Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V: The HERO of Pendulum

Chapter 11: HEROs, Warriors, and Wyrms Oh My!

Well hello everyone, Nemon0416 is here with the eleventh chapter of Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V: The HERO of Pendulum! Sorry for those of you that've been waiting a while for me to update, I was just kind of relaxing considering I posted three chapters back to back to back. Plus I was also sick and all just kind of caused me to not update for a while, which probably sucks for you guys since I left off at a pretty stressful point. Anywho let's move on.

Fun Fact: Zuzu and Celina are terrified of spiders, so whenever one is found, Lulu or Rin have to take over to prevent their counterparts from destroying the house in an attempt to kill the poor arachnid.

On with the fic...

Nemo's eyes slowly opened to the sight of the white ceiling above him. He looked around and his first thoughts were, "This isn't my bed." Then his memory of the tag-duel returned to him, causing his next thoughts to be, "Yugo!" Nemo's eyes darted around, hoping to find the others. He saw Yuuta sitting up/leaning on the wall behind his bed, as he watched over an unconscious Bella. Then his eyes drifted over to a sight that made his stomach drop.

He saw Yugo lying down, connected to a heart monitor which was (fortunately) showing that his vitals were fine at the moment. Nemo then saw Rin with her head lying on Yugo's chest as she slept, with a sad expression on her face as well as what Nemo assumed were streaks from tears.

"You're awake." Said Yuuta calmly.

Nemo looked over at him. "Yeah," Said Nemo sadly, "how long have you been up?"

"'Bout an hour." Replied Yuuta. "Where are we?" Asked Nemo.

"It's an LDS infirmary. From what I can tell, the others rushed us here the moment the duel was over," Explained Yuuta, "honestly, we're the lucky ones."

"How so?" Asked Nemo. "Well, you're just here because you apparently collapsed from exhaustion, as for me, the worst I'll end up with is a couple of bruises," Explained Yuuta, as his gaze wandered to their injured friends, "But those two… Yugo took a fireball point blank to the face, and who knows what having Nanashi run rampant did to Bella."

Nemo and Yuuta stared at their unconscious friends for a moment. "So. How did you die?" Asked Nemo, deciding to break the silence. Yuuta inhaled sharply.

"What?" He asked, turning to look at Nemo.

"The others, the ones in here," Said Nemo, as he tapped the side of his head, "were able to tell the you and Bella were like me, but you don't have counterparts, and I know they weren't referring to speaking to duel spirits, because Yuya and Zuzu can do that too, but they said you were like me specifically." Nemo then turned to look at Yuuta. "Leaving only one option left, you died in the real world, no our world because this place is just as real as the world we came from, and were sent here by god, and I'm assuming the same goes for Bella." Said the flame haired duelist.

Yuuta was quiet for a moment before looking at Nemo. "So what can you do?" Asked the duelist from another world.

"Hm?" Asked Nemo in confusion.

"What powers do you have?" Clarified Yuuta.

"Well, there's these three," Said Nemo gesturing to his counterparts, "Eiji, the purple one has super strength, Maro, the white one has super speed, and Ogai, the black one can use that cloak of his as a pair of wings. We all have the ability to understand our cards, and we can choose to give them a physical form."

"You're forgetting one." Said Maro. Nemo turned to look at his Synchro counterpart.

"When you summon your ace monsters, like your Dragon and Masked HEROs, you seem to gain the ability to harness whatever attribute the summoned monster is." Explained Eiji appearing next to the Synchro user.

"What do you mean?" Asked Nemo.

"Well remember when you summoned Natsu in your duel against Yuri? After he was summoned, you were surrounded in flames, but were unhurt, same goes for Clear Wing, once he was out, you surrounded by powerful gusts of wind." Explained Ogai, who appeared next to the Fusion user.

Nemo thought for a moment. "But that hasn't happened every time, like in my duel against Sora or when I Summoned Starving Venom." Said Nemo.

"My guess is that you're still getting a handle on the ability." Suggested Eiji.

Attention turned to Yuuta. "And you? What do you do?" Asked Nemo.

"All the basic stuff you do, but without the counterparts or the harnessing of elements. Bella's the same, just with Nanashi." Said Yuuta.

"Is Nanashi a counterpart?" Asked Nemo.

"No." Wheezed Bella. Two sets of eyes shot in the direction of the bedridden duelist. "She's… a monster." Croaked out the hurt duelist. "I don't know who or what she is, or why she exists for that matter, but she's dangerous, and I wasn't able to stop her from taking control, and now Yugo is hurt." She said, her voice shaking.

With a groan, Nemo stood up. But when he was on his feet, his head felt fuzzy, his vision all disappeared into a white haze, and his other senses basically shut down. Nemo staggered then tried to stay still until the dizziness passed. "Great, glad to see that, that part of me passed over into this life." He muttered.

"Are you alright?" Asked Yuuta.

"I'm fine, I just stood up to fast and it made me light headed." Said Nemo, waving the Wyrm user's worry off. Shaking his head to clear the remaining fuzziness away, Nemo walked over to Bella. He smiled wryly as he reached her. "Don't worry Bella, nobody is going to blame you." He said kindly as he put an arm on her shoulder. The moment his hand made contact, something strange happened to them.

The Irises and pupils of their eyes disappeared, so that their eyes were purely white.

"Guys? Guys!?" Exclaimed Yuuta in confusion, then worry as he reached over to grab them, then, once he made contact with them, the same thing happened to him.

"Where… are we?" Asked Yuuta in confusion as he looked around. Nemo noticed the familiar hallway, as well as the four corridors.

"Welcome to the inside of our head." Said Nemo.

"Our head?" Asked Yuuta.

"Not yours, he meant ours." Said Ogai as he appeared next to Nemo and slung an arm over the Pendulum user's shoulders.

"...Who are you again?" Asked Yuuta.

"I'm Ogai, the XYZ user that lives inside of Nemo." Explained Ogai. Maro and Eiji appeared next and introduced themselves. Suddenly there was a large rumbling that shook all six of them up. They turned to see the locations of the halls shift, the two moved to the side and made way as three new hallways appeared. The six of them looked down one of the hallways, then three sets of eyes found their way to Nemo's counterparts.

"Don't look at us, we have no idea what's going on." Said Eiji.

"Well let's go." Said Nemo as he started walking down the hall and the other five followed him. Eventually they reached a dark blue door with a Synchro and Pendulum design.

Now everyone was looking at Yuuta. "What?" Asked the Synchro/Pendulum user.

"It's your door, you open it." Said Nemo.

"My… door?" Asked Yuuta in confusion.

"Yes, each of us has our own room that we go into whenever we aren't using our bodies or are unconscious." Explained Maro.

"Whatever happened must've connected our minds, and knocked all of us into a semi-conscious state." Explained Ogai.

"The doors are a good indicator of whose mind it belongs to, example: this door has a Pendulum and Synchro design, and it's blue," Said Nemo as he gestured to Yuuta's hair, "Now who does that sound like?" Yuuta rolled his eyes as he pushed open the door. They looked around.

"It's very… bland." Stated Eiji. Maro hit him.

"Guess I've never had time to decorate." Said Yuuta.

The party of six exited the room and went back down the hallway. Then they made their way down the next hallway. This time the door was yellow and brown with a Fusion symbol on it. Everyone looked at Bella, who had just been quietly staring off into space. Nemo sighed and pushed the door open. And he saw hundreds of Superhero posters and action figures. "...Woah." Said Nemo quietly.

"I used to love heros when I was little, and felt protected whenever my monsters were near me." Said Bella quietly. Everyone looked at the girl, who was speaking for the first time since they had come here. She walked over to and put a hand on one of the posters. "But now, I can't even look at one of my cards without feeling sick to my stomach about what Nanashi did," Said Bella, her voice becoming increasingly shaky with each word, "what's worse, I had to watch as she used my body to hurt Yugo, and I wasn't strong enough to-"

"Alright just stop it!" Snapped Nemo.

Everyone turned to look at Nemo in surprise. "Hey, don't you talk about her-" Said Yuuta, getting angry at the Pendulum user.

"Zip it." Said Nemo angrily, promptly shutting Yuuta up. Then he looked at Bella again. "Bella, I don't know a lot about Nanashi, ok scratch that, I know virtually nothing about Nanashi," Said Nemo, "But what I do know is that she is evil, insane, and dangerous." Bella looked at the floor. "Which are three things that you aren't, you clearly care about others, otherwise you wouldn't be in such a state of distress." Continued Nemo. "Look you aren't Nanashi, you're you. So don't blame yourself for something she did. I don't blame you, Yuuta doesn't blame you, Yugo… Yugo's kinda dumb so it might take him so time to see the difference between you and Nanashi, I mean he quote-unquote 'killed' Yuto thinking he was Yuri, but once he knows the difference between you two then I know he won't blame you either." Said Nemo, Maro rolling his eyes at the insult to Yugo's intelligence.

Bella took in a deep breath, then let it out. "Alright." She said.

"You good?" Asked Yuuta.

"No, but I'll get there." Said Bella. Nemo smiled at her. "C'mon, I want to see more rooms." Said Bella as she turned to the six of them all returned to the center hall. After that Nemo and his counterparts showed Yuuta and Bella their rooms. Once all six rooms were visited, the party of six returned to the center of the hallway.

"So what about that one?" Asked Yuuta as he pointed down the seventh hall.

Nemo blinked in confusion, he then looked at his friends, and did a quick head count. "One, two, three, four, five, six…" Said Nemo, pausing when he reached himself, having counted each person in the room, then his eyes widened in realization, "Oh no." With that he took off down the hallway that had the seventh door. When Nemo reached the door at the end of the hallway, his stomach dropped at the sight of the doors design, confirming his worries.

The door was practically identical to Bella's, but there was a black border around the door, and the fusion symbol had black lightning in it. "Oh Ra, don't tell me." Groaned Ogai.

"C'mon, let's go." Said Nemo.

"Uh, how about no?" Said Bella. Nemo looked at her with a raised eyebrow.

"You want to go in there? With her!?" Asked Bella. Nemo stared at her unimpressed, then he turned and pushed the door open and walked in. "N-Nemo!" Shouted Bella as she followed the HERO user inside.

The others followed the HERO users inside. They all looked around the insides of the room. It was trashed. "What a mess." Commented Maro.

"Gee thanks." Came a distorted version of Bella's voice. Nemo and Bella stiffened as they turned towards the direction of the voice. Nanashi looked similar to Bella, but much, much scarier.

Nemo's eyes narrowed at the sight of the evil personality. "Well hello Nanashi, I'm not pleased to meet you." Said Nemo.

Nanashi cackled. "How charming." She replied. Suddenly a duel disk on her arm.

"What, you want to duel?" Asked Nemo.

She smirked as five cards ejected from her Extra Deck. "Not exactly." She replied as she placed them on her disk. Then her Evil HEROs Malicious Fiend, Inferno Wing, Wild Cyclone (Level 8, EARTH, Fiend, 1900 ATK and 2300 DEF), Lightning Golem (Level 6, LIGHT, Fiend, 2400 ATK and 1500 DEF), and Infernal Sniper (Level 6, FIRE, Fiend, 2000 ATK and 2500 DEF) all appeared in front of her. "Kill them." She said simply, then her monsters charged.

Nemo's eyes widened at the sight of the monsters, then he turned to his friends. "Running time!" Shouted Nemo, then the six of them booked it. They ran down the hallway while the Evil HEROs chased them and kept shooting off different attacks at them.

"Nemo!" Came a voice. Suddenly Masked HERO Koga, as well as the other Masked HEROs appeared in front of Nemo, who slid to a stop in front of his monsters. Koga and Nemo stared at each other for a moment, then Koga and the others became balls of their respective elements and entered Nemo's chest.

Nemo's friends all stopped to look him. Nemo just quietly stood there as the monsters rushed closer to him. "Nemo!" Shouted Eiji.

"Are you crazy!? What are you doing!?" Demanded Ogai.

"Move!" Shouted Maro.

Suddenly Wild Cyclone was directly behind Nemo, it brought a hand up and swing it down with the intention of smashing Nemo's head in. But that isn't what happened. Instead, Nemo's hand shot up and caught Wild Cyclone's hand in mid swing.

Then Nemo's hand lit on fire. "Fire Dragon Iron Fist!" Roared Nemo as he swung around and bashed the Evil HERO in the face, causing it to shatter and disappear. Everyone stared in surprise. Then the other Evil HEROs attacked Nemo. Lightning Golem charged up a bunch of electricity as it charged at Nemo. Suddenly a crystal sword appeared in Nemo's right hand. "Crystal Sword Slash!" Shouted Nemo as he swung the sword and sliced the evil monster, destroying it.

Next up was Infernal Sniper, who fired off a powerful shot towards Nemo. Suddenly, a small blaster appeared in Nemo's hand, as he whipped around towards the Evil HERO. "Acid Blast!" Shouted Nemo as a powerful stream of, well, acid, fired from the blaster, overpowered Infernal Sniper's attack, and destroyed the Fire attribute monster. Next up was Inferno Wing as it tried to torch Nemo alive. Nemo reared his right arm back as Inferno Wing charged at him.

"Plasma Palm!" Shouted Nemo as a bunch of energy gathered inside his open palm, which he smashed into the Evil HERO's face, destroying it. The only one left was Malicious Fiend, which was charging straight at Nemo. The flame haired duelist leapt into the air, as black boots with talons appeared on his feet. "Shadow Talon!" Shouted Nemo as he flew towards the enemy monster, trying to destroy it with a powerful kick. But Malicious Fiend managed to block, it then reared its arm back and hit Nemo.

Nemo grunted from the force of the attack, then, golden blades extended from his elbows as he charged at Malicious Fiend once more. "Shining Blade Slash!" Shouted Nemo as he swung one of his blades straight towards Malicious Fiend. The blade struck and the monster was destroyed. Everyone stared at Nemo, who stood there panting and exhausted.

"What… the heck did we just witness?" Asked Yuuta uncertainly.

"You mean other than Nemo beat the crud out of Nanashi's monsters?" Asked Eiji.

Nemo stormed back down the hallway towards Nanashi's room. He kicked the door down, startling the evil personality, who stared at him in shock. "Y-you're still alive? How!? Those were my strongest monsters!" Shouted Nanashi in shock. Nemo ignored her as she stormed over to her. He reached out and grabbed her by the neck.

She then got to see his slitted pupils as he glared at her angrily. "This is for Yugo." He snarled as he slammed her face into the wall, causing the evil personality to fall to the ground in an unconscious heap. Nemo then stormed out of the room and walked back to his friends.

"Nemo?" Asked Bella worriedly as he reached them.

"Let's get out of here." Said Nemo.

Hey gang (gets hit in the face with a tomato) I deserved that. So, it's been almost two whole weeks since I last updated and I'm going out on a limb that all of you are more than a little annoyed with me. Well in my defense… yeah I got nothing (has an anvil dropped on his head). Ok, I deserved that one too. So I will try to be more on top of my writing, I was just kind of busy with a bunch of other stuff and never really had the time to work on my fic. But never fear! For I will be better about my updates! Probably! (Gets punched) I deserved that one as well. Well I need to get out of here, so until next time fic fans, Nemon0416 is outta here!