Recap: Last Chapter, Zane's room got trashed and his deck was stolen, now's he's stuck in a situation where he has to meet the culprit and get his deck back despite the many possibilities on how things can go wrong.

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Okay, so I'm just walking along, minding my own business just about to kick some rear. The trees were getting closer and closer until-

Thud

A small projectile bounced off my head. I paused and looked down. It was a rock, someone just threw a rock at me. Can you believe that? A rock, my god I looked in the direction the rock came from. A student in a Ra yellow jacket emerged from the shadows, no he wasn't that scary. He wore a dark green bandana over half of his face.

"I assume you took my deck," I said sounding bored.

"For good reason," as the guy said it, another one appeared, he was in Ra yellow too.

"Yes I'm sure, I highly appreciate it if you give me my deck back."

The guy pretended like he didn't hear me. "Last year I was one of the top Obelisk Students-"

"…" I was not in the mood for a sob story.

"until you came, ever since you arrived me and my friends were bumped down to Ra yellow! Ever since then I've been formulating a plan to get you back and now I have!"

My mouth fell open but I quickly closed it. "Wait a minute, you spent nine months working on a revenge plan while you could've just practiced and moved back to Obelisk Blue?"

The other Ra to the side gave a sarcastic cough. "We already belonged in Obelisk Blue! It was your fault, but we know the truth! You're a fraud who only relies on strong and expensive cards to win! But deep inside you have no skill!"

Oh, is that so? "Yeah sure, maybe you can prove it if you can beat me in a duel."

"Oh I will but to prove how weak you are, I'm using your deck while you get to use this!" He tossed a bound up deck at me. I caught it and slid the binding off of it. To be honest, every single card was random.

"You're a fool." I was angrier than I was five minutes ago. These two were the worst of their kind.

The challenger walked to his position and readied his disk while I readied mine. He declared, "If I win I get to keep your deck and you have to leave Duel Academy in shame forever! If you win you can have your cards back and we'll be on our way."

"Fine, I agree," I said reluctantly. I drew my five cards.

Throughout the duel I had to keep my cool and resist trying to strangle my opponent. All he did was use direct combos that relied only on strength and raw power. He had no idea how to use a card. It reminded me of my brother. This opponent didn't know anything about Duel Monsters, his own mistakes and downfall were his own doing. Now it was his turn.

"I activate your card called Powerbond and that means I can fuse your Cyber Dragons to form Cyber End Dragon!" My three dear Cyber Dragons disappeared in a flash of white light as Cyber End took their places.

A dark smirk came across my opponent's face. "You're wide open! I can defeat you right now go Cyber End Dragon, attack Zane!" I cast a determined look on my own monster. His heads were writhing as if it were fighting with an invisible ghost. The guy looked up, fear was in his eyes. "What-What's going on? Why won't it attack?" Cyber End Dragon roared before shattering. "What did you do to my dragon!? You had no spells or traps!"

"Correction, My dragon. What happened was you're ignorance to use cards correctly and wisely, let this duel serve as a reminder to you. Do me a favor and read the print on Powerbond."

He looked down at my card and mouthed the words, horror coming to his face. "What!? No I can't-" Too Late, his life points dropped to zero.

"I win-" I began but the loser screamed, "Cheater! I don't care I'm keeping this deck!" With that he grabbed his companion's arm and ran the opposite direction. However a familiar face stepped from the trees in front of the startled two.

Atticus had a strange smirk on his face he elbowed the person with my deck and in a swift motion, he gave a hard sock in the face of the other, knocking out both of them.

"Hey good duel, Zane! Help me carry these sore losers to Counselor's office. I nodded and took my deck while heaving him onto my back. Most of the lights were out. I looked up at the starlit sky, a faint figure of a silver dragon waved through the sky before quickly disappearing. I blinked, it might've been my imagination. Or maybe… Maybe there's something more.

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So we dumped off the two guys, they were convicted with the crimes they committed. It seemed they were Andrew and Crawford. Andrew was supposedly a computer hacker and expert. Crawford was just his idiotic friend. Now I still have to stay with Atticus but I learned we're moving over there in just a few weeks.

So now I have my deck, everything's just perfectly normal. But soon, I will learn how terribly wrong, deadly wrong I am.

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-sings the d00m song-

Yuh, cliffhanger kind of xD Yes I do know what I'm putting next chapter, ugh, sorry for the very short chapter I'm getting writers block. Anyways if you're wondering how Cyber End got destroyed suddenly was because, if you haven't noticed from the title of any other hints in the past chapters, Zane does have a duel spirit. He just doesn't know it. Anyways, Cyber End would rather destroy itself then attack his master.

Don't ask me about Camula.

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Huzzah! Oh and I'm going to start personalizing my reviews xD