Hi everyone, DisneyAnimefan94 here and welcome back to Barian Wars: Battle of the Barians and the conclusion of the fragile alliance saga. So now let's start off where we left off from the cliff hanger and prepared to be surprised.
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Chapter 14: A Fragile Alliance Part V
Inside their prison Nash looked on in disbelief on what he saw.
"No, it can't be!" He said with tears coming out of his eyes. "Rio! RIO!" He said shouting out her other name as Stephanie just put her head down having sympathy for the purple haired duelist. She knew that with Marin gone, her brother would be left to deal with the deranged barian. She then looked up expected to see Marin disappear the same way Dumon did. But as the smoke cleared her eyes widen in surprise at what she saw.
"He Nash look!" She called out to Nash as he looked up. Nash's eyes widen the same way Stephanie did.
"I-I can't believe it." He said as the smoke began to clear, he could see the silhouette of a girl. "But how?" Meanwhile inside the barian castle, Vector had chuckled at what he had accomplished. But then his expression changed when he saw a silhouette of a girl, and that girl was Marin, inside a bubble!
"No! This is impossible!" He said as Marin was just as surprised as him as she saw all twenty five hundred of her life points still intact. "How, how is this possible? I destroyed your Ragnainfinity, your life points should be at zero. Your power should be mine now! Just how are you still alive?" He asked still shocked.
"I'll tell you how!" Ryan shouted out as both Marin and Vector looked at him. "Take a look Vector." He said as the smoke completely disappeared to reveal that Ryan had activated a trap card. "When your monster's attack hit, I played my trap card Zero Bubble!" He said as Vector's eye began to twitch. "Here's how it works, when a water attribute monster on the field is destroyed, I can activate this and the damage that should've been taken is reduced to zero. In other words, Rio is still in this duel." He said.
"No!" Vector said. "You took away my greatest victory, you shall pay Ryan!" Vector yelled out.
"Ryan, thank you." I heard Rio as I turned to her.
"It's like Dumon said Rio, we have to look out for each other." Ryan said as Marin looked at him. "That also means we have to protect each other no matter what." He said with a grin as Rio's barian facial expression showed happiness as they both faced Vector as he growled.
"I now end my turn." He said as it was Marin's turn as she drew her card.
"Okay now what?" Marin said. "Ragnainfinty is gone and I doubt any of the other xyz monster's I have is strong enough to take down Vector's High Manipulator of Chaos." She said as Vector chuckled.
"How right you are my dear." He said. "It doesn't matter what you throw at me, High Manipulator of Souls will just blow it away." He said. "Even my Manipulator Token is too strong as well with its three thousand attack points it took from Marin's life points." He said.
"He's right what do we do Ryan?" Marin asked.
"Just have a little faith Rio." Ryan said. "We'll pull through this, as long as we believe in ourselves and our decks." Just then Marin's own emblem began to glow.
"What's going on?" Marin asked as her emblem glowed brighter and brighter.
"Time to finish what we've began." A familiar voice said as a familiar figure with a wisteria color appeared.
"Dumon!?" Everyone asked surprised, including Nash and Stephanie inside their prison.
"Dumon, how are you here?" Vector asked angrily. "I thought I destroyed you for good." He said as Dumon faced him.
"Yes Vector, you did destroy my physical form but not my spiritual form." Dumon answered as Vector growled.
"Wait your spirit form?" Ryan answered as Dumon faced him and nodded.
"And now you Ryan will continue the work we started." He said as something flashed in front of Ryan as a golden bracelet with a gem appeared in front of him as Ryan reached out and grabbed it. "My crystal is now yours." He said as suddenly the pouch hanging on to Ryan's belt began to glow. Ryan looked down to see that the shards from his mermailan pendent began to fly out and orbited around his body. Just then the crystal inside the necklace pulled itself out and orbited around Ryan along with the shards. Suddenly they flew up and collided as a bright flash appeared. Then as the flash dimmed, Ryan looked to see a blue emblem in shape of an ocean wave with a sky blue crystal appeared as it floated down and landed around Ryan's neck. Ryan was surprised as was everyone else as Ryan looked at Dumon. "You will become the new shield." He said as Ryan was still shocked.
"Me?" Ryan asked.
"It is your destiny." Dumon said as he then faded away.
"Wait, Dumon." Ryan said but it was too late as Dumon completely faded away. Ryan then held the emblem in his hand as he heard a familiar giggle. Ryan then turned to see a familiar pink haired mermaid like figure.
"Hello Ryan." The mermaid said as Ryan smiled.
"Dine!" Ryan said with joy as Dine floated up to him and hugged the side of his face.
"I missed you Ryan." She said. "In fact we all missed you." She said as Ryan turned around to see all of the mermails.
"Everyone…" Ryan breathed as they all nodded.
"Now come on Ryan, lets combine our power with the new power you got." Dine said with a determined look on her face as Ryan nodded.
"But in order to do that…" He said as he turned to face Marin. "Rio I need you to end your turn." He said as Marin looked at him.
"Are you sure?" Marin asked Ryan nodded his head. "Okay, I trust you." She said as she faced Vector. "I now end my turn." She said as Ryan closed his eyes.
"Now it is time." He said as the crystal began to glow. He then shot his eyes wide open. "Mermailan Warrior, Barian Power!" He shouted as he glowed a bright blue as everyone's jaw literally dropped. Out of the blue glow was a figure with blue skin, golden chest armor with the emblem on it, a silver belt and wearing a silver belt and a navy blue cape with a trident shaped logo on it and connected to a hood that covered that covered the figure's face.
"Ryan, is that you?" Marin asked as the figure put its hands on the hood and lifted off to reveal a face with a blue face and light blue m-shaped markings on both sides of its face, its eyes opened to reveal blue eyes and on the top of his head with long black hair. Inside their prison, Stephanie and Nash were still surprised at what they saw.
"No way." Stephanie breathed still in disbelief at what she saw. "My brother, is now a barian?"
"Dumon lend his remaining power to him and with that it repaired his own pendent and combined it into a new emblem." Nash said. Back on the field both Vector and Marin were still stunned.
"Well Vector, what do you think of my new look?" Ryan said in his barian voice.
"No, this is impossible, how can you be a barian? Let alone look like one of us?" Vector asked still shocked as he then growled. "Well it doesn't matter, you may look like us but the question is can you duel like us?" He said.
"Let's find out!" Ryan said as the top card in his deck glowed. "I draw!" He shouted as he looked at his card. "Now I play, Underwater Treasures, now I can draw until I have up to six cards in my hand." He said as he drew five more cards. "Next I play Ancient Scriptues!" He said as he revealed his spell card. "Now by paying half of my life points, I can summon up to two level five or above monsters, however they are destroyed at the end of this turn." He said as he was then zapped.
Ryan 1500-750 LP
"And now I summon out two Mermail Abyssmegalo! And thanks to my field spell, they gain an additional two hundred attack point boost." He said as the two mermail sharks like monsters came out.
Mermail Abyssmegalo x2 (2400-2600 ATK/1900-2100 DEF)
"Now the time has come, I overlay my two level seven Mermail Abyssmegalos!" He said as the two monsters turned into orbs in shades of blue and entered the black hole. "With these two monsters I build the overlay network and xyz summon Number 41: Mermail Abysstitan!" He shouted as something from the waters of the field spell appeared, the figure was a huge merman like figure with a golden armored chest, a blue tailfin and long brown hair holding a golden trident.
Number 41: Mermail Abysstitan (2300-3000 ATK/1100-1300 DEF)
"Wait, a new number?" Vector asked surprised.
"That's right Vector." Ryan responded. "But it won't be around for long." He said.
"What do you mean?" Vector asked.
"I mean it's going to be just as powerful than it ever has been." Ryan said. "But first, I play this spell card that I've been holding since the start of the duel, Aqua Sub-In." He said. "Here's how it works, I can send one water attribute monster to the graveyard and summon another one its place from the graveyard, I send my Abyss Dweller to the graveyard and summon back, Chaos Number 103: Ragnainfinity, of course with Abyss Dweller gone, both Shark Drake and Mermail Abysstitan lose their five hundred attack boost, but thanks to my field spell, Ragnainfinity gians two hundred attack points." I said as the chaos fairy returned.
Number C103: Ragnainfinity (2800-3000 ATK/2400-2600 DEF)
Number 41: Mermail Abysstitan (3000-2500 ATK)
Number 32: Shark Drake (3500-3000 ATK)
"That thing's back?" Vector asked still in shock.
"That's right Vector." Ryan said. "Now let me talk about my Abysstitan's special ability, for every water attribute monster on the field it gains an additional one thousand attack points, in other words it gains two thousand attack points." He said as his monster glowed an aura.
Number 41: Mermail Abysstitan (2500-4500 ATK)
"What's that going to do?" Vector asked. "It's no match for my High Manipulator of Chaos." He said as he chuckled.
"Who said I was going to use it?" Ryan said as Vector gasped in surprise. "Remember when I said that my number won't be there for long, I meant by using this." He said as he revealed his spell card to him.
"Wait, that's a Rank Up Magic card!" Vector said in surprise.
"That's right Vector." Ryan answered. "But to be more specific its Rank Up Magic Aqua Force, it lets me rank up one xyz water monster on the field and I'm using it on Number 41: Mermail Abysstitan!" He said as his monster glowed and entered into a green and black sphere. "Go chaos xyz evolution!" He said as there was a bright light. "Now appear Chaos Number 41: Mermail Abysstrom!" He said as a fully armored merman appeared with black armor and a black trident as thunder and lightning roared in the sky welcoming its arrival.
Number C41: Mermail Abysstorm (2800-3000 ATK/2000-22000 DEF)
"But he's not the only chaos xyz monster I'm summoning out." Ryan said.
"Wait its not?" Vector said as meanwhile inside the prison, Nash grinned.
"Of course!" He said as Stephanie looked at him confused. "Since Ryan's life points are below one thousand, he can now do it. Let's just hope he has the power to summon two chaos xyz monsters in one turn." He said. Meanwhile back on the field, Ryan began to glow an purple aura around his barian body.
"Vector do you see this glow?" Ryan asked. "It's the glow that represents the spirit of my brother Shark, and with it I will use it to rebuild the overlay network, with Number 32: Shark Drake!" He said as Shark Drake glowed and entered the sphere. "Now go again, chaos xyz evolution!" He said as the sphere once again let out a bright light. "Now appear, Chaos Number 32: Shark Drake Veiss!" He said as the shark appeared.
Number C32: Shark Drake Veiss (2800-3000 ATK/2100-2300 DEF)
"Wait three chaos xyz monsters are now on your side of the field." He said as he then looked surprised again. "Oh no, it's as if I'm not going up against you two now, but Nash as well with that chaos number." He said.
"That's right Vector." Marin said. These are the monsters that represent the Three Waves! Shark Wave, Ice Wave!" She shouted.
"And Mermail Wave." Ryan said. "And speaking of Mermail Abysstorm I can activate its special ability. When I used a water monster to xyz summon it, it can absorb up to any of the other water monsters on the field." He said as both Shark Drake Veiss and Ragnainfinity glowed light blue and purple auras and were sucked into the bigger mermail's trident. "And for every water monster it absorbed, it gains attack points equal to each one. Since both Ragnainfinity and Shark Drake Veiss had three thousand, Mermail Abysstorm now gains six thousand attack points." He said as his mermail let out a huge grunt.
Number C41: Mermail Abysstorm (3000-9000 ATK)
"That still isn't enough to take out High Manipulator of Chaos!" Vector shouted.
"I'm not done yet." Ryan said as Vector gasped. "I now activate Mermail Abysstorm's other ability, by using one chaos overlay unit, for every water monster it absorbed I can destroy that many amount of cards on your side of the field Vector!" He said Vector's eye began twitching again. "I absorbed two water monsters, so say goodbye to your High Manipulator of Chaos and Manipulator token!" He said as Ryan's mermail swung its mighty trident and aimed it at Vectors two monsters as they took the blast from the trident.
"No!" Vector cried out. "This is impossible!"
"Oh it's possible Vector." Ryan said. "And now you are wide open for an attack with no cards in your hand to play and no cards on the field to protect you." He said as Vector growled. "Now here…" He said.
"…together as one…." Marin joined in.
"…the three waves…." Nash said.
"…are going to wash you away!" They all said together.
"Now go, Mermail Abysstorm attack with trifusion wave blast and end this duel!" He said as his most powerful monster attacked as its blast hit Vector sending him backwards and de-morphing him back into his human form as he hit the floor hard.
Vector 4000-0 LP
Winners: Ryan and Marin!
With the duel over, the forgotten city as well as the monsters disappeared along with Ryan and Marin de-morphing back to their human forms as well.
"Ryan, you did it!" Marin said with a friendly smile on her face.
"We did it." Ryan said as Marin blushed and nodded. Just then they both heard a familiar chuckle as they looked to see a battered Vector slowly got up.
"Vector?" Marin said.
"You're still alive?" Ryan asked as they were both confused.
"Did you already forget what I said?" Vector asked as he laughed and then coughed. "I am attached to the great Don Thousand, in other words I'm practically a god myself, I can't be destroyed!" He said as a huge gust of wind came out of nowhere. "There's more than one way to take away your powers, and I will see to that." He said as something wrapped itself around both Ryan and Marin.
"What's this?" Marin asked. But just then Ryan and Marin were both zapped as they both could feel their energy being drained. That surge was enough to knock out the projection of them that Nash and Stephanie were watching from their prison.
"No!" Nash cried out. "Marin!"
"Ryan!" Stephanie yelled out as well.
"That's it!" Nash said in furry. "If Vector has done any harm to them, I will make him pay!" Just then Nash's barian emblem glowed as Nash could feel his own strength return to him as he was able to break the hold over both him and Stephanie. Stephanie closed her eyes when the bright light had hit but when she opened them, she was surprised to see herself in Nash's arms. "Hold on Stephanie." He said as they entered into a portal. Meanwhile back in the barian castle, Vector was laughing insanely as he watched both water duelist crying out in pain.
"Don't worry my friends, it will all be over soon." Vector said. "In a matter of moments it will all be over soon. And by then your life force as well as your barian power and numbers will be mine." He said.
"Not…today…Vector!" Ryan grunted as he put out his hand and summoned his trident and cut off what was holding him.
"No!" Vector cried out as Ryan then ran over to Marin and cut her free as well. Ryan than caught Marin in his arms and put her down as he faced Vector. "Well no matter, I have enough of both your power, plus I have this." He said as his hand glowed revealing both Number 102 and Number 103 in his hand. "I have both Dumon and Marin's number, meaning I also have Dumon's power as well." He said as a portal opened up behind him. "Well I have to get going, but I have more barian energy to collect. Ta ta!" He shouted as he disappeared.
"Wait Vector!" Ryan shouted but it was too late as Vector was already gone. Ryan stood their frustrated that he wasn't able to capture the traitorous barian.
"Ryan what about Rio?" Dine suddenly said as Ryan looked at her.
"That's right." He said as he turned around to see an unconscious Marin. "Rio!" He yelled out as he ran over to her body and lifted her into his arm. "Rio, please wake up!" He said as he shook her lightly but nothing happened. Ryan gasped as he feared the worst and lowered his head as tears slowly fell from his eyes. Suddenly Ryan heard a cough as he looked to see Marin slowly waking up as she opened her eyes to him.
"Ry…an?" She said as Ryan was filled with joy to see her.
"Rio! You're okay!" He said as he tried to wipe the tears from his eyes.
"Ryan, there's something I've been needing to tell you." Marin said as Ryan nodded.
"I know you're not Rio anymore you're Marin." Ryan said as Marin shook her head confusing him.
"No I'm not." She said. "I never was Marin." She says. "I was Rio the whole time, I just wanted to follow my brother because I didn't want him to be alone." She said as tears began to form in her eyes. "But at the same time I left you, something I promised I would never do." She said as Ryan looked down at her.
"Rio there's something I want to tell you as well." He said.
"Yeah? What is it?" She asked as she was strong enough to sit on her own.
"The thing is, I've been wanting to tell you. Even though we are brother and sister yet not related, I was hoping we can be much more than that." He said as he could feel his own heart pounding at what he was about to say. "That thing Rio I..." He was then stopped when Rio put a finger on his mouth.
"Ryan, you don't have to say anything else." She said as she then lifted the finger hand wrapped her arm around his neck to lean him closer to her. "Because I have felt the same way." She whispered as she and Ryan closed their eyes and placed their lips on each other as they were locked in a passionate kiss.
Next time on Barian Wars: Battle of the Barians: After a hard fought battle with Vector and a confession from both Ryan and now reformed Rio. They now spend a moment with each other and they began to wonder how they are going to now find they're older siblings.
Next time on Battle of the Barians: A Rio Return.
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