"Speaking"
*Noises*
"Thoughts, Calls, Monsters Speaking or Chants"
0/0 (Bold means what position the monster has been summoned into)
"The results are in sir..." Nakajima said to Reiji, "And... did Yuya Sakaki win his first match?" Reiji asked, "Yes... Though I must say sir, Yuya's behaviour astounds me." he said, "Even after you persuaded the Duel Association to allow Yuya a chance into the Junior Youth Division of the ARC Championship. he goes ahead and declines it, and trys to get in by getting the necessary wins." he finished.
Hearing this, Reiji smiled and pressed his glasses closer, "I see... There was no reason for me to intervene, it appears Yuya is determined to enter the Championship in his own way..." he said smiling still.
"I wouldn't expect no less from him..." he added, then he began to think to his Duel with Yuya, "Did he Pendulum Summon?" he asked, "Yes sir." Nakajima answered, he narrowed his eyes, "Did the system pick up anything different about it?" he asked, hoping for his answer. "No sir... the system recorded the same levels as before." this made him sigh, guess Yuya hadn't discovered it as well.
He got up and made to stand and stare out of his window view, "So he still hasn't taken the dive to the next stage..." he muttered to himself, he then looked to Nakajima, "I hear that the Denisu brothers also had matches today." he said, "Yes, and during Matthew's Duel, the system picked up Ritual Summoning energy during the last turn of his match, there were other energy spikes during the same match that were Ritual too, but this one seemed to be in tuned with his Xyz." Nakajima explained.
Once more Reiji smiled, "So Matthew can also Ritual Summon, it seems he and his brothers were holding out on me..." he thought to his matches last year with the three brothers, they sure did give him a run for his money, "They may be ready for what comes..." he thought ominously.
"Speaking of Summoning energy sir, there is another matter to discuss." Nakajima said, snapping him out of his train of thought, "Yes Nakajima?" he asked, "Well sir, the system picked up several burst of summoning energy throughout the city limit's." he began, "I had the team do an analyse, and they have reported that they come from Fusion Summoning." he finished. "Fusion?" Reiji asked.
"Are you sure?" he asked, "Yes, we believed at first that the burst were coming from the building, but further analyse has uncovered that they didn't, as they didn't match the readings of the staff and students." he said, "The output is too high then." Reiji deduced, "Yes, the team started to look into Duelist around the city who use Fusion Summoning that we know of, both Azara Kaida and Oliver Denisu were the ones whose outputs came close to yours, but even yours doesn't match the burst." he said.
"Interesting..." Reiji muttered, he knew from all this what was happening... "Tell the team to report anything unusual to me." he said, "Yes sir." Nakajima said then turned and left the room. "So many questions... And I know the answers are out there somewhere..." he thought...
The Harbour, (3:21 PM)
Yuzu and Sora were having a Duel, for Yuzu's training in Fusion Summoning, around them on some of the small crates was Matthew, Nigel, Oliver, Azara, Ruby and Andy.
On Sora's Field, he had Fluffal Bear and a couple of face-downs, on Yuzu's Field, she had two monsters Sonata and Aria the Melodious Divas. It was her turn.
"Here goes! I activate the Spell, Polymerization!" she said, placing the Spell into her Duel Disk, this catching the attention of Azara and Oliver, who nodded at this.
"I use this card to Fuse Sonata and Aria together!" she shouted, "That's it Yuzu!" Azara cheered out. "Echoing melodious voice! Flowing melody With guidance of the baton, gather your power!" the two monsters began to swirl together. "Fusion Sum- *ERROR!*" her Duel Disk buzzed, stopping the action and shocking her. "Huh!? Why isn't it working!?" she said panicking.
The three Fusion Summoner sighed out, the two on the side made their way over to her side, "Did you put your correct monster in your Extra Deck?" Sora asked, sucking on a lollipop. His words shocked her, "E-Extra Deck!", Matthew sighed at this, "We've been over this Yuzu, you can't put monsters designed for the Extra Deck in your Main Deck..." Matthew said, at this she then took her Deck out of her Duel Disk and searched through it.
A moment later, after spreading them out, she was shocked that not only was the Fusion monster card she was about to Summon in her Deck, "But how..." she muttered, then sighed in defeat. "What was I thinking?" she asked, "Maybe it was about Yuya." Azara teased, this however was a bad thing, as Yuzu's expression turned sour. "What was that!?" she yelled bringing her fan out, aiming for Azara's head who cried out-
*WHACK!*
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"... Owww...!" "I'm so sorry!" Yuzu and Azara said in that order, the latter was somehow holding Yuzu's fan, while Yuzu was sporting a small bump on her head, the others around them were shocked at what they just witnessed. "Did... Did anybody see how she did that?" Oliver asked slowly in shock. All the other boys shook their heads no. "It was so... fast..." Matthew muttered.
As Azara tried to calm her friend, a couple yards away, hiding behind some crates was Yuto, his mouth covered by his mask, his expression was one similar to Ronald from before, he then looked at the group again...
The group was now taking a break, Azara was nice enough to buy snacks and drinks for them, they were currently near a large create, Matthew, Nigel and Oliver were sitting above with Sora, while Azara with Ruby by her side, Andy and Yuzu were leaning against it.
"Seriously Yuzu, you were there to watch all three of our Duels. You should've known about the Extra Deck compartment..." Oliver said, taking a sip from his can, suddenly Matthew punched him in the shoulder, he yelped in slight pain. "Not helping..." Matthew hissed to him. "Yeah, and I had someone tape my Duels for me to show you how to do it correctly." Sora said, making Oliver softly glare at him.
"I could have won both my Duels today without Fusion Summoning, but I did it anyways to show you how its done..." he added, "If your Deck involves a certain way of Summoning, you're going to use it regardless. So your opponents were weak or you got lucky..." Andy muttered out loud, making Sora glare at him, "What" Andy asked confused from the glare. "Maybe I'm just not cut out for this..." Yuzu said defeated.
"Don't worry Yuzu, everything takes practice to master." Azara said to her, "She's right, we didn't instantly know who to Fusion, Synchro or Xyz Summon overnight..." Matthew encouraged, "Or maybe..." Sora began jumping down and landing on his feet. "You were thinking about 'You know who'." he said. "Voldemort?" Oliver joked, but no one heard this.
Yuzu however got what Sora was saying and blush slightly. "That's enough about that Sora, we don't need a repeat from earlier." Matthew said looking at Azara, who innocently whistled. "Not that 'You know who', I meant the masked guy!" Sora said, making all but Andy go sombre, "Oh yeah..." Oliver said, he and his brothers jumped off the crate and landed.
"That creep, still can't figure out how he escaped." he said. "That's the second time he got away." Azara said, "The first time was here, before the incident with LDS, and other just two days ago..." Yuzu said, thinking back on the masked Duelist and why he looked some like Yuya. "Well whatever his deal is, the guy was pretty cool." Sora said, also thinking about the encounter.
"Just think, I was this close the Dueling him back them." he said, taking out a bar of chocolate, "You can't!" both the girls shouted out, "What's wrong with Dueling the guy, we can all handle our selves..." Andy said confused, "Yeah, it's not like we're Sawatari." Oliver said.
"Hmm, what do I- ACHOO!" Sawatari began but suddenly sneezed, "Err.. Tissue?" Yamabe said, "Hmm... Someone must be talking about my brilliance." Sawatari said, looking off into the sky...
"None of you can Duel him, he's dangerous." Yuzu said to them, "Did you not hear what I just said." Oliver said grinning, "This is serious Oliver, that guy is nothing but trouble." Azara said to him, "She's right, he caused all this trouble for You Show because of his Duel..." Yuzu said, "The damage that occurred that night was because of him, it was like it was real!" she said, shocking the boys minus Nigel and Sora.
"That's not possible Yuzu, no one can make real damage." Matthew said, "Unless they're one of those psychic Duelist." Andy added in, "Right, but the odds of that are one in a million, so what likely happened was that it was an Action Duel, but even that is impossible as there was no ARC System around to use. Either that or the guy has a portable one, but that kind of tech is in theory decades away from being possible." Matthew finished. "I know what happened there was real!" Yuzu suddenly shouted at him. "I agree with her on this." Azara added.
"Let's not forget the other reason why this guy is dangerous..." Nigel added, leaning against the crate, the lot were spooked by this, "He also looks like Yuya, from what I saw that night." he said, "Oh yeah, that was the reason LDS came to You Show to begin with..." Oliver muttered.
"And I still don't get over what he was on about either..." Yuzu said, thinking about what he said to her during the first time, his words echoing in her head. "Why... would he say something like that to me?" she questioned to herself.
Yuto, having heard all this was thinking to himself, "So I did cause trouble for them, but how were they involved?" he thought thinking of a reason, he couldn't so he looked back to Yuzu, "She looks just like her, but now I know... She isn't Ruri, she would never learn the ways of the enemy!" he thought, he began to think back to his fight again that Pawn of Fusion, and his dragon.
Suddenly the sound of footsteps snapped him out of it, he went to turn to see who was coming, but- "It's shining again!" Yuzu voice, made him look back to them, to see that her bracelet was shining, "Wait, that would mean-" Matthew began but the glow cut him off. when the glow stopped, everyone opened their eyes, "Man that was weird..." Oliver muttered.
"Yuzu!" a voice shouted to them, making them look behind to see Yuzu running up to them. "There you guys are!" he shouted, running pass the spot Yuto would have been hiding by, not that he knew this.
"Yuya! How did you know where we were?" Azara asked confused, "Matthew texted me where you lot would be after his Duel was over..." he said running up to them, "So how did you three do?" he asked, the brothers smiled, "We won them of course, one more each and we can qualify for the Senior Division." Oliver said with a smirk.
"That's great!" Yuya then turned to Azara and Andy, "I hear you two have your Duels tomorrow, along with one of Ronald's six." he added, "Yep, hopefully they go well..." Azara said, "Well good luck. I hope you win." he said, "So how has your training been going Yuzu?" he asked, but when she didn't respond, "Yuzu? Did you not hear me? How's the train-" he stopped when he notice she was staring at her bracelet. "Why? Why do you keep doing that?" she asked it.
"Err... Could someone catch me up?" Yuya said, really confused now...
When Yuto opened his eyes, he was shocked to see that he was somewhere else entirely, "What? Where am I" he said, looking up he could the LDS Building not that far from him. "LDS! How did I get all the way here?" he questioned, he thought of going back to the group, but then thought they may have finished and headed home.
Suddenly he heard an explosion in the distance, not too far from him, so he ran towards it...
Elsewhere, in an alleyway, was Kelly Kage, facing off against a LDS Elite Duelist, they had a Fusion Monster called ABC-Dragon Buster, while she had a couple of powerful monsters, one of them being an Xyz Monster, it was shrouded by its silhouette, the only source of light from the monster was its glowing eyes that looked down at Kelly's opponent.
"And know my monster will attack that hideous Fusion Monster!" Kelly ordered as her monster roared and unleashed its power, causing the alleyway to lit up and the for the Elite Duelist to go pale at the true sight the monster before.
*BOOM* A huge explosion erupted after the attack, and when the smoke settled, there lying on the floor the defeated form of the Elite Duelist, their card's scattered all around them. Kelly put her cards away and walked over to the downed Duelist, she tapped a button on her Duel Disk, and with flash of purple light, the defeated person was gone. Suddenly a Normal Monster card ejected itself from her Duel Disk, which she took and shook like photo, after a while an image appeared, it was that of the opponent she just defeated.
"There... that's 3 so far..." she said, she then smirked at her brilliant plan coming together, it was simple, she would Duel and defeat as many Fusion Duelist as she could possible, this she hoped would gain the attention of the idiots she was hunting down, all the while taking out the Fusion Scum... If only she knew, that she wasn't the first to have this idea for different reasons...
Sakaki Residences, (6:10 PM)
"Really? Yuzu said her bracelet glowed?" Yuko asked her son, as they and their pets... As well as Sora were eating their dinner. "That's what she said, she also said it happens just before I show up sometimes." he said, "But I get the feeling that she's pulling my leg, she's even got the others in on it too." he added, "But Yuya, its true." Sora said, having been a witness to it two times already.
"It must glow like a sensor for when you get too close. Like a bell for a cat!" he said, "Why are you here again?" Yuya asked, "What do you think? I'm hungry!" he said back sticking his tongue out at him. "Plus your mom's cooking is the best that I've ever tasted!" he said, making Yuko blush, "Such a sweet boy! I just hope that I can live up to those expectations. Here! This is a new dish I came up with. Enjoy!" she said putting the meals on the table.
Yuya sighed, exhausted with all that had happened, "May as well dig in, I need to hit the books for tomorrow." Yuya said, he began to eat his meal, "You hitting the books? That's a surprise!" his mother joked, "Ha... Ha… But I'm serious, Nico told me that for my next match, I should be prepared with some book smarts, whatever that's about, I'm just trying to be ready." he said, continuing to eat.
But as he ate, his mind wandered onto Yuzu again. "I hope she's okay, she's been acting a bit strange these past few days..." he thought... Then he glanced at Sora... Who was covering his meal, which was some sardines in chocolate sauce, "Seriously! That's just wrong!" he said to him...
Hiragi Residence, (Same time)
"Why won't you just tell me the truth Dad!" Yuzu shouted at her father, "Calm down sweetie, I have been telling the truth you've had that bracelet ever since you were a baby." Shuzo said to her. "Do you honestly expect me to believe I've had this bracelet ever since I was in diapers!" she yelled at him. "But its true! Even I can't remember where you got it, all I know is that you've had it ever since you were found on my-" "Just save it dad!" Yuzu cut him off, then ran off to her room.
"Wait Yuzu come back!" he shouted for her. When she reached her room, she entered and locked it behind her, before sliding down it, the lights were off, leaving her with only the moonlight to illuminate it. "Listen to me sweetie, I know you're upset, but please listen, I really am telling you the truth." he said from outside her door. "I don't know why you're bringing this up, but something must have happened. So whenever you're ready, come talk to me about it..." he then walked off.
She then looked to her bracelet, she began thinking, it was the reason this all happened, she took it off her arm, ready to throw the damn thing away... Only she couldn't do it. Even though she knew almost nothing about the thing, she couldn't get rid of it. "Just what is wrong with me! Am I slowly losing my mind, is that masked guy Yuya or not!" she cried to herself, clutching the bracelet to her chest...
Azara's Apartment, (8:20 PM)
Currently Azara was in her sleeping clothes, on her computer, Skyping with Matthew, Nigel and Oliver. She had decided to tell Matthew and Oliver what she had told Nigel during their Duel. "So that's why Yuya was thought of as a suspect..." Matthew said, taking in all that info. "Yeah... Sorry that I didn't tell you before, I thought Nigel would, but I told him not to back then." she said, waiting for the hurtful comments about not trusting them. "Well you had a reason for it, couldn't risk Yuzu knowing you gossiped about it." Oliver joked.
"Still that is interesting to know, Odd-Eyes, and this Dark Rebellion both have a Summoning method in their names, and require Level 5 monsters for their effects." Matthew said. "So we agree then, if one of us encounters him, we call the others, and tell them their location and stop him from escaping." Oliver said, the three then nodded, "Right, I'm signing off now, I've got an assignment to do." Matthew said, then lefted the chat. "Later!" Oliver then lefted, leaving her and Nigel.
"Well I better go to, I got to make sure my Deck is ready for tomorrow." she said, about to end the chat, "Before you go..." Nigel said, shocking her, "I just wanted to say... Good luck for tomorrow." he said with a kind smile, which she returned. "Thanks... Bye." she then ended the chat.
With that done, walking into her living room, where all her cards were layed out, ready for her to make a new combo, and to her Yuzu with her training, "Still, why did that guy say that stuff to Yuzu, and why did he call her Ruri?" she asked herself...
LDS, The Next Day, (9:19 AM)
"Where did these come from?" Reiji asked his mother, looking down at three cards on his desk, "They were just dropped off somehow, we don't know how. but they just were." his mother said, he then took a closer look, to see that the images the cards had were of Professor Marco and Elite Duelist Herc, as well as a third Duelist, one that was with Marco at the time. "Both Marco and Herc, immortalised somehow..." he said, he didn't know the name of the third, all he knew was that he was staff here..
"All three were LDS's top Duelists... So either its by chance they were a victim, or someone is trying to send a message." Himika said, "But what is this message?" she pondered. "Not sure, but yesterday the system picked up two powerful burst of Xyz energy. And Herc disappeared around one of these burst." Reiji explained to his mother.
"And then we receive a tip that Herc has been sealed in a card." he finished, "Inside a card?" his mother repeated, "But that's impossible, how could someone be able to do such a thing?" she asked. "No idea, such technology is beyond us at the moment." he said, "But there is a suspect though..." he thought, "Have the analyse team run test on these cards immediately. I want answer quickly." he ordered.
"Is there a way to save them?" she asked, "Not at the moment, but until we know we're up against, we're at a disadvantage... Still though, why aren't there four?" he asked, "Four?" she repeated, "Yes, before these two were attacked, there was another incident remember, Sawatari was attacked by someone using Xyz Summoning, so the question is, why aren't there four cards before us?" he asked. "Why was he spared, and sent to the hospital?" he added. "I believe we are dealing with more than one person out there, and Sawatari's case was unrelated to the others." he said.
"Councilmen Sawatari! You cannot enter!" Nakajima voice shouted from outside the door, stopping the conversation. The two looked back to see the door fly open, with Furio Sawatari the cause, "I can do what I want! I'm an important person after all!" Furio shouted out. "There you are!" he growled out stomping his way to them. "What are you here for Councilmen Sawatari?" Himika said.
"Sir, you can't be here." Nakajima said, "Leave me alone! I have business!" Furio yelled out at him, throwing his arms around, "And you!" he said to Reiji, "I'm sorry sir, I did tell him he needs an appointment but he didn't-" "Stop harassing me you twit, or I'll have you sued, I can as I'm an important person!" Furio yelled once more, cutting Nakajima off.
"That will do Furio, I shall see you now..." Reiji said, "You better... the only reason I'm here is for answers!" Furio barked out, "Answers for what exactly?" Himika asked, "Don't play dumb! I have eyes and ears everywhere, and they tell me that your school has been covering up multiple cases of disappearances." when no one said a thing he grinned, "Am I right?" he asked.
"Yes, they are..." Reiji said, "Then why haven't you dealt with the perpetrator, you know who it is!" he shouted, "We're currently investigating it." Reiji said, "Investigating!? But we all know who it is! The delinquent who attacked my Son, Yuya Sakaki!" Furio yelled out, taking out a picture of Yuya, and slamming it onto the table.
"So your son still believes Yuya did it?" Reiji asked, "We haven't talked since he lefted the hospital, but I know his answer hasn't changed, now arrest Yuya Sakaki!" he demanded, "The Chairwoman promised me justice for Sawatari, but why does Yuya Sakaki still walk free!" he asked annoyed, "Because of you, he's been attacking more and more people! So if you won't do a thing about it, THEN I WILL!" he spat out.
"Stay out of this situation." Reiji said calmly, "HOW DARE YOU TALK BACK TO M-" Reiji slammed his hands onto his desk, cutting off Furio, who flinched back at this, "An investigation is being put together, and no move will be made until its completed, LDS is working as hard as we can to uncover the true culprit." Reiji firmly said to him. "But we know the culprit is Yuya!" Furio barked out.
"Yuya has not done a thing to be involved!" Reiji yelled out, getting frustrated with the short man before him. "As it so happens, Yuya has been removed as a suspect, we were with him at the time of one of the attacks, and he seemed to have no genuine idea about said attacks..." he explained to Furio. "The investigation will bring results, so until then don't do a thing to interrupt it." he finished.
Furio was steaming mad now, "FINE!" he snatched the picture from the desk and put it away, "But I'll make your life hell if you fail!" he spat and with that he was gone.
"Nakajima, raise the alert level to maximum. Whoever sent these cards isn't messing around, we need to be ready for the next assault." he said, "Yes sir" Nakajima said, "Also take these cards down to the lab, we need to save not only them, but our other students..." he said...
The Streets, (10 Minutes later)
Yuya yawned, still a bit dozy from last night, "Man I'm tired, maybe I shouldn't have stayed up so later going over combos..." Yuya groaned out, eyed half open as he walked to his next match, "Now I'm so tired, I don't think I can remember what I learned last night..." he got, nearly drifting off, "LISTEN TO ME YOU MORON!" screamed snapped him somewhat awake. "Eh" he said.
He looked over to the other side of the street, where he saw a short man in orange yelling at some Elite Duelist, "YOU HAD BETTER CALL ME A CAB OR ELSE! I'M AN IMPORTANT MAN, I CAN MAKE YOUR LIFE'S MISERABLE, ESPECIALLY ONCE I BECOME MAYOR SAWATARI!" the man shouted out, "Sawatari? Don't tell me that's Sawatari's father..." Yuya thought, behind him some woman were talking about what a joke Furio was.
"At least I know why Sawatari became such a pompous idiot..." he muttered, "What was I doing before this?" he asked himself, thinking, "Ah! That's right! I need to meet up with Nico!" he said, with this he took off running.
Furio, who was still ranting at the Elite Duelist, suddenly saw in the reflection of the window panels Yuya, running off, "It's Yuya Sakaki!" he yelled, "After him! That kid is dangerous!" he barked at the Elite. But they didn't do a thing, "DO IT OR I'LL GET YOU FIRED!" he screamed out.
Yuya was still running, when he heard commotion behind him, "Hey kid, stop!" a voice shouted for him, "Huh? What's the proble-AH!" Yuya said but screamed at the end, finding himself being chased by the three Elites... and an out of breath Furio trying to tail them, "What have I done!?" he yelled out.
"STOP THAT BRAT BEFORE HE ATTACKS SOMEONE LIKE HE DID MY SON!" Furio yelled out, still trying to catch up to them. "What are you on about? I wasn't the one that attacked Sawatari!" Yuya yelled back, he then ran into an alleyway, in the hope of losing them. Sadly this didn't work, as he ran further in, he spotted someone standing in his way, their Duel Disk armed, with a mechanical bird hovering in front of them. "Huh? Who is that?" he thought.
With Shun, who was the person, he glanced at the pin of the Elites shirts, "More LDS, perfect!" he said, Yuya ran by him, and slowed down, the Elites also slowed down, seeing the stranger, "Okay, what is going on here?" Yuya snapped out. Furio had finally caught, and saw the new guy, "Whoever you are, get lost! This doesn't concern you!" he barked at him.
"It does now!" Shun said, arming his Duel Disk higher, "Wait! That Duel Disk! Is he the guy we're looking for?" one of the Elites said, "I'll call HQ just in case." another said, "What are you blubbering about! Stop gawking and arrest Sakaki!" Furio barked out.
"I Normal Summon Raidraptor Vanishing Lanius!" Shun said, taking the card and placing it on his blade, causing a second identical monster to the first to appear. "Now it's effect let's me Special Summon another, so my duo of Lanius's becomes a trio!" he said, a third Vanishing Lanius appeared.
"Three Level 4 monsters!" Yuya thought in shock, "Now using my three Level 4 Vanishing Lanius! I build the Overlay Network!" Shun declared, the three monsters turned into purple energy, shot into the air, and down into the galaxy that appeared before him. "Xyz Summon!" he yelled as the monster took form. The result created tremendous shockwaves and gust, blowing Furio away first, who tried to keep him in place by hanging onto some stairs.
The next to go was Yuya, who went soaring backwards, slammed into a wall, and blacked out...
"My Boy! Yuya! Wake up!" As Yuya came to, he could hear a voice, "Oww..." he muttered, when he finally opened his eyes, he saw Nico really up close, "Ah!" he screamed as he jumped out, looking around, "What's wrong my boy?" Nico asked, "Where did it go!" Yuya said, still looking around, "Where did what go?" Nico asked confused.
"The Xyz Monster! It attacked those guys!" he said to him, "Honestly my boy, I have no clue what you're on about? Also what guys do you speak off? Its just you and me here..." Nico said, "There! Right ther-" Yuya began but stopped when he spotted that Nico was in fact right, no one else was with them, not even the masked guy.
"My boy, if I didn't know any better, but I think you were dreaming all this up. Did you go the sleep late?" Nico asked, "Well..." Yuya said, sheepishly laughing, "Now's not the time to be napping in the streets, we have a Duel to get to." he said, "Unless, you don't want to get into the Championship." he added, "N-N-No! I do!" Yuya snapped back suddenly he looked down and spotted a card, "Where did this come from?" he asked himself, kneeling down he picked it up.
"It's a monster card, and its a Gemini monster." he said, he was in fact correct, this monster was called Noble Gatekeeper, Level 6 and LIGHT Attribute, with 1000 ATK and 2400 DEF. "This is a good card, maybe I'll use it..." he thought, "Yuya, hurry my boy!" Nico called back for him, "Coming!" he said, placing the card into his Deck.
With that the two lefted the area. But as they did, they failed to notice that the entire area was covered with deep marks...
Yuya yawned out, as he and Nico were on a train, heading for their destination. "Earth to Yuya my boy" Nico shouted to him, snapping him awake, "You look like your a hundred miles away from everyone." Nico said, "I guess I am still tired..." Yuya groaned out, he then looked out of the window, "Still though, I don't remember falling asleep back there, was that actually a dream?" he thought.
"Well my boy." Nico perched himself onto of his seat, "You better jumpstart your brain! This is a big day for you after all." he said, "Right… My second Duel..." Yuya groaned out, "Not just that Yuya, but you shall also be tested in your trivia skill!" Nico added, "Yeah I kind of guessed that, with you asking me to hit the books yesterday." Yuya said.
"Yes, for you see, your opponent is none other than Eita Kyuando, the Trivia King!" Nico announced, "Eita Kyuando? I think I watched him yesterday." Yuya said, remembering he watched the kid last night, he seemed rather arrogant, saying that he was perfect in everything, both in knowledge and Dueling. "But no one can be the best at everything, sure I'm not the smartest guy around, but I like to think I'm a genius at Dueling! That's good enough for me!" Yuya said, smiling.
"I agree to that my boy! So stick with me and we can-Ah!" Nico suddenly fell off his seat, the bus had come to a halt suddenly, "That hurt..." Nico groaned out from the floor...
Clarity Prep School, (10:00 AM)
"So this is it." Yuya said staring up at the building in front them, Matthew was also there, as he said yesterday that he would meet him to watch his Duel, "Clarity Prep School, known as one of the top schools in the country." Matthew said to him as they walked, "I plan on coming here in a couple of years." he added, "Why?" Yuya asked.
"Its nice to have something to fall back on if Dueling doesn't work out." he explained, "Going here, means you can make it far, as this school tends to make great scholars in just about every subject." He added "Not only that my boys, but this School also pops out amazing Duelist!" Nico added his two cent to the conversation.
As they walked through the corridor, Yuya could hear a voice, "What part of our bodies has the power to move mountains?" the voice asked, when they opened the door. "Our muscles!" hundreds of voices shouted out all around them, "What the?" Yuya said looking, same with Matthew, "Wrong!" the first voice shouted, who was a man wearing a pink suit.
"The correct answer is..." a new voice said from above, multiple spotlight turned on and focused on a box suspended in the air, "Is the human brain!" the voice said again, "Correct!" the man said. Everyone clapped as the box lowered itself.
It revealed a boy, who was rather short for his age, he wore a blue buttoned shirt with orange stars on the elbows with a white shirt underneath and a red ribbon tie that formed an '&' around his neck. He wore yellow pants, supported by two green suspenders, on the back on them were two angled A's, and his shoe appeared to have question marks on them. His hair was mostly purple, with a blond strand that formed a Q.
"Yuya, allow me to introduce you to Eita Kyuando!" Nico said, "And I already know who you are." Eita said, "You are Yuya Sakaki, the one who founded the Pendulum Summon!" he said, "A pleasure to meet you!" he held out a hand.
"Nice to meet you too! I watched you last night, you were great, and I look forward to Dueling you." Yuya said, going for the handshake, when Eita suddenly reeled back, making Yuya nearly lose his footing.
"May I ask you a question before we begin?" Eita asked, "A question?" Yuya asked, "Just a moment ago, you said it was nice to meet you, did you not?" he said, "But do you know how to say that in French?" he said. "Err..." Yuya got out, wandering where this was going. "You have 10 seconds to answer the question." Eita said. "10." he began.
"Err..." Yuya thought, trying to recall his French lessons, "9" "What was it?" Yuya said, "Oh it's Hola!" he said, "Wait no that's Hello in Spanish!" he facepalmed himself, as did Matthew "Well at least you're correct on that, the correct answer to my question is "Ravi do vous rencontrer!" Eita said smug. "I knew this, because I speak over 100 foreign languages!" he said.
"That's good..." Yuya said, "Yes, while I can speak that many, you fail to speak the correct one is correctly..." Eita then giggled to himself, "And you can't even speaking your normal tongue!" he laughed out at Yuya, making the other kids, minus Matthew, Ayu, Futoshi and Tatsuya to also laugh.
"That's very rude! Just because he doesn't speak another language doesn't make him a fool!" Matthew said out, making Yuya blush slightly. "Oh but he doesn't need to speaking other tongue to be a fool, he already is one!" Eita said smirking.
"Just because I'm not good at something, doesn't mean I'm bad at everything!" Yuya retorted, "But what are you good at them?" Eita asked, "Or better yet, what are your weaknesses?" he asked, "Why should I tell you, you'll just mock me!" Yuya spat out, "If you tell me, then I'll tell you mine." he said.
"Fine! I'm not good with Science and Maths..." Yuya reluctantly said, waiting for the ridicule. "Oh what a pity..." Eita said sadly, his smile said otherwise. "But I am good at riddles though..." he added, "Alright, I told you mine, now its your turn!" Yuya said. "Oh so you really want to know my weakness?" Eita said, "Well if you must know... I don't have any!" he shouted out. "None at all?!" Matthew said annoyed with the arrogant reply, "None! For I am flawless, perfect!" he gloated.
"Yeah, the perfect puppet!" Yuya barked out, making Eita's brow curled in some anger, Matthew laughed at this. "I mean literally, you're the 'perfect' size to be one." he added, earning some laughter from the crowd, not that Eita heard any of this. He then regained his calm. "Try and mock me all you want, I know the truth." Eita said.
"Eita is correct, when its come to trivia, there is no one better than Eita at Facts and Figures." the pink suited man said, whose name was Kuizu. "And that is all stored in this magnificent brain, which makes yours look like a peanut!" Eita joked...
5 minutes later, the two were the only ones standing in the arena, Matthew having taken a seat by the kids. "Alright folks! It took a while, but this match is about to commence!" Nico shouted over the com system.
"Today's Duel host the Trivia King, Eita Kyuando!" he shouted, "What is the greatest power?" Eita asked out loud, "Brain power!" the crowd answered, "Correct!" he said "And his opponent, the Pendulum Dueltainer, Yuya Sakaki!" Nico shouted out... Matthew, Ayu, Futoshi and Tatsuya were the only four to clap for Yuya's announcement. "Thanks for the vote in confidence guys..." Yuya thought depressed.
"Duelist! Prepare for battle! I now activate the Action Field, Quiz Quest!" Kuizu yelled out, also on the com system. The ARC System activated, generating the Field. When it was finished, multiple boxes floated all around them. "Here only the smartest shall rule, while the dumbest drool!" he added. "What!? Are we really Dueling and Quizzing at the same time!" Yuya yelled out in shock.
"Oh you got that one correct! I'm surprised!" Eita joked, "However, I think that is the only thing will get correct here." he added with a smile. "This Field requires knowledge in anything! One of us has that, so we know who the winner is already!" he laughed out loud.
The crowd than began the chant. "Duelist locked in battle of wits! Kicking against the earth and dancing in the air alongside their monsters! They storm through the field, now behold! This the latest and greatest evolution in Dueling!" they yelled out.
"ACTION..." the bubble with the Action Cards burst, scattering them around the Field, the two Duelist both drew 5 cards each.
"DUEL!" the two yelled out.
Eita's LP: 4000
Yuya's LP: 4000
Turn 1
"A question! Which of us will take the first turn!" Eita asked, "You!" the crowd answered, "Correct!" he said, "Good, that will give me a chance to knock that walking' talking napoleon complex off his pedestal." Yuya thought. "I'll show off my brilliance by Normal Summoning Quiz Monkey!" appearing on Eita's Field was a small red monkey, wearing sunglasses a bow tie, a top hat with question marks on it and hold a microphone.
Quiz Monkey: DARK, Level: 1 [Beast/Effect] ATK/0 DEF/0
"0 ATK... It's obvious powerful..." Yuya thought, "All things start from zero, even intelligence, yours must still be low though!" Eita joked with a laugh. "Now I could end this match quickly, but I find playing with you entertaining. So I place a card face-down and end my turn!" he said as a card appeared then faded.
Eita's Hand x 3
Turn 2
"Don't listen to him Yuya, he's playing mind tricks!" Ayu yelled to him. "Oh Yuya, I would love to see you Pendulum Summon, but I'm afraid there won't be time for that to happen!" Eita said. "I can agree with that!" Yuya shouted, drawing his card, "Cause I plan to end this Duel quick! I activate Juggernaut Magician's effect! Since I control no monsters, I can Normal Summon or Set it!" he said.
Appearing on his Field was Juggernaut, throwing a few punches about. "But doing this decrease's Juggernaut's Level to 4!" he added.
Juggernaut Magician: EARTH, Level: 5 = 4, [Spellcaster/Pendulum/Effect] ATK/ 1600 DEF/900, PS: 2
"And when a Pendulum Monster is Normal Summoned, I can Special Summon Stargazer from my Hand!" Stargazer appeared next to Juggernaut, his staff twirling at the ready.
Stargazer Magician: DARK, Level: 5 [Spellcaster/Pendulum/Effect] ATK/1200 DEF/2400, PS:1
"Battle! Juggernaut Magicain! Attack that Monkey!" Juggernaut charged for the Monkey, "Question time!" Eita shouted out, "Huh?" Yuya said confused, "Quiz Monkey's effect activates! When its involved in a battle, you must answer a question!" Eita explained.
"Depending on the answer, an affect is applied. If you guess right, then you shall gain 1000 LP! Answer incorrectly, and Quiz Monkey is Special Summoned from my Graveyard, and I can destroy 1 monster you control and Monkey gains its ATK and DEF!" he finished. "Now answer!" he demanded. "Well seeing that Monkey has no ATK to protect itself, the answer will be zero!" Yuya shouted.
"Now carry on Juggernaut!" Juggernaut once more charged for the Monkey, who cried out, having nowhere to hide, when the magician's fist made contact, a dust cloud erupted. "Take that you chimp!" Yuya grinned out.
"Not so fast there Yuya!" Eita voice shouted, when the cloud dissipated, Quiz Monkey was still there, "If your simple mind can't understand, I shall tell you how it survive!" Eita mocked, "I activated the Continious Trap, Not So Fast!" he said, the card was flipped up to prove this.
"Once during battle, a Quiz monster cannot be destroyed by that battle, and neither of us take damage from it either." he explained. Yuya gritted his teeth in frustration, "That slimy little..." he growled out in his head.
"Now that the battle is over, let us see if you were correct, not that you had a chance." Eita said, "You said that there would be zero Quiz monsters after the battle." Eita waved over to Quiz Monkey, "But my Quiz Monkey is still standing, meaning your answer was incorrect!" he shouted out with a laugh.
"And since it was incorrect, Quiz Monkey's effects now destroys Juggernaut!" Quiz Monkey's hat showed a red X on it, which then shot a beam of them at Juggernaut, who destroyed. "And now Monkey gains its ATK and DEF!" Quiz Monkey's ATK/DEF: 0/0 + 1600/900 = 1600/900
"Aww, I thought for sure that Big Bro Yuya was right, but he was wrong." Futoshi said saddened, "Actually Futoshi in a way he was right, right Big Bro Matthew." Tatsuya said to the oldest. "Right, it didn't matter what his answer would've been, if he had said one, then Eita wouldn't activate that Trap, letting his monster be destroyed, and making Yuya's answer wrong." he said.
"So I would've been wrong either way!" Yuya shouted out, having thought the same thing as Matthew. "Oh bravo! You're just smart enough to realise that I'm three steps ahead of you in everything!" Eita mocked him.
"This is a battle of wits, which I have and you don't!" he laughed out.
"And that's where you're wrong!" Yuya said ticking Eita off, how dare this simpleton say he was wrong, "Stargazer's effect activates!" When a Pendulum Monster leaves the Field by card effect, he can Special Summon back that monster from where it was sent to!" "So Juggernaut gets a second showcasing!" he said as Juggernaut appeared again, this time in Defense.
"I now place a card face-down and end my turn!" a single face-down card appeared on Yuya's Field then faded.
Yuya's Hand x 3
Turn 3
"That's good, with both of them in Defense, Eita can't deal damage, especially with Stargazer's amazing DEF around." Tatsuya said.
"Question time!" Eita shouted, "My question is, "Will I deal damage to you this turn from an attack?" he asked, "Like I'm going to let that happen!" Yuya shouted as he took off running, "Oh going for an Action Card, predictable!" Eita laughed out drawing his card. "My answer will be yes! As I activate the Spell, Raigeki! Now all monsters you control are destroyed!" both the Magicians were destroyed by a bolt of lightning.
Yuya was climbing up a flight of floating stair, then up a pole with rods sticking out, "Quiz Monkey! Attack Yuya directly!" Eita ordered, the monkey began to chase him, When Yuya dived onto a box with 100 written on it, where he grabbed the Action Card lying on it. "Got it!" he said to himself, suddenly the card glowed, "Huh?"
A screen then appeared before him, on it was a pixelated person, dressed in pink with a hat with a question mark on it. "ACTION TRAP ACTIVATED! COMMENCING QUIZ ACTION!" the screen said to him. "What? An Action Trap?!" Yuya shouted shocked, Quiz Monkey was floating a few feet away.
"YES! THIS CARD WILL LET YOU ESCAPE DAMAGE!" it said, "Alright!" Yuya cheered, "BUT ONLY IF YOU ANSWER MY QUESTION CORRECTLY!" it added, shocking the four below and Yuya, "A Quiz!?" they shouted in shock.
"IF YOU ANSWER INCORRECTLY, YOU WILL TAKE THE DAMAGE AS WELL AS AN ADDITIONAL 100 DAMAGE!" it told him. "Seriously?" he snapped out, "Yes, when you Duel on the Field, Quiz Quest, you must answer questions correctly for activating Action Cards!" Eita explained, "It is impossible for most, but not me!" he gloated.
Before Yuya could retort, "HERE IS THE QUESTION! THE CATAGORY IS SCIENCE FOR 100!" the program said, "S-Science!" Yuya flinched at this, the screen then showed a full glass of water with an ice cube floating in it. "THIS DIAGRAM DEPICTS A FULL GLASS OF WATER WITH AN ICE CUBE, WHEN THE CUBE MELTS, WILL THE WATER REMAIN AT THE SAME LEVEL OR WILL IT OVERFLOW?" it finished, with an animation of it showing that happen.
"It'll overflow!" he answered without hesitation, suddenly an X appeared on the screen, "INCORRECT! YOU SHALL NOW BE PENALISED!" it said then faded taking 100 points from Yuya. Yuya's LP: 4000 - 100 = 3900. "W-What? How was I wrong?" he asked himself.
"Quiz Monkey! Go bananas on him!" Eita shouted with Quiz Monkey continuing its attack, firing a beam at Yuya, that threw him off the box and onto the float. 3900 - 1600 = 2300. (Yuya) "And that was a lesson in science, you just experienced gravity!" Eita mocked. with the crowd minus the four on Yuya's side laughing.
"Now watch this! Since my Quiz monster dealt you damage. I can Special Summon this card from my Hand! Appear Quiz Sphinx!" Appearing on Eita's side was a giant Egyptian sphinx monument, with a red stone bow tie and holding with appeared to be a microphone and floating behind it was a pyramid with a question mark on it.
Quiz Sphinx: LIGHT, Level: 6 [Rock/Effect] ATK/1000 DEF/2000
"So long as there is another Quiz monster on my Field, you cannot target this card for attacks! Not like that will be a problem!" Eita said, "And now! Quiz Sphinx will also attack you directly!" Sphinx's pyramid sparked with energy from the corners and gathered at the top, which then shot out at Yuya, Who was getting up. "Yuya!" the kids and Matthew yelled to him.
"I... activate the Trap, Mystical Calling!" Yuya groaned out, his face-down flipped up. "Now Sphinx's attack is negated, and I can now add up to 2 Magicians from my Deck whose combined DEF is less or equal to Sphinx's ATK!" he said. The energy dissipated. "It's ATK is 1000, so I'll add Lock-Up Magician who had 100 DEF, and Jungle Claw who has 700 DEF!" the two cards were added to his Hand.
"Very good Yuya, but that won't save you from my amazing mind!" Eita gloated. "I activate the Quick-Play Spell, Second Guess!" he said, "When my Quiz monster's attack is negated, it can declare a second one this turn!" he explained, shocking Yuya. "Now my Quiz Sphinx! Attack him directly!" once more energy gather at the top of the pyramid, shooting it out at a defenceless Yuya. 2300 - 1000 = 1300. (Yuya)
"I now end my turn! See what you can do to entertain me monkey!" he laughed out.
Eita's Hand x 1
Turn 4
"Man that attack hurt..." Yuya groaned out, still recovering from the fall, "But still, I thought that I was right with that answer..." he muttered, "Yuya!" Matthew said to him, seeing that he was near them, "Don't rush your answers! I know its an Action Duel, but Monkey's attack was halted the second you grabbed the card!" he said.
It took a while for that to sink into Yuya's head, "Oh..." he muttered, now it made sense, that monkey could've attacked any second, he knew it was right behind him
"Got it!" Yuya then turned back to Eita, who was grinning at him, "He's right, I really need to think about my answers first..." he thought, "My turn! I draw!" he drew his card. "I'll go for an Action Card first, just in case." he then took off running. "It's unlikely that I'll get the same category twice, right?" he thought.
"Oh Yuya, going for another Action Card, Why bother, you'll not get it right, and I'll outclass you again!" Eita said, also taking off for one, but at a slower pace.
Yuya was just climbing onto a box, when he spotted Eita on another one, and picking up an Action Card. "First come, first served!" he said as the screen appeared. "ACTION TRAP ACTIVATES NOW! COMMENCING QUIZ ACTION!" the program went as it appeared on another screen. "ANSWER CORRECTLY AND YOU WILL GAIN 300 LP! CATAGORY IS RIDDLE FOR 300!" it said.
It then showed an image of an tanuki over a treasure chest "QUESTION: WHAT IS INSIDE THE TREASURE CHEST OF A TANUKI?" it asked, "Nothing!" Eita shouted, a ding went off as confetti erupted from out of nowhere, "CORRECT!" it said then faded, not before giving Eita his prize. Eita's LP: 4000 + 300 = 4300.
"It's because it took the "ta" out of takara!" Eita explained to Yuya, "Most people know about that riddle though..." Yuya thought, he had though it was a little convenient that his question was Science related, one of his worst subjects. "Why was yours a riddle?" "Just lucky I guess." Eita then stepping onto another box, with another Action Card on it, which he picked up.
"ACTION TRAP ACTIVATED! IF YOU GET THIS QUESTION RIGHT, YOU SHALL RECIEVE 500 LP!" the program said again, "CATAGORY IS, RIDDLE FOR 500!" it shouted, with Yuya suspicious at this. "Okay, even I can tell the odds of getting another Riddle question are low." Yuya thought.
"QUESTION: WHAT IS A CONTEST IN WHICH THE LOSER IS LAUGHING AT THE END?" it asked, "A Staring contest!" Eita answered, the same result happened again, 4300 + 500 = 4800. (Eita) "Great, another easy one!" Yuya muttered balancing on a pole.
Eita was once again on another box, where an Action Card was stuck on the side, which he picked up. "ACTION TRAP-" "Get on with it!" the program and Eita said in that order, the latter a tad annoyed. "OKAY, IF YOU INSIST..." the program reluctantly said. "ANSWER CORRECTLY AND YOU SHALL RECIEVE 1000 LP! THE CATAGORY IS, RIDDLE FOR 1000!" "Oh come on!" Yuya yelled out frustrated. Now even Matthew was suspicious now.
"QUESTION: WHICH IS SUNNIER, THE ROAD, OR THE SIDEWALK?" it asked, "The sidewalk!" Eita answer, getting a ding for answering correctly. 4800 + 1000 = 5800. (Eita) "Road sounds similar to shadow in English. So the shadow is darker." Eita explained "Not how I would've answer that..." Yuya sweat dropped, his answer, if he got that one, would be road, seeing that a car's shadow is bigger than a man's.
"5800 LP, this is bad..." Tatsuya said, "It'll take a while for Yuya to get rid of that..." Matthew muttered.
Yuya on his balancing pole then turned to the box in front of him, where an Action Card was, "Yes!" he said, carefully making his way over, and jumping to grab it and the ledge of the box, which he did both.
"ACTION TRAP ACTIVATED! COMMENCING QUIZ ACTION!" the program said as Yuya lifted himself up. Eita was watching from a distance with a smile on his face. "ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION CORRECTLY AND YOU SHALL GAIN 100 LP, ANSWER INCORRECT AND YOU SHALL TAKE 100 DAMAGE!" it said, "I'm ready!" he said.
"THE CATAGORY IS MATH FOR 100!" it said, shocking Yuya at this, "MATH!?" he said shocked. the screen then showed a diagram of red sticks all lined up, "IF PILLARS WERE PLACED 10 YARDS APART, HOW MANY WOULD BE NEEDED TO REACH 100 YARDS!" it asked.
"That's easy! The answer is-" Yuya began, but paused as he thought on what Matthew jad just told him said, "Man that was close..." he thought, and then thought on the answer, his first was going to 10, but then he thought on that, "If I only had ten, and they were spaced 10 yards apart, that would bring me to... 90 Yards as I'm starting with one and adding another every 10 Yards, so I just need one more..." he thought.
"My answer is 11!" he said, holding his breath, the ding went, signalling he got it right. 1300 + 100 = 1400. (Yuya)
"Yay! Big Bro Yuya got one right!" Ayu cheered, Futoshi danced, and Tatsuya smiled, along with Matthew.
"That's a simple question Yuya, even a monkey could've guessed it!" Eita said, "Okay, I got one right, maybe I should go for another!" Yuya thought. he then grabbed onto a rope and jumped off. "Next one!" he yelled as he landed on another boxes, with an Action Card, he picked it up.
"QUESTIION! CATAGORY IS MATH FOR 200!" the program said, it then showed two six sided dice, one rolled to show a 3, "IT YOU ROLLED A SIX ON THE FIRST ONE, WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF THE OTHER BEING A SIX?" it asked. "Hmm... Err..." Yuya muttered, probability was not one of his strengths. "I don't know!" he said. Having not given an answer, he was penalised. 1400 - 200 = 1200. (Yuya)
He then picked an Action Card that was planted on the side of a box. "QUESTION! CATAGORY IS SCIENCE FOR 300!" the program said, making Matthew very suspicious, "Why are all Yuya's questions Maths and Science, Yuya's worst subjects and Eita's are Riddles, which Yuya is good at?" he thought.
"BETWEEN 300KG OF STEEL AND 300KG OF COTTON, WHICH IS HEAVIER?" it asked, "Neither, both weigh the same!" Yuya answered, "CORRECT!" it told him, 1200 + 300 = 1500. (Yuya)
"Poor, poor Yuya, only able to answer half of the questions you got..." Eita said, "It would've been more If you didn't know which cards are which!" Yuya retorted, confusing the kids, with Matthew getting it, "You know exactly where the cards are, and what that card's category is, so you'd go for the riddles and leaving me with Maths and Science." he explained.
"My, my! You're just smart enough to understand!" Eita mocked, "Now a question for you. Just who is the pathetic Duelist that will rot embarrassingly in the upcoming true Quiz Hell?" he asked walking down from his box and onto another, "T-True hell?!" Yuya said shocked.
Eita then picked up an Action Card, which glowed, but the screen didn't appear, "Action Card activate!" he shouted, "The heaven of all forms of knowledge! Guide the witless to hell! Quiz Quest- Extra Stage!" he said.
With theses words, the boxes and climbing platforms started to vanish, "What?! What's happening!?" Yuya said looking around as his surroundings got brighter. "The answer to my question is YOU! Yuya Sakaki!" Eita's voice yelled out, followed by his laugh...
Outskirts of the city.
Within the vast wilderness of the forest, was a waterfall, and standing directly under this waterfall was Gongenzka, straining to keep himself upright, he was also, only wearing a cloth around his waist, "It's not enough!" he grunted out, barely able to talk with the waterfall hammering down on him. "I'm still lacking something! Something that can make me become better!" he yelled out into the heavens, hoping they would give him the answer he needed...
Random A
"Dyrnwyn! Attack him directly!" Ronald, who was covered with a brown cloak, which concealed his face, and wearing his Xyz Duel Disk, ordered his monster to attack his opponent, who was an Elite Duelist from LDS. Since they controlled no monster, they had nothing to defend themselves against the monster's sword, taking the rest of their Life Points and knocking them over.
"That's one down..." Ronald said, using a different pitch of voice, masking his own. Shun had decided that Ronald should make himself more useful, other than hiding out amongst a Duel School, and keeping an eye of a Fusion Scum, so he ordered Ronald to do the same as him, hunt down LDS Fusion Duelists, and card them.
Luckily he didn't carded anyone other than Fusion Duelist, seeing that his and the other's Duel Disk, could track down Fusion cards around the city... That was how Academia was able to hunt them back in Heartland, going after their Xyz cards.
As he approached the downed Duelist, they came to, "Please... Why are you doing this for...?" they groaned out, "Reasons that you'll never know..." Ronald said, and with that, he carded the Duelist, taking a Duel monster card from his Disk, that slowly showed the defeated Duelist, which he then pocketed.
"God I hope this plan of yours works Shun." he though looking up above into the sky, "If Yusho could see us now, what would he think of us, stooping down to Fusion's twisted ways..." he thought...
Back to the Duel...
Yuya had been forced to shut eyes from the brightness, but a moment he felt himself seated on something, which he could was moving, as he felt wind hitting his face. "What's going on?" he muttered, slowly opening his eyes, and he was shocked at what he saw.
Both he and Eita were seated in separate mining cards on separates tracks within a cave system.
"What the heck is with this Field?" he yelled out, "Yuya, from here on out, you'll experience how truly foolish you are!" Eita said to him, his cart taking off a bit faster.
"From here on, we will be faced with five Action Traps." he explained, "More quizzes!" Yuya said, "That's right. But all these Traps are for 100, if we guess right, then we gain 100 LP, answer wrong, which is unlikely for me..." Eita said, annoying Yuya with that remark. "Then we'll take 100 damage." he finished.
Yuya looked further on, and saw that the tracks were going different ways, down two different tunnels. "Enjoy your quiz journey! Adieu!" Eita said going down his track.
"Okay, just answer them carefully, and I should be fine..." Yuya muttered to himself, entering his cave. Suddenly his cart fell down, going lower on the track, speeding him up. "Hmm? What's that?" he said looking forward, seeing something ahead, as he got closer he spotted an Action Card... Only- "It's huge!" he yelled out, ramming right into it.
"ACTION TRAP ACTIVATED!" the program said, "COMMENCING DUEL QUIZ!" it said, "Duel Quiz? Doe that mean the questions are Duel related?" he asked it, "CORRECT!" it said, making Yuya smile, while not academically inclined, his was great with Dueling, this wouldn't be a problem for him.
"QUESTION: WHICH OF THESE TWO "Raigeki Break" CARDS IS CORRECT?" it asked, showing him two images of the card in question, "YOU HAVE FIVE SECONDS!" it added. "The Correct one? Umm..." Yuya said, looking between them, trying hard to spot something the other had or didn't. 5 seconds later, a buzz went off. "TOO BAD! TIME'S UP!" it told him.
"THE CORRECT ONE IS THE ONE ON THE RIGHT!" it showed, a circled appeared around the hand that was shown, the difference between them was that the one on the right was only holding 1 finger up. "The right one, damn it!" Yuya shouted.
"YOU FAILED TO ANSWER, SO YOU SHALL TAKE 100 POINTS OF DAMAGE!" it told him, suddenly Yuya was hit by a bolt of lightning. Causing him pain. 1500 - 100 = 1400. (Yuya)
"Man that hurt..." he groaned out, "Alright! From my Hand I-" Yuya began, until he spotted another Action Card ahead, "W-Wait!" he yelled out, slamming into the card, the screen appeared again, "QUESTION: HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE BEING BLOWN AWAY IN THE CARD HEAVY STORM?" it asked showing the card. "YOU HAVE FIVE SECOND!" it said, "That's easy! Two!" Yuya answered, a buzz was heard, "INCORRECT! THERE ARE THREE PEOPLE!" it told him, "What?" he yelled shocked, the card appeared again.
It then highlighted the first person at the front, which Yuya saw, the second one, which was close to the cow on it, which Yuya also saw... and finally the one at the far back. "That's a person! I thought it was debris!" Yuya yelled in shock. "YOU SHALL NOW TAKE 100 DAMAGE!" it told him. The wing suddenly picked up, like a storm, causing the track the twist and bend into a spiral. "HELP!" he screamed spiralling down the track, trying the keep his breakfast. 1400 - 100 = 1300. (Yuya)
Back with the kids and Matthew, they were watching all this unfold, watching Yuya's cart finally stop spinning... It occupant however appeared to be unconscious, "What's he doing?" someone from the crowd said, laughing, "He's hilarious!" another said, with even more people laughing. "What's the point of making people laugh at you?" Ayu questioned, "Comic relief?" Matthew said, still it was fun to watch...
"INCORRECT!" the program told Yuya, just then multiple arms appeared from all sides and grabbed and tickled Yuya, "Hey! Stop tha- Haha! I mean it! Ha! Hahahahaha!" he laughed out as they continued to tickle him, the crowd laughing even more. 1300 - 100 = 1200. (Yuya)
"INCORRECT!" the program said again, sending Yuya down into a large puddle of mud, submerging him, until he emerged on the over side, caked in mud, miraculously, only his cards and goggle remained clean. More laughter from crowd erupted. 1200 - 100 = 1100. (Yuya)
"INCORRECT!" it said again, instantly freezing Yuya in ice, "So... cold..." Yuya shivered out, 1100 - 100 = 1000. (Yuya)
"The correct answer is..." Eita said emerging from his tunnel. "ONLY ONE!" the students of the school yelled out. cheering for him, and laughing at Yuya, who looked like he was made out of ice. Eita's LP had risen from 5800 to 6300.
"This is bad..." Tatsuya said worried. "The difference is too big for Big Bro Yuya to recover, he only has 1000 LP left..." Ayu said, also worried, "And Eita has a whopping 6300!" Tatsuya added, "Don't worry you three..." Matthew said, "Yuya has yet to make a move, he can still come out of this." he said to them.
"HAHAHA! Do you finally understand Yuya? How completely incorrect you were to challenge me on this Field!" Eita gloated. "The one who'll win this Duel is ME!" he added, "Me! The perfect, and correct one!" he added on. "Correct!" the school's students cheered out, meanwhile, Yuya's ice had thawed out, leaving him in shock. "A- A- ACHOO!" he sneezed out.
"Ha! What a disgrace!" Eita mocked, unaware of the laughter around him. "Achoo! Achoo! Achoo!" Yuya sneezed out more.
"Hey, is it just me..." "Or are they liking this?" Ayu and Futoshi said in that order, Matthew was smiling at the scene of the students laughing and then applauding Yuya, who by now had stopped sneezing, and took a bow. "Thank you..." he said to them.
"What is this!? Y-you people." Eita said to the crowd frustrated, "You dare ignore my shining display of skill and instead enjoy this buffoon's failures and incorrect answers?!" he accused them.
"Hey! Just because you see something someway, doesn't mean they should see it that way!" Yuya argued to him, "They're allowed to laugh at what they want!" he added, "Alright then! From here on out, this is the real deal!" he said determined. "From my hand, I activate the Spell, Magician's Renewal!" he said, "I can shuffle any number of Magicians from my Hand back into my Deck, and draw that many plus one more!" he said, 3 cards were placed back into his Deck, which then shuffled itself, he then drew 4 cards, as per the card's effect.
"And now I set the Pendulum Scale with Scale 3 Lock-Up Magician and Scale 8 Timegazer Magician!" he said, placing the cards into their respective zones.
Timegazer took his place with an 8 underneath him. And in the other appeared a new Magician, it was a male with dark grey hair and green eyes, his clothing was a wizard coat, like Timegazer's, but it was pale white, the trimming was silver and around his chest were two looped chains that formed a cross, and linked together with a padlock. Similar chain snaked around his arms, linked by two cuffed on each one. one on the should, and the other around the wrist. wrapped around his wizard hat, which was grey was looped chain that formed two crosses, one above the other. When he reached Timegazer's height a 3 appeared under him.
(3) P-E-N-D-U-L-U-M (8)
"I can Summon monsters Levels 4 through 7 all at the same time!" he said, "Swing, Pendulum of the Soul! Draw an arc of light across the ether!" he chanted, "Pendulum Summon! Now come forth, my monsters!" he shouted out as the rift opened.
"Appear! Level 4 Jungle Claw Magician!" appearing from a burst of light, was a Magician, who wore a for cloak that appeared to be a grey wolf, its head covering the Magician's head, whose eyes had a primal look in them. He also had a grizzly beard with a scratch over his right cheek. The rest of his clothing was consisted on a lose faded black vest. and tore grey shorts and on his feet were fuzzy feet that looked to belong to a bear. Around his arms and legs were wrapping of a cloth, and around his wrist were what appeared to be arm bands, fitted onto them, juttering over the hands were large bone claws, that were kept in place be vines tied around them. He have a feral howl as he appeared in Attack
"And finally, take centre stage! Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" Odd-Eyes did a spin as he roared out, also Summoned in ATK.
Jungle Claw Magician: DARK, Leve: 4 [Spellcaster/Pendulum/Effect] ATK/1800 DEF/700, PS: 6
Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon: DARK, Level: 7 [Dragon/Pendulum/Effect] ATK/2500 DEF/2000, PS: 4
"Then I Normal Summon Force Draw Magician!" Force Draw then appeared on the Field.
Force Draw Magician: EARTH, Level: 3 [Spellcaster/Pendulum/Effect] ATK/1200 DEF/600, PS: 6
"Amazing! This is Pendulum Summoning!" Kuizu said amazed, as were the students of the school, "That's it?" Eita asked, not impressed, "Yes, with this, he can wipe out Eita's monsters!" Ayu said excited, "But Eita's still got Quiz Monkey, and Not So Fast..." Tatsuya added.
"Don't worry kids, Yuya's got a plan, I just know it." Matthew assured them.
"I activate Lock-Up Magician's Pendulum effect!" Yuya said, "Once per turn, I target one face-up monster you control, and it has its effects negated!" he explained, shocking Eita at this, "What!?" he yelled out, "I target Quiz Sphinx!" Yuya said, Lock-Up held his arms out, which caused chains to appear, and launched them at Sphinx, chaining the monument up.
"Yes! It went through!" Yuya thought, "Seeing that its a Quiz monster, it must have a Question effect like Monkey, by preventing it, I just need to deal with Monkey..." he thought.
"Battle! Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon! Attack Quiz Sphinx!" Odd-Eyes then charged at Sphinx, "I activate Not So Fast's effect!" Eita shouted, "Now Sphinx can't be destroyed by battle, and neither of us take any damage from the battle!" he said, a barrier appeared in front of Sphinx, blocking Odd-Eyes attack from hitting.
"Nice try Yuya, but I'm too smart for that to work..." Eita said smug, "Are you sure about that?" Yuya asked, "What?!" Eita said annoyed, "You just wasted your combo!" Yuya explained, it took a moment for this to register in Eita's mind, before he gasped, realising he was right. "Jungle Claw! Attack Monkey!" Jungle Claw charged at the Monkey on all fours, like a jungle cat.
"At this moment, Jungle Claw's effect activates! When he battles, all Magicians and Spellcaster-type monsters gain 400 ATK until the end of the turn!" Yuya explained, Jungle Claw's ATK: 1800 + 400 = 2200, Force Draw's ATK: 1200 + 400 = 1600.
"Monkey's effect! You must answer the Question: How many Quiz Monsters will be on the Field by the end of the battle phase?" Eita asked.
"Seeing that nothing can protect them now, my answer will be zero!" Yuya answered, Monkey screamed as Jungle Claw slashed at it, causing it to burst into particles. 6300 - 800 = 5500. (Eita) "Yes! That monkey is gone!" Ayu cheered. "Unbelievable! THE Kyuandou-kun actually took damage?!" the student shouted out.
"Now for Jungle Claw's other effect! When he destroys a monster by battle, he can attack again!" Yuya said, shocking Eita, "Now attack Quiz Sphinx!" Jungle Claw landed on the floor on all four, looked up at the Sphinx, and sprang back up and slashed upwards at it, cleaving the monster in two, it too burst into particle. 5500 - 1200 = 4300. (Eita)
"Yes! Now Big Bro Yuya's answer will be right!" Tatsuya cheered, Futoshi doing his dance.
"Oh no! What am I to do?" Eita asked worried, Yuya smirking at this, "Just kidding!" his smirk was instantly gone, "I activate the Quick-Play Spell, Quiz Rebirth!" he said, the card appeared on the field, showing a coffin with a question mark on it, slowly opening.
"During the turn that Quiz monsters are destroyed, I can Special Summon them back!" he said with a smug grin, the two Quiz monsters appeared on the Field, "Not only that but Monkey's ATK and DEF are same as from before it was destroyed."
"Then I'll have-" Yuya began, "They also cannot be destroyed by battle, and I don't take battle damage for the rest of the turn!" Eita added smug. "Then that means..." Yuya said shocked, "That's right! So end your battle phase." Eita demanded, "I end my battle phase..." Yuya said defeated.
"And it ending, Monkey's effect activates... Let's see, you said that their would be zero Quiz monsters on my Field at the end of the battle phase, but..." Eita gestured to both his monsters, "You were incorrect!" he laughed out.
"Which means, I can now destroy 1 monster you control, and Monkey's ATK and DEF become that monster's ATK and DEF! My choice will be Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" Monkey once again released a beam, this time at Odd-Eyes, "What did I do to deserve this?!" Odd-Eyes roared out, he was then destroyed. 1600/900 = 2500/2000 (Quiz Monkey)
"Slimy little git..." Matthew thought in his head. "Destroyed Pendulum Monsters go to the Extra Deck face-up instead of the Graveyard." Yuya said, placing Odd-Eyes card in his Extra Deck, where Juggernaut and Stargazer were. "Then Force Draw Magician's effect activates! Once per turn, when a monster I control is destroyed by an opponent's attack or effect, I can draw 1 card for every Magician monster I control." Yuya said, drawing two cards due to Force Draw and Jungle Claw.
"I now set three cards face-down and end my turn!" he said, three cards appeared on his Field, then faded. "With it ending, Jungle Claw's effect returns the ATK of all Magicians and Spellcaster-Type monsters to normal." 2200 = 1800 (Jungle Claw), 1600 = 1200. (Force Draw)
Yuya's Hand x 0
Turn 5
"Thank you Force Draw, you've given me a chance with those cards..." Yuya thought, placing his goggle over his eyes, and looked around, his eyes looking over at a floating boxer with 3000 on it. He then ran towards it.
"Ha! Seeing that you have zero cards in your Hand, you can only rely on Action Cards." Eita surmised. "My turn! I draw!" he drew his card. "I activate Quiz Rebirth's secondary effect!" he said, "By banishing this card, I can draw 1 more card for every Quiz monster I control in Attack, plus one!" he said, I control both Sphinx and Monkey in Attack, so I draw three cards!" he said.
"Battle! Quiz Monkey now attacks Force Draw Magician!" he ordered, Monkey flew at Force Draw. "Trap activate, Last Minute Cancel!" Yuya shouted, "This card turn all monsters on my Field into Defense, and for the rest of this turn, all monsters affected by this Trap are returned to my Hand when destroyed by battle!" both Jungle Claw and Force Draw gained a blue aura.
Quiz Monkey then slashes at Force Draw, who was destroyed, "Force Draw returns to my Hand!" Yuya said, climbing up a ladder, which he then made sway forward, sending it forward He jumped off, and landing right near Eita.
"And now Quiz Sphinx, attack Jungle Claw!" Eita ordered, with the pyramid charging energy, and unleashing it at Jungle Claw, who was also destroyed and returned to Yuya's Hand.
"And now I activate the Quick-Play Spell, Bam! Magnification from my Hand!" Eita said, "When a Level 4 or higher Quiz monster destroys a monster in Defense Position this turn, its ATK is doubled and it can attack again!" this shocked the kids. Sphinx charged another attack, as its power rose. 1000 x2 = 2000. (Quiz Sphinx)
"And now Quiz Sphinx! Attack Yuya and end this!" Eita shouted, "Not yet!" Yuya shouted out, making his way up to the 3000 box, "I don't think that Action Card will do you any good." Eita grinned, knowing what the outcome would lead to, his victory, "I'm fine with that!" Yuya retorted, getting closer. "It's so sad, to think he's going to gamble away 3000 LP... He's really desperate now..." Eita said. Monkey giggling in agreement.
"There!" Yuya yelled landing on the box, forcing the card into the air, which he then snatched, "Action Trap, activate!" he shouting, causing the screen to appear.
"QUIZ ACTION! CATAGORY IS MATH FOR 3000!" the program said.
"Of- Of all things it's Math!" Futoshi cried out in shock.
"QUESTION: PROVE FERMAT'S LAST THEOREM." it asked, shocking Matthew, "Man that's tough one, even for me!" Matthew said shocked, now worried for Yuya.
"Ha! That's such an easy question! For me that is." Eita gloated. Yuya then appeared back on the floor, the box letting him down safely. "YOU HAVE 5 SECONDS." it told Yuya. Yuya didn't answer straight away, but smirked and lifted his goggles up. "I have no idea!" he said. shocking the four with this.
"You're not going to even answer? It seems there's no need for me to step in then!" Eita mocked, "Now enjoy being wiped by 3000 points of damage for your incorrect answer. Adieu!" he said.
"I'm fine with being incorrect on this one!" Yuya said, confusing the Trivia King. "Eh?" he said, "I now activate the Trap, Arcane Magic - Reborn Force!" Yuya said, his middle face-down flipped up. "On the turn that a Magician monster is destroyed, I can reflect effect damage to you once!" he explained.
"WHAT!?" Eita yelled shocked. Two lights hit the 3000 box, causing it to expand and to be absorbed by the Trap, which shot a beam out at Eita, who was hit by each digit of 3000, "No way..." he muttered, tears spilling out his eyes. 4300 - 3000 = 1300. (Eita)
"Not only that, but if this card is activated during the battle phase, it's over immediately!" Yuya added, causing Sphinx's attack to stop. The crowd were shocked again. "Incredible! Kyuandou-kun took more damage!" the students got out again. Kuizu was impressed by this turn of events as Eita got up.
"H-How? Y-You used an incorrect answer against me!? How is that even possible!?" Eita stuttered out frustrated. "Don't you get it Eita, Quizzes aren't constrained to just correct or incorrect answers." Yuya began, "Because after all, this isn't just a Quiz Duel..." he smiled, "It's a Duel." he said, confusing Eita, how then grew annoyed, "I-I'm aware of that!" he yelled.
"I place two cards face-down and end my turn!" he said placing the cards into his Disk, making them appear on his Field, and faded, "Bam! Magnification! ends and returns Quiz Sphinx's ATK to normal!" he added. 2000 = 1000. (Quiz Sphinx)
Eita's Hand x 1
Turn 6
"That's amazing! Yuya, used his answer against Eita, now they're both low on LP!" Matthew said amazed with Yuya, he could see his rematch with him going a lot different now.
"My turn! And with it, the fun has just begun!" Yuya shouted drawing his card, which began to glow, "Huh?" he said looking it, and was shocked to see that it was "Noble Gatekeeper?" he thought, his pendant glowing also, the space around him disappearing, leaving only darkness and him, "What's-" he began, but was shocked as he saw card begin to change before him.
"Is this what happened during my match against Strong Ishijima?" he thought looking at the transformed card. He looked it over and was both shocked and amazed by it, "This.. This could work!" he thought, and with that everything returned around him. His smile getting bigger. He then clicked his finger, turning all the lights off but one, that spotlighted him.
"Ladies and Gentlemen! Watch closely for what is to come!" he showboated, "With my Pendulum Scale set with to 3 and 8, I, once again can Summon monsters through Levels 4 to 7 at all once!" he said, the crowd getting into the act, much to Eita's frustration, he was the star of this show, not Yuya. "Now let's begin! Say it with me!" he said.
"Swing, Pendulum of my Soul! Draw an arc of light across the ether!" he and the crowd said in union, "Pendulum Summon!" the rift opened again.
"First is Jungle Claw Magician!" Jungle Claw also appeared, with a quick bow. "Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon! Take to the stage again!" Odd-Eyes once again appeared with a roar. "Finally..." he said, staring at Quiz Monkey, who freaked out when Odd-Eyes licked his teeth. "Mmm Monkey Kabab..." he muttered.
"And finally our last act to appear this match, meet Level 6 Noble Gatekeeper!" appearing from the last light was a new monster, it's lower body was like an curved archway, filled in by two amazingly detailed door. It upper body was narrow around the waist, and somewhat bulky around the torso, two small towers rest of its shoulder that looked like Rook chess pieces. It had two finger and thumb on each hand which were somewhat thick. It had no actual face on it, but appeared to have something that looked like a crown. Its colour scheme for its armour was red for the upper body, and green for the archway legs. The body underneath was greyish and black, with a blue visor for eyes. and on its doors were several gems of different colours.
Noble Gatekeeper: LIGHT, Level: 6 [Spellcaster/Pendulum/Gemini] ATK/1000 DEF/2400, PS: 2
"A new monster?!" Ayu said looking at the monster. "Never seen it before." Tatsuya added. "At this moment, Odd-Eyes's effect now activates!" Yuya declared as Odd-Eyes glowed "When Pendulum Summoned from my Extra Deck, one Special Summoned monster you control loses 100 ATK for every Level that can be Pendulum Summoned from my Pendulum Scale!" he explained, shocking Eita" W-WHAT!" he screamed out. "I select Quiz Monkey! Scale Force!" Odd-Eyes an energy, it raced over to Monkey, draining some of its power. "Levels 4 through 7 can be Pendulum Summoned, so Monkey loses 400 ATK!" 2500 - 400 = 2100 (Monkey)
"But that's not all! As now Odd-Eyes gains that lost ATK until the end of the turn!" he added, shocking Eita even further. Odd-Eyes's ATK: 2500 + 400 = 2900
"And now I Gemini Summon Gatekeeper!" Yuya said, shocking the three, plus Matthew, "Gemini Summon! That's a Gemini monster" he said shocked, he had suggested Yuya add Gemini Summoning, he didn't think it would be so soon.
"Trap activate, Last Question!" Eita yelled out panickly, "Question: At the start of this turn's battle phase, how many monsters will be on the Field?" he asked, "If you answer correctly then all my monsters will be destroyed. Answer incorrect, and your monsters will be instead." he told him.
Yuya knew the answer to this, but knew from past experiences, Eita would trick him, if he thought the other card set did what he thought, then he would win this. "Now let's see if you answer this correctly!" Eita taunted.
"There are two monsters on your Field and 3 on mine, my answer is 5! Battle!" Yuya said, "Ha! You fell for it!" Eita laughed out, "Trap activate, Recovery Chute!" he said, his final face-down flipped up.
"This card increases Quiz Sphinx's ATK by the ATK of a Level 4 or lower Quiz monster's ATK, in this case, Monkey's now 2100!" he explained, 1000 + 2100 = 3100. (Quiz Sphinx) "And then, Quiz Monkey is returned to my Hand!" he added as Monkey disappeared.
"And with this, there are now four monsters on the Field at the start of the battle phase!" he said implying something, "Which makes your answer of five monsters... INCORRECT!" he yelled out.
"That means all your monsters will be wiped out!" All of Yuya's monster were caught in several explosions. "HAHAHAHA! It went just as I planned! I corrected you with my correct answer!" Eita mocked and gloated.
"And now I have a question for you!" Yuya voice rang out from the smoke, halting Eita's laughter. "Who will be the winner of this Duel?" he asked, it took a moment for it to register in Eita's head. "Well, that's obviously, it's going to be me!" he answered smugly, "Hmm... I wonder about that." Yuya said, confusing Eita.
"Your attention please!" he yelled to the audience, "For when the smoke clears, you'll witness an amazing spectacle on this Field!" he said to them, who were all held in suspense, "And feel free to applaud!" he said waving to two silhouettes that began to appear as the smoke faded. The crowd began to muttered about what was happening...
As the smoke cleared even more, Eita's confusion turned into absolute shock, "That's- That's impossible!" Eita cried out. Standing on either side of Yuya, was Odd-Eyes and Gatekeeper, not a scratch on either. "Ta-da!" Odd-Eyes growled out, "Why!? WHY!?" he yelled.
"The Trap, Final Show!" Yuya said, his last face-down flipped up to prove this, "With this card, Odd-Eyes's destruction is negated, not only that but he gains 600 ATK for every Magician destroyed this turn!" he explained. 2900 + 600 = 3500 (Odd-Eyes)
"Well that explains Odd-Eyes surviving, but why is Gatekeeper still here!?" Eita demanded, going red in the face, staring at Gatekeeper, "Its effect of course!" Yuya answered. "Remember that I Gemini Summoned him, well if you know, by doing that, he gains effects!" he said. "One of these effects, is that a Pendulum Monster I control cannot be destroyed by a card effect you activate during either our turns once! That effect was used on itself." he said.
"Battle! Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon, attack Quiz Sphinx!" Yuya yelled out as Odd-Eyes charged its attack. "Ha! Quiz Sphinx's effect activates!" Eita said grinning. "Question! What monster on the Field has the highest Level?" he asked, Yuya let this proceed, he was curious about Quiz Sphinx's effect, seeing that he never let Eita use it on his last turn.
"Answer correctly, and that monster is destroyed and the owner of that monster takes damage equal to its ATK!" he said grinning. "Incorrectly, and the battle phase is over!" he laughed, which ever way Yuya answered, he was safe.
"Well, Odd-Eyes of course, even you can see that..." Yuya said, Eita frowned at this, "But the funny thing is..." Yuya said, "The monster affected by Final Show negates the effects of all my opponent's Spells, Traps and Monster Card's effects!" Yuya explained.
"What!? But that means my Trap, Not So Fast is..." Eita began, "Useless! And now Gatekeeper's other effect activates!" Yuya said, "When the first Pendulum monster of my battle phase attacks, it gains ATK equal to it's original DEF until the end of the battle phase! At the cost of only that monster declaring an attack this turn!" he said.
"What!?" Eita cried out more, 3500 + 2000 = 5500. (Odd-Eyes) "And now for Odd-Eyes's effect! When he battles a Level 5 or higher monster, the battle damage to you is doubled!" Yuya added, much to Eita's shock. "End this Odd-Eyes! Spiral Strike Burst!" Odd-Eyes unleashed his attack on the Sphinx, causing the monster to crack.
"The difference between their ATK is 2400, doubled to become 4800!" Sphinx then burst into millions of fragments, "Th-this can't be!" Eita yelled out, the shock the attack flinging him into the air. 1300 - 3200 = 0. (Eita) "And the correct answer to my question from earlier, who shall be the winner of this Duel? Well folks, the answer that question is me! Yuya Sakaki!" Eita then hit the floor "Eita Kyuando, you're incorrect!" Yuya added the second Eita hit the floor.
"I'm... Incorrect...?" Eita whispered out.
Yuya: WINS
Eita: LOSE
"I Won..." Yuya breathed out as the Field dematerialised. "Congratulations my boy!" Nico said running up to him. "You didn't forget your Dueling fundamentals and turned it around by using the Field and the cards to your advantage!" he said, just then Kuizu joined them.
"Dueling is a method of communicating with your opponent through your cards." he said, "You have reminded us the original principal of Dueling." he finished as Yuya chuckled, "Communicating through your cards...?" Eita repeated. Just then the crowd began to clap and cheer, much to Eita's confusion.
"SH-IV-ER!" Futoshi danced, Matthew was smiling at the scene, "Well Yuya, that was some show..." he thought smiling down at Yuya, who thanked Eita for the amazing and challenging Duel, with Eita congratulating him on the winner. "Wherever your dad is, he'd be proud..." he added...
"And checkmate!" Sora yelled as his opponent was crushed under a huge white knight chess piece, taking the remainder of their LP, which was 800 before. "What do you think of that Yuzu?" he asked Yuzu, but was confused by her emotionless stare. "What's gotten into her lately, its not that guy again, is it?" he thought...
LDS...
"Sir, we've detected another precedented amount of Fusion Summoning energy in the city centre." Nakajima said to Reiji, who was in his chair staring out of his window, looking up at the dark clouds gathering. "And a while before that, there was a burst of Xyz Summoning energy somewhere close to centre." he added. "I see, it seems he's also winning as well..." Reiji said, "But still, who are these people doing the Xyz Summoning?" he questioned. Suddenly thunder echoed throughout the city. "A storm is coming, but I'm not ready yet..." he muttered...
End of Chapter 21
For the pink suited man, I just gave him a name, as the Anime never gave him one, "Kuizu" is Japanese for "Quiz" fitting the quizzing theme for the Duel. Also for Quiz Monkey, I gave it a Beast-Typing, seeing that Yu-Gi-Oh Wiki doesn't have a read on its typing.
OC Cards
(Yuya)
Noble Gatekeeper
LIGHT, Level: 6 [Spellcaster/Pendulum/Gemini] ATK/1000 DEF/2400, PS: 2
Pendulum Effect: 1) When your opponent Special Summon an Effect monster(s): Target 1 of them; and if you do, that monster is treated as a Normal Monster with its effect's negated, you opponent must Normal Summon that monster for its effects to return. 2) Your opponent cannot Normal Summon the targeted monster the turn this card's above effect is activated and resolved, (even if this card leaves the Field).
This card is treated as a Normal Monster while face-up on the Field or your Graveyard. While this card is face-up on the Field, you can Normal Summon this card to have it treated as an Effect Monster, with these effects: 1) 1 Pendulum Monster you control in the Monster Zones cannot be destroyed by an effect your opponent activates once during either player's turn. 2) Once per turn, when the first Pendulum Monster you control declares an attack this turn, during the damage step: That monster gains ATK equal to its own original DEF until the end of the battle phase, but only that monster can declare an attack this turn.
(Eita)
Second Guess
Quick-Play Spell
If an attack of a "Quiz" monster is negated, that monster can make a second attack this turn this card was activated.
Quiz Rebirth
Quick-Play Spell
When "Quiz" monster(s) is destroyed by battle: Special Summon back those monsters, with the ATK and DEF they had when destroyed, they cannot be destroyed, also you take no battle damage for the rest of the turn. During your standby phase: You can banish this card; draw 1 card for every "Quiz" monster you control in ATK, +1
Also... I wasn't able to keep my promise about a chapter coming soon, seeing that my last update was...August the 3rd... So yeah, I won't be promising chapters soon, so you'll just have to wait for the next ones to come when they come... So... Cya!