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I had known that the happy times would get a bump very soon, I just didn't know that I was running right into it.
Leo Institute of Dueling had come on my first day, or rather their headmistress of sorts, with three representatives of the Fusion, Synchro and Xyz courses they offered there. And here comes the hammer: They thought Yuya attacked yesterday this Silvio Sawatari guy. I remember that he stole Yuya's Pendulum monsters a few episodes back, from what I guess.
"And I say it again, Yuya-san was with Sora-san and me yesterday!" I stated, again. After the duel we had been going around the city and talking about Deck building. I brought up the possibility that the Leo Corporation, which owned the LID, could just start producing Pendulum Monster so that it would be taken into the official rule-book.
Today I claimed that many of the cards I had bought before coming here had transformed into Pendulum Monster as well and there were even some support cards that I found in my purchase when I checked yesterday. That gave me an excuse to have them in my Decks now. Anyway, back to yesterday.
All was alright until we got a phone-call that Zuzu was missing and we split up to find her but then I found a new app on that Duel Disk: I can apparently locate duelists based on their Duel Disks and even Decks if I saw them before. Therefore I found Zuzu was with that Sawatari guy, a few more goons, and a masked duelist listed as ?, in a warehouse.
I was an actual eye-witness technically since I saw the guy blow Silvo-whatever in full Akiza style and even with a dragon, to bits. Yes, one hit, one kill, of a duelist. That guy had Mobius the Mega Monarch on his field but the card had been reduce to a fourth of it's orignal might while the attackers monster, Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon, had the other three fourths of the monster. I could only guess the effect had devastated poor Mobius.
And then he revealed his face which was identical to Yuya, but I could tell the difference. For one thing the guy had light purple hair at the front with black hair in the back which stood up rightways up. He also wore a more steampunk looking Duel Disk shaped like a Revolver in my opinion, in purple. The guy didn't introduce himself but when Yuya come in, I had called him earlier, the guy vanished after Zuzu's bracelet glowed.
What ensued was that I was introduced to the girl who had dark pink hair with lighter shaded locks at the front. Her hair was additionally kept in two pigtails in the back. I am sure I missed a lot from a episode that day, but had my own little adventure instead. Anyway, Zuzu and I agreed to keep quiet about that dark duelist for now, no use making everyone on edge.
Well, and that brought us to this situation since I couldn't outright say that Yuya had a double running around the city. "Little girl, I don't care what you claim that he has done, several of my students saw him and I believe them more than a little pipsqueak like you." She stated arrogantly and a tickmark appeared on my forehead. Pipsqueak?
"Listen here lady, I don't care if that brats daddy is rich and if your school is prestigious, you just want Yuya-sans Pendulum Monster and for that you are now going ballistic because the theft of them earlier didn't work!" I accused, shocking her.
"Theft? What are you talking about? No student of the great Leo Institute of dueling would become a thief just for a few cards." She retorted, but sounded very nervous about it in my opinion.
"Several people were nearly killed because Sawatari used them as hostages in a Action Duel in YOUR arena! And all that just so he could satisfy his own arrogance, greed and act as the 'better' of everyone." I told her, glad that Yuya told me everything yesterday, about that duel so that I can now use it against her.
"That are outrageous claims young lady! Where are your evidence that such things happened?" Asked the chairwoman and I smiled sweetly.
"I have no evidence, but four eye-witnesses, so we are on even ground in that way. And I wouldn't trust that Sawatari guy even with a piece of paper, I think he would try to slice my throat with it just for a few rare cards." I retorted and they gasped in shock at my declaration of this.
"Do you even know who his father is? And what he and especially we, can do to someone like you who makes such senseless claims?" Asked the woman angrily, thinking I would act accordingly.
"I don't know exactly but my parents don't live around here and I don't even know how I come to this city. And further, I don't care about your influence or that of that Sawhagoki guys father, Yuya has done nothing and that Kapahama guy or whatever his name is, is a thief, has attempted murder to get his ends and is also arrogant." I told her I couldn't help but smirk as everybody's jaw fell down a notch at me jumbling up that guys name. I don't like him, alright? I know his name but that was my way of being rude.
"I don't care what you say, you little arrogant brat, I demand recompension in the name of my student. And the most appropriate recompension is this school, or can you pay?" Asked the woman, oh yeah, her name is Henrietta Akaba, apparently she is the mother of the CEO of Leo corporation too.
"And let me guess, you are so sure of yourself because the father of that idiot is the mayor? You just want Yuya's Pendulum monster, just like back when Baboony stole them the first time." I accused her again, ignoring the others who were silently looking between us.
Just so you know, I am currently forehead to forehead with that stupid woman while we argue with one another. I have riled up that so called upper-class woman to this childish behavior, I win in that regard. "It still stands that the sole suspect is a student of this little academy, I am sure that he will have the Xyz monster used!" She declared and I blinked for a moment before pushing her to the side so that she fell to the ground.
"Xyz monster? Listen Old Lady, he only learned yesterday how Xyz Summoning works from me and he only has two Xyz monster which I gave him." I told her, instantly remembering what the biggest argument against Yuya being the culprit was.
"Oh yeah? And what cards would those be? Let me guess, Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon is one of them, a Rank 4 monster." Retorted Henrietta arrogantly as she stood up again, glaring at me.
I had only a cool smirk on my face. "Wrong, the cards I gave him were Rank four, yes, but they were Number 32: Shark Drake and Number C32: Shark Drake Veiss, you can look." I told her and Yuya quickly removed his Extra Deck from his Duel Disk, visibly pressing the "Eject all" button on the screen.
The woman narrowed her eyes before looking at the two cards.
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Henrietta Akaba had thought this would be a simple matter of bullying this school into her ways. Come out though they had a new student with half American roots who had apparently seen one or two too many American TV-shows like Law and Order, probably even some German courtroom shows.
Looking at the two cards in her hand she found herself fascinated. Their primary effect made them all but indestructible to anything but a "Number" monster like themselves. The second monster, the "Number C" monster as she dubbed it for now, seemed to be a literal evolution of the first. Both had very high Attack Points but difficult summoning requirements since the first needed three Xyz Materials and the other four.
Considering the power they had though... yes, the Numbers were definitely powerful but she never had seen those, were they older from Industrial Illusions? She eyed the girl who gave away very powerful cards to a no-name like Sakaki Yuya.
"Where did you get those cards? I can't remember to have ever seen cards with "Number" in their name." She asked the girl that crossed her arms underneath her chest with a smirk.
"My secret to keep, yours to froth over." Replied the girl, Alex as they called her, and that was just another nail into the coffin of her patience. The girl had a disturbingly small amount of respect toward those with more influence, as if she knew that her family was untouchable for them and she herself was protected by her young age.
"Whatever, they are wasted on a brat like you anyway. Once this school has been annexed I will be sure to distribute them to proper duelists." Claimed Henrietta arrogantly but blinked when Alex walked up to her and grabbed the wrist of her hand, turning it in a way that she dropped the cards.
"They are my property, Akaba, I won't let someone as arrogant as you just take away my cards get it?" Asked Alex angrily before giving the cards back to Yuya who was surprised by this. "I had those cards from the beginning, just because you think you have any rights to govern over us I won't agree. Win them in a Ante Duel with a equal ante from you? I will accept but not just with the "I am richer than thou" argument." Retorted Alex fiercely and Henrietta held her wrist, glaring at the girl that was showing nothing but disrespect toward her.
"Now come Henrietta, that is the main reason you are here anyway right? Your believe that getting the best for your school is your right. You want Yuya's Pendulum monster and now also the Numbers from Alex-chan." Intervened Skip Boyle, the schools headmaster who looked like a coach more than a duelist with his outfit. He also had brown and orange hair that stood from his head.
Henrietta huffed at that, glaring at the eleven year old who had perhaps been the origin of this enormous spark of energy from the summoning of a Xyz monster, considering the monster summoned at the time and detected was Number 107: Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon, only eclipsed by the Number C107: Neo Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon seconds later.
"Yes, but I have a proposal since this... young girl suggested a Ante Duel, I will offer for you to duel for this school. 3 of our duelists against three of yours Boyle-san, whoever wins two duels out of three keeps the school." She offered as another three persons come in, two guys and a girl who bore the badges that showed they were students of LID.
"Wait a second, and what are you betting?" Intervened Alex again, annoying the woman even more since the girl was among the younger students of this school but still spoke up so much!
"We will drop the charges if you win but I doubt it." Answered Henrietta as if she was the most generous of all people in the room.
"You mean the charges that we could just discharge by looking for security cameras who would perhaps have seen the whole ordeal and then we can check whether or not Gokunori has been telling the truth or if you are just framing Yuya so that you can get his cards." Countered Alex again and Henrietta felt like strangling the girl right there.
The worst was that her own students were snickering behind her back for being countered by a preteen! "I have several witnesses, and how would you know whether there are such things in that warehouse anyway?" Asked Henrietta, wanting to see if the girl was just making assumptions here.
"Easy: Any good warehouse should have a security system and I would also like to know why Hachinori was there in the first place." Countered Alex, yet again, with a smart remark and shooting holes into her defense with bullets the size of brickhouses!
"Anyway, you wouldn't be here in the first place if you would want for this to get out in the first place, would you? You want this school and to use this to take it over. But you are unwilling to make it public so you act like you have good enough arguments to back it up. Nice try, but I see through it as if I could read your mind." Countered Alex again, smirking all the while.
"I am giving you the chance of saving your little school despite the fact that I can just force my will onto you, and you insult me? Know your place you little worm!" Shouted Henrietta and went to slap the girl. To her surprise her hand never connected.
Alex dodged by letting herself fall to the side, catching herself with her hand and using the momentum for a handstand, slamming a kick into Henrietta's shoulder in the process and throwing her a few meter. She went back onto her feet, her hands sliding into her pockets as she said one sentence: "Black Belt in Karate." That stopped everyone as Henrietta stood back up, rubbing her sore shoulder.
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Back to Alex's POV
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That event brought upon the final decision. "You Show Duel School" would get, if we won, a renovation worth 200k yen, which would allow the school to buy one of the buildings adjacent to it and expand the facilities which would allow them to accommodate more students and allow for auditoriums for the new Xyz, Synchro and Fusion courses. The LID would also pay for new teachers.
The consequences of us losing on the other hand were the same as before, so YSDS would be annexed by LID and our cards would be given to others because we were 'low level scum'. That purple haired guy in particular seemed to eye me with a glare worthy of a Chazz Princeton. He was the representative of the Xyz Summoning course at LID his name was Dipper O'rion and he had purple hair. Talk about anime hair.
I sighed, feeling much better in my new outfit. I had my new hair in a pair of ponytails to the sides of my head, wore a red jacket I found while shopping with Zuzu yesterday, a blue jeans and I had a red headband around my forehead. Overall it looked a lot like the outfit of the Tag Force Protagonist/Player-character and I didn't mind it actually either.
I had hung my jacket over my shoulders like Yuya did, wearing a black t-shirt under it and starred right back at the duelist. He had proclaimed that he would take away my Numbers so they wouldn't be forced to be in the Deck of a 'weakling like you' in his words, referring to me.
I would like nothing more than to walk up to him and beat him up for that comment but I refrained myself, for now. The duels were agreed to go this way: Yuya vs O'rion, Zuzu vs Julia Crystal, a young teenage girl from the Fusion course of the LID and it's representative. She had long black hair, dark skin and red eyes. Finally I myself, after arguing with Sora and Gong Strong, a very heavy built teen in Yuya's age who loved his white jacket.
My opponent would be Kit Blade, a duelist of the LID Synchro summoning course with wild brown hair and generally a more fierce appearance compared to the other contestants. I had decided to not show them any of my Numbers in that duel and would instead take a page from a older Anime than Zexal, a hero was what we needed, after all right?
The first duel begun with Yuya and O'rion in Cosmo Sanctuary, a Action Field where Action Cards spawned in form of shootingstars. In the first minute he already Xyz summoned a Rank 5 monster and used it to block Yuya at every turn with it's effects. He also knew the Action Field inside out and used the effect of his Contellar Pleiades to bounce Pendulum Dragon back to Yuya's hand.
When he did that while Yuya was jumping on his dragon between buildings, barely saving himself with his Trap Card and Performapal Swordfish, I couldn't believe it, and that guy thought it was okay?! In the end Yuya did win, but there were many close-calls yet again and the guy had the nerve of claiming that was okay!
The next duel wasn't better either, Zuzu made a valiant effort but was overpowered with her normal and Special Summoned monsters by Julia and her "Gem-Knight" Fusion Deck. It was 1 to 1 between the two schools as I went to the Action Field, glaring at my opponent who was as arrogant as his companions had been until we stood at the Dueling field.
"Angry for what happened to your friends? Kid, you should learn that in a duel you risk your life." Commented Kit, god he didn't have any right to call me kid.
"This is a card-game, kid, to try and murder someone else just to win, or at least to try and cause serious harm, is just sick! What kind of trash teachers teach that kind of thinking?" I retorted, activating my Duel Disk but instead of the usual just appearing of the Disk I made it so that first two halves appeared on either side, then shot around to meet before my Deck and then went to the proper side for the field, in the style of Battle City.
"Well, you're a flashy one at least, but you should just give up, at LID you would be much better anyway and I am far too strong for a little girl like you." Sneered the man and I just glared harder at him for that comment, he was arrogant, like Kaiba, but I knew he lacked the teeth of him.
"I don't care, let us just get this over with! And I prophecize that you won't get past your first turn!" I announced, pointing my index finger at him.
"Not past my first turn? What kind of announcement is that now?" Asked Kit confused at my declaration as the field, Sword's Graveyard, built up around us.
"I am gonna humiliate your school by defeating you the moment you declare an attack, you have lost the moment you started ruthlessly attacking my friends!" I announced angrily ignoring the shocked gasps from the others.
"Let's just get this started, and then we will see how much you are barking and how much you are actually doing." Commented Kit equally agitated.
"Duelists locked in battle!" I begun the chant for Action Duels.
"Kicking the earth and dancing in the air alongside their monsters!" Continued Kit while preparing his Duel Disk.
"They storm through this field!" I picked up from there, standing calmly despite the usual marathon nature of this duel.
"Behold! This is the newest and greatest evolution of Dueling! ACTION!" Begun Kit the final part of the chant.
"DUEL!" We shouted in unison.
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4000 / 4000 LP
Action Duel
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"I start with my Turn!" I announced before Kit could do so.
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Turn 1
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"I summon Winged Kuriboh in Attack Mode!" I announced as Jadens primary Duel Spirit appeared before me, a fluff ball of brown fur with green, tiny legs and a pair of tiny, white wings on it's back. "I also activate Tremendous Fire, which inflicts 1000 Points of burning damage to you and 500 points to me." I announced as we were engulfed in a large fire which caused us damage.
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Kit: 4000 → 3000 LP (-1000 Damage)
Alex: 4000 → 3500 LP (-500 Damage)
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"I set 1 card face-down and end my turn." I explained, setting the card face-down, leaving Kuriboh my lone defense.
"Alright, my turn! Draw!" Announced Kit before dashing away while I stayed where I was, I smirked slightly before walking calmly to a sword sticking out of the ground where I had seen a Action Card land.
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Just what I needed. Seconds later he come running back to me again. "I summon XX-Saber Boggart Knight in Attack Mode!" Declared Kit as the X-Saber version of Vorse Raider appeared as a 'knight' instead of a raider. (XX-Saber Boggart Knight, Earth/Beast-Warrior, Level 4, 1900 Atk.)
"Through his effect I can Special Summon 1 X-Saber monster in my hand and I special Summon XX-Saber Fulhelmknight!" Announced Kit and a blonde knight with a dark gray armor with patches of orange and a red cape appeared next to his first monster. (XX-Saber Fulhelmknight, Earth/Warrior/Tuner, Level 3, 1300 Atk.)
"As I currently control two X-Saber monsters, I can Special Summon XX-Saber Faultroll in Attack Position!" Announced Kit as a red-clad, tall warrior appeared, wielding a huge sword. (XX-Saber Faultroll, Earth/Warrior, Level 6, 2400 Atk.) "I tune my Level 4 XX-Saber Boggart Knight to my Level 3 XX-Saber Fulhelmritter!" Announced Kit as Fulhelmknight swings its chain blade in a spiral around it, bursting into three motes of light that become green rings of light.
Kit begun to chant while this was going on: "Wielder of crossed blades of light! Trample over this mountain of corpses!" As the rings passed over Boggart Knight in a cylinder, causing it to fade into a golden outline and revealing four motes of light. The light motes arranged themselves into a line, electricity crackles over the area of each ring, and a line of light shoots down the rings.
"Synchro Summon! Level 7: X-Saber Souza!" Announced Kit as from the light appeared his X-Saber monster. The monster was a huge, older man in a metallic blue armor and a ragged, red cape. The armor was partially destroyed in some parts but otherwise made the knight look imposing. (X-Saber Souza, Earth/Warrior/Synchro, Level 7, 2500 Atk.)
"And here comes even more! Once per turn XX-Saber Faultroll allows me to Special Summon 1 X-Saber monster with a level of 4 or lower from my Graveyard! And I Special Summon XX-Saber Fulhelmknight!" Announced Kit as his monster stabbed his sword into the ground and revived his comrade. (Fulhelmknight: 1300 Atk.)
"So you are going to summon another monster huh?" I asked him calmly while he smirked, he didn't see that I had a trap for him that he couldn't avoid by swarming the field, that actually played into my hands.
"That is right! I tune the Level 6 XX-Saber Faultroll to my Level 3 XX-Saber Fulhelmknight!" Announced Kit yet again as his Tuner turned again into three rings and engulfed the older looking knight. "Let your silver armor shine! Crush the hope of all who oppose you! Synchro Summon! Come forth! Level 9! XX-Saber Gottoms!" Chanted Kit as his second Synchro Monster appeared.
Gottoms was so far the largest of the knights, clad in a thick silver armor and wielding a huge, two-pronged sword with a long red cape was quite imposing. And it's stats were also. (XX-Saber Gottoms, Earth/Beast-Warrior/Synchro, Level 9, 3100 Atk.)
"And your little Kuriboh won't stop them! Battle! I attack with XX-Saber Gottoms!" Shouted Kit, sure of his victory by this point.
"I activate my face-down card!" I responded at that as light suddenly shot out from my little fluff-ball making Gottoms stop in his tracks.
"What is that?!" Asked Kit until two huge wings shot out to both sides of the sphere of light.
"All protecting spirit, unleash the power sealed within your soul! Level-up Summon! Appear Winged Kuriboh Level 10!" I shouted as the light faded, revealing that my little buddy had changed. Now he had purple fur, wore a golden head-piece and his wings were huge! (Winged Kuriboh Lv 10, Light/Fairy, Level 10, 300 Atk.)
"My face-down card was the quick-spell Transcendent Wings, this powerful spell allows me, when I discard 2 cards from my hand, to sacrifice a Winged Kuriboh to summon it's higher level form." I explained as my little defender stood defiantly before the two huge monsters that looked at one another confused about this new form which still was cute.
"No matter! I continue the attack!" Declared Kit angrily as his monster reared back it's sword and I grinned.
"Not so fast! I activate the effect of Winged Kuriboh Level 10! I can sacrifice him to destroy all monsters in Attack Position on your field and inflict damage equal to their Attack Points to your Life Points!" I declared and Kit's eyes grew when he heard this. "Go Kuriboh! Full force Counter!" I shouted when my monster expanded the sphere of light around it, engulfing both of my opponents monsters before exploding in the Kuriboh Way.
"I activate the Action Card Shared Damage! If I would take Effect Damage it is divided by two and you get hit with the rest!" He declared, hoping it would bring me down.
I just smiled coldly at that, he wasn't lucky. "I activate my own Action Spell: No Action, this card negates all other Action Spells activated in the chain!" I declared and Kits eyes grew until he was hit by the explosion, throwing him back in the process.
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Duel End
Victory: Alex
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When the Action Field faded I glared up to the LID representatives who starred right back in shock, I one-turn-killed my opponent using his own monsters attack points against him after all. "I told you, I will win when you try to attack me, keep that in mind the next time you try to bully people because it could be that you are mugging a monster." I told him before going up to the observation room with Kit following, slightly dazed.
"Hah! That was a great duel Alex-chan! To your face LID!" Shouted Skip as I come up and I nearly laughed at the flabbergasted looks that I was getting from everyone save for Skip. Who was celebrating this nail into LID's coffin just now.
"T- t- that can't be! You can't have a rare card like Transcendent Wings! That is a Ultimate Rare card! No one who isn't a student at our school has a right to have such a card!" Objected Henrietta, souring my mood instantly.
"Not the right? I bought this card in a card-store, don't tell me what I can do and what not. And I have recorded the duel, surely we also have recordings of the duels where your duelist tried to win at any cost, including killing their opponents. That would hurt your reputation more than the possibility that a "Lowly 50% Duelist" defeated one of your better duelists, right?" I asked, bringing out the heavy artillery.
"You wouldn't dare-" Begun Henrietta, seeing how this would perhaps ruin the entire school due to the actions of her students and the way that the last of them lost to a girl who only needed one turn to set it up.
"Well, actually we can, the internet isn't controlled by LID as far as I know." Bumped in Zuzu, picking up on my little plan to use it to press some more from her.
"What do you want for those videos?" Asked Henrietta, seeing as she couldn't force anything now while the three representatives looked at each other nervously for that.
"Well, I do know. One point for each duel though, and another for the video I have made with my Duel Disk." I told her, Skip apparently opting to let me handle this. "First, for the attempted murder on Yuya by your duelist, I want you to triple the initial sum of budget for renovations and expansion of this school." I told her making her flinch instantly, those were 600k yen going down right there.
"For the brutal attack against Zuzu-san in her Duel and the bullying of a less experienced duelist to break her spirits by your Fusion representative", here Julia flinched at my critique since I had all controls here, "you will send 200 Fusion monsters and associated support and material cards here for the students to use." I demanded and made Henrietta take a doubletake at that, this was incredible!
"For the automatically recorded recording of my OTK on your prized Synchro Duelist here, I want the same as for the fusion monsters but in Synchro monsters." I explained and Henrietta nearly fell down at that, just 400 cards alone in Fusion and Synchro Monster, and associated cards meant Tuner monsters, fusion cards and support cards for those types!
"And finally, for my own recording, I demand both a official apology by Sawatari for attempted theft of Yuya-sans cards a few days ago and Pendulum monster tailored toward archetypes that we will give you a list of. You create the cards, so you can deliver can't you?" I asked her and Henrietta despaired at that, I found it only fitting that I was now taking her and her big, powerful school down a few notches this way.
"We will keep the recordings until you deliver, when you deliver them respectively you get the recordings. If you try again to take over, we will publish the recordings we still have." I warned her while the others celebrated, I basically made her lose more than a hundred times what she had initially agreed to, just because of their actions.
"As the head of Leo Corporation and owner of Leo Institute of Dueling I agree." Butted a new voice in and as we turned around I found a tall, thin man with gray hair stepping toward us. He wore a hoody, a blue woven pullover, a red scarf, red glasses and had gray hair. He had, honestly said, the air of a Seto Kaiba, just more calculating and not as arrogant.
"Akaba Declan! B- but what are you doing here?" Asked Skip shocked at seeing the man and I added to the whole thing that he was this series Seto Kaiba. He was a business man, stinking rich, most likely a professional duelist and perhaps even still went to school. Just needed a younger brother he is very protective about and he would be a Kaiba.
Not to mention he owned the largest and most prestigious dueling school in the world. "I come to watch the duels and I must admit that I am very displeased with the performance of our duelists." Answered Akaba, looking to the three duelists who shrunk down under his sight.
"I must agree with this young girl that the methods were wrong in every way, using fatalities to win a duel, nearly killing your opponent and trying to break their spirit is not acceptable." He told them and I felt a slight pang of gratitude at this, he backed me up apparently, at least one person in that school who wasn't a prick.
"And mother, I must remind you that we don't have a monopoly on rare cards either." Stated the young man, addressing the chairwoman who flinched at that while I took a doubletake, her son was her boss? Wow, that was news to me.
"Now, I would have another proposal. A duel between me and Sakaki Yuya together with Alexandra Archer. If they win I will double what they earned already so far, including what they would get for the tapes. I will also add Xyz monster in the same amount to it. In exchange, if I win they will join LID." Explained Declan and a tickmark appeared over my brow.
"Wait a second! You can't just decide that one! It might be a juicy deal but I don't want to get into that school!" I retorted, not intending to join that school under any circumstances.
"Why? LID is the best school in the world, why would you prefer to stay here?" Asked Julia with a frown and I threw her one of my own.
"Why? Well, my first impression is that the school teaches their students to kill their opponent if this would ensure victory, that it is alright to attack their opponent verbally, beating them mentally down so they would lose any fighting spirit and fun at the game, and generally that this game is serious business beyond anything I've ever heard!" I retorted, angrily making her flinch from this when I pointed her own problems out.
"The only person that I don't yet have any problems with is Kit Blade but only because all I know about him is overconfidence and that he supports that woman." I added before I remembered something. "Oh yeah, that school also supports thievery as long as you have the connections and just try to get your hands on rare cards." I added venomously, glaring at this Henrietta woman that was the reason for all this.
"I see, then I can't force you to this I guess. Then how about a alternative: My ante stays the same but your ante will be to come with me and answer my questions." Explained Akaba and I frowned, why did he want to ask me questions?
"What questions? If it is about my Numbers then don't ask, you won't get any cards like that." I asked, not outright saying that I was against that proposal.
"No, it is more about how you come to be here in Maiami City, because I am very sure you aren't attending any schools in this city." Explained Akaba and I stopped, did he know... no, impossible. On the other hand he was pretty much Kaiba in new costume from what I knew, so he should have the tech to survey any Duels going on around here. I guess my Numbers aren't regular enough not to be noticed.
"And that is all you want then? Well, nothing much to lose for us then." I agree for myself and as I looked to Yuya he was grinning. "You are going to duel him too?" I asked him and he nodded before we went with him to the duel field and after he gave Yuya the choice he let it up to skip and soon after around us built up the Action Field Athletic Circus, which was a huge circus tent with numerous platform and attractions like that.
I found myself on the edge of a sun shaped matt in the center of the room, not far from Yuya. "Seriously, how can they make this so big?" I muttered to myself as I changed to my Galaxy Wide Deck, just to give him the benefit of seeing the Numbers because this was a quick playing Deck. From Yuya's cards I knew that he played a extremely effect heavy Deck which didn't boast many monster with high Attack Points, I would help him in that regard with the high Attack monsters of the Photon Archetype.
"Duelists locked in battle!" Zuzu cheers.
"Kicking against the earth and dancing in the air alongside their monsters!" Tatsuya continues.
"They storm through this Field!" Futoshi adds.
"Behold!" Ally cries.
"This is the newest and greatest evolution of Dueling!" All four cheer.
"ACTION!" As the Action Cards explode into the field, and the three of us finish the statement with a cry of "DUEL!"
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4000 LP / 4000 LP / 4000 LP
Action Duel
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"As thanks for letting me choose the field, how about you begin the duel Declan-san?" Offered Yuya smiling while I stretched slightly, beginning a warm-up since I wouldn't stay where I was this time around.
"Alright with me, my Deck works better when I can draw." I pointed out easily and noted how Akaba seemed slightly confused but did it anyway.
"I begin then." He declared loudly as confirmation as per the rules.
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Declan: 4000 LP, 5 cards
Turn 1
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"I activate the Continuous Spell Card Covenant with the Hellgate, this card will cause me to lose 1000 Life Points in my next Standby Phase." He explained and I frowned, deciding that going after Action Cards right now would be best.
While my two fellow duelists conversed, with Yuya asking what was going on, I run off to search for the cards, finding one behind a box and upon picking it up found that it was the Balloon Buddy Spell Card, it would activate when I summoned a Level 4 or higher monster and would become a perfect Copy of it. Perfect.
"The second effect is that this card allows me to add 1 Level 4 or lower "D/D" monster from my Deck, I add D/D Cerberus." Explained Declan as he added a monster to his hand. "Next I activate another Covenant with the Hellgate, to add D/D Lillith to my Hand." Declared Declan and took another monster to his hand, upping the number of Life Points he was a bout to lose next turn to 3000.
"Lastly, I activate the Continuous Spell Covenant with the Swamp King, this Spell Card allows me to fusion summong monsters in my hand without Polymerization." Explained Akaba as Swamp King appeared behind him. "The monsters I choose are D/D Cerberus and D/D Lillith!" Announced Akaba as the two monsters formed the whirlpool usual for fusion summoning.
"Hellhound which bares its fangs, seductress of dark night! In whirlpool of light from the realm of the dead, become one and give birth to a new King!" Chanted the young man before clasping his hands together. "Fusion Summon! Be born, D/D/D Blaze King Temujin!" Declared Akaba as a huge fiend wreathed in flames and black armor appeared, bearing a towershield and a longsword in his hands. (D/D/D Blaze King Temujin, Fire/Fiend/Fusion, Level 6, 2000 Atk.)
"All that risk for a monster with 2000 Attack Points?" I asked confused, I had Level 4 monster with higher Attack Points than that and he was going to lose 3000 Life Points regardless of what he was going to do.
"I set two cards face down, it's your teams turn, who is going to start?" Asked Declan evenly as he eyed both of us evenly, I didn't like this really.
"I will go next, Draw!" Announced Yuya as he drew, taking the decision from me.
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Yuya: 4000 LP, 6 cards
Turn 2
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Yuya was now running toward a platform, leaping onto it while playing his card. "I summon Performapal Whip Snake!" Declared the Tomato as the purple colored snake appeared on his arm. "I activate Whip Snake's Effect, I can once per turn switch the Attack and Defense Points of a monster on the field, I choose Temujin!" He declared, and I smiled, Temujins Defense Points weren't that good either. (Temujin: 2000 → 1500 Atk.)
"I attack Temujin with Whip Snake!" Declared Yuya loudly as his monster jumped forward to attack the fiend monster in front of it.
"Not so fast! I activate the continuous Trap Card Covenant with the Valkyrie!" Declared Declan as his trap revealed itself. "I take in every Standby Phase 1000 points of damage, but in exchange all Fiend-Type monster gain 1000 Attack Points during your turn." Declared the man as his monsters Attack Points grew again, now at 2500.
Whip Snake become panicked as it tried to stop it's fall now while Yuya run to get a Action Card. I myself cursed that I only had one that would be useful in my turn.
Then Yuya did his usual thing. "I activate the Action Card High Dive! This card raises my monsters Attack Points by 1000!" Declared Yuya as a trampoline appeared on the ground, catching the snake and bouncing it upward again. The snake glowed red after that and dived at the larger monster. (Whip Snake: 1700 → 2700 Atk.)
Declan let himself be hauled away by his monster to a ball and picked up a Action Card there. The two monsters connected and I expected the fiend to be done now but while Whip Snake come back, his monster survived. "I activated Evasion, this card negated your attack." Explained Declan calmly while I cursed, but the fact stood: He still had four cards on the field that would cause 1000 points of damage each. He had lost.
"Yuya-san! Leave the rest to me!" I called to him, surprising the boy but he nodded while Declan looked to me, expectant I realized.
"Alright, I set 1 card face-down and end my turn." Explained Yuya, the card appearing before him before he dashed off, using Whip Snake like a lasso to get faster around.
"My turn Draw!" I declared while drawing my card.
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Alex: 4000 LP, 6 cards
Turn 3
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"When I discard 1 card from my Hand I can Special Summon Galaxy Soldier and I will just do that!" I declared as the machine monster appeared before me, holding it's riffle. (Galaxy Soldier, Light/Machine, Level 5, 2000 Atk.) "Next I activate a Action Card: Balloon Buddy!" I declared as the card appeared, Action Cards were like Quick Play Spells, therefore this was a chain.
"This card will become a monster after Activation and with the same name, Level, Attack and Defense Points as the monster I summoned last." I explained to him as a balloon appeared with the same shape as my first monster. "And I am not yet done! I sacrifice my Galaxy Soldier and my Balloon Galaxy Soldier who both have over 2000 Attack Points to Special Summon a dragon with eyes like Galaxies!" I announced as my monsters turned into orbs and formed a portal.
"The galaxy that lurks in the darkness. Become the light of hope and my very servant. The embodiment of light, now descend!" I chanted until a pillar of light appeared from the portal. "Appear now, Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon!" I shouted as my dragon exited the portal in all of it's glory before us. (Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, Light/Dragon, Level 8, 3000 Atk.)
"So, that is a "Galaxy-Eyes" monster." Muttered Declan as he saw my new monster which roared before him, sending shockwaves through the area.
"But I am not yet done, when I have a "Photon" or "Galaxy" monster on my field I can Normal Summon Galaxy Knight without tribute. In exchange he loses 1000 Attack Points." I explained as my knight appeared besides my dragon. (Galaxy Knight, Light/Warrior, Level 8, 2800 → 1800 Atk.)
"Two Level 8 monster? Are you about to summon that number again?" Asked Declan, a hint of eagerness in his tone, making me smirk at that.
"Since you wish to see a number, this badly, I will oblige! I overlay my Level 8 Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon with my Level 8 Galaxy Knight to built the Overlay Network!" I announced as my two monsters turned into streaks of yellow light and vanished into a galaxy like portal.
"Appear! Galactic Ultimate Dragon, Numbers 62! Darkness and light wandering in the universe. Sorrowful Dragon who sleeps in the interstice. Its power of creating opens the door of the truth! Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon!" I chanted as my dragon took shape. It was a much larger version of my initial dragon with darker armor, more of it, and much larger wings. It's body still retained the blue color though. (Number 62: Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon, Light/Dragon/Xyz, Rank 8, 4000 Atk.)
Collective gasps went through the audience at seeing my newly summoned monster and I smirked. "Shocked? I never said that the "Galaxy-Eyes" only have one "Number" among them." I revealed to them smirking as I stood alongside my dragon.
"Now here comes my dragons effect: All non-Xyz monster are treated as if they had ranks equal to their level, further my dragon gains Attack Points equal to the combined Ranks of all monsters on the field times 200." I explained to them and I could see Declan flinch slightly as the Levels turned into Ranks. (Prime Photon Dragon: 4000 → 7600 Atk.)
"Suggoi! Her dragon is now more than 4000 points stronger than his Temujin!" Shouted Ally, a young girl, younger than me, with dark pink hair.
"And that is the point! If that face-down does nothing and he can't protect himself they win!" Exclaimed Gong as he saw this, I had the duel in the bag with this and he was right there.
"And I put the last nail in this coffin! I activate the Spell Card of revival: Monster Reborn!" I declared as a Graveyard portal appeared before me. "With this I Special Summon Galaxy Knight in Attack Mode!" I declared as my Level 8 monster reappeared before us swinging his sword. (Galaxy Knight: 2800 Atk.) (Prime Photon Dragon: 7600 → 9200 Atk.)
"Go Prime Photon Dragon! Destroy his Temujin with true Photon blast!" I called out as I jumped onto another stage and picked up a Action Card there. Just as my dragon hit Temujin Declan reached a card as well. When the smoke cleared we found Temujin still standing, but barely.
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Declan: 4000 → 900 LP (-3100 Damage)
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"I activated the Action Card Last Resort Double, this card saved my monster, halved the Damage I would take, but reduces my monsters Attack Points by 2000." Explained Declan, his monster smoking from the attack. (Temujin: 3000 → 1000 Atk.)
I smiled at that, he saved his monster to the last second but I would take more Life Points than I initially wanted. "Yuma-san, can I burrow your monster?" I asked and he nodded before I pointed at the weakened monster and declared: "Go Whip Snake, attack his Temujin!" In response the monster leaped forward, biting the once mighty titan who cried out in pain while it's master lost more Life Points.
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Declan: 900 → 550 LP (-350 Damage)
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Suddenly his monster glowed red before exploding. "The second effect of Last Resort Double, the reducing effect is applied each time this turn my monster is attacked, and if it hits zero it is destroyed. And with that also ends it's effect." Explained Declan to us and I had to give it to him, he had found a cool card.
"Then let me end it here! Galaxy Knight attack Akaba-san directly!" I shouted, making my warrior leap forward before slashing down at the man who blocked with his Duel Disk but was thrown back by the blow.
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Declan: 550 → 0 LP (-2800 Damage)
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The Action Field and our monsters faded away with this conclusion to the duel. "And the winners are: Yuya and Alex!" Shouted Skip loudly while I high-fived Yuya at that, we won the duel!
"I admit my defeat, it seems I underestimated you two enough that you could pull off a victory as a team." concluded Declan while standing up and I looked to him, man was he icy, but at least he took the loss like a man instead of being a dick about it like Kaiba or Chazz.
"Yeah, and don't forget your ante, I have the recording of this Duel now too." I declared, tapping my Duel Disk as if to prove it. What? This is Anime, they will believe me, with good reason because I had the recording.
"Naturally. I guess our business here is finished for now." He stated before walking to the observation room where we followed him since there was no point otherwise. "Mother, I leave it to you to deliver the promised goods. Farewell." Spoke Declan as we come into the room before leaving already with flabbergasted LID students and chairwoman in his wake.
"Well, then I see you in a week or so, right Akaba-san?" Asked Skip happily before shooing the four LID members out of the building. The following victory party was a bit over the top if anyone asked me, but no one did anyway.
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Neutral POV
Leo Corporation
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"Why did you leave them like this Declan? Didn't you say that this Yuya boy was a potential enemy of LID?" Asked Henrietta her son, skeptically about how he let Sakaki Yuya off along with this Alex girl.
"There was no point in continuing since I have already found out the answer. Yuya isn't the culprit, during the duels I got informed that one of our faculty members went missing after a duel with a Xyz user." Explained Declan and confused his mother as he watched on a number of screens how Alex, Yuya and Sora walked home together.
"More interesting are those Xyz monster the girl uses, she is right in such that we can create our own Pendulum monster, so the only question is: Where comes the American/Japanese girl from?" Explained Declan thoughtfully as he starred at the blonde girl who was walking with Yuya and Sora.
"I will make sure they investigate her. Do you want me to make copies of those numbers?" Asked Henrietta, thinking about how she could get those overpowered cards.
"No, I doubt those cards are ordinary Duel Monster cards. It would perhaps be as bad as trying to copy the Egyptian God Cards to copy those." Answered Declan before standing up. "Add Alexandra Archer to the Junior Youth competition, and add her also to the list of potential Lancer candidates." Instructed the overly rich duelist his mother who just nodded, wondering why he said that but keeping quiet.
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And here ends the second chapter of this fanfiction.
If anyone asks from what Deck that Kuriboh come: This was a Fusion Deck based on Jaden Yuki, she wouldn't have gone that way but Alex was pissed at the LID students so she humilated them in the best way possible: By defeating one of their best with a Winged Kuriboh.
Regarding how Alex pretty much wiped the floor with Declan: Photon Decks are just this OP, that is a fact. Photon/Galaxy Decks like this are made up of monsters with near uniformly 2000+ Attack Points and they Xyz Summon quickly Rank 8 monster like the Galaxy-Eyes cards. Furthermore Number 62 has this OP effect in the Anime anyway, therefore Declan lost more toward his inability to cope with a Number than Alex.
For those who will now say that I can't make her draw the same hand twice: I have Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V Tag Force Special and Keito makes this same move several times in a row in different Duels.
And a reminder: All Cards Alex has were converted into their Anime counterparts therefore Numbers have their uniform effect too.