The Emissary Of Extinction

by Erebos Brando

Judai encounters a Duel monster spirit unlike any other he has faced before. A return to Duel Academia will reveal many secrets, before Judai and his friends are plunged into the darkest war they have ever known.

20. Part 2: Conversation With a King

The Emissary of Extinction

Chapter 19

Dawn of Extinction Part 2: Conversation With A King

"Am I...to blame for this?" It was mid day. The fighting had been going on all morning. Despite all their effort, there was still fighting going on. Confiscating the students duel disks worked well. With nothing to fight with, and the Extinction Armor cards kept away from them, the students just woke up confused and hurt. Their duel disks where thrown into carts and kept behind locked doors. They'd confiscated a total of 50 so far. That was not even a third of the total number of students on the island.

Judai turned away from what was quickly becoming the sick ward for the island. The tennis court held a mixture of students from all the dorms laying around at random places. Some with minor injuries. Others just unconscious. The more serious injuries were shifted right off to the islands hospital. There were three so far. None were fatal, but they would need a number of days in the hospital to recover. The worst of them had burns. Thankfully no one had died. "Yet." He shook the thought from his mind.

Judai splashed some water onto his face as he looked in the bathroom mirror. "I can find a way out of this." He rubbed his face, and looked into the mirror. He froze.

Those eyes were not his. His reflection spoke.

"You can do nothing."

The golden eyes were gone, changing back into the brown he knew as his own. "I don't need your help." He turned from the mirror, walking away from his own reflection. He could escape that easily, but not the voice.

"Then what is your plan?"

Judai opened the door and slammed it behind him.

He didn't have one.

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"Someone help me with this one!"

Judai saw Sho dragging a body in. Likely a second year by the size of him. Whoever it was was clearly too heavy for a figure as small as Sho. Kenzan showed up to assist. "What happened to him-sarus?"

"He used Extinction Armor on Drilloid when it attacked him directly. What was he thinking? It was like he wanted me to hurt him." Kenzan lugged the entire body over his shoulder. He was clearly unaffected by the weight of the student. Sho reached up to remove the students disk from him. "They're getting worse Kenzan. They're not just happy duelling one another anymore, it's like they're looking for us now. This guy cornered me. We're gonna have to go back out there. There's a few still-ugh." Sho suddenly clenched his shoulder. "Still a few out there unconscious."

Kenzan nodded. "Get some rest. I'll get a few people and go out there."

"No need!"

The doors of the hall burst open, and a grinning Xiaolang came in, dragging a fellow student by the back of his jacket. His chest was aglow with the symbol of the Six Samurai. "Just figured out I can do this. Well, Shien told me."

"Indeed."

In a scene that might have seemed comical to some, eight figures were following Xiaolang. All the Six Samurai, the Grandmaster and Shien. Between them all, they had a total of ten students. "I picked them up on the way here, got some bad news though. For now can someone help us with these guys?"

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A while later what few of the group were at the main building were gathered around a table, one which, no one there realized, was once refuge to their friends in another time, when another threat was walking across the island, all with the same face. Xiaolang leaned back in his chair. "It's bad out there guys. Thankfully my dorm never had many students anyway, so it's pretty quiet there. Koyo's staying to watch the place. I'd have been here sooner but then I ran into a few duels. I sensed some fighting going on back at the dorm as well so me and Koyo went back to stop it. I brought the last of possessed here with me. But I could sense in the distance some fighting at the other dorms. There's something else, something which seemed odd to me. They're not just fighting, they're hunting. On my way here, the guy you saw me dragging sought me out. He was definitely looking for me. Draygor's not just using these students to get us to give him back his bones, he's trying to stop us from being able to fight back."

"Damn him-sarus!"-BANG- Kenzan had slammed his fist into the table. "He's a monster!" His eyes had become slitted. "Let's rip every copy of his card apart!"

Xiaolang shook his head. "Wont help, Kenzan. We got bigger problems." He sighed. "They're hunting us. The guy I was dragging in by myself deliberately picked me out. They're after anyone who isn't one of them. Draygor is trying to beat his enemies. We need a plan."

"Just like Yubel..." All eyes turned to Johan. One pair of eyes however, were the most curious of all. Johan continued. "It's Yubel all over again. Possessing the students, turning them against one another and us. Monsters like this, they're the kind we need to keep far away from everyone else. Locked away where they can never touch the rest of existence."

It only lasted a second, but for a second Xiaolang truly saw the invisible thing that was so very wrong with the group of people he'd tried to fit in with. He had seen Yubel, several times. Not once had he considered asking Judai where he had met her. Not once did he consider it important.

Now he knew it was. Kenzan and Sho was trying to avoid eye-contact with Johan. Xiaolang couldn't quite make sense of the look on Judai's face. It was only there for a second, like a mixture of fear and...guilt. "It's an open secret. Only Johan doesn't know. No one must have told him. Judai... why are you not telling Johan. I thought he was your best friend. What did Yubel do exactly?"

Before Xiaolang could think any further, the door behind his chair opened. "Here you are! I thought I heard Dino Boy."

Judai was only too glad to press this sudden advantage. "Jim! How bad are things out there?"

Jim shook his head. "Bad. The fights are getting worse. I found a two on two duel on the way here." His eyes passed over the table. "Where is everyone else?"

"This is everyone. Everyone else is elsewhere."

"Any idea how they are?"

"No. We've tried phone calls but we cant get through."

After a few seconds it became clear no one was interested in continuing from that. They didn't want to consider the possibilities. Xiaolang stood up, forcing his chair to roll back. "Look. We can sit around worrying or we can make a move. We know people are fighting across the island so we gotta stop the.!" He moved from the table, grabbing a map of the school off the wall. He placed it on the table, and started pointing. "We're here, and we're using this building as a med ward. We gotta keep the fighting outside. Someone will have to stay here and play guard dog." His finger moved to the Ra dorm. "There's still fighting going on there. Well I can sense Draygor's powers there, anyone else who can sense spirits can sense it too. Right Judai, Johan?" They both nodded. "There's not much fighting there however. I guess the students are starting to reach their limits."

He held out his other hand, in seconds both oh his hands had found the Obelisk Dorms, the girls and boys. The fighting in the girls Blue Dorm is even less than the Ra dorm. It's the weekend, so I think a lot of the girls were away from the door when this started. If we find Rei or Asuka we'll need to see what they know." He turned to the boys dorm. "We need to get here as soon as we can. The heaviest fighting is there. It has most of the strongest duellists on the island. So it makes sense that they could still be going. We'll need to get there to try and stop them soon." He looked up to the crowd before him. "Now who's going where?"

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"Red Eyes! Direct attack! Dark Mega Flare!" Fubuki's opponent screamed out as the attack bore itself upon them. (LP/0) "Got him. I think that's the last of them here."

"We can hope." Cyber End Dragon faded. Kaiser had won his match. He turned to face Yusuke. "Yusuke, if you don't mind answering, why are you not playing your real deck?"

Yusuke opened his mouth to respond, but the words seemed to vanish from him, he closed his mouth and suddenly could not face his friend. "After what I did..." He was too lost in his self pity to notice Fubuki walk up to him.

He slapped his hand down on his friend's shoulder. "Hey. I've told you before. We forgive you, I know Honest does as well. But how long will it take you to just forgive yourself?"

"Not everyone forgives me..."

Fubuki shook his head. "Some people take longer than others. We can't please everyone. Look, if you want to redeem yourself, help us with this problem. Consider it your repayment to the world."

"The world...heh. God I screwed up didn't I."

"There's nothing you can do about that now." Both turned to face Kaiser. "That problem has already been solved. Like Fubuki said, you may not have been able to help stop Darkness, but you can help us stop this. And unless you give it your all, your real strength. Unless you give that I'm not sure how much you do."

"And if I do give it my all? What if I fail to help?"

"No matter the result you'll have redeemed yourself."

Yusuke nodded. "How about you? Have you managed to finish that new deck?"

Kaiser looked down at his current deck. "Not yet. I'll use this until I'm ready."

"Heh. Not willing to leave the Cyber Style huh?"

"Never. I'll find a way to combined them both. I won't use those cards until then."

Yusuke smiled. "My friends. They never gave up. And I never will again."

They started walking. There were other fights going on.

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Austin was running towards the Obelisk blue dorm. He'd heard the noises of fighting from the tree he was practising his drawing technique on. He didn't need more than a few seconds to figure out something was wrong. The phone network was down, though he had no idea why. He was running towards the Obelisk dorm. He could see it in the distance someone jumped out in front of him. A white haired Ra yellow boy. He activated his duel disk.

Austin pulled out his own disk. He knew he wasn't getting past without a battle.

"Duel!"

Austin drew a card. He placed it on his duel disk. "I Summon Fire Trooper!" The cloaked and burning soldier appeared. (Attack position. ATK/1000 DEF/1000) "Fire Trooper Effect Activate! When it's summoned, it can be sent to the graveyard to inflict 1000 damage to my opponent." Fire Trooper burst into flames, all of them raining down on Austin's opponent. He was silent as the fire rained down. Almost like he was accepting it (LP/3000) Austin was far from done.

"I activate the continuous Spell, Fire Slash! I can discard one Pyro type monster in my hand to inflict 500 damage. I cannot conduct my battle phase if I use this effect." Without glancing at his hand, he discarded a card. "I discard Volcanic Buckshot!" Suddenly, a blade of fire shot out from the continuous spell card, slashing at the boy with no mercy. (LP/2500). A merciful duellist might have called it a turn there, but Austin was anything but. "Volcanic Buckshot effect activate! When it's sent to the graveyard, it inflicts 500 point of damage to my opponent." The three-headed volcanic creature appeared on the field suddenly, each head breathing out a single fire ball. They hit. (LP/2000) Austin nodded. "I set one card. Turn end.

The Ra was still just standing there. His face devoid of anything that could be called emotion. Austin knew what this meant. "This boy is possessed. Is Draygor making a move?"

Austin had a bad feeling about the day ahead...

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"We're almost there na-no-ne!" Chronos ran alongside Judai, Jim and Johan as they made their way to the Obelisk Blue dorm. There were a handful of duels in progress on the outside of the dorm, Judai could see Sorano was in one of them, and was the only student who was not possessed. Clearly he had been wise enough to keep Extinction Armor out of his deck

The rest of the duels were likely going on inside the dorm or somewhere near it. Either way they had to be stopped now.

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Sosuke walked out of the doors of the dorm, smiling to himself. "This is going so well." He chuckled to himself, and turned to face the few figures who were running towards the dorm. "They're coming to stop the duels. I'll have to fight them." Sosuke walked towards them slowly, Judai and Johan ran up to two random students who had just finished their matches, their opponent's passing out. "A lot of them are getting tired.". He walked right up to his dorms head and a man who's name he didn't know. He didn't have to find out either as he was already moving to the fallen duellists to separate them from their disks. "Chronos-sensei!" He activated his duel disk when Chronos turned towards him. "You're here to stop the fighting, right? Well I cant have that, I have to stop you."

"I can't let you students keep fighting na-no-ne." He turned on his duel disk. "I've seen students hurt themselves before, I wont watch it again."

Sosuke laughed. "You don't have a choice."

"Duel!"

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Austin looked on with his ever military demeanour as his opponent made his move. Field: Spell/Trap Firewall, Fire Slash, Blaze Cannon Trident. A set card. Monsters: Volcanic Edge. (LP/2500)

His opponent drew a card. (LP/300) "I tribute both of my monsters. To summon Barrel Dragon." His two monsters vanished, being replaced by the biggest monster this kid likely had in his deck. He'd never duelled this creature before, so facing down a giant, armless machine of a Dragon armed with three giant gun-like cannons was new to him. (Attack position. ATK/2600) "Barrel Dragon has an effect. Once per turn, I can flip a coin three times, if two out of three of the coin tosses are heads, I can destroy 1 monster you control." The three cannons suddenly pointed to the sky. The three cannons shot off a round each, aiming for the sky. In a moment both shots had fallen to earth, each in the shape of a giant gold coin. They were burning too brightly to see what result they had landed on. After a moment they started to darken a bit, to the point the results could be seen.

First: Heads.

Second: Tails

Third: Heads

The Ra student nodded. He spoke, his voice still devoid of any humanity."Destroy Volcanic Edge." The cannons shot again. Volcanic Edge was destroyed too quickly to scream.

Now Austin was defenceless, almost. "Firewall is still active. He can attack, but I wont be hit by it. If I draw a Pyro-type monster next turn I can win with that."

Though his opponent was ready for that. "Reverse Card Open. Trap Stun."

"What? Trap Stun?" Yet another card Austin had not been forced to face before.

His opponent continued "All face-up trap cards have their effects negated for the turn. Barrel Dragon. Direct Attack." The cannons repositions themselves, they were about to shoot.

"Wait. Trap Stun only negated traps activate at the time. Not set ones!" "Reverse card open!"

His opponent wasn't listening. "Gun Cannon Shot."

"Volcanic Force!"

The ground beneath Blaze Cannon Trident suddenly changed, becoming a small volcano. The volcano rose up in an instant, and erupted. A creature that could have come from hell itself burst from it's eruption." (Attack position. ATK/3000 DEF/1800) The three bullets hit it, but despite their power, they went unnoticed by the Devil. "Volcanic Devil! Battle! Volcanic Cannon!" The monster opened it's mouth...this was it. "I've won."

His opponent chuckled. Now he was showing emotion, but not the kind of emotion Austin would have expected from someone was about to lose the duel. "Well done, Human. Reverse card open. Extinction Armor! I'll clothe your devil with the bones of a real monster!"

Bone's burst from Volcanic Devil's chest, lava leaking from the wounds. The bones locked themselves together. The Devil offered no resistance as it's own face was covered by the skull of the Emissary of Extinction. In seconds the Devil had been turned into just another puppet of the dark power. It opened it's mouth. Now Draygor was calling the shots. "Volcanic Cannon."

A ball of black fire shot out of Volcanic Devil's, or Draygor's mouth. Who's mouth actually shot the blast was a matter of opinion. The black struck it's target with unforgiving force, burning it alive and causing it to explode.

The possessed Student chuckled as the winds of battle struck against him. "I applaud you. You didn't hesitate. You will make for an interesting opponent." The boy's eyes closed, he collapsed.

Austin walked over to the body, leaning down to check the boy's pulse as he thought to himself. "No. I don't hesitate anymore. Hesitation can get you killed." His mind flashed back to a time not long gone by. Back in that dark alleyway, as his opponent toyed with him. In his fathers form. He shook his head. "No time to dwell on that."

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Xiaolang, Sho and Kenzan arrived at the Ra dorm, despite the smaller numbers, the duels were still intense. Xiaolang took command of the situation. "You know what to do guys, we need to remove their disks from them!"

"Let's go-sarus!"

The three ran right into the battlefield. There was no time to waste. Sho and Kenzan found themselves opponents in seconds Xiaolang was looking around for someone when..."YOU!" Xiaolang turned around to see a rather angry looking Ra yellow approaching him. "You son of a bitch!"

Xiaolang pointed to himself. "You are talking to me right?" Xiaolang got the feeling he knew this guy, but from where...

"Yes I'm talking to you! You humiliated me in front of the entire school! I was a laughing stock! I was demoted!"

"I swear I know this guy from somewhere..."

"Even Chronos-sensei applauded you. Well you'll pay for the price for humiliating-"

Then he remembered. "Doucebag! I wondered what happened to you."

"You son of a bitch! I'll teach you to show me some damn respect!"

Xiaolang activated his duel disk. "Want another beating?"

"I'll make you pay for what you did to me!"

"Sure you will."

"Duel!"

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Kenji walked out of Judai's room, holding a small pile of cards in his hand. "To think they kept them all here. Idiots." He suddenly stopped. "They are stealing the students duel disks, Kenji. You must go and re-claim them all." He nodded. He saw Koyo was busy in a duel with a random Osiris red. He was too busy to do much of anything else. He walked off, he had to follow his orders.

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Sosuke gritted his teeth. (LP/1000). Field. Monsters. Giant Orc. Spell/trap. None. Hand. 1.

It was his turn. "Draw! I move my Giant Orc back to attack position." Giant Orc stood up, smacking it's club against an open palm. (ATK/2200) "I activate Megamorph!" His Giant Orc suddenly started to increase in size, growing to become the biggest monster on the field. "Because my life points are lower than yours, my Orc's attack power is doubled." (ATK/4400) "Next I activate the equip spell Draining Spirit. This negates the equipped monsters effects! I equip it to Giant Orc!" A small spirit appeared on Giant Orc's shoulder. It looked like a small beetle, but the way it was glowing. It looked like it was drainning something from Giant Orc. It's appearance mirrored it's effect. Giant Orcs negative effect was no more.

Chrono smiled to himself. "We have some promising students this year na-no-ne. I wonder what they'll be like by the time they graduate?" One of the pleasures of teaching Chronos had come to discover was seeing how far the students he had taught would come. He remembered a certain Osiris Red, and how he had grown throughout his time here. With a blink he returned his thoughts to reality. His field was composed of an Ancient Gear Golem and a set card in his Spell/Trap zone. (LP/4000)

Sosuke was not going to wait around. "Giant Orc. Attack!" The club wielding fiend jumped at it's target, slamming down it's weapon of choice on the Golem. Being a machine, the creature did not bleed or scream, but many bolts and gears shot out of it's body before it exploded.

Chrons smiled to himself as the backlash of the attack hit him. "I could have stopped that na-no-ne." He had to resist the urge to laugh. He was holding back of course. He was not the kind of teacher that would ruthlessly destroy his students dreams anymore, though he still had the very strong memory of a boy who beat him even when he tried that. He was letting himself just have fun in this duel despite the seriousness of it. "Maybe I'm too used to this." Either way he was not going to be activating his Zero Gravity. (LP/2600)

Sosuke grinned. "Got one up on you, sensei. I end my turn."

"Good move na-no-ne. But remember, no duellist ever won a duel on a single card alone." His disk ejected a card, which he caught. "Draw." He glanced at it. "I activate Ancient Gear Workshop. I can return one "Ancient Gear" monster from my graveyard to my hand. I choose the Ancient Gear Golem you destroyed." He picked up the card. "Well I cant hold back anymore. I might as well teach him something na-no-ne." "Sosuke. You have good grades, but you don't seem to understand the possibilities of fusion. I'll show you how useful fusion can be. As it was shown to me! I activate Polymerization!" He picked up three cards in his hand. "I fuse the three Ancient Gear Golems in my hand together. To fusion summon Ancient Gear Ultimate Golem!" The Ancient Gear centaur appeared, it's clawed weapon sharpening it;s claws against one another as they prepared for the coming battle. (Attack position. ATK/4400 DEF/3400) "Ancient Gear Ultimate Golem! Attack!"

The centaur galloped towards it's opponent and lashed out it's claw against the oncoming claw. The attacks met and both exploded. It was a draw.

Sosuke was not pleased. "You call that a possibility? You only got a draw."

Chrono shook his head. "Mama mia you're closed minded. Ancient Gear Ultimate Golem effect activate! When it's destroyed, I can special summon 1 Ancient Gear Golem from my graveyard and ignore all the summoning conditions." The debris that were once the Ultimate Ancient Gear monster suddenly shifted as something bust through them. The Golem rose up, looking down at a suddenly scared Sosuke. "Here is one of the possibilities of fusion!" (Attack position. ATK/3000 DEF/3000) "Direct attack! Ultimate Pound!" The Golem launched it's punch.

"I'll get stronger! Draygor will grant me strength!" Those were Sosukes last thoughts before the fist collided with him, knocking him back, and out cold.

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Xiaolang grinned as his opponent fell to his knees, unconscious. "They should have just kicked someone as weak as you out." (LP/4000) He leaned down to remove his opponent's duel disk.

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The Blue dorm had finally calmed down. No one was fighting anyone, and the ones that could had their disks taken from them already anyway. Those who were not unconscious were wondering around wondering what had happened. The gang had gathered in front of the dorm, and were talking amongst themselves.

Kaiser voiced his thoughts. "We need to get everyone here back to the main building. We cant keep ourselves separated like this."

Judai nodded. "Yeah. But where are Rei and Asuka?"

"Judai!"

Everyone turned to see Rei running towards them. She had been running for a while, which became clear as she hunched over when she reached them. "I...hid...the...part." She took a few seconds to breathe. "It's done, Yusuke."

Yusuke nodded. "Thank you, Rei. And Asuka?"

She shook her head. "She went another way. She didn't tell me where. She didn't ask me either."

"Another way? Where is my sister? Is she in-" Fubuki was silenced as Yusuke placed a hand on his shoulder.

"I asked them to hide the remaining parts. Sorry Fubuki, but we needed them to be hid and we needed it done quickly."

"She'll be alright." Judai was smiling. "She'll come back. Let's just move everyone for now." -Beep- Judai reached into his pocket, pulling out his PDA. "Oh, principal Semejima."

"Judai, the network is working again. But I don't know why it failed to start with."

"It was Draygor. His energy was stopping the phones from working. But if you can call us...he must have stopped."

"That's good. Judai, please make sure all the students are brought to the main building. We need to keep them safe here."

Judai nodded. Of course.

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An hour later the group was gathered in the same room as before, planning amongst themselves. Austin was the first to speak. "We managed to stop this today, but what if Draygor does this again tomorrow? We need a plan."

Kaiser had one. "Perhaps we can keep their disks away from them permanently."

Xiaolang signed. "It would be a good idea. But this is a school of duelling. The students wont accept it for long. Maybe if we gave them just their decks back we could buy a day or two, but then that'll be it."

Fubuki nodded. "And they're already annoyed now. They don't even know what happened to them."

Kenzan pushed himself away from the table, standing up. "Sticking here wont help us-sarus. Let's just help the wounded and keep the others quiet!" He walked out of the room.

Xiaolang shrugged, turning his chair and getting up himself. "Good plan for now. Come on guys."

Without any other ideas, everyone else just stood up and left the room as well. No one spoke to anyone else as they walked out of the room, this day did not make for a great speaking atmosphere.

No one noticed Judai hadn't left the room. He was resting his head on this thumbs as he sat there thinking to himself. "Draygor is using the students to get to us. I can't give him his bones back or he'll use them to try and kill us all when he gains his power back. I don't have any ways to stop him. How can I stop him? There has to be a way, has to be something I haven't thought of. Something or someon-" He bit his lower lip. "Someone..." Despite his efforts, he could think of nothing else. He only had one possibility. "Dammit." Judai closed his eyes.

It was time to go back to see the king.

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He opened his eyes again. He was back in the room of mirrors. "Haou!"

The mirrors shattered, leaving Judai to stand in the darkness alone. He could see no one. Not even the slightest trace of the king. The king would make himself known when he wished.

He wished to now.

"I told you to come back when you were ready to bargain with me. That is not now." Judai turned around, and he saw that reflection of himself again. Except that this reflection had flesh of it's own. It was no mere reflection anymore. "Begone." The darkness started to gather.

Judai spoke before it became too strong. "Just tell me what Draygor is!"

The darkness stopped, not fading away, just merely remaining there. Waiting for a command. "He is the Emissary of Extinction."

"Don't play games with me!"

Haou blinked. "Fine. You answer me and I'll answer you. Why have you not been using your real power, my power?"

"I prefer to rely on Yubel's."

Haou's eyes started to glow. "You don't trust my power?"

"I don't trust you."

Haou's eyes stopped glowing. "That's your choice. But one day we're going to have to accept what we are. You are me. I am you."

"I'm nothing like you."

"Then you're nothing like you either. Your memories as me, as your time as the

supreme king are almost completely faded. Only I, the memory of that life

remembers them. And you saw much in that time, Judai."

"Why did you really show me that memory?"

"You and I are one. Anything that keeps you alive is something I desire. At least as long as I am bound here."

"And you'll be staying here for as long as I live. The greatest evil I fight in this world is you. Me."

"You consider me as evil as Draygor. Yet I have never killed anyone who has not tried to fight me. Draygor kills all things. Tell me, myself, Which one is the lesser evil?"

"You're both evil! It's all the same to me!"

"Not to me. And I am you. You just lied to yourself."

"Enough! Just tell me what you want!"

Haou was silent for a moment, as he stared into Judai's eyes. Judai looked back. They may have been the same soul, but one could not tell what the other was thinking. They were the same person, yet they were so different. The strong, confident and so human eyes of Judai stared into the cold, hard, and inhuman eyes of his past self. Just waiting for him to say something. After what seemed to be forever, the king spoke.

"Revenge."

"Revenge?"

Haou nodded. "I have watched, through your eyes, the world around you. I can see everything, sense everything that is going on. And you don't know what to do. You don't. I do. Now I have answered it is time for us to bargain. Let me fight against Draygor."

"What?" Of all things Judai had expected to hear, that was among the last.

"Let me fight him. Alone."

"And how do I know you wont just try to escape? Escape and conquer the world around you?"

Haou shook his head. "You fool. This is not about conquest. This is about hatred. Despite all you have seen Draygor do, you don't hate him. I hate nothing more in existence than him. Let me fight him. I will draw him out and kill him myself. There is nothing else in this request Judai. No hidden plan, no tricks. No plan for escape. Just give me control long enough to fight him. I will part when I've finished him. A lifetime sealed by my own soul, and Yubel is worth it if I can only kill him."

"How can I trust you?"

Haou closed his eyes, his darkened power building up once again. "This conversation is over." The darkness rose, covering his legs, quickly travelling up his body. He opened his eyes once more.

Judai gasped. Now he was truly seeing a reflection. "Judai. Let me avenge myself." Haous' eyes changed back into gold. "Or watch everything you love die."

The darkness covered Haou, and Judai could see no more.

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He opened his eyes.

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Another hour passed, and one by one the remaining duel disks were all moved to storage. The only people who had duel disks now were the staff and the group of students who knew exactly what was going on.

Improvising a cover story was surprisingly simple.

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A monster exploding above them was all it took. With it the entire crowd of students were too shocked to continue arguing. Being the creator of the cover-up, Kaiser stepped forward.

"Listen carefully! The duel disks on campus are reporting faults. Glitch filled holograms, sudden shut downs, the problems vary. We think there may be a virus in the system. Until your duel disks are checked and fixed they are confiscated before one of you gets hurt. We're sorry, we promise we'll return your disks to you within a few days. Until then go on as normal." His eye twitched as the protests came.

"But what about my deck?"

"How am I supposed to duel?"

"You just want to steal our cards!"

"SHUT UP!" The protests quieted, though the hostility was still easily noticeable. "If any of you doubt my honor! You may challenge me!"

No one had the guts to take that option. They had a cover story that was good for a day or two. Enough to come up with another, more effective plan.

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Hours past, with a number of the students either staying in the court to talk, or going off to either wonder or go to the library. It may have been the weekend, but the staff opened their classrooms for extra classes for the more bored, or ambitious students.

Asuka had shown up not long after Kaiser had given the cover story to the students. She had hidden the part she had taken with her, so all the parts of Draygor were now completely hidden. Hopefully they would never have to be found.

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Not every one of the students bought the story, a number of them thought it was a conspiracy, others agreed with the protesters. But only four others really knew the story.

Kenji Shinu, Osiris Red. Third Year.

Jinn Kyojakuna. Ra Yellow. First Year.

Sosuke Senso. Obelisk Blue. First Year

Yuuka Byoki. Ra Yellow. Second Year.

The Martyrs of Draygor had met up together for the first time. They all turned to face the safe in front of them. Sosuke looked at the door. "The duel disks are beyond this safe door. We need to get them back. Kenji, you have your disk, blow it open."

Kenji shook his head. "No. We need to keep quiet." He walked up to the safe door, placing a copy of Extinction Armor on it. It somehow managed to stick to the door, darkness expanding underneath it and flowing into the door itself. "Draygor will open this door for us. And we will move when he demands it. We will do nothing until we are ordered to." The others nodded.

They would wait.

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Judai looked up to the sky, the sun was close to setting now. The day was almost over.

Almost, but there was so much longer left to go...

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End of Chapter

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Today's Strongest Card

Volcanic Devil

Monster

FIRE

8

Pyro/Effect

ATK/3000 DEF/1800

This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card can only be Special Summoned by sending a face-up "Blaze Cannon Trident" you control to the Graveyard. During your opponent's Battle Phase, your opponent must attack this monster with any Attack Position monsters they control. When this card destroys a monster and sends it to the Graveyard, destroy all monsters your opponent controls and inflict 500 damage to your opponent for each monster destroyed by this effect.

Commentary: Austin

"It's wrath is one very few can escape. It is the embodiment of the Volcanic strategy."

Omake

"ZanjI! Attack Exarion Universe!"

Zanji struck at the armored centaur, who struck back with it's weapon of choice. The weapons collided, and both monsters exploded.

Xiaolang was grinning. "I got you now, Doucebag!" Xiaolang had only one monster left. The Six Samurai Nisashi. (Attack position. ATK/1400 DEF/700)

His opponent had nothing for a field. Or a hand either. (LP/1500) "I'm not out yet!"

"You're in denial! Nisashi! Direct attack!" Nisashi closed the distance between him and his target in a second. He slashed down with all of his power and speed, which was undeniably effective. (LP/100) "Now Nisashi, Attack directly again!"

Nisashi turned from his target. "Eh..." Nisashi was walking back. "Nisashi had reached his side of the field and turned to face his opponent again. "Nisashi?"

No response. "Nisashi! Attack the doucebag! You can attack twice in a turn!"

Nisashi turned around. "I cant."

"Yes you can! You're the Samurai that can attack twice!"

Nisashi shook his head. "You got a lot to learn."

"Well oh wise one, why don't you teach me something?"

Nisashi smiled. "Alright. Here's lesson one. Six Samurai monsters can only use their effects when you control another Six Samurai monster."

"..."

Of course his opponent could not hear Nisashi, to him it looked like Xiaolang was holding a one way conversation. "He's talking to a monster image. Great I got beat by a psycho."

After a minute Xiaolang was still standing with the same expression on his face. His mouth was slammed shut and his eyes were vacant. "Xiaolang?"

He blinked. Then suddenly he returned to reality. With the sudden revelation, there was only one logical thing a teenager could do in his situation.

"FU-!

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"Sparkman!"

"UUUUUUUCCCCCCC!"

"Eh?" Judai turned to look gaze into the distance. "Did Xiaolang step on Pharaohs tail again?"

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"CCCCCKKKKKKKK!"

Samejima looked up from his paperwork. He shook his head. "Students."

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"KKKKKKKKKK!" Xiaolang leaned on his knees as he tried to catch his breath. For a moment he was silent apart from his breathing.

"Better?"

"Much." Xiaolang took one last deep breath. "Well now I know my decks weakness."

"Hey! If you wanna talk to yourself do it on your own time!"

Xiaolang looked up. "I forgot about you." He revealed a card in his hand. "I activate Cunning of The Six Samurai. I can tribute a Six Samurai I control to summon any other Six Samurai from my graveyard."

"FU-!"

"Nisashi, shut him up!"

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End of Omake

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Authors notes: That was my first shot at an Omake. Been thinking of doing them for a while. What do you think? Should I do more? Your call on this one guys.

Important(ish):

I've done some thinking about chapters to come, and more specifically duels to come. After the BS rule I ran into with Soul Rope, and how I had to stumble to decide what to do about it, I've researched and found it's far from the only card to suffer the fate of having a ruling applied to it that makes it pretty much useless. So I've come to a decision: I will not ignore all "because Konami Said so" rulings. They limit card functionality and frankly just piss me off. If you're a person who, like me, knows their way around the game and is very familiar with the rulings you might know what I'm talking about. Now let me make this clear: I am not, nor will I ever change any of the games rules. I guess you could say I'm just going to edge a little closer to how the anime plays the game.

If you're interested in looking into the term "Because Konami said so", go to the Yu-gi-oh wiki and search "BKSS".