Alright, second chapter is up!

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Kyoshiro's POV

Were these guys serious? How could I possibly beat the captain of the club? I looked at Aichi as he pulled out his deck and waited for me to do the same. I was feeling nervous, because the chance of me winning was fairly slim.

"The winner of the Nationals and VF Circuit against a replacement of team Dragon something, isn't that a tad unfair?" Naoki questioned, looking at the others. Wait, Aichi was this good? I don't stand a chance! I looked nervously at Aichi, who just kindly smiled at me. I gulped. I wanted so badly to join this club, but like this, it won't be any success.

"At least, we'll see what she's capable of," Kourin said, her eyes totally glued on me and Aichi. A chill went through me when I saw her grass green eyes stare at me like that. Seeing this kind of look in the middle of the night, I'd scream in fear. I sighed in defeat and pulled out my deck as well. I knew I should have taken the other one, because with my Pale Moon deck this will be a quick match. But I believed. Maybe I'll luck out today again.

"Stand up, Vanguard!" we both said in unison revealing our Grade 0 vanguards. My eyes grew wide when I saw Aichi using Wingal Liberator. He seriously had the Gold Paladin Liberator deck? Wow, now I was even more screwed. I started with Girl Who Crossed the Gap.

"You're welcome to start first," Aichi said, keeping his kind of cute smile. I nodded and drew my first card. Okay, my hand wasn't bad at all and if everything goes according to plan, I should last in this fight until I think of a decent strategy.

"I ride Midnight Bunny! Girl Who Crossed the Gap moves to the rear-guard. I end my turn."

"I draw! Now I ride Little Liberator Marron and call another one to the rear-guard. My rear-guard Marron attacks and since I have a Liberator vanguard, he gets an additional +3000 power."

"I don't guard."

"Now my vanguard is charging in! Drive trigger check, I got a critical trigger, adding all the effects to my vanguard," Aichi said, revealing the critical. I just hung my head. He was even luckier than me! I checked my damage and was unpleasantly surprised to see one of my ace cards in the damage zone. And the worst, Aichi was 3 to 0 in the lead. He really lives up to his name as the winner of the VF Circuit and Nationals.

"Kyoshiro is already at the third damage," Misaki said, looking concerned. I was feeling concerned for me as well. If we continue like this, I'll have lost in the next few turns. I breathed in slowly and out. I needed to calm down. I can ride this out, no problem, right?

"Now it's my turn. I draw. Okay, time to heat things up a little bit. First of all, I ride my Silver Thorn Marionette, Lilian! Then I call Silver Thorn Assistant, Irina and Silver Thorn Beast Tamer, Ana to fill the back row. I activate Irina's skill. I check the top 2 cards of my deck and Soul Charge one and the second one goes to the bottom of my deck. Then I call Barking Cerberus to the rear-guard. Now with the boost of Ana, Cerberus is coming at your vanguard with the power of 17000!"

"No guard."

"Since the attack Ana boosted was a success, I can superior call a unit from the soul to the rear-guard! And I choose the card I put into my soul at the beginning of my turn. Come forth, Silver Thorn, Rising Dragon! Now my vanguard with the boost of Irina attacks!" I exclaimed, hoping for the Drive Check to bring me some luck. Aichi at the end didn't guard and I checked in hopes to get a critical. I got no trigger. So much to my luck.

"Now Rising Dragon with the boost of Girl Who Crossed the Gap attacks and since I have a vanguard with 'Silver Thorn' my dragon gets +3000!"

I breathed out in relief. My Silver Thorn, Rising Dragon disappeared after the attack, since Ana's superior call lasts only until end of my turn. I was now tied with Aichi at three damage. I could feel my heart race as it was a long time ago I was so excited about a card fight. I enjoyed it very much and I could see that Aichi did as well.

"Amazing, Kyoshiro, you're doing well!" Naoki said, cheering from the tension. I smiled and started to like the members of the Cardfight Club more and more. I wasn't giving up just yet! Suddenly the familiar flame of passion started to burn inside of me and I realized that on the way of getting stronger to defeat that idiot from Hitsue I totally forgot to enjoy myself whilst card fighting. Nothing was decided until the last damage falls to the damage zone.

The fight went on and on. Aichi made a few awesome moves, which I only dodged by pure luck. I was at four damage, while Aichi was already at five and now it was my turn. I can do this. It's only one damage I have to deal him in order to win the fight. I closed my eyes and mentally called the card I needed to win this.

"My turn and now I'll do a Break Ride! I ride Silver Thorn Dragon Tamer, Luquier on top of Miracle Pop, Eva! Now I activate Eva's Limit Break! Since I rode a Pale Moon unit on top of her, Luquier gets +10000 and now I can put 2 of my rear-guard into the soul and superior call another 2 Pale Moon units from the soul. But before they go to the soul, they will attack you first! Then I activate Luquier's Limit Break as well! Counterblast 3! Now I superior call Silver Thorn Marionette, Lilian and Silver Thorn Assistant, Irina! And for each rear-guard placed on the rear-guard circle Luquier gets an additional +3000. I activate Irina's skill once more, I Soul Charge one card."

I attacked but he guarded against both of my rear-guard attacks and even with the power of Luquier being 40000, well, actually 45000 with the draw trigger I drew it wasn't enough, since Aichi nullified the attack with ease. I sighed. I knew what was coming next. I knew Solitary Liberator, Gancelot's skill too well. I had no chance in surviving the next wave of attacks. I had a Silver Thorn Hypnos, Lydia in my hand, which was a perfect guard, but even with that I was out of cards to guard.

"Alfred, attack her vanguard with the overwhelming power of 35000! Twin Drive, first, a heal trigger, I recover one point of damage and the second, no trigger."

"Damage trigger check, man I have such bad luck, it's a critical trigger," I exclaimed, putting the sixth damage into my damage zone. I tried so hard, but even that wasn't enough. As I said, I'm just average in the terms of skill. I collected my deck and smiled at Miracle Pop, Eva and Luquier. They did a very good job in supporting me in this fight. Well, seems like I have to stick with chess then. I didn't like this kind of game. I groaned silently in frustration as I made my way out of the physics room.

"Kurosawa Kyoshiro, where do you think you're going?"

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A/N Honestly, who thought that Kyoshiro had a chance of winning?