Cat: Hey guys! Here is episode 12 in the mind of Yuzu!

Rena: Sorry it's out so late but that wasn't our fault. The English subbed version only came out a few hours ago.

Cat: Yeah. And now it's midnight. You should all be grateful and review! I'm off to sleep!

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 12- DDD The King from Another Dimension

"He put his goggles on…" Ayu whispered from behind me.

"I wonder what's wrong with him," Futoshi said.

"Yuya-nii-chan," Tetsuya muttered.

Suddenly, I really didn't want this match to go ahead. Every cell in my body was screaming that this was a bad idea. And why did LDS have a forth duellist? That wasn't fair! That and he obviously wasn't in school! Even if he was, he would be in college at least! What was he doing wanting to challenge a fourteen year old?

"Yuya…" I sighed, for the one millionth time that day. One day, he was going to pay dearly for the worry and stress he had put me through since the night before. Not that I was still thinking about it, or anything. OK, I admit it, I was. It was still playing on my mind but not so much that I saw different people. Yuya was Yuya and I had finally managed to convince my brain that, even though it has had around fourteen years of knowing Yuya anyway.

Gongenzaka and the kids were in full swing, exclaiming how determined Yuya looked, only to be interrupted by the devil in a skirt. "You all don't seem to know how strong Reiji-san is…"

Reiji-san?

Reiji-san…

Reiji-san!

… As in… The pro!?

No, I have to be mistaken! That can't be him!

"That's enough cheering for now, isn't it?" said-man said monotonously, glaring at us through the red-rimmed glasses that were so out of fashion it hurt. "From here on I'd prefer if you'd stay quiet and just watch."

Well, this guy had obviously never duelled at school. How can you stay quite during a duel? It's impossible! Especially for a group of kids, cheering their friends on. Sheesh.

As they walked through the doors, to take their positions on the field, I glanced up at my dad. He was researching something on his iDisk. We made eye contact for only a second and my fears were confirmed.

'Reiji-san' was bad news.

"This is kinda scary," a familiar small body pressed itself against my own, clasping my arms in comfort. I bent down and hugged her but didn't keep my eyes off my best friend. "What's happened to Yuya?" was all I could ask.

He only ever wore those goggles if he was about to cry. Was he? But he didn't look very teary-eyed and he didn't have any real reason to. He also wasn't the type to chicken out before duels. So why was he wearing those god-forsaken goggles!?

"He's concentrating on his match," Gongenzaka replied.

"But, that's not Yuya at all…" I murmured, once again feeling dread build up in my stomach. He was wearing a face like… NO! He was just determined! Yes, Yuzu! Determined!

No he's not… The voice was back. My imagination was taking hold. The air around Yuya was turning purple, dying his hair that was growing longer, his goggles turning into a face mask, his jacket becoming a cloak.

No! Not again!

"Yuya!" I shouted over the speakers. Everyone in the room, spectators and duellists alike. "Laugh!"

Please, luckily I managed to bite down the last part of my plea and keep it to myself. I didn't want everyone to think I was begging him which, in my head, I was.

Letting go of the red-headed girl, I stood up and faced him, as the ominous presence left him again in my mind. "You Show Duel School is about bright, fun and entertaining duels, right?"

"Don't forget to smile!" I said, trying my best to do the same and convince him.

"Smile…" he muttered, as if it was a completely foreign concept to him. He stared at his shoes and thought for a second. "That's right."

For a second, my heart sank. I thought he was going to brush off my words and say that now wasn't the time for fun and become the exact double of the dark duellist. "Bright and fun entertainment is my motto!" he cheered, placing his goggles back on his head.

I sighed loudly, relieved to the point of collapsing. Yuya was going to be Yuya.

"I can't forget that, no matter what!" Everyone on the side of You Show Duel School lit up, grins spreading across our worried faces. "Alright, I'll show it to you!"

"The best smile and…" he lifted his arms in the air, in a very Yuya-esk manner. "The best duel!"

And, despite that Reiji's person's demands, we all began cheering.

"Action field on!" my dad shouted over the speakers. Oh god, what was he going to choose? "Field magic; Athletic Circus, Activate!"

So my father did have a brain, apparently. This was Yuya's best field. If memory serves me well, it was the first field magic that Yuya every experienced in an Action Duel when we were so young, our mothers were watching anxiously from the windows. Oh, the things you remember.

"Duellists locked in battle!" I began.

"Kicking against the earth and dancing in the air alongside their monsters!" Tatsuya continued.

"They storm through this field!" Futoshi pumped the air with his chubby fist.

"Behold!" Ayu jumped in the air. "This is the newest and greatest evolution of duelling!"

"Action!" we all shouted in unison.

"DUEL!" Reiji and Yuya exclaimed.

The duel had hardly began and I knew something was up. Yuya's opponent activated three permanent spells from his hand. One of them dealt 1000 points of damage to himself, during his standby phase. Was he suicidal? Or was he not bothered? Or was he secretly on our side? Or did I mishear him?

"When your turn comes again…" I said, hoping that someone could confirm what I thought I just heard.

"You take 1000 points of damage!?" Gongenzaka concluded. Great, so I wasn't going crazy. But why would he want to do that?

"Additionally," Reiji explained. "Once per turn, I can add one level 4 or lower 'DD' monster from my deck to my hand."

DD? I had never heard of that type of deck before. Did it stand for something? Like 'BF' for 'Black Feather'? I mused over the stupid question as he drew a card from his deck. "I summon DD Cerberus from my hand."

"DD?" Futoshi queried the others before I could.

"Different Dimension," Sora said, momentarily pausing from munching his chocolate bar.

Then, he revealed that his second continuous spell was… Exactly the same card! That meant…

"2000 points of damage," I said awed, now convinced that the pro was up to something, as he added another card from his deck to his hand. Yuya looked slightly spooked and I didn't blame him, I was just as worried.

"And the third Magic Card I will activate is…" I rocked forward, onto the balls of my feet. Was he going to summon yet another-? Oh no, this one was different. "Continuous magic: Covenant with the Swamp King!"

"This card also inflicts 1000 points of damage to me during my standby phase…"

What is he thinking? What is he planning?

"Now it's up to 3000 points of damage," Yuya hissed, unsure of what to do in his situation.

Reiji ignored Yuya's comment and continued in the explaining of the spell card. "Covenant with the Swamp King allows me to fuse a fusion monster…"

Red alert! Red alert!

"…Without using a fusion magic card."

"Come on! That can't be legal!" I cried, as Sora gasped in shock. I glanced over at the blue-haired, sweet-loving fusion summoner but he made no attempt to agree with me.

"A fusion summon without using fusion magic cards!?" Yuya yelped.

"Be born! DDD Temujin, the Raging Inferno King!" Reiji announced.

This duel was insane. It was the first turn and he had already fusion summoned. Damn these LDS students and their special summoning's on the first turn! Why was I still surprised? But this wasn't like Masumi, with her pretty bejewelled monsters. This was a bit more in Sora's Des-Toy Bears direction, this monster.

I squirmed slightly. The past few weeks made me hate the concept of fusion more and more.

"He's a fusion user!" Gongenzaka shouted accusingly, as if Reiji had committed a heinous crime.

"But… To take such a huge risk to summon only that monster?" I asked. It looked strong but with only 2000 attack points, it was nothing special.

"This time it's DDD," Ayu said.

"There are three D's…" Tatsuya explained what Ayu was trying to say to us.

"What does it mean now?" Futoshi turned to Sora, who normally had all the explanations for us. The sky-haired boy scowled, his usual happy-go-lucky-self vanishing in his new seriousness.

"Isn't this… Completely different?" he asked. "Could this be real? But…"

That sent a chill down my spine. Granted, Sora didn't know everything about monster types under the sun but it sounded like a 'DDD' monster didn't even exist.

To end his turn, the LDS representative placed two cards face down. "Now his hand is at zero…" I whispered.

What was he doing? He had one fusion monster out, no cards in his hand and was facing a 3000 point penalty in his next turn. I wasn't smelling a rat, I was smelling a whole family of rodents. However, this creep was not fazed. He was planning something and it was as obvious as Yuya sleeping during Maths.

"What's with his attitude?! He's so full of himself!" Ayu complained.

Sora didn't bother tearing his eyes away from Yuya as he explained to use that Reiji could be taking the 3000 points of damage because he was underestimating our best duellist.

"No way!" I shouted, deciding that I was going to bat that grey-haired man over the head with my fan after Yuya kicked his butt.

Finally, after what felt like decades, it was Yuya's turn. And he was already turning the tables. By summoning and using the effect of Entermate Whip Viper, he swapped the attack points of the fusion monster with its defence points, lowering it to 1500.

"Temujin's attack went down!" Ayu smiled.

"Whip Viper's attack is 1700!" Tatsuya cheered. "Now he can beat it!"

I genuinely thought that Yuya had brought the freaky fusion down in his first turn but then of course, Reiji activated a trap, 'Covenant with Valkyries'.

"Another covenant?" Gongenkaza asked. He had a point. Every spell or trap that Reiji had played throughout this duel had begun with the word 'covenant' and every card he had played so far…

"Then… That means…" I paused. He's going to take another 1000 points of damage!

"I will take 1000 points of damage during my standby phase and all fiend-type monsters I control gain 1000 attack points." Reiji sniffed.

That meant that Reiji was going to lose and it would be nobody's fault but his own. This was starting to bug me. He was going to take all of this self-inflicted damage but he wasn't doing anything about it! No card nullifying the damage or something to destroy the cards. Nothing.

The fusion monster glowed, receiving his extra points and Whip Viper looked a bit panicked. Yuya leapt around like a monkey, grabbing an action card. Reiji made no move to stop him but that didn't surprise me. He didn't seem like that sort of guy.

But boy did Yuya get lucky with that action card! It raised Whip Viper's attack by 1000 also and, unlike this 'pro', Yuya didn't have to spend one point. The purple snake's points hit 2700.

Reiji moved like lightning. Was he going for an action card? Well, I didn't pay much attention as Yuya's monster swept in and collided with the fusion monster, causing a cloud of debris, hiding them from view.

"He did it!" the members of You Show shouted, as the members of LDS looked like they had seen something along the lines of an alien.

"Huh? What happened?" someone shouted. I blinked. Great, did the computer pack in? Why was the fusion monster still there?! Then, I remembered Reiji's movements. Oh yeah. As it turns out, it was one of the oldest action cards in the book. Action Magic; Evade.

"If Yuya ends his turn right now, his opponent's life will become zero!" I exclaimed, realising that whether Yuya had destroyed the fusion was of very little consequence in the scheme of things.

"Doesn't that mean that Yuya-nii-chan has won?" Ayu asked, her golden eyes full of wonder.

I was about to open my mouth and say 'yes' when Sora said something. Not catching what he first said, all I heard was. "He doesn't seem like the type to make mistakes."

I turned and examined him. Judging by his smirk, he had made no mistakes at all.

"What's so funny!?" Yuya demanded.

"You seem like a very kind person," Reiji said simply. "But that kindness is useless on the stage of battle!"

"Despite being given the option to win by just ending your turn, you still hesitate. Most likely, that kindness of yours is to blame."

What? Reiji was complaining about how kind Yuya was? Like how he gave him the first turn and thanked him for letting him choose the action field? What was wrong with being kind? There are defiantly worse traits to have. Like being a stuck-up know-it-all, like a certain grey-haired duellist.

"I set one card…" Yuya muttered, after hesitating slightly. "And end my turn!"

After several monster's lost or gained attack points because of certain effects wearing off, four cards appeared before Reiji.

"I'll have you take that 4000 points of damage from your four covenants!" Yuya announced.

"Covenants? Those measly things…" Reiji smirked, as they simply exploded into yellow sparkles. My mouth fell open. That was his plan? How was that a plan? How was that possible!?

"The covenants were nullified! I had already activated the trap card: Lease Laundering!" Reiji grinned. "Lease Laundering Is activated by negating the effects of all 'covenant' cards and destroys all affected 'covenant' cards during the end phase."

"Then that means he negated all 4000 points of damage?" Gongenzaka roared.

"It was all too good to be true," Yuya sighed. "But if I had win from that, I wouldn't have been happy. It would mean the duel would end before I could show off my entertainment duelling that everyone was anticipating!"

And here I was thinking that he was going to say something along the lines of 'he wouldn't have won on his own terms' or 'he had no part in the battle to win'.

Sometimes, I really was stupid.

"To you, this might seem like a naive way of thinking but you know… I want to win with my own duelling that was passed down from my father!" Yuya grinned.

"With Sakaki Yushou's duelling?" Reiji asked.

"You… You know my father?" Yuya demanded. I blinked. No way! No one has seen Yuya's dad for years! How would Reiji know him?

"Of course we know him!" a voice shouted from beside us, from the LDS pupils. It was the synchro user. "Your dad is famous after all!"

Don't say it!

"As the former champion who ran away!"

I turned violently to give the brat a piece of my mind when I was stopped by a noise that made me jump. "SILENCE!" Reiji roared… At the members of LDS. They all shrank back as if they had been bitten.

"Pardon me," Reiji apologised. "Of course I am aware of your father, as the pioneer who led the way in creating our current action duel. I respect him from the bottom of my heart.

Well, that was new. Normally, when people heard about Yuya's father, he was always reminded of how he 'ran away'. To be respected from the bottom of one's heart, from someone from LDS made me wonder if I was dreaming.

Now, it was Reiji's turn. And he summoned a tuner monster. Uh oh.

"Synchro Summon! Be born! Level 7, DDD Alexander, the King of Gales!"

"He wasn't just a fusion user!?" Gongenzaka said.

Within seconds, not even that, through the effects of his two DDD monsters, he managed to revive two monsters from the graveyard and overlay them.

"Oh no," I held my hands over my mouth.

Yuya was facing a fusion, a synchro and an XYZ monster with only one normal monster in attack mode.

Even the LDS students looked awed as the XYZ monster also took to the field.

Yuya was facing a fusion, a synchro and an XYZ monster with only one normal monster in attack mode.

"The title 'DDD' stands for 'Different Dimension Demon'." Reiji pushed his glasses further up his nose. "Prepare to get a good taste of the power of kings…"

Yuya was facing a fusion, a synchro and an XYZ monster with only one normal monster in attack mode.

And all I could do was watch.

Cat: Please review!

Rena: And thank you to all those who have reviewed, especially with your answers to my questions! They have been so interesting! Like seriously, every review is different with people's own reasons into why they like a series or summoning and character and i'm like 'wow, never thought of it like that!'.

Cat: And today's question! What, in your opinion, is the best Yugioh opening theme out of all series!? Hard one right? Have fun! (I'll be nice and say that you can have tied three if you can't narrow it down!)