Aurhor's note: Edited.

Chapter 2

A few years have passed since Kori and Rose first met and in that time they grew incredibly close. They were almost inseparable and the other kids at the orphanage understood that very quickly and stopped attempting to hurt Kori as Rose would always get in their way and protect him them.

But unfortunately for Kori they've been planning something big...

It was a clear dark night, everyone expect for Kori and a few other kids were wide awake.

The other kids who were awake had something special planned for Kori tonight.

A few of the kids went into Rose's and Kori's room. Rose was in her bed and was trying to sleep, but she heard the door open and looked up to hopefully see Kori, but she saw a few of the kids in the orphanage in her bedroom doorway.

"Why are you guys here? Shouldn't you be asleep?" Rose asked them, but she never got a response as they jumped her.

Rose tried to move out of the way, but she knocked her lamp over, which in turn gave the other kids time to catch her and tie her up with rope that they found in the shed outside of the orphanage.

The other kids tied a piece of cloth around her mouth, before dragging her to the duel arena.

Kori stood on top of one of the hills close to the orphanage and stared at the cards in his hands with blank eyes.

Kori's current outfit consisted of a plain white hoodie and blue baggy jeans, the hood was up covering most of Kori's head and face.

'Why did I come here with only my deck… why don't I remember anything before coming here?' Kori put his hands and deck into his hoodie pocket and took one last look up at the sky before walking back towards the orphanage.

Kori walked down the dimly lit and quiet corridor, back to his room that he shared with best friend Rose.

A couple moments later, Kori arrives in front of his room and opened the door.

"Sorry Rose, I lost track of time tonight." Kori said being met with silence, walking inside the room and closed the door behind him.

Kori took off his hoodie and set it on the floor next to his bed before lying on his bed and yawning.

"Rose?" Expecting some sort of response from Rose, Kori sat up and looked over at Rose's side of the room and saw that her bed was empty and her lamp was knocked over.

Kori jumped out of his bed and threw on his hoodie, before rushing out of his room knowing that it would most likely be a case of Rose wanted to go to the bathroom or she's gonna be used by the bullies that have been keeping quiet for months now.

Kori searched the whole orphanage until, he thought of the last place to look which was the duel arena. Kori ran as fast as he could to the arena, after few minutes Kori arrived outside of the duel arena.

When Kori opened the door to the arena, he saw Rose tied up. Rose heard the door opened and saw Kori entering the arena.

"Kori, get out of here!" Rose yelled to Kori, as one of the boys pulled on her hair and Rose let out a yelp of pain.

"Oh, come on Rose, we just to have a little fun, with our best buddy Kori here, is that so wrong?" one of the boys said, looking at Rose with a evil smirk.

Kori's reaction was unreadable as his head was now lowered and slowly made his way towards the bully by Rose.

"I would stop there if I was you Kori." One of the bullies which you could class as the one in charge stepped forward wearing a yellow duel disk on his arm.

"Kori, just run away!" Rose said, scared for her friend.

"Oh shut up will you, me and my friend here are trying to talk… well I was anyway."

"I don't care, what you say. Please just run away, Kori! Please leave before they do anything to you. As I don't want to see you hurt." Rose said, as she was trying to get Kori to leave.

"He'll be able to leave when he duels me."

"Why do you want to duel him?" Rose asked him confused.

"Just a little … experiment." Everyone else started giggling and laughing when he said experiment.

"Fine, but you'll let Rose go when I win." Kori said threatening the bully in charge, as he finally looked up at him with his electric blue eyes seeming brighter in the darkness.

"Kori, don't duel him. He uses Watt monsters!" Rose said, starting to struggle in the rope that was tied around her.

"Quiet! … You don't mind an audience do you Kori?" Kori didn't respond but everyone else moved into a little audience area with one of the bullies dragging Rose in as well.

"We had the liberty of getting your duel disk for you." With a snap of his fingers one of the audience members threw Kori's duel disk at him.

"Kori... please be careful..." Rose said to herself, as she was worried for him.

"I haven't even told you my name, how rude of me, my name is Denki Light." Denki gave a sarcastic bow and activated his duel disk showing a bright red energy blade while Kori activated his white duel disk to reveal a bright blue energy blade the same colour as his eyes.

"I hope you don't mind me picking a field for our duel, Mystic Plasma Zone!" Denki clicked his fingers and the field was covered by stormy clouds and the ground was covered with grass.

"DUEL!"

Turn 1

Kori: 4000 LP

Denki: 4000 LP

"I'll take the first move." Denki smirked, as he took three cards from his hand and revealed them.

"From my hand I activate three Upstart Goblins which let me draw three cards in total and give you 3000 life points."

'Why would he do that, if Kori is getting the life points instead of him?' Rose thought to herself.

"Next I summon Watthopper in attack mode (Level 1 ATK: 0 DEF: 0) I set four cards down then end my turn." Denki smirked and all other audience members excluding Rose were laughing.

Turn 2

Kori: 7000 LP

Denki: 4000 LP

"My turn, Draw!" Kori drew from his deck and looked at it along with the other five cards in his hand.

'It's obvious that those face downs are powerful traps and the monster is a lure to activate them'

"I summon White Phantom Chance Chainer (Level 4 ATK: 1500 DEF: 500) now I-"

"I chain activate two of my face downs, Wattcannon and Wattcancel!" Denki shouted out, with two trap cards appearing either side of him.

"Wattcancel allows me to destroy the monster you just summoned as long as I discard one Watt monster, I discard Wattbetta to destroy your phantom." Denki started grinning like a madman when he discarded his monster so that it shot out of the trap card's frame and charged at Kori's field and exploded sending streams of electricity at Kori violently shocking him.

"AAAAARRRRRGGGGHH!" Kori screamed out in agony as the electricity ran throughout his entire body making him feel like he was on fire and he was being stabbed all over his body.

When the current of electricity stopped Kori fell to his knees limp with steam and electricity emitting from his body while panting out of breath.

"KORI!" Rose yelled with worry

"What the hell! How is he so damaged from that?!" Rose shouted angrily out at Denki.

"We modified the solid system to increase the power and voltage of all electrical cards used, your boyfriend is about to suffer Rose."

'I...can't...move…... My whole body...is going...numb.' Kori couldn't even move his arms to set any cards face down.

"I...end...my...turn…" Denki and nearly all the audience laughed at Kori's pain and weakness as he struggled to stand up.

Turn 3

Kori: 7000 LP

Denki: 4000 LP

"Hahaha! You really are pathetic! not even putting up a fight."

While everyone was concentrated on the duel, Rose started to untie the knots that were keeping the rope around her.

"Let me show you how to do a turn properly. Draw!" Denki glance at the card before slamming down on his duel disk.

"I summon Wattcobra (Level 4 ATK: 1000 DEF: 500) from my hand which now triggers Wattcannon, once per turn when a Thunder-type monster is summoned to the field I can inflict 600 points of damage." As soon as Denki finished talking a giant cannon twice his size appeared to his right with the barrel of the cannon pointing directly at Kori.

"Fire! Hahahaha!"

"Kori! You need to dodge the attack!" Rose yelled out to him, as she had nearly untied the knots.

"I...I can barely… move."

As the attack hit Kori making him scream in pain, Rose managed to get the last knot undone and she ran into the arena.

Rose ran in front of Kori with her arms outstretched to try protecting Kori from anymore attacks that came his way.

"That's enough, Denki! He's had enough! If you keep going, you'll kill him!" Rose yelled at Denki.

"R….Rose….stay out….of this...please…"

"No. I'm not letting him hurt you anymore. I don't want him to kill you." Rose said to him in a serious tone.

"Please...Rose…. Trust me… I have a plan."

"Fine. But I want to help you." Rose said, as she walked over to Kori, before helping him stand up.

"So, what's your plan?" Rose asked whispering to Kori.

"I'm ending all this, them hurting you was the last straw."

"I'm okay now, but how will you be ending this?" Rose asked whispering.

Before Kori could even say anything to Rose, Denki yelled out from the other side of the arena.

"I activate the trap Wattkeeper allowing me to special summon Wattbetta (Level 2 ATK: 100 DEF: 0) from the grave. Battle! Wattcobra attack him directly!" Not wasting a second Kori pushed Rose out of the way, so only he was hit with the attack causing him to scream in agony.

"Wattcobra's effect activates, when he deals damage I can add another Watthopper to my hand. Now Wattbetta attack directly!" As soon as Denki's cobra finished shocking Kori his betta wasted not even a second before shocking him with the exact same electric force as before.

Rose rushed over to the now kneeling Kori to check if he was alright.

"Kori, are you okay?" Rose said, kneeling down to Kori, while looking at him with worry.

"I'm fine...a little numb...but fine… the shocks are actually getting better." Rose just looked at Kori in shock and horror.

"How can you say that when you were just screaming a second ago, and you're still covered in static!" Rose shouted pointing at Kori's right hand which had electricity pulsating around his fingers and while they didn't notice Kori's medium length hair was standing up a little.

"It'll be gone after the duel… hopefully."

"I hope so..." Rose said, as she started to tear up and tears streamed down her face.

"Hey… why are you crying?" Kori asked Rose.

"It's my fault you are like this... if I didn't let Denki and his goons capture me... you wouldn't be like this..." Rose said, as more tears streamed down her cheeks and she covered her face with her hands.

"No it's not, It's not your fault at all." Kori hugged Rose reassuringly, but avoided placing his hands on her so she didn't get shocked.

Rose returned the hug, but after a while Denki decided to speak.

"When you two are done over there, I activate my final trap Urgent Tuning allowing me to now tune my level 2 Wattbetta and level 4 Wattcobra during the battle phase!"

The two monsters turn into light orbs and then flash of light covers the light orbs to reveal a lion like monster.

"Synchro summon! Appear Level 6 Wattchimera! (ATK: 1400 DEF: 1200)"

"Now, Wattchimera attack Kori directly!" Denki's monster leaped at Kori, fangs bearing with lightning covering his whole body.

Before Kori could push Rose away, the attack hit both of them and they both yelled in pain, but Rose's pain was very short lived as she felt as if the electricity hit her then left her body immediately after.

Rose looked up at Kori and saw that he was still dealing with the shock of the attack

"Kori... how did you do that?' Rose asked with curiosity.

"I...I have no idea…" Kori stared at his hand which was now covered in electricity.

"All...I did was think… that I needed to... save you..." Kori said that last part with a bit of a blush on his face.

"Well, thanks you for saving me." Rose said with a blush of her own.

Denki was starting to become impatient and decided to ruin the moment.

"Alright lovebirds, I end my turn with a face down." Denki said, placing a card face down on his field.

Turn 4

Kori: 4500 LP

Denki: 4000 LP

"Kori, do you need help to stand or can you stand on your own?" Rose asked him.

"I'm fine, I'm actually better than okay right now." Kori stood up and looked at the static flowing around his body before it all disappeared in an instant.

But instead Kori's hair stood up completely spiking up with the little spark happening in his hair here and there, the thing that had changed most was that Kori's expression was somehow a mixture of calm and angry at the same time while his eyes glowed an unnaturally bright blue.

"I'm...great right now." Kori chuckled a little freaking out both Denki and Rose.

"Kori? Are you feeling okay?" Rose asked worried and scared at the same time.

Kori flat out ignored Rose and drew from his deck.

"From my hand I activate the spell Phantom Rebirth allowing me to special summon one Phantom from my graveyard as long as I pay half my life points or discard one card from my hand; I choose to pay my life points." Kori felt a massive electric shock from his duel disk, but only smiled and didn't even fall down this time.

"What...What the fuck…" Denki was scared shitless of this new side Kori was showing and now regretted dueling him.

"K-Kori… what's gotten into you?" Rose asked, as she put her hand on Kori shoulder but was met with a static shock just for putting her hand near him, which made her jolt back and hold her hand.

"Rise from the grave dragon of white destruction and help me punish this scum... Take flight, White Phantom Dragon! (Level 10 ATK: 3000 DEF: 2000)" Behind Kori appeared a giant white and blue scaled dragon that would normally look beautiful in a normal duel but right now with it's fangs bared and mouth roaring out it was terrifying.

"Kori, why are you acting like this, what happened to the shy and kind boy I know?" Rose asked, only to be ignored again by Kori.

"I activate the equip spell Phantom Greed, my dragon now gains attack points for the total amount of life points gained in this duel so long as I send one card from my hand to the grave every turn it's equipped. But if my math is correct he gains… 3000 attack points." Kori started laughing, as his dragon roared out in the additional power and aura it gained.

"Kori? Why you ignoring me? Did I do something wrong?" Rose asked getting worried, only to be met with silence once again.

Rose just said nothing, as she knew straight away that she was going to get ignored again and she just stood behind Kori, while watching the last of duel.

"White Phantom Dragon, attack his Watthopper and end this!" Kori's dragon threw his head back and let it's mouth glow with pure energy before roaring out an energy beam that flew towards Denki swallowing him up in the light and causing a large impact and explosion.

Once the attack faded, Denki was lying on the ground and his life points dropped to zero. All the other kids were speechless on how Denki lost.

Kori: 5400

Denki: 0

Kori Wins

Rose was in shock and was just as speechless. But after the duel Kori collapsed to the ground.

"Kori!" Rose yelled in worry, as she run over to him.

Rose saw that he was okay and she sighed in relief. She looked over to Denki and saw him hurt.

Rose made the decision to get Kathy, so she left Kori's side.

When Rose left the duel arena, she went to go and get Kathy.

"Kathy! You need to get to the duel arena!" Rose yelled in front of Kathy's door.

Kathy opened the door and Rose started to explain what happened with Denki and his friends kidnapping her and forcing Kori to duel and how during the duel Kori started acting strange.

"Alright, let me get the first aid kit, then we can go." Kathy said, as she went in her office and grabbed the first aid kit.

Rose led Kathy to the duel arena, once they arrived Rose looked over to Kori to see him still there.

"Kathy, you go check Denki and I'll go to Kori." Rose said running towards Kori.

"Alright." Kathy said walking towards Denki and started to look over him.

Once Kathy was done with Denki, Kathy looked towards the other kids.

"All of you, go back to your rooms." Kathy ordered them, as she picking up Denki in her arms.

"Rose, I will be taking Denki to his room and I will be back to check on Kori." Kathy said, Rose nodded and Kathy left the duel arena with the other kids.

Rose put Kori head on her lap and looked at him with worry.

"Why were you acting so strange, it's not like you to do that kind of thing?" Rose asked Kori, even though he was passed out from the duel.

Kathy came back and walked towards Rose and Kori.

"How is he?" Kathy asked, kneeling down next to Rose.

"He's okay." Rose said.

Kathy looked over Kori and saw no injuries on him, unlike Denki who had some cuts here and there.

"Well, he seems fine which is a surprise." Kathy said lifting Kori in her arms receiving a slight shock from him but continued to examine him.

"Let's get you two to bed." Kathy said, as she walked out of the duel arena with Rose following behind.

They arrived at the room that Rose and Kori shared. Kathy placed Kori on his bed and tugged him in.

Rose climbed into her bed and looked over to Kori.

"He will be fine, he should wake up in the morning, so not worry too much okay." Kathy said to Rose, before she left the room.

When Kathy left the room Rose got up from her bed and went to Kori's side looking at his sleeping face.

"He looks cute when he sleeps." Rose said with a small blush on her face.

Rose was startled by Kori making a slight grunt and shifting in his sleep.

"...Rose…" Rose covered her mouth thinking she woke him up, but he just shifted a little before going back sleep.

'He's dreaming...about...me?' Rose thought with shock but smiled.

Rose kneeled down and kissed Kori on the forehead and went back to her bed and fell asleep.

But during the night, Rose got out of bed and sleep walked to Kori's bed, in which she climbed under his covers and she slept in his bed for the rest of the night.