A/N: I OWN NO PART YU GI OH 5DS! ALL RIGHTS GO TO THE CREATORS!
Chapter 15: The Duel Boards- Part 2
Third Person POV
"How about you start of the duel, Luna?" Lester suggested.
"Fine," Luna agreed and drew her card. "I summon Bird of Roses (Attack 1800/ Defense 1500) in attack mode. I end my turn there."
"An attack of 1800?" Lester commented. He drew his card. "I summon Absurd Stealer (Attack 100/ Defense 0) from my hand in attack mode. When Absurd Stealer is successfully summoned, it reduces my opponent's monster's attack power to 0 and make Absurd Stealer's attack power equal to that monster's defense points until the end phase (Absurd Stealer: Attack 1500; Bird of Roses: Attack 0). Absurd Stealer, attack Bird of Roses! Absurd Return!" A blue beam fired from Lester's monster and hit Luna's monster before destroying it. The force from the destruction of her monster was strong enough that it sent Luna flying off the circuit as her life points fell to 2500.
"Luna!" Leo yelled worried.
Regulus, which Leo and Lester couldn't see, caught Luna on his back and put her back on the field. "Thanks, Regulus," she told her friend before holding her chest in pain.
"Did you like that? In this duel, you'll be able to actually fell the life point damage!" Lester stated.
"Huh?" Leo responded surprised while Luna held her chest in pain as her mark glowed.
Era's POV
Yusei and I looked at our marks and I muttered, "Luna… Yusei, we need to go."
"Right," Yusei agreed. We both changed into our angel forms before taking to the skies in hopes of getting to Luna fast.
And we reached her and Leo just in time to see Luna activate a monster's effect that was obviously destroyed, "When Bird of Roses is destroyed by battle, I can special summon two plant type tuner monsters from my deck. So I special summon Netta (Defense 400) (A/N: I would usually put the attack as well, but I searched for forty-five minutes after writing this to try to find the attack points and I couldn't even find the card for some reason. Sorry) and Spore (Attack 400/ Defense 800) in defense mode."
"I set three cards face down and end my turn," Lester finished.
"How dare you hurt Luna like that?! You'll be attacking Luna again over my dead body! I'm going to defeat you!" Leo yelled angrily drawing his card.
"Yusei, I don't like this," I told him.
"I know," he responded. "It's just like my duel with the Ghost. The attacks were real."
"I'm going down…" I began but Yusei grabbed my arm making me stop.
"Wait, Era. If we go down there now, we might just get them hurt worse," he told me.
"And if we're making a mistake by staying up here?" I retorted.
"Listen, I want to head down and help them now too. But if we go down now and then later they really need our help, we might not get the right chance to help them better than we could if we showed ourselves," Yusei reasoned. "Do you understand what I'm saying?"
"Yes," she agreed. "Fine."
We turned back to the duel where Leo began his turn, "I normal summon level three Morphtronic Datatron (Attack 1200/ Defense 600) in attack mode. Attack Absurd Stealer!"
"You fell for it! I activate my face down, Exus Summon! It returns a monsters selected as an attack target to my hand and special summons a monster from my hand with lower attack. Like my Sky Core (Attack 0/ Defense 0)!" Lester called.
"It only has zero attack points though," Leo commented.
"I activate another face down! Torrential Tribute! When a monster is summoned, I can destroyed all monsters on the field," Lester declared obviously shocking Leo and Luna that he was destroying his own monster while mine and Yusei's concern grew. "Now since Sky Core was destroyed by card effect, it destroys all monsters on my field and from my deck, hand, or graveyard, special summon Meklord Emperor Skiel Infinity (Attack 0/ Defense 0), Skiel Top (Attack 600/ Defense 0), Skiel Attack (Attack 1000/ Defense 0), Skiel Guard (Attack 200/ Defense 300), and Skiel Carrier (Attack 400/ Defense 0)."
"He summoned five monsters at once!" Leo exclaimed surprised.
"Now Meklord Emperor Skiel Infinity's effect kicks in!" Lester stated. Though he didn't explain all the parts came together forming a machine like bird with 2200 attack points and zero defense points.
"What's with the giant robot?" Leo wondered.
Lester laughed maniacally. "Thanks to you, I was able to summon my greatest monster! Now bring it on! I'll show you what true dueling is all about!"
. . .
Meanwhile, Primo and Jakob were watching on their thrones. Brehnam watching on the above with a frustrated glare.
"Lester's getting ahead of himself," Primo remarked.
"It's just the way children are. I remember those days myself," Jakob responded.
"I'm more curious as to where Era and Yusei are hiding," Brehnam stated making them look at him. "Knowing angels, they would've been at the twins' side by now." The two emperors didn't respond but looked back at the screen.
. . .
"Meklord Emperor Skiel…" Leo muttered looking carefully at it. "It's a combination monster. Is this the thing Yusei and Era were talking about? Yusei said something important about it. But what is it?" Yusei was tempted to contact the boy telepathically and tell him but knew that if he did now and he didn't need to show himself later, he would have to tell anyways.
He looked at me. "Can you remind him?" Yusei asked me.
I nodded and looked at Leo. "Leo, Meklord Emperors can absorb synchro monsters," I told the boy.
"Are you watching this?" he asked.
"Don't make it known, but yes. And I'm worried for you and your sister's safety. You need to get out of the duel," I replied.
"I don't think we can at this point," Leo responded sounding a bit nervous.
"I'll be waiting to protect you two then at a moment's notice," I told him sternly. "But you need to protect Luna the best you can."
"Right!" he agreed.
"Era, why are you so protective of Leo and Luna?" Yusei asked me.
I sighed. "My sister is their Great Grandmother," I told him.
"Really?" he responded. I nodded. "They'll be fine, Era. We'll be ready to protect them at any time."
"R-Right," I agreed and we returned to the duel.
Our marks reacted and we felt the pain from them. "I'm not liking this," he stated. I nodded in agreement.
Third Person POV
Jack was driving feeling the pain of his mark also. 'Where in the world is Yusei?' he thought.
"Jack!" he heard Crow call. Jack turned to Crow and Akiza as they drove up. They all had tense and worried looks on their faces. "Where's Yusei?"
"I think he's with Era," he answered. "We should see them by Leo and Luna eventually."
Akiza and Crow nodded in acceptance.
. . .
"What're you going to do? Now's your chance to surrender," Lester asked the twins but then laughed sinisterly.
"Who'd surrender to you?" Leo retorted and took a card out of his hand. 'With this, if Lester attacks me directly, I can special summon,' he thought. "I set a face down and end my turn."
Lester drew his card. "I activate Trap Stun! Now during this turn, trap cards can't be activated. Meklord Emperor Skiel, attack Leo directly!" he ordered. The machine turned to Leo and lifted up its gun and fired a red ball of energy. It hit Leo making him scream from the pain as his life points dropped to 1800.
"Leo!" Luna called while Era struggled to fight to urge to go down and help him. But she knew Yusei was right. Go down now and they really got hurt and there would be no way to save them easier. Leo rode out of the smoke have a few visible wounds but still okay. Luna gave a relieved smile. "He's safe."
"How'd you like that direct attack from Machine Emperor Skiel?" Lester asked. "I'm going to rough you up even more next time." He laughed. "I set one card face down and end my turn."
"You won't be hurting Leo anymore!" Luna stated drawing her card. "I summon Sunlight Unicorn (Attack 1800/ Defense 1000) in attack mode. Next I activate Spore's effect that's in my graveyard. By removing Nettles from my graveyard, I can special summon Spore from my graveyard. And then Spore's level increases to the level equal of the removed cards (Spore: Level 3). Now I tune level three Spore with level four Sunlight Unicorn!" As the monsters flew into the air, Luna chanted, "The sacred guardian's light crosses paths now and becomes eternal life! Shine, Ancient Fairy Dragon (Attack 2100/ Defense 3000)!" The dragon appeared in attack mode.
"There it is!" Lester quietly exclaimed.
"With Ancient Fairy Dragon's effect, I can special summon a level four or lower monster from my hand once per turn," Luna continued. "So I special summon Fairy Archer (Attack 1400/ Defense 600) in defense position! Once during each of my turns, Fairy Archer's effect can deal you 400 points of damage to you for each light attributed monster on the field."
"And since she has two light attributed monsters, that's 800 points of direct damage," Leo commented. Fairy Archer formed a bow and aimed it at Lester. It hit him in the back, creating a small explosion as Lester's life points fell to 3200. Lester simply brushed off his arm. "He didn't feel the damage at all?"
"What's going on?" Luna wondered.
Lester turned to them. "I'm not the type to feel such a trifle amount of pain," he said and laughed.
"I set two face downs and end my turn," Luna finished.
Meanwhile, Crow, Jack, and Akiza spotted the Meklord Emperor after catching up to the twins.
"It's a giant robot," Crow commented.
"Was that the robot Yusei fought that the Ghost used?" Akiza asked.
"No," Jack asked. "I don't think it's the one. But the mark on its chest is the same. It's in the same league with it."
"How many of those things are out there?" Crow asked. "And where is Yusei?"
"We'll deal with Yusei later," Jack said. "Right now we need to focus on the twins. And it's not looking too good. Ancient Fairy Dragon has been summoned."
Lester began his turn by drawing his card. "I activate Meklord Emperor Skiel's effect! Once per turn, it can absorb my opponent's synchro monster," he declared. The middle of the emperor where the green like was in glowed completely.
"This is what Yusei and Era were talking about!" Leo realized.
"It's synchro prevention," Yusei said to Era in the air.
"Yeah. This Meklord Emperor has it too," she agreed worried.
Green strings came out of the machine and wrapped around Luna's Signer Dragon. Ancient Fairy Dragon struggled to get free.
"Ancient Fairy Dragon!" Luna called worried while Leo had a look of deep concern. Skiel pulled the dragon in and Luna muttered the dragon's name.
"Stop this, Lester! Let Ancient Fairy Dragon go!" Leo ordered.
The bird like machine pulled the dragon completely in shocking everyone visibly. "Oh no…" Era muttered.
"Ancient Fairy Dragon…" Luna said once again. "It's been absorbed."
"We were too late," Crow said on the sidelines.
Lester laughed. "I sure took that Ancient Fairy Dragon," he said.
"I've got to remember more quick," Leo muttered. He turned his attention back to Lester who flew in the air. The holder of the Meklord Emperor jumped behind them and zoomed passed them both. Leo and Lester locked eyes as he did so.
"Lester, enough!" Leo ordered.
Lester looked at Luna through his visor. 'Now I'm going to make you draw the circuit!' he thought. "When Meklord Emperor Skiel absorbs your synchro monsters, its attack increases equal to the attack power of the equipped synchro monster (Meklord Emperor Skiel: Attack 4300)!" he declared.
"It's power increased," Leo commented surprised.
"Next I play the Speed Spell- Summon Close! When my speed counters are at four or more, neither of you can special summon during this turn," Lester played.
"Not again," Leo groaned.
"I can see right through your tactics," Lester said. "Meklord Emperor Skiel, attack Leo directly!" The machine turned around and lifted up its gun while powering up a green blast. It fired at Leo when Luna got in front of her twin protectively.
"I activate Twinkle Wall! By taking half the damage of your attack, I can negate the attack!" she defended. Luna's care got right in front of Leo, shielding him from the blast, but parts of the blast hit Luna as she screaming in pain. Leo called her name. She came out of the smoke, in pain and struggling to stay up as her life points go from 2500 to 350. 'I can handle the pain. But if I hadn't been fooled into pretending to trust Lester like this, none of this would've happened,' she thought.
Yusei and Era watched in worried silence from above while the others did the same from the sidelines.
Lester looked at Luna and said, "In my mind, it's good that's the way. I set one face down and end my turn."
Leo drew his card. He looked at his hand and thought, 'You won't hurt Luna anymore. I'll protect Luna!' He then declared, "I summon Morphtronic Scopen in attack mode (Attack 800/ Defense 1400) in attack mode. While Morphtronic Scopen is in attack mode, once per turn, I can special summon one level four or lower Morphtronic monster from my hand. So I choose to special summon level four Morphtronic Boomboxen (Attack 1200/ Defense 400)! Now I tune level three Morphtronic Scopen with level four Morphtronic Boomboxen!" As Morphtronic Scopen turned into three rings and Morphtronic Boomboxen went through it, Leo chanted, "Docking strength with courage in order to protect world peace. I synchro summon the envoy of love and justice! Power Tool Dragon (Attack 2300/ Defense 2500)!"
"A synchro monster? That's why you're no good!" Lester mocked.
Leo tried to keep calm while this only worried the twins' friends further and made it harder for both Era and Yusei to not go down and help. Power Tool Dragon roared a bit angry.
"What's Leo thinking? Synchro monsters won't do any good against that thing," Jack asked.
"Leo!" Luna called worried.
Leo ignored everyone and continued to duel, "I play the Speed Spell- Summon Speeder! When my speed counters are at four or more, I can special summon a level four or lower monster from my hand. So I summon level one Morphtronic Vacuumen (Attack 0/ Defense 0) in defense mode. When Morphtronic Vacuumen in defense mode, it can equip a monster on my opponent's field to itself."
"I get it. Leo plans on getting Meklord Emperor Skiel off the field," Crow realized on the side, "and fight using Power Tool Dragon."
"So I'm equipping Meklord Emperor Skiel to Morphtronic Vacuumen!" Leo declared. His monsters opened up its vacuum and began to suck Skiel towards it.
"I activate my face down, Convert Ghost! When a monster on my field is selected as an effect's target, I can change the target to a monster in my graveyard," Lester defended.
Leo gasped in surprised as the monster in the opposing player's graveyard come out of Lester's duel disk and into the Morphtronic's vacuum instead.
"It avoided it," Akiza stated shocked. "I'm pretty sure Leo and Luna could use Yusei's presence right about now."
Jack and Crow nodded in agreement. The two looked at each other in realization. "Do you think he's…?" Crow trailed off.
"He might be," Jack replied to the unfinished question.
"What're you guys talking about?" Akiza asked.
Before they could respond, Lester interrupted them by talking to Leo, "Your simple plans just won't work on me."
Luna glared with a look of anger for insulting Leo and her twins glared at Lester for the same reason. "I place a card face down and end my turn," Leo finished. Lester drew his card. "Not so fast, Lester! I activate Power Break! When Power Tool Dragon is on the field, it returns all equipped and absorbed cards back to the deck. And that includes a certain synchro monster you snatched from my sister." This shocked Lester visibly. "And for each card returned, you're deck 500 points of direct damage!" The vacuum on Morphtronic Vacuumen lifted up as Lester's monster left it and returned to Lester's deck while Ancient Fairy Dragon came out of Meklord Emperor Skiel and returned to Luna's deck.
"Ancient Fairy Dragon!" Luna called before it went into her deck.
"And now because Ancient Fairy Dragon's out of your monster, Meklord Emperor Skiel returns to its original 2200 attack points," Leo pointed out. Meanwhile, Lester groaned and looked in pain as he took damage while his life points dropped to 2200. "I warned you to stay away from my sister, Lester, but you wouldn't listen! Well now you see, not only am I going to protect her with all of my might, but I'll also protect the things she holds dear! Don't mess with my sister."
"Leo…" Luna muttered, touched by his words. She then nodded smiling.
"Yikes, remind me to be extra nice to Luna from now on," Jack said.
"Yeah, I've never seen Leo more confident or up to his game," Crow agreed.
"Yeah," Akiza followed.
Up above the duel, Era said, "Leo got Ancient Fairy Dragon back."
"Getting Ancient Fairy Dragon back was his plan all along," Yusei told her with a grin.
"Yeah," Era agreed.
Lester clenched his fist in anger. "Now you've done it! I'm going to pound the snot out of you! You'll regret ever making me mad!" he yelled making the angels worried again. "I activate Speed World 2's effect! By discarding seven speed counters, I can draw one more card." He drew again. "And then I reveal my face down, Sky A3! By sending one monster on the field with Skiel Attack in its name to the graveyard, I can special summon Skiel Attack 3 (Attack 1200/ Defense 0)." Skiel Attack was taken off the field and it was replaced on his monster with the new model. "And now it's attack raises as well (Meklord Emperor Skiel: Attack 2400)!"
"It powered up," Leo commented.
"Next I release Skiel Attack 3 to special summon Skiel Attack 5 (Attack 1400/ Defense 0)!" Lester continued and the gun at the bottom of Meklord Emperor Skiel disappeared as another part appeared and then attached itself, becoming the second new gun while Meklord Emperor Skiel's attack increases to 2600.
"How many times will that thing power up?" Yusei wondered. He turned as Era looked at a wrist band with a locket like charm on the top of her wrist she had on since they met. She opened it and tensed.
"What is that thing?" Yusei asked.
"When you pass the test, Combat Angels are given this communication locket. They can either have it as a necklace or wrist band," she explained. "And Yue just sent me some bad news. Yusei, no matter what happens in the next few seconds, stay up here."
"But…" he began but Era cut him off.
"Yusei, I'm not arguing," she interrupted. Yusei sighed in defeat knowing by her voice that there was no point in arguing back. They looked back at the duel.
"Now Skiel Attack 5's effect activates! Meklord Emperor Skiel, attack Leo directly!" Lester ordered. The bird like machine turned around, as a white gun appeared out of the bottom and powered up a red blast.
Once it powered up, it shot a large, red bead at Leo. It hit him creating a huge explosion, destroying all of Leo's monsters. Leo cried out as he was blown right off the circuit and his life points fell to 0. Luna instantly stopped and screamed her brother's name.
Everyone gasped having seen Leo get blown off. The three on duel runners immediately stopped. As Leo fell to the ground, everyone's mark reacted and glowed. That's when they saw Era dive down to Leo as a blur and grabbed the boy before he hit the ground.
"Era!" Akiza called.
The angel flew over and handed the boy to the three. "He's alright. I'll heal him better when Luna's out of harm's way," she said.
"Where's Yusei?" Crow asked.
"He's right behind me," Era answered before taking off. She got a bit lower than before so if Luna needed it, she could reach the young Signer faster. The others yelled to Luna that Leo was safe. Plus, if she flew back up to Yusei, they would follow her for a moment and see him.
Luna put a hand on her heard and thought, 'But that was that? That feeling I felt from my heart?'
"Tch, look at him, narrowly escaping death!" Lester said as Luna continued to follow Lester and continue the duel. "I won't let that happen again. I will defeat you and you alone! I play a face down and end my turn."
"Who'd be defeated by the likes of you?! I won't let Leo's will go in vain!" Luna responded angrily. She drew her card. "I summon Regulus (Attack 1700/ Defense 1000) in attack mode. Then I activate my face down, Ancient Sunshine! When Regulus is on the field, by removing Ancient Fairy Dragon in my deck from the game, I can inflict 2100 points of direct damage to you," she declared. Regulus' horn began to glow and turn yellow.
"If this connects, Lester will only have 100 life points left!" Jack stated.
Lester smiled sinisterly, however. "I activate Infinity Force! When a monster with Infinity in its name is on my field and effect damage from my opponent's card occurs, it zeros-out the damage and destroys all the monsters on your field," he defended. Luna gasped as Regulus fired a yellow beam out of its horn. But before the attack hit, Lester's trap got in front of him and protected him. After the card received the attack, it fired white beams at Luna's monsters, destroying them. Lester laughed. "You've run out of options now!" Luna looked at her deck as Lester began his turn by drawing his card. "Meklord Emperor Skiel, attack Luna directly!"
Luna gasped in fear as the gun on the bottom of the Meklord Emperor powered up a red blast. It fired a beam at the girl. Luna covered her arms, preparing for the hit but when it didn't hit she looked to see Era hovering in front of her with a shield blocking the blast. But Era was obviously struggling.
"Era! No, you'll be hurt!" Luna called.
"Yusei, put up a protective aura spell and wrap yourself around Luna!" Era ordered. "I'll do the same as soon as I let the attack go. But I need you do here first!"
"Right!" Yusei agreed and darted down to them so fast, the others couldn't see who it was, just that it was an angel. He cast a protective aura and Luna looked as he wrapped his wings around her.
"Yusei!" Luna exclaimed.
"Long story, Luna. We'll explain after this," Yusei responded. Era let go of the blast and immediately followed Yusei's lead and the blast wrapped around them. Luna cried out as the pain hit her heart a bit but Yusei toned down the pain before Era could.
When the blast was done, Luna's life points were gone and they were surrounded by smoke. Era and Yusei let go of Luna and the spell. The three of them came out of the smoke. Luna was wobbling all of the place, barely keeping her balance. She was about to hit some glass when Yusei gently caught her.
"Thanks, Yusei, Era," she told them.
"You don't have to thank us, Luna. It's what angels do," Era told him. The three looked at Lester who didn't look too happy that she survived and left. Luna took off her helmet and thanked her duel monster friends for their support.
"Yusei?!" Akiza called shocked.
They looked at the Jack, Crow, Akiza, and Leo, who had woken up after being saved by Era. Two of the four on the other side were shocked while Jack and Crow looked a bit nervous.
"Long story that I'll explain at the garage," Yusei told her. They nodded in acceptance. "Come on, Luna." She nodded.
"Want a ride, Luna?" Era asked.
"What do you mean?" she replied.
"I can use a spell that'll let me carry you by flight. This way you don't have to ride the duel board back," Era explained. She grinned "Yusei knows the spell himself but I think he can carry the duel board."
"Sure," Luna agreed getting off.
Yusei turned to the others. "Meet us at the garage," he told them and they nodded.
Era activated the spell and Luna floated up a bit with a slight glow. Yusei grabbed the duel board and they started to fly into the air..
Leo muttered, "I wish I could fly."
Yusei and Era heard him and smirked at each other. Yusei activated the spell and Leo was immediately pulled up.
"You could hear me?" Leo questioned.
"Leo, you have a lot to learn about angels," Era told him. Leo smiled and they took off again. "We should probably check out Lester's place first. Do you two know where that is?" They nodded. Era turned to Yusei. "Yusei, tell the others to follow us. We're going to check out Lester's place first." He nodded and went silent before he nodded back at me.
We got closer to our other friends and Leo and Luna directed us there. We stopped at a deserted land.
"There's nothing here, guys," Crow said.
"That's strange," Leo said. "I was sure it was here. There was a big mansion."
"Yeah," Luna agreed.
"Are you sure?" Jack asked.
Era activated a spell to see the past. Yusei followed. "They aren't lying," Era said. They looked at her. Yusei nodded. "Just as there is a spell to see certain spots of the future, we can also use a spell to see recent past events wherever we are. And right now I'm looking at Luna being taught to ride the duel board by Lester here in front of a large mansion."
"Is your spell faulty?" Crow asked.
"Spells can only fail or make errors if we mess it up," Yusei explained. "And I'm seeing the same thing as Era."
"How about we ask Bob?" Leo suggested as the angels took down their spells.
They agreed and soon found the boy walking on the sidewalk. "Hey, Bob," Leo greeted. "Have you seen Lester anywhere?"
"Lester? Who's that?" Bob asked.
"Huh? You know, Lester? The one who transferred to our school the other day from the east Duel Academy branch?" Leo replied shocked.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Bob responded before leaving.
"What's going on?" Luna wondered.
"If Lester is the one who kidnapped me and he's really working with Brehnam," Era said making them turn to her, "then that might explain people going completely blank on the matter. When demons like Brehnam are tied with humans who sometimes go undercover, demons have one spell that can make the people they meet forget. We're just lucky it didn't work on Leo and Luna. And everything so far supports it being the Lester that kidnapped me and is working with demons."
"Yusei…" Akiza called turning to him.
"Yeah," he agreed, nodding.
"I don't care who it is. They're going to get crushed, courtesy of Jack Atlas," Jack stated.
'I need to figure out how to work this Accel Synchro. I have to in order to beat the Meklord Emperors,' Yusei thought.
"Let's get to the garage so you can explain everything about Yusei being an angel," Crow suggested. They all nodded in acceptance. The two angels took to the sky while Leo and Luna rode with Crow and Akiza.