Cat: Hey guys! Sorry this is so late, i was in the Netherlands until this afternoon and didn't have the time to watch episode 10, let alone write about it. But, here it is now!

Rena: That was a pretty good episode... Another fusion summoner. They love Fusion in this, don't they?

Cat: Yeah, and XYZ...

Rena: 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 10- Knights of the Sacred Stones!

After Yuya's duel, he slid through the door, only to be crushed by three young children, who were absolutely ecstatic with his win against the top XYZ summoner of LDS. Then, he was crushed by the humongous Gongenzaka, who was trying his very best not to cry.

And I, of course, was seeing faces of a person I didn't want to see. Sure enough, there was that purple haired person replacing Yuya's face, speaking my name familiarly, as if he had known me for life.

"What?" I asked, realising that the actual Yuya had said my name also.

"You're up next!" he smiled, shaking off the younger kids and standing up. "I'm counting on you!"

"Yeah, leave it to me," I whispered, the weight of the importance of this duel finally weighing down on my shoulders, making me feel even worse. "Our You Show Duel School rides on this, after all. I definitely will win it!"

After a few seconds of Yuya assuring me that I was going to be great and stuff (I wasn't really listening, because I kept on having flashes of him with purple hair) we heard footsteps behind us. An extremely pretty girl stood behind us, with tan skin and dark hair.

"I am Koutsu Masumi of the Fusion course," she introduced herself formally. My stomach hit the floor. Fusion? Like Sora? With the freaky monsters? My day was just getting better. My fear was growing. I had to fight her? "So, which of you will be my opponent?"

"I will!" I stepped forward, masking my fear. I had to win. For my school. For Yuya.

But you saw him at the warehouse!

I can't worry about that now!

Stop denying it! You have concrete proof! What he said in that duel? That was too similar to what that 'person' said last night.

Look, just… Arrggh… No- Look, it wasn't Yuya! It couldn't have been!

Masumi flicked her hair and gave me a smug smile. Through all my inner arguing, I let myself have a small shred of jealousy towards her looks. Feeling slightly shabby in comparison to this wannabe model, we prepared to duel.

"Yuzu!" My dad cheered, as a sparkling, shiny field appeared. "I picked a field that matched your dazzling cuteness!"

"Dad!" I blushed furiously. Now, I looked shabby and really stupid compared to this fusion-deck duellist, who was smirking.

"To call someone like you dazzling, that's incredible nepotism," my opponent said. My temper flared.

"What was that!?" I demanded. I knew that I was no beauty but I wasn't ugly. I was average. And she knew that he was my dad, I had just said so, so what was with her extremely horrible remark?

"Your eyes have no luster," was all she said, as if that made perfect sense.

"W-Where did that come from?" I asked, wondering what was wrong with my eyes. Not much to report about them. They're blue and they're eyes. I don't need glasses and there is nothing weird about them. Why was she commenting on them, from the opposite side of the room? She was the one with weird eyes! They were red!

Her father was a jewler, according to her majesty, and she was apparently an expert on jewels herself. "I can tell right now that you have no shine in you," she drawled. "It's proof that there is hesitation in your heart!"

What!? How? How did she notice that!?

Images floated in my mind. I had to force them out. I had to believe in Yuya. I had to believe. I had to.

"Stop saying whatever you want!" I yelled. I wasn't going to let her in. She was trying to toy with me but I wasn't going to let her. She could easily pick me apart if she knew my worries, or worse, make them take me over even more.

Before I knew it, the duel had begun and, unfortunately, she was going first. I blinked, and she had summoned a fusion monster by something called 'hand-fusion'. I was hoping that she would do something like Sora, such was my lack of knowledge when it comes to the rare summoning, but she had already blown that plan out of the water.

"I can't believe that she fusion summoned in her first turn," I said, awed. I'm sure Sora was giving the others a full-blown explanation of this summon, but I was totally in the dark.

"It seems that even with your eyes that lack radiance, you are able to understand how great hand summoning is!" she taunted. Ok, I really hated this girl and the first turn wasn't over.

However, this monster, no matter how rare it was, had only 1800 attack points, meaning that, unlike Sora's almost invincible fusion monster, it was (slightly) easier to defeat. This had to be a trap. How I 'dealt with it' would 'decide my fate', she said.

I smirked as I drew my card. She may have had a flashy start. But I had something better. In the time it took her to fusion summon, I had advanced summoned one of my favourite cards, Fantasia Prima Prodigy Mozart.

Then, of course, I attacked with my ace card that had superior points to the fusion card, crushing it flat and dealing the pompous girl a bit of damage. I rejoiced for about four seconds, until I saw her smirking. Damn, something was wrong.

But, she didn't use her face-down card. It must have been a bluff. So, I waged a direct attack with my other monster, lowering her life down to 1800.

"It seems you have some skill. But don't think you've won just yet," the arrogant student flicked her hair.

"Sore loser!" I couldn't help shouting.

"We'll see who's a sore loser after my next turn," Masumi gloated. I smiled to myself. She had no monsters and only one trap card. She had to be bluffing.

Or maybe not! I screamed inwardly, as I faced her ace monster, that she had once again summoned in one turn. This time banishing fusion material from the graveyard.

"Yuzu! Don't let your guard down-" Yuya began to yell, only for him to fade out completely.

"-She's planning something," the masked duellist shone from one of the pillars. Oh god, what do I do? I was seeing him everywhere! I tried to hold down my panic but the fusion monster and the purple-haired person vision at the same time made me want to scream.

"You're pretty care-free if you think you can look away," the LDS student smirked.

Sod this, I don't care. Purple Yuya was gone, the pillar the usual white. No, wait! I do care! Back to the duel! The duel, Yuzu! The school! We have to save the school!

The monster attacked, and I lost 300 points. Right, I was monster-less but still winning. Then, she revealed that she had activated her fusion's affect. By banishing her first fusion monster from her graveyard, her monster gained all of its abilities.

Well, that's just great.

Effect number 1) A monster destroyed in battle by the monster deals its original attack to the owner.

I was sent flying, crashing to the ground. My life points dropping to 1100. Now, I was the one losing. I could hear my dad's wails from the control room and his yells of rubbish support.

Effect number 2) It can attack twice in one battle phase.

My world was blurring. No, I can't lose! The colours were blurring together and my head was throbbing. Then, out of the corner of my eye was the last thing I was expecting to see. An Action card.

Her words were muffled and my movements slow. I had to get that card. Before that monster reached me. I forced myself up and staggered towards it, making a leap of faith and reaching out.

Then, reality jarred my hand badly. It wasn't an action card. It was a reflection. The card was lying by another pillar, being reflected perfectly into the golden rim of the other. I had no time to reach it.

"To be deceived by the reflection of jewels," she mused. "Your eyes must be quite clouded."

I don't even have to mention who I saw in my mind.

I didn't even notice the yellow light rushing towards me. I was launched off my feet, screaming. From anger or losing or the stress of everything, I don't know. My life hit zero.

It was over.

"Yuzu? Yuzu!" It was him. The purple haired- Oh no, wait. It was Yuya. He was crouching over me, asking if I was hurt. He helped me to my feet but the blood rushed to my head, I lurched forward but just had enough time to direct myself into the only support offered to me. Yuya.

"Hey, are you sure you're ok?" he asked, concerned, as the nausea passed, and I gripped onto his shirt and refused to let go. This was Yuya. Yuya. He was a real person. And he was right here.

I hated to admit it but Koutsu Masumi was right. I was being deceived by my own imagination. How stupid could I be?

"Quite a show you two are giving us there," the victor smirked.

What? What show?

Oh, that I was hugging Yuya? Meh, big deal.

…

Wait, what?

What was I doing!?

I squeaked and jumped back, my face almost as pink as my hair. I acted on instinct and shoved him in the chest, a bit harder than I would have liked, and he ended bashing his head on the wall.

"Ow, where did that come from!?" he complained, standing up.

"G-Gomen Nasai!" I bowed apologetically.

Then, the fact I lost hit me like a tsunami hitting shore. It crashed down on me and washed all of my other thoughts away. My eyes whelmed with tears.

"Don't worry about it!" Yuya patted me on the shoulder. "We just have to win the next one!"

I smiled slightly. Trust Yuya to still look on the bright side.

We only had the synchro user left. And we had to defeat him. I may have been feeling miserable that I couldn't wrap up this small tournament but I still felt like kicking the crap out of Sora because he didn't want to duel anymore. He had volunteered. Now he was backing out? That was not fair.

So, now Gongenzaka was duelling in his place. Don't get me wrong, he's a good duelist and a good friend but he wasn't part of the school. That and it looked like this synchro user was the toughest of the lot.

Of all the rare forms of summoning, Synchro was one I knew the least. I had never actually seen it summoned in real life, only on professional tournaments on TV. Sure, we had all heard of Yusei Fudo, the famous synchro user but his duelling rein ended years back. And no one had really had really heard again about him since.

Then, the stakes were raised even higher for Gongenzaka with the reminder from the chairwoman of LDS that, if Gongenzaka lost, the school and Yuya's summoning would belong to her expensive curriculum. Then, my dad raised our deal higher by making her agree that they would never meddle with Yuya again, if they lost.

Now, Gongenzaka couldn't lose.

Cat: Whoooo Hooooo! Synchro in the next episode! Synchro is my life!

Rena: But seriously, that synchro user looks like he lives in a trash can, why couldn't he have more class? He is using the best form of summoning!

Cat: You may have guessed that the first Yu-Gi-Oh! i watched was 5ds and it is my LIFE

Rena: PLEASE REVIEW and, also out of sheer curiosity, what was the first Yu-Gi-Oh! you watched? And what is your favourite form of summoning? I'd love to know (cause i'm nosy!) :3