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Chapter 5
The Date
Jax stood in front of the mirror at Yusei's place where he now lived and had a job. As he tried on an outfit he got for his new attire, a tight crimson red T-shirt, a black leather vest, and some Black Cargo pants. Also when he was at the store, he found this heavy-duty box that was big enough to hold a deck, also it had a shoulder strap that it could be slung over the shoulder, it was black tough plastic with steel on the corners. Jax slung the new case so the strap went across his chest like a bandolier and then walked out towards his runner.
Yusei was adjusting something on his runner. "So you finally ditched that suit you were wearing?" asked Yusei looking up from the consoles he had linked up to his runner.
"Yes, I feel more free in this outfit than that body trap they call a suit." He said climbing onto his runner and kicking it into gear and drove off towards the Tops to pick up his date.
MEANWHILE WITH RIKA…
"Do you think this is a little too formal?" asked Rika to her friend Allie, holding up a dark blue dress with spaghetti straps.
"Uh…" said Allie, "that looks a little weird to be wearing while riding a duel runner, can you think of something a little more casual?" she asked Rika.
"Hmm… let me see…" she said rummaging through her wardrobe and unearthed a denim miniskirt with it fraying on the bottom rim, a red shirt with purple sleeves, a denim jacket and some boots with fur on the upper edge.
"That's more like it." Said Allie
"Great." Said Rika and hurried into the bathroom to put the outfit on.
FIVE MINUTES LATER…
Jax parked his runner outside the door and went up and rang the bell. Almost 8 seconds after he rang it, the door flung open and Rika glomped him. "You could be a little less painful when it comes to greeting me, Rika." he said as he lead her over to his runner and put his helmet on while handing her an extra one. "Hang on." He said as he kicked the runner to life and shot off towards the ramp leading to the streets.
"So where are we going?" she asked
"I don't know, most of the restaurants I know won't let us in due to the fact that we don't have a reservation and/or because of our attire is to casual." He said "Do you know of any good places to eat?" he asked
Rika grinned "Take a left on Kame Street, it's on the far left corner there." She said.
Jax followed her directions and came upon a Japanese restaurant whose door was flanked by sakura trees entitled Foods of the Far East. "Interesting, I do like traditional Japanese foods, my parents wouldn't cook any, I always ended up with European or American dishes so this should be good." He said pulling his runner into a spare space and dismounting it.
As the two friends entered, two waterfalls flanking the interior of the door greeted them falling into a pit with a Matsu wood bridge connecting the door to the restaurant. Jax looked incredulously at this entrance. "Good first impression, isn't it?" asked Rika noticing Jax's stunned face.
"If the food is as good as the scenery, I'll enjoy it." Said Jax with a grin as they headed to where the hostess stood waiting.
"Welcome, for two today?" asked the hostess
"Yes please," said Jax.
"Then follow me." she said and led them to a table with an incense burner hanging over the table giving off a heavenly fragrance of Kyara wafting from it. "Can I get you any drinks while you decide on your order?" she asked
"Do you have any Sencha tea?" asked Jax
"I'll have a mint tea." Said Rika.
"One Sencha tea and one mint tea coming up." Said the hostess and she hurried off as Jax and Rika sat down.
"So, do you come here often?" asked Jax curious about Rika.
"My grandpa took me here not long after my mom committed suicide a week after my dad died when I was four." She replied a little depressed.
"Oh my god." Said Jax.
"Grandpa told you of how he lost his arm that bore the mark that you bear, well, also in that accident was my grandma and their son, my dad, after my dad died, my mom hung herself a week later." She said a slight tear running down her cheek.
Jax didn't know why he did this but he placed his hand on hers on the table. "I'm sorry." He said
"That's okay, you didn't know." She said smiling "My grandpa took me in after that, I was in such low spirits during the first week at grandpa's estate he took a few weeks off from work to try and cheer me up, he took me to the movies, and to a number of places but my favorite place to go was here, they have the best Yaki Soba in all of New Domino City." She said with enthusiasm.
Jax glanced down at his menu "with a description like that, I guess I have no choice but to try it." Said Jax.
Rika laughed "So anyway, what about you, what's your story?" she asked
Jax thought for a moment "Well, I too was raised on the tops, My family is the owner of the financial group Cambell finance, Ever since I learned to walk I was being groomed to take over the company when the time came, my childhood was nice, I was presented with all the duel monsters cards I could ever want, I built the prototype of the deck I use now when I was 11, however once I started being the best in my neighborhood, my private tutors started to clamp down making it so I couldn't duel at all, working day in and day out, however when I did have free time I hired a mechanic to help me build a duel runner, it helped me figure out how one works so I could customize it myself, however it all changed four days ago, a friend of mine sent me this data he uncovered revealing how my parents got where they are until a few days ago.
commence flashback
A knock at the door of Cambell estate rang throughout the house. The butler came to the door to find two men standing there. "Can I help you sirs?" he asked the men shoved a paper into the Butler's hands
"Stand aside sir, we have a warrant for your employer's arrests, I think you'll need to find a new job soon." Said the officer and the officers came int the house and found Mr. and Mrs. Cambell. Who were shocked at the appearance of the officers "Mr. and Mrs. Cambell, for charges of murder, bribery, kidnapping, forgery, among others, you are under arrest, you've the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be—"
What kind of bloody evidence can you use against us?" screamed Mrs. Cambell
"This kind." Said the other officer who wasn't handcuffing the two, flashing a data pad at her displaying all the details of their business dealings with Sonika.
"What kind of nasty little liar got a hold of that kind of information?" Said Mrs. Cambell, her eyes flashing dangerously.
"Me." Said a voice and the two Cambells turned to see Jax leaning in the doorway but they hardly recognized him, so used to seeing him in designer clothing, they now saw him dressed in clothes that made him look like a street kid, a sleeveless black shirt, a tan leather vest (author's note; Yusei gave him his team satisfaction vest while Jax was looking at stores for new clothes before he got the outfit he has now).
"YOU?!" shrieked his mom.
"EXPLAIN YOURSELF NOW, MY SON!" bellowed his father.
"I've had enough with you making me something like I never wanted to be, however when I was told of the existence of that data and it came into my possession I had to get it to security so that you couldn't do all the bullshit you lied about through your teeth to me. I loved you when I was young because you are my parents, nothing will change how we are related by blood no matter how much it disgusts me to be related to those with ties to Sonika. However henceforth you will never have any emotional ties to me, I have my own life now the only place you will hear of me now is people in other cells hearing of my dueling prowess. Farewell, and I hope you like Japanese boxed lunches because that will be pretty much what you both will be eating." He said turning to leave
Jax's Father lurched foreword as the security officers were handcuffing him. "Do you honestly think you have won?"
Jax stopped "Who said I thought that?" he asked.
"Sonika will hear about this, they will hunt you down, and once they have you, you will have to make a choice; join them or you will simply disappear." Notified his father.
"I don't think that way, by caving into blackmail, I have the backing of security's head honcho, and I am also one of these." He said and his arm started glowing revealing the Dragon's head. His parent's eyes widened "Farewell my parents, I'll send you letters IF you end up in the satellite." He said and left.
Mr. and Mrs. Cambell were escorted out of the house and the last they saw of their son was him climbing onto his runner and driving off.
End Flashback
"Don't you miss your parents?" asked Rika as he finished his story.
"yes and no, I miss them because They were the only family I had in New Domino, and No because of their ties to Sonika, and now according to what my dad says I will be targeted by Sonika." He said. As he finished that statement, a plate of Yaki Soba arrived for each of them and they dug in.
MEANWHILE OUTSIDE…
Calvin watched the couple from across the street through binoculars. At that moment his cell phone rang. Grumbling he picked it up "Hello? Oh yes, boss, I'm keeping an eye on them, I've already planted a tracer on his runner, it's on the inner part of the wheel." "Yes sir." He said and hung up the phone. God I hope this works, the van said it's standing by, so there may be no need to worry he thought
BACK WITH JAX AND RIKA…
Jax and Rika had finished their meal, Jax paid for it and they walked out. "Okay, where do you wanna go now?" he asked.
"Do you wanna go shopping?" asked Rika
Jax froze, he had heard of when a girl asks her date if he wants to go shopping that usually meant the guy carrying 10 to 12 bags while all she carries is her purse. "Um okay but please don't go overboard." He said
Rika seemed to pick up on what he meant and quickly said "You've never seen where I shop."
With that they got onto Jax's runner and they headed off, Rika guiding him to their destination twenty minutes later, they pulled up in front of the mother of all technology stores: a Kaiba Corp. outlet store! "Oh…My…Gawd, my parents would never let me near one of these places, saying all this tech would rot my mind!" said Jax as they headed in, there was a toy section for the kids that had all kinds of duel monster themed toys, there was a section dedicated to the Kaiba corp. original game system the Revolution ranging from the system itself to the games but there was also extra controllers and extra parts. There was also a counter for people to buy packs of cards. But the biggest merchandise attraction of all was the Duel runner sales area/parts section. And finally there was a duel arena in the middle of the massive store.
"I'm going to check out the bargain bin for the video games." Said Rika,
"If that's the case I'm going to check out the duel runner parts, see if there is anything I can use to improve my ride." He said and headed off to the runner parts section. He was amazed at the different parts that were for sale, apparently there was an expansion card for a digital radio onto the runner's hard drive. "Oh, I'll get one of those." Said Jax getting it off the shelf. He browsed around for a little bit and found himself watching from the sidelines of the duel arena as one person's Beast King Barbaros took down his opponent's life points to zero with the crowd cheering "nobody can beat the beast master!"
"Geez, he's at it again?" said a voice Jax recognized, he turned to see Rika with an annoyed expression on her face.
"You know him?" asked Jax
Rika sighed "Yeah, he's Ronald Steps a local hot shot, came to this store and started winning duels left right and center, he's kind of this place's equivalent of Jack atlas before Yusei Dethroned him." She said
"You think he needs to be dethroned?" asked Jax
"If you're up for a challenge, yeah." Said Rika at that moment the guy who just won the duel called up into the audience "I am king of this arena, nobody can defeat me!"
"I think I can." Said Jax "because I challenge you." He said and jumped down into the arena.
"Well, looks like I'll get a challenge finally!" said Ronald activating his duel disk again.
Jax picked up one of the duel disks that were rentable, slipped his deck into the slot and activated the disk. "LET"S DUEL!" they said in unison.
Jax: 4000
Ronald: 4000
"I'll Step up first," said Ronald drawing his card, and I'll summon Dandylion in defense mode, and set two cards face down, Your move." He said
"And It's my turn to take flight, I'll summon Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV4 (4/1600/1000), activate the spell card Level Up, this spell creates a surge of energy that brings my Dragon into it's higher form, in order to special summon Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV6!" declared Jax as a silver metallic Wyvern with a bird's beak appeared (6/2300/1600). "I will now attack your Dandylion with my dragon!"
"Not so fast, GO trap card Threatening roar, stops your battle phase immediately!" called Ronald
"I'll play the spell card Assault Teleport, by returning one Assault Mode Monster in my hand to my deck I can draw two cards, he said as his disk's auto shuffler triggered and he drew two cards. "I'll now set three cards face down." He said "Your up." Said Jax.
"And I'll now summon Enraged Battle Ox in defense mode and set one card face down, that'll to for this turn." Decided Ronald.
Strange, it must be he's going to sacrifice those monsters for something big. Thought Jax as he drew his card "I will now attack your enraged Battle Ox with Horus Level Six!" declared Jax
"Hold it, I'm activating the Trap card Call of the Earthbound, to redirect your attack Target from my Ox to My Dandylion card." Yelled Ronald
"Fine, it's still destroyed." Said Jax,
"But I still get it's ability," added Ronald "When it is destroyed I get two Fluff Tokens." Grinned the duelist.
Ugh great I allowed him to get more monsters on the field thought Jax "I'll end my turn and when I do so, seeing as Horus LV6 destroyed a monster in battle, he evolves once again and this time one of my signature cards takes the stage: Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV8 (8/3000/1800), It's your move now."
"Heh, Things just keep getting better and better." Laughed Ronald "I'll now sacrifice all three of my monsters in order to summon Beast King Barbaros (3000/1200)!"
Jax just stared at the creature that emerged it seemed to look like the body of a big cat with the torso of a humanoid and the head of a lion holding a shield and a lance glaring at Horus. "They have equal attack points, they'll knock each other out." Said Jax.
"Ah," said Ronald holding up a finger "But you don't know about this monster's special ability, when this monster is summoned by sacrificing 3 monsters, which I did, all cards on your field are destroyed." He said grinning as a beam of energy shot from his monster's lance obliterating all cards on Jax's field. "And Now I'll attack you directly!" Jax declared as Barbaros pounced on Jax lancing 3000 life points out of him
Jax drew his card and sighed "Congratulations, you just wasted a very nice card effect, for you see, you will loose this turn!" he said with a grin as he saw what he drew First off, I'll play the spell card Monster Reincarnation, by ditching one card from my hand I can return one monster in my grave to my hand, and I choose my Horus Level 8!"
"Yay, it's back in your hand." Said Ronald sarcastically
"You'll be talking in a different tone of voice once I do this!" he said "I play the spell card Level Modulation, you draw two cards while I can special summon the monster Horus Level six!"
"Not enough attack points." Said Ronald slightly board
"I'll now play another Level Up Spell card, by now you know how it works, and As you know I have Horus Level 87 in my hand so Horus level 8 returns to the field (8/3000/1800)"
"So you're going to sacrifice that powerful a monster just to destroy mine? And you said this turn will finish me." He said
"Yes, glad you were paying attention, because I haven't normal summoned this turn, and I summon Junk Syncron (3/1300/500)"
"A tuner monster?!" exclaimed Ronald
"Yes, and this one has a special ability, when this one is special summoned, I can special summon a Level 2 or lower monster from my grave to the field, and I choose My Red Eyes B. Chick!" declared Jax
"Whoa, when did that monster get in your grave?" asked Ronald
"Monster Reincarnation requires me to discard a card from my hand, remember?" reminded Jax "And Now I'll tune up My Red Eyes B. Chick with Junk Syncron in order to summon Armory Arm (4/1800/1200)"
"Fat lot of good that did you, I'm surprised it has any attack points." Said Ronald rolling his eyes
"And you call yourself a duelist? I should have you know that there is more to this card, it isn't just a monster, IT"S A WEAPON." Jax said the last three words with a bit more force.
"A weapon?" asked Ronald wondering if he heard him correctly
"Yes, you see this card has the ability to become an equip card equipping to one face up attack position monster on my field giving him 1000 additional attack points plus the ability when it destroys a monster in battle, the destroyed monster's attack comes out of your life points, SO Horus, Attack Beast King Barbaros!" called out Jax
Final Score
Jax: 1000
Ronald: 0
"No Way!" exclaimed Ronald and he ran from the arena and out the door.
"Yeah, run away to your mommy when a new duelist wipes the floor with you." Said Jax as he left the arena to find Rika but she was nowhere in the store the more he looked around the more in a panic he became he exited the store to see if she was outside as he rounded the bend into the alleyway he saw the duelist he just defeated with that dueling pain in the ass Calvin as Calvin handed him a wad of money.
Jax Ran at Calvin and gave him a punch to the gut "WHERE IS SHE?" he yelled as Calvin staggered upright.
"Noticed she was gone that fast huh, the van we put her in just left" asked Calvin with a chuckle.
"QUIT FUCKING AROUND WITH ME, TELL ME WHERE THE HELL IS SHE!" bellowed Jax
"Oh, I think this card will tell you where she is." He said pulling a data card out of his pocket, Jax made a grab for it but Calvin pulled it out of his reach. "You think I'd let you have this so easily like I did those Horus Cards you bear?" he asked
Jax was seriously mad at this point, "I merely offered what the store owner what he thought was a better deal, it was business!" said Jax.
"Oh, so you think you're better because you got the mighty Horus by flashing some extra bills into the store owner's face?" snapped Calvin.
"Hey, I didn't know my family's money came off Criminal dealings, and I didn't flash the bills in his face, I am disgusted with how many billions my parents earned from those dicks, I want my freedom, If it's a duel you want, I'll wager My Horus Cards against that data card!" he said as he god his duel disk off of his runner.
"LET"S DUEL!" they called in Unison
Jax's LP: 4000
Calvin's LP: 4000
"I'll start this time around." Said Jax as he drew his card "I'll set a monster in defense mode and end set two cards face down end turn." He declared
"And my vengeance begins." Called out Calvin, with the draw of his card "And I summon Mataza the zapper (3/1300/800) and I'll equip him with 2 Axe of despair cards granting him 1000 attack for each (13003300) and two mage power granting him 500 attack for each of my spell/trap cards on the field (3300 5300)"
"Okay, Big ass attack, what am I going to do?" said Jax sarcastically
"You're going to loose!" said Calvin, "Mataza the Zapper, Attack his Facedown monster!" yelled Calvin as the samurai sliced Jax's Facedown which was Red Eyes Black Chick. "Now Mataza the Zapper, Take him down once and for all!"
"Not so fast, I activate my trap card: Sakaretsu Armor!" Called out Jax triggering his Trap card destroying Calvin's Monster
"NO!" Cried out Calvin as his monster shattered "I end turn." He said.
Blinded by desire and ambition as always. Thought Jax, "Okay, My move," he said drawing a card, "I will now activate the spell card Double summon allowing me to normal summon twice this turn, and first I'll trigger the trap Metal reflect Slime to make it a monster with 3000 defense which makes it great fodder for sacrifices, in other words I'll sacrifice it for my first normal summon to summon Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV6 (6/2300/1600), Next I'll play the spell Level Up to bring out it's final stage: Horus the Black Flame Dragon Level 8 (8/3000/1800), I will now summon for my final normal summon of the turn Junk Syncron (3/1300/500), and activate his ability to summon my Red-Eyes B. Chick. And finally I'll tune it up with my Junk Syncron to summon Armory arm, and as you know, I can equip this to a monster to grant it 1000 additional ATK points (30004000), and now vas you said Horus, Take him down once and for all!"
Jax's LP: 4000
Calvin's LP: 0
"Ugh, how, I've had this deck planned out ready to defeat you?" said Calvin
Jax walked up to him, "You were blinded by the goal, in this case you wanted my Horus cards, which you claimed were yours, They are a part of my deck now, accept it and think of another deck Idea, I'll be taking that data card now." Said Jax.
Calvin Growled and handed him the data card, "Even if Horus will never be mine, I will still find a way to bring you down." He said
Jax returned to his runner and inserted the data card and saw the location was at a high rise building which according to common knowledge belonged to the man who owned the recycling plant in the satellite, Mr. Pritchard, Jax had met the man before, his Parents as usual were always on friendly terms with the upper class people in New Domino. However as much of a gentleman Mr. Pritchard was, the way he talked about the satellite made his blood boil, as he was the top campaigner for not tearing down the satellite, Jax knew it was because the man would be out of a job. Despite how he disliked the man, he knew for a fact he was clean of any ties to Sonika, the government when they passed the major recycling act in order for all to recycle their garbage, a huge background check was done on him and they found him clean. So why does he pull this kind of stunt now? Thought the Dragon Duelist as he punched in some keys on his duel runner to make a call. Rex Goodwin appeared on the screen.
"Ah, Jax, I thought you were on a date with my Granddaughter." Said the white haired man.
"I was, until I found a plot to kidnap her to get to me!" said Jax
At those words, Rex looked serious. "Do you know where they are?" he asked in a hurried tone
"I'm on my way there right now, I'm activating my runner's homing beacon with an encrypted signal," thank you Yusei for teaching me that trick "Only security should pick it up, wait until I get there before you dispatch any officers." Said Jax pressing another button.
"Understood, and good luck." Said Rex.
Rika, I'll get you back even if it means ripping apart Sonika
There you have it, a few of you wanted to see more of The Horus cards and I hope those of you who wanted to see more of them were satisfied, next chapter I will introduce two new types of dragons to Jax's deck, I won't ruin the surprise, and oh, if any of you play the Yugioh Card game and want one of your decks to have an appearance in this fic, all you have to do is send me a deck list and a description on how the deck works via PM and I'll design a character to go with it! Until next chapter may you blessed be