Total Eclipse/Chapter 5: Tag Team Trouble
Sora sighed as he left the main school building, a large bag full of books slung over his shoulders, it was around seven o'clock. A week had passed since Daichi's duel with Akemi and already Daichi was being treated as a hero by the entire first year student body.
"I haven't duelled in a while" Sora thought "Maybe I should find someone to duel...someone like him"
With this thought in mind Sora raced back to his dorm, the burden of his bag seemingly forgotten. Shido stood out from behind a bush looking dejected.
"I wonder what's go him in such a good mood..."
Next Day,
Tsuyoshi yawned as he rose from his bed. He brushed his hair out his face with his hand, only to have the hair once more fall back into place. He stood up and surveyed his room as he did every morning. His room was, to say the least, spacious. He had a room at the front of the building, so he had two large windows to his left, while to his right he had a bathroom and the door leading to the hall. In front of the window nearest him was a desk, with only a laptop and a lamp on it. The lamp had been left on; Tsuyoshi shook his slowly at this. On his other side, just beside the door to the bathroom was a large wardrobe. Tsuyoshi opened the wardrobe and produced two towels. He then walked into the bathroom; fifteen minutes later he walked out, completely dressed.
He smiled "It's about five o'clock, so I'll have a little run and be back by breakfast."
At around the time Tsuyoshi was getting back to his dorm, Daichi was trying in vain to wake Sora up, beside Daichi stood Professor Aomori Sato.
"My apologies Professor, Sora's just a really heavy sleeper." Daichi said shaking his sleeping friend.
"Perhaps I should wake him Mr. Gunma" Aomori replied "Have him sit up" Daichi tried his best to force Sora to sit up; when he thought Sora's position was satisfactory Aomori backhanded Sora knocking him off the bed.
"MY GOD" Sora roared hitting the floor.
"Are you allowed to do that?" Daichi asked.
"Do what? I don't remember doing anything, nor do you"
"Understood" Daichi replied smiling.
"What t-the...Oh Professor Aomori" Sora said leaping to his feet.
"I see you've awakened Mr Soubou" Aomori replied shaking the younger duellist's hand "How have your classes been going?"
"Em...You see" Sora began
"I'm kidding Mr. Soubou" Aomori cut in "I am your dorm head, I know all about your...misdemeanours"
"Not to interrupt" Daichi said raising his hand slightly "But, why is it you want to see us?"
"Always to the point with you Mr Gunma" replied Aomori "Anyway. The reason I am here today is to talk about your roommate"
"We didn't kill him I swear" Sora cried "He hasn't even been here since the year started!"
Daichi and Aomori stared at him confused.
"What the fu-"began Daichi.
"Ahem" Aomori cut in "Your roommate is not dead, he is in the infirmary. I have come here to bring you to see him"
"Phew" Sora sighed.
"You're an idiot" Daichi said smacking Sora on the back of the head.
"Meet me down stairs in the foyer after breakfast" Aomori sighed.
Shido wandered around the main building. He was alone...mentally and physically. He turned a corner and ran into a group of obelisks. The leader spotted him and pushed him over.
"Watch it drop out boy!" he said "Don't taint us with your worthlessness."
"Huh huh, good one boss!" laughed one of them.
"Yeah show that Osiris shit a lesson boss!" another roared.
The boss picked Shido up by the collar "What's wrong drop out boy, gonna cr-"
"Put him down" Tsuyoshi said walking up to the group.
"What are you going to do about it Kagoshima?" The boss asked shaking Shido.
"If you don't put him down now, I'll make life a living hell for you!" Tsuyoshi replied.
"Fu-"was all he managed to get out.
Tsuyoshi punched him straight in the face. The boss hit the ground hard. The two other guys glared at Tsuyoshi before running away in fear. Tsuyoshi turned to Shido and helped him to his feet.
"Thank you...eh" Shido began.
"Tsuyoshi, Kagoshima Tsuyoshi" replied Tsuyoshi "and you are?"
"Akita Shido" Shido answered his look of worthlessness returning.
"If you don't mind me asking" Tsuyoshi said putting his hand on Shido's shoulder "Why didn't you fight back?"
"It...It wouldn't matter...they would've just hurt me more than they were going to!" Shido yelled.
"I see...Are you the Akita Shido?" Tsuyoshi asked concern evident on his face; Shido nodded "Then Shido come with me"
"Why should I?" he asked tears forming in his eyes.
"I'm going to turn you into one of the best duellists at this academy" Tsuyoshi said and began skipping away "It's your choice though."
Shido stared after him for a second before running towards him "Wait...please"
Shido and Tsuyoshi walked through a mob of female students all of whom were shouting something along the lines of Tsuyoshi we love you. Shido remained silent as Tsuyoshi led him towards the obelisk blue dorm.
"When we lose this mob Shido, I'm going to show you how to duel" Tsuyoshi said then he sighed "I mean, it's not that you can't duel it's just...well"
"I know" Shido replied.
Hidden amongst the crowd were two twins. Both wore white suits, the only distinction was the colour of the lining and the colour of the tie. One had red hair, which covered his right eye (his eyes were green), he wore the blue lined suit (His name was Akio). The other boy in the yellow lined suit, had green hair covering his left eye (his eyes were red) (his name was Zenjiro).
"I think we should make our move now, Zenj" Akio said.
"Akio, now our move we should make I think" Zenjiro replied.
"You said you weren't going to do that Zenj"
"Sorry Akio, I got carried away"
Akio eyed his younger twin "Make sure it doesn't happen again"
"Happen again, I'll make sure it doesn't"
"I hate you"
Tsuyoshi turned around and stared right at the bickering twins. He raised his eyebrow as the brother's continued to argue.
"Let's just challenge Tsuyoshi and get it over..." Akio began.
"A challenge you say" Tsuyoshi but in "I would be happy to accept"
Akio stared dumbfounded; luckily Zenjiro was there "We the Gatou Brothers, Gatou Akio, my brother and Gatou Zenjiro myself, challenge you Tsuyoshi to a duel"
"A tag duel" Akio said
"Not exactly it's-"Zenjiro began
"A tag duel, right brother" Akio but in.
"Yes a tag duel, my partner is my brother, and yours is..?"
"Mine will be my new friend Akita Shido" Tsuyoshi replied.
"Wait-what!" Shido cried.
"Give us a minute to look over our decks" Tsuyoshi said pulling Shido aside.
"Fine, I Zenjiro allow you-"
"Shut up Zenj" but in Akio "let's look over our decks too"
Aomori led Sora and Daichi into the infirmary and straight to a bed near a curtain. He stopped them just a few feet away.
"Now you too" he said pointing his finger accusingly "You need to be careful with what you say"
"Why?" Daichi asked confused at the sudden shift in Aomori's mood.
"Just do as I say!"
He led the duo up to the bed. In the bed sat a tanned white haired student. His eyes were an odd shade of gold. He was looking out the window, but as they arrived turned to look at them.
"Ah hello Professor" he said smiling "Who are these people you've brought with you?"
"Hello Masashi" Aomori said quietly "This is Soubou Sora and this is Watanabe Daichi"
"Em Sir it's actually Gunma Daichi" Daichi corrected.
Aomori gave an odd look towards Daichi. He then turned to Sora who was about to say something and silenced him with one look.
"Well whatever your names is, it's great to finally meet you Daichi" Masashi said smiling again "I heard about your duel with Akemi, it's been a while since then hasn't it"
"You're friends with Akemi?"
"We're best friends, been that way since we were children"
"Really, that's nice" Daichi replied.
Masashi smiled again, and turned to face Sora "You're Iw-Soubou Sora correct" Sora nodded "I haven't heard much about you"
"I don't...get around much"
"Alright, are you two ready?" Tsuyoshi asked activating his duel disk.
"Of course we are!" the twins shouted activating their duel disks.
"I-I'm ready too Tsuyoshi" Shido said activating his duel disk.
"DUEL" they shouted in unison, the crowd of girls joining in.
(A: 4000 + Z:4000)(T:4000 + S: 4000)
"I'll be the first to make a move" Akio said drawing a card (H: 6).
"Akio, watch what you summon" Zenjiro grunted.
Tsuyoshi stared confused at the brothers.
"Of course I will Zenj" Akio said slamming a card onto his duel disk "I summon Vylon Hapt to the field in face-up attack position (4/Light/Fairy/Effect/1800/800)"
"Vylons" Tsuyoshi mused "If you use Vylons...and he's worried about what you summon...then that means he uses Steelswarm!"
Zenjiro raised an eyebrow "Well done, you're correct"
Akio coughed "I guess I'll end my turn with a face-down" (H: 4)
(A: 4000 + Z: 4000)(T: 4000 + S: 4000)
"Watch me and learn Shido" Tsuyoshi said drawing a card (T: 6)
"So now we get to see the power of 3rd best, the Knight with a Will of Diamond" Zenjiro said smiling.
"You have a title?" Shido asked.
"I've told them a thousand times to shorten it" Tsuyoshi groaned "I activate polymerisation to fuse Gem-Knight Sapphire and Gem-Knight Crystal to summon Gem-Knight Aquamarine in Defence mode!" the two gem-knights leapt into the air and in disappeared in a flash of light, from this light descended a blue armoured knight holding a bladed shield (6/Water/Warrior/Effect/Fusion/1400/2600)
"So this is a Gem-Knight" Shido gasped.
"You've never seen one before?" Zenjiro asked.
"N-no" Shido replied.
"Well-" began Zenjiro
"I end my turn with two face-down cards" Tsuyoshi but-in as two cards appeared in front of him. (H: 1)
(A: 4000 + Z: 4000)(T: 4000 + S: 4000)
"Finally the best duellist here gets a chance to duel!" Zenjiro yelled (H:6) , while the other three duellists sweatdropped "I activate double summon, this turn I can summon twice"
"I-if he uses Steelswarm cards then..." Shido trailed off.
"Yeah I know" Tsuyoshi confirmed.
"First off I summon Steelswarm Caller (4/Dark/Fiend/Effect/1700/0), but he won't be around long because I sacrifice him to summon" the monster appeared and disappeared as a large brown mantis looking monster appeared "Steelswarm Mantis (5/Dark/Fiend/Effect/2200/0), next the effect of caller activates allowing me to special summon one Steelswarm from my deck, so I choose Steelswarm Gatekeeper (4/Dark/Fiend/Effect/1500/1900) in defence mode, and that's not all, Mantis's effect allows me to give up 1000LP to special summon a Steelswarm from my grave, appear now Steelswarm Caller (4/Dark/Fiend/Effect/1700/0)" (Z: 3000)
"Too bad you can't attack yet" Tsuyoshi replied "Or Shido'd be in trouble"
"Thank you mister Obvious" Zenjiro sighed "You may make your turn Shido" (H: 3)
(A: 4000 + Z: 3000)(T: 4000 + S: 4000)
"M-my turn" Shido mumbled drawing a card (S: 6), suddenly Shido smiled "I summon Blast Dinosaur (4/Fire/Dinosaur/Effect/1800/900)(A large red Dinosaur with TNT wrapped around its neck, ankles, tail and wrists. A large clock face was embedded into its chest) "My monster will attack your Steelswarm Caller!" The Dinosaur launched itself at Steelswarm Caller.
"I activate the trap card Dirty Tactics, when my opponent's monster attacks a monster, both monsters are destroyed, and the owners of the monster's take damage equal to their individual monsters attack points!" roared Akio, as Shido's and Zenjiro's fields were bombarded with gunfire.
"Akio you bast-!" began Zenjiro as his monster exploded and knocked him backward (Z: 1300).
"Gah!" shouted Shido as he too was flung back (S: 2300)
"Shido, are you all right?" Tsuyoshi asked.
Shido nodded as Zenjiro began roaring at his brother "What was that for?"
"It was necessary" Akio grunted, Zenjiro just glowered at his brother.
Shido smiled once more "I activate Double Summon, this turn I can summon twice, now I summon Jurrac Guaiba (4/Fire/Dinosaur/Effect/1700/400)!"
"He...he tricked me" Akio gasped.
"What do you mean?" Zenjiro growled.
"He wanted to make sure Akio's face-down wouldn't destroy his Guaiba when he summoned it" Tsuyoshi explained "So he summoned Blast Dinosaur as a distraction, when Akio didn't use his face-down, he attacked to see if it was mirror force"
"Y-yeah" confirmed Shido "I set a card and e-end my turn" (H: 2)
(A: 4000 + Z: 1300)(T: 4000 + S: 2300)
"I draw, and activate my own double summon" Akio smiled as he placed the card into his dueldisk (H: 5)
"Shido, be careful I think he might be synchro summoning" Tsuyoshi said as Akio picked two cards from his hand.
"Of course I am" Akio replied smiling "I summon Vylon Cube (3/Light/Machine/Tuner/Effect/800/800) and Vylon Stella (3/Light/Fairy/Tuner/Effect/1400/200) and I'll tuner my Vylon Cube and Vylon Stella to my Vylon Hapt"
"A d-double tuning?" gasped Shido as the two tuners turned into two rings of white light which en-circled Vylon Hapt making an X shape.
As the trio exploded into light Tsuyoshi looked unfazed "What? No Chant?"
"Things like that are beneath me" Akio replied as a large legless robot attached to a golden ring with two large black wings and two small black wings appeared "Meet my ultimate monster Vylon Omega (10/Light/Fairy/Effect/Synchro/3200/1900)"
"Charmed" replied Tsuyoshi.
"When this monster is synchro summoned all monsters that were normal summoned are destroyed!" Akio roared as his monster let lose a large beam of light, it hit the field and exploded into smoke.
"Damn it Akio!" Zenjiro roared as the smoke cleared, only his Steelswarm Gatekeeper Survived.
"Oh no!" Shido cried as he stared at his empty field.
"Crap" grunted Tsuyoshi "Don't worry Shido, I'll stop his attack"
"I activate the effect of Vylon Stella, by paying 500LP I can equip him to Vylon Omega, now when Omega attacks a monsters it is destroyed at the end of the damage step" Akio said as Vylon Stella was absorbed by Vylon Omega.
"Damn" grunted Tsuyoshi staring at his face-down and then at his monster.
"Now my Vylon Cube activates its effect allowing me to add an equip spell to my hand" Akio gloated searching his deck before stopping at one card "I choose Vylon Material, which I'll equip to Vylon Omega to increase its attack by 600 (Vylon Omega: 3200 + 600 = 3800)"
"..." Shido stared feebly at his opponent's monster.
"Attack Shido directly, Omega Death Ray!"
"That's so creative brother" mumbled Zenjiro sarcastically.
From the golden ring a large beam of light hit straight into Shido and exploded into smoke.
Kenchiro yawned as he watched the duel from afar "Such a rash move will cost Akio dearly."
Kenchiro was sitting on a tree branch in the forest. He had been watching the duel for about five minutes. Beneath him sitting beside the tree was Takeru.
"Why do you care about Shido's duel?" Takeru growled "He'll just lose"
"He won't" Kenchiro sighed "Give the boy some credit for once"
"I don't care what happens to that weak little shi-"
"Please refrain from insulting Shido, he's about to prove you wrong...about the first thing, not the you not caring thing"
"What?"
As the smoke cleared Shido still standing revealed his face-down "I activated Shield of Payments, by discarding a card I can cut the damage I would take in half" (S: 400)
"Congratulations" grunted Akio "I end my turn" (H: 2)
(A: 4000 + Z: 1300)(T: 4000 + S: 400)
"This turn, I'm taking you out" Tsuyoshi said pointing at Zenjiro and then drawing a card (H:2)
"W-what" hollered Zenjiro in disbelief "You couldn't!"
"I activate monster reborn to summon Gem-Knight Crystal (7/Earth/Rock/Normal/2450/1950)" Tsuyoshi smiled as his monster appeared "Now I switch Aquamarine into attack mode (GKA-2600-1400)"
"Oh no" Zenjiro cried.
"Attack Crystal, Justice Slash" Crystal jumped forward producing a sword of diamonds, he slashed straight through Steelswarm Gatekeeper "Now Aquamarine attack with your Sword of Crystal Water! Rapid Wave Blade!"
Aquamarine launched forward as water surrounded the blade on its shield, creating a much large blade, it knocked Zenjiro off his feet.
"ARGH" roared Zenjiro as he hit the dirt (Z: 0) "Brother..."
"Lady Shiryoku doesn't need a servant as weak as you" grunted Akio looking away from his fallen brother.
"H-how can you be so cold hearted!" roared Shido "He's your brother...you shouldn't be so cold to him!"
"Shido..." Tsuyoshi said silently.
"Silly theatrics, I have no need of a brother who loses so easily" Akio sighed.
"Shido, it's your turn" Tsuyoshi mumbled.
(A: 4000)(T: 4000 + S: 2300)
"Draw!" Shido roared "They're all in the graveyard!" (H:3)
Flashback
"Big Brother Shido!" screamed a child of around four.
"Taky" Shido replied hugging his younger brother, he too was around four, nearly five.
"I have a present for you" Taky said producing a card "I got it in a booster pack and I thought you'd like it"
"Thank you Taky it's..." Shido stared at the card "My favourite card ever!"
End
"I activate the effect of the monster I discarded for Shield of Payments, Fossil Synchron (1/Earth/Rock/Effect/Tuner/500/500)!" Shido roared as a rock shaped like a tyrannosaurus rex appeared next to him "When he is in the graveyard I can tune him to other monsters in the graveyard by removing them from play"
"A graveyard synchro" Akio grunted "How droll"
"You have a weird sense of humour pal" Tsuyoshi yawned.
"From Fossil to flesh, from flesh to steel, appear now and aid me!" roared Shido as fossil synchron turned into one ring which (LV: 4) Guaiba and (LV: 4) Blast Dinosaur flew through, the trio exploded into fire and smoke and from it a gigantic monster appeared "synchro summon, upgrade, Cyber Saurus Ver. 2.0 (L:9/Fire/Dinosaur/Effect/Synchro/2700/2100)" (A large green dinosaur, it had a robotic head and its left arm was a large laser cannon, its tail too was robotic, it's eyes were glowing green)
"Cyber Saurus Ver. 2.0?" Questioned Akio "The extremely rare card?"
"Yes" Shido retorted "My ultimate monster, which by discarding a card destroys one monster on my opponent's field!"
"I send an equip card to the graveyard from my monster to negate your monsters effect and destroy it!" roared Akio.
"My monster can't be destroyed by monster effects!" replied Shido.
"Crap" was all Akio could muster.
"I activate my monster effect again" Akio said placing a card into the graveyard.
"My monster will negate it!"(VO: 3800-3200)
"My monster can't be destroyed by monster effects!"
"Once more my monster activates its effect!"
"Damn it!" roared Akio as Cyber Saurus Ver. 2.0 launched a large laser from its cannon, completely obliterating Vylon Omega.
"Now I activate the effect of the card I sent to the graveyard Dinosaurs Spirit, a trap card that activates when it is sent to the graveyard!" Shido roared "This card allows me to attack twice in a row!"
"No!" Akio roared "Beaten by the ultimate loser!"
"Come on Shido, show him what you got" Tsuyoshi said smiling.
Shido nodded "Attack Cyber Saurus Ver. 2.0! Fossil Cannon!" yelled Shido as his monster fired a large laser straight at Akio who was knocked off his feet. "And again!"
"GRAH!" screamed Akio as another laser hit him straight on. (A: 0)
Tsuyoshi walked over to Shido and patted him on the back "Nice one Shido"
"Thank you Tsuyoshi" Shido replied smiling.
"How about I give you some more tips on using that card of yours?" Tsuyoshi asked as he and Shido walked towards the obelisk blue dorm.
Aomori walked Sora and Daichi back to their dorm at the end of the day. Sora looked a little sullen. Daichi was ecstatic; finally he'd have another roommate that didn't need an alarm that made the sound of a boats horn to make.
"Now" Aomori said stopping them a few feet away from the dorm "You have to know why Masashi has been laid up for this long a time"
"What's wrong with him?" Sora asked timidly.
"At the end of last year he disappeared for a while" Aomori replied "They say someone on the campus attacked him and challenged him to a duel of darkness"
"A duel of darkness" Daichi said "A duel where if you win you can impose your will upon your opponent"
"The very same" Aomori confirmed "He showed up a week before the end of school and was unable to concentrate, of walk properly, he would seem dazed and confused constantly, he was always staring off into space and the night terrors."
"Great another roommate with a sleeping problem"
"He seems better now. However" Aomori said "If anything weird happens around him report it to me immediately"
"Yes Sir" replied Sora.
"Yes Sir" Daichi replied as well.
"Good" Aomori sighed "Now off to bed, I need to talk to someone"
Takeru stared off into the surface of the water; he was standing on the pier which led to the large lighthouse. He looked dejected as images of the past flew into his mind.
Flash Back
"Taky" said Shido running towards the young Takeru, they were both around eleven "I can't believe we're in the same school"
"Don't talk to me you vermin" Takeru replied "My name is Auyuzawa Takeru, son of Auyuzawa Takashi and Auyuzawa Miyoko; you were just a mistake of my father's past!"
"What are you talking about Taky?" Shido said smile faltering.
"You will call me Takeru or you will leave me alone forever"
"W-what happened Taky-Takeru?"
"I found out where you fit into all this you little rat! Leave me be!" Takeru roared walking off "You are no brother of mine, only my father's mistake!"
End
"Heh" Takeru grunted "Heh"
Takeru continued stare off into the ocean, silent, except for the sound of water dripping into water every second.
Card of the Day!
Fire
Cyber Saurus Ver. 2.0
Level: ********* (9)
Description: A large green dinosaur with a robotic head and tail, it's left arm was a large robotic cannon, its eyes were glowing an eerie green.
Dinosaur/Synchro/Effect
1 tuner + Blast Dinosaur + 1 or more non-tuner monsters
This card cannot be special summoned, except by sycnchro summon.
Once per turn you can discard one card to destroy one monster on the field.
This card cannot be destroyed by monster effects.
ATK: 2700 DEF: 2100
Next Time
As Sora prepares for his next duel, Mizuki asks 2nd best duellist and number one female role model at the academy Tokushima Yui to train her so she can one day take on and beat her older brother in a duel. However another girl seeking to one day best her father in a duel also requests Yui's tutelage. The two girls then begin to duel as Kenchiro once again appears from nowhere to watch.
Next Time,
Apprentices
Mizuki: I'll show Yui I'm a great duellist
?: Daichi?