Hi everyone, DisneyAnimefan94 here and welcome back to Barian Wars: Battle of the Barians and the Duel of Brothers mini-saga. Now let's now resume the duel between Nash and Ryan.
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Chapter 20: Duel of Brothers Part II
Ryan's POV
I stood there still shocked at what I was seeing. On Shark's side of the field were three barian numbers, while on mine there were three barian numbers, along with Shark Drake and Abysstrite.
"Now Ryan, when you take on me, you take on all seven barian emperors." He said as he pulled out a card from his extra deck. "Together we can summon our most powerful monster." He said as I could feel myself trembling.
"All seven of you, with your most powerful monster?" I asked.
"This card is so mighty that it can only be used by overlaying all seven barian numbers, into the ultimate xyz summoning." He said as I looked to see all seven numbers glowed. "I overlay Silent Honor, Ragnainfinity, Archfiend Seraph, Neo Tachyon, Giant Red Hand, Comet Cestus and Masquerade." He said as all seven monsters went up into the black hole. "With these seven monsters, I build the ultimate overlay network and xyz summon, feast your eyes on Chaos Xyz Barian Hope!" He said as the most enormous monster I ever seen appeared on his side of the field.
CXyz Barian Hope (0 ATK/0 DEF)
"But that monster only has zero attack." Dine said.
"Which means that there's more to Shark's new monster then meets the eye." I concluded.
"The other emperors may have fallen, but they are far from defeated." He said as I could see six familiar ghost like figures appear. "I will keep on fighting for each of them, just as they would do for me. For the glory of Barian World, we will defeat you, and destroy everything you try to help protect Ryan." He said.
"Ryan, do you see what I see?" Dine asked as I couldn't believe it either.
"I think I do Dine. It's the spirits of the fallen emperors." I said as I looked at the white skinned long blue haired one. "Rio…" I muttered as I saw the image of my girlfriend. Just then she as well as Dumon and the others glowed as they all were absorbed by Shark.
"At last, the seven emperors will fight as one!" He shouted as a wave of energy came surging from him.
"Incredible!" Dine shouted. "With the power of the fallen emperors including his, it may be impossible to stop him." I then looked at her.
"And we've conquered the impossible in the past, so that means we will conquer it now!" I said as I then shouted and let out my own surge of energy canceling out his. "Give me your best shot Shark!" I shouted at him.
"Oh I plan to." He said. "Barian Hope gains one thousand life points for every chaos overlay unit." He said as his monster glowed and its attack point reader read out to seven thousand.
CXyz Barian Hope (0-7000 ATK)
"Time to act." I said. "I activate the trap card, Xyz Paralyze!" My trap card then revealed itself. "When you xyz summon this turn, I can activate this trap card to stop your xyz monster in its tracks, meaning it cannot attack this turn." I said.
"Your trap card is useless against the power of Barian Hope!" Shark shouted. "By using an overlay unit or paying four hundred life points, it can activate one of the special abilities of the barian numbers." He said as I looked at him.
"So that means you really are facing off against all seven of the barians Ryan." Dine said worriedly.
"That makes this duel damn near impossible to win." I said.
"I can only use each of their special abilities once per turn." Shark said as the emperors spirits once again returned. "I pay four hundred life points." Shark was then shocked by another surge of energy as I looked on.
Nash 3500-3100 LP
"Now I activate Neo Galaxy Eyes Tachyon Dragon's special ability!" The spirit of the three headed dragon appeared in front of Barian Hope as I was wondering what he could be planning. "It not only negates the effects of all cards on the field, but it transcends time, and returns all cards to the way they were at the beginning of the turn." He said as we entered into a Tachyon Transmigration. "So Shark Drake can't activate its special abilities." He said. "And you can't activate any cards without my permission." Both Mizar and him say as I looked to see Xyz Paralyze getting reset. "I pay another four hundred life points." Shark said as he was blasted by another surge of energy.
Nash 3100-2700 LP
"I activate the ability of Chaos Number 102: Archfiend Seraph!" He said as the spirit of the fairy monster appeared now. "Now Shark Drake loses all of its attack points!" He said along with Dumon as Barian Hope blasted Shark Drake as it gave out a low groan.
Shark Drake (2800-0 ATK)
"Looks like you and I are rivals again eh Dumon?" I asked as I then realized something. "Hold on, if Shark Drake lost attack points, then that means…" I said as I looked up to see the spirit of Rio in her barian form. "Rio don't do it!" I cried out.
"Sorry Ryan, Marin may have been your girlfriend, but she's on the side of Barian World, just like me." Shark said as I took a few steps back.
"Oh no." I said. "It's just like the first time I dueled them when they sided with Barian World." I said remembering how hard it was to take out their two barian numbers.
"I pay another four hundred life points." Shark said getting blasted by another energy surge.
Nash 2700-2300 ATK
"My sister's Ragnainfinity, will send chills down your spine!" He said as I saw Rio's chaos barian number appear. "Since Shark Drake lost twenty eight hundred attack points, you lose twenty eight hundred life points!" They both said. "Your life points are about to drop to nine hundred, in other words, in two turns you're through Ryan."
"RYAN ACT NOW!" I heard Dine scream out lout as I then snapped back to attention.
"I activate Deep Sea Barrier from my hand." I shouted. "It allows me to target one water monster on the field I control to switch to defense mode and I take no damage." I said. "I target Shark Drake!" I said as Shark Drake went into defense mode. "But that's not all, when if Deep Sea Barrier targets an xyz monster like it did just now, I can special summon another xyz monster of the same attribute, in defense mode, I summon out Full Armored Crystal Zero Lancer!" I shouted as a third xyz monster appeared.
Full Armored Crystal Zero Lancer (2200 ATK/1600 DEF)
"And another thing, for every water xyz monster on my field, I can negate any attack you throw thanks to Deep Sea Barrier. In other words I can negate three of your attacks." I added.
"Very clever Ryan." Shark said. "You think you can try to outsmart me."
"Much more then outsmart you." I said. "I have the spirits of the three waves in front of me, shark, ice and mermail." I said.
"Well think again little brother." Shark said. "Because the power of the seven emperors is much stronger than your three waves!" He cried out as another surge of energy flowed from him.
"I pay another four hundred life points." Shark cried out.
Nash 2300-1900 LP
"If this keeps up, Shark will have no life points to spare." Dine said as I wondered which barin number he was going to activate next.
"I activate the effect of Chaos Number 106: Giant Red Hand." He said as I could begin to hear Girag's voice in his barian form. "Its humongous fist smashes through your trap cards effect." He said as I gasped. "And if your confused by that, it means that your trap card is useless for the rest of this turn. "Next Alito steps into the ring." He said as he was blasted again.
Nash 1900-1500 LP
"I pay four hundred life points to Chaos Number 105: Battlin' Boxer Comet Cestus special ability to KO your Shark Drake!" He said along with Alito as Barian Hope used its huge staff and bashed around Shark Drake as it was destroyed. "One wave down, two to go." He said. "Barian Hope destroy Full Armor Crystal Zero Lancer!" He said.
"I'm not letting Rio's card go without a fight bro, I special summon Magnet Shark to the field!" I said as a Shark in the shape of a magnet appeared. "When you attack a water monster, I can summon this card in attack mode and it becomes the new target, however I take no battle damage."
Magnet Shark LV. 4 (1000 ATK/1000 DEF)
"Whatever." Shark said unimpressed as he was blasted by another energy surge.
Nash 1500-1100 LP
"I will outwit you." He said as he began panting tiredly as I looked at him with concern.
"Shark…" I said.
"Now take the stage, Umbral Horror Masquerade!" Shark said as Vector's monster then appeared. "Now prepare for a ride into darkness!" He said along with Vector. "First say farewell to Magnet Shark." He said as Magnet Shark was destroyed. Then one of the cards in my hand began to glow. "Then I can send one card from your hand to the graveyard." He said as I sent my card into the graveyard slot. "Then for the finishing touch Masquerade cuts your life points in half." He said as I was then blasted and flew backwards. I then got up and looked down to see I had human hands.
"Ryan, he blasted you back to your Mermail Armor Ultra Mode." Dine said as I looked into a crystal's reflection and looked to see she was right. I was blasted back to Ultra Mode.
Ryan 3700-1850 LP
"Now back to destroying Marin's weaker self." I heard Shark say as I looked up. "Barian Hope destroy Full Armored Crystal Zero Lancer!" He said.
"Not yet." I said. "I activate Angelic Fish from my graveyard, banishing it so it can't be destroyed." I said as the Fish with angle wings and a halo on its head appeared to protect my card. "Well we managed to survive almost every barian monster's abilities." I said.
"Yeah but for how long?" Dine asked as I looked at her.
"I play the spell card Chaos Tempest Draw!" Shark said. "It destroys all the spell and trap cards on the field." He said as I looked to see my set Xyz Paralyze, and Deep Sea Barrier being destroyed as well as his other face down. "Three cards were destroyed, so I draw three cards." He said drawing three new cards from his deck. "I place all three face down and end my turn." He said as I fell to both knees.
"Ryan!" I heard Dine as I looked at her.
"I can't do this Dine." I said to the mermail. "I don't know if I can defeat the emperors combined monster." I said looking at Shark. "Shark is too strong, and with his barian emperors to guide him, he can't lose. That's why he won't use the chaos overlay units because they represent each of them, including Dumon and Rio." I said as I looked up to see them now in their human forms alongside his. "I just can't beat him!" I shouted.
"Don't say that!" I heard Dine yelled out as I looked at her. "That's the same kind of attitude you showed when you dueled both Shark and Rio as barians the first time, that's why you lost your power, because you lost your confidence inside you whenever they unleashed a power from their barian numbers. And if you do that now, it will happen again." She said as I looked at her. "You can't give up Ryan, you just can't." She said as she then cried and went into my arms.
"Oh Dine." I said as I then looked up at Shark and stood up. "Your right I can't give up, and I won't." I said as I then saw my pendent glowing. "My mermailian pendant's glowing." I said.
Normal POV
Back in Heartland City, Yuma, Astral, Tori and Stephanie were at the harbor as they looked up at the sky.
"I hope my brother's alright." Stephanie said as just then Yuma's key began to glow.
"Hey Astral look." Yuma said as he looked down. "My key its glowing." The being from Astral world then looked up.
"Yuma, do you feel him?" Astral asked.
"Who Astral?" Yuma asked as Astral looked at the boy.
"Close your eyes and concentrate." Astral instructed Yuma as he nodded and closed his eyes. He stood there for a few seconds and then shot his eyes open.
"It's Ryan!" Yuma said loudly as the girls looked at him.
"Are you sure Yuma?" Tori asked as Yuma looked at her and nodded.
"Yes, he is asking for our help." Yuma answered her.
"But Ryan said that he wanted to handle this alone." Tori protested.
"I know Tori, but he won't be alone." Yuma said. "He has us, and as long as he believes we are there in spirit Ryan is never alone." Just then both Yuma and Astral's hand began to glow a golden light. "You ready Astral?" He asked as Astral nodded.
"Soul of Zexal lend Ryan your strength!" They both shouted as streams of bright light came out of their hands and up to the sky.
Back on the battle field Ryan stood his ground against the leader and the spirits of the emperors there was a bright light as he looked behind him.
"What's that?" He asked as then the light came and hit me. "What's this?" He asked confused. "Yuma and Astral." Ryan said as he had that feeling whenever he was with them.
"You see Ryan, they are lending you their strength." Dine said. "Because they as well as all your friends believe in you."
"That's right, I can feel all of them." Ryan said with his eyes closed. "I can feel each and every one of them, including those who fell. I even feel the spirits of Shark and Rio inside me, the true spirts of them because I they are a part of me. I feel everyone!" He yelled out as he then glowed a bright glow.
"What's happening?" Nash asked as he was then surprised to see the spirits of the mermails, the two full armored, those who fell in the war. Just then three silhouettes appeared, each of them took the shape of him, his sister and Ryan as they came together to form a golden orb. Then out of the orb came a golden armored figure that looked like Ryan's ultra-mode, but different.
"Gold Mode!" Ryan's voice came from the armored figure.
Ryan's POV
I looked at my new armor as I could feel the strength of everyone connected to me including Shark, Rio, Yuma and Astral. "Now we've got a duel!" I said with confidence as a flow of energy came out of me.
"So you have a new power." Shark said. "Well it doesn't matter, because it's none compared to mine he said as he let out his own flow of energy. Just then the entire arena shook as I looked behind me to see Earth coming closer.
"Oh no." I said. "At this rate, Astral World will get destroyed quicker.
"Son don't worry!" I heard a familiar voice as I looked up to see my father along with Yuma's and the Archlight brother's father Vector.
"Dad!?" I asked. "I will lend my spirit along with Byron's and Kazuma's to try to stop all this."
"So your Ryan Oliver huh?" I heard another voice which I assumed was Kazuma. "I've got to say you are one brave kid, possibly as brave as my Yuma."
"Speak for your self Kazuma." I heard Vector's voice. "He actually helped out Yuma when I was causing trouble." He joked.
"Son, the rest is up to you." My father's voice said as he faded away. "
"Thanks dad." I said. "Now let's do this, with the spirit of Zexal inside of me, go Destiny Shining Draw!" I shouted. "And I activate, Frenemy's gift!" I shouted. "For every overlay unit you have on your side of the field, I can draw up to that same amount, meaning I can draw until I hold seven cards." I said as I drew up to six cards. I then looked down as I could see several of my cards glowing as they revealed themselves as I could feel the spirits of Astral and Yuma coming from them. "Now I play the spell card Overlay Reborn, I discard a monster from my hand, and lets me resurrect an xyz monster, so come back Number 32: Shark Drake!" I shouted as Shark Drake reappeared.
Number 32: Shark Drake (2800 ATK/2100 DEF)
"Now your monster loses overlay units equal to Shark Drake's rank. Since Shark Drake's rank is four, you lose four overlay units, so say goodbye to the powers of Vector, Alito, Girag and Mizar!" I shouted.
"Not so fast Ryan." Shark said. "I activate Overlay Menace, this trap stops your Overlay Reborn and I can draw seven new cards, furthermore, I gain five hundred life points for each card I draw, meaning I now gain thirty five hundred life points.
Nash 1100-4600 LP
"He has more life points then us now!" Dine cried out.
"And plus, Shark Drake's attack points drop to zero since my card didn't work." I said.
Number 32: Shark Drake (2800-0 ATK)
"But that can't stop me." I said. "Shark may have the full advantage, but that's not stopping me!" I shouted as I could feel a new energy flowing through my armor and my body.
"RYAN,IT IS NOW TIME TO UNLEASH THE FULL POWER OF YOUR THREE WAVES!" Gaios bellowed as I nodded.
"Now Shark, prepare to see the full power of the three waves!" I said as Shark Drake, Crystal Zero Lancer and Abysstrite began to glow.
"What are you talking about?" Shark asked.
"I'm talking about this. We are two brothers of the ocean, so as your power comes from chaos, mine comes from pure heart!" I said. "I overlay Crystal Zero Lancer, Shark Drake and Abysstrite!" I said as the three of them began to glow. "I can use three water xyz monster to summon the ultimate water xyz monster, Neptunian Emperor!" I shouted as the huge figure that looked like Neptune appeared. "And much like your Barian Hope, it gains one thousand attack points for each water monster attached as an overlay unit.
Neptunian Emperor Rank 3 (0-3000 ATK/2000 DEF)
"Also when Neptunian Emperor is xyz summon using water monsters, I can reduce Barian Hope's by the number of attack points Neptunian Emperor has, until the . In other words, Barian Hope loses four thousand attack points."
Cxyz Barian Hope (7000-3000 ATK)
"Now, Neptunian Emperor, attack Barian Hope!" I called out as my emperor went on the attack.
"Hold on, Neptunian Emperor has the same amount of attack points as Barian Hope so it will be destroyed." Shark said.
"As long as Neptunian Emperor has overlay units it can stay on the field, and it can attack again for every overlay unit it has." I responded back. "However after each attack it will lose half of its attack power until the end of the turn.
"Then I'll hold it off with this, Xyz Trip, I can negate your attack, but the downside is I lose life points equal to Neptunian Emperor." He said as he was blasted back.
Nash 4600-1600 LP
"I place four cards on the field and end my turn." I said. "And since it is the end of my turn, your Barian Hope's attack points return to normal.
Cxyz Barian Hope (3000-7000 ATK)
"Now it's my turn!" Shark said drawing his card. "Chaos Xyz Barian Hope attack Ryan's Neptunian Emperor!" He shouted.
"I activate the trap Weaker Overlay, now Neptunian Emperor gains six hundred life points for each of your Barian Hope's overlay units meaning it now has forty two hundred!" I shouted
Neptunian Emperor (3000-7200 ATK)
"Big mistake Ryan!" Shark said as he was blasted again with another surge of energy.
Nash 1600-1200
"Thanks to Ragnainfinity your about to lose life points equal to the number of attack points Neptunian Emperor gained, meaning its over for you." Shark said.
"Not this time Rio." I muttered to myself. "I activate, Damage Reactor, with this I take no damage and Neptunian Emperor gains eight hundred attack points." I said.
Neptunian Emperor (7200-8000 ATK)
"Eight thousand attack points!" Shark said surprisingly.
"Neptunian Emperor wipe out Barian Hope with Giant Wave Blast!" I shouted as a trident appeared and blasted at Barian Hope.
"You dare destroy the bond of the emperors!?" Shark cried out. "RYAN I WILL MAKE YOU PAY!"
To be continued…
A/N: For anyone who is confused on why Ryan is using Yuma's cards it's when Yuma and Astral transferred the power of Zexal to Ryan, he gained access to most of his cards. So I hope that clears that up. Now onto the preview.
Next time on Barian Wars: Battle of the Barians: The battle between Nash and Ryan meets its epic conclusion as both sides struggle to win, Ryan then realized what would happen if he won. Can he pull it together and make the right choice. Next time on Battle of the Barians: Duel of Brothers Part III.
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