Wow, how long has it been since I've updated? Months, years? I feel so bad for leaving it too long. Honestly. I mean, I've been really busy with stupid jobseeking and real life workplace stuff. It's so stupid. But I will say, I do a lot of fan pics most of the time so if anyone has a pic request and doesn't have a Deviantart account, send any requests here.

Now Yu-Gi-Oh talk, Arc-V is getting pretty good! I loved Yuzu's duel against that Enjoy guy (can't remember his name, sorry :( ) but now it's Yuya's turn against that Security guy. I have a feeling that the Security guy is gonna mention the incident with Yugo and Yuzu. That would be interesting to hear from Yuya's point of view, because he only knows that he's a target for that incident. Anyway, I'm cheering for Yuya!

Anyway, here's the chapter. Sorry for the massive wait, but it's better late than never, right? Shout out to sonic3461 for the great new ideas for cards for Roxas' deck! They will be mentioned later in the story and they are updated on the Roxas Deck V2 on Roxas in 5Ds. Enjoy!


Chapter 6 - The Black XYZ Dragon

After what seemed like a meeting of questions, Aero decided to have a quick shower and freshen up. The questions that were asked were mostly about Mobius, the planet he came from, but the other questions were about the monsters in his deck. Now that his voice was heard from them all, he could now explain what he could within dueling. As he came out of the shower, Aero thought about what he could do with his dueling, to make it more entertaining. He then snapped his fingers as he got an idea. "What are you thinking of, Aero?"

Aero looked at his friend Scrap and answered, 'Well, I thought to myself, what could I do to make my dueling more entertaining? Now I've got an idea on what to do to make it happen'. Scrap looked curious at Aero, wondering what he meant. "Really? How?" Aero smiled as he said, 'You'll find out soon enough'. As Aero put the last of his clothing on, he heard a knock on the bathroom door. Since he was decent enough, he said out loud, "Come in!" The door opened as Yuzu came in. "Hey Yuzu, what's up?"

Yuzu looked a little unsure, but she asked, "Everyone wanted some ice cream and I wanted to ask, would you like some?" Aero thought about it, he hasn't had any ice cream for quite a while. "I could use a ice cream, but mind if I come with you? I don't really know what to have and I could go for a walk". Yuzu smiled at Aero. "Sure, okay! I'll be waiting for you outside". With that, Yuzu left the room and Aero was alone again. 'I doubt they have Sea Salt Ice Cream, but it's worth a look'.

15 Minutes Later...

"Geez, if those guys wanted ice cream, they could have gotten it themselves". Aero smiled at Yuzu. "But I'm here, so not all of them were lazy". Yuzu giggled at Aero's remark and even if was irrelevant, she had to say something to Aero. "I forgot to say, thanks for saving us the other day". Aero looked at her as he remembered what she meant. "You mean that Dark Town Tower from before?" Aya who was walking with them added, "Yeah, thanks for saving us Aero!" Aya hugged Aero and he was a little startled by the sudden hug, then he rubbed her a little and said, "You're welcome". Aya retracted the hug and Aero added, "It was nothing really, I do that sort of thing all the time".

The three kept walking and Aero said, "Well, they didn't have my favourite ice cream, but I got something I would enjoy". Both Yuzu and Aya looked at Aero, wondering what his favourite ice cream was. "What is your favourite ice cream?" Aero smiled as he explained. "It's called Sea Salt Ice Cream. A very unique flavour that at first tastes really salty, but it's also sweet too. Weird, huh?" Both of them sweatdropped as they were so confused. "Nevermind. I shouldn't have said. I thought about this for a while, but I found what I could do for my entertainment dueling".

Both Yuzu and Aya looked at Aero as they waited for his answer. Aero smiled as he said, "I'll give you a clue". Then Aero said, but in different tones and in some sort of rhythm. "We are the heroes of our time! Hero-es! Woah-oh! But we're dancing with the demons in our minds, hero-es! Woah-oh!" Aya smiled with joy and Yuzu smiled at Aero. "Your entertainment dueling is singing?" Aero stopped as he smiled at them both. "Yep, that's right! I thought about it, since I knew a lot of songs and decided it would be a good idea, what do you guys think?"

Yuzu and Aya nodded their heads. "It's different, but we like it! But what song were you singing?" Aero answered for Yuzu. "The song is called Heroes by Mâns Zelmerlöw, like it?" Yuzu nodded, but she then noticed someone on the hill beside them. Aya asked with a frown. "What's wrong Yuzu?" Yuzu put a finger on her lips and shushed her. Both Aero and Aya knew what the message was, don't make a sound. They all looked as they saw two people, wearing the LDS uniform. "Sawatari is going all out, isn't he? He said, 'I'll do whatever it takes to crush Yuya'". Yuzu and Aya gasped, but stayed quiet as possible. Aero said nothing, but kept a good eye on the two students.

The other student said, "Sounds like he's going to do something awful! He's going to be focusing on getting his weak points". The first student said, "Oh, we better hurry! He gets more selfish when he's hungry". The two students ran as quick as they could, but Yuzu stood and said to herself, "Sawatari". Aero grabbed the ice creams that Yuzu was carrying and handed them to Aya. "Aya, I want you to take these back and call for Yuya, got it?" Aya looked a little scared and was concerned for Yuzu. "But, what about you and Yuzu?"

Aero looked serious at Aya. "We can take it from here, just tell Yuya what happened and that we'll be late, got it?" Aya nodded and with a carrier bag full of ice creams, she ran to You Show as fast as she could. "C'mon Yuzu, let's go follow them! I got your back!" Yuzu nodded and followed the two LDS students. As they were running, Yuzu looked beside Aero and said, "Now I can see why that song suits you!" Aero smiled and added, "We'll talk more about my singing later, but right now, we gotta teach Sawatari a lesson! No one hurts my friends and gets away with it!"


Meanwhile at the Warehouses...

A lone figure was watching the LDS building on the roof. The figure was wearing a pair of wide goggles that had dark purple lenses and was wearing a mask that covered the figure's mouth and the bottom of the nose. The figure's hair was spiky and was black mostly, but on the front was light violet. The figure had a tattered black cape with a tattered red scarf and had long black boots. Below, the two LDS students went into the warehouse numbered '52'. "Sorry to make you wait!" Inside, Sawatari was sitting on an old sofa with one of his friends sitting on the other sofa. "You're late!" The first student showed the bag he was holding. "We got you your favourite, Apple and Berry Pie!"

Outside the warehouse, Yuzu was on the corner looking at the door. "You and Yuya saved me, now it's time I return the offer". Yuzu was about to walk in, but Aero grabbed her right shoulder. "Remember, I have your back. We're going in together and since Sawatari doesn't know I can talk, I'll keep quiet". Yuzu nodded and walked towards the door. She didn't notice, but the figure looked at Yuzu and gasped. The figure said to itself, "Why is she here?" Sawatari was about to take a big bite of his pie, but he starting to choke as he heard the warehouse door slam.

"You coward!" Sawatari grabbed the water bottle and downed some water to clear his throat. Yuzu faced him and added, "'I'll do whatever it takes to crush Yuya' is that what you said? I will never let you!" Sawatari coughed, but was surprised to see her. "Yuzu? Why are you here?" Yuzu looked determined to punish him. "Like you don't know and I'm not alone!" Sawatari looked at the door, to see Aero walking in with his goggles covering his eyes. "You! You were with Yuya before!" Aero looked at Sawatari like Yuzu was and Sawatari used a cloth to rub the crumbs of his mouth. He put the cloth away and was about to say something about himself, but Yuzu insulted him.

"You know what you are, a second-rate duelist!" Sawatari's right eye twitched. "What did you say?" Yuzu shook her head and insulted him more. "No, you're worst than that! Second, third, a hundredth-rate duelist!" Looking at Sawatari, it looked like something in him snapped and he looked angry at Yuzu. "Now you've done it..." One of his friends closed the doors behind Yuzu and Aero and Yuzu got her duel disk ready. "...What you said before, I'll give you one more chance to change your mind".

Yuzu shouted out, "Too bad! I don't feel like it, you hundredth-rate duelist!" Sawatari growled and prepared his duel disk. "That arrogant attitude of yours... I'll make you pay for that!" Yuzu was about to prepare her duel disk, but one of Sawatari's friends, the one that closed the door, screamed and hit the floor. He wasn't hurt too badly, but everyone looked at who was entering. It was the figure from before. All of Sawatari's friends were behind him and Sawatari was protecting them. "Who are you?"

The figure continued walking until he stopped and said, "Stay down". Aero and Yuzu moved a little away from the figure. Yuzu asked, "Huh, who asked you?" The figure said nothing, but was staring at a badge that was on Sawatari's collar on his jacket. It looked a bit like a wing but it had a dark grey-blue gem on it. 'Why is he so interested with that badge? Is he looking for someone?' Sawatari looked at the figure curious. "Look at this, are you the knight that has come to save the princess?" The figure once again said nothing, but opened his right arm, letting the cape blow and showing that he had a green shirt on, which was a little dirty but less tattered than the cape and scarf.

The figure activated his duel disk, which looked different compared to the other ones, but still futuristic compared to Aero's duel disk. "That's an odd duel disk you have there... you would rather duel me instead?" Yuzu stepped foward to get closer. "Hey! This isn't your fight, I can do this on my own!" Yuzu wanted to activate her duel disk, but the figure showed his right arm to get Yuzu to stand back. She did so and the figure said, "I don't want you to get hurt". Yuzu looked at the figure like she had known him for a long time. Yuzu went beside Aero for protection and she asked, "Aero, do you know who that is?"

Aero shook his and tried to answer as quietly as possible so that Sawatari wouldn't hear him. "No I don't, but my body is telling me to trust him and this feeling never lies". Luckily, it worked since Sawatari didn't hear him. The duel began and the figure went first, as a surprising move, he placed all the cards in his hand face down. There were no monsters to protect him and Sawatari's turn started.

Back at You Show, Aya arrived at the duel school. "Yuya!" Aya ran into the room where Sora, Futoshi and Yuya were waiting. She tripped, but Yuya grabbed her before she fell to the ground and the carrier bag full of ice cream was grabbed by Futoshi. "Are you okay?" Aya was a little upset and she had to calm down first. Sora waggled one of the ice creams as he said, "Aww... they're all melted". Yuya wasn't paying attention to Sora as he asked, "Aya, what's wrong?" Aya looked a little calmer, but she was still upset. "Yuzu and Aero... Yuzu and Aero are in trouble!" Yuya was shocked, but he knew he had to find her. "Where are they?" Aya answered, "Near the dockyard". Yuya nodded and ran out the door to find both Aero and Yuzu.


Back at the warehouse, Sawatari started his move by special summoning Escher the Frost Vassal. He then sacrifices it to summon Mobius the Frost Monarch and uses its effect to destroy two face-down cards. Aero looked at the figure, wondering why he didn't activate any of his face-downs, but Sawatari continued his move. Sawatari then activates a spell called Advance Carnival, that lets him tribute summon again. He sacrifices Mobius to summon Mobius the Mega Monarch and due to its effect, you can release a water attribute monster, instead of sacrificing two monsters. Then its effect allowed it to destroy three more face down cards, which made the figure defenseless.

What was strange though, was that since there was no Action Field in play, everyone could feel the monsters' attacks. "You have nothing else in play and your hand is at zero. For a rookie, this is pretty pathetic". Sawatari smiled as he said this. Yuzu looked at the masked duelist, concerned that what he was doing was awful. "If this is the best you can do, then you might as wel-" But she didn't get to finish as the masked duelist turned to see her, like before, she had that feeling again and she didn't speak.

The duelist didn't turn his head until Sawatari declared his battle, he was about to attack directly with his monster, but the masked duelist declared, "I activate a trap from my graveyard, Phantom Knights Shadow Veil!" Everyone was shocked, as they didn't know that you could activate traps from the graveyard. The duelist grabbed three cards from his graveyard pile. "When a direct attack is declared, I can special summon these as level four monsters! However, if they get destroyed, they are banished instead".

Aero looked at the three monsters that were summoned. 'What's he up to? Is his play just defense?' The monster continued its attack, but onto one of the Shadow Veils instead. "Looks like you saved yourself for now, I place a card face down and end my turn, I'll finish you next turn". The masked duelist breathed slowly and said, "There will be no next turn for you!" Sawatari looked at him confused as the masked duelist drawn his card. "I was expecting more of a challenge, but I don't feel anything from your dueling, not even a fragment of it".

The masked duelist looked at the two remaining Shadow Veils. "Now that I have two monsters with the same level, I'm allowed to do a special kind of summoning". Aero looked at the masked duelist confused. 'You can summon a monster with two monsters of the same level?' Yuzu too wanted to know what the masked duelist was about to summon. "I overlay my two level four Shadow Veils!" The two monsters became a beam of purple and went into a yellow swirl portal and something bigger took its place. It was a black and purple dragon with sharp wings and fangs, it had two balls of light circuling around it. "Appear now, Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon!"

"Dark Rebellion...XYZ Dragon...?" Aero looked at the newly summoned dragon, wondering what kind of summon the stranger made. 'Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon, it looks deadly'. Sawatari seemed pleased as he congradulated the stranger by clapping. "I must congradulate you for XYZ summoning so quickly, not many students can do that. But you made a mistake, my monster has 2800 attack points and your dragon only has 2500 attack points". Both Yuzu and Aero looked at the masked stranger, wondering what he was going to do. Sawatari fiddled with a strand of his hair as the masked stranger explained.

"XYZ monsters have effects based on the number of overlay units that monster has". Sawatari wasn't bothered in the slightest. "Oh please, your XYZ lessons bore me!" The stranger lifted his head slightly, so that some light reflected the goggles. "Really? Then I will show you the true terror you'll face! I activate Dark Rebellion's effect! By removing an overlay unit, I can half the attack of one of your monsters and have it gain that amount! Treason Discharge!" The dragon sparked out purple electricity to the Mega Monarch and transfered half of its power to Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon.

Yuzu looked at the dragon as it roared with the power increase. "3900 attack points!?" Sawatari was shocked from the attack loss, but it seemed the stranger wasn't finished. "I remove the other overlay unit to activate his effect! Treason Discharge!" Aero widened his eyes even though they were covered by his goggles and stepped back in fear. 'He can activate that effect again? This isn't good...' The dragon roared once more at the power increase from 3900 to 4600. "Battle! I attack Mobius the Mega Monarch with Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon! Go! Crush that glacier with your fangs! Revolt of the Lightning! Disobey!"

Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon used the blade on its lower jaw, combined with its lightning powers. It pierced the monster, then blew up. People nearby were blown far away and Yuzu screamed as she was going to get hit by some debris that came from the attack. Aero heard the scream and was about to shield her, but strangely, the stranger shielded her instead. Having not much time to react, Aero shielded himself, but seemed to have got hit by some sharp debris on his left arm. The lights above sparked and broke due to electrical overload and some of the glass from the bulbs hit the floor. After a big cloud of smoke, it became clear again and there were a few flare sparks on the floor.

Aero opened his eyes and looked at the devastation the attack had caused. 'That was definately a phychic duelist's attack, no doubt. Much more powerful than Akiza did before...' Aero unfolded his arms and noticed some debris stuck on his left arm, as well as some glass. It was bleeding a little, but it was stinging in pain and he knew that he had to get it out soon, otherwise, he'll get sick. 'This isn't good... I have to get this debris off before using my chaos energy...' Aero looked around as he was trying to find a certain someone. 'Where's Yuzu?' Aero found her by a post and from the look of it, she was unharmed. The masked duelist nodded to Yuzu and walked away from her.

Aero ran up to her and spoke quietly to her. "Are you okay? Did he harm you?" Yuzu looked a little scared, but she answered, "I'm fine Aero". Yuzu then looked at Aero's left arm and noticed the small amount of bleeding gradually building up. "Aero! Oh I'm so sorry, this is my fault". Aero shook his head. "It's not your fault Yuzu. You aren't to blame here, besides I can fix this but we don't have long". Aero then heard a voice from the opposite side of the warehouse. "Is this badge from LDS? What do you know about Duel Academy?"

Aero shot his head towards the masked duelist. 'Did he say Duel Academy? What does he want with the school?' Aero took a few steps closer to the two duelists, even though his arm was stinging every step he took. Sawatari had no clue what the masked stranger was talking about. "Duel Academy? I have no idea what you're talking about". The stranger snapped, "Don't play dumb!" Sawatari answered, "I swear! Everyone who enrols in LDS has a badge like that, I have no idea what this Duel Academy thing is, I swear!"

The masked duelist's goggles seemed to have come off due to the attack, but the dark lighting and the shadow from his hair was making it hard to see the eyes. "Then I have no quarrel with you". The duelist turned and walked away, but Sawatari activated a card since he still had 100 life points left, it was the trap card, Ice Rage Shot. "When a water monster of mine gets destroyed in battle, I can inflict damage to you that is the same as the attacking monster's attack!" Everyone except the masked stranger, gasped as they knew what would happen.

"Your dragon has 4600 attack points, enough to finish you and leaving me the winner!" The masked duelist seemed calm as he said, "This is all child's play honestly. I activate a spell from my graveyard, Phantom Des Spear! By removing this card from my graveyard, I can negate the activation of a trap and destroy it!" The trap Sawatari used disappeared into yellow particles. "And it also inflicts 100 points of damage to its owner!" Sawatari waved his arms in panic and the spear was shot just under the armpit. Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon and the spear disappeared as it was the end of the duel and the masked duelist grabbed the mask that was covering his nose and mouth. He held the mask in his hand and took a deep breath, but what everyone saw shocked them.

His face looks exactly like Yuya's.

Yuzu went close to him and said what was in her mind, Aero was cautious as he was away from him, but he wanted to meet him. Sawatari said something, but Aero didn't listen as he was more focused on the Yuya lookalike. Sawatari's goons carried Sawatari away from the area and Aero and Yuzu were alone with the lookilike. The stranger looked at Yuzu as she asked, "Yuya? Why are you dressed like that?" But she didn't get her answer as the jewel on the bracelet glowed brightly, as the glow died down, the stranger was gone. Aero looked at the bracelet, saying the only thing that was on his mind.

"What in Mobius name was that?" Yuzu gazed on the bracelet, confused by the event. "I have no idea, its never done that before". Aero grabbed her arm gently and had a closer look at the jewel. "Sorry Yuzu, but I've never seen this before. The closest thing to this is the Chaos Emeralds reaction to certain things". Yuzu smiled a little and said, "Thanks for your help Aero, but where's Yuya? Yuya!" It was then that there a call from a certain someone that they were looking for. "Yuzu!" Yuya appeared in his usual clothing, from his star goggles to his white coat on his back. This was the Yuya they know about.

"Are you okay?" Yuzu pointed to Yuya and asked, "You are Yuya, right?" Yuya tilted is head, confused as to what she was saying. "Huh? What are you talking about, Yuzu?" Yuzu had her finger on her chin in thought. "Then that wasn't Yuya..." Aero looked at Yuzu thinking the same thing, but he knew that her safety was more important. "We can talk about this later Yuzu, we better get home before things get ugly". Yuzu looked up at Aero and nodded, even though she wanted to try and figure out what happened. "C'mon, let's take you home Yuzu".


Later at Yuya's House...

During the walk back home, Yuya noticed the damage that was done on Aero's arm. He was questioning about it, but Aero didn't say a word. As they got to the front door, Yuya asked one more time. "Aero, please! Just tell me, what happened?" Aero sighed after Yuya got his keys out of his pocket. "Look Yuya, I wanna get this sorted out first, then we'll talk". Yuya wanted to ask why not talk now, but Aero went straight to the bathroom and started to remove the debris. Seeing this, Yuya headed to his room until Aero was done, he knew that Aero can keep his word.

In the bathroom, Aero was finding it hard to find each of the debris on his arm. He managed to get the obvious ones that he could see, but there were some that were deep in his fur. 'Who's good at finding small objects?' Aero asked his friends through his thoughts, he then got a reply. "I'm here, what do you want me to find?" A Mobian Hawk spirit appeared beside Aero. 'Hey Crow, can you help find any debris on my arm?' Crow tilted his head. "Huh? Debris? What did you do to get that on your arm?" Aero sighed and answered, 'Long story, just help me find them all so I don't get sick'. Crow understood and nodded. "Got it".

So with Crow's detecting skills, both him and Aero managed to find all of the debris. All that was left were scratches and small amounts of blood, but with the help of his Chaos Energy, Aero spread the energy onto his left arm to heal. 'There we go, no evidence. Now I should probably tell Yuya what happened, he's been waiting for me. Thanks Crow'. Crow gave a wink to Aero and disappeared back into the card. Aero made his wayback to the bedroom, where Yuya was sitting on the bed in his pajamas.

"So, are you gonna tell me what happened?" Aero nodded and made himself comfortable in his bed. "It started with Yuzu spotting two of Sawatari's goons, they were talking about Sawatari saying that 'he had ways of taking you down'. We knew those guys were trouble, so Yuzu and I followed them and Yuzu wanted to duel Sawatari to help you out. But then this guy showed up, his face was mostly hidden so I couldn't tell who it was. But what's strange about him is that he was protecting Yuzu from harm".

Yuya was listening to every word Aero was saying. "He was protecting Yuzu?" Aero nodded and continued. "Then the duel started. At first I thought he was playing defense due to amount of face downs he placed, but it was all for a special type of summoning... have you heard of XYZ summoning?" Yuya thought about it as he answered, "I never seen one, but it was a course that you can do at LDS!" Aero nodded once again. "That's right and the XYZ monster that he summoned terrified me... Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon..." Yuya looked worried at his 'brother'. "Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon? What's so terrifying about it?"

Aero closed his eyes as he remembered that devastating event. "It's a XYZ monster that halves an opponent's monster and it gains that amount by removing one overlay unit each time. But what was terrifying about it is that the attacks it made were real, I could feel the blasts it made and it almost took the warehouse down". Yuya remembered something as he arrived at the warehouse. "So that's why I smelt something being burnt..." Aero continued, ignoring that remark. "After that massive attack, Sawatari was at a mere 100 life points and was about to activate a trap card that would turn the tide, but the duelist won by removing a spell from his graveyard".

Yuya said nothing as Aero continued on. "The guy removed his goggles and mask and this is what shocked the both of us... that guy... he..he looks just like you". Yuya's eyes widened at the shocking news, he now knows why Yuzu asked that weird question before. "Who was he? What's his name?" Aero sighed as he gave the disappointing news. "He didn't say his name, he disappeared just before you showed up". Yuya tilted his head at the term disappeared. "Disappeared? How?" Aero looked to the left. "I'm not sure, but he disappeared when Yuzu's bracelet glowed..." Aero looked determined as he looked at Yuya and added, "...I have no idea what's going on, but we're gonna find out, all of You Show!"


So what do you guys think? Rushed? Sorry about that, it was a short duel, so I thought it was best not to put the card effects in this chapter. I wanted to get some good scenes between Yuzu and Aero and I hope everyone likes this, I really like this episode in the anime and am looking foward to the next Arc-V episode. Until then, see ya.

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