Cat: Hey guys! Sorry this took a while, i had exams!
Rena: Anyway, here is In the Mind of Yuzu, episode 4!
Cat: I love that episode!
Rena: Please review!
Cat: This story is in Yuzu's POV. Please give me some artistic licence. If i put some stuff that isn't in the anime in here, don't flame. There would be no point in reading, if it was just the anime in words.
Chapter 4- A Strand of Hope! Block Spider!
"This… Can't be happening..." Yuya whispered. His beloved cards had been summoned against him and he was stuck. He summoned them as If he had been summoning them his whole life. He just knew how to do it. Was it like when Yuya duelled Strong Ishijima? Or did he have background knowledge on this summon? I wasn't really paying attention though, I was desperately trying not to slip and send us all tumbling into a fast flowing river.
"Pendulum summoning is the BEST!" Sawatari screamed, drunk off his own achievement. Hopefully, he would also have a hangover once it was over. Hey, every dark cloud has a silver lining. Just wait till I got down there and beat the hell out of him!
Sawatari attacked with his Pendulum summoned monsters. Yuya desperately tried to evade him, jumping onto Water Slider's back and missing the missiles sent in his direction.
"No, it might be a trap again!" Yuya cried. Did he see an action card? Even he wasn't stupid enough to try a third time. It could be the end of him if he activated another trap, not forgetting us.
"I missed!?" Shino demanded, as Yuya activated his monsters ability, sending it into defence and negating the attack. Dude, you really have to be a rich, arrogant snob to be so surprised that he missed. It was a duel, not a one-sided onslaught.
"But I've still got plenty of Pendulum Summoned monsters left!" he announced. Oh, yeah, forgot about that.
Splash! Yuya fell into the river, as his monster was destroyed by another pendulum monster. This really wasn't looking good, for Yuya or us.
"Direct attack!" Yuya was flung out of the water and smacked into the base of the bridge, followed by several explosive darts that exploded on impact. The bridge shook, shaking the chained tower.
"It's all over now!" Futoshi wailed, as I wobbled perilously. Luckily I had the other two to anchor me to the wall, as I gripped onto the wall like a monkey but with much less practise or skill.
"No, it's not!" I yelled. I had to be positive. Yuya only had 600 life points and I, along with three children, all under the age of ten, were on the verge of plunging to our deaths.
"We can't give up if Yuya hasn't!" I cry, holding on for dear life. He nodded feebly, not willing to throw in the towel just yet. I was seriously starting to doubt the health and safety standards of this academy.
My hands were getting sticky and slippery from sweat of the strain my small body was under, the stress of Yuya's duel and the ominous threat of death. I blinked when I heard him laughing down below us.
"What're you laughing at?" Sawatari demanded. Yuya never gave us an answer as he drew and summoned Block Spider in attack mode.
Sure, if you don't want to tell Mr. Sociopath, fine by me. But at least tell me why you're laughing, while I'm on the verge of death!
"That's a garbage card you're using there!" Sawatari laughed, pointing out that it had zero attack points and it was in attack position.
Yuya, please don't tell me you were supposed to put it in defence but forgot! I screamed internally. Its sounds like a really stupid thing to do, but Yuya was no stranger to that mistake.
"Its level was so low, I don't even remember owning that card!" the Leo Duel School student shrugged, as Yuya reminded him that Block Spider was originally the blonde's card.
"When Block Spider is on the field, you can only attack him and no other monster!" Yuya announced.
"But he's the only monster on your field!" I really hated to admit it but I had exactly the same thought of the student who had forced me onto this tower. Did Yuya hit his head a little too hard on the bridge?
Then, everything made sense when he played the spell, Mimiclay (and set the spider to defence, after all). Mimicaly let him summon another Block Spider, with the same effect. And so, the effects contradicted each other, meaning Yuya's opponent couldn't attack.
I'll hand it to Yuya; that was pretty smart.
"I was wondering what you were doing but you just doubled your garbage cards!" Shingo smirked, still looking down on the common monsters.
Only when Yuya explained, did he pale slightly. Yeah, can any of your expensive cards pull that off, rich kid?
Then, Sawatari started laughing. Not good! "I really am chosen by the cards!" he giggled. So, what, it was a religion now!?
Set Pendulum cards can be counted as magic cards, apparently, according to the LDS kid. How the heck did he know that? This was really not good. Using his spell, and negating the effects of Yuya's two magicians- that were now spells- he stopped the effect of mimiclay and killed the 'no attacking' tactic Yuya had.
It's over, I thought. Then, in a turn of events, Yuya managed to add an extra 2300 defence points onto the remaining spider, using a spell, giving the small monster a monstrous 2400 defence points and also, it couldn't be destroyed.
"Yeah, awesome!" Futoshi cheered, as he still dangled off the edge. Only he could forget that he was close to falling and drowning by watching Yuya duel. Admittedly, at a couple of rare moments, so did I.
"I knew Yuya-nii-chan could do it!" the Tatsuya cried, still clinging around my waist. All I could do was smile happily, sigh and nod. Why was I like this whenever Yuya duelled? At least I wasn't the only one, as we all watched in anticipation.
"You're doing more things I didn't plan for-!" Shingo screamed in anguish.
Yeah! And now Yuya is gonna kick your-
"-Just kidding!" he smirked and burst into more hysterical laughter. This guy was worse than Yuya for bursting into laughter and not bothering to explain why.
"Man, being this skilled is so rough!" he said arrogantly. Could you be born like this or did you learn to be a spoilt brat? Or was he dropped on the head when he was a baby or something? I have honestly never met such an obnoxious brat and I knew Yuya and my dad!
Trouble! Was my immediate thought as Sawatari Shingo started merging his metal monsters together into one behemoth robot. I desperately started yanking hard on … wrists, trying to pull him back. If this monster attacked, it was going to shake more than just the tower. I wasn't going to be able to hold on much longer either.
Slowly but surely, we were pitching forward, my upper body strength about to fail me. … desperately trying to scramble up, realising the danger we were in. The others clung even tighter than they did before, squeezing the air out of me, which wasn't really helping, all three whimpering 'Yuzu-nee-chan!' over and over, as if it was giving them comfort.
Also, to make matters even worse, the new monster could inflict piecing damage. So, if it attacked it would still deal Yuya the damage, which was 600 points. He only had 600 life points yet.
"It's over!" his face contorted into an ugly, self-confident grin, his eyes bulging repulsively. I felt sorry for his future wife, if he had one at all.
Yuya stood motionless, standing his ground and keeping his cool, watching the darts fly towards him. That meant he had a plan.
Or was too scared to even cry.
The whole bridge and tower shook at the immense shock that rocked the entire fake city. My heart lurched as … hand slipped. I was about to open my mouth to scream. To Yuya, to anyone but then, so did mine. All four of us hurtled to the ground, shrieking. I lost my grip on – and '' we all split up, my arms outstretched, trying to grab onto them or anything to stop falling.
In a way, it seemed fitting. I was going to die in an Action Duel. But in most ways, it didn't. I was too young to die! I hadn't even been on a date yet! I hadn't had my first kiss or had any children. I WAS NOT GOING TO DIE!
"Yuya-nii-chan!" Tatsuya screamed. The water was getting closer and closer and I was still fuming that I was never going to be able to go shopping for my wedding dress.
Then, out of nowhere, someone caught me. I stared up to see one of Yuya's pendulum monsters had stopped me from drowning. He also reached out and caught '', like it was all in a days work. Quickly casting my gaze, I saw the dark-clad magician carrying the two boys.
"Arigato Gozimasu," I thanked the Pendulum monster, relief spreading through me. I was going to live another day. Once again, my future seen irrelevant and unimportant. We were gently placed beside Yuya. I had never been so happy to feel my feet on solid ground and I had never been so relieved to see Yuya.
Then, our saviours vanished in a yellow glow. Wait, they were on Sawatari's side, why were they doing Yuya's bidding? Did he play something while we were falling, that I missed?
Wait, he was duelling… When I, his best friend, could have DIED!? I was going to hit him so hard with my fan, he was going to bruise.
Shingo was extremely angry and released his ultimate monster back into the original three. Not that I cared really. I trusted Yuya. And now that he didn't have to worry about us, he could duel with no worries.
"Sorry for putting you guys through that," Yuya smiled apologetically. My anger faded immediately. How could I remain angry at him?
"It's so thrilling it gave me shivers, Yuya-nii-chan!" Futoshi grinned. Did he remember that he had just been hanging from a tower and had almost died!?
"Alright, now it's time for a comeback!" I grip my fists, smiling at him as Ayu cheered loudly. Honestly, who needs cheerleaders when you had us? For some reason, Sawatari seemed really hacked off. He needed his own cheer team. Wait, where were his lackeys anyway?
"The fun has just begun!" Yuya cried. Then, the lights went out, plunging us in darkness.
"Oh yeah! It's happening!" Futoshi cried, all three of them smiling brighter that the sun that we currently couldn't see.
"Now, everyone with me!" Ayu squealed.
"Pendulum! Pendulum!" I cried, pumping the air with my arm. Damn, this chant was addictive.
"Pendulum! Pendulum!" a small voice cried from somewhere. I blinked and stared around but couldn't locate where it was coming from.
"Ladies and Gentlemen!" cried the all-too-familiar-voice. "Today we have a spectacular light show for you!"
"Everyone! You already know what to shout, right?" Yuya asked, getting his audience involved and they were loving every minute of it.
"That was perfect Yuya!" I screamed over to him, as he successfully summoned the familiar cards.
"What about that was perfect?" Sawatari sneered.
Shut up! I was not talking to you! I spat in my head.
"My dear audience," Yuya held up both his arms and gestured to us, as he activated his scorpion (which he just summoned through pendulum) effect. "It may be bright but don't close your eyes!"
"What's going on?" the opponent demanded, as the scorpion zapped his monster. All three of his monsters began to glow. Then Yuya selected his Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon and announced that his dragon could now attack multiple times because of how many of Sawatari's monsters were on the field.
"It's so beautiful," Ayu cooed, as the mirages of the dragon flew in the jet black sky.
"Now, everybody, do you know what Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon's effect is?" Yuya asked, sounding like a teacher. In a way, that kind of job would suit him apart from the fact he was a complete dunce.
"Whenever it battles a level five or higher monster, all battle damage is doubled! Tatsuya called over to Yuya.
"Correct!" Yuya smiled, turning back to Shingo. "And with that, I'll have you take double the damage!"
"D-Double!?" he screamed.
Splash! The first mirage exploded into first monster and now Sawatari was in the river. Pulling himself out, he ran desperately as mirage number two attacked the second monster.
"And the damage is… double!" Yuya cheered, as Sawatari Shingo's life points dwindled.
"Again!?" he screamed, as he was sent flying by the explosion.
Yuya declared his attack with his real Odd-Eyes. The dragon lumbered forwards, then sent a flare towards the last monster.
"And, of course," Yuya looked over at us again. "The damage is…?"
"DOUBLE!" we all cheer, as we all jump in the air. Sawatari lay on the ground, looking seriously annoyed at this whole embarrassing ordeal. However, even with the three attacks, he still had life points.
Don't tell me… Yuya got his maths wrong again… Then, I took one look at my red-and-green haired best friend. There are many advantages to having a best friend. A big plus is that you can tell what they were thinking, just by their facial expression.
"Its fine, look at Yuya's face," I smile, reassuring the younger ones.
"Yuya-nii-chan is going to win!" Tatsuya said, smiling. Yeah, he totally was.
And, of course, he did. By using his Entermate Fliptoad's special ability, he swapped his Box Spider half of his defence points, of 1200. Shingo only had 1200 life points left. He was a goner.
He looked like he was about to cry. Poor thing. He was so used to getting his way. At least we were teaching him a life lesson. You don't always win.
"Now, what will happen when I attack your remaining 1200 life points with my 1200 attack point Block Spider?" Yuya asked. "Minna-san, do you know the answer?"
"Of course we do!" I cheer along with the younger children. This feeling was amazing.
"And the answer is?"
The Leo Duel School student gasped loudly, when the very card he called trash, flew over and exploded.
"ZERO!" We all screamed, as Sawatari's life points hit zero. Once again, Yuya had pulled through the odds and won. Fireworks erupted around him as we all cheered in excitement.
And then it was all gone. The dark sky, the tall buildings, the river. It was all gone and we were back at Leo Duel School. I never thought I would be so happy to see it. Yuya had the Pendulum cards back and he had won. Against an elite from Leo Duel School, too. We were never going to live it down.
Then, Sawatari shouted about taking the cards by force. We were now back with the issue we had before the duel. They were older, taller and stronger and we had nowhere to run. Then, there was a quick flash and all four boys crumpled.
"What the?" I squeaked. We stared at the short person standing in front of us. He looked slightly older than Ayu and Futoshi but younger than me and Yuya.
"I'm going to be your apprentice!" he announced, looking up at Yuya with adoring eyes.
"What?" we all questioned at the same time. What a thing to ask. He didn't even know Yuya! And he wanted to be his apprentice?
"Did you do that?" I pointed at the others.
"They're just out cold," he answered, as if it was totally normal. I gulped. If he could do that with ease, what else was he capable of?
And that's how we met Shiunin Sora.
Cat: Please review! Even if your reading this tomorrow, next week, next year or the next century, please review!
Rena: Also, for the people who have seen other Yu-Gi-Oh!, what do you think of Arc V? I'm curious to hear what other people think about the whole thing.