" I am an idiot!" Mercy thought as she walks back to Card Capital 2. She had forgotten to buy a pack of cards. She wasted no time entering the shop once she gets there. Shin looks up in surprise before smiling. " Hi Mercy. You came here at a good time." The man told the girl. " What's going-" Mercy stopped talking when she saw Misaki.
Misaki chuckles at the surprise look on Mercy's face. " It's been a while since we seen each other. Card Capital has been keeping me busy." Misaki said. " Misaki! Please play vanguard with me!" Mercy suddenly pleads. The two adults blink, before laughing. " Mercy is still impulsive like the first day she came here!" Shin laughs as he remembers that day.
The thirteen year old pouts and looks at her deck. Her main avatar Nightmare Doll, Alice stares at her back at her. Mercy smiles back at the unit. Alice was given to her by her mother. After that, the Pale Moon clan became Mercy's favorite clan to use. A lot of her classmates thought she was a little creepy, because of her clan or weird because of her eyes. Her fascination for Nightmare Dolls sort of made it worse.
She wonders why everyone at school has to think she's weird, because of her clan and eyes. It wasn't her fault for being born with mismatch eye colors. And she likes Nightmare Dolls because they don't seem creepy to her. Misaki finally stops laughing. She walks over to a Standing Fight Table.
Mercy smiles and skips over to the table. " Stand up! Vanguard!" The two call out at the same time. Mercy is using Nightmare Doll, Pamela. While Misaki is using Godhawk Ichibyoshi as her current avatar. Shin watches the two play vanguard. It is nice to see Mercy having her cheerful smile again. After Shion and Tokoha had left, she wasn't as happy as she usually is. He was beginning to worry about her, but it looks like his worries are over.
Shin starts to remembers the party at Card Capital 2 when Chrono defeated Kanzaki.
(Flashback)
Everyone was having fun at the party. A certain eleven year old girl was busy making the party really fun. She giggles when she sees Shin and Kamui frantically apologizing to Misaki on the phone. Seeing almost everyone smile and have fun made her smile.
She spots Taiyou talking to Jaime. Mercy sneaks behind the boy and hugs him. The boy yelps in surprise before he realizes who is hugging him. " Mercy! You shouldn't hug people from behind! You might give them an heart attack!" Taiyou scolds the girl.
" Sorry." Mercy apologizes as she lets go of Taiyou. He turns around to face the girl and ruffles her hair. It was easy for him to do that, since she is only a few inches shorter than him. Shin had just finished talking to Misaki when he noticed the two eleven year olds. He smiles at their cute interactions.
" Come on Taiyou! We should play vanguard to see which unit is better!" Mercy announces with an cheerful smile. " You're on!" Taiyou exclaims with a smile. The two race to an Standing Fight Table. Shin walks over to the teenagers and watches Mercy and Taiyou play vanguard.
Nobody said a word except for the two preteens. " I think Mercy will be a great Pale Moon user someday." Shion suddenly says. Shin looks at the girl and realizes that the teenager is right. Mercy was reminding him of Misaki now.
There was no doubt that the usually cheerful girl has potential to be a great vanguard player. But it is up to Mercy if she wants to do that.
" Guard!" Mercy shouts as Shin snaps out of his thoughts. He could see that both Misaki and Mercy were tied. Who ever manages to make an direct attack will win. Misaki gives the young girl a proud smile. " You've gotten stronger. I'm really impressed. But I'm afraid that you made a mistake." The woman says.
Mercy freezes when she realizes that she did make a mistake. She used up all her guards in her hand. " I'm such an idiot! I made a idiotic mistake!" She berates herself in her mind. Mercy closes her eyes as Misaki has Goddess of the Full Moon, Tsukuyomi attack. It hurt losing against someone she admires. But this loss will teach her to stop making mistakes. Maybe she should ask Asaka to help her with her deck sometime.
" You should've joined the U20, Mercy." Shin says to the girl. " I'm not interested in that. I'm going to be Chrono's team cheerleader." Mercy causally told the man. Shin and Misaki blink at this. They didn't expect Mercy to say that. " I'm going to go home now. Bye." The girl smiles and waves as she leaves the store.
" She's underestimating her skills again." Misaki sighs. Shin silently agrees with his niece. Hopefully Mercy will realize that she isn't just a cheerleader for her friends. He had a feeling that Chrono and the others will need her help soon. Shin doesn't exactly know what is going to happen. He only just has an feeling.
The sun was setting as Mercy walks to her house. Play vanguard took her mind off a weird dream, that she had last night. " You want me to escort you back to your friends? How do I know that you and your friends aren't going to kill me?" A male voice suspiciously asked. " If you think that I'm setting you up for a trap because you are a mercenary. Then you can kill me right now." A female voice had said in the dream.
Mercy remembers that after what seems like a minute, the male voice agreed to take the female voice back to her friends. She wished that she could've seen what the two voices look like. Alas that wasn't going to happen. Mercy's mother joked that she must have heard Alice's voice. But that was impossible.
The planet Cray does exist because Chrono told her it was real. But Mercy thinks that the possibility, of her favorite unit appearing in her dreams is impossible. So she wasn't going to let the dream bother her. Units don't suddenly appear in people's dreams. It is an ridiculous idea.
Mercy continues walking home. Little did she know that she will change her mind later.
In case anyone is wondering. The first and this chapter is between episode nine and ten. And Mercy doesn't know that Tokoha and Shion are back. Next up Mercy reunites with her friends and meets Kazuma. And sorry that there wasn't much of a cardfight in this chapter. There will be an longer cardfight later in the story.