Here's chapter six of my Yu-Gi-Oh GX fanfic. This time around when someone from a very painful past shows up and shows that there's more than one way to soar.
DISCLAIMER: ALL THE CREDIT FOR YU-GI-OH GOES TO KAZUKI TAKAHASHI AND SHONEN JUMP. I OWN ONLY SOME OF THE OCs AND THE DECKS USED BY THEM.
Duel VI: Raging Winds Ahead; Tao v. Windragon Shiron, Part 1
With the arrival of Locket and her joining the Slifer dorm Ninomiya had put back the tables originally in place he took to get Tao to be more social which failed indefinitely. Also, to keep any complications from coming forth Ninomiya placed police tape around the back tables to keep Tao from his, for want of a better term "nest." All four came down from their respective rooms and took their normal seats for breakfast. Tao went to the farthest back chair to keep from what he considered pointless chitchat.
After passing out breakfast Ninomiya noticed the change in mood from most of the students; Destiny seemed to be more curious about everyone, Amun seemed to be more depressed but still upbeat, Tao about the same as before, and the new student Locket seemed to make it a point to be always beside Amun. After finishing breakfast Tao got up to leave which led to Ninomiya putting his arm up to keep him from leaving.
"What now, Old Man?" Tao asked slightly angry.
"How long do you intend to make it seem like you're never going to be found out by the others?" he asked giving Tao a crossed look.
"Nobody can force me to stop pretending to be someone I'm not" Tao said casting Ninomiya's hand off to the side. "I'm my own person, I answer to no one."
Tao left the dorm and left for the main school building with his mouth covered with his hand. Destiny looked over at him and noticed a small sliver of Tao's scar that he quickly covered up. Ninomiya sighed in disappointment when he noticed Locket right behind him. Ninomiya recoiled on a slight yelp alerting Locket to back away.
"What do you know about that weirdo?" Locket asked.
"She's right" Amun said. "You seem to know something about Tao that none of us can fully understand."
Ninomiya looked at the disappearing figure of Tao and sighed heavily. "Whatever Tao is, I can't tell you people. It is his wish to remain a mystery to you. He doesn't wish you to be hurt in the world he lives in."
Tao continued to walk down the halls with people backing off to the side of the halls resulting in Tao putting his head down in depression. As he rounded the corner to the main class he heard the sound of a piano being played by a song that for whatever reason calmed him down. After listening to the soft ballad melody Tao's eyes pooped out of his head as he quickly ran into the music room to find a boy no older himself wearing an opened Ra Yellow jacket with pitch black hair, by the looks of it wire framed glasses. Tao panicked and turned him around to meet his ice blue eyes.
"Kazuya?" he asked in disbelief.
"What up?" he said plainly.
Tao held his head as though he had a migraine and began to pace the room. "What the heck are you doing here?" he asked pointing a finger at who he apparently knew as a boy named Kazuya.
"You make it sound as though I'm not supposed to be here. And is that any way to treat an old friend?"
"Can I really count as you as just that? After what happened to us all those years ago?" Tao asked in an angry tone of voice.
"Same old Tao never knew how to let anything go" Kazuya said. "Anyway, why are we just standing here when we can get answers in the old fashion style of Duel Academy?"
"You mean duel you?" Tao asked in disbelief. "How much of a handicap?"
"Already asking for mercy from me?" Kazuya said confidently.
"I meant for you" Tao said with his eyes staring right into Kazuya's soul.
The students lining the music room began to look at each other in disbelief. Tao held out his hand and Kazuya took it using to pull himself up. The two stared at each other with cold eyes and immediately went into a hand shake.
"It's good to see you again, Tao." Kazuya said.
"It has been a while hasn't it? Last time in Mawman, right?" Tao asked.
Back at the dorms Locket, Amun, and Destiny all had just left when they saw Tao with his duel disk at the ready and he was facing someone that none of them knew. They saw Jason with his arms crossed and looking at the two competitors. The three walked up to him and they had found the teachers unable to stop the two from beginning the duel.
"Who's the guy with Tao?" Destiny asked.
"Kazuya Shirayuki, a recent transfer student from parts unknown. What worries me is that it seems that Tao knows him from somewhere." Jason explained.
"Well, Tao has been all over the world maybe he met him somewhere on his travels." Amun suggested.
"That's one possibility; another could be that Kazuya and Tao know each other from way back and have been close or at odds with each other ever since." Locket suggested as another alternative.
"DUEL!" the two said in unison as both life point gauges read 4000 signaling the start.
"I believe I'll start this duel off" Kazuya declared drawing his card. "And I summon from my hand Full Moon Owl (200/300) in defense mode and then I'll end my turn."
The card was placed horizontally and out of the card came a small owl with a completely white face that stared right at Tao. Tao shivered and placed his hand over mouth and cringing.
"Problem? Or is it that this monster brings back bad memories about Mawman?" Kazuya asked out of half concern.
"My problems are my own, and not yours to bear. They're not for anyone but me to bear." Tao said shivering slightly. "My turn! And I activate the spell card Balance Reactor! Now no Yin or Yang monsters can be destroyed by the effect of any monster card including their own self destruct effect, now I summon Yang Spirit-Seiryuu (1800/1600) in attack mode. I place two cards face-down and now Seiryuu attack the bird-brain, Wood Disruptor!"
The complete blue dragon pushed its body on the ground causing large stakes to come out of the ground and begin to turn Kazuya's owl monster into a regular pincushion. Kazuya raised his head from the disintegrated pieces of the owl and smiled as a card flew from his deck and into his hand.
"Wait did I miss something?" Locket asked.
"You did" Jason said. "Whenever a Full Moon Owl is destroyed from the field the player can instantly bring a card called New Moon Owl to your hand. But if this is Kazuya I've seen then this could spell trouble."
"What do you know about him?" Destiny asked.
"From what I do know, he's obsessed with finding a dragon that lives in reality. And from what I've been hearing he accompanied Tao to a trip to Mawman, England. Land of the Death Raptor." Jason explained.
"What's the Death Raptor?" Amun asked looking over at Tao.
Tao turned to him and rolled up his sleeve opposite to the one of his scar to reveal another similar to it.
"In Mawman, England there's said to be a demon that lives in an old churchyard and flies its skies. Originally found by two sisters who described it as similar to that of a man with wings. In the years that followed the monster made more appearances and was seen more commonly as cross between a human stature and build with the feathers, wings, and facial features of an owl. Known as the Owlman or Death Raptor it is said to be a violent creature that attacks most and even humans as this is apparent by the scar on my other arm. Kazuya, my parents and I took an expedition to said church and we quickly found our answer and were attacked with no one sustaining any major injuries until we found it wasn't too shy to venture out of its territory when it tried to attack us. Kazuya and I tried to stop it grabbing onto its wings for my parents to tag it as found when it scratched me with its talons. Kazuya carried me to safety and my parents…gone. They had run away from the monster and I haven't seen them since."
Kazuya and Tao both showed solemn faces and looked at each other and saw each other as the same kids who tried to protect the two cowards who called Tao their son.
"My move!" Kazuya declared. "I play Sonic Wind Storm, now by discarding three Wind monsters from my hand like these the New Moon Owls I can destroy your monster." After sending the three cards to the discard pile a giant tornado whipped up with small shrapnel that attacked Seiryuu destroying it instantly. "And now that I have 1 of each of the moon owls in the graveyard I can summon my Eclipse Falcon (2700/2000) in attack mode." As he played the card a giant black and white falcon took the field and screeched at Tao "Next, I'll play one card face-down and next I'll attack you directly with twenty seven hundred attack points. Go, Light and Shadow Break!"
As the falcon screeched again and sent the sound waves charging towards Tao. The sound waves came several inches from Tao when he raised his arm in defense.
"I activate my trap card, Yang Shield! By removing from play one of my Yang monster from my graveyard I can negate your attack and end your turn automatically!" Tao said as a large barrier came around him with a dark spot on the top.
"Fine I guess it's your turn" Kazuya said. "Make sure you find a way out of this that's better than your plan against ol' Owlman."
"Fine! My turn and I summon Yin Spirit-Suzaku (1700/1000) in attack mode and activate his effect to Special Summon one Yang monster from my hand to summon Yang Spirit Byakko (1500/1600) in attack mode. Next I activate the spell card, Balance Reactor! By sending this card from my field to the graveyard by this card's effect I can summon one of my Yin monsters from my deck like my Yin Spirit-Genbu (1000/2000) in defense mode." After placing all the monsters on the field the white tiger, red phoenix, and black tortoise took the field. "And I can summon one of my Yang monsters I've used in the duel like Seiryuu (1800/1600)." The blue dragon again took the field. "And now I can summon Huang Long-the Spirit of Wu Xing (2800/2400)!" as the large dragon took the field he snorted in the falcon's face. "Now I attack with Borderline Crusher!"
The dragon then blasted through the ground with a beam of black and white that shot straight out at the falcon.
"I activate my trap card Whirlwind Deflection, now your monster's destroyed and you take half of its attack points as damage." Kazuya declared revealing his hidden trap.
The trap unleashed a cyclone that attacked and destroyed Huang Long and then sending the shrapnel at Tao dropping his life points from 4000-2600. Tao smiled threw the smoke and revealed his other trap card.
"Wu Xing Reversal!" Tao declared as a five pointed star surrounded the field. "With this card I can destroy one of your monsters when I take damage from an effect and inflict half of the destroyed monster's attack points as damage straight to you granted I'm not allowed to attack for the remainder of this turn."
The star began to spin faster and faster when it finally released a giant power flex that shot and destroyed Eclipse Falcon dropping Kazuya's life point gauge from 4000-2650.
Kazuya chuckled and looked up at Tao who seemed to be having fun as well.
"Tao answer me this; what is your intention from coming here? What is so important that you've had to lie from these people, but more importantly what is your goal in coming here? If you don't answer these questions I'll force the answer out of you."
Jason, Destiny, Locket, and Amun all looked with disbelief at Kazuya's bravery and Tao kept a stern look on his face while Kazuya took his draw. Kazuya looked at the card he drew and began to laugh.
"With this, the real duel starts here!"
Chapter six complete. Cliffhanger FTW!
Thanks for Kazuya; he's a real fun character to mess around with. Next time; as the duel between Tao and Kazuya continues Tao's secrets begin to come to light that will affect not only his own life but the lives of everyone he finds precious. Next time; Raging Winds Ahead, Tao v. Windragon Shiron Part 2; Who is Tao?