Hi everyone, DisneyAnimefan94 here and welcome back to Barian Wars: Battle of the Barians. So here we go with the next chapter and just to be clear, this takes place during part two of the duel between Nash and Vector. So as always hope you all enjoy.
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Chapter 16: Reuniting the Team
Ryan's POV
As we continued to fly over to the forbidden palace, something about why it was called that bothered me.
"Hey Rio!" I called out to my new girlfriend. "Why do you guys call the place we are going to, the forbidden palace?" I asked her.
"The reason it's called that is because when Reginald went over there for the first time, he sensed a dark power coming from that place." Rio began explaining. "And when he returned, he looked like he saw a ghost and muttered two words, shadow games." She said as I gasped.
"The last time I heard that was from that book Yugi Moto wrote." I said.
"So I guess we better be careful." Rio said as I looked at her and took her hand.
"Don't worry Rio." I told her. "No matter what happens, I'm never letting go of you." I then saw her once again blush a bright red when the hummed and I looked ahead. "Looks like we're here." I said as we slowly landed, and de-morphed back into our human form. We then walked around. "Nothing so far." I said. "I hope that kid was right." I said as Rio gasped.
"I think Iris was right." She said. "Look!" She said as she pointed up as I gasped as I saw two familiar duel monsters.
"No way!" I said in disbelief. "Archfiend Seraph, and Ragnainfinity?" I asked.
"Vector must be using those two as a kind of mind game to play on our brother to make him feel like he's truly alone." Rio said in fear.
"Then let's go find where they are dueling and show Shark that he isn't alone." I said as I looked at Rio as she gave a confident nod. We then ran until we found Shark dueling against Vector and on Shark's side of the field was a new number that I haven't seen before. "We're here." I said.
"Ryan, Rio hey!" I heard a familiar voice and looked over to see four familiar ones, Yuma, Tori, my sister Stephanie and Astral. I smiled as I saw them.
"You guys!" I said as I ran over to them only to have Yuma hug me tightly.
"Oh I'm so glad that you guys are alive!" He shouted as I tried to get out of his grip.
"Yuma, choking, not breathing!" I said as he then let go of me.
"Oops sorry." He said as I laughed as I looked at my sister. She smiled and walked over to me and embraced me into a hug.
"Oh Ryan, I was so worried." She said as I could hear her sobbing.
"It's okay Stephanie, I'm sorry I made you worry." I said as we broke the hug as I looked at her. "But mom and dad, I wasn't able to…" I said as I tried to stop the tears.
"Shh…." I could feel my sister's hand on my shoulder as I looked at her. "It's okay, you did what you could to save them." She said as I smiled as I wiped at my eyes.
"But hey, how did you and Shark get out of whatever Vector had you in?" I asked her.
"After you and Rio defeated Vector in that duel, Nash regained his power and broke free." She said. "Then him and I teamed up to find Vector and we followed him here, that's when Yuma, Tori and Astral showed up as we watched him duel." She said as she looked at the field. "And by the looks of it he looks like he's making a comeback after Vector brought out Marin's and Dumon's barian chaos numbers." She said as she looked at me. "But I'm surprised that you're now a barian little brother." She said as I laughed nervously.
"What the huh?" Yuma asked as I looked at him. "Wait you're a barian, but how?" He asked.
"Dumon's sprit returned to Rio and I and gave me some of his remaining power, that helped revive my mermail power into this." I said as I showed them my emblem. "But don't worry, I'm still on your side, and so is Rio again." I said as both Yuma and Tori gave out a sigh, but one look at Astral and I could see in his eyes that he wasn't so sure about that.
"Well it sure is a relieve to see your friendly face again Rio." Tori said walking up to her as Rio smiled.
"Thanks Tori." She said as she then frowned. "Hey Tori, about everything you saw, what I did, know that I'm very sorry." She said as Tori took both of her hands into hers.
"Hey, don't sweat it, of course I forgive you and so does Yuma." She said as she looked back Yuma and Stephanie who nodded as Rio flashed a smile.
"An um…" I said as I then cleared my throat. "There is one more thing I want to tell you." I said as I then took Rio's hand into mine. "Rio and I are sort of together." I said as I looked to see everyone was confused.
"What he means is…" Rio said as she took a deep breath. "Ryan and I are boyfriend and girlfriend now." She said as I then saw a shocked look on Yuma's face.
"What?" He asked. "How can you two be a couple? You're brother and sister!" He said only to have Tori nudge him hard in the chest with her elbow.
"Yuma you idiot!" She yelled at him. "Don't you remember, they aren't even related so that means Rio is open to him." She said.
"Well you didn't have to elbow me in the chest to tell me." Yuma said as we all laughed and then he joined in. "Hey I just forgot!" Yuma said as we looked at him. "Ryan, Rio you have to go show Shark that you're both okay." He said as we both nodded and ran over to where Shark was who was in his barian form.
"Shark, hey Shark!" I yelled out.
"Reginald, Nash!" Rio shouted as Shark looked over at us and looked surprise.
"Ryan, Marin, you're both alive?" He asked as the both of us nodded. "But Vector told me that you both had fallen victims to him."
"Come on brother," Rio said as she puffed out. "it takes more than that backstabber to take us down." She said as Shark then looked at Vector and when we saw him we were both surprised that Vector took a new form.
"Wonder how Vector turned into that?" I asked.
"He must've used my power as well as Dumon, as well as any of the other emperors he took out to combine with his and turned into that thing."
"Vector, you snake! You lied when you said that Ryan and Marin had fallen to you, and yet here they are!" Shark yelled out as Vector looked at us.
"Ah, Marin and Ryan." Vector said. "I'm surprised to see the both of you alive." We just glared at him. "But not for long, after I deal with your brother, you two are next." He said with a laugh.
"I don't think so." Shark said. "Because I'm ending you right here and now." He said as he looked up at his monster. "Now King Overfiend, attack Masquerade!" He yelled out as his monster attacked and destroyed Vector's number.
"Now Vector will regained the true memories of his past." I heard Astral say as I looked over to see the others standing next to us.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Shark used Vector's legendary number up against his over one hundred number." Yuma replied as I gasped and looked over to see Vector in his human form in a daze. Just then we all saw a flash of light as we saw all of Vector's memories. About how he became the mad prince of his kingdom, it was all thanks to the monster that started it, Don Thousand.
"So those were Vector's memories?" I asked.
"Apparently." Astral answered. "Much like with the others, he was manipulated by Don Thousand."
"No! It's impossible!" Vector yelled out. "What' I've done? All the destruction I caused? All the people that I hurt? How could I?" He then let out a furious cry as a black aura surrounded him. "Don Thousand!" He yelled out as the deity himself appeared.
"You became the person you were destined to become." Don Thousand answered back to the twisted barian.
"All because of you!" Vector replied. "You manipulated me!"
"Just like as your fool of a father." Don Thousand said referring to the man we saw in Vector's memories. Vector let out another furious scream as he fell to his knees.
"Vector, you've got to keep it together!" Yuma yelled out. "What happened wasn't your fault." He said as I was surprised Yuma still had sympathy for this guy after all he did to us. "You're a good guy, I know you are." He said. "Remember who you were when you were Ray Shadows, my best friend."
"Is it true?" Vector asked. "Is there really good in me?"
"How little you understand." Don Thousand's voice boomed as we looked up at him. "Young Vector wanted peace, but that was an attempt to quiet the rage boiling inside him." He said. "That rage was always there, I just helped him awaken it."
"You didn't do any of that!" Yuma yelled out. "All you did was get into his head and messed him up."
"It does not matter." Don Thousand responded back. "He is who he is. His actions cannot be erased."
"He's right. I can't change the person I have become." Vector said as we looked back at him.
"Not true!" Yuma replied. "It can be a do over."
"Right!" Tori said joining in. "You can't change your past but you can change your future." She said she then looked at Rio. "Just look at Rio, she is changing her future by leaving the life she once knew and coming back to the life she has now." Just then Vector got up.
"That's a nice thought, if only it were true." Vector said.
"It is!" Tori yelled out.
"You don't get it." Vector replied to her. "I can't change the future, because there is no future for me." He said as he resumed the duel by playing a trap card that gives him control of both Ragnainfinity and Archfiend Seraph, so by sending one card to his graveyard, Shark took control of his sister's barian number and Dumon's.
"You can take down Don Thousand out Nash, by taking me out!" Vector yelled out as I gasped at the situation.
"Can he really do that?" I asked myself remembering back to our previous duel. "I mean my own chaos number alone couldn't take him down. Something just doesn't feel right." I muttered to myself all the while both Astral was telling Shark to attack but Yuma told him not to.
"Yuma, it's alright." Vector said. "I deserve it after what I've done." He said as Don Thousand was about to take control of him but then Vector summoned up a force field to protect him. Vector once again pleaded with Shark to take him down as Shark then accepted it. So by following the description on Vector's activated trap card, Shark took control of the two chaos monsters.
"I can't believe it's finally going to be over." Rio said. As Yuma pleaded with Shark one last time to reconsider but Shark ignored him as Shark attacked Vector with both numbers. But just as it was almost over, Vector activate his other trap Trick Buster to block both attacks and send all the monsters Shark controlled to the graveyard.
"I knew there was something fishy about this." I said. "Vector wanted us to believe he was willing to go down, only for him to let us fall for this tricks again."
"How right you are Ryan." Vector said with a sadistic look on his face. But just then he transformed back into his super form and managed to absorbed Don Thousand.
"No way." I said.
"Don Thousand is no more." Astral said.
"And now thanks to Trick Buster's special ability, you're about to take three hundred points of damage for each monster that was destroyed." He said as I gasped to look to see Shark only had one hundred life points left.
"No Shark!" Both Rio and I shouted. But just then Shark activated his card he sent to the graveyard Dream Shark to reduce the damage to zero.
"Hey, that's the shark card I gave him!" I said.
"Thank you Ryan." Shark said as I gave him a thumbs up. But just then Vector played a powerful Rank Up magic card allowing him to revive all four chaos monsters that were in the graveyard, and used them to build the overlay network to chaos xyz summon a new number, chaos number five Chimera Dragon. To make matters worse, it gained one thousand for each chaos overlay unit meaning now it had four thousand attack points. Then he used his dragon's ability using one chaos overlay unit to remove one random card from Shark's deck from play but it lowered the dragon. But when it attacked, Shark activated his Dream Shark's ability by lowering its defense points and keeping it on the field. It wasn't destroyed but Vector activated his dragon's ability again to remove one random card from Shark's deck from play to attack again and this time it destroyed his Dream Shark. But he used his dragon's ability one more time to remove another random card from Shark's deck to attack again and even when its attack power halved, it was still strong.
"Guess this is it." Nash said.
"Yes, Vector is the victor." Vector said as I gritted my teeth at his comment. But just as his dragon was about to finish off Shark, Shark activated his trap card to protect himself which was also a trap monster meaning he could summon it and it gained attack points equal to the damage he would've taken. But Vector activated his dragon's other effect to send all the cards he banished back to the top of Shark's deck, to prevent him to draw a new card.
"Well the good news is, our brother is still in it." I said.
"Yeah but for how long?" Rio asked. But just as we thought Shark could use the cards he got back to use, Vector's dragon's ability kicked in preventing Shark to use the cards he got back to use for the rest of the duel. Then to make matters worse, by halving his own life points, Vector's dragon gained back all of its chaos overlay units.
"No, then that means, Vector's going to win!" I gasped. But just as we all thought hope seemed lost, Shark activated one of his spell cards, Infinity Tooth to send the top cards in his deck to the graveyard, by however many chaos overlay units Vector's dragon had meaning he got rid of all the cards he couldn't use and chaos drew a new card that I didn't even no he had Depth Biter. He then used them both to xyz summon his legendary number Abyss Splash. He then activated its ability to double its attack points making it eight hundred points stronger then Vector's monster. But Vector activated the trap he set his last turn to take away one of the legendary number's overlay units and attached it to his making it five thousand points strong. But then Shark activate his quick spell Rank Up Magic Quick Chaos to instantly overlay his legendary number into a chaos number Abyss Supra Splash.
"Unbelievable." Rio said in awe as I had to agree. Then Shark attacked Vector's dragon and activated its special ability to gain all of his monsters attack points, meaning his Supra Splash was now at eight thousand life points strong.
"Finish him Shark!" I yelled out as Shark's chaos monster attacked and destroyed the dragon as its blast was strong enough to send Vector flying as he de-morphed back into his human form and hit the ground hard.
"Alright he did it!" Rio and I said as we then ran over to Shark ready to congratulate him.
Next time on Barian Wars Battle of the Barians: As the team celebrates a well earned victory Don Thousand Reappears and absorbs Vector. He then begins to target Ryan as someone to everybody's shock steps in the way and to save him! Just then Mizar then appears and challenges Don Thousand to a duel him? Can he win?
Next time on Battle of the Barians: Wrath of the Don.
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