Ruri's eyes were blurry. She looked around but everything was so out of sight that she couldn't tell where she was. She begun to feel again after the drug she had slammed into her neck, numbed her. She could feel her back on a cold table and then the tightness of some straps, she felt trapped. Ruri wiggled and then realized she couldn't move, she was tied down to a table as both her legs and wrists were also strapped.

Footsteps then could be heard coming into the room. Ruri had only a brief few second to decide what to do. She decided to play it safe and close her eyes as if she had never woken up early.

In came a DLS worker with a lab coat on. The worker was in a room with Ruri on the table along with head scanner slightly above Ruri. The machine had yet to be used. Her duel disk and deck were on a small table also inside the room. The worker pulled down the scanner and it went over Ruri's head. The worker clicked a button and the machine begun to activate. He then left the room.

Ruri opened her eyes again and saw the scanner now powering up. "Damnit. I need to get out of here!" she thought. Her eyes scanned the room for any sign of help but she could not see anything. Ruri had one idea and quickly begun to implement it. She started coughing and shaking as loud as she could, she then started to "scream" in pain. The door flew open and two doctors came running in.

"What is this?!" yelled one of the doctors. The other doctor then lifted up the head scanner and unstrapped each of Ruri's straps. "Get her to the medical bay now!" Ruri continued to scream and shake until the time was right. Once all the straps were clear, Ruri returned to normal and laid her boot into one of the doctor's stomachs. Catching the doctor by surprise and sent him to the ground. The other doctor begun to panic and ran away. Ruri then let out a sigh of relief and placed her duel disk on her wrist and left the room.

Ruri entered a corridor filled with security cameras, they had all began to follow her as she moved. Along the corridor were different rooms and Ruri went running into each one to find Shun but she failed to find him. "Damnit where are you?!" she thought. She left the final room and went looking around. She entered turned a corner and was now walking down another corridor.

As she walked down it, at both ends of the corridor a gate was coming down. Ruri knew she was going to be trapped inside. She ran as the gate was coming down, up ahead she saw there was a small gap for her to fit through so she decided to try and slide underneath. The gate however was closing quickly.

Ruri had to focus all her effort to get under it however Ruri was too late. The gates slammed shut just a millisecond before Ruri could have made it. She stood up and slammed her fists down on the metal gate. "LET ME OUT!" She slammed several times but to no avail.

A sound could be heard and Ruri turned around to look at what it was. A hole had been made in the ceiling and a man in a suit came down on a circular platform. The platform then stopped on the floor and the man stepped off. It was Reiji Akaba's personal assistant Nakajima. He had green duel disk on. "Stop there girl. You won't get further."

"Who are you? And what did you do to my brother!" Ruri demanded.

"He's fine and safe. But you won't find him here. We moved him to another facility." This took Ruri by surprise so she tried to click a button on her duel disk's touch screen. Each time she clicked the button, she kept looking up but nothing appeared.

"Why isn't it working?!" she said.

"I see you're trying to cross dimensions. This type of technology is new to us but Mr Akaba is a genius. We have sealed off all transporting within this corridor. We have taken the same technology from your duel disk and soon we will be able to cross as well."

"How dare you do this to us!" she said.

"Didn't you want to see Mr Akaba? If you would return to your room, then you will be able to." Nakajma replied.

"Not at the cost of us being scanned. We don't know you, same as you don't know us." she replied. "Now let me go!"

"No. If you beat me in a duel however then you can be free." he said. He activated his duel disk which had a yellow blade. Ruri activated her duel disk which was the exactly the same as Shun's.

"Fine. Duel!"

Turn 1

Ruri LP: 4000 Hand: 5

Nakajima LP: 4000 Hand: 5

"I shall start." said Ruri. "If there are no monsters on the field then Lyrical Luscinia - Turquoise Warbler can appear!" A monster with a female face but was in fact part bird appeared. She had yellow wings with blue tips.

Lyrical Luscinia - Turquoise Warbler ATK: 100 DEF: 0 Winged Beast/Wind/LVL 1

"If this card is Special Summoned via this effect, I can Special Summon a Lyrical Luscinia from my hand! Appear Lyrical Luscinia - Cobalt Sparrow!" Another female bird came, this time it had blonde like hair and had brown wings. It had yellow like claws for feet.

Lyrical Luscinia - Cobalt Sparrow ATK: 0 DEF: 100 Winged Beast/Wind/LVL 1

"If she is Special Summoned, then I can add a Lyrical Luscinia to my hand from my deck. I am adding Lyrical Luscinia - Sapphire Swallow!" Ruri added the card to her hand. "Next if I control a Lyrical Luscinia then I can Special Summon it!" Ruri next placed this card on her duel disk and a third female body came. She had blue wings and wore a hat similar to a bird with a yellow beak.

Lyrical Luscinia - Sapphire Swallow ATK: 100 DEF: 0 Winged Beast/Wind/LVL 1

"Three level ones. You're going to do that XYZ Summon, aren't you?!" said a slightly caught out Nakajima.

"You can count on it! I'm overlaying my three level one Lyrical Luscinia's!" yelled Ruri as she threw her hand in the air. Each bird glowed in a different colour aura. A black and orange whirlpool formed on the field and each aura flew into it. "Birds with beautiful wings! Gather on the battlefield and take brilliant flight! Xyz Summon! Dance in the sky! Rank one! Lyrical Luscinia - Assembly Nightingale!" The whirlpool had a beam of light rise from it as a taller female bird appeared. It shinned in the light as it revealed it's long white and blue wings. It had a sort of dress with golden sections which went over her bird like legs. Three overlay units spun around it.

Lyrical Luscinia - Assembly Nightingale ATK: 300 DEF: 0 Winged Beast/Wind/XYZ/Rank 1 - OU: 3

"This card gains 100 attack points for each monster attached as overlay units! I end there!" said Ruri.

"Fine! I shall defend LDS and Mr Akaba!" yelled Nakajima.

Turn 2

Ruri LP: 4000 Hand: 3

Nakajima LP: 4000 Hand: 5

"Draw! Now I am not a top duelist nor do I even have any effect monsters, but I will never let anyone get through me! I play the Spell Unexpected Dai! Now if I control no monsters I can bring out a level four or lower Normal monster from my deck! Appear Luster Dragon!" A blue dragon flew onto the field.

Luster Dragon ATK: 1900 DEF: 1600 Dragon/Wind/LVL 4

Now I Normal Summon Blackland Fire Dragon!" A green dragon appeared next to Luster Dragon.

Blackland Fire Dragon ATK: 1500 DEF: 1600 Dragon/Dark/LVL 4

"I play the Spell Double Summon! I now Tribute my two monsters!" Both monsters disappeared from the field in a blink of an eye. "Appear now Rabidragon!" A sliver long dragon appeared. It had green spikes going down its back.

Raidragon ATK: 2950 DEF: 2900 Dragon/Light/LVL 8

"A Tribute Summon. So we are in the Tribute Dimension." said Ruri as she thought.

"I now equip it with Dragon Treasure!" Raidragon gained a large green orb which appeared on its tail. "This bumps up its attack and defence by 300!"

Raidragon ATK: 3250 DEF: 3200

"Now attack Assembly Nightingale!" shouted Nakajima. The dragon flew into the air and launched a fireball towards the bird.

"Don't think so! I detach an overlay unit and when this card would be destroyed by battle then I can prevent it! Also all battle damage is turned to zero!" replied Ruri as one of her overlay units disappeared. The fireball vanished moments before it was due to hit Assembly.

Assembly OU: 2

Lyrical Luscinia - Assembly Nightingale ATK: 200

"Fine. I end my turn." said Nakajima.

Turn 3

Ruri LP: 4000 Hand: 3

Nakajima LP: 4000 Hand: 2

"Time to end this! Draw!" yelled Ruri. "I play the Spell Lyrical Luscinia - Bird Song! If I control a Lyrical Luscinia XYZ monster then by paying 1000 lifepoints for each monster, I can attach a Lyrical Luscinia from hand and grave to that XYZ monster! I will pay 3000 lifepoints to reattach Sapphire Swallow from my grave and I will attach another from my hand along with a second Turquoise Warbler!"

Ruri LP: 4000 - 1000

Assembly Nightingale gained three overlay units thanks to the spell. "Now remember that its attack goes up by 100 for each monster attached to it. So it's now 500!"

Lyrical Luscinia - Assembly Nightingale ATK: 500

Assembly OU: 5

"This monster can attack X the number of overlay units it has. So I will hit five times!" Ruri said but she then grabbed a card from her hand.

"Fine but that will only be 2500 points of damage. Not enough to beat my scary dragon." Nakjima replied.

"I have seen what Academia can do. They are scary, not some dragon! I play the Equip Spell, Lyrical Luscinia - Flight! Now I can pay 300 lifepoints up to three times and for each one paid, a XYZ Lyrical Luscinia monster can attack once more! But first I will attack with my first five attacks! Go Assembly Nightingale!" Assembly Nightingale slashed its wings and sent a powerful attack at Nakajima which sent him flying back.

Nakajima LP: 4000 - 3500

Assembly Nightingale slashed its wings four more times. Each time was more powerful and Nakajima was sent further down the corridor.

Nakajima LP: 3500 - 3000 3000 - 2500 2500 - 2000 2000 - 1500

"Now I use my Lyrical Luscinia - Flight Equip Spell! I can pay 300 lifepoints to attack once more up to three times!"

Ruri LP: 1000 - 700

Assembly Nightingale slashed its wings and once again caused damage.

Nakajima LP: 1500 - 1000

"And once more!" Ruri shouted.

Ruri LP: 700 - 400

Nakajima LP: 1000 - 500

"Last chance! Let me free and then you can go!" shouted Ruri.

"Let me go?! What power have you got! You're not escaping, even if you beat me!" replied Nakajima. Ruri gritted her teeth.

"You said?!" replied Ruri.

"No. That was a lie. Why would you be allowed to leave? This was simply a way to get our guards here from our other base to securee you!"

"You were stalling?! Fine! I pay 300 lifepoints once more!"

Ruri LP: 700 - 100

Assembly Nightingale slashed its wings one last time and the blast sent Nakajima flying further than before.

Nakajima LP: 100 - 0 Ruri Wins

Ruri walked over to Nakajima, she stood over him like a tiger waiting to eat its prey. "I gave you a chance but you leave me with no other choice. I'm sorry." she said. She held out her duel disk and it begun to glow purple.

"What... is this..." said Nakajima."Her attacks... they felt so real." He looked at the purple beam and looked in horror. The beam hit his body and his body glowed purple before dissolving. A blank card came out of Ruri's duel disk and she looked at it. The card had changed to a picture of Nakajima looking on in horror.

"I'm sorry." said Ruri. She dropped the card and left as the gate which trapped her, had now opened. Ruri then looked at her duel disk and clicked a button. A black portal formed right before her. Ruri looked at it and then looked back at the hallway. "I'm sorry Shun. But I will get help." Ruri then begrudgingly stepped into the portal which then vanished. Seconds later the LDS staff arrived on scene and looked bemused as they couldn't see anyone.

An Hour Later

Reiji had walked into the alleyway and then saw the carded Nakajima. He bent down and picked it up. "So XYZ have this power. I'm sure Shun's brain scan will tell me more. They can turn people into cards." A holographic screen appeared next to Reiji and a LDS worker was on show.

"Yes Sir?"

"I'm not waiting anymore. I want you to try and open a portal to Ritual. Prepare Sawatari."

You Show Duel School

Yuzu was lying on the green sofas at the school. Yuya and Gongenzaka were seeing to her.

"So you tell me these duelists attacked you and used another summon?!" said Gongenzaka.

"Yes." replied Yuya. Yuzu looked at the two.

"Yuya we need to tell him about everything." she said. Yuya seemed to agree.

Cards

Ruri

Lyrical Luscinia - Flight/Equip Spell

Equip only to a XYZ Lyrical Luscinia monster you control. Up to three times overall you can pay 300 lifepoints to attack once more this turn.

Lyrical Luscinia - Bird Song /Spell

Target one Lyrical Luscinia XYZ monster you control. You can pay 1000 lifepoints per each Lyrical Luscinia in either your grave or hand then reattach them as XYZ material to the chosen monster.

A/N So Ritual is next and Reiji is going on the attack! Thanks for the reviews and D3lph0xL0v3r I sent you a message.