A/N: Before you read this chapter, I edited the previous chapter to reflect a change in one card effect for certain card. Please read or re-read the last chapter before this one. Other than that, pleas enjoy this new chapter!
EDIT(2/16/16): Changed the name for one of the cards.
EDIT(3/14/16): Life Points are reflected correctly as well as one monster's ATK points due to its effect. Life Points from previous chapter are also correct.
-Chapter 14-
Path to My Dream Opens!
"This is it! Let's do this thing for the finale! My turn, DRAW!"
Yusuke drew his card bright fully. He slowly saw what he drew with his eye widen.
His father stared at him with his arm crossed while everyone else was watching with anxious look.
"Thanks to the effect of Equal Exchange on the field, I discard one card from my hand." He slid one card into the Graveyard zone. "Now, I set two cards face down. Turn end!"
"What!?" His relatives gasped.
"Yusuke, what are you doing!? You're leaving yourself open for a direct attack!" His young sister yelled at him.
"He is truthfully giving up?" Their grandfather thought aloud.
"Hmph, I see. So that is your answer. My turn, I draw!" His father exclaimed. "Since this is my only card, I must discard it!"
He slid his drawn card to the Graveyard Zone. "Battle! I declare my Miso Supreme Priestress, attack him directly!" His monster blasted another powerful beam of hot miso soup at him, but Yusuke only showed a smirk.
"Not so fast, dad! I activate my monster's effect from my Deck!" Yusuke declared, when a familiar small pixie appeared in front of him, blocking the attack.
"Ah! Of course!" Yumi realized.
"Via its effect, I special summon Pixie Miracle from my Deck! Your attack is negated and the Battle Phase ends!"
"It can't be!" His father gasped.
"That's not all! I activate my Quick Play Spell, Lucky Three!" A Spell card flipped up, revealing to be a shining three-leaf clover with the number 3 in the center as the clover glowed in green aura.
"This card is activated after I set it first. When I have no card in my hand, I get to draw three cards from my Deck!" Yusuke explained as he drew three cards.
"He protected his own Life Points and drew three more from his Deck. Strange, and yet a nice save." Yumi commented.
"Fine. I end my turn here." Yoshinori said.
"Alright, my turn! I draw!" Yusuke drew his card excitedly. "As always, I discard my card. Then, I activate my second set card, Assistant's Magic!"
This one has that Spell card frame with a depiction of Gagaga Magician Girl on the left, Dark Magician Girl on the right, and Rookie Witch in the middle, all three coming out of a white portal with stream of energy flowing out of it while shadowy image of Masquerade Caped Crusader hovering over them.
"Assistant's Magic!?" Yoshinori almost gasped.
"That's right, dad! When this card is activated, I get to Special Summon 1 Level 6 or lower level Spellcaster monster from my Deck! And I choose the one and only, Rookie Witch!"
The cute female magician popped out of the Spell while it was acting the portal. She gasped a bit when she popped out of the portal before it closes in. She giggled as she floated on Yusuke's side of the field.
"A monster with 1700 ATK? How will it defeat my Fusion monster, my son?" His father asked.
"Oh, you will see, Dad! I activate Rookie Witch's effect! She counts as two monsters for a tribute summon for Spellcaster-type monster!" He admitted. "I tribute my Rookie Witch…"
Rookie Witch waved with her wand as sparkles flew over her before she disappeared when she transformed into sparkles. "I summon my one and only, Masquerade Caped Crusader!"
His ace monster appeared with shining light as he posed his usual magician style like if he is on a stage.
"With Yusuke's ace monster, he can use it to attack Dad's Fusion monster via his monster's effect! Impressive!" Yumi impressed.
"But, I am not over yet!"
"Huh?" Yumi looked surprised.
"Because, now with two Spellcaster-type monsters are in my Graveyard right now, I will banish both of them to summon another great monster from my hand! I banish Rookie Witch and Masquerade Houdinia from my Graveyard…"
Two said spell-casters appeared in fading form before both jumped into the air, transforming into two golden lights.
"I bring forth my one and only, the dragon of colors! Come out, Rainbow Mage Dragon!" He called as the said dragon appeared in its glorious colorful skins. It roared gloriously as it flew down to stand alongside the caped magician.
"Amazing! Just like in David's Duel, he summoned that dragon, but what is he going to do with these two?" Ms. Akako thought with huge interests in her eyes.
His sister, mother, grandfather, and even father were awed at the two monsters that Yusuke pulled off in summoning them.
"Now, for the finale, I activate my last set card, the one that I placed face down since my very first turn!" Yusuke declared.
Everyone remembered that card he had facing down all this time. They wondered what could it be. They will find out now. "Behold, Dad! This is my proof how serious I am to wanting to become a professional Duelist! I activate Magical Fusion!"
"Fusion!?" Everyone gasped. His mirror-self smirked proudly.
The flipped card depicted purple figure that looks like Dark Magician and another figure that depicts of a monster, swirling into a vortex of neon color. "When this card is activated, I target 1 Spellcaster-type monster and then use that monster, along with other monster to perform a Fusion Summon as long as the materials are correct! I target my Masquerade Caped Crusader and fuse him with Rainbow Mage Dragon!"
Two said monsters floated up into the air as they transformed into a swirl of yellow and red energies respectfully.
"Magician that brings fun and joy through battles and dragon of great rainbow powers, combine together to bring forth the powerful warrior to prove my will of determination! Fusion Summon! Show your majestic prism of power, Drago, the Majestic Prism Knight!"
A new beautiful male knight appeared. It wore golden crystal armor, which it acted as his chest plate, gauntlet, horns, and crowns. Two rainbow wings expanded widely on his back. His eyes were ruby color while he held a large staff made of stone with a large silver prism on the top.
Drago, the Majestic Prism Knight-Level 8, LIGHT, Warrior/Fusion/Effect, 3000 ATK, 2000 DEF
Everyone awed at the new Warrior-type monster Yusuke just summoned.
"Drago's effect activates! By banishing one Spellcaster-type monster in my Graveyard, Drago gains half of that monster's ATK until the End Phase! I banish Masquerade Caped Crusader!"
An yellow aura self of the said monster absorbed into Drago's prism on his staff, now glowing in yellow light. He spun his staff around before he aimed directly at Yoshinori's monster.
"4250!?" Yoshinori gasped.
"Go, Drago! Attack with Primal Prism Beam!" His monster shot a big, powerful golden beam from the prism as it blasted at his monster, destroying it in the process.
"Gaaahh!" Yoshinori screamed as he took damage.
Yoshinori's LP: 1000
"Even though I took heavy damage, my Trap card, Gourmet Pot will heal me with extra life points equal to half of my destroyed Meal Masher monster!" His father stated.
Yoshinori's LP: 2300
"I'm impressed how strong you became, my son ever since we last duel when you were just a kid, but you still can't beat your old man."
"You're always strong Dad, but today I will beat you, no matter what! Drago's other effect activates!"
"Say what!?" He asked shockingly.
"By banishing one Spell card from my Graveyard, I can declare Dragon to attack again, but in exchange, I cannot declare the Battle Phase for my next turn, but no worry because I win this Duel!"
"No…way…." His father said calmly.
"Drago, finish this Duel with one last Primal Prism Beam!" Yusuke yelled out in excitement and determination. His warrior monster used its staff to shot out one last energy beam at his own father.
"Yusuke…you truly have grown stronger than me. You…pass." He said as he closed his eyelid, accepting his defeat.
Yoshinori's LP: 0
Yusuke Wins!
The duel wave field disappeared as the monsters and other cards faded away.
"Dad!" Yusuke yelled as he ran over to his collapsed father's side.
"Father!" Yumi yelled, too.
They all went over to him. Their mother helped him to get up.
"Are you alright, my darling?" She asked.
"Yeah, I am fine, hun. Thank you for asking." He said with an assured smile. "Yusuke."
"Yeah, dad?" He asked.
"You….just do whatever you want." He stated. His word brought Yusuke to joy as he jumped victoriously.
"Ooooooohhhhh YEAAAAAHHH!" He screamed at the top of the lung, enough for the neighbors to hear.
"Well, well. That sure wakes up the neighborhood." Ms. Akako joked.
I agree.
"Congratulations, Yusuke. You did…big brother." Yumi said with a genuine smile.
"Thanks, sis!" Yusuke said, but noticed something. "Say, sis, you're actually smiling!"
She then turned back to her usual emotionless expression. "Don't make me take back what I said."
Yusuke just chuckled. "Thank you, sis. Don't worry about it!"
"Great job, kiddo!" Grandpa cheered. "I knew you can do it."
"Thanks, grandpa!" Yusuke grinned.
"Well, now that is resolved. Your path to fulfill your dream is opened up for you, Yusuke." Ms. Akako spoke.
"Heck yeah it is! When can we start?" Yusuke asked excitedly.
"Easy there, little man. You still have school to finish. Until that, then we will begin your career."
"What!?" He gasped, making him feel a bit disappointed. Everyone laughed about that.
About few weeks later, Yusuke, Haruka, and all other students got the grade back for the last exam. Yusuke got a solid grade, B+ while Haruka got an A, which she does occasionally.
"Hey, I get decent amount of A. Not as much as Yumi probably, but I do well, too you know!" She yelled.
Umm…Anyway, this could only mean one thing; they are freed from school for the rest of the summer, which lasts for about a month with few weeks. Typical for where they live in the town section of Tokyo.
"Sweet! Now that school is over, I can finally begin my career as Pro Duelist! My dream is finally here! I can become the next King of Duelists!" Yusuke cheered.
"That's sound really great! What will you be doing exactly?" Haruka asked.
"Well, I really don't know the plans yet from Ms. Akako, but she said that once school is over, she will call me." Yusuke said.
Just then, his Smartphone vibrated. He checked his mobile device. "Oh, it's !"
"Speaking of the devil…" Haruka and I said at the same time.
"Hello, Ms. Akako? It's me, Yusuke! Ah-hah, ah hah. Really? Tomorrow! You got yourself a deal! I will see you in the morning then. Bye!" He ended the call.
"Guess what, guys?"
"Don't ask me, and I doubt the narrator will not spoil me if he says it now, but what is it?" Haruka asked.
"Ms. Akako will pick me up tomorrow and I will begin my 'training'! This is going to be awesome! I am starting tomorrow!"
"That's great! We should celebrate tonight!"
"Good idea! I will contact my parents now, and we can party tonight!"
And, so they did. Haruka told her parents, and she was accepted to join the Kagami's party at Yusuke's home. They had a nice banquet. Even Yumi joined in for the party, taking a break from extra night class for this occasion. Later that night, Yusuke went to sleep, putted in bed by his mother since he got tired and fell asleep.
"Good night, Yusuke." She said as she kissed him on the forehead before she left his bedroom.
-Yusuke's POV-
Yusuke was back in his mind world.
"Hey, I am inside my mind again." He said.
"Yes, yes you are, Yusuke." His other-self appeared, looking both serious and calm as always.
"Oh, what's up, my other me! What's cooking?" He asked.
"I don't even know how to cook and you already ate a lot of food during that party." He stated.
"Just a figure of speech, dude." Yusuke said.
"Right…" He replied. "Anyway, Yusuke, I call you here because there is something I must discuss."
"Actually, I have few words to say to you to, but you go first." He suggested.
"Very well." His other-self said. "So far, my memories, although not completely yet, restored to some degrees. One particular part of my memory is I saw…a woman."
"A woman? OK." Yusuke said.
"I don't exactly know her name yet, but she seemed to be very important to me, and I have this strange feeling that…something terrible happened to her."
"Woah, really?" Yusuke now looked a bit worry. "That does not sound good."
"Indeed." He nodded. "But, I do not know what exactly happened to her, but whatever it is, I feel that she is in a great danger."
"So, what can we do?" Yusuke asked.
"I…really don't know. Since she is in part of my memory, I suspect that she also comes from my dimension, the Mirror World, but unfortunately I don't remember how to get back there. All I know is that she is in great danger, and the only thing we can do or at least what I can do is continue to fight against the Mirror monsters, just like how we've been doing in the past."
"Hmmmm." Yusuke thinks to himself before he opened his eyes. "Well, no matter!"
He smiled. "We will just continue to Duel whenever another Mirror monster showed up. That is the way to restore your memories, right? You got my back, my other me, so we will do this together and save that woman you're talking about!"
"You…will help me?" He asked.
"Of course, dude! You are my other me, and if I don't help you, it's like saying I can't help myself and that will be weird! Overall, whoever this lady is, if she is danger, then we got to save her! Let's do this together, friend!"
His other-self smirked. "Very well and…thank you, Yusuke. To be honest, I had…a bit of doubt in your intellect and skills, no offense, but your heart is in the right place, definitely."
He grinned widely. "No problem! Also, what I want to say is thank you, to you, too."
"What do you mean? I never exactly recall completing a favor to you or anything similar to that." He said.
"No, not like that. I mean, I want to say thank you for always being on my side whenever I need you. I know you are kind of quiet most of the times, but as long as we are together, nothing will stop me or us!"
"I see." He said. "I am glad that I am a great assistance to you, Yusuke as you're great help to me. Let's continue our cooperation as we restore my memories."
"Yeah!" Yusuke said with his fist pumping.
-Meanwhile-
Somewhere in a street alley, a mysterious dark blue portal opened up. A huge figure first came out until it was followed by two more figures that looked identical.
"So, this must be our counterpart dimension, and this is their Earth." The huge figure said with a deep, strong voice. His body was huge, indicating he is physically built. His hair was silver, a bit spiky around the corner, looking like he wears a crown. He wore a green shirt with black spandex that made a letter X over his chest, army-pattered pant in green and dark green color, and black boots. His skin was a mild dark, little bit in between the light and dark shade of the color.
"Yeah, yeah. Same old Earth, but just a bit different with our Earth. I am sure we won't get lost here if it shares any similarity." The other figure said. This one was a young teen boy. His hair was dark blue with a hood over. His skin was pale white while his eyes were blond. His sweater was light blue with pocket below the chest, and white trouser with lighter blue shade of color at the end of each leg. His shoes were silver, and he also wore black bracelet on each of his wrist.
"I agree with you, bro." The third one spoke. This one was a young girl, around the brother's age and same height, too. Her hair was cyan blue, unlike her brother's dark blue hair. She wore a cyan t-shirt with a pink heart that says "Love is Pain" and skimpy white short-short, and gold shoes with silver sparkles. Her complexion was olive, but rest of her skin, especially the arms and legs, were pale white.
"Yes, our world and their world are parallel to each other, so both dimensions share some similarity here and there." A fourth figure said who came out of the portal before it closed in.
This figure was a tall, young woman with slender and pale white skin, but mild-pluck and perfect hourglass body. She had long black hair that went down below her shoulder, and it was curly at the ends. Some of her hair covered her left eye while only her right eye was revealing. She wore a dark violet dress with black high heels, making her stand at around 5 feet and 11 inches. She also had one earring revealed on her right ear, which was gold and diamond-shaped with a tiny ruby inserted in it. Her eye color was red-orange, making her look a bit demonic.
If you ask me, the fourth figure reminds me of Cinder Fall from RWBY…wait a second!?
"Anyway, while the great narrator is gagging over my appearance as we ignore him, remember our objective." She said.
"Yeah, yeah. We find him, right?" The lad with the hoodie asked with carelessness in his tone.
"Exactly." She nodded. "Once we find him, we will get what we want, and then the world and all other dimensions will be in my palms."
New Cards Cheat Sheet for Chapters 13 and 14
Meal Masher Curriman-Level 3, Scale 5, FIRE, Warrior/Effect, 500 ATK, 1000 DEF. Normal Effect: Unknown. Pendulum Effect: Unknown
Equal Exchange-Type: Continuous Trap Effect: Both players must discard 1 card during their Draw Phase for each time they draw a card.
Majestic Aura Sword-Type: Equip Spell Effect: Equipped monster is not affected by Spell and Trap cards.
Gourmet Pot-Type: Continuous Trap Effect: If a "Meal Masher" monster is destroyed by battle, the owner of that monster gains Life Points equal to the half of that destroyed monster's ATK.
Mysterious Menu-Type: Normal Spell Effect: You must select three cards from your Deck; then your opponent must choose one of the three cards you selected. The card he/she chose is added to your hand while the other two cards are sent back to your Deck and then it reshuffles.
Meal Masher Hot Doggie-Level 1, Scale 8, EARTH, Beast/Effect, 0 ATK, 0 DEF. Normal Effect: When this card is Normal Summoned successfully while you have fewer cards in your hand than your opponent's, draw 2 cards.
Meal Masher Shrimpy Oni-Giri, Level 4, Scale 1, DARK, 1300 ATK, 200 DEF. Normal Effect: Unknown Pendulum Effect: When this card is the only card in the Pendulum Zone, add another Pendulum monster from your field, Deck, or Graveyard and place it to the other Pendulum Zone.
Meal Masher Fira Chicken-Level 2, Scale 8, FIRE, Winged-Beast/Effect, 100 ATK, 0 DEF. Normal Effect: While you controls another monster with "Meal Masher" besides this card on the field, use this card and other monsters currently on the field as Fusion Materials to Special Summon 1 "Meal Masher" Fusion monster (This Special Summon is treated as Fusion Summon. The materials to summon the monster must be correct). Pendulum Effect: Unknown
Meal Masher Miso Priest-Level 4, Scale 2, WATER, Warrior/Effect, 1400 ATK, 1000 DEF. Normal Effect: Unknown. Pendulum Effect: Unknown
Meal Masher Miso Supreme Priestess-Level 6, WATER, Spellcaster/Fusion/Effect, 2400 ATK, 1600 DEF. Effect: 1 Meal Masher Miso Priest + 1 Meal Masher monster. Effect: When this card is Fusion Summoned; All monsters without the name "Meal Masher" on the field currently have their ATK be decreased by 500 points. All monsters with the name "Meal Masher" on the field have their ATK be increased by 500 points.
Recipe Storm-Type: Quick-Play Spell Effect: Target one Meal Masher monster that has already attacked; it gains 500 ATK points and it may attack again for this turn only.
Spongy Bunny-Level 1, WATER, Beast/Effect, 100 ATK, 100 DEF. Effect: While this card is in the Graveyard; When you're targeted for direct attack with 2000 or more points of damage; negate that attack. Then, banish this card from your Graveyard.
Lucky Three-Type: Quick-Play Spell Effect: When you have no cards in your hand currently; you draw 3 cards from your Deck.
Assistant's Magic-Type: Quick-Play Spell Effect: Special Summon 1 Level 6 or lower Spellcaster-type monster from your Deck to your side of the field; the Special Summoned monster is sent to the Graveyard during the End Phase after this card was activated.
Magical Fusion-Type: Normal Spell Effect: Targets 1 Spellcaster-type monster on either player's side of the field. Then, use other monster(s) on your side of the field alongside with the targeted Spellcaster monster to Special Summon 1 Fusion monster from your Extra Deck (This Special Summon is treated as Fusion Summon as long as the materials to summon that monster are correct).
Drago, the Majestic Prism Knight-Level 8, LIGHT, Warrior/Fusion/Effect, 3000 ATK, 2000 DEF. Effect: 1 Spellcaster-type monster + 1 Dragon-type monster. Once per turn, you may banish 1 Spellcaster-type monster from your Graveyard; then this card gains ATK equals to half of that banished monster. Banish 1 Spell card from your Graveyard; then this card can attack again for this turn, but you cannot declare the Battle Phase for the next turn after you activated this effect. You can only summon 1 "Drago, the Majestic Prism Knight" per turn and only activate the effect for 1 "Drago, the Majestic Prism Knight" per turn.
I am glad to finish this chapter before my school begins next week. What did you guys and gals think of Yusuke's new Fusion monsters, and revealation of the new antagonists? This is the last chapter for the first story arc, "Attack of the Mirror" and from here, I will begin the new and second story arc for this story, "Pre Duel City" arc. It will center around Yusuke and his mirror-self as they will train to become a Pro Duelist and prepare themselves for the upcoming tournament, Duel City, which is based off on the original Battle City from the original Yu-Gi-Oh series. At the same time, they will face more Mirror monsters while the villains plot something in the shadows. There will also be more new characters, too, so I hope all of you will look forward to it.
Just to head up, I may not be as active once school begins for me because it is my last semester before I graduate as well as I am searching for job position currently, and will get one this year for experience, so please understand and be patient for any future updates for this story (as well as my other stories).
Criticism and any reviews are always welcomed and next times in Yu-Gi-Oh Mirror, Yusuke will begin his training to become a Pro Duelist and meets few other new Duelists who is also trainee as well. See you all in the next chapter!