Me: Well, this is long overdue. Sorry about the wait and all that. I'm getting slower and slower, jeez! But then I got a huge pile of stuff to do, so, sorry again! Damn it's been like 2 freaking months!
Astral: Duels are not your thing.
Me: Procrastination is though! I'll definitely finish the series, I just don't know how long it'll take! Yugioh Zexal is the official property of TV Tokyo, I think. I don't own the rights to it.
Chapter 11: A Duel... For Love?
Sarah bolted out of the movie theatre so fast she hit Shark and they both fell down the steps outside.
"OW!" Shark yelled as he got up. "What was that?!"
"No time to explain! Yuma's most likely in trouble!" Sarah yelled as she ran over to Kaito and began pulling the duct tape off of him roughly without thinking. She barely noticed him yelling in pain from ripping duct tape off of his skin.
"Yuma-kun is?" Rei asked from beside her.
"Yeah! Kotori got all Barianed and now most likely she's gonna duel Yuma for his Numbers and all that!"
"Wait a second." Shark interrupted her speech. "Kotori can't duel."
"Oh, I taught her how the other day. She now has her own deck and everything."
Shark stared at her. "You have horrible timing."
"WHY DID YOU TIE ME UP AND HAVE PEOPLE POKE ME?!" Kaito suddenly yelled at her. She took two steps away from him.
"Wow your voice is loud!" Is what she replied. Kaito glared at her furiously.
"I've been POKED AT for AN HOUR!"
"Look, normally I'd be extremely scared about how Tenjo Kaito is yelling at me, but now's not the time! We gotta warn Yuma and get Kotori back to normal!"
"The only way to break someone free of Barian's control is to defeat them in a duel." Shark said. "We had to defeat Dr. Faker by dueling him and winning, so right now, Yuma has to beat Kotori."
"That shouldn't be too hard, would it?" Rei asked. "Kotori-san's still a beginner, and Yuma-kun's the WDC champion."
"Yeah, but being controlled by Barian does do strange things to you and your dueling." Shark replied.
"AAHH WHY ARE YOU STILL TALKING!" Sarah interrupted them. "We gotta find Yuma already!"
"Too late for that." Kaito said. He had walked out, away from the theatre, and was looking at the roof. "They're already dueling."
"WHAT?!" Sarah practically screamed as she, Rei, and Shark ran over to Kaito. Yuma and Kotori were both standing on the roof of the movie theatre and were about to duel. Sarah put her face in her hands. "Oh jeez I'm the absolute worst matchmaker ever…"
"And that's why I told you something always goes wrong on these." Shark said. "We should just get up there for now."
"Only employees are allowed up there though." Sarah said. "There's no way we're gonna be able to get up there."
Kaito and Shark both looked at her with an 'are you serious' face at the same time.
"Girls…" Kaito said, shaking his head.
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Yuma didn't understand girls at all.
He didn't get why Kotori got so mad over little things sometimes. There was that time he was dueling that vegetable dude, Housaka, and when he mentioned he didn't like tomatoes, she got super angry at him. Then also the time when Droite was dueling Tron and mumbled some nonsense about liking Kaito and when he said he didn't understand, she jabbed him in the stomach. Over and over and over, she was always talking about what an idiot he was whenever he told her about the times when he forgot his things or lost his duels.
In fact, it wasn't just Kotori. It was all girls in general. That girl Anna had chased him all around town with a freaking cannon, tried to shoot him with it, dueled, and in the end, it turns out she was just trying to kill a dude named Tsukune Yuya instead! And at their first meeting, at least Yuma thought it was their first meeting, Cat-chan had Kotori distracted for the entire day just so she could duel with him. Why not just ask out right, "Hey Yuma, can we duel?" But no. Girls always had to make things complicated.
This time, she had definitely gone off the weird meter though. After they came out of the movie, they were discussing it, and it had gone pretty well until Kotori began talking about an actor in there and how cool he was, and for some reason, Yuma didn't like it. So he said the guy wasn't that great, and Kotori responded with something about him being jealous. Jealous of what? The guy's strange accent?
But then when he began talking about how weird it was that she liked a random dude who wasn't even real, they began arguing. And before he even realized it, Kotori had stormed off. Oops.
Then Kotori came back and demanded to duel him. He didn't even realize Kotori knew how to duel until he remembered that Sarah had taught her the other day. Maybe she wanted to blow off some steam or something, he didn't know. So he agreed, and they were both on the roof ready to duel now. But Kotori hadn't stopped giving him the look. That awkward, 'I'm so annoyed with you' look that she had been giving him ever since she got out of the washroom.
"Um, Kotori?"
"What Yuma?" She snapped at him, still glaring.
"Well, this is our first duel, so maybe you could…"
"I could what?!"
"…loosen up?" He finished, nervous about how she'd react.
Yuma could practically see steam coming out of her ears.
"Loosen up? LOOSEN UP?! YOU'RE TELLING ME TO LOOSEN UP YUMA?!" Kotori screamed at him so loud he swore people in China could hear. "OH I'M LOOSE! I'M SO LOOSE! AND I'M GONNA BEAT YOU SOOOO HARD!"
"K-Kotori? Calm down, please?"
"OH AND NOW YOU'RE TELLING ME TO CALM DOWN?! I AM CALM! NOW DUEL ALREADY YUMA TSUKUMO!" And then she pulled out a duel disk (he had no idea she had one) and her d-gazer and activated them.
Yuma sighed. No backing out of this for sure. He took out his duel disk and d-gazer, and tossed them in the air.
"Duel disk, set! D-gazer, set!"
"AR Vision, Link Complete." A mechanical voice said as the AR around them was formed.
"Duel!" They both yelled.
Yuma: 4000
Kotori: 4000
"I'm going first!" Kotori yelled. "Draw!"
K-Kotori's scary today… Yuma thought. Why though…
"I activate the field spell, Future Visions!" The area around them became distorted, as colors swirled together and portals appeared and disappeared in different spots over and over.
"Now whenever we normal summon a monster, it's removed from play until our next turn!" Kotori explained. "Now I summon Fairy Archer!" A small fairy with skinny wings and a purple and green outfit made out of petals and leaves appeared. She held a shining bow and arrow, and as soon as she fully appeared, she was sucked into a portal to the side, disappearing.
"Your monster disappeared…" Yuma pointed out dumbly.
"Duh! Future Visions does that! I end my turn with two cards face down. Turn end!"
"Okay then! It's my turn! Draw!" Yuma yelled. Astral appeared next to him.
"Yuma. Be careful." Astral said. "Kotori seems to be acting weird."
"Oh, I'm pretty sure it's nothing. Girls are weird like that. They have these weird mood swings and they get upset over little things." Yuma said. "Anyway, that's a weird field spell."
"But it only affects Normal Summoning." Astral said. "Meaning there's a way around it."
Yuma looked at him confused, then understood what he meant. "Oh!" He smiled.
"I summon Goblindbergh!" Yuma said as four goblins in little airplanes flew onto the field carrying a metal steel case. The airplanes and goblins disappeared into a portal, but left the large steel case behind.
"Goblindbergh's effect lets me special summon a level four or below monster from my hand. I summon Rai Rider!" From the steel case drove out a man on a motorcycle.
"This is a special summon, so Future Visions doesn't activate! Rai Rider! Direct attack Kotori!" Yuma shouted as the man drove his motorcycle towards Kotori.
"Damage Diet activates!" Kotori yelled, activating her trap, then braced herself as she got hit by a smaller Rai Rider.
Yuma: 4000
Kotori: 3400
"And now I activate my other trap, Pixie Gong!" Kotori said. "This lets me summon Little Fairy from my deck!" The trap card glowed and a small fairy with pink hair, a pink outfit, and luminescent wings emerged from it.
"I end my turn Kotori."
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"And you said," Kaito grunted slightly as he knocked out a guard in their path, "That we wouldn't be able to get up to the top."
"W-Well, non-employees aren't allowed up there," Sarah winced as another guard smashed into the wall, courtesy of Shark, "so we're technically not allowed up there."
"No time for technicalities right now. We gotta keep moving if what you said was right." Shark said.
"If Kotori-san is really possessed by the Barian, both Yuma-kun and her will be in trouble." Rei said.
Sarah looked at the three of them. "Why am I the only one who isn't freaked out by this at all?! This isn't the cartoon world! If it was, I'd totally be fine with you guys doing this! This is the freaking real world! You guys can actually go to jail for this and be stuck there for a year or two! This isn't harmless! There's gonna be consequences!"
"We know." Kaito said, making her stop. "And we're prepared for it. But stopping the Barians is more important than a little jail time."
"The problem is, Yuma hasn't grown up enough to realize it." Shark said. "One day, he's gonna have to. Until then, we're stuck with cleaning up his messes."
Sarah didn't say anything. She took a breath, then continued walking down the path with them. "I wish it was the other way around." She said sadly. "That I was stuck in you guys's world instead of you guys in mine. I wouldn't miss this world at all. But you guys still gotta get home."
Shark looked at her, then at Kaito, who shrugged.
Rei stared at her.
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"It's my turn! Draw!" Kotori yelled. "Fairy Archer returns to my field!" The fairy from the turn before reappeared from a portal. "I activate Burning Land!"
Suddenly, all of the portals around them caught on fire and burned away, leaving the regular rooftop, surrounded by fire. "This destroys the field spell, and each time it's our standby phase we take 500 points of damage."
"Now she'd destroying the field spell?!" Yuma yelled, and a burning portal collapsed near him. "Ahhh! Hot hot hot!"
"Yuma, this is AR. It's not real." Astral said.
"Oh. Right… I knew that."
"She had no more need for it, so she got rid of it." Astral said, looking at Kotori. "Kotori has gotten strong. Perhaps better than you."
"What?! Oh come on!" Yuma yelled.
"I summon Dancing Fairy in defense mode!" Three tiny fairies flew out of the card and danced together around Kotori, smiling happily.
"Get ready, Yuma!" She yelled.
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"H-H-How, m-many," Sarah breathed heavily as she grabbed the railing of the endless stairway of stairs and pulled herself up another one, "stairs, are, there!"
"Just a few more!" Rei called, a few flights above her.
"It's not that much." Shark said, ahead of Rei.
"I'm, not the best, at, physical activity." She leaned against the wall to catch her breath. "I prefer playing on my computer."
"A computer can't carry you up these stairs." Kaito said.
"Orbital carries you everywhere! Doesn't he count as a computer?" Sarah said.
Kaito didn't say anything. "Let's continue."
"Yeah…"
They reached the top and Shark opened the door to the roof. The door was attached to a little room, which then opened to the full roof. As the others came out, Shark made a 'shhh' gesture with his hand and pointed around the building with the other.
The door opened facing off the roof. To the other side of the room was Yuma and Astral's back. They were facing Kotori in a duel.
"It seems we're too late to stop them." Rei whispered as the four of them peeked from behind the little room. "They're already dueling."
Sarah stared at the duel. "I don't get anything anymore. The duel disks are working again. What. The. Heck."
"Barian's probably making them work." Shark said.
"Yeah… mystical powers and all that…" She muttered. "No sense… no sense at all…."
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"I activate Fairy Archer's effect!" Kotori said. "During my main phase, you take 400 points of damage for each Light monster on my field! And there's three!"
"What?!" Yuma yelled. "So that's, um, 1000 damage?!"
"It's 1200." Astral said.
"Oh, right, 1200. 1200?!"
"Go!" The little fairy drew back her bow and took aim, then released the arrow, which shot across the field, hitting Yuma right in the forehead. He fell backwards and yelped.
Yuma: 2800
Kotori: 3400
By discarding one card, Little Fairy gains one level!" Kotori called, sending the last card in her hand to the graveyard. "I overlay my now level four Little Fairy with my level four Dancing Fairy. I build the overlay network with these two monsters! Xyz summon!"
A girl with blue hair appeared onto the field. She had a blue cheer outfit with matching boots and a light green skirt. She had blue butterfly-like wings and two cheer pompoms, which she shook in the air happily while chanting 'Go'. "Appear now, Fairy Cheer Girl!"
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"Kotori-san Xyz summoned!" Rei exclaimed.
"I suppose you're gonna blame me for giving her that card too, right?" Sarah looked at Shark and Kaito.
"Perhaps." Shark said.
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"Fairy Cheer Girl's effect! By removing an overlay unit, I can draw a card!" Kotori said, drawing. "Now, Fairy Cheer Girl! Attack Rai Rider!"
Fairy Cheer Girl posed, then flew over to Rai Rider and hit the motorcyclist with her pom poms. The blast was strangely strong, sending both Rai Rider and Yuma back.
Yuma: 2200
Kotori: 3400
"Fairy Archer can't attack because I activated her effect, so I end my turn with a facedown." Kotori said, a card appearing onto her field facedown.
"Okay then, it's my turn! Draw!" Yuma said. Suddenly, fire dropped near him and he yelled in shock. "Hot hot hot!"
Yuma: 1700
Kotori: 3400
"What was that?!" Yuma yelled.
"The effect of Burning Land. It negates her field spell and causes you 500 points of damage every time you draw." Astral said. "Also, because Burning Land was activated, Goblindbergh is stuck removed from play."
"What?! Aw…" Yuma looked at his hand. "Then I summon Gagaga Magician!"
A magician dressed in a black mage's outfit that covered half of his face with flames decorating the edges appeared onto the field. Chains floated around him, and a gold plate around his waist that had four stars on it.
"Now I use Gagaga Clerk's effect from my hand and summon her!"
A girl with long pink hair and a schoolgirl outfit underneath a white lab-coat-like cape appeared next to Gagaga Magician, nodding nervously.
"I activate the spell Harmonic Winds!" Yuma yelled. "This makes Gagaga Clerk a level 4!" The clerk on his field stood a bit straighter as the two stars in front of her multiplied into four.
"I overlay my level four Gagaga Magician and my level four Gagaga Clerk! I build the overlay network with these two level four monsters! Xyz summon!"
A large gold and white mechanical form rose from the ground, gleaming brightly. It folded out arms and legs, along with a head and gave a battle cry as he drew his two swords. "Appear! Numbers 39! Kibou Ou Hope!"
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Shark had to grab Sarah's mouth and cover it with both hands to stop her from fangirl squealing at the appearance of one of her favourite cards.
"Yuma got out his Numbers." Kaito said, observing the duel with his usual expression.
Rei didn't say anything.
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"Kibou Ou Hope! Attack Fairy Cheer Girl!" Yuma yelled.
"I activate my trap Negate Attack!" Kotori called, holding out her hand as her trap card opened out.
"N-Negate Attack?!" Yuma stared. "That's one of the oldest trap cards in history! It got lost a long time ago, and nobody's used it since! How'd you—"
"Different world, different card histories."
"Oh." A barrier formed around Fairy Cheer Girl, blocking her from Hope's incoming swords. The barrier disappeared, and Hope jumped back to Yuma's side.
"Um," Yuma slid two cards into his duel disk, "I'll end my turn with a facedown then."
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Shark sighed. "Well, there's not much he could've done at that time."
"He just has to survive some more so he can pull off a winning move." Kaito said.
Sarah didn't say anything. She frowned. Shark looked at her.
"What's wrong?"
Sarah grumbled. "I expected more."
"Well, it's dueling. Sometimes things just don't go your way."
"I still expected more. Something cooler than two facedowns."
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"It's my turn!" Kotori yelled. "Draw!" She winced as fire dropped near her.
Yuma: 1700
Kotori: 2900
"I activate the spell, Card of Demise! This lets me draw until I have five cards in my hand, and then in five turns I discard my entire hand." She looked at the cards she drew, and her eyes seemed to go blank as the Barian symbol appeared on her forehead.
"Oh, dang…" Sarah said.
"First I activate Fairy Cheer Girl's effect again to draw another card!" Kotori pulled a card out from her duel disk.
"I activate Rank Up Magic, Barian's Force!" She yelled, holding up the card which glowed red. All of them stared as the dark aura around Kotori grew brighter.
"Barian's Force?!" Yuma yelled.
"It's coming! The Chaos Xyz!" Astral said.
"This card raises the rank of one Xyz Monster by one and changes it into a Chaos Xyz! I rebuild the Overlay Network with Fairy Cheer Girl!" Kotori said as her xyz monster flew up into a portal in the air. The portal exploded with dark energy. "Chaos Xyz Change!"
"Appear now, the great power of the Barians!" A woman appeared onto Kotori's field from a swirling ball of energy. She had dark purple hair and a dark purple cheer outfit with white fur as a skirt, hair accessories, and linings on her outfit. Sparkling black wings spread out behind her, and there were patches of glowing red in the middle of her clothing. "Chaos Xyz: Dark Fairy Cheer Girl!"
"What's going on?!" Yuma yelled.
"Kotori's been possessed by Barian!" Astral said.
"That would explain the behaviour…." Yuma muttered.
"I activate the spell Temptation of the Goddess!" Kotori said. "I look at your hand and choose one level 4 or below monster and special summon it in attack mode to your side!"
"What?!" Images of the cards in Yuma's hand appeared in front of him as he panicked. Kotori studied then. "I choose Pinecono!"
A magic circle appeared onto Yuma's field and a little cartoon boy with a pinecone hat and pinecone pants jumped out of it. "Ack!" Yuma panicked. "Go back, go back, go back into my hand please!" The boy looked at Yuma confused.
"Dark Fairy Cheer Girl, attack Pinecono!" Kotori yelled. "Fairy Turn Particle!"
The dark cheerleader lifted out her hands gracefully, then spun around faster and faster into a tornado. Particles of sharp light flew out of the tornado, shooting themselves at the tiny, defensless acorn. There was a huge explosion as smoke covered the entire field.
"It's over." Kotori said.
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"Oh my god Yuma!" Sarah yelled. Shark grabbed her mouth, stopping her mid-scream. Luckily, Kotori didn't seem to hear.
"It's fine." Kaito said. "That idiot wouldn't lose yet."
The smoke cleared away, and Yuma was seen still standing, smiling slightly.
Yuma: 2600
Kotori: 2900
"What?!" Kotori stared. "How did you survive?!"
"Cause of my trap! Nutrient Z!" Yuma smiled. "If I'm about to take more than 2000 points of battle damage, Nutrient Z gives me 4000 life points before I get hit!"
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"That's one of the original Duel Monster cards lost in history." Kaito said. "How would he…"
The three boys all looked at Sarah, who was staring at Yuma.
"He freaking stole my card…" She muttered in disbelief. "I thought it was weird how one of my cards disappeared when I was checking them… he took it… he freaking took my card… Oh he is so going down after this…"
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Kotori scowled. "You're so annoying, Yuma!"
"What? What did I do?"
"Yuma, she's still possessed by Barian." Astral said to him.
Yuma looked at Kotori. The Barian symbol was still glowing on her forehead, and her expression hadn't changed. "Uh, are you sure it's not just the girl in her talking?" Yuma said. "Girls do have weird mood swings sometimes."
Astral looked at him in possibly pity, then back at the duel. He sighed.
"I activate Dark Fairy Cheer Girl's effect! When she destroys a monster in battle, by removing a Chaos Xyz Material, you take 500 points of damage for each card in my hand!" Kotori held out her hand. "I have four! So that's two thousand points of damage!"
"What?!"
The glowing red diamond next to Dark Fairy Cheer Girl flew up into her hand, and turned into a wand. She spun it around, then shot a burst of red energy from it at Yuma, who yelled and was blasted back.
Yuma: 600
Kotori: 2900
"Turn end!" Kotori said.
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Sarah sighed. "Well Yuma's royally screwed. Getting beaten by his would-be girlfriend and all that."
"You do realize if he loses the Numbers will all go and we'll be stuck here with no Numbers other than Ryoga's." Kaito said.
Sarah looked at him in shock. "YUMA DON'T LO—"
"He still don't know we're here." Shark hissed to her, grabbing her by the mouth again. This act was getting pretty old to him by now. Why couldn't she remember to be quiet?
Sarah gave him a look, then pulled the hand off of her mouth and looked back at the duel. She crossed her fingers for luck. "Don't freaking lose now…"
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Yuma took a deep breath. "Well here goes. My turn, draw!"
He looked at the card he just drew, and stared. Then he smiled.
"Yuma," Astral said, smiling at him. "Let's win now."
"Yeah!" Yuma yelled. Burning bits of wood fell near him, and he winced but didn't let it bother him.
Yuma: 100
Kotori: 2900
"Kotori!" He called across the field to the green haired girl. "This was a really fun duel! We should do it again sometime! I summon Achacha Archer!"
An archer in armor jumped onto the field. He took one arrow, and shot it at Kotori.
Yuma: 100
Kotori: 2400
"Achacha Archer's effect makes you take 500 points of damage! Now, I activate Achacha Chanbara's effect from my hand!" Yuma held out the card. "Since there was an effect that just damaged you, I can special summon him, and you take another 400 points of damage!"
Next to the archer, a samurai-like person wearing armour of the same theme appeared. The samurai jumped forwards and slashed at Kotori before returning to Yuma's field.
Yuma: 100
Kotori: 2000
"I overlay my level three Achacha Archer and my level three Achacha Chanbara! I build the overlay network with these two level three monsters. Xyz summon!"
A purple mechanical structure with what looked like an eye in the middle rose from the ground. Parts of it folded outwards as it grew larger until a purple dragon with six wings roared. "Appear! Numbers 17! Leviathan Dragon!
"Leviathan Dragon's effect! I remove an Xyz material from him to give him 500 more attack points! Leviathan Dragon attacks Dark Fairy Cheer Girl!"
"Their attack points are the same, it'll be a tie!" Kotori yelled.
"That's what I'm hoping for! Revice Stream!" The dragon charged up its breath and shot it at the fairy. The fairy cheerleader spun her wand around to block the stream, and the explosion from the attack destroyed them both.
"And then," Yuma said, smiling at his next move, "There's nothing protecting you anymore. You're wide open!"
Kotori gasped slightly as she looked at her empty field.
"Go, Kibou Oh Hope! Attack Kotori directly!" Yuma yelled. "Kattobingu! Hope Sword Slash!"
The Numbers leapt into the air, lifting his swords into the air. He dived down across the field, slashing Kotori right down the side and sending her flying backwards.
Yuma: 100
Kotori: 0
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"Yuma won! Yuma won!" Sarah and Rei cheered together.
"He should have done it faster." Shark said.
Kaito looked at the sky. In the distance, a metal shape was flying towards them. "Hm?"
As the shape came closer, he could hear yelling coming from it.
"Let go of me!"
"NO! Scary heights!"
"I need to get to Kaito-sama!"
"Put me down put me down!"
"Orbital!" Kaito yelled. The shape seemed to turn towards him, and began flying to him. His servant robot had its wings extended and was flying through the air. There was a little girl on its back.
Orbital touched down in front of Kaito, saluting while trying not to get annoyed by the little girl crawling over him. "Kaito-sama! I got here as fast as I could!"
"Mean robot!" The little girl yelled. She fell off of Orbital and ran over to Sarah, hugging her as fast as possible. "Meanie monster robot got out of closet!"
Sarah stared at Orbital while hugging her little sister. "You carried my little sister all the way here from flying?"
"She wouldn't let go you stupid girl!"
A vein twitched on Sarah's head. "Stupid girl?"
"Why did you lock me in the closet?!"
"So you wouldn't interrupt my plan!" Sarah argued. "Jeez, you are mean robot."
"What was that?!"
"U-Um, Sarah? You realize you're arguing with a robot, right?" Rei said.
"It's a stupid robot!"
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The Barian Symbol on Kotori's forehead disappeared as she stumbled backwards. Yuma was still too happy about his win to notice, but Kotori was stepping too close to the edge of the roof.
Kotori took a step backwards, then another. Right off the edge of the roof.
"YUMA!" Astral yelled, pointing at Kotori as fast as he could. Yuma turned in head just in time to see Kotori take the step off of the roof.
"KOTORI!" He screamed, running towards her.
Yuma jumped forwards, managing to grab Kotori's hand. He pulled her forwards and hugged her tight as they both went falling off of the roof of the building.
Well, this isn't too bad of a way to go. I finally hugged Kotori, rescued her from Barian, and now we're going to splat on the sidewalk together. I didn't even get all the Numbers. I got my friend with me though. Wonder if there's duel monsters in the afterlife?
"Orbital! Bed mode activate!" Kaito yelled. Orbital looked away from the argue to salute, then flew down to the sidewalk. It began transforming into a huge bed double the size of a King bed.
Yuma and Kotori fell onto the bed, bounced off of it, then landed onto another part of the bed. Yuma's head was ringing. Falling 20 meters through the air onto a sort of lumpy bed wasn't exactly comfortable, but it was better than splatting onto a sidewalk, that was for sure.
Yuma opened his eyes slightly. He was alive. HE WAS ALIVE! He would be screaming in joy if he wasn't so tired for some reason. He yawned. There was a bed under him. He might as well take a little nap.
Kotori woke up slightly. She didn't know why she couldn't remember what happened, or how she ended up on whatever she was lying on. She was extremely tired for some reason, and she was pressed against something, someone warm. It felt nice, being snuggled up to someone.
And then Yuma and Kotori fell asleep together on the bed, still hugging each other.
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"And a happy ending! Yes!" Sarah said happily. "I knew my plan would work!"
Shark stared at her. "You call this working?"
"It worked out in the end though!"
"So what I said at the beginning was right." Shark said.
"Sure. I just have one question though."
"What?"
Sarah looked at Kaito. "Why does Orbital have a bed mode?"
Kaito looked uncomfortable. "Haruto likes jumping on beds." He muttered. "So I installed one on Orbital."
"Oh…" Sarah nodded. She turned away and snickered. "Oh well. SKYSHIPPING RULES!"
"What's skyshipping?" Her little sister asked.
"Oh, nothing you need to worry about." Sarah patted her head, then looked at the sleeping Yuma and Kotori. "They're so cute together."
Rei laughed, then stopped. He looked to the side in confusion.
"Something wrong?" Shark asked him.
Rei thought about it. "No, nothing's wrong."
"We still have something to settle." Kaito said from behind Sarah, making her stiffen. "Revenge for before…."
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"Ah! Stop! Stop! Ack! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! No! Not there! Ahahaha! That tickles! I'm extremely ticklish! Don't poke there! Hahaha! Stop! They're freaking tickling me!" Sarah laughed and twitched over and over. She was duct-taped to a chair and Kaito was collecting money off of people paying to poke her.
"You do it to me, I'll do it to you." Kaito said, fanning out the money he had made. "Don't worry, I'll give you 5 bucks later."
"Kaito! Damnit! Ahaha too much tickling! It tickles! Stop it stop it too much! Kaito I'm gonna get you, ahaha, for this later!"
Me: . . . Sorry for being late again. But then, this is the longest chapter I've ever written for this, so I hope it makes up for it.
Astral: No, not really.
Me: Not the point Astral! Anyway, hopefully review, follow, favourite, I might update faster next time! Next time, the Barians get serious with Number hunting!