Here's another 'Through the Ages' One-Shot that I cooked up while thinking on my drive home from college (What the hell else do you expect me to do on a four-hour ride besides listening to music?). So, I listened to one of my CDs and this song came on, and suddenly, my writers' block on this story suddenly vanished (Huzzah!). My trouble was wondering on whether to just do Ep. 3, Ep. 3 and 2 separately, or just ditch both and continue on (I couldn't negate 3, as it's pretty major) so, I just decided to combine the two eps into one, with the song 'Into the Night' by Santana, sung by Chad Kroeger. I don't own the mentioned song. Nor do I own GX (otherwise it would've been written better…XDDDD...kay not funny). I also added more to this section. Cause I'm U83R-L33T like that.
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Asuka, the brown-haired boy, who's name, she learned, was Yuki Judai, and the blue-haired boy, named Marufuji Sho stood outside in the schoolyard. Sho was pushing Judai and panting from the work, while Judai stood defiant and angry at the sudden end to his duel with Manjoume.
"Really," Asuka sighed, "you're very troublesome."
"Tch," Judai scoffed, "busybody."
Asuka frowned in annoyance but let it slide. Sho smiled at her, "Thank you, Asuka-san!" the boy said.
The girl nodded, before turning her attention back to Judai. "So," Asuka wondered, half sarcastically, "how do you feel about the welcome from the Obelisk Blues?"
Judai smirked back at her. "Meh," he acknowledged in a similar tone, "it's alright…Still, I could've gone on a bit longer."
Asuka cocked an eyebrow at him. "Is that so?" she replied. "So you suddenly don't lose your best card in an ante-rule duel now?"
"No," Judai replied, still smiling, "I had the duel won." He flipped around the card he had just drawn, which was still in his hand, revealing Monster Reborn. Asuka gasped in surprise.
Judai just shrugged. "Oh, well. Better luck next time, I suppose." He began walking towards the dorm, waving over his shoulder at her. Sho soon called after him before giving chase.
Asuka just stared at the boy's back. "That boy…he's pretty interesting."
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'Very interesting, indeed,' she thought as she watched him row towards herself, her two friends, and Sho, whom they captured for peeping on them.
Like a gift from the heavens
It was easy to tell
It was love from above
That could save me from hell
Asuka set her plans into motion. She let her friends do most of the talking to Judai, while she suggested, "Hey, how about you duel me? If you win, I might be able to forget this Peeping Tom incident."
"I said I didn't peep!" Sho retorted.
Judai was slightly surprised by the girl's forwardness. It gave him a interesting feeling inside of him, one that he hadn't felt before. It was an enticing feeling that he hadn't known before any duel before. He liked it, and it didn't take him more than a moment to reply, "I don't know what exactly happened, but whatever, I'll accept the duel!" Judai called.
She had fire in her soul
It was easy to see
How the Devil, himself,
Could be pulled out of me
They soon were positioned over the water, each in their separate boat. Asuka began. "I'll start with Etoile Cyber in attack mode!" she declared. The red body-suited monster's hologram materialized into view with it doing a pirouette, gracefully gliding from the particles of light down onto Asuka field. "I'll also set a card face down. End turn!" The back of the card appeared on her field.
There were drums in the air
As she started to dance
Every soul in the room
Keeping time with their hands
"Next is my turn, Draw!" Judai looked at the card he had acquired. 'Alright!' he cheered inside his head. "I'll summon Elemental Hero Sparkman!" Lightening rained down on Judai's side of the field, as the blue-and-yellow armored hero leapt out into view in an attack-ready stance.
"Sparkman, attack Etoile Cyber!" Judai commanded. The hero held out its hand, pointing its fingers at Asuka's monster, and shot out several strands of electricity. The strike sped across the no man's land created by the two duelists.
'Neglecting my facedown!' Asuka realized in half-amusement, half-shock. 'How reckless…!'
"Reverse Card, Open!" Asuka announced, as the card flipped up. "Doble Passé, activate!" The bolts dispersed around the monster and struck Asuka in the chest, depleting her of almost half of her Life Points.
And we sang '
Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay'
And the voices rang like the angels sing
We're singin'
'Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay'
And we danced on into the night!
"Doble Passé turns your attack into a direct attack on me," Asuka stated. "Next, my monster that you attacked gets to attack you directly!" The dancer sped swiftly across the field. "When Etoile Cyber attacks the opponent directly, her attack points increase by 600!" Halfway to its target, it began to spin to gain centrifugal force, before sticking its foot out and striking Judai across his arm.
Judai dropped to his knee in the boat, as Sho called out for his friend. "What a woman," Judai commented to himself, "to not even care about taking damage herself and setting such a trap…!"
"What?" Asuka shouted. "Is that it?"
"I end my turn," Judai stated. He was frowning on the outside, but felt that excitement welling up within him again, and he was forced to give a small grin.
"Then its my pleasure," Asuka replied, smiling back at him.
And we danced on into the night
Like a piece to the puzzle
That falls into place
You could tell how we felt
From the look on our faces
The duel raged on, both getting in decent hits on one another, though Asuka clearly had the advantage after a while. Judai, however, was still smiling, even though it appeared as if her was about to lose the battle.
'Why is he smiling…?' Asuka wondered with a frown.
Judai suddenly began to chuckle lightly and smile goofily. He began to rub the back of his head as if from embarrassment. Asuka recoiled slightly in surprise, before her body began to feel comfortable warmth spread through her, causing her to giggle too.
We were spinning in circles
With the moon in our eyes
No room left to move
In between you and I
"I didn't do anything wrong before," Sho replied loudly to one of Asuka's friends' taunts, "but no matter what you say about me, I won't let you insult my Aniki, who came to help me!" The boy turned his attention to Judai. "Don't lose, Aniki!"
Judai turned and nodded to the boy. "Don't worry, Sho," he told him earnestly.
'With only 200 Life Points, what can he do?' Asuka wondered, in partial anxiousness.
'I have no monsters on my field,' Judai thought, 'and the only card that can do me much good on my field is Fusion Gate. But, I still have a chance. It all revolves on this next draw!'
"My turn, draw!" He tore a card from his deck and peeked at it. The goofy smile on his face grew wider. "It came…!" he exclaimed.
Asuka cocked an eyebrow and breathed heavily in excitement. She felt the excitement bring a grin to her face. She had never been this thrilled by a duel before, nor had she been so anxious to see what card her opponent was going to play before.
We forgot where we were
And we lost track of time
As we sang to the wind ,
And we danced through the night
"Now, I'll fuse Sparkman and Clayman on my field to summon Thunder Giant in attack mode!" Judai announced. The two heroes stood back to back as they were swallowed up by the swirling vortex of clouds. What descended was the giant hero with an orb producing electricity jutting out of its chest.
Asuka was relieved the monster was weaker, but troubled. The boy was still smiling, even though all he had done was summoned a monster for her to target. 'Was all that just for show…?' she wondered. "You know, my Cyber Blader's attack points are still higher at 3600," Asuka told the boy, "you can't beat it in battle with that thing."
"I know that, but Thunder Giant has another ability," Judai stated, "when it's summoned, Thunder Giant can destroy a monster whose original attack points are lower than his own."
"Original attack points…?" Asuka gasped.
"Before Cyber Blader used your Equipment Spell to power up, its attack points were…"
"Twenty…Twenty-one Hundred…!" Asuka whispered in shock, "lower than Thunder Giant's!"
"Let's finish this duel in a flash!" Judai cried happily. "I'll activate Thunder Giant's effect. Destroy Cyber Blader!" The hero sped forth and charged an attack within its palm. It ejected a large flash of thunder. "Now, Thunder Giant, attack her directly! Voltic Thunder!"
The hero turned the lightening in his palms from the position where Asuka's monster once stood towards Asuka herself. All Asuka could do was smile. 'What a nice duel,' she thought cheerily as the lightening struck her, eliminating the rest of her Life Points.
And we sang
'Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay'
And the voices rang like the angels sing
We're singin'
'Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay'
And we danced on into the night
"I won," Judai mentioned a few moments later after the adrenaline had worn off, "so by our agreement, I get to take Sho with me."
"Please," Asuka nodded, "I'll honor our agreement and we'll keep quiet about tonight."
Junko finally had enough. Asuka was being too nice to such a Dropout student. "Hmph," she grumbled, causing everyone to look at her, "don't get too cocky just because you won by luck!"
Asuka felt anger swell up in her at her friends words. "Don't be like that, Junko!" she told her firmly.
Junko gaped at her friend's comment. "Asuka-san…" she muttered.
Asuka inhaled and let it out heavily. "A loss is a loss," she told her, "don't do embarrassing things…"
"Nah," Judai cut in, "it could've been like she said." The three girls glanced at him, Asuka in shock, the other two in astonishment that someone would admit to winning by luck.
"You're really strong, Asuka," Judai blinked and grinned. Asuka gasped in surprise at the complement. Before she could recover and give a reply, he sat down and bade farewell. He was already about twenty meters away before she could regain her wits.
'That guy…' Asuka wonder, her face softening into a smile, '…this could get even more interesting.'
Junko glanced at the back of Asuka's head. 'I have a feeling that today, Asuka-san's different from before,' she realized. The red-haired girl turned her gaze to the boat containing Judai. 'It can't be that…'
Like a gift from the heavens, it was easy to tell,
It was love from above, that could save me from hell,
She had fire in her soul it was easy to see,
how the devil himself could be pulled out of me,
There were drums in the air as she started to dance,
Every soul in the room keeping time with their hands,
And we sang…
Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay,
And the voices bang like the angels sing,
We're singing…
Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay,
And we danced on into the night!
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