Yu-Gi-Oh ARC-V Dimension Wars
Standard Episode 2 : Doubts
Hey guys, yes, I know, it's been 1 year since I didn't write on this story and I deeply apologize about it since I saw that more and more people decided to fave and follow this story since I wrote this chapter.
Anyway, last time, we've covered Slyvio's duel against Yuto, now, we are going to cover many events that will bring to a duel in the next chapter, yes, that chapter won't have any duels in it but it will expose many things in there that were revealed in the anime.
Without further ado, here's the story.
While Sylvio's duel was being broadcasted all around Maiami City, LID professor Marco was walking in the streets, he was a man wearing a purple sweater and who has brown hair with a golden string on his side.
Marco always loved to do some nightwalk in Maiami City and he admitted to himself that he didn't need to attend Sylvio's duel as he had expressed his belief that his student would easily win his duels and so, he decided to have a walk around the town before he would go to bed.
He eventually stopped his nightwalk to rest a bit against a wall in a alleyway, taking a packet of cigarettes, he put one on his mouth as he activated his lighter to light out his cigarette in order to have a smoke.
But when the teacher blows a puff of smoke after he smoked, he noticed that someone was coming towards his direction which surprised him as he stopped smoking in order to get a closer look at the person who was coming towards him : it was a tall man who had short, midnight green hair with a teal colored bang that is swept to the side, that bang was ovelapped by the green part of his hair, the man had a severe pale skin and he wearing a long, blue jacket with ripped trimmings below, accompanied with grey, tight pants and with brown, buisness-like shoes, he was also wearing a red scarf that was covering the lower half of his face and a pair of sunglasses.
« Where do you come from young man ? Who are you ? » asked Marco as he throw away his cigarette and prepared his duel disk in the case of an emergency as he doesn't think that the man has come here to talk with him, indeed, the mysterious figure activated his duel disk in order to challenge the LID teacher.
« I'm your worst nightmare, Fusion scum! » barked the duelist as Marco activated his own duel disk.
While the streets would soon hear in the middle of the night would be the echoing screams of fright of the Fusion professor and a mysterious purple light that glowed in the block.
Hospital – Standard Dimension
Meanwhile, at Maiami City general hospital, Yuya and Zuzu had decided to delay their time to return home in order to bring Sylvio at the hospital as he was horribly injured by the Phantom Spear card that has struck him down on the stomach, the two friends were really hoping that he would have survived from the blow as they were both shocked of how agressive and reckless the mysterious man had dueled him.
But what really bothered the two was the man's ressemblance to Yuya, Zuzu was the one who was the most concerned about the matter, the two could pass out as twins as they both looked so similar to each other, she couldn't understand how come it existed a man that could ressemble Yuya.
Suddenly, the light that was above the door who signified that an operation was occuring died down, meaning that the operation has ended much to the surprise of the two teenagers, the door then opened up, revealing a doctor who came out to it.
« How is he doctor ? Is he gonna make it ? » asked Yuya.
« He will make it out, he was lucky, whatever pierced him didn't touched any vital organs so his days are not numbered, he will have a scar on the place where he was struck » explained the doctor to which his statement caused the two friends to let out a sigh of relief.
« Thank goodness » replied Zuzu.
« You don't mind if we go into his room ? Let's just say that we want to check on him to see if he gonna be okay » asked the tomato haired boy.
« Of course, he has managed to wake up so that he can see you but make sure to be quick, he needs some rest » authorized the doctor as he opened the door to the two friends.
Yuya and Zuzu entered on his hospital room and they noticed that Sylvio was sleeping on his bed, he eventually slowly woke up and he saw Yuya coming next to him as the tomato-haired boy dropped a bouquet of flowers next to his bed as he and Zuzu managed to buy a bouquet of flowers to cheer him up.
« Yuya ? » asked a surprised Sylvio who never expected to see Yuya on his room.
« Happy to see you back to the world of the living Sylvio » replied Yuya « how are you feeling ? »
« Good, pretty good even, just pissed that I lost to that guy though, I would have wished to take you down Yuya » said Sylvio.
« Well, first, try to get some rest, I can't really duel you if you are not in your best shape, once you will be ready, I will agree to your challenge Sylvio » replied the tomato-haired boy to which the LDS student starts to smile at his rival.
« I will be looking forward to it » replied Sylvio before he noticed that his hospital room door opened and a short, portly man wearing an orange double breasted suit appeared on his hospital room as he immediately run to Sylvio's side which made him smile as he recognized his father.
« My baby boy ! Thanks god, I was so worried about you, I really thought that you were gonna die out there » said Mr Sawatari as tears flowed through his eyes.
« Don't worry dad, I'm okay, I've heard that Yuya put me out of that mess before I lost too much blood » explained Sylvio.
"I know son" said Furio as he turned his gaze towards Yuya "mister Sakaki, people might say many things about your father but I see that he has raised quite a pretty good boy, on the behalf of Maiami City, I thank you for saving my son's life".
"There is no need mister, we just did what we had to do" said Yuya as he also brought Zuzu on the praise.
"Now, all that is remaining is to find my son's attacker, I will make sure that he will pay for what he did, I will do everything in my power to put that damned youngster in jail" raged the mayor as he leaves the room in a huff much to Yuya and Zuzu's surprise as they didn't expected that he will leave like this, however, Sylvio let out a chuckle of amusement at his father's antics.
"Don't worry, he is always like this, that's how he is" explained Sylvio before he turned his gaze at Yuya "Yuya, I've heard from the doctors that you and your friend pulled my ass out of there and even though you are one of my biggest contenders, I appreciate that man, thanks".
"You're welcome, Sylvio, try to get some rest" thanked the tomato-haired boy as he and Zuzu leaves the hospital room, however, the blond boy wanted to say something else to Yuya.
"Yuya, if you manage to find that bastard..."
"Yeah"? » asked Yuya.
"Beat him down for me" said Sylvio.
"I'll try, if I find him" said Yuya as he and Zuzu leaves the room, leaving Sylvio alone so that he could sleep.
LID Headquarters – Standard Dimension
The next morning, at the LID Headquarters, Declan Akaba, the president of the LID, was standing in his office as he was receiving a report from his henchman, Claude, a tall man wearing a business outfit and who sports black hair with green bangs on the front, finally, he was wearing sunglasses.
"We've received a report that Marco, the professor of the Fusion program, was attacked in the middle of yesterday's night by an unknown assailant, the signal of his duel disk has stopped emitting at 01:00 P.M, after a few hours since was attacked by that mysterious duelist who has challenged you" reported Claude as Declan remained passive while listening to his henchman.
"I see" said Declan.
"Also sir, we have received this through an anoymous mail" explained Claude as he offered an enveloppe to his boss, Declan took the enveloppe and ripped it's opening in order to check inside, what he pulled out caused him to raise his eyebrows: it was a card that has the picture of Marco that was on the inside, the Fusion professor was shown to be in immense pain while on that picture.
"It seems that the perpetrator wants to give us a gift and a warning about his intentions" said Declan as he gave the card to his henchman as he took a closer look to the card, while he kept his face straight, Claude seemed to be surprised about what he was seeing.
"Sir, why do you think that the perpetrator wants by attacking one of our students and one of our top LID ace duelists ?" asked Claude.
"The better question would not be why Claude but rather who?" replied Declan to which his statement surprised his henchman.
"Who, sir ?"
"There was two attacks on our staff, one was done on Sylvio Sawatari and the other was done on Marco but compared to Marco, he wasn't sealed into a card, this means that these two attacks were not done by the same prepetrator but by two different persons" explained the LID president.
"I-I never thought of this possibility sir" said Claude.
"This means that we have to investigate not only on the one in the arena but also at our newest guest who seemed to favor the possibility of carding people either for his amusement or if he wants to get down on me through this method" replied Declan before he decided to rise from his chair and look at his henchman directly in the eye "Claude, send every teacher and duelist who are specialized in the Fusion summon, if my hunch is correct, the second one will try an attack on them, make sure to report any of his attacks to me in the shortest delays".
"Yes sir" replied Claude before he leaves the office which leaves Declan alone as the LID president begins to ponder about the situation.
"So, someone is looking out for me in order to drag down my father, maybe we could make him our ally for the eventual war" thought Declan.
You Show Duel School – Standard Dimension
Meanwhile, at the You Show Duel School, Zuzu was shown reading a book while she harbored a mechancolic expression on her face.
She couldn't remove herself the fact that the man who has challenged Sylvio to a duel has the same face that Yuya's and she wondered what was the connection between Yuya and this man, she couldn't figure that out and she thought maybe she could use something that will make her come close to figure things out with that man.
"HEY THERE GIRLFRIEND!" Loudly greeted someone behind her back which startle Zuzu so much that she gives out a powerful fan strike towards the voice's source head, which almost knocked him down, when she calmed down, Zuzu noticed that she hit Sora Perse: a fusion duelist who had joined You Show Duel School because of Yuya's popularity "ow, that hurt Zuzu!"
"You almost scared me to death, what was the big idea Sora?" yelled out Zuzu as she took down her fan while looking down on the blue-haired boy with a glare.
"I just wanted to know if you were alright, I've heard that you were present at the LID stadium and that you have rescued that Sylvio guy" said Sora.
"Y-yeah, I'm alright" hesistanly said the pink-haired girl as she didn't wanted to bother him with her problems, however, the young boy wasn't buying her excuses.
"You sure don't look too alright though, is something happened?" asked Sora.
"I-it's nothing too important, I just want to be alone for a while" said Zuzu as she couldn't help yourself but still thinking about the mysterious duelist, however, Sora noticed the book that Zuzu had kept close to her.
"Wait a minute, what is that book?" asked the young boy as he picked the book from the pink-haired girl.
"Wait, Sora!" protested Zuzu as she didn't want him to read about that book but the young boy noticed that it was a book that spills out the mechanics of the Fusion summon.
"Oh, so you are interested about the Fusion summon mechanics Zuzu? Why is that?" asked the blue-haired boy which cause Zuzu to sigh as she has to explain to Sora why she was studying about the Fusion summon.
"You see, I saw Sylvio's duel against that guy and when I saw him beat down that Sawatari idiot into such a violent pulp, I was worried, worried that he would do something similar to Yuya, so, I want to be strong enough to protect him, so, I've took that book that details the Fusion summon so that I could learned it like you did" explained the young girl as Sora understood her motives.
"I see, so you want to learn an another new mechanic so that if that guy attacks Yuya, you will protect him right?" asked Sora.
"Yeah" replied Zuzu to which Sora had a idea that was coursing through his head.
"Well, why don't you ask me directly Zuzu, I can teach you how to use the Fusion summon?"
"Y-you will do that?" asked Zuzu as she was surprised that Sora will propose himself as a teacher.
"Yeah, I can teach you a few tricks Zuzu, so that, when you will fully master the summon, nothing will stop you, are you ready?" asked Sora to which his statement made the young girl happy.
"Yes, sensei" replied the pink-haired girl as her words happily surprised Sora though he was proud to hear these words.
"Sensei? Well, I kinda love the sound of that!" thought Sora.
Gongenzaka Dojo – Standard Dimension
Meanwhile at the Gongenzaka Dojo, Yuya was training with his best friend, Gong Strong as he wanted to clear his head about what happened at the LID stadium, he was about to start his turn.
"Alright, I put Stargazer Magician and Timegazer Magician on my pendulum scales" said Yuya as he summon his two monsters, Timegazer (A:1200/D:600/PS:8) who was a magician dressed in black with a gold chain wrapped on his left arm while his mouth was covered by a red scarf and Stargazer (A:1200/D:2400:PS:1) who was a magician covered in white robes and has a white veil covering his mouth while he was holding a staff and a circular shield "and thanks to them, I can summon level 2 to level 7 monsters, I activate the Pendulum summon!"
After he activate his Pendulum summon, a portal appeared above the skies which let out two rays of light to fall on the ground, the impact caused the appearance of two monsters : a purple snake wearing a top hat and a multicolorful bowtie (Performapal Whip Snake A:1700/D:900) and a fish wearing a pair of pink sunglasses and a black horn on its head (Performapal Sword Fish A:600/D:600).
However, despite the fact that Yuya had succeeded to summon two Pendulum monsters, Gong noticed that Yuya seemed to be quite depressed, like if something was bothering him, the large duelist decide to talk to him.
"Yuya, are you alright? If you've got any problem, you can talk to Gong, I will be willing to help" asked Gong to which Yuya decides to speak to him, after all, Gong had always been a man who has looked out to Yuya when his father dissapeared and he thought that it will be not cool if he kept secrets from him.
"You see, Gong, me and Zuzu, we went to the LID Stadium in order to challenge Sylvio who had sent me a invitation to duel him there, but before I could duel him, he faced against a guy who had severely beat him down like if he wanted to kill him, and surprisenly, despite the fact that Sylvio did not activate the arc system for the duel, the damage that he had received were far too real to the point we had to bring him to a hospital" explained Yuya as his tale paled Gong who was shocked from hearing it.
"Why would he do that? True, I know that Sawatari punk had kidnapped Zuzu before but I don't think that he was trying to do justice, especially, since he almost killed him right ?" asked Gong.
"Yeah, apparently, he seemed to have a bone to pick with Declan Akaba, I don't know what he wants with him but that doesn't justify the fact that he almost killed a duelist" said Yuya as his retelling made him sick "a duel should bring smiles to the audience, not to kill or be killed during the duel".
"Unacceptable, just unacceptable, I hope that this man will pay for what he has done" raged the large duelist.
"But that's not even the worst part big guy, when me and Zuzu, we looked at his face, we saw that he has the same face as me" explained the tomato-haired boy.
"WHAT? How can this be?" asked Gong.
"I don't know, I don't recall having a twin so I can't really explain it right now but when I saw his face, I just can't take it away from my memory, it was like looking at a mirror, it was like if I was the one who massacred Sylvio in a duel, it scares me Gong and I hope he will not injure someone else like he did, I just...want to know why he is willing to walk into this path of violence in his duels" said Yuya.
"Gong is sure you will have your answers, I'm sure he won't stay idle too long, but what about Zuzu, how did she react when she saw his face?" asked the large duelist.
"I don't know, she seemed silent ever since we came back from the stadium, I guess that it affects her more than I could imagine" thought Yuya as Zuzu did not said any words when they came back from the duel.
"Gong is sure that she will be alright, I know her, even in the toughest situations, she will always comes back shining, powerful than ever, I'm sure she may even surprise the both of us with her dueling" reassured Gong to which his statement caused Yuya to look at his friend with a smile, he is right, Zuzu was known to always bounce back when she is troubled by something that bothers her so maybe his friend was right, he should leave some time alone to his friend.
"You're right Gong, she will get over it, how about we finish our duel?" asked Yuya.
"I, the man, Gong Strong, is ready to take you on Yuya, hit me with your best shot!" challenged Gong as Yuya prepared to reprise his turn when he left it.
You Show Duel School – Standard Dimension
Meanwhile, at the school grounds, Zuzu was dueling Sora as he giving her a lesson about how to do a Fusion summon, she was controlling Aria the Melodius Diva and Sonata the Melodius Diva on her field while Sora had his Fluffal Bear on his field.
"Okay, let's get to it, I activate Polymerization, I fuse Aria and Sonata in order to fusion summon" boasted the pink-haired girl as she activated her spell card on her hand which creates a vortex that fuse the two monsters together "enchanting melodies bloom in splendid glory and play for us a new melody, arise Schuberta the Melodius Maestra!"
But suddenly, the fusion stopped by itself and the two monsters returned to the field much to Zuzu's confusion.
"What? What happened? The two monsters that I have used were compatible as fusion materials, why it didn't worked?" asked Zuzu to which Sora decides to intervene as he seems to know what was the problem.
"Maybe it because you've put your fusion monster in the Main deck ?"
"Wha...?" asked Zuzu as she activated her surrender button on the duel disk in order to cancel the duel so that she could look at her deck, as she shuffled through her deck, she noticed indeed that Schuberta the Melodius Maestra was in her Main deck much to her horror "oh no! How could I have been so careless ? I should have put it on my Extra deck, not in there!"
"Zuzu, calm down, I guess that something else is bothering you, that mistake should have been down by a beginner and yet, you know the basics of the Fusion summon so I'm guessing that you had something on your mind when you did that move right?" asked Sora.
"Y-yeah, I'm sorry Sora" apologized Zuzu as she felt ashamed that she has done such a mistake.
"Hey, it's okay, I'm not angry or anything, I'm just curious, I'm just trying to help you out and I'm guessing that it is about that guy who defeated Sawatari right?" asked Sora.
"Y-yeah, this guy, what bothers me is that, he has the same face as Yuya" said Zuzu to which her statement surprised Sora who wasn't expecting that.
"Wait, you mean like if he was Yuya's dark twin?"
"That's right except he was much more violent than Yuya and that he was using XYZ summoning" replied the pink-haired girl.
"He is a XYZ user?" asked Sora.
"Yeah but it is more the fact that I can't stop seeing his face all the time and I'm scared to death to think what he would do if he tries to attack someone from the school, especially if he attacked Yuya or my father" said a worried Zuzu as she didn't want to picture a image of the mysterious duelist attacking her father, Skip Boyle or Yuya, however, Sora decides to reassure her.
"He will not, as long as we are here, he would not hurt either your dad or Yuya, when I will finish your training, you will be a strong Fusion duelist that will withstand everything in her path and I will be here to help you out" reassured Sora to which his response cause Zuzu to draw out a smile to him as she was happy that he was helping her to be more stronger than before.
"You're right Sora, I know that I will be able to beat him thanks to your training Sora" thanked Zuzu.
"That's the spirit Zuzu, all right, time to hit back the road, don't you think?" proposed the blue-haired boy to the pink-haired girl to which she nodded as she agree to try another round so that she would be ready to face the mysterious man if she will come face to face with him.
But little that Zuzu and Sora know, is that the mysterious duelist was secretely eavedropping their conversation as he stand behind a column from the duel school grounds while he looked at Zuzu and the young boy, he admitted that he thought that he recognized in Zuzu a person that he loved but he dismissed the idea when the young girl played Polymerization.
Suddenly, he hears something coming towards his direction and begins to prepare his duel disk in case he would have to duel that person, he turned around and noticed that it was the tall man who had attacked Marco the night prior, he stand down his guard as he recognized the man while his friend decides to talk to him.
"You sure kept your touch Yuto" said the man as he removed the sunglasses from his eyes and dropped down his scarf to his neck.
"We always needs to be on the lookout Shay, Academia or Declan Akaba could have sent duelists after us" replied Yuto.
"You're right, tell me about your search, have you found any clues about that bastard's location?" asked Shay.
"No, despite the fact I've defeated one of his students, he did not come to me, besides, I'm beginning to have second thoughts about all this" said Yuto as his statement caused Shay to be surprised.
"Are you saying that you are willing to abandon Lulu?" asked the talled duelist.
"I did not say that Shay, it's just that Akaba is not the primary target, for my part, at least, when I dueled his student, he did not use any kind of Fusion which means that compared to his father, he did not bring all of his students into Academia's work, I think that he is outside of his father's plans" revealed the XYZ duelist.
"That's bullshit and you know it, that Academia scum said that Akaba wants to unite all the dimensions right? Which means that his son will follow his father's footsteps and will not budge from his plan, we need to take him down and use him as a bargaining chip in order to save Lulu" reminded Shay.
"I know but this dimension should not be used as battlefield from this war, nor that you card every man that you dueled Shay" said Yuto as he looked at him in the eye while Shay only huffed at his statement as he knew that the XYZ duelist has been watching him dueling Marco and sealing him into a card.
"But I will not leave Lulu for nothing in the world and you know that Yuto because you've followed me for that same reason!" argued the talled duelist.
"I know, have it your way then Shay, I will not participate in a needless bloodshed except for him" said Yuto to which his statement surprised Shay who looked at the direction that his friend has decided to look at the direction where Yuto was watching and he noticed Zuzu with Sora to which the talled duelist was surprised, this girl's face seemed to be similar to someone that he knew, his sister had the same face that she has.
"Lulu?" asked Shay but Yuto interrupted him.
"No, it's not her" replied the XYZ duelist.
"How do you know that Yuto?" wondered the talled duelist.
"This girl was begging this boy to teach her Fusion summoning, Lulu would never bent herself to learn that kind of summoning after what Academia did to our dimension, besides, I've got the feeling that this kid might be affiliated to Academia" said Yuto.
"So this means that this half-pint is one of our enemies?" asked Shay.
"I think so" replied the XYZ duelist.
"Well, whatever you think so, I trust you on this one but let's make things more clearly, we are not here to do some tourism, we are here to capture that bastard Declan, even if I have to do it by myself, he will be my primary target, play with that kid if you want, I prefer to stick to something that I know" said Shay as he walked away from Yuto who was still looking at Zuzu and Sora's training duel.
"I'm aware of that situation Shay" thought Yuto before he took out a locket that was lying on his neck and he opened it, revealing a image of him and Lulu as they had taken a picture together on a park, they were both embracing themselves while they were smiling at the camera, Lulu was a girl with long dark purple hair dressed in a yellow knee-lengthed dresscwith a belt over a white neck shirt and she was wearing white high-heeled shoes.
While he looked at the picture, Yuto begin to smile as he knows that one day, he will save Lulu from her captors as Academia has captured her for a unknown purpose but he didn't care about their end goal, what he cared was the fact that he will do anything to save her and if he has to duel that kid that he suspect to be a Academia agent, so be it.
"Wait for me Lulu, I will save you, I swear it!"
And done, next time, Yuto will face Sora in a duel just like he did with the anime so, yes, he did face Sora waaaaaaaaay before the Fusion Dimension invasion of the Standard Dimension as, just like I said it in the first chapter, I will change things as I saw fit.
Also, for the next chapter (when I will do it), I will probably look for a beta reader as I admit it that I had a few trouble of looking out for my words to say in this chapter and perhaps, he will help me in case some people will not understand where I will go with my sentences.
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