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Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh GX
Title: Call of Ice: Chapter 2: Call Blocked
Characters: Marufuji Ryou
Word Count: chapter: 500||story: 1,000
Genre: Drama, Adventure||Rated: PG-13
Challenge: Diversity Challenge, section C, #6, three-shot with all three "chapters" being exactly 500 words; Valentine's Day to White Day Advent, day #22, write a fic with no names and no dialogue.
Summary: The snow and ice and frost do as he pleases them to do. Until a time when they do not.

He didn't know how long he'd been asleep, but between one breath and the next his eyes opened. He flexed his fingers, reaching without thinking about it for the ice, as he always did when he woke.

Memory returned without warning, of calling for the ice and no answer coming, of nets of fire, of being helpless as he hadn't been in years.

He jerked and struggled, confused almost at once by the feel of something sliding over his chest. Then he realized that despite his eyes being open, he couldn't see anything. He wasn't blindfolded but shadows pressed all around him. He snarled at them; darkness didn't frighten him. But he wanted answers, and the sooner the better.

He managed to work himself to his knees, and in the process found out that chains wrapped around his arms and legs, and another around his neck, keeping him held to what his fingers told him was a stone wall. Another snarl lashed out when he realized it was a cold stone wall as well. Someone thought to taunt him with the presence of his element, but still with the lack of his powers.

A hand tilted his head up and blazing light broke through the darkness. A laugh echoed in his ears as he tried to see who dared to do this to him. When his eyes cleared, they narrowed almost at once. Oh, yes, he knew who this was. His lip curled. This was who dared to take him prisoner?

He paid little attention to what the other said; it was much as he would've expected, insisting that his captor was the true most powerful mage of ice in any world, and he would prove it, by killing him.

As if that would happen. But this was one of the worlds where losing a duel meant death, and he knew full well who'd win a duel between the two of them.

Oh, but it seemed that wasn't what the water sorcerer wanted to do. A match of talents, was it to be? But with him still having his power bound away from him, kept frozen by what hung around his neck: Powersink Stone.

It had been years since he'd thought about 'fair play' when it came to this kind of battle. He'd been taught well in Dark World; the only fair play in war came from doing whatever it took to win. If that was what he had to do here, then he would do so, and gladly.

Besides, it would show this idiot who the true master of ice magic was around here. 'Ruler of all water' indeed.

There were spectators, of course, and they all cheered for his opponent, who sent wave after wave of frost-cold water toward him. He ignored them all. He had but one goal: to break the chain that kept Powersink Stone around his neck.

And then the wave of ice crashed down on him and there was nothing but pain.

To Be Continued

Note: Powersink Stone is a trap card. When a monster effect is activated, a Spellstone Counter is place on it, and while it has two counters, face-up monsters have their effects negated and cannot activate their effects. Thus why Ryou can't use his powers. Neo Aqua Madoor has buddies who are using their effects to support it.