LoZ! GX Chapter 21 – Illusions pt. 1

A bright light had filled the room, the aquarium had gotten destroyed, and everyone in the room had to shield their eyes and miss the attack that the four fierce beasts had unleashed on Andrew. A powerful mass of earth, water, wind, and fire had come straight for Andrew and his monsters. The entire attack would have put out more damage than 4000, so it would have been the end no matter what. Those cards are so destructive, nothing can stop them, not spells, effects, traps, or defense. Every time, 5300 Life Points are taken out of the opponent's Life Points.

After the light dimmed down, Link and Andrew were both collapsed on the ground.

"Andrew!" Zelda heard someone yell. She jumped off the side quickly and tried to run to Link as fast as she could.

"Link?" she called for him. Behind her, Jaden and Bastion were peeking over her shoulder.

"Zelda?" Jaden called as she started to cry.

"Get the nurse please." She whispered.

Bastion ran back out and Hassleberry had come to help the two. Hassleberry offered to carry Link to Nurse Fonda's.

"Thank you…" Zelda whispered.

An unknown boy walked from the left side of Zelda. Brown hair, brown eyes, he looked very charming, but Zelda was crying too much to notice.

"Hey," he looked at Zelda catching her attention, "He's gonna be okay." He reassured.

"No, you don't understand…" Zelda cried.

"What do you mean?" Jaden asked her.

"Our family holds many secrets…I can't tell you." She cried more.

"Listen Zelda," the unknown boy started, "he'll be okay. Hassleberry's taking him to the nurse and Bastion is letting her know what's going on."

"How do you know me?" Zelda asked looking at the boy.

"I'm Atticus. I'm Alexis's brother." He said.

Zelda watched him smile softly at her while she cried hysterically totally ignoring everything else except that moment the two looked at each other.

"You're a friend of Jaden's?" She asked.

He nodded, and Zelda didn't smile, only cried and walked out the duel stadium. She followed Syrus. Where ever he was going, then so was she. Zelda hoped he was going to the nurse's where Link should be.

Thankfully he was going there, and it was not a good time. Nurse Fonda wasn't busy at all, so she could help him. For Zelda, this was like the nightmare about Link's disease all over again. It came back to him.

"Zelda Hylia, sweetie, I need you to explain what is wrong with your brother. He lost some blood and I don't see how that's possible."Fonda said to her.

"Um…my brother has a rare Hylian disease called Ombituske." Zelda explained.

"Ombituske? I've never heard of this.'' Nurse Fonda said.

"It's a blood/heart disease. When Hylians get hysterical, they loose their blood if they have this disease.'' Zelda explained, "Don't worry though…only Hylians get it, not Humans. And it isn't contagious."

She couldn't believe she just told Nurse Fonda about that…

This memory flashed through Zelda's head as she traveled inside the moon. This was a very strange place. It wasn't what the books said was in Majora's Moon at all. Inside was supposed to be a round room with color-moving walls and 5 spots where the masks were held.

Instead, there was a rolling green field with a huge tree in the middle. The field seemed to be endless, and the view was quite beautiful. Reluctantly, Zelda walked forward…

What was this place? It couldn't be Majora's Chamber. Nothing made sense here. Zelda was becoming frustrated as she walked towards the tree. It became clearer and clearer by every step, but after a while, it was still hard to see. Coming towards Zelda as she walked, a short kid with a white shirt and a mask came running.

Zelda was going to ask a question until she realized what mask the kid was wearing. Odolwa…

The mask looked like the Masked Beast Odolwa. Behind the mask, the hair, the accent, the sparkling of the eyes through the eye holes…

"Do you want to play, mate?"

'Jarrod…' Zelda thought horrifyingly.

Three others in the other masks came up to her as well, and started dancing around her while she walked.

"Do you want to play? Do you like to play? Come on lady, let's play a game together!" They looked like little children, but inside, they were Hassleberry, Chazz, Jarrod and Audre.

"Lady, play with us." Hassleberry's accent said.

"Yeah, play with us!" The one in Goht's mask yelled.

"If you don't want to play…" Audre's voice said, "Then get out of our field!"

"We play in this field. If you don't want to play a game, mate, we will have to let you go…" The Odolwa Masked one whispered in a sinister tone.

"What do you want to play?" Zelda asked them.

"Follow us, follow us!" the children in masks said.

They all ran towards the tree.

"If you can't keep up, you're 'it'!" Chazz's voice teased.

Zelda started to run, and kept right up with the four kids. After a while, Zelda was starting to sweat and was breathing heavily, but she managed to make it to the tree. The kids suddenly ran all in different directions around the tree. She stood stupidly waiting for one to pass by her.

Once one did, she caught him by the arm.

"Hay-"

"Master Link will be mad at you if you hurt me…" The Masked Goht (Chazz) said to her, "Majora doesn't tolerate mean people who won't play with us."

"I will play with you, but what?"

"A card game. Here, I'll use this to take us there." The kid held a field spell card called 'Snowhead'.

Zelda hesitated before nodding and agreeing to go.

"I play the Field Spell Snowhead! Prepare your deck, lady."

Around, the field turned to mountains and snow.

"The game is this: I win, and you go back where you came from, and you win, doubtfully, then this place becomes spring time again, and my sacrificed soul will be put back on the world which it came." It laughed.

'What have I gotten into?' Zelda thought.

Jaden and Alexis both ended up in the same field. The beautiful grass and blurred tree in the distance was all the two saw.

"Okay," Alexis mumbled, "Where are we."

"According to Zelda, this should be Majora's Chamber." Jaden said, "But it's nothing like what she explained it."

"What did she say?" Alexis asked looking around.

"She said it was dark, and colors were moving inside the wall. There should be 5 different Mask Slots where the Masked Beasts are, in the middle is Majora, and around him are the other four, Goht, Odolwa, Gyorg, and Twinmold." Jaden told her.

"Then what is up with this? Zelda wouldn't lie, would she?" Alexis asked.

"Of course not…maybe we should walk towards that tree," Jaden pointed.

He walked towards it first, and Alexis stood looking away for a moment before finally following him. After what seemed to take forever, Jaden and Alexis were close to the tree. It became clearer, and they both saw three figures running around it. The first was a little kid in white, and in a mask.

"That's Gyorg!" Alexis exclaimed.

"No…" Jaden mumbled, "It's not Gyorg."

"I mean the mask, Jay." Alexis scoffed.

"Hassleberry!" Jaden ran after the kid in the Gyorg mask.

Alexis ran after Jaden, confused. Jaden could tell from behind the mask that it was Hassleberry.

"Hassleberry, come back!" Jaden yelled after him and Alexis yelled after Jaden.

Jaden soon caught up with the running child and stopped him. He knelt to the kid's side, and tried to take the mask off. The kid violently slapped Jaden's hand away.

"How dare you?" He screamed. It sounded like Hassleberry…only a little bit, but Jaden knew it was him.

"Hassleberry-"

"What? Hassle…I've never heard this before! You'll pay for what you tried to do you big meanie! If you don't wanna play, then all you had to do was say so…" The kid held a card out.

'A duel? He wants a duel?'

"I challenge you to a Senefa Kewok Na! I play the field spell, Great Bay Temple!" he said putting the spell on a disk that seemed to appear out of nowhere.

"Jaden!" Alexis called. As soon as she reached where he was, however, he disappeared in a white light.

"Jaden?" Alexis wondered, "I just saw him…where did he go?"

Behind Alexis another kid in a mask bumped into her. She turned around and saw the mask this one wore was Odolwa.

"You…?" Alexis lost her words.

"Ouch! Why are you standing here? You should play with me!" the kid said.

'That voice…it's…that Ra roommate of Link's!' Alexis realized quickly, "What do mean?"

"Play a game with me! Let's play a dueling game! I go first," he pulled a duel disk out; "I play the field magic, Woodfall!"

'Looks like there is no turning back…' Alexis thought as she, too, disappeared in a white light.

Zelda held up her right hand to shield her eyes from the coming attack. A White Wolfos on Goht's side of the field attacked her Shadow Beast, and Zelda lost her first bit of LP. Now she had 3800 LP with Goht still full.

"And now that you're defenseless," Goht told Zelda, "I attack with Goht, Masked Mechanical Bull!"

'A direct attack? Not for long!' Zelda thought.

"Not yet, Goht, I play my trap-"

"Don't bother, I play mine!" Goht summoned his trap, "You are familiar with Four Sword, yes?"

Zelda gritted her teeth, 'Ugh! I have to think of a way to beat this creep! He dodged everything I had!' She panicked.

"Now Goht, continue the attack!" Goht ordered.

Zelda tried to stand her ground as Goht charged at her, but as soon as he ran through Zelda, she flew backwards and hit the wall.

"AH!" She screamed as her back roughly met the snowy wall.

She landed on her knees, and tried to catch her breath. She didn't look up yet and kept her eyes very closed. A whimper had escaped her lips, and then she finally opened her eyes.

"Hahaha! This is a fun game! Get up now girl. Try and stop me now…" Goht laughed, "Lastly, I activate my continuous spell, Song of Double Time's effect again, so Goht stays on the field."

'I need a new game plan,' Zelda thought as she struggled to get up, 'if I get rid of his continuous spell, he won't keep Goht for another turn. If I try to summon more monsters, he could get rid of them all by a draw of a card…Link…my brother! I need you now,' Zelda thought miserably.

"Ah, finally you're up! C'mon girl, take your turn, this is becoming unfun!" the kid teased.

"Fine, I draw!" Zelda took her standby phase shakily.

'Link, lend me your courage, please. I need you now more than ever.' Zelda looked at the drawn card.

'Perfect!'

"I play the spell card-"

"Oh, but I have another facedown that activates when you try to play a spell-"

"Death Sword!" Zelda interrupted randomly.

"What?"

"That's right, so you can't do anything about the spell! Now both of our fields are empty."

"Why bother? You only have 1700 life points left."

"One of my friends taught me that a duel isn't over until the last card is played! So I play this!" Zelda slapped a card on her disk.

"Argorok," (2900) "and that isn't all, you're defenseless, so it is easier for me to end you by also summoning a Goron!"

"You can't summon two monsters at once!"

"I can if I play this handy card, double summon," Zelda held a human spell card out, "Now come out Goron!" (2000)

"Uh…attack all you want," Goht smirked.

"Wish granted! Attack Argorok," Zelda pointed to Goht.

"AH-HA!" Goht laughed, "I have a quick play spell in my hand, so I play-" Goht cut himself off, "Why are you still smiling?"

"I knew you were going to try to pull something, why do you think I summoned a Goron?"

"Huh? Whatever lady! I play the spell Lone Peak Shrine! So you can't attack me with that monster ever again!"

Zelda laughed this time, "Well, that's where you went wrong. You're confused because Argorok happens to have a bigger number in ATK than my Goron, but you should've saved that card for the Goron, because he can attack you twice!"

"What? Does that mean I loose the game?" Goht panicked.

"That's right! Now let Chazz go!" Zelda screamed as the Goron attacked.

"Good job, now attack again!"

"No!" Goht yelled.

The Goron rolled to him, and quickly, all 4000 LP was down to 0, and Zelda ended up in Majora's chamber. She lay facedown on the ground, and struggled to look up because of the pain she was in.

'Where-' Zelda looked around for a moment.

"Majora's Chamber!" She exclaimed.

Immediately, her eyes trailed to where Majora's Mask should've been. It was there all right, but something was off. Majora's Mask was there, but it wasn't glowing or bright as it usually was. Instead, Majora's Mask was dull and it looked…dead.

The eyes weren't bright orange, and around it, the spikes weren't colored, they were just white. Suddenly, Zelda felt dizzy.

As she took her last few sights of Majora's Chamber, she quickly blacked out and lay on the ground. What would come of her now?

Zane had just entered Majora's Moon, and immediately saw nothing but great grassy plains that lead to nowhere. A huge tree was right in the center, and the air seemed deathly still. Zane reluctantly started walking forward, and very soon a light flashed, and out came a familiar blonde.

"Alexis…" Zane realized. He started to walk faster, and there Alexis was, lying down and breathing heavily.

"Alexis, what happened?" he asked.

She didn't answer at first, but was eventually able to manage, "A tie…"

"A tie…? You mean like, a duel?" Zane asked.

She nodded slowly, and then fell unconscious.

"Hey you, mister." A kid from behind called.

"Will you play with me? All my friends are gone." Zane looked at him, and saw the Twinmold mask covering his face.

"You're Audre." Zane said in thought.

"No, I'm Twinmold. Let's play a card game."

"A duel? I can do that…"

"Great, me first, me first! I summon up this spell! Twinmold's Sand Chamber!"

'Alright then…' Zane thought as he was taken in by a blinding white color, 'let's play then…'