Chapter three- Dark Town- the Stolen Pendulum Summon!

As sensei droned on and on, all I could do was stare at him, drawing useless equations and the board, and Yuya, who was sleeping on his desk.

How was I going to wake him without getting the teachers attention? I desperately tried to kick him, but out desks were too far apart. I couldn't ask a favour from the person sitting behind him to give him a poke, because there was no one behind him.

"Sakaki Yuya! What is the answer?" the sensei demanded. I offered a silent prayer for the dunce to wake up. No such luck.

"Sakai Yuya!" the maths teacher roared, shooting over to Yuya's desk, like a bullet. That woke him up. But not properly.

I cringe as Yuya tries to Pendulum summon with invisible cards on a non-existent disk. I knew he had been up all night trying to master it but, seriously, he was dreaming about it now?

"What is the answer!?" the professor hissed.

"The answer… Is the right one?" Yuya said sleepily. I couldn't take it, I pulled out my punch-line fan and smacked him across the head, sending him flying.

"That's never the right answer!" I wailed.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," he apologised as we strolled through the school grounds. I sighed. Trying to make him care wasn't going to work. He was just going to have to wake up and smell the coffee one day.

"Yuya-niichan!" familiar voices called from the gates, we stared up to see Tatsuya, Futoshi and Ayu. "We want to see a Pendulum summon!"

Oh, not again, I thought. Even though Yuya claimed he had mastered it, it was probably going to be the same result after he duelled me. An Error and a major failure, resulting in him crying into his goggles.

Then, three rubber darts hit Yuya between his eyes, just above his nose. We turned to see someone we had never seen before. He had blonde bangs but brown hair. Yep, never seen him before in my life. And is he aware of others around him? He could have taken Yuya's eye out, if he had moved.

He introduced himself as Sawatari Shingo and claimed to be a big fan of Yuya. Alarm bells were going off in my head already. People with that big an ego, that high self-esteem and that kind of personality don't fan for anything other than themselves. I started smelling a rat when he claimed he had booked LDS main stadium.

However, I decided not to say anything. If we went as guests, it would probably be the only time we could go into the Leo Duel School after the duel against Strong Ishijima. We weren't nearly as rich or talented to attend there.

So, at five o'clock, instead of heading over to You Show Duel School, we arrived at the Leo Duel School. I felt a pang in my gut. My father was probably having a meltdown at why we weren't at school. And the answer was because we were going to a richer one.

It's just for a couple of hours, I thought. It's not like we're transferring.

I was completely blown away at the size and numbers of the place. The lobby alone could have fitted our whole school building inside it. And every inch of it was crawling with students.

I felt the piercing glares as they identified us as outsiders. We stuck close beside Sawatari, always keeping an eye on the little ones who were completely transfixed by it all.

Of cource, Sawatari-Big-Head started bragging about the facilities and how they were so much better than ours.

"Well, I'm sorry that we're a run-down school," I muttered.

Before I knew it, we were standing in the LDS main arena. It was huge, ten time the size of our school's arena. In fact, it was too big. Imagine having to run for action cards in this stadium. I stared up to the sky to see the blue heavens.

"So cool," one of the kids whispered.

What happens when it rains? Was my immediate thought.

My eyes zeroed in on three boys coming closer. They were older, taller and stronger than us, obviously. They also all wore a smirk that resembled our 'tour guide'. Sawatari grinned and said that they were also fans.

"So, can we see the Pendulum cards?" he asked, coming closer.

Something was wrong.

"Hey, Yuya…" I tried to attract his attention. He looked just as uncomfortable as I was, shifting from one foot to the other. Reluctantly, he pulled the cards out of his deck and handed them to the Leo Duel School students. They crowded around, chatting away about how cool they were.

They weren't my cards, but I didn't like not being able to see them. They could be doing anything, with their backs turned.

I wish I could say I was surprised when he turned around, claiming that they were his and how he was going to summon them. I knew something like this was going to happen, but that didn't stop me from wanting to bash his head in.

I felt my stomach drop as two of Sawatari's minions surrounded me and grabbed my arms. I wiggled and kicked at them but they didn't lose their iron grips. I heard three distressed cries to see that the three, innocent kids had been taken hostage too.

My blood was boiling. I was determined to free myself and rescue the four children. Yes, I still count Yuya as a child. However, getting the cards back would be a problem without ripping out Sawatari's deck and going through all of his shiny cards.

I didn't even notice that all of us hostages had been dragged to the viewing square, so we could be part of the action duel. I was awoken from my fit of rage when I discovered that we were slowly ascending towards a dark sky. The ground rumbled and I stared down to see an immense drop. I couldn't guess how far up we were, I was too nauseous.

"Yuzu!" I heard the familiar cry. I swallowed my fear, seeing Yuya desperately trying to get to us, jumping on rising buildings, his hand outstretched.

"Yuya!" was all I could scream in my terror, desperately reaching out for his hand, even though he was miles away from me and had stopped rising. However, this chained tower that we were stuck on just wouldn't stop. I gripped onto Tatsuya, Futoshi and Ayu so that they wouldn't fall off.

Finally after what seemed like a century, the tower stopped. We were definitely on the tallest building in the whole action duel and we had no way down.

Taking a deep breath, I glanced down, ignoring the column of water stretching out below me, to Yuya, who had no choice but to duel.

However, this was playing out exactly how Sawatari wanted it to. Yuya had lost his best cards and he wasn't even thinking straight. He was desperate to get us down. He was already off, using Entermate Whip Viper to swing himself from building to building.

Finally, he arrived at the bridge and grabbed an action card. However, all I could see was a load of massive snooker balls cascading towards him, crushing the snake monster flat. Then, the spheres crashed into the side of our tower.

I fought as scream as the floor started tilting sideways and we all slipped to the edge, the water swirling dangerously below us. I did scream as I felt another tremor, caused by Yuma picking up another action trap card.

You would have thought he had learned, I inwardly curse as I grab Futoshi's hand, as he toppled off the side.

Yuya was in a jam. Sawatari had Pendulum Summoned.

I was also in a jam, pulling the chubby child back onto the tower. This building was going to crumble and we were standing right on top of it.