Our Last Moments

Rated: K

English

Hurt/Comfort/Romance

Published: 04-23-14

Updated: 03 - 18 -23

By KellyQ

Tori stood on the ruins of Barian World. The perimeter was on the secluded marble floor with five pillars erected to the black-reddish sky. Before Toi was Ryoga, also known as Nash - a Barian, the only Barian left, dueling Yuma and Astral - a spirit - he was also the last of his kind.

Nash had an agenda to destroy the Astral world - because his race conflicted with the Astral world since the beginning.

Astral stood next to Yuma, who would advise him on the best strategies to help Yuma, who was in a tight pinch.

Their duel was reaching a climax. Nash and Yuma had their best monsters towering over them, ready to strike at each other's life points. During their duel, Yuma expounded how their previous duels were the most important to him.

Tori perceived this duel as one of the most heart-rendering ones she had witnessed. It was a duel between two people giving it their all, and the most painful because they tried not to hurt each other physically and mentally, knowing it would probably be their last duel.

That hard fact was biting at Yuma's consciousness throughout the duel, and he didn't want that because if Nash lost the duel, he could disappear like all of Nash's friends.

On the other hand, Nash knew the only way to save Yuma's friends was to lose; things would return to normal if he did that. He wanted to be omitted from Yuma's life because he realized his true purpose as a Barian: to be Yuma's enemy. After all, Yuma seemed to be close to Astral.

Yuma wouldn't see it that way, and Nash knew why. As a result, he didn't understand how Yuma would be so forgiving and accepting of who he was when all Ryoga did was cause so much hurt to him.

Yuma was down to fifty life points, and Nash had twelve hundred life points remaining. Nash sighed, knowing that he could use his monster to wipe out the last of Yuma's life points, which meant that Yuma would lose Astral, and the sensible spirit wouldn't be able to obtain his memories, which wouldn't be fair to either of them.

"It's my turn," Nash said, whipping a card from his deck holder, "I draw!"

He glanced at the card before he made eye contact with Yuma. Then, he slapped a spell card, Glorious, on his duel disk, saying that card could attach the rest of the Banished Chaos Over-Hundred Numbers to Dystopic Barian as Overlay Units, raising its attack points to 7,000. A portal opened, and two more stars appeared next to Ryoga, and his monster's attack points went from 300 to 7,000. From there, Ryoga explained more about the spell card effects, and one of them was to drop the rest of his life points to zero.

Astral's eyes widened, and he asked Nash if that was his plan - to lose. Yuma's eyes widened, too, and he tried to convince Nash not to do it. Unfortunately, the spell card activated before Yuma and Astral could react. Nash went flying backward.

"Shark!"

Yuma dashed forward and caught Nash before he hit the ground. It's finally over, Nash thought, allowing Yuma to steady him.

"Are you okay?" Yuma asked, looking Mash up and down for any blood.

Usually, Ryoga would be incensed by Yuma's fuss, but he was too focused on making sure that he would have no regrets; Nash didn't mind.

"I'm fine, Yuma," Nash reassured, looking compassionately at Yuma.

"That's good," Yuma said; he was glad he and Ryoga concluded their dueling - even though the scenario was painful. Yuma pulled a rag from his pocket and rubbed the dirt off Ryoga's face.

As much as Nash liked it, he had to give Astral the number cards and say three words to Yuma because he didn't have much time. Nash first moved Yuma's hand away from his face and leaned close to Yuma's ear.

"Thank you," Nash whispered, kissing Yuma on the lips.

At first, Yuma was surprised, but he deepened the kiss and wrapped his arms around Nash, not wanting to let go of him. Tori watched with sympathy, knowing that it would only be a matter of moments before Ryoga would disappear.

By now, Nash was glowing and handing the number cards to Astral.

"Wait!" Yuma panicked. He wasn't ready to accept that he would never see Nash again. Nash is slowly being pulled toward a ball of light behind him.

"Thank you, Astral and Tori ... you two were great friends .." Nash paused and glanced at Yuma, who had tears in his eyes and was shaking his head in despair. "I love you, Yuma ..."

"Shark!" Yuma cried, ready to dash forward, reaching for Nash again.

"I always have ..."

Suddenly, the light taking Nash blinded Tori, Asteral, and Yuma temporarily. Once it was safe to see, Yuma stood there with shock in his eyes, and his hand was still outstretched. It only took a moment for the three to realize that Nash was gone, and they were back in Heartland City.

The End