Two Are Better Than One

Disclaimer: Don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! GX.

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"So, Shiryu, was it? Even though your brother told me why you guys are at war with the other clan, he didn't explain how and why you guys can turn into humans," Christina looked up at the dragon walking beside her, "Seriously, what the hell?"

The Blue Eyes looked down at her, "The ability to transform into humans are not very rare, human. In fact, every non-humanoid monster has the ability to do so, but most of them decide to stay in their natural form. Those who turn into humans usually do so to interact better with humans as well as to duel them,"

"You mean, they change so they don't scare the piss out of them?"

"Exactly,"

"Oh...," Christina thought for a few moments, "That makes sense, I guess. But, wait, my friend fought Horus and his followers. How come Horus didn't transform or even talk? His followers came after us and fought us instead,"

Shiryu seemed to shrug, "Some monsters just have really big egos,"

"I'm not surprised by that at-,"

Christina was cut off as a loud noise echoed around the tunnels of the cave. Shiryu lifted his head and looked around, sniffing the air, "Many humans in our home...," he looked down at Christina, "Seems like your friend Jaden has come for you,"

"It's about time," Christina scratched her head, "I mean, no offense, you guys are actually nice, but ya kinda creep me out,"

"Exactly the reason why some of us take human form,"

"Yeah, yeah, I got it," she waved him off, "Can we go look for him, or am I confined to a certain area?"

Shiryu tapped a claw on the stone floor, "I suppose it would be alright for you to go find him. After all, I'm sure brother Azuryu would want you after the duel, so you know what fate holds for you,"

Christina sweatdropped,That sounds kinda wrong...

"Hey, wait a minute," she looked around, "If they climbed the mountain, that means that it took awhile! Have we been walking around in circles all this time?"

Shiryu looked away, "I felt like having a chat, so slay me,"

Again, she sweatdropped, Dragons are weird...thank the Egyptian Gods I usually use Amazons!

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"So, this is Jaden Yuki, the one who defeated Horus' Sect, Drogoth, and Raiteiryu?" Azuryu raised an eyebrow as he looked Jaden over, "You're much younger than I thought you would've been," he looked at the others with him, "Nice entourage,"

"Where's Christina?" Jaden demanded, stepping forward, duel disk at the ready, "If you wanna duel me for her, than bring it on!"

Azuryu chuckled, "That is what I intended once you arrived, so-," he stopped and frowned, pointing at Jaden's arm, "Your duel disk...,"

"Huh?" Jaden looked at his disk and his eyes widened when he saw that it was covered in burn marks and some of the outer coverings were cracked, "What happened?"

"It seems like your duels with my subjects has put quite a toll on your duel disk," Azuryu mused, "In that condition, there's no way you can duel me...unless you want your arm to blow off,"

Jaden smirked, "Oh c'mon, it's not gonna blow up on me...watch!" he held out his arm as his duel disk whirred to live. However, Jaden's smile disappeared when sparks began to fly out of the machinery, "WHOA!"

With surprising speed, Azuryu appeared in front of Jaden, ripped the duel disk off his arm and tossed it behind him. Everyone watched as the disk shook for a few moments, sparks continuing to fly out until it finally exploded, sending bits and pieces of metal and plastic into the air.

Jaden and the others stared at the wreckage.

"Whoa...,"

Azuryu rolled his eyes, "Humans never listen to the wisdom of dragons. So, now it seems that I really can't duel you, Jaden," he turned and walked back to the other side, "Looks like my plan is at a standstill...shame,"

"Oh please, you think Jaden's the only one that can duel out of our group?"

The King of the North Clan stopped and looked over his shoulder. Chazz was stepping in front of the group, a smug look on his face.

Azuryu looked at Chazz for a few moments, then looked away, "You do have a point, human...it seems your entire group is made up of duelists,"

Chazz scoffed, "I wouldn't say the entire group. I'm the best one out of the whole bunch, to tell you the truth,"

Noah leaned over to Alexis, "Ego-maniac, isn't he?"

"You have no idea...,"

"Brother, are we interrupting, or are we in time?"

Azuryu, as well as Jaden turned to see Christina enter the large room, followed by a man who looked nearly identical to Azuryu, except he had a head of white hair with brown streaks as opposed to Azuryu's brown hair with white streaks.

"Dude, there's two of them?" Siho looked back and forth at the guys, "Man, and I thought one Kaiba look-a-like was bad enough,"

"Chrissy, are you okay?" Alexis called out, "We came to help you!"

The brunette nodded and waved at them, "I'm fine guys, no worries!"

Jordan sighed, "That's good...," he turned and pointed angrily at Azuryu, "You got some balls holding our friend captive!"

"Uh, Jordan, don't make him angry...," Christina ran a finger across her throat, "Not a good idea...,"

Azuryu turned and his eyes locked onto Jordan, "You have a sharp tongue like the female here,"

"I have a name...,"

Jaden held up his hand, "Look, we just wanna know why you took Chrissy,"

"It's because-," Christina started, but was cut off when Azuryu held up a hand.

The King cleared his throat, "We have heard of your exploits, Jaden Yuki. You have defeated some of my subjects in the forest, subjects that are rather strong. Your victories over them have peaked my interest and I wanted to test your abilities, but since you have lost your weapon," he glanced at the smoking duel disk off to the side, "It seems we can't do that,"

"Hey, no problem, I'll give him my disk," Siho volunteered.

Khamille pulled him away and held up the now open guidebook to the virtual realm, "We can't do that, Siho!" she tapped the page, "It says here that the only way a duelist can replace a broken duel disk, or upgrade it, you'll have to buy one,"

"Okay, no problem...how much is a new disk?"

Khamille flipped through the book, "Oh, about...10,000 gold pieces," she turned to him, "How much do we have collected since we started?"

After quickly counting their loot, Siho hung his head, "Man...not even half that! We only got 4,700 gold pieces!"

"Looks like he won't be able to duel for awhile...," Khamille sighed, "Not good, is it?"

"Nope,"

"I'm curious about something," Bastion held his chin in thought, "I can understand wanting to duel Jaden, believe me, we all do, but why go to such lengths as to abducting a friend?"

Shiryu walked to his brother's side, "I can explain that,"

"Shiryu!"

"They have a right to know, brother," Shiryu exhaled loudly, "As you probably know through your travels, our clan is at war with the Southern Dragon Clan. We need something or someone with enough power to tip the scales, so when we heard of you, Jaden, we hoped you would be of help to us,"

Jaden blinked, "You want me to help you fight?"

"My brother does," Shiryu nodded to Azuryu, "This conflict began when our brother was killed by the Southern Clan leader. For a long time, we have wanted to end this war, but since Lord Revastan will not aid us, we are looking for any help we can find,"

"Is this Lord really that strong?" Chazz asked in a bored tone, hands behind his head, "We're on our way to clobber him in a duel...well, we were," he shot an annoyed glance at both Jaden and Christina.

Both the brother's eyes widened.

"You are going to go and duel Lord Revastan?" they asked in unison.

Chazz nodded, "Yeah, got a problem with that?"

The brothers exchanged glances before turning back to them.

"Lord Revastan, for a human, has immense dueling strength. All three of us, when our brother was still with us, used to challenge him, but the only one who ever came close to defeating him was Azushiryu, our big brother,"

"Pfft, so?" Chazz scoffed, "From the looks of you, you both are weaklings. I bet even your brother was weak,"

Shiryu had to hold his now pissed off brother back while Chazz had to scramble backward, startled.

"Great, nice going, Chazz," Christina nodded and gave a thumbs up, "Piss off the Blue Eyes twins,"

"Blue Eyes?" Bastion raised an eyebrow, then looked hard at the brothers, "Of course, it makes sense now!"

"What does?" Chazz muttered, still hiding behind Siho.

Bastion turned around, "The reason the two of them look like the famous Seto Kaiba and why Christina called them Blue Eyes. Don't you see?"

"No...?"

"I'm making an educated guess here, but I bet there were three Blue Eyes White Dragons originally in this region and if each one of them, in human form, looks like Seto Kaiba, that means that the programmers of the game modeled them after Kaiba and his legendary dragon cards!"

Khamille shook her head, Kristerr...an odd way to make characters, but a nice touch, nonetheless!

"Look, I'm sorry that you can't duel me, pal," Jaden shrugged, "We'll just take our friend and leave,"

Shiryu held up his hand, "Wait a moment, please!" he turned to Azuryu and whispered something in his ear. His brother's face turned to one of slight surprise, then disgust. He turned to him, "Are you mad, brother? I wanted Jaden, not a nobody!"

"Yep, that guy's based off Kaiba, alright," Siho muttered under his breath.

"Just think of it, brother!" Shiryu pleaded, "If Jaden cannot fight for us, then perhaps someone in this group can! You know that those of strong power flock with their own kind! Surely, someone in this group can help us in the war!"

"Someone who's strong, eh?" Chazz chuckled and wiped his nose, grinning smugly, "Well, how can The Chazz refuse such flattery?"

Alexis shoved him away, "Get over yourself, Chazz!"

Azuryu glared at his brother a while, then sighed in defeat, "Fine...we shall test someone else, but who?"

"Yo, right-," Chazz was cut off as Jordan shoved him back into Khamille.

"RIGHT HERE!" Jordan shouted, hand held high, "I'll take you on, right here and right now!"

Alexis sighed and held her head, "Jordy...,"

Bastion chuckled, "Looks like I was too late," he lowered his own hand, "I was eager to duel the King myself,"

Shiryu looked at them both, tapping his chin before turning to his brother, a small grin on his face. Azuryu saw the grin and an identical one crossed his face.

"You don't mind, do you, brother?"

"I suppose not...it gets boring, taking on everyone, after a while,"

The two of them turned to the humans, "We shall duel you both,"

Bastion and Jordan both took a look of surprise.

"What?"

"Pardon?"

Christina and Jaden high-fived each other, large smiles crossing their faces while Siho made his own grin behind them.

"Sweet, a tag duel!"

"Good luck, you two!" Chrissy patted them both on the back before shoving them forward, onto the soon to be battlefield, "Don't disappoint us!"

Chazz turned to Khamille, "Are they serious? Misawa and Lexi's annoying cousin against monsters modeled after Kaiba and his dragons? This'll be a slaughter,"

"How do you figure?" she asked, tilting her head to the side as the four duelists approached one another, decks and disks at the ready.

"C'mon, even I can figure this out," Chazz tapped his head, "If these bozos were modeled after Kaiba and his dragons, then I'm sure their decks are a lot like his, full of power and contingencies for dueling!"

Khamille clicked her tongue, "Impressive...,"

"Not really, it's simple!"

"No, I mean that you used a big word like contingencies," the female duelist cracked, "Hurt yourself on that one, Chazzy?"

"Why you-!!"

"ENOUGH!" Azuryu screamed as both his and his brother's disk whirred to life, "Let's duel, humans!"

"Bring it on!" Jordan shot back, turning on his disk.

Bastion nodded as his own came to life, "Indeed!"

Noah looked at them both as Jaden put away his deck, that he barely rescued from the explosion shortly before.

"This will be interesting...,"

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Kilnorc: Yeah, another one without a duel. The reason for this? Gotta go over decklists, lol...next one, as ya'll can tell, will definitely have the duel. It'll take me a bit to post because it's a tag one. Hopefully, this was good and ya'll enjoyed it!