All right people! Here's the next chatpter! I'm trying to get the next few chapters done as fast as I can before Halloween starts because I'm doing a Halloween-themed chapter later on! Also, on Halloween I plan to watch the entire series of Soul Eater like a marathon in celebration for the event! Please enjoy the chapter! Oh, and I also might close OCs soon!
*Mirror World, Floor B4*
"uuuhhn…" Spiral groaned as tried to open his eyes. *What… the hell happened?"
(Flashback)
"COME ON! COME ON! COME ON! COME ON!" Spiral kept hitting the button so it could close faster.
However, before the doors could close, the shadow engulfed them all and the elevator started to fall down the 'shaft'. It kept falling until it hit the lowest floor it possibly could…
(End Flashback)
*Oh yeah, that's right.* Spiral continued to think. *We fell down a shaft and… wait, if I fell down a shaft, I should be on top of some rubble. But I'm on top of something soft and…*
Spiral fully opened his eyes and noticed that he was on top of Momo. More specifically, Spiral's head was right on top of one of her breasts.
"…" Spiral got off as soon as he realized what he was on top of.
Momo started getting up as well, although she got up much faster than a person who just woke up would.
"Spiral… where are we?" Momo asked.
"Um… hey, you sound like you've been conscious for a while now." Spiral pointed out. "Were you aware that I was… um…"
"Uh… yeah, I was." Momo answered while blushing.
Spiral was about to ask why, but he just let it go and looked around to check on the others. Thankfully, they were all starting to regain consciousness. There was also something else that was off. The elevator was without a scratch, the door was closed, the floor display on the top listed 'B4' and it seemed like no one was missing or dead… although Aura was nowhere to be found.
"Wait, where's Aura?" Spiral asked.
Momo looked around too and noticed that she was missing. "What do you think happened?"
"Hm…" Shroud observed the elevator. "I think I've come up with a theory! I suspect that the shadow that attacked us was Aura's Demon. However, it didn't physically hurt us since there are no blood stains or anything. Demons need their host's suffering to reach its max until they're ready to kill them. And a new floor has appeared. I think I can deduce that Aura was taken hostage by her Demon on the floor we're currently on."
"How does that explain the elevator?" Lee questioned. "And how come when I came here, my Demon didn't come out?"
"The elevator must be some supernatural force that is impervious to damage." Shroud hypothesized. "Since this world already defies the laws of physics, I wouldn't rule out the fact that this elevator is somehow tied to this world that makes it immune to damage. As for the absence of your Demon, Lee, I do not know. But that hasn't happened to Spiral either, so maybe you two are special in some way, from a psychological standpoint."
"I'd say that isn't fair if we didn't learn a big lesson after our ordeals." Momo spoke her thoughts.
"Anyway, let's try to find Aura before the worst happens." Spiral said as he went to the door. "Naoto, can you give me a hand?"
"Sure." Naoto confirmed and went to one door while Spiral was next to the other.
Both Spiral and Naoto pulled the door back and a blinding light came through the crack in the door. When they were able to see again, they saw a huge casino, littered with slot machines, game tables and so on. There may have been noises coming from the machines, but there were no people around at all.
"What kind of place is this?" Naoto couldn't believe what he was seeing.
"Remember how there was a huge buffet where you were?" Spiral reminded Naoto. "Each floor is represented by the person's inner feelings. Kind of like how Shroud's floor was a twisted version of a memory and Momo's was a str-"
"SPIRAL! DON'T SAY IT!" Momo shouted to interrupt.
"So… because Aura is here, there's a casino on this floor?" Naoto tried to clarify.
"Pretty much." Spiral simply answered. "Although I do wonder why it's a casino…"
"Welcome to Casino Royal!"
Everyone turned their attention toward the eerie but familiar voice that came a short distance in front of them. It looked like Aura, but it was wearing a tacky queen outfit including gold earrings, gold necklace and chains all encrusted with diamonds, rubies, emeralds and sapphires. She was sitting on top of a mountain of casino chips which was right next to a tacky-looking golden statue of herself that was also encrusted with diamonds, rubies, sapphires and emeralds.
"Where enough is never enough!" Aura(?) continued her greeting. "Unfortunately, we're all out of chips… because I took them all for myself! Haha! Although, if you have the money, you can purchase my chips. That's where it's going anyway. This chip here… only $100,000!"
"That's chickenfeed!" Shroud responded.
"SHROUD!" Momo yelled at him. "We're not here to gamble!"
"If you'll excuse me, but I have a show to prepare for." Aura(?) started to walk down the mountain of casino chips. "Feel free to participate in some of the games, but don't take my chips. Actually, I'll just take them with me, just in case."
Aura(?) pulled out a small safe that was under her poofy queen robe and all of the casino chips were sucked into the safe like a vacuum cleaner. There were no chips left behind.
"Have fun! And remember to come to my show!" Aura(?) smiled at them as she left.
"Wait!" Spiral was about to run toward her.
Golden knights encrusted with gems stopped Spiral from moving any further.
"Nobody is permitted to follow the Queen!" One of the knights said. " Please wait here until the queen commands otherwise!"
"What the hell?" Spiral was baffled.
"Spiral, out of all of us, you know Aura the best." Lee stated. "Did you know any of this about her?"
"No." Spiral answered. "I don't even think Aura's aware of this part of herself. Momo wasn't aware of the part of herself that came out, so these Demons are probably subconscious and the person isn't aware of them at all."
"Whatever the case, we have no choice but to wait until those knights let us through." Lee said. "These Demons seem like they're high on their theatrics, so our Aura will probably still be alive until the show. So let's just wait until the show can start."
Back in the principal's office, it was already night time and the principal seemed anxious.
"What's taking them so long?" She muttered to herself. "I hope they're all okay… if something happened to Spiral, I… I don't even want to think about it."
In the mirror world, an hour or so has passed and everyone was waiting for the 'show' to start. Shroud had a portable game system out while everyone else was bored out of their ****ing minds.
"What is there to do when you can't even play these damn slot machines? !" Spiral was exasperated by their circumstance.
"I realized something…" Shroud spoke up.
"Hmm?" Everyone else became interested.
"… This place's name is a play-on-words with 'Casino Royale'!" Shroud said and everyone fell backwards in exasperation.
"WHAT THE HELL!" Naoto started shouting at Shroud. "I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO SAY SOMETHING HELPFUL IN THIS SITUATION! NOT SOMETHING POINTLESS!"
"Every detail is important." Shroud calmly argued.
"YOU MIGHT NOT BE TYING ME DOWN ANYMORE, BUT YOU STILL ANNOY THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYONE!" Naoto continued to yell.
"Attention!" One of the knights spoke up. "The show is about to begin! You may now enter the theater and take your seats!"
The knights lifted their spears and the doors to the theater opened. The theater was like everything else in the casino; everything was golden and encrusted with diamonds, rubies, sapphires and emeralds. However, the stage was empty.
"Ladies and gentlemen, our show is about to start!" An announcement came from the theater's PA system.
The curtain's opened and revealed Demon Aura sitting on a throne made of gold on top of her mountain of casino chips with an unconscious body lying next to it. It was Aura and she was starting to regain consciousness.
"mmm…" Aura groaned as she woke up.
Aura turned around and saw her Demon sitting on top of her throne.
"Huh? !" Aura was shocked. "Who… Who are you?"
"Don't you recognize me?" Demon Aura questioned. "I'm you… and you are me."
Aura's eyes widened as she saw herself in front of her.
"H-How…" Aura didn't know what to say.
"You put on the sweet, selfless girl act when in reality you want everything that you have even the slightest interest in!" Demon Aura expressed.
"Th-That's not me at all!" Aura protested.
"Come now, you know what I'm saying is true." Demon Aura said. "My family is vastly wealthy, yet with all of that money saved because of our big house, you think I could get more gifts more frequently, but that's not the case at all."
"How can you be so selfish? !" Aura started to get angry. "And how could you say that I'm that selfish? !"
"Because you ARE that selfish!" Demon Aura responded. "And it's not just material items… I… want… EVERYTHING! YOU want everything! It's like I said! You're me… and I am you. The only reason I'm here is because you wanted a Demon, just like everyone else."
"No! No No NO!" Aura rejected her Demon. "THIS CAN'T BE TRUE!"
"Aura, calm down!" Spiral called out to her.
"YOU CAN'T BE ME! YOU'RE NOT ME! YOU'RE NOT ME! YOU'RE NOT ME!" Aura shouted in a fit.
"Yes, suffer, you little bitch!" Demon Aura started to be surrounded by a red shadow aura.
"Hold on!" Spiral got between both Auras before anything else could happen. "I challenge you to a duel!"
"You dare challenge the Queen?" Demon Aura questioned.
"I do!"
"… Very well then! When I win, all of you will be beheaded… except you." Demon Aura pointed to Spiral. "You… are going to be my submissive King."
"King? !" Naoto was surprised.
"Submissive?" Spiral seemed confused.
"You'll be my King and lover, but you still have to do everything I say!"
"… Uh… Well, when I win, Aura's coming back with me!" Spiral stated.
"I AM Aura! Now let's duel!" Demon Aura said as the red shadows engulfed her left arm and left eye and transmogrified into a Duel Disk and Duel Gazer.
Spiral (LP 4000) Demon Aura (LP 4000)
"You make the first move, peasant." Demon Aura let Spiral take the first move.
Spiral drew his card. "I'll summon a card face-down in defense mode and then set one card face-down!"
"Your turn's over already?" Demon Aura drew her next card. "First, I activate the Field Spell Demon Circle! Since I don't have any monsters, I can Special Summon Demonic Machine of Gold (Lv.6 2200/2000)!"
A golden robot with a sphere below is torso and claws for hands appeared in front of Demon Aura.
"There's a drawback, though." Demon Aura stated. "On the turn it is Special Summoned, it can't attack. While I'm at it, I'll pay 500 Life Points so I can Special Summon another Demonic Machine of Gold! Then I'll pay another 500 so I can summon another one! Now I overlay my 3 Level 6 monsters so I can Xyz Summon my true form! I Xyz Summon Demon Queen of Avarice (Rank 6 3500/2500)!"
Spiral (LP 4000) Demon Aura (LP 3000)
The three machines turned into red shadows that went into Demon Aura and she became completely engulfed in red shadows. She had then transfigured into a woman wearing the same tacky clothing as herself with a crown embedded with seemingly countless gemstones and held a golden scepter with a diamond ball on the top of it with other gemstones running down the cane portion.
"I am a Demon… from within your heart." Demon Queen of Avarice (AKA Demon Aura) said. "Before I attack, I'll equip myself with Fairy Meteor Crush to grant myself the ability to deal piercing damage! Time to attack!"
Demon Aura slammed the bottom of her scepter into the ground and then Spiral's face-down Legendary Herald (Lv.2 500/500) was surrounded by a whirlwind of golden coins that destroyed it and inflicted Spiral with 3000 points of damage.
Spiral (LP 1000) Demon Aura (LP 3000)
"Since you destroyed Legendary Herald, I can summon a Legend-type card from my Deck in defense mode!" Spiral used an effect. "I summon Legendary Guardian Force Breaker (Lv.4 1900/1100)!"
"Before I end my turn, I'll use my special ability!" Demon Aura continued with her turn. "By detaching a Xyz Materials, I can return all of the cards in my hand to my Deck and then add any 6 cards from my Deck to my hand!"
Demon Aura then placed the sole card in her hand into her Deck and took 6 other cards from it.
"Then I'll end my turn with a face-down card!" Demon Aura ended her turn. "On my next turn, I'll finish you and then we'll have a little 'initiation' to inaugurate you as King."
"Spiral, you have to win this, no matter what!" Momo shouted at him.
"You think I don't know that? !" Spiral responded. "That's how it's been the whole time I've been in helping people here!" Spiral then drew his next card. "Since I control a non-Tuner Legend-type card, I can Special Summon the Tuner Legendary Guardian Flame Lancer (Lv.3 1200/700)! Now I Normal Summon Legendary Guardian Setsuka (Lv.4 1700/1600)! And she can destroy one of your cards if when summoned alongside another Legend-type card!"
"All Demon or Demonic Xyz Monsters can only be destroyed in battle!" Demon Aura pointed out.
"No matter." Spiral shrugged it off. "Since I successfully Normal Summoned a Legend-type monster, I can Special Summon the Tuner Legendary Guardian Aviary (Lv.3 1500/700) from my hand! Now I tune Flame Lancer with Force Breaker to Synchro Summon Legendary Guardian Impact (Lv.7 2800/2000)!"
Out of the Synchro light came Force Breaker with his armor released and wearing more lightweight armor and his face revealed himself as a young man with gold hair.
"Now I tune Aviary with Setsuka to Synchro Summoned Legendary Guardian Sky Lord (Lv.7 2500/2100)!"
A bird-like male human covered in feathers and had giant wings that were three times the length of his own body appeared on Spiral's side of the field.
"Finally, I overlay my Level 7 Impact and Sky Lord!"
Impact and Sky Lord became a black and green stream of light respectively and entered a black hole that appeared in front of Spiral.
"I Xyz Summon Legendary Guardian Valkyrie (Rank 7 2900/2600)!"
A woman with light brown hair wearing battle armor with wings on her back and holding a sword with a blade made of light appeared on the field.
"Now I remove one of her Xyz Materials to revive a monster from my Graveyard!"
One of the green orbs orbiting Valkyrie went into her sword and she pointed her sword downward and a bright circle of light appeared in front of her. Out of the light circle came out Legendary Guardian Setsuka.
"Now I activate my face-down card! The Spell United Energy! This increases the attack points of one of my Legend-type cards equal to the total attack power of all other Legend-type cards I control!"
Setsuka touched Valkyrie's arm and it appeared to transfer some of its powers to Valkyrie, increasing her attack points to 4600.
"No! This can't be! I WANT to win, so it must happen!" Demon Aura was in denial.
"Face it, greed only goes so far! You've lost!" Spiral declared his attack.
Valkyrie flew straight at Demon Aura and with one slash of the sword, Demon Queen of Avarice was destroyed, inflicting Demon Aura with 1100 points of damage plus another 2000 due to her own ability. Therefore, Demon Aura's Life Points have been reduced to 0.
Spiral (LP 1000) Demon Aura (LP 0)
Demon Aura returned to her previous form and the real Aura got up.
"Are you okay, Aura?" Spiral was concerned.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Aura answered and looked at her Demon as it was getting back up. "Spiral, I remember her now… that was me as a child. I was a spoiled brat who wanted everything, but eventually, my parents told me how important it was to be considerate to others."
Aura began walking right up to her Demon.
"I thought you were gone… but I guess that I never truly changed who I was on the inside." Aura said to her Demon. "I'm a much better person than I was back then, but I guess I became so considerate that I thought that being selfish was a sin. But now I realize, you are a part of who I am and that selfishness is like anything else in this world. It requires moderation and balance to have a fulfilled life. The two of us… we are one and the same."
Demon Aura transfigured into a beautiful woman wearing an azure and purple kimono with a pink cherry blossom petal pattern on it and her hair tied into a bun on each side of her head. It then turned into a Xyz Monster Card that floated down into Aura's hands.
"Congratulations, Aura." Momo congratulated her. "You've overcome your suffering and gained your Spirit as proof of it."
"Thank you, Momo." Aura thanked.
"And your chances of being Spiral's first has decreased." Momo muttered to herself.
"What was that?" Aura asked.
"Nothing!" Momo quickly responded.
The principal was still waiting for them to return from the mirror world when they all finally made it back to the office. When the principal saw them, she couldn't help but run over to them and hug Spiral as if she had a son whom just entered that world and just came back.
"Thank God, you're all right!" The principal said. "I was so worried about all of you!"
"It's my fault." Aura apologized to her with a curtsy. "If I hadn't entered that world, we wouldn't have been in there for so long. I am very sorry."
"… It's okay." The principal answered. "What's most important is that everyone is still okay."
"Um… why are you hugging Spiral?" Lee asked.
The principal then let go of Spiral and went back to her seat. "It's late, so we should all get going to bed. We can review the events of your adventure after you've rested."
Everyone left the office, except Momo. She stayed behind without anyone noticing and when the doors to the office closed, she spoke up.
"Ms. Principal, Spiral is going to find out eventually." Momo said.
"He will, but now is not the time." The principal responded. "For now, you are not to tell him what I told you after you came out of that world. It must be kept secret for the time being."
"But if he were to understand the circumstances, he-" Momo was about to finish her sentence.
"Momo… I promise that the latest I will tell him is when this investigation is over. Understood?"
"… I understand…" Momo left the office and joined up with the others.
The next morning, Spiral, Aura, Shroud, Momo, Naoto, Lee, Camaru, Hikari, Chan and Chun were all sitting together before class.
"Man, I'm so tired!" Naoto whined.
"You guys did all get back to bed pretty late." Chun stated.
"What were you all doing last night anyway?" Chan asked.
"I hope it wasn't a party." Hikari said. "Because if Spiral's ever at a party, I'd want to be there."
"Anyway, I just hope we can all just get some R&R after this." Spiral sighed in exhaustion.
"Oohh! I just remembered, the Culture Festival's in a few days!" Momo recalled. "… And I think I have the best idea for what our class should do…"
"What is it?" Shroud asked.
"… It's a surprise…" Momo teased.
The principal was looking over the reports of the last few incidents within the mirror world as the young girl she met back at the old house (the same one that was with her in Chapter 5). In case you forgot, she was very young, about 12 years old, had purple hair that was tied into two pigtails, each on an opposite side of her head, wearing a pink outfit that carried a purple and pink Duel Disk.
"You wanted to see me?" The mysterious girl asked.
"Yes, I have a special assignment for you." The principal told her.
English Voice Cast
Todd Haberkorn Spiral
Alexis Tipton Aura
Monica Rial Momo
Yuri Lowenthal Naoto
Maxey Whitehead Shroud
Tom Gibis Lee
Kate Higgins Principal
Alison Viktorin Chan/Chun
Laura Bailey Hikari
Preview
Momo: Next time, it's the Culture Festival!
Aura: What is it you plan on doing?
Momo: Like I said, it's a surprise. *wink*
Naoto: There's also talk of this girl who beats the hell out of any guy who dares to look in the girls' rooms, even when she's not in them. And there's something suspicious bout her, too.
Shroud: What would that be?
Spiral: ... Shroud, we can't keep explaining this. Read that book we got you. Next time on Awakening of the Soul! Culture Festival!
Momo: Oh, man! I can hardly wait!
Spiral's Cards
Legendary Guardian Impact
Legend/Synchro/Effect (ATK 2800 DEF 2000)
Level 7/EARTH
1 Tuner + "Legendary Guardian Force Breaker"
As long as this card remains face-up on the field: Your opponent cannot select another monster you control as an attack target. When this card destroys a monster as a result of battle: Inflict damage to your opponent equal to the ATK of the destroyed monster.
Legendary Guardian Sky Lord
Legend/Synchro/Effect (ATK 2500 DEF 2100)
Level 7/WIND
"Legendary Guardian Aviary" + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters
As long as this card remains face-up on the field: Level 3 or lower Legend-type monsters can attack your opponent directly. If you control another monster: Your opponent can only select this card as an attack target.
United Energy
Spell
Select 1 Legend-type monster you control. The selected monster gains ATK equal to the total ATK of all other Legend-type monsters you control until the End Phase. Other Legend-type monsters you control cannot attack the turn you activate this card.
Legendary Guardian Valkyrie
Legend/Xyz/Effect (ATK 2900 DEF 2600)
Rank 7/LIGHT
2 Level 7 Monsters
As long as this card remains face-up on the field; If a face-up monster you control is destroyed as a result of battle, you can Special Summon that monster during the End Phase. Once per turn; You can detach 1 Xyz Material Monster from this card to Special Summon 1 monster from your Graveyard in Attack Position. When this card attacks a monster: You can banish the attack target after the Damage Step and if this card would be destroyed, it is not destroyed.
Demon Aura's Cards
Demonic Machine of Gold
Fiend/Effect (ATK 2200 DEF 2000)
Level 6/DARK
If you control no monsters: You can Special Summon this card from your hand. This card cannot attack on the turn it is Special Summoned.
Demon Queen of Avarice
Fiend/Xyz/Effect (ATK 3500 DEF 2500)
Rank 6/DARK
3 Level 6 "Demon" or "Demonic" Monsters
This card can only be destroyed as a result of battle. When this card is destroyed by your opponent: Inflict 2000 damage to the controller of this card. Once per turn; You can detach 1 Xyz Material Monster from this card to return all cards in your hand to your Deck and, if you do, add any 6 cards from your Deck to your hand.