Hi everyone, Disneyanimefan94 here and welcome back to Barian Wars: Battle of the Barians. This maybe one of the hardest chapters that I have ever done because of what happens near the end of the chapter. You'll all find out once you've reached the end. So as always enjoy.
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Chapter 17: Wrath of the Don
Ryan's POV
Rio and I ran over to Shark in his barian form as he then looked happy to see us. We all then got into a big group hug something Shark rarely did.
"Reginald you did it!" Rio cried out with joy.
"Yeah way to go bro." I said as Shark then released us from his and looked at us.
"I'm just glad that you two are okay." He said as he looked at Rio. "But Marin, why did you call me by Reginald, you know that I'm Nash." He said, but then Rio shook her head.
"No you're not." She said in a calming voice. "You are Reginald Shark Kastle, my brother and Ryan's as well, just as I am Rio Kastle." She then took my hand into hers. "Ryan has taught me that I am no longer the person I once was, he has learned to move on from being Dylan and now being Ryan, just as I will move on from being Marin." She then leaned on me and smiled. "Plus, he and I are together now isn't that great?" She said as Shark looked surprised at this. I was worried things were going to get a little tense, I cleared my throat.
"By the way Shark." I said as I looked at him. "Thank you for saving my sisters life." I said.
"Well you saved my sisters life." Shark said. "And I'm sorry that you weren't able to save your parents Ryan, that must've been a hard thing for you, plus I cannot believe that you became a barian when Dumon gave you his crystal." He said as I then turned around.
"Speaking of which…" I said as we looked to see Vector still lying there on the ground. We then saw Vector flinch as we all stood our ground and prepared for whatever happened.
"Impossible!" Vector shouted. "How can I lose to you? How!?" He shouted angrily as we then heard the sound of mysterious yet creepy groans.
"What is that?" Rio asked as she clung on to me.
"Can you hear their voices yet?" Shark asked Vector as he slowly got up.
"The what?" Vector asked confused.
"The last time we dueled in this palace, you lost." Shark explained. "The spirits of the people of this place were those from the villages of you destroyed. They dragged you down to the darkness where you belonged." He said. "So, do you hear them yet?" He asked.
"I don't hear a thing!" Vector shouted as then ghosts began to appeared surrounding Vector.
"Hey Rio, you didn't tell me Barian World had ghosts!" I said.
"Well we did see the spirit of Dumon when we dueled Vector, didn't we?" She answered back. The ghosts continued to surround the orange haired boy as they whispered his name in a creepy voice.
"No! Stop it! Let me go!" Vector cried out as we all looked on.
"It's over Vector." Shark said. "Just like before, they will pull you into the shadows."
"I don't think so!" Vector said fiercely, as his eyes began to glow. "Things are different now!" He said as a powerful wave of energy came out of him. "Release me!" He shouted vanquishing all the ghosts. "This time I have more power than I can possibly imagine." He said as we gasped. "So if I'm going down, I'm taking you and your little family with me." He said as the palace began to shake. "You've think you have won Nash?" Vector asked. "That it was all over? You're wrong, it has only begun! I can't be beaten, I am all powerful!" He said as he let out an insane laugh.
"How interesting you should say that." A familiar voice boomed as we all looked to see Don Thousand coming up from underneath the palace. "The power you have is not yours Vector." He said with anger.
"You?" Vector asked in surprise. "How can this be? I thought you met your end!"
"I am quite aware of what you've thought, as you say. One with limitless power cannot be beaten!" He said. "You meaningless flea! Did you think that the boundless power I gave you, was yours to have forever?" He asked as we all felt a bit trembled. "The power I gave you I can also take away!" The eye in the middle of his body began to glow as it began to suction everything in its path. "How little do you grasp! That you boasted that you needed me!" He said as I could feel all of us being sucked in as I quickly summoned my trident and planted it into the ground as I took hold of both Shark and Rio.
"Hold on!" I said as the put both their grips on the trident.
"It is I who know longer need you!" He shouted as Vector was slowly being pulled in.
"No, wait!" He pleaded loudly. "I beg you forgiveness!" He said as little by little he was sucked in. "Somebody help me!" He said as then we saw Yuma then ran over to where Vector was barely holding on. However Vector was losing his grip and was beginning to fly into the eye of Don Thousand when Yuma just barely made it and grabbed hold of him on time. Looking at how Yuma was brave enough to save the guy who tricked and tormented us all to no end and was still willing to show kindness. I then looked at my trident and then at Shark.
"Shark, I need you to hold on to Rio as tight as you can." I said as I took out the trident and pushed Rio on to Shark as he grabbed hold of her and held her tightly.
"Ryan, what are you doing?" Shark said as I smiled at him.
"If I don't make it out of this, take care of her." I said as I then ran over to where Yuma and Vector were as now it was Yuma who was slowly losing his grip. I ignored the voices around me yelling at me to come back as I finally reached Yuma and took his hand and pointed my trident to a nearby rock. "Now Mermailan artillery, grapple mode!" I shouted as the trident headpiece turned into a grabbling hook and latched itself onto the rock.
"Ryan!" Yuma shouted.
"Just hold on you two!" I shouted back.
"How amusing." I heard Don Thousand.
"Ryan, Yuma, you both know Vector will just betray us again!" Shark called out to us.
"Your right Shark!" I shouted at him. "Maybe Vector will betray us again!"
"But it's a chance Ryan and I are willing to take!" Yuma said agreeing with me. "No matter what he's done, everyone deserves a second chance!"
"Yes but this would be his thirtieth chance!" Rio shouted out.
"Vector," Yuma said to Vector "I've seen the good in you when you were Ray Shadows." He said telling Vector again what they've been through. "So let's have another go, what do you say?" Yuma asked.
"I say…" Vector said as we waited for his answer. "I can't believe you two are still complete fools!" He shouted as he took Yuma's hand as I was slowly beginning to lose my grip on the handle of the grapple. "You two want to hang out some more? Let's do it!" He said as I was beginning to slip. "Come with me, Yuma and Ryan to oblivion!"
"Sure, let's do it together!" Yuma said as I looked shocked at him as if he was crazy. "We will always be by your side, because that's the Ray Way." He said as I then looked at Vector who was just as shocked as I was.
"Yuma?" Vector asked in a calming voice. Just then Vector slowly began to let go of Yuma.
"Vector, what are you doing?" I asked him.
"You two are awesome in your own way." He said. "Our would need more people like you two and less like me."
"What are you saying?" Yuma asked.
"I'm saying goodbye." Vector said as he then let go of Yuma and fell into Don Thousand's eye as the wind slowly began to die down.
"Ray, why did you let go?" Yuma asked. I looked at him with sympathy as I then looked up at Don Thousand who now had cracks all over him as he chuckled.
"My power is returning to me!" He shouted.
"Enjoy it for now Don Thousand." Yuma said.
"Yeah, because it isn't going to last you long, and that's a promise!" I agreed.
"One that neither of you can keep!" He shouted as a huge wave of energy came at us as we both fell backwards and then looked up to see lights coming out of the cracks around his huge body.
"Now I'm complete again!" Don Thousand said. "And now my true reign begins." He then glowed brightly as the whole world began to shake as we then saw huge crystal flowers popping up.
"What's that light?" Yuma asked.
"It's the beacon of the new realm I shaped." Don Thousand answered. "I have fused your world and mine to forge a dominion like nothing before, turn around." He said as we looked and gasped to see Barian World slowly absorbing the rest of Heartland City. We all gasped at what we saw. "As you can see, I have shattered the dimensional barrier between our two worlds, and united them under my rule." He said as we faced back to the crystal flower that the don was cocooned in. Just then there was a bright light as we then saw a familiar long haired blond.
"Mizar." Yuma said.
"Greetings Yuma, we meet again." The other galaxy eyes user said.
"Why are you here?" Yuma asked. "This is the last place where we'd expected to see you."
"I came here to fulfill Kite's last wish." He aid as I was confused.
"Kite's last wish, what does that supposed to mean?" I asked him as Mizar remained silent.
"Mizar, what happened to Kite?" Rio asked concerned.
"Kite…is dead." He said as both Rio, Shark, my sister and I gasped.
"Dead? No way…" I said as I couldn't believe one of the strongest duelist I faced was gone. "How did this happen?" I said looking back at him.
"The robot who provided himself as Kite's space suite shut down meaning Kite lost oxygen." He began explaining. "However before that he was victorious in our duel, even neutralizing my power." He said. "However with the overuse of his photon mode along with no oxygen in space, Kite is sadly no more." He said as he looked at me. "I wanted to bring him along, but he instead on me going on ahead to find you Yuma before it was too late. And when the duel ended, he entrusted me with this." He said as he handed Yuma a xyz card.
"What is it?" Yuma said as he read the text. "Numeron Dragon?"
"He gave me this card, so that I would give it to you." Mizar said.
"Seriously?" Yuma asked. "But why? How will this help?"
"He thought you may need it." Mizar explained. "But unfortunately, you'll never have a chance to play it." He said as I looked at him.
"What do you mean Mizar?" I asked him.
"Look Nash, Marin." Mizar said looking at the two siblings. "Don Thousand distorted the memories of the seven emperors. He tricked us so that we can serve him. He wanted our aid in his mad quest to rule the universe." He said as he turned to face the cocoon. "The future that he's trying to create." He said before teleporting closer to the cocoon. "Is one I cannot allow to pass." He said.
"What are you doing Mizar?" Shark asked.
"Righting our wrongs, and stopping Don Thousand once and for all." He said.
"Mizar, you would challenge me despite the loss of your barian powers, leaving you weak." Don Thousand's voice boom, as the flower he was cocooned in began to bloom. "While I have gained all of my unmeasurable power." Out of the flower came a more powerful looking Don Thousand, with a golden body and long black hair with red streaks and with both red and blue eyes. "Are you out of your mind? Your agony and defeat are inevitable."
"Wow Don Thousand looks stronger and powerful." Tori said with fear in her voice as I was frightened myself.
"That is his true form!" Astral pointed out.
"I do not fear the likes of you!" Mizar said as both he and Don Thousand summoned their duel disks and made them both appear. With all of us with our d-gazers or duel tattoos on our eyes we watched as the two barians dueled. On Don Thousand's first turn, he just drew his card and ended his turn. But on Mizar's he summoned Heliosphere Dragon. Then when he activated his Galaxy Wrath he special summoned Radius, the Half-Moon Dragon and chose not to battle.
"What's the point of not battling on his turn, if Don Thousand is open to attack?" I asked as I looked at Mizar. The galaxy eyes user overlaid his two level four dragons and xyz summoned his Galaxy Stealth Dragon. Then by using both of his dragon's overlay units and activating his dragon's special ability, he summoned both Parsec, the Interstellar Dragon and Schwarzchild Limit Dragon.
"Great now he can xyz summon his Tachyon Dragon!" I said.
"I'm sorry Ryan, but I'm afraid that that isn't possible." Mizar said as I looked at him.
"What do you mean Mizar?" I asked him.
"Since I lost my barian power, I can't xyz summon Tachyon Dragon." He said as I gasped. "But that doesn't mean I can play this." He said as he activated Dragon King's Demise. Then by tributing all three of his dragons they would both take damage equal to all the dragons he sent to the graveyards attack points.
"Wait then that means they will both lose all of their life points!" I said. "He's planning on taking Don Thousand down along with him."
"Mizar don't do it!" Both Rio and Shark shouted at him.
"Don Thousand, your evil ends here." He said as his spell card activated but then the spell them mysteriously stopped.
"Why did it stop?" I wondered.
"If you all are confused, perhaps you should look at Mizar's spell card again." Don Thousand said as we all looked to see the spell card changed.
"Wait that's Card of the Dragon King!" Mizar said as we all gasped.
"And yet there's no mistake that Card of the Dragon King now lies before you." Don Thousand said. "As for the card you thought you played, it too tributes the dragons you used." He said.
"Yes, but unlike the card I intended to use, this one only deals the damage to me, meaning I lose." Mizar said.
"No way." I said in disbelief.
"This is the end Mizar, we are finished here." He said as the spell card activated making Mizar lose all of his life points.
"No!" Rio cried out as both she, Shark, Yuma and I ran to Mizar's side.
"Mizar are you okay?" I asked him.
"I fell for my own foolish pride." Mizar said. "Thinking I could defeat someone as powerful as Don Thousand." He said. "But my plans came undone." He said as Astral, Tori and Stephanie joined us. "It is up to you now, all of you." He said as he began to glow. "Working together, it's the only way." And with that he then materialized and then absorbed by Don Thousand.
"Five down, and only two more to go." Don Thousand said as we looked to see his own emblem glowed five different colors as I had a feeling which one stood for. Wisteria for Dumon, red for Alito, purple for Vector, green for Girag and yellow for Mizar. The only parts of it that didn't light up was a blue one and one at the center of the six ones. "That only leaves you Nash and Marin." He said looking at the two. "Your defeats will be merciless ones." He said as he rose from his flower. "And now you will fall as all the emperors before you." He said as he landed before us. "You and your precious sister will be mine, as will you Yuma and you Astral." He said as Don Thousand then turned into a dark grey color. "But that only leaves one anomaly left." He said as he then faced me as I felt a chill down my spine. "You, Ryan is it?" He said. "No but that isn't your true name is it. It's Dylan, the one who can speak with the spirits of the ancient underwater race known as the mermails." He said.
"So you know who I am." I said. "Can I give you an autograph?" I said as the don scoffed.
"You were almost going to be mine, when Vector nearly destroyed you in your battle with him." He said as I gasped. "I was curious what I was going to do with an eighth vessel, until I realized I could put part of my soul into you so you could become a sort of barian inquisitor. However your mermailian friends beat me to it and sealed your soul away while your body disappeared." He said as I gasped. "But that's all in the past, now I can get rid of you abomination once and for all." He said as he aimed his large arm at me.
"Well try to test your luck Don Thousand." I said as I summoned back my trident. "Because your going up against the combine powers of my mermail and barian powers." I said as both he and I fired a shot at each other. "Go Chaos Mermailan Blast!" I shouted as I fired my shot as it collided with Don Thousand. I struggled trying to get the upper hand, but Don Thousand was too powerful as I struggled to push my blast further.
"Come on Ryan ,you can do it!" I heard Dine shout as I nodded and kept it up. But I was quickly using up too much of my energy as his energy beam was overpowering mine.
"You are defeated Dylan." Don Thousand said. "And when this energy hits you, you will be exterminated and nothing more than a mere memory." He said as I gasped. The energy beam was getting closer and closer until I felt myself being pushed out of the way. I hit the floor hard as I shook off the pain, but when I looked back my eyes widen as the whole world around me went into slow motion. I looked up to see Rio taking the hit as I watched her in slow motion fall to the ground.
"RIO!" Both Shark and I shouted as both of us went to her side. I then picked her up as she was slowly breathing.
"No, no, no, no, no." I said. "Stay with us Rio, please stay with us!" I pleaded to her as she coughed and opened her eyes and shook her head. "No you can't give up!" I shouted. "You're the ice queen, you're stronger than this!"
"Not this time Ryan." She said as I looked at her.
"Then why, why did you go and do that?" I asked her.
"It's like I said before, people do crazy things when they're in love." She said as I recalled those very words when she sacrificed herself to Abyss. "Ryan…" She struggled to say as she then looked at Shark. "Reginald…" She said as she coughed.
"Save your breath Rio." Shark said.
"Promise me, promise me after this you two will help Yuma bring peace to all three worlds and live happy lives together back on Earth." She said as she then looked up. "Because that's , that's where we always lived." She then glowed a blue color and then materialized into a blue orb. The only thing left behind from her was her ring that I gave her.
"NOOOOOOO!" I shouted as I began sobbing. I then looked up to see her being absorbed by Don Thousand as the blue crystal on his emblem glowed.
"Ah," He said. "Love, a dreadful bond." He said as I looked up at him. "And yet, so easily severed. Tell me Dylan, do you fear death?" He asked.
"Do you!?" Shark yelled out looking at him. "Because that's what I see! A dead barian!" He then clinched his fists. "You will pay for robing me and Ryan of our sister!" He shouted.
"Count me in as well." Yuma said as we looked back at him.
"Wait!" Astral said as we looked at him. "We cannot repeat Mizar's mistake." He said. "Remember, what he said, we must work together. None of us should duel Don Thousand alone." He said as he then looked at both my brother and Yuma. "Shark, Yuma, let us duel as one." He said as he then looked at me. "Ryan, I suggest you go back to Tori and Stephanie. You have used much of your own power against Don Thousand, so let your brother and Yuma handle this." He said as I nodded.
"Okay Astral." I said as I got up and looked at Shark and Yuma. "You two be careful out there." I said as they nodded as I ran back to my sister and Tori.
"Ryan are you okay?" Stephanie asked as I nodded and hugged her. "I'm sorry about Rio." She said.
"Thanks." I replied back as I then looked at Shark and Yuma, ready to face Don Thousand.
A/N: Please don't get mad at me! Now on to the preview.
Next time on Barian Wars: Battle of the Barians: Ryan, his sister and Tori witness the final face off between Don Thousand and team of Shark and Yuma. Can the two work together and defeat the deity of Barian World? Next time on Battle of the Barians: Two on Don.
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