Total Eclipse/Chapter 7: Kaiser's Pride!
"We shall be arriving at duel academy shortly Mr. Kazama" said a blonde haired woman in a flight attendants uniform.
"Thank you Miyako you are dismissed" replied Jiro Kazama as Miyako returned to the cockpit. Jiro was muscled man with blonde hair, green eyes and a scar above his left eye. He was wearing a green short sleeved coat, black jeans and white runners.
Jiro stared out of the airplanes window as the plane soared above the pacific. He smiled as woman sat down in the seat across from him.
"We'll be at duel academy shortly Kantana" Jiro said to his companion.
Kantana was tall woman with black hair and blue eyes. She was wearing a black jacket blue jeans and black knee high boots.
"It sad that our stay in America has ended" Jiro continued "But of course when Ishiko asked us to visit, well I couldn't say no"
Kantana just stared at Jiro.
"I heard their son is attending the school" Jiro said after a brief pause.
"Souta and Natsuki's son?" Kantana questioned.
"Yes, what was his name again..."
"Sora. Soubou Sora" Kantana replied
"Yes Sora" Jiro mused "The genius' son"
"How long ago was it...since we made that pact?"
"Twenty Years...he couldn't even last that long" Jiro sighed, he then clicked his fingers "Miyako, call Ishiko tell her we will arrive shortly" He reached under his seat and produced a wooden box.
"That's-"
"Yup" Jiro cut her off "This is Souta's sacred box..."
Sora stretched as he woke up. He looked to his left and found Daichi had already left to do his homework in peace. To his right Masashi was still soundly asleep. Getting up Sora pulled on his uniform and grabbed his duel disk.
"Today's the day" Sora said smilingly "The day I become Kaiser"
"In your dreams" Masashi replied "Yuki's the best duellist at this academy, you won't know what hit you"
"I've duelled Yuki before" Sora retorted "He can't have gotten all that tougher in the past three years"
"And you have?"
"I-I haven't really" replied Sora "But I want to try"
Masashi yawned "Didn't your Deck Construction class start ten minutes ago?"
"But it's Saturday...right?"
"Friday"
Sora was out the door before Masashi had even finished speaking "Good luck..."
"Late again Mister Soubou" Professor Aomori called out without turning around as Sora entered the room.
"Eh...I thought it was Saturday" Sora replied.
"Hm...Sit down Mister Soubou" Aomori said after a few moments silence "You can catch up later...when you stay for detet-"
He was cut off by an announcement "Would Soubou Sora please report to Principle Miyagi's office"
"Goodbye Mister Soubou" sighed Aomori.
What why how Where
When Sora arrived at the office there was already another person in there with Principal Miyagi.
"Ah, Sora there you are" Miyagi said beckoning Sora into the room.
"You wanted to see me?"
"Yes Sora" Miyagi answered gesturing towards the man across from her "This is Kazama Jiro, he used to attend this school"
"Hello Sora" Jiro said nodding.
"You are the 16th best of the International duelling circuit...you use Epic Heroes" Sora said amazed "I'm a big fan"
"Thank you" Jiro replied taken aback "It's always nice to meet a fan"
"It's an honour" Sora said smiling from ear to ear.
"Sora, there's something else" Miyagi said as Sora turned to look at her "Jiro went to school here with your father"
"Y-you did" Sora stared at Jiro in amazement.
"Perhaps we should take a walk"
Who What Why HOW
"It was here where I first met your father" Jiro said as he led Sora towards the lighthouse "He was an Obelisk and I was a lowly red...he was good man"
"Mr. Kazama...do you know-"
"Anything about what happened to him" Jiro finished "No, he came to see me a month before he left though, told me that if anything should happen to him...I should give you this"
Sora stared as Jiro produced a rectangular wooden block, on the top side of it there was an inscription:
'Only he who can pierce the shadows may open this box"
"A block of wood?" Sora asked raising an eyebrow
"He called it his Sacred Box. Only he could open this" Jiro said searching in vain once more for a key hole "Now it is yours, hopefully you can open this as well someday"
"Thank you Mr. Kazama" Sora said staring at the box "I'll find a way to open this"
"Well you should get back to class" Jiro replied staring off into the ocean "I'll stay here for a while"
Sora nodded and walked off.
"What are you doing here Zakuro?" Jiro asked glancing behind him.
"I just wanted to see you for myself" Zakuro replied "It's been 8 years Jiro"
"Do want something?"
"You know me Jiro" Zakuro replied "I always want something"
"You're an idiot if you think you can beat big brother" Mizuki chastised "You've never even been able to touch him"
"I'm doing this Mizuki" replied Sora.
"I think he has a genuine shot" Daichi said shrugging "A genuine shot of getting beaten in one turn"
The trio marched on in silence to edge of the lake that separated the Ra yellow and Obelisk blue dorms. They hopped into the boat and paddled towards the island in the middle of the lake.
"You still have a chance to back out" Daichi sighed "I guarantee you'll feel better if you duelled someone else...like me or Shido or Mizuki or Kenchiro or Takeru"
"Come on Sora there's no point even trying to beat him he's too powerful" Mizuki pleaded "Only Yui-sensei and Tsuyoshi have ever been able to put a dent into his LP in the last year, a first year won't be able to even deal 1LP worth of damage"
"..." Sora stared at the approaching Island weighing his options before sighing "I'm going to duel Yuki and there's nothing you can say that will change my mind"
They got off the boat in silence and walked towards the center of the island.
"You're late Sora" Yuki said eyes closed "We said 10 o'clock didn't we?"
"I'm sorry for the holdup" Sora replied activating his duel disk.
"It's been a few years now hasn't it" Yuki said activating his own duel disk "I hope you can put up a better fight then when we were kids"
"Duel!" they shouted in unison
(S: 4000)(Y:4000)
"I'll go first" Sora said drawing a card. (H:6)
"I still think you're insane" Daichi grunted "But...good luck"
"Thanks" Sora replied "I summon a monster in face-down defence position"
"Let me guess" Yuki sighed "Future Hero Stone Gardna"
"N-no" Sora stammered "I end my turn with a face-down card" (H:4)
(S:4000)(Y:4000)
"Draw" Yuki said taking a card from his deck (H:6) "Let's see, what to summon"
"I activate Future Fusion, I send fusion material monsters from my deck to my graveyard" Yuki explained searching his deck "and on my second standby phase after activation I can special summon a monster, so I send Decoy Dragon, twin-headed behemoth, spear dragon, spirit ryu and divine dragon ragnarok and in two turns I can summon Five Headed Dragon"
"Five-Headed Dragon? He has a card that powerful in his deck" asked Daichi.
"Yeah he's got loads of dragons" answered Mizuki.
"Next I activate polymerisation to fuse Red Eyes Black Dragon and Meteor Dragon" Yuki said as he pulled a monster from his extra deck "To fusion summon Meteor B. Dragon (8/Fire/Dragon/Fusion/3500/2000)"
"Ah crap" Sora mumbled.
"Meteor B. Dragon destroy his monster now!" Yuki commanded as his monster slammed its fist into the face-down monster which exploded into pixels "It seems I was right, it was future hero Stone Gardna"
"I guess you were right" sighed Sora.
"Your turn" Yuki replied gesturing for Sora to make his move. (H:2)
(S:4000)(Y:4000)
"My turn" Sora said drawing a card "I summon Future Hero Dimension Gunner (3/Light/Warrior/Effect/1200/1500)(A man dressed completely in leather, with a fedora and cape, holding a golden pistol) in attack mode" (H:4)
Yuki laughed hysterically "Let's see your power Sora!"
"Alright! I use my monsters special effect to remove your monster from play until your next end phase!" Sora roared as his monster aimed his gun at the large dragon and fired a large beam of purple energy from it.
"Is he going to actually do it" Mizuki gasped.
"Now I'll attack Yuki directly!" Sora roared as his monster shot at Yuki with his golden gun.
Yuki stood completely still as the bullets hit him (Y: 2800) square in the chest "Heh"
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Kenchiro asked.
"Old-man Oshiro has the keys to the random selector room" Takeru answered as he rifled through drawers in the Osiris red office "If we get those keys we can rig the duel review so I can...duel...Sora..."
"What's wrong?"
"They're not here" Takeru replied "Someone's already taken them"
"Oh no!" Kenchiro replied mockingly.
"I set a card an end my turn" Sora said as a card appeared face-down behind his monster. (H: 2)
(S:4000)(Y:2800)
"My turn" Yuki said drawing a card (Y:3) "I summon Blizzard Dragon in attack mode (4/Water/Dragon/Effect/1800/1000)"
"Looks like his luck might have run out" Daichi sighed.
"What do you mean?" Mizuki asked.
Daichi shook his head "Watch"
"Oh hell" Sora sighed.
"Blizzard Dragon attack his Dimension Gunner!" roared Yuki as his dragon flew towards Sora and his monster, the dragon he shot blue flames over Future Hero Dimension Gunner, who froze and then proceeded to explode into shards of ice.
"Well there goes my victory plan" Sora sighed (S:3400)
"You'll get over it" replied Yuki placing two cards into his duel disk "I end my turn with these two face-down cards, and don't forget since it's my end phase my Meteor B. Dragon returns to the field"(8/Fire/Dragon/Fusion/3500/2000)(Y:0)
(S:3400)(Y:2800)
"Draw" Sora ripped the card from his deck (H:3) "Next turn he'll summon his Five-Headed Dragon then this duel is over" he scanned his hand and smirked "I activate double summon, now I can summon Future Hero Nitro Fighter (4/Fire/Warrior/Effect/Tuner/2000/0)(A man in red robotic armor) and Future Hero Rabid Tiger (3/Light/Warrior/Effect/1700/1000)(An anthropomorphic tiger dressed in robotic armor)"
"A synchro summon" Yuki stated smiling "It won't help you now"
"Another synchro monster?" Daichi sighed "How many does he have?"
"Quite a few" Mizuki replied.
"I tune my Future Hero Nitro Fighter (L:4) to my Future Hero Rabid Tiger (L:3), Cries of justice call forth a new power! Become the ever growing strength! Synchro Summon! Appear in a flash, Future Hero Burning Lion (7/Fire/Warrior/Effect/3300/1500)(A man in red and gold robotic lion like armor)"
"Hm, you've never summoned him before" mused Yuki.
"He summons it all the time when he duels me!" Mizuki yelled.
"Another synchro, what does this one do?" Daichi muttered.
"My Burning Lion will now attack your Blizzard Dragon, BUUUURNING PUUUNCH!" yelled Sora as Burning Lion fist burst into flames, the monster jumped towards Blizzard Dragon and punched straight in the stomach, blizzard dragon then burst into a million pixels.
Yuki stood still as his monster was destroyed looking apathetically at his lost monster (Y: 2200).
"Now my monsters effect activate, he gains half the destroyed monsters attack points (Future Hero Burning Lion: 2400+(1800/2)=3100)" Sora smiled as his monster gained a blue aura.
"I presume you end your turn?"
"Well, not much I can do so yeah, all yours" Sora replied. (H:0)
(S:3400)(Y:2200)
"Draw" Yuki said nonchalantly adding a card to his empty hand(H:0) "It's the second standby phase after the activation of future fusion so now I can special summon Five-Headed Dragon (12/Dark/Dragon/Fusion/Effect/5000/5000)"
"Well Sora's gonna lose" sighed Daichi.
"What do you mean?" Mizuki asked.
"Yuki's got a Five-Headed Dragon on the field, It's tied for strongest card in the game!" Daichi replied shaking his head.
"I have to say Sora, you've improved since our last duel" Yuki said smiling "However as Kaiser I have a duty to remain the top duellist in this school, Meteor B. Dragon attack his Future hero Burning Lion!"
As Meteor B. Dragon readied itself for an attack Sora smiled and revealed a face-down card "I activate Rush Recklessly! This spell gives my monster 700 Attack points for the rest of this turn (Future Hero Burning Lion: 3300+700=4000), so my monster destroys yours!" Burning Lion burst into flames and launched itself at Meteor B. Dragons chest, with one punch Burning Lion ripped through Meteor B. Dragons chest causing the dragon to explode into pixels.
Yuki remained calm as he placed his defeated monster into the graveyard (Y:1600).
"And now my monster gains attack equal to half your monsters attack (Future Hero Burning Lion: 4000+(3500/2)=5750)" Sora roared as the blue aura surrounding Future Hero Burning Lion turned Purple.
"I end my turn" replied Yuki. (Y:1)(Future Hero Burning Lion: 5750-700=5050)
(S:3400)(Y:1600)
"Draw" Sora said as he pulled a card from his deck, he checked it sighed and added it to his hand (S:1)
"I can't believe Sora's actually winning" Daichi gasped.
"You change your mind every turn!" growled Mizuki.
"So..."
"Since I can't do anything else I'll attack Five-Headed Dragon!" roared Sora as his monster's fist burst into flames, it rushed forward and punched Five-Headed Dragon who moved back a bit before recovering.
"Five-Headed Dragon can only be destroyed by light monsters remember?" Yuki asked as his life points fell (Y:1550)
"I think I'll end my turn" Sora replied.
(S:3400)(Y:1550)
"I think it's time to end this" Yuki sighed as he added a card to his hand "I activate a face-down trap known as Dragonic Call"
"What's that?" Daichi questioned.
"I can only activate when my life points are lower than my opponents, it allows me to special summon one level four or lower Dragon from my deck, I choose Exploder Dragon" Yuki answered searching through his deck.
"Looks like Big-brother wins" Mizuki said silently.
"Come out Exploder Dragon (3/Earth/Dragon/Effect/1000/0) in attack mode!" Yuki yelled as a blue dragon carrying a small spiked, black and yellow bomb appeared.
Sora remained silent.
"Exploder Dragon attack his Future Hero Burning Lion" Yuki yelled.
Exploder Dragon flew straight into Future Hero Burning Lion as they both exploded into flames.
"A monster that destroys Exploder Dragon is destroyed as well, and neither of us take damage from a battle involving exploder dragon" Yuki said smiling.
"He is the Kaiser" muttered Daichi.
"Now attack him directly" Yuki said motioning for his Five-headed Dragon to attack.
Sora was knocked off his feet as Five-Headed Dragon shot five fire balls at him, each one exploding ferociously as it hit him.
"You've improved Sora" Yuki said walking off "Maybe next time I'll have to go all out from the start"
"...Thanks Yuki" replied Sora standing up.
"You did great Sora" Mizuki said patting Sora on the back.
"Come on let's head back to the dorm" Daichi said smiling.
"Yeah" Sora said walking towards the boat with his friends.
Zakuro smiled as shadows shifted behind him "You've arrived"
"Of course" replied a voice from the shadows.
"Next month the Duel Reviews begin" Zakuro said turning to face the person in the shadows "Our master has chosen a new vessel so he may observe the duellists easier"
"I know Zakuro...what do you need me to do?" asked the person in the shadows.
"It is not what Zakuro needs you to do; it is what I need you to do"
For the first time since arriving in the cave the person in the shadows surveyed his surroundings, noticing a swivel chair behind Zakuro.
"He's our master's new vessel" Zakuro said smirking.
"What happened to your last vessel?" the person in the shadows asked.
"Creative Differences" replied the Master he voice a mixture of innocence and malevolence "We are close to getting my body back, all we need you to do is...
Sora stared at the box Jiro had given him. He sat next to the statue of The Winged Dragon of Ra that stood outside his dorm.
"A card box that doesn't open" Sora sighed throwing it up and catching it.
He did this several times before he tossed it too hard and it landed a few feet from the box. He walked over to the box and stared at the inscription once more:
'Only he who can pierce the shadows may open this box"
Suddenly his right began to hurt, he reached up to cover but suddenly the world around him gained a red hue. He stared down at the box where the inscription had changed once more:
'To you who can see us, we need help'
Sora picked up the box which clicked as he did so. He touched the top of the box and moved it slightly opening the box, inside were a bunch of cards. He reached in and took out the top card, he turned it around to find that it was blank.
"A blank card?" Sora questioned before his world began spinning and he fell to the floor.
Card of the Day:
Fire
Future Hero Burning Lion
*******(7)
(A man in red and gold robotic lion like armor)
Warrior/Effect/Synchro
Future Hero Nitro Fighter + One or more non-tuner Future Hero Monsters.
This card can't be special summoned except by synchro summon.
When this card destroys a monster increase this monsters attack by half that monsters attack.
This card cannot attack your opponent directly.
Atk: 2400 Def: 1500
Thanks for waiting again for this. Hope you liked it.
Next Time
As the duel reviews are coming up the teachers arrange a special duel between the visiting pro-duellist Jiro Kazama and a duellist of his choice. Who will he duel?
Find out next time,
Duel 8:
Hero Worship Part 1:
Duelling Like A Pro
Jiro: Get ready ? for my next move
?: Bring it on!