Chapter 15: Ancient Feud Reborn! Red Vs. Blue!
The connection was established between the two Duel Disks. "How about I take the first move?" Kisara suggested with a sly smile.
"Works for me," the redhead responded as her friends looked on. "Kick her all the way back to Fusion, Flare," Shun growled.
"I'll be fine here, you guys. Go stop Obelisk Force," Flare commanded. Selena paused, squinting at the white-haired girl. "Why do you look familiar?"
"Maybe we're related?" Kisara off-handedly shrugged. "But I don't think it matters much either way. Unless you want me to take you on after I card this little girl?"
"No thanks," Selena uneasily shook her head as she remembered where she knew Kisara from. "You know her?" Gong asked, and Selena nodded. "It was a long time ago, in Academia. She just appeared one day, out of nowhere, and started acting like she owned the place. Then again, given her parentage and Duelling skills, she basically did,"
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Selena stormed down the hallway towards the Professor's room, almost bumping into someone as she passed. "Why, hello my dear Selena," Edo Phoenix greeted her as he passed by, but she brushed him off and continued on her route.
Eventually she reached the large white doors that led into the Professor's room, and paused as she noticed they were slightly ajar. She peered in, making sure that she could not be noticed, and spotted the tall, bald man sitting in an armchair with a young, blue-eyed girl with long white hair perched on his knee. "So, Kisara, how do you like Academia?" Leo asked the girl, and she happily giggled. "It's really cool! There's a lot of new people here to play with!"
Leo chuckled. "Yes, yes there are. And I'm sure you'll get along just fine with all of them. Just make sure you don't break your toys,"
Selena paused, she had never seen the Professor act so . . . fatherly before. Could it be possible that this white-haired girl was his daughter? They didn't look much alike, but maybe she looked like her mother, not her father, or maybe she was adopted?
Sighing and knowing that she shouldn't interrupt such a nice family moment for her own selfish desires, she left and resolved to come back another time.
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Later, in the cafeteria, the rumour mill was running wild. "Did you hear the Professor has a daughter enrolling here soon?" "Who is she?" "Where did she come from?" "I didn't know he had kids!" "Is she good?" "Is she hot?"
Selena fumed as she took her seat next to one of her friends, a girl named Asuka. "So, what's this about Professor Akaba's daughter?" the brunette instantly asked. "Beats me, but I saw her earlier. She's young for this place in my opinion, thirteen max, so she has to be good," the girl shrugged, biting into her chicken.
"Wow. She has to be good if they're letting her enrol a year early," Asuka wondered with a smile. "I hope I get to Duel her,"
Selena shrugged. "You'll probably have to get in line with every pervert in the school for a chance like that, but go ahead. Not my head on the line,"
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Asuna yelped as the final blow from Kisara's great two-headed dragon knocked her backwards, reducing her Life Points to zero. The monster disappeared as the Solid Vision system was shut down and Kisara walked over, outstretching her hand for a shake as Selena watched on.
"That was a really fun Duel!" the white-haired girl grinned, and Asuka offered both her handshake and her assistance in recovering her footing. "Those Cyber Angels of yours are a bit weird, but cool all the same. Maybe I should try Ritual Summon,"
"Thanks, but they're not much compared to your dragons," Asuka returned the compliment.
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"She wasn't just good," Selena shivered. "They didn't let her take part in the attacks on Xyz and Standard because they were worried that if they let her go, by the time she was finished there wouldn't be anything left to conquer,"
"Someone like that?" Shun gulped. "Be careful, Flare," he recommended, and she nodded, having heard Selena's recount.
"Oh, so I'm well-known even amongst Xyz scum, am I? Good to know my reputation precedes me," Kisara grinned. "I Normal Summon Maiden with Eyes of Blue from my hand," A tall lady that actually bore a surprising resemblance to Kisara herself, but with longer hair and dressed in some sort of robe appeared in front of her. 0 ATK.
"I end my turn," Kisara grinned.
"My turn, draw," Flare cautiously drew her card. She had summoned a 0-ATK monster in Attack mode with no back row at all. That was unnerving in itself.
"I Normal Summon Grieving Witch of Red-Eyes from my hand, and activate her effect. When she is Normal Summoned, I can add one 'Red-Eyes' card from my Deck to my hand," Flare played her card, and the monster that had once been The Unhappy Maiden appeared for her, 1600 ATK. "I add Red-Eyes Wyvern," she decided, taking the card from her Deck.
"Grieving Witch's effect lets me Normal Summon a Red-Eyes monster from my hand!" Flare added. "So I normal Summon Red-Eyes Wyvern!" Her slim Level 4 dragon appeared, roaring its 1700 ATK.
"She has a vulnerable monster with 0 ATK in Attack Position on her field. Someone like her wouldn't make such a basic mistake. She's planning something for when I attack. But I won't let it happen," Flare resolved.
"I tune my Level 1 Tuner monster Grieving Witch of Red-Eyes to my Level 4 Red-Eyes Wyvern!" she declared. Four stars, one ring.
"Come forth, polar patriot of balance and order! Synchro Summon! Become one as two in perfect harmony! Level 5! Armades, Keeper of Boundaries!"
A slim, tall blue figure appeared, holding out both arms like a set of scales. One glowed with a warm red light, the other cold and blue.
"Armades! Attack Maiden with Eyes of Blue!" Flare grinned.
"You're going to regret that," Kisara smirked, but paused. The button she was pressing on her Duel Disk refused to activate. "When Armades battles, you can't activate cards or effects until the end of the Damage Step," Flare grinned. "I knew you had something planned, so I took steps to counter your counter,"
"You preempted me?" Kisara hotly demanded, barely even flinching as more than half of her Life Points were cut away in a single blow. "How dare you?!"
"What, is daddy's girl having trouble now that she's out in the real world?" Flare mockingly cooed.
"Hmph!" Kisara stomped her foot petulantly.
"This isn't right," Selena paused. "She should be way more powerful,"
"Maybe she's faking," Shun suggested.
"I set a card and end my turn!" Flare declared as, satisfied that their friend could hold their own against this new threat, Shinsei turned the car around and drove away, taking Gong, Sawatari and Megan with him. Shun made to leave too but Selena halted him. "She may well need help yet,"
Kisara grinned as she drew her card. "Draw. I activate my Field Spell, Mausoleum of White,"
Behind her, a large shrine rose into existence, glowing pure white. "Mausoleum of White lets me Normal Summon a Level 1 LIGHT Tuner in addition to my Normal Summon for the turn. So I Normal Summon Priestess with Eyes of Blue from my hand," she declared, and a tall woman dressed in a blue dress appeared with a curtesy and a smile.
"I activate the effect of Sage Knight with Eyes of Blue in my hand. By discarding him to the Grave, I target Priestess and send her to the Grave too, in order to Summon Blue-Eyes White Dragon from my Deck! Appear, great white dragon with eyes of blue!" she declared, and with a thunderous roar the mighty white dragon appeared.
"Now Priestess' effect activates! When she's targeted by an effect, I can add two Blue-Eyes monsters from my Deck to my hand! I add another copy of Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Blue-Eyes Alternate Dragon!" she declared, adding the two cards to her hand. "By revealing Blue-Eyes White Dragon in my hand, I can Special Summon Blue-Eyes Alternate Dragon! Appear!" she commanded, and a monster that resembled her first dragon, but was slimmer and had larger wings appeared to join the scene. Another 3000 ATK.
Flare cursed.
"Blue-Eyeses! Attack!" Kisara commanded with a gleeful smile, and her dragons happily obeyed. Alternate obliterated Armades, and Blue-Eyes charged its breath attack. "Burst Stream of Destruction!"
The redhead cartwheeled out of the way, narrowly dodging a wall of blue energy that, combined with the 700 damage she had taken from Armades' destruction, cut her Life Points to a mere 300.
"I Set two cards and end my turn!"
"That's her strength," Selena nodded. "Her father gave her a Deck that's capable of using Fusion, Synchro and Xyz, but she's really good at rapidly Summoning monsters with insane amounts of ATK,"
"I noticed. My turn! Draw!" Flare barked. The dragon within her roared at the blue-eyed challenger as she looked at her card. "Red-Eyes, you're here. Perfect. Now let's teach her a lesson," she grinned.
"Using the Scale 2 Legendary Black Crystal and the Scale 8 Red-Eyes Parabola dragon I set the Pendulum Scale!" she declared, using two of the six cards in her hand to set the scale as her two monsters rose into the air in pillars of blue light.
"Now, I Pendulum Summon! Swing, pendulum, in the dragon's eye! Write my victory across the sky!" A flaming wormhole appeared between the scales as Flare chanted, and Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon roared as it emerged. "Behold, the true flare that sets fire to the night!" she chanted. "Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon!"
Her dragon roared as it appeared on the field. "I now activate Legendary Black Crystal's Pendulum effect, and return it to the hand!" The Pendulum monster vanished, and Flare instantly placed its card next to Red-Eyes. "I Normal Summon Legendary Black Crystal from my hand!" Level 1, 300 ATK. "Now, I tune my Level 1 Tuner monster Legendary Black Crystal to my Level 7 Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon!" One ring, seven stars. 1 + 7 = 8.
"Display your strength, dragon of two forms! Unite into one body with Synchro Summon and prove your prominence! Arise, Level 8! Black Brutdrago!" Flare's huge black Synchro dragon appeared. 3000 ATK. "I activate Black Brutdrago's effect! By discarding a Gemini monster I destroy a Spell or Trap on the field! I discard Gemini General to destroy Mausoleum of White!" she commanded. Gemini General appeared, sacrificing itself to give Brutdrago strength, and it loosed a burst of purple energy from it's mouth, destroying the Field Spell.
"I now activate Red-Eyes Parabola Dragon's Pendulum Effect! All my Dragons permanently gain 200 ATK!" she added, and with a cheerful roar Parabola leant Brutdrago his strength.
"She's going toe to toe with the Blue Burst and matching her every move," Selena breathed in amazement.
"The Blue Burst?" Flare snorted. "Do you seriously call yourself that?" she sceptically demanded. "It'll make sense in a few minutes," Kisara confidently smirked.
"Yeah, right. Brutdrago! Attack Blue-Eyes Alternate Dragon!" the redhead commanded, but her opponent shook her head. "During your turn, I can Tribute Alternate to Special Summon another Blue-Eyes White Dragon from my hand," she grinned. Alternate vanished and was replaced by a duplicate of the first dragon. "Fine. Take your pick, Brutdrago. Either one'll do," Flare gestured to her dragon, who eagerly charged and crushed the dragon on the left. "Turn end!"
"Alright then. You know, this is fun. It's almost a shame that I have to crush you now," Kisara sighed despondently as she drew her card. "Three hundred Life Points left and a monster with only thirty-two hundred ATK. How sad," she sighed.
"Fusion bastard. Black Brutdrago can take on anything you have to offer," Flare snorted and her dragon roared in agreement.
"Oh really? Well, let's see what you want to do about this," Kisara smirked. "I play Dragon's Mirror. By banishing any number of Fusion Materials from my field and Grave, I Fusion Summon using them all as Material. And Alternate's name is treated as Blue-Eyes White Dragon while in the Grave," she grinned, removing the two Blue-Eyes White Dragons and the Blue-Eyes Alternate Dragon from her Duel Disk, then selecting a card from her Extra Deck and placing it on her Duel Disk.
A huge purple mirror appeared, the three dragons reflected in it, before the reflections rippled and slowly merged into one, becoming a single massive three-headed blue dragon. "I call you, my ultimate monster! Fusion Summon! True and perfect embodiment of my self!" A resounding clap echoed from her palms as the mirror first cracked, then shattered, releasing the impossibly massive three-headed monster into reality. Kisara's eyes shone bright blue and her hair was blown upwards in a sudden updraft as white energy surged upwards around her feet. "Awaken, revitalised ultimate power! Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"
Flare's eyes widened in horror at the display. She knew what it meant, she had seen it before. "If something like that happens here," she trailed off in horror.
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"They didn't let her take part in the attacks on Xyz and Standard because they were worried that if they let her go, by the time she was finished there wouldn't be anything left to conquer," Selena said in worry.
X
"That's what Selena meant. A Spirit Unison with a monster with that kind of power," She shivered, and as if sensing her desire, her Extra Deck expelled a black card. "Flare Metal . . the original one," she noticed, clutching at her card for comfort, remembering the last time she had seen this happen
On a video recording of something she had done herself.
The great three-headed dragon roared, making Flare's Synchro monster seem pitiful in comparison. The dragon in her chest shivered. It was afraid. A Solid Vision pop-up revealed 4500 ATK. "I've lost the Duel. There's nothing I can do about that," Flare shivered with her dragon. "But I can make sure that I don't fall here and now, and that this city will survive,"
Slowly, Kisara's body was beginning to glow with white energy. "This is it!" she shrieked in excitement as her eyes became like blue spotlights. "The ultimate power to seal your doom!"
Suddenly, a jolt hit her left arm. She looked down - and saw that a metal rope had clamped itself to her Duel Disk. "What?" she demanded, looking to see the cord was connecting her and Flare's Duel Disks. "You win the Duel, I'll give you that!" Flare shouted at her opponent, pressing a button. "But I won't let you seal me into a card, or use that monster to destroy this city!" she added, as a bolt of electricity surged from her Duel Disk to Kisara's, instantly overloading the circuitry and frying its processors. In a second, it was reduced to junk.
The Solid Vision uplink died in an instant, and with it Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, vanishing from the sky like a bad memory. "What? No! No!" Kisara shrieked, her body still glowing with white energy. "You will not rob me of this victory!"
Flare watched in horror as the girl's long white hair swayed and began to flare up in worrying shapes. She turned to Selena and Shun, who were watching the display with a mixture of fear and fascination. Kisara stepped forwards, howling in bestial fury, and the power surging through her body sent cracks running through the broken parts of the road.
"We should go. Now," the redhead told her two companions. In an instant Selena had broken free of her terror, and Shun followed, kick-starting the engine on the stolen Security D-Wheel as the two girls mounted behind him.
The three sped off into the night, running away from the monstrous girl trying to pursue them.
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"Go, Superheavy Samurai Big Benkei! Attack those giants!" Gong commanded, and his ace monster charged, swinging its pikestaff and smashing a hole in the chest of an Ancient Gear Chaos Giant.
Mirromages swarmed the balustrades of Shinsei's Mirromage Siege Weapon Catastrophe, the Kaleidoscopic Castle as it pulled up nearby Gongenzaka. "Need a lift?" the blue-haired boy offered, leaning out of his rolling castle's window. "Much appreciated," the man nodded, accepting Shinsei's outstretched arm and being lifted into the castle. "What happened to the car?"
X
"Yee-haw!" Megan cheered as she charged the stolen police car towards a squad of Obelisk Force goons, scattering them like bowling pins. "Six Shooter Silver Star!" she commanded, signalling her favourite Xyz monster, who was crouching on top of the car. "Pick 'em off one by one, partner!" Gunshots filled the air as the soldiers scattered in all directions.
X
"Abyss Actor Big Star! Let's put on a show they'll never forget!" Sawatari commanded, and his troupe of undead actors charged into battle against a platoon of Ancient Gear Knights, smashing them into dust.
"Save some for me!" Crow added as he pulled up on his D-Wheel, Frank, Amanda and Tanner clutching on behind him. "Assault Blackwing - Raikiri the Rain Shower! Attack and destroy them!" His semi-mechanical avian warrior screeched and charged, beheading an Ancient Gear Chaos Giant.
"Awesome!" the kids cheered.
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"I just hope Security won't want it back," Shinsei shrugged as Catastrophe, the Kaleidoscopic Castle pulled up in front of another Chaos Giant. "Go, everyone! Kaleidoscopic Cannon Annihilation!"
The drawbridge lowered, and a long cannon appeared from the gap, which fired, piercing the Giant through its chest. Seconds later, the monster exploded.
"Good shot," Gong nodded.
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"Selena's out there?" Jean-Michael's eyes widened in anger. "I had hoped to keep her locked in the trash facility!" he growled, clenching his fists and glaring at the black bishop that represented her on the chessboard.
"Attention Security! You must apprehend this girl! She is a dangerous member of the invaders!" Jean-Michael commanded his troops, uploading a picture of Selena to his troops' headsets.
"Sir!"
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"I won't let you do to this city what you did to my home! Consider this my revenge! Raidraptor - Satellite Cannon Falcon! Eternal Avenge!" Shun commanded, riding on the back of his great white bird after separating from Flare and Selena, raining down destruction on his enemies. The Raidraptor's wings flared, creating a massive holographic replication of the double 'R' Raidraptor crest, before unleashing a hellish blast of energy at the nearest Giant.
A few blocks away, Selena was having a similar measure of success. "Lunalight Cat Dancer! You know what to do!" she declared, and her monster pierced the men she had once thought of as her comrades.
She turned - and blanched at the sight of several ranks of Security facing her down. "We have been ordered to bring you in for questioning!" one of them commanded. "So come quietly and we won't have to hurt you!"
"What are you talking about? We're in the middle of an invasion!" Selena demanded.
"An invasion you're spearheading!" the leading Security member barked.
Selena was dumbstruck. "No I'm not!" she finally spluttered.
"That's what they all say. Bring her in, boys!"
But the next thing the purple-haired girl knew, she was being swept off her feet by a speeding D-Wheel. "One good turn deserves another," Flare grinned at her as Selena pulled herself into the seat. The redhead fondly slapped the motorbike's panelling with a wild grin. "And I am so keeping this thing!"
"I thought you were distracting Kisara?" Selena asked in confusion.
"I am. Why do you think I led her into that mob of Security?"
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Back at Security, one of the officers who was riding a D-Wheel paused as a sweet-looking white-haired girl with bright baby blue eyes skipped up to him. "Excuse me, officer? Can I please borrow your D-Wheel?"
"Uh, sorry, girl, but I kinda need -" The unfortunate member of Security was cut off by a powerful uppercut to the jaw. "Wrong answer, bub!" Kisara shrieked in fury, snatching his Duel Disk and using it to replace the one Flare had destroyed.
She paused in interest as the entire Security Force turned to her as one and armed their Duel Disks. "Oh?" she queried, with a malign smile crossing her face as she returned her own Deck to the new Duel Disk. "Surrender now, or face the consequences of the law!" one of them barked.
"No thanks," Kisara smirked, arming her Duel Disk.
X
"I figure either Kisara will destroy Security or the entire force of Security will overwhelm her in sheer strength of numbers. It's our victory either way," Flare shrugged.
Selena nodded. "I like your style,"
Behind them, they heard a dragon roar. "NEO BLUE-EYES ULTIMATE DRAGON! EVOLUTION BURST STREAM OF DESTRUCTION!" Kisara raged.
Flare cringed. "And I was really hoping half of Security would be enough to stop her,"
X
Jean-Michael frowned as he suddenly lost almost every single signal from the team he had sent to capture Selena. "What is going on down there?" he demanded, contacting one of the few surviving officers. "What happened? Did you get Selena?" he demanded.
"We tried, sir, but someone came up on a stolen Security D-Wheel and took her away. Then this white-haired girl appeared and - and -" the Security officer stammered.
"Well? Spit it out!" the Chief of Security demanded. "She turned most of us into cards!" the officer screamed.
"Oh dear. I may have to play my trump card sooner than I thought," Jean-Michael mused, fingering the white King and the white room on his chessboard. "Sergey?" he demanded, contacting his warrior.
The man responded instantly. "Forget Yuzu Hiragi. There's a new target I want you to take down. She is a short girl with white hair and blue eyes. She is very dangerous. I want her sent back to Fusion Dimension immediately. Return to the objective of capturing Yuzu Hiragi after you have dispatched this girl,"
"Yes sir,"
"Also? Use your strong Deck against her. You're going to need it,"
X
"You know, 'Synchro scum' has a lot better of a ring to it than 'Xyz scum'," one of the Obelisk Force soldiers commented to their teammate as they marched into the Tops district. "Yeah. It's alliteration," the other agreed.
"Stop!" a resounding, authoritative voice commanded the three soldiers. They looked up.
A tall, blonde man stood in front of them, dressed in a flowing white jacket with purple eyes. "I understand that you're new around here. But in this world, I am King. And a good King defends his country!" Jack Atlas declared, arming his Duel Disk.
"Bring it," the Obelisk Force soldiers grinned, starting the Duel.
Five minutes later . . .
"Scarlight Red Dragon Archfiend! Attack!" Jack commanded, and his mighty red dragon charged, wiping the soldiers' LP to zero. "Remember this! No one invades my city!"
X
Yuri continued to search the city for the two fugitives. "Yuzu Hiragi, and Selena Gomez," he muttered to himself. "Where are you?"
He paused as his communicator rung. Answering it, he noticed that caller ID registered as Kisara. "Hello!" she squealed.
"Oh, hello my friend," Yuri smiled. "Why are you calling?"
"Well, two things. Firstly, I now have a Deck of carded humans to rival your binder," Kisara grinned, absent-mindedly shuffling the pile of carded Security officers in her hands as she held her phone between her head and her shoulder.
"That was fast. Of course, I expected nothing less from a Duelist of your caliber," Yuri nodded to himself. "And the second thing?"
"I've found the escapee. Selena. Come to my position, but don't be late! Otherwise she may get caught in the crossfire,"
"Got it - wait. Crossfire?" Yuri questioned in confusion.
"It's the Black Flare. The renegade from Xyz Dimension. She's here, and she's history if I have anything to say about it," Kisara malevolently grinned, before pausing. "Hold that thought. A new contender just showed up, and I might have to deal with him,"
Kisara paused and closed her phone, staring down the man in front of her.
Sergey Volkov stared back, his emotionless face boring into her soul. Wordlessly, he armed his Duel Disk.
"You wanna Duel?" she grinned, arming the stolen Duel Disk. "Then let's Duel,"
A/N
A/N
Okay . . . until I started writing the Duel between Kisara and Flare, I only just realised how CRAZY OVERPOWERED the new Blue-Eyes stuff is. And naturally, since I created a good character that played Red-Eyes, I needed an evil nemesis character to play Blue-Eyes.
And don't go on about making the girl who uses Blue-Eyes evil. I know everyone loves that dragon, but there's something you have to remember. In the original series, Seto Kaiba is a villain. Later, he got 'upgraded' to deuteragonist, but is never canonically a good guy like Yugi and Joey are. Plus, either way, we're talking about the (possibly adopted) daughter of Leo Akaba. That wouldn't have ended well no matter who it was.
Also, Kisara is insane. That should be obvious, but just for clarification. And no, this is not the same Kisara from Classic, in the same way Edo Phoenix is not the same as in GX and Kite Tenjo is not the same as Zexal in canon ARC-V.
And, once again, we're hit with the name issue . . . firstly, I usually go with original Japanese names (Selena is an exception because 'Serena' is basically a Japanese romanticisation of 'Selena' - and we meet the same issue with 'Leo' and 'Reo') but when it came to Declan . . . I heard that his name was Declan on the wiki before I really saw him being called Reiji a lot in the anime, so I'm used to thinking of him as Declan as opposed to Reiji. So if you think I should go back and change it, then say so. Until then, I'm keeping it as Declan.
Continuing on from that . . . again, lack of canon surnames. -.- Selena 'Gomez' is just a recurring gag I'm gonna use at every opportunity until Selena gets a canon surname. XD
No reviews or original cards, just my ramblings, so Peace!