For those who are unaware I will be publishing a new chapter daily and in each one I'll be leaving one of these notes. I hope you enjoy this chapter. Also note that I will not be using cards from the anime. Only actual cards that exist in the tcg
Yuma is on his knees with his eyes closed and gritting his teeth feeling helpless. He feels as if there's nothing he can do. All hope is lost. "On your feet, Yuma!" A mysterious voice calls out to Yuma. Yuma looks up to find Shark among the spectators. Shark looks at Yuma and says, "You're not gonna let someone like this get the better of you are you!? What kind of duelist do you think you are!?" "But there's nothing I can do.", Yuma says. Shark grits his teeth and exclaims, "Not true! As long as you have even a single Life Point left you keep fighting, no matter what the cost! Or did our duels not teach you that lesson!?"
Yuma's eyes widen and Astral says, "I agree with Shark, Yuma. If we don't win this duel, who knows what will happen to the Numbers. There is simply too much at stake for you to give up now." Yuma then looks up and from the sidelines Tori says, "You can do it Yuma! I believe in you!" Yuma then smiles and gets up. He says, "Sorry you had to see me like that Astral. I'm all better now." Astral smiles, only for the moment to be interrupted by the stranger. "Hello! We're in the middle of a duel here! Now finish your turn so I can squash you!" Yuma replies, "It'll be me who's doing the squashing! I summon to the field Gagaga Magician!" A white haired magician with a black and orange robe appears. "And since I have a Gagaga monster on my field I can not only summon Gagaga Child from my hand but I can also make it's Level the same as Gagaga Magician's. I then use Gagaga Magician's special ability! I declare a Level from 1 through 8 and Gagaga Magician becomes that Level. So I make him Level 3!"
The stranger says, "But why would you do that!? Now you can't Xyz Summon!" Yuma replies, "That's what you think! I activate the Spell Card Star Changer. By using this card, I can pick a monster on my field and I can either increase or reduce it's Level by 1. So I reduce Gagaga Child's Level by 1. I bet you know what's coming now. I overlay my Level 3 Gagaga Magician and Gagaga Child! With them, I build the Overlay Network and Xyz Summon Muzurhythm the String Djinn!"
A small cowboy appears with a banjo. The stranger says, "Big deal! It's only got 1500 Attack Points. Utopia will wipe it out easy." Yuma replies, "Don't count on it. Muzurhythm, attack Utopia Ray Victory!" The stranger gives off a look of surprise and says, "Why would you do that!? My monster's clearly stronger." Yuma smirks and says, "I don't think so. Astral would you like to tell our friend here Muzurhythm's special ability?" Astral replies, "I would love to! By using one Overlay Unit, Muzurhythm can pick a Djinn monster on the field and double it's Attack Points!" Yuma and Astral exclaim at the same time, "Which means Muzurhythm now has 3000 Attack Points which is more than Utopia Ray Victory's!" Muzurhythm plays it's banjo and says sound waves to Utopia so strong Utopia explodes but is not destroyed.
The stranger laughs and says, "I must admit it was a good last ditch effort but now you can't do anything else. Without your Numbers your hopeless." Yuma grits his teeth and says, "I end my turn."
The stranger says with a smile on his face, "Then it's my turn. I draw! Firstly, I activate my face down card: Imperial Iron Wall! Now none of my monsters can be banished, which means they won't be affected with Number Archive." Yuma says, "I don't see why that matters. Number Archive isn't even on the field!" The stranger replies, "Oh, Yuma. It sickens me how naïve you are. I activate the Spell Card Mystical Space Typhoon! This allows me to destroy one Spell/Trap Card on the field. And I choose Rainbow Kuriboh!" A gust of wind appears and Rainbow Kuriboh unequips from Utopia, getting destroyed in the process. "Now that that's over with, let's try this again. Go Utopia! Attack Gagaga Samurai!" Utopia Ray Victory once again charges at Gagaga Samurai with it's swords. "I use Utopia Ray Victory's special ability. By using one Overlay Unit, it negates the effects of your monster and Utopia Ray Victory gains it's Attack Points, putting it at once again 4700!" Yuma smirks and says, "I activate my face down card! Impenetrable Attack! When this card is activated, I take no battle damage this turn."
The stranger gets agitated and says, "Little pest. Fine. I activate a Monster Reborn of my own to bring back Number Archive!" A purple circle appears and Number Archive emerges from it. Astral says, "I don't like where this is headed." The stranger smiles and says, "If you don't like it now, you definitely won't like it when I activate the Spell Card Overlay Regen to give Number Archive an Overlay Unit. Oh hey speaking of which I think I'll do just that!"
The Spell Card transforms into an Overlay Unit and attaches to Number Archive. "And I think I'll use Number Archive's special ability once again! By using one Overlay Unit you pick a card from my Extra Deck and if it's a Number then I get to summon it." Glowing yellow cards start floating in front of Yuma and Yuma picks one out and takes it and says, "This one!" The cards float back to the stranger and he says, "Another good choice. I use Number Archive to Xyz Summon Number 68: Sanaphond the Sky Prison!"
A giant floating castle appears. Yuma exclaims, "I've never seen that Number before!" The stranger says in return, "Then I guess you don't know it gains 100 Attack Points for each monster in both of our Graveyards, putting it at 2400 Attack Points. I know use it's special ability. By using one Overlay Unit, you can't bring monsters back from the Graveyard until the end of your next turn. You're finished. And my Sanaphond now has 2500 Attack Points. I end my turn."
Yuma exclaims, "I draw!" Astral says, "We really have gotten ourselves into a peculiar situation." "Yeah that's true. I don't know if I can win this but that won't stop me from trying. Go Muzurhythm! Attack Sanaphond! I use Muzurhythms's special ability and double it's Attack Points!" The stranger says, "Thank you. Now Sanaphond has 2600 Attack Points." Muzurhythm attacks successfully and the stranger takes 400 points of damage putting him at 1900 Life Points." Yuma grits his teeth in hopelessness and says, "I end my turn."
Astral's eyes widen and says in an astonished tone, "Yuma?" The stranger says, "Well well Yuma Tsukumo is out of tricks. How unfortunate for you." Yuma replies, "You're right. There's nothing I can do. So finish me!"
The stranger replies, "Very well. I draw! I activate another Overlay Regen and give Utopia another Overlay Unit! You know what they say. Third time's the charm! Utopia attack Gagaga Samurai!" Utopia charges at Gagaga Samurai. "I use it's special ability! I don't think I need to explain. Now Utopia, get rid of that Samurai." Gagaga Samurai is destroyed and Yuma is down to 1400 Life Points. And because three more monsters were sent to the Graveyard (Gagaga Samurai and it's Overlay Units) Sanaphond gains 300 more Attack points, putting it at 2900 Attack Points.
Go Sanaphond attack Muzurhythm and end this duel!" Sanaphond fires a giant cannon and destroys Muzurthythm, putting Yuma's Life Points at 0. Yuma gets on his knees saying, "There. You won? You happy?" The stranger replies, "Yes. Now I get to take my prize." Yuma looks up confusingly. "Your prize?" The stranger replies, "Correct", and holds out his hand.
A strange glow emanates from it and all of a sudden Astral is absorbed into it. Yuma exclaims, "Astral! What are you doing to him!?" The stranger replies, "What does it look like? I'm absorbing his life force and turning it into power." Yuma gives a shock of look and says, "You're doing what!?"
Shark exclaims, "Hey! You won the duel! Isn't that enough!?" "Afraid not. Sorry. Now if you'll excuse me I must be off now.", the stranger says as he begins to teleport away. "NOOO!", Yuma exclaims as he tries to go after the stranger. However, he is not fast enough and the stranger disappears with Astral.