A/N: I OWN NO PART YU GI OH 5DS! ALL RIGHTS GO TO THE CREATORS!
Chapter 12: The First Exorcism
Yusei's POV
The next day, Jack ended up in the hospital after some guys attacked him. He was fine for the most part. Just had a minor concussion. We all tried to talk him out of going after the thieves that hurt Era and Kaz.
I didn't want him around when I did the Demon Exorcist spell. As much as I felt I could do the spell, I was nervous I would mess it up. Era had a point when she said I hadn't mastered it completely making it dangerous. 'This would be the same thing as the test. If I can save this man, that'll tell me and Era whether I'm truly ready for the test,' I thought.
I turned back to the situation with Jack, when the Signer of the Wings said, "Finding these thieves is something that I have to do myself." We all gave in with that reasoning.
Everyone soon had to leave to go do their own things when Jack asked me, "Do you have any idea where their base is?"
I looked at him. "Found it last night," I answered.
"Where is it?" he asked.
"I don't want you in that danger, Jack," I told him sternly. "There's a demon inside the leader. I don't want you hurt by it."
Jack grabbed me by my shirt's collar and yanked me face to face. "Yusei, you know I need to do this. So tell me right now," he ordered.
"It's at the city docks," I answered. "Be careful and don't get into any serious trouble." I then added mentally, 'Though he will.'
Jack let go and raced off. I transformed and followed him by air. The guards weren't at the door this time so Jack entered with ease. The thieves looked at him with Syd staring with a grin. I came in through the roof invisible and silently landed on the rafters in the ceiling.
"Hey there. My name's Syd, the leader of this whole thing," he greeted deviously. "Doing okay after the beatings?"
Jack glared. "Security is on their way. You can't escape this time," he told Syd.
"Fine," Syd responded. "But how about we have a duel while we wait for Security to come?"
"Fine by me," Jack agreed.
They took their places on the conveyor belt and I was pleased to see Syd standing in the circle. A couple members of the gang chained Jack and Syd to the conveyor belt.
"I have a special set up for our duel. Each of us are chained to a conveyor belt. And as we lose life points, the conveyor belt moves backwards and when one of us is defeated, we're dropped into a trash compactor," Syd explained.
"Doesn't matter to me," Jack stated and they began to duel with Jack drawing a card. "I summon Mad Archfiend (Attack 1800/ Defense 0) in attack mode. I set a face down and end my turn."
Syd drew his card. "I summon Assault Wheel (Attack 2300/ Defense 0) in attack mode. Assault Wheel, attack Mad Archfiend!" he ordered.
"I activate Mad Archfiend's effect. This switches it to defense position," Jack defended.
The wheel destroyed Mad Archfiend and Syd stated, "You thought switching it to defense mode would be a good idea, didn't you? Well with Assault Wheel's effect, I can still deal damage." Jack's life points dropped to 1700. "But now since Assault Wheel attack, it's attack is reduced to 0 until my next standby phase (Assault Wheel: Attack 0). I then set two cards face down and end my turn."
Jack drew his card. "Since you control monsters while I control none, I can special summon Vice Dragon (Attack 2000/ Defense 2400) in attack mode but its original attack and defense is halved (Vice Dragon: Attack 1000/ Defense 1200)," he declared. "Next I activate Polymerization to fuse Big Piece Golem with Medium Piece Golem in order to fusion summon Multiple Piece Golem (Attack 2600/ Defense 1300). Next I normal summon Archfiend Interceptor (Attack 1400/ Defense 1600) in attack position. With Archfiend Interceptor, whenever you declare an attack with a monster you control, you'll take 500 points of damage. Now Multiple Piece Golem, attack Assault Wheel!"
"I activate Nightmare Wheel! This makes it so Multiple Piece Golem can't attack or change its battle position. And during each of my standby phases, you take 500 points of damage," Syd defended.
'Be careful, Jack,' I thought.
"Well, Vice Dragon, attack Assault Wheel!" Jack ordered.
"I activate Plunder Decoy to take control of your Archfiend Interceptor," Syd fought.
A replay occurred and Vice Dragon attack Assault Wheel. The effect of Archfiend Interceptor activated dropping Jack's life points to 1200. Vice Dragon destroyed Assault Wheel and dropped Syd's life points to 3000.
Syd drew his card to begin his turn. On Syd's standby phase, the effect of Nightmare Wheel activated dropping Jack's life points again to 700. I was tempted to step in but I knew what the demon would do and didn't want to risk it.
"I summon Cannon Wheel (Attack 500/ Defense 700)! I tune Archfiend Interceptor with Cannon Wheel in order to synchro summon Combat Wheel (Attack 2500/ Defense 1200)! When Cannon Wheel is used for a synchro summon, its effect delivers 500 points of damage at you!" Syd declared and Jack's life points dropped to 200. "Combat Wheel, attack Vice Dragon!"
"I activate Nightmare Archfiends! By tributing Vice Dragon, I can special summon three Nightmare Archfiend Tokens (Attack 2000/ Defense 2000) to your side of the field in attack mode," Jack fought.
Syd obviously decided not to attack with that in play. But he did play, "I activate Block Dugout! While Block Dugout is on the field, your monsters can't attack if their combined levels are less than the combined levels of all the monsters I control. I'll end my turn there."
Jack drew his card. "I summon Sinister Sprocket (Attack 400/ Defense 0) in attack mode. Next I tune Multiple Piece Golem with Sinister Sprocket to synchro summon. Rise, Chaos King Archfiend (Attack 2600/ Defense 2600)!" he declared and I rolled by eyes at the name. "And let's not forget, since Multiple Piece Golem has left the field, Nightmare Wheel is destroyed. Also, since Sinister Sprocket was sent to the graveyard for a synchro summon of a dark synchro monster, its effect allows me to destroy Black Dugout! Chaos King Archfiend, attack Combat Wheel!"
"I activate the effect of Combat Wheel! By discarding Urgent Tuning from my hand, I can increase the attack of Combat wheel by half the total attack of every monster I control (Combat Wheel: Attack 5500)!" he defended.
"I activate Chaos King Archfiend's effect. This swaps the attack and defense of every monster you control until the end phase (Combat Wheel: Attack 1200/ Defense 5500)!" Jack fought. Combat Wheel was destroyed and Syd's life points dropped to 1600. And since Syd used the effect of Combat Wheel in the turn it was destroyed, its effect activated, destroying all other monsters he controlled. And since the Nightmare Archfiend Tokens were destroyed, Syd took 800 points of damage for each one destroyed, dropping Syd's life points to 0 and making Jack the winner.
"Jack, get ready to save Syd!" I called as Syd's eyes turned completely black and hatred filled them. I dropped and immobilized Syd before jumping out of the circle.
The conveyor belt stopped for a moment as the demon exclaimed, "An angel?!"
"You're done, demon," I said and began the spell while he growled in anger and tried to move. The circle wouldn't allow it though. "Ey sunni motei wytaku nitua oa mati elna tu nelsa!" I chanted and the black mist flowed out of Syd as the circle glowed.
"You will perish, angel. We will have our revenge!" he called before he vanished into dust.
I went to the down Syd and felt for a pulse. And I was beyond relieved when I found one. "He's alive," I stated. "It'll be a while for he wakes up though."
Jack looked at me a bit shocked. "Deal with the others. I need to go check up on Era," I told him. He gave a small nod and the guys tensed while I flew off.
. . .
I arrived at the hospital in my human form where Era was sitting up. She was holding her stomach a bit and I said, "You shouldn't be sitting up if you're hurting your stomach."
She looked at me shocked. "Where have you been?" she asked.
"Finishing the demon inside Syd," I answered.
"Did you do it successfully?" she asked sounding alert.
I gave her a small smile and nodded. "Yeah, he's free and alive and the demon's dead," I told her and she gave a relieved sigh.
I sat down next to her. "You're stomach doing okay?" I asked.
"Yeah," she answered. "Just a bit sore."
I turned with Era as the doctor walked in. "Oh, hello. Good to see someone other than Era is here," he said. "She should be free to go. Just make sure she doesn't do anything strenuous for a couple days."
"Alright," I agreed and the doctor walked out.
I helped Era up and she got dressed back into her normal human outfit. We walked out and I saw Jack walk to Kaz's room. Era and I followed him.
Jack returned Kaz's Chaos King Archfiend to him and said, "Thanks for the help."
"I need to thank that girl who saved me as well," Kaz responded. "But we should have a turbo duel together one day."
"Yeah," Jack agreed.
"Do you know where that girl is?" Kaz asked.
"I'm right here," Era spoke up and he turned to her.
"Thanks for taking those shots for me," Kaz said. "Are you doing alright?"
"The doctor just said I'm free to go," Era explained.
Kaz grinned. "Good," he responded.
"Let's not do this again though," Era stated with a grin.
We all smirked as Kaz responded, "I can agree with you there. I should probably let you get going. We might see each other later."
"Yeah," Era responded and I nodded. We turned and left with that. We then turned serious again as we reached my duel runner. "It was somewhat peaceful for the longest time. And now demons just keep popping up everyone all of the sudden," she said.
I nodded. "Something big is happening behind all this. Something more than Brehnam just wanting revenge," I said. Era nodded as I sat on my runner. I looked at Era as she sat behind me. "Are you sure, Era?" I asked remembering what she said about her memories.
"I need to get over that fear. Demaya wouldn't want me to stay away from riding a duel runner like this," she replied looking down.
"A-Alright," I agreed. "But if you ever need to get off or anything, let me know and I'll let you off."
"Okay," she agreed.
I took off with that.