Now that the second round of the Duel Battlers has begun, the duels were on once again. The first round was between Cray and Kent. Kent fought his hardest and earned some respect from Cray, but he was still defeated. That meant it was on to the next duel between Takato and Yukina. Takato was fearful of this because defeat for him means he will be offered to Life Destroyer, but defeating Yukina might secure his future. Speaking of his future, he was looking into every fortunetelling trick he knew that could tell him something, but it wasn't looking good.

"It's no use... No matter what I do, I can only see a future of darkness for the world." Takato said. "Is it written in the stars that Raika will prevail? If so...all I can do is try to survive." Takato seems convinced that there is no stopping the likes of Raika. If that's the case, he has to fight for his very survival.

...

The Duel Field

"We are back! The second match of the second round is about to begin!" M.C. announced as everyone was excited for this. "The second match is between Takato, the duelist that can read the stars and is empowered by them, and Yukina, the girl with fierce power of the animal kingdom!" The two of them stood facing each other once again, but this time it's as enemies instead of mere competitors. "Takato and Yukina have faced each other once before. Will he get his revenge at the defeat Yukina brought upon him?" Yukina isn't hoping that's the case, but she has to know.

"Why would someone like you join the Black Ace?!" Yukina called.

"It is fate for us to meet in battle once again, but the result will be different. This time, I must win!" Takato claimed.

"What?! Don't dodge my question! I asked why you joined the Black Ace organization!" Yukina claimed. "I know you are not like the rest of them! You're a good person, Takato, so it makes no sense to me!"

"That should not be your concern now Yukina. Understand that I am here to defeat you, and I must." Takato said.

"Dream on!" Yukina said. "I'm the one who is going to win so that I can defeat Raika!"

"Did you say defeat Raika?" Takato said. "You don't honestly think you can defeat the likes of him, do you?"

"Why not?" Yukina said.

"I have seen his power for myself. There is no one who can defeat someone like him." Takato said. "To oppose him is nothing but foolish. I have seen the future, Yukina, and it is one of darkness. If that might, I'll have to fight to survive. If I cannot defeat you, my life is over."

"What do you mean?!" Yukina questioned as she was getting frustrated with him.

"There is nothing more to say to you." Takato claimed. "Understand that we are enemies now and I will do what I must to defeat you!"

"Fine! Bring it, Takato!" Yukina said as she activated her duel disk with Takato assembling his own.

"Yes, Takato. Bring it for your very survival." Diego said as he set the stage perfectly for Takato. He either wins and eliminates Yukina or he loses and his power will be offered to Raika and Life Destroyer. Either way, Diego is the one who will in this duel.

"Here we go! They are about to begin!" M.C. announced.

"Let's duel!" Both of them said as they could now start their duel with them having 4000LP.

"I will be the one to start this duel, and I'll begin by summoning Constellar Pollux!" Takato said as he summoned out Pollux with it having 1700atk points. "Next, Pollux's ability allows me to summon a second Constellar this turn, so I summon Constellar Kaus!" He brought out his archer with it having 1500atk points. "Now, Kaus' ability will increase the level of both of them by one!" He said as Kaus fired a couple arrows sprinkle some glitter with them both of them being level five now. "I now build the overlay network!" He said as the X appeared on the field and dived in and a pillar of light shot up. "I xyz summon Constellar Pleiades!" Pleiades emerged with him having 2500atk points.

"Not this again." Yukina said.

"Don't like it? Let me try again!" Takato said as he was xyz summoning once again. "All I need for this xyz summoning is one Constellar xyz monster!" Pleiades dived in this time to make way for a new monster. "I xyz summon Constellar Ptolemy M7!" He summoned out his strongest monster with it having 2700atk points and three overlay units. "As you can see, Pleiades' overlay units became Ptolemy's."

"You used that to beat Sylvia, and I saw it has the same ability as Pleiades." Yukina remembered. "With three overlay units, he'll be able to do it three times."

"I will end my turn there." Takato said.

"Takato doesn't look like he's playing around this time. He summoned out one of his strongest monsters on his first turn."

"It doesn't matter! I can't afford to lose here! My turn!" Yukina said as she drew her card. "I'll start by summoning out my Wild Ally Cheetah to the field!" Yukina begun the duel by having a Cheetah sprint on the field and had 1700atk points. "However, I got a little surprise for you."

"A surprise?" Takato questioned.

"If I return my Cheetah back to my hand, I can summon another Wild Ally to take it's place." Yukina said as she took her cheetah back. "I'm bringing out Wild Ally Otter to the field!" She summoned out her otter as it came back with 300atk points.

"What?! Why would Yukina switch out her big bad cat for that?" Kent questioned.

"I think she's planning to make use of her otter's ability." Felix said.

"When Wild Ally Otter is special summoned, I can summon the other two from my deck!" Yukina said as she brought out the other two. "Thanks to their special ability, each one can attack you directly! Go on and play!" She said as all three of her otters slipped around Takato's monster and attacked him directly. Each one attacked him with his life points dropping to 3100.

"Nice move by Yukina! She got around Takato's monster and was able to score a direct attack on him! She might have only dealt 300 points of damage for each one, but she dealt three direct attacks!"

"I place two cards facedown to end my turn!" Yukina said. "You're move, Takato."

"My turn! I draw!" Takato said as he drew his next card. "I'll begin my playing my Pot of Greed! With this, I am now able to draw two cards!" He drew two more cards and they both monsters he could use. "I activate my Star Blast spell! For every 500LP I give up, I can lower the level of a monster by one! I choose to give away 1000LP to lower my level six Constellar Alrescha to level four!" He said as his life points dropped to 2100. "Now, I summon Alrescha to the field!" He summoned out another Constellar as it came up with 2200atk points. "Thanks to Alrescha's ability, I can now summon Constellar Sombre in defense mode!" He summoned another monster as it flew out with 1600def points. 'I could attack with Ptolemy and Alrescha and end this, but Yukina is not that foolish to leave herself open. She must be planning something with the two face-downs of hers. I also have Ptolemy's ability, but I can only use that once per turn. She's well aware of this, but what could she be thinking?'

"Well? You going to make a move?" Yukina said as she was daring him to attack.

'I can't be risky, but I can't afford to lose this duel.' Takato thought as he couldn't figure out what Yukina was thinking. There was too much for him on the line as he just kept thinking about a future where Life Destroyer is reigning over all. "I must win! I must defeat Yukina! That is why I'm overlaying Alrescha with Sombre!" He build the overlay network once again and both of his monsters dived inside. "I xyz summon Constellar Omega!" He brought out a new centaur-like Constellar with it having 2000atk points. "I bet you were planning to use those two face-downs against my monsters, but that won't happen! By using one overlay unit, Omega can protect my monsters from your spells and traps!" He said as his monster used one of it's units and formed a barrier around Takato's field "Next, I activate Ptolemy's ability to send one of your otters back to your hand!" He had Ptolemy used one unit and unleashed a bright light that forced one of Yukina's otters back to her hand. "It's over, Yukina! Ptolemy M7, attack and bring me victory!"

"I think it's now safe to play my trap!" Yukina said.

"What?!" Takato said.

"I activate Wild Alliance! As long as I have at least two Wild Allies on the field, I can block your attack!" Yukina said as the attack was stopped.

"Well, you're about to have one less!" Takato said. "Omega, it's your turn! This time, Yukina will take damage!" Omega went on the attack as it stomped down one of her otters and her life points dropped to 2300.

"Takato did a lot of fancy tricks, but Yukina just needed one to remain in this duel." That didn't go the way he wanted. He almost had her, but she still managed to hold on. Filled with fear, he had to keep going.

"No! If I do not defeat Yukina, my life is over!" Takato claimed. "I must defeat you, Yukina, even if it takes every bone in my body! I activate Constellar Tempest!"

"Spoke too soon! Looks like Takato isn't finished yet!"

"If I have two Constellar xyz monsters on the field, I can trade away all their overlay units for you to lose half of your life points!" Takato said. "I place one card facedown to end my turn, and now the affects of Constellar Tempest activates!" He said as all his monsters' overlay units vanished. When that happened, a meteor shower came down and smashed against Yukina with her life points dropping to 1150.

"Yukina could be in real trouble here. That spell will remain on the field."

"And Constellar Tempest can give one of his monsters an overlay unit from his graveyard. He can either use that ability again or use his monsters' abilities." Felix said.

"How's she going to get out of this one?" Sylvia said.

"I don't know, but Yukina always finds a way." Cindy said.

'It will all be okay. Even if she summons a monster to attack, I can use my Constellar Meteor trap to send it back.' Takato thought. 'She'll be left vulnerable and I will be free to attack. Yukina, I won't ask you to forgive me for this, but it must be done.'

"It's my turn!" Yukina said as she drew her card.

"Yukina, you're fighting a pointless battle." Takato said.

"Don't try to talk me out of this!" Yukina said. "You might think it's pointless, but I don't! Defeating Raika and stopping the Black Ace is my goal! If I don't, there's nothing left for me!"

"How can you be so sure?! I've seen the future and that it's covered in darkness!" Takato said.

"The future isn't set in stone! It can be changed, and I'll prove it by beating you!" Yukina said. "I'm bringing back my Wild Ally Cheetah to the field!" She said as she brought out her cheetah again. "Next, I activate my face-down: Instinctive Acceptance! Since I have two beast-type monsters on the field, I can summon another monster from my hand by dropping its attack points to zero! Rise, Wild Ally Phoenix!" Yukina summoned out her ace monster as it flew to the sky, but it had no power.

"No attack points?! What is this?!" Takato questioned.

"It's me opening the way to a brighter future!" Yukina said. "I now build my circuit!"

"What?! It can't be!" Takato said as Yukina pulled off another surprise as the circuit appeared behind her.

"The summoning conditions require two monsters, one of them has to be my phoenix! I set Wild Ally Phoenix, Cheetah, and Otter in the link arrows!" Yukina's three monsters turned into energy and went into the arrows pointing up, down, and lower left. The gates began to open for a new monster. "Behold, a monster formed from the beauty and power of nature! I link summon Link 3 Wild Ally Spirit Phoenix!" She called as a new phoenix made entirely out of pink and blue flames like it was an apirition. emerged with 2800atk points.

"No, no, no, no, no! How can this be?!" Takato said as he didn't see this one coming.

"Spirit Phoenix's ability activates!" Yukina said. "When there are no monsters next to my phoenix's links when it's summoned, I can resurrect by Wild Ally Phoenix!" Yukina said as her phoenix emerged once again and was back to full power. "Now I activate Spirit Phoenix's second ability! It gains the attack points of a monster next to it's link!" That's just where her phoenix was summoned and her Spirit Phoenix's power increased to 5300. "It's over, Takato! Spirit Phoenix, attack Ptolemy M7! Spiritual Blaze!" Her spirit burned brightly as it charged right at Takato.

"This can't be!" Takato said. Her phoenix smashed right into his best monster with it being engulfed in flames. Takato felt the power of that attack, but those flames also revealed to him a future that was brighter than what he saw. As his life points dropped to zero, he felt that his eyes were fully opened now.

"It's over! The winner is Yukina!" M.C. announced with everyone cheering for her. This defeat now has Takato see the truth.

'I see... It would seem I mistook the world's future with my own.' Takato thought as Yukina basked in the glory. "Yukina!" He called and got her attention. "The reason I joined the Black Ace was because I feared Raika's power. I now that see that there is still light even at it's darkest. I only saw A future, but not a definite one." He said as he took his fan and tore it apart before dropping it.

"Takato..." Yukina said.

"I just wish I will see the future you will create. Farewell." Takato said as he turned away from her and has accepted his fate, but Yukina still didn't understand.

...

Takato

Takato new the price for defeat, but it seems he has no regrets now. As he was on his way, Diego met him halfway.

"I believe we had a deal and it looks like you failed." Diego said.

"I'm well aware of this, but there is no need to fight over it. I have accepted my fate." Takato said.

"You're rather calm about it. Didn't you see this future?" Diego mocked.

"Yes, but I have learned that I only see possibilities." Takato said. "Rather than trying to see the future, I choose to believe in the future that Yukina will stop you and you sinister plans." He claimed as that is the future he believes will come true...even if he won't see it.

...

Yukina's Friends

"That's another of the Black Ace defeated. Hebi and Raika are the only ones left now." Cindy said as Yukina regroup with her friends.

"Yeah... Still, I feel kind of bad for Takato. I can't help but wonder what he meant." Yukina said. "I just hope he's going to be okay after all of this."

"The guy weirded me out in the first place. I saw we just forget him and focus on taking the last two down." Kent said as that sounded good to the others. Just then, Yukina spotted Henry coming into the building. However, he looked like he was hurt.

"Henry?!" Yukina said with all of them spotting him.

"Yukina... Thank goodness..." Henry said before he collapsed.

"Henry!" Yukina called as she hurried to him with the others following him. She hurried over to him and tried to get him up. "Henry! Can you hear me?! Henry! Henry!" If the future can be changed, Yukina has got to change it or else what they're seeing will happen to everyone.