"Hello, cat." I said as I looked at one of Yuya's pets.
"Hey," The cat said. "I have a name, you know."
"Yeah, I know that, Kohru," I said as I bared my teeth at him. "I'm not ignorant like you felines."
"Now, now," Yuya's other pet, Ang, said. "There's no need to fight, we're all family after all."
"Well," I said. "I have something to tell you guys."
They both stared at me, waiting desperately to see what I was going to say.
I took a deep breath.
"I'm kind of a werewolf." I said as the room fell silent.
"COOL! MY NEW SIS IS A WEREWOLF!" Ang exclaimed as he wagged his tail happily.
But at that moment, our stomachs rumbled with hunger.
"Let's go eat, I'm starving." Ang said as Kohru rolled his mismatched red and green eyes.
"I'll catch up with you guys later." I said.
"Well, alright, see you later!" Ang said as they both left the room.
/Now,/ I thought as I walked around the halls. /Let's explore this place./
But then, I smelled a scent similar to Yuya's, but this was his house, so everything practically smelled like him, but this was stronger.
I pushed my snout through the small crack in the door, and walked inside.
It seemed plain, but I automatically knew who's room it was by the poster of Yusho on the wall.
I was in Yuya's room, and right in the bed, was he himself, snoring away.
Suddenly, I was squished by something that I couldn't get off of me.
"ANG, KOHRU!" I yelped as I looked back and saw Yuya staring at me with shock in his crimson eyes.
"Kitsune?" He asked as I managed to get out.
I couldn't believe it, we had just met again, and know I would have to come clean with my secret.
"Yuya," I said as I turned into my human form, along with my orange tail and ears. "I'll admit that I should have told you sooner, but I was too scared to think about what you'd say about me being a monster."
"Kit," He said. "I don't care if you're a monster or a human, you're still my friend."
I hugged him, it almost felt like we had met sooner in life, and almost as if three years ago wasn't the first time we had met. He didn't feel like a friend, he felt more like...well, family.
"Kit, are you alright?" Yuya asked as the touched my forehead.
"I feel fine, why?"
"You feel like you're a little warmer than usual."
"Oh, don't mid that, I get a little warmer after I change from wolf to human, it's natural." I said as I heard something outside.
"See you later, Yuya!" I said as I opened his window and jumped out.
"Hey, Kit, where are you going?" I hard Yuya ask, but I was already on the track of something that I'd never smelled before, and it lead me far away from Yuya's house.
/The scent stops here? But what did it come from?/ I said as I walked into a warehouse that was pitch black except for sunlight that was seeping in from a window.
"Long time no see, Kitsune Okami." A familiar voice said from behind m as the doors shut.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"You don't remember me? What a shame." The voice said as, out of the light, a glint of white caught my eye, then I knew who it must have been.
"Sol?" I asked as a boy with short, shaggy, white hair, mocha-colored skin, and sapphire-colored eyes appeared in front of me.
"So you do remember me?" Sol asked.
"Yes, and why are you here? Shouldn't you be with the rest of our tribe?" I asked.
"Kit!" Lisa and Lise's voices said at the same time as I fell onto the hard, concrete floor. I looked to see what hit me, and sure enough, there was Lisa and Lise, along with my other friends, Serena, Selena, and even Sol's sister, Luna.
"What are you guys doing here?" I said again as the twins got off me and helped me up.
"Well," Luna started as little Selena started to weep into her hands. "The rest of our pack's gone."
I stopped breathing for a second, then, I felt as like my heart once again shattered like it was made out of glass.
"No," I said as I fell on my knees. "They couldn't have gone down that easily!"
"I'm sorry, but it's true," Luna said. "Sasuke helped us escape, but we don't know what happened to him after that."
I dried my tears and stood up.
"Hey," I said as they all looked at me. "I'll help you, after all, if I didn't do what I did, none of this would have happened to all of you. It's my way of saying 'sorry'."
"Thank you, Leader Kitsune." Luna said as everyone started to hug me. And at that moment I knew that they had put their trust in me, and I wasn't going to let them down.
/Later, at the YSDS [You Show Duel School].../
"WHAT?! YOU WANT TO ENROLL?!" Mr. Hiragane asked me and my friends.
"Yes, you see, we are close friends of Yuya, and when we heard he dueled here, we decided to enroll." I said as the others nodded in agreement.
"Well, if you are close friends of Yuya, then I'd be glad to have you aboard!" He said as we both shook hands in agreement.
"Excuse me sir," Serena said. "But is Yuya here at the moment? I would like to duel him."
"No, he's still at school, but he'll be here soon." Mr. Hiragane said. "Now, I'll let you kids prepare your decks for when he comes, see you on the field!" Mr. Hiragane said as he walked out of the room, leaving the six of us to celebrate.
"Man, my warriors are ready for anything Yuya throws at us! I can't wait!" Sol said.
/Some people just never grow up./ I thought.
"No way, Sol," Lisa and Lise said. "We'll shock him right out of the stadium when we win!"
"Ladies, Ladies, if there's one thing we all know," Serena said as she lifted he deck in the air. "It's that I'll wipe him out faster than all of you!"
"I really don't care who he get's to duel first," Luna said. "But if he dueled me, I might put him under my spell in a matter of turns."
"You guys realize that he won't be coming here for a few hours right?" I said.
"Yeah," Sol said. "It's just that we're so bored."
"Sooooo bored." The rest of the gang moaned.
"TTEEEEEEEAAAAACHHHERRRRRRRR!" An all-too familiar voice said. I poked my head out of the door, and saw him.
Sora, Yuya's 'student'.
/This is going to be a long day./
*Later, during Yuya and Sora's duel...*
"FUSION SHOKAN!" Sora exclaimed as a pink teddy bear with a giant pair of scissors in it's stomach and creepy glowing eyes in what seemed to be it's mouth appeared on his side of the candy field. [yes, I said candy field.]
"So, teach," Sora said. "I'm going to show you what happens when I get serious!"
"Wait," Sol said. "Weren't they teaching that at LDS?"
"Yeah," Yuzu said. "But he wasn't in LDS."
"Strange," I hear Sol whisper to himself. "Very strange."
"Now let's get you off that annoying hippo of yours!" Sora said. "I attack Discover Hippo!"
The bear got it's arm, and punched Discover Hippo with Yuya on it, sending them both into the sweetened lake, along with leaving Yuya with 2600 life points left.
"I'll activate Scissor Bear's effect, meaning that it can equip itself with the monster it just attacked!" Sora explained as his bear searched trough the lake for the hippo.
"And now, I equip Discover Hippo to Des-Toy Scissor Bear!" Sora said as his monster grabbed Discover Hippo and ate him. All the little kids in the room were as white as snow, I think they almost died of fright.
"And know my monster gains the attack points of the monster I equipped!" Right after he said that, his bear's attack got bumped up to 3000!
"Man, that thing is HUGE!" Mr. Hiragane said.
"What's this, Teacher?" Sora said as he placed two cards face-down, ending his turn. "Where's all your courage that you had earlier?"
"Ore no turn, Draw!" Yuya said as he drew a card. "I activate Swordfish's effect, meaning that this card can lower my opponent's monster's attack by 600!" Yuya said as the bears attack went to 2400.
"Now, I attack Scissor Bear with Odd-Eyes!" Yuya said as he hopped onto Odd-Eyes' back and raced toward Sora's monster.
But then, Sora activated a trap witch was kind of confusing, but Yuya managed to negate the trap's effects by using Cronomancy's effect. But it really didn't do him any good, because the other card was the exact same card! Turns out, it lowered Odd-Eyes attack by another monster's defense, and he chose Water Strider, witch had 1600, leaving Odd-Eyes with 900 attack. And as the duel went on, it seemed like Sora had a pretty good plan for winning, first, by taking all of Yuya's monsters and equipping them onto his bear, then, a direct attack to finish him, but then, something strange happened.
"Now then," Sora said. "How about I crush your Odd-Eyes first?"
"I never thought this was the plan that he had to beat Yuya," Sol said. "He must be a pro to duel like this."
"So, really all he needs to do is make sure that Odd-Eyes isn't hit by Scissor Bear, right?" Serena asked.
"I suppose so, but he needs some sort of miracle to make that happen." Sol responded as we all saw Yuya run towards some candy canes.
/What is he thinking?/ I thought.
"Look!" Selena piped up. "There's an action card up on one of them!"
We all looked up at the green and brown candy cane, and right on it, there was an action card.
"I don't think so!" Sora said as he jumped on his bear and headed towards the candy cane.
"Let's go, Odd-Eyes!" Yuya said as he, too, jumped on his monster, racing to get the card.
Suddenly, Sora grabbed the card faster than Yuya and did so many jumps my head spun, and then the next thing I knew, He was right on his bear's paw, looking down at his 'Teacher'.
"Now, I attack Odd-Eyes with Scissor Bear!" Sora exclaimed.
"Not happening, I activate a trap, 'Entermate Flash'!" Yuya said. "When I have an Entermate monster on my field, I can change one monster to defense mode!"
All of a sudden, a bright multi-colored light shone from Yuya's Swordfish, almost blinding us.
"Action Magic, 'Candy Coat'!" Sora said as Scissor Bear put a pair of sunglasses on.
"With this card, my monster isn't effected by spells or traps, and it can't be destroyed in battle either." Sora explained.
"And now, Scissor Bear will continue it's attack!" Sora said as his Bear attacked Odd-eyes, sending him into the same lake that Discover Hippo was in, and also leaving Yuya on the ground with 500 life points left.
"ODD-EYES!" Yuya yelled as his eyes started to water, then, he just put his goggles on and sat there.
"I can't believe," I heard him whisper. "My Odd-eyes was really...destroyed?"
/Yuya,/ I thought as I looked at him in there, all sad, it kind of made me feel sorry for him losing his ace. /Yuya, you need to get up, you need to fight!/
He looked at me through the window, shock in his eyes again.
/Kit? is that you?/ I heard his voice inside my head.
/It's me, Yuya, why are you so surprised?/
/Because, I never knew you could use telepathy./
I almost face-palmed myself.
/Remember that dog you saw here late at night?/
/Yeah, so?/ Yuya asked.
/I accidentally used it on you, I didn't notice until you said you were the only one who heard me./
/Oh./
/Now stop talking to me and beat Sora!/ I said as he just sat there.
/I can't./
/What do you mean you can't?/
/I just can't./ Yuya said.
/Yuya, remember what your father taught you,/ I said. /Remember./
He was silent for a few minutes, and as he was just sitting there, Sora's monster was searching through the lake for Odd-Eyes.
"When you feel like crying," I heard Yuya say.
/Laugh./ I thought as Yuya said the exact same words, it was strange, but it was almost like I'd heard that phrase before, I just couldn't remember when.
All of a sudden, Yuya started to laugh hysterically.
My pack thought he was a lunatic, and it seemed like Yuya's friends also thought the same thing.
Then, he pulled his goggles off of his eyes, and he seemed to be looking at the pendulum that was swinging between Astromancy and Chronomancy, then, he looked at his Duel disk in confusion.
"What's up with my Extra Deck?" I heard him ask himself. "But I don't have anything in it, so what's in it?" Then, he looked at his Disk in amazement.
"Why can't I find Odd-Eyes?" Sora asked as he saw his bear looking confused as he got it's paw out of the pond.
"Odd-Eyes isn't in the Graveyard," Yuya said as he stood up. "He's in my Extra Deck!"
"WHAT?!" Everyone around me said.
"What?" Sora asked. "In your Extra Deck?" Then, he started laughing hysterically.
"That's really cool Teach!" Sora exclaimed. "When Pendulum monsters are destroyed, they're sent to the Extra Deck instead of the Graveyard!"
"My attack ends there, as well as my turn." Sora said.
"Well then, Let's let the fun begin!" Yuya said as he drew. "Now all the actors have gathered, now everyone, currently on the stage we have the magicians of Astromancy and Chronomancy, with them, I can summon monster's between the levels of two and seven!" Yuya said. "Sway, pendulum of the soul, draw an arc of light across the ether, PENDULUM SHOKAN!"
"First, let me introduce you to a new Pendulum monster, come on out Entermate Cheer Mole!" Yuya said as a pink mole wearing a white and green cheerleader outfit, a green polka-dotted bow in it's light brown hair, along with a pair of light blue pom-poms appeared on the field.
"And that's not all, let's welcome back Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" Yuya said as Odd-Eyes came back on the field. "Now let's have our friends that helped set up this dazzling stage, take the lead!"
After that, he used Swordfish's effect, but before that, he activated Cheer Mole's effect, powering Swordfish with 1000 attack points, and after that, Sora's monster was down to only 1400 attack points!
"Now, I attack Scissor Bear with Odd-Eyes, go SPIRAL STRIKE BURST!" Yuya said as Odd-Eyes blew out a crimson spiral and destroyed Scissor Bear, sending Sora flying into some whipped cream with 0 life points.
"HE WON," All the little kids were screaming with happiness. "YUYA-NII ACTUALLY WON!"
"You do remember our deal, right?" Yuya asked Sora. "If I won, you wouldn't be my stude-" But then Sora interrupted him.
"Dueling with you was super cool, Yuya!" Sora said.
"Why aren't you calling me 'Teach' anymore?"
"Well, if I can't be your student, then I'll be your friend!" Sora said. "If we're just friends I can call you just Yuya, right?"
"Huh? Wait, Wha-" But then he was interrupted by Mr. Hiragane.
"Students of this Duel School are all friends, so will you be joining our Duel School?" He asked Sora.
"Sure," Sora said. "This place is way more interesting than LDS!"
"Alright, let me go get the paperwork!" Mr. Hiragane said as he ran out of the room.
"But if you're not from LDS, where did you learn to Fusion Summon?" Yuya asked.
"Where I used to live, Fusion Summoning was normal." Sora answered.
"Normal?!" Yuya said. "Where is it?"
"I'll tell you everything later, 'kay?" Sora said as he flashed a smile.
"Yuya-Nii!" Selena said as she walked up to him. "That was a really awesome duel, and Sora's monsters looked really cool put together!"
"Thanks, by the way who're you?" Yuya asked.
"I'm Selena, one of Kit-chan's friends, nice to meet you." Selena said as she shook Yuya's hand.
"So, Sora, do you know how to do any other kinds of summons?" I asked.
"Like I said, I'll tell you everything later." Sora said.
"Luna," I said as she walked near me. "Is tonight a full moon?"
"Well, yes, why?" She asked me.
"I was just asking." I said as I looked at the Lunarstone bracelet that was around my wrist. It gleamed a pale-blue color, it reminded me of the family that I lost, but at the same time, it reminded me of the new family that I had, here, at the Duel School.
/I guess Humans and my kind can be friends,/ I thought as I walked with Yuya back to his house. /I mean, look at me and Yuya. He's Human, and I'm a werewolf, and we get along like childhood friends. But some of my kind aren't so nice, and I know that, and I can't forget what happened to my Mother. But I have to be strong, and keep my head up, like Sasuke always tells me. And I will avenge my family, even if it's the last thing I do./
*Later...*
/I know you're out there Sasuke, and I'm going to find you./ I thought as I turned into my wolf form, sat at the edge of the windowsill, and sent out a message to any of my remaining family members, or in other words, I howled.
Then, I heard Sasuke's voice.
/Kit, I'm so glad you're safe./
/Sasuke, you're alive?/ I asked as tears filled my eyes.
/I'm alive, how are your friends doing?/ He asked.
/They're alright,/ I said as I wiped my tears from my eyes.
/I'll talk to you later, imouto./ Sasuke said.
/See you later, Nii-san./ I said as I turned into my Human form, slipped into my bed, pulled the blankets over my head, and drifted to sleep.
/Goodnight, Sasuke./