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Day 17: Monsters
Yuzu used to think that she knew all sorts of people. She knew brave people, proud people, cowards, intimidating people, hopeful ones, sad ones, manly ones, energetic ones, weird ones, mysterious ones and so on. But she had never, never thought that she would meet someone who could be called a monster.
Strangely enough, the first person to realize that there was something terribly wrong with Yuzu's acquaintances was Nico Smiley, off all people. "Um… Even if it's Solid Vision, destroying it for no reason is a little…"
"I'm sorry! It's just that cats don't like being out of the spotlight!", replied Sora with his unbelievable excuse, not being apologetic in the slightest.
"Cats what!?", exclaimed Nico incredulously.
That was the day when they first realize that there was something terribly wrong with Sora. His manic expression as he dueled with Kurosaki, turning the beautiful Action Field into a battlefield, saying stuff that nobody knew what they meant but everyone realized that they were horrible, horrible things. Something inside him had snapped, and it was a snap that would not be fixed easily; if fixing it was even possible in the first place, that is. Or perhaps that snap was always there, unseen from people's eyes until the moment Sora decided to show his true colours.
The audience, themselves, everyone could only watch in horror, the brutal effects of the cards, the harsh and pained growls of Kurosaki and the malicious screams and whispers from Sora as they both were telling fragments of a tale that nobody wished to know more details about.
Yuzu thought – hoped – that she would never see anything worse than that. It was not but four, five days later when she was proven wrong.
"You people too are in the way!".
His face was the same as Yuya's. The tone of his voice was lazy yet full of authority. His eyes held little to no interest for anything or anyone other than his prey. His words were polite but all she could hear was the mockery and the threats. Threats which Yuzu had no doubt in her mind that the person in front of her would not hesitate to carry out.
He was telling her to hurry up and go to the Professor like chasing her was a pain, but he himself did not seem to be in much hurry. He said that he was only acting on Professor's orders, but he was enjoying himself too much for that to be believable.
He was amused by her shouts and threats. Crushing her cards and hopes one by one was his version of "having fun". Her cries and yelps gave him pleasure. That Fusion Dragon was the very essence of maliciousness itself, so similar to Yuya's Dragon yet so different…
He was monstrous. The man with the Fusion Dragon was a monster. Sora was a monster. Everyone from the Academia was a monster. The man who defeated Ute, Hugo, was a monster. Even Selena was half-way into turning into a monster.
But by now Selena must have met with Kurosaki. She would learn the truth and would not turn into a monster. The pink-haired monster had been sent to capture her but she had managed to get away. Hugo turned out not to be a monster but a victim himself. And Yuya would fix Sora's snap, she was sure.
It felt like a victory. There was a way to defeat the monsters.
Author note: This oneshot series is not over until day 30 is up and online! I can't wait for your reviews!