(30 minutes after Dan's duel against Sawatari)
"Pant, pant." Yuya was panting in exaustion as he stopped running.
"Are we already far enough from LDS ?" Tatsuya asked as he was also catching his breath from the long running.
"I don't think that they would have bothered to follow us all the way here." Yuzu said while doing the same as the others.
"I really hope that is not the case." Dan wasn't as tired as the others, but this was very exausting for him as well. "Because this is an experience that I am not repeating anytime soon."
"To think that a privileged Duel School like LDS would go through so much trouble just to obtain my Pendulum cards..." Yuya takes out Stargazer Magician and Timegazer Magician from his deck. "How could they do a thing like this without giving a second thought about it ?"
"The answer for that question is human Greed, Yuya." Dan answered Yuya's question. "They just want to get their hands on that power you've obtained in order to fullfill their own ends and I believe that Sawatari or the voice that was giving him instructions during the duel are not going to be the last of the long list of individuals who will come after your Pendulum cards with their own goals in mind for them."
"Then we should tell the authorities about this." Yuzu suggested to tell the authorities about this. "They should be able to do somthing about this."
Dan shook his head at her suggestion.
"If what you explained to me earlier about LDS's fame is true, then it wouldn't do us any good." A memory of a group of important looking people sitting in chairs suddenly popped up in Dan's mind as he didn't recognize them. "They would just bribe a few corrupted officials for them to turn their eyes away from the crime when it happens."
"That can't be right!" Yuya was trying to deny Dan's words. "The officials are supposed to stop crime and help people in need!"
"The world has always been ruled by those with ill intentions, regardless of the time and place." Dan felt nostalgic for some reason as a blunt image of a large looking long black-haired man came to his mind as if it was somekind of figure who marked a great impact in his life. "They will manipulate the information as much as possible in order to fit their greedy needs by making use of the better good for their nation as an excuse to do as they like without any care in the world. It is currently impossible to fight in that kind of world."
"The world can change as long as people duel with smiles." Yuya recalls his father's words about making people smile with duels.
"Does that mean that you've remembered a few things?" Yuzu noticed that Dan was a bit more knowledged than he was yesterday. "You speak like you've had your own share of experiences dealing with other people and situations."
"Unfortunantely, there is nothing but blurry images of unknown individuals." Dan admited as he wondered what kind of people he had met to have such a viewpoint of the world. "They were probably not the best of examples to follow, that's for sure."
'But for some reason, the last one perturbed me a bit.' Dan worriedly thought as the blunt image of the large looking long black-haired man was burned into his own soul.
The group began to walk as they talked about a few things like how Pendulum Summon actually worked from what they learned in that duel and Braves.
"We never heard about Braves before you showed up." Yuya was really curious to know more about Braves.
"Same for Pendulums and here we are." Dan countered with a smile.
"Can you teach us about them?" Yuzu asks. "We could add Brave to the curriculums of our small Duel School to bring in more students."
"I will teach you what I remembered about them another day." Dan didn't want to fully explain how the Braves rulings worked out yet. "And I do not want to teach Brave to people who would only go to your school just because of a new duel mechanic."
"I see your point..." Yuzu recalled what happened the other day with the so called appliants the day after Yuya's duel with Strong.
"So..." Dan turned to Tatsuya with a smirk. "Do you still want to enroll in LDS if your mother would insist for it?"
"After what happened with LDS. I am not getting involved with that Duel School at all." Tatsuya made it clear that he wanted nothing with LDS after what they atempted to do to Yuya with their actions. "I actually enjoy being at You Show with you guys."
"That was well said, Tatsuya." Yuzu was pleased that Tatsuya wasn't going to move out to LDS at his mother's request.
"Can we go to You Show and see you and Yuya-niichan dueling?" Futoshi asked to Dan and Yuya with a pleading look. "It would give me a lot of shivers!"
'Why does that word disturb me?' Dan was slightly creeped out at Futoshi's use of 'shivers'.
"Well. Dan and I were originally supposed to duel until Sawatari interrupted our schedule." Yuya admits and turns to Dan with a challenging look. "What about you, Dan?"
"It's fine by me." Dan agreed to duel Yuya. "After all dueling Sawatari was only a very short warm up for the main event."
(You Show Duel School's entrance)
"Yuzu! Yuya! Are you back!?" A man that was dressed in a red and orange jumpsuit with a red fire design called out to Yuya and Yuzu as he made his appearance known.
"Who is this?" The man in the jumpsuit asked when he saw Dan right next to Yuya.
"Are you some kind of Physical Education coach that this school hired or something?" Dan asks the man in jumpsuit whose jaw dropped as the others around him sweatdrop from Dan's blunt question about his appearance. "Did I say something wrong?"
"Dan. He is not a coach that was hired by our School." Yuya shook his head. "In fact, he is in charge of this school during my father's absence."
"Ehhhh!?" Dan was in for a shock when he heard that.
Chapter 2 - The Brave and Pendulum users clash! Siegfried Apollodragon Vs Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon
"Dan. This is my dad, Hiragi Shuzo, the current principal of the You Show Duel School." Yuzu introduced Dan and her dad to each other as Shuzop had the look of a happy puppy. "And dad, this person is Bashin Dan, a friend that we just made and found yesterday on the floor."
"Is he really in charge of this school?" Dan, who couldn't believe that the person in front of him was the principal of You Show Duel School and whispered to Yuya. "He doesn't even looks like a responsible person at all." The others sweatdroped once again by Dan's blunt opinion about Shuzo as the principal of You Show.
"I know, but he is the only other legal party that can afford this school's finances and he is having a hard time in paying them due to the lack of students who prefer to go to other duel schools like LDS." Yuya said as Dan couldn't understand why LDS was better, when he doesn't have any good views about them at all.
"Does this mean that he is here to enroll at our Duel school!?" Shuzo placed his right arm above Dan's shoulder, making him sweatdrop at the man's behaviour. "Right? Right? Right? Right? Rig-" Yuzu slams Shuzo's head with her paper fan, making him fall flat to the floor.
"Dad! That is no way of treating another person who just came here!" Yuzu scolded her dad as smoke was coming out from the place where the paper fan's hit landed. "I know that we are desperate for new student's, but that is not the way to recruit them into the Duel School! We will just make them run away with that kind of attitude!"
"Where did you take that from?" Dan asks Yuzu as he could have swear that she didn't had it on her a when they were running.
"It's a secret." Yuzu gave her answer as Yuya and the others sweatdrop at the mistery involving her paper fan.
"Shuzo-san, I only came here to duel against Yuya in a Action Field." Dan said to Shuzo that he only came here to duel Yuya in an Action Field.
"I see..." 'We failed to bring in a student once again.' was written all over Shuzo's face as Dan sweatdroped at the man's sudden lack of enthusiasm to recruit him to their Duel School.
"I might join this Duel School if after our duel." Dan casually says to the others as Shuzo recovers from his depression attack. "The idea of being enrolled in a Duel School with other people sounds fun and I would like to try it out."
"Then, I will fetch the registration papers!" Shuzo was about to go and fetch the registration papers, until.
"We will settle this in a duel between Yuya and me." Dan interrupts Shuzo as he wants to duel Yuya. "Can you activate an Action Field for us, Shuzo-san?"
"Ok. Show us a hot-booded duel you two." Shuzo went to the control room to activate the Real Solid Vison technology as the others went to another place to watch their duel.
"I will use the Action Field Green Plains!" Shuzo clicked as the Real Solid Vision system that was givn to them by the Leo Corporation made the field into a quitet space with a few weeds around them, making Dan excited at having another duel.
"He is making a scary smile again." Yuzu said as she sees Dan's smile.
"What do you mean, Yuzu onee-chan?" Ayu asks Yuzu about what she meant with those words about Dan's smile.
"We didn't took notice of it earlier, but Dan made the same smile before he began his duel with Sawatari." Futoshi added. "Just forget his scary face and remember what time it is."
"Time for what?" Tatsuya asks Futoshi.
"It's time to chant!" Ayu answers Tatsuya's question with a smile in her face.
"Duelists locked in battle!" Yuzu starts the chant.
"Kicking against the earth and dancingin the air alongside their monsters!" Tatsuya added even further.
"They storm through this field!" Futoshi added.
"Behold! This is the newest and greatest evolution of dueling!" Ayu added as well.
"Action..." Yuya added.
"Duel!" Dan and Yuya finishes the chant as the Action cards spreads out on the field.
Dan - LP: 4000 x5
Yuya - LP: 4000 x5
"I will go first!" Yuya takes the first turn. "I summon Entermate Discover Hippo." A pink Hippo appeared as Yuya jumped to it's back and the monster began to run in another direction.
Entermate Discover Hippo - (Earth/ Beast/ ATK: 800/ DEF: 800/ Level 3/ Effect )
"With this, I end my turn." Yuya declares his End Phase as he was riding the Hippo in the same direction. "Dan show us our entertainment duel!"
'Is he already after an Action card?' Dan privately thought as Yuya and his Hippo were getting further away from him. 'So that only means that he either wants to reduce his damage with an Action Card or needs to tribute that monster to summon something stronger.'
"Why hasn't Yuya oniichan Pendulum Summoned yet?" Ayu asked why Yuya didn't Pendulum Summoned.
"That's because Yuya niichan mustn't have the Pendulum cards that he needs to do so in his hand yet." Tatsuya answered Ayu's question as he explained to her why Yuya hasn't used a Pendulum Card yet. "Remember what happened an hour ago, the voice stated that there was a need for two Pendulum cards to be in the Pendulum Scales in order to Pendulum Summon."
"I wonder how Yuya onii-chan is going to fight against Dan onii-chan's Brave?" Futoshi asks as he begins to dance. "I am sure that it will be giving us the shivers!"
Dan's body trembled like a jelly for some reason tht he didn't know.
"Brave? What is that?" Shuzo, who was the only one in the room that is not aware of the existence of Brave, asks about it.
"You will see it later, dad." Yuzu didn't want to tell to her dad what Brave was in order to surprise him when Dan used it.
Dan - LP: 4000 x5
Yuya - LP: 4000 x4
"My turn. Draw!" Dan draws his card and picks one of them.
"I summon Apollo Bladra !" A yellow chick with two small pair of feathered wings appeared on the field, making a cute sound when it entered the field.
Apollo Bladra - (FIRE/ Winged Beast/ ATK: 800/ DEF: 800/ Level 3/ Effect)
"Cute!" Yuzu and Ayu had heart shapes in their eyes at the sight of the cute monster who made a cute sound.
"I will activate Apollo Bladra's effect." Dan declared as Apollo Bladra's small wings grew began to shine like the sun itself. "When this card is sucessfully Normal Summoned, I am allowed to Normal Summon once again during this turn."
"Is it coming?" Yuya says as he prepares himself for what will come. "His ace monster?"
"Sun! Give form to the mighty dragon that will guide me to victory with it's brave wings." Dan chanted as Apollo Bladra's wings started to burn in fire which surrounded it in that same fire. "I will tribute summon Siegfried Apollodragon by using Apollo Bladra as the tribute cost to the Tribute Summon!" The flames surrounding Apollo Bladra became a fire orb that grew up and the Red Dragon emerged from it and appeared on the field flying above Dan with a roar.
Siegfried Apollodragon - (LIGHT/ Astral Dragon/ ATK: 2300 / DEF: 1800 / Level 6/ Effect)
"Welcome back to the dueling field once again, Siegfried Apollodragon." The dragon roared back in response to Dan's greeting.
"So that is Dan's ace monster!" Shuzo says as he was impressed by how hot-blooded Siegfried Apollodragon looked. "It's hot-blooded!"
"Don't praise his Ace monster, dad! If Dan wins then he won't enroll in our duel school!" Yuzu scolds Shuzo as he apologizes to his daughter for getting excited over Siegfried Apollodragon's summon.
'Who is the parent around here?' Tatsuya, Ayu and Futoshi thought as they watched Yuzu scolding Shuzo even further.
"Here I go, Yuya! Battle! I will Target attack your Entermate Discover Hippo with my Siegfried Apollodragon!" Dan declared the Battle Phase as Siegfried Apollodragon started to fly forwards the pink Hippo while raising it's claws.
"Sieg Impact !" Dan declares the name of Apollodragon's attack.
"There!" Yuya found and grabbed an Action Card from a bubble and saw that it was the Action Spell, Evasion.
'This Action Card is useless against SDiegfried Apollodragon's Target attacks.' Since Evasion was useless against Target attacks, Yuya decided to jump from Discover Hippo to avoid being hurt by the attack as Siegfried Apollodragon slammed the small monster, destroying it in the process.
Yuya - LP: 4000-2500 x5 (1 Action Card)
"Why didn't Yuya used the Action Spell, Evasion just now?" Shuzo asked with a confused look since he was sure that Yuya had grabbed the Action Spell, Evasion like always and the fact that he would have activated it without wasting a moment.
"That is because Target attacks cannot be negated." Ayu answered Shuzo's question while he made a confused expression at the mention of the Target attack.
"What does Ayu-chan mean by 'Target attacks', Yuyu ?" Shuzo turned to Yuzu and asked what Ayu had meant with the mention of Target attacks.
"Dan's Ace monster, Siegfried Apollodragon can declare a Target Attack against another monster on the field and those attacks cannot be neither negated nor changed to another monster." Yuzu explained to Shuzo what Target attacks are as he was taking all the new information that he heard and learned into account. "But the worst is that even the Battle Phase cannot be avoided while the Target Attack is still occuring."
"So, cards like Evasion and Negate Attack are useless against it!?" Shuzo was even more amazed than he was before when he realized how good Siegfried Apollodragon's effect actually was. "What a hot-blooded effect!"
"Dad..." Yuzu was embarased by her dad's hot-blooded behaviour.
"I end my turn." Dan ended his turn.
Dan - LP: 4000 x4
Yuya - LP: 2500 x5 (1 Action Card)
"My turn! Draw!" Yuya draws his card and takes a quick look at his hand.
'I can't use Evasion against Siegfried Apollodragon's Target attacks.' Yuya looks at Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon card that he drew in his hand alongside Stargazer Magician and Timegazer Magician. 'I must get rid of Siegfried Apollodragon before a Brave comes, otherwise I will be in trouble. And I have just the cards to do it.'
Suddenly the arena had gotten darker and Dan saw a spotlight shining above Yuya.
"Ladies and Gentleman!" Yuya announced to the expectators. "The moment that you have been waiting for has arrived!"
"Does this mean..." Ayu said, knowing what was coming.
"I use the Scale 1 Stargazer Magician and my Scale 8 Timegazer Magician to set the Pendulum Scale!" Yuya placed the cards in the corners of his Duel blade. "With this, I can Summon monsters between Level 2 and 7 at the same time!"
"Here it is, Yuya's Pendulum Summon!" Shuzo said as the Magicians rised in the blue pillars with the numbers 1 and 8 showing up.
Stargazer Magician - (DARK/ Spellcaster/ Pendulum/ Scale 1/ ATK: 1200 / DEF: 2400 / Level 5/ Effect)
Timegazer Magician - (DARK/ Spellcaster/ Pendulum/ Scale 8/ ATK: 1200 / DEF: 600 / Level 3/ Effect)
"This is giving me the shivers!" Futoshi danced as Dan's body trembled like a jelly again to his confusion.
"Swing, Pendulum of souls!" A bigger version of Yuya's pendulum appeared in the sky as it swirled around the blue pillars. "Draw an arc of light across the skies! Pendulum Summon! Come my monsters!" Three lights fell from the portal.
"Entermate Amenboat!" A insect appeared in Attack mode on the field.
Entermate Amenboat - (WATER/ Insect/ ATK: 500 / DEF: 1600 / Level 4/ Effect)
"Entermate Sword Fish!" A sword fish appeared on the field in Defense mode on the field.
Entermate Sword Fish - (WATER/ Fish/ ATK: 600 / DEF: 600 / Level 2/ Effect)
"...and the main star of today's performance, Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" A red dragon with dichromatic eyes had appeared as well alongside the three monsters that were staring at Siegfried Apollodragon.
Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon - (DARK/ Dragon/ Pendulum / Scale 4/ ATK: 2500 / DEF: 2000 / Level 7/ Effect)
"This Pendulum Summon is much different from the one from earlier." Dan said as the light that was shown is completely different from when Sawatari Pendulum Summoned a few hours ago. "So this is a proper Pendulum Summon."
(At LDS's control room)
"Sir! A powerfull Summoning was detected!" A male opertor reported to their boss, Akaba Reiji.
"Which one of the Summoning Methods is it?" Reiji calmly asked to the operator for the name of the Summoning Method that was detected.
"It's confirmed to be Pendulum Summon!" The operator confirmed as Reiji quickly made his decision to see the situation for himself on the monitor.
"Give me a live feed of the duel if possible." Reiji ordered as his monitor screen showed Yuya dueling against Dan.
"Another oportunity to study Pendulum has came twice in a day." Reiji states as he sees Yuya's monsters staring at Dan's Siegfried Apollodragon. "And as an added bonus, I might be able to witness his mysterious Brave once again. A good fortune indeed."
(At You Show's duel field)
"So that is your Ace monster?" Dan asks Yuya knowing the answer to his question.
"That's right, Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon is my Ace monster, but the other monsters that I've summoned are going to help out Odd-Eyes to deal a greater amount of battle damage to your Siegfried Apollodragon." Yuya states as he points out to his other Entermate monsters.
"What do you mean by that?" Dan asked as he began to take a good look at his duel disk's screen's to check the cards on the field and readed each one of their effectsn and he didn't liked what he saw, "This could be bad." and finishes with a small frown of his own.
"I activate Sword Fish's effect!" Yuya declares as multiple mini Sword Fishes appeared above the original. "Once per turn, this card allows me to lower the ATK of one of my opponent's monsters by 600!" The mini fishes stabbed Siegfried Apollodragon, trapping it on the floor as his ATK got reduced by 600.
Siegfried Apollodragon - ATK: 2300-1700
"Battle!" Yuya declared the Battle Phase as he rided Odd-Eyes. "I attack your Siegfried Apollodragon with Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" Odd-Eyes jumped to the sky.
"Spiral Strike Burst!" Odd-Eyes fired a crimson flare out of his mouth.
"Counter it with your Solar Burst, Siegfired Apollodragon!" Dan orders as Siegfried Apollodragon fired a solar flare of it's own to counter Odd-Eyes Spiral Strike Burst. "When Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon battles a level 5 or higher monster, the damage is doubled! Reaction Force!" However, Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon's attack doubled in strengh, pushing Siegfried Apollodragon's Solar Burst back at him and landed as the explosion destroyed Siegfried Apollodragon sending Dan a bit far from the field with a heavy fall.
Dan - LP: 4000-2400 x4
"What do you think you're doing, Yuya!" Yuzu furiously yelled at Yuya from the control room as she saw that Dan was hurt by that attack. "You overdid it with that intensive attack!"
Yuya was so excited that he didn't even noticed that Dan was hurt by the force of the attack that was just unleashed.
"Sorry!" Yuya apologized to Yuzu as he jumps to Dan's place while riding Odd-Eyes. "Are you alright, Dan?" Yuya worriedly asks Dan whose body just trembled slightly before he suddenly started to laugh at the outcome of this battle.
"Hahaha." Dan was laughting to their surprises. "That was fun."
"Fun?" Yuya asks as Dan gave his smile in response.
"That smile again..." Yuzu took notice that Dan smiles when he is about to duel or his Ace monster battles another one.
"When I took that attack, I got excited from the feeling of a battle between our Ace monsters inside the dueling field." Dan's expression looked like he was enjoying this battle despite the damage that he just took. "A battle between Ace monsters are always exciting!"
"In that case... I will set the Action Card in my field." Yuya's Odd-Eyes jumped back to it's previous position, just to find another Action card lying over there. "I will activate the Action Spell, Extra Life! With this my LP are increased by 1000." Yuya ate a delicious looking chocolate bar that raised his LP by 1000.
Yuya - LP 2500-3500 x0
"Then I will attack you directly with Amenboat!" Water webs were fired from Amenboat as they spashed Dan.
Dan - LP: 2400-1900 x4
"I end my turn. Come Dan!" Yuya challenges Dan to come at him as he ended his turn.
Dan - LP: 1900 x4
Yuya - LP: 3500 x0
"If I don't draw the right card, I will lose this duel." Dan said as his hand wasn't good enough to fully turn the duel around.
"My turn. Draw!" Dan drew his card and decided to do the same entertainement act as Yuya's when he saw his draw.
The arena had gotten darker as well and Dan had a spotlight shining him.
"Ladies and Gentleman!" Dan announced as he tries to imitate Yuya's entertainment dueling style to the audience who wondered what he was up to. "Right now, I am in a very bad situation, is it possible to turn it around?"
"Let me answer that question by activating the Spell Brave Draw !" The image of Bal-Rhinos appeared in a crimson background that was shined by another spotlight. "By discarting 1 card from my hand, I can draw 2 cards." Dan discarted one card from his hand as he drawed two more from the top of his Deck. "Then I reveal the next three cards from the top of my Deck and I can add 1 Brave among them."
'If I fail to get a Brave, I might lose during the next turn, so please let a Brave come!' Dan pleaded that any Brave that came from this would do fine at this point.
The top card was the Quick-Play Spell, Sagitta Fire. The second card that was revealed was a Field Spell called Olympium Supression and the final one was a Brave like Dan had hoped to get as there were spotlights on the three revealed cards above, but the Brave card was shined by a green light, indicating that it was the right one. "I add the Brave Geo-Beowulf to my hand and I reorganize the remaining cards in any order I like." Dan placed Olympium Supression on the top of his deck and Saggita Fire after it as the lights came back on.
"He's got the Brave card!" The kids trio screamed excited that a Brave would come out soon.
"I activate Resurrection of the Dead to bring back Siegfried Apollodragon back to the field!" Siegfried Apollodragon appeared once again with a roar.
Siegfried Apollodragon - (LIGHT/ Astral Dragon/ ATK: 2300 / DEF: 1800 / Level 6/ Effect)
"I Normal Summon the Brave, Geo-Beowulf in attack mode!" A green wolf-warrior that was carrying two long blades appeared on the field right in front of Dan.
Geo-Beowulf - (WIND/ Beast-Warrior/ Green Brave/ ATK: 1800/ DEF: 700/ Quality 5/ Brave Boost - 500/ Effect)
"It's here, a Brave. Now Dan will show us his true strengh." Yuzu said as Shuzo was wondering what kind of effects that a Brave could hold since Yuzu was making a big deal about them earlier to the point of not telling him.
"A new Brave..." Yuya comments as he takes a good look at Geo-Bewulf. "It looks cool, I can't wait to see what surprise it has in store for the audience."
"If the audience wishes for it, then I Brave Geo-Beowulf with Siegfried Apollodragon!" Dan attached the Brave card on the top right of Siegfried Apollodragon's card as Geo-Beowulf's body glowed in green before disappearing, leaving his long blades behind that were grabbed by Siegfried Apollodragon as the color of his body and wings became green.
Siegfried Apollodragon - ATK: 2300-2800 / Level: 6-11 /Green
"It's color changed." Yuya noticed as that didn't happen during Dan's duel with Sawatari. "Why did it change color this time?"
"That is because Bal-Rhinos was a red colored brave like Siegfried Apollodragon, so there was no change in appearances." Dan states as he showed Yuya Geo-Beowulf's card whose color was green instead of the usual orange of the effect monsters. "But another function of Brave that I didn't mention is that the color of the card can be stacked as well for certain effects that can work with other cards."
"Brave color?" Reiji said from the control room as he comparad the data of Bal-Rhinos with the one that this Brave has. "Red and green colored braves..."
"That is Hot-blooded!" Shuzo was impressed by the result of the Brave between the two monsters. "Is this a Fusion Summon!?"
"You're wrong!" Tatsuya, Ayu and Futoshi yelled at Shuzo who had mistaken a Braved monster for a Fusion monster. "This is a Braved monster, not a Fusion Summon!"
"I will set a face-down card, then Battle!" Dan sets a card face-down and declares the Battle Phase of the turn. "I will target attack your Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon with Siegfried Apollodragon!" The Braved monster flyed forwards Odd-Eyes as the wind was surrounding his twin blades.
"Odd-Eyes!" Yuya told his dragon to try to escape and activated his Action card in hopes of buying a few seconds until he found another Action Card. "I activate my face-down Action Spell, Evasion!" Odd-Eyes flight increased in speed as he flew in a another direction to look for an Action Card.
"You know that won't work on Target attacks!" Dan states as Siegfried Apollodragon continues to chase Yuya's Ace monster. "Accept the challenge in front of you instead of looking for a convenience to save you, Yuya!"
'Where is it ?' Yuya was desperately looking for another Action card that could get him out of this mess until he saw one. 'There!'
"Soar, Braved Monster!" Unfortunately, Siegfried Apollodragon had caught up to the duo as it raised his twin blades at Yuya's Odd-Eyes. "Brave attack!" Siegfried Apollodragon slashed Odd-Eyes, sending Yuya flying in the explosion as he landed safely on the floor.
"Yuya - LP: 3500-3200 x0
"I activate Geo-Beowulf Braved effect!" Dan declares as the twin blades started to glow. "When this Braved monster destroys a monster in battle, it can subtract 500 points from my opponent' LP for each card on the field.
"There are six cards on the field, so my damage will be 3000!?" Yuya gasps in shock as he manages to grab an Action card and looked at it with a slightly relieved expression.
"That is a seriously powefull effect." Yuzu knew that Yuya was about to take a big amount of damage. "Yuya..."
"No, there are seven cards on the field, the Braved Monster always counts as two cards since it's composed of two cards, so you will lose 3500 LP." Dan corrected Yuya as the Twin blades created seven tornados made of wind that appeared above Yuya. "Settle it with Wind Raid!"
"I activate the Action Spell, Acceleration!" Yuya quickly activates the Action Card as his body began to jump in superspeed motion to get away from the tornadoes. "With this, your effect damage becomes 0!"
"Geo-Beowulf's Braved effect doesn't count as damage, so that won't work!" Dan countered as the tornadoes didn't stop from falling down on Yuya who didn't managed to get away from them despite his speed.
"Gggrraaaahhh!" Yuya screamed as the wind produced by the tornadoes slashes him, reducing his remaining LP to 0.
Yuya - LP: 3200-0 x0 - Lose
Dan - LP: 1900 x5 Win
"That was a good duel, Yuya." The action Field disappeared and Dan went to Yuya and offered him a handshake but he slapped his hand instead of taking it.
"You can take your pity for me to another place!" Yuya yelled in frustration as he put on his googles, not wanting to accept this loss. "You looked down on me just now when you dealed Geo-Beowulf's Braved effect!"
"Yuya..." Yuzu knew that Yuya was frustrated with this loss.
"Yuya..." Dan didn't know what to say to his friend.
"Yuya!" Shuzo suddenly punched Yuya to the ground and started to yell at him with a serious face that he usually nevers shows. "If Yushou-senpai was still here, he would have never demonstrated the lack of good sportmanship that you are doing right now! Do you want to disgrace his good name as a entertanment duelist even further with the behaviour that you are showing!?"
"Dad has nothing to do with this!" Yuya snapped at the mention of his father. "What could he even understand when he has been away all this time!?"
'His dad?' Dan privately thought as he wondered what did Yuya's father had to do with Yuya's current behaviour. 'Now that I think about it, that Sawatari Shingo fellow called his father a coward. I should ask Yoko-san for details about that in private since Yuya doesn't seem to be happy about it.'
"That is not true at all, Yuya." Dan offered another handshake to Yuya, who was still refusing to look at Dan. "It was the luck of the draw that saved me this time."
"Even Pendulum Summon wasn't good enough to beat you." Yuya said as his head lowered in shame.
"Your Pendulum Summon was amazing, but you still haven't mastered it, haven't you?" Dan stated as Yuya was listenning to his words. "Your Pendulum Summon is only the starting point torwards something far greater in this dueling world."
"What does that have anything to do with the fact that you defeated me!?" Yuya desperately asked.
"Defeat is a part of a duelist's growth." Dan finallly said as Yuya took a proper look at his friend. "I am sure that I was defeated a lot of times during my past, otherwise I couldn't have become the skilled duelist that I am now, even with my memories missing I could tell that I went through some nasty moments myself."
"I'm sorry for being a jerk to you, Dan." Yuya took off his googles as he now understood the meaning of Dan's words and accepted his handshake. "I believed that when I Pendulum Summon, there was no one who could defeat me and as a result I got mad at you for beating me fair and square."
"I'm glad that those two managed to make it up." Yuzu was relieved by the fact that Dan helped Yuya understand that Pendulums could go even further.
"Now you won't be a part of You Show Duel School since I lost..." Yuya was now feeling bad for losing another potential student.
"What are you talking about?" Dan casually asks as Yuya raises his head. "After our duel, I really want to enroll now and have more fun duel with you guys!"
"Really!" Shuzo was in front of Dan faster than the speed of photons, holding the registration papers in his hand with a pen. "Sign here, here and here."
"Welcome to the You Show Duel School, Bashin Dan." Yuya said as Dan signed the registration papers handed to him by Shuzo. "With this you are one of us now."
"Looking forward to have more fun dueling here with you guys." Dan smiled with his usual Dan smile.
"He's looking for another duel, isn't he?" Yuzu asks to no one in particular as Dan just smirked in response by activating his duel disk once again. "Don't you even think of it, Dannnn!" Yuzu was forced to duel against Dan.
(Later at Sakaki's)
"The curry was delicious, Yoko-san." Dan praised Yoko's curry that she made for dinner.
"Yuya had told me that it was a dish that you liked according to the information found in your Duel disk, so we had to celebrate your acceptance into You Show with curry." Yoko said as Dan and Yuya were still eating.
"Everything was delicious, mom! I will go back to my room to do my homework." Yuya went to their room as Dan's look became serious after he left.
'Could it be that you only smile to avoid facing your true feelings, Yuya?' Dan thought unaware that Yoko took notice of his expression.
"What is it, Dan-kun?" Yoko saw Dan's serious look and asked what wrong with the boy that she considered a second child. "Do you want to know more about Yuya?"
'Our duel helped me to understand his true nature a bit, but without knowing the facts, I will never understand him.' Dan thought as he recalls the feelings that Yuya was masking behind that goofy smile of his.
"Yoko-san." Dan was hesitanting to ask, but he decided to go through with it. "I know that I am being rude by asking this, but what happened to Sakaki Yushou-san, your husband and Yuya's dad?"
"That..." Yoko's face became slightly serious. "It is a long story, but why did that come up all of a sudden, Dan?" Dan noticed that Yoko didn't added 'Kun' as usual, meaning that this was more serious than he thought that it was.
"Today, I have heard a few mentions about the person known as Sakaki Yushou that was refered as a coward by a delusional spoiled brat from LDS." Dan thought of a certain banana-peeled spoiled brat and decided to hide Yuya's outburst when it came to his dad. "And the fact that he was the founder of You Show Duel School that I enrolled myself recently, so I am curious to know what kind of person Yuya's father actually is."
"Do you believe in the rumors about him running away?" Yoko asks Dan with a serious tone to see his reaction.
"You can't believe in anything that you hear and haven't seen with your own eyes since it is more easier to accept a fact that is not true at all in order to suit your curiosity." Yoko liked Dan's answer. "People only accept what they believe to be acceptable. So I want to hear it from you."
Yoko began to tell Dan the tale of how she met Sakaki Yushou until he disapeared on the day that he had to Duel Strong Ishijima and as a result, not only he was called a coward by everyone apart from the people who actually knew him, but Yuya also had to suffer a lot constant bullying from the other children, specially that Strong Ishijima's fans.
'So, Yushou-san either got reckless and involved himself in something without thinking of the consequences or went to try to save someone from being a fool.' Dan didn't dared to say anything about what he was thinking because it wasn't any off his business to get involved in this personal matter.
"The only thing that he left behind for Yuya was his pendulum necklace that he always wears and his will to make people smile with duels." Yoko takes out a card and shows it to Dan. "This Smile World is Yushou's legacy that he left for Yuya to inherit when he finds the true meaning of his dueling. Do you see this card as useless? Don't worry, I won't blame you for saying yes, I am just curious."
"Any card can be usefull as long as it is put well together with other cards." Dan picked Smile World and carefully read it's effect. "And this one can be very dangerous if used with other cards that can take advantage of the change in ATK."
"I'm glad that you liked it. It is yours now." Yoko gave Smile World to Dan.
"Isn't this Yuya's legacy!? Dan nervously asked as he didn't see this coming. "Are you alright with having me carrying it instead of Yuya!?"
"Don't worry. This was just another spare copy that was given to me by Yushou if we ever hd another child." Yoko wavered her hand and decided to ask Dan to do a favor for her. "If Yuya ever strays from his path as a duelist, use this to save him please."
"Thank you for trusting and telling me all of this, Yoko-san." Dan thanked Yoko. "I believe that I understand Yuya a bit better now, good night." With that Dan went to the room that he and Yuya were sharing.
"Thank you for believing in dad." Yuya said to Dan when he entered their room.
"You were listening to us?" Dan did notice that Yuya was listening to their talk about his father, but he didn't said anything about it since Yoko probably noticed as well.
"I didn't meant to overhear you, but I wanted to take a look at your Deck, so I went down and heard a bit." Yuya admits while feeling a bit guilty for eavesdropping.
"Do you want to duel?" Dan suggests with his usual smile. "This time, just with our cards on a table."
"Sure!" Yuya accepted as he and Dan dueled for hours until Yoko came to scold the boys since Yuya had school tomorrow morning.
OC cards:
Apollo Bladra - (FIRE/ Winged Beast/ ATK: 800/ DEF: 800/ Level 3/ Effect)
When this card is Normal Summoned; You can Normal Summon once again this turn. This card can be used as 2 tributes to Tribute Summon a monster with "Apollo" in it's card name. If a "Apollo" Braved monster(s) were to be destroyed while this card is in your GY; banish this card instead (This is a Quick Effect). You can only activate each effect of "Apollo Bladra" once per turn.
Extra Life - Action Spell
Gain 1000 LP.
Brave Draw - Normal Spell
Discard 1 card; Draw two cards from your deck. Then look at the next three cards from the top of your deck; if any Brave Cards are among them, add one of them to your hand. Return the other cards to the top of your deck in any order. You can only activate "Brave Draw" once per turn.
Olympium Supression - Field Spell
Unknown.
Geo-Beowulf - (WIND/ Beast-Warrior/ Green Brave/ ATK: 1800/ DEF: 700/ Quality 5/ Brave Boost - 500/ Effect)
Brave Condition: Level 5 or higher monster.
If this card is in your GY, you can discard 1 card; Add this card to your Hand.
[When Braved] When this card destroys a monster in battle, subtract 500 LP from your opponent for each card on the field (This is not considered damage).
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