Oh and Saiou Takuma is Aster Phoenix's(otherwise known as Ed Phoenix in this story) manager, I'm telling you this cause I'm not sure what his name is in the english version.
Disclaimer: This is the 40th chapter, do I really have to remind you that I don't own the show?
Chapter 40: Ayato's New Deck
Saiou Takuma was greeted by Chancellor Crowler as he set foot on the island.
"What an unexpected suprise. Have some duelists here caught your attention? Well I have a list right here of the best students."
Saiou looked right passed Crowler, right at the academy building. He looked back at Crowler, "No thank you. I'll just take a look myself if you don't mind."
"Well all of the classes have been canceled today so why don't you take a tour of the dormitories."
"Very well." Saiou replied. As the two set out.
Ayato had just got out of the shower, he was currently dressing himself.
His neck was still sore from earlier. After he was finished getting dressed he made his way out of his dorm room.
'I'd better go see Jaden and the others. I'm sure their worried about me.' Ayato made his way to the school building, completely unaware of the school duel canidates duels that were to happen.
Chazz looked over his deck a fifth time, today he would duel Jaden. He had already lost to him twice, he didn't plan on losing to him again.
Suddenly a small ugly yellow creature appeared, "Hi boss."
"Go away." Chazz said as he took some cards out and put some new ones into his deck. "What cha doin'?" The small creautre asked. A vein throbbed on Chazz's temple, "None of your business." He said slowly, as if the creature was deaf.
"OOOOHHHH, That's a strong monster." The duel spirit said as it looked at Chazz's deck. "Didn't I tell you to go away, go bug someonelse."
"Ahhh, you don't really mean that boss." Chazz looked at the creature for the first time since their "conversation" had started. "Does it look like I'm playing around?"
The little monster looked at him deep in thought. "Yeah!" the duel sprit answered. Chazz brought his hand down, in an attempt to crush the monster who managed to avoid it. "Um, boss. I don't like this game." The monster said nervously.
Suddenly a green and a black creature, as ugly as the first appeared.
"Hello!" The two said in perfect unison. "GOOD BYE!" Chazz yelled as he smacked all three of the monsters right out of his window.
Ayato yawned as he entered the school, which was suprisingly empty.
He looked around. Where was everybody? Suddenly Hikari walked around the corner, spotting Ayato before he had spotted her.
With inhuman speed she rushed up to Ayato and embraced him in a bone shattering hug. Ayato gasped loudly, "Hikari...your..killing...me."
Hikari only hugged him tighter. "We were so worried about you."
Hikari looked down to see Ayato face turning different shades of the rainbow. "Oops." She released him and he slumped to the ground with a loud thud. "Um, Ayato? Are you alright?"
Ayato sat up gasping for air. Hikari smiled, "Your okay." Ayato glared at her. Hikari's sweat dropped. Ayato got up and dusted himself off, "Where is everyone?" He asked.
"Oh yeah, I guess you wouldn't know, would you?" Hikari replied.
"Know what?" Ayato questioned. "All classes were canceled today."
Ayato raised a brow in confusion, "Why?" Hikari smiled, "The school duel isn't to far off so four canidates were chosen, your one of them of course. Jaden will be dueling Chazz and you'll be dueling Kazama."
Ayato grinned widely, "Finally. I'll show him what's what."
"Oh yeah I almost forgot. Your dad sent you some new cards, I think you'll like them a lot. There at my office so come on, let's go."
"Okay." Ayato followed Hikari out of the building.
Hikari opened the door to her office and walked in, Ayato following suit. Akari, Anna, Alexis, Jaden, Syrus, and Nico(who is now an Obelisk Blue) looked up.
"Hey guys. Ayato greeted them. Akari grabbed Ayato by the collar and began to shake him violently. "Where have you been?"
"Yeah, we'd all like to know that." Anna said.
Akari stopped shaking Ayato. "Yeah." Ayato glared at Akari, "It's kind of a long story."
"We've got plenty of time." Akari quickly said. Ayato told them everything, except the part about Hitaki's breasts and the kiss.
"You were trapped in a cave with my sister and she didn't try anything?" Akari looked at Ayato disbelievingly. "Well yeah, she was more concerned about getting out of that cave, good thing too."
Nico studied his face, she could tell he was lying, but decided not to say anything. "Well at least your okay." Alexis said, everyone nodded in agreement.
"Here it is." Hikari walked in with a small box and handed it to Ayato.
"Thanks." Ayato opened the box, "Wow, these are great!"
"Let me see!" Jaden said eagerly. Ayato quickly put the cards into his deck, "Don't worry. You'll see them in my duel against Kazama."
"Well wait till you see my new deck!" Jaden exclaimed.
"You got a new deck!? So did I!" Ayato replied. "Really!?" Jaden's grin doubled in size.
"Hey Ayato! What is that?" Akari was looking at Ayato's neck intently.
"Huh? What's what?" Ayato replied catiously.
"That mark on your neck. What is it?"
Ayato's hand quickly covered up the spot on his neck. "Bug bite."
"That didn't look like a bug bite to me." Akari eyed him intently.
Anna walked over to Ayato, who in turn took a few steps backward. "Let me see Ayato."
"Uh, it's just a bug bite, no need to be concerned Anna, seriously"
Everyone in the room was now watching Ayato. Ayato's sweat dropped, "Well, gotta go!" Ayato dashed out of the room.
"That was strange." Syrus said, he turned to Nico. "Wasn't it?" But Nico had vanished.
Ayato sighed as he rested at the base of the tree, "Man that was close." He had looked at the mark earlier in his mirror, he suspected that it was intially pink but it was gradually turning black. He sighed, 'Well at least that way I can say it's a tattoo if anyone asks.'
"May I see." Ayato jumped up suprised hitting his head on a tree branch. Ayato rubbed the bump on his head tenderly. Nico was staring back at him. "Ouch, that must have hurt." She giggled.
"Yeah well I didn't think it was that funny." Ayato replied still tending to the bump. "May I see." Nico replied. "See what?" Ayato answered.
Nico simply glared at him. Ayato sighed, "Fine." He bent down slightly so she could see. Nico gasped. Ayato quickly straightened up, "What!
do you know what it is?"
"Um, no." Nico said as she quickly hurried off. 'It's exactly as I thought.' She thought to herself as she quickend her pace. Ayato just stared at her retreating form, now he was beginning to worry. 'I don't think I even want to know what this mark is anymore.'
Ryon walked down one of the many long hallways of the Order's HQ, his spiked black hair waving in every direction as he continued. "Hey!"
Ryon spun around quickly, but there was no one there. He looked at the spot where he had heard the voice a moment longer before deciding there really was nothing there. He turned around and bumped into somebody, nearly losing his balance.
The person let down his hood, showing his green eyes, his red wild hair shook in all directions as he laughed. Ryon stared at him stoically.
Ryuji spoke in a whisper, "I know what you've been plotting." He said grinning.
Ryon looked at him for a few seconds, "I have no idea what your talking about. Now if you excuse me, I have business to attend to." Ryon pushed Ryuji out the way.
Ryuji turned around. "Got another meeting with Kaena, huh? You know your plan will never work."
Ryon turned around, anger was rising within him, "I already told you,
I have no idea what your talking about."
"It could work, if I helped of course. After all, I'm getting rather bored just doing petty jobs. So what do you say?" He held out his hand. Ryon looked at him skeptically.
"Come on, you can trust me." He grinned again. Ryon's frown deepend, "Follow me." He said quickly and softly as he walked away. Ryuji's grin dissolved almost instantly as he follwed Ryon. 'Oh yes. This will be interesting.' He thought to himself.
Akari knocked on Ayato's dorm room. "Come on in!" she heard a muffled call from within the room. Akari opened the door. "Akari! What the? What are you doing here?!"
Akari smacked him in the back of the head. "Shhhh. Stop shouting idiot!"
Ayato rubbed the back of his head, "You didn't have to smack me. So what are you doing here? I'm pretty sure I haven't done anything to offend you...yet."
Akari rolled her eyes, "Actually you did." She walked over to his bed,
sitting down. She looked him directly in his eyes. Ayato gulped. "First off, I'd like to remind you that your an idiot. What were you thinking wondering off into the forest like that!"
"Well I-" but Ayato was cut off by Akari. "I was worried sick about you! After losing your memory and Jaden losing his will to duel I at least thought you'd act a bit more careful!" She glared at him.
They were both face to face as Akari found it fit to yell at him at such a close distance, having left the bed. Ayato took one step back but that only made Akari take one step closer as she continued her verbal assault.
"I mean honestly! You know these strange people are out to get you and you think it's okay to go get yourself trapped with the most dangerous person I know! Do you even care about your well being!?"
Ayato suddenly felt an anger that he had never felt before. "Of course I care about my well being! I don't need you to remind me about being a target either! I already have enough on my mind, I don't need you making it worse."
Akari looked taken aback, but quickly recovered. "Well maybe if you talked to me about it than maybe you wouldn't have to go off sulking by yourself!"
"I'm doing it all for you!" Ayato yelled. There was an eerie silence.
Akari looked at him, shock evident on her face. "Yeah that's right! When I was kidnapped that day, I..I learned things I shouldn't have."
"Ayato, what did you mean?" Akari forgot all her anger as she stood there staring into Ayato's eyes.
Ayato looked away. "I can't tell you." He turned to leave, but Akari grabbed his hand. They looked at eachother for what seemed like an eternity before Ayato broke free and left the room, slamming the door behind him.
Akari looked down at the floor, 'What could it be?'
Ayato stalked away from his dormroom, a deep frown set upon his face.
'Who does she think she is?' He exited the dormitory building.
He sighed as his anger began to fade away. 'I guess it's only natural for her to be worried about me, after all, she does have feelings for me...'
'Okay, there's no time for that right now. I've got to talk to Jaden in private.' Ayato thought as he made his way to the Slifer Red Dorm.
Hitaki yawned. "Man am I bored." She inspected herself in the mirror and let out another yawn. Hitaki smirked, "He really is a perverted idiot."
Flashback
Hitaki approached Ayato slowly, like a predator hunting it's prey.
Ayato gulped as she came closer. "What's the matter? Your not scared are you?"
"O-of course n-not!" Ayato answered.
Hitaki smirked, "Well you wouldn't mind if a gave you the puff-puff treatment, would you?" Hitaki squeezed her breasts together, showing Ayato what she meant.
Ayato's face turned a scarlet red as blood trickled down his nose.
"I-um, uhhh." Ayato was at a complete loss for words.
Hitaki sighed, "I guess you would, wouldn't you?" Hitaki asked Ayato,
who didn't respond in return.
Hitaki suddenly had a serious expression on her face, "But enough playing around. It's time to get down to business."
Hitaki placed her hands on Ayato's shoulders. "I've never done this before so..." Her voice drifted off.
Ayato began to panic, 'She's going to rape me!' Hitaki brought her face towards Ayato's neck and opened her mouth wide. "What are you-AHHHHHH!"
Hitaki bit down on Ayato's neck, blood spurted out trickling down his chest. Ayato tried to pull away but she was gripping him with unnatural force. A dark aura surrounded the two as Hitaki deepend the bite, but Ayato could no longer feel anything at the moment.
End of Flashback
Hitaki lipped her lips subconsciencesly. 'Hmmmmm, his blood, it tasted just like-'
Hitaki was shaken from her thoughts as someone was knocking on her door rather loudly. She got up and opened the door.
Ayato knocked on Jaden's door. Jaden opened the door. "Hey Ayato! Come on in!" Ayato walked in looking around. "There's no one else here is there?"
Jaden shook his head. "Alright, Jaden I need you to promise me that you won't tell anyone what I'm about to tell you."
Jaden had a confused look on his face, "Um, okay."
Ayato proceeded to tell Jaden everything. Jaden looked at him unbelievingly, "So your supposed to die this year." Ayato nodded.
"Well it won't happen! You shouldn't worry about, nothing like that's gonna happen!" Jaden suddenly grinned, "Well accept the part about me being the King of Games part."
"What about the part about you and Alexis?" Ayato questioned.
"Um...I don't know. Oh! That reminds me, Alexis kissed me a while ago."
"She did what?!" Ayato yelled in utter suprise.
"She kissed me." Jaden said again.
"Well what did you do?"
"Um, well the bell rang for class so I kinda ran away. I was really confused."
Ayato sighed, "Well you do like Alexis right?"
"Of course, I just never thought about her in that way."
"Hmmm, I see. Well why don't you give it a shot."
Jaden nodded, "Um, okay."
"Wait a minute, the tournament is going to be this year." Ayato said. "Hey your right!" Jaden exclaimed. Ayato thought for a long while before saying, "Then I won't enter."
Jaden's face had a look of utter suprise. "Why not!?"
"Well, why not? I'd just be endangering everyone by entering."
Jaden looked confused, "What do you mean?"
"If I enter, then those black coats will enter too, right? Well this way I won't have to worry about anyone getting hurt."
Jaden nodded, "I guess I see what you mean. But it won't be the same without you in it."
"I know, but your the one who should be worrying. After all, if I do manage to change my destiny, then it might change yours too."
Jaden grinned, "I'm gonna win no matter what. And you'll be there to see it. Promise?"
Ayato smirked, "Promise."
Beep! Beep! "Huh?" Ayato pulled out his cell phone. "Hey it's a text message from Akari." Ayato looked at it. A look of panic spread across his face.
"We've only got two minutes to get to the duel arena!" Ayato and Jaden sprinted out of the dorm, going full speed towards the academy.
At the Arena
Everyone in the stands were whispering. Kazama stood in the center of the arena, waiting for his opponent. He pushed his bangs away from his eyes, which made several girls swoon.
"Did you send him the message?" Anna asked wearily. "Yeah, I did. That idiot, what is he thinking?" Akari said loud enough for several people to hear her.
Alexis looked around, "Where's Rachel?" Anna and Akari shrugged, "Don't know. Haven't seen her in a while."
"Ahem." Crowler cleared his throat as he got on the mic. "Seeing as his opponent is late, by default Kazama is the wi-"
"I'm here!" Ayato said breathing hard, Jaden right next to him doing the same.
Ayato walked to the center of the arena. "Hmph, so you came after all.
For a second I thought you had gotten scared." Kazama said smugly.
"Me, afraid of you? Never. I'll take you on anyday."
Kazama smirked, "Well after today your gonna have a different opinion about the subject."
"Yeah well we'll just see about that." Ayato activated his duel disk.
Kazama did the same. "You ready?"
"Of course."
"Now let's duel!" They both said in perfect sync.
Ayato: 4000/ Kazama: 4000
"I'll go first." Kazama announced as he drew a card. "Fine by me"
Ayato replied.
Kazama looked at the card he drew and added to his hand. "I place one card face down and summon Spear Dragon(1900/0) in attack mode."
A mostly blue dragon with a spear shaped head(hence the name) appeared on the field, it's orange eyes staring at Ayato.
"Your turn." Kazama said confidently. Ayato looked at the dragon. 'Just as I thought, he has a dragon deck. But that was obvious. His deck must be built on ending duels quickly. Which means if I can stall I'll win for sure.'
Ayato looked down at his new deck, then it hit him. He had never really checked out the deck. 'This might be a problem.' He thought as he continued to look at his deck.'
"C'mon, make your move already." Kazama said impatiently.
Ayato drew a card from the deck slot. He looked up at Kazama. 'I'm starting to like this deck already.'
"Okay, first I play the spell card Dark Core!" Ayato discarded one card into the graveyard. A giant black orb crackling with electricity came upon the field and incinerated Spear Dragon, leaving nothing behind.
"Now I summon Relentess(3000/0)!" An enormous red dragon made it's prescene known as it let out a mighty roar(as if it had too, it was huge).
Kazama stared up at the dragon in disbelief, "What the?! A four star monster with the same attack points as the Blue Eyes White Dragon!"
Everyone in the stands gasped. "Since when did Ayato get that card"
Syrus asked nervously. "That monster is incredible." Anna replied.
Bastion nodded, "That's true. But a monster that strong has to have it's drawbacks."
"Alright! Now attack with Relentless Blast!" The giant of a dragon opened it's mouth wide, preparing to attack Kazama.
Kazama sprung into action. "I activate my face down Stop! by giving up 1000 life points I can negate your monster's attack."
Ayato: 4000/ Kazama: 3000
Relentess roared in anger at being stopped. "That thing doesn't seem too happy." Syrus remarked.
"Nice save, I end my turn by placing two cards face down. And since it's the end of my turn Relentess is destroyed." Relentess roared one final time before shattering into a million pieces. "And I lose 1000 life points, and also I can no longer use Relentess for the rest of the duel."
Ayato: 3000/ Kazama: 3000
Kazama drew a card. 'I would have never thought Ayato would have a monster like that. I have to be careful from here on out.'
"I play Swords of Revealing Light!"
Ayato smirked, "Swords of Revealing Light already?"
Kazama smirked in return, "I'm gonna wipe that smirk right off your face! I summon Artilery Dragon Lv 3(1500/1200) in attack mode!"
A reddish orange dragon with battle armor come from the card. It's battle armor had rows of spikes on it's shoulder plates and gauntlets.
Ayato looked confused, "Artilery Dragon?! I've never heard of this card before."
"Well, let's just say I've picked up a few new cards since I've been here. Next I'll play Stamping Destruction, as long as I have one dragon face-up on my side of the field I can destroy 1 spell or trap card on your side of the field, which will result in you losing 500 life points. Now, Artilery Dragon attack his card on the right!"
Artilery dragon ran over to the card and began to stomp on it repeatedly until it shattered.
Ayato: 2500/ Kazama: 3000
"And while your over there, attack Ayato directly! Hidden Weaponry!"
Artilery Dragon roared, several different firearms appeared out of slots on the dragon's armor.
"Whoa!" Jaden exclaimed. "I never saw that one coming." Akari replied.
Bastion nodded, "Neither did I."
"Not so fast, I activate my trap Defensless Finds Defense! When I have no monster cards on my side of the field all attacks against me are negated."
Artilery Dragon's weapons returned back to their slots on the battle armor.
"You've just activated Artilery Dragon's special effect, whenever it's attack is stopped it levels up and the end of my turn. Which means he is now Lv 5(2700/2000)!"
The dragon grew in size, it's teeth became sharper and it's armor became bigger and bulkier. The dragon roared.
"Brilliant! He knew Ayato would negate the attack!" Bastion exclaimed.
Syrus looked at him, "Hey, who's side are you on!?"
Ayato smiled, much to Kazama's suprise. "So your not all talk after all, you knew I was gonna activate a trap, didn't you?"
Kazama nodded, "That's what being a pro is all about."
Ayato drew a card from his deck slot, "Well. It's gonna take a lot more than you got to beat me."
"Big talk, let's see if you can back it up."
Ayato looked at the card he drew and grinned, "I play Vandorgaron's Sneaky Spy(500/1000)!" A scrawny looking man with a rather long nose in an all black jumpsuit with a matching black bandana scrambled onto the field.
Kazama looked at the weak looking man, "This is all you got?"
"Don't judge a monster by it's appearance. I thought a pro such as yourself would know that. His special abilty is what you should be worried about."
Kazama looked at the monster and then at Ayato, annoyance evidnet on his face. "Is that so?"
"Once per turn I can disable a spell or tarp card for three turns up to a maxium of two." (A/N: For those of you who are confused, it means that only two spell or trap cards can be under this monster's effect at a time).
The Swords of Revealing Light faded somewhat. "That's a very good effect, but you still can't beat my dragon."
"I place one card face down and end my turn."
Kazama drew a card, "I attack your Spy with Missle Barrage!"
Artilery Dragon's battle armor slots opened up, rocket launchers emerging from them. Many missles shot out from the rockets, destroying the scrawny man.
Ayato: 300/ Kazama: 3000
Kazama stared at the face down card on Ayato's side of the field.
"Well, aren't you going to activate it."
Ayato looked suprised, "Well, yeah. I activate my face down, Healer's Restoration!" A little girl in a blue robe emerged from the card. She turned to Ayato with a smile and clapped her hands. A blue aura appeared around Ayato, replenishing his life points.
Ayato: 3000/ Kazama: 3000
"How did you know it was a trap card!?" Ayato asked.
"Hmph, maybe I should have dueled Jaden instead of you. I don't see how you were capable of defeating the 3 Egyptian Gods."
A vein throbbed on Ayato's forehead. "Don't underestimate me, the duel just started."
"Yeah and your about to have a bad ending."
Ayato practically ripped his next card out of the deck slot. "I play the spell card Vandorgaron's Punishment!"
Artilery Dragon curled up into a ball. Kazama looked confused, "What just happened!?"
"This card makes you defensless, by taking your monsters out of battle, but only for one turn. Now I'll summon Vandrgaron's Servant(1000/1000)."
The small silver dragon appeared on the field and looked around before turning to Ayato. "Oh it's you again." The dragon replied.
"Now attack Kazama directly!"
The silver dragon glared at Ayato. "Next time ask, not demand." The dragon walked over to Kazama and stomped on his toe. "Ouch!"
Aytao: 3000/ Kazama: 2000
Ayato's sweat dropped, "What kind of attack was that!"
Everyone in the stadium was thinking the same thing.
"Well, your special effect says you can attack twice, so attack again please." Ayato asked in a mockingly sweet voice.
"That's better." The dragon replied as it slashed Kazama across the chest.
Ayato: 3000/ Kazama: 1000
"Well, that's it for my turn."
Artilery Dargon returned to it's normal hulking stature.
"Oh, and I kinda forgot to mention your monster can't attack for one turn." Ayato said with a smirk.
Kazama growled, "Whatever. I play the spell card Enemy's Blunder!" By discarding a trap card from my hand, I can use a trap card from your graveyard. And I choose Healer's Restoration!"
The little girl emerged from the card and turned with a frown on her face as she clapped her hands, replenishing Kazama's life points.
Ayato: 3000/ Kazama: 3000
"Next I play Level Up! Which means my dragon levels up to Lv 7!"
Artilery Dragon skin turned to to a gray tint. It's body expanding along with the battle armor, it roared and flexed it's muscles as giant wings grew from it's back. It's stats flashed on Kazama's duel disk(3100/1300).
"Man that thing keeps on getting stronger and uglier." Akari said.
"Now I summon Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress #2. But he won't be staying for long. I use Artilery Dragon's special effect!"
Artilery Dragon's breast plate on it's battle armor opened up, a cannon extended from it. The Winged Dragon jumped inside of the cannon.
"Oh man, this can't be good." Syrus whined. "He really is a genuis"
Bastion said. Everyone glared at him. Bastion's sweat dropped, "What?"
The Winged Dragon was blasted out of the cannon and slammed into Ayato,
making him stagger back.
Ayato: 2400/ Kazama: 3000
"If you hadn't figured out yet, his special abilty is to sacrifice a monster on my side of the field, in which you take damage equal to half of that monster's attack points. But that's not all, now I have the choice of leveling him up to Lv 10. And of course I will."
The dragon increased in size again, it's skin turning a darker shade of gray, it's battle armor growing larger an bulkier, it's wings growing in length. It's stats were (3300/2000).
"And one of it's special effects increases it's attack by 200 for every dragon in my graveyard, and I have 4, which means his attack is now 4100!"
Many people in the crowd gasped. Way up in the stands Saiou smiled, "He could serve me well, this Kazama." Saiou turned his gaze towards Ayato. "Hmmm, can he, really win?"
Please Review. I'd like to say I'll have the next chapter out tommorrow, but since I know that'll be a lie, I won't. But I do hope to have the next one out soon.