Chapter 2: First Tag Duel and Past Visions
It was well in the trip to Duel Academy and Bastion and Hayley were catching up with a few other friends, mainly Chazz, Atticus, Jasmine, Mindy, Alexis, Syrus and Hasselberry. Chazz, Hasselberry and Alexis had held Color Keys last year and they too were reincarnations of royalty, though they didn't seem to be bothered about this at all.
"So you stayed in an Amazon village for most of the holidays?" asked Alexis in disbelief.
"Yes, I spent two weeks with Dr Eisenstein, who took me on for a trial run with several other applicants to see who would be his assistant and then I went to be with Hayley and Taniya," said Bastion looking at the object of his affections with love in his eyes.
"Bastion, you're mad," stated Chazz.
"All the best people are," said Hayley hugging Bastion who returned the hug with smile.
"Wasn't it scary?" asked Syrus.
"No Syrus, once I had proved myself in a few physical and mental tests and once Taniya told everyone what had happened last year I was welcomed with open arms. Spike, Tamera, Tiffany and Zelda also vouched for me. The Amazons are great once you get to know them and Hayley and Taniya's mother is very nice, she makes you feel right at home and she's also a great cook," said Bastion and Hayley giggled.
"It's true, he couldn't get enough of my mom's cooking," she said.
"It's amazing, considering her cooking is terrible," said an unwelcome voice and everyone groaned as the turned to find Larke staring at them and Jaden hanging by her side as usual.
"Only for you Larke, the rest of the time, well, she could open a five star restaurant. Your mom's cooking on the other hand. Didn't it send several of the Amazoness Queen's daughters to hospital?" asked Hayley slyly, normally Hayley was the sweetest girl in Duel Academy but when it came to Larke, well, that's when Hayley proved that despite being a runt she still all Amazon.
"Shut your mouth, Little Princess," Larke sneered angrily.
"Yeah Hayley, you started it," said Jaden, as Larke could do no wrong in his eyes.
"Princesses do not start fights but they can finish them," retorted Hayley.
"Let's throw down!" challenged Jaden.
"Let's make it a Tag Duel then, Hayley and I and against you and Larke," said Bastion, stepping in before it got out of hand.
"Sounds good to me," smiled Hayley, activating her Duel Disk and the others nodded.
B: 4000
H: 4000
L: 4000
J: 4000
"I have a new deck," said Larke.
"So do we," said Bastion and Hayley together.
"My new Heroes will wipe the floor with you two," said Jaden cheerfully, "Get your game on!"
"Time for you to feel the fire of a blazing heart!" said Hayley.
"Time to burn!" said Bastion.
"I'll go first, I summon Jurrac Guaiba in attack mode and then I'll play two facedowns and end my turn," said Bastion and a dinosaur with fire appeared on the field. (JG 1700/400)
"I'll go next, I summon Blazing Heart Chimera in attack mode, she has an effect, as long as she remains face-up on the field all fire monsters gain five hundred attack and defense points," said Hayley and a small, black spotted, gold, female lion with wings and a spiked tail with fire covering all four paws and a red heart on her chest with fire surrounding it appeared on the field. (BHC 700/700 – 1200/1200) (JG 1700/400 – 2200/900)
"Thanks for the attack and defense point boost Hayley," said Bastion with a grin.
"No problem Bastion, alright, I play two cards facedown and end my turn," said Hayley.
"It's my turn losers, ok, I summon Harpy Lady in attack mode, with two face-downs," said Larke. (HL 1300/1400)
"Check out this sweet move, I summon Elemental Hero Flash in attack mode and I'll throw down a facedown," said Jaden. (EHF 1100/1600)
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By this time their duel had attracted a few more faces including Taniya, Ryan, Craig, Flo and James with two boys, one with spiky brown hair and brown eyes and was the same height as James, the other was taller, had messy light-brown hair and hazel eyes and both were in Slifer.
If Mai Wheeler was dead she'd be turning in her grave to see someone like Larke using the Harpies," commented Taniya, making Ryan chuckle.
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"Ok, then I'll summon Jurrac Velo in attack mode," said Bastion and another dinosaur appeared on the field. (JV 1700-1000 – 2200/1500)
"Now, Velo, destroy Elemental Hero Flash!" ordered Bastion and the dino charged forward and destroyed the weak hero.
B: 4000
H: 4000
L: 4000
J: 2900
"I pay my facedown, Hero Signal, I can activate it only when a monster on my side of the field is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard. Then I can special summon one Level four or lower Elemental Hero monster from my hand or Deck and I choose to summon Elemental Hero Woodsmen in defense mode!" said Jaden. (EHW 1000/2000)
"Jurrac Guaiba attack Harpy Lady," said Bastion, his aim, reduce both Jaden's and Larke's life points on his turn and let Hayley destroy whatever they had when it was her turn.
B: 4000
H: 4000
L: 3100
J: 2900
"I play my facedown, Hysteric Party, it's a continuous trap, by discarding one card from my hand I can special summon as many Harpie Lady" cards as possible from my Graveyard. When this card is removed from the field, I have to destroy all the monsters that were Special Summoned by this card's effect. I discarded Harpy Lady one so she'll come back as well," said Larke, looking pleased with herself. "She also has an effect, her name is treated as Harpy Lady and all wind monsters gain three hundred attack points." (HL 1300/1400 – 1600/1400) (HL1 1300/1400 – 1600/1400)
"Very well, but Jurrac Guaiba has an effect, if this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle, I can Special Summon one Jurrac monster with seventeen hundred or less attack points from my Deck. It can't declare an attack this turn. I choose Jurrac Dino in attack mode. I'll end my turn with one facedown," said Bastion. (JD 1700/800 – 2200/1300)
"It's my move, I draw and I summon Blazing Heart Pegasus in attack mode," said Hayley with a smile. A beautiful white Pegasus with a mane and tail of fire and a red heart on her chest with fire surrounding it appeared on the field. (BHP 1900/1400 – 2400/1900)
"Her effect is when she's summoned to the field I can Special Summon one Blazing Heart Tuner to the field and I choose Blazing Heart Centaur in attack mode!" A palomino centaur with the same heart symbol on his chest and holding a bow and a flaming arrow appeared on the field. (BHC 1600/1600 – 2100/2100)
"He has an effect too; he can attack my opponents life points directly if there's another Blazing Heart monster on y field, go, attack Larke directly!"
"Aaahhhh!" cried Larke.
"Larke!" shouted Jaden.
B: 4000
H: 4000
L: 1000
J: 2900
Now I'll have Pegasus destroy your Harpy Lady One!" said Hayley.
"I activate my last facedown, Magic Cylinder, which redirects your attack back at you!" said Larke.
B: 4000
H: 1900
L: 1000
J: 2900
"Hayley, are you alright?" asked Bastion.
"I'm fine Bastion. Ok, now my Battle Phase is over, so it's now my second main phase, I tune my Pegasus with my Centaur, both are level four, so I'm going for a level eight Synchro monster, come forth, Blazing Heart Dragon!" said Hayley and a beautiful dragon appeared on the field. It was sunset pink in colour, had a golden collar with a jeweled red heart embedded in it and its wings were outlined in gold and its claws were also gold. (BHD 3000/2000 – 3500/2500)
"She's beautiful," said Bastion in awe.
"She's my best monster, her name is Flara," said Hayley proudly. "I end my turn."
"I draw and I play Pot of Greed, so now I draw two more cards, since Hysteric Part is still in play I can discard one card and bring a Harpie Lady back from my grave, I chose Harpie Lady, but she won't be around for long because I play Elegant Egotist, I can only activate this card when there's one or more face-up Harpie Lady on the field. I can Special Summon one Harpie Lady or Harpie Lady Sisters from my hand or Deck. Harpie Lady now splits into the Harpie Lady Sisters," said Larke. (1950/2100 – 2250/2100)
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"Great now there's four Larkes' on the field," joked Craig.
"I hope none of them plan to sing for us, one is only half decent after all," said Taniya with a smirk.
"Who are you two anyway?" asked Alexis of the two new Slifer boys.
"I'm Matt Roberts," said the taller boy.
"I'm Drake Stewart," said the smaller boy.
"Pleasure," said Syrus. Everyone then turned their attention back to the duel.
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"Sisters, destroy Blazing Heart Chimera!" ordered Larke.
"Not so fast Larke I activate Attack Guidance Armor! I'll equip it to my Jurrac Velo, now you have to attack him instead!" said Bastion.
"Fine, I will, but I'll play this card first, Triangle Ecstasy Spark, until the End Phase of my turn, the attack of all Harpie Lady Sisters becomes twenty seven hundred, you can't activate any traps and all traps on your side of the field are negated. I could attack Hayley now, but since you offered yourself, you have the honor of having your Velo destroyed!" said Larke. (HLS 2250/2100 – 2700/2100)
B: 3500
H: 1900
L: 1000
J: 2900
"You fell right into my trap, I wanted you to attack Velo, it's all a matter of suggestion," said Bastion.
"Why did you want me to destroy your stupid Dinosaur?" asked Larke.
"His effect of course when he's in attack mode and attacks or is attacked and is destroyed by battle and sent to the graveyard I can Special Summon one Jurrac monster from my deck with seventeen hundred attack points or less from my deck. I choose Jurrac Iguanon in attack mode," said Bastion. (JI 1700/700 – 2200/1200)
"Fine, I'll end my turn," said Larke, put out that she'd been tricked into helping Bastion gain another monster.
"It's my move, here goes somethin'. Now that it's my standby phase due to Woodsman's effect I can add one Polymerization to my hand from my Deck or Grave. Then I'll play Graceful Charity, now I can draw three cards and discard two, oh yeah, I'm lucky. I play Polymerization to fuse my Woodsmen and another new hero, Elemental Hero Ocean to create Elemental Hero Terra Firma in attack mode!" said Jaden. (EHTF 2500/2000) "It's time to get you back for tricking Larke, Firma is going destroy Jurrac Iguanon!" said Jaden.
B: 3200
H: 1900
L: 1000
J: 2900
"I end my turn," said Jaden.
"Mine begins. I'm going for a tune up! I tune Jurrac Guaiba with Jurrac Dino to Synchro Summon Jurrac Giganoto in attack mode!" said Bastion. (JG 2100/1800 – 2600/2300 – 3400/2300)
"Why did it get more attack points?" asked Larke and Jaden.
"It's his effect, all Jurrac monsters gain two hundred attack points for each Jurrac in my graveyard, I count Velo, Dino, Guaiba and Iguanon, four times two equals eight hundred," said Bastion smugly and Hayley laughed. "Giganoto, destroy Harpy Lady one and eliminate Larke from this duel!" said Bastion.
"NO!" screamed Larke as she lost her last life points.
B: 3200
H: 1900
L: 0
J: 2900
"Larke, no! You'll pay for that Bastion," said Jaden.
"I'm so scared. How am I going to pay, cash or credit?" asked Bastion, causing everyone to laugh.
"This isn't over," snarled Larke and went away to watch the rest of the duel.
"It's my move, I play Fire Recovery, I discard one fire monster to my grave and then I can select one fire monster in my grave and special summon it. I choose Blazing Heart Centaur in attack mode!" (BHC 1600/1600 – 2100/2100)"He can attack your life points directly, go!" said Hayley.
"Aaahhh!" cried Jaden.
B: 3200
H: 1900
L: 0
J: 800
"Next, I'll have Flara destroy your Hero, you're through, Blazing Fire Blast!" said Hayley.
"NO!" yelled Jaden as his monster was destroyed and he lost the last of his life points.
B: 3200
H: 1900
L: 0
J: 0
"The feeling of my monsters Blazing hearts was too much," said Hayley.
"You've been burnt to a crisp," said Bastion.
Nice duel guys!" said Craig.
"Yeah, now that's what I call teamwork," said Taniya.
The rest of the trip was peaceful but when they were five minutes away from the Academy Hayley and Bastion's vision went out of focus for a second and then they were somewhere they didn't recognize. However there were things that they did recognize, such as themselves, Taniya, Craig, Ryan and James, their prince and princess outfits and Spike.
"Your Majesties, we've been able to hold them off until now, the Supreme King is now here with your cousin Kestrel and is giving his army power. We've lost a lot of soldiers to this unforeseen event," reported Craig or rather, Tai as they remembered was his name in this world, in the past…
"We have no choice, Takuya, rally the Duel Monsters, Takato, you get the back-up soldiers form the northern plains, Tai, come with us," said Bastion, or rather, Prince Daichi.
"Yes Prince Daichi," said the brothers. Daichi and the princesses lead the way out a side door and before they could see where it went Bastion and Hayley were back on the boat.
"Bastion, was that our past?" whispered Hayley.
"I think so, why would we see only part of it though?" he asked.
Hayley couldn't reply because the announcement came that they had arrived at Duel Academy. They left the ship with everyone else and went to the Ra dorm in silence, wondering if they should tell the others.
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COLD: I hope that you enjoyed it, this was very hard to write.
AI: It's good though
COLD: Thank you