Author's Note
First let me say AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I'm incredibly frustrated and needed to vent for a second, the next chapter should be up tomorrow on my main site. But damn I have 20chapters done but my editors are busy with life, now once I get rid of that problem I promise more chapters faster.
Sorry for the delays!
Chapter 3 The light of a Hero
Brett returned to his dorm for the night, he thought long and hard about why he was here. Jaden was not his real target, but who ever was dueling earlier was not him. Brett peered through his new deck looking through each of the cards as he thought silently "what did I do with my deck; this is not it."
For a while Brett stayed up rebuilding his old deck from scratch, picking and choosing from the case of cards at his dorm. Slowly he began to remember the reasons why he was here. Slowly drifting of to sleep, he knew tomorrow he had to apologize to Jaden.
The next day the sun was shinning as Brett got up. He got ready for a new day, putting on his duel disk with his original deck back where it belonged. His room was on the second floor of the Slifar Dorm and strangely there was nobody around; the entire area was empty. It was no surprise since it was still early, but all of a sudden Jaden, Hasleberry and Jesse came running up to the dorm.
Brett jumped off the second floor landing down on the ground before beginning to run to Jaden "Hey Jaden I got say something to you!"
"Not now Brett, some duelist has kidnapped Blair and is holding her prisoner down at the docks. He says that he is looking for you" Jaden yelled back.
"What!" as Jaden finally got up to Brett "Jaden what's going on, why me?"
"He won't say, he will only duel you though, he says you have something he wants."
"Then come on, let's get down there now!" as Brett bolted past them running to the dock as Jaden and company followed, this was his fault and he had to fix it.
As they arrived at the dock, Brett beheld at a frightening set up. A long the pier was a floating metal square section and on the concrete walkway beside this platform was Blair who was strapped to a big metal chair. As the cloaked figure looked up to see the Brett, he slowly removed is hood, and the man had medium length white hair and green eyes, "well Brett I have been expecting you, I think this is a little to much for you."
Brett ran down onto the platform past the rest of Jaden's friends, and as he did, a large force field appeared behind him "who are you and what's going on here?"
"Well since I could not beat you the other day at my game, I thought maybe beating you at your own game would be better, I went through all this for you or rather what you carry with you."
As Brett could not help but grit his teeth "taking someone as a hostage and I saw the anchors and the chains, took this from a page in dueling history, cause this is the same thing that happened to Yugi Moto."
"You picked up on that huh? I'm one for a little theatrics now and then, besides my goal must be achieved. The one who came before me failed to easily, I doubt you are that strong" the mysterious man said. Brett looked around "I will not fail these people, if you want me then just take me, leave Blair out of this."
"HA! It is much easier to attack ones heart then one who has nothing to lose. What are the rules you ask? How does it work? Well simply put this is a duel, we each have four thousand life points and we each have one of these chains attach us to an anchor. Now, when you lose the duel, you will be dragged down to the depths, but do not think for one second that this is a carbon copy of that duel between Yugi and Joey cause each thousand life points you lose, you will get a huge shock. The chains will electrocute you, and while I will always get the full shock you have the choice of passing it all to Blair, all to you, or splitting the pain."
Hearing the rules made Brett cringe in pain as the thought of this duel entered his mind, "You're sick! How can you do this?"
"Easy, you have something I want and I will do anything to get it, which is why the force field so you're friends do not interfere, and as for the victor, if I win, I get what I want. If I lose, then you can rush over and save her from that exploding chair, all you have to do is get the key beside her chair and get her off before the timer hit's zero. By the way, you have 10 minutes to beat me and save her, well do you agree. Also note that only the winner will get the key to open the lock, it's in the box near your feet."
"Who are you, why are you after me?"
"I'm a ghost of a better man, the guy who attacked you earlier was a sibling, that does not seem to be important if you want to save that girl you care about."
"Come on Brett, beat him" cheered Alexis and the rest of Jaden's friends from beyond the barrier.
"You use your fists to fight as well?"
"No I'm more of a sword person now. Do you agree to this duel?"
Brett agreed nodding his head and ran over lock the chain to his ankle. They both set there duel disks, getting ready to duel as they both drew their hands as Blair was trying desperately to get loose as the clock began to tick down from five minutes. "I'll go first if that's alright Brett?"
"Fine by me; you'll get trounced either way, so make your move!"
As the white haired man drew his card he could not help but smile "hey how chivalrous you are, 'cause my luck seems to be paying off because now I activate my meteor of destruction and you start this duel by losing one thousand life points. But that is not all, as I activate 2 hinotama cards and you lose another thousand life points leaving you with half of your life points. Now you choose who gets the punishment."
Brett took one look at Blair and turned back "I will take all of it."
"What, Brett you don't have to do that I can take some."
"No Blair, I'll be fine" as two incredibly powerful blasts of electricity blasted through Brett knocking him to his knees causing him to breath deeply.
"BRETT!" Blair shouted watching him fall to his knees as the others cried out as well.
"What's the matter did that hurt, I mean the girl was willing to take some of the pain, why did you not let her help you could be the fact that…"
"Shut the hell up and finish your turn."
"Oh what's the matter, just not in the mood to talk about why you're here? Well fine. I will just play one monster face down and I end my turn."
Brett slowly got up and began by drawing his sixth card before beginning. "Alright I start by playing the spell double summon, which will allow me to summon two monsters. So first up is my Vorse Raider, and next I will follow up by summoning one of favorite monsters, Red Eyes Black Chick. I think I'll activate his effect sending him away so he can grow up to become a Red Eyes Black Dragon, so with ought further wait, let's even the score. Attack Vorse Raider!"
And as the creature leapt forward coming down on the card a surprise awaited "hold it. Now I activate my face down monsters effect, and Blast Sphere cancels your attack and attaches to your monster and next turn 1900 life points will be gone, sweating yet?"
"Yah, well you got one of my monsters, not my main one, Red Eyes crush him" as the large Black Dragon shot a fire ball blasting away 2400 life points leaving him to take the blow as well as two powerful blast of electricity. "And before your turn, let me throw two trap cards face down and end my turn."
As the white haired man drew his next card he looked on the new card with content. "You will have to better then that, and you're running out of time, and now I think that you lose another five hundred points with yet another hinotama card, now next turn it's over…"
"Wrong, as now I think I will activate my Jar of Greed but also my Solemn Wishes card. So not only do I get a new card, but 500 more life points" as Brett smirked at him.
"Well, you out did me that time but you will still lose more points after this, I play one monster facedown and next I will end my turn."
As Brett drew his next card, Vorse Raider exploded taking out 1900 points leaving Brett with only one hundred life points left as he said "I'll take all the shock again" as two more powerful blasts rushed through his body knocking him completely down as he slowly struggled to get back up.
"Brett! Are you ok?" Blair was franticly yelling, still struggling to get out of the chair.
"Oh Brett, you try far too hard to be a hero when you should just fold."
"You just don't get it do you? I would never let anything happen to Blair" as he rose almost like he had no pain whatsoever.
Slowly a ghost like aura started to build around Brett's body as he yelled out "now I end this" as he drew a card and the aura grew stronger "I activate Pot Of Greed so I gain 1000 life points total, and now let me draw the last cards of the duel" As Brett's aura focused into his hand.
"Destiny Draw!" as the aura vanished into the two new cards as his look became focused "now your end! I sacrifice my Red eyes to bring out Red eyes Darkness Dragon and activate tribute to the doomed to take away your monster! Now Red Eyes take him down!" as the blast fried the opponent as he experienced two last powerful shocks as the duel ended.
Brett saw the key and ran over to Blair quickly unlocking the locks and freeing her and as he did, he dove out of the way shielding Blair as the chair exploded; taking the blast. Jaden watched in terror as they disappeared into smoke and dust, but as it cleared they saw Brett and Blair were ok. Brett was still shielding Blair and as he looked down on her he said "You ok?" as she nodded.
"Good to hear Blair, sorry I got you wrapped up in this" as Blair turned towards him to see him looking very unhappy.
"This is not over!" as Brett turned to see his opponent bearing a huge sword, it was long and it was wide, as he swung it and cut the chain instantly.
Brett pushed Blair away as his opponent jumped down on him. Brett narrowly dodged as the blade slid into the ground. Brett led him away dodging swings as he used his hands to divert the blade, but his opponent was way to fast. "Brett heads up" as Blair threw a pole towards him; he caught it protecting himself with that rather then his hands.
Brett fought back, landing skillful blows on his opponent. He hit him on his side before jumping back. Jaden and everyone was speechless at this display. But then the white haired man prepared his blade charging right into Brett; Brett used the pole to launch himself into the air. As the blade cut the pole in two, Brett grabbed his chain, spinning it around his opponent capturing him. The chain wrapped around his body, tangling him as Brett landed behind him, pulling it tight. Just then the timer went and the anchors released, dragging Brett and the chained opponent down to the ocean. As the barrier dropped Alexis ran by and grabbed the key diving into the water before reemerging with Brett a minute later.
Slowly they got back up onto the dock as Brett was very exhausted, coughing up water. Jaden ran over to Blair's side. Blair grabbed a hold of Jaden and began crying "Jaden that was so scary!" as Jaden could not help but be caught off guard by Blair, Brett seeing this got up and smiled before getting up and went back to his room.
The others could not help but watch as Brett left without a word, but someone else watched from the shadows "maybe he does have a weakness."