card. "I end my turn!"
"I don't know what you're planning, but it's useless. My turn." Kozu drew his next card. "I attack your face-down monster with Thestalos the Explosive Flame Monarch! And during that attack, I activate my trap card, Skill Successor, which will give my monster 400 ATK! Flame Charge!"
Thestalos the Explosive Flame Monarch: 2800 + 400 = 3200 ATK
The monster card flipped and revealed to be a blue-skinned monster with white hair and red nails, wearing a white mask, white cape and black pants.
Lightray Madoor: Level 6/LIGHT/Spellcaster/1200 ATK/3000 DEF
Dust cloud formed when the attack hit. Without waiting for the dust to settle, Kozu continued his assault. "Finish this! I attack directly with Granmarg the Sturdy Earth Monarch! Stone Fist!" The rock warrior charged once more, preparing another punch at Alex.
"ALEX!" Kohaku and Bella shouted in worry. It seemed they didn't need to worry, for a force field suddenly appeared, blocking the hit.
"What?!" Kozu gasped in shock, as did the fan club, who all thought it was the end for Alex. Just then, the dust finally settled, revealing Alex's monster in front of him. "But how?! I destroyed it!"
"Lightray Madoor can't be destroyed by battle once per turn!" the Light and Darkness duelist explained, much to Kozu's shock.
"So in other words, since Kozu declared and made an attack..." Asuka began.
"He inflicted damage to himself instead, right?!" Bella guessed. Her guess was confirmed as the dueling Obelisk's Life Points went down.
Kozu: 2400 LP
Alex: 1200 LP
"Cheer all you want! You're still going down next turn! I set one card face-down and end my turn! And at this point, Thestalos the Explosive Flame Monarch's ATK returns to normal!"
Thestalos the Explosive Flame Monarch: 3200 - 400 = 2800 ATK
"I won't go down! I already made a promise! Until I beat Kohaku, I won't lose to another duelist!" Alex recited his promise. "My turn! Draw!" He drew his next card. "I activate Pot of Greed! With this I draw two cards!" He drew two more cards and slightly grimaced at his current hand.
'This isn't good. Even if I do have Madoor out, there's no telling if Kozu's going to have out another Monarch that will get rid of him. And even if he isn't going to get rid of him yet, he might have another Thestalos in his hand. If he summoned that monster out, he'll discard one of my cards to the grave and I'll take 1000 Life Points. It'll be worse if the card is a monster.'
'Don't give up,' came a voice.
Alex looked away from his cards and found himself in a valley. Before he could take in his sudden surroundings, something flew over him. He looked up at the thing behind him and saw a dragon that was unlike any that he had ever seen.
The dragon was somewhat similar to Light and Darkness Dragon. Instead of half white, half black, the dragon was a mix of the two colors. The dragon was on four legs and had two pair of wings on its back. The top two wings were white, angel wings, while the bottom two were black devil wings. The dragon's body was quite long, similar to a Chinese Dragon's. The head was like Light and Darkness Dragon, only it donned two horns on it, one smaller than the other. It also has a core spot on its chest.
Alex was strangely not afraid of the dragon. He looked at the dragon straight in its blue eyes. Suddenly, he began to see images of his monsters and the spell and trap cards being used. After the image was over, Alex snapped himself out of it and found himself back in the duel field.
'What was that... just now?' he wondered.
"Hey, what's wrong?! Don't tell me you're admitting defeat already!?" Kozu shouted.
"Never!" Alex replied.
'I don't know what that was just now, but I'm trusting it that image!' he mentally decided.
"I activate Painful Choice! With this, I reveal five cards from my deck, and you get to choose which card I can keep!" Alex chose five cards from his deck. Images of the five cards appeared above him and revealed them to be Lightpulsar Dragon, Dark Armed Dragon, Lightray Diabolos, White Horns Dragon, and Light and Darkness Dragon.
"Why would he include his three best cards in the choice?!" Bella wondered in shock.
"It's official! He lost it!" Kohaku said, not believing that her rival would make such a choice.
Kozu laughed at the choices given to him. "I don't know what you take me for, but it's useless! I send Lightpulsar Dragon to your hand!" As soon as he said that, the other four images disappeared as said card was added to his hand.
"I wonder about that," Alex said with a smirk. "I activate Lightpulsar Dragon and Darkflare Dragon's monster effect from my hand! Both cards can be Special Summoned from my hand by banishing one LIGHT and one DARK monster from my Graveyard! For Lightpulsar, the two monsters are Dark Armed Dragon and Lightray Diabolos! For Darkflare, they are White Horns Dragon and Light and Darkness Dragon!" Appearing on his field in exchange for the four cards were a white and light blue dragon with a core spot in the center of its chest and a red and black dragon with a yellow core spot in the center of its chest.
Lightpulsar Dragon: Level 6/LIGHT/Dragon/2500 ATK/1500 DEF
Darkflare Dragon: Level 5/DARK/Dragon/2400 ATK/1200 DEF
"Even if you summoned out more monsters, it won't do you any good! My monsters are still far more superior than your's!" Kozu reminded.
"I know that! But first, I activate Darkflare Dragon's effect! Once per turn, I can send one Dragon-Type monster from my hand and one Dragon-Type monster from my deck to the Graveyard to banish one card in either player's Graveyard! I send Somber-Black Dragon Collapsarpent from my hand and Eclipse Wyvern from my deck to the grave to banish Shimmering-White Dragon Wyburster from my Graveyard!" He sent the said cards to his grave for a monster, which he placed in his pocket with his other banished cards.
"Again, what good will that do? All you're doing is giving yourself a deck out!"
"It's for this! I banish my Lightpulsar Dragon and Darkflare Dragon to fuse them!" Everyone widened their eyes at that declaration, as the two dragons flew to the skies. "Dragon of light, dragon of darkness! Become one and give birth to a new twilight! Fusion Summon! Appear now, dragon born from the light and darkness! Twilight Dragon!" Appearing onto his field was the dragon that Alex saw in his little daydream.
(Twilight Dragon: Level 10/LIGHT/Dragon/? ATK/? DEF/ 1 LIGHT Dragon-type monster + 1 DARK Dragon-type monster/ This card can be Special Summoned from your Extra Deck by banishing the above cards. You do not use Polymerization. This card's ATK and DEF becomes 200 times the total level of all banished LIGHT monsters in either player's Banished Zone. When this card is summoned, banish card(s) on the field equal to or less than the number of banished DARK monsters in either player's Banished Zone. When this card is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, you may banish this card and Special Summon monsters used to Fusion Summon this card. Increase those monsters' ATK by 100 times their total level.)
Everyone was shocked at the new monster before them, especially since they've never seen such card before.
"A level 10 Fusion monster..." Asuka began.
"With unknown ATK and DEF..." Bella continued.
Unlike everyone else, Kohaku was actually furious. "Alex! Are you telling me that's your real ace card?! You were still holding back this whole time?! After this duel is over, we are definitely going to duel!"
"That's what's important to you?!" the Obelisk psychic duelist asked in shock.
"Twilight Dragon's effect! This card's ATK and DEF becomes 200 times the total level of all banished LIGHT monster's in either player's Banished Zone!" Alex continued.
Kozu was shocked at that effect. "What?! Then the reason why you banished those monsters..."
"Was for this ATK boost!" Alex finished, as Twilight Dragon's power skyrocketed. "The LIGHT monsters banished were Level 8- Light and Darkness, Level 7- Lightray Diabolos, Level 6- Lightpulsar Dragon and Level 4- Shimmering-White Dragon Wyburster! That's 25 levels total! So Twilight Dragon's ATK becomes 5000!"
Twilight Dragon: ? -} 5000 ATK/? -} 5000 DEF
"Next!"
"There's more?!" Kozu asked.
"For every DARK monster in either player's Banished Zone when this card was summoned, I can banish cards on the field equal to or less than that amount!"
"WHAT?!" Alex's opponent and the fan club gasped.
"In my banished Zone were Dark Armed Dragon, White Horns Dragon, Darkflare Dragon, and Death Goblin! I will banish all three of your cards on the field! Twilight Zone!" The new monster created a rift that sucked Kozu's cards within it, leaving him open.
Kozu just stood in shock at what had happened.
"Battle! Twilight Dragon! Attack the player directly! Twilight Beam!" On command, the dragon released a mix of white and black beam from its core at Kozu, ending the duel.
Kozu: 0000 LP
Alex: 1200 LP
WINNER: ALEX!
"He did it!" his female friends cheered. The crowd all spoke to each other about how awesome the duel was, especially Twilight Dragon.
Kohaku's fan club all rushed to their fallen leader. "Kozu-san!"
"You cheater! You must've cheated!" one member accused.
"Yeah! There's no way you have a never before seen card!" another member also accused.
"SILENCE!" Kozu shouted, surprising everyone. "My god... To think I'll lose..."
"Kozu-san?"
"Your name's Alex, right?" he asked the winner of their duel.
"Yeah. And?" Alex asked.
Kozu smirked. "I'll accept my defeat. It seems Kohaku and you really do go well together. You take care of her."
"Why wouldn't I? We're friends after all."
That response shocked the fan club.
"That's all you two are?" the Obelisk dared to ask.
"Yeah."
The big group couldn't help but feel stupid for the little misunderstanding.
"Well, see you around then." With that, the group left.
Alex turned and mumbled something about them being a bit weird, when he suddenly came face-to-face with Kohaku.
"You! Me! Duel! Now!" she demanded.
"Already?!"
"You weren't going serious when we both said that we would last duel!"
"Really?! Still on with that?!"
"Yeah I am! It irritates me that I was going all out while you were holding back during our duels!"
"It's not like I meant to!"
"Sure it wasn't!"
"They sure do act like a couple, don't they?" Asuka said to Bella.
"That's what I kept thinking," she said back.
"WHO'RE YOU CALLING A COUPLE?!" both shouted at their faces, forcing them both back on their butts. "Quit copying me! Me?! Yes you! Stop that! Cut it out! Why you-! Let's duel! Yeah!"
"I wonder how they could deny that..." the two Obelisk friends of the two Ras wondered.