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Chapter 42: The Power of Neos
Jaden yawned as he woke up, he scratched his multi-colored head as he got out of bed.
He groggily looked outside his window. A shooting star shot across the sky. "Woah!"
Little did Jaden know that this "shooting star" was actually Aster Phoenix, the Hero duelist that had bested him a while back in a duel.
Jaden was greeted by Syrus, Exion, and Nico as he exited his dormroom.
"Hey guys! What's up!"
"About time you woke up it's already noon." Exion exclaimed. "So you ready?" Syrus asked. Jaden nodded, "Man I'm itching for a duel. Come on let's go!"
Jaden took off as the others followed. "Wait up Jaden we can't run as fast as you can!" Syrus whined.
"Hey look there's Ayato!" Jaden stopped to greet his friend. "Hey what's up with you?"
Ayato sighed, "I broke up with Anna...she didn't take it too well."
"I feel for you." Exion and Syrus said in unison.
"Aw cheer up Ayato, after all there's a whole day of dueling ahead of us!" Jaden grabbed Ayato by the hand and dragged him along as he ran off again.
"Wait Jaden!" Syrus called after him.
Akari made her way towards the Slifer Red dorm, hoping to catch the others before they left, she spotted Alexis.
"Hey Alexis over here!" She called to her.
Alexis kept walking along. Akari's sweat dropped, "Maybe she didn't hear me."
Akari ran up to the Obelisk Beauty, "Hey didn't you hear me! Alexis I was calling you."
Alexis turned to Akari. "Um, Alexis why are you wearing all white?"
"Soon the entire school will be dyed white." Alexis replied before walking off.
Akari's sweat dropped, "Okay."
Aster quickly walked towards Duel Academy, thinking to himself.
Flashback
Sartorius looked up at the gray haired young man, "Aster, you came so quickly. I was at Duel Academy yesterday."
Aster looked suprised. "What?"
"There, I found something that didn't go along with my prediction."
Aster looked even more suprised. "What are you thinking about Aster"
Sartorius asked.
"I'm amazed, this is the first time you've ever talked about your own prediction."
"This doesn't mean my destiny predicton is wrong, it's because there is someone who can overcome my prediction."
Aster looked at Sartorius curiously, "And who is it exactly that can overcome destiny?"
Sartorius smiled, "If you are interested then you should return to Duel Academy."
"Well, I'm not that interested, but Duel Academy is a good place to get more GX coins for the tournament."
Aster turned, 'I highly doubt anyone can overcome Sartorius' prediction, who could this guy be?'
End of Flashback
Aster walks into the Academy, he sees Chazz.
Chazz greets him, "Is it the order of Master Sartorius?"
Aster looked confused, "The order of Sartorius?"
"Yes, the order of the Association of Light."
"Association of Light, what's that?" Aster asked.
Chazz looked at him suprised, "You mean you don't know. I thought for sure you came to get rid of Jaden by the order of Master Sartorius."
"Jaden? Why would I want to duel him? I've already beaten him. There's no reason to beat him again."
"When you dueled Jaden, your deck had the power of Master Sartorius. But when you beat Jaden he didn't become a member of the Association of Light. That means Master Sartorius' power doesn't affect him or someone has to beat him again."
Aster was really confused now. "The power of Sartorius in my deck? What do you mean by that?"
"You really don't know anything do you? Sooner or later this school will belong to Master Sartorius. And if you won't fight Jaden I will! Ha ha ha!!!"
Chazz walked off. "Hey answer my question!" Aster called after him, but Chazz kept walking. 'What's up with him? But the guy that Sartorius told me about, could that guy really be Jaden?'
Aster walked into the giant stadium, he looked around. "Hmmm, no one's here."
As soon as Aster said this Jaden and co. also entered the arena. "Hey look! It's Aster!"
Jaden ran over to him, "Hey Aster! I was hoping to see you again! Now I can get my rematch!"
Aster frowned, "There's no real reason for me to duel you again."
Jaden smirked, "Oh yes there is. Either you duel or you automatically lose a GX coin."
"Hmph." Aster's duel disk activated. Jaden activated his in return, "My new hero monsters can't wait to fight against you."
Aster frowned again, "I told you there are no other hero monsters that exists in the world."
"Your may be right Aster, but my hero monsters don't come from the Earth, they come from the universe."
"Jaden must mean they are aliens." Bastion said, scaring both Syrus and Exion. "When did you get here." they both asked.
"Yeah well we can get to the details later, rihgt now it's time to get your game on!"
"Duel!"
Aster: 4000/ Jaden: 4000
"Since you challenged me I'll go first. I summon D-Hero Diamond Guy(1400/1600) and I activate his special ability, by revealing the top card of my deck, if it's a magic card, I can put it into the graveyard and activate it in the next turn."
Aster draws a card and it is Graceful Charity, he send it to the graveyard. "I end my turn."
"My draw, I summon N-Aqua Dolphin(600/800) in attack mode."
"Wow, look at it." Ayato said.
"Maybe it really is an alien." Bastion exclaimed.
"Next I play the spell card Fake Hero, I can special summon one monster from my hand and return it to my hand at the end of my turn. Now I special summon E-Hero Bladedge(2600/2800)."
"Now I activate N-Aqua Dolphin's special effect, by sending a card in my hand into my graveyard my monster can select a card in your hand. If the monster has fewer attack points than a chosen monster on my side of the field than it will be destroyed and I can deal direct 500 points of damage to your life points."
N-Aqua Dolphin shoots a beam at one of Aster's cards, an image of D-Hero Diehard Guy appears, but it instantly shatters.
Aster: 3500/ Jaden: 4000
E-Hero Bladedge returns to Jaden's hand, "And I'll end my turn with a couple of face downs."
"My turn, I activate the effects of Gracefull Charity." Aster draws three cards and discards two. "Now I'll play the field spell Mausoleum of the Deceased Emperor."
The playing field is turned into that of a desolate ruin.
"This card can be played by both sides once paying 1000 life points, which I will do..."
Aster: 2500/ Jaden: 4000
"...to summon two Imperial Tomb Haniwa, and by sacrificing them I can summon D-Hero Dread Guy(?/?), and once summoned I can special summon two D-Hero monsters from my graveyard, D-Hero Diehard Guy and D-Hero Devil Guy. Dread Guy's attack equals the sum of all D-Hero monsters, which means his attack is 2800."
"Wow, he summoned three monsters in one turn." Syrus looked on amazed.
"If Jaden gets hit his life points will be very low." Ayato exclaimed.
"Now let's see who will win, my D-Hero or your new hero, Dread Guy attack!"
"I activate my face down, Negate Attack!"
Dread Guy bounces off of the shield created by the trap card.
"My draw, now I'll use your field spell card, I sacrifice 1000 of my life points to summon two Imperial Tomb Haniwa tokens..."
Aster: 2500/ Jaden: 3000
"To special summon E-Hero Neos(2500/2000) in attack mode."
Aster looked suprise, "I've never seen a hero like that before."
"Well of course you've never seen this hero before because E-Hero Neos is showered by the wave of the universe, it can make contact with Neo Spacians, and it's also a miracle E-Hero. Now I'll show you the power of Neos."
"Go, Contact Fusion between E-Hero Neos and N-Aqua Dolphin to create E-Hero Aqua Neos(2500/2000)."
All of Jaden's friends look suprised, Ayato being the most suprised of all.
"Now I activate his special effect, by sending one card from my hand to the graveyard I can discard two of your cards in your hands."
Jaden discards Bladedge, which in turn destroys two of Aster's cards in his hand, sending them in the graveyard.
"Now I'll activate my other face down card, the spell card H Heat Heart, which increases my monsters attack by 500 points, now go destroy his D-Hero Dread Guy, Dolphin Kick!"
E-Hero Aqua Neos does various backflips before doing a somersault-esque kick, destroying the overly buff monster.
Aster: 2300/ Jaden: 3000
"He defeated one of Aster's key monsters." Nico exclaimed happily.
"E-Hero Aqua Neos is so cool.' Syrus says.
"I won't accept any hero other than D-Hero." Aster replies to Jaden's friend's comments.
Suddenly E-Hero Aqua Neos glows and turns back into Jaden's deck.
Everyone gasp in suprise, including Jaden. "Maybe Jaden hasn't mastered the deck yet." Bastion wonders.
"Jaden has no monsters on his side of the field now, this is bad." Syrus worriedly says.
"I challenge you Jaden, show me if you can get over your defeat destiny. Attack my D-Hero monsters!"
Jaden takes three consecutive hits to the chest by Aster's monsters and falls to one knee.
Aster: 2300/ Jaden: 200
Aster smirks, "Victory has certainly been decided."
Jaden struggles to get up, "The true strength of my new deck hasn't been shown yet."
Aster glares at Jaden, 'He still doesn't understand the burden of the destiny of the true hero.'
Jaden draws a card, "Since this is the only card in my hand I can special summon it unto the field, go, Elemental Hero Bubbleman(800/1200) in attack mode!"
"And when it's the only card on the field I can draw two cards from my deck." Jaden quickly draws to cards, "And now I play Pot of Greed to summon two more cards!"
"Now I equip Bubbleman with Bubble Blaster, increasing his attack points to 1600. Next I'll summon N-Air Hummingbird, man is he cool!"
N-Air Hummingbird turns to Jaden, "Let's fight together for all." Jaden nods in agreement.
"Now I'll activate his special effect, for every card in your hand I gain 500 life points."
Aster: 2300/ Jaden: 1700
"Now Bubbleman, attack D-Hero Diehard Guy with Bubble grenade. Bubbleman readjusts the grenade launcher on his shoulder before blasting Diehard guy to pieces.
Aster: 1500/ Jaden: 1700
"Air Hummingbird attack D-Hero Devil Guy!" Air Hummingbird flies up then slam's into Aster's monster beak first.
Aster: 1300/ Jaden: 1700
"I'll throw down a face down and end my turn."
"Wow, Jaden's in the lead now. Neo Spacian Hero power is great." Syrus exclaims, Exion and Ayato nodding in agreement.
"D-Hero is the ultimate power, I play the field magic Dark City, the desolate playing field is quickly replaced with that of giant dark buildings.
"This card increases the attack of all D-Hero monsters by 1000 when battling a monster with higher attack strength."
'That's just like my Skyscraper card, only it's for D-Hero monsters.'
"Now I sacrifice D-Hero Diamond Guy to summon D-Hero Double Guy(1000/1000) in attack mode, now attack his Bubbleman."
Double Guy does a flying kick, destroying Bubbleman's grenade launcher.
"Double Guy's special effect allows him to attack again, attack Air Hummingbird." With another flying kick the red bird is destroyed.
Aster: 1300/ Jaden: 1500
"My turn, I play Graceful Charity, I draw three cards and discard two. Now I activate my face dowm trap card, Fallen Angel's Gift. it's effect allow us to take back cards discarded to the graveyard by a spell's effect in this turn."
"Now I'll play the permanent spell card Soul Share-Common Soul, by it's effect, if a have another monster on the field I can summon a Neo Spacian to the field, and I summon N-Flare Scarab(Attack: 500)."
Aster looks at the new monster, "Amazing."
"Don't you see Aster, there are heros other than E-Hero and D-Hero."
Aster looks at Jaden in utter annoyance, 'Look at him, flaunting about his new heros, I will not accept any hero that doesn't hold the destiny.'
Suddenly Jaden smiles at Aster, "Absolutely, I feel so sorry for your father. But seeing new heros is exciting. Your the same way, aren't you Aster?"
Aster's expression softens as Jaden continues, "I'm sure your father didn't create D-Hero for you to be sad about it, but for you to be happy and enjoy it."
Aster looks down, 'It's true. My father did create D-Hero for me to enjoy. D-Hero is supposed to be for my happiness. But everytime I look at D-Hero I only feel pain, this is completely different from what my dad had hoped.'
"Alright let's continue this duel, N-Flare Scarab's special effect gives him an extra 400 attack points for every trap and magic on your side of the field, and you have two, so his attack goes up to 1300."
"And that's not all, thanks to Soul Share, N-Flare Scarab's attack points can be added to another monsters', in this case my Bubbleman, bringing his attack up to 2100! now attack Double Guy, Bubble Shot!"
Bubbleman cocks back the launcher attached to his arms and fires, destroying Double Guy.
Aster: 200/ Jaden: 1500
"I activate my trap card Destiny Signal, when a monster is destroyed I can special summon a D-Hero from my deck, and I choose, D-Hero Defend Guy(100/2700) in defense mode."
"That's a lot of defense points, don't you think so Syrus." Nico turned to the bluenette who nodded his head in agreement.
"If D-Hero Defend Guy is in defense position in your turn, then you are allowed to draw one card from your deck."
Jaden nods showing his understanding.
Aster draws a card, "I activate the special effect of Doubleguy, when it's destroyed I can summon two Double Guy tokens in attack mode during my standby phase, each having 1000 attack points."
"Next I play Mystical Space Typhoon to get rid your Soul Share, which means Flare Scarab returns to your hand since it was special summoned by it. Which means your Bubbleman returns to normal strength. Now attack Double Guy token."
Doubleguy token flips and kicks Bubbleman.
Aster: 200/ Jaden: 1300
"Now, my second Double Guy token, attack Jaden directly!" THe second token flips and kicks Jaden in the chest.
Aster: 200/ Jaden: 300
"C'mon Jay, you can win this."
"Even with only 200 life points Aster's still pretty strong." Nico explains to Syrus.
"I know, but still..."
Jaden draws, then draws again due to the effect of Defend Guy. "I play the spell The Shallow Grave, this card allows the both of us to special summon monsters from our graveyards into a defense position. And I choose Hero Kids(300/600), and then I'll activate it's effect which allows me to summon two more Hero Kids."
"Jaden, have you forgotten about my great D-Hero sleeping in the graveyard? I choose D-Hero Dreadguy, and by sacrificing my two Double Guy tokens I can special resummon two D-Hero monsters, Diamond Guy and Diehard Guy, from the graveyard unto the field in defense position. Furthermore, Dread Guy's attack and defense becomes the combined value of my Diehard Guy and Diamond Guy's attack, which is 2300!"
"My turn is not over yet, I summon Flare Scarab, who's attack goes up to 900, now attack Aster's Diehard Guy!"
Flare Scarab incinerates Diehard Guy, leaving nothing behind.
Aster draws a card and quickly plays Pot of Greed, he then draws two more cards. "I sacrifice Diamond Guy, Defend Guy, and Dread Guy to summon D-Hero Dogma Guy(3400/2400), attack his Flare Scarab!"
"Not so fast! I activate my trap card, Kids Guard, it allows me to sacrifice one of my Hero Kids to negate your Dogma's attack."
Flare Scarab turns to Jaden, "I will not let that sacrifice be in vain. It is now time to borrow the power of Neos."
Jaden looks at his deck, "And with the second effect of Kids Guard I can choose an Elemental Hero from my deck and place it into my hand."
Aster places a card face down before ending his turn. Jaden draws a card. "I activate Dogma Guy's special effect, during your standby phase he can cut your life points in half." Aster smirks.
Aster: 200/ Jaden: 150
"Hey Aster! I had a lot of fun with this duel, the battle of heros is exciting! Anyway, there's still a new hero in my deck. Now I'll activate my field spell, Neo Space."
Aster's Dark City crumbles as the field is replaced with a space theme.
"Now I'll sacrifice my remaining two Hero Kids to summon Elemental Hero Neos(2500/2000), and by the effect of Neo Space he gains an extra 500 attack points."
"But he's still weaker than my D-Hero."
"That's why I'm gonna show you the possibilty of Neos, now Contact Fusion, Flare Scarab and Neos!"
"Contact...Fusion?" Aster looks on as the two monsters emit a bright light as they begin to merge into a new hero.
"Aster, meet E-Hero Flare Neos(2500/2000), his attack points go up by 400 for every magic and trap on both sides of the field, there are three in total, making his attack 4200!"
"Now attack Dogma Guy!"
"I activate my trap, D-Shield, this card puts Dogma Guy in defense mode and protects him from being destroyed."
"Man! Your really strong!"
Aster smiles, glad to recieve the compliment.
"Well that's it for my turn."
Aster draws a card and looks unto Jaden's field, "So your E-Hero didn't disappear because of Neo Space?"
"That's right, Neo Space keeps all E-Hero monsters contact fusing with Neo Spacians."
"Neos is a wonderful hero, I accept that, but I am sure I won't be defeated in this game. I switch Dogma Guy into attack mode and then I'll equip him with Heavy Storm Blade. This is it, the final conclusion, Dogma Guy attack!"
"Why would Aster attack even though his monster is weaker?" Ayato asks Bastion. "Just watch and see." Bastion replies.
"I activate the special effect of Heavy Storm Blade, which destroys all magic and traps on the field except itself, lowering your monster attack points to 2900!"
But instead of being destroyed, Flare Neos blocks the blade and it breaks, much to Aster's suprise.
"I feel sorry for you Aster, but Flare Neos attack points are actually 3700. Your Heavy Storm Blade destroyed my Calling Magic, and when it's destroyed I can set 2 spell cards from my deck unto the field."
Aster looks shocked, 'This has gone beyond the prediction of Sartorius.'
Meanwhile Sartorius gets a Wheel of Fortune tarot card in reverse position in his tarot reading, which means an unexpected bad event or defeat.
D-Hero Dogma Guy is destroyed, resulting in Aster's defeat.
Aster: 0/ Jaden: 150
"And that's game, and I good one at that!' Jaden declares.
"Indeed it was." Bastion replies.
Aster walks up to Jaden. "I accept defeat today, but that doesn't mean that D-Hero was defeated, it was because of my own play."
"Nobody thinks D-Hero is weak at all, everyone has a hero in their own mind, and that is certainly the greatest hero. Well anyway, were now both at one loss and one win, so it's a tie."
"Someday we'll make the final conclusion." Aster leaves. Once he gets outside he tries to contact Sartorius but to no avial. 'I wonder if Sartorius has left me already, I need to ask him a few questions.'
He turns to look at Duel Academy. 'I'm sure that if I stay here I'll meet him again, after all, his target is here, the one who can overcome his prediction, Jaden Yuki with his new Neos deck.'
A little over two weeks had passed and Duel Academy island had changed drastically, ever since the arrival of Sartorius. The Obelisk Blue Dorm had been dyed white, many students, mostly Obelsik Blue and a few Ra Yellow students wore white now. Slifer Red students weren't considered good enough to join the Association of Light.
At the Slifer Red Dorm
Jaden, Ayato, Exion, Syrus, Nico, and Akari all sat in Jaden's room, thinking deeply about the situation that had started a little over the past two weeks.
"I say we should pick a leader." Syrus suggested.
"I nominate Jaden to be leader." Ayato said quickly.
"Why me?" Jaden asked.
"Well, me and you are the two best duelists here," Ayato started. A cough could be heard from Akari but Ayato ignored her. "But you have the power of Neos, which is far more effective than my own right now."
"Well I nominate Jaden too." Exion said.
Everyone else simply nodded. "Okay so what's the battle plan O' Fearless Leader?" Akari asked the headstrong teen.
"Erm, we could try reaching out to our friends that have been brainwashed first, you know, build up our ranks, before trying to convince students we don't know to join us."
"That sounds good." Exion agreed.
"So who do we know that's been brainwashed." Syrus asks.
"Well Alexis for starters." Jaden replies.
"Yeah, and Anna too." Ayato looks over to Exion.
"Well there's Chazz and Bastion, haven't seen Rachel around either."
"Yeah that's true." Nico agreed.
"Haven't seen Kazama either, but I doubt he'd get beat by anyone but Aster or Sartorius."
"Hey! Who said Aster was ever in it!?" Jaden says defensively.
"Well Sartorius is his manager." Ayato remarks.
Just then Aster walked in, dressed in his usual gray. Jaden jumps up, "Aster! Where have you been!?!"
"On my personal yacht, but I've decided to come here to help you guys out."
"Thanks Aster, we need all the help we can get with the way things are going."
Ayato stands up, "And why should we believe you? For all we know you could be here to spy on us."
Aster glared at Ayato, who in turn glared back. Akari got up and grabbed Ayato by the ear. "Excuse him, he's been taught better. We appreciate your help Aster."
"Akari let me go, I'm not through interrogating him yet!"
Akari pulled on his ear harder, "Oh yes you are. I think you need to cool off!"
"No I don't, let me go."
"One more word outta you and I'll beat the crap out of you."
Ayato shut his mouth at once. Akari smiled, "That's better."
A black coated figure walked up to the Slifer Red Dorm, "Must protect organization, in order to do that, I must kill Akari."
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