It was a peacefull night in Maiami City in every corner of the place, that was, except for one empty alley where you could see nothing but two people who were currently dueling over there. One of them and the other was a male teenager in it's seventeens that had a LDS badge in his jacket. He had 2000 LP and Gaia the Fierce Knight on his field with one card in his hand with no other cards on the field.
The other one was a tall young man that was wearing a blue trenchcoat that is tattered at the ends. His hair was bluish-black that falls to his chin with light green bangs in the shape of a wing partially tucked under some strands on the left, but his face and eyes were concealed behind dark glasses and the red scarf on his neck. He had 700 LP and four Level 6 shadowed monsters on his field each with 2000 ATK with no other cards in his hand or field.
"My turn. Draw!" The LDS's student draws his card and smirks when he looked at what he drew.
"Allow me to show you why I am one of LDS's elite students of the Fusion Course." The LDS student that revealed himself to be an elite of their Fusion Summoning Course bragged as he placed the card he drew into his duel disk's slot. "I activate the Spell Fusion!"
The young man's facial features hardened at the sight of the most common Fusion Spell of them all as if he loathed that Spell Card's very existence.
"With this, I fuse Gaia The Fierce Knight that is on my field with the Cursed of Dragon that is in my hand!" The LDS's elite student shows the Cursed Dragon in his hand as the monster itself and Gaia flew into the fusion vortex that appeared above him as a light shined brighter.
"Fierce knight, become one with the cursed dragon to form a new power! Fusion Summon! Come forth! Level 7 - Gaia The Champion Dragon!"
From the light, the same knight came out, but he was now riding a yellow scaled dragon with two red-eyes instead of his previous purple riding horse.
Gaia The Champion Dragon - (WIND/ Dragon/ Fusion/ ATK: 2600/ DEF: 2100/ Level 7)
"Fusion monster." The young man snorted as he was enraged by the sight of the Fusion monster. "I will destroy it!"
"Battle! I will attack your monster with Gaia the Champion Dragon!" The LDS's elite student declares his attack as Gaia went in and destroyed one of the unknown monsters with it's spear.
Unknow - LP: 700-100 x0
"With this I end my turn." The LDS's elite student ended his turn.
LDS's Elite Student - LP: 2000 x0
Unknown - LP: 100 x0
"My turn. Draw!" The mysterious man draws his card.
"I overlay my three Level 6 monsters!" The young man's three shadowed monsters became black orbs of light that went inside the galaxy portal that appeared in front of him that exploded in a white light. "Xyz Summon! Come forth! Rank 6 ! " A shadowed Xyz monster appeared on the field as it was surrounded by three dark orbs of light that were swirling around it.
? - (DARK/ Winged Beast/ Xyz/ ATK: 2000/ DEF: 3000/ Rank 6/ Effect) ORU: 3
"You were an Xyz user!?" The LDS's elite student was surprised that someone else other than a student taught by LDS could actually pull off an Xyz Summon. "I thought that only LDS taught that Summoning Method curriculum to their elite top class students!"
"Battle! I will attack Gaia The Champion Dragon with my monster !" The young man ignores the LDS's elite student's claims as he declares attack against the fusion monster. "I activate it's effect to make the ATK and DEF of the Special Summoned monster that it battles 0 at the start of the Damage Step.
"What!?" The LDS's elite student gasped in surprise as the ATK and DEF of his monster became 0.
Gaia The Champion Dragon - ATK: 2600-0 DEF: 2100-0
"Gaia's ATK has become 0?" The LDS's elite student was still shocked by what happened to his monster.
"Now, finish off that Fusion monster!" The shadowed Xyz monster flew higher and dropped a few napalm bombs at the monster, destroying it alongside some parts of the alley as the elite was sent flying to the wall by the intense force of the explosion.
LDS's Elite Student - LP: 2000-0 x0 - Lose
Unknown - LP: 100 x1 - Win
"T-that was R-Real Solid Vision just now..." The LDS's elite student was severely injured by the impact of the explosion that was caused by the brutal attack as the young man who won approached him while touching a few buttons of his duel disk. "W-What are you doing...?"
"Adding you to your fellow Fusion users thrash's pile." A purple flash came out of the young man's duel disk that bathed the beated up LDS's elite student and dissolved him in particles of that same light. A card came out of the young man's duel disk's slot that was blank until it revealed the image of the LDS's elite student's scared face who was just bathed in that same light.
"One less Fusion scum in this world." The young man was pleased as he saw his prey trapped inside the card and placed it inside of his jacket's pocket.
"Did you really had to card him just because he was a Fusion user?" Another figure appeared behind the young man and asked. "I believe that the person you just carded was one of LDS's elites student's, so we should have interrogated him for information about their connection with them instead of doing what you did just now."
The figure who appeared was a young person dressed in a punk-style outfit, with a dull green formal shirt and dark blue tie, as well as a black cape-like garment with ripped sleeves and edges plus dark blue pants and black boot-like shoes. In a similar way to the young man, he was concealing his face with a mask and had the same red scarf on his neck.
"They're all enemies to us, don't forget what they did to us." The young man said with a serious expression. "Besides, any word that would come from someone who uses that summoning method is nothing but a lie and you of all people should know that."
The masked young man was in deep thought as he recalled what happened each time that they had tried to properly comunicate with them instead of fighting.
"We still don't know if the people of this world have something to do with them." The masked man who just appeared points out to his partner.
"All I saw you doing just now, was nothing but venting your frustrations on Fusion users, nothing more, nothing less." The masked young man scolded his partner who had just carded the LDS's elite student only because he was a Fusion user. "If you overdo it, we will be detected sooner than we planned out by any possible spies that they could have left here."
"Then let them come to us, we will crush them all!" The young man rebuted.
"You're being reckless!" The masked young man rebuted back at his partner.
"This is my own way of doing things around here." The young man who was scolded jumped to the roof, "But if you don't like it, then I will be on my own for now." and with that, he simply left.
The masked young man who was left behind didn't do anything for a few minutes until he saw something of the floor, the LDS badge that his partner's opponent must have left behind when he hit the wall.
"I will investigate LDS in my own way, then." The masked young man took the badge with him, "I will definitely find some answers." and went out of the alley as well.
Chapter 5 - The mysterious dark duelist! Apollo vs Phantom Knights.
A week had passed by since Shiun'in Sora and Youth Grynnhorn had joined You show Duel School, and right now Dan and Youth were having another duel at You Show's duel field while Yuya and the others were waiting for Yuzu and Ayu to return with ice creams.
On Dan's field, he had Siegfried Apollodragon with one card face-down on his field and no cards in his hand. Youth on the other side, had Photon Thrasher on his field with one card in his hand.
"I set one card face-down and end my turn." Youth placed one card face-down and ended his turn.
Dan - LP: 900 x0
Youth - LP: 1400 x0
"My turn. Draw!" Dan draws his card and smiled at his card.
"It appears that you drew a good card." Youth comments when he saw Dan's usual smile.
"I summon Bal-Rhinos !" A red rhino with two cannons on it's back appeared on the field.
Bal-Rhinos - (EARTH/ Beast/ Red Brave/ ATK: 1400/ DEF: 900/ Quality 4/ Effect/ Brave Boost - 400 ATK)
"This is bad." Youth was fully aware of Bal-Rhinos effect when Braved.
"I Brave Bal-Rhinos with Siegfried Apollodragon!" Bal-Rhinos body glowed in red before disappearing, leaving his cannons behind that went to Siegfried Apollodragon's back as it's wings disapeared in the same glow as the cannons attached to it's back.
Siegfried Apollodragon - ATK: 2300-2700 / Level 6-10 / Red
"Battle! I Target attack your Photon Thrasher with Siegfried Apollodragon!" Dan declares his attack as Siegfried Apollodragon started to aim the cannons in it's back at Photon Thrasher. "I activate Bal-Rhinos Braved effect to draw 1 card and destroy your Photon Thrasher!"
"No, you won't! I will answer to that with my face-down Quick-Play Spell, Forbidden Holy Grail!" The card revealed the image of a maiden that was in The Sanctuary of the Sky, drinking from a golden grail. "With this the ATK of your monster will increase by 400 ATK, but it's effect will be negated until the End Phase of this turn."
A giant golden grail appeared above the Braved monster and spilled it's contents at Siegfried Apollodragon, whose cannons stopped working, making it furious as it's rage made his ATK increase.
Siegfried Apollodragon - ATK: 2700-3100
"With this, I will have another turn to settle turn this duel around." Youth states as Dan smirked in response. "This is not good, isn't it?"
"I activate the Trap Thunder Branch! " The image of all of Five God Dragon's five heads being struck by yellow lighting while a Braved Siegfried Apollodragon that seemed to be safe from it, was revealed on the Trap card. "With this the ATK of all non-Tribute summoned and non-Braved monsters on the field becomes 1000 until the End Phase!"
"What?" Youth gasped in shock as Photon Thrasher was hit by a yellow lightning that put it on it's knees, making its ATK 1000.
Photon Thrasher ATK: 2100-1000
"Now the battle continues! " Dan declares as Siegfried Apollodragon begins to run in Photon Thrasher's direction. "Brave attack!"
Siegfried Apollodragon grabbed Photon Thrasher with it's claws and threw it to the ground, creating a small explosion that sent Youth back a bit.
Youth - LP: 1700-0 x0 - Lose
Dan - LP: 900 x0 - Win
"I lost again." Youth complained as he got up from the floor.
"You were closer to win this time." Dan praised Youth for giving him a very close duel, "If you keep dueling like that, you will eventually beat me." and encouraged him to get better.
"I hope so." Youth said as he made his goal to defeat Dan, "Let's duel in the Action Field this time!" and challenged Dan to a rematch in an Action Duel this time.
"Sure, we will duel again after we rest a bit." Dan agreed to duel after they rested for a bit, "I wonder if Yuzu and Ayu are already back." and wondered if those two were already back with ice creams like Yuya, Sora and Futoshi begged them earlier.
"Yuzu and Ayu sure are late." Yuya complained from the couch that Yuzu and Ayu were supossed to be back already with their ice creams by now.
"Im getting hungry as well." Futoshi complained as his stoamach made a noise.
"Make it three with me." Sora also joined them as well.
"Yuya oniichan! Dan oniichan!" Ayu suddenly entered the main entrance and called out to Yuya and Dan immediately.
"What is wrong, Ayu?" Yuya asked the red-haired girl what was wrong with her as tears threatned to fall from her eyes. "Why isn't Yuzu with you?"
"The ice creams are all melted!" Futoshi and Sora complained when he sees that their bag of deserts that they were completely melted.
"What happened to Yuzu?" Dan, who left the dueling field with Youth, asked Ayu about Yuzu when he saw that tears were about to fall from her face.
"Yuzu oneechan...!" Ayu tried to gather the courage to properly explain what was wrong to Yuya and Dan. "Yuzu oneechan is in big trouble!"
"How is Yuzu in big trouble?" Youth asked to Ayu what she meant by that. Ayu then explained how she and Yuzu overheard Sawatari's stooges saying that he was going to find a way to get revenge against Dan for getting in his way
"She went after Sawatari!?" Yuya screamed in shock at what he heard from Ayu.
"That reckless girl." Dan sighed at Yuzu's lack of carefulness while pinching the bridge of his nose with closed eyes, "Where is this happening?" and asked Ayu for Yuzu's whereabouts.
"She followed them into a warehouse." Ayu answers Dan's question as he opened his eyes.
"We should hurry up before Yuzu gets hurt, or worse..." Dan coughed because he didn't dared to mention it the rest of it, but Yuya, Youth and Sora realized right away what he had meant with those words while Tatsuya, Futoshi and Ayu were confused as they didn't understood the real meaning of his words.
"Let's go right away!" Yuya was now deeply concerned for Yuzu's safety and with that, Dan, Yuya and Youth left You Show to help Yuzu, leaving the others behind.
"I still didn't told them which of the two places they went." Ayu noticed that they already left.
(Outside of You Show)
"Not so fast!" A group of six people suddenly appeared in front of Dan, Yuya and Youth who were in a hurry to save Yuzu, but the one thing they all had in common was that they were all wearing LDS's badge in their jackets. "You will hand us over those Pendulum cards of yours, Sakaki Yuya!"
"LDS's people again!?" Dan sighed at seing people from LDS because they have been coming over to You Show over the last few weeks to try and steal Yuya's Pendulum cards through an unfair duel of three or more against one. But they were always beaten by Dan, Yuya, Youth or Sora.
"Don't they ever get tired of doing this?" Youth was also annoyed by their constant atemps to come to You Show with the intent to steal from Yuya.
"You won't be leaving this place until you either hand us over your Pendulum cards or beat us in a duel!" One of them stated as the other LDS's nooded in agreement.
"We don't have the time to deal with you people!" Yuya was getting more desperate that something really bad was going to happen to Yuzu while they were here wasting time with these people.
"Let's just get this over with. Yuya, Youth, you two go on ahead while I tak-" Dan was about to take his duel disk out of his jacket until Youth stopped him from doing it so.
"You two go on ahead." Youth activated his crimson duel disk, revealing a dark-blue duel blade. "I will take care of things here."
Dan and Yuya nooded to each other and turned to Youth.
"Thank you, Youth." Yuya thanked Youth for helping them to get those six nuisances off his and Dan's back.
"We're counting on you, Youth." Dan said as he and Yuya ran past the six people from LDS.
The six of them were about to take pursuit, until.
"Where do you think you're going?" A black-purple armored blue dragon suddenly stood in their way and roared at them, Youth's Ace monster, Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon to be exact.
"I don't think so." Youth said as he had no intentions to let them pass through him. "If you want to pass, you must defeat me first."
"Like a nobody like you could ever hope to defeat a single one of us." The six of them turned on their yellow duel disks, revealing orange duel blades, "But we will duel you at the same time and crush you to end this quicklier and catch up to them." and boldly declared.
"I wonder who will be crushed by who?" Youth said as he made the same smile as Dan's when he said that because compared to facing off Bashin Dan in a duel, these guys were nothing at all. "Let's just get this over with, again..."
"Duel!" They shouted at the same time.
Youth - LP: 4000 x5
LDS student 1 - LP: 4000 x5
LDS student 2 - LP: 4000 x5
LDS student 3 - LP: 4000 x5
LDS student 4 - LP: 4000 x5
LDS student 5 - LP: 4000 x5
LDS student 6 LP: 4000 x5
(In the middle of the street)
Dan and Yuya were running as fast as they could but then Dan stopped and Yuya turned to him with a confused face.
"Why did you stop, Dan?" Yuya asked Dan of why had stopped running. "Yuzu could be suffering at this very moment!"
"Ayu didn't told us in which warehouse's district they went." Dan remembered that they have forgotten to ask Ayu for the exact whereabouts of the warehouse district where Yuzu went.
"They are two districts that are full of them and they are 30 minutes away from the other." Yuya states as he freaked out. "How will we find them in such a time gap!?"
"In that case we should split up." Dan quickly suggested as time was slowly running out for Yuzu. "If we find out something, we will give a call to the other and that person will come running to the other's location right away, got it?"
"Sure." Yuya went in the right direction to another side of the town, while Dan went in the oposite direction.
(Warehouse district to where Dan went)
"There sure are a lot of warehouses around here..." Dan said as he just left another warehouse and was about to enter inside the next one. "They could be inside of any-"
Dan's words were suddenly interrupted by a the sound of an explosion.
"What was that?" Dan said as he ran to the site of where the sound came from and after a few minutes.
"Let's get outta here!" Dan heard a voice that he recognized right away and saw Sawatari Shingo being carried away by his stooges as they away from the warehouse that they were inside.
"Why was Sawatari being carried by his stooges?" Dan wondered to himself as he saw them leaving the warehouse in a hurry. "So this must mean that Yuzu is inside of that warehouse. I hope that she is alright." With that, Dan went inside to see if those guys did something to Yuzu, because if they did, trouble would be the very least of Sawatari and his stooges's concerns as he and the others would make sure that they would pay very, very dearly for harming Yuzu.
Dan entered inside the warehouse and saw that Yuzu was speaking with another person. That person was dressed in a punk-style outfit, with a dull green formal shirt and dark blue tie, as well as a black cape-like garment with ripped sleeves and edges plus dark blue pants and black boot-like shoes and a red scarf in his neck. He also had a obsidian-purple duel disk model that Dan never saw before attached to his left arm.
Dan was about to call Yuzu to ask if she was alright, but he stopped from doing so when he took a close look at the other person's face. It was Yuya's face, but the color of his eyes were grey instead of red and his hair color was black and light-purple like a eggplant instead of Yuya's green and red pattern like a tomato.
'Yuya?' Dan almost thought that the person in front of him was Yuya for a second, but he quickly recovered from his initial surprise. 'No. There is no way that Yuya would have arrived here so fast without warning me that he would come like we agreed. So who is this guy?'
"Yuya? Why are you dressed like that?" Yuzu was about to approach Yuya's look-alike.
"Stay back, Yuzu!" Dan suddenly grabs Yuzu's arm and pulls her behind him, leaving her and Yuya's look-alike surprised by Dan's sudden arrival.
"Dan. Why are you here?" Yuzu asked Dan why he was here instead of being at You Show with the others. "And why is Yuya here as well and dressed up like that?" and added as she pointed at Yuya's look-alike.
"We heard from Ayu that you were in trouble, so we came here to save you from Sawatari and his stooges." Dan explains to Yuzu that Ayu had came to You Show as fast as she could and informed them about her reckless quest to take on Sawatari and his goons. "And the guy in front of us is not Yuya."
"But..." Yuzu was fully convinced that the person in front of them was Yuya because he had the same face as him, until she noticed that something was wrong from what Dan said. "We?"
"Yes, Yuya and I splitted up in order to search in two different districts that were filled with warehouses." Dan explains to Yuzu how he and Yuya had separated to seach out for her since they didn't know in which warehouses they had to go. "Otherwise, he would have given me a call about it...of course!"
Dan quickly takes his crimson duel disk and touches the phone app and called a certain number, Yuya's number to be exact.
"Dan! Have you found Yuzu !?" Yuya's voice came out of Dan's disk for Yuzu's shock at Yuya's concerned tone. "Is she alright!?"
"Yeah, she is here with me." The answer that came out of Dan's mouth relieved Yuya of his previous worries about Yuzu's safety. "She is alright, nothing happened to her."
"Y-Yuya?" Yuzu went to Dan and was shocked that it really was Yuya on the other side of the screen as he could be seen inside another warehouse.
"You're fine, Yuzu?" Yuya saw Yuzu alongside Dan's face on his duel disk's screen.
"That is really Yuya..." Yuzu now understood that the person in front of her wasn't Yuya at all.
Tap...tap...tap
Dan and Yuzu heard the sound of someone tapping their foot to the floor as they that Yuya's look-alike was getting tired of waiting.
"Sorry, Yuya. But a troublesome situation has come up." Dan said to Yuya as he saw that his friend's look-alike was not amused by the fact the he was being ignored this entire time.
"What do yo-" Dan turned off the call to confront Yuya's look-alike and looked at him in the eyes.
"Who are you?" Yuya's look-alike asks Dan for his identity, "And why are you with Ruri?" and points at Yuzu, calling her by a name that neither Dan and Yuzu recognized.
"Ruri?" Yuzu and Dan asked at the same time as the latter took a closer look around their surroundings and noticed that this place was almost fully destroyed.
"Were you the responsible for the explosion that I heard earlier?" Dan asked this question to Yuya's look-alike, knowing the answer to that.
"I was the first one to ask you a question." Yuya's look-alike didn't like Dan's attitude and rebuted him. "So, who are you?"
"For starters, my name is Dan, Bashin Dan." Dan answers Yuya's look-alike's first question, "And second, this girl's name is Yuzu, not Ruri." and tells him that the girl that is by his side is not the person who he had called Ruri.
"What are you talking about?" Yuya's look-alike's face expression became confused by Dan's reveal about Yuzu not being Ruri. "That girl is obviously Ruri, she had the same face as her."
Dan facepalmed himself and sighed at this Yuya's look-alike's misunderstanding about Yuzu's real identity.
"Does this Ruri girl of yours have pink hair and blue-eyes like Yuzu over here?" Dan asked this question to Yuya's look-alike, because he figured right away that the girl called Ruri must have the same face as Yuzu, but the hair and eyes's color must be completely different just like Yuya and this look-alike in front of him was.
"..." Yuya's look-alike didn't answer because he didn't know what to say about Dan's question.
'Isn't she really Ruri?' Yuya's look-alike now took a closer look at Yuzu and noticed that there were some truth to Dan's words, but part of him wanted to deny the possibility that the girl in front of him was not Ruri. 'I want to believe that she managed to escape from their clutches.'
"If you don't want to hand over Ruri to me, then..." Yuya's look-alike activates his duel disk, revealing a purple duel blade.
"I understand." Dan placed his crimson duel disk on his left arm and turned it on revealing a black duel blade.
'I've never seen that duel disk model before...' Yuya's look-alike takes a quick notice of the fact that Dan's duel disk was different from the people of this world, his and theirs. 'He is not from here.'
"Dan?" Yuzu was confused by Dan's action. "What are you doing by accepting his challenge to a duel?"
"This Yuya's look-alike made it clear that he doesn't want to leave without you." Dan corfirms Yuya's look-alike's intentions. "So, the one and only way for us to solve this is through a duel."
"If I win, I want you to tell us who you are and why do you look like Yuya?" Dan made his terms to Yuya's look-alike if he wins the duel.
"Fine." Yuya's look-alike agreed with Dan's terms as he made a duel stance, "But if I win, you hand over Ruri to me and you will also tell me where you came from." and he his own terms if he wins.
"Deal, Yuzu. Use the coin throwing app to decide who gets the first." Dan turned to Yuzu and instructs her to use a coin app to decide who goes first before doing the same as Yuya's look-alike and assumed his duel stance.
"If it's head, then Dan goes first. But if it's tails, then you go first, ok?" Yuzu asks Yuya's look-alike to make sure that it was fine to decide who starts first with this method.
"I don't see any problems with it." Yuya's look-alike accepted Dan's proposal to decide who started first with a coin throwing app.
Yuzu touched the app as a coin appeared o her screen. The result was Tails.
"Duel!" Both Dan and Yuya's look-alike declared the start of their duel for Yuzu.
Dan- LP: 4000 x5
Unknown - LP: 4000 x5
'His real name is not being shown in the duel disk's name screen.' Dan looked at his duel disk's screen to try to see his opponent's real name, but all it said was 'Unknown'.
"I am going first." Yuya's look-alike took the first turn because of the result that was decided by the coin.
"I set five cards face-down on the field and I end my turn." Yuya's look-alike ended his turn after setting his entire hand face-down on the field.
"Again!?" Yuzu exclaims as she already saw Yuya's look-alike using he same starting move from his duel against Sawatari. "Is he having another bad hand?"
'That is a very unusual strategy.' Dan ignored Yuzu's statement of a bad hand as he privately thought since his opponent didn't seem to be nervous about it in the least. "I shouldn't overthink about it, otherwise I will get lost in his flow.'
Dan - LP: 4000 x5
Unknown - LP: 4000 x0
"My turn. Draw!" Dan draws his card and picks another one from his hand.
"I summon Apollo Bladra." Apollo Bladra appeared in front of Dan with a cute sound.
Apollo Bladra - (FIRE/ Winged Beast/ ATK: 800/ DEF: 800/ Level 3/ Effect)
"I activate it's effect to normal summon again during this turn." Dan declares as Apollo Bladra's small wings grew began to shine like the sun itself as it's warm reached Dan.
'How can I feel the warm of Apollo Bladra's sunlight outside of an Action Field?' Dan was confused that Apollo Bladra shine's warm could be felt on the field, just as if he was dueling inside of an Action Field.
"I summon Apollo Igua-Dragoon!" The small emerald scaled dragon with two blue eyes appeared on the field.
Apollo Igua-Dragoon - (EARTH/ Astral Dragon/ ATK: 1400/ DEF: 1200/ Level 4/ Effect)
"While this monster is on the field, all monsters with 'Apollo' in it's card name have their ATK and DEF incrreased by 500!" A fiercy orange aura covered both Apollo Bladra and Apollo Igua-Dragoon, increasing their ATK and DEF.
Apollo Bladra - ATK: 800-1300 / DEF : 800-1300
Apollo Igua-Dragoon - ATK: 1400-1900 / DEF: 1200-1700
"Battle!" Dan declared the the start of the Battle Phase.
"At the start of your Battle Phase, I activate the Quick-Play Spell, Emergency Provisions!" Yuya's look-alike activates a card that revealed the image of a few rations. "With this, I can send any number of Spells and Trap cards on my field and restore my LP by 1000 for each card that I sent to the graveyard through this Spell's effect." Yuya's look-alike sended his entire field except for Emergency Provisions to his graveyard.
"And since I sended 4 cards to the graveyard, my LP are recovered by 4000." Yuya's look-alike explains as a green aura covered him, restoring his LP by 4000.
Unknown - LP: 4000-8000 x0
"8000 LP!?" Yuzu was amazed that Yuya's look-alike's LP were raised to 8000, the twice of the amount of LP that a duelist usually start's with. "I never saw someone with that many amount of LP before."
"In that case, I attack you directly with Apollo Igua-Dragoon!" Dan declares his first attack as Apollo Igua-Dragoon fired a emerald fireball at Yuya's look-alike, who dodged it as the fireball burned a few boxes and the damage calculation was performed.
Unknown - LP: 8000-6100 x0
"I attack you directly with Apollo Bladra!" Dan declares his second attack as Apollo Bladra sprinted in a flare blitz to Yuya's look-alike.
"I activate the Spell card, Phantom Knights Shadow Veil, from the graveyard!" Apollo Bladra's attack stopped in it's tracks as the three Spell cards emerged from three purple circles on the floor that revealed the image a black knight riding on a black unicorn wearing golden gear, appeared in front of Yuya's look-alike.
"When my opponent declares as a direct attack at me, I can Special Summon as many of these from my graveyard as possible to the field as normal monsters, although they are banished when sent to the graveyard." Yuya's look-alike explains as three of the same monsters that were shown from the card image appeared on the field in Defense Position.
Phantom Knights Shadow Veil x3 - (DARK/ Warrior/ ATK: 0/ DEF: 0/ Level 4)
"I attack the one on the middle with Apollo Bladra!" Apollo Bladra went in with it's flare blitz and destroyed the black knight in the middle as the impact caused the flames to spread a bit around the field.
"Upon being sent back to the graveyard, Shadow Veil is banished." Yuya's look-alike banished Shadow Veil from his graveyard to the banished slot.
"Why didn't he activate them before?" Yuzu asked in confusion of why Yuya's look-alike didn't activated them earlier on before. "If he had done that when Dan declared his first attack, he wouldn't have lost any LP."
"That was because he wanted to have monsters on the field to use as materials." Dan explains to Yuzu why Yuya's look-alike didn't do anything during his first attack. "He wanted to make sure that he had the right amount of monters on his field while reducing his damage as much as possible."
"For the sake of what?" Yuzu wondered as she recalled what happened earlier when he had dueled Sawatari, "Could it be that he is...?" and guessed what his next move was going to be.
"His plan is to Xyz Summon a Rank 4 monster by using those two Level 4 monsters in order to turn the tables on me." Dan reveals that Yuya's look-alike planned to Xyz Summon in his next turn by using his monsters on the field as Xyz Materials.
'Not bad.' Yuya's look-alike privately thought as he was slightly impressed that someone managed to figure out his intent just from this move alone. 'Just from this move he figured out my entire strategy.'
"I set two cards face-down on the field and end my turn." Dan ended his turn after setting two cards face-down on the field.
Dan - LP: 4000 x2
Unknown - LP: 6100 x0
"My turn. Draw!" Yuya's look-alike draws his card.
"Here it comes his Xyz Summon." Dan said as he prepared himself for his opponent's Xyz Summon.
"I overlay my two Level 4 Phantom Knights Shadow Veil!" Yuya's look-alike declarates as both black knights became purple orbs of light that went inside a galaxy portal that appeared in front of him that exploded in a white light.
"He is going to summon that dragon." Yuzu comments knowing what monster it was going to be summoned.
"Fangs of pich-black darkness... rise up against the foolish opression!" Yuya's look-alike chanted as a card popped out of his duel disk's Extra Deck compartment. "Descend now! Xyz Summon! Come forth! Rank 4! Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon!"
A pich-black dragon that was accompanied by flashes of purple lightning, appeared on the field with two purple orbs of light swirling around it had emerged from the galaxy portal and roared at Dan's monsters, scarying them. The dragon itself was fully covered in pich-black as his head and tail were purple. The dragon had yellow eyes as well.
Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon - (DARK/ Dragon/ Xyz/ ATK: 2500/ DEF: 2000/ Rank 4/ Effect) ORU: 2
"Be carefull, Dan!" Yuzu tries to warn Dan about that monster was capable off, "That monster can...Dan?" until she noticed that Dan was smiling instead of being worried.
"Amazing." Dan smiled at the sight of Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon for Yuya's look-alike's surprise. "Your Ace monster looks amazing!"
'Why is Dan smiling like that when he is being confronted by that Xyz monster?' Yuzu privately thought as she saw that Dan was smiling more than usual.
"Battle! I attack your Apollo Igua-Dragoon with Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon!" Yuya's look-alike declares the Battle Phase as Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon's wings opened up as their empty spots filled with blue energy and dashed to Apollo Igua-Dragoon with it's chin fang glowing. "Rebellious Lightning Disobey!"
"I activate the Trap, Thunder Branch!" Dan declares as he reveals his Trap Card. "With this the ATK of all non-Tributed or non-Braved monsters becomes 1000 until the End Phase of this turn." Lightnings began to fall upon Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon, Apollo Bladra and Apollo Igua-Dragoon as well.
'What does Braved means?' Yuya's look-alike wondered what Dan meant by Braved as he never heard of such a term before. 'I don't have the time to think about it.'
"I won't allow that to happen! I activate the Continuous Spell, Phantom Death Spear, from my graveyard!" Yuya's look-alike declares as the image of a spear in the middle of a red colored magical circle was revealed in his Spell Card. "When my opponent activates a Trap card, by Banishing this card from my graveyard, I can negate that Trap's activation and destroy it!" The lightnings produced by Thunder Branch's effect were channelized into the spear that appeared on the field.
"And then it inflicts 100 points of damage to my opponent!" The super-charged Spear was fired and Dan rolled to the floor and back up in another direction in order to avoid being stabbed by it's electricity.
Dan - LP: 4000-3900 x2
"Now that your Trap is out of the way, my attack resumes!" Dark Rebellion stabbed through Apollo Igua-Dragoon's plated armor with it's chin fang, creating a small explosing that sent Dan a few steps back to the floor right next to Yuzu.
Dan - LP: 3900-3300 x2
"Are you alright, Dan?" Yuzu worriedly asks Dan if he was alright as she helps him getting up from the floor.
"I am fine, Yuzu." Dan stated as he was back up.
'That was definitely the same intensity as being inside an Action Field.' Dan was now fully aware that this was the same as a duel inside an Action Field. 'This is getting more interesting.'
"When a monster on my field is destroyed in battle or by a Card effect, I can activate the Trap, Brave Warning!" The image of Apollo Bladra exploding as Bal-Rhinos arrived in it's place. "This Trap allows me to Special Summon a Quality 4 or less Brave from my hand or deck to the field as a monster!"
"I Special Summon Bal-Rhinos from my deck!" Dan declares as red light pillar emerged from the floor in front of him as the familiar red rhino with two cannons on it's back emerged from it to the field.
Bal-Rhinos - (EARTH/ Beast/ Red Brave/ ATK: 1400/ DEF: 900/ Quality 4/ Effect/ Brave Boost - 400 ATK)
"It's here, Dan's Brave." Yuzu knew what was going to happen next turn.
"Brave?" Yuya's look-alike wondered in confusion about Brave, "What is a Brave?" and asks Dan about it.
"You will find out soon." Dan gave him the runaround instead of answering his question.
"With this, I set one card face-down and end my turn." Yuya's look-alike ended his turn after setting one card face-down.
Dan - LP: 3300 x2
Unknown - LP: 6100 x0
"My turn. Draw!" Dan draws his card, "Sorry, Apollo Bladra." and apologized to his monster who just gave a kind nod as if it understood what Dan was going to do.
"Why did you apologize to your monster?" Yuya's look-alike asked because he never saw a duelist like Dan in his entire life due to the fact that he apologized to Apollo Bladra for something that he was about to do.
"I activate Bal-Rhinos effect to destroy Apollo Bladra and draw 1 card!" Dan declares as Bal-Rhinos aimed it's cannon and fired at Apollo Bladra, destroying it as Dan drew a card and saw that it was what he needed to prevent his opponent from gaining any further advantage.
'Your sacrifice won't be in vain, Apollo Bladra.' Dan privately thought as he found a pattern that would open the way to his victory.
"I summon Apollo Bladra once again!" Dan summoned another Apollo Bladra to replace the one that was just destroyed.
Apollo Bladra - (FIRE/ Winged Beast/ ATK: 800/ DEF: 800/ Level 3/ Effect)
"I activate it's effect to normal summon again during this turn." Dan declares as Apollo Bladra's small wings grew began to shine like the sun itself.
"Sun! Give form to the mighty dragon that will guide me to victory with it's brave wings." Dan chanted as Apollo Bladra vanished in flames. "I will tribute summon Siegfried Apollodragon by using Apollo Bladra as the tribute cost to the Tribute Summon!" The field was surrounded by flames that heated up the surroundings for a few seconds until the Red Dragon emerged from them and appeared on the field with both feet on the field in front of Dan and roared at Dark Rebellion who answered in kind.
Siegfried Apollodragon - (LIGHT/ Astral Dragon/ ATK: 2300 / DEF: 1800 / Level 6/ Effect)
"Your monster's ATK still doesn't match Dark Rebellion's." Yuya's look-alike points out as his dragon had more 200 ATK than Dan's dragon.
"That is what we will see." Dan replied with his usual smile.
'There he goes with that smile again...' Yuzu privately thought with a sigh at Dan's usual smile. 'He is really enjoying this, isn't he?'
"I Brave Bal-Rhinos with Siegfried Apollodragon!" Bal-Rhinos body glowed in red before disappearing, leaving his cannons behind that went to Siegfried Apollodragon's back as it's wings disapeared in the same glow as the cannons attached to it's back.
Siegfried Apollodragon - ATK: 2300-2700 / Level 6-10 / Red
"Is that a Fusion?" Yuya's look-alike seemed to be shocked at the fact that his opponent's monster combined with another one to increase it's ATK and Level. 'What in the world am I seeing? I will just ask him about this weird Fusion when I defeat him.'
"Battle! I Target attack your Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon with Siegfried Apollodragon!" Dan declares his attack as Siegfried Apollodragon started to aim the cannons in it's back at Dark Rebellion. "I activate Bal-Rhinos Braved effect to draw 1 card and destroy your Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon!" Dan draws 1 card.
"I activate the Trap, Phantom Wing!" A card that had the image of a phantom looking-bird blocked Bal-Shoot from hitting Dark Rebellion, "With this, not only Dark Rebellion is not destroyed, but it's ATK is increased by 500!" and powered up the pich-black dragon, making it's ATK higgher than the Braved monster.
Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon - ATK: 2500-3000
"Now Dark Rebellion is stronger." Yuzu points out that Dark Rebellion was now stronger then Dan's Braved monster.
"With this the ATK of Dark Rebellion is higher! Get him, Dark Rebellion!" Yuya's look-alike exclaimed as his and Dan's dragons went in and locked their arms and claws against each other, starting their struggle for dominance.
"He turned the tables." Yuzu muttered as she saw that Dark Rebellion was stronger than Dan's Brave monster, "What are you going to do, Dan?" and asked what Dan was going to do about this.
"I activ-!" Dan grabbed a card in his hand and was about to activate a card when suddenly.
DUM...DUM...DUM...DUM
Both Dan and Yuya's look-alike felt a heartbeat and grabbed their chest that was in pain all of a sudden.
'What is this feeling?' Dan privately though as he looked at the dragons on the field that were struggling for dominance. 'Is this happening because our monsters are battling against each other?' And looked at Yuya's look-alike to see that he was also suffering from the same problem as him.
'What in the world is going on?' Yuya's look-alike couldn't understand why his heart began to beat like that when Dark Rebellion began his power struggle against that strange Fusion monster and looked at Dan. 'It seems that he is also feeling the same.'
"Help...us..." Dan heard a voice coming out of Yuya's look-alike's Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon.
"Dan...Dan..." Now he heard a voice coming from Siegfried Apollodragon.
'Were those voices coming from our monsters?' Dan wondered as he noticed that Siegfried Apollodragon was about to lose his battle against Dark Rebellion. 'I think about that later once l win this duel.'
"As I was saying, I activate the Quick-Play Spell, Magic Boost!" The image of Blue-Eyes White Dragon Braved with a mysterious Brave glowing in a white aura is revealed on the Quick-play Spell. "With this, the ATK of 1 of my Braved monster is increased by 400 until the End Phase of this turn!"
Siegfried Apollodragon was covered in a white aura as it's strength increased.
"What did you say!?" Yuya's look-alike wasn't expecting for this to happen.
Siegfried Apollodragon - ATK: 2700-3100
"With this the tables have been turned!" Yuzu exclaimed excitely as Siegfried Apollodragon started to push Dark Rebellion's claws and arms back as the pich-back dragon slowly fell to it's knees from loosing the struggle until it was destroyed by Siegfried Apollodragon's cannons.
Unknown- LP: 6100-6000 x0
"Dark Rebellion has lost in a battle...?" Yuya's look-alike's face was shocked that his Ace monster was destroyed in a battle of power, "This is the first time that Dark Rebellion was destroyed in a battle against another monster." and revealed that this was the first time that his dragon tasted defeat at another monster's hand in battle.
"The Battle Phase is not over yet." Dan said as Yuzu and Yuya's look-alike looked at him as if they wanted to know what he meant with that. "Magic Boost's other effect allows my Baved monster to attack once again."
"He can do that again!?" Yuzu and Yuya's look-alike asked at the same time.
"Go! Brave attack!" Dan declares as Siegfried Apollodragon began to charge a laser from his cannons that were aimed Yuya's look-alike.
"I activate the Spell card, Phantom Knights Shadow Veil, from the graveyard!" The same two Spell Cards emerged from Yuya's look-alike's graveyard as the Braved monster stopped charging it's cannons. "As you already know, when my opponent declares as a direct attack, I can Special Summon as many of these from my graveyard as possible to the field as normal monsters, but they are banished when sent to the graveyard." Yuya's look-alike re-explains as two of black knights appeared on the field in Defense Position.
Phantom Knights Shadow Veil x2 - (DARK/ Warrior/ ATK: 0/ DEF: 0/ Level 4)
"He managed to stop Siegfried Apollodragon's attack." Yuzu says as she believes that Yuya's look-alike will not take damage now.
"No. That won't work a second time." Dan stated to Yuya's look-alike's shock. "I activate the Quick-Play Spell, Sagitta Fire!" A rain of fire arrows fell upon the black knights and destroyed them to Yuya's look-alike's surprise once again. "Sagitta Fire's first effect allows me to destroy all Special Summoned monsters whose ATK are 2000 or less, so those monsters are destroyed and banished due to their effects."
'This is bad.' Yuya's look-alike knew that he couldn't do anything to protect himself from Dan's attack. 'I have no way to defend myself now.'
"Now another Battle Replay occurs, so I attack you directly with Siegfried Apollodragon!" Dan declares as Siegfried Apollodragon fires his cannons once again. "While I am at it, I activate the last card in my hand which is another Quick-Play Spell Magic Boost!"
"What!?" Yuya's look-alike couldn't believe that his opponent had another Magic Boost Quick-Play Spell in his hand as the white aura around Siegfried Apollodragon became even stronger.
Siegfried Apollodragon - ATK: 3100-3500
"Now for the main attack!" Siegried Apollodragon's cannons hit Yuya's look-alike, sending him to the floor an he grabbed his stomach that was now in pain from the impact that he recieved from that attack.
Unknown - LP: 6000-2500 x0
'Am I going to lose to a Fusion of all things?' Yuya's look-alike privately thought as he was struggling to get up.
"And as you already know, Magic Boost allows my Braved monster to attack you once again, so prepare yourself." Dan states as he declares the final attack. "I attack you directly with Siegfired Apollodragon once ag-!' Dan's words were suddenly interrupted by the sound that came from behind him.
"What is happening?" Yuzu gasped as her bracelet flashed in a pink light, blinding everyone for a few moments and when the light went out, Yuya's look-a-like was gone.
Connection Lost - Duel Terminated
Dan - LP: 3300 x0 - Draw
Unknown - LP: 2500 x0 - Draw
"What just happened?" Dan did not understand what just happened to Yuya's look-alike, who was slightly injuried from his attack. "How did he got away so quickly?"
"Yuzu, Dan!" Yuya entered the warehouse and called out to them. "Are you two alright!?"
"Yeah, I just dueled a strong opponent, so I am a bit tired." Yuya was about to ask what Dan meant by that, until.
"It is really you, isn't it Yuya?" Yuzu suddenly asked Yuya if he really was himself instead of the look-alike that just disappeared when her bracelet flashed.
"Of course I'm me, why would you even ask?" Yuya was confused by Yuzu's sudden question. "Don't you recognize this smile." Yuya made a goofy smile at Yuzu.
"So that person really wasn't Yuya, I'm so glad that it was only a misunderstanding." Yuzu was relieved that person who Dan was about to defeat wasn't Yuya at all.
"We will explain you everything later at home, Yuya." Dan promissed to explain to Yuya everything that they learned about this look-alike who had the same face as him when they go back home. "I got a record of the duel and believe me, you will be in for a treatment when you see my opponent's face. So let's go back to You Show to see let the others know that Yuzu is alright."
"Yeah. I'm looking forward to see who you dueled." Yuya said as the trio began to walk back to You Show Duel School. "I'm sure that Youth has already expeled those LDS's students from our school by now."
"That's so true." Dan agreed with a laugh at the thought of them being defeated again.
"Did people from LDS came again?" Yuzu asked Yuya with an annoyed expression.
"Yup, they tried to stand in our way, but Youth offered himself to be the one to 'escort' them out." Dan said escort with a lot of sarcasm as Yuya and Yuzu laughed.
(Meanwhile in a certain park away from the warehouse)
"Where in the world am I?" The Yuya's look-alike slowly got up from the grassy floor as he began to recover from the injury that he made in his stomach when he was hit by Siegfried Apollodragon's attack. "How did I ended up here and where are they?"
He took a quick look and saw that he was in the middle of a park, not the warehouse where he saw that Yuzu girl who looked like Ruri and Dan, who used a strange form of Fusion called Brave.
"This is just getting weird." Yuya's look-alike recalled that he was about to lose to Dan until that Yuzu girl's bracelet released a pink flash and his world ended up blank until he was aware that he was in this place all of a sudden. "I should call Shun and tell him about my findings and quick, before he somehow sees and mistakes that Yuzu girl as Ruri which could make him causing more of a scene that he is about to do with his reckless actions of hunting Fusion users." And with that he called Shun's number in his duel disk's phone app.
A few seconds went by, until he got answered.
"What is it, Yuto?" Shun answered his call, revealing Yuya's look-alike's name as Yuto. "I am in the middle of hunting LDS's Top Team, so be quick about it."
"Shun, we need to talk. So meet me at our meeting point." Yuto tells Shun to meet him at their designed meeting point in this world. "I have some concerning news about LDS alongside a strange duelist that I've found."
"Strange duelist?" Shun asked with a confused tone from the other side. "What kind of duelist in this world has called your attention to the point of telling me about it?"
"Someone who uses a weird form of Fusion know as Brave." Yuto reveals the existence of Brave to Shun.
OC Cards:
Thunder Brach - Normal Trap
The ATK and DEF of all non-tribute summoned and non-Braved monsters becomes 1000 and cannot be changed by other effects until the End Phase. This card can only be activated during the Battle Phase.
Brave Warning - Normal Trap
If a monster you control is destroyed in battle or by a card effect; Special Summon 1 Quality 4 or less Brave from your hand or Deck as a monster to the field (You cannot brave it directly if you summon it to the field with this effect).
Magic Boost - Quick-Play Spell
Target 1 Braved monster you control; Change it to Attack Position if it is in Defense Position, it gains 400 ATK and it can attack once again during this turn.
Dragon Of The Ecplising Moon: Thanks, I will try to keep it that way or make it better.
Guest: You will have too see it for yourself in future chapters.
Guest 2: I am currently only working on Cardfight Vanguard G - Reborn and Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V: The Brave duelist! and I am not writting anything else at the moment.
QOTC: What do you guys think that happened to Dan and Yuto when the Braved Siegfried Apollodragon and Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon clashed against each other and why?